The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-30
Interesting items From All Sec
tiOnS Of the State.
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News OF All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.


poles and frogs for propagation.
York Springs is trying to raise
$2500 toward garment-makng plant.
E. L. Conrad has been appointed
justice at Waynesboro, Franklin coun-
ty.
Altoona Silk Mill employees have
been granted bonuses for total Of
$4,000.
Employees of the Tyrone and Will.
liamsburg paper mills will get wage
advances.
Reading school board increased the
wages of fifty-one janitors from 81 to
So a month.
A license granted to the Millheim
hotel, Center county, is not to become
operative till April.
Soft coal is retailed at nineteen
cents a bushel in Pittsburgh-the
hihhest price ever.
A trolley collision in East Pitts
burgh injured sixteen persons, two OF
them perhaps fatally.
Coasting in a taxi, Gus Greenawalt
aged twelve, Shippensburg, was pos
sibIy internally injured.
Berks county trappers, since the fall
of snow, are catching quite a number
of skunks and red foxes.
The Alec Silk company has taken
over the Cumberland mill, at Lebanon.
and is operating 125 machines.
Dickinson Law school fund was
boosted $4,000 by Robert H. Smith, oil
San Francisco, an early graduate
Lloyd George, the English premier,
and William Rowlands, Of Freeland,
a native of Wales, were classmates.
Skating across Lake Winola, Foster
Minger and William Blodgett, Of Post
Hill, Wyoming county, were drowned.
Rather than pay 81 fine and costs
for failing to send his child to school,
Peter Gruss, Reading, was taken to
jail.
Waynesboro received a new city
service motor truck for the use Of the
Always There Hook and Ladder com.
pany.
Berks county Democrats contributed
$135 in dimes toward wiping out the
debt Of the Democratic national com.
mittee.
John T. Coleman, Of Tuscarora, has
been appointed justice of the peace
for SchuyIkill township, Schuylkill
county.
Rev. John Calvin Ely, Jr, pastor OF
Mifflintown Presbyterian church, has
accepted a call to Bethany church.
Lancaster.
A six-months-old child Of Mrs. A. P.
Troxell, of Emaus, swallowed a safety
pin, but physician saved the little
ones life.
Hazleton, with 10000 population.
has 4106 employed in industries other
than mines, the latter being the chief
employers.
A committee Of the P. o. S. Of A,
State camp met in Reading and con.
orphanage.
Employees Of the Mathews Gravity
Carrier company, at New Castle, have
been given wage boost Of twenty.
five cents day.
Glasses have been organized in the
Neighborhood House at Palmerton fol
educating the foreign element into
American citizens.
With the road in bad condition and
tolls needless burden, residents seek
to condemn the six-mile Lewistown &
Reedsville turnpike.
Of o%
Va, Herman Forte, an ex-soldier, OF
Hazleton, has been sentenced to three
years at hard labor.
The Tamaqua school board has con
demned the old Southwark brick
school building, which had been in
service over sixty years.
Mayor Mortimer, of Pottsville, has
offered $40 to any woman who will
catch the young man who is hugging
women all over the city.
The families of all prisoners from
the Hazleton region in penitentiaries
and jails received Christmas dinners
from the Salvation Army.
Hotel keepers throughout the Pan
| ther Creek valley are being urged tt
close their places of business at the
same hour, early every night.
Wsatherly Foundry & Machine com
pany shipped a forty-three ton golt
dredging outfit to the Chic-San Mining
company, at Chemulpo, Korea.
Clinton McAllister, Of Wilson town
ship, arrested in Easton for operating
an automobile while he was intoxicat
Cd, was fined 800 and costs.
Employees Of the New Jersey Zint
company, at Palmerton, Hazard AM
Millport will get fourteen per cen
bonus of total earnings for 1915.
Cumberland county commissioners OF
Tended fifteen candidates when the,
chose as mercantile appraiser BenJa
min Carver, Of New Cumberland.
Nearly $25,000 representing tel
per cent bonus, was distributed among
500 employees of the Atlas Powde
company's plant, south Of Tamaqua.
Court refused an Injunction q
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