HR ————— FRANTIC RUSHTO | RAISE GARDENS Club Women Showing Deep In- | trest in Home Life On Penn- sylvania Farms. "FOOD PROSPECTS BRIGHTEN Cold Storage Houses Are Filled With’ Poultry—Eggs and Fish, Held Only in Small Quantities However, Throughout State. Kift, busy garden natter of much vear in th gardens scrambpie or table peopie will work gardeners courags nd onl be any ave here are ArCAsse and )2,670 pounds of parts cl carcasses. This is an increase of compared but a three almost 1,000,000 with the samet! year decrease over ne i res of moaths ago t increase, with 1,827,882 pounds carcasses. Mutton and usual holdings ven a“¢ holding mutton, rhile fifteen contain pork. Pork shows a # ligh £80 d CATCABSS®S® an of he 26 of parts are warehouses AY: AB OW Le veal Patriotism and preparedness hit Bryn Mawr College with a bang about weeks ago, and a number of things are being worked out by the students along that line Now the question of supplying a course in farm. {ng is being investigated by the dent organization and several alumnae have coupled with that idea a sugges- tion that a portion of the campus be | used crops two sta- raise Students Turn Farmers. i Under the direction of Dr. Wilmer | F. Burns, assisted by the school teach- | ers of the public schools, the pupils | of Gloucester City have established | more than 100 gardens, and additional | plots will be planted. At the Jersey avenue public school the pupils have | transformed the yard into a large gar. | den in which they are growing onions, | tomatoes, radishes and gorn. City Su- | perintendent Bfirns has annotinced | that all school children who desire to | work on farms in compliance with the call of Governor Edge, may do so, and | they will be graduated. SUITE PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS IHU] Physicians and dentists of Lancas county are enrolling and will to respond when called one to sign, Dr. J. W. Houston, old, is In active practice, was a surgeon in the civil war When neighbors entered the home of Mra. Anthony Garber, of Manhanoy : inform her that her husband killed in a mine accidant, he The ter first 83 and years Liity. LO ween War with Germany has po the unvel statue of Daniel Germantown. School Board supply Lancaster their ranks } 1d searcely Examinatio to blind swollen as to protrude mother,” shouted 61 years walked upstairs Sunbury. A second heard a shot and was found bullet in his head. Dementia, ili health, is given as the rea. has revealed th be eve, which is John fo his at his later “Goodby, W. Vangiliger mothe old, r, as he home in he ith a a to » i A Reading Railway man found a box of dynamite under the Reading cul vert at Gundy's one mile south of Lewisburg. For years a pile of waste from irri- dium a material used in making diamond-pointed fountain pens, was thought worthless by the Paul E. Wirt Fountain Pen Company, with factories at Bloomsburg. A stranger dropped In on Mr. Wirt and offered him $75 a pound, or more than $10,000 for it. It is used In the munitions industry After an offended Guardsman, Royce Hoffman, had knocked down James Christian, of Milton, ‘Squire Wendel, Sunbury, fined Christian $100 aad coats, At a meoting of the general agricul tural branch of the Public Defense Committee at Scranton, it was de cided to plow up the three-acre Court house square, in the heart of the city, and establish gardens. It was decided to perfect supplying nearby farmers with labor Reading will have its streeta oiled at two cents for every one-fourth gal VIVIAN SALUTES | Help Extended. SPEAKS FOR FRENCH NATION Now All Of Freedom Are Let Loose and Victory Of Moral- Is As- sured, He Says the Forces ity and Right Washington. In a Ameri France's Vic wal thi would an remiel mission from co-operation of ti mean not only tory, which already moralit HE 4] ai full historic ‘rom today freedom let victory, of which through the whole world I on 1 the of loose And not only we were the tr mear manifest; it tunate struggle will Zi forces are already as certain; ue of victory is made cannot be merely a for conclus be military on to this the victory of morality and right, and will forever the existence of a world in which all our children shall draw free breath in full and undisturbed pursuit of their labors “To this gre: which we about to the men in qualified to help the republic of United this world