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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-07
OSCAR sTRAwBRIDGE DIES

Mount Joy, Pa, April Z. - Oscar
Strawbridge, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Strawbridge, died on Thursday at his
parents home at cambridge after a
short illness. He was IL years old and
is survived by his parents and one
brother, Herbert. The funeral will
take place tomorrow afternoon at
o'clock with burial in the cambridge
Cemetery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-07
FIVE DAYS IN OPEN BOATS
3y ASsociatsd Press

London, April T. A Rotterdam
dispatch to the Times says that the
steamer Borneo is bringing to Yumi-
den seventeen members of the crew
of the Danish steamer Esther, which
has been sunk. The men had been
five days in open boats in snowstorms
when they were rescued and the ma
jority were unable to walk The
Belgian relief ship Trevier is reported
to have been still afioat on Thursday
afternoon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-07
RACING STABLES BURN
By Associated Press

New York, April Club houses,
stables and grandstands at the Bel
mont Park race track on the outskirts
of Brooklyn were almost entirely de-
stroyed early to-day by fire. The DAM
age is estimated at $4,000. Night
watchmen said that the flames burst
out in five places at once. The police
are hunting for an incendiary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-07
A I" "Sporting'' Range

Among the finer cars of the day. there are few
which pretend no compromise with the demand for
the genter virtues of soft, smooth fexbility. Such
cars are out and out exponents of the more rugged
virtues of brute power and speed In its Sporting
range the Peerless is ready to vie with such cars in
their own chosen field.
Let us demonstrate how much NOR
your motor car will mean to you when yo
can run the whole gamut of motor ca
performance with one and the same car
the Peerless Eight.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-04-07
TUo Power Ranges
Combine These Opposite Virtues
in the Peerless Eight

The delectable purr of an ideally soft,
smooth, flexible motor may now be had in
a car capable Of stupendous feats of power
and speed.
Two Power Ranges make the Peerless
Eight car of dual personality''-of un-
believable contrasts of performance.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25

Tessie Mcnamara, telephone switch
board girl at the big munition plant OF
the Canadian Car and Foundry COM
pany on the Jersey meadows neal
Kingsland, who happened to glance u
Of q window which overlooked q long
avenue of concrete and Iron one-story
buildings and saw q wisp of smoke
curling from the caves Of building W.
q shed stored with 200 gallons Of gaso-
line and used for cleaning and polish
Ing high explosive shells. With one
bound, Tessie was back at the switch
board, her %headgear adjusted, fighting
to conquer her rising panic. She beat
down her fears (she knew what smoke
wisps portended In a vast plant packed
with tremendous explosives) and rapid
ly connected with shed after shed
lust a word or two: "Fire In shed 30
sure to reach shell cars on side track
don't wait a second-get all men
out" AS Tessie sent in her final calls,
red-hot fragments Of steel ripped
from the bursting shells and flung high
in the air descended upon the roof Of
the headquarters building within five
feet of her head. Some of the pieces
tore through, n just grazing her.
She fninted. With building after build
Ing exploding, Macarthur, the fire chief,
and n few of his aids dragged the I'M
conscious girl from the switchboard.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25

Many a would-be poker player made
n mistake In his calling.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25

Mrs. Cynthia Westover Alden is thu
oldest newspaper woman In the United
States.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25
Books In Prison.

Prison literature has many fine pro-
ductions to Its credit In prose as wei
as poetry. In his prison at Athens.
Socrates completed his great argument
for Immortality; In a Roman dungeon
Calico made some Of his greatest dis
coveries. In his prison In Wartburg
castle Luther translated the New Test
ament into the German language. Dur
Ing his twelve years In Bedford jail
Bunyan dreamed his immortal dream
Of the "Pllgrim's Progress" Sir Wal
ter Raleigh wrote his fragmentary
history Of the world to beguile the long
years Of his Imprisonment In the
Tower Of London. Much Of the New.
Testament also is prison literature.
Some OF the finest Of the epistles OF
st. Paul we're written during his Inn
prisonment at Rome. and the Book Of
the Revelation Of st. John was writ
ten while he was IN exile on the Island
prison Of Pntmos.-London Chronicle.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25
I%lncautious BurqIar.

