THE PATRIOT :j <| Published Weekly By j! THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY, ]> Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue ]I Marshall Building, INDIANA, PENNA jj ]! Local Phone 250-Z <[ !| FRANCESCO BIAMONTE, - Publisher ; i Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1914, <[ at the postoffice at Indiana, Pennsylvania, under the \\ Act of March 3, 1879. |i ;! SUBSCRIPTION jl ONE YEAR . . $1.50 | SIX MONTHS . $l.OO ]! j: The Aim of the Foreign Langoage Papers of America :j !; To HELP PRESERVE THE IDEALS AND SACRED TRAD- l| ]» ITIONS OF THIB, OUR ADOPTED COUNTRY, THE UNITED !| ; STATES OP AMERICA; To REVERE ITS LAWS AND IN- ]» (| SPIRE OTHERB TO OBEY TIIEM; To STRIVE UNCEASING- '! ![ LY TO QUICKEN THE PUBLIC'S SENSE OP CIVIC DUTY; !| ]! IN ALL WAYS TO AID IN MAKING THIS COUNTRY GREAT- ]» ER AND BETTER THAN WE POUND IT. j! PENNSYLVANIA NEWSJN BRIEF Interesting Items From All Sec tions ot the State. CULLED FOR QUICK READING News of All Kindt Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. Shippton will have & shirt factory, operated by women. Newvllle wants to celebrate Its cen tennial in May or June; Byron Burd, of near Newport, cap tured a white weasel on his farm. Carlisle newspapers have added flftj per cent to their subscription rates. Ice on reservoirs through the Lehigh coal field has reached twelve-inch thickness. Falling into a tub of scalding water. Edward P. Long, four years old, Lan caster, died. For stealing auto tires, Hugh Bro gan, of Allentown, got four years and nine months. Produce prices in general have reached the highest point since 1865 In Pittsburgh. With cows' milk at ten cents a quart goats' milk is in demand at eigh' cents in Hazleton. Lancaster bank clearances ilast year were $90,475,209.40, an increase of $5, 550,000 over 1915. Five less applicants for liquor 11 cense have been made this year to court at Towanda. Mr. and Mrs. William A. Adams, ol Beaver Brook, celebrated their gold en wedding anniversary. Thomas R. Lewis has been a.ppoint ed chief of police of Bangor for the fourteenth consecutive year. Enraged by his reflection, an escap ed bull at Carlisle, gored his way through a plate-glass window. Pittsburgh's board of education has increased the salaries of office forces, janitors and low-priced teachers. Plana were made at a meeting held In Pittsburgh for a campaign for state wide prohibition In Pennsylvania. Hazleton Poles will hold a mass meeting in thonor of the late Henry Blenkiewicz, author of "Quo Vadis?" Lewis R. Anderson, aged sixty, was found dead in his home in New Castle. He leaves two brothers and one sister. There were 396 violent deaths in Schuylkill county In 1916, according to the coroner, including eleven murders. The Lehigh Valley and Pennsylva nla railroads contemplate the erection of a union freight station at Hazleton. George Kntchner, aged twenty-four, died in Rochester, of injuries received at the Jones & Laughlin Woodlown plant. Cumberland county poor directors have asked for a $19,000 appropriat'on on account of the increasing cost of poverty. Nin° hundred miners employed at the Four mines of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company, at Patton, are on strike. The FUair county Patriotic of America want congress to put an em bargo on food exports and investigate high prices. The Lehigh Valley Coal company will furnish goggles to its employes whose work is such as to endanger their eyes. Reuben Lauer, son of Frnnklin Lauer, York county commissioner, has been appointed sealer of weights and meas ures at $l2OO. A bonus of a month's extra pay for 1916 started happily all salaried hands at the G. B. Markle mines in the Hazleton region. Twentv-one applications for liquor licence* been filed wi f h P'-othono tarv vvter TT Ayres, In Ind'ana, far hearing January 22. Wanted in Jeanette, Pa., for felling a man with a club and escaping from an officer, Samuel Scnaeffer has been arrested in Gilbert on. Coasting at Mahanoy City, Anna Starinsky, thirteen, ran into an auto mobile and her shoulder and collar bone were fractured. Caught between cars at Centralis colliery, James Burcell, aged was crushed so badly he died at Foun tain Springs hospital. Five days after the death of his wife, Oliver Dewalt, Churchtown, Cumberland county, died of pneumo nia, aged seventy-three. A victim of spine-splintering In a foot