Is YOL. LXXXIX, A COLUMN FORTHE FAEMERS, Interesting aud Instructive Matter for the Tiller of the *oll, Issued by the Siate Depuriment of Agriculture, DON'TS IN BUYING HOGS AT PUBLIC SALES. <¥ All ihrough March and up until the middle of April the order of the day in rural districts is the public sales of farm implements and livest. ck. It is seldomn that a tenant farmer moves from one premises to another or & farmer retires wituout holding a public eale. In many cases the men who hold these public sales gather up caftle and hogs during the winter with the of putting them in better condition and selling them at a profit at the time of their sale, In this wa: stock which may come from premises where hog cholera has lately been prevalent, or other transmissable diseases have been present may readily spread disease, Dr. C.J. Marshall, StateVeterinarian of the Department of Agriculture, sounds sa warning to all farmers who attend these take proper pre- cautions ! ¢ that the livestock, and e:pecially the bogs, have not been lately taken from any premises where any livestock has recently died or where t apy transmise- able disesses, Dr. Mershali ha laid down the fol- f* Don’is'’ which should be close'y o! gerved : DON’J buy hogs snd pigs without careful irqu in the community If you find that person desiring to sell hogs has recently cne, two or more animair, don’t purchase, but re- port the mustier to the State Livestock Bapitary ard at Herrisburg. DON and pi. that owner h 3 view sales to 0 Bg a are been Das lowing list « ry loat Bq I tuy exceedingly cheap hogs yeu know positively receptly ani male, but bas some other good reason for sacr 1g animals, DON'T buy hogs from several ferent people iI put them gether « ur own premises or a low them tc come with your own hoy Keep each jot to itself up ti three weeks have passed sod put them in their permai juart-rs only after being sure tha none are showing any aigns of sick: DON’ there ar ALY ont are sick hogs Unie not as lost fieir dif- a1 all to- } yo in coutact and pigs. two Or inen £0 near a premise where vk | and don’t E hogs allow premise where there to vieit your hog pen or Hi from a hog lot, DON’ around hog pens at public sales or stockyarde unless you want to pur hoge. If animale are pur them separate on your preiniszes, as indicated above, until they pr to be from disease, Your shes, nt least should be washed with winfectant after at- tending ! or stockyard be- fore you enter your own hog pen £0 in Or Chase weed Keep free £ sale or hog 1 DON tee chit i te at ¢ BOY BIR Of swpees with a sick that shows If two or the same symptoms cali a qualified veterinarian, If your he ar with bog cholera he is fact known the better ou will have to gave animale, Hog cholera eer cure sick ani- mals, but protect well animale, DON’T wasle money on patent medicines, hog cholera cures, ete, For additional information write Dr. C. J. Marshall, Btate Veterinarian, Department of Agriculture, Harris burg, Ps. animal being sick. imals develop hog. ¥ more '® sflected sooner Li in ch (ne ances a¢ of syour am will not will STATE-WIDE CORN AND APPLE B8HOW, Plans sve row being made by Department of Agriculture to hold a Biate-wide corn and a;ple show at Hartigburg next January in connec- tion with the meeting of the State Board of Agriculture and the allied Btate associations organized for the promotion of agriculture, ft is proposed to ask the go-operation of the county fair associations by hav- ing them interest their exhibitors of corn and apple produce to reserve all of their premium exhibits to be placed in competition at the State show, These plans were presented by Sec. retary of Agriculture Charles KE, Patton 'o the meeting of the State Associntion of County Fairs at Harrisburg this week, In his di - cussion Heeretary Patton outlined the plans of the Department of Agricul- ture to have every local fair prize win ner place his exhibit at the Htate show in a class= to be known as the County Fair Prize Winners Olase. To enter this cla:a the corn and apole growers throughout the Miste must first inter- est themselves in their local fairs and become prize winners at those places before tiiey are eligible for the State show, 8d Btate premiume, Bpecinl prizes will be awarded to the fair sseociations producing the most meritorious exhibits, Individual premiums will be given for the best exhibits of corn nod apples, Io th owse of fruit exhibits arrange- ments « re bein made for cold storage ( Continued on inside page. ) the FIRE