The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-02-19

William Mes, of Hamburg, caught
an arm between a wagon wheel and 4
building and fractured 1t.
Anna Wassal, picking coal at Sieg-
fried, was beheaded by a train, in
view of her husband.
In the very heart of Allentown, Mo-
torcycle officer David found an opos-
sum which has been installed as a pet
at patrol headquarters.
Allentown athletes gave a smoker
for the benefit of Richard Brader,
helpless with rheumatism, who was a
companion of Buffalo Bill as scout and
plainsman.
Weatherly Council has received the
deed from Mrs. Charles N Schwab,
the steel magnate's wife, for the park
which she purchased and donated to
the town.
It took three Allentown policemen
to land James Sharon, alias Brooklyn
Jimmy, who has but one leg, when he
ran amuck and tried to break heads
with his crutches.
Postmaster II. w. Thatcher, Of
South Bethlehem, reports receipts for
the past fiscal year as S54,772.99, an
increase of $S,659.73 over those of the
previous year.
A Youngdale writer for The Lock
Haven Express has this midwinter
note: Last week there were quite
a number Of sleighing parties, some
coming to this place and some from
this place going to some other place.
But / guess u fun is ended now, as
the snow is getting scarce"
Burgess George w. Fink, of PUNK
sutawney, vetoed an ordinance fixing
lllt hdldlN vi lllt bblO ubh thoh -
at $500 a year, stating that the com
pensation was too low. The salary
paid the Treasurer the past four years
on the commission plan totaled $4,000.
Colonel Turbot Francis and his fell
low officers of the First and Second
Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regt-
ment in the French and Indian War
took title to 2,4O0 acres Of land on the
West Branch of the %Susquehanna, Feb
ruary 3, 1863, which land included the
present site of the borough of Milton.
II was then known as the Soldiers
Retreat"
Carbonate has a new source OF
trouble. 1t is a fire alarm bell in the
city building tower that is behaving
itself to badly that 1t has added great
ly to the worries Of Mayor Murrin. 1t
is given to fits Of intermittent tolling,
sometimes beginning at 4 o'clock In
the morning and waking people from
their beauty slumbers. Mayor Murrin
recalls that two years ago the same
bell had a similar fit, and 1t was sew
eral days before an electrician sue
ceeded In locating the trouble.
Miss Name Owens has severed her
connection with the Clearleld post Of
flee, after almost 2 years service.
She will become the wife Of George
c. Shirk, Of Iowa, a former Clearfeld
boy, now a divisional electrical super
intendent for the Chicago G. North
western Railroad. Miss Owens enter
ed the service of Uncle Sam when A.
M Row succeeded A. B. Weaver az
postmaster in 1889. She has contin-
ued as chief mail clerk ever since, I'M
der Postmaster A. M. Row four years
and over; J.. NJ. Brown, four years and
nine months; J.. NJ. Chase, nine years,
and John II. Martin, five years and
nine months
Many people recollect when Ruchs-
vile was one Of the liveli, st villages
in Lehigh County. General Peter
Ruch, after whom the village was
named and who was an active militia
officer, was proprietor of the hotel. In
his time all battalion musters and mill
tary parades were held at Ruchsville
It was also the scene of many a fair
and horse race. General Ruch was
succeeded as landlord by his son,
Thomas Ruch. and the latter by Major
Ell Steckel, both Of them militia on.
GERS of no small renown. Reuben BAIL
later became tavern keeper, but he re.
tired in 1858, and the glory of Ruchs.
vile began to fade.
The will OF Asa p. Blakslee, OF
Mauch Chunk was admitted to pro
bate at Mauch Chunk, and he be
queaths everything to his wife.
Mrs. George Fissel, of Hampton
Adams County. is quilting a quilt fol
Mrs. Emanuel Bollinger that had beer
pieced about fifty years ago and con
tanning 5,0SS patches. The patches
are about an inch square and put to
gether by Overlapping the seams
and each patch had a piece of pape'
sewed In with the patch, suppose,
to be a pattern.