VOL. XCIII.
MAY 8,
U. S. DEBT, $24,824,345,000.
Mostly Represented by Liberty Bonds
of First Four Issues.
Public debt of the United States
Government was reported on Saturday
by the Treasury as $24,824,345,000,
Most of this represents Liberty Bonds
of the first, second, third and fourth is-
sues, but the Victory Loan is not in-
cluded to any great extent. The addi-
tion of Victory Loan Bonds will be
largely counterbalanced by redemption
of outstanding certificates of indebted-
ness, No deduction is made for the
$8,852,000 loaned to foreign Govern-
ments, Consequently the net debt would
be approximately $16,000,000,000.
The Treasury plans to issue other
bonds later this year and next year to
meet the fag ends of war expenses, but
in the aggregate these are not expected
to amount to more than $5,000,000,000,
so that the gross public debt of the
United States is expected by Treasury
officials to be in the neighborhood of
$30,000,000,000 when the period of war
financing ends.
The Treasury now has a working bal-
ance of $1,052,,000,000, of which $6357,
546,000 is on deposit with banks through
out the country on account of bills or
certificates of indebtedness and Victory
notes. The Treasury holds $2,568.599.-
ooo in gold, but a little more than half
of this belongs to the gold settlement
fund of the Federal Reserve Board.
Silver dollars in the Treasury, which a
little more than a year ago amounted to
$490,000,000, has been reduced jto $229,
711,000 by melting down of approxi.
mately 260,000,000 silver dollars for ex-
port to India,
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Lowest Bid for Pleasant Gap Road is
$249,332.22.
The lowest bid made to the State
highway department for the construction
of the stretch of road from Bellefonte to
a point on Nittany Mountain beyond
Pleasant Gap, was by the International
Eogineering and Construction Company,
of Scranton. Their figure was $249.-
332.23. No award has yet been made,
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Wheat Prospects Good in Kansas,
Beloit, Kansas,
May 28, 1919.
Editor Reporter :
* Enclosed please find draft to extend
my subscription. Our wheat prospects
are very good,
Farmers met in our city last Saturday
to discuss the question of help during
harvest, and agreed we would need 1600
to 1800 men and expect to pay $4.50 to
$5.00 for ten-hour day. .
Wishing success to **
Nations ",
The League of
Yours,
J. K. Gruss,
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Major Boal Coming Later.
A cablegram from Major Boal brings
the news that he will not return with the
28th Division, but that he has been de-
tained in France for thirty days. No
doubt the assignment to further duties
oyerseas was quite a disappointment to
the Major for he had planned to return
to the old home town with the organiza-
tion for which he was sponsor—the
** Boal Troop, ” now Company A, ro7th
Machine Gun Battalion,
“The Magistrate *’.
The Penn State Thespians will appear
in Garman's Opera House on Friday
evening, May oth, when they will pro-
duce the popular farce comedy, entitled,
** The Magistrate”. The cast will con.
sist of sixteen college boys, four ladies
and a ten-picce college orchestra,
Worth Twp. H. 8. Commencement.
Commencement exercises of the Worth
township High school, of which Prof,
H. C. Rothrock is the principal, will be
held on Friday evening, May oth, in the
Methodist church at Port Matilda,
Smith's orchestra will furnish the music.
The complete program follows :
Triumphal March - Liberty for All
OVERTURE~—RAYMOND
Invocation . Rev. B, Monroe Posten
WHEN YOU COME BACK
Salutatory - Jessie Max Witriams
** The Independence of Ireland
Oration Sammut Cram’ Hoover
** Unadulterated Americanism ”
MARY
Oration - - Evizasetnt Peart Beck
“ The 18th Amendment
Class Oration - Stanrey Reese Wirritus
* Work and Win "
HINDUSTAN
Oration Pavr Wintiam Warr
* Our Heritage from the War *
Oration Guuserr Lroyn Besswerr
** Ole Hanson and the Seattle Strike ”
SELECTION--VALSE
Oration Hazel Evzavor Lytie
** Just Treatment tor the Returning
Soldier
Valedictory - Wenorrr Warne Crain
* Good Citizenship”
ORIENTAL=~ARABIAN NIGHTS
Commencement Address—
Rev. H. F. Bancock
SONG—*' OH HELEN"
Presentation of Diplomas—
By Presiden Board of Education
A KISS FOR CINDERELLA
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A Pleasing Entertainment.
