Bellefonte, Pa., November 17, 1916.
Things Our Town
Can Do Together.
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The Chautauqua Reading Hour.
DR. WILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH, Editor.
If three men should meet up in Ver-|
mont and one should happen to have
some sugar and another some lemons
and the third some water, they wouldn’t |
know what to do.
They never tried to work together.
they didn’t know how to make lemon-
ade.
Does our town know how to make
good lemonade?
This is a practical talk on some of the
things a town like ours can do if it will
only get together.
A town, like a foot ball eleven, needs
somebody to “kick off.” Who is that
“Somebody?” How often you have re-
marked, “Somebody ought to fix that.”
Why is it that “Somebody” so often
means “Somebody else?” Why not you?
Behind every movement in every town
that has done anything good is always a
nucleus of a few interested, persistent
neighbors who have a real neighborhood
spirit. Behind this nucleus has usually
been one individual. The person who
was behind the first village improvement
society in this country, the beginner of a
great national movement, was a woman,
Ys John Z. Goodrich, of Stockbridge,
ass.
A COMMUNITY CLUB.
Often the: newspaper is the motive
power that is behind community better-
ment work. In Oxford, Pennsylvania, a
local paper was the means of establish-
ing a Community Club, although the ed-
itor did not appear actively in the organ-
ization at all. This club did a small but
worthy thing first, it gave a benefit for
the town band. Then it got up a com-
munity parade, and at last accounts it
was thinking of raising money to endow
the county hospital.
When a little group gets together it
usually decides very early which of three
types of community welfare organiza-
tions it will belong to. One type pro-
motes better business, another works for
mutual improvement and recreation, a
third tries to be of service tc the town.
The best kind does all three. A society
that is too narrow and selfish takes on
new vitality when it broadens out. In
one town a board of trade was started.
It hired a secretary and he brought a
new factory to town. Then he got pro-
moted to a larger town and went away.
The factory brought some new business,
but it imported many undesirable resi-
dents. This board of trade then organ-
ized a junior branch, took in the older
boys in the village and made good citi-
zens out of them by giving them some-
thing to do in the way of village im-
provement work. Some farmers began
by organizing a telephone circuit to meet
the exactions of the telephone trust;
they ended up by having an annual far-
mers’ picnic, to bring their families to-
gether. In one town the people enjoyed
so much being together for a whole week
every year at their Chautauqua that they
began to say, “Why can’t we get togeth-
er like this every week in the year?”
The result was that they inaugurated a
community religious service every Sun-
day evening in their public hall. Then
they got up a community historical fes-
tival. Their latest was to inauguaate a
community health-campaign.
Sandy Springs, Maryland, furnishes us
an excellent illustration of how a small
town can get together for its own mutual
interests.
such organization.
It contains “more than one
Its most unique Is
{ Maryland Agricultural
dead rat and five for a live one.
| Pocomoke, Maryland, the improvement
'seciety was successful in getting the
business places screened and in set-
ling large traps at the curbs, which
are human.
The Smoke of the U.S.A.
its "Home Interest Club.” It has only
twenty-five members, but on a recent
rainy night in February more than this
number, including guests, were present.
There was a simple supper, music, so-
ciability, etc. One of the members
described a recent visit to Bermuda, and
told how the Bermudahs raise three
crops of potatoes in a year. The “Fore-
thought Committee” gave advice to the
club as to trimming grape vines, having
oxate of lead ready to spray them, etc.
A letter was read from a student at the
College who
wanted work for the summer. There
was a discussion as to the advisability of
putting cellars under tenant houses.
BETTER HEALTH.
It is often practical and also effective
to trv a very homely task earlier. In a
certain city they carried on a campaign
against rats, offering two cents for a
In
have almost completely rid the com-
munity of flies. Hoquiam, Washington,
went into the even humbler task of tak-
ing care of the town sewerage.
These small and sporadic efforts usu-
ally so encourgae the town that under-
takes them that it organizes a varied
and comprehensive campaign, until, as
has been said, “the result looks less like
a dish of spaghetti and more like a cir-
cle with its radii leading from every
home to the common center.”
Why can’t our town do things? “Oh,
but you know our people are different.”
But Charles Zeublin, the community ex-
pert tells us that the way to meet the
fundamental needs of any town is to for-
get that the people are peculiar and re-
member that they are human.
Our folks may be peculiar, but they
And what these other
places have done our town can do.
Which shall we do first?
Sows Should be Bred Now.
This is the season for the breeding of
hogs selected in many sections. There
are many advantages in breeding sows
for early farrowing. Pigs farrowed in
February or early March come at a sea-
son when farmers can give them better
care. By the time forage crops become
available, the pigs are of such size as to
make best use of them, and thus to at-
tain greater size for early fall market.
Hogs are usually highest in price dur-
ing September. Early-farrowed pigs at-
tain marketable size by that time. Late-
farrowed pigs do not reach market weight
until December or January, when pork
prices are lowest.
