The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-09-20
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS

grounds In Harrisburg during the sea
son just closed totaled 248,000, accord
ing to the report OF Supervise: Earl
G. Ford.
Larksville's dysentery epidemic has
killed two more victims.
Failing headlong over rug at her
parents home in Vulcan, Helen Stew
ems, 4, broke her neck and died later
A State collection of farm enemy
bugs is to be sent to various county
fairs and agricultural exhibitions TO
be held in Pennsylvania this fail.
Six hours after returning from Ash
land, where she received treatment at
the hands of a so-called divine heal.
err" Mrs. John Concjak, of Drifton, fell
dead.
Governor Brumbaugh has appointed
Miss Elizabeth Lowry, Berwick, and
Miss Ella Greene Stewart, Orangeville,
as members OF the Board of Mothers
Pension Trustees for Columbia county,
A Pottstown foundry company Is
trying to procure young women to
learn coremaking.
Frank Coogan, of Collegeville
caught a 32-inch carp weighing 2S
pounds in the Perkiomen.
Over 700 ears of corn were eaten al
supper held by the Ladies' Aid So
ciety of St James Lutheran Church.
Pottstown.
Hamburg dealers are paying only
75 cents bushel for potatoes, while
those in the Lehigh region pay 80 cents
I. o. b. cars on the ReadingISlatington
branch.
Because of over 200 new voters
whose political Affiliations are an un
known quantity, coming to town under
industrial expansion, Pottstown politi
clans are UP a tree as to how "thN cat
will jump" at the November election
The retail price of milk was ad
vanced from cents to 10 cents al
Lansdale
Columbia county farmers have be
gun to harvest record crop Of buck
wheat, and for this many Of them can
thank the Columbia County Farm Bu
reau, which brought in and sold al
cost a carload of seed buckwheat after
the farmers had sold their buckwheat
so low that they didn't have enough
to SOW.
A plague of grasshoppers is report
er in parts OF Lehigh county, notably
Upper Macungie and North Whitehall
townships. 1t is believed they came
from the western section of Berks
county, where they have inflicted a
great deal of damage.
Power to send chronic drunks to
jail for 30 days was conferred on Bur
CESS Dute, of West Hazleton, by Coun
Gil.
Cumberland Valley Masons will
have a $4,000 Colonial house for em
ployes, a memorial at the Elizabeth
town home.
Thousands of young bass have beer
planted in streams OF the State the
last week by the Fisheries Depart
ment.
Ralph d. Hurst, a Greensburg attor
ney, has been appointed corporation
attorney in the Office Of State Treas
urer Kephart at $4,000 year.
With the opening of New Castle
city schools, postponed until Septem
ber "a because Of an outbreak of in
fantile paralysis, county health au
thorities withheld permission for the
opening of country schools until the
disease is checked.
An automobile containing five per
sons, all from Middleburg, was struck
by a Chambersburg, Green Castle &
Waynesboro trolleyc ar at a grade
crossing on the turnpike near Shady
Grove, and two women of the party
Mrs. Samuel Shuck and Mrs. Ambrose
DIETRICH, were instantly killed anC
dragged 60 feet under the smashed-uI
motor car.
Scranton is proud of its patriotic rec
ord in furnishing men to the colors
and there are probably few cities o.
its size in the country that have done
as well, for over $500 men have vol
unteered for service in five months
while the district comprising Lacka
wanna and adjacent counties has fur
nished 10000 men in the same length
OF time.
Auditor General Snyder started {
movement at Harrisburg to obtain {
card index of every person connected
with the State Government. Requests
for cards to be placed In his depart
ment, at the Capitol Bureau Of Infor
nation and in the Capitol telephon,
exchange, were sent to each depart
ment head,
State experts have ordered a genera
cleanup at Larksville, Luzerne county
to stop the dysentery epidemic.
Dickinson College Law School a
Carlisle has sent 81 of its 4S curren
year graduates into Uncle Sans mill
tary service.
The Lehigh Valley Coal Compan!
has ordered its guards to watch culn
banks and debris heaps closely and ar
rest coal pickers on sight
With more than 1000 men out o
employment at Washington through
the shutting down Of the Tyler Tub
and Pipe Company, because of a Goa
shortage, manufacturers fear it will
be necessary to close other plants.
The body of Corporal McGinnis, VIII
lost his life at Camp Hancock, Angus