The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-02-12
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting items From All Sec
tons Of the State.
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News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the

| the CaTllSlS. lUuldu SClOOl.
Carnegie has donated $45,000 pub.
lie library to Pottsville.
Luzerne county officials threaten TO
strike for payment of their salaries.
Warrens Company |, sixteenth regi-
ment may be disbanded for lack Of
enlistments.
German-Americans in Allentown
have decided TO establish naturaliza-
tion school.
County commissioners raised their
salaries month ago at Sunbury, it is
just learned.
Charles F. Seidel has been elected
assistant principal of Allentown
schools, new position.
Two big tunne, projects are under
way for the Lehigh Valley Coal COM
pany in the Hazleton district.
The dead body of a white baby was
found wrapped in a back skirt on a
dump at Chester by William Gordon.
Demand has been made for an in
crease of one-third in McAdoo's school
assessment, to meet pressing needs.
Hazleton employers are to be prose
to work past the curfew hour at night
Freeland citizens plan to petition
the LuZerne county court to reduce
the number of saloons in the borough.
The public schools of Ringtown have
been closed by the school board on
account of an epidemic of scarlet
fever.
Frank Feightner, aged fifty years,
father of eleven children, was killed
at Spangler when a mine motor ran
away.
Stepping into an open shaft at the
Readings Colbert colliery, at Shame.
kin, Joseph Pacupta fell 100 feet to
death.
Because of grip in Hazleton more
teachers and pupils were absent from
schools last month than in any similar
period.
Waynesboro board of trade has de-
cided to ask the Cumberland Valley
Railroad company for better freight
service.
The Mansfield State Normal school,
in Tioga county, complains of high
rates charged by the Mansfield Water
company.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Taylor Boyd, of
Hathaway Park, near Lebanon, cele-
brated their sixty-second wedding an
niversary.
Her heavy braid of hair caught in
knitting machine at Lebanon, Mis-
Beulah Teeman had to have it cut off
! to be released
The Kittaning High school, in ac-
cordance with the preparedness cam
paign, has added military training to
it's curriculum
DR.. WIZ. Dancer, deputy coroner at
Hazleton, wants the names of miners
suitable to act as jurors in mine ia
tality inquests.
| Sheriff Samuel Crawford took c. F.
Wise, wanted for forgery at East Liv
erpool, Ohio, from the Franklin county
jail on requisition.
The Central Iron and Steel company,
Harrisburg, has raised the wages of
800 employees on a varying scale as
| high as ten per cent.
| Requests for thousands of young
trout from state hatcheries for plant
Ing are being received at the state
| department Of fisheries.
A needle which eighteen years ago
penetrated the knee of Mrs. John
Hughes, sixty-one years old, of Johns
town, has been removed.
Seven hundred employees of the Ty.
Ter Tube and Pipe company, at Wash
ington, Pa, have been given a ten
per cent increase in wages
State Highway Commissioner Rob-
ert ]. Cunningham, in an address in
Pittsburgh declared that politics has
hurt the movement for good roads.
On hunting trip to Virginia George
Sharpless, of West Chester, killed
more than 100 wild ducks and brought
home an even hundred for his friends.
Several hundred men and women
employees Of the H. G. Jones woollen
mills, at Conshohocken, have receiv-
ed ten per cent increase in wages.
Michael Pigona was arrested while
walking the streets of Pittsburgh with
$40 bills tied in buttonholes. He used
$3.50 to decorate a SO suit of clothes.
Granting nine more licenses and re-
fusing two, Northumberland county
court declared that state liquor deal
ers were helping to clean up the busi-
ness.
The Dauphin county court has plac-
ed Insurance Commissioner Charles
Johnson in charge Of the York County
Mutual Live Stock Insurance COM
pany.
Former Congressman Richmond p.
Hobson delivered an address in the
First Reformed church, in Easton,
under the auspices Of the Anti-Saloon
league.
Three miles Of sheet asphalt were
added to Harrisburg's paved streets
last year, making the total paving
seventy-hve miles, nearly all OF sheet
asphalt.
Fifteen retail liquor licenses were
granted by the license court in Indi-
ana, and nine applications were re-
fused. Only one license was granted