THE PULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURG, PA.
PREPARING FOR
IMMEDIATE DRAFT
Conscription Will Begin Within
Ten Days After Bill is Signed.
16 BIG CAMPS TO BE FORMED
To Round Up All Subjects To Call.
Forms For Draft Already Pre
paredBuilding the
Cantonment.
Washington. With enactment ot
the Selective Draft Army bill ap
parently assured, the War Department
to preparing to let machinery in
notion without delay to produce under
the measure within two years a train
ed army of 2,000,000 men.
Minor differences In the measure as
It will pass the two houses probably
rill necessitate a conference, but the
bill lu expected to be ready for Presi
dent Wilson's signature by the middle
of the week.
Champions In the House ot an
eunendment designed to permit
Colonel Roosevelt to recruit a volun
teer force for Immediate service In
France lost their fight on the first vote
taken after the close of general de
bate. The amendment, offered by
Representative Austin, of Tennessee,
and vigorously supported by Repre
sentative Gardner, of Masachusetts,
and others, was defeated, 170 to 106.
Among those who voted for It was
Hiss Rankin, of Montana, who tear
fully opposed the war resolution.
Within 10 days after the bill Is
llgned every township In the country
will be registering Its young men for
duty, and work will have begun on
the 16 training cantonments or camps
where preparation of the forces for
war will start in August or Septem
ber. Sites for the cantonments have
been selected tentatively and all ar
rangements made for the troops as
signed to each.
Wide publicity Is planned, so that
no man liable for registration will
have a good excuse for falling to re
pond. On a date to be set, every
cltiien affected by the act will be re
quired, on pain of heavy penalty, to
present himself at the nearest regis
tration place, where machinery will be
provided for classifying the recruits
and eliminating those exempt. Doubt
ful cases will be referred to higher
authority.
Decentralization of administrative
work will be sought by the depart
ment In every move it makes. De
tails will not be disclosed until the
bill has passed, but it is known that
registration will be carried on through
sheriffs and other county officials,
aided by postmasters or other Federal
agencies where that seems desirable.
Instructions and forms already have
been prepared and will be forwarded
to the State Adjutant-General for dis
tribution among county officials.
With the rolls of those liable for
service complete, the task of selecting
the men to go into the first-Increment
of 600,000 will begin. It has been sug
gested that this be done by means of
the county Jury wheel. The first man
whose name Is drawn would go, under
that plan, with the first 600,000 to be
called out for training within a few
months. The second drawn would go
with the second increment, to be cull
ed six months later; the third with
the third Increment, with duty a year
off; the fourth with the first Incre
ment, and so on.
NO PROOF OF EDDYSTONE PLOT.
Nor Did Coroner's Jury Get Evidence
Explosion Was Accident
Chester, Ta. The coroner's Jury re
turned a verdict finding there was no
vldenco before them to lead to the
conclusion that the explosion at the
Eddystone Ammunition Corporation
plant at Eddystone, Pa., on April 10
was due to a premeditated cause, nor
does any of the evidence submitted
point definitely to any other cause.
The verdict Includes the statement
that the Jurymen find that the 129 vic
tims of the disaster came to their
death from burns and exhaustion due
to the explosion.
ELIHU ROOT ACCEPTS.
Chairman Of the Russian Commission.
Missions To Other Allies.
Washington. America's commission
to the new democratic government of
Russia will be headed by Elihu Root,
secretary of war under McKinley, sec
retary of state under Roosevelt, and
for six years a senator from New
Tork. Mr. Root called on President
Wilson to accept the task and hear of
the President's plans for offering un
stinted aid to the provisional author
Hies at Petrograd In their task of
earning on the war with Germany,
setting up a permanent government
and rehabilitating their country.
15-CENT LOAF IN CLEVELAND.
Increase In Price Of Bread Amounts
To 20 Per Cent
Cleveland. The 15-cent loaf of bread
was Introduced here by one of the
largest baking companies in the city.
The change In sizes and prices of
loaves amounts to an Increase In price
of 20 per cent. Other baking com
ponies are planning similar changes.
GERMANS TO GET WAR MEASURE.
800,000 Copies Of Wilson's Speech
Will Be Dropped By Airmen.
