The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-08-02
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life.
Former Councilman George Watson,
oil Doylestown, is Riding Maple ave.
nue. Of blackbirds by shooting Ror.an
candles through the trees.
Between the hours of in the morn.
ing and in the afternoon, the miners
OF No. ID colliery of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company, at Port Blanchard,
produced and prepared for market a
total of 5000 tons of coal, No such
record has ever before been equaled
In the anthracite region.
Bathers in Manatawny Creek at
Pottstown are very wary since an alli.
gator which escaped from travelling
show has taken refuge in the stream.
BY decree OF President Judge Cum.
uings, filed in the Northumberland
county Traction Company at Sunbury,
city has membership Of 32 and Is Of
IS ordered sold, unless a mortgage Of
$4,OO0,OO0 is paid in 10 days. The
Philadelphia Trust Company is trustee
for the bondholders. Sale 10 ordered
TO be made in Philadelphia
wilson Heckehart, aged 3s, over.
come by heat at the Bethlehem Steel
Works, fell across live electri' wire
and was electrocuted
An automobile was presented to
Sergeant James Gaundy, in front Of
City Hall, Lancaster, as token OF ap.
probation for training the marine re-
serve corps.
j. Clyde Miller, Homestead, was ap.
pointed a captain OF cavalry and as.
signed to command the first company.
military police, Pittsburg. An appoint.
ment for the Philadelphia company
VII be made soon. The military police
Will be detailed for duty by division
headquarters.
With the mastering in of Company
X, by Captain C. S. Wright, U. S. A.,
six units of the Fourth Regiment, Ma.
tional Guard, from Lancaster county,
and two units of the division, an am.
bulance company and truck com.
pany, nearly zoo men, pass from the
State to Federal service.
Cornelius Sheppard, a Southern
negro, who less than year ago, shot
man in Harrisburg, was electrocuted
at the We"tern Penitentiary, Belle
tonte, Four contacts we're made, and
five minutes after he was placed in
the chair he was pronounced dead by
DR.. Robert ]. Campbell. The body was
buried in the penitentiary cemetery.
The G. w. Alexander Hat Company,
of Reading, has received a contract for
100000 regulation service hats for the
United States Government. This order
will keep the 200 hands of the factory
busy for months.
Rabbits are becoming a serious men.
ace to gardeners in all parts of North
western Pennsylvania, not even those
OF the larger towns being exempt from
the ravages OF the animals. The Ridg-
way Record says they are numerous
in that neighborhood, especially where
gardens are near strips of woods. One
farmer had 26 partially matured plants
cut down by rabbits in one night.
William E. Martin, OF Lancaster,
was granted "a license to marry the
divorced wife of his father. He is 55;
the bride-to-be, who took her maiden
name, Mary Devening, is So, and the
father, from whom she was divorced,
is upward Of So The marriage with
the father was unhappy because OF the
disparity in ages.
Nine sheets OF draft numbers, show.
ing the relative standing of 2467 young
men in the Eighth Registration Dis
trict of Luzerne County, were stolen
from Ashley Town Hall, acco riding to
reports at Wilkes-Barre, although they
we're under the surveillance OF Chief
OF Police Rickard and three patrol.
men.
The Public Service Commission has
issued an order In the complaint OF
the city OF Uniontown against the
Pennsylvania Railroad in which the
company is required to erect and
maintain visible and audible signals"
establish watchman and erect gates
at various crossing and gongs at others
in Uniontown.
Allen Smith OF Brooklyn was killed
when his aeroplane fell into the Della.
ware River near Marcus Hook. Smith
was having his last course in avia'
tion.
The Visiting Nurses Association
opened fresh air farm near the Read
ing Hospital and day camp for Read
ing mothers at Bernhart's reservoir.
The Light Cycle Company, one OF
Pottstown's largest industries, will
construct an addition to its shipping
department and rebuild the foundry
yard.
Majors Jump and Goldman made ad-
dresses at a meeting in Pottstown OF
county physicians to dis.
cuss the enlisting of medical men in
the Army.
While Clayton E. Nester, Of Man.
tic, was attending a funeral at Potts.
town, a t.lef stole his automobile, two
blankets, two ladies' coats and sew
eral pairs OF rubbers.
Last month there were 1Ot deaths
in Reading.
Burglars stole $50 from the farm
house of William Houck, in Obey town.
ship, and watches and jewelry from
his neighbor, Clayton Marks.
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