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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12
ENID.

This communication was intended for last
weeks NEWS, but became entangled in the
mails, and did not reach the McConnellsburg
postoGice until o clock, Wednesday evening
too late for the paper, Editor.
Elmer Anderson and wife, OF
Kearney, spent New Years with
the latter's parents, j. r. Lock.
ard and wife. Mrs. Anderson
will remain a few days, as she is
not well, and wants to be near DR..
Campbell.
Mrs. j. M. Schenck left on
Monday for a two weeks visit
with relatives at Bedford, Altoona
and Johnstown.
Miss Bessie Willet left tor
Windber on Sunday to begin
work on Monday.
Glover Horton left for Phila-
del pela last Saturday.
Miss Jessie Cunningham, after
spending the holidays with her
mother, returned to Altoona on
Sunday.
Geo. S. Edwards has gone back
tc Philadelphia.
d. W. G. Cunningham left for
Carlse Tuesday to resume work
at Dickinson College,
A. G. Edwards and family
spent day with their daughter,
Mrs. w. II. Barnett at Miners
vile, last week.
Bernard Berkstresser has
been housed up with whooping
cough and mumps for the last
few weeks.
A. D. Berkstresser went to
SaXton tuesday and returned
Wednesday.
Harry Edwards expects to go
to Philadelphia this week to seek
employment and visit his aunt.
The family of Charles DeShong
are all getting better of typhoid
fever. 1t is to be hoped none of
the rest of the family will take it.
Mrs. Rebecca Edward who had
been spending the winter in Al.
toona is at present visiting her
brother Il. 5. Dickson IN Phila.
delphia.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12
Western Maryland Railway Company
In Effect May 20. 1910.
Trains leave Hancock as follows:

Trains leave Hancock as follows:
No l05-5.5O q. IN. (Sunday only) for Baltimore
and intermediate points.
No. $500 a. m (week days. for Hagerstewn,
Baltimore, Waynesboro, ,Chambersburg
and intermediate.
No, 1850 a. m (week days. Cumberland, and
intermediate,
No. 4-l0 0S u. m, (week days. Baltimore, Get
tysburg, York and intermediate.
No. S-l2,h0 p m. (week days. Little Orleans
Old Town, Cumberland, EllSlns and
west. Vestlbule train with observation
buiIet car.
No. $500 p IN. (week days. Baltimore and In
termedlate stations. Vestibule train
with observation buffet car.
No. $40 p m, (week days. leaves Baltimore
sos p. M, Hagerstown $40 p. m.
No. i06-l0.i Is ?. m. Sunday only leaves Bati-
more 6,l5 p. m.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12

Jan. 10.-A heavy thunder
storm passed over the Valley
Sunday evening followed by very
high winds.
Edith and Pauline Anderson
have pneumonia at the home of
their grandparents j. r. Lock =
ard and wife.
Austin Stevens's children have
whooping cough aud are quite
poorly.
Our postmistress is on the sick
list with a bad cold.
L. E Cunningham, ]. M. and
g. E. Schenck attended the fun.
eral of Gilbert Mcintyre, Jr.,
last Sunday.
Roy Shater was elected sub.
stltute No. 3 school until Miss
Lodge, who was hurt by beng
thrown from a sleigh, is able to
take the relns again.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12

Start up the trap nests. They
are invaluable in pointing out the
productive hens as we'll as the
drones. They make it possible,
by picking out the poor layers,
to get more eggs from a fewer
number of hens. That is econe-
my-it saves feed and 1t gives the
workers more room.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12
A Larger House.

