State
of
HURLED OVER CLIYF,
Pretty Hungarian's Departure,
Pottstown Annie Takir, a
ty Hungarian girl, ie being detained
at Ellis Island the immigration
authorities, waiting for Potts-
town flance to claim her as his bride
He sent her a ticket to come Ames
jea. but when she landed at Ellis
Island he refused to marry her. For
a time it seemed certain that she
would be deported, when John Seuto,
also Pottstown, ntly aros
the sion and sal would mar-
Ty
pret.
hy
her
to
of fo
eca
ner
For was the sweet-
of Pottstown,
native land.
to America,
years th
heart Edwar
when he lived in his
Turk decided to come
and when he left gecured her
prom to become his bride, A
short time ago Turk sent her a steam-
ship ticket and Annie left for Ame ri-
ca Turk's love grew cold and he
abandoned the girl. Scuto heard of
the predicament the girl was in and
has gone to New York to marry
and bring her to
Pottstown.
of
he
ise
THREE HURT IN AUTO CRASH.
Car Crashes Into Market
Wagon At Columbia,
Touring
large
tot
Gets,
Columbia A touring auto
containing Harry H. Melhorn,
Harry Delong and Bert Hoffman, all
of York, while crossing the river
here collided with a
wagon containing Harry Paup and
his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ida Paup
The wagon was completely wreck-
ed, the Paups being buried in the
debris, but escaping with only slight
injuries,
The oécupants
thrown fifteen feet
Getz sustained a dislocated shoulder
and Melhorn's right wrist was frac-
tured. Delong was taken to the hos-
pital ‘in an unconscious condition
suffering from cond sion of the
brain. His condition is serious.
Hoffman, who escaped inj
80 excited that he deserts hi
panions by
where
auto was
bridge market
of the auto were
from their seats.
running
are
1+ fohetd
oniy siigntiy
abouls
READING BATTOIR BURNED.
Company Which Is Controlled By
Philadelphians Loses 875,000,
Rosnding
nealing
Abattoir
thrown
is owns
1
eiphia :
Eloping Couple Not Kidnapers.
t from St
at Duncannon,
idren with
or
(6
l
been +
toona
woman
cannon.
Pennsy Fighting Forest Fires,
Shamokin 30 man forest fires
th
¢ 4 +1 b . yb Fas
£ AUOUS ere Ha §
are ragin the Sta
Forestry
the seri tion of affairs, mada
more long drought. Th
most fires are along t
Pennsylvania Railroad and a bi
force of employees are trying
conquer the fires, which are causing
great damage
Breaker Boy Torn To Pieces,
Mahanoy Cdty William Becker,
of Maha
nt was notified of
NS
a 19-vear-old breaker boy,
noy Plane tor y pleces in the
geraner line at East Bear Ridge Col-
liery, soon after beginning work
The boy's coat caught up by the
rind became entang
in the ma-
chinery and
was
hima in
Sadden Summons For War Veteran,
Pottsville Thomas,
72. was found dead in his bed at this
place He retired in perfect health
and succumbed to apoplexy. Thomas
was a veteran of the Civil War and
was repeatedly praised for courage
on the battlefield.
-David aged
Freak Rooster Has Five Toes,
Reading. — Darius Glouser, of
Baily, this county, owns a freak roos-
ter, with five toes on each foot and
with wings turned up Instead of
down, as on’ other fowls,
Child Killed By Train,
Mahanoy City. « Crossing the
ing Coal and Iron Company, at Ma-
killed. The child was going to the
mountain for spring water,
r—
Hands Back Marriage License,
Reading. —Harry Kuller, of New
York, handed back a marriage Ii
cense to Register of Wills George
H. Gregory, stating that he Intended
to get married in New York instead
of Pennsylvania. The marriage li-
cense was made out in the names of
Harry Kuller, and Minnie Marmon,
New York. The idea of securing the
pecessary papers here was to go back
to New York and get married without
having any of thelr friends know it.
Wut as the paper was not good In
New York State it was returned.
s
chine Drops Into Creek.
