The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-04-22

State Normal school at KutEtown has
not yet be acted upon. The par value
of the outstanding 240 shares Is 800.
Jasper Hughes, seventeen years old,
was caught in the fan and his body
ground to pieces at the Bessemer Coal
and Coke company, near Masontown.
The annual meeting of the United
Sportsmen of Pennsylvania will be
held at Monarch Park, under the aus
pices of the Oil City Camp, July is to
20.
For the first time in many years
Memorial day will be celebrated in
Beaver Falls on the morning of May
80 with a big parade of school chill
dren.
The mangled body of Mrs. Marga-
ret Hanawalt was found on the Penn
sylvania railroad, near Mapleton, prob
ably killed by one of the night express
trains.
A two-mile tunnel will be driven
from Beaver Meadow mines TO the
Jeanesville colliery to drain the latter
of water by the Lehigh Valley Coal
company.
Fayette City lays claim to fewer
births than any borough of its size in
western Pennsylvania. During the
past year only eighteen births were
recorded.
Effective May /, the 500 employees
Of the American Plate Glass COM
pany's plant at James City win be
granted an advance in wages of five
per cent.
In a rush of coal and mud, Joseph
Sewder and John Stefanko, Eckley
miners, were buried at the Lehigh Val
ley Coal company operations, but were
rescued alive.
The Civic club is trying to secure
Young Mems Christian Association
for Marysville. Nearly all the workers
of Marysville are Pennsylvania rail-
road employees.
The first big catch of the season
was made by George Bender, an angl-
er of Lewistown, who caught thirty
pounds of black suckers with rod,
hook and line.
A. Pardee & Co. experienced a labor
famine when they reOpened Crystal
Ridge and Cranberry collieries, Halle
ton, after a two-week shutdown to
rebuild mine cars.
The old keystone college property
at Martinsburg, near Hollidaysburg,
has been purchased by officials of
Alliance college, Ashland, o., and will
be used as a school.
The Crucible Coal company, of Pitts
burgh, is enlarging its plant located
about two miles from Rice's Landing.
Eighty miners houses are being built
and new shafts opened.
o. c. Skinner, superintendent of
manufacture at the Standard Steel
works, Burnham, has been advanced
to general superintendent, to succeed
William Nollmer, resigned.
Miss Mary O'Reilly, Sunbury, about
to become the bride OF Louis G. Fink,
Philadelphia, is missing, after he had
showered gifts upon her, she having
answered his ad for a wife.
The 1000 hands at he GAINESVILLE
iron works, where 100 to 1900 shells
are turned out every twentyfour hours
for the Russian armies, will hereafter
be paid on the piece system.
A badly decomposed body, believed
to be that of Peter Smith, formerly OF
Port Deposit, near Lancaster, was
found In bushes along the Susquehan-
ma near the McCall's Ferry dam.
Bartholomew Richards, in warrant
sworn out before Magistrate Stout, in
Reading, charges that John Knauer
stole his Bible. With the theft OF the
Bible several other books disappeared.
While pleading that he be reinstated
in the Redstone Presbytery, from
which he was expelled, Rev. d. V.
Moricz collapsed, and since has been
unconscious in the Uniontown hos
pital.
Rev. Charles Embrey, ten years pas
tor of the First Baptist church, Maha-
noy City, has resigned to accept call
to Bellwood-the sixth minister to
leave the Mahanoy congregation in a
year.
Drs. John L. Lynch, Thomas G. Ross
and Francis F. Borzeh have been ap-
pointed first lieutenants in the Nation
al Guard Medical Corps, and assigned
to Ambulance Company No. 2, Phila-
delphia
c. P. McQuisten, prominent farmer
Of Greenville, had a narrow escape
from death when he was attacked by
a horse suffering from the rabies. The
horse was bitten by a dog some
months ago.
Charles Gorsuch, the Martinsburg
horseshoer has received letter of
thanks from Winston Churchill, for
mer first lord Of the British admiralty,
for a horseshoe the size of dime,
sent by Gorsuch.
Charles Bowman, tramp, thirty
five, is in a Carlisle hospital with a
crushed leg, which will have to be
amputated, and Joseph Miller, thirty
two, Lancaster, is In a critical condi-
ton after battle among varants.