The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-16

ages for alternating her affections
! John NJ. Lafevre was non-suited at
, Lancaster.
Walter W. Schultz, Of New York
has been elected secretary Of Halle
! ton chamber of commerce, succeeding
Harry H. Freeman, who went to Kala.
mazoo, Mich.
The Lehigh Valley Coal company
will rush its GAINESVILLE No. culm
banks through the breaker by the aid
| of steam shoveIs to aid in reducing the
fuel famine.
Claiming that four men from Car
Isle took a deer from his sons after
they had shot it, W. D. Markley, of
Harrisburg, has brought legal charges
against them.
Speaking at Carlisle, National Pro
hibition Chairman o. w. Stewart said
that when either old party adopted the
prohibition plank his party would
cease to exist.
The public service commission has
dismissed the complaint of the Dor,
ough of Mount Union on behalf of its
residents against the Mount Union
Water company.
H. B.. Supper, Lewistown, has re-
tired from active service to the Penn
sylvania railroad pension system al
sixty-ive years, after forty-four years
service on locomotives.
Washington county's third annual
farm products show in Washington
closed with a revival of the old
square dance" One of the features
was a chicken exhibition.
Asserting that $4,000 nickel novels
are sold in Easton every year, the
Easton Public Library has issued an
appeal to parents to join in a campaign
against this kind of fiction.
A young stranger, known as Louis
Berger, is missing from Easton, and
four merchants to whom he gave bo-
gus checks under various aliases have
asked the police to locate him.
Charles Graver, of Palmerton, hunt
ing at Little Gap, shot an owl four
and one-haIf feet from tip to tip Of
its wings, which farmers say they
had heard hooting for ten years.
Prof. J. NJ. Keefer, aged thirty-one,
Is under bail for court in Connellsville,
on charges of aggravated assault and
battery for alleged chastisement Of
fifteen-year-old Frances Stephens.
Firing his revolver in an eff"rt to
frighten Paul Waymen, aged twenty
six, into surrender Patrolman Cherries
Himebaugh, of Meadville, fatally n,
jured the man. He died soon after
The payroll of the Pittsburgh Con
struction company's Dunbar Stag mil
was stolen from the office Of tho
Adams Express company. The pack
age contained between 5000 and $500
A short time after Samuel Laurua,
of Potts4own, had died in the County
home, a letter came saying that one of
his three sons in the Italian army had
been killed and another badly wound
ed.
SeaIer Of Weights and Measures H.
H. Seltzer reported to Pottsville coun-
Gil that 104 scales and measures have
been found faulty within the last
month and seized, and fifty Of them de-
strOyed
President A. T. Dice, of the Read
ing railway, now of Reading, will make
his future home in Philadelphia. and
his son-in-law, Attorney Randolph
Stauffer and family are taking pos
session of the Dice residence in Read
ing.
A Grant Richwine, of philadelphia
was sentenced at Williamsport to
eighteen months In Jail and fined $1OO
for conspiracy to defraud in a transac-
ton for the Jersey Shore Water C.
Gas company, OF which he was O d.
rector.
Wyomissfng club awarded the con.
tract for its 100000 house to A. j
Fink, of Reading.
Coopersburg teachers have demand.
ed salary increases ranging from SO
to $13 a month.
Farmer William Zeigler was run
over and severely injured by load OF
wheat, near Carlisle.
The Christmas pay of workers in
the Pittsburgh industrial district will
go above s16,OOO,OOO
Clarence Moore. a Waterville farC
er, pleaded guilty to killing a doe deer
and was fined s1OO.
Larry Zentner, aged nine, died in
Indiana from the effects Of gunshOt
wounds sustained a week ago.
The Reading company is shipping
on an average 1900 cars Of coal daily
from mines and storage yards.
Arthur J. Lans died in Oil City as
a result of injuries sustained when he
was hit by a Pennsylvania train.
approximately $1,0000O0 will be dis.
bursed to Industrial workers in Sharon
and FarreI for the holiday season.
w. L. Shaffer, of Bluefield, W. Va.
has been elected managing secretary
of Lebanon chamber Of commerce.
The state game commission has
eighteen wardens engaged in Penn
Forest, Carbon county, to protect deer
Pottsville pupils will have their
Christmas holidays, despite the delay
for infantile paralysis in the autumn.
Mine workers of the anthracite field