The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-05-10

Culm banks, mined so years ago
by the late ]. G.. Hayden, Hazleton
operator, are to be run through the
Evansville breaker and marketed.
Orders have been issued for the
organization OF three additional engi'
neer companies for the division OF
the National Guard of Pennsylvania.
The State Industrial Board has
fixed November as the time when all
cellar and basement bakeshops in
Pennsylvania must be lighted and ven
! tilated.
Long-winded commencement orators
will be figuratively muzzled at Halle
ton graduation exercises this year.
York has completed fund OF $1,000
for the purchase OF Red Cross am.
bulance for use on the battlefield OF
Europe. which shall bear the name
York"
Franklin Elks cleared $1,000 for
their charity fund by recent minstrel
performances.
To aid in gaining the. needed re-
cruits for the Red Cross, recruiting
tent has been erected In Mechanics
burg.
Beer has been increased 81 bar
rel at Sunbury, and dealers say the
size of the glass will have to be
reduced
Spectators have visited the farm
ers in the Mahoning and other valleys
and offered to purchase their entire
potato and onion crops, to be grown
this year-potatoes at $l6O In the
ground.
Fifty per cent. more marriage IL
censes were issued in Blair county
in April, 1917, than in any previous
April.
Sunbury's master bakers have put
the prices of bread up from and
10 cents to and IL cents.
The Mayor OF Altoona In procla'
nation urges cultivation of every
available plot
More than 300 persons have signed
petition for a curfew in Sunbury.
The Today campaign to raise $780,
900 for the new Y. NJ. c. A. building
closed at Norristown and when the
200 workers reported 1t was found
= the amount collected was $200,O24.
There was great enthusiasm in City
Hall when the success was an
nounced.
Harris l.. Haupt, janitor of the First
Reformed Church, Sunbury, confessed
to Thomas G. Ryan, Danville, State
fire marshal, that he had tried to set
fire to a business block in Sunbury
Haupt was janltor at the FIRST Presby'
terian Church when It was badly dam
aged by fire several years ago. He
was committed to jail
John Francies, of Allegheny, former
member of the House of Representa-
tives, at present superintendent of the
/. Western Penitentiary, and in charge
of the construction OF the new pen
itentiary near Bellefonte, which, when
completed, will be used by both the
present Western and Eastern Peniten
tiaries, is somewhat Of a farmer.
Plans for increasing poultry will be
made at Harrisburg by a committee
representing poultrymen.
An effort to increase the output
of honey in Pennsylvania 100000
pounds and to add 100000 chickens
to flocks in Pennsylvania are among
, the plans at the State Department o1
Agriculture.
/, The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
1 pany will erect a five-span bridge ovel
. the Juniata River at Lewistown.
I c. r. Mason, State College expert
!. has been brought to Altoona by Coun
+, Gil and the Chamber Of Commerce
/ to supervise community gardening,
n Failure to find ore in paying quan
{ tity has caused the Pinkerton Con
s struction Company to dismantle it'
e plant in the South Mountains, neal
1 Carlisle.
/ Pining because he was retired, Tim
e a 20-year-old bay horse of Altoona!
truck team, refused to eat and dice
on farm where he had been placed
S The Belmont Motor Company, in
4 corporated under laws of Delaware
has taken over the old Lewistowi
r tannery buildings and will use then
n in assembling motor trucks.
y Three men of South Bethlehem wer
S killed in an automobile accident oil
4 the William Penn Highway, nea
e Bethlehem. They were Hugh Kelly
h a Justice of the Peace; Hugh ]. Nc
/. Fadden, a bother, and Robert X
Berkemeyer, former Councilman.
Stanley G. Flagg & Co., have en-
J. gagged a Mr.. Schenck, of Haveford, t
r take charge of the troop of Boy Scout
!. at stowe for two months.
e A searchlight has been erected a
g the John Wood Manufacturing Con
o panys plant, Conshohocken, wher
IS Government orders are being filled.
s William Montague has offered +
II the people of Norristown the use Q
|, Barbados Island, containing Is acres
d for trucking purposes
a Norristown Councils police commi
e tee has agreed to advance the salarie
of the score of patrolmen 121a pc
cent.
Pledges to aid the nation in meet
" ing the food crisis were made b
D. 1000 farmers in meeting at No
e chancsburg, addressed by Carl Vroc
# man. Assistant U. s. Secretary O
70 Agriculture.