Pictures One of the u.aiiy planes used by the liritish for patrol and observation from a British battleship In the harbor. SCOTS IN mm 4Sy Tff V' TO fJrfff Those soldli'i-s, wcuriiiK niaxks to protect them from poison gUH, are Home of the SrotH who have been diKtlni;uish Inu; th(Mua(dvt'8 in the ftnhtini; In north France. CITIZENS' Scene In the "preparedness" training camp at Fort Og othorpe. Ga where 800 business men are learning some thing of the duties of the soldier. FIELD BAKERY AT ii'? ,-Rv'l f J&M' b itdii battery iu ueiuiuiii in the Aiiitw iiau c:inip near Naiuiyuipa, Mexico. In the various field camps and headquarters of the American forces In Mexico bread la now being supplied direct from the army bakeries. In the early stages of the campaign food was carried from the border to tho various lamps and depots In motor trucks. The Installation of the field bakeries releases these trucks for other Important duties. , INTERESTING ITEMS Of the world's production of copper it is estimated that 60 to 70 per cent ' uaed In the electrical Industry In normal times' The government of Uruguay will as sume control of all telegraph and tele thons services and reorganize and Improve them. of Mora und tho of History IVIatclne Happenings. LAUNCHING A SEAPLANE AT SALONIXI ! LIVELY TIMEtf IN THE CITIfcS OF 1 . FRANCE WEARING, GAS TRAINING CAMP OF THE SOUTH NAMIQUIPA, MEXICO 7V The discovery of a process for mak ing synthetic diamonds Is claimed by Swiss scientists of bigh standing. In a new automobile headlight al cohol is vaporized by air pressure and burned In an Incandescent mantle.. Bronze hose In which there Is no rubber, canvas or leather has been in vented In Great Britain for handling fuel oil. THE FULTON Events Our Readora In Fulton Oounty and tZloorwtrnre Aorld A-th duty in und ov.tr Salonlkl b''i!ig lowered MASKS AFTER THE ST. EL0I FIGHT '.It." l'uV A British soldier of the "Fighting Fifth" on his way back from the trenches after the battle of St. Elol, a point south of Ypres. On bis steel holmet be baa a German caglo that bo captured In the fight. The British at tacked on a sector of tho German de fenses at St. Elol and the battle that followed was one of the fiercest that have taken place on the western front. .- ........ . ..... I v IT". 'M i ma COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA. for tho Comoro on th Trail llMMi ill1"! 'I he presoni'o ol Auatrodi ruian and KtilKurian Iroojin in the citica of Macedonia ban ninde IniRiness unwonted!; lively. This jthotoKraph uhowg the market of Veles thronged with farniers who have brouRht live atock for gale. GERMAN FOKKER BROUGHT DOWN BY THE FRENCH s fiuS ..-.-.'Ms A German "Fokker" brought down withiu the Kronen lines being carefully wings are branches to hide It from enemy airmen. MOUNTAIN Mountain battery, Company A of the extending far across thb sands. SERGT. ANNA HOPKINS i 1m' yeist Anna Hopkins, a WajhuiK ton society girl, at the keys of a held telegraph outfit. Sergeant Hopkins is one of the three hundred women in the camp of tho National Service school tit Chevy Chase nonr Washing ton. Complete Effacement. "A previous witness testified that the UHin vanished as completely as it the earth hud opened and swallowed him up." "More so, your honor. He vanished as completely as it he had run overf somebody with his car." Puck. 1 1 n BATTERY ARRIVING AT ft em Sixth Infautry, coming iu to headquarters near Namlquipa, Mexico, the line PHILADELPHIA MAYOR TAKES FLYER .tV?l Ikt.' t'- -v- yi Mayor Thomas V,. Smith of Philadelphia (right) with Aviator Waiter B. Johnson in one of the hydroaeroplanes at the opening of the Glendinnlng Aviation school at Eslngton, near Philadelphia. POSTSCRIPTS Scarlet fever causes the loss of nearly 9.000 lives, 83 per cent occur ring before the tenth year of life. After long experimenting a way has been found to utilize the coarser tex tiles of the fiber of the Cuban malva plant, of which there are i varieties. . Success la attending experiments in Sweden with perforating the webs of street car rails to Increase their resil iency and add 'to thoir life whon laid on rigid foundations.