The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-30
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tracks for beginning.
Products from war gardens" are to
have place in a number OF county
fairs and agricultural exhibitions OF
the State this late summer and fall.
Premums in fairs this year are greater
than ever before.
John Williamson, OF Liverpool,
raised a two-pound two-ounce potato.
Forty raspberries, each three-quar.
ters of an inch in diameter, were
picked from a foot-long end of bush
by DR.. G. A. Rudy at Summerda.e.
To meet shortages in teachers in
some rural districts in the State
schools are consolidating, and auto
trucks will take most distant pupils to
school.
While Norristown pays so cents
hundred. for ice, II may be purchased
at Green Lane ice houses, only twenty
miles away, for 10 cents a hundred
retail.
The war has caused a shortage OF
male teachers In Lancaster county,
many having enlisted. In several dis
tricts the directors have been unable
as yet to get such teachers.
Clarence Baskes, the young man OF
Fern Glen, who shot his wife in the
breast and badly wounded her at the
close OF a Sunday school picnic at
Rock Glen, is dead at the State Hos
pital from seh.infiicted injuries. Jeal.
ousy is ascribed as the cause.
The prosperity OF farmers in the
Hazleton region was shown when the
commissioners of Butler township de.
cided not to levy any poor tax for the
current year and the School Board cut
down the school millage from 10 to s.
The Anthracite Forestry Protective
Association, composed of the coal. tim
ber water and land companies Of
northeastern Pennsylvania, will build
three fire towers in the Hazleton dis.
trict at once between Hazleton and
Pottsville, Hudsondale and Nesqueho.
ming and on the mountain lying be-
tween Wilkes-Barre and HazletOn
Miss Mabel Krall, OF Harrisburg, has
accepted the position OF secretary of
Danvilies fine new Y. w. G. A., made
possible through the generosity Of
Mrs. Abigail Geisinger.
Three families were made homeless
by fire which destroyed a century
old famehouse owned by Frank Quigg
at Port Kennedy.
Roy Hawkins asks 1000 and Elmer
Whitman $500 in a suit against George
B. Bortz, of Temple, the former for a
broken rib and the latter a broken
foot, sustained in a collision between
an auto and the plaintiffs motorcycle
Boy Scouts encamped at Green Lane
unearthed wireless apparatus, and a
search is being made for spies.
The Eagle Silk Company will install
nineteen additional looms in its Phoe-
nixville plant, making the total ll5.
The Berks Ped Cross expects its
members to knit $500 each of sweat
ers, mufflers, socks and wristlets.
The Berks County Public Safety
Committee will arrange that all the
potatoes raised in Berks county shall
be stored within the county limits, for
consumption by Reading and Berks
county people.
The historical relics of Governor
Pennypacker have beer removed from
his late home at Schwenkville to Phil.
adelphia, to be sold at auction
John NJ. Groves has resigned from
Norristown High School faculty to act
as chemist at Conshohocken indus.
try. William Car was elected to sue.
ceed him at salary of $1,000.
The Heine Boiler Company, Of
Phoenixville, will construct two.story
clubhouse, with all conveniences, for
fifty new employees who are unable to
secure lodging and board in that town.
The State Highway Department
the Franklin County Commits
sioners that the State had taken or
would take over the highway from
Fulton county through Mercersburg
and Greencastle to Waynesboro, 32
miles, now toll road.
Steps were taken to organize a
Chamber of Commerce for the new
city of Bethlehem, which will have
at least 500 members. A campaign
to this effect will take place in Sep.
tember similar TO the one which
raised s1,OOOOOO for the nIll.to.hill
bridge.
The Pressed Steel Car Company,
Pittsburgh, is employing efficient
women for It's heaviest work.
As both William and John Minnich,
Hazleton brothers, could not be ex-
empted from draft to care for their
mother, William, the younger,
goes to the army.
Parents of John DeHaven, of West
Conshohocken, who ran away, have
learned that he is in France, having
enlisted in the United States Marine
Corps.
The Mt Penn Fire Company has
netted $4O1 from a festival.
The State Department Of Forestry
has given twenty-five of its foresters
and wardens, or one-third of its force,
to the United States Army
John H. O'Neil has resigned as a
letter carrier in Norristown, after
twenty-seven years service. He has
become assistant superintendent Of an
industrial plant.
Harry Wender and Albert Steuffert,
of Philadelphia, are in Norristown Jail,