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A Voter's Catechism.
D. Have you read the Consti
tution of the United States?
R. Yes.
D. What form of Government
is this?
R. Republic.
D. What is the Constitution of
the United States?
R. It is the fundamental law of
this country.
D. Who makes the laws of the
*
United States?
* R. The Congress.
D. What does Congress consist
of!
E. Senat6 and House of Rep
resentatives.
D. Who is our State Senator!
R. Theo. M. Kurtz.
D. Who is the chief executive
•f the United States!
R. President. *
D. For how long is the
Pressident of the United States
elected?
R. 4 years.
D. Who takes the place of the
President in case he dies?
R. The Vice President.
D. What is his name?
R. Thomas R. Marshall.
D. By whom is the President of
the United States elected?
R. By the electors.
D. By whom are the electors
elcted? e
R. By the people.
D. Who makes the laws for the
st»te of Pennsylvania.
R. The Legislature.
D. What does the Legislature
consist of?
R. Senate and Assembly.
D. Who is our Assemblyman!
R. Wilmer H. Wood.
D. How many State in the un
ion!
R. 48.
D. When was the Declaration
vof Independence signed!
R. July 4, 1776.
D. By whom was it written!
R. Thomas Jefferson.
D. Which is the capital of the
United States!
R. Washington.
D. By whom are they elected!
R. By the people.
D. For how long!
R. 6 years.
D. How many representatives
are there! ..
R. 435. According to the pop
ulation one to every 211,000, (the
ratio fixed by Congress after each
decennial census.)
D. Which is the capital of the
state of Pennsylvania.
R. Harrisburg.
D. How many Senators has
each state in the United States
Senate T
R. Two.
D. Wko are our U. S. Senators!
R. Boise Penrose and Georgs
T. Oliver.
D. For how long are they elect
ed!
R. 2 years.
D. Who is our Congressman !
R. 8. Taylsr North.
D. How many electoral votes
has the state sf Pennsylvania!
R. 38.
D. Who is the chief executive
of the state of Pennsylvania!
R. The Governor.
D. For how long is he elected!
R. 4 years.
D. Who is the Governor?
R. Brumbaugh.
D. Do you believe in organized
government ?
R. Yes.
D. Aj*e you opposed to organiz
ed goTernment?
R. No.
D. Are you an anarchist ?
R. No.
D. What is an anarchist?
R. A person who does not b©
ieve in organized government.
D. Are you a bigamist or poli
gamist ?
R. No.
D. What is a bigamist or poly
g a mist ?
R. One who believes in having
mors than one wife.
D. Do you belong to any se
cret Society which teaches to
disbelieve in organized govern
ment?
R. No.
D. Have you ever violated any
1,-ws of the United States!
R. No.
D. Who makes the ordinance*
for the City !
R. The board of Aldermen.
D. Do you intend to remair
permanently in the U. S.!
R. Yes.
PENNSYLVANIA
NEWS IN BRIEF
Interesting Items From All Sec
tions ot the State.
GULLED FOR QUICK READING
News of All Kinds Gathered From
Various Points Throughout the
Keystone State.
There is strong agitation for a good,
live board of trade at Coaldale.
State hatcheries are distributing tad
poles and frogs for propagation.
York Springs is trying to raise
$2500 toward a garment-making plant.
E. L. Conrad has been appointed
justice at Waynesboro, Franklin coun
ty.
Altoona Silk Mill employes have
been granted bonuses for a total of
$15,000.
Employes of the Tyrone and Wil
liamsburg paper mills will get wage
advances.
Reading school board increased the
wages of fifty-one janitors from $2 to;
$8 a month.
A license granted to the Millheim j
hotel, Center county, is not to become j
operative till April.
Soft coal is retailed at nineteen |
cents a bushel in Pittsburgh—the
hihhest price ever.
A trolley collision in East Pitts
burgh injured sixteen persons, two of j
them perhaps fatally.
Coasting in a taxi, Gus Greenawalt,
aged twelve, Shippensburg, was pos i
sibly internally injured.
Berks county trappers, since the fall
of snow, are catching quite a number
of skunks and red foxes.
The Alco Silk company has taken
over the Cumberland mill, at Lebanon,
and is operating 125 machines.
Dickinson Law school fund was
boosted $5OOO by Robert H. Smith, ol
San Francisco, an early graduate.
Lloyd George, the English premier,
and William Rowlands, of Freeland,
a native of Wales, were classmates.
Skating across Lake Wlnola, Foster
Minger and William Blodgett, of Post
Hill, Wyoming county, were drowned.
Rather than pay a $2 fine and costs
for falling to send his child to school,
Peter Gruss, Reading, was taken to
jail.
Waynesboro received a new city
service motor truck for the use of the
Always There Hook and Ladder com
pany.
Barks county Democrats contributed
$135 in dimes toward wiping out the
debt of the Democratic national com
mittee.
John T. Coleman, of Tuscarora, has
been appointed justice of the peace
for Schuylkill township, Schuylkill
county. -
Rev. John Calvin Ely, Jr., pastor ol
Mifflintown Presbyterian church, has
accepted a call to Bethany church
Lancaster.
A six-months-old child of Mrs. A. P.
Troxell, of Emaus, swallowed a safety
pin, but a physician saved the little
one's life.
Hazleton, with 30,000 population
has 4106 employed in industries othei
than mines, the latter being the chiel
employers.
A committee of the P. O. S. of A.
State camp met in Reading and con
sldered plans for the opening of an
orphanage.
