FRUIT CROP 100 Per Cent. in Several Coun- ties; Apples 97. Conditions of the Winter Wheat and Rye in the Ground Gives Every Indication Would Raise Almost the Usual Crops. -Harrisburg for the indi- crop prospects apple crops are Unusually bright 1917 and cated in the April peach reports ol correspondents ] Department 01 of Frosts Damaged Lowland Crops. rn tiar 1 y af +} svi Yi 6 anaq # n al i Grading A & Broo dds to according by the Bure Pennsylvania De Wheat sh materially calved 10OWE y nd per cent cent... as n 1918 ¢ i ro + hu un n April 1 was 95 t t! D 3 from the R00 splendic led to crop for harve indicated evelopment and an average 100D¢ 1imasat in the fall Expect Yield Slightly Short. The big producing central and State reported wheat counties end good condition and a great deal of the fear of heavy loss through the froats in February and March was wiped away with splendid growth that was in the fields The number of wepks of snow protection for the grain ranged from four to 13, with the average of the State about seven. » State Grazing Plans. Commissioner of Forestry Robert 8. Conklin jsgned instru esters and rangers of the Pennasvyl vania Forest Service covering the use ‘of the State forests for grazing durine the periodgof food shortage. Owing to the fact that almost 25,000,000 trees have been planted on the State forests at considerable cost, permission for general grazing cannot and each application must be treated separately. However, remains In the 1,000,000-acre preserve to provide grazing. in the of southeastern the wheat In the shown PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS STR nine A small American flag fluttering from a robin’'s nest in top of a tall | maple Pro Hi | attracted on a | birds one tery Many the 8 the 11 cemetery t York. The obtained it he tree in pect much attent dently soldier had of the ©v grave int ceme women Pennsy are ion at Three their 10-cent Rev Ladislau Mary's Catholic C1 presented the had the thousand Greensburgers hair cut in one day, to beat next day K raise NECK, of lou rch, Mahanoy City service 50 years Hazleton the Culm ba by the Haydon, a through operato Jeansvill marketed Order compan nal {oe Guard State Indu 1 00 100.000 jek inia Deg Are among artment Commerce gardening quan Con community find in paving caused Pinkerton ore the Company to dis 8 Mountains, mantie its south near ise he was retired, T bay im, Altoona’'s and died been placed. in- Delaware, Lewiatown nge them ¥ 20-year-old Of norse 1 t had Motor laws team, refuse 0 eat farm where The Belmont i ler corporate un taken over Company, of has the old buildings and will assembling motor trucks Three men of South Bethlehem were killed in an automobile accident on the Willlam Penn Highway, near Bethlehem. They were Hugh Kelly, a Justice of the Peace: Hugh J. Me Fadden, a bottler, and Robert K. Berkemeyer, a former Councilman Stanley G. Flagg & Co., have tannery in ens take charge of the troop of Boy Scouts at stowe for two months A searchlight has been erected the John Wood Manufacturing pany’'s plant, Conshohocken, Government orders are being filled Willlam Montague has offered the people of Norristown the use of Barbadoes leland, containing 15 acres, Norristown Council's police commit of the score of patrolmen 12% HioT U. 5. ARMY Be 18,538 Officers and 528,659 Enlisted Men. Will ALL IN READINESS FOR DRAFT Officers tional From Regular Army and Na- Guard To Tréops—19 New Generals To Be Named. Instruct New normous tnnk the ox » Na full 1 all d for been and Apri) ob dition Nation added, will 293.000 mer 1 nearls tained, 180 000 THE SUBMARINE TOLL. First Lord Of Admiralty Admits Losses Are Increasing. London.