The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-03-11
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiOnS Of the State.
CULLED FOR QUICK READING
News Of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.

is estimated at S6O,O01.92.
Altoona's mayor, in his first mes
sage, urges a new city hall.
Only six per cent crops were raised
in Lancaster county last year, farm
ers assert.
The Hotel Wheatland, one Of Ian
casters leading hotels, will have no
| bar after April l.
The Cumberland County Agricul-
tural Society will spend $4,000 in
plant improvement.
The March meeting of the state
board of pardons is announced for
Wednesday, March Is.
The Seneca and United refneries in
Warren county have given employees
a ten per cent advance.
A flock OF wiiQ geese virtually de-
stroyed a field of alfalfa on the farm
of A. B. Huey, near Lenape.
Missing eight months, Eugene C.
Strausner, Northumberland, mourned
as dead, has returned home.
A cracked coal stove exuded enough
gas to almost kill Mr.. and Mrs. Hen
ry Cocklin, of Bowmansdale.
Postoffice receipts In Lancaster for
February were $16,359.37. In Febru-
ary, 1914, they were $14,608.42.
Five thousand Lackawanna track
men, mainly on the Scranton division,
get fifteen cents a day increase.
Medical authorities in Lancaster are
puzzled over the birth of a seven.
pound baby to a 12-year-old girl.
The managers of Bloomsbury hospi-
tai have elected Mrs. Mary Robinson,
OF Ch&dd's Ford, superintendent.
Puddlers and helpers of the Reading
Iron company have been granted a
twenty-five cent a ton increase.
The Jeanesville Iron Works, Halle
ton, has given its shellmakers a volun-
tary ten per cent wage increase.
Anthony Doublosld, of Shamokin,
fell dead while praying in church, and
heart disease was given as the cause.
Freight embargoes have caused
mines to close and railroad crews to
be laid off in Northumberland county.
c. L. Morris, a travelling salesman,
Of Buffalo. was found dead in his room
at the Butler hotel, in Port Allegany.
Cumberland county auditors are in
vestigating the accounts of a former
treasurer and steward of the county
home.
A contract for the erection of st.
Mary's Home for Girls at Cresson has
been let to ]. c. Ivory, Altoona, at
$4,000.
A body believed to be that of Ed
ward Rifle, of New Florence, was
found floating in Red Stone creek, at
Uniontown.
Since the Billy Sunday services at
Trenton 107 new members have been
taken into the Methodist church at
Morrisville
Two more mammoth ovens for dry
ing paint on its cars are to be erected
at Altoona by the Pennsylvania Rail.
road company.
Miss Myrtle Arney, Carlisle, left
for Oklahoma, where she will meet
and marry her girlhood sweetheart,
Jack Gutleben.
dogs killed four sheep and manned
two others on the Edward Paret farm,
near Rushland.
Plunging thirty-five feet from win
dow in an effort to kill herself, Mrs.
Warren Harpter, Sunbury, escaped
with slight hurts.
More than 5000 returns for income
tax have been made in the ninth dis
trict Uancaster). Three thousand are
from individuals.
Bids have been asked for the erec-
ton o the armory in West Chester
for Company l, Sixth regiment, N. G.
P, to cost s45,000.
To keep a $2-a-month job In North
cumberland county, William Dodge, of
Northumberland, must sign a contract
and furnish a bond.
An epidemic of mumps has spread
from Dickinson college and the Car
Isle Indian school, to all parts of
county.
Edith Goodman, six weeks old, be- |
came entangled in the bedclothes and
was smothered to death beside her |
mother at Palo Alto.
Freight traffic over the middle di- |
vision Of the Pennsylvania railroad |
showed gain of 81 for last month |
over February, 1915.
The trustees of the Greene Free Lii |
5roary, at Wellsboro. have taken. title .
to the homestead willed to the library
by Mary B. Robinson.
Work on the construction of a new
school building in MELVILLE has been
1eld up following a disagreement with
The bonding company.
For neglecting drills, Second Lieu
tenant Walter A. Selfridge has been
1ropped from Company E, Third in
,antry, national guard
Altoona Central Labor council has
the nomination Of Louis D.
8randies for justice of the United
States supreme court.
Montgomery county Republicans
endorsed for denomination and
IN Congressman Henry NJ.
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