-~ ~~ P. vw "VOL. XCI. NEW FUEL REGULATIONS, “ Lightiess This and That "" Now in Effect. — Reduction In Price of Bitaminous Uoal, The Federal Fuel Administration under order dated and effective May 25, 1918, has made a reduction, as to all sales or shipments made thereafter, of ten cents per net ton in the mine price of all bituminous coal, including lignite, throughout t he United States. This reduction effects my previous notice to wagon mine operators and local consumers, 80 that the maximum price permitted to be charged at the mine is $2.85 per top, and not §3.05 as therein stated. HU LIGHTLESS NIGHTS' ORDER AF- FBOTING WHOLE COUNTRY. The Fuel Administration authorizes the following : The United States Fuel Administra- tion a few days ago made publie an order, «fective July 24, restricting the use of fuel for outdoor illumination, Under the order the use of light gener- ated or produced by the use of con- sumption of coal, gas, oil, or other fuel for illumination or displaying adver- tisements, announcements, or signe, or for the external ornamentation of any building, will be discontinued entirely on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of each week within New England and the States of New York, Pennsylvanis, New Jersey, Deleware, Maryland and the District of Colom b's, and will be entirely discontinued on Monday and Tuesday of each week in all the remainder of the United States. The order excepts bons-fide roof gardens and out door resiaurants and outdoor moving-picture theaters. STREET LIGHTING RESTRICTED. Street illumination in all cities will be restricted to the hours between sun- set and suprise, and the amount of public lighting in any city will be re- duced to that necessary for safely. The order charges local fuel adminis- . tration officials with the duty of ar- ranging with the proper municipal authorities for the regulation of public lighting, in accordance with the pro- visions of the order. t The use of light for illumination or display in shop windowe, store win- dows, or in signs in show windows will be discontinued from sunrise to sunset and will be discontinued entire- ly on the * lightless nights’ desigoat~ ed by the order. HARRY KELLER, Chairman Centre County Fuel Committee, Bellefonte, July 22, 1918, HOLD YOUR LIBERTY BOSDS, To successfully finance the war it ie necessary that owners of Liberty bonds hold their bonds if possible. Where for any good reason it is necessary for them to turn their bonds into cash they should geek the advice of their bankers. Liberty loan bonds are very desir- able investments, and crafty individ- uals are using various means to secure them from owners not familiar with stock values and like matters. One method is to offer to exchange for Liberty bonds stocks or bonds of doubtful organizations represented as returning a much higher income than the bonde. There are various other methods used and likely to be used, some of the gold-brick variety and others less crude and probably within the limits of the law. All cflers for Liberty bonds except for money and at mar ket value should be scrutinized care- fully. The bonds are the aafest of in- vestments and have nontaxable and other valuable features. To hold your Liberty loan bonds, if possible, is patriotic. To consult your bankers before selling them is wise. EE —— Gregg Township Teachers, The Gregg township school board recently elected the following teachers for the coming school term : Spring Mills Grammar—E, E, Haney, Spring Mills Intermediate—A. Duck. Spring Mills Primary—Mise ‘Helen Finkle. Murray —Miss Renna Wagner. Decker— Miss Lola Wolfe, Penn Hall—Miss Mary Bartges, Mountain—Miss Velma Weaver. Farmers Mills—Miss Jennie Bartges, Polk Hill—Miss Carrie Heckman. Beaver Dam— Walter ~, Wolfe, Cross Roade—Miss Alta Binkabine, Pike—Miss Helen Rishel. Hoy~—Harold Btover. ———— AYP IAAT Work of the Mints, L. breaks all previous records, most of the year, U. 8. Food Administration, Ol' Squire "Tater ‘low he goin’ be mighty nigh king er de roos 'mong garden sass folks We alls kin eat him as a "tater boiled, baked, fried, stewed, cooked wid cheese dey gettin’ so dey make im flour; so's we kin “substi-tute” him fo' wheat flour, He's de “gsuhetitu- tenest” of all de vittles, he sez De udder garden sass folks lak inguns, tomatues, cabbage en turnips en squash don't need to git peeved, ‘cause dey’s goin’ to be room in de pot fo' de whole tribe, Evy las’ one on 'em can he'p save wheat en meat fer de boys dat's doin’ de fight- in’ over yander, ’ to en inter Big Demonstration for Departing Boys. Centre county held the biggest pa- triotic demonstration, on Bunday, yet given in honor of any departing mill tary contingent. The streets of Belle- fonte were packed with residents from all parts of the county, as well as from points