Evening star., 1916-11-12

HaserstOwn. Md.-Frank A. WeIty.
young farmer residing on the farm
of his father, Alfred Welty, south of
F'unkstown, this year demonstrated
that two crops can be raised on the
same land in this county in one sea-
son. and he Furthermore showed that
one acre of land here can be made to
yield $50 to $3.50 per year in mar
ketable crops in season. In July Mr..
Welty cut the hay from piece of land
and the hay was good crop, probably
two tons or more to the acre. He
plowed up this land and planted it in
potatoes, planting them July 10. He
has just harvested 100 or more bushels
of potatoes per acre. and has sold
these potatoes at SIPS per bushel.
Taking the value of the hay at S17
per ton, which some farmers are now
| being offered, and the potatoes at $l25
for the acre, makes Mr.. Welty'S in
come from one acre of this land 1859.
Norfolk. va.-W. H. Suter, Il local
liquor dealer, committed suicide at
Ocean View. Dependency over the
business outlook with the state dry
is given as the cause of the act by
friends. Mr.. Suter shot himself in the
left temple and lived but a few min
utes.
Martfnsburg. w. Va.-What is be-
lieved to be a record price for Berke-
ley county, w. Va, apples was estab-
lished here when the Theodore f. I'M
back agency sold several boxes of York
1mperals and Northwestern Greenings
for 10 cents apiece. The buyer eX-
planned that he desired the apples for
exhibition purposes in California.
Cumberland. Md-The c. G. and w.
two he
Waynesboro. Greencastle and MERGERS
burg Turnpike Company, the Waynes-
boro Electric Light Company. the
Waynesboro Gas Company, the Green
castle Light. Heat and Power Com
pany. the Shippensburg Gas Company,
the Shippensburg Electric Light Com
pany and the Shippensburg Water
Company have been consolidated under
the name of the Cumberland Valley
Utilities Company The new corpora
ton will be capitalized at S3,500 600
Hambleton & Co. OF New York
and Baltimore, one of the largest
banking institutions in the country. is
back of the consolidation. They are
the present owners of the Hagerstown
and Frederick trolley lines and other
industries in Maryland. The operating
or these various utilities acquired will
be in he hands of Sanderson & Pot
ter of New York city, who have had
wide experience in managing trolleys
and various plants. K. d. Seton of
Waynesboro probably will be made
superintendent of the combined plants.
Newport. News. Va.-Capt. Thomas S.
Baldwin, head of the Atlantic coast
aeronautical station, states that the
aviation field will be enlarged by the
addition of 800 acres, new hangars
erected and new machines and addi-
tional pilots brought here to care for
large number of militia students.
Twenty of these students are due here
this week.
Cumberland. Md-Arrested for vio-
lating his parole a few days after it
had been granted in local circuit court,
Henry A. Wagonblast was sentenced
to six years in the Maryland peniten-
tiary by Judge Robert r. Henderson.
At this term of court Wagonblast
faced indictments for embezzlement,
larceny and forgery. The last two
were dismissed by the state. but the
prisoner was found guilty on the en-
bezzlement charge. On condition that
he pay back the money he had ON
bezzled the court paroled him. A