One Carload ffl
Every Two Minutes
« ket 15,000 POUNDS 3
nig
J MEAT A MINUTE 1,
2 2 GOINGTO ALLIES|?
I, te me
of the ; ter
i» «x | One Hog Out of Every!
! ade .
ah Four Being Sent ua
wi Sle
achers Abroad, 3
mite
=r rol on’
= ond] Shipments of meat Have been going | R.
2 the{ to the allies fer see fime at the rate |
w T0|of 15000 peunds a Minute. As the 3
I 01 | shipments are kept Wp during a ten| 1»
> © of| hour day they amount to 9,000,000 | yu
* ban | pounds sally, Pas meat goes to #0) | 0
te. the | dlers of the States and the al-|
sd as | lien gh lan pepulation of | $20
“wget | all the at war with Ger | the
many. | clas
EU nt. suite So bn ans
~Chicege Tribune, Jume 5, 1918
These statements
were made by a prom-
inent representative of
the United States Food
Administration.
No industry in the
country has played a
more important part in
helping to win the war
than the American live-
stock and meat-packing
industry.
Swift & Company
alone has been forward-
ing over 500 car loads of
meat and meat products
per week for overseas
/ shipment.
Swift & Company, U.S. A.
i
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Sales Agent For
Ford Cars
{Two good second-Hand Ford touring cars can be seen
at the Garage.
Rapho ahd Penn Townships
Gagage and Salesrcom
‘anheim, Pa.
Help Yourseli”
and ft efp
Your’ Nation
YOU CAN INCREASE THE
VALUE @f YOUR CORN CROP,
FEED MORE CATTLE AND PRO-
DUCE MILK AT LOWEST COST
waTH AN
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L0
ON ACCOUNT OF THE GREAT DIFFICULTY IN SECURING
~ RAW MATERIALS E EARLY BUYER IS APT TO BE THE LUCKY
, S. POTTER
MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
! soldier’s
MOUN
WEEKLY WAR
NEWS DIGEST,
|
| —
STORIES OF ACTIVITIES AND
CONDITIONS THRUOUT THE
{
T JOY BULLETIN,
| Mothers and fathers will suffer if
they do not hear often from sons
fighting in France. In the present
large companies it is not possible for
officers to write letters for their men
and every man must do it for him-
self.”
Government Powder Plants Planned
in January Now in Operation
U. S. AND ON THE BAT- Operation has begun in two Gov-
| TLE FRONTS |ernme nt powder plants two months
{ ahead of schedule. When the task
Army Store in France Sells Goods to of building the plants was considered
Soldiers Below Retail Prices by the War Department in January
Prices quoted for June on mer-|1t was predicted that the production
chandise in the huge general stores | Of powder might begin in August,
nerated bv the rtermaster Corps | barring unforeseen delays.
in Pr een] bie ha eT Bs the The $120,000,000 allotted for the
Exneditionarv Forces may secure | Plants is expected to give the Govern-
| co0d t ny lower than retail! ment a smokeless powder production
brices in effect in this country. capacity equal to all other American
June quotations are: Half-pound filants combined. In construction of
package chocolate, 11 cents; can of the plants it was found necessary to
| cherries, 24 cents; can of cocoa, 14 build a‘new town on each site to
| cents: pocket combs, 6 cents; can of house the employees, and approxi-
corn. 10 cents: shaving brushes, 15 [mately 9,000 different buildings were
| cents: tooth brushes, 12 cents; can |erected. Streets were put down and
| stringless beans, 10 cents; bottle sewered, power plants constructed,
| ginger ale, 9 cents; can plum pudding and stores and hospitals built. Ap-
32 cents; standard $5 safety razors, proximately 35,000 men worked on
| $1.75; pair Jo laces, 3 cents; can |construction and about 30,000 will
| taleum powder, 5 cents; pound cut- | eventually be engaged in the actual
| loaf sugar, 10 cents; spool ®otton production of powder.
| thread, 4 cents; 2-ounce package New “Over-seas Cap” Added to
| smoking tobacco, 7 cents; hand soap,| Equipment of American Troops
[1 cent; can lobsters 25 cents; shav- The ‘“‘over-seas cap’”’ now being is-
ing soap, 4 cents; bottle Worcesshire | sued to soldiers in the Expeditionary
sauce, 20 cents; “linen handkerchiefs, | Forces matches the uniform in color,
[ 16 cents; pint bottle olives, 23 cents; has a very low crown, and has no
| can green peas, 10 cents; shoe polish, [brim or peak. It is so made that it
| ¥ cents. . may be folded and carried in a pocket.
