The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-02-26

all films shipped into this State and
not having their own seals of ap-
proval.
Rev. E. c. Kunkle, pastor of the
First Baptist church, Wilkes-Barre,
has resigned to accept the pastorate
Of the First Baptist church OF West
Chester.
The Pennsylvania Steel company.
bought by Charles NJ. Schwab, is rush
ing work on new blast furnace and
other improvements to increase its
capacity.
In speech to Baptists in Harris
burg, Governor Brumbaugh reiterated
his stand for local option and declar-
ed he would fight for it in the next
legislature.
Kissel Shapiro, q West Hazleton
merchant, was chloroformed and rob-
bed of $3.50 while he slept, by a
stranger to whom he had given a bed
in his home
Shipments of whisky and beer to
striking Quarrymen at Blair Four,
Blair county, are permanently enjoin-
ed, as the sheriff can only maintain
peace that way.
The old Cherry Tree Iron works in
Indiana county have been purchased
by William Brown and several other
Pittsburgh men. War munitions win
be manufactured.
Rolling herself in a snow bank, Dora
Armenia, fifteen years old, of Lancas-
caught fire While hanging up wash.
She is badly burned.
State threshermen meeting in Har-
risburg discussed employers liability
and the narrow-tired machines. They
will go to the next legislature with a
proposition for changes.
The United Cigar Manufacturers
company Of Lancaster, thus far this
season has sent one and half million
pounds OF filler tobacco to France for
the men in the trenches.
The Reznor Manufacturing company,
at Mercer, makers of gas stoves, re-
ceived an order from England for 25,-
eco gas stoves. The stoves are to be
shipped to Oxford, England
Owing to the scarcity of skilled la
bor the Diggs-Seabury Ordnance com
pany, of Sharon, has discontinued its
night work at the Sharon plant. All
workmen are now on day shifts.
William FELTON,, of Johnstown, was,
frozen to death sitting beside a pile of
railroad ties along the Pol- sy,vania
railroad at Seward. lie leaves a wild
ow and five children in Scottdale.
Invalid members Of Trinity Method
ist Episcopal church, in Oil City, will
be able to hear the sermons of the
pastor in their homes through q tele
phone apparatus installed in the
church
Marathon races and cross-country
runs are being considered by the
Pittsburgh board of public education
as valuable helps in solving the ques-
tion of health-giving sports in the pub
lie schools.
A gas plant for the execution of
cats and dogs was placed in operation
in West Chester and tested upon a
couple of cats. The apparatus was in
stalled by T. S. Carlisle, superintend-
ent of the S. p. G. A.
Seven claims for the reward of $500
offered by the Westmoreland county
commissioners for the capture Of
Charles Douglass, the convicted MUIR
derer who escaped from the county
jail at Greensburg, have been filed.
Escorted by 100 members Of the AL
toona lodge Of Elks riding In automo-
oII
county game and fish commission
were liberated along the new Portage
railroad, twenty miles from Altoona.
The Bessemer and Lake Erie rail-
road has ordered twenty locomotives
of the Santa Fe type, which are twice
as large as any now in u.s. on the
road. Several bridges will have to
be reconstructed to bear their weight.
The Sharon Hoop company Is noti-
flying all its customers that steel pur-
chased from it shall not be exported
to other than the allies without writ
ten notice to the British consul in
New York, the agreement to continue
during the present war.
Every large city in the county win
be represented officially at tle good
roads congress, which wiz be ell in
Pittsburgh during tae week Of Feb u
airy 28, in connection with the thir-
teenth annual convention Of the Amer.
lean Road Builders association.
Rather than return home, where her
sister, two years her junior, had sup
planted her in the affections Of her
sweetheart, Miss Eliza Frazee, of I'm
iontOwn, daughter of John S. Frazee,
took poison when threatened with ar
rest and is in critical condition.
Judge Terry, in Williamsport, grant
ed thirty-two licenses in the annual
Sullivan county license court. He re-
fused two applications and held five
under advisement, against which re-
monstrances were filed No contest
was made against the thirty-two ap-
plicatiOns granted.
Until he finds out whether eight
gallons of liquor, worth $3.50, con
sumed in a month at the Berks county