The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-05-30
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destroyed. Several other dwellings
in the immediate vicinity were scorch.
ed. Seven families were made home.
less. The loss is $4,000, more than
half Of II being sustained by the con.
tracing firm which had no insurance
West Fairview high school will
graduate class of nine pupils.
Stanley Olenick, twenty-five years
old, committed suicide by shooting
near Kistler.
Prof. ]. w. .Bucher has been re.
elected supervising principal of the
Marietta public schools and principal
Of the high school.
Twenty-seven Bradford county
towns raised honor flags won in the
Third Liberty Loan drive with pa.
triotic exercises.
William Bradford, a Ferguson Val.
ley farmer, lost his right eye, which
was penetrated by the horn Of steer
as the animal threw its head about
Surrounded by more than 300 rela.
tives and friends, Mr.. and Mrs. Thorn.
as j. Armstrong, Of Altoona, celebrat.
ed the fiftieth anniversary of their
marriage.
Martha, three-months-o daughter
Of Mrs. A. P. Smith, of Rockport, Is
the youngest owner of Liberty Bond
in the HaZleton section.
To discourage "iy by night mer.
chants from locating in Scranton,
council has boosted the city tax on
transient dealers to 5000 year
When John Kehoskey resigned from
the Hazleton police force he was the
tenth man to quit the department
since the first of the year.
Granting q wage increase OF four.
teen per cent, the Consumers Ice and
Coal company, Of Scranton, ended a
strike called by fifty drivers.
Edward McGill, dairyman at the
Laurytown almshouse farm, sustain.
ed fracture of the right arm and
serious contusions Of the body when
attacked by a stubborn calf.
Leroy Keller, of Barto, in the navy,
died Of appendicitis at New London,
Conn.
More than 6000 persons participated
in the parade which marked the
launching of the $150,OO0 Red Cross
campaign in Reading.
The Reading railway school fol
telegraphers in Pottstown, and which
has had 100 students since it opened
eleven months ago, will be closed.
In the annual defamation contest
for gold prizes between girls of the
Pottstown high school, Eleanor Miller
won first prize and Sara Gilbert sec.
Ond.
Stricken with heart trouble while
on her way home from cemetery,
where she went to look at q burial LOT,
Mrs. Samuel Marks, sixty-eight, died
at Reading.
To mark the reaching of S1,00O,OOO
In deposits, President Buckwalter, Of
the Royersford Trust company, gave
a banquet to the directors, officers and
employees.
Burgess Ritter has prohibited the
sale of fireworks and firearms of all
kinds in Liverpool this year.
The Suzanne Silvercruys fund, start
ed a few days ago at Lewistown in
behalf of the Belgium people, has
reached $4,000.
Burban E. Woodring, a travelling
salesman, is the first Allentownian to
be accepted by the Y. NJ. C. A. for
work in France.
Mistaking young laurel for tea
leaves, Henry Anderson, aged seven
years, of Red Cross, near HerndOn,
ate heartily Of the tender shoots. A
short time later he was taken violent
ly Ill and died in convulsions caused
by the poisoning.
Lawrence county farmers have turn
ed under more ground this spring than
ever before. They're plowing for lib
erty, and, with good weather, larger
crops will be raised than ever in the
county's history.
German will be dropped from the
curriculum of the Altoona schools at
the close of the present term.
Mrs. John E. Thomas, clerk in the
Allentown courthouse, has received
telegram announcing that her huS
band who was a member of the Unit
ed States ambulance corps, in France
enlisting last summer, at Camp Crane
has been brought back to this country
and is now at the base hospital at
Waynesville, n. c., recovering from
wounds received in action.
Four Lancaster high school boys
were formally expelled They were
the ringleaders in an egg-throwing IN
cident some time ago and later were
concerned in the absence from school
Of the entire senior class. Several OF
the boys were enlisted in the boys
working reserve, but their pranks nave
interfercd with this.
That school teachers are not entitled
to pay for the month or more OIL
school lost on account Of the state III
fantie paralysis quarantine, is tIe
opinion Of Judge Moser, of NorthuIl'
berland county, who heard the test
case of Thomasine Hotter VS.. the Pat
ton school district.
Fourteen drafted men left ShamoKln
for Columbus barracks, Columbus, "
They were given rousing send-oH
by a band and hundreds of citizens
A committee of patriotic organizations
presented each man with tobacco,
cigarettes and cigars, while the lieu
Cross provided each with a comiof'
kit and luncheon