A capacity house greeted the Rock
Springs amateur theatrical performers
in the Grange hall on Saturday evening,
when they presented their three.act play
‘Her Honor the Mayor.” As the title
suggests, woman had the ballot and
elected one of their sex to guide the des-
tinies of a municipal government.
There was a complete reversal of pres-
ent-day conditions : men were found do-
ing domestic duties while the women
folk grappled with the sterner things of
life, politics included. But they proved
po stronger than mere man when temp-
tation arose, and the accepting of a
bribe in the shape of a five-pound box of
candy daily for ten years from the
“French Chocolate Company,” for using
her influence in framing legislation to
the chocolate company's intererts, got
her honor the mayor into hot water, and
all sorts of complications developed.
After the affairs of the city government
reached a point where they became no
longer endurable under woman's man-
agement, an awakening suddenly re-
vealed the fact that it had all been a
dream, or should we say, a nightmare !
Things returned to where they rightful-
ly belonged and barmony again pre-
vailed, |
The parts were all well taken.
Miss Nancy McWilliams, who played the
important role, was a forceful character.
She was ably assisted by her sister per-
formers, We have a lurking suspicion,
however, that the ladies selected the
male parts for the purpose of strength-
ing their cause of suffrage. We don't
know.
The piano duets were especially pleas-
ing to the audiency, as were the vocal
selections by Miss Nancy Williams and
Elizabeth Goheen. Miss Sarah McWill-
iams recited in very good form,
The proceeds on admissions totaled
almost fifty dollars, and the net profits
were equally divided between the Rock
Springs people and the local W. C. T. U,
Big Musical Company to Come
Centre Hall.
The Liberty Concert Company, com.
posed of the best young talent of Mifi-
linburg, will appear in Grange Arcadia,
Centre Hall, on Saturday evening, May
17th. They will present a real after-the-
war program ( full of pep), guaranteed
to please everybody—old as well as
young. The excellent program given
here last year by the Mifflinburg people
still lingers in the memory of those who
were fortunate enough to bave heard it.
The coming attraction promises to
eclipse that one,
The proceeds derived from the enter
tainment will be for the benefit of the
Soldiers Jubilee fund of Union county.
adv, at
to
“$22,000 Loss in Fire at Tyrone.
Fire, which started about five o'clock
Wednesday morning of last week, par
tially destroyed the G.C. Boeckling block
on Tenth street, Tyrone,
It is thought the fire started in the
cellar of the grocery store of Miller
Brothers. The grocery store was prac.
tically destroyed, as well as the adjoin-
ing drug store of 8S, M. Irvin. Miller
Brothers’ loss is estimated at $10,000
and Mr. Irvin's at $5,000, The damage
to the building will amount to about
$7,000. The walls were not seriously
damaged.
The second floor was occupied by four
families. They got everything out.
The third floor was occupied by the
Masons and was not badly damaged.
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Penn State to Honor Men Who Died
in Service.
The Pennsylvania State College will
hold a commemoration service on May
30 in honor of her men who died in the
war. A committee of faculty members
is arranging the program.
The college authorities have an-
nounced that those seniors who died
while in military service will be listed
as graduates of Penn State in the com.
mencement programs and in the alumni
registers. Diplomas will be prepared
for each and sent to his parents,
Honorary certificates, bearing the
name of each member of the faculty,
alumnus or student who entered the
military or naval service-—except such
as were merely members of the 8. A. T.
C.—will be issued by the college on
commencement day, The certificates
will bear testimony to the enduring
gratitude with which the college cher
ishes the patriotic devotion of her teach-
ers and students,
Through the activities of Government
al departments, with the cooperation of
the States and municipalities, thousands
of discharged soldiers, sailors, marines
and former war workers are being
placed in permanent and profitable jobs,
Although Republican opposition in the
recent Congress defeated the appropria-
tion for the Federal employment service,
Government officials have overcoma the
obstacle and are places for the
returned fighters at the rate of 100,000 a '
week.
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when dealing with animal disease.
HELMETS FOR VICTORY |
LOAN SUBSCRIBERS.
Fourteen Captured German Helmets
to Be Chanced Off.—Every Sub-
scriber in Centre County Has An
Equal Chance for One.
Victory Loan headquarters are in re-
ceipt of fourteen captured German hel-
mets, which will be chanced off to Vie-
tory Loan subscribers of the Centre
county district. The helments will be
divided among the different districts on
the basis of bank quotas, which of
course will take in the surrounding dis-
tricts of the county. Every person who
snbscribes for a bond, no matter what
the amount of the bond may be, will be
entitled to a chance on the helmet or
helmets in the bank district, through
which the subscription was given.
Immediately after the loan closes on
May 10th, every bank in Centre county
will submit to Mr. Charles C. McCurdy,
chairman of the district, a complete list
of the names of every person who sub-
scribed for one or more bonds through
that particular bank, and the helmets
to which said district is entitled, will be
sent to the said bank and chanced off
under the direction of the chairman of
the Victory Loan committee,
W. Harrison Warkes,
Chairman Publicity.
Helmets and Medals
Workers.
The Woman's Committee has been al-
lotted fourteen helmets. These will be
given to the fourteen chairmen, whose
committee raises the largest percentage
of their district's quota.
Medals struck from German cannons,
captured at Chateau Thierry, will be
given to all workers,
Evizangrn Mis Bracn,
for Women
Local Lodges Entertain in Honor of
Returned Soldier Boys.
All the returned soldier boys, from
overseas and those discharged from
camps, were guests of honor at a recep-
tion tendered by the local 1. O, O. F, in
their hall on Wednesday night of last
week, There was a splendid outpouring
of Odd Fellows, the hall being taxed to
its capacity. An unpretentious program
was prepared for the occasion, Male
voices rendered several selections, A
talk on the war of 1861-65 by B, D, Bris-
bin, grizzled veteran of that conflict, and
oldest member of the local Odd Fellows
organization, was the most interesting
feature of the program. Mr. Brisbin
showed that the brutality which char.
acterized the Germans’ method of war-
fare during the World War, was also
present in the Civil War, for the man in
charge of the Andersonville prison,
where Mr. Brisbin and thousands of his
fellow comrades were incarcerated, was
a German, and one of the type with
which the boys "over there” had to
contend. His disregard for the welfare
of his prisoners resulted in their dying
like flies, Mr. Brisbin's part in the war
was given with no claims to personal
bravery or achievement, no school
girl could have been more modest than
be in giviog his reminiscences of a war
in the participating of which he has
every reason to be proud. Mr, Brisbin
hoped to draw out from the soldiers of
the late war some personal experiences
by his talk, but young men, with
that ** I.want-to-forget-it ” spirit, were
silent,
and
the
Rev. R. R. Jones followed with a de-
k, after which all were
lun >On
ice cream and
lightful short tal
treated to a
sweet pickles,
of sandwiches,
coffee.
P. O. 8, OF A, ENTERTAIN,
the Centre Hall
of A., at a regular
served elegant
On Thursday evening
camp of the P, O, 8,
business meeting, re
\ Chairman, Centre county.
Asylum for Big ** Cootie ".
What a big cootie did for an America
soldier, and what an American soldie
did tor a big louse is related by Rossma
Smith, who did service on the French
front and police duly in Germany. While
a terrific engagement was cooling
down, Soldier Smith states, a companion
soldier was sitting back of a shelter that
only protected him from view, when a
*cootie ” was everlastingly * digging
im" on his knee, There was a lull for
an mstant in the firing from the Ger
mans, when the soldier bending over
unwound a puttee from his leg, and
carefully bariog the knee, the big louse
was captured ** while in action”. Just
then a bullet whizzed full length along
his spine, and this is what the soldier
said and did :
* Old louse, I was going to kill you,
but since you saved my life my bosom
shall be your home ”
The Ice Cream Tax.
Carry your ice cream home free of
, and pay tax if you eat it where it is
sold, is the new ruling on<this popular
dish, The ruling which comes from
Washington, reads as follows :
** Ice cream cones are taxable where
ever sold. Jce cream purchased and
carried home is not taxable. Ice cream
sold in hotels, restaurants and public
eating places is not taxable if included
with a meal as dessert. If listed separ-
ately on the menu and included as des-
sert, it is taxable",
It is expected that this will clarify the
complex situation which arises in regard
to the new “luxury tax” in a great
énany cases,
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Died While He Fished.
