The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-10-17
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Pa. II would not like to be
without the News, for | always
enjoy reading it. think the
Government has, done a good
thing for both subscriber and
publisher in making everybody
pay up and keep paid up"
Mrs. 0. r. Dunlap Nora John
ston), Pittsburgh, Kan. Am
enclosing post Office order sufli-
cient to send my subscription be-
yond the duration of the war-at
Last, here's hoping. Oar coun-
ty has sent something like 24O0
men and boys into the Service
and this county alone Is eX-
pected to contribute 81, 600, 900
in the Liberty Loan drive. We
happened to have a better crop
than usual. BY machine measure,
the average was 90 bushels to the
acre. :"
Rev. C. w. Summey, Apollo,
Pa. Mrs. Summey and | are
both enjoy ing good health. |
was glad when Fulton County
passed into the dry column. |
think the day is not far distant
when we will have National Pro-
hibition.
Mrs. G. r. Hixson, Tiflin, o.
Il see by the News that some of
tn e Fulton County boys have
made the supreme sacrifice in the
great struggle for worldwide
democracy. SO far, only two
Tiffin boys have died over there.
The women of Ohio are sure do
ing their bit. Many have taken
the places in the field of labor to
fill the places of the boys called
into the Service. We received a
letter last Saturday from Harry
A. Funk. He is in a hospital at
Camp Jackson, S. c., for treat
ment for an attack of stomach
trouble, but he hoped to be out
soon. Harry is a son of James
Funk. We live within fifty
yards Of the main lines of the B.
, & O., and the p. r. r railroads
over which are passing almost
daily trainloads of troops, be-
sides army trucks, ambulances.
. and other war supplies.
Achsah e. Vented, Monroe
vile, N. j. Enclosed, am
t sending check to pay up for the
, News and some to keep it COM
ing. 1t is 50 easy to neglect our
duty these busy times. AS |
, remember when | was a little
, girl going to school, your coming
to visit our school as County
J Superintendent, our getting the
, News now is almost like getting
{ a personal letter from you each
= week. | hope you may have
t many many more years of good
{ health and an abundant share of
! the richest blessings of life"
w. Howard Wagner, Harris.
burg: please find enclosed
) check for So 90 for which con-
tinue sending me the NEWS,
While | have been absent from
u the County for more than twenty
u seven years and very many OF
y my former acq uaintances have
: passed to the far beyond, yet the
family names recalled by reading
the News appeals to me with
new and increased interest as
time passes rapidly by"
9 C. Il. Stevens, Grafton, Pa. Il
! have read the NEWS continuously
, since it's first issue more than
nineteen years ago-for several
years in my fathers home, and
+ later in my own home. 1t will
o be nine years in January since |
left Fulton County and | have
only made two visits back in that
n time. | called to see you at your
q office about a year ago, but you
i were not in. The appearance of
g the farms and buildings IN the old
County shows marked improve
8 ment."
y Miss Jessie B. Wishart, Wash
ington, d. G. II am greatly in
D terested in reading in the News
t abstracts from letters written by
Fulton County boys overseas and
y in the training. camps. con-