KEYSTONE STATE
IN SHORT ORDER
LatectNews Happenings Gather-
ed From Here and There.
Toto IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
The State Board of Pardons an
nounced that it had refused to grant
& rehearing on the applications for
commutation of the death sentences of
Roland 8. Pennington and George H
March, who are to be electrocuted in
the week of December 27 for a murder
committed in Delaware county, and
had refused the pleas for clemency for
Gasper Marturana and Thomas Chick
erella, Cambria, whase counsel claime
that they had not committed murder,
but that men who had fied
were to blame.
the country
Stoekh
Ordnance
increg the
600,000 to $10,006,000.
$68.500 000 will be u
the recent purcha
Arms Compans
Of
a considerable am
making
plant.
mprove:
The Jorough of
tered a plea of “1
damage suit broug!
hirer
SUG
f
At the
Atxitiar
the followi ne
PV ! {
president, Mr:
Miss
Mrs.
finnie Rummel
Mabel
An att
previous figures
Pennayl
from
are 2.34
granted the
lisatic campaign, mduet
ed for six
Wie Ande
closed at Easton
ing There
The taken for
totaled over $4 800 The
? R00
weeks by ve
Ser anton,
with a
oul reon, gelist,
meat
were
collection
taberrnac
penses were $1
At a
Holstein
Plums
cure dairymen with 600 cows
a society known as the
Cow ating Association,
first at Doyles
15.
meeting of th
Fresian
it was
Associ
teadville, decided to se
Buck
Te to ho
meeting town,
The Barrett Township Supervisors,
Rufus Snow, William Brush, and Wil
flinvy 'T Prower, were found by a Mon.
roe county jury criminally negligent
in failing to maintain the Goose Pond
Road in a fair passable condition. This
fs the first conviction of its character
in the history of the county.
Mrs. Polly Dietrich, of near Kutz
town, mother of Clerk of the Quarter
Sessions Lawson G. Dietrich, had her
arm so badly mangled in a corn husk.
ing machine that it had to be ampu
tated. Her dress caught in the cogs.
Judge Brumm appointed Mrs. Isa.
bella Gibbons, of Tumbling Run, cus.
todian of the ballot box In that dis
trict. When not in use, the box will
rergain at Mra. Gibbons’ home.
James Cox, sixty-nine years old, and
George McPeake, forty years old, were
killed at West Conshohocken by a
Reading Railway flyer. It is said that
the men crawled under the safety
gates and were struck by the express
train and hurled seventy-five feet up
the track.
The will of Mra. Ellen C. Hughes,
of Washington Township, Lehigh coun
ty, gives her farm to her husband for
life, with the proviso that If he re
marry, it be sold and the proceeds di
vided among their three daughters,
GOVERNOR FAYORS
N. G. P. AS DEFENSE
Brumbaugh Urges Oevelovment of
Harrisburg. - Governor Brumbaugh
issued a statement declaring in favor
f deevlopment of the National Guard
| of the creation of a continental army,
#48 proposed by Secretary of War Gar
rison. He strongly favors the exten
sion of the Guard, already “endeared
instead of what he calls “a new
untried venture of doubtful wisdom,”
which be holds would not appeal
says:
“Pennsylvania is
with the proposed
part of the plan
national defense.
Harmful To Guard.
such a national
present
not in sympathy
continental army
of preparedness
is
for
RD
! would
| iuard
| ind wor
| and ils growth
be an
erect agency
place the
in a most
iid be harmfal
, While
impractical
with
has a
to is
what appears
was being
intercset
scheme
ented
Guard
eord,
ong
and its per
real patriots wi
indiffere
8, havi kK
secondary fen in ghap
tend of nn
the
sh
ned
triot
eitize
the pa and work
loyal
increased i recognit
h econ ni ficiency will
ned if this ald is gi
onal government turns
ively the task of making t}
nal Guard the basis of a
| and effective military for
States’ Part In Security.
the last analysis, the State
of mon
wf natior
and
> orl t} i fst
tingly i
they
omy
ven and
Serie
to
are
ent in any
and it is on-
treat
ial security
unwise to ignore or
ing an emergency force of fairly train
Hing ¢ _
wersonnel
iry.
ieee patriotic citizens
the fall recognition
they dos
Gladly Give $500,000 Yearly.
