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BIGCROWD AT
COMMENCEMENT
Exercises of Linglcstown High
School Graduates Held in
Church of Goc|
Special to the Telegraph»
Linglestown, Pa., May 5. More
than 500 people were present last
night at the fourth commencement
exercises of the Linglestown High
School, lield in the Church of God.
The building was crowded to the doors
long before the program of the eve
ning opened, with a march by Weber's
orchestra.
The interior of the church was
decorated with streamers of garnet
and steel, the class colors, also with
ferns and red roses, the class flower.
A banner wit If the class motto "Finis
Coronat Opus." in garnet and steel
colored letters, was placed just above
the members of the class in the front
part of the church.
The invocation of the evening was
given by the Rev. Mr. Whittaker, and
was followed by an address by
Abraham Meade Juillard. salutatorian
of the class, who spoke on "Pursuit of
Culture." Four orations were then
given by David Martin Nissley, on
"Climb Though the Hocks be Rug
ged"; by Miss Louise Christine Hoke,
on "Monuments and Men," by William
Addison Hershey, on "Self Reliance,"
and by Miss Mary Magdalene Shrinet",
who spoke on "Moral Courage." Miss
Grace Verna Etzweiler, valedictorian
of the class, then spoke on "Lost Op
portunities."
Professor Harry B. King, principal
of the school, presented the diplomas
to the graduates, and gave them a
short taij;.
The commencement address was
made by Dr. <'harles H. Gordiner.
head of the Latin department of the
Millersville State Normal School. His
topic was, "What is a Man Worth."
The program closed with a selection
by the orchestra and the benediction
by the Rev. Mr. Whittaker. The class
of 191fi included the following: Miss
Grace Verna Etzweiler, Abraham M.
Juillard. David Martin Nissley, Miss
Louise Christine Hoke, William Addi
son Hershey, Miss Mary Magdalene
Shriller, Miss Sara Guldin Zimmer
man, Miss Mary Ellen Bolton, Miss
Yiolette May Shope. Charles Ross
Crum, Walter Ammon Look and Miss
Ruth Verna Hain.
Class day exercises were held on
Wednesday afternoon in the Church
of God. Walter Amnion Look, gave
an oration on the class motto, "Finis
Coronat Opus." All of the members
participated in these exercises.
Members of the Senior class before
their graduation issued the first copy
of the "Touchstone." a school maga
zine containing a complete history of
t.he class, also a list of officers of the
other classes of the school. The book-:
let is profusely illustrated and one of
its features is a short biography of
each member of the graduating class.
The students left to-day for a trip to j
Washington with Prof. King and J.
E. Unger.
Union of Methodists Is
Favored by Commission
Saratoga. N. Y., May 5. Union
of all the Methodist Episcopal
churches in America is indorsed in a
\report submitted to the General Con
ference by the commissi6n on fed
eration. which was appointed in 1912,
to co-operate with the Methodist
Episcopal Church South and the
Methodist Protestant Church and
bringing: about Methodist unity. The
report was referred to a special com
mittee. which will report with . a
definite recommendation.
The women of the Methodist Epis
copal church have raised $3,432,505
during the last four years for home
mission purposes. This is an increase
of nearly SIOO,OOO over that raised
during the preceding fotir years. The
money is contributed through the wo
man's home missionary society.
The society, acording to the report
owns schools, hospitals, homes for
girls and other institutions in the
T'nited States, Alaska and Porto Rico
that are valued at $2,364,163.
ELECTRIC COMPANIES OI'STED
Because they failed to exercise their
pharter privileges, six electric light
companies were directed to-day by the
Dauphin county court to surrender
their franchises. The concerns are the
Citizens' Avoca Light. Heat and Power,
Pittston Electric. Lackawanna Electric,
Piedmont Electric, Gordon City Elec
tric and Pittston Heat and Power com
panies.
BELL-ANS
Absolutely Removes
1 digestion. One package
proves it. 2ocat all druggists.
ALSPURE ICE
(All Pure Ice) *
is made from pure filtered water after it has been
boiled, /eboiled, distilled, skimmed and again filtered.
No hand touches the ice from the time the water is
first boiled until the finished cake of ice goes auto
matically into our large cold storage warehouse.
Careful men are employed to haul the ice from the
storage room to your residence.
ALSPURE ICE service is kept up to the highest
standard of efficiency. A foreman is in charge of every
seven wagons—to see that your ice needs are satis
. factorily supplied.
