LUOAIS,
Obs is ripening,
Bamuel E. Gingerich advertises his
farm for eale,
Wanted at once—15 coops hens.—
Chae. D. Bartholomew.
The Geles property, in Centre Hall,
ig advertised for sale in this lesue,
Lynn Bitner, of Lewisburg, spent
Bunday with his friends in Centre
Hall.
Mr. and Mrs. OC. W. Black left on
Tuesday for Gettysburg, York, Red
Lion, and other points,
Lawrence Meeker is nursing a
erushed toe, the result of an accident
while repairing his Ford car,
W. F. Rockey, of Tueseyville, Is
driving a new Baxon-6 automobile,
purchesed from the Boozer & Bmith
agency.
Mr, and Mrs, Harry F. Hubler and
baby daughter, of Lock Haven, visited
Mr. Hubler’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. C. Hubler, on Tuesday.
Mrs, Lizzie Jacobs, daughter Miss
Margaret, and Mre. Guy W. Jacobs, of
Bteubenville, Ohio, visited the for-
mer’s sister, Mre, Ellen Stuart, at
State College, on Baturday.
Examinations for war service will
be held this week, beginning today,
Thursday. Those called for examina-
tion are frora class 1, who recently had
been advanced from deferred classes,
sz Rufus Btrohm is spending a short
vacation at the home of his mother,
Mrs. M, E. SBtrohm, in Centre Hall.
Mr. Strobhm is one of the editors or
“Power,” a technical paper published
Mre. F. P. Geary and daughter Ag-
nes are epjoying a week's visit at Cen-
tral Oak Heights, near West Milton,
From there they will go to Williame-
port where Mrs, Geary will consult an
eye specialist,
8. H. Heckman came to Centre Hall
from Johnstown on Fridsy in his big
Cadillac car and took home with him
Mrs, Heckman, who had spent the
greater part of a week at the home of
her father, H. W. Kreamer,
The Young Women’s Christian
Association Club, of Centre Hall, will
hold a ** Parcel Post Bale’, on Hatuar-
day, August 17, on the diamond in
this town. The greater part of the
proceeds will be donated to the Red
Cross,
Mrs. A. B. Homap, son Ralpb, and
the former's mother-in-law, Mra,
Emma Homap, of Altoona, spent a
week with friends in Centre Hall, On
Tuesday Mr. Homan came to Centre
Hall, his family and mother returning
to Altoona with him.
An old-fashioned barn raising took
place on the premiecs of George Zerby,
above Tusseyville, last Thursday
morning. About seventy-five neigh-
boring farmers were present and put
the heavy dticks of timber in place. A
big dinner was then served,
Two valuable cows, belonging to J
B. Fortney, at Tueseyville,
struck by lightning during the storm
last Wednesday, and killed. A nom-
of chickens which together with the
cows had sought refuge from the storm
under a tree, were also killed,
George Robertson, of Hartford,
Connecticut, who recently underwent
a serious operation, is improving nice-
ly, and his friends are altogether con-
fident of his complete recovery. It is
possible that he will come to Centre
Hall to the Brisbin home to recuper-
ate.
B. E, Bpangler, of Chicago, Illinois,
visited his father, W, W. Spangler, in
Centre Hall, for a few days the past
week. Mr. Bpangler is a cigar manu-
facturer and is experiencing consider-
able difficulty with regard to expert
help on account of conditions brought
on by the war.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Runkle and
family, of Tusseyville, motored to
Lock Haven on Bunday and were ac-
companied by Mrs, James F. High
who had spent a week at her brother's
home. Mr. Rankle’s niece, Mies
Mary Runkle, accompanicd the suto
party back to Tucseyville, where she
will remain for a time,
The sale of War Bavings Stamp Is
not lagging at the local office, al-
though the quota for the district hes
long been reached. The investments
are 80 good #9 to interest and the
tarms stipulated so liberal that our
farmer friends are beginning to see
that War Baviogs Btamps are gilt
edged from all viewpoints.
