THE TULTON COUNTY NEWS, McOONNELLSBURO, f A.
SUNDAY'S BOSTON
CAMPAIGN ENDS
The Great Revivalist Makes
Another Big Record.
HAS A REMARKABLE WINDUP
Fne-Wltl Offering On th Final Day
Amounted To 151,800, Which
Beats th Philadelphia
Record.
Bosten. Billy Sunday closed bis 10
week' campaign In Boston by smash
tag all records for trail-hitting and col
lection
-1 hare nleaAad. I hava entreated,
at 1 cannot compel," be snouted aa
ae wound up hie fourth meeting of the
day. "Until the Judgment Day wean
1 aid Ton farewell."
Bunday brought the total number of
Beaton trail-bitter up to 60,509, tne
largest number he baa erer brought
down the sawdust path In any cam
paign. The trell-hlttens ranged from
aurh men aa ex-Governor Eugene N.
Foes, who today gave Sunday $1,000 at
the froe-wiU offering, down througn an
elaseea of society.
6undey couM hoT preached to 100,
00 persons If the tabernacle would
bare held them. Aa early as 6 o'clock
A. M. people came to the tabernacle
for tbe first mooting, but the 62,000
who gained admittance at tbe four
meetings numbered little more than
half those who were on hand eager to
get Into the tabernacle.
Moat Trall-Hltters.
' Of thee $.196 hit the trail, the big
gest day's trail-hitting Sunday has ever
known. The night meetings establish
ed still another record, when 2,154 bit
the trail, tbe biggest bunch of trail
Mtters Sunday ha ever had in one
meeting. The total attendance for the
10 weeks, during which Billy preached
133 times, was 1,320,000.
Sunday received four big free-will
fcffering totalling $51,800, exclusive of
efferlngs made in many churches
which will not be known for a day of
two. For several days also mail con
trlbutions have been flowing Into th
tabernacle. Philadelphia gave Billy
51,135; Baltimore's free-will offorlnf
was $40,000.
Collections for the campaign ex
penees stopped here when $90,436.71
was collected. This wae the most ex
pensive campaign Billy has yet had.
The campaign contributions In Phila
delphia, were $57,291; In Baltimore
$48,290.
Boston Not Cold.
The number of trail-bitters was 19,
00 more than in the Philadelphia
meetings and over 37,000 more than In
the Baltimore campaign.
"The others thought Boston would
fee cold," Billy said. "But I knew dif
ferently. I had played baseball here
and knew that Boston always has a
square deal for the visiting club."
Billy was nearly exhausted when
be finished his fast sermon.
THE DRUM MAJOR BARRED.
Picturesque Character May Not Be In
Inaugural Parade.
Washington. The younger genera
Von and some of the grown-ups are
going to be disappointed March S If
the expected order barring the drum
majors, who mak a specialty of
throwing tholr baton while leading
their bands, is Issued. This feature of
Jhe Inaugural parade was barred four
year ago, and It looks now as if a
similar order would be Issued.
SLAYS WIFE AND HER MOTHER.
Huntington Msn Blames Relatives For
Divorce 8ult
Huntington, W. V, Harry Terry,
formerly of Cincinnati, shot and killed
hi wife, Mrs. Lillian Black Terry, and
his mother-in-law, Mrs. Victoria Black,
and fatally wounded hi wife's cousin,
Mrs. L. M. Spurlock. Terry was ar
rested and, according to the police, de
clared he shot the members of hi
family because the mother and cousin
were responsible for a suit for divorce
filed by his wife.
GERMAN EMBARGO STIRS SWISS.
Prohibition Of Importations Will
Elicit Remonstrance.
Berne. The German measure pro
hibiting all importations, news of
wbloh was received here unexpectp
edly, caused considerable excitement
throughout Switzerland. The Govern
ment will make remonstrancee to Ber
lin, as the entire economic situation of
the country is affected by this species
ef blockade.
NATIVE MEXICANS WILL BE FIRST
To Get Preference Over Foreign-Born
In Concessions.
Queretaro, Mexico. The Constitu
tional Assembly approved an article
of the constitution providing that
Mexicans shall be given the preference
ever foreign-born citizens in regard to
all classes of concessions and for those
posts In the government employ, the
holders of which must be citizens.
-FATHER OF AUTOMOBILE" DEAD.
'Amende Bo I lee, Sr., Frenchman, Built
Steam Car In 1873.
