Le i THE CENTRE REPORTER. THURRDAY JULY 25, 1918 Thirty-five Years Ago. September 20, 1883,—The Potter township schools, niveteen in number, will open October 22, The sharp frost did much damage to late corn in tris section, last week, Mr, Lobr, of this plsce, is on the sick list ; cause, an attack of typhoid fever, Jscob Sharer, living a short dis- tance below towp, shot nine grey equirrels in a few hours the other day. [ Phe purchase of a bicycle back in '88 excited as much comment as the purchase of an 8-cylinder car in the precent day. An item in this issue reads : Harry 8B. Meyer, of Williame- port, made his appearance on Tuesday evening, in Bellefonte, on a 62-inch Columbi« bicycle. Harry is a Centre Hall boy and in a few days will have , the two-wheeled machine on our streets, | On Wednesday night, the 12th, the log barn on the pike, about one mile this side ot Foust’s in the Beven M untaine, was destroyed by fire. The property belonged to W. J. Thompson, of Potters Mills, and until recently was occupied by Mrs, Kate Darst, It is thought to have been set on fire. Lose, $400, Rev. D. J. Mitterling, of Ohio, Is home on a visit to bis parents, James Koch, of Missouri, a native of this place, is on a visit to his aged mother, who is very ill. Mr. Koch left some fifteen years ago and is doing fine in Miseouri. Senn e———— —————————— Linden Hall Mre, Blszer and grandson Harry are guests at the Clsrence Blazer home. Mre. Bradford, of Centre Hall, is spending a few weeks with her daugh- ter, Mrs. Frank Ishler. Ray Catherman and family, of Burnham, were Sunday guests at the bome of Mr, Catherman’s mother, Miss Harriet Hill, of Berwick, was an over Bunday guest of her friend, Edwins Wieland. Mre, Bamuel Dunkle and son Lee, of Pittsburg, are visiting at the Henry Houser home, Mrs, J. I. Ross spent a few days last week with her elster, Mrs. Ed. Cun- ningham, Miss Madeline Close, ot Boalsburg, spent a few days last week with Mrs, Ella Sellers. Albert Carper, who has been work- ing in the railroad station here, hss goue to Dsuphin where he is now employed by the P. R. R. in the de- pot. Alpheus Wolf and familly, of Greepsburg, returned to their bome last week, after a two months’ visit at the W, T. Noil bome, here. Mr, Wolt has entirely recovered from the severe attack of reheumatism with which be was suflering when he first came here, A —— a gE ——— Aaronsburg, Rev, W. D. Donst is not in his usu- al good health at the present time. Mra, Mary Winkleblech and Mrs, Annie M, =tover spent Saturdsy with friends at Rebersburg. Henry Kerstetter, of Loganton, is the guest of his cousin, Clayton Bow- er. Mrs, Fred Cranston, of New Jersey, is at the home of her uncle, Dr, A, HB, Musser, where she is csnnipng fruit, Prof. and Mre, Lester Bartlet are re- joicipg over the arrival of baby girl, born July 17, ' Mrs, Boyd Vonada and little son returned to their heme in Bellefonte on Baturday. Mre. Henry Mowery and Mrs. Ar- thur Weaver were both Irjared In » severe fall, last week, but bave aince recovered from the ill eflects, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Holloway made a trip in their tomirg car from Akrou, Ohlo, to this place, to spend a few days among relatives, The Citizens band, of Aaropsburg, accompanied the Red Cross and two of our boys called into the service, to Bellefonte on Bunday where all took pert in the patriotic parade. a tron»srfifbréa'a’;’shpppjzorws Department of Agriculture special- iste, appealing for Incressed produc- tion of poultry and eggs, make these suggestions : Keep better poultry; select healthy vigorous breeders; hatch early ; preserve egge; cull the flock ; grow as much poultry feed as possible ; supply the family table ; eat more poultry and eggs and conserve the meat supply. what COU gives ee What are you gt sg hat othersima) frown ? il Far loey Ear MEA VATS Niuaw Revd mom to Fumpe ar they wig Stare . and on the Battle Fronts, NEWS DIGEST from Washington, D. C. PHOTOGRAPHS OF NAVY HEROES WANTED The Navy Department is collecting photographs of enlisted men who lose thelr lives in the war that their mem- ory may be perpetuated. Becretary Daniels asks relatives or others having such photographs to lend them to the Navy that copies may be made for the Navy's records. Originals will be re- turned to the owners as fast se copies can be made. A photographs of each man is to be forwarded by the Navy Department to the training station where he began bis career in the service, At each of such stations a memorial gallery of honor or a hero's corner is to be estab- lished so that for all time the face of the man of the Navy who has made thesupreme sacrifice may be honored by the youth of the future sent to the station for training. All pictures, loaned or contributed, should be securely wrapped for mall- ing after they have been marked with the name, branch of service, and training station the young man enter- ed after enlistment. They sbould be addressed to the Recruiting Divigon Bureau of Navigation, Navy Depart- ment, Washington, D. UC. Care will be taken to return safely