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CENTRAL PENNSYLVAN
Institute and Reception of
W. C. T. U. at Mechanicsburg
Special to the Telegraph
Mechanicsburg, Pa., May 9.—Local i
institute and reception was held to-'
day in the Methodist Episcopal church ;
under the auspices of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. The;
former opened at 1:80 o'clock in the j
afternoon and the program included a
speech by James L. Young:, secretary I
of the No-License League of Cumber
land county on the subject, "How Can !
the Counties in Pennsylvania Become j
Dry Under the Brook's High License
Law?" There will also be brief talks
by repreeentatives from different
"Unions" in the county and discus
sions
This evening a lecture will be given
by Professor Nye, of Steelton, on
"Temperance in the Public Schools
and Eugenics." At the close of the
lecture a reception will be held in the
lecture room to which are invited the
local public school teachers, directors
and ministers of Mechanicsburg and
vicinity.
The local W. C. T. U. is in a pros
perous condition, having more than
doubled the membership in one year
and Is a live organization.
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TUESDAY EVENING, -
Motorcycle Rider Loses Leg
in Collision With Automobile
Special to the Telegraph
Waynesboro, Pa., May 9. Houti
Jonen while riding his motorcycle
along the public highway from his
home at Metal to Cliambersburg was
run into by an automobile owned and
driven by Wilson Fleagle and nearly
killed. There was a head-on collision
and Mr. Jones was thrown under the
machine and had his leg crushed and
was badly cut about the face and body.
His condition Is critical.
BTT»F IX BOYER JOY OAR
Special to the Telegraph
Dauphin, Pa., May 9.— A1l the pri
mary departments of the Sunday
schools of Dauphin enjoyed a ride to
day in the Boyor Joy-Giving Car, of
Harrisburg.
AfTO OYER BANK
Special to the Telegraph
Dauphin, Pa., May 9. —An auto
mobile, bearing a dealer's license, last
evening about 8 o'clock went over the
bank above the Reading Railroad
tracks below town. The three occu
pants, two girls and a man, were
uninjured and the car was pushed
back on the road.
Hurt in Auto Collision
at Carlisle on Sunday
Special to the Telegraph
Carlisle. Pa., May S. Mrs. John
Darr and Mrs. Thomas Henry were
severely Injured when their automo
bile was struck head-on by a taxi.
Both women were thrown to the brick
pavement and hurt about the head and
shoulders. The driver of the taxi and
the chauffeur of the automobile es
caped with minor hurts.
Dazed by the heat of the sun, Karl
Martin, general manager of the Landls
Tool Works, at Waynesboro, drove an
automobile containing his mother and
father, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Mariin,
down an embankment near Carlisle.
The machine was wrecked, but the oc
cupants escaped with minor hurts.
LITTLE GIRL SAVES SISTER
Special to the Telegraph
Florin, Pa.. May 9.—Miss Violet
Hilt, daughter of Howard Hilt, was
saved from death by the presence of
mind of her little sister Ruth quickly 1
tearing up a piece of carpet and wrap
ping It around her when her dress was
set on fire while playing in the garret
of the Hilt home. The child was badly
burned. The little heroine Is 7 years
old.
BAKRISBURG TELEGRXPH
BUTTON STRIKE
ATLYKENSMINE
1,000 Men Refuse to Work Be
cause Twelve Employes Do
Not Have Badges
Special to the Telegraph
Lykens, Pa., May 9.—Another "But
ton Strike," was declared at the Short
Mountain Collfery here this morning
when about 1,000 miners, members of
the United Mine Workers Union re
fused to go to work because twelve
employes at the mine did not have
union buttons showing that their
dues were patd. «
Under the check-off system which
the men demanded in the recognition
of the union it seemed as though such
a thing as a "button strike" could not
occur again, but events of this morn
j ing have proven otherwise.
PARTY ON 20TH BIRTHDAY
Special to the Telegraph
\ Halifax. Pa.. May 9. A birthday
| party was held last evening at the
I home of Mr. and Mrs. George Motter,
| in Halifax township in honor of their
son, William's twentieth birthday. The
evening was spent in game and music
| and refreshments were served. Those
present were: Miss Bertha Button, of
Millersburg: William and Carrie Kop
penheffer, Katie, Martha and John
Bowman, David Hoffman, Elmer,
Mary and Martin Reed and Mr. and
Mrs. George Motter and children.