ball game a year ago, Arthur Nel son, a former Cornell gridiron star, has Just died in Pittsburgh. Rev. R. L. Smith, of Chicago, has ac cepted a call to become pastor of the Bethany Lutheran church, in New Castle, starting February 1. The year 1916 was the best building year In the history of Charleroi. The value of business blocks and resi dences built total $266,860. P. C. Messersmith, secretary of the Hazleton Y. M. C. A., has resigned to become secretary at Denver, Febru ary 1, at a much larger salary. During the past year twenty-five liquor licenses were transferred in Carbon county, and this is the largest number in the history of the county. Because W. B. Spear's auto struck and caused the death of Peter Wag ner, at Lancaster, Spear has; been held without bail for his appearance. Employes of the American Cement and Tile company, at New Castle, have been granted a ten per cent increase in wages. Six hundred are affected. The past year wps one of the be • for building operations Pcttstown has ever had, the largest operation b?ing the new million-dollar p'.ant cf Ihe Mc- Clintic-Marshal Construction company Educational inventory disclores the fact that the two most pressing needs in Cumberland county are consolida tion of schools and closer supe vision on a basis of forty teachers for each supervisor. Over 50,000 units of antitoxin <?or U m were injected into Alfred Verg-y, a Reading railway brakeman of Potts town, who, for ten days, has been suf fering from lockjaw, and now is ex pected to recover. Dr. A. H. Baillet, owner of tht Pas time farm, Allentown, out of seventy five entries at the Madison Sq'iar* Garden. New York poultry show, ?o l thirty first prizes, twenty-two seconds and eighteen thirds. The $7500 verdict obtained by Jennie A. Eby against the Travel ?rs' Insurance company, because her v us band was killed by a hemorrhage caused by a tooth brush bristle, has been appealed at Carlisle. Besides adopting an eight-hour day. Pottstown bricklayers and stonema sons increased their wage scale frrm fifty-five and forty-five to sixty-five and sixty cents an hour,, resspeetive'y while plasterers raised theirs from forty to fifty cents. Abner Hawthorn, a B. & L. E. con ductor, is quarantined in his *onrtfin<* house in North Butler, a mile f~om Butler, with smallpox. Ha' t crn'? condition was discovered when & phy sician was called to prescribe for what was supposed to he °Tip. A Pottstown counci'man has v a> vc mass of statistics procured fr~m Ca nadian cities with the view of h-v n 1 his colleagues consider the sy-tem of assessing buildings about twenty-five per cent of their value and un : m?rrv ed land almost full vaJue as in vegue in Canada. John Tnnstall, aeed ninety, cv Scranton's noted twin brother', John and Stephen TunstMl, died. He ws a native of PeeVsVill. N. Y., anl hal voted at every Polk elected in 1845. It i? claimed that the Tnnstall twins were the oldest in the United States. Warren A. Wilbur, of South Bpth'e hem. has announced an annual p-'z s of $25 to the hisrh school pupil who attains the highest yearly ave a<re In the English course, and the E. P. Wil bur Trust comn~nv will yearly give a similar amount to the student who stands highest in the commercial course. PENNSYLVANIA NEWS IN BRIEF Interesting Items From AH Sec tions of ttie State. CULLED FOR QUICK READING News of All Kindt Oatharad Fram Various Points Throughout the Koyotono Btato. Steve Masihla, aged six year*, sot of Michael Masihla, of Indiana, was drowned In Two Lick creek while skating. The body was not recovered. Audenried is slowly and steadily bo ing improved and modernized and will soon become one of the most up-to-date towns in the lower anthracite region Wholesale liquor dealers in Gartoon county have raised the price of beer delivered in barrels to saloons fifty cents a barrel, making the price $7.50. Paroled prisoners, when rearrested under conditional release, must serve full terms, without possible commuta tion, the state law department holds. Injuries sustained when he was thrown against the boiler of an en gine, proved fatal to E. C. Clawson, of Greensburg, a Pennsylvania engin eer. M. W. Watson, fifty, telegrapher foi Pennsy, suffered a stroke of apoplexy while on duty at a Lewistown signa' tower, and is in an unconscious coDdi tion. William Campbell, aged seventy eight, of West Brownsville, is in s critical