V Smltm m cups. ! ) L. ' VQLUME 6. McCONNELLSBURG, PA., DECEMBER 7, 190. NUMBER 12 A DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE. Y J in Lady Assaulted on tho Streets of He Coniisllsburg, and Dragged Away luto a Vacant Lot. WHO WILL TELL US "WHERE WE'KE AT !" I I One of the most diabolical out- rages occurred in tnis borough j at an early hour last Wednesday evening that has ever blackened the fair name of McConnellsburg, wheu Miss Millie Lynch, a quiet, modest, and highly respected young girl of seventeen years of age, was seized while passing j along the street at the Court House by four fiends in human! form, two. of whom stifled her cries and dragged her by main : force back through the yard be- j Prof. John Holland killed a fine tween the Court House and jail : deer on Tuesday in the Valley, into a vacant lot; and had it not I. Mrs. Scott Bolinger has zone to heeu for the prompt appearing j tho home of her mother near oc the scene of one of our citizens ' Shade Gap, who is ill with pneu whose attention had beeu direct- j monia. 'ed t) the matter, causing the vil- David Green, of the Valley, is lains to flee, an outrage would j lying at the home of John Schenck, have been committed more damn-' seriously ill, with cancer of the able than aay ever perpetrated ; stomach. hyau ignorant negro iu the South, j Mrs. Catharine Duvali, of our While not succeeding in the ac- town, is confined to the house with complishment of their hellish 1 erysipelas, and suffers much pain purpose on account ol the deter- therefrom. mined struggle of tho girl and ) The many friends of James A. the appearance of the citizen, yet ' McDonough will be pleased to the girl's clothing was almost torn off her. What makes the crime more atrocious is the fact that Miss Lynch is a young lady whose j character is above reproach, arid j comes from a highly respectable familv. She is a daughter of the late Monroe Lynch of Belfast township, who was a bravo veter an of the Civil War, and served many years a school director m his township. After the father's death, the' mother kept thj chil dren together, and has had the satisfaction of seeiug them grow j up in the enjoyment of the es- i teem and respect of the entire ! community in which they live. Several weeks ago Millie' qame ' up to the home of her cousin El-; mer Peck, and took care of El mer's wife during an illness; and then about two weeks ago, went to the Harris home in this place to do general housework. The young lady being a stran ger here showed no disposition to form acquaintances, aud was as careful and prudent in her con duct as the most exacting could wish. . Early last Wednesday evening, Miss Lynch was sent to tho store 'on an errand with instructions to call at the bakery on her return. This she did promptly, and ws on tier return home about half past seven o'clock under the full glare of the street lights, when she was assaulted as before stated Miss Lynch being a stranger here, did not know the names of '. her assailants, but thinks she ' would recognize them if she would see them. Nothing has beeu done to bring the desperate characters to jus- tice. For the sake of the honor of the town, and for the aafety of her women, it behooves trie citt- j zens of the town not to let tho I matter pass without some attoo-! tion; for there is no telling whose daughter will be the next victim, '; and it may uot always happen that some one will be able to res cue tho victim in as opportune a tim.) as was this. Had those gentlemen tried the same game in many another town there would nave neon lour young men Hanging to me orancnes hi the maples that throw thi ir shad ows over the Ball of J usiice. Married. P1KHL DOUDK, Mr. Emory, A. D.ehl, of Whips Cove, and Miss Irene Douds, of Greensburg, Pa., were united in the holy bonds of matrimony, at thi Washington House in this place on Wednesday, November U' 11W4, hy Uev. J. V, Adams, pastor of the M. E. church. Ttio "Now" extends congratulations ti the young people and wishes them a long, happy and prosperous jour ney through life. WORLD'S FAIR. Closed Last Thursday at Midnight. The Greatest. ' The Louisiana Purchase Expo i sition, the greatest of all World's I,1a,r closed at midnight with: closing of November. It is said that almost 19 millions of people : passed through the gates during j the seveu mouths it was open to : the public; more than ;0 millions j of dollars were expended to make j the show lmssihle. and ahout the ! same amount was speut by the public within the exposition ground. " 1 Kcw Grenada, Jacob S. Black is housed with a good doso of grip. up learn that he has so far recovered from his illness as to be able to be out about the village on nice days. The Ilouck House had a new winter bonnet put on this week in the way of a new roof. As the guests are always well fed, they now will also be kept warm and