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The Washington times., 1918-03-15
BOOM IN POTATOES
BURSTS;FARMERS
GREATLY PEEVED

FREDERICK. Nd, March 15.-The
three e-doIlar-a-busheI potato bubble
which Frederick county farmers have
been fondly nursing all winter long
has burst. Vast stores of the product,
almost priceless last year, are going
for what the farmers consider mere
songs,p from 81 to 10 cents per bushel.
And they don't like it.
This peeved feeling among the till
ers of the soil seems to be general
All farmers, who stored up potatoes
and 1t is claimed that many were put
away last fall with the expectation OF
fancy prices, have this feeling. Even
the officers of farmers organizations
are angry at being cheated out of the
tidy sum.
eff I don't get what I consider q
fair price for my potatoes" said one
prominent farmer. "Fll feed them to
my hogs and cattle"
This statement was made the other
day in the county courthouse during a
discussion Of prices when IT was re-
ported that potatoes were retailing at
50. 40 per bushel and the farmers were
getting a dollar per bushel.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
SOLDIER DESCRIBES
WORK OF I'M. c. A.
ON FRENCH FRONT

A vivid word picture OF what the Y.
N. c. A is doing for the American
boys In France is contained in a let
ter from Private George J. Barbara, a
Washington boy, to friends in this
city. Private Barbara writes:
Most of the evenings here we
spend in the Y. N. c. A. huts. 1 wish
you could have heard the signers that
furnished the entertainment the other
night I have never heard a better
program of music
1--WE also were favored with a few
recitations by z. H. Sothern and
piano solos by an artist whose name
I did not get-and then we saw the
movies and pictures of the good old
u. s. A Maybe the boys didn't do
some cheering when they saw a IA
miliar spot, and then you ought to
have seen the smiles and heard the
laughter when some little love scene
was flashed upon the screen. The
show was great!
1--WE have something like this every
night with boxing matches and basket
ball games now and then. You would
be surprised at the talent we find
among the boys here. We have mu-
sicians, acrobats, pugilists, comedians,
magicians, card sharps-real GOOD
ones, too-also some who think they
their little stunts Just once and often
make very hasty exists through the
stage door.
Seriously speaking though the peo-
pie at home never will know the won
derful work the Y. N. c. A is doing
here until the boys are able to come
home and tell about it."
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
ADVERTISEMENT
Try This If You
Have DandruH

There is one sure way that never
fails &c remove dandruff completely
and that is to dissolve it This de-
stroys 1t entirely. To do this, just
get about four ounces of plain, ordi-
nary liquid arvon; apply 1t at night
when retiring; use enough to moisten
the scalp and rub 1t IN gently with
the finger tips.
BY morning. most If not all, OF your
dandruff will be gone, and three or
four more applications will complete
ly dissolve and entirely destroy every
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You will find, too. that all itching
and digging Of the scalp win stop in
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lustrous, glossy. silky and soft, and
look and feel a hundred times better.
You can get liquid arvon at any
drug store. It is inexpensive, and
four ounces is all you will need This
simple remedy has never been known
TO fail.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
LITTLE INSANITY.
EXPECTED INARMY,
DECLARES EXPERT

Armies of the United States in the
present war will show a smaller per
centage of mental arrangement than
those of any other allied nation, DIR.
William A. White. superintendent of
the Government Hospital for the In
sane, declared as his belief today, in
discussing the erection OF an addi-
tIon to the institution for the care of
such patients.
At the same time, the burden which
such men would be on their families
makes 1t imperative that every ar
rangement for their treatment at
Government institutions be made in
advance, he says
"a semi-permanent building for 500
inmates is to be put up opposite our
administration buildings" said DR..
White. 1--WE are preparing for what
the near-future inevitably must bring
in the way OF insanity among Ameri-
can troops. But 1 believe the per-
centage will be lower than that Of
any allied army on account of the
rigid mental tests administered to all
our men before they go into service"
The building will be Of concrete
and one story high. An appropriation
of 100000 Is available for its con-
struction. Bids will be called for in
a short time, and II Is thought 1t will
be ready for occupancy by the end of
this summer. Besides the wards there
will be q reception hall. diet kitchen,
and attendants quarters. Army physi-
clans now being trained at the hos
pital will have charge.
Few shell-shock patients viii be
brought to America, 1t Is understood.
The balance of these victims cannot
properly be classed as insane, and IN
addition their trouble Is made more
acute by moving them from place to
place.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
WAR TROPHIES TO AID
LIBERTY BOND SALES

