The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-01-24
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town Friends Meeting House. The
ceremony was according to the So
/ ciety of Friends. under care of the
Wakefield Monthly Meeting. The
overseers were Mr.. and Mrs Charles
l.. Knight and Mr.. and Mrs. New
lin Ely. Miss Edna Scofleld, of Moy1
| Ian, Pa, was maid of honor, and
| Howard Wright, of Rochester. N. y,
was best man Evan T. Worthing-
ton, of Newton, read the marriage
certificate, which was signed by
three hundred persons. A reception
followed the ceremony. IL was held
at the home of the brides father,
George G. Worstall, and attended by
nearly one hundred and fifty per-
sons.
Fire destroyed the large -four mill
belonging to the Albert Bromer esq
tate and operated by George X.
Shoemaker below wenksville. The
loss is $4,000 and insurance $4,000.
This is the third time the min at
this site was burned.
Mrs. Henry Neh, of Pottsville,
when she awoke found that her 2
year-old son, Henry, was lying dead
in bed beside her The child had
been smothered during the night by
rolling itself in the blanket. 1t was
in perfect health when put to sleep.
Thomas Sheerer Parker, the old
lest in point of practice of the mem
bers of the Allegheny County bar,
died Of slow paralysis, the result of
being run down by an automobile
16 months ago. He was born in Car
Isle, April 2, 1910, and was gradu-
ated from Dickinson College. He
served in the Civil War and took
part in the battle of Antiethm In
1869 he settled in Pittsburg and be-
gan the practice of law. He leaves
his widow, one son, two daughters
and brother, Dr. Joseph B. Parker,
retired naval officer, of Philadel-
phia.
The State Department of Health
has sent communication to Read5
ing requesting that notice be taken
of the refuse emitting from local in
dustries and polluting the Schuyl-
kill, to which it is conveyed through
the storm water sewers. Mayor Ger
ber met with the Board of Public
Works and advised that action be
taken to remedy the matter. 1t was
decided that the most feasible plan
of taking care of the waste water
would be to allow connection to be
made with the house sewer system,
through which it will be purified be-
fore reaching the river. 1t is also
proposed to establish a municipal
laboratory to make analytic tests of
water and milk
The annual meeting of the State
Horticultural Society was held at
Harrisburg. The program opened
with an address by the president,
Gabriel Heister, of Harrisburg. j.
H. Hale, of Glastonbury, Conn, spoke
on Money in Peach Culture" There
were also short talks by State Zoo
logist Surface, Representative Greasy
of Catawissa, and other members of
the society.
Nathan Wilcox, an inmate of the
Danville Hospital for the Insane. was
thought to have escaped Tuesday
night and search covering several
miles was made. Wilcox was later
found hiding under a bed in one o!
of the dormitories.
The large frame barn owned by
Samuel Egolf, of Spring City, burn.
ed to the ground, together with the
entire Summer crop of grain and
hay, eight cows, one horse and all
the farming implements. Total lose
is about $4,000, no insurance.
Rev. DR.. William Barnes Lower
pastor of the fashionable Calvary
Presbyterian Church, of Wyncote
will sail on February for a three
months tour of the Orient.
Jonathan Rumberger died at Sha
mokin.. He was a Civil War veteran
and participated in many engage
ments on Southern battlefieIds.
The Blair County Court granted
n rule to revoke the license of the
Altamont Hotel, the largest hotel in
the county, on the grounds that the
proprietor declined to sell liquors
across the bar to colored people.
The hotel men of the county are
discussing the advisability of open
ing Jim Crow bar-rooms to avoid
outbreaks of race prejudice
1t has been decided that the night
schools must be closed until the CON
tagious diseases now aflicting the
children of Scranton are checked.
That the health authorities have
control of the situation now seems
evident. The school buildings are
to be fumigated and all text books
are not to he token from homes
where contagious disease has existed.
There are 124 prisoners in the
Northampton County Jail, the great
est number in the history of the
county. The number of prisoners
have Increased about 80 per cent. in
the last year. The jail is over
crowded. Many of the prisoners
are men sentenced to thirty days and
less by the police courts of Easton.
1t has been suggested that If these
men were placed on bread and
water diet during their Imprisonment
the fact would soon become general
ly known, and the number of prison
ers would probably be reduced
John Beloss and George Stebenitz,
foreigners, while crossing the Penn
sylvania Railroad bridge at Mount
Etna in attempting to get ont OF
the way of freight train. walked
over the side and fell into the
Juniata River many feet below. Both
We're drowned.
Horny Overkatt, a resident of
Rocktown. farming village near
Ashland. was found dead on the
road leading to Locust-Dale at an
early hour the other morning. He
was lying face downward In a pool
of water and the supposition is that
he fell and was drowned The pool