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PERSONALS
PICNIC VT SI'MMERDALE
The Hebrew Ladies' Aid Society has
arranged for its third annual picnic,
Wednesday. August 9, at Summerdale.
In case of rain the date will be
changed to Wednesday, August 16. On
the committee in charge ahre Mrs. L.
W. Kay, president; Mrs. M. Gross,
vice-president; Mrs. E. Goldstein, sec
retary. and Mrs. L. Cohen, treasurer.
•Mr. and Mrs. Jacob D. Schrader and
son Donald, of South Thirteenth street,
have returned to their home after a
visit with relatives at Mackinac, Wis.
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Longenecker,
of Lancaster, spent the week-end with
her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Stoner, of 217 Hummel street.
Harry Phelps, of North Second
street, leaves this week to spend vaca
tion at his home in Boston, Mass.
Miss Catherine Nye. who is spending
the month of August at Kirkwood, has
returned after a week-end visit with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nye,
of 416 Granite street.
Jess S. Werner, of 1409 Thompson
street, and Andrew Werner, of 419
Hummel street, were called to York
Saturday on account of the illness of
their mother, Mrs. Mary C. Werner, of
Chanceford, who was hurt In an auto
mobile accident.
Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Mears, of Rich
mond. Va.. guests of Mrs. S. E. Ellen
berger In town, have gone to Atlantic
City for a ten days' stay.
Miss Dollie Driscoll, of 212 North
Second street, is home after spending
ten days in Brooklyn with her mother
and sick brother.
Mr. and Mrs. Peterman and sons
Byron and Miller, of 322 Crescent
street, are visiting friends in New
Freedom, Md.
Miss Ida Evans, of Thirteenth street,
has gone to Northfield to attend the
conference.
Miss Leahline Meals, of Carlisle, is
visiting her aunt Mrs. Jacob Chronis
ter, of 326 Crescent street.
Miss Marion Raymond, of Second
and State streets, is spending the
month of August at Mountain Lake
Park. Md.
James Stewart, of 1404 North Sec
ond street, leaves this week to spend
some time with relatives in New
Castle.
Miss Edith Denny, of Evergreen
street, who is visiting in Boiling
Springs this month, spent the week
end at her home in Evergreen street.
Miss Marie Sarver, of 334 Crescent
stret, is spnding so.m tim with rela
tives in Liverpool.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Charles Watkins
and daughter, Miss Lucy Watkins, of
121 South street, with their house
guest. Miss Bertha Pettit, of Ocean
City, L. I, spent Saturday in Hershey.
R. K. Bergstrcsser. of 1330 Derry
street, spent the week-end in Beth
lehem, where he visited his brother.
Mr. and Mrs Fred W. Kendall and
Miss Dorothy Kendall, of Camp Hill,
went by automobile to Tom's River,
N. J., where they are spending a fort
night among relatives.
Mrs. S. B. Howard, of 16 North
Seventeenth street, left this morning
to spend a few weeks with her cousin.
Miss Julia Rowe, at Newport, Maine.
Miss Ada Beauter, of Herr street, re
turned home after a vacation trip to
Eaglesmere, Clearfield and Williams
port. and wen* to Baltimore for a
week-end stay with friends.
Robert N. Bernheisel is spending his
vacation in Philadelphia and Atlantic
City.
ASSISTANT PASTOR IX CHARGE
The Rev. Gebrge Snavely Rentz, as
sistant pastor of Market Square Pres
byterian Church, has returned after a
vacation spent in Williamsport. He
will have charge of the congregation
during the absence of the Rev. George
Edward Hawes.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Strawinski, of
1813 Zarker street, announce the birth
of a son, William Stephens Strawinski, '
Sunday, August 6, 1916. Mrs. Straw
inski was formerly Miss Stephens,
daughter of J. C. F. Stephens, of New
port, Pa. Mr. Strawinski is a member
of the Technical high school faculty.
Mr. and Mrs. Grover Martin, of
429 Market street, announce the birth
of a daughter, Zellnda Kathryn Mar- :
tin. Sunday, August 6, 1916.
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Lewis, of 1617
Penn street, announce the birth of a i
son, Monday', August 7, 1916.