outside of the county, the crowd being conservatively estimated at 20,000 persona. Bix bands and a drum corps sup~ plied the music in the monster parade. The 117 selected men received great ap- plause along the route of the march. The Red Cross made a most {mpree- sive showing, several hundred ladies from the various suxiliaries being in the parade, They made a creditable display of knitted socks for the soldier boye. The Italian populstion was strongly represented snd under the big Chautauqua tent listened to a pa- triotic address by the Italian consul, from Altoona. A number of other speeches were made, chief of which was one by Bergeant Barr, a former Bellefonte boy, who recently returned from France where he was gassed while at the fighting front. He gave a graphic description of the soldier's life in the front line trenches, snd having brought with him one of the gas masks in use on the battle fleld, gave a demonstration of ite use, Charged That Boy Died From Neglect, Charged with neglect and cruelly that may have caused the death of their twelve-year-old son, John, Jr. John Evans and his wife, of Gear- hartville, have been placed in the Philipsburg lockup by Troopers R. C, Loughlin and A. O'Donsll, of the state constabulary st that place. In- formation against Evans and his wife, who are Blavish people, was made by John W. Beach, humane officer of Clearfield county. It is alleged the boy has been treat- ed shamefully by the parents. He had been driven from his home, was obliged to sleep in barns and went to the house only when the pangs of hunger overcame his fear of punish- ment. Liviog under such hardships he contracted poeumonis. Dr. E, L. Jones was called in on Baturday. He prescribed for the child, bat be was then too ill and the body too much weakened by the exposure, starvation and neglect to have a chapca for re- covery, When death came and re- lieved his suflerings the father waa atl work and the mother, it is sald, was not in the house, LL ALA ——— Farmers Curb Markets, Saturday, July 13, was named as opening day for Farmers’ Curb Mar- kets in every town and city in Penn- sylvania where such a market ls not already in existence. During the next few months it ls absolutely necess ay to do with a lim- ited rations of wheat and beef. To do this without materially cuting down the diet, a much larger quanity of the nearby fresh vegetables and fruits in season must be utilized. Housewives should can and dry as many of these fresh production as possible for winter use, Not only should what is produced locally be used In season, but the waste of the surplus needs to be lessen~ ed by providing some means of get- ting this excess to the people who are in weed of It, * Experience has proved that curb markets, properiy managed, provide an essay and worth while way for growers to dispose of their surplus aod # place for consumers to buy fresh veg- etables and fruits in season at prices which encoursge osnning. COarefal and thorough preparation ls necessary when establishing a market to insure the regular attendance of the farmers with food for sale and of housewives ready to buy. The Committee on Public Safety and the Bureau of Markets of Penn- sylvania will work with oitles and towns desiring sesistance lo the ee tablishment of Farmers Curb’ Mar AUTO WRELK ON EUNDAY, Dr. BE. H narrisand Family of now shoo Egonpe Death in Head.-on 7 ute Coll slon, A head-on collision between the su- tomobiles of Dr. E. H. Harris and a Mr, Beltz, both of Bnow Bhoe, resuli- ed in the complete demolition of the Harris car, besides the sustaining of se- vere injuries by part ot the Harris family. The accident cccurred on Fuuday. Dr. Harris was driving a Btudebaker car, and in company with bis wif», daughter and gon Ted, and a foreign girl employed as a domestic In the Harris home, was on his way to Belle- fonte to attend the patriotic demon- stration. Approaching the little vi'- lage of Runville a Chevrolet car drive en by Mr. Bellz, was prceeedivg to Snow Bhoe, and, it is eald, in a cloud of dust arising from the great suto travel of the day, failed to see Dr. Harris’ car in time to avert a collision, The cars struck with great force, the Htudebaker car upsetting and ploning Dr. Harris underneath, The other oc- cupants were hurled with great vic- lence onto the road, Mre. Harris suf feriog ivjuries to her back and ankles, The hired girl sustained a number of minor irjuries, and the children came out of the accident with a few super- ficial wounde., Dr. Harrie, after be- ing extricated from the wreckage, was found to have been ipjared about the head and together with Mrs, Harrie, was rushed to the Bellefonte hospital, where their injuries are being treated. They will both recover. The Chevrolet car was only slightly damaged while the Btudebaker car is