THE FARMERS”
~ COLUMN
Some Practical Suggestions Well
Worth Knowing From the De-
partment of Agiculture.
FACTS FOR DAILY USE
PLEA FOR FARMER BOYS.
At a recent session of a Farmers’
Institute in Dauphin County, Sheldon
W. Funf, of Boyersown, made an ap-
peal for the farmer boys: “Gentle-
men,” he said, “I want you to do all
you can to keep the boys on the farm.
Give them something they can call
their own and allow them to have the
money they make out of it. I don’t
care whether it's a piece of ground, a
calf, a pig, a colt or some chickens,
but for goodness sake give them some-
thing. They will be glad to stay on
the farm. Give them a half day off
each week, too. There would be no
better time than Saturday aftrnoon
and on Monday morning they would
return to their week’s work with re-
newed energy. Allow them to have a
week’s vacation during some part of
the year, a week which they can call
their own and do as they like best.
Ask a boy who has gone away from
the farm just why he has left and he
will give you three reasons. He will
tell you overwork, poor pay and too
little recreation caused him to leave.
Give the boy a chance, give him an op-
portunity to have some interest in the
farm and you'll lose nothing. I would
recommend that every boy attend ag-
ricultural school. If this can’t be done
take a course of twelve weeks. This
will cost little more than a hundred
dollars but the benefits will be worth
much more. If the boy can’t go away
to a school then give him a correspon-
dence course and this cost is prac-
tically nothing. Help the young
fellow along scientific lines.
RAISING CHICKENS IN BROODERS
Much of the loss in raising chicks
in brooders can be obviated by keep-
ing the floor of brooders and brooder
houses covered with an inch of clean
sand. Cut corn stover or cut straw
should be used on the sand for scratch
litter. Such material as clover of tim-
othy chaff or buckwheat hulls are ob
jectionable in the brooder house. The
chicks pick up the particles of the fuz-
zy stuff and are not able to pass them
through the crop. The young chicks
‘should have a daily feeding of fine cut
green grass if they are to do well.
TRESPASS LAW MUST BE
QUOTED ON SIGNBOARDS
A decision which is expected to have
far-reaching effect on the perpetual
feuds between farmers and gunners
was handed down at Allentown, Pa.,
Friday, when the court discharged
Harry Leighton, a Reading Railroad
section hand, accused of trespass by
Miss Mary Bauer, of Center Valley:
The court sustained the contention
of Leighton’s counsel that trespass
signs must quote the law and are
worthless if they merely say “No tres-
passing.”
WOOD ASHES FOR GRASS.
Wood ashes may be profitably ap-
plied as a top dressing to grass land
and to pastures, where they will en-
courage the growth of clover and the
better kinds of grasses, which will
then crowd out inferior kinds and
weeds. Wood ashes also may be used
for corn and roots. Because of their
lime content they are not so good for
potatoes, although sometimes used for
this crop.
THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY
Items of Interest Culled from our
Exchanges.
Constable B. H. Matthews of Jer-
ome is a patient at the Memorial Hos-
pital, Johnstown. It was said at the
institution that his condition is not
alarming, although an operation is
expected.
PROGRAM OF SUMMIT
TOWNSHIP INSTITUTE.
The following is the prgoram for
Summit Township institute to be held
at the Peck School on March 4, 1916
to begin at 1 p. m.—
How can We Become Better Teach-
ers—Lillian Seibert.
How to Keep Pupils Busy— Ella
Witt.
How to Study and Teach Gram-
mar—E. R. Hay.
Methods of Teaching—Sada Schrock
Training of Memory— Mary Fike.
Thoroughness, Margaret Shultz,
School Discipline, D. C. Handwerk.
Recitation, Emma Schrock.
Citizens’ Duty Toward the School,
W. E. Walker.
Study of Mathematics, Lloyd Shu-
mac.
Methods of Teaching Penmanship,
Mae Moore.
Should the Rudiments of Agricul-
ture be Taught in the Public Schools?
If so, Why? and How? —F. E. Witt.
Outline a Good Method for Teach-
ing History—Velma Beals.
Is Knowledge or Mental Develop-
ment the End of Teaching—S. C.
Witt.
