The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-02-05
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiOnS Of the State.
CULLED FOR QUICK READING
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the

fees nifty per cent.
A branch of the Peace society was
organized in Harrisburg.
A Pennsy train killed a doe that
ran across the railroad near Hunting
don.
Cunning on the Lehigh mountain,
large gray foxes.
The first and only optical glass fac
tory in the United States has started
at Washington, Pa.
Hazleton blacksmiths are selling
old scrap ircn at S14 a ton, though it
was only $6 last summer
The Columbia county court granted
thirty-One Of the eighty-four applica-
tions for liquor licenses.
E. J. Lynett, Of the Scranton times,
announces he will not be a candidate
for United States senator.
The Consolidated Telephone com
pany, of Allentown, has inaugurated
a bonus system for its employees.
Two bronze cannon will be sent to
MiddletOwn from Watervliet arsenal,
N. Y, and placed in the public square.
resulted in a division of the farm of
lis acres of Abraham Weir, into 225
parts.
Three hundred employees of the Fort
Pitt Bridge company, Canonsburg, en-
joy an increase of ten per cent in
wages.
The Eastern Perry Telephone com,
papy has sold its line to the Cumber
land Valley Telephone company fo'
$10,O25.
An association is being formed by
the Johnstown chamber of commerce
to boost the proposed William PEN
highway.
The state water supply commission
at its reorganization meeting electe5
Robert A. Zentmeyer, Tyronne, as
chairman.
Wives of officials and employees o.
the Pennsylvania railroad in Pitts.
burgh organized d body to advocate
national defence.
| The Empire Steel and Iron company
in Catasauqua has recharged its No
2 furnace, giving employment to a
score of men.
/ Drinking a bottle Of cattle medi-
cine, two-year-cld Joseph E. Harnley
died in great agony two hours later,
at Lancaster.
Bishop Thomas Bowers, head OF the
Evangelical association, is laid up in
Allentown with a sprained ankle, the
result of a fall.
The big banks Of anthracite coal
stored at the Roam yards of the Lehighi
Valley Coal company, are being slowly
destroyed by fire.
The East Pennsylvania conference
Of the Evangelical church has sold its
Bethany church in Bethlehem to the
Apostolic church.
Christmas holidays proved the ruin
of Hazleton night school, so few stu
dents coming back that the institu-
ton may be closed.
Mary Brennan, of Lost Creek, broke |
down after nursing her two sisters,
and followed them in death, the third
one in three weeks.
Mayor Meals has appointed an "off- |
cial chiropodist" for the Harrisburg
police force, many of whom have
cOrnS and buniOnS.
Temperance forces from Wormleys.
burg are planning to go to Carlisle
to protest against a license lCr { |
hotel in that town.
The annual license court opens a. |
Ebensburg in February with 364 ap-
plicants. There are only three re-
monstrances filed.
A movement for annexation of four
villages to Steelton has been started. /
because Of high water rates charged |
by private companies.
Waynesboro may place talking ma /
chimes in its public schools, one hav- /
ing proved success in furnishing mu-
sic for marches and drills
AS a result of a membership cam
paign the Young Women's Christian .
association Of Coatesville now has en-
rolled I'LL members, a gain of 721
DR.. Francis D. Patterson, of Phila- +
delphia, has assumed the duties of .
chief of the bureau of industrial hy-
giene Of the department of labor.
Almost all of the fifteen new saloon .
license seekers in Hazleton are ask .
ing the right to revive old stands
wiped out by revocation proceedings
Joseph K. Shultz, Lancaster coun-
ty tobacco farmer, has sold his crop
at twenty and four cents, the higfest
prices paid for any Of the 1915 rails
ing.
Charles Olsen, who was arrested in
Cumberland, charged with assault on
twelve-year-old Ruth Huber, made a
confession of his crime at Chambers
burg.
Hoping to end the practice of send
ing petty cases to court, the Bradford
county grand jury placed the costs
on the committing justices In three
cases. .,~ O. s5. II
After staying In jail twelve days, I
George Getz, OF Emaus, imprisoned
ROr refusal tn nav 20 taxas chanRed