the photo- graph to the sender, when desired, to- gether with one of the coples made of it. SIZE OF ARMY CAMP AND CANTONMENTS IX CREABED More thap $22,000,000 have been ex- pended during the past six monthe under the direction of the Construc- tion Division of the Army in mskiog additions and improvements to camps and cantopments. This sum does Dot include the cost of additions to the hospital tquipments or the improve. ments made at other Army stations. The improv: ment work consisted of sdditional buildings for housing the men and providing for their comforts and needs. Among buildings erected were quarters for officers and nurses, eries, and theaters, New roads were laid and eanitation works improved snd extended. Many additional buildings are con- templated, and general construction work will be rushed to completion during the summer and fall. In some tended to drainage of an entire die trict surrounding the camp to remove danger of disesse arising from the proximity of swamps, Liberty theaters have been erected at all pational Army captonments, Esch of these theaters has an average inclosed sesting capacity of 2,000 Theaters and amusement balls have been erected also in the National Guard camps snd at other points where troops are in training. NAVY ENFORCES DIRECT PURCHASE POLICY Mapafscturers and dealers sre en- coursged under the policy of the Navy Department to desl direct with the department. The pu pose Is to elimi- nate the middleman in purchase of supplies and materisia, “Io my snpual report’ says Rear Admiral Bamuel McGowan, ' manu- facturers were’ warned againat profiteer- ing sgents, professional contractors, and brokers. In our regular mailing circular of January 3, 1918, we ex press ed the hope that manpufscturers who have not availed themes ives of the op- portunity to bid direct will do sc, aa it will prove of advantage to them Io bringing them in more Intimate touch with the Navy and thereby make a reputation for the wateriale which they manufacture, “ The fact ia the responsibility of contractors was never so thoroughly investigated and they were never held to a stricter accountability than they have been since this country entered the war. The number of responsible direct bidders has increased greatly mediaries bae been reduced toa mini mum. The ssfeguards against profit- eering have been strengthened, not re- laxed, ”n There are over 14,000 names on the bidders’ list of the Navy Bureau of Hupplies and Accounts, representing every section of the country.* These mapufscturers and dealers farnish over 60 000 clssses of articles used by the Navy. BETTER SHIP LOADING HELPS CUR ALLIES Economies of spproximately 20 per cent in shipping weight sod 50 per cent in shipping space have ree sulted from Improved methods of packing merchandise for overseas practiced by the Army Quartermaster Corps, This Is equivalent to about 2,000 tons space per month, For the shipment of clothing and equippage, Ivculding such items se blankete, barrack bags, towels, shelter tent halves, bedding, and other drys goods, in addition to wearing apparel dnd other dry goods. In addition to wearing apparel, balling has been sub- stituted for boxing, and the weight of the lumber has been saved. The bales average 30 by 15 by 15 Inches and weigh 90 pounds. They are bound with not less than four cold rolled un- annealed steel bande. Burlap over waterproofed heavy paper ls used to cover the bales, and there are two “ gare ”’ on either end of the bale for handling. Women are stevedores on the docks in France. There is a law they shall not be required to carry packages weighing more than 70 pounds. Packages shipped to the American Expeditionary Forces are standard- izad so they shall not weigh more than 70 pounds for handling by one woman carrier or more than 140 pounds by two women carriers, Men handle the heavier packages and the boxes that must be used instead of bales, The Quartermaster Corps recom- mende to manufacturers supplying the Army many similar economies in packing and shipping which will re- sult in even more pronounced space and weight savirg, Round caps and containers entail a waste in space of 23 per cent. Equare contalpers are urged. It is estimated that every inch lsaved through bale compression is | worth 65 cents in ship space. | NEWSPAPERS MUST { BOONOMIZE ON PRINT PAPER Becsuse of an acute shor'sge in the supply of paper the War Department Board anpounced, effective July 15, {the following preliminary economies to be enforced by newspapers publisb- ing a daily and weekly edition: Diecontinue the socceptanoce of the re- turn of unsold voples, Discontioue the use of all samples or free promotion copies, Discontinue giving copies to any- body, except for office-working copies or where required by statute law In the case of official advertising, Discontinue giving free coples to ad- copy each for checking purposes. Discontinue the arbitrary forcing of ooples on news dealers (I. e. compell- ing them to buy more copies than they can legitimately sell in order to hold certain territory). Discontinue