Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, September 22, 1916, Page 12, Image 12

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FINE COUNTRY ON
GOVERNOR'S TOUR
Expects to Sec More During
the Third Agricultural
Tour
"We had a splendid time and saw
lome fine farms, orchards and some
excellent people and we are going to
Bee some more next week when we
go out on the third tour of the farm
ing regions," said Governor Mar
tin G. Brumbaugh to-day. "I en-
Joyed talking to the boys and girls
about staying on the farm. That's
what we need in this State. The girls
Dught to learn to cook and the boys
to stay at home."
The Governor discussed arrange
ments for next week's tour of Lancas
ter, southern tier counties, the moun
tains and the Juniata valley to-day
before, leaving for Lancaster to attend
the dedication of the new high school.
Sunday he will speak at the laying of
the cornerstone of the Misericordis
Hospital in Philadelphia. To-morrow
he will spend in Philadelphia.
No appointments except of a jus
tice of the peace were announced to
day.
Called to Capita).—Adjutant Gen
eral Stewart and Deputy Adjutant
General Beary were culled to Wash
ington to-day in connection with Na
tional Guard matters. It is probable
that some arrangements about muster
out of organizations will be discussed.
No Session Today. The Public
Service Commission did not have any
executive session to-day and the Phila
delphia commuters, Pittsburgh night
car and other cases were not finally
acted upon.
New Notaries.—J. A. Frantz, Lan
caster; H. G. Carpenter, Jit Joy, were
appointed notaries public to-day; Wal-
Sf. r Strayer, justice of the peace for
White township, Cambria county, and
Abdul Fazl, commissioner of deeds for
Kapurthala, Indiana.
New Silk Company.—The charter
of the Muncy Silk Company, of Muncy,
capital $20,000, was approved to-day.
No RebaUng.—An opinion to the
effect that no rebating or other pro
cedure which would give an advan
tage in writing insurance is permitted
■under the act of 1913 was given to
day to Insurance Commissioner O'Neil
by Deputy Attorney General Hargest.
It appears that a casualty company
desired to give its stockholders insur
ance at less rates than other policv
bolders holding that the clause "not
specified in the policy" could be in
voked. "If this proviso were con
strued to permit any rebates or agents*
commissions, earnings, profits or divi
dends to be given to any one insured,
provided it be specified in the policy
the whole intention of the act would
be nullified." says Mr. Hargest. "The
Intention of the Legislature was to
provide against all special induce
ments of every kind. It was not in
tended to permit inducements to be
given with impunity merely by insert
ing them In the policy contract, to one
Insured while denying the same in
ducements to another "
"watered. _ The conversion
of the Italian Co-operative Banking
RSrßvf'. Philadelphia, to the
E°" th . Philadelphia State Bank of
Philadelphia, capital $50,000, was an
proved to-day. The incorporators of
the new bank are Guiseppe Ciretti,
FidiantJne Cibetti, Nicholas Cipperone
a JT 3 ;? a l° ne ' Jose Ph Piacentine
and Ajiielle Teti.
Carranza Troops Pursue
Band of Villistas Who Made
Attack on Chihuahua
, ( r h ; hlm ' hl > a C3 t>'. Sept. 21, via El Paso !
■Junction. Sept. 22.—Carranza troops
v-m- PUr ng southward the band of
Villistas which attacked Chihuahua
Clt> last Saturday, according to official
announcement here to-day. The Vil
are reported passing along the
road to Jimenez, southwest of Chi
huahua City. Ranchers arriving re
port that Villa's forces were discour
aged over the failure to obtain loot
the™ity a "" hen 110 ca P tu red
.* VOTa the district through
which the hand is passing, it was given
out, say \ ilia has lost considerable
prestige because of the failure of the
attack.
Prisoners taken by Villa who have
returned say Villa's plan was to sur
round the palace during the Independ
e"ce Day celebration, kill General Ja
cinto Trevino, commandant at Chi
huahua City, and his staff, and to dis
organize the garrison.
. Villa last was reported in the Sierra
de la SlUa district, near Santa Ysabel-
R.VED HAD NO EFFECT
Mexico City, Sept. 22.—General Car
dido Aguilar, the foreign minister, de- '
nied yesterday that the interruption
to the conference of the American and
Mexican joint commission at New i
London was due to the Villa raid on 1
Chihuahua City or the bank and min- ;
ing decreases. He declared that the
Mexican delegates could not discuss
any subject until the question of the
withdrawal of Genera] PersJiing from
Mexico had been settled.
