THE PATRIOT
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F. BIAMONTE, Editor and Manager
V. ACETI, Italian Editor.
Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1914,
at the postoffice at Indiana, Pennsylvania, under the
Act of March 3, 1879.
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| EDITORIAL |
GEORGIA LYNCHERS HALTED
People of the North who were horrified bv the report
of five more negroes lynched last week in Worth county,
Georgia, following the publication that Georgia held the
banner for American atrocities during 1915, with eighteen
persons lynched out of 69 for the South as a whole, will be
relieved at the efforts now making in that state to check the
lynching spirit. The Georgia press is aroused, The Pub
lic Ledger's Atlanta correspondent reports that the demand
is insistent to make the biutal killing of negroes an issue in
the next gubernatorial campaign. It is proposed that of
ficers be bonded for the safeguarding of the prisoners, and
that the family of the lynched man be paid a heavy indem
nity from the tax fund. But thus far during the twentieth
century Georgia and the South have measurably curbed the
mob impulses of lynchers. We have received from Major
Morton, who will shortly be installed in the late Booker T.
Washington's at Tuskegee, statistics showing that last
year's total of lynchings in the South was much less than
half for the decade preceding 1900. Now the press and
public of Georgia are exerting their repressive influence up
on the lynchers more heavily. And will it control.
—Philadelphia Public Ledger
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Austria's reply was a promissory note.
1 It's cold in Russia and England is also feeling a draft.
It's funny how much prettiei a girl always is in her
photograph.
The Kaiser got it in the neck at last, but it took his
surgeon to do it.
Perhaps Doc Cook wants to go through Germany to get
to the poles.
The Sahara shown in "The Garden of Allah" hasn't
much on South Carolina today.
From all the reports from the Ford party, Mme. Rosika
Schwimmer will soon be in position to rally heroically around
: herself.
Many a time and oft we sit and wonder in our idle
way if there are any real Irishmen who say "yez" und "oi"
and 1 -beclad" the way they do in magazine stories.
Possibly Doo Cook went over there to take charge of
the official press bureaux.
Tis said that Ford will build a peace palace in Copen
hagen. The Hague has one.
Another pathetic little thing-abont human nature is
the way a man who had a bad cold always"wants to tell you
! about it at great length.
Disliking the hyphen as much as we do, we do not re
call that we have ever said anything in this here calumn a
bout Anheuser-Busch.
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At his birthday dinner it is said the president partook
of a cake baked by his bride, this proving at once his De
mocracy and his heroism.
HIS ANNUAL CROSS COUNTRY RUN.
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—Donelan in Providence Journal.
Eveay New Year comes in with a whoop like a Coman
che and expires with a gasp like that of the water running
out of the bathtub.
Thanks to the modern progress, it is the Stenographer
who must now worry about writing 1916 instead of 1915.
Ours is an altruistic weather bureau. It frequently
delivers better goods than it off reed in its prospectus.
Summed up the political situation is this : President
Wilson will succeed himself becausejhe is the least unpopu
lar of our policemen.
As a phrase-maker Lloyd George refuses to take a back
seat even for our own versatile colonel and our own scholar
ly president.
T, R's. notion of reckless magnanimity is to concede
that perhaps after all. President Wilson means well.
United we stand for a whole lot.
Every tailor knows a whole lot of promising men.
Lloyd George is Welsh but you'll notice he never does.
The water wagon is becoming more the band wagon.
A Hoboken astrologer predicts that 1916 will see more
fighting in Mexico. Marvelous.
II you want to know Henry's sentiments read the well
known remark of the raven.
Somehow the Balkan situation reminds us of two out
in the ninth and the score tied.
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tions ot the State.
GULLED FOR QUICK READING
News of Ail Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
i State.
Altoona doctors have raised their
fees fifty per cent.
A branch of the Peace society was
organized in Harrisburg.
A Penrisy train killed a doe that
ran across the railroad near Hunting
don.
Gunning on the Lehigh mountain,
Captain Schmick, of Emaus, shot two
large gray foxes.
The first and only optical g'ass fac
tory in the United States has started
at Washington, Pa.
Hazleton blacksmiths are selling
old scrap ircn at $l4 a ton, though it
was only $4 last summer.
The Columbia county court granted
thirty-one of the eighty-four applica
tions for liquor licenses.
