Bellefonte, Pa., August 24, 1928.
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COAL LOADING BY MACHINERY.
Mechanical loading of bituminous
coal is spreading rapidly in American
mines, according to a statement just
made public by the Bureau of Mines,
Department of Commerce based upon
a study by the Bureau. . .
Increase in mechanical loading in
soft coal mines is estimated at about
60 per cent. Incomplete reports for
1927 indicate rapid progress in the in-
stallation of machinery.
While only 1.8 per cent. of the total
output of soft coal in this country in
1926 was mechanically loaded, it is
stated, in some States a considerable
part of the production was loaded by
machinery. Of seventeen States for
which figures are given separately,
Wyoming led with 17.6 per cent. of
the total output loaded by machines,
followed by Indiana with 9.3 per cent.
and Virginia with 7.7 per cent.
A summary of the study as made
public by the Bureau of Mines fol-
lows:
In 1926 a total of 10,022,195 tons
of bituminous coal was loaded me-
chanically by 455 machines in 131
mines. In addition there were 33
other mines reporting 43 loading ma-
chines in which the use of the ma-
chine was still in the experimental
stage only.
These figures do not include ma-
chines that have been abandoned or
a few machines that were used in
1925 and will be used again but which
loaded no coal in 1926.
There is in use in the coal indus-
try a wide variety of mechanical de-
vices designed to reduce the labor of
hand shoveling into mine cars and to
facilitate the work of transporting the
designed to reduce the labor of hand
shoveling into mine cars and to facil-
itate the work of transporting the
coal from the point where it is shot
down to the place of delivery to the
rail transportation system of the
mine.
Devices which make possible load-
ing most of the coal handled without
hand shoveling include loading ma-
chines; combined cutting and loading
machines; scraper loaders; shaking
trough = conveyers, equipped with a
shovel attachment at the front end
such as the so-called “duckbill” con-
veyers equipped with a cutting device;
and also certain “selffloating” con-
veyers designed to receive the coal
as shot down. Strictly speaking
“gelf-loading” conveyers are not load-
ing machines, but they are stated to
load out from one-third to a half or
even two-thirds of the coal without
hand shoveling and they have there-
fore been included.
There are other face conveyers and
mine-car loaders on which practically
all the coal has to be shoveled by
hand, although such devices, by re-
ducing the height to which the coal
has to be lifted by the miner, greatly
reduce the labor of hand shoveling.
Complete statistics covering the
use of hand-loaded face conveyers in
19%¢ are not available, but the infor-
mation at hand indicates a consider-
able number of installations of this
type, particularly in central Pennsyl-
vania.
Statistics of mine-car loaders, of
which the Jeffrey pit-car loader is the
principal type, have been collected by
the bureau for 1926, but can not be
published without disclosing the busi-
ness of individual manufacturers. It
may be said, however, that the mine-
car loader has been widely introduc-
ed, especially in Illinois. From the
information available it appears that
the total quantity of coal handled by
mine-car loaders and hand-loaded face
conveyers in 1926 was over a million
tons. Added to the 10,022,195 tons
loaded by machines, this gives a grand
total of more than 11,000,000 tons
produced by “mechanized” mining in
1926. In its statistical report for 1927
the bureau plans to include a com-
plete analysis of the use of convey-
ers.
Allowing for these differences in
classification, it appears that the in-
crease in the quantity handled by ma-
chines from 1925 to 1926 was between
three and a half and four million tons,
and the percentage of increase may
be placed to approximately 60 per
cent. Thus, although an exact com-
parison can not be made, it is clear
that there was a very large growth
in the quantity loaded by machine
from 1925 to 1926.
For 1927 the reports are not yet
complete, but those received indicate
rapid progress in the number of ma-
chines installed.
Let’s All Move to Armagh.
Pennsylvania has at least one
borough where taxes are not nec-
essary every year. The borough is
Armagh, Indiana county, a com-
munity with a population in 1920 of
110 and the present day population is
approximately that same figure.