TO CREATE DIFFICULTIES
New York, Sept. 22. -- In a state
ment to-day to Juan T. Burns. Mexi
can consul general in New York, Gen
eral Trevino, after reiterating his
statements that his forces defeved
the Villa invaders at Chihuahua City,
says;
"This foolish shedding of blood was
■with the intention of creating difficul
ties for the conferees of the commis
sion at New London at the machin
ations of American and Mexican poli
tical interests. They themselves are
now saUsfied that they have failed."
LET BALLOT CONTRACT
TO TELEGRAPH PRINTING CO.
Contracts for furnishing both the
ballots and the election supnlies for
the Fall presidential election were let
to-day by the County Commissioners
to The Telegraph Printing Company,
the low bidders. Fifty-six thousand
ballots—4s,ooo official and 11,000
specimen tickets—will be supplied The
Telegraph bid-$11.20 per thousand for
the ballots and sl.lO per set for the
129 sets of election supplies. Other
bidders on the ballot printing were:
Weyler Printing Company, Reading,
$14.33; Star-Independent, $12.25; J A
Thompson, $11.36. Other bids for the
election supplies were: Keystone Print
ing Company, $1.20; J. A. Thompson,
$1.98.
The school loan problem, it is un
derstood, like the jitney question, will
he put to the people on separate
ballots.
DR. BECHT LUNCHEON GUEST
Dr. J. George Becht, secretary of
the State Board of Education, will be
the luncheon guest of the Rotary Club
on Monday. Or. Becht will speak on
"The Need of a New Type of Edu
cation."
TWO WYOMING REG'TS GOING
Washington, Sept. 22. iNvo Wyo
ming National Guard infantry battal
ions, troop A, of the Kansas cavalry
and troop B of the Wisconsin cavalry,
•were ordered to the Mexican border to
day by the War Department
FRIDAY HXRRISBURG *£££& TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 2Z, 1916,
REAL ESTATE
WEAVER'S STORE
WILL MOVE SOON
City's Oldest Confestionery to
Seek New Location; Long
at Same Stand
When Weaver's Confectionery re
moves from its present location at 24
North Third street to a room now
being refitted at 29 North Second
street, it will mean the removal of
the oldest established business in
Third street.
Prior to and during the Civil War
there stood at the corner of Third
and Strawberry avenue a wagon
maker's shop owned by R. J. Flem
ing who in 1865 built the present Col
lege Block, at that time the most
imposing business building in the
city. The first business to occupy the
new structure was a confectionery
store started in 1566 by John Wise
who, after a short time was succeed
ed by Gardner and Sayford and they
conducted the store for about two
years when it was taken over by
Samuel M. Sayford himself.
In Mr. Sayford's employ was a
young man, John S. Weaver by name,
who was destined later on to be the
owner of the store. On January 21,
1873, Mr. Weaver formed a partner
ship with Alpheus T. Hubley, a young
drygoods clerk, under the name of
Weaver & Hubley and they continued
the business without change until the
death of Mr. Hubley on January 13,
1907 when Mr. Weaver purchased his
partner's entire interest from Mr.
Hubley's estate and after making sev
eral thousand dollars worth of im
provements, conducted the store until
the time of his death on March 17,
1915.
The business was then bought by
E. F. Weaver, a nephew of the for
mer owner, who admitted as a part
ner J. Gilbert Aldinger, continuing
urtder the name of Weaver's Confec
tionery.
Three generations of Harrisburg
! folks have bought their fancy cakes,
: pastry and confections from this old
I established store, the older people
I remembering the toothsome cakes
1 and dainties made by Louis Ebel, the
j head baker for more than twenty
I years. John P. Aldinger, the pres
i ont head baker was an apprentice of
! Mr. Ebel and has been in the employ
of the house for more than thirty
! years, and has at present two assist
jnnts in the bakery where the delicious
pies, cakes and pastry are made fresh
j every day for the many patrons of
j the place.
In addition to the new store in
Second street which •will be ready for
ocupancy in the course of a few
weeks a. branch store has been open
ed at 1720 North Third street to sup
ply the uptown trade with fresh
goods every morning.