Paris. Upward of 300,000 copies'of
President Wilson's war address to
Congress are to be dropped over the
German lines by French and American
aviators. The text of tlio message,
translated Into German, has been de
livered by the printers and Is now
ready for distribution. The dropping
of tho message Is the result of an
agreement between the French and
American governments.
II
SALUTES
U. S. AS ALLY
Expresses Deep Gratitude For
Help Extended.
SPEAKS FOR FRENCH NATION
Now All the Forces Of Freedom Are
Let Loose and Victory Of Moral
ity and Right Is As
sured, He Says.
Washington. In a statement to the
American - press, Rene Vivian),
France's Vice-Premier and bead of the
war mission from that country, said
the co-operation of the United States
would mean not only a military vic
tory, which already was assured, but
a victory of morality and right Ex
pressing deep gratitude for the en
thusiastic reception given his mission
here, M. Vivianl said he realized "it
was not to us, but to our beloved and
heroic France."
M. Vivlanl's statement Is as fol
lows: "I promised to receive you after
having reserved, as elementary cour
tesy required, my first communication
solely for the President
"I have Jifst had the honor, which
I sliared with other members of the
mission, of being received by him. I
am Indeed happy to have been chosen
to present the greetings of the
French republic to the illustrous man
whose name Is in every French mouth
today, whose Incomparable message Is
at this very hour being read and com
mented upon In all our schools as the
most perfect charter of human rights
and which so fully expresses the vir
tues of your race long-suffering patl
ence before appealing to force, and
force to avenge that long-suffering
patience when there can be no other
means.
"Since you ore here to listen to me,
I ask you to repeat a thousand fold
the expression of our deep gratitude
for the enthusiastic reception the
American people has granted us In
Washington. It Is not to us, but to
our beloved and heroic France that
reception was accorded.
"We have come to this land to salute
the American people and its Govern
ment, to call to fresli vigor our life
long friendship, sweet and cordial in
the ordinary course of our lives, and
which these tragic hours have raised
to all the ardor of brotherly love a
brotherly love which in these last
years of suffering has multiplied its
most touching expressions you have
given help, not only in treasure, In
every act of kindness and good will;
for us, your children have shed their
blood, and the names of your sacred
dead are inscribed forever in onr
hearts. And it was with a full
knowledge ot the meaning of what
you did that you acted.- Your in
exhaustible generosity was not the
charity of the fortune to the distress
ed; It was an affirmation of your con
science, a reasoned approval of your
Judgment
"Your fellow-countrymen knew that
under the savage assault of a nation
of prey which has made of war, to
Quote a famous saying, its national
Industry, we were upholding with our
Incomparable allies, faithful and vali
ant to the death, with all those who
are fighting shoulder to shoulder with
us on the firing line, tho sons of In
domitable England, a struggle for the
violated rights ot man, for that
democratic spirit which the forces of
autocracy were attempting to crush
throughout the world. We are ready
to carry that struggle on to the end.
"And now as President Wilson has
said, the republic of the United States
rises in its strength as a champion
ot right and rallies to the side of
France and her allies. Only onr
descendants, when time has removed
them sufficiently far from present
events, will be able to measure the
full significance, the grandeur of a
historic act which has sent a thrill
through the whole world. From today
on all the forces of freedom are let
loose. And not only victory, of which
we were already assured, is certain;
the true meaning of victory is made
manifest; it cannot be merely a for
tunate military conclusion to this
struggle; It will be the victory of
morality and right, and will forever
secure the existence of a world in
which all our children shall draw free
breath In full peace and undisturbed
pursuit of their labors.
"To accomplish this great work,
which will be carried to completion,
we are about to exchange views with
the men In your Government best
qualified to help. The co-operation of
the republic of the United States In
this world conflict Is now assured. We
work together as free men who are
resolved to save the Ideals ot mankind."
NO MORE SIX-CENT LOAVES.
Bakers In Eight Statet Raise Price
and Reduce Weight
Spartansburg, S. C Announcement
was made here that bakers of the
Southeastern Bakers' Association,
operating in eight States, would dis
continue making loaves of bread to
sell for less than 10 cents. The- bak
ers have been making a nine-ounce
loaf for sale at 6 cents. Hereafter
they will make a 15-ounce loaf for
sale at 10 cents.
WOULD STOP FIREWORKS SALE.
New York Fire Commissioner Appeals
To Mayors.
