REVOLUTIONISTS
SflZEJOTCRAD
Immediate Peace is Declared
For and Arrest of Kerensky.
THANKSGIVING
PROCLAMATION
WINTER PALACE BOMBARDED
President Urges All to Be Thank
- ful Even in War.
Workmen' Congrn Begin IU Se
Ion Lnln Welcomed Back And
' Choaon At An Officer Of
The Body. .
Petrogf
Petrograd. The Provisional Govern
ment ha been thrown out of power
by the Extreme Radical headed by
NIckolal Lenlne; Premier Kerensky
has fled the capital; several of his
ministers have been placed under ar
rest, and the Winter Palace, the seat
of the Government, has been bombard
ed by the guns of the cruiser Aurora
and of the St. Peter and St. Paul for
, tress and forced to capitulate to the
revolutionists.
A congress of the Work met and Sol
diers' Delegates of all Russia has con
vened In Petrograd and will discuss
peace and war and the formation of a
the questions of organisation of power,
constituent assembly. A delegation
has been named by the congress to
confer with other revolutionary and
democratic organizations with a view
to Initiating peace negotiations for the
purpose of "taking steps to stop the
bloodshed."
Ai yet the details of the disorders
which followed the assumption of
power by the Radical element are
meagre, but it Is known that from Us
moorings In the Neva, the cruiser
Aurora fired shrapnel and solid shot
against the Winter Palace for four
hours, with the guns of the great for
tress and machine guns stationed In
front of the Palace keeping In accord
with the salvos from the warship.
Desultory fighting also took place at
various points Inside the city, the rev
olutionaries capturing vantage points
along the Nevsky Prospekt and vari
I ous bridges over the Neva. It is pos
' slble that the casualties among the
citizenry were slight, as the Work
men's and Soldiers' Delegates took
precautions to warn the people to seek
refuge In their homes.
Reports as to the whereabouts of
Kerensky are various. Some of them
say that he has sought safety In Mos
cow, while others assert that he 'has
gone to the front In an endeavor to
obtain the backing of the troops to
forestall a debacle of his Government.
Cossack regiments are declared al
ready to have announced their readi
ness wholeheartedly to support the
Government on condition that no com
promise with the revolutionists Is
made, but on tie other hand it Is as
serted that delegates from the Black
and Baltic Sea fleets have declared
themselves In favor of the Radicals.
Workmen's Congress Meets.
The General Congress of Workmen
and Soldiers' Delegates of all Russia
convened here with 560 delegates ln
attendance, l tie cnairman aeciareu
that the time was not propitious for
political speeches and the order of
business of the congress approved was
as follows:
First Organization of power.
Second. Peace and war.
Third. A constituent assembly.
The officers elected comprise 14
Maximilasts, Including Nikolai Lenlne,
the Radical Socialist leader; M. Zlno
vleff, an associate of Lenlne, and Leon
Trotzky, president of the central
executive committee of the Petrograd
Council of Workmen and Soldiers'
Delegates. In addition, seven Revolu
tionary Socialists were appointed.
A delegation was named to initiate
peace negotiations with the other rev
olutionary and democratic organiza
tions, "with a view to taking steps to
stop bloodshed."
Assumes Full Power.
The official news agency made pub
lic the following statement:
' "The Congress of the Councils of
Workmen and Soldiers' Delegates of
all Russia, Issued the following proc
lamations: " 'To all provincial councils of work
men and soldiers' and peasants' dele
gates: All power lies In the Workmen
and Soldiers' Delegates. Government
commissaries are relinked of their
functions. Presidents of the Work
men and Soldiers' Delegates are to
communicate direct with the revolu
tionary government. All members of
agricultural committees who have
been arrested are to bo set at liberty
Immediately, and the commissioners
who arrested them are in turn to be
arrested."
I. W. W. BOBS UP AGAIN.
Federal Aqent Investigating Alleged
01! Field Activity.
Ringling, Okla. Federal agents are
Investigating alleged activities In the
Healdton o'.l fields of Industrial Work
ers of the World, who are said to have
organized under the name of the Oil
TIeld Workers' Protective Association.