German helmets. Grenades and
storming weapons-trophles OF bat
tIe-wiIl help sell Liberty bonds
through the South.
Twelve carloads have been received
In this country by the French high
commission, and they will be turned
over to the loan committees OF three
Southern Federal Reserve districts for
use during the third loan campaign.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
HOW THE GERMANS
TREAT ENSLAVED
BELGIAN WOMEN

LONDON, March 15.-The CORE
spondent OF the Times at Amsterdam
writes:
"At Blakenberghe the Germans
forced a great number of servants to
leave their situations and tried to COM
pei them to take up the work of I'M
loading, docking, and transportation
for the army. The young girls re-
fused and were shut up In the Hotel
Belvedere, which serves as a prison.
Most of them persisted in their refusal
and were liberated: they were requ-
sitioned again and sent to different
places, even to the wall OF the port Of
Zeebruge in ordsr TO work there for
the Germans. Daughters OF farmers
and the bourgeoisie from the sur
rounding country have also been
reQuisitioned.
Ill Arc Not Spared.
THE military authority does not
spare even the disabled and Ill. The
Telegraaf correspondent on the from
tier reports that a disabled man VINO
happened to remark that he had only
one leg was told that there was work
that he could do with his hands. A
onc.armed man was told: 'Wo will
two of you can do one mans work
THE communal school at Dudzeele
has been transformed into a penal
colony. The building is surrounded
with barbed wire. like prisoners
camp. The chateau near Bruges Is
also employed as penal colony"
The Rheinische Westfalische Eel
tung recently contained a cOmmuni-
alton emanRting from the labor ex-
change OF Cologne, which said In
parts
View of German Labor.
Industry meets with more and
more difficulty in procuring artisans.
difficulties that can be remedied only
in so far as the supply OF labor per-
mits. The central intelligence office
for manual labor asked at once that
foreign artisans should be called on
for aid. These artisans will not be
able TO replace entirely the German
workmen. to say nothing of their do
mands In respect TO wages. which arc
very often in inverse ratio to their
capacities. Experience, moreover,
has still to teach US whether the en-
plOyment of women from the occu-
pied territories will bo OF advantage
for the munition industries The de-
mand for women workers in the met
allurgic industry, as well as in chem
ical and explosive Industries, Is very
great, and the supply. according to
the figures. is still diminished"
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
open NOSTR|LS! END
A COLD OR CATARRH.

or headaches; no struggling for
breath at night.
Get a small bottle OF Ely's Cream
Balm from your druggist and apply
q little Of this fragrant antiseptic
cream in your nostrils. II pene-
the head, Soothing and healing
the swollen or infiamed mucous
membrane, giving you instant re-
lief. Head colds and catarrh yield
like magic. Don't stay stuffed-up
and miserable. Relief is sure.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
3 YEARS IN TRENCHES;
BREAKS LEG AT MEADE

CAMP MEADE, March 15,-After
fighting three years on the Western
front, Lieut.. Guy LIE Breton, a French
instructor here. is today at the base
hospital suffering with broken leg.
He sustained the injury while rid
ing in the side car OF motorcycle
The motorcycle skidded and overturn-
ed, pinning the lieutenant beneath.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
QUITS DISTRICT POST.

H. C. Montague. electrical inspector
for the District for twelve years, will
leave the service tomorrow, to go with
the United States Shipping Board as
inspector OF electrical devices on mer-,
chant ships. He will leave for a west
ern city to take up his first duties.
After this assignment Mr.. Montague
will be stationed at an eastern port.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
WANTS U. S. AND BRITISH
. VIEWSON JAPAN CLEAR

LONDON, March 15.-H. b Lees
Smith, member OF Parliament from
Northampton. demanded in the House
of Commons that Arthur Balfour, Sec
retary of state for foreign affairs, ex-
plain the differences between Lord
Cecirs interview and President VIII
sons policy toward Japan.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
BRITISH WORKERS MAY
GTLARGER MEATRATTON

LONDON. March 15.-Lord Rhondda,
the food, controller, said he hoped in
April to be able to give those en-
gagged in hard physical labor an in
creased meat ration o 10 per cent,
and those engaged In very hard physi'
cal labor double the ordinary ration.
The outlook as respected wheat was
not particularly happy, but. he added
there was no cause for alarm A
scheme of bread rationing was under
preparation. and would be ready II
and when the government decided 1t
was necessary.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
COURT FREES MoNTENEeRINs

INDIANAPOLIS, March 15-Thirteen
Montenegrins on trial IN the United
States District Court here on charge
of conspiring TO obstruct the United
States in its military preparations were
discharged when Judge A. b. Anderson.
saving the Government failed TO prove
its case. directed the jury TO return 4
verdict OF not guilty.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
FLOOD HITS NEW YORK TOWNS.

