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~ Bellefonte, Fa., June 3, 1921.
WHAT ARE WE HERE FOR?
What are we here for, you and I,
As the long and wonderful days g0 by?
Each one stretching to us a hand
Filled with privilege high and grand;
Born of a meaning our lives must be,
God has His purpose in you and me.
We are here to sing of hope and cheer,
When the skies are dark and the way
seems drear;
We are here to be faithful and strong and
true
To the work that lies to our hands to do;
To make for all that is noble and good,
And be true to the bonds of our brother-
hood.
This are we here for, you and I,
As the long and wonderful days go by:
Welcome then gladly for each one brings
The duty and beauty of common things;
And, as they unfold, shall unfolded be
God’s own purpose in you and me.
—I. M. Montgomery.
NEW PURE SEED LAW.
. Pennsylvania now has on its stat-
ute books what Secretary of Agri-
culture Fred Rasmussen has charac-
terized as the finest pure seed law of
any State in the union. The law was
drawn and presented to the Legisla-
ture by the Pennsylvania Department
of Agriculture, was passed by the
law-makers and approved by Governor
William C. Sproul on April 26th. Un-
der its provisions the farmers of Penn-
sylvania are absolutely protected in
the purchase of seed, while unserupu-
lous seed houses that for years have
been dumping refuse labeled “pure
seed” in this State will be forced to
find markets elsewhere.
All seed sold in this State after Ju-
ly 1st will have to be labeled, showing
the exact contents, while no seed may
be sold containing noxious weed seed.
Briefly, the provisions of the new
pure seed law, which is the first of its
kind ever enacted in this State, fol-
lows:
“The law does not try to establish
grades for seed, but aims to have the
seed labeled so that all essential in-
formation about it will be clearly
shown and the buyer can then use his
judgment.
«It requires information to be sup-
plied on the following points: Com-
mon name, per cent. of pure seed, per
cent. of weed seed, the name and num-
ber per ounce of noxious weeds, the
percentage of germination, and. the
seller’s name and address.
“Varying requirements on these
points are made for agricultural
seeds, including vegetable seeds and
mixtures of these.
“The intent of the labeling require-
ment is to see that the buyer always
has an opportunity to know just what
he is getting, and the label may be at-
tached to the package, bag, box or
other container in which it is sold, or
hy on the container for which it is
sold.
Seeds containing dodder and Can-
ada thistle down to even a very small
per cent. are prohibited frm sale, and
the sale of any seed with more than
3 per cent. of weed seeds is also pro-
hibited.
«Provision is made for test of seeds
for germination and weed seed con-
tent for the public at a small charge
(25¢. per sample). 3
“Exceptions to the labeling clauses
relate to small amounts of seed, or
seed that is to be recleaned before be-
ing sold for seed purposes.
“The Secretary of Agriculture is
empowered to take samples of seed
anywhere, to test these for germina-
tion and weed seed content and to
publish the results of such tests.
“The act also provides for the in-
junction against ‘the sale of seeds that
are a menace to the public on account
of excessive weed seed content or of
the presence of too large a percent-
age of noxious weed seeds. A penalty
is provided for violation of the act.”
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Asks All to Wear Poppy.
Support of patriotic organizations
throughout the State is being sought
by representatives of the American
and French Children’s League and
women’s clubs of the State for the
movement to wear a poppy on Memor-
ial day, May 30th, in memory of the
Americans who lost their lives in the
poppy fields of France during the
world war.
The American Legion has chosen
the poppy as the memorial flower and
an American committee of the Chil-
dren’s League, with Major General |
Leonard Wood as honorary president, ’
is supporting the plan. American Le- |
gion posts in various places are sup-
porting the project and other organ- |
izations hade adopted resolutions fa- |
voring the recognition of the poppy as ,
memorial flower. Among these bodies '
are the G. A. R., the Service Star Le-
gion, Sons of Veterans, and others. |
The legion requested that the em-
blem be not commercialized and the |
plan of the American and French Chil- |
dren’s League embraces the sale of
flowers made only by women and chil-
dren in France. The funds realized
are to be used for the relief of chil-
dren in devastated regions of France.
Keep Two Hens for Each Member of
the Family.
