The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-03-04
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.

Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.
Three new silk mills viii be built
by a Danville concern.
The population at the Bucks county
almshouse is decreasing.
Central Market house is wanted as
Lancaster's new convention hall.
A. 6 Rhoads, Millions burgess, has
ordered all games Of chance stopped.
Grangers Of three counties, in ses-
sion at Danvin declared against liquor.
The Northumberland County Anti
Saloon league was formed at Sun
bury
The board OF health OF Sharon Hin
is planning q cleanup week for early
in April.
Il. H. Finchbaugh has been appoint
ed justice Of the peace Tor LogansyiHe,
York county.
Joseph Wright, of Butler valley, was
arrested at HaHeton as a deserter
from the army.
Moving pictures are blamed by
school authorities for truancy among
Johnstown lads.
w. Scott Jenkins, Blossburg, has
been appointed a trustee of the State
hospital at Blossburg.
Nearly 1000 employees of the Erie
railroad shop in MeadyiIle are TO be
given an increase in wages.
Palmyra = all tOpsy-turvy political
ly over fight for the posmastership,
with eight active aspirants.
County auditors allege that the corc
ner of Northumberland charged mile
age for miles never travelled.
valuable vein OF the best quait!
of coal has, been discovered at ths
Herbine colliery, at St Cloud.
William II. Rodgers, Republican, oi
MifflintOwn, was the first aspirant t.
file a petition at the state capitol.
Miss Loretta Gerster, of Mauct
Chunk, has been appointed stenog
rapher at Eittersville Insane asylum
Richard Jackson, aged eight years
of St. Marys, was shot and instantly
killed as he played with a revolver.
Numerous counterfeit silver quar-
ters, half dollars and dollars are in
circulation in Chester and the vicin-
ity.
Game Protector Boyle has liberated
three-ring pheasants at Mauch Chunk,
East Mauch Chunk, Lansford and Pal.
merton.
crusade against keeping hogs in
Connellsville is on. Dozens OF owners
have been ordered to dispose Of thei7
porkers
John, four-year-old son of Joseph
Rocco, OF Freeland, swallowed a nail
with which he played, but shows no
i'll effects.
SO many incendiary fires have been
reported recently that business men
of East Harrisburg are employing pri-
vate watchmen.
The Marshall Construc-
ton company mas granted a general
increase in wages TO shOpmen at it
PottstOwn plant.
Appplication has been made to the
Cumberland county court for a char
ter for a firemen's relief association
in Mechanicsburg.
John A. NJ Rife, OF jefferson, has
fled primary petition for the Demo
cratic legislative nomination in the
Fourth York district.
College songs of the most approved
type are to be recorded by State col
lege's glee club for a manufacturer
of phonograph records.
oh Na1Iov
stored sufficient soft coal at DelanO TO
supply its Hazleton and Mahanoy di-
vision locomotives a year.
John j. O'Donnell, Allentown; A.
King Weise, Altoona, and H. f. Tay-
lor. Scranton, have been appointed
deputy factory inspectors.
The court has appointed Patrick Ma
guire, a prominent Hazleton mine
worker, as a member OF the miners
certificate examining board.
E. L. Bullock, a retired Independent
coal operator, Of Hazleton, is candi-
date for delegate to the Progressive
national convention at Chicago.
J. Edward Wanner, president of the
Reading school board, has announced
his candidacy for national delegate
TO the Democratic convention.
The unusual charge Of selling liquor
to his son, a minor, was preferred
against John Wilcox, Of Birmingham,
Huntingdon county, by his wife.
! The plant OF the Aetna Explosives
! company al Russell. Warren county.
/ started operations. employing 300 men
! after being closed down two months.
The $50 Syrians living in Allentown
! have organized a congregation, and
have bought the old Central hotel,
/ which they will turn into z church.
Brentwood Civic club had an eXhi-
/ bition Of old-fashioned quilts in Pitts
/ burgn Many Of the crazy patterns
were shown. Some are Of great val
/ ue.
Theresa, twenty-months-old daugh
ter OF Michael Krumpeck, Of East Leb
anon, has died Of scalds after falling
into a bucket of hot water while al
play.
/ Mavoy George NJ. Bailey. Of Union.