_ VOL. XCVIIL
What's the
{ Philadelphia
What's the
of
who
Matter With the Farmer!
Record Editorial.)
the farmer?
the
matter with
Meaning, course, lastern
farmer, cultivates a reiatively
small acreage, diversifies his crops, and
markets his without a long
haul;
products
problems
West
do
and whose
differ
agriculturist
economic
widely from those of the
ern tilling a broad
main and gpecializing in wheat corn
or cattle.
The the
in Pennsvivania,
n or
modern farmer here
New
is not
farmer,
Jersey, Dein-
ware and Maryland, the hayseed
the
and
portrayed by comic papers. He is
generally edu-
He
school
an intelligent an
cated business man. gends his sons
to
wind
theory as
and
He
papers,
daughters to and college,
reads books,
He
the
mi zines news
understands the
well branch
of
forecasts
as practice
calling. He st markets,
the
his
probable f prices,
adopts promptly every Improvement in
methods of production. and Keeps in
touch with
the
yet
close every forward step
in of agricul
s¢ience
The farmer, alert, hdustrious,
ageous, persistent, is the poorest
business
He
hour of
workman
or
country tod:
Ww.
reward Inbor devoted to
the
the
igence,
per
prosecution of his enterprise than
average unsk
strict economy,
shrewd guessing he may
For
gets food,
dependent Hving.
bor a day he
to shelter him, Interest
ment, and
possibly
if he is very lucky
but their
We
wealthy,
ceptional
¥
farmer. What's
average
with him?
It
most
is true that
hazmrdous 1
FLIES us
ped Lihat
It
wvorable
has a genuine
legitimacy. is dependent
upon a f combination
cumstances, some of which
controllable Excess
maisture or
mies, plant,
eases-—-any
trouble the 1
if
and
Labo wrmer
with him. he
difficulties,
ing,
over:
comes through smil-
tion
of
there are overprodu ina 2
ted markets to rob him the {ruit
toil.
many
his
So people wiser thay
discussed the farmer's UU
sought a remedy that we
reluctant
But w
mn
what to come
theory eo state
of a
inadequately
a
Is worth form
is
erative
the
the question:
not farming remiin -
ex
East,
widespread
use it has not fallen, here
in within th
economic
revolutionized other
trend toward organization
dation?
Let us that
SUDDOSe
were to arise and do for food sluice
Pr
tion for steel
done
Lat
of a thousand
has been
for
grouping
of a
® s
manggement
what pro-
duction, instance, us imagine
a wijacent
farms hundred acres each, under
one ten thousand
acre
of fertile soil, ‘sulted to various uses
of a
and
in a single control. How much
pi
oversight?
saving would there be in int
equipment? How
How
and harvesting, In storage and hous
much in
much in planting and cultivating
facilities. in packing and shipping, In
In
other words, what would happen to ov
transportation stribution?
and di
erhead in a pooling of Individual prop-
erties and Interests for the continuous
that
of the
employment of machinery igs of
necessity idle a large part time
under present conditions?
The obvious answer would seem to
be that if there were money in corpor-
ate agriculture, agriculture would have
been subjected to the processes of in
eorporation and consolidation
But look far
we see the thing being
ong ago
i we enough westward,
lone. or in the
way of being done, by of
The West is
in advance of the East,
ment coming?
association
little
move-
growers, alwavs a
Ie the
This much is certain—that
farmer cannot
the small
make
ing at the prices he now
his products
production, amd the consumer cannot
pay much more than he is paying.
Abandoned farms tell their own story.
Tariff reduction would help the farm.
er, but 4 would not wholly solve his
problems. The economy that comes ‘ot
co-opgratin in some form, whether cor-
porate or otherwise, might be the so.
hition. And yet no one wants to see
the farmer, now the most Independent
of all American oitigens, robbed of hiv
birthright by the ruthless march of
Progress,
————— I ML
Lewisburg 4s to have a public tour-
ist camp. It ds a portion of ground
known as the point where Buffalo
creek enters the Busquehanna river,
and owned by the Evangelical home,
The camp will be equipped Ly the bus
dness men's association.
an sdeqgquate liv
receives {or
and at present costs of
-
FARM BARN BURNED,
——
Cows
Burn
Horses,
Barn to
Foundation.
