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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
SOLDIERS AND SAILORS LEAGUE
DOING GOOD WORK.

At the meeting of the New Jersey
Soldiers and Sailors League at the
residence of Mrs. Robt. NJ. Willis, E.
Verona avenue, on Thursday afternoon,
a report was presented of the amount
of sewing done by the Pleasantville
Branch. 1t consisted of:
rs Surgical Shirts,
81 pairs of C%hildren's Knickerbock-
ers,
25 sets of Pajamas,
rs outing negligee Shirts,
120 elder down Vests,
$50 Pillow Slips.
The knitted garments will be report
ed later.
A letter was read from the State
Headquarters at Jersey City, which
stated that up to date the 8.144 elder
down jackets and 5,625 pillow slips re-
quested by the Colonels of the New
Jersey regiments, had been supplied
at a cost for material of so cents for
each vest and 10 cents for each pillow
case. Besides this, 1917 garments for
children and for hospitals have been
sent to the children and hospitals in
Europe.
All this work has been done since
war was declared by our government
against the Central Powers.
Additional supplies of jelly were re-
ceived. The box of jellies will not be
sent this week, and additional supplies
will be welcomed at the meeting of the
League on next Thursday. These jel-
lies go to the men in the trenches in
France.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
POULTRY POINTERS

Crate %fattening is practiced with
good results by some farmers and
when a large number of old hens are
TO be fattened the crate will be more
satisfactory han the brood COOP meth
cd.
If there is no other shade near the
coops occupied by growing chicks, set
the coops up from the ground ON blocks
so that the chicks can get under them
and find protection from the sun.
Never give spoiled food to young or
old poultry, for it is likely to poison
them or at least to cause digestive
troubles.
Be sure to clean the dishes in which
you give milk to fowls or chicks at
least once a day and disinfect them by
scalding. Otherwise, disease germs
find in these dishes a very good place
to multiply.
1t is very essential to have the quar-
tiers in which you keep the chickens
sanitary, and also to feed sweet, clean
food.
An ounce of creolin in one quart of
kerosene makes an effective remedy
for mites and f1eas. Applied to roosts.
dropping boards and nests, it will de-
stroy and keep away vermin.
In making a change in rations for
little chicks it Is better to be on the
safe side and feed small grain instead
Of grains that are too large.
Fumigation for mites is not very sat
isfactory, inaSmuch as the poultry
houses are not built sufficiently tight
for this method of eradication.
There is nothing better for the grow
ing chick than plenty of green feed.
The large body lice on fowls are
best destroyed by the use of lice ONT
ment which is applied to a certain
part of the hen, or by filing the plum
age full of lice-killing powder which
can be obtained from poultry supply
dealers.
The little mites which stay in the
woodwork of the house and attack the
fowls at night a be destroyed by
painting the roOsts and nearby wood
work frequently with lice-killing liquid
or even with kerosene.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
Military Organization of
Romans 1000 Years Ago
Was Model of Efficiency

When Rome invaded the Germanic
countries-about II B. c., or julius
Caesars time-the Roman general staff
was obliged to send back to the real
along the Rhine and the Lippe-large
amounts of grain and other ratiOns,
says the Peoples Home Journal. The
vessels in which these were transport
ed nearly 1000 years ago have been
found in mounds of earth and refuse
recently excavated. These great earth
en- vessels are marked with many
Inscriptions regarding their con-
tents, showing how carefully the Ro-
man general staff did its work. As
an example of efficiency the Roman
military organization has been the
wonder of the world. From the in
scriptions on these vessels one dis
covers how the Roman soldier was
fed. His rations evidently consisted
of bread, the staff of life, for the
preparation of which the grain was
ground in small hand mills.
Fish, snails, mussels and oysters, as
well as many kinds of fruit, especially
peaches, were included in the bill of
fare. Of metal vessels the common
man of that day knew very little; he
ate from earthen unglazed dishes and
cooked his food in pots of the same
ware. A curious document has been
found in the caves of the 1000 Budd-
has in India, written about 900 A. D..
and in a good state of preservation.
The author, a military officer by the
lame of Bagatur Chigsli, pronounces
In angry terms his dissatisfaction with
the food supplied by the commissary de-
partment, viz: One sheep and two
butts of water for the commanding Off
GER and 80 adjutants, all of whose
names are recorded. "Bagui, the
commissary, is a wretched. good-for-
nothing slave" declared Bagatur. This
complaint recorded over 1000 years
ago, is the touch of nature which
makes the whole world kin"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
Speed Up.