A man who is given to doing "odd
jobs" about his house vas very proud
Of a bit Of painting he had accom-
plished.
About midnight following the COM
pletion Of the outside Of the house
he was awakened by a noise. Creeping
to the window, he looked out, and to
his horror, saw n burglar climbing up
a ladder to the second-story window.
"Look out thereP yelled the house
holder to the burglar, Look out for
the paint"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25
Takes No Dictatlon.

Church-What's become OF your
stenographer and typewriter
Gotham-Flew de coop.
Left your"
"Sure thing"
"YOur wife the cause"
ooh, no."
Got another jobf"
"Nix."
"What happened thenT
"She became a suffragette."
"Well, couldn't she hold her job just
the same?"
"Say, boy, did you ever know of
a suffragette that could be dictated
TOT"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25
Chin of the Old Block.

There goes n millionaire who bragg
about his son to everybody who will
listen"
Evidently the young fellow is not
like the average heir to great wealth."
"No. indeed. The old gentleman was
trimmed In the stock market last week
and when he discovered that his own
son had turned the trick he was the
proudest man In the United States"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25
ACTRESS TELLS SECRET.

A we'll known ectress gives the follow.
ing recipe for gray hair: To half pint o.
water add I or. Bay Rum. q small boz q
Barbo Compound. and Y OF Of glyccrins.
Any druggist can put this up or you car
mix Il at home at very little cost. Fun
directions for making and use como In
each box OF Barbo Compound. II viii
gradually darken streaked. faded gray
hair, and make Il soft and glossy. II wiz
not color the scalp. IL not sticky OF
greasy, and Goes not rub on. Adv.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25
MOTHERS Joy SALVE

Tor Colds, Group, Pneumonia and
Asthma GOOSE GREASE IMMINENT
for Neuralgia, Rheumatism and
Sprains. For sale by all Druggists.
GOOSE GREASE COMPANY, MFRS,
Greensboro, N. C.-Ady.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25
Queer Preference.

1T Is very odd that b~aldheaded
men always want to sit in the front
at the theater."
"Yes, one would think they'd want
to get further away from the files"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25

Mrs. Annette A. Adams, assistant
United States district attorney, stepped
into the place Of the district attorney
when he was taken Ill at the start Of
the Bopp explosion plot trial Mt San
Francisco. Mrs. Adams opened for
the government, conducted the case
throughout Its course and secured a
verdict for the United States.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25
Looks the Part.

Monkeys have u great deal OF Gu.
hoslty."
~ take II the camel Is something Of
q rubberneck, too"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25

A postal card to Garfield Tea Co, Brook
Ign, N. Y, asking for q sample viii 70
pay you.-Adv.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25
Pictures of World Events for News Reader

.tnoert Our Readers in FIItor County and EISewhe
Around the World With the Camera on the Trail
Of History Making happenings.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-01-25

Llghtness is the chief claim for an
aluminium billiard that a Nebrask
inventor has patented.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19
MOTHER! YOUR CHILD
is CROSS, FEVERlSH,
FROM CONSTIPATION
If Tongue Is Coated, Breath Bad, Sto-
mach Sour, Clean Liver
and Bowels.

Give "California Syrup Of Figs" at
once-a teaspoonful to-day often
saves a sick child tomorrow.
II your little one is out-of-sorts.
half-sick, isn't resting, eating and
acting naturally-look, mother! See
if tongue is coated. This is a sure
sign that its little stomach, liver and
bowels are clogged with waste. When
cross, irritable, feverish. stomach
sour, breath bad or has stomach
ache, diarrhoea, sore throat full Of
cold, give teaspoonful Of "Califor-
MIA Syrup OF Figs" and in a few
hours all the constipated poison, un-
digested food and sour bile gently
moves ont Of its little bowels with
out gripping. and YOU have a well,
playful child again.
Mothers can rest easy after giving
this harmless fruit laxative" be-
cause it never fails to cleanse the lit
tie ones liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and they dearly love
its pleasant taste. Full directions
for babies. children Of all ages and
for grown-ups printed on each bot
tie.
Beware Of counterfeit fg syrups.
ASK your druggist for 50-cent bot
tie OF "California Syrup Of Figs"
then see that it is made by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Company."-Adv.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19
Kills His sister Accidentally.

