The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-12-05

III tue NO. IL COllltTy VI lue LtiilSi
Coal and Navigation company near
here.
East Mauch Chunk Miss Miriam
Il. Apple, a niece of c. A. Appel, here,
Is chief index clerk at the army head
| quarters of General Pershing in
France. AT the time Of her appoint
ment she was librarian Of Hood Col
lege for Women at Frederick, Nd.
Lewlstown.--Willnm YOutzy, sixty
three years old. farmer residing
near LOngfellows, committed suicide
by shooting himself. ioutzy had been
In Ill health for year, and going to
the attic, placed the muZzle of shot
gun against the back Of his head and
pulled the trigger with shingle.
Lock Haven.-Lester Helm, the thlr-
teen-year-Old Avis lad who shot and
killed Carl Frey, of the same age,
! pleaded guilty TO n charge of man
Slaughter In the Clinton county court,
and was sentenced by Judge McCor-
Mills until he attans his majority.
! Harlansburg.- Emery aged
about nineteen years, was fatally hurt
when horse that he was driving be-
came unmanlgeable and threw him
out Of the rl,g, on the road near here.
Emery was dead when assistance ar.
rived.
UniOntOw n.--FOr fOrty-nlne years n
| teacher In the Un'OntOwn schools, and
known as the "mother Of the high
schools" Miss Ella Peach, aged sixty.
nine, died here, following lingering
Illness.
TOwanda.- OchS, seventy years
old, one of the men who aided in the
capture Of John Wilkes Booth after
his shooting of Lincoln, and Il guard
at the funeral of the martyred presi-
dent, Is dead here. He was one of the
first policemen of this town and CON
Quoted a hotel for many years.
Farrell.-The blooming mill of the
Carnegie Steel company at Farrell
will be closed for an indefinite period
on account of an accident to the big
engine One of the connecting rods
broke and smashed the cylinder. II
Will be idle about two months, It Is
said. The open hearth furnaces and
skelp mill will he able to operate.
ellefOnte-Lieutenan Henry Kel.
ler who was badly wounded in the leg
while leading his men at the battle Of
Chateau Thierry, arrived home for the
purpose Of inaugurating the big war
savings stamps drive to be made here
next week.
LOganton.-At Hawk Run, the
twelve rear-Old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Andrew Wies.'ak was killed by the ac-
cidental discharge of gun in the
hands of companion while hunting.
The boys were out for birds when
target gun Of John Long, thirteen
years old, was un'ntenti0nnlly dis.
charged, the bullet entering Wiestak's
head.
HaZletOn.--Edward V. Kennedy. of
this city, examiner of the federal Ia
Dor bureau of the Lehgh coal field.
announced that the change from war
to peace conditions won't affect con-
ditions here. He said he has places
for all maf2S or females released from
war plants rs fast as they apply
Carlisle.--Release of men from the
training camps Is causing a large in
crease. in the enrolment at the Dick.
insOn School of Law. aS former stu
dents and others arrive daily to re-
sumo their studies. II is expected
that the attendance will be normal
within few months.
New Castle.-Whilc the aged wo-
men of the Almira home could do very
little in many ways toward aiding with
war work, they have been exception
ally busy knitting for Uncle Sans
boys. The record of the women nj
this home shows thar they turned IN
to the Red Cross here 5S6 pairs "
socks, seventy-siX pairs of wrstlets
and thirty sweaters.
New CaStle.-Members of n corn
ner's jury investigating the bomb ey
ploson during the premature peac,
celebration here, which was respnnS'
bic for four lives bein lost, were un
able TO determine the cause of III,
explosion.
Reading,-Thc police are on the
track of the lads who have been rob.
bins stores, and declare that kind
of school is maintained to teach thu
boys to steal.
PottStOwn.-Owlng to lack of fnar
ces, the school board decided to give
support this year for an expert II.
brarian AT that towns public library.
Perkiomen.-Iniluen2a continues to
spread in the upper Perklomen valley
and nearby sections, and has closed
the schools of Shimerville, Kunry and
Yoders.
Allentown.-A stranger offered al
legged bogus checks TO Il n,mber of
Allentown merchants abandoned his
automobile when he began TO suspect
the police were on his trail.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Sell of lie.
high county, has brought suit against
number of county and state tax col
lectorS to compel the prompt return
of money in their hands.
Bethlehem.-The Unity League,
hustling Jewish organization here.
has purchased $4,000 property for
a clubhouse and will spend $4,000 on
improvements.
Harrisburg. - Representatives elect
/. Z. Harvey, of Bellefonte, was ap.
pointed trustee of Lock Haven state
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