New York. Revocation of permits
to sell fireworks for use Inside or out
side the city and an appeal sent to all
Mayors throughout the United States
in cities of more than 10,000 popula
tion to do likewise were measures
taken by Robert Adamson, Fire Com
missioner, both to conserve ammuni
tion materials and prevent such sup
plies getting Into the handB of persons
inimical to this country.
CLEANING HOUSE IN EUROPE
(Copyright.)
$400,000100 FOR
ALLIES EACH MONTH
To Aid in Supplying Armies With
Supplies.
BIGGEST SUM FOR BRITAIN
All To Be Expended In This Country.
McAdoo Contemplating Addi
tional Issues Of Treas
ury Certificates.
Washington. Preliminary reports
to the Treasury Department, upon
which Secretary McAdoo will base his
recommendations to the President as
to the slie of the first bond issue
under the $7,000,000,000 war finance
law, indicate that the United States
will be called upon to finance the
Allies to the extent ot at least $400,
000,000 and possibly $500,000,000 a
month.
Biggest 8um For Britain.
The tentative program also calls for
the expenditure ot virtually every dol
lar of the borrowed money in this
country for foodstuffs, munitions, coal,
clothing, railway equipment and other
supplies.
The estimates, still Incomplete and
subject to revision, indicate the fol
lowing Entente needs:
For Great Britain, $200,003,000 to
$200,000,000 a month; for France, from
$100,000,000 to $125,000,000; for Rus
sia, sum undetermined, but up to
$100,000,000 a month, depending large
ly upon the ability of manufacturing
plants in this country to meet her de
mands, mostly for supplies other than
foodstuffs and munitions; for Italy,
about $50,000,000 a month.
May Pare Estimates.
Should these requirements be met
in their entirety, the $3,000,000,000
available for lending the Allies would
be exhausted In from six to seven and
one-halt months. It is likely, however,
that the preliminary estimates can be
pared down to a point where, without
omitting essentials, the huge loan
could be made to cover requirements
for a much longer period ot time, pos
sibly for one year.
Indications were not lacking that
Mr. McAdoo would consider favorably
the suggestion that he offer soon an
other block of Treasury certificates
to the banks of the country through
the Federal Reserve Banks. The sec
ond offering, it was said, probably
would be the same sire as the first
$250,000,000 and might be offered
within 10 days. Should the Govern
ment decide to finance the Allies to
the extent of $500,000,000 a month ap
proximately $1,000,000,000 would be
needed to meet requirements prior to
June 30, the date upon which the first
proceeds of the bond Issue probably
will be available.
Withdrawing money from the mar
kets at the rate of $250,000,000 every
two or three weeks by the issues of
blocks ot certificates, officials belie.ve,
would be preferable to a sudden call
for proceeds of a $2,000,000,000 bond
Issue. Thus should $1,000,000,000 in
certificates be Issued prior to June 30
half of a $2,000,000,000 bond Issue will
virtually have been withdrawn from
the money markets prior to its issue,
as the certificates carry the conver
sion privilege and doubtless would be
exchanged for bonds.
In this manner, it is thought, the
banks of the country will be In a
strong position to meet the strain of
war financing and minimum disturb
ance of financial conditions would result
AUTOI3T FRACTURES SKULL.
C. D. Dennett, Virginia Court Clerk,
Not Expected To Live.
Woodstock, Va. C. D. Dennett, of
Salem, Va., Clerk of the Circuit Court
ot Roanoke County, was fatally injur
ed in an automobile accident near this
town. His skull was fractured and he
is not expected to survive the night.
J. P. Saul, Jr., a lawyer, also of Salem,
who was driving the car, was cut
about the head, but his condition is
not thought to be serious.
WANTS TO SAVE DAYLIGHT.
New York Committee Also Alms At
Economy and Health.
New York. The New York Day
light Saving- Committee adopted a
resolution requesting President Wil
son and the Council ot National De
fense to urge Congress to adopt the
proposed daylight saving plan as a
war measure. The memorial em
phasized the value of the Idea as a
stimulus to home gardening, econom)
in fuel consumption and promotion of
health through recreation.
FRENCH MISSION
IN WASHINGTON
Visitors Sail Up Bay on Presi
dent's Yacht.