Paris. Amendee Bollee, Sr., tbe in
rentor, known In France as "the father
of auotmoblloB," is dead. M. Bollee
was the builder of a steam car which
h first operated In 1873.
A new kitchen utensil is a cutter
for removing cores from vegetable!
In the form of a long spiral that can
t usd If wished.
ADMIRAL DEWEY
LAID TO REST
Pvbtlo Honors Seldom Equaled
Accorded Dead Hero.
SALUTE OF 19 GUNS FIRED
President Wilson and Other High
Dignitaries T Be In Cortege.
Three Services Ar
ranged. Washington. Admiral Dewey, the
nro of Manila Bay, was buried at
Arlington Saturday with public honors
seldom equaled in the nation's history.
After servioss In the rotunda of the
Capitol the body was followed down
Pennsylvania avenue and across ths
Potomao to Us resting place by a
cortege including all the officials of
the Federal Government, the diplo
matic corps, ranking officers of the
army and navy, many military and
naval bodies In uniform, committees
of ths House and Senate and repre
sentative of many patrlotio societies
and other organizations.
Flags on American public buildings,
fort and naval vessels throughout the
world were at half-mast, and at noon,
senior warships of the American Navy
everywhere fired a farewell salute of
19 minute guns.
During the services at the Capitol,
which were attended by President
Wilson and many other official and
distinguished men and women, th
body rested on tbe same catafalque
and at th same spot In the rotunda
where Lincoln, Garfield and McKlnley
tay in state. Chaplain Frailer,
Dewey' and th Olympla's chaplain at
Manila, officiated.
A brief ceremony at the Dewey resi
dence, attended by near relatives, by
the President and Mrs. Wilson and by
a few close friends, preceded the Capi
tol observances, and, In conformity to
the Admiral's expressed desire, the
Annapolis midshipmen were the only
military escort when the body was
taken from th horn.
Th larger mllltai-y escort following
Included th entire corps of midship
men, th bluejacket of the battleship
New Hampshire, marines from Nor
folk and Philadelphia, artillerymen
from Fort Monroe and points along the
Potomao, and many other units. Ac
companied by their officers on foot,
they marched in th Inverse order of
their rank In special full-dress uni
form. Behind the military In carriages was
the President, the Cabinet, tbe Chief
Justice and Associate Justices of the
Supreme Court, th dlplomatlo corps
and th committees of Congress. The
Society of Manila Bay, made up of offi
cer who were under fire with Dewey
at Manila, was given a special place
In the military section, but the com
mittee of other patrlotio societies and
miscellaneous organizations rode be
hind the Government officials.
By order of President Wilson, all
executive department were closed
throughout the day. All business
houses In Washington were closed
from 11.30 to 12.30 o'clock.
Navy officers said that perhaps th
most unusual of all the honors paid
the dead hero was the salute of 19
guns fired at noon by American war
ships. It Is the salute of the Secre
tary of th Navy, and 17 guns Is the
designated admiral's salute. Th extra
honors, given under order of Secre
tary Daniels, was extended In recogni
tion of Dewey's rank, unique In Ameri
can history, as th Admiral of the
Navy.
75 MINERS KILLED IN 1916.
West Virginia Planning Stat Rescu
Crew.
Charleston. W. Va. Earl Henry,
chief of th Department of Mines, an.
nounced that 37f miners hsd been
killed In the mines of the State In
1916. Of this number 119 met death
In McDowell county, 60 in Fayette
county and 40 In Raleigh county. In
each of four counties only one fatality
occurred. While the mining depart
fent has received notable aid from the
Federal Bureau of Mines after a num
ber of explosions, a movement has
been set on foot for the creation by
the 8tt of a rescue body, to be pro
Tided with Its own car and trained
crew, modeled after the United State
standard.
SET NEW WIRELESS RECORD.
Stesmer Sonoma Caught Message
11,500 Miles Away.
San Francisco. A wireless tele
graph distance record of 11,500 mllei
was established by the steamer
Sonoma, which picked up messages
from EltvelHe, Germany, when two
days off Australia, according to Hoy
den Thomberg and Clio Bowers,
operators, who arrived here on the
Sonoma from Sydney. Ellery Stone,
assistant United States Inspector her,
aid it was the greatest distance
achievement in wireless telegraphy.
U. 3. SHIPS EXCITE ST. THOMAS.
Fleet Of 30 Or More Vessels Engages
In Maneuvers.