James Dougherty, of Middletown,
aged seventy years, was found dead
along Jocks Creek, in Mifflin county, on
Thursday afternoon, by a boy and girl
who were passing along the stream and
saw from a distance a man sitting upon
the creek bank as if he was waiting to
draw a fish from the water, Upon go-
ing nearer they discovered that the man
was dead, His fishing rod was held
firmly in the death grip of his hands
and the fish were still nibbling at the
bait on the hook ot his line,
Inquiry at the Mifflin county home
disclosed the fact that Dougherty left
there early in the morning to go on a
fishing trip. He was subject to attacks
of vertigo and he was probably seized
by a severe illness early that day while
enjoying his chief sport of fshing.
His white whiskers attracted the at.
tention of the passing boy and girl who
made the gruesome
He was a familiar figure at the county
home where he usually spent his win.
ters, He was an itinerant painter and it
is stated that his relatives, several
!brothers and sisters who reside in
Dauphin county, are well-to.do,
ME SM
Last Auction at Meiss' Store.
G. R. Meiss will hold an auction sale,
, the last for this season, at his store at
| Colyer, on Saturday evening, Come if
you want bargains, adv,
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Rats and mice have been found to be
in honor of three of thei
man, the secre-
freshments
members—D). Ross Bush
tary ; Alfred Crawford. and W. W,
Kerlin, the presidest—the former tw
having been in France, and the latte!
ready to sail when the armistice was
signed,
Several new members were taken nto
the order at this meeting, bringisg the
membership up to the one hundred
mark.
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Penn State Football Card Announced
for Next Season.
Penn State's football schedule for the
1919 season contains eight games, four
at home and four on foreign fields
There is one less contest than has been
the practice in former years,
An outstanding feature of the grid-
iron card for next is the date
marking the resumption of football re.
lations with the University of Penuosyl-
vania, The last meeting between Penn
State and Penn was on Franklin Field in
1916. Cornell is another attractive op-
ponent. The Ithacans were on the 1918
schedule, but because of war conditions
the game was not played. State will
journey to Lake Cayuga on November
15 for the first game with the Red and
White in several years.
Dartmouth is again booked for a con-
test at Hanover, N. H., on October 18,
A two-year agreement brings the Green
to State College for the Pennsylvania
Day game in 1920,
The complete schedule follows :
October 4—Gettysburg College,
State College.
October 1:1-—Buckaell University, at
State College.
October 18—~Dartmouth, at Hanover.
October 25—Ursinus, at State College.
November 1 Pennsylvania, at Phila-
delphia,
November §—Lehigh University, at
State College.
November 15--Cornell, at Ithaca.
November 27-Pittsburgh, at Pitts
burgh.
season
at
All surplus TNT and other explosives
that can be used in clearing land, build-
ing roads or in general construction or
other work is being turned over to the
Department of the Interior by the War
Department. Such material on hand,
once considered practically worthless, is
now valued at $15,000,000. This is the
Administration's version of beating the
sword into a ploughshare.
Republican bigh-tariff advocates a
going to find it difficult to get the coun.
try to accept prosperity as an issue,
The country’s prosperity is reflected in
the enormous foreign trade, with the
balance heavily on the side of exports,
and the fact that the Treasury Depart
ment’s call of March showed the country
banks to have made the most notable in-
! crease on record,
A MI MA ISSA,
A year ago, vocal patriots were de-
“ ceased to function ”, When the arm-
1stice was signed, the American troops
on the' western front were second in
number to the French, only as was the
extent of the front they held,
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1919,
NO. 19
THE DEATH RECORD.
