THE OENTRE REPORTER.) RE RTT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1918. » THIRTY-FOUR YEARS AGO. Paragraphs of News Taken from the Files of the Reporter of 1884. January 10, 1884 Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry Keller, of this "place, last week started on a trip 10 Iowa. William Keller has raised a large class in vocal music in this place. The Evangelical congregation of Mill- heim are engaged preparing material for the erection of a new church during the coming summer. ‘The structure to be of brick. Married.—On Dec. 20th, in the Zion church, near Tusseyville, by Rev. Ben- jamin Hengst, John W. Lose, of Mill- heim, and Miss Mary E. Strohm, of Tusseyvile. —— AY ATTA, To Write War History. The Pennsylvania War History Com- mission was organized in Philadelphia on Saturday. The object of mission is to preserve the military naval record of every Pennsyl- vania who is today, or will be, in the ser vice of his country, In other is proposed to compile tory of every one of the 300,000 soldiers and sailors now wearing their couttry’s uniform, and of the other who will in the future be this war, There will be an organization in one of the 67 counties of Pennsylvs whose duty it will be to gather t! concerning all the soldiers and s their respective counties. In addition to the records of tl who are in the actual military this commission will gather all the facts are available all the of what Pennsylvania is doing in ways to help win this war, [It will show what Pennsylvania is doing he i dustrial field, in a financial ufacturing, in the production vation of food. Il is this com- and man in 1ousands during called every It will also enumnera the labors of Pennsylvania's large ber of war work associations or « tees. In brief, it gat the complete facts about Pe part in this war from every s! will Centre Has Largest Forest Fires. With her war industries buying wood from almost every timbered State in th Union, Pennsylvania last s; most a quarter of a ion forest land burned over within boundaries. This is the fact in the report of the Fire Warden for the sprin just passed. From February first to 385 forest fires burned acres, destroyed timber valued ooo, and cost $26,000 Indirect damage difficult such as injury to watershe the total loss for over Fifty fires or more than each burned over About 175 fires burr acre each, 806 burned fro hundred acres each, and from 100 to 1,000 acres each The causes of i roads, 458 ; brush bur 113 ; incendiary, 94 less lumbering. 43 cellaneous causes, 133 476. Itis interesting Nation's railroads cau t one-third of the State's timber The largest single fi acres in Rush township, The total area burned in was 22,827 acres. (] 17.413 acres burned. The are: on the State Forests } acres, or about one and one-half cent. of their total area. ——————— > AARONSBURG. A number of relatives att peral of Lloyd Brown, at Linden Fred Boyer, ot Illinois, is visiting parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samue | Boyer The schools are closed on account of the epidemic of Spanish in Mrs. Marion Eisenhauer, of Milimont, is visiting her mother in this place. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foster and Miss Barber, of Mifflinburyg, are guests of } W. Foster, Mrs. Eva Boleing and children, of Pittsburgh, are guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mowery Mr. and Mrs. Albert Mingle received a letter this week from their son, who is stationed at Puget Sound, Washington, Bright Orwig and John Winkleblech are suffering with influenza, but both are on a fair way to full recovery. Mr. Willard, brother Eimer and their mother, Mrs. L. F. Wilt, of Franklin, and Robert Brown, of Bellevue, Ohio, attended the Lloyd Brown funeral, at Linden” Hall, and spent a day with relatives there. . Rev. and Mrs, Cameron and son, of Hartleton, spent a short time as guests of Rev. Weaver and family at the Luth eran parsonage. An interesting letter has been receiv. ed from Private George Blaine Bitner, by his aunt, which was written on board atransport. The young soldier was ex- expecting to reach land in a few days. t a a Will Sell Carload of ** Feeders ''. A. M. Riegel, the Salona stock buyer, unloaded 2 carloads of western cattie—all steers and in prime condition-—at Centre Hall on Wednesday, and will sell them public sale at the hotel barn on Mon- day, Oct 14th, at one o'clock. See Fl sw Wa — * the ended the fu Hall nis fluenza. . . BY) FOOD CONTROL SAVES PUBLIC ... IMMENSE SUMS Two Hundred Million Dollars is Pennsylvania's Share. —————— “CORNERS” WERE PREVENTED —————— Food in Plenty Supplied the People by Restriction and Regulation in Supplies and Prices, Mr. Heinz Re. ports, The food Administration has saved vast sums for the people of the State as well as Insuring them an adequate supply of This fact is made clear in the annual