PENNSYLVANIA STATE ITEMS Greensburg.—Mrs, Joviaa Sposetto, of Jacobs Creek, Is dead as the result of a shooting affray on the night of July 27. Mrs. Raffaelo Spanelll Is a prisoner in the county ail here, and according to the district attorney, the charge of felonlous shooting against her will changed to murder. Sunbury. —Calvin Osman, track fore- man on the Lewisburg and Tyrone msserts that his snakes this summer. Most were rattlers and copperheads, and were found In the mountainous part of the division. Unilontown.—Shortly after she had a quarrel with a neighbor, whose cows broke through a fence and into her garden, Mrs. Mary Shurilla, of Oliver No. 1, of her made store; The authorities an investigation declare’ rilla was fortunate in escaping with her life. Meadville.~William 35, of Newark, N. death during a fight in a Roberts, house into house. Roberts, a guard for the Mead- ville Machinery company, to have been intoxicated at and intended entering doors from the killed. Altoona —Exeavation foundation for relocating ti cab shop and the storehouse Juniata shops Is the first provements and extensions toona works, on which vania railroad will spend already appropriated, are completed a force of shopmen this point. Uniontown. lots” in a time few was the house a one where hg he scale and step In im- to the Pennsyl- $3,587,000, the largely will be employed at How he sold “cholce New Jersey swamp from others In when on a commi It is claimed that h cured a total sum ranging 875.000, Stockholders wi i 1 the scene of dese ribe od ed arrested Fayette county, was recit George Zeewskl charge of tted to the was and the “dreamiand” by the pro- moter found purchased from demolished training camps. New Castle. the of cleared up when local Walter Majeska, age a several highway to confessed ing he only til a reward turn, Pottsville.—The about to be breweries In this barrel to £21 1 ed clubs, barrel will be $2 Many sald will not pay t will down what they declare to be an They say t the incre into effect the raised from cents a glass, Sunbury. —Returning ure park, Mrs. Emm 16, Sunbury, was st head by a not been det scious porch army Mystery three horses police arres dd 12 3 hase Youn Ma jeska to stealing the horses, ¢l theft here years mile « along the gstown, alm- intended holding them un- was offered for their re- price of raised by most of the county from Chis is the ice charg. Saloons which pay now required to pay wnkeepers declare t he increased ch arges and close extort real reason for fon here Is no When the price Of increase beer will Se 10 cents a glass to from a Schreffler, ruck whose identity ermined. She fell uncon- and was found lying on the 3 her mother, Mrs. LL. E. Sechrefller. Police believe she was at- tacked by a burglar came upon while he was trying to entrance into the * Bethlehem, — Arrested eas. I person whom she force house, on a “rough on rats” Mary Wincisko, of this city, was sen- tenced by Alderman Schaffer to pay twenty cents for each chicken and the costs of the Another neighbor had the same woman arrested for beating a child with a stick and Mrs, Wincisko was also findd in that case. Pittsburgh.—The county detective bureau sent circulars througout Penn- sylvania, Ohio and West Virginia and to the large cities of the country in an effort to trace Frank Watkins, who escaped from the Allegheny county Jail. The Allegheny county commis- sloners have offered a reward of 8500 for the eapture of Watkins, Watkins, a convicted autorhobile thief, was iden- tified recently as having been connect. ed with the robbery of the Bolivar State Bank, at. Bolivar, Westmoreland county, according to the authorities, A model prisoner, Watkins was given the freedom of the prison. In some unexplained manner he secured dupll- cates of the warden's keys and used them to get away. Reading.—Waking from sound sleep to find that three houses nearby were on fire, Mrs. Franels Gross, aged 65, of this place, died soon after of shock, Point Marion ~-Louis Casespear, of this place, is in the Fayette county Jail charged with running down And killing Louis Drop, aged 19, Millerstown Thomas V. Diffender- fer has been appointed postmaster here, Chambersburg, ~~ The parochial school an dhall bullding of Corpus Christi Catholic congregation here was congecrated by Bishop Philip R. Me Devitt, to 35 chickens, case, Lewlstown.—The sixty-fourth annu- al MifMiin County Teachers’ Institute will be held here September 4-8, Hudsondale.—While John Eroh and of this place, were on an auto trip to Allentown, their home burned to the ground, chusing a loss of $1000, Northampton.