ARRIVAL IN HAMPTON ROADS
Plans To Be Laid Before War Coun
cil Vivianl and Party Given
Unlimited Powers
By France.
Washington. France's war com
missioners to the United States reach
ed Washington on board tho Presi
dential yacht Mayflower.
Powers Unlimited.
The mission, of which Rene Vivianl,
Vice-Premier and Minister of Justice,
Is the official head and Marshal Joffre
a member, brings no written Instruc
tions from the French Government,
the Ministry having decided to give
Its members unlimited powers to
negotiate with the United States on
all subjects, military, naval and finan
cial. It is proposed to discuss the send
ing of an American' expeditionary
force to France. Marshal Joffre and
other military members will indicate
to the American officials with whom
they are to confer several important
military reasons which they consider
renders the sending of such a force
advisable. The most Important ot
these reasons is found in the moral
effect to be had from the presence of
American troops and the American
flag on the battlefields of France.
Plan Worked Out (
The French idea of an American ex
pedition calls for a fighting force sup
ported by auxiliary services, such as
railway staffs, railway material, base
repair shops, telegraph and telephone
lines, automobile transport and a
strong aviation section. The French
Government Is ready to offer what
ever may be considered necessary to
exist In sea operations, Including the
use for naval purposes of any or all
ports In France. The Ministry of
Marine has worked out for submis
sion to the American Government a
comprehensive plan for overseas
transports for both army and navy
purposes and for the provisioning of
the civil population.
Financially, France needs loans of
$100,000,000 monthly to be spent in
the United States. Tho detailed offi
cial information on this subject will
be submitted to the American Govern
ment at the conferences to be held in
Washington.
GERMANS INTERNED AT HOTEL.
150 In Panama Enjoy Great Comfort
At Government Expense.
Washington. 'Some 150 Germans
who failed to leave Panama and the
Canal Zone after the United States
entered the war have been Interned
at the handsome Hotel Aspinwall on
Tabogo Island, owned by the Ameri
can Government They are living
there in great comfort, and occupying
quarters vacated by tourists and canal
employes.
WOULD TRAIN AMERICANS.
Capt Sweeny, Who Fought In Foreign
Legion, Arrives.
New York. Capt Charles Sweeny,
an American, who has fought In the
Foreign Legion in France, arrived
here and will go to Washington to
offer his services in the training of
the American Army. The French
Government early this month granted
him unlimited leave of absence for
this purpose.
INCREASE IN NAVY FAVORED.
Committee Will Also Recommend 13,
000 More Marines.
Washington. The Administration
bill for increasing the enlisted per
sonnel of the navy from 87,000 to 150,
000 men, and the marines from 17,000
to 80,000 men, was ordered favorably
reported to the House by unanimous
vote of the Naval Committee.
MAY WORK GERMANS IN PARK.
New York State Negotiating With
Washington For Sailors.
Washington. Neogtiatlons have
been commenced between the Depart
ment ot Labor and the New York
State government to place the seamen
from the seized German and Austrian
merchant ships at work In Palisades
Park, on the banks of the Hudson
River. The State government has
available $2,500,000 for Improvements
In the park if the labor can be
secured.
U. S. GUNNERS
SINK U-BOAT
Made a Hit Before the German
Could Get Into Action.
FIRST ACT OF WAR APRIL 19
Gun Sighted By Lieutenant Bruce
Ware Captain Rice Tells Of
Encounter U-Boat
Was Close.
London. Captain Rice, of the
American steamship Mongolia, which
has Just arrived at a British port, told
how the Mongolia had fired the first
gun of the war for the United States
and sunk a German submarine.
The submarine, Captain Rice said,
was about to attack the great liner in
British waters on April 19. He de
clared there was absolutely no doubt
that the U-boat was hit and that there
was every reason to believe It was
destroyed.
The naval gunners on board the
Mongolia made a clean hit at 1,000
yards. The periscope was seen to be
shattered.
The gunners are under command o
Lieut Bruce Ware, U. 8. N., who
sighted the gun from which the shot
was fired.
Even more pertinent a fact, as re
gards the ultimate fate of the sub
marine, was that the shell disappeared
Immediirtely after the hit was made.
The captain stated that a shell always
ricochets on the waters and can be
seen again unless It finds the mark.
Oil also was seen on the water after
the submarine disappeared.