——r
The average novice can reasonably
expect to get an aveage of at least 10
dozen eggs per hen per year from his
small flock in the back yard. On the
basis of two hens to each member of
the family this will give twenty dozen
eggs a year to each person, which
amount is about half way between the
average of farm and city consump-
tion. No back-yard poultry keeper
should be satisfied with less than this,
say poultry specialists of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Every back-yard poultry keeper
should try to get as much more as pos-
gible. To provide an egg a day for
each person, two hens would have to
lay 183 eggs each a year.
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— Last year a typical mile of road
in Illinois cost more than $40,000 to
build; this year the average low bid
was $37,500.
FARM NOTES.
— The use of brains on the farm
accomplishes more than much muscle
idly directed.
—Good seed is just as essential for
good crops as a good sire for the pro-
duction of better animals.
__Some of the enemies to plums are
fall webworms, curculio, San Jose
scale, blight, ete. The trees should be
watched and any apeparance of insect
pests or disease should be combatted.
Nobody has ever been able to stand
a vitamine up by itself or a group of
them by themselves, so that we could
look at them, but it is known that they
are present just the same because of
the action they have on the human
body.
Too much cannot be said in favor of
a larger proportion of vegetables in
the diet of the American people. The
considered a mation of
but it has been shown
that Americans can eat more meat
per capita than do the English. A
certain amount of meat in the diet is
highly desirable, but this should al-
ways be balanced by a sufficient quan-
tity of vegetables.
One of the reasons that many peo-
ple have to a great extent cut vege-
tables form their diet is that they have
been unable to get fresh vegetables
and did not relish stale ones. The in-
dividual home garden planted either
in the back yard, or a convenient piece
of land, not only solves the problem
of supplying the family with vegeta-
bles at low cost and in abundance, but
guarantees their freshness.
—_The farmer who keeps what he is
pleased to call “average cows” is n lit-
tle better off than the man who has
nothing but poor old scrubs, for the
average cow often times pays for her
keep, even though she does not make
a profit. But why have average cows ?
The average cow, if properly fed, eats
nearly as much as the high producer.
It requires around 200 hours of time
in care and attention and takes up
space in the barn that might just as
well be occupied by a better animal.
Farm and ranch figure that if the av-
erage cow was given the same atten-
tion a good producing pure bred
should have, it will pay her owner
about five cents per hour for his la-
bor. Five cents per hour is rather
small wages even for a farmer.
—Some people believe split fence
posts last longer than do round ones.
Porbably as large a number hold the
opposite view. The Forest Products
Laboratory of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture says that one
will last about as long as the other if
the percentage of heartwood. and sap-
wood are the same in both. If the
percentage of sapwood is increased by
splitting, the split post will be less
durable, while if the percentage of
heartwood is increased it will be more
durable than the round one.
tions to this should be made if the
English are
meat eaters,
‘posts are of spruce, hemlock, or any
of the true firs, whose heartwood and
‘sapwood are about equally durable.
If the posts are to be treated with
creosote or some other preservative,
the round post is preferable to the
split, because of the comparative ease
with which the sapwood can be treat-
ed. Experiments of the laboratory
demonstrate that the heartwood faces
on split posts do not, as a rule, ab-
“sorb the preservative as well as does
the sapwood.
—Apple growers, finding that a cer-
tain standard type of bushel boxes in
| which they have been shipping their
fruit broke in many instances before
it reached the market, recently asked
the Forest Products Laboratory of the
{ United States Department of Agri-
culture to investigate the cause of the
breakage.
Several of these standard apple box-
es packed with fruit as for shipment
were tested in the revolving-box drum
at the laboratory. Before they had
gone a “journey” of average length in
the machine most of the boxes had
broken open and the drum was drip-
ping cider. On investigation it was
found that usually the parts of the
. box to loosen and give way first were
“where the four nails were holding an
edge. Two more nails were therefore
driven into each nailing edge of the
remaining boxes. With this simple
change the boxes stood just twice as
‘much rough handling.
Inadequate nailing is the chief fault
of almost all the boxes examined by
the laboratory. A few more nails
would save shippers millions of dol-
lars of fruit losses annually.
—The old adage, “an apple a day
keeps the doctor away,” might quite
as well have been a carrot or an onion
‘a day, and probably the result would
be about the same as regards reduc-
ing the doctor’s bill. Vegetables of
"all kinds are necessary in the diet, but
particularly valuable are those avail-
able in the spring and summer, say
specialists of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture.