Our people annually gladh
the a
this cause,
se of the
8 erected arme
three-quarter
and
the cour
shonld re
and encour
nent IOV
and
te from wte's revenue
We
State
have
muni
¥
and
ries worth
milton do!
cipalitie
and
fur
Y
yen
king
to
uniriec
and lac
‘Instead of a new and
{ doubtful wisdom,
or inviting feature
why not aid
of an ageney
people of the
ture «
ners J citizenship,
ng the usefulness
y endeared to the
at ten “>
“Make the Cua
h, but do n
Iabhored 0
rd as large as the ex
wi
earnestly and
efficiency
hysteria
advance its
Do not allow the
of
headlong
i we shall
let us hb
novelty to us
ituation that in the
en
Rather,
ch is good
established.”
suredly regret
fa
st to that whi
manency of which Is
New State Society.
Monthly roundtable luncheons
which Gavernor Brumbaugh will pre
side and the administration of depart.
ments of the State Government be dis
cussed will rated by the new
Pennsylvania about to
formed by the
ind members of commissions on Cap-
ftel HIiIL
Secretary of
Woods, the
man, appointed the following commit-
tee to draft by-laws:
John 8. Billing, Public Service Com-
missioner, chairman
General Thomas J. Stewart, adjutant
general.
Thomas Lynch Montgomery,
librarian.
Robert J.
Commissicner.
Robert K. Young, State treasurer,
Judges Get Commissions.
Commissions for all of the Judges
elected at the November election were
mailed from the Department of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, hav-
ing been signed by Governor Martin
G. Brumbaugh. The commissions are
hand engrossed on parchment with In.
dian Ink, the werk having been done
by Wilmer Johnson, of the commission
clerk's bureau. The three Superior
Court Judges-elect receive thelr com-
missions personally, but the commis
sions for the other Judges are sent to
the recorders of thelr counties. There
were commissions issued for twenty.
eight Common Pleas Judges.
First Compensation Policy.
The first compensation insurance
policy of the State workmen's insur
ance fund has been issued to State
Treasurer Robert K, Young, ehalrman
of the State Workmen's Insurance
Board. This polley is number one and
covers the compensation lability ¢f the
Wellsboro Electrie Company, Wells
boro, Pa., of which Mr, Young Is presi
dent. It was chosen as the initial
policy from the several thousand appli
cations for compensation insurance cn
file. The premium payments aggre
gated $124.50
at
be inaug
Society,
heads
the Commonwealth
State
Cunningham, Highway
BUTTER-MAKING HINTS
Never Mix Warm Cream With the
Cooled Article.
If Desirable to Use Artificial Coloring
it Should Be Added to Cream Be-
fore Churning—Put Up in
Neat Packages.
Cool the cream from the separator
as soon as possible to 66 degrees F.
or lower,
Never mix warm cream with cool
cream.
Mix all the cream to be churned in
one vat or can at least 18 hours be-
fore churning.
Ripen at a temperature of 70 to 76
degrees F. for from six to eight hours,
FEEDING FOR WINTER EGGS |
It Is Never Advisable to Feed Heavily |
During Early Hours of Day—
Keep the Hens Scratching.
In feeding poultry, it is never advise
able to feed heavily during the early
hours of the day. A hen gorged with
food early in the morning, will have
no incentive to exercise—will lay
around the roogting quarters and take
on fat. In feeding for winter eggs
the appetites of the hens should never
be fully satisfied until just before
they go to roost at night.
During the winter months 1 always
feed the first food of the day in deep
litter, says a writer in an exchange.
The scratch grain is composed of equal
parts whole wheat and cracked corn
morning, for the
satisfies the
they
reason that it fully |
appetites of the hens and |
will not work diligently in the
litter. The wet mash is fed at noon or
shortly thereafter. The mash ie come
posed of two parts bran, one part each
of middlings
beefscrap and ground
hulls sifted out. The
all they will eat of this
cornmeal, cut clover,
with the
r Biven
outs
Butter Worker Wooden
Ladle.
Lever and
siirring frequently during this period.
Cool cream to churning te mperature
ripe
Cre
88 Boon as
Lat the
more (overnight)
perature.
The temper
stand eight
at the
in
ture of chit
such as to make tl
in from 35 to 40 minut
&0 degrees 1°
It it is desired to use
oring, it should be added to the
just before churning
Stop churni
about the size
wheat, and draw
Wash the
be
artificial col
when
of peas, varying
off the buttermilk
butter once with pure wa
at the churning temperature, ag
tating three or four times, drair
Wash a
and
second time with
ahove
ing, it is remos
About
hens are given
whole
with full crops
shall
the time
corn and
oyster
PIGS GROWING
Plan of
—~First Give
Eastern Breeder Describes
Weaning Youngsters
Ng a8 pos
i
rey
i
all east
#lop and turn
Butter Shipping or Delivery Box.
times, and drain.
