VOL. XCI.
HALL, PA.. TH
FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS.
Seals.—Red
December
No Red Cross” Christmas
Cross Roll Call Begins
16th.
AMIND
¥ilv Ll
become accns-
but secretly
nd hoping
rain
eat
farm,
THE IRISH POTATO THE FOOD
OF THE PEOPLE
The Irish potato is a staple of
American diet, Enough potatoes were
consumed in the United States in 1915
to allow one eight-ounce potato a day
throughout the whole year for each
man, woman and child.
Truly, the potato Is the food of the
people. The portion of the American
meal made up by this vegetable, alone,
consumes over 300,000,000 bushels an-
nually.
Intensive methods make it possible
to grow crops yielding from 250 to 400
bushels per acre, and at the same time
to decrease the cost of raising each
bushel, The big expense in potato
growing comes In the preparation of
the land, the purchase of the seed and
the attention given the crop through-
out the season. But It costs no more
to prepare ground, plant, cultivate and
gpray a 800-bushel crop than it does a
160-bushel crop. Harvesting will cost
more, but the big overhead expenses
are practically the same. Obviously
the thing to do Is to Insure large
yields by supplying an abundance of
available plant food that will give the
crop a good start and force it to early
maturity.
Fertilizers should be applied at the
time of planting, and in order to make
cortnin that this material may be on
hand when needed it Is especially im-
portant to order early this year.
See EE a —— “N—
ELLIOT SMITH WOUNDED.
Centre Hall
Sting of a Hun Bullet.
to Feel the
“ Don't
First Boy
Worry About Me," HeWrites from
Base Hospital in France.
signing of the ar
shown by the
r Washing
5
tense, as is heavy casual
lists reaching
wounded was
Mr, and Mrs. D,
tre Hall,
st Centre
Fran
+
Wilo
10THINg
hear some of these
; make whole
housands
the lives we le
ID us Dow we ough
- 3 mie 1 far hie
are thanking God for br
SOON
The
(God se
+ sr "
to Him.
[his afternoon one of my friends
I went up to the Houstess h
band 1
concert and listen §
ches,
off
morning , as I am a special duty man
am not allowed to cook-—only, help out
)
Still, I am always ready to do anything
even though 1, om rad
Vv ga I } aj pear 0 get
t
All a
hears now among the soldie
more
times. person
rs is “When
are you geing home? ” and all such crap
We can't tell, but d
+
orang to reports
the government intends making this a
mustering out camp, and so they will be
pretty soon. The
only thing, some will have to stay and
help boys that
back from France, so that not all
1 “i 1 +e "ey
cleaning out this camp
muster the out come
of us
will get home right away,
I received yout box today in fine order,
If I don't
get home for butchering I want you to
remember me,
and everything tasted fine,
All of the boys from up there who are
in this camp are well and busy at some
There were lots of visitors
in camp today and 1 took notice that
they listened very closely to the speak-
ing. 1 think a person in civilian clothes
looks odd walking around here in camp,
or any place, for we are used® to seeing
men all in one color. I got my stripes
on my arm, or sleeve, representing my
trade in the army-—wagoneer and teams-
ter. ‘I'he army clothing stores are sell
ing out now and things which sold for
job or other,
CHANGES IN SUGAR
REGULATIONS.
dl M. L. Smith a Suicide.
{sr
AA lps
Writes from France.
od ——
Killed Four Fine Porkers.
CANNON AND CROP
THE SAME MA
Wartime Conditions Threaten Fert
izer Supply.
use,
Hotie
produ
ond or
the prefer
to the
er. This
materials
made,
But
spring
supi
munition
have been gr
drain the fertilis
plants have lost
thelr labor, there
for impr ment by nq
In normal times spr
are turned out by
tories at high speed durin
winter and early spring months,
half as many laborers are employe
November and December as in Fel
ary and March.
With the present difficulty of gettin
laborers, it can be seen how remote |
the chance of speeding up to denbl
production next spring. There is onl)
one way to get out the fertilizer ton
nage needed for next year's crops, and
that is to start In now and run ever)
factory as best it may every day from
now until spring.
But manufacturing every day musi
mean shipping every day. Fertilizer
factories do not have and cannot gel
storage space for this tremendous
bulk of goods. Finished goods mus!
be loaded directly on the cars and
shipped to the consumer,
Here is where the farmer must help
He must place his order immediately
and accept fmmediate shipment. Ir
no other way can the problem be
solved.
