VUL. XCIII.
Corp. Claude Whitehill Writes.
( Letters to his parents, Mr, and Mrs,
Charles Whitehill, at Oak Hall Station.)
Somewhere in France,
December 13th, 1918,
Dear mother and all :
? From Bruce C. Stump.
(To E. 8. Ripka, Centre Hall, Pa.)
\ Langres, France,
December 14, 1918,
Your letter of October 20th received ;
SAM'S INSURANCE.
diers and Sailors of America. ~
Hold on to Your Insurance.
To The Soldiers and Sailors of Ameri-
RED CROSS ROLL CALL.
uniors and School Children Wh
Responded to the Call.
The local Red Cross Auxiliary, in its
resime of the work done in the Red
Cross Christmas Roll Call, gives out the
following figures :
16, 1919,
Financial Report of Week of Prayer.
The collections of the week of prayer
services amounted to $42.25
Paid for printing programs . 2 2%
Balance , $40.00
The balance is forwarded to the Amer-
ican Bible Society, and in due time each
congregation will get a receipt for $8.00
NO. 3
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
esi
FROM ALL PARTS
W.C.T. U, will meet at the home of
Mrs. Geiss Wagner, Saturday evening,
7:30 o'clock,
The ladies of the local auxiliary are
urged to meet at the home of Mrs. Isaac
Smith Thursday afternoon to do Red
Cross sewing,
was very glad to hear from you. Also
had a letter from the committee, dated
November sth; they told me about
Boyd Potter. The flu is under control
over here ; it was serious at one time,
As the job is dope and 1 have a little Adults enrolled - . - . . 46¢
time to my self I thought I would write
you'and tell you some of my experiences
since leaving New York, July 7th, for a
as their share of the offering,
R. R, Jones, Sec.-Treas.
A i fl ————
Meeting of County Grange.
Approximately four million officers
and men of the Army and Navy arenow| Juniors below school age - - 54
insured with the United States Govern-| School children - . . . .
ment for a grand total of almost thirty- ——"
408
long ride across the pond--some pond.
On July 15th we landed in a place called
Brest, staying there three days and then
took a French pullman train (which was
box cars) and had three days ride in it
I suppose the boys are glad they
There seem
You owe it to yourself and to your
It is the strongest, safest and
Total membership - 927
The borough schools and all of the
schools of Potter township—thirteen in
uumber—have gone one hundred por
cent,
The Centre County Pomona Grange
will hold a regular quarterly meeting in
the hall of Progress Grange, Thursday,
January soth. The usual two sessions
will be held, beginning at 10 a. m. and
Perry Krise will sell a lot of hotel fur.
niture and other articles, at the Spring
Mills hotal, on Friday, January 24th, at
12 o'clock. See posters. 3
to be lots of boys from town in the army,
but I never ran across any of them. I
wish when you write again you would
tell me how many boys are in the army
and got off at a little town, the name I
cannot remember, and stayed there over
night. In the morning we started to
For your protection Uncle Sam has
established the greatest life insurance
company in the world—a company as
ADULT MEMBERS, Mr. and Mrs. George McCormick and
three children, who have all been ill
with the * flu ” at the home of the form-
2p. m,
{Over from last week.)~John Burk-
holder, Mrs. John Burkholder, James Nation Going Dry; More States Rat-
hike; hiked until night when we reached
another small town and put up there for
a week, and from there we took trucks
and moved toward the front. On the
ngght of September sixteenth was my
first time under shell fire, We were
stationed in a woods in our pup tents,
when a Boche airplané flew over our
heads and dropped some bombs on us
and also gave us our first gas, Well,
things were lively around there for a
while, but we soon got used toit. From
started a drive on the Argonne sector,
On the night of September twenty-
fourth, our artillery protected us with a
barrage and we went over the top at five
the next morning, pushing the enemy
back about twelve miles, when we were
from Castle 36s.
fighting.
weather,
mighty, as generous, and as democratic
as the United States Government it.
self. Just as Uncle Sam protected you
and your loved ones during the war, so
he stands ready to continue this protec
tion through the days of readjustment
and peace.