WARDENS MEET, Efficiency In the Means of Forest Proteo- tion, the Keynote of Enthaginstic Meet- ing in Bellefonte, Last Friday, A meeting of the forest fire wardens of southern Centre county was held at the Garmsn House in Bellefonte, last Friday. The meeting was held in sc- cordance with the pew fire wardens law passed by the last legislature under the direction of George H, Wirt, Chief Warden of the Department of Forestry, The chairman of the meeting, Clem, H. Gramley, of Rebersburg, read the paper, setting forth the purpose of the meeting—that they (the wardens) may know each other better and that there may be a general Improvement in the efliciency of the forest fire organization of the Commonwealth. W. E. Moutgomery, forester, of Pot- ters Mille, was chosen w®ecretary. Hop. J. Linn Harris made a few re- marks to the men relative to the prc- vision of food for men fighting fire, George H, Wirt, Chief Forest Fire Warder, gave a very interesting ad- dress to the men. He told of the in- efficiency of the old law of 1907 and explained the new law, He gave an instance of a fact that when the new law came into effect he found that the state was depending upon wardens in some places who had been dead several years, and of several cases when the wardens had moved away without the authorities knowing it. Mr. Wirt said that the state does not want ‘ dead ones” for wardens but ‘“‘live ones.” Under the new law 700 sppointments as fire wardens have been made in the state and it is hoped to have 2500 be- fore a year. Thete are fifteen million acres of forest land in the state and there were 1100 fires in 1915. 78 of these fires burved over 1000 acres each, and these 78 fires burned over 60 per cent of the total area burned. The loss in fires In this state is about fifty million dollars annually snd often buildings and lives are sacrificed, Mr. Wirt pointed out that moet fires resalt- ed from iguorance and that the cure for this was systematic education and that it was up to each warden to do his share. Mr, Wirt farther stated that the railroads are fest awakening to the fire loss and the part that they pisy iu this destruction and that they are willing in nearly every case to co- operate with the state or private individuals io order to reduce this lose, He said that most of the timber used in this state is sbipped in from other states snd this was entirely due to the fact that there are only four million acres of really productive forest land in the slate out of the fifteen million scre- age. Mr. Wirt impressed very forci- bly upon the men that the people and especially the wardens must wake up and that nothing mast be left undone in order to reduce the loss from fire. Ihe key notes of the address were, “ Prevention instead of allowing fires to start’’; * Education instead of ignorance’; * Efficiency instead of indole ce, Leonard G, Barnes, forester, of Cen- tre Hal', then resd as psper on the extinction of forest fires. This paper waa especially interesting to the wardens as it dealt with the serious side of the very practical business of putting out a fire. In particular le seked the wardens to let everybody know that they are fire wardens and that it is every one’s especial duty to notify the nearest warden in case of fire on any forest land, private or state, He spoke of organization, prepared- ness and efficiency in the fire fighting crew and impressed each man’s duty upon him. : The meeting was then thrown open to discussion by the wardens apd many things were brought out in these discussione that were of intense inter- est to those present. The men all took a good hold and the meeting was of untold benefit to all. George B, Thompson, Jumberman and fire war- den of State College, told of the prob- lems that be had to deal with along the railroads and how he met and is overcoming these difficulties. His illustrations were very apt and his problems were unique ss to outcome but common to all the wardens, He told of some timberland burned over by the ralirond and that the railroad company refused the owner damages 83 the timber was valueless, Mr, Thompson then told how he went on this same land and cat bundreds of dollars worth of pit poles for the mioee, Mr, Jacobe, Mr. Eves and Mr, Bartley spoke of how they overcame some of their difficulties, The meeting was well attended and much interest shown and untold good derived. Out of 22 wardens only & were prevented from coming owing to other business, There were in addi- tion to the wardens afew visitors