of hens and broods of little chickens |! MAPA PPP PPP PPPS SPP PPPS PPPS PPPS PPPS ‘ unanimously voted to have the recep- | FARM NOTES. € on highways where there is considera- CHARLES M. McCURDY JAS. K. BARNHART ; tion held there because of the high re- po : | spect in which they hold the Daugh- —The sheep is a native of high, | ble motor traffic. This loss is esti- x . PRESIDENT. CASHIER. | ters and for the place the Daughters {dry surroundings, therefore we must | mated to be greater than the depre- oe eo The First National Bank. ‘hold in the work of the government. {imitate nature in the care of the flock | dations by hawks and with the steady | They are considered along side of the | to obtain the best results. In order increase in the number of motor cars | Red Cross and it is said, ahead of it ito keep the animal’s vitality at the.is now an important factor in the food A Page’s Impression of the 27th Con- "in the work they do. On the heatless i highest point, exercise and abundance | situation. Bellefonte, Pa., June 14, 1918. msm— tinental Congress of the Nation- al Society Daughters of the American Revolution. The following report was compiled by Miss Crary, of Shickshinny, Pa., a cous- in of Miss Overton, and is published by special request. The 27th Continental Congress opened Monday morning, April 15th, | at the usual hour, ten o’clock, to the familiar sound of the bugle call by Mr. Arthur S. Witcomb, of the Unit- ed States Marine band, with the Pages forming a line of march down the aisle, escorting our president gen- eral, Mrs. George Thatcher Guernsey, to the platform. © My trunk not having arrived, I had the opportunity for the first time in five years of being Page, of seeing from my seat in the gallery, ourselves as others see us as we march in. This year the Pages wore a uniform of white tailored skirt and shirtwaist with over-blouse of pongee, some of Belgian blue, others of bright rose, and as they marched down the aisle, first a single Page in blue blouse bearing aloft our glorious Flag, fol- lowed by the other Pages two by two, in blue blouses, then those in the rose ones; the effect of the red, white and blue was startlingly brilliant and beautiful and I could not help but join in the exclamations of delight I heard on every side. When Mrs. Guernsey took her seat on the platform and struck the gavel, the Page carrying the Flag mounted the platform and the entire audience rose and recited “The American’s Creed,” after which they saluted the Flag, which was most impressive. Mrs. Guernsey called the Congress to order and after reading of the Scripture, prayer, and singing of “America,” gave the greeting of wel- come to the Congress in a splendid and stirring address in which she re- buked those people in America who criticise England; pronouncing them pro-German, and said in fact that any who criticised any one of our Allies was not true to the cause we are fight- ing. Kaiserism must go down before the righteous and outraged democra- cy of the world, was her keynote. On stepping into the hall on Mon- day morning, I was greatly impressed with the wonderful order and system in which every detail was planned and carried out and this impression grew as the days went by. In all the Con- gresses I have attended not one has moved off with such order, harmony, promptness and justice. Members were unanimous in their feeling that the Congress was most efficiently con- ducted, the most important and most productive of results of any in the history of the organization. Many innovations were made, as for in- stance in the regents’ report limited to five minutes; this was rightly en- forced. A red and blue light was on each side of the platform steps. When the blue light came on it indi- cated the reader had one minute more. When the red light flashed forth it indicated to the reader it was time to stop and no leniency was shown fo any one. Five minutes meant five minutes, which was a pleasant change to those of us, Page or delegate, who have sat sometimes until midnight listening to reports interesting indi- vidually, but collectively very weari- some. The attendance this year was only 800 less than last year, which was the largest Congress ever held. Of course the whole atmosphere of the Congress was war,.and it was in- spiring to hear of the work we, as Daughters are doing. $9,418,043.50 is the total of war expenditures of the D. A. R. for the past year; over $7,000,000 of it in Liberty loan. 1,060 French war orphans are being cared for. 63 members of the D. A. R. are now in active duty near the front serving in canteens, hospitals and cafeterias. A motion was made that a resolution be sent to Congress re- questing that a service flag similar to that now in use for men be given to homes that have women in war service. Among the most interesting reports were Mrs. George Maynard Minor’s on the Magazine, and Mrs. Matthew T. Scott's on War Relief Service. Mrs. Minor gave a full, business-like report of her work in getting the magazine on a business basis and it is now for the first time since its in- ception, self-supporting. It has a subscription of 8,407. Every Daugh- ter was urged as her patriotic duty to take the magazine. Mrs. Minor paid a high tribute to the editor, Miss Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Mrs. Scott said in her report: “We are not so much helping our Allies, as our Allies are helping us.” She paid a tribute to the armies of France and England and to the British Fleet, stating that we owed our present se- curity to them. The