Fort Mill, Sept. 13.-Frank STAN
per, eight-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs j. G. Stamper, who live on the
plantation Of DR.. r. S. Kirkpatrick.
about two miles from Fort Mill. ac-
cidentally shot and almost instantly
killed his sister, Flora Stamper, aged
about 12 years, the accident happen
Ing about 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. 1t appears that the boy was
trying to breach the gun to unload
it when the weapon discharged, the
charge entering the body Of the girl.
Coroner jury's verdict was in accord
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19

Hoke Smith Backs Cotton Embargo.
Washington, Sept. 13.-Establish-
ment of an embargo on cotton by this
government was endorsed by Sena-
tors Hoke Smith and Williams, Of
Georgia, speaking in the Senate to-
day. Both declared such an act
would have no effect on the market.
The demand is much greater al
ready than the supply, said Senator
Smith, who declared the supply this
year will fall 100000 bales below
last years consumption. even If all
shipments of cotton to neutrals are
stopped.
The charge that an embargo should
be placed on cotton in order to pre-
vent it from reaching Germany to be
used in the manufacture of explosiv es
was denied by Senator Smith. VINO
declared that Germany has not used
cotton for two years. What little
has reached that country has been
used in the manufacture Of clothing.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19
FARMERS URGED HOLD COTTON.
Planters of South Should Not Sell for
Less Than 25 Cents-ComparisOn.

Atlanta, Sept. 15.-Director Lem
B. Jackson of the State Bureau Of
Markets, has authorized statement
urging the farmers of the State and
of the South to hold their cotton for
a minimum Of 25 cents"
"Statistics," says Mr.. Jackson,
"show that during the past twelve
months the worlds consumption ex-
ceeded 21,O00,000 bales, while the
| worlds production was but 1S,0OO,-
600 bales.
But for our big 1914 surplus there
would have been an actual shortage
of 100000 bales.
The government estimate for 1917
shows that this will be short crop.
Three successive short crops exhaust
the surplus from preceding years,
and the entire crop of 1917 will have
been consumed long before the close
Of the cotton trade this year.
"The government has fixed the
price of this years wheat crop at
two and one-half times the average
for the past ten years. Considering
the extreme high cost Of producing
cotton under present conditions, we
believe that cotton should not be sold
for less than two and one-half times
! what it has averaged for ten years.
In other words, we believe that mid
ding cotton should bring minimum
of 25 cents, and that anything less is
unfair to the Southern cotton grower
A bale Of 25 cents cotton to-day will
| buy no more -four, meal, meat, lard
cloth or steel than would bale OF
| 10-cent cotton few years ago.
During the past 10 years the price
Of cotton has averaged IL cents, and
wheat 81 cents per bushel. On this
basis 50 wheat is equivalent to 25.
cent cotton, and S2.20 wheat is
equal to ascent cotton. The com.
parative prices Of the two for the 10.
| wear period has been:
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19
Grain Sowing. .

acres Of oats TO the plow on land that
is well prepared and well fertilized
will turn the trick and make enough
for your farm needs, and if it is a
good year will leave some to sell.
When you SOW with a three-disc
grain drill you can fertilize when you
SOW and you have about as safe a
crop as you can plant. We are not
selling three-disc grain drills, but
there are people here who do. You
can get the grain drills-but we are
selling Fertilizer, and the best that
is made; the very best put in sacks;
the best by test of result. And that
is what You want-the best by test
of results. We could not supply the
demand last spring nor the spring OF
1916. Sold out and swept the floors.
1t must be a pretty good Fertilizer
for there to be such demand for it.
1t isn't our winning ways that sells
the goods, at least we have been re-
ltably informed that our winning
ways did not add to the sales to speak
of. 1t is just the natural, inherent
virtue of the goods that makes the
crops and that creates the demand.
We have it now-fine and dry. See
us for prices. Cash December first.
If you can use it in bulk (unsack-
ed) we can save you the cost Of the
bags, which is higher this year than
we have ever known, and the cost of
the labor of bagging it, which is also
more than it has been heretofore.
See US and get the best. When it
is all the same price, get the best
A great many people will use 16 per
cent Acid by itself when sowing, and
will top-dress in the spring If needed.
The Virginia farmers use 16 per
cent Acid by itself when sowing, and
do not top-dress in the spring, and
Virginia farmers make fine grain
crops.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19

The United States Government
guarantees a minimum price Of $500
bushel for wheat harvested in 1918.
1t ought not to be a very difficult
matter to induce patriotic farmer
to raise wheat at $2.00 bushel.
South Carolina farmers are asked to
increase their wheat acreage Al per
cent tlis year. This also should be
easy to accomplish.
Two-dollar wheat means high -four,
for when you pay 5000 for wheat
and then pay the millers' tool, rail-
road freight and the dealers profit,
your flour will cost you pretty stiff
price. 1t takes six bushels of wheat
to make the kind of flour the most
Of you buy-millers and railroads
and dealers have their profit; they
won't work for nothing and board
themselves. The result Is you can
make your -four cheaper than you can
buy it.
And besides it will pay man to
SOW wheat for the stubble. There
has been considerable trouble the
last few years to get an early stand
of cotton, but there has been no trou-
Bile to get ian early stand of cotton
when it is planted after stubble. An
early stand is going to be exceeding
ly important when the boil weevil
strikes you, and it is going to strike
you, and when it does the early cot
ton Is all you will have to pick. When
the boil weevil comes, it will be July
| crop or no crop. And your July crop
will not be very heavy on cotton that
comes up in June. 1t will be the early
cotton that you will pick, and stubble
mighty nearly guarantees quick
stand. You cant SOW down all your
land at once and it is a good year to
begin when you are guaranteed $500
| bushel for your wheat.
Three acres Of wheat and three
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19
$40 a Bale Damage.
(Green wood journal, 13th.)

Greenwood Journal. 13th.)
Thirty bales of cotton purchased
by Cooper C. Griffin were damaged by
fire at 4.20 o'clock this morning. The
cotton was loaded in a box car on the
Southern siding, near the Southern
freight depot, yesterday afternoon
and the door fastened. 1t is sup
posed that the fire was packed into
one Of the bales at gin, but it was
impossible to find this morning in
which bale the blaze originated. J.
G.. Mattison, agent, estimates that
the damage will be about $40 a bale.
Valley, Wash, Is to have new
hospital built by contributions from
farmers.
Troubles are life's spring showers
for bringing out the blossoms OF our
friends kindliness.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19

The Ohio Experiment Station, of
Wooster, as an average for the last
22 years, has secured an increase Of
so bushels of wheat to the acre from
an application of 160 pounds of Aicd
Phosphate to the acre. The unphos-
phated yield has been 11.2 bushels,
and the phosphated 1872 bushels.
Where 100 pounds of Potash has
been added to the Phosphate, the
yield has been 20.4 bushels to the
acre, or an increase of 1.2 bushels
more than vas secured from Phos-
rMate alone. Even at present prices
for wheat and before-war prices FOR
Potash the increase III the wheat crop
was not sufficient to pay the cost of
the Potash. The addition of Potash
to fertilizer containing PHOSPHORUS
and nitrogen will not be profitable
when applied to clay and loan soils.
Nine farmers out of ten should fer
tiliZe wheat this fall. Fertilizer not
only increases the yield directly, but
the greater supply Of available plant
food makes stronger plants that with
stand the attack Of fungus diseases
and insects better than those infer
tilted. At present prices the farmer
may expect a return of at least FIVE
dollars for every dollar spent for
wheat fertilizer this fall.
The importance Of ordering early
cannot be too strongly emphasized.
Those who order early will get what
they want, while those who order late
will be compelled to take what Is left,
or do without.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19
Drafted Man Commits Suicide.

Covington, La, Sept. 13.-Wil-
liam Bradley, young farmer, was
one o. the number 25S men" draft
ed. He didn't want to be drafted.
Last Friday he fed to the swamps,
armed with two rifles and plenty Of
ammunition. To-day his body was
found with bullet in the head. OFF,
GERS believe he shot himself.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19
5000 Jews at One Camp.

New York, Sept. 13.-What Is said
to be the largest number of Jews as
sembled at one camp n this country
will he at Camp Upton. Long Island
by Atonement day, September 26. 1t
has been arranged to give members
OF the faith furlough to observe the
day. The estimated number is 5000.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19
International Wheat Price.