| Although the men are issued ample | When American forces entered the
rations, the quartermaster stores are trenches it was found that the brims
opened to the enlisted: men for the of their campaign hats interfered
| purpose of permitting them to add|with sighting through trench peris-
[ to their menu or to satisfy individual {copes and that in the cases of tall
s for dainties or delicacies. The [men the high crowns could be seen
Ih st grade of merchandise only is|above the parapets. The new cap is
in stock so that the men may
|so low that it permits the men to
sure of having the best, whether| move with practically the same free-
or extra supplies. |dom as when they are hatless. The
groceries, fish, vegetables, | trench helmet can be worn over it.
toilet articles, smokers’| (nly soldiers who have been with
and scores of miscellaneous | the Expeditionary Forces wear the
e included in the published | cap. According to reports from
*e ts. These lists are made |France new regulations provide that
lable to each company and pur-| {officers shall wear their insignia of
{ chases may made either for cash |rank on the cap, and enlisted men
or on credit. : | place on it the button prescribed to
Among the staples to be found in|phe worn on the left side of the col-
{ these chain stores are: Fresh beef, |Jar of the service coat.
: turkey, potatoes, rice,| The three new national forests re-
peans, ons, coffee, tea,|cently established in the East in-
cheese, cocoa, butter, and | clude approximately 658,000 acres.
ted fruits. The canned fruits There are about 5,000 Germans in-
etables include: Apples, |terned in the United States.
apricots, pears, cherries,| In one Army camp there are 55
pineapples, prunes, asparsz | battalion baseball teams, beside the
't corn, tomatoes, mus | headquarters, staff, brigade and di-
rooms, sweet potatoes, spinach, vision teams.
squash, turnips, and beans. Included Standard safety razors are now be-
in the list of canned meats and fish|ing issued to men in the expedition-
| Lobsters, oysters, salmon, | ary forces. In addition each man is
{ od lines, shrimps, | issued a toothbrush, comb, hairbrush,
he , deviled crabs, sausages,|soap and towels.
| t 1g turkey, deviled ham, corned| More than 700,000 tons of cereal
{ beef, corned beef hash, roast beef |foogdstuffs were shipped to the allies
| and mincemeat. from North America during May, ac-
{ For the with a sweet tooth|cording to the Food Administration.
| there are: jellies, preserves, April shipments were more than 800,-
raisins, apple butter, maple sirup,|(000 tons.
molassas, cranberry sauce, citron, More than 69,000 masters, officers
nuts, candy, ete. The smoker may|and seamen on American merchant
purchase smoking and chewing to-|vessels traversing the war zones have
bacco, cigars, cigarettes, pipes, ciga-|been insured by the United States
rette papers and matches. The in-|Government. This insurance totals
cidental needs of all the men are{more than $115,000,000. Claims un-
supplied with sors, combs, brushes! der the insurance are so far a little
for all purposes, buttons, soap, shav-| more than $180,000.
Ing stick shaving mugs, mirrors, The new collar insignia for the
razor stra shoe polish, shoe laces,| Army Air Service consists of a pair
toilet water, talcum powder, tooth|of horizontal bronze wings, with a
powaer, 1-hazel, towels, hand- | silver two-bladed propeller placed
kerchiefs, , pock tknives, needles, | vertically on them. It is worn by
thread, candles and playing cards. [officers and enlisted men of the De-
Oddly Shaped Feet Now Get Fitted
in Army Shoes
| Two out of every 1,000 men in the
Army have to have their shoes made
to order. In several camps entire]
regiments have had their feet]
1 hundreds of drawings
made of odd shapes and sizes.
present time the Army uses |
2,000,000 and 3,000,000]!
shoes a month.
brought out in tests seem to |
hat men in the present Army
than those serving in pre-
Not only is this shown
by the er sizes of shoes called
for, but by the larger sizes of outer
clothing hat is being required.
the Quartermaster Corps
: size larger, on the,
being demanded in |
and yreeches than |
been used.
Tests for Awarding Medal of Honor
Named by Gen. Pershing
2 are applied to cases re-
for the medal of
issued
Pershing:
formed in action
inguished personal
If-sacrifice above anc
of duty;
to instructions
by
pe
Gen.
ficers
» have
to distinguish them for
intrepidity above their
i ‘hich involve risk of life
| formance of more than or-|
hazardous service, the omis-
which would not justly sub-
person to censure for short-
ure in the performance
le hed service cross is
iraed itry In action to
guish himself
heroism
opera-
ned ene
ich not
do
n edal
Emergency
Soldiers
The total
Building to Provide for
Costs $1, 170, 619,000
fe wr nal Army
cost Nat
by the «
=e
S f tl Arm
1 or is under
d rospect up to June 1,
| $1,170,619,000. This total
ji SA f three ions cost-
| ir $106.,000.000, u Tr the direct
i control of the Ordnance Department
| Up to June 1 the cons 1 di-
| vision had completed 53 jobs. at a
| total cost of "$202, 250,000. It has
| 244 operations under way, which
{ when fi 1 cost about $270,-
¥ Preparations are being
: work on 117 new aper-
are expected to cost
Ss
700,000,000.
