THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, FA. INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS 1 0(lKl and General Intercut, Gathered at Home or Clipped ' Irm onr Exchanges. CONDENSED FOR HURRIED READERS . Miss Edith Gordon, West Ches ter, is spending two weeks with her Fulton county friends. Whatever else you forget do . not forget to take some food to the poor little quail during this snowy weather. Roy Ramsey, son of Jeweller D. R. Ramsey, left for Philadel phia last Monday to attend a school of watchmaking. Master Malcolm Kirk, son of iHon. and Mrs. S. W. Kirk, issuf fringjwith pneumonia, but , seems to be on a fair way to re- covery. Mrs. Mary Clevenger was con- : fined to the house during last i week, with grippe; but at no time was' she unable to nurse that new 14-pound grandson. Fruit Tijees Eld C. L.' Funic of Need more, is now booking or ders for all kinds of fruit and or namental trees. Prices low and quality of trees guaranteed. 1 8-lt. Webster Mellott, teacher of the Pleasant Grove School, desires to thank his pupils, through the News, for a recent post card Bhower;also, other friends for presents received from them. There will be an oyster supper at David Gregory's on Wednes day evening, January 14th, the proceHs to be used for the bene fit of 'the Damascus Christian church. Everybody invited. The African Ostrich farm, near Bloomsburg, Pa., now contains thirty-two ostriches. While the females lay many eggs, none of the eggs have hatched. One bird laid sixty-two eggs last year. A short time ago Frank Stout eagle found a neat little hatchet in a box of Florida oranges. Some Southern packer would be interested to know where his special, Philadelphia-made hatch et went. The Federal government is again sending out warning against the practice of eating raw ham, sausage, or pork in any uncooked form, as that dreadful disease, trichinosis, results from this source. At a dinner given to eight on New Year's evening, Mrs. W. Scott Alexander announced the engagement of her daughter Ma ria Dickson Alexander to Mr. Clinton Brown Alexander, of Washington, D. C. Of course, it is all right, but it sounded "funny" to read the rules governing the manner in which farmers must turn in their report to the Income Tax collec tor when the former's income ex ceeds the $3,000 limit. According to the best data we can secure, a ton. of soft coal will burn, on an average, 100 bushels of stone lime; and the same amount of hard coal will burn 135 bushels. All depends on the kind of stone used. George A. Bard, in sending two dollars to make his label read 1915 says Billy Sunday is making it warm for Pittsburgh. The big snow storm of last Saturday and Sunday paralyzed local traffic, in the big manufacturing village. The January term of court will open on the thirteenth of this month. Chief interest will cen ter on the applications for liquor license, and the remonstrance that will be presented against the granting of license in this place. Among the nice teams seen on our streets, Andy Washabaugh's spanking pair of iron grays showed up most conspicuously as they pranced through the snow last Monday morning. A big bobsled is a mere plaything for the big fellows. County Treasurer and Mrs. S. A. Hess entertained at their home on Christmas day, a number of their relatives and friends. Of course, not the least pleasant Part of the day's festivities was a big Christmas dinner consist ing of roast turkey, chicken, nm, and all the side dishes us ually found on such occasions. Those present were Mr. and Mrs S. W. Truax, M. L. Truax, N. H. Peck and wife, Eld. C. L. Funk, Mrs. Oliver Mellott and daugh ter Anna, Mrs. Frances P. Hart and daughter Miss Esta. Mr. L. R. Ashley has been ap pounted chief clerk in the office of the Freight Traffic Manager of the Western Maryland Railway Company. He has been connect ed with the freight Traffic De partment of important Western roads, and resigns as assistant to the Commerce Counsel of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at Louisville, Ky. Any wife cursed wth a lazy husband should try to induce him to emigrate with her to the State of Washington, whose legislature has just passed a "lazy" husband law, which went into effect two weeks ago. The county commis sioners are building a stockade on sixty-five acres of land near Ba nard, a suburb of Seattle. Here all husbands convicted of being lazy, or abandoning their wives and families, will be put to work clearing the stumps and rocks. While the husbands are working on the county tracta the wives will be paid $1.50 per day, and they won't even have to go to the