CENTRE HALL, PA SIGNS BILL FOR RIFLE PRACTICE Also Authorizes County Boards to Arm and Uniform Home Guards. ATTACKS BOROUGHS ACT Approves Amendments to School Code ~—Fixes Salary of County Superin- tendents at $2,000 to $2,500-—Assis- tant Superintendent's $1800. Harrisburg. The McKee Senate bill authorizing County Commissioners to make appro- priations for support of rifle ranges and to pay instructors in rifle fire was approved by Governor Brumbaugh The bill is designed to encourage the formation amy maintenance of rifle clubs as a part of the general defense plan, and also provides that commis- sioners may appropriate money for t purchase uniforms and r such rifle clubs as volunteer for ty defense or who answer the Governor. if il of les for coun- the call The ADDrove also app Governor amendments the school fixes salary of county scl perintendents hetween $2000 and $ unless } figure and mum f $1800 per year. to the vote makes ti superintend boards other school the or assistant A Senate bil State Asscoclation of Boroughs although the during its lature “some ped it. audit and intent ial,” 1 proposed by the was roved, be app Governor leved that through the Leg features passage bad u especially in were into relatd ors controllers ‘The dent is to make it hot for offic ys the Governor, lds sections to 8&4 who a other changed ic acts he considers the language ¢ that n was overcome vetoes earlier in the bad i Hopes for Some Repeals. On the however, finds the provisions the boroughs all be provided he approves the the confident hope that in the next Assembly a more worthy sense of duty may Xx fous segsion, ractice, whole, wise, and a the good that cause the repeal of these ob unjust Ii and features.” The bill makes a number of administrative The Senate bill making an of $195.000 to the B Grounds and Buildings for repla ment of bridges which are destroyed changes features, in Governor also approved the appropriation ard f oO Paul In approving the Senate bill ing for annexation tigu« cities, fseued the it provid of the in rests with boroug 11d, and that as he had re r le from sons desiring t he the statement to has approved the bill, boroughs co was to Governor a st initiative itement which he says ad shot eived tters telegrams heard people know and per 0 be 1 iet Governor Brumbaugh announced his approval of the Stern House fix ing the date of t September primary for the third Wednesday instead of the third Tuesday This change af fects only the primary in odd-num bered years and was made because o a Jewish holiday falling on the thi Tuesday The special © ie Beidleman registration elections in third-clase proved, as were the act providi days fot cities was ap bills ines ie following » 3 Providing that companies porated in the United States may hold real buildings Requiring and munieipal ities ! highest re estate and erect counties bonds to sponsible bidder to sell the organized in manufacture rubber to hold real estate Permitting companies other States to and ita products in Pennsylvania. Extending the malicious mischief act to protect water works, plants, standpipes and reservoirs. Providing for admission of patients to the new Western Hospital for the Insane Making $350,000 of unexpended bal ances of the State Armory Board aval: able for use by the board The Swartz House bill tisements and notices approved, He also approved the House bills: company to companies not registered in Pennsylvania. Providing that counties ghall pay Authorizing a State convention of poor directors and empowering coun of delegates, Authorizing State Highway Depart- ment to sell tollhouses along turnpike or toll roads which may be acquired by the State. Enlarge Allentown Camp. United States Ambulance Camp at Al lentown is to be enlarged to 160 units of forty-five men, not counting base hospitals and casuals, and it is figured that in a few weeks the roster will reach 10,000. It was explained when the camp was established that the or ganization was to be changed from units of eightysix, under the United Btates army system, to 100 units of tem, at the suggestion of Marshal Joffre. : AUT TTT TTT PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS ~~ : THI Nne Contracts have