pres- ent. The following is a list of the fire wardens of southern Centre county : , Ri Hal a SERENE PE Bpring Mil ary I a B Mille, Ri m. H. Wen Heented with the fragrance of bridal roses, the John Henry Meyer home in Boalsburg was the happy scene of the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of the couple on Wednesday of last week, It wae a joyous occasion and was par- ticipated in by twenty eight persone, which included all the children and grandchildren, except one, of the couple being honored. The exception dent in Hood College, Maryland, Besides Mr, Meyer the guests were : George E. Meyer, Mr. and Mure, Nevin W, Meyer and daughter Ros- ells, Mr. and Mre. William Groh Mothersbaugh and son John Henry, Mr. and Mre, F. W. Weber, B. E, Weber, Miss Anna Weber, Rev. and Mre. 8B. C. Btover, Miss Auna Lohr and Mre, Edward Riley, of Boalsburg; Mre. W. E. Gettig, Nellie, Kathryn and Wm. Henry Gettig, Altoona; W. C., Meyer and Miss Kathryn H, Weber, of Biate College ; Mr, and Mre, P. M. Weber, of Huntingdon ; Mr. and Mre. J. H. Weber and grand- daughter Mary Weber, of Centre Hall, The Meyer home was sppropriately decorated with flowers and gold and white crepe paper, and the fig. ures ‘‘ 50" stood out boldly in giit on a8 background of white, A golden cake was the wedding cake, and this was decked with fifty tiny flags made of gold and white ribbon, A pretty! glass sugar bowl, given the bride while on her wedding trip, and = plate presented the same time by Mrs, Margaret Huber, of Reading, were a part of the cherished articles on the table, The plate, by the way, wsa at ope time the property of Mrs, Meyer's grandmother, Mre, Philippeos Huber, while living in the bhomeland-—(ier- many-—-more than one hundred years 8go. Aas is the custom on such sione, the dinner was a principal fes- ture of the gathering, second only to the hearty well-wishiog of the couple in whose honor the guests had sssembled, At the close of the dinner proper impromptu speeches were made by Rev, B, C, Stover and P. M. Weber, the latter being Mre. Meyer's brother. After expressing their pleasure in be- ing present on the memorable occa- slop, and their best wishes for Mr, and Mrs, Meyer and family, they empha- sized the duty of service in order to make one’s life worth living. For twenty-five yesrs Mr, Weber has been | connected with the Industrial Howe, Huntingdor, and his efforts to lead boys to better things naturally sug- gested the theme to him, Miss Nellie Gettig sang a German sacred song, She was accompanied on the plano by Mre. G. W. Mothersbaugh. “The Frederick, and Mre, OC0OR~ of a poem recited by the bride of fifiy years, Mre, Meyer first recited this poem when in the primary grade of the Lebanon county schools, Many tokens of friendship found their way to the Meyer home, and smong them were a8 number of gold pieces, as well as other money, gold pior, clock encased In gold, hand painted and gold decorated china, linens, Reformed church hymnal, {friendship cushilon with 168 names on it, ete. Mr. Meyer is epjoying the best of health, and enjoys reading. He Is very much interested and thoroughly believes in the Wilson waye, and would like to see him have a second term of the presidency. Mre. Meyer isin good health in a general way, although she is suffering from an ail- ment in the throat, but not to an ex- tent to interferes with the enjoyment of the family circle and companions. Both Mr. and Mre, Meyer were born in Lebanon snd are of German de- scent, The parents of Mre. Meyer were Jacob Weber and Catharine ( Huber ) Weber, who were married in 1844, December 220d, and began house- keeping in Lebanon, having come to that locality from Germany. Mre. Meyer (Phoebe Weber) was born February 24, 1846, and In 1856 moved with her parents to Boalsburg, It was under Dr. D. M., Wolf, in the Boalsburg academy, that she fitted herself for teaching school, and passed her first teacher's examination under Thomas Holahan, then county super- intendent, HBhe taught three terios in College township. When but a small boy Mr. Meyer came with his parente, George and Anna Meyer, from Lebanon county to Centre county, locating in Brosh Vale ley, near Spring Bank, where his grandparents, Michael and Elizabeth Meyer, had previously located, After a short period Mr. Meyer's parents | of Btate College and moved there ip {the spring of 1855. While with his | parents on the farm Mr. Meyer helped { to haulsome of the lime stone from | which “* Old Main” at Pennsylvania | Btate College is