LOCAL AND PERSONAL
for Progress
regular meet
An election of officers
i Grange will be held at a
ing on Saturday evening.
Miss Laura Runkle attended the fu
neral of her uncle, Sheriff John W
Runkle, at Middleburg, on Tuesday.
Mrs. W. W. Kerlin, a
Clearfield hospital, much
and sat up for the first
day.
The passenger
Monday morning
killed it in the mountains
burn.
A two-ton Graham truck
last week by the Hagan Garuag
cy, of this place, to Mayer
and grain merchants at De
Mr. and Mrs. A. H.
daughter, Mrs. Roy Dutrow,
nesday of this week drove
ville, Bedford county, to vist
R. Jones and family.
Mrs,
in the
improved,
Tue
patient
is
time on
train
struck \
lefonte.
Spayd and
Wed-
Lutz
R.
on
10
Rev
lev, 8B. M.
I
receliveqa
Derstine, wife
Derstine, of Williamsport,
light paralytie stroke Tuesaday
week. Her condition
as serious,
Mr. and Mrs, ‘W. Mingle, ot
Riverton, New Jersey, have been guests
during the past week of Mr. and Mrs
C. H. Meyer, at Reedsville. They also
were visitors among relatives in town.
of
-
of last
not regarded
fs
Gross
If vou drive an auto, your attention
is called to the advertisement appoar
ing in this issue of the Reporter of the
Progress Manufacturing Company,
Centre Hall, who guarantee to
perfect job of
tirea
do
of vulcanizing
Lewlistown's
in a Philadel
and operated
ffiin county,
nd
ines
Miller, one of
citizens, died
He owned
banks M
Coleman
John
wealhiest
phia hospital
several sand
owned the
interested in coal
in
House was
largely
Ty
i
n
ne
QING }
inty changed
I count and
I k Have
O01
ton «
Auman
Brow n. |
Anna
E. P
1 Harry
Miss Amy
, "Newberry. |
Heed
{iris
Schel
and
Harrisburg, mo
urday,
SH
sceompanied
E. Bailey
L%
Billey
of
for
ves. On
WwW. W. Ke:
family toUlear
W. Kerlin, a
hospital
Bat
<
Meimingey
Cup bee
Lewistown
y (Ire
how o Mrs Ashley
mle
Satur
of his
highly |
Cows,
sale
ia
the result The
were not milking.
ll. as the following Hig |
representing the of indi-}
cows indicate: $150, $180, $190,}
$70, $170, and $150. The $190}
produesd a calf which sold |
prior to the sale for over $20
Mr, and Mrs. W. F. Bradferd
Mr. and Mrs J. W. Bradford and lit-
fle daughter, « Bunday, drope (0
State visit © Mrs Mollie
Gregg, who a month or mote age un’
derwent an operation at the Clearfield
hospital for the removal of an Wmward
goiter. They found Mrs Orege in fise
spirits and in better health then for
a number of years ho
While in the
lay,
es}
EWC]
ures
vidual
$180,
COW
priges
was
and
mn
College $0
wt of removing a pan
containing roof paimt from a goa
stove, the paint spilled and ignited
the mass threatening the destruction
of the Picken dwelling hotise, recently
scold to H. 4. Strohmeier, and located
opposite the grade school bullding.
The paint was being heated by Mr.
Strohmeler and was near the building,
the flames igniting the floor of a rear
porch. Mrs. Lanson Burris, next door
neighbor, was taking a pan of ashes
to the dump, and observing what had
taken place, threw the ashes on the
burning paint, almost extinguishing
the flames before water could be se-
cured. The hose cart came In quick
order, but too late to render service.
The fire took place Monday evening
at about 4:15.
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RED CROSS ROLL CALL.
Between now and the 24th inst. High
#chool girls will make a house to house
canvass for Red Cross members. The
canvassers and districts assigned are
as follows:
Church street—Mildred Smith
Sarah Runkle,
Evangelical church to mountain
Margaret Luse and Algle Emery.
Bvangfiical church to Grange Park
entrance—Fay Bradford and Thelma
Brungart.
Park entrance to Old Fort—Myla
and
sisson
TE ——
HUNTING NOTES,
—
under “Hunting Notes" It
was reported that nine turkeys had
heen killed by hunters. in this region
This week's successes by local hunters
below:
_—
Last week
are noted
Penna Cave,
the
of near
that drew
Long,
}
Bin
(3001 ne
killed ga
22 pounds,
hler senles
to
captured a turkey hen
pounds, He i$ a son
Decker, of near town
one of his brothers came |
i
fine bird,
Decker
nine
Larue
WwWelghing
of
Last
home
James IL.
