qu \ UL. XC. © swomms nEEoED, Men for Supply Uompanies, Artillery, Avia- tion Section of Signal Uorps, Bakers and Cooks Wanted in Army, Two thousand men are needed at once to form eight new Quartermaster Corps Supply Companies for the new National Army. Esch company will consi-t of the following : 1st sergeant ; fess sergeant; supply sergeant; 8 sergeants ; 16 corporals ; 2 mechanics ; 8 buglare; 4 cooks; 71 privates, first class ; 143 privates, totaling 250 men for each company; forty recruits for the Field Artiliery, Regular Army. This branch of the service has been closed for several weeks owing to hav ing been filled up and this opportun- ity should be grasp:d quickly by those desiring to serve in the Field Artil- lery, Able bodied men are still needed in large numbers for the aviation section of the signal corps. Nearly every trade in existence is required in this braneh and a man can almoet invars iably te used for the same work which he has been accustomed to in civil life. Opportunities for advancement are excellent, A rvumber of men are needed as bakers and cooks in the Regular Army. An able bodied man enlisting in this department will be sent to gchool to learn the baker’s trade and if Lie hes a fair education stande the best of chiareces to be promoted to a non- commissioned cffice. The quarter- master general hes also anvounced that all commissions in the bakery cow panies will be given to deserving men from the ranks, U. 8B. Army Re- eruiting Stations are located in Reran- tor, Wilkes Barre, Erie, Williamsport, South Bethlehem, Bhamokir, Sayre, DuBois, Haz itor, Mauch Chunk. ——————— Viciated Liquor & aws, Curtis Tressler and Robert Folk, the mer aged twenty-one and the latter nty-seven, both of Bellefonte, were iw sentenced to jail terms for lignin» vidiations, I'ressler was dirc pay a fioe of $500, costs and serve LLree m~oths in jail for selling a quart of whiskey to Folk. The latter wes sen tenced 'o pay a fine of $50, costs sud Iwo months4n jsil for purchas- log the whiskey for a person of known lute perate habite, I — Tree Talk. The total area of Pennsylvania is 28,692,480 acres, Forests once grew upon 27,000,000 acres. From 9,500,000 to 10,000,000 acres can never be used profitably for snything but growing timber, Ross! veal, fried potatoes, stewed (o- matoes, dried corp, canned peaches, hot biscuits, butter, cookies, coflee, Dot » wenu of the Bel evu«-Stratford, bul a meal seived in a Pennsylvania Htate Forest tree-planting camp. It Cost sixteen aud one half cents per msn, Peonsyivapia has about 2,000,060 seres of waste farm land, land once cicared and farmed, but now abandon ed, Itshould be planted to trees, Enough roads, traile, fire lanes, and bouudary lives bave been opened on Penusylvauia’s State Forests to reach fromm New York to San Francisco and hall way back. Tbe first tree seed from a ‘State For- est plantation has been collected from White ash planted pear Asaph, 7iogs county. to BEIVe Deaths of Centre Countians, Chaneey D. Clen , a member of Co, D, 45th Regiment, P, V. L., dled in Harisburg, He was born in Miles burg, July 4th 1841, Mre. Emily Irene Furey Larimer, wife of John Larimer, died at her home in Bellefonte of Bright's disease, aged thirty-seven years. She was a daughter of Mr. aud Mre, Morris W, Furry, John Pearl died in the Indiana hospital, Indisne, from heart Oleease, sged fity-five years, He was former. ly » resident of Bellefoute, Philip Weity died at the home of bis sou-in-law, Frank Houser, near Bellefonte, aged eigh y-six year's, Lawrence Wion died in Atlantie City, sged fifty-nine years. His wife nee Mies Mary Miller, of Pleasant Gap, snd one son, Har: y, survive, A —— ——— SEPTEMBER OUSMOFOLITAN, Robert W, Chambers’ new novel, “The Restless Bex” ; a new story by Fannie Hurst, “Get Ready the Wreaths” | a thriller, “The Purple Flask,” by Gouverneur Morris. Other grest features by Theodore Dreiser, Cyn'hia Stockley, Herbert Kaufman, (. N.and A, M, Williamson, Lillie Langtry, Jeok Lovdon, Arthur Reeve, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kila Wheeler Wileox, George Ade and many others, A AAA Noties, I bereby surrender the ofMee of bur. gras of the borough of Centre Hua'l, Pa, Resignation to” take flict the 18ih day of August, 1917, B. H. Ar¥ny, Barges, LETTER FULL OF INTEREST FROM FREEPORT, ILL, J. M, Stiffler Writes In His Fine