Private William Garie, attached to
the cosst defense, and located at Fort
Hancock, New Jersey, evjoyed a five-
day furlough at his home In Centre
Hall, reporting for duty on Wednes-
day. William is evjoying the life and
hes taken on ten pounds in weight,
He ls expecting a transfer to the heavy
artillery and in that event he will see
service in France very soon,
While Wilbur F, Henney and hls
mother, Mre. Lucy Henney, were re-
turning from a short plessure trip on
Funday evening, the right rear wheel
of their Ford car flew off just as the
car pessed over the croesing near CO,
M. Bmith's store. Fortunately Mr,
Henney wes driving slowly so that
when that side of the auto hit the
ground the car was stopped in its
length, A break wes discovered, the
wheel pushed on and willing hands
sesisted ** Lizz" to the Henney repair
shop.
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LOCALS
Almost an inch of rain fell on Mon-
day evening and night. It was very
much needed,
H. C. Robison, the brush proom
manufacturer, of Mileeburg, was a vis-
itor in town on Tuesday,
A seven-eighth Guernsey cow was
bought by A. F. Heckman from Cleve-
land Mitterling for $120.00
Mre. J. D. P. Smithgall and two
children, of Franklin, are visiting at
the home of Mrs, Susanna Bpangler.
Mr. and Mre, T. L. Smith and
daughter Louise drove to Boalsburg
on Bunday and visited relatives,
Bewing for the Red Cross will be
done at the Mrs. Isaac Smith home,
Thursday and Friday of this week.
Mr. and Mrs. William Tate, of Cen-
tre Hall, enjoyed an auto trip to Get
tysburg the latter part of last week.
A. L. Duck, of Bpring Mills, was a
business caller at this office on Friday
and boosted his subscription to July,
1919,
Mr, and Mrs. J. 8B, Rowe and daugh-
ters visited Mrs. Rowe's parents, Mr.
and Mre. Levi Btump, near Millhsim,
on Baturday.
Cleveland Mitterling left on Tuee-
day for Collegeville and from there
will go to Philadelphia and Atlantic
City, returning home Monday
morning.
Yeagertown’s petition to become a
borough haa been refused by Judge T.
F. Bailey, of Mifflin county, on the
grounds that only 39 of 219 freeholders
of the town had signed the paper.
John H. Bitner, of Youngstown,
Obio, is enjoying a brief vacation at
the home of his parents, Mr, and Mre.
William Bitner, at Tusseyville. Mr.
Bitoer Is an inspector in the Sterling
auto tire factory.
Guy W. Jacobs, of BStsubenville,
Ohio, is expectad to arrive in Centre
Hall the latter part of the week, for a
short visit. He will be accompanied
home by Mrs, Jacobs, who hes been
visiting here for the past week or
more.
Bethard Keller, oldest son of Mr,
and Mrs. M. M. Keller, was given an
honorable discharge from the army
snd returned home last week from
Camp Lee, Virginia. A growth in
the neck wes responsible for his
dismissal,
Mies Miriam Foes, daughter of Rev.
and Mrs, F. H. Foss, of Loganton,
spent several days with her friend, Miss
Maybelle Detwiler, near Tusseyville,
The young ladies made a visit to the
home of the latter's aunt, Mre. Nora
Diehl], at MiMinburg. SN
le
I. Clymer McClenahan, who
with the recent contingent for train-
ing camp at Camp Lee, Virginls, a
week ago, was rejected after going
through a most rigid physical exami-
nation by the ecsmp physicians, and
returned to his home in Centre Haig
on Tuesday.
Ammon Burkholder, of Phillipe-
burg, New Jersey, joined his family at
the home of Mrs. M. E. Btrohm, a few
days ago, and will remain until Mon-
day. He is in the ral'road service in
the capacity of baggage master, but as
was stated in these colvmns a few
weeks ago, bas successfully completad
examinations which will advance him
to a passenger conductor.
