The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-10-26
TREES TO LINE
STATE HIGHWAYS
Forestry Department Completes Ar
ranoements For Planting
saplInos.

completed arrangements Ior plhutinB
Of thousands OF trees along the State
highways In Pennsylvania and the first
will likely be set out next autumn.
Fruit. nut and shade trees will be
planted as has been done in other
States.
The Department Of Forestry will
grow the trees in its nurseries and
they will be transplanted into areas set
aside for the purpose. AS the Depart
ment has only shade trees and those
which bear small fruit for birds avail
able for transplanting at present, these
varieties will be the first to be set
out
Tho species already transplanted for
use along the roads are white, pitch
and Scotch pines, sugar maple. Doug
las flr, Norway spruce, black cherry,
white elm, white ash, honey locust and
European larch. About $4,000 trees
have been transplanted In plots on
State forestry reservations in Pike,
Tioga, Clearheld, Franklin and Hunt
ington counties, which number 1t is
estimated, will care for 100 miles of
highway if planted fifty feet apart. The
growing of fruit and nut trees will be
taken up Immediately.
According to what has been learned
from the Highway Department Of Mis-
souri,, fruit and nut trees along its
State highways are now bearing and
but little fruit is stolen.
Officers Widow Loses Appeal.
The State Compensation Board in an
opinion just made public has upheld
Referee Jacob Snyder, OF Altoona, in
refusing to award compensation to the
widow and child of Charles r. Shipe,
constable OF the Borough Of Juniata,
shot and killed while endeavoring TO
serve a warrant. The referee held
that the constable was not an employe
within the meaning of the Act and the
board holds that the Legislature In en-
acting the law had in mind the term
workman" in the popular sense Of the
word and the fact that an elective Off
Ger Is paid by fees which are charge
against the county does not constitute
him an employe.
at Is impossible that the term EN-
ploye' could, as used In our law, in
clude the Commonwealth OF Pennsyl-
vania, county, municipality or other
government agency. when in the ad-
ministration of the law, II calls upon
an officer elected by the people and
invested by law with power to perform
those duties" says the opinion. I'VE
can find nothing In the law to justify
an award OF compensation under the
facts in this case"
Compensation Limited In Scope.
The State Workmen's Compensation
Board has no authority to read into
the Compensation Act what may be
urged as equitable provisions" declares
Commissioner John A. Scott in an
opinion rendered in refusing to gradu.
ate compensation In the case Of
Dominick Spadea, Johnstown against
John Coll G. Co., Johnstown. Spadea
caught the thumb of his left hand in
a cogwheel and the thumb had to be
amputated. 1t is held that. although
the injury is permanent, II is not Of
such character as to form complete dis
ability.
Disability In this case" says Mr..
Scott, "if total, must be compensated
as such while disability lasts" He re-
marks that In many jurisdictions the
list OF disabilities OF partial charac-
ter resulting from permanent injuries
is much more extended than in the
Pennsylvania Act and that decisions
from other States are not helpful in
this respect as they are founded on
radically different enactments."
Capitol Appointments.
Colonel Hamilton D. Turner, COM
mander of the Second Infantry. was
appointed a colonel of field artillery
and assigned TO command the Second
Artillery, into which the Second In
fantry has been converted Captain
Jacob Geissel and First Lieutenant
Joseph Moorhead, Second Infantry,
have been appointed to those grades
In the Second Artillery. =
General j. Levin Good, Philadelphia,
was reappointed member of the
State Board Of Undertakers' Ex-
aminers and Clyde l.. Patterson APP
pointed Justice of the Peace for Wilson
borough.
Flood Conference Called BY Governor.
Governor Brumbaugh has called
conference of State, county and city
officials and of men interested in pre-
vention of floods, to be held In the
State Capitol on October 81 for general
discussion of ways and means to con.
troll the food waters of Pennsylvania.
The conference will be the first Of the
kind held in the State.
Pardon Plea Fails.
Only five pardons were recommend
ed by the State Board Of Pardons at
the conclusion of the October hearing,
the board declining to ask that
clemency be extended to Henry Ward
Mottern. aged seventeen, Jefferson
county, condemned to be electrocuted
for murder, although Judges had Joined
In the petition.
state College Wins Judging Honors.
Highest honors in the butter judging
contest at the National Dairy Show
have been won by students at the
Pennsylvania State College. The
three-man team which represented