constructed, {| Mr.and Mre, Meyer were married | March 15, 1866, at six 8. m., by Rev. { W. H. Grob, then pastor of the Re- | formed church at Boslsburg, After the wedding breakfast, W, (, brother of the groow, sppeerid with carriage and then the wedding trig begar. The first stop wae made at the home of the elder Felix Burkholder, at Centre Hil!, but pot before an tempt wae made to helt the pearly by blockading the road, Potters Mille and Milroy were reached, and at the latter place the train for Lewistow: was boarded. Lewistown pr d resting plsce for the night. Two weeks were epent at Harrisburg, Hum melstown, Lebanon, Reading. Th* boneymoon being « esuple began housekeeping on acjoiniug the Meyer farm, College. From toey t Potter township residents for years, occupying the J. farm, west of Centre Hall, 1 by CO. D. Bartholomew ; Linden Hall Centennial year spent burg, sud the year following Grove farm received the for almost thirty Boaslsburg, and - A Meyer & fl w iV fi Lancaster, and the a faro ver, Dear Flats there Carne (2, was tilled was rs years they ¢ for niue years “io 2 923. at ILTON YOUTH DE i I Mi MEETS TH IN A SAW MILL Boyd Girgmley, Aged 19 Yonre, Was Whirled Around Lins Shaft Fatiere d Denth, Was Intured Under Workmen's Compensation Act Whirled around br ba Boyd Gramley, ninstee; of I d Mre, Mr. Broulltop, met almost i ariel LO a Jilif hin ily was ttered Inlc year-old BOT an Clair Gramley, of slant deat! Thursday afternoon of inst we ited b James Corman tract, about thre burg. You ig Gran | :X in the Wir kle- lumber saw mill oper y Jacob lan) jar n the blech, on the { ¢ f 12.1 miles east of Rebers- working a fow % NO. 12_ TOWN AND COUNTY HEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS ondo last fare farm, ‘ John q Ia Hpring Mill Mre. G. O, Linden Miles home of ¢ from 1H. te il, to moved the euire Ha ¥e de i y Epent he nner and grandson Munday st parents ’ the former's at Marthe, Misses Tillie Keller and Elsie Moore sitended a Bt, Patrick’s Day party at the home of 4. A. Kreamer, ot Friday evening. NE wy “tate College Mr. and Mre, Ralph E. Dinges and A I to rl the day of | laline, spent Bunday with and Mre, gE Mille, g £5 ee’ par : Mr, Tusser, at Bprin Ti Keefer and of Youngwood, Were : home of Mre, Keefer's equire aud Mre, Cyrud Brun- y On Saturday. Mrs. OT) 6 1ler, arrivals at t parents, gart towp, occupying their present home, Mr. sand Mre, Meyer are held i in ti highest esleem by theirs and sil of them will wish jusintances Fee if nat then ed joyful anniversaries of ih riage. ¢ THE KELLER CELEBRATION, Buarrounded by five grandohildre: friends numbering upwards their six chil fn of Mr. and Mre, Ephraim K. Keller wer the happiest of all that at thelr hows in Pleasa i # and at big gat “rit $ 8 Crap, let t ocd ietrateq ’ g of Thursday, complet wien of fifty The 8 most stance—the coming ey © 4 celebration 0 ar 111 . wedded marked by sloguisr circun of other couples who within a few i likewise enjoyed Those to w reference regard to ti fifty marital happiness are Mr, Daniel Keller, of have passed th versary ; Mr and Mra Plessant, Gap, who count fifty years of wadded life, and Mr, and Philip Dale, of near Oak Ha). who year ago celebrated their golden ding suniversary, Ephraim K. Keller and Miss aret Nease wore united in Bellefonte and ghortly started farmiog near Pleasant which pursuit they followed up ur ten years ago, retiring after two a of years of hard work on the farm. As a result of Lheir toll they sccumu- lated enou zh of this world’a goods to assure them sgainst want in thar de- clining yeare. Mr, Keller hae resched the three score and ten mark while | Mre, Keller is two years hie jouior, They own their own home in Pleasant Gap and sre happy and contented, The six children, all married, and away from home, are as follows: E, Paul, of Altoona ; D. W., of Philadel phia; M. M., of near Linden Hall; Mre. William Ou, Mre, John SGar- brick, Mre. D. Bmeltzer, of Bellefonte ; Mre. D. M., Kline, of Axemanu ; Mre. Ralph Noll, of Pleasant Gap, Guests from Centre Hall, Boalsbuiyg, Bellefonte, Altoons, Philadelphis, Phoenixville, and State College, were present. At eleven o'clock all assemb- led about the festive board aud sappe- tites were satisfied with the choloest articles of food, served in excellent style, ‘the happy couple were the recipi- ents of wany beautiful tokens of es teem, including two gold-headed canes, a gold-banded umbrells, 8 number of gold coins, besides a great mary other valuable gifte, Mr. and Mre. Keller are enjoying