The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-03-07
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS

TWO hundred Altoona boys have
joined the Junior Home Guards.
The 500 striking miners and labor
ers at Enterprise colllery, Shamokin.
have returned to work upon advice OF
Leader John f. Hollister.
Milton, with 1000 population, has
bought 100000 worth of war stamps.
A coroner's jury at Norristown has
found that Miss Salle Mona, Of Con.
shohocken, caused the death Of her
newborn baby by choking IT,
The Allentown chamber OF com.
merce has been asked to support an
application for a charter for a com.
pany that plans to run a daily motor
truck service between Wilkes Barre
New York and Philadelphia.
After Having driven his automobile
$4,000 miles. Rev. R. S. Snyder, Of
Schwenksyille, has abandoned the ma
! chine and purchased horse.
Impressive patriotic cerem1ines
marked the dedication at Shamokin
! High school Of a service flag contain
ing 1G7 stars
Unless appendicitis Is shown to
have been due to a strain received
while at work, r. Is not a cause for
state compensation
The assessed valuation Of Carbon
county, according to the last return
made by the assessors, IS over s27,-
100000 The assessed valuation OF
the middle coal field poor district.
which comprises a portion of Carbon
and part of Luzerne counties. is
s4O,00O,0OO.
The man who fell dead in the
Schmidt hotel. Shenandoah, has been
Identified as George Eovanesk1, sew.
enty.fve. Of the western section,
strange boarder.
Rev. Harry w. Snyder, pastor of the
Memorial Lutheran church at Ship
pensburg. has received q call to the
First Lutheran church, Johnstown.
without a bed, money or medical
attendance. George Hawk, fifty-three,
died on the floor of the shack in which
ne lived, near Pembroke.
Receipts from automobile licenses
for 1918 went over the $2,OOO.000 mark.
Mount Carmel boasts Of a Red Cross
membership of CTS In a population
OF $4,000.
Miss Esther VI. Barlet IS dead at
her home in Hazleton, rs the result OF
injuries sustained by falling on the
fee at Halle Park on New Years day
while skating. Death was dua to an
abscess on the brain.
HonOring sons who have enlisted to
serve I'm two armies the Sacred Heart
Polish Catholic church. Scranton, has
unfurled two service flags with 93
and 80 stars.
William j. Young has been named
postmaster at Robertsdale, Hunting
don county.
Sunbu-y school board has refused
to grant a 500 monthly increase In pay
40 It's high school teachers and also
declined appeals from janitors for 4
more money.
The fou~-month. old baby 81 Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Chamberlain, Of rer-
wick, emothered In bed.
Samuel Shukovis, n McAdoo miner,
was so badly crushed by a fall Of rock
that he died in the Ha2leton State
hospital
with coal. salaries and other ey.
penses $4,000 to $4,000 above those
Of last year Pottstown school direct
ors are further discouraged by the
state appropriation being $500 less
than the last one.
Stepping aside to avoid accident
with a coal train, Benjamin She-mln'
sky aged thity-two, of Mahanoy Plane,
was killed when he walked into the
path Of a Reading passenger train on
the opposite track.
Falling forty feet from a building
on which he was working in Hershey,
Charles Berger, Of Chambersburg, re-
ceived injuries which resulted in his
death.
Lehigh county's public safety com
mittee has inaugurated a camp'ign
among farmers with a view Of bring
Ing about the planting Of the largest
acreage Of potatoes in the history OF
the county.
officials Of the Ninth anthracite
district. United Mine Workers ot
America. at Shamokin, report that the
membership has attained record
standard of 9l per cent.
On farms near HaZleton women aud
girls in boomers will he "tarmettes"
the coming spring and summer.
The police are investigating an
explosion in the home of Mrs. William
J. Vankl-k. in Washington, when she
threw coal into the furnace. Mrs
vankirk was burned on the face and
hands.
Miss Rose Lamb, a trained nurse,
of Lansrord, has left for the League
Island navy yard, to enter the Red
Cross service preparatory to going %
France.
Although the ice crop in the Leigh
valley this winter was the best "a the
history Of the valley, less ice has
been stored away than IN many fo-.
mer years.
On January % Aexande- Kerscnar
cot into fight at Bethlehem with Joe
Gunboats, and the formers upper lip
was completely bitten of, It was
found some time after the fight ami
taken to st. Luke's hospital where T.
was sewed on, and at last Kerscnar
has left the hospital with his lip fully
restored.
Caught in n rush Of culm that hqd
been weakened by the thaw AMI rnin.
lanes Monaghan, aged twenty FIVE. q
near Scranton, WOE sufro.
Gated at the Wild Cat washery He