THE OENTRE REPORTER.)
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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.
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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 —
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the
ended the fu
Hall
nis
fluenza.
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BY)
FOOD CONTROL
SAVES PUBLIC ...
IMMENSE SUMS
Two Hundred Million Dollars is
Pennsylvania's Share.
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“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.
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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.
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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
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sociology at
and
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