Without going into definite figures
it may be stated that the food value
of vegetables such as beans, peas,
potatoes, sweet corn, beets and car-
rots is very high. When considered
from the standpoint of the food value
of the crop that may be produced on a
given area of land, beans, beets and
carrots are ahead of almost any other
garden crop. One-tenth acre planted
entirely to carrots will yield about a
ton, and in energy this would be equal
to about 370 pounds of average beef.
One-tenth acre of beets would also
yield about a ton and be equal to
about 880 pounds of average beef.
One-tenth acre of Lima beans would
yield about 120 pounds of dry beans,
equal to about 220 pounds of beef.
As sources of mineral matters and
proteins needed by the body, vegeta-
bles are much more valuable than
many people realize. Also they sup-
ply roughage, which is believed to
keep the body in good working order.
In the course of nature, human be-
ings as well as some animals seem to
have so developed that they need a
certain amount of roughage which is
best supplied by the coarser vegetable
foods. During recent years there has
been a growing tendency to reduce the
Iougnage in cereals and some other
foods, and, in order to offset this, an
extra effort should be made to supply
plenty of ve etables and fruits. In
addition, fresh vegetables are among
the best sources of what, for lack of
a better name, have been called vita-
mines.
The Soul of Honor.
A Senator asked by a Kansas City
reporter why he opposed a certain
public utility bill which involved mil-
lions of dollars, answered:
«T oppose this thing because I have
no confidence in the gang that is be-
hind it.
“Yoy see,” he continued, “these fel-
lows don’t inspire me with the same
trust that a certain witness inspired in
Excep= | —
the county court judge, before whom
she appeared.
«Your name, madam?’ the judge
asked this witness.
« ‘Matilda Hawkins, sir; age, forty-
six,” came the prompt reply.
«Well, really!’ exclaimed the judge,
and addressing the jury, he added:
« «Gentlemen, please take note of
that answer, and because of it I will
ask you to kindly believe everything
Mrs. Hawkins has to say.’ ”—Wash-
ington Star.
GLYCERINE MIXTURE ;
FOR GAS ON STOMACH
Simple glycerine, buckthorn bark,
etc., as mixed in Adler-i-ka relieves
ANY CASE gas on stomach or sour
stomach. It acts on both upper and
lower bowel and removes all foul mat-
ter which poisoned stomach. Often
CURES constipation. Prevents appen-
dicitis. The INSTANT pleasant action
of Adler-i-ka surprises both doctors
and patients. One man who suffered
five years from indigestion and consti-
pation was helped by ONE dose.
Runkle’s Drug Store. 66-22
— Orders have been issued that
no more American soldiers are to be
discharged at Coblenz except for im-
mediate re-enlistment. This was dué
to the fact that many former Ameri-
can soldiers are now stranded in Eu-
rope, where they present an embar-
rassment to the American officials.
Every Dollar
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you Spend in
Bell
ads appear here.
culation in Bellefonte.
Everything in Furniture,
Phonographs and Records.
NAGINEY’S
Send Us Your
Grocery Order Today
It Will Pay You.
CITY CASH GROCERY
Allegheny St.
The Latest
in Dry Goods and Ladies’ and
Misses Ready to Wear.
HAZEL & CO.
The Headquarters for Athletic
Goods in Bellefonte. “Smoker Sup-
plies. - Barber Shop in Connection.
RUHL’S
Under First Nat. Bank.
Our Grocery
Line is always complete
and we invite your pa-
tronage.
BROUSES
High St.
Willard
is the Storage Battery of Serv-
ice. Any make battery repair-
ed and recharged.
WITMER’'S
Studebaker
Expert Repairing on
All Makes of Cars.
BEEZER’S GARAGE.
The House
of Service when it
Comes to Hardware
THE POTTER-HOY Co.
Our Meats
are always fresh
and wholesome
Phone Your Order.
ECKEL’S MARKET
We Do Not Recommend
Ford parts that are not genu-
ine. Make our garage your
headquarters, Ford owners.
BEATTY MOTOR CO.
This Week
A Special on Belle Meade Sweets,
Milliard’s and Lonis Sherry Can-
dies.
THE MOTT DRUG Co.
Gross Bros.
