Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, December 31, 1915, Page 2, Image 2
2 MUMMERS READY FOR BIG PARADE Lcwisburg Residents Will Cele brate Entry of New Year Special to the Telegraph Lewisburg, Pa., Dec. 31.—The boost ers for the mummers' parade hero on New Year's Day have completed all plans for the big celebration. The parade will form at 1 o'clock and move off promptly at 2 p. m. Four bands, upward of fifty floats, a hundred or more automobiles, several secret so cieties and fire departments. Troop M, Firsb Cavalry, and hundreds of mum liters will be in line. Captain Samuel B. Wolfe, chief mar shal, has selected Colonel William R. Vollmer, lieutenant W. Ralph Bechtel and Lieutenant A. Paul Kline as his aids. Numerous cash prizes are offered for the various features in the parade :md as this celebration will mark the opening of Lcwisburg's first paved street, and th lighting of the Great White Way it is expected that It will be one of the biggest days this town has had since the centennial twenty five years ago. ASK FOR and GET HORLICK'S THE ORIGINAL MALTED MILK Cheap substitutes cost YOU same price* Merchnnfn and Ullner* Tram*. Co. FLORIDA TRIPS "BY SEA" BALTIMORE TO One AVaj- Itouml Trip S2O JACKSONVILLE S»S 1.500 MILES—7-IJAV TRIP. sl-5.00 SAVANNAH 526.20 Including meals and stateroom berth. Through tickets to all points. Fine steamers. Best service. Staterooms de luxe. Baths. Wireless telegraph. Au tomobiles carried. Steamer Tuesday and Friday, 7 P. M. Send for booklet. XV. I*. Tt l(\l:u. <•. I\ A., Hnlto., Mil. Winter weather puts any coal to the test and especially shows up the superior burning and heating <1 u a 1 i t i e s of Kelley's Range and Furnace Fuel. There will be New Year cheer in every home that burns Kel- ! ley's Coal. H. M. Kelley & Co. 1 North Third Street Tenth and State Streets ==Our== 11 Holiday Saving Fund • -Club • i|- Is Now Open I Security Trust Company | \ Third Street, Near Post Office | 81/W W ? THIS COUPON FOR , rican Government AND Panama Canal « f ' FKEDKUIC J. HA SKIN. That Show Uncle Sam at Work. [arrisburg Telegraph IESE TWO BOOKS FOR 98 CENTS Cut ® ' hla paper, present It at our office with 98 :ost of production and distribution, and the an cents extra by mtill. OUT THESE BOOKS Both are the name , i otly alike In heavy cloth. Each has about i fine book paper. Both are profusely lllus etchlngrs, drawings und maps. 1 RS We are distributing these patriotic e of th«ir great educational fnerlt and our old bo In every American home. I > »i VI" ■»VU" w<Pj FRIDAY EVENING, BLARRIfcEURG t&ij&b TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 31, 1915 War Veteran With Record Is Dead in Adams County Special, to the Telegraph Mount Joy, Pa., Dec. 31.—Word has just reached Mount Joy of the death of John H. Freed; of Abbottstown, Adams county, the father of J. Willis Freed, of Mount Joy, stenographer at the Grey Iron Works. Mr. Freed was 75 years old and for twehty-ftve years taught school in Adams and York counties. He was a veteran of the Civil War, having served as a mem ber of the First Brigade band in the Army of the Potomac, under General Meade. He witnessed the shelling of Petersburg. Va., by General Grant, which, he claims, was one of the most beautiful spectacles to behold, as it occurred at night and resembled a profuse display of fireworks. Mr. Freed was in Lancaster county the day before the Columbia bridge was burned and reached Columbia that evening and crossed the bridge on the last train over it. TAKES POISON BY MISTAKE Special to the Telegraph Lewistown, Pa., Dec. 31. Word i has been received here of the- death of J. Albert Romig in a Columbus, 0., hospital from the effects of swallow ing a bichloride of mercury tablet in mistake for a headache tablet. Mr. Romig, who was a son of Simon Romig, of Reedsvillc, this county, arose during the night and got what he supposed was a tablet for the cure of headache, but it proved to be poison. MRS. WILLIAM JOHNSON Special to the Telegraph Lewistown, Pa., Dec. 31. Mrs. William Johnson one of the most widely known women of this section j passed away at her home in East Market street yesterday from pneu monia. She leaves two daughters and a son. The son, Thomas Johnson, is engaged in the shoe business in this place, and is proprietor of the Casino Bowling Alleys and chief of Lewis town's lire department. Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it. 25c at all druggists. Simple Home Treatment For Swollen Veins i If you or any relative or friend is worried because of varicose veins, or bunches, the best advice that anyone in tliis world can give is to got a pre scription that many physicians are now prescribing. Ask your druggist for an original two-ounce bottle of Moone's Emerald oil (full strength) and apply night and morning to the swollen, enlarged vejns. Soon you will notice that they are growing smaller and the treatment i should be continued until the veins are of normal size. Moone's Emerald Oil is j a powerful, yet harmless germicide and : results are guaranteed. Any druggist | will supply you.—Advertisement. LEG SUPPORTS ft fit J VARICOSE VEINS. II.CKRS. W Wrak Ankle*. Swollen Stafi-n ARE EVENI.Y SI'PPORTED SSWff \ BY THE) USE OF THE "\ Corliss Laced Stocking 5 *&• II SANITARY as they may b» 2. Jfiv 1/ cashed or boiled, a \ !r, I Comfortable, made to measure. \ iff I ELASTIC; adjustable; lact - I a light A- durable. A / ECONOMICAL. Cost sl.7# «ach. Pr \1 '/ or two for th« same limb. $3, re ;f postpaid Call and be mens- Hg»;| ured free, or write for self mA;l measurement Blank No. 34. AB; I Hours f) to 5 dally. Hat. ft to 2. PenM. Corliss Limb Specially Co. j ,Jr 480 Ilenl Hid?.. Pl»on«.Wal. 991 || c&XS 1211-13-15 Filbert St..Pblla ,Pa. UMBRELLA PLANT TO BE REOPENED Prosperity Ahead For Colum bia; 200 Persons Can Get Employnient 1 Special to the Telegraph Columbia, Pa., Dec. 31. The um brella factory in this place, operated by Follmer, Clogg & Co., of Lancaster,, which lias been idle for nearly two years, will resume 'operations with as many hands as can be procured, with in the next week or ten days. The plant is being cleaned and put in or der and would easily giVe employment to 200 hands, if they can be secured. The main plant of this company is at Lancaster and the Columbia plant is a branch. 'Miscellaneous Shower For Mr. and Mrs. Rickard! Enola, Pa., Dec. 31. A miscel laneous shower was given at the home I of Mr. and Mrs. George Rickard, State Road, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rickard. A number of useful pres ents were received by the young couple. A very pleasant evening was spent and refreshments served to the following: The Misses Anna Lake, Ethel Mcßeth, Ester Adams, Hillman, Bernice Spotts, Martha Adarus, Ruth Hoffman, Helen Bishop, Ruth Bishop, Anna Gates, Mrs., VVm. Wenrich, Mrs. Levi Fake, Mrs. John Albright, Geo. Lucky, Edward Lucky, Roy Darr, Milton Conipt, William Compt, Glenn Rickard, Ray Rickard, Mrs. Johnston, Mrs. N. C. Eslingor and children, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Rickard, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Rickard and children, Mr. and Mar. Charles Compt, Mr. and Mrs. George Rickard. ROH M-RICEDOBF Special to the Telegraph Blain, Pa., Dec. 31. —Miss Blanche Rohm, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rohm of Jackson township, near Blain. was married to Charles A. Rlcedorf of near Center Church, at the Lutheran parsonage in New Bloomfleld by the Rev. John Wesley VVeeter. WILL REPEAT CANTATA Marysville, Pa., Dec. 31. The Trinity Reformed church choir will repeat their Christmas cantata "Tid ings of Joy" in the church this eve ning in connection with the "watch meeting services." The services will start at 8:30 o'clock. MRS. SAMUEL LEBO Special to the Telegraph Tower City, Pa., Dec. 31. Mrs. Samuel Lebo died at her home on Wednesday noon. She suffered se verely for two weeks. She will be | buried on Monday, funeral services held in the United Evangelical i church. She is survived by six chil ulren and two grandchildren. She j was seventy years old. PLAN UNION SERVICES Special to the Telegraph Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 31.—Following a plan inaugurated last year, all of the churches of the town will join in Union services during the first week of January. They will take an evangelistic form and various minis ters will have charge on the different evenings. An evangelistic campaign is being suggested for the town early in the Spring. HEXCH-STINE Special to the Telegraph Blain, Pa., Dec. 31. Miss Hazel Gale Hench was united in marriage to Dr. Howard E. Stlne, dentist, of Harrlsburg, formerly of Cisna Run, this county, yesterday. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. S. Leigh Hench, of Quarryville, Pa., brother of the bride. Miss Marie Garber of Andersonburg, a niece of the bride, played the wedding march. CHILDREN GIVE CONCERT Special to the Telegraph ! Carlisle, Pa., Dec. 31. With a (strength of over 400 voices, the Chil- I dren's Chorus composed of school pupils between the ages of 8 and 14, under the direction of Prof. Frederick C. Martin, of Harrisburg, last evening made their iirst appearance at an en tertainment held in the Carlisle Opera House. A program in which Christmas music and patriotic selec tions featured was rendered. CHRISTMAS GIFT RESPONSIBLE i Special to the TelegrafTl Waynesboro, Pa., Dec. 31.—While | riding a tricycle, his Christmas pres ent, James Hooper, this place, fell off and broke his right arm. RECEIVED 52 PATIENTS ' Special to the Telegraph Waynesboro, Pa., Dec. 31. —Fifty- two patients were received at the White Pine Sanatorium, Mont Alto, Tuesday," coming from coun ties from the western portion of Penn sylvania. CLASS REUNION HELD Special to the Telegraph Waynesboro, Pa., Dec. 31.—A re union of the class of 1913 of the Waynesboro high school was held last night in the Warner building. A dance was followed by a dinner at the Le land hotel. Seventeen members out twenty-flve of the class were preesnt. REPORT 300 GRIP CASES Special to the Telegraph Waynesboro, Pa., Dec. 31.—The epi demic of grip that is sweeping over Pennsylvania has not neglected Waynesboro, and there are over three hundred cases of the disease here. It is taxing the physicians to their limit in caring for the sick. Most all those suffering from grip are in bed. COMMITS SUICIDE Hagerstown, Md.. Dec. 31. De pressed by ill health, John Snecken berger, aged 61-, employed at the Mol ler organ works in this city, committed suicide by hanging himself in the attic stairway of his home yesterday. His body was found by his son. Snecken bergcr had threatened to end his life, He is survived by a widow and five sons and several brothers and sisters. NEGRO MAKES CONFESSION Special to the Telegraph Hagerstown, Md., Dec. 31.—John Brown, the negro charged by a coro ner's jury here with shooting and kill ing aged Mrs. Susan Dixon in her cabin home at Mt. Briar on Christmas eve midnight, yesterday confessed to offi cers in the jail that he shot Mrs. Dixon. ONLY ONK "HHOMO To get the genuine, call for full name. LAXATIVE BROMO QITININK. I,ook for signature of E. W. GROVB. Cures a fold in One Day- —Advertise iment. ( Township Is Planning J to Centralize Schools Special to the Telegraph Dlllsburg, Pa., Dec. 31.—Monaghan township school district has started a . movement to centralize the schools of ( the township for which purpose one < large central school building will be ' erected, and the five schools now in the township will be abandoned. All , pupils in the district will be trans- i ported to the proposed central school ; at the expense of the district. The! l new building which will be built on the most modern and sanitary plans . will be located near Siddonsburg, the center of the township. The course will be that of a third- , grade High school. This is the first township in York county to centralize Its schools. HOME FROM NORTH CAROLINA Special to the Telegraph Wormleysburg, Pa., Dec. 31.