The privilege of continuing your Gov-
ernment insurance is a valuable right
given to you as part of the compensation
for your her ic and triumphant services
If you permit the insurance to lapse,
you lose that right, and you will never
be able to regain it. But if you keep up
your present insurance-by the regular
payment of premiums —~vou will be able
to change it into a standard Government
policy without medical examination.
Meantime you can keep up your present
Goodhart, Mrs. James Goodhart, Jane
Foust, Mrs. C. M, Smith, W. B. Garis,
Elsie Grove.
JUNIORS BELOW SCHOOL AGE
Harriett Bartges, Sara Wagner, 1
Ernest Wagner, Chester A. Wagner, Al-
vin Burkholder, Carl Burkholder. Mabel
L. Burkholder, Robert H. McCormick,
Martha B, Carson, Ethel Carson, Agnes
Cummings, Tessie Cummings, Lee
Cummings, Edith Glasgow, Alice Glas
gow, Russel Homan, Florence Brooks,
Lewis Garbrick, Vernon Garbrick Gia-
ys Garbrick, Dorothy Garbrick, Anna
M. Glrerer, Franklin Moyer, Marion A.
Treaster, Donald Bloom, Irene Brooks
sel Walker, Robert Walker, Clarence
ker, Norman Walker, Ralph White-
ify.
Maine, Tennessee and Idaho, last
Thursday, were added to the list of
states that have ratified the proposed
prohibition amendment, making a total
of twenty-two. Only fourteen more
ttates are needed. The legislatures in
filteen dry states which have pot ratified
meet this month,
in addition to final action in three
states, the Illinois and West Virgina
senates also voted for ratification.
AM I IASON
Box Social in Grange Hall.
There will be a Box Social given in
the Grange Hall, on Saturday, Jan
25, for the benefit of the Y. W. C. A.
Every one is invited.
er's father, W. W. McCormick, at Pot-
ters Mills, have recovered.
Samuel Krumbine, oldest son of J. H.
Krumbine, formerly of Centre Hall, who
has been engaged in the undertaking
business at Pine Grove Mills, left for
Vintondale, on Tuesday, where he will
engage in a similar business,
A card to the Reporter from Mrs, J.
H. Biter, of Youngstown, Ohio, says,
** A little girl arrived at our house Dec-
ember 8, 1918, Her name is Mildred
Estella. We now have three girls and
ove boy, and am very sorry we didn't
have an even sumber of both”,
Rev. W. R. Picken, of Centre Hall,
retired Methodist minister, very ably
filled the pulpit for Rev. W. H. Will
we dida’t dare run around for the Huns
bad an observation balloon right over
the hill and if he saw us we wonld have
to move out quick.
I never saw so many flies as they have
over here. They also have more yellow
jackets here than I ever saw in the
States. There would be a couple stung
every day. I didn't see any snakes over
here and am mighty glad that I didn't
To the ladies of the community : — iams, on Monday and Friday nights of
last week, during the Week ot Prayer
services, Rev. Williams being unable to
take part on account of sickness in the
family,
released by another division, We were
in range of the Boche guns from the
time we started the first drive up until
the armistice was signed,
On Sunday November 10th I
ran on to a Boche machine gun. When
he began firing at me I ducked into a
shell hole. And after I got in there I
thought I was there to stay. Every
insurance at substantially the same low | man, Glenn Tressler, Hazel Lutz, Lewis
rate. The Government will write ordi.|!lgen, Dean ligen, Obert ligen, Kermit
nary life insurance, twenty-payment | Brooks, Paul G. Brooks, Muth Bailey
life, endowment maturing at age (a, | Richard Bailey, Evelyn Colyer, Harris
and other usual forms of insurance, | Runkle, Loraine E. Brungart, Lillian D
This will be the Government insurance | Auman, Grace Brubaker, Donald Col.
~at Government rates,
The United States
through the Bureau of War Risk lpsur.
Neatly pack a box of refreshments for
two,
Sandwiches, pickle and cake will do.
"lace in the box your name to be
found
By some lucky lad, who happens to
come ‘round.