the buying back of ps- pers at either wholesale or retailing sell- ing price from dealers or agents in or- | der to secure preferentaial representa- i thom, Discontinue the payment of salaries or commission to sgents, dealers or pewsboys for the purpree of securing the equivalent of return privileges. Discontinue all free exchanges, CRACK NAVY GUNNER STOPS SUBMARINE The frurth shot from a gun manned by a Navy armed guard on an Ameri ean merchantship struck the conning tower of a German submarine, which attacked the ship Msy 12 last at 1,000 yards distance. The submarine waa compelled to submerge after having Isunched four torpedoes, two of which mised the stesmer’s bow by about 12 | fest, Chief gunner’s mate Harry R. | Chambers, commanding the armed guard, was commendea by Becrelary Daniels for eflicient conduet, INFORMATION SERVICE BUREAU | EXPANDS RAPIDLY | Tone ~ervioe Buresu of the Commit. | tee on Public Information has taken | over various departmental independ. ent information buresu at Union Bias tion, Washington, will consolidate and re rganize them and be prepared | to give all visitors sccurate informs- | tion on (Government business and the names apd location of these clothed with authority to speak and sect for the Government, #ince the service bureau opened of- fices May 1 it has built up a eard-index system with £50,000 entries, many of the cards belong sut ject to dally revie fon and correction. In a recent | week the bureau handled 1,630 visitors seeking special informstian and ap- awered an average of 150 query letters daily. STUDENT NURSES ENTER CAMP soHbDOLS | §Three hundred applicante for student nurses to enter training schools in the base hospitals a' cantonmentis were ao- cepted recently, There have been more than a thousand applioations for entrance to these Army schools of nursing since the Government sent out ie call for student nuraes, The ms jority of thoss offering their service have been college women, or women with a complete high-school edudstion. The training units will be assigned, it is expected, during the present month, Esch uoit will num. ber 25 or 80 student nurses and be sug- ervized by ap scoredited and competent nursing Instructor and by a trained woman, who will be responsible for the physloat welfare and recreation, ( Vemtinund oti instde page.) for the Man Who Cared for Them For Many Years. For 27 years Martin Cooney. has been superintendent of horses for the fire department of Detroit, Mich., says the News of that city, He has bought every horse used by the department in that time; through sickness and has been obliged to end the agonles of many of them. Bo great has been his love for horses { pr even kept his Sundays for himself. Night and day he had watched over the horses, In winter, when the horses, steam- ing from thelr swift run to the fires, have stood and shivered us the blaze { was fought, it was Martin Cooney who { hurried to the scene, and saw that they were blanketed, Back in thelr barns, it Martin Cooney who saw that they rubbed down and made warm and comfortable, When thelr feel were it 4 Martin Cooney them, and when the strenuous fe of fire department horses m unfit for such serv- fee, Martin Cooney saw to it that they were sold to farmers and not to city ght ahuse them, ss tolls of days and tnken toll of Mr. Cooney, he retired active wins were BOre wil who dressed made the drivers, who mi But nights has and the end recently from gerviee, And beenuse he has been & friend to horses he is glad that auto mobiles replad them for fire in downtown Detroit, are ing * gervice “Pounding over hard, slippery streets shortened the lives Mr. Cooney explained. “When we used them all over the city, the average life in the Years; the or me last downtown of the horses” of a horse des partment was four or five now envir- that lasted ri, and is now comfortable on a farm near Detroit, “Wh I Joined the fire department we had ut 130 horses, At time as the high- 150, en al Ole horres ; that had water mark, ve about more than we wi twenty-seven years r of fire nd to uses ull period of Shoot in China. o ’ ttle in Pi ki rred ng be- forces ¢ than dangerous, 1 ke Herald-Republic detato x ’ § 0) of ihatants an of killed an nocent bystanders. us reasons Uncle e Chinese when he toi CO her " For obvi giving th friendly advice keep out of their internal simply Master of Proportions. An eager young teacher was review- ing the S lay school lesson in a mis gion church “Moses and Jurned Without The boys of ten greatly in Brook! v th i n. The subject Bush That Consumed.” Was © Being 1 twelve had been in the and were COE fo expose their knowledge. Answers followed her questions with the rapidity of a ma. chine gun. “Now, Harry, it's your turn.” #Yessum,” was the confident an. swer, Tell me what there was about this burning bush that was different from any bushes that have burned since,” The boy knew-—you could tell from the snapping of his eyes—but he paused to formulale his words. “Why, ma'am, you see this here bush It burned up--but it didn't burn down!" The teacher herself could not have ex- plained It better.