The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-07-05
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PENNSYLVANIA ;
BRIEFS


until late fall.
Beginning October /, Lititz people
will be served by mail carriers.
Hanover, with fewer than 10000
population, gave $4,000 to the Red
Cross.
Agents representing New Jersey
farmers are touring the anthracite
field for help.
Three out Of every five who regis
tered for the draft in Blair county
claimed exemption.
Twenty-seven red students from the
Carlisle Indian School have enlisted
to fight for Uncle Sam.
Accidents in and about the anthra'
cite mines have increased 25 per cent.
in the first six months Of the year.
The government has called upon
State College engineering experts to
train another class In army storekeep'
ing.
j. II. M. Andrews, Philadelphia, and
Frank ]. Duffy, Scranton, have been
appointed majors in the First Reg.-
ment OF Engineers, National Guard.
Coal operators OF the Hazleton re.
gion report the famine In sheet iron
and timber to be growing worse
The closing meeting Of the canning
demonstration at Carlisle drew 1000
women.
Some miscreant stole this years
class banner OF the Pottstown High
School, and 1t was later found sus'
pended from pole, slit into 62 pieces
one for each member Of the class.
The Schwartz farm of 63 acres, in
West Reading, has been sold to Ferdi-
nand Thun, a manufacturer, for $42,'
900.
The Altoona Committee on Public
Safety, of which j. Banks Kurtz is
chairman, started strenuous drive in
connection with the Philadelphia cam
paign to raise 600 recruits for the
Third Regiment. Colonel George E.
Kemp, commanding.
Lloyd Balsbaugh, 23 years old, was
drowned in the Susquehanna River, at
Goldsboro, while trying to rescue Elsie
Ross from drowning.
In a three days campaign, residents
OF West Chester and nearby raised
over $4,000 for the Red Cross by
methods including Saturday night
band concert on the lawn OF the court
house, euchre in the courthouse corri-
dors and dancing on the paved street.
Cochranville boys have formed
Boy Scouts branch, with Bruce Fraver
as scoutmaster.
West Chester State Normal School
students and teachers contributed $500
to the Red Cross Society.
The annual reunion Of the big Phil
lps family OF Chester county was held
in the First Baptist Church at Down
lngtown.
Bryn Mawr Community Centre will
start series OF summer activities
under the direction of Mr.. and Mrs.
George E. Rice.
Thomas w. Gray, who has been
chief OF police in Downingtown for
many years, has resigned and Is oper-
| ating his farm near that town.
The returns Of the Assessors in
Chester county show that there are
in the county 3SS,S4l acres of titled
Hand and 46,73O acres of timber land.
The Poor Directors Of Chester
county have awarded D. G. Byerly &
Son, Of Glen Moore. the contract to
furnish the county home with 40 tons
OF bran at $31.74 ton.
A dozen Haverford College students
have enlisted" for farm work with
II. C. Barker, manager OF the Haver-
ford College farm, and will room In
Founders Hall, at the college, during
the summer.
AS farm labor is scarce, Albert
Young, arrested for stealing, and
Steve and Sepacca Kocciski, convict
ed OF assault and battery, have been
paroled by Court to work on the
county home farm, at Black Rock,
this summer.
Twenty-one seniors and six post.
graduates we're given diplomas at the
one hundred and seventy-fifth COM
mencement exercises of the Moravian
Prep. School in Bethlehem.
One hundred and two students were
graduated by the Hazleton High
School-the largest class in its his
tory-and Rev. Joseph Schubert, OF
Philadelphia, was the speaker.
The Red Cross tag day in Doyles-
town realized $500.
A parade and mass-meeting were
held in Media to boost and inspire the
population to donate $4,000 to the
Red Cross.
The North Wales Board of Educa'
ton has notified teachers that ~
per cent. salary increase asked can
not be granted
Orders have been issued to all State
police to vigorously enforce automo.
bile laws, especially against persons
who indulge in speeding on State
main highways.
Little Hollidaysburg raised s12,SO5
for the Red Cross in two hours.
Because their wages were cut from
$3.50 to 50 a day, so men employed
by the Tidewater Pipe Line Company
at Hudsondale, went on strike.
A Jury at Beaver, after long delib
Grafton, acquitted Charles Leach, 0
private of the Eighteenth Regiment
charged with the murder Of Elizabeth
| Gaal. annd LIZ whn fell from his