The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-05-13


Court at Sunbury to sending parcels
Of cheap jewelry addressed to dead
persons and then receiving from their
estates payment when they had never
been ordered. The Court told him
that he was a hard-hearted man to
prey upon the estates of the dead, and
then sentenced him to three months
in the Lewistown jail
Unknown persons exploded dyna-
mite on the front porch of the rec
Tory of the Mother of Consolation
Church, one Of the largest Roman
Catholic churches in Mt. Carmel. No
one was injured. but the house and
and adjoining property occupied by
David Rennie mine boss, were badly
damaged There are two factions in
this church, and the rectors, Rev. NJ.
). Retka and T. j. Maniecki, recently
appealed to the police for protection,
fearing violence.
Fifty automobiles were disabled on
the streets in Chester, punctured tires
causing the trouble. The police are
investigating. II has been learned that
'hobnails" of peculiar design had been
strewn along the streets trayersed by
automobiles, and the supposition of
the police is that the vandalism is the
work of parties who are trying to drive
the "jitney" cars out Of business.
Arthur J. Hoverter. the Lebanon In
surance agent, pleaded guilty to COM
olicity in the wrecking of the Schaef-
ferstown National Bank. Judge c. B.
Wilmer, in the United States Court,
sentenced him to FIVE years in the
Lebanon Jail. A plea by Hoverter's
counsel saved him from serving his
term in the penitentiary.
F. N. D. Buchman, secretary Of the
College Y NJ c. A., at the Pennsyl-
vania State College, will spend the
summer in Europe ministering to the
spiritual needs of the troops IN
trenches and the injured men in hos
pital. Mr.. Buchman goes to the front,
probably with the German army, at the
request of DR.. John r. Mott.
A romance that started when they
went to school as children. resulted
in the wedding of Miss Isabella
Shields, of Allentown, and W. II.
Dodge, of dorchester. N. Y, the cere-
nony being performed in the Church
If the Immaculate Conception by
Father j. ]. Mahon.
Active operations were begun on the
irst State institution in Union county.
when ground was broken near LAUREL
on for cottage No. / of Pennsylvania
Village for Feeble Minded Women.
Work on this building, which will cost
;25,6OO, will be pushed as rapidly as
lossible.
With a cash in the head that re-
luired fifteen stitches to close, both
rms broken and other injuries, Mrs.
benjamin r, Koch, fifty-eight years
Nd. Of West Hamburg, is in critical
condition, the result of a fall down.
,tairs while answering telephone call
At her home,
In his semi-annual report, Charles
S. Foos, superintendent of the Read
ing schools, calls attention to the
necessity for an addition to the Girls
High School Building; the need of ad-
1itional funds to maintain the even
ing schools and the general financial
stringency of the school department.
The eighteenth annual commence
nent OF the joint Upper Saucon and
Lower Milford High School took place
in the Union Church, Center Valley.
Thirteen graduates, the largest class
in the schools history, We're given
diplomas by County Superintendent
Alvin Rupp,
Her preference for her stocking as
a depository for her money, proved
costly to Mrs. William Townsend, OF
Reading, when she lost roll of 800.
when her stocking wore hole while
she was shopping on Penn street
Anthony Brill, nine years old. is in
a critical condition at the Home
opathic Hospital, Reading, the result
of fall from the Reading Railway
bridge on South Eighth street to the
street below.
Fifteen accidents in which jitneys
figured characterized circus day in
Harrisburg. but no one was seriously
hurt. Three jitneys hit trolley cars.
and two crashed into fences. Over
100 jitneys were operated.
Paul Dammrich and Lloyd Miller,
of Allentown, have started to walk to
the San Francisco Exposition, expect
Ing to get there about September l.
Secretary ]. II. Edwards. Of the
Reading Y. NJ. C. A., was summoned
before the Board of Directors and in
formed that he had been granted
vacation to attend the Panama-Paciic
Exposition, with all his expenses paid.
From injuries received two weeks
ago while roller-skating. eight-year-
old Evan Davies, of West Catasauqua,
diad NJ tho AfIantown Hoanifal