United Ice & Coal Co.
Korster and Cowdea Sts.
Also Steelton, Pa.
Have Your Old Panama or Straw Hat Cleaned and Blocked
by an export hatter. We secured our halter from one of the largest
factories In New England and he thoroughly understands hla business.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
FAIRLAMB'S, 331 Market Street
(Opposite Dives, Poineroy & Stewart's)
FRIDAY EVENING, HARRIPBURG flffjjftl TELEGRAPH MAY 5, 1916.
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Custom Made Ready-to-Wear
Clothes—
That's What Schleisner
Offers
There is character depicted at every angle—the shoulder, the
collar, the set of the sleeves—every seam shows it—inside as
carefully finished as the outside—
And one does not have to be a tailor to see these points
S2O $25 S3O
Schleisner's Men's Suits, For
sls
Tweeds, cheviots, homespuns, cassimeres, flannels, worsteds
and serges, in English, conservative and the popular "Belter"
models—Grays, tans, blues, browns and novelty mixtures—
some and full lined with alpaca or silk—
A new shipment of Belters just arrived this morning of single
and double-breasted models, some of these are % silk lined
with silk vest backs of gay color silks. These models are posi
tively exclusive with us—
RAILROAD
TWO HIGHWAYMEN
STOP WORKINGMEN
Four Held Up at Rutherford
Yards in One Week; Make
Getaway
Highwaymen who held up two
Rutherford employes last night in the
railroad bridge at Rutherford yards
were given a hard chase. Shots were
fired after them but the men escaped.
They got nothing for their trouble.
The first man stopped was William
Eppler, a machinist, wno was called
out for special duty. He was walking
over the bridge at 8 o'clock when two
masked men stepped up and demand
ed his watch and money. The high
waymen went through Eppler's pock
ets but got nothing.
Second Man Stopped
While Eppler was on his way to the
Y. M. C. A. building to notify the rail
road police, J. W. McNar, employed
in the pipe shop was stopped by the
same two men. McNar drew a re
volver from his pocket and the high
waymen made a getaway. They were
chased through the yards, but climbed
over a car and made their escape.
This makes a total of four holdups
week. Eden H. Booser, head of the
Reading police department in Harris
burg, Is making every effort to get a
I line on the highwaymen and has spe
j cial officers on duty every night.
Motive Power Team Ready
For First Baseball Game
Final practice was held to-day by
| Mike Friel's Motive Power team of
i Pennsylvania Railroad System League,
i The season opens in Harrisburg to
morrow afternoon at Island Park. The
first attraction will be the Philadel
phia team, runners up in last season's
race.
The game starts at 3 o'clock. The
i first ball will be thrown by Master
| Mechanic C. H. Endrus, president of
the Motive Power Department Athletic
Association. Previous to the game
there will be a parade over the princi
pal streets, and a hand concert one
half hour before the game.
Philadelphia will send a trainload
of rooters to this city.
Freight Agent Suicides;
in Poor Health Long Time
Special to the T elf graph
Philadelphia, Pa., May 5. Warner
R. Howell, general foreign freight
agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad
committed suicide yesterday at his
home at Oermantown. His body was
not found until shortly before six
o'clock, when a maid, alarmed by his
nonappearance for dinner, went to
his room and found his body on the
floor with a bullet wound near the
right temple and a revolver clutched
in the right hand. The man had been
dead about five hours. He had been
ill for some time.
Railroad Notes
John A. Young, a conductor on the
Pittsburgh division of the "Pennsyl
vania Railroad, who has been visiting
in York and Harrisburg, returned
home yesterday.
W. E. Ebright, sealer of weights
and measures for the Pennsylvania
Railroad is visiting stations along the
Middle division.
A. S. Barth, signalman for the Mid
dle division at Longfellow was in Har
risburg yesterday.
John Lawrence employed by the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Alt. Joy is
62 years old to-day. For 35 years he
has been employed by the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company. He is a
member of the Veteran Employe* As
sociation and is well known In Har
risburg. t
Standing of the Crews
HARRISBURG SIDE
Philadelphia Division 134 crew to
fo first after 4p. m.: 121, 126, 109, 106,
23. 110, 124, 107, 111.
Engineers for 113, 124, 126.
Firemen for 109, 134.
Conductors for 101. 109, 124.
Flagmen for 109, 116.
Brakemen for 10T, 109, ill, lji, 124.
136.
