Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-07-12

CeleDrateQ llS SlAtleIA duhi'oi SeiJ'
Trumbauersville has decided to
light it's streets with electricity.
There is an improving market for
Bucks county farms, almost abandon
ed in recent years.
At a Tylersport sale an old quilt
brought SIS, and blanket OF the vim
tage of 1S47, SIT.
The Reading School Board has ap
pointed DR.. Hester Bucher head medi
cal inspector of schools.
The Lancaster revenue receipts for
June were $345, 5,O51.5O, and cigars con-
tributed s17S,O72.
Levi H. Hostetter, prosperous Ian
caster farmer, died of lockjaw, from
a rusty nail in his foot
Andrew Lamont, a Chester patrol.
man and former desk sergeant, has
force.
The Visiting Nurses Association, of
York, is preparing to establish sta
tion for the distribution of prepared
milk to sick babies.
Because he wouldn't send his son
to school, Charles Millhen, of North
ampton, was fined 50 by Justice Koch
er and sent to Jail in default.
Two cows belonging to Richard Bar
ry, near Green Hill, were killed by
lightning while standing under a tree
in their pasture.
The Heck families held a reunion
on the farm of Jared Heck of Berne
township, Berks county. attended BY
q Heck families.
Ruth j., daughter of H. NJ. Lessig.
president of the Pottstown School
Board, has been elected a teacher Ill
the Doylestown High School.
A C. Palmatier, of Coudersport, has
gone to Nova Scotia to inspect 90
000-acre timber tract, principally of
spruce, for the Goodyear Lumber
Company.
Receipts in the York office of tho
York internal revenue district for the
past month were $4,000, or more
han So, 900 in excess of the receipts for
June, 1911.
Twenty thieving gypsies encamped
near Tumbling Run resisted removal
and fought with Pennsylvania Rail
road police, but were driven off by
Reading Coal and Iron police.
The Welsh Presbyterian Church, at
Bangor, which was short time ago
destroyed by fire, at loss of $4,000.
has been replaced with another one
that has cost $4,000.
A copperhead bit Albert Yohe, a
quarryman of Spring Grove, York
county, causing his arm to swell to
twice it's normal size before he could
reach a physician and get relief.
F. G. Leidy, Boyertown iiveryman,
has lost two more horses by death,
having in IL months lost SO many
that the total value amounts to ST.
600.
At Pottstown heavy rainstorm
was worth thousands OF dollars to
farmers. 1t saved the potato crop for
many of them and did growing corn a
great deal of good.
A hatchet dropped by a fellow
workman while building barn near
Stouchsburg severed an artery in the
arm of George Ritzman and he nearly
bled to death.
In the fire that destroyed his barn,
with 10 COWS, three horses and nearly
all the farm machinery, Allen NUDE
hardt, near Parkerford, lost all his
worldly possessions.
After more than months work.
the reconstruction of the long viaduct
of the Lehigh Valley Transit company
over the Trout Creek raviDe, near Al.
lentown, is completed, at cost OF
about $250,O00.
Ridgway statistlcians, after a care
full computation, have announced that
there are rs automobiles of all kinds
in that town. For community OF less
than 5000 the "horseless" is making
a remarkable showing.
James A. Bell has resigned as Sec
retary-manager of the Harrisburg
Board of Trade to hecnme manaeer of