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FIRST MEN T0
START SEPT, §
Change Made In Date For tie
Mobilization of New Army
WAIT TILL AFTER LABOR DAY
Religious Objectors to Be Given Jobs
at Cantonments; All Will Be Sum-
moned to Army.
Drafted men for the new national
army will start for their cantonments
Sept. 6, instead of Sept. 1, Provost
Marshal General Crowder announced.
General .Crowder explained the de-
lay was due to the necessity of avoid-
ing congestion because of Labor day
railroad excursions.
Thirty per cent of the drafted men
will move Sept. 5, 30 per cent on Sept.
15, 30 per cent on ‘Sept. 30 and the re-
maining 10 per cent as soon afterward
as conveniently possible.
Work is being rushed on the sixteen
national cantonments being erected in
various sections of the country to have
them ready Sept. 5 for the first 30
per cent of the 687,000 men called
from those registered June 5 under
the conscription law.
Religious objectors are assigned a
definite place in the national army for
the first time in a ruling made public
by Provost Marshal General Crowder.
They will be sent to the mobilization
camps for duties which the president
may designate as noncombatant.
The ruling says they “will be draft-
ed, forwarded to a mobilization camp
and will make up.a part of the quota
from the state and district from
whence they come and will be as-
signed to duty in a capacity declared
by the president to be nencombatant.”
The regulation referring to them
reads:
“Any person who is found by local
board to be a member of any well
recognized religious sect or organiza-
tion organized and existing May 18,
1917, and whose then existing creed
or principles fcrbid its members to
participate in. war in any form, and
whose religious convictions are
against war or participation therein
in accordance with the creed or prin-
ciples of the said religious organiza-
tions.”
The duties which may be allotted to
these men have not been made known,
There are numerous army organiza-
tions, however, such as the hospital
corps, quartermaster corps, known as
noncombatant troops in army organi-
zation. There will be, in addition,
many labor battalions, messengers,
motor drivers, clerks and the like who
will have no active part in the fight-
ing, although they will be as much
exposed to shell fire in bringing sup-
plies te the line and taking wounded
back as are the active regiments. Pre-
sumably objectors will be placed in
these units where their work will be
to save life, not to take it.
Picks Wife From 103 Applicants.
“It’s a pity the law allows only one
wife to a man,” smilingly remarked
Captain C. E. Olsen, a sea captain, in
New York. Captain Olsen chose for
his bride a blonde widow, whem he
had never seen, out of 103 applicants.
LIVE STOCK AND GRAIN
Pittsburgh, Aug. 14.
Butter—Prints, 43@44c; Ohio cream.
ery, 371, @38c. Eggs—Fresh, 38c.
Cattle — Prime, $12.50@13; good,
$11.75@12.25; tidy butchers, $10.50@
11.50; fair, $9.50@10.25; common,
$7.560@8.60; heifers, $6@10.50; com-
mon to good fat bulls, $6@10; com-
mon to good fut cows, $5@9; fresh
cows and springers, $40@90.
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$10@10.50; good mixed, $9@9.75; fair
mixed, $7.50@8.50; culls and common,
$4.60@6; spring lambs, $11@15.25;
veal calves, $15@15.60; heavy and thin
calves, $7@11.
Hogs—Prime heavy, heavy mixed,
mediums and heavy Yorkers, $17.50@
17.60; light Yorkers, $16@16.25; pigs,
$15.26 @15.50; roughs, $14.50@15;
stags, $12.50@13.25.
Cleveland, Aug. 14.
Cattle—Prime shipping steers, $11
@11.50; choice fat steers, 1,160 pounas
and upward, $10.50@11; choice fat
steers, 1,100 pounds and upward, $9.50
@10; good to choice butcher steers,
$9@9.60; fair to good, $8@8.50; com-
mon to light steers, $6.50@7; choice
fat butcher bulls, $7@8; bologna
bulls, $5.75@6.50; good to choice fat
cows, $7@S§; fair to good, $5.76@86.75;
canners and cutters, $5@6.50; milch
cows and springers, $60@90.
Calves—Choice veal calves, $14.60
@15; mixed, $13.50@14; heavy and
common, $8@11.
Hogs — Yorkers, $17.15; choice
heavies, $17.25; good mixed, $17.20;
pigs, $14.75; roughs, $15; stags, $13.
y Chicago, Aug. 14.
Hogs — Bulk, §$16.65@17.25; light,
$15.85@17.30; mixed, $15.95@17.40;
heavy, $15.80@17.50; roughs, $15.80@
16.05; pigs, $11.50@14.75.