—Miss, Ruth Baker returned home Wednes- 1 day. She has been visiting in Pine hurst, North Carolina, since Septem- ■ ber. CANDLELIGHT SERVICE Special to the Telegraph Wormleysburg, Pa., Dec. 31. A candlelight service will be the order of the Christian Endeavor societies Sunday evening, it being consecration evening. Each member lights his or her candle when responding to their name. EMBROIDERY CLUB MEETS Wormleysburg, Pa., Dec. 31. — The Embroidery Club held Its weekly meeting at Mrs. Arthur Day's resi dence. UNION WEEK OP PRAYER New Cumberland, Pa., Dec. 31. The Union week of prayer will be observed by the local .churches com mencing on Monday evening, January third. COMMUNION SERVICES New Cumberland, Pa., Dec. 31. On Sunday evening, January 2, com munion services will be held in the First Church of God. The pastor, the Rev. J. W. Deshong, will have charge of the services. VISITS 'IX NEW CUMBERLAND New Cumberland, Pa., Dec. 31. —■ Miss Ada V. Horton preceptress and stenographer at the Shlppensburg State Normal school is the guest of Mrs. H. D. Eisenberger's family in Water street. RETURNS TO PITTSBURGH New Cumberland. Pa., Dec. 31. Miss Florence Hull who has been spending a week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hull In Fourth street, returned to Pittsburgh yester day. KILLS BIG PORKER Special to the Telegraph Dillsburg, Pa., Dec. 31. S. M. Ens minger of East York street killed a hog which weighed, when dressed, 660 pounds. FLECK-BOOK Special to the Telegraph Shippensburg, Pa., Dec. 31.—Sam uel N. Fleck and Ella Book, both of town, were married at the bride's home in Baird street Thursday eve ning at 6 o'clock by the Rev. F. S. Fry. WATCH-MEETING NIGHT Special to the Telegraph Shippensburg, Pa., Dec. 31. The Christian Endeavor Society of the Memorial Lutheran church will hold a social on Friday evening in tlie church. Following the social the annual watchnight meeting will be held. ENTERTAINMENT BY SCHOOL Special to the Telegraph New Cumberland, Pa., Dec. 31.—An entertainment will be held in Hickory Grove schoolhouse, near New Cumber land, this evening. Special music will be rendered by pupils of the school. MISS WEAR ENTERTAINS New Cumberland, Pa., Dec. 31. Miss Prudence Wear entertained her school friends in a delightful manner at her home in Third street Wednes day evening. The table appointments were green and the favors were bas kets filled with nuts. The guests were Misses Miriam Lenliart and Elizabeth Fencil, students of Annvllle College; Miss Hocker, of Dickinson College; Misses Grayce Shelly, Elizabeth Tritt, Olive Himes, of Shlppensburg Normal School; Miss Catherine Good, of New Cumberland. SEVENTY-SEVEN CASES OF GRIP Wormleysburg, Pa., Dec. 31. —Grip is now the predominating ailment in Wormleysburg. The number of cases now, being seventy-seven. City Pays County More Than $1,900 to Keep Prisoners Harrisburg officially paid to the County Treasurer yesterday $1,912.82 for maintenance of prisoners sentenced to the Dauphin county jail during the year just closing for violations of mu nicipal ordinances. Assistant City Clerk R. R. Seaman compiled the list. The city pays for maintenance by the day and just 7,3 57 days are credited. The county authorities will now pre pare a list and the two sets of figures are compared. The city authorities consider any prisoner who is confined for twenty four hours should be charged for a day's keep; the county officials hold that if a prisoner is committed before the evening meal hour of one day and is not discharged until after noon of the next day, he is charged with two days' keep. NERVOUS EXHAUSTION , Irritability, oversensltiveness, a dls- i position to worry over trifles, head ache, dizziness —these are symptoms of nervous exhaustion, neurasthenia. Very often the patient feels best and brightest at nucht. Rest seems to bring no refreshn.int, the nervous system fails to recupe. ate. This dis tressing condition is cauied by worry more often than by any other one thing. Overwork and worry invite the disorder. The treatment Is one of nutrition of the nerve cells, requiring a non alcoholic tonic. As the nerves get their nourishment from the blood the treatment must be directed towards building up the blood. Dr. Williams' ' Pink Pills act directly on the blood and with proper regulation of t>.e diet have proved of the greatest benefit In many cases of neurasthenia. A tend ency to anemia, or bloodlessness, shown by most neurasthenic patients, is also corrected by these tonic pills. Your own druggist sells Dr. Williams' Pink Pills or they will be sent by mail at 50 cents per box; six boxes | $2.50. Begin the treatment at once before your condition becomes chronic. Two useful books, "Diseases of the Nervous System" and "What to Eat and How to Eat," will be sent fre« by the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., ScHen ©ctady, N. Y., if you mention this papar.—Advertisement. , Mrs. Rebecca HogentoAer !l Is Nearing CenturyjMark special to the Tetegrafh I Columbia, Pa., Dec. 31. m| s . Re- j becca Hogentogler, who reslTs at l 1 Klinesville, ii short distance | above Columbia, is perhaps the nu>4 inter esting of the many residents inlhis or I any other section of the couily, be- Icause she is the oldest personln this part, of Lancaster county, and |r one of her years is exceptionally w|l pre served. Mrs. Hogentogler willlbe 98 1 years old in February next, all has I .lived in the section where she rlw re sides, all her life. Her ancestoM were the owners of nearly all the lan] lying south of the Chlckies creek, anil east ward from the Susquehanna rivl, and as far as the present bounda«?s of Columbia. One of the most remarkable ttits of this aged woman is the conditin of her memory, which seems not blhave been in the last impaired. Sl f ran relate events that happened Afore jniost of the people now living kvere j born, and this she does with su j ac curacy that she astonishes thoslwho are now well # advanced in years lcm selves. One of her neighbors, •»,> is a man about 75 years old, has Jated that she has told him of incident<|that happened in his childhood, of Jhlch he has some recollection, but not Jeur ly so comprehensive as that reined by his aged neighbor. Mrs. HaLen togler's sight is good and the oniTde fect in her senses is deafness, \»licli, however. Is not serious, as she lean easily understand anyone who s|Aaks to her should they raise the voicfljust above the natural tone. ANDREW SHULTZ DIES i By Special Correspoita'cnce Marietta, Dec. 31. —Andrew Slilltz, of Brunnerville, a prominent biisijiess man, died from a stroke, age] t!8 years. He was a member of the United Brethren Church and leaves a willow and several children. BIUBACHER-FARMER Special to the Telegraph Marietta, Dec. 31.—Miss Anna j H. Brubacher, of Baniford, and WaiVen W. Farmer, of near here, were mardicd at the home of the bride, the Ilev. Peter Nissley, officiating. Once grapefruit "" ''^^fewj^// were scarce and high-priced—a break- S/zs fast dish fit for kings which only the well-to-do A/S cou ld afford. Now there are thousands of bearing groves in Florida, where grapefruit come nearest reaching perfection, mY and the fruit is plentiful and reasonable in price. Florida is the //jy natural home of the grapefruit and in the long growing season of the \VX\ //// State, nature seals up in the golden globes her life-giving sunshine to be V\ /(// opened and made use of months later in the heart of winter's kingdom. \v\ //// Ask your dealer for Sealdsweet grapefruit; fjl Almost every modern grocery or fruit atora WA II I Instead of Just grapefruit carries Sealdsweet fruits in season VM\ smSf I |? Sea Id sweet oranftes are Just as superior as 1 the grapefruit—try them this year and he wUI Set these fruits for you jl/ \|c Sealdswcet is the appropriate trade-mark of the' Sometimes a Florida grapefruit is rough and 11 I \\K fruit of growers of the choicest oranges and uninviting in looks —but ci\f. it open and you J ( Yoji grapefruit in the world. They are banded will realize the truth of the old adage that j v\i together in a co-operative organization, the beauty is only skin deep. If they have been j I VaV Florida Citrus Exchange, tosee that consumers allowed to ripen on the tree, as are all Seald- jJIJ get Florida's famous fruits in prime condition, sweet grapefruit, you will find Florida grape- t just as nature leaves them on the trees at the fruit filled with delicious, invigorating jlf \V\ end of the season . Sealdsweet oranges juice—food, drink and tonic. Every mem- } TOi and grapefruit can be depended upon, ber of the family will enjoy them. IJ/1 Use Sealdsweet Grapefruit and Oranges For Cookery and Confections //// The Sealdsweet mark is only on boxes Sealdsweet oranges and grapefruit are which contain fruit that will give useful in cookery and confections. you your money's worth, no mat- Recipe booklet mailed free 'i ter at what price you buy it. upon application. Florida Citrus Exchange 111 II I 628 Citiiensßank Bldg., Pretty TcetK Add to the Natural If your teeth are in want of any attention, caU and Have them < •< • amlned, which ia FREE OF CHAIMJE. < >< • I guarantee my work to be of the very beat, both In material and ' ' workmanship, which it ia possible to grive my paUpnts. My 18 years of ~, ' E:* constant practice and study have given me the experience which each and ~, •>< • Warn every dentist moat have in order to do satisfactory work. Ido my work <• < <" ' B®St BWip||M absolutely painless. My assistants are dentists, who have had a vast •• < 1 " 1 amount of experience, and therefore are able to render the very best of 1 " | W services. My office la equipped with all the modern appliances in order to \ ' Office open dally l:(0 a. m. to • p. m-l M»n, Wed. and Sat. till I , l( '' " ' P- m ' Cloned on Sundays. Bell phone, 8822-R. _ <• < ~DR. PHILLIPS. Painless Dentist ill ; 330 Market Street, HARRITsBVI«i" b pA. j 2 On Third Street Close This Evening at 6 O'clock Extend Their Best Wishes For abetter and Happier New Year j = -: J Social and Personal News of Towns Along West Shore Misa Laura Givens of Marysville, is spending some time this week in Philadelphia. Miss Jane Beii- of Marysville, is visiting her sister. Miss Katherine Bell at Brooklyn. Li. C. Eightner has returned to his , home at Marysville after spending the i past two weeks with relatives at Saxton and Huntingdon. I EMPLOYMENT BUREAU ACTIVE Columbia, Pa., Dec. 31.—The free employment bureau connected with and supported by the Merchants' and Manufacturers" Association, has been . quite successful in procurliSf work for i men, to whom its operations, until I recently were restricted. There were . 175 applications for work within a period of five months. ! William Eshelman Dies of Typhoid-Pneumonia Marysville, Pa., Dec. 31. William Eshelman, aged 44 years, died at his home here late yesterday of typhoid pneumonia after a three weeks' Ill ness. Mr. Eshelman formerly follow ed the trade of a barber, but during the past few years his health inter ! fered with his work. > He was a mem ' ber of the local branch of the p. O. 1 S. of A. Funeral services will be held 1 from his late home in Chestnut street ' on Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, the I Rev. C. A. Parson, pastor of the > Church of God officiating. Interment l will be nifde in the Chestnut Grove cemetery here.