RES. ount. eting best what way, ding || TF and con- ven y of rice etty itor ASE UR- iL ks, ts. and, ors, ent, ully " A 2 SEO OK 3 Kedodekeoy in + *7N “-»s To Make Military And \ bers of the P ’ URGE DRASTIC WAR MEASURES Naval Training Compulsory DRAFT POWER FOR GOVENOR In All Institutions of Learning in This Commonwealth Every Pupil Over the Age of Twelve Years Would Be Trained, If Bill Is Passed. Harrisburg — Representatives Thomas F. McNichol and William T. Brady, of Philadelphia, introduced | drastic bills in the House, providing for compulsory military or naval train- ing or instruction of all boys more than twelve years old, and glving the | Governor the right to draft citizens from the National Guard or naval militia. The McNichol bill provides that for | the purpose of maintainingthe National | Guard and naval militia at the stand- ard of efficiency required for public safety the Governor may at any time call for volunteers or order that a draft be made to make up the com- plement of the National Guard or naval militia. The act provides that the Governor shall direct his order to the mayor of any city, or burgess of any bor- | ough or town, specifying the number of men required, and mayors or burgesses shall draft the number of men specified, or they may accept as volunteers as many as are required by the Governor. The Brady measure provides that in all public, parochial and private | schools, seminaries, colleges and uni- | versities, and all institutions of learn- | ing in this Commonwealth, every pu- | pil over the age of twelve years shall be required to undergo military instruction and training for one-half day during each week of every school term, unless physically disqualified. These instructors must have passed | an examination before the Board of Military Instruction, and the board shall arrange encampments during the months of June, July and August which shall be attended by the pupils of the schools and colleges. The en- campments shall each last a week and the expenses shall be borne by the State. After the “Demon Rum.” Three more bills affecting the liquor traffic, each of them diffeffrent, were introduced in one day. : One, intro- | duced by Senator Croft. of Montgom- ery, would make drastic changes in the present method of granting and governing liquor licenses. The bill would transfer from the Courts to the County Commissioners the power to grant, renew, transfer and revoke liquor licenses. if passed, it would “become effective on July 1, this year. It provides for an increase in the salaries of County Commissioners and grants the right of appeal to Court when licenses are refused. It also specifies that licenses s 1 be re- stricted, one for each 1000 of popula- tion, and that no new licenses all be granted until this ratio is reached. Any license-hplder who has violated the law within the year must be re- fused a renewal. A bill which would make Pennsyl- vania dry in 1918 was introduced by Senator Snyder, of Blair. It would bar the sale or manufacture of in- toxicants, except for medicinal and sacramental purposes. A local option bill providing for a local option election in each county every three years was introduced by Senator Smith, of Crawford. who also offered a constitutional amendment proposing prohibition. Slash Deficiencies $263,970 The House Appropriations Commit- tee cut $268.970.68 from the deficiency bill, which was presented carrying $25,000. 1 were as follows: public grounds, $75.000; fire mar- Printing, $76. $29.800; educs shal, $20.000: agriculture Live Stock Board. $40500; forestry. $7500; mines, $2500; highways, $6320.67; fisheries, $1000; House of Represen- tatives, $4500. An increase of $842.18 was allowed the Board of Censors for expenses thanking him for the offer of students, all with military training, who have volunteerd to serve in case of war. Allentown be count of high price, farmers are de- Representative Stadtlander, legheny, introduced in the House, at Harrisburg, a bill increasing the pay of jurors in Philadelphia and Alle- gheny counties from $2.50 to $3.60 a day. At Harrisburg, Representative Neary, Philadelphia, presented in the House a bill providing that