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Cll. p———————— - TENANTS OPERATE THE RICHER SOILS OF PENNA f.esspes More Reports Are Helter Official Where Are — Mortgages Show Farms Found, Show Decrease, higher ted by wrding wntage o in Penns) annual statistical vania's farms piled by the porting In Philadelphia 1v one-half of farmsa are county 41.2 » operated by ten Cumberland unty per ints Fe Service ima i of county approx the rents ner cent Lancastr & ts fat int cont ms in Frankilh tre, I'nl a hlock in which farms are yunty 33.9 1 nd ifflin the central more than M than the mn f O nd Wayne The Tnited ership ce states th rmers of the Serv loging own- country States a the land hoth the and the are of roeniage centage Crensing whole rented farm mortgaged the equity gaged farms In Pennsyvivania number and operated by tenants been iz =nce 1000 But. though the ber of mortgaged farms in the may have decreased since the census, prior to time it had ap- parently heen the total mortgage debt ised more than $1900.000 in lowing and the farms for which given declined per cent Of farms, as i farms f farmers Zg mort: 0 Onernti is decreasing both the f farms decreas nume- State 1526 however the percentage « have which increasing T¢ ported nore the five farmers’ the vl h rented ted mortgaged tgaged an = per cen 7 ATTIAT.ATA NOT AFRAID OF an tne RELIGION ¥ A Full State Treasary. Lr + ’ Naturally He Wonld Like Green, Monitor.) know John not surprised a somersauit. MceSp a little and now wants to de. MoSpa , intingdon ire nid arran into politica for notoriety Ago, political and he look YOAArS his farmer may and green publicans buht speaker ng Yike hay have it A MI AM AE Ameriea’s Heart Is Sound. When the Elks of America Murray Hulbert to head them started to get 220.000.0060 for edi and. benévolen they judgment in both instances The way our fraternal orders vying with each other for the lead good works is happy proof the of America is sound C—O AS vo. More Improvements at The Richelieu and The Ritz, Bellefonte chose ind ation o showed good are in heart and Centre nothing The people of certainly have to want for in the way of entertainment. At the Richelieu and Ritz will found truly the plek of the pictures—the ab- county be from the greatest pro The theatres are most com- with a continuous breeze pure fresh air to keep you cool dure ing hot weather. The Richelieu has just installed an additional six-foot fan. and both theatres are now installing a refrigeration system. wherely the alr ia cooled to any desired tempera- ture as it has been found by the man agement of these theatres that even though 100,000 cu. ft. of air per min ute was tuken care by these mam: moth fans, the air on the outside be- ing warm, the theatres while always supplied with abundance of fresh alr, the temperature could not be brought down lower than the ouside: however With the new system any desired tem- perature may be maintained: in other words, these two popular theatres will manufacture thelr own weather. An- other great stride will be the talking or synchronized pictures whereby all effects .are reproduced exactly in hare mony with the pleture, the new de vice manufactured by the General Electric Co., the Radio Corporation of America and the Westinghouse Co. will be installed in the Ritz theatre at an early date. solute ducers, fortable, aream of (COLLEGE BOND ISSUE IS BAC RED BY GRANGERS Reforesta- Bond for Construction, Buildings for State Armories, Also for tlon-——0Opposes Approve Program fesues Highway and Owne od Improvements Institutions and the Gr College } OG. 000 pment $a iilding highways £500 tion of construct State-owned thereof: $5 ox nnd nd buildings for OQ Uis lands NES, vnc provement and equipment State armonries “The Gir the orously the of wn G00 0600 and equipment inge in KN bond opposing upon the trong support first two sees and as the last three and will enter to line up Reystone State gram of basis o an exiensve Ccamnnisr members of the S60 behind and distin the above pro The ween SOpport opposition n which the the geveral 4110s retation « ¥ nificant inte Gran ontention « wand f ¥ a 5 a —————A— ASAHI People In Anto Wreek Near Axemann, Story of “Donngr Party™ Is An Eple of Tragedy, Recently there appeared in the tures of the day one which moment out of the dlr tragic incident in in davs For % ane Am the thi glamorous periods the “olden of "44 the Donner emigrants who high Sierras their th © a ive of anle Mmriy su