The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-06-24
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiOnS Of the State.
CULLEO FOR QUICK READING
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout tho
Keystone State.


Dauksha, a Shamokin undertaken.
The Women's Civic clubs of Carbon
county have organized county feder-
alton.
In a fall from train near Lemoyne,
Brakeman Charles Glass was perhaps
fatally hurt.
At a mass-meeting of the Irish Re
lief association in PhoeniXville, $456.4O
was collected.
South Bethlehem council has in
creased the tax rate one mill, making
the rate ten mills.
! Altoona school board has created a
recreation bureau, which will super
wise Fairgrounds.
A pipe organ costing $4,000 is be-
ing installed in st. Patrick's Catholic
church, Norristown.
More than half of the stock for the
new dime savings bank at Lehighton
has been subscribed.
A mad dog at Plymouth bit several
other dogs and a number Of children
had narrow escapes.
Reported killed, Bradley Cole, Mauch
Chunk, surprised friends by walking in
on them perfectly sound.
Residents of Drumpelier, the new
suburb of Coatesville, are annoyed
nightly by "Peeping Toms"
Ground has been broken for a Syri-
an church in Allentown, twenty-eight
by sixty feet, TO cost $4,000.
Basing their claims on the high cost
of living, some Pottstown school teach
ers have asked for salary increases.
The State Belt Trolley Company has
given it's motormen and conductors an
| increase in wages of Cne cont an hour.
Lower Pottsgrove (Montgomery
county, directors have decided to close
one school and consolidate two others.
The Henry Laundry, Hazleton, gave
their employees a voluntary wage in
crease of from five to fifteen per cent.
While Walter Borowski, of Catasau-
qua, was cleaning a fish he found in
side a gold and opal ring valued at
SIS.
The plans for the new home Of the
Wyomissing club, of Reading, call for
fine three-story building, to coat $685.
900.
Guiding his motorcycle into an au-
tomobile, Daniel Shemick, aged thirty
one, was fatally injured, at Locust
dale.
Moulders at the foundry of Pardee
Bros. & Co., at Lattimer, enjoy a
voluntary wage increase Of ten per
cent.
Palmerton council thinks it is cheap
er to purchase chemicals to destroy
weeds than to have them pulled by
hand.
South Bethlehem council has passed
it's once rejected $25,000 ordinance
toward the erection of a new Lehigh
bridge.
Nesquehoning merchants have
inaugurated movemnt to close every
evening at eight o'clock, except during
pay weeks.
/ The Prison association secretary
4 says the cost of maintaining prisoners
/ in the Blair county Jail could be cut
in halves.
4 Chocolate brown has been selected
| by the state highway department as
the color for the 1917 automobile IL
cense tags.
4 A blister from beating carpets for
his mother has developed into blood
poisoning in Charles Taggart, Of
I Phoenixville.
! Labor is so scarce in Pottstown
4 that Highway Commissioner Foreman
/ is having trouble to get 100 men for
sewer work
I Chester county farmers near Potts
town complain that dogs are doing
great damage to their wheat fields and
truck patches.
I Triplets, two boys and a girl, were
born to Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Fay, Of
Park View, and the three children are
in fine health.
GOuged by a harrow, horse owned
by Reuben FelIman, of Hilltown, was
+ so severely injured that it was neces-
sary to kill it.
Charley Looey a Chinaman, OF Roy
ersford, was missing three DAYS, and
was found unconscious in his laundry,
a victim Of paralysis.
Schuylkill seminary, Reading, will
add $4,000 to the $4,000 fund recently
raised in Reading, to turn the insti-
tuition into a college.
Drivers at North Mahanoy colliery
have struck because they were Obliged
to harness mules and drive them to
and from places Of work.
Robert Kauffer, the Wilkes-Barre
Iineman, charged with shooting seven
teen-year-old Stanley Murphy, at
Hazleton, has surrendered.
Prompt medical assistance saved the
life of three-year-old Philip, son Of
Edward Waters, of GAINESVILLE, who
had drained a bottle of iodine.
By an ordinance, the council of
Coatesville has changed the name of
Main street, ar Lancaster avenue, in
that place, to Lincoln highway.
Lewistown school board has let the
contracts for new high school build
Ing to the Shamokin Lumber and Man
ufacturing company for $4,000.