office to collect the salary. It will be sent to them. In sending a dollar to pay for the Fulton County News dur ing the year 1914, Mrs. Sophia (Gress) Smith, of Edinbugh, Ind. says she very much enjoys its weekly visits and would not know how to get along without it. Mrs. Smith says, that although they had a dry summer, they had a very prosperous year. Their corn yie:ded from 35 to C5 bush els to the acre; they raised and sold $1950.00 worth of hogs, and $500.00 worth of cattle. They have 31 hogs and 16 cattle left to start another year with. She says they have fine roads, auto mobiles do not mind the snow. Corn is worth CO cents; wheat 90, and oats, 38. School Report Report of Oak Grove school for fourth month ending Decem 31,1913. Enrollment, 51; boys, 29, girls, 22: average attendance, girls, 83, boys 91 percent. av erage, 87 per cent. Those attend ing every day of the month were Ralph Bolinger, Ralph Anderson, Earl Bolinger, Norman and Ar thur Benson, Mervin Black, Law rence Cutchall, Dayton and Ar thur Kerling, Dallas Kerling, and Chas. and Frank Leidy; Mildred Bolinger, Orpha Black, Mildred Black, Rachel Gladfelter, Virgin ia McClain, Hazel Newman, May Shore, Lena Umholtz. Ray Hess, Teacher. Meadow Green School, in Clay township, Huntingdon county, for fourth month, ending December 31, 1913. Enrollment, males 19; females 13; total, 32: average at tendance: males, 89, females, 90 per cent. total average, 90 per cent Those who attended every day were, Hazel Hoffman, Irene Mead, Maude Curfman, Minnie Shope, Mary and May Rupert, Fred George, Ralph and Edgar Stoke, Jesse and Curtis Rupert, and Walter and Clarence Curf man. Number of visits during the month 3. Charles Bolinger Teacher. Goats Give Much Milk. A family living in Los Angeles California, and not able to keep a cow in the city, decided to try a Swiss goat Finding that the price ($25 to $50) for matured animals was .more than they could pay, they bought a kid, which they raised. For several months after the goat became fresh for the first time it gave three quarts at milk daily. When it again be gan to give milk, half of the sup ply was permitted to go to the goat's three kids until they were six weeks old, when they were then weaned, and for five months the family enjoyed a supply of one gallon of milk equal in rich ness to Jersey milk except that the cream was a little harder to separate. The cost of feed for one year was 6oo pounds of alfal fa hay and a liberal allowance of fresh beets the latter growing all the year in that climate. Fulton County, Too. Woe to him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! For the violence of Lebanan shall cover thee, and the spoil of tha beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the vio lence of the land, and of the city and of all that dwell therein. Habakkuk, 2:15. CURIOUS BITS OF. HISTORY COLONEL BLOOD, CROWN STEALER. By A. W. MACY. One day In 1970 a country clergyman, his wife and a nephew vlilted the Tower of London and were shown the usual eights by the keeper. While viewing the royal regalia the lady fell suddenly III, and wae taken to the keeper's liv ing room, where she quickly re covered under the kindly minis trations of the keeper's wife and daughter. This was the be ginning of an Intimate friend ship between the two families, and of a lovs affair between the nephew snd the keeper's pretty daughter. Some time afterward the clergyman, the nephew and a third man went to the Tower to' complete ar rangements for tho wedding. The third man had never seen the royal regalia, so the keep er took the party to see It. Ae he was lifting It out of the chest he was seized and gagged by two of the men, while the third made off with the crown. The alarm was given, and the thieves were captured and the crown recovered Just outside the gate. The "clergyman" proved to be Col. Thomas Blood, a noted outlaw, and the others his accomplices. It was never publicly known what Blood In tended to do' with the crown, or why King Charles granted full pardon to all engaged In the robbery. (Copyright, 1311, by Joseph B. BowlesJ Local Institute. The fifth local institute, Bethel township, was held at Franklin Mills, January 2nd. Meeting called to order by President, Mr. Goldon: Questions: Consolidation of Schools, and Grammar; How Taught were discussed by teach ers present who were: Martha Garland, Mary Baumgardner, rearl Breakall, Earl Golden and Edgar Alexander from Bethel, and Webster Mellot from Belfast The program was interspersed with well rendered recitations and songs by the school. A. E. Alexander, Sec. WHIPS COVE. Yes, we got the snov, but