pr oni BE
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LOCAL AND PE NAL.
John C. Rossman, of Mifflinbupg, was
a visitor in town beginning of the week.
B. Wythe,
the
took
office.
Frank
charge
on Sunday,
of Philipsburg post
E. been in the
best
M.
of
Huyett has
health
not
for the past week or
more,
Mrs. J. Puff continues to improve
and
H.
gaining
to bed.
is strength, but is yet
confined
fortunate in se
C. WwW.
curing a |}
Boozer was
ease on the Kerlin house re
WwW.
April
cently sold to J. Dashem, and will
move there about 1st,
It
disease,
Guard stomach
foundation
your
of health or The
stomach med!
Hall
world’s most famous
cine is Tanlac—Centre Pharmacy
G. M.
Wed
Capt.
Hall last k after an absence ol
which time
Mrs. C.
weeks or more,
with his
daughter,
in Reedsville,
Nellie Smith
Hall
T. A.
teachi
Miss was
Centre on Sunday,
Hi
nursing
uncle, sterman.
is
pital, Wilkinsburg.
Mr. and Mrs,
Sunday, went t
there tod
IK
and for a few days were the
Mr, Mrs. Roy
and
Mrs.
Monday
friends and
The
games
er
and
such as ice
were served
}
The
improving
condit
gradually
able to move about in his
extent I
some with
1g ol
The beginnir
ahscoss
pockets had
caused severe
very
pocket was being
Warren
dent of
the E. M
has been
law
Young
published
living in
Eagle
ture and
in 8Cco
A
quilting party held at the home of
A. P.Kr inst
ing was en by
dies: Miss Mary F
Fisher, Mrs
Mark, Mrs
Bible, Mrs
Thomas Ik
Mrs.
ipe Thursday even
. me
the following ia
Mrs
David Boozer, Mra,
wy ed
isher, Frank
Harvey
Mrs, Fr
Bradford, Mrs
John Delaney,
Howard
Ww F.
laney, Mr
Durst, wank
=
Orvis Swartz
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Harry W f
Philipsburg,
Volstead law must
Todd,
has given
the new burgess o©
warning that
be enforced Oz
has been flowing rather
fpsburg but
must
men
positions would not
prosecution if they
ing the enforcement
freely in Phil
Todd
told
officers
Burgess
says it
cease, and he the council
and borough that thele
from
in violat
save them
persisted
law,
Out in Nebraska the corn |
so plentiful that it is being burned for
fuel, the corn growers have concelved
a new ldea--the storing away of the
corn, not in cribs, Hut to eat it. Many
organizations have been formed who
call themselves Corn Eaters of Amer
fea. They are not only eating their
share of corn, but they are also calling
the attention of the world to the value
and economy of corn and its products
as a food.
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LUUAL AND PERSONAL.
Among thg southside callers
office A.
the
at
Reporter wis Chemlos
who reports everything moving
along
in good form in his balliwick.
your for
salmon and other
will
Ray G.
me have order
halibut,
fet
fish- kind
and oysters. Deliveries be made
Thursdays, as rule.
Centre Hall,
L
If
ground
you Keep logo
may
Your «
be
ar
you able
several real estate deals
of formation These, of
local:
Mr. and Mrs, Samuel Shooy
tonduct the rest the
iurant in
bulldng, visited
n Mat
friends and
vwan, HMMifflin
yrit
county,
ram
BOALSBURG NEWS.
gram ¥ entertainment
musig being prep
Last Friday evening the Boy and
Girl held a bazaar
A pleasing program of
ment w
na and red
Scouts he social and
vViry entertain.
wrranged.
E. Meyer,
tuning pianos at
as
George the piano tuner, is
busy State College
GEORGES VALLEY,
Immel
Thursday
there
Davis
after spending
sister, Mrs. B. F
Balley dined at
Sunday
went Neas~
to
to
spend
Miss M aggie
ant Gap last LW
weeks with friends
Mrs
Lock
with
Susan returned from
a month
Rickert.
the J
Haven
her
1. C.
home
Frederick
in
Rev Ww
Gobble
3. V
sawmill
on
expects to his
in the
number of the
put
operation near fut
ure as quite a farmers
have hauled logs in to have sawed,
Those who spent last Thursday with
Mra, Mrs. J. C. Me
Clenahan and two children, Mrs. J.
Boal and Miss Kate Frederick, of Pot
ters Mille, and Mra, P. M. Ackerman.
AUCTIONEER. ~~ R. J. Witmer,
graduate of the Jones National School
of Auctioneering makes all
sales, specializing in farm sales.
dress State College, R, F, D. Commer-
cial phoned 68L, bto?