Ladies' Rub Wrinkles
With Amonized Cocoa
and Watch Them Go
Beauty Doctor Says Any Woman
May Look From 10 to 20
Years Younger
If trouble, worry or ill health
, has brought you lines and wrink
}es>„ °. r . if your P ink complexion
is fading, don't think that it is
necessary to be treated by an
expensive Beauty Specialist or
resign yourself to looking years
older than you really are, but go
to your Druggist and get a little
ordinary am-o-nized cocoa and
after washing the face well with
warm water apply this as you
would a face cream; leave on for
a few minutes and then wipe oft
■ with a soft, dry cloth. You will
be delighted to see how u
< brightens up the skin, clears the
- complexion and erases the marks
of time If really is astonishing
- how quickly it will make an old
" face look young and beautiful It
seems to contain just the nour
' ishment the skin requires to
make it pink and healthy.
Am-o-nized cocoa costs little
• is pleasant to use and is so fra
grant and nourishing to the sklh
that it is becoming very popular
with actresses and society ladies
who find it necessary to always
' look their best. Every lady who
1 wants to look young and attrac
' tive should by all means give this
< 1 a trial.
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Overhead Shower equipment.
FORNEY'S DRIG STORE
31 X. SECOND STREET
MONDAY EVENING,
TRYS TO GET STRIKERS
AND MUSSER TO MEET
pany, he said would always be ready
to meet Mr. Gilday.
Up until an early hour this after
noon President Musser said he had
hod no request from Mayor Meals or
City Solicitor Seitz for a conference
with the officials on the strike situ
ation.
Mayor Meals' decision to have Mr.
Seitz arrange a conference with Mr.
Musser followed a rather exciting ses
sion in Council chamber this morn
ing between the Mayor and Mr.
Seitz and a score or jnore of the strik
ing trolleymen, jitney drivers and
others.
The strikers were headed by Hugh
L. McLaughlin and their purpose in
asking the Mayor to meet with tnem
was to obtain his views as to how
the chief executive could bring about
a seettlement of the strike without
the services of J. J. Thorpe, the car
men's organizer.
Jitneys to Go Thursday
During the conference Mayor Meals
reiterated his already published order
to the effect that unlicensed jitneys
will not be permitted to run on the
streets after next Wednesday. The
luckless jitneur who is stopped Thurs
day morrfing and can't show a license,
according to the Mayor, will have to
suffer the consequences of the law.
Pointed questions as to whether or
not the city authorities couldn't re
peal the present jitney ordinance, or
whether the municipality couldn't con
tinue to keep its eyes closed to the
illegal operation of jitneys were asked
of City Solicitor Seitz.
Can't Suspend Ordinance
"When the city passes an ordinance
and the ordinance becomes a law
there is nothing else for the author
ities to do but to enforce or repeal
that law," declared Mr. Seitz.
Vice-Presdent J. J. Thorpe, the
carmen's organizer, didn't attend this
morning's session but he was criticized
pretty severely by the Mayor.
"Let Thorpe get out of town and
we'll show him how we can settle
this trouble," declared the Mayor em
phatically. "And I'll just say this,
too, if on »Vednesday evening when
you fellows h. ve your meeting, Wed
nesday vhen you fellows have
your mee'ing, Tnorpe makes any kind
of an in.Urr.mjtorv speech that will
start any '.citt,, I'll bet he'll stay
K *nis tv wn awhile—at least until
| he can put the necessary money
! to get out!
„ Tiie Mayor and Mr. Thorpe
What you fellows have done was
to get a fool adviser when you got
him. Don't you think Mr. Gompers
made a mistake when he sent on here
a fellow like Thorpe instead of a
i u'Plomatic gentleman who would have
I ii?i Wn how to about effecting a
settlement of this matter?" demanded
I the Mayor.
Thor Pe's a gentleman, Mayor."
!mu . son ? e °ne from the crowd.
,?r?- ( r i el 'tainly a gentleman:"
maybe a gentleman," de
nrfJifi . I T . vigorously, "but
"A J X I. believe he's bughouse!"
i.. you s ° t0 another city or
° „ h Jf. r cities to get advice when you
wanted to obtain some ideas on traffic
oth«r "w' ~M ru - Ma >' or? " asked an
' thats what we did. We
couldn t get recognition here as we
were so we went to Detroit to get an
idea as to how."
m ',y® s '"„ promptly returned the
thorf V a L y° u ' d have gone out
votrri Thorpe did things
idea P ably not have acepted his
Jellows do too much."
