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The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-24
THE COUNTY
FARM AGENT
How He Works by Arouslng a Com
munlty Spirit to Cooperate In De-
veIoping Production as Well
as Marketing.

National Crop Improvement Service.1
The County Farm Bureau in charge
of the County agent is in reality an
Agricultural Commercial club correlat-
ing all of the different forces in the
county. The county agent represents
the U. S. department of agriculture,
the State Agricultural college, the
Commercial club, the bankers, the
grain exchanges and other national as
sociations.
It is his work to become not only
adviser to the farmers, but to harness
all of the forces in a county to work
together. What he must have is team
work.
One of his first duties Is to learn
the soil conditions, and to put each
land owner into touch with the proper
information to build up his land.
He asks the agricultural college for
aid in short courses, institutes, domes-
tic science, field demonstration, seed
testing, drainage, etc, they sending
him experts to help him on all Of
these subjects. He forms his farmers
clubs in each township, and organizes
his county committees on social life,
shipping and marketing covering all
kinds Of products. alfalfa and other
legumes, dairying, poultry, horticul-
ture, live stock, bees, etc. He visits
all the farmers clubs and oranges,
and gets each local chapter to con-
slider all of these questions in the
work being carried on by the farmers
in the township.
The grain exchanges and other ma
tional associations lend assistance on
corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, hay and
help with the pure seed breeding.
The Commercial club and bankers
join the organization, and act on the
committees on finance, credits, farm
accounts, transportation, land, land
lord and tenant, silos, and permanent
improvements of all kinds.
The marketing committee Is perhaps
the most important to him. 1t en-
ploys an attorney when necessary and
protects the interests of every citi-
zen, whether he belongs to the or
ganization or not, will investigate all
complaints, and putting the weight OF
the entire organization back of it IN
sist that commission men play fair
They also see after the proper pack
ing and traffic matters in connection
with the various clubs on various sub
jects.
He obtains concerted action on
road building, and has a strong com
mittee to see that the county officials
deliver the goods, and that specific
plans are made to improve the roads
mile by mile, and to maintain then
by dragging, or otherwise, according
to conditions. This is one of his mos
important committees.
Through the public schools he takes
up the subjects with various commit
tees on home and social life, libraries
seed testing, and other contests, forms
school and home gardens, boys ant
girls clubs, and as many other thing!
as he can find enthusiasm to under
take.
All of which shows that the count.
agent has something more to do thar
merely go about advising farmer
how to do It,"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-24

n N ORDNANCE AUI1OltlLlNGI AND
"a DIRECTING A SPECIAL ELECTION
~ FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAIN
ING THE ASSENT OF THE ELECTORS
TO AN INCREASE OF THE BOROUGH
INDEBTEDNESS.
Whereas, There exists an appropriation
of $17, 10000 made by the Highway Depart
ment of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania for Wayne county, which appropri
alton is available for paving purposes in
the borough of Honesdale; and
WHEREAS, In order to obtain and Sc
cure this appropriation the said borough
must, "a" Connect the paved street with
an existing State Highway. b." Have
the pavement completed before the first
of June 1914 And WHEREAS The State
Highway engineers have made a survey
and draft of the streets proposed to be
paved, to wit: Main street from the
south side of Fourth street to Weaver's
crossing forty feet in width and from
Weaver's crossing to the north line of the
borough twenty-three feet in width, along
which the Trolley line will run, and from
Weaver's crossing along West Park
street to the west line of the borough six
existing State Highway; and WHEREAS,
the State engineers estimate the cost of
a vitrified brick pavement along the said
streets at siXty-nine thousand dollars,
! and WHEREAS, The paper obligations
of the said borough together with the
present Indebtedness would exceed two
of the said borough; and WHEREAS,
The Wayne County Railway Company
are about to lay their. rails upon Main
street and it is desirable that the said
street should be paved as the rails are
laid; and WHEREAS, Deducting from
the estimated cost, "a" The Appropria-
ton, 'b, The amount to be paid by the
| Railway Company, as per their franchise,
which amount is to be paid direct to the
| pave contractor, would leave a paper in
| crease of indebtedness of not exceeding
| forty thousand dollars, and deducting the
| two-thirds of the remaining cost of the
said pave to be paid by the owners of
| real estate bounded by or abutting there
on, which amount is to be paid direct to
| the borough Treasurer would leave the
actual increased Indebtedness less than
fifteen thousand dollars. THEREFORE:
Sec. First-Be it enacted and ordained
by-t the. Town Council of the borough of
Honesdale in the. county of Wayne and
| Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in coun-
| Gil assembled, and 1t is hereby enacted
and ordained by .. the authority of the
same; That the Town Council desire to
| make an increase of the present in
| debtedness and for that purpose set forth
! the following statement.
"a" That the last assessed valuation
of the said borough is two million one
hundred. and ninety thousand one hun
dred and eighty dollars.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-24
The POSTAGE Stamp Portraits.

