"The Whit i u Pinch" —hav l you t it? With the • < r: priceofwheat "t c:s * -c loaf is doomed, -oy . u bakers. In its. pi;.. v have the six-cent Wtf~ - i many cities on re - cent loaf. A lc . v, flour bread is no coniple t<. ration. Howe'. whole some and pure io<i£ i supply all the piuteitis uin human body needs. In Shredded Wheat Biscqit you have all the body-build ing nutriment in the whole wheat grain prepared in a -. digestible form. It is always the same price, always the same high quality. Eat it for breakfast with milk or cream or with fruits. Made at Niagara Falls, N. Y. airl Arrested Here After Trip to City on Freight Pretty Miss Merrill Dale, aged 20, who said she lived in Chicago, was ar rested here yesterday morning in River ] Front Park by Chief of Police Wetzel j and Detective Speese, charged with [ participating in a felonious attack on | a taxi driVer, at Reading. Harry Ru- i bin, charged with the assault, was ar- I Tested shortly afterward In Market! street. AccordJng to the story told the po- : lice, the pair w<-nt for a taxi ride in I Reading on Friday night. When they 1 neared Pottstown it is alleged that ! Rubin attacked the chauffeur who was Carl Sachs, formerly of this city. The j pair then jumped aboard a freight train i and rode on the bumpers until they ! reached Here they changed to another train and came to Harris- ' burg. Claude McAllicher, of Heading, was on the boarded by the couple, and when he learned their story he notified the Harrisburg police upon the arrival here. The arrests followed and the trio were sent back to Reading last night. Suicide Pact, Police Say, in Death of Aged Sisters I Philadelphia, Oct. 2. - A suicidal pact, it is believed by the police, had ; been formed by Emma oran, 65 yefcys j old, and her sister, Anim Oran, 6ft' years old. who were found last night !' in a gas-filled room m their home, 44.10 Frankford avenue. The former, was dead when the room was opened. The latter died on the way to the Episcopal Hospital. The yojinger sis -ler had for years been subject to melancholy spells, which had grown worse later. The elder had become tired and nervous caring for her sis ter. Drive on Lemberg Renewed on Wide Front by Russians London, Oct. 2. The Russians have assumed the offensive once more striking out with great force above and below Lemberg. The new drive | of the Czar's forces against the Gali cian stronghold has already won them | material success. Southeast of Lem berg the Muscovites nave gained a foothold in the Austro-German posi tions. which were penetrated, more Ihan 4.000 prisoners being taken. street, at 2:30 | George R. Kunkel. - ~: : • f ft3BMM^BßK^^j|ißßP3B[^—> M ft A oreat many former coffee I W drinkers now use INSTANT POSTUM I w because their improved healtK I # shows ,the change has helped them I W If you suspect coffee hurts I you,try INSTANT POSTUM I in its place for ten days. I # 9?re Test Tells- I "There's a Reason " | i ■■■ - . ... ... '• . .•■■:■ i < , XV _ ———— ■ (ONDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG Cfißfe TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 2, 1916. M ATER COMPANY ! DENIES CHARGES v. o Linglestown Men Arc j r incd For Breaking State Health Rules ertain charges made in a com- ! t nt before the Public Service com- i sion against the service of the , i ■ quehanna Township Water com-' pany were declared to be "neighbor hood gossip" in a formal answer filed j to-day. The answer asks that the charges be dismissed and also asserts \ that the company is not in the hands ] of receivers as charged. The company ! says that it had an arrangement to supply its territory adjacent to the I city of Harrisburg with water from the city system, but alleges that the high pressure reservoir is overtaxed. The interruptions are declared to j have been beyond the control of the company. Two brothers named Simon and j Thomas Smith living in the vicinity of Linglestown were fined $12.80 apiece by Alderman G. W. Hoverter ! I to-day for violating a diphtheria | quarantine. The prosecution was j j brought at the instance of the State | I Department of Health whose inspec- i tors had found that the Smiths had , i Ignored regulations isolating a house! I where the disease prevailed. | S. J. Huston, Washington party j jcandidate for the Houses in the 15th I Philadelphia district, filed his with- j drawal to-day at the Capitol. Local I j Option nomination papers were filed I i to-day for W. R. Longstreet, 25th Sen- i (atorial and F. P. Isherwood and P. N. ! j Osborne. McKcan legislative district, and Union