CORN CONTEST
RULES ISSUED
Progressive Grange Will Con-
duct Competition of Farmers
BOYS AND GIRLS INCLUDED
Prizes for Largest Amount of Shelled
Corn Raised on Acre of Ground—
Will
Awards
Contestants
to Cash
Be Eligible
in Gold.
have 1
much attenti
er boys and
open.
! int raising
amount of shelled )
of ground and «
"1 }
1all
11€8 §
next largest
their order
For the |
Cumberland
gold;
treasury was
more than
Was
1812
His Body Stopped Machinery.
Bethlehem A vestigation to
the turbine
thers’ graph-
revealed the
§ Atugustus Bar
nett, was jammed
in the ma 3 larnett, a painter,
disappeared } hor and indica-
his life in the
end
tions are ied
Lehigh Riv
In Chute to Burial Alive,
Mahanoy City «Caught
coal while loading cars at
Colliery,
in a rush of
Park Place
John Koblick and Simon Yo-
beck, of Park Place, were carried down
a chute and buried under tons of coal
The first rush was followed by a sec-
ond, and the bodicg were not recovered
for hours,
Herd of White Deer.
Mechanicsburg. — Holling Springs
Park has been improved for the sum-
mer season A new bandstand has
been built, ani it 's the Intention of
the managers to give a number of
band concerts The pienickers hie
year will have the added pleasure of a
24-foot toboggan slide for the older
people and an 18foot slide for the
younger ones, New swings and a new
merry-go-round have been placed, An
other attraction will be a herd of white
fallow deer. There is a wellequipped
children’s playground.
MA. WILSON'S
Land Laws.
Disclaims Any Desire To Complicate
But To
Oppose Foreign
Situation, Ready
Dictation.
Washingtor
of Missis
Japane:
President
recently
and asked him not to make anoth
speech that
MENOCCAL ACCLAIMED PRESIDENT
in Ci History—No
A
No Banau
New Epoch
Ball
iba's
and
* tiara)
(ie HETAL
any kind a Cu ,
Cuban as the republi
aguration took pl in
Chamber Palace, that an
where formerly th
Colonial dave held sway A
the Senate
cient building
e Spanish captains of
parade of
4.000 regular troops In gorgeous uni
forms and a score or more elviec organ
1zations preceded the ceremony Presi
dent Menocal was accompanied to the
palace by his wife, and the “firat lady"
of Cuba claimed more attention than
did her husband
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS SCORED.
Mothers’ Congress Speaker Declares
They Dress Immodestly,
Boston.—The closing session of the
other things, for an address by Mrs
Orville T. Bright, of Chicago, vice.
president of the congress, scoring the
tendency on the part of high school
girls toward immodest or questionable
styles ol dressing. She asked the
teachers to take a strong stand against
this evil.
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(Copyright.)
KILLED AT FORT
5, GUNNERS
Nine Badly Hurt When Breech
Block Blows Out.
ACCIDENT AT
To Be Among
Breech Not
son Headquarters.
1
DIRECTELECTION OF PRESIDENTS
Joint Resolution Would
Term Of Office Six
Also Make
Years,
resoluti
Represent y i '
Under the proposed amendme nt, nomi
two highest offices would
a primary election
chosen through a final ale tion, re
turns i be made the
would in turn
receiving the
nees for the
3 ’
be aple ted at and
of which would to
State, who
declare the candidates
NEW MUNICIPAL PLAN.
To Free City Of Debt.
South Norwalk, Conn.—An unusual |
transaction took place here when the
city’s electric works purchased $20,000
of outstanding city bonds. This plan
of buying up city bonds through the
municipal plants, it {8 pointed out, in
Augurates a new system of municipal
business, and will, if continued, event
ually clear the city of debt except’ for
# sum which It will in reality owe
itself,
10 ils WIFE
Banker Walker Loses Heroic
Fight Against Death.
Death
Days Fron
dey .
gent iy
Walker's
Seven
Swa
PEACE DELEGATES LEAVE.
Centenary Planners Traveled Ex
tensively During 15-Day Stay.
York The i Australian
gd i sailed for
b-day visit
planning
nary
country
celebration cents of
between English-spe
aking
oppor
hand
dash and swiftness
they 4.000
formal
dinners
two
miles a
peace peo
given ar xcelle
experience 1 firat
ples VOT
tunity to
America’s reputed
In the 15
miles and
breakfasts, luncheons
This is an average of
third formal meals and 266
day
davs traveled
were guests at 55
and
three
ACCIDENT ON WAR CRAFT.
Injured
Aboard Torpedo Boat Stewart.
San Diego, Cal.—While racing
manenvering waters 20 miles from port
a high pressure cylinder head blew
out of the port engine on the torpedo
hoat destroyer Stewart and in a flash
the englne-room was filled with a cloud
of scalding steam. Two men were
kilied outright and another so &
ously infured that he probably will die.
sed
SNAPSHOTS AT
STATE NEWS
All Pennsylvania Gleaned for
Items of Interest,
UP IN THE AIR
Takes a Trip in a Flying Boat
at Annapolis.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
HIS FIRST OFFICIAL VISIT.
Farmers Busy in
Churches Raising Funds for Many
tude Of About 500 Feet Worthy
Fi gs A ind For \ ness and Pleasure that Interest
Every Locality—
Head Of the Department Reaches An
Alt Objectes——Iitems of Busi
anda
LABOR LEADERS LOSE,
Refused Writ Of Error To Take Ap
peal To Supreme Court.
ug
Was
died a few
RETYVIOeR the
FLAG .ER DEAD. ast real which 1 built
HENRY MM. WAS
Efforts To Keep Demise Secret—Had
Spectacular Career.
‘ ' & em-
ployed in th ir of th ck Haven
Fire Briel npany, at 'Scootac, an
gled for i Creek. His
catch ame to 30 fine specimens,
but he landed an alligator that was an
unusually large specimen According
after | to those noted for truth and veracity,
0 with. | this re feet in length
the fact. Flagler who 83 active. When Mr. Nefr
old, bad ill for months, it made several vi
death has been expected hourly for cious strike him, but he
eight weeks and the announce. killed it with a stone
ment was no surprise.
West Palm Beach
Fiagler, Standard
builder of the Florida East Coast Rail.
at his the re.
several
Fla.—~Yenry M
Oil magnate and Scootac
inted
way, died home here as
fall down stairs
For several
an effort was
suit of
hours
months ag
hi *y 1 o
his death muae ptile measure 2
and was very
anded the ‘gator
attempis to
hold was
Years
His
Tae
the last
been
teachers
health certifi-
school
present
Yitsbusrgh pubiic
{ must hereafter
cates
NEW BALKAN WAR CLOUD.
join Their Regiments.
Geneva, Switzerland In view of a
possible conflict sgainet Servia and
Greece, a number of Bulgarian uni
versity student volunteers recently lib.
several officers, were ordered to rejoin
their regiments. La Revue states that
the Greek students belonging to the
recruit class of 1914 living in Switzer
land have been ordered to return to
lireece to join the army,
%
Two bath houses have been com
pleted by the Mineral Raflroad & Min.
at Shamokin, and are
open for the use of the employes. The
structures are equipped with modern
bath accessories, and the men em-
ployed In the collieries will no longer
have an excuse for returning home
from work with faces blackened by
coal dirt and bands soiled with greass
and grime,