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SANTA-FE-PRESIDENT
SHERIFF QUELLS
oo COLUMN
Some Practical Suggestions Well
Worth Knowing From the De-
partment of Agriculture.
Snake stories that are colored or
enlarged or untrue do much more |
harm than good. There are two speci- |
es of poisonous serpents in Pennsyl-
¥ania, the copperhead and the rattler, |
and they generally live in the more |
remote or inaccessible districts, ara |
peacefully inclined, and do not chase
persons and are not so serious in their
effects as most persons think,
The horrible big snake stories that
often originate in the minds of per-
sons who wish to tell something fear-
ful, or perhaps magnify their own pro-
wess or skill in combat, and which are
sometimes published and republished |
in the newspapers do much more harm
than good. In the first place, big snake
Stories generally are not true, and
BIG SNAKE STORIES |
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REIDELBERG Ri0T
5 Injured; Heavy Damage one
by Chemisal Go. Strikers
STRIKERS WANT WAGE RAISE
Men Left Plant Thursday When 1a
crease Prom 35 to 486 Cents an Hour
Was Denied—S8ix Men Arrested.
Five men were severely injured and
thousands of dollars’ damage was don:
during a riot, when striking laborers
stormed the plant of the Aetna Chem-
ical dompany, Heidelberg, Pa.
Follewimg the outbreak of the
trouble a call for help was sent to
Sheriff George W. Richards, who later
detajled thirty-three deputies, under
command of Deputy Sheriffs Morgan
and Matthews, to the scene of the
E. P. RIPLEY.
<0 WILL FIGHT 8-HOUR LAW
bad—
driEielniuie ein nlulnle ln ewe nin ERIN 0 aln
RESULTS
Both Fhenes
How Are You?
is a very common question.
that you are well in every respect? If so you
are EXTREMELY FORTUNATE—Eye
defects cause conditions that make you feel
COOK, Eye Sight Specialist
Can you say 2
If your Eyes are sick I can help you by
Fitting Proper Glasses—Come to see me.
GUARANTEED.
THE OPTOMETRIST
Meyersdale, Pa.
trouble. The prompt arrival of the
bersons not knowing this are fright.
ened by them so that they resolve
they will keep amay from the country
and thus not be in danger of horrible
suakes. Nervous or timid women and |
children instead of goinz out into
God’s pure air on the breezy hills and
along wooded streams become 80
afraid of the horrible denizens of such hy
Places that are so vividly pictured that series of hostile
they decide to go to the seashore and comparable only with
live in stuffy
humanity, . xs
does a great injustice to persons who the week. First, Italy opened hoetili
need the most natural and enjoyable ties pains} Germany.
recreation mankind can take. 1
~~ THE WAR
n:anifesto-
the
rooms amid crowded days of the Europcan slaughter.
lw
o 7 ? engagement with the Austrians in the
No part of the country is better ad- Transylvanian Alps, apd that evening
Bucharest declared waf en Austria,
Hungary. Berlin retaliated with a war
apted to giving pleasure in summer
outings than tht wooded foothills and
mountains of Pennsylvania, with their
cooling shades, pure streams, diversi-
led and interesting flowers, and harm- Z
less animal life, It should be known lowed.
that there is no wild creature of any !
against Roumania. Reumanians cap
flict pain or terror upon manknd in
any way, unless in very remote places
and by accident one should happen to
disturb one of the tivo vono an us
pents in Pennsylvania.
stantine has abdicated his throne in
favor of his son, Crowa Prince George,
Ler These reports have not been definitely
established, however. The crown
Finally isis very important to the prince is generally considered an
agriculture people they induce city allies’ syi:p:thizer.
visitors and country boarders to come
and dwell among them. lo do this the tO note two Important personages of
first thing is to stop snake stories, ang feminine gender. Queen Elizabeth of
show that the country is far safer, ‘oUmania ia an English princess,
more healthy, and more pleasant than while Queen Sophie Of (Greece Is a
sister of Kaiser Wilhelm.
