The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-01-27
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mouse at New CaSue. he WAS SeheIA
roundhouse foreman.
Members OF Company L, Fourth regi-
ment, EGston, brought back from the
Mexican border thirty prairie dogs, a
toads and other curios.
Employees of the hot mills OF the
American Sheet and Tin Plate COM
pany at the Farrell works at Sharon
have been granted an increase OF
wages of about six per cent.
Mrs. Mary Jane Williams, aged
seventy-four, of Ohio Pyle, near Con,
nellsville, has filed divorce proceed
1ngs against her husband to whom she
was married forty-eight years ago.
That farm laborers are very scarce
in Berks county was demonstrated
when a farmer vainly offered S1.25 q
day the year round, including board.
washing, mending and social equality.
Exploding gasoline at Carlisle caus-
ed the serious injury Of Lester Spahr,
garage employe, and started blaze
which destroyed three automobiles
and a repair shop, at a loss OF $4,000.
Agents for English and French firms
are still touring the Lehigh Valley and
the lower anthracite region to buy out
entire stocks Of shoes at prices thirty
per cent above their local valuation.
Foxes are so numerous In the vicin-
ity Of Trochsville, Carbon county, that
farmers are at loss as to what to do
with them. Heretofore they poisoned
them with strychnine, but this is pro-
hibited.
The Lehigh Machine works. at Le
highton, which is manufacturing NUM-
tions, is working day and night, and
even so IL Is unable to I'LL all its orders
promptly. New men are being en-
ployed daily.
The commissioners OF Montgomery
and Chester counties will build $780,
900 concrete bridge to replace the old
iron structure over the Schuylkill
river, connecting Royersford and
Spring City.
Over $4,000 was paid into the treas
ury of Weatherly in 1916 In receipts
from the municipal electric light plant,
a good paying proposition. and is very
largely instrumental in keeping the
taxes down TO minimum.
"Goodby, joe" laughed Joseph For
CHA, aged 81, of Johnstown, as he plac-
ed the muz2le Of a pistol in his mouth
and killed himself. The shooting took
place in a grocery store, OF which
FOrchia was the nrODrietOr
When Charles Lowen, arrested for
stealing pig lead from the stereotyp-
Ing room of an Easton newspaper, was
weighed at the county prison he tip
ped the beam at 145, but after the
searching process had been completed
he lost thirteen pounds.
A compensation referee has award
ed Mrs. Alma Johnson and her infant
daughter $4296 for the death OF An
drew Johnson, husband and father, en-
ployed by the Pennsylvania Coal g.
Coke company, at Patton, and killed
while pushing a mine car
John Ponti. aged seventy-three, an
Italian musician of Mill Run, near
Connellsville, died at his home. He
had played several times before the
king of Italy and the late Emperor
Franz Joseph of Austria He came
here several years ago and engaged In
farming.
Custer proceedings have been insti
tuted by the district attorney against
w. j. Hauser, president Of White Ha
ven school board, on charges that he
signed orders for payment to himself
Of bills rendered by him to the school
board for writing and lighting the
schoolhOuses.
Independent coal operators OF the
Monongahela valley will fight the plan
of the Pennsylvania Railroad com
pany made known in a notice Of app
plication fled before the Pennsylva
MIA public service commission, to make
rates and to furnish cars only for pro
ducers with tipples.
Edward FAIL, thirty-seven, walked
into an Easton hotel, and, after being
refused a drink, sat in a chair. A
short time later, when an effort was
made to arouse him 1t was found he
was dead Recently he was found in
the shed of brick yard nearly dead
from starvation and exposure.
The state public service commission
| has changed from Harrisburg to AL
/ lentown a hearing on February s OF
! applications Of citizens of Catasauqua
/ for a fve-cent trolley fare, for muni
cipal electric light plant and for
permit to build a bridge over the LIE.
1 high & New England railroad.
1 Meadville will be dry" for at least
1 another year. In the list OF ten ap-
plications to sell liquor which will
I come before the Crawford county II.
cense court in February none from
Meadvine appeared. There are six
I from Titusville and four from Cam
bridge Springs. The dry" forces are
already at work fighting the applica-
/ tons
Fire broke out in the eighth grade
room Of the Glade School, at Warren
while the teacher, Miss May Mooney,
was absent. Edward Nicholson, aged
IL H.