THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBUIO, TX. INTERESTING PARAGBAPHS jflKl oi General Interest, (lathered at Home or Clipped frm oar Exchanges, CONDENSED FOR HURRIED READERS Everything from bananas to Suffrage badges was yellow last Monday. Mrs. Hammond Prosser is visiting her parents Mr. ana Mrs. W. B. Logue, and sister, Mrs5 L. W. Seylar. Mrs. Jere Laidig, of Huston- i i 1 1 i. town, was a pieasam cauer ai the News office Monday. She saw the Liberty Bell, also. Cashier and Mrs. Allen Cutch I, of Three Springs, spent last Sunday and Monday with the atter's sister, Mrs. M. G. Kirk. James E. Lyon and family, of aylor township, and Mrs. John von, of New York, took an auto ride to McConnellsburg last Sunday. Mrs. Jane Gunnells, of Hagers- town, Maryland, will leave short- for an extended trip to Ohio and Michigan to visit her son and daughter. W. C. Patterson, . Brookside Farm, left on Monday for Erie to represent the Fulton County Sab bath School Association at the State Convention. Harry Comerer and family, of Pittsburgh, are spending their summer vacation in the home of Harry's father, John Comerer, last Lincoln Way. Nevin Laidig, of Andover, has been lucky raising sweet pota toes this season. He has one that weighs 21 pounds, and many oth ers that weigh 2 pounds and over. Mrs. Rush Minnick, of Johns town, is visiting relatives in this county, and spent a few days recently with her sister, Mrs. ohn P. Sipes, in McConnells burg. In speaking of the big corn crop this fall, farmers told us that in some instances, it would n't stop growing when the time came to cut it, so they cut it ?reen. Mrs. Mary Lake, of Ashmore, 11., is visiting among her old riends and relatives in Belfast township, and will visit her daughter Mrs. Grant Shoemaker at Fort Littleton. Mrs. W. H. James contributed a Woman Suffrage yellow badge on Monday, that, for size, beat all of them. She exhibited a 70- )ound yellow pumpkin in Stout- ogle's grocery window. One of Chas. Robinson's hors es at Neeleyton, was kicked by another horse last Sunday and received a broken leg. He is try ing to save the animal by swing ing it and putting the leg in plaster. Much literature from the Penn 'Ivania State Brewers' Associa tion, in which Woman Suffrage is severely condemned, reaches our desk. Why should the Brewers and the Distillers be so hot against Woman Suffrage? After a four months' lay-off, the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany has called to Altoona quite k number of employees, among whom was SebertN. Barton who, with his family, spent the sum mer in the home Rev. Henry Wolf, near Dane. We have been promised a week 'y letter from the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station. e will select from these letters such matter as will be of interest to Fulton county people, so that some good winter-evening read Ine along that line may be ex Pected. W. H. Lake, of Belfast town ship, and Joseph E. Winters, of Clearfield, Pa., were welcome filers at the News office Mon i lay morning. Mr. Winters is a Wive of this county, but he Went to Clearfield countv twentv four years ago, and is now in the al business, making good. ins is his firs; visit to the Coun in thirteen years. George Brant and son of about w years of age, near Williamson, ue to this county yesterday for 'ad of apples. At the turn o '"e road on the east side of the K'dge west of town, the lock on we wagon gave way and the aKon upset throwing man, boy, ni apples to the ground and in Jufill2 the Ind'a ankles ho badlv 'tat he could not walk, but no "ones were broken. The tongue UI 'he wagon was broken off. Bad Nice Trip. Hon. J. W. Hoop and daughter Miss Sallie visited in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Tayman in Brandywine, Md., from Sat urday until Monday on their re cent visit to Washington to see the Big Parade. They were very much pleased with Brandywine and its surroundings, and Miss Sallie furnishes the following de scription of the place: Brandywine is a pretty little town nestled in the hills. A large motorbus makes two daily trips to Washington, D. C. twen ty miles distant The town has its own bank. A beautiful school building is being erected. It has a consolidated school, to and from which the pupils are taken in con veyances at the County's expense Most of the dwelling houses are bungalos, shaded,in many instan ces by magnificant oaks that have been spared by the woodman. Two' railroads intersect, and from the station tobacco, livestock and farm produce are shipped to Bal timore, the principal crop being tobacco which is cut in August and dried in large open barns, then stripped and packed in hogs heads. Ice is manufactured in large quantities. High School in Second Grade. A visit of a High School inspec tor from the State Department a few days ago, disclosed the fact that there were too many pupils enrolled for one teacher, and, that if McConnellsburg