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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.
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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
’
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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.
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interests
ant
d story
.
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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
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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,
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Build with cement-the material
that wears longest.—R. D. Foreman.
are no
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imagina
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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
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forty
oon plete
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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. Rossman
Spring Mills
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