—Loging her balance as she was playing along the banks of the Lehigh Canal, 4-year-old Rose Chencitz, of this place, fell into. the water and was drowned. Carlisle —With the arrest of two men and the seizure of thelr equip- ment, state police and county author ities sald they belleved they have un- covered one of the largest moonshine distilling plants In the Cumberland valley. Other arrests are expected within twenty-four hours, Three prominent men, whom police say live in Shippensburg, are sald to have been regular customers of the alleged moon- shiners, who are sald to have been operating on an Immense still located Pond, Cumberland county, Harrisburg.—Blanks calling for statements of revenue In various branches of the state government and what is expected in the two years be- ginning June 1, 1923, are being sent the reorganization commission, with other expendituce data September, will furnish the with Information never before compiled. Connellsville, of real here by the police. w Nuarristown.—The county sioners were Informed by of Upper Frederick the Green Tree destroyed by fire and the Elias D. Fritz, lost his life, cates and money which he lector had were The amount of money that the township offiel Residents of the paid their taxes are exercised, especially not been able to find re say that was bonded to the full duplicate, £3700, the county taxes company will due In More than fifty cakes commis the township Hotel was supers Visors tax duph a8 tax col received was 1 als did con not know. township who not a those } pts. The Fritz ¥ ers od © 1500 due in are secure, as his bond ing make understood that the company will work to canvass the put a4 man to taxpay ers, Reading —Miss Anna daughter of Att Dickinsor aged 21, orney Jose pa 3 ssi] examination and will he R. Dickinson hgs successfu ate of Dickinson law Cokeburg The squadron of national { duty in the coal strike been ordered to move from headqu frowns Officers the fron w squa "10 more yiled aavantags upon for ¢ MMrs, DArTowly esct when she fell Duncannon years old, into a suffered leg and probable internal the fall.© As Mrs. Young seepped fron a back por h to the wooden cover her home She one of tilted and she fell. She manage wall at the ent herself from Her calls who guid kiy reso Harrisburg. Farmers of Penn were urged to the d¢istern seize the side thereby under stone prey water, Were nina wheat though It past, by Rasmussen, cB profitable in the Agriculture of growers, thre ers and bakers called means of co-operating use of Pennsylvania retary Rasm & sale of the ussen assert the barrels less than of the from a He urged to co-operate with little is a state, is “absolutely marketing point of millers and the raisers in Blerbower, for the farm- growers will acreage 1eCesKary view.” Carlisle, spokesman intimated the compe reduce half because they are a proper return” for Connellsville. timony in the case of go, of 13 he led to the by their efforts, 0 East Peach street, the man's orders for booze whil the father fil them, Marengo wag fined 2100 Mayor Mitchell and the liquor confiscated by the police, State College. ~The most successful was y= eym closed. There taking college has men and women work this «year, were the last week, , These students had advan. tage of 200 courses and an exception ally strong faculty, Every county in the state, with the exception of Pike, was represented, and twenty-three other states and three foreign coun tries had representatives here, Brownsville —8truck by a golf ball on the Nemocolin links, Sharpe Came. ron, of this place, probably will lose the sight of his left eye. West Hazleton Petitions are being circulated here for annexation to Hazleton. Mount Joy. ~-Amos b, Mishey, of this place, injured an arm so badly in a corn-shredder that amputation mey be Necessary, \ Hazleton.—Mayor James G. Harvey has announced himself a candidate for president of the League of Third-Class Cites. . Tamaqua.—The school board decided to employ a school nurse for the come ing term. Jeannette Improvement, to be be. gun immediately at the plants of the American Window Gl ss company here will make it the largest of its kind in the world, GUARD AGAINST STONE BRUISES This Form of Injury to Tires Is ‘One of Most Common and Expensive to Owner. BREAK IN FABRIC IS INSIDE inexperienced Driver Whe Gets Hard Bump Against Curb or Any Other Object Usually Looks for In. jury on the Outside, * A "stone bruise” is the term used to describe gn injury to a tire caused by striking some object with sufficient force to cause the tire fabric to be broken. It need not be a stone that causes the damage. The break in the fabric may be In only one ply or it may be in all of them ; but in any case it is always the foside ply that breaks first, An inexperienced driver whose tire gots a heavy blow from a stone or a curb usually looks over the outside of Bruise” ut the oll driver knows that the lnside fabric for it is In the and that any will be registered inside Ply Shorter, Normally tk the rest and each ply is any of the others which outside of it. inside ply is shorter 3 than are lo cated is on the insid tire. Now if the This is because it f the enly com- i iderable in the