6 HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH A NEWSPAPER FOR TUB HOME Founded list Published evenings except Sunday by the trus(;raph printino co„ Telegraph Bulldlna, federal Square* E.J. STACK POLE, Prtt'i one Editor-in-Chief 3-' 1 . R. OYSTER, Business Manager* QUS M. STEINMETZ, Managing Editor. A Member American llshers' Assocla ■jjßlMßpflfgla Bureau of Clrcu- BMBECgB| latlon Ponn tpg gglj j® sylvanla Assoclat- I9§ M Eastern office. MMMfMi rSt Story, Brooks £t MA IKR £F| Flnley, Fifth Ave- IflC SF " UB I> '® w _ c'ago, Ulf Entered at the Post Office In Harrlsi burg, Pa., as second class matter. By carriers, six cents & <HKsil3rtC> week; by mall, J3.00 a year in advance. SATURDAY EVENTING, JANUARY 6 I could tto greater sorroiv oit'ti Than live in Paradise alone. —Goethe. THOSE MUNITIONS BIDS THE offer of the English firm to furnish shells for the United States Navy at a figure far below tho lowest bid of any American manu facturer points a number of lessons which the country might well pause to consider. In the first place, it is evident that ' no more English shell contracts will be placed in the United States and that the golden stream which has been pouring for months Into the laps of American munition makers has been ! dammed at its source. The offer of an English firm to sell us shells at figures below those of domestic concerns also illustrates not only that England's munition plants have reached a place where they are able to care for all Britain's needs in this respect, and to make up the deficiencies of French and Russian factories, as well as to provide the Belgians with the ammu nition they require. This also shows how splendidly the English have re sponded to the call for mobilization of manufacturing resources for war pur poses and how little the English have been hampered In their shipping facili ties for all the German submarine warfare. But biggest and most important of all for this country Is the lesson that ' may be read Into the ability of Eng- i land to undersell the United States In open competition even during the un- 1 certainties and stress of war. The fact well Illustrates the point Raised by Re- ! publicans ever since the war started i that unless American industry and American workmen are given the pro tection of adequate tariff duties the end of the war will witness such a panic her© as the world has never seen. At the very best the reaction from the abnormalities of war to the nor malities of peace is bound to be dis tressing, but with our markets left open to the same kind of attack that had prostrated them at the beginning of the war and wtih long pent up ' European industry hungry for a for eign market and -willing to sell at prices we cannot touch, the only thing that can save us from the suffering of idle millions is the prompt erection of a <arlft wall high enough to keep the commercial invaders on their own side of the water. Cornwallis always was an unlucky name in English army circles. HIGH PRICE OF LOBSTER THE Philadelphia Evening Ledger mourns over the fact that lob- ster has advanced in price to 85 cents a pound. Just why a news paper writer should worry about the price of lobster we are at a loss to understand, unless newspaper writing is n much more lucrative occupation in Philadelphia than it is in Harris burg. Most of the time we can be found right up in the front seats among the sob squad when food prices begin to soar, our handkerchief soaked with tears and our souls steeped in bitter thoughts, but when it comes to lobster why, "we should worry," let 'er rip knock off trie lid and make the sky the limit. High-priced lobsters have no terrors for us. We can't afford 'em even when the market is at rock bottom. Here's where we have one laugh at the food barons anyhow. The allies having entered into a cru fade against the "made In Germany phrase seem to be carrying it even to the peace propaganda. KICKING CHAMPS DOG AIIOIXD CHAMP CLARK opened Congress with a thump of the gavel and a published Interview declar ing that this was to be a working winter for Representatives and that there would be no long holiday recess aa a practical demonstration of the Democratic devotion to public busi ness. Floor Leader Kitchin informed the newspapers that the Christmas re cess would take place about as usual. Speaker Clark then intimated that there might be a compromise on the subject. There waa. Congress recessed on Friday, L>t cerr.ber 22, to reconvene Tuesday, January 2—the recs SATURDAY "EVENING, &arrisburg telegraph JANUARY 6, i£l? ; tomary length; But we have a new demonstration of what constitutes a compromise in the Democratic mind which the Speaker possesses-. It is the hame hind of ft compro mise that President Wilson has all along been hiaklng With Germany In the submarine issue and Which he made with the tallroftd brotherhoods on the Adamson law. Tills kind of a compromise consists in letting the other fellow have his own way. It Is about the only exhlbl tlon which Champ Clark has ever given of having traits In common with "Woodrow "Wilson. At any rate, the stock market has