The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-05-27
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiOnS Of the State.
CULLED FOR QUICK READING

B. N. Malette, of Corey, was killed
by a locomotive near Bears Lake.
Ice shipments have begun from the
big storage houses at Lambertville.
The Italian Spartacus society, Read
ing, has decided to erect a $4,000
hall.
Catasauqua voted by a plurality of
224 for a $4,000 light plant bond is
sue.
Conrad Heiser, of Hazleton, broke
hip while bending over to tie shoe
string.
The blast furnace at Temple will be
converted into a ferro-manganese pro-
ducer.
Run over by truck at Pottstown
industrial plant, Thomas Turmoil
crushed foot.
Thirty-nine boys were arrested at
Altoona for attempting to wreck trains
and stoning cars.
Large consignments of Swedish ore
are being received at blast furnaces in
Pottstown and Birdsboro.
The Lehigh Valley Coal company
has shut down its played-out No. 2
shaft at Yorktown colliery.
South Bethlehem voted to issue $175,-
900 in bonds for borough improve
ments by q majority of 214.
Dog poisoners, who loaded chopped
meat with arsenic, caused the death
of a number of pets at Hazleton.
Having exhausted its denim supply,
Freeland Overall company, like rivals
affected by the war, is now on s,acl
| time.
Miss Kathleen Murphy, Of Philadel
phia, has been elected head nurse Q
the Sacred Heart hospital n Alien
town.
Divorced and once sued for breach
of promise, Bert |. Rem, Sunburl
merchant, has welded his divorced
wife.
The formal housing of the first
motor-driven f1re-fighting apparatus in
Annville was attended with much cere-
mony.
More than 500 persons witnessed
the immersion of ten new members of
the Mennonites in a dam at Fleet
wood.
Reading has been offered $2352 pre-
MUM on its issue of $150,000 bonds
about to be floated for street improve
ments.
Domestic help is so scarce in Lehigh
valley towns that housewives are ad-
vertsing for girls to come and work
for them.
Forest fires on Locust and Broad
mountains have destroyed much valu-
able timber and large area OF buckle
berry tracts.
The P. o. S. of A. camps of Carbon
county have decided to hold their
field meet in Eurena park, Weatherly,
Friday, July %.
Policeman Ernest Johnson, of Pitts
burgh, convicted of Staying his land
lady, was sentenced to two years in
the workhouse.
I. P. Pardee, a Hazleton banker,
gave $500 to the Salvation Army upon
its officials raising $250O for the erec-
ton Of $4,000 citadel.
Jacob Dornball, twenty-four, was
burned to death at the Bethlehem
Steel works when he was hit by five
ton piece of hot Stag.
Four hundred students at State col
lege have earned more than $4,000 to
help pay for their education during
the present college year.
South Bethlehem council has adopt
ed a resolution pledging $4,000 to-
ward the erection of new bridge
across the Lehigh river.
First honors at Muhlenberg college,
Allentown, this year, were won by c..
Luther, son of Rev. DR.. Charles l..
| Frey, of Philadelphia.
No. and stacks at the Seyfert
| furnace, idle eighteen years, are about
ready for operation, and the fires were
/ lit in the No. 2 furnace.
Falling seventy feet from Eagle
Brothers new silk mill at Shamokin,
William Dietz, aged forty-one, suffer
ed a fracture of his skull.
After undergoing six critical opera
tions at the State hospital, HazIeton,
Harry Shelly, young Jeddo optimist,
/ has recovered completely.
The Anthracite Drifted Coal com
/ pany, of Reading, is taking out daily
large quantities of drifted coal from
/ dams along the Lehigh river
Falling into a basin holding less
than two gallons, Victorio, one-year-
/ old twin son Of Anthony and Filomena
/ Caccese, Of Reading, drowned.
During quarrel over the war,
/ Charles Damnis, South Bethlehem, was
\ perhaps fatally stabbed in the left
/ side of his chest with an ice-pick.
/ With an increase of s8,446,385 for
the first quarter Of the year, the New
| Jersey Zinc company promises to pay
/ 100 per cent dividend for the year.
The Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal
company has completed plans to con-
uect the Cana and Lykens Valley
veins at Audenried by long tunnel
Two young birds owned by Frank
SNYDER won the 100-mile homing pig
con a, from Westminster, Nd, to Al.
ientcwn, covering TOO yards a minute