Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1905-06-15

A very close game of Base Ball
was played on Eagles Mere diamond
Saturday, June 10, by the Pennsyl-
vnnia University students and the
FOrksville seconds. 1t took consid-
erable courage to face those mighty
AthletS, bue nevertheless the game
was called at 300 p. m. regardless OF
the consequences. Forksvillc slart-
ed the ball to,rolling aud ran in three
score the first inning, and the L. I.
students one. In the second inning
forksville ran their score up TO five
and the game stood five to one in
favor of Forksville until the sixth
inning when the students tied the
score In the seventh inning Forks.
Vile ran in three more, making
eight to five in favor Of the Forks
vile guys. The game stood this
way until the last half of the eighth
when the large men ran their score
ter her score but could not make it
in the ninth inning, this left the
score eight TO nine in favor of tho
University boys. The game was in.
terestIng throughout, and the Forks
vile boys appreciate the kind treat
mont extended to them by the stu
dents while they We're at Eagles
Mere. Rosback deserves much cred
it for his fine work in pitching for
he ForkSville team.
The advance guard of an immense
swarm of seventeen year IocustS" is
predicted for June.
The territory over which the wing
ed host will spread, says Profess >r
Garman, embraces West Virginia,
Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, AL
ALBANIA, Georgia, Missouri, Illinois,
Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and the
forests of New York. This means
the devastation of fruit trees and
young forests in those states. The
main body will arrive next year.
When the last brood swept over
the country seventeen years ago, the
females deposited their eggs in the
twigs of the fruit and other succulent
trees by piercing the outer bark and
laying eggs in a cavity near the pith
In short time the eggs hatched and
the resulting catcrpillars fell to the
earth. They furrowed into the
ground and lived among the roots on
the sap which they sucked from them
for sixteen years.
Scientists think the lerv;e burrow
into the ground sometimes as deep as
twenty-five feet. They go through
twenty-five or thirty changes and
when ready to immerge, dig their
way up through the earth incased in
transparent shell. Thousands come
up in a single night and early in the
morning are seen cutting their way
through their shell, which is soft and
viii dish. Their tender bodies be
come hard as sOOu as the sun strikes
their wings. They stay in the for =
ests and orchards, where they pierce
the twigs of the peach, plum, apple,
pear and other nursery trees. The
only way to prevent their ravages is
to shake them off and keep the
swarm i'm motion. The English spar
rows eat them with avidity, but their
attack upon swarm of such bugs is
futile.
TO encourage the planting of trees
the Governor signed the bill allow
ing rebate of eighty per cent in
the taxes ON land on which there
shall he planted forests or timber
trees of not less than three hundred
to an acre for period of thirty-five
years, provided the rebate does not
amount to more than forty five cents
an acre. The period of exemption
is counted from the time the lands
have been planted. The act does
not exempt more than five hundred
acres of land owned by any one per
son or corporation.
A number of the scholars of the
public schools at IIughesvile attend
ed every day of the term, including
Dorothy Reeder, who deserves a lot
of credit, as she often during the term
encountered weather conditions that