Paul Voorhees to Build New
Residence at Bellevue Park
Plans have been completed for a
handsome residence for Paul Voor
hees, resident engineer for the Phila-
I delphia and Reading Railroad, to be
j erected at Bellevue Park.
Mr. Voorhees recently purchased a
! plot of ground in Chestnut street,
I near Twenty-second street. Bellevue
I Park, and the building plans have
been drawn by Architect M. I. Kast,
222 Market street.
The new home will be a two-and-a
half-story gay brick structure of
thoroughly modern construction. A
single-story brick garage will also be
erected in the rear of the new resi
dence.
Estimates are now being taken on
the work and it will be started short
ly.
ROMBERGER SON S SELLS PLOT
ON" CREEK TO MOORHEAD CO.
Chief among the important realty
transactions recorded to-day was the
recent sale by S. B. Romberger's Sons
to the Moorhead Knitting company
of a big plot of ground along Paxton
creek south of Walnut street. The
consideration was SII,OOO.
Other transactions included Lewis
M. Neiffer to W. P. Loomis, 3102
North Second and Lucy K. Sutton,
3104 North Second street, for $5,500
each.
Petitions Ask Special
Session of Congress to
Consider High Food Prices
New Tork. Sept, 22. Petitions j
asking the President to call a special
session of Congress to meet the in
creasing cost of food by placing an
embargo on foodstuffs exportation were
distributed to-day among some 30,-
000 retail grocers, bakers and other
small dealers throughout the city.
Efforts will be made to get the peti
tions signed by 1,000,000 consumers.
The master bakers' association, which
launched the movement here, has de
cided to make a nation-wide campaign.
Chicago Housewives Plan
to Combat Increases in
the Price of Foodstuffs
Chicago, Sept. 22.—Housewives of
Chicago were called upon to-day to
attend a mass meeting at which or
ganization will be perfected to fight
increases in the prices of foodstuffs.
The announcement that bread is
to be advanced from Ave to six cents
a loaf, resulted in the call for the
meeting. Miss Florence King, presi
dent of the Woman's Association of
Commerce, under whose auspices the
meeting is to be held, urged that
housewives boycott dealers or refuse
to purchase supplies wheh have been
advanced in price.
"Men are interested In buying and
selling for a profit. It is therefore
folly to expect them to take any
action," the call reads. "Women must
put a stop to unwarranted increases
and we alone can stop them."
APPOINT TIPSTAVES FOR TWO
TERMS OF SEPTEMBER COURT
Tipstaves appointed to-day to serye
at September court included the fol
lowing:
September quarter sessions, Septem
ber 25-—John Pottorff, Robert W.
Green, Milton F. Graham, llenry C.
Gerdom, Henry Fulchner, Joseph
Washington, Felix Newman, William
H. Strominger, William R. Shuey,
Samuel Johnson, Harry B. Hanlon,
John Allen, George F. Hall, Jesse
L)iinc|o, George Peters, William H. Alt
land, J. U. Yentzer and Samuel lreiey.
Common pleas, October 2 John
Pottorff, Robert AV. Green, Harry
Fulchner, Milton F. Graham, Samuel
Johnson, Felix Newman, Peter Her
shev, George J. Swelgert, H. C. Win
ters, William Anderson, Lewis Brown,
Henry Ehling and Henry W. Chubb.
COLONIAL COUNTRY CLUB
CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY
The tifth anniversary of the opening
of the Colonial Country Club was
quietly observed last evening.
The New Store of Wm. Stroase BHHIHBHIHHEHHHHHBSBBHBfIHEEIiSEHBHIHiHHHHENHHHIIHIHHi
Strouse and Men's Clothes
Mean Almost the Same m HarrisLurg
Our Wesco Fif teens ill make you wonder liow
Whether your choice be blue, green, gray,
brown or a tweed—we've got it ready for you at prices from
$4 to 15
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"When the Frost is on the Pumpkin" you'll be Our candidate for the "Head" of the Nation is
glad to get chummy with one of our handsome one of our MALLORY or SCHOBLE Hats —to see
sweaters they add much comfort and pleasure to them is to give them your vote at once everv stvle
this glorious autumn weather the prices are from and color at prices from
$1.50 to $7.50 1 $2 to $5
The New Store of Wm. Strouse
SHOW SAVING IN
USE OF PAPER
Pennsylvanian Dailies Report
Many Economies Affected
to Aid Campaign
New York, Sept. 22. Reports con
cerning the results of the country-wide
campaign to reduce the consumption
of print paper continue to show mark
ed saving. Newspapers everywhere
are conserving the supply of paper
by reducing the number of copies
printed and by using fewer pages
daily.
