The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-11-23
KEYSTONE STATE
IN SHORT ORDER
Latest Doings In Various Parts
Of the State.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Waynesboro Relief Association
will give a turkey dinner on Thanks.
giving Day to several hundred poor
children.
Ray Ward, OF Bethlehem, may lose
his eyesight as the result of burns in.
1icted by fash from an electric con.
troller at the Bethlehem Steel Works.
The Public Service Commission has
been notified by the Jersey Central
Railroad that 1t will improve its sta.
tion at Lebighton.
Officers OF the Harrisburg Coal Ex.
change declared rumors that coal soon
will take sensational rise are untrue.
The dealers say from $4,000 TO 100000
tons OF anthracite are stored in the
:ity coal yards.
Eight thousand cigars made in Bos.
ton, and which were stolen from a
freight car on the Reading, were found
hidden under pile of leaves on Never.
sink Mountain by County Detective
Krick and Constable John w. Smith.
Potatoes have taken a slump in Ian.
caster county, and the high price OF
$3.50 and $3.50 had been cut to nearly
the normal price Of month ago-S1.2O
per bushel. AS result, many farm.
ers who held their crops in order to
get more money are sorry they did not
sell.
A. II. Sheetz. a retired Lehigh Val
ley freight agent, who Is also a prom
nent Civil War veteran, has the dis.
tinction of being the Oldest member
of the Merton Hose Company, Mauch
Chunk, which is celebrating the
fiftieth anniversary of its organization
Mr.. Scheetz is seventy-seven years old.
Edward Hawkins, forty-three years
old, died as the result Of an accident
while employed at the Milton Manu-.
facturlng's ammunition plant. He was
filling a she'll case when the tool broke,
the end entering his side. He was the
fifth OF his immediate family to die in
three years.
Brigadier General William @. Price,
OF Chester. who until recently com.
manded the First Pennsylvania
Brigade, N. G. U. s., on the Mexican
border, will be honored by the Penn
Club, of Philadelphia, en- November
25, when 1t will hold reception in
his honor.
John s. Leiby, whose term as post
master at Newport expires July /, 1917,
has mailed his resignation to Wash.
ington to take effect ON December !.
The confiction of his duties as man.
ager of dry goods firm Is given as
the reason for his resignation. The
salary is $1,000 and besides, there is
an assistant postmaster.
John Harrar. Horsham farmer,
Will harvest what Is believed TO be the
largest celery crop on any Montgomery
county farm. More than 10000 stalks
have been sent to market; there will
be 10000 for delivery prior to the holi-
day season, and easily 10000 stalks OF
the late varieties-in all not less than
10000 stalks.
Referee Jacob Snyder was unable to
determine the amount OF compensation
that should be paid for the death OF
Dewey Thomas, eighteen years old,
who was killed on his first trip as
Pennsylvania Railroad brakeman at
Remove, September II, and the case
was referred to the State Compensa'
tion Board. There was nothing on
which to base an estimate, as he was
an extra man.
At the closing session OF the lnde'
pendent Order of Railway EMPLOYEES,
at Reading, they elected the follow
Ing officers: President, James F. Tet'
low, Philadelphia; vice-president, NJ. j,
Egan, Camden, N. j.. second vice
president, G. w. Bause, Wernersvillei
third vice-president. J. f. Brooks, Ia
maqua; secretary treasurer, c. H.
Schuyler, Wyncote. and general chair
man, w. H. Burd, Chester
Coroner McGlathery held an inquest
in the case of William NJ. Miller, OF
Norristown, who was killed when
dozen others, including former State
Treasurer Boyer, OF Evansburg, were
injured in collision between two troll
ley cars on the Reading Transit Com
pany's line near Trooper two weeks
ago, and the jury made responsible for
the wreck Benjamin H. Lewis OF Nor
rlstown, conductor OF Reading Tran
sit car.
George Amber. aged 10S, said TO
have been the oldest prisoner ever ar
raigned before bar of justice In the
State, pleaded guilty to a charge OF
bootlegging in the Jefferson County
Court. Il had to have something to
chew on" the aged prisoner replied