position of the tllustira plies that is, the ouside ply such shown the rela as Live becomes, nt this particular point, inside ply as regards the curvature and the inside ply becomes the outside If it should happen, as it often does only one hi ¥ there or two ill not be on the ou siderable time afterward. any until This lies still unbroken will hold against the alr pres even though they be under strain But continued flex. eventually break them my be a blowout, time, even on A per tside f con ig be will will niso, which any Other Effects. Another effect of a break in one or from con eh a of the the broken in the inner netimes the ng rub a hole tube at break is so tire, nd ag this is con op ning. the break, a closing the action tinually and as tire rolls, tube is chafed through or cut as Gest ribbed, the h the car or side cover tread, from the fabr When this happens the user generally terms it a blowout, and as a matter of fact it is; but, con trary to the opinion often held, it is seldom the result of a defect in manu- It can generally be traced to sustained some time prior to the final breaking down of the tire, If the 1fter a bhraise, such rubbe the cass and force the sometimes foose of Machine Is Often Marred By Appearance and Con- dition of Tires. Tires tell mileage history more con- vincingly even than speedometers. The appearance of a car is frequently made condition 8f the tires A new get of tires and a littie clean. ing up of the car, say old tire men, an old suit of clothes. Hn TRY p rover ory orovoors YOU AUTO KNOW That gasoline, oll and grease are the natural enemies of rub- ber and that they will rapidly lead to decay and disintegration of tires, particularly if the lat- ter have been driven for a con- siderable distance and are nicked or cut. Gasoline aspe- clally ls Injurious to tires bhe- cause it is a solvent of gum rub- ber, but, because of the fact that it evaporates rapidly, it does not present such a menace as oil and grease, Permitting a car to stand In a garage In a pool of oll will, In a comparatively short time, lead to a decay of the rubber and a marked shortening of the life of the tire itself. Even the pools of oll and grease which are to be noted on streets where automo- biles are usually parked are dan- gerous for this reason—as well as for the fact that they provide extremely treacherous footing and may lead to a serious skid. So Injurions are all kinds of oll to the fabric of which tires are made that one manufacturer ad- vises motorists who are forced to go over freshly oiled roads to stop as soon as they have passed the olled section and clean the surface of their tires with gaso- line, tasking care to wipe the cleansing agent off with a dry rag (Copyright, 1822 by Syndicate, the Wheeler inc.) experienced Drivers in Getting Car into Garage. not the like Inexperienced automobilists are car into ight as they would drive a There Is a remedy for this. In the These Ruts Will Prevent the Automo- bile From Being Damaged by Con. tact With the Door.Frame. two ruts should th} These will making of a be garage, floor. car put in the al- ways keep the eXpe in Popular Sc straight, regardless driver. —(3, fence Monthly, of the rience of the Bender x FIX INDICATOR FOR BACKING Notch Cut on Under Side of Steering Wheel Will Be of Great Assistance. A small notch cut on the under side of the steering rim, In a nearest the iver, greatly r car in a straight Before making the wheels in a When backing, if one side or to the uraily shows that the straight, w heel posi- tion dri will direction simply set position the mark be to other, it nat are not AUTOMOBILE NEWS RL) thorough motorist should be a docs judge of distance and speed. * . - More accidents result from faulty adjustment or application of brakes than from any other cause. » = * Engine knocks are classified under four heads--spark, overheating, car bon and loose or worn parts. - . * One cause of lack of power In an engine while pulling against a load is a partly clogged gasoline line from tank to carburetor, not permitting enough fuel to enter the carburetor and pass on to engine. » . » One of the newest ideas regarding safety on the highways, especially at night, is the suggestion that pedestri- ans pn the left hand side of the road keep out of the range or path of an au. tomobile approaching from the rear. a i ' / f a — SOY BEANS TAKE PLACE OF OATS Production of Seed During Past Few Years in Corn Belt Has Become Profitable. SEEKING COMMERCIAL OUTLET Pospibliities of Utilizing Crop for Oil and Meal Had Much to Do With Increased Acreage—Grower Afforded Cash Crop. —— {Prepared by the United EBtates Department of Agriculture.) The soy bean is rapidly taking a place as a major crop In the farming systemB8 of the corn belt, replacing oats to a considerable extent and tak- Ing part of the corn acreage. Al- though primarily used for forage, pas ture and ensilage, the growing