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Driggs-Seabury Ordnance corpora tion, in Sharon, need 800 expert mechanics. New war munition orders are being delayed because of the lack of workmen. For digging up the streets in Beth lehem without a permit, E. J. Bradley, superintendent of the Allentown Bethlehem Gas company, was fined $15 and costs. Scantilly attired, the body of Mrs. Katharyn Johnson, a well-known resi dent of Wilcox, was found near Oil Creek, northwest of her home, mys teriously dead. The Pennsylvania railroad has given notice of intention to build its big new freight station at Harrisburg this spring. It will cost a quarter of a million dollars. Cumberland county poor directors have asked for an additional appropriation of $11,000 to make needed improvements and changes at the county asylum. Dr. William N. Davidson, superintendent of public instruction, announced that he has prepared a plan for military instruction in the high schools of Pittsburgh. Big coal companies that drain mine water into Nescopeck and Black creeks are preparing to install mammoth filters to remove sulphur and other fish-killing materials. Two-thirds of the thirty-six brides who got marriage licenses in Bucks county last month were holding positions, and almost one-half were under twenty-one years of age. Dauphin county farmers were told at farmers' institutes at Gratz that they must be good sellers as well as good raisers to be successful. Similar talks will be given at Halifax. The run on the Farmers' Deposit Savings bank of Pittsburgh has ceas ed. Other banks are refusing to ac cept the accounts of foreigners withdrawn from the harried bank. Little William Horlacher, of Hazleton, may go blind from an eye puncture from an elder sister's hatpinpenalty of hurriedly trying to kiss her after she had donned the hat. After ordering a drink at a hotel in Mahanoy City while on the way home from work in the mines, George Engle, thirty-two years old, a volunteer fire man, fell dead as he grasped the glass. The "dry" element of Venango borough is incensed by a huge banner flung across the street, reading: "We want Crawford county wet." The court has been petitioned to have it removed. County Treasurer W. R. Adamson, at Pottsville, has taken in $260,000 for liquor licenses for this year. The government's fees for licenses and stamps will raise this sum to more than $400,000. Members of the state board of public grounds and buildings will determine next week where to place the paintings brought to the capital from the state building at the Panama- Pa cific exposition at San Francisco. Mrs. Miriam Moyer, of Harrisburg, holds the record for attendance at the Pine Street Presbyterian Sunday school, which celebrated its fifty eighth anniversary, she having miss ed only one day in twenty-one years. The Erie Dispatch, which announced some time ago that it would sus pend publication on January 31, did not go out of existence, arrangements having been made to continue its pub. lication under the management of J. J. Parshall. Fire Chief Hoy, of Norristown, in his annual report, shows that in 1915 less than $4500 damage was done in half a hundred alarms of fire, and the damage was covered by $28,000 insurance. The loss was only fifteen cents per capita. Iron and steel plants report a great shortage of unskilled labor. All concerns in the Shenango and Mahoning valleys are scouring the country for common labor, in many instances paying wages higher than ever before in their history. Engineers operating fans in the mines of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation company, at Nesquehoning, are denied their demand for a wage in crease by a decision given by Charles P. Neill, umpire of the anthracite conciliation board. Five hundred children have been thrown out of employment and forced back into the public schools in Pitts burgh by enforcement of the new state child labor law, which requires that children between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years attend school eight hours a week. Officials of the state bureaus in charge of workmen's compensation matters believe that it will only be a short time until virtually every company doing liability insurance in the state will unite in the central inspec. tion and rating bureau, of which the state insurance fund is a member. The Pennsylvania Institute for Deaf and Dumb at Mt. Airy is bequeathed $500 by the will of Fayette Miller, widow of James Miller, of Slatington. Another $500 is set aside to educate some poor pupil. The Trinity Evan gelical church of Slatington is willed $100 to be used for missionary Dur-