The Value of Map Drawing in the
Teaching of Geography—Ruth Com-
mons.
The Teacher's Part in the Recita-
tion—H. B. Saler
All friends of education are cordi-
ally invited to attend.
ROCKWOOD
H. E. Miller was transacting busi-
ness in Pittsburg several days this
week.
Hilton Thornley, who resigned as
Superintendent of the Consolidation
Coal Company at Wilson creek to ac-
cept a position in Meyersdale, has
been succeeded by Mr. Goldby. Mr.
Thornley expects to move his family
and household goods to Meyersdale in
the near future.
Frank Hood, Manager of the Dull
Mercantile store at Wilson creek, is
confined to his home on Main street,
Rockwood with an attack of rheuma-
tism.
Mrs. P. S. Walter, of Holsopple, has
returned home after spending a week
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. Ti.
Snyder.
Harry Woods, a Pittsburg druggist,
was here a few days ago to vist his
parents Mr. and Mrs. Jese Woods.
Frank Becker of Pittsburg is spend-
ing this week at the home of E. J.
Weimer.
Miss Louise Coleman of Somerset is
here visiting her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Jacob Critfield.
Funeral services were held Tuesday
for Michael, the infant son of Mr. and
Mrs. Chester Mertussi. Burial occur-
red in the Catholic cemeaery at Mey-
ersdale.
Miss Cora Bittner of Meyersdale is
here visiting her sister and brother-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. Pete Hangher.
I. D. Spangler of Salida Colo. is
here visiting his uncle, J. C. Reitz.
Mrs. J. D. Snyder entertained half a
score of her friends recently at a
chicken and waffle dinner.
Joseph Reitz of Johnstown is spend
ing a few days here with relatives.
Emmet Ridenour, a student in the
University of Pittsburg, is spending a
few days with his father, George Rid-
enour of Main street.
Mrs. James Miller received word
Thursday of the death of her mother,
Mrs. Brantanna, who lives in Colum-
bus, Ohio. The remains were brought
to Rockwood on Friday evening, and
were burried on Simday afternoon at
Odd Fellows’ cemetery. Mrs. Brantan-
na was formerly of this place.
Mrs. Sara Pyle of Somerset is vis-
iting her daughters, Mrs. Robert
Schrock and Mrs. Laura Sannor.
Mrs. J. R. Barron of Broadway en-
tertained the P. C. S. I. Club at her
home Friday evening. A two-course
luncheon was served by Mrs. Barron.
Miss Elizabeth Miller of Main st.
is visiting friends and relatves in Son-
nellsville.
LESS DOPE THAN FORMERLY.
The European war may accomplish
Dogs, horses and cows will be quar- :
antined for a long period in Milford |
ttownship, as the result of an analy-
gis of the brain of a dog which was
shot after it had bitten other dogs, |
cows and horses, The analysis showed |
that the canines had rabies. i
Mrs. Anna H. Kramer, wife of Rev. |
Dr. A. R. Kramer, a former pastor in
Somerset county died recently at |
Churchtown, Pa., after an illness of
some duration. ‘She passed away at
the age of 83 years. She is survivel
by her aged husband and two chil-
is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Simon
Shank of Stoyestown died recently
at the Mercy Hospital, Johnstown.
She was taken to the hospital three
weeks ago in a serious condition and
was operated upon for appendici-
tis. The little girl was popular and
who will much re-
v. The body was
had ny
gret her passing
taken to Stoyestown for burial.
{ times by the war;
what the complaisancy of Jas. Foust
the state’s poor food commissioner,
has prevented for the past nine years.
It may wipe foods “doped” with ben-
zoate of soda from the Pennsylvania
markets as well as other markets.
{ Why? Merely because the price of |
benzoates have been multiplied ten
it is likely to be
come so expensive that manufactur-
ers of foods can not afford to use it.
ning the wholesale sam-
| pling of ketchups that he undertook
dren, Miss Gertrude and Dr. John N.
Kramer, both at home. |
Helen Shank, aged ten years who |
late last year. He says that the ben-
zoate, which sold before the war he-
gan for less than 50 cents per pound,
now costs $5 per pound and that the
benzoate of soda in a pint bottle of
ketchup nowadays costs about as
much as the tom sane
bottle.
atoes in the
Miss Mary Black is spending a
couple of weeks in Charlestown, W.| u
Va. the guest of Mrs. E. F. Bock, a
| former school friend.