O, My! Wallace and Fred Mellott, and Ethel lloopengardne r , spent Christmas and the time until the following Monday in the home of the latter's parents, at Gaitbers burg, Md. W. Vincent Hart and D. U. Mel lott closed out their furniture es tablishment last week for an in definite period, owing to a lack of storage room. Willard Plessinger spent the half of last week among friends in Buck Valley. Wilbert Deshong, ot Sideling QUI, passed through the Cove last Saturday, evidently well prepar ed for sledding. Job Winters lost a horse last week. This is the second one to die for Job since harvest Notice. The annual meeting of the shareholders of the Fulton Coun ty Bank of McConnellsburg, Pa. on Wednesday January 14tb 19 4 between the hours of 12 o'clock noon and 3 o'clock P. M. for the election of directors for the ensu ing year. Wilson Nace, 121 1-5 1. Cashier. CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY By A. W. MACY. THREE REGICIDES IN AMER ICA. When Charles I. of England was tried "for high crimes and misdemeanors," sixty-seven men sat as Judges. Of these, fifty eight signed the death warrant. After Charles II. became king, the House of Commons ordered that the regicides be brought to trial. Twenty-four of them were dead, but they were tried Just the same, and condemned. Of those living, twenty-nine were tried and condemned to de.it.h, of whom ten were executed. Six teen escaped and went Into ex ile. Of these, three came to America and ended their days here. General William Goffe and his father-in-law, General Edward Whalley, lay In hiding at New Haven for three years. Then they went to Hadley, Mas sachusetts, and probably died there. Colonel John Dlxwell, snother regicide, came to New Haven In 1665, and lived there till his death, In 1689. Time and again the crown officers searched for these men, but were never able to find them, owing to the vigilance of their friends. For many years a her mit living near Narragansett was believed to bs ons of the escaped regicides, but It wss never proven. Farm Finance. Among the first things to be considered by Congress this month will be the Farm Finance question. During the past year the News has been telling its read ers that many farm finance plans had been laid before that body, and that men had been sent to foreign countries to study rural banking systems in vogue, espec ially in Germany, and under gov ernment supervision. We do not know what system will eventually be adopted, but can say this much: farm mortga ges, and similar farm papers are not now "legal tender" at banks although such paper embodies the highest type security, and that some system will be evolved from the mass of matter now in the hands of our Congressman, whereby farmers can get money on terms of equal footing with manufacturers, railroads, or cor porations requiring long-time credit. As Veil First as Last We are prepared to stick to what we said last week about the repair of local "State" roads. The muddle in which the State Highway Commission finds itself cannot be cleared in time for that body to do very much for the outlying districts very soon. If the users of these roads desire any degree of com fort while traveling they will be compelled to l.pair the roads themselves. Volunteer repair gangs are doing this very thing in other states. They set a day when all meet and work the road, or else each fixes up the road through his own land, and in this way ho one is imposed upon, as all are equally benefited. All the idea needs to start it is for some gritty citizen to set the example for his slower neighbor. May as well do it first as last (Copyright, UU, by Joseph 8. Bowles Fine Christmas Number. Ed A. Buckley has a large store at Crook, Colorado, and is doing a landoffice business. There not being a newspaper in his im mediate locality, and having faith in printers' ink, he started a small advertising sheet called Buckley's Store News. The fact that he ha3 been getting it out regularly for a year or more, and that it has grown in size and general appearance, and taken on adver tising for farmers and others is an evidence that Ed did not make a mistake. The Christmas num ber, printed in three colors, is a dandy folio and would be a credit to a regular print shop. We know some business men that think money wasted that is spent for advertising; then, there are others that do not Those that do advertise, are mighty glad that their competitors do not Fublic Sale. On January 13th 1913, at one o'clock P. M. Geo. A. Harris, a gent will hold a large sale of val uable real estate in front of the Court House McConnellsburg, Pa. All