been closed for the construction of 36 residences at Scott for the H. C. Frick Coke Com and for 80 residences at Ebens for the Ebensburg Coal Com fun me ee wn — ow oy Bs fat — wn — I dale pany, burg pany. Beginning October hunting for deer and wild turkey 10, + closed season it is the of intention vari for turkevs at the county number of deer and ous points throughout propagation purposes, The State will hold its ville, January Magistrates’ next meeting 10, 1918. Labor for harvesting crops was fur nished to the farmers of the district by the Y. M. C. A. enrolled its boys and turned them over the Farm Committee of Public Safety Committee of the Coal Field at Potts. which to Mid dle The Lebanon county munition train unit filled with membership of 55, most of them chauf and machinists Eugene E of Adjutant a Campbelltown mducted the was at Lebanon feurs Moyer, office, fuiy « boy, success organization have been sustained of Nortl in damage to of the long Hundreds of in the field st of it 3 losdes Heavy tae lancas farmers ity hay crog son ding que Chester Red than 1300 heavy rains of much hay neg sale in Downi: Nati $123 to $127 being $50 Hegedus Mdgeport by EXPress ran from behind a frei boy's mangled b ound by hi mother c¢ husband he nal from value Andrew Br an ed near when he train, was f and a arrying her t Mitten has poli w( same we Haight first Phoe Warren's ewoman receive the salary st tha be poli of the An into ti ing 6 mn dogs for the tenance a emen are paid ! ir service with the rough introduced appropriat ax ordinance has been Altoona C per 18 ouncils 0 cent. of the license t and swimming completion main of municipal Allegheny's officials hase of ti! Ww upon pur by hangs of the to pay Organization ating for the works ownsad N Strait} the legalil yugh's rks matter now bor a for th Wi ammunition Gaard Of the train of will i of 12 motor with be compose COMPpAnNniINs iI8 uncer way, Howard Willi Arg 1 units are being recruited in Har risburg, Philadelphia, Reading i imokin and Johnstown, subje Federal recognition Shenandoah milk the prices t jor = ims in « Are 11 t to re have a pint cream to dealers #iX cents and raised 11 conts 18) cents a a quart Simpson Learn, Kemmerer resigned mine and 30 quart © master for th Company. pay Coal to workers M 8 rHazleton, as has become a many are Treasurer, of of about F. Lynott, City ton, died after an i{liness His death a shock (tw n was unexpected many of Scranton to his friends Lyn as native being hole 1 wihoiesale a 3 addition to office Was an commission nd in holder a merchant He about forty-five old retail price of pea coal at mines of the G. B. Markle Company for domestic trade has been duced from $5 to $4.55 a accord | ing to an official announcement at | Hazleton i Scarcity | capping the | Lancaster | coming in the manufacturers hesitate { about receiving too many on account of the uncertainty of the coming war tax. They are now considering the question of increasing prices, which they feel must soon come, unless they want to see all profits wiped out The men smallpox patients at the Municipal Hospital, at Hillside, have been furnished with balls and bats | and whileaway much of their time playing the national game. {| That the Hessian fly may soon be removed as a menace to the grain | fields of the country seems probable, | following extensive investigation by the Research Department of the | United States Bureau of Entomology, { located at Carlisle. A new parasite {to war on the fly has been eunvolved { by this department, under the direc. ition of W. A. McConnell, its chief A horse, purchased with money | donated by business men was, at Elm. wood Park, presented to Romanus | Feliman, captain of Headquarters Company, Second Pennsylvania Field | Artillery, who is chief police of Nor. ristown, Radnor township has year in school gardens, with Highland avenue, Wayne; 45 at St Davids, and 60 at Rosemont. Conse | quently Radnor Board of Education | has appropriated $500 to carry on the work during the rest of the summer ‘under the supervision of Miss Eliza. beth Usher. was ear ‘ The the re ton, of cigarmakers is cigar manufacturers at “boom” 66 on i i { i i i i WILSON DRAFTS ENTIRE GUARD To Be Taken Into