Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-23
News Items of Interest
in Central Pennsylvania

Chambersburg-Dr w. +. Sapping
| ton, of Big Cove Tannery, who is now
serving his country with the sixty
| first Ambulance, British Expedition
airy Force, somewhere in France,
was promoted to be a lieutenant some
time ago, and has since been made a
captain. Some months ago Doctor
Sappington was presented by King
George with a medal for bravery.
EOrk-A two-day conference of the
General synod missionary superin-
tendents with the board of home mis-
sion and church extension opened here
yesterday, with many of the most
prominent men in the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in the United States
present.
ShnmOI<in - The Shamokin Daily
in its issue of yesterday, made de-
mand in behalf of the citizenry upon
the borough board of education to
eliminate without further parley the
subject of German from the high
school cirriculum.
WiIkeS-Barre After more than
twenty-five years service as superin-
tendent of Wilkes-Barre's public
schools, Prof. James NJ. Coughlin will
retire on May /.
Mauch Chunk-ATrs. George Reese,
of Summit Hill. gave bail before
Squire f.. j. Donaghue here for court
on a charge of assault and battery
and interfering with an officer of the
law, preferred against her by Deputy
Sheriff John l.. Mckinley.
HazIetOn-NIrs. Thomas Martin, of
West Hazleton, wife of the poor di-
rector, to-day started a movement
for sending the "funnies" from the
newspapers to the local boys in the
various army camps at home and
abroad Letters written by many of
the soldiers say that they greatly en-
joy the comic features.
Lock Haven-C. +. Logue, the noted
hunter and trapper of Gallagher
township, shot and killed his twen-
tieth catamount since being caretaker
of the Atizinschon Park, which is a
record unequaled by any hunter or
trapper in the county.
PaImyrn-The Rev. John Irving
Neck, pastor of the Palmyra and Her
shey Lutheran charge, has rendered
Eis resignation, effective February 1.
when he will take chcarge of a West
Philadelphia mission.
LebnnOn-While riding on a Read
ing Transit Conan car en- rocte to
her home at Gle, a, Mrs. Aaron Mil
Ter was severaly 'ounded in the head
by a bullet which shattered the win
dow at which she was seated.
Notwithstanding down an entire
flight of stairs at her home in Ber-
wick to-day, Mrs. John Dodson, aged
so, sustained q fractured skull and
died an hour later.
observation-disclosures of Pottsville
have started a movement to have
"lightless Thursday nighe" changed
to Monday. They say it will do them
no good to light up their laces of
business Monday, when they are
forced to close down, while on the
other hand 1t is handicap to bus
mess to have no outside lights.
Mahanoy City-A Schuylkill Rail-
way car, filled with young men and
women returning from a dance at
Frackville, ran away down the Frack-
villeN Mountain Monday night at 12
o clock, but after a wild flight the
car landed right side up against a
humping block at Maizeville with a
lot of badly scared but uninjured pas
sengers.
MahanOy CIty-Caught under fall
ing coal at Mahanoy City colliary.
Stanley Metrulis. 62 years old, was
crushed to death. Two OF his sons are
in the Army.