LICENSE TAX REDUCED
Special to the Telegraph
Halifax, Pa., May 9. Borough
council met last evening. License
ordinance, section 8, was changed.
Fifty cents a day, instead of sl, »as
the price agreed upon for allowing the
distribution of circulars in town. Sec
tion 5 was also changed and peddlers
will now pay 50c a day Instead of sl,
and $5 a month Instead of Jl6.
SURPRISE FOR MISS LUPFER
Special to the Telegraph
Ellabethvllle, Pa.. May 9.—A birth
day surprise social was held for Miss
Merl Lupfer, by her classmates at her
home In North Market street on Fri
day evening. Those present were
Misses Esther and Dorothy Margerum.
Daisy and Mabel Weaver, Grace
Forney, Kathryn Maice, Helen Relgle,
Mr. and Mrs. Lupfer and son, Harry.
CHAMBERSBURG POSTMASTER
Special to the Telegraph
Chambersburg, Pa., May 9. Wil
liam Alexander has been named as
postmaster of Chambersburg, to suc
ceed Charles A. Suesserott, whose
term expired yesterday. Mr. Alex
ander is a prominent attorney and
one of the owners of the Chambers
burg Valley Spirit.
Recent Deaths in
Central Pennsylvania
Special to the Telegraph
Marietta, Mrs. Frank Hemmig.
of New Holland, died yesterday after
a long illness.
Marietta. Dennis Barnhart, a na
tive of Florin, aged 76, died Sunday
night in the General Hospital, at Lan
caster. Ho was among the first to
answer the call at the outbreak of the
Civil War. He was a local preacher
of the Methodist church for many
years.
Mt. Union. Mrs. Eliabeth Rob
erts died Sunday night after an ill
ness of several months. She was 75
years old.
Lewlstown. William Orner, 6 4
years old. Is dead here after a short
illness. He was a boatman on the
Pennsylvania and Erie canal running
between this place, Harrisburg and
Nantlcoke.
WEST SHORE NEWS
Program For Opening
Sessions of Women's
Missionary Society
Wormleysburg. Pa., May 9. To
morrow afternoon the thirty-ninth
annual meeting of the Pennsylvania
branch of the Woman's Missionary
Association of the United Brethren
Church will open in a three-day ses
sion in the United Brethren church.
The opening session will be marked
by the sacrament of the Lord's Sup
i per. a solo by the Rev. Paul R. Koont«
of Lemoyne; an address by the Rev.
E. J. Pace.
Wednesday Evening: Music, Union
Choir, director, the Rev. Paul R.
Koontr,; worship, Mrs. John J. Hem
mer; address of welcome, Mrs. Wm,
O. Rlshel; fraternal greetings from
Pennsylvania Conference, the Rev.
William H. Washlnger; greetings, the
RPV. E. Vance; solo, Mrs. Sylvan
Neldlgh; address, the RH'. E. J. Pace.
Thursday Morning: Quiet Hour, the
Rev. A. R. Ayres: opening service,
Mrs. Ida Chenowlth; reports of cor
responding secretary. Mrs. W. .1. Holt
nan and treasurer. Mrs. F. E. Ren
ner: Otterbeln Guild. Miss Amy C.
Cllppinger; Junior Work, Mrs. j. A.
Gohn: organizer. Mrs. E. V. Bixler;
secretary of literature. Mrs. Tj. M.
Stangle; thank offering secretary,
Mrs. Walter R. Thomas; vice presi
dents. Mrs. Esther M. Melly, Mrs.
Samuel G. Zeigler, Miss Grace Jones;
memorial service, Mrs. Esther M.
Meiley: worker's conference, Mrs.
Alva Ksuffman.
Thursday afternoon the recognition
of new societies and worker's confer
ence, by Mrs. Alva Kauffman will be
features of the program. Other
numbers will be a recitation, "A Sam
Shut Out," by Miss Ruth McCurdy
and Miss May Foltz; solo, by Mrs.