beyond repair. ———— A — fA Boalsbarg Citizens Hear Yergeant Barr The citizens of Boalsburg had the pleasure, on Friday evening, of getting their first firet-hard information from a native son who has seen service in thas front line trenches on the battle- fields of France. Reference i# made to Sergeant W, E., Barr, a grandson of the late Robert Barr. Bergt, Barr was born at Boslseburg and seventeen years ago enlisted in the regular army. He has the distinction of belonging to the first division of American troops which took their position ip the front. line trenches in France. He hae fought valisotly for freedom’s cause and it was while stationed at a Jister- ing post in ** No Man's Land '' that be failed to hear the alarm sounded which served as a warning of the ap- proach of 8 wave of deadly German gas, He inhaled two brestbe of the poison before be could get his ges mask foto position, but, he says, that was enough to do the work, and a= a result of the '' gassing '’ he was forced to give up the fight temporarily and have a cure sflected. He landed in America several weeks sgo, and from Friday uotil Saturday visited uncle, Homer Barr, and other rel. atives in Boalsburg. He also addressed the gathering at Bellefonte on Bunday, following which he returned to North Carolina where he entered a eaus. torium. He hopes to be gpeedily re- stored to health and return to France, for, as he says, '* once you're in it, you want always to be in it.” his ——— A TA AA Where the Walnut Lamber Went The search for walout lumber government agents, for use in the manufacture of gun stocks for our army, is bringiog to light the fact that old Centre county disposed of her great supply of walnut lumber a dozan years ago, all of which fioally found ita way to Germany where it was con- verted into gun stceke., When pur chased at that time it was represented that the lumber was to be used in making veneer for furniture, Twelve or more carloads of walnut were bought up in Centre county and sbip- ped to England, subsequently finding ita way to the land of the Hun, There still remains a little walnut tim- ber in Centre county, but it isa negli- gible quanity compared with that of a dozen years ago. ————— A ASA AAAI —— Another Loos! Boy in France, Mr, and Mre, Edward W. Crawford received word, last week, of the ssfe arrival overseas of thelr oldest son, George Alfred Crawford, who had been in training for several months at Camp Meade, Md, ” Southern farm boy-club members produced in 1917 food and feed valued at $4,010,121 the Department of Agri culture reports, A total of 115745 boys were enrolled in regular clubs in 14 States, by Fertil zor Demonstrations Conducted by the Centre County Farm HBorssa Show that mitrogen Fertilizors Onan bes Used at & Fiotir During the past spring and early summer two fertilizer demonstrations have been conducted on the top drese- ing of meadows, The plots consisted of one-fourth acre each and were treat. ed as follows : Plota 1, 5 and 9, checks; plot 2, 100 lbs, ammoniom sulphate ; plot 3, 100 lbs, forced with 100 lbe. manure ; plot 7, manure 200 Iba, acid phosphate, yields of checks 1 and 5, 3340 per acre plot 2, 4603 lbs, bay per scre ; plot 3 increased yield of hay worth §15.79 at a cost of $600, Plot 2, yield worth §!1.75 at a and plot 4 ipcressed ite yield worth $10.58 at a cost of $500, Tne manure used on this demonstration was poor quality and put on too late to show any beneficial results, The second demonstration on the E, MH, Btover farm at Rebersburg gave re- sults as follows : Average of checks 1 and 5, 2480 be, hay ; plot 2, 8307 lbe. hay : , 5340 lbs, hay; plot 4, 2509 ibe, hay ; average of checks 5 and ©, 1940 Ibe, hay ; plot 6, 2535 lbs, hay ; plot 7, 2060 Ibe, hay ; plot 8, 2340 lbs, bay. This demnnstration did not show us large increased yields as the former demonstration but it responded to the use of nitrogen fertilizers. The manure showed its effect especially when reenforced with acid phosphate, Prices used in the above calculations az follows : nitrate of sode, §166 66 per ton ; ammoniom sulphate, $120.00 per ton ; acid phosphate, $24.00 per ton and hay at $25.00 per ton. The above demonstrations go to show that the high priced fertilizers can still be used at a profit on good mesdows which are to be cut the second season. On poor meadows and at the present prices it Is doubtful whether the Ilpcreased yields will much more than pay for the fertil'zers when the prices go back to normal we can then count upon exceedingly good profit from the vee of puch fertilizers, an increased plot 3 No Bight Hopes for Loganton, he Loganton correspondent to the L.osk Haven Democrat does not enter tain an optimistic epirit with regard to the future of the little town which was #0 completely dameged by fire re- cently. The