-Hurled with their
cliff at
the Lycoming Creek
Williamsport,
automobile over a sixty-foot
the narrows of
Road, a few north of this city,
four men narrowly e
lives and, as it
injured.
B. Kauffman, owner of the
that plunged over the pre-
Constable George WW. Klett,
Arthur C. Runkle, a restaurant pro-
prietor, and Charles T. Shibe, were
the occupants of the machine, and
were enroute to city, when the
breaking of the steering gear of the
car til the narrow road,
hrew it across
over the and sent it whirling
into the
miles
seaned with thelr
was, were all se
{pi
the
under the
men re all
until Llett, a
ceeded in
raising a
machine, the
in danger of drowning
powerful man, suc
injuries, in
Car Klett,
got but
tightly un-
the tir
time
ONsCIous
spite of his
corner of
wiffman and Runk!
be was wedged
the wreckage, ang Iv
was extricated, un
and almost drowne
hour work
im Klett sustained
was hurt internally.
iz in wospital, as is Shibe,
who had a leg badly mashed and wad
cut and bruised Kauff-
man and Runkle escaped with severe
cuts and bruises,
Lae
out,
Was
8 strenuous
extensively
WANTED FOR MURDER.
York Prisoner Held For Larceny
Identified By Photograph.
York. C. R. Urquhart, arrested
of Detectives Charles S
» county jail on the
y, has been identified
i uthorities as being
‘olone! Urqubkart, wante
Waverly, Va, for murder comm!
in Sussex County Chief Whi
I man’s picture taken a short
and it y ¥V
rece s ¢
nold. Mayor
th § ha ¥
¢ He
mm R. W.
FREIGHT TRAIN RUNS AWAY)
One Man Killed And Six Injured At
Harrisburg,
Fire May Close Colliery,
Locust Ga; Fire in
Spring Collier) by the
adelphia & Reading Coal &
has spread so rapid]
weeks that
the entire plant will
uniess two large dams,
with water, not exting
e flames Several thousand
wotild be rendered idle,
y dur-
residents
Company,
ing the past two
fear
down
be closed
$
now
uish
}
iting do i
3
plovees
em.
Leaves Estate To Poor Children,
The will. of
made public, directed a
bank to divi is estate among poor
cgildren thamokig and vicinity
nlx Christmas.
Shamokin Slmer
ott
Hurled To Death
Pittston. —-Whils
pair a
air pipe, Ralph Polin, Worst
n Exeter Mine, a machinist,
was instantly” kilied. The pipe
ret at a joint and Polin wae hurl
ed with terrific foree against § con-
crete wall fifteen feet away,
Against Wall,
attempting to re-
leak in a six-inch compressed.
4
» of Pitts.
try aged
a=
dood y
faye Old School Books Will Do.
Sunbury.~—Taxpayers of Mt, Car.
mel Township asked Court to restrain
the school directors of the disirict
purchasing new books, alleg-
ing that the old ones in use are good
enough,
Two Fatally Burned In Explosion.
Shamokin. An explosion of gas
in the Locust Soring Colliery fatally
ily Injured Frank Latvataski and W.
| H. rnan, of Locust Gap.
£0,000,000 In Freight Equipment,
Pittsburg. ~In addition to the 85,-
| 400,000 in car orders placed
| week by the Pennsylvania Raliroad,
the Pennsylvania line west of Pitts
burg awarded contracts for approxi
mately $3,000,000 worth of freight
equipment to the Standard Steel Car
pany.
by the Pennsylvania
for freight
equipment alone, '
LEGUMES.
said that the
>=me farmer.
