Milford chronicle., 1920-06-18
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PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From
All Sections of State.

town.
steamboats, population is officially
announced as 24,726, a decrease over
1910 Of 104S or IL per cent
Not a day missed from school in
thirteen years is the record of Ora
E. Fink, Of Juniata, jus. graduated.
Thirty-three cars of crude rubber,
for Akron, O., constituted a S1,000,O00
train passing through Lewistown.
Frank Munhon, aged fifty-hve, was
found dead from heart failure in the
basement Of the Riverside Hotel at
Milton.
Though knocked out of both shoes
when hit by a motor truck, Mrs VIII
liam Hoffman, Reedsville, escaped seri-
Gus injury.
Andrew Fleckenstein, aged sixty
three, editor of the New Castle Demo-
era, a weekly, died after an illness
of some time
At an indignation meeting in South
Brownsville, was launched a campaign
against alleged open sale Of liquor and
Sunday baseball.
A brood of young pheasants was
/ rescued and carried to safety in the
hat of one of the fighters Of a fores.
fire at Tamarack.
DR.. James H. Bennett, of York, has
been appointed by Commissioner Of
Health Martin chief Of the tubercu-
losis clinic at York.
a brown trout 30 is inches long
and weighing seven pounds, caught
near Hazleton by Ira Raltz, was found
to have swallowed a trout S1a inches
long
d. D. Treon was arrested at Sun
bury, charged with stealing a pound of
butter from the American Railway Ex-
press comptny, and held in $500 bail
for court.
The department of forestry has es-
tablished a demonstration tract Of
about six acres in McElhattan forest,
Clinton county, where the area will
be numbered in a scientific way.
Frank Stewart, engineer for the
borough of Kittanning, has been ap-
pointed superintendent of highways in
Armstrong and Clarion counties, sue
ceeding Charles E. Meals, whose reslg-
nation look elIeCL June L.
R. E. White, of York, was arrested
for removing a barricade from the
Lincoln highway in Jackson township
and driving over a portion of the
state highway which had been TEN
porarily closed. He was fined $40
and costs of prosecution.
Ill health is believed to have driven
Joseph BOs.ick, thirty years old, CheS-
ter, to drown himself in a whisky bar
rel, half filled with water Bostick'S
body was found by several children in
the yard of the home of Mrs. John
Mackel, a sister of Bostick.
Backfire in a truck belonging to the
Florida Cider company, at Dinwiddle
and Rose streets, Pittsburgh, caused
a jug of Jamaica ginger to explode
and burst into flame. The blaze was
extinguished by fremen after he
truck had been damaged slightly.
Wilkes-Barre police believe that in I
this valley is lOcated a man who is +
the master distributor for slot ma |
cines. Since Police Chief Pitcher /
came to Wilkes-Barre the lid has been (
tight on gambling in the city, but the
machines are going on the outside,
and it is said they are being sent
from this city to all parts Of the
state.
Three men suffering serious illness,
believed to be due to wood alcohol
poisoning, were found on the streets
Of Sunbury. All declared they had
drank heavily of cOncOctions they
bought in a place in another town
which they refused to indicate. They \
gave their names as Frank Skinner,
Baltimore; William Jones, Wilkes ,
Barre, and Harry Smith, Brownsville.
Walter Shamsholtz, aged thirty-six,
IF Eldora, near CharlerOi, was killed,
md Leon Jones, aged thir.y-nine, nf
IharlerOi, narrowly escaped death,
when the Van Voorhis Bridge over
md carried with 1t an automobile :
ruck in which the men we're riding.
helper to Jones, driver Of 7
he truck, was crushed by a huge piece )
# timber. He leaves a wife and child, S
iged six weeks.
PENNSYLVANIA has from 1000 to 6000 e
Ibandoned farms, according to esti- 7
mates made by Fred Rasmussen, sec I
etary Of The state department of agri-
ulture, and many OF the vacant farm !!
louses are located on some of the d
hoicest farm land in the state. To
elp aid any back-tO-the-farm move =
nent, Secretary Rasmussen is plan 7
ing to establish bureau that will
st the abandoned farms In the state, p
long with descriptions of the proper il
les and the names of their owners. a
While inspecting old workings of the
cranton Coal company mine that 7
ave caused cave-ins in the Hill sec q
on, Scranton, Mayor Alex Connell
as struck a glancing blow on the /
cad by a slab of rock falling from y
ne roof, but not seriously hurt. The -
layor was astounded at conditions
)und under the citys residential sec a,
on. While standing under Pine M
rect at two different points, he a,
lainly could hear the rumblings Of
rect cars overhead. In many Of the al
Id workings caves were discovered. \
o strengthen the support ashes and y
one are to be dumped into the aban- II
oned workings and the mayor will Al
emand that the coal company stand al
good portion Of the expense. -
Sore Throat Prudence fs