Misa Carrie Bartges, daughter of
Mr. and Mra. William D. Bartges, of
near Farmers Mille, was recently
elected to teach in one of the grades of
the school connected with the Loys-
ville Orphans Home, and will leave
for that place the latter part of this
month, Miss Bartgesis a Lock Hes-
ven Normal graduate and hss taught
the public schools at Farmers Mille
and Millheim,
A Johnstown suto party struck one
of Morris Burkholder’s most wvalusble
cows on the road Friday noon, break-
ing a leg so that the animal had to be
killed, The driver of the ear thought
the accident too trifling to stop his car
and adjust matters, but Mr. Burkhold-
er was of a different frame of mind,
and jumping in his Ford overtook the
party before they reached the top of
Nittany mountain. Returning to the
Burkholder premisca an appraise-
ment of the cow was made, the price
fixed at $130, and after Mr. Burkhold-
er received $72.00 from the sale of the
cow to a butoher, the party responsi
ble for the loss coughed up the differ-
ence—§58,00,
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Spring Mills.
William Allison and daughter Ma-
bel, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Allison spent
Thursday in Mifflin county,
Robert C, Musser Is suffering with a
very sore hand due to an infected fin-
ger which has resulted in a mild form
of blood poisoning.
Misses Velma Weaver and Bertha
Heckman are visiting relatives in Re-
novo.
Miss Alta Binkabine is visiting ber
sunt, Mre, Harry Brungard, at Wil
kinburg.
Daniel Runkle Is ill with phpeu-
monis,
Prof, Godshall and family will va
cate their houee in Beptember. They
will move to Ohlo. MM. T. Zabler will
move into the house they vacate.
Miss Laura Blegal, of the Blooms
burg hospital, is visiting her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Slegal,
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A Centre Reporter, $1.50 a year.
PLEDGES SHOULD BE REDEEMED,
Those Who Have Falled to Purchase Thelr
(Continued from last page. ;
Once,
W. Harrison Walker, chairman of
the War Bavings Committee for Cen-
tre county, requests publication of the
following :
Bpecial attention of the several Dis-
triot chairmen, postmasters, banks and
selling agencies in Centre county, la
hereby called to the sale and delivery
of all stamps pledged to be purchased
during the month of July, Would
suggest that you carefully examine all
pledge cards in your possession, and if
there are any stamps pledged that
have not been redeemed during the
month of July, the people pledging
should be personally interviewed and
requested to redeem their pledge at
once. Although Centre county has
sold, and the people have pledged to
buy, over one million dollar's worth of
war savings etamps during the year,
we cannot count on being ‘over the
top "” until the stamps have actually
been sold, and the pledges redeemed,
Unless the Belling Agencies carry out
the plan herewith submitted, there
may be a number of the people in the
county who pledged to buy W. B, H,
who may forget that their pledges
must be redeemed es Indicated on the
pledge card signed by them June
28th.
Every person in the county, inter-
ested in securing the $20.00 per capita,
should exerciee his or her very best
efforts in securing the largest weekly
sales possible, otherwise in a very
short time we may lose our present
good standing in the Erstern District
of Pennsylvania.
The per capita of Centre county in
the W. B. B. campaign for the week
ending July 20th, was 45¢, or a total
per capita for the entire campaign of
$11.77.
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CENTRE MILLS
Adam Relish lost a valuable cow lest
week,
The farmers are through with their
wheat hauling.
Harry Bechdol is home from Wad-
dle to help care for his father,
Prof. Godshall is home at present
and is getting ready to ship bis farni-
tare to Ohio.
Frank Bechdol, while walking on
the road, fell and ipjured his hip so
that he cannot use his one limb
Irvin Houtz ls driving Mr. Reish’s
mule team at the lumber camps in the
Millbelm narrows.