Cattle—Native beef cattle” $8@
14.35; western steers, $7@12.35; stock:
ers and feeders, $5.90@9.35; cows and
heifers, $4.60@12.256; calves, $7.90@
10.65.
Sheep and Lambs—Wethers,
@11.10; lambs, $9.90@15.30.
$7.70
Chicago Grain Market Close.
Wheat. Corn. Oats.
. 2.04 vain BUYS
1.14% B71
INVESTIGATING I. W. W.
SITUATIGN FOR WILSCN
Photo by American Press Association.
J. HARRY COVINGTON,
Chief Justice Covington of the su-
preme court of the District of Colum- |
: bia is now in the west investigating
the labor situation, especially in con-
nection with the I. W. W., at the per-
sonal request of President Wilson. As
the department of justice is extreme-
ly busy at this time, the president
asked Justice Covington to be his per-
sonal representative in the first hand
inquiry he desires made.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR
Twenty-three persons, including
nine women and six children, were
killed and fifty persons were injured
at Southend, in Essex, forty miles
east of London, by bombs dropped by
German raiders, says an official state-
ment.
Considerable damage to property !
was caused at Southend by the nearly
forty bombs dropped upon the town.
About twenty German airplanes
comprised the raiding squadron. Brit-
ish aviators pursued the raiders out
to sea.
Two French aviators dropped bombs
on Frankfort-on-the-Main, one of the
most important cities of the German
empire, having a population of more
than 300,000. A French official state-
ment says the raid was in retaliation
for the German aerial bombardment
of Nancy and the region north of
Paris.
Both French machines returned un-
damaged.
Sinking of the American steamer
Campania, a Standard Oil tanker, with
the probable capture of her captain
and four members of the naval guard
by the attacking German submurine,
was announced by the navy depart-
ment.
The Canadian outposts around Lens
have established a new line in a group
of houses which is within a few yards
of the enemy front line at that point.
The Lens-Bethune road is now safely
within the Canadian lines almost up
to the city of Lens.
The enemy does not intend to sub-
mit to the loss of Lens without mak- |
ing a fight for it. While the outposts
were establishing their new posts the :
Germans turned loose a heavy artil
lery and machine gun barrage upon
the crater recently captured and build:
ings nearby.
Vimy and Farbus, towns behind the
British lines south of Lens, also have
been shelled daily by enemy batteries.
Field Marshal Sir Douglar Haig’s
forces attacked and captured virtually
all the German forward positions east
of the Belgian town of Hooge on the
battlefront between Frezenburg and
the Ypres-Menin road.
The assaulting forces gained virtu-
ally all their objectives to the depth
of several hundred yards in the first
rush.
The German defense stiffened after
the initial onslaught and heavy fight
ing developed at some places, but at
the latest reports the British were
holding their new line strongly.
This section of the front was the
scene of some of the hardest fighting
on the first day of the battle of Flan-
ders. South of Westhoek the terrain
is marshy in places and in the wooded
section the Germans had strengthened
their positions by constructing deep
dugouts. These obsi~- »s, however,
did not deter the onw rush of the
British troops.
In last week’s air fighting one young
Britisher accounted for his fortieth
machine.
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FIVE AMERICANS DIE
City of Athens Sinks Off South Africa
After Striking Mine.
Five Americans lost their lives
when the American vessel City of
Athens was sunk by a mine off Cape |
Town, Africa. Four of the crew and |
ten additional passengers were lost.
The vessel carried missionaries
from Brooklyn and New York head
quarters to Cape Town. Their destina.
tion was almost in sight when the ves
sel struck a mine.
The dead Americans are: Mr. Sum
mer and four missionaries—Mr. and
Mrs. Nagard, Miss Rebinso nd Caro
dne Thompson.
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. mediately in that direction if the situ-
‘will take over the control 6f all grain
food control bill was ratified by the
: ence agreement were: Frances, Gron.
‘our allied countries.”
| ation makes it necessary to sanction
| plies.
| not ‘ the smallest particle must be
FIRST STEP T0
CUT LIVING GOST
Government Threatens to Seize
Entire Wheat Supply
HOOVER ISSUES WARNING
Commission Headed by Harry A. Gar-
field Will Name Price to Be Paid
For 1917 Crop.
A fight will be waged on specula-
tors and profiteers in wheat by the
food administration in a campaign to
cut down the high cost of living. That
much was made evident in an an-
nouncement issued by Herbert C.
