PENNSYLVANIA
NEWSJN BRIEF
Interesting Items From Ali Sec
tions of the State.
CULLED FOR QUIGK READING
News of Ali Kindt Gathered From
. Varlous Polnta Throughout the
Keystono State.
Ali parta of the antbracite mining
regione complain of shortages of lubor
and cars.
The Amerioan Iron and Steel com
pany will run ita Reading plant day
and night.
Donald Sewell, twelve years, loet his
right arm in printing press machinery
at Loysville,
Pittsburgh's Smoke and Dust Abate
ment League again is trying to size up
to its name.
The Pottsville district has beneflted
to the extent of SBI,OOO under the com
pensation law.
Albert Buscavige, twenty, was killed
at Kehley Run colllery when a brake
lever flew loose.
The Cumberland Valley Normal
•chool opened with the largest enroll
ment in its history.
Lansford merchants have decided to
organize a shirt factory stock company
and employ 200 girls.
Turkey buzzards by the thousands
are seen in Borks county, and farmers
predict a late winter.
Professor J. G. Sandera, the new
state economie zoologiet, has arrived
and assumed his duties.
Warden SchwarU of the Berks coun
ty prison is trying out the "golden
rule" system of outdoor work.
Ten-year-old Donald Stoch has dled
at Carlisle, following three fractures of
an arm while leapfrog.
Lansford's new $200,000 public high
school building will be completed and
read* for occupancy Novamber 1.
Mrs. John Sworbill, a«e4 thirty-eight,
who left her home at Coleraine for
church in Hazleton, is stili missing.
Joseph Beckell, seventeen, of Bar
ry's, was killed by a bolt of lightning,
and his clothing torn from his body.
At the risk of his life, George Gat
tas, a merchant and horseman, stop
ped a runaway team at Shenandoah.
Leaping from a train near home,
after it had started, Louis Zinn, of
Carlisle, sustained braln concussion.
Jolted from a farm wagon, George
Bortner, of Rockville, in lowea York
county, was probably fatally injured.
Hazleton's school district offers to
boys and girls from fourteen to sixteen
years old an industriai training course.
James Dugan, a fourteen-year-old
Freeland boy, sustained fractures of
both arms by a fall from a chestnut
tree.
T. A. Wilson & Co., Reading, have
a contract from the United States gov
ernment to supply 50,000 goggles for
troops.
Daniel Diehl, of Clayton, picked
2577 baskets of peaches, which were
sold at fìfty to seventy-flve cents a
basket.
Northampton county commissioners
decidevi to have erected adjoining the
county prison a house of detention for
juveniles.
The Weatherly Weaving company
granted its fìfty employes an increase
from Ave and a half cents a yard to
six cents.
Car shortage in Pittsburgh and ad
jacent territory is reported by ship
pers and railroad mento be the worst
e ver known.
Dickinaon College, Carlisle, tenth
oldest in the United States, has open
ed with one of the largest classes in
Its history.
Bitten on the neck by a caterpillar,
Harry Schoener, a Locust Valley farm
er, is su ff ering from a bad case of
blood polson.
At several of the extensive cigar
factories in Lancaster a voluntary in
crease in wages has been made —fìfty
cents a thousand.
Paul Brown, a Pottstown boy, who
enlisted in the United States navy tour
years ago, has won a lieutenancy in
the Marine Corps.
John Gergo, a Philadelphia runaway
youth, was taken into custody at Free
land when an injury to his eyes drove
him to the hospital.
Confectioner E. J. Burket dlscover
ed and killed at Altoona a tiny snake
that had come from Jamaica in a
bunch of bananas.
The Schuylkill Navigation company
and Montgomery county commission
ers will erect a new bridge over the
canal at Monte Clare.
While plowing on Wilson Dietrick's
farm, near Weatherly, Lewis Steiger
tfalt, a civil war veteran, was taken
Buddenly Oli and died.
