The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-12-02
Interesting liens From All Sec
tiQaS Of The State.
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News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.

Efforts are in progress to reorganlze
the Allentown chamber of commerce.
The Ridgway Firemen's Fund, which
just closed, netted the fremen $11OO.
Johnstown's three daily newspapers
will increase their price to two cents,
December /.
Eugene Mowrey, of Briggsville, lost
his right hand climbing a fence with
a loaded gun.
Berwick Car Works will hereafter
use electrically driven locomotives,
supplanting mules.
Cutting corn on the cob, Stella
Reese, of Fredericksville, severed
thumb with a hatchet.
The ten per cent wage increase by
the Standard Chain company benefits
1900 workers at York.
Six hundred employees returned to
work at Mahanoy City colliery after
a weeks button strike.
The nations daylight savers are to
convene with the Pittsburgh chamber
of commerce, December 5.
Samuel D. Townsend, Hughesville.
has been reappointed a trustee CT the
State hospital at Danville.
The powder strike at the Highland
operations Of G. B, MarBle & Co. has
been won by the miners.
A total Of 277O hunting licenses have
been issued at the Office of the Elk
county treasurer in Ridgway.
Deposits in Reading banks gained
$4,5OO,0OO in one year, and the total
deposits amount to $240O0,O00.
The guncottOn plant Of the Aetna
Explosives company at Warren closed
since August resumed operations.
Easton and Phillipsburg bakers will
increase the price of bread after De-
cember 1 to six and twelve cents.
Thieves stole $26 from the home Of
Alderman Joseph Moody, Hazleton,
while the family was out Of town.
Dragged by a train she was trying
to board Miss LOrena KilmOre, Me
chanicsburg, was seriously injured
Hazleton's American Red Cross So.
ciety elected T. D. Jones president,
and Mrs. G. J. Kirschner, secretary.
The various collieries of the M. s.
Kemmerer Coal company, near White
Haven, will be operated by electricity.
West Fairyiew has raised the sum
needed to insure the location of a
shirt factory employing sixty persons.
Many Blair countians are cutting
out exchanges of Christmas gifts as a
needless addition to high cost of liv-
ing.
Lloyd Blouch has been rearrested
at Lebanon, charged with deadly as
sault upon and robbery of E. E. Ar
mold.
Strausstown women boycotted milk
when 1t was increased two cents a
quart, and it soon went back to five
cents.
The American Iron and Steel com,
pany, Reading, will give its employees
a bonus of five per cent on their earn
ings.
Ellis Kempfer, of Battery A, First
Field Artillery, South Bethlehem, Is i'll
with pleurisy in a Kansas City hos
pital.
Too deaf to hear warnings, Jacob
Bottle, aged sixty, was run down by a
freight train at Union Furnace, and
killed.
Federal authorities have lodged a
detainer at Easton against Herman A.
Morton, charged with passing bogus
checks.
West Hazleton teachers who went
Joy riding during the recent institute
will be docked instead of being dis
charged.
A class in automobile operation and
control sharted in the night school at
Altoona conducted by the board OF
education.
1t is announced that the Aetna Elk
plosives company of Huntingdon will
resume operations in full beginning
December I.
Falling with a ffty-foot scaffold al
Carlisle, William E. Kitner clung to q
house cornice till a ladder was raised
to rescue him.
Commoners believe they will be able
to reduce the high cost of living in
Sharon. They have formed a club Of
100 members.
Harry Bussenger, of East Youngs
town, the second victim of the scat
fold collapse at the petroleum plan
in Sharon, died.
Drinking a bottle of liquid stove
polish, John, year-and-a-half-old son o.
Kerr Sterrett, near Oakville, Is in {
critical condition.
Franklin county teachers passed
resolutions for prohibition, a teachers
retirement fund and a minimum wage
of $50 a month
Determined to break up booze par
ties on the meadows in Pottstown
Burgess Fritz gave five offenders sixt,
days in jail each.
The state department of agriculture
estimates that the acreage sown t
wheat this fall is three per cent great
eT than last year.
Gustave Wickenhagen, aged seventy
three, a civil war veteran and 70
thirty years a resident OF Butler, wa
found dead in bed.