PENNSYLVANIA 1 NEWSjN BRIEF Interesting Efems From Ali Sec tions of the State. CULLED FOR QUIGK READING \ News of Ali Kinda Gathered From . Various Pointa Throughout the Keystone Stato. AU parta of the antbracite mining regione complain of shortages of labor and cara. The Amerioan Iron and Steel com pany will run ite Reading plant day and night. i Donald Sewell, twelve years, lost hìs right arm in printing press machinery at Loysville. Pittsburgh's Smoke and Dust Abate ment League again ia trying to size up to ita name. The Pottsville district bas benefited to the extent of SBI,OOO under the com penaation law. Albert Buscavige, twenty, was killed at Kehley Run colliery when a brake lever flew loose. The Cumberland Valley Normal ■chool opened with the largest enroll ment in ite hiatory. Lanaford merchanta have decided to organize a shirt factory stock company and employ 200 girla. Turkey buzzards by the tbouaands are aeen in Berks county, and farmera predict a late winter. Professor J. G. Sandera, the new state economie zoologist, baa arrived and assumed hìs duties. "Warden Schwartz of tbe Berka coun ty prison is trying out the "golden rule" system of outdoor work. Ten-year-old Donald Stech has died at Carlisle, following three fracrures of an arm while playiiy; leapfrog. Lansford's new $200,000 public high achool building will be oompleted and read* for occupancy Novamber 1. Mra. John Sworbill, a*e4 thirty-e4ght, who left her home at Coleraine for church in Hazleton, is stili missing. Josaph Beckell, seventeen, of Bar ry's, was killed by a bolt of lightning, and his clothing torn from his body. At the risk of hia 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, suatained brain concusaion. Jolted from a farm wagon, George Bortner, of Rockville, in lowe« York county, was probably fatally injured. Hazleton's school district offers to boya 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 fifty to seventy-five cents a basket. Northampton county commissioners decided to have erected adjoining the county prison a house of detention for juveniles. The Weatherly Weavlng company granted its fifty employes an increase from five 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 aver 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 suffering from a bad case of blood poison. At several of the extensive cigar factories in Lancaster a voluntary in crease in wages has been made —fifty cents a thousand. Paul Brown, a Pottstown boy, who enJisted in the United States navy four years ago, has won a lieutenancy in the Marine Corps. John Gergo, a Philadelphia runaway youth, was taken into eustody at Free land when an injury to his eyes drove him to the hospital. Confectioner E. J. Burket discover ed and killed at Altoona a tinv 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 ìarm, near Weatherly, Lewis Steiger- K r alt, a civil war veteran, was taken luddenly illl and died. Peter Bowes, a* lake man, address cnknown, fe%l downsiairs in a saloon fn Erie, breaking his neck. He is dy (ng at Hamot hospital. Dàvid Johnson, of Towanda, who found S3OO and kept it, and was con ricted of larceny, was sentenced to a year in the penitentiary. The public service commission has returned without 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 liixville, died from burns when her olothing caught at a bonfire. !T "V*"! "V' I prezzi alti e non esser serviti bene—VOl VENITE DA NOI JLJ. V JLJJL ky OGGI per indossare un ' elegante abito "HART SCHAFF- ? XER & MARX" fatto cop tutta precisione sul vostro model- A Z 10 n ° n VÌ COSta che pochi minut i a provarlo ed un S2O a por- U-l fc> kD W . j ' - t La nostra casa ha un grade emporio di vestiti, che si f Un nero seduto fuori ~ * | adattano a qualsiasi individuo grasso o magro, corto o lungo 1 À la fattoria, affamato che egli sia. T senza un soldo proprio in mll „u>~> J. , ... „ A MI Quello eh e meglio avrete la miglior qualità' di stofa • A quel tempo suonava il fischio garentita ed il nero balbetto' Questo e' 1 «w m i mezzogiorno per qualcuno, ma i fijL S - VENITE E VEDRETE I VESTIARI PIÙ' FINI IN V QUESTO GRANDE MAGAZZINO 1 I per me son solo le dodici. / - \j. ■ T Non-e' cosi' che sente qualcuno di voi, difficili ad ac- f \/T" I %f\ "T i FTTp /\ "1 ~ i 1 contentarsi, riguardo al vesito quest' autunno. ' 1 !|| ' :t ««A-V-A, VwX» I L .«A li „J JLJk«J'., J La moda l'esatezza del nuovo costume e' per qualcuno li T Per me e'solo ottobre. I flfÌf "R TO fili P"PR A 4 Questo voi non avete ragione di dirlo—poiché' non e' ijl § il U.1,1,wX kJ T (necessario di soffrire il ritardo dei sarti ; pagare un costume )\l pìi * A i Copyright Hart Schaffner & Mai* w I F a'CtS Versus ' 1 F alla ci e s FAVT Ss a redi Mate of things. FALUACY is an appar* lently servu,vne ftut really illogicai statement or argument* --- - ÌM" ANY Pennsylvamans are being misled into the belief that a /l. I L Locai Option law would erapower certain counties to vot« ' ! out the present legalized and regulated dispensaries of alcoholic. W , drinks, and thereby lessen or eliminate the use of liquor But the .aV " V I «xperience of Venango County, this positively shows the | venSÌgo > idea to be a FALLACY. Here are the FACTS that teli Venaneo's 1 oco / ; | story; \ f IN the city of Franklin, Venango County, there is a leading repre- i\ > A sentative organ °f 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 U , °j Ì c ® n !5 s in Venango County has not impreved ccndi r? —L-i— ~ vA P°" s '. a "? tha the authonties are indifferent to the illegal sale of [j u. I -yZ 40 vili, ////% intoxicating liquors. Extracts from a lencrthv review in that rr JJ. ii journal read: ». L 2. Ri m—,— a T T > a notorious FACT that liquor is beine unlawfullv sold in i § t y Franklin and Oil City." g rnit^ — iVI Franklin the sale cf liquor is so open that dozens of reput- 1 1 'Mi-éfÀ 1 1 able P e °P lc assert they can give the names of the partici p *IH i:!