The Mongolia was going at full
speed and was a long distance away
when the spray and foam subsided,
but from the bridge the officers ob
served the spot through their glasses,
and they are confident the submarine
was sunk.
The periscope was sighted dead
ahead on the last afternoon of the
voyage. The captain gave tho order
for full speed ahead with the Inten
tion of -ramming the submarine. The
periscope disappeared and a few
moments later reappeared on the
ship's broadside. The gunners fired,
hitting the periscope squarely and
throwing a mountain of water.
Captain Rice outlined the Incident
with modesty, but could not quite
conceal the pride he felt In the
achievement of his ship. He paid a
high tribute to the gunners and
especially to the manner In which
they were handled by the officer who
directed the firing of the telling shot.
"For five days and nights," said
Captain Rice, "I hadn't had my clothes
off, and we kept a big force of look
outs on duty all the time. It was
5.20 o'clock In the afternoon of the
19th that we sighted the submarine.
The officer commanding the gunners
was with me on the bridge where, In
fact, we had been the most ot the
time throughout the voyage.'
"There was a haze over the sea at
the time. We had Just taken a sound
ing, for we were getting near shal
low water and we were looking at
the lead when the first mate cried:
'There's a submarine off tho port bow.'
U-Boat Close At Hand.
"The submarine was close to us
too close, in fact for her purposes
and she was submerging again In or
der to maneuver in a better position
for torpedoing us when we sighted
her.
"We saw the periscope go down and
the swirl of the water. I quickly or
dered a man at the wheel to put it
to starboard and we swung the nose
of the ship toward the spot where the
submarine bad been seen.
"We were going at full speed ahead
and two minutes after we first sighted
the U-boat it emerged again about
1,000 yards off. Its intention probably
had been to catch us broadside on,
but when It appeared we had the
stern gun trained full on it.
Big Guns Boom.
"The lieutenant gave the command
and the big guns boomed. We saw
tho periscope shattered and the shell
and the submarine disappeared.
"I can't speak too highly of the cool
manner in which the - lieutenant
handled his crew of gunners. It was
a fine exhibition of the efficiency of
American naval men. The lieutenant
knew before the shell struck the sub
marine . that Its aim was accurate.
There is no guess-work about it, but
a case of pure mathematics.
All Over In Two Minutes.
"Taking the speed at which the
Mongolia was traveling at the time
and the speed which the submarine
undoubtedly would make, and com
puting these figures with the distances
we were from the submarine when it
was first sighted and when it appeared
the second time, it can be shown that
the lieutenant had his gun sighted to
the inch. And it must be remembered
that the whole affair took only two
minutes.
"I assure you we didn't stop to
reconnoiter after the incident, but
steamed away at full speed, for it was
not Improbable that there was another
submarine about The one I got un
doubtedly had been lying on the bot
tom at this spot waiting for the ship
and came up when it heard our pro
pellers. I Immediately sent a wireless
message stating that submarine had
been seen."
No Comment At Washington.
Washington. The policy of the
Government is to make no announce
ment or comment upon the destruction
of a German submarine by the steam
er Mongolia at this time.
Keep Driving the Turks.
London. The Turks In Mesopo
tamia have evacuated the Iztabilat
noattion 'on the right bank of the
Tigris, 10 miles below Samara, the
War Office announces. They are now
being attacked at a point six miles
nearer Samara.
FRANTIC RUSH TO
RAISE GARDENS
Club Women Showing Deep In
trest in Home Life On Penn
sylvania Farms.
FOOD PROSPECTS BRIGHTEN
Cold Storage Houses Are Filled With
Poultry Eggs and Fish, However,
Held Only In Small Quantities
Throughout State.
Harrisburg.
In all the preparedness and con
servation activities that are going for
ward, possibly no other has a stronger
economic value than the Eyre bill, No.
484, that was put into the Appropria
tions Committee's hands early In the
month. This was declined to estab
lish a bureau of homes separate from
the State Agricultural Department of
Home Economics, and would carry
with it an appropriation of $30,000 for
two years. The work is to be con
ducted throughout the counties, in
co-operation with county agents, per
haps, but at any rate directly reach
ing the farm women and their prob
lems. Efficiency In the farm home
will enable the farm woman to live
more comfortably, and to raise the
efficiency of the farm Itself.
