The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-09


Wheeler, Of South Bend, Ind will
sue for shares in her $65,000 estate.
A 200-pound bear was shot by Alfred
SippIe, aged fifteen, Of Bear Creek,
near White Haven, at Shade Creek,
where they are reported numerous.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad will
erect building to be used as a gym
nasium by its hundreds Of employees
working out of New Castle Junction.
Lawrence Dolan, a Reading conduc-
tor for more than twenty-five years,
failed to notice a train Of approaching
cars at Mahanoy Plane, and was kill
ed.
Several does are roaming the fields
and mountains near Shartlesville. They
are rather tame, and are supposed to
have escaped from pen at Werners-
Vile.
H. P. Smith has resigned as a mem.
Der of the faculty Of Lehigh UniVer-
sity, and has been succeeded by
Charles H. Bender, Of South Bethle-
hem.
Rural mail carriers appointed in.
clude Fay r. Kreitz, &t Cambridge
Springs, Pa, on route No. 6, and 8.
Emory Kuntz, ut Clearfeld, on Route
No. 8.
Mercer has nled complaint against
the Pennsylvania company for main.
tanning three crossings In that town
without gates or other protective
measures.
Ira Robinson, aged twenty-eight,
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie brSakman,
was instantly killed at Ellwood City
when his head was caught between
two cars.
Rev. e. n. Kellogg. thirty years pas.
tor, has rendered his resignation TO
the Second Presbyterian congregation,
Carlisle, and will take UP special work
at Harvard.
Edgar, four-year-old son Of Mrs. Ber
tha Read, Lancaster, has died OF In
fantile paralysis-the thirty-second
case for Lancaster county and the
fourth death.
Butler county's banner potato crop
this year was raised by H. G. Flem-
Ing of Penn township, who harvested
638 bushels on three acres and sold
them for $1052.
Palmerton teachers have organized
a glee club among their pupils. with
Miss Beatrice Roth president: Miss E
Meyer, secretary, and Miss M. vii.
liams, treasurer.
E. w. Cauffman, of Green HiF, in
an effort to solve the lack Of farm
laborers, purchased q tractor corn har-
vester and husking machine, watch
proved successful.
Employees at No. blast furnace of
the E. e G.. Brooke Iron company
Birdsboro, were given an increase of
twenty-five cents day, dating from
Thanksgiving day.
Many industrial concerns in the Le-
high Valley are working short-handed
these days, as Austro-Hungarian work
men are laying off in memory of En-.
peror Francis Joseph.
Announcements have been made by
the two Hamburg banks that $53, 1000
will be released on and after Decem.
Der II, in the Christmas funds saved
during the past year.
Picking coal from the huge cuIm
banks in the anthracite region, these
days, means arrest, as teamsters were
found selling what they took under
pretense for home use.
When Thomas O'Connor's automo-
bile smashed into a telegraph pole
near Stanton colliery, he, Edward
Donahue and M. J. O'Boyle, of Shenan-
doah had narrow escapes.
w. o. Downing, who shot up the
Curwensville bank, at Clearfeld, last
July, has been sentenced to not more
than five nor less than three years
in the western penitentiary.
CHASED by a big BEAR" as they
averred, Herman Weidaw and Horace
Hoagen, of Lehighton, ran into Parry,
vile at night, all out of breath, but
the supposed bear was calf.
Harry Alexander of Allentown.
bought two old autos for $50, and
when he found they would not run,
stopped payment on the check. He
was arrested and forced to pay.
Trappers in Berks county were su"
prised by New York furriers, who ra-
fuse to pay them as high prices f
furs as last year, and fur-bearing ani
mails are quite scarce in Berks ccun-
ty.
BOyertOwn banking institutions hold
Christmas club accounts amounting to
$4,000, $19,8713O of which will be
paid out to 61O subscribers and put
into immediate circulation for holiday
gifts
One of the worst epidemics Of apple
blotch is gaining headway through
Montgomery, Bucks and Berks coun-
ties, with the disease rapidly spread
ing toward the central part of the
state.
After a run of thirty-two months,
during which time 1t made 457,000
tons of pig iron, No. / blast furnace,
of the Eastern Steel company, at
Pottstown, went out OF blast for re-
pairs.
.Brickyayers are so scarce in the