The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-02-12

lehem without permit, Z. J. Brad
ley, superintendent OF the Allentown
Bethlehem Gas company, was fined
So and costs.
Scanully attired, the body of Mrs.
hatharyn Johnson, a wellknOwn resi-.
dent Of Wilcox, was found near Oil
Greek, northwest of her home, mys.
teriously dead.
The Pennsylvania railroad has given
notice OF intention TO build its big new
freight station at Harrisburg this
spring. II will cost quarter OF a
million dollars.
Cumberland county poor directors
have asked for an additional appro-
priation Of $11,00 to make needed
improvements and changes at the
county asylum.
DR.. William n. Davidson, superin-
tendent of public instruction, announc-
ed that he has prepared a plan for
military instruction in the high
schools of Pittsburgh.
Big coal companies that drain mine
water into Nescopeck and Black
creeks are preparing to install mann
moth filters to remove sulphur and
other fish-Hlling materials.
Two-thirds of the thirty-six brides
who got marriage licenses in Bucks
county last month were holding po-
sitions, and almost one-half were un-
der twenty-one years of age
Dauphin county farmers were told
at farmers Institutes at Gratz that
they must be good sellers as well as
good raisers to be successful. Similar
talks will be given at Halifax.
The run on the Farmers Deposit
Savings bank of Pittsburgh has ceas.
ed. Other banks are refusing to ac-
cept the accounts of foreigners with
drawn from the harried bank.
Little William Horlacher, of Halle
ton, may go blind from an eye pune
ture from an elder sisters hatpin-
penalty of hurriedly trying to kiss her
after she had donned the hat
After ordering a drink at hotel in
Mahanoy City while on the way home
from work in the mines, George Engle,
thirty-two years old, a volunteer fire,
man, fell dead as he grasped the glass.
The "dry" element Of Veaango bor-
ough is incensed by a huge banner
flung across the street, reading: I'VE
want Crawford county wes." The
court has been retit.oned to have it
removed.
County Treasurer W. Il. Adam3cn.
at Pottsville, has taken in $4,000
for liquor licenses for this year. The
governments fees for licenses and
stamps will raise this sum to more
than 100000.
Members of the state board of pub
lie grounds and buildings will deter
mine next week where to place the
paintings brought to the capital from
the state building at the Panama Pa.
cific exposition at San Francisco.
Mrs. Miriam Meyer, of Harrisburg,
holds the record for attendance at
the Pine Street Presbyterian Sunday
school, which celebrated its fifty
eighth anniversary, she having miss
ed only one day in twenty-one years.
The Erie Dispatch, which announc-
ed some time ago that 1t would sus.
pend publication on January 81, did
not go out Of existence, arrangements
having been made to continue it's pub.
liCation under the management of j. j.
Parshall.
Fire Chief Hoy, of Norristown, In
his annual report. shows that in 1915
less than $4500 damage was done in
half hundred alarms of fire, and the
damage was covered by $4,000 insur.
ance. The loss was only fifteen cents
per capita.
Iron and steel plants report a great
shortage Of unskilled labor. All con-
Germs in the Shenango and Mahoning
valleys are securing the country for
common labor, in many instances pay
ing wages higher than ever before In
their history.
Engineers operating fans In the
mines of the Lehigh Coal and Naviga-
tion company. at Nesquehoning, are
denied their demand for a wage In.
crease by decision given by Charles
P. Neill, umpire of the anthracite
Cancellation board. @
Five hundred children have been
AANWh WV VI 0hA AOAIC4
back into the public schools In Pitts.
burgh by enforcement of the new state
child labor law, which requires that
children between the ages OF fourteen
and sixteen years attend school eight
hours a week
Officials Of the state bureaus in
charge OF workmen's compensation
matters believe that it will only be a
short time until virtually every com
pany doing liability insurance in the
state will unite in the central inspec
tion and rating bureau, of which the
state insurance fund Is a member
The Pennsylvania Institute for Deaf
and Dumb at Mt. Airy Is bequeathed
$500 by the will of Fayette Miller,
widow of James Miller, of Slatington.
Another $500 is set aside to educate
some poor pupil. The Trinity Evan.
gelical church of Slatington is willed
800 to be used for missionary pur.
poses.