VUL. XC. PA., 1917. NO. 38 “AED” KELLER WRITES FRUN FORT OGLETHURPE, The Making of Office s at Georgia araining Camp a Serious Matter.—Wrltes De- soriptive Letter to Mother at Linden Ball, a Fort Oglethorpe Ga., September 15, 1917, To My Dearest Mother and all : Due to the fact that there is at pres- ent a csr strike on in Chattanoogs, Tenp., I have been unable to receive any word whatever from home and being this far away, and not hearing from any of the home folke, ia really harder on a fellow than doing without corn bread and molasses for a day, that being a big part of our meals morning, noon and night. No doubt you have wondered why I have di- rected you to address all the home pews to Chattanooge, Tenr, That ie the great railroad center nearest to thls camp, so it is collected there and gent out here by a special mail train. The strike has been on for over a week and ss a result the boys are haviog gome difficulty in getting into town and for that resson I am staying right here in csmp over Sunday and will put in my time atterding divine ser- vices in the morning, and * boning” up on Infantry Drill Regulations, and doing my weekly wash in the after poor. ‘the washing takes several hours of my leisure time which is as limited ss go'd in our back yatd, for it must be done in a wash basin, Noth- ing el-e allowed in the camp and we simply bave not time to do it during the week. One nice feature about it is that clothes will dry in a very few minutes, cue to the high altitude and intense heat of the sun. We sre starting on our fourth week of training just as the rainy season of the south is setting in and that means we get a heavy shower most every day. Could you be here to see us drilling thio it all you would not wonder at the blisters we get on our hands in try- jog to keep our clothes clean. Thies Georgia mud sure hss its sticking quslities and I can readily get Lhe significance of the phrase, ‘“‘of tbe earth earthy.” That's me! Honest ly I never saw spythiog like this mud. ‘quads prepare to rush, Halt! Drop and prepare to fire!” Imsgine felling prone in it! Advancing on your stomseh in it and then to avoid being * beaned,’”’ the command Is giver, “keep your beads cicee to the ground,’ Afier a two hcurs drill of thie I know you would Dever recog- I'z) me 88 your own ion, This siternoon we received our third aud floal shot in the arm and pow I think I can stand anything from emsll pox to hives, 1 guess they are trying to make us bullet proof for this is the sixth time this summer that I bave bad that long needle thrust ioto my arm. The doctors eay it ls as neces. gary to Lave the paiatypbus treatment when you are in thearmy as it ls to have sewers, whooping ccugh or the jocome tax, For my part I don’t quite sgree with them, The ‘ollowing is a schedule that we have been golpg by since the camp opened three weeks ago. A15.15s. m. is first 0+ 1), by the Lugler of course. From then until tape, at ten o'clock in the evenivg, there is an hour and ten minutes that we may call our own. At 5.30 there is sseembly and every one of us must be in line with every particie of tquipment properly adjast- ed for the day’s work, Miss at six, Krom then not 6.60 we have nothing to do but eat eu ugh for three men, shave, finish dressing, make up our bunk, police around if, tidy our be- Jonginge, get cur rifls and line up with the company for say five hours drill, Of course the afternoons are not nearly #0 streuuous after the five bours of con- tinuous drill in the morning. It con- pi-ts merely of jumping in snd out of trenches, prosirating ourselves flat on the grouud, aud raising ourselves up and leaning over and touching our fingers to the ground an indefinite a wber of times, Beveral times » week they march vs out to the rifle fapge and we spend the afternoon tquinting aloug the barrel of a rifle, and vaviog our ignominy shown to the worla by flags that wave from the rifle pite, aud by uokind markers be- bin thew, From 5.80 to 5.45 we have 16 miscuies in whieh to takes batn, if we can get one, tub ourselves with Jipiment in various pl oes, and get tidied op for retreat at 5,45, Mess call js at six snd at seven o'clock school pall followed by ¢ tio st 9.30. During udy petiod every one must be on bis t sud # udying se we never did bee fore. Urstoming for my college exam {nstiovs hed nothing on thie, The , eall of sll Is taps at ten o'clock and then we bave pothivg to do till five clock pext morning. Fm telliog you that if this war lasts as long rs the days seem long to us down here nD We are b ioe 0 have an awful wer That is our training we as Cadets are getting here is that of being courteous ; must at all times be on the alert, conduct our- selves ih & military manner and pre- sent a neat, trim appearance if we ex- pect to be among those to be commis- sioned officers at the close of the camp. Student officers must lesrn the custom of the service and observe them promptly at all occasions. Prompt military bearing, saluting, and stand- ing at attention are parts of the mili- tary training requested by