Peter Bowes, a* lake man, address
nnknown, feil downsiairs in a saloon
In Erie, breaking his neck. He is dy-
Ing at Hamot hospital.
Dàvid Johnson, of Towanda, who
found S3OO and kept it, and was con
victed of larceny, was sentenced to a
year in the penitentiary.
The public service commission has
returned wlthout approvai an appli
cation for a charter for the Bethle
hem Conduit company.
Within two weeks, Maurice Mauger,
of near Pine Force, shipped ten cars
of peaches and he has averaged $1 per
basket on his entire crop.
After thirty-six hours of intense suf
fering, Mrs. Anthony Gausch, of Phoe-
Bixville, died from burns when her
olothìng caught at a bonfire.
!1 *V% ì prezzi alti e non esser serviti bene—VOl VENITE DA NOI
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2 • i 10 non vi costa che Pochi minuti a provarlo ed un S2O a por-
CLIbbU. tarlo via. f
1 La nostra casa ha un grade emporio di vestiti, che si T
Un nero seduto fuori ~ ttj adattano a qualsiasi individuo grasso o magro, corto o lungo 1
1 la fattoria, affamato egli sia. ▼
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A quel tempo suonava il fischio 1 j|||l y garentita
ed il nero balbetto' Questo e' * A
A - - mezzogiorno per qualcuno, ma 1 JjL VENITE E VEDRETE I VESTIARI PIÙ' FINI IN
I per me son solo le dodici. ' IQUESl QUEST ° GRANDE MAGAZZINO. i
J Non-e' cosi' che sente qualcuno di voi, difficili ad ac- ' Ì\/T" lf"*ÌÌ T~? "tTTp y\ t
1 contentarsi, riguardo al vesito quest' autunno. "f U -A.V-L V»«J V,«,J -I» K< «L~J A J JIXJ. f
La moda l'esatezza del nuovo costume e' per qualcuno || *
T per me e'solo ottobre. > Jl |—< ri V A
J Questo voi non avete ragione di dirlo—poiché' non e' jjj « $ ìjft B JL.***- V—/ t /.1.1 w ...L k.
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» Copyright Hart Schaffner & Mar»
I FaC t S Versus ' I
Fali&ci'es ■ |
TAVTis arédl 'élate of things. FALLACY is an appar*
fermine but reàlly illogìcal statement or argument*
ìyTÀNY Peimsylvanians are being misled into the belief that a /i,
H Locai Option law would empower certain counties to vote ' ~ -
i out the present legalized and regulated dispensaries of alcoholic W
j drinks, and thereby lessen or eliminate the use of liquor. But the ' Ksx.Plr " V
| «xperience of Verxango County, this State, positively shows the >
idea to be a FALLACY. Here are the FACTS that teli Venango's 1 / j ,
story: \
1N the city of Franklin, Venango County, there is a leading repre- 11 . \
sentative organ of the Prohibition Party, the Venango Herald,
edited by W. P. F. Ferguson, candidate of the "drys" for United * > ' - -
States Senator from Pennsylvania. Under the caption. "Shall the
- Scandal be Tolerated," that paper cditorially confesses that the
• refusai of licenses in Venango County has not impreved ccndi
r-m —L- r— ~ tions, and that the authorities are indifferent to the illegai sale of J
£ 1 wf imii v/Mm ìntoxicatmg liquors. Extracts from a lencthv review in that
~ 1 journal read: i
[nfe g T _ is 3 notorious FACT that liquor is being unlawfullv sold in
Franklin and Oil City." g !
Franklin the sale cf liquor is so open that dozens of reput-
* «ir, J[j i * afcle peoplc assert they can give the names of the partie-; t
• fi i!lll||Fl engaged in the unlawful traffic and can point out where their i£j l
Vp headquartcrs are lccated." s pj
ZZIÉIZZLI 3i "C <ir PHE nutnber of drunken men arrested plainly indicates that
there is something more than talk."
