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e Dischi Doppi Columbia = ■ —■■ I ■ ■ 11W———I—————— Siamo contenti di annunziare che abbiamo aperto un dispartimento di macchine parlanti, dove sarete ben ricevuto ogni tempo per sen • tire pezzi di musica di tutte le specie. I dischi si quai- Italiano, Slavish, Hungarian, Danisli, Norwegian, French, English, German Steving & Streams (VICINO AL BON TON) INDIANA, - - PENNSYLVANIA \n\n THE PATRIOT Published Weekly By THE PATRIOT PUBLISHING COMPANY. Office: No. 15 Carpenter Avenue Marshall Building, INDIANA, PENNA Local Phone 250-Z F. BIAMONTE, Editor and Manager V. ACETI, Italian Editor. Entered as second-class matter September 26, 1914, at the postoffice at Indiana, Pennsylvania, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION ONE YEAR . . $l.OO | SIX MONTHS. . $75 The Aim of the Foreign Language Papers of America To HELP PRESERVE TIIE IDEALS AND SACRED TRAD ITIONS OF THIS, OUR ADOPTED COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ; To REVERE ITS LAWS AND IN SPIRE OTHERS TO OBEY THEM; To STRIVE UNCEASING LY TO QUICKEN THE PUBLIC'S SENSE OF CIVIC DUTY; IN ALL WAYS TO AID IN MAKING THIS COUNTRY GREAT ER AND BETTER'THAN WE FOUND IT. PENNSYLVANIA NEWS IN BRIEF Interesting items From All Sec tions o( the State. CULLED FOB QUICK READING News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. Thieves stole $l2OO from Michael o*Bo at Milton. Two thousand shells a day is the output of the Jeanesville Iron works. Striped clothing for prisoners at the eounly jail in Lancaster will be abol ished. Lancaster has 600 cases of measles, 160 of them originating in the laat tiiree days. Le vision's $lOO,OOO Y. M. C. A. building will be erected at Market and Third streets. The wheel foundry at the Berwick oar plant is tied up by a strike for lrurreased wages. About E 0,000 trees will be planted around Ringing Hill, near Pottstown, by State Forester McNeal. Jeddo, a mining town, enjoys the <Mstinction of being the only borough o L the etate with no debt. The Montgomery County Sunday School association will hold a conven tion, May 2C>, in Norristown. Twelve Hazleton yoimg men were arrested and fined by Mayor Harvey for annoying girls in the streets. The Agricultural Trust company, Lancaster's latest financial institution, has bought its home for $lOO,OOO. George Kemmsrer, of Mahoning, shot and killed a bald eagle, which measured five feet from tip to tip. Fire, discovered in the fifth level in Gllberton colliery, destroyed consid erable timber and caused uneasiness. Dr. George W. Harrington, Hazleton, was seriously injured as he fell down stairs trying to reach runaway au to. There are 300 cases of measles in Lancaster, and the epidemic has ma terially interferred with school atten dance. A ten psr cent increase in wages has been granted the 160 employes of the Van Alen & Co. works at Northum berland. The Women's Missionary Society of Carlisle _Reformed Classis. has elect- A Banquet For Horses. Banquets prepared exclusively for animals are not altogether unknown in England. The aged inmates of the Home of Rest For Horses, Westcroft farm, Cricklewood, celebrate each New Year's day with a sumptuous re past. The menu for the last banquet consisted of lumps of sugar, chopped carrots, apples, brown and white bread and biscuits. These were mixed to gether in a wooden box and placed out side each stable door.—Loudon Tele graph. Natural Result. "What happened when her father put his foot down on the match?" "Why, what always happens when you put your foot down on a match? There was an explosion."—Kansas City Journal. Made Him Hustle. "To what do you attribute your suc cess?" "To the fact," replied the self made man proudly, "that in my youth I enjoyed all the disadvantages." St. Louis Republic. eTI Mrs. Sue Tlrestlne, "STecx president. Strucken as he sat in a barber's chair at Bloomsburg, Daniel Dawson, 76, has since been unconscious and may die. Thieves robbed • the po x office at Zion Hill, getting a few dollars in money and merchandise from the gen eral store. A. G. Bowers, of Lancaster, has been appointed an engineer to make improvements in the harbor of Chee foo, China. A breach of promise jury at Lancas ter awarded Alice E. Seitz $2OOO for fourteen years' courtship by Clayton D. Newcomer. Work on the new country bridge over the Schuylkill at Phoenixville is being rushed after a long delay, caus ed by bad weather. The state board of pardons' session for May has been postponed from May IT to May 24, and twelve new cases have been listed. Judge A. D. McConneil, in