Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, December 05, 1916, Page 7, Image 7

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    Your Gift to
the Family
A Victrola
No gift you can give to the
family could possibly bring
as much genuine delight and
entertainment as a Victrola.
There's a Victrola here for
you for we have every stj'le,
price and wood finish.
Easy Terms
Style IV Victrola $15.00
6 Records (12 selections). 4.50
$10.50
$5.00 down; $2.00 a month.
Style VI Victrola $25.00
6 Records (12 selections). 4.50
$29.50
$5.00 down; $3.00 a month.
Style VIII Victrola $40.00
6 Records (12 selections). 4.50
$44.50
$5.00 down; $4.00 a month.
Style IX Victrola $50.00
6 Records (12 selections). 4.50
$54.50
$5.00 down; $4.00 a month.
KPTHERJ
312 MARKET STREET
TURN NEW LIGHT
ON THIRD STREET
YULETIME NIGHTS
Switching on of Service Ori
ginally Planned For This
Week; Holiday Time
Work on the Installation of the new
ornamental lighting system on North
Third street from North to Calder is
being pushed ahead as speedily as pos
sible with a view to having the system
ready for flashing into service during
the evening shopping period before
Christmas.
Only a few more standards remain
to be placed and these will be put in
and connected with the conduits just
as soon as the question of relocating
pome other poles is determined. City
Commissioner W. H. Lynch is ready to
follow up the electric light company
excavating gangs with his corps of as
phalt men who will close the ditches.
The flashing on of the new light sys
tem had been planned as a part of
Harrisburg's participation in the na
tion-wide celebration of "America's
Electrical Week," but failure of some
of the materials to arrive on time pre
vented the finishing of the job.
News at a Glance
Boston. Resolutions asking Presi
dent Wilson to protest to England
against "wholesale deportation to
English munition works of Irish men
and women," were passed by the Bos
ton Council of the Friends of Irish
Freedom.
Washlugrton. New Jersey's auto
mobile license laws, which raise rev
enue for road maintenance by taxing
motor cars, were sustained as consti
tutional yesterday by the Supreme
Court.
Baltimore. Announcement of a
new steamship line for Baltimore to
run direct to South American ports
lias been made by A. W. Thompson,
vice-president of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. The new company will
expend $15,000,000 for steamers.
Buffalo, S". Y. Further testimony
as to John Edward Teiper's alleged
contradictory stories in regard to the
ownership of the revolver found near
the spot where his mother and brother
were murdered, was placed in the rec
ord of his trial to-day by Henry J.
Glrvin, chief of the detective bureau.
Pnrln. —The death in Rome of Sir
Francesco Paolo Tostl, composer and
song writer, is announced in a dispatch
to the Havas Agency. Among the pop- |
ular songs composed by him are ]
"Amoroi" "That Day," "Forever," ]
"'Good-by and "At Vespers."
Washington.—Another effort will be
made during the "dry roundup," which
begins here next Thursday, td commit
President Wilson to national prohibi
tion. It was learned that the anti
liquor workers are planning to go to
the White House some 300 strong Sat
urday. Support will be asked at this
time.
New York.—The appointment of a
committee of Ive, under the chair
manship of Gejrge W. Perkins, to in
vestigate the '.auses of the high cost of
living and to recommend such legisla
tion as may result in lower prices of
food through economical distribution
was announced by Governor Whitman.
Washington. Pennsylvania women
will flock to Washington Wednesday
and Thursday to attend the National
Convention Opposed to Woman Suff
rage, which will be held here. This is
the first national convention against
votes for women ever held in this coun
try.
Scranton.—W. W. Scranton, president
of the Gas and Water Company, and
the leading citizen of this city, died
at his home yesterday afternoon after
an illness of nearly two years. He
was born in Augusta, Ga„ seventy
two years ago, but came here at the
age of three years.
Washington.—lnterstate Commerce
Commission orders permitting rall
PRICES ALL NEXT WEEK AT THE VICTORIA THEATER, THE STUPENDOUS PLAY RESERVED seats
"PTVTT T7ATinM" - - -
•IS& ,NCE ' S lata' SS 2-2
Few Boxes at sl-50 ONLY TWO SHOWS DAILY 2.15 F. M., 8.15 P. M.—SPECIAL ORCHESTRA I Seal Drug Store. I
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TUESDAY EVENING,
Style X Victrola $75.00
6 Records (12 selections).. 1.50
879.50
$5.00 down; $5.00 a month.
