The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1915-04-01

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To Raise $4,000, 900 AS Martin Lutha
Fund - Saves Family When
Home Burns-s1o0,oo0
Fire In Tsmaqua.
Fire gutted the rear Of the HaefekaI
Block, Tamaqua, entailins loss d
100000.
Fire did $500 damage to the hon,
of James II. Simon. Reading. starting
from an overheated stove In tbs
kitchen while the family we're away.
William Ziegenfuss, leading farmer
OF Dale. was found dead In bed c.
apoplexy at his home. aged sixty sh
years.
Levi Rex, q blacksmith at LehighI
Furnace. Lehigh county. died at the
age of Ga, of gangrene, due to a burned
foot.
The position OF city nurse. recenuyI
created by the Reading Council, wgl
filled by the election of Miss Agnes N
Combs, to the position, at salary oil
$50 a month.
Hundreds of bushels OF Lehigh|
county potatoes are being loaded on
the cars by the farmers for shipmen!|
to Philadelphia and New York at
thirty-seven cents.
There was a largely attended reoep
ton in Salem Evangelical Church. All
lentown. in honor Of the new pastor
Rev. II. C. Lilly. and the new presiding
elder, Rev. Charles d. Dreher
Albert Glrgerlch, a retired farmer
aged ffty.seven years, residing inI
Sprlngetsbury Township, hanged him
self from stairway at his home. Sick
ness was the cause. and although hls
wife had watched him clio ely for some
time he succeeded in eluding her.
Readings only survivors OF the First
Defenders, Fred NJ. Yeager. Henry
Rush, John Fries and Harrison Lutz.
will attend the annual reunion to be
held at Pottsville. Pa, on Friday. April
i6. The company originally numbered
lO5.
The Metropolitan Electric Company
began work on the construction OF a
high tension line from It's power plant
at Reading to Birdsboro, a distance OF
ten miles. for the purpose Of supplying
current for commercial purposes. The
pole line will carry FIVE wires.
A. I. Heads and his family were
aroused from slumber by the cries OF a
a six.weeks-old child about two O'Clock
the other morning and discovered
themselves surrounded with fames
and smoke in their home at Norwood.
They were rescued by ladder raised
to the upper windows by r. Il. Jones.
The loss is $1,000.
To honor Martin Luther on the 4eOth
anniversary Of the reformer's birth, 10
1917, It Is proposed to raise 10000
900 for use In the various activities Of
the Lutheran Church In America. OF
this sum the General Synod's portion
will be s2.5OO OOO> The plan was dis
cussed at a meeting of ministers and
laymen in the rooms OF the Board o.
Church Extension at York.
Saturating the floors, steps and
many Of the books with oil and start
ing Eve blazes in different parts OF ih'
building and opening some OF the win
dows to give the blaze a good draft,
Grebug attempted to burn down th'
Freeland Mining and Mechanical In
stitute a night and day school fcl
anthracite employees, established b.
the late Eckley B. Coke, the Goa
operator
In sight Of his mother, who hat
rescued her three other children frou
a burning farm house, John Ebertsol'
was burned to death, near Fontana
Henry M. Ebertsole, the husband AM
father. left the farm early in the MON