Greens bnrg, has decided that the borough of Vandergrift has no legal right to a borough manager. The Reading Transit company has placed its order for 600 tons of rails for I®l7 with the Lorain Steel com pany, of Lorain, Ohio. The wages of employes of the East en Brass and Machine oompany were raised ten per cent; also those of the Psn Argyl Silk company. Three thousand members of the Loyal Order of Moose in central Penn sylvania towns attended a celebration of Williams port lodge. The Columbia National bank and the Pittsburgh Union Trust company have assailed the constitutionality of the escheat law of 1915. Emporium is in the midst of one of the greatest building booms in its his tory, which inoludeis a new tjhree etory hotel, capacity 500. Dr. C. G. Basset, of the University of Pittsburgh, addressing students in Harrisburg urged that defectives be allowed to die at birth. The Waynesboro board of trade has elected these officers: President, J. H. Stoner; vice president, H. E. D. Gray; treasurer, Ira N. Hoover. Many farmers of the vicinity of West Chester witnessed an exhibition of plowing with the aid of a gasoline tractor, on the Jones farm. Mrs. Michael Angoly, of McAdoo, on the way to Hazleton for chopping, be same the mother of a baby boy on a Pennsylvania railroad train. The public service commission held fifteen hearings on applications for approval of contracts, Incorporation papers and similar matters. Contractor H. F. Stark, of Greens burg, has lost eight prize winning herees from a mysterious disease on hi* stock farm near Ligonier. William M. Hobart has been ap pointed Justice of the peace for Potts town, and George F. Brown for Snow Shoe township, Centre county. In No Hurry. "Too many people," said a clergy man, "regard their religion as did the little boy in the jam closet. His moth er pounced on him suddenly. He stood on tiptoe, ladling jam with both hands from the jam pot to his mouth. " 'Oh, Jacky!' his mother cried. 'And only last night you prayed to be made a saint!' "His face, an expressionless mask of jam, turned toward her. " 'Yes, but not till after I'm dead,' he explained." Quarantined. Mother (to district health visitor)—l declare to goodness, miss, there ain't no danger of infection. Them children wot's got the measles is at the head of the bed, and them wot ain't is at the foot—Spokane Review. A Call on the Waiter. Hotel Clerk-Is this $l,OOO bill the smallest thing you have about you? Departing Guest—l am afraid it is. Clerk (to bellboy)— Here, take this bill to one of the waiters and ask him to change it.—Judge. The family of John Slngley, of Man heim, who shot Mrs. Kathryn Shoen berger and then killed himself, now admit that the girl was his wife. The roll of students at the West Chester State Normal school for the present term embraces V'lo, the larg est in the history of the institution. The home of Frank Lench, of Tresc kow, near Hazleton, was wrecked by a large piece of iron hurled by a blast in the anthracite strippings nearby. A substitute for gasoline, which can be manufactured and sold at a profit for seven cents a gallon, has been dis covered by Earl C. Easig, of Altoona. Sophia Ordieka, three years odd, while playing with matches, at Ches ter, was fatally burned and died soon after being admitted to the hospital. After selling a one-pound trout far a dollar on a curbstone market at Jersey Shore, Howard Smith, of Rouchtown, was arrested and fined $2O and costs. William Graham, aged thirty-four, was nearly cut to pieces when struck by a train on the Elmira division of the Pennsylvania railroad, near Ral ston. Chambersburg's council declined to accept the bequest of a public library by the late Mrs. Blanche B. Coyle/as the maintenance charges would be too high. Pittsburgh's Presbyterian Ministeri al association has rapped the Stone men, declaring they are nothing more than a Protestant Episcopal move ment An ephatic letter was written to Governor Brumbaugh by E. M. Knapp, of Reading, complaining about the con dition of state highways in that vi cinity. It is announced that the men at the shell factory of the Jeanesville Iron works will be given increases in pay running from ten to thirty-five cents a day. For the first time sinca Sunday school conventions have been held in Columbia county, this year's conven tlcKa. will be hedd in a tent in West Berwick. Standing at the station to bid a wedding party good-bye, John Velkey, eighteen, of Hazleton, got too close to the tracks as a train came in, and was killed. The Chester County Corn Growers' association offers $lO in gold to