HoRNELL. N. Y, March 15.-Flood
tides caused by a terrific rainstorm
and a cloudburst which resulted in
the CanIsteo river overflowing its
banks have flooded this city and
five surrounding towns, isOlating
hundreds of homes, killing scores OF
cattle, and causing a property loss
of between $4,000 and 100000. As
lost
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
PARIS RAISES GAS RATES.

PARIS, March 15.-An increase in
the price of gas from 5 to cents
cubic meter, with a rate OF 8 cents
for consumers who do not use more
than one and a half cubic meters
daily, has been sanctioned by the
cabinet. Owing to the increased cost
Of coal, the rate in effect heretofore
has hardly paid the expense Of pro-
duction.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
All Infants IN U. 5.
VIII Be Weighed in
"Baby Welfare" Drive

A nationwide campaign to
weigh and measure all babies in
the United States will be begun
April 9.
The work will be directed by
the woman's division of the Coun-
ell OF National Defense, as part
of the child welfare movement to
reduce infant mortality.
The campaign was finally de-
cided on here at a conference OF
State chairmen OF the woman's
division at the Interior Depart
ment.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
Women Will Run
This New York Town
If Democrats Win

GOvERNEUR, N. Y, March Is.
An all-woman municipal ticket
has been put out by the Demo-
Gratis OF this city.
The list Is headed by Mrs. Edna
Noble, the mayoralty candidate.
Several OF the women formerly
in the race for nomination to mu-
nicipal offices withdrew several
days ago, but the Democrats
placed their names on the ticket.
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
How to Get Relief When Head
and Nose are Stuffed Up.

Count fftyI Your cold IN head or
catarrh disappears. Your clogged
noetriIs will open. the air passages
of your head will clear and you can
breathe freely. No more snufhing.
hawking, mucous discharge, dryness
The Washington times., 1918-03-15
BUDGET SYSTEM
IN HOUSE
BY MCCORMICK

A national budget system for the
United States which will make sweep
ing changes in the present method OF
both appropriating and expending
money is provided for in series OF
bills and resolutions Congressman
Medill Mccormick introduced.
A much more business-like ana
economical Government organization
will result, Mccormick believes
Abolish Eleven Committees.
McCormick's plan would abolish
two of the most important commit
tees OF the House-Ways and Means
and Appropriations--wou take away
the power to report bills carrying ap-
propriations from other committees
and would create in their stead the
single budget committee.
The Secretary OF the Treasury, un-
der the plan, would be the nations
budget maker in a much more specihc
sense than he is now. Instead OF
merely transmitting the financial re-
quests OF the various departments he
would be given power to revise the
requests to fit into the nations bud
get, his work to have the approval OF
the President.
Dust Other officials.
Nine other House committees, those
OF expenditures in the various depart
ments, the one Congressman Fuller
of Massachusetts,. recently called use
less-would be abolished by the Nc
Cormick plan and a single committee
OF departments' accounts established.
The auditors of the departments would
be abolished and an auditor general
holding office for life would be re-
sponsible for all expenditures.
Fifteen States have adopted the
budget SYSTEM said Mccormick, "and
many municipalities have done like
wise. Chambers OF commerce have In
dorsed it and at the last election
every political party declared for 1t.
The economies possible under such
businesslike reorganization will
tighten the increasing burden OF tax
alton which the war must place on
the backs of the people"
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10
TIRES
PRICES

Goods shipped to all points C.
U. d. Money refunded on goods
returned intact within one week.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10
At The Theatre
At l.. & s. Theatre Tomorrow.

The appearance of popular Ethel
Clayton at the L. & S. theatre to-
morrow will be hailed with delight
by her many friends in this city, and
her local admirers will be interested
in hearing that her new production
is one of the very beat she has ever
had. The title of the picture is "The
Dormant Power" and it gives Miss
Clayton opportunities for the dis
play of a great range of acting and
for the wearing of many different
gowns. "The Dormant Power" is a
v:rile picture, filled to the brim with
entertaining and exciting incidents.
Its scenic efforts are particularly
noteworthy, one night view of New
York's Great White Way being espe
cially out of the ordinary. This is
a picture that is guaranteed to please.
Coming Saturday, Nance C'Neil in
"Hedda Gabler." Also a rip-roaring
Alice Howell comedy in two reels
the FUNNIEST and best slapstick come
!ienne of the screen today
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10
At the Palace Friday.

