The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1917-01-13
The Aim Of the Foreign Language Papers
nj America
hearing January %.

Wanted in Jeanette, Pa, for telling
man with a club and escaping from
an officer, Samuel Scnaeffer has been
arrested in Gilberton.
Coasting at Mahanoy City, Anna
Starinsky, thirteen, ran into an auto.
mobile and her shoulder and collar.
bone were fractured.
Caught between cars at Centralia
colliery, James Burcell. aged f1fty-six,
was crushed so badly he died at Foun-
tain Springs hospital.
Five days after the death of his
wife, oliver Dewalt, Churchtown,
Cumberland county. died of pneumo-
MIA, aged seventy-three.
A victim of spine-splintering In a
foot ball game year ago, Arthur Mel
son, former Cornell gridiron star,
has just died in Pittsburgh.
\Rev. r. L. Smith, of Chicago, has ac
cepted a call to become pastor of the
Bethany Lutheran church, in New
Castle, starting February /.
The year 1915 was the best building
year in the history of Charleroi. The
value of business blocks and resi-
dences built total $3.50, 1850.
I P. G. Messersmith, secretary Of the
Hazleton Y. M. C. A, has resigned to
become secretary at Denver, Febru-
ary 1, at much larger salary.
During the past year twenty-five
Carbon county, and this is the largest
number in the history of the county.
Because w. B. Spears auto struck
and caused the death of Peter Wag-
ner, at Lancaster, Spear has, been
held without bail for his appearance
Employees of the American Cement
and Tile company, at New Castle, have
been granted a ten per cent increase
in wages. Six hundred are affected
The past year was one of the be-
for building operations Pottstown has
ever had, the largest operation being
the new million-dollar pant Cf the Nc
| CIintic- Marshal Construction comp any
Educational inventory discloses the
fact that the two most pressing needs
in Cumberland county are consolida-
tion of schools and closer supervision
on a basis of forty teachers for each
supervisor.
Over $4,000 units of antitoxin serum
were injected into Alfred Verg"y a
Reading railway brakeman of Potts
town, who, for ten days, has been suf-
fering from lockjaw, and now is ex-
pected to recover.
DR.. A. H. Ballet, owner Of tht Pa
time farm, Allentown, out Of seventy
five entries at the Madison Square
Garden, New York poultry show, 60
thirty first prizes, twenty-five seconds
and eighteen thirds.
The $500 verdict obtained by Mrs
Jennie A. Eby against the Travellers
Insurance company, because her hus
band was killed by hemorrhage
caused by a tooth brush bristle. has
been appealed at Carlisle.
! Besides adopting an eight-hour day,
Pottstown bricklayers and stonema
sons increased their wage scale from
ffty-five and forty-five to sixty-f1ve
and sixty cents an hour. respectively.
while plasterers raised theirs from
forty to fifty cents.
I Ahner Hawthorn, a B. & L. z. con-
ductor, is quarantined in his boarding
I house in North Butler. mile from
Butler. with smallpox. Hawtacrn's
condition was discovered when "A ply
sician was called to. prescribe for what
was supposed to be Grip.
/ A Pottstown councilman has hal q
mass of statistics procured from Ca
madam cities with the view of hovinT
his colleagues consider the system of
assessing BUILDINGS about twenty-five
per cent of their value and un'mprov-
ed land almost full value as in vogue
in Canada
John TunstaIl, aged ninety, one C4
Scranton's noted twin brothers, John
and stephen Tunstan died. He was
a native of PeetsFil1 N. Y, and had
voted at every presidential election
since Polk was elected in 1S45 1t is
claimed that the Tunstau twins were
the oldest in the United States.
Warren A. Wilbur, of South Beth'e
hem. has announced an annual priz
Of s25 to the high school pupil who
attains the HIGHEST yearly ave-ag II
the English course, and the E. P Viii
bur Trust comn~0v will yearly give q
similar amount to the student who
stands highest in the commercial
course.