Add the salt wet while the bu
in granular form, using about one
one and onohalf oun for ea
of butter, to the
of the
Work the
titer is
to
Pa
Cen
according ae
market
butter just ¢
the salt
If the butter is to go on the market |
it should be put up in neat, attractive
Pacrages,
BEST TOP LAYER OF SILAGE
nough to d
evenly.
Have Been Removed Form Heavy
Cover—Packs Well,
héavy green stalks
the ears have boen re
forms a heavy layer
packs well and at the same time
from Which
moved This
that
the
sustained if it spoils.
Various methods and materials have
been used for covering the to p of the
to prevent its spoiling. None |
have given complete satisfact tion, but |
the one mentioned above has given
as good results as any, especially when
the top layer was thoroughly wet
down and packed firmly by tramping.
The best practice ® to commence
feeding as soon as the silo is filled, in
which case there will be no loss of
silage through decay.
SPRAYING PAID IN MISSOURI
On One Orchard Net Profit Was Found
to Be $161.12 Per Acre—Iinsects
Are High Livers.
Insects are high livers. On an acre
of apple trees they may destroy a hun.
dred dollars’ worth of fruit. The ay.
erage value of the fruit of an acre of
unsprayed apple trees in the state of
Missouri has been found to be $18.05.
Four careful sprayings made this
value jump to an average of $187.19
an acre. On one orchard in 1913 the
net profit due to spraying was found
to be $161.12 an acre. The averags
vost per treo for the first spraying was
6.6 cents, 13 cents for the second, 0.6
cents for the third, and 8 cents for the
fourth——a total of 37.1 cents a tree,
or an average of $22.26 an acro,.
American Farming,
————
Way to Pack Fruit.
Fruit of every kind should be
packed in boxes or baskets, stamped
with the name of the grower, and if
he will select a name for nis product
as a sort of trademark in addition to
his own name, he will have, in time
» valuable asset, provided ne lives up
to it in every way,
minimum loss is
well as
This keeps
mough A
if they w
thei;
Hite
at eight
a8 BOOK
One Recently Invented by California
Man-—Device Is Mounted in Space
Between Two Posts.
Practical
worth a
recently
There is
spaced diagonally
being
the posts
p
( of tl lengths
being pivot
be
stirrup
bra
gt ve
cket tween
Practical Farm Gate.
having a roller connected at its free
end, on which the gate rail rides. to
support the gate against downward
movement. An upper and lower bar
is used as a hanger for the gate, this
having a roller at the front end, which
rides on the rail. The two pivotal
points of hanger and the pivotal point
of the stirrup are disposed in the same
vertical plane. Farming Business,
SPREADING STRAW ON FIELDS
Helps Prevent “Soil BI Blowing and Af.
fords Protection for Crops—Adds
Needed Humus,
Where straw is present in such
quantities that it cannot be worked
over by live stock it can be spread di-
rectly on the fields.
It helps to prevent soil blowing and
serves as a winter protection for the
crop. As it gradually decays it be
comes a part of the soil in the form
of humus or decaying organic mate
rial,
The scattering of the old straw
stacks found on the big wheat farms
will pay well for the labor expended.
Now that special straw spreaders have
been constructed it is not such a big
task to spread the straw produced.
Scientific Farming,
No farming is scientific and pro-
gressive that is not practical. The
most practical farmer is the most pro
gressive farmer, and the most pro
gressive farmer is the most scientific,
a,
(me MARKETS |
NEW YORK.-—Wheat
No. 1 Durum, $1.24% f o b New York
1 Northern Duluth, $1.21%, and
No. 1 Northern Manitoba,
Buffalo.
Corn
8l%e prompt.
Oats-—No. 8
Butter— Creamery, extras (92 score),
| 34@34%c; creamery (higher
first, 28% @33¢c;
Cany ;
Spot,
Spot, easy; ellow,
white, 453% @ 467%
eeconds,
20% @28c.
Eggr—Fresh
extra
secon dn
gathered, extra
first 27Q 3%
s 32Q34¢,
to fa
browns,
firsts
Nearby hen
ncy, @hic,
40@ 44¢
milk,
y@ 360;
nery, fine
nearby hennery
Cheese—State
white,
whole flats
171
do, {
{
¢
4 ’ 40)
urrent make
fand i
fd 1c
gpecii average ¥
@16%
tern chi
Wes
$13@13
No. 2 do, 310: No. 1 wheat,
$77.50; No. 1 oat,
$59@9.50
fancy,
No.
