The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-03-12
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Items of interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy In Every Locality
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy objects-ltems of Busi-
ness md Pleasure that Intereat.

ness md Pleasure that lnterest.
Thomas Il. Crossan has been APP
pointed tax collector of New Garden
township.
Mary Frederick, of South Perkasie,
fell on an icy pavement, breaking an
arm.
Perkasie is experiencing a building
boom, with Z score of houses in course
of erection.
The %journeymen painters of Quaker
town have adopted a 2S-cent-an-hour
scale and a nine-hour w~orkday.
]. Frederick Mock, of North Coven.
try, has filed petition for divorce on
grounds of cruel treatment.
NJ. ]. Nealon, appointed a city as
SCISSOR at Scranton, was school con-
troller for a term.
The borough electric light plant at
Emporium, destroyed by fire recently,
is being reconstructed.
The first engine and cars passed
over Shamokin, Sunbury and Lewis
burg Railway February 27, 1883.
William Pendosa, Of Philadelphia,
pleaded guilty to forgery in Norris
town Court.
Clearing snow from Pennsy tracks
near Johnstown, Philip Casanila and
Philip Farrier were killed by a train.
Burgess Weiss, of West Hazelton,
personally leads raids on keepers Of
disorderly houses driven out of Halle
ton.
Chester Council has received a Pc
tition from the police, asking an in.
crease Of Salary from $50 to $50 a
month.
The 10 employees of the Doylestown
post office rendered a banquet to the
retiring postmaster, f.. Wesley Keller,
and his successor, Asher X. Anders.
Mrs. II. T. Bengel, of Connellsville,
is the proud possessor of a brood
of 13 White Orpington chicks. They
are the first in that neighborhood.
That the back-to-the-farm movement
has taken a strong hold upon city
folk is evident by the large number
of farms purchased in Upper Bucks
county.
In line with Coopersburg, where a
Neighborhood Association has already
been established, prominent Quaker
town citizens are urging a similar
organization.
johnson McClelland, proprietor of a
boarding house in Chester, was held
under 500 bail to keep the peace by
Alderman Melville on the charge Of
annoying Mrs. Mabel Todd.
w. H.. Sullivan, former operator of
the Goodyear Lumber Company mills
at Galeton, has been elected vice-presi.
dent and general manager of the Great
Southern Lumber Company at Boga-
lusa, La.
James II. O'Connor, Of Mahanoy
City, admitted to practice law in the
Schuylkill County Courts, was edu-
Gated in the Mahanoy city high
schools, Georgetown University and
the University of Pennsylvania.
The Womelsdorf School Board,
which expects to erect one of the fin
est school houses in rural Berks next
summer, is now making tours of in.
spection to other Berks boroughs that
have lately erected model buildings.
A petition has been circulated by
Horace G. Reeder and Samuel r. Rich.
ardson, of Newtown, asking for a jury
to condemn and free from tolls the
~Briagetown & Newtown Turnpike con-
duct.
The Rev. DR.. Thompson Mckinney,
paster Of Oliver Methodist Church,
Coatesville, has sued to recover $1O,-
POGO damages from Samuel Hughes. of
Atglen, charged with publicly accus-
ing DR.. Mckinney of immoral conduct.
The Council elected Romanus Fell
man chief of police in place of William
II. Rodenbough, who resigned the first
of the year after 30 years of service.
Fellman has been a mounted police
man in Philadelphia.
Jerome c. Shear, chief naturaliza-
ton examiner at Philadelphia, repre-
sented the United States in Naturali-
cation Court at Allentown, when about
a score of applicants for citizenship
were examined and nearly a dozen
admitted.
Henderson Brown, colored, 70 years
old, a veteran of the civil war, was
found dead in his frame shack In an
alley in the western part of Chester.
Neighbors had missed the twang of
his guitar, which he was in the habit
of playing every evening.