You never can tell the limit of your
capacity until you have been compelled
to speed up. Many a fellow goes
through life with average rating who
has in him the fitness of the topnotch-
er. The trouble is he has never been
brought to his limit. His daily tasks
have made no great demands ON him
and he has learned to take life easy.
Such fellows need the challenge of a
great speeding up. They need a call
to their reserve forces that will COM
pei a response from every fibre of
their being. Fhey need to have the
consciousness of their own ability
reused to notwithstanding Grit.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
Mud Hornet Is More Than
A Match for the Spider;
Captures Victim by Trick

l once saw, on the porch of my
residence OF Lake Hopatcong, a mud
hornet deliberately fall into and en-
tangle herself in a spider web, Hud-
son Maxim writes in the North Amer
lean Review. The spider, perching
upon an outer corner of the web, in
stantly sprang at the hornet, then
stopped, and decided that it did not
want to tackle the hornet, and re-
turned to its perch.
After waiting a while for the spider
to come to the attack, the hornet
freed herself very easily from the
web; and l watched her fly several
times in circles and then deliberately
alight in another nearby web and en-
tangle herself in it. Instantly the
alert spider, evidently either more
hungry OIL less cautious than the 9TH
er. sprang upon the hornet, when,
with an alacrity that would shame the
lightning, and with a precision devel-
oped beyond the contingency of error,
that hornet seized the spider, jabbed
her sting into 1t and paralyzed it.
Then she did it up nicely and carried
1t away.
l learned afterward, in the study of
insects, that this is the regular habit
of the mud hornet-that she catches
spiders in this manner, paralyzing
them with her sting. She places them
one after another in a mud pocket
that she has constructed for the pur-
pose, until she has enough canned
spiders to feed her young when they
hatch out in the spring. The spiders
do not die, but remain alive in their
prison until attacked by the larvae OF
the hornet and eaten at the proper
time. Rather hard on the spiders
but the habits of the spiders them
selves are not such as to elicit much
sympathy.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
CheerfuIneSs 0verdone.

They lived in the same road and had
on a hOIneward-bound car. The
conversation turned to their neighbors.
"Ye-es," Mr.. Robinson said, in reply
to the remark of his friend that Mrs.
Nexdoor vas "a wonderfully sweet
tempered woman" $50 cheerful and
sunny, always looking on the bright
SIDE" went on the friend enthusiastic
ally. "Ye-es," said Robinson, But
she rather overdoes hat bright side
business. The other night | was there,
and Nexdoor-you know how absent
minded he is-put the lighted end of
his cigar in his mouth. He sprang
into the air like a mustang, and choked
in his endeavor to swallow his COM
ments. Right in the midst of it all
Mrs. Nexdoor remarked blandly How
fortunate you were, dearest, to dis
cover it at once"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
"THE WORLD DO MOVE"

Something like a gigantic Ice cream
freezer has been built at the Utah Ag-
ricultural college, large enough to sur
round fruit trees, to experiment
with frost effects under actual or
chard conditions.
Because insects collect at the upper
end of screen doors an inventor has
brought out n in two sections per-
hitting children to enter through the
lower section without admitting in
sects to a house.
So that automobile tourists can
carry additional baggage an English
man has invented a trailer to be at
tached to the rear corners of a car
and be supported by a single wheel.
Violet light is being used by French
scientists to test precious stones, es-
pecially rubies, as it distinguishes the
more valuable Burmese gems from
Siamese ones of less worth.
For sending messages from air.
planes or balloons to the ground a
Frenchman has invented a missile to
contain paper, which, on striking the
ground. ignites a colored fire to sig
nal it's whereabouts.
A simple but accurate method for
measuring the surface of a human
being has been invented by a French
scientist.
If success greets a memorial cam
paign now being waged, a S250,00O me-
mortal to the late John P. st. John,
governor of Kansas and prohibition
leader, will be erected at Olathe, Kan.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
QUEEN H MEET.