the regula- tions, To the undisciplined civilien mind, it may seem unatural and even undemocratic for a eadet, for instance, to stand at attention while talking to an officer, but this is one of the cus- toms of the service and one that tends strongly in the development of disci- pline. Even when away from the barracks or oft duty, a correct military bearing must be maintained in heads up, eyes off the ground, shoulders equare, Blovenliness in either cloth- ing or in appearance will not be toler- ated, In order that this may be rem- edied the Company Commanders must send those who are delinquent in this respect, under arme, to report at 4:30 p. m. dally except Saturday and Bun- daye, for one-half hout’s extra instruc tion. As yet I have not had to re- port to head quarters and I attribute it largely to the fact that you have never ceased to tell me to keep my shoulders back, and to sit straight. With such diecipline and training do you wonder at Uncle Bam's ab'lity to turn out officers at the end of three months intensive training ? Prepare for some cold snd cruel words, Most of the time of last week was devoted to instruction in bayonet fighting and in this work we are very fortunate in having two French offi cers here to give us the fine points of the game. Each drill is precedad by a conference and they always start ou! by saying that the spirit of the bayo- nel must always be maintained, For instance, you must always go into those hand-to-hand combats to “kill or be kille.,”” To get us keyed up to the proper pitch for what follows they yell out, “what do we clean our bayo- net with,”” and the response from 5000 throats ie, “Blood”! That is the psy- chology they use in the trenches at the present time previous to ‘‘going over the top” and mskiog a dash over “no man’s land,” and though it sounds cruel, yet it is the language we hear every day and the «flect it has on the men is seen in the recent successes of the English and French bayobpet charges, To the folks back home it may sppear far fetched but could you bave been here to hear the address of welcome which Colonel Blocum made to the entire regiment of 5000 cadets a few days after our arrival, in which he said that be was addressing the men who very shortly would be lead- ing men on the battle fields of France, then you can realz’ how near this war is coming to cur doors, My fourth week in camp will be a memorable one, for the first six days will be devoted to the construction of fortifications and trench warfare ; fourteen hours per day on Monday, Tueeday and Wednesday of this week will be used in the construction of trenches and obetacies. Beginning on Tharsdsy morning, the entire com- mand including the instructors, will occupy the trenches continuously un- til Batarday night. Duriog the time while we are 'n the trenches, we will be given suitable instruction in attack snd detense, use of hand and rifle grenades, gas maske, instruciions iu sentry duty and wrench orders, reliev- ing of unite, sanitation lisslop, gren- ade screens, ete. At all times when we are ln the trenches it will be ae- «amed that we are sciuslly confront ing sn enemy, and all movemen.s io the trenches, carrying of supplies and food, will be based on this assumption. This covers pretty well, I think, my first three weeks in the second traln- ing esmp, and some time later I may give you a descriptive account of bow we use the bayonet and hand grenade. In short it ls “Shootivg Germans at filty yards,” and jabbing “Dummy Huns’ thru the heart.” Did you ever dream of ralsing your boy for work like this ? I think not. inst week tut none so fsr this week due to the train tie-up. Pray for me every day, and I know you dr, mond also tell my friends to write, tor any news from the home folks ls sure a bala for a eoidiet’s wounds With love to all Your soldier toy, Nx. 84,000 Luss tn Fire on Barn, Hite, The large bank barn on the farm of Willlam Hughes, near Jacksonville, this county, was totally destroyed by fire Tuesaday afternoon of last week al three o'clock, with all the season's erops. ! be vio on the fire Is une t BE} it S00 1 suce ln COUNTY FARM AGENT SAYS “STOP LOSS FROM MANURE" System of Handling Manare Should Aim to Avoid Waste of Liguld Part, He Pays At Present Fertilizer Prices Hans Value of 85,00 Per Ton, An enormous amount of plant food is wasted apnpuslly on Penpsylvania farms by the improper handling of farm mauure, This is of unusual im- portance today, not only becsuse of the high prices of ammonia and pot ssh in commercial fertilizers, with which this loss must be replaced if the fertility of the soil is to be maintained, but also because the rise In prices of all farm products has doubled within re- cent years the monetary retu.ns which may be expected by using manure on the land, At normal fertilizer prices a ton of manure had a money value of $1.60 or about $24.00 per cow per year, Atl present prices however, a ton of ma- nure has a commercial value of sbout $5.00. About 44 per cent, of this is in the smmonia which the manure con- tains, 62 per