Hilda Famous.
OTTERBEIX GCN.R RECEPTION
New Cumberland, Pa., May 9.
The Otterbeln Guild to-night will
hold a reception for new members in
Trinity United Brethren church.
MOTHER'S DAY AT CHURCH
New Cumberland, May 9.—Next
Sunday Mother's Day will be observed
in Baughman Memorial Methodist
Church. There will be a short pro
gram in the Sunday School room at
9.20 a. m.„ and at ten o'clock, the
Rev. Dr. T. S. Wilcox will preach an
appropriate sermon. There will be
automobiles to take the mothers who
are unable to walk to the church.
ADDRESS BY PORTO RU AX.
New Cumberland. Ma}' 9.-—The Rev.
Mr. Angjubar, a missionary from Por
to Rico, delivered an address at
Baughman Memorial Methodist
Church on Sunday night. His son and
daughter accompanied him and sang
several selections in Spanish.
Social and Personal News
of Towns Along West Shore
! Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Bobb, of New
Cumberland, who spent the winter at
jSebring, Florida, have returned home.
Mr. and Mrs. Parker Murry. of
Xew Cumberland, have returned from
: a visit to friends at Philadelphia.
W. H. Young, of Philadelphia, visit
ed his father, Dr. J. H. Young, at
LN'SW Cumberland, yesterday.
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Mrs. Ann Cocklin, Aged 92,
Dies at Mechanicsburg
MRS. ANN COCKLIN
■ Mechanicsburg:, Pa., May 9. Mrs.
Ann Cocklin, died at her home in West
Factory street last night after an ill
ness of several days. She was 92
years old and was the widow of David
Cocklin. She was born in Lancaster
county and lived in Mechanlcsburg
more than fifty years. In early life
lser home was In Upper Allen town
ship. Cumberland county. Mrs. Cock
lin was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church for seventy-five
years. She is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. John C. Rupert, of Mechanics
burg, and a son, John Cocklin, of
Chicago, 111.; also sixteen grandchil
dren, fourteen great-grandchildren,
and one great-great-grandchild, Rup
ert Perry, of Wilmington, Del. Mrs.
Harry Funk of Harrisburg, Is a grand
daughter. Funeral services will be
held on Thursday afternoon at 2
o'clock In charge of the Rev. J. J.
Resh of the Methodist Eplscopnl
Church. Burial In Chestnut llill
cemetery.
MARTIN Ij. FEESER DIES
Special to the Telegraph
Penbrook, Pa., May 9. Martin L.
Feeser, Jr., aged 22 years, died at the
home of his parents, at Curtin and
Main streets, after an illness of more
than a year. Surviving him are his
wife, Mrs. Emma Smith Feeser; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin L.
Feeser; one brother, John Franklin
Feeser. of Harrisburg, and six sisters,
Mrs. Katherine Sheet and Mrs. G. F.
Trevena, of Allentown; Mrs. William
C. Brenneman and Mrs. W. H. Ger
hart of town; Mrs. Thomas Gillan and
Mrs. E. M. Shuler of Harrisburg.
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RUNS 18-SEAT JITNEY
Special to the Telegraph
Waynesboro, Pa., May 4. —H. M.
Petrie, who operates a jitney line be
tween Waynesboro, Ijeitersburg and
Hagerstown, has secured a new, up-to
date automobile bus, which will seat
sixteen persons and is equipped with
all the electric appliances.
TO IMPROVE POST OFFICE
Waynesboro, Pa., May 9. Plans
have been completed and approved
by the Post Office Department at
Washington and the Bank of Waynes
boro, the latter owning the post office
building here, for very radical changes
and improvements in the post office.
Plans for the improvements were
drawn by Postmaster J. W. Warehime
himself, who Is an architect and de
signer.
DIES IN ILIJINOIR
Humnielstown, Pa., May 9. Word
was received here that Leonard Myers,
well known to the older residents of
Hummelstown. died at his home ju
Danville, Illinois, on Wednesday in his
86th year. Mr. Myers was married
to a sister of George P. Greenawalt of
town.