Thuac uew "bran
Foods' —a new one is |
born every week —a recog
nition of the need of food j
laxatives Instead of drug i
laxatives. The problem of
presenting bran to the hu
man stomach in combina
tion with a nutritious, easily
digested food was solved
twenty years ago by the in
vention of Shredded Wheat
It Biscuit, the food that supplies
all the body-building mater
ial in the whole wheat grain
in a digestible form, com
bined with bran which is
Nature's laxative. A body*
building, strength-giving
food. Serve with milk or
cream or baked apple or
other fruits. Made at
Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Pension Mutual Case
Before County Judges
Dauphin county judges sat this af
ternoon in the proceedings instituted
by the State Insurance Department for
appointment of a receiver for the Pen
sion Mutual Life Insurance Company,
of Pittsburgh. Deputy Attorney Gen
eral W. M. Hargest, who submitted
the petition, read the answer of the
company and declared that there was
"not a word denying insolvency."
Counsel for the company declared
that the State had taken a position
denounced as "outrageous by Stephen
Stone, in refusing to permit a merger.
It was contended that the merger
would protect policyholders. This was
denied by the State.
While the hearing was under way
equity proceedings were started
against the State Treasurer and In
surance Commissioner to secure return
to the Union Casualty Company. Phil
adelphia, of bonds deposited with the
Commonwealth to protect policyhold
ers. The securities are valued at
SIOO,OOO. The Union Casualty has
been summoned to show cause to
morrow why a receiver should not be
named.
JFurs Altered
We make fur pieces to order, al
ter your old ones, repair them
and have an assortment of new
ones to choose from.
GOODMAN'S
440 Market Street Bell 920-R
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Santa Claus
has sent thousands of his most beautiful
Christmas Trees!
from away up North, down here to Harrisburg.
THEY ARE HERE NOW, AT
Schell's Seed Store
FRESH CUT FROM SANTA'S OWN WOODS.
SHOP EARLY! Let us enter your order NOW—you tell us
the price and the size, and we will reserve a beautiful iree
and deliver it when you say.
Walter S. Schell
QUALITY SEEDS
1307-1309 MARKET STREET. Both Phones.
fei A Typewriter i§
YqR A fine rebuilt, visible Typewriter which look* as zlw
good as new and Is in guaranteed working order may tyva
rjt\ be had at a fraction of the cost of a new machine /%
gM and would be
| Ideal For Xmas I
lg\ This would be appreciated by any boy or girl at- Ji
Ctp' tending commercial school, or by the pastor of a T&'J
\\\£ church, and any other person who Is ambitious to be- V!\
'aA come a business correspondent or follow a literary ije
Let Me Prove Their Efficiency W
I George P. Tillotson 1
211 Locust Street
If® !>• C. Smith M Uroa. Typewriters W|
V v. All Makes Kxiiiaiiged, Rented, Bought and Sold
MONDAY EVENING,
UNIVERSAL DRILL I
WOULD MAKE U.S.
jIMMUNE FROM WAR
jMaj. Gen. Scott at Hearing
| Warns of Attack if Volunteer
System Is Not Discarded
Washington, Dec. 18. Advocates
and opponents of a system of univer
sal training for military service to
replace the volunteer system as the
| main stay of the nation's defense had
a hearing to-day before the Senate
| Military committee on Senator Cham
berlain's bill for universal training
which is supported by the army gen
eral staff.
While representatives of organiza
tions opposed to universal training
headed by Walter L. Fisher, former
secretary of the interior gave their
reasons for opposing it. Major eOneral
Scott, chief of staff of the army, de
tailed to the committee why the gen
eral staff considered the volunteer
system wholly broken down. Inefficient
and useless, and urged that it be dis
carded for a universal system of lia
bility to training and service.
Want 3,000,000 Trained Men
General Scott, disclosing much of
j the army war college material, hither
to regarded as confidential, shows that
the army general staff now believes
that instead of 500,000 available men,
which it considered sufficient as a
start to defend the country against in
vasion, the country should have 1,500,-
000 fully trained men at the beginning
of a war with a like number ready to
follow in 90 days. The change is
based on the development of the
British army, organization of great
Canadian forces and the British al
liance with Japan.
With such a force available the
army general staff, General Scott said,
considered the United States practical
ly immune from such an attack as
military strategists believe might be
expected from the victorious set of
powers in the European war.
NEW ITEMS TOTAL
CLOSE TO $70,000
Upon what basis the city commis
| sioners at the budget conference this
evening, will pare the tentative depart
mental estimates for 1917 in order to
keep down the tax rate, was a matter
of considerable conjecture in city cir
cles to-day, for despite the reticence
of the councilmen to discuss the ten
tative totals, it was said that the skele- |
ton ordinance called for an expendi- 1
ture of close to 3700,000. New items'
it is understood will run close to
$70,000.