In collecting tax statistics through-
out the State, the Department of In-
ternal Affairs made inquires in Ar-
magh as well as all of the other
boroughs in the State. Tax collect-
or Martha E. Tomb replied that in
1926 a five mill tax for borough pur-
poses was levied on taxable property
assessed at $81,085. The tax collect-
ed amounted to $394.13 and the tax
collector explained that this amount
was sufficient to care for the bor-
ough’s needs in 1926 and likewise that
it permitted a surplus so that no ad-
ditional tax was needed in 1927.
Hunting Licenses Must Await Special
Plates.
Treasurers of fifty-four counties in
the State were instructed to cease is-
suing hunting licenses until they have
been provided with special plates
which will permit the holders to kill
a doe.
The order from the State game
commission here today followed the
decision last night to again modify
the ruling which will legalize killing
of does next December.
A PENNSYLVANIA CRUSADE
AGAINST WHEAT SMUT.
Starting next Monday, at Newber-
ry, a wheat smut control train will
pass through 19 Pennsylvania coun-
ties and 2 counties in New Jersey.
The Pennsylvania State College will
cooperate with the Reading railway
system and the Central Railroad of
New Jersey in operating the train.
During the past seven years stink-
ing smut has risen from a place of al-
most no economic importance to that
of being the most destructive disease
of wheat. For the past three years
the annual toll exacted from Penn-
sylvania farmers has averaged 1,000,
000 bushels a year.
On the train thousands of bushels
of wheat will be treated with copper
carbonate dust, which controls stink-
ing smut. The service will be
principally for growers residing in
sections inaccessible to commercial
treating machines installed in mills.
Millers also are invited to visit the
train to see the various types of ma-
chinery which can be employed to
control the smut.
Stops will be made in Lycoming,
Union, Northumberland, Schuykill,
Berks, Lebanon, Dauphin, Cumber-
land, Franklin, Adams, Lancaster,
Carbon, Northampton, Montgomery,
Chester, Bucks, Philadelphia, and
Delaware counties in this State and
in Mercer and Somerset counties,
New Jersey.
STATE BANKERS MEETING
AT STATE COLLEGE.
The agricultural committee of the
Pennsylvania Bankers’ Association
and the county key bankers, repre-
senting every county in the State, will
spend three days of this week inspect-
ing the school of agriculture of the
Pennsylvania State College. Dan Ot-
is, director, and other representatives
of the agricultural commission of the
American Bankers’ Association and
the officers of the State association,
will be in the party. W. S. McKay,
of Greenville, is chairman of the ag-
ricultural committee. Approximately
100 bankers are expected to make
the trip.
The bankers, who maintain close
contact with the extensien service of
the School of Agriculture, will spend
the three days in study and inspection
of the agricultural experiment sta-
tion on which the extension service
is based. During their stay at the
State College they will observe the
progress of various experiments and
have opportunity to talk to scien-
tists on the staff who are carrying on
agricultural investigation.
Dr. Ralph D. Hetzel, president of
the college, and Dean R. L. Watts, of
the School of Agriculture, will ad-
dress a meeting of the bankers Fri-
day night.
Now Making Small-Sized Money.
Production of the new small-sized
United States currency was begun by |
the Bureau of Engraving and Print- |
ing on August 7, Gccording to an oral
announcement by the Assistant Secre- |
tary of the Treasury, Henry Herrick
Bond. 4-- —'% -
The first sheet, comprising 12 one-
dollar bills, has been pulled from the
presses and henceforth the number of
presses will be increased and the
quantity of bills enlarged and the
printing will go steadily forward un-
til $1,000,000,000 bills have been turn-
ed out. These will include denomina-
tions of $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100,
$500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000, and
as fast as they are printed they will
be stored for aging that their circula-
tion life may be maximum when they
are released.
The size of the new bills is 6 5-16 |
by 2 11-6 inches, whereas the size of
the bills at present in circulation is
7 7-16 by 8 1-8, the new bills being
approximately one-third smaller than
those which they eventually will re-
place.
It has not been definitely determin-
ed yet when the new currency will be
released for circulation, but it is ex- |
pected about July 1, 1929.