executors or administrators shall pay funeral expenses out of first moneys received. Acting on the knowledge that chil- dren were imitating grown-ups in man- ipulating punchboards, the Monroe County Court has declared them gam- bling devices. Derry Township School Board, in Mifflin count, has broken ground for, a $10,000 addition to its high school building. J. T. Riden is at the Lewistown hos: pital, recovering from serious injuries | sustained when his automobile was de- { molished by an electric car. A bill requiring all vehicles except agricultural machinery to display lights from one hour after sunset un- til an hour before sunrise was intro- | duced in the House at Harrisbur by Representative W. W. Mearkle, Al- legheny. From the altar to the operating table for appendicitis was litterly what happened to Frank Hottenstein, of Sunbury. Hottenstein was wedded, to M grove. Stanislaw Kosilesky, 16, a young musician of Shenandoah, lost his life, crushed between two mine cars, and Felix Souch and Joseph Zubasky were dangerously injured, at West Shenan- doah Colliery, by a fall of coal Falling on ice, Morris Jackson, of ss Berdessa Rebuck, at Selins- | Red Hill, was seriously injured. At Mifflintown Harry Tyson, mana- er of the Bell Telephone system, was working at the top of a pole when a wildcat appeared at its foot. Tyson was anchored at the top for some time, when the cat was scared away by fellow-workmen. Dr. Bertha Lewis, member of a prominent family and a noted worker for suffrage and in welfare movements was instantly killed at Bryn Mawr, when she was thrown out of a hired touring car in a collision with a motor | coupe. Because the ground is frozen too hard to bury them, unlicensed dogs in Bradford county ordered shot by the County Commissioners have been | respited. f President Wilson and Governor Brumbaugh have both written A. W. Roberts, colonel of the cadet regiment at the Pennsylvania State College, 2,300 On complaint of residents, Chief of Police Thomas and Officer McCreary raided the “Peace Be With You” Club —colored frequenters of a cigar store | in Division street, Jenkintown. Stepping from a curb, Louis Betha, was struck by the touring car of Chas. P. M. Jack, president of the Chester Ship Building Company. Betha died in Chester Hospital in ten minutes of a fractured skull Mr. and Mrs. Caleb F. Fox, of Beth- eliyn, Ogontz, have presented to the officials of the Abingten Memorial Hospital a $5,000 check to be used to endow a bed. A verdict of second degree murder was returned against Thomas Thomp- son, charged with killing Homer Rey- nolds, at Milton, by a jury in Northum- berland County Court at Sunbury. Pottstown has adopted a seven-mill tax rate. A break in the four-inch water main at the plant of the International Bag Company, Bethlehem, at night flooded the concern. Angered becz vcotted potatoes on ac- 1ing to bring them to the city. 7 to work at the Bethlehem steel plant, was struck by a locomo- | tive and injured internally. The Loyal Order of Sparrows, one | of the many zoological secret socie- ies in Allentown, has achieved a | incurred. membership of 2300. rm— | It has been discovered that throug Bills Introduced. a mishap while returning from the Woodward, Allegheny, proving that all State printing should bear the union label of the Allied Printing Trades; fixing the salaries of mem- son Labor Commission, and providing that all institutions con- trolled by the Commonwealth pur- chase available supplies from commis- gion; the salary of the chairman is to be $7500 and the members $5000 each. Jenkins, Philadelphia, limiting height of fences in suburban districts of Philadelphia to four feet, except on spec I A measure providing a system of es for barbers, hii a State of five examiners, to be app by the Goveraor, was introduced i the House by Mr. Black. Dau The bill provides for examinations for barbers for licenses, to be held June, September iladelphia, Pitts ishurg and Erie. provi liz ng for a ners on “uniform State licer Warren, fixing terms of : Vv eealers of weights and measures to four ye { Bever, Philadelphia, codyfying laws mited partnerships and amending existing laws concerning partnership jility; requiring that the State and all counties and public institutions controlled by them shall purchase s and building ma- terials from State correctional insti- relative to I Smith, Philadelphia, regulating pur- ase of and contracts for supplies | Philadelr pausaman to Rea ppropriating $25.