DUNT JOY. LANCASTER CO., PA.
By Charles Sughroe
© Western Newspaper Union
Truth Is Funnier Than
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WEDNESDAY, JU 22nd, 1925
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Zz 8 THE
Wingert]{& Haas
Hat Store
Largest Rine of
SUMMER
HATS
Caps and Gloves
In thd City
PLAIN HATS SPECIALTY
JNO. A.
144 N. Queen
AAS, Propr.
Lancaster, Pa.
THE FLORIN
dA The SAR poe
\ FEAT FOLKS
THEY USED TO USE
ALL THOSE ASH BOXES
x AND NOW _ WE NEED
BUT ONE
for you the ash man
He will
that you have these hagpy youngsters inside
the few ash boxes he finds Youtside. The Heat
Folks are a frugal lot. They see¥that you have got
every ounce of heat before the ash is given a
si a ok
permit to pass the grate. You willkhave ash boxes
I
HEN the Heat Folks York
need not stop long ath your house.
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pv
to spare when you
Call the
For Good, Clean Coal \
Daniel M. Wolgemuth,
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FLORIN, PENNA.
Phone 151R4 Mt. Joy Exchange
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NEW IDEAS IN HOME
COMFORT FOR SUMMER
Summemis the one time of the year when home enjoyment
depends upomthe furnishings. Here are new ideas for making
your home mole comfortable for the warm days.
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NEATLY DESIGNED
FOR EVERY ROOM IN
DRAPES T
Fix up the
the warm weat
taste better,
will be tempted b
nishings.
Food will
appetites
new fur-
Especially interesting will
be found this showing of new
summer-weight drapes.
H. C. BRUNNER
MOUNT JOY, PENNA,
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West Main Street,
| TEN YEARS MAY FIND
FAMOUS MANGOSTEEN
ON OUR MARKETS
in the future,
1935 and 1940,
steen, the most famous
world, may make its
appearance upon
the United States,
Department of Agriculture, For
many vears it was thought
“fruit could not be cultivated
i Tropics, but
West Indies
i without
time
elween
At some
probably
the mang
fruit in the
first commercial
the markets of
this
the
tly
cultiv
and
the te
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orange,
with a
sev-
pulp
Bes
and the
the fruit
oria once
rd to the
eded in placing
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ward was never won,
With the advent refrigeration
1e possible to send the
the Tropi i
difficulty. It sea
American marl
southern
development
in tropical
slow process,
being undertak-
en with energ; ms likely
that another decade will see the
first shipments of mangosteens
reaching New York.
EXPLORATION OF UPPER AIR
"“% SHOWN IN MOTION PICTURES
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it has bec
v that
upplied
however.
commerce
America
but the
from
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orchards
be
ial
will
pro
Twe new motion picturese just
release by the United States De-
Agriculture show the
| upper-air work being
conducted bw.the Weather Bureau,
| and one of them gives incidentally
a review of impertant American
| aeronautical activities.
The first film, “Exploring the
upper air,” deals in a popular man-
{ ner with the scientific side of up-
| per-air observation work. It de-
picts flights by Weather Bureau
meteorologists in airplanes, diri-
gible balloons, and free balloons
in the study of upper-air conditions
| for weather forecasting, An air-
| plane flight above the clouds, a
dirigible journey in the neighbor-
| hgod of St. Louis, the beginning
{ and the end of a free balloon flight,
the making of “dust counts” high
| above the earth’s surface are a-
mong the striking scenes.
| Three days after the scenes were
| photographed, Lieut. James T.
Neely, of the Army Air Service,
| and Dr. C. Leroy Meisinger, of the
| Weather Bureau, who appear in
| the scenes, left Scott Field, Ill, in
| a large balloon for a long flight,
| during which the balloon was des-
troyed, apparently by a static dis-
charge, and both men were killed.
The second film, “Watching the
weather above,” shows the daily
| work of making upper-air observa-
| tons at numerous stations by means
| of large kites and “pilot” balloons,
| the assembling of the information
| at forecast centers, and the dis-
| tribution of “flying weather” fore-
| casts from these centers. But
| first the film shows the need for
the forerasts by means of a succes-
CLARENCE SCHOCK
MOUNT JOY, PA.
WE
ASK
GL Th 3
LUMBER -COAL
Penn Lime, Stone and
Rheems, Penna.
{ sion of pictures which constitute a
| fairly complete review of Ameri-
can aeronautics. It depicts flights
by Army airplanes and dirigible
balloons, Navy seaplanes, the great
Navy dirigibles Shenandoah and
Los Angeles, the progress of the
| air-mail planes from New York to
| San Francisco, the detection of
| forest fires by airplanes, and the
| “dusting” of cotton and other
| crops as protection against insects.
| The film closes with the statement:
“ ‘Fifty years from now we'll all
| be flying,” is a frequent prophecy.
| If so, the Weather Bureau, through
| its present preparations, will be
| ready to help make the air safe
| for you.”