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Erect 70,000 Signs on New Record
Schedule.
Erection of 70,000 highway route
markers six hours ahead of schedule
and the entire job completed within
forty-two hours recently was accom-
plished by the Pennsylvania depart- '
ment of highways. Markings now
conform with the State and federal
system adopted by the department
some months ago.
Users of department tourist maps .
will find the new route numbers on
the 1928 edition of the map. The
new road markers in conjunction with
the warning signs and “Thru-Stop”
markers provide a complete guide to
the traveler.
JACKSONVILLE.
Willard Weaver spent Sunday at
Bellwood, visiting friends.
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Mrs. Mabel Peck spent Monday af- |
ternoon with Mrs. Mervin Hoy.
There will be a festival in Jackson-
vile Wednesday evening, August the
nd.
The annual Lucas family reunion
was held, Saturday, with a nice day
and a very good turnout. :
Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Hoy spent
Sunday at John Kormans, and also
attended the emersing services at
Milesburg.
Mrs. Mabel Peck spent the week-
end at the Harry Hoy home. On Sun-
day they called on Mr. and Mrs. Luth- |
er Fisher and family. i
Mr. and Mrs. John Korman and '
daughter Dorothy, of Curtin, and Mr. ,
and Mrs. William Ohland and daugh-
ter Betty, of New Jersey, spent Wed-
nesday evening at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Mervin Hoy. |
Mrs. Walter Winslow has returned
to her home in Philadelphia, after |
spending three weeks at the home of
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam |
Lucas. She was accompanied home |
by her mother, father and brother
Vingent, and mother-in-law, Mrs,
Winslow.
That is said of all of us.
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the white spaces up to the first
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below.
except proper names. Abbreviations, slang,
lete forms are indicated in the definitions,
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 1.
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HOW TO SOLVE. A.CROS8-WORD PUZZLE
When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces
words both vertically and horisontally.
this pussle will
The first letter in each word
which refers to the definition listed below the
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will fill
black square to the right, and a number under
will fill the white squares to the mext black one
No letters go in the black spaces. All words used are dictionary words,
initials, technical terms and obmo-
pussie.
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Grange Encampment and Fair §
EGINING August 25th Centre Hall, will
be crowded with men and women inter-
ested in the most important business on earth,
the business of Farming. Both as a social.
and educational event this annual gathering
Farming has become as
scientific as other professions and a proper
social life on the farm, through modern in-
vention, is now being realized.
The First. National Bank
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Horizontal. Vertical.
1—Middle western state
6—To utter musical sounds
10—Puts out
12-—Pine trees
14—Negative
16—Period of time
18—Meaty part of fruit
20—Two-wheeled vehicle
22—Observes secretly
24—To prohibit
25—Snow vehicle
27—Kinds
29—Preposition
20—Organs of the head
32—A direction
34—Darts
36—Kind of Malayan skirt
38—European country
40—To diminish
41—Boy’'s name
43—Takes one's part against an-
other
45—Church benches
46—To knock
48—Roman historian
50—To observe
51—A journey
53—Gave a dole
556—Sun god
56—To rip
58—Compact
60—Heavenly body
61—Rains ice-like particles
1—Monarchs
2—Negative
4—Snakes _
5—Halts
8—To arrest
11—Heir
13—A lath
19—A tine
21—Cogs
26—Lets fall
28—Leather s
33-—Sharpens
34—To avoid
35—Took a st
42—An arrow
45A—Benches
47—Pastries
49—To vend
52—To stroke
54—To expire
57—Sun god
action
7—Preposition
9-—A kind of worm
16—One who oils
17—Main character in a novel (pl)
23—Kind of hay
trip
31—Rustic lover
a razor
and
44—Song by one (pl)
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Maharajah Says Indian Princes Have
Hard Lot with Little Money.
The belief that Indian princes and
maharajahs are fabulously wealthy
potentates who live in gorgeous state
is wrong—such a condition of affairs
exists only in the minds of romantic
novel writers.
The authority for this statement
is the young and handsome Maha-
rajah of Rajpipla, one of the mem-
bers of the Indian Chamber of
Princes, who is now in London in con-
nection with Indian reforms.