The Chicago papers, in spite of ma
terial increases in the amount of ad
vertising, have effected economies in
space resulting in the saving of 150
tons of paper a week.
The Albany, N. Y„ Times-Union is
saving 10 per cent.; the Erie, Pa., Her
ald is saving 10 per cent, through the
reduction of exchange and compli
mentary copies and reduction in mar
gins; the Newburgh, N. Y., Journal
has effected a 12 per cent, reduction
by eliminating all returns and cutting
down the exchange and free lists; the
New Haven, Conn., Register is saving
1,000 papers a day by cutting free
lists, and has affected a saving of 25
tons a month; the Washington, I). C.,
Star has cut down reading matter 12
per cent, and has discontinued Its free
list and exchanges; the Willlamsport,
Pa., Sun estimates its saving at S3OO a
month; the York, Pa., Gazette has re
duced consumption 15 per cent.
Among many other papers thai
have joined the list of nonreturnable
papers are the Baltimore Sun, the
Reading, Pa.. Telegram and News-
Times, and the Williamsport Sun.
HAGUE Al/MOhT STAMPED OUT
New York, Sept. 22. Twenty new
cases of infantile paralysis, seven
fewer than yesterday were reported by
the health authorities to-day. The
deaths number elevent, an increase of
five.
PASSENGER HITS WRECK
Rochester. N. Y., Sept. 22. Two
westbound freight trains on the New
York Central met In a rear-end colli
sion east of Batavia early this morning
just as tlio Pullman passenger train
"Detroiter" was passing east bound.
A gondola, was thrown across the pas
senger tracks and the "Detrolter"
ploughed through it. AH the Pullmans
were damaged but nobody was ln-
I Jured.
BOWMAN FIREMEN
MAKE RECORD
Big Store's Volunteer Firemen
Respond to Alarm in Presence
of City Officials
If one day were
JLI ), llj set apart for the
/ tr ' a ' °' each the
murder cases that
are now liffted for
j/ September Criminal
court, Juries would
I be busy for every
<">Y the week.
H h raßHHrif lr Tlle seventtl murder
jStju IflLiMhlgJlf Si trial was placed on
ill* the calendar to-day
when John Mlsko
was held for killing a fellow-country
man in Wllliamstown few days ago.
Just what day Misko's case will be
listed for cannot be determined until
the Wllliamstown justice makes his
return to District Attorney Stroup but
it is possible that Saturday will be
the time. All of the seven murder cases
now listed, however, will likely be con
tinued! to a special week to be fixed late
in October or early November.
Twenty one cases were placed to-day
on the supplemental trial list for Sep
tember quarter sessions which opens
next week. They ate, Lelah M. Foltz,
Arthur Dubbs, John Seiders, Charles E.
Heilig, Benjamin Smith, Dominic Sabus
and Peter Alutlus, assault and battery;
W. M. Hurst, aggravated assault and
battery; Paul Kerman, Samuel W.
Brady, Harry Hale, ElIJa Hoover, Eu
gene Waddy alias James Smith, Edwin
Welsh and Joseph Toner, larceny; An
gelo Deangelo. felonious assault and
larceny; James Braxton, burglary; High
H. Clement, larceny as bailee; E. B.
Schllver, and William Cromer, false pre
tenses; John Swartz, rape; John Camp
bell, carrying concealed deadly weap
ons; Aaron Dlpple, selling eggs unfit
tor food.
Gardner Constable. —Samuc] H. Gard
ner, former school director, to-day was
appointed constable for the Eleventh
ward, to succeed W. R. Scheaffer, who
has resigned.
At the IteKlstrnr'n Office.—Letters
on the estate of W. G. Etter, this city,
were issued to Susan L. Etter.
Siie City.—Suit hus been entered by
Karley Gannett, Joseph L. Shearer, Jr.,
and Roy G. Cox, iirhitraturs appointed
to settle the river front sewer Inter
ceptor dispute between the city and
W. H. Opperman, for their fee. They
i demanded SISOO each. No statement
Juts yet been filed and the city's side
Today Is the Birthday
Anniversary of—
■ JHH
James T. Walters, county detective,
commonly known as "Jim" Walters
among his host of friends. He was
born in a Crawford county lumber
camp in 1856, and came to this city
when a small lad, going through the
public schools of the city. He was
married in Washington, D. C., in 1881.