[went on His Honor, "is to figure on
what you think Musser is going to do.
i 1 T ?° t ' lat - Wait until you get back
and I bet you Musser will be darn glad
to get you back. He has told me that
thfi k v. that in you men he had
to h hand,e b hH C ca? s fmen in the oUnt '- y
Suggests Local Leader
Why do you go out of town then
and get a fellow like Thorpe? Why
I 11 guarantee that I can pick out ten
of you right here that have every bit
as Thorpe and could
\vv?of .t ls thing be "er than he.
\\ hat s the matter with McLaughlin
i a n ad | r? . Would n't he make
a good leader. And;" grinned the
Thorpe" ughie lsß,t ratt >' like
,v,J h f Mayor criticized the action of
the strikers in urging the running of
the jitneys. "It stands to reason,"
said he, "that the more jitneys there
are, the less need there'll be for trol
!«k K 3rS , and . when you get your old
i jobs back again, how will that situation
! be of any benefit to you "
! ,u," To PY mind that would have solved
I this whole problem in the first place.
If the jitneys had not been permitted
to run the public would have been so
I *°ud in demand for transportation
facilities that the trolley company
would have had to listen to you If
theer was no transportation there'd
have been something doing in this
town, I tell you.
After the Jitneys Go
° ne th e strikers declared that
the public won't ride on the cars be
cause they consider the men who now
handle the cars as incompetents The
mayor declared that the same thing
could be said of the jitneys.
"So far as I can see," concluded the
chief executive, "there's only one way
to settle this. That will develop on
Thursday, when we order the jitneys
off the streets. And then if the trac
tion company can't accommodate the
traveling public in a safe and proper
manner—then we'll have something
to say to the traction company as to
the proper exercise of its franchise."
Trolley Company Again
Tells Jackson It Has
"Nothing to Arbitrate"
What further developments might
grow out of the trolley officials' action
on the State's ofTer of Patrick Gilday's
services as mediator, was considered
problematical in both trolley and
strikers' circles. The letter from Presi
dent Frank B. Musser to State Com
missioner Jackson follows:
Hon. John Price Jackson,
Commissioner -«.abor & Industry
Harrisburg, Pa.
Dear Sir:
We herewith acknowledge the
receipt of your letter under date
of August 5, offering the services
of Mr. Patrick Gilday, Chief of the
Bureau of Meditation and Arbitra
tion, in the matter of differences
between this company and some
of its former employes.
Thanking you for your kind
offer, we would respectfully sug
gest that there are no difficulties
between the company and its em
ployes at the present time to ad
just. The company is willing to,
and did meet a committee of its
employes, July 26, and satisfac
torily adjusted all matters pre
sented, including that of wages.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears yi _
Signature o«
[Continued From First Page]
Since then we have been able to
operate our cars with our own
men, with a service practically
normal. The 'only question now
presented is that of permitting an
outside organization, having no
interest in the affairs of the com
pany, representing a small por
tion of the former employes, to
assume the right to act for all of
our employes in discussing mat
ters which have already been ad
justed, as well as to control its
operation and management. This
! we do not consider a question for
arbitration, and this company has
repeatedly announced its policy
in this respect.
We have several times met Mr.
Gilday, and will always be glad
to meet him and discuss matters
relating to the business of our
employes or ourselves. Likewise,
we have always been willing to
meet our employes individually
and collectively.
Although as above suggested,
we know of no differences to be
adjusted, we shall always be glad
to meet with Mr. Gilday.
Verv respectfully yours,
HARRISBURG RAILWAYS CO.,
FRANK B. MUSSER.
President.
Motorman and Passengers
Injured When Hummelstown
Car Is Thrown From Track
As a result of plugging a switch of
the Harritt-iirg Railways Company
tracks at Rutherford with stones last
night, Charles H. Page, a motorman
received four broken ribs and a num
ber of Hummelstown passengers were
badly shaken up. receiving scratches
and slight cuts from broken glass.
When the car hit the switch the front
wheels jumped the track.
The switch is located west of the
Rutherford bridge leading to the
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
yards. Motorman Page on a trip from
Hummelstown was accosted by a
crowd of men and boys and called
ugly names. Stones were also thrown
at the car, one window being broken.
On the return trip only one man
was in sight when the car jumped the
switch, but In a few minutes there
was a crowd around, and stones and
sticks were thrown at the car and at
Motorman Page. When the car left
the track Page was hurled against the
switch bar, fracturing four ribs. When
it was seen that the motorman was
injured the .crowd dispersed.
County Detective James Walters
with several sheriff's deputies visited
Rutherford and made an Investiga
tion. It is the belief that arrests will
be made to-morrow.
An Oberlin car was also stoned, and
two passengers on a Rutherford car
were struck by pieces of brick thrown
through a window. The injured are
Frederick Koenig, Enhaut, 19 years
old, an employe of the State Printery,
lacerated scalp and John Stoner, West
Fairview, lacerated scalp.
Late Saturday night, James Dailey
said to be a strike-breaker was ar
rested for assaulting Harry Donovan,
who resides in Derry street. The as
sault, it is said, followed an argument
on the strike question. Special officer
Elsa Pawley and Mispah Lerch were
ari*ested in Penbrook for calling vile
names at motormen and conductors
on the street cars.
Thorpe Replies Tartly to
Mayor Meals' Statements
In discussing Mayor Meals' recent
interviews John J. Thorpe, vice-presi
dent of the Amalgamated Association
of Street and Electric Railway Em
ployes of America, and the local or
ganizer for Harrisburg's trolleymen,
to-day said;
"If the employes do not want to be
organized, can you tell me how anyone
is going to organize them? On the
other hand, if they do want to be or
ganized, these tactics now being used
by Mr. Musser and some of the city
officials are we'.i calculated to scare
thera from it. but they are not to be
scared so easily. What Mr. Musser
probably means is that the men do not
want a raise ir. pay or. rather, the
company does not wish to grant it.
After five years of constant attention
to business, if his health holds out and
he keeps his lob, a Harrisburg motor
man or conductor may get 2 6 cents
per hour. The extra man will work
for 22 cents per hour. Barn and shop
men only get from 13 H cents per hour
to about 19 cents per hour. Consider
ing the cost of living in Harrisburg.
this Is by all odds the worst record that
any company has got. Why, it is a
wonder that the Harrisburg Railways j
Company does not demand that a
man must pay them to be permitted to
work for such a generous corporation.
It is just about enough to starve to
death on, and in order to earn a living
the men work overtime at disastrously
long hours.
"These conditions would be impos
sible when the men are organized, ana
that is one of the reasons why Mr.
MuKser doesn't want his employes to
organize.
"I wish to say that we don't want
strikes. I have' done my best to avoid
a strike here in this city; my organ
ization always stands for arbitration
This has been ond is a uniform rule
of our organization. When the com
pany's reply was that there is nothing
to arbitrate —coolly informs us that
we have no grievances and they will
theiefore consider none—why, then, of
course, there is nothing to do but
strike, which we' were forced to do
here.
"But wherever the union is well es
tablished we don't have strikes. Both
companies and men have learned bet
ter. We have our joint conferences
and we make up the best contract we
can agree upon, leaving disputed
points to arbitration.
"What we mean by 'recognition' of
the union' is simply that the officials
of the company shall confer with com
mittees of the men. Then we are will
ing that every question in dispute shall
be settled by arbitration. It doesn't
mean that the company shall have to
treat with us 'alien agitators,' as the
company and others term us. Our
union laws insist that each com
mittee shall be elected by employes of
the company concerned. We do not
come around unless the committee and
the company or management cannot
reach an understanding, and then we
come only in an advisory capacity.
"Kemember, also, that recognition
of the union does not mean a closed
shop. It still leaves the company free
to hire nonunion men. All it does is
to secure representation to the em
ployes. When that is secured, arbi
trate nthen is possible. Until it is se
cured the employes are entirely out of
court.