Valentine were:
HEH RG
Sold.
Sweetwood
Mersvinger Farm
What is the
yi farm, along
known as
Binking creek,
d
Merginger
8
ward
Hill, owged by P. BE
r | was recently sold by him to John
Dauberman for ideratio
$3000
remove all
thi
t for
it 11
a cons
Mi
1ldings,
n approx
imately Dauberman will
seed the
greater
part of land to grasses and clover,
and use ture, Sinking cregk
pi
the tract and affords
There
passes through
of
win abundane water are a
bout 60 creg in the tract and it lies
nearby the Dauberman homestead.
Had Golter Removed
3, farmen
has been very
returned home Saturday.
Marriage Licenses
[a
Blizzard in North Dakota,
fron
CUSTOMERS NOW
BUYING STOCK
IN UTILITIES
Writer Sees Movement Only
Proper Way to Achieve
Public Ownership
prt of
which
The
public utili
is the owne
os Of the
only publi
r various
sults have | 4
both the pull
by the gene
the history of the ut
On the face of It
has changed the
compamies, |
pressic
it w
thi
as will be showy
charged that utility
owned by mysterious
as "Wall Street bust
the end it Is found
bave been utility
vestors in them have been
54
it
a.
the
that
compan
UAGAS S00 wae Insurance
dep ws Ir
of insurance §
the real own«
Thus the gent
had a proprietary
service corporation
public did not suspect
Now, however tions are changing.
largely as the result of the efforts of the
utility companies themselves to deal with
their customers as Investors in addition to
placing their th the banks,
insuiance compa and other agoncios as
investors of funds depositors or policy
holders. T es ix slowly
but surely bringis a condition of real
public ownership ownersidp of the
corporation which provides the service by
the people which the corporation serves
we Public Service Management,
the holders
have boon
mpadios
rectly, has
the public
which the
and
therefore
sn banks
re of the utility
ral public, in
interest in
an interest
condi
OG
wi
of
’
ort af ti
elo a in
y ttilit
about
thal is,
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TELEPHONE EXCHANGES
CRUDE IN EARLY DAYS
A visitor to a.modern telephone operating
room cannot fail to be impressed with the
speed and efficiency with which the switch
board operators handle the subscribers’
calls. Their swift and accurate movements
in respouse to the flashing lights on the
switchboard, the absence of any confusion
even. in rush hours when trafiic is at lu
height, are Indicative of the advances Io
methods and apparatus that have been
going on for nearly half a century of tele
phone history.
Yet it was not always thus. The first
telephone exchanges were pretty crude
affairs In the light of modern telephobe
development
At one of the early periods of switchboard
4 development there was great confusion In
the opbrating rooms because the operators
md to shout to each other the connections
wanted by the calling subscribers There
were many schemes devised to do away
with the shouting. In one of these, there
awore little tubes provided, each tube end
ing before a particular operator, and in-
stead of calling out, the operator receiving
the call would write the desired number
in lead pencil on the marble, put it into the
tube and allow it to roll down to the operator
desired. All these methods were changed
when the multiple switchboard was ine
troduend, in which all of the lines are carried
through the entire switchboard appearing
on each section so that each operator has a
certain number of subscribors’ lines in front
of her which she answers and also has
within reach all tho other lines connected
spppne reg
—
We Must Sell This Merchandise!
Our Entire Stock of Winter Merchandise
which is left over will be sold
CENTS ON
Al 5 THE DOLLAR
We Are Turning Our Stock Into Cash!
NOT A SINGLE GARMENT will be Carried Over
We are moving them out rapidly during this BIG HALF-
PRICE SALE. It is important that we unload our great
sfock of Winter Merchandise at sacrifice prices.
We Have Two Good Reasons :
First, we neeo the money to meet our obligations. Second, we
need the room for our large Spring Stock, as we carry nothing
over from season to season. We are compelled to unload every
dollar’s worth of fall and winter merchandise, Our entire stock is
at your disposal at sacrifice prices. Our misfortune, however, is
your good. IT’S MONEY IN YOUR POCKET. SPEND
TO SAVE,
D. J. Nieman, Millheim
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Cables Carry 47,000 Telephone Wires Under
Single Corner of New York’s Busiest Street
a
rm
ars
nr
A
F
[5d
! f
Feiss
i4dd
Manhole showing loading Pots, Cable Racks,
ond oi the back, Cables entering Ducts.
pa
Cables 24 inches in diameler carry.