borough would get the appropriation due High School of the Second Grade, it would be necessary to employ another teacher. The Board feeling that they wanted to provide the greatest efficiency in teaching force, and not to lose needed appropriation, promptly accepted the suggestion (which was virtually a command) and elected an assistant principal. There has been complaint from patrons that the High School was not "delivering the goods." The visit of the inspector, and the change made by the board, is ikely to make everything satis- actory,. and bring the High School up to a grade with other ike schools in the State. Miss Minnie Reisner, who for several year3 has been a teacher in the Borough schools was cho sen assistant principal. , Store News. There is always something new to be found at Mertie E. Shimers store, East Lincoln Way, nearly opposite Cline'a garage. Just a few of those nice Hand Bags left at 25c, lad loa white, pink and blue stockings 2oc, extra value Corset Covers and Drawers 25c, very fine drawers 50c white tea aprons percale andjgingham aprons with and without bib and coverall 2oc, collars, handkerchiefs, white dust caps, towels, wash cloths, soaps, perfumes, sachet powder, talcum powders, Colgates tooth powder, and paste, toilet waters, hair ton ic, combs, west Electric hair curl ers, plain and fancy hair pins, barrettes, fancy yins, hair pins, beauty pins, fancy buttons, scis sors, thread, needles; thimbles, argfl feather dusters, bottle clean ers, aluminum ware, dishes kitcb en utensils, table oil cloth, fancy goods, still some moie coat hang ers 2 for 5c, etc , etc. Sale Register. Thursday, November 4, Inten ding to remove from the County, Mrs. Frank Nitsche will sell at her residence H mile west of Hus tontown on the road leading to Laidig, horses, cattle, hogs, farm machinery, household goods, and grain by the bushel. Credit 0 mouths. Wednesday, Oatober 27, Mrs. Achsah Gienger, executrix of the will of George C. Gienger, de ceased, will sell at the late rest denceottbe decedent in Buck Valley, 3 horses, 1 Brood sow traction engine, saw mill, planer, wood saw, fodder shredder, corn harvester, threshing machine, reaper, mower, manure spreader wagons, surrey, sleigh, farm im plements, some household goods, etc. Sale will begin at 9 o'clock, sharp, whan terms will be made known. Death of Infant. Charles Blair, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Carbaugh, died at their home in Ayr township, last Sunday night, aged about three months. Funeral wa3 held Tues day, interment being made in Union Cemetery, , Farm Notes. Under the above head, the News takes pleasure in publish ing from time to time such facts as are of interest to Fulton coun ty farmers. We gather them from experience, 'talks with farm ers, and from reports of our Ex periment Stations. We frequently wonder how many of our readers know what made "The Great American Des ert" such a profitable wheat dis trict. When we older men were boys, our geographies pictured nearly all of the area now em braced by Kansas, Colorado, wes tern Missouri, northern Texas, &c, as a desert dry and not fit ted for farming. We now know that these are great wheat dis tricts, although no more rain falls there than formerly. "Dry i Farming" is the secret. It has been such a succes that our fore most Eastern farmers are aston ished that it is not more general- y practiced here. What is "dry arming?" It is nothing more or less than a system of level cul tivation. First, when ploughing is done, the ground is pressed down tightly against the bottom of the furrows by the use of a pack er, a disc harrow will do in this country for a packer. The ground is gone over as soon as ploughed and is never again torn up with spike or spring tooth har rows. The top three inches is made as fine as soil in our gar dens and it is kept in that shape. f a crop such as corn is to be cultivated, slant-tooth prongs are used in order to keep the soil packed down. Bottom soil is never brought up by big shovels to dry out it is left btlow. Scanty rainfalls thus made to remain in the ground below the urrow bottom to "soak" up to the roots. Slate, gravel, and sandy soil farmers would do well to sell their harrows and drills that tear uy the soil and buy disc harrows and disc drills. A good disc drill covers seed at sowing time and the seed does not have to depend for cover upon fine particles of soil that afterwards roll into the little furrows left by the hoe drill. It is better ten times better to let a few weeds grow in the corn than to so tear up the ground that neither weed3 nor corn will mature properly on soils that dry out. Banters' Licenses. The rush to take out hunting icenses is on. They cost $1.02. The two cents is to pay the pos tage to you when you send for one by mail. Two cents is hot much; but fifty times two cents is a dollar. This is what "Billy" Davi3 has to pay out of his own pocket when fifty