The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-02-12
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Items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy In Every Locality
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy obj%eets-Items Of Busl-
ness md Pleasure that lnterest.


Worthy objects-Items Of Busl-
ness and Pleasure that lnterest.
Catawlssa Council is trying TO sell
its municipal lighting plant for $12,-
900.
Calvary Methodist Church, at Der.
wick, has asked the return of Rev.
j. E. Beard, its pastor.
Potato chips are to be sold to make
possible basketball for the girls Of the
Catawissa High School.
While working at the Cameron col
liery near Shamokin Edward Etzell
was killed by an immense fall Of rock.
The Raytown Water Power Com
poles were cut down at Mt.
Union Central Company's line.
Levi Meyer has been appointed
Judge OF election for Lower Heldel-
berg township.
Washington Fire Company, OF Con-
shohocken has decided to get automo-
bile fire apparatus.
Good news at Alburtis is that the
Thomas Iron Company is planning to
restart No. s stack.
DR.. Carl S. Henry has been elected
president of the Glover Club, n Of
Allentown's oldest social organiza-
tons.
It is said the Lehigh Coal & Navi-
cation Company will erect 40 dwelling
houses at Hacklebernie.
The Mauch Chunk School Board has
adopted a rule to expel every pupil
using tobacco while under the juris-
diction of the school authorities.
The Mauch Chunk School Board
thinks corporal punishment in spe-
cial cases would do a whole lot Of
good, rather than have the child ex-
PEELED from school.
William Mckinley and Rodney P.
Burns, arrested at Mauch Chunk for
cutting an air hose on a New Jersey
Central train, were committed to pris-
on at Easton.
Three divorce suits were started
simultaneously in the Allentown
courts-Lizzie Jacoby against Walter,
Mary against Charles Helder, and Ber-
tina against Charles Sell.
David Greenawalt, a veteran Allen
town horseman, had a narrow escape
in a runaway with two new Western
horses, one of which was killed in
striking a telephone pole.
A readjustment of Easton's proper
ty assessment, just ordered by the
new City Council, is expected to add
several millions of dollars to the pres
ent assessment figures.
Tramps set fire to the large stone
barn east OF Bethlehem, which belong
ed to General w. e. Doster, and the
loss is heavy. Fred Smith and Charles
Monroe are charged with the crime.
N. G. Campbell, trainmaster OF the
Lehigh & Susquehanna division
of the Central Railroad OF New Jersey,
with headquarters at Mauch Chunk,
has been promoted to be general agent
at Newark, N. j.
William Kuhn, a converted wander
er, who sought refuge at the Allen
town Rescue Mission, died at the hos
pital OF pneumonia, clamoring for his
mother, whom he had not seen in
22 years.
Norristown Choral Society sang
Memberships o%ratorio "St. Paul" in
the Grand Opera House, with Ralph
Kinder, of Norristown, director. The
s~oloists were Mrs, Henry Hotz, Miss
aude Sproule, William Pagdin, Frank
Comfy and Benjamin f. Evans.
w. Frank Vaughn, ]. Lee Plummer
and j. Foster Neck, a committee of
the Blair County Bar, appointed some
time ago to suggest a new system Of
indexing county records, have complet-
ed their work, and as a result the
county records will be indexed in ac-
cordance. All the records of the coun-
ty were found in bad shape with re-
spect to indices, there being none at
all to some records where they are
badly needed.
Since the iirst OF the year " mar
riage licenses have been issued by
Register and Recorder John I. Carr at
Sunbury.
The Mauch Chunk papers state that
Scranton capitalists propose to build
trolley lines over the Pocono Noun.
tains to S%troudsburg and the Water
Gap from the connecting link Of an