fy. » band ' red such harde} Mali fornia of ti It ing will be is fn the as to make ators agedy not of intereateddin this know about the Danner party an illustrated The (Centre Ite title i= "Recaling the ner Tragedy,” and t's by Elmo Watson 37 ire to read it Sr ——————————————— COME TO RESCUE OF SCHOOL you do thril- the story vou art. Re Dore Scott icle In jase of ¥ ey ve potie BOARD Modern Grade School Bullding Possible by Contributions ent and Former Residents, The group Made of Pres. remarkable of present emnll residents tale of how a and former of a small residential community came forth to dig down in their individual purses fo subscribe money to pay for the remodeling of their only grade school building ia that of a number of MeVeytown citizens, With only $2500 in the MceVeytown school board and able to borrow additional money cause of already being bonded to very borrowing Hmit, and faced with the ndeessity of remodeling the old building before it again would be per. mitted to be used by the State Board of Education, citizens and former resi- Hents of McoVeytown came through to subscribe the necessary $7.667 for its alteration. That the work was made possible through the good will contributions of interested McVeytown people was only made known publicly Friday by A. A. Bratton, treasurer of the Me: Veytown school board, in a report at the close of the first year of school in the remodeled grade bullMing. of un- Hee the the treasury FRESH AIR CHILDREN AGAIN. ut Work In Milthelm—=FPros Enter- Committees Hall tso0d Active Centre Two and pects for Securing talnment for Largs Number ( hildren, mountains heavens of al them completly closg i to were in prison f it were not for whose hearts are stirred with pity and whose pity nto Think of in 1 tangle « in dnrk ye rooms, means Swings childhood yf filthy Pras tene far) wend ° Contributions ranged from $1000 by John T. Rodgers and a smilar sum from an unnamed citizen, down.’ B.D Woodward ( wd Visits BYP, dogan nstrumenta Ff the mus nresent day he DroOgram impeter, rendered 1 Kenneth inrtetts bH Eddia onresentiing the ler with their trumpe companions before v “% % r - ipplauded fo The perfect their fine noert del who Is a pastmaster delights in saying that boys and girls now under him promising A A ASA Campbeil-Voneida, I. Campbell. well known Sune young man, and Miss Villa Von- eda, of Bast Buffalo township, were united in marriage at the Lutheran parsonage in Lawisburg recently by the pastor. Rev. R. B. MeGiffin Mr. Campbell is the son of Mr, and Mra. W, L. Campbell. of Sunbury, form- erly of Coburn, and is employed at the Sunbury Converting Works The bride i= a daughter of Mr. and Mre. WW. E. Voneida, of East Buffalo township, Union ecounty. The newly- weds will make thelr home In Sun- bury, skill Out ras 3 Wet profesaio group of ght er n the are most Claude bury IA MA TELEPHONE INFORMATION, There are approximately 1.100.000 telephones in Pennsylvania. This ls a larger number than are in France, Belgium and Bulgaria combined, New York has almdst as many tel: ephones as the whole of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Chicago has more than all France, Los Angeles has almost as many as Australia and Bel glum combined. The eight American cities with a population of 1.000.000 or more have more than half as many telephones as the whole of Europe. There were 290.378.4300 telephones in the entire world, on January 1, 1827, and of these considerably more than one-half were in the United States, This country's 17.748,168 telephones comprised 60.5 per cent of the world's total, RETEST FOR TUBERCULOSIS, Eleven Cattle WIN letested, Initial In Townships Four Applied. and in Test WHI he THEASURER'S STATEMENT OF CHAUTAUQUA FINANCES atement A wnce n of eects - ntire week entera inment tained fa and who reside HN EDT De doo ing dens horseha ving 1 through fatale through the g grounds amd women taking ralking and about the on en tramo leaving men one day hut the women were this very delightful gpent inform- de furs k. } n h & Sport, or the iis The rieston ng to leave The evenings were ally A number evenings voted to dancing, musk being nished on the large pipe organ which has been installed in the house The family house party was so de- lightful that an vitation has bean extended for next vear Mr. and Mra. RBhadie MAR ————— Milk Prices Advanes, Since Monday milk prices have been advanced by the Sheffield Producers Co-operative Association, Inc. 47 cents