The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-11-22
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we uo,s, 1,ooerocutlon n, OF Frank Alfred
Wendt, Blair county, to Decemha.e a.ea .
to permit an appeal to the state Dor Se :
Of pardons. 'oard
south connellsville has revived A
curfew law, which has been peglo.. Io .ns
for many months. e''V'ed
over zoo head Of cattle wero DO,
by DR.. X. o. Werley at the ,o.a ao'a
sale ever held at Hamburg md Sv'' ~
highest price was $3.50 for COW onS 'n1
calf. W" and
A "dry" campaign will be wa,oa
Montgomery county. Candidate ' :, u
state senator and the legislature n,,r %
be named. Will
Chester county farmers are cor,
planning Of thefts of corn and nO,a
toes from their fields. "
The average price per busbe, y,
tatoes throughout the Lehigh va,Io,, IU
is $3.50. ''
Although dying in the county homo
the funeral of Freddy Klahr oroI
eighty-six, held at Rehrersburg Wos
one OF the largest attended for sono
years. Klahr was Of a roaming d,'
position and was widely known IN
upper Berks county. When sever,y,
five years old he walked to Ohio 10
visit a brother with only 25 cents or
his person and on the return trim sim
had the money.
Secretary OF Agriculture Patton,s
call to the farmers of the state to savo
double the ordinary amount of sood
corn this winter so as to provide corn
for farmers whose crops were ruined
by frost has brought a number of 70.
sponses, but more requests for the aid
OF the state in providing hands tc
help get in corn not yet husked.
While cleaning house Mrs. A
Sassaman of Island Park accidental,
burned up $1,000 in bills which IN,
family had saved to purchase a house.
Allentown is conducting a cam.
paign to find homes for 4.7OO local
men employed at the Bethlehem Steel
works.
Extensive forest fires are prevail.
ing in the Blue mountains in a terri.
tory of about 20 miles west of Ham.
burg. Hundreds of acres of valuable
timber is being damaged or destroyed.
Wives OF Hungarian miners OF Bea
yer Meadow, Coleraine, TresckOw and
Audenried have formed a union and
want minimum wage scale of 81 a
day from the farmers of the Hudson.
dale-Quakake-Rush valleys section,
Where for years they have done har.
yesting work for 81 and SIPS a day.
Mrs. William McCann, aged fifty.
one, mother Of John Mccain, who was
killed at Bast colliery, Ashland, died
heartbroken. Her husband and one
other son, William, were killed at the
Sdme miheS years d6O
The Hazleton Dentists association
will give necessary dental attention
to the teeth of all men there certified
for military duty.
The Cumberland county exemption
board, as a result Of district board er
emptions, has been compelled to issue
an additional draft call
Because he is so large, though but
seventeen, Philip Sherman, HazletOn,
was arrested in Pittsburgh when be
could not show draft registration
card.
The Blair county commissioners
have reelected John B. Riddle county
jail warden for the eighth term.
Daniel S. Keller, a lieutenant at
Camp Meade, has been granted leave
of absence to be examined for admls
sion to the Lancaster bar.
Wood cutting bees are the rage IN
farming towns north OF Hazlelon'
where entire communities turn out 10
chop up dead timber for winter iueL
The annual fruit exhibit Of the NIL
fin County Agricultural and HortiCuF
tural society at Lewistown is said 10
be the best in the history OF the Or
ganization.
Farmers in the Berks potato Dell
are having trouble in obtaining CaI'
enough to ship their crops to market
Kutztown has sent so of It's young
men to the army, and as result many
of the manufacturers are short OF ~
bor
Arrangements for a second WIH'e'
of revival services in the famous
Lansdale "Glory barn" have OeeN
abandoned.
AS a matter of safety, John j. suVr
Ter, mine inspector OF the SlS'een'a
anthracite district, has recommends
that one man should not be EMPLOYS
alone in any working chamber :.
NorriStown consumers must P''
cents for milk.
What amounts to an offer Ol p'a'
tically as many eggs as the peop1 .,
Philadelphia want at the rate ',
cents a dozen was made to the wv
supply department of the Penn'y',
mia Committee of Public SaIeH W
combination of holders OF large p1'I
titles of eggs, through W. j. he"'"
Philadelphia dealer. hs
State officials are investlgallns II
presence of smallpox al piuv ..,,
Clearfield county, and Phillip'O"'
Centre. ds
Appeals were made to the S.'w a,,
partment of agriculture by Ia M
living in some central coun'i's s,oos