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| 415,030 Dogs Licensed
Over 415,000 individual dogs’
| licenses were issued up to June 1
| by the Bureau of Animal Industry,
| State Department of Agriculture,
to the latest report. This
| ntapber is approximately 10,000
| morésthan were issued the same
| period in 1924,
{ The counties in which over 10,-
{ 000 individual licenses had been is-
{sued up to June 1, 1925, are Al-
t legheny, 27.981; Berks, 12,210;
Cambria, 10,728; Chester, 12.298:
Delaware, 11,694; Fayette, 12 981;
| Lancaster, 10,175: Luzerne, 17.991:
{| Montgomery, 12,186; Schuvlkill
13,996; Washington, 13,971: West.
moreland, 18,262; and York, 10,-
933.
—_—
A new enesthetic, a substitute for
| cocaine, has been discovered by an
| experimenter working on products
| to be manufactured into artificial
| rubber. It is non-poisonous in prac-
joe use,
|
|
that |
| in
will
FERNS SUFFER FROM INSECTS
AND IMPROPER WATERING
Potted ferns do not seem to be
always well treated in their en-
vironment, of radiators and electric
fans, judging from the numerous
requests for information concerning
them received by the United States
Department of Agriculture. In
answer to inquiries, the department
says that improper watering is the
fundation of most fern difficulties,
especially such liberal watering as
that which keeps the plant soaked,
or such lack of water as permits
the soil in the pot to become dry
and hard. Fumes of burning gas,
whether from a gas range or gas
are extremely injurious.
CHANGES IN FRENCH
FARMING NOT REALLY
CAUSED BY WAR
Although French agriculture un-
der pressure of foreign competition
has materially shifted its produc-
tion from wheat and other cash
field crops to live-stock and ani-
mal products in the last 40 years,
it has not ‘thereby found relief
from th& effect on prices of in-
creased farm production in the
Western and Southern Hemispheres,
Frozen pork from the United States
frozen beef from Argentina, and
frozen mutton from Australia are
depressing French prices of these
meats to-day, just as shipments of
wheat and oats from this continent
jets,
Great care should be taken not
to overwater the fern when it i
is necessarily very poor. The time
of year should be considered, too.
In ‘the spring and summer
require three times the
necessary in autumn and
They should always be
water
winter.
sojl moist at all times.
It is well, also occasionally to
put them in the
them with weak soap suds
from a good grade of soap. The
soap must be thoroughly rinsed off
immediately. Great care ‘must be
exercised not to injure the fronds,
as they are very tender. Mealy
bug, a white wooly insect
works close to the bottom of the
fronds, one of the worst ene-
mies of house ferns. If found, the
plant should be examined every day
and all insects removed by a splint
or toothpick. If badly infested, all
the top of the fern should be cut
off within an inch of the ground
and then thoroughly treated each
day until all insects are
ated, when a new top can be
grown. Red spider is a minute
sucking insect that thrives in a dry
atmosphere. It can be kept in
check by washing or by spraying
the top with clear water. The
is
aphis or green fly is also eradicated |
by washing.
Apply once in two to four weeks
a dilute solution of nitrate of
soda—one teaspoonful to a quart
of water, very dilute amonia water
—two teaspoonfuls of household
ammonia to a quart of water, or
manure leachings as fertilizers.
Eee.
ROAD IMPROVEMENT PAID
FOR IN SHORTER TIME
The improvement of the import-
ant roads of the country pays for
itself in a remarkably short time,
according to the Bureau of Public
Roads of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. Data cocllect-
ed in a survey of highway trans-
portation in Maine indicate that
on the basis of present traffic the
300 miles of most heavily travel-
ed road in the State could be im-
proved from an earth-road condi-
tion to a high-type pavement at a
cost, with interest at 4 per cent,
which could be repaid by the sav-
ings in operating costs of passen-
ger cars only in slightly more than
four years.
The actual
en greater
saving would be ev-
than this. Records
show that traffic on the Maine
highways doubled in the period
from 1916 to 1919, that it doubled
again from 1919 to 1923, and a
careful analysis indicates that it
will double again in the period
1924 to 1930. As the traffic in-
creases naturally the savings in
motor-vehicle operation will in-
crease
Rapid increase in highway traf-
fic and large possible savings in
motor-vehicle operation due to the
improvement of important roads is
a condition common to every State.
Thomas H. MacDonald, Chief of
the Bureau of Public Roads, says:
“We pay for improved roads
whether we have them or not, and
We pay less if we have them than
if we do without.”
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72 WERE KILLED DURING
THE PAST FIVE MONTHS
Seventy-two persons
and 230 injured in 429
at grade crossings in Pennsylvania
the first: five months eof this year,
members of the bureau of accidents
Publie Service Commission, an-
nounced todav. This is an in-
crease of 67 in the number of ac-
cidents, 30 in the number killed
and 47 in the number injur-
ed compared with the like period
of 1924.
There were 364 motor cars in-
volved in the accidents and of
their occupants 41 were killed and
197 injured. Five persons in wag-
ons and 26 pedestrians were a-
mong the list,
—— Eee.