been responsive to the President's peace overtures. THE SMELL OF "'BILED DINNERS" COLLEGE boys are mighty finicky these days. There's the Whar- ton school chaps of the Unl \ versity of Pennsylvania, at Phlladel ; phla, for instance, who have Just | made public complaint because the j smell of New England "biled dinners" | occasionally floats through their class rooms from a nearby food dispensary. Now if it had been that the students j couldn't work for thinking of how j delicious "biled dinners" taste, one might understand. But, no; they pro | test because they do not like the odors. Think of it, men! The smell i of a New England "biled dinner" dis tasteful and disagreeable when in i haled about the fag-end of a busy morning after an early breakfast! Why it's preposterous! Perhaps it may not be amiss to suggest that the Wharton school boys j of Philadelphia send the smells —ac- companied by the dinners, of course —to the Wharton school lads in Har rlsburg. Complaints? Not on your life; a vote of thanks, or we miss our guess. ■\Ye hope the forming of a "Billy" jSunday Corporation will not be follow ed by an effort to organize a soul-sav ing trust. DAIRY INSPECTION COMMENTING on an editorial ap pearing In these columns, a farmer, who does not give his name, writes: Y'ou ask us to "bow gracefully to the inevitable" and accept State dairy inspection, but will you. in the city, bow gracefully and ac cept an increase 'in the price of milk? The farmers as a rule do not object to dairy Inspection, as such, but they do object to that in spection being carried on by inex perienced agents of the State, after the manner of some work of a simi lar nature that has been done In an unreasonable and unwarranted manner by boys Just out of college who know no more about the prac tical side of farming than the farmer does about running a steel mill. State or Federal inspection of farms | is written on the books of prospective legislation. It is certain to come in 1 i one form or another. Conscientious,! ; painstaking farmers must be subject j to it because other less careful farmers j [ have been selling dirty, disease-con taminated milk to helpless consumers. The farmers are not able to correct this condition. The people have no resort but to governmental super vision. As to the form dairy Inspec tion shall take, that is largely up to the farmers. They can see to it that the law is framed so as to work upon them no undue hardship. They can, and should, see to it that the work of inspection be done by men of experi ence. Mine inspection, for example, which Is under State supervision, Is required to be done only by experi enced men who must undergo a severe examination as to their practical and working knowledge of coal mining. It should not be difficult to put some such clause Into whatsoever milk m spectlon bill shall be enacted. X i:\YSPAPKR PROSPER IT V THE Hartford Times, Hartford, Conn., introducing a little book- let entitled "One Hundred Years of the Hartford Times," has this to say concerning a phase of news paper making that is all too infre quently discussed: No newspaper management min imizes the importance of the com mercial aspect of its enterprise; but all intelligent newspaper publishers Know that a newspaper to survive and prosper, as The Times has sur vived and prospered for one hun dred years, must identify itself with movements and with men commanding the confidence of the community. There must be poli cies and purposes appealing to the highest class of citizenship to se cure in return from that class a moral support upon which must rest any enduring material pros perity. Newspapers in general are published for the profits they earn.butsofhrfrom stultifying them, this very desire for money-making is perforce an up-llft ing influence. Pick out in any com munity a prosperous, profitable news paper and nine times out of ten you will have chosen one the aims of which are for the public good and which has been consistently and per sistently for a period of years Identifi ed with a large majority of the for ward and progressive movements of its home city and the country at large. The newspaper that continues to be published at a loss very often would hesitate to take the public Into its confidence as to how Its deficits are made up and whence comes the money to meet its expenses. The newspaper that earns a profit to its owner must have readers, and readers, in these days of popular education and free thinking, do not long patronize a pub lication the policies of which are open to suspicion. Profits are Indeed a sub ject of vital interest to the newspaper publisher, especially In these days of excessive prices, but In every newspa per office worthy the name there is a code of ethics In no way related to the pocketbook and which is as sacred ns the decalogue. The Times itself is an illustration of the truth of these observations. The prosperous, well-founded newspaper in any community is tlje newspaper that haa served and Is serving that co<*u>-4inJty falcly and honestly. J RESOLVED : : : : : : , i : By BRIGGS BY rJoHW a. ALIBI- N| BY