The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-06-27
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placed Its stamp Of disapproval on car
nival companies, medicine shows and
affairs Of similar nature coming to
Marysville for the purpose Of doing
business. The ministerium has ad-
dressed q petition to the borough coun-
ell asking that permission to operate
In the borough be refused.
Arrangements are under way for a
big Fourth Of July celebration at Ha-
zleton, under the direction Of the pub
lei safety committee. A parade, com
munity singing, band concerts and an
athletic meet, all without any display
Of fireworks day or night, will be the
features.
A memorial address by Grand Mast
er Roy Behman, Of Harrisburg, was a
feature of the annual memorial serv-
Ice held on Mt. Lebanon cemetery un-
der the auspices of Lebanon Lodge
No. 121, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows.
Mrs. Thomas Petite, an octogenarian
living with her daughter, Mrs. Jerry
Tritzinger, Of DrlftOn, near Hazleton,
Is proud of the distinction that she
has nine grandsons In the war service,
four Of them In France
A western car, af'er being loaded
with coal at the HudsOndale storage
plant of the Lehigh Valley railroad,
weighed S7h tons.
Harry Burnsteel, alleged to have de.
serted at Camp Upton, was arrested
at Norrlstown, by Detective Nuss, who
also picked up William Kemmerer,
said to have deserted from Camp
Meade. !
The Snyder county peach crop prom
ises to be one of the heavi,sl IN II
quarter of century.
Every Sunbury student more than
fourteen years old will be granted n
vocational employment certificate this
year.
Private Sherry, of the STATE police
was badly hurt In fracas with Welsh
Mountain negroes.
The Red Cross has appealed to DIR.
f. b. Cooper, Of Sunbury, to organize
naval station emergency hospital
unit in Northumberland county.
Passenger Brakeman Charles Hell,
Of Progress, was killed when thrown
under the wheels of train IN the Har.
risburg Pennsylvania railroad station.
Tamaqua Masons celebrated the six
ty-ninth anniversary Of the lodge.
Lightning struck the McGowan SIX
Mill, at Beaver Meadow, and stunned
three girls at work at machines
Hazleton's only woman ash collec-
tor, Mrs. Mary Kelly, was fined 81 by
Mayor Heldenreich for depos' ting
waste material in built-up sections OF
the city
The western corn root worm is do
ing damage to the growing corn in
several districts around New Castle.
James l.. Lockhart, food adm'nistra-
tor for Washington county, closed the
o. X. Baking company's plant for three
days as a penalty for not making and
filing a regular weekly report OF the
amount of -four used.
Becoming confused while driving her
car down Market street in Chester,
Miss Alice Rice, who was accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. Jacob Rice, ran
the machine unto the big bulk window
Of jewelry store, plowing into show
cases and scattering broken glass and
watches In all directions.
Although states were discarded
years ago as unsanitary, II is possible
that school children of the Lehlgh coal
fields will soon be forced to return to
using them. The cost Of paper and
pencils is soaring to such an extent
that some school boards favor the re.
storatlon OF the states.
The finishing plant OF the Empori-
um tannery, in Emporium, owned by
the Elk Tanning company, was de-
saroyed by fire at loss estimated by
an official of the company to be nearly
S500,000. The origin OK the flames has
not yet been determined.
Harlan Il. Snyder, for fifteen years
principal Of the West Berwick public
schools, has been elected principal OF
the Catawissa schools.
Liverpool-For twenty-one years
janitress of the public schools here,
Mrs. Lily Stalley, has been reelected
The Cumberland county unit Of the
woman's committee OF the national
defense has formed a division to have
charge of child welfare work.
s. b. Karns has resigned as cashier
Of the Columbia County National bank
of Benton, and Robert McHenry has
been elected to the vacancy.
The Tamaqua school board decided
to reduce the next school term from
ten to nine months, and TO increase
the salaries Of each Of the five high
school teachers 500 year.
"a melting pot will be placed in
New Castle on June % under direction
Of the Daughters Of the American
Revolution, when old gold and silver
and other metals will be collected for
war funds. The melting pot will be
placed in n window Of a downtown
store.
The senior class OF the Allentown
high school has donated its library OF
300 volumes to the American Library
association for distribution among the
army cantonments.
As result of swallowing by mistake
rat poison containing arsenic, Mary,
a little daughter of John II. Binder,
a Pottstown newspaper man, was made
seriously i'll.
Nlnety-tive Reading boys have en-
tered state educational institutions 10