VOL.
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WASHINGTON WEEKLY CHAT.
XCIII.
Important Matters at the National
Capital.—By a Special Correspon-
dent,
JOHNS AND MARYS.
Among the many odd things that the
Bureau offWar Risk Insurance is learn-
ing, in looking after the finances of
some 4,000,000 soldiers and sailors, is
that ‘John J. O' Brien has a strong
attachment for Mary.” This was dis-
closed recently, when a former soldier
of the foregoing name wrote regarding
his insurance. [He failed to give his
serial numder or policy number, but
said the papers would be easy to identify
as his wife's name was Mary A. O'Brien.
A search through the bureau files dis-
closed the names of 175 John J.O'Briens
and each of an even fifty of them had a
wife named Mary A.
A WIDE-AWAKE CITY.
Washingtonians— and this includes
Senators and Congressmen and all
government officials— are being much
disturbed in their sleep during recent
weeks because of the noise that is creat-
ed by the repairs being made on steel
railway tracks, Beginning after mid-
night, when traffic has subsided, new
tracks are being laid. The streets are
illuminated by racks of electric lights
along the tracks, with great reflectors
behind them to magnify their powers.
Hundreds of laborers are employed, and
the noise and din of replacing old rails
with new, the incessant hammering and
pounding that is necessary, creates a
racket that makes sleep impossible,
The heat of the summer days and the
sleeplesness of the nights is not to the
liking of the nation’s lawmakers,
All States are to have their battle flags
returned to them, according to recent
instructions issued by the War Depart-
ment, Each national guard and nation-
al army organization that has been de-
mobilized will receive individual
colors. The flags will be forwarded to
the army recruiting officer nearest the
capital of the State in which they are to
be deposited for delivery to the State
officials,
its
Washington City is facing a serious
water famine, that is receiving the atten
tion of Government experts, During
the colder months the supply has been
adequate, but with the increased con-
sumption in summer and with the great-
ly increased population of the city,
measures have been taken to restrict the
use of water, while at the same
plans are under way to increase the
supply some ninety millions of gallons a
day, at a cost of $600.000. The supply
is drawn from the Potomac River, i1¢
miles above the city, The Capital City
has never before been in such a plight,
due to the lack of water.
time
Captured After Gun
Fight.
A gang of thieves, four in number,
who for the past month have been steal-
ing hams and other cured meat by the
wholesale in Mifflin and neighboring
counties, were rounded up and captured
last Thursday afternoon, near Banner-
ville, Snyder county, but not until they
had staged a real Jesse James defense
and emptied their guns at their captors,
Twenty shots were exchanged at close
range but no hits were registered,
The arrests were made after a stern
chase that had started at Burnham a
few minutes before 11 o'clock in the
morning and ended two hours later.
The four men, who refused to gve their
names were arrested by Chief of Police
H. D. Yeaman, Capt. F. G. Hinkle of
the Standard Steel Works, Guard Bow.
ers of the same force, Fred Graham, a
Standard employe and Walter Fosnot
and Meredith Meyers of the Sentinel
force.
The depredations of the thieves began
early in June when they stole a Ford
automobile, and on June 11th the smoke-
house on the farm of C. D, Sheaffer
near Middleburg was robbed of eight
hams and “other articles which have
since been identified by the owner,
Several nights later 568 pounds of ham
was stolen from the smokehouse of
Abram Spicker near Belleville and the
gang went to Lewistown where they
disposed of about 1000 pounds of cured
meats at half price,
When captured the men had about
$300 in cash on their persons.
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Wheat Field Wrecks Airplane.
Pilot Lamborn, of Bellefonte, pilot of
United States Mail Plane No, 79, was
slightly injured and his plane consider.
~ ably damaged near New Bloomfield,
Perry county, on Wednesday of last
week, when he attempted to land in a
wheat field. Lamborn is said to have
mistaken the wheat field for a grass plot
_ until too late, and when he landed, the
wheels caught in the grain and the plane
overturned. The propellor was broken
and the plane badly damaged, Lam-
born, a flier on the air route between
New York and Cleveland, was on his
ay from the latter city to Bellefonte,
| when he lost his way,
Meat Thieves
“STATE NEEDS MORE FUNDS.
