The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-09-06
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irons.
There are fifteen vocational schools
In Pennsylvania.
Alleging that her earning power was
permanently impaired by injuries sus-
tanned when a trolley car, two years
ago, hit taxicab in which she was rid
ing, Miss Ava NJ. Riest, daughter OF J.
Frank Riest, former hotel man OF
York, filed suit for $4,000 damages
against the York Railways Company.
Milton women say they will boycott
10-cent milk.
Allegheny county rotten egg dealers
will be arrested.
Out OF eighty-two men so far exam.
ined in the selective draft at Brad.
ford but sixteen have passed and been
accepted.
The American Car Company, at MIL
,on, will spend $4,000 for shower
baths, bubbling fountains, etc, for
employees.
For the first time in four years
detachment of State troopers is on
duty in the Hazleton region, after auto
speeders.
DR.. Edgar G. Miller, pastor OF the
First Lutheran Church, Columbia, has
been given two months leave Of abb
sence to engage in gospel service for
soldiers.
Perry county is perhaps the only
county in Pennsylvania that has two
election districts in which the Repub.
lican and Democratic voters met in
Joint session and named candidates for
the primaries-at Marysville and in
Oliver county.
Royersford and Spring City girls
have entered into a popularity contest
with Phoenixville maids.
Burgess Bloomhall, of Conshohocken,
has put the ban on carnivals, because
OF the trouble they occasion.
Given kerosene in mistake for med.
icine, an infant son of George Foote,
Carlisle, died.
Speeders TO the number of %, near
Thompsontown, were fined by Squire
Cameron.
Work that VIII cost $4,000 has
started on improvements to the indus.
trial building at the Danville Hos.
pital for the Insane.
Fifty farmers of The nearby val.
leys have petitioned the Hazleton
Council and the Chamber of Com
merce to create a curb market,
promising to lower the cost of living
there
Tetanus resulting from a splinter
penetrating one of his feet caused the
death of Edgar Reightnouer, a Potts
town boy.
Company l, National Guards, left
Reading for camp at Mineola, l.. l.,
without any demonstrations.
DR.. G. Il. Fetherolf is Readings
new milk and meat inspector, and
succeeds DR.. II. B. Roshon, now
second lieutenant in the army.
Grief over his wife's death is sup
posed to have caused Samuel Frees,
So, for years janitor at the Reading
Station at Port Clinton, to hang him
! self.
Suspicion aroused by his offer to
sell an automobile for S95, stranger
fled from Finland and 1t was then
ascertained the car was the property
of Titus NJ Reiss, Friedenville.
In spite of the fact that the licenses
now being issued at the State High
way Department are good only until
the end of the year, the revenue from
this source being turned into the State
Treasury by the automobile division
every day runs between $4,000 and
$4,000 The revenue from licenses is
far and away beyond expectations this
year.
Hog cholera has broken out in Con-
yngham Valley, near Hazleton.
Blight is doing much damage to the
famous Sober giant chestnut farm at
Irish Valley, Perry county.
Three brothers called in the draft at
Hazleton received notice to appear be-
fore the exemption board, and none
will ask exemption.
The usual order of men scarce" was
reversed at Conyngham, where 1t was
impossible to find a woman to substi'
tute for a girl telephone operator.
Fourteen per cent. larger average
of wheat is asked of Pennsylvania
farmers.
Hazleton mails, cut off by cancella'
ton of passenger trains, will be han
died by fast freights.
Peaches have sold in Hamburg at 20
to so cents basket.
+. B. Eshleman, OF Cordelia, planted
thirty.six early Irish Cobbler potatoes
IN the spring and the yield was five
bushels. most of them big ones weigh
ing twelve ounces or more.
Several hundred washerwomen in
Lawrence county have gone to work in
railroad yards and roundhouses.
Activities are being gradually re-
sumed at the North Bristol plant OF
the Chester Shipbuildlng Company
Immense quantities of lumber are ar
irving and other supplies preparatory
to building operations.
A point of interest about the filing
Of nomination papers by candidates al
Doylestown is that the Democratic
party failed to secure a candidate fol
the two.year term for Director Of the
Poor, so that John w. Birkey, of New
portville. is left without opposition.
Members of the Y. w c. A., Read
ing are making candy to be forwarded
to soldiers in France
The first receipt for direct inherit
ance tax under the act of 1917 was