THE FULTON COUNTY NEWS. McCONNELLSEUEG, PA. PRINCIPAL EVENTS IN THIRD YEAR OF THE WAR Aug. 1, 1016. Merchantman U-boat Deutachland leaves Baltimore home ward bound on first trip, Souime bat tle continues. Russians In heavy but tle after crossing Stokbod river. August 2. Russians within ten alien of Kovel. August 3. French recupture part of Fleury, near Verdun. Sir Roger Casement hanged In London for par ticipation In Irish revolt. August 4. French take Thlautnont, near Verdun. August 6. British overwhelm Turks at Romunl, near Suez canal. August 6. Russians cross rivers Bereth and Graberka and take six vil lages from Austrians. August 8. Italians take Gorlzla bridgehead and capture 10,000 pris oners. Russian General Letchltzky takes two towns and many villages. August 9. Gorlzla falls to Italluns In great offensive. Austrians neur Stanlslau withdraw on wide front August 10. Russians take Stauisluu. August 11. Allies seize Doirun in Balkan drive. August 13. Austrians evacuate line of the Strypa river. August 14. Russians capture Tusto baby. August 15. Russians take Jablon Itxa, near Carpathian pass. 'August 10. Allies take three miles of trenches neur the Somme. An Bounced Russians huve tuken 308,000 Drlsonors sluce June 4, 1016, when drive begun. August 18. Russians advance three miles into Hungary. August 20. British advance on 11' mile front at Thlepval, near Somme river. Allies attack on 100-mlle front In Bulkans. Two British light cruis ers and one or two German U-boats sunk in North Sea battle, August 22. Announced big Russiun contingent has landed at Snlonlkl. August 23. The Deutsshlund reach' es Bremen. August 24. Russians recapture Mush, Armenia. Aucust 27. Rouiuanla declares war on Teutons and Invades Transylvania. Italy formally declares war on Ger many. August 29. Kaiser makes Von Hin denburg chief of stall of all German armies In place of Von Fulkenhayn, August 31. Roumanians cross Dan ube and occupy Rustchuk, Bulgaria Austrians full back in Transylvania. September 2. Roumanians, fur In Transylvania, tuke llennunnstadt. Zeppelins raid London and one Is brought down In flumes. - . September 3. Allies take three vil lages on Summe. Roumunluns capture Orsovu. Austria. Germans and Bul gers invade the Dobrudja. September 4. French take five more Tillages on Somme; ullles' prisoners la two days, 6,000. September 6. Teutons tuke Danube dty of Turtukal and 20,000 Rouina clans. September 8. Roumanluns and Rus sians drive foe buck a little In Do brudja. September 10. Teutons take Rou manian fortress of Slllstriu, September 11. British drive across Struma river In Bulkans, September 12. Allies capture three- mile line on Somme. Roumanians over whelmed In Dobrudja, September 15. British take Ger man Somme positions' on six-mile front. Use "tanks" for first time In warfare. September 18. Allies take Fiorina, ' Macedonia. September 19. Serbs fight their way back onto their own soil. September 21. Russians and Rou manlans announce they have thrown back the invaders in Dobrudja. September 22. Announced allies took 55,800 prisoners In Somme battle , between July 1 and September 18. September 23. Roumanians In Do brudja driven back in disorder. Zep pelins Invade Englund ; one burned, an other captured. September 25. Allies advance ulong ' 15-mile front on Somme. Venlzelos leaves Athens to lead revolt against King Constantlne. September 20. Allies take Combles and Thlepval in Somme battle. September 30. Von Falkenhayn routs Roumanians at Herniannstadt, Transylvania. October 1. A Roumanian army crossed the Danube. October 2. Another Zeppelin shot down near London. October 4. Mackensen drives Rou manian invaders of Bulgaria back to ward Danube. 