FEED THE
It is well
fanmer is the
coming
liberal use
phosphate,
iifalfa and vetch, with a
af the cbeap potash and
ie at
onal farm improvements,
iid the land need never, either in
summer or winter, be left to the wast!
ng of rains and sun by lying bare,
put between every cultivated
may covered with
yield profit while it gathers
the land and feed
raps. But it must not be
these crops will bring
elements of fertility
exhausted
xposure to the
rain and sun. If
are wanted
teguminous crops such must
fed They will gather itrogen
By their
be a Brie
fertility
the
assumed
all the
‘or for
‘hat
long tillage
bleaching
the best
the action
Crops
been
by
results
from of the
he
that the
taken
these
t the
well-devel
Crops
away
are
acid
years have
and without
they can not gi
with a
the farmer will not
hay Crop would
effect soil for
from
and phosphoric
of former
from the soll,
ziven them
regen thes
wiped growth
only lose
give, but the on
subsequent crops Nothing
aothing and nothing remains
pay far better to put a liberal
ing the cheap mineral
yma the pea and crops
put the same money in a
grade fertilizer cn the corn, or
and not only pay
n the money crops but in the
pent improvement
ana Farmer.
would
and
the
they
the
dross.
of
than
high
whe 4
I
veiler
clover
ol 2
vaiue
crop direct
perma.
of the
COST OF A HORSE
What to
to the age of Mir years?
‘Fammer” gis :
The
more
than a
{etl
raise a onlt
Wallace's
i gt
i { .
does
first
©
and nourished
years old
hor wa
and
r ino
penaen, and
at a high
the
the
he
where
an afford
them every
which
them too wet
tip the chaff and grain
around the machine at threshing time
and store in barrels for the hens
work at during winter
The average pouliryman
nothing by holding either
stoonk for nrices,
deteriorate, and
they are in good order only
the profit which should be made
Twelve to fourteen inches square
are about the proper dimensions
a box in which to zet a hen, A larg
box will give the eggs room tn
scatter and thus be chilled,
amaller box may crowd the
sulting in broken eggs
Poultry require salt, in amall quan.
titles, the same as other stock, bu!
it should be mixed In the feed. One
ounce of salt to 756 or 100 hens dally
is sufficient. Large amounts of salt
usually result fatally, but
quantity will prove beneficial.
as those
Don't got
Gather
in
the
SgEs or
The ages
fowls after
eats Up
i. p
better
keaping
for
er
ri
hen,
any serious permanent defect, they
should be fitted for market and sold.
There is more real profit in market.
ing birds at two or three pounds than
in keeping them until they weigh six
pounds,
SORE HEAD.
Sore head among poultry is of very
common occurrence at this time of
It is a phase of roup, catarrh
alr, damp
or both sides often obstructing the
sight and many times resulting in the
internally affected. Roup or sore head
if a cure ls not effected wiil spread
through the whole flock. In the
be affected by injecting into the nos
trils a little kerosene oll, anointing
the head, If swollen, with sweet oll
and alcohol equitl parts of each
or twice a day. Add one-half
teaspoonful of aconite to each quart
of drinking water and keep the af
fected birds in dry, comfortable quar
ters with plenty of sunsuine, The
vessels used by affected
should be bolled occasionally’
Poultry
birds
-Commercial
RYE AND CORN
advisable to sow rye for pas
corn at the last plowing of
Some of customers want
to sow then, If no danger
of hot dry weather killing it. Please
give us your opinion and oblige a sub
scriber.—C. L. SB.
Answer: —We recommend the
rye at the
for early spring
one-half bushel
it will give about the best ¢
pasture you can get Vetch 1
and better, but it
get the Of
how the fall
is going to be, the chances
the rye will get enough mots
ture to grow all right —Indiana Farm.
er.
Is it
fure in
our
there Is
iast plowin
corn,
about
Acre;
pasture,
geod to
would be
hard to seed course we
drs weather
but
are
MILE AND THUNDER STORMS
There has long prevailed the idea
that milk sours when electrical storms
This has been we'l
investigation. It
nati
pretty
careful
fs now held t
by
hat milk sours quicker
ing According to McKay and Lar
the reason is he air
then
tem.
than
fem
that the
milk and creates
{tions for the ran
germs pres
NEW COWS
Where
in the same field
#0 that th
not By having
turn nto
give the grass a chance t
up and be washed clean by
shower. Then the cbws will eat *
and do much better on {t-—~Farmers’
Home Journal
all the time
tred down thi
much they
a new fleld to
week, will
0 straighten
dew and
grass re is wil
eat
you
them each
GERMAN CHRISTMAS TREES.