Thackeray's noted postage stamp"
picture Of the English royal family
was made by cutting the heads from
postage stamps and mounting them on
pen sketch bodies drawn by the author
with his characteristic humor.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-24
The Hottest Mines.

1t is saI that the hottest mines in
the world are those of the famous
Comstock lode, On the lower levels
the heat Is so great that the men can
not work over ten or fifteen minutes at
a time. Every known means of mitt-
eating the heat has been tried In vain.
Ice melts before 1t reaches the bottom
of the shafts.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-24
SiIsnced.

'Do you know, Clara. we ought not
bo subscribe to the opera any more.
We bind ourselves, and afterward we
have to hear the same things over and
over again"
"As If that We're any reason! have
also bound myself and have to hear
the same things over and over again
from you. u."-Meggendorfer Blatter.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-24
FRIDAY, THE ELEVENTH DAY OF
JULY. 1913

for the purpose of obtaining the assent
of the Electors of the said borough to the
increase of Indebtedness, as mentioned
in the said ordinance; said Election to be
held in the manner and during the hours
fixed by law for holding municipal cleo
tions and subject to the provisions of
law relating to such elections.
The following is statement of the last
assessed valuation of said borough, the
per cent. of increase, the present indebt-
edness, and the purpose for payment of
which the said increase is desired.
The last assessed valuation is $780,
$4,000.
The present indebtedness is $17, $4,000
The per cent. of increase desired is two
per cent.
The purpose of said increase is to de-
fray the expense of grading, curbing and
paving Main and West Park streets with
brick.
BY direction of the Town Council by
ordinance.
MARTIN CAUFIELD,
President of Town Council of the Borough
of Honesdale.
JOHN ERIK,
Secretary of the Town Council of the
Borough of Honesdale.
Honesdale, 9Th June, 1918. 47w4
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-24
heWsdealers Of THE SUN. Write for terms.
FINDS PENNY; SURRENDERS IT
That ttooest Man Diogenes Sought ls
Ia Kalamazoo.

Kalamazoo lays claim to having the
most honest man in Michigan Recent
ly a stranger who refused to leave his
name entered police headquarters and
pushed over ON the desk Of Sergeant
Witheral penny.
IT found that out on the street You
take It and keep it until the owner calls
for It." said the stranger.
The sergeant still has the penny,
waiting for the owner to properly iden-
tify and claim it.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-24
Crop Improvement

"The most valuable of all arts will be
the art of deriving q comfortable subsis-
tence from the smallest area of soil"
--Abrdhdm Lincoln
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-24
R&RNzR)

doctor learned Of the preparations for
the dinner and bali at the Bivens pal
ace on Riverside drive. The solution
e .ssss- WHOLE. problem flashed through
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-24
NOTICE OF A SPECIAL ELECTION
TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOR-
OUCH OF HONESDALE

TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOR-
OUCH OF HONESDALE
WHEREAS, The Town Council of the
Borough of Honesdale, by an Ordinance
duly enacted, have authorized and di-
rected the grading, curbing and paving
of Main and West Park streets in the
said borough, have set forth that the
cost therefor would increase the debt of
the said borough to an amount exceeding
two per cent. of the last assessed valua-
ton thereof, and that a special election
for the purpose of obtaining the assent of
the electors of the said borough to the
proposed increase of the indebtedness;
a public election will be held in the
Court House in the said borough at the
place and by the officers provided by law
said borough on
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-24
CHAPTER XIV.
The Unbidden Guest.

HK&HE bitter reference to Bivens
and the crime of his corner in
wheat had reused Mans fight
inp blood She would accent
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-06-24

n DIRECTING A SPECIAL ELECTION
~ FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAIN
ING THE ASSENT OF THE ELECTORS
TO AN INCREASE OF THE BOROUGH
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-03
STEEL STRIKERS PERSIST
sxhorted by Leaders, 200 Vol
unteer as Pickets.

