The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-10-21


superintendent Of the State Hospital
at Fountain Springs, performed an IN
usual and delicate operation In clinic
before leading physicians and surgeons
of that region, at the hospital, when,
with the use of an electric saw, the
surgeon sawed piece OF bone from
the leg Of Elizabeth Flail, two years
old, cripple, and transplanted 1t to
the vertebrae. 1t is one Of the most
difficult operations known to surgery.
The surgeon believes that the child
will be cured
The Easton boy who wrote to Presi-
dent Wilson, congratulating him on his
engagement, and asking him to order
the schools closed on his wedding day,
was Konrad Gesner, twelve years. son
Of Rev. II. NJ. Gesner, pastor Of the
First Presbyterian Church, formerly
Of Atlantic City. Konrad received
letter from Secretary Tumulty saying:
"The President asks me to acknowl-
edge the receipt of your letter of Oc-
tober Z, and to thank you for your
kindness in writing him"
The Atlas Powder plant, controlled
by the Du Pont interests, located at
Webster, is preparing to turn out
large war orders. Work has been
started on a big addition to the acid
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employed as rapidly as they apply.
nearly 400 men now being at work. As
an lnducement to secure help, the COM
pany has had the Reading Railway
Company run a special train night and
morning from Tamaqua to the plant,
distance of six miles.
Seven-year-old Anita Broden, daugh-
ter Of Albert Broden, superintendent
of furnaces of the Reading Iron Com
pany applied the match which started
the fires of the giant furnaces at Tenn
pie, idle for over a year, one OF the
most important industries of the East
Penn Valley. The stack will produce
one hundred tons of iron week, and.
because of the boom in the iron busi-
ness, was gotten ready in hurry.
Flossie Montain shot his wife after
they had quarreled at their home in
Erie and then shot himself. Mrs.
Montain died while being taken to the
hospital and physicians said Montain,
could not recover. No one witnessed
the tragedy and its cause is not
known. Mrs. Montain just had re-
turned from the grape belt east Of
Erie, where she had been employed.
A suit was brought by counsel for
Mrs. Sara d. Frankenfield, milliner,
Allentown, against Phaon p. Franken-
field, her husband, for the recovery Of
S2,13S.06, which she declares she lent
him at various times. The items include
$3.50 for tickets for a theatrical per-
formance, 81 for a hair cut and shave,
65 cents for shoes for his baby and
1886 for nine ducks and hen.
Apprentice schools, operated by the
Westinghouse interests, the Carnegie
Steel Company and othei large cor
porations in the Pittsburgh district,
will be recognized by the State Depart
ment of Public Instruction under the
new child labor law, according to an.
announcement by Miller A. King, State
Director of Industrial Education.
James Fitzsimmons, aged forty-five,
president of the Scottdale Council.
was killed instantly, and Ora Mauk
and Frank Moorehead were injured
slightly when Mooreheads automobile,
in which the men were riding, went
over an embanlment on the road near
Scottdale.
Typhoid fever Is raging in various
sections of Lancaster county. At Fal-
mouth, there are number of cases.
At Ephrata, seven members of Henry
W. Witwer's family are i'll with the
disease.
Rev Winfred H. Ziegler, who spent
the past three years as an Episcopal
Missionary in Alaska, has been ap-
pointed vicar of All Saints Episcopal
Church, Lehighton, to succeed Rev. A.
A. Bresee.
Nathaniel ]. Lefevre, Of Paradise,
sixty-two years old while attending
church services, was stricken with
heart disease and died within an hour.
He was retired tinsmith
Mrs. Sarah Finney, seventy-six years
Did, of Nickel Mines, while engaged in
cleaning house, fell and was fatally
injured when balcony broke against
which she was leaning while shaking
carpet She was picked up in an un-
conscious condition and died within
an hour.
Mrs. Amanda Eshelman, native OF
York county, who went West thirty
two years ago, is visiting her sisters
at Wrigbtsville and vicinity, whom she
has not seen for that time.
Worrying over being out Of work.
Augustus Miller, railroad fireman. OF
Bethlehem, attempted to commit sui
eide. He fired two shots at his head.
the first hitting a bone and glancing