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”