party papers by F. P. Hoi-I lern and J. W. Sheridan, 2nd Cambria. ) j The Public Service Commission re- | sumed sessions here to-day with a big calendar of municipal contracts I | and applications. Hearings will be i i held until Thursday. The State Police department to-dav ; j held examinations for eight vacancies iin the force. There were four ap- ' ! plicants. Deputy Attorney General Hargest | is in Philadelphia attending the su perior court session as a number of State cases will come up. The Pennsylvania railroad to-day paid the State $251,000 as State tax on gross receipts for six months. The executive committee of the Pennsylvania State Society will meet after the luncheon here on Wednes- i | day and will plan for the winter's ! events. First Two Games of World's Series Will Probably Be Played on Braves' Field It appears almost certain that the .opening games of the world's series will be played at Braves' Field in Bos- j ton beginning October fi or 7. The ! suggestion has been made that the for- i malit.v of tossing a coin for the privi lege of staging the contests be dis- ! pensed with and the first two games |awarded to the Boston Americans. Greater Harrisburg Navy Organization October 23 Officers will be elected, constitution and by-lawii will be adopted and other matters pertaining to the permanent! 1 organization of the Greater Harrisburg 1 I Navy will be transacted at a meeting 'of the members to be held Monday evening, October 23, at the Dintaman \ ■ boat r>avilion. i Tho meeting had been called for to- 11 night, but because many of the mem- I hers expect to attend the dinner of the M i Chamber of Commerce the affair ha# 11 been postponed. 11 ESLER IS DROPPED l FOR POTSBURGER I I Chief of Document Distribu- j tion Replaced by Rrother liood Man Mr. James M. Esler, of Tarentum, | j chief of the division of distribution of | i public documents since the establish- i ' ment of the office and organizer of its I 1 system, will be replaced by Robert 11. | ! llendrickson, of Pittsburgh, oversseer | | of heating and ventilation of the Sen | ate chamber, on October 15. An j nouncement of the change was made I to-day by A. Nevin Pomeroy, superin j tendent of public printing and bind ing, of whose department the division | !is a branch. The appointment was j made with the consent and approval of the Governor. The news of the change created ; considerable stir at the Capitol, as Mr. Esler, who was a former member of : the House and former postmaster of the Senate, was a personal friend of John K. Tener, former Governor, and George E. Alter, former sneaker of ! ; the House. No reason for the change j | was given by anyone, but Mr. Esler j stated that he would be glad to give ! Mr. llendrickson tho benefit of Ills' I knowledge of the office. Hendrickson is a railroad brother- j I hood man and was backed by Senator j W. J. Burke, of Pittsburgh. He was j for the Governor at the time of the I recent primary election. | The position pays $2,400 a year and i the division distributes all of the State I I publications. The office was created ! | in 1913 and Dr. Esler was placed in j j charge, organizing the work. He has j been highly complimented for the ettl- I ciency with which the service has been j handled. In view of this fact his dis-. missal was a great surprise at the Capitol. Mystery Surrounds Death of Three Women Found Seated as Though in Conversation j ILancaster, 0., Oct. 2.—Local and 1 State authorities are making every ef fort to-day to solve the mystery stir-; rounding the death of Agenes and i Alice Smetters, aged 48 and 50, and | Miss May Stretton, 30, whose bodies I | were found by neighbors in the Smet- I iters home yesterday. The women were ! | seated in rocking chairs as though; j death had interrupted a conversation. Stomachs of all three women were , sent to the State chemist at Columbus' to-day for examination to ascertain I w'hether they had been poisoned. A| half of an apple pie also was sent o • the State chemist. It was believed at first that escaping gas had killed the I women but no leaky pipes or sign of | ! gas has been found. CYCLIST INJURED i One man was painfully injured, sev- I oral others narrowly escaped being I. hurt and several automobiles were ' badly damaged in a series of accidents j in the city and vicinity. Frederick i Neubaum, Enhaut, sustained a frac-j tured right leg when he was thrown I 1 from his motorcycle at Oberlin yes- i terday. He was taken to the Harris- ' burg Hospital. Two autos, one driven ■ < by Samuel Fishman, the other by G. L. ji Smith, 320S Fourth street, collided at i < Cowden and North streets. No one i 1 was injured. Two other autos were h battered up in collisions with Sixth j< street and Reservoir Park trolley cars, i nor OF 1 I SAVES B. & O. TRAIN ' . I'niontown, Pa., Oct. 2.