CHRISTMAS BUSH OH
IN STORES OF CITY
fJt jfrnta Clans Holds Forth in Every
V * Slop; Many Buy For Suf
ferers Abroad
Busy times are on at the local
stores. The Christmas rush Is on and
merchants believe it will continue
without any abatement until December
25.
Stores throughout the city are as
suming a holiday appearance. Increas
ed crowds are .noticeable in the business
thoroughfares, and additional help has
been provided in all stores.
In all the big department stores the
Christmas tree and other Yuletide
decorations Indicate the near approach
of Christmas. While there has been no
arrival of Christmas trees reported
from the mountains in Maine and else
where, for sale, local merchants were
taken care of early from nearby moun
tain districts. Varied colored electric
lights are also a part of the decora
tions. In nearly every store Santa
4'laus Is holding forth and the little
folks are having their happy days, visit
ing the toy departments.
None of the stores will be open in
the evenings until Monday, December
21, and then for four days only. A
notable feature of the shopping at all
stores Is the interest manifested by
local shopper In the sufferers abroad.
Many articles of clothing ere being
purchased to be turned over to the
proper persons for shipment to Bel
glum and other European countries.
ROBBED AND MURDERED
Scranton, Pa., Dec. 2.—Thomas
Ross, 28 years old, of Jessup, was
held up, robbed and murdered by
highwaymen early to-day.' Louis
Shambrone, 23, has been arrested,
charged with the robbery and killing.
Thursday
& Frid
Bargains
Where your money <loe» double
duty only a few specials mention
ed. but many, many more, nt sacri
fice prices. Karly shoppers Thursday
nnd Friday net bigger barKtilns llinn
ever. Hemember, liunilredH of more
bargains not mentioned. Note each
Item carefully. Come here for values.
Another'lot a
Women's $3.00 Mtft 1 - _
Wool Dress Skirt* IH
with deep ltusslan ri}|Vn
tunic. All sixes up I ■■ a
to SO-lneh belt w
Children's As- |V -
trakhan plush
and corduroy W
Caps. Worth 50e.
Another lot £■
Boys' 50c and M fa.
•1.00 Hah I ltah!
Hats
Thursday only. Cb 1
Morning .Sales, U E? 1
to 12 o'clock. W ■
(lark's best O. IV.
T. Spoon Cotton
One lot I.adies*
*3 values, Silk ■ MSB a
Velvet Trimmed ■ M Mm
Hats.
slaughtered re- ail ■■
gardless of cost.
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Women's and llf O Q
Misses' fttl.no
Tailored Suits. rajta
Itest satin lined. Pll w9 m_
Thursday only W V V
ltli.no Women's /k A .
long fll CI (I U
black winter 11 VI
Coats. Sew. This W vU
season's goods. W _
I.ess thnn manu- B| V jLJ
faeturer's cost. W Mi™
Kach ■
• 10.00 Women's A Q
and Misses' new U*Vll UM
College Coats */U
with belts. The ■ _____
correct styles. 11/ Hf 0
Thursday only .. *
Boys' $4.50 /te JB QA
Winter Overcoats 1L 9
with belts. Thurs- I
day only. Kach .. .^j/
Girls' *a.oo and
s!i.»B tine silk vel- ■ ■%t
vet Trimmed AVIhI
Hats. Thursday only
Thursday only, ifl
Morning Sales, 0 I /■
to a. n».. Girls' ■ Mpl
Dresses, each JLi
Thursday only, /I) M *IA
Morning Sales, upW. gB /
to 1 p, m.. Wo- I | %J
men's $4 full 52- ■ H
Inch I.ong Italn- Ml H m
coats. Kach \|/ JkV
Thursday only, HV
Women's ready- M ft
to-wear Cloth I _ B I
Dress Skirts.
Correct style. .■ ~1l
I,ess than cost of ■■ |f I .
making. Kach V
Thursday only, aßll
Women's extra
slse. 50c quality
blenched muslin
MM Boys' QQ
new Norfolk I %/Q
Salts. All sliea. aM I -_ ==
Thursday \I/JL§
Men's BOe Cor- ■■
dwroy Caps. W
Thursday only fcjrjy » 1
SMITH'S
412 Market St.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING,
HAL REVENUE
BUREAU LENIENT
No Prosecutions So Long as Public
Is Reasonably Responsive
to Tax Law
By Associated Press
Washington, Dec. 2.—lnternal reve
nue collectors throughout the country
had notice to-day from the Internal
revenue bureau here that the govern
ment doea not intend to prosecute any
one subject of the war revenue law
I who shows a willingness and readlnesrf
|to buy the new tax stamps. The no
t' 3« was sent to allay fears on the part
of thousands of persons all over the
country who yesterday besieged the
internal revenue olflces ih attempt to
obtain revenue stamps to comply with
the law and who because of their in
ability to do so became frightened
over what might happen in the event
they were not on the minute with their
stamping.
Xo Ground For Fears
There was no need for such fears
and this was made clear in a telegram
which Commissioner Osborn of the
Internal Revenue Bureau sent to all
collectors. The telegram was in re
sponse to frantic calls from collectors
who told of crowds rushing to their
office demanding stamps arid it was
hoped by officials to-day that the no
tice would relieve a situation which
gave indications of causing embarrass
ment to thousands of persons and
which also might have resulted in con
siderable confusion to railroads asd
shippers.
The telegram is as follows: "Date
all special tax returns November SO
until you are able to handle applica
tions promptly, unless you have in
formation that no effort was made to
file same prior to that date. If un
able to supply demands for documen
tary stamps for bills of lading permit
i shipments to go forward, have record
kept and affix 05 cancel stamps when
received. Notify railroads."
Mistake of Congress
Officials of the Internal Revenue
Bureau here explain that while every
thing possible had been done to get
ready to enforce the law they have
been hampered in their work because
of the failure of Congress to appoint
] additional money for that purpose
j While the stamps have been shipped
I away as fast as they could be turned
out by the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, failure of some collectors to
heed suggestions from Washington
that all applicants be given supplies
sufficient to last a few days and not be
permitted to have large quantities, had
complicated the situation.
PLANS FARM-TO-TABLE SERVICE
Chicago, 111., Dec. 2.—The American
Express Company completed plans to
day to establish a farm-to-table serv
ice. The company will use its 10,000
j agents from coast to coast to gather
up produce and drum up purchasers.
WRITERS TO SEE REAL WAR
! London, Dec. 2. —The official press
! bureau announces that the exclusion
1 of newspaper men from the allied ar
| inies, which was enforced recently out
lof deference to France's wish, has
been relaxed. The British military
authorities have arranged to allow a
party of selected correspondents to
visit the lines.
G. O. P. CONTROL SEEN FOR
NEW JERSEY IN 1916
I Trenton, N. J., Dec. 2. —Complete
Republican control in New Jersey from
[ the governorship down In 1916 was
predicted by Senator William T. Read,
of Camden. The prediction was made
at a joint conference of the Repub
lican members of the next Legislature
and was subject only to the qualifica
tion that the Republicans should be on
their good behavior for the next two
years.
WILSON TO PUSH SHIP BILL
Washington, D. C.. Dec. 2.—Presi
dent Wilson indicated definitely to-day
that he intends to insist on the passage
of the ship purchase bill at the coming
session of Congress. Other measures
to be included in the program for the
next session are the Philippine inde
pendence bill and the general dam bill.
GLASS RATES REASONABLE
By Associated Press
Washington, Dec. 2.—Freight rates
on window glass from factories in
West Virginia to principal markets all
over the United States, attacked by
the manufacturers, were pronounced
not unreasonable to-day by the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
LINERS HELD BY FOG
New York, Dec. 2.—A fleet of 15
ocean liners rocked at anchor in a
heavy sea to-day at the entrance to
New York harbor, fog bound in the
thickest mist that has mantled this
section of the eastern sea coast for
fifteen years.