cent. in the potash and the remainiog 4 per cent, in the phos- phorie acid. The enormous loss which occurs will be better understood from the fact that three-fourths of the tolal ame monia and four-fifths of the total pot- ash are found in the liquid part of the manure, A small amount of loss ie ansavoidsble on any farm but the sys- rem cf handling of mapure should aim to avoid draivirg away « f any pert of the liquid mawu:e, f rmentsiion of manure before it Is put »n the fizld, and lesching by expreure to tle raine, The liquid marure can best be pre- served by the use of plenty of straw, chaff or any good absorbent material, The fermentation and leaching can be best prevented by hauling direct from the stable to the field whenever grow. iog crops permit. Loss by leaching on frozen ground should pot deter one from bsuling manure on tod where corn is to be planted next spring, i the other siternative is leaving it in an open barnyard over winter, Home loss will occur where manure is spread on top of snow or frozen ground on sloping land, but this i= less than the loss which would cecu: if the same manure were allowed 'o remain in sn open barvyard until spring. However, if one has a covered me» vure sh.d or mapure pit he hes gone # long way toward (he solviog of the manure couservation problem, The main essentials in this case are Lo have plenty of sbeorbing male isl and keep it well packed, Here the manure can be kept in good comuition, it can be drawn tothe fields at any time and st the same time the loss from leaching and draiciog will be prevented, It is merely putting the macure on the same basis as the fertilizers we vay. If we will not leave our iertii- jmers out in the rain snd westheriog why should we leave our mapure? R. H. ULMSTEAD, County Agent, A — AM en Col. Sho: maker Lssues New Book, Col. Henry W. Shoemaker has jast isc ued his Istest book on wild anifus) itffe in Penusyivenis, It is called * Extivet Pennsylvania Animals, Part I, The Panther sud the Wolf” In the two hundied pags which form the volume » number of very in- teresting stories are found relating the kiliing of wolves and panthers in var- fous parts of the state. Centre county comes in for a big share in furnishiog great hunters who helped to elay these wild suimale, and chief among tbem are George GU. Hastioge, who killed two panthers in Centre county in 1871, and Danial I'reaster,the mighty hunter of the Seven Mountsine, The book is riealy illustrated with pictures of many of the old-time hunters, s8 well us some of the later day Nimrods and their prizes, . A copy of the book, with the com- pliments of the author, has resched our desk, for which we extend thanks, ——— A AG ITE Millincounty Nominees, There waa a good bit of ginger in the Mifflin county primary election, which resulted in the following nomi nations : Bherift—~Merril A. Davis, Republi= an ; George H. McCormick, Denice ora’, Awmsociate Judge, non parilenns : C, A. Brown and John B, Garrett, ————————— IT —— Moe Boys Than Girls, While not sutbenticated, it is stated by the “press” that the birth rate for the yesr 1917, so far shows a prepond. eranoce of boy bables over girls by ale most thirty per osnt. Whether il jost #0 happens or whether old mother nae ture is endeavoring to mantsin an «quitable balance and keep up the rug- ply of males, which Is lessened more aud more e wh day by the military dee mand, it ic however, impoisib.e to de termine, po "The Urenoble nome, located Wilt Be 80 Xenrs of Age = To-morrow (Friday) our townsman, H.W, Kreamer, will enter upon a new decude in life, and will assume thst very venershle title of octogenarian, The term * venerable’ in this case is not to be associated with old age. Four score years finde Mr, Kreamer in excellent physical condition and maintaining the same vigor which he was wont to show twenty years ago. It is a fact that Mr, Kreamer has pass. ed through his “seventies ”’ without the semblance of a show of slowing down. The past enmmer found him busily engaged at out-door work when westher permitted, and to prove that it was more than light work which he did it rerd only be said that he was en- gaged for three weeks in working on the picnic ground in erecting tents and helpiog io other work prepare- tory to the Encampment and Fair, To reach the sge of eighty years and have it said that one is not a care to anyone, but rather erjoying life to a full measure, ust be due to some par- ticular mode of living. Mr. Kream- er's life bas been one of complete ab- stemicusness. Free from every habit which tends to tear down the physical being, Mr, Kreamer is a living exam- ple of the results of temperance and clean living, He remains faithful to his religious duties and every Babbath finde him in his accustomed place in the church of bis cholec—'he Reform- ed, The Reporier congrs'ulales Mr, Kreamer upon his at'sining this pe- riod in jife, *1€ Lu ‘se lLatl he may con- tiroe toe jy the respect of his many friends for years (0 come, i fp Mp ASS Yeagertowns Wants to be a Boro, Nipety-flve per cent. of the citiz:p- ship