The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-09-16
NUMBER 81
ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Snapshots at Their COmingS and GOings
Here for Vacation, or Away
for a ReStfm Outing.

| JONi OiouIcluiud LIChtlS
yet?
II. B. Truax and his son Earl,
OF Belfast township, spent few
minutes, and some cash, with the
Editor last Saturday.
Sidney R. Citizens, of Pittsburg
visited Mrs. Keziah Johnston last
week. Mr.. Citizens formerly liv-
ed in Mrs. Johnston's home.
Rev. and Mrs j. NJ. Diehl, of
Welsh Run, autoed to this place
on Tuesday, and are making head
quarters at Miss Mary Pittman's
for a week.
Miss Ethel Hays left Tuesday
morning for Pleasantville, N. j.,
where she will be engaged teach
ing in the public schools during
the ensuing school year.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Martin, of
Welsh Run, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Hawbaker, of Evansville, Ill, spent
last Friday in the home of Mr..
Martins mother, Mrs. Lydia Mar
tin, in Ayr township.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. N. Bumgarner
of Belfast township, spent week
very pleasantly visiting the lat
ter's daughter Jessie (Mrs. Hol-
linshead) in Bellefonte, and the
formers daughter, Mrs. Smith
in Trough Creek Valley.
Mrs. Rosa Clark, of Burnt Cab
ins, called Tuesday to adjust her
subscription dates, and said that
she was going to Bedford county
some time next month to spend
some time with her sister, Mrs.
Pierce Egolf, near Schellsburg,
who is in ill health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Strait, Of
Hustontown, spent last week in
the home of their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
W. Mellott, Laurel Ridge. Mr..
Mellott who lost an eye in dyna
mite accident recently is getting
along first rate.
Oscar S. Johnston, sole owner
of the Salt City Business College
Hutchinson, Kansas, the largest
institution of its kind in the Mid
die West, accompanied by his
wife, is spending two weeks in
the home of his mother, Mrs.
Keziah Johnston in the Cove.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnston have been
spending their summer vacation
of three months in a tour through
Canada and the New England
states.
Our old friend Jacob Gordon,
of Laurel Ridge was in town
Tuesday. He and his brother
John are twins and were born on
the 18th day of January, 1884.
Hence, if they live to see the
9th of January next, they will
be 50 years of age. While they
are neither as large physically as
the late Captain Skinner, they
are made of good stuff, and might
live many years. Jacob says up
to this time he has not spent two
dollars on Doctors bills.
DR.. and Mrs. A. M. Barton, of
Homestead, Pa, accompanied by
Mrs, Barton's niece Mrs. Elva
West Dudgeon, and the Doctors
nephew, Mr.. Charles Barton,
passed through McConnellsburg
Tuesday returning from a mo-
toring trip through the eastern
part of the State. Charles is a
son of the late Henry Barton
formerly of this county, DIR.
Barton was a student with the
Editor in Winters Normal school
in the early seventies.
An automobile party consisting
of Mr.. j. C. Mellott, of Need
more, his cousin Mrs. Martha Ed
mondson, of Blue Mound, ILL.,,
his sister Mrs. Mary Mellott and
her grand d-daughter Ethel Mel
lott, and his second-cousin Miss
Inez Starr, of Bedford county,
passed through town Monday re-
turning from Shady Grove, in
Franklin county, where they had