- | V for erection of bronze plovment as special policemen at the Bet! burgh district suffered because of the insufficient supply of natural gas. plant of the Jeanville Iron Works are enthusiastic over the prospect that they will be called upon to make shrapnel for the United States instead utions. a of Russia. | the Governor, Sproul resolution pro- | administration passed the Senate. Tq el iq | vote on the resgd ! 19 against, Mexican border, Russell Kneller, an Allentown soldier, is suffering with two broken ribs. Ray Duffs, of South Bethlehem, while oiling a machine at the Beth- lehem Steel shops, suffered a frac- | tured right shoulder, squeezed between the machine and a column. The Allentown Grange has ap- point ed a committee, headed by ‘Squire P. S. Fenstermacher, the Le- gh member of the State Board of Agriculture, to establish public mar- | kets. Herman L. Deitrick, 44, of New- berry. committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. George DelLozier, Andrew Daly and William H. Taylor, Muhlenberg Col- | lege students who flunked their exams” recently, have ben given em- ehem Steel Works. Thousands of persons in the Pitts | Schuykill Court has ordered that he old stone almshouse be torn down | and a modern structure erectad in | its place. Raymond Snyder, 15, was awarded | first prize by the Presbyterian Sun- | day school at Hazleton for not miss- | ing a session in eight years. Men employed in the munitions Opposed bitterly by the friends ok] iding for an investigation of the State tion was 29 fo | PENNSYLVANIA | BRIEFS | "PENNSYLVANIA STATE [TEMS Nearly frozen ont fis cut ravenous because of the cold weather, rats attacked young pigs owned by George Emig, of Carlisle, and chewed their ears off. John Chittick of Plumstead township, who claims he raises potatoes at 19 cents a bushel, says that if anybody would like to cover it he is willing ta wager $50 that he can raise potatoes at that price. The gross income of Yardley for the last business year totaled $22,109, 58, of which $18,000 became available from the sale of an issue of bonds and $9,906 was expended on streets and highways. The puddlers’ shanties at the Lessig Iron Works, Pottstown, were destroy- ed by fire. A sneak-thief stole six bags of corn from Ira M. Schantz's corncrib, near Macungle. Aenos Bianto, of Norristown, was fatally burned at the kitchen stove in her home. Sheriff Nagle has levied on the per- son of Benjamin H. Wambold, a Sal- ford farmer, for $2,000 indebitedness. Joeph A. Price has been appointed Jusitce of the Peace in Lower Salford township, succeeding I. T. Haldeman, Assemblyman, who resigned. The Boy Scouts of Sellersville have united in a campaign to protect birds, and every Scout has agreed to build one or more bird houses. An Elkins Park woman, Mrs. Elsa Walters, will receive a bequest of $1,000 from her late employer, Mrs. Freda Schloss, according to a clause in Mrs. Schloss’ will, “in recognition of 18 years’ of faithful and satisfac- | tory service.” | The explosion of a frozen water- back in the home of David Bishop, Pottstown , blew pieces of the kitchen stove through the ceiling to the | second floor, and Mr. and Mrs. Bishop were injured and the house set on Mrs. Margaret Coughlin, mother of John J. Coughlin, Shenandoah’s new postmaster, fell on the ice while going to church and fractured her right hip. { She was taken to the State Hospital. Struck by a motor truck, William | Finkenbinder, Newville, suffered a broken leg. Divorced three days, Grace Motto, Hazleton, took out a license to wed Frank Albao, Berwick. A second transmission line from Warrior's Ridge to Lewistown is plan- ned by the Penn Central Light and { Power Company, Altoona. | youths of wayward tendencies. Schuyl- kill, four, and Lackawanna, six. | lated $3,937.19 in four years and has nine retired instructors on the list. | | | Checks cashed for