Friends of State College Aroused at
E Action of Legislature in Cutting
Out Appropriations.
Failure of the state legislature to pro-
vide adequate funds for State College
has aroused the alumni and friends of
the college and efforts are being made
to impress upon members of the legisla-
ture the necessity for funds at the
school and of the feeling of friends of
the college over the treatmert accorded
it. The college is solely dependent upon
the state legislature for funds but des-
pite this some very necessary appropria-
tions have not been made.
Some time ago the engineering build.
ing and the power and heating plant
were burned down but the legislature
has made no provisions for rebuilding
them, it having cut out an item in the
appropriations for $1,600,000 for build.
ings. As a result the college is without
facilities for teaching its engineering
pupils and without a power or heating
plant,
The college asked $1,250,000 for
maintenance and this was granted, but,
as stated, $1,600,000 for buildings was
cut out. The college requested $370,482
for the extension work and this was cut
to $200,000.
With present facilities only Soo
freshmen can be admitted. One half of
hi imber has already been enrolled
his m
is estimated that 300 or 400 fresh-
fa
Is
and it
men in full ctandine 111 refused 1
men in full standing will be refused ad.
mittance, Itis also estimated that 200
freshmen girls will apply but that only
with more than half
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65 can be admitted,
this number already enrollec
The college is asking for the following
agricultural
barn,
science
building, dormitories
buildings : Botany building.
ding,
power
beef cattle
machinery bu
poultry buildin
building,
for women in
tion bills have been re.
and efforts
are being made to have some of the im-
1 the
returned
The appropria
committed for amendment
portant appropriations to
bill.
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P. 0. 8. of A. Elect Officers.
At a regular meeting of the local camp
P.O. 8. of A., last Thursday evening,
the following members were elected to
serve as oflicers of the camp for the en-
suing six mon
President, George H. Emerick.
Vice President, J, Eim
Master of Forms, Ralph Luse.
Outside Guard, Harold
er Noll,
Keller,
Inspector, Harold Alexander,
Conductor, Ralph Henney.
Trustee, R. D. Foreman.
Installation of the above will take
place on Thursday evening. July 13th,
and will be performed by District Pres
ident E. 8S. Ripka,
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W. C. T. U. Reception.
The local W.C. T. U, gave a recept-
ton to the some sixty new members, re-
ceived in the recent drive, on Grange
Park, Friday. A supper was served.
The attendance was quite large although
a heavy rain fell at the time set for
going to the park.
The organization now is very strong
in membership, nearly all of the ladies
of good standing in the community hav-
ing allied themselves with the organ
ization that is largely credited with hav-
ing brought about the prohibition scon
to become effective. It was only a few
years ago that many good people feared
to give honest expression on the booze
question, but to-day there are few lead-
ing citizens who are not in open opposi-
tion to the thing regarded almost sac
red at that time by a certain class,
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Big-Crop Prospects Not Good
North Dakota.
Maxbass, North Dakofa,
June 16, 1919,
Editor Reporter ; Enclosed find check
for $1.50 to pay for the Centre Hall Re-
porter for another year, as I can't do
without the news from my old home and
to get the paper keeps mie in touch with
a4 great many people and other news
that otherwise 1 would not get ; and
since I have been sick the home paper
has been such a comfort to me. 1 havé
been sick for over six months with gall
stone trouble and heart failure, but at
present am a great deal better,
We have had a very dry spring and
summer so far, but on the 19th of this
month we had a good rain but also so
much high wind that the ground is vely
dry now again, and we could make use
of another good rain. Grain is not look-
ing very promising, and so far the gard.
ens are a failure, as it was so dry no-
thing could come up and lots of the seeds
were blowed out by the sandstorms and
the high wind, It is too late to put any
more seeds out as we always have such
early fall frosts so we will not feast on
vegetables very much this year, Last
year we had fine vegetables and lots of
them; also a fine potato crop. If it
rains soon again the potatoes may do
fairly well, yet they have suffered the
least of any of the crops,
Sincerely yours,
Mus, Maxy H, Prick,
To Welcome the Boys Home.
