SNAPSHOTS AT Items of Interest. REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD Farmers Busy in Every Locality— Churches Raising Funds for Many Worthy Objecte—Items of Busi- ness and Pleasure that interest. A cigar factory is to be started at Sassamansville, steps, Mrs, Falling down a flight of { sus. Solomon Smith, of Pottstown, tained painful injuries Reading's playgrounds will be open- ed with eighteen playground tors in charge. instruc- Jury for Grand Magis Montgomery County scored and dereliction of duty ASSPS8OrS trates Mrs. Alan Wood, Jr, Conshohocken ed $1,000 to Nc widow of the has donat- home Kukofski, fracture the result of a Bethlehem aged six right thigh vears, suf of the On her birthday, Mrs. Emma Moyer, of Macungie, died working about the stricken with while been suddenly house, having paralysis guehoning his life, to be a red ink station illing ine ing ann county Within ation of Erove i creased CArs at 14 1 iichael ltlamsport A fine big doe deer the mountain at Clearfi . the and entering Moose Creek, swam be- New crossed the acT( low the York Central station. It rallroad went over the hill The large crowd of people at be he New York and Penns} many whom thus got glimpse of a wild deer. When crossing the Pennsylvania tracks the deer nar. rowly escaped being struck by a pas senger train Central lvania stations, of their first Although married 28 years ago, Mr and Mrs. James McLane, of Ofl City, have just returned from their “wed. ding trip,” at least this is what the husband classifies it They left Oifl ty two weeks ago attend the Grand Lodge meeting of the Odd Fel lows at Gettysburg, and went from there to Philadelphia and other points of interest in the eastern part of the State. When Mr, and Mrs. Me Lane were married in Ofl City they started housekeeping at once in For est county, and since have never found (ime to take gether until the present. Croll, to William M. of Reading, Philadelphia, is getting his bond of within a week. been advanced by the Lackawanna Trust and Safe Deposit Company from the position of head teller to assist ant treasurer, a new'!y ereated place. Twelve years ago Mr. Nye entered the employ of this company, of which Frank Hummler is treasurer, in the capacity of bookkeeper, GOL J. J, ASTOR LEFT $86,000,000 REAL ESTATE $63,000,000. i i Ante-nuptial Agreement For Mrs, Ava | Willing Astor, Amounting To $1, 738,000, Terminates and Goes i To Vincent Astor. New York.—The estate of Col. John | Jacob Astor, who perished Th tanlc disaster, was officially appraised | at close to $88,000,000, of Vin. cent Astor receives $68,964,459; Mrs, Madeline Force Astor, $7,6788%86; | Muriel Astor, $4,856,758, John | Jacob Astor, son by his mar riage, $2,922,672 The estate is to be largest ever appraised in this country The coet of determining its value made remarkably low owing to an un derstanding by which Astor estate one-half the expenses of New York the other This made it unnecessary for glide to employ with a bility of having to engage neutral ap praisers in event of a disagreement Aside from the from the amounts there are terest in affidavit of property embraced for Mrs. A in the which and second declared the | wa } the bore and the State half each pO8SBI experts, announcement that revert to two (eatures the appraisal the eaxam agreement unting « to BIC y about Was have revert Aver Astor legal FIVE DEAD; MANY INJURED. Crash At Stamford, Rear End Connecticut, Fatal 1 Yor ork, road, opp depot, hae w NEN Springfie ] the ran by enEginear « fon both the di signals MISS JANE ADDAMS FOR MAYOR. Suggestions Come From Prominent Woman Suffrage Leaders After Victory. Chicago. For Mayor of Chicago in 1916 —-Miss Jane Addams, of Hull House, on the Progressive ticket. The Hps of a geore of prominent woman suffrage leaders in Chicago, rejoicing over the passage of the bill that gave the fran chise to the women of Illinois the MILLWORKERS IN RIOT, Woman Killed and Seven Other Per. sons Wounded By Bullets, Ipswich, Mass -—One woman shot and killed, seven other persons were wounded by bullets, and many others, including several policemen, were hurt by flying misailes in a strike riot outside the Ipswich Hosiery Mills Fifteen persons, including leaders of the Industrial Workers of the World, were arrested. The dead woman was Nicoletta Paudelopeulon, aged 27, THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA. ESSENTIAL THING OVERLOOKED TVET Tons W FE JoniE YOUR AVTG] SHOULD BE EQUIPPED | | You wilt WITH OUR MORN, MR. | 30 wiv NO1 MILLIONS JUST [ | can bh poven’ SBE A Lo ot InLK | —r ALWAYS RIMEMDER | KELP ONE FOOT ON | i i - w THE (AS yon VAOU (AMT KUN { mR. JONES HAVE A MMPLE | ome [ LITTLE DEVICE AMD YET A Il yEQY USEFUL ONE THE AUTO | swAvER ourpr why { | WASTE THE TIME TO SHAVE AT | Home ? wirn TH OUTFIT You) | CAM SHAVE Wiig DRVIBO | f1] with QUR WIRELE = OUTHIT. IN CASE OF oR AN MUNICATION with Mr Se An AUTC | out AAO NE ge Enron E watmer « WOR 1] 5 F300 +i witiL WITH KEEP In (0 ne HERGE BATTLE WITH THE MORD3 Main Position of the Savage Filipinos Taken. NAVAL AIRS Pierces Propeller at an Altitude of 500 Feet. WRIGHT MACHINE SAILS ON. SULTAN OF JOLO LED THEM. From a Rifle Mis General Pershing Says He Will But Did Not 34 By a tinue Operations Unt Peace Wholly interrupt the the Restored On Flight Machine. VIZIER OF TURKEY SHOT. in Motor His stantinople Car ONE KILLED; MANY HURT. Bombthrower Wounded Splinter By His Bomb. From TE) GUILTY OF DOUBLE MURDER, Mother ribie Wife and Confesses To Ter Crime. LAKE STEAMER MERGER, Of Eleven Companies $16,000,000 Capital. Combination With Montreal Eley operating on ti G it. lawrence River here into Richelieu ('n Nevigation $16.000,000 capital, which is preferred stock oroner’s in Lakes ! ¢ sion t reas o wl were wo i and | the responsibility with of tario ompany, STUDYING BATTLEFIELD. three-fourths | Army Officers and Troopers Encamped 25 MEN KILLED. At Gettysburg. Gettysburg, Pa Twenty-five com missioned army officers, under com- mand of General Liggett, arrived here for a technical study of the QGettys bury battlefield. They are accom- panied by an escort of troopers and are completing a tour of study pre geribed by the Army War College, | where they compose this year's class. | | And More Than Hundred French Wounded In Battle With Moors. Algiers French lost 25 killed, including two officers, and 10% wound. ed. In the recent fighting with the Moore in the region around Tadia, Moro, according to a report just re. | ceived here, Th ML - ———— A————— READY JANUARY 1, 1918. | ROBBERS GAG AND BIND WOMAN. | i - a { Then Anything That Floats Can Pass Daylight Thieves Then Take $70! Through Panama Canal. From Grocery Till, Washington Mrs, Laura A. Halk! New York. "By January 1, 1015, | : cashier in a grocery at Eighth | anviliing that floats can pass through | sey, the Panama Canal between the At. and G streets Northeast, reported to lantic and Pacific Oceans,” declared | the police that she was driven to the Col. George W, Goethals, chief engi | cellar by two unknown men and gag: neer of the Canal Zone, who arrived ged and bound with a clothesline to a! here on the steamer Pastores, frory post. The men then robbed the store, Colon. “1 shall send a vessel through | taking about $70 in cash. Mrs. Hal the canal juet as soon as we let wathr | sey was alone in the store when the ‘into it," continued the chief engineer. | men entered, Declares it To Be a Postal Regulatian. OPINION OF CHIEF JUSTICE. The Objectionable To Features Said No Ct Rights Of the Press. Involve Restriction TO VISIT PANAMA, President Will See Big Ditch At the Close Of Session Of Congress. Was Chief ama to t vigit the big ditch at told Pan. certainly the close of Con hington President Wilson \ Goethals of the Engineer ‘anal that he would grees, and gave an indication of when he expects the end by adding that this would probably be in September or October. Goethals said it it were necessary he would hold back the letting of water into the canal for a couple of weeks so that the President might be on hand to wit ness this final chapter in the water ways construction session to THEIR SALARIES RAISED. Firemen and Enginemen, Washington the session of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, The new schedule was not made pub He, A spirited contest is expected to develop over the selection of perman. ent headquarters for the Brotherhood, 8t. Louis today entered the race for the next convention. WEDDING NOTICE For Forty Years HAYSEED VIEWPOINT Bride Says She Can Returr City Home of 1 v be Has to C He Cays Aut es, Slays Thieving Bethe Hawk Rca Because § Ts Motor Club Wants Altoona Rtate horn has difficulties between the the State Highway Department ing the highway almost the Altoona Motor Club addressed a protest to Commissioner Bigelow Repaired the road between Altoona and Buck- abandoned owing io contractor and leav. impassable, been Elking’ $50,000 for Hospital. Abington. Captain Robert Sewell, of Rydal, treasurer of the Abington General Hospital, announces that George W. Elkine, of Chelten House, Elkins Park, has contributed $50,000. Elopes to Wed Stepbrother. Pittsburgh. Telling her parents that she wae going to the commence ment exercises at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Miss Helene Myers, sted. daughter of Congressman A. J. Barch- feld, left Washington and went to Philadelphia, where she met her step- brother, Attorney Elmer A. Barchfeld, a son of Congressman Barchfeld, and then both went to the Bellevue-Strat- ford Hotel, where they were married. A telegram was received at the home of the bride's brother, Gilbert B Myers, telling of the elopement.
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