Good Broom.........c.. + 08
5 pounds Coffee....... ees 98C
5 SOAP. .cceserssssacscanens 23¢c
3 Jersey Flake..... Ciriain ces 23C
1 Large can Peaches........ 28¢
BELLEFONTE, PA.
The Watchman’s
Read these articles with care.
They are your ne
FALSE ECONOMY
HAS NO VALUE
| Buying Cheap Goods Just Be-
cause They Are Cheap Does
Not Pay.
QUALITY OFTEN OVERLOOKED
Instance Seen in Case of Mail Order
Houses Which Make Their Ap-
peal Solely on Basis of
Price.
(Copyright, 1917, Western Newspaper Uniouw.)
Economy is one of the greatest of
virtues but false economy is nn more
a virtue than anything else that i§
false.” To be able to economize wisely
is one ‘of the greatest blessings that
one can have, for it is the prerequisite
to thrift and well-being. Too many
persons, however, who think they have
found the secret of true economy are
practicing a false economy which is
worse than wilful waste.
For instance, the man who buys 2
stove from a mail order house for $89
because ne thinks he would have to
pay $10 for one if he purchased it
from his home merchant, is practicing
a false economy, for the chances are
that he would save more than $1 in
the end if he purchased the $10 stove :
from the local hardware leader.
There are several reasons why this
is false economy. The first one is that
dollar for dollar, the greater part of
ihe merchandise sold by the mail or-
der houses is of less value than that
wold by the retail merchants of the
smaller communities. The mail order
business, as a whole is built upon
cheapness. In order to attract cus-
tomers the catalogue houses must sell |
goods cheaply and in order to do that
they must sell cheap goods. Their
business is built up on price and not
on quality. The retail hardware deai-
er, like retail dealers in other lines,
‘probably can match the prices of the
mail order houses. He probably has
a $9 stove which he can sell to the
man who wants to get a stove for $9.
The trouble is that the man who buys
from the mail order house does not
distinguish between price and quality.
Thinks He Is Economizing.
The man who buys the $9 stove
from the mail order house probably
would not buy a 9 stove from his
tocal merchant for in the latter case
he would see just vat he was buying
and might realize that the $9 stove
would not meet his needs. He orders
a $9 stove from the mail order house,
however, just because the price is $9
and not because he has any assurance
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fonte will “COME HOME TO BOOST”
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Buy-at-Home Campaign
They ‘may present something you hadn't thought of before.
ighbors and will treat you right.
Patronize the people whose
The money you spend with them stays in cir-
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that the stove will ineet his needs. He
thinks he is saving » dollar or two by
buying this stove instead of paying
$10 or $11 to the rome merchant for
one that he has sesn and knows will
give him satisfaction. The chances
are that when the stove arrives and
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he has used it for a snort time he.
will realize that he has practiced false
| economy—that it would have been
| more economical in the end for him to
| pay a dollar or two more to his home
! merchant and get an article that was
| guaranteed by the dealer.
{ The patron of the mail order house,
| also, often fails to take the matter of
| transportation charges into considera-
| tion when making his purchase. He
| sees only the price of the article as
listed in the mail order catalogue and
| does not think of the express or freight
charges, which with the cost of a
! money order and postage often make
. the total cost of the article greater
{han the price at which the same thing
could have been purchased at the focal
store. Another case of false economy.
| Buying merchandise of poor quality
| because the price is low is often false
| economy when the purchase is made
. at the home stores but it is doubly so
{ when the merchandise is bought from
a mail order house. When buying at
home one can be reasonably sure that
the article purchased at a low prive,
. while there is no such assurance when
it is bought by mail on the “sight un-
seen” plan.
Idea Is Exploded.
The idea that the mail order houses
sell the same quality of goods at lower
prices than the home merchants is
' quickly exploded when one learns of
majority of the mail order houses and
the large selling expense to which they
are subjected. The large mail order
houses spend hundreds of thousands
of dollars annually for advertising and
the selling expenses of the smaller
concerns are proportionately as large.
Their other expenses, such as rent;
taxes and labor, are also higher than
those of the local retail merchants, in
proportion to the business which they
‘de. In spite of these heavy expenses,
the mail order houses distribute mil-
lions of dollars in dividends among
their stockholders. In one large mati
‘order concern the profits of the stock-
‘holders, in cash and stock dividends.
