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RECEIVER HUNTER MAKES REPORT ON PITTSBURGH CO. In submitting his report to-day as receiver for the Land Trust company of Pittsburgh, David Hunter told the Dauphin county court that he has cash in hand of $24,439.40 and 6,442 shares of stock. The final liquidation depends upon the settling of the affairs of the Mercantile Trust Company, he says. Receiver Hunter handled assets worth $455,550.92 and paid debts amounting to $431,091.52, leaving the balance of $24,459.40.
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Legal Notices AUDITORS' NOTICE - In the matter of the first and partial account of David Hunter, Jr., receiver of the Land Trust Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, who have been appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin. county. Pennsylvania, to audit the above-mentioned account and make distribution in accordance with the provisions of the Act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, approved April 23, 1909, will sit for the purposes of their appointment of Tuesday and Wednesday, September 4 and 5, 1916, at 10 o'clock a. m. and 2 o'clock p. m. at the law offices of James Francis Burke, Esq., one of the auditors, rooms Nos. 1108-12 Park Building, Pittsburgh, Pa., when and where all parties in interest may fit. attend and be heard if they see BENJAMIN M. NEAD. JAMES FRANCIS BURKE, Auditors.
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# AUDITORS' NOTICE In the matter of the first and partial account of David Hunter, Jr., receiver of the Land Trust Company, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, who have been appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, to audit the above-mentioned account and make distribution in accordance with the provisions of the Act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, approved April 23, 1909, will sit for the purposes of their appointment of Tuesday and Wednesday, September 4 and 5, 1916, at 10 o'clock a. m. and 2 o'clock p. m. at the law offices of James Francis Burke, Esq., one of the auditors, rooms Nos. 1108-12 Park Building, Pittsburgh, Pa., when and where all parties in interest may attend and be heard if they see fit. BENJAMIN M. NEAD, JAMES FRANCIS BURKE, Auditors,
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# AUDITOR'S NOTICE In the Matter of the First and Partial Account of David Hunter, Jr., Receiver of the Land Trust Company of Pittsburgh, Pa. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, who have been appointed by the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, to audit the above mentioned account and make distribution in accordance with the provisions of the Act of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, approved April 23, 1909, will sit for the purposes of their appointment on Tuesday and Wednesday, September 5 and 6, 1916, at 10 o'clock A. M. and 2 o'clock P. M., at the law offices of James Francis Burke, Esq., one of the auditors, Rooms Nos. 1108-12 Park Building, Pittsburgh, Pa., when and where all parties in interest may attend and be heard if they see fit. BENJAMIN M. NEAD, JAMES FRANCIS BURKE, Auditors.
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pure 12 the latter part of the week. Allegheny County authorities look for a record-breaking issue of hunters' licenses. Incidentally, the sportsmen in that county are clamoring for establishment of more forest reserves in the southeastern part of the State. The State Agricultural Department has issued a bulletin that figures studied show that Pennsylvania has 12,673,519 acres of improved farm land, 16,018,961 acres being either woodland or unproductive. It is also stated that if the decline in number of farms noted between the census taking of 1900 and 1910 keeps up the next census will show about 214,000 farms in the State. An appeal is to be made to farmers to make more of the land productive by raising of live stock. Farmers of Pennsylvania are not as well advanced with their work this year as last fall, according to the statistical bureau of the Department of Agriculture. The excessive rainfall while helping wheat, rye and pasture, has interfered with late sowIng of grain and retarded husking of corn. There is an enormous acreB up delayed st which corn JO est number of counties. Warning that this is the time to attack diseases which have been affecting plums is A given. list published by the Department of Agriculture shows that Dauphin County has less than 2,700 farms. The census of 1910 showed 2,684 against 2,844 in 1900. Cumberland has 3,034 farms; Perry. 2,409; Juniata, 1,695; Mifflin, 1,276; Lebanon, 2,525; Franklin, 1,250; Adams, 3,752; Fulton, 1.424: Huntingdon, 2,285; Union 1,455; Snyder, 1,845; Center, 2,608; Northumberland, 2.534: York, 8,460, and Lancaster, 10,835, the largest number in the State. The Public Service Commission has issued orders for the Philadelphia Suburban Gas and Electric Com. pany, to make extensions to mains in Springfield Township, Delaware County, and the Home Electric Light and Steam Heating Company, of Tyrone, to make extensions in that place, both orders being based upon complaints. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad was given an extension of the time for abolishing the grade crossing near Claysville, Washington County, until June 1, 1920. The Philadelphia Railways Company has filed notice with the Public Service Commission that the United States Shipping Board has arranged a new one-way tariff between Third and Jackson streets, Philadelphia and Hog Island, increasing fare 01 SI 71 cents. etath 01 every mo.i be effective December 9. Mine inspectors reporting to the State Department of Mines to-day generally expressed the opinion that the miners would be back at work very soon and that efforts of radical elements in some communities to keep men out would not amount to much. In an effort to restore the black walnut trees of Pennsylvania the State Forestry Department has undertaken extensive seed planting at the Mont Alto nursery. Commissioner Robert S. Conklin estimates that 150 bushels of black walnuts were planted in specially prepared ground and that they should produce 100,000 seedling trees for distribution next season. Many requests for such trees have come from owners of woodland who are anxious to start groves of the trees whose wood was in such demand during the war. The Public Service Commission has fixed November 24 for the argument in the Bell Telephone rate case. Whether further testimony will be taken has not been decided. According to Philadelphia newspapers, Col. John C. Groome is being very seriously considered for director of public safety. The colonel has been mustered out of the up back Mou SI put Amer His status as a State Department official is restored automatically Insurance Commissioner Thomas B. Donaldson has been in Pittsburgh in connection with the insurance trials. Contractors on State road work up the Susquehanna valley are running a race with Jack Frost. They are pushing construction as rapidly as possible especially in Lycoming county. Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, state superintendent of public instruction, addressed the State Woman Suffrage meeting in Philadelphia yesterday. G. H. Getty, one of the State bank examiners for years, has been named as receiver of the Land Trust Company, of Pittsburgh, to succeed the late David Hunter, Jr. Attorney General William I. Schaffer in an interview in the Philadelphia Evening Ledger again calls attention to the fact that liquor legislation is not a matter for the States, but for the Federal Government, in which he takes issue with Judge Eugene C. Bonniwell. Friends of Dr. J. George Becht, first deputy superintendent of public instruction, to-day telegraphed their congratulations tó him on his marriage at Williamsport. John P. Dohoney, investigator of accidents of the Public Service Commission, is at Philadelphia investigating the ferry accident. Frank McGrann, of Lancaster, has offered the old McGrann mansion near that city to the State Police as a permanent headquarters. The troop is now temporarily located there, but under the law will be established here, an appropriation for barracks having been made.