Style XI Victrola .SIOO.OO
$6.00 worth of Records... 0.00
$106.00
$6.00 down; $6.00 a month.
Style XIV Victrola $150.00
SB.OO worth of Records... 8.00
$158.00
SB.OO down; SS.OO a month.
Style XVI Victrola $200.00
SIO.OO worth of Records.. 10.00
$210.00
SIO.OO down; SIO.OO a month.
roads to give lower transcontinental
freight rates to San Francisco, Oak
land, Seattle and other ocean ports
while denying them to the inland cities
of Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose
and Santa Clara, Cal., were sustained
by the Supreme Court.
I Amsterdam. The newspaper Les
I Nouvelles says the Germans are be
i ginning to reduce considerably their
requirements as to the number of un
employed to be deported from Bel
j glum. Some are being sent back.
Now York. Remedial measures in
i the form of State legislation will be
t considered at once by the committee
of five appointed by Governor Whit
man yesterday to investigate the
I causes of the high cost of living.
I/Oiidon, The passage of the home
i army bill caused a panic throughout
I Berlin last week when it was realized
that women would be forced into the
factories.
Pittsburgh.—Upward of $16,000,000
will be availablp to industrial workers
of the Pittsburgh district during the
Christmas shopping season, according
to announcement made here by the
Philadelphia Industry Trade Commis
sion. It has been estimated that 125,-
000 men are employed in and about the
industrial plants in this district. Many
men are making $lO or more a day in
the plants.
Slienßinloali.—Mrs. Charles Schlim
mer, 56 years old, wife of Charles
Sehlimmer, a prominent resident of
Jackson's, dropped dead in the arms
of her daughter, who was escorting
her to a trolley.
rittnhurKli.—Mormonism was assail
ed, militarism attacked and universal
peace urged at the second day's session
of the annual meeting of the National
Reform Association held jointly with
the Christmas Citizenship Convention
here.
I.anadnle.—Crazed with religious ex
citement, Miss Alverda Sturzebecker,
2S years old, a telephone operator of
I.ansdale, was taken to the State In
sane Asylum, at Norristown, yesterday.
Her father, William Sturzebecker, ot
I,ansdale, nurseryman. with tears
streaming down his cheeks told the
story of his daughter's mental break
down, due, he declared, to constant at
tendance at the Lansdale "Glory Barn,"
where Evangelist C. F. Weigle" is con
ducting a revival campaign.
I.anNdnle.—Although Evangelist Wei
gle. preaching at the Lonsdale "Glory
Barn," termed dancing church mem
bers "decoy ducks of the devil," the
Saturday night Dansdale Assembly
dance established a new record for
attendance.
Miimioklii. Wilson Bressler shot
his wife, injured his daughter Goldie
and tried to kill Michael Dormer, a
constable, yesterday. Mrs. Bressler is
in a serious condition from a wound
in the hip.
New York. Charged with con
spiracy to violate the customs laws by
means of fraudulent manifests in the
shipment of small arms and ammuni
tion, Louis Gotting and Wencesloa
Mont, partners in an exporting firm
known as the Adic Company, were held
in SIO,OOO bail by United States Com
missioner Houghton yesterday. The
defendants are charged with shipping
arms and ammunition, billed as plumb
ers' supplies and machinery.
Washington, D. C„ Dec. 5. Captain
J. A. Hughes and eight privates of the
Thirty-first Company and two privates
of the Thirty-second Companv of Unit
ed States marines, were wounded in the
fight November 29 and 30 at Macoris,
Dominican Republic, between American
forces and natives who resisted occu
pation by the Americans, according to
a dispatch to the Navy Department to
day from Captain Harry Knapp, com
manding the forces there. Eleven Do
minicans were reported killed and six
wounded.
Prohibition Leader to
Lecture Here Tomorrow
Oliver W. Stewart, of Chicago, will
speak this evening in the Fourth
Street Christian Church under the
auspices of the Flying Squadron
Foundation. Mr. Stewart was the only
prohibition member of the Forty
third General Assembly of the State
of Illinois.
The lecture is to be free.
Should Have Idea;*. Arthur E.
Brown, headmaster of the Harrisburg
Academy, addressed the men of the
Derry Street United Brethren Bible
class yesterday afternoon on "Ideals."
He pointed out that every man should
have some ideal toward which he is
; striving if he would meet with his
greatest success.
PENNSY TO BUILD
LINE TO LEBANON
FROM READING?