All that the commissioners would
say is that the tentative estimates will
naturally have to be pared and pared
considerably. Some idea of the city's
revenues for the coming year will be
at hand this evening.
The commissioners would not dis
cuss their requests, other than the
J5.000 for a bathing beach and bath
house and $3,000 for a new road along
Wilwood lake asked by Park Com
missioner E. Z. Gross.
That City Commissioner W. H.
Lynch will ask for considerably more
for street repairing and for resurfac
ing, is generally understood although
the commissioner will not say how
much he wants.
In Commissioner 11. F. Bowman's
bureau of health estimates however
is an item of $25,000 for a municipal
hospital, it is said. The other big
single item, it is understood, is Mayor
E. S. Meals' request for thirty addi
tional policemen. This will mean
more than $30,000 in itself.
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HARIUSBURG TELEGRAPH
1 —Give Her Oneo/ These F T.As 1
f THE "CLOVERDALE" THE "WELLINGTON" THE "HAWTHORN" * 1
j? A rare value in Dinnerivarc is offered in this This is one of the best 100-piece sets that wc have Here's a set that comes in an old English pattern ! ] |
f very handsomely tZfll "tZ's of blue and white. Come and see it and you will J| j
ft c ecora ed, and it s praed extra low for d vcr y durable. Priced 1 Q PjA surely say that it's the most beautiful of 1 A M"
* Christmas, at .... v special at J> 1 OoDU our entire line. 100 pieces, for Vl" M
I BiC Xfls BURNS & COMPANY'S Desk^ d . $ Q= I
i r nrvvc § Christmas Gift to <
BOYS The "Kiddies" ;
J TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY ONLY $
An auto and garage will be presented to every child that l> ° 11 per ll s hoW o l f _ EI <*—
YV, / /Vy % comes to our store accompanied by their parents on the and roomy drawer USJrtL I ~ 6
ft" a // a SiMmu I above named days. The auto winds up and will run. Garatre ! j mah °K- •]#,
I 1 J J is 22 inches long. COME EARLY. PPj |j |
& There gift for your boy than one Give th fFolding Desk and Chair* I, X
Ir of these well-made machines. Comes with solid .Ttl. J. i° n ?, these fine in natural varnish finish; 24 season. ve.
W rubber tires that can't puncture—has maroon Woolly Doggies." They will Inches high and 22 inches long; I jJL
E? color steel frame; leather saddle seat and ball amuse themselves for hours; lid has blackboard on under ,n
ft ■, . . m.us. iV t- mow nve tine models for very lifelike; with beady black side; chair is strongly made and • Iff • 1 • 'ij-
Th "" "'""irto $i4.50 39c $2.29 Give a Music Cabinet J
i__ -* v 1 Special AC
Ctlt PIHfM OTI Japanese Bird Shooting Game N p r i ce |S?/1 If,mm :S
- llvvo Ull Here is a game that EVERY CHILD—boy or girl—will be *'* aJ #/I !fi\W tt
TVTnH ' Oll+ft+C " WILD OVER." Comes complete with stuffed bird. Target An excellent, well || fl- J ■
iXiyUvJLLv vUtlitO stand, toy gun, and wood cartridge. Absolutely harmless finished case with five II if// |/// H
No. 2—A Compile Building Outfit; dj 1 ! oq Every time you make a bull's-eye 1 , you score a "kill" A shelves. It is large 11 11/lh 11/ 111 sw
regular $2.00 value, at iPi.OC* and bird jumps in the air—onlv * ' T"I7C a 1 W ft 1/ I M :
No. 3—Half as large again as the tO/IQ in size and extra low in J |/j// |
No. 2; regular price S3; sp 'i lY TmmT n ~ w v price. Finished in a T iff 111 1 :|J.
Other Numbers up t0.... . $7.50 BURNS COIVIPAINY bcautifu1 ' rich dec P I J |
f DOLLS—With "woolly coats" that give more I oq of* OO C C 10. . /-v. 1 | _ .1 m'
music at every 39 c I -JU-jZ 5. oecond Street —Utners at— - —-£j a
" hakc J Greatest Gift Shop 13 and u p j|
REV. SANDS DIES;
PASTOR 50 YEARS
Funeral of Venerable Minister
of United Evangelical
Church
"i n
liJfl . ML*
Funeral services for the Rev. J.
G. Sands, veteran minister of the
United Evangelical church, who died
Saturday at his home, 450 South
Fourteenth street, from a stroke of
i apoplexy will be held Wednesday at
i 10.30 o'clock.