Preliminary arrangements have been
made to welcome the boys home on
Grange Park, Saturday, August 2nd, at
which place and time will be held the
community picnic. This conclusion was
arrived at on Monday evening by repre-
sentatives from various organizations
throughout Potter township and Centre
Hall, Robert M. Smith having been in
the chair. The various phases of the
proposition were discussed and the con-
clusions arrived at were unanimous or
almost so. Many of the details of the
affair have not yet been worked out, A
large number of committees have been
appointed, their selection having been
well distributed throughout the district.
The names of the committeemen will
appear later.
No attempt will be made to com-
mercialize the affair, the finance com-
mittee having been instructed to obtain
its support almost exclusively from in.
dividuals,
Centre Hall and Potter township
furnished a goodly number of young
men for army service and has represent-
atives in almost every branch of the
service, We are extremely proud of
them. They performed a noble service ;
they were brave and true. By the time
set for this wélcoming home it is
thought all of our boys will be back
home and it is fitting that every citizen
give a small portion of his time to do
them honor and a small part of his
means to meet the necessary expenses,
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Shooting and Robbery at Yeagertown.
The Charies Bottorf home, in Yeager
town, was the scene of a shooting and
robbery on Sunday afternoon. There
appears to be. much mystery attached to
the affair and county authorities are
looking into it,
Naomi Bottorf, eighteen year-old
daughter of Charles Bottorf, states that
she was resting in her room Sunday
afternoon and was aroused from a doze
by being roughly grabbed by her arm by
a stranger who she describes as being an
American, short and heavy. She says
this man demanded money and that
when she screamed for help he shot her
through the night forearm. The msn
escaped. The Bottorfs state that three
$50 Liberty Bonds along with $21 in
sew dimes and quarters were taken by
the man that shot Miss Bottorf,
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Fishermen's License Bill Goes to De-
feat in Senate.
The bill to license fishermen
state of Pennsylvania was killed
fish and game committee of the senate
last week, largely through the efforts of
Senator Charles W, Sones, of Williams
port. The measure was once defeated
in the house, but upon reconsideration
passed that body. When it came up in
the senate committee Senator Sones led
the opposition to the measure which
had aroused much opposition through.
out the state.
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“Y" WORK IS UPHELD BY ARMY
OFFICERS.
Praise of the Young Men's Christian
Association, rather than condemnation,
is contained in the first official report of
army authorities directed by Secretary
Baker to investigate the record of Army
authorities directed by Secretary Baker
to investigate the record of welfare or.
ganization in France, especially the V.
M.C. A. This report which has been
received at the natichal war work head.
quarters of the Y. M. C. A., deals with
the organizations’ activities in the area
around Gondrecourt, where was stafion-
ed the Eighty-eighth Division. compris
ing troops from Missouri, Karsas, Ili
nois, Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota,
The report submitted by Major L. R.
Row, division inspector ; Captain John
Pirie, assistant division inspector, Ser
geant Oliver B, Hanvill, division head.
quarters detachment, and several inspec-
tors eppointed from all units, is based
on hundreds of sworn statements. It
deals with canteen charges and manage-
nent, personnel, adequacy of supplies
for free distribution and of workers and
canteen supplies at the front ; education.
al and recreational facilities furnished,
transmission of funds for soldiers and
the attitude and performance of the du-
ties of individual welfare workers,
"The greatest source of criticism was
the taking over of general canteen work,
said the report. “By this the 'Y' as
sumed responsibility of gigantic propor.
tions, Every organization of the Am-
erican * expenditionary forces then ex-
pected of the ‘YY a service which would
be difficult to maintain in the most ex-
cellently functioning department of the
army.
wo ation was inadequate, milie
tary necessity did not permit transpor-
tations of supplies and the
fighting man in the front lines did not
receive the supplies which had been ad.
advertised and, in a manner, promised,
and which he expected would be deliver.
