The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-06-21
Observation-Disclosures
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ticn with a big Grange picnic.
Alleging a defective sheriff's adver-
t!sement, steps are under way in Cum
berland county Court to set aside the
sale of the $4,000 properties OF Grant
Richwine, Mechanicsburg.
Railway Mail Clerk ]. B. Horning,
OF Elizsbethtown, from a flock of 80
Barred Rock hens received 2519 eggs
in five months.
The Bucks County Fish, Game and
Forestry Association has announced
tie December 10, 1917, prices of its
annual fishing contest as follows:
Small-mouth black bass-First, $40
split bamboo rod; second, SIS julius
Vom Hofe reel; third, 100 yards Of
elk line valued at So; fourth, 50 land.
ing net. Pickerel or pike-First, s5
bait-casting rod; second, So landing
net. Trout-First, $5 split bamboo
trout rod.
Mining of ochrc has been started on
the farm OF Mr.. Long, near Hancock.
Wayne war gardeners" will com.
pete fer prizes to be awarded on the
Fourth of July to the gardens in the
best condition.
The House bill imposing the cost of
maintenance of criminal insane on the
county, which passed the Senate finally
was reconsidered and placed on the
postponed calendar.
A giant gas gusher, flowing approx
mate!y 100000 cubic feet of gas
day, was struck in Porter township,
Jefferson county The well in the new
field is owned by the Mahoning Gas
and Oil company.
Maurie Heilman of Marietta. pur
chased 20 head Of cattle last fall that
averaged 1145 pounds in weight, the
steers belonged to E.. l.. Nissley, of
Florin. Mr. Heilman fed them over
the winter and when they were sold
to Mr. Gingrich, Of Lawn, Lebanon
county, they averaged 1871 pounds in
weight.
Remarking that he would like to live
to see the war ended, Luman Wander
pool, 60, and in poor health, stepped
onto the Lehigh tracks at Standing
Stone and was instantly killed by an
unobserved freight.
Altoona bakers have boosted bread
prices.
The Lebanon County Chapter Of the
Red Cross has been organized with
President Judge c. V. Henry as chair
man.
Not one county reporting shows
wheat to be within five per cent. OF
the average condition at this period OF
the year for the last decade.
The Pottstown School Board could
not procure any bids for this years
coal supply.
Home-raised peas at 20 cents a
quarter peck have appeared in Potts.
town markets.
The garden attracting the most at
tention at Stowe is that of Polly Kulp,
an octogenarian, who is very busy with
1t.
Morris Miller, of Cedarville, Ches-
ter couny, cut his first crop of Alfalfa,
the grain being three and one half feet
in length, and he expects to harvest
four crops, all to be larger than the
first.
The Fox Chase and Huntington
Valley Turnpike Company at its annual
meeting adopted rsolution that the
entire IL and one quarter miles of
roadway in the section Immediately
north of Philadelphia should be offered
to the State Highway Department for
$4,000.
Radner Fire Company, of Wayne,
finding a balance of $400 in the Trus-
tees Fund, has voted to invest it in the
Liberty Loan, through the Wayne
Troop of Boy Scouts.
Boy Scouts who are cultivating war
gardens on Anthwyn Farms, are the
victims of the theft of a bushel of
seed potatoes, and William d. Smei.ley,
chairman of the borough Public Safety
Committee, has appealed to residents
for assistance in discovering the
thieves.
Miss Margaret Garnett, colored,
has taken Hollidaysburg High School
first honors.
Berks county farmers have devoted
q great acreage to beans.
Hereford township, Berks, has pur.
chased a $1,4O0 stone crusher.
Friends, closing their meeting at
Milville, Columbia county, condemned
war, but voted to aid in the present
crisis as farmers and urged the sus
pension OF liquor raising and tobacco
growing
County Agriculturist Charles S.
Adams was unable to secure tenants
for 30 vacant farms in Berks county,
and some of the fields are to be cult
waited.
Berks County Red Cross Chapte.
and the American Bible Society pre-
sented 800 Bibles to the members of
Companies A and l, National Guards,
of Reading.
After being refused drink Of coffee
at the home of Daniel Wonsitler, near
Pennsburg, a tramp was seen fleeing
from a burning chicken stable, the
fire showing evidence Of incendarism.
Under the name of the Blue Noun
tain Electric Company, a merger of the
Blue Mountain Electric, Mt. Aetna and
Marion, of Berks county; Union Elec-
tric, of Lebanon county, was effected,
with headquarters at Bethel.