“I do not know a Maharajah on
whom work is not making a merci-
less drain,” the Maharajah declares.
“T do not know a Maharajah who can
shed money in the way attributed to
Indian princes. They have to weigh
money before they spend. Many of
them actually do consider dollars and
cents.
“I have yet to meet the Mahara-
jah who wants to be surrounded by
marbles and silks and precious stones,
or who would be comfortable sur-
rounded in this way. I am not plead-
ing poverty, I am pleading enlight-
| enment. In the old days such stories
Today they
might have been true.
are ridiculous.”
The Maharajah illustrated his point | Adequate Home Wiring Is Urged as
{ by comparing his actual style of liv- :
ling in London with published reports.
“I have arrived,” he said, “I am sup-
posed to have 25 rooms that are em-
bowered with the rarest roses, filled
with the richest scents, and decorated
with the richest marbles and ivories,
and to be dressed in the most gor-
geous glitternig raiment afire with
the most costly gems.
“Actually I have a suite of five
rooms.
ber 50, totals two. The flowers in my
suite consists of one carnation, a re-
cent buttonneir. It is believed, be-
cause an otherwise possibly weil-
meaning manufacturer who supplies
‘a $5,000 automobile to an Indian
| prince speaks of the $60,000 car that
he has supplied. It is good advertis-
ing for the manufacturer but bad for
“Let a prince order a favorite briar
and it becomes a $1,000 meerschaum.
Let him eat a sandwich and it be-
comes a meal of rare dishes served by
mysteriously expert chefs.
“1 come here to work the clock
round. I scheme to spend as little as
possible. But the old myth is trooped
out, and I am making a rake’s pro-
gress.
“Roses, scents, marbles and ivories.
No mention
to save taxicab fare, or go to a saloon
wich. This is true. I study expendi-
ture to that extent.
“There are Maharajahs who con-
trol millions. What we control is not
a personal fortune, but a present
that will guarantee good health, good
food, the health and well-being of our
subjects. Enlightened princes have no
surplus of money to waste.”
2000 Young Male Ring Neck Pheas-
ants Were Liberated in the
State.
Liberation of 2,000 young male ring
necked pheasants in various parts of
3—To bring suit against
37—Of more recent origin
39—Same as 48 horizontal
Solution of Last Week’s Puzzle.
59—Prefix meaning undoing of an
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when traveling to know that his
or her funds are secure. You
have this assurance when you carry our
Travelers Checks, which are issued in
convenient amounts at very reasonable
cost. Come in and procure them of us
now.
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Game Commission.
The pheasants were propogated in
game refuges operated by the State
the release of the 2,000 birds
represented the result of the first at-
tempt of the State to breed this va-
riety. A number of hens will be re-
leased later this year and next spring
4,000 more male birds will be liber-
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fectiveness of this service depends on
the completeness of the wiring sys-
tem. Complete wiring is neither com-
complete wiring system should
provide adequate outlets, convenient- |
ly controlled, using the best mater- |
ials throughout and include the fol-
lowing nine essential elements:
1. A safety entrance switch (where
the current comes in the house).
safety distribution
3. A bell-ringing transformer.
4, Code wire.
5. Metal-covered conductors.
6. Metal boxes for light, switch and
convenience outlets.
7. A tumbler switch at every door-!
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for every fifty square feet of floor
9. A minimum of one convenience
outlet for every fifty square feet of
Marriage Licenses.
Charls A. Conner, of Newark, N. J.,
and Edna B. Glenn, of State College.
Edward R. Boob and Margaret M.
Williams, both of Lemont.
Walter R. Smith and Goldie D. Al-
ters, both of Coburn.
John Robert Orwick, of Port Ma- |
tilda, and Evelyn Madeline Burge, of
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ON ALL
Hot Weather Wearables
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| Straw Hats at ¥; price.
Palm Beach, Mohair and Zefirette Suits
at 1; off the regular price.
These prices will be in force for
10 Days Only
You will find this a wonderful oppor-
tunity to save.
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