STATE'S CROPS IN GOOD SHAPE Reports to the Capitol Tell of Favorable Conditions Over All of Pennsylvania .■ Crops of Pennsylvania, with excep tion of potatoes, are declared by the * bulletin of the State Department of Agriculture to be in fair shape and to "give every indication of another bountiful harvest." Unfavorable con ditions early ' in the summer have been overcome and reports from hun dreds of townships show improve ments. The bulletin says regarding the chief crops; ' "Weather conditions since the breaking up of winter have been ideal for wheat and the indications are that the yield per acre will be ap proximately 16.75 bushels. Very lit tle damage was done by the Hessian fly this year and practically no dam age while the grain was in shock. The wheat was generally thin on the ground but the heads were large and well filled. Reports say that the ker nels are large and the quality good. The indications are at the present time that the total yield will be 23,- 797,000 bushels. "The prospect for rye is estimated at 95 per cent, compared with an average. The average yield of rye per acre in this state is 17.5 bushels. On this basis the average yield per acre this year will reach sixteen and five-eighths bushels and the total yield of 4,445.000 bushels. "Outlook for oats is good and a splendid crop promised in every sec tion of the state. It is estimated that the average yield per acre will be 34 bushels and the total yield 38.384,800 bushels. "Drought has prevailed all over the state during July and has injured the corn. The corn area is estimated at 1,664,576 acres which is probably the largest acreage ever planted to this cereal. The condition is 87 per cent, of an average.crop which indicates a yield of 34.6 bushels per acre and a total production of 57,594.000 bushels. The total crop last year was estimat ed at 65.260.585 bushels. "There has been an increase of five per cent, in the acreage of buck wheat. The acreage is estimated at 331.135 acres. The condition on Au gust 1 was 92 per cent, compared with an average which indicates a yield of kS bushels per acre and a total production of 5,959,400 bushels. "The condition of potatoes on August 1 is SO per cent, which is a de cline of seventeen points during the month of July. While the dry weather has injured all the growing crops its effect has been more marked on the potatoes than any other crop. Then, the blight, aphis and bugs too have had their detrimental effect. Eighty per cent, of an average crop indicates 67 bushels per acre and a total crop of 21.000.000 compared with 30,000,000 last vear. "Area planted to tobacco is esti mated at 41.140 acres which is ten per cent, larger than last year. The condition is 96 per cent. The present indications are that the yield will average 1.372 pounds per acre and the total production 56.444,000 pounds. The crop last year was estimated at 51,051,000 pounds. " "The acreage of all crops have been increased this yyear. Notwithstand ing the fact that help is scarce the farmers are patriotic and are doing their best to increase the production of food. "The average price of cherries per quart was four cents higher than last year, raspberries six cents and blackberries five cents." VISITS READING PARKS J. K. Staples, director, and other of ficials of Harrisburg's playgrounds, went to Reading early this afternoon to study the playground system of that city. An elaborate program, in cluding a series of folk dances, has been arranged for the benefit of the local officials. ANNOUNCING The Opening of Our New Fruit and Cigar Store A choice line of fancy California and other fruits always on hand. If you are fond of good fruit, we have it. Also a splendid assortment of Cigars and Cigarets. ALLEY BOSSIFF 313 MARKET STREET Wholesale and Retail. Open Day and Night. Extraordinary Business Opportunity A shoe repair plant, desirably located in Harrisburg, fully equipped with modern, electrically-operated ma chinery, and fully stocked, may be had at a big sacrifice, due to former manager being drafted in the service. Big Opportunity For Some One Who Wants to Own a Good Business Address, for particulars Box M6BlB, Care of Telegraph WEDNESDAY EVENTNG, OLD AGE SURVEY IN THE CITIES Work Advanced by the State Commission Which Devel ops Interesting Facts In carrying out Jk \\ //j the studies for \ \\ '-be state commis \\\\ A >4/ slon to draft an S old ago pension