Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-09-20

their handsome new $4,000 home.
The Salvation Army will erect s10.-
600 barracks in Pen Argyll
farm of 19 acres, five miles from
Lancaster, sold at public sale at
$40813 an acre.
An unusual amount of rag weed in
Franklin county is taken as sign Of
hard winter.
John Clark, of Chester. caught his
hand in machinery at the Eddystone
Print Works, and several fingers were
crushed.
The authorities Of Glenolden are
making war on peddlers and huck-
sters who are doing business without
license.
Franklin's Mayor has called mass
meeting to protest against an increase
in the price of milk, and the women
have extended their boycott.
Residents of Gulf Mills want the
Philadelphia & Western Railway to
adopt a fiye-cent fare to Norristown
instead of 10 cents.
Frank Kinzer and John Wetzel,
found guilty of robbing their friend,
Roy Mellnger, were recommended to
the mercy of Judge Gillian at Cham
bersburg.
Fresh air children from New York
wept at the railroad station at Cham
bersburg because they could not re-
main longer with the families who
had entertained them for two weeks.
Farmers Day at the Old Home
Week Iteration at Bangor was such
a great success that a meeting was
held at which 1t was decided to make
the day yearly event.
Joseph F. Weaver, Of Lancaster, a
carpenter, was permanently injured as
the result Of scaffold breaking, and
he has sued Contractor Herman Wohl-
sen for $4,000 damages.
The managers of the Chester Coun-
ty Agricultural Association are con-
sidering the matter of erecting an
other large grand stand at a probable
cost of $4,000, for the accommodation
of visitors next year.
Beginning the one hundred and sew
enteenth year of it's history, the
Friends schoolhouse at Pennsdale, Ly-
coming county, was the scene of a
happy gathering of past and present
pupils.
George Kahle, of Hogue Hill, near
Oil City, escaped uniniured when
lightning ripped open the roof of his
home, shattered the bed on which he
was sleeping and then passed to the
lower floor and into the ground.
The Chamber of Commerce OF
Johnstown is planning a municipal
celebration of Halloween. Merchants
and prominent citizens in general fay-
effective method against individual
depredations common to the season.
In Sweden Valley, Potter county, is
cave which has a temperature in
/. summer sufficiently cold to freeze wa
a., ter to a depth of four feet. 1t is re-
Il ported that with the approaching Of
winter the temperature rises until at
Christmas time the ice is melted and
a moderate summer temperature main
{, tains.
y ]. r. Stamford, of Galeton, Potter
: county, is rs years Of age, and has
/ been a railway mail clerk on the old
Allegheny Valley Railroad for 43
years. Despite his age he has just
passed successfully an examination in
letter reading, making only seven mis-
takes in one thousand tests. He will
be relieved from further examinations
= AS treasurer of picnic fund, Miss
Florence Stevenson, of McVeytown,
, Mifflin county, converted a pillow on
baby's cot into temporary bank. A
score of merchants who by direction
of the treasurer called early next
morning TO receive their pay for sup
plies had to wait five hours because
1 the mother of the baby would not al
low its sleep to be disturbed.
i
The McCollom & Post Silk Com
pany, OF Paterson, N. j.. will build a
plant at Nazareth tina, viii give en-
ployment to 100 hands.
With caves on two sides and in
front of the public school at Cork
Lane, Luzerne County. the Board of
Directors has ordered the building