Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-09-27

The triennial assessment of Read
ing real estate will total $57, 100000.
Harrisburg has opened a new pub
lie school for tuberculosis patients.
Lehigh Valley Brakeman ]. H. Tay-
lor, of Sayre, was killed in freight
wreck at Sayre.
On his 83d birthday anniversary
Daniel Henne of Centreport made an
automobile trip Of 163 miles.
The enumeration of school children
in South Bethlehem shows that there
are 3,100 Of school age.
Two hundred delegates to the Inter-
national Congress of Applied Chemis-
try visited Pittsburgh's mills and
mines.
Chambersburg's ministerial associa-
ton has asked Burgess Alexander to
enforce the Sunday laws and to close
the Sunday shoe-shining parlors.
While waiting for train at Harris
burg, two Indian girls, on the way to
the school at Carlisle, were robbed of
$40 and their trunk checks.
Solomon Wambaugh. York county
school director, has been held for
court for f1inging out old school desks,
to the presence Of which he objected.
Excavating for a new gasholder at
Chambersburg, cave eighteen feet
deep was discovered under the breast
of the old Sierer dam.
Agents of the State Live Stock De-
partment have been called to Red
Lion, York county, by fresh out
break of hog cholera.
Out of the Huntingdon reformatory
only few weeks, Harry BaublitZ, a
17-year-old York boy, is under arrest
again for larceny.
While picking apples from a tree on
his farm, Samuel Hannum, Tax Col
lector of Concord township, fell and
broke several ribs.
Joseph Dunn, young farmer of
East Marlborough, was fined $40 for
cruelty driving a horse in so-called
JOY ride.
At a service held by the Mennonites
in Reading, the feet of $50 brethren
and sisters were washed by each
other
Tomatoes are 30 plentiful in West
Chester that they are drug at the
stores, and housekeepers are busy
converting them into catsup.
Because she refused to go to school,
Dorna Menna, 14-year-old South
Bethlehem girl, was taken to a house
of refuge.
While fishing in the Delaware at
Foul Rift, George W. West, of East
ton, landed the largest black bass of
the season. 1t weighed s pounds s
ounces.
Leo Ritter, an Easton teamster, was
thrown from wagon in front of
trolley car, but rolled off the tracks
moment before the car reached
him.
Charles H. Sleichter was awarded
$3.50 by jury at Chambersburg be-
cause the towns gravity system had
reduced his water power at his mill at
Scotland.
Running his motorcycle into a pile
Of loose dirt to avoid hitting pedes-
trians, J. George Lutz, Pottstown
merchant, was thrown off and frac-
tured his collar-bone.
While out driving with her brother,
Paul Gumpert, of Pottstown, Miss
Anna Gumpert, of Philadelphia, was
thrown out Of the carriage in COLI
sion and badly bruised.
A box weighing $50 pounds tum-
bled from a Reading express wagon,
on which Robert e. Dietz, 8 years old,
was sitting, and the lad supposedly
killed, did not have even a scratch.
Ira J. Funk has bought Green Cas-
ties town hall for $500.
Frank S. Benedict could not be
heard in the Lancaster court for de-
sertion, as he is in jail in Montgomery
county for an offense committed since
he deserted his wife.
While digging well near Newtown
Square, Ernest Dapner sustained a