The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-03-30
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Candidates for positions as teachers
In the Pottsville schools must bs
neither fat nor 1ossy, the Board Of
School Directors ruled. 1t was stated
that fat teachers would be incapable
of climbing the steep hills of that city,
while "hossy" teachers would pay TOO
much attention to their personal ap
pearance. Because OF criticism OF III,
condition Of the schools, Superlnten.
dent E. Il. Barclay rendered his resig.
nation, but the board refused TO accep.
II and said he was not TO blame.
Two hundred miners employed by
the w. ]. Rainey Coke Company,
Brownsville, hurried to the surface
when couriers ran through the mines
shouting the ten-acre reservoir on
hill near the opening was about To
burst. They set to work with their
picks and shovels and finally sue
ceeded in digging a ditch which carried
the food waters away from the mine
and saved the property.
A sentence Of two years at hard Ia
Dor in the Berks county Jail. with a
fine Of SS5 and costs, was imposed n
Criminal Court. Reading, upon Charles
Reinhardt, thirty.two yearB old, fol-
lowing his conviction OF the theft OF
lot of chickens belonging 10 farmers
in Tllden Township.
Twenty-three cars were wrecked
and several hundred feet of track were
torn up in a freight train wreck on tho
low grade line OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad, one mile east OF Buzzards
Rocks. No one was injured. The
wreck was caused by the dropping OF
brake rigging.
Mystery surrounds the death OF vii.
liam Haines, forty-ave years old.
whose body was found on the tracks OF
the Pittsburgh, Shawmut 4 Northern
Railroad, at Sprankers Mills. Haines
is known to have possessed large
sum of money and the authorities be
lieve he was murdered.
After voters OF Zerbe Township, IN.
cluding Trevorton, at special election
decided In favor Of erecting a $4,000
public school building, church bells
were rung along with the blowing OF
whistles, after which men, women and
children participated In street
parade.
Three new she'll loading plants were
put in operation at the Redington fuse
plant of the Bethlehem Steel Company.
1t is said that the night force will bo
transferred to day work, According
to workmen, the local plant is turn.
ing out more than 100000 loaded
shells month.
Union County Court granted a
mandamus on the County Commission
ers directing them to join with the
Northumberland County Commission
ers in erecting a bridge over the Sus.
Quehanna River between Watsontown
and White Beer at cost Of s150.OOO.
Simon S. Petersboro, seventy-ons
years old. and Sarah w. Kiest, both
of Willies.Barre, were welded at Sun.
bury by Rev DR.. ]. NJ. Francis. The
bride declared her husband Is tho
"ideal man OF the United States"
Bruce Crownover and Wesley
Darger, the seventeen.year-old boys
who confessed to burglarizing thirteen
private dwellings within a week, at
Altoona, were sentenced to the Reform.
atory by Judge Thomas ]. Baldridge.
Ralph Beaver Straussberger. Of
Gwynedd Valley. will be candidate
for the Republican nomination for
Congress. Henry w. Watson, OF
Langhorne, is a candidate for renomi.
nation.
In his will just probated. Harrison
Schaffer. Of Upper Milford. who left
an estate worth $4,000. provided that
half the estate be used to see that his
grave is kept in proper condition and
also the graves Of many relatives.
State Fish Wardens were instructed
to push work Of inspection Of streams
for pollution from factories or any
other sources at conference held al
The State Department of Fisheries.
A. A. Barrett, eighty-one wears old,
Civil War veteran and Mason, OF
Northumberland, died suddenly OF
heart failure.
Eva Coffman, Of Mount Pocono,
twenty years old, shot wildcat at her
benhouse.
Falling into tub Of water at her
home in Shamoiin, Catherine Donahue
was scalded to death. The girls
mother had prepared the water for
bath for the baby The girl picked
~ small mirror and while glanclng