The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-02-17
FROM The PACIFIC COAST.
While 0. R. Cline Is a Loyal CalifOrni.
an, lie CherisheS Fond Memories
Of His BOyhOOd Home.

, | 4|A<<AAs A'AiNs 4 i1Ohs
Enclosed please find draft
for $500, which will put me
ahead again on the News list.
Notwithstanding many years
have come between me and the
home of the News, as | view
those dear old hills and valleys
and their kindred associations
from the memory of boyhood
days, yet with all the new names
of the living. and the weekly
record of departing contempor-
aries, the NEWS comes a welcome
weekly visitor to our distant
home, where the varied lullaby
of the grand old Pacific, as it
breaks in thundrous fury, or in
gentle cadence on the shore a
few hundred feet away, is our
last daily Goodnight"
Many times l have been
prompted to write a little letter
to express my appreciation of the
many contributions from other
"Fultonites" scattered all over
the United States, and bevond, =
and of the medium through which
we learn of each other. But it
is so easy to defer such a matter
that | find days and years go by
without having acted lam sure
brother Peck will understand the
sincere gratitude of each of US
for his services; and also that
each writer will feel that his or
her contribution is appreciated,
tho, maybe. not acknowledged.
Perhaps | may attempt to give
some of my impressions of this
coast country in contrast with
the Atlantic coast country, some
time in the future; but this will
require both time and space not
now available.
We have just past through an
unprecedented month of rains,
floods and resultant disasters. If
those of the NEWS readers who,
during the past summer, or at
other times, viewed the rugged
Sierras as their peaks pierced the
feecy clouds and stood out in
bold relief against the blue sky
so serene and placid, could have
witnessed the transpositions to-
snow storms, thunder and. light
nings-of cloud bursts that sent
floods and disaster into the semi
tropical valleys below. they would
respect them more for, their
mighty possibilities. Then, if
they could look upon them some
of these beautiful mornings, from
amid the roses, geraniums and
orange blossoms, as their serra-
ted peaks white as polished mar
BILE, stand out far above the clouds
in the brilliant sunlight, they
would witness the grandest and
mostmagnificent sight that south
ern California presents.
was interested in the recent
letter from ]. X. Stevens, of
Kansas, on his trip through Cali
,fornia. II am not sure just who
this Mr.. Stevens is; perhaps John
Stevens of my boyhood acquaint-
ance.
His observations and rehec-
tions, as expressed concerning
California Indicate satisfaction
with his present Kansas home
life. And, after all, this is the
measure by which we gauge, in
a very large degree, the relative
merits of other places when con-.
trasting them with our home. II
wish it were an even greater
factor in the lives of all our peo-
pie. Then greater contentment
and happiness would obtain.
For me, there is no place, as
sociation or condition of things
no, matter how elysian- that can
displace, or efface the scenes and
environments of my childhood
days in dear old Fulton County, |
Pennsylvania, as they are fres-
coed high on the walls of'my|
memory. Other associations are
likewise dear to me, and fill their
allotted places in the course of
life; but they do not supplant the
former.
/ think much about the trans