men "forget" to enclose postage. Billy is a good fellow or he would let them wait for their licenses until pos tage is paid. 500 such 'forgets' means $10 to Billy. If the State would stand for it the hardship would be different; but it don't Fully 500 Fulton county men for get to pay postage every year. While Gilbert Napped. Gilbert Deshong is one who thinks he is proof against sur prise. But the ladies of the neighborhood "got him" just the some on his thirty-eighth birth day last Saturday. Gilbert was either too engrossed with the work of cutting corn to watch the la dies, or he wa3 napping, for the aforesaid ladies prepared a big dinner in his honor, and more than half a hundred friends knew all about it before he realized what was in the air. Cider Making. Nick Hon man will begin to makfl cider Wednesday. Sentem ber 8th, and the mill will be m operation every Wednesday after that daring the season. Rubscribo tor the "News" onlv 11.00 a year. Couldn't Afford to Advertise. Jud Shaw sold shoes and seal ing wax, and lamp?, fishpolesand glue, tobacco, candles, gum, and tacks, slickers and sardines, too; dry goods and hams were fn his line; he dealt in peas and bean3; he kept the general store, in fine sold overalls and jeans; but Jud somehow, he wasn't wise he 'Couldn't afford to advertise. Not that he harbored any grudge against his home town sheet; he was, as anyone might judge, a kindly man to meet; his customers he treated fair, and yet he prospered not, his goods were honest, one would swear he simply was forgot; for Jud, somehow, he wasn't wise he couldn't afford to advertise. Mail order firms from out of town, much wiser in their day, paid liberally for their renown, and gathered in the hay; their catalogues went everywhere, they advertised for trade, their name went forth with trumpets blare, and, ah ! the coin they made; couldn't afford, they were so wise, couldn't afford not t' adver tise. Now, Jud's stuff it was just as good; his price3 were the same the loss was ours; he simply would not spread abroad his name though townsfolks might have much preferred in their home mart to buy, of Jud Shaw they had never heard you know the reason why, for Jud, somehow, he wasn't wise 'Couldn't afford to advertise !" HARRISON'VILLE. The new bridge across Licking creek on the Lincoln Highway is quite an improvement to our vil lage no rattling plank now to keep one awake at nights but what a shame the State can not get their work done through the week with out working on the Sabbath. Those visiting at Isaiah Sipe's Sunday were: L I. Deshong, Gol die Sipe, Fannie Cress, Bessie Ritchards and son; Palmer Strait wife and daughter; II. P. Mellott, wife and two children: Earl Metz ler, wife and daughter; II C Mum ma, wife and two children: C. C. King and Spear Strait. The Stork left a young daugh ter at W. II. Deshong's recently. W. H. Deshong lost a fine cow last week. Hard luck Billie. Listen for wedding bells, Barn Burned. Late word reached this office that fire was discovered at about 10:30 o'clock last Sunday night in John F. Johnson's barn in Tay lor township, and that the build ing, two threshing machines and a fodder cutter were burned. At the time of going to press, we could get no further particu lars. Mr. Johnson has lost many barn3 and buildings during re cent years and must be nearly discouraged by this time. A Card. I wish to thank the voters of Fulton county for their hearty support at the primaries which resulted in my nomination for the office of County Commissioner, and I respectfully ask a continu ance of your favors at the gener al election on November 2nd. Yours truly, Chas. W. Schqoley. Chicken and Waffle. The Ladies Aid Society of the Zion M. E. church will hold a Chicken and Waffle Supper at New Grenada on Saturday even ing October 9th, between 5 and 9 o'clock. Oysters, ice cream, cake, and other refreshments will also be served. Church Notices. Preaching next Sunday at Si loam, 10:30; Ebenezer, 3:00 p. m. ; Asbury, 7:30, p. m. Preaching at Connellsdale Bretheran church, by Rev. E. J. Croft Wednesday evening, Octo ber 13th, at 7:30. The Model 1897 w rr w w Repeating: Rifle Shoots all .22 ahort, .22 long and .22 long-rifle cartridge!! ex cellent for rabbits, iquir reli, hawki, crowg, foxei nd all (mail gams and target work up to 200 yard. Here's the beit-made .22 riflo in the world 1 lt' rnlcp-ilnwn. convenient to carrv anr! clean. The tool tctl working Hurts cannot wear out. Its lvorv Iliad and Kockv Mountain tlghta art tlic best net tvrr furnished on any .KJ. llai liver anion like a biz r.imc ritle: has solid inn nnrt side eiection for safety and ranid accurate firinir. Iteaittiful case-hardened fini-h and stiperh huild and balance. Price, round harrel, tit. 60; octauun. J 10.00. il Model 18114. similar, but nut t.ike-dnwn. prices. J.H.16 up. L.arn mora about .11 M.rHnr.pe.Ui. Sand 3 ' 77l0 fflarfin ZtlVarmS Cxt ttwapt postal fur tba Uo paaa Martin catalog. 