A talk on "Gardens," by Dr. Jane
Leslie Klft, showed that women arc
Just as busy getting ready for their
flower gardens as they are looking up
the -natter of vegetables. Unfortu
nately, much money will be was'od
tit In year In the frantic scramble for
vegetable gardens put In by people
Mho have never tried any kind of
planting before. I' was brought :ut
by ihe questions at the meeting that
many of the women are going to give
ui' a portion of their flower-bed
patches to vegetables, hut most ot
these women have gardened somen hat
every year for several' seasons, and
will probably be able to bring their
work to harvest period. The new
gardeners will more likely get dis
couraged before many weeks are out,
and only in a few Instances will there
be any profit in the work.
The cold storage reports for the first
quarter, ending March 31, show that
poultry and beef were held In con
siderable quantities, up to April 1,
at least. More poultry than haa ever
before been known to bo In cold stor
age in Pennsylvania was In the ware
houses at the beginning ot this month,
when there was 7,059,751 pounds, as
compared with 2,365,351 pounds on
the same date Jn 1916.
The reports as compiled by James
Foust. Dairy and Food Commissioner,
show that eggs in storage are at low
ebb, but that butter shows an Increase
over the same period a year ago. The
warehouses were virtually cleaned
out of eggs during January and Febru
ary, and tho beginning ot tho month
showed only 104,337 dozen on hand,
with 267,742 pounds of the product
out of tho shell. The season for plac
ing eggs In storage Is April and May
and large quantities are expected to
he put away, desplto tho failure of
the prlco to come down to the former
summer standard.
Twenty-seven of the seventy-two
cold storage houses In the state did
not contain any food products at the
beginning ot the month and the hold
ings of eggs and meat were scattered
among twenty of the largest concerns
Twenty-nine houses reported butter
on storage, while twenty-foiw were
holding poultry.
The approach ot the fishing season
brought a decided drop In the amount
of that food In storage and there were
only 1,153,977 pounds, as compared
with 3,126,675 pounds three months
ago.
Large exports of beef and pork have
reduced these holdings and there are
reported 554,259 pounds of carcasses
of beef and 1,402,570 pounds of parts
cf carcasses. This Is an Increase of
almost 1,000,000 pounds, as compared
with the sametlme lust year, but a
decrease over the figures of three
months ago.
Pork shows a slight increase, with
26.C80 carcasses and 1,827,882 pounds
ot parts of carcasses. Mutton and
veal are below me usual holdings
Seven warehouses a"e holding mutton,
while fifteen contain pork.
Patriotism and preparedness hit
Bryn Mawr College with a bang about
two weeks ago, and a number of
things are being worked out by the
students along that line. Now the
question of supplying a course In farm
ing Is being Investigated by the stu
dent organization and several alumnae
have coupled with that Idea a sugges
tion that a portion of the campus be
usod to raise crops.
Students Turn Farmers.
Under the direction of Dr. Wilmer
F. Burns, assisted by the school teach
ers of the public schools, the pupils
of Gloucester City have established
more than 100 gardens, and additional
plots will be planted. At the Jersey
avenue public school the pupils have
transformed the yard Into a large gar
den In which they are growing onions,
tomatoes, radishes and corn. City Su
perintendent Burns has announced
that all school children who desire to
work on farms In compliance with the
call of Governor Edge, may do bo, and
they will be graduated.
Prisoners Plant Potatoes.
Short-term prisoners from the Bucks
County Jail have planted- nearly 14
bubhels of seed potatoes on a tract
offered by Joseph Rich. Well-known
women of the Doylestown section,
affiliated with the Red Cross, put on
old garments and gloves and prepared
tho seed potatoes for planting, and
following agreement with the Board
of County Commissioners, that "trust
ed, short-term prisoners could be used
to do the.work of planting, under prop
er guards," the big pile of seed pota
toes were all planted.
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War with Germany hai
the unveiling of the statue of J
r.anfn.1 Poatnr.iia Vi a a i . '4
. w. , rl
uermamown.
The. School Board of LatroL
Increase the wages ot icachen
8 to 9 per cent.
Bakers at Rlngtown ban J
t i .i .
piives ui uieu, lurnieny ( j'.
cents, to o ana a cents.
Owners of the Crystal 1
wood and Cranberry col!leri9
cash prizes to miners for q,
gardens.
