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!
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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.
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