correspondent says : “ It ie over one hundred years since Loganton was first settled and what it took & century to sccomplish, was swept away in a few short hours, It has been said that Loganton would be rebuilt, but this statement we feel dis posed to discredit from the fact that many who would retuild have po means to do #0 and others who sbould and could rebuild and thus ercoursge others to make the effort are not ip- ¢ ined to doesn, These have interests elsewhere and are are reluctant to in- vest in bulldiogs in this village, This makes the future of the place very un- certain, although some are are rebulid- ing, but they are mainly farmers whose vocallon Keeps them here in ihe valley, lo which we whe are resi- dente, have become so warmly attach- ed, Uugless there is outside aid given to the fire sufferers, many of them will not be sble to replace their homes and this makes the cutlook very die- couraging at least for those who their way to undertake the work, ————— A AP A———— Hirthday Party, near Bpring Mille, pleasantly surprised their mother on the ocession of her fifty-first birthday, recently. ments consisting of ice cream, cake, cluding gold coioe, mother, Mrs, Willlam Smith aud son, Mre, Walter, Mr, and Mre, George Yarnell, dren Clsude, Roy, and Anos; Mrs. Christ Bhook, Mre, ton, Charles Bhul's, Mr. and mre, Eiry Overdor! and daughter Ethel, David Hennigh, Luoy Mueser, snd Mre, James Houser, EE SLD APT Needed--a good rain, NO. 29 ' 8B. Food Administration, fats en we De WAY ter use BYyrups en 'Sides savin’ Rot ter save sugar. ter save sugar is honey A nice I'l p convoyed by wheat, bes’ teher full er 'lasses a fleet er buckwheat bes’ ways to de sugar projick,— flour too, er wid wheat de “get en it saves Sou and Brother, Personally we cannot express our gratitude to the two hundred or more people who came to our home to ex- press love and sympathy all day Bun- day, June 30th, and part of Monday and Tuesday, and the many who sent letters of condolence from Hunting- don, Blair, Centre and Cumberland counties ; and from Pittsburg, Johne- town, Harrisburg Philadelphis, Nor- folk, Roanoke, Hagerstown and near- by towns and country homes. Letters came every day for two weeks, since our dear boy, Percy, wes taken from us so suddenly. He was the life and Joy of our home ; 80 good, faithful and true. He traveled for a wholesale house in Hagerstown, and was so glad to get home Baturday evening and we #0 glad to see him. June 29th supper was waiting for him. On his way home his auto turned over, He lived only three hours. So sudder, so shocking. No one but those who have lost dear ones in this manner can ever know what it means, This has plsced the heaviest burden upon us we have ever borne, Among the many who called were business men, with whom he had dealt, and their families, from parts of Pennsylvanis, West Virginie, and Maryland, his employer and family employees and many salesmen, with words of sympathy and love, But while worde cannot lift a bur. den like this they help us bear it, snd without them I doubt if we could be up and about, So all these friends of our boy who have been so helpful to us, and to every one who contribut- ed in sny way to ease this heavy bur- der, we express our deepest love and gratitude, When the last tribute was paid, the very many floral wreaths and the number of friends present so large that many could not gain entrance at the church, the spirit of sympathy wae evident to the lsat. No, all these things do not lift the burden, but they belp bear it. Our boy was faithfal to the chureb, to his employer, to the home where he never gave his mother or me an un- kind word. And he was faithful to every one of the many friends he had. What shall we do? In a letter of condolence a lady in Harrisburg wrote :—* When President Garfleld died, many years ago, I heard you preach a memorial sermon. Your text was—** Be still and kpow that I sm God.” Bo we dare pot murmur; must preach the Gospel still, Oar consolation le that the izfluence of a faithful life abides forever. Ab- sent now but it will not be long until loving companionship shall be re- stored. Until then we must carry, st least, a part of this burden, He wae the only one to bring us cheer often, as the other son and a daughter live in Philadelphia, A. A. KERLIN AND FAMILY, Bharpsburg, Md. : x Mra, Parcell's David Parsell’s, twenty-year-old son of Mre. L. A. Parselle, the. well known temperance lecturer who has been in Centre Hall on several oc- ecaslone, was drowned at Ocean City, New Jersey, on Bunday. His mother is on a lecturing tour and did not learn of her son's tragic end until a long time afterwarde. ————— —————————— Draft Height and Weight stacderds are Lewered, Physical requirements for drafted men have been stmended so ae to make the minimum height