Nothing
and
from
The
Rockey
Saved Exeept
Hogs—Second
Same
the William
Tusseyville,
F
was
large barn on
farm, near
ak
COWS
destroyed by fire with its
the
totally
contents, except horses, and
with much
first
on
hog which were removed
difficulty.
Rufus
The fire wis geen
helper the
of the
milking
to
by
Ripka, a farm
who with a member lockev
family had completed and hal
returned the barn take the cows
to
on
0H
ohserved
He
the
then
the
pasture. Pire was
and
the alarm
of the
the barn floor mows,
had scarcely given until
whole upper part bam
mass of flames, Attention was given
to i
was a
releasing the horses.
immediately
cattle and hogs, and when this was
completed the whole structure was en
veloped flames
Mr.
within 55 feet of
in
Rovkev's dwelling house stood
the barn on the east,
the north al feet distant
and to rat
the William B
saved
was itner residence
These homes were by a steady
fall of rain and the formation of a
bucket brigadg. Later the State Col-
pumper arrived and having an
abundance of water from Sinking Creek
also Ed good service in protecting the
rrounding
The
the
of h
wheat,
bullding =
loss Yo Me
barn
In
Hockey
ix heavy.
there were some twenty k
iy, the grain from seven acres of
ou ind some oats
of threshed
Wl
harness, wig-
birned
summer kitchen
in Centre
to
companies
The barn
rected
unknown
beer
fee] very
during and
asked that
Commission |pearly
and Clerk, 8B. Clau'k
Mills with Coun-
amd Superinte
ook
the
is
Roberts t,
at
This
%
has been
dilapidated condition for a number
years From whit be gsthered
of the
Shattuck
conn
Inrge tiles
old
passes favorably on
take the place
Mr.
movement,
bridge, provided thas
the
————
HO0TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
as
Mr. and Mrs, Alvin Staompfl Celebrate
Event at Old Home Above OM
Fort.
The
riage
Mary
home
Fort
proper
fiftieth
of Mr
anniversary of the mar-
Alvin Stumpf and Miss
Wingnrt was celebrated at the
the Stumpifs, west of Old
«mm Sunday To | correct, the
time the event would have
Inst Wednesday, for it was fifty
Hgo that that Rev. J. K.
Miller united them man and wife,
at Colyer, at the of the bride's
parents. Mr. and Wing -
! couple housekeeping
Ham farm, near Tus-
and spent entire active
the vocation farming. On
from the Rhone farm, they
on the home where the anni:
wig held,
and Mrs, Stumpf were presented
with 370.00 fn cash, $687.00 of which
wns in besides other prgsents.
Among others who were present
were these: Bruce Stumpf, Mrs. Ma-
ry Barger, Donald Barger, Robert Bar-
ger, Altoona: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Her-
man, Fred and Mary Hermon, John
Wilson, Philipsburg: Elmer Stumpf,
Alvin, Mary and Jenn Stumpff, Mt
Union; Mr. and Mrs. Hprry Cum-
mings and family, Arber J. Cummings,
Mr. and Mra Fred Wells, Ruth Col
yer, Hazel Colyer. Mr. and Mra, Dan-
fel Colyer, Mr. and Mra. Earl Rosa
and family, Dorn Wingart, Mr. and
Mra. Roy Miler, Kryder Miller. Mr.
and Mra, Samuel Rowe, John Ishier,
Centre Hall; Mra. Isabel Stump, Mil
heim: Edward Stumpff. Belleville; Mr.
and Mra. Milton BR. Stumpff, Wagner;
Joseph Kline, Mr. and Mrs John Kline,
Bdward Kline, Grace Kline, Ethel
Jitine, Oscar Btumpff, Mr. and Mrs.
