The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-05-24
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PENNSYLVANIA
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pany c, Engineers, Pottsville.
Kept home from school to aid her
mother, who was recovering from an
operation, Dorothy Gibb aged g. was
drowned at Carlisle when she attemp-
ted to recover her ball from cistern
and broke through the covering The
mothers condition is critical.
In a letter received at Harrisburg,
from John A. McSparran, master OF
the Pennsylvania Grange, an appeal
Is made to the Oranges in the State
to grow more corn, buckwheat and
other cereals as an aid to the impend
ing food shortage.
Charles Hines, of Lancaster, 61,
brooding over the fact that he could
not buy property for his son, blew
the top of his head off with a gun.
The supply of Seeding trees for
free distribution from State nurseries
has been exhausted.
New Cumberland dog owners are up
in arms following the poisoning OF
score of valuable pets.
Miners in the Hazelton region will
establish more cooperative stores to
help them live on what they earn.
Through Columbia county's com.
munity clubs five miles of beans will
be planted in Columbia county on
garden day.
One of the principal features Of
the meeting of Carlisle Presbytery
at Camp Hill was the raising of a
maintenance fund Of $4,000 for the
upkeep of the Rocky Springs Pres.
byterian Church.
A movement has been started to
organize a band at Sellersville.
The increases in salary granted by
the Doylestown School Board to
teachers adds $350.10 to the annual
salary roll.
The Women's Civic Club, Of North
Wales, will sell plants and vegetable
seeds to residents Of that community
at wholesale prices.
Lower Merton Y. NJ. c. A. boys
have reorganized the Boys Paper
Salvage Company" and have added a
patent bailer to their assets.
Students OF Jenkintown High
School have advised Supervising
Principal Leroy King Of their will
ingness to work on farms during the
summer months.
j. B. Stevenson, special officer OF
the Lehigh Valley Transit Company,
at Lansdale, has been granted tract
Of five acres by the Company, and
will put in potatoes.
The Windsor Water Company, of
Hamburg, has received 10000 white
pine saplings, to be planted on it's
large reservoir reservation.
Carlisle voters will be asked to sane.
tion s150,00O0 loan for sewers.
Free seed potatoes have been de.
livered to 200 homes in Altoona for
their gardens.
The Coleraine branch of the United
Mine Workers has ordered a carload
of flour to sell 1t at cost to 300 mem.
bers.
The Luzerne County Industrial
School for Boys, at Kis-lyn, has con.
tributed nine recruits to the army and
| navy.
Anthracite operators at Hazelton
have notified miners that men whose
payday sprees affect production will
be recommended as "slackers" for
army service.
A class Of Is nurses soon to gradu
ate was received into the State Hos.
pital Alumni Association at Fountain
Springs to make them Immediately
available for enlistment in the Red
Cross Society.
A $4S,000 post Office building is to
be erected at State College.
Dickinson Seniors, Carlisle, have
dropped class day, as 80 members
have Joined training camps.
Wormleysburg cannot find men to
hold Office being short constable,
councilman and member of the Health
Board.
Checks for $25 each have been sent
to Fame, Henderson and Brooklyn fire
companies, Lewistown, by the citizens
Of Reedville, for recent services, and
$50 check to r. U. Jacobs, of Cali.
fornia.
Hazleton's Y. M. C. A. has entered
upon campaign to last three weeks,
to teach 200 boys how to swim, with
out charge.
Each of the four Fairgrounds asso.
Citations in Lebanon will receive $3.50
season from the Lebanon School
district toward the payment of salar.
les of directors of the grounds
The Pennsylvania Federation Of
Labor, in resolutions adopted at Har-
risburg calls upon the laboring men
of the State to stand Loyalty by the
Government during the war. Presi-
dent Maurer reported that 1874 locals
had affiliated with the Federation dur.
ing the past year.
The war has deprived Conyngham
Of its burgess, Oscar Schaeffer, the
chief executive, having enlisted in the
heavy artillery.
Freight handlers of the Lehigh Val.
ley Railroad have been given an ad.
vance of from II IL cents an hour to
20 cents for an 11-hour day.
The presiding officers of the Senate
and House at Harrisburg affixed their
signatures to the $2,0OO,OO0 war emer.
gency fund and sent It to the Cover
nor 20, 1,,n not;a,