The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-02-19

Sixty society and club women OF
/ York participated in the organization
OF York county chapter Of the Penn
/ sylvania Women's division for Nation
al Preparedness.
/ The Western Maryland Railroad
/ company will establish extensive yards
! between Fayette and Watt on land
purchased from the John Stevenson
/ heirs OF Pittsburgh.
/ BY a vote OF 919 to 16S the $225,00O
/ bond issue to be expended in replac-
/ ing the Central and Park school build
/ ings, both recently condemned, car
/ ried in Uniontown.
The woman's Suffrage party OF
/ Montgomery county held rousing
/ convention IN N,rristown, attended by
I $50 prominent women from various
/ parts of the country.
/ The Otto Eisenlohr company OF
Philadelphia, has filed at Harrisburg
notice Of increase of stock from s5,-
900 to $10,000,0 600 the state receiv-
ing bonus of S29 9,9sS.67.
Albert Buchanan Long, twenty-eight
years old, who died in Lewistown re-
Gently, willed $500 each 10 Lewistown
hospital, Burnham Y. NJ. c. A. and the
First Presbyterian church.
Robert R. Ringler, of Reading, has
been named by the Socialist party as
a candidate for state treasurer. Mrs.
Robert B. Ringler was elected a mem
Der of the state committee.
The West Hazleton school board
has refused the w. C. T. U. permis-
sion to hang pictures of Frances VIII
lard, the temperance advocate, in the
rooms of the various buildings.
Daniel T. McKelvey, Hazlston city
detective, has announced himself a
candidate for delegate to the Demo
cratic national convention from the
eleventh congressional district.
The state department Of agriculture
has directed its agents throughout the
state to prosecute dealers violating
the law providing for the protection
of meats displayed in stores.
Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong, Of
Pittsburgh, has issued a statement de-
claring the city Is the cleanest moral
ly in the United States, and that COM
mercialize vice no longer exists.
George w. Dorsey, of Reading, let
ter carrier has received a message
stating that his son, William T.. twen-
ty-two Yeas old, sailor on a battle
ship at Norfolk, has been drowned.
An inves; CATION conducted by Game
Protector f. w. Kelly and his assist
ants In Crawford county Is said to
have produced startling evidence OF
scalp bounty frauds agsregatinG &c.
900.
The Fish and Game Protective AZ
sociAtion has placed In Montgomery
county streams between 5000 and 500
brock trout, about four inches long,
sent By the state hatchery mt Belle
fOnte.
The URiontowM board cf health has
appointed Mas Elisabeth Havey. q
graduate nurse OF the UMioAtown hes
pitAl, m health ofAces. She 10 the
arst woman appointed Do once in Un-
iontown.
Orders booked by tho DriggsSea-
bury Ordnance corporation. at Sharon.
including those Of the Savage Arms
company, of Utica, NJ Y. aggregate
close to $40. 100000, most OF which iS
for guns, gun parts and accessories.
Mandamus proceedings were started
In Dauphin court by James Sweeney,
state chief, to compel Murray G.. Liv-
ingston, Pittsburgh, measure and
weights inspector, to file monthly
statements.
w. Lee Gilmore. superintendent OF
schools In Lawrence county, has re-
signed, and r. G.. Leslie, Of New
Castle, has been appointed In his
place, State Superintendent N. G.
Schaeffer announced
The smallpox quarantine at Con-
neautville has been lifted and In cele-
bration OF the event the citizens of
the town held big parade. Paraders
dressed to represent "klled" disease
germs were the feature.
Work on the erection Of the tabe--
nacle in jeanette for the com ng
evangelistic campaign to be c ndVct
ed by Rev. L. P. Peacock has begun
The campaign will open February 27
and will continue six weeks.
Despite ne rapid increase In the
number of automobiles in the rural
districts, f"rty-four counties show a
rise in the number Of farm horses over
last year. There is also a steady in
crease in the number Of mules.
The various lodges of Odd Fellows
in Berks county are endeavoring to
have the 1916 state session held in
Reading. The lodges have appointed
committeeman to meet at Odd Eel.
lows hall to determine a method.
That lodge must pay sick benefits
to a member, even when he Is in an
insane asylum, was decided by JudSe
George w. Wagner, in Reading, in tie
suit of Charles Bleiler against Fleet
wood Castle, Knights Of the Golden
Eagle.
Expert mining engineers testifying
before Judge Brumm, in Pottsville, as
to the causr of the subsistence OF the