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TUESDAY ~~ TUESDAY;
; To-morrow—Tuesday—A Big Merchandising Event
Brimming Over With Extraordinary Values ;
► An occasion in which 25 cents is given a wonderful purchasing "
y power through reduced prices on seasonable merchandise of unimpeach- ~
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i I Tuesday, 2 yards f»r 25c I Tuesday 25c __ 4
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SOUTTER'S !
11 23u| lc to 25c Dept. Store'
I y DEPAPTMEMT Where Every Day Is Bargain Day 4
[ 215 Market St. Opp. Courthouse'
MRS. AXME M. MYERS
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie M.
Myers, aged 61. who died this morn
ing, will be held at the home of her
sister. Mrs. Simon Drabenstadt, Sl3
South Front street. Wednesday after
noon at 3.30 o'clock. She is survived
her sister. Mrs. Drabenstadt and one
brother. Jacob Myers, both of this city.
Burial will be made in the East Harris
burg Cemetery with the Rev. Mr.
Shriner. pastor of the Nagle Street
Church of God, officiating.
WILLIAM EBBRLV WRIGHT
Funeral services for William Eberly
Wright, aged 4. who died at his home.
2010 North Fifth street, yesterday, will
be held Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock. He is survived by his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. William Wright. Burial
will be made in the East Harrisburg
Cemetery with the Rev. E. E. Curtis,
pastor of the Westminster Pr*sby- 1
terian Church, officiating.
MRS. FAX ME AI\GST
Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie'
Aungst, aged S4. who died Saturday
CASTORIA For Infants and Children,
The Kind You Have Always Bought
MONDAY EVENING.
! at the home of her son-in-law, John
D. Fisher, 243S Elm street, Penbrook,
will be held at 10 o'clock to-morrow
morning. Burial will be made in the
Shoop's Church Cemetery.
COURTHOUSE XOTES
Judge Charles V. Henry, specially
presiding here, in court this morning
appointed the Security Trust Company
guardian for Lewis, Madeline and Au
drey Grey, minor heirs, who each will
receive SSO out of the estate of their
grandmother, the late Lucy Jackson.
The Court to-day fixed August 28 as
the time for hearing the application oi
Margianna Hacuk, Middletown, who
seeks to have a maintenance order
made in her favor, to be payable out of
a SIOO bank account which the hus
band. Adam Hacuk, had on deposit in
the Farmers' Bank. Middletown. prior
to his sudden disappearance, several
weks ago.
S. C. Young. Middletown, trustee of
the estate of Jacob Epler, sold the
Epler farm, at Conewago, on Saturday
to Simon Epler for $6,510, or at the
rate of $155 an acre for the forty-two
acres.
Bears the /7 _
Blg °r -c^
Didn't Like Him Much
So They Returned License
Steve Hatula and Katie Kulikt, for
eigners of this city, obtained a mar
riage license at the courthouse on
Saturday and to-day they again went
together to the courthouse and re
turned the papers. They were accom
panied bv an interpreter who explain
ed:
"They don't want the papers now;
she said she don't like him much."
The couple were not questioned and
the $1 paid for the license was not re
turned to them. They left the court
house together without much adoo.
ANIMALS BURN IX FIRE
Huntingdon, Pa., Aug. 21. Fire
originating through spontaneous com
bustion destroyed the large barn of
Adam J. Black, county commissioner,
at Broadtop City, Pa., to-day, together
with nine mules, three horses, 125
tons of hay, the entire season's grain
crop and $2,500 worth of farming
utensils The locs is $17,000, insur
ance $3,000.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
ALLIANCE FORMS
TO BOOST HUGHES
Important Organization of In
fluential Republicans With
in Pennsylvania
Organization of the Hughes Alli
ance in the State of Pennsylvania as
j a State unit In the National Hughes
i Alliance, which is to enlist nation
wide support for the Republican
; ticket this Fall by organizing the vot
j ers of all parties who are opposed to
the continuaUon of the Wilson ad
ministration, has been set up in Penn
sylvania on a comprehensive scale.
Leading Progressives, Democrats, J
Independents and regular Republi-1
cans are rallying to the support of
the Hughes Alliance in the State of
Pennsylvania in a way that augurs
the development of one of the most
thorough independent organizations in
behalf of a presidential candidate that
j Pennsylvania has ever known. In re
j sponse to a recent letter from W.
• Cameron Forbes, former Governor
! General of the Philippines, and now
; president of the National Hughes Al
i lixnce, authorizing the organization
; of the Pennsylvania Alliance, as well
as a letter from Republican National
j Chairman Willcox conveying the sanc
! tion of Governor Hughes and the na
j tional committee for the work now
being done in Pennsylvania, the or
-1 sanitation of a General State Com
; mittee to supervise the campaign for
Justice Hughes in this State in con
; junction with the National Hughes
j Alliance has been undertaken and is
i now being successfully accomplished.
