The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-12-27
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With a capacity of $4,000 tons dai-
ly, Altoona's new garbage incinerat-
ing plant, installed at cost Of $780,
600, was formally opened.
Game wardens have been ordered
to prepare for the winter care OF the
wild animals and birds and to ar
range for propagation.
DR.. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary Of the
State Game Commission, urged farm
ers and sportsmen to take measures
to feed the birds. "Winter has come
early, and the weather is so severe
that.I hope the sportsmen and farm.
ers will provide food for quail. !
think these birds have proved their
value as insect destroyers, and 1t
should be realized that II we want
them next year we must feed them
now" said DR.. Kalbfus.
Ice eight inches thick has been cut
from ponds near West Chester.
The residence and Offices of Mayor
Elect H. w. Heidenreich, Hazleton,
we're destroyed by fire.
The stripping of the c. M. Dodson
tract, west OF Audenreid, will add
considerable to the Dodson coal ton
mage.
Three sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Theo-
dore Zellers Of Lancaster are among
Uncle Sans fighters. Robert, State
College graduate, was ranger In
Minnesota and was drafted; now he's
at Camp Mills. Lincoln Is In a cav
airy regiment in Hawaii, and his
twin brother, Howard, is at Camp
Quantico, enlisted while in California
as a marine.
Lee Johnson, one of the clerks OF
the Christiania National Bank, has
enlisted in the United States Account
ant Fund Corps and is at Fort Slo-
cum.
Robert H. Norgang. the new Or
phans' Court clerk of Lehigh, Is an
Allentown schoolteacher
A census of the employees Of big
Industrial and mining companies at
Hazleton revealed that the "war gar
dens" Of 1918 will surpass those OF
last summer.
Frank Pardee, retired coal operator
and president of the Hazleton Red
Cross, gave a finely equipped motor
car to the Italian Relief Association
to be used as an ambulance on the
Italian front.
Lansdale High School faculty has
lost two members by enlistments,
Jesse r. Harris OF the mathematics
department going into the aviation
and ]. H. Greber, manual training in.
structor, into the Quartermaster's
Corps.
A Red Cross Society has been or.
ganized at Shillington.
Samuel Missimer, who died at Read.
ing, aged ninety-three, left 55 de-
scendants.
Women are shoveling snow around
Pennsy stations at Reading and
through Berks.
Reading teachers want the Chamber
of Commerce to aid in getting them
an increase Of salaries.
For trying to wreck trolley car
George Seamon, Mohnton, was sen.
fenced to from three to five years In
the penitentiary.
Owing to the unhusked corn in the
fields the annual convention OF the
crows OF the country seems to be in
session in Berks county.
William A. Voght, an alleged de.
serter, was found at the home Of Clay
ton Hendricks, Reading, when Hen.
bricks was arrested for chicken pox
quarantine violation.
A very cod winter with plenty Of
blizzards and ice from December IL
last till April Is is predicted by fol.
lowers OF Elias Hartz, the goose bone
weather prophet
Since they began knitting sweaters,
socks, wristlets, helmets, ETC., for the
soldiers members of the Rerks County
Red Cross used 2,649,600 yards Of
wool, which, laid in straight line
would cover / SOC miles,
Major Baird Halberstadt, long con-
nected with the National Guard, is at
the head of the movement in Schuyl.
kill county to list names of all soldiers
and sailors from that county in the
war.
Paul Wagner, son of Judge George
Wagner, of Reading. has received a
commission as captain. A regiment Of
nfantry-regulars-i being changed
to field artillery. and Captain Wagner
will take charge Of company at Fort
Oglethorpe.
State Department of Agriculture es
Inmates are that Pennsylvania will
lose first place as a buckwheat pro-
ducer to New York by less than a
quarter million bushels. The claim is
made that the state will rank fifth as
potato raiser and sixth in tobacco.
1t is led by Ohio, Kentucky, Tennes.
see and Virginia.
The latest war contract which has
been let to an Allentown concern is
that which has just been received
from the government by the Bethle.
hem Motors Corporation. The con.
tract calls for the delivery of over
$2,O00,O00 worth of Class "B" three
ton Liberty trucks during the first
ak months OF next year.
Dunmore council has raised the sal
airy of the mayor from $500 to $780,
The Oldest person in Lancaster