Pittsburgh. Feb Except for mission
airy work by strikers to strengthen their
ranks. there were few Developments TO-.
DAY In the steel strike al Rankin AMI
Braddock borouGhs. where riotins and
bloodshed occurred last week. Prominent
labor leaders this afternoon urged the
- 600 men on strike 20 stand firm against
;he officials OF the American steel and
Wire Company and TO endcavor 10 gain
recruits from all the mills Of the steel
Corporation I'm the Pittsburgh district
The net result was the volunteering OF
two hundred men 20 do picket duty at the
works Of Rankin, Braddock. Edgar Thorn
son. Duqucsne Homestead and Carrie fur
naces Late to-day il was announced that
the United Mine Workers had promised
All financial. social moral and physical
aid necessary 10 win the strike
should the trouble spread. as advocated
h> labor leaders. more than 10000 men
In the Pittsburgh district will be affected.
Al. attempt is 10 be made tomorrow to re-
sumo operations at the Rankin and Brad
dock mills where The strike started, and
NJ ecaution has been taken 10 avoid dis
order.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-03
SECRET TAP DAY" AT YALE
Public No Longer To See Joy or
Sorrow of Juniors.
H. Tclerrapl 70 The Tribunc.

lliv Telegraph 20 me iribunc.
New Haven. Feb. Tap Day" me
day when Vale Juniors are tapped for
membership in the four senior secret So
cicties. will he robbed this year Of much
OF its publicity, according to an order
just issued by Dean Jones. BY this or
der tho public will be excluded from the
campus and the mothers. sisters and
swecthear;s OF the oxpectant juniors will
no. b. permitted in any Of Che college
buildings as formerly.
The order is the outcome Of move
ment that has been spreading recently "a
take away from Tap Day" its spectaCu-
lar features. in which the dissppoint-
meni OF the men not elected has been q
painful incident In recent years there
have been many examples OF star
athletes and others prominent in under
graduate lift who have invited the'r
parents and friends to be present and
then have failed of election.
Il is generally believed in college err
clcs that the order Of Dean Jones fore
casts Other changes in the old custom.
which had been severely criticised ~
alumni and undergraduates.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-03

The cost of maintaining the public schools
vas 80 O.2 90 y. an iroroase of $j.S25.S'' NJ
over the preceding year. More tlah mn
of this increase was for teachers sara
rios alone. and was the largest increase
for this purpose for any OF" year III inc
history of the state. The average annuai
salary i'm tho rural districts was $40 q
and n tEc cities $.l6l g.
OF the money expended in the stat" iaS'
voar for the maintenance OF the Pup"'
schools. s7.i7l.isl IS was appropriated 10y
rho Legislature ana tie balance was
raised By local taxation
The report show. that the most mark''
advance in the educationa! work 81 '''
state during rho year, N least so lar d.
Indicated Ivy figures. was IN Noca'io"''
training. There were NOR" IMAM tIe'
times as many vocational schools As III
the preceding year and the properly III
creased g. per cent, the registration -
nor cent and tho average attendance 10
NOR cent. There was also marked III
rro,sc IN agricultural work in the puoHc
scuooI. and several vacation scEoo'a orc
NOW bcing conducted in the cities
The report recommends tnat Nv
regulating the local management OF CITY
schools be taken from city charters anu
be Incorporated in tho general education
law. providing a separate article ior ea'n
of tic three classes Of cities; that 'Iu'S
and villages should establish Vacauon
schools as part OF the regular schoo'
system: that the public school OuiIdlhSs
should have q more extended use tha'
,bo,e should be enacted a more efficient
Genera, medical inspection law and That
tho present vaccination law s"ou'u oe -
amended as TO make II a more ehectNe
health precaution.
Lengthenns OF the school term from
,birty.,wo weeks 10 thirty-elght weeks Is
advocated. with uniform date for the
openinr Of rural schools.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-03
Only One.Fifth of New York'S
Pupils Are Enrolled in the
Rural Districts.
GROWTH OF EXPENDITURES
More than $83,890,000 Spent
During Last Year, the Larg-
est Increase Being for
Teachers Salaries.

