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Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18
WASTING Time.

Friction always takes time. An
object rolling down a smooth hill
goes much faster than when it bumps
along over stones and cobbles. A
courteous remark will carry you quick
er to the bargain than querulous bick-
erings over prices which the sales
woman cannot control. When you
allow the saleswoman to bring out
dozens of $40 to $50 suits when you
know you will not pay cent over $25
you are wasting your own time and
hers. When you chat with an acquaint'
ance at the glove counter and ignore
the girls do you wish eight or twelve
button?" you are wasting time again
and depriving the girl of another Gus
toner
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SAFETY IN USE OF ASBESTOS
Material Chiefly Valuable for Protec-
tion Against Fire, But Has Many
Other Good Qualities.

Asbestos is a potential lifesaver,
We do not all realize, perhaps, that
the fireproof theater curtain is made
of asbestos, which is rock matter, but
nevertheless almost as soft and pill
able as cotton or wooden fabric.
Asbestos has, of course, many other
uses. It's incombustibility and its
fibrous structure make it one of the
most useful minerals for many and
various structural purposes.
It is used in making lumber, roofing,
plaster and stucco.
Houses that are built largely of as
bestos afford their occupants not only
complete protection from fire because
it is a "nonconductor," but assure
them also comfort of freedom from
extreme heat and cold.
The asbestos producing industry OF
the United States is growing. For
many years we have been the greatest
manufacturers and users of asbestos,
drawing our raw material from Cana
da, but we are now getting some ex'
cellent fiber in our own country.
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1T SLUGS HARD.
Coffee a Sure and Powerful Bruiser.

Let your coffee slave be denied his
cup at it's appointed time! Headache
sick stomach-fatigue. l know it all
in myself, and have seen it in others.
Strange that thinking, reasoning be-
ings will persist in it's use, says a To
peka man.
He says further that he did not be-
gin drinking coffee until he was twen-
ty years old, and that slowly it began
to poison him, and affect his hearing
through his nervous system.
Finally, quit coffee and the condi-
tions slowly disappeared, but one cold
morning the smell of my wifes coffee
was too much for me and ( took q
cup. Soon l was drinking my regular
allowance, tearing down brain and
nerves by the daily dose of the nefa-
rious beverage.
Later, found my breath coming
hard, had frequent fits of nausea, and
then l was taken down with bilious
fever.
Common sense came to me, and /
quit coffee for good and went back to
Postum. at once began to gain
and have had no returns of my bilious
symptoms, headache, dizziness or YER
tigo.
Il now have health, bright
thoughts, and added weight, where be-
fore there was invalidism and the
blues.
MY brother quit coffee because OF
it's effect on his health and now uses
Postum. He could not stand the nerv-
GUS strain while using coffee, but keeps
well on Postum" Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum cereal-the original form
must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pack
ages.
Instant Postum-a soluble powder
dissolves quickly in a cup of hot wa
ter, and with cream and sugar, makes
delicious beverage Instantly. S0c
and SOC tins.
Both kinds are equally delicious and
cost about the same per cup.
There's q Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocers.
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His Cruel Treatment.

Some time since a pretty young
wife brought suit against her husband
for divorce ON the ground of cruelty
and when the case was called the fair
petitioner ives put on the witness
stand,
You say il your petition, madam" +"
interrupted tbs judge at one interval,
that your husband treated you with
great cruelty?"
Yes. sir" was the soft and meek
rejoinder of the witness, he was
cruel to me very often"
In what particular way?" asked
the Judge. 81 want to hear some spe-
cific cases"
In many ways" answered the pc
titioner. One of the worst things he
used to do was to say things to me
on the telephone, and then hang up
the receiver before / could answer
back"
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Johnny Had the Proof.

IL instructing a youthful class in
mathematics TIE teacher turned to
John Jones.
johnny" she remarked, can you
tell Inc what an average is?"
Yes, Liza Am" was the prompt re-
sponse of Johnny IAN average is
what a hen lays eggs on"
"What?" exclaimed the amazed
teacher. "Wbat on earth are you talk
ing about?"
That's right, Miss Mary was the
rejoinder of Johnny Most every les
sou in our rithmetic starts off If q
hen lays three eggs week on an
average
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Boss Tweed,s old Home to Go.

