The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-03-08
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sight OF blood on the face Of a boarder
who had been struck or the nose in
an alteration, Mrs. Ralph Naples, 62,
Of Sharpsburg, collapsed, dying a few
minutes later.
Chester.-Almost every citizen, a
Junk dealer OF Philadelphia, was held
up in the rear OF a yard on Maddox
street, Le!perville, and robbed Of SITS.
Carlisle.-Almost every citizen turn
ed out to tender q reception to Com
pany G and other Carlisle men In the
Eighth Regiment op their return.
Hazleton.-Senator j. II. Wentz, Of
Jamestown, will receive two tons Of
chestnut coal from Mayor James G..
Harvey, OF Hazleton, who Is a close
friend. Senator Wentz owns a soft
coal mine. but cannot buy any OF the
anthracite variety in his home town.
Hazleton.-Mrs. w. II. Kindt, wife
Of the pastor of Salem Evangelical
Church, preached at both services In
the absence OF her husbaD1, at con.
ference.
Harrisburg.-Apples totaled 49,
032,00 bushels in 1916 and In 1915
the crop was 1926. 900 bushels. The
growers average price this year was
6S cents a bushel, but the consumer
is paying 81 a bushel and prices are
going up.
Carlisle.-County National Guards
men will be given free marriage IL
censes II they make application within
so days, Clerk OF the Courts w. Frank
Hartzell has announced.
Harrisburg. - Statistics gathered
from State and Government sources
show that during 1916 the potato grub
ate and destroyed 100000 bushels OF
the potato crop, present value $lo.-
200. 900, according to the State Agri'
cultural Department.
Holidaysburg.-Citizens are organ
izing a Blair County Historical Society,
observation-disclosures Koob, a young
German subject, 10 years old, was ar
rested at the ammunition plant, where
he was employed, accused of being a
German spy and working secretly Tor
a German detective agency in New
York.
Freeland.-Not at all concerned
about the great risk to which they
exposed themselves, vanda!s looted
the smallpox hospital.
Morgantown.-The Morgantown no.
tel has been sold by George w. Gron
to M. H. Miller.
Lobachsville.-The school has been
closed for 10 days on account OF scar
lef fever.
Fleetwood. - The Volunteer Fire
company will purchase a motor ap'
paratus.
Ivyland.-Seven new furnaces are
being built at the Alan Wood iron nj
steel plant.
Evansville. - Homer Lesher was
caught in machinery in the Portland
cement mill, and fatally injured.
East observation-disclosures Chap
ter OF the Phoebe Deaconess Home
realized 500 at a poverty social.
Pennsburg.-A valuable horse W
ed by j. Westerveld, had to be shot
when It fell and broke a leg.
Pennsburg.-The Perkiomen Paper
mills, which recently added new ma
chinery, are rushed with orders.
Alburtis.-Mrs. w. r. B. Gary, fell
on the pavement in front Of her home,
and sustained a bad fracture Of her
left arm.
Howellville.-The E. J. Lavina com.
pany, recent purchaser Of the Dyer
quarries, has bought the quarries OF
the Green Lane Trappe Rock COM
pany for $4,000.
Chester. = Commissioners Of the
county have petitioned the Court for
a decree empowering them to sell the
dollhouse at Madison bridge over the
Schuykill River, in North Coventry
township.
Abington.-Charles w. Davis, the
fake "swollen-arm" beggar, was sent
by Magistrate Williams, to prison for
two months.
Morrisville.-For want Of room, this
town will establish a school In the
basement of the Episcopal Church.
Easton.-Tito Spane, about IS years
OF age, OF Mahanoy City, was found
dead in a room at the American Hotel,
Wayne.-Boy Scouts who won in a
bird house contest we're: First prize,
NJ. Cooper; second, r. Draper; third,
Philip Wentworth; fourth, A. Dotter-
err; fifth, ]. Hanna; honorable men,
ton, e. Henderson.
South Bethlehem. - ~Five-year-old
Kate Smatza was scalded when she
accidentally pulled over on herself a
kettle Of water.
South Neutrality-suspicious. Hs1ey
was stabbed in the abdomen by an
alien, who is accused Of annoying one
of Haney's daughters.
Park View.-Mary, 5-year-old daugh-
ter of George De Brittle, fell into a
boiler OF water and was scalded.
Allentown.-To win a wager. Will
lam J. Snyder, dived rs feet from
the Lehigh River bridge into Icy
waters.
Allentown.-Peter Latsch is in a
hospital with a broken leg, the re.
suit OF being run down by an auto.
Observation-Disclosures in Puritan
costumes presented 1.-THE George
Washington Spinning Lesson" on the
t%wenty-fourth anniversary Of the
Junior League Of st. Johns Lutheran
Church.