The Queen Esthers met at the home
of Mrs. C. A. Campbell on Monday
evening. Miss Fannie Martin, Vice
President, presided in the absence of
the president. Different committees
were appointed for different lines.
Adjourned to meet with Miss Blanche
Lore the 3rd Monday in November.
Those present were: Fannie Martin,
Armenia Risley, Ellen Blake, Eliza
beth Wickman, Blanche Lore, Geor-
geanna Bennett, Hannah Godfrey,
Emeline Barrett, Elizabeth Simpson,
Virginia Carr, Sadie Boice. Margaretta
Horner,. Nellie Collins. Josie Collins,
Sarah Eccles, Dorothy Klair, Mary
Penhallow and Mrs. c. A. Campbell.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
EPIGRHYMES

! I'm settin' out q row of
{ POSTS to fence some pasture
! land. Now, my idee OF HONOR
{ is to set 'em so they'll
! stand agin' the storms of
[ winter and the crowdin' of
! the stock; for my OIL boss
{ leaves things to me: my
7 boy, you ARE a rock" he
I toll me once, 'for EVERMORE
7 them POSTS will stand, if
{ l show you my sense OF conf
I dence-no DANGER that you'll
! try to make work easy for
{ yourself AND free yourself
! OF CARE if you Just feel it's
{ up to You, and that your boss
! amt there" Now this may
[ sound like BLOWN my own
! horn. but, seems to me. that
{ this is what Tim Titcomb meant,
I and l think, honestly, that
{ this here wars another proof
7 that what he said was right -
I TO hold Our Country's honored
I post both you and me must Fight
7 Robert Russell.
{ posts of honor are evermore
{ posts of danger n of care"
Copyright, 1917, by Init Press Bureau.)
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
PROF. AND MRS. PATTERSON
RETURN TO BROOKLYN

Prof. and Mrs. Howard Patterson
and son, who have occupied the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Umbrine for
the past three months, returned to
Brooklyn, N. Y, on Wednesday.
Prof. Patterson was the teacher in
the Government School of Navigation
conducted in Atlantic City, during that
time. He is an authority on the sub
ject of navigation as with his father
also a professor of note, has conduct
ed a private school of navigation for
years. He has also issued a number
of publications on the subject.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
LinWoOd

There will be a Halloween Enter
tainment and Social in the Mechanics
Hall, Linwood, Oct. 31st, at s P. NJ,
given by the "Seaview' Drexel Biddle
Bible Glass. Mr.. and Mrs. Dayton
Hendry, of Absecon, Mrs. Peach and
Miss Tyson, of Atlantic City, will en-
terrain. Come and enjoy the good
time. Tickets, 20 cents; children I'M
der II years, 10 cents. Ice cream in
cluded with tickets. Other refresh
ments for sale.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
Senators, Peculiar AffIlction.

There is one United States senator
who does not take himself as seriously
as some of his colleagues take them
selves. This is evident from a remark
he made in the cloakroom one day:
'The trouble with the senate is" he
said, that after a man has been a
member of it n few months he gets a
he cannot see anybody but himself"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
RED CROSS ESTABLISHED
IN NEW HEADQUARTERS

The Pleasantville branch of the Am
erican Red Cross again wishes to mott
fly the public that their new headquar-
tiers are located at 103 n. Main street.
These headquarters are open every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday after
moons from 2 to 5 o'clock, with Miss
Elsie Adams in charge, and prepared
to distribute garments and wool. All
ladies are invited to visit the head
quarters and assist in the work being
done on surgical supplies.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20

Wise and Otherwise.

Love makes the world go
round and men go broke.
Some people are proud of
their past-because 1t Is past.
What women say causes more
trouble than what men think.
To the woman who carries
her age we'll life isn't much of
Il burden.
1t doesn't pay to advertise un-
less you are able to deliver the
goods.
One way to make people be-
lieve in you is to pretend that
you believe in them.
Gossips have no use for peo-
pie who refuse to supply them
with raw material.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
Beyond Remain.

In Boston you may split friendships
and later cement them back together.
But nothing a ever repair the dam
age done to a split inf1nitive.-Florida
Tim es-UniOn.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20
NOTICE..

