EEN — NEED WAR HORSES FROM THIS STATE Six Hundred Tillers cf Fennsyl- | vania Soil Are Told of Market for 250,000. A NAG TO EACH FOUR MEN. Rural Regions Must Supply Cne-fifth of the Equine Motive Power yor Army — Sees Half Billion in Gardent of State. Harrisburg As a direct result of the effort the State College is making to bring Penn- sylvania farming to that stage of pro- duction that will guaranice an assault on the high cost of foodstuffs, lectures in week were well attended that doors were thrown in the farmers’ course ad open and aisles crowded in some overflow TOO ag stances to accommodate the It is estimated that more than riculturists the although ti were on college grounds, he tration at headquarters has reacheq only slight ly G00 ull previous records. The above These figures surpiss vast of horses and mules army and to pull American artillery, both heavy and light, wa the farmers by Col. John 8S, Fair, 1. 8S tell s impressed upon A. who came from Washington to of the are bought army's demands when horses According to Colonel Falr, one animal is required f four When nat 1.000.000 troops I every wen under arnns, this on has finally transported to France, he sald, there will be with them 250,000 horses Ame supply a and mules, farmers expected to number, and the nder wil 1 fr all 1 . ho purchased in the 3 remand » PrOCUTred ors VEY er arket will be 1 The farm Calonel one hasis said . cent. would be obta sections if the to fe tion COVernt rm Few could be found, and horses sxumined ments Prof John RR. Be lege vi l getnbile Ere nounced that S50 000 (EX) © den truck was grown home gardeners in this he estimated at SHO OOK KK) vard garden crop next sea ing great activity spring KON. I « 18 during the Grange Asks Co-operation, The co-operative feature wa cuss xl by John McSparren, ma the State declared tl not pleading for millions of profit or but for help to till foodstuffs ¢ 0H Pennsylvania He it organized farmers were ‘range relense from taxes the necessary acres to grow for civilians, the army and our allies Mr. MeSparren flayed organizations and which, he reaping undue profi ers, He The fi: ing that our transporta relieved of the t holding companies Pullman, freight companies, t with un- earnahble prevent the transportation companies from giving alleged, the f systems, were from arm said: rmers are ask tion avstems he 1 f ie ings of ins such News ns the express Union inside salaries that services at prices the shippe« re can af ford They more intelligent seraiins to the to demanding ¢ pay are the ss tion of public offic jinls the law ed in the interest of the be made 8 may and administer ree ple i of the interest of special privilege.’ Pennsy to Get Eddystone Line. The Philadelphia, Baltimore Washington railrond ba the Public mission to Eddy stone rome facturing stock, having (1 4) nnd applied tn Service Commission for pers acquire the stork of the Delnware River the Fddystons owner of and tail Manu the £150, Company, Company. agreed to sell it at The par alue is £50 0060 Te Rid State of Crows. State game of anthorities rid which have heen reported game directed wardens to CTOWE, the countryside parts o. the state Polsoned corn will be placed so that it will not be dan geronus to domestic animals, and bodies of crows will to demon strate that they are destructive of bird Jife. : he examined State Begins to Value Islands, Recretary of Internal Affairs W. Houck has ordered an tion to ascertain whether there ure any valuable islands which are vacant Paul investiga the Delaware river Island and ware lines, between League the Pennsylvania-Dela- Capital Salaries Go Up, A general boost in salaries of vir tually every man employed by the city of Harrisburg was endorsed ‘when council passed on first reading the 1918 budget, carrying an increase in appropriation of $110.445. The meas ure calls for an expenditure of £8705. cent. on minlmam charges, Heemen, Each patrolman $100 Instend of £85 a monrh will ——- ——— SHO CELE CLL EEE LE PENNSYLVANIA BRIEFS MOGI RE A. Appleby of Mount Union, enrs of business, has placed of in the nn Thomas after HO the management his store appleby is a civil war veteran, a Pres byterian elder, a Republican and an editor and