Style of Crop Uonditions In the West ~{inrden- lng Is Popular Among all Classes and In. creased Food Production Is the Result, Editors of the Reporter : The Reporter still continues to send its weekly messages good and sad, from the old stand, to its readers all over this country. It becomes our duty to eee that our subscription dues do not get in arrears. With war prices prevailing for everything that enters into the making of a weekly newspa- pe-, the editors end publishers, as a class of hard working people, are cer- tainly deserving of their bread snd butter and a few luxuries that enter into good living, besides. Just now we are sweltering in tor- rid heat daring the day, but the nights are cool. The hot weather be- gan two weeks wmgo, HMtrong breezes prevail daily, Last week we had hot winds for several days but no serious damage to vegetation resulted, Tem- perature has not gone beyond the 100 degree mark thus far this summer, Pretty dry at present ; Do rain for two weeke, Pastures, corn and late pota- toes must have rain soon if large yields are to be had. April, Ziay and June averaged cooler than for several years previous, The cool westher hindered plant growth, In conse quence all fleld crops sre about two weeks later than usual, Corn in nortbern Illinois certainly has a very thrifty appearance at present. It fe now tasseling and with favorable weather conditions this month and neXt we may certainly expect » bumper yield, The acresge is about one fifth larger than last year. The small grain crop never war better as 8 whole than this year. It is pow nearly all in shock. Home pieces of oats will yield 80 bushels per acre; barley will yields 60 bushels per scre “rd winter and spring wheat will yield 4J vuslie 8 per acre, Wheat is a minor crop in thia section. Oaly about 500 acres are planted in this county each year. The hay crop was gotten up in fine shape. Timothy on new seeding was heavy, But litte clover and ale falfa rurvived the freezes and joe cost of last winter, About 75 per cent. of the clover and all of the alfalfa Selds on prairie lands had to be put in corn and small grain crops, H ay without doubt will command high prices later in the season, Farmers with. large herds of stock, who were depending on clover and alfalta for rough feed, are now contrscting with deslers to furnish them from other sections sud the price will be about {20,00 a ton de- livered, Very little idle land is In evidence io and around this city this sess D. All the vacant lots and bsck yards that formerly grew to weeds or harbor- ed rubbish in the city are now fruit full of all kinde of garden truck. Shool children of all ages, male and fe- wale shop”and office people who never gave a garden a thought before this summer, now devote their leisure time to the care of a garden, Every good citizen considered it a part of thelr patriotic duties to help increase the food supplies by making the waste places produce something for the table in these war times, Farm help is scarce, Farmers pay $3.00 per day with board and lodging. Women can be seen in the fields driv- ing teams and shocking grain, The first selective draft for the War will demand sbout 240 of our best phy- tical young manhood ss the quotas from this county. The draft was for 1500, The fruit crop is light here this year with the exception of cherries and grapes. Btrawberries sold at 150 per quart by the crate while raspberries #old at twenty and twenty-five cents per quart by the crate. Cherries sold as high se $3 per bushel, A little over 100 bushels were harvested from the 75 trees of the orchard of your cor- respondent this year. It took fully 8 weeks to take cire of and market this quanity of early and late varieties, I'he quality was of the best, The writer does not wish to burden your readers with too long a Jett r at this time but wishes to make short mentior, before concluding, of a trip over parts of three counties (Stephen son, Ogle and Carol) Inst Taesdsy. It was termed a sociability tour and wes epousored by our Chember of Jommeroe, There were about forty su omoblles and sbout 200 business men of Freeport, Stops were made at small towns in very township in the county. The Chamber of Commerce band played selections at every stop. plog point, Twelve cities and towrs were viziled in three different o up ties, The purpose of the trip was