The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-04-26
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DR.. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary OF the
State Game Commission, issued letters
to the game wardens, calling upon
them to report promptly any acts Of
disloyalty which may come to their
notice In addition to vigorously en-.
forcing the game and weapon laws as
applying to aliens.
Blairs war strength Is 1885 men
OF military age.
Sparks from heavy railroad engines
started forest fires on Locust Noun.
tain west OF Shenandoah.
All land not used for golf links at
the big tract Of the Hazleton Country
Club is to be farmed this summer.
Blood poisoning from splinter
lodging under a thumb nail caused
the death of Martin Killinger, aged 65,
OF Mechanicsburg.
AS war measure, the Lehigh Val.
ley Coal Co. has put steam shovels
at work loading up old culm banks at
Yorktown, which will be run through
the Jeanesville breaker.
Twelve of the Hazleton High School
graduating class want to enlist in
the army or navy.
The Reading Coal and Iron Com
pany will at once build model min.
ers' village OF 4S houses near Potts
vile.
Carl Dyne, IA, a bicycler, was
dragged to death under an autom obile
owned by Frank Rizzo, Mt. Jewett
merchant.
Schuylkills Patriotic League has
arranged to support families Of re-
cruits, and will even pay the railroad
fare Of those enlisting.
Mahonoy City High School std
dents have taken over plot OF ground
in East End and will cultivate 1t for
profit and instruction.
Guard against return of infantile
paralysis to the Main Line this sum-
mer by cleaning up now" was the
slogan OF the opening meeting OF the
Main Line Citizens Associations
Cleanup and Paint-up" campaign, at
Bryn Mawr.
George H. Rea, of Brookville, was
appointed to the place Of chief apiary
adviser OF the Department Of Agri.
culture. He has lately been In the
United States service.
Lemoyne has closed and disinfected
Its schools for case Of smallpox.
George Kufsky choked to death at
Shenandoah when piece Of meat
lodged In his throat.
At the close OF the scholastic year
President H. M. Reeser will resign
from Irving College, Mechanicsburg,
and DR.. e. E. Campbell, predecessor,
will succeed him.
En- route from her home at Coal.
dale to attend the funeral of rela.
tive In Philadelphia, Mrs. George
Phillips, 72, was stricken with heart
failure on. a trolley car at Tamaqua
and died at the Coaldale Hospital.
Elmer Kice, charged with using
contemptuous language concerning the
American flag, pleaded guilty when
taken before Judge Staplesr at
| Stroudsburg, and was severely repri.
manded and held for a further hearing.
A Mexican, Pasquale Gonzales,
railroad laborer, in Police Court, Read.
ing, was fined $21.25 by Alderman
Cooney, charged with spitting on an
American flag. He was unable to pay
and was sent to jail for 30 days.
The Berks County Court at Reading
In view of the need Of crops and the
fact that they did not have anyone
to take care OF their farms, excused
four farmers from jury duty.
Flag buttons have been supplied
their workers by Madeira, Hill & Co.,
at the Harleigh, Brookwood and Colon
ial colleries, and by the Thomas Col
lieries, and by the Thomas Colleries
Company.
The flag factory at Oaks is swamp
ed with orders for "Old Glory"
An addition "a by 200 feet is be-
ing built to the foundry building in
Emaus.
Hope Rescue Mission, the 100000
home for Reading down-and-outs, was
dedicated.
The Schuylkill Fire Company, Read.
ing, presented silver trumpet to Oak.
brook Fire Company.
Readir~ brewers are going to ad.
vance rice OF beer at least 81 a
barrel and 25c a case.
The Pottstown Steel Plate Products
Company will construct plant on the
four acres 1t recently purchased.
Twin colored babies left on a sofa
at the home of Allen Mason, Reading,
by two women, while third one was
engaging Mrs. Mason in conversation,
were sent to the Berks County Home.
Jackino Miraco and Mary Miraco,
his common-law wife, Of Marcus
Hook, who were convicted March 23
of murder in the second degree for
the death of boarder, Peter Gerage,
were sentenced at Media by Judge
Herbert Cummings, of Sunbury, who
heard the trial, to not more than 20
nor less than IS years in the Eastern
Penitentiary.
Women Of Hazleton, under the lea
dership OF Mrs, w. c. Gayley, have
organized an auxiliary of the State
Public Safety Committee.
James Miller, of Geryville, sold a