Albany. Feb. THE annual report -
tho state Educa ton Department. cover
ing the school year ended July 81. 1917.
has Just been sent to the Legislature -
the Commissioner Of Education, DR.. An
drew s Draper.
Tho report shows that the total attcnL-
ancc on al grades Of schools during the
year was $685.. az this number. l,5-9'"'
were enrolled in elementary schools; l@oi9
in secondary schools. lo,s5S IN normal ard
training schools and 4i3'l ir higher in
situations and professional schools.
Nearly four-dfths OF tn" children be
tween tho ages Of five and eighteen live
in the cities Of the state The registration
in the rural districts shows i decrease cf
LIS for the year. while III" REGISTRATION
in the cities increased by 1924
There were in The elementary schoo :
% ej6 teachers. I'm the secondary schools
7o97. in the normal and training schools
jl6 and in the higher institutions 5o3l.
Tho net value OF the property OF all
schools reporting 10 tie department -
S2al O3s. ~. Tho grcatc- part o. this IS
invested i'm the common elementary
schools and In the colleges and universe
ties. the value OF the former Being $40
l67 .aSs and of tho latter sli2GIj.779.
The total expenditure for the school
year was about sj.oGpoj" more than for
the preceding year. OF the total sum OF
IS. $50 ~ -. there was expended for Gle
mcntary schools s0,lse, Gs g.. for public
high schools .a.Jo9.l,1 II. for academies
81. 90. 5o3 o. tor higher institutions slI.e:'.-
ai2 ~ and for vocational schools S24.fS D..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-03
STATE INSANE INCREASING
Commission May Ask Federal
Aid for Alien Patients.

Albany. Feb. 9.--Becausc Of tho steadily
increasing expense OF providing for the
states insane paticnts--thc estimated cost
this year being Sill C00-,hc State Hos
pital Commission may call on the fed
cral government 70 reimburse the state
for what tho commission terms lack OF
proper governmental supervision in the
admission of aliens
Although the commissions bureau OF
deportation last year succeeded in send
ing 10 other countries or removing 70
other states 17jG aliens and non-residcnts.
j.159 now cases Of insanity requiring hos
pital treatment developed, net increase
over 1911 of $40 patients.
At the close OF the last fiscal year there
were in public and private hospitals TO-
the insane 1921 men and l7,7o2 women.
In state hospitals not including the
Ma,teawan and Danncmora state hospi-
tails Tor the criminal insane, which housed
.212. there We're 3l,624 patients.
OvercrOwdinG continues tho total short
age Of accommodation being $50" beds.
However. If the Legislature dppropriates
sufficient funds. the commission is plan
Ming FOR 600 additional patients. \ new
institution to accommodate 300 is being
planned for Marcy. Oneida County. and
the commission hopes 10 provide for 500
at the Mohansic state hospital. Yorktown
Heights.
The commission feels certain that no
unjustifablc commitments have been
made 70 private institutions and that no
person is unjustidably detained in those
institutions
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-03
WOULD CUT ELECTION COST
Fewer Registration Days Pro-
vided in Proposed Laws.

Albany, Feb. Les station 10 reduce
the number of registration davs. to lower
the salaries vi election officials and 20
cvc more latitude for i"dcpelG,nt nVmi-
nations is being drafted 10y iCint COM
mittee Of Democratic Senator's and As
Scmblymen appointed % prepare amend
mcnts TO the existing l:imarv and eicc-
ton laws. The committee - o; the opig-
ion that ii will not ne practicable thus
year 10 enact legislation for the aboliticl
OF state conventions. q IA ,or-i by Gov
crnor SulZer but is considering the cues.
ton of eliminating voting machines
The number Of registration days in IA
rural districts probably will be- reduced
from four TO two" saws Senate, John T..
Murtaush. chairman Of the coIllnittee. IN
a statement to-day. "EXpC Renee ha g
demonstrated that two days are sufficient
in districts which do not cont; in cite.
The publication Of the election lists. wlica
has proved neavy burden "n the coul-
ties. can well he eliminated.
Another move in the direction Of rr-
GUcing the expense Of elections without
lcssening the efficiency Of the present
election machinery will he a REDUCTION -
employees on the work OF registration and
also of elections. An cfor. will also e
maze to reduce the size OF ;hc present
ballot. The present form has been found
To ne awkward ana cumbersome.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-03
VACANCIES ON YALE BOARD
President Taft, Twichell and
Whitney Quit Corporation.