Albert Willis, a | farmhand, near Newville, have proved to be worthless, and he has left that section. severly scalded a five-year old daugh- ter of William Bailey, Centre town- ship, Perry county. The Bradford's County Dairymen’s League was organized at Towanda electing F. W. Gerham, Wysox, presi dent; John Cooney, Troy, secretary; S. W. Terry, Wyalusing, treasurer, R. H. Fleming, Cowley, organizer. An unusual funeral was held in the basement of St. Barnabas‘ Episco- pal Church, Reading, in memory of a lonely sparrow, with seven boys as mourners, whose companion the spar- | An overturning boiler of hot water | | | | row had been on the adjoining play- ground. The sparrow froze to death. Playing with fire while her mother was preparing dinner, Susie Gerlack, aged 4, of Ormrod, was fatally burned. Martin E. Kern, vice-president of the Penn Counties Trust Company, Allentown, who last year bought Glen Island, New York, for $1,500,000, has | just sold the property to the Novaia se the housewives of |} ¢ tealty Company, at a profit of al- most $1,000,000. Outside of the real estate, which | includes a valuable home in Allen- Chris. Backas, of South Bethlehem, | town and a plantation on the Isle of Pines, the estate of Char Matcham, of Allentown, mec engineer and one of the pioneers of the modern cement industry, leaves hanical | $400.227.56 for distribution among the heirs. Twelve-inch ice was cat from the Angelica dam in Berks County. A kitchen will be added to the Humane Fire Company’s house, { Royersford, by the efforts of the | Ladies’ Auxi Simon P. Romig, of Hancock, suf- | fered blood-poisoning, after a rabbit had bitten him. Eisenlohr & Bros. have started a tobacco factory in Old Zionsville, and Albert H. Sterner has been appointed foreman. The Norristown branch of the Pennsylvania Woman's Division for National Preparedne has decided to mak Christiana school ildren contribu- ted $13 to the Belgian relief. Despite the cold weather, robbins have made their appearance in West ter. Mount Semina Lutheran Theological will rec 5,000 from Mrs Nicum, widow of the Rev. John Nicum, of Rochester, N. Y. To produce enconomical feed for ‘ows, and thereby keep down the cost of running a dairy in Bucks county, ! Lee S. Clymer, of Reigelesyi sug- gests to the Bucks ccunty Farm Bureau that farmers be urged to grow alfalfa. The Hampden, Marion and Key- stone Fire companies, Reading, have voted to increase the wages of their drivers from $16 to $18 a week. Bryn Mawr Community Centre girls have organized the “Junior Girls Club,” for self-government and to as- sist in financing, cooking, sewing and other classes at the centre. Haverford Township Commisssion- ers have voted a pay increase to mem- bers of the police force from $70 to 375 a month. 3 Two little bears, born at the Re ‘ng zoo, Jeers killed by the moth THE MOUNT JOY BULLETIN, MOUNT JOY, PA. WASHINGTON CELLO EIEP POOP POOPIE PPL PIIIIE What figure more immovably august Thea that great strength so patient and so Calm i on ood fortune, when it wavered, sure, ‘That mind serene, impenetrably just, Modeled on classic lines so simple they That soul so softly radiant and so white The track it left seems less of fire than light, Cold but to such as love distemperature ? some deem, be the force That drives revolving planets on their course, Why for his power benign seek an impurer His wasthe true enthusiasm that burns long, Domestically bright, Fed from itself and shy of human sight, The hidden force that makesa lif And not the short-lived fuel of a song. Passionless, say you? But to sublime our natures and control To front heroic toils with late return, Or none, or such as shames the conqueror? That fire was fed with substance of the soul And not with holiday stubble, that could What is passion for n, Unpraised of men who after bonfires run. Through seven slow years of unadvancing war, Equal when fields were lost or fields were won, With breadth of popular applause or blame, Nor Janna nor damped, unquestionably the Toc Ted to be reached by flaws of idle Soldier and statesman, rarest unison; High-poised example of great duties done Simply as breathing, a world’s honor worn As life's indifferent