"VOL. XCL
MOTORISTS MUSE NOT
HAMPER THRESHERMEN,
Howard Heinz Appeals To Automobile
Owners To Observe Courtesles On the
Road,
How automobilists can help the
cause of increased food production is
pointed out by Howard Heinz, U, B.
Food Administrator for Pennsylvania.
His attention wes recently drawn to
the matter by a recent incident in Ly-
coming county.
At a meeting of threshermen held at
Williamsport a few days ago, com-
plaint was made about the inconven-
fence and delay caused to threshermen
by the inconsiderate action of motor
car drivers in insisting that threshing
machines turn off into the ditch to
permit motor cars to pass, The thresh-
ing machine is a bulky vehicle, and
must neceesarily use the public high-
ways in going from place to place. It
is also a heavy machine and driving it
into a ditch frequently breaks import-
ant parts, sometimes stalls the
machine, and also causes delay. Mo-
torists who insist on half of the road
when meeting one of the machines are
directly responsible both for damage
and delay, They may be within their
legal rights, but insistence on those
rights constitutes a clog and a delay of
fast work in threshing season, at a
time when the utmost efficiency Is
necessary, if crops are to be eaved.
Mr. Heinz, therefore, hss appealed
to the motorists of Pennsylvania to
give threshermen the utmost consider-
ation on the highway. Threshing
machines and threshermen are both
scarce. The motor car owner, says
Mr. Heinz, should aesist their effec-
tiveness in every way, and by all
means avoid hampering them in the
threshing season.
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Prevent Grain | osses By Early Threshing.
Heavy losses of wheat caused by
damsge from the Apgumois grain
moth in stored graip, aggregating a
million dollars in eastern Penpsyl-
vanis, can be prevented by immediate
or early threshing, is the report of
Prof. J. G. Bandere, Economic Zoolo-
gist of the State Department of Agri-
culture at Harrisburg.
Prof, Banders has made a special
study of this moth with the aid of Mr.
J. L. King in a fleld station at York,
Pa. As many as eight generations of
the moths a year may be produced,
aggregating millione from a single
moth,
Unthreshed grain in storage far-
nishes ideal conditions of heat and
moisture for rapid destruction of this
pest. The greatest damage by this
pest in America to wheat occurs in
eestern Penpsylvania where farmers
are in the habit of storing unthreshed
grain for a considerable time in barns
for late autumn or winter threshing.
The most practical way to over-
come this pest is early threshing and
marketing of wheat in this now badly
infested district,
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Substitutes for Sagar.
Two substitutes for sugsr which
may be used advantageous!y for swest-
ening ice cream are suggested by
Howard Heinz, U. 8B. Food Adminie-
trator for Pennsylvania in a letter sent
to hotel chairmen throughout the
state. These substitutes, it is believed,
will be beneficial to hotels, restau-
rants, clube, and all public eating
pleces in their efforts to conserve
sugar. The recipes for the two substi-
tutes follow :
1. Ten pounds honey, five pounds
of maple syrup, five pounds of corn
syrup. Add this syrup to the ice
cream base, Afterwards add chocolate,
fruit juices, etc This recipe will
sweeten about twenty-four gallons of
ice cream.
2. One quart of corn syrup, two
quarts of cream. Add chocolate, fruit
juices, ete, This will sweeten five
quarts of ice cream.
Woodward.
Rev. and Mrs, Tressler spent last
Thursday with friends in Logsnton.
Having spent two weeks with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Orndorf
and baby left for their home in Phile-~
delphbia lest Batarday.
Mr, and Mrs, James Fultz and chil
dren, from Northumberland, are visit-
ing at the home of the former's moth
er, Mrs, Jacob Fullz,
Mre. Thomas Hosterman and
daughter, Miss Harriet, from Akron,
Ohio, are visiting at the home of Mre.