BL Thomas, D. W. I. A fleet of
United State warships, aggregating
10 or more vessels, carried out maneu
vers off St. Thomas. Th populace
was greatly excited over the visit of
the American ships.
ACT8 AS OWN SURGEON.
Farmsr's Twisted Knee Bon Repaired
By 8lmpl "Reverse."
Fredericksburg. Va. Whit D. Pey
ton, a prominent fanner of Stafford
and former member of the Legislature,
when climbing out of a corn crib had
his foot caught between two pieces of
timber, twisting his knee joint out of
place. He plsced his foot back in the
same position and reversed action and
twisted the Joint back In place. With
a little nursing he Is coming around
all right.
ARRANGING THE
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lopvriKlit.i
TO
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Balfour Approves Wilson's Plan
for World Federation.
ENTENTE WILL FIGHT ON
Prim Requisite For Discussion Of
Pesce As President Lay Ground
Work, Entente Will Try To
Wesken Germany.
Washington. England baa pointed
the way to President Wilson for con
tlnuing hi work toward a lasting
peace.
In the supplementary communication
forwarded to this Government from
Lord Balfour, official nav drawn th
following conclusions:
Tbe Entente is fighting to prevent
future aggression.
She feels President Wilson can do
much toward evolving some plan for
an International preventive force to
limit future war, and by Intimation
has conveyed the suggestion that he
pursue this course.
While th President Is working out
this plan and gaining sympathy for It
as one of the prime requisite for gen
eral peace discussion, tbe Entente
will fight on in an effort to crush, or
at least weaken the military power
and prestige of her enemies.
Balfour, It la pointed out, lays para
mount importanc on the necessity for
halting future aggressor. He says, in
fact, that while territorial readjust
ment sought by the Entente Power
might allay future danger somewhat,
they would provide no "sufficient
security1 against recurrence of war.
Such security, he concludes, is pos
sible only with "some form of interna
tional sanction" to stand behind inter
national law and treaties for prevent
ing or limiting hostilities.
Balfour's communication Is held to
b a suggestion that President Wil
son's sphere of activity for th pres
ent at least should b limited to laying
the ground work for some such Inter
national force.
In the meantime the Entente re-
avows Its purpose to rsmove or weak
en "existing cauaes of International
unrest" in Europe and attempt to
create popular dissatisfaction over
methods pursued by the Central
Powers.
Balfour admits the difficulty in ac
complishing these aim, but declares a
durable peace possible only in their
fulfillment, fortified by joint action of
civilized nations to enforce peace, one
It Is atUlned.
President Wilson favors us of both
arm of the countries' defense to In
sure peace, In aplte of recent reports
that hs felt such a league should be
armed with only moral suasion.
Some time ago th President pictur
esquely described to some friends his
Ideas on th subject by saying he fa
vored an international "peace patrol"
of aufflolent strength to say "no" when
war threatened and to "show the
would-be aggressor that th 'no' car
ried a bite with it"
The President continues to hold this
opinion of th character of such a
league of nation should assume, but
is open-minded on detail.
HI next step In tbe peace game may
be one looking to a union auoh as be
advocates.
PROVIDE8 COMPLETE SUFFRAGE.
Joint Resolution To Amend Illinois
Constitution Offered.
Springfield, ni. A Joint resolution
to amend the State constitution to give
women complete suffrage In Illinois
was Introduced in the Senate. The
resolution has the support of suffrage
organisations led by Mrs. Catherine
Waugh. McCulloch.
U-BOAT SANK 16 SHIPS.
Tonnage Of 26,000 Gross Destroyed On
Single Trip,
Berlin. A German submarine com
manded by Lieutenant-Captain Wuen-
sche, says the Overseas News Agotcy,
on it last trip sank 16 ships, aggregat
ing 26,006 gross tons.
COMB SAVES BRIDE'S LIFE.
Stray Bullet Flatten Itself Against
Metal In Hair.
Benton, I1L Mrs. Harry Sutherland,
of West Frankfort, a bride of a few
weeks, was struck by a stray bullet,
which came through the door of her
father's home, and narrowly escaped
deatn. Mrs. Sutherland fell against a
stove. The bullet had struck the back
of her head and flattened agalnFt a
metal comb. The comb practically
saved her lifn.
PO TS
WAY
LASTING
SOCIAL CALENDAR
I1M :-t' V.)..-
MM
ALLIES RENEW
THEIR PLEDGE
None Will Make Separate Peace
Declares Gen. Maurice.
TO "MAKE GOOD JOB" OF WAR
Victory Brought Nearer By Confer
ence At Rom and London,
6sy Military Di
rector; London. The recent conference in
Rome and London between Entente
civil and military leaders developed
the utmost harmony and a determina
tion to push th war to a conclusion
satisfactory to th Allies, according to
th opinion expressed by Major-General
F. B. Maurice, chief director of
military operations at the War Office,
In discussing tbe latest event of the
war.
"Our enemies," said General
Maurice, "are fond of stating in their
own press that France has tired of the
war, while hinting at a separate peace
for Russia, but I can say confidently,
a a result of the return of the dele
gate from Rome and last week's con
ference In London with . General
NIvelle, that these meetings were
much more Important in bringing vic
tory nearer than any recent military
event. Tbe result of these confer
ences showed the Allies heartily
agreed In a determination not to ac
cept an Inconclusive peace, and that
they are as on in their determination
to make a good Job of It before they
are ready to discus terms.
"In the purely military realm, our
raid continu with increasing success
and diminishing casualties to our at
tackers, who bring back as many pris
oner a our total casualty list, thus
putting th enemy's dead and wounded
on the plus aide of our ledger.
"The enemy' offensive In Roumanla
has been not only halted but pushed
back a step. This result probably is
due to Russian reinforcements, but
weather conditions may also hav had
a share In halting the Germans."
In connection with report of the
possibility of a German attack on
Switzerland, General Maurice declared
that for such an operation the German
would be compelled to weaken their
other fronts, which could only be don
at a grav risk.
FINED PRICE OF STRAWBERRY.
Dealer Pay $3 For Leaving HI Fruit
Uncovered.
New York. "I shall fine you the
price of one strawberry," sternly re
marked Magistrate Murphy in the
West Side Court
Michael Beln, the prisoner, quailed.
"Three dollars or three days," con-
tnued the magistrate.
Michael was charged with leaving
the strawberries In front of his store
uncovered.
"You should keep such valuables
locked In a safe anyway," the magis
trate admonished a Michael reached
for the $3.
GOVERNMENT WILL PROBE.
Compulsory Investigation Of Railway
Disputes Is Assured.
Washington. Compulsory Investiga
tion of dispute between railways and
tbelr employes by Government bodies
was assured, when members of the
Senate Interstate Commerce Commit
tee agreed on this feature of the Presi
dent's railway program, but did not st
this time discuss the right of employes
to strike pending this Investigation.
CAVALRY INAUGURAL ESCORT.
Fort Myer Troops Selected By Wilson
A Personsl Guard.
Washington. President Wilson has
decided to us the Second Cavalry
troop at Fort Myer, Va., as his per
sonal escort at the Inaugural vjre
monles. The announcement ends a
competition nation-wide between vol
unteer military organizations and Na
tional Guard troops, which had been
striving for the honor.
FAVORS UNIVER6AL TRAINING.
General Doubts If Guard Can Be Re
cruited To Strength.
Washington. Universal military
training or some other method by
which an adequate second-line army
could be prepared was advocated be
fore the Senate Military Committee by
Brlg.-Oen. It D. Williams, of tbe Ken
tucky National Guard. He questioned
whether the Guard eve" iould be re-
orulted to the strength of a real sec
ond armv
TRAPPED
T
E
German Raider In Atlantic De
, stroys Fifteen Vessels. .
ALL SUNK OR CAPTURED
Rsldlng Vessel 8lmllsr To Moewe.
Said To Be Wall Armed
and Hav Torpedo
Tube.
Rio Janeiro. A German raider foi
the past month ha been sinking ves
sels of the Entente Allied power la
the South Atlantic Latest report
fix th number at 15.
Survivors of the destroyed vessel
to th number of 337 have been landed
at Pernambuco, and the fate of nearly
450 men I still unknown.
Mor Expected To Land.
The first official statement given
out here regarding the raider were to
the effect that seven vessels bad been
sunk and nine captured. In a com
munication to the Minister of Marine
ths captain of the port of Pernambuco
declared that he had learned th
raider bad also sunk eight of tbe ves
sels which were at first reported
merely captured. Tbelr crews, tbe
fate of which 1 cot known, numbered
441 men.