A story of big business exposing
the intrigue and trickery of unscru-
Dulous financial powers is told in the
latest Goldwyn production, "Fight-
ing Odds" by Roi Cooper Megrue and
irwin S. Cobb, which is presented at
the Palace theatre Friday with Max
inc Elliott, noted beauty and a stage
favorite, making her debut as a star
for Goldwyn. Her screen work marks
the first appearance of Mexine Ell
l:ott before American audiences in
-everal seasons, and her return as a
/, tar in motion pictures is the more
rotable because she is presented in
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10

California Farms Company.
Gentlemen farmed in Humboldt county for years. Last
May to Capay Rancho and bought land here and like
Pm going put all of my land in alfalfa and will put
in oranges almonds, prunes, figs and peaches.
looked around and believe that this soil will grow
anything be grown in California. think it is much
than many districts have where land selling
for $4OO and $500
The individual electric pumping plant is fine because
rrigate whenever want to- am farming forty acres
belonging Mr.. A. r. Priesey. He bought eighty
here but can't improve his land till fall have planted this
forty and it is up in fine shape rrigat-
ing this and have water from the pump than
handle The low power rate makes the cost of rrgag
very cheap.
The close by and it is fine bath
ing and fishing
Pm satisfied that have made good buy.
C. B. STEWARD
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10

Following are Los Angeles produce
quotations at the close Of business
last night:
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10
Kansas City Market.
(Bv Private Wire)

Kansas City, Jan. 9. - Cattle re-
ceipts today were seventeen thousand,
steady; hogs, receipts, fifteen thou
sand. fifteen to twenty points lower,
top price $3.50; bulk price 1920 to
s16.45. Sheep, receipts, twelve thou
sand, twenty five cents higher top
price of lambs $17.00.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10
News In Brief

The State Railroad Commission
hearing on Holton Interurban freight
rates, to be held in Holtville, has been
postponed from January IL to Janu-
ary Is.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10

George w. Turner, aged SO, and
Paul o. Johnson, aged 20, enlisted in
the Coast artillery: corps, U. S. A.,
,ast night.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10
MARKET QUOTATIONS

Following are closing quotations
for New York cotton, furnished by
The Imperial Valley Long Staple Cot.
ton Growers Association:
January, 1925; March, 31.72; May
1906.
Following are Los Angeles produce
last night:
Butter-Creame ryeXtras, soc per
pound. The selling price to the trade
is cents higher than above quota
lion.
Eggs-Fresh extras, 53c; case count
soc; pullets, SOC. All eggs sold include
cases and filters, valued at 3S cents.
Poultry-Prices to producers: Small
rollers, "a; large broilers. l 4 pounds
nd up, "a; fryers, pa pounds and up.
27@2S: roasting chickens, 3 pounds
nd up, 25; old cocks, IA; Leghorn
ems, 22@24; young ducks, %; old
ucks, 20; SQUAD pigeons, 4.00@5.00;
urkeys, 26@29; geese, 19.
Grain and Feed-(Per 100 pounds):
Alfalfa meal, 200; alfalfa molasses,
11: barley, rolled, $40; ground bar
ey, $50; recleaned barley, S.25; corn,
whole yellow, 4.45; whole white corn,
SIS; corn acked, 4.50; Egyptian
orn, 500; white feed oats, $40; bran,
.25; shorts; sos; No. wheat 100
pound sacks, 4O5; cracked wheat. 4.40;
milo maize, 3.25; oileake meal, 3.75.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10

Kurt Paul Kunzman, who has been
classed as an alien enemy, has been
given a permit to cross into the Unit
ed States from Mexico. He is an en-
ployee of the Irrigation District.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10

Texas sheep men have leased the
=. F. kamm ranch of 800 acres on the
slast Side high line, paying $10,5OO
Tor the years lease. They will bring
$4,000 head of sheep here from
Texas.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10

The windstorm which began yester-
day, the first of the season, gives
promise of rain to the stricken Coast
section.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-10

Girls of the Central High Schoo
basketball team will play the Holt.
yilel six at Holtville tomorrow after.
non.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-18
CRANBURY