Their aities are said to have been
ti-yrStsA: ia by Ftrlke conditions In
TeT(-: '-.',d Louisiana oil fields.
0UR Hit LOST ON ROCHESTER.
Steamer Fro:n Eaitlmore Torpedoed
And Sunk On November 2.
London. The American steamship
Rochester was torpedoed and sunk at
usk on November 2. Four sailors are
Vnown to have lost their, lives in the
inking of the steamer. One boat
with the second mate and 13 men Is
missing. The captain and 22 men
rmve been landed at Duncrana. One
tlfeboat with nine survivors reached
Ross Port, In the county of Mayo, yes-terrier.
LIBERTY LOAN
$4,617,532,300
Oversubscription of 54 Per Cent.
of $3,000,000,000.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29 9,400,000 SUBSCRIBERS
Calls Upon Nation In Midst Of War
To Thank God For Bless
ings Better Than
Mere Peace.
Washington. President Wilson Is
sued his 1917 Thanksgiving proclama
tion, calling upon the nation, even In
the midst of the sorrow and great
peril of a world shaken by war, to
thank God for blessings that are bet
ter than mere peace of mind and pros
perity of enterprise.
The proclamation, fixing Thursday,
November 29, as Thanksgiving Day,
follows:
"Thanksgiving, 1917"
Py the President of the United States
of America:
A Proclamation.
"It has long been the honored cus
tom of our people to turn In the fruit
ful autumn of the year In praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for His
many blessings and mercies to us as
a nation. That custom we can follow
now, even In the midst of the tragedy
of a world shaken by war and Immeas
urable disaster, In the midst of sor
row and great peril, because even
amidst the darkness that has gathered
about us we can see the great bless
ings God has bestowed upon us, bless
ing that are better than mere peace
of mind and prosperity of enterprise.
"We have been given the opportun
ity to serve mankind as we once
served ourselves In the great day of
our Declaration of Independence, by
taking up arras against a tyranny that
threatened to master and debase men
everywhere, and joining with other
free peoples In demanding for all the
nations of the world what we then de
manded and obtained for ourselves.
In this day of the revelation of our
duty not only to defend our own rights
as a nation, but to defend also the
rights of free men throughout - the
world, there has been vouchsafed us
in full and Inspiring measure the reso
lution and spirit of united action. We
have , been brought to one mind and
purpose. A new vigor ' of common
counsel and common action has been
revealed In us. We should especially
thank God that. In such circumstances,
In the midst of the greatest enterprisa
the spirits of men have ever entered
upon, w-e -have, If we but observe a
reasonable and practicable economy,
abundance with which to supply the
needs of those associated with us as
well as our own. A new light shines
about us. The great duties of a new
day awaken a new and greater na
tional spirit In us. ' We shall never
again be divided or wonder what stuff
we are made of.
"And while we render thanks for
these things, let us pray Almighty God
that. In all humbleness of spirit, we
may look always to Him for guidance;
that we may be kept constant in the
spirit and purpose of service; that by
His grace our minds may be. directed
and our hands strengthened, and that
in His good time liberty and security
and peace and comradeship of a com
mon Justice may be vouchsafed all the
nations of the earth.
"Wherefore, I, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States of
America, do hereby designate Thurs
day, the twenty-ninth day of Novem
ber next as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer, and invite the people through
out the land to cease upon that day
from their ordinary occupations and
In their several homes and places of
worship to render thanks to God, the
great ruler of nations.
"In witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of
the United States to be affixed.
".Done in the District of Columbia
this 7th day of November, in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine, hun
dred and seventeen and of the Inde
pendence of the United States of
America the one hundred and forty
second. (Signed) WOODROW WILSON. ,
By the President:
"ROBERT LANSING,
"Secretary of State."
Third Loan Not To Be Put Out In
January,' As Reported Distinct
Triumph For People, Says
McAdoo.
Washington. Americans responded
to the call for a second Liberty war
loan by subscribing 14,617,532,300 an
oversubscription by 61 per cent, of the
$3,000,000,000 asked, and only $383,
000,000 less than the $5,000,000 maxi
mum fixed by the Treasury. Tabu
lations Just completed showed that
every Federal Reserve district exceed
ed Its quota, and 9,400,000 persons
subscribed.
Hulf of the oversubscribed sum will
be accepted, making the actual total
of bonds to be Issued $3,808,766,150.
Ninety-nine per cent of the subscrib
ers will receive the amount for which
they bargained, all subscriptions for
$50,000 or less being allotted In full)
and those above that amount being
pared down in varying proportions,
ranging from a 90 per cent allowance
on subscriptions between $50,000 and
$100,000 to 40 per cent, for the largest
single subscription of $50,000,000.
"The Buccesv of the second Liberty
Loan, like that tf the first, is a dis
tinct triumph for the people of the
United States," said Secretary Mc
Adoo. "It not only, demonstrated their
ability, patriotism and resources, but
augurs the certain success of any fu
ture .loans that may be offered by
the Government."
The Secretary added a denial of re
ports that the third loan would be soli
cited in January 1918.
"In view of the large oversubscrip
tion of the second Liberty Loan," he
said, "I am glad to state that this will
not be necessary."
It has been generally understood
that the third loan would be sought
probably In late February or early
March next year
Although only 1 per cent, of the
number of subscriptions was for suras
above $50,000, $2,129,000,000, or nearly
half the big aggregate, was made up
by the larger sums. More than three
quarters of a billion dollars were sub
scribed in individual amounts of more
than $1,000,000.
Subscriptions to the First Liberty
Loan, which closed June 15, were $3,
035,.vy,000, a 50 per cent, over-sub-scriptlwj
ot the $2,000,000 offered and
allowed. There were more than 4,
000,000 subscribers and allotments
were made In full on subscriptions of
$10,000 and leas.
On the Second Liberty Loan pay
ment of 2 per cent of the subscrip
tion amount was required with the ap
plications and thousands of purchasers
of the smaller bonds, particularly of
$50 and $100 denominations, paid casli
In full. From these payments $151,
000,000 already has been received by
the Treasury.
WASHINGTON.
Ship owners and charterers sought
from the Shipping Board a ruling on
the question of who received money
obtained from freight rates on cargoes
when the freight rate is higher than
the government-fixed charter rate.
To relieve freight congestion at San
Francisco and other Pacific terminals
railroads asked the Interstate Com
merce Commission for authority to
refuse export shipments for which car
go space has not been reserved.
After December 1 all persons of oth
er than British nationality going from
the United States to Jamaica will be
required to have passports vised by
the British consular authority at the
port of embarkation.
The Red Cross War Council has ap
propriated $216,250 for the care of Bel
gian children moved into France and
Switzerland to get them out of the
range of the battle lines.
. Michigan coal operators and miners
assured the Fuel Administration that
there would be no "curtailment of coal
production in Michigan because of the
dispute over a penalty clause In the
new wage contract.
Railroads applied to the Interstate
Commerce Commission for authority
to Increase rates on sugar In car
loads about 20 per cent, from Eastern
seaboard points and New Orleans to
interior cities.
An attempt to reduce bread pricec
will be the next move "of the Food
Administration In assuming control of
the principal food commodities.
EXPLOSION WRECKS PLANT.
Two Killed When Workman Drops
Iron Pipe On Dynamite.
Tunnelton, Pa. Two men were
killed and five seriously injured in an
explosion which wrecked the "plant of
the McAlbee Powder and Oil Company
near here. Some of the injured, it
was said by hospital doctors, would
likely die.
According to survivors, one or the
men was carrying an Iron pipe and
accidentally dropped it on a pile of
high powder dynamite, which explod
ed. The company manufactured ex
plosives for blasting.
WOULD IMPORT RABBITS.
Australian Commissioner Thinks It
Would Cut High Cost.
Lewiston, Idaho. The . importation
of Australian rabbits for use as food
In the United States is suggested by
II. C. Boyle, Special Commissioner for
New South Wales, in a communica
tion to the Idaho State Game War
ded. Hoyle says the Australian rabbit Is
yielding his country $15,000,000 an
nually as a food animal, whereas, like
the Jackrabbit of the Texas panhandle,
It formerly was regarded as a pest.
SUFFRAGISTS CARRY NEW YORK.
Overwhelming Victory Gives Fran
chise To Two Million Women.
New York. New York has 2,000,
000 new voters. Woman suffrage won
In the stSte by a majority of more
than 90,000. "New York has gone
'over the top' for the whole world In
this suffrage controversy," said Dr.
Anna Howard Shaw, one of the lead
ers In the battle. She predicted the
triumph here would influence the Brit
ish and French Governments to grant
suffrage to women.
GERMANS
L
CUT THROAT OF U. S. SOLDIER.
American Backed Against Trench
Wall Murdered With Knife. -
American Field Headquarters,
France. One of the American soldiers
killed In the recent German trench
raid had his throat cut He was over
whelmed by boches, backed up against
the trench wall and a knife drawn
across his neck..
The wound was Inflicted with a
trench kn e a deadly tool carried by
the fighting men for hand-to-hand bat
tling. All wounded Sammies now in the
base hospital are improving. They
will probably return to their units,
eager for revenge, when the army sur
geons pronounce them fit for active
service.
3 AMERICANS
Five Are Wounded in Hand-to
Hand Encounter.
ENEMY SUFFERED LOSS
Cut Off In Trench By Heavy Barragi
Fight Hand-To-Hand With Foe
Until Overwhelmed By
Number.
With the American Army In France
A small detachment of American
Infantrymen was attacked In the front
line trenches early Saturday morning
by a much superior force of German
shock troops. The ' Americans were
cut off from relief by the heavy bar
rage In their rear. They fought gal
lantly until overwhelmed solely by
numbers.
The fighting In the trenches was
hand-to-hand. It was brief and fierce
in the extreme.
As a result of the encounter three
Americans were killed and four
wounded. A sergeant and corporal
and 10 men were taken prisoners.
Two French soldiers, who were In
the trenches, also were killed. The
enemy lost some men, but the number
is unknown, as their dead and wound
ed were 'carried off by the retiring
Germans.
From the beginning of the engage
ment until the end 1 the Americans
lived up to all the traditions of the
American army, the ecords showing
the bravery of the detachment and of
individual members.
The German raid on the American
trench was carried out 'against mem
bers of the second contingent entering
the trenches for training. These men
had only been In a few days. Before
dawn Saturday Ihe Germans began
shelling vigorously the barbed wire
front of the trenches, dropping many
high explosives of large calibre. A
heavy artillery Are was then directed
so as to cover all the adjacent ter
ritory, including the passage leading
up to the trenches, thereby forming a
most effective barrage in the rear as
well as in the front.
The young lieutenant who had
charge of the detachment of Ameri
cans started back to the communicat
ing trenches to his Immediate superior
for orders. The barrage knocked him
down, but he piofced himself up and
started off, again. He was knocked
down a second time, but, determined
to reach his objective, got up again.
A third time he was knocked down
and badly shell-shocked, .and was put
out of action.
Soon after that, Germans to the
number, according to the report, of
210, rushed through the breaches and
wire entanglements on each side of the
salient,' their general objective bar
rage in the forefleld having lifted for
a moment The Germans went Into
the trenches at several points. They
met with stout resistance. Plstolj,
grenades, knives and bayonet were
freely used.
For many minutes there was consid
erable confusion In the trenches, tha
Germans stalking the Americans and
the Americans stalking the Germans.
In one section of the trench an Ameri
can private 'engaged two German
with the bayonet. That was the last
seen of him until after the raid, whea
a dead American was found on the
spot. Another was killed by a blow
on the head with a rifle butt froia
above.
Some of the Americans apparently
at the beginning of the attack did not
realize justwhat was going on. On
of the wouncled, a private, said:
"I was standing in a communicating
trench waiting for orders. I heard a
noise back of me and looked around
In time to see a German fire in my
direction. I felt a bullet Mt my arm."
The Germans left the trench as soon
as possible, taking their dead and
wounded with them. .
An Inspection showed, however, that
they had abandoned three rifles, a
number of knives and helmets.
The raid evidently was carefully
planned, and American officers admtt
that It was well executed. As a raid,
however, there was nothing unusual
about it. It was such as Is happening
all along the line. There is reason for
believing that the Germans were
greatly surprised when they found
Americans In the trenches Instead of
the French.
The French general in command of
the division, of which the American
detachment formed a part, expressed
extreme satisfaction at the action of
the Americans, for they fought brave
ly against a numerically superior
enemy the handful of men fighting
until they were smothered.
The bodies of the American dead
were brought back to divisional head
quarters und burled with honors. Th
wounded are at the base hospitals.
HERDS OF SHEEP POISONED
Death Of Several Thousand Reported
In Navajo County, Ariz.
Tucson, Ariz. The Arizona Food
Administrator has received reports
of the death of several thousand
sheep, through what Is said to be ma
llclous poisoning, In Navajo county
ARMY TO GET GOLOSHES.
Rubber Shoe Men To Turn Over Art
Four-Buckle Arctics.
Washington. Every manufacturer
of rubber overshoes in the country we!
with an auxiliary committee of tie
Council of National Defense atid
agreed to turn over to the Government
for the army the entire output o'
"fourbuckle arctics" from now untl
Janunry 6. This will mean a total
of about 300,000 pairs. Orders foi
rubber hip-boots had been placed previously.
WILL FORESTRATE
CAMP MT. GRETNA
State to Plant 5.000 to 10,000
Trees For Preserving
the Water Supply.
ADD TO ATTRACTIVENESS
Reservation Includes Over 2,000 Acres,
of Which Almost 1,600 Are Tim
ber Land Plan I to Re-enforce
Existing Growth.'
Harrlsburg.
Between 5,000 and 10,000 young
trees will be, set -out before the end
of the year at the state's permanent
camp site at Mount Gretna, with the
object of preserving the water supply
and at the same time adding to' the
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The Hazleton Chamber of Com
merce has made another appeal to
residents to throw open their homes
for the accommodation of 4,000 men
to be employed at the Jeanesvllle Iron
works' to turn out shells for' the gov
ernment. From 24 acres 3,200 bushels of po-
I tatoes w.ere harvested by D. K. Phil
lips, a Shoemakersvllle merchant.
Horace C. Gotshall and Harrison
M. Landls of Morwood raised two
hogs that weighed, slaughtered, 472
r.nd 477 pounds and received $119.25
for them.
Tho Manufacturers Foundry com
pany of Sinking Spring closed (its
plant three days to give its employees
a chance to go rabbit hunting.
The BlrdHboro Steel Foundry and
Machino company will enlarge its
Iron foundry to double its output.
Ten thousand and seventy-five
attractiveness of the grounds. Ar- j uu,,ters' licenses have been lssuod in
rangements were completed by repre- Be,.k8 COunty, more than a dozen to
sentatlves of the departments of the women.
adjutant general and the forestry A m d bear hot by John M
commission for an early start of the ; Scne Yeow fM made a feal)t
planting, the trees for which will : . ... r
The .Mount Gretna reservation In
Includes over 2,000 acres, of which
almost 1,500 are timber land. It is i
the plan to re-enforce the existing
growth, especially where the water
supply is to be conserved; to set out
evergreen borders along main thor
oughfares, including the road built
this year; to plant new trees along
paths and to reforest areas where the
chestnut bright killed off trees of that
variety. .
First Crossing to Go.
Tho Public Service Commission
made an order for the abolition of
what is known as the Mount Dallas
crossing on 'the Lincoln highway, in
Bedford county, and apportioned the
cost of a change whereby it will pass
under a viaduct of the Pennsylvania
railroad.
