The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-09-30
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.


pany will run its Reading plant day
and night.
, Donald Sewell, twelve years, lost his
right arm in printing press machinery
at Loysville,
Pittsburgh's Smoke and Dust Abate-
ment League again is trying to size up
to it's name.
The Pottsville district has benefited
to the extent of $81, 900 under the com
pensation law.
Albert Buscavige, twenty, was killed
at Kelley Run colliery when brake
lever flew loose.
The Cumberland Valley Normal
school opened with the largest enroll
ment in its history.
Lansford merchants have decided to
organize shirt factory stock company
and employ 200 girls.
Turkey buzzards by the thousands
are seen in Berks county, and farmers
predict a late winter.
Professor J. G. Sanders the new
state economic zoologist has arrived
and assumed his duties.
Warden Schwartz of the Berks coun-
ty prison is trying out the golden
rule" system of outdoor work.
Ten-year-old Donald Stech has died
at Carlisle, following three fractures OF
an arm while playing leapfrog.
Lansford's new 100000 public high
school building will be completed and
ready for occupancy November 1.
Mrs. John Sworbill, aged hirty-elght,
who left her home at Coleraine for
church in Hazleton, is still missing.
Joseph BeckeH, seventeen, Of Bar
ry's, was killed by bolt of lightning,
and his clothing torn from his body.
At the risk of his life, George Cat
tas, a merchant and horseman, stop
ped runaway team at Shenandoah.
Leaping from a train near home,
after it had started, Louis Zinn, OF
Carlisle, sustained brain concussion.
Jolted from a farm wagon, George
Bortner, of Rockville, in loves York
county, was probably fatally injured.
Hazleton's school district offers to
boys and girls from fourteen to sixteen
years old an industrial training course.
James Dugan, a fourteen-year-old
Freeland boy, sustained fractures OF
both arms by fall from a chestnut
tree.
T. A. Wilson & Co., Reading, have
a contract from the United States gov
ernment to supply $4,000 goggles for
troops.
Daniel Diehl, of Clayton, picked
2577 baskets of peaches, which were
sold at fifty to seventy-fiVe cents
basket.
Northampton county commissioners
decided to have erected adjoining the
county prison a house of detention for
Juveniles.
The Weatherly Weaving company
granted its fifty employees an increase
from five and a half cents a yard to
six cents.
Car shortage in Pittsburgh and ad-
jacent territory is reported by ship
pers and railroad men to be the worst
ever known.
Dickinson College, Carlisle, tenth
oldest in the United States, has open
ed with one of the largest classes in
It's history.
Bitten on the neck by a caterpillar,
Harry Schooner, Locust Valley farm
er, is suffering from a bad case of
blood poison.
At several of the extensive cigar
factories in Lancaster voluntary in
crease in wages has been made-ffty
cents a thousand
Paul Brown, Pottstown boy, who
enlisted in the United States navy four
years ago, has won a lieutenancy in
the Marine Corps.
John Gergo, a Philadelphia runaway
youth, was taken into custody at Free
land when an injury to his eyes drove
him to the hospital.
Confectioner E. J. Burket discover
ed and killed at Altoona tiny snake
that had come from Jamaica in a
bunch of bananas.
The SchuylkilI Navigation company
and Montgomery county commission
ers will erect a new bridge over the
canal at Monte Clare.
NHAAS plOWIuS OH NllSOU IueLTlCk'S
farm, near Weatherly, Lewis Steiger.
walt, civil war veteran, was taken
suddenly ill and died.
Peter Bowes, a lake man, address
unknown, fell downstairs in a saloon
In Erie, breaking his neck. He is dy-
Ing at Hamot hospital.
David Johnson, of Towanda, who
found $500 and kept it, and was con-
victed of larceny, was sentenced to a
year in the penitentiary.
The public service commission has
returned without approval an appIi-
cation for a charter for the Bethle-
hem Conduit company.
Within two weeks, Maurice Mauger.
Of near Pine Force, shipped ten cars
Of peaches and he has averaged 81 per
basket on his entire crop.
After thirty-six hours of intense sui. /
fering, Mrs. Anthony Gausch, of Phoe-
nixville, died from burns when her
clothing caught at a bonfire.