Boss Tweed's old home at Fifth ave-
nue. and Forty-third street, New York,
soon will give place to the 16-story
Office structure of the Guaranty Trust
company. The house. one of the city's
landmarks, covers a space Of 62x123
feet and was sold by the notorious
Tammany chieftain to Richard T. Will
son some years ago for $1,200,000. The
exterior of the place has not been al
tered since Tweed escaped from the
police. He requested that his guards
permit him to pack some clothes.
They waited a long time at the front
door and then realized that the pris
orer had fed. Tweed had escaped to
Forty-third street and then to the
river, where his yacht was ready to
sail. He reached Spain, was caught
and returned to the United States.
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MAKES GOOD FLY REPELLANT
Mixture of Rancid Lard and Kerosene
Will Afford Professionalism Oil
Is Also Used.

Three excellent fly repellants for use
on the dairy COW are made as fol-
lows:
Rancid lard, one pound and kero-
sene one-half pint, mixed into creamy
mass and rubbed not too thickly with
hand or cloth over the backs of COWS,
will give protection for several days.
Three parts fish oil and one of kero-
sene applied with a small spray pump
will do the same.
Fish oil 100 parts, oil of tar so parts
and crude carbolic acid part, ap-
piled with a spray pump is a good fly
repellant.
All are inexpensive and are recon-
mended by the United States depart
ment of agriculture.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-18

to the dairyman's advantage to belong
to this class. The proposition con-
fronting the dairyman today is not
primarily a matter of location, soil
or climate; it is he, himself, that
stands in the way of his own progress.
Few people realize what intelligence,
care and study, what patience, obser.
vation and experience are needed to
make a good dairyman, to interpret
to the mind the language of the COW
in such a manner as to understand
her every need and be able to properly
supply it. The inherent and fatal
weakness of many people is that they
wholly ignore the really important
and decisive factor of success in all
fields of human activity, viz, trained
and intelligent judgment, based on
sound theory and practice. The cause
and cure for the backwardness of the
dairyman is in his mind, and in the
solution of his problems chief promi
nence must be given to the human fac.
tor. The trouble with many dairymen
is that they think they know, which is
the worst possible kind Of ignorance.
1.-THE first step of knowledge is to
know that we are ignorant" Our
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DO NOT HESITATE
To Use cuticura on Skin-Tortured
Babies. Trial Free.

A hot bath with Cuticura Soap and
gentle application of Cuticura Oint-
ment at once relieve, permit rest and
sleep and point to speedy healment
of eezemas, rashes. itchings and irri-
tations of infants and children even
In severe cases.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. Ky,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
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Cold pouehe.

President Wilson tells of famous
Princeton professor who supplied the
pulpit one Sunday in the hamlet of
Penn's Neck.
He preached his finest sermon and
thrilled the congregation in the little
country church as it had never been
thrilled before. At the close Of the
service he was feeling particularly
well satisfied with himself when the
leading elder approached and asked
him:
We'll, doctor, what's the damage?"
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Colony Plan Is Best.

The colony plan of keeping poultry
is best suited for the farmers and
those who have plenty of land at their
disposal. 1t makes it possible to keep
several hundred hens on the ordinary
farm without the expense of yarding
them, and still have them away from
the home buildings. It's the farmers
WaV
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Didn't Work Both Ways.

The timid man was about to pay for
his luncheon of ham and" when the
following conversation took place:
Pardon me, sir, but our rules for
bid us to receive bent or battered
coins from customers"
But l received that very coin here
yesterday by way of change"
Very likely, sir. We have no rule
against giving bent or battered coins
to customers
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A ElnhtIna Submarine.

Il hear you caught 4O-pound cat
fish in your gill-net."
I'VE did"
Make much of fuss?"
Tore the net all to shreds. For
a while we thought we had shared a
submarine. e."-Kansas City Journal.
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ELIXIR BABEK A GOOD TONIC

And Drives Malaria Out of the System.
''Your tRabek' acts like magic l have given
suffering with ctills, malaria and fever. rec
commend 1t to those who are sufferers and in
need of a good tonic' Rev. s. Szymanowski,
st. Stephens Church, Perth Amboy, N. J..
Elixir Babelk, so cents, all druggists or by
Parcels Post, prepaid, from Kloczewski q Co.
Washington, D. G.
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Tame pescrIntion.