The proposed increase in the
membership Of theNationalHouse
OF Repl esentatlves from 39l to
433 seems to be satisfactory to
the House, and we assu me that 1t
will pass. The States that re-
ceive no increase IN membership
are very well content not to lose
any members. That Is always
disturbing to a States represen-
tation. Some mem Der has to be
sacrificed in such a case, but If
the old member Is returned the
State, thought losing In Its rela-
tive strength by the increase IN
other States, is hardly conscious
OF its loss, so long as It's own
Representatives are not reduced
in number. The States which
gain by the increase in the size
of the House feel that they are
advancing, as they deserve, by
reason of the increase IN popula-
ton, as there is no check on the
disposition of the House to III
crease its membership with every
census.
The forty-two members which
will be added to the next House
of Representatives elected should
the reapportlonment bill pass at
this session are distributed as
follows: New York State gains
SIX members; Pennsylvania, four;
California and Oklahoma gain
three mem bers each; Illinois,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, Tex
as and Washington, two mem.
bers each, and sixteen States
gain one member each, while
TWENTY. one States make no IN.
crease whatever. If two Rep.
resentatives are given to New
Mexico aud one to Arizona, 1t will
bring the house of Representa-.
tives up to 436 bers, with no
prospects of further change for
decade.
AS protection against high
ly overgrown House, it will be
wise for Congress to limit the
size of future Houses and direct
each Director of Census to ap.
portion Representatives to agree
with that size, according to the
population of the several States
ascertained at each census. This
Is the only safe course, as it re-
quires the exercise of too much
self denial for members them.
selves to make an apportionment
that reduces the number of Rep.
resentatlves from their State and
their own seat.-Phila.
delphia Press.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12

Many hens never know what it
is to be comfortable from one end
of the winter to the other, except
on day when it thaws. You
cannot expect hens to do well un.
der such conditions. To do we'll
they must be comfortable.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12
School Report.

Report of Big Cove Tannery
school for the fourth month.
Number enrolled, %; average at.
tendance during the month, 90;
present every day during the
month, Ada Grouse, Carrie Mel.
lott, Dorothy Kirk, Edna Mellott,
Mary Kirk, Ruth Harris, Dewey
Smith, Harry Lynch, Teddy Mel.
lott and Wesley Mellott. Mary
Stenger, teacher.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12
Old Soldier Tortured.

"F'or years l suffered unspeak-
able torture from indigestion,
constipation and liver trouble, I"
wrote A. X. Smith, a war veter.
an at Erie, Pa, "but DR.. Kings
New Life Pills fixed me all right.
They're simply great" Try them
for any stomach, liver or kidney
trouble. Only 25c at Trout's
drug store.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12

The worst thing is to make
poultry drink ice cold water;
chills them clear thru. They
must warm that water before the
work of digestion can go on again
Warm the water for them-not
hot, but just comfortably warm.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS
uf [ ncsI and General Interest, Gathered
atHome or Clipped firm our
Exchanges.
oNDENSED FOR HURRIED READERS

Blank notes at the NEWS office
Will Sprowl, of Wells Tannery
called at the News office a few
minutes while in town Tuesday
W A. F. Baker and W. FL. Baum
gardiner, of Wells Tannery, made
4 hurried trip to the County Seat
Monday.
Willard Plesslnger. who had
been spending some time In Sgd
ney, O., is at home with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Pies
slnger IN Whips Cove. He was
Ia town Tuesday a few hours.
When buying a cough medl.
clne for children bear in mind
'that Chamberlaln's Cough Rene
dy is most effectual for colds,
{ croup and whooping cough and
fhat 1t contains no harmful drug.
For sale by all dealers.
W. B. Ranck, Of Warfords.
burg, was in town attending
court a day or two this week.
BE says the new state road has
cut the distance between War.
fordsburg and Hancock in half.
Miss Helen Mccain Kendall
. Youngest daughter of the late
Hattie Kendall deceased of this
place who went West with her
slster Hattie, is at present taking
4 course in the College at Woos.
Yer, Ohio.
Medicines that aid nature are
slways most effectual. Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy acts on
mis- plan. 1t allays the cough,
BELIEVES the lungs, opens the
secretons and aids nature in re-
Dtorlng the system to a healthy
condition. Thousands have testl
He'd to It's superior excellence.
Bold by all dealers.
Mr.. Geo. w. Sipe, of Wells
Valley, was IN town yesterday.
He brought his son Charlie down
10 McConnellsburg to take the
noon hack tor Mercersburg,
where he will continue his studies
ID the Mercersburg Academy.
George w. Fisher of Thompson
township, called at the NEWS of
ice jew minutes while in town
tuesday, 1t may be recalled
bat the NEWS told last October
d the fact that Mr.. Fisher had
opbmltted to surgical operation.
! was about that time that Mr..
Usher discovered that a tumor
Vas forming IN the lower part of
0Is abdomen, and he went to the
ennsylvania University hospital
Philadelphia, where two incls-
Qns one of SIX inches IN length,
pd one of three, were made, and
Pc tumor-known as a "dry tu-
nor" about the size of a. quart
MEASURE, was removed. The in
c|sions were sewed up, and four
Qays later Mr.. Fisher was dis.
charged from the hospital, went
nome, and has almost entirely
recovered his former weight and
M looking well. Within a circle
q territory in his neighborhood
hose radius is not more than a
Pie, during the last twelve
nonths, Mr.. Fisher says, seven
& ersons have submitted to sur.
'cal operations in city hospitals,
ID all are living and we'll.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12
Sale Register.

