The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-01-20
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TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS

TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Hold up your hands or I'll blow
your brains out" was the command
heard by Prof Frank Daub. OF the
Clarks Valley School, Porter Town.
ship. Turning, he beheld Frank Bohr
one OF his pupils, fourteen years old
standing at the door Of the school
with loaded rifle In his hands. The
teacher expostulated with the boy and
finally got the weapon from him. Bohr
armed himself with the rifle when
some one jokingly told him the teacher
was going to lick him.
William l.. Roupe, Of Washington,
was shot and fatally wounded by his
wife during a quarrel, after which he
made his will, leaving the whole OF his
large estate to her, saying that he for.
gave her for giving him his death
wound. At the coroners inquest Mrs.
Roupe was held on a murder charge
for the February term OF court, she be-
ing the first woman In the 1856 years-of
Washington county history 70 face
trial on that charge.
William X. Baird, manager. and Ross
Kline, clerk, OF Armour & Co. Altoona
branch. were convicted In Blair coun.
ty court OF selling cold storage eggs
as fresh eggs. The case consumed
two days and was bitterly fought The
jury's verdict is important to the Dairy
and Food Department. for the reason
that It recognizes the States stand
ard Of analysis to determine the age OF
an egg. Secretary OF Agriculture Pat
ton attended the trial.
The Philadelphia G. Reading Coal &
Iron Company appointed Edwin c.
Jones assistant superintendent in the
Shamokin district. He now is inside
foreman of the company's Henry Clay
Shaft and is a member OF the Shame.
kin School Board. He will be succeed.
ed at the Henry Clay workings BY
Michael Reiland.
President Wilson sent these noh-
nations Of postmasters to the Senate:
Frank w McFadden, McKeesport; p
II. Gherrity, Bellefonte; William X.
Reed, Eddystone; William II. Cooper.
Oakmont; Percy Z. Faust. Weatherly;
William +. Elgin, Glenolden; Howard
Kemrer, Paradise.
Governor Brumbaugh and Secretary
OF Agriculture Patton were invited TO
address the Bradford county farmers
meeting at Towanda, on March 1. A
delegation of Bradford countians. head
ed by NJ. S. Jennings, extended the
invitation.
For the first time in a quarter OF a
century, Chester's Chief Executive will
have regular Office hours. Mayor Nc
Dowell announced that he always
could be found at his office In City
Hall between and IL o'clock in the
morning
The State Sinking Fund has pur-
chased s150,000 of bonds OF various
boroughs for the new State Fire In
s,,ronoa Fund Thaxy oil hax,a haav In
vestigated and are declared to be gilt
edged
James Sweeney, Chief OF the State
Bureau of Standards. has received
word that Cfearfield, Bedford and Mon
roe counties and Dubois and Cory
cities have appointed Sealers Of
Weights and Measures.
Births in Johnstown decreased by
200 in 1915 over 1914, due to the de.
parture of foreign residents for serv-
ice in the European war, according TO
State Registrar of Statistics d. T. Ed
wards.
Governor Brumbaugh appointed
George G. Myer as Alderman OF Coates
vile, and Horace Orwig. Mlffiinburg,
as a trustee of the State Hospital for
the Insane, at Danville.
Dauphin County Commissioners
were given shock when State factory
inspectors condemned the elevator in
use in the Harrisburg Court House. It
Is about quarter OF century old.
Jacob r. Hartranft and Eugene Fem
over, Allentown, members OF Phila.
delphia & Reading Engine crew. were
hurt seriously by an explosion on
locomotive in Rutherford Yards.
A pair OF Penciled Hamburgs. hatch
ed from eggs brought to America on
the last westward voyage of the Lusi-
tania, were the feature of the fourth
annual poultry show at Johnstown.
Alderman Charles X. Melville. Of
Chester, one of the oldest newspaper
men in that section, just has been
elected president of the Magistrates
Association of Chester, Philadelphia,
Montgomery and Delaware counties,
formerly the Four-County Magistrates
Association.
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