Il saw your husband at the ball
game yesterday"
What was he doing?"
why, he seemed to be an interest
ed spectator"
"That doesn't describe my husband.
He's a cyclone rooter."
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DAIRY
FACTS
KNOW WHAT COWS ARE DOING
Most Successful Dalrymen Have
Achieved Attainments Through
Intelligent Forethought.
(Bv WILBER J. FRAsER.)

lBy WILBER ]. FHASEftJ
The price of dairy products has ad-
vanced, but not in proportion to the
advance in the prices Of grain and
land, and under the present conditions
it is the height of folly to milk cows
that do not pay expenses. 1t is, there
fore, a matter of great concern to the
dairyman to know what his COWS are
doing.
This is the day Of thinkers, and it is
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Lime.suIphur on Peaches.

Do not use concentrated lime-sul-
| phur IN peach trees after the buds
have opened 1t will seriously dam
age the leaves and cause more harm
than /. will do good.
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Most lmnortant Task.

Selecting the herd bull is one of the
most important tasks you have to do
in connection with starting the dairy
farm. It is far more of a problem to
select the right bull than it is to Sc
lect the right breed
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At least four-fifths of the damage
wrought by earthquakes is due to the
neglect of the ordinary requirements
of sound construction.
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Where He Loses.

THE man who is always punctual
in keeping an appointment never loses
anything"
No, only half an hour waiting for
the other fellow to show up"
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Keen calves prv and Warm.

One necessity in raising good calves
is to keep them dry and warm. Plenty
of good, clean bedding on a clean, dry
floor and an abundance of sunshine
serve the purpose.
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Kate Douglas Wiggin, the author
ess, earns more than $5O000 a year
from her books and royalties on plays
taken from her most popular novels.
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Contrary Prophecies.

THE new play is going to have a
walk-over."
Yes, l see it's settled down for a
run"
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Club Proqnostications.

81 think it will rain before l get
home"
Il know it will rain when l get
there"
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Profit From Calf Pasture.
Provided the calves are bred and
fed right, there is no land in the dairy
farm that makes any better returns
than the calf pasture.
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Sweden has smelted iron for more
than 20 centuries, and some of the
ancient furnaces still are in exist
ence.
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Keep Pigs GrowInd.

Keep the pigs growing every day
until they are ready for market It
makes big interest on the investment.
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Bone" grating is not confined to
tho medical fraternity.
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Shade Trees and Shrubs.

Set out shade trees and shrubs If 1t
has nbt been attended to. Spread the
roots well and fill in with line, rich
soil. Always make this soil firm
about the roots. Leave the top soil
loose.
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If a man desires to engage in a
harmless form Of useless endeavor,
he might as well breed pouter
DigeOns
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Philadelphia has more divorces in
proportion to population than any
other city in the East
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A Natural Inference-

''Ah, this world is growing better!
| do not believe there is any danger
of our getting into war. The return
of prosperity is already apparent. This
weather is truly salubrious. All re-
ports tell of the most bountiful crops,
and"
Look here!" interrupted Gaunt N.
Grimm. you've had your salary
raised"
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Don't Poison Baby.

WoRTY YEARS her child must have
r. PAREGORIC These drugs will pTodTS
Il seep anda TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP
WHICH WAKING Many the children VINO
life
product Of opium Druggists
anybody labelling The definition narconc
Gchlch IN Po
produces and DEATH The taste ana
disguised and sold under the names
Sooting should not permit
physician know
of wha is composed CASTORIA DOES NOT
CONTAIN NARCOTICS If it bears the signature ~
of Chas II. Fletcher /% LAZfN[ZG.
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Strangely enough, there is no siml-
larity between our mansions in the
sky and our castles In the air.
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Secretly, every man believes his fu-
neral procession will be the longest
ever seen in his town.
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When opportunity occurs for kind
words deliver the goods.
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Valuable Line Of Wort
The present prices Of dali
make raising the heifers a
line of work.
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Tell woman that consistency Is a
jewel and she will tell you jewelry is
vulgar.
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Fame is a bubble but it is just as
we'll to allow someone else 10 blow
yours for you.
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BREEDING pIseontent.