Wednesday, February 15-The
heirs of the estate of George
Holman, late of Ayr township,
deceased, will sell at the late res.
idence of the decedent, south Of
Cito, in Ayr township, horses,
cattle, hogs, sheep, farming I'M
plements, &c. Sale will begin at
10 o'clock. A. L. While, Anct.
Tuesday, March z, G. NJ. Ray,
having bought farm and beng
obliged to reduce his stock, will
sell at his residence on the Patter
son farm, 9 miles southwest of
McConneilsburg, horses, cattle,
hogs, farming implements, &c.
Sale begins at 10 o'clock. "A. L.
While, Auctioneer.
Thursday, March 9, George
Brant having bought a farm in
Cumberland county, and intend.
ing to remove thereto, will sell ut
his residence on "the old GlIlls
farm" p miles northwest of Nc
Connellsburg, horses, cattle, hogs
farming implements, hay, gram,
&c.-A. l.. While, Auctloneer.
Friday, March 10.-Wm. But.
erbaugh intending to remove to
his own farm IN Ayr township,
will sell at his residence on the
McGovern farm Il mile north of
McConnelEsburg, horses, cattle,
sheep, hogs, farming implements
grain, sc. Sale begins at 10j
o'clock. A. L. While, auctloneer. |
Tuesday, March 14.-B. W.
Logue intending to quit farming,
will sell at his residence on the
late Judge Logan farm in Ayr
township, 5 niles south of Nc
Connellsburg, horses, cattle,
farming implements, grain, feed,
household goods, &c. Sale be.
gins at 10 o'clock. A. L. While,
auctioneer.
Wednesday, March 15,-John |
Gllhs will sell at his residence on |
the Spangler farm about 9 miles /
north of Knobsvllle, horses, cat.
tie, hogs, farming implements,
hay, grain, &c. Sale begins at
10 o'clock. A. L. While, anc.
tloneer.
Thursday March 16, r. w.
Wagner intending to quit farm.
ing, will sell at his residence on
the Charlie McGehee farm, now
owned by S. r. Linn, l mile north
of Burnt Cabins on Shade Gap
road, 4 horses, 2 mules, 90 head
of cattle, 81 hogs, farming imple.
ments of all kinds, hay, house.
hold goods, &c. Credit year.
Sale begins at 10 o'clock sharp.
A. L. While, Auctoneer.
Friday, March 18th, W. NJ.
Lathers, intending to remove from
the County, will sell at his resi-.
dence on the Sam Wldney farm
l mile east of Burnt Cabins, live
stock, farming implements, hay
grain, household goods, etc. Sale
will begin at II o'clock, noon. A.
l.. While, auctioneer.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1911-01-12

r. J. and D. D. Fleming of this
place spent Saturday night and
Sunday with their parents at
Clear Ridge,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-04-14

coaI-C oke-woo can Tel. 15o.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-04-14

grading and widening the public roads
and then keeping them in practically
frst-class condition by dragging them.
The dragging process has been witnessed
here with the most remarkable results.
II the county is not able TO gravel its
roads, then we have heard OF nothing
better than the process Of dragging.
The FIRST thing necessary is to have a
road wide enough, the next to grade it
to a proper level, then the treatment Of
the road must be done according to the
ability OF the county to finance the en-
terprise.
Anything, anything, is infinitely bet
ter than the old system we have had
ever since the pioneers blazed the way
here in obion County Let the good
work 60 on.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-04-14
The Road to Reelfoot.