—Replying to questions in the House of Commons Sir Edward Carson, First Lord of the Admiralty, said that as the number of German submarines had been increased the Ag a mat loss to shipping in the English Chane ing three months. This was partly due to the increase of submarines in | other areas and partly as the resuit of : an increased number of patrol boats in | the English Channel. Generally, the | Firat Lord said, the losses were ine creasing. us Starck Eis od § on a Starck piano tis up your money in any way. All us ship you the piano for 30 days free trial in itin yo in whet! bome where you test it and try As the end of you want. If in payer up to your expe 30 days you deci it in, you keep it. p y ts to sult yo If for any ason § t tations in every ws pd the Gnest ever soon for the 1 YOu will pay the freight both ways. 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Btarck Piano Co 1967 Blarck Bldg. , Chicsge h ott of Ria she I Glan : mwyal small t $1.50 valor of nearby rye in bags, quoted a 1.60, as to quality Weatern, No. 3 vellow No. 4 vellow, $1.63 $161@1.62 vellow, $1.64@ 1.65 Noe 2 white, 77@ No. 4 white 2073 Butte: YOUne POOT $1656 do. emonth n rough and stagey Pekings, 3 Ibs 20 Young, per guineas Lorn 1.66; do 1.64 do, No i 1 2 ¢ Tucks 21¢ 4 vellow suthe over, puddle muscovy smaller etand 6Q DOF 1 200 white PEs § cach, 35@45 white 78; No a ib TR@ 79H white Pigeon: gample Western, | specials, 44¢ firsts, 41%: 41; do, seconds, 40@40%:; nearby | prints, fancy, 45; do, average extra, 2G 44: do, firsts, 41@48; do, seconds, | 12.25; bulls, $7@10; cows, $4.50@8.75 40@40%; special fancy brands of | Calves—Veals, $8.50@13; culls, $7@ prints were jobbing at 48@51. 8: skimmed milk and federal, $688 Eggs — Nearby firsts, $10.20 Sheep and Lambs-—Clippeé sheep, standard case; nearby current $7.50@9; medium wooled, $9.50; clip ceipts, $10.05 per case; Western extra | ped lambs, common to good, $11.50@ 12.60. Hogs-—Receipts, 3,220; steady; light resh, solid-packed extras, firsts fancy do, extra ry, Live Stock creame 43 2G NEW YORK. .-—~Beeves—Steers, $98 per re- i $ per case; fancy selected carefully candled eggs were jobbing at 38@38¢c. [to heavy, $1450@16;: roughs, $14: Cheese—New York, full cream, fancy | pigs, $13@14. new, 27@27%ec; specials, higher; do, sem CHICAGO. — Hogs — Bulk, $15.40@ 1580; light, $1450@15.70;: mixed, Live Poultry—Fowls, as to quality, | $15.16@1585;: heavy, $1516@G 15.85; 23@ 240; stagey roosters, 184p20: old | rough, $1515@1535. pigs, $9.75@ roosters, 16@17; chickens, soft | 13.50. mented, 24@26¢; ducks, Peking, 200 Cattle—Native beef cattle, $0@ 2%¢: do. Indian runner, 17618; 13.40; stockers and feeders, $7.15@ pigeons, old, per pair, 28@30; do do,|10; cows and heifers, $5.70@11.10; young, per pair, 200 25¢ {ealves, $7.50@12. skims, 14@22. steady 8@o%e io, 16 %e do, bulls, n st and to COWS, Sere OxXen. as milk ine kiss" is while one bathing it a Chicago preacher given under wat Was invented by Capt. John Lyon, skipper between Nyack and £59 ith of a ferry- Tarrytown, with the boat has begun his sixty-fi com Vear pany Six supposed “Jack the Saipper” vie tims in Pennsylvania were young girls who confessed they cut their own hair to get their names in the papers George Birmington (Canon Hanoay) speaks well with the curate's intons tion, and Silas Hocking has the plain, downright style of a Non-covformist minister, Of course, alerical novelists usturak ly have an advantage over thetr lay brethren. The late Monsigneyr Bene son was a most fluent speaker who de apite a slight stammer, kept the re porters racing. . ¢ Sir James Barrie is a very shy “sit up on his hind legs” in public; but when he can be persuaded he ak ways manages to say what ke intended to say, and to be witty and wise.
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