nT !aw a bouse can l\Vp\ vass has just been li wßlttSStoO residential section iyiSlllWWt ot Pittsburgh and JgajjlySiU lyOfc similar surveys' r ■ j will be made in Philadelphia and I 1.1 r.usburgh nearly 1.500 , persons were interrogated as to phy- ] j sical ability. Income, dependants, and similar matters, all who were ad j dressed being persons above fifty ] years of age. The reports submitted ; show that many persons of advanced ; age want to work; that owing to the war many aged persons have suff i ered loss of sons or relatives yho i have gone to fight; that parents are | not receiving soldier's pay due to ! failure to provide for allotments and j oversights or delays; that many young persons are helping support grandparents or other relatives well i on in years; that many old persons j were living with relatives. It is stat i ed that "the great majority of the ! people investigated are earning less j than $l5 a week on the average." Many Envelopes. Two and a half million envelopes are being pre ' pared at state draft headquarters for j sending to local draft boards for the mailing of questionnaires which j must be done under the proposed ex j tension of th-? draft law limits. This is on a basis of 1.250,000 persons to |be registered. Including envelopes, j cjfculars and blanks over 17,000,000 I separate papers will be required. Save Ewe Lambs.—The time is ap proaching when the farmers begin Ito dispose of their lanibs. In this I connection, Charles E. Patton, sec retary of agriculture, advises and I urges that the ewe lambs be either j kept and the flock increased or sold j to neighbors as the foundation of | new flocks. "It is imperative that the number of sheep be increased to I clothe our soldiers to say nothing of ( our great civiliam population," says j the secretary. Then, because of the i scarcity of other meats mutton is a ' necessity. Our farmers have shown j their patriotism by making every ef | fort to produce-the various grain and i vegetable crops to the maximum, and I with proper encouragement will ! boost the sheep industry in Pennsyl ! vania which has already made a | turn for the better. Let more sheep —more wool be the slogan." Automobile Revenue. Although | new registrations of automobiles j have been decreasing the last month I or so it is believed that the total j receipts from automobile, motor j truck, motorcycle, drivers and other j vehicle state licenses will reach the ! $4,000,000 mark. The income from | this course has been slowing up iate ' ly and there are some doubts ex- I pressed about the Capitol as to whether this year's figure will be ■ touched in 1919. One of the fea ' tures of the business of the automo | bile division this year has been the | number of transfers due to sales of I used cars. More of the smaller cars [ have been registered this year than j ever before, there being a marked | decline in the high powered new i cars. To Build Piers.—As a result of conditions in the structural market and the inability of the state to get satisfactory bids for construction of bridges it is probable that the work I to be authorized this fall will largely j consist of building of piers and abut ments. On one large bridge no bids | were received and on another one ! bids came in and were rejected as ' too high. Conservatory Goes. —The old State 1 Capitol Conservatory, which has 1 stood on Capitol Hill for over thirty We Build Mausoleums We will gladly furnish an esti mate of the cost of one for your plot. We also submit a variety of designs or* will make a special de sign to your liking. I. B. DICKINSON BOTH PHO.VES 505-513 N. 13th St. ycard, will disappear this week. Re moval of the huge glass houses has been completed and the boiler and office buildings are now being de- j molished to make room for park im provements. Big Movements Due. Arrange-1 ments for the movement of the 10,- 000 white men called to go te Camp' Lee next week for general military training contemplate the movement of the men from 282 districts in spe cial trains on live days. It will be one of the greatest mobilizations of drafted men since the draft began in the state and is a forerunner of what is coming later in the year. On Au gust 26, next Monday, there will be 2,811 men sent; 2,813 on Tuesday, the 27th; 1,663 on Wednesday, the 28th: 1,603 on Thursday, the 29th. and 1,110 on Friday, the 30th. Much Buckwheat. Practically every county