The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-03-25
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
lions OF The State.
CULLED FOR QUICK READING
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone state.

! Altoona council has elected its first
city planning commission.
Prosecutor Lloyd has started an
anti-vice crusade in Carlisle.
Funds are being gathered in Ian
caster for sufferers in Armenia.
Harrisburg is to be represented in
the Pennsylvania base ball league.
A falling steel ingot killed Anthony
De Armet in a mill at Lewistown.
Battery c, of Phoenixville. has OBJ
tanned six more United States army
horses.
Closing exercises at the Carlisle
Indian school will be held May %,
"a and 25.
Leap year necessitates larger mar
riage license Office in the court house
at Carlisle.
drowned in the Susquehanna river, op-
posite Liverpool.
Women of Lancaster have organized
branch Of the Pennsylvania Women's
Division for Preparedness.
Governor Brumbaugh has appoint.
ed J. E. Eisenhart justice for Gregg
township, Union county.
The state superior court began Its
March session in Harrisburg, but did
not hand down any decisions.
Olawed in the face by a pet cat,
Mary Antin, aged four, is under ply
sician's care, at Mahanoy City.
Colonel l.. A. Watres announces his
do
egate from Lackawanna county.
Gordon Lambert, nineteen months
old, Of Reeds Station, was drowned in
a foot of water near his home.
Miss Anna M. Benninger, of Read
ing, will go to China as a missionarv
and will be stationed at Tungren.
While shoveling snow from the ROOT
Of his home at Mahanoy City, Enoch
Lashaw fell thirty feet, fatally hurt
A. c. Harshaw, of Grove City, has
been appointed factory inspector IL
the department Of labor and industry
Orders have been issued by the
state department Of agriculture fol
the prosecution of flour "bleachers.'
Relinquishing the charter it has had
for 101 years, Brownsville is coming
in under the general borough act OF
1851.
Reading banks gained more than a
million dollars in deposits and loans,
discounts and investments in the last
year.
Lancaster county growers have av-
eraged eighteen cents on all grades
of last years tobacco, or $103.71 an
acre.
Albert Walters was severely injur-
ed by explosion of an acetylene tank
in a colliery repair shop near Shenan-
doah.
The proposed loan of $4,000 for
school purposes will be voted on in
Birdsboro at the special election on
April 25.
Reading will have its annual clean
up week April IL to %. The Berks
County Firemens association will CO.
operate.
Salvation Army prayer meetings in
Hazleton saloons without permission
of proprietors are under Mayor Har-
vey's ban.
Because of more than 100 cases OF
measles in Point township, Northum-
berland county, public schools have
been closed.
Miss Anna Morrison, of North Brad
dock, who is teaching in India, is pre-.
pairing to become a missionary to the
lepers there.
Several covies of quail have been
seen at Rockport and farmers are
making every effort to protect them
from hawks
Prospectors have just unearthed a
f1fty-foot vein Of exceptionally fine
white clay in the South mountain,
near Dillsburg.
The entire anthracite field expects /
an unprecedented business boom after
the operators and mine workers reach |
a new agreement.
A record was established by the Red |
Cross society, in Doylestown, when |
3577 surgical dressings and $50 ban
dages were made.
The Lewistown board of public edu-
cation will settle the location Of a
new 100000 high school by popular
vote Of the people.
A hearing will be held by Attorney
General Brown at Harrisburg on the |
Lancaster & BeTks railway quo war
ranto proceedings
Struck by a blast from a lye hose /
while cleaning bar fixtures, Joseph /
Marchetti, Hazleton, was seriously |
burned in the eyes.
Walter c. Shaw, Ridgeway, has
been appointed assistant surgeon and |
first lieutenant in the Sixteenth In
fantry, state guard.
Whirled around a shaft at the Sus-
quehanna Converting works, William |
II. HOughton, Sunbury, was severely
crushed and may die.
Section hands on the East Penn and !
Perkiomen railroads have received |
notice OF an increase of one cent an
hour in their wages.
The Chester Physicians association, |
which includes doctors Of both |
schools. has unanimously voted In /!