to get acquainted with our neighbor, It wan certainly a jolly bunch who left berant 8 80 », w, Of course we raised clouds of dust ss we sped slong 180 miles of plgbway. In two weeks ane other trip to the north fe planned, The writer expec's to be one of them again, J. M, BTiFrLRR, LIKsLY TO DOUBLE DOG TAX RATE Under State Act Oounnty Commissioners are Authorized to Make Boost, Assessors in the county are heav- ing great breaths of relief coincident with receipt of the information that no more will they be required to tag sround after dog taxes as has been the case during the past few yecrs, The whole problem will be unloaded upon the shoulders of County Treasurer David Chambers, who is authorized to receive taxes for dog license tags ip in the same manner as he now re- ceives fees for hunters’ license tages and mercantile tax certificates, The new law becomes effective in December, Nor is this all for under the provis- fous of the law the county commis- sioners are authorized to double "he dog tax rate 'neressing the tax fee to $2 for male canines and as bigh as $4 for the opposite gender. This circum. stance will either greatly add to the funds in the county treasury or else greatly deplete the canine population, When dog licenses are procured owners will be obliged to give their namés and also supply information re- lative to the dog setting forth the breed, age, sex, color and markings, The assessors will take a census enumeration of all dogs In their re- spective balliwicks during December and owners are required to pay the prescribed fee on or before January 16 following. If the fees remain ur paid ward and township constables wil be fustructed to shoot all untagged dogs, The lagging tactics in vogue in years past will be tolerated no longer, ——— a teemam—— Heckiogs Driviog Cost 81000, Home months the Reporter, more or less in detsll, prioted sn so- count of reckless driving by 1. J. Dreess through the city of Williams. port, and further made mention of the arrest thal followed. Since then the case was brought to tris), and the fol- lowing ie a b. jef Summary of the re. sult as gathered from the Williame- port papera : L. J. Dreese, of Lemont, has learned thal joy rides in Lycoming county are expensive experiences, While pass. ing thru Williameport several weeks ago in an automobile Dreese ran into spd irjored a seven yesr old girl, The girl spent several weeks in a hospital following the sceident, Police officers traced Dreese to Lock Haven, where he was arrested in a hotel, He was brought back to Williamsport to face & charge of reckless driving. At the “ame lime the msnagement of the holel in which Dreese was arrested at Lock Haven brought a charge of lar- ceny against the Centre county visit. or. A contibuance of the case was granted pending the outcome of the condition of the little gir), whom the sutolst injured. His case came up In court this week and before he finished with it he foun that the experience bad cost him $1000. He paid the pare ents of the girl $800 in addition to her doctor bill and hospital charges. His fines and court costs boosted the total to $1000, ago A ——— ——————— Asking to Frank Soldiers’ Letters, Congress has the proposition before it io a bill that “duly certified letters of soldiers, sailors and marines in the service of the United States duriog the present war be forwarded without any payment of postage whatever," The extension of free mail service to the fighting men of the country will mean much to them and to their folks back home and it will not cost the government much in sctual money. In the war with Spain soldiers’ letters were carried free, and the continental congress gave the frank to Revolution ary soldiers. Thue the plan hss plenty of prece’ent, a — A ——— Forester Barn a to OUhange Retidence., L. G. Barnes, forester on the Nit- tany State forest for a period of three years during which time be wes Ice cated at Centre Ha'l, some time dur. ing September will change his place of residence from here to Pleasant Gap. Io addition to having charge of the forest named, Mr, Barns will aleo look after a portion of the Bnow Bhoe forest, Mire. Barnes, mother of the forester, and sor, Mortimer, will return to Philadelpbin where they will again make their home, They have plane ned to leave here after the close of the Grange Encampment and Fair, As o— 200,000 