The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-01-22

Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy obJects-ltems Of Busl-
:, ness md Pleasure that lnterest.
Warrants are out at Hazleton charg.
ing Harry Thompson. Of Augusta, Ca,
with bigamy.
In an effort to close all Mt. Carmel
business places on Sunday a petition
was signed by II Of the most prom.
inent merchants.
The owners OF the Luzerne House,
H~azleton, which has been a licensed
saloon for 60 years, r not seeking a
license this time.
In a few days the new car repair
shop Of the Reading Railway Com.
pany at st. Clair will be ready for
occupancy.
A freight car on the Reading Rail-
way jumped the track near McAuley,
ran along the ties 200 yards, then
jumped back on the track.
Pleading guilty TO forgeries on which
he got $500, c. d. Meckley, of Milton,
was sent from L%ewisburg to the East.
ern Penitentiary for three years.
Judge Endlich has granted an appli-
cation for a merger of the Reading
Board of Trade and the Chamber Of
Commerce.
The Ninth street finishing mill OF
the Reading Iron Company Reading,
has resumed operations, and so men
are benefited.
Stricken with heart disease while
working in his barn. Wilmer March, a
farmer near Linfeld, died in a few
minutes.
The estimated cost for substitution
Of paper towels in Norristown schools
in place OF those used before the pro-
hibitory law is $500.
r. H. Matt, OF Topton, has a lemon
tree bearing fruit IA inches In circum-
ference, and Scion II. Sicher's tree
has lemons IL inches around.
A pipe bursting in the Pennsylvania
Railroad shops, Follsington, scalded
Thomas Sylvester, a night Waterman,
so badly that he died soon afterward.
The annual financial report OF the
Bucks County Prison sent to the Board
of Public Charities shows the average
daily cost for keeping a prisoner to be
Sc cents.
Directors OF the Central Pennsylva.
MIA odd Fellows Orphanage near Sun.
bury have decided to introduce do
nestle science and industrial work in
the school.
The fire loss in Reading during the
last year amounted to S57.O27, and 30
Of them were caused by carelessness
with matches, and 10 by defective
flues.
Frank Schultz, II years old, OF Read
ing, who took money from n dealers
cash box at the Reading market house,
was fined $40 and sent to the Hunting.
don Reformatory.
Leroy Barber, colored, was s~entenc-
ed by Judge Endlich to the peniten.
tiary for from two to five years for
being discovered under a woman's bed
in a Reading hotel.
During a heavy wind storm in Down
ingtown the cupola on the Central
Presbyterian Church was blown from
It's position and, turning upside down,
was hurled crashing through the roof
Of the ediflce. doing much damage.
G. Y. Donnell, Of OIL City, has two
apples of the Ben Davis variety, in
a perfect state of preservation, which
were grown by f. w. Stevenson on
his farm in Oakland township, Venan.
go County, in 1912. The trees from
which these specimens were taken
were planted several years ago by Mr..
Stevenson.
Among deeds recorded at Harrisburg
in connection with the purchases OF
several farms in Londonderry, Derry
and Conewago townships to NJ. s. Her.
shey was a paper SO yellow with age
as to be almost i~llegible, The deed
was dated 1887 and was for a certain
tract that was then known as Lon
don Derry" township. Eight pounds
IL shillings was the consideration In
the transaction.
John T. Flick and Carl Squire have
the job of cutting logs at the Berry
COmDany camD. on Little TiOnesta