THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS, McCONNELLSBURO, PA. Pictures of World Ev6nts for Mews Readers In This Department Our Readers in Fulton County and Elsewhere May journey Around the World With the Camera on the Trail of History Making: Happenings. BOY SCOUTS GUARDING ENLISTMENT POSTERS jjr i Mix, fc I l-'flieoplille Mathleu, one of the most famous of French iirmy aviators, who has come to this country to tench Aacrlciius to fly. 2 Women members of the American Red Cross parading the streets of Brooklyn, N. Y. 3 Pur ehtMng a Liberty Loan bond In n booth In a bid department store. .1 BRITISH BIG GUN ON RAILWAY TRUCK This picture, wade on the western front, shows one of the big 6ms used by the British mounted on a railway truck, ltd about to be covered preparatory to being moved to another place. INSIGNIA OF U..S. FLYING SQUADRONS " ' ' '' ft wliif "" "ll'1"m's over tho European battlefront will be distinguished bear the V wl,h n r,'(l contor 00 circular field of blue. Airplanes will bottom nf n wl,lKS of tne machine, while It will bo on tho top and "? of the gas bug of each dirigible. BEST FRIENDS OF BLINDED SOLDIERS ' i ! Wind si- . y 1 l,ir8i. greatest friends and workers for the relief ('Hcf f ii ,umr' although blind himself, hns been the chief worker -VI iii ureal uruain. TAFT GREETS SOLDIER SON " ' William Howard Taft and his son, Charles V. Taft, who Is training at Fort Myer for an officer's commission. Airplanes and Ash Trees. A Umber expert states that the de mand for ash has gonaup so enormous ly since wo went In for airplane con struction on the present big scale tBat prices are fully three times what they were In pre-war days, says London Tit Bits. Nothing but the very best English ush serves the purpose. "Tho finest In the world," la his verdict. Ex periments with other wood, notably Americnn spruce, have yielded most disappointing results, and It Is a curi ous fact, due to climatic causes, that IyWa ash Is unsatisfactory too. Hut nn usli treo cannot bo grown In a day. The timber Is utterly worthless for air plane purposes unless It Is at least sixty years old. It Is all the better If It Is double that ago, when some of the trunks can show a clear straight run of 80 feet or more. No Volunteer Swatting Now. The early fly buzzed across the room, nnd met another early fly, vol planing through his orbit. They en circled each other, passing the compli ments of the season. Said one: "Have you heard the terrible news? The swatting brigade Is mobilizing earlier than ever this yearl" "Forget It I" hummed the other. "It's tho same old stuff. They'll call for volunteers, and by the time they are ready for service the summer will be over and you and I will have raised our families and died of old age!" "Oh, but It's different this month. There's going to be Immediate selec tive conscription of swatters 1" With a low moan the first fly fell In a dead faint to tho celling. Cleveland Philndealer. Wr-h fc:' MA ill Jrr r'rA M Boy Scouts of the "First Poster patrol" guarding the posters at East Twenty-eighth street, New York, had mutilated tho army and navy posters. CAVALRY DRILL AT FORT ETHAN ALLEN Somebody 7.r r Scene at Fort Ethan Allen, at Uurllngtoti, Vt., where two new regiments of cavalry are being formed and drilled. ACTIVE IN RED CROSS WORK n'jtKJtJ - fb.Jl X- 1v.rt.v.hv.v.-.A;v;-.sv. .-.w--. ;v.v..v... v. rttlW Mrs. Oeorge W. Harnett, wife of Major General Harnett, U. S. M. C, who Is active In Hed Cross work, pho graphed nt the luncheon given to the delegates to the American Red Cross war council by Mrs. Hugh L. Scott at Fort Myer, Va. The Schoolroom Voice. The "schoolroom voice," has long been a terra of reproach. Teachers may not be able to Improve the qual ity of their pupils' voices, but they can do a great deal toward getting pupils to speak In un easy and nat ural tone of voice, which will still be audible not only to tho teacher, but also to the pupils In all parts of the room. In addition, constant attention should be given, day in and day out, to matters of clear articulation, correct pronunciation, nnd right Inflection. By making tho conditions of the recita tion such that the pupils get tho feel ing that they are actually talking to one another with the Intention of Im parting Information, or opinions, and not merely "reciting" to tho toucher to prove they have learned their lessons, the speech of children would greatly Improve In these respects. But no mnt ter how favoruble to good talking the schoolroom conditions ore made, pu pils ought to have throughout the en tire courso systematic training through special exercises. Exchange. Slovakt a Scattered Race. No Slovak in Hungary Is allowed to speak the Slavish language out on the streets, and even the priests are not allowed to preach In the Slavish language and Slavish people don't know any other language but their own. Before the tenth century the Slovaks had a kingdom, but nfter the last king, Svatopluk I, tho kingdom was divided between his three sons, Mojmlr, SvotoboJ and Svatopluk, und since then the Slovaks have remained a scattered but never assimilated race. WHAT BRITISH TROOPS JUST ESCAPED I ' : t; f , x ;i - -' li S:, . v.. . '- f . i t 4'? , .VoVfciv.i .. v.S W A.tiM"1 This remarkable pliolograph, taken recently during the HrltNi nilvauce, shows the actual explosion of a large house In n French village, where the Germans had stored n great quantity of ammunition. Before their retreat they set flro to this and other nearby buildings and the great explosion occurred only a few seconds before 'the British arrived on the scene. CHINESE BOYS AS NAVAL