The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-11-15
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS

M. LandlS or NORWOOD raised TWO
hogs that weighed, slaughtered, 472
and AIT pounds and received $119.25
for them.
The Manufacturers Foundry COM
pany of Sinking Spring closed its
plant three days to give its employees
a chance to go rabbit hunting.
The Birdsboro Steel Foundry and
Machine company will enlarge its
iron foundry to double its output.
Ten thousand and seventy-five
hunters licenses have been issued in
Berks county: more than a dozen to
women.
A $50 pound bear shot by John M.
Schearer, Yellow House, made feast
for 144 persons.
Because Of the shortage Of labor
girls are being employed in the broom
factory at Blandon.
Ezra Wilhelm and Irwin Fromm
supervise the work of two corn husk-
ing parties in Bern and Penn town
ships and have contracted for every
day in November and part Of Decem-
Der, which means that Berks county's
crop will not all be in crib by Christ
mas, due to shortage of farm help.
Fourteen girls are employed by a
forge company at Elwood City as in
spectors and operators Of machines,
presses and lathes. This Is the first
time that girls have filled the posi-
tions, and 1t was made necessary on
account Of a number Of the young
men being called to the colors. The
girls wear overalls.
Struck in the stomach by a snap
ping rope, Claire Suffer, eighteen
years old, of Ringtown, steam shovel
engineer at Weston colliery, was in
atantly killed at Shenandoah.
Thirteen prisoners of the Berks JAIL
who had been doing farm work at the
claiming that the pork served with the
sauerkraut was too specky" and that
they ought to be served with coffee
too.
President f. w. Hinitt of Washing
ton and Jefferson college announced at
Washington that seniors called to the
colors will be awarded bachelors de.
grees and their diplomas, providing
they are in good standing at the time
Of enlistment or conscription.
Conservation of coal promises to
halt Pottsvi!le's Great White Way, on
Center street, till after the war.
The state forestry department has
a service flag out with 30 stars. and
four more of its men are to go into
the ARMY.
The state police department enlist
cd 2S men-13 for B troop, Wyoming;
~ for d troop, Butler, and three for
c troop, Pottsville.
A curb market opened at Mahanoy
City was attended by one farmer, 9th
nrs declaring boycott.
Frederick X. Ployer, seventy-two-
sear-old banker Of Mechanicsburg, and
Miss Hannah Bucher, aged sixty-eight,
we're married by Rev. George Fulton
there.
A huge service flag bearing more
than 500 stars is being made at the
Pennsylvania State college in honor of
the undergraduates and faculty men,
bers who have answered the call to
arms.
Butler property owners have been
assessed 1882 as their share in the
erection of bridge over railroad
tracks.
Following a 100000 extension to
their silk mill at Hazleton, 500 more
hands will be taken on by Louis Roe
sci & Co.
Dr. H. L. Hull has been sent %
Ridgway by the state nsalth depart
ment to study a diphtheria epidemic
and to investigate smallpox In Craw.
ford county.
Because of scarcity of help, Nath.
aniel Erb closed his bakery at Bech
telsville, which he had conducted over
30 years.
Lehigh county's potato growers will
meet in Allentown November II to
form an organization. Reasons given
for organization are: To increase the
acreage of potatoes in Lehigh county,
to increase the number of bushels per
acre, to secure pure seed distributing
stations, to raise five or six varieties,
and to advertise the Lehigh county
product. Lehigh is the second largest
potato producing county in the coun.
try.
The state bureau of markets was
informed by the attorney generals
department that 1t has no authority
under the act establishing the bureau
to charge any commission for effect
ing any sales of agricultural products
or putting buyers in touch with sell
ers.
Only one Berks flour mill will op-
crate under government control under
the new grain and flour regulations,
the Schuylkill, owned by d. w. Diet
rich of Reading with capacity Of
400 barrels day.
His gun accidentally discharging,
Amos Weitzel of Lebanon was in
stantly killed in North Londonderry
township, in the first cunning accident
of the season in Lebanon county
Weitzel was in the act of handing the
gun to a companion, George Brown,
of Palmyra. The shot entered Welt
zel's neck, severing the jugular vein
and causing instant death.