TUBERCULIN TESTS
START IN TEN COUNTIES
were killed
accidents
The tuberculin test of cattle on
the area plan started on July 6 in
33 townships of ten different count-
ies. These include Beaver, 2 town-
ships; Blair, 1; Center, 2; Clear-
field, 3; Columbia, 6; Erie, 5; Me-
Kean, 6; Somerset, 1; Tioga, 2;
Union, 4. "Twenty-one veterinar-
ians, 13 in the State employ and 8
Federal, are in the field doing the
work.
In addition to the township area
work, 545 individual herds in all
parts of the State were assigned
on July 1 for test under the indiv-
idual herd plan.
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a jardinere, where the drainage |
ferns |
watered |
ringly—just enough to keep the |
bathtub and wash |
made |
that |
extermin- |
lowered the price of French cer-
{‘eals toward the end of the last
century.
| French agriculture, says
| United States Department of
riculture, has shown a tendency
since the early eighties to decrease
| the areas planted to cercals and
fiber and leguminous plants and to
the areas put down into
| permanent grass for meadows and
| pastures. Fallow lands were aban-
doned up to the time of the war,
and greater attention was paid to
root crops and annual fodder and
fodder plants. Changes in French
agriculture apparently caused by
the war are real'y only a devel-
opment of tendencies long at work.
These tendencies, however, have
been much intensified. Lack of
labor has thrown 50 per cent more
land out of cultivation yearly than
before the war. Total plowed
lands are now about 7 per cent
less than the average for the per-
iod 1909-1913, while permanent
grass lands occupy an area about
6 per cent greater. Although root
and forage crops have an acreage
about 7 per cent less than before
the war, they are recovering more
rapidly than other field crops, the
aggregate area of which is 19 per
cent below the average for the
| years 1909-1913.
It is estimated it will take 30
| years or more for France to make
up her loss of population since 19-
| 13, but there is a drift of popula-
tion to the towns and it is doubt-
| ful whether the country can con-
| tinue supplying her own cereal re-
quirements. Although she is near-
er meeting her requirements of
meat, competition from other count-
ries will have to be reckoned with.
—_——— a
| increase
MAKE CONSIDERABLE MONEY
FROM CANDIED FIGS
Increasing the cash income of
the farm women has been one re-
sult of extension work in many
States. In some sections of the
country home-demonstration agents
have found it essential to suggest
ways in which a woman’s income
could be augmented before improve-
ments in the farm home and its
surroundings could be undertaken
at all; in other districts income-pro-
ducing activities such as gardening,
keeping poultry, cheese-making,
home baking or canning, have grown
out of club wdrk for rural women
who were primarily interested in
improving their own mode of living
and knowledge of home economics.
As an instance of this, the use of
home evaporator, for saving sur-
plus fruit has been widely advoeated
in parts of California by extension
agents. It has been quite gene
to make an amount of dried fruit
sufficient for family use, and the
women have been shown how to
candy some of the fruit so as to
convert it into a very desirable con-
fection. A report recently received
by the United States Department of
Agriculture states that several years
ago one farm woman in this State
had a large surplus of figs for which
no market was available. She began
making candied figs, using her eva-
porator to finish the product. Having
much more of this confection than
the family eould use, she tried sell-
ing it at the prevailing price for
candied fruits, a doliar a pound,
and disposed of 60 pounds. In 1922
she made and sold $600 worth; in
1923, $2,000 worth, and in 1924 her
income from the candied figs, still
bringing the same price per pound,
was $6,000.
eet eee
FIRST STATE FARM
ORGANIZATION DIRECTORY
The first list of county and state
agricultural and allied organiza-
tions to be issued by the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Agriculture is
now available as bulletin No. 400.
This list is the most complete one
of its kind ever published in the
State.
The name and
president and secretary of over
350 county-wide organizations are
carried. In additon, the name and
address of the president and see-
retary of twenty-nine state wide
agricultural organizations and six-
teen closely related associations are
incorporated.
Statistics showing that over two
million people attended county fairs
and exhibitions in 1924 and almost
$273,000 was paid as premium to
exhibitors by the fa‘r associations
are another feature of the bulletin.
The place and date of each fair to
be held this season is likewise in-
cluded.
Bulletin No. 400 is being given
free distribution to all ~ interested
parties.
ee.
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ONE DAY EXCURSION
ATLANTIC CITY
WEDNESDYY, JULY 29
SPECIAL TRAIN via DECAWARE RIVER BRIDGE
ALL-RAIL ROUTE TO {JE SEASHORE
Eastern
dard Time
A. M.
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Excursion
Fare
$3.85
$3.75
3.18
3.75
Sta
7.0
Mount Joy. .... i... 7.0
Landisville 7.14
Lancaster . .....:..: ir 7.35 A.
Atlantic City. . ionic Arrive 10.25 A.
Returning, leave Atlantic City (S. Carolina Ave.) 6%
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