—J JE— 'lli f "A ND in the presence of such a situation, so far as the public
"™]K!àr knows, both the county government and the governments
'■* of the two cities, if not wholly inactive, are almost wholly in
active." . [
pushed, ali hands of the public officials who are —-r- ..—,
charged with the"responsibility in this matter shrug their j ip— il—3—- ' 11 t i
shoulders and say, 'Let the peoplc who got us into this trouble | Vrtll r* A». » "TI
attend to it.'" \ jf T ° U CAN k>
\\f Edo not make the charge that the public officials of these yjili buy liquor b
■ cities and of Venango County are necessarily 'wet,' in that (£ " J
i they desire to see liquor sold in violation of law." , AT THESE \
lArHAT could be offered more convincing than the above- -'Sa . HOUSES' ' r
quoted tcstimony in a Prohibition organ to prove the [
Fallacy of "no license" benefit, or show by FACTS that a Locai _ 'ìrjtr!' P
Option law would serve no good purpose? For Locai Option qk.
f is notliing more than Prohibition in spots—and, like Prohibition,
does not lessen the consumption of alcoholic beverages, bm onJy 1
P rcy ents the regulated and legalized sale of liquor. yr'
Pennsylvania State Brewers' Association D rj 'l
The reopening of the Hill school,
Pottstown, has been further poatponed
from October 3 to October 10, as an
infantile paralysis precaution.
Owen Noon and Samuel Wittner,
both of Locust Gap, were struck by a
runaway mine car at Locust Spring
colliery and seriously injured.
Northampton county commissioners
have awarded a $4825 contract for Are
escapes at the county almshonse to
Brownsworth & Co., Philadelphia.
The name of the Union par + y aa£
been pre-empted for the first legisla
tive district of Blair county and for
the legislative district of Bedford.
Montgomery county has instituted
civil actions against S. B. Drake, ex
prothonotary. who was sent to jail for
eighteen months for embezzlement.
Tony Michele received a bullet in
his chest, and Tony Julian was shot
below the chest during a beer quar
rel at a Shoemakersville brick plant.
The First National Bank of Bethle
hem has given a SSOOO contribution to
the new bridge project at Bethlehem,
and the Bethlehem Trust company
SIOOO.
Yeggmen invaded Meshoppen, knock
ed down, bound and gagged the only
man on the streets, and then robbed
the postoffice; but little bootv was se
cured.
The war department has notified Dis
trict Attorney Setzer that it wants
John Smith, a deserter, now in Carbon
county jail on the charge of highway
robbery.
While visiiing h:.- cvc.'.ic-, a cleri,
man in Re v. Lcuis Ko
vachy, a Hungarian RefcrmeJ minister
of New York city, dièd at the locai
hospital.
At Pittsburgh the Steel Trust an
nounces that it has found powdered
soft coal ("slack") a good substitute
for naturai gas when the latter fuel
runs short.
The Reading Railway company has
purchased at sheriff's sale the Ameri
can hotel, opposite its station at Roy
ersford, for $10,400, subject to a $15,-
000 mortgage.
For fatally injuring Mrs. Morris J.
Geiss in West Reading, John Smith,
an autoist, must spend fifteen months
in Reading jail, besides paying SIOO
fine and costs.
McAdoo police notified poolrooms
not to harbor boys because George
Salaviga is in jail, charged with tak
ing SBS from his father and gambling
$35 of it away.
Adam Brinker & South Bethle
hem, have just shipped to a Chester
customer a set of gold mounted har
ness, which will adorn a pair of horses,
which cost S2BOO.
Carbon county, which furnished
more than 2000 volunteers during the
war of the rebellion, has stili more
than 100 widows of soldiers who will
benefit by their pensions.
Gilbert Rinebold, Charles Rinebold
and John Cunningham, supervisors of
Overton township, were convicted in
court at Towanda of neglect of duty.
the first case of the kind.
Miss Frances Elizabeth Hobson, for
thirty-flve years a teacher in Reading,
died after being confined to her home
for ten years with illness, three years
of which she was bedfast.