Stimulus Given Steel ludustries
Increase Need For
New Outlet
Lebanon, Pa.. Dec. 5. With the
purchase by Charles M. Schwab of
the Lebanon and Reading plants of
the American Iron and Steel Manu
facturing Company virtually assured
by the action of minority stockholders
in joining in the negotiations. Interest
was revived here in the proposed ex
tension of the Pennsylvania Railroad
line through the Lebanon Valley from
this city to Reading.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has
been doing a big business with the
American Company over the lines of
the Cornwall and Lebanon Company,
which is a subsidiary connecting with
the main line at Conewago, twenty
two miles below this city.
With the acquisition by the Bethle
hem Steel Company of the American
plants here and at Reading, in ad
dition to that of the Lebanon twin
furnaces and control of the Cornwall
ore mines, it is considered certain that
the Pennsylvania company is seeking
entrance to the big South Bethlehem
plants, and will also provide an east
ern outlet from this citv by building
the twenty-eight-mile line "from here
to Reading, connecting there with its
Schuylkill valley line. At present the
Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad line
extends well beyond the city's limits.
I This Is the Birthday
Anniversary of—
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CHRISTIAN NAUSS
This Is the birthday anniversary of
Christian Nauss, 419 North Second
street, a plumbing contractor. Mr.
Nauss is a prominent Mason. He was
born and brought up in Harrisburg.
and has a host of friends throughout
the city.
TWO MILLIONS FOR
XMAS SHOPPING HERE
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not include salaries in the business and
mercantile district. Much of it is
made up by the amounts to lie paid
within the next two weeks by the
Steelton plant of the Bethlehem' Steel
Company, the Harrisburg Pipe and
Pipe Bending works, the Central Iron
and Steel Company, Harrisburg
Foundry and Machine works, Elliott-
Fisher Company, W. O. Hickok Manu
facturing Company, Harrisburg Shoe
Manufacturing Company, Blough
Manufacturing Company, LaLance-
Grosjean Manufacturing Company,
Harrisburg Silk Mill.
Smaller amounts will be paid by the
employes' associations. Checks to
shareholders in the Telegraph Em
ployes' Asociation will be distributed
to-morrow. Post office employes will
receive their money from beneficiary
associations within the next week.
Checks from the association of work
men of the LaLance-Grosjean Com
pany, and the Pipe and Pipe Pending
Works will be given out shortly be
fore Christmas.
Detective Windsor's Son's
Auto Hits Crippled Boy
A car driven by William L. Wind
sor, son of Superintendent of Detect
ives Windsor, running on the wrong
side of Market street, last night, struck
Curtis W. Chronister, a one-armed
messenger boy. Instead of slopping
to ascertain whether or not the man
had been killed, the jar conctinued
out Market street unmolested by a
nearby policeman.
ACUTE AHD CHRONIC
RHEUMATISM
Pnln CrM Qnlrkly When You Apply
n l.lttlr MuKtnrlne—Worth Itn
Wflnht in Gold
You can put It on full strength, it
will not burn or blister. Mustarine
draws all the painful, stiffness, sore
ness and swelling from Rheumatic
joints and does it so surely and
speedily it seems almost like magic,
it never just drives the pain from one
spot to another, but draws it right out
of the body.
Thousands use it for Neuralgia. Lum
bago and Neuritis. Chest Colds, Coughs
and Sore Throats are banished over
night. Use it for Chilblains or Frosted
Feet. Get a small box to-day and see
how it relieves you.
Druggists everywhere can supplv you
but be sure you get the original Mus
tarine in the yellow box—2u and 50
cents. Never sold In jars.
Get it at Clark's Medicine Store. Mall
orders filled. Begy Medicine Co.,
Rochester, N. Y.—Advertisement.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
AvSJRICH'jI
Continuing Our Wonderful Sale
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Misses and Ladies Coats o ur sa i e which started i as t Friday
broke all former records for which we wish to thank our customers for their generous response
and appreciation. feel sure that we have made hundreds of new customers by offering
the wonderful values we did. still have many wonderful coats in all the wanted shades
and styles—fur trimmed plain full flare effects half belted effects shirred effects
high waist line effects, etc. Se be sure to come in to-morrow as we know we can please you
both as to style and price.
