pr."
SNAPSHOTS AT
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items of Interest.
a, ———
Churches Rairing Funds for Many
Worthy Objects—items of Busi
ness “nd Pleasure that Interest.
postmaster for many years, is a candl-
date for reappointment.
An axle broke, deralling a Lehigh
Valley passenger engine near Hazle-
ton and delaying traffic generally.
Baumgardner has given
to the Lancaster County Historical
Society a Bible printed at Basle,
Switzerland, in 1665.
Slipping on a snowy sidewalk, John
Kneas, a retired of Norris-
town, fractured one of his hips.
Mrs. J. H.
grocer
A three-story addition, 45 by 04 feel,
will be built to the plant of the Spring
City Knitting Company.
Puring the past month dry Coates-
ville has had but two arrests for
drunkenness.
When his gun balked, Mark Klees,
13 years old, of Milton, looked into
the barrel and it was dicharged, the
bullet entering his eye
Paul Silvert, a little Nazareth news-
boy, saved a small foreign lad from be-
ing frozen to death by carring him to
& nearby store, where he was revived.
in love, Samuel Ross,
Portland, tried to end
bullet, which struck a
injure him m
W. Bouten and Mrs,
and Mrs, GC. W. Mit.
isitors to
Disappointed
a foreigner, of
his life
rib and did
with a
not uch.
Judge Joseph
Bouten and Mr.
chell, of Smethport, are v
San Juan, Porto Rico.
12's Planning Commission will
of Willlam H. Luden,
1ld and Edward H.
ibly two other
Readi
be composed
Jonothan Mo
Knerr, and poss
There will
free trips
neither will
the expense
be
for
no more junkets or
Councilmen,
visitors at
taxpayers,
Reading
they entertain
of the
in the bifzzard
drop-
‘4
of
markets
490
Right the teeth
farmers in Norrist
ped the price of egg:
cents.
OWT
from
emple wi
in the
Charles Stout T
a flying
car shops
tured.
truck by
Readh
frac-
fire
tongue
and
four ribg we
nr. C. FP.
Conshohocken
selected
grounds
Tegtmeler, pre
chool board, he
chairman of
fon.
as
Associat
ating library is
in Weatherly under
the Civic Club and the
nizations
A circuls
stalled
spices of
road orgs
rail
the increase in business
jetl
Because of
at the South
another letter carrie
to the force,
hem
r has
making 15 in
office
added
post
been
all.
Granville Br
he steppel
home slipped
fractured his
own, of Catasauqua, as
door of hi
i8
of and
th
Lae
outside
on ice
arm.
a plec on
Officials of the State Board of Health
are in full charge of the plant of the
West Reading Water Company and
are making efforts {o assure a supply
of pure water
Lieutenant Henry S. Rothenberger,
ex-postmaster of Hamburg, and for 28
years in the freight department of
at Hamburg, tendered his
banquet in honor of his 70th birth-
day. He will be placed on the rail
Editor Sipe, of The Fulton Democrat
published at McConnellsburg, has a
rosy vision of his county's future,
road:
county when people will have dally
mail delivered to their doors,
passing their gates every 156 minutes,
ing. Then farmers can live a very
enjoyable life.’
Em
wensaville, is being remodeled into
tenement houses by O. J. Baker, who
recently purchased the property. For
over 60 years the Busquehanna House
was one of the popular stopping
places along the West Branch,
For selling an adulteration as cider
vinegar, 8. L. Grayson, of Kennett
Square, paid a fine of $50 and costs,
and J. A. Trego, of Coatesville, paid
$100 and costs for selling oleomargar-
ine In his restaurant without display.
ing the required sign.
EUROPE BEHIND
GREAT BRITAIN
Holds Toll Exemption Violates
Treaty, Says President.
OTHER REASONS FOR REPEAL
Of Buch Grave Effect
national Relations They Can.
not Be Civulged,
intimation.
Upen Inter.
Is
Washington. - President Wilson
took the newspaper correspondents a
little further into his confidence
cerning the international
the free tolls controversy when he de
lared. it to be his belief that all Eu
rope stood with Great Britain in
gard to the exemption clause of
Panama Canal act as violation
the Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
The President was careful
plain, however, that he did
his opinion on any official
which these other nations
the clause, for, declared,
Britain the only country
protest the same
had
the
COO
of
AND is
re
the
a of
to ex
not base
protests
have
lodged
against he
Great
tile
said,
10
he
to him
govern
was
At
information
showing clearly how
regarded the matte:
raked out that the I'r
his within the last
£
Teason of
“a time
COm#»
other
ments
t also l¢ esident
given callers
days a gre
than any heretofore
visitors willing talk 3
should be It appears
this reason with American
has
few
ance
import
losed by
tO repeal
enacted.
to do
but
being kept
has
the axact nature
i profound
foreign relat
of the
ions,
matter is
secret,
The further fac known that
to Repre
of
t became
the President's friends look
sentative Claude Kitchen rit
Carolina, the heir apparent to the
jority leadership, to head the fight f«
want test of
Representat Under
ma
repeal. They to make a
his
wood
fight
tive
strength ive
will probably sit through
and content himself wit}
vote
Thinks Repeal Will Pass
Wilson
following
he had
in
peal
ion
ndents
President firmly
opinion, i
snees which
with leaders Congr
get the re measure
nit Ses told
that
Repeal bill
and pass
explaine
prope:
would
1« ront
time,
iaken up 3s
would be i
woth houses
gisiative
siderat
though eff
¢ of the
of repeal
beer
orts have
on Houss« nd Se
itae WAR
$1
that ships
LeCesEATY
be pass
before the
fact will
rough the waterway
sessions begins
BRONZE MEDAL FOR A DOG
Apartment.
» 5
York Jim,
H. T
a bronze
Women’
the
New the great Dane dog
Gilpin, was
medal by
League for
life of hi
of October 21 last
¥
belonging to
sented with
York
for
pre
the
Now Ani
mala gAYINng
On morning
Im dragged his
the
agatler fron his
g from a
Mr
the
had dragged
in the
one-half years
ing apartment a8 es
Appin
fixture had
but he
where
melted
Gilpin,
overcome
goon revived in
air, the
and awakened others
open dog
him
ment
old and
and
pounds
Jim is two
‘
weighs 12
WOMAN FEDERAL ATTORNEY.
Mrs. Adams
in San Francisco.
San Francisco
that Mrs. A. A. Adams be appointed
me of his assistants was forwarded |
to Washington by John W. Preston,
United States district attorney. Mrs,
Adams is a graduate of the University |
of California and a law partner of Miss |
Marguerite Ogden, a daughter of |
Judge Ogden, of Alameda county
NINETEEN HURT IN CRASH.
Street Car Runs Into B. & O. Engine
Near Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh, Pa. Nineteen pas-
sengers were Injured when a street
railway car ran into the side of a |
light engine of the Baltimore and Ohlo
at Second avenue, Hazelwood, Mrs
Jesale Peipler, of Munhball, Pa, was
internally hurt; the others but
—————_
RACING CAR KILLS VETERAN.
Driver and Mechaniclan Badly Murt;
Woman Bruised,
los Angeles, Cal-—A great gray
racer picking its course for the Van
derbilt cup race Saturday leaped from
the road near the National Soldiers’
Home at Sawtelle, killed a Civil War
veteran, Louis G. Smith, and {ojured
several other persons, Mra, AW.
Pipes, of Poison, Mont, was thrown
down and bruised, and David Lewis,
driver of the car, was badly hun.
MRS. JOSEPHUS DANIELS
: LLL & 3d
Since her husband became a mem-
ber of President Wilson's cabinet, Mra.
Josephus Daniels, wife of the secre
tary of the navy, has made herself one
ton.
U. 3. TROOPS
GET CASTILLO:
i
i
the American Side.
Should the American
He Will
For
Officers Do So,
Certainly Be Executed
Setting Fire To the
Cumbre Tunnel.
Maximo Castillo
charged with
tunnel dis
# and 41
caplured
M.. by
Texas
bandit,
vy for the (
ten
re-
umbre
American
ir lives, was
south of Hae
# a,
138 miles achita, N
A
| American troops
|
information
|
i, 401
hite,
ved to
* Lar ¥
gndant at
fron
ited States
WRE COLnve
Gen Scott conim
ial te
Ninth Un
an offie iBETAID
were six of
According
patch, they
florht hey
to Capt
1 a range
Mexican side,
sorb #
E
tain White telegrap!
to General Scott for ins
3
ered to
put foot on
hie
Was ord
rrest
American
td }
1G he
Whether the pr shall be
isoner
al que
Youd
i
ibt that
Cumbre
with
ndered to the rebels is leg
which
ine
ret a
be
no go
remains to sett
this is di there is
will be
aster
executed for the
He is not
on this side
fire
Tunnel
were
charged
ine
Castillo set freight train in
io a
the
The
senger train
ilife aboard
gtill buming
A zpecial to the 1
N.M.,
b
uiabre wo
burning
Weoenks ARO
when pas
into it and every
CATs a
crashed
ihe tunnel js
was lost
fe
§ ¥ $incokhit
nes Fo dachiis
gays that the capture was made
y Lieutenant Rothwell, of T
and re that it
coming
18 horses
ToOOPp A
v Yr ¢ , + 3 11a vl
ATES wae particuiariy
#
the heels of
gratifying as on the
theft of belonging 10 the
regiment by Mexicans on The
apecial continues:
“Captain White
and Capt. Emillo Garcia
of the band previously cap
transported immediately
the
Sunday
will ask that
t astillo
member
tured, be
{ El Paso,
duty here is limited.”
{i Previous reports of Castillo’s cap
true. The latter expressed his gratifi
cation at the capture. General
{wae no less Jubilant,
i A MAYOR ON A STRIKE,
1 City Council Would Cut His Salary To
i 62 Cents a Day.
| Mendota, Nl — Because the city
| council 1s attempting to cut his salary
{from 82 to 82 cents per day, Mayor
! Charles Rogers, of Mendota, has gone
jon a strike, tying up the city's busi
{ness. Besides refusing to eign any
i bills or ‘sanction any of the city's
{to sue the municipality for his pay.
At the time of his election Mayor
Rogers understood he was to receive
$300 annually. At a recent meeting
of the city council he found his salary
was to be ealy $225.
SIX INJURED. AT FIRE.
Students Of Blackstone Academy Jump
From Third Story To Escape Flames.
Blackstone, Va.-Fire, originating in
the furnmce room of the BlackMone
Academy, fn preparatory school for
boys, gained such headway that the
lower floors of the academy were filled
with smoke before the alarm was
given. Many of the boys made their
escape from the flames by leaping
| from the third floor to a large porch
from whence they slid to the ground.
FOUND NOTHING
BUT PROSPERITY
Secretaries McAdoo and Hous-
ton Return From Tour
THE CURRENCY BILL PASSED.
Cabinet Officers
Federal
tion
Issue Statement As
Reserve Bank Organiza.
Committee Telling Of
Their Trip Around Country.
Washington. The federal
bank organization committees,
Washington after a five weeks’
through the country, in a
announced that its selection
| reserve clues and definition of re
| distrte te would not be made until
{ ful consideration had been give
{ information accumulated
| The statement sald the
Secretaries fcAdoo and Houston
[1c und the country prosperous and
learned that bankers and business men
interested in the new bank
reser
back in
atement
on the
Comm
and confident
supplemental stat
that he }
be
ina
| Adoo declared
vetem would established
take care
tingencies next year,
not, the Treas
stand ready
i 10 yp
but
Ovi
that
f Were Depa: t
f would to place its
| again at the disposal of busine
The
‘We have aspen
{ 4th of January
{ hearing the
{bankers
cominitice’s
t 1
to the
views of business
on the problem of dividing t
less than eight,
and
the
country into not
than 12,
ing in each di
of a federal 1
two qt
country
portant
asked those
‘direct
more districts 0
girict main
gerve
jestionsg, the
into districts
difficult
who appea
and
their atter
sroblems and
information
Ge To Great Troubl ie
‘A great ma ang
eee men and bankers
bie infor:
always in 3
preparing
them
nny
IOUS
and busin
I} will brix
IANEes In
ry
did
who
WAaE a
one speak
me@sure great
“wy
he
where
commitiee was
with overwhelmis
the enormous
and of the
section he
's banking rees
ERoTrmous
fifteen vears, a
doubling in
made evident:
country, as a
ceriain sections
more rapid
that the country is fun
econom i!
rag id
fact
the country,
¥
of every
nation as
make
{welve
feson
advances
Pprox
period
or
guch
ile
whole, it was
each
wi f
thi ig true «
the shown
that
with
and
exceplionally
oq onomically
ted 1
of the country
and strength
condition of financial, industrial,
mercial and agricultural
and prosperity that leaves n
ag to the future”
advancing
othe
bo svsaes faadlt
iRINENIAaY
are
rides thar
and girong
and
nmities in ©
sound
The fact
the
figures
submit oO O01 VETY
chow amazing
| part
growth i
and disclose a
oon
sound?
o doubt
UNUSUAL SCENE IN SENATE
| Funeral Services In Honor Of Senator
Bacon.
the
of
Washington. Last tribute to
{late Senator Augustus O. Bacon,
| Georgia, was paid Tuesday by the rep
resentatives in Washington of the
American people and foreign nations.
| Pune ral services were held in the Sen.
ate chamber as an
the dead statesman, and joining the
houses of Congress in the tribute were
the justices of the Supreme Court,
members of the President's cabinet, |
the diplomatic corps, officers of the
Army and Navy and others high in offi.
i lal life.
Solemn and impressive as the serv.
joes were, they were brief, and within
20 minutes after Vice President Mar
shall opened the ceremonies, the Sen.
at adjourned as a further mark of re
spect. Then the body was borne away
and placed on a train for Atlanta.
A A AL i ——
PANIC IN A BANK.
A —
Young Man Fires Revolver
Forged Check Is Refused.
Buffalo, N. Y.Robert W. Haines,
years old, tendered a check for $16
to a paying teller of the Fidelity Trust
Company, and when payment was re.
fused drew a revolver. He fired one
ghot before he was seized by by-
standers. The check was a forgery
and Haines was taken to police head:
quarters. The bank lobby was crowd.
ed, and a panic followed the shooting.
When
|
i
| This is @ new photograph of Senator
! Overman of North Carolina, who is
chairman of the senate rules commit
tee and member of six other commit
tees, including that on appropriations
== HONOR MEMORY
UF MAINE DEAD
Impressive Services Held at
Fort Meyer.
EXERCISES HELD IADOORS.
Snow-Covered Graves
Cemetery Covered
At Ar
With
es
ng
ton
Fiowers
and National
By
Salute Is Fired
Bluejacokets
i
the
Pre
piiys ian’s « rder:
a beautiful al
Menocal ) it
of ti
for
message pre
he could
services ang
be
mourn
tribute
a cabl
pont
dent
press
nent
¢
ion verencs of
Orne dead of the Mair
His gsed deep
that
will
with
gailors
Orations Fort
ef A ast
delivered at
manderin-ch
of the Grand Ar
Hepreser
fever by
Gardner
epublic
InEY
nan
Chadwick
glon my of
the Lot
Eugene A
Mr
the
the
of Pei the Rew
the Hey
Ivania
representing
0 chaplain
n McElros
von
niels. of the
and the official
number of patriotic organizations
John McElroy suggested
that the memorial was typical of “all
men who on land or sea had given the
full measure of devotion to the coun-
try’s laws by dying under its flag.”
Rear Admiral Sigsbee, in command
{of the Maine when the vessel went to
the bottom of Havana harbor, sent
{from New York a letter of regret that
{he could not be Former Presi
ident Taft, who was invited to be one
lof the speakers of the day, also sent
hn
wh
by Jol
was
Maine, and
ny and Navy U
Daz
Secretary Navy Ix
partment heads of a
were
present
here
lemier OF SCOTTISH CLAN DEAD.
{ Prof. Ambrose MacNeil, Artist,
At Norfolk, Va.
Norfolk, Va-—Prof. Ambrose Mao
| Neil died at St. Vincent's Hospital,
| after an Hiness of about three weeks
| Born at St. Stephen, Canada, in 1851,
{ he made the study of art his life work.
He studied at Paris and his work be.
came widely known.
of his father he became chief of the
Clan MacNeil of Scotland and Laird
of Barra, which gave him the title of
“MacNeil of Barra.”
Dies
——————— LA
YOUTHFUL BRIDE BURGLAR.
Mrs. Anschott, 17, In Boy's Clothes,
Aided Husband, 19.
Pittsburgh, Pa.--According to the
police, Mrs. Elmer Anschott, 17, con.
fessed to them that she had taken part
in many burglaries for which her hus
band, who is 19 years old, was arrested
and held for court. Dressed as a boy,
her Bair cut short, she stood guard
outside the houses he robbed, with a
revolver hidden under her coat, they
say.
TALK ON KEALTH
State Commissioner or Ungos.Keop
Your Hands Clean
MORAL AND PHYSICAL LAW
Frequent Contact With Infected Ma
terials—Precautions to Avoid Car.
rying Disease Germs to Mouth
Soap and Bristle Brush Handy.
(Special Harrisburg Correspondence. }
Harrisburg.—Iu his “Little Talk on
Health and Hygiene,” State Health
Commissioner Samuel GG. Dixon dwells
upon the necessity of keéplug the
hands clean Doctor Dixon says:
“Keep your hande clean. It is not
without reason that the expression "his
hands are clean’ has grown to be a
synonym for moral ag well as physi.
cal cleanliness, The hands are the
part of our body most frequntly in
contact bh infected and unclean ma-
terials. Unless pre are ob-
served until they become a habit this
will lead to the conveying of diseases
germs the mouth either direct) y
or by t handling of food or anything
we put in Rn BOAP
and a good brush always
convy it a rule to wash
your hands thoroughly before each
meal; be preparing food or serv-
ing it; afler the necessary ats
tentions;
and the
TOG.
cautions
to
he
to the mouth,
stiff
enient
Ore
tollet
the eick
articles in sick
find
and other
after attentions to
handling of a
It is 8 common th
secondary ges of typhol
ing {o
CAs d
disea which have the
failure
tion. And if the
some diginf
carbolic
well
Ef vey
resulted fron
precau-
i as cook,
= per cent,
used as
tho
Warm
Ye par
hands
most ime
to observe
CLAD
lution
as thoroughly ubb
plenty of soap and
nails should
tion Washing the
{ yet
J
hands
no
walter, rece]
Lowy y
Bimpis
wil
IE disease.”
cautie
Test Scales and Measures.
bis and
Capitol
ithorities
n the
thin
chief
Del wes
in
Siat
overtume to
pilances
of the
reEing
ook ¢
Great Demand for Books.
Figures prepared
rary
for general
been
days
books
al of 12.000 have
on during the first 25
opening of the new library
£2 TT magazines on file
been estimated, by
story section of
library has been visited by sev
thousand children. The demand
of the hool children of the city for
books great that the
ghelver containing juvenile literature
are nearly always empty. More books
will b¢
in circ
gince
buildin
have
4.600 people,
the
ae
we 90
read, it is
ang the
eral
has been so
purchased
Capitol Park Extension.
By May 1 there will be 1060 fewer
buildings in the Capitol Park exten-
sion area, lying east of the Capitol,
than there are now. Many of these
buildings have been purchased already
by the Capitol Park Extension Com.
mission, but the occupants have been
until April 1 to vacate. This
extension of time was given because
leases which the occupants had
at the time the buildings were sold.
Of the 527 properties in the park area,
340 have already been purchased.
of
Tags on State Furniture.
All of the furniture in the State
Capitol is to be numbered and marked
with a metal tag. This plan has been
approved by the Board of Public
Grounds and Buildings. A book will
be kept in which the location of an
i
glance. The furniture is now marked
by muslin tags pasted on the bottom,
Myerstown Charter,
The State Livestock Sanitary Board
declared a quarantine on all dogs in
the Borough of Bloomsburg and one
adjoining township in Columbia Coun.
ty because of hydrophobia among dogs
in that district.
Question Water Bills.
The Public Service Commission has