The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-06-14
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS


1t cost Berks county taxpayers
| S7317,9S TO maintain their insane
charges at Wernersville and Harris
burg the last three months.
Sherman British, OF Analomink, caught
"a monster brown trout in Brodhead's
Creek. The trout weighed four pounds
and four ounces and was 20 inches
in length
Five thousand OF those who regis
tered in Berks county declared that
they had dependent relatives, 1874 OF
these totally disabled.
Dealers in Pottstown protested in
vain to Council against the enactment
of an ordnance restricting the use OF
explosives and fireworks on the Fourth
Of July.
Sent by his employer to drive some
cows from the meadow on the Cheyne
farm, near Lenape Park, on the Bran.
DIVINE, Arthur Patton, colored, 10.
fell into the stream, greatly swollen by
heavy rains, and was drowned.
Pen Argyll has completed the or.
ganization of an American Red Cross
Branch, with DR.. c. c. Mccormack,
president and John Simmons. Sec
re.ary.
Cost of building materials has re-
suited In the suspension OF plans for
Y. NJ. c. A. building In Pen Argyll,
on grounds donated by the Lehigh and
New England Railroad.
Carlisle merchants have tabooed
the trading stamp.
pcasy employees at Altoona getting
less than 22 cents an hour have been
raised.
The Lehigh Valley Coal Company
has just canvassed its 1000 employees
in the Hazelton district for subsc-ip.
tions to the Liberty Loan.
The Draper colliery, Shenandoah.
which has been idle for some time un-
dergoing repairs. resumes full ope--
alton employing 1000 men and boys.
United Min. Workers have removed
the ban on Boy Scouts, and the sons
OF union members in the anthracite
fields are now permitted to Join the
Scouts.
Dr. A. A. Thomson, former post.
master at Carlisle. has been appointed
sealer of weights and measures OF
Cumberland county.
Two ambulance units, made up OF
students from the Pennsylvania State
College have been mustered into Gov
ernment service for early duty in
France.
A Bureau of Entomology has been
established at Carlisle through the
activities Of the Chamber of Com
merce, w. r. Mcconnell heading the
five experts in charge.
A peremptory mandamus has been
issued by Luzerne County Court, or.
dering the Verhovay Aid Society head
quarters moved back from Pittsburgh
to Hazeton, designated by the char
ter.
Suit for $4,000 has been brought
by Mrs. Rose Brandle at Altoona.
against X. ]. Javitz, who drove the
automobile that killed her husband.
and c. J. Potts and II. G. Irvine, trad
ing as a garage company.
Hereford has an epidemic OF
typhoid fever.
Berks prisoners hereafter will wear
blue suits, stripes having been aban'
doned
Fifteen Boy Scouts of Reading are
doing the farm work on the Archer
farm at Flying Hill, Berks county.
Deer have made their appearance In
the Perkiomen Valley, fou: near Green
Lane and two at Finland, all quite
tame.
Hogs are selling at $50 a hundred
pounds in Skippack township, and at
Butchers cattle sale, in Salfordville,
sucking pigs brought 81 each.
Owing to increased business at the
Cochrapville post office, the salary OF
Postmaster Herbert Albright is to be
increased 800 year.
In connection with the commence
ment OF the Nurses College OF the
| Allentown Hospital, when IL nurses
received diplomas, it was announced
by DIR. C. D. Schaffer, the chief sur
geon. that the use of the college. had
been rendered to the United States as
an emergency hospital during the war.
Secretary Baker wired the thanks OF
the War Department
Newtown Chapter OF the American
Red Cross Is making a strong effort to
increase its membership
Margaret Thompson, gypsy maid
en-, was arrested in Chester and sent
to Jail on a charge of swindling Frank
Ellis of ten dollars.
Employees at the Weber planning
mill North Wales, who were on
strike, have been granted an increase
of 2la cents an hour.
Cheltenham Township Commits
sioner Charles W. Bosler has procured
for the use OF his employees several
acres of land, near Ogontz, prepared
for tilage.
The revenue receipts for May in
| the Lancaster district were Sl,O22,.
9l9.99, the largest in the history OF
the office. They are double those of
April and three times those of May,
1916. Corporations paid Sl5S,lS4S
and individual $7S,5SO,4O income tax,
DR., Arthur II. May, one of the lead
| ing veterinary physicians, and many
years a leading politician, at Boiling
| Springs Is dead aged 10,
f,hoetor,s euhecrintions IN Tho Iherty