Alvin Kine, Helen and Reed Kline,
Mr. and Mre, Frank Kline and family,
Clay Wagner, McClure; Mr. and Mrs
Henry Kline, James Knepp, Mr. and
Mra. Lester Goss, Irvin, Dorothy, John
and Carrie Coss, Mrs, Mary Goss, of
Lewistown,
The event, of courne.” was not coms
of
"o
for
heen
Vers on lay
as
home
Mrs,
began
Hamuel
Uighel
their
ife in of
retiring
located
versary
Mr
gold.
tions and well wishing for Mr. and
Mrs. Stumpfl, and a sumtpuous dinnes,
sp
bist ENCAMPMENT AND FAIR
IS DRAWING
Erection of Several Hundred Tents Is
the Blg Task Now In Progress In
Preparation of the Big Annual
‘Gathering at Centre Hall
Two weeks more of earnest work to
make of the 61st anhual Grange En-
and Fair
its history.
of the
of
under his management,
campment the biggest and
best in
Each
striving
member committees is
to make the department
a better exhi-
the
preparation
bition each and by
Park,
carried
year, activity
observed on Grange
rapidly
that when opéning day, August 30, ar
rives,
Is beingg forward, so
everything will be in readiness
for the big event
The tent Hst is about completed and
tents will soon be it
the desire of the committee to
mit
erected, but is
not ad-
campers until Thursday, Aug.
Tent $6.00
“8,
$7.00,
urged
rents remain and
according wire
tO
to Campers
Oil
are
be
chased on ground: also straw for
At
placed
bring oil stoves. can pur
those
desiring it. camper's request, elec-
tric Heght
The
to fill more space than ever
in tents.
concession department promises
with clean
umusements and wholesome supplies
of all Kinds of food, All shows of ques
tionable character, and gambling de-
vices refused entrance to Grange Park
in accordance with recent rules gov-
ening agricultural fairs
The
hibit
machinery and automobile ex
will be of wider more
M any
makes
he
scope and
diversified type than usoal
kinds
of
exhibition.
for
systems
of farm machinery and
automobdels and tractors will on
Heating and lighting
plants farm homes will be shown
Water and many
to homes
the Park
stock
improve
ments and conveniences and
farms will be found on
The breeders of pure-bred
fill the
finest
are
planning to stables the
bi
shown
with
of stock
And a
FANN
gest and exhibit
in Centre county
ty so well suited to cattle
best
the
which
dairying has the to show,
here will be fair
A
credit to the center of the poultry
it at
poultry show, will be
bi
iness in Pennsbivania. wring
is
ranged for by those interested
familar with the various features
this
industry.
Two wings of the exhibit
1 be filled with products farm
garden and orchard and, white the
payment of 10 cents for each merit
us article has been dimrontinued
premgums have been increased in num
Her In
and 4th
no
and amounts paid
1st, 3rd
from
it
developing
many aur
es 2nd.
1f
standpoint,
prizes ing
financial
effort
good
given other but
is well worth the
n and oollecting a
showing
The
aconomics
The
this
in this department
west wing reserved for home
and modern needlework
exhibit discontinued for
Ten
modern
antique
year
of
exhibited, as in past
cents paid for
article needlework not be-
fore Vears
The east wing reserved for Vocation
Schools and Extension
State
al
Penn
department
College will again have
of plants and fowers,
of State and
prominence will be heard
Thursday Wednesday.
the day the Centre County Veterans’
Club hold thelr reunion, and
catinal
the
Day,
exhibit
Speakers National
on Wednes-
day and as
an edu-
program, beginning at 3:30 in
Thursday, ax Grange
bring many noted
leaders here,
The “Filipino Five.” a musical com-
pany delighting ali who have heard
will be here the entire week
and giving a concert Saturday even-
ing, will render three concerts dally
each day following, free. This alone is
worth the price of admission. The
plays t, be given in the auditorium
each evening will be well*worth the 10
and 20 cents admission charged, as
they wili be far above the average of
home talent plays. No effort has been
spared in training, staging and scenery
to make them the best, and coming
from home communities, deserve sup-
port.
Bands will be mrdlent Wednesday
and Thursday and furnish plenty of
music,
All trains stop at Grange Park en-
tire week. Special trains on Thurs-
day, Sept. 4th.
50 cents admission, good for
Under 14 years, admission free.
MM cents for auto parking, good for
the week.
Any further information can be se-
cured from the secretary.
C—O SAAN
The Centre County Co-operative As
sociation will hold thelr annual pie-
nic and festival on Saturday, August
30th, at Holmes Grove, Pine Hall
C—O AI SR
The Grange Encampment and Fair
premium book is now out and will be
mafled as rapidly as possible. Coples
enn be secured from the secretary,
afternoon
will Grange
them,
week.
