The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-03-01
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS

from the police, he returned home.
John stear has purchased the W.
II. Bond Hotel, at Nesquehoning, lot
$4,000.
Bradford county commissioners
want State troopers assigned 10 snoop
ing unlicensed dogs, as It's conseaoies
are too sentimental.
The sugar famine has eacned
Towanda.
blair county prisoners performed
C1S7. go worth OF labor on county roadS
last year.
A Quakake Valley farmer named
Gerhard. who had 21OO bushels OIL
potatoes stored for high prices, has
discovered that the entire lot a
been frozen.
Run down by a train Miss Mabel
Bender, OF Northampton Heights. em
ployed at the Redington fuse plant
suffered amputation OF the right arm
near the shoulder.
Several hundred residents OF the
Old York road section were present
at the Willow Grove Methodist
Church, when the new $3.50 pipe or
gan was formally dedicated at a spe'
cial service conducted by the pastor
the Rev. George c. Dilworth.
Harry Wettenback, aged IL, was
drowned in the Allegheny River near
Hershey Island, and two companions
narrowly missed a similar death.
When Charles Wassa arrived In
Coatesville on a trolley a from Ian
caster, there was found in his posses
sion one gallon OF whisky, three
quarts Of wine and one quart OF al
cohol. He was fined $40.
Llanerch Fire Company has elected
II. H. Aikens, president; w. r. Cook,
vice-president; Thomas b. Young sec
rotary; II. v. Gummere, treasurer; Il
Oscar Lobb, chief; Charles H. Miller
and Walter Woelful, assistant chiefs
The Oaks Fire Company realized
$685. from Its fair.
Cigarmakers at S~umneytown de
mand an increase in wages.
Clocks may be moved ahead in Haz
Teton one hour from May l to October
1.
Northumberland County Court VIII
require the Watsontown Hotel TO De
rebuilt or go without a license.
In school at Park View, John Mat
less, 10, picked a dynamite cap with
a pin and sustained a badly shatter-
ed right hand.
Excellent records of attendance are
reported as being made by organiza-
lions Of the National Guard which are
being inspected by Guard officers.
For about $500, 900, Charles E. But
Ter, Of Hazleton, has bought out the
remaining interests that controlled the
Butler-Benjamin coal s%trippings at
Coleraine, Buck Mountain, Ebervale,
Lattimer, Upper Lehigh and Gran
berry.
DR.. X. D. Werley has purchased 125
acres along the Schuylkill River from
the Reading Coal & Iron Company, on
which to Craze his cattle and raise
feed for them.
At Carlisle, James Anthony, colored,
was found guilty, by a jury, OF murder
in the first degree. He killed Michael
Try, a construction forman, with q
cbnvo1 of Namvi1fa
Merrill Reedy, who suffered a broken
back in July OF last year, died at
L%ewisburg. How he lived eight months
with the spinal column severed is the
wonder Of Union county physicians.
The will Of Mrs. Phoebe ]. Gray,
widow of William B. Gray, Paterson,
distributes more than 500, 900, OF
which $4,000 Is left to Ada G. Bird.
sail and 100000 to Anna Birdsall.
nieces.
Approval of the Board OF Works
plan to spend $500, 900 on Port New
ark Terminal this year was given by
the Board Of Trade.
Miss Frederick Bogert, teacher OF
the seventh grade Of Cleveland School,
Crawford, has resigned to take a posi-.
ton in New York City.
The Lincoln Firemen's Association
at Railway, elected these officers:
President, Edward Leonard; secre-
tary, William Van Dyke; treasurer,
Charles A. Moore.
Both the Alexian Brothers and
Elizabeth General hospitals, Elizabeth,
are crowded with patients and add.
tional buildings are urged.
Because OF the increasing number
OF applicants for naturalization,
County Clerk Harvey s. Hopkins has
decided to keep his Office open at
stated times at night at Newton.
In the final report of United States
Senator-elect Joseph S. Frelinghuysen
as president Of the State Board of
Education the Senator goes on record
as in favor Of military training in
the public schools.
Burlington has NJ cause to fear race
suicide, according to the vital stats.
tics report for the last year, sub.
mitted by City Clerk Mars. There
were 162 deaths and 224 births, while
marriages numbered 103.
An epidemic Of boils prevails al
GAINESVILLE.
There are 16 cases OF diphtheria in
Trumbauersville and the vicinity.
Charles Grafey, Waterman at the
Penllyn station on the Reading Rail
way, vas killed by a south-bound spe-
cial train.
Reading wants to annex part of
Lower Alsace township.
~Fourteen-inch ice Is being harvested