Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-08-16
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STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Cleaned for
Items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy in Every Locality
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects-Items Of 6usi-
ness and Pleasure that Interest.

ShurCneS Raising TuHoS IoT "a"y
Worthy ohjects-items Of eusi-
ness and Pleasure that Interest.
Valuations at Lockport have been
raised about $1,000,000.
Ouakertown Council has plans for
the paving of the streets OF the busl-
ness section at once.
Hazleton poolroom owners are TO be
arrested if they permit gambling boys
to visit their places.
A horse was stolen from the stable
of Ellwood Powell, in Springfield
township.
Rats have carried off chickens
weighing three pounds to the pair
from Elmer Barnes henhouse, Doyles-
town.
Many upper Berks county fcrmers
have threshed their wheat and are
putting it in the market at 81
buShel.
Work has been started by the con-
tractors on the erection OF the State
highway from Schnecksville to Sic
gersville.
Dominick Gardi was shot and killed
in a pistol battle with Policeman w.
]. Edwards al Hillsville near New Cas-
tie. Gardi was resisting arrest.
Miss Eva ]. Noble, of Hastings, will
sail to Yokohama, Japan, to become
the bride OF Electrical Engineer W.
e. Ketcham, formerly of Weatherly,
Bethany Orphans Home, Womels-
dorf. has received a bequest OF 5000
from the late Plus B. Weaver, of Low
er Saucon.
The first carload of rails has been
unloaded for the proposed trolley line
between Spring City and Saratoga,
and work was started.
Preferring ten days il jail to paying
$3.50 costs for refusing to pay five
cent car fare on the l.ehieh Valley
Transit Company's road, James Pol
lard, of Emaus, went 10 jail.
So scarce are workmen for q rlous
Jobs that agents are sent TO Reading
from other towns trying to pick UP
workmen as they stand at street corn
ers.
Fanny Caparosa, aged years, OF
Pen Argys will lose the sight of one OF
her eyes - n an accident when a
younger sister thrust the point OF an
umbrella in the pupil.
Dogcatchcr Richard Hamilton, OF
York, has been discharged by Mayor
Lefean because ~ number OF unIag-
ged animals upon the streets has not
appreciably decreased.
j. n. X Hickman, of Scranton, has
Lancaster county at salary OF $4,000.
There were 81 applicants for til. Of
flee. but, at the request of the Board,
their names were not made public.
Orders have been issued by Miss Al
len, superintendent of nurses at the
Hazleton Hospital, forbidding all
nurses to accept gifts of flowers,
money, candy or other articles from
patients.
A young colored boy employed on
the farm of William Griffith, West
Cain, stole two guns, ring, pair
of gold cuff buttons and other articles,
and then decamped. The booty was
recovered.
]. C. Wilson, who is said to have the
finest orchard in Lycoming county, is
the orchards in Tioga coun-
ty as substitute for Mr.. Knuppenburg,
the regular inspector In Springfield
he found three orchards in which the
San Jose scale had appeared.
F. A. Sawyer, of Canton, is at the
head of project to build a railroad
from Canton, Bradford county, to Ore
gon Hill, to be known as the Pennsyl-
vania & Southwestern. Associated |
with Mr. Sawyer are Cortez II. Jen-
nings, d. o. Clark, E. F. Kizer, w. |
Worth Jennings, George r. Hill, of
Towanda; John A. Innes and T. S.
of Canton, and Eliot Norton,
Of New York. A charter has been |
granted to the corporation in this
State.
In a severe electrical storm at Nan |
ticoke an electric light wire fell on |