the seashore or the city. The producer The Roumanians, assisted by Rus-
of country produce can find much more sian troops, have begun an invasion
réady and profitable sale for hic £0045 of Transylvania, taking the mountain
among campers, or persons on out- : passes and several of the larger cities
ings, or summer hotels in his vic'nity
of the Hungarian province almost
than by attempting to ship it away to without oppositien, Vienna declaring
the city. There should be a great de
it is impractical to defend the tortu-
mand in the delightful rural commun. OUS mountain boundary. It is pre:
ities for fresh butter, eggs, milk, meat, sumed the great battle will be fought:
vegetables and fruits, and there should inthe Jrovines, on, grogny: cf
be all Indusement offered to those per pp ts NER Athens have pre.
sons who take yacaticns to do ths in sented to the Greek government a note
éhe country where they can have a demanding control over Greek posts
real outing, and get in touch with rea] and telegraphs, and insisting’ on the
nature. It will do the city people good deporfation from Greece of agents ‘of
to become acquainted with the country , the central powers. ?
people and’ learn their problems ani | CT ——
method of living, and it will do the GOV. PENNYPACKER DEAD
country people good likewise to see
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
With the declaration last Sunday by the deputies and taken to the Alle-
Italy of war against Germany be
opening I'aysicians from the plant. None is in
In
: . i i i ice I S 8,
or to stay at home. This all there were five declarations during | (Deir injuries when struck by stone
Roumanian =
troops on the same day fought a smail The trouble began when the day
tured Rutschuk, Bulgaria, and Sofia]
began formal hostilities. Turkey fo!-
In dh effort to align Greece on the
kind inhabiting the State that will in. Side of the entente, a rebellion has
: £ 18 broken out in Greek Macedonia, and
reports have come out that King Con-
In this ‘connection it is interestng |
men from Sheriff Richards’ éffice and
the efficient manner im whieh they
SON SLAYS PARENTS
quiet to be restored.
Six men who are said by the of-
ficers to have played a prominent part
in the riot were placed under arrest
When Arrested.
the bodies in graves which had bee
gheny jail. oe
All the injured were attended by
serious condition. The men received | tax.”
_ | bieces of slag and iron hurled by the
riote.s. in a shallow grave, and then Muelle
shift was leaving the plant. The strik-
ers, about forty in number, began at-
tacking the men, hurling stones and
everything hat came within their
reach. MawLy of the missiles struck
the plant and caused considerable
damage to the machinery, Practically
every window in the plant was broken.
The strikers left the plant of the
company ¢i Thursday night, when
their demand for gn increcse in wages
from 33 to 46 cents an hour was re
fused. The striking men patrolled
the plant in an orderly manner until
their outbreak.
The meximum wage for laborers at
the plant is 45 cents and the minimum
is 35 cents an hour. Most all the la-
; kcrers at the plant are paid the maxi-
| mum wage.
| The six men under arrest gave their
| names as Andy Lasckuki, Emevio Piz
{ zZngovilli, Pe‘er Bartoli, Steve Koval
| «ki, Sylvest.r Koviski and Camillo De
luco. All are charged with rioting and
are being held under $2,600 bail.
—
Wiison Notified of Renomination.
Facing nearly 20,000 enthusiastiic
men and women ag he stood on the
prepared.
store.
the father was shot three times.
many eight years 280
amassed considerable property.
father was a farmer.
was the only child.
GLASS BECOMES GOLDEN
Shutdown That Consumers Worry.
window glass.
more glass will be exported than in
any other year in history, notwith-
standing the fact that 1,500,000 boxes
were shipped abroad in 1915.
The failure of the wage committees
‘representing the = National Window
Glass Workers and the hand window
glass manufacturers to agree at their
first wage conference was a big disap-
pointment to many manufacturers who
.were hoping that operations could be
started the last of this month. An-
other meeting will be held on Sept.
