The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-02-10
KEYSTONE STATE
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LatestNcws Happenings Gather.
ed From Here and There.
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TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
The State Workmen's Insurance
Board war informed that the number
of policies written by the board now
was close to 5000.
Agents Of the State Dairy and Food
Commission brought suit against ten
persons in Philadelphia for the sale OF
candy not up tc State standards.
While conversing with several
friends at her home in Reading. Mrs.
Victoria f. Penn, sixty years old, fell
dead OF heart failure.
The Jamison Coal & Coke Company,
Greensburg, has announced a wage in
crease of about ten per cent for its
several hundred employees.
Announcement Is made that 1000
have insured in the State Workmens
Insurance fund against employers liza.
bility.
At a meeting the citizens Of the
Dethlehems and Lehigh University de
sided to celebrate the tercentennial OF
the birth of Shakespeare with an out
door pageant on the campus on
May 10.
AT meeting of the West Reading
Borough Council an ordinance for a
public loan of $4,000 for improve
ments was passed finally. Twen.
ty-three thousand dollars will be used
for new streets.
While on his way to work at the LIE
high Coal & Navigation Company's
Nesquehoning Colliery, Sam Bengal
was struck by mine locomotive and
so badly injured tLat he died shortly
afterward.
According TO the annual report Of
Fire Chief Hoy, of Norristown, less
than $4,000 damage was entailed in
1915 in half hundred alarms of fire,
and the damage was covered by $4,000
insurance. The fire loss is but fifteen
cents per capita.
Earl Grosvencr, Northumberland
county youth, shot and killed himself
in the presence of his sweetheart,
Bella Specks, near Rockville. The girl
had declared that she was waiting for
! him to name the day, and he drew a
revolver and killed himself. The girl
was prostrated and is seriously Ill.
While brushing gas away from a
breast at the Philadelphia & Reading
Coal & Iron Co.'s Sterling colliery
Michael Casinos, carrying naked
lamp. caused a terrific explosion. He
and James Gassego we're hurled fifty
feet to the bottom of a gangway. Both
were senseless and badly burned when
found by a rescuing party.
The officials of District 2, United
Mine Workers, have received word
that the first advance in central Penn
sylvania became effective at the mines
of the Cambria Steel Company. in
Cambria county, with 10 per cent.
increase becoming operative. The
mine officials say the advance Will
place the miners on a par with the
union scale
Mt. Holly Springs postoffice was rob
bed of 5000 in money and stamps, the
burglary occurring two years to the
day from former robbery of the Of
fee. The burglars fired three rounds
of explosives before they forced oper
the safe, and made their escape be
cause women living near the office
who heard the sound of the explosions
we're too frightened to give the alarm.
A statement issued by the State
Bureau of Vocational Education says
that there are in operation in Pennsyl
vania AIS continuation school classes
These classes are in 104 school dis
tricts and in order to accommodate thu
classes 1t has been necessary to pro
vide to equip 377 class rooms and t.
employ 21S continuation school teach
ers.
The Hershey Chocolate Company dis
tributed among its employees a bonu
of twenty per cent on salaries o
wages of those continuously in its EN-
ploy for the six months preceding jar
uary l. OF the whole force, pc
cent received the bonus. The amour
distributed was over 100000 All en-
ployes, from Office boys to executives
participate, and there are about a
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