‘have aggregated as much as 1,000 per
cent on the capital invested in the
short period of nine years. This does
not indicate that the mail order houses
are in business for their health and
are giving away merchandise to their
customers.
The mail order houses have cap:i-
talized the desire to economize that is
inherent in almost every one. By plac-
ing price above quality and making
cheapness the fundamental element in
their business they have inculcated in
the minds of their patrons the idea
that they are economizing when they
buy chrar goods at cheap prices.
Books, Stationery and Post |
Cards.
The Index Book Store
Everything in Electric Sup-
plies.
THE ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO.
LAUDERBACH-ZERBY CO.
Wholesale Grocers
YOUR HOME OPTOMETRIST
Fitting glasses for 16 years.
Satisfaction guaranted.
CASEBEER’S
Registered Optometrist.
The First National Bank
invites your patronage.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF BELLEFONTE.
Firestone, Gates’ super tread and
Mohawk Tires.
Atlantic, Mobiloil, Sonoco and Wa-
verly oils.
Mobiloil tractor oil a specialty.
BELLEFONTE STEAM VULC. CO.
Special This Week
50 1b. Cotton Mattress; $10.75
50 1b. Cotton felt Mattress $13.75
BRACHBILL’S.
This Market is now under New Manage-
ment and we Solicit Your Patronage
FRESH MEATS DAILY
KLINE’S
Formerly Lyon’s Market
the large profits that are made by the
if You Buy Out. of Town and I Buy Out. of Town, What, will Become of Our Town?
Shoes for the entire family
at right prices
YEAGER’'S
The Rexall Store
and that means quality.
Special attention given to
prescriptions.
Runkle’s Drug Store
The Home of the famous
Butter Krust Bread.
Confectionery and
Goods.
The City Bakery
Baked
Everything in Lumber,
Sashes, Doors and Blinds.
The Bellefonte Lumber Co.
The Home of Hart, Schaff-
ner and Marx Clothing for
Men. Also a complete line of
Men’s and Boy's furnishings.
MONTGOMERY & CO.
The Edison
is the peer of Phonographs.
Come in and hear one today.
* Records, Pianos, Player-
Pianos.
GHEEN’S MUSIC STORE.
We Are Still
in the Hardware business
at the old Stand. Every-
thing complete always.
OLEWINE’'S
Wholesale and Retail fruits and
produce.
A complete line of imported Ol-
ive Oil.
CARPENETO & CO.
When In Town
See the best in Motion
Pictures at the Scenic.
SCENIC THEATRE
Weaver, Grocers
Bellefonte, Pa.
The Best
in Dry Goods and
Ladies Ready to
Wear.
SCHLOW’S
The Bellefonte Trust Co.
Courtesy. Safety. Service.
The Bellefonte Trust Co.
Quality at the lowest prices is our
Motto. Satisfaction guaranteed on
every purchase at
The Mens’ Shop
WILLARD & SON
HABERDASHERS.
COHEN’S
Complete Department-
Everything for
the family.
COHEN'S
The
Store.
NEW GROCERY
A full line of groceries at reduced prices.
A full line of foreign and domestic fruits
in season. Klink’s bacon and ham, fresh
from the market. Cream cheesea specialty.
With every b0c. purchase we give free a
coupon for Rogers silverware. Ask for
them.
ALTERS & STOVER
High St., opposite P. R. R. Station. Sue-
cessors to Sechler & Co.
The Variety Store
SPIGELMYER & CO.
When You Want
Hardware of any description
call and see us. We invite
your patronage.
BELLEFONTE HARDWARE CO.
Everything in Hardware
for Farm, Dairy and Home.
GLENWOOD RANGES,
SCHAEFFER'S
The Grocery Store of
Wholesome Goods and
Prompt Service
HAZEL'S
A Special
Sale of all Sizes of Tires
for this Week.
WION GARAGE
Clothing of the Best
for men who are careful of ap-
pearances. A full line of
Men’s and Boy’s furnishings.
SIM THE CLOTHIER
W. S. Katz
DRY GOODS
Ladies Ready to Wear.
The Watchman
has always advised buying at
home, and it
buys at home itself.
Queen Quality Shoes for
Women
Regal Shoes for men
We fit the Youngsters, too,
MINGLE’S SHOE STORE.
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