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144 N. Queen Lancaster, Pa.
BRITISH TELEPHONE OFFICIALS
AT BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S GRAVE |
Two executives of the General Post Office, London, are shown with Leonaid
Ormerod (hat in hand), an official of the Bell Telephone Company of Penn-
sylvania at the simple tomb of America’s first Postmaster General during their
recent visit to Philadelphia to study American telephone methods.
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{in this way will sometimes develop
mold or heat in transit even at
freezing temperatures.
U. S. Department
of Agriculture
VERY USEFUL INFORMATION
THAT SHOULD BE READ BY
EVERY RURAL RESIDENT
A good poison wash for young
trees, which will quickly kill any
rabbits attacking them, can be
made of starch, glycerin, and |
strychnine, according to the Bio- |
logical Survey of the U. S. Depart- |
or ment of Agriculture. Dissolve 1
v3 Dept. ot on the | of strychnine (silane) #3
rein or mn we x .. | 3 quarts of boiling water. an is- |
farm. Such places breed parasits | 4 1-2 pound of laundry starch |
injurious to livestock. in 1 pint of cold water. Stir the
starch solution into the strychnine |
liquid and boil the mixture until
clear. Then add 6 ounces of gly-|
cerin and stir thoroughly. Let the
mixture cool before applying it to
the trees. Use a paint brush. |
Rabbits can be cooked in any of
the ways chicken is cooked—fried,
baked, en casserole, or fricasseed.
Have them often while the season
lasts.
Jerusalem artichokes are plenti-
ful in wintertime. They may be
scraped, and cooked in the casser-
ole with butter and other season-
ings, or used raw, in very thin slic-
es, in salad or as a side dish, such
as celery is used.
Here’s a recipe for an easily!
made potato soup, from Bureau of
Home Economics, U. S. Department
of Agriculture: Cook 2 cups of
raw diced potato in one quart of
boiling water until soft. Drain off
the water and save it. Rice the po-
tato. Heat 2 cups of milk in a
It is often more economical for | double boiler with 1-2 an onion,
the dairyman with only a few|sliced. Meantime cook 2 table-
cows to use root crops as a winter | spoons finely chopped parsley in 4
succulent feed, than it is to use | tablespoons of butter, add 2 table-
silage, since the capital investment | spoons of flour, and stir until well
for silage is larger than for root|blended. Pour in 2 cups of the wa-
Crops. | ter that was drained from the po-
ER tatoes, add the riced potatoes, stir
Raise either chickens or turkeys, | until smooth and cook for 2 or 3
but not both unless they are minutes. Mix with the hot milk. |
well separated. Chickens and | Season. Remove the onion before |
turkeys are a bad mixture, as tur-| serving. |
keys convey gapeworms to chiek- | —
ens, and chickens give blackhead to| The most effective means of re-.
turkeys. ducing disease infestation of musk- |
oe | melons, or cantaloupes, is crop
1523-F, “Lea-| rotation, and the best rotation is
give you some one in which the melon or other
caring for | related vine crop is not planted
shoes, especially in the rainy and | oftener than once in 5 or 6 years.
snowy weather. Several formulas Land that has been in alfalfa or
are included for waterproofing the | clover, or in a pasture for a period
shoes. | of years, is most likely to be free
| from muskmelon-disease organ-
Methods of controlling the corn|isms. Muskmelons should not as a
earworm, the most generally de-| rule follow corn or any crop that
Farmers’ Bulletin
ther Shoes,” will
good suggestions on
The smallest autonomous state in Europe—a typical street scene is shown
sbove—recently was connected with the United States by the trans-Atlantic
radio telephone, as were Vienna, Capital of Austria; Budapest, Capital of
Hungary, and Prague, Capital of Czecho-Slovakia. More than 26,000,000 of
the world’s telephones are now inter-connected.
BUY A HOUSE-PAY AS RENT
Instead of throwing rent money away, as that is practically
what the renter does as he never has anything to show for
money spent, let it apply on the purchase price of a home.
