THE PAT RIO T
Published Weekly By
THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue
Marshall Building, INDIANA, PENNA
Local Phone 250-Z
F. BIAMONTE, Editor and Manager
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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NEWSJN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tions ot the State.
CULLED FOR QUICK BEADING
News of All Kindt Gathered From
, Various Polnta Throughout the
Keystone State.
The Spring City postofflce will be
salaried.
Chicken thieves have become a
great peat at Summit Hill.
Northampton county's military en
rollment shows 23,699 men.
Mauch Chunk-Hazleton's latest auto
'bus line has been abandoned as a fail
ure.
Milk prices will be advanced from
seven to eight cents a quart in Potts
town.
Williamsporters have raised nearly
$12,000 for relief of guardsmen's fam
ilies.
H. D. Brubaker, of Reading, has
been named state marshal of the
Orioles.
Tramping upon a tack, nine-year-old
Edna Beahm, Reading, is suffering
with lockjaw.
Morrisvilde voters refused to sanc
tion a $27,000 bond issue to build a
water filtration plant.
The Beaver Falls Standard Gauge
Steel company has sold one-fourth of
its stock for $1,250,000.
Sunbury lodges have exempted sol
diers from dues, and a new company
of volunteers is forming.
The boosters for the fund of $150,000
for the Reading fair grounds have now
reached a total of $147,000.
Run down by a trip of mine cars
at Jefferson colliery, Gilberton, Mich
ael Navada lost both legs.
The Butler Motorcycle club will or
ganize and equip a machine gun bat
tery for service in Mexico.
Dr. E. H. Dickenshied, surgeon ma
Jor of the Fourth Regiment, Allentown,
has been relieved of duty.
Lewis Vernoskie, thirty years old,
was killed in a mine at Mt. Carmel bj
a premature blast explosion.
Catasauqua barbers have formed a
union and decided to raise the price
of a haircut to twenty-five cents.
Prospects for a large, but late,
huckleberry crop in Carbon and ad
joining counties are encouraging.
Thieves who broke into the Lacka
wanna freight house at Nazareth got
between thirty-five and fifty cents.
A black hog, weighing 750 pounds,
was received by Paul F. Krause, of
Gilbertsville, from Thornton, Ind.
Reading's solicitor opines that the
city cannot legally pay guardsmen's
home salaries while they are at war.
The United States Steel corporation
announced that it would pay all em
ployes while In the federal army serv
ice.
Leonard Zematis, sixteen, was crush
ed to death under a mine locomotive
at Cambridge colliery, while visiting
the plant.
Mrs. Anna Tobias, aged 26, was
found lying in bed with a gas jet turn
ed on at Reading, but a pulmotor sav
ed her life.
Nicholas Minor, an oiler at the
Honey Brook colliery, terribly man
gled his right arm when caught on a
circular saw.
Albert Lippincott, a Lancaster line
man, fell from a pole twenty feet to
the ground and has a fractured skull
and broken arm.
An increase amounting to about
twenty-five percent has been given
employes of the New Century Knitting
mills, Spring City.
C. Chalport, of Huntingdon, has been
sworn in as state fire marshal, to fill
the place of Joseph L. Baldwin, Phila
delphia, resigned.
Mine Inspector J. J. Stlckley, of
Lansford, whose office is located at
Hazleton, has patented a device for
dumping mine cars.
Ten thousand tons of iron ore pass
ed through Lewistown on one train
from the Great Lakes region to Steel
ton and Coatesville. ,
Sons of foreign-born citizens are re
sponding nobly to the call for enlist
ment in the national guard throughout
the anthracite coal fields.
The forty-eighth annual convention
of the American Society of Engineers,
with a thousand delegates present,
was held at Pittsburgh.
Ralph Shires, employed on the Pana
ma canal four years, is spending a va
cation with his mother at lansford,
accompanied by a bride.
An oil well drilled by Flndlay Gates
on the Fisher farm, south of Oil City,
Is flowing at the rate of 500 barrels
daily, worth $2.60 a barrel.
Miss Fannie Barber, daughter of
Judge Barber, Mauch Chunk, has start
ed on her return to the Philippines
where she is teaching schood.
Easton society women are organiz
ing to furnish hand-knit woolen socks
and cholera bands to the members of
Company L, Fourth Regiment.
