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they are bringing the business into
disrepute.
Edward r. Turnbach, when he don
officer this month, put on the sixth
different variety that he has worn IN
forty years.
/ The depredations of river pirates
at Pittsburgh have reached such large
proportions that the police department
/ is planning to establish a fast motor
boat patrol.
! State orchard demonstrators began
/ their annual session at Harrisburg
and were addressed by Secretary OF
/ Agriculture Patton and State ZOolo-
! gist Surface.
The Lehigh Valley railroad track
workmen on the HaZleton & MahanOy
division have been put on a ten-hour
schedule. They worked a nine-hour
day all winter.
Lands Beck, eleven years old, jump
| ed into the Susquehanna river at Sun
! bury and pulled out his brother, Carl,
eight years old, who had broken
through the ice.
With both feet frozen in blizzard,
! seVen-year-old Fred Thomas, of Al
! toOna, lost them by surgery, and will
buy artificial ones as soon as gifts
sufficient reach him.
The Lehigh Valley railroad on April
1 will increase the wages of its sec
ton hands from fifteen 20 seventeen
and half cents an hour, or at th2
rate of $1.75 day.
Rev. r. J. Moore, superintendent Of
the Anti-Sa,oon League, in an address
to Pittsburgh ministers, declared the
election Of judges on the, temperance
issue a great mistake.
1t cost Westmoreland county S386.75
in automobile hire, in addition to $500
as a reward, to capture Charles Doug
lass, a condemned murderer, who
broke jail January "a.
DR.. Thomas G. Simonton, professor
at the University of Pittsburgh, has
announced the discovery of "a new
treatment for pneumonia, which re-
duces fatalities sixty per cent.
Charles J. Rodgers, sixty-nine years
old, and Thomas Sera, fifty-nine years
old, both of New Castle, were run
down and killed by freight train on
the Pennsylvania railroad
The National Farm school at Chal-
font will have thirty students in it's
graduating class this spring. Rev. DR.
Joseph Krauskopf, of Philadelphia,
will preach the baccalareate sermon
1t remained for the smaller indie
pendent coal operators Of the fifteenth
anthracite (Hazleton) district to ex
ceed 1914 mining production during
1915, while the larger companies fell
behind.
Thomas Chapman, aged seventy, OF
Ashland, who was pensioned January
1, after more than fifty years of con
tinuous service on the Reading rail
way as brakeman, died of genera
breakdown.
Druggists of Mercer county have
agreed to dispense with the sale OF
all kinds Of malt drinks at their sod3
fountains. This action was voluntary,
following the courts action making
the county dry.
$4,000 worth of fire insurance was
being carried on the two Doylestown
schools, valued at 100000 to 100000.
The board Of education raised the In
surance to $4,000.
Edith Trilby, eight years old, of
Sharon, was rescued from an abandon
ed well by her brother, Lawrence, aged
eleven, who let himself down by
rope and grasped his sister after she
had lost consciousness.
New York city has sent to the
HazletOn coal fields many down-and-
cutters, and one laborer shows cards
to prove that he worked as an expert
cabinetmaker in fashioning the interi-
ors of millionaires' yachts.
The Berks county w. c. T. U. has
sent letter to Mayor Filbert, of Read
ing, asking him to follow the example
Of Mayor Smith, of Philadelphia, and
abolish liquor drinking by city en-
! plOyes during working hours.
Mrs. Sarah Geesey has sued Wal
ter Azinger, hotelkeeper, of Altoona,
for $4,000, alleging that Azinger is in
part responsible for the death of her
husband, George Geesey, run down by
an automobile while intoxicated.
/ Following the completion OF a $70,-
600 sewage disposal plant at North
Wales, w. D. Lukens, president of
/ borough council, advocates the per
manent paving Of streets, the expense
! to be borne by the borough and the
! property own ers.
The ordnance officers Of the nation
/ al guard discussed the rife practice
work Of the guard with Adjutant Gen
/ eraI Stewart and, Colonel Frank K
+ Patterson, chief Of small arms prac-
/ tice. The season for outdoor work
will open May and run to October
81.
When Thomas Bertrand, of Beaver
/ Falls, visited his chicken coop he dis
/ covered that thieves had broken in
and stolen a rooster and two hens
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