I Have a 6-ROOM HOUSE AT FLORIN
ALL MODERN CONVENIENCES
WILL SELL AT ACTUAL COST
Will accept very small down payment and balance in month-
4
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If interested, call or phone
structive of all insect enemies of | draws heavily on nitrogenous plant-
corn, are crop rotation, fertiliza-|food in the soil. In the western
tion, the use of legumes, and other | sections the best yields can be ob-
measures which increase the pro- tained on old alfalfa land. In the
ductiveness of the land. To plant! eastern sections clover or
corn on poor land is to invite se-|sod or land where annual legumes |
vere earworm injury. { grown as cover crops have been |
| turned under is best. In market-
Have spare ribs and sauer kraut garden districts muskmelons can be
for a change. Select 2 well-padded | grown on land that has previously
ribs. Wash and cut the minto piec-| been in potatoes or sweet potatoes
es suitable for serving. Cook for | followed by a cover crop.
about an hour with 1 quart of |
sauer kraut in sufficient water to! U. S.
cover. When tender drain off the |
liquid and serve.
Dept. of Agriculture
{ The time to control the San Jose |
| scale in apple orchards is during |
| the dormant season, advises the U. |
The ideas that a venomous snake I'S. Department of Agriculture.
can strike its full length or more, | Summer sprays must of course be
and that it can not strike except! much weaker than dormant sprays |
from a coiled position, are POpPU- | in order to avoid injury to the fol- |
lar but erroneous beliefs, biologists | jage and fruit, and thus they only
of the U. S. Department of Agri- | partially check the scale insects.
culture state. Most of our poisonous | Thorough spraying in the dormant
snakes, when irritated, can strike | season with a two per cent or
from any position, and the great- | three per cent lubricating oil emul-
est length of stroke is about three-! sion should clean up bad infesta-
fourths their own length. | tions. If the trees are incrusted
| with the scale it is advisable to
make two applications, the first in
the fall as soon as the leaves have
dropped, and the second in the
spring before the buds swell to
advised by any extent. Soft water should be
U. S. Department of Agriculture | used in the spray if possible, but
poultry specialists, particularly in |if hard water must be employed a
the Corn Belt, where the tendency | weak Bordeaux mixture at the rate
is to keep poultry too long for of 1-4 1-4 50 should be added to
good egg production. All pullets | the spray to prevent breaking
should be marked in the fall and a {down of the emulsion. The spray-
record kept of their age. er should be cleaned with a caus-
4 tic soda solution before using an
Boiling water or hot cloths are|oil emulsion. To kill the scale the
effective treatments for frozen wo-|trees must be completely coated
ter pipes. Always thaw pipes to- | with the spray, and days should be
ward the supply, opening a faucet | selected when the wind will not in-
Many hens in farm flocks are
like women—no one knows their
age. Often they are kept in the
flock long after they are profitable.
Culling of old hens is
Jno. E. Schroll
MOUNT JOY, PA.
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HARRY LEEDOM
Telephone SR5 MOUNT JOY, PENNA.
Prices very |
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| rive at the market in good
to show when the flow starts, ad- | terfere with the work. The hose
vises the U. S. Department of Ag- should be of sufficient length so
riculture. Never thaw the middle | that the spraying of a given tree
of a frozen pipe first, because ex-.|may be accomplished thoroughly
pansion of the water confined by | before leaving. Care should be
ice on both sides may burst the | taken not to conduct spraying op-
pipe. erations when the temperature is
. so low that the spray will fre
Turkey feathers, when properly | the trees, and he A a
prepared, are quite valuable and |Spray materials should be kept
command good prices—a good rea- | Where they will not freeze
son for saving them. These feath- | ———
ers are marketed principally in the |
East, says the U. S. Department of |
Agriculture, the quill feathers be- |
ing used |
oe pn Rear user and | ep was the first American to benefit
: eds and| py the copyright laws. In 1783 Web
pillows. Dry pluck the turkeys and y COpyRghl [aws. In 1/53: Web
thoroughly drv i ais News ster published “A Grammatical Insti
ers ug SAT air the feath-| ute of the English Language.” He
is Dati. Tum them of-| described it as “an elementary book
Tl TY 8 and separate the | for facilitating the acquisition of our
q athers from the others, vernacular tongue, and for correcting
a vicious pronunciation which pre-
valled among the common people.’
The first part was known as “Web
ster’s Spelling Book.” It is still in
print and has sold over 60,000,000
copies. Shortly after the publication
of this book Webster made a tour of
the southern states in the interests of
a copyright law. The federal copy-
right law was passed In 1790. [It was
especially appropriate that the first
author to take advantage of this law
should have been ore who labored to
promote it.—Mentor Magazine.