properties ottered at last sale have been sold and an entire ly new list will be ottered, includ log several tracts of woodland in reach of McConnellsburg market See bills. Western Maryland Lines Try the Short Route to Pittsburgh C le velan d and Chicago Leave Hancock 2:12 p. m. arriv ing in Pittsburgh 8:05 p. m. and Chicago 8:10 a. m., next day. Also through sleeping cars leave 1:07 a. m arriving in Pittsburgh 7:20 a, tn., Cleveland 10:30 a. m., and Chicago 9:00 p. m. that day. Modern electric-lighted train of observation parlor and club car. Steel sleeping cars and vestibuled coaches. FOR BALTIMORE Leave Hancock 2:56 p. m. arriv ing in Baltimore 0:49 p. m. C. F. Stewart, Genl Passenger Agent C. W. Myers, Agent w Mor auccessfully used .years 4246 Fifth AvlPittsburgh, I Lu. W. FUNK, DEALER 1 IN HIGH GRADE V. PIANOS, PLAYER PIANOS, ORGANS and VICTROLAS. Pianos are like shoes some makes good, some bad. They all look alike to the unsophisticated, and here'sjwhere the "peddler", gets in his work. He's here to day with the piano; To-morrow he's away. You have the piano, he has your money. I have been doing business with the people of Fulton county for ten years. I own real estate and pay tax. I am here to make good if the instrument I sell you is not satisfactory in every respect. The following well known people have purchased Player Pianos and Pianos from me. Ask any of them about me before you buy from any one else. PLAYER PIANOS. Miss Bess Patterson, McConnellsburg Wm. Hull, Harvey Bender, " B. VV. Peck, " Miss Florence Johnston, Webster Mills PIANOS. John kA. Irwin, McConnellsburg Rev. J. M. Diehl, Hon. Geo. B. Mellott, M Hon. D. A. Nelson, " J. B. Runyan, " McConnellsburg R. N. Fryman, Dr. F. K. Stevens. Miss Annie Dickson. M iaa Pmi'ln V r.rioliiJ C. B. Stevens, Mrs. Grace Bender, Mrs. H. B. Trout, Harvey Cooper, High School, Roy M. Kendall. Mrs. Frances P. Hart, Needmore J. R. Sharpe, Dott Dr. J. M. McKibbin, Amaranth John H. Brewer, Plum Run L. W. FUNK, McConnellsburg, Pa, Racket Store's Latest Announcement In our last advertisement, one of the things mentioned, was our line of Guns. Well, we sold some. We sold more guns this season than ever before. Do you ask why? Just because we had the right guns, and sold them at the right price; and, we can still sell you the Parker, the Fox, the Remington Pump, or the Win chester 32-20 Rifle at $12.00, 22-caIiber Rifles $1.25 to $12.00. SHOES SHOES This is our great line. We have a large stock of Shoes and Rubbers, and at almost the old prices. We buy about all these goods direct from the Factory, and this is one reason why we can make you such attractive prices. Child's shoes at 10 cents to 98 cents; Mis ses 90 cents to $1.48; Boys' 98 cents to $2.45; Women's from $1.25 to $3.75; Men's $1.48 to $4.00. If you are looking for a Ladies' Shoe, do not buy any thing but a Boston Favorite, Lady Dainty, or Queen Quality; and in Men's buy Endicott, John ston, or Walkover. Seasonable Underwear. Don't fail to see our great line of underwear. We have under wear for children I to 15 years of age at 10 to. 30 cents. Boys' Union or separate underwear, 50 cents a suit; Ladies' 24 to 48; Men's 25 to 45. We sell High Rock Men's Underwear 18-oz. at 45 cents each. See our Misses union suits 23 to 50 cents a suit. BED BLANKETS 50, 75, 98, $1.30, $1.75 to $4.98 We have just added to our line a fine stock of ALUMINUM WARE. It is the pure stuff and mighty nice. We have just received a CARLOAD OF AMERICAN WIRE FENCE that we will sell Cheaper than Last Year. 20 to 40 cents a rod. Coal Oil 10c. gal. Pamt,'all kinds and prices 10c. to $1.90 gal. Mouse traps 4 for 5c. Window shades, felt, 8c. Rat traps 8c each Window shades, oil, 23c. Rum per traps 15 to 23c. Table oil cloths 15c GO ft clothes lines 15c. Carpet 13 to 45o Neck ropes 15 to 23 Lace curtains 85 to 9So Meat saws 20 to 25c. Writing paper, box 10 to 5 Horse rasp 13 In. 0 Tablets lc to lOo Horse rasp 16 in. 25 Envelopes 4 to 5c pack Horse shoe pincers 48c Carpet tacks 3 boxes 5o Horse knives 80c Brass curtain poles 8c Table spoons 12c set Wood curtain poles 8c Teaspoous 6c set Umbrelias 48 to 1.25 22 cartridges 12c box Lanterns No. 2, 50c to 05c 11 gange shells 42c box Buggy harness 111.00 to $16.00 Picks 40c Wash boilers, heavy, 00 and 95o Mattocks 40c Lard cans, 50 lb. 83o Axes 50 and 75c Lard press, 4 qt. $4.00 Steel hatchets 45 and 48 No. 22, Enterprise grinders. $1.75 Cross-cut saws $1.00 to $3 50 Butcher knives 8to25o Buggy whips , 10 lo 50c Ho? scrapers 8o SEE OUR OVERCOATS, PANTS, RUBBER COATS, AND SUITS. HULL & BENDER.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers