set ed pn mG ¥) an I PERHSYLVANIA - BRIEFS George coal company, has ral of Carter, Hazleton, chief for G. B. been appointed a inspector for the lower portion Luzerne county at $100 a month, The public service commission has directed the Northumberland Water company to establish a new source of supply to provide sufficient water for domestic and fire service. After forty-eight years, Lloyd C. Clemson, veteran road foreman of en gines on the middle division of the Pennsylvania raliroad, has been trans ferred to special duties at Harrisburg Engaged in making chemical tests the laboratory of the Shamokin of t t ins pector e fed in i ex-Assemblyman William and Rhoda @Golden were burned by sulphuric acid More than 500 delegates ing the Allentown ence attended the Beth D. Culton, seriously represen Lutheran confer convention at Ir the Arat in the juni at Rethle awarded to Clarenc Pennsylvania in the juries sustained when he wa between the shifted. He a caught survived by a wife and Herm notified n coxswalin fractured is serious Dorothy, of ‘Mrs. Shenandoah th » year-old ter izabeth Holm when her clot went toc ma travel Held Bush, by Reading railwa) was robbed f cash, and the Evelyn Bush, cealed $200 of her away the eom dr of a ( into the block of lee while she shore (ing, a longing to the Alpha farms swam the De below Easton, across through room upsiairs, ve ; } natn at t non Kn river bj huge ding he. was along the drin} ware and succeed ed in getting of floating Sixteen masses fre mer Reading young 1 tor for volunteered for ti who ft the e work, lef to fell timber in the big for ests of the northwest for making pro pellers for alrplanes to be used by the aviation section In France, Greensburg parents voted Spruce ing in the high Achool Children’ of the Centralia yngham schools give one hour each bulance robes, The Westmoreland County Histor! \eal soclety plans to erect a monument to Colonel Henry Boquet, con the Bushy Run battlefield. The recent?y organized Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania will hold its first convention in Reading Apri] 13, the aniversary of the Issue of the Edict of Nantes, 1598. NEXT DRAFT FO h 800,000 | ne if Will Created Under Plans. fake A nouncement Of Rules Covering Se- lection Of Men Who Will Be Taken On This Call. Crowder Soon Expected To While a | called fill Washington be year to men will present tment Lhe FRENCH TAKE 150 German Line Penetrated Fourth Surprise Attack $75,000 FOR HIS LEGS Bupreme Court Makes Big Soldier Crippled. New York.—A Court here awarded a verd 000 to Private Henry BD former Brooklyn National ment, whose legs train while he was gun of Norfolk and Western Rallw Company at Lynchburg, Va. fury in ¢ ury i an iard off ding the var un Os were cut tire n- in 18 ¥ THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA. The Sower i 1) i i 1 i AMERICAN TROOPS NEW GRISIS IN ON WIGE FRONT Pershing’s Men Holding Eight Miles of Trenches. Surrender Troubles. Bolsheviki New MAY USE FRENCH SYSTEM Officer Hand, If Withdraw From Active in War—F ut Restrained, Par Masn't Japs, On Other Been res manding ~American Artillery Fi May Lines Of Enemy. On Town In ticipation Russian People. ANNAPOLIS WILL BE DRY. niels issues ishing Saloons ’ ont Official against all a few news an that ere is in Rus the 0 even appreciation as to bearing of them upbn the ie war and the possible fu As concern momentou 3 ilar M a matter of fact, in fact, anxiety over the whole business » of the word Dani the deepest navy ja felt here incorpogated city NEEDS $450,000,000, euch distance . Aviation Program Has Exhausted More Than $64,000,000 Already. Washington Further appropria- tione of $450.000.000 for the army air eraft program in addition to the $840. 000.000 already authorized was asked War Depariment The War Department informed Senate Military Committee that more than $640,000000 has already been epent and $200,000,000 more imme: dlately needed. General Pershing fre quently makes requests in nonnection | with aviation work, for which no funds | are immediately available, WASHINGTON. President Wilson, by executive proe. for: any of . mill country | lamation, made it person flying in ty tary works or any part of the a zone warlike preps license necessary the vir n f Congress hy the . of y ! ’ 3 0 designated as of warlike op n 0 the eration or iration to se. Cure a Reorganization of the Employment Service into a permanent bureau of the Department of Labor, { with John B. Densmore as its director, was announced by Secretary Wilson. United Siates in SINKING BOATS IS FAST KS BULT Loss of Shipping is Steadily Decreasing. PRODUCTION IS LAGGING Despite Glowing Reports In American Press, He Says, Desired Out Is Not Sight. put in “Our Allies increase Eric Admiralty london every effort to tion of ships,” Bir I ord of the spite glowing repo and great BELGIAN PLANTS DYNAMITED Huns Continue Industrial Destruction And Deportations ington Tl industry by An official dispatch said refugees Belgium report ation of Belgian civilians th he Germans continues from being equip district hat dynamite is used to machines and ment in factories in the Mons Rails of tramways are being taken up, lines have been destroy and in some cities the | entirely destroyed AMERICAN SKIPPER MONORED. | Captain Thiviar Gets Silver Cup For Rescuing British Crew, Washington. -~In recognition of his | bravery in rescuing a part of the crew { of the British ship Malda off the coast | of Scotland, August 20, 1917, a silver cup was presented to Captain Emil | Thirlar, of the American steamship { Atlantic Sun, by the British Govern. nag he ¢ in world mre ym Petrograd but those are the British con Lhe Ottomans whose 1% to be deteriorating with f froah The An an observation balloon al There front, a attack ericans manned and sent up the Toul was comparative quiet Gen ng gector along the man airplanes were driven away Field Marshal Haig reported that the British reached the second line at Warnitor and counterattacks English trenches oa although several German reported twe troops raided the enemy's east Bullecourt and oap prisoners and two machine of Successful raids also were carried out by the British north of the Scrape and in the neighborhood of Lens Berlin claims that storming detach. ments penetrated French trenches in the neighborhood of Ornes (Northeast and brought back 28 prisoners,
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