The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1918-06-13
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he boat when II cLpSiacd but he was
Sa"ed. All wer" from Altoona.
Mrs, Charles j.. Bachman, aged fifty.
two, wife of an Easton druggist was
stricken with apoplcXy while She was
earning to operate an automobile, and
expired instantly. +. w. Culliuge, who
was demonstrating the car, drove It 10
her home with the lilelcss body.
thc last meeting Of the state board
.. pardons for the summer will be
held June 10.
Youthful inQuIs,tivcrcss as TO the
"oaIpnts Of Il dUal!n cap caused com.
plctc blindness and the loss Of much
If the right hand of Tony Swa,skie,
aged eight, Of Kulpmont.
The Lchighton school board has fix.
ed the tax rate at twelve mills, th"
highest of any borough in the coun.
-.
Writing from France, where she is
serving us n Red Cross nurse behind
the British lines, Miss Katherine Ed,
wards, of New Castle, tells her pa
rents: You do not need to fear for
us We have decided that we will kill
ourselves before we will be taken pris
oncr." Miss Edwards went 10 France
with Philadelphia hospital unit.
The employees Of the Pennsylvania
and Hillside Coal and Iron companies
gave $4,000 to the second Red Cross
fund. Every man in the employ O2
each company gave days wages
This money totaled onc-half Of the
quota for the Pittston district
The service flag Of the Easton lodge
of Moose contains ll2 stars.
George Il. Hoffman, eighteen years
old, of York, was a member Of the
crew Of the United States transport
President Lincoln, which was sunk by
hostile U-boat Friday morning. No
information concerning his safety has
been received by his relatives In the
city.
Two new cases of smallpox have
been reported 10 the Office Of the state
department of health. one case Is
In Lebanon, and the other is In Erie.
The patient Is negro who Travelled
from St Marys to Erie. The coach
has been disinfected and the matter
taken up with the ST. Mary's health
authorities.
&c I.. In tho
history of Shamokin high school was
graduated. The honors awarded were:
Valcdictorian, J. Harold zimmerman;
salutatorian. Dwight Howerth; pre-
sentation. Mary L. Steward, ana his
torlan, Sidney X. Scott. There were
twcnty-ninc men and forty girls In the
class.
The Pennsylvania state sheep nsu-
tutc was organized in Harrisburg,
with Charles T.. Z. Patton, secretary of
agriculture, as president Arrange
v"nts were made for sheep show to
he held IN W,llnwSport in November.
Walter ]. Adams, aged MY, Il Bal
timorc and Ohio railroad engineer,
died nj Connellsvillc from injuries re-
ceivcd in wreck last November He
had been employed by the railroad
thirty years.
Judge Solly. at Norristown, has
awarded William II. Dcttcrer and
wife, of Bridgeport, SAB for nursing
and boarding Martha McCleary, who
Inherited money through the death of
II sister in Philadelphia. While there
had been no promise to pay the bet-
terers, Judge Solly rules that they are
more entitled 10 the money than the
collateral heirs.
A record-brcuking crop Of straw
berries is promised in Lawrence coun-
ty this year. Rain during the past
few days has been especially beneficial
and the plants are white with bios
sore. The growers are con:ronisd
with scarcity of pickers and n call
IS 70 he made for school children of
the county.
Struck by Pennsylvania railroad
train, Laura, the seventeen-month-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Gus f.
Spangler, of Spring Grove, near FORK,
was only slightly injured. The cNlld
was tossed some distance from the
track.
Local business men have become in
terested i'm the establishing of the Sus'
ouehanna trail in York county. The
proposed trail would cover the route
from Harrisburg to York,
There has been n big jump in enlist
ments in the army and navy at the
Lancaster recruiting offices. In one
day twenty signed up at the army and
ten with the navy, while the marines
have been averaging two a day.
John Farris, of Pittsburgh, has been
oppointed engineer to prepare plans
for the new state bridge at Tionesta
bv the board of public grounds and
buildings.
The Northumberland Gas company
has sold It's plant to George W. Rock
ell and II. ]. Stannert, local business
men,
After serving the Hazleton Nation
al bank as cashier twenty-four years,
A. NJ Eby retired, and was succeeded
by b. Il. Kunkle, assistant cashier
At the reunion of the Shamokin
High School Alumni association a
service flag containing n'nety-four
stars was dedicated and unfurled.
A parade was held at Ha2leton in
honor of twelve volunteers who enlist
,l Il, tho rec,Ilor army and left for