U. S. Army August 5 FOURTEEN CAMPS PICKED | Regiments In Northern and Eastern Sections Of the Country To Be Mobilized Of Others. in Advance Washington ry to nak availabl Monday Guard taken proci ynation into the army August purpo © specilicaily MEMORIAL TO SOUTHERNERS. Daughters Of Confederacy Give Ambu- lances To Red Cross York The New York Oh Daughters of th f federacs New York County Chap New of the anter e Con ¥ i i ter of the American Red Cross with pped reon Robt ral Raphael Semmes two fully-equi ambulances, one memory Davig, Gen in Gen memory panying the ambulance 1" i to bring comfort to uffering in ma this ter thoy HAVE Wr own American FOR ONLY ONE DELIVERY. Stores To Meet Employes. Drafting Of Washington With a view toward making the manpower situation which will be caused by the draft Washington retail mer chants joined with hundreds of others throughout the country at a conference called by the National Retail Dry Goods Association. Immediate reduce. tion of package deliveries to two a day in all cities and only one delivery where such a plan is possible is favor ed by the merchants, ‘ ready 10 meet fyetem. AIRPLANE FATALITIES GREAT, Berlin Reports 288 Lost On Both Sides During June. Berlin, via London. —"The results of the engagements with enemy aerial forces during the month of June were good,” says a summary of aerial activity appended to army headquar tar's statement “Our enemies lost 220 airplanes and 33 eaptive balloons through the effect of our weapons. Our anti-alreraft guns shot down 60 enemy alrmon. The ro mainder were brought down in aerial fighting. : “Our losses were 68 alrplanes and 2 captive balloons.” Finds Enemy U-Boat Base. Rio Janeiro.—The newspapers an aounce that the destroyer Mafto Grosso has discovered an enemy sub marine base near Santos. rT Lo ( Ee ! | 7 Our Big Free Trial Offer We require no payment in advance on a Btarck piano. You are not asked to tis up your money in any way, Il you do is 80 1 us skip you the piano for 30 days free trial in yo home where you test it and try it in your own wa ot ur y in payn If for auy reason it does not rove to be The Sweet Toned Starck nore than this Second Hand Bargains We have a large stock of sroond hand and alight ly weed pianos of all stan. Here are a few sample bargaine Steinway. . $175.00 abe.. 165.00 Emerson 100.00 Kimball. 70.00 Starck. . 195.00 Sead to-day for our latest Hat of second hand bargains and our eam plete new llustrated catalog of Starck pianos tard makes, atre P. A. Starck Piano Co. The Celebrated Starck Player-Plano isetion wilh Just a8 good erpression a8 Lhe SOIBDOMEY apie 10 undervtand, easy Lo 0 Flayer-piano meets the yment ig not until you have § 80 days and found 1 mUsfestory T ney a * Saves $150.00 hone of (he Chagoo Iommi Manufacturers Chicago bdrm? ried the Fr Sb Piano Book Free Our big ew Sesutifully 4. “5 lustrated catalog contain i a Kinds 4 bow planos are w 10 take care of your plano and other valuable ! and interesting information # 4 Bend for it to-day FreeCatalogueCoupon i P. A Buarck Plano Co. ! 1967 Parck Bidg Please send withou on my part, your pl trated plano cstalogue, also | information eoncerning Oat factory -to-home prices and your ery payinent terme. rr—— i or R 7 | THE MARKETS NEW YORK Wheat No. 2 $240 mi arrive Corn—8pot strong; $181 ci f New York Oats firmer; Lreamery, tras, 30Q@38%¢ 8% 38%: firsts, Spot strong no al, I b to bard, n 0 2 “ vellow, standard, T8335 higher than extras (52 score), ITO 37%. Spot Butter ex do, seq 376 36@ seconds, and Fresh gathered, extras, storage-packed firsts 36%: do, firsts, MR GI5%; 32% @34; state, Pennsyivania nearby Western hennery whites, fine to fancy, 41@42; state, Pennsylvania and nearby hennery browns, 38@ 40 Cheese-—State, fresh 3% @24%¢ run, 23% G23% Dressed Poultry-——Chickens, 200 26¢; fowls, 19@ 25%: turkeys, 18@35 Live Poultry—Chickens, 33¢: turkeys, 16 Eggs 38¢: do. specials, 2 do, average fowls, PHILADELPHIA Wheat-—Ther¢ were no offerings on the spot and the market was entirely nominal. Quota Rye-<No. 2 Weatern, in export ele Corn-—Western, No. 2 yellow, $1804 @19%; do, No. 3 yellow, $1 88% @ 188; do, No. 4 yellow, $1 86% @1.87; Oats-—~No. 2 white, T8@ 78%; stand. @76%; No. 4 