Crowding breeds discomfort among
chickens. Give them plenty Of room.
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Labor Wasted

do you think the average man
needs to be trained to fight?"
Not if he's married"
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Supplemental Fee

OuPPtcHHSHlai TSSu
Corn is the one great sup
feed with skim milk to yol
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Grafton. Doctors said they knew Of nothing that
would help me- 1 took Lydia E. Pinkhams Vege-
table Compound and became regular and free
from pain l am thankful for such good medi-
cine and will always give it the highest praise"-
Mrs c. II. GRIFFITH, 1868 Constant St. Cleveland, o.
E8aurESsu.W Write to LYDIA AE.PINKHAM MEDICINEC co.
%tS (CONFIDENTIAL) LYNN, MASS, for advice.
Vour letter will be opened, read and answered
by a woman and held in strict confidence.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-30
STUCK IN THE MUD
That Was the Normal Condition in Chi
cago Village in 1888

An elaborate series of descriptions of
middle western road conditions is con
tanned in Charles Cleaver's s &" History of
Chicago From 1892 to 1892, Illustrat-
ing the Difficulties of the Route From
New York to Chicago" In the village
of Chicago in 1888, Cleaver tells us:
"Parties informed us that in the
spring we would find it almost impos-
sible to get around for the mud, a
truth forcibly illustrated when few
months later l got into wagon to 90
about one and half miles northwest.
1t was with the greatest difficulty that
two good horses could pull the empty
wagon through two feet of mud and
water across the prairie. \ = = A year
or two later [ saw many teams stuck
fast in the streets of the village.
Il remember once stage coach got
mired in Clark street opposite the Sher-
man House, where it remained several
days, with board driven into the mud
bearing this inscription, No bottom
here. l once saw lady stuck in the
mud in the middle of Randolph street.
She was evidently in need of help, as
every time she moved she sank deeper
and deeper. An old gentleman from
the country offered to help her, which
had such an effect upon her modesty
that with one desperate effort she drew
her feet out minus her Shoes
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-30
REUNITED AFTER SO YEARS
Sisters, Separated Since Childhood, Re
siding but f2 Miles Apart

Catawssa, Pa, April Solving
within a few miles of. each other for
80 years, Mrs. j. w. Yohe, of Blooms
burg, and Mrs. E. s. Raup, of Franklin
township, Cambria county, sisters, did
not know where each other was until
by chance meeting of friends they
were reunited yesterday.
More than 40 years ago, when their
parents died at Catawissa, one of the
sisters, then years old, was taken to
New York State, while the other, aged
8, went to Rupert. After seven years
they drifted apart, Mrs. Yohe finally
locating at Bloomsbury and the other
in Franklin township. They were less
than IL miles distant from each other.
Last month at sale of farm stock
Mr.. Yohe met an old friend who knew
the family and inquired casually as to
the whereabouts of his sister-in-law.
He was greatly surprised when he
learned that her home was so near his
own.
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A MIGHTY FLAGPOLE
The Tallest in the World-It Floats
Old Glory at San Francisco

A fitting symbol of the mighty for.
ests of the West is Astoria s fiagpole
the tallest in the world, which float:
the Stars and Stripes 241 feet above
the Panama-P Pacific Exposition sea wall
at the corner of the Oregon building.
The stick, for it is single stick of
timber, is actually 251 feet long, but
10 feet of its butt are imbedded in a
200-ton block of solid concrete, which
without other stays, holds the pole up
right against the wind.
The pole was shaped from the trunk
of Douglas fir which as it originally
stood in the Oregon forest lowered 347
feet in the air and might have matched
its height, though not in girth, against
any but the loftiest of the California
sequoias.
Looking up at the great flagstaff it
is hard to realize that it weighs upward
of 46 tons and that there is lumber
enough in it to build five ordinary s.
room houses. It's great height gives il
an appearance of slenderness and light
ness.
Just to transport this pole and set il
up, Russell Hawkins and citizens of
Astoria spent nearly enough thousands
of dollars to build several of the houses
its lumber might construct.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-30
JAIL SKATERS ROMANCE
Suitor of 19-year-old Girl Accused of
Horse Stealing

