The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-04-25
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building.
The General Manufacturing com.
| pany plant on the Delaware river
front in Philadelphia, manufacturers
Of fertilizer, was damaged by fire to
the extent Of about 100000.
Mrs. Peter Machunas, of Shenan.
doah, committed suicide by drinking
carbollc acid.
A dog pOlsOncr Is at work in the
borough of Marietta and efforts to To-
cate him are in vain.
The store Of Peter Grcenburg a
Shenandoah grocer was closed for al
legged violation of the food law.
Eleven applications for divorce were
filed on the first day Of the divorce
term of court at Lancaster.
William Bell, sent to Camp Cor
don with the first draft contingent
from Ha2letOn last September, was
a number Of Hazleton department
store window dressers have applied
TO the draft board for enlistment in
the camouflage section Of the army.
The 100 pupils Of the Wcatherly
public schools were organized to con-
duct cOrn-seed testing clubs, prcpara.
tory 10 forming corn clubs.
When Howard Lingefeltcr, yard
brakeman, was crushed to death at
Altoona, the first man to reach his
side was his brother, Bruce, an ell.
gineer.
Rev. Floyd Tompliins, of Philadel-
phia, was the orator at the commence
ment exercises of the Paradise High
school, when class of fifteen receiv-
ed diplomas
Charged with failing to send his
son TO school, George Christine, of
Tyrone, was fined by a magistrate,
Notwithstanding his defense that the
boy earned more working than he
did.
ShamOkin council voted to invest
$1,000 Of the borough sinking fund in
Liberty loan bonds.
His head crushed by Il falling rock
in mine, William Stephens, of Ia.
maqua, is in a dying condition at the
COaldale hospital.
Bishop Hoban, of the Scranton do
cese, has announced the transfer of
Rev. l.. J. Galfney, Of Freeland, to
Elkland, Susquehanna county.
DR.. John Il. Dyson, the first Halle
ton physician to enlist in the war,
from Hazleton, has been promoted
from lieutenant to captain at Camp
Wheeler, Georgia.
Hazlcton council will employ an OK
pert To- determine whether the water
pressure was reasonably adequate mt
the fire which destroyed the Church
street school recently ut a loss of
SljOOOO.
Arriving at ShamOkin TO assume the
pastoratc Of the Lincoln Street Meth
odist church, Rev. DR.. Simpson Il.
Evans was rendered reception by
more than GOO members of his cOngre-
CATION.
Fish Warden w. Acker, of Allen
town, has discovered n large number
of pOachers who are fishing for trout
in advance of the opening of the sea-
son.
Mrs. Emma Rubrecht, of Midway,
near York, was notified by the war
department Of the death of her son,
Wilford Rubrecht, a member of
trench motar company, who was
wounded in action April Sd. Young
Rubrecht enlisted at Gettysburg last
June and left for France shortly be-
fore Christmas. He was nineteen
years old
The Franklin County Home for the
Aged, located at Chambersburg, will
come into possession of almost $780,
600 by the death of Mrs. John ii.
shook, of Grecncastle, near Cham
bcrsburg. At his death, almost two
years ago, Shook left his entire cs-
tate to the home upon the death of
his wife, Her death occurred last
week.
Theodore Sharcr aged sixteen, son
of Mrs Ellen Shafer, of Nazareth, eX-
pcrmcnted with dynamite cartridge
which he found, and was taken to the
Easton hospital with badly maugl-
ed hand.
The Northampton County Dry Fed
Grafton has adopted resolutions ask
ing the court to change polling places
to private homes in all instances
where they are located in places
where liquors are sold.
Seeing two dogs chasing deer
down the mountainside from the win
dow of her home at the foot of the
mountain, near ChamberSburg, Mrs.
James V. Sheprad grabbed gun, went
out and fired on the dogs. One was
killed by a shot from her gun, but
the other escaped. The deer was ex-
haustcd after its long run.
Mayor Daniel l.. Kelster, of Harris
burg, filed petition to be candidate
for member of the Harrisburg Repub-
llcan city committee. The mayor will
take an active part in the coming cam
paign.
Herman Hoke, junior member of
the firm of S. G. Hoke & Son, of
Spring Grove, sustained serious in
Iuries when a mule he was leading
across small stream tell on him.
Register of Wills William Arner, Of
Mauch Chunk having refused to pro-
bate the will of the late James NJ.
Andt, made in 1908, an appeal was
taken by the beneficiarieS Thomas NJ.
Arndt. Il brother of the deceased, mov-
ed to dismiss the appeal, but the court