Ninety messages of acceptance al
ready have been received at the head
quarters of the Pennsylvania Alli
ance, which have been established at
1524 Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
These acceptances are from men who
in the past have been prominently
identified with the affairs of the
Washington party, and with the Dem
ocratic party, and from Republicans
who have participated in strong in
dependent political movements, and
regular Republicans as well.
Notable among Progressives who
have aligned themselves with the
Hughes' movement are William Dra
per Lewis, former Progressive can
i didate for Governor; H. D. W. Eng
! lish of Pittsburgh, who in 1912 was
! a Progressive elector; Lewis Emery,
i Jr., of Bradford, former Independent
I candidate for Governor; Edward B.
j Smith, the Philadelphia banker;
I Thomas Robins, close associate of
; Colonel Roosevelt; Colonel Sheldon
| Potter and others.
Notable among Republicans who
have ent-olled as members of the com-
I mittee are J. Benjamin Dimmick of
i Scranton, who was a candidate for
the Republican nomination for United
| States Senate two years ago; James
; Scarlet of Danville, prominent in the
| Capitol graft expose; Ira W. Stratton,
! Mayor of Reading; Alba B. Johnson,
president Baldwin Locomotive Works;
j Alexander P. Moore, the Pittsburgh
publisher; Francis B. Reeves, chair
man of the board of the Girard Na
tional Bank; Jasper Yates Brinton,
former assistant to the United States
District Attorney and others.
In accordance with these views, the
' Pennsylvania Alliance is being organ
! ized without distinction as to politi
' cal alignments within any party, but
I with an eye single to the union of
| voters of every faith who perceive in
j the continuation of Wilsonism a peril
'to our future American welfare, both
j in foreign and domestic relations, and
! particularly our economic status after
i the European war is concluded.
SUCCESSESCLAIMED
BY BOTH SIDES
.[Continued on Page 3]
| Guillemont and -laurcpas Northwest
| of Peronne announced last night.
Bulgarian Forces Are
Within Seven Miles of
Great Greek Seaport
Athens, Aug. 20.—The Bulgarian
forces moving toward Kavala have
already pushed their outposts to a
point seven miles from that Greek
seaport. The Greek Government has
ordered three divisions of the Greek
army still remaining in the vicinity
of Drama and Serres to retire before
the Bulgarian advance, which was ex
plained to the Associated Press cor
respondent by a military authority
to the Entente Allies as follows:
"The Serbians had not finished the
concentration of three positions in the
Fiorina, Oaradjova and Corytsa sec
tors, and therefore the Bulgarians
found it easy enough to force a cer
tain rctirment, but it is difficult to
see where they expect to get by an
advance at this part of the line. East
of tha Struma the Demir-Hissar and
Sarlchaban sectors were not held by
the Entente forces and offered no
impediment to the advances. Where
the enemy attacked the regular de
fenses of Saloniki, namely in the
Doiran-Gievgeli sector, they accom
plished nothing. As the attack has
so far developed it is without strategic
value and can only be assumed to be
for political purposes."
Bulgarian air raids on Kilkich and
Tannimsa killed a number of Greeks.
The Bulgarian and German minis
ters have repeated previous assur
ances that the integrity of Greece will
be respected. The French and British
ministers this morning asked Premier
Zaimis what measures Greece pro
poses taking to control the civil popu
lation in the attacked districts who
are fleeing in all directions.
Greek Forts Are Seized
as Bulgarians Move
in Direction of Kavala
London, Aug. 21.—Bulgarian troops
; are advancing toward the Greek sea-
I port of Kavala. They have seized two
I Greek forts. At several points along
j the front new engagements have been
' fought.
j Berlin reports that Biklista, south
'of Presba Lake, and Bancia, have
been taken, while north of Ostrova
Lake the Serbian Drina division has
, been thrown from the dominating
i heights of Dmiemaat Jeri and Metrio
Tepsi. Counter attacks, it is declared,
have been repulsed.
On the Saloniki front, however, the
British troops have advanced their
i lines and repulsed Bulgarian counter
Fighting Still Intense
Reports from Saloniki show that
! the general engagement which began
■ Friday is continuing with intensity
i over an extended front from Fiorina,
! near Monastir to the river Struma.
' This represents an irregular line
nearly 150 miles long.
General Sarraill is directing the
united operations of the Allis, with
General Cordonnier commanding the
i French. The operations have been
j long expected as a part of the Allies'
i 00-ordinated offensive on all fronts.
They follow the arrival of General
I Cordonnier after extended conferences
with officials in Paris.
Advices received in Paris indicate
k that the Germans and Bulgarians are,
ROTARIANSHEAR
OF BOY SCOUTS
Lewis Buddy, Field Commis
sioner, Addresses Noonday
Luncheon
"The city's greatest asset is the
boy; the boy is worth protecting more
than anything else In the world, be
cause in this way you get at the
whole social system," was one of the
statements made at the Rotary
luncheon at the Columbus Hotel at
noon to-day by Lewis Buddy, field
commissioner of the Boy Scouts of
America. Mr. Buddy is here for the
purpose of stimulating Interest in the
Scout movement with the ultimate
purpose of organzing Harrisburg to
the maximum Scout capacity and of
establishing permanently in this city
a Scout executive.
President Fry introduced the speaker
and drew the analogy between Ro
tary and Scouting in the sense that
service is the watchword of both or
ganizations. Mr. Buddy continued
along the same lines with the remark
that he "would rather be a /totarian
and a Scout than anything else in the
world." " A city is no greater than
the standard of its citizenship, and a
citizen is no greater than the amount
of personal service that he gives the
city," he added, "and the Boy Scouts
are being trained in the adolescent
period in a way tliat will develop them
into the best sort of citizens when they
grow up."
A Scout is a "Regular Fellow"
The speaker told some entertaining
incidents characteristic of the Scouts,
hom he termed "regular fellows with
plenty of sand." The "do" rather than
the "don't" spirit is emhpasized in the
dealings of the scoutmasters with the
boys. And one of the features of the
organization is its nonsectarian na
ture, which, Mr. Buddy says, is one of
the greatest things about it. It is,
moreover, absolutely nonmilitary, for
the reason that the leaders do not
think it wise to instill militaristic ideas
>nto the scouts' heads at an early age,
and the scout gets the same discipline
as the soldier, with the difference that
the scout drills without arms. The
study and history of the flag is one ot
the important parts of the boys' work.
Each scout must take the oath to
"do a good turn" every day, and a
•rood turn is more than an ordinary
courtesy. It implies a sacrifice that
is real. Many scouts have adopted
the method of tying a knot in their
neckties in the morning and not un
doing the knot until they have per
formed their "good turn" for that
day. These and many other side
lights on the scout's habits and cus
toms were told by the speaker.
seeking to anticipate the movement
by taking the offensive on the left,
where the Serbians had moved up to
within 25 miles of Monastir, holding
Fiorina as an observation post. Their
orders were not to attempt to retain
Fiorina if they were attacked. The
Serbian War Office says the Bulgar
ians were thrown back on their old
positions, but' that later the Serbians,
following instructions, evacuated Fior
ina, which the Bulgarians then
occupied.
The Serbians retired slowly and
later delivered a heavy counter attack
against a large Bulgarian force de
bouching from Fiorina toward Ban
ciat. Fighting continues in this region.
. British Make Gains
In the center, British and French
forces near Lake Doiran followed an
immense bombardment with infantry
attacks, in which the British occupied
the strategic point of Dolzzeli. Far
ther east the French righi* crushed a
series of small villages in much the
manner the French right carried vil
lages on the Somme front.
The situation along the whole line
is regarded in Paris as satisfactory
for the Allies. There is every indica
tion that the preliminary operations
are extending rapidly.
"The End of the World" at the Vic
toria to-morrow.—Advertisement.
CONFIDENT STRIKE
WILLBE AVERTED
[Continued on Page 3]
George Pope, president of the Nation
al Manufacturers' Association, in re
sponse to a telegraphic appeal from
the latter that the principle of arbitra
tion be preserved in the strike nego
tiations. The road officials have con
tended that the principle of arbitration
would be endangered by his plan of
settlement. The President, however,
declares that his plan strengthed
rather than weakened it.
Telegrams Urge Arbitration
President Wilson had before htm
to-day numerous telegrams from busi
ness men and trade bodies urging that
he insist on arbitration. It was offi
cially said, however, that the appeals
would be without effect on him since
he had failed in his effort to bring
about arbitration and had no way of
forcing it.
The western railway presidents
summoned Saturday began to arrive
this morning. Louis W. Hill, of the
Great Northern, principal heir to the
vast properties of the late James J.
Hill, and E. P. Ripley, the veteran
president of the Santa Fe, were among
the first. Neither had any statement
to make.
The incoming executives conferred
with those already here and with the
managers' committee to familiarize
themselves with the negotiations so
far. All the western presidents are
expected before to-morrow noon. By
that time it is expected about 100 rail
way heads, representing properties
valued at about $10,000,000,000, will
be assembled for the next conference
with the President.
Presidents More Optimistic
The brotherhood representatives
held a brief meeting in their hall to
day, but transacted no business. A
few telegrams approving their stand
in the situation were read and ad
i Journment was taken until 10 o'clock
. to-niorrow morning.