DEMAND $20,000 OF DR. BLISS
By Associated Press
London, Dec. 2. 4.19 A. M.—Accord
ing to advices from Beirut, Svrla, the
Turks have demanded $20,000 from
Dr. Bliss, principal of the American
College there, says a dispatch to the
Times from Cairo. The Turks declined
Dr. Bliss 1 ofTer of $5,000 for a full set
tlement of the claims they made.
FOER DIE m FIRE
By Associated Press
Wilmington, N. C.. Dec. 2.—Four
members of the family of A. H.
McNeill were burned to death here
late last night when fire destroveo
their home. The dead: Hannah
McNeill, 21; Amelia, 11; Walter, 8,
and Wade. 3. The parents and one
child escaped.
DEATH OF MRS. GRONINGER
Special to The Telegraph
Port Royal, Pa., Dec. 2.—Mrs. Anna
Eliza Groninger, wife of H. A. Gron
inger, died on Sunday. She is sur
vived by her husband and eight chil
dren, H. F. Groninger, of Altoona;
Miss Mary 8., at home; Mrs. Irvin
Dunkleberger, of Hlarrisburg; Sara,
of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Margaret and
C<jra, at home: Jacob 8., of Port
Royal, and Roy R„ of Moscow, Idaho.
Burial was made In Churchill Ceme
tery here this afternoon.
BAD TEETH CAUSE SICKNESS
By Associated Press
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 2—Bad teeth
cause one of the most serious health
problems of the day; according to Dr.
Harvey W. Wiley, of Washington, D.
C., who discussed that subject here to
day in an address before the American
Public Health Association.
NOT READY FOR PEACE
Washington, Dec. 2.—Henry White,
former ambassador to France and who
recently returned from Germany, dis
cussed the European situation to-day
with President Wilson. "Europe Is
not ready for peace yet," Mr. White
said. ,
Political Reformers as
Sam Hudson Sees Them
By Col. Sain Hudson
The political reformer, conspicuously
he of the tribe as described by Sheriff
Wes. Guffey as having "reached the
hair oil stage," is ever changeful llko
some women's moods, ever inventing,
ever tinkering, never truly and beatl
flcally 'happy unless upsetting existing
conditions. Like taxation and death
he is an itch which we always have
with us. Ever in the minority himself,
he has succeeded In changing what is
presumed to be a fixed law of nature.
He has made the tall to wag the dog.
As a hobgobblin he has frightened the
political talent into granting him al
leged panaceas that he has prescribed,
emulating the free dispensary phy
sician, and with the powerful aid of
the mugwump press has Induced the
people to swallow his nostrums. He
can extract sweet music from a tin
pan; he can make four go Into five
three times and two over; he can make
a "business administration" Insult the
intelligence of a great community and
always expect people to work gra
tultously for his elections to jobs of
velvet lining, thus enabling him to
bank his salary at the end of the
month.
The three paramountal fads of the
reformers are three, and there:
The Civil Service,
The Australian Ballot.
The Uniform Primary.
Three Little Sisters
Not one of these three little sisters
have been approved by the people
themselves; that is to say they have
never been submitted to the referen
dum. It is within belief that the
people would so reject them. They
have been engrafted upon statute bj
legislative enactment. The first two
are direct Importations from foreign
parts, although not coming to us
through the custom house.
It is common knowledge that the
first thlngembob was pilfered from
Great Britain, and which nation stole
it from the almond-eyed disciple 01
Confucius. In England it was adopted
by the nobility and the aristocracy to
entrench their power, and to give liv
ings to the younger sons cut oft by the
law of Inheritance. Its spokesman in
the American Congress was "Gentle
man" George Pendleton, a Democrat
of the golden spoon. The law was only
enacted after a close and bitter strug
gle and it represents one of the most
colossal flim-flams that was ever
played upon the American nation.
Pendleton, speaking for the reformers,
of that day, gave the positive assur
ance upon the floor of the Unlteo
States Senate that the proposed law
was intended to apply only to the
technical branches of the govern
mental service and would affect not
more than seven thousand jobs. Now
it is a blanket covering almost the
entire service.
But give a reformer an ell and he
will demand an inch. „Give him a bite
and he will demand a full course din
ner, Including wine. As the editor of
Lewis C. Cassidy's Sunday Truth I
fought this "proposed" new departure
with my youthful ability and was ably
seconded by the paper's Washington
correspondent, the brilliant Colonel A.
C. Buell, then the editor-of Don Piatt's
Washington Capitol, whose feuilletons
were classics and stand to-day as the
ablest arguments and truthful prog
nostications against and of the system
extant.
Wliere Civil Service Fails
Civil service is a direct contraven
tion of the biblical injunction that "the
laborer is worthy of his hire." It es
tablishes the new axiom in politics that
the party hustler shall work for noth
ing and board himself.
And furthermore, when the nation
changes its political work clothes th»,
big fellows, mark you, fix themselves,
the lltfle fellows are kindly permitted
to "go to the devil" and are referred
to the shingle on the window sill of
the United States Civil Service Com
mission.
May the good Lord preserve us from
Vodka!
The contention was that the law is
unconstitutional in that if a citizen
pays a tax he cannot be disbarred front
appointive office under government
through an age limit, senility and
physical infirmity alone preventing,
that it makes a class distinction and
that If it apply to one appointive office
it should apply to all. Including cabi
net officers and heads of departments.
It is a noteworthy fact that the
Supreme Court has never been asked
to pass upon the constitutionality of
this gigantic flim-flam. We are In
doubt whether it is sound law or not
One of these days there will come
along an American Congress with just
enough "sand in its craw" to starve
the system to death and in that is our
Great White Hope.
As to tho Ballot
The Australian ballot system, the
second flamboyant flim-flam for the
American people, was pilfered, of
course, from Australia, the home of
many fads In politics, and when it was
imported was characterized by Joe
Nobre, a picturesque unit in city poll
tics, as the "Botany Bay" system, Aus
tralia having been the dumping ground
for England's cut-throats and crimi
nals of all grades.
It first found a congenial home in
this land of the alleged free in the
sovereign state- of Massachusetts,
breeder and hothouse of many po
litical "new departures" and fads. An
Immediate beating of tin pans was set
up for the engraftment of this new or
old discovery upon our political sys
tem, and the noisy minority was again
successful in frightening the politicians
of the various states into an acqui
escence.
At the first election held in Massa
chusetts under the new dispensation it
was discovered that 100,000 defective
ballots had been cast and thrown out.
A voting system that requires a schooi
house or a tutor is at once a nuisance
and a menace. That first election cost
the reform element most dear, as Ben
Butler, their arch enemy, swept the
State—and through the medium of the
defective ballots.
The people and the political fra
ternity of Pennsylvania did not em
brace with hospitable arms this stolen
device of the Yankees. They had to
be educated up to it. It mouldered
and mildewed in the Legislature. We
then possessed a perfectly good and
simplified system, popularly known as
the "short," or the "vest pocket" sys
tem. The political parties provided
and paid for their own party ballots
and the candidates, their stickers.
Even the newspapers printed tickets,
which could be cut out and voted. If
the voter desired to 'charley-horse"
the poll worker he could take this
newspaper ballot and slide it Into the
box and go on his way rejoicing.
Everyone Stampeded
Notwithstanding that the party
chieftains had been scared finally Into
an acceptance of this new flim-flam
there was strenuous opposition, and
particularly from organized labor, led
by T. V. Powderly, of Scranton, "My
people must not be driven to the school
house to learn how to vote," he de
clared.
The original Australian ballot law of
Pennsylvania has been tinkered and
botched, like the Brooks high licenses
law, by the courts, by the reformers,
so that their own fathers would not be
able to recognise either if they wen.
to sit at tlie same table with them
every day.
Senator Quay regretted to th* day
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
of his death the part he had taken In
inflicting this infliction upon the re
form-harassed people of Pennsylvania,
and he did not hesitate to say so.
So here the central idea as to voting
Is to make it honestly easy and invit
ing. and it has been advanced that
voting even should be made compul
sory, not made a hardship, a bore, a
risk, an insult, as the primary system
Is considered by many, or a device to
scare the uneducated voter from the
polls.
The One Kinic
There is one kink, however, that the
fat-headed reformer has never sought
to take under his hen-like wing, and
this to require by law a return or tally
by the election boards of the number
of defective or discarded ballots and
their full compilation so that their
totals could be known.
Well, we know why. If this was th«
law, and those ballots number thou
sands at every election, the people
would get up on their hind legs and
simply swipe the system.
An excellent authority, W. Harry
Baker, informs me that they -will num
ber at least five for every precinct,
which, with 6,000 such in the state,
the number would total possibly 30,000
at every election. For instance, at tho
polling place of Vance C. McCormick
in Harrisburg at the late election and
which was carried by him by two ma
jority, five ballots were found which
had been voted for Penrose for sen
ator alone. The Inference is that these
five electors had the intent to vote th*.
whole Republican state ticket, but had
missed fire.
Now here is a peep into just one of
the six thousand precincts. Why
should a system like this be
since it miserably fails to afford a true
and rightful expression of the opinion
or choice upon the part of the people?
It Is the experience of election officers
that many votes are thus lost through
the pride of educated voters, who
really ought to know how, failing to
ask for "assistance." Now a system
that baffles or charley-horses both tht>
polished and the unpolished alike is
surely some prize winner in its class.
IVimary Idea Stolen
The uniform primary is likewise an
Idea that was stolen by the reformers
and has new and additional features
patented from a practice formerly in
use in Pennsylvania quite some years
ago and known as the Crawford countj
system, It having originated in that
once notorious election-boodling baili
wick. The main difference betweei
the new and the old is that under the
old each party had its separate pri
mary on different days and the cost
was borne by them.
1 was the news editor when a kiddo
of the Titusville Morning Herald and
I know something about the politics
of Crawford county at that epoch, the
Herald being the Republican county
organ. "Nibsey" Bloss. its editor and
the postmaster of Titusville, came to
Philadelphia in search of a live wire,
and after Inquiries in the profession
was put upon my trail. I closed with
him, since 1 was threatened with con
sumption and needed the braclnf,
mountain air. , I must have made a
hit, as the businessmen of Meadville
sent for me to come to that town and
made a proposition that I become tht
editor of la pioneer daily paper they
had in contemplation and the money
up. It was held, however, that a
weekly and a job printery were wanted
to insure the enterprise and vain
efforts were made to buy an estab
lished one, and the success of a new
one being feared, the scheme died.
Fond Recollections
My recollection Is that this principle
of direct voting for nominations was
devised to head off the buying of dele
gates to conventions, as the employ
ment of money had become a mon
strous scandal. Money was spent like
water by the rival Republican leaders.
Banker Delamater, of Meadvllle, and
Dr. Roberts, of Titusville, and it was
the belief that they could not buy up
the whole county.
Delamater afterward became the ill
starred candidate for Governor and
Dr. Roberts, better known as "Tor
pedo" Roberts, he having made a mil
lion or so throuhg an invention for
resuscitating dry petroleum wells bv
torpedoing them, were both anxious to
go either to Congress or the State
Senate, and to be recognized as the
whole Cameron leader of the county.
And each had enough money always to
block the other.
"Bill" Andrews I then knew as the
John Wanamaker of the oil regions,
he having a big department store in
Titusville, was an immense advertiser
and known as the slickest politician in
seventeen counties. He was first the
financial agent of Dr. Roberts and his
chief vote procurer. He subsequently
was taken up by Colonel Quay and be
came his chief of staff, having failed in
business. After the death of Dr. Rob
erts he entered the political service of
Delamater. Proving a traitor to Quay
in the Pittsburgh ripper fisUt, the
colonel attempted to pistol him.
The Roberts Dinner
After years of strife Dr. Roberts
landed in the State Senate And sig
nalized his advent by regaling the en
tire ensemble of the Legislature with a
wine dinner at the old Loohlel tavern,
at which there was more champagne
than there was dinner. The next
morning breakfast wt the Lochiel was
late because it took the deck hands so
long to truck the drunks out of the
dining room. I was a "two-bottle
man" at that festivity myself and must
admit that I have never seen its liko
Tears after Chris Magee emulated Di,.
Roberts with a similar affair held in
Russ Hall and which was a high roller
After the death, of Dr. Roberts Dela
mater had his ambition gratified by
an election to the State Senate and
the feud was off.
The Crawford county system was
adopted by several other counties and
after a trial was discarded, having
proved unsatisfactory, as it had in
Crawford itself, so. as T say, this sys
tem of direct voting for nominations
was not a new thing in Pennsylvania.
It has again failed under Its new gnis«,
as the reformers are admitting them
selves that it "don't reach the spot"
and they are getting ready to "shift
arms."
The mugwump press has begun to
comnlain that the various patented
election reform devices have proved
failures, as for one thins: too costly,
and upon this phase I shall be back
again.
LODGE 13 YEARS OLD
John Harris Lodge, No. 193, Knights
of Pythias, gave a banqet to seventy
five members at Union Square Hall in
celebration of Its thirteenth anniver
sary. An interesting history of the
lodge was given by Jonas M. Rudy and
Harry A. Boyer. Turkey was the main
dish. Toasts were responded to by
Alderman Caveny, Harry A. Boyer,
Harry D. Reel, O. M. Bowers, of this
city, and Clarence Carman and C. F.
Showers, of Carlisle.
T. R. GOT MOOSE MONEY
By Associated Press
Washington, D. C., Dec. 2. The
final campaign expense report of the
Progressive national committee filed
to-day shows contributions of $27,-
275 and expenditures of $27,2(11. The
principal contributions are listed as
an "unpaid loan from New York
banks," $10,000: Progressive volun
teers, $10,000; William H. Childs,
$8,7(10; T. H. Powers, $9,000, A pay
ment ef $1,200 to Colonel Itooaevelt
for traveling wan regarded.
READ THEM ALL —EVERY ONE IS VERY I
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Democratic Tax Receipts
First Day Above $3,000
There was no let-up in the rush to
day for war tax stamps. Local col
lectors have been so busy that they
were unable to give any definite figures
as to the total of stamps sold in Har
rlsburg yesterday. A conservative es
timate fixed the amount of sales yes
terday at $3,000. The sales would
have been much larger had It been
possible to meet all demands.
Stamps delayed in shipment had not
reached the local offices to-day at
noon, but were expected by this even
ing. It is the opinion of Deputy Reve
nue Collector William S. Bricker that
the rush will be over by Saturday.
It is the belief of Postmaster Frank
C. Sites that eventually all special
revenue stamps will be placed on sale
at the Post Office. Local bankers
were to-day Informed that sight and
time drafts were not included in the
stamp tax provisions.
SAMUEL JONES FUNERAL
Services For Telegraph Watchman At
tended by Hundreds of Friends
Previous to the funeral this after
noon of Samuel Jones, for ten years
night watchman at the Harrlsburg
Telegraph, employes of the Telegraph
and friends viewed the body at the
late home, 627 Mahantongo street. Ser
vices were held this afternoon at 2
o'clock, the Rev. E. E. Snyder, pastor
of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church,
officiating. Burial was made In Har
rlsburg Cemetery.
The pallbearers were from the Im
proved Order of Red Men, Junior Or
der of United American Mechanics, St.
Matthew's Church and Sunday school
and from the Harrlsburg Telegraph.
Each of the arganlzatlons to which
Mr. Jones belonged, many friends, St.
Matthew's Church and Sunday school
and the Harrlsburg Telegraph sent
floral tributes. Mr, Jones was taken
111 whUe on duty Saturday night, and
was sflnt to his home. On Sunday
morning Mr. Jones condition grew
worse. Death was due to rheumatism
of the heart.
DECEMBER 2, 1914/
WEST END ELECTION DEC. 29
Nominations for officers were made
by members of the West End Republi
can Club last night. Further nomina
tions will be made at each weekly
meeting, until December 29, wnen the
election takes place. The meeting last
night brought a large crowd to club
headquarters, 1410 North Third street.
Committees in charge of arrangements
for the annual ball, sixth annuul ban
quet, and for participation in the in
augural ceremonies in January report
ed last night. The date for the ball
and banquet will be announced next
Tuesday. Nominations made last night
were: President, liarry A. Douglass;
vice-president, H. C. Sponeler; secre
tary, J. S. Miller; treasurer, H. W.
Miller; trustee for three years, A. A.
Peiffer; membership committee, W.
R. Shuey, I. D. Meals, E. G. Hoffman,
Harry Hoffman, H. J. Boyer, J. G.
Church, Jr.
TO PAY TRIBUTE TO HOSTS
To-morrow the Lincoln Fire Com
pany of Perth Amboy, N. J., will send
a special messenger here to present to
the Citizen Fire Company a token of
appreciation of the treatment accord
ed ths New Jersey firemen while they
were in Harrisburg as guests of the
Citizen Company In the great fire
men's display of October 8. This model
company led the Citizen division in the
parade and made a fine appearance.
A special meeting of the Citizen com
pany has been called- for to-morrow
evening.
ENTER MEXICO CITY TOMORROW
By Associated Press
Washington, Deo. 2. Provisional
President Gutierrez will enter Mexico
City to-morrow and be Installed In
the National Palace there according to
official telegrams to the State Depart-1
ment to-day.
OASTORIA Forlnfantsand Children. Bears tn®
The Kind You HhYa Alwajfs Bought
"H" of Blue and Gray
Not to Be Made a "C ,f
Members of the Central High 'varsity
football team, with the athletic direc
tors, will be guests of the Orplieum.
Theater management to-night. The
Central players will occupy boxes,
which have been decorated 'ln lllgli
School colors. A number of students
from Central have engaged front seats
and will help along the noise.
Reports that a proposition was un
der way to change the 'varsity letter
from "H" to "C" was denied this after
noon by members of Central High.
School faculty.
AOVEMDKR GLOOMY
There were only seven clear days In
November, according to the monthly
Weather Bureau report of HarrlgburK
and vicinity. .Of the remaining twenty
three days there were six that Old S%l
didn't get a look at the city and seven
teen that were partly cloudy. Thj»
temperature took all kinds of turn*.
On November 4 the mercury went from •
45 degrees to 74. This was the highest
temperature of the month also. TM
lowest was on the 24th, when 21 de
grees was recorded. Slight traces <rt
snow are recorded.
GOLD BADGES FOR SCOUTS -
By Associated Press
London, Dec. 2, 1.30 P. M. —Tha
American ambassador, Walter Hlnew
Page, to-day presented In behalf <ji
the American Boy Scouts gold badgtt
to 25 English Boy Scouts who assisted
the American Relief Committee dur
ing the rush following the declaration
of war.
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CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE ~
Chicago, 111., Dec. 2. Board af
Trade closing:
Wheat—December, 1.14%: May. 1.21 <JL
Corn—December, 6.1%; May. 69 Vi.
Oats —December. 47%; May, 52%. "»
Pork—January, 18.02; May. 18.33. £
Lard—January, 9.60; May, 9.87. 4
Ribs—January, 9.62; May, 9.95.
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