Miss Edith Sankey.
FEEDING HOGS FOR SHOW,
Car Load of Berkshire Barrows Belng
Fed at Penn State for Internation
al Show—Forty-nine Breeders Fur
nish Plgs,
Berkshire breeders
the
Pennsyivania
out to capture “hacon'’
International Livestock Bhow
this fall
Berkshire barrows
State to
the
have
i«
Chicago and sent a car
load of the Penns
svivania College we fed
the
The
sixty
for
carfoad classes,
carlond collected inst vear from
11
in all sections of the
farms
and
the
fitted by the swine
college, captured sec
choice bare
The
hundred
the
the ca
a large class of
1923 Internation
frome $10.25 foll
per
judging. This wis
by
show
price brought
the fat und
paid
stock
doliar of the price
champion carload,
Beventy theee carefully
have been sent in
year from forty-nine
ers in fifteen counties. The
swine men state that the
uniform
This
Penn
Year are more
fed k
fostered
8 Yyeny
t home
by the
Berkshire Associa
sutne smprovement
sinte
Jefferson
counties send
ty-two greeder
Berks coun
fire
from
Lancaster
Buck
»
wn
umber
%arion
d Letanon,
————————
Heckman——Herman,
W. Heckman,
Heckman
M
Lams m—— I MA TS
Largest Swamp Oak,
fre
sread of
a .
Share Millions,
vestigaut
Hope to
¥ %
Hummel
¥
rights of the
Pennsy
tral
Lady
Ameri
they believe
a ER
Better,
shows
Potatoes Promise
The
Crease
August forecast an in
of 30.000 bushels Lhe
1224
over
July outlook in the yield of Penn
sylvania grown potatoes, officials of
the Department of Agriculture an
nounced the latter of last week
The
placed
part
the
bushels,
tin A >
LET MRS. ALLEN HELP
YOU START A
can 1 do to
yield based on forecast was
at 24 585.000
ni.
BUSINESS
“What some
ey
earn mon
this
question you wil be glad to know that
at
them
If you've ever asked yourself
= near ha nd—not
48 of And they're
going to appear two each week in this
the answer one
answer, but
paper, beginning with is
sue,
“Making Good in a Small Town” is
the title of a series of 24 of the most
practical business
ten. and The
scored a scoop In securing them for ita
renders, This series is not of the
spirational or Pollyanna type, but, on
the contrary, consists of
of facts and data
different kinde
enterprises,
For instance, in one instalment Mrs
Hartland H. Allen, the author of the
series, gives a host of suggestions for
the girl who must stay at home. In
others she discloses some unique ideas
for making money from a musical ed
weation; a plan for the girl who is a
good mixer and als, for the girl who
is more retiring.
Mra. Allen was raised in a small
community, and upon deciding that
she had to have some extra money,
began to write for the local news.
paper. This, she mys was merely
cashing in on her ability, and now she
im pointing out to other girls how to
cash in om thelr special abilities.
The real lve girl with an ambition
to get ahead i8 going to find these are
ticles mighty helpful stepping stones
toward a definite goal. Begin read
them this week. .
or Wil
the present
articles ever writ-
teporter believes it has
in-
a collection
for startifg many
of profitable personal
BASEBALL,
————
Defents Make
More Certain,
Two More Last Place
#8 game Saturday after
noon,
ed
on Grange Park, Millhem grea
the toboggan on which the loc
Jub has taken a front seat,
the home team
10
and
deeper into las
place. Milihelm's runs were large-
iy due to careless indifferent play
ing, coupled with heavy hitting
of the
far behin
department,
part visitors, The lovals we
nat the
hitting
while
Han
ut
mits,
mane,
fifth, %
HON Ww ne
MILLHEIM
160 13
CENTRE HALL
R H O
5
i
hex
CENTRE HALL
R H O A
8 0
i
BELLEFONTE
R H ©O
3 1
3b { i
Malone
Johnston,
a
11]
Smith, ©
Lose, If
Kline, »f
Detrich,
Martin,
iH
2b
rf
Hardhbuarger,
Gingrich.