The attorney general's department
has brought suit against the commis
sioners of Fulton county to compel
them to establish the office of sealer
of weights and measures.
Receipt of several carloads ot ma
chinery has given rise to the belief in
Mount Holly that the paper mills, re
cently purchased by a firm of Boston
capitalists, will soon be reopened.
The Lehigh Valley Light and Power
company, whose current runs ali the
way from Slattington to Sixty-third
and Market streets, Philadelphia, has
announced a ten per cent reduction in
rates.
H. F. Stitler, a freight brakeman on
the Pennsylvania railroad, was struck
by a passenger train near Dalmatia,
and died a few minutes later, having
stepped on an adjoining track to sig
nal his train.
The Potts Brothers' iron plant, old-1
est in Pottstown, including a piate and
puddle mill, both idle far a number of
years; three houses and five acres of
land, was bid up to $38,500 at a public
sale and withdrawn.
Fear of the I. W. W. disorder3 in
the anthracite region has driven away
Lithuanians, Slava and Poles by the
hundreds, thus aggravating a labor
scarcity which already perplexes the
big eoa! companies.
In honor of its fiftieth anniversary,
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♦* The tax on dogs for 1917 has been fìxed at SI.OO for V
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♦J» males and $2.00 for females. The assessors will cali on ali
t owners of dogs within the next few months of 1916 for the l
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collection of taxes for 1917, which must be paid prior to %♦
a December 31st, 1916. Should the assessor not see you, hunt ♦
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V him up and securea tag for your dog, for there will be no ♦♦♦
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extension of time, and dogs not provided with tags are out
t lawed and will be killed on and after January lst, 1917. V
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neia an "Old Home dayat wmun
band concerts sporting events and a
big picnic were features.
An anthraclte operator who bought
railroad tickets at Pittsburgh for flfty
soft coal miners, recruited to help out
during the labor famine in the hard
coal regions, was deserted by forty
nine of his men at Harrisburg.
Lightning ran along the telephone
wires in Macungle, entering the office
of the furnace company, and O. J.
Knauss, a was ntunned.
At about the same time R. J. Ritter's
furniture • store was struck by a bolt
of lightning.
There was tremendous excitement
in the Mt. Bethel section of North
ampton county when men drilling a
well on the property of Miss Dorothy
Schemp struck water that was covered
with an oily substance, unflt to drink.
The well had been driven through
greasy clay.
The Hibernians, at a county conven
tion held at Lansford, elected Patrick
Barry, of Nesquehoning, president;
John B. McFadden, of Summit Hill,
vice president; Daniel Coli, of Nesque
honing, recording secretary; John
O'Donnell, of Lansford, flnancial secre
tary; Thomas Gallagher, of Lansford,
treasurer, and Rev. H. J. Bowen, of
Lansford, county chaplain.
Going Some—and Stili After Him
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—Cleveland Plaln Destar.
! PRAISES WILSON'S STAND •;
ì> IN BEHALF 0F SiJFFRAGE ;;
: •'
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*,* The action of the National
*.* Woman Suflfrage association at |•
Atlantic City, N. J., in rejecting ,' p
!! by an overwhelming vote the
proposai to make' the suffrago «»
movement a partisau annex of
y the Republlcan campaign was
further empbasized by Dr. Anna
** Howard Sliaw, "the sage of suf-
U frage," in an interview published ••
in the Philadelphia Press, a II
.» stancb liepublicau organ. ▼
:: "The president in his speech to ' J
♦ » the convention promised ali he **
could carry out," said Dr. Shaw.
«• "if he had promised more we • *
would have known that ho could
i* not carry it out ;[
"Not the Republicans alone, ~
♦ » nor the Democrats alone, can j*
Il bring suffrage. If it could be /»
«» done that way I would favor lt
But lt can't. We must get
♦ » enough Democrats and Repub- +•
licans togetber to do it." *»
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