¥
Heims,—Mrs, Lizzie Virginia Heims,
widow of the late Thomas C. Heims,
died at the family residence, Osceola
Mills, on last Thursday morning, She
bad been in failing health for a long
time, Mrs. Heims was a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs, Daniel Hess, of Linden
Hall, and was born there sixty-nine
years ago. She is survived by one son,
Eugene Heims, of Osceola Mills, and
one daughter, Mrs. Comfort B. Brown, |;
of Detroit, Michigan,
Burial was made by the side of her
husband in the cemetery at Tyrone, on
Saturday afternoon,
McWirLiams, — James McWilliams,
one of the best known men in the west
ern part of the county, died in the Belle.
fonte hospital on Sunday evening. He
took ill on Friday. His death resulted
before an operation could be performed,
Deceased was born near Graysville sev-
enty years ago. His life was spent on
the home farm, retiring ten years ago.
He was an active member of the Presby-
terian church at Graysville, a kind
neighbor and friend : in fact, a man
without
Burial
cemetery
Campbell
an enemy.
was made in the Graysville
on Tuesday afternoon, Rev.
officiating.
Dirrgnv.—Julia Catherine Dippery
wife of Miles Dippery, died at ber home,
n Reedsville, Mond
week, aged for
months and seven days.
y forenoon of last
ty.three three
use of
years,
The ca
ysis of six months
her death was tuberc:
Sh 1
ssbhand and
I ‘aul, Eliza.
at home, and
3, of Centre
hers and
Dewat : Mrs,
duration. e leaves her ht
John, Harry,
beth, Roy and Mary all
John C. Kul
six children,
ber father,
Hall, and the Howin
sisters : W. 8.
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Gi
Rome DeArmitt,
th, of State Col
John Sweetwood, of
Kuhn, of Milton ;
Phoenixville ; Ed
toona ; Beatrice Kuk
Kuhn,
Jadob Newell,
Hecla Park; Mrs
Mrs,
Roy
Charles Smi lege ;
Parkersford ;
David Kuhn, of
Kuhn, of Al
. of Lock Haven
of Centre Hall; Mrs
of Reedsyille, Mrs.
of Lewistown,
ward
James
and
dam Suoday,
The funeral services were held
Reedsville Methodist church Wednesday
afternoon, Rev. E. B. Davidson offi.
clating. Interment was made io the
Church Hill cemetery, Reedsville,
in the
Penn Hall Native Dies in West.
Mrs, George Bolender, nee Sara Jase
Krumrine, died at ber home in Orange-
ville, Ill week,
and was buri ed on Friday, She was the
daughter of Henry and Susan Krumrioe,
and was born near Penn Hall on Dec. 9,
1842, hence was in her seventy-seventh
year. Her marriage to George Bolen.
der, of Mifflinburg, took place in 1862
She is survived by her husband, one
daughter, Mrs, J. W. Benopehoff, of
Orangeville ; one sister, Mrs. J. Gren-
eble, of Gettysburg ; five brothers, Elias
G. Krumrine, of Weikert; Dr. H. A.
Krumrine, of Newburg: Syd
inois, Wedn sesday of last
Lrumrine,
ot Rebersburg ; E. C. Krumrine, of Al
toona ; and Fred Krumrine, of Milton,
ht. —————
Receive Bids for Building
School House.
The Potter township school directors
will receive bids for the construction of
a school building, at a point near the
Dauberman farm, along Sinking Creek,
Specifications may be had by applying
at the home of E. W, Crawford, Centre
Hall,
All bids must be in the bands of the
above named party by Saturday, May
23rd,
— By order Potter Twp. School Board.
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Teachers’ Salary Bill Passed by the
House.
The Woodruff teachers’ salary increase
bill was passed fipally by the house at
Harrisburg, last Tuesday night, by a
vote of 199 to 1. There was no debate
on the measure which was recently
amended so that its provisions do not
apply to janitors, clerks, nurses and
other employes of school districts. The
bill provided for approximately a 25 per
cent. increase in salary, fixing $60 as the
minimum salary,
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“Bill” Bailey Arrives in U. 8.
