The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-03-04

pro yements.
The 11-lnch mill and puddle furnac-
es of the Blandon Roller Mills will
resume operations.
With the aid of 100 special police
Sunbury captured and jailed twenty
thieying train riders.
A swapping turtle bit a triangular
piece out of the hand of sheriff John
Ii. Glass, OF Northumberland county.
Mrs. Mary Brown, who lives on a
farm a mile east of Sunbury, has "A
duck that will eat nothing but apples.
Duquesne. Allegheny county, will be
the first borough under the new law
to accept commission rule as a third
class city.
Young Clarence Ressler, OF Arter's
Station, Is in the Packer Hospital,
Sunbury, being treated for a copper
heads bite.
Scarcity of harvest hands, and con-
sequent shortage OF straw ropes have
tied up the Car Trust pipe foundry at
Berwick.
Mrg lain L. nvap, urffn 90 Cha
mokin lawyer, has brought suit, ask.
ing for divorce on grounds Of cruel
treatment.
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Dentzer, of Reed
ing, has instituted a $4,000 damage
suit against Carrie Trexler for alleged
alienation of the affections of her hus-
band.
Mrs. Gertrude Weldon, of Philadel-
phia, is at the home of John Zeigler,
near Horningford, Mifflin county, in a
p~recarious condition from a copper
head bite.
The berry season has opened at
Lowistown and thousands of boxes of
dew, black and huckleberries are ship
ped from the Juniata Valley daily TO
city markets.
The Lock Haven Express is becom,
Ing worried over the inactivity of the
Board OF Trade in providing a suit.
able site for the $4,000 armory the
State has agreed to build there.
Ex-senator and ex-Secretary of War
Donald Cameron, nov so years old,
is spending the summer on his 1,40O
acre farm In East Donegal, and is fire.
quently seen on automobile spins.
Mrs. j. Walters, of Campbellstown,
Lebanon county, holds the record in
that part of the State for making son.
bonnets. From March, 1913, to the
present time she has made more than
1000 bonnets of silk and other ma.
terials.
The Mauch Chunk Y. NJ. c. A. man
agement has erected a bungalow on
Lake Harmony and a large number OF
the members, together with General
Secretary H.. +. Boettscher and Physi,
cal Director Todd, are spending sew
eral weeks there.
New Castle iremen are getting an
experience with the way in which fire
signals were given 40 or 80 years ago.
On account of the failure of the Mayor
and Select Council to agree upon a
city electrician, the fire alarm systems
is entirely out of commission. This
affects the bell at Central Station, and
when a fire alarm is now t~elephoned
In, some of the firemen about the Cen
trail Station grab the bell rope which
has been run up the outside of the
building, and toll out the number of
the box.
One OF the Capitol Park guineas has
become perfectly fearless in its per
ambulations and takes walks all over
the vicinity of Third and Walnut
streets, in Harrisburg, and pays no
attention to people near it. The other
day this guinea was walking head up,
along the post Office sidewalk, and by
its side came a tall, dignified gentle.
man with white whiskers and general
air of good nature, A small boy
amazed and walking upto the gentle,
man, accosted him with Mister, is
that your %guinea?" yes" said the
gentleman, and a smile fitted across
his face, "and I'm just taking 1t out
for a walk"
Alleging neglect when her husband
was killed by a tapping rope at Prim.
rose Colliery, Mahanoy City, Mrs
John. Hagen has entered suit against
the Lehlgh Valley Coal Company for
$4,000 damages.
Exclusive of State aid, Blair coun.
ty spent nearly 81, O00, 900 for school
purposes and road and bridge i'm.
provements last year. The total for
schools was $4S7, 900, of which Altoona
paid 1881 900, while the sum for roads
and bridges was SAGA, 900, of which AL
toona contributed s2227,OOO
The National Federation Of Paper
Box Manufacturers met in Reading
and reports submitted showed a -four
ishing state of affairs.
Israel Young, the old gunsmith oil