Mr. Sands, who was 82 years old,
I spent more than half a century in the
j ministry. He was licensed to preach
'on March 3, 1862, under the confer
| fence presidency of Bishop W. W. Or
, wig. After spending five years on the
local circuit he was received into the
conference and placed on the Chester
circuit, afterward serving at the fol
lowing places: Reading, Lebanon,
Trappe circuit, Schuylkill Haven, Con
estoga circuit, Easton, Wilkes-Barre,
Lansford, Sunbury, Tower City, Steel
ton, Port Carbon and Pottstown. He
retired from active service in 1907.
The Rev. Mr. Sands was a member
of the Park Street United Evangelical
church and was loved and honored by
all who knew him. Hia wife, who
survives him, .suffered a stroke about
six years ago but she recovered par
tially. The couple celebrated their
golden wadding anniversary seven
years ago. He is also survived by
Ave daughters, Mrs. W. S. Harris. 1851
Whitehall street, Mrs. LeForest Heath,
of New Hampshire, Miss Elizabeth
Sands, of Pittsburgh, and Miss Anna
Sands and Miss Mabel Sands, both
teachers in the public schools of Steel
ton.
Funeral services will be held In the
Park Street United Evangelical church
Wednesday morning at 10.30 o'clock.
Burial will be made at Reading.
40,090,000 Acres of
Winter Wheat Sown;
Condition Near Normal
Washington, Dec, 18, —. Winter
wheat was sown this Fall on an esti
mated area of 40,090,000 acres, an in
crease of 887,000 acres over the re
vised estimate of the area sown in the
Kail of 1915, the Department of Agri
culture to-day announced.
Condition on December 1, was 86.7
per cent, of a normal compared with
87.7 last year) 88.3 in 1914, and 90.2
the ten-year average.
Rye sown this Fall is estimated at
4.214,000 acres, an increase of 740,-
000 acres over the revised estimate of
the area sown in the Fall of 1915,
Condition of rye on December 1 was
88.8 per cent of a normal, compared
with 91.5 last year, 93.6 in 1914 and
92.9 the ten-year average,
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W. H. HENDERSON AT OFFICE
William H. Henderson, of 111 South
Front street, ticket agent for the
Pennsylvania railroad, who has been
nursing a broken leg since September
14, was at his otfice to-day. The acci
dent happened at Colorado Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. Henderson were mem
bers of an excursion party made up of
railroad ticket agents and their fam
ilies. In stepping from an automobile
Mr. Henderson fell, fracturing the left
leg at the thigh. lie was confined to
his rooms at Hotel Albany until three
weeks ago when he came east. With
Get Your Application for Membership in the Order of Owls
Before December 2 I st, 1916
Charter Fee
After Then - $25.00
Secure a Free Emblem to Each New Member.
Owls Pay $6.00 Per Week Sick or Accident.
Owls Pay $ 100 Death Benefits.
Owls Pension Their Needy Widows by the Month
Owls Take Care of Their Orphans.
Owls Send Flowers to Their Sick.
Be Sure and Join This Week
Remember in four months' time the Owls have obtained a membership
in Harrisburg of over 1200 of its leading citizens.
The Owls are donating food, clothes and money to the poor here on
Xmas day. .
Be sure and be at the meeting Wednesday night, Cameron Hall, Second & Walnut.
JOIN NOW/
Phone either
H.. C. MORGAN, Bolton Hotel.
J. F. JOHNSTON, Bolton Hotel,
or See AN OWL
the aid of a steel brace, and using
crutches Mr. Henderson is able to
move about slowly.
POI'E WON'T MEDIATE
Rome, Dec. 17, via Paris, Dec. 18.
Pope Benedict has no intention of at
tempting to mediate among the bel
ligerents at present, according to a
statement issued to-day by the Vati
can. The statement says that neither
the Pope nor the Holy See have made
or wish to make any comment re
garding German's peace proposals and
that therefore any announcements at
DECEMBER 18, 1916.
tributed to tbm are absolutely un
founded. It i* added that the Pope
naturally has an ardent desire for
peace, but that he does not believe
that any intervention at the present
moment would hasten its conclusion.
STOrC.H IN CINCINNATI
The Ilev. Dr. Henry W. Stough,
who conducted a seven-weeks' evan
gelistic campaign in this city two
years ago, will open a six-weeks' cam
paign in Cincinnati, Sunday, Decem
ber 31.
The Rev. Solomon Landis
Dies on 37th Birthday
Union Deposit, Pa., Dec. 18. The
Rev. Solomon Landis died on Thurs
day evening- at his home in Main
street, after an illness of a year. He
died on his 87th birthday and was one
of the oldest ministers of the United
Brethren church. He is survived by
five children, Agnes and Addison, at
home; Irving, of town; Jacob, near
Uinglestown, and Edward, near Hoer
nerstown. *>
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