Employes of the Mathews Gravity
Carrier company, at New Castle, have
been given a wage boost of twenty
five cents a day.
Classes have been organized in the
Neighborhood House at Palmerton foi
educating the foreign element into
American citizens.
With the road In bad condition and
tolls a needless burden, residents seel?
to condemn the six-mile Lewistown &
Reedsville turnpike.
Convicted of bigamy, at Hampton,
Va., Herman Forte, an ex-soldier, ol
Hazleton, has been sentenced to three
years at hard labor.
The Tamaqua school board has con
demned the old Southward bricfc
school building, which had been in
service over sixty years.
Mayor Mortimer, of Pottsville, has
offered $lO to any woman who will
catch the young man who is hugging
women all over the city.
The families of all prisoners from
the Hazleton region in penitentiaries
and jails received Christmas dinners
from the Sa'vation Army.
Hotel keepers throughout the Pan
ther Creek valley are being urged tc
close their places of business at th€
game hour, *arly every night.
Weatherly Foundry & Machine com
pany shipped a forty-three ton gold
dredging outfit to the Chic-San Mining
company, at Chemulpo, Korea.
Clinton McAllister, of Wilson town
ship, arrested in Easton for operating
an automobile while he was lntoxlcat
ed, was fined $lOO and costs.
Employes of the New Jersey Zinc
company, at Palmerton, Hazard and
Millport will get a fourteen per cenl
bonus of total earnings for 1916.
Cumberland county commissioners of
fended fifteen candidates when they
chose as mercantile appraiser Benja
min Garver, ot New Cumberland.
Nearly $25,000 representing a tei
per cent bonus, was distributed among
100 employes of the Atlas Powdei
company's plant, south of Tamaqua.
Court refused an Injunction a
Pottsville againet International officers
of the Mine Workers; but a new sail
was at once begun by expelled locals
Windows were shattered and holes
torn in the wall when a waterback in
the home of Harry R. Bngel, Boyer
town, exploded and badly lacerated
Mrs. Engel's face.
With little ceremony and in the pres
ence of only the faculty and some
students, ground was broken for the
new $60,000 Dickinson Law school
building at Carlisle.
Bert C. Roos. of Luzerne Mines, neai
Indiana, was selected mercantile ap
praiser for the coming year by the
county commissioners.
Because he became too persistent in
an argument, at Mahanoy, Walter
Serva broke John Witcon's jaw with
a beer glass, and the county courti
will settle the argument
Police and county detectives are
searching for four men who bound and
gagged Samono Trache, of Bradford
and robbed him of $95 and certificates
of deposit aggregating $620.
Mrs. Esther Irwin, widow of Dr
George B. Irwin, of Washington, fa
tally injured by an automobile belong
ing to William Wylie, has filed suit foi
$25,000 damages against Wylle.
Stephen Fritz, the only man ir
Palmerton who refused to comply
with the compulsory school law, by nol
sending his children to school, was
fined $2 by 'Squire B. W. Shipe.
Experienced hunters say that in
spite of the fact that seventeen deei
were killed in Carbon county during
the season which recently closed,
plenty of them are left for next year
Fred Brock, deserter from the bat
tleship Wyoming, and Elmer Breene
of Baltimore, a tresspasser, who broke
jail, have been returned to Lewistown
unable to stand the rigors of the
weather.
Michael Gellish, of Highland, whi
moved his wire fence with him when
he quit the mines and went to Free
land to reside, was compelled by Jus
tice Thomas Malloy to return it and
pay damages.
The Carponter Steel works, Reading
awarded the contract for the erection
of a steel and concrete house, 216 by
76 feet in dimension and six stories
high, to the Reading Contracting com
pany for $lOO,OOO.
Alleged to have stolen a seven-pas
senger limousine from the Pullman
Taxicab company, William Stevenson
Vincent P. Hytha and C. P. William
son, alf of the North Side, were ar
rested at Rochester.
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Rar&l free delivery carriers were
appointed as follows: Pennsylvania,
Arthur S. Doolittle, Route 1, Bradford
and Herman C. Pansier, Route 1, Lin
den.
Falling from his hay 'loft and land
ing on his head on the barn floor
Brown Kelly, a farmer, near Carlisle
was found unconscious and seriously
Injured.
Christmas gifts in the shape of sal
ary and wage increases were passed
out to virtually all Altoona municipal
employes, save bureau heads, by
council.
Rev. Dr. J. Max Hark, pastor of th€
Moravian church, Lebanon, has an
nounced his retirement, effective on
March 1, after forty years spent in thi
ministry.
Court has permanently prohibited
Pottsville council from paying a big
sum to contractors for remodeling
city hall—work that was let without
advertising.
Lester V. Starr, aged twenty-five,
of Salamanca, N. Y., was killed when
he fell beneath the wheels of a B.
R. & P. freight train in the yards at
Johnsonburg.
Although past seventy years of age
Major Stephen Drasber, of Freeland
won the prize for being the handsom
est man at the charity ball of th<»
Freeland Elks.
Insurance to the amount of $94,000
has just been handed to Mrs. C. C.
Woods, Easton, widow of the late C.
C. Woods, who was killed in a fall
from the train.
Two cases of whisky were stolen
from the cellar of the National hotel,
Millerstown, and at the home of Wil
liam Snyder a housekeeper helped
himself to a meal.
Tommy Know.
"Tommy,** said the teacher, "how do
they ascertain the measurement of t
vessel 7"
"I guess they measure it with a navy
yard," was the unexpected reply.—Chi
cago News.
The average person wastes lots of
time telling other people things they
do not care to hear.
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