1 October 5. Roumanians flee across the Danube. Serbs cross Cerna river In drive on Monastlr. October 7. German submarine U-53 vlstts Newport, R. I., on mysterious mission. Sinks five ships off Nurra anBett Light night of October 7-8. October 8. Roumanians driven back to Transylvania frontier. October 10. Roumanians in rout dee through mountain passes. October 11. Greece turns over her fleet to France on allies' demand. Itul ' lans, resuming Carso drive, take 0, 000 prisoners. October 22. Roumanluns in Do brudja retreat hastily. October 23. Teutons occupy Con stanzn, principal Routuunlun seaport. Germans throw Russians back ucross Nnrnyuvka river. October 24 French take 3,000 pris oners at Verduw- October 25. Roumunlan city of Cer- navoda falls. Defenders blow up great bridge across Dnnube. October 20. Light craft clush In English channel. Six British drift-net boots, a transport and a destroyer and one German destroyer sunk. November 1. Deutschlund reaches New London, Conn., on second trans Atlantic trip with curgo worth $10,- 000,000. U-03 arrives In n Germun port. November 2. Germans evacuate Fort Vaux, at Verdun. Italians tuke 4,731 in new offensive. November 3. Italluns take 3.400 more prisoners. November 5. Central powers pro claim kingdom of Poland. Italians announce, huve taken 40,305 Austrians since fall of Gorlzla. November 9. Teutons driven back twelve miles In Dobrudja. November 13. British advance north of Ancre; take 3,300 prisoners. November 15. England announces, food controller will be appointed. November 17. News received of wholesale deportations of Belgians for forced labor in Germany. November 19. Allies take Monastlr, Macedonia. . November 21. Emperor Francis Jo seph of Austria dies and Charles Fran cls becomes ruler. Teutons take Crai ova in drive on western Roumnnin. November 23. Russlnn dreadnought Imporatrlta Muria sunk by Internal ex plosion ; 200 killed. November 24. Teutons capture Tur- nu-Severln and Orsovu from Rouma nians. November 25. Teutons cross Alt river nnd sweep rapidly through Rou-tnanla. November 20. Venlzelos party de- tiures war on Germany and Bulgaria. Teutons Invading Roumnnlu from north and south form junction. November 27. Teutons tuke Alex andria, Roumunla. Zeppelins raid Englund ; two downed by gunfire. November 29. Beatty replaces Jelll- coe In command of British fleet. December 2. French nnd Greeks clash in Athens streets. Teutons win great battle for Bucharest. i December C. Bucharest falls. December 7. Lloyd George becomes premier of Great Britain. December 8. Twenty-seven ?hou- sand Roumanluns surrender. December 10. Deutschlund arrives home. December 12. Germany announces she Is reudy for peace parleys. December 14. Russia officially re buffs German peace offer. December 15. French under Nlvelle take 9,000 prisoners on seven-mile front at Verdun. Nlvglle then leaves to become commander in chief of all France's home armies. Buzcu nnd nil Wallachla lost to Roumanians. December 15. Russian troops take over whole Roumnnlan front. December 19. Lloyd George tells commons Germans must maite resti tution nnd reparation to get peace. December 20. Wilson sends notes to both sides In war asking their alms. December 24. Switzerland officially Indorses Wilson's plea for statement of wur nlins. December 25. Teutons tnke 9,000 Russians In Roumnnla. December 20. Germany replies to Wilson, suggesting peace conference, but not stating own war aims or terms of peace. December 30. Allies In reply to Ger man peace proposal call offer empty nnd Insincere nnd refuse conference. December 31. King Constantlne of Greece thanks President Wilson for his note to the belligerents. January 4, 1017. British transport Icernla sunk by U-boat In Mediterra nean ; 100 lost January 5. House of representa tives rules committee begins Investiga tion of Wall street "leak" of Wilson peace note news. Janunry C. Russians retreat across Sereth river In Roumunla. January 8. Russluns launch offen sive near Riga. January 11. Allies In reply to Wil son note outline alms, but refuse to parley with an unbeaten Germany. Januury 17. Learn German raider Moewe has sunk 21 ships nnd seized three others In South Atlantic. En tente, In supplementary note to Wilson, amplifies war alms. . January 19. British steamer Yar- rowdnle, Moewe's prize, reaches a German port with 409 prisoners. January 22. Wilson makes his "peace without victory" address In sen- nte. demanding United States enter world leugue at close of war, January 24. After initial successes, Russians are forced back near Riga. January 25. Mine sinks British aux iliary cruiser Laurentlc off Irish coast, January 31. Germany declares ruth- Ipsr submarine war, revoking all pledges to the United States. February 3. United States severs diplomatic relations with Germany. President Wilson in address to senate outlines crisis. United States seizes Interned German warships. February 4. Wilson asks neutrals to break with Germany, United Stutes reserve