E. J. Lynet-t, of the Scranton times,
announces lie will not be a candidate
for United States senator.
The Consolidated Telephone com
pany, of Allentown, has inaugurated
a bonus system for its employes.
Two bronze cannon will be sent to
Middletown from Watervliet arsenal,
N. Y., and placed in the public square.
A lawsuit in the Lancaster court
resulted in a division of the farm of
115 acres of Abraham Weir, into 225
parts.
Three hundred employes of the Fort
Pitt Bridge company, Canonsburg, en
joy an increase of ten per cent in
wages.
The Eastern Perry Telephone com
pany has sold its line to the Cumber
land Valley Telephone company fo'
$10,025.
An association is being formed bj
the Johnstown chamber of commerce
to boost the proposed WilliamPPern r
highway.
The state water, supply commission
at its reorganization meeting elected
Robert A. Zentnieyer, Tyronne, as
chairman.
Wives of officials and employes o'
the Pennsylvania railroad in Pitts
burgh organized a body to advocate
national defence.
The Empire Steel and iron companj
in Catasauqua has recharged its No.
2 furnace, giving employment to a
score of men.
Drinking a bottle of cattle medi
cine, two-year-c\ld Joseph E. Harnley
died in great agony two hours later,
at Lancaster.
Bishop Thomas Bowers, head of the
Evangelical association, is laid up in
Allentown with a sprained ankle, the
result of a fall.
■ The big banks of anthracite coal
stored at the Roan yards of the Lehigh
Valley Coal company, are being slowly
destroyed by fire.
The East Pennsylvania conference
of the Evangelical church has sold its
Bethany church in Bethlehem to the
Apostolic church.
Christmas holidays proved the ruin
of Hazleton night school, so few stu
dents coming back that the Institu
tion may be closed.
Mary Brennan, of Lost Creek, broke
down after nursing her two sisters,
and followed them in death, the third
one in three weeks.
Mayor Meals has appointed an "offi
cial chiropodist" for the Harrisburg
police force, many of whom have
corns and bunions.
Temperance forces from Wormleys
burg are planning to go to Carlisle
to protest against a license kr i <
hotel in that town.
The annual license court opens at
Ebensburg in February with 364 ap
plicants. There are only three re
monstrances filed.
A movement for annexation of fou:
villages to Steelton has been started
because of high water rates charge!
by private companies.
Waynesboro may place talking ma
chines in its public schools, one hav
ing proved a success in furnishing mu
sic for marches and drills.
As a result of a membership cam
paign the Young Women's Christian
association of Coatesville now has en
rolled 1171 members, a gain of 721.
Dr. Francis D. Patterson, of Phila
delphia, has assumed the duties of
chief of the bureau of industrial hy
giene of the department of labor.
Almost all of the fifteen new saloon
license seekers in Hazleton are ask
ing the right to revive old stands
wiped out by revocation proceedings.
Joseph K. Shultz, a Lancaster coun
ty tobacco farmer, has sold his crop
at twenty and four cents, the higres:
prices paid for any of the 1915 ral3-
ing.
Charles Olsen, who was arrested in
Cumberland, charged with assault on
twelve-year-old Ruth Huber, made a
confession of his crime at Chambers
burg.
Hoping to end the practice of send
ing petty cases to court, the Bradford
county grand jury placed the coats
on the committing justices in three
cases.
After staying in Jail twelve days,
George Getz, of Emaus, imprisoned
lor refusal to pay $2 taxes, changed
his mind, paid the money, and was
released.
The state health department has
displaced an agent to D.ißcL, where
it is reported a case of smallpox had
developed which was not properly
diagnosed.
Employes of the Eagan Rogers
Steel Casting company at I.eipcrsvil e
will have their wages increased.
Workmen getting $3 a day will re
ceive $3.50.
The St. Charles Hotel, Lewistown.
has been sold to Henry Kreutzman
for $15,000, less than half the price
paid for the property under the li
cense regime.
Complaint has been made to the
public service commission that the
Consumers' Light company, of Ply
mouth, has suspended work at its
plant for a year.
Phoenixville and Royersford boards
of trade will co-operate in appeals
against an increase in the price ot
100-trip tickets between those townj
and Philadelphia.
Andrew Carnegie has agreed to con
tribute $5OOO toward a new organ at
St. Patrick's Catholic church in Nor
ristown, If the members of the church
raise a similar sum.