Celinda Hosterman,
Mr. and Mre. J. B. Ard, and son
Howard and W, C, Haines and family
sutoed to MifMlinburg Sanday where
they spent the day with friends,
Mr. and Mrs, T. G, Wolfe, daugh-
teres, Lodle and Maybelle, Mre. Jack-
son Bheesley and Mrs, Clayton Bheee-
ley spent Baturday and Bunday with
friends in Miflinburg.
Mre. J. W, Keller and son Harry,
accompanied by Mr, and Mrs. Frank
Wieland, from Linden Hall, were en.
tertained Buuday at the home of Mrs,
Keller's sister, Mrs, R. M. Wolfe.
The Grange Encampment snd Fair Is
Approaching.
Bix weeks from next Baturday the
forty-fifth annual Encampment and
Grange Fair will open at Centre Hall,
the dates being September 14 to 20, ip-
clusive, The management is making
all necessary preparations to have the
coming event equal—and really
eclipse—any former occasion. A great
effort will be made to accommodate
all who desire to camp, which feature
of the encampment and’ fair is show-
ing a steady growth from year Lo year.
The rental of the commodious tents
for the week will be $4.00,
I'he county farm sgent will again
vonduct a stock-judging contest for
boys and girls.
Those desiring amusement and
stand privileges should write D. L.
Bartges, Centre Hall, Pa.
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Threshermen to Make Heport on Wheat.
Under the authority of an act of
Congress, approved by the President,
the Becretary of Agriculture has auth-
orized and instructed the Chief of the
Bureau of Markets to obtain monthly
reports from threshers showing the
amount of wheat threshed by them
and to obtain reports for other cereals
at the close of the season,
According to these plans each
thresher is to be supplied with a
record book for keeping account of the
kinds and amounts of grain threshed
‘or each farmer, the acreage devoted to
each kind of grain, and the charges
for threshing. This record book has
been prepared for the thresher’s own
use and convenience in keeping his
accounts and to enable him more
readily to furnish monthly reports,
blanks for which are also supplied.
Both the report books and the record
sheets can be obtained at the county
agent’s office in the court house at
Bellefonte, or they will be mailed to
any thresher in fhe county upon
potifying this office. The record book
fa for the thresher’s own personal use
and to be kept by him. The monthly
report blanks however must be made
out at the end of each month and sent
in to the Farm Buresu office where
they will be summarized and forward-
ed to Washington,
R. H. OLMSTEAD,
County Agent.
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Local Society Works for the Belgians,
A vast amount of work is being so-
complished by the Red Cross for the
welfare of our boys, but while this is
being done, other organizations bave
been equally busy in laboring for the
comfort of the countless thousands
whose homes have been desolated by
the Hun, The Ladies’ Aid Boclety of
the local M. E. church has just sent
two boxes of clothing, totaling 130
plecee, for the relief of the Belgians.
were new and represented a consider-
able amount of time and effort on the
part of the members of the society.
Four Loeal Boys Join Navy,
our of Centre Hall’s boys who be-
came twenty-one years of age since
June of last year and therefore were
obliged to register for military duty
on June 5 of this year, have enlisted
in the navy. They are: Warren Ho-
map, Bruce Stahl, Carl Auman and
Norman Emerick. Homan and
Emerick were to Williamsport a week
ago and were taken in the naval re-
serves, while Btahl and Auman joined
the aviation section of the a i
she Lavsing Trio, Aug. 3rd,
A trio of lady entertainers, known
by the name of The Lansing Trio, will
give an entertainment consisting of
vocal, instrumental and humorous se-
lections in the Grange hall on Batur-
day evening, August 3rd, This com-
pany of entertainers are giving their
program in Centre, Huntingdon and
Blair counties. They are working for
the Red Cross and at each town leave
a part of the proceeds with the local
suxiliary, The admission price is 25
centa.
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The Reporter was pleassd to bave a
call from Capt. Leslie Vickers, the
Scotch Highlander, and Mies Wilhel-
mina Keniston, of the Batting-Kenie-
ton Company. Capt Vickers is a
Ohsutangua lecturer and closed the
Bellefonte scesions with a graphic ac-
count of trench life, and Miss Kenie-
ton is the lady from the Boutbland
who so charmingly entertained her
sudience with the asweet2st songs.