"Here in Harrisburg the men have
not only been denied representation,
but they have been denied the right to
talk about it individually among them
selves. Any union agitation, when dis
covered by the company, has been sup
pressed by the company. The funda
mental right of free speech has been
made a crime and the culprits have
been sentenced indeterminately to un
employment and starvation.
"In a traction strike S5 per cent, of
the public general favors the strikers.
They do this because of the Inhumanly
long hours railway men are known to
work. When another sort of working
man goes to work he often recognizes
the conductor on the car he t&keß.
When he comes home he recognizes
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
the tame conductor. When he goes
down town in the evening the name
conductor may take his fare, and when
he comes horns from the theater it
may be to ride again with the same
conductor. Naturally he wonders when
such men get any time to live. He
learns that, being unorganized, they
are compelled to work at any old hours
which happen to be most convenient
to the management.
"And when the men go on strike
against such unbearable conditions and
the company imports professional
strike-breakers to take their places,
the sympathetic workingman is en
raged. This is the explanation of these
mob violences—this and the rioting
which is directly incited by the com
pany's Importation or hiring of strike
breakers. Ho can any workingman
ride behind such men. when who are
trying to take the bread and butter
from the honest motor men and con
ductors who are only asking for a fair
wage for a fair day's work?
"I noticed in the Courier on Sunday
morning, August 6, what Mr. Meals
had to say about me and his denuncia
tion. I am like the boy that got
kicked by a mule —consider where it
comes from and let it go by. I note
what he says—if 1 would leave town,
he, Mr. Meals, would settle this strike
in a hurry. O, how nice of him; why
cannot he settla it while I am here?
Is there a 'nigger' in the woodpile? If
there is. let him loose, and we will
then know who are our friends.
"I would also state that Mr. Meals is
telling something that is untrue, and
that is by saying the longer the strike
is continued the more I make. He
should not judge other people first. I
will stake my reputation against his
or any other man in Harrisburg. I
am not much surprised at the way he
expressed himsell in the morning pa
per. I feel that I sized him up right.
I cannot understand what I have done
to the Mayor to cause him to talk the
way he does. I may become a citizen
of Harisburg, and if I do, watch the
smoke of some of our friends later on
This may have been Mayor Meals' per
fect day, and he should think of the
friends he has made.
"My attention was called to an ar
ticle that appeared in The Patriot, sup
posed to have come from the Mayor of
the city of Harrisburg, stating that
there is a man from out of the city
who conies here to try to dictate to
him how to run his office.' I wish to
emphatically say that this is untrue.
I don't intend to, nor have I tried, to
dictate to the Mayor as to how he is to
run his office. But I do know that
there are hundreds of working people
in the city of Harrisburg who are far
move competent of filling the present
office of Mayor than the man who is
now doing so. He says I am not a
citizen of Harrisburg. That part may
be true. But I wish to inform Mr.
Mayor that I am a free. American
born citizen, and a resident of Pitts
burgh, and have a wife and a family
residing at the same p:ace. He states
that I may not be a citizen any place
else. I wish to inform Mr. Mayor
Meals that he himself may go to the
city of Pittsburgh, where I have been
a resident for the last twenty-three
years, and I dare say that I am just
as well, if not better, known in that
city than he is in Harrisburg. I feel
that my reputation and character are
as good, if not better, than his. If
anybody should doubt this, let them
go to Pittsburgh and make an investi
gation. Or they may go to the State
House and consult with J. Denny
O'Xeil, ho has known me for vears I
think that befire Mayor Meals talks
about anybody he should begin at
home.
"He states that 'if that man Thorpe
■ had not been here the strike would
1 have been settled long ago.' I suppose
perhaps that is true; that he would
! try to settle the strike according to
> Mr. Musser's dictation. He also states
s that he is surprised that President
Samuel Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, should send a
man like me here to take charge of
the carmen's stiike. I wish to state
. that President Gompers does not take
• dictation from him nor anybody of his
I stripe.
"Mr. Meals says if Mr. Thorpe
hadn't come to this city, that the pres
ent strike would not be in existence or
would have been settled. Perhaps that
is true to a certain extent, for the
reason that the carmen would not
have been organized and they would
have been working under the con
ditions of slavery that have been exist
ing in this city for the last twenty
years. He also, states that Thorpe
wants the strike prolonged, saying that
'the longer the strike is continued the
more money Thorpe gets.' I wish to
inform Mr. Mayor Meals that he is
telling something that is absolutely
untrue, and I would advise him to be
a little bit mce careful in the re
marks that he is publishing through
the daily press regarding myself.