of seed | during the last few years has very profitable industry. The point where the supply greatly exceeds the demands for planting Beek Commercial Outlet, County soy associations Pre, agents and extension iuls, notably In Illincis and Indiana have concerned themselves In of a AE n mend bean grow county offi the de commercial the velopment the seed af oll and beans seems to result, from corn HOY be de sured for the Indiana interested In season of 1922 and Illinois the pe mills In ome the soy bean as Two mills In I THON waibilities of {1 and mesl anned suree of « have other ler scale, definite the Although Tatil available on vari Acreage grower corn and wheat Ready I@arket Indicated, The vari IMR ways in whic h the soy and iis pr ete are utili t United S for the om ates indicate nmercial yv-bean ofl Is | manuf and it is used in the acture of | and paints also used | and butter linol salad oil wr cattle human con- rubber. substi ink, and as a meal is a tutes superi HOGGING OFF C CORN AND PEAS Mixture Makes Reasonably Good Bal. anced Ration and Aninals Thrive Well on IL In hogging off corn and cowpeas, the pigs and hogs eat the beans only and not the vines and folikge, This legume secd is relatively high in pro tein, balancing the starchy corn. The mixture makes a reasonably good bal anced ration ; the hogs grow on it and gain in both flesh and fat: and there is more of the mixed feed than with corn alone, FEED- FARMING Is IMPORTANT Department of Agriculture Has Estab lished Project Which Deals With it Exclusively. Owing to the Importanze of feed. faring industry, the Unied States Department of Agriculture has estab- lished a project which deals with it exclusively. It furnishes information to prospective breeders, as well as to those already engaged In the industry, which helps them to overcome ob stacles and avold pitfalls, TEST WITH PUREBRED LAMBS Consumed 63 Per Cent as Much as _ Scrubs and Were Disposed of at 75 Per Cent More, Eighteen lambs sired by a scrub ram and eighteen sired by a purebred ram were fed out In a contest. Those gired by the purebred ate €3 per cent as much grain and sold at 75 per cent more money than the scrubs did—good hleod pays. FAMOUS RAMBOUILLET RAM GETS ATTENTION Ranchers in West Study Result of Breeding Work. : Particularly Interested in Noted Sire, Prince of Parowan—-Uniformity and Good Type Produced Are Exhibited, (Prepared by the United States Department of Agricuiture,) Ranchers fromm Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and Montana, sbout 200 per- sons in all, recently attended a field day at the government sheep farm in eastern Idaho, where they studied the results of the breeding work done by the department, particularly that with Rumbouillets. The famous Ram- boulllet ram, Prince of Parowan, at. much attention from these Parowan, Rambouillet Ram on Government Farm in Idaho, sheen Fang BABY BEEF VERY PROFITABLE Can Be Made on Land Worth Not More Than $5150 Per Acre—Always “Toppers.” Baby heef trod Wal : made most profitable on more than $150 san aM {f which at ) ’ east BHO per sa W.H cent | nsils iitivated Peters the wushandry division of the Uni of Minnesota By heed if meant the baby narketing r ing from to sell, when beeves Professor beef production al- the does pro Bach for half feeder one-half af me calves on re duction of stock or feed cattle good baby beef steer sh £30 to 350 more when on years old than will bring at years of age i the ax two PLANT WALNUTS ON HIGHWAY Minnesota Forester Receives 20,000 Trees for Distr bution in South ern Minnesota. ees nlong Minnesota high- ways is well ander way, following dis tribution of nearly 20000 black wal- nuts, recently received by the state forestry department The walnuts are to be planted along highways in the southern part of the state, according to W. T. Cox, state forester. The pians of the forestry depart. ment heve changed somewhat since the i .unching of the tree planting pro- gram, due to the fact that the demand for i(rees lx greatly in excess of the avaliable supply. BEET TOP SILAGE IN RATION su. anno lin. Hay Requirements May Be Lessened One-Half in Feeding for Beef, t Mutton or Milk, Plating The hest feeding practices have demonstrated that by the use of beet top silage in the ration the hay re quirements may be reduced by one half in feeding for the production of beef, mutton, or milk. The succulent value of the silage supplements ite actual feeding properties and that of forage and other feeds, - AA SIO SABO, NEW GRADES FOR POTATOES Revision Provides for Elimination of All Those Misshapen and With Hollow Heart, Revised grades for white potatoes, prepared hy the United States Dee partment of Agriculture, provide for the elimination from Na. 1 grade of misshapen potatoes and potatoes aft fected by hollow heart, and the add tion of a grade known as No. 1 sasil
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