shows an increase in the acreage devoted to buckwheat this year, states a bulletin on agrl-1 cultural conditions issued by the De-! partment of Agriculture, which also notes a report of earlv frosts in Pot-, ter county. Spring wheat, which was tried in some counties of Penn sylvania this year when the winter wheat failed, is declared to be mak- I ing a good showing. The state's average yield of hay per acre is given as 1.35 tons with York county at the top with an average yield of 1.85 tons. Only three counties. Brad ford, Forest and Warren show the potato crop up to the average condi tion. In Berks it is 72 per cent, and in Lehigh S3 per cent. The tobacco. acreage has been increased ten per I cent, and the condition of the crop is 96 per cent, of an average. Only 77 per cent, of the young turkeys raised in average years are reported; on the farms this season. Reports j of yields of 100 bushels to the acre | of oats have been recorded from i Chester county. Cumberland county j wheat that has been threshed is re ported as running light to the acre. To Visit Fayette—Senator William C. Sproul and Senator Edward E. Beidleman, the Republican candi dates for governor and lieutenant governor. and Auditor General Charles A. Snyder will go to Union town on August 31 to attend the meeting of t'he Fayette County Re publican Committee. They will travel by automobile and will bo at the Lehigh county campaign open ing. Will Study Hoppers—State farm advisers will be sent to sections of Northumberland and adjoining coun ties whence have come complaints about the annoyances caused by grasshoppers. These pests have not been as numerous as usual in eastern counties this fall. Much Butter Watered —Reports leceived at the State Dairy and Food Division indicate that many of the samples of butter taken by state agents in Pennsylvania are watered. Prosecutions will be started. Petition dismissed —The petition to have Perry county attached to the middle district of the Supreme Court instead of "the eastern district was dismissed by the court yester day because it d'd not contain enough signers. _ Sow ii "Wage Clause." The first instance of a "wage clause" being in cluded in a notice of a new schedule of rates occurs in a supplement tiled with the Public Service Commission bv the Metropolitan Edison Company, of Reading, which provides that "due to increased prices of labor and ma terial" certain commercial lighting schedules are to be increased fifteen per cent, and that for every cent per hour increase the schedules are to be advanced one-half of one per cent., provision being made for decreases as well. Another provision is that wire, etc.. on consumers' properties are to be paid for by consumers, who are to agree to maintain them as required bv insurance and municipal au thorities. The Blue Ridge Water Supply Company of Pennsylvania. Franklin county; Mercantile Bridge Company. Westmoreland county, and Homstead and Mifflin Street Railway Companv, filed notices of increases, the latter discontinuing sale of school Coughlin Retires. The fact that James M. Coughlin. of Wilkes-Barre, one of the original members of the State Board of Education and a. mem ber of the School Code Commission, has resigned, leaked out to-day. Mr. Coughlin tendered his resignation at the time of his retirement from active duties. New Chairman. Charles Brunner. of this city, has been appointed a .chairman in the Public Grounds and Buildings Department. Hearings To-ilny.—The various ap plications for crossings and contracts were held at the Public Service Com mission to-day by Chairman Ainey and Examiner Phillips. The Conewa go Gas case was continued for two we'eks and the Cambria county grade crossing case held for a conference with Highway Department officials. Scranton Visitors. Ex-Lieutenant Governor L. A. Watres and Mayor A. T. Connell, of Scranton. were at tiie Capitol to-day. Yells For Police When Arrested For Trying to Pick Officer's Pocket •'Police, police, the black handa," from the lips of fighting five-foot Julian Sarafini between two husky six-footers this morning startled Walnut street travelers. Officers were right on the job. but they hid him when he started to cry for help. Julian had. made a mistake and endeavored to pick the pocket of one of them, it is said. For three days, the story told be fore Alderman Householder, says. Julian, workman number 2883 cf j Bates and Rodgers