The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-11-21
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS

While Frank Meter was witnessing
the premature peace parade and de-
monstratiOn in Reading, he was arrest
ed for making unpatrotic remarks,
and he will have to answer the charge
at the police court. He expects to be
freed of the charge.
Finding homes for babies orphaned
by the Influenza epidemic in the Le-
high field has proved difficult task
for the committees who are working
10 straighten out the tangles created
by the plague. Children over one
year Of age can be put out for adOp
tioD quite easily, but no one seems to
want the infants.
Frick company employees donated
$442.S5 to the WaynesbOro emergency
Hospital association on account Of the
flue. Twenty-Five departments of the
plant participating in the generous Of
fering, the amounts ranging from s.
to SGG40, the latter being the dOna-
tlOn of the foundry. The local emer-
gency hospital fund now exceeds
$25O0.
james A. Hamilton, of Waynesboro,
who has been associated with the
Franklin Repository, ChamberSburg
for thirty years as city editor has re-
signed He will be succeeded by Shir-
ley Zarlur, who for several years held
similar position on the Valley Spirit
and more recently has been connected
with the Public Opinion, Chambers
burg.
Struck on the back OF the head by
a pair of knucklers when he advised
two men, talking to two girls on the
street, to "watch themselves" Frank
| Goff, well known UnlOntown man,
Is in the local hospital in serious
condition. 1t Is believed he Is suffer
ing from fractured skull. His al
legged assailants have been arrested.
While all the world Is fighting,
these are very peaceful times at home,
reports from New Castle aldermen
courts Indicate Alderman John Me
COrmick, appointed in the sixth ward
more than year ago, has never had
a case.
Jumping from the rear end Of big
delivery truck, George MCLAUGHLIN.
! twelve years old, of Trainer, Chester
county, landed directly In front Of Il
! Southern Pennsylvania trolley car and
was fatally injured. He died while
being taken to the Chester hospital
William McCOmbs, New Castle boy,
who went over the top with the first
American forces, in the battle at Can
tigny, which gave the Germans the
first taste of Yankee lightning, has
reached his home. He was invalided
home.
The project to build within $50 days
! 1IS houses In Sharon by the gOmern-
ment, coming through the United
States housing corporation, has been
officially called of No houses will
be built.
The annual poultry show Of the
Bucks County Poultry and Pigeon AS
sociation will he held in the Doyles-
town armory on January 81, 22 % and
-. Harvey T.. Snyder will he superin-
tendent of the show. The association
elected these officers: President DR.
Howard Hellyer; vice president,
Charles II. Selner; financial secretary,
Walter VI. Carwithen; treasurer,
George Watson; directors, J. La
Sayrc, William T.. Kelly, Jr.; Joseph
G., Slack, S. Il. Denlinger, Walter Wis
mer, Harry C. Garner, Walter Hoff-
man, Howard p. White, Harvey #.
Snyder.
News has been received in Connclls-
vile that Private Charles w. Brinker,
If Crabtree, died Mt sea and was
buried with military honors. The
young man, who was one of the first
to leave his home town for service in
Europe, was recently married TO Miss
Olive Altman, of YOungwoOd.
Coal companies of the Lchigh field
have been ordered by the railroad nd-
mnistwtion to load gondOlns to their
maximum capacity. II was said that
many ears were sent to the mctrOpo-
Titan ccntcrS which could have car
ricd more anthracite
Miss Esther Klelnspcnn, fourteen
years old daughter of John +. Klein
Spenn, was shot in the hip by one Of
four boys carclcsSly handling n rifle
On Mount Penn, near Schuylkill sem
mary, North Reading Her wound Is
not dangerous.
On "peacc day thlrty-two gunners
were counted on the farm of Henry
Ahrcns, near Reading, many bagglng
the limit of rabbits Members of a
Brownsville party caught n raccOon
alive.
Miss Martha Williams, of Lansford,
n senior in the West Chester State
Normal school has been appointed a
member of the faculty of that school.
She will he assistant to Professor An
dcrsOn in the department of higher
mathematics.
The death toll from influenza at the
State Hospital for the Criminal In
sane at Farvicw Is now forty Seven
ty-sevcn inmates are yet seriously i'll.
More than 100 have been pronounced
cured during the last three days.
Rev. w. Il. Schmidt, Of Schwcnks-
vile, has been appointed notary
public, TO succeed j. B. Grubb, re-
signed.
Louis A, Brown, of Browns Ferry,
was shot In the hip by an unseen per-
son as he walked along n road.
Although the "ilu" ban has been
lifted in New Castle, the number OF
cases Is as large as before the ban