He was employed as a puddler at the
Pax(on rolling mill. He served two
terms in common council and two
terms as a select councilman from the
First ward; during the administra
tion of Mayor Patterson, he served
three years on the city police force.
He has been county detective, serving
under District Attorneys Albert Miller,
John Fox Weiss and Michael Stroup.
He resides at 591 South Front street.
RESUME HEARING IX X. C.
RAILROAD SIDING CASE
Hearing of testimony in the con
demnation proceeding hrought by the
Northern Central Railroad Company
to assess benefits and damages inci
dent to the seizing by eminent domain
of about three-quarters of an acre of
ground in Halifax township belonging
to the old Alexander Roberts' farm,
wns resumed to-day in City Council
chamber by the viewers. because of
the illness of William Look, one of
the board; E. Clark Cowden and
Paul G. Smith alone heard the case.
of the case can not be brought to issue
until this is done.
TRY MURDER CASE
DAILY FOR WEEK
Supplemental Trial List For
September Sessions Shows
Seven Defendants
Should you have been phoning an
order to Bowman's department store
about 2:30 o'clock this afternoon and
were suddenly cut off by the operator,
this will explain why.
Just at that time an employe of
the store lit a match and touched off
an oil-soaked cushion in the alley at
the rear of the big store. A second
later the trim little Miss at the in
formation bureau a few feet away
noticed the flames and called the
store's central operator.
Less than another second all con
nections on the exchange were rip
ped down and the girl at the switch
board busily "plugged" up sixteen
lines leading to as many phones on
tho six floors of the big building.
These lines reached as many members
of Bowman's volunteer fire squad.
As each man responded to the in
sistent telephone, the girl at the
switchboard in a cool voice informed,
"Fire, rear first floor."
A few seconds later, or just one
minute and a half after the lire was
lighted, ten big fire extingutsners were
rushed out into the rear alley by as
many member sof the fire squad. In
eight minutes sixteen members of the
squad made a circle around the spot
where a few second before a tire had
raged. The flames had been ex
tinguished by a stream from the ex
tinguisher carried by John Harder,
from the shipping department.
All this was the first test alarm
of Bowman's fire squad, organized to
protect the big store's patrons. It was
witnessed by Superintendent E. Z.
Gross and Chief Kindler of the City
Fire Department. Both officials were
much Impressed with the celerity in
which the firemen responded and the
systematic manner in which the blaze
was conquered.
CIGARS TO COST MORE
New York, Sept. 22.—An increase in
the price of cigars was announced here
to-day by several manufacturers and
members of the tobacco trade said
that advances would soon bo general.
Higher cost of raw material and bet
ter wages for cigar makers must be
shared by the consumers, Jobbers and
retailers it was explained.
Eastern Pa. Fire Insurance
Company Elects Officers
At a meeting of the Organization
Committee of the Eastern Pennsyl
vania Fire Insurance Company, held
in the Board of Trade building, it was
decided to increase stock subscrip
tions to $1,000,000. This is a strictly
Pennsylvania organization in which
its policyholders have a part in its
business affairs, and sharq, in the
profits. These officers were elected:
Chairman, Major John T. Ensming
er, Harrisburg; vice-chairman, W. C.
Hack, Shamokin; secretary, Wilmer
Crow, Harrisburg: assistant secretary,
C. H. Lichty, Reading; treasurer,
Samuel S. Fackler, Harrisburg, also
an advisory board of 20 members of
which P. G. Diener of Harrisburg,
was made chairman. The member
ship on this board is made up of
members.from a number of cities and
towns in the eastern part of the
State.
The Organization Committee as a
whole, is composed of 78 members,
representing practically every city
and town in Eastern Pennsylvania,
and includes men of large financial in
terests in each community.
We Had
1000 of These
Eyeglass Mountings
at SI.OO each
oo
12K Gold Filled
There are only a few left. They are
going fast and cannot be duplicated
for less than $2.00 each after these
are sold. If you need a good mount
ing now or think you will in the fu
ture, it will pay you to buy now. Tour
►lenses can be put in now or later free
of charge.
Tlvls price docs not Include lenses.
302 Market St., with H. C. Cluster