ex-postmaster, Subscriptions to the New Castle Hos pital building fund have now reached more than the $80,000 which was an nounced some time ago as the expected figure. The subscriptions are Bow excess of $852,000, Francis B. Harvey of Renovo Harold B. Hunt of North Bend been appointed sergeants and been sent to camp at Charlotte, N, C., for training. They at Camp Meade, Realizing the of addi tional comfortable its chanics and laborers, the General Elec. in and have have were need great houses for LT tric Company of Erie has awarded an to J. A. Maahs of 170 homes homes will be rented to the employees They are August Wilbur S. high other contract for construction These to be ready next { Leiby of = COUntyY, red Honora charged soldier ip Meade, b recorded first thus officially had his discharge in corder's office, the document Lehigh count) Lehigh Vall + pedluced noal £100 a month Allentown cit) presented at gz council. rson in burnis Unity e SOO. 000 loss, Morris Norris is rrest after he that Amdrew Shu InBies a few mn rkedd to his “buddy ust brs fie] several tHivoroes 10 per cent been ving 11. hotue ‘ Killed threes deville, fio nl het Jobin, a member of Macl The 1d the holids thom hres ne Gun Patt soldier parents The entire | burned A nginess section Girard was was sent to Erie, fourteen mils joss fant is estimated 000 Two men in a motor truck drove fe the Marcus PP. Dean from Yardley, and after breaking farm of ork on a barn door, stole three The into marched and d reported cattle were s machine hie mache The ose was police Two-this Greensburg ail Cross memberships Five aimehouse have cl inp «d in 21 each t upers OF ite 3 he Red The 1a toined ross CEAOW and will es several w fice clerks Fen Godspeed to tFreyte Hazletonians gave fourth sand draftees of imp Mende Caught ing of a Henry Kramer the the belt gasoline was whirled His wife him work axed his terrible death. ¢ ngine, and and Lancaster. watching to death at Ww Ore Mayor Keis g pend wax nade by Harrishurg heenuse of 'n 0 residents of Hse shortage due in gone Increase in of jess water, to failure of councilmen venrs minke provision, and caused by in industry the years population | have ‘ pansion new demands and equipment thut of a ago. Munition plants may b 0. Christie, refused a trial for wife murder at Harrisburg, declared to: the court that when he committed the erime he mentally irrespon- sible. He wns sentenced to death Joseph Carlos, twenty-five years old, raised a ripple at Hawstone when he burned ten perfectly good $20 bills, Carlo was celebrating. and said a man was worse off with money und no place gpend it than without the money. He used a revolver to keep the crowd from interfering while the money burned, It was the savings from his wages for a year. John Farrell, for many years a fa mous mine foreman, died at the State Hospital, Fountain Springs, aged seve doze affected, is new was to The Rtate Department of Agricul | ture hag tssued a warning against un- | lieensed salesmen for nurseries, “Hero letters” and 85 each were sont to James Steel and Wiliam and Richard Ritter, Lewistown boys, for | discovering a broken rail on the Penn. sylvania railroad, By a strange coincidence, Private | Robert Gaugler of the National anny, galled from “an Atlantie port” at the | {dentieal hour his mother passed away | ut the Shamokin Hospital, Howard Horan, electrician, was | slectrocuted while at work In a Somn | lon mine, THE CENTRE REPORTER —— SINGLE MEN ONLY FOR NEW ARMIES With Dependents Will | Not Be Taken. Those DRAFT LAW TO BE CHANGED | Provost Marshal General, in Ex | haustive Report Class 1 Should Provide Men For All Military Needs Of Country. Says Washington All men for the wi armies still to be raised by the United States will come from Class 1 under the new selective service plan That means the nation’s fighting be done by young men without families upon their labo: unskilled in necessary tural work Marshal the 10 Yrs EUPPOT and or agricul Provost nees ” distrib 4 ution that tt be deteria proposes states or districts the Dumb basis of and not upon 1 020.000 IN CLASS 1. able figures indicate re 1.660 O00 and otherwise nregent regis » i of whon claimed or mi not inciunded in st of the schedule CROWDER PRAISES PLAN. the the row down und analysis er he first made in report plan places upon unatiached sin and married men with inde ! incomes most of the welght duty, for the agEregats men in the other division that the first rpassed highest expecia the friends He not only to the the of the selective porvie idea pays high tribute of illans mak sands civ gave ungrudging service to success. bu the patriotism of the ae a whole ‘At the *all enters Lh President's call’ ranks of the nation War, never call and relfi submerged all terest in a zingle en de the consummation of the national task I take it that { projec t ever at avor toward no great national with =o was tmnt eft gpon comniete p Pi reliance the voluntary cooperation of execution Certainly ial had execuied out great officials “his law has been administered by official powers no such burden and zacrific Hyer statute hefor heen with heirachy of elviliana whose only in relations He with which they are vested by the President's designation of thems to perform the duties that are laid upon them. They bave accomplished the task. They have made some mistakes. The sys tem offers room for improvement, necessary ARGENTINE DIPLOMAT OUT. Luxburg Affair Leads To Ambassa dor's Retirement, Buenos Alres, Argentine It is re ported, without confirmation, that Dr. R. 8. Neon, the ambassador at Wash- ington. has resigned in consequence of friction arising from the publication of the secret telegrams sent by Count Von Luxburg before his dismissal we | German minister to Argentina, to Ber. Hin, through the medium of the Swel | ish legation. NAVY THANKS RED CROSS, Ballors Send Message Of Appreciation For Christmas Parcels. Washington ~The Red Cross an nonnced receipt of thix message ‘rom | the men of the Atlantic fleet: ‘The | men of the fleet send New Year's | groeiings to the Red Cross and thanks | for Christmas gifts received” Somewhere in the U, S. A. greet” ah we Panty (11 RECONMOITER G 1 L033 $2,000,000 Two Blocks in Heart Business District. FIVESUSPECTS CAUGHT Big Hotel Among Buildings Burned—— Monticello Victim Of What ls Toe Be An Enemy Plot. Believed officers biuejackets naval and marines and naval Jai stat:ons, who home guards and preventing and taining or ism Naval! patrols rounded up suspicion while cer persons a number of men wers Two of H. K were turned over arrested as suspects these. Hugo SBchmidt said to the and Lessing be Germans to Department of Justice agent: There were reports that mans been by sallore during the day, but the authorities confirm th The fire started at M in the old Granby Theatre building on Granby by the Nor folk Stationery Flames shot out of the 13 This stores, one of which was Nunnally's, When there was two Ger had shot nefther police nor naval would © o'clock A street occupied Company building almost immediate fire consumed three other fire was out Mon of guests, this an Hotel flames There many of the fire practically lorfon in the by a burst 400 ex] ticello followed were over still and them when were pasieep gtarted Smoke spread when people started that rooms they cc 0 rapidi; out of theiy find wid not : their war through the hallways While this building flames, a third an explosion Bullding, over Monticello it the others and before wearied firemen could on the flames the fire building occupied by D. Carpenter Furniture Company. This building burned MHke kindling wood and Nor- folk sent out a call for assistance. Suffolk, Newport News and Ports: mouth sent firemen and firefighting Special Noifolk and Western ¢ WARE B MASE © also preceded by started in a block proved Lenox the the away from ag serious as the already get a stream spread to the the by Norfolk With the firemen came the mayors Navy Yard sent over 300 men and its firefighting equipment, men were sent from the Naval Base, | tion, and 1.000 sailors from warships, one cause gratitude. Norfolk owes a debt of FIRE NEAR CAMP STUART. skirts Of Newport News. by fire. Soldiers and firemen preveat- ed the fames reaching the camp build. | ings RAILROAD STAFF NAMED BY ADDO Steps Taken to Pool All Equip- ment in Country U. S. OWNERSHIP FORECAST Roads Deny Wage Up To lard On Committee To Pool Increase, Passing Ww Question