fleet ordered In service, February 5. Announced American seamnn was killed when German sub marine shelled lifeboat of British steamer Euvestone. February 6. Learned Germany Is holding United States Ambassador Ge rard. February 7. British liner Califor nia, one American aboard, sunk, un warned, off Irelund; 41 lives tyt Spain calls new U-boat decree unlaw ful. February 8. Germany tries to get Ambassador Gerard to sign a paper re iiflirtnlnif Prussian treaties with the ITnltcd States, but ho refuses. February 10. Gerard finally allowed to leave Berlin. February 12. Announced crucially Germany hos asked parley with Unit ed Stutes through Swiss minister at Washington and been snubbed. Ger muny musses five urmy corps to over awe Holland. February 13. British hem In Turks at Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia. February 15. Germuny releases American Torrowdale prisoners. February 17. Learn German em bassy gave orders for crippling of Ger man merchantmen here before publica tion of ruthless warfure note. February 20. Austria backs Ger many In ruthless warfure. Food riots In New York, probably stirred up by German agents. February 22. Germany torpedoes seven Dutch ships leuvlng Falmouth In violation of her pledge. February 23. British stringently re strict Imports to fight gubmurine war. February 25. Germans make "stra tegic" retirement on Ancre front La conic, British ship, sunk unwarned off Irelund; two American women killed. February 20. President asks con gress for authority to arm American merehantcruft British capture Kut-el-Amnra. , February 28. Germany's plot to ally Mexico and Japan with her ogalnst the United States and her promise of three American states to Mexico re vealed. March 1. President Wilson con firms story of German attempt to In cite Mexico nnd Japan. Tokyo de nounces plot House pnsses bill to arm ships. 403 to 13. March 3. Russians take nnmndan, Perslu, from Turks. March 4 President Wilson de nounces "willful men" In senuto wno filibustered against armed ship bill, killing It by ending of administra tion term. British. take over 2:)-ml!e Somme front from French. President takes oath of office for second term. Mnrch 0. President's advisers tell him he has power to arni ships with out action of congress. March 7. Berlin admits sending In- tornrntPil Zimmermann note to Mex ico. March 9. President calls extra con gress session for April 10. March 11. British capture -Bagdad, Russian revolution starts. Fetrogrnd troons desert covernment. March 12. German U-bout fhells nnd sinks United States merchant shin Alconnuln without warnln; Mnrch 14. China breuks diplomatic relations with Germany. March 15. Czar abdicates, March 10. Grand Duke Michael of Russia renounces throne, bringing rtnmnnoff dvnasty to an end. Dutno In control. Mnrch 17. Germans begin big re treat on west front. Announced vote of Russian people will decldo form of government March 18. News received or sinK- ing of American ships City of Mem phis, Rllnols nnd Vlgllanclu by L- bonts; 22 men missing. March 21. Wilson culls on congress to meet April 2 Instead of April 10. Twenty lost when United States tanker Healdton, bound for Holland, is sunk by U-boat in North sea. March 25. President orders partial mobilization of National Guard to pro tect property from German plotters. Navy ordered to get ready. March 27. Fifteen thousand more National Guardsmen called out. April 3. Wilson asks declaration of state of war by congress, oor mans drive Russians across Stokbod iver, taking a large number of pris oners. April 4. Senate pnsses war resolu tion, 82 to 6. April 5. House passes war resolu tion 373 to 50. Anril 6. President signs congress resolution and proclaims tate of war. Government takes over German liners. April 7. Cuba declares war on Ger many. April 9. Austria-Hungary nreaKs diplomatic relations with united Stntes. British storm Vimy wage, taking 6,000 prisoners on first day of battle. Wilson Joins fight to raise new armies by universal service prin ciple. April 10. British prisoners at vimy rench 11.000. Brazil breaks diplo matic relations with Germany, Brit ish advance 50 miles beyond Bagdad. Anrll 11. Herbert C. Hoover, ac cepts offer to direct food supplies of United States. April 13. British cut Into Hlnden- bure line. President defines war tone off coast April 14. House passes seven ml lion war loan bill. April 15. Wilson calls on nation to support hlra In war, Anrll 10. French in Zb-nnie of fensive toward the "Ladles Roard" and In Chnmpagne take 10,000 prisoners first day. April 17. Big war credit passes sen ate. German wounded die when U-boats sink British hospital ships Donegal and Lnnfrnno without warning. April 18. French prisoners In new offensive total 17,000. April 19. Fight Is cturted for pro hibition during war. American freight er Mongolia sinks a U-boat the first American victory of the war. Ap;il 20. In confused night battle of destroyers In English Channel Brit ish and German vessels lock, and crews fight with cutlasses. April 21. Balfour commission from Great-Britain reaches United States. Anrll 24. French commission ar rives in United States. Anrll 25. U-boats sink 64 British vessels In week, It Is announced, cnus lng alarm in Britain. .Wilson tells Bal four United Stutes will not muke separate peace. United States ntukes first foreign war loan $200,000,000 to Great Britain April 2S. House votes conscription army bill. K97 to 24. and senate, 81 to 8. Guutemala breaks off relutlons with Germany. April 29. Petaln chosen to lead French armies in place of Nlvelle. Joffre asks United States army In France without deluy. Muy 2. Announce first Liberty Loan bond Issue will be $2,000,000,000. Sec retary of State Lansing warns U-bout sinkings arc serious. May 2. Russians abandon Mush, Armenia, to the Turks. May 3. News received of mistreat ment of Jews In Palestine by Turks. Muy 4. French tuke Cruouno from Gcrmuns. May C French In second battlo of the Alsne take 0,100 prisoners. May 7. Orders given to rulso 11,000 engineers here for work in France. May 10. Critical situation In Rus sia mid civil wur Is feared. Muy 14. Great Britain turns over to United Stntes 1,024,500 tons of ship ping building for, her here. May 13. New Italian offensive be gins. May 10. Announced squadron of American destroyers Is assisting the British; U-boat losses sink to 20 In week. May 18. President proclaims con scription law, culling on 10,000,000 men, aged twenty-one to thirty-one years, to register June 0. Itullans uunounce 0,432 prisoners. Muy 25. Italy launches renewed Corso offensive, tuklng 9,000 prisoners first day. German airplanes kill i0 persons In Dover and Folkestone. May 20. Germuny announces she will sink hospital ships without warning unless they obey certain strict rules about the courses they take. An nounced Italy has eupturcd 22,414 Aus trians since Muy 14. June 3. General Chung Hsun nntned dictator by royalists of China. June 5. United States registers for the array draft without disorder, General Prusiloff made heud of Rus siun armies. June 7. British blow up Messlnes ridge; explosion heard In London; 5.0(M prisoners taken ou first duy of offensive. .. .Tne 8. General Pershing, com mander of American expedition, ar rives in Enrland. Secretary of War Baker plans for 100.000 American air planes. One hundred American avia tors arrive In France. June 9. Wilson tells Russia what United States Is fighting for. Japan offended by United States note urg ing China to maintain order. June 11. Lord Northcllffe, famous publisher, arrives to co-ordiuate Brit ish missions In United, States. June 12. King Constuntine of Greece abdicates In favor of his sec ond son, Alexander, at command of the allies. June 13. In greatest air raid so fur I on London, 153 are killed and 430 In jured. Pershing reaches Turls. Ellhu Root and American mission m re-trograd. June 15. Liberty loan oversub scribed. Great Britain frees ull tho Irish rebels. June 17. Doctor Ivers, who wrote Germany's official reply to the Lol glan atrocity charges. Is sentenced to nine months' Imprisonment In Berlin for extorting $30,000 from the mother of a soldier by threats ; evidence shows he Is a chronic drunkard and morphine fiend. Duma demands imme diate offensive by Russian troops. June 19. United States I Admiral Sims put In command of allied neei off Ireland. June 22. Announced Liberty loan subscriptions total $3,035.220,8T)0. June 25. Amerlcun Red Cross cam paign closes, with subscriptions over the hundred million dollurs sought June 20. Offlclul Mesopotamlan re port scores British civil and military lenders. Canadians within one mile of Lens, greut French coal center. June 