The Biggest and Best Clean Sweep Sale in Our History Starts Wednesday Morning. Doors Open at 8.30 O'clock *°®|! I A BIGGER STORE—A BIGGER BUSINESS If In order to meet the requirements of a bigger business merchants and re-arrange our entire stock of Dependable Winter Merchandise for a ||||M j | must carry larger stocks in all departments, in consequence sales of course Big Clean Sweep Sale. S|| 1 are considerably heavier, but the accumulation of broken lines is propor- u .. FUJ™?* P^ ceß u are j? on } p^ e^y with a few exceptions, every *wjtf | H i* __ i-i, i tl 1 .• i . ii.. bit ot Winter Merchandise in the store is reduced to a new low Drice and tionately larger. These accumulations must be swept out —in addition— fk;. i . pntcauu w B c ill- f \ir- m. Hit l 1 1 the assortment this season excels anything we ever offered in a Clean jftf |at this time of the year■ all lines of Winter Merchandise must be clear- Sweep Sale Watch this paper to-morrow for complete details of the most ed away; so we do not hesitate, we close our store for one day and re-mark remarkable money-saving offerings we have ever made. I ™i j —i ——— ______________________^b||| X i Women ' s and Misses ' Coats !i T L\! j.' I Men's Suits and Overcoats | % E 1 Women ' s and Misscs ' Suits II important lIOtICC !II Men's Pants and Reefer Coats Jg I | Women's and Misses' Dresses jj Boys' Suits and Overcoats Y 8 m 1 Women's and Misses' Skirts T 0 . Tn . PpmiirV an * II Men's Furnishings Jl S Women's and Misses' Furs I % or f r and | w# W. 1 Girls' Winter Coats Properly Arrange All Stocks | Women's Hosiery 1* 1 Girls' Winter Dresses ! C*™* Will pi i All HoJI Women's Knit Underwear & I Women's House Dresses Store Be Closed All Day Women's and Children's Shoes X I Women's Underskirts i| t T j ! Dry Goods and Kitchenware Ms Women's Kimonos | To-morrow, Tuesday j Ru y gs and Linolcunis g | Women's Muslin Underwear Dr\ii: vn>i7ri • II Bed Blankets and Comforts ]g Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats liliAl 113 I l>liK Sheets and Pillow Cases S I AH Included in This jSale Starts Wednesday j AH Included in This |E I Clean Sweep Sale at | Morning at 8.30 O'clock Clean Sweep Sale at A i Big Reductions j *hi. Paper iorr<°'.' Jjf — ™ " ~~~~■■ V____—->l—__________________________ __^ B| Sale Starts Wednesday See Broom Coupon | a | I Id SBaln SM iw In T ThisPa P er H COMPENSATON FIRST YEAR BIG Dr. Jackson Makes Public Fig ures Showing What System lias Meant to the State Commissioner Jolm Price Jackson, j ol' the Department of Labor and In- 1 dustry, made public last night the first year's records of tlie Bureau of Work men's Compensation showing that p4,- r>oo agreements have been approved during 1916 for compensation pay ments aggregating $4,224,875.43. That sum represents $147,281.54 that has been paid during the year to widows, children and other dependents of workers killed in Pennsylvania's in dustries during 1916. It also includes $2,817,974.18 remaining to be paid to Bringing Dp Father (ll) Copvrisrht, 1916, International News Service # # WILL f , lxrs 1 ■ v " 1 7 71 / \ cA, Vou PLEASE T?i?f ' ANV mL J?"J* 3 YO ° VOURt LUCKY THAT OHI IT I BUT THl'b lb ~ton f & my ?°T r V A^' PE: COWTRT ■ J COONTR>r- j MONDAY EVENING, J those dependents, during varying terms of years, to carry the death claims to maturity. The annual compensation total also includes $1,259,619.71 paid to work ers injured during the year and dis abled for more than 14 days. The grand total does not, however, include the amounts that will be required to carry pending disability claims to ma turity as the extent of disability can be estimated only in rare cases. The ; total also does not include medical ex- I penses. | There were 1,241 agreements ap l proved for compensation for fatal I cases during the year and 53.259 agreements for disability cases. The, average cost in compensation for each fatal case was $2,388.60 and the aver age cost for each disability case, up to today, was $23.11. The bureau records show that 1,730 claim petitions for compensation were filed and referred to referees. Of this number 479 resulted in awards to the claimants; 220 were disallowed! 