The lake road is one OF the Invest
propositions we have. Many people
are becoming actively interested in the
lake road enterprise, and the very fact
that those who paid little attention to
the proposition at first are now the
warmest enthusiasts is a true index OF
the life of the movement. Several
propositions are now being made as to
the best line, and it is due those who
first offered inducements to the pro-
jectors to come their way to- say that
they were entitled to the consideration
given them. Others probably had a
better proposition, better route, but
they were late in taking a hand or in
responding to the committees inviting
them to the benefits OF the road.
Whatever action is taken, however,
we believe il will be done impartially.
The first road built will be from Union
City to the lake, and this will not be
the only road to be built in the county.
1t will be the initial movement in road
building in Obion County, and others
are as sure to follow as day follows the
night. II some do not get this route to
suit them it will be thousand times
aao;ar "a NOT additional roads after this
one is built. 1t is the driving Of the
wedge, and when once it has been
driven, the old tough log Of opposition
will be split in two and it will go to
pieces like splinters. Obion County will
have good roads.
One man from some one OF the
Northern States few days ago told us
that his people were stirred with the
spirit Of good roads and that they were
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-04-14
Home Of My chiIdhood.

When backward l look with the eye Of
recollection
To the gladness and beauty Of my
childhood home,
How fondly my soul dwells in blissful
reflection
On the hills and dales where / once
loved to roam;
Where I chased the grasshoppers in
summers long vanished
And the drifting butterfiies--or the
birds nests sought,
Until weary and hot, and with thirst
most famished,
To the big well hied for a clear and
cool draught.
How well | remember the branch that
meandered
Through the woodland, tween its
banks so shady and green,
Where with rod and hook full often ]
wandered,
And the perch and the minnow
caught from its clear stream.
What boyish rapture thrilled my heart
to behold them
Flouncing and fluttering in the grass
at my feet
All, never king in grand palace and
golden,
Mid his revels had pleasure so
wildly sweet.
How dear the remembrance OF the rude
log dwelling
1t seems even now its good cheer ]
can feel,
Where long hours oft watched, with
my young bosom swelling
With delight, my mother turn the
old spinning Wheel
How merry the tune it seemed to be
humming,
While the soft white yarn the spindle
entwined,
And the fire burned bright, and mother
kept drumming
The oak floor with her steps, to the
wheel keeping time
But my heart fills with sadness, and
the tears come streaming,
To think those footballs have departed
from that floor.
My childhood has vanished with its
sports and its dreaming,
And the wheel, and the home, and
the mother, are no more.
But as onward in life / am toilsomely
faring,
With faith and hope in the
Heaven to come,
All, green in my bosom through the
years | am bearing
The memory sweet Of my childhood
home.
EUGENE f. McSPEDDEN.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-04-14
Election Of Senators.

The cure for the ills in the election Of
United States Senators is in the election
Of representatives who will reflect the
wishes Of the people they represent in
the election of Senator. We in Ten
nessee have seen enough Of the political
mire without adding more to the sup
ply. One OF the best bills mentioned in
some time was the one introduced the
other day in the Legislature of Tennes-
see increasing the term OF Governor to
four years and making the terms OF all
county offices uniform length Of time.
Added to this should be provision or a
proposition to change the constitution
SO as to elect the representatives in the
General Assembly for a like term Of four
years and let all the elections take place
at the same time, thus eliminating the
disagreeable political wrangles at least
two or three years out Of four. Then
we should like to see Congress adopt an
amendment to the Constitution increas-
ing the terms Of Congressman to four
years and an adjustment OF Congression-
al elections SO that they too would fall
into line with the four-year terms Of the
State officers Then we would be better
off without primary election for United
States Senators. For goodness sake,
give us not more but less politics. II
Tennessee has not had a dose Of this
election of United States Senators by the
people we'll give II up, Let us have the
whole machinery reconstructed so that
we will have no national, State and
county elections except once in four
years. We want no change in the Con-
stitution to elect United States Senators.
II is popular agitation, but come to
Tennessee and we will show you the
farce OF it. Elect your representatives
by the primary plan. The people can
do that, but the people cannot control
the State primaries, that is the popular
party maiorities can't. II is more than
likely this proposed reform will fail, and
il it does, as it should, then the people
will get together and adopt some sane
election plan like that proposed by the
member of the Tennessee Legislature.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-04-14
Sunday Postal Service.