Miss Florence Rhone, who has been
visiting ber aunt, Mrs. Robert Sankey,
at Wichita, Kansas, for the past few
months, on Wednesday of last week, ac-
dron, Ia on, William Campbell,
Jane Campbell, Lee Meyer, Wm. Ash
bridge Thomas, Jr... Flora Hackett
Government
To the gentlemenof the commun.
time I would pop my head up he sure
did send the bullets over. After being
there for several hours I slid out on my
stomach and when I had got a few
yards away from the hole he saw me
and began firing, but I was glued to
close to the ground. He could not hit
me but he put some holes through my
soon it got dark and I crawled pretty
lively and got out of sight. The next
morning at ten o'clock our captain said,
** Boys, we have a half hour to advance
yet, and then we will dig in and will not
fireg shot.” And we did, ; A few min- |
utes after the armistice was signed you|
and the following night they had the
ance of the Tregsury Department—will
Well, I must close for this time, hop-
Fraternally yours,
B. C. Stuur.
0S
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(To bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E,
San Antonio, Texas,
January 1, 1919.
Just a few lines. I arrived here in
Republic
you
Carry back with you to civil life
HOLD ON TO UNCLE SAM'S IN.
W. G. McAvoo, Secretary.
AA US AAT
Letter from the Sunny South.
Mount Dora, Florida, Jaa. 3, 1919.
Enclosed find check for $1.50 for my
Oliver Hackett. Freda Burkholder, Mary
Alice Frances
Swartz, Anva Wert, Cyrus Wert.
Elenore
SCHOOLS
Centre
Helen
Jibie,
Miss
Bond
Hall Primary
Bartholomew,
Emma
Ruth Brown,
Coldron.,
School,
teacher
Wallace
Theima Brungart, Myri-
Evgene Colyer, Russe!
Colyer, Dorothy Emerick, Olive Gleix-
ner, Bruce Hartley, Bruce Knarr, Fred
Luse, Catharine Martz, Paul Maris
Clarence Meyer, Clifford Meyer, Helen
er, Marian Meyer, Merrill Meyer,
Evelyn Moyer, Ethyl McClenahan, Mar.
garet McClenaban, Philip McClenaban,
Hele
Bible, Bohn,
Odenkirk,
‘rank Ripe, George Ri-
Estella Ruble. Gene
ny iw
Harktothecallof the ¥, W. C. A
Come to the Grange Hall to bid and
to pay
For a box. that some lady so gener-
ously has packed ;
And eat with her proudly when the
bell has been tapped.
Big Money for Hog Bristles.
With the big increase in hog raising
in Pennsylvania and the unusually large
number of butcherings, comes the word
from prominent brush manufacturers of
the country asking the farmers io save
all the bristles, which have a market
value of from two to three dollars a
pound.
companied by Mrs. Sankey, left Kaosas,
for points in Washington, Oregon and
California, expecting to spend the win-
ter along the coast.
Wallace 8. White it about ready to
grind wheat flour at his remodeled grist
mill near Axe Mann. He expects to
have everything in shape to grind wheat
probably next week, with capacity for
about Jo or 75 barrels a day, He has
been grinding chop and corn for some
time. He has equipped his mill with
new and the most modern machinery
and will be in shape 10 give his patrons
the very best service possible,
Are you receiving letters from your
son, brother, friend, on the other side,
who may still be with ther American Ex.
peditionary forces ?
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subscription. We are having some nice If so, the Reporter
weather ; the month of December we
Secretary of Agriculture Charles E.
could see camp fires every where you the trip very much and like it here. .
p y Jou P y Patton has thken up the matter of sell.
Margaret
would look, and we were glad to have a! Don't know how I am going to like the
will be glad to publish them, leaving out
all matter of a private nature. The Re-
Rudy, Sarah
fire because the nights were getting
pretty cool. On the twenty-second 1]
came to the hospital with a bad cold]
fine. Iam very sorry that I cannot re-|
sending me, as 1 am away from my |
company and I do not know how long 1
will be here or I could have it sent here,
but if 1 am here for Christmas 1 know 1
will get all I can eat but you know when
it comes from home it tastes much
better. I saw in the paper that the Red
Don't know what | am
gi §
CO we
The tourists have been coming in for
the jast two months and more are com-
ing in every day. Our city will be live.
ly from now on until May, when like the
wild geese, they will go North.