The Y. P. B. will reorganize Thurs
day evening. October 25, at 8 o'clock
in the w. c. T. U. hall. officers for
the ensuing year will be elected. All
young people interested are invited to
be present.
Marguerite Lake. President.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1917-10-20

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STOCKS AND BONDS

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V
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to properly run my grocery, meat and
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DRESSMAKING AND MILLINERY
In Ansu ering Ads. Please Mention Times.

LADIES Good drcsSmnking and deslgn-
ing Can Mrs Stewart at w lli5 for
special prices during July and August
222h W. California.
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PAPERHANCING AND REPAIRING
In Answering Ads. Please Mention rimes.
SITUATIONS WANTED-MALE
La Ausv, ring Ada pI~use Mention 1kmes.

YOUNG man with seven years expert
ence with large retail firm. also expert
ence on the road. wants position ms
salesman. inside or on tho road. exempt
from Htmy draft; let me talk with you
l. A lnckAnn WI An2h
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Needs snlesmcn 10 work oklahoma city
md surrounding territory on direct in
quiries; must he from 2b 10 ~ years OF
age and furnish good references: we are
paying statesmen from $40 to 800 weekly;
apply personally II a m. 10 y, IN. r..
Gowan Glynn. Lee Huckins Hotch
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ABSTRACTS

ONE NJ tho best residences In thn CITY
seven rooms, breakfast room sleeping
porch, cement porch strictly modern,
new and attractive; ready for occupancy
In week, price $4,000; small payment
down, balance easy payments. might take
some trade. blakeney Investment com
pany lOOh North Broadway
A New south front. broom bungalow,
on 2lst. IN Central Park. half block
of car line. one and a half blocks
from Edgemere school. large living
q room, bullt-ln features, breakfast
~ room, This Ia dandy place and
In splendid ucghborhood Price
81 $50 and II can be bought on fcasona.
hle terms House is not quite completed
and buyer can select decorations and
electric fixtures Phone
jay j, pWNct.
n r STUART 4 co
90 W. Main, Maple &c.
Gunnison news-champion., 1917-11-02
CAR SHORTAGE AWFUL

Chicago. Oct. 24th:-Thc United
States t. facing one n the most s"r-
ious fulrh, car mortgages in its his
tory. according to Vice Chairman
For tho. in Il statement to the United
Pr today.
H. declared tha, with an enormous
grain crop To- move, an army Of half a
million 90 feed, combined with a gen
"raI inrrra-c in all classes Of bui -ncss
and shipping, the shortage is no doub,
real and serious.
The government is requiring for
army purposes the material WI .ch l.
ordinarily used in making locomotives
and cars. Practically all cars now
being built are being sent to France.
Nj Forsythe advocated cooperation
Of shippers and railroads in speeding
up shipments, immediate release Of
freight cars, and ordering by the car
load "a remedies for the situation.
Gunnison news-champion., 1917-11-02
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Denver Stockman: The highest
price ever paid for range feeding
steer on the Denver market was paid
here today for big roam steer shipped
in to market from Linwood, Utah, by
George Finch. This steer tipped the
scales at 1860 pounds and sold to feed
er buyers at sl4.l0, bringing the enor-
nous price of s26226. He will be
shipped to northern Colorado to be
fed during the winter and his new
owner affirms that he will come back
to market next spring weighing close
to $500 pounds. The steer was an
exceptionally we'll formed, smooth
steer, something unusual in an ami
NAL SO large. AS rule these big
steers are more or less freaks and
rather rough, but such was not the
case with this setter. He was just
naturally big all over and carried a
frame big enough to put on whole
lot OF additional weight in the feed
lot.
Gunnison news-champion., 1917-11-02
STRAWBERRIES
STEhMBOA ATS NEWEST FREAK

Steamboat Springs Pilot:
A curiosity that has been seen by
Visitors To the court house during
In" Last week 0. strawberries grown
and up"n"d IN the midst Of ice and
cold weather.. {. +. Homer last week
picked from his tract in Strawberry
park quantity Of the most luscious
and thoroughly ripe berries ever
seen here They ar Of extraordinary
slz", bong more ihun All inch in dia-
meter and well rlponcd 40 protection
was given tn" plants. ard within a
fow feet Of where the berries grew
ice had formed on water every night.
The fruit appeared to be unharned
night during tho last two vscets
by tn" frost and il is possible that
the Routt county strawberry king has
HIrhaEkrd his plants into hard-
ness that lists the cold, and that
strawberry picking and skiing may
20 hand iu hand in this county in the
near future. The berries are on the
vines that yielded So we'll last sum
mcT.
Gunnison news-champion., 1917-11-02