150—Coats—150 | About 65 Coats
in zibeline, wool plush,
some fur trimmed; some f trimmed with fine large
full lined, others half JjM I iV % ur co^ar of skunk, opos
lined* in nav black \[P ll\ nil! U| Y\ sum and natural raccoon;
f I II \xjj) [I, \ 'i luff lined with fine quality
brown, green and
— \ I JJ} I j satins and peau de cygne;
gundy; former prices $15.00, wide flare effects. These
$16.50 and $18.50; your Coats were priced up to I 111
choice, at $42.50; your choice, at * I
100 Coats, Former Values up to $28.50 Extra Special—New Spring Model Skirts
In all the wanted mate- 4 m* Made of fine quality velour check.
rials and colors. Your I 111 I These Skirts would be choice at L| V
choice $5 1 0.?r.0., 5 <F U nSl! dncsday ' at
SOLDIERS' VOTES
COST STATE $7,456
Bills Paid by the Common
wealth; Scott and Waiting
• Account
It cost the State of Pennsylvania
$7,456.60 for the expenses of sixteen
cominisioners to take the votes of the
national guardsmen at the election
held last month. One commissioner
has not yet filed his account. The
commissioners were allowed 10 cents a
mile for their trips to Harrisburg for
instructions and supplies and for the
trip to and from El Paso. The ex
penses do not include the cost of print
ing and other expenses.
Justice E. A. Walling, elected to
REGENT
HEAR THE ORGAN WITH THE
HUMAN VOICE
TO-DAY OXLY
HLANCHE SWEET AND
THEODORE HOIIEHTS
la
"THE STORM"
Added Attraction i
BURTON HOLMES TRAVBI. PIC
TIRES—(In Modern Athrnn),
TO-MOHItOW AND THURSDAY
I,F. NO HE ULRICH
In n ntlrrlnK drama,
"THE IXTHWIE"
COMING—DEC. 11-12-13
"PURITY"
Featuring; Audrey Munaon
Admlaalom Ailulta 10ct Children Sc.
ORPHEUM
THURS. J w,""-," DEC. 7
HERK, KELLY A DAMSEL
announce
PACEMAKERS
SPECIAL ATTRACTION
LA BERGERE
AND THE ALU-STAR ST.
the full term of a Supreme Court jus
tice, flle'l an accounting for $9,041.79
expended in his campaign. This sum
represents his personal expenditures
and does not include any of the con
tributions to campaign committees in
his interest. He gave the Erie county
campaign committee $3,209.05; the
Slepublican state committee $2,500,
and the Democratic state committee
SI,OOO. The Erie county Walling com
mittee accounted for the contribution
the Schuylkill
itttia.EVt.J:3oToiQ;;KHo.mJ
WANTED-A WIFE
A Mimical Comedy with IS People.
FOUR OTHER EXCELLENT
KEITH ATTRACTIONS
COMING THURSDAY
Hello Honolulu!
COLONIAL
LAST TIMES TO-DAY
□ mM □
WITH STEWART HOLMES
in a new six-part Fox feature
"HER DOUBLE LIFE"
The atory of a woman'* deception
allowing Mian Kara In the icrcateat
emotional role ahe ever portrayed.
WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS
In
"American Aristocracy"
A thrilling love romance filled with
Falrbnnka "pep" nnd
personality,
"THE DAY AFTER"
Two-reel Keyatone Comedy
DECEMBER 5, 1916.'
county Walling committee for $59.35.
Congressman John R. K. Scott cer
tified to expenditure of $2,105, with
$811.67 unpaid. He received no con
tributions and gave the Republican
state committee SI,OOO. Mr. Scott paid
*ooo to the Philadelphia Committee of
Seventy for investigation of qualifica
tions of voters and ?200 to a detective
agency for the same purpose.
Certifications of payment of noth'ing
IO RP H E UJVI
TO-MORROW, MATINEE AND NIGHT
All Seats Matinee, 25c
The Girl
He Couldn't
Buy
/
Night Prices 25c, 50c, 75c, SI.OO
SATURDAY, ZVEtfF DEC. 9
FIRST TIME HERE AT THESE PRICES
Matinee balcwi 'JSC and noc Seats Thursday
Night 25c, 50c, 75c, SI.OO
r PEA/IVAL H
or less than SSO were made by A. G.
Graham, Washington candidate for
Congress at large; Isaiah Scheeline, C.
H. Ruhe, A. H. Kingsbury and F. D.
McCue, Democratic electoral candi
dates; O. O. Bean, Republican elector,
accounted for S3OO.
All counties except Delaware and
Sullivan have filed their official re
turns.
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