condition as a result of burns sustained when he fell into an open grate. George Michael, of East Lebanon, is dying in the Good Samaritan hospital from a gunshot wound, inflicted with out provocation in a Christmas cele bration. A pile of 400 pine rails, valued at $BOO, belonging to Dr. A. N. Miller, ol East Texas, near Allentown, was de stroyed by a fire started by mischiev ous boys. Conductors and motormen of the Pottstown & Phoenixville Railway company had their wages increased from twenty-three to twenty-five cents an hour. % State Game Protector Charles F Fenstermacher estimates that the rab bits and birds killed during the game season in Berks county had a food value of $23,058. A voluntary advance of ten per cent In wages has been granted the 100 C employes of the American Window Glass company, at Jeannette, as a Christmas greeting. Because of a coke shortage, due to railroad congestion, blast furnace No. 4 of the Shenango Furnace company, at Sharon, went out of blast for an in definite period. One hundred and fifty men are affected. For jokingly turning on the molasses barrel spigot in James McMeen's store and soiling and sticking all sorts ot goods, Rovert Irwin, of East Water ford, is in jail at Lewistown. Customers of the Consumers Watei company, of Montrose, are told to pay their bills and the complaint of the borough against the water company adjourned until Wednesday, January 10, in an opinion filed by Public Serv ice Commissioner Michael J. Ryan. Mr, and Mrs. George D. Fahrenbach of Bernville, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary with guests pres ent from Pennsylvania, Tennessee Maryland. Virginia. Ohio and Nev York, and the Berks County Agricul tural society presented a beautifu clock to Mr. Fahrenbach. The Hotel Anthony Schultz and twt adjoining houses in the center of Pitts ton, were burned. The blaze threaten ed to spread to other places in the business district, but was checkeo when fire departments of the surround ing towns came to the aid of the citj force. The damage is estimated al $25,000. Following an attempted holdup it the outskirts of Midland, the body ol John Ganvi, aged twenty-two, was found in a field, and Macuro Magereto aged thirty, Is in the City hospital East Liverpool, Ohio, with a bullet wound in his right arm. Dominicl? Rumondo, aged twenty-five, alleged tc have done the shooting, is under ar rest. Washington county wool purchasers are offering the highest prices foi fleeces in twenty-five years. Some Donegal township farmers have ac c°pted forty-el»ht cents, while others are holding out for fifty Though much wool ha? been purchased by the large stocks are in the hands of farmers who foresaw that the wa* would bring his:h prices. C. H. Miller, foreman of the Pennsy at Lewistown Junction, has beer pending retirement under th« pension system at sixtv-five ve~rs. Despondent, John TTrrh, an inmate of the almshouse, ended h's li f e by sending a bullet into Irs ' rain Mrs. Catharine Forsy*he, sMy-foui old. is dead at Lewistown, a?t c i livine almo=t a quarte 1 * of a cen 4 u~y in total blindness as the resuH cf t^e A. William Daufenbach has resigned his position as deputy warden at the Rockview penitentiary, at Be'l'fonte. He will be succeeded by Fred B. ftaaly The annual banquet of tha New Castle Chapter Sons of the Am r em Revolution, will be he!d at t .e Law rence club on the evening of January Tutti i itmedi' AL MOORE HOTEL D'INBIANA Barnes Specialists Nuovo efficacissimo tratta mento per i sofferenti. Special ista per UOMINI e Donne. Una sola visita di quest'esper to specialista vi portera' a con oscenza della vostra condizione fiscia ed incaminarvi per la via della salute. Ricorendo a questo grande dottore potrete forse rispari miare le torture di un operazione chirurgica. Centinaia di ope razione a uomini e donne sono state risparmiate dal pronto uso di metodi scientifici modemi. FATTO—I. Io ho molti an ni di esperienza ed oggi ho una grande pratica come speciali sta e dottore di questa parte del lo stato. E perche' cio'? sempli cemente perche' tratto i miei pa zienti onestramente. FATTO—2. Io sono ben for nito di tutto il necessario per curare malattie croniche alle quali sacrifico tutta la mia at tenzione e tutto il mio tempo. Le malattie non sono piu' problemi implicati per lo specialista mo derno. FATTO —3. Ogni persona sotto la mia sura sara' certo di