The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-07-15

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automobile.
Around Catawissa freight Is clutter
ing all the Readings track and not a
Grew is idle.
Carlisle is trying to organize to
care for dependent families of guards
men at the front.
The cornerstone of the new Holy
Communion Lutheran church was laid
at Yeagertown.
Salaries of teachers in Altoona pub
lie schools have been increased $4,000
a year by revision.
George NJ. G. Gylliam has been ap-
pointed justice of the peace for Ply
mouth, Luzerne county.
George Howard Hinkle died from
injuries received in falling from a
| cherry tree at Lancaster.
Warning factions in the council OF
West Hazleton have buried the hatchet
and agreed to do business.
The Meinfng Glove Manufacturing
company, of Reading, will start a
branch factory in Pottstown.
The school board of Kntztown for
the second time has rejected bids for
| its new high school building.
(; Pittsburgh taxicab chauffeurs have
organized a company to serve as driv-
ers of auto trucks in Mexico.
Boyertown's prosperity is reflected
by one of its banks raising its dividend
from twelve to sixteen per cent.
After attending Sunday school, Jo-
seph Seiple committed suicide with a
gun in southern Lancaster county.
The toll road at Ben's Creek, Cam
br1a county, has been taken over by
the state, which abolishes the tolls.
Stepping on a large splinter, Tru-
man, son of Matthias Roth, of Allen
township, Lehigh, died of lockjaw.
Murder Is suspected in the finding
of a stranger with bullet hole in his
head in the woods near James City.
Charles, nine-year-old son Of Simon
Mohler, of Ephrata, Is dead from lock-
jaw, due to running splinter in his
foot.
Wormleysburg, town in the east
ern part of Cumberland county, dedi-
Gated it's town hall with appropriate
ceremonies.
Anthony Banowski, fifteen, was shot
In the right thigh, 1t Is alleged, by Jo-
seph Meinsky, while shooting at rat
in Shenandoah.
Falling into a boiler of hot water at
neighbor's, four-year-old daughter
Of Mrs John Hartman, Palmerton, died
Of it's scalds.
Work is on In earnest toward the
erection Of the new plant Of the Mauch
Chunk iron works, on the beautiful
Wentz property.
Slipping from the Jersey Central
tracks into the creek at Lehigh Gap,
Wilson Snyder was barely rescued
from drowning.
It will hereafter cost more to get
sick in Emaus, the physicians there
having decided to raise their call rates
twenty-five cents.
Falling from a hay wagon In West
Penn township, south of Tamaqua,
David Castor, aged seventy-one years,
broke his back.
A big Pittsburgh canning concern
announces a famine in baked beans,
the shortage being due to immense
army purchases.
While hanging up clothes, Mrs. Ella
Shian, of Reading, fell through a sky
light and broke her collarbone, a
shoulder and rib
Run down by Lehigh Valley freight
near Park Place, Felix MARGIN, aged
forty, was crushed so badly that he
died at the hospital.
Foster Williams, star pitcher of the
Hazleton Presbyterian team of the
Sunday School league, has enlisted in
the United States navy.
State Banking Commissioner Smith
issued call for a statement of all
state banks, trust companies and saw
ingS banks, as of June 80.
Harry H. Freeman, secretary Of the
Hazleton chamber Of commerce, has
resigned to take a similar position at
$4,000 at Kalamazoo, Mich.
Mt. Joy dairymen, who pay from
twelve to fourteen cents gallon, have
raised the price of milk to consumers
to twenty-e!ght cents a gallon.
Mildred Fyle, II years old, whil
playing on a raft in the Monongaheli
river at Pittsburgh, was drownet
when she fell into a deep hole.
Patriotic women of Phoenixville ar
| booming a movement to make pillows
needle cases and other useful article
for their national guardsmen.
Active work is under way for re
sumption of navigation on the Lehigl
canal between Mauch Chunk and East
on, badly damaged by recent floods.
/ Two Norristown boys are on tn
Mexican border. Alonzo King an
| Frank Boyd are members of batteries
one at El Paso and the other at La
y redo.
Because the bids were too high
! Montgomery county commissioners de
! cided not to oil and repair German
: town pike from DeKalb street road t