19, at which time the scale
by the workmen will likely be adopted,
PA. MAN HEADS G. A. R,
. veranda of the magnific
‘White House, Shadow I. PRY ;
Branch, Ny-J., Woodrow Wilson Satur.
day afternddn was notified of his sec.
ond nomination for the presidency of
the United States and responded with
‘a speech of acceptance, the true Axger-
ican ring of which set the immense
crowd ‘into wild cheering.
LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN
Pittsburgh, Sept. 6.
Butter—Prints, 35@35%e; tubs, 34
bandled the situation soen caused] Florida Youth Confesses to Deed
John Mueller, nineteen, killed his
father and mother at Palatka, Fla., by
shoeting them with a rifle. He buried
prepared in advance of the killing.
When arrested he said he killed them
“because I had to do so to get the war
The mother was killed at the home, |
three miles from town, the body buried |
hastened a mile down the road, where
he shot his father from ambush, drag-
ging the body through the woods to,
the home, where two graves had been
The mother was bound with wire |
which the boy bought at a Palatka '
She was shot five times and
The x -
Muellers moved to this state from Ger- £5 39,000 Geographical Subjects,
and had
The
John Mueller
So Precious and Scarce In Summer
With the demand for window glass
the greatest in history, and with virtu EB
ally every glass plant in the country
closed down for repairg, it is almost
impossible to procure popular sizes of '
proposed |
. : @84%c. Eggz—Frosh, 33c. William J. Patterson of Pittsburgh
life from the viewpoint of the burden. Former Pans Executive Suc- Cattle—rraue, $9.25@9.75; good, Elected Commander-in-Chief.
ed city people Misleading snake stories eumbs to Uraemic Poisoning. , $8.50@y; ucy butchers, $7.75@8.25: William J. Patterson of Pittsburgh
should not be the means of keeping | After a brave and in the main a fair, $i @7.50; common, $6@7; com-|wag elected commander-in-chief of the |
them apart . | cheery battle against uraemic Poison: mon to good fat bulis, $4.50@7.25; Grand Army of the Republic at the ah.
a ' ‘ing, former Governor Samuel W. common to good fat cows, $4@7.50; | nual encampment in Kansas City, Mo.
; —— $ Pennypacker of Pennsylvania died at
STEALING NESTS IN AUGUST
i 3 o'clock Saturday afternoon in his
i k ills,
August is the worst month in the Rome at Pennypacker Mills near
year for hens on the farm to “steal”
their
what scheme
nests in unusual places this month no
one seems to know.
Sure it is that putting eggs from
such nests in the market baskets is
an abominable practice. In stronger
words it is stealing again, For, the
city house-wife that pays for such eges
cannot use them and will not .use
them.
City house-wives will do well to view
with suspicion any eggs that come to
them at this season that have shiny
or glossy egg shells. Thig gloss is
what you find on eggs that have been
brooded or sat on by a hen with the
incubating fever.
Fortunately a very large per cent of
eggs coming to market are card.
dled before being offered for sale. But
the loss must come out of Some-
body’s pocket-book,
Every time a housekeeper buys a
stale egg or a bad egg the business of
selling eggs and the business of pro-
ducing eggs gets a set back. It does
not pay the poultryman or the farmor
ever to sell an incubated egg, a crack.
ed, egg, or a stale egg.
If more farms would be rooster-less
and farm eggs more generally not fer-
tile or sterile the harm of selling eggs |
from stolen nests would be a great
deal less. At most then they would be
only stale eggs and they could not
reach market with the smell of a dead
animal in them or even worse, with a
dead chick therein. For a hen though,
to steal her nest is usually a sign |
that that particular hen is a good
one. i. i}
s LE Pad
nests. Just wLy this is so or |
Nature is working by
causing numbers of hens to hide their
. Schwenkville, at the age of seventy-
; three. He had been ti} and confined
to the house several months, his
malady having been aggravated by the
recent severe fracture of an arm, and
by his almest superhuman determina-
tion for a time to minimize both his
malady and his injury.