—Joslah T. ]■. Magie, aged 14, of Leith, discovered i a broken rail while walking along the ■ tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio ] Railroad near his home yesterday, < and with his handkerchief flagged a i train which stopped a few feet from j i the break. WHARTON MEN AFTER STUDENTS I Offer Services to University Officials in Procuring Freshmen | Plans for a whirlwind canjnalgrn for j freshmen are being outlined to-day by | the Wharton Study Club and Secretary | Wendell P. llaine. In charge of the Harrisburg extension of the Univer sity of Pennsylvania Wharton school. The members o fthe club will be divided into six teams and the man on each team procuring the greatest num j ber of new students will receive a uni- I versity watch fob or a class pin as a prize. The students have volunteered i Iheir services in interesting new men In the university extension work. J. Norman Rintz, secretary of the! Wharton Study Club, this morning' said: "Every student in the extension i realizes what a remarkable help it is ! lin the business world and we want ether young men and women to come! I in. on a good thing even if we have to I Igo out and tell them about it first 1 hand." Copies of the 1916-1917 catalog of 1 | the Harrisburg extension have been j sent, together with letters explaining' | the value of the university training, by Dean William MoClellan to mem- I hers of the Harrisburg Rotary Club, I j Chamber of Commerce, salesmen, real i i estate and insurance men, high school i I graduates, bank clerks, bookkeepers, (clerks in the big industrial plants and | j business houses and to the present I j students. | The catalog gives information re- ' : gardlng the course of study, the school i . calendar, officers and faculty, history i and purpose of the school, plan of In- 1 structlon, admission requirements, registration dates, roster, student ac- 1 tivities, ola.'s standing and other mat- j ! ters of interest to prospective students. | CONSIDER GROSS' NEEDS At an informal conference this aft-j ernoon the City Commissioners con-1 sidered Superintendent E. Z. Gross' ordinance appropriating $2,736.72! from the fines and forfeitures fund to' be applied to the park maintenance! fund for carrying on the work for thei | remainder of the year. Mr. Gross'] statement as submitted to calls shows' 'a need of $4,233. FIRST GAME IS WON BY PHILLIES I f Con tin ued from First Page] day. Alexander pitched great ball and I recorded his sixteenth shutout of the season. Ragan pitched good ball for Boston but was touched up just enough !o enable Philadelphia to put two runners j across the plate. Final score: R.H.E | Boston 0 3 1 i Philadelphia 2 6 1: I'hllllen Score One The Phillies got one run in the sec ond when Wliitted doubled, to center and went to third on Cravath's sacri fice. Kagan to Kgan. Wliitted scored 1 on I.uderus' double to center. NiehofT reached first on Maranville's fumble of his grounder. Luderus taking third, j Kiilifer grounded to Waranville who l tossed out Nlehoff, and Kgan complet- I ed, a double-play by Getting Kiilifer at 1 first. In the fifth the Phillies got another) when Kiilifer doubled to center. Alex- j ander bunted for a sacrifice. Kagan ' threw the ball to third hut Kiilifer I was safe at third on a close decision. ! Paskert fliod to Smith. Kiilifer scored ! on Byrne's sacrifice. Ragan to Ko- I netchy, Alexander taking second. Egan I threw Stock out. DAUPHIN CIGAR 1 PLANT OPENED Formal Opening Attended by 1,000 People; "Daylight" Type of Building The formal opening of the new plant of the Dauphin Cigar company, Cameron and State streets, held on Saturday night from 7 to 9.30 o'clock, was attended by more than 1500 per sons. Music for dancing was furnished by the Updegrove orchestra. One of the features of the evening was the pre sentation of floral bnskcts from the 600 employes of the company, to V. A. j Hammel manufacturing manager, and Superintendent Harry Albright, j Refreshments were served during the I evening. The new factory was designed by C. Harry Kain, this city, and Is one of! 