The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-04-08
CULLED FOR QUICK READING
News of Ali Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.

Mine workers have started a move
ment for a cooperative store in Halle
ton.
Bloomsbury has 325 cases of meas
! les, and all public places are ordered
closed.
Members Of the Order Of Moose In
Phoenixville are planning to build a
$4,000 home.
A hospital corps is being organized
as an auxiliary to the cadet regiment
of State college.
Ten per cent of the farms of Frank
lin township, Butler county, are re-
ported tenantless.
Roy A. Watson, Slippery Rock, has
been appointed state fish warden fol
western Pennsylvania.
Governor Brumbaugh has appointed
Lester F. Jones alderman of the TWEEN
ty-frst ward, Scranton.
Postmaster George Reminsnyder, OF
Beach Haven, has resigned, victim
of fedTal retrenchment.
Governor Brumbaugh has proclaim
ed Friday, April IA, and Friday, April
| %, as spring arbor days.
Friends of Beulah Anchorage, Read
ing, raised $1,000 toward the $4,000 now
being raised for an annex.
Sitting on street car track to rest,
Joseph Doyle, of Locust Gap, was
struck by car, and will die.
Outbreaks of cholera among hogs
in eastern counties will be inyesti-
gated by the state live stock sanitary
board.
The Retail Merchants and Business
Mems District Association of South
western Pennsylvania met in Pitts
burgh.
Eight lots at Hazleton Heights
have been bought for Hazleton, for
firehouse, playground or park pur-
poses.
John Carl, of South Bethlehem, was
arrested and fined SO for shooting a
wild bird Of the American waxwing
species.
The Pittsburgh, Westmoreland and
Somerset railroad has decided to sus-
pend passenger service, as it is un-
profitable.
The Young Peoples Socialist league
of Pennsylvania will hold it's second
annual convention in Reading April
20 and 80.
John Manton, contract miner, was
seriously, if not fatally, injured by a
fall of coal at Packer No. 4 colliery,
Shenandoah.
At the Moravian College for Women,
Bethlehem, 125 members of the college
chorus beautifully sung Haydn's ora
torio, Creation"
A voluntary increase of from five to
ten per cent has been granted to the
225 employees of the Wellbacher silk
mill, Allentown.
Frank Pinchot was caught beneath
a fall of rock at the Cornwall iron
ore banks, and though quickly dug out,
his death soon followed.
Falling against hot stove, Eleanor
Turtzo, aged twelve, daughter of John
Turtzo, of Bangor, sustained burns
that may prove fatal
A corn-growing contest for children
under sixteen will be held in Perry
county this year, under the supervis-
ion of the Green Park Grange.
Large crops Of apples, cherries and
plums are indicated by reports from
crop correspondents. Peach buds in
some sections have been ruined.
Information has been received that
twelve rural mail routes are to be
abandoned in York county and their
territory divided among others.
Dennis Brennan, at the risk Of be.
ing blown to atoms, extinguished a
fire at a tank containing three barrels
Of gasoline at Kohinor Junction.
A number of brook trout, two to
eight and one-half inches long, from
the Bellefonte hatchery, were put into
the streams about Summeytown.
Charged with the larceny of a $1,000
automobile truck belonging to Frank
Whitaker, an Allentown farmer, Fred
Young, was arrested at Reading
Bangor's board of trade is raising
a guarantee fund, similar to the fund
Of the Easton board of trade, to pro-
mote the towns industrial growth.
Agents Of the Bethlehem Steel
Works have procured sixty-seven ma.
chinists and other skilled hands from
Hazleton and the surrounding towns.
Falling under trip Of mine cars,
John Rick, Of Stanton colliery, died
while being rushed to the Miners hos
pital, Mahanoy City, in an ambulance
George Bachman, forty-one, promi.
nent in secret and civic societies, fell
dead of heart failure while changing
his clothes at No. 10 colliery, Tarna
qua.
Thieves put a ladder against a sec
ond-story window in the home Of Ed
ward T. Herbert, Hazleton, and arous-
ed Mrs. Herbert, who telepholed for
the police.