The couple were on their way to the
Huntingdon Chautauqus, and having
been told of the wonders of Penns
Cave, made a trip to that cavern.
They were delighted with the scenery
through Penosylvania, and words
falled them in their plessurs over the
visit to the cave at the head of Penns
Creek.
The thirty-eight men from Centre
county to be sent to Camp Wadi
worth, South Caroline, are the first
from this county to find their way
there. The camp Is located near
Bpartansburg.
ALTOONA ZONE MAY
MAKE U, 8B, HELMETS,
War Board Announces That Manufacturers
Oan B'd on 25,00u Lots or More,
Bullet and shrapnel turning steel
helmets for the Yankee boys in France
may be made in Altoona and vicinity,
if plant owners of this district of the
Pittsburg war industry region can
adapt equipment to the purpose,
A million and a half belmets will
be sought in the market by the ord.
nance depsrtment of the pational
army soon. Each must weigh a pound
and eleven cunces and be patterned
after the type now in use which for-
merly cost $1.65 apiece,
Manufacturers must be sure of their
ground before bide are submitted, but
they may consider parts of the order
in lots of 25,000, 50000, 100,000 or
more,
Business manager H. E. Bodine, of
the Altoono zone war industry organi-
zation, received the foregolog infor-
mation a few days sgo Trom Robert
Garland, business mapager for the
Pittsburg war resources committee,
The helmets are the first of a number
of essential things the army will need
and which the local zone manufactar-
ers have a chance to consider.
On Wednesday of this week a motor
tour of the seven counties for which
Altoona is headquarters, wes begun.
Bellefonte, Lock Haven, Chambere-
burg, Bedford, and other towns will
be visited.
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Mome From 12,000-Mile Journey.
T. F. Royer, of neer Potters Mille,
arrived in Centre Hall last Thursday
after a visit of nine weeke, curiog
which time he spent short periods of
time in many states west to the Pacific
coast and covered a distance of more
than 12,000 miles, equal to half Lhe
distance around the earth. Mr, Royer
wrs accompanied in his travels by his
brother, J. B. Royer, of Altoons, and
his sister, Mra, Mary Kreider of Johns
town. They were in O aio, Indias,
Illinois, Iows, Minnesots, North Da-
kote, Montanur, Idabe, Washington,
Oregon, Californie, Nevads, Utah,
Wyoming, Nebresks, Wisconsin, and
Colorado. At Taylor, North Dakote,
they visited their brother, William L.
Royer. For an elderly man Mr. Roy-
er evinced an enthusiasm for the great
west that would do jastice to a man
thirty years his janior. In narrating
the experiences in bis travels to the
Reporter, Mr. Royer wes loud in his
praise for the great weslern atstes
where he observed the greatest wheat
barvest in the history of the country.
From thirty to fifty bushels of wheat
to the acre, he avers, will be the yield
in many of the western states. North
Dakota expects a 20,000-bushel
wheat crop and Fouth Dakota a 140,-
ow
02, (
port that we can feed our silies and
ourselves with our great 1918 wheat
crop is true and no one would doubt it
were they to witness the gathering of
the enormous crop. In California be
observed the great harvest of apricots
and English walnuts, the returns from
which will mount in six figures for
many producers,
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Draft Class 1 About Depleted,
There is a possibility of an exhaue-
tion of draft Class One before Congress
can finally act on the plan to extend
the draft ages.
Some of the Btates have wired Pro-
vost Marshal General Crowder that
they are on the verge of drawing their
very last men of the first clase,
To rescue the situation so es pot to
necessitate an evasion of the deferred
classes it ia likely that the government
will call on mean turning 21, 1916,
BELLEFONTE CHAUTAUQUA.