Mr.. and Mrs. Russell johnson and
son Warren were Columbus Day visl-
tors with Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Hon-
man, of Englishtown.
Mrs. Viola Petty. daughter of Dis
brow Bergen. of Cranbury, is Ill with
1.-THE typhoid fever in the hospital at
Media, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. s. Hoffman enter
tanned for a few days this week Miss
Mary carp, of Hightstown. Miss carp
has charge of the infirmary at Peddie
Institute.
Mrs. A. s. Cole has gone to Mill
Vile owing to the illness in the family
of Rev. and Mrs. u. G. Hagaman.
i DIR. B. S. VanDyke Is recovering
nicely from his recent illness. so as TO
be out.
Miss Olive Petty returned home ON
TUESDAY after spending a Few Gays
with friends at F~ieldsboro.
| Miss Sadie McChesney. OF Newark,
William Bergen.
Miss Gertrude Harder, who a
been confined to her bed for the past
week, is improving slowly.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Russell Silvers
and family are confined to bed by III
ness.
J Cranbury has its first epidemic
| death in the death OF Mrs. Florence
Lolita Bergen, wife of Bertram Clay
ton. Mrs. Clayton was the daughter
| of w. Elmer and the late Mrs. Ella
| Bergen, and survived her mother just
| one year. She leaves her invalid
father, who lived with her; her hus-
band, Bertram 8. Clayton. and two
daughters. Marion and Alberta. The
| marriage of Mr.. and Mrs. Clayton
took place on the fifteenth of June.
nineteen hundred and ten, and was
the elimination of the romance Of
| school days.
Miss Adah Rue has been confined
to her home this week by Illness.
Miss Georgia Thompson Is az
| Jamesburg for some time.
Mrs. John Frazier. of Philadelphia,
is visiting her mother. Mrs. Anna
, Groves.
Mrs. Earl Wilson. who hah had the
pneumonia for the past week. Is I'M
proving slowly.
Miss Emma echnell. Of Tullytown,
was a week END visitor with her par
tents. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Schneil
Miss Louisa Schnell is substituting
in the Farmers Exchange Office this
week during the illness OF Miss Hazel
Hutchinson.
Miss Mary Hutchinson is visiting
her aunt in New York city.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-18
kEYPoRT

Albert Hopkins, q former resident
OF the borough, now living at Eaton
town, spent Tuesday In town as the
guest OF friends
Mrs. o. II. Dayton, of Main street
was the guest of friends at Matawan
on Wednesday.
James d. Holmes. of Broad street,
has suffered another stroke of apo
plexy and Is confined to his home.
Mrs. Dickhaut, of Jamaica. l.. l.. IL
spending several days as the guest OF
her daughter, Mrs. John r. Reeves. OF
Osborne street.
Miss Elizabeth Brown, of First
street, who attends school at the
Montclair Normal school, is hons
owing to the school being closed be-
cause of the influenza epidemic.
Lieut.. Kenneth Hand has returned
to the George Washington University
after having spent several days fur
Tough with his parents, Rev. and Mrs.
A. w. Hand of Third street.
Edward Maurer is recovering from
illness which has kept him confined
his home on Osborne street for
several weeks. Mr.. Maurer Is a stu
dent at Rutgers College.
There will be no meeting of CAL
NJ. e. choir this evening.
Mrs. Thomas Dawson has recovered
from illness which has kept her con-
fined to her home In Main street for
some time.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-18
PLEASANT PLAINS

Mr.. and Mrs. James Thompson. OF
Brooklyn, visited in Prince Bay this
week. -,
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Peterson and
daughter. Miss Florence peterson; OF
New Dorp. visited in totwn yesterday.
Mrs. Robert Decker. of T~ottenville,
visited her parents here yesterday.
Patrolman Abram Johnson has re-
turned to duty after his annual Vaca-
ton.
James Higgins with his family nave
returned home after an automobile
trip in New Jersey.
Glare Costello of the navy. has been
at hohme for a visit with his parents.
Many members of the Prince a
Red Cross Auxiliary were out at the
meeting yesterday at n churcn.
borough of Richmond have been maxi
ing repairs to the various streets In
this section this week.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-18
.TOTTENVlLLE

Mrs. Edward Burns and daughter
are visiting her mother. Mrs. l.. MO
rev of Yetman avenue.
Miss Martha Henry, teacher In the
Farmingdale school on Long Island Is
home.
Charles Walters of the navy Is out
again after recent illness
Deputy Chief William T. Begin OF
the borough fire department was here
yesterday.
w Wallace Laird has returned
home again after several weeks alb
sence
Willis Larkin is seriously i'll at his
home with an attack of pneumonia.
No deaths were reported here this
morning from influenza or pneumonia.
william Wincapaw. a Former resi-
dent. is said to be seriously i'll at MS
home In Princeton.
The second degree was conferred on
Ave candidates by Huguenot Lodge.
No. sS1. F. & A. NJ at Its meeting
last night.