Private William Bailey set foot on
American soil last Wednesday when the
steamship Finland docked at New York,
carrying principally the 103rd engineers,
the Philadelphia men who threw the
first bridge over the Marne at Chateau-
Thierry under terrific German fire,
“ Bill ” did not get to France until the
signing of the armistice and had since
will
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS,
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HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTERES
FROM ALL PARTS
Sunday is Mother's Day, and the sym.
bol is a white carnation,
The wheat fields show how the frost
of ten days ago nipped the ends of the
plants,
Wallace Weaver, of Birdsboro, visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Weaver,
near Tusseyville, last week,
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Walker are rejoic-
ing over the arrival of a baby girl at
their home in Centre Hall, quite re-
cently. It is the first-born in the family,
John A. Heckman and H. E. Schreck-
engast) both Potter township farmers,
purchased new autos last week, the
mer a Dodge touring car and the latter
a Ford touring car,
If you enjoy good music,
hear the State College
musical concert in the Grange
Saturday even
for-
don't fail to
ladies in their
hall, on
ing of this week, Ad-
mission 15 and 25 cents.
Mr. and Mrs, Henry Stoner, of
College, are planning to make a
the west next Monday morning,
will be gone u
State
trip to
They
in August,
1 the Dakotas.
antil some time
and expect to react
B. Wollner,
of the Mi
Was a
of Lewistown, magpager
ng ¢ Smpany,
ce last
issue y for the
dead stock free of charge.
business call
week, See t
removal of
At the annual business session of the
Pennsylvania Odd Fellows’
beld in Williamsport Tx
week, Milton
for the
-
Association,
of last
unanimous choice
g of the Association.
1esday
was the
1920 meetin
Among
last week wasHarvey D. Hagan
mers Mills,
doing
for the state's greatest educational in
tution.
the Reporter's callers during
.
, of Far-
w hie
resent is engaged in
csrpunier v fate
Philipsburg
Budwig,
was forced
trouble,
from G. G.
oplane, who
had a visit
a piiot of a mail aer
land
to owing 1o motor
nig
He re-
it, while a
in a field
on Wednesday
in Philip
at.
mained
guard stood b
close {0 the town.
The Philadel tpl a Public Ledger,
its Saturd
in
n. makes the
Robuck & Co.,
increase of over
3 usiness seclio
iat Sears,
an
thirty-three per cent. over its sales for
the same in 1918. This
dicates that there is business and
-
in-
h
and those
who are after it are landing it.
Those from this place who did
the war train at Bellefone,
day, at least had the pleasure of seeing
the airplane which was to have been a
part of the day's doings. The machine
passed over Centre Hall late in the after-
noon, reaching Bellefonte too late for
playing its part in the day's program.
a
not
Se
last Wednes-
A dozen or more wild docks were
found dead or maimed in Miltheim, one
morging last week, Several flocks of
geese and ducks were heard flying over-
head the night before, during a storm,
and it is presumed the fowls is became be-
wildered and remained it that vicinity
by the attraction of the street lights,
Compulsory attendance of children be-
tween the ages of 8 and 16 in school has
become a Pennsylvania law through the
signing by Governor Sproul of the bill
introduced in the House on February 3,
by Representative Frank B. Mallery, of
Venango county. This bill met with
opposition in both houses but was finally
carried by an overwhelming majority.
The skunk was ordered protected by
law as a friend of the farmer and ot the
public generally because of peit and oil
in a bill passed by the House of Repre-
sentatives at the night session Tuesday
of last week, amid considerable merri-
ment. The muskrat was also ordered
on the protected list from November 15
to March 1. The bill'\forbids taking the
skunk except by ‘‘dead falls” and
smoking out is prohibited. The vote
was 105 to 52.
500,000 books are needed for the boys
who are still overseas. Books maintain
army morale, and nothing appeals to the
men more than clean, fresh books, prin.
cipally works of fiction. The Peansyl-
vania Free Library Commission is en-
deavoring to collect books in this state.
If you care to contribute a good book or
two, give them to Mrs, John H. Weber,
Centre Hall, and when a fair sized col-
fection is gathered, the books will be
shipped, destined to reach our boys
* over there ". Heed the appeal !
The Miliheim Journal says the follow
ing with regard to an outbreak of diph-
theria in that town: On last Thursday
H. R. Auman's home was quar
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Spring Mills Grange to Give Play.
On Saturday evening, May 17th, the
Spring Mills Grange will render two
Playa 1s tie Guange ball at that place.
“Mr. Bob” is “comedy,
and “It's All tn the Puy 8 Streak” is a
The best way to keep the Hoes aad
them out. —
cultivators polished this summer is by
lm
a