The Nineteenu-Nineteen Educativnsl Fes-
tare Guaranteed After the Qlosing of
Successful Feselon,
It was not until the last seesion of
the Chautauqus, last week, that the
great educational feature for the com-
ing year was guaranteed, and then
only after much coaxing on the part
of the manager and entertainers,
backed by personal appeals by individ-
ual citizens, It is almost unbelievable
that it required so much eflort to in-
duce Bellefonte people to wake up to
the neceesity of the times, for the
present day Chautauqua is & present
day need. Indeed, the nineteen-nine-
teen Chautauqua for Bellefone would
pot have been guaranteed except for
outside aid, and this leads the Report-
er to say that perhaps just a little
broadening of the name (now Belle-
fonte Chautsuqus) would be quite ap-
propriate. It might make us, who are
not from Bellefonte, think that we are
not intruding when we jess through
the narrow entrance where the board
is punched,
The chautaugua just closed was a
grand succes from san educational
staud-point, The evening lectures
were worth many times the cost, and
a pitty it is that not every one in the
county could have heard all of them,
Dr. Geisel, Lovejoy, Judge Kavanagh,
Capt, Vickers! What a fund of know-
ledge they imparted !| Then there wes
enough entertainment aside from the
lectures to gratify any one,
The Reporter hes been
with a list of gusarsntors
year's chautsugua,
pended :
THE 1919 GUARANTORS,
BELLEFONTE
W.P. Ard
R. H. Allport
R. M Beach
Mrs. R. M. Beach
Mrs. George P. Bible
R. R Blair
W. M. Bottor{
Miss Mary Miles Blanchard
T. W. Cairns
Nevin E. Cole
John Curtin
Miss Marion Ethel Dale
Lewis Daggett
W. L. Daggett
Mrs. Ellen Gregg Gray
J. T. Garthoff
Ives L. Harvey
J. M. Hartswick, Jr.
James W. Herron
James K. Barnhart
Dr. J. J. Kilpatrick
M. R. Johnston
Miss Mary H. Linn
A. C. Mingle
Montgomery & Co.
Miss Anos y
Chas. ¥. Mensch
8. B Miller
Miss Adaline Olewine
E. L. Orvis
Jas. H. Potter
Donald 8. Potter
Rev. W. K. McKinney
lev. Malcolm De P. Maynard
W. H. Payne
Luther Smith
Wilmer Smith
Arthur H. Sloop
Dr. M. W. Reed
J. L. Spangler
Dr, H. E. Thornley
F. H. Thomas
J. E. Ward
John 8. Walker
Weaver Brothers
H. C. Yeager
Cecil A. Walker
CENTRE HALL
4A. E. Kerlin
Rev. Josiah Still
4
furnished
for next
The same is ap-
wr
SOC
of the deferred classes,
It is freely predicted that by Labor
Day the last of the fighting men now
in Class One will have been called,
Meanwhile the War Department le
working on a program to extend the
draft sages.
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Yeterans' Club Meeting,
A meeting of the executive commi!-
tee of the Centre County Veterans’
Club is called to be held at the commie-
sloner’s office, Baturday, August 3°d,
at 10 o'clock a. m,, to arrange for the
snnusl pienie to be held in Bellefonte
this autumn,
Ww. H. Fry, John Hamilton,
Bec'y. Presiden’,
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Exhibit to Replace Grange Flenle,
The anoual Grangers’ plonic at
Williams Grove will be replaced this
year by a farmers’ and Industrial ex-
hibition from August 19 to 23. It
will consist of a demonstration and
contest of farm tractors. A Red Crows
day will be a feature,
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Wm, OU Hellar, Postmaster,
Willlam G, Hoffer, a Penns Valley
native, and publisher of the Willshire
(Ohio) Herald, has been appointed
postmaster of that town.
