The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-11-18
MIR. AND mrs. P. P. SHIYES HOME.
Mrs. Shives Tells of Their Six Weeks
Trip Through Texas, and the PeO-
pie She Saw.

by the NEWS, Mr.. and Mrs. P.
P. Shives left McConnellsburg
for trip to Illinois, Kansas,
Missouri, and Texas. They re-
turned last week and Mrs. Shives
furnished the following descrip-
tion of their journeyings:
Going by way of st. Louis to
Bucklin, Kansas, we were met
at the latter place by our foster
son, Frank Martin, who took US
in his auto to his bungalo near
the station, where we found Mrs
Martin and the babies well, and
hearty welcome. Here we at
tended the M. E. Sunday School
of 355 pupils present and so alb
sent. Twelve years ago, the
place where Bucklin now stands
was a prairie. To-day it has
many institutions, and a DO, 900
dollar school building with fifteen
teachers. Nearly everyone owns
an auto, including the ladies who
run their own cars. The Mar
tins have a farm along the Rock
Island in addition to their beau
tiful home in town. At the lat
ter place they have barn with a
windmill to furnish water to the
fish pond. Frank is manager of
a gang that is building 500 miles
of good roads. He rents his
farm. Last year he had $500
bushels of wheat.
After having spent two weeks
with the Martins we left for
Texas, going by way of Fort
Worth and Houston to Arcadia.
Southeastern Texas suffered from
a recent storm and the effects in
some places are pitiful to see.
We began to see the destruction
shortly before we reached Hous-
ton. At Arcadia we found my
sister awaiting us and looking
well. While riding on through
southern Texas we noticed that
every railroad station had two
waiting rooms-one for white
people, and one, for negroes. We
did not see many white men at
work, but we saw many negroes
picking cotton. On each planta-
tion we saw one or more white
overseers on horseback riding
about among the workmen. We
saw many beautiful cattle. AT
ter we had rested a day we be-
gan to take in the sights. A
lady who own a large touring car
took US to Texas City, a beauti-
full place-or was before the
storm, as there is little of it left
and many were drowned. The
oil tanks were wrecked and oil
spread all over the country. The
mud made by the oil sticks to
cattle and horses until their feet
look as large as peck measures.
We saw large ships being loaded
with cotton: others, with hay.
Virginia City was almost entire
ly swept away. We then went
to Galveston a city to be proud
of; but it too, suffered from the
storm, all the bathing places a.
long the sea wall having been de-
stroyed. My descriptive powers
fail me; therefore, l will attempt
no longer story of Galveston.
Texans cannot be surpassed
for hospitality. My. sister, her
daughter and their families, and
ten other persons including my
cousin L. R. Cattlett, of North
Texas, in two large autos, went
to Sandy Island to catch fish and
oysters. After a good dinner
cooked and eaten under Salt Ce-
dar trees, we returned to the
home of my sister. Mrs. B. ].
Crooks. They have large groves
of oranges and lots of figs. We
had preserved figs at every meal.
Palms are green and roses in
bloom, and banana trees look
beautiful. Pear trees have Sec
ond crops on. New cabbage is a
foot high and we had new green
beans to eat, besides many other
fresh vegetables. One orchard
here has As, 600 trees and the re-
cent storm covered the ground
with oranges which look like
walnuts.
On our raturn trin wa etonpod