of Yesgertown have petitioned the Mifflin county court asking for in- corporation se a borough. One of the ardent workers in behalf of the pro- posed incorporation says: ‘‘Yeager- town is the only town of its size along the entire highway route belween Philadelphia snd Pittsburg that has po sidewalks lor the benefit and pre- tection of pedestrians from the perils of the passing sutomobiles and otber street traflle,. As a borough we will at once have the power and shall use that power to remedy the defect.” ——————— A AT ———— Aged Merchant Commits Sgloide, Dr. O. P. Reece, aged eighty-iwo years, 8a merchant and former physi cian, soot spd killed bhimsell early sunday morning st his place of busi ness fo Kylerstowp, a little village pear Philipsburg. His veaith was impaired, snd espec- isily for the past week was bis condi tion more serious, thus sffecting his mind. He had been sfllicted with ssthifns for years, Dr. Reece was born on the old Reece womestead in Patton township, Centre county, eighty-iwo years ago, and wae the gon of Christien and KElizibeth Evans Reeor, early ploneers and de- scendantia of the revolutionary heroes, —L AM — “he Parmer: Asswered the Usll, State Agricultural Department esti- wates which bave been lssued show. iug some tremendous crop increases aie indirectly a tribute to the eflicien- ey of the campeign insugurated last spriog to interest the farmer in speed- fug-up production of non-perishable fooustuffs, In that campeign toe Penuveyivania Committee of Public Safety was practically a ploneer ani turough its Siete and local beadgquar- ters much «fort was expanded to pro- wote lncressed planting of sll essen- tial crops, Ouae of the publicity efforts cf the commitiee was an appeal issued though the Food Supply Department urgiug farmers to give special consid. eration to crops which would pske up for the wheat shortage. (din and other food crope and particularly for. sge crops for oatil: were recommend ed. Estimates indicating a potato har- vest of 82,000,000 bushele, a crop al most 40 per cent in excess of the pre vious average for five years ; an eleven per cent increase in the corn crop snd a fifteen per cent increase in oats are evidences of the loyal response of the State’s agriculturalists to the oall for more food to win the wer, ———— I —— Will Increase Game Proverves, Pennsylvania's twenly game pres serves, which are tracts of state forest land closed at all seasons for game to propagate, will probably be increased during the winter, as a sumber of ad. ditions! tracts including some proper ties in eastern counties, have been ofe fered to the state on long leases, Ure der a recent 80, games preserves mey be located on leased land, and this will have the effect 3 Juersasing gone tn eonfities where there are no reserves, Dr. Joseph Kslbfue, scoretary of the state ane comm anion, save a that there will be no inepeotion of offered for samo pre © » BELLEFONTE S LUTHERAN PAWTOR FOUND DEAD IN BED, SUNDAY, Rev. W. M_ B, Glsnding Pasties Away While Alone at His Home His Parishioners Find Bim, Other Deaths, Rev.W. ma, B. Glanding, pastor of the Lutheran church of Bellefonte, was found dead in bed at his home at that place on Bunday morning, Heart failure was the cause of hie death. Mr. Glanding was aloe in the pars sonage, his wife and daughter having left the day previous for Atlantic City, When he did not appear for services in the morning several members of the congregation forced an entrance to the parsonage and found their pastor dead, Rev. Mr, Glanding was in hie sixty- second year, He was a son of John N. Glanding, a resident of Altoona for many years. He has been for years one of the prominent ministers in this region and the church of his choice sustains a great loess in his death, By a strange coincidence Rev. Glanding’s death came in a similsr manner to that of his father, The el der Mr. Glandidg wes a spring maker, One evening he laid down his ham- mer and apron and in the morning he Wis Do more, - Jacob Markle, a life-long citizen of Centre county, died at his home at Rockview as the result of a stroke of a apoplexy. He was a son of Jacob and Kathryn Fiy Markle and was bora in Pennsvalley on April 17th, 1855, hence at hie death he was 62 years, 4 months and 27 days old, When a young msn he learned the trade ¢f a bisckemitb, an occupation he followed all his life. On August 3lst, 1875, he was unit- ed in marriage to Mise Annie Lowery who survives with the following chil- dren : Clinton Markle, of Axe Mann: Mre. H. V. Patton, of Bryn Mawr; Willis and Virgie at home. He also leaves three sisters and one brother, pamely : Mrs, James Poormasp, of Boalsbrg; Mre, Alice Balley, of Stormstown ; Mre, Sarah MeCUool, io Missouri), and William Markle, of Lu. car, Kansas, Funeral services were beld in the Methodist church st Pleasant Gap by Rev. J. H. McKelchnie, after which burial was made io the Lutheran cem- etery at Pleasant Gap. Samuel Holt, a well known resident of Moshanuop, died suddenly at his home as & result of paralysis, Deceased wae a son of Mr, acd