Totals 9
Jury Commissioners Meet,
John D
Joe
The
Decker,
eph A. Emerick,
jury commissioners
of Potter township, and
of Nittany, last
to
week
completed selecting voters act in
the capacity of jurors for the sessions
of the several courts during the year.
The Judge Quinley
at the sessions held by the jury com-
mj
President presides
FOTOS,
Ss A
0, Wonderful Horse!
“0, Horse, are a wonderful
thing: push, no hern
to honk: you start yourself. no clutch
to slip; no spark to mise, no gears to
strip: no licenseJbuying every year,
with plates to screw on front and rear;
no gas bitis climbing up each dav,
stealing the joy of life away: no speed
cops chugging in your rear, yelling
summons in your ear. Your inner
tubes are all 0. KK. and, thank the
Lord, they stay that way; your spark
plugs never mis and fuss; your mo
tor never makes ve cuss. Your {rane
is good for many a mile: your body
never changes style. Your wants are
few and easy met; you've something
on the auto yet"-Ranger H. T. Eli
ott, of the Malheur, in American Fore
estry (Washington).
a MM SA AAI
The Williams reunion will be held
Martha Furnace on Saturday.
you
no buttons to
TOWN AND COUNTY NEWS.
Mn—
HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST
FROM ALL PARTS.
of Kan-
his sis-
PF.
was
Houtz Cawker City,
of
in
recently a guest
ter, Mre, George Corman, Rebers-
burg.
Mrs. J. . Shaffer, of Altoona,
Mr, and Mrs
Hall, for a few days
wns
A guest of Lanson Bur-
a in Centre iast
week,
A. E
town last
D. L
of Millhelm. was in
in
Bartges,
weak, and company with
Bartges, of Centre Hall, called
at office
this
B.
at
are preparing a
Ww
held
the county
sheduled
17
vention Des
Howard, Beptember 18
¥
and
whe for a week or
been among his Jife-time
Potter township, returned
home in Altoona. on Bat
urday
thousand dollars
and
The
appointed
aE~
ap Sharer
loyed in Misses
5 Sharet
Hall
Ly belle and Si
Mr
la Hosterman,
and Mes. Robert
family, of Linden
af Centre
Mce(Clellan an
Hall, Ye
who attended t
Mr
Donia
G a
fw
he
na up auto oar
parties
air «
O48
fair,
nity
and Mrs
of
half-brother,
Hall, On
Sharer and son, Franklin,
ts get
a glimpse of real mountain auto roads.
Mra J W. of
Johnstown, are their cot-
Albert Harter and son
the
Sharer,
Renovo, were guests
Jacob
their
of
former's
near Centre
Mr
accompanied
return
home.
Renovo
them to
Cann and family,
camping at
tage at Pardee, Creek.
of Mrs. W. V.
Hall, and one
the cottage.” At
families
along Penns
Mra. Cann
Codehall, of
of party
present there
Altoona
is a sister
Centre is
a who own
are alan several
from at this camp.
A position as Instructor in Penneylva-
has been ace
She is
nin ViBage, Laurelton,
cepted by Miss Samah Snyder,
of the Centre Hall High
and is now taking the Bummer
course at the Central State Normal at
Lak Haven, having intended to teach
a public school the coming session
DK. Geiss, of Philadelphia, came
to town the latter part of ast week,
woking as chipper as ever, although
in his eighty-fifth year. Mr. Gelss was
tong a resident of Centre Hall prior to |
going to Philadelphia. He was accom-
panied to Bellefonte by his grandson,
George Geiss, who {2 employed in Phil
adelphia.
Mra, John H. Puff and Miss Rebecca
Derstine, sisters, on Thursday morn.
ing went to Tyrone where they will he
guests of the former's step-son and
family for a week, and will also visit
a number of aguaintances in Tyrone
and Altoona, among whom is Mrs,
Mary Shoop, quartered at the Metho-
dist Homes Tyrone
On entering a opal mine, after a
charge of dynamite had been exploded
to loosen. cond, Roy Chambers, son of
David Ohambers, and his uncle, Thom«
an Chambers, both of Clarence. were
strock by falling rocks. The younger
a graduate
schon