Oalied to Colors Sept, 1, More then 200,000 wen of the selec tive draft forces will be called to the colors eptember 1 to go immediately to their divisional training canton mente, This will bring the sirength of the United States srmy on that date up (0 practically 1,000,000 men. Penveylvania leads the nation with over 20,000 volunlary enlistments in the regular army snd navy. That is where she belongs. Right in the front row. THE LUTHERAN BEUNION, Gathering Largely Attended--Loysville Band Furnished Fplendid Music snd Dr, Hartman saiked on Home Missions, The annual reunion of the members of the Penns Valley Lutheran charge held on Grange Park Is becoming more and educational, with no Intent whatever of doing away with the ple- nic spirit manifested to such a large ex- tentin previous years, The address on last Wednesday by Dr. A. 8, Hartman, Baltimore, General Becretary of Home Missions, was full of instruction, The speaker dwelt largely on home mission work, and referred to the fail- ures and successes of she board in its early history, and the growth of the church in recent years. Dr. Hartman's long convection with the various boards gives him a complete knowl edge of the working of the Lutheran church, and when up for an address facts and figures never fail him. “Our Boys” did themselves great credit under their new instructor, Prof. G. M. Btsuffer. The band con- sists of thirty-five pleces, the members ranging io age from eleven to sixteen years. The music rendered is of high order and its execution would be a credit to sny musical organization, Aside from being good musicane, the boys presented a fine sppearance, both from a physical and intellectual views, Prof. Btaufler Is giving his whole time to the boys’ band and girls’ or- chestrs, the latter a new organization, He ie deeply interested in the Loys- ville Orphans Home as 1 1 | stitution, 8% was abundantly shown in his ad. ress mt Lhe conclusion of the morn- ing session. The spirit of the dsy wae entered in- to by every one present, and from the point of attendance it was probably the largest yet held. The after noon session was devoted to a bit of busi. nese, the reunion, it was decided to be Again held a year hence on Grange Park. The officers were also re-elect. ed, and the Loysville band again en- gaged for the 1918 gathering. A messure was adopted looking tow- ard extending the cope and terri tory of the reunion. The president was empowered to call an assembly of of the pastorates in the county, esch pastorate to have one repr sentative, and to lesin from them whether they desired to unite with the Penns Val- ley charge to hold a re-union in future years, EE —— A ————— Locals Trim Linden mall, The Centre Hall baseball team more than made uo for the drubbing they received a few weeks ago at the hands of the Linden Hall lean, when on Wednesday of last week, on the oo cation of the Lutheran pienie, they triumphed over the boys from the uelghboring town by the score of 13 to 1. The figures would seem to indicate # listless game, On the contrary it was full of exciticg features and the big crowd had many opportunities for applauding good hitting and eplendid fielding on both sides. “Carly” Auman displayed good ability at curving the ball for the locals and had the visitors at his mer cy at sll times. Ouly six hits were made off his delivery, “Southpaw’’ MoClintock, for the visitors, wae touched up for sixteen awate, two being good for three bases-<one by Stahl and the other by Calvin Smith, a former local star who was here on a vacation. Stabl’s hit had a howli'zer effect on the enemy for it unloaded the three cushiops when it wes touched off, The following is the box score : CENTRE HALL H O 3 10 1 C. Smith, 1b, . , , N. Emerick, 8s , , W. Bradford, o . 8 Smith, 3b. . . . E. Gramley, 2b C. Auman, p. . . A. Crawford, If . . . W. Gramley,of . . . B. Stahl, of ol oPocunwmounop vl ococcocovem 8 COC le 0D Totals 16 | Sl =m opn ee LINDEN HALL 1 i ZEp Ess £ | ~coommo gm lovvwamma a0 ol mowu~coco~ol ©|covo~co. vd Totals 6 x RUNS BY INNINGS Linden Hall-001 000000 — 1 Centre Hall-02041204x 13 A ———— It the lower house adopts the Benate measure, Postmasior General Burleson will have $100,000 with which to cone duct the experiment of an auto service between the producer and consumer. Two Barns Barn in Ferguson Twp, The Reporter's Pine Grove Mille correspondent notes the burning of two barns in that section, as follows : Last Baturday about 4:00 Pp. mo. an electric storm Ewept over east Ferguson township, Lightning struck two barns and burnt them to the ground, destroying sll this season’s Crope except the oats. One was the M. A. Dreibelbis barn, In which one horse, four calves and all the crope were destroyed. The other was the George CO, Bhuey barn, the farm being tenanted by William Wolf, and locat- ed only a half a mile from the scene of the other fire. The loes here wae complete, Both barns were insured, ———————————— # 1-4 Inches of Raln, The heaviest rainfall of the season oc- curred on Monday night when 8 total of twoand a quarter inches of rai gauge, in ch 'rge of the Reporter, Bhower followed shower all Light long and each was of torrential inten. sity and accompanied by great electrical display. Corn, which is de- veloping ears, will be expected to ehow wonders in growth in the next few weeks ae a result of the rain. a —— i — i ——————————— Auto Burns from Blowout, A blowout on a front wheel was re- #poreible for burning up a valuable sutom bile, in Lewistown Narrows, belonging to D, J. Arnold and sending four people (0 the Lewistown hospital for rejaire. Miss Charlotte Bkioner, superintendent of the Standard Steel Works, sustained a fracture of the collarbone with minor injaries. Wal- ke r Woods was badly cut about the face and head, D. Grant Arnold was seriously injued about the back and lege, Miss Catharine Thompson, Mary and Joseph Wood escaped with minor ivjaries, ————————— Good Crops in Buffalo Valley, Editor Reporter Find enclosed check for Reporter, I like to resd what old friends in Cen- tre county are doing. We haves fine locality bere and delightful reighbor- hood. Crops are good all through, I bave hous d one of the best oats crops 1 have ever raised in my farming exper- lence, Few farmers were lucky enoug h to get their oats in without getting ft wot. We have had showers every and night snd with such conditions corn promises to be a t umper crop, providing that nothing destroys it. Buffalo val- ley is a hard one to beat for fertility. O. A. Jayasoxn, Miflinburg, Pa., August 11, 1918, I —————— Teachers’ Insiitate in November, The aunual session of the Centre County Teachers’ Iostitute will be lield this yesr in the week begioning Monday, November 12th. The meets ings will be held in the Court House in Bellefonte, County Buoperintendent Etters is bow engaged in shaping up hie pros gram of instructive and entertaining features for the several hundred teach- era, He announces that he will have for the entire week two of the “Rreatest Institute workers to be found in the country, They are Bupt. Bialr, of the State Educational Department of Iii Inole, and Dr. O'Shes, professor of education of the University of Wie consin, AM Pr —————— Considerable work is being done on the road mcross Nittany mountain by I. A. Bweetwood and a foroe of men, who are working under state su- pervision., Of course, it ia repair work, The road is receiving a light covering of gravel, which material has been used largely on this road for many years, and while the wear is not near- ly as long as stone, the cost is so very much less that the expenditure is war- ranted, It appears that if the moun- fain road can be maintained with this cheap material the approsch to it could also be kept in repair in a like manner and with the same profit, Much service can be had from the use of this gravel if proper jodgement is used in the application of it and prop- er attention given afterward. A — I a —— It is somewhat of a job and a little early to do I, but the government gives out that the potato crop will be 467,000,000 bushels, far over the aver- age crop, over 100,000,000 more bushels than was harvested lset year, Judg- ing from rural reports the total esti mated yield could be increased by ane other round of nine figures, for there is soarcely a limit to the sige of indivie dual tubers, Dumber on the stalks, yleld to the row for about “so long, when the question is up for discussion among the farmers, a ss SY AA Bohool boards who contracted with teschers previous to the time the new minimum salary law became opers- tive, will be obliged to secure new cone traote, with salaries according to the new schedule : Provielonal certifioates, #45; Normal