Creamery,
@33%: do, good, 31@:
BH@IT; do, blocks, 34@36;
Maryland and Pennsayl)
20@22; Ohio, rolls, 19@
21; West Virginia, rolls, 18620:
storepacked, 18%; Maryland, Virginia
and Pennsylvania, dairy prints, 19@.0
Egge—~Maryland, Pennsylvania and
nearby firsts, 34c; Western firsts, 34:
West Virginia firsts, 33: Southern
firsts, 32.
Dressed Poultry-—Turkeys, choice,
20@21c; do, fair to good, 18G 19: do,
rough and poor, 14@15; chickens,
choice young, 15; do, old and mixed,
14; do, old roosters, 10@11;: ducks, 14
@16; geese, nearby, 156@16; do, West.
ern and Southern, 13614.
Dressed Hogs-——Cholce, lightweights,
8%c; do, mediumweights, 7% G8; do,
heavyweights, 6% G7.
Live Stock
KANSAS CITY, MO. Hogs Bulk,
$6.46@6.70; heavy, $6.60@6.75; pack:
ers and butchers’, $6.60@6.70; light,
$6.40G6.62%; pigs, $5.260".75.
Cattle-Prime fed steers, $9.26@10;
dressed beef steers, $7@9; Southern
steers, $6@7; cows, $4@7; heifers, $6
@9; stockers and feeders, $507.50;
bulls, $4.75G 6; calves, $6G 9.50.
Sheep ~~ Lambs, $8.26@8.85; year
lings, $6.75@7.50: wethers, $5.75Q
6.50; ewes, $6.26@6.10.
2 do,
4 * 2 »
tier “%@36
, choice, 33
lo, prints,
a8 ¢
22@23
vania, rolls,
REMEDY?
Dr. Kilmer's Hoot Is not recom.
for everything, but if you have
liver or bladder trouble, It ma
found just the remedy you need,
makes friends quickly be-
mild ar vd fmmediate effect 9
in mont cases. It is 8a gentle
compound a physician's
Bwamp
its
healing herbal
ing cases wnooording to reliable
and $1.00 sizes
bottle of
All dri ue int #8 in 50
You may have a sample size
preparation by Par.
also pamphlet telling about iL
Kilmer & Co.. Binghamis
ten cents, also mento
Past
Address Dr
and enclose
paper. Ady.
it is.
money
ot it's mighty tough if
to spend.”
“Time is
Yep BE
is all
thine
you've got
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days
if PAZO OINTMENT
ing or Protrods
wut.
sis refurd money
i re lu Blind, Bleed
fug Files. First appl jeu y gives relief
Just Staying.
v 3 ng now, Pod.
the same
Magazine
AT THE F IRST
ling Hair
ks Wonders,
ork
voiding
Net Gray | Hatry | bat Tired Fres
are Keep
¥ ng.
important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTOR i gale and sure remedy for
infants and chi and sce that it
the 7 -
4 oso
Signature of (ox bl hent
In Use For Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoris
ren
Pears
»aying.
The Waves Are §
Was V t has been wis
hed
To
OTOP §
liver,
Pleas
bowels
the
: he
melon
had bet-
if a man
gide of the poi
ter work for
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take LAXATIVE nr ININE Tabiets
Lirugeists refund money failstocure E W
GROVE'S spature i on each boa. oe
Hardened hands are the real trad
marks of labor,
Dr.Bull’s
ET feet cause colds and coughs ;
sometimes, deep-seated cough,
trouble in raising mucas, labored
breathing, hoarse voice and rattling
or wheezing in the chest,
Take Dr. Brir's Cough Syrup for
this threatening state of health. It's
a speedy, efficacious, reliable remedy.
A Doctor's Prescription. Price, 25¢.
FREE TEST Li 5. 2ket
Tulf’s Pills
The daegete: of mind or body wrink or exe
posare in
MALARIAL REG.ONS,
Bind Tate's Pills She most eins restore:
tive ever offered the suffering tnvalid
PATENT
Waves romsonabie, Highest
gate Sone Ra
MO ot
of it
COUGH
SYRUP
Watson
pre ,
B Calon
ET
CrAdYI ed iis free:
Snfering atl
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.'N. U, BALTIMORE, HO. 52-1918.