Am — AI PA
Oentre Reporter at $1.50 per year,
SNOW SHOE
Lawrence Redding
The local organization hopes to add
more names to the above list from
time to time.
rs A A APTI
Ask High Prices for Thelr Farms,
A movement ls on foot by the West-
ern Penitentiary officials to add a few
more farms to their present holdinge,
says the Keystone Gezstte, They
have made a proposition to T, E. Jo-
don for the purchase of his Iarge farm
along the pike between Bellefonte and
Axe Mann, known as the '* Black
Barn”, They a'so made a proposition
to W. W. Tate for the old Hamilton
farm adjoining the Jodon farm, but
have given up hope of striking a bar-
gain es Mr, Jodon seks $26,900 for hie
farm and Mr, Tate $22,00 for hie,
The Biste could get possession of the
farms under condemnation procedings
but the penitentary officials hesitate to
resort to thece methods; hence they
the farm-purchese nre jot and instead
will, in #11 probability, embark in the
manufac uring business, build a shoe
or broom factory--pither or both
which will glen employment to many
conviets who have of necrsaity to ree
main idle for waut of more land to
cultivate,
l, hE.
ARMY DESERTER CAUGHT,
Chops Off Four Fingers to Fecape Bervioe
Usptured Near Lewistown in Fpectacs
ular Manner,
Don Btraueser, a self-mutilated de-
serter from Camp Meade, Md., was ar-
rested by the Mifflin county sheriff
late Wednesday night at a farm house
in a remote s-ction in the Newton
Hamilton ares. In making the arrest
the officers were obliged to bresk
down a barricaded door and the youth
only eurrended when brought under
the point of the sheriff's pistol es he
was about to leap from the house roof
where he had sought refuge when ap-
prised of the officer’s arrival.
Btrausser had been hiding in the
mountaips for several months and be-
coming tired of that gort of life sought
refuge ou the farme in the neighbor
hood of bie old home. At lsst he wae
seen st the residence of Mrs, Ross
Hassenplug, a widow, Word was sent
to Sherif! Davis and hie party stopped
at the farm home late at night, repre-
senting themselves ss motorlets who
needed a bucket of water to cool their
radiator,
A double barreled shotgup, fully
losded, evidently the property of
HBtraueser, as evidenced by the streaks
of rust upon its parts, wes confizcated
by the officers alopg with three other
formidable looking wespone—an old
army rifles and a single shot .82 calibre
Remngton, With these weapons the
house inmestes would have been able
to put up a stubborn fight had they
b2en 80 minded, were it pot for the
swift snd sudden descent of the
officere,
Btraueser was gent to Camp Meade
with a draft unit from Mifflin county
Inst February. The next heard of
bim wes that be was in the camp hos-
pital with the four flogers of hie left
hand chopped off with an sxe, A short
time afler he disappeared from the
army hospital and wes pext heard
from ef hiding out In the rocky fast-
nesses about the family bome
Wayne township.
The army suthorities at Camp
Meade declared that Sirsueser when
detailed to chop wood for the camp
kitchen deliberately Jald his hand ob
the chopping block and with an axe
severed four fiogers of his hand in or-
der to evade military service,
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in
Peaches, Peaches
The Buffalo Valley Fruit Farms, Mifl.
linburg, who have an orchardof 15,000
pesch and apple trees, report that they
have from five to seven thousand
bushels of pesches. They will begin
picking August lst. Elberta's yellow
free stone peach will be ready for mar-
ket Beptember 1st, The Buffalo Val
ley Fruit Farms take great pride ip
their careful grading and packiog.
The peaches will be packed in sixteen-
quart and bushel baskets, Bell tele-
phone, Mifflinburg 62J14. adv. tf,
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“Outwitting the Hon *',
Begin reading ‘'Outwitting the
Hur,” san intensely interesting war
story which starts in the Reporter this
week. Read the first installment and
you will be esger for the others.
The local draft board, within the
past week, reclsesified a number of
registrants, raleing them from a de-
ferred class into Class Ope. The re-
classification priocipally sflects mar-
ried men where there are no children
in the family.
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The recently organized National
Bank, at Spring Mille, received its
charter last week, The number of the
charter is 11213,
FOLKS WE ALL KNOW
Sua nao
The Regular Fellow likes everybody
and everybody likes him, “He never
burnt down an Orphan Asylum por
‘foreclosed a Mortgage on a Widow's
‘only Cow. He can Pound any of the
Fellows on the Back and the Dogs all
come at his Whistle. We should All
be Regular Fellows. __ ..