per hundrod for class one and 20 cents per hundred for class two. A Slight Fire Near Hublershurg. One night during last week Joseph H. Lannen. South of Hublershurg.awak- ened from his sleep about 12 o'clock, and got up to put a screen in a win- dow, and about the same time Mrs Lannen Investigated a light she thought came from an automobile, but found the house on fire. The flames were striking up along the outer wall of the house where a porch was joined. The fire was soon quenched, but had a little more time elapsed before ite discovery the result might have been serious, The loss was adjusted by FM Fisher. secretary of the Farmers Mu- tual Company. —————— A APIA. Both the Centre Hall borough and Potter township school boards adver: tise thelr financial condition In states ments appearing in this lssue; also other legal advertising relating to hids wanted Bh never swent tine ¥ at of were by PENNINGTON (CEMETERY. —————— A A A ——— THE GAS PROPOSITION, 4 $1 meetin a be Ns ally on that the eonsumed the gtated mont oir Der wate r heating wis Host css cs ——— — ——— Road Proleets In Mifffin County. « . 4 . ‘ i A A ASS Meat from Tabereular Cattle, ——— i — | STATE FORESTRY DEPT. | WILL HAVE NEW of Danville, Formerly Dept... Will Have H. Yought, With Highway tenance of Highways in State For est Areas 8 Iliek and wa nitment ( formerly Deputy Secreta | of the départment announced H Yought o of the State Highway superintendent of road Mr. Vought has had perience in dirt road b direct the extensive forest struction program in which is now enmaged The depzriment spent §200.000 forest vear and $210.000 be expended this year, Dr. Iilick said The 1.133.000 acres of State forest land now have 2.200 miles of roads and 2.. 860 miles of but many of these roads are in poor condition “The forest road passable at times in the year is fundamental forest protection” Dr. Tilick “While State-owned land is more eas- iv protected than privately-owned propety. there is nevertheless an un- necessary loss suffered from fires be- cause of lack of roads” Systematic and economical logging in State forests and needs of tourists also, make necessary good roads. Uni- form roads, trail and apring signs “have been adopted as tourists’ aids and are being posted. Later Dr. II- fok said, a map showing all camp sites tralls and springs will be issued. A total revenue of $16,000 has thus far been received from 1828 campers who are using the 1.544 camp sites, - C—O A —— Transfer of Real Estate, Breyer lee Cream Co. to Sheffield Farms Co., Inc, tract in Gregg Twp.; $1.00. Charles W. Stoddard, et ux, to Ems ma H Savder, of bar, tract In State College; $9,000. H. B Hutchinson, Exec, to Lee A Kidder, tract in Miles twp; $350 Ff Por of - ’ tore the 4 1] f Danv Department construct ile ie n onsiderane ex {14in2 and will road the cons State far roads Tast Ww trails, all to said N(). 98 oot T0WN AND COUNTY NEWS HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS laws, Health urant hy representatives of the sum. given r sats the re- handlers Rtate rest a ex hald this There may be part of our cit line Fur by more interest on the ns to extend the gas Centre fail than was indicated attendance of the meeting 9 the matter. Yet one would that such a movement would bring out a much larger per cent of the citizens to gain information first handed on ths subject It @s APPArs ently a case in which many prefer t6 be led rather than to investigates fo# themselves. The extension of the line, as the writer sees it, depends almost entirely on how much push is put into the canvass made by the solicitors for patrons : iw to i the dimouss think One HE] might the result come to the conclusle the misdecds of Harry Leathers and the boys compos ing his Sunday school class that the teaching of the Levitical law to the exclusion of the oivil law fs not good Practice. Mr. Yeathers, of Mount Engle, tdbk his class to the moun+ tains for a few dave outing, camping song a trout stream. Fishing was en~ gaged in by the teacher and some of the boys who made a mistake of $487 by not frying and eating the trout for supper instead of retaining thee for a Bunday dinner. Game protects ors accidentally visited the camp and found forty undersized trout. Arrests followed, then a hearing and fines and costs, footing up to $487. Mr. Leath 6rs wns assessad the largest of this amount. or $328. The remaifie of dor was paid by three others
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