sixty inches and the minimum weight 110 pounds, Instructions have been sent to medioal ad visory boards through the country suthorizing them to certify for gener. military service all registrants who come within these limite, The minimum requirement ss to height for the regular army remains at sixty-two inches, Hee me for fertilizer ; quality right, prices right. —<R. D. Foreman, Centre Hall. TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS, HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS 98 in the shade made Bunday the hottest day of the summer, The Racbau family reunion will be held in Deltrich’s grove at Madison- burg, Saturday, August 3rd. The trout season ends on Wednes- day of next week, Fishermen say the eeason was the poorest in many years, Pennsylvania will fornish 5000 men for the August 5th to 8i:h eall. They will all be white and eent to Camp Wadsworth, Bpartinsburg, Georgls. The high price of huckleberries, sc- cording to one berry picker, is »t- tributed to the fact that ‘‘there are 80 many svakes on the mountains’. Millbeim will have a nioe-mill tax rate, an increase of two mills over last year. The raise was made to provide additional funds for the extra expense of etreet lighting. The 117 boys who left Centre county on Mouoday, for Camp Lee, brings the county's tota! of men in the service to over fourteen bundred. How would you like to sce them all assembled, weariog their fighting togs The Woodward P. O, HB, of A, will hold one of its big festivale, Saturday evening, August 8rd. A pumber on the prograin ls the raising of a service flag, the stars representing all the boys in the U. B. Army service for east Haines township. Btate College is to have a band, the members of the Modern Woodmen lodge having taken the steps recently to organize ove. There are a pumber of members of an old band still liviog in the town who will form a nucleus for tlie new organization, Arthur Holderman, thresherman and saw mill operator, of near Tussey- ville, was 8 busipess caller at this office on Baturday. Mr, Holderman has completed the sawing of the lume ber for the barn on the James H, Meo- Cool farm, aud the structure is aiready nearly completed. A letter from William Zerby, a nse tive of Potter township, and now a resident of Lisbon, North Dakotas, says that the crops there look fine, but har- vest hande are ecarce. On August 7 Mr. Zarby will be eighty years of age, but be says be is strong yet snd ex- to make a “hand ’ in the fields. Prof. L. O. Packer, of Glenshaw, a suburb of Pittsburg, was a visitor in town on Thursday and greeted many friends. He states that Mrs, Pecker will come later for a short vacation in Centre Hall, Prof. Packer has been re-sleclted inetructor in math- ematics and also physical director in one of the city high schools, harvest his John Whitemar, one of the first Centre Hall boys to be taken into the service under the selective draft order, bids fair to remsin on this side of the big pond, for at Camp Meade he Is re- garded se an expert in the culinary department, and he will remain there to prepare wholesome food for the army of new men who are constantly filling the csntonment. Universal mileage books are to be placed on sale throughout the country on August 1. A rate of three cents a mile will be charged for the books, and each will call for 1000 miles of travel. Esch coupon can be used for the payment sleeping and dining car charges and transportation of excess baggage, in addition to transportation charges on all the railroads under gov. ernment control. The war tax on these mileage books will be collected by conductors at the time of the pre- sentation of the mileage strip. At an adjourned meeting of the Lock Haven council held last week it pumpers, one for the Hand-in-Hand and one for the Hope Hose company. Though it is expected the pumpers will cost from $10,000 to §14,000 apiece the Lock Haven council appropri. ted $7,000 toward the “ Handies” truck and $6,000 to the '* Hope's", Lock Haven fs profiting by the city’s ex- perience during the big flood there this spring when it was necessary to secure pumpers from Philadelphia to ald in the relief work of pumping out cellars. The taking of the wrong license number resulted in J. L. Winegardner, of Millbelm, receiving a notice from the burgess of Turtle Creek, to appear on a charge of driving his sutomobile past a trolly car while passengers were getting on and off, and refusing to stop when accosted by a policeman, Five and costs were figured at $12.60, Mr. Winegardner has s perfectly clear alibi, for on the day the complaint was charged he was setting up a binder in Haines township. The traffic officer undoubtedly got the wrong number of the oar, and the gulity party will thus escape.
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