the best of health and their many friends trust that they may live to en- joy many more anniverssrics, AA SA OO How many bushels of corn must you raise on your land in order to pay six per cent, on the money you have ir vested ? Experts have answered this question’ sa follows: A yield of 36 bushels to an acre on $50 lund; 42 bushels per nore on $100 ground ; 54 bushels per sore on $200 ground ; 60 bushels per secre on $2560 ground and 72 bushels per acre on land valued at gether vs # a Mar hom i* made ye fl maory an ars i i Phoenixy ile, wi r fifty-third aun - vi er ii at Jeane w pal. nr are Iarrisge 1 8 i re . payiog sll funeral ex- i Cows Bold High at This Sale f at COWES Was C01 One valle fat males far sa Lh , was that held Penn Mr. Barigee stock, registered and grade the following prices were paid for the several cows : $220.00, $135,00, $100.50, $100.07, $98.00, A grade Guernsey calf brought $40.00, While there was big demand for the milk producers, horses were hsrd to dispose of, the highest figure paid be- ing $188 for a five pix year-nld beast. The totaled 2500, Bartger, ss was slated previously, will plerk in the Fisher store, at Penn Hall, after April lst, AA Enjoyed Sledding Farty, Mr. snd Mre, Charles Neff, west of Esrlystowr, royally entertained a sled load of young people from Tuseeyville at their home lsst Thareday evening. Splendid refreshments were served. The following were present: Grace Neff, Mary Neft, Mary Tate, Esther Rituer, Rebecoen Cox, Roth Marts, Mary Wegner, May McClellan, Bessie MeClellap, Mary Kline, Roxie Kline, Bertha Miilir, Grace Horner, Dora Klinefelter, Rath Rockey, Edna Nefl, Vira Runkle, Harry, Jobo and Homer Neff, Elmer Noll, Merritte Tate, Chester Grove, Hamuel Grove, Esrl Grove, Fred Raymond, Eimer Dasb- em, Edgar Miller, George Rimmey, William Rockey, Jsmes Foust, Jonae Foust, Clayton Maris, Edgar Rimmey, Robert Neff, Bamuel Bltner, Fred Righter, the best in the ‘ leust me ¢ sele of Q:TheC bs Charles B, Bartger, al Hall, Wedneaday of last week, had all Guerneey male, and ©" gale over Mr. The climax to a week of the rough- { wenther of the winter sesson Ad 0 mercury below the record the Friasy night whe ¢ for f ihart, followli 3g the eanle of the Ford Heckman to a de- Lhe game I0tlo pur f Prof, Hg Prof laced an rhased WwW. O. Heckman order for it~ 8 new VOUTIDE Car. Among the large sales in the county that beid by Isaac M. ard, Thursday a kept bidders # I Lh was wealher ue B Ene ch Bale # fo nD owing: gin (sroes- Saturdsy, Centre ecimens, 0 be Lhe ) of iy with a larger specimen g the mountains 10 a few vears Greens Valley # in charge of has been ion ss city ir. Muazller cn pls to scoept isrrisburg job. It sppesrs that he and the Park Commissioner of the had some dispu'e as to higher authority. g the fa that his resiguation wae to have taken effect March 15th, Mueller continues on the job and ie awailing the action of the Ww i Barnes, bis posit burg. XA ac capital city which d the Notwithstandis hel at * Cily © goeil. The past winter was notable for the great mortality among Centre county residents and eepecislly among the older folke. Not in years hss the grim reaper been #0 active in culting down the youit, middle aged and old. But while noting this somber fact it is true that in no section of the county hae the death list been s0 low se in Centre Hall borough. The last death of one of its residents occurred in November, #0 it can be said that the entire winter season passed without a death being charged against it, The uniform good health which has exist ed is indeed a great blessing. Mr,and Mre. Daniel C. Keller, of Phoenixville, were arrivals in town last Thursday, the purpose of the trip being to be present st the golden wedding celebration of Mr, and Mre. Ephraim Keller, at Pleasant Gap. Me. Keller, despite his seventy-five years, is hale and hearty and does a good share of the work on his 150 scre farm near Phoevixville. Dairy- ing ie the chief ocoupstion on the place, but of course, it must be under stood that Mr, ang Mre, Keller are not doing the strenuous labor connected with the dairy work, that being hand- led by their son, Roland Keller. After a few days visit among old friends snd relatives here, Mr. and Mre. Keller Jefi on Saturday for Mifflin county to visit a sister of Mure, Keller, at Siglerville, and from there departed for their home beginning of ——— SP ANAND, A pretty line of Esster post cards may be seen st this office, the week.
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