With a Fife reserva store of vitality
and a native wit and optimism that
long refused to he conquered, the ex-
{ governor prolonged his span of life
v several days past the time when death
seemed imminent. But the last few
rallies only made more evident the
fact that the end was drawing nearer,
| and, weakened and able no longer to
| resist, he expired Saturday afternoon
with his family and closest friends at
kis bedside.
JAPANESE FLOCK TO BRAZIL
Emigration to Other South Ametizan
Countries Also Large.
Large nun:bers of Japanese are em:-
grating to South America, saccording
to the Japanese Advertiser, forward to
Washington by the American consul
general at Yokohama. One ship is said
to have taken nearly a thousand smi-
grants to South American ports re-
cently.
“Since the gentlemen's agreement
with the United States,” the paper is
quoted as saying, “the number of Jap-
anese emigrants to South America has
| increased im great numbers. The policy
of Australia thes also nade the south-
: ern continent attractive to people
from this country.
Justice Dies In His Office.
Daniel McClane, aged seventptwo,
heifers, $56@3; fresh cows and spring.
ers, $40G 50. °
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$7.80@8; good mixed, $7.26@17.75; fair
mixed, $650@7; culls and common,
$350@5; spring lambs, $7@11.25; veal]
calves, $13@18.50; heavy and thin
calves, $7@9.50.
Hogs—Prime ‘heavy, $11.50@11.55;
heavy mixed, $12.60@11.65; mediums
and heavy Yorkers, $11.80@11.99;
light Yorkers, $11@11.50; pigs, $10@
10.76; roughs, $9.76@10.25; stags, $8
@8.50.
Cleveland, Sept. 5.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, $8.75@
9480; good to choice butcher steers,
$8@8.76; fair fo good butcher steers,
$7@8; common to light steers, $6.25
@7; good to choice heifers, $7@8; fair
to good heifers, $6@7; good to choice
butcher bulls, $6.26@7; bologna bulis,
$6.25@86.25; good to choice cows, $6@
6.50; fair to good cows, $6@6; com-
mon cows, $3.50@4.50.
Calves—Good to choice, $13.50@14:
fair to good, $12@13.50; heavy to com
wn, $6609.
. & 7 T.ambs—Good tr (Ww
Seeing ROUEN pla
10; cul La, good 1
choice ww. w wi0i.ib: good (5
choice cvwe., 1u.5066.75; mixed ewes
and wetherz, 36.75@7; culls, $3.50@
450. ;
Hogs—Mixed, Yorkers, mediums and
heavies, $11.50; pigs, $9.75; roughs,
$9.76@9.85; stags, $9.
Chicago, Sept. 5.
Hogs — Bulk, $10.60@11.10; light,
$1080@11.25; mixed, $10.20@11.25;
heavy, $10.10@11.15; r~ughs, $10.10@
10.80; pigs, $7.76 @9.80.
Cattle—Native beef cattle, $7.25@
11.30; stockers and feeders, $4.85@
7.70; cows and, heifers, $8.76 @9.50;
calves, $5@12.50.
for thirty years a jystice of the peace
in East Liverpool, 0. died wiiile at-
tending: to business in, his ofce: Ho
was a Civil war veteran.
I TT emp
Pom ae YL
Sheep—Wethers, $6.25®7.60; lam bs,
are receiving the best prices in a
The senior vice commander named
City, department commander of Mis
souri. '
The other new officers are: E. K.
Russ, New. Orleans, junior vice com-
Manzanola, Col., chaplain-in-chief, and
William M. Hanna, Aurera, I1l., sur-
geon general. The new commander-
in-chief announced the following mem.
bers of his staff: H. H. Bengough,
Pittsburgh, adjutant general; General
Cola D. R. Stowits, Buffalo, quarter-
master general, and J. Henry Hol
comb, Philadelphia, assistant quarter
master general and custodian.