ìli jTil engaged in the unlawful traffic and can point out where their £j l «.mtojlì, i l headquarters are lccated.", pj ~~~ | --ir ir THE number cf drunken men. arrested plainly indicates that J liìiiìW '" r "l ■ || |ìn|f\ p V r there is something more than talk." ' | —l knows, both the county governrnent and the governments 'illilp l of the two cities, if not wholly inactive, are almost wholly in active." | pushed, ali hands of the public officiala who are < —y— f charged with the responsibility in this matter shrug their j —il—L » t jj a j shoulders and say, 'Let the peoplc who got us into this trouble . | VlMl r* ak » "t i attend to it.'" # AN ] I U W not rna^ce charge that the public officials of these (& ì BUY liquor ; F * ■ cities and of Venango County are necessarily 'wet,' ia th4t (I " An* "rii w j they desire to see liquor sold in violation of law." ■ AT THESE i, could be offered more convincine than the above- a .. HOUSES* 1 ff ** quoted testimony in a Prohibition organ to prove the 1 B [ Fallacy of "no license" benefit, or show by FACTS that a Locai , Sfrs- -* 0 1! Option law would serve no good purpose? For Locai Option - is notlung more than Prohibition in spots —and, like Prohibition, «Mp 11 does not lessen the consumption of alcoholic beverages, oaly 1 prevents the regulated and legalized sale of liquor. (Ws |J Pennsylvania State Brqu&rs' Assqciation [/ fj j | The reopening of the Hill school. Pottatown, has been further poàtponed 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 almshciLse to Brownsworth & Co., Philadelphia. The name of the Union par f y nas 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 booty 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 visiting h:;- rc;'.ic •- a clc;*3. man in Phoenix ville, Rev. Ixuis 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 ru.ns 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 notifled poolrooms not to harbor boys because George Salaviga is in jail, charged with tak ing SSS from his father and gambling $35 of it away. Adam Brinker & Co., South Bethle hem, have just shipped to a Chester customer a set of gold mounted har ness, which will adorn a pair of horses, whieh 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 of 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 ratea. H. F. Stitler, a freight brakeman on the Pennsylvania railroad, was s truck by a passenger train near Dalmatia, and died a few minutes later, havirig stepped on an adjoining track to sig nal his train. The Potts Brothers' iron plant, old est in Pottstown, including a piate and puddle mi 11, both idle far a number of years; three houses and five aerea of land, was bid up to $38,500 at a public sale and withdrawn. Fear of the L W. W. disorders in i the anthracite region has driven away Lithuanians, Slava and Poles by ths ! hundreds, thus aggravating a labor scarcity which already perplexea the big coal companies. In honor of its fiftieth anniversary, t ? x — . y ♦♦♦Nocice to Owners of Dog-s»> $ T A V ♦' The tax on dogs for 1917 has been fixed at SI.OO for V V V <£♦ 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 J T y collection of taxes for 1917, which must be paid prior to %♦ December 31st, 1916. Should the assessor not see you, hunt ♦ t f V him up and securea tag for your dog, for there will be no V extension of time, and dogs not provided with tags are out -1 lawed and will be killed on and after January lst, 1917. V f V COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. V X T X T v ♦♦ neia an "Old Home day," at Train. band concerts sporting events and a big picnic were features. An anthracite operator who bought railroad tickets at Pittsburgh for fifty Boft coal minerà, recruited to help out during the labor famine in the hard coal regions, waa deaerted 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 stunned. At about the same time R. J. Ritter's furniture • store was atruck by a bolt of lightning. There waa tremendoua 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, presidenti John B. McFadden, of Summit Hill, vice presidenti Daniel Coli, of Nesque honing, recording secretary; John O'Donnell, of Lansford, financial secre tary; Thomas Gallagher, of Lansford, treasurer, and Rev. H. J. Bowen, of Lanaford, county chaplain. Going Some—and Stili After Him m. —Cleveland Plaln Dealer. IPRAISES WILSON'S STAND » IN BEHALF OF SUFFRAGE The action of the National Woman fcuffrage assoclation at Atlantic City, N. J., in rejecting % by an overwhelming vote the I proposai to make* the suffraga !! movement a partisan annex of the liepublican campaign waa further emphasized by Dr. Anna Howard Slmw, "the sage of suf- Il frage," in an interview published " in the Philadelplila Press, a !! stanch liepublican organ. * * "The president in bis speech to * £ the convention promised ali he * » could carry out," said Dr. Shaw. 4» "If he had promised more we * • a would have known that he could \ ' Y not carry lt out. j ► $ "Not the Republicans alone, < \ T nor the Democrats alone, can ** £ bring suffrage. If it could be , ' t done that way I would favor it *.* J But it can't. We must get \\ + enough Democrats and Repub- X licans together to do it." <i' * » **• A • 'l* '!■ ♦ » » ■!« » ■!■ » » » » »
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