The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
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Knights who participated in theTv (
ade at York. The prize of $50 to IT,
uniformed company travelling the
greatest distance went to Williams
port. Lancaster received $50 for hav-
ing the largest number OF uniformed
men. Glen Rock Lodge received $50
for having the largest number of men
OF any subordinate lodge outside York.
Its members numgered us. In adji-
ton to these prizes, the Grand Lodge,
presented each uniformed lodge I'M
parade with 500 The Grand Lodge
made an amendment to the constitu-
ion which provides for the election
IN 1905 and every fourth year there
After OF two supreme representatives.,
and in 1907 and every fourth year
hereafter of three supreme represen-
.atives. After the installation OF offi-
:ers the Grand Ledge adjourned ton
meet in McKeesport in 1905.
Superintendent OF schools Landis'
VI Norristown, has prepared report
20 the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction in which he suggests that
county superintendents be relieved OF
the work OF examining pupils for grad-l
uation in country schools. He says:
The class examinations take up halt
my time My candid opinion is that
this duty belongs properly to the su-
pervising principals, or where there
are none, that it's performance devolv-t
es upon the teachers of the district"
During a storm at Norristown. light,
ming struck the large ice house of CAM
ser g. Heffner, on Perkiomen CreekJ
near Stafford Station. Fire destroyed
the building. The building was threc-l
fourths full of ice. While the intense
heat melted much OF it. the remaining
ice stands like huge iceberg. Tho
owners estimate the loss at $4,000.
Governor Pennypackcr granted re-
qusition papers for J. +. Collins. the
fugitive broker, who is wanted in
Pottsvile to answer a charge of en-
bezzlcment Collins was released from
custody at Stamford, Conn, after be-
ing held there some time awaiting
the requisition. The Governor ssys
his absence from Harrisburg caused
the delay in issuing the papers.
George A. Chalfant, former presi-
dent OF the Spang- Chalfant Company,
of Etna. steel manufacturers, died in
the Harper Hospital, Detroit. from
injuries received in falling from a
third-story window of his hotel while
" dlNllS III MS SlttD. He
occurred at St Clair Flats. His fam
ily was with him when he died.
John w Simmer. of South Covcn-
try Township, has brought suit against
Albert Favinger, supervisor of that
township for not removing the loose
stones from the Pughtown Road, as
required by law. Simmer says his
horse was ruined by the bad condition
OF the road
William Davish driver in the en-
ploy OF a biscuit company, OF Hatboro,
while driving on the Old York Road
above Hartsyille, passed stranger
who said he was going to Hatboro
and asked for ride. Davish allow
ed the man to get in his wagon and
when they got to lonely spot be-
tween Warminstcr and Hartsvile tho
stranger attempted to strangle Davish
and demanded his money. Davsh hit
the man in the stomach and threw
him backward into the road. The
wheels passed over the mans legs.
When Davish got to Hatboro he and
several others drove back, but the
man had escaped
Mrs: WinzelI Himer, Of Hagers-
ville, is in precarious condition "a
the result OF drinking the contents of
a mug OF poison in mistake for tea.
/ he poison, which had been prepared
Tor killing insects, stood on the same
sshelt IN closet as the tea which she
had been in the habit OF drinking
when she was thirsty. Medical as
sistance not being at hand, her hus-
band secured fresh milk from a COW.
which she drank in large quantities.
ana 10 tins the woman owes her life
wesley the youngest sin of Walter
r. Morris, OF Conshohocken, played
the Billy Bounce" act in a thrilling
manner by falling from a third story
window OF his home. In his descent
the force OF the fall was broken when
ne struck clothesline in the yard.
lie bound Of the line to grass plot.
he attending physician says the boy
Is not seriously injured
More at tobacco is being raised
IN Berks County this Summer than
ever before, owing to the good re,nrns
received from last years crops. I'm
the southwestern part OF the corrty
winch is the tobacco district. there ia
every indication that this wears cron,
will be large.
Dissatisfied stockholders of the Cru
cible Steel Company are forming a
stockholders protective COMMITTEES.
and at the annual meeting of the cor.
poration, in October, an effort viii
be made to name the majority of the
Board OF Directors.
Several sections of Lancaster
county suffered severely by rain and
van storm. The farmers in the vicinity
OF Maytown. Marietta and Mt low
were sufferers To a large extent
through the loss OF either the whoIr
nr portions OF their tobacco cron,
! he hail beat the leaf to ribbonsI
BricServile and vicinity also suffered.
severely. The finest tobacco on hum
ireds OF acres in the county was ruin
I'd The damage to the tobacco cro,
WI amount TO thousand, of dollars
John Walton, Philadelphia car
Denter, employed on a farm near Rear
own. was held up near the nickel
nlnes by four men and robbed Of his
possessions. David Clark and George
Dennis and Frank Mimm have been
odged in Jail. charged with the crime.
While driving a shaft at the Pine
AN Colllery miners suddenly came
ipon cavern in which they found A
number OF loaded wagons. The open-
ng proved to be old workings of the
Black Heath Colliery, abandoned forty
years ago.
While picking huckleberries on the
mountains along Hagerman's Run. ID.
w. Mack and sno I s,,... r c.,