i dry, Richard Alloway went hunting last Monday for deer. When he retumed-4iome in the evening he found one added to the family circle a new daughter a dear, sure Alice McClain added a new patch to the entire front of her residence; also, improvements to the post-office room, making itone among the nicest offices in the County. Mrs.O!ive Cunningham and son, Billy Flick, of Pittsburg, have been stopping at the parsonage for a few week. They were joined by her husband, Ralph W., on Mon day, who will remain awhile, de voting part of Ilia. vacation in the woods in quest of game. Grand pap nurses the boy and sings. Scarlet fever has broken out in the home of Ed Alloway near the camp ground. Two of his children have it and a third has scarletina. Last Sunday the house was quar antined by Dr. H. B.Campbell, the attending physician. It is feared tba't the disease will go through the school, as Blanche, one of the victims, was complaining while at school on Wednesday. A meeting of the tax payers of Wells has been called for Satur day, Dec. 10, at the election bouse at Enid from 2 to 6 o'clock p. in. to vote on the acceptance or rejec tion of the new road under the Sproul Act. Let there he a full turnout. Now is the time and this is the right way to decide by vote for or against. Several members of Harrison- ville Lodge, No. 710, I. O. O. F., drove oyer the hills on Saturday J evening to New Grenada, and vis- tod aterfall Lodge, No. 773. Accompanying them was Geo. W. Sipe, a member of Georgetown Lodge, No. ., of Georgetown, Colorado; also, James A. McDon- lough, of Wells Valley Iodge, No. tio, was present, and a good time jn general general was iiuct. ran or the number remained over night in town, at the Central Hotel, Will iam Alloway, proprietor,' and an old war horse of the I. (). O. F. Married, at the residence of the officiating justice, Jesse Fields, of Clay Township, Huntingdon coun ty, on SundujvNovember 5J0, 10(14, Mr. Nathan Burnett, postmaster of Uubelsville, and Mrs. Catharine Edwards, of Taylor township, Ful ton county. Tbe groom is I o years of age, and the bride only 71. They at once returned to the man sion the groom had in readiness for his bride, at the postoflice at Hiibelsville. A wedding tour 'to SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION Interesting Thanksgiving Services Com , The "Newa' with Your Choice of Thrlce-a-bincd with the Convention. Week World, or Tri-Weckly Tribune Tho twenty sixth annual con- at $1.75. veiiMnu of the Wells Valley Sun , There are very few families day School Association was held now a-days who do not take their at the Pine Grove M. E chu ch on Thursday, November 24, 1W4, The program was carried out to ; the letter. The-exercises were j interesting and protitaMe. The ! attendance wasgood. TheThauks giving sermon deserves spejial mention. Mr. Kennedy, who do-, hvered the sermon. Is quite a young man, but his earnestness shows that his heart is iu the work. Besides delivering the sermon in the morning, he made three or four excellent addresses during tho afternoon and even lug. In the afternoon and evening quite a number of Sunday school workers took part in tho conven tion, among them being the pres ident, S. P. Wishart, A F..Baker, G. W. Sipo, Miss Maud Baum gardner, James W. Baruett and James Lockard. The music was furnished by the Pine Grove M. E. church choir. Tho following warned persons were elected officers for the ensu ing year: James Lockard, presi dent; Aaron Kelly, vice president; E A. Horton, secretary, and A. F. Buki r, treasurer. It was de cided to hold the next annual con vention during the first ween in .vlay next. A new departure is planued in the Thanksgiving service for next year. Instead of there being a couvention in connection with the services there will only be the sermon in the afternoon at the Wells Valley M. E. church. This will give all a chance to be at home for Thauksgiviug dinner. At the close of the services we all felt that we bed doue our duty by assembling ourselves for wor ship as requested to do by our chief magistrate. We think it is a delightful way to keep Thauks giving day by being in God's house and praising Him. Surprised Him. The night belore Thanksgiving James C. McKeeof Whips Cove was sick; in fact, his whole physi cal organism had become so much disarranged that he thought eve ry minute would be his next. 1 hursday morning through the earnest solicitation of his familv reinforced by tho argument of their school teacher, who boards iu the family, Mr. McKee set off early for Buck Valley to formally place himself under the cure of Dr. Jim McKibbin his trusted family physician. The doctor as sured him that there was no cause for alarm that the digestive or gans of lots of people got out of whack about Thanksgiving Day eitlser before tr after generally atter, and giving James some red pills in a pink bottle, sent him hime. When James came within sight of his domicile, lie saw a great crowd gathered ab.-ut the house; and, not knowing whether it oinuht 1)6 a funeral r a public sale, became much alarmed, and whipped up ids faithful steed, de termined to bo prepared for tho worst O i Hearing tho house, however, his uostrils were greet ed with the odor of roast turkey, ! and that with the heartiuess with which hewaa greeted by his un expected visitors, made it cloir to him why his family were so auxious that ho should go to see the doctor. Fifty-threi of his neighbors ond morn distant friends shared the sumptuous dinner which his good wife had prepared as a sur prise 1o iilm and the afternoon was speut to the great enjoy meni of all. the World's Fair was intended, but the Fair closed befor arrange ments could be made for the trip. The Calitbuuipian Band gave the happy pair one of the greatest , serenading of the season. We extent our congratulation, and hope they may have pleasant sail ng through life's voyage. ATTRACTIVE COMBINATION. county newspaper, and keep themselves in touch with the movements of the world around thorn. To attempt to raise a fain-j ily without a newspaper, would i be like rearing them in a dark ciive illuminated with a tallow dip. Forty-nine out of every fifty fa m- ilies would -no more think of get ting aloug without their county newspaper than without bread; for they deem the feeding of the mind of as great importance as the feeding of the body: but, it is to meet ,he demands of those who want a city paper that we have made an arrangement that will save them money. ' For a long, time we have been in a position to furnish the New York World three times a week in addition to the Fulton County News for one dollar aud seventy five cents. This arrangement suited our Democratic friends and scores of them are to-day ta king the 'Mews" and Thrice a Week World together. Owing to the fact that a g od thricc-a-wcek Republican paper came so high we have not been able to offer oue with the "Newt." to any advantage. Now, that dif ficulty has been overcome to a certain exteut, and we are able to announce that until further no tice we will furnish the New York Thrice a -Week Tribune, the leading Republican paper in the country aud the Fulton Coun'y News for SI. 75. The price of the Tribune aloue n $1.50. Tri-Weenly Tribune Fulton County News Si.r.o $-2 50 Together for $1.75. Of course the Thrice-a-Week World and the "News" is still open at $1.75. With the "News," Fulton coun ty.'s largest paper.and the" World " or the "Tribune," you have poe tically a daily paper and tho best county weekly, and this, too, at a cost br only 25 ceuts more than you formerly paid a year for the Fulton Democrat or the Fulton Republican. The "News" aud the Philadel phia Weekly Press one year tor $1.50. SPECIAL SERVICES. Sixteen Members Added to the Presby terian Church at Warfordsburg. Tho Kev. Dr. Thomson has just closed a series of meetings in the Presbyterianchurchat Warfords burg, covering a period of seven nights, with the result of eight adult baptisms, and the addition of sixteen members to the church. During the winter mouths there will be two preaching service.' a month in that church the Sub balh preceding the full moon and the Sabbath following. Dr. Thomson is now iu Wash ington, but will return for the services on the 18th aud 25th lust. GOOD DAY'S HUNT. B.lhel Township Sportsmen Bag D.vr, Rabbits and Pheasant. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Gar land, of Bethel township, spent a few hours in town last Saturduy aud stopped at the News office a lew minutes to advance their sub scriptiou it to 15)05. From here limy A'c.ut down and spent Satur day nightwith the former's broth er Riley lu the Cove. Daniel docs not lav claim to being a champion hunter, or anything of that kind, but he, in compauy with Harry and Amos Plessinger, wont out on Sid iliog Hill Monday of last week to try their luck and came back in the evening with a fin deer that dressed niuoty pounds, besides having picked up th e rab bits and a pheasant. Mr. Ahlmaiq Ruuyan of Need more, spent lust Thursday i ight in the borne of his sou, John 11, of this pi ce. FROM UPPER IOWA. Rev. George B. Shoemaker Writes an In teresting Letter. nidorn. Town, Nov. ':o. Editor News: We are almost at tho door of December, and yet have not seen any sirn of winter, i to our great surprise. Novem j rer has been fair, and favorable ; for work, and faultless as to tem perature. Today has beeu windy , and somewhat cold, but not much below the freezing point. Scarce-! ly any nun has fallen during the , present month. The roads are ; excellent for traveling. The farm i ers have uot been interrupted in j the work of gathering their corn, ! and now most of them have fin ished and are ready for a well earned rest. Many feared that because of the cool summer, Iowa could not mature acorn'crop, but the people are all surprised be cause the corn is excellent in quality aud abundant in quantity. Tho children and young peo pin were disapp inted th it there was no skating on Thanksgiving Day, but no doubt, they spent more time at the table, and were satisfied in the eud. It was a great day at the parsonage. The liildren were all home even t the grandson; who, by the way. is I lie most uondel fill b.iby uliV". If you do not belh Veit I will s ;nd yon Iii-i picture iid tnat will coo vitico the most skeptical. The house scorns very quiet si'ieo the hilil reti h ive jr-ino. This is a urreat year for ih p "i pl cailed Methodists in EldoiM. low. i. In lhe f;..!l of th.