Hoover, in whom the president hasg
placed practically unlimited power in
this phase of the war program.
The price to be paid for the wheat
crop of 1917, Mr. Hoover stated,
would, with the full approval of Presi-
dent Wilson, be fixed by a commission
headed by Harry A. Garfield, a son of
former President James A. Garfield,
and president of Williams college.
Gambling on the wheat exchanges
Mr. Hoover said, must end, even if
the government has to go to the ex-
treme of purchasing the entire supply
of the nation. He added as a warning
that the new food administration, un-
der the power given to it by the food
control bill, was prepared to act im-
ation confronted seemed to warrant it
in doing so.
The announcement will be followed
by others which will have a radical
effect upon the whole food supply of
the country, as Mr. Hoover is de-
termined to either win a big victory
for the people or go down fighting.
As a preliminary step, Mr. Hoover
elevators and mills with a daily ca-
pacity of over 100 barrels of flour and
place them under a system of licenses
which will provide full information for
the food administration and make’
hoarding impossible. The grain éx
changes at the same time will be re-
quested to suspend all dealings and
quotations in futures. :
The program announced by Mr.
Hoover is the most revolutionary step
ever taken by the government to pro-
tect itself and the public against pri-
vate interests that have sought to
take advantage of conditions and
place prices at a level which they
have never reached before. The tone
of Mr. Hoover's statement showed
that he was in no mood to hesitate at
any action which he felt was for the
best interests of the country.
A drive to reduce the price of bread
by thus putting under one govern-
ment control the direction of wheat
and flour for the allies and for do-
mestic purposes, is contemplated as
one of the early steps in the campaign
for lower prices. ;
It has been believed entirely possi-
ble in some quarters that a standard
sixteen-ounch loaf could be sold with
a reasonable profit at 5 cents gnce the
food administration had the power to
regulate the ‘cost of wheat and ficur.
Whether that end is accomplished or |
not, it will be used as a basis for
action taken.
The conference agreement on the
senate by a vote of 66 to 7.
Senators voting against the confer
na, Hardwick, Hollis, La Follette, Pen-
rose and Reed. Senator Gore was
paired but announced he would have
voted against the measure.
LOCK ALIKE TO RED CROSS
Friend or Enemy Will Receive Same
Kind Treatment.
Many questions have arisen as to
the attitude of the American Red
Cross toward Germans wounded, and
also toward Americans of German
origin affiliating themselves with Red
Cross hospital units going abroad. Te
make clear the attitude of the Red’
Cross Henry P. Davison, chairman of
the war council, authorizes the follow-
ing statement:
“The Red Cross knows no such
thing as the nationality of a wounded
man. Any wounded enemy -turne.i
over to the care of the American Red
Cross will receive as kindly treatment
as any friend. The Red Cross will not
only extend every aid and comfort to
the armies of America and its allies,
but it will assist in every possible
way the sick, wounded and afflicted
among the civilian populations among
STRICT ECONOMY URGED
German Army Ordered to Save Small-
est Particles of Food.
Reuter’s correspondent at British
headquarters reports that an order is-
sued to the army of Crown Prince
Rupprecht has been found, which
Tread:
“The facet that economy in bread
cereals has been taken into consider-
an increased ration only where it is
really needful. Officers are requested
to explain again to their subordinates
the serious nature of the economic
situation in Germany and give instruc
tions that the strictest economy must
be erercised with regard to all sup
be exercised with regard to all sup-
Nothing must be requested be
‘| Dever met them.
“| feel comfortable about the matter.
AN EPISODE ~ |
OF LONDON
SGCIAL LIFF I
By WARREN MILLER
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Winslow Coker’s ancestors were Lon- |
don swells. Coker himself was born |
poor in America, but before he was
thirty made an enormous fortune.
Then he went to England to occupy
the family's former position.
He said nothing there about his
wealth, but announced that he was a
Coker, with a view to gaining, if the
name would assist him, an entree to
society. Some remembered the posi-
tion held by his ancestors, but no one
seemed to take him up on account of
it. Then he mentioned his wealth,
but even that—at least the mention of
it—made no impression on society.
Finally he fell in with Sir Thomas
Spottiswoode, an impecunious baronet,
who told him that to get into society
he juust spend noney and spend it in °
a wuy to accom; lish the object he de-
sire. Sir Thomas offered to direct
his expenditu.es for a consideration.