It Is reported that the raider placed
the crew on board th British
steamer Yarrowdale, which then pro
ceeded for port It is therefor be
lieved they will be safely landed wlth
In a day or two.
Theodore Now RaldsrT
Another report haa been received to
the effect that the steamer Theodore
has been transformed into a raider.
The Chamber of Commerce and con
sulste at Pernambuco are devoting
much attention to th car of the ship
wrecked crews. There Is no confirma
tion whatever of the alleged loss of
400 lives.
Tbe first statement Issued named
the following ships as having been
sunk:
British Radnorshire, Saint Theo
dore, Dramatist, Minleh and Tredegar
HalL '
French Nantes and Asnieres.
Tbe vessels captured Include tbe fol
lowing: British King George, Mount Tem.
pie, Georglc, Voltaire and Yarrowdale.
Japanese Hudson Mara
Raid Covered 29 Day.
All the vessels were sunk or cap.
tured between December 12 and Jan
uary 10 on 'the route between the
Azores and Pernambuco, in longi
tudes varying between 40 and 33 west,
latitude between 30 north and 7 south.
Th crew of the steamships sunk
were placed on the Hudson Maru. This
vessel was compelled to accompany
the raider to a point seven degrees
south latitude, where she arrived Jan
uary 12. She then received permis
sion to go to Pernambuco, where she
arrived with 237 men from the crews
of tbe vessels which were sunk. No
information ha been received in re
gard to th crew of th captured
vessels.
$6,000,000 FOR ROADS.
Msssschusetts Expenditure Up 205 Per
Cent In Ten Yesrs,
Washington. Expenditures for road
Improvements Increased 205 per cent
In Massachusetts In 1914 over expendi
tures 10 years ago according to road
statistics Just made public by the De
partment of Agriculture. The Bay
8tate spent over $6,000,000, giving It a
percentage of 45.53 surfaced roads. Ap
proximate expenditures for the other
New England States were: Connecti
cut $3,640,000; Maine, $2,642,000; New
Hampshire, $1,690,000; Vermont $1
024,000 and Rhode Island $446,500.
NO WOMEN LAWYER8 FOR THEM.
English Attorneys Kill Resolution
Favoring Admission To Bsr.
London. Women will not be per
mitted to practice law in England If
the lawyers can prevent them. At a
meeting of the general council of the
bar, over which Attorney-General Sir
F. E. Smith presided, a resolution ask
ing the general council to "consider a
report upon the desirability of making
provision for the admission of duly
qualified women to the profession" was
overwhelmingly defeated.
CIGARETTE PRICES ADVANCED.
Higher Cost Of Materials and Labor
Given As Cause.
Nsw York. Increased prices for
cigarettes were announced here by the
United Cigar Stores Company and the
Tobacoc Products Corporation. Ad
vance by the United, to become ef
fective Monday, range from 1 to 3
cents a box. The higher cost of labor,
tobacco and wrapping material Is given
a th reason.
66 ALLIED FLYERS SHST DOWN.
Central Powers' Loi"vs hi December
17, Says BJrlln.
Berlin. Sixty-six airplanes of ths
Entente Powers were shot down on
the various battle fronts In December,
according to the German official state
ment Twenty-two of these machines
are In tbe possession of the Central
Powers. The losses of the Central
Allies In the same period were 17 ma
chine.
SAYS WOMEN ELECTED WILSON.
Bryan Want Ohio To Glv Them Vet
For President
Columbus, Ohio. William J. Bryan
urged Ohio legislators In joint session
to extend Presidential suffrage to
women. "Let no Democrat question
the capacity of women for suffrage, for
it was the women who elected Presi
dent Wilson last fall, when the men
would have defeated him," Bryan said
addressing his remarks to the Demo
cratic majority.
RADE
ROUT
KEYSTONE STATE
IN
Latest Doings in Various Parts
' of the State.
PREPAREDFORQUICKREADiNG
Mrs. Elizabeth Reese, eigbty-eeva
year old, Is dead. She was th oldest
woman in Mahanoy City.
Labor 1 so scare that the Lehigh
Valley Railroad Company is employing
old men and boys in its shops.
City CoommlsJoner E. Z. Gross, of
Harrlsburg, Is planning to introduce an
ordinance creating a shade tree com
mission. J. C. Kenyon, of West Pittston, ha
purchased the old Forest Castle Brew
ery, at West Pittston, and will convert
It into a paper factory.
