The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-01-03
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STATE ITEMS

Carbondale.-B A. L. Sahms
was elected Mayor he was leader In
the movement to establish small
parks about the city. As Mayor he
was even more successful in that d.
rection.
Harrisburg Senate passed
finally the bill providing for a county
home in each county excepting Ale
gheny and Philadelphia for INDECENT
orphans, dependent and neglected
children under 16.
Hazleton.-James Collins, &c, for
years State Health officer in Halle
township and former School Director
OF that district, dropped dead from
heart trouble, while repairing the
family burial plot in st. Gabriel Gem,
etery.
Harrisburg. g.-Recruitments OF units
OF the National Guard to war strength
will be pushed rapidly.
Berwck.-The First Methodist
Church, Berwick, gave $4,000 paying
off the last cent OF indebtedness on
an $S5OO0 church.
Hazleton.-The 1900 mine stripping
men OF the Hazleton district have
agreed to accept the same wage in
crease recently granted the other
miners.
Hazleton.-In addition to the scar
city Of railroad cars coal diggers com
plain that some companies can not
supply them with enough smaller care
for getting the loose fuel from the
slopes to the breakers.
HarrlsbuN.-The ten State work
mems compensation referees holding
office at the time OF the approval Of
the act increasing their salaries from
$2,5OO to $4,000, cannot be paid the
increase, as they are public officers
who can not be advanced.
Skippack.-All night street lighting
has been inauguarated here.
Gwynedd.-Western farming meth
ods, including tractor plowing, arr
proving a success on the 120O-ac'
Kolb farms.
York.-Blood poisoning, which dl
yeloped from a carbuncle. caused thu
death Of Professor w. II. Patrick, prin
cipal Of the Patrick Business School
aged 60.
Miflln.-The Farm Bureau has been
granted an appropriation of $1,000 by
the County Commissioners.
Altoona. Resignlng twice becatsS'
his pay was not raised. Plumbing In
spector l.. w. Ray IS back, still hope
full of an increase.
-Eckley Markle, son of
local coal operator, has enlisted as
sergeant in the United States Army
aviation corps at Boston.
Altoona.-Hlgh cost of feed and la
Dor have driven the Pleasant Valley
Stock Farm. Blair B. Hileman, pro-
prietor, into bankruptcy, with $4,000
liabilities.
Wayne.-Churche have forwarded
to the President joint resolution urg.
ing war prohibition.
Wayne-St. Mary's Protestant Epis'
copal Church has been presented with
a silk American flag by William Yer
ner
Belleyille The Mennonite Breth'
rem have closed their conference at
this town, so visiting ministers, IN
Guiding returned missionaries and rep
resentatiyes of all churches east c.
the Mississippi River having attended.
Merlon.-Jacob A. Kettenring,
commissioner, has astounded his Gus
toners and acquaintances by changing
his Ardmore from a retail to a CO.
operative basis.
Easton.-Howard Butler, 40,
bricklayer, lay on the Lehigh Valley
Railroad tracks in front of freight
train and was so badly injured that
he died several hours later in the
hospital.
Pittsfeld.-one thousand acres oi
land in this vicinity, have been leased
by Warren operators, and number OF
wildcat, deep-test wells will be drill
led.
Hazelton.-An underweight seller
near Hazelton was forced to refund
500 on $3.50 for hay.
Enola.-Citizens turned out In fuli
array to dedicate the new $4,000
mn IIfuh Grhnn1
York.-The use OF fireworks In
York, as we'll as the sale of pyroteeh'
MICS, is prohibited by an ordinance
passed by Council.
SHENANDOAH Coroner's jury
found that Patrick Donahue was the
slayer Of DR.. Harry F. Kitty and his
patient, Mrs. May Donahue.
Scranton.-Federal Attorney Rod
gers l.. Burnett, has handed check
for $16,5OO to Henry Krentzman, the
purchase price of the st. Charles Ho-
tel. Lewistown, where, he assures the
public, a Federal Building will be
erected.
Harrlsblrg.-Twenty or more High
School boys at st. Mary's learned
something about forestry by assisting
in planting trees on the Silver Creek
water shed near Paul street. The st.
Mary's Water Company received 5000
evergreen trees for this purpose.
Titusvile.-The Country Club will
rebuild this summer the 100000 club
house which was destroyed by fire
recently.
Hazleton. A. D. Thomas,
Of the High School, besides urging his
students to work on farms, has en-
couraged some of them to help in
the mining of coal. Accordingly a