The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-16
Observation-Disclosures
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also OF Morton. The two men had
been working at the Primos Chemical
Works and during leisure moments
fellow employers suggested that the
two men wrestle. In the bout Philips
threw Locksley heavily to the ground,
breaking his neck.
The State Commissioner of Health
the Board OF Health OF Ed
dystone borough, Delaware County,
for failure to enforce the law re-
quiring medical inspection Of hotels,
restaurants, etc
Percival Borrell, fifty years old,
while hunting groundhogs, was shot
in the back while near Fleetwood by
another hunter, Seneca Adam, Of Kutz-
town. over 100 small shot were taken
out OF Borrell's body, with thirty more
too deep to be removed. Adam was
ignorant Of Borrell's presence in the
grove when he fired.
Harry Lowrey, OF Duffield, twenty
years old, son of wealthy dairy
farmer, is dead in Chambersburg hos
pital as the result OF injuries inflicted
by a bull. The animal attacked Low
rey while he watering the cattle.
Farmers OF the northeastern part Of
the State won't sell off their crops so
quickly this year as last, but will hold
their supply for rise in the market
after the early yield is disposed of.
Interviews with the produce men OF
Hazleton indicate there will not be
such big crop as was expected in
the retail or wholesale price of pota-
toes this year, despite the greatly in
creased crop. The demands of the war
are such that shippers expect quota
tions to hold up at least around the
$3.50 figure. Tubers are now bringing
so bushel.
The Berwick plant of the American
Car & Foundry Company will manu-
facture $4,000 galvanized smokestacks
for the Government cantonment camps
and 5000 iron collars for the stacks.
Representatives of some OF the big
retail and wholesale coal dealers OF
Philadelphia are making tour Of the
anthracite field appealing to operators
to rush their shipments, so as to avert
a threatened fuel famine the coming
winter They were told at Hazleton
that every effort is being made to fill
orders and that the collieries are be-
ing worked to their utmost capacity to
meet the demands OF the trade.
Mrs. Charles w. Forsythe and her
eight-year-old son, Charles, of McKees-
port, were killed on the Lincoln High
way several miles west OF Buckstown,
when their motorcycle was demolished
by an automobile driven by Amaniah
Boyer and Frank Walker, Of Hoovers-
vile. Charles W. Forsythe, husband Of
the dead woman, sustained a broken
right leg.
Benjamin Throop, Scranton's wealth
lest young man, enlisted in the Thir-
teenth Regiment as a private in the
supply company. Throop passed the
physical test with high mark.
Fred Wendell, aged SO, died at Gel
singer Hospital, Danville, of a frac-
tured skull, suffered when he fell from
a house roof he was painting.
Falling so feet. from Pennsylvania
Railroad bridge, which he was guard
ing near lakewood, Private William R.
Norton, 81, of Company L, Third
Pennsylvania Regiment, was dashed to
death on the rocks below.
The drilling operations at the form
er Old Zionsville ore mines have been
abandoned, owing to high water pres
sure.
According to an estimate made by
County Farm Agent S. S. Lehman,
there are 5000 acres of potatoes grow
ing in Erie county, the estimated
value of which is s144,0O0, the price
being set at $3.50 a bushel. He esti-
mates that the yield will be one third
greater than normal in that county
this year Grape growers throughout
the county say this will be one of the
best years for their crops for some
time.
Judge A. T. Searle, of Honesdale,
has cut GO tons of hay on his Siko
farm, considerable time and attention
having also been given to the culuva-
tion Of 10 acres of potatoes and corn.
The Judge says farming is far better
exercise than golf.
Five hundred dollars has been sub
scribed toward the ambulance fund at
the Grand View Hospital, Sellersville,
and $500 more is required.
Radnor police are posting signs at
all roads entering the township warn
ing motorists of the penalty provided
for opening muffled cutouts.
The summer session of West Ches.
ter Normal School, held for the past
six weeks, with more than 100
students has closed.
Albert Barger, a platform foreman
Of the Adams Express Company, was
held for Court at Altoona under $500
ball on a charge OF larceny of an ex,
press package containing 25 new ten
dollar bills.
While returning home from a night
ride to Lock Haven in an automobile
Oscar Brown, one of four young
Bellefonte men in the machine, was
crushed to death when the automobile
ran off road at sharp curve and
upset. When two OF the young men
realized what had happened they dis
appeared. The automobile belonged
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