Engineers up: Baar. Layman. Wolfe,
Gable. May, Hogentogler, Hollers. Hub
ler, Grass, Downs, Howard, Tennant,
Gable, Ford, Baldwin,
Firemen up: Peters, Reeder, Finken
binder, Miley, Baker. Herman, Bry
messer, Campbell, Walker, Kugle.
Shandler. Strlckler, Wright, Rupp. Wal
! ters.
Conductor up: Fink,
i Flakmen up: Helti, Wenrlck, Marl*.
Brakemen up: Dowbower, Welsh
[ Owens, Heals,. Felty, Desllvey, Rudy/
I Ashenfelter, Arter, Muramiv.
I Middle Division 253 crew to go
first after 1.50 p. m.: 239, 221, 232. 242,
| Laid off: 18, 15, 30. 33, 28. 25, 102.
| Preference: 3.
Engineers up: Hummer, Howard,
Burris, Shirk, Ulsh, Albright.
Firemen up: Hunter. Kirk. Sho
walter, Stever, Trimble. Learner,
J Charles, Steele, Uebau, Newcomer,
Kepner, Rumbetger, Forning. Broker.
Reeder, Miller, Colyer.
I Conductors up: Leonard, Dottrow,
| Barger.
J Flagmen up: Kauffman. Fries, Hack
enberger, Boer. Flickinger.
Brakernen up: Myers. McNaight,
Miller. Yohn. Farlemau, Reed. Camer
on, Garlin, Heck. Sauerwlne. Doyle, Jr
Humphreys, Fleck. Hummer, Raisner,
M. M. Campbell, Smith, Yost.
YARD (IIEWS
Engineers up: Loy. McCarty, Lei by.
E .°i n ' £?, 118, McMorris, McDonnell,
Runkle, Wise. Watts. Sieber, Pelton.
firemen up: Hitz. Sneli, ,lr., Fleisli
er. Blottenberger. Weigle, Burger, Rlf
fert McDermott. McCartney, Pensyl,
Hall, Brady, Snyder.
Engineers for 12, 14. 2nd 22, 5 extras
Firemen for 5 extras.
knoi.a side
Philadelphia Division 220 crew tn
go first after 3.45 p. m.: 236, 23' °2B
254. 249, 201, 224, 227, 205, 222, •211* '39'
248! 25!: 212; 256. 2 ° B, 248> 238 ' 219 ' ***''
Engineers for 220. 226, 233, 249 250
Firemen for 220, 232.
Conductors for 27, 46, 49. 54.
Brakernen for 33. 50. 51, 52. 54
Smid"ey. C &"er P: Stuw °n, Fliekinger,
Flagmen up: Meek. Orr.
Brakernen up: Sick. Welsh, Crulter
McCombs, Fitzsimmons, Bainbridge'
Hastings, Seabolt, Olwine, Newton'
Snyder, McDermott. '
Middle Division lll crew tn o-n
i^ r irt lz 'w p, ,'iY 107 ' " 2 - 250 ' 2 ". 2?r
Laid off: 119, 104, io3_
Conductors for 111, 107
YAHD IUI.I,|.;TI\ EJVoi *
of the
Bo've"hnapa'c h, Rid * r - HUI.
Linnet. E^hel^ n g d e'r bo fiinkli Ck^ a U-
Hall. Gelling, Kline, L c. Hall SeVl.£'
Engineers for 134. 3rd 124 e "er».
b iremen for 122, 132, Ist 102.
THE READING
Harrlahurg Division 57 crew first
&,£? »•« p. m.: 56, 60? 51 '
Wise, Dintaman, Cocklin.
14. 8, 16, 10.
Engineers for 56, 24.
Firemen for 1. 6.
Conductors for 9.
Brakernen for 51, 2, 5, 11 14 »i
l " eers Freed, Woland." Morri
son. J. etrow. Pletz, Sweiley, Crawford
m L r ™ e » Hevaler, Cottenham
Bingaman, Glaser, Stamback, Keefer
Longenecker, Martin veeier,
up: Hilton. Philabaum,
Se&r n FelkZ; W T r d S ° n k, n & e n r '
Wise', w'a.^ctffn. 1 Rheam ' Shultz:
Academ Dormitory Is
Thrown Open to Public
The interest displayed by the sev
eral hundred alumni and friends of
the Harrisburg Academy who at
tended the housewarmlng and Infor
mal reception for Inspection of the
Se ler dormitory and the Lyman D.