A bargain was struck by which Sir
Thomas was to receive $5,000 for him-
self and an unlimited amount for so-
ciety.
The beginning was a dinner given by
Coker, the invitations to which were
given by the'barouet. He knew those
in society who needed money and paid
liberally for acceptances from the right
peojle. Among those invited were
Mrs. Mulholland and ber two daugh-
ters. Lillian and Grace, aged respec-
tively twenty-four aud twenty. Coker
Was by no means an unattractive man,
and Grace Mulholland took a fancy to
him. But in sending checks Sir Thom-
as made a mistake. He sent a sep-
arate check to the mother and each of
the daughters. Grace Mulholland had
been unaware up to that time how her
mother maintained her social position
in the face of poverty and was indig-
nant. She sent her check right back!
and to Mr. Coker himself.
Coker said nothing about the matter
to his social manager. He felt sure .
that in the main the baronet was man- |
aging well, and this turned out to be
the case. Coker after a few months
got beyond the people he had invited |
to his first dinner, though in rare in-
stances he met the Mulhollands. After
a time he broke through the coolness
with which Miss Grace treated him,
having excused himself for his action
toward her on the ground that he had
desired to enter London society and
had placed the management of his en-
tree into the hands of another. In time
her prejudice was worn away, but
scarcely before the American rose to a
socizl position so high that he was
quite beyond the Mulhollands, and he
Coker speiit several years in London,
reaching the topmost round of the so-
cial ladder; then, at thirty-four, he had
exhz usted whatever pleasure there had
ever been in it for him. He resolved
to return to lis native land and lay
ont for himself a career. What that
caret Was Lis no this to do with this '
stor; Short. bofvie Ioaving he was |
w hare wihece the Mul |
ard caw oa aed tag fly-
ing. Uron in i Lo learned that Mrs.
Mull s'lerni's rs newmt of her av.
fairs Lad not been ua tinancial sucee s
and the home given the family for
services to the state by the first Mul-
hoile nd must go hy the board.
A few days later Coker sent out in-
vitations to a farewell dinner. It was
a souvenir occasion—that is, a souvenir
was to be given to each guest. He
sent an-.invitation to the Mulhollands,
writing one himself for Miss Grace,
begging her to accept. If she declined
he would consider the declination to
mean that she had not forgiven him
for that which he never would have
permitted had he been previously hon-
ored by her acquaintance. She wrote
an acceptance, saying that she had
never blamed him and, to make him
driviug by t'
holliinds liver!
would keep the souvenir intended for
her as a memento. of a very pleasant
acquaintance,
When the dinner came off every one
was surprised to see the Mulhollands.
for they had not been able financially
to keep up their social status, especial-
ly with the set in which Coker now
moved. not even by the mother’s ques-
tionable methods. Several young wo-
men present who had endeavored to
snare the wealthy American wondered
when they saw him singularly defer-
ential to Grace Mulholland. The din-
ner was a splendid affair, and the
souvenirs were very costly. They were
brought in for a last course, and when
the covers were removed many mag-
nificent jewels glistened in the lights.
All + were; handsome except that of
Grace Mulholland, which was a glove
box containing a dozen pairs-of gloves.
She smiled sincere thanks, considering
her comparatively valueless gift a
reparation for the check that had been
gent her.
When she got home she took out the
gloves, and with the last pair came a
false bottom to the box, it having been
glued to the gloves. Beneath was a
folded paper of legal appearance, It
was a deed to the Mulholland home
made out in her name.
Many a painter would have beer
pleased to catch the expression or
the girl's face at this mark of devo-
tion of the man for whom she had hac
a fancy from the moment of their first
meeting. It required two days for he:
to come to a decision to return the
deed to the donor with a note ex-
sive of her deep gratitude and say-
1at she could not accept such a
not of ker own Kin.
wasted.”
‘epted it from her
| and cover the wo
Loans and Investments ....
U. S. Bonds and Premium
Cash and due from Banks .
Capital Stock Paid in ........
Surplus Fund and Profits ...
Deposits
Growth as Shown in
JULY 15, 1908 -
JUNE 20, 1917 -
NET GAIN BETWEEN
CONDENSED REPORT OF CONDITION
The Second National Bank
sMEYERSDALE, PA,
JUNE TWENTIETH, NINETEEN SEVENTEEN
RESOURCES
Real Estate, Furniture & Fixtures ...
Total Resources
LIABILITIES
Seen Ee 65,621.83
Cireplation ...,
Total Lianilities
Made to Comptroller of Currency.