665 did not come to a hearing, or were dis missed by reason of agreements being : j perfected; 44 were withdrawn and 322 i | cases remain open for adjudication by ! the referees. When Is a "Jit" a "Taxi" Atlantic City Puzzles •; Atantic City, N. J., Jan. I.—Alexan -1 der Stein, jitney driver, is working a i j ruse which is earning him a larger in ! j come than all his competitors and inci dentally has tied the city laws into knots which will take a special session j jof the court to unravel, i lie took out a "flivver" tag and also "taxi" license. The "Jit' must run ! from end to end of a declared route without turning andi cannot leave the , street for which it is licensed to run. Hteln discovered, however, that a I "taxi" could pick up a passenger with . out going to a street crossing. He , cruised about the resort as a "taxi" . but when a load of "fares' was diseov i ered at n crossing, he took in his "taxi" . license after turning and put out the ; "jit" tag. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH NEW RULINGS IN COMPENSATION Employes Must Accept Reason able Service on the Part of the Employer "Employes must accept in good faith the reasonable medical services fur nished by the employer and obey all reasonable instructions of physicians and hospitals or they themselves suf fer the serious results which their con duct alone has brought upon them," says Compensation Commissioner John A. Scott in an opinion in the case of Filippi vs. the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Tho claimant suffered in jury to a hand but the opinion says he was "headstrong- and willful and re fused to obey the proper Instructions of the physicians who were giving him every attention required by the act." In another decision written by Com missioner James W. Leech the board makes a ruling when compensation should begin. Patrick Kelley, Clifton Heights, an employe of the Southern Pennsylvania Tatrcoinetaoioetalutaun Pennsylvania Traction Company, lost a leg following a pole falling on him. The opinion holds that he is entitled to 50 per cent, of his wages from the date of the accident, April 20 to July 25, when his leg was amputated, and from that time on 50 per cent, of his wages for the full period of 215 weeks. As the result of an X-ray examin ation made In Brooklyn, N. Y., Peter O'Shoughnessy, injured while in em ploy of a contracting company in this State, is awarded compensation. The physician who examined the man af ter the accident reported no fracture. The X-ray showed one. JANUARY 1, 1917. CAMP ELECTS OFFICERS Eiizabethvllle, Pa., Jan. I.—Officers of Washington Camp, No. 110, P. O. S. of A., were elected as follows: Past president, Edgar B. Van Newltirk; president, C. Bufllington; vice president, Lester Kby; master of forms, Earl K. Romberger; recording secretary, Kalph Lehman; financial secretary, W. E. Buffington; treasurer, Warren F. Swab; conductor, Charles H. Snyder; guard, F. Reld Collier; inspector, Mark I. Uhler; trustee, John H. Lyter. ATTENDED lIKOTHER'S WEDDING Dauphin, Pa., Jan. 1. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fulton Stirling have returned from Baltimore where they attended the wedding of Mrs. Stirling's brother. Judge Henry Duffy, of the Supreme Court bench of Balti more, to Miss Eleanor Bernard George, daughter of Samuel Knox George and the late Mrs. George on Thursday, December 28. ECKERT BUYS STALMOX Reading, Jan. 1. William B. Eck crt, of this city, owner of a string of light harness racers, including Peter Stevens, 2.01%, by Peter the Great, announced to-day that he had pur chased 'the bay stallion Pat Worthy by Axworthy, with a trial record as a 3-year-old of 2.13% . Pot Worthy is a 4-year-old out of Alice AV. 8,, by Sim mons, tho sire of Hamburg Belle, 2.01, and is by the same sire as Guy Axworthy, wlio sold on Thanksgiving day at Madison Square Garden lor $20,000, and also Lee Axworthy, 1.58%, the fastest trotting stallion in the world. SPEAKER IS RAILROAD MAX Chicago, Jan. 1. Tris Speaker and Bobby Roth, Cleveland's great star and nearly great star, respective ly, are working on , owner James Dunn's railroad in order to keep in condition for next season. For devoting eight hours of their energies to railroading, they draw tha sum of $3 per day. 5
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