The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-06-17


/ township school board for the erec.
ton of a 100000 high school at Mes
+ quehoning, were so high that the board
/ rejected them.
Judge Whitehead has directed the
Lycoming county commissioners to
build bridge across the west branch
Of the SusQuehanna at Montgomery, 10
cost $15O,O0O.
In its convention at Gettysburg, the
Pennsylvania Catholic Beneficial Lea.
que elected D. T. Magee, Lancaster,
president, and chose Columbia as the
next meeting place.
A unique feature Of an old peoples
service at the United Brethren Church
at West Fairview, near Carlisle, was
that no member Of the choir was less
than fifty years old.
Employees of the Lehigh Coal and
/ Navigation company have received
! $4,000 back money due them by the
! retroactive feature of the miners
operators agreement.
! Harrisburg policemen have been
| notified by Chief Zeil TO chase off the
streets any children who are on roller
skates or rollermobiles or otherwise
playing off the sidewalks.
South Bethlehem council refuses TO
appropriate over veto $4,000 as its
share toward the building of new
bridge across the Lehigh river between
that town and Bethlehem.
Northampton county P. o. s. OF A.
members will raise money to erect
memorial to the memory of Governor
Wolfe, regarded as founder of the pub
lie school system of this state.
Residents of Avalon, near Pitts.
burgh, plan to defeat a 100000 bond
issue because the school board can
celed commencement, as graduates re-
fused to wear caps and gowns.
The plans for the new Mauch Chunk
foundry have been completed and bids
have been advertised for for the con-
struction Of the big main building. The
plant is capitalized at 100000.
Word has been received at Hazleton
that Frank Moody, former Hazleton-
ian, who enlisted in the British army
while visiting his old home in England,
was seriously wounded in France.
Mrs. Thelma Jones, of New York,
has been arrested at Easton, accused
of white slavery in bringing fifteen
year-old Helen Tyford from the me-
tropolis to the Pennsylvania city.
DR.. Henry B. Schaeffer, of Shilling
ton, has instituted suit against the di-
rectors Of the poor Of Berks county
to recover $233.333, as salary for serv-
ices as physician at the almshouse.
Seventeen freight cars were piled
up in a wreck on the New York Cen
trail, at State Run, Lycoming county.
and seven of the cars, containing auto
mobiles, sugar and wool, were burned.
The Anthracite Methodist mission
for hard coal field residents of for
eign speech has added manual train
ing to its course, and has named
Frank Thomas, of Hazleton, as teach
er.
Carbon county court has decreed
that later will of the late James NJ.
Arndt be probated, favoring Arndt's
relatives as against his widows rela-
tives, benefciaries under an earlier
will.
Betty Keller, an Easton child, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Mary E. Keller, who was
bitten several months ago by mad
dog, is recovering after receiving treat
ment in the Pasteur Institute, New
York.
After being idle four weeks through
strike, the strippings of the Penn
sylvania Quarrying company, at Har-
leigh, Ebervale, Beaver Meadow and
Oneida, have resumed operations at
higher wages.
State Senator Charles A. Snyder has
accepted an invitation to make the
presentation address at the unveiling
Of the states memorial to Molly
Pitcher, the heroine of Monmouth, in
Carlisle, on June %.
The state public service commission
will withhold its approval of the pro-
posed double tracking of Penn avenue,
West Reading, If the curve known as
Dead Mans Curve" Is not eliminat-
ed by the borough.
Lightning struck a wire fence In
L Gill lOISSIy CdIDOu COuULy, Blduteu
off and struck team of horses belong
ing to Merchant Adam Green, and one
of the horses was instantly killed and
the other badly hurt
Eastonians have taken out charter
for the South American Film COM
pany," and have arranged TO open Of
fees at Buenos Aires, Valparaiso, Rio
Janeiro and Bahia for the distribution
of American-made films.
To save the life of May Thompson,
aged four years, of Greenville, who
was burned, Captain Snyder, OF the
Salvation Army, and Harry Thompson,
father Of the girl, gave several inches
Of their skin for grating.
Lewis Steidle, an employe at the d.
G. Derry Silk Mill, at East Mauch
Chunk, found dualin cap, commenced
to extract the contents and it explod-
ed, badly lacerating his hands and
seriously injuring his forehead.
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