- let ilU'list E:iiscop:il cl:lSS here ' ils oi :;iiu."d. We Imve j il elosed our Semi Cel1(!!ll)i,il JlUii- lee. The exenUes beirun on Sunday, N .veinber 20, 1001, and closed on Sunday. November 27ih. For the first Sunday wc had Rev. Robert. Fon es, D D. First As distant Secretary of the Board of ; Church Extension, lie also lee I turcd on Monday uiht, following ' on "Mistakes of the Devi! p.nd some other People." The last j Sunday, Kev. T. J. Bassott, D. D., i President of Upper Iown Univer- : sit , preached morning and even- ; ing. The Marshallfown District j Conference met with us ou Tues- j day and Wednesday. Twenty- j nine of the ministers were pi es ' out, and spent the two days in! preaching, prayer, and the con j sidcraiion of themes on the gener-: al subject of Aggressive Evangel ! ism. On Thursday we had theUu- j ion Thanksgiving services in our , church. j There are two of the charter j members of our church living with us yet. They have had an unbroken membership in the I class at this place for fiftyrears. ! On Friday of our jubilee wsek, we i held a reception for them. Many people came in to greet them and do them honor. This was a very , delightful service. At half past; six on Sunday evening, Novem- j her 27ih, we held a emi-Ceiiten-1 mal Love Feast. A Very lare' company was present and it was , H blessed meet ing. We began well , w Hh Dr. Forties, and closed up: well with Dr.. Basset, and f.i-l that our . Jubilee was a glorious! success. Three persons united J with us on probation, mid three i bv h'tt dnring tlv week. J We are in need of young men ! fir ii r work in the minlstery of! ihe Upper Iowa Con fen nee. If (od ha- spoVen to any of the young men of Fulton county oiling them to the rninistery and if they will communicate with any of our resuli ig elders, tho way rnny be opened up for them to begin work in one of the best con fej'euces in the Metho dist Episcopal ehnrcli. Salaries will be small to bcejn with, and tho work hard, but to tho right man with the ri,iht heart, success will follow. While we prefer men who have had the training of tho schools, this 1 not absolutely nec sssary. Young mei v itb initurtil gift-, and with grace und sanctified common seno, will win. I trust the I ord Id ur Kome ou ibis way through these written words Hl'NTINO SEASON CLOSED. Fulton County Credited with Twenty-Seven Deer and Three Bears. The annual deer seasou closing with last Wednesday night seome to have been nu unusually sue cessful one amoug hunters. Stat istics furnished the "North Am erican" show tiiat in this county were killed 27 deer iu addition to three bears. Other counties are: Clearfield, t0 deer, 1 bear; Cam jron, 12 dec), 5 bears; Juniata, 3 bears; Potter, 10 deer, 12 bears; Bedford, 12 deer; Bradford, 4 bears; Mifflin, 7 deer, 12 bears; Pike, 100 deer, 25 bears; Jeffer son, 12deor;Cumberland,35 deer; Franklin, 58 deer; Wyoming, a deer, 4 bears; Columbia and Un ion, 11 deer ajd 7 bears. Two persons were killed; one in Fulton and one in Clearfield. CHURCH DEDICATION. Cromwell Church, United Brethren in Christ, December II. The Cromwell United Brethren etiurch: Hustontown circuit, will be formally dedicated on Sunday, December 11, 1904, Presiding El der J. I. Ressler . officiating. Morning service at 10 o'clock, and evening service at 7. All former and neighboring pastors, as well as the general public, are invited to attend.. Rev. Akchie S. Wolf, Pastor. A New. Earn. Five weeks ago last Saturday light Sam Mellott's big barn 'turned, entailing a loss to him and his tenant farmer Harvey linger, of at least $11,000 which loss was partly covered by in su rauce. The last spark had scarce ly died out in the blact- en -d i uins vhen Sam was hustling around to replace the building. Thecon tract for the carpenter work was taken by N B. Henry & Son and last Saturday just five weeks from the time of the fire aud less than two weeks from the time the Heurys struck the first lick the frame was raised. More than a hundred of Sam's neigh hoi s and friends turned out to give him a lift, ond to see that the big dinner didn't spoil. The size of the barn is fiOxflO aud the