MALCOLM G. To 6ay noThikig / 1 caddy- mot to ft SAUJ roo 'PLfsv with THE. ( fLAV SO " 'BOSS 1 CLUB'S "BY B. LlAtt Tb w ..r, oor*i. |oki This HOL&y uv *"P e.)v>vG ijttfcutuv By the Ex-Committeeman Senator Edwin 11. Vare's defiant declaration of Thursday that Senator Penrose and his friends would not undertake any investigation of the Brumbaugh administration because they did not have the vote 3 in either branch of the Legislature waif an swered last night by Senator Penrose with a statement that he thought con ditions on Capitol Hill required a thor ough probe. As the senior senator did not talk about impeachment, and as Senator Vare's side is believed to be seeking some way to avoid being too much ignored In make-up of commit tees and in legislation, there were a good many people who to-day thought that the battle was being fought to at tract attention while some earnest workers were engaged in an effort to arrange a protocol. Senator Penrose will go to the sea shore to-day and so will many other men prominent in the politics of the State and next week there will be many conferences. It is understood that some neutrals in the State Re publican row have been at work and that the administration forces have more than a passing interest in what may happen in the next few days. —The Penrose statement of last night appears to have been a direct answer to the Yare defiance. It was hoped generally that when the speak ership contest was settled things would quiet down, and Governor Brumbaugh in a statement on Tuesday said that he was going ahead to attend to busi ness. Some chattering in Philadelphia about impeachment and other things seems to have Irritated Senator Vare, for he emitted a roar of defiance Thursday, and the Penrose answer may make the situation acute again. Senator Penrose said: "For all purposes looking toward the enactment of progressive legis lation and for investigations of mal administration and malfeasance In public office under the present ad ministration. a majority of more than two-thirds can be counted upon. This majority will also prevail in the pass age of appropriation bills over the Governor's veto. "This estimate, of course, includes a great bulk of the Democratic vote, because the question of such Investi gations will appeal to all good citizens regardless of party, and the same ob servation will apply to the passage of appropriation bills and progressive legislation. All the members, whether Democratic or Republican, breathed a sigh of relief in feeling that they had been emancipated from the Brum baugh-Brown control. "As to the course to be pursued, as far as I am concerned. I am entirely satisfied to have the Legislature eman cipated from the Brown-Brumbaugh control, and the subsequent proceed ings will have to take their natural and logical course. "Republicans will endeavor to purge their household of those unworthy to remain therein, and at the same time in working for the good of all the people, as they will be doing, they will welcome the support of the Democrats in the Legislature to that end. "In these matters all good citizens have a common interest regardless of party. I have been urged by thou sands of person from all over the State to keep on with the work begun. This has always been my Intention, as 1 have frequently stated. There will be no let-up in the proceedings. "The Intention Is to make exhaustive investigation of administration abuses and malfeasance, and the people will be astonished when they are fully in formed as to the many acts of mal administration during the last two years at Harrisburg." —As to the direct charges against tho Governor, the Senator said that there was ample evidence that the Governor did not account for cam paign contributions. This, said the Sen ator, amounted to a violation of the corrupt practices act. The Philadel phia Record says the Governor and his friends are planning a defense of impeachment and that Colonel Kolb Is with the Governor. Tho North American quotes Attorney General Brown as saying regarding Senator Penrose. him rave." Senator McNicliol saw Mayor Smith yesterday in Philadelphia and discussed matters of legislation, giv ing the Mayor a chance to "be good." —Chief Censor Breltinger appears be getting a good many commenda- tlona from organizations in Philadel phia. —Considerably Interest was aroused here to-day by the conference held yesterday at Pittsburgh In the interest of State-wide prohibition as some of tho participants had been men hith erto identified with the local option campaign, but who are now for prohi bition. The general course of some of those who have been fighting rum, notably certain officials of tho Anti- Saloon League, has been objected to in various parts of the State and the new movement Is said to be formed solely for the purpose of demanding State wide prohibition and working for it regardless of who may be Governor or Speaker. A State convention will be held in Pittsburgh on February 8. —Officials of the Prohibition State committee are getting ready to pre sent some strictly prohibition legisla tion during the coming