27. Arrival of first United Stntes army In France announced. June 28. Brazil JolnB In war by an nulling her decree of neutrality be tween the entente nations and Germany. June 29. Greece crenks Uipiomutie relutlons with the central powers. June 30. Russians begin big offen sive in Gullcln. War Minister Js.e rensky leads attack. Halg gains mile on four-mile front before Lens. July 1. Washington announces United Stutes Is reudy to equip army of 2,000,000. July 2. Russian prisoners counted In' her offensive number 10,273. Chin ese empire re-established. July 3. Government tells of two submurlne attacks on transports bear lng Pershing's men ; one U-boat sunk Russia announces 6,000 more prison ers, Germans make vain five-mile of fensive at Verdun. July 4. Eleven killed In German air raid on Harwich. July 5. Republicans and monarch ists battle 35 miles from Peking. July 6. Lenders of German spy sys tem in United Stntes arrested. July 7. Twenty-two German Gotha nlmlanes. mounting four guns each, raid London, killing 43 and Injuring 197. July 8. Wilson orders export em bargo on food, fuel and many other things to prevent supplies reaching Germuny. British foreign office states German crops this summer will not be above 40 per cent of normal. United States shipping board states expects to build 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 tons In 18 months, instend of the 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 originally aimed at. July 0. British dreodnuught Van guurd blown up; all but two abourd killed. July 10. Germans In sudden drive alone seaeoast beat British back to Yser river and capture 1,250 men, Crisis over electoral reforms nnd war alms In Germany. Russians take Hallcz. Gallcla. July 11. Russians seize town of Knlusz. July 12. Widespread labor disorders in West caused by Industrial Workers of the World ; Germun agents suspect ed. Chung Hsun, leader of Chinese monarchists, flies to Dutch legation In Peking. July 13. British bring down 80 Ger man airplanes on west front In big gest nlr battle so far. July 14. Chancellor Bethrnann-Holl- weg resigned nnd Dr. G. E. MIchnells succeeded him. Germans took French posts south of Courcy. House pussed $040,000,000 aviation bill. July 15. French took Important hills positions from Germans south of Reims. July 10. Russians took Lodzluny from Austrluns, but evacuated Kulusz. July 17. French took Germun trenches neur Melancourt. Three members of Russian cabinet resigned ; riots In Petrogrnd suppressed. Shake up In British cabinet July 18. Iucreused activity on Rou manian frout Russians took part of Novlcn. July 19. Great German attack be tweeu Crnonne and Hurteblse partly successful. Cliuncellor MIchnells de clared for submarine warfare. Rus sluns driven buck In Vllnn region. Teu tons muke advances In Gallcla. July 20. Draft for American Na tional army held. Premier Lvoff of Russlu succeeded by Kerensky. Ger many called 2,000,000 of her youngest men to the colors, July 21. Senate passed food control nnd uvlu'tion bills. Russluns In disor derly retreat, burning villages July 22. Germun aviators raided England, killing 11 In coast towns, but were driven uway from London. Slara declared stnte of war with Germany nnd Austria-Hungary, July 23. Kerensky given absolute powers ns dictator of Russia. Ger mans lost heavily In attacks along the Chemln des Dumes. July 24 Goethnls. Dcnmnn nnd White out of shipping board ; Rear Ad mini Capps, E. N. Hurley and Bain bridge Colby succeeded them. Mc Adoo usked congress for $5,000,000,000 more for war. Russluns evacuated Stanlslau, their whole line periled. French defeated Germans on Cruonnc front. July 25 Division of truitrous Rus sian troops blown to pieces by own .rtlllery us part of General Korniloff's inensures to restore order. Lenlne, Rus.