General Pershing Insists that Letters
be Written Home
ing everything in one’s power to help
win the war,” says an order issued
by Gen. Pershing, a copy of which |
has been received by the War Depart-
ment.
“To write home frequently and
regularly to keep in constant touch
with family and friends is one of the
most important duties.
honor, |
as a |
$0 conspicu- |
“Duty to one’s country does not!
end on the parade ground, nor even
on the battle field, but consists in do-
partment of Military Aeronautics and
the Bureau of Aircraft Production.
The hat cord for enlisted men will be
green and black.
The military postal express service
established for the Expeditionary
| Forces has charge of the collection,
dispatch, and delivery of all mail
emanating from and destined for the
American forces in France. It also
will receive, dispatch and deliver the
ig arising, or arriving in France
for the American forces, and will de-
liver express bound for the United
States to the proper express com-
pany.
Applicants for commissions as first
lieutenants in the Engineer Corps,
according to a statement by the War
Department, should be between 32
and years of age and for com-
missions as pins between 36 and
The Engineer Corps is conduct-
+ a campaign for 2,000 more com-
missioned officers, the examining
board making a tour of the principal
| cities of the country to make examin-
ation readily ‘available for applicants.
Construction of additions and im-
provements to the hospital establish-
ment of the Army in this country
| during the past six months has been
| undertaken by the Construction Di-
vision of the Army at, an estimated
cost of $25,173,417. The new
buildings consist of hutnitaie. con-
valescent barracks, infirmarie and
nurses’ quarters. The figure repre-
sents work finished and in the course
of completion, both within and out-
side the camps and cantonments.
Thousands of women are employed
the United Stat gas-mask plant.
They are acting as inspectors and are
engaged throughout the entire pro-
cess of manufacture, according to a
tatement from the Gas Defense Ser-
ce. Hundreds of girls have been
trained in the special art of sewing
the face piec Each separate
the nbling of the mask is
done by women workers,. until the
ask is completed, the last inspection
» and the final product is ready
nent overseas E
the
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in
step
assel
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More viola-
vern-
for
ordered
ve been
absta
than
business rather
MOUNT JOY, PA.
\
SCHRECKLICHKEIT
The Tale of a Mad German Bull on
an Irish Farm
Quarryville’s boss story
George W. Hensel,
teller,
who runs a coun-
|
o
Cel
try store and a farm, and helps to
run one section of the Democratic
party and is quite capable too of|
managing the other (and perhaps a
couple of othér parties at the sam
time), says that Joe Roop, who
farms along the Octoraro, is th
owner of a bull with a bad disposi
tion, as a result of which the animal
was imprisoned during the winter at |
separate and solitary confinement,
and made his debut this spring with
a big copper ring in his nose. As
rule the decoration sweetens the dis-
position and softens the temper of a
con-
evi-
bull, but this particular one
tinued to exhibit deep-seated
dence of Hunlike treachery.
Dogs gave him a wide berth
ing definaces, and women and
dren on the farm relied
wire fences to keep him in the
zone, and the men
him used forks
watch on movements he made.
person and every animal
the time came
restrain him from roaming
barn yard, and access to the
were
ducks
goslings
‘swimming,
like specialists,
big families,
lessons in
quacking
were
a fondness for chicken were indif-
ferent to the presence of his bull-
ship.
In due season Mrs. Roop was com-
pelled to erect the season’s scare-
crow to protect her varied flocks.
Scarecrows are generally fashioned
after the masculine, but with a sur-
plus of ladies’ apparel, and in short-
er time than Eve wag created, a
woman of mature years appeared in
her head-
nor
trailing
on
ladies be-
and 19
gorgeous
ver-
a
panic among the cows, and the hawks
were not willing to take a chance on
being swept to death with the broom
the meadows;
gear was not of recent vintage,
was her hat on plumb, her
skirts were not of the style worn
North Queen by young
tween the hours of 9 M.
years, but her dress was
and as brilliant as Jacob’s coat,
million preominating; it caused
the midst of
she carried in her arms.