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A PATRIOTIC DUTY
You were asked to give up
wheat, and you did it You
were asked to economize on
sugar, and you did it. You were
asked to observe heatless Mon-
days and gasless Sundays-—and
you did that too,
These were wartime measures
designed to accomplish specific
purposes, There is another wire
time measure which every farm-
er and truck gardener who ex-
pects to use fertilizers next
spring, must observe,
Fertilizers must be ordered
now and shipment accepted at
once, Fertilizer factory foroas
have been severely cut down
and it Is only by starting In
now and running evéry day un-
til spring, that anything ap-
proaching an adequate supply
of fertilizers can be produced.
The farmer must help by getting
the finished goods out of the
factory and out of the way so
more goods can be made,
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Jy
1918.
THE DEATH RECORD.
Reisu,—~Mrs, Sarah Jane
of James Reish, passed away on
Reish,
1 $ Farr tr ¢ n ‘ol i ‘
day evening at ten ociock at
f Potters Mills,
fferer
west ¢
She
{fv } “ov > PY 1
from heart trouble
ly took a se
Ce was
month
took plac e
that appl
ve i“
C Dervice
s hereby given
ca-
3
n made to the Publ
ommonwealth of
cate
a Certiu
by said Borough
hase
he Centre Hall Water
c hearing upon this application
will be held in the rooms of the Commis-
sion at Harrisburg, on the 18tn day of
o'clock
persons in
if
D. 1918, at
and
may aj
December, A
A.M
interest
9:30
all
be heard
. when where
pear and
they so desire.
The BOROUGH OF CENTRE HALL
PF at
Reduction Sale on Ladies’, Misses and
Children's Hats.
Friday and Saturday, December 13th
and 14th, I will bold a Special Reduc-
tion Sale on all the hats in my store
Ladies’ and misses’ hats that formerly
sold for from $3 to to $8.00 are now $2
to 85 95. No two hats are alike,
Children’s hats reduced to 75c to $1.50,
Remember the dates— December 13th
and 14th.
MYRA KIMPORT,
Centre Hall, P,
——— AGATA
Walker's Report on W. 8. 8.
«Chairman Walker reports the sales
of W. 8, 8, for the week ending Nov
23 as having been $1.28, bringing the to-
tal up to $1848. He 1s apprehensive
that the sales for the last week in No-
vember will total less than for the week
previous. He urges as many as can do
do so to become limit holders and keep
the drive up until old Centre goes over
the top,
advat
4The breweries are not running just
now, .
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS
cows—well, any
modiey
More
knocks the spots
sales have been
umber of years.
Friday,
Walker,
com.
ork in the ford flouriag
1 this place, as fireman, and suc-
ceeds Orvis Weaver, Mr. and Mrs,
Walker have commenced housekeeping
in the Slick property on Hoffer
pt street.
typo force has been
3 the past week and
318 issue was gotten out under a serious
ipositors — Misses
t
Gladys Jones
mt
i
Sr “gs +f
in accoun ol
Shem H. Hackenburg, the M. A.
Stover farm near Penn Hall, advertises
public sale for Saturday, March rsth.
Mr. Hackenburg quite recently purchas-
ed the William Hagen farm of ninety
five acres, at Smuliton, and will occupy
the place immediately following his sale.
Mr. and Mrs, John Hosterman,
Scotland, South Dakota,
in Centre county last week. They are
former residents of Penns Valley, living
until some years ago at Woodward. Mrs.
Hosterman 1s a daughter of Mrs. J. J.
Orndorf, of Woodward. Mr. Hoster-
man is particularly fond of deer hunting
and is back among old time scenes, hop-
ing to land a buck during the present
open season,
on
of
were arrivals
Walter Garrity, whose home in the
heart of the Seven Mountains has long
been famous for its hospitality to pleas.
ure seekers, was a caller at the Reporter
office on Saturday. Walter was plainl
grieved, for with the approach of th
deer hunting season the party of Greens
burg hunters who have been coming ta
the Garrity home to astablish their head
quarters during the deer season, h
been practically wiped out on account of
the war, Mr. Garrity informed the. Re
porter that out of the eight hunters si
have made the supreme sacrifice on th
field of battle. “And they were the fin
est young fellows | have ever met," Mr
Garrity said,
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