Government. Wil Facilities. New ratiroad lawyer and | mans Walke Yours a specia eration government op a a $i WHE assistant <i rector general, pending forms taf The Commission investiga sf general the tion of a permanent In terstale CC Ommerce for an inspeciors 1 in ions on Was drafted mmediate bs its sight condit Eastern Hes While er: the direct with a general was con f road ing number of heads ral Commis s HE ana Interstate Commerce TLE sel % oy ¢ giOners An memoers of ) planning immediate action jody f t on. it of became the den of the four wage rail labor faults ransport known that ¥ brotherhoods for cent bs and that consegue stile increase had been deniec the roads men had probably 60 daye case to thought Wilson would the decided to postpone {or the presentation of thelr It dent the government that Presi up the labor vO was probable {ake addres Congress situation in his this week FOUR OVERCOME BY HEAT Pasadena, Cal, Sees This Wonder At 2. Football Game. Pasadena overcome by Four persons Cal heat in 000 which witnessed the football team of marines, stationed at the Mare is fand Navy Yard, defeat the army team i Camp Lewis, Wakhington, one oO. » features of the annual Tourna- of Roses here. The score was 16 to 2. Profits from the game will go to the Red Cross were the crowd of 42. ment Forty-three public schools in Phils severe cold weather. About Charles Stewart Parmsl! for While residents of Huntingdon and suffering for lack of coal, the Hunt ingdon and Broad Top Railroad has minous coal for the South Broad Top region standing on its sidings. The time for fixing the date of the trial of Paul Henning, a naturalized with treason for his alleged tampering in torpedoes ment in the factory where he was om- 14, when be was arraigned in Federal Court in Brooklyn So - - re TURNED DOWN Trusted. An ceedings While The Delegates Re- port Upon The Block That Has Occurred. interruption To The Peace Pro Petrograd ~The chances of a arate peace between Russia and Central Powers being effected ¢ permed remote. because of what regards ax Germany's leon Trotzky, unreas the ‘ 1d been afer the de res Umno the insist legate upon will conciude peace man mpera’isis sentat of ives of the ine Germany ™ TREATY PROVISIONS in the owing Artiple § Is A HRUFS ministrat on of the ube be intrusied to a Eur ube commission with a fr ee "(yt 4 " from the countries bordering Wor Danube the Plack Brafla the the river Article § private and of fehied Article 10 oot 10 and the hands Rey Above ration is to be r adminis of the countries bordering Military laws limiting i ody # rights of Cermans Russians in Germany 2 abol The contracting demand expenditures, fered during the including Article 11 damage paMies are payment of fo war, this provis War nos damages suf on requisitions Each party is to pay fi done within its own during the war by acts zgainst national with regard to the Joos other parties, in part their diplomatic consular rental as affecting heaith or property The amount is to be fixed by mixed commissions neutral chairmen Article 12 of war who are invalids are to be immediately re patriated The exchange of other prisoners is 10 be made as soon as possible, the times to be fixed by a German-Russian commission, Article 13-—Civillan subjects in terned or exiled are to be immediate. ly released and sent home without cost to them, Article 14 Russian subjects of Ger. man descent, particularly German col onists, may within 10 years emigrate to Germany, with the right to liquidate or transfer their propenty. Article 16—Merchantmen of any of the contracting parties which were in mit inter sub Biar nw of and repre ves their life 4% wi Prisoners ginning of the war, and also vessels taken as prices which have not vet been adjudged, are to be returned or, if that be impossible, to be paid for, wn A SPRING-RICE MAY RETIRE. British Ambassador To Leave U, 8, Says London Paper. London. --8ir Cecil Spring-Rice and Lord Bertie, zocording to the Daily Chronicle, will shortly retire from the British Embassies at Washington and Paris. The newapaper adds that it is rumored that Sir George Buchanan is about to resign his post as Ambassa dor at Petrograd, \
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