session and there will be conferences here before long at which plans will be laid. —lt is understood that two or three members of the House have been making inquiries as to how to phrase resolutions to submit prohibition amendments to the constitution and that such measures will undoubtedly make their appearance In the House. —The Anti-Saloon League, which will have a local option bill this ses sion, will probably wait until the com mittees are named by Speaker Bald win before announcing who will be In charge of their bill. Last session George W. Williams was In charge, but whether lie will act with the league this session or not is not stated. Mr. Williams is a staunch local op tionist. Inspected to Death [New York Sun.J In his message to the general as sembly the outgoing- governor of Ohio, Mr. Willis, Bald something: "My brief experience as a State offi cial has convinced me that Ohio is overofficered and overinspected and that the people and business of Ohio are be ing inspected to death." Every Governor of almost every State, every Mayor of almost every city, knows at or before the end of his (Irst term that the truth which Prank Bartlette Willis has spoken so frank ly about Ohio is applicable to almost every government in America. Pay rolls sag under the overgrown list of superfluous employes. The people and their property are inspected from a dozen sides for evils which, if they really exist, are not remedied as a re sult of the inspection. A Governor and a Mayor who would enter on a term of office with an ob session for eliminating the ridiculous and the extravagant would come out with glory, but how the tax eaters would hate him? College Men [Theodore Vail In American Magazine] The young man entering life must not be impatient. He must accumulate ex perience, he must learn the duties of his position by the actual doing before he has any value to hia employer. The reason so many college boys fall is that they are full of theories; they think they know It all. A college course is a good thing, an excellent thing, but it must be given to the right kind of youth. Quite/n number of the highest positions are filled by men who went through college but who had no false notions as to what was required of them when they entered business. No man is w °rth anything until he has gone into the heat of the battle and had hia theories subordinated to practice. The son of rich parents is handi capped In his youth. He gets no ex perience of doing things, and no op portunity to benefit from hard knocks such as come the other fellow's way. When a boy comes to ask me to put him through college I tell him it would be the worst thing ihat could happen to him. I sAy: "You would not only have a burden of debt on your should ers when you finished college, but you would have the additional burden of getting experience—and it Is pretty hard to get experience and earn money at the same time. You can earn money only after you have had experience." New England Farmer Prospers With fresh eggs selling at 65 cents a dozen, potatoes marketed by grange organizations at record prices, und .small community manufacturing made pof-stblo by the Kcsoline engine, winter on New England farms is not the un productive period It was a quarter of a century ago. Agents for player pianos and motor cars are probably finding Maine as rich a field tn these days as lowa and Kansas.—Christian Science Monitor. TAX ON THE DISSEMINATION OF INTELLIGENCE j Congress could Hjo nothing that j would so provincialize the country as | to pasa the pending Randall amend ment to the post office appropriation bill providing for a graduated second | class postage rate. By this amendment It is proposed i to make the rate of postage on na tionally circulated newspapers and periodicals one cent a pound for a : distance less than 300 miles; two cents a pound for Sioo miles or over; three cents a pound for tiOO miles or over: four cenls a pound for 1,000 miles or over: five cents a pound for! 1 1,00 miles or over; and six cents a pound for 1,800 miles or over. Thus, current news and intelligence, furnished to the peoplo by newspa- 1 ! pers and periodicals is to be taxed j and therefore will presumably be re tarded in proportion to the distance that separates the subscribers' from I the usual centers of publication. For | there are natural distribution piont.s j for the circulation of intelligence, as i there are natural markets or centers of distribution for cotton, oranges, | iron ore. wheat, etc., and it is well known that recent rulings of the In terstate Commerce Commission have | tended to lower the rates oil such commodities in proportion to the dis tance from the natural market in or der to facilitate a wider distribution. Surely nothing is more important to any nation than the free circulation of intelligence, even into the remotest i corners of the country, and to ham per, impede or tax that distribution in favor of one section and against another is more inexcusable with re spect to this particular commodity than to any other. Daniel Webster, who was largely re sponsible for creating