Construction Com pany, working at the New Cumberland Ordnance Depot, had been following Officer Scott, a Pennsylvania Railroad officer. This morning Officer Scott encountered Durman Shoop, constable of Susquehanna township, and relat ed the facts. Then they proceeded to lay the trap for Julian. A slight purchase was made as Julian drew closer. Scott drew a oill from his bill fold, and even while paying for his purchase the hand of Julian slid into his pocket. But in stead of being enriched by the $lOO in bills within the fold. Julian soon had a pair of handcuffs firmly en circling his wrists. Julian, believing himself in the hands of civilians, started to fight with might and main, and in his mad scramble bit Constable Shoop severely on his right thumb. Scream ing like mad, he was dragged to the Alderman's office. Before the Alder man, however, he soon quieted down when told to do so. and told that ho had been living at Steclton, but could not give his street address. He is now in the Dauphin county jail. Russ Revolutionists Split; Uproar Among Soviets in Congress London, Aug. 21.—A final breach the two revolutionary parties in Russia was manifest from the opening of the fifth congress of AH Russian Soviets at Moscow early in July, according to belated Reuter dispatches. Uproarius scenes and recrimination marked the meeting. An assertion that a majority of the people In the provinces were op posed to Soviet rule was made by Maria Spiridonova of the Social Revolutionists of the Left. In a report on foreign relations. Foreign Minister Tchitcherin an nounced that the commissaries had demanded the withdrawal of Brit ish, French and American warships from the Murman coast and had : dispatched Soviet troops thither as I a reply to the British landing there. HAimiSBURG TELEGRAPH! I "The Live Store" "Always Reliable" ■ i WVWWWWWWWWVWWW%wwwwVWIIWM%W%WWMI j Thursday St^^^ es Thursday Not many "Holidays" are left this season in which store employes can go away for an afternoon of enjoyment and rest. You can scarcely believe how much benefit indivduals get out of this Half Day off, and it's all because YOU and YOUR Friends are generous and kind enough to make that little I extra effort to do your buying on THURSDAY MORNING. Our Semi-Annual I Where Everything in Our Entire Stock Is Reduced, Except Collars Has been going good every minute since it started but this Sale will end one of these days and then the opportunity will be lost to those of *.iu who have not taken advantage of the savings that were yours "to get" by coming HERE, where there was plenty of everything that would be useful in the months to come, when higher prices will be taking all your spare money—lf you want to have a few dollars "put by" for a "rainy day," don't hesitate when that chance is within your reach. Remember you're buying the best merchandise that's obtainable at prices away under the present market value. It's just like finding money to be offered merchandise of such real worth during times like these, so if you would like to have more money you can profit by spending and saving at Doutrichs greatest semi-annual "cash" clearance sale. I Store Closes At Noon Tomorrow I Sweaters in the Au&ust Sale 'lß I They are a very useful garment. This is a big month in the Sweater Department— j IL look at these tempting prices. All "Silk," "Fibre" and Wool Sweaters included. 11 All $5.00 Sweaters $3.89 All $10.50 Sweaters $8.95 j i| All $6.50 Sweaters $4.95 All $12.50 Sweaters $9.75 jj 11 All $7.50 Sweaters $5.95 All $14.50 Sweaters $11.75 || All $8.50 Sweaters $6.95 All $19.75 Sweaters $14.75 |j Shirts of Every Description I All $l.OO Shirts 79c All $5.00 "Silk" Shirts $3.89 All $1.50 Shirts .$1.19 All $5.85 "Silk" Shirts $4.89 All $2.00 Shirts $1.59 j All $6.85 "Silk" Shirts $5.89 All $2.50 Shirts $1.89 jj All $7.85 "SUk" Shirts $6.89 p I All $3.50 Shirts $2.89 All $8.85 "Silk" Shirts $7.89 r-~ Under wear All s 2o= Suits s ls= r~ 9 jj All 95c Underwear, 79c jj All Slllts :| All 20c Hosiery, 14c jj | jj All $1.25 Underwear, 99c jj C..'* ! M 25c Hosiery ' 19c j! jj All $1.75 Underwear, $1.39 jj j All 35c Hosiery, 29c j j | il All $2.00 Underwear, $1.59 |i All *3s Suits $ ! | All 50c Hosiery, 39c j I 1 |! All $2.25 Underwear, $1.89 jj AH *4o= Suits s 32= !| A " 75c Hosier y> 59c jj' ' | aw Hats and Half-Price AUGUST 21, 1918. 7
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers