PRESBYTERY WILL MEET AT PINE ST. Beports at Last Session Show Big Gains in Membership and Finances Newviiie. Pa.. Sept. v\ \ W The morning YV\ .NX session of the Pres \ opened yesterday CSpwnMIA with devotional ex jftUßei erclses led by Dr. J. Nelson Clark, of M»- chanlcsburg. who lOMlMsskK drew his remarks nfflmna from Twenty-third HPUI nIHW Psalm. Evangelist - Nicholson, who » A - is in attendance of T KS Presbytery. having finished his fhernacle campaign at Lehighton, fol lowed presenting a telling diversion of the church as represented by the first three verses of the psalm and the sol fliers as represented by the last two verses, pleading for more soldiers in the church of Christ. Presbytery appointed for its meeting place in the Spring the Pine Street Church, of Harrlsburg, and elected as moderator to preside over the next ses sion. the Rev. F. E. Taylor, of Gettys burg. The moderator and clerks of Presbytery were appointed a commit tee to arrange an itinerary for Pres bytery. appointing the meeting places tn rotation according to their judgment as to which churches were able to en tertain. Minimum Salary * 1,000 The Rev. William L Mudge, of i hambersburg. made an elaborate re port unifying the Home Mission work of the Presbytery in a new committee of twelve men. It will be the object of this committee to secure as a minimum salary 1100 and house for all pastors of country fields, and $1,200 and house for *ll town fields, to develop good plans of finance in the churches of Presby tery, to encourage federation and com munity work, and to reach the un churched within the bounds of the Presbytery. This committee was re quested to make a survey of the field on the west bank of the Susquehanna river opposite Harrlsburg. The Rev. Harvey Klaer reported for the committee to visit Wilson College recommending the immediate raising of a $2,000 scholarship bv the Presbv- , terv of Carlisle and overturlng the Svnod of Pennsylvania to undertake 1 the raising in behalf of Wilson College l pf an endowment of at least half a mil lion of dollars. The Rev. William 1., Mudge was appointed to represent the Presbytery before the Synod's commit tee on religious educational institutions. The Rev. Pr. Warfield, the newly elected president of Wilson College, was carefully listened to as in a vigorous address he presented the needs of the institution. Delegate* to Synod The following were elected delegates to Synod, which meets at Scranton, Pa., the fourth Tuesdav of October: Minister delegates W. L. Mudge. George r. Bernhardt. Carlisle: W. H. Dyer. Middletown: J. W. Kauffman. Fahnettshuig: John M. War den. Harrisburg. Alternates J. M. Rutherford. XV avnesboro: R. M. Ra:n say. Newport - George McAllister. Cham bersburg: R. M. McKenzie, Harrisburg; George H. Johnson. P. D.. Duncannon. Elder delegates —J. Nelson Clark, Mechanlcsburg: John W .Davis. Steel ton: W E. McDowell, Mercershurg; K f". Walker. Lower Path Valley; P. W. R»ltzel, Monaghan. Alternates J. L Gordon. Waynesboro: J. C. Pean. Olivet. Harrisburg; Harry E. Snyder. Green castle: J. Q. A. Rutherford. Paxton; W. H Craighead. Capital Street, Harrls burg. The Rev. William M. Seligman. sec retary of the mission to the tubercular patients at Mont Alto. Cresson and 'Tarrisburg, addressed Presbytery In the interest of his work and a recom mendation was passed requesting each church to take an offering for this cause in the coming year. The executive commission reported that the various chudches of Presbytery raised and expended in benevolences beynud the bounds of tlieir own fields 147.756. Sunday School Gain The Rev. Dr. Rose was made the chairman of a committee on federation to confer with the elassis of Mercers burg concerning the federation of the Reformed and the Presbyterian churches at Fahnettsburg. The Rev. T. C. McCarrell. D. D.. pre sented the Sabbath school report In be half of the Rev. H. R. King, the chair man. The folio-wing Items are gleaned from It: Number of school. 51; en rollment of scholars and teachers. 10.- *Bl. a gain of 31? over last year: Cradle Roll. 7*S: Home Department. 1.145: tottl enrollment, including Cradle Roll and Home Department, 12.214: member ship of organized adults Bible clases, 2.013. The Rev, .T. S. Armentrout. of the Pine Street Church, addrssed the Pres bvterv on Sabbath school organization. He presented as a model organization, first, a Sabath school association com posed of pastor, superintendent, teach ers and officers, who shall met at least once a month to study the school: sec ond. each school ought to have three or four departments, beginners, pri mary and junior departments, with separate superintendents, and the main I If You Live in Harrisburg gs Ask to Sec Our Samples of ug Special Engraved | Private Greeting 1 i Cards for Xmas M and the New Year Order NOW for December delivery, as all cards have to be made to special order. § * I IThe Telegraph Printing Co. 1 Printing, Binding, Designing, £3 Photo-Engraving « HARRISBURG, PA. S THURSDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 30.1915. SYNDICATE WILL LAST SIXTY DAYS Sums Subscribed by Banks Will Be Left on Deposit Until Needed fly Associated Press New York, Sept. 30.—The commit tee In charge of the sale of the $500,000,000 Anglo-French bonds'has cleared away n number of details con cerning the method of marketing the Issue. Chief of the details settled are that the life of the underwriting syndicate is to he sixty days, the sums sub scribed by banks will be left on de posit with the subscribers until needed and then withdrawn proportionately and the profit of the syndicate mem bers will be 1 per cent., the remain ing one-fourth of 1 per cent, being used for expenses. London. Sept. 30. — Asserting that American hankers naturally prefer a loan with some $10,000,000 profit to the Importation of gold, which brings no profit, the Manchester Guardian declares editorially "there is no rea son. however, why the government should Indulge in what has every ap pearance of being a blunder as costly politically as financially." school: third, the association must haev at least two committees, executive and missionary. The Rev. Hlexander Henrv, D. P., of Philadelphia, secretary of the Sifhday School Board, addressed the Presbytery upon Sunday school standards, which was followed by an Informal confer ence. The Rev. George Fulton, of Me chanlcsburg. presented resolutions of thanks to the pastor, congregation and choir of the Big Spring Church for their geenrous hospltalitv in so graci ously entertaining Presbvterv. Presbytery adjourned to met in the Pine Street Church, at 2:30 p. m . the second Tuesday of April. 14-Year-01d Girl n Tells Ugliest Story of Dauphin's Courts The ugliest story ever heard in a Dauphin county courtroom was told to-day by 14-year-old Myrtle Walter, of Dauphin. Within a few feet of the witness stand sat the child's softly weeping mother; across the counsel table, face hidden in his arms, sat her father. Zar Walter, the defendant. Crowded courtroom No. 2 sat hushed, horror stricken throughout the child ish recital. And, when the story wns finished the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Germans Pushed Back by Russian Forces fly Associated Press Petrograd. Sept. 30, 11.30 A. M.. via London. 1.55 P. M.—Territorial gains of considerable extent by the Russians are indicated by the latest information received at the war office. The Germans have been pushed back from the terminal station at Clubo koi, on the Svlentsyanvo Glubokoi i railway to a point midway to the [ Vilna-Dvinsk ra llway. The position thus reached islhe station of Poatawy, i-representing a gain of 35 miles. No Appointments Today Says the Governor Governor Brumbaugh said to-day that he would have no appointments to announce. The appointment of Fred A. God charles to succeed William Hertzler as Deputy Secretary of the Common wealth will probably be made by Sec retary Woods to-morrow. The presence of Ex-Congressman C. E. Patton last night led to rumors that he was being considered for Secretary of Agriculture, but there was no information on it to be ob tained to-day. CONDITIONS IN i SOUTH IMPROVE Flood Waters Are Beceding at New Orleans, Says Wire less Dispatches fly t ssoeiated Press Ran Antonio, Texas, Sept. 30. A wireless message from New Orleans to the station at Fort Sam Houston at 10.10 this morning says; "Report conditions are not very bad." A message received at 7.50 a. m. re layed from Galveston, said: "Last heard, water nearly drained from streets of New Orleans. Going down rapidly." Galveston. Texas, Sept. 30. A wireless message received here this morning from New Orleans stated that at 2 o'clock the water in the streets of the city was receding rapid ly and that the stage of the river was also going down. This message re ported the number of dead In New Or leans at five. Indications were, the message said, that the damage to property had been considerable. Mobile. Ala., Sept. 30. The wind here during the storm Inst night aver aged from 25 to «0 miles. Mobile river early to-day was two and a half blocks up in the wholesale district. One fishing smack is missing. A young man going to work early this morning was electrocuted when he stepped on a live wire which had been blown down. WHARTON DINNERT IS BIG SUCCESS Ways and Means of Boosting Extension School Dis cussed by Club The Wharton Club last nic|it at a beefsteak dinner held in the Engi neers' Club discit. sed ways and means of boosting the membership of the Harrlsburg extension of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce. Among the speakers were Thomas Lynch Montgomery. State Librarian; C. Harry Kain. head of the Rotary Club's Wharton booster committee; Josiah B. Kline, president of the Wharton Club; M. H. Dean, attorney of the Elliott-Fisher Company, and Professors C. N. Callender, W. P. Paine and W. W. Pierson and Dr. S. Z. Shope. T. J. S. Kishpaugh was toast master and chairman of the committee on ar rangements. All of the speakers spoke of the advantages to be gained in the pursuit of advanced business training and each urged the Wharton members to go out ;ind bring their friends into the school. I Dr. Shope declared that Harrlsburg j is lacking In school interest as evi- • denced by the failure to provide n | much needed high school. Dr. Mont- . gomery reviewed the history of the University of Pennsylvania and the Whatton school. Mr. Dean declared that the Wharton students have ten chr.nces for success "where the fel lows who loaf at Third and Market streets every night have one." Professor Callender said that the day is not far distant when the uni versity extension courses will include engineering and the sciences as well as business. Professors Raine and Callender spoke on the work of the year. The guests Included Josiah B. Kline. Bland Cornell. Wilbur Minich, Lorne Hummel. Sam. 9 Hecker, Silas Ruth erford, J. T. S. Kishpaugh, Marshall Kelster. William Lewis. Monroe Vance. Charles Cumbler. L. W. Kline. Robert Meek. Laurence Guarin. Walter Seiler, Daniel Becker. Robert Charles Kochenour. Thomas Rogers. William Kirby. William Hoy. Stahley Living stone. Robert 8011. Richard McAllis ter, John Hoffman. Joseph Lehman, Ira Appier, Harold Bach, William Haertter, Wilson Black. Herbert Schaner. Professor W. P. Ralne, Pro fessor W. W. Pierson. Professor C. X. Callender. Dr. S. Z. Shope, Dr. Thomas L. Montgomery, c. Harry Kain, M. H. Dean. William Kirby, Wayne Jefferies, Earl Eastright, Paul Esmer and Elman Frey. The commitee on arrangements in cluded T. J. S. Kishpaugh. chairman, Norman Rintz. Sam. S. Hecker. Wil bui Minich. Bland Cornell and Pro fessor V>. P. Raine. The officers of the Wharton Club are: Josiah P., Kline, president: Rich ard McAllister, vice-president, and Sam. S. Hecker, secretary and treas urer. Imprisoner Men Are Believed to Be Dead Pottsville. Pa.. Sept. 30. No trace iof the men imprisoned at Coaldale | had been discovered up until late this i morning. Efforts to reach the men ;are being made from two directions and the are prepared for an I announcement of the recovery of the j victims at almost any hour. Deaths and Funerals ! >1 US. SARAH ANN SELLHAMER Mrs. Sarah Ann Sellhamer died last ! night at the home of her daughter. Mrs. H. F. Guyer, 1417 Vernon street. ] aged 77. She is survived by the four (sons and four daughters. She was a i member of the Methodist Church. The I funeral services will be held at the ' home of her daughter this evening at 7 o'clock. The remains will be taken to Newburg to-morrow where further services will be held. JOSEPH SHANNON j Joseph Shannon died at his home, 127 Linden street, last night after an 'illness of two months, aged 57. He :is survived by his wife and three chil j dren. Lincoln, Anna and May. The I funeral will be held pt his late home | Friday evening at 7.45 o'clock. The body will be taken to Gravel Church : Saturday morning, where further ser j vices will be held. COI.OXIAL TO-DAV "THE CIRCULAR STAIRCASE" I "The Circular Staircase," the five-reel i Selig Red Seal Play to be shown at ' the Colonial theater to-day is said to be one of the best offerings of the : year. It is a mystery film, based upon the novel of the same title by Mary Roberts Rlnehart and features Eugenie i Bcsserer. A murder occurs in a house : and suspicion is cast upon almost all 'of the characters In turn. There seems I tb be sonn* solution that the detective who Is working on the case has not hit ; upon but this- is so carefully covered up by the events which occur that no ; one who sees the film can imagine what it can be. Not until the climax oc ' curs is the real culprit exposed and then it is sprung as the greatest of the many surprises which occur . throughout the film. Monday and Tuesday the Colonial will present the distinguished star, Robert Edeson, in the Vltagraph's flvr- PBft drama. "Mortmain,'' an uniiue, sensational and weird story of the mys teries of medical surgtr).—Adv. LITTLE MILLIONAIRES H "iiimiiMinifliiwiii'uiri 1 L f LCO~«KO MOOK„C AD THQMHS LEONARD MOORHEAD THOMAS, ' JR.. AND HIS MOTHER MRS. LEONARD THOMAS New York. Sept. 9.—On September 15, on an order from Justice Gieg erich of the Suprem Court, Leonard May Oelrichs Thomas and Meredith Michael May Thomas, the two little sons of Leonard M. Thomas, millionaire of New York. Newport and Philadelphia, and Mrs. Blanche May Oelrichs Thomas will have their names changed. On that date Leonard May Oelrichs Thomas will become Leonard Moorhead Thomas while Meredith Michael May Thomas will hereafter be known as Robin May Thomas. In his petition for the change in names of his sons Mr. Thomas i stated that he wanted his eldest son to bear the name "Moorhead" in honor of his wife's paternal grandmother. When Leonard was born in 1911. he was the first child of the couple, who were tnarired in 1910, and he wanted to have the boy bear the name of his wife's mother. On April 26 last a second son was born and as he was also given the name "May," there is no reason why Leonard should not bear It. He further stated that the names borne by 4iis sons were too cumbersome and he wished them shortened. Mrs. Thomas is the daujrhter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Oelrichs of Philadelphia, and has often been called "the most beautiful woman in America." Mr. Thomas is a son of the late George C. Thomas, member of the banking firm of Drexel and Co., Philadelphia. ROBERT S. BROW NELL DIES AT AGE OF 81 YEARS Robert S. Brownell, aged 81 years died at the home of C. E. Jeffries, 407 Woodbine street, last evening. 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Funeral services will be held at the Jeffries home to-mor row afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. C A. Hare, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church, will officiate. Burial will lie made in East Harrisburg ceme-1 tery. 'i STOLE CHICKENS BY "WHOLESALE" Slate Cops Tell Court About Epidemic in Lower Pax ton Township How a couple of troopers of the Pennsylvania State police broke up the ••epidemic" of petty thieving that had . Paxtang and the neighboring farms of Lovrer Paxton township by the ears for the last several weeks, was told in the Dauphin county criminal "ourt to-day when IJarvev Bowers. Hussel Mader, William Pot teiger, John and George Albright wero arraigned before Additional I-aw Judge McCarrell to answer charges of chicken and harness stealing. The officers who ran down the youthful thieves and made the arrests were Corporal C. A. Davles and Clyde Moody, and they have been operating in plain clothes for several weeks. Wholesale Thieving The trial of the trio In two other charges was well under way when (court adjourned at noon. The Albright brothers pleaded guilty to wholesale chicken stealing but sent«nco In their case was con tinued until October 15. Attorney James G. Hatz Is their counsel but he is too ill to appear in court. One of the State policemen told of finding the boys busy cleaning slain chickens "bv the tub full." September quarter sessions dragged s trifle to-day. Henry Brandt the Boyalton constable who was convicted of assault and battery upon a Royalton man will likely ask for a. new trial. (In the Wrong House Tn No. 1 room before Judge Kunktil most of the morning was taken up with the trials of George Pantlc. Georce was accused first by Mrs. Hein rlch Klein of defrauding her of some S1 5 board money. Immediately after ward he faced another jury on a charge of feloniously entering the home of Mary Grimier. Pantic in the latter case it developed simply missed fire on the choice of his houses ns they all looked alike to him when he cot home n trifle early one morning. Judge Kunkel directed the Jury to ac quit him on the felonious charge but the twelve went out to deliberate on a charge of malicious mischief Just before noon adjournment. The mis- Chief It was charged lay In George's method of entering the house. He cooly battered in a panel in the base ment window. •TFTRV ACQi rrs >ms. KKT,SKY When four-vear-old Gertrude Haw kins quarreled with the small daugh ter of Mrs. Benjamin Kelsey, a neigh bor. the latter interfered and chased Gertrude around the block. On the way around the child fell on the pave ment. This was the story her father. Jesse Hawkins told when he arrested Mrs. Kelsey on an assault and battery charge. A Dauphin county criminal Jury to-day acquitted Mrs. Kelsey and placed the costs upon the prosecutor. KILLKI) BY ATJTO Fly Associated Press I.os Angeles. Cal., Sept. 30.—Miss Clio Davenport, sister of the late Car toonist, Homer Davenport, is dead and her fiance, Frank Travers, an official of the Panama Pacific Steamship Company, was in a precarious condi tion to-day a- the result of an auto r"-»bilc accident last night. 13 OVER $5,000,000 v FOR THE CROSSINGS Estimate of What It Would Cost to Free the Lincoln High way Surprises Capitol The first estimate of what It would cost to eliminate the thirty-eight grade crossings on the portion of the TJncoln Highway through Pennsyl vania as originally planned and not counting any detours, was submitted to the Public Service Commission to day by Chief Engineer F. Herbert Snow. The chief engineer made a personal survey of the highway cover ing X2l miles and presented to Chair man Aine.v a comprehensive discussion of each crossing with description, pho tographs, drawings, plans and sugges tions for temporary protection. The figures show that the total cost of eliminHtlon would be $8,340,000, of which $5,100,000 is the estimate for grade crossings in cities. $2,20H.000 for borough crossings and $1,302,000 for such crossings as are in town ships. The commission will consider the report at length next week when a number of grade crossing cases are to come up. Chairman Ainev has arranged for n. session of the commission to be held in Scranton, during the week begin ning October 11. The list of cases to be heard will include, citizens of Mont rose against the Consumers Company, several Jitney complaints made by the Scranton Hallways Com pany. against M. J. Walsh, Forrest City. W. H. Owens, of Scranton, and S. Wilson and F. Williams, of Vand llng, are amongst the number to b« heard: also the commission expects tp fake the evidence in the case of Wil liam T. Boland against the I>acka wanna Railroad Company, in which it is alleged illegal switching charges were collected. About fifteen cases are on the Scranton calendar. J. B. Swoveland filed a complaint with the commission this morning al leging that the regulation of the Peo ple's Natural Gas Company in requir ing a deposit of $lO before furnishing service, constitutes a discrimination against the petitioner and other con sumers of gas in the city of Altoona. The borough of Hamburg lodged a complaint against the Hamburg Gas & Electric Company, relating to the schedule of rates which the electric company has filed for furnishing elec tricity for lighting the streets of the borough, which rates it Is averred, ar» unreasonable, unfair and unjust. Held For Conspiring to Defraud Uncle Sam By Astociaitd Pres.* New York, Sept. 30.—Andrew I). Meloy, who was arrested by Depart ment of Justice agents when he ar rived to-day on the steamer Nieuw Amsterdam was arraigned before United States Commissioner Hough ton charged with conspiring with Frans Kintenelen, a German wine merchant, to defraud the United States government in securing a pass port for Rintenelen. Meloy. who sajd he had recently been engaged in; promoting Mexican enterprises,"" was held in SIO,OOO bail for a hearing Oc- I tober 7.
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