The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-03-04

hauled from all the divisions OF the
system.
Mayor Fflbert, of Reading, has nam
ed a committee Oh preparedness,
headed by General D. Mem. Gregg.
civil war hero and former auditor
general.
McAllister scholarships at the Penn
sylvania State college will be awarded
this year to students from Cameron,
Centre. Clinton, Forest and Juniata
counties.
After taking 14S ballots on ninety
candidates, Centre county commits
sioners elected Deemer T. Pierce, OF
State college. sealer of weights and
measures.
Although seventy-siX years old, Mrs.
Annie Frease, OF Somerset, read a pa
per before a recent meeting of the
". c. T. L., vigorously denOuncing the
liquor traffic.
Mrs. Lucy Ann Miller, thirty,six
years old, OF Johnstown, poured gasO-
line in mistake for kerosene on a fire
in her kitchen stove and was killed by
the explosion.
MIR. and Mrs. +. c. Cramer Of Car
hsle, have celebrated their siXty-sec.
ond wedding anniversary. Mr.. Kra-
mer is eighty-three years old, and his
wife eighty-one
A school for consumptive children
and children of tubercular tendencies
is TO be built at Washington through
the efforts of the civic division OF the
Current Events club.
The United States Steel corporation
will spend about S10,00o,00o in the
erection OF open hearth furnaces and
by-product coke ovens in the MahoR
ing and Shenango valleys.
Louis Young, q Freeland miner
prominent in the union and in church
work, is a candidate for representa-
tive on the Republican, Democratic
and PrOhibitionist tickets.
Dealers in rags in west Chester are
Offering So per 100 pounds for rags
not sorted. Woolea rags are being
bought at Is cents per pound, the
highest rate known there.
The state executive board of the
Young Mems Hebrew association oi
Pennsylvania held q meeting in Read.
ing TO discuss plans for promoting the
work OF the organization.
Farmers in an sections OF Washing
ton county report thai the peace crcr
for the year is doomed, The last cold
snap killed buds which the previous
warm spell brought IT.
The Farmers Institute has request
ed the governor and STATE highway
commissioner to macaiam ze he othe~
half OF the road in lower Stafford town
ship from LeGerach to Siippack.
A trust fund of $1,000 to be used in
educating young men for the Lutheran
ministry was one Of the bequests in
the will of Rev. j. Milton Snyder, OF
Homer City probated in Indiana.
A greater production of coal, with
fifty per cent less boss of life, is shown
In Mine Inspector Fenton's annual re
port for the Mahanoy district. Eleven
miners lost their lives during the year
Eight-inch lee was harvested at Pc
quca, along the Susquehanna river, re.
Gently. Near the town a funeral cor
tege OF forty people crossed on the
ice. The corpse was borne on a sled.
.. Tyson Kratz, of Norristown, has
announced his candidacy as Republi-
can national delegate from the eighth
congressional district, with Brum-
baugh first choice and Roosevelt Sec
ond
A movement has been started to
procure Carnegie medals for j. Viii
liam Ball and Carl STandquist, who
lost their lives in the Ernest mine dis
aster while trying to save compan-
ions.
Mrs Wilbur Nelson. of Cold Point,
will receive $3.50 week for 300
weeks from the Alan Wood Iron and
Steel company for the death of her
husband, killed at the company's
plant.
The Eddystone Munitions company
is putting more girls to wcr'- daily.
More than 1000 will DE employed for
piercing fuses TO be inserted in shells.
Later girls will be employed in load.
ing shells.
Preliminary plans for the ce.ebFa.
tion next June OF the centennial ami
Versary OF the incorporation OF iadl.
ana as a borough were arranged al
a mass meeting OF citizens in the
municipal building
Deposit0rs OF the defunct private
bank Of Gardner Morrow & Co, HOL
lidaysburg, will shortly receive a divi
dend Of ten percent The bank fail
ed in 1893. This makes fifty per cent
the bank has returned.
The Pennsylvania Wool Growers
and Sheep Breeders association al
Harrisburg elected r. /. MuBee, Can
ensburg, president; c. A. HHrd, Harris
burg secretary, and p o. SeveFson,
State College, treasurer.
John p. Grocer, a millionaire maRu-
facturer and the largest land owner
in Delaware county. viii install me
chanical milking outfit Of twelve
units, having a capacity Of 120 cows
an hour, in the barn on his estate
at Upland.