the boy under twelve years of age, who, this season raises the best quarter acre of corn. A Good Roads association has been formed at Bloomsburg, and an effort will be made to have the work done in Columbia surpass that In any neigh boring county. Harry R. Peacock, treasurer of the Humane Fire company, Easton, was arrested and held in $lOOO bail, charg ed with embezzling $552.44 of the or ganization's money. Howard W. Atkinson, of the Bucks County Fish, Game and Forestry asso ciation, has received five cans of large yellow perch for stocking a stream near Doylestown. Arthur L. Bow ell, Ararat township, Susquehanna county, and Bphraim Reigard, Conemaugh township, Cam bria county, have been appointed jus tices of the peace. Fees totalling $6775 have been added to the Lehigh county treasury, the fees collected having amounted to fifty per cent more than the salaries allowed officeholders. Co-operation with coal companies and state authorities in repairing high ways around Hazleton on Good Roads day, May 25, was decided on by the Hazleton Motor club. William Thomas, of Hanover town ship, whose auto accidentally killed edeven-year-old Michael Maricano, at Hazleton, last month, was freed by a Luzerne county grand jury. Leon J. Russell, supervising princi pal of the Towanda public schools, has been appointed by State Superintend ent SchaefTer as superintendent of pub lic schools of Bradford county. Two men entered the saloon of the Boston House, at Corry, and after or dering drinks walked off with $5OO which had just been drawn from bank by Frank Keleher, the proprietor. A ring-neck pheasant appeared among the flock of chickens belonging to J. H. Nicholson, Bullskin township, Connellsville. Recently a deer passed through Nicholson's yard. A voluntary increase of ten per cent in wages has been granted to all em ployes except those working under the amalgamated scale by the Tyler Tube and Pice company in Washington. Twenty-seven constables in Wash ington county received no pay when they made their quarterly returns be cause they had refused to enforce the law relative to the killing of unlicens ed dogs. Action of the Lehigh county commis sioners in appropriating $lOOO for a farm adviser comes too late, as it has been learned that the funds of the state, which pays half, have been ex hausted. Reading's activities in city planning have attracted attention and the Read ing commission has been asked to par ticipate in the national conference on city planning at Cleveland the begin ning of June. Floyd Wilson, a cook with Cook & Wilson's circus, was perhaps fatally injured when his head came in con tact with the top of the old Lehigh river bridge in Bethlehem, his skull being fractured. Alice E. Seitz, of Mountville, near Lancaster, has sued Clayton D. New comer for damages for loss of time in love-making. She claims they were engaged fourteen years and that New comer later married a widow. An engineer on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, on seeing four tots try ing to crawl to safety on an open tie railroad bridge near Johnstown stop ped his engine, picked up the children, and carried them to a place of safety. APPLICATION FOR A CHARTER. In the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County No. 223 June Term, 1916. Notice is hereby given that an application will be made to the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County on Monday, May 22, 1916, at 10:00 o'clock, A Puzzled Artist. Achenbach, the German artist, enjoy ed a vogue some years ago. A certain collector had bought from an art deal er a seascape represented as a genu ine Achenbach. Afterward it was pronounced to be a copy. The buyer brought an action against the dealer, who turned the tables by declaring that his picture was genuine and the other was a copy. Achenbach himself was summoned by the courts to tell which was which. Amazed at the ab solute similarity of the two paintings, he gazed at them for a long time. In spected them closely, front and back, sniffed them and then frankly admitted he could not tell which was the orig inal and which the copy. Wise Precaution. "Good night, Jinks. What are you stuffing all that raw cottton into your ears for?" "Well, I was told not to stay out late and I believe in preparedness."— Baltimore American. Life and LimD. "I want to insure." "Yes, fire or Ufe?" "Both —I've got a wooden leg." ■I ♦ EDUCATION. Bend all your energies to ac- ? quire an education. Nobody ! ever drifted into an education. T Conscious effort to direct one's • reading and tUaking into the ? best channels is an absolute ? requisite. Choice must be made £ " of books, of friends and of ? pleasures. One cannot read ! trash and think literature.