The gestation period of sows is 114
days. If pigs are to be born the first of
March, therefore, the sows must be bred
by November 10. To raise large litters,
sows must be well fed and in a thriving
condition at breeding time. Feeds for
this purpose require considerable muscle
and bone-building material. The Penuo-
sylvania State College school of agricul-
ture and experiment station recommends
a ration composed of coin, 4 parts, mid-
dlings, 2 parts, and oil meal, one part or
tankage three-fourths part.
One on Young Sapleigh.
“Accawding to—aw—scenic a frog can
—aw—live without bwains, doncher
know,” remarked young Sapleigh.
“Oh, well,” rejoined Miss Gaustique.
“there are others.” —Louisville Courier-
Journal.
Would Be Broken, Too.
Mrs. Hiram Offen—“Supposing, Bridg-
et, I deduct from your wages the cost of
all the dishes you broke?”
Bridget—“Shure, mum, in that case
it’s meself’d be like the dishes.”—Boston
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Accessories for Farmers’ Veterinary Medi-
cine Chests.
One of the common necessities for the
veterinary medicine chest in the farm
stable is a liquor cresolis compound or
some other one of the coal-tar disinfect-
ants. Such a compound may be used
for disinfecting stalls, as an antiseptic
wash and as a dip to remove lice and
mange. A two or three per cent. solu-
tion is the strength advised.
Every veterinary medicine chest should
also contain a salve. A mixture for this
purpose recommended by Dr. Irl D. Wil-
son, of the animal husbandry department
at The Pennsylvania State College, con-
sists of nine parts pure vaselene and one
part impure zinc carbonate. This makes
a very cheap but very effective combina-
tion for sore necks and harness chafes
with horses, and for cracked teats in the
COW.
Tincture of iodine, also, is one of the
best skin antiseptics and is unequalled in
the treatment of closed wounds. Used
for the latter purpose it should be inject-
ed into the deepest pockets of the wound
with a syringe.
Raw linseed oil and Epsom or Glaub-
er’s salts are two other drugs essential
to the stable medicine chest. Linseed oil
in doses of a pint to a quart is used as a
purgative for horses. Glauber’s salts in
doses of one to one and one-half pounds,
dissolved in warm water are administer-
ed to cows for impaction of the rumen or
paunch.
Rat-Proofing of New Orleans.
It has cost New Orleans $8,000,000 and
fifteen months’ hard work to convert
itself into a ratless city. The special rea-
son for which this has been done is as a
means of fighting the terrible bubonic
plague, demonstrated beyond peradven-
ture to be spread by the flea that infests
rats. It has become clear that the only
method of fighting the plague is to de-
stroy the rats. New Orleans has under-
taken the campaign on a large scale and
after considerably more than a year’s |
hard work has finally made itself a rat-
less city.
Fish Must Give Right of Way.
Still another use has been found for
the automobile, one man having driven
his car head foremost into the river
Even the fish have to look sharp at the
crossings.— Detroit Journal.
Right.
“What did Mabel do when that old
flame came to see her after she was
engaged?”
“She had her father put him out.”—
New York World.
— For high class Job Work come
to the “Watchman” Office.
CASTORIA
Bears the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher.
in use for over thirty years, and
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Cows an
Old Bossy gives excellent milk on
sweet clover and new, tender grass. But
if she gets into garlic or eats too many
pumpkins—well, you know what hap-
pens then.
But do you know what's wrong when
your lamp smells, smokes and flickers?
Very often it’s because it's consuming
the wrong kind of food—ordinary kero-
sene instead of
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burning odor. Why? Because it’s so
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that it can’t. But it does give you a clearer
light and a more radiant heat than you
ever experienced in a lamp or oil stove
before. Try it in your lantern some dark
night and see the difference.
There's a big feeling of satisfaction in
having a barrel of Atlantic Rayolight Oil
on your place. Ask for it by name and
be sure the brand name is on the barrel
before you take it home.
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regularly.
MEN
HiGH-ART-CLOTHES
MADE BY STROUSE & BROTHERS, BALTIMORE, MD.
It is many, many years since “High
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since, the news of their value, their trustworthiness
and their fit has passed from man to man and their
popularity has ever increas
This Fall and Winter will surely be
another step forward—for the new models and fabric
patterns portend the making of many new friends.
Acquaint yourself with the “High
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tise.
new colors—Green,
Owing to having more stock in our Coat
and Suit Department we are cutting
prices that will mean a saving of
from $5,
Coat and Suit and a sea-
son’s wear ahead.
$8 and $10 on every
Coats in all the new styles, fabrics and trimmings in the
Burgundy, Blue, Browns and
Blacks, all this season’s make, that sold at $1500, $18.00
and $20.00 now at $10.00.
Silk, Plush and Velour Coats
Plain Fur Trimmed, t.uat sold for $25.00 and $30.00
now sell at $20.00.
SUITS, all this season’s make, in black, blue, brown
and green, with the new flare.
Coats and Skirts, quali-
ties $25.00, $28.00 and $30.00, now must go at $20.00.
Chiffon, Broad Cloths, Check, Velour Suits, all colors.
qualities $35 and $40.00, must go at $28.00 and $33.00.
We want every Woman who needs a
Coat or Suit to see our line and we will
prove to her that this is no fake reduc-
tion sale. We always do as we adver-
Lyon & Co. --. Bellefonte.