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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
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THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA.
The Sower
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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,