The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-02-19
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiOnS Ct the State.
GULLED FOR QUICK READING

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A full grown deer wandered into
Reading.
Reading spent $4,000 last year on
street paving.
George Roskilley has been elected
chief OF East Bangor fire department.
Wages of Easton tinsmitks have
been raised from 3312 cents en- holr
to forty cents.
Governor and Mrs. Brumbaugh re-
turned TO Harrisburg from their
honeymoon last week.
Livingstone Saylor, Of Pottstown,
has been appointed factory inspector
to specialize on boilers.
James Shields, a young Altoonan,
has won a wager by eating 157 raw
oysters in forty minutes.
Following a report of fifteen cases
of typhoid fever at Dubois, the state
will look into the situation.
Hazleton school board learns ofi-
cially that young pupils have been
drunk on stolen liquor recently.
Major William A. Raub, of the
Thirteenth infantry, Scranton, has
been appointed lieutenant colonel.
York county shad fishermen again
complain lat no adequate fishway has
been built over McCall's Ferry dam.
| The Firemen's Union OF Norristown
has decided to increase the benefits to
disabled firemen from 81 to 81 a day.
Steady progress is being made in
the installation of telephones in the
mines throughout the antracite re-
gion.
There is an unusual rush of COM
mercial travellers through the anthra-
cite coal fields, where business is
brisk.
Mercer county's drink bill for 1915
aggregated nearly $1,3O0,O0O, accord
ing to figures furnished In license
! court.
Three foreign laborers were killed
and one seriously injured by 75-
tcnlAnd1lldo In n quarry at Swartara
Station.
All the 140 boys nc the Luzerne
County Industrial school will help he
the erection Of a seventh cottage on
the grounds.
II cost Kosta Petroff OF West Home
stead $500 and ten hours In the po-
C1ce Statinon for using bad language
over q telephone.
TO jog lazy high school pupils the
Pottsville board has decided to pub
4Wh MoAthly grades Oh advertisements
I'm the newspapers.
An advance In wages OF fifteen cents
A day has been given to ali employees
OF the Elk Tanning company at Cou.
dersport-300O men.
No applications for liquor license
having Seen hled within the time limit,
Mifhin county is assured Of another
dry year, its seventh.
To break up an epidemic Of thiev.
ing in Cumberland county, Judge Sad
Ter sentenced three Of the gentry to
Six-year prison terms.
Of forty-fve liquor licenses grant
ed In Washington county, thirty-two
were to retailers, eight to breweries
and FIVE to distiileries.
The Thomas Iron company, Of Ho-
kendauqua, has raised the wages OF
its employees ten per cent, the second
time within six months.
Mormons Of Buck valley, near Nc
ConneMsburg, whose whose church
was destroyed by dynamite a few
weeks ago, will rebuild
Two new veins of anthracite coal
have been discovered in the Beaver
Brook operations Of the c.. M. Dodson
company, near Hazleton.
"A process of dipping hides has been
Instituted at the plant Of the Elk Tan.
ming company, at Coudersport, for dis
Infection against Anthrax.
The American Iron and Steel Man
ufacturng company, Lebanon, has
given voluntary five per cent in
crease to It's mill workers.
With sixty-three deaths in January,
most Of them due to grip and kindred
ailments, HaZleton had its highest
mortality rate for ten years
James L. Boyle, of Lehighton, game
warden, has received consignment
Of forty-fve English pheasants to be
liberated throughout the county.
E. K. Owens, of Susquehanna, was
elected president Of the Pennsylvania
and Atlantic Seaboard Hardware as
sociation, in convention at Pittsburgh.
The Salvation Army and the Cc
nelsville Ministerial association have
buried the hatchet Each has agreed
10 work for the interests of the othn-.
Walter Anderson has confessed that
he robbed he ST. James Hotel bar
in Connellsville, to get money to get
Jessie Farrell, his sweetheart, out of
jail
With their ice houses partially AL
ed natural ice dealers along the
SchuylkiM valley are hopeful that a
cold spell will give them another
chance.
Burgess John G. Davis, of Freeland,
who issued orders to the police to en-
force the Sunday closing laws rigidly,
declined TO give formal notice to sa-
loonists.
A man-trap set by Abraham Sow
be, near New Freedom, for a grain