The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-03-01
OUR DISTANT FRIENDS.
Interesting Extracts from Letters Re.
Gently Received from Former Fol.
ton County People.

w. M. CUNNINGHAM, Jerome
Idaho; Feb. IS: We have had /,
very cold winter here. It start
ed in, in November and Their,
still is some snow and ice. TIT
thermometer has been as low al
20 below. | think by March We
will have some spring weather,
| see by the News that there are
many of my old friends and some
of my relatives that have passed
over the Jordan" Love to al
my old Fulton County friends.
R. s. PATTERSON, Concord,
Calf, Feb. 10Th: Enclosed | am
sending check for three dollars
which will make me good to 7 4
20. We are having fine weather.
My almond trees are out in full
bloom. The coolest weather we
have had this winter was % above
most of the time from 80
to 40. | notice that McC onnells-
burg is able 70 beat that a little
this winter. When | make a
trip East, we will come over the
Lincoln Highway. The roads
are certainly fine out here, but
when 1T comes to good people,
Little Fulton" need not take a
back seat for any community that
| have seen and | have been over
considerable Of Uncle Sans Con-
tinental domain, sinceI left Full
ton County.
R. V. CAMPBELL, Rogersville,
Tenn. Feb. Give all enjoy
the News very much. In every
copy we find something about
some one we used to know. 1t
is like a weekly letter from the
old home. w are passing
through the most disagreeable
winter | ever experienced in all
my life anywhere snow, sleet,
rain and mud-so many extreme
and some very cold
weather. Will certainly be glad
when the good old summer
comes again. Best wishes
for the welfare of all my old
friends.
MRS. ESTHER WINTER, Olpe,
Although Sc, | am able
to do the light homework formy
son and myself. THE older folks
will remember Mrs. Winter as the
widow of John H. Winter, FORM
erly of Whips Cove, daughter of
Henry Smith at the east foot of
Sideling Hill. -EDIToR.]
G. M. EITEMILLER, Kansas City
No. Feb. 20. l see by the NEWS
hatmostof my old acquaintance
ire passing away and should | be
able to again visit the scenes of
ny boyhood, | will see but few
# the old familiar faces. So it
goes. l have almost fully recov-
,red from the old "Rumatiz"
been enjoying good health the
,ast winter. Been having cold
md moderate weather by turns
III winter. Yesterday the Their
was 70, with a strong
south wind; today it dropped so
legrees and a raw north wind
PREVAILED all day. With kind re-
,ards and best wishes for your
continued success, as we'll as to
my of my old friends Bill and
Albert Stoner included.
GEO. E. STEVENS, R. R. 3,
I'll. We have had a very
old winter so far, but are looking
or an early spring. Potatoes
re So q bushel; eggs, 38 cents;
80 cents; oats 81 cents;
orn, one dollar, and hogs, $12. rs
live weight. Farm hands
re scarce-good ones, but good
wages is paid. Clothing is high
on account of the war.
G. O. BARTON, the first
f March you will please send my
Jews to Hayfield, Iowa, instead
t Forest City, as at present. II
moving to another farm Of
05 acres. / pay five dollars an
ere rent for it. l suppose that
ooks like pretty steep rent when
ompared with that paid in many
arts of our old home county in
pennsylvania, but it is not I'M