Winnipeg. Sept. 13.-The price
for Canada's 1917 wheat crop is to be
the same as that fixed by the United
States for the same grade, it was an
nOunced to-day.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19
parts of the first engine were
urned out at l2 different factories,

turned out ~ uiuSISIt laCtOIleS,
located all the way from Connecticut
to California. When the parts were
assembled the adjustment was per-
feet and the performance Of the en-
gine was wonderfully gratifying.
"One Of the chief rules outlined at
the beginning Of the designing work
was that no engineer should be per-
mitted to introduce construction
which had not been tried out. The
| new engine Is successful because it
cmbodies the best thought Of engi-
neering experience to-day. Not only
did this country furnish ideas
| through celebrated consulting engi-
neers, but the representatives in the
United States Of England, France and
Italy co-operatcd in the development
Of this motor.
"Thirty days after the assembling
Of the first engine preliminary tests
| justified the government in formally
accepting the engine as the best air.
craft engine produced in any coun-
try. The maj tests confirmed our
faith in the new motor in every de-
| gree.
Altitude Record Broken.
Both the flying and altitude tests
Of the new motor have been crafty
| ing. One Of the engines, in an air.
| plane, broke the American altitude
record in a recent flying test.
"While it is not deemed expedient
to discuss in detail the performances
and mechanics Of the new motor, it
may be said that Standardization is a
chief factor in the development Of
the governments motor.
''The new engine amounts practi-
cally to an International model. 1t
embodies the best there is in Ameri-
European models.
"The two engineers most directly
connected with the production of the
United States aviation engine had be-
fore them not only the blue prints
and models of the most successful
engines the war has produced, but
also every available American sug-
gestion. The result was a complete
design Of maximum power, minimum
weight, great speed, capability and
adaptability to quick production.
THE Standardization Of parts ma
terially simplifies the problem Of re-
pair and maintenance. Such parts
will be promptly available at all
times.
This will make the question of re-
pairs back Of the lines a comparative
ly simple matter.
"Construction Of the new standard
engine will not interfere with the
continued manufacture or other SER
IN.rr1Dlr m0dojS "itl,r European OF
/ Am"ricon " hich existing plants are
! already iNramG out
NuJ AGuprcd to Methods.
"Tno go'rrn,0eDt H. some. lnos
asked, why does not the United
States adopt one OF the successful
British or French high-powered ma
chimes and manufacture them?' Be-
cause French machines, as a rule,
are not adapted to American manu-
featuring methods. They are highly
| specialized machines. 1t would re-
quire year or more to teach Ameri-
can manufacturers and their me-
chanics to turn out such highly spe-
cialized airplanes.
The standardized United States
aviation engine is expected to solve
the problem OF building high class,
powerful and yet comparatively deli
cate aviation engines by American
machine methods-the same stand
ardized methods which revolution
lied the automobile industry in this
country.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-09-19
FERTILIZING OF WHEAT.

The following statement concern
ing the fertilization of wheat this fall
was issued by the Department Of Ag-
ricultural Extension at Purdue Uni
versity, July 81, 1917:
The fertilization of the wheat crop
was never more important than it
will be this fall. From every part of
Indiana come reports of the excellent
results secured from fertilization, and
the very poor yields Of wheat secur-
ed from IE!ertil!aed SOIL. BY iertiia-
Ing, the farmer swaps dollars Tor
eagles.
"EvidcnCe pN The pIotita blenrss OF
iertiii4lns tne wheat is abundant. in
1916 l.. NJ. Waggoner, of st. Joseph
county, applied 200 pounds of Acid
Phosphate to the acre, on all but a
small part of field sown in wheat.
From the fertilized part he secured
22.4 bushels of wheat to the acre,
and on the unfertiliZed, 1875 bushels
to the acre-a gain Of 90 bushels,
due to fertilizing."
This year 200 pounds of Acid
Phosphate will cost about $2.25, and
wheat is worth $500 per bushel. On
this basis the increase secured by Mr..
Waggoner would be worth $3.50,
and the profit after counting ex-
penses of applying fertilizer and pay
ing for harvesting and marketing the
increased crop would be more than
$500 an acre. If this isn't case Of
swapping dollars for eagles 1t comes
very near to 1t.