The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-10-04
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS
Observation-Disclosures!

employees whose homes are fltuatGl
in three wards, whose streets are in
bad shape.
Alvin Parsons, former well known
baseball star, was found dead In his
bed at Bangor, aged "a.
Among teachers Of Lancaster Coun-
ty are 50 who never taught before.
A great falling off in church mem
bership has been reported to Lacka-
wanna Presbytery.
Great activity now centers about the
yard OF the Merchant Shipbullding
Corporation at Bristol, where steam
shovels have begun excavations for the
slipways, and all men who apply for
work are engaged.
Yeagerstown has dled a petition for
incorporation.
Built at a cost of $4,000, st. Mays
Home For Girls at Cresson US form
ally opened
An inheritance tax Of $1,000, paid
by Lebanon county, is the largest pay
ment on single estate ever made to
the State Treasury.
Five Columbia county voters in vot-
ing for county auditors voted fo= a
man dead almost year--George II.
Sharpless, OF Catawissa.
Permission to recruit In Pennsylva-
MIA has been granted the Fifty Royal
Highlanders OF Canada and their band
by Acting Adjutant General Beans.
Another severe frost prevailed
throughout the northeastern part OF
the State, and late corn in the valleys
is so badly nipped that II has prac.
tically withered.
A marble tablet has been presented
to the Blair County Historical Society
by Colonel Henry W. Shoemaker, to
be placed on the bridge at Tyrone, TO
mark the famous Indian Logan spring.
Notwithstanding his acquittal Of the
murder of his wife, Patrick Donahue,
OF Shenandoah, Is still in Jail and will
so remain until the November court
ar-aigns him for the Staying of DR..
II. F. Kitty.
Bristol schools have an enrolment
of 1850 pupils, the largest on record.
Fire Chief Franklin Gilkeson has Sc
cured rs recruits for proposed mill.
tary company of volunteer firemen at
Bristol, but wants so.
Twenty-Five Holstein, Durham and
Jersey cows we're sold by Edward Z.
Gabriel at Morgantown at from $50 to
$3.50 head, and two springers, weigh
ing $500 pounds, sold at s155 each.
A plant to manufacture chemicals
is being established in the old Bean
planning mill at Pawling.
/ Charles f. Scott, cashier of the
Farmers National Bank, Bristol, gave
new half dollars to the drafted men as
they boarded the train for Camp
Meade.
A testimonial banquet was given at
Perkasie to Harry Neamana, in honor
of his five-year-record as Grand Keep
er of Exchequer of the Grand Castle,
Golden Eagles, OF Pennsylvania
Unable to get help, Irwin H. Myers,
of Fountainville, one of Bucks county's
most successful farmers and cattle
breeders, sold out.
Albert Bilman. aged thirty.seven, a
breaker machinist, is dead at Halle
ton from injuries sustained when he
was struck by motorcyclist, who left
him dying on the public road, but
whose number was taken as he fed
with his headlight extinguished.
Mrs. J. Miles Derr, fifty, her daugh-
ter, Martha, aged seven. and Miss Jen-
ME Lenker. forty, of Turbotville, were
killed, and Mr.. Derr and another
daughter, Ada, aged nineteen, fatally
hurt when their automobile was struck
by Pennsylvania passenger train at
grade crossing, near Milton.
Steel helmets for the American sol
diers in France are being manufactur-
ed at the Berwick plant of the Ameri-
can Car and Foundry Company. The
helmets are tested by placing the steel
hat on a 'dummy's" head. Standing
ten feet distant, with regulation As
calibre repeating revolver, the helmet
is fired upon.
Norton, thirteen-year-old son OF c.
4. Fawber, proprietor of the Lafayette
Hotel, Lancaster, was instantly killed
and several persons were injured when
Fawber's automobile skidded and over
turned on Chickies Hill, near Colum-
bia
Ex-Sheriff Layton, who conducted
more sheriffs sales and foreclosures
than any other sheriff in Broadford
county, is dead at Towanda.
Mrs. Perry Tanning, of Glade, was
fatally injured and Mrs. ]. Hollister
was seriously cut and bruised about
the face and body when an automobile
driven by Jacob Michaels overturned
near Starbrick. Mrs. Tanning receiv-
ed injuries to her spine and was hurt
internally and died at the Emergency
Hospital in Warren.
Raids on Gettysburg camp soldiers
in other towns have resulted in turn
ing their trips to Carlisle.
Bellefonte Academy has opened
with a large enrolment, despite war
conditions.
Six thousand persons of the Halle
ton region gave stirring farewell
to the first quota q 50 drafted men.
Bloomsbury and Berwick gave their
173 drafted men the greatest send-off
either town had ever undertaken.
The State Vicksburg Commission
started for the Southern battlefield
to make arrangements for the care
OF the Pennsylvania veterans who
will gather there in October.
Only 81 civil war veterans attend
ed the reunion of the 104th Regiment,
Doylestown; but widows and wives of