This Is the first grade crossing to
be ordered abolished by the commis
sion after an Inquiry inaugurated on
its own motion. The state highway
department brought the conditions to
the attention of the commission,
which mnde an inquiry and requested
that plans and specifications be pre
pared. The report of the commission, pre
pared by Commissioner Rilling, al
lows damages to adjoining property
owners to the amount of $160 and
assesses the cost of elimination of the
crossing, as follows: Pennsylvania
railroad, $1,000; county of Bedford,
$1,000; Snake Spring and West Prov
idence townships, each $150; Broad
Top Mountain and Coal company,
$11,046.50, and state highway de
partment, $11,046.50.
Changes In Capitalization.
A series of notifications of stock or
"bond Increases has been filed with the
Public Service Commission by electric
companies operating in the central
and eastern counties. The Chester
Valley company, Coatesville, filed no
tice of issue of $45,000 of bonds; the
Juniata company and the Perry Elec
tric Light, Heat and Power company,
both of Clearfield, stock, $30,000; Co
nestoga Traction company, Lancaster,
car trust certificates, $25,000; Scran
ton Electric company, Scran ton, notes,
$613,000; Penn Central Power and
Transmission company, Altoona,
bonds, $59,000; Penn Central Light
and Power company, Altoona, bonds,
$75,000; Mlllersburg Electric Light.
Heat and Power company, Clearfield,
stock, $118,000; Stroudsburg Trac
tion company, Stroudsburg, bonds,
$84,000, stock, $100,000; Metropoli
tan Edison company, Reading, bonds,
$143,500; Lehigh Valley Transit
company, Allentown, bonds, $12,000;
Panther Valley Water company, Phil
adelphia, stock, $200,000.
Hamper State Road Work.
Government orders against use for
the "present of open top cars la going
to Interfere materially with the plans
of the state highway department for
completion of construction work on
state highways and also with the late
maintenance operations, according to
people at the state capltol. For the
last few weeks the highway depart
ment people have been concentrating
efforts toward getting roads into
shape for winter and to repair those
which have been worn by the heavy
traffic, especially from trucks which
have been sent across the state by
main highways to the seaboard be
cause of the congestion on railroads.
Hundreds of tons of stone and other
materials are yet to be delivered,
especially In the southern counties,
where work is sometimes possible un
til well on In December. There Is
also a scarcity of teams and trucks,
and the department is forced to fall
back upon Its own vehicles.
Chestnut Going to Waste.
Large quantities of chestnuts are
going to waste In mountain counties
of Pennsylvania, especially those in
the southern section of the state, ac
cording to reports which are reaching
the capital.
This part of the state, which Is alao
the big apple producing district, hai
been handicapped by lack of people
to pick the apple crop, and the chest
nuts are falling without care and are
not getting to market, although prices
are higher than for years.
Powder Plot Was Strategy.
William Zukoski and Walter Ben
derovltch confessed to having placed
a brass hammer In the smokeless pow
der under process of aging at the
Aetna Powder works at Newton Ham
ilton, but said they did it to get their,
foreman "hot under the collar," so he
would discharge them and they would
then get their wages rather thv re
sign and wait two weeks for pay day.
They insist they had no desire to de
stroy life or property. The Jury ac
quitted them, but assessed them with
tho costs
Because of the shortage of labor
girls are being employed in the broom
factory at Blandon.
Ezra Wllhelm and Irwin Fromm
supervise the work of two corn husk
ing parties in Bern and Penn town
ships and have contracted for every
day in November and part of Decem
ber, which means that Berks county's
crop will not all be in crib by Christ
mas, due to shortage of farm help.
Fourteen girls are employed by a
forge company at Elwood City as in
spectors and operators of machines,
presses and lathes. This is the first
time that girls have filled the posi
tions, and it was made necessary on
account of a number of the young
men being called to the colors. Tho
girls wear overalls.
Struck in the stomach by a snap
ping rope, Claire Stuffer, eighteen
years old, of Rlngtown, a eteam shovel
engineer at Weston colliery, was in
ntantly killed at Shenandoah.