Gilbert yesterday afternoon, was am
ply rewarded by the marked improve
ment noted in the swift development
of the Academy to an institution that
is Just beginning to show the latent
possibilities that exist for Its becom
ing one of the dominating educational
factors In the State.
Previous to the reception, which
was held from 4 to « In the afternoon.
Spencer C. Gilbert and former Deputy
Attorney General Frederic W. Flelta,
|of Hcarnton, addressed the students!
Mr. Flelts was a close personal friend
! of Lyman D. Gilbert, who died one
year ago yesterday, and he paid tribute
1 in his remarks to tho splendid trait.
28-30-32 North
Important Sale of
FIBRE SILK SWEATERS
For Women and Misses
All Fibre Silk Sweaters in solid colors and two-tone effects of wa
termelon, pink. Copenhagen, canary, gold, green and black and
white, self or white trimmed.
Exceptional Values
5.00,5.50,5.95
Sale of Women's and Misses' 1 Skirts
* \ For Sport and General Wear
Separate Wash Skirts Awning Stripe Sport Skirts
Button front models with sport Smart tailored model, large pearl but
pockets and belts of washable cord ton ft ont in green and white, blue and
white, rose and white or gold and
and gabardine— 2.95 white— „ ' 5.75
28-30-32 North Third Street
A sale of unusual interest of
Women's and Misses'
Tailored Suits
Special for Saturday's selling
Tailored and Semi-Dress Suits of serge, gabardine, checks,
formerly sold to 32.50
Special, 18.50
J
Always New Blouses
Blouses at 1.95 • Blouses at 2.95
Models of all desirable, washable ma- Fine models of lustrous Crepe de
terial, frilled, lace trimmed and se- Chine Blouses, frilled and tailored in
verely tailored. flesh, white, maize and peach.
Women's and Misses' Coats
Silk Coats Sport Coats
Featuring several models in navy and of suede velour, a new Spring model;
black Eolienne silk and taffeta, in Kelly green, twilight blue, full flared
smart flaring and belted models— back, belted model—
Special, 19.50, 25.00 < ? Special, 15.00
—
Women's Summer Frocks
• %
Made of popular cotton and linen materials, in a collection
which offers an elegant selection for the approaching
summer —
Simple Dresses, Afternoon Dresses, Summer Evening
Dresses and Graduation Dresses—priced from
5.00 to 75.00
Women's and Misses' Silk Dresses '
Afternoon and street wear
Special, 15.00
i J
Onyx Hosiery—New Envelope Chemise
Silk ribbed, three-color stripe Sweater of nainsook, lace trimmed, white and
combinations, very effective; helio, Special, 1.00
, , , Silk Envelope Chemise of lustrous
sweater rose, new blue and gray- . was hable silk, in white and pink-
Special, 1.00 smocked— Special, 1.95
MILLINERY
Showing New Hats—sport models—smart new Sailors—
moderate prices are a revelation—
of the man, urging that the boys
follow out his example in their own
lives.
The Lyman D. Gilbert library is lo
cated in the northern wing of the main
Academy building, is beautifully fin
ished and a model library for boys.
The selection of books was made with
a view to variety and one or two of
the best works of practically all the
standard writers have found places on
its shelves. Illustrated magazines of
this and other countries will be sup
plied periodically and the best news
papers and literary publications of the
country will be provided. Mrs. Gil
bert has left nothing undone in her
efforts to give the students the best
that is to be had.
FRENCH OCCTTPY GREEK TOWN
fly Associated Prist
Athens, May S.—Much significance
is attached by Greeks generally to the
occupation by French troops of the
Greek town of Fiorina, owing to its
location being only 18 miles south of
Monaatlr.
FRACTLRKS ANKLE
If. C. Sullenberger. 13 North Fifth
street, employed by A. C. Toung, fell
from a ladder while at work ye*terd«v
afternoon. fracturing Ills left ankle. He
was taken to the Harrlsburg Hospital.
STRIKE AVERTED i
New York, May s.—With the ac- I
ceptance to-day by the Order of Rail-1
way Telegraphers of the government's
OIBNEY SOLID TIRES
Produced bij Exclusive
Processes
DISTRIBUTOR
ALFRED H. SHAFFER
50-100 S. Cameron Street
Bell 2767 Cumberland 711-W
offer of mediation the threatened
strike on the New York Central and
I Nickel Plate railroads has been
averted for the time being.