. No such service was expected of
other organizations, such as the Knights
9 Colguibut, Salvation Ariny and thes
organisations have avoided general
source of criticism,
"By assuming this canteen work the
the
the
in
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Y. JUNE
JUNE WEDDINGS.
Smith—Brown.
A quiet wedding was solemnized at
the home of D, W, Bradford, in Centre
Hall, on Thursday evening, when Mr,
Bradford's niece, Miss Bertha Brown,
and Charles Smith, recently returned
from France, where he served with the
A. E. F.! were joined in wedlock by
Rev. R. R. Jones. The bride is a
daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, of
Linden Hall, and has been atteuding to
the household duties at the home of her
uncle since shortly after the death of
Mrs. Bradford,
of Robert Smith, of Centre Hill, and
both have many friends who join in
wishing them every happiness in
journey.
Following their marriage, the couple
left for North Lima, Ohio, where
spent several days with the
sister, Mrs. John H. Bitger.
pect to return home to day.
The bridegroom is a son
life's
they
groom's
They ex-
Harrison Grove."
ohn Thomas Harrison, former? of
Pleasant Gap, and Miss Anna Grove, of
near Centre Hall, were united in mar
riage on Friday afternoon by the Rev.
Ambrose Schmidt, at the Reformed par
sonage in Bellefonte, The groom has
been employed by the railroad company
at Cape Charles, Virginia, for some time.
His mother resides in Pleasant
The bride is a daughter of Mr. and
Thomas and fi
successful
Gap.
Mrs
ar of
teacher in
Grove r a numbe
years has been a
the public schools of Potter township
Following their marriage, Mr, and
Mrs. Harrison returned to the
the bride's parents and op Tuesday morn.
ing left for Virginia, to
week or ten days,
bealth of Mrs.
home of
be gone for a
to the
Harrison's aged father,
the couple have made no
Owing failing
arrangements
. Fos Py $m oan
for the immediate future
~
B. Irvin,
suicide
Lewisburg Man a Suicide
Willi
© ; err he %
« COmmitted
NR
of West |
health, m
Awisby
at his home there some time
Thursday afternoon, H
was found hanging in the
is lifeless body
stairway lead.
ing to the attic about half past six o'clock
Mr. Irvin bad been in ill health for the
past six months bis physical con-
: mind He was
videly known and high
ly respected residents of the county,
Festival at Linden Hall.
A big festival will at Linden
Hall on Saturday evening, June 28th, by
the members of the United Evangelical
church. All choice refreshments : cake
walks and guess cakes will be features,
Give your support,
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IMPATIENTLY AWAIT
GREAT NEW CIRCUS.
be held
Ringling Bros. and Barnum and
Bailey Combined Shows Arouse
Keen Interest Here.
“Circus Day.” the big holiday for
which young and old impatiently wait at
this particular season promises to eclipse
all other events of the calendar year at
Altoona, Monday, July sth.
It would seem as though everybody in
this locality were planning to attend.
The very name of the great new circus.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey
Combined —has been sufficient to arouse
far more interest than has ever before
been shown in the, coming of any
amusement enterprise. And word
from the Ringling Brothers, who are the
directors of this gigantic super-circus, is
to the effect that thoee who attend the
performances will witness the greatest
program ever presented in America.
This is likewise true of the mammoth
street parade, which will positively take
place showday morning, the mammoth
menagerie and all else connected with
this biggest of all amusement in stitutions
The famous showmen have made a com,
plete survey of the great circuses and
inerged the finest and best of each into
one. Hundreds upon hundreds of per-
formers will appear in the gigantic main
tent. There will be scores upon scores of
the cleverest dumBactors. A gorgeously
costumed pageant, of stupendous size,
will open the program. Great compa-
nies of characters, representing the best-
loved stories of fable and nursery lore
will appear. There will be splendid and
many groups of beautiful horses in jew.
eled trappings. The army of clowns ex-
ceed all past records for fun and num.
bers. All contribute to the biggest
circus in history,
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An American citizen, after looking
with pride and an enthusiasm that thrill
ed, upon the Iron Division as it passed
thru the streets of the City of Brotherly
Love, consulted military authorities,
facts and figures, to caloulate that if the
2,000,000 men who crossed the ocean to
fight with our European allies were to
pass in grand review over the same
Toute, together with their cannon, wagon
trains aug entire equipment, it would
také them forty days, marching st
twelve hours a day, % oagily
think our Uncle Samuel sent them across
the great Atlantic in
THE DEATH RECORD.