Shamokln royally welcomed the re
turn of Its soldier boy, members of
Troop I, Pennsylvania Cavalry, by a
monster parade and banquet
The family of Joseph Maize, of
Marietta, narrowly escaped asphyxia
tion by gas escaping from the heater.
Two daughters are seriously ill and
the aged father also Is affected.
Caught under a fall of rock at tbe
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company'
No. 9 Colliery, Tamaqua, Steve Coller,
a machine runner, was crushed to
death.
Ben Tankersley, cold to have been
convicted in Tuscaloosa county, Ala.,
last November for "bootlegging" and
fleeing from the conviction and fine in
that dry territory, was arrested In
York as a fugitive.
All applications for liquor license
were refused by Judge Charles Cor
bett in Jefferson County License Court
This is the second successive year
court has refused to grant the applica
tions. Tbe record for the year In the price
of eggs has been set by a Shlppensburg
firm, which in an effort to secure
enough to meet their commission ship
ments hare offered fifty cent per
dozen wholesale.
According to estimates made at th
Department of Agriculture, the honey
produced in the State last year was
worth a million dollars. Tbe honey
business haa been growing In spite of
the handicap due to bee diseases and
the failure of the State to establish
an adequate system of Inspection.
The proposed changes In the game
and fish laws are being put into shape
by the men given charge of them and
will be submitted to meetings of the
committees in charge soon after the
Legislature meets. It is believed that
the legislative committees will give
hearings.
Because she refused to allow him to
continue his attentions, Arthur Cun
ningham, of Gettysburg, seventeen
years old, with a knife slashed the
throat of Katherine Rekenrode, also
seventeen. Believing he had killed
the girl, he went to the county Jail
and gave himself up. The wound will
not provo fatal.
Farmers of Fleetwood again are
hauling wheat to Berks county mills,
using the good sleighing. They are
getting $1.75 per bushel. Regardless
of the good price, there still is a good
doal of wheat in the barns. Farmers
are getting $1.75 for their potatoes.
Lots of potatoes are held for higher
prices.
Amos S. Pearson, of Harrlsburg, an
engineer on the Middle Division of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, who committed
suicide by shooting himself, had excep
tional nerve. The police say Pearson
pulled the trigger four times before a
cartridge discharged. The engineer is
believed to have been despondent be
cause of a recent demotion and on ac
count of the recent death of bis wife.
The first budget to be framed by th
State Commission of Agriculture under
the Act of 1915 was made up for sub
mission to the Legislature for the two
years commencing next June. It
carries $1,065,000, of which $400,000 is
to be appropriated for Indemnity of
live stock owners whose animals ar
killed during epidemics. The Increase,
aside from this item is not very great
Demands for additional teachers In
the continuation schools of this State
has led to th establishment of a teach
ers' training school at the Pennsyl
vania State College. The State Board
of Education has notified the college
authorities that the new course will be
operated In connection with the regu
lar summer session for teachers, dur
ing six weeks next summer.
Plans for presentation to the Legisla
ture of a measure for a commission
to make a study of the abnormal chil
dren of the State and suggest ways and
means to care for them were discussed
at length before Governor Brumbaugh
and representatives of various organ
izations interested in the care of chll
dred at a conference held In the cap!
tol. Indorsing the project as outlined by
Prof. Hishman, of State College, Car
Msle, farmers assembled under the aus
pices of the Chamber of Commerce, In
dorsed the farm bureau project Ef
forts will be made at once to secure a
COO membership.
That, in spite of the advance to 20
tents a gallon on milk, no trouble Is ex
perienced In selling the product the
main part going for shipment was the
statement made at a meeting of the
Dairymen's Association, of Cumberland
and Dauphin counties.
SORT
DE
$24,850,000 ASKED
FOR HIGHWAY WORK
Budget Prepared For Legislature Call
For $6,000,000 Yearly
Construction.
Harrlsburg
The Stale Highway Department an
nounced that It had prepared a budget
for submission to the General As
sembly calling for $24,850,000 for two
years. Commit loner Black said that
th budget contained "the depart
ment's, own figures," and had no refer
ence to previous announcement.
The budget Is as follows:
Six million dollars per year for Stat
highway construction, $12,000,000.
One million dollars per year for con
struction of State highway route In
boroughs, $2,000,000.