Thirteen prisoners of the Berks jail,
who had been doing farm work at the
county almsuouse, went on a strike,
claiming that the pork served with the
sauerkraut was "too epecky" and that
they ought to be served with coffee
too.
President F. W. Hinitt of Washing
ton and Jefferson college announced at
Washington that seniors called to the
colors will be awarded bachelors' de
grees and their diplomas, providing
t'uey are la good standing at the time
of enlistment or conscription.
Conservation of .coal promises to
ha'.t PottsvHle's Great White Way, on
Center street, till after the war.
'The state forestry department has
a service flag out with 30 stars, and
four more of its men are to go Into
I he arniy.
The state police department enlist
ed 28 men 13 for B troop, Wyoming;
12 for D troop, Butler, and three for
C troop, Pottsvlllo.
A curb market opened at Mahanoy
City was attended by one farmer, oth
!rs declaring a boycott.
Frederick K. Ployer, seventy-two-year-old
banner of Mechanlcsburg, and
Miss Hannah Bucher, aged sixty-eight,
were married by Rev. George Fulton
there.
A huge service flag bearing more
than 500 stars is being made at the
Pennsylvania State college In honor of
vhe undergraduates and faculty mem
bers who have answered the call' to
nrnis.
Butler property owners have been
assessed $7,32 as their share in the
Brectlon of a. bridge over railroad
traciis.
Following a $300,000 extension to
their eilk mill at Hazleton, 600 more
hands' will be taken on by Louis Roe
sel & Co.
Dr. H. L. Hull has been sent '.o
Kldgway by the state nalth depart
ment to study a diphtheria epidemic
and to investigate smallpox in Craw
ford county.
Because of scarcity of help, Nath
aniel Erb closed his bakery at Bech
telsvllle, which he had conducted over
30 years.
Lehigh county's potato growers will
meet in Allentown November 17 to
form an organization. Reasons given
for organization are: To increase the
acreage of potatoes in Lehigh county,
to increase the number of bushels per
acre, to secure pure seed distributing
stations, t raise five or six varieties,
and to advertise the Lehigh county
product. Lehigh is the second largest
potato producing county in the coun
try. The state bureau of markets was
Informed by- tho attorney general's
department that It has no authority
under the act establishing the bureau
to charge any commission for effect
ing any sales of agricultural products
or putting buyers In touch with sell
ers. Only one Berks flour mill will op
erate under government control under
the new grain and flour regulations,
the Schuylkill, owned by D. W. Diet
rich of Reading,' with a capacity of
400 barrels a day.
His gun accidentally discharging,
Amos Weltzel of Lebanon was in
stantly killed in North Londondery
township, in the first gunning accident
of the season In Lebanon county.
Weltzel was In the act of handing the
gun to a companion, George Brown,
of Palmyra. The shot entered Welt
zcl's neck, severing the jugular vein
and causing instant death.
Twenty-six cows were sold by Ray
mond Weidman, at Sinking Spring, for
$2,695, the highest prictsd bringing
$170.
William Kinckiner, aged fourteen,
son of Samuel Kinckiner, assistant
manager of the Opera House at Potts
lown, died of a fractured skull when
ho fell from a bicycle in the path of
a tralley car.
County Comptroller Heebner re
ports that foxes are so plentiful in
and about his Green Lake property
that pheasants, quail and othor small
gam) are killed, and trappers could
car.' a bounty harvest.
',
- Note
v'r"u., Nation. i n,.
v-nnauan Temparaiu Tim ""Ml
HELPS FURNITURE BUSINESS
The News-T
,ylfvln f !. I. ",. ,UU1"lIld, I",
null win !. 1.. ... "
ow.,." ii mc uenents Of lirolill.l.i
quotes furniture dei..r. ... "'"'"Ion,
"For the seven months bet 2 r
bltlon went into effecT ?
