The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-10-04
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PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS
Observation-Disclosures!

employees whose homes are Cituatel
in three wards, whose streets arc in
bad shape.
Alvin Parsons, former well known
baseball star, was found dead in his
bed at Bangor, aged "A.
Among teachers of Lancaster Coun-
ty are so who never taught before.
A great falling off in church mem
bership has been reported to Lacka-
wanna Presbytery.
Great activity now centers about the
ya-d OF the Merchant Shipbuildtng
Corporation at Bristol, where steam
shovels have begun excavations for the
slipways, and all men who apply for
work are engaged.
Yeagerstown has tiled q petition for
incorporation.
Built at cost of $4,000, st. Mays
Home For Girls at Cresson US form
ally opened.
An inheritance tax OF $1,000, paid
by Lebanon county, Is the largest pay
ment on a single estate ever made to
the State Treasury.
Five Columbia county voters in vot-
ing for county auditors voted fo7
man dead almost year-George II.
Sharpless, OF Catawissa.
Permission to recruit in Pennsylva-
mia has been granted the Fifty Royal
Highlanders OF Canada and their band
by Acting Adjutant General Beans.
Another severe frost prevailed
throughout the northeastern part OF
the State, and late corn in the valleys
is so badly nipped that 1t has prac-
tically withered.
A marble tablet has been presented
to the Blair County Historical Society
by Colonel Henry w. Shoemaker, to
mark the famous Indian Logan spring.
Notwithstanding his acquittal OF the
murder of his wife, Patrick Donahue,
OF Shenandoah, Is still in Jail and will
so remain until the November court
ar-aigns him for the Staying OF DR..
II. F. Kitty.
Bristol schools have an enrolment
of 1880 pupils, the largest on record.
Fire Chief Franklin Gilkeson has Sc
cured 26 recruits for a proposed mill
tary company of volunteer firemen at
Bristol, but wants so.
Twenty-Five Holstein, Durham and
Jersey cows were sold by Edward E.
Gabriel at Morgantown at from $50 to
$3.50 a head, and two springers, weigh
ing $500 pounds, sold at s155 each.
A plant to manufacture chemicals
is being established in the old Bean
planning mill at Pawling.
Charles E. Scott, cashier of the
Farmers National Bank, Bristol, gave
new half dollars to the drafted men as
they boarded the train for Camp
Meade.
A testimonial banquet was given al
Perkasie to Harry NeamanG, in honor
of his ive-year-record as Grand Keep.
er OF Exchequer of the Grand Castle
Golden Eagles, OF Pennsylvania.
Unable TO get help, Irwin II. Myers,
of Fountainville, one of Bucks county's
lhO1N ouINtCNlul ldl Ndltlt
breeders, sold out.
Albert Bilman, aged thirty.seven, a
breaker machinist, is dead at Halle
ton from injuries sustained when he
was struck by motorcyclist, who left
him dying on the public road. but
whose number was taken as he fled
with his headlight extinguished.
Mrs. ]. Miles Derr, fifty, her daugh'
ter, Martha, aged seven, and Miss Jen'
ME Lenker, forty, of Turbotville, were
killed, and Mr.. Derr and another
daughter, Ada, aged nineteen, fatally
hurt when their automobile was struck
by Pennsylvania passenger train al
: grade crossing, near Milton.
Steel helmets for the American sol
diers in France are being manufactur
ed at the Berwick plant Of the Ameri
can Car and Foundry Company. The
helmets are tested by placing the steel
hat on a 'dummy's" head. Standing
ten feet distant, with a regulation .45
, calibre repeating revolver, the helmet
is fired upon.
, Norton, thirteen-year-old son Of c
, Il. Fawber, proprietor Of the Lafayette
4 Hotel, Lancaster, was instantly killed
and several persons were injured wher
; Fawber's automobile skidded and over
+ turned on Chickies Hill, near Colum
/ bia.
, Ex.Sheriff Layton, who conducted
more sheriff's sales and foreclosure:
I than any other sheriff in Broadfort
3 county, is dead at Towanda.
Mrs. Perry Tanning, of Glade, wa.
fatally injured and Mrs ]. Hollistel
was seriously cut and bruised abou
, the face and body when an automobile
/. driven by Jacob Michaels overturned
A near Starbrick. Mrs. Tanning receiv
/. ed injuries to her spine and was hur
a internally and died at the Emergenc!
r Hospital in Warren.
Raids on Gettysburg camp soldiers
q in other towns have resulted in turn
n ing their trips to Carlisle.
: Bellefonte Academy has opened
A with large enrolment, despite wa
conditions.
Six thousand persons of the Halle
ton region gave stirring farewell
, to the first quota q 50 drafted men
: Bloomsbury and Berwick gave thei
/. 173 drafted men the greatest send-of
!. either town had ever undertaken.
The State Vicksburg Commission
+. started for the Southern battlefield
/. to make arrangements for the car
of the Pennsylvania veterans wht
!. will gather there in October.
8 Only 81 civil war veterans attend
6 ed the reunion of the 104th Regiment