In the building of the scarecrow
the bull had not been consulted nor
even considered.
had been made to placate or infuriat
him, but after a
minute observation
woman, her dress and
fying him, he began
toward Kirkwood,
toward the
of the strang
audacity
to back
ground until
German submarin
was lower than a e
captain’s. He pawed the earth with
his right foot to throw dirt in the
direction of the Union and with his
left he shelled Bartville, and then
with Hindenburg’s savagery he
charged upon the defenseless lady to
hurl her high in the air. At the
height of sixteen feet she lost two
petticoats, and ten feet higher her
left limb, she Ianded on her face
with every rib mispl:
a total loss.
The bull returned to her
form and bellowed o’er
as the crown prince of
does every time his old man
iron crosses on murderers
prostrat
lema of the bull, and the dignified
gander hissed at his victory. An-
other link will be put in his nose to
concentrate his mind on more pleas- |
ing things, and if he remains
grouchy the third link will be added, |
to make him an odd fellow among
bulls, and humiliate him in his ty-
ranny.
A suggestion that the
ed to the Allies for use
has been turned down
feared that he would
der to fight on the side
type, the Kaiser—
bull be loan-
as a tank
because it
desert in or
of his proto
h, |
neighboring bulls ignored his bellow-
chil-
on barbed
safety
in dealing with
occasionally to en-
force discipline the while they kept
Every
about the
place was suspicious of him, and then!
when crops were to
be put in and chickens brought out.
The fences were made substantial to
in the
gloaming, and he had to be content
with the general supervision of the
mea-
dows, where old hens were mothering |
taking
were
gobblers
muckraking, while crows with |
propensities to steal and hawks with
No deliberate effort
©
careful survey, and
e
in de-
slowly
dropping his*head
his mind
2ced and her hat
e
his victory
Germany
confers
and
ravishers, while the whole Roop fam-
ily hugely enjoyed the ludicrious di-
y
K
is
Lancaster Inquirer.
RAGE
3%
ES i:
OF.
hey cannot MM. we
I » 7 zreans
: Lire to them
Tnited Suates Food Administration
lown more drastic pe
result of the studies
sthods have been de d
vl more than 80 per c
the wounded, who original
nained at the military Fait
months, are now cured and r od |
to the forces in three or ili weeks. |
In order that Army surgeons |
tioned at camps, cantonments and |
other military hospitals in this coun-
try may thoroughly understand the
latest treatment of war wounds, the
Army Medical! Department has had
established special classes of instruec-
i tion to which are sent selected of-
ficers who, upon completion of their
courses, return to their own hospitals
i and instruct other surgeons in these
| methods.
| erat ——
| Change at Elizabethtown College
{ Prof. D. C. Reber, president of
Elizabethtown College for the past
| sixteen years, resigned his position to
accept a principalship in the college
at North Manchester, Ind., and left
| this week with his family to enter
{upon his new duties. The vacancy
| will be filled by Prof. H. K. Ober.
Plump and Pleasing
mnness.
br
you 1at you yearn
ily be overcome
ow that some #hin people are
it ofity of the under-
xly, nervous, de-
i y. Nthing ; ever was so ea
CERTONE TABLETS will work wondroug
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the paddéd clothes that so unsuccess”
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acteristic §f the thin and scraggy frame.
You can then
lows |
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For CERTON will abolish that which went |
”
to make up yogr “‘uglificatioa.” Watch your-
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Watch that sdllow scragginess vanish. Watch
your face tgke on it's natural lines again.
When CERTONE waves the magic wand of
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Ing wf: blood and vitality—of strength-
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and pounds of health, beauty, and self-satig-
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~quit being a bean-pole. Treat yourself to
—CERTONE. It is pleasant and easy to take.
TRIAL BOX 50c, REGULAR SIZE $1.00
You can get CERTONE at any drug stor
we will send it direct on receipt of price *
CERTONE COMPANY, Inc.
902 World Bullding New York
nutrients extracted from certain high |
STN SED SCHOCK
MOUNT JOY, PA.
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Having re-rented the yards I now occupy, I will soon 'be ready
to serve you with
Good Clean” Cal
At Right F Prices
Don’t get your next Winter's supply until you see me.
#
Albert StricKler
MOUNT JOY, PA.
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and then Double Lock Stitch them around thg/side walls. Afterward
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WE REBUILD TRACTORS FOR FARM USE OUT OF YOUR
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WHEN WE, FURNISH THE MACHINE FOR THE TRACTOR
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THE WINGER & FAS WF STORE
Straw” Hats
CAPS & GLOVES
We are, the,facknowledged headquarters for Straw Hats.
have all kinds At all prices.
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