eighteen coses a month where ,. 3
to take back furniture on which, 2
could not pay the Inslull,,,,,,,,1 '
said one furniture dealer. " 1
MbRlon became law, we have hud D
twenty-one returns, three a mi0B 5
other words, wo had six times .L 5
returns before prohibition as glnce tli
saloons were closed." I
A second man In the same hu.in J
snld: "My books are open ,, 3
tlon. They will show that am' Tr2
hlbltlon went Into effect, my colleen,, '
have averaged CO per cent more
month than they did before Nov!,,
1, 1016." ml"
"Who enn measure the hupninP,
the creature comforts, and the Improv
ment in home life these two stiitwnei,
disclose?" queries the Neivs-Lon, '
"Who can gunge the wnstB prevent,
and the thrift eneounnreil? wi,.
reckon the children clothed, the hcml
mnde bright, the wives mwle hap
iiitr uurueus uncu t
1
THE VACUUM POCKET CLEANeI
I
11
Million of Dollar Are Each
-Transferred From the Pocket of
Laboring Men to Those of
Wealthy Brewer!
In proportion as the liquor ti
empties the pockets of the wage-
er Is there less money for the gn
the dry goods merchant, the Inn
and every other legitimate buslm
WANTEDNEW RECRUITS.
The most dangerous principle
which the saloon Is built Is this
Is not fashioned to supply the di'd
of men whose pusslon for llquor
been developed, but, with the cuij
which only the lust for money t
spire, it Is fashioned to touch a
generation to drink. Under the
of life, the men already enlisted
army of drink will he (lend wlthli
limit of twenty years. The aloci
the saloon is, "New recruits!
crults 1" As a hundred thousan
drop out of the ranks, a hundred
sand new recruits nre mnde. Xi
maimed and bruised mid dying
fnlls out of the ranks, that the
is not ready with a new recrul
from this vast, ever-Increasing
the masters of tho liquor Inters
yearly drnwlng millions of dol.i
toll Seaborn Wright.
FROM A NEW ANGLE.
A Spokane (Wnsh.) paper tell
storv :
"A mnn went out to buy a M
In a aoennil-hnnil Store, lie l'i
find what he wunted. so visit,
nawnshon after another, and still
tn in nke n nurehiise. Ills (lA
wna nrmiRcd. ns he hud h''1
piintnnied tn nli'k 110 Vllluall
chanlc'8 tools In this way for I
song. So ho said to oik" PmJ
"Let me see your entire stock on
I may find something tmu i "i
The mnn renlled. "I have v.i
nnw "
"Whnf An vein mean? Don't
men come In to ph-dire their I
mnnov tn tlilo tllptll over?'
"Not since the state went j
tiinstlv nr'o sober, and hive g"1
and want to hold onto their tool
A WITLESS POLICY.
Representative Charles H.
of Cnllf.n-nlii. uddrossIM N"1
opposition to the amradraent
fnvoniio Wll nloe liiir a no.""
liquors, used this telling HI
Tim u-itiosa heathen who
Ganges covered his black lh'j
leeches and nte them when
futtcned on his blood wa'
took buck Into his body
taken from it. We fasten o
llmlm nt nnr hrwlV politic the
traffic, and give fawning tH
It returns one drop 01
from seven It had sucke"
wholesome civic veins.
,-r- unM
fin.- n.t TMnntlK lire UW "1
inn IUHV iwv.. - , ,
people to outlaw the or
through a referendum, aw
so -at the first election a t
. . . tt ZPI1S.
voted as Amem-uu v..--
With n nnnitlatlon Of J
- minion vote
a quarter ui a . ,
LRlcowenturybyayu
promtmion 10 oi,-" -
or me mrge Prut""v
.. . . ... j u i,io chose
tne lstana eucu q
for the voter's guiu..--
ballots a coconut was W
wut a rum bottle.
MORE ALCOHOL NEEj"J
Dr. Haven uw'J . 0
city, commissioner of a
nation requires iouu
. . .. fnrnienj'
mucn ntconoi ua ,
11 iur uiuiiii.v."-
added, "to explode w
trenches and not ia
uchs."
Winded
GOES AGAINST TH I Ji
Even a man who u
hlbltlon will admit P1"
. olnst tne a
dnlphla North AnflcVb
mm
'mi
. y Germ
'VUe ne,