The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-11-25
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiOnS Of the State.
CULLEO FOR QUICK READING
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.

Keystone State.
Postmaster John S. Leiby, of Marys.
Vile, has resigned.
Water continues scarce through the
northeastern part of the state.
Altoona has put severe restrictions
on the use of its depleted water sup
ply.
Carbon county hunters blame the
cold wet spring for scarcity Of pheas'
ants.
Four automobiles have been bought
by the state for emergency use by the
state police.
Allentown school board has decreed
compulsory courses in agriculture ant
physical culture.
Samuel CONNER has been appoint
ed Justice in Rockhill borough, Hun.
tingdon county.
The American Speciality Manufac'
turers association held their conven'
tion at Pittsburgh.
William Vitzon, aged thirty-eight.
died in St. Vincent's hospital, Erie, af
ter taxing paris green.
Mrs. Johanna Spichek, of Hickory
Ridge, was found wandering on the
mountains near her home.
Stricken with heart failure, John
Briner, sixty-fye, died at his work at
the Duncannon Steel works.
Charles Lawrence, aged twenty-five,
of Connellsville, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head.
BettOrs at Sunbury are excited over
the threat of poor overseers to con
fiscate 5000 in election bets.
High cost of materials in the brew
threatens to boost beer to six cents a
glass in the anthracite regions.
The annual meeting of the Cumber
land Valley Federation of Women's
Clubs was held in Mechanicsburg.
John Fritz and Franklin Fritz, twin
brothers, of Oil City, celebrated their
eighty-ninth birthday anniversary.
At John Fishers cattle sale in
Gratersford, COWS brought over $10O
each, the highest price being 1925.
Falling under a train of cars at
Centralia colliery, Patrick Lenahan
was crushed so badly that he will die.
Because the automobile has come
to stay, both Mauch Chunk liveries are
selling most of their horses and car
riages.
While excavating for a new sewer
age system at the Cumberland County
Home, workmen found the skeleton Of
a man.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sholly, of Ann
ville celebrated the sixtieth anniver-
sary of their marriage with a family
reunion.
w. J. Graft, of WilHamsport, Pa, has
been elected director of the Green's
burg Y. M. c. A. at salary of $4,000
annually.
Albert Betus has been promoted
from sergeant, Sixth Infantry, to sec.
company.
Burns sustained while playing
around a bonfire resulted in the death
of Annie Matilda, five, at the Coal
dale hospital.
Falling into Conococheague Creek
while trying to get a drink, Frank
Snyder, aged sixty, was drowned at
Chambersburg.
In payment of an election bet at
PottstOwn, Daniel Brunnick. of Chick
en- HILL must eat a quart of molasses
with q tOOthpick
Ninety-three citizens of Cokeville.
near Greensburg, have petitioned the
court to have their charter of incor-
pOration annulled
Woodrow Wilson Claycomb was the
name given to boy born to H. c.
Claycomb, at Altoona, after the presi.
dent was reelected.
His skull fractured by the kick OF
a mule, Walter Bair. a GatchelviTe
farmer, was found unconscious in his
barn by a helper.
State hatcheries in October sent out
323, SEQ one and two-year-oId brook
trout and 100000 black bass for dis
tributiOn in streams.
When his team ran away at Shame,
kin, George Brunstetter was thrown
under the wheels and was injured in.
ternally and viii die.
EuplOHGS VI the f6uuSN1Ndnla rail-
road in Altoona have completed an
eighty-foot locomotive said to be the
largest in the world.
Overcome by excitement that caused
heart failure, Solomon Stuber, aged
Beventy-six, of Allentown, fell dead
while killing a chicken.
Hazleton school board will allow the
public to use school auditoriums and
gymnasiums for social and cultural
purposes, but not dancing.
Pride, not poverty, prevents many
alien parents considering eyeglasses
for the defective vision of their chill
dren in HazletOn sch0ols.
Mushroom growing Eas demonstrat
ed as practicable. in, Hazleton, by
Herbert Hutton, who raised a large
crop in beds under his home
David NJ Mast, of Morgantown, har.
vested 5000 bushels of corn from TWEEN.
ty acres and ten acres yielded at the
rate of 200 bushels per acre.
The eight-hOur limit on hoistino an.