Field and Farm: Last winter
neighbor run two hundred cattle on
16O acres of rye, grazing them up to
May 10, and then took off twenty bu-
shells of grain from the same land.
He declares rye the most valuable
grain for stock farmer in this coun-
try. On the basis that the winter
pasture and the straw equal in value
the cost of growing and threshing this
crop, then he received s5 an acre more
than the value of his non-irrigated
land. In harvesting the rye he binds
and shocks it, and when threshed he
takes the straw and carefully stacks
and uses it through the winter with
siIage in feeding cattle and other
stock.
Gunnison news-champion., 1917-11-02
~ "a "a

DR.. Charles A. Lory: The great
blunder we have made in Colorado is
in allowing our enthusiasm to run riot
with our Judgment in the promises
we have made to the farmers. We
promised them that If they would
raise the crops, the government
would take them off their hands, We
spoke hastily and before we knew.
When it came time to harvest We
found that the government had some
thing else to do and the farmers
blamed us. The selective draft missed
our expectations. Instead OF leay-
ing men to work ON the farms it has
taken a large percentage Of the young
men who were working.
Gunnison news-champion., 1917-11-02
10 Fs E-
TIMELY TOPICS

Some time last winter n new federal
law was passed to help the settlers
under the reclamation projects who
have been held down to small units to
get their FULL allotment of homestead
lands the same as other citizens. Un-
der the new statute the settlers are
entitled to file upon enough mountain
or outside land to make the full al
iotment of 320 acres, Should the new
tract be within twenty miles of their
irrigated holdings then residence is
not required on the new filing to prove
up. AS we read between the lines
this law is of general application and
Is not confined to reclamation pro-
jects.
Gunnison news-champion., 1917-11-02
GUNNISON YEARLING
STEERS SI0.50
Denver Record Stockman:

Denver Record Stockman:
C. w. Mergleman of lola, Colo, was
on the Monday market with a ship
ment of cattle that sold well. One
bunch of 81 yearling steers average
weight $50 lbs. sold to C. W. White.
Of Rochelle, Illinois, to go to the feed
lots at sl0.50 freight paid to the river,
which is the record price for Gunni-
son yearlings. Mr.. Mergleman also
had in bunch Of 20 cows that aver
aged 1852 lbs. and sold at $50. Mr..
r. P. Mergleman also had in ship
ment of cattle for yesterdays market.
The COWS in the shipment, &c head,
sold at $50 and four steers brought
$1,000 with balance of the steers at
$3.50. Messrs. Mergieman We're high
ly pleased with the prices received fos
their cattle.
Gunnison news-champion., 1917-11-02
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HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS
MUST OBSERVE FOOD SAVING

As part of the food conservation
program, the hotels and restaurants
of Colorado will. beginning Tuesday
Of this week, serve no meat on Tues
days, and no wheat bread on Wednes-
days. This plan, which is a part of
the Hoover order, will last until the
end Of the war.
The state committe has notified
every hotel and restaurant of this ord
cr, and if it is not obeycd as patriotic
duty, the food card system of Ger
many may follow. We are going to
win this war, if we have to adopt the
German methods in doing it.
Gunnison news-champion., 1917-11-02
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UNCOMPAHGRE PROJECT
LANDS TO BE OPENED
As Soon As Same Are Classified Is
Order of Secretary of the Interior.

As Soon As Same Are Classified Is
Order of Secretary of the Interior.
Montrose Enterprise:
The Secretary Of the Interior, ac-
cording to a recent issue of the Rec
lamation Record has ordered opened
to entry as soon as lands are classified
I large part of the Government lands
in the Uncompahgre project. The
opening" continues the Record. twill
be widely advertised and such is the
demand for farms M this valley, espec-
tally government farms, that a record
attendance is anticipated. An excel
lent opportunity is offered now for the
water users association to list all
farms for sale. Information as to
methods and results may be obtained
from the Grand Valley Water Users
association, which has successfully
conducted selling campaign for sew
eral months. 1t will be up to the as
sociation to safeguard the newcomer
and see that he is not exploited by the
speculator."