SMALL PAPERS MAY SUSPEND
Shortage of Print Paper May Force
Them Out of Business.
Additional economies and more ac
tive co-operation in the manufacture
and consumption ef news print paper
are suggest .. in a letter addressed to
each memb “tn “"ews Print Manu
facturers’ “ei: » ‘the ?
trade com _.s:.
Because c. ; Be
publishers of tae sri: aad
weekly newspapers taroug.out th.
country fear they will have to suspend
publication. The letter says the sus
pension of these papers would be “a
national calamity.”
Fader,
it
day
Senator Sutherland Heads Bar.
Senator George Sutherland of Utah
was elected president of the American
Bar association for 1917, defeating by
four voted Welter George Sith of and Buckwheat crops in many sec-
Philadelphia in the convention in Chi ' tions.
08go. Apple crops larger than normal
yields are expected in Elk, Forest,
Peaches Bxing Good Prices. Mercer, Potter, Susquehanna, and
Peach growers of Romney, W. Va.
was William H. Wormstead of Kansas |
mander-in-chief; Rev. Orville S. Reed, |
las compared
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STATE AGRICUL-
Orders continue to flow in from for- TURAL NOTES.
eign countries and it is predicted that | Lf
Berks
| wheat crop at tan ver cent. above the
average production. Although a con
"siderable pcrtion was damaged in the
shock by the heavy rains,
| In several séctions of the State 't
is reported that the quail have been a
big assistance in cleaning the potato
| patches of bugs.
! Throughout the State the hay yieid
has been unprecedented and two mill-
fon mcre tons was preduced over Lot |
year, ua
In the northern tier counties con- |
siderable grain remained in the shocks
lin the field on the first of August.
Clearfield county apples are said 9
“have considerable scab and many ho:d
hail storm marks, |
Adams county reports an apple yield
, of practically ninety per cent. of an
| average crop.
The excessive drought during the
first few weeks of August has causad
damage to the potato crop which is
not expected to reach an average
yield.
Tobacco is back and irregular in
growth and the worms are reported
very bad in Lancaster county,
In sections of Montgomery county |
wheat has averaged about twenty-two |
bushels to an acre in the threshing. |
i
Statistics gathered by the Pennsyl- |
vania Department of Agriculture show |
that the plum crop in the State will
be about 62 per cent, of the normezl
yield.
The average price of cherries per
quart in the State was eight cents,
raspberries, ten cents and blackber- |
ries nine cents. Clearfield county re-
ports a hay harvest of over twenty
per cent. larger acreage than lagt
year.
‘TUUAWO coukties report an in-
crease in acreage sown to Yuckwheat |
witk a year ago with
Cameron county leading with ten or
cent. and Wyoming next with eight
per cent,
Farm labor is reported Very scarce
and in some counties lack of farm
help has greatly retarded the harves-
ting of the crops this season.
The lack of rain during the past
few weeks has retarded both potato
Tioga counties,
$6.50@ 10.90.
Wheat—Bept., 81.44%. Corn—Sept. !
7c. Oats—Sept, 45Yc.