'the largest in Harrisburg. Much at-j | tention has been paid to the light- : ing system, and it is of the "daylight j factory" type which is being adopted ! I throughout the country by the larger! | plant managements. A special fire protection plant has | I been installed with a largo number of: i accessible exits on each floor. Modern cigarmaking equipment has been in- I stalled on each of the five floors. Courthouse Notes Open Sewer 11 1 da October I —Bids ! will be opened at noon, October 12, by j City Commissioner W. H. Lynch for the construction of new terra cotta | I sewers in the following street sec- Itlor.s: York, Eighteenth io eastern city I line; Bellevue Road, Twentieth to Twenty-first; Brockwood, Twenty-first I to Twenty-second; Agate. Geary to 187 | feet south: nine-foot-wide alley, Agate jto eighty-five feet west; tlfteen-foot | alley, from nine-foot alley to ninety | seven feet south; Manada, Nineteenth | to Twentieth. AorauntH Approved. Following art Ihe accounts which have been approv :fd by the Dauphin County Courts av i submitted by Protlionotary 11. F. Hol ler: Union Trust, guardian for George i N. llartman, Steelton; Michael E. 1 Stroup, committee of Henrietta a. Oeety, city; E. M. Hershey, assignee for I j Phares R. Mailman, Iwer Swatara.l j Commonwealth Trust, assignee of John |B. and Mary B. Roberts; Harry Mc- I Combs, guardian of Charles W. Hap- | Pies. | SM.noo Jitney nullot*. Harrisburft i i will use at 'least 22,500 jitney ballots ' November 7, at least that many tickets ! will be contracted for. Of this number j 18,000 will be official and the other | 4,500 will be specimen. The bids will t I be opened by City Clerk Miller next ) I Monday, October 9, and tile supplies i : will be delivered by not later than ' ! noon, Wednesday, November 1. ! , HELD ON STABBING CHARGE ! 1 Two foreigners who gave their L names as John Bela and John Burzo. | charged with having fatally stabbed a | | man in Detroit, were arrested yester | (lay morning in North Seventh street by Sergeant Essig, and Officers Owens, j Hyland and Dickey. Come early and avoid Ihe rush. See "The Spoilers" at the Victoria Tues- I day and Wednesday.—adv. FREIGHT CLERK RETIRES Wade Hampton Wigten, a veteran ;, 1 rate c lerk employed at the Pennsylva- j ilia Railroad station. South Third j I street, to-day joined the honor roll, i j He has been in the service of the cora : pany forty-four years, during which j i time he has worked at Third and Mul- ' I berry streets. On behalf of his fellow j I employes, J. 15. Kautz, chief clerk, pre- ) sented Mr. Wigten with a handsome i | traveling bag. | i The new edition de luxe now con ! taining Rex Beach's famous story. | Complete from start to finish. Vic- Former Blast Furnace ] Superintendent Dead Charles Forney, aged 60 years, a former superintendent of the furnaces or the old Paxton Iron and Steel Com pany In South Harrisburg, died yes terday at his home at Craighead, Cumberland county. Mr. Forney had i been in poor health since the death 1 of his wife two months ago. The survivors are four children, John G., of Ocala, Florida; Charles, Jr., of Carlisle; Mrs. Clyde M. Herr, Lancaster, and Mrs. N. O. Moore, of Carlisle. Funeral services will be held to-morrow afternoon at & o'clock at the home, an dwill be in charge of the Rev. Mr. McMillln, pastor of the * Carlisle Episcopal Church. The body < will be brought to Harrlsburg Wed nesday morning at 9 o'clock for burial in the Harrlsburg cemetery. ' Charles Forney, after graduating i from the public schools in this city i attended Lafayette college where he graduated in 1879. Soon after he ac- ' cepted a position at the Lebanon blast I furnaces. Two years later he went to 1 Virginia, and subsequently to Everett, i Bedford county, where he had charge of large furnaces. For two years Mr. Forney was superintendent of Sheri- ' dan furnaces. He came to Harris- ' burg in 1894. Ho was superintendent ' at the local furnaces lor nine years and later returned to Lebanon. Thir- ' teen years ago he retired and took up 1 farming near Carlisle. < GEORGE M. COFFMAN Funeral services for George M 1 Coffman, aged 72. who died yesterday , at his home, 1325 North Sixth street, will be held to-morrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, the Rev. Floyd Appleton, : pastor of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church, officiating. Mr. Coffman was ' a retired railroad emplove, having left the service in 1909. lie is survived by one daughter, Ethel Coffman; a ' sister, Mrs. A. J. Renard, this city ! I °, ne brother, David Coffman. of n lii l 8 Chester county. Burial I w ill be made in the Harrlsburg ceme- MRS. SARAH E. FROST INlrs. Sarah E. Frost, aged 31, wife i ' or Gcorjje L. Frost, died suddenly M yesterday afternoon at her home, BU7 f Kace street, after