We have been shipping citrus fruits
for the last three months and will be
shipping from now on until sext May if
the frost does not do as it has the last
two years—{reeze them. We are get.
ting fair prices but not having as big a
net income oan account of having to pay
Lila Stoner, Luther Wagner,
Wagner, Fraoces Wagner,
Centre Hall Intermediate Grade, Miss
Byers Ripka, Ei
wood Smith, Wilbur McClellan, William
Slick, Ralph Martz. George Luse. Har.
old Bohn, Joseph Ruble, John Meyer,
Miriam: Moore, Mildred Bits, Edoa
Luse, Louise Smith, Cathryn Gleixner,
Margaret Luse, Elizabeth Bartholomew,
Algie Emery, Emelyn Brungart, Mary
Weber, Esther Martz, Grace MeClena-
han, Marian McClenaban, Helen Brown,
Phyllis
Olive Way, teacher
ing hog bristles to the brush manufac.
turers and be now urges all farmers to
make every effort to save the long back
bristles at butchering time. Farmers
having any supply on band can get in
touch with the Department of Agricul
ture at Harrisburg and will be furnished
withthe name of firms that will pur.
chase the bristles,
The bristles that are the most valuas
ble are the back from neck all along the
back and averaging from two and three.
fourth to four inches long. Nearly all
countries save the product of hog bris.
porter’s letters from the overseas boys
have been a feature of the paper that
has been very much appreciated, many
subscribers expressing their pleasure in
reading them. Let us have the soldiers’
letter ; they will be returned if the re.
quest 1s made,
. Lewistown is to have an automobile
truck industry—a plant representing a
two million dollar outlay. When the
plant is entirely completed, according to
present arrangements, all of the approx-
imate five acres of land pow possessed
Cross is sending fourteen car loads of
chocolate bars to the soldiers in France,
The Red Cross is very much thought of
in France,
Weil, I will have to stop as I have told
you all the news and it is time for chow.
Your son,
{(Corp.) Cravpe LL. Warren,
Co. A, 314, American E. F,
before there would be a discharge con-
sidered ; that we were picked out of four
million men that are in the army now to
do this work and were supposed to be
professionals, according to the tests they
had given us, and the work layed before
us to make a success of it, if possible,
I have not been assigned to the branch
I am to instruct but 1 think it will be
cabinet making from what I could make
out when they were writing me up, A
person never knows what is going to
happen until the time comes, altho they
know but they won't tell you. Our
work has not begun yet for they don't
have the buildings finished for us and
the equipments are not here yet, either,
$0 we have it easy now. All we do is
Doroty Odenkirk, Miriam Emerick,
May Smith, Romie Smith, O+ie Wag-
ner, Bernadeen Wagner,
Centre Hall Grammar School, Miss
Isabel Rowe, teacher: Helen Bohs,
Ethel Frank, Agnes Geary, Anna Garis,
Charlotte Keller, Florence Krape, Made.
line Smith, Florence Zetile, Sara Zettle,
Vianna Zettle, James Royer, Arthur
Bohn, Theodore Breon, Howard Emery,
A'bert Emery, Paul Fetterolf, Ralph
Emerick, Paul Smith, Hogh Smith.
Daniel Smith, Albert Smith, Franklin
Ruble, Oscar Colyer,
Centre Hall High School, Prof, N. L.
Bartges, teacher? John Shultz, Belle
Meeker, Adeline McClenaban, Boyd
by the company at Chestnut street and
Shaw avenue will be under roof. The
buildings that are now ready for occu-
pancy contain more than 11,000 feet of
floor space and the parts of the buildings
still to be renovated contain many thou-
sands of additional feet of space. The
first trucks will be turned out in about
60 days hence it is said,
Union county led eastern Petnsylva-
nia in sale« of War Saving Stamps dur
ing 1919, according to figures given out
today by the National War
Committee. The people of that county
bought $26.01 worth of stamps for each
man, woman and child within its bor.
ders. Taking the lead almost at the
the pickers double what we used to pay.
Boxes cost us double. Packing more
andnfreight is an increase of 15 cents a
box, so you see where we come out, 1
see by the Northern papers the retail on
fruits is high ; somebody is getting the
long end on them,
Well, the war isover and 1 am glad,
It drained on our state in the way of la
bor that we could not get much~done,
I have a fine truck garden ; raised
two crops a year but at present itis
growed up with weeds, I was not able
to get any one to get it in shape.