A ———
dozen years. Elbertas, which Rave,
just commenced to reach the market
, are bringinz $3 to $3.50 .8 carrier. {
i
I av cho wont ovr min apogee ~=ut oo -
In August 1915, a Fulton county
farmer bought five ewes for $25. This
summer he sold five lambs when four |
months old for $53. and 37one half
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BALTIMORE & OHIO
16-DAY EXCURSIONS TO
NORFOLK
OLD POINT
COMFORT
VIRGINIA
August 10 and 24, Sept. 7
$8.50
ROUND TRIP
GOOD IN COACHES ONLY
FOR $2 00 ADDITIONAL TICKETS WILL
BE GOOD IN PULLMAN CARS, WITH
PULLMAN TICKETS
The Route is Rail to Washington™ or
Baltimore and Delixhtful Steam-
er Trip to Destination
Full Information at Ticket Office
t Avg. o-b
avert pl Gh IomBiGl gs] SIE of
Where Motorists Lodge
The favorite route for motorists is the:
Great National Highway, formerly
known as the National Pike. It winds
from the east through Cumberland and
‘down into Pittsburgh by way of
Brownsville, entering the main part of
the city right at the
Monongahela
House
PITTSBURGH
where cool, airy rooms with open
river view afford the most comfortable
summer quarters,
European Plan
Single Room, without bath, $1.00 and $1.5)
per day. Single room with bath $2. 00, $2.50
i and $3.00 per day. Each additional person
$1.00 per day in any room, with or without
bath,
| Complete Cafe Service from 25¢ Club
| Breakfast to the most elaborate dinner.
J. B. Kelley, Manager
Smithfield St., Water St. and First Ave.
Pittsburgh
EE
pounds of wool for $12.87. He retained
the best lamb and now hag a flock of
six sheep, cleared the original invest-
ment and had $41 profit. The cost of
! keeping the sheep was very small,
ST. PAUL
Charles McKenzie’s of Pocahontas,
were visiting Oscar Sipple’s on Sun-
day.
Charlie Cocks of Rockwood were
the guests of Richard Sipple’s on
Sunday.
George Sipple of Pittsburg is spend-
ing som time this week with friends
in St. .Pari.
There is a big difference between
the words “poverty” and “property’”
in meaning. Those St. Paulers of
which we spoke last week want to do
away with poverty, They would like to
S€e every ome own all the property-
he needs. They are ga funny set,
They think every body able to work
should do useful work and be paid for
it with a sum equal to what he earns.
They have an idea that this plan:
would give every one the chance to-
own the property he needs.
———————
Get owr nrices on Job work.
PASSE
Gongrass Pr
tion For L;
SOMPERS L
weddfation Pres
Eonfidence In
Eight-Heyr D:
Ninety-two la
passed by cong
latures during tk
according to a s
the American £
Legislation.
“The most si
ilegislation,” say
John B. Andrew
laws, one Rnrohii
interstate or for
itain products’ i
‘which the labor
. employed, and t
model scale of
tion for persona
eral employees,
now more thax 4
“Several hund
introduced into
Dr. Andrews add
legislateres in
ground out their
nual grist.”
Samuel Gompe
American Feder:
public in We
ment on “Labor
Issues” for 1916
acterized the pa
~ able one in the
movement, espe
ing of the worki:
labor legislation.
“Labor day, 1
pers, “brings to |
ica the right to
in the trade unic
have been tests
proved its run
there haye bee
3 have tested its
TT
§ union.
‘Through ‘them :
those things whic
some organizatio
"been phenomenal.
“Taking the Ia
hole, there has
in the @
shorter workday
similar period of
f these victories
nly in the light «
the meaning of
e shorter wor
lore than an ec
a demand for «
Si
EIGHT-HOUF
ailroad Strike Is
Signs |
The Adamson ei;
d by labor union «
satisfactory set
mands on which th
Lalling a nation-w
ay, was passed
‘by the senate Sat
The president 1
and the strike has
Klondike Discover
Snookum Zim
*who, with George
discovered the K
twenty years ago,
cently at Carcros
At one time he
£0ld, nearly, all o
dered. On a visit
‘money from his h¢
‘the crowds scramb
Coal Moven
Coal which has
the Kanawha rives
-conditions this sun
move toward the m
2nd middle west. .
-sffeam have been
boats are handling -
N. Y. Car Men Aga
Motormen ‘and ce
-on the elevated am
the Interborough F
pany, New York,
work unless officers
consent to meet a c
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