Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-06-14
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Items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD


Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects-ltems of Busi-
ness and Pleasure that Interest.
The Bristol Water Company will
sell out to the borough for $4,000.
Howard l.. Hook is the first farmer
around Birdsboro to make hay this
season.
Merchants of the Bethlehems have
been notified to look out for counter
felt So and $40 bills,
Fern Hill reservoir is being scrub
bed and West Chester will get clear
er supply of water.
From the effects of fall after trip
ping over piece of carpet, Samuel
Hem, aged SS, died at Rittersville.
While laboring about McTurk's COL
liery at Girardville, Samuel Agney, Is
years old, threw up his arms and fell
dead of apopleXy.
Death resulted from the fall which
Adam Clouser, of Reading, sustained
in barn at Leesport, when he broke
one hip.
The proposal to license all street
music at Chester has been defeated by
Council as legislation unfair to the
children and women.
James Megraw, of Chester, was bit
ten in the cheek by an antagonist,
and was obliged to so to the Chester
Hospital.
Mrs. Julia Vanhorn Nightingale, Of
Doylestown, has been appointed proba-
tion officer of the Juvenile Court Of
Bucks county.
A meningitis quarantine has been
established in the eastern section Of
Danyille, where a daughter of Law
renee Connolly, Bloom street, has de
veloped case.
Schuylkill Changers demanded a
more stringent law on the subject OF
cattle tuberculosis in their Pomona as
sembly at Pottsville.
Burns which he sustained on the
moulding floor of the Standard Steel
Works at Lewistown recently caused
the death of p. j. Leggetts, aged GS.
Augustus c. Hopkins, of Fairview,
was held for Court by Alderman Stock
man, at Chester, to answer the charge
of knocking his brother, Henry f. Hop
kins, senseless with an iron bar.
Elsie Stiner, Z years old, of Shamo-
kin, was playing about burning rub
bish, when she ventured too near the
blaze, which ignited her dress, caus-
ing her to burn to death.
Getting beyond his depth and unable
to swim while bathing in Stover's
Dam, in North Lebanon township.
George Simmons, of Lebanon, was
drowned.
Verona and other Allegheny county
boroughs are following the lead of
Oakmont in tabooing the semi-nude
costumes of athletes and others in
public places.
In a gas explosion, Dominick Var
COME was probably fatally injured at
the Kelley Run Colliery, Shenandoah,
and was removed to the State Hospi-
tai.
Because legal processes on their
part interfered with the public sale of
his stock, Adam A. Reeser, of Myers
town, has sued Aaron S. Dundore, of
Reading, and Sarah Swope, of Womels-
dorf, executors of the estate of Samuel
E. Dundore, for $5420.37 damages.
The Rev. ]. NJ. Thoburn, D. D., SUI
perintendent of the Allegheny district
of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and the Rev. A. c. Ellis, of Oil City,
learned the printing trade together
and worked on cases" in Pittsburgh,
later studying theology in the same
seminary.
The Mannheim Sentinel says that a
curious sight is witnessed every Mon
day on the farm of Henry Knapp, Sr,
near Richland, when the family does
it's laundry work with power derived
from a tread mill operated by heifer
trained for the work by Mr.. Knapp.
The "bossie" does the work well, and
has sister heifer that is being train
ed
1t cost George Light, of Reading
S11 % for his chanffenr To mass q troll.