Lancaster, April 3O.-Raymond
Moore was committed to Jail yesterday
morning by Alderman Doebler on the
charge of horse stealing, and his in,
generation skaters a romance. Last
Monday he got team at J. L. Grim s
livery stable and drove to York with
his sweetheart, 19-year-od Catherine
Flick, to marry her.
A watch belonging to her father was
pawned for S. and the money was
used to pay for the team hire. 1t is
charged that Moore arranged to sell the
horse in York, but the buyer told him
to come back later for the money, $50.
Moore did not return, and failure to
get the money broke up the wedding
The girl wrote to Lancaster aunt for
funds, and this put her father on her
trail.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-30
TO ENLARGE PLAYGROUND
State College Will Add Eighty Acres tt
Its Recreation Area

State College, Pa, April 30.-With
more than 100 acres of State property
set aside for recreative purposes the
Pennsylvania State College has estab-
lished the largest playground area in
the country. In addition to the 25
acres already devoted to outdoor COM
petitive games, the board of trustees
recently voted an additional 80 acres
for ''required play" among the stu
dents. The new plan involves the sub
stitution of outdoor exercise for a
large per cent. of the old form of in
door ealisthenics.
The enlarged playground area will be
laid out in soccer fields, tennis courts,
lacrosse field, baseball and football
fields.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-30
PREPARING NEW DISTRICT
Internal Revenue Collector to Take
Charge of Ninth Tomorrow

Lancaster, April 3O.-Until next
Monday all business with the public
will be virtually suspended in the
ninth internal revenue district pending
the transfer of the eolectorship from
Fred. c. Kirkendall, of Wilkes-Barre,
to Benjamin F. Davis, of Lancaster.
The latter will be sworn in on Satur-
day, and the same day Mr.. Kirkendall
will take the oath of Office as collector
of the twelfth district, re.created from
the ninth, with which it was incorpor-
ated just prior to the close of Presi-
dent Taft's term.
The transfer is being made by Dep
uty Revenue Commissioner Fletcher, of
Washington. During the s months that
MIR. Kirkendall was collector of the
ninth district the receipts have been
approximately $S,000,00O.
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ACCUSED OF INCENDIARISM
-Four Men Held on Charge Of, Burning
Home to Obtain Insurance

Clearfcld, Pa, April SO.-Anton
Neuber, Harry Neuber, Daniel Milsen
and Herman Meyer, all of Morris town
ship, were arrested Wednesday on in
formation sworn out by State Fire
Marshal Thomas G. Ryan, who charged
them with conspiracy to defraud and
conspiring to burn property for the
purpose of obtaining insurance.
The arrests, it is said, are the result
of confession alleged to have been
made on Saturday, April II, by Her
man Meyer, that the burning Of the
store building of the Airport Supply
Company on January 81. last, was in
cendiary and was instigated for the
purpose Of obtaining the insurance.
Anton Neuber is brother-in-law OF
Herman Meyer and Harry Neuber is
son of Anton. Daniel Milsen is alleged
to have been connected with the trans
action as previous owner of the prop.
erty and in other respects.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-30
STRANGER KINDLY TREATED
Sunbury Men Give Checks to Man WI
Suddenly Disappears

sunbury, Pa, April 3O.-A stranger
who called himself Joseph A. Egan, OF
Scranton, Pa, appeared here few days
ago and said he was to install "cool
ing system" in the Memorial hospital
he made arrangements to employ a
number of men.
Egan soon got acquainted with Oliver
P. Rockefeller, owner of a big hotel
who gave him a check for s25.74 fo,
improvements that Egan had suggested
for the hotel. j. F. Tooley, merchant
cashed check for him and W. C. For
ester gave him check for $32 for q
new kind of auerophone. Egan also Dor.
rowed suit of clothes from R. w
Owens and then disappeared and has
not been seen since.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-04-30
GAS GO. TO LAY PIPE LINE
Five Hundred Men Will Be Employed
Within Next Two Weeks

Kane, Pa, April S0.-About 500
men will be given employment within
the next two weeks when the Pennsyl.
vania Gas Company will start the con.
struction of large twelve-inch line
from their station at Keystone to the
McWilliams farm a Glade Run.
The laying of the new line was made
necessary by the high pressure neces
sary to carry gas from Keystone to the
McWilliams farm, where it branches of
into other lines and is pumped to
jamestown, Erie, Cory and other west.
ern New York and Pennsylvania cite:
which are supplied by the Pennsylvania
Gas Company. The line will cost about
S125,000.