The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-10-14
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiORS Of the State.
CULLED FOR Quick READING

News of All Kinds Gathered from
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.
Electric lighting is being installed
at AIburtis.
Lancaster policemen will demand
more salary.
Berks county farm bureau will start
an anti-weed campaign.
Fifteen cases of typhoid fever have
developed at Port Royal.
WestmoreIand bakers and milkmen
have raised their prices.
Reading tobacconists have stopped
the free distribution of matches.
Mrs. Walter Swick, of Easton. was
bitten in the face by dog.
Spring City milkmen increased the
price from seven to eight cents quart.
Howard ]. Calderwood has been ap-
pointed justice Of the peace at Tyrone.
Pollution of the Schuylktn river
above PottstoWn is killing hundreds Of
fish.
Leroy E. Chapman has been appoint
ed coroner of Warren county, to fill
vacancy.
Pittsburgh hotels will add ten cents
to all checks, to cover cost Of bread
and butter.
The Wyoming Valley Water Supply
company is restocking the streams on
it's watershed.
E. N. Burnett, Stroudsburg, has been
named state road superintendent for
Berks county.
The revenue receipts of the ninth
district, at Lancaster, show falling
off of $45,O0O.
Carlisle has such large school en-
rollment, new $4,000 building is be-
ing discussed.
A twenty per cent increase In the
price Of pies and cakes became effec'
tive at Altoona.
In an automobile collision near Big
lerville, Dennis Aspers, of Aspers Sta
ton, was injured.
Hurled from his carriage in run.
away, William Graboy, Pottsville, was
seriously injured.
Elmer Eppley, Of Lancaster, has
sued Barr Spangler for $4,000 dam.
ages for false arrest.
With an enrolment of $50 students,
the Bethlehem Prep school has begun
it's fall and winter term.
S. Makawags, of the imperial bureau
of mines, of Japan, visited the anthra-
cite coal mines at Pottsvllle.
Following a fall, Mrs. George Leon
ard, aged sixty-fve, Sunbury, died after
being unconscious three days.
Battery A has opened a recruiting
station at Hazleton to obtain thirty
five recruits to fill its ranks.
While working in a cornfeld on his
farm in Upper Merton, James Hayes
fell dead with heart disease.
To study for the priesthood, John
Krusko left Hazleton for his parents
old home in Eperes, Hungary.
Grieving over the death of his wife
thirteen days ago, Levi P. Miller, died
at Pottsville, aged seventy-fve.
A five per cent bonus will hereafter
be paid the workers of Jacob Gerhardt
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S. Francis Bolton, of Schuylkin Ha-
ven, was arrested in Bridgeport, seri-
ously charged by his daughter.
New miners certificates have been
demanded of the men by the Lehigh
Coal and Navigation company.
Rabbits are so plentiful around Haz-
Teton that many have been killed in
the roads by automobiles at night.
Drs. F. B. Kann, Harrisburg, and
B. W. Sweet, Erie, have been reap
pointed state osteopathic examiners.
Palmerton dairymen advanced the
price of milk from seven and eight
cents a. quart to eight and nine cents
Berks forest fires since spring, ,caus-
ed a loss Of $4,000. burned over 1875
acres and cost $303.S3 to extinguish.
Lehighton Lodge, No. 975, Loyal Or
der of Moose. has been instituted at
LehightOn, with 115 charter members
The first woman to take out a hunt
er's license in Cumberland county for