report of Howard Heltiz, Food Administrator for Penn. just Left to the law and demand, would soared far have reached, food, published, of supply have sylvania, normal prices anhove which they the level with the natural result that the weal thy would have had a surplus of food and the poor would have been able only the Food Administration this and Bares ned essitios to buy The vented has pre list not by its “fair price systems although they have heen able to keep as low as uld have liked, still prices they wi Heorners { Mp LaAy © heen prevented, seme ABtonishing Figures. flour there is # normal of about 0,000,000 barrels and the Food Admin affected n to X12 wheat mption sy hvania tration has by regula fon § prices of from X10 per barrel Left to the law of supply and demand flour would have reached This on flour of at Pennsyiva in a price of S26 an barrel BAVInE east to means a dollars alone, ty million In sugar the figures are even great er. Uncontrolled the price would have soared to at led » in the Bermudas, and st 25 cents a pound, as was the cas with a normal consumption of seven and twenty million pounds in roughly, hundred the State there is shown saving of about one hundred million ng In these two items alone, the dollars, Food Administration gaved the people of the State almost two hundred mil lion dollars in actual money. The Food Administration began | March, 1917, as the Bepartment ( Food Supply of the Committees oO Public Safety, and Mr. Howard Heinz Pittsburgh, was appointed director y the Governor In May of the same year. Mr. Heinz, first assembled an Advisory Committee composed of Lewis 8. Sadler, of Carlisle; J. 8 Crutchfield, E. V. Babcock, Judge Jo- wph Buffington, W. L. Clause, A. W Mellon, all of Pittsburgh; M. E. Bu- «hong, of Quarryville; C, B. Ewing, of st Union: M. C. Kennedy, of Cham- hershurg: M. 8. McDowell, of State (College : Lieutenant Governor Frank B. McClain, of Lancaster; John Me- Sparren, of Furniss; E. L. Tustin, H D. Irwin, J. Russell Smith, and Mrs Charles M. Lea, all of Philadelphia. This organization did most excellent work and continued in existence until in August when the United States Food Administration was created by Congress and Herbert Hoover was made United States Food Administra- tor. fi ’ ’ ¢ : of 1) The Federal Administration, President Wilson, through Mr. Hoo- ver, appointed Mr. Heinz Federal Food Administrator for Pennsylvania, and to avoid duplication of effort, it hecame necessary to form one gensral organization Mr. Heinz, immediate ly organized this department to meet the increased duties which accrued trom his Federal appointment and the Food Administration in Pennsylvania is now organizedl in twenty-one divis. ions, each under a chief of division, who serves without salary. One of the first works of the Admin- {stration was to inture the complete harvesting of the Pennsylvania crops and this was successfully accomplish. od through school boy labor and other means. The Division of Distribution and Markets successfully established curb markets in the larger cities, and the number of them was Increased during the past year. Conserving State's Food. In conservation of food a State-wide campaign was begun and the schools, churches, the women of the State, fraternal organizations aed every othar means of spreading this knowl. edge was utilized. A Food Demonstra- tion Railroad Train was also operated in the autumn of 1917 during the sum- mer of the present year. It has been attended by remarkable success, The Division of Enforcement or Le- gal Department investigates all viola- tions of the food regulations, correct. ing those which are due to Ignorance, and penalizing only the most willful offenders. The work of the division has been vastly supplemented by a corps of fleld agents or Inspectors, recently organized, which has the en. tire State under survelliance. The hotels and restaurants have strongly supported the Food Adminis tration and more than eight thousand pledge eards which bind thelr sign. pre to observe the Food Administra tion regulations are ou file, It is ex timated that the saving In wheat alone from November, 1017, to May, IMR, was 95000000 pounds and of ment more than 8000000 pounds From February to May, 1018, the he tels and restaurants saved about 1 200.000 pounds of sugar, whole | We ing task. heart. h every muscle tense, of mind. alert, going When the shrill whistle rt in the task before them. earth Car hold them back. ] We must answer + eT ] ’ 1 1 « show the war-maddened 1 : } 7g» Fs rats ¥ » ager to snouidcr, It 1s a tremendous a Nn it ray Af ng % fe ate Ary in M08C0 WwW, Was begit pection of economic and socia tions in factories in lowing letter was written 10 her i sociology at and consin and ba a ——— A —— AA Rayn Lamps Por perfect results, always nse Rave Lamps. 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