white, 150 76%. Butter Solld-packed creamery, fancy, specials, 4lc; extras, 39@40; extra firsts, 38; firsts, 87%; seconds, 36%; nearby prints, fancy, 42; do, average extra, 40@41; do, firsts, 38@ 890; do, seconds, 36% @37; special brands of prints were jobbing at 45 @48. Eggs — Nearby firsts, standard case; nearby current re ceipts, $10.50 per case; Western firsts, eggs were jobbing at 42@43¢ per doz. Cheese — New York, full cream, fancy, new, 24% ¢c; specials, higher, do, 230 22%. Live Poultry-—Fowls, as to size and quality, 22Q24; roosters, 17€18; yellowskinned, weighing 1% G2 Ibe white leghorne, 23G0 26; ducks, Pekin, 19@ 10%; do, Indian runner, 17@18; pigeons, old, per pair, 26@28; do do, young, per pair, 20022. BALTIMORE-—Wheat-—Sales of bag Jota of new wheat by sample at $1.60, $1.70 aualit qual wheat Lorn on n spot for domestic delivery, are $1.88 per bu at $8 40@ 8.50 per bbi nearby on quotable at nominal. Cob corn is quotable for &pot carloads prime How Ve tandard white, TEL @ 78%; 8 Ont No. 3 white Western $2.35; bag and condition, new ive No. 2 ry lots, as to qu 2g 2.21 Hay--No. 1 do, $1850@G 18 light mixed a “ timothy, $2021: No No. 3 $14 50@17 $I1R@IRBO;: No. 1 $17.50G 18 Nao do, $16. 50@17; No 3 do, $R@10 rye, $15.50@ No. 1 tangled flo50@11.50 No ‘ No do clover clover mixed $13@16; No do, $12@15: No Straw--No. 1 straight 18; 2 do, $14.50@ 15 rye, $12@13;: No. 2 No. 1 wheat, §8@G KR @8: No. 1 oat, $10@11 a 50 1 clover a No do LG Butter—Creamery, fancy, 39: do 37038; g, 39040; is, 330034; rolls, 32€@ 33; West Virginia 32: Marviand, Virginia and vania dairy prints, 32@33 Eggs Marviand, Pennsylvania and nearby, 38¢c; Western firsts, 83: West. ern Virginia firsts, 33; Southern firsts, 82@ 3s. Live Poultry—-Chickens—Old hens, | 4 Ibe and over, 28¢c; do, do, small to medium, 23; do, do, white leghorns, 22; do, old roosters, 1213; do, spring, 2 Ibs and over, 34@35; do, do, 1% @2 | ibe, 31@23; do, do, smaller, as to sige, | 27@3%0; do, do, white leghorns, 27@ 80. Ducks-—Old Pekings, 17@18; do, | do, puddle, 16@17. do, do, muscovy, 186@17; do, do, smaller, 15; do, do, | | spring, 8 Ibs and over, 22@23. Pigeons | | =~Young, per pair, 2025; do, old, do, | choice, do, good. I6@36%; do, blocks, 3R@G 39%. Maryland and Pennsyl- Ohio 32 ne hi do rolls, storepacked, Pennsyl- rolis, @40. Live Stock 15.80; light, $1440@1560; mixed, | | $14.56@ 14.70; pigs, $11@14.25, Cattle-—~Native beef cattle, $8306 | ealves, $10Q 14.50, | @9.25; lambs, $9.75@ 16.50. | KANSAS CITY .-—Hogs-—Bulk, $15.25 ‘and butchers, $16.45@ 15.90; light, $15 | @15.66; pigs, $13@14. (13.40; | 12.26; IMORE BALT ¥ ib i iid Tren choice, per ordinary, do, Deavy per Lambs 6% @ 8 %e over, do, 13 live Pigs ax Beef ( and Sheep lambe per 1b, 15@ 16 As shoats, as § SR @10%¢c do milk cows, $50@ 75; @ 4s per 1b, T%G@%%; head, $30 meq ¢holce to per do, common fair, do, TOLD IN SHORT ORDER. A Eray, the lowering sky dicates sunset or ons vellowish where is Ereen rain or green in in paris of Northern Arabia the hills are so well stocked with bees that no sooner are hives placed than th are occupied. aa BON ¢ ey Suffrage for 18,000 educated Indians in the province of Ontario is urged on the Dominion government by Seobio Logan, chief of the Muncey tribe Beventy-four per cent. of the forest fires in this country are of known origin, and lightning accounted for oneseventh of these. A Roselee (N. J.) father told his recruiting station, three miles away, They raced on bi- cycles until one got a puncture and lost. The Shelby Tube Company, of El Pa. has employed the Rev. Charles Bell, formerly pastor of the local Bell Memorial Presbyterian Church, as welfare superintendent in behalf of the company of 3.000 em- In Exodus 1il, 8 Palestine is de scribed as a land “flowing with milk Bees are abundant even day. In the remote parts of the wilderness they deponit their honey in the crevices of the rock and in hollow trees. { A new project of American engi- | neers is a giant canal 250 miles long { to connect the Arctic Ocean and the | Baltic Sea, extending from Kanda | Iaska, on the White Sea, to Tornea, near the Bwedish frontier on the Gulf | $150,000,000,
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers