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AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEV01 ED TO LITEKAI URE. LOCAL AM) GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
NAZAREIH, PA.,  THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1918
NO. 28
"       srK.vDs iir(;i; .sums
FOU  W.VU .M.VTKULVL
The Arm.v Ordnance Departmont has negotiated approximati'ly 12,000 ?nntracls since lliis country entered te war, involving witliin $175,000,- 000 of tlic I'll"' I'lii'ls direutiy avail- .he for tliet Departnient for the pro- .ent tl-^'^''' .vear—!f;{,;iS3,list!,04.'-., • dditional contracts totaling IL.'iOa,- jjli 741 have been enlereii into on i'he aiitliority of Congress pending ag- .regaliiig .?1.071,466,750.
Tlie magnitude of tlie ta.slt of the Onlnance Department linaneially is evidenced by tho disbursement recen¬ tlv in a single day of moro tlian if:i5,- jOO.OOO on ordinary contract voucli- „i' Disbursements for the month of April, litis, ran lo .?356,884,863, an interesting aniount as compared with tie $r),ori!»,-(i4 disbursed by tlie or¬ dnance Ollico in Washington. Amounts disbursed at Governmeat arsenals are noi included.
One clieck  recently  drawn  by  the Ordnuue Disbursing Olhcer  for ord¬ nance material  was for $18,750,000. One reiiuisition made recently by this ume ollicer on the Treasury was for [}169,O00,0OO.     This    is the    largest ilngle reiiuisition ever made by any ¦nited Slates disbursing oITicer. Trior to two nionths ago, before the irdnaiice Department eslablislied lis
ilistrict olliees    which    zoned  tho
foim ly to expodit payments  to con'
iractiii-s and  relieve  the  strain  upon
ttlie main    ollice in Wasliington,    the
listrilmting   onicer   at    Washington
ed   from   500   to   3,000   checlts  a
SPECIAL SERVICES FOR YOUNG MEN
OHARLES LERCH, WBLIi
KNOWN loorc.vrou, dead.
KGOLA AN1> I'. K. I'OIdCK
i\ i:.\crn.\G g.\>ie.
Hy
...e   baseball   gamo   between   the lladclphia and  Reading U.  Il_  Po- j club,    of Philadelphia    and the irgela  semi-professionals  of  Allen- „n was free hitting game the do- itlves   knocking   Anderson  out   of biix  alter  luung  itvo  liumo  runs two sacker in  one  inning.     Tho gs   then   put   Bennison   or   Csmp uc leam in the box who alTowed ...  one run the game ending in fa¬ ir of the Police 8 to 7.     The game .. played on the Dorney Park dia- lond and  the biggest crowd of the ion  witnessed   it.    This   was  the game    of a series    of three the .,..1(1  gamo   between     these     clubs rill be played in July. N'ext Sunday afternooiion the Dor- .;;¦ Poriv  diamond     the     .Ailentown lub will have as their opponents th« ..lisbury   Iron   Co.,   Club   which   is imposeil of all    minor  and     major ,gue material,   having   with   them .uxtis, of  Cincinnati  Uedi  and  N. Yanlvies;      Carris,   Swalhmore; jotciistoiie,   Delaware     Co..   league; ;iiue, Baldwin, Delaware Co.;   Pep- iky,    Tristate;      .Martin,     I'enna; ir, Cincinnati Reds; Stein and Wei- of  Tennsylvania   and   Swathmore )llege,      Notliing    but    the above taiie clubs   will   be   booked   at   this so   liiat   the   fans   will   not   be ippoinled     with     seeing     a  poor The garaes  start  promptly  at iree o'clock.
for Mooreslown Young Mon Who Are
Serving Their Country-Special
Music For Occasion.
Special services were held oii Sun¬ day morning iu the Moorestown Cliurch in honor of the young men from tho Sunday-school aud Congre¬ gation who aro "over there" or yet in various camps. Not since the day in '61 when services were held for tho young nun who had assem¬ bled in the churtli liere before leav¬ ing for the army, have such impres¬ sivo patriotic services been witnes¬ sed in this place. On very few other occasions had more people gathered in the church. There wero many people present from distant places, drawn by the respect for some one or olher of the boys represented on the servico flag. County Superin¬ tendent George A. Grim, of Xazarelh spoko very freely of the servico flag and its meaning and the duly of those who didn't have the privilege to sliow tlieir patriotism upon tlie lield of battle. .Mrs. Willis Hagen¬ buch, ot Nazarelh, sang two songs lielitting tho occasion. One of them "Keep the Home B''ires Burning", was particularly touching to those present who have sons, brothers or husbands in the service. Thero are nineteen stars on tho service flag, representing the following young men,—-Herbert Frack, Harry Miller, Cliarles Flick. Howard Heckman, Clarence Hummel, Walter Schlegel, Fred Lilly. i:d\vin .Minnicli, liyroii Kuykel, Paul Beers, William Hann, .Mbert Smith, George Mann, Robert Minnich, Willioughby Frack. Walter Wasser, Harrj' Labarre, Clyde Me< bus,  Wilfred Chapman.
Mrs. Hagenbuch was accompanied on tbe pipeorgan by Pijofessor John Willour. An anthem by the choir was effectively rendered. The offering taken was for the beneflt of the Lutheran Camp pastors for the spiritual welfare of the soldiers and sailors.
URITISH OFFICERS
All)   INSTUrCTIOV
IX G.VS UEFEX.SE.
LY PWATOB UHOtr
'X\f aLAMU A KISUOBDti
iThree    million    baskets    of early
lite potaaoes will  be dug in Soulh
ney during the next few weeks, ac-
.Ming to estimates made on the ac-
llge and probably yeild of tu'bers by
iTernmenl    experts.     The    digging
f»a will start early next mouth.
—J es;iuiaie is based upon the re-
tthai there are more than 15,000
IS In white potatoes in the region
m Souuty Is the banner white po-
county,  Willi  9750  acres;   Cum-
kland County has 3:;75 acres, and
kucester County 2425 acres.     This
|tage in white potatoes is about 20
i25per cent, less than it was a year
jpious showers and favorahle itler conditions have combined to .e the luhiM- crop most proiiiising. .ireseiitatives of the South Jersey rmers' Kxcliange, a farmers co-op- ;ive organizalion, whicii buys up |ig part ul the potato crop, has . careful inspection of tlie tields itoes and report that everything Icatcs a heavy yield.
the D>retown district, which .one of the biggest shipping points the potato hell la.st season, lhe lar- iflelils of potatoes are In splendid '•"ition anil the plants aro white blossoms.: Similar conditions around Woodstown, Allowav and *r, in Sal.'in County; Mullica Hill Swedcsboro, in Gloucester Coun- and Docrlield and Shiloh. the po- i-slnpping centers In Cumberland int.v.
¦owers are  hoping  that   most  oi
"1 potiiliies.  which are  keeping
tbe prices for new stock, will bn
[ tbo way by tlie ilmetho South
'*>¦ tubers are  readv to  nu.ve  to
flH and that    thev  will     realize
«i pncea.    A  few of the growe,-.^
P">' l^ve spuds big enough to dl«.
^"1IIIKM M.\N FAIJ.H TO
1>HAT|| I ROM FiRUYIlOAT.
Because of the instruction of gas ofTicers who havo been at the various camps for tho last six months, thd troops which are going forward to France are woll posted on methods of combating gas attacks, soys a slsal- nieiit authorized by the War Depart- mon;t. A group ot British gin oiifc'^f^ has been in this couniry since last Summer. One of these men haa been al each ot the training camps, aclvi- aing and assisting tho division gas ollicer.
All the men going overseas aro supplied wilh gas helmets Under llie division gas officers and their as¬ sistants, the men are drilled in the use of masks, t.iirgl!t how to detect thti presence of gas, and given actual experience with different sorts of gases, llimic gas shells and cloud attacks, used often at night in con¬ nection with high explosives, help to make tho training realistic.
The Uniied States has been able lo build on the experience of the British and French, to whom gas attacks were* unknown when they entered the war. No American troops have been sent to the front without practical ex¬ perience in .defending themselves a gainst  gas.
Tho training of instructors in gas defense includes a course of aboui' ono month. Most of the gts ofll¬ cers aro commissioned first lieuten¬ ants.
Charles Henry Lerch, teacher oi Latin and Knglish in llio Easton High School and well-known educator in Easlon since ISSiJ, died in S.ilurday night at 11:45 al liis home, No. 315 Iligh Street, College HUI, from heart troubli:, superintenduced by asthma with which he had been a sufferer for years. He was al the High School on Friday and in tlie afternoon con¬ ducted an examination of Seniors in his department. He returned lioun! wilh examination papers and seemed lo be in good health. (Jn Salurday morning he visited the Lafayette Col¬ lege Library and several other places and while at the dinner table was ta¬ ken seriously ill. Dr. John H. West made three visits to the liouse in the iifternoon and evening bul his condi¬ tion grew worse' and he passed away at  the above hour.
Mr. I.erch was horn in Forks Town¬ ship, near Easton, on May 21, 1861. and was in the 58lh year of his age. ilo was :i son of the lute Mfdchoir andMrs. Loretta Uhler Lorch. Early in life he moved to P^aslon and has .since resided there. He was educa¬ ted In the Easlon Schools and enter¬ ed Lafayetlo College from which ho was graduated in 1SS2. After lea¬ ving Lafayette, he studied at Union I'lieological seminary. New Vory city but did not grailuatc. Ho also pur¬ sued posi graduate studies al John Hopkins  Univtrsity.  Baltimore.
In 188G, he started Lercli's Prepa¬ ratory Scliool, on Soulh Fourih Sireet Easton and when the building was torn down to make room for the Northampton National Bank, he re¬ moved to tho building at No. 219 North Third street, where he corn- dueled tlie school until June 1915, when It was discontinued. He was elected teacher of Latin and English in the High School and tilled the po¬ sition since willi great efficiency, be¬ ing popular Willi the sliulents and those associated with him in the fac¬ ulty. He was a thorough instrirctor and used original methods In bring¬ ing out the points which he wished to impress on the pupils. Being a great reader, he was ;>• most interesting con¬ versationalist and he possessed a fund of information on all subjects lhat served hirn to advantage in teaching his classes.
For many years Mr. Lerch had been an aciive member of Grace Reformed Church, Collego Hill, and was licen¬ sed as a preacher by Kast Penn Clas¬ sis of that denomination. He fre- fiuenlly filled local pulpits and was to have preached on Sunday morning and evening at Grace Reformed Church,  Easton.
Mr. Lerch was a member of the Nortliampton County Educational Club.
During his career as an educator .Mr. Lerch prepared a large number of young men and women for college and lie was always proud of the pro¬ gress mado by thoso who had been un¬ iler his instruction. He had a cheer¬ ful disposition, was a most sociable man at all times and his unfailing cordiality will be missed by all who havo boen associated wiih him.  ^ .
BOYS I>I<:CII)KI>
TO ItTLK SCIIOOL.
JOHN PETER CORRELL, VETERANJDITOR DEAD
Pnhlisher of the Sondny Call and
Life Long Printer Dies Suddenly
From tlcarl Ironhle.
REI.VHTATE CLAIMS
FOR COMPEVSATIOX.
Twenty-six claims for compensa- lion made by residents of Austria- Hungary for deaths of persons whom they have been dependent and 'W-ho were killed in Pennsylvania industri¬ es have been reinstated by the Stat* Compensation Board :n an opinion fil¬ ed by Chairman Harry A. -Mackey in aciion upon petitions liled by A..Mitch- i ell Palmer, custodian of alien prop- i erly for tht; Uniied Strifes Govern- iiieiic. This action will establish a precedent, and where it is Impossible ¦ to obtain proof to prosecute me riases they wili be continued until the end of the war
This principle will govern probab¬ ly 'hundreds of cases and mean that tlioiiiiiands of doilars will liave to be sel aside for adjudicMion of t1i9 claims .n the dnys whe.-i the war is , ended and communication between ; the countries is re-established.
The decision orders lhal .Mr. Pal- ; mer bo substituted as claimant, as Is ; Lhe representative of the enemy coun- \ tries in such matters, and that the re- ' cord be returned to the proper refer¬ ees, who are lo fix new hearings and 7s;tli year of Ills age. He is sirrvived notify Mr. Palmer. Il is suggested by his wife and three children: John that where a claim petition has been S., Frank P., and Janet E., focr grand i,roperly executed in behalf of claim- children and by a niece. Miss Hatie J. Keistor. all of Kaston. Miss Kei- stor has had her home with her un¬ cle for a long time.
COMMENCEMENT AT NAZARETH HALL
The 175th Anniversary of Nazareth
Hali Military Academy Largely
Attended This Weeit.
NATIONAL WAB SAVINGS DAY MIST IJE MADE
i HIG SUCCESS.
John Peter Correll, owner and edi¬ tor 01 the Easton Sunday Call, died al SI: 1 5 .Monday evening at his home. Ferry Street. Easton. from heart trouble. He was flrst stricken in October last and since tliat time had a number of attacks, one of which occurred last weeK. He rallied and was <ible to be at his office on Friday but did not go there on Saturday. On Monclay afternoon he visited his office and attended to various busi¬ ness matters, in tho evening at S:45, he was seized by a serious at¬ tack from which he failed lo rally and death ensued an hour later.
Mr. Correll was born in F^aston on December   14.   1840,  and  was in  the
ved
ants by persons having consular au¬ thority and "the averments are sufl[l- cient to raise a prima facie dependen-
  , , cy,  the proof of whicii is impossible
Early in life Mr Correll learned the, j(j   procure   because   of   the   existing printer's trade.     In September mO, | s^t^. „,¦ ^^.^r, then such cases on the
applic.ition of the custodian of alien Iiroperly sliould be indeffnilely post¬ poned."
It Is ordered that each case be de-
terniMHNJ   uiion   i;s  i)K<:   fa- !-   am]   Mle
he and Oliver L. Fehr were associa¬ ted in the founding of the Easton Daily Argus. Mr. Correll withdrew from tho firm in July, 1SS2, and in 1S83   he  starteil   the   Easton   Sunday
Call, the pioneer Sunday Newspaperof  reeponsibllity for prosecuting them ts
the Lehigh   ValU'y.    This newsi.aiHv ^^   cufltodlan o£ alien property.
now in Its 35th year, prospered and  J^^^^^^^ ^hi,h do not oouUln dei-
Mr. Correll s name appears at the top , „^^ laiemenis as lo dependency will of the editorial pa^ge asjliej _8ole ow-, ^^ prosecuted by the custodtiin.
'"*"        Some  of  the claim  petitions
COMMITTED TO JAIL
CIIAI«ii:i> WITH ASSAULT
;;1orii Chapman, the president of -liaiiman Slate Company at Chap- quarries ami a weallhv resident lethlehem, was nitched from the Mat Ocan Ciiy Sunday morn- lit I'tiiladelphia and drowned iu 'J«lawar6,
'•^w humlre I yards from tho dock
''^Wa  I'uint,  the vessel  veered
''« y that a tall man, who had
looking    over tho    rail, disap-
'^3r the side. ^^ 'Sh was heard and then a cry ¦'V   camo    from     the    water. , **'"'"wered and rowed about
'' nv "^'^ "»° n^an was seen to .O'Bfboarci  but  the search   was •Mon.iay    lho    police    boat
a b d*"'"' '° "** "^"^ •"'* ^**'''*
wei'^h".,**' *''°"t 66  years old KhM aboirt 200 pounds.    An
William Schaffer, of Nazareth, Fri¬ day afterndftii was committed to the county jail by Alderman 15. I. Scha¬ ffer, of the Soulh Side Bethlehem charged with assault and battery prc- feVred by Mrs. Harriet Moyer, of Ued- ington whom he attacked whon sho refused lo allow him to force his way upstairs to see her daughter, Alico Tlie accused was pliic.-.T under arrest by Officer Terry .\lcGdvern, of the Helhlehem Sleel Conipany jolicO; It is believed that Schaeffer planned the dostruciion of himself and Miss .Moy¬ er, becairse in a letter that ho left with Alderman Schaffer addressed to his father, Clareme Schaff'er, of Pel¬ videre Sireet, Nazareth, he told of having been a sufferer for years from an incurable disease and thai (TIT' besi way out of It was a double tragedy. He had no weapons when arrested, bul he did have .-f-lO in nioney in his pockets.
HANDS EM-AH(TEI) ANO
nVCJia; AM) ItltCil
COUPS   OHGAVIZED.
Acting on a suggestion of Oeneral Pershing an order^has been Issued in¬ creasing each ?og"inienr3 band from liS to 50 members. liand leaders having had more than flve years' mil¬ itary exeprience as band leaders will be made second lieutenants.
Beside enlarging tho bands a bugle and drum corps will bo ln(duded to each regiment Each Corps will in¬ clude the conipany buglers of Its re¬ giment, and not more than 13 drum¬ mers.
Miss Leona Boyd, a Martin's Creek school teacher, was arraigned before Alderman Beers for a hearing on a I'harge of assault and battery, lodged by Mrs. Ibinea Disidoro, the mother of one of Miss Boyd's pupils. Tho al¬ derman held the young woman In bail tor court, and the caso will be heard in September.
It was alleged by .Mrs. Disidoro that the teacher beat the boy so se¬ verely that sho was obliged to tak* him to the office of Dr. Budd J. Rea¬ ser, at .^lartin's Creek, for treatment. Later, he was treated by Dr. F. A. Sherrer, of Easton. The boy was black and blue.
Miss Boyd admitted punishing th«! boy, but denied that she had inflicted injuries as severely as waji staled. It is claimed in her behalf that after the principal of the school went to war, leaving Miss Boyd and Miss Fiorenco Haase in charge, some of tho boys planned to govern the school themselves. Thoy are said to have written notes to each other to lhat effect, threw spitballs and were gen¬ erally imruly. .\fter school hours. Miss Boyd laid the Disidodo boy over a desk and paddled him. Miss Haase was oTiTi of the witnesses. She supports tho assertion of Miss Boyd tliat Iho boys had agreed to causo the ii'achors all the trouble lliey could.
ner and responsible editor." From tho start of the Sunday Call, Mr. Cor¬ rell always gave the editorial page particular attention and the public bought the paper largely to read hii comment on local affairs and politi¬ cal matters. He also conducted the Easlon Sentinel, a weekly paper bu-t discontinued its publication several years ago.
The only political position ever held by Mr. Correll was that of school director from the Seventh Ward, Eas¬ lon,. He was the K.eystone party candidate for state senator eight years a'go and at one time ran for congressman-at-large on the People's Parly Ticket. He was formerly a director of the South Easton Water conipany and helped to organize the Phillipsburg Trust Company last year. As a member of the Easton Board of Trade, he took an active intetrest in that organization.
Mr. Correll always had a warm spot in his heart for the Easton Ro¬ tary club and it was his request that his funeral bo put in charge of the Rotarians and that he have Rotarian pall-bearers. His rociuest, of course will be carried out. He was a reg¬ ular attendant at meetings of the club and il was the only organization to which ho belonged. He was not present at the last meeling and tlie members at that time expressed great concern over his illness. Tho Club always remembered his birthday In December and presented him with a
gift.
In  spite  of  his  caustic  comments
were flled by the Airstro-Huiigarian auth¬ orities and othcra>by the Swedish con- ular officers acting for subjects ot the Empire, and when hearings camo it was impossible to produce proof, which led to the claims being dismis¬ sed.
The opinion cites Federal decisions including steamship cases, which have arisen since the war began, and holds that non-resident aliens have no right or power to prosecute claims during the war.
The annual comnieiicetuent exer¬ cises at the Nazareth Hall Military, 175lh year, were held Uiis week be¬ ginning wilh the baccalaureate ser¬ mon in the Moravian Church on Sun¬ dav morning preached by the princi¬ pal of the Hall, Rev. A. D. Thaeler, D. D.
A business meeting of the Alumni Association was held on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the chapel ot the Hall.
On account ot the inclement weather, the supper which was ar¬ ranged to bo served on the campus to the Alumni and Cadets, was ser¬ ved in the large dining room.
On Tuesday at 7 P. .M. the dress parade on the campus took place whero a large crowd of patrons and friends gathered to witness the drill. The Nazareth Band participated in the parade and the cadets received hearty applause from the crowds while doing their military maneuver¬ ing. (
At 8 P. -M. Tuesday, the annual en¬ tertainment and declamation contest was held in the chapel when prizes of $5.(10 each were awarded uy the Hon. G. A. Schneebeli for the two best essays and declamaiions.
The commencement exercises were held on Wednesday morning at 9:30 A. M. Besides tne awarding ot med¬ als and^ prizes, a service flag was presented to the Academy by L. MacLean Wilson, president of the Alumni Association.
The Rev. John Jones Lawrence, D. D., pastor ot the First Presby¬ terian Church, Binghamton, N. Y. delivered a torclble and Intereatlng address.
Tho'prospects for the coming year are very Bright for a considerably larger attendance.
The Rev. JoTiii Jones Lawrence, D. O., and L. MacLean Wilson were the guests of Q. A. Schneebeli.
iii<;ii sciu OI. ^OTEs.
BIG CROWDS SEE
A.MEHICAN BASE BALL
IN LONDON.
following na- Webster Sto- Altemose, Al- Bunger, on and     Walter
The preliminary oratorical contes¬ ts for the .N'azareth High AUimni as¬ sociation prizes were held on Thurs¬ day and Friday afternoon June 6 and 7, in the Main room of the High ^School Building. Tho ! med persons competed ver, Helen Stoul. Mary ; bert Kreidler. Alice Thursday afternoon, Kemmerer, Irene Walters, Sherman Uhler, Ethel Bedell, Sarah Heiney and Kathryn Kulz on Friday after¬ noon The judges Misses .A.nna Os¬ wald. Julia Crawford and Postmaster Charles Knecht selected the follow¬ ing persons to appear in the final con¬ test, Webster Stover who spoke on "The American Cause in tho War"; Helen Stout, "Dreams and Dream¬ ers"; Sarah Heiney. "The Nation In Arms"; Kathrjm Kutz, "Making the World Safe for Democracy";  and .\1-
.-,,.,,, ,,      .,.  ^, ice Bunger, who    spoke    on,    "The
and his delight In arguments with his e.reat War and America".    Owing to
friends which waa a soft side to hia ,,„, oioseness of the contest the ded-
naturo which was frequently in evi- gj^n of jhe judges was awaited with
dence and he performed many acts of ^gen interest and their decision mot
charity.  .His   devotion   to   his   aged with the approval of the audience.
mother was beautiful to witness and he was a kind and indulgent father. The funeral will bo held this Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock from his late residence.
XEW CII.VPEL DEDICATED
AT PLAINFIEI-D.
I'HOIT) MOTIIKH OF
HKU SON.S IN SERVICE.
Mr« Ella Simoir;, of Glendon, the mother of five soldiers, was on Mon¬ day evening admitted to membership In tho Mothers of 1017 Regilars Four of her boys aro in the service ot I'ncle Sam and tho fifh is a member of Company A. Slate Militia, of Ras¬ ton ;ind is ready to report tor servic* whenever called
Mrs. Simons was twice married, her iuisbands being lho iate Jesse Woods ,ind Oeorge Simons. The sons serv¬ ing tlio government are: Sergeant (!(>orgo F. Simons. 170th Mashina Cun Hatlallon. In Franco; Frank F Simons, Ninth Infantry, in France; Karl Simons, 80th Field .¦Vrtillery. Waco, Texas; Georgo S. Woods, 4Sth Infantry, Newport Va., and WllUg Simons, state mllltla.
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man. 231 Wall Street and  other  Identlttcatlon
Bottlers of soft drinks in the Uni¬ ted States mny save approximately 50,000 tons of sugar annually by us¬ ing other sweetening materials, ac¬ cording to Investigations by special¬ ists of the Bureau of Chemistry, Uni¬ ted States Department of Agriculture. The Bureau of Choniistrv Is prepar¬ ing to furnish bottlers with sweeten¬ ing formulas that will allow the ac¬ tual sugar content in soft ilrlnks to be cut to 50 per cent or less and at tho same tlmo will preserve the custo¬ mary taste of tho beverages. Starch sirgar, starch sirup, maltose sirup, and honey are the substitutes used.
MA.N H1U»KK JIIS I.iXi.
Lewis Mliler, of North Broad St., Nazareth, who is in tho employ of the Nazareth Ice Company, had his lift nukle broke and crushed Momlay inorninK, whilo anloadlng a piece ot Ico from the wagon al tho American Hotel, Nazaretb.
He was abotit to pull a piece of ice off tho wagon while standing on the step of the wagon which was cot- ered with sniiiil pieces of Ice, and he slipped and fell on his leg.
He was taken to the Baston Hospi¬ tal for treatment.
Senior  Examinations.
The final examinations of the Sen¬ ior class win begin Wednesday after¬ noon and extend until Friday even- . Ing.    Senior vacation begins Friday evening Juno 14th.
The final examinations for the re¬ maining classes will Degin Friday morning June 21 and extend to the following Tuesday evening. Results of the examinations and promotions will be announced on tho last day of school Wednesday Jinie L'fi at 9 .K. M.
.Annual  Llt4'rar>-  Society  Picnic.
Tlie annual picnic of th'Litcrary Society win be held Wednesday June ;;Gth at Central Park, Rittersville. .\U former members of the Society ae most corduaiiy invited to Join the school on thl s annnal outing. A great many former members and A'- umiii 1 ave already decided to attend and all are looking lorwarti to a nno time.
Ilaccalaiirpate Sormon.
Tho Baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class will be preached by the Kev. Paul S. .Meinert in the Mo¬ ravian ChtTrch, Suntlay morning Jirne 23, at 10:3(1 .\. .\l. Tho members of the Boanl of Education together With their irlTei, and the members of tli> HiRh School faculty, teache s of the town and the students of the High School will attend this service In a body. The citizens i tne town are most rtirdially invited to attend this service.
Orntoriral Contest.
The oratorical contest  for the N II.   S.   Alumni  Association  prizes  of
ifl'VOO  atid   ^.'.011   \v!!i  \i,i  iieiii   'ii   ;lie
chapel ot the MoraTlan Charch TbnU-
day evening, June L'Vtn at 8'P. M. The meeting will be in cnarge or tjive president of the .Mirmnl Association. The Alamnl oroheetra wlU furnish the mnslc for tbe occasion and In ad- dKion there will t>e p. niiinne'r ot vo¬ cal and InstmmeataJ aolos by promi¬ nent members of tba Alumni aaaocoi^ t;on. All alunini and friend.-, TTllie school are urged to attena tnis con¬ test.
Coninienooment Evorclses. The festivtties of the week will culminate with the annual commence ment exercises which this year will,! be held In the Moravian Church on the evening of June 28th, at 8 P. M. The school bas been fortunte In se¬ curing as the speaker for tne evening no less a person than Ur. Krancls H. * Green of West Chester State Normal
Our want ad colum  will bring    §f ^°"'^   f\°! "'•^'^^ !' Professor of
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you excellent results.     I ry it and  able and interesting speaker.     Every i be convinced body ts invited to these exercises.       |
Between 3,000 and 4,0e0 people at¬ tended the chapel dedication services at St Peter's Reformed and Lutheran ('hurch, Plainfield township, Sunday, and in the afternoon, over $3,000 waa collected toward the expense of the improvements. A feature of tho af¬ ternoon's services was the musical program rendered by the choir under the direction of Mrs. Florence Brock¬ man, ot Nazareth.
The new chapel, constructed ot granite, is a flno structure, and waa greatly admired. Rev. W. H. Brong is the Relormed pastor of the cliurcli and Rev. W. A. Dries, tho Lutheran pastor.
Special services were hidd on Wed nesday evoning at 7:4,') u''clock, when tho Sunday-school rendered a Child¬ ren's Day program, and on Frida; evening, at 7:45 o'clock, when ad¬ dresses will be mado by Rev. J. M. Shelletberger, president of the East I'eniisyivunia Classis ot the Reformed Church, and by Rev. A. E. Erdman, pastor of the Mooreslown Lutheran parish. The main church building will bo dedicated.
I.NCUEASE IN AKMY
SINCE START OE W.VR MORE THAN  l,.->0O I'ER CENT
One of the interesting developmen¬ ts of the war, according to a state¬ ment, is the rapid expansion of the ment. is the rapiil expansion of h-^ various bureaus of the War Depart¬ ment. At the otrtbreak of the war there were less than 3.000 employees on duty. The number now is approx¬ imately 2.5,000 an increase of 800 per cent. While this represents a tre¬ mendous expansion, the increase In the Army itself has been more than 1,,500 per cent.
Only 4 out of every 100 offlcers In the service were in the Army at the time the war began.
The increase In personnel at tho administrative end of the war thus has not kept pace with the growth of the Military Est.ibllshment.
"As the latest wonder ot the world has taken the baseball," says a.,gom- mittee on public Information repres¬ entative in LondoiT. "The English never betore had much use for our great game. They called it an exag¬ gerated torm of rounders and wond¬ ered what the noise was all about, but the American and Canadian sol¬ diers in i-^ngland have been educating them.
"A regular league ot eight teams has started a summer schedule, and the English public is learning what it has missed. Big crowds witness the game which is played every Satur¬ day and tlie sport bids fair to become widely popular. Hete is the way Thomas Burke, the short-story wri¬ ter, reports a gam^j in the London Star ot May 27.
"Last week I discovered baseball. The match between Itie Army and the .Vavy teams was my first glimpse of a pastime that has captivated a conti¬ nent, and I can well understand its appeal to a modern temperament. Believe me, it's the good goods. And the crowd! I had heard and read much of baseball fans and their meth¬ ods of rooting, but my conceptions were nothing near the real thing. Tho grandstands, crowded with Ar¬ my and Navy fans, bristling with megaphones and tossing hats and de¬ moniac faces, would have made a sup- • ¦rb subject for a lithograph by Sir Frank Bragwyn.
"The game got hold of me before the first pitched . Tho players In their hybrid costumes and huge glo¬ ves- the catcher In his gas mask and the movements r>t the teams ag they practiced runs shook me with excite¬ ment. Then the game began and tha rooting began. In past years I have attended various foot-ball matches in mining districts whero the play¬ ers came in for a certain amount ol ragging, but they were church ser¬ vices compared with the furious abuse and hazing handed to any unfortu¬ nate who failed to play ball.
"There was, for example, an ex¬ plosive, reverbeatlng "A-h-h-h-hh " which I have been practicing in my back yard ever since, but wiihout ciitching its true quality. You should liave heard Admiral Sims, as college yell leader, when the Navy made a home-run hit, with his "Atta Boy; Oh. attaway to play ball," and when they got I n ern^r lie sure handed tho Navy theirs.
"Tes; I'e got it. From nowTn I'm a fan. I'm going to see every baseball match played anywhere near London I shall never be able to watch with excitement a cricket or football match after this; it'd he like a tortlse race, Come along wit'i me to the next match and join me In rooting and in kllllni? the umpire.
>IE.\T  RATION  CCT
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HOG STOCKS DWINT)LE.
In Bavaria tho monthly meat ra¬ tion has been cirt 20 per cent—from 1,000 to SOO grams—according to German newspapers. Tho monthly meat ration in Saxony has been redu¬ ced from SOO to 700 grams. Public ofticials are reported in the Prussian press as discussing the possibility of a further reduction of the bread ra¬ tion in Prussia.
A Munich paper reports that from the beginning of the war to March 1. 1918, Bavarian hog stocks have de¬ creased from 2.106,312 to 766.391 head The Danish hog census shows a decrease from 1,651,000 hogs Julv 12, 1917, to 789,000 December 5. 1917, or a deTease of one-third the number at the beginning of the war
The National War Savings Com¬ mittee, which is carryuig on, through its State and local commiTTees, a Na¬ tional wide campaign to. get all the people on or before June 28 to pledge themselves to save to the utmost of thoir ability and to Duy War Savings ; Stamps Willi their savings, nas given out  the  following slarement:
"Those of us who remain at home while otliers do the fighiing have an ever-increasing nuniber of opportuni¬ ties to do definite and highly impor¬ tant work for our country. We wish to do this work as an expression of lho gratitude we feel in being privi¬ leged to coniinue at our usual tasks, to enjoy the loving companionship of our faniilies, to meet freely with our friends and neighbors, to enjoy all the security ot life and most of the pleasures and the economic privileges of peace times while other men, who have had to pul aside all these things, are fighting our bal*les for us on the sacr(d soil of France and on the high sea«.
"Our new opportunity to serve comes as a result of designating June 28 as National ar Savings Day, a day on which all men women and all (hildren of sufficient years to apjireci- ate the day's significance are called upon to pledge the"mselves to save to till' utmost of their ability and to conserve all possible labor and ma¬ terials for the Government and to buy War Savings Stamps with their savings. Our part is to do every¬ thing possible to make this day stand out among the great days of this per¬ iod ot the war.
"Could any one ot us be asked to do less than this? Could any one of us refuse to do 6o liltlo a thing to win a war for the world's freedom? Could any one of us put aside thla ])lea for saying while all Europe is crying oirt In its agony to be releas¬ ed from the clutc'hes of the monster that is befouling all It touches? Could we refuse so simple a thing and at the same time ask olher men tO give their lives that our own precloua lives be spared and our firesides 5* kept safe from the terrors of the Hun?
"Our duty is clear, our privilege Is great, our sacrifice is little, our work is important. -~
"National War Savings Day is to be the great rallying day on whicn every¬ one in our country is expected to pledge himself or herself to save and economize. This saving and econo¬ mizing will flrst ot all leave in the markets a greater supply ot labor and materials tor the use of the Govern¬ ment with which lo fight tne war. .\nd then the money sarlnjs of the individuals are to be invested in War Savings Stamps.
"What the GovernmeTit asks us to do is to pledge ourselves to buy at definite periods with our savings a specific amount of War Savings Stam¬ ps. The thing to be accomplished Is fo get subscriptions which will take care during the balance of the pres¬ ent year ot the unsold portion of the $2,000,000,000 of War Savings Stamps authorized by the Congress to be sold during 1918.
"When one stops to think of the matter, it is really a small thin"^ to raise $2,000,000,000 in a couTitry of more than 100,000,000 people. If everybody would do his snare. It would be necessary for each person to subscribe to only $20 worth of stamps.
"The duty of us at home is to see to it that the entire amoiUK as sri,- scribed. We must add to our already great army ot war savers. We must make more sacrifices ourselves and urge sacrifices irpon others. Nation¬ al War Savings Day must be made the great success all of us hope for."
BROWNING  MACHINE
GUN l'.\SSES TEST
FOH .\IRPL.\NE USE.
The Browing machine gun has suc¬ cessfully undergone a test to deter¬ mine its value for use witn the air¬ craft. This is one ot three types of machine guns with which the rate of fire can be so synchronized with the revolutions of the propeller of a trac¬ tor airplane lhal the gun can be flred by the pilot of a combat plane through the revolving blades.
Airplaine jrejellers revolve at from .SOO to 2,000 revolutions per minute. The machine gun is connected with lhe airplane engine by a mechanical or hydraulic device, and Impulses from the crank shaft are transmitted to the machine gun. The rate of fire of tho machine gun is constant and Us flre is synchronized with the revol¬ ving propeller blades by "wasting" a (ertain percentage of the impwlses It 1 oceivcs trom the airplane engine and by having the remaining Impulses trip or pull the rigger so that the gun fires just at tho fraction of the second when the propeller blades are clear of the line of flre.
The pilot operates tho gun by means of a lever which controls the circuit and follows the Impulses to trip the trigger.
GAS M-\SKS FOR HORSES
ARE BEING SENT
TO FRANCE.
The Gas Defense Service Is now manufacturing about 5,000 horse gas masks per day. These are being sent to France, and it Is expected that within a short time every horse con¬ necled with the American Expidition¬ ary Forces will be equipped with the new masks.
The Gas Defensive Service has a completely equipped factory for the manufactirre of the masks. In less than three weeks a burildlng was se¬ lected and the factory was producing masks. The introduction of riveting machinery has done away with the heavy hand seming of the frame which supports the masks on the fa¬ ces of the horses. Tho masks are so contracted that no metal or chemi¬ cally Impregnated parts caita chafe the horse.
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