frame contains between 40,000 and 50, 000 feet of lumber. HEAVY PIUS. One at Six-month Old Tipi Ihe Beam al 260 Pound. Mr. S. A. Wible list Thursday, -.'utiUiored four one-year old pigs that dressed 1400 pounds, and one six-months. old that dressed 2150 pounds. If any one has any thing to beat that don't be bacK ward about counug along with the information. Our little city has been very ac tive during tho past summer. Several milds of sewer have been laid. A number of new houses have been built. One church is beiug re-modeled. A large bi ick block, a home for our post office, wis erected, aud much other work done during the year. We are a growing proposition. I wish you would tell Dr. Hill, of Fort Littleton, if be is around in tho county anywhere, that ona Sunday, uot long ago, a small boy was ht church with his mother. Aftr I had preached awhile the riov said to Ins mother, "Let's go down to grandma Murray's." His mother said, "No, wo must stay until the sermon is over, it will no.t bo long. You be quiet.1' Tho little fellow settled down for a few tniuutes, then he bacatne restless, fussed about, aud final ly hiking up into hi mother's f.iee, in a voice that told the ag ony of his heart he said, "Ma, there's nothing iu this to tno." Aud the preacher went on bliss fully unconscious of the agony he was causing one of bis audience. I wlh you all a merry Christ mas and a happy New Year. ' " Gko. B. Siiokmakkk. THE COUNTY INSTITUTE. Kiiililv-four if the Kluhty-nve Icaclicis In thii County In Attendance. LECTURERS AND INSTRUCTORS FINE. "31 1'e thirty-ninth annual session f the Fulton County Teachers' Institute opened at the Court House on Monday at 1:.'!0 p. m. Kev. .1. V. Adams, of the M. E. church, conducted devotional ex ercises, after which Sept. Barton made an introductory iiddrpss. in which he impressed upon the teachers the importance of their doing their dutv in the Institute. At first roll-call it was found that eighty-four teachers out of eighty-live were present. I he organization was then adopted by the Institute, as out lined by Supt. Barton. Prof. I,. H. Wible was then in troduced. Prof. Wible, lifter giv ing the history of the teachers of the County as a whole, extended very uhlv a hearty and very warm welcome to the teachers. Prof. 1I.M. (Iritlith gave a very :ihle response, impressing upon iiml holding before the teachers the fact that high ideals and sin cerity are great factors of the true teacher. Prof, (trillith says- the profession of the teacher is second only to one. After a brief recess and a piece of music, J. Nelson Sipes, Esq.. was introduced by Supt. Barton. Subject: "The Institute of the past, und the Institute of the present." The comparison was well made. Mr. Si pes was a member of the first Institute of Fulton county, Mr. Sipes and Dr. 11. S. Wishart being the only two teachers of that Institute now living in the county. After n song Prof, ltife, of the Cumberland Valley State Normal School, was introduced upon the subject of "English Literature and Composition. " After a song Dr. Bible was in troduced to make a few introduc tory remarks. MONDAY KVKMNli. Notwithstanding the unfavora ble weather, a full house greeted Prof. Bible, Monday night, and listened with great pleasure to his lecture, "Life and Opportunity.' Brof. Bible is kindly remembered by the older Institute goers who were glad again to have the op portunity of hearing him. Prof. Bible is a "natural born" enter tainer, and while his lecture is abundantly spiced with wit and humor, it is full of splendid thought and inspiration for better living to everybody. TI KSDAV MOKMNli. Devotional Exercises by Uev. Mr. Wolf of the Lutheran church. Uev. Adams then occupied a short period, with tho teachers, iu singing some very beautiful songs. The subject, "Child Study," was taken up hy the teachers. Mr. (i. B. Mellott oened the subject as follows: "The benefit derived from the subject is in the thinking about it, and not in tho talking." "Study the habits aud disposition of the child." "Study : the child's home life and surround ings." "( Jet closer to the life of the child." After a ten-minute recess Dr. Hull, of Millersville State Nor- ' mal School, was introduced and gavo an instructive talk on "Elim ination of Subjects." Dr. Hull says there are too many branches iu the curriculum of our schools. Prof. Ivifo occupied the next pe riod, continuing his talk on Eng lish Literature, much to the grati fication of his hsarers. Mr. Woodcock says, "Any teacher should lie able to discuss this subject." "Ask questions: love tho child." Prof. H. M. Griffith say. "In child otudy don't forget that you yourself were once a child." "Personal child study is of the ut most value." After a vong Dr. Bible took up the subject "Proper Oral Rendi tion." 4 teiinln-4 oat Bilk p(V.)
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