ONE QUARTER MILLION
OVER THREE QUARTER MILLION
$590,483.75
—OVER ONE-HALF MILLION—
LT ..... $592,905.60
70,179.37
64,075.20
125,338.50
$ 852,498.67
Tian 657,476.84
$ 852,498.67
Following Statements
$262,014.92
- -
$852,498.67
ABOVE STATEMENTS
J. T.
Yoder
JOHNSTOWN
Sells the Champion Cream Saver
The old-fashioned method of
holes with a irt-
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oil at all nS dusk We vig
and adds years to its life.
by the addition in th
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at former]
I ly carried oil to this most
De Laval,
ments that have ever been mad
separator construction. >i
Come in and see the NEW De Laval.
A Legend of Agincourt.
For many centuries we English have
plumed ourselves upon the victory of
Agincourt. But the French have an
account of the affair not so much to
our credit. It was arranged, according
to this fable. by the two leaders that
only the nobles on each side were to
fight. King Henry V. then artfully en
nobled his whole army and hence got
the best of the enemy. Shakespeare
unwittingly gives a little countenance
to the legend when he makes the king
declare in his address to the soldiers.
“Be ye ne'er so vile, this day shall gen-
tle your condition.” —London Standard
Wrong Either Way.
“1 understand your automobile has
got you info trouble.”
“It’s always getting me into trouble
one way or another,” replied MryCLug-
gins. “When it runs I get arrested for
speeding; when it refuses to run I get
arrested for profanity.”—Washington
Star.
Meat Pies.
Meat pies are made most satisfac-
torily by first cooking the meat and
vegetables as for a stew. Line a pan.
earthenware dish or casserole with bis-
cuit dough rolled fairly thin, put in
the meat. vegetables and gravy, cover
with dough and bake in a hot oven.
Unprepared.
Edith—Were you taken by surprise
when he proposed, dear? Elgie—Good-
ness, yes! Why, I hadn’t even looked
up his financial standing. — Boston
Transcript.
Falsehood.
No falsehood, did it rise heaven high
1 but bankruptcy
will sweep it down and make
of it.—Carlyle.
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THE NEW DE LAVAL
HERE is no machine made in which r lubri io
T vitally important than it is in a er rioation yn
that is not properly oiled will turn hard
rt-can was unsatisfactory fi
agers would of t00 much and too ge nN Jo the reason tha
automatically oiled
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saree SSCS Cline, tyson, Sees tmp 1nd
was De Laval oiling system has bean Steal
Laval of an automatically oiled neck bearing
ation of the tube
There has never been a cream s. arator th
embodied so many improvements as io Naw
The new self-centering bow! -
proved milk-Qistributing on Win Ri eit
Bpeed-indicator which insures operation at the
proper speed, are two of the greatest improve-
ream
A separator
and soon wear out.
oiling through a number of little
t some
others would not oil
De Laval is
import-
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Bhowing automati fling
of NEW De Lavas,
STEAMSHIP SINKS U-BOAT
Third Shot Turns Submarine Over
and Crew Surrenders.
Officers on board a steamship which
{ reached a Canadian port tell of an en-
| counter with a German submarine on
| the trip across the Atlantic in which
| the undersea boat was sunk near the
{ Irish coast.
The lookout man notified the cap-
| tain that a small sailing vessel was
| acting suspiciously. It was watched,
and soon a submarine was seen to
emerge from behind it. The gunner
yon the steamship had his weapon
{ready and directly the submarine
showed itself he fired. He hit the un
dersea boat with his first shell. A
second struck the conning tower, and
| a third turned the submarine over snd
it began a nose dive. Its crew clam
bered on deck and waved handker-
chiefs. The steamship left the saving
of the Germans to a patrol boat that
came up.
DEPORTATION ADVISED
Colonel Roosevelt Severely Arraigns
“50-50 Americans.”
Denouncing some senators, con-
gressmen and newspaper editors as
“standing where the copperheads
stood in the Civil war,” Colonel Theo.
dors Roosevelt demanded suppres
sion of the German ianguage press,
deportation of “50-50 Americans” ang
called upon every man, woman and
child in the country to exert every
ounce of energy to win the war.
When asked concerning statements
attributed to him by Dr. Kunko Meyer
Berlin professor, in Amsterdam dis
patches, Roosevelt said Meyer was
guilty of propriety” in quot:
ing him cc ng compensation and
| indemnities a victorious Germeny
| might collect. ;