gifts to all men born; Dumb for himself, unless it were to God, But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent, Tramping the snow to coral where theytrod, Held by his awe in hollow-eyed content; Modest, yet firm as Nature's self; unblamed Save by the men his nobler temper shamed; Never seduced through show of present good By other than unsetting lights to steer New-trimmed in Heaven, nor than his stead- mood Moss rulast, far from rashness as from Rigi da ne with himself first, grasping still In swerveless poise the wave-beat helm of Not tored then or now because he wooed The pupular voice, but that he still withstood; Broad-minded, high-souled, there is but one Who was all this and ours, and all men’ Ss, —James Russell Lowell. ] CPP r Ir 000500000000 000000000000 FAMED OLD CHURCH ago there was and Afticth annive completion and opening of St. ’aul’s chapel in Trinity parish, in the York, and Trinity tegral part of parish was an in- the Pabished church aa called St. at the corner of Cliff It was in No- vember, iy that the vestry erection of a second chapel in the par- George III was denounced Luzerne county must care for 288 |, THE MARKETS Nein) NEW YORK-—Wheat—Spot steady; No. 2 hard, $1.94; No. 1 Northern Du- luth, $2.05; No. 1 Northern, Manitoba, $2.04% f. 0. b. New York. Corn—No. 2 standard, 68@68%. Hay—Irregular; No. 1, $1.15; No. 0 95¢.@$1.05; ‘No. 3, 90@95c¢c.; shipping 70@90c. Butter—Creamery higher than ex tra, 46@46%c.; creamery extras (92 score), 45@45%ec.; firsts, 37% @44c.; seconds, 35@37c. Eggs—I'resh gathered, extra firsts, 47@47%ec.; firsts, 46@46%ec.; refrig- erator, seconds to firsts, 41@42%ec.; nearby hennery whites, fine to fancy, 50@51c.; nearby hennery browns, 48@49c. Cheese—State, held, specials, 25@ 25%ec.; do, average fancy, 25c. Live Poultry—Chickens, 21@21% fowls, 23@24c. Dre 20@34c. PHILADELPHIA. —Wheat — No. red, $1.77@1.82; No. 2 Southern re $1.75@1.80; steamer ee 2 red, 1.78; No.’ 3 red, $1.73@1.78; rejected A, $1.60@1.74; rejected . $1.65@1.70. Rye—No. 2 Western, in export ele- vator, $1.40@1.45 per bushel; small lots of nearby rye, in bags, quoted at $1@1.20, as to quality. Corn—No. 2 yellow, $1.14@1.15; (OF: standard white, BT %@080.; No. White, 66% @67c.; No. 4 white, 65% @ 661%c.; sample oat 3, 621 @63%c. Dutter- Western fresh, solid-packed Ss, 47c.; extra, creamery, fancy special 5@46c; do, extra firsts, 42@4 firsts, 38@3%e: do, second, ; ladles, 29@31c. backing stock, 28c.; nearby prints , fancy, 48¢; do, av erage extra, 45@46c.; do, fir 42c.; at 51@54c. Eggs—In free cases, near 46¢c. per dozen; nearby fi per standard case; nearby current re- Western ex- xtra firsts, $12.90 per ceipts, $12.90 per case; tra, 46c. per dozen; $13.05 per case; do, fir case. Fancy selected fresh eggs were jobbed out at 48@51c. per dozen. Chesso~Noy Yor, f n good held, 25@25%ec.; @21c. Live Poultry—Fowls, as to quality, at he age of seven- Altoona teachers’ fund has accumu- | thrilled thousands with his pa- not be generally known that { doors, on each side of the church, entrance porches. quently stoned up and canopied pews erected in their places, : | of Southern white cc $1.09 per bushel. Car lots of No. 3 vellow corn for domestic delivery, | ar ots y at $ ) ushe inal hurch was burned and St. are quotable at $1.12 bushel nomina came the principal church of the city, | the north door was closed first and a canopied, elevated pew | decorated for the king's representative y, the governor of the prov- in the place of Governor, until a new place was pro- | , and then for a short time on the | + the rebuilding of | St. Paul’s Chapel. Trinity church, it does not appear that he ever again attended St. Paul's. der, then, is the place where Washing- , ‘Lady Washing- . as she was called. some three or four years ago, an aged man, who said that he used to sit with the schoolboy tribe o: ord that the general were wont to Lady Washi igton’ drive up Fair stre’t to church, on Su days, in a coach gud four; was a never-failing delight to him and 21@23c.; roosters, 15@1T7c.; sprin chickens, according to quality, 23c.; White Leghorns, accordi quality, 20@22¢; ducks, as to quality, 20@24c.; geeze, 19@22¢ pigeons, old, per pair, 28@30c.; do young, per pair, 20@25c. BALTIMORE. — Whea No. 2 red, steamer No. 2 red Western, spot, at RL Corn—The small parcels of Scuth spot, closed ern corn offered from day to day are readily taken. Sales of a small lot 'n delivered, at on spot. Oats—Standard, 65%; No. 3, white, 65c. Rye—No. 2 Wester 3 No. 3 do, do, $1.50 nominal; No. 4 do do, $1.49 nominal; bag lots, as to quality and condition, $1.20@1.35. Hay—No. 1 timothy do, $17@17.50; No. 3 light clover mixed, $10.5 ery, export, $1.5 do, $15.50@16; No. 2 do, do, $13.50@ 15; .1 elover, § No. 2 do, $13@ 14 3 do, $8@9. Str: No. 1 straight No. 2 do. do, $13: No. 1 do, $10.50@11; No. 2 do, do, 3 No. 7 “No, good, J6@37cC.; “= Leg h old hens, 4 g over 2 small to medium, 20c¢.; ol r and 1 Youn 1scovy and n 19 3. do, White Pekings, «do, n runners, 19c.; puddle, choice, t ona + do, and 16@17c. fat , 19@ poor, -crocked breast, young, small ctock. 10@11 | Live Stock KANSAS CITY, MO.—Hogs 11.85@12 2 F¥, - yackers a , s11.90@ > ight, $11.60@11.90; pigs, $10@11.35. Sieep—Lambs, $12.50@14.40; year lings, $12.25@13.25; w rs, $10.50@ 11.50; ewes, $10@10.80. C therns steady to weak. Prime fed steers, $11.25@12; dressed beef steers, $9@11; Western steers, $8@11.50; Southern steers, $6.50@ 9.50; cows, $5.50@9.50; heifers, $7@ 11; stockers and feeders, $7@10.75; bulls, $6.50@8.50; calves, $7@13. tt on ttle PITTSBURGH. — Cattle — Prime wethers, $11.25@11.80; cull and com- mon, $5@6.50; lambs, $1050@14.85; veal calves, $14.50@15. 1.ogs—Prime heavies and mediums, $12.85@12.90; heavy Yorkers. $12.70 @1280 licht Yaprors $11.7 3 sed firm; chick- ens, 19@29c.; fowls, 18@24; turkeys, 3A Autographic Kodak Making Pictures Post Card Size Price, $22.50 KODAK A gift you know they want. Made in factories where hones{ workmanship has become a habit, sold by ‘a store you have learned to depend upon, Kodaks from ........$6.00 up Brownles from....... 1.25 up W.B. BENDER Mount Joy, Pa. No. 3 yellow, $1.13@1.14; No. 4 yellow, $1.11@1.12; No. 5 yellow, $1.09@1.10. —-No. 2 white, 68% @6Jc.; uy A If You Want a Car That's Tried and True I have taken the agency for the Maxwell Automobiles, which is one of the best equipped and easiest riding cheap cars on the market. It is by no but one that has been tried for years and has proven Any one in the market for such a car will readily be con- vinced of its merits after a demonstration which will be cheerfully given. but I am prepared to take care of the people to whom sell, which should not be overlooked by persons buying cars. I am at your e Sundays or night time as well as during the day. None but com- If your car needs attention, give this garage , 39@ do, seconds, 35@36c.; special fancy brands of prints were jobbing extras, Ss, $13.00 means a new car, I not only sell cars, petent mechanics axwell tudehaker / Cie of the Best Cars of That Class BRUBAKERS’ GARAGE Bell Phone Mount Joy, Pa. | Marietta St. .B. CLING ALBERT STRICKLER Bell Phone at Residence and Yards 1” z MT.JOY, PA. PEP 4200000900000 000 000004) | * + We Are Always Prepared to Serve Pure Spring Water ICE IN ANY QUANTITY At very Mcderate Charges. to see us before placing your order this year. : J. N. Stauffer & Bro. MOUNT JOY, PA. PEP PPPPIP EGP IC OL VL VSO GARDEN THEATRE PIPPI PPP PPP0000000000 PEI IFPVP0 9000000000009 000009 SP 000900 Entertainment SPEND YOUR VACATION IN NEW YORK You can see morein N one week than any ‘place in the iy must know how, “RNOW HOW One full week of “Sight Seeing™ will show you everything worse while in the big city covers hotel accomodationg cost of sight seeing theaters, roof gardens, eta v oy all your carfare Krall's Meat Market | always have on hand anything In the line of SMOKED MEATS, HAM, BOLOGNA, DRIED BEEF, LARD, ETC. Also Fresh Beef, Veal, Pork, Mutton, 'H. H. KRALL West Main St, Mount Joy, Pa. Bell Telephone, PLUMBING Tinning and Spouting THAT'S MY BUSINESS | Also all kinds of repair work of every description. Work must be right. A SHARE CF YOUR BUSINESS SOLICITED. Charles Ricksecker West Main St, Mount Joy SIGNS Wood, Meta! or Muslin/ R. F. Eshleman BELL PHONE. DACHESTER SPILLS L
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