The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-01-27
Interesting Items From All Sec
tiOnS of tie State.
CULLED FOR QUICK READING
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone state

| CARLISLE observed the Dlue law sun
day, as per warEing.
Hazleton is alarmed over the pres
snce of a Woman In Black"
The state employment bureau found
jobs for 1890 persons in December.
Fifteen cases of whooping cough are
under the care of physicians at Della,
no.
Gasoline fumes igniting, Lester
Spahr is in Carlisle hospital, badly
burned.
Altoona is advised to hire a city
manager and provide for a better
water supply.
The Sunbury Daily and Sunbury
Daily Item have increased their price
to two cents.
Northumberland county court will
bar saloon side rooms and order eleven
P. M. closing.
On his way to work. near Lancas
ter, Jacob A. Greenberger fell dead OF
heart disease
Farmers in the valleys near Halle
ton are refusing $3.50 bushel for po,
tatoes in their bins.
Pittsburgh council sustained Mayor
Armstrong; veto of a $4,000 gift to
the Lake Erie canal.
Reading Freight Conductor John
Buehler was run down and killed in
the yard at Tamaqua.
Attendance at farmers institutes in
the state this winter IS greater than
ii has been for years.
The Easton Lodge Of Moose will
erect a $4,000 clubhouse on the site
of its present quarters.
Altoona dealers are retailing pota-
toes at s2.4O bushel, the highest
price ever charged there.
The Barnes Coal company, Barnes
boro, has elected A. R. Hamilton, of
Pittsburgh. vice president.
Leaving home to go to a dentists,
Mrs. Louise Honat, of Hazleton, has
mysteriously disappeared.
Shippensburg has the youngest bar
Der in the state-John, ten-year-old
son of Charles z. Shepherd.
Coming in contact with a stove, Jo-
seph Navitsky, three years old, was
fatally burned at Shenandoah.
Allentown has 1O,645 pupils in its
grade schools and 1905 in the high
school, gain in a year of 1891.
John F. Mcconnell has been ap-
pointed treasurer Of Mercer county, to
succeed Uriah A Hanna, deceased.
The Savre Daily Times-Reoord las
been purchased by Dana R. Stephens,
prominent in Bradford county politics.
The State League Of Boroughs will
ask for a law giving larger measures
of home rule to small municipalitie7
The Tamaqua school board is con-
sidering a proposition to erect high
school building to cost about 100000.
Allen workmen's holidays cut the
coke output of the Connellsville region
down to sixty-five per cent the past
| week.
Franklin Sauders was instantly kill
! ed when A locomotive on a narrow
gaugt road near Remove jumped the
track.
Lutheran Orphans Home, Topton,
received a bequest of $500 through the
will of the late Miss Kate Howed, OF
Northampton.
Young men are continually leaving
the lower anthracite region to engage
In other industries that pay better
than mining.
Regardless of the high cost Of liV-
ing, prisoners at Berks county Jail
| f0I ~
teen cents a day.
A shirt factory will be opened soon
at Sheppton, a small mining town near
Hazleton, dependent up to this time
on the coal mines.
Her clothing igniting at play. Mary
Klusko. aged Eve years, of Tama que,
was so badly burned that her recovery
Is not expected.
Freeland people threaten an appeal
to the public service commission
charging that they are being served
with condemned coal.
Morea. "spotless town" Of the an
thracite coal fields, has been presented
BY the c. NJ Dodson Coal company
with skating pond.
About forty per cent of the scale5
and twenty per cent Of the measure
used in Perry county last year were
condemned as inaccurate.
Estimates that 100000 acres o.
ba1yen land in Pennsylvania can be
reclaimed by reforesting on system
attic basis have been made.
The Tamaqua Manufacturing com
pany has started its large plant, worl
ing nine hours instead of ten hours :
day with no reductions in pay.
An association Of York propert7
owners 10 legally contest the city
right to compel connection with th'
new sanitary sewerage system ha.
been formed.
A. H Christian. Y NJ c. A. physi
cal director. at Hazleton, has been an
pointed general secretady to succeed
| P. c. Hessersmith, who goes to Den
yer, February I.
Demands for additional teachers il
the continuation schools OF this state
has led the establishment Of a teach
ers' training school at the PennsylVa