All well, 1 remain
Yours, ete,
(Dr) Ev. L. MiLtex.
tles and the devestation of the war has
practically killed the market in Russia
where most of the bristles wefe secured,
White bristles are much 10 demand and
Secretary Patton urges farmers to save
all long bristles, keeping the butts as
much as possible one way. Farmers
are urged to combine in gathering in or
der to make large quantities for deliv.
ery and sale. One brush manutacturer
states that some years ago he purchased
in Pennsylvania what were known as
* country bristles " and they were very
satisfactory.
A Fine Portrait Free
A fine portrait of President Wilson,
De Jane, France,
December 10, 1918.
Dear mother and all :
Just a few lines this morning to Jet
you know | am still alive and happy,
hoping these few lines will find you all
the same, Well, I suppose you have
2a
pretty cold weather back home ; I must
say we are having pretty nice weather
here but I think it very unhealthy. I
was up town a ‘ew days ago and had
some pictures taken,
The city that I am in now is called De
Jane. Itisa pretty large place. I am
in Base hospital number 17; have been
here since Thanksgiving. I had a bad
cold but it is pretty good again,
How is every thing around home this
winter? Mother, I wanted to send you
all a Christmas present but every thing
is so high over here that I cannot reach
it and will wait until I get back to the
States. I was always told that every
thing was so cheap over in this country
but there is nothing of it. They sure
soak the American soldiers for every
thing they get. I saw in a Chicago
paper yesterday that my Division was
in the army of occupation and if that is
~ 80 I am sent back to my outfit, it will be
eat and sleep.
good whatever.
all day long,
Ec — a
An Interesting Article for The Re-
porter.
The Reporter bas secured for pub
lication in next week's issue a most in.
teresting and important article by Wm,
G. McAdoo, director general of railroads
and former secretary of the treasury,
in the article Mr. McAdoo will outline
the reasons for his recent action in ask.
ing Congress to extend for five years
the period of Government operation and
control of railrords, He will clear up
some doubts that have existed as to his
attitude on the question of Government
ownership and Government control,
There is no after-war problem of
greater interest to all the than
this question of what shall be done with
the railroads now that the war emergen.
cy has passed. Whether you agree with
Mr. McAdoo or not on all the points he
raises you will find his article of the
Jorden, Floyd Jorden, Harold Alexan-
der, Harold Keller, Shannon Booger,
Fernie Heckman, Sarah Heckman,
Pearl Rable, Ruth Bariges, Ernest
Frank, Frederick Moore, Grace Fye,
Russel Reish, Hazel Ripka, Harvey
Flink, Kryder Miller, William Sweet.
wood, Miriam Huyeit, Margaret Emery,
Elizabeth Royer, Ruth Ripka, Mamie
Brooks, Catherine Bradford, Newton
Crawford, Gertrude Ruble, Emily Jor-
dem, Esther Wagnper, Nona Wagner,
Beatrice Kramer, Marian Bible, Anna.
bel Smith, Panl Schreckengast,
{ The remainder of the public
school enrollments in the Red Cross will
85.3 Per Cent. of Wounded |
Of 71,114 wound and injury cases tab-
ulated in ths expeditionary hospital be-
tween January 15 and October 1s, 1918,
85.3 per cont. recovered and returned to
duty, the war department announced re-
gently, The percentage of deaths was
8. ; La Re a
done in rich photogravure, size 11 by 13
inches—jast right for framing —will be
given as a supplement next Sunday with
“The Philadelphia Record ”. There is
sure tc be a big demand, and the only
way to make sure of getting a copy is
to place your order with your dealer in
advance for next Sunday's ** Record ”,
The series of portrait supplements
start of the campaign, Union was nev
er headed. Cameron was the next with
per capita sales of $25.08. Fulton sold
Record ™ are as fine as any ever issued
by a newspaper and are all portraits. of
26th is of Lieutenant General Hunter
Liggett, who has so distinguished him-
self in France, :
®
vators are to be on display at the State
January 21 to 24.