The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-07-22

Until his drastic ordinance can bO
approved or voted down at the polls,
Altoona's mayor will enforce the old
Sunday blue laws.
The contract to erect the new ST.
MaryAs Greek Catholic church in Al
lentown has been awarded to Butz &
C1ador for $4,000.
| As q result of burns received In q
Fourth OF July accident, three-year.
old Florence Nagle has died at ths
Allentown hospital.
The new gas plant Of the GirGrdvfne
Gas company. TO light and heat Coal
dale. Lansford and Summit Hill, Is
about completed.
Rev. E. E. Dietrich has resigned &S
pastor OF the Lutheran church at BaiA-
bridge, 20 accept a call 70 Montgom-
cry, Lycoming county.
New Cumberland council has de-
cided not to allow the Northern Cen
tra1 railway 10 lay a siding on one
of the borough streets.
Struck by lightning while standing
in her home at Knob Mountain, near
Berwick, Ethel Suit, thirteen. is still
unconscious and may die.
Crazed by the heat, Charles Moan
drews, aged sixty, New Allentown,
tried to set fire to his barn and when
restrained threatened murder.
Rev. DR.. D. B. Schneider, who was
visiting his old home, Reading, has
left to resume his duties as president
Of North Japan college, Sendai.
George Smith, Jr., aged twenty-four,
son of Germany" Smith, formerly q
National League ball player, dropped
dead Of heart disease In Altoona.
Preliminary steps were taken in
Pottstown to hold big union Luther
an picnic, to include congregations in
that town and neighboring regions.
William Hallier, the deaf snake
charmer and catcher of East Mauch
Chunk, has caught another rattlesnaka
three feet In length, and has II alive
Friends of Daniel T. McKelvey, city
detective of Hazleton, called at his
home while he was out on a case and
left handsome engraved loving cup.
Struck by an engine at Carlisle,
George Blair, aged seventy-fve, suf-
fered two fractures Of an arm and Is
In the hospital In critical condition.
Companies that started extensive
street paving contracts at Hazleton
found labor so scarce that they were
forced to send to other cities for men.
His jaw broken by a wild pitch,
Gordon McKellar finished a baseball
game at Hazleton before going to his
physician father to have the bone set.
The State Association of City Plan
ming Commissions Of Pennsylvania
was organized at Harrisburg, electfng
as president A. D. Farquhar, Of York.
Out OF seventeen pheasant eggs re-
ceived from the state game commis'
sion, Frank Reichelderfer, Lansford
has eight young birds hatched out by
a hen.
The husband believed TO have enlist
cd, the destitute wife Of Frank Cigler
! weathsrly, and her two children have
been taken in by Laurytown aims
house.
Howard Bertell and Willard Conner
caught forty-nve salmon, ranging from
. fourteen TO twenty-five inches, In foul
hours trolling in the Juniata river ai
Lewistown.
Leland Seifert, a young resident Of
, Lower Sancon, was almost instantly
killed by Clayton Buss, companion
who, while cunning mistook Seifert
for grounding.
A Centre county Soldiers Relief as
sociation has been organized, with
Colonel ]. L. Spangler, president, FOL
> taking care Of the families Of soldier:
on the Mexican border.
Wearing gloves, so no hnger-marl
evidence could be given against him
a thief entered the home Of H. II
, Barr, of Reading, and stole carC
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