— t Amos R. Wells. «►■■■■ * HOUSEHOLD NECESSITIES For sewing machines, Vacu um cleaners, mops, etc.; see J. K. Carney, White building, In diana, Pa. a. m., under the "Act to Provide for the Incorporation and Regu lation of certain Corporations" approved April 29, 1874, and its supplements by F. Wilkinson, W. E. Gaughman, A. La Mantia, W. L. Wilson, H. A. Geary, J. C. Baughman, R. B. Evans, W. H. Jackson, L. T. Graff, and S. H. Dixon, for the charter of an in tended corporation to be called "BLAIRSVILLE LODGE NO. 406 BENEVOLENT AND PRO TECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS" the character and object of which are the maintenance of a society for the benefit and protection to its members and their families in sickness and death, to promote friendship and social intercourse among its members, with a view of stim ulating and encouraging the pro tection and aiding of those in distress and to accumulate a fund for these purposes by the collection of dues and to this end also to acquire and hold real es tate to an amount the clear year ly value or income whereof shall not exceed $20,000.00. And for these purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the rights, benefits and privileges conferred by the said act and its supplements. Elkin and Creps, Attorneys. April 24, 1916 GUARDIAN'S NOTICE. In the Orphan's Court of Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Notice of In tention to Present an Application for Private Sale. NOTICE is hereby given that an ap plication will be made to the Orphans' Court of Indiana County, on Monday, the 15th day of May, 1916, at ten o'clock, a. m., by The Savings and Trust Com pany of Indiana, Pennsylvania, Guard ian of Lawrence A. Laney, minor child of Florence P. Laney, deceased, for an order of Court to make private sale to the Vinton Colliery Company of the un divided one-tenth interest of the said minor in all the coal in and under those two certain pieces or tracts of land. Situate in the Township of Buffington, County of Indiana and State of Penn sylvania, bounded and described as fol lows: No. 1. BEGINNING at a post; thence by land of Samuel Graham, now James Altimus, North 3S> degrees. West 155 perches to a post; thence North 62 degrees. West 33 perches to a post; thence North 2S degrees, East 26 perch es to a post; thence by lands of C. P. Weaver, now David Altimus, South 62 decrees East 52 perches to a post; thence South 89 degrees East 50 perch es to a dogwood; thence North fl de grees East 52 perches to a post; thence by lands of Samuel Graham, Esq., South 59 degrees East 70 perches to a chestnut oak; thence 15 degrees East 2® perches to a post; thence South 10 de grees West 107 perches to a pin oak by land of Jacob George; thence South 64 degrees West 42 1-4 perches to the place of beginning, CONTAINING 102 acres and 16 perches. No. 2. BEGINNING at a post, corn er of lands of Jacob Brown and other lftnds of Elizabeth J. Graham: thence along the line of lands of Jacob Brown, 11 degrees East 180 perches, more or less, to a post; thence by lands of Isaac Dearmey, along old road South 63 de grees East 42 perches, more or less, to a post; thence still by same lands, South 50 degress East 35 perches, more Or less to the corner of Harman Miller's land; thence by land of said Harman Miller, South 41 degrees West 68 perch es; thence still by same, South 70 de grees East 80 perches, more or less, to stones; thence by lands of Harman Mil ler, 41 degrees West 58 perches; thence still by same, South 65 degrees East 82 perches to a post: thence by lands of David Egan, now T. J. Davis, South 85 degrees West 54 perches; thence South 85 degrees West 58 perches; thence North 9 degrees East 49 perches; thence North 60 degrees West 82 perches, more or less, to the place of beginning, CON TAINING 87 acres and 75 perches, more or less. For the price or sum of $90.00 per acre, to be paid as follows: One-third in cash on confirmation of sale and two thirds in three years from the date of sale, with interest at 5 per cent per an num, the deferred payment to be secur ed by bond and mortgage on the prem ises; at which time if no exceptions are taken or objections made to granting the order of sale, the Court will take action on said petition. D. R. TOMB, Attorney for Petitioner. NOTICE Angelo Camerata, of Creek side has opened a First-Clans Shoe Shop, next to Keystone Hotel. The Work Is Guaranteed to Be First { Class in Every Particular