school certifioates, $66 ; permanent or Norma! school diplo- mas, $60, NO. 32 TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS All laws need to be enforced with horse-sense, The threshing machines are at work, most of the threshing being done for seed, The Centre county Pomona Grange will meet at Port Matlids, Tuesday, 21st instant, A bit of inquiry reveals that locals ly at least the acreage being put to wheat will be larger than that sown in 1918. If you give your own business your best attention you will have less time to meddle with the business of other people, Arthur C, Dale has been appointed county surveyer to take the place of Bergeaut Paul IL. Wetzel, who Is in the Nationai service, John H, Horner, of Tusseyville, went to York the lstter part of last week where he purchased a pair of exceptionally fine large mules. The Loysville band gave a creditable Concert on the lawn of the Luthe eran church the evening of their are rival in Centre Hall. The offering lifted 3 ielded almost $20.00, I'be Binking Creek section, east of Centre Hill, Spring Mille, and Brush Valley, received several heavy showers of rain Thursday of last week, At Cen. tre Hall the rain was quite moderate, Accused of epeeding on the road bee tween Miflinburg and Lewisburg, Sunday a week, forty-four sutomobile drivers were invited to sppear before a justice and make good, Htate police are said to have taken the numbers, Although she went west from Boale- burg, back in 1871, Mrs, 8, L. Conser, of Loma, Colorado, retains adeep inter est In affairs in this section and finds the Reporter her chief source of ine formation about things * back home.” A colt being driven by James Wert, of Asronsburg, scared st = passing sulo and resulted in throw Mr, Wert and Mrs. Wert from tue buggy to which the animal was hitehed, Mre, Wert received an injury to one of her lower limbs. Two men in Lewistown named John Johnson and Frank O' Brien are charged with giving liquor to men lo army uniform, sn offense having attached the penalty of three years imprisonment and $1000 fine. The Mifflin county sherift pu’ the men une der arrest, Mrs. Catharine Oberholizer, of near Millersburg, keeps a lively interest in eflaire in Penos Valley, ber former home, and never makes a remittance to Lhe Reporter without giving kindly expression for the smouut of home Lews printed iu her favorite paper the Reporter. Messrs, Irvin Zettle, Reuben Zeottle, Samuel Gross and Samuel Baney, who have been working st Ame bry, tear Cresson, returned to their ree spective homes on Saturday for a stay of a few days. They are engaged with a firm that keeps in repair com- pany houses at coal mines, The Lock Haven business men’s ae- sociation, sccompanied by the N ypen band, passed through Centre Hall Thureday afternoon of last week on their return from Mt. Carmel where they attended s Gonvention of the Re- tail Merchants association. There were twenty-seven automobiles, care ryiog 148 members of the association and a band of 64 pieces, With a view of preventing the misuse of the Rei Cross uniform, the government is about to permit the wearing of U, 8. on the collar and the caduceus on the cloak. The Red Cross and the Red Cross uniform is much misused at present, but the sce tian about to be taken by the govern~ ment will go a long way toward make ing the Red Cross sacred like the flag. The Bear Meadows are being frequent. ed by large numbers of persone dure ing this summer. There are s number of pretty hunting aud fishing camps near the edge of the meadows, and these improvements resulted in the buiMing of roads leading to them pers mitting of sutomobile travel. A those who recently visited this inter. esting section, the home of the pitob- er plant, were Dr. H. F. Bitoer, Jo- seph Bitoer, Harry Meyer and Dr. J Frank Meyer. Mr. and Mere. J. Frank Meyer and son Theodore, of Washington, D, QC, for a week or more have been Ruests at the home of the former's mother, Mrs, + B, Meyer, ot Penn Hall. Mr. Meye er holds a position with the govern- ment in the Bureau of Standarde, with which bureau Lie has been cone nected for a number of years. Just now, Mr. Meyer says, his department Is working on designs for an engine for Use on aristing machines that will be able to speed at the rate of one bun dred and fifty miles an hour,
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