FREES SUMMER RESORT HELP Girls in Short-Term Hotels | Granted a Seven-Day Week | by Industrial Board AUTHORITY OF 1917 ACT Also Issues a Rule Prohibiting the Employment of Minors in Estab- lishments Where High Explo- sives Are Manufactured. —~<Harrigburg. The State Industrial Poard nounced new regulations for ment of women in summer hotels and dssued a rule ‘prohibiting employment of. minors in establishments high explosives are manufactured has an employ: where The order ment of auth regard to the employ- which was made unde: fol women, rity of the act 317, is as Susquehanna county. hat the department impro the highways In Montrose and N¢ Millord. These are about miies apart, and on the main highway from Scranton to Binghamton The delegation included Judge H. A. | Denny, Senator E. E. Jones, Represen.- | tative Allen D. Miller and the county | commissioners. They stated th at New | Milford had voted the money to co operate for its share. The State will make a survey at once towns nine Only Barefooted Recruit. Barelooted and wearing only over. alls, blue shirt, sweater and cap, Mil ton Chreimer, a Lancaster county farm hand, hiked 16 miles over the mountains to Lebanon to enlist in the United States army. : Chreimer was pronounced by the examining surgeon to be eligible, but there was a question as to his being 18 years old. He proved his age, and asked to be assigned to the fleld artillery ser vice, to be near horses, of which he is particularly fond. PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS on — x — -— a — cw — ov — — ae For the first time in the history of the Lehigh Valley Railroad in Shenan- doah and section, four young = S——— VOLUNTEERS - WILL | PICK GREAT 1917 | CROP OF APPLES | LOCAL BODIES FORMING CREWS THROUGHOUT COUNTRY. 17 to 19 years old, were em tracks for a beginning “war gardens” in a number of agricultural exhibitions this summer Products from have a place faire and State are the late and Liverpool, potato. Williamson, a two-pound John raised of two-ounce - Forty raspberries, each of an inch if picked from a foot-long end of a bush by Dr. G. A. Rudy at To shortages in S0IN¢ ters diameter, were Summerdale meet teache rural districts are will ta consol ke m schools (trucks hool While Norristo hundred. for at Greer members % lace Re piace the the will ta similar to for one wih $1,000,000 hill-to-hiti Steel Car employing heaviest work. Pres sed burgh, for its As both Company, is efficient could not to care brothers, empted from draft goes to the army. Conshohocken, who learned that ran away, Corps The Mt. Penn Fire Company has netted $401 from a festival The State Department of Forestry has given twenty-five of its foresters and wardens, or one-third of its force, to the United States Army. John H. O'Neil has resigned as a letter carrier in Norristown, after twentyseven years' service. He has become assistant superintendent of an industrial plant. Harry Wender and Albert Steuffert, of Philadelphia. are {a Norristown jail, charged with the theft of 400 pounds of wire from the Bell Telephone Com- pany. Harvesting Made Food | Suggestions About by the Administration, Government A concentrated “drive made throughout the cou { of fruit pickers to apple crop of 1817 | this year the impor by volunteer boys their part, and int iar with the direction ministration tions eyeryy made Eacl with up ni th : eat it amounts to abot iw t for ev. the Unit- stand point it is as much of this fru go to market in first class condition, so that it may help us conserve wheat, meat, fats and | other staple foods for our allies. From the producers’ standpoint it is just as important to harvest the crop in the | best condition because the size of our | apple crop this year is such that only the best fruit will bring good prices, ery man, wo fd in ed States, ' Consumers’ important to have t as possible Find the Joke. 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No Live Stock When you talk le it $4 G85 ' first.” That meat thet you will think PITTSBURGH Cattle Choice. before you talk rother 1h - i $1250@13 Prime £10.50@11; common, #4 @6.25; lambs, . veal valves, 81050018 Hogs-—Prime heavies, mediums and heavy Yorkers, $18.15 18.25; light Yorkers, $16@017; pigs, $15.50@15.75; roughs, $14.50@ 15.50. a - be “ar S64P8T : in do as some Link afters Butter Amery, fancy, extra fireis Solid-packed cres d4c; 42043. irsts, od; w]e ak first aud then ward, do $11.95G 12.25: prime gpecial extras, 41; LUM nearby prints, fancy, 46: average extra, 440 45 42043; seconds, 40Q 41; special brands of prints jobbing at | ds@io2 Eggs nearby case; CAs; do, firsts, $11.40 per case; do seconds, $10.05@010.35 per case; fancy selected, seconds. Sheep wethers, cull and $12@16 Moral Legislation, . The trouble with legislating the had habits out of human nature is that so many baonle seem to regard it as & dare ~Columbus (Ohio) State Jour : nal. firats, Nearby firsts, $11.90 per case; current receipts, $11.40 per do, seconds, $10.05@10.35 per “al Er at Western firsts, $11.70 per case; | CHICAGO.—Hogs—Top, $18.25; a i new high price record: bulk, $17.30@ 18.10; light, $16.60@ 18.25; mixed, Such Is Perversity, muking trouble or belong impolite.” carefully candled egge were jobbing at 47@ 48 per dozen. Cheese — New York, full best, 24@24% ; specials, higher; cholee, 230 23%; do, fair to good, 22@ 22%. Live Poultry—Fowls, as to size and quality, 23@24; roosters, spring chickens, not leghorne, plump, yellow-skinned, weighing 1%@2 Ibs aplece, 26028; smaller sizes, 24@25; Leghorns, 22@ 26; ducks, Peking, 19; do, Indian runner, 17@ 18; do, spring, 20@21; pigeons, old, per pair, 25G26; do do, young, per pair, 209122. $16.75@18.25; heavy, $16680018.25; | rough, $1660@ 16.80; pigs, $1215.25 ers and feeders, $6.10G 9.40; cows and | heifers, $4.60@12.75; calves, $10.00 | 14.70. | Sheep—Wethers, $7.80@11.30; ewes, | $7.25@ 10; lambs, $10.50@ 16.75. | KANSAS CITY. —Hoge-Bulk, $17.50 | @28.26;: heavy, $17.80818.30; packers and butchers’, $17.60@18.30; light, | $17.400@18; pigs, $12@16.26. | Sheep -- Lambs, $16@16.75; lings, $10@12.50; wethers, ewes, $0610.50. year i gi; } Good advice is so generally objec tionable that some men won't accept it even when you tell them not to muke fools of themselves, New idea About Industry. “Industry,” said Uncle Eben, "is whut keeps some of us doin’ de same thing over an’ over ‘cause we's 100 lazy to learn anything new.”
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