ing 2.424 wires fanned oul to show
Pole line built in New York City in 1887. The height
circuits,
of the poles was §0 feet, each pole carrying 30 cross
arms. Destroyed by Blizzard the following year. ‘
There is perhaps no single stroot in the
country so well known as Broadway, New
York, and tLere Is po poist on Broadway
where ths underground telephone traffic is
heavier than It is at the crossing of Franklin
Street. More than 35 lead-covered cables
traverse the sireet. each cable containing
on an average nearly 700 telephone clrouits
making a total of over 47,000 wirds under
this single thoroughfare. This vast nume
ber of wires, if placed upon a single over.
bead line, would require poles two miles
high. If the poles were only as high as
the Woolworth tower, Broadway would be
roofed in by twelve such gigantic lines and &
veritable canopy of capper.
In the Bell Telepbone System over
15.000.000 miles of the 26,000,000 miles of
wire is placed In underground conduits,
the cost of this invisible portion of the
telephone plant being more than $300,000.
00. While the bulk of this subterranean
onstruction is in metropolitan districts,
some of it is to be found in toll circuits,
wich as the cable between Boston and
Washington, which is 453 miles long and | These cables were two inches in diameter.
runs entirely underground, and underground | The technique of making telephone cables
construction is also used in smaller places | has advanced steadily ever since, and many
where this can be done economically. of the cables that are placed today, although
The earliest telephone cables were laid | only two and five-cighths inches in diameter,
in the streets of Boston and although carry- | contain 2.400 wires. The great saving
ing only about twenty circuits, proved $0 | which results from the use of such cables
be extremely inefficient. Not only was the | may be illustrated by the fact that a single
quality of conversation very poor, but | 2.400-wire cable carries at many circuits
| bechuse of the electrostatic relations within | 44 could be placed upon eight pole Bones of
the cable, conversation showed a great the t and size sh D
tendency to leak into neighboring circuits og a Showa 1a tio accomtpany=-
and it made Htte difference whether the | "6 Cut. This enormous increase in the
receiver was attached to the same pair of | CATTYIng capacity of a single cable has been
wires as the transmitter or to any other | Sccompanied by a very great reduction in
the amount of copper required for each cir
cuit, with the result that the installations
which have thus far been made have enabled
the Bell System to save upwards of $70.-
000,000 for the telephone-using public in
first costs. Were the greater cost of upkeep
of overbead comstruction to be taken into
account the showing of savings would be
much greater.
In fact, it appeared at that time that a
eable would Le quite impracticable if more
than a quarter of a mile long.
In those days, however, the telephone,
like the other branches of the electrical
industry, was in its infancy and revolu-
tionary advances have occurred since.
By 1880, a few cables containing fifty cir-
cults were successfully installed and operated.
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SALE REGISTER
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24th, at 1.30
o'clock, at Potters Mills, Frank A.
Carson, admr., will sell household
goods of the late Willlam OO. Loughner
Another example of the care which | tican outfit in Harrisburg ought to be
be by Fublio must if of
in unremunerative to come into their own,
director,
the of the
Spring township, Snyder
surcharged $1085
The
criminal
must exercised geryants, | ousted, and be the people
even the post of, this stale are
in
of
county, which
for
court
school has been furnished
A
Cane board of education
Thomas A Edison celebrated his
seventy-fifth birthday on Saturday, and
absolved | P® is confideni he will be able to cel-
ai | ebrate fifteen birthdays. Just
the It represented | "OW he is working on an amplifier for
Moneys paid some of the directors for | Use on a radiophone. He predicts that |
work done on the school properties and finally we will be able to hear an ant
for purchases made in oxcess of $300 | tATK.
without competitive bids. 4
has been viola
tions of the law.
4 ore
the men from intent m
but
rected surcharge
RUSSIAN WIRES USELESS
| The desolation of Petrograd, says a news
| despatch, has been intensified by the de
Cb “Unele Joo" Cannon, of Illinois, after | struction of the central telephone service
Pénnsylivania’s state treasury is |serving twenty-three terms as a mem~| by fire and the indefinite suspension of
ghort something like $18,000,000 accord- | ber of the House, announced he was he telephone Sprite. Wh Goerument
ing to a statement made by ‘State not a candidate for re-election. He was | ious departments, but the indication is
Treasurer Charles A. Snyder, and now | Speaker of the House during eight! par it will not be possible to restore the
the blame is being shifted from one of- | Years. Next May he will reach his
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of lack of waterial and organization.
~
with the switchboard.
private telephones for a long time because
fice to the other. The whale Repub |elghty-sixth birthday.
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