‘SON CONFESSES
FATHER'S MURDER
After All-Right Grilling, J. Frad
Christy Breaks Down, Said
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|VOLVES FRIEND IN PLOT
Boy Wanted Money to Go West and
Believed Father Had Large Sum
In House—Says Chum Fired Shot.
The murder of John W, Christy,
wealthy farmer of near Greenville,
Pa., whose body was found two weeks
ago at the bottom of an abandoned
coal shaft near his home under twelve
feet of water, and weighted down with '
a sledge, has been solved.
After an all-night session with state
troopers, J. Fred Christy, seventeen-
year-old son of the slain man, admit '
ted, the state police say, that he and
Fay Etzweiler, twemty years old,
killed his father in the kitchen of nis
home as Mr. Christy was paring po-
tatoes for his breakfast. Both boys
nave been held before Justice of the
Peace Loutzenhauser charged with
murder.
State Troopers Cook and Bressler
of the Butler barracks arrested both
youths atter they had harrassed youig
Christy all night in a grilling wus:
i grze. He confessed to the murder
»{ his father, the troopers alleged,
accused young Etzweiler of firing the
shot which caused the aged farmer’s
death, and told the most thrilling
story of a murder in the history ot
Mercer county.
Both boys were given a hearing be-
fore Justice of the Peace Loutzen-
hauser and were held for court on a
charge of murder. They were spirited
out of Greenville to the Mercer coun-
ty jail and very few persons in this
vicinity knew of the arrest until the
boys were out of town.
The lure of the west, probably in-
fluenced by the fact that he is a half
Indian, his mother having been a full-
blooded Indian, was so strong within
him, young Christy said in his con-
fession, that he longed for the coun-
try to which he belonged and he be-
lieved that by murdering his father,
who he believed had a huge sum of
money in the house, he could secure
the necessary funds with which to
make the trip to the west.
hristy confessed, according to the
troopers, that he paid Etzweiler $50
for firing the shot which killed the
former's father. The aged man was
sitting in a rocking chair in the Kitch-
en of the Christy residence paring po-
tatoes for breakfast when he was shot
i
! book, then picked up the body and
carried it to the abandoned mires
admits this in a statement |
in the hec
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The boys ‘mniediately went through
Christy's clothing, secured his pocket-
shaft, som< distance from the house
on the Christy farm.
There, young Christy stated, ‘he
ject about his father, and together
the boys cast the bedy into the mine
shaft, where it was found four days
later.
After disposing of the body, Christy
stated, he and Htzweiler returned tec
the house and with sofa cushions an:
an old coat of the Christy boy they
mopped up the blood from the floor.
The cuskions were burned in the
kitchen stove and the blood-stainea
coat was carried half a mile from the
house, where the boys lighted a bon-
fire and burned the coat. Again the
boys returned to the house and tb
time they secured a large quantity
lard, melted it on the kitchen stove,
then poured it over the kitchen floor
to hide the large blood stains which
had been left after they had mopped
the blood from the floor.
After doing this the boys, finding a
trunk key in the pocketbook which
they had taken from Christy, went to
trunk, where they expected to find a
large sum of money which the
younger Christy believed his father
had hidden there. Christy said they
found $80 and out of this sum young
Christy paid Etzweiler the $50 he had
promised him for shooting his fathe..
JUNE AND DECEMBER ELOPE
Girl 21
Marries Minister 70 After
Many Difficulties. y
Details have become known of the
elopement from the Beaver cree
(W. Va.) section of Rev. Williau
Moore, Methodist minister, aged
seventy, who has been doing mission
ary work ir that section for nearly a
vear, and Miss Jennie Ally, aged
twenty-one, a school teacher.
The minister had been courtir
girl for some time against
of her parents, who o 2
match mainly because of the diffe
ence in ages.
The couple eloped to Prestonbu
on foot, encountering nranj culti
during the trip while the
mountains.
WOMEN WILL ELECTIONEER
Thirty-six Will Go on Trip Over Coun-
| t
tiy For Suffrage.
