The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-04-01

! tmDeT al On6lQa, Michael AuDIOSe
has died of blood poisoning.
For the third time in his fifteen
years of life, John Kugle, Jr., Of Ma
! rietta, is nursing a broken arm-al
three breaks at the same place.
Experiments conducted 3y former
Judge W. F. Sad.er have given rise
/ to movement for cultivation of sugar
! maple trees in the Carlisle region.
The Sons Of Veterans of Allentown
Easton and Bethlehem have complet
ed arrangements to camp for one
week, starting July 4, at Weatherly
For a circus to have a parade il
! Norristown a license of SO must be
obtained, while other parades cost
the paraders only twenty-five cents
The Board of Construction com
pany, of Reading, was awarded the
contract to erect a new high schOO
building at Schuylkill Haven, for $54,
500.
James H. Graham, Jr., Of Butler
was appointed a factory inspector fol
the department of labor and industry
and will specialize in building inspec
| tions
The tax rate of Robesonia, near
Reading, has been reduced to from
612 mills because of the decrease II
the assessed valuation of property II
that borough.
In court at Miffintown Judge Sci
bert fined William S. Musser, of Por
Royal, and Edward R. Beers, Of Mif
fin, each SIS and costs for operating
slot machines.
A Lancaster jury awarded Rose
Hergenrother, nurse, $4812 damages
against DR.. n. E. Bitter for improper
treatment, which she claims rendered
her a cripple.
Captain James N. Lightner, of Com
pany K, Fourth Regiment, Lancaster
says he can have his company Of six
ty-fve men ready to start for Mexico
in ten hours.
George Terwitszi lost a foot anC
John Tarsel, ShamOkin, an arm, wher
the former was caught under a mine
car, and the latter in a fall of Goa
in Shamokin mines.
At the monthly luncheon of the Ro
tary club in Reading no forks were
bition Of Sword swallowing by the
city's business men.
Resenting an attack on the Mexican
policy Of President Wilson, Marcus
Ageris, a Greek, of Canonsburg, shot
and killed Gustave Sells, also Greek
in East CanOnsburg.
A large doe de-. spent a week on
an island in the Juniata river neal
Miffintown, and had to be chased
back into the forest for fear dogs
would run her down.
All the embargoed shipments of hay
for the allies from western points
have been released from the yards ot
the Lehigh Valley railroad, at Hartz' s
Curve, near Hazleton.
Secretaries of chambers commerce
throughout the state will study fac
tory organization, cost of accounting
. and scientific management at sum
mer school at State college.
Mrs. Robert Nuss, of West Berwick
was rescued in her bathroom in an
unconscious condition with a gas tube
in her mouth, just after a quarrel be
tween her husband and a boarder.
Oscar Denny, receiver Of the Mercer
County Brewing company, petitioned
court in Mercer to permit the sale
OF the brewery, stating it was impos
sibIe to run the concern at a profit.
Lebanon is to have third public
playground through the liberality OI
the Philadelphia & Reading Railway
company in providing a plot of ground
in the northeast section of the city.
To pay for the erection Of a new
eight-room school building and to dou
BILE the capacity Of the Penn building
the school board Of Bethlehem has
authorized the sale of $65,OOO worth
of bonds
Umpire Charles P. Neill will cleal
the calendar of anthracite mine dis
putes, in Hazleton, when he hands
down decisions in the two remaining
cases before the anthracite concilia
I1Ou DOd4 IL
, Mrs. Margaret Fuessner, Hazleton
sued the Wnkes-Barre & HazletoI
railway for $4,000 for the death o.
her husband, Adam Fuessner, killed
by freighted barrel of whiskey fall
ing on him.
When a celluloid comb in her hail
ignited from the heat of a stove BY
which she was sitting, eleven-year-olC
Grace Tohes hair was singed and sIt
was scorched about the face anC
hands, at Mt. Wolf.
: Miss Elizabeth Reese, Of Scranton
: resigned as matron of the Home o.
, the United Charities, at West Halle
, ton, and Miss Katherine Knoebel, o.
the State hospital, at Warren, was
elected her successor.
Residents and property owners il
Doylestown are aroused over the al
; legged unjust charges of the wate