Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-23

Pennsy station and office building.
Thomas Willis was elected Health
Officer of South Bethlehem.
Shippensburg is shipping 200 bush
els of huckleberries a week to the big
cities.
Lycoming county's Ccsrt House at
/ Improvements.
Franklin is critically inspecting it's
daily supply of milk by railroad from
| New York State.
| While cutting limbs from tree at
Tamaqua, George Isleb, aged 70, fell
to the ground and was killed.
! To raise money the Doylestown Ma
ture Club will collect carload of ole
newspapers.
Frank Sherer. of Lowhill, plucked
from peach tree a branch three feet
long bearing 81 ripe peaches.
Blood poisoning, due to fractured
! leg, caused the death of Leo Rehr, 90
| years old, at Reading.
From injuries received in a fall
down stairs week ago. Daniel Ward
died in the Allentown Hospital.
| Through a premature explosion of
| dynamite in a Lancaster quarry Roy
! Miller, 20 years old, may lose both
eyes.
William Sprecher, of Ephrata,
caught 1-4-pound bass, and, on
opening it, found a hook and yard
of fish-line.
/ At Freeland, Peter Droback, min
er, aged 30 was electrocuted by com
ing in contact with live wire in Jed
do No. ) colliery of G. B. Markle & Co.
Isaac Stauffer and Dawson Hossler,
of Lancaster, killed a snake, and on
opening it found in it 81 snakes, meas
uring from three to five inches.
Ammon Rhoads, Of Worman, pulled
an aching tooth with a pair of big
pinchers rather than go TO a dentist,
and almost bled to deata.
| The recent humidity has enabled
corn and tobacco in York county to
overcome the setback it received dur
ing the preceding unseascnably cold
period.
A man at Mechanicsburg, who con-
fessed to Court to the theft of a 80
cent paint brush that belonged to a
neighbor was sentenced TO six
months in Jail
Failing through tie floor of straw
| house, a horse owned by Frank Temp
lin, of East Nantmeal, Chester county,
broke its back in two places and was
| then shot.
Peter ID. Wanner, who 27 years ago
purchased a life ticket for $500, allow
ing transportation on Reading trolley
cars, has sold the ticket back to the
company for $1,000.
! While William Witmeyer, of Bethle-
hem, was returning from a trip to the
upper end of the county he was in the
train beside a man who engaged him
in conversation and who at the same
time picked Witmeyer's pocket of $50.
Samuel C. Todd, Executive Controll-
er, and Mrs. Todd have returned to
Harrisburg from a two weeks trip
over the lakes from Buffalo to Duluth.
On the way home they visited in Char
leroi Detroit and other places.
While Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Christian
! were taken a stroll around Island
Park, near Bethlehem, a huge branch
was torn from tree by a sudden gust
of wind and fell on the woman's head.
She was rendered unconscious.
There is such a rush of work at the
Pottstown plant of the McClintic-M
shall Construction Company, which is
finishing a $6,000,000 contract in the
Panama Canal, that scouts are being
sent to various places for laborers
At meeting of the Allentown
School Board the directors questioned
the 5000 bill of the auditors, who re-
Gently surcharged them $2S00. 1t is
claimed the law allows the auditors
So a day, and the directors want an
itemized bill
| Former Councilman Joseph n. Mar
shall and family, of West Chester, are