- mete !Vly Joumiiiy MACEDONIA examined by French omeers. On 1U NAMIQUIPA ;k .'V Now York city Is to have another magnificent church building that which will bouse St. Bartholomews Episcopal church. It will occipyan entire block front on Park avenuo. from Fiftieth to Fifty-first street, and will probably cost more than $4,000, 000. The rector of St. Bartholomew's, Dr. Lelgliton Parks, says that this vast sum "cannot be raised on subscrip tions of 5,000 and $10,000; It will re quire .subscriptions of $100,000." Tho congregation believe that these sums, will be forthcoming. it i m n i ll T I STATE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLO Tlie Latest Gleanings From All Gvc-r ti.e State. TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS Barbara ltrldgon, of Malianoy City, was elected Great PocohontaH and Philadelphia wa chosen as next year's meeting place at the closing Besalon of the fifteenth annual convention of tbo Great Council of the Degree of Poco hontas, at Shainokln. Other oflicefa include Anna Mllllgan," Philadelphia. Great Wlnanaha; Margaret 'J.ny, Wll llainnport, tireat Minnehaha; Cath arlne GuthofT, Philadelphia, Great Prophetess. The plant of the "Oval Ledger," a weekly newspaper, publlnbed at Oval, was partially wrecked when II. Jonort Moore, the owner, delectlus ecuping gas In the basement, where he i huv lnfi an acetylene plant inxtalled, in vestigated with a lighted mutch. In the explosion which followed, the building rocked on its foundations and Mr. Moore was badly burned. Win-dow.- In adjoining houses were blown out. A petition will bo presented to Court at the next term for the Incorporation of u new Cumberland county borough, to Include, several small coinmunltie located along the Susquehanna Hiver, near Harrisburg. The n.uv borough will be known as Fort Washington, from the historic old forties which marked the high point of Confederate invasion In 18M. The new town will have a population of about i.2-,o. Grand Army veterans made a public appeal to the patriot citizenry of Far risburg to assist in the work of in structing the school children in "love of the flag." "We arn ail hoverU s around three score and ten: it. Is not reasonable to think wo w ill b able to continue this custom many years more," declared Patriot In.ttructor E. B. Hoffman. Captain George W. Hutchinson, of the staff of Colonel Klrhard Coulter. Tenth Infantry, Pennsylvania National Guard, suffered the Amputation of his right les at the Westmoreland County Hospital as the result of an automo bile accident. The driver was blinded by the light of a passing street car and the auto upset over an embank ment. ' Thomas Haldeman. a fanner, of Chambersburg, worth over J7.,'to0, killed himself after losing $2,000 on a real estate deal. He had traded a property In Greencastle for a farm. Wednesday be went lo Greeneastlo and paid all bis debts with cash. Un then went to the home of a neighbor and paid him a small bill, borrowed a shoUun and killed himself nearby. Hayes Schenck, Justice of the peace at Howard for twenty-five years, who was convicted in February of bounty Fwindling, was sentenced by Judge Quinley to not less than two years niir more than three n the Western Peni tentiary. In eighteen months Kchenck'n bounty transactions amounted to $.1,200. Simon Malnes, station agent of the Bald Eagle Valley Railroad at Beech Creek, was killed by a fast flyer while crossing tho tracks of the Pennsyl vania Railroad at that place In his motor car. His company Jumped from the car Just as it reached the trnckn, and was not Injured. The planting of twenty-feven thou sand two-year-old white pine lr(H on State lands which are being roforested In the vicinity of Flolds Station was completed by Stato Forester Arthur B. Wells. Mr. Wells has set nut nearly one hundred thousand trees on Stat lands this spring. By the collapse of a metal ceiling at the Palace Theater, Reading, which is undergoing changes and Improve ments, David W. Zarlng, fifty-eight years old. of Shumokin, a workman, was killed and three others, James Schweigart, Frank Yarnell and George Snoop, were injured. Mayor Ezra S. Meals is in the Har risburg Hospital in a critical condition from an attack of asthma. Ills work will be looked after by Commissioner W. I.. Gorgas, acllng Mayor. George Hardy, thirty two years old, was crushed to death under tons of rock at the East Bear Ridge mine. Ambrose McGraw, thirty -five years, of 2604 Plttston avenue, conduclor oa the Wllkes-Barre & Eastern Railroad, was gored to death by a bull on the Lehigh Farm, near Mooslc. His body, terribly mutilated, was found by mill girls on their way to work. It was caught in the limbs of a tree. Matthew Felgle, a painter of Stecl ton, was killed by electricity while at work near high power wires of the Central Iron Steel Company plant at Harrisburg. His body came into contact with the wires. The National Historical Society has purchased five acres of land twelve miles east of Meadvllle, which was formerly owued by John Brown, nf Civil War fame, and upon which h built a tannery. The'soclftfy' will ore a suitable marker. Dr. Emerson Bergor Gordon, of Schuylkill county, was found guilty at Sunbury of running down, and killing George Ilganows, at Kulpmont, lust De cember. Judge Cummlngti sentenced him to a year in Jail and to pay a fin of one hundred dollars.
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