To the Editor Commercial - Re-
ferring to the matter Of closing the
postoffice on the Sabbath and mas
much as you have invited the public to
use your columns to express their de-
sires about the matter; if you will per-
NIT me, / will state for the benefit of
the patrons Of this Office, first it is the
desire of all connected with the office to
serve the patrons acceptably, and al all
times; and it is not the especial wish OF
the employees Of this office that it should
be closed, but it is the desire Of the
Department that we have the expression
Of the public on the subject.
1t is not the intention to close the
office entirely, but only so far as the
city carriers are concerned in order that
they may have their Sunday off. The
general delivery window will be open
for the travelling public and any who
wish to call for such mail as is usually
delivered at the general delivery window.
This window will be kept open for the
space of one hour as usual.
All mails will be made up and dis
patched as usual, and any person who
may have any especially important let
ter that they wish delivered on-Sunday
can have it delivered by calling at the
office on Saturday and make that fact
known and depositing the usual ten
cents provided for in cases of special
delivery letters.
It is hoped that all patrons will give
full expression of their views in this
matter either through the columns of
The paper or to the undersigned per-
'onally, and will do SO promptly, as the
has asked for an immediate
-eply to their request.
Respectfully,
A. ID. KELLER, Postmaster.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-04-14
How Swift Beat Stickney.

i was forty-six years old when /
took hold OF the stockyards and plant at
South st. Paul, = said A. b. Stickney,
former president OF the Chicago Great
Western Railroad, according to the St.
Paul Pioneer Press, and it required a
great deal of scheming and hard work
to get the business moving. 1t was
twelve years later when Old Man
Swift put in an appearance. call him
Old Man Swift because he was six
weeks my senior. He was truly great
merchant.
While / was in charge Fowler Bros
made an investment of $40, 900, and
we ran the plant together. The first
year the loss was $25, 000 the second
year it was $40, 900 and the third year
$4,000, and then we went into the
hands Of receiver, and he ran the
plant with our help until we had bust
ed the court
Then Old Man Swift took hand.
The first year he sold $3.50, 900 worth Of
meats. Then he said he had a PROPOSE
ton to make to us, and | told him to
make it. We were ready to listen to
propositions.
" I want you to give me this plant,
he said.
1T had cost us 100000 to build,
but we gave it to him.
" Now, said Mr. Swift, i want you
to give me half of the stock of the
stockyards company.
I'VE gave him that.
" want you to give me a rebate
laws were not so strict on those points
then-on every head Of cattle and other
stock | buy here, said Mr.. Swift.
I'VE gave him that. We did not
want it to seem as though we were UNI
willing to do the right thing"
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-04-14
GIBBsEo RrHBoUND

Trains Nos. los and 1888 are accommodations
and stop at Gibbs to receive or discharge passen-
gers.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1911-04-14
Illustrated Edition.

The Brownsville States Graphic has a
very handsomely illustrated trade edi-
ton issued from that Office last week.
The spirit Of the times is taking hold
in all the smaller cities of this portion
Of the State as well as the larger ones.
In fact all Of West Tennessee and West
ern Kentucky is infused with new life
and commercial activity. Every mu-
nicipality, perhaps, is imbued with the
idea that it is the location of a special
boom, and this may be true, but there
is also a general progressive spirit in
commercialism extant, as well as pro-
gressive spirit in politics. The town,
however, which puts forth the greatest
effort is likely to reap to the same ex-
tent the largest results.
Union City is reaching out to-day as
she has never done before in all its his
tory. The Business Mems Club, which
was organized here two weeks ago in
one of the most remarkable meetings
ever held in small city. with 1875
members, is now over two hundred
strong and everyone is booster for
Union City. Arrangements are being
made for one of the most elaborate
trade editions, exhibiting our business,
our industries, our churches, our
schools, our homes. This edition will
be out in the course Of few weeks.