New Haven, Feb. Three vacancies
on the Yale Corporation. or university
trustee board. eXist-a greater number
than has occurred at any ono tim. since
the legislative change was made. I'm 80.
when the provision was ordered that the
six Senators Of the state who hal been
members OF the corporation should b"
retired and six lavmcn chosen I'm ttoir
places.
Tie triple withdrawal OF members h.o
has been caused by the designations NJ
President Taft and OF the Rev. Dr. joseph
H. Twichell. OF Hartford. and the com
pletion Of the six-year term Of Eli Whit
rey. Of this city.
or the :hree two are decisive. Ia the
case. OF Mr.. Whitney, however. II j. pos
sible that hc may serve for another six
year term. Dr. Twichel is resignins
because OF advancing years. and Presi-
dent Taft because he will become a MEM
her OF the faculty. Membership on both
the faculty and corporation is not per
MISSILE.
The most active campaign FOR memocr-
ship on the corporation is already as
surcd. although only one OF the two va
Cancics VIII be filled by ballot Of the
alumni The Yale Corporation has prop
ert,- worth $1,000 in its keeping. Some
of the names suggested are Vance Nc
Cormick. o.. formerly Mayor Of Harris
burg and once football captain: john
Henry Hammond. 20. Of New York City.
a LAWYER: George Grant Mason, 'SS. OF
Chicago and New York City, and william
W. Atterbury. 81. first vice-presidcnt 81
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-03
HIGHWAY REFORM URGED
Mr.. Human to Introduce Bill
for Non-Partisan Commission.
ASKS FOR THREE MEMBERS
Republican Measure Practically
Reconstitutes Body as It Was
Under Governor Hughes.
uiy Telegraph TO The Tribune }

Albany. Feb. 9-IIarold j. Human the
minority leader of tho Assembly. to-
morrow night will Introduce a bill pro-
viding for a non-partisan highway com
mission cf three members. as was pro-
vidod for under the Hughes commission
act. Commenting on the provisions OF
the bill, NJ. lIinman said:
have fixed the terms Of three original
commissioners at two. four and SIX
wears respectively, their successors 10
be appointed for terms of six years each.
am convinced that the people or TINS
state viii not approve the Democratic
pt0posal Of Il singlc-hoadcd commission.
Thnv want the assurance of efficiency
ana honesty in the expenditure OF the
a. dltionai 100000 voted for Hood ro3dS.
This is not possible lu the cas-" 81 a par
san slngle-headtd commission III the
commission is reconstructed as Governor
Hughes had II II would bc out OF poE-
ties. II was changed into political
commission by the Tammany legislature
as one OF tn" first acts or Governor blN ;
administration.
Tho importance Of having . commission
Of three is clearly seen IN the fact that
continuity of policy Is only possible uhd'f
such scheme by permitting each newly
elected Governor 10 appoint only one OF
IN, three members. The other two, con-
stituting the majority. could continue the
policy OF the commission.
This scheme also attracts TO the good
ronds service of the state the best en-
cheering talent and encourages the de-
Vclopment of an expert corps OF ROAD
engineers because IL assures them that a
now administration is not going TO mean
tho wholesale replacement OF employes
ard assistants which took place when
Governor Dix's commission undertook
the work.
At that time the state lost the services
of most of its valuable assistants VINO
had had years OF experience ana tram
ing This was "A tremendous loss 10 the
state i'm efficiency in the conduct OF that
DEPARTMENT. and is one Of the chief rea-
sons for the wholcs public condemna-
ton which the present commission mas
suffered. -,
The ineficiency and mlsmanacement OF
the present commission is now recog-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-03
SOUTH WOULD AID SICKLES
Mrs. Longstreet Tells Sulzer
Former Foes Offer Help.

Gainesville Ga. Feb. Mrs. Helen y.
Longstreet. widow Of til famous Coined
crate general, has telecraphed 20 Gov
ernor Sulzer that she has received letters
from many prominent SCutherncrs offer
jns 10 aid General Daniel T.. S:ckics in
making good 10 tho State Of New York
his shortage of s23,1I6.
When it was announced that General
Sickles was about 10 hc arrested Mrs.
Iongstreet said she would get help for
the Union veteran from his former foes.
She said il was her purpose 10 SHOW the
feeling of Confederate veterans toward
him.
In her message TO Governor Sulzer Mrs.
Longstreet quoted at length from the
more important letters she had received
in answer TO her appeal.