suffering a relapse's when she was recovering from typhoid ' fever. She is survived by her hus-'s band, her mother, Mrs. Clara Hoke;!' live sisters, Miss Mamie Hoke, Mrs. M ™" k Jl( 'Car, Mrs. Ross Craver, Mrs. • William Moore, Miss Dorothy Hoke,!' Hobm c. Hoke, and George Hoke, alll or this city. Funeral services will be!' held on Thursday afternoon at 2 o clock. Burial will be made in the' Harrisburg cemetery. MRS. LOUISA A. BOWMAN Airs. Louisa A. Bowman, aged 63,. died on Saturday afternoon at then home of her daughter. Mrs. Harry B. ' Mueller, 1610 Berryhill street. Fu- ' neral services will be held to-morrow 1 afternoon at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Rein- i 1 hold Schmidt officiating. Burial will j i be made in the East Harrisburg ceme-i tery. MRS. SUSAN THOMAS Funeral services for Mrs. Susan! Thomas, aged 68, who died at the home of her son. George W. Thomas,! 338 South Sixteenth street Saturday,' will be held this evening at 8 o'clock,! with the Rev. J. A. Lyter, pastor of the Derry Street United Brethren Church, officiating. She is survived by two sons, Nelson and George W. Thomas, and one grandson, George W. I Thomas, Jr. Hoover and Son, under takers, will take the body to New-! ville to-morrow morning, where! further services will be held. Burial will be made in the Mt. Hope ceme- > tery. FUNERAL OF HENRY C. ORTH Funeral services for llenry C. Orth, who died suddenly Saturday morning, were held this afternoon. The Rev. Dr. George E. Hawes, pastor of Market Square Presbyterian churcn conducted j the services, which were private, at ' WOMEN! HERE IS A MONEY SAVER Use gasoline to dry clean fam ilys clothes and save $5 Dry cleaning at home is just as simple as laundering. Any woman can clean live dollars' worth in fifteen minutes at little cost by getting from the drug store two ounces of solvite and put this in two gallons of gasoline, where it quickly dissolves. Then im merse articles to be cleaned; rub a little and in a few moments the gaso line evaporates and the articles look bright and fresh as new. You can dry clean silk waists, dresses, coats, ribbons, kid gloves, satin shoes, evening slippers, shawls, belts, yokes, furs, boas, muffs, neck ties. lawns, dimity and chiffon dresses, draperies, fine laces, lace curtains, woolen garments, in fact, any and everything that would be ruined by, soap and water as dry cleaning doesn't fade, shrink or wrinkle, making press ing unnecessary. Your grocer or any garage will sup ply the gasoline and you can obtain two ounces of solvite at the drug store, which is simply a gasoline soap. Then a wash boiler or large dlshpan completes your dry cleaning outfit. - - o'clock. The services at the Harris burg cemetery were in charge of members of Perseverance Lodge No. 21, Masons. The pallbearer/ were also selected from this organization. FALL KILLS -rAN William H. "Wolfe, aged 62, died late Saturday night from injuries he sustained when he fell down the steps at his home, 235 South Fifteenth street, on Friday evening. Mr. Wolfe was seized with an attack of paralv sis, and fractured his skull in the fall. Funeral services will be held to-mor row afternoon at. 2 o'clock, the Rev. .T. D. W. Deavor, pastor of the Ep worth Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be made in the Paxtang cemetery. KNOW FOLWELL? HE'S DEAD 11. A. Matchner, manager of the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company on Saturday received a telegram from Fort Pierce, Florida, telling of the death of Robert Folwell at that place. The message indicated that Folwell was believed to be an employe of the Loose-Wiles Company at Harrlsburg. but no such name appears on the roll of employes. The name Folwell does not appear in the city directory. DRINKS POISON Mrs. Elizabeth Preston, 605 Show ers street, attempted suicide yes terday by drinking the contents of a bottle of bluine, according to the police, because she was unable to stand the strain of supporting five children, all under 16 years of age. When the police ambulance arrived, she refused to go t9 the hospital, and was treated at home. TYPHOID EXCUSES JUROR One juror, Joseph H. Romberger of Wayne township was excused this morning, and one trespass suit, that of A. Mayers against Howard Speece. was continued until the next term of common pleas court because of ty phoid fever. The. SpeeCc family 'is quarantined. In No. 1 court room, the assumpsit action of George B. Weast against William D. Markley was heard before President Judge 7
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