Ievin—~ William P. Irvin, for almost
fiity years a resident of Pleasant Gap,
dropped dead on the road in front of
Noll's store abont 8:15 o'clock last Thurs.
day morning. He had been complaining
about not feeling very well the past few
days but was out and around the town.
Wednesday evening his youngest son
returned home after a year's service in
France and some are of the belief that
the father's joy in his son's home-coming
may have proven disastrous. Mr. Irvin
was 08 years old and located at Pleasant
Gap over forty-five years ago. He was
united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth
Knoffsigner who survives with the
following children Mrs, Mary Peters,
of Niagra Falls ; Mrs. Margaret Lender
and Miss *Violet, Punxsutawney : Mrs,
Mabel Campell, of Bellwood Frank, of
Pleasant Gsp ; Archibald, of sellefonte,
and Corp. Samuel Irvin, who served in
France as a gunner in the heavy artillery
of the Sixth
division, He also leaves
several brothers and sisters. 7 he funer-
al was held at ten o'clock on Mouday
morning, burial made in the Lutheran
’
cemetery at Pleasant Gap,
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MiLiwarp,—The home of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank I. Millward, Pleasant
Gap, has been saddened by the death of
$
at
ir bright little daughter, Jean Ail
» which occurred on 1 hursday after
a two weeks’ illness with
She
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meningitis of
the brain. was aged three years,
four month Fu-
on Sunday af.
made Pleasant
Gap, Rev. Piper, of the M. E. church of.-
six days.
peral servi
and burial
bar
ernoon at
acialing.
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Centre Countian Dies in West.
John H, Federhoof, born in Centre
count five years ago, and who
for
resident
y sevenuly
* Pod -
the thirty been a
North
t, of paralysis, He
in Williamsport where he
past
years has
of Nebraska, died
Platt, Neb., last weel
rmerly lived
has relatives,
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No Paper Next Week.
Next week is the week of the Glo
Fourth, and the Reporter will observe
giving
this season of
its time-honored cust of its
employees a vacation at
the year. You will find the office open
?
every day, howewtr, to receive payment
or subscription and orders for job
print.
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Centre County to get $15,000 Cash
Tax Bonus for Township Roads.
Od Monday,the State Highway de
partment announced the amounts to be
received
sylvania
by the various count
ia from the aj propriations by the
present legislature Covering the cash tax
bonus due townships for the years p13
and 1914. The total amount for distribu.
tion is §1,142,049.38 The amount due
Centre county is approximately $15,000,
By Act of July 22,1013, known as the
“Jones Dirt Road Act” it is provided
that the general supervision of road af-
fairs in each township of the common.
wealth of Pennsylvania shall be vested
in three township supervisors. It is
further provided that the road tax in
townships shall be collected in cash and
Bo taxes shall be payable in labor or
worked out. It is also provided that
each township shall furnish an annual
report to the State Highway department
sworn to before a notary public, show-
ing all receipts and expenditures during
the past year ; and also file a signed
Agreement setting forth the proposed
method of expending funds received
from the commonwealth, This, together
with a copy of the treasurer's bond. is
sufficient to entitle the township to re.
ceive its share of the annual bonus,
which is intended to cover an angsual re-
imbursement from the State of fifty per
cent of the total amount of road tax
collected by the township as shown in
the sworn statement, but it is provided
that no township shall receive in any
one year more than $20 per mile of
township road in said township,
HI PAIN.
Two Electrocuted While at Work.