ricevere un trattamento con forme agli ultimi metodi, e gli verra' fatto tutto cio' che puo' fare un dottore graduato, regi strato e licenziato, con anni di esperienza di queste malattie. Quando si tratta di malattie ge nerali, croniche e speciali, per curarle con successo si richiede molta coscienza, pazienza ed e sperienza. Poiche' si richiede quel campo di medicina e vi ci sia specializzato. Io credo fermamente di cono scere e sapere queste malattie e curarle con le mie specialita' come qualunque uomo vivente. Perche' non consultare subito uno specialista coerente e sapi ente e che vio conoscete essere capace ed abile a guarire qualun que vostro malanno?- FATTO—4. Io vi posso dare referenze di un numero infinito di miei pazienti una volta am malati di diverse malattie che ho curato durante i miei lunghi anni di pratica. Sia rigurado alia mia onesta' come riguardo la mia abilita'. Queste prove saranno sufficienti di soddisfare la persona piu' incredula riguar do all'efficacia del mio metodo di cura per tutte le malattie sia del sesso maschile che femmini le. FATTO—S. Io non vado die tro a nessuno, dei metodi scola stici ed accademici moderni, ma uso i miei sistemi allopapatici, o meopapatic ed eletrotipici es sendo questo i migliori sistemi della scienza esculapica moder na. FATTO 6. Donne malate intemamente trovano immedia to fin dal principio della cura. Le signore sono pregate di farsi ac compagnare dai loro mariti o persone di famiglia. Gli uomini che soffrono di ma lattie vengono completamente guariti. Malattie di debolezza negli or gani della persona vengono gua rite e ristabilite alia forza e vi talita' primitiva. A 1 Dußois Hotel in Dußois, Pa., ogni mercoledi' dalle 9 a» m. alle 8 p. m. - A 1 Panta' Hotel, Punxsutaw ney, Pa. Orni martedf dalle 8 A. M. alle 8 P. M. A Voter's Catechism. D. Have you read tke Consti tution of the United States? R. Yes. D. What form of Government s 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 Congreas consist of? R. Senate and House of Rep resentatives. D. Who is our State Senator? R. Theo. M. Kurtz. D. Who is the chief executive of 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 etete 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 of 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? .. I RECIPROCITY. Thar* is on* word which may 5 Mrv® as a rula of practics for all § ons's life —that word is reciproc- H ity. What you do not wish done H to ywurself do not do to others.— g Confucius. 5 Napoleon's First Love. The little French town of Auxonne is not associated in the popular mind with Napoleon; but, as Miss Betham- Edwards reminds us In "Unfrequented France," he spent some years of his cadetship there. "In the Saone he twice narrowly escaped drowning, and here, too, as narrowly, so the story runs, marriage with a bourgeoise maid en called Manesca. Two ivory counters bearing this romantic name in Napo leon's handwriting enrich the Uttle mu seum." Too Sore to Shake. "Did you take the mixture I gave you?" "To tell you the truth, I did not, doc tor." "Why not?" "Well, I fancy you made a little mis take. You gave me ague mixture. It says, 'Shake before taking,' and my complaint Is rheumatism."—Pall Mall Gazette. R. 435. According to the pop ulation one to every 211,000, (the ratio fixed by Congress after eack decennial census.) D. Which is the capital of ths state of Pennsylvania. R. Harrisburg. i D. How many Senators has each state? in the United States Senate! R. Two. D. Who are our U. S. Senators t R. Boise Penrose and Georgs T. Oliver. D. For how long are they elect ed T R. 2 years. D. Who is our Congressman Y R. S. Taylor North. D. How many electoral votes has the state of Pennsylvania! R. 38. D. Who is the chief executive of tiie state of Pennsylvania! R. The Governor. D. For how long is he elected! R. 4 years. D. W T ho is the Governor! R. Brumbaugh. D. Do you believe in organized government! R. Yes. D. Are you opposed to organia ed government! R. No. D. Are you an anarchist! R. No. D.* What is an anarchist! R. A person who does not be ieve in organized government. D. Are you a bigamist or poli gamist! R. No. D. What is a bigamist or poly gamist! 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 l.'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 remain permanently in the U. S.! R. Yes. 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