Week
with a
Wi turkeys Nitt
Mountain, east town, F. M. Fisher
found a dead wild turkey and the skix
of a deer. The vy evidently
away from the hanter who had w
ed it. but
for granted,
ile hunting on ny i
of
turk
deer, it
to
the may
went the j
pot. 1
LL
Nittany
last
two
De
wt-hunter's
Homer, who owns a farm
Mountain
and
(eorge
was a Reporter
that
considerable |
on
caller week said a bear |
have been doing
to his carn in the
Bruin opened Wednesday |
Mr. Horne: i
lookout for
or
damage filed. Bince
the season for
of
ind his sons
him with
week it is likely
will be on the
hewvy lend
this
FOI
Thur
the
the
da
Pu
Him
hunting tu on
Frank Phillips,
TITY,
During a ip
last weak
Mills garage
pheasants
of
ters got
for
H E
a nice
has already kill
lot of game. Besides 4 num-
squirrels and black
and a turkey, | to his
ratcpons, the of which
on Tuesday.
Shreckengast
ed
One
ber of rey
squirrel we has
credit
Were
Ww.
an
Mountain
four pelts
exhibited
g 1
Kile
Nittan
Willams
the contractor
unusual rae eo
34)
SANTA CLAUS TO VISIT ALTOONA
Fellow With
to Spend November 5
AHoona
Hand
26
Relndeer and
and in
Getting Acquainted.
sh
ifs
together
©
high
fern
in Zoe
telegram
the Ww rid.
us, anf he
on ©
The Cent
Mort ime
1% send
eget re
visitation |
wm }
i
faithiul
ittendants i
ants # going te be accompa
» band, all his ewn. and
turse be regaled m the regul
Tans forma. It is
Re
ried that they £1 piay #verytl
"|
thon Santa (
fervous and lively r things
toe happy
coming holiday season when gol cheer
and happiness will prevall,
The old Santa
purpose of making an inspection of the
city, the and to learn from the
children that the stores every
thing that is appropriate for gifts and
moet of all to get acquainted. He says
he is errtaln to be back again it
Christmas aml that thén his stay will
be just long enough to make a dis
tribution of gifts and then pass on to
some other town or city to fulfill the
fame ‘misdion.
Santa: senda an invitation to all
children and grown-ups in Centre Hall
and vicinity, to eome to Altoona and
soe him and his faithful Eskimo heip-
ers, and hear his ewn Santa Claus
band. He will give street pamdes as
well as visit the stores and sends word
that he will be glad to greet personally
all of the hoys and girls who come to
gee him during his stay in Altoona.
HI SABA.
REBERSBURG,
Smull
spent
up
mitke people and think of ti
wWiait, save w tor the
Loren
have
Prof. Earl
Nesguihoning,
oC. Smull’s,
Calvin Weaver, Jr, spent a day last
week with his son, Walter, at Le
mont,
Lee Kidder and family were visiting
in Lewistown on Sunday.
On November 26, the senior class of
the Miles townshiu High school will
hold a box social, the proceeds from
which will be for the fenefit of the
senior class,
On Friday the Rebersburg High
school soccer team proved victorious
in a game played with the Gregg
Township Vocational School. The score
was 1 to 0. This was the firet time
that the Cregg Township Vocational
School was beaten on their home
grounds,
On Saturday evening the Willing
Workers of the Reformed church will
have a chicken supper, to which ev:
erybody Is Invited.
Nevin Moyers spent the Sunday with
thelr daughter, Mrs, Maretellar, of
and family. from
the week end at
average business investment of
per farm.
group
vearly
come
The other group
cleared only $95
Sar,
labor
twelve months’
hard werk,
with
vested In
want In
J. E. Larrowe measure, year aft
income,” because labor Income repre-
sents the amount of earnings left for
one year's work after all expenses
sand Interest at 59% on our investment
have been taken into account. If we
can’t make money, why firm at
all?
and $00 as the result of a whole year's
work ! "At least that is how it struck
me, listening to James E Larrowe out
industry. These are the waste,
cause of poor management,
Cr, looking at the same picture from
GROUP 1 FARMS :
LABOR INCOME Ams ff
11423 4
= A > < ~ °
X
s
5
-
£25654
86 - CROP ¢
$06 - VALUE
a slightly different angle, it Is costing
our farmers S120 (XK) a year in
feed, labor and overhead expense to
keep the 12,000,000 tramp
produce Jess than the U. average
milk production per cow. And none of
8
until American farms are 4
business basis,
That the opinion of James
Larrowe, a successful business
ppt on
is
{
i
i
i
i
i
ing are the result of facts. proven on
his noted Larro Research Farm and
coupled
ern and southern farms.
