The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-09-21

STATE NEWS
IN SHORT ORDER
Latest DoIngs In Various Paris
Of the State.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
William Rettew has been appointeS
postmaster at Leacock postoflice, fB
ing o vacancy made some time AGO,
Residents Of Riverside, q suburb
Harrisburg. rejected plan for anaexs
tlon suggested by a number OF resi-
dents.
Tamaqua's water supply is falling 80
rapidly owing to lack Of rain that
pumping station has been established
and is in operation day and night
Caught by q rush OF rock and dirt In
chute at the Lehigh Coal a. NaNga
tion Company's No. 4 colliery, Tama
qua, William Adams, aged twenty-five
years, was killed.
Chester's industrial prosperity Is ne
fiected In increased business at ths
postofflce, where postal savings have
increased 1873 per cent. within the last
year. The increase in other depart
ments has been as great, and additional
clerks have been employed.
Charles Marchez, OF Chester, was
killed and a dozen other worlfmen mar
rowly escaped serious injury when
chains supporting a casting at he
Penn Marine Engineering & Ordnance
Company broke. The casting fell o.
teen feet. striking Marchez on tAe
head.
The Pastoral Association OF the Al
lentown Lutheran Conference at q
meeting held in Bethlehem, elected
Rev. F. W. Wackernagel. of Allentown,
president; Rev. e. f. Fisher. Of Easton
vicepresident, and Rev. II. f. Siege.
of Northampton. secretary and treas
urer.
A big auto driven by d. Z. Parker
president of the First National Bsak
of Juniata, knocked a trolley ear M
the track at Altoona. The trolley
plunged across the street and smashed
a shed in frolt OF ex-Sheriff 7. D
Hughes store. Passengers escaped IN
jury.
The Pottsville School Board decided
that because OF the delay in Opening
the schools, there will be no Christians
holidays, except the day itself. The
two weeks vacation has been ellmin
ated and there will be only one-daJ
celebrations of Thanksgiving and Ne
mortal Day.
While Roy Klein, forty years old,
was attempting to drive team across
the Reading tracks at Shamokin, the
team was struck by a passenger train
The driver was hurled high in the air.
and picked UP unconscious; seriously
II not fatally injured. One horse was
killed and the other had to be shot
Harold Yoh, twenty-five years Old
OF Sinking Spring. near Reading, va,
fatally hurt, and Francis Noll. also Of
Sinking Spring, received injuries, when
motorcycle with side car. on which
they were riding. crashed into tele
graph pole at Temple, above Reading
Yoh. who was operating the motor
cycle, sustained fractured skull and
died on his way to the hospital.
County Superintendent OF Public In
struction George A. Grim, has decided
TO hold the annual Northampton Com
ty Teachers Institute at Easton be
ginning the week Of September 2S, In
stead of October % 27, on account Of
the schools not opening until Septem
ber 20 and also because It will not
cause an interruption OF one week 10
the already delayed opening Of the
schools.
Announcement was made by the
Board of Conference Claimants Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, that $40,
600 had been raised in the Juniata dis
trict of the Central Pennsylvania Con
ference where an intensive campaign
is being made to raise s4O0, 900 for aged
preachers. Twenty-Five thousand dol
lars was given by one prominent lay
man and business man of Hunting