The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-02-17
FROM ILLINOIS.
Interesting Letter from D. I. Foster Form.
erly Of Wells Valley. Cold Win.
ter Out There.

DEAR EDITOR AS our sub.
scriptlon to the NEWS has rur
out. We will deposit the money
to keep it coming another twelv,
months. We have enjoyed 1T:
visits very much: but it Otter
brings messages of sadness from
dear old Wells Valley, as well as
from other points in Fulton coun
ty where we used to stop, We
were well acquainted with John
and Joseph Bridenstine of Wells
Valley, both of whom have died
since we visited there in January
1909.
Well, we have had very pecu
liar autumn and wiuter. Early
IN October we experienced a hard
frost which froze apples on the
trees, and potatoes In the ground.
This was followed by weeks OF
high temperature with warm
rains, which made good fall pas;
ture, but was bad for corn shuck.
ing. 1t rained all night on the
9Th Of December, but dropped 40
degrees by the evening of the 9th,
when a heavy snow fell. We had
another snow storm later and II
showed all night the Oath and all
day Christmas, much of which
snow Is lying on the west side of
north and south roads yet. We
had seven weeks of good shedding
the longest period since 1886;
out glad to report the weather
mild now IL degrees below zero
being the lowest at this place this
winter.
1t has been a good winter for
the coal business. We will soon
complete our 27th year as lessee
and manager of the Cope coal
bank at this place. We sell
screened coal at the bank at SIX
cents per bushel. The price of
living is higher in old Knox coun.
ty than at any time since 1867
with the possible exception of a
short period IN 1893, when things
scared upward for awhile, to go
all to pieces theInext year. Meat
retails higher here than it does
in McConnellsburg, Pa. Butter
got up to "a cents per To-, and
eggs were up to 80 cents at
Christmas time; but both have
dropped to their normal price
now. Farm wages are good here.
Good hands get from $2S to S32
per month and found; married
hands, about $3.50.
Owing to the big snow in early
December, there are thousands
of bushels of corn to shuck in
Knox and Fulton counties. Good
corn Is worth about 81 cents IN
MAI ket to day. We bought 1t IN
1896 for 18 cents per bushel.
Good prairie land has gone out
CT sight IN this vicinity. Two
farms near town have sold for
5000 per acre within month.
One of them produced a corn
crop worth $40 an acre last year,
so it would seem to be a fair in.
vestment after all.
In the April elections of this
year, will come off the second
great battle for Local Option IN
Knox county. In 1908 we voted
every saloon out OF Knox county,
including 35 in Galesburg, so we
have had a dry county for two
years; but the great liquor inter-
ests have pushed the fight on us
again, and we hope to down them
again.
Samuel A. Foster will spend
the summer on a farm near Ma.
4uon. And we would inform the
Enid girls that he is making "goo
goo eyes" at some of the sucker
girls, and may not go back to Ful
ton county heart-whole.
Your scribe attended a special
meeting of the Grand Lodge OF
Illinois, l. o. o. F., at Galesburg
last week, where we conferred
the p. G.. degree on 10 candi.
dates.
d. I. FOSTER.
Rapatee, Feb. 1lth.