This money is to be used only In
building misting links In boroughs,
where a State highway route Is Im
proved up to each end of the borough,
the money to be allotted to the various
counties on a mileage basis. Final de
cision as to tbe expenditure to be left
to the State Highway Commissioner.
Any unexpended bslance In each coun
ty to be available for use on route
outside of boroughs in said county.
One million five hundred thousand
dollars per year for State aid construc
tion and maintenance, $3,000,009.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars por year for the purchase of turn
pikes and toll bridges, $500,000, local
authorities paying fifty per cent of
the cost of freeing toll roads and
bridges.
Township road bonus deficiency for
the years 1912, 1913 and 1914. $1,350..
000.
In addition, the necessary legislation
Is asked to make available tbe automo
bile license fees for Stat highway
maintenance, three million dollar per
year, $6,000,000.
Normal Schools Ask More Money.
Increases In the State appropriations
for normal schools will be asked of the
General Assembly when the budget for
the educational department of th
State Government Is made np and
there will be a request for $100,000 to
enable tbe State to continue purchase
of control of such schools and for some
means to extinguish debt on the prop
erties. Principals of the State normal
schools have asked for additional al
lowances because of the advance in
prices, the Increases In pupils and de
mands due to the establishment of
vocational and agricultural training.
The debt on the normal schools
amounts to $700,000 and was taken
over when the State bought the ten
schools it controls. These schools are
valued at about $6,000,000. Tbree
schools remain to be bought
Institute Largely Attended.
According to reports received by th
State Department of Agriculture, at
tendance at the farmers' Institutes this
winter is greater than it has been for
years, records being broken In somo
counties, and even in severe weather
the number of persons reported at
meetings has been ahead of the aver
age. Tbe attendance in York and
Lebanon counties was very high, while
in Somerset county 6,000 persons at
tended the sessions. Dauphin reports
a record-breaking attendance, with big
figures from Crawford, Fulton, Frank
lin, Schuylkill and Washington coun
ties, In Lancaster county the attend
ance Jumped from 5,400 to 7,400. State
officials say that the increase In at
tendance Is due largely to the Inter
est in the propositions of forming co
operative associations for marketing
of products in large lot and soil con
servation. State Found Jobs For 1,590 Persons.
Tbe State succeeded in placing
1,590 persons in jobs during December,
according to a summary of th opera
tions of the bureau for that month
made by Director Lightner. This is
tbe largest number placed in a single
month since the bureau began work
last January. The summary show
that 43 per cent of the 2,545 request
of employers for workers were for la
bor, while 24.4 per cent of the appli
cations were laborers. Thirty-eight
per cent of the women who applied
for State aid to find places were for
domestic and personal employment
Tbe requests for women workers was
39.5 per cent of the total.
Growing More Corn and Oat.
Figures compiled by the State De
partment of Agriculture show that
Pennsylvania advanced from twentieth
to seventeenth place as a corn-raising
State and Is now twelfth in the Union
as a raiser of oats, having risen from
fourteenth place lost year. The 8tat
Live Stock Sanitary Board has report
ed that rabies occurred In twenty-nine
counties during 1916. There were 126
animals affected, Including 115 dogs
and six hogs. The number of cases la
less than usual.
To Ask Historical Funds.
An appropriation will be askod of
the Legislature by the State Federa
tion of Historical Soceitles for the pur
pose of making historical researches
and it alto will be asked to continue
Its appropriations for marking of his
toric sites.
CHARTERS GRANTED.
The following charters, were grant
ed to Pennsylvania corporations:
Lukens Steel Company, Coatesvllle;
capital, $10,000; treasurer, Gustavo T.
Schnatz, Philadelphia.
New Home Building and Loan Asso
ciation, Philadelphia; capital, $1,000,
000; James McCsnn.
P. N. Degerberg, Inc., clothing, Phila
delphia; capital, $125,000; O. N. Deger
berg, Merlon.
Philadelphia Needle Company, Phila
delphia; capital, $6,000; Edmund Mo
Cready.
The Beran and Gomberg Savings and
Loan Association, Philadelphia; capi
tal, $15,000; P. H. Gomberg.
Middleton Supply Company, Phila
delphia, capital, $5,000; H. W. Middle
ton. A. B. Smith & Co., Inc., stocks, Phila
delphia ; capital, $10,000; U. W. Lclnan,
Riverton, N. J.
Vreeland & Souder, Inc., construc
tion, Lancaster; capital, $10,000; O. C.
Souder.