following are some of the resolutions adopted by the Congress: Any Daughter utter- ing any disloyal word against our government shall be punished by the National Society by being expelled and by having her badge forfeited. A case of the kind having come up. Condemning the use of the German language in_the schools. To endorse the Rankin Bill in the House which will permit American women married to aliens to retain their American citizenship. To observe May 12th, Mother's day, as a day of prayer for the mothers of men in service. To adopt a distinctive marking for the graves of Americans fallen in France. To urge Congress to adopt “The Star Spangled Banner” as our National anthem. To send a vote of thanks to the women in a seaside village in Scotland who sat up all night making an American Flag to fly over the graves of the men lost in the torpedo- ing of the Tuscania. a The most brilliant reception in the history of the organization of the D. A. R. was given in the Pan-American building, the capitol of the western hemisphere, Mrs. Guernsey and the wives of all the cabinet officers receiv- ing. This is the first time the Pan- American Union has conferred this honor on the Daughters or any other organization; the building having been used only for Presidential re- ceptions, etc., but the governing board ' Mondays, the ban was off Memorial | of fresh air should be provided. { Continental Hall because of its place | ‘in government work. An interesting {item about the beautiful banquet or i council room of the Pan-American . building, where the ambassadors of 1 | affairs of their nations in the interest ' of peace and friendship, is that this room has been the means of prevent- ling six wars in the western hemis- | phere, and that Joffre and Balfour on | their visit there said if England, | France, Germany, Belgium and Italy ‘had a room like that, this horrible { war would never have been. | The patriotic evenings and an | “Evening with Our Early Members” ‘ were most interesting. In the first, | greetings were given from some of the Allies; Ambassadors of France and Italy, and Ministers of Servia and Belgium and the Military Attache British Embassy, interspersed with music by the United States Marine band and national hymns of the Al- lies. Every allied diplomat who spoke, voiced the message of good cheer, given by Ambassador Jules Jusserand, of France: “Be of good cheer; we will not be dismayed. We have faced worse crises than this in the past and have come through vic- torious. We will not be discouraged. We are in the war to fight to the last ditch, the last gun and the last man.” Secretary of State Lansing said, “Win we must, win we will—there can be no other end to this war.” Among the most interesting ad- dresses in the “Evening with our ear- ly Members” was that by Mrs. George Maynard Minor on “The Deeper Meaning of Our Daughters of the American Revolution Organization,” which was most inspiring. She said: “We are not here to scrape the moss from off our ancestors’ tombstones, but to stand for the ideals they lived and died for.” A motion was made and carried that her address be print- ed and given to every Chapter Regent. I am still under the spell of the red and blue lights. I fancy I see the blue light flashing out, which means only one minute more, so I'll close be- fore the red light signifies my time is up. 1 i May Name State Troops in Action is New Ruling. The American people are to be giv- en information on the exploits of the troops in which they are most inter- ested, when disclosure of identity of units will not give valuable facts to the enemy, Secretary of War Baker declared. Secretary Baker has communicated to General Pershing a desire to make public the names of State troops which take part in operations with the enemy and where possible to announce the names of individual commanders whose men distinguish themselves. It is Secretary Baker’s hope to give out the names of organizations which participate in actual fighting as soon as it is established that the enemy is aware that such units are in action against him. Under this program it will be pos- sible to state that such and such a Pennsylvania regiment was in a par- ticular action, and the American peo- ple will be able to judge of the fight- ing ability of the men of the different States. The Adjutant General’s office issued a statement explaining the unusual efforts that are being made to notify promptly relatives of soldiers appear- ing in the casualty list of the Ameri- can expeditionary forces. The statement, in part, says: ' “Relatives of soldiers named in cas- ualty lists forwarded from France by General Pershing ordinarily are noti- fied by telegraph within twenty-four hours. Most of the exceptions to this rule are caused by circumstances over which the Adjutant General's office has no control. Delays usually are due to these rauses: “First. Clerical errors, caused by the fact that mames and addresses must pass through so many hands in France and America. : “Second. Incorrect street address- es turned in by soldiers as their emer- gency addresses. These mistakes oc- cur frequently in cases where soldiers have been away from home and do not remember street numbers or street names. “Third. Removal of families to ad- (Irosges other than those listed by sol- iers. “Fourth. The occasional necessity for cabling back to General Pershing to verify a name or to obtain an ad- dress. : “Fach contingent sailing to join the American expeditionary forces for- wards a copy of its roster to the Ad- jutant General, as it goes on ship- board. ; “After the completed casualty list is ready with the emergency address- es, it is withheld from publication in the newspapers for a reasonable space, out of respect for the feelings of relatives. The Adjutant General’s office allows ample time for the rela- tives to receive the telegrams, so that they may have the news before it is given to the general public. “Aside from the four causes of de- lay already mentioned, the only rea- son for the failure of relatives to re- ceive word at once is military consid- eration. General Pershing may at his discretion withhold a casualty list un- til he is positive it will have no mili- tary value to the enemy.” . ——— Fhe Blood and the Brain. Among the many important physiolog- ical facts that should be as well known by people generally as they are by physicians, is the dependence of the brain for its proper action on the vitality of the blood. If this is impaired, the blood affords an imperfect stimulus to the brain, and, as a necessary consequence, languor and in- activity of the entire mervous system fob lows, and a tendency to headache or faint- ness makes its appearance. ‘ It is probable that no other medicine ever produced has done more in the way of revitalizing the blood, making it pure and rich, than Hood's Sarsaparilla, which should certainly be given a trial where there is any reason to believe that the blood is defective or deficient in quantity. 63-24 ! the various countries meet once a | | month about the table to discuss the! —Now that the whir of the lawn mower has begun its all summer mu- sic one of the best and one of the cheapest of all poultry feeds is avail- able, and the Pennsylvania Depart- ment of Agriculture is giving wide publicity to the great value of lawn | ! clippings as chicken feed. There are millions of bushels of lawn clippings wasted or destroyed annually by property owners not own- ing or keeping poultry and such will save many thousands of bushels of chick feed and grain and mill feeds if they will see that their neighbors keeping chickens get these clippings. Blue grass lawn clippings have al- most the feeding value of wheat and besides this have a unique value in the effect they have for good on the appetite and general health of the chickens. They wilt, heat and spoil very quickly and in such state are abso- lutely valueless as poultry feed. Only enough for the day’s use should be cut at one time and this immediately soused in the water of the drinking pan thus keeping the clippings fresh and available for the entire day and allowing a maximum quantity to be used. Chickens will feed on such “preserved” lawn clippings all day. If chickens have access to young growing grass or even weeds they will not need lawn clippings especially and in such case they should be care- fully dried, in the shade if possible. Bagging after drying is equally im- portant with drying in the shade for good results. These dried lawn clip- pings make the best possible winter green feed. Careful tests have convinced the poultry experts of the Department that while the actual amount of feed saved when feeding lawn clippings’ green or dried is not so much, the | amount of growth made or eggs laid are enormously increased. ! —A movement for increasing the raising of sheep is under way in all of the large sheep-raising States of the nation and also in other States where the industry has fallen into de- cay through untoward conditions. The United States Food Administration. for Pennsylvania is hopeful that this State may benefit by this movement | and that there will be an increase in the sheep-raising industry here. The idea of awakening farmers of the Key- | stone State to their opportunities at | this time is being suggested to the various farmers’ organizations. The world faces a very serious! shortage of wool as the result of the | war. If the total annual clip were | equally distributed over the world | each person would have only 36 | ounces for wearing apparel. To clothe and equip the millions of Amer- ican soldiers who will be called to the | colors will increase the demand tre- mendously. Never in the history of this country has the commodity com- manded as high a price as is now paid for it. i Lambs and sheep have a food value that is not surpassed, and the world is short of meat. In spite of this in- creased demand both for wool and mutton, American farmers show a re- duction in the number of sheep raised and this at a time when both woo and mutton are indispensible. It! would seem, therefore, that the Penn- sylvania farmer who raises sheep and who has land and labor to do so, can safely and profitably increase his flocks; and that others who have dis- continued sheep-raising may safely renew the practice, in the knowledge that both demand and price are sure to justify his enterprise. — The United States Food Admin- istration for Pennsylvania has issued an appeal to the motorists of Penn- sylvania on behalf of the hen and her brood. It says that one of the most serious losses to the poultry industry of late years has been the mortality Motorists are asked to exercise care and use their influence to prevent the killing and crippling of poultry which have wandered into the road. An in- jured fowl or young chicken is usual- ly unable to hunt its feed and either | dies or becomes a runt. The chick that you spare today may be your Sunday dinner a few months ence. —The cost of producing pork this coming summer will be directly de- pendent upon the amount and kind of feed provided for growing pigs. The biggest factor in keeping the feed-bill at a reasonable cost is the use of green feed for the “young porkers” throughout the growing season, says H. H. Havner, of The Pennsylvania State College. The use of pasture crops is not an entirely new scheme for producing pork economically. This method of feeding has been used by the leading swine growers of Pennsylvania with very satisfactory results both as re- sults both as regards gain in weight and cost of gain. Green feed to replace a part of the high-priced grain in the ration is a doliars and cents proposition for the small producer of pork as well as the owner of several litters. The grain feed cost per pig will be from $5 to $6 lower if forage crops are used in- stead of an exclusive grain ration. One-half acre of good forage will car- ry from fifteen to eighteen spring pigs for six to eight weeks. A sec- ond strip of ground slightly larger in ‘area ought to be seeded the latter part of June for midsummer feed. A combination of soybeans and rape or rape alone is suitable for green feed for the months of August and September. Owing to the scarci- ty and high price of grain it will be most profitable this year to limit the grain to the approximate standard of two pounds per 100 pounds live weight daily to pasture-grown pigs after they have reached the weight of forty pounds apiece. This will insure 2 maximum consumption of green for- age. For the major part of the fall finishing feed, a strip of early matur- ing corn should be planted. Local Druggist Glad to Have the Agen- cy for Goldine. Encouraging to See the Daily Improvement Among the Many Users. Let us have a talk with you and tell of Goldine's great help and what it is doing for people who have tried it. There may be a great change in you 1: after giving Goldine a trial. A sim- ple herb remedy that seldom fails in bringing the desired results for cases of : stomach trouble, indigestion, nerves and a weakened condition. A genuine tonic, nervine and strength- ener. From neighboring towns and all over the State we hear the glad mes- sage—“Goldine helped me.” For sale in Bellefonte at Green's Pharmacy. 63-24 4 o (Ss ye Do Your Share SSISTANT Secretary of Agriculture, Carl Vrooman. says that more than a billion dollars worth of stable manure is wasted annually in the United States. This is an average of $167 for every farm. ger crops, such waste as this is a In the face of the urgent need for big- national tragedy. The manure properly used will put us beyond fear of any crop shortage this year except one that might be made by bad weather. A bigger crop could be produced without the addition of another acre, another man, or another horse power, if every farmer would de- cide to waste no stable manure this year but buy and use a Low Corn|[King Manure Spreader Wheels just the right distance apart, and spread wide enough to top dress three rows of corn at once. All narrow boxes. medium and large. Three sizes—small, All steel frames with working parts of the spreader securely attached to the frame. Turns short. Drive from both rear wheels. Return apron driv- en by worm gear which insures even spreading up hill and down. Pull comes straight on steel frame. Solid two-inch rear axle working in roller bearings carries seventy-five per cent of the load. All steel beater cannot warp, shrink or rot. Built up to International Harvester standards of quality in every respect. Buy a Corn King spreader and use it. The increased yield from a few acres will pay for your spreader this year. Come and place your order now. FARMERS SUPPLY CO, BELLEFONTE, PA. 63-21. J. M. Cunningham, Manager, Office and Ware-rooms at Beezer's Garage AAAAAARAAAAAAAAAAARAAAANAARAAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAANAS 61-46-1y The Secretary of the Treasury Has designated June 28th as National War Savings Day. Every man, wom- an and child in Centre County ought to celebrate this day by buying a Thrift Stamp, or War Saving Certificate. The First National Bank, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARNAANANANNANNIS Shoes. Shoes. ET .. YEAGERS SHOE STORE Ee Oh rt EP ll hh —— Shoes Shoes Reduced Reduce All my stock of Ladies’ Low Shoes at cost and less than cost. On account of labor shortage and other conditions the firm from whom I purchase my stock of Ladies’ Low Shoes for spring could not deliver the shoes until this last week—they should have reached me on March 1st. Realizing that the season is far advanced I am going to sell these shoes at cost and less than cost. These shoes were purch- ased to sell for $6 and $7. They are made of the very best leather that can be put in shoes and in the very latest styles. These shoes will be put on sale at once for $4.85 Per Pair. Here is an opportunity to purchase your needs in low shoes at a saving of over $2 per pair. YEAGER'S SHOE STORE THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN Bush Arcade Building 58-27 Protect Yourself Against Illness! You may be enjoying the best of health today. There may come & siege of ‘illness. ‘Doctor's bills and enforced idleness are expensive. When you have a bank account you are prepared to combat illness. - Can yoy conceive of anything more tragio than a long period of illness v funds? | garg 5) Xy ) \ / . 7 \ LI ARE YOU PREPARED FOR IT? Therefore, if You Haven't a Bank Account, Start One Today THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK, BELLEFONTE BELLEFONTE, PA. BELLEFONTE, PA. rap Fo meee eed Ammen)
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