Mre. Willlam Homarpr, Mre. Charles
Btover and Mrs. Leonard Btover—all
sisters—took supper on Baturday at
the home of their uncle, J. A. Kline,
Catarvls Cannot Be Cured
with LOCAL APPLIC ATION as they
r not re hh the seat e disease Ca-
tarrh is a bloo nstitut 1 diseans
d in orde:
ternal reme
or
tion of the two
duces such won '
catarrh Rend f r testimonials,
F. J. CHENEY & co. Props.,
Sold by Drugglsts pr
Take Hall's Family Pil in “for constipation,
ingre Ward 1 be
in curing
free,
Toledo, O.
derful re
Public Sale Register,
sATURDAY, AUGUST 3, one o'clock, 4 miles
Bouth of Centre Hall, Mis, Howard Lingle will
well Cows, hog, chickens, 'mplemenis, hover
ho'd goods, ete
Far FOR BAL E =~
The undersigned offers for mie his farm of
seventy-six acres, located 2 and 1-2 miles west of
Centre Hall, Fifty-one acres are clesred, balance
woodiand., Good frame house, good barn, man
ure and straw sheds, all in first clem repair, Lois
of fruit, neverdailing spring of water on
premises,
8. E GINGERICH
Centre Hall, Pa.
CORY FOR BALE —8everal hundred bushels
first class corn on the car is cfeired for sale —H
W.SMITH, Centre Hall, Pa. iL.
LOST, ~On the road between Outre Hall and
Lock Haven, a palr of auto side curtalps. — Finder
please return to this office.
WANT.
2, Cen
BECOND HAND FIREPROOF BAFE
ED, ~8end dedi iption to Lock Box No.
tre Hall, Pa.
BTOP! LOOK! and BUY! Geartsides Iron
Rust Soap. which removes all stains from cloth
ing and bande that ordinary soav will not re.
move. For sale by Miss Gladys Jones, Ceutre
Hall, Pa.
FOR SALE.—The Grenoble home,
between Penn Hall and Spring Mills,
must be sold soon. Do not miss the op-
portunity. Apply to J. A. Grenoble,
Yeagertown, Pa, at pd
JAMES W. SWABB
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
LINDEN HALL, CENTRE CO. PA.
Doeds, Mo: Wills, &c, written ana ox
ecuted with care. All legal busine prompiiy !
attended to. Special attention given to sell
tiing of Estates, Mare Licvoses, Aut mo
bile Licenses, and other Avoplic tion
Blasts Rept on head. Nov. isi 8
CYRUS BRUNGART
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
CENTRE HALL, PA.
al attention given to collecting, Suu
ngs of all clammen, including deeds, mortgag 1
TOSI: 00. ; mAiTiage licenses and hunter's
oefises secured, and all matters portsintus to the
Moe stiended to promoily. jam, 1919
use of fce as a necessity, but it should
be used carefully in localities where
any shortage is Indicated. It is cone
sidered a necessity when used to pre-
serve food and in administering coms-
fort, and every reasonable effort will be
made to see that families are supplied
with their legitimate needs, ¢
RUBSIA HAS CORNER
ON WORLD
PLATINUM BUPPLY
The needs of platipum in war in-
dustries and in the sciences are ex-
plained by Dr. Charles L. Parsons,
chiet chemist, Bureau of Mines, De-
partment of the Interior, in an argu-
ment for discontinuance of the use of
platinum in jewelry.
“The war can not be won without
platinum ’’, says Dr. Parsons ‘“and it
is equally essential in times of peace if
our country is to excel Germany in
the development of chemical eclence
and industry. With the aid of platin-
um from one ordinary wedding ring
about 100 pounds of nitric acid can be
made every 24 hours. This 100
pounde of nitric acid converted into
high explcsives will send a number of
3-lnch shells against the Germans and
help to bring the boys back home,
‘ Platinum ringe, plus, cigarette
casee, and mesh bags are not factors in
winning this war—-explesives are, I
wonder if the purchrsers and wearers
of platinum jewelry know that explo.
