PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFS
@arried downstream by a strong
eurrent when she swam to the middie
of the Cheat river at Mount Chateau,
a summer resort near Point Marion,
Miss Laelia Roys, aged twenty-one, of
Beuyer Falls, was drowned, Miss
Reys left the hotel with a party of
bathers, but managed to get to the
the stream, swam half way across
and disappeared. The body was re
evered a short time later.
That state compulsory medical in-
spection in the Sunbury public schools
#8 getting results 1s shown in Sunbury,
where more than fifty operations for
adenoids and removal of tonsils has
been performed in two months,
Robert Barech has quit as con-
stable of Hazle township, so that th,
Job oould be given back to Daniel
Mulligan, of Jeanesville, who resigned
when'hie went to war, The court im
mediately reappointed Mulligan, whe
Ras just returned from overseas duty.
Among charitable bequests in the
will of Mrs, Lucy C, Cope, of Hanover
township, Lehigh county, probated at
she courthouse, in \llentown, are
these: Lutheran miss ms, $1000 ;
Mp Neighborhood Hao
$500; St. Mark's
Bethlehem, $500.
tate, valued
tives,
While st 1 b
Aas «© shielier fron
George Derlin, eof
stantly killed when
knocking
his body
years old i
the mag declare the
of the cars which
the siding threw
wheels. Berlin was
A campaign was
$15,000 towar
in order to sec
by the Bethiel
the citizens of
peribe a similar
was started
Kurtz restai
ehairmman of t
Wayneshoro iw
qua next Summer,
three-day affair be
Cadeliff Chautauqgus
Waynesboro
guarantors: Ww
Thompson, Nevin Fisher,
tow, J M. Headerson,
Mark Landis, Dr. M. I. Heefner,
neth G. Potter, Edward 8. Myers,
Cutting tebacco has already started
in Clinton county, which is
earlier than usual In Bald
township Roy MM. Huana
Clarence a I work on
thelr crop of nineteet acre William
Mayes and son, George, are also busy
en the ihree Acres This vear's to
bacco crop is reported to be 0 to the
standard in
Army worms
detected on th
R. B, Mitehell in
Under the re
burg tl
Ene on
making a 4
were put
the crop, 1
the worms could
appetite. They
teeth on the stubble
Miss Elizabeth Laws
burgh, ‘bas been named as secretars
of the colored Y. W. CC. A. that is to
be inaugurated in New Castle in Sep-
tember. Headquarters for the colored
institution were recer ly purchased.
Thrown over a high embankment by
highwaymen when they failed to find
a cent in his pockets i 4 hold-up,
Martin Matey, aged fifty. saved his
own life when he tied a string tightly
around his leg above a wound caused
by a fracture of the bones of his leg.
the bones penetrating through the
flesh. Matey was on his way from
Beier Hill to Republic when two men
attacked him.
A postal inspector was sent to
Reading by Postmaster General Bur-
leson to make an investigation of the
needs of the city in mail deliveries
Pending his recommendation, delive-
res have heen reduced. The depart.
meni is conducting a reorganization
of postal systems in municipalities
imherg were
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Rending charities will get the prin-
cipal of £35,000 under the will of the
late J. C. Iilig, un retired merchant,
who died several days ago, leaving
an estate of $50.000. The Income of
and four institutions will share equ-
ally in the other S12.500, as follows:
Home for Friendless Children, Ilead-
ing: ministerial relief fund of the
Presbyterian ehurch: Widows Home,
Reading, and the Reading Visiting
Nurse association,
The Burt J. Asper Post No. 46, of
ceived Hs first woman member when
Miss Sophia Ruth Hassler, of near
this place, was admitted to member-
ship upon her own application. Miss
Hassler served as an army nurse in
France from December, 1917, to May,
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expected that Reading will send up a
hig kick.
The postoffice department‘ has re
meved all airplane material from the
Lehighton fair grounds, whre it was
proposed to erect hangars and make
that a station for mail carrying planes
between New York and Chicago. The
postoflice department expects to close
all airplane stations in the state, be-
ed without making stops.
Mrs. Sadie Ray Keffer, a former
office which pays $000 a year,
resuMing fire destroyed three stacks
of hay with loss of $1500,
The large barn on the farm of R.
M. Fregaus, at Mount Bethel, near
Allentown, was destroyed by a fire of
mysterious origin, All the season's
crops, an automobile and many farm
loss Is nearly 26000, according to the
estimate of the owner.
A Jarred fruit thief was stopped an
put to a very precipitated flight by
resident | Waynes
mple
to call
a moment
fourteen,
eighteen feel an is r i t the
Ntate hospital.
Ihe oats crop was so badly blow:
down by the recent storms in the
district that the reapers
will only pick it up while cutting
against the heads, which doubles the
Lewistown
work and is responsible for the loss
of a large part of the crop,
Captain E. IL. Clemmer, of Browns
ville, has received netification from
the office of the United States army
chief of staff that he had been raised
to the rank of major in the officers’
reserve corps of the engineers sec.
tion,
About 110 Reading Italians have
returned to their native land, but the
exodus of 500 others has been halted
by news that they may have*to serve
in the Italian army under the com-
pulsory military regulations,
A movement has been started at
Weatherly to make home-coming diay
an annval event,
Falling fo the ground when the seat.