Method of Planting Always Secures a
Bountiful Supply.
Christmas comes but once a year
the Germans try to make the
most of it. Of the 6.000000 families
of the Kaiser's empire it is sald that
purchase Christmas trees
in all parts of Germany. The
planting and the entting of trees Is
under control of the Governrient
officials, and it is thought that there
is not now an evergreen growing
in Germany that was not artificially
In the initial stage the young plants
row. As the trees develon they grad
ually are thinned. When one font
high many are transplanted into pots
and form miniature Christmas trees.
out for this Yuletide market the for
est plantings would have to te rade
further apart or the trees cut out in
thinning while small ones would have
to be thrown away. This thinning is
continuous until the tress have ut.
tained a size suitable for sawing pur.
poses.
The thinnings are used for fork
and hoe handles, grapevine stakes,
hop poles, hean poles, scaffol lings,
ete. The owner therefore does not
have to await the maturity of his
foreat before realizing ar Income from
it. In the economy of cultivating a
forest every twig is saved, and even
people and children find useful em-
ployment in colng such light and easy
work and adding to the family in.
come. Chicago Tribune,
BUILT-IN SCREENS
Many of the new houses are being
built with screens attached to the
window fram:s, which slide down into
a casing out of sight in winter, and
can be ralsed and lowered by auto-
matically pressing a button.
FOR MENDING
For mending
neckbands of bosom
pleces tape flat along
of the buttonhole, bringing them to
gether at its The on
each side should be just wide enough
to extend to the edge of the neckban i.
where it should be stitched, This
new buttonhole twear the rest
of the shirt—B
BUTTONHOLES
buttonholeg in the
shifts, stitch
of each edge
ends, Lape
algo
will ot
Eton
MAT FOR UMBRELLA JAR
If vou dread your umbrella jar will
be broken from careless handling,
try putting a the bot
One housewife inside of
eirele of tubing on
top of which is a flat tin plate wita
slightly upturned edge. The
keeps this from resting on
tom, and it can easily be
of drippings.—New York
mat in
has
rubber
rubber
tom.
hers a
tubing
the bot
emptied
Pres,
AROMATIC BATHS.
ff we cannot copy the
women with their
there are many
used in the
make it more
these is a lemon cut in slices
placed In bath ten minutes
fore using. A little borax will
soften the water. or a bag about
8 square filled with balf
half catmeal
old-time
aromatic baths,
things which can be
soften it and
Among
ani
he
water
refreshing
to
the
also
five
bran
A SEWING TIP
Why not
in the work!
idea how us
pair of tweezers
You have no
Th
are to pull
keep a
asket
stubborn
ticularly
ends of bastir
when
has run over
cidents
how oi
t—
HOME-MADE KIT(
11,
a 5 Aswad
A i hi
"HENETTE.
ar for those
ants
nant
u
board fo
and
compartments
new
thin
drawer into
back
some yards
goasoning ele
tea, coffee,
we use
exiracis,
FULAT
when
for
irawer for cereals,
and all
cooking
towels
dry
draw
rollers and all pieces of
cloth we around kitchen Screw
some brass hooks on right side
bread board to hang small utensils on,
guch as mixing spoons, forks,
beaters, grater and ple fork. On the
teft side get a nickel towel rail and
fasten it on for dish cloth When not
in use, put down cover, lay a cloth on
80 you can move it easily to clean
under. 1 have made one and it iz the
handidet thing around my house. Any
woman can make it who can use
hammer.—Boston Post,
RECIPES.
mdian Meal Muffing—One cup of
yellow corn meal, 1 cup of flour, 1-2
cup of sugar, 1 egg, buiter the
of an egg, a little salt
teaspoonful of soda in a cup of sour
milk. Stir briskly and drop
muffin pans, already heated,
dish
yen
¢
03
eRR
matoes, 4 ripe, or 3 green
sugar, 1 of cinnamon, 3 cups of vine
gar. Peel tomatoes and onions, chop
with other ingredi
ents and boil 1 1.2 hours. Bottle and
it will keep a long time. One quart
of canned tomatoes may be used in
stead of ripe ones.