~Youth's Compan. fon. 4 % interests ant d story . i now The Boon of a Short Memory, A Canadian corporal writes that the condition of the “roads” often appears a perfect pandemonium until one gets used to it. One of th» strains that eounts in this war is on coming out of the trenches to go to a rest billet. Up in the line & man is keyed up to stand 8 bombardment, and there is a flerce joy In getting to close quarters with a bayonet. But when the relief is over, and the regiment is on its way for four or five miles to rest billets, the stimulus is lacking, the pack seems doubly heavy, and the road is very hard to feet softened by three or four days of wearing gumboots in the mud of the trenches. In 24 hours, with a bath, a shave, and clean kit, there will be different men; for memory is mer pifully short in this war, and the com forts or discomforts of the moment are the things that count. IA SR ’ Centre Reportar at §LAO per year. Wheat Flour, 16 12',-1b Rye Flour per Ib Corn Flour per 1b ....cocciievsnmes Cornmeal per Ib woe Corn grits and hominy per Ib. .......... Oatmeal and rolled oats per 1b... Barley Flour per Ib Rice Flour per Ib Edible starch per 1b, Rice, Blue Rose grade per 1b REC KE Granulated sugar per 1b Beans dried per 1b Lard, bulk Lard substitutes in bulk Lard substitutes in tin Evaporated milk per can Canned corn, Standard Canned tomatoes, Ko, 2 per can No. B per cau Canned peas, No. 2 per can... Canned dried peas, No. 2 per can Dried frulls—raisins Corn syrup per gallon .... Eggs per dozen Butter per ib Potatoes per bushel Oleomargarine per ib Cheese per ib Btandard ham por ib Standard bacon per I I'RE COUNTY. Botaller Pays Consumer Pays 0 w Ww 0% Ww 10 w 10 to 08 3 0 10 0% Ww 10 8 to 10 it Ww io i2 wo 18 12 wo 18 per bbl. $10 50 to $11.50 pr sk 7 Wo U8 i 0% to Of ai io wo A 74 Ww « 10 12 ww 1 to .1) 74] lo .i6 wo 55 to B80 ty 4 2% Ww “ Ww 5 1 1% Ww 20 y wv UR Zw 2 Ww 0 Ww 21 ib Ww 1k OLDE, Food Administrator of Centre County “There’s PNA a4 +» %3 THE BELL COMPANY OF BELLEFONTE PA A ov ¥ FA Cured ax they a Gdiseane Ca~ mal disease wit Catarrh Cannot Be Catarrh Cure is ' fi rect . the beat t best § ¥] pur mucous surface tion of the two ing duces such ler! catarr? Bend f F. J. CHENEY & Sold by Druggisis, price r Take Hall's Family Pills fer constipation, edo, EXPLAINS THE MERMAID MYTH Sailors Mistook the Seal or Sea for Mythical Creature Thought They Saw. Calf They Of course t mermaids as have been depicted to us by ive artists for many centuries ! ical creatures, half woman, half fish, with long waving tresses— but it is interesting to note that more than half the ancient pictures of mer maids depicted the creatures sitting v in the sea combing their long hair and looking into a small mirror, Where did man get the idea, that mermaids possessed combs and mir rora? At first might think fit evoly through the belief that mer | believed they ex- possessed long hair, and, possessing it, naturally did what all women do-—combed it And because women have always used mirrors—even the prehistoric women used pools of water for this purpose—these old artists gave their painted mermaids mirrors and combs. | But this is not true. It was no sup | position on the part of the old artists. They made their pictures from the de- geription that thousands of old sea-fare ing men gave, men who actually be. | lieved they had seen mermaids. And these men frequently quite as solemn. ly avowed they saw the mermaids with | combs and mirrors. i Not the least strange part of all | this ie the fact that many of these | old sailors really believed they had | geen mermaids. There {8 no doubt | that they saw seals, or, more Hkely, the sea calf. This peculiar creature has a habit of half raising its body out of the water. Away pack in the olden days, when there were few saliors and they had not salled far in any jquarter of the globe, the sight of a [sea calf was a strange, weird to them. The sea calf does not unlike & human being half raised the water, HL h— EL { Build with cement-the material that wears longest.—R. D. Foreman. are no 1 at imagina on a TOCK hand one ed maids fasted) all 290000000000 00000900000030090 sw vow reve BO0POB0OCORR®RRBYUY {man anoee A DMINIFTRATOR'S NOTICE — Letters of administration on the John Willian Smith, late of Poller Joven od estate of township, Letters of administrat having been du ould respectfully themee! ves indelst late payment an the same 10 press without delay for metlien ihe above esiate : indemndgned, be persons knowing to make imme itn wins authentios ted ADAM B, sMITH, Administrator, Centre Hall, Pa. BR. 1, lant, oapacity iandaliors, ete, oe or church 0. -WALLACE 24.026 2o2epd forty oon plete i Al oon THOMPSON, Milroy Pa ¢ | urnishings for Men and Young Men including some Extraordinary Values in SHIRTS, SHOES, NECKWEAR, HATS & CAPS Endicott-Johnson SHOES “America’s Standard” at Popular Prices This store will close every Tuesday and Friday evening at 6 o'clofk H. F. 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