William Hess, recently returned from
France as’a member of Company F, was
electrocuted Wednesday afternoon
while at work repairing live wires oppo-
site the County Court House in Hunting
don. He was an employee of the Penn
Central Light and Power Company, A
wire came in contact with his'arm and
burned a deep gash in it. His body
hung on the wires until the current was
ies of ;Pean-
Samuel Kyper, of Williamsburg, was
electrocuted at that
ing the private telephone line of
Rayston Water Power
lightning bolt charged the wire.
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NO. 2%
TOWN AND GOUNTY NEWS,
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS
No paper next week,
Mark August 2 on your calen
that's the day,
dar, for
Are you going to the Welcome Home
Celebration to-day?
It was very cool for several days be-
ginning of the week, On Sunday night
mercury dropped to 42 degrees,
Watsontown is planning
Welcome Home Celebration,
8 monster
in honor of
her soldiers and sailors, on July th and
sth,
We'll continue to “save”
the hour of
daylight until October 26, then the day.
light saving law will be thrown the
discard,
in
The hour for holding public
Old Fort, by J. M. Moyer, on
of this week, has been changed from
o'clock to 12 o'clock.
sale
Satur
A number of young men from Lewis-
burg have left for Ka
wheat fields.
usas to work in the
That state
record crop of wheat
anticipates
The State road south from the borough
line, was pebbled and tarred last we k,
and will therefore be in first class shape
for the remainder of the summer,
The local crew of state road
in their across the Seven
ains, last week, saw a large
and at
workérs,
Mount
buck
Ume a beautiful
Crossing the road ahead of them
trips
deer
another fawn
Tbe Spring Mills Deal ers’ association
gistered Holsteins at
day last week. The
cows sold from $300 to $150 a head.
while the nearly
sold a carload of regi
their barn one
Ps guif hs
aeilers brought as
tees}
much,
At a recent meeting of the Executive
ical Society, at Lewisbu
selected as the
3. July 20 was
the dedication of
the marker to be placed at the site of t
ihe
date for
LeRoy Massacre in Limestone township,
Recent arrivals of soldier boys from
their homes in Mill
im and vicinity include William
overseas service to
i
i Lau-
ver, Roy Held and Lewis Brown, of
Millheim, and Maurice Y of
Woodward, and
greet
earick ,
‘hey all look well,
friends are glad to
that
saer
them.
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many
Bellefonte is going to try out the
borough manager plan, and at a regular
meeting, held last week, passed an
nance creating the position of Borough
Manager at an annual salary of $1800,
At the same meeting of Council James D,
Seibert resigned as a member { the
South Ward. This step was accepted as
foreshadowing his selection by Council
to the newly established position. Mr,
Seibert has been a member of Council
for a number of years,
ord-
¢ n
irom
Drs. Grover and William Glenn have
completed plans for the erection of a
private samiforium at State College
which will likely be known as the Glenn
sanitorium. The doctors are brothers
and have for some time past considered
such an undertaking but their plans
were delayed because both of them
entered the service. Now that they
have been discharged and Teturned to
the College they have decided to go to
work at once and erect the necessary
buildings for their institution,
Samuel! Barr, who resides at Gum
Springs, in Rush township, saw an im-
mense black bear while driving to
Philipsburg Thursday morning, Mr.
Barr bad driven from his home down to
Gardper, and was on his way to town
over the Tyrone pike when, on reach-
ing the point where the old Copelin Inn
was formerly located , the bear came out
of the brush and leisurely crossed the
road in front of him. The horse,
throughly frightened, broke part of the
barness when it lunged suddenly in an
attempt to get away, and Mr. Barr was
nearly thrown from the buggy. After
pacifying the horse Mr. Barr patched up
the broken harness with the halter rope
and proceeded on his way to Philips
burg,
The first hatelrof 1200 eggs in the new
mammoth incubator recently installed
by Kerling’ Grand View Poultry Farm,
in this place, is soon to *‘come off", The
new incubator entirely revolutionizes the
baby-chick hatching industry. A great
amount of labor is required under the
old system, to turn the eggs, it being
by a simple
mechanical operation. Pea coal is used
for fuel and a hot water system is used
to furnish the necessary heat for hateh-
ing the eggs. A
No paper next week,