The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-03-25
"AULD ACQUAINTANCE"
Bits Of News and Gossip Extracted
from the Letters from Our
Distant Subscribers.

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| have failed thus far this year
to cough up" for my paper. |
am always interested in knowing
what my Fulton County friends
are doing. Wish there might be
something doing around Fort
Littleton and Knobsville so that
we would get to hear from that
locality a little oftener.
Well, another year of confer
ence life has passed. Ihave only
IL miles to go to the seat of Con-
ference this year soB will have it
handy. go by trolley or by
rail.
| have finished up one of the
most successful years of my
ministry. We have had Ill con-
versions during the year, ITO en-
rolled as probationers. These
were all with but four exceptions
recommended for admission into
full membership by the board of
Leaders and Stewards.
We have made S1100 improve
ments during the year, including
steam heating plant in church,
$500 paid and balance provided
for. The salary of 81, 600 is paid
and a half hundred left to start
the new year.
This has been the best year in
the history Of Cenaalia Method
ism from every standpoint.
We enrolled 155 probationers
from March 8, 1914 to February
25, 1915. These were mostly
grown up persons and many of
them heads of families. | re-
ceiyed 113 into full membership
on December 13, 1914. We have
reached whole families for
Christ and our converts range in
age from 10 to GO.
The pastor has been unani-
mously invited by the official
board and congregation to return
for the fifth year and some of the
membership even feel that it will
be an awful calamity if there is a
change made. 1t is a wonderful
thing to be popular.
Enclosed find $1.00 for NEWS
for another year.
Murril w: Foreman, Walla Wal
la, Washington: -Walla Walla
Valley, a portion of the state of
Washington, is about 30 miles
wide, by about so miles in length
1t is said to be the richest part of
the Northwest, though probably
not the best place for newcomers
with little capital, on account of
the land being all taken and the
price varying from $50 to $500
per acre. The climate is warmer
than that Of Pennsylvania, al
though the tops of bordering
mountains are covered with snow
from October until May. Down
in the valley snow sometimes
falls to the depth of a quarter
inch, and January is the only
real winter month. Heat is sell
dom excessive in the summer,
and there are never any storms,
blizzards, thunder and lightning,
nor do we have any wind. Just
north of where | am, where it is
dryer, the land is given over al
most entirely to wheat. The
| farms contain from 2, 900 to 5, 900
acres. Fifty to seventy-fve head
of horses are kept on each farm,
and sulky gang plows are used.
1t requires half a day to plough
a round in a field. Five miles
north of the town of Walla Walla
are strange formation hills al
most as high as mountains. They
rise abruptly from an almost dead
level country. and contain as
| good-or better soil than the
floor of the valley, and they nev-
er wash-a gutter never being
seen. They are farmed by work.
ing around and around them, and
specially designed hillside reap
ers are used to harvest the crops.
The average number of bushels
of wheat produced to the acre in
Walla Walla Valley is thirty-fve
to forty. At harvest time the
farmer takes cooks to the field