Buyers for big cold storj.,
are scouring Blair ami liedforj
Mas tnr ttirfra nt flfl .nm. - .
C. A. Brown, of Kcwistan C
announced his candidacy In. J
ate Judge on the no license l,
can ticket.
"Street loafers and vagranti
serve their country In none J
or go to Jail, Is tho edict e( t
of Police E. F. Frum, of inrj
The Westmoreland County i
haa ordered the Sheriff to ttf
farmers drawn for Jury duty (
week of May 7 that they are e
as farming Is paramount, j
Miss Helen L. Cope, for ti
years assistant principal ot k
burg's schools, has linen el
pervlfllng principal, to succeed;
B. Moyer.
A Scranton citizen mttm
the Court House Square in th
be planted with potato!, r.
enough potatoes can ho p
the plot to supply 50 famllia
At Lancaster, Annie Smok
than three years old, while la t
of her father, who was opev
gasoline engine, got too dost
shafting. Her dress was caii
she was whirled around, Hj
held the shaft from revnlvinfi-
father went to the engine to ?
cause of the stoppage anl n
rifled at seeing his child'. (
tached to the shafting.
The bill providing for tlwii
medical and other Instlttta'
vivsectlon purposes of uncln:-;
mas in public pounds was ii'sJ.
the Senate at Harrinburg.
received 23 affirmative vo!ti
lose than a constitutional iu
There were 21 votes cast agta(
Nearly 100 students In tie
tural school at State Collppb,
their textbooks and withdrnj
college to work on farms. Act'
of them were seniors, who hai
completed their four-year eon;
scientific agricuture. Dlplon
be awarded them.
Bakers at Glrardsvillo bin
Iread to 12 cents a loaf.
Red Lion school director!':
miss boy students earlier top,
time to assist in farm work.
Bread at Mlffllntown hii a
to 12 cents a loaf, and conns-'
Insist upon a 16-ouncc loaf, f
Reserve militia force is pu?,
bill Introduced In Pennsrln:;?
ate, this new body to take
National Guard when in Fedt
vice. j
Stepa have been taken by
Lebanon township School K';
the erection of a $.r0.000 icl:
Iona, to consolidate nine K
schools.
Electric and eearchlishts li'
placed on tho Rockville brill''
JMnnsvlvanla Railroad as P
measure
County game wardens ulH
lets are puzzled by a 4w
they have observed amonj,
Maryvllle and which Is mate!
Inroads into their rank. FWj
found sluggish and scarcely
fly. Examination has revest
to be blind In one eye, whW
swollen as to protrude. f
"Good-by, mother," & I
W. Vangilgor, 61 years oil 'j
mother, as he walked upU
home In Sunbury. A nc
she heard a shot and be
with a bullet In his head. t
duo to ill health, is given n'j
A Reading Railway man ton,
ot dynamite under the R(;
vert ai uunuy s ono w" i
Lewlsburg. j
For years a pile of waste ij
diura a material used l i
diamond-pointed fountain tThe p
thought worthless by tDe isuper
mm. lvm.i.u r..r. rmriPi1'!
fait Al-laa of ntnniTIAlllirft. 3
dropped In on Mr. Wirt
him $75 a pound, or more tM-
for It. It Is used in
industry. .(
After an offended Guards
Hoffman, had knocked doJ
-iL-i-.i a wmA,. 'Snllitt
Sunbury, fined Christian
costs
At a meeting of the gen'"1,
tural branch of the PuW"(
Pnramlllna at SrmltOD, I'
-ij-j . i . .ho three1
house snuare. In the heart 0 1
on1 aotoMluh p-nritonS. "
rtorlrtfirt fn nfirfflct arraM'
supplying nearby farmers
Reading will have lt st
at two cents for every one-'
.. .u - ..oril.
iuii 10 die uuiu ..-i
unnea wine vi- .
1376, with 1,500 momber, ,
a co-operative buyi '3 6cle;.
ion. me iiuru iu i" ...i
at sneppton ana ui"
llshed similar association-
Residents of Abington
line with the "plant a g'u
Mrs. Mary B. Swnin
Washington, D. C who
in Bucks county, has sent
$25 to President I. J- Van
me LFoyiesiowu ,.ina 1
merce, to head a
farmers who are unaui
their production.
been