Mahanoy City, suffered a broken back.
He is at the State hospital in a eritl
mine at Uniontown, James M. Du
Vault was so bif¥ily injured that he
died,
Thrown beneath a large motortrock
when he attempted to board it, Frank
Reynolds, fourteen-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs, C. W. Reynolds, of Mur
phy avenue, Connellsville, was so
badly injured that the amputation of
his foot may he necessary. He was
taken fo the Cottage State hosrital
James Schilds, Sr, of Reading,
found a £20 gold plece in the stomach
of a frog he captured on Perkiomen
Creek, : .
While cranking an automobile, Cals
man, suffered a fraéture of his right
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A playground for the many Influen.
za orpifing has been established at
the Hazleton United Charities home.
Mothers’ pension trustees for Mon.
tour county were named by the gov.
ernor as follows: Mrs, Amelia Swerts
ek and Mrs Mary Murray, both of
Danville,
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Business Colleges
Altoona Dusiness College 4
Berjes and Truett Compgnies .
ptral Trust Co. "'18 Elevent
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cond Natlghig! Bank, 1400 14h Ave
! Confectionsr, ~~d Frults
Frank Antcmelii’ 1112 Eleventh’ Ave
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bie. Wm i SII1E.30 11th Ave,
ine Hos. 130 isventh Ave,
“I Orugs and Sundris
eoking & Me th 110 3 st
roan hg HH leve Ave
adol BIthek, 1130 Eleventh Ave '
vag sctric Suppl »
Altoopa Elet. Eng, & 8 ily Co, 1114
whiten oy OY by y
% Flovists
Myers Bros, 1016 Gréden Ave
Furniture Stores
aaron, W. 8, 1426-38 Eleventh Ave.
othert Co, 12th Ave. and 13th =t
Grocers
Bydde Bros, Madegie Temple, 11th St.
1Gas Lighting and Heating Supplies
LB. Ma ons e 10H Ele intt ave
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Hardware and Building Supplies
Ww. mn dare and Buildi 19 ith Ave.
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Harness end Traveling Goods
©. Casanave, 1212 Bleventh Bt.
ha pili. fewelers
C Rrennemah, 1418 Eleventh Ave
Cin iith ¢. and 13th BC
wed, r Marcus, 1 Bleventh Ave
‘ " Waiter, 1323 Eleventh Ave.
Leather, Traveling & Sporting Goods
Altoona "Leatber shore, 1410 Mth Ave.
bodies: dy te Wear Stores
130% sv h Ave,
oon o. 1226 11th Ave
Whiftnga's, 1174 Eleventh Ave
Altoond Corset Shep, 1118 Twelfth SL
PY Muzic, Jianes, Players and ,
Phy hahegraphs
Harter, A. J, 11th Ave andiéth St
reh oe, Inc. 1306 Eleventh 8
a inter & sy 7 1415 Eleventh Ave.
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Men's Mat Shops
Canty-Fit-11, 1300 seventh Ave
Pheasants Hat Bhop, 1105 1ith Ave
Men's Ready-to-Wear Stores
Goldschiid Bros. 11th Ave & 12th Bt
Leopold & fey, 1123 Rieventh Ave
Ma roh & Bond, 1226 Kleventh Ave,
i I. ¥, 11180 Eleventh Ave.
tall Co., 1504 11th Ave,
Morticians
N. A. Stevens, 1421 Bighth Ave,
Merchant Tailors
Raugh Bros, 13th Ave. and 11th St
Mill
Peal Millinery Co. 1415.18 11th Ave
Newspapers
Altoona Times
toons Mirror
Itoona Tribune
Optometrists and Opticians
Spectacle Bazaar, 1112 Eleventh St
Dr. L. M. Phillips, Central Trust Bide,
Out-Door Advertising
Thos. Cusack Co, 704 Eighth Ave
Public Service
Penn Central Light & Power Co, 1808
Union Ave
Restaurants
Beam's, 1117 Eleventh Ave,
Caum’s, 1112 Twelfth Ave,
Silk, Woolen and Cotton Goods
C. Hedberg & Co, 1331 Eleventh Ava
Shoe Stores
Bendheim, B, 1302 Eleventh Ave
Breit's Shoes, 1210 Eleventh Ave.
Colbuas Shoe Btora, 1008 Rridge St.
Hoyster Shoe Co, 1126 Kieventh Ava
Lester Shoe Co, 1409 Eleventh Ave
Royal: Boot Shop, 15084 Eleventh Ave
Bimon, A, & Co, 1402 Eleventh Ave
Homer Hanson, 1109 Eleventh Ave
The Shoe Market, 11th Ave. and 16th St
Stationery, Wall Paper, Blank Book
Hartle, W. H. 1227 Rieventh Ave
H.W, McCartney, 1107 Eleventh Ave,
Theatres
Fhe Mishler, 1208 Twelfth Ave.
Orpheum Theatre, 15th Ave & 13th &
The Strand, 1612 Bleventh Ave. Ji