The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-01-20
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Mrs. Earl Martin, of Chambers
burg, has been visiting in the D.
E. Little home during the past
ten days.
We profted by pleasant call
from P. B. Foreman, of Laidig,
who with John Raker, near Dane,
was in town yesterday.
Preaching at the M. E. church
next Sunday at 1890 A. M. and
7P. M. Preaching and commun-
ion services at Cito at 3 P. M.
Miss Mary X. Hoke left yester-
day for Lewistown, where she will
visit for few days and go to La
trobe, to be gone about three
weeks.
Miss Harriet A. Sloan is spend
ing two weeks visiting in the
home of her cousin, Maria Dick
-o-N Alexander, in Washington,
}.
.4x-Sheriff j. ]. Harris recently
bought the grocery stock of the
late D. R. Ramsey and placed it
in his restaurant in his hotel on
West Lincoln Way.
Mrs. Rosa Clark who spent the
past three months with her sister
in Bedford county, returned to
her home at Burnt Cabins during
the early part of this week.
DIR. Mosser has a pet on the
back of his neck that, he says,
any one may have not only free
of charge, but the proverbial five
dollar chrome will go with the pet.
A. While, on Monday, bought
the Selsor property on East Mar
ket Street from D. E. Little, and
will get possession of the proper
ty at once.
Miss Jean Johnston returned to |
Shippensburg Normal last Tues
day after having nursed her
mother, Mrs. j. K. Johnston, who
has been quite i'll for three weeks.
Perhaps no one was really hap
py, but if any were happy over
the situation last Tuesday morn
ng, it was the plumbers who
found many jobs repairing frozen
pipes.
In the grip of the grippe, rheu-
matism and pip, that's how our
ole town is to-day. But Doc don't
over charge and our woodpile is
large, so We'll try to be happy
and gay.
The first regular overland mail
communication between SanFran-
cisco and the East was establish
ed by pony express in 1860, the
charge for postage being SIS for
half an ounce.
Rev. Horace Sipes, formerly of
this place, but now of Blairsville,
Pa, is assisting Rev. Luring in
revival services every night at
the M. E. church. Good interest
is manifested in the meetings.
Born, recently, to Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel OFT, Ayr township, a little
girl. To Mr.. and Mrs. Dale Gar
land, Ayr township, boy, and
t, Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Daniels,
Licking Creek township, boy.
Last Monday, Walter Peck and
Will Mellott, of Belfast township, |
hitched up the Peck Ford and
started for Hagerstown on a
scouting expedition for cattle. On |
Tuesday they went home by way |
of Mercersburg and McConnells-
burg. Cold? Not a bit-the Icy |
wind was tonic.
Editor-in-Chief B. w. Peck, of |
the News, fell a victim to the very |
thing he warned against last
week, namely. pneumococcus, and
he is now in its vise-like grip.
Several of the office force are in
the same fix. But what's left of
us will get a paper out this week
or know the reason why.
You may trim your grape vines
now. Select the branches want
ed. cut off its branches to within
one or two buds of the main
stem. draw them carefully away
so as not to break off the desired
buds. and fasten the vines to