Thirty-six repr ntative women
from the thirty-six non-voting states
tar YT y XAT or v
start rom \ gton n
month to make
women of th ely
se their ical power in forcing
Susa ) 1ony amendmen
sawed the handle out cf a twenty-nve: ,
pound post maul, roped the heavy oh-
an upstairs room and opened the:
11 to the
1g states to |
| HE'S 69 YEARS OLD
AND IS NOT NEUTRAL
@® 1913, by American Press Association.
THOMAS A. EDISON.
“My prescription for a long life?”—
Thomas A. Edison laughed heartily
and leaned back in his chair, folding |
across his broad chest a pair of arms
that looked formidable through the
sleeves of a rough working apron.
“Why cut down your eating and cut
out your booze,” and he laughed
again. Mr. Edison is sixty-nine years
old.
“Oh, two years more I should think
—and the allies will win,” was his
opinion on the length of the war.
“Why? Oh, because they are far bet-
ter equipped in men and money and
in facilities to replace losses.”
“Suffrage? Well,” and ‘Mr. Edison
smiled again, “the women have a right
to vote, and anyway, the men can't
control them. They might as well let
them have it if they want it.”
GERMANY FINANCED COUNCIL
Former Official Says He Left Labor
Peace Movement For That Reason.
W. H. Kramer, former vice presi-
dent of Labor’s National Peace coun-
cil, old the house judiciary sub-com-
mittee investigating Representative
Buchanan’s - impeachment charges
against United States Attorney Mar-
shall at New York, that the council's
funds came from German sources. He
discovered that, he said, after he had
been connected with the organization
several weeks, and resigned.
Mr. Buchanan and some others con:
nected with the council were indictec
soon after the impeachment charges
were brought in the house. They are
charged with violating the Sherman
law in that they are alleged to have
conspired to restrain American trade
in munitions.
The hearing was secret. One of the
committeemen, however, said no evi-
dence to prove the charges against
Marshall had been developed so far.
President Gompers and Secretary
Morrison of the American Federation
! of Labor are to testify next week.
Both previously have repudiated any
connection between the council and
the federation.
BROKERS WIN INJUNCTION
Ohio Blue Sky Law Declared Uncon-
stitutional by Federal Judges.
The Ohio “blue sky” law was de-
clared unconstitutional when United
States District Judges Sater, War:
rington and Hollister at Columbus
concurred in a decision tempo
rarily enjoining Attorney General Tur
ner from giving an official opinion
concerning or otherwise interfering
with the affairs of the Geiger-Jones
Co, of Canton, O.
The “blue sky” department had un-
dertaken to investigate the affairs of
the Geiger-Jones Co., dealers in in-
dustrial securities and had filed
charges with Turner asserting that
the company was not complying with
the provisions of the law.
The company asked for an injunc
tion against interference with its af:
fairs and attacked the constitution:
ality of the blue sky law among other
points raised.
SENDS WOMAN TO JAIL
Federal Judge Wants to Stop Wo-
men’s Smuggling.
In order to put a stop to smuggling
pn the part of women, Judge Clayton
in the United States district court in
New York passed the heaviest sen-
tence ever recorded there against a
woman for violation of the customs
laws.
He ordered Mrs. Emilie C. Swigette
of San Francisco to spend ten days
in jail and pay a fine of $100 after
she had entered a plea of guuty to
the charge.
Mrs. Swigette’s San Francisco mit-
linery establishment is known as
«Mme. Emilie’'s Shop.” There are only
two other cases on record in which
women offenders have been sent to
jail.
MAYOR IS BOYCOTTED
Ohio City Executive Runs Cigar Fac-
tory; Closes Joints; Suffers.
George H. Lingel, aged twenty-four,
mayor of Kenton, O., and the youngest
mayor in the state, has a boycott on
his hands.
duties he runs a cigar factory.
He has clamped the lid tightly on
gambling and the gambling f
and their friends are boycotting his
product. He employs thirty persons
and the boycott is so closely followed
that he will have to dismiss some of
them.
aternity
Along with his mayoralty |
pute over amounts?
BOTH PHONES
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‘on short notice.
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