SCOUTS f. . ?r,(iv-'': - mww-Li.li I ' I i iff " Members of the Junior AiiKM'lcan Naval nnd Marine Scouts have been busy recruiting its ranks mining the Chinese boys of Now York. A number of enlistments have been procured. Two of them arc here seen being sworn In by Gen. Daniel M. Bedell. uil'lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllliu I PENNSYLVANIA I BRIEFS fliimiiimmiiiiimimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiR It cost Berks county taxpayers $7317.93 to maintain tlielr Insane charges at Wernersvllle and HarrU burg the last three months. Sherman Briah, of Analomlnk, caught .a monster brown trout In B rod head's Creek. The trout weighed four pounds and four ounces and was 23 inche in length. Five thousand of those who regis tered In Berks county declared that they had dependent relatives, 134 of these totally disabled. Dealers in Pottstown protested In vain to Council against the enactment of an ordnance restricting' the use of explosives and fireworks on the Fourth of July. Sent by his employer to drive some caws from the meadow on the Chcyne farm, near I.enupe Park, on the Bran dywlne, Arthur Patton, colored. 19, fell lute the stresm, greatly swollen by heavy rains, and was drowned. Pen Argyl has completed the or ganization of an American Red Cross Branch, with Dr. C. C. McCormack, president and John Summons, sec retary. Cosi of building materials has re sulted la the fuspcn.-ljit of phns f.r a Y. M. ('. A. building In Pen Argyl, on ground') donated by the Lehigh and New England Railroad. Curllslo merchants have tabooed the trading stamp. Pcssy employees at Altoona getting less than 22 conti an hour have been raised. The Lohigh Valley Coal Company has just canvassed Its 7,000 employees in the Hazelton district for sub.tcrlp. tlons to the Llborty Loan. The Draper colliery, Shenandoah, which has been Idle for some time un dergoing repairs, resumes full oper ation employing 1,000 men and boys. United Mh. Workers have removed the ban on Boy Scouts, and the sons of union members in the anthracite fields aro now permitted to Join the Scouts. Dr. A. A. Thomson, former post master at Carlisle, has been appointed sealer of weights and measures of Cumberland county. Two ambulance units, made up ot students from tho Pennsylvania State College, have been mustered into Gov ernment sorvloo for early duty In Franco. A Bureau of Entomology has been established at Carlisle through the activities of the Chamber of Com merce, W. R. McConnell heading the five experts In charge. A peremptory mandamus has been Issued by Luzerne County Court, or dering the Verhovay Aid Society head quartern moved back from Pittsburgh to Ilazloton, designate.! by the char tcr. Suit for $10,000 has been brought by Mrs. Rose Brandlo at Altoona. egainst It. J. Javitz. who drovo the automobile that killed her husband, and C. J. Potts and H. G. Irvine, trad ing aa a garage company. Hereford has an epldomlc of typhoid fever. Borks prisoners hereafter will wear blue suits, stripes having been aban doned. Fifteen Boy Scouts of Reading are doing the farm work on the Archer farm at Flying Hill. Hoiks county. Deer have made their appearance In the Perkiomen Valley, fou.- noar Green Lane and two at Finland, all quite tame. Hogs are selling at $20 a hundred pounds in Skippack township, and at Butcher's cattle sale, In Salfordvlllo, suckling pigs brought $7 each. Owing to Increased business at tho Cochraovllle post office, the salary of Postmaster Herbert Albright Is to be increased $100 a year. In connection with the commence ment of tho Nurses' College of the Allentown Hospital, when 11 nurses received diplomas, it was announced by Dr. C. D. Schaffer. the chief sur-. geon, that tho use of tho college had been tendered to the I'nlted States as an emergency hospital during the war. Secretary Baker wired the thanks ot the War Department. Newtown Chapter of the American Red Cross is making a strong effort to Increaso Its membership. Margaret Thompson, a gypsy maid en, was arrested In Chester and sent to Jail on a charge of swindling Frank Ellis of ten dollars. Employees at the Weber planing mill North Wales, who were on strike, havo been granted an Increase of 24 cents an hour. Cheltenham Township Commis sloner Charles W. Bosler has procured for the use of his employees several acres of land, near Ogoutz, prepared for tilage. The revenue recolpte for May In tho Lancaster district were $1,022. 919.99, the largest In the history of tho office. They are double those of April and three times those of May, 1916. Corporations paid $iri8.1S4.S4 and individual $78,530.40 income tax. Dr. Arthur R. May. one of tho lead ing veterinary physicians, and many years a leading politician, at Boiling Springs, Is dead, aged 79. Chester's subscriptions to tho Liberty loan aggregate $800,000, and will short ly overreach tho million-dollar mark. By the annexation of "East Souder ton" to Soudertown borough, the latter population has been Increased 400. The Delaware & Hudson Railroad ha raised all fares on Its Pennsyl vania division. Dr. Albert T. Poffenbergor, Sr., for 28 years chief medical examiner for the. Pennsylvania Ral'road !n territory from Williamsport to Harrlsburg, died at Sunbury, aged 64. Seventy-two of Fennsy's Altoona shopmen have been accepted for the Army Engineer Corps. The plant of the Raby-Hinton Com pany will bo moved ta Carlisle from Mechanlcsburg as soon as a new -building cru be erected. Three hogs were killed by lightning; . whllo ttimdlng under a tree on the faun of Charles Broslus, West Marl hnrnilRh townfhlp.'
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