The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1916-06-24


Johns Lutheran church, Berwick, has
resigned and leaves July l to take
charge OF pastOrate at Lehighton.
Because sparks from a Reading en-
gine set fire to his barn, Guy Nennin-
/ ger was awarded damages TO the
amount OF $4,000 in court at Carlisle.
The Lehigh Valley station at Cen
tralia was robbed of quantity of wet
/ goods" and a case of clothing, the
twentieth such robbery in six months.
Five thousand Polish Falcons from
the lower anthracite field went to
Hazleton and had a celebration at
hazle Park following sham battle.
Stephen Rokatz, eleven, has died at
Mahanoy City from internal injuries
I following a twelve-foot fall from
Kelly slide at the West End play
/ ground.
Mrs. Anna Bonner, of Hazleton,
died of bronchitis six hours before the
funeral of her daughter, Mrs. Ellen
Mann, who was buried from the same
| house.
Theft of a police docket and ordi-
nance book from McAdoo borough
building has stopped the prosecution
of forty autoists charged with speed
ing.
Mennonite, Amish and Dunkard
teachers in Rapho township, Lancaster
county, have resigned rather than dis
card their religious garb in the school
rooms.
Taxpayers of Schuylkill township
are discussing the consolidation of the
public schools into the one central
school to be established at Williams
/ Corner.
A spark from the tamper setting off
the charge, Frank Teabury, aged
| fifty-three, died of injuries received
in Hazleton No. slope, Lehigh Valley
coal mines.
The American Sheet and Tinplate
company, Pittsburgh, announces that
it Will pay wages to all employees who
take a months military training at
Plattsburg.
The name of the Progressive party
has been pre-empted for the Thirty
first senatorial district, composed of
Cumberland, Perry Juniata and Milf
fin counties.
The degree of D. d. has been confer
red on Rev. d. Burt Smith, pastor OF
st. PauPs Lutheran church, Easton,
by his alma mater, Wittenberg college,
/ Springfield, o.
To commemorate the fiftieth birth
day of their pastor, Rev. julius Hoep-
pner, members of ST. Paups German
Lutheran church, Norristown, gave him
a purse of gold
Thrown from his wheel in a COLI
sion with an ambulance at Lancaster,
thirteen-year-old Marlin Roger landed
on his head and is in the hospital in
a serious condition.
The button strike at the Potts col
liery, near Shenandoah. which kept
1000 employees idle for a week has
been amicably settled and the colliery
/ resumed work.
Three hundred dogs have been willed
by constables throughout rural Berks
because their owners refused to pay
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for each dog killed.
A. B. Jessup has resigned as general
manager Of the G.. B. Markle company,
the largest individual anthracite min
ing firm, to become consulting engin-
eer for miners in Idaho.
Pennsburg council will serve notice
on the Goshenhoppen Turnpike com
pany to improve it's road, and If the
notice is ignored suit to condemn the
turnpike will be instituted
The Bucks County Holstein-Freisian
association has voted to join the Penn
sylvania Dairy Union and Breeders
association and Joseph Heacock has
been appointed representative.
Taking poison after quarrel with
his wife, from whom he had been sepa-
rated year and who took their child
from him, Herbert Confer died in
few hours at the Allentown hospital
Rev. Charles II. Miller, pastor Of
the First Presbyterian church, Cata-
sauqua, and moderator of Lehigh Pres
bytery, has resigned to accept the pas
torate of the Island Park Presbyterian
church, Denver.
A permanent association has been
organized by the good roads enthusi-
asts of Blair county, to be composed Of
three persons in each township, to
work in conjunction with township
road supervisors.
! Employees of the G. B. Marldle Coal
company az the towns Of Harleigh,
EberVale, Jeddo and Highland must
pay $1.2O more ton for anthracite,
/ the corporation having raised the price
from Sab to s5.33.
Said to have been disappointed in
a love affair Miss Lucy r. Deger,
eighteen, who recently came to Easton
from Glen Gardner, N. J., and obtain
. ed employment ended her life by
turning the gas on in her room.
Delegates representing 10000 miners
now striking in the Pittsburgh district
voted TO confer with officials of the
United Mine Workers, indianapolis,
/ before taking drastic action on the
New York conference wage scale.