"As for 'Thorpe leaving the city,' I
will not lave the city until I am good
and ready to go. I feel that I have as
much right here as has Mayor Meals,
as I have not violated any of the laws
of ihe State of Pennsylvania and I
pay my way as I go, and I have a per
fect right to remain here."
Mass Meetings and Big
Parade Dae This Week
Mass meetings to-night and to-mor
row night and another big labor pa
rade for Wednesday evening comprise
the schedule of the trolleymen for the
first half of the week. Other demon
strations will likely be arranged for
latf<r in the week. ,
At Nineteenth and Derry streets
there will be a big meeting to-night
beginning at 8 o'clock. Organizers J. J
Thorpe. J. E. Roach, Emanuel Jacobs
Charles F. Quinn and Hugh L
McLaughlin will be among the speak
ers. A similar session will be held
i to-morrow evening at Fourth and Ed
wards streets, Riverside. The big pa
rade of Wednesday is to include labor
organizations and a place in line will
be reserved for the feminine con
tingent.
ACT ON TROLLEYMAN'S DEATH
Division No. 709 of the Amal
gamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employes vesterday
adopted imprfecsive resolutions rela
tive to the death 'of Lander Eli. a
member of the order. The committee
on resolutions included Hugh L
McLaughlin. A. M. Allen, E. C. Hicks
and A. H. Yingst.
BRITTOX-KLIXGER BRIDAL
The marriage of Mrs. Belle Klinger
to Howard Samuel Britton took place
Saturday evening, August 5, at the
parsonage of the Sixth Street United
Brethren Church, with the pastor, the
Rev. Joseph Daugherty, officiating
Mr. and Mrs. Eritton will reside in
Enola.
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Telegraph Friday, August 18th
Soldiers on Border Have
All Y. M. C. A. Facilities
James B. Carruthers, State Secre
tary of the Y. M. C. A. has received a
letter from F. A. Messier, one of the
ten Pennsylvania secretaries now do
ing Y. M..C. A. work among the sol
diers along the Mexican border, Mr.
Messer says: "The first building was
opened at Camp Stewart August 1, the
building was crowded to the doors,
every inch of space at the writing
tables filled and others waiting their
turns. Some men were sitting on the
lloor playing checkers and reading.
Others standing around in circles like
college men singing. By Saturday wc
ought to have two more buildings com
pleted and a fourth some time within
the next month. There is talk of
bringing electric lights here from Fort
Bliss, then we will be able to have 11-
AUGUST 7, 1916. W
lust rated lectures for the men. A reg
j imental Bible class for each regiment.
11 is one of the features of the work. Oui
program Includes social and musical
events each evening of an hour apiece.
The men are surprised to learn that
the secretaries here have come from
Pennsylvania and that money is be
ing raised there to pay for the build
ings and the expenses of the men."
Brotherhood Officials
Silent on Strike Vote
Special to the Telegraph
New York, Aug. 7.—Officials of the
four railroad brotherhoods who are
here to attend the conference of man
agers next Tuesday and Inform them
of the result of the vote of the 400,000
workers, which is reported to be over
whelmingly in favor of a strike on
225 railroads, unless their demands
for an eight-hour day and time and
a half for overtime are granted, de
clined to-night to make any statement
mi sht indicate their future course.
v.„ ;* m ? th £ Shea - one of the brother
hood leaders who is superintending
the count, said last night the canvass
Mr?™ , yet fM^ plet6 ' but ,hat the en
lay counted before Tues-
HOME FROM MOUNT GRETNA
Miss Jessie Williams, of 1321 Ver
non street, is home from Mount
Grema, where rlie attended the silver
anniversary of the United Brethren
Bible Conference. Whil there Miss
Williams was the guest of Mrs. Bar
tow at her cottage, the Idle-Awhile.
Miss Caroline Hatton, of 320 Cres
cent street, ha-3 returned home after
a visit at Weigle's farm, near Gettys
burg.