The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-04-19


Burgess ]. Fred ]. Hummel has
vetoed as too moderate an ordinance
imposing tax on the Valley Rail.
ways Company for operating cars
through Wormsleyburg
The State Health Department will
arm the 80 stream inspectors in Its
employ and instruct them to shoot to
kill any persons found tampering with
water supplies.
1t was said at the Governors office
that the number OF requests received
for guards to protect munitions and
other plants had greatly increased
since the Eddystone explosion.
Annville voters rejected the propos.
ed $4,000 new high school loan.
Abolition Of the study of German
has been requested by Northumber.
land high school students.
Forest fires on Broad Mountain,
Shenandoah, have ruined hopes Of
huckleberry crop this season.
York poor directors have been Offer
ed 40 sites for new almshouse, with
In seven miles from York.
Marriage licenses at the rate Of 10
day are being issued in Northum
berland county.
Five additional soldiers have been
placed on guard at the Mahanoy City
and Tamaqua tunnels.
Miss Mamie Reilly, one OF Shen
andoah's wealthiest young women, has
enlisted as a Red Cross nurse.
License Court Judges at Pittsburgh
ordered saloonkeepers to prohibit dis.
cussion of the war in barroms.
The 1000 men at the collieries OF
the G. B. Markle Company turned
out at big flag-raising at the Jeddo.
George Fitch, of West Grove, has
been a section foreman on the Balti.
more Central Railroad for 81 years.
Application for 10000 trees, to be
planted on the Altoona watersheds at
Kittanning Point, has been made by
members of the Blair County Game,
Fish and Forestry Association. The
association has arranged to establish
forest nursery.
Birdsboro is surveying streets to
rebuild them at a cost Of $4,000.
A five-day campaign will be con.
Quoted to raise 100000 for the Phoe-
nixville Hospital.
Elks in Pottstown placed an order
for an SO-foot flagpole to be erected
in the yard of their handsome home.
Owing to lack Of help, Mt. Penn
received but one bid for Its street
paving, at $4,000, offered by ]. b.
Trexler.
A number OF amateur wireless op-
orators in Pottstown closed their
radio stations by order of the United
States Government.
Three hundred Greek residents OF
Reading have indorsed President VIII
sons action in declaring state OF
war against Germany.
The Hotel Montgomery, Norristown,
more than a century old, has been
sold by Oliver Bean to Alexander
Crockett, for $125,000, who conducts
King-of-Prussia Inn.
The gas well-said to be the third
largest ever struck in the Greensburg
field-which was brought In on the j..
B. Hardness farm, near Adara, Is
spouting 5O,000,000 cubic feet day.
The tools were all blown out and the
pressure was so high, workmen were
unable to cap the flow. State police
have been detailed to guard the well.
Gambling houses which moved from
Harrisburg to the Cumberland side OF
the Susquehanna have been closed by
threats Of raids.
Examinations for appointment In
the Officers Reserve Corps OF the
army are to be held at State College
within the next few weeks.
Twelve hundred young frogs sup.
piled by the State hatchery at Union
City, were distributed in ponds and
creeks of the Hazleton region.
A patriotic club has been formed
at Lewistown to maintain 40 by "a
flag on 100-foot pole on. the highest
point of the ridge, adjacent to town.
R. e. Logan, Of Carlisle, Dickin-
son graduate, has been made Normal
instructor at the Carson Long Insti-
tute, New Bloomfield, which is erect
ing a new gymnasium and sewage dis
posal plant.
Scores of aliens are rushing to the
Luzerne County Court at Wilkes-Barre
and the Federal Court at Scranton to
be naturalized.
Allegheny county remonstrants ask
Court to suspend all liquor licenses
during the war.
Eighteen men have enrolled with
Company G, Carlisle, and 20 have join
ed the machine gun company, head
quarters of which are at Lemoyne.
After two years production of
shells for Russia, the GAINESVILLE Iron
Works will do great things for Uncle
Sans army and navy soon.
Frank Bevan, who recently resigned
as foreman of the Department Of Pub
lie Works Of Scranton, has been made
foreman Of mine-cave repair work"
Of the D., L. & w. coal department.
School directors at Remove have de-
cided that on account Of the increased
cost of living the salaries of all the
teachers of the borough shall be in
creased. The rate Of taxation was
also increased.
Miss Catherine Frorer, Of West
Chester, has been appointed super
visor Of vacant lot gardens in Down
ingtown, and will spend portion of
each week there experimenting the