Because of injuries received while
being initiated into Manifold Nest.
Order of Owls, Joseph I.aust, of Wash
ington, brought suit against the lodge
for $2OOO damages.
All schools, churches, moving pic
ture shows and oilier places of amuse
ment and public gathering have been
closed at Conneautville because of an
epidemic of small-pox.
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James Johnson for
murder, was sentenced at Bedford to
nine years in the Western Peniten
tiary, and George Jones, for man
slaughter, to six years.
Despite a shortage of dyestuffs ou
account of the European war, the silk
industry throughout the anthracite
fields is prosperous, and all plants are
operated on Steady time.
A corps of twenty-five engineers has
begun surveys near Connellsviile for
a line to connect the Baltimore &
Ohio line at Fayette Station with the
Western Maryland railroad.
Uniontown business men went to
Pittsburgh and asked President Wil
son to caill off the Federal probe of
Josiah V. Thompson's lailure, as pre
judicial to creditors' claims.
Mrs. Anna Flamm, thirty years old,
of Pittsburgh, was shot th e times
at he>' home. The olioothig i.s al.eged
to have been done by Mrs. ELa'jeth
Wuehner, of North Eraddock.
After having been d ped, lured
away from home, robbml and held
prisoner at a Middletown house,
Harry Hill, twenty-eight years old,
was brought back to Harrisburg.
Julius J. Seibert, of Clairton, has
appealed to the courts in Pittsburgh
to restore his bride, fourteen years
old, who, it is alleged, has been kid
napped by her father, Abraham Decht.
James Gordon Reilly, a New York
architect, has sued Lebanon county
for $12,246.95, claimed for profession
al services and expenses incident to
his preparation of plans for a new
courthouse.
Heury De Huff, of Mifflin, the old
est engineer, in point of service on the
Middle division of the Pennsylvania
railroad, will retire on a pension Mon
day; after forty-seven years of active
service, i .r **■, i ~
The McDowell administration in
Chester is putting all slot machines
out of business. Dominac Grant, pro
prietor of a cigar store, was held un
der $2OO bail for having a nickel-in
the-slot machine in his store.
Evidence that the farmers of the
state have commenced to use tractors
on an extensive scale is shown by a
sixty per cent increase in the regis
tration at the state capitoi. The num
ber of tractors registered thus far is
325.
The Pennsylvania State Poultry as
sociation has decided to reorgan ze
and secure a new charter to cover a
more extended flejd. The plan Is to
establish a representative in each
county and to build up a new organi
zation.
Nine Harrisburg master barbers
have been prosecuted for shaving 0:1
Sunday. The owners are retaliating
on the journeymen behind the move
ment by having them arrested for
working up cases against them on
Sunday.
Five hundred more persons were
given employment at the Remington
Arms company, at Eddystone, near
Chester. Among the number were
nine young women. The concern will
employ about 500 women in the pol
ishing department.
Immense orders for glassware, ma
chines to draw gold, silver and cop
per machinery for equipping glass fac
tories in France and India were turn
ed down in Pittsburgh last week ow
ing to manufacturers being unable to
fill before next year.
Delegates from the chambers of
commerce of Quakertown, Perkasie,
Sellersville, Telford, Souderton, Lans
dale, North Wales and Ambler will
meet on February 8 at Harrisburg In
the interest of freeing the turnpike
from Quakertown to Springhouse £r m
toll
A committee representing the Luth
eran church has been looking over
several farms in Horsham township,
near Horsham, with a view to pur
chasing a site for a Lutheran home,
to be built from a $300,000 fund be
queathed three years ago by a wealthy
Lutheran.
St. Cassimer's church and other
properties in Pottsviile representing a
total investment of $1,0)0,000 are in
danger of being ruined by the removal
of coal pillars underneath the t-wn,
and suit has been brought against the
Thomas Colliery company to stop fur
ther mining. TLA PIÙ' GRANDE DITTA
DI
Liquori nello Stato di Pennsylvania
Noi vendiamo la più' grande quantità' di Liquori
di qualsiasi altra Ditta In Pennsylvania. Per la qua
nta' della nostra merce, possiamo vantarci di es
sere i primi. Massima correttezza e onesta'.
BROTJDY & CO.
SOUTH FORK, PA.
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