The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-07-12
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PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

HOuck. Inc Oath was adm nistered
at Harrisburg by Frederick A. God.
charles, deputy secretary of the Com.
monwealth. No changes will be made
Tor the present in the department.
The adjutant Generals Department,
Harrisburg, announced that It had re.
ceived a report that the Sixteenth
Infantry, Colonel George c. Richards,
OH CITY, had reached war strength
OF Sc officers and 1902 men, the sec.
ond regiment OF the Guard to reach
this strength, the first having been
the Third Artillery, Colonel Asher
Miner, Wilkes-Barre.
Warning that demands OF military
hospitals and convalescent camps for
eggs will be so tremendous in the
next year or so as to cause a short
age in the supply that ordinarily goes
into domestic food business is given
in the bulletin Of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture. II is urged that
people should not kill eff their hens.
Park View, near Hszleton, is organ.
iz,ng fire company. after $4,000 loss
From burns caused by fire.
cracker Francis Leary, aged 7, died
at Lancaster.
Close TO $500 pneumatic.tired auto.
mobiles have been granted State H.
oenses on the half-year basis by the
State Highway Department.
Bathing after hearty supper
Harry Himmelberger, aged 10, Le-
banon, was fatally stricken with pa.
ralysis OF the heart, in Swantara
Creek, Valley Glen Park.
J. w. Mitterling sold a carload OF
cows in Collegeville, and they brought
$50 to $40 each.
OF 81 Norristown young men who
joined the Second Field Artillery. I
Philadelphia, but 15 we're accepted.
The managers OF the Bradford Coun.
ty Agricultural Society have decided
to abolish horse racing at the Towanda
fair this year. Half of the net pro-
ceods Of the fair will be turned over
TO the Red Cross Society,
Allegheny Mountain coal operators
who have been retailing at Holidays
burg at $3.50 a ton advanced their
price to SO a ton to meet the supposed
minimum rate fixed by the United
States Government, to the indignation
OF thousands of consumers.
After years of idleness, the plate
mill of Potts Brothers, Pottstown,
went under a new ownership. The
Nagle Steel Company, which also oper.
ates mills at Glasgow, Seyfert and
Railway, N. j., has purchased the entire
Potts mill property and reconstructed
il.
West Hazleton has instituted blue
law regime by Sunday closing.
Not receiving a bid, Altoona School
Board will haul its coal from the
mines.
Wartime conditions have cut the
attendance at Pennsylvania State Col.
lege summer session for teachers to
GAS, against 1lO4 last year.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Women's
division of War Relief, Altoona, has
forwarded 200 soldiers kits TO the
Ninth Regiment of Engineers.
Because so many parents have been
imploring him to spare their sons, B..
w. Wilde has notified Governor Brum-
baugh he doesn't want to serve on the
Hazleton Draft Exemption Board.
The Mennonite Home at Frederick
is caring for 13 aged people.
The Pennsylvania railroad east of
Pittsburgh has dropped the use of
white lights in signals.
Jesse Williamson, Jr, of Philadel
phia a social leader was sentenced
to serve between eight and "a years
for embezzlement.
A class OF 127 was gaduated from
the Lancaster High Schools, the larg-
est in the history of the city.
Two hundred companies for home
defense will be organized by the State
organization of the Patriotic Order
Sons of America.
The eight paroled prisoners who
are tilling the soil at the Montgomery
County Home are delighted with the
change and the steward says they
are doing coed work.
Berks county farmers OF the potato
belt, when visited by spectators last
week, who offered them 81 bushel
for their potatoes in the autumn re-
fused to enter into any game OF specu-
lation.
Hawley Quier, John G.. Rothermel
and Charles s. Richardson, prominent
Reading young men, have arrived in
France as members of the Princeton
Unit. Quier is driver of an army auto.
mobile.
Alien women in boomers are doing
farm work near Bristol.
There is an organized movement
for the consolidation of part Of
Lower Chichester township and the
borough of Marcus Hook which in
cludes Trainer and Linwood Heights.
The new moor truck company for
the National Guard, organized at Ian
caster, was inspected by Major r. S.
Williams, United States army.
Young Mrs. Irwin Martin he'd the
horses of mower her husband was
driving near Chambersburg to let him
catch three runaway colts. The colts
approached the horses in the field, and
the latter broke and ran, throwing
Mrs. Martin in front of the movers
cutter bar which ran over her and
severed her right foot mangling the