The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-10-19
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hBShiNhNot Dut thC tOWn 10 I1Ot 81
bad in a health point of view as is
pictured Some of these reports are
entirely sensational and are calculated
to do West Chester considerable
harm. do not know what the Board
OF Health is doing, but l see no neces-
sity for their employing half dozen
or so sanitary experts. The health
authorities should be competent to-
investigate our health matters for
themselves; that is what the board is
constituted for, and they should at
tend to their duties. There is much
room for sanitary improvements"
The course of lectures to educate
Pennsylvania Railroad employees in
the care of the injured in emergency
cases was begun in Altoona by DR..
II. w. Pownell, chief medical exam
iner for the relief department. DR..
Pownell talked to the heads of de-
partments in the shops on the first
aid to the injured, demonstrating the
use of the stretcher and the first aid
packages. Engineers. conductors, fire.
men. fagmen and brakemen between
Pittsburg and Philadelphia will all be
obliged to attend the lecture course
at an early date The company is
equipping all baggage and cabin cars
with stretchers and first aid packages.
Pittsburg is to have hospital for
consumptives. William McConway has
offered to give his Heron Hill resi-
dence for a term of years free for
the establishment of hospital of
this character The physicians of the
city have taken no formal action in
reference to establishing an institu-
ton OF the character, but it is said
that al! are in favor of it and stand
ready to devote their time and energy
toward it in any way possible.
Superintendent Addison L. Jones, Of
the West Chester public schools. has
been noticed that the schools are en-
titled to two gold medals for the ex-
hibit Of school work at the St. Louis
Exposition. One medal is for the
high school and the other for the ele-
mentary grade. Twenty medals we're
awarded to the schools of Pennsylva-
mia.
Mrs. Grover Lewis, of Doe Run,
Chester county, died recently from ty-
phoid fever. Her daughter and som
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Hoopes,
are now at the Chester County Hos
pital suffering from the same dis
ease. The sickness of the trio led to
an investigation of the premises, and
it was found that the we'll from which
the family obtained drinking water
contained several dead rabbits be.
sides considerable fungus growth.
George F. Wilmer, aged "A years,
of Lancaster. died at the General
Hospital from injuries resulting from
a kick sustained in the pit of the alb.
domen, and a warrant has been is.
sued for the arrest of Jacob Herr on
the charge of murder. Conflicting
stories as to how the injuries were in.
flicted are ahoat, but the resident ply.
sician at the hospital says that sew.
eral hours before he died Wilmer ad-
mitted that he had fight with Herr
over some work and that the hitter
had kicked him and then run away.
Mary Toiny, aged 8 years, died at
the Pottsville Hospital from lockjaw,
due to stepping on tack.
Council awarded $1,000 thirty-year
per cent. bonds to Dick & Robin.
son, of Philadelphia. whose bid was
$IoI.o5 I-3.
Misses Mary N. Bear1, Anna HUI
Der and Gertrude Sweeton were grad.
yates at the annual commencement OF
the Good Samaritan Hospital Leba.
non. DR.. H. U. Roop, president oi
Lebanan Valley College, made the ad.
dress.
Plummer f. Jefferis, former mem.
Der of the State Legislature, has been
appointed by the State authorities as
an additional appraiser for the State
in the estate of the late millionaire
botanist, Benjamin Matlack Everhart
Mr.. Jeffcris will act in conjunction
with Joseph B. Smith and Albert P.
Hall, previously appointd in the same
capacity
Walter Lambouski and his brother,
William, though two miles apart, sus-
tanned similar injuries about the same
hour. the skulls of both being frac-
tured. Walter Lambouski, who lives
in New Philadelphia, was playing foot
ball, and when he fell to the ground
a player of great weight stepped on
Lambouski's head, fracturing his skull.
William Lambouski, the brother, was
two miles away The Indian Sum-
mer weather tempted him to go in
swimming, and while diving he struck
his head against a rock, his skull be-
ing fractured. H..tt .ar
Thomas S. Johnson's automobile ran
into large pile of dirt in the middle
of the roadway at Lewistown, and the
machine was overturned and the occu-
pants thrown out. The party con-
sisted of Mr.. Johnson, Ray Dryden
and the Misses Dallas and Goss. All
escaped with a few bruises, but the
machine was wrecked.
The Cumberland County Women's
Christian Temperance Union, at its
annual meeting elected these officers:
President, Mrs. Annie Lee Fishburn.
Carlisle; vice president, Mrs. Lydia
Wilson, Newville; secretary, Miss Liz
zie Mower, Shippensburg; treasurer,
Mrs. Jennie S. Derland, Carlisle
The Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation OF Carlisle celebrated the forty
fifth anniversary, a meeting being held
in the Opera House. Judge H. M.
Hinckley, of Danville, delivered an
address.
To avoid destruction 10 bridges by
freshets. iron and steel tenders will
be built about the piers OF county
bridges in Schuylkill county.
Charles A. Gies, aged ~ years, Of
Easton, fireman on Lehigh Val