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Promoted Copyright Law
Noah Webster, the dictionary mak
Avoid snowy or rainy days for
hauling and loading alfalfa hay, if
you would, you would have it ar- |
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tion, says the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. Even hay that has
been properly cured and sweated
is likely, if it becomes wet from
Snow or rain while being hauled
and loaded for shipment, to arrive
at the market in poor condition
and with a resulting lower sale
value. Hay that has become wet
' construction of
I quarters.
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alfalfa | ;
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Industrial Notes
Washingtonville—A new Com-
munity Hall dedicated here.
Honesdale—Bell Telephone Co. is
laying lines underground on
Church and Park streets.
DuBois—Montgomery Ward &
Co. will locate new store here in
near future.
Pittsburgh — Construction start-
ed on new $175,000 Waverly Pres-
byterian Church.
Columbia — $3,000,000 publicly
owned bridge planned to span Sus-
quehanna River from here to
Wrightsville.
Catasauqua—New building for |
St. Mary’s Catholic Church was
dedicated Dee. 16.
Charleroi — Southern Furniture
Co. opens new building at Sixth
Street and Fallowfield Avenue. |
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Sellersville—Site selected for the
consolidated Sell-!
ersville and Perkasie School.
Catasauqua-—Several
streets im-!
proved here. [ i?
Northampton—The Lehigh Tele- |
phone Co. will construct new tele- |
phone building at 16th street and
Washington Avenue.
Parkasie—Plans completed
improvement of public playgrounds !
Hatfield—New concrete culvert
constructed for Reading Railroad
north of this place.
Kittanning—Plans completed for
new bridge across Allegheny River
here. {
Phoenixville—Pa. General Tran-!
sit Co. seeks permit to operate bus
line between here and Frazer.
Philipsburg-—Associated Gas
Electric Corp. moves into new
for cons.
bridge over Two Mile
Horton Avenue.
Duquesne—North 2nd
property owners petition
to have telephone and light
underground.
Duquesne—New boilers
at Carnegie Steel plant, . i
Philadelphia — $500,000 approx- |
imately will be expended for erec-
tion of warehouse for Stern & Co.
at 6th Street and Glenwood Ave.
St. Mary’s—Construction pro-
gressing on new garage building on
Brussells street. !
Muncy—New highway
from State Highway to
tration building of
Home.
St. Marys—New equipment in-
stalled at Elk County General hos-
pital.
Sheflield—Contract let
struction of
Creek on i
Street
council
wires
installed
opened
Adminis-
Muncy State
Construction work
progressing on new post office bldg
St. Marys—St. Marys-Weedville
road paving project completed.
Middletown—Another new hang-
ar will be built at local airport.
Kittanning—Contract let for
Lock No. 7 at this place. {
; Clarion—Bids opened for build-
mg training school at Clarion
Teachers College.
New Wilmington Construction
work nears completion on new’
Cemetery bridge over Hogback |
Run.
Brookville—New milk plant of
Yiammory Creamery recently open-
ed.
Carbondale—Albert H.
Memorial Armory recently
pleted here at cost of $80,000.
Conshohocken — New chemical
apparatus purchased by George
Clay Fire Co. of West Consho-
hocken.
Marietta—Officials of Susque-
hanna River Road Association re-
cently met here to discuss paving
of River Road from Middletown
to Washingtonboro.
New Wilmington—Fire
reorganized here.
Millersville—Contract let for
erection of new teachers’ training
building’ in connection with the
Teachers’ Training College here.
Lancaster—Low bid of $359,900
received for construction of new
post office which will be erected at
Prince and Chestnut streets.
Lancaster—New $800,000 P:
Railroad station here will be open-
ed about April 1st.
Lancaster—Paving on Lincoln
Highway completed to Mountville,
Littlestown—New concrete steel
over tracks of Pennsylvan-
1a Railroad at Sto pr ane
2 Bare ny Brook opened
Ambridge—Beaver
pletes all highway improvements
for this year and makes prepara-
tions to keep highways in county
open during winter months,
Ambridge — Spang-Chalfant Co.
will erect $400,000 addition to 1lo-
cal Seamless tube plant,
Harrisburg— Stata Highway De-
partment opens bids for nine road
projects throughout state,
Mount Pleasant—New
and Penn Building completed on
Main and Silver streets at cost
between $25,000 and $30,000.
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friendship and the joy we have had in
serving you. To help You prosper is, we
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JOY, PA.
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tent instructor present t®, instruct all who want to
learn to dance.
RECULAR DANCING EVERY FRIDAY EVENING
Music by a Good Orchestra
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