The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-01-29
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REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy In Every Locality
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy objects-ltems Of Busi-
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ness and Pleasure that Interest.
All OF the "a converts at Blooms.
burg within a week Of revival services
arc men.
In obedience to a police order slot
machines were removed from Halle.
ton resorts.
Shamokin's anti-rum forces tirned
In u great remonstrance az License
Court, in Sunbury.
Mrs. Joseph Wargo was struck in
the eye with a hard SNOWFALL at Ma.
hanoy City. and may lose her vision.
Judge Henry X. Weand, because OF
seniority, has been reelected presi.
dent of the Montgomery County Bar
Association.
d. II. Watts, Of Clearield county
told the Berks county farmers they
could make better butter than the
best creamery eyer turned out.
A 25-pound wild turkey was among
the trophies that Oliver l.. Evans, a
Pottstown lawyer, brought home from
a cunning trip in Virginia.
Melvin B. Krause, n P%ottstown
molder, has invented a stove lid that
prevents sulphur escaping and mini
mics the dangers of asphyxiation.
John w. Timmes, of Northumber.
land, Controllers solicitor, says the
State is liable for publishing election
proclamations.
Trying to shoot his wife Stanley
powhuski, of Reading, made miscal-
culations, and the bullet went through
his own hand, and for the deed he was
fined SO.
William Mase, Of Blossburg, has be-
tween 20 and 80 coon hides, a few
mink, weasel and skunk hides and a
large catamount hide for this seasons
work.
Sentenced to the county pail at Al
toona, Pa, for six months for illegal
liquor selling, Mrs. Mary Burns, col
ored, was released for six days on her
honor, to go to a cousins funeral.
The experts Of the New York Blu
reau of Municipal Research employed
by the Reading Chamber of Commerce,
have recommended meters for all wa
ter consumers In Reading.
More than two dozen bottles OF
whisky sold to minors, presented as
evidence by temperance workers in
License Court at Bloomsbury, are to
be presented to the Bloomsbury Hos
pital.
Foster township School Directors
have registered complaint hat the
coal lands Of that district are the
only ones in Luzerne county whose
valuations were not raised in the 1913
assessment.
The Bringhurst Fund, a Pottstown
charity founded years ago, expended
$500 for coal and groceries for poor
people during the past year, and has
more than $1,000 in the treasury from
accumulated rents.
Ex-County Commissioner Harrison
Wheeland, of Lycoming county, has
10 to 20 teams moving his sawed
lumber from Sugar Hill to Trout Run,
a distance of IA miles. AS there are
1000, 900 feet to move, and each load
takes from 1900 to 1000 feet, 1t may
be seen that good shedding is wanted
for several months for this job.
Mrs. j. Haucher, Of Liberty, Tioga
county, has as a guest her cousin,
Mrs. Harriet Bacon, Of Montana, who
has not been East for 46 years, Mrs.
Bacon was postmistress at Alma Cen.
ire, Wis, for II years, until supplant-
ed by the rural free delivery system.
Then she removed to lsmay, Custer
county, Montana.
Major Richard j. Burke, who has
been appointed by Mayor Jermyn, OF
Scranton as director Of the new de.
partment of supplies, at a salary OF
$4,000, was one of the three appoin,
tees to the mine-cave commission
which has been abolished by Council,
Is a member of the Lackawanna coun.
ty bar and is connected with several
business and financial institutions, be.
ing a director in the Archibald Bank
and also of the keystone Bank in
Scranton.
Noticing the Pickering lights OF a
carriage on the railroad tracks near
Janna late at night, a Reading Rail
way engineer stopped his train just
in time, as the occupant of the We
hicle was intoxicated.
Several Grand Juries in Elk county
having condemned the Clarion River
bridge, a county structure in the Dor
ough of Ridgway, the County Commits.
sioners have made arrangements to
have M. NJ. Clay, Of Harrisburg, an
expert OF bridges, to look over the
structure.