Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-10-04
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STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Cleaned for
items 0fInterest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy In Every Locality
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy Objects-!tems of Bust
Ktss and Pleasure that Interest.

"oTtly SpJCCtS-stcnS OF buSf
Ktss and Pleasure that Interest.
OF the thirty-nine suits entered for
the October term of the Lancaster
county thirty-three are for divorce.
Jacob Friedman, of South Bethle-
hem, fell while playing on the Lehigh
University athletic field and fractured
an arm.
Considering it case Of "Do Some
thing or quit" Doylestown Council de-
cided to have a surveyor measure off
speed trap" for automobilists and
drivers of fast horses.
After paying fine of $500 and $500
costs, 74-year-old William ZaZzo, of
Tullytown, who was convicted of sell
ing liquor without a license, was re-
leased by court at Doylestown.
An audit made of the accounts of
the Montgomery County Fair Associ
alton shows that at its recent fair in
Pottstown the receipts were S6,400
and the expenses almost that amount.
The Lancaster Automobile Club is
urging its members to vote only for
such candidates for the state legisla-
ture as favor a state bond issue Of
$50 100000 for good roads.
A new bell the gift of S. NJ. Vau-
claim, of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works, will be hung in the belfry of
the Apostolic Holiness Church, Milton,
as soop as the building is remodeled.
The male members of the cnngrega-
ton of Bethany Presbyterian church,
Chester, volunteered to dig the exca-
vation for the basement of the pro-
posed new church.
Judge Garman, OF the Luzerne
county courts, has handed down de-
cision allowing a jury trial in the
divorce proceedings of Martha e. Mil
Ter, of Hazleton against John w. Mil
Ter, of Weatherly.
Mike Kapellus was arrested in John
Kutzko's saloon, East Mauch Chunk,
on a charge of stabbing almost to
death one of his fellow-countrymen
one year ago. Kapellus had been hid
ing ever since.
Having failed to procure a proper
| hucksters license, Isaac Stokes, of
Kennett square, has been committed
to the Jail at West Chester, on war
rant charging him with selling
| dressed chickens from door to door,"
While examining the contents Of
basket of tomatoes, Mike Balluc, of
Lattimer, found two small black
snakes wriggling among the tomatoes.
Mike showed little mercy to the in
truders, dispatching them quickly
with an ak.
Engine No. 1900, the newest type of
| locomotive to be built by the Reading,
has been turned out of the shop in
! Reading 1t weighs more than $50
| tons. The locomotive is to be used
on the Frackville grade in showing
empty cars from the foot to the sum-
| init.
George J. Korb, of Brady township,
| Clearfied county, a former successful
| teacher in the eighties, is the posses
sor of the oldest Bible in the county.
1t was printed in Frankfort, Germany.
in 1545, and is fully illustrated and
has catch words and prefaces to all
| the books.
Parke B. Fraim, of Reading, has
been appointed an instructor in phys
| les at Lehigh University, South Beth
| lehem. Mr.. Fraim is a son OF w. X.
Fraim. Pennsylvania freight agent for
Reading, is a mining engineer by pro-
fession and graduated from .Lehlgh
with the class of 1909.
LESS than a year ago James j.
| Gramley, former treasurer of Centre
county, sold all his possessions, bade
goodbye to his legion of friends and
left for Illinois, where he stated he
would spend the rest of his life. The
serious illness of his daughter, Mrs.
Fred Slocum, who several weeks ago
underwent an operation in the Lock
Haven Hospital, called him east, and
he is now in Bellefonte, exceedingly
glad to be back among the hills of old
Centre county. He was free to con-
less that while everything was yer,
nice in Illinois, there was always
heart yearning for the old home.
The Athenian oath of loyalty to the
| city was taken by the 200 students OF
| the Pottsville High School.
A iury in the Lehigh civil court