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 * XI V ili Vy U U - ? ' NER & MARX" fatto cop tutta precisione sul vostro model- 1 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. ▼ É|| Quello ch'e' meglio avrete la miglior qualità' di stofa 9 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. 1 necessario di soffrire il ritardo dei sarti ; pagare un costume f > A » 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 \\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, * t x - y »>Nocice to Owners of DogsS $ ♦ X Y ♦* The tax on dogs for 1917 has been fìxed at SI.OO for V V V ♦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 'i collection of taxes for 1917, which must be paid prior to %♦ a December 31st, 1916. Should the assessor not see you, hunt ♦ 1 T V him up and securea tag for your dog, for there will be no ♦♦♦ ♦♦♦ extension of time, and dogs not provided with tags are out t lawed and will be killed on and after January lst, 1917. V V X COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. X T X t v ♦% A^A y 0 4 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 {&/ ■ ■ ■'////)/* —Cleveland Plaln Destar. ! PRAISES WILSON'S STAND •; ì> IN BEHALF 0F SiJFFRAGE ;; : •' «» * | *,* 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." *» '■ixiiii: : t I I I t 1 I M »