Plain Fruit Cake--One-halt cup of
butter, 1 cup of sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup of
sour milk, 2 1-2 cups of flour, 1 scant
teaspoon of soda. 1 1-2 cups of raisins,
1-2 cup of currants, 1 teaspoon of cin
namon, 1 teaspoon of mace.
Breakfast Religh--Take a teacupful
of cheese, cut up into small bits,
and put into a frying pan with a
oupful of milk. When it bolls well
and the cheese is nearly melted, add
a litle pepper, mustard (only a pinch),
and a little salt. Roll 3 Boston crack:
ers to a powder and add them with
a pidce of butter half the size of an
ege. Stir quickly for a few moments,
Turn out op © nlatter, well heated
pers (chopped)
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Whether from Colds Heat, Stomach
Nervous Troubles, Capud! will re
It's Hignid—pleasant
stely Try it. We
Slores
One physician out
he Unit
i
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th ed States lives
y . 4 “
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will stop J edint
WISE WORDS.
an knows anything
i friendship who
1ibit human friendliness
about the
divine does not ex
= vent
as ves
The noblest workoften lies
Only a putty life ts af:
worn out
Le
The battle of without goes as goer
the battie within
Duty has a stern
viewed askance
face
not become one of the t
te if you flee from
» fos er 3
aring, t
es-hi
sme one else is doiz
Some folks th
in thelr faith becan
asleep in church
it is not strange
1ity of reverence when
their worshiping :
From “Bentence
Chicago Tribun¢
before
Sermons,”
Why Their Stlverware Lasts,
The Dutch, when they invite
nd they are not a guest-seeking
extremely hospitable
bowever, when {It cor
their active hospitalit]
nds an energetic recognition
le is laid with piles of
chair On
the spoons and forks are heavy
the knives of the finest
ivory. You never, howe
them again, When you
ghown that a family
that ends it. You eal
everyday ware
“What would the
for our descendants
often?” an old lady asked mu
would we have if our ancest
been careless?’ Harper's Bazar,
fore each your
had
Ss
Two big vessels for
Pacific are now |
Mitsubishi dockyards
Orients teamship
is of 13,500 tons and
each
trade
the
Com
tw
tons
BAD DREAMS
Caused by Coffee.
“1 have been a coffee drinker, more
or less, ever since | can remember,
until a few months ago | became
more and more nervous and irritable,
and finally 1 could not sleep at night,
for 1 was horribly by
dreams of all sorts and a species of
distressing nightmare
“Finally, after hearing the exper-
fence of numbers of friends who had
guit coffee and were drinking Pos-
tum, and learning of the great ben-
pfits they had derived, | concluded
coffee must be the cause of my trou-
disturbed
made strictly according to directions.
“I was astonished at the flavour
and taste. It entirely took the place
of coffee, and to my very great satis.
faction i began to sleep peacefully
and sweetly. My nerves improved,
and I wish I could wean every man,
womas and child from the unwhole-
some drug-—ordinary coffee.
“People really do not appreciate or
realize what a powerful drug it is and
what terrible effect it has on the hu-
man system. If they did, hardly a
pound of it would be sold. 1 would
never think of going back to coffee
again. I would almost as soon think
of putting my hand in a fire after !
had once been burned.
“A young lady friend of ours had
stomach trouble for a long time, and
could not get well as long as she
ased coffee. She finally quit coffee
and began the use of Postum, and Is
aow perfectly well Yours for
health.”
Read “The Road to Wellville,” in
pkgs. “There's a Reason.”
Ever read theabove letter? A new
one appears from time to time, They
are genuine, true, and fall of human
interest. :