Hosiery manufacturers up the
Schuylkill valley are handicapped by
inability to obtain certain grades of
needles, especially for topping.
For injuries received when a Nor
ristown trolley car struck her carri
age Rachel Brown claims $lO,OOO of
the Reading Transit company.
Vanderveer Lodge of Odd" Fellows,
of Eastcn. will exempt a half dozen
national guard members from dues
while on the Mexican border.
Very Rev. Leo Lewecki, rector of
St. Michael's Greek church, Shenan
doah, for ten years, has been notified
of his promotion to the rectorship of
St. Vadimir Greek church, Scranton.
Hazleton grocers held their outing
at Mainville, and after a chicken and
waffle supper went to Berwick and
Bloomsburg, where they visited the
grocers' associations of those towns.
Honeysuckle mountain laurel and
rhodedendron have transformed the
mountains and valleys in the vicinity
of Mauch Chunk, Nesquehoning and
Glen Onoko into one vast flower gar
den.
Mrs. H. W. Detwiler, of Moyer, near
Connellsville, was almost completely
scalped when her hair was blown into
an electric washer. She stopped the
machine by tearing out an electric
socket.
Because they object to shooting un
licensed dogs in compliance with new
dog law, William Barnhill and John 1
Heslop, two Bristol constables, have
resigned. It is said other resignations
will follow.
Resolutions were adopted by Read
ing council for the payment by the city
of the salaries of Charles G. Miller,
captain of Company I, N. G. P., and
George F. Shade, a member of the j
same company, while they are away
serving their country.
A swarm of bees took possession of
a tree in the yard of Mrs. Carrie Zim
merman in Connellsville. They re
remained suspended in a mass, defy
ing all efforts to hive them for several
hours, when they took flight again, go
ing northward across the city.
Eight persons were injured, flve
seriously, when two automobiles crash
ed on a road and overturned near Mo
nessen. Mrs. J. Berger, of Mount Ver
non, Ohio, and her six-year-old son,
Clell Layton, of Webster, and Mrs.
Mary F. Brown, of Arnold, were taken
to hospitals.
Several thousand Lutherans visited
Topton Lutheran Orphans' home to
witness the dedication of the Holton
memorial—a building for orphan chil
dren under three years of age—erect
ed and equipped in memory of the
late George E. Holton, of Catasauqua,
by his daughter, Mrs. Jessica Holton,
and her children.
Bamum & Bailey
Circus Is Coming
Greatest Show 011 Earth Will
Positively Exhibit in
This Vicinity.
*
At last the welcome news has
been announced that the young
sters and others of this vicinity
will have an opportunity to visit
the Barnum and Baily Greatest
Show on Earth. This great cir
cus will be within easy travel
ing distance when it exhibits in
Pittsburgh on July 17-18
This year Barnum and Baily
announce an all new novelty cir
cus, composed of more foreign
acts than ever before.An import
ant feature is the new, Orienal
spectacular pageant, Persia, or
the Pageants of The Thousand
and One Nights." In this gor
geous display more than 1,350
persons participate. The Oriental
music incidental to the product
ion is rendered by 350 musicians,
and 3,500 costumes are worn in
the various actions of the pag
eant.
The circus program will be
one of unusual novelty and var
iety. More than 480 arenic art
ists will appear in the various
acrobatic, aerial and riding num
bers and an army of fifty of the
funniest clowns on earth will
keep the audience convulsed
with laughter. Among the new
acts to be offered for the first
time this season are four great
troupes of Chinese artists, pre
senting a complete Chinese cir
cus, replete with thrilling aerial
and acrobatic feats. The famous
Hanneford family, champion
riders of Europe, are another
new importation, as is also Sig
nor Bagonghi, Italy's famous
dwarf equestrian. More than 20
trained animal acts will be in
cluded in the program, headed
by Pallenberg's two marvelous
troupes of trained bears.
The Barnum and Bailey Cir
cus is larger this season than
ever before and requires 89 cars
to transport it. It carries 1,400
persons, 785 horses and a greatly
enlarged menagerie of 108 cages
and 41 elephants.
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D. Who makes the ordinances
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R. The board of Aldermen.
D. Do you intend to remain
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