sives can not be manufactured with-
out the use of sulphuric and nitric
acid ; that the manufacture of these
acids requires the use of supplies of
platinum ; that airplanes must have
platinum for important instruments
they need ; that platinum is absolute-
ly necessary in the manpufaciure of
epecial pyrometers ; that pyrometars
are nec =sary in all steel treatment ;
and that no guns can be made with-
out the use of pyrometere,
“ There is a shortage in the full sup-
ply of platinum. Ruesia hes a corner
on the world’s supply, and Germany
is in Ruesia. Our domestic produc-
tion of platinum is negligible, while
our military requirements are incres:-
jog at a rapid rate’,
FIVE A}
TRAI
OPENED
MY OFFICERS
NG sCHOOLS
The War Department hes establish-
ed five central officers’ training camps,
at which civilians and enlisted men
will be trainc 1 for commission in the
Officers’ Roserve Corpse. Infantry
training camps sre located at Camp
Lee, Pe'ersburg, Va, ; Camp Gordon,
Atlants, Ga. ; and Camp Pike, Little
Rock, Ark, ; field artillery sat* Camp
Taylor, Louisville, Ky. ; and machine
gun at Camp Hancock, Augusts, Ga.
These training school will be run
new clees being sdmit-
The course of training
will be fou the at the field artill-
ery school, The schools are open to
qualified enlisted men in all branches
of the service except Cosst Artillery,
Rignal ( and labor units. The
number of civilians sdmitted will be
limited,
To be eligible for admission
dates must be betwesn 20 years
monthe and 40 years ; citizens of the
United States, and not born in any of
the countries with which the United
Biates ia at war or allies of such coun-
tries, Enlisted men must have the
moral, educational and physical quali-
ficalione required of an officer. Civile
isne must be graduates of a high
school or have pursued an equivalent
course of instruction, be of good moral
character, and heave the required phy-
sical qualifications,
continuously, a
ted monthly.
r aon
orpe,
candi-
and 8
Paper thread is a Denmark war sub-
etitute for use in binder twine,
The Army Medical Department hes
deve loped a mobile X-ray outfit to be
carried on the Army ambulance to the
front line trench for the benefit of
wounded eoldiers, It is desired by
Army surgeons to lose no time in ss
certaining the extent and conditions
of wounde., The ou'fit is made up of
the Delco-gas-electiic set, the high
tension transformer, and the special
type of Coolidge tube.
Mra, Stanley McCormick, in charge
of the department of food production
and home economics of the woman's
committee, Council of National De-
fenee, gives this advice to farmerettes :
“ Watch your feet. Don’t ignore foot
wear. You must have a good spinal
column to keep up with a good job,
The condition of the spinal column
depends greatly on the fect, Be pic-
turesque If you wish, but be sensible,
Wear good stout boots to preserve
health '’,
A recipe for a wheatless loaf of bread
ia soon to be made public by the office
of Home Economics of the Depart.
ment of Agriculture, It is the discov
ery of the experimental kitchen cone
ducted jointly by the Department of
Agriculture and the Food Administra-
tion. Directions are to be given for
the making of three new wheat sa bsti-
tute breads—the half wheat loaf, the
one-fourth wheat loaf, and the wheat-
less loaf. The recipe ls expected to
save thoussnds of pounds of wheat
flour,
ESE
Profits and Prices
Profits may be considered
from two angles:
1st—Their effect on prices;
2nd— As a return to investors.
When profits are small as
compared with sales, they have
little effect on prices.
Swift & Company’s profits
are only a fraction of a cent
per pound on all products sold,
and if eliminated entirely
would have practically no
effect on prices.
Swift & Company paid 10
per cent dividends to over 20,000
stockholders out of its 1917
profits. It also had to build
extensions and improvements
out of profits to finance large
stocks of goods made necessary
by unprecedented requirements
of the United States and Allied
Governments; and to psovide
protection against the day of
declining markets.
Is it fair to call this
profiteering ?
Swift & Company, U.S.A.
THE :
UNITED STATES
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
says
EAT MORE CORN
BOX STATIONERY
At THE CENTRE REPORTER OFFICE
Watch This Space for
New Advertisement,
W. F. COLYER, Centre Hall, Pa,