The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-05-13


berger and then killed himself, now
admit that the girl was his wife.
The roll Of students at the West
Chester State Normal school for the
present term embraces 1910, the larg-
| est in the history Of the institution.
The home of Frank Lench, of Tresc-
kow, near HazletOn, was wrecked by a
large piece of iron hurled by blast
in the anthracite strippings nearby
A substitute for gasoline, which can
be manufactured and sold at a profit
| for seven cents a gallon, has been dis
| covered by Earl c. Easig, of Altoona.
Sophia Ordieka, three years old,
/ while playing with matches, at Ches-
ter, was fatally burned and died soon
after being admitted to the hospital.
After selling a one-pound trout for a
dollar on a curbstone market at Jersey
Shore, Howard Smith, of Rouchtown,
was arrested and fined $40 and costs.
William Graham, aged thirty-four,
was nearly cut to pieces when struck
by a train on the Elmira division of
L
ston.
Chambersburg's council declined to
accept the bequest Of public library
by the late Mrs. Blanche B. Coyle,' as
the maintenance charges would be too
high.
Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Ministen-
al association has raped the Stone
men, declaring they are nothing more
than a Protestant Episcopal move
ment.
/ An ephatic letter was written to
Governor Brumbaugh by E. NJ. Knapp,
of Reading, complaining about the con-
dition of state highways in that vi
cinity.
1t is announced that the men at the
shell factory Of the GAINESVILLE Iron
works will be given increases in pay
running from ten to thirty-1ve cents
day.
! For the first time since Sunday
school conventions have been held in
Columbia county, this years conven-
tioa will be held in tent in West
Berwick.
Standing at the station to bid a
wedding party goodbye, John Vell1ey,
eighteen, of Hazleton, got too close
10 the tracks as train came in, and
was killed.
The Chester County Corn Growers
association offers $40 in gold to the
boy under twelve years Of age, who,
this season raises the best quarter
acre of corn.
A Good Roads association has been
formed at Bloomsbury, and an effort
will be made to have the work done in
Columbia surpass that in any neigh
boring county.
Harry r. Peacock, treasurer Of the
Humane Fire company, Easton, was
arrested and held in $1,000 bail, charg.
ed with embezzling $552.44 Of the or
gan1Zation'S money.
Howard w. Atkinson, Of the Bucks
County Fish, Game and Forestry asso-
citation, has received five cans of large
yellow perch for stocking a stream
near Doylestown.
Arthur L. Bowel, Ararat township,
Susquehanna county, and Bphraim
Regard, Conemaugh township, Cam
bria county, have been appointed jus.
tees Of the peace.
Fees totalling $6775 have been added
to the Lehigh county treasury, the
fees collected having amounted to
fifty per cent more than the salaries
allowed off1ceholders.
Cooperation with coal companies
and state authorities in repairing high.
ways around Hazleton on Good Roads
day, May 25, was decided on by the
Hazleton Motor club.
William Thomas, of Hanover town.
ship, whose auto accidentally killed
eleven-year-old Michael Maricano, of
Hazleton, last month, was freed by
Luzerne county grand jury.
Leon ]. Russell, supervising princi-
pal of the Towanda public schools, has
been appointed by State Superintend-
ent Schaeffer as superintendent of pub
lie schools of Bradford county.
Two men entered the saloon of the
Boston House, at Cory, and after or
dering drinks walked off with $500
which had just been drawn from bank
by Frank Keleher, the proprietor.
A ring-neck pheasant appeared
among the flock Of chickens belonging
to ]. H. Nicholson, Bullskin township,
near Connellsville. Recently a deer
passed through NichoIson's yard.
voluntary increase Of ten per cent
in wages has been granted to all en-
ployes except those working under the
amalgamated scale by the Tyler Tube
and Pice company in Washington
Twenty-seven constables in Wash
ington county received no pay when
they made their quarterly returns be-
cause they had refused to enforce the
law relative to the killing of unlicens-
ed dogs.
Action of the Lehigh county commits
sioners in appropriating $1,000 for a
farm adviser comes too late, as it has
been learned that the funds of the