The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-02-26
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STATE NEWS
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Items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers Busy In Every Locality
Churches Raising Funds for Many
Worthy objeets-ltems Of Busl-
ness md Pleasure that Interest

Worthy obIects-ltems of Busl-
ness md Pleasure that Interest
An effort Is being made in Morris
vile to secure free mail delivery.
Scranton's segregated red light
district is to have white lights.
Evangelist Slough wound up at Sun
bury with 3,165 converts and $4,000.
Reading Railway car shop men at
st. Clair and Palo Alto are on short
time.
Bloomsbury dealers have raised the
price of milk from seven TO eight
cents a quart.
A strike is promised on the Laurel
Electric Railway, between Wilkes
Barre and Scranton.
Martin Andrews, OF Lancaster, was
struck by a train while walking the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Russell Wagner was knocked down
and robbed by two men caught trying
his doorlock at Hazleton.
A complete printing outfit is to be
added to the manual training depart.
ment of the Easton public schools.
Assessors report that |Schuylkill has
a vast army of 32,131 able-bodied men
ready for war.
Tamaqua will organize a choir of
500 voices for the union revival serv.
ices to m on March %.
An open-air school is to be establish
ed by the Easton School Board for tn.
bercular pupils.
In an attempt to thaw the water
pipe in his home at Berwick, Ben. f.
%Sponenberg set quite a fire to his
house.
Blinded by the blizzard Mrs. Emma
Dell, a widow aged so, was struck by
a Pennsylvania Railroad train at Ma
pleton and instantly killed.
In the wedding dress which she
wore at her marriage, three months
ago, the body Of Mrs. John Knittle was
laid to rest at Bloomsbury.
Street Commissioner Daniel Eek,
erd's force of men cleaned 40 Berwick
sidewalks, from which owners had me-
elected to shovel snow.
Tamaqua fire companies have ap-
pointed committees to boom the hold
ing of the Six County Firemen's Con.
y%ention in that town in 1915.
In view of Hazleton's trolley strike,
Hazleton Township School Board has
hired auto buses to haul pupils to
ana from SCHOOLS.
Charged with embezzlement of $42,
James S. A. Bentzel, a collector for
Troup Brothers, York piano dealers.
was arrested and entered bail for q
hearing.
When DR.. r. A. Meek, Of Nanticoke,
asked Frank Furman, ~janitor of the
building, to turn on more heat, the
janitor assaulted him with q hammer,
and the doctor was seriously injured.
George Deerolf and Charles Grouse,
both of Philadelphia, we're sentenced
to six months in Doylestown jail for
stealing brass from the Reading Rail
way.
A new $4,000 concrete bridge will
be erected across the Lehigh Canal at
Morrisville, and the N. j. & p. Trac.
tion Company will double-track its
road.
The Commissioners of Bucks county
have approved of a new reinforced
concrete bridge over Swamp Creek,
Tinicum township, on the road from
Erwinna to Revere.
Pasquale D'Andego, a member of
the night force at Simon's silk mills,
Easton was stricken with heart dis
ease and died as he was about to eat
his midnight lunch.
Falling down a flight of steps while
visiting at her brothers home, Miss
Helen Henricks, Of Pottstown, tore
her lower lip from the jawbone and
sustained severe decorations in her
nose and face.
w. s. Eyster has accepted the cash.
iership of the new national bank re-
Gently organized at Ford City, and has
rendered his resignation to the Jeffer
son County National Bank.
Major James M. Laird, of Greens
burg, and Miss Margaret Engbert, for
merly of Greensburg, more recently OF
Somerset County, were married at AL.
toona. Major Laird gave his age as
II; the brides 20. They will make
their home in G~reensburg. The bride.
groom is well known through his con.
n%ection with The Gr%eensburg Argus.