{ted his research farms, questioned the
gutrition experts, former college pro
fessors, fact and detall hunters in his
aecently organized Larrowe Institute
of Animal Economics, and I
amazed to learn
tional economic life,
I wanted to get into the data, re-
ports and charts used by the Institute
with a simple question. “Sapposa.” 1
asked, “a farmer is making a living
milking cows, producing a few eggs,
feeding a few hogs and growing crops
to feed his stock. He feels his cows
ought to make more profit. What can
increase his profits right sway, not
next year?™
The answer | received certadply hit
the nail on the head,
Answer: “You are depending on
cows for a Medng. Milk at low ocest is
what you want. Very well. It takes
good cows, good hay and a good grein
ration to make money. You can't buy
better cows, unless you have the
money, You can't breed a new gem
eration of better cows from the ones
you have, That takes years. But you
ean, in four cases out of five, improve
or change your grain ration, feed each
Receipts
feed
cow as an inaividual according to her
production and start making more
money within a week,” all of which
was merely another way of stressing
greater efficlency.
We had not gone very far into the
subject of animal efficiency before I
found mysel” facing fects obtained
trom official sources presented in two
‘ neatly arranged for single com-
Spyker and Kathryn Goodhart,
Bloomsburg.
parisons. The data In these
WW TE Fo we Rie a - ’
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HALL, PA.
ss
did more to convince me that
depend upon efficient
than have any figures 1 had
ever seen in this age of statistics and
nation of statisticians, data
are worth a good many hundred dol-
lars to any thinking farmer keen
tables
farm profits
feeling
These
In the table are given “pictures In
work on two large groups of farms.
In the very first line 1s shown the last
farmer finds out—his yearly
labor lucome. The farmers in Group
1 make £1423 labor income. That
sum Is practically 10 times greater
the income made by the
farmers in Group 2.
a
labor
Average Faetors Group 1 Group 3
Labor fncome..........5 1,428 3% 5
Size va. Intensity.
$25,654
10%
8%
1.8
11.6
64
14.8
$23.660
127
100
1.6
8.9
66
12.5
farm......
Crop acres In farm...
.e
EER
Number of COWS. ......
Number of COWS per man
Units of livestock. .
of productive
3,110
48
2,720
42
work
productive
work man asin 173
Per « crop and
stock receipts from
livestock Li
Efficiency of Production,
of land per acre $ 203
rop Ind {ave :
100%)
170
per
ent total
ee
$ 14
11¢
Value
YARIue
|
Special Special
Thanksgiving
ale...
For 2 DAYS ONLY-
Friday and Saturday,
November 18 and 19
NIEMAN’S
DEPARTMENT STORE
“WHERE THE DOLLARS GO THE FARTHEST”
MILLHEIM
pce in In
rs
{ieonomy
Ha :
1ivestioow
Recuipis per
dairy callie
of the two columns of fig
A studs
shows that ere WHS
gs uall difference in tin
invested In
More Intensive
the
the twe
by farmers
more liveslock
farmer, per re at
enterprises
fd
made po
wark ner fa
A further study of the figs
the farms In
that
more efficiently than
Group 2 T!
eo Giro
larger crop yield
basing WH
®
farins
cow 240 pounds
(TT pound (ir
produc
nN
& of
milk, a per |
OW
That
beso
proxima
aE again i
the |
These |
points are as
(1) The ints
~—good roughage
grain
farms,
worth of feed
the other farms
lHigent, efficient feeding
nines a milk-making
practiced on Group 1 |
retmroed $225 for every $100 |
fed dairy cattle. (2) On |
about half as |
only $118 was
returned ont £100 worth of
(2) Om one group of farms the
crop of 8% acres plus purchased con-
how a yearly labor Income
of £1423 primarily because more in-
telligent feeding resulted In receipts
of £225 from over 210% worth of rough
age. farm-grown grains and pur
chased concentrates (4) The other
group cleared only $05 labor Income
for 12 months’ hard work, and had
receipts of only 8118 from every $100
sworth of feed,
rain
only
or to he
of
exact,
every
centrates
When It Comes
to Buying a Tire
People whe wouldnt think of going to any but a good, repn-
table dealer for food, clothing, or furniture, patronize
the worst
kind of “dumps” when it comes time to buy a tire
They do this thinking it is necessary In order to get a tire
bargain
Well sell you the best tire made—a GOODYEAR—at 5 price
as low as you can get anywhere,
Phone 56 CENTRE HALL
Little wonder the Larrowe Institute
of Animal Economics was founded te
study the economies of efficient pre
GROUP 2 FARMS
duction from dairy cows, fowls and
hogs for this nation of milk, egg and
pork eaters, We farmers need it. We
waste land, we waste manpower, we
waste hay, fertility and machinery.
But our most appalling waste is our
wastage of grain through Improper
feeding and through our failure to use
proven, tested, milk-making rations
egg-producing mashes, and economics’
pork-making feeds,
-e
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Used Car Month
Nov. 15 to Dec. 15
Special Bargains on Used Cars
1 Chevrolet Sport Touring, 1924 Model
1 Star Touring, 1926 Model
1 Ford Roadster, 1923 Model
1 Ford Roadster, 1924 Model
1 Chevrolet 1 1-2 T. Truck, 1926 Model
1 Chevrolet 1 1-2 T. Truck, 1927 Model
These cars have all been thoroughly overhauled by
expert mechanics and are in first-class condition. That is
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