4 Willow St New Hayso, Com. Fall and Winter Goods at REISNERS' Very early we bought quite a quantity of Woolen Dress Goods that will enable us to keep up for some time, the lowest price these goods have ever been sold, at. Note These Prices. Splendid 36-inch Serge at 39 cents; a much better one at 48 cents; a 56-inch Serge (heavy) in blue and black, only, at 60 cents; and a splendid 50-inch all wool Serge at 98 cents as nice cloth as wish to see. Black Dress Goods. A large assortment of Black Dress Goods not one above last year's pri ces, and that was the lowest in many years. Mail Orders. Mailorders will be filled with care and promptness. A large assortment of Silks and Silk Poplins for Waists and Dresses from 40 cts. a yard up. Seersuckers and Gingkms. A large assortment of Seersuckers and Ginghams at 6, 8, 10, and 12J cents a yard. Outing Cloths 6. 8, and 10c. The 6-cent Outing is regular 27-inch and heavy weight. Muslins 5, 6, 6i, and 8 cents for the best. Underwear. Underwear to suit everybody.. Chil dren's, from 10 to 50 cents. Ladies 24. 48, 1.00 and up single pieces and union suits. A good union suit for 24c. 4 to 12 years. Suits and Overcoats. We wish to call special attention to our line of Suits and Overcoats for men and boys. We know that a close examination will prove that our line is superior to anything in town, and the prices are right. Men's Suits from $5 to $18. Blankets. Our prices on Cotton Blankets are lower than last year; and our good Home-made. Strictly all-wool Blank ets, same as last year, which means a considerable saving to you as they cost us much more than a year ago. Ready-to-Wear. A large line of ready-to-wear Ladies' Misses and Children's Dresses, well made, good fitting and lots of style at the lowest possible prices. Dresses 2 to 6 years, 25 to 50 cents; 6 to 14 years, 50c. to $1.25. Ladies' from 75 to $1.25. When in need of Goods of any kind, let us have a chance to serve you. Thanking you for the very generous patronage you have given us for many years, we remain, yours for business, Geo. W. Reisner & Co., McConnellsburg, Penn'a. Executor's Notice. Estate of George G. GeluKer, late of Union township, Pa., deceased. Letters testumemary on the above estate having been Kninted to the undersigned, all persons Indebted to the said estate are re quested to make payment, and those having claims to present the same without delay. MKS. ACHSAH GEIXliKK, 0-tcHSt. . Duck Valley, Pa. PUMPS. M. V. MALOT DEALEK IN Pumps and Pump Repairs. New Worn put in or Re pair Work done on short notice. Prices resonable and satis faction guaranteed. Address, M. V. MALOT, 74 8m. llustontown, Pa. BUY DIRECT AND SAYE MONEY Double Service Auto Tires Guaranteed 7000 Miles Service Proof Against Puncture Double the thickness of the best standard makes of tires; average 10 or 12 layers of strong fabric, plus nearly one Inch of tough tread rubber. 100 per cent, greater wearing depth and double the mileage, besides being practically puncture-proof. Unequalled for severe service or rough and rugged roads, hard pave ments and other places where tire troubles cannot be tolerated. Ride as easy as an ordinary pneumatic air space and pressure being the same. Used in U. S. Government and Euro pean War Service. Our output is Ilm tted, but we make the followfng low special Introductory Trices: Mil IW.4 34x4 Two or more 10 per cent, discount non-skids 10 per cent, additional. All sizes any type. Remit by draft, money order or certified personal check; acceptance of order optional with consignee. Descriptive folder and complete pric) Jlt mailed on request. Double Service Tire & Rubber Company AKRON, O.-Dept. C 2. Tlrei Tubes Tires Tubes JiKtW 2!W 117.4 U.rto in. Hit 8 10 SMI 81.190 .H0 t.it 8 to s'iih aa.fto 6 75 15.76 4.'i0 JTUIti !8(W .0 16.70 4.36 87x6 30.30 .00 THE POLICY OF g The First National Bank of McConnellsburg, Pa. Has always been marked by adhearence to SOUND BANKING PRINCIPLES. This has won for it the confidence and patronage of the people of the county, as shown by the steady growth. Total Assets $398,000.00 gt Our superior facilities are at your command, It and your account will be welcomed whether large or small. $ The First National Bank The BANK that made it possible for you to re- C5 ceive INTEREST on your savings. J New Real Estate Agency. Having retired from the Mercantile business with a view to giving his entire attention to Real Estate, the undersigned offers his service to any one having real estate for sale, or wanting to buy. His thorough acquaintance with values and conditions in Fulton County, coupled with long and successful experience in handling Real Es tate, makes it possible for him to bring about results in the shortest possible time. Write, or call on, D. H. PATTERSON, WEBSTER MILLS, PA. PULTON COUNTY NEWS is the people's paper. $1.00 a Year in Advance.
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