The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-11-18
Interesting Items From All Sec
tioES Of the State.
eULLED FOR QUICK READING
News of AL Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.

Jag hst."
Carlisle expects to have O new and
MOdOrR hotsl.
jacob A. ApplSr has been appointed
justice OF the peace for QOttyIburG.
Physicians at New Castle have rails
cd the fees TO match drugs and food.
Farmers at CoalDort say R number
Of elks are visiting their FARMS almost
daily.
Court Mt Pittsburgh refused O. di-
vorce to II. G. DaxmiOr, q wealthy
brewer.
Ideals OF citizSnship Will DO taught
to aliens In West HaxlStOn night
schools.
A hundred OF Carlisle's surplus ne
groes have gone to Rochester, N. Y,
to work.
Mt. Penn, Berks county, voted for
O loan of 1000 for general street i'm
provemeltB.
The First Pennsylvania ARTILLERY at
El Paso will probably ontrRin for home
November IA.
Foxes, weasels and miAks have kill
ed thousands of rabbits In the woods
Of Carbon county.
G. M. Sehwab, South Bethlehem, is
having new private car built that
will cost $4,000.
A full-sized needle was found by
Mrs. George Butt, of Reading, In a
potato she was pairing.
The voters of Weatherly decided to
Increase the borough's Indebtedness
$4,000 to improve Eurena Park.
A case of infantile paralysis-the
second in Dauphin county within a
week-was reported from Enders.
Antonio Scarnith, ager twenty-one,
of Bradford, was instantly killed when
he became caught between two cars.
Seventeen crop pest inspectors were
suspended by the state department of
agriculture because of lack of funds.
The residence of DR.. w. Meanor, in
Beaver, was entered by thieves and
silverware valued at $500 was stolen.
Frank Wood, aged twenty-five, OF
Townville, Crawford county, was acct
dentally shot and killed while hunting
Although Berks farmers have been
offered $1.35 a bushel for their pota-
toes In 100-bushel lots, they refuse to
sell.
An epidemic Of cholera got among
1875 hogs belonging to Charles Ryan,
of Spring Mount, and eighty have
died.
The Orchard farm, near Trappe, pro-
dYrnnI d000 hTYghMIc of nnn1A<, &6}n PnIl
which have been put into cold stor-
age.
Thieves burglarized John Novak's
cigar store at Freeland, and stole the
collection box Of the Lithuanian relief
fund.
Arnold w. Brunner, of New York,
has been engaged as the designer of
the Capitol Park grounds at Harris
burg.
Rev. r. B.. McAlister, OF Keokuk,
Ia, has accepted a call to become pas
tor of the FIRST Baptist church Of New
Castle.
Bully Billy" Thomas, q terror to
Molly Maguires during their revolt
in the anthracite regions, died at
Hazleton.
Catching the spirit of progress,
Pottstown council has employed a man
to keep the paved streets clean for S65
q month.
Municipal control of nurses through
out the state was the main topic at
the graduate nurses convention in
Pittsburgh.
Operating officers of all railroads
entering Pittsburgh are trying to pre-
vent a great congestion of western
freight there.
A large number of Lehigh county
farmers have raised the price of milk
to dealers from eighteen to twenty
cents a gallon.
The Augustus Wentzel truck farm,
between Reading and Stony Creek,
was sold by the heirs to Jacob B.
Schaeffer, for S28,200.
Anthony Grimm, of Hazleton, was
killed by a runaway car when a rope
broke and let the vehicle run down
Lykens No. 4 slope.
Notices have been posted at the col
lieries of the Reading company that
all hoisting engineers must undergo a
physical examination.
The Wyoming Valley Water Sup
ply company has planted $4,000 young
trees on its watersheds at Dreck's
Creek and elsewhere.
Thirty army officers were in Pitts
burgh to verify department expert
opinion that all bridges over the rivers
there should be raised.
Owing to the drought in the Perki-
omen valley many wells and springs
have gone dry, and farmers are haul
iRg water for cattle.
Struck by an automobile. Mrs.
George Oakes, sr., Of Humboldt, aged
seventy, died at Hazleton State hos
pital Of a fractured skull.
Councilman Ruth, power in Read
ing politics, has come out for munici.
pal dairfss, bakeries, street railways,
gas and electric plants.
Two big trials in federal court at
Pittsburgh-those of Banker J. v.
Thompson and the Brewers asHocia.