The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-09-16


A hearty response from the 200 per
sons attending, who represented
dozen nationalities, was given at
smoker of the Geneva club, Pittsburgh
when F. c. Christian. chairman and
tcastmaster, rose and said: Here's
to the boy of every flag who fights fog
it's fame at the front" The club is IN,
ternational in scope and its member
ship includes men of every nation at
war.
Because of the prevalence of typhoid
in Altoona the use Of water from city
mains for drinking purposes or for
cleaning water containers on trains or
on railroad property has been prohibit
ed unless the water has been dis,
titled, boiled for at least twenty min
utes or subjected to steam pressure.
Tramps smoking in an unOccupted
house are believed to have caused a
fire which destroyed a two-story
frame building in Pittsburgh, entail
ing loss OF $4,000. The unoccupied
house has been a congregating place
for tramps for the last three years, ac
cording to the police.
Milk dealers in Harrison township
have opened fight against the town
ship ordinance which requires an an
- oII
They declare that the tax is unjust
inasmuch as grocers, butchers ana
other merchants are not required tn
pay the tax.
The Pennsylvania Grange will op
pose a state bond issue for road build
ing and urge l mill tax on personal
and corporate property; more money
for schools; demand more economy
in the state government, and ask that
the state pay the cost of primaries.
When James Reed of the Farrell
baseball team, slammed a three-bag.
ger to the center field fence in game
against Greenville he won Miss Hazel
M. Doty of Canton, o., his bride. The
couple we're married by Justice Of the
Peace Daniel Zuschlag at Farrell.
Three cases of typhoid fever near
the top of Altoona's watershed at Kit.
tanning Point have been discovered,
and this is believed to have been the
source of the city's epidemic. There
are now nearly 100 cases of typhoid
in the city and vicinity,
Twelve Sharon and Farrell dispen
sers of soft drinks were arrested and
fined on information made by State
Pure Food Agent Guant, charged with
selling imitation strawberry pop. 1t
is charged that the pop was artifcially
coIored and favored.
While one sister lay dead of typhoid
fever and his mother and two other
sisters were dying of the same
disease, David Berge, sixteen years
old, of Norristown, accidentally shot
and killed himself with a shotgun.
DR.. Earle Peck, first assistant ply
sician at the municipal hospital, Phila-
delphia, where all Of the intantile
paralysis victims are Quarantined, died
of the disease, contracted while at
tending afflicted children.
Twenty prisoners in the Butler coun-
ty Jail, awaiting the September term
CT court, went on strike, refusing to
carry out the regular program of
cleaning out their cells and scrubbing
the tiers of the Jail.
The postofice at Lewis Run, near
Bradford, was robbed. The safe was
cracked by the use of nitroglycerin
Two hundred and fifty dollars worth
of postage stamps and $40 in cash
was taken.
Awakened by pressure on her chest,
Mrs. Charles Shaun of near Indiana
clutched four-foot blacksnake which
had curled up on her. Her husband
killed the reptile.
In York all police records for arrests |
in one month were broken in August,
just ended. One hundred and eighty
one arrests were made a great ma
jority of them for drunkenness.
Mrs. Peter Kirk, aged sixty, of
Leisenring No. 1, near Connellsville,
died at the Cottage State hospital of
blood poisoning caused by pairing
corn.
Carlisle set 364 boys and girls busy
on tag day to raise fund for it's mis-
sion Fairgrounds, and the little people. !
beginning at 6:45 a. m. collected S119. !
Backed by good road enthusiasts.
Mexican county commissioners will
ask the people in their bailiwick To
vote for a road loan Of S750,0OO.
r. S. Yeager, aged eighty-two. died