-iun pacifist agitator, captured af ter createst man hunt Russia ever knew. IflflKOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN GREAT WAR June 28, 1914. Archduke Ferdinand, heir presumptive to Austria's throne, and -wife assassinated at Serujavo, Bosnia, by Slav student,' Princlp,. giv ug the pretext for war. July 23. Austrln delivers famous ultlnuttum to Serbia, charging assas sination plot was hutched on Serb soli. July 8. Serbia hnvlng agreed to nil Austria demnnds save one, Austria declares war. August 1. Germany declares war on Russia. August 3. Germany declares war on France and invades Belgium. August 4. Great Britain declares a state of war by act of Germany. August 21-24 Battle of Mons-Char- lerol ; Gennons victorious. August 23. Japan nt war with Ger many. August 27. Germans burn Louvaln Belgium. Autrust 29. Russluns crushed In battle near Tannenburg, Prussia. September 5-10. Germans turned back by French nnd British In the battle of the Marne. September 12. Battle of the Alsne begins. October 9. Germans capture Ant werp. October 21-31. First battle of Ypres. October 30. Russlo declares war on Turkey. November 1. Germans sink Ad miral Crndlock's British fleet off Chill November 10-12. Second battle at Ypres. December 1. German General De' Wet captured, ending South Afrlcun revolt December 5. Serbians defeut Aus trlans. December 8. British sink German fleet off Falkland Islunds. January 24, 1915. Naval battle In North sea; German cruiser Bluecher sunk. February 8. Russians suffer sec ond great defeat In Eust Frussla. February 17. Germans begin sub mnrlno blockade, despite American protest March 22. Russians take Przemysl, Gallcla ofter long siege. April 22. Gob first used In war by Germans nt Ypres. April 25. Allies land at Darda nelles. May 4. Beginning of great Germ..j offensive against Russia. jjay 7. Lusltanla Bunk unwarned by U-boat ; 1,000 die, of whom more than 100 are Americans. May 22. Italy declares war on Aus tria. June 2. Teutons retake Przemysl. August 5. Germans capture War saw. September 1. Germany promises United States to sink no more liners without wurnlng. September 8. Czar succeeds Grand Duke Nicholas m command of Russian armies. September 15. Germans capture Plnsk high tide In Invasion of Russia, September 24-25. Allies In drive In France capture, 25,000. October 5. Allies land at Snlonlkl. October 9. Germans occupy Bel grade. October 10. Bulgaria attacks Ser. bla. December 9. Germnny announces Serbia Is entirely conquered. December 19. Allies evacuate Gal- llpoli. February 14, 1910. Russians capture Erzerum, Turkey. February 23. Germans open Verdun offensive. April 18. Russians take Trcblzond, Turkey. April 24. Irish revolt In Dublin. April 28. British besieged in Kut-el- Amnra, Mesopotamia, surrender. May 30. Battle of Jutland ; 14 Brit ish and 18 German warships sunk. June 5. Lord Kitchener drowned when cruiser Hnmpshlre is torpedoed north of Scotland. June 17. Russians' retake Czerno- wltz, cnpltal of Bukowlna, In great offensive. June 20. Arabs rebel from Turkey, enpturo Mecca; new kingdom estuD-llshed. June 27. British and French In great drive In west. July 0. Submarine merchantman Deutschlund renehes Baltimore. Julv 27. Russluns retake Brody, northern Gallcla. , August 9. Itullans tnke Gorlzla July 10. Russians tuke Stanlslau, Gallcla. August 28. Rouinanin enters war on side of the entente, and Invades Transylvania. September C. Germnny begins great squeeze on Rounianln. November 10. First . great nlr bot tle of world's history; 67 British, French nnd German airplanes brought down. December C Teutons take Bu charest , ' December 11. Germany openly prof fers peace to her enemies. Decembe r 21. President . Wilson nsks both sides to define their war nlms. January 17, 1917. News received German cruiser Moewe has taken 24 ships In South Atlantic, Jnnuary 22. Wilson asking "peace without victory." demands United States enter world league at close of war. January 31. Germany declares ruth less submarine warfare on all ships, whatever nationality, in the wur zones. February 3. United Slates severs liplomatlc relations Vith Germany. February 20. President asks con gress for authority to nrm all Ameri can vessels, February 2C British capture Kut- el-Amnra. February 28. Zimmermann note siiirzestlne Alliance, of Mexico nn Janiin with Germany against United Stntes mr.de public. March It. British capture Bagdad, March 11, Russian revolution starts. March 15. Cznr abdicates, March 17. Germans begin big "strategic retirement" on west front. Anrll 3. Wilson nsks congress to declare a state of wur with Germany, April 6. President signs congress resolution proclaiming war. April 7. Cuba declares war on Ger many, April 9. Austria-Hungary breaks diplomatic relations with United Stntes. April 0. British storm Vimy Ridge. April 10. Brazil breaks diplomatic relations with Germany, April 16. French In great offensive near Alsne river, April 19. American freighter Mon- colln sinks a submarine, this being the first American victory of the war. April 28. Both houses of congress pass selective draft array bill. Mnv 15. Bie Italian offensive In Cnrso begins. June 3. Chinese royalists name Chnnjr Hsun dictator; Germans assist plot June 5. Americans register for army draft without disorder. June 7. British blow up Messlnes ridge; explosion heard in London. June 8. General Pershing reaches Enslnnd June 12. King Constantlne of Greece abdicates; nation prepares to join allies, June 13. 153 killed, 430 Injured In London by German airplane raid, June 15. United Stntes Liberty Loan closes, with billion oversub scription. June 27. Announce arrival of first American army in France June 28. Brazil Joins in war, June SO. Russians begin big offen sive In Gallcla led by War Minister Kerensky in person. July 2. Chinese empire declared re established ; republicans prepare to re sist Julv 7. Twenty-two German air planes of Immense new type kill 43, Injure 197, in London. July 8. Wilson orders export em bargo. July 12. Chinese empire falls Chang Hsun flees to Dutch legation In Peking. July 13. In biggest air battle so far British claim downing of 30 German plnnes on west front July 14. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, German imperial chancellor, resign and the kaiser appoints Dr. Georg MIchnells In his place. July 19. Russians in Gallcla mu tiny and are routed by Germans. Julv 20. Draft for American Na tional army held. July 20. Premier Lvoff of Russlb resigns nnd Kerensky succeeds him July 21. United States senate. passes food control and $040,000,000 aviation bills. SAVED BY BOOK OF SERMONS Canadian Soldier Still Living Because He Had Volume In Pocket and Wat Not Reading It From the trenches on the western front by way of Canada comes the Btory of a soldier's narrow escape from death nnd the levity displayed by a comrade, Illustrating how viewpoints change when men get on the firing line. . Private Mac of as Alberta regiment hud a pious upbringing In his early home in Scotland, and his religious In clinations did not desert him when his family settled on a farm in western Canuda. All through the war he has carried "Spurgcon'a Sermons", in his breast pocket, nnd occasionally he does some preaching, with his comrades In arms ns the congregation. Private G of the same regiment lacked the upbringing and the book of sermons, , but possesses a sense of humor. The two were In a group resting and smoking' when a shot from a German sniper hit Private Mac In the breast, the bullet being deflected by the book. Fearing that Mac was about to Im prove the occasion, O "beat him to It" and In a fair imitation of his friend's best preaching manner started In: "Oh, dear friends, what a blessed thing it was that our deur brother wasn't a-readlng of his book of ser mons ns he ought to have been In stead of engnglng in worldly conver sation with sinful soldier men. For If dear Brother Mac had been a-readlng of his book of sermons, where, on, where, my dear friends, would Brother Mac (priceless old thing) have been then?" Cheap and Good. Some of the best foods nre the cheapest There are carrots, salsify, parsnips, lettuce and such stuff. They have not advnnced In price very much, and they are the best food thut grows, says the Columbus (O.) State Journal. Carrots huve the rarest combination of food qualities of anything that rrows. It is so nenitniui tnau ii is said a steady diet of It will cure many distempers. Parsnips are cheap, good, wholesome. Anybody who doesn't like the taste of a parsnip has his pulate put iu wrong. Lettuce Is cheap and a lettuce sandwich Is royal food. Anyone who stnrves while these things are on the market, to be bought for a few cents, has not much of a claim on life. There Is more health in them than In porterhouse steak or oyster cocktails. Some people affect to think they are a low-brow food, but It might be said in retort that they are low-browed people who think so, Live on carrots for a week and you win the prize offered for the best song on Ohio, At Last! "There Is only one thing In this war that gives me Bny comfort, remarked Mr. Cumrox. "What's that?" "At last I am permitted to come right out in public nnd Bny I don npprove of Wagner opera.' -Vv5$ pEHNSYLVAij STATE ITEMS Yardley. While wadlne i ter at White's Island, near v, 7 William, 12-year-oId son of tI.'' White, of Chester, was car"ie,i , the Delaware River by le J and drowned. Horsham. Joseph g. hh... .. and Iron dealer, of Phlini.i.'i.,' . 1 uired the 225-aere farm 7Z? place of the late W. J. Hair" Horsham, for about Mftann ... ducted permanently as mode Strasburg. 'Squire Ross HlldebrS has 22 hives of honey-makeri. 8u lng laei spring with n, w '" doubled his colonies. Harrlsburg. Macus Hook Ii ini. r.nn nnctal .1 al t., . ' " !. ub.i.ci un ana ai'etfc tober 1. Harrlsburg. A mule'-i kick ,.... fatal to M. H. Shughart. a trt' Cumberland county farmer, who tu i- t.s r.iii ,t ,. . 111 luc v.aniBio llOBpitHI. Harrlsburg. The Pittsburg pany of the Mlllt- ,n ., Ammunition Truck Comnan, Harrlsburg have been ordered to Gretna. Newport.'Rodney M. crlnr Newport, has been appointed t, Judge Henry, Lebanon, receiver the Lebanon Valley Consolidated ft ter Supply Company. YT t..l T.. nuiTioiJuiB- cxiM-uiivej in mm.i the leading Industrial plants In Pei sylvanla are going to the state & lege for a two weeks' course in fc, tory organization, cost accounticj scientific management. Harrlsburg. Hailstones the nt' shellbarks fell at Ksehbach Crou'a Reading. Eighty-fix of the m drafted In Readlns and Berkj cor have recently enlisted. Reading. Hereafter Berks fa- farmers will be allowed to di maretk business In Reading mj t; of the week. Womelsdorf. Lightning strati grain shed on the farm of L 1 Valentine, Womelsdorf, Unantsi : Jacob .Hoffa, and all the cnpi destroyed. Loss, JMOO. Chester. The peach crop ii ripd nnd promises to be a fine one it: sections. NorrlBtown. Miss Agnes Cmt young Main Line domestic, u in here, charged with the dea:h ! infant child, which was bcrait; Hallahan home, In Ardmore, tbotl month ago. Mahanoy City The Leblgh TCi Railroad Company, in its endeinr I solve the shortage of labor r:ol'-- whlch Is handicapping service, two female gate tenders at Dt'rj Both are slnxle. Gallatin. Irene Counihan. ifti j years, daugater of Saj'eMKKl Frank G. Counihan. of the lecsltj of the Plttsbur? Coal CcraniEi. "J her cousin, Deiorus VcMulien. 1- i,......J.l. .Ti.u-noiJ w'lilp hi lng In the Mononpahe.la River i!- nlace. Sunbury. Petition for a perptfcl Junction to restrain the buiHifl hrldce across the Susnnebam Watsontown and White Deer by Sri umberland and Tnlon count.M ' filed In Union county, a few before a meeting of the com was to be held. One bid wu f.'i by a Scranton fr . asking M for 16 spans of reinforced ccal twice the amount of the estm I Hazleton. Farmers near Ul A are finding poor markets fcr wj their crops, owing to the getew vattnn of lots. Baggaley. A valuation oMW nlaced on 170 war garden! town, by good J 'dges who M them. ... Carlisle. A new $150,000 iM to -the city's churches will be PJ bv Grace United Brethren Milton. Declaring that Bin a former resident of Miltoi $800 to a friend before be November 22, S. Z. M,ore'. ter, advertised for the frieirf up and turn the money or widow, who is in need. to S. Z. Moore's statement that the money was loaned J V...4 !,. In nn rPCfilDt tO " ' fc t. n.lnir the Harrlsburg.-It cost tw J m aiu ,itv more iL. l.inniinrA it of Refuge, at Glen MIB 'r w Harvesting l three months. T T wh v.iiov u four we" " .1 ' ' wiriM year than in previuu. oi me coia biji"'b- vi i n'Of a k same oicyeio. . - were strucK oy tc truck of the lcn---- , at Scranton. The W". Ppllchak, 12 years oW. , Brozachak. 14 years old. , instantly killed. The J truck was hem m - , Carlisle. - Physic'" t. a A nrtceS 25 P"..,J Tnham Farmer , their meeting that it " stock on the farm, tot iw . Martlnshurg. A tlw v horseshoe made W of Martinsburg, Bit J -i-rf hv r.fliieral Pen"11 Zionsville.-There heirs to the S3600 touu- t c.ccklnd. vi inaitu juw , Vttnaville. Darn near """"'. ,,f)f' and Machine Compan? ' f bonus of $10,000 or-, tneir wages ior i - Readlng.-Witflin , men i" ..J uays it yuu"6 hH$v listed In various branch Pottstown.-Jolted when the horse bo the noise made by "( a passing automob- S. Pennypacker, of JVJ 60, suffered a brow" ' f and died almost !, feebled husband wtf Brvn Mawr. TD ij lrtUU r tu tre has set P ' jou";, House to teach ?nej the neighborhood w lng thlnf I i
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