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HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS
This ie the first day of August.
The New Berlin Reporter has been
forced to suspend publication for the
period of the war.
At eighty-five years of sge, Mrs,
Barah F Wray, of Lewistown, Isst
week finished knitting a quilt for the
Red Cross.
Thomas Fose, of Logsnton, spent
several days the latter part of the
week at the C. F. Emery home, and
on Monday morning left for a military
camp in Georgia,
The residences of William Keller, at
the station, and Wilbur Runkle, near
Tusseyville, were struck by lightning
during the storm of lsst week, but as
both strokes were of the “cold ”’
variety, no damsge wes done,
Governor Martin Brumbaugh iz be-
ing spoken of as the possible president
of Bucknell University, at Lewisburg,
following the close of his term of
office. Bucknell’'s president, Dr,
Harrie, resigns hie position July of
next year,
The Loyesville orphan home band,
which bass been in Centre Hall on
various occasions, is on a tour of the
atate and duriog an eveniog’s out-
door performance at Bellwood, last
week, received §116 collection from an
appreciative audience,
%
John A. Heckman, farmer west of %
Centre Hall, was the last to purchese
the Jimit—§1000—of War Bavings
Stampe. He makes the fifth patron
of the local pest office to come up to
that ms:k, and gives Potler township
the lead of one over the boro,
Contrector R. B. laylor, who hr»
the job of paving Bouth Waler street,
in Bellefonte, with brick, is having all
sorts of labor trouble, resulting in his
men quitting their job every now and
then and demanding more money. The
Keystone Gezetts believes that Taylor
will pe required to import colored em
ployees from Alabama to finish the
road job,
A panther Is roaming through the
wilds of the western part of Union
county sccording Jo the Lewisburg
Journal, which claims to have the in-
formation from a relisble venerable
houter. The human-like cries of the
animal have been repeatedly heard
and leaves no doubt in the minds of
the people in that section but that it
is one of those which were
thought to have become extlinet in
Pennsylvania,
beasts
One day lsst week a party residiog
st Glen Iron, a few miles west of Mif-
flinbure, was caught buying sugsr at
two different stores in that locality ina
brief space of time, with knowledge he
was doing wrong and misrepresenting
the fact to the merchants, This sct
wes brought to the knowledge of
County Food Administrator Rcueh
who upon investigation and facts ver'-
fied and found correct, fined the party
$56.00, the amount going to the Red
Cross,
The great electrical storm of lest
Wednesday afternoon appeared at its
worst on the other side of Nittany
mountain, Evidences of a cloud burst
were on every side. Huge stones were
washed from the mountain side onto
the road, sections of the railing wele
weshed out and in the vicinity of the
watering trough the damage wes 80
grest that a big forc: of road workers
from Centre Hall wes required (o do
considerable repair work. The front
yards of homes at the upper end of
Pleasant Gap contained all manner of
deposit, indicating that the water
must have run a foot or more deep
through the street,
W. F. Keller and Jasper Wagner,
the two rural mail carriers from the
local post office, lsat week delivered
several hundred big, fat mail order
cataloge, which the out-of-town busi-
pess houses have come to believe are a
household necessity, Every home
merchant should look at such a de-
livery of catalogs in his home com-
munity with a large degree of appr: -
hension. The thoughtfu', wide-awake
merchant will viseuslize the situation
about ae follows: Now, what am I
doing to make an appeal for the trade
of the people in this community ? If
I fail to do the sort of advertising in
my home paper which will present an
argument for buying at home thet
will stand up against the nicely-
worded appeal ae found in the big
mall order catalog, I can’t complain if
the business which should be mine
goes to the out-of-town house. The
thoughtful and progressive merchant
will st once resolve to oarry his adver.
tisement in the home paper where it
will be read every week in the family
oircle and receive respectful attention.
The other class of merchant will con-
tinue to lament about the mobey
going out of town, and see the cobwels
accumulate about his door,