The men's meeting decided that
brotherhood members should call on
senators and representatives from
their own states and acquaint them
with the details of the men's side of
the situation. President Carter, of
the engineers, was the only official
who attended the session.
Some of the Incoming? railway presi
dents were more optimistic about the
situation than those already here. One
of the western men declared that if
his road alone were involved he un
questionably would resist the demands
of the men to the last, but he consid
ered the question a national one, and
for that reason was sure some com
mon ground would be found on which
to base a settlement.
President Wilson's suggestion in his
telegram to Colonel Pope that some
menns be found for preventing a re
currence of the present situation and
his advocacy of the principle of arbi
tration caused speculation over what
should be done. The President told
the railroad executives Saturday he
did not believe Congress would pass
a compulsory arbitration law. Labor
organizations have consistently op
posed that. Administration officials
said to-day the President was care
fully studying the entire question with
the idea of making some recommen
dation to Congress, probably In his
next message in December.
Calls Another Conference
President Wilson called the railroad
presidents to the White House asala
AUGUST 21, 1916.
JSaamaiti
IIEI.L—IOOI—UNITED FOUNDED IS7I
Some Very Fine Crepe de Chine
HANDKERCHIEFS
Of Durable Quality
and Exceptional Mer- jy
it at a Low price on ft
a Special Purchase j/ ixW^MTv s \\
There are plain white i
and plain colored; a bor- ipr&j f\ * /
der of different shade; BWgjbjj /
wide borders and corded
edges; neat little floral
prints and several other
equally attractive pat
terns.
More Than Half the August
Furniture Sale
Into Your Homes
Your Pocketbooks.
What Has Been Your Share?
Much of Harrisburg has seen the advan
tages of the Bowman August Furniture Sale.
Much of Harrisburg home-life has been en
riched by the improvement of home-life—by
the addition of convenience; by the addition
of comfort; by the strength of these conveni
ences and comforts.
Much of Harrisburg home-life has been
enriched by the ample savings which the
Bowman August Furniture Sale makes pos
sible.
Colonial' Dining Chairs,
,m side Rocker, over-stuffed;|
3 rare com * ort * August
]fp Bowman' Roll - edge
A&lMl J \ I IMattress; layer felt; art
,0 \>*~ l c x 3 ticking. August Sale
price, $9.90.
Lowest Prices on all odd Porch Chairs and
Rockers, including rustic birch chairs and
rockers; solid oak rockers; green chairs and
rockers; choice of any at the uniform price of
$1.49.
August Hours—Open until 5.30 on Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday—until 9 on
Friday—until one o'clock Saturday.
this afternoon for another conference.
It had been expected there would be
no further move until to-morrow but
when the western men began arriving
to-day the railroad managers can
vassed the situation and found that all
the executives who could reach the cap
ital within a reasonable time already
had arrived. They so advised the
White House and the President in
vited to conference at 2:30 o'clock.
The railways heads spent several
hours to-day trying to devise some
form of settlement of the threatened
strike which would still preserve the
principle of arbitration and be one
which President Wilson could prevail
upon the men to accept.
One of the suggestions the railroad
presidents were prepared to make at
the White House was for legislation
to create a board of commissioners to
investigate when trouble threatens be
tween railroad employers and em
ployes.
Congress Would Create Hoard
Under such a plan the board would
be created by act of Congress and
would probably be empowered to ex
amine witnesses to determine the
merits of any controversy. Pending
its investigation the employes would
not be permitted to strike or to take
a strike vote. After the board had
reached its conclusions from that fact
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Nttjl OPPOSITE ORPHEUM rot/A,
THEATER.
Open Friday* Closed Satur-
UntU 9 P. M. day at 1 P. M.
a public report would be made and
| there would be opportunity for arbi
tration but it would not be compul
sory. If arbitration were refused, the
board would send to each official a
statement of the railroad's position in
the matter and the employes' position
and the board's findings. These .state
ments would be before every em
ploye when he came to vote on a
strike and opportunity would be given
for a secret ballot. The men would
vote directly on the question of a
strike. Under the present system, the
balloting is not secret and the men
vote to delegate the power of declar
ing a strike to brotherhood officers.
It was understood that the railroad
executives were not yet ready to pre
sent their final answer to-day to the
President on his plan. The conference
this afternoon was arranged to allow
the officials who arrived here to-day
to get the President's viewpoint first
hand.
As the railroad presidents entered
the White House, Hale Holden, their
spokesman, said the executives already
here had sought to maintain open
minds on the entire question, but that
after President Wilson had explained
his plan thoroughly to the new ar
rivals, consideration of all questions
involved would be begun with the ob
ject of reaching a final decision.
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