conflict is now as work ag free resolved the kind” secure peace accomplish at work, ill be carried exchange your Government w to completion views with beat are the in We Are man States sured men who ideals together to save of NO MORE SIX-CENT LOAVES. Bakers In Eight States Raise Price and Reduce Weight. Spartansburg, 8. C—Announcement wns made here that bakersz of the Boutheastern Bakers’ Association operating in eight States, would dis continue making loaves of bread sell for leas 10 conta The bal ere have been making a nineount foaf for sale at § Hereafty they will make a loaf fo sale at 10 cents, ¢) 4 Lan cents 16-ounce 340,000,000 FOR ALLIES EAGH MONTH To Aid in Supplying Armies With Supplies. BIGGEST SUM FOR BRITAIN All To Be Expended In This Contemg Issues O A McAdoo tional ury Certific ment mer Allies to the extent of $500. 000 a month ag proximate O68 O00 would be needed to meet reguiremen June 30, the date upon whi the bond is proceeds of able money rate of $250 three will be avail Withdr keta at the two . ¥ the awing from the WO O00 every or weeks by the ues o blocks of certificates, officials believe, would be preferable to a sudden call for proceeds of a $2,000,000,000 bond Thus £1.000 000.000 in certificates be is half of virtually the money the certificates should sued prior a £2000 000.000 bond issue to June have been withdrawn from markets prior to its ise carry the conver the in a atrain of disturb thought, will meet the minimum manner, it is country In this the be to and strong position sult AUTOIST FRACTURES SKULL. Not Expected To Live, Woodstock, Vai D. Dennett, Salem, Va., Clerk of the Circuit if Roanoke County, was fatally injury od in an automobile accident near {1} town. His skull was fractured and not expected to survive the night 1. P a lawyer, also of Salem, who was driving the car, was tbout the head, but his condition thought to be serious, 10f though of Court 18 he Saul, Jr, cul 8 r X FRENGH MISSION N WASHINGTON Visitors Sail Up Bay on Presi- dent's Yacht. ARRIVAL IN HAMPTON ROADS By France GERMANS INTERNED AT HOTEL. 150 In Panama Enjoy Great At Comfort Government Expense. Some 150 Germans Panama the Canal Zons fter the United have been inte Hotel Asp by They comfort, and States entered at the handsome Taboo 1s} can Government there in great war re inwall on Ameri are living ind, owned the and occupying quarters vacated by tourists and canal employes WOULD TRAIN AMERICANS, Capt. Sweeny, Who Fought In Foreign Legion, Arrives. New York. —Capt. Charles an American, who has fought in the Foreign Legion in France, arrived and will go Washington offer his services in the training the American Army The French! Government early this month granted unlimited leave of absence for Sweeny, fo fo of INCREASE IN NAVY FAVORED. Committee Will Also Recommend 13. 000 More Marines. Washington, The Administration | bill for increasing the enlisted pes sonnel of the navy from 87.000 te 150 000 n marines {ix i wan en, and the m 1 to 30.000 men, ordered favorabl: reported to the House by unanimous | of the Naval Comm i ee i it JNK U-BOAT Could Get Into Action. Gun Sighted Bruce Ware-—Captain Rice Tells Of U-Boat Close By Lieutenant Encounter — Was had been but stern gus when Big Guns Boom. i command We he shell nant gave the SAW and the wf can't manner in whl handled hi a fine exhibition American naval before the ool h lieutenant gunners. It was the efficiency of The lieutenant struck the sub accu about it, but mathematics Rpeax 0 DIgNRLY Of 1h ( BE Crew men knew shell +3 ii marine that its aim was ate, No RUeSE-WOrs pure ‘here is a case of All Over In Two Minutes. “Taking the Mongolia was and the undoubtedly speed at which the the time submarine and com puting these figures with the distances we were from the submarine when it appeared second time, it can be shown that traveling at which the would make, gpeed the And it must be remembered the whole affair took only two "1 assure you we didn't stop to after the incident, but steamed away at full speed, for it was not improbable that there was another submarine about. The one | got un foubtedly had been lving on the bot tom al this spot waiting for the ship and came up when it heard our pro peliers. 1 immediately sent a wireless message stating that a submarine had been seen”
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