Ref: Town and Country Newspaper Pennsburg, Montgomery County, PA Saturday - August 19, 1905 TRAMPS MUST WORK By unanimous action of the Borough Council of Bethlehem, tramps taken into custody will work out the sentences meted out by Burgess R.S. TAYLOR in cleaning streets and doing other work for the borough, instead of idly serving time in the lock-up or the county jail. TELEPHONE COMPANY CHARTERED The State Department issued a charter to the Franklin Telephone and Telegraph Company of Springtown, Bucks county. The capital of the company is $5,000. CHILD-LABOR LAW The State Factory Inspection Department is seriously hampered in its efforts to enforce the new law to abolish child labor in the factories and workshops of Pennsylvania by the refusal of superintendents and principals of public schools to issue employment certificates to children between 14 and 16 years old, because the law makes no provision to compensate them for this extra work. Chief Factory Inspector John C. DELANEY said on Monday. "It is my judgment that when the teachers return to their duties after the summer vacation they will have enough to do without issuing these certificates, and that the great majority of them will refuse to take up this work. "What remedy do you suggest to overcome this defect in the law? "There is none that can be applied at present, or until the Legislature makes the necessary provision to compensate school superintendents and teachers for this extra work. HOUSE MOVING AT COOPERSBURG Mr. T.S. COOPER the Jersey cattle dealer at Coopersburg, is about making several noted improvements on his fine Linden Grove farm, among the rest being the moving of the house from the rear of his handsome home to the corner of the pike and the road leading to Locust Valley. His son Ralph will occupy the house when ready. Mr. COOPER will erect an office on the site to be vacated. COURT TO SLOW Refused permission by his father to marry Hattie R. GROFF, of Perkasie, Isaiah BARNDT, a minor, of Franconia, petitioned the court several weeks ago to compel his father to show cause why he would not consent to the marriage. The case was held for argument and the young man decided that the Court proceeding were too slow. Last week the young man and Miss GROFF took a trip to New York and on their return showed a marriage certificate.