Mre, J. Harbison Holt and wae born in Snow Bhoe township fifiy-lwo years sgo. He followed farming all his life sod was well known throughout Spow Bhoe township, He was a member of the Presbyterian church and was highly respecled in Lhe com munity in which he spent his entire life. Mre. Holt died fourteen years ago but surviviog bim are two daugh- ters. 8 BAJsmes Edward Kline died at bis home near Tusseyville on Thursday, september 13th, aged eighty-one years. Burial was made in Zion Hill U. Ev. cemetery, Rev. Brown, of Millheim, officiating. The second wife of the deceased survived him, but no. chil dren. William B. Miles died at his home in Milesburg, sged eighty-iwo years, two monthe, and twenty-four days. He was born in Howard, but lived io Milesburg for foriy-years, where he en- gaged in the mermantile business. Hits wife and one son, O:cer E., sur- vive. FOLKS WE ALL KNOW TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS Beptember court is on this week, Allenville has two case of infantile paralysis, Wilbur F. Cleaver, the State College Times editor, resigned his position Inst week to accept a position in the schools at Johnstown, Ibe Titan Metal company recently purchased the old Nittany furnsce site and last week began the founds tions for several buildings, The Jefferson Treesler home, near Rock View, was destroyed by fire a short time ago, Most of the contents of the house were also burned. A. E. Pereor, of Phillipsburg, New Jarsey, ie doing war work for the Pennsylvania Railroad company sat Camp Dix, near Trenton, New Jer- sey. The poles to carry the electric light wires in Millheim have all been set aud now poles for the same purpose are being erected along the state high- way west of that town, Carload shipments of potatoes are being made by various parties from the Centre Hall railroad station. Farmers are being paid from 70 to 80 cents 8 bushel for the tubers, Arthur C, Dale, E:q., son of Clement Dale, Esq., is now permitted to prae- tice before the Biate Bupreme and Su. perior courte, having euccessfuily pase- ed the examination for that purpose. The Bradford bhuating club expect to begin the initial work on the cone struction of a permanent camp in the Seven Mountains, this week. J. H, Horner, of Tasseyville, will lay the foundation walls, The Willlamsport Bun estimates the leading crops grown in Lycoming county to be worth over four and one- half million dollars, Corn leads, with $1,240500 as the estimated value; then comes hay, $945,000; wheat, $825,000, Edward Royer and Miss Virgie Young motored from York the Istter part of last week, spending a few days with relatives. Mra. Royer, who had been visiting in this vicinity for sever- al weeke, accompanied them home on Monday morning. The Htate Babbath school associs~ tion convention will be held in Pitti burgh, October 9.h to 12h inclusive, Several Sabbath-school workers from this locality expect to atliend. Olbers wishing to attend should write Darius Waite, the counly secretary, at Belic- fonte, for credentials. The following young ladies from thie valley have been enrolled this year as members of the freshman cises st Penvsylvanis State College ; Mil- dred L. Wieland, Linden Hall ; Ethel Hettinger, Spring Mills; Annie E, Shelton, Millheim. Edith M, Del wiler ls from Bmauliton, W. B. Krape, a veteran of the Civil war, who makes his home with Mre, Amos Koch at Asronsbarg, wes stricken with paralysis a short time ago, states the Journal. Mrs. Koch snd her family bad been away for the day and found Mr, Krape in a helpless condition when they returned. On | Saturday a conference of Centre county bankers will be held at the Nittany Country Club, The meeting hee been called at the request of the Federal Reserve back, of Philadel- phis, and the purpose of effectig an organization of banks to promote the sale of the issue of the Liberty Losn bonds to be offered the public about October 1st. Among the two hundred co-eds at The Pennsylvania State College this year is Miss Rose Brind, who came from Jerusalem, Palestine, to study agriculture. Miss Brind has been in America for a period of two years, and iv her voyage ncross the Atlantic was given a scare by the presence of a, hose tile U-boat, which however failed to fire upon the ship, The Altoona papers on Saturday printed an sccount of an auto socident at Uniontown, Fayette county, in which two people lost their lives Beosuse of the fact that the dead were ssid to have been from Lemont, a oar tain smount of local interest was ats tached to thesrticle. It proved howe ever that the people who were killed in the scoident were from Lemont Fare nace, a town located near Uniontown, Sixteen hundred is » fair estimate of the number of automobiles on Grange Park, on Thursday of the fair. There were about two hundred cars parked in various sections of the town, making a total of 1800 oars, The oars essily averaged five passengers, or oarried 9000 persona. In addition to this number there must be added all who Er ae ee abe ln
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