tV.e socond-clnss postage rate, declared that the widest dissemination of newspaper andj LETTERS TO THE EDITO^) The Mexican Border To the Editor of the Telegraph: I send you the enclosed clipping, which If you care to publish, do so. Yours truly, J. E. RUTHERFORD, The devil In liell, they say, was chained. And there a thousand years remained. He never complained, nor did he groan. But decided to start a little hell of his own. So he asked the Lord If He had any on handi Left over when Ho made this land. The Lord said, "Yes, I've plenty handy. But I left it all down on the Rio Grande— In fact, old boy, the truok is so poor I don't think it could be used as hell any more." The devil examined it closely and well And concluded the country was too dry for h®"- But the Lord, to get it off of His hands. Promised the devil He'd water the lands, As Ha had some water that was of no use. Regular bog: holes, and smelled like the deuce. So the trade was made and the deed was given. And the Lord went back to His home in Heaven. And the devil said It was all he needed To start a new hell, and then he pro ceeded. He scattered tarantulas along the roads, Put thorns on the cactus, and horns on the toads, He mixed up the sands with millions of ants, So those who sat down needed half soles on their pants, He lengthened the horns of the Texas steer,. And put an addition to the jack-rab blt's ear. He quickened the step of the bronco steed And poisoned the feet of the centipede; He put juajalota in all the lakes And under the rocks hid rattlesnakes; The wild boar roams through the chap arral. And it's damned poor place he's got for a hell. (Juajalota. is a venomous pest known aa a water dor.) periodical intelligence and criticism was absolutely essential to properly secure the liberties of a democracy. Have conditions so changed that it would to-day be better to discourage all nationally circulated newspapers and periodicals and Vnake tho local newspaper the sole and supreme pur veyor of all news on all subjects and from all sources, local and foreign? Not the least unfortunate result of such legislation would be its effect upon scientific, professional and other class publications. Such periodicals are financially impossible unless na tionally circulated. Some of the most important of these periodicals are to day circulated at loss, by persons In terested in the promotion of the sciences that they represent. To ma terially increase the operating ex pense of circulating such periodicals, not only by quadrupling, on an aver age, the postage rate, but by making necessary the employment of addi tional help to carefully divide the widely scattered circulation Into eight different "zone" packages, would. In some cases, be absolutely prohibitive. The small additional revenue which the government would gain by this amendment would hardly compensate for the loss of such Important con tributions to science and learning. The amendment should be defeated. If the rate must be raised let. the in crease be shared equally by all publi cations, and borne equally by all sec tions. Above all, let us keep the nerve centers of intelligence freely open to the farthest reaches of the body politic, that there may be throughout all the members no Impairment of that responsiveness toward every Im portant issue, social, scientific or political, which only a thoroughly in formed public sentiment can make possible.—A. H. 11., In Central Law Journal. I EDITORIAL COMMENT] Advance in marine insurance rates to 15 per cent., coincident with the peace move, may be called constructive criti cism.—Wall Street Journal. The Allies, in awarding Constanti nople to Russia, have evidently forgot ten the famous recipe for rabbit pie. Nashville Southern Lumberman. Those 448,000 rounds of ammunition permitted into Mexico will doubtless be returned to the United States in the usual way.—Wall Street Journal. General Scott thinks that more men might be attracted to the regular army if the soldier s pay was raised. It does look reasonable.—Dallas News. It was not reasonable to suppose the war babies could attain the age of two years without ever keeping their proud Earents awake nights. Cleveland leader. Speaking of large returns from a small investment, how about Mr Wil son's contribution of $2,500 to the Democratic campaign fund? Nash ville Southern Lumberman. The obvious thing for a poor man to do is to join a diet squad.— Louisville Courier-Journal. OUR DAILY LAUGH | QUICK SHIFT. Jlj Bessie says f fou have beau- j J I must thank iSfc y Sho wants to VIR I \\\ know where you ——WHAT'S THE (TWj : come over to iH j[ Mrs. Jones with -S, ■n She'll make you ,#i l*4\ gg feel just as If _ ffl nyQfr-'j 8m you were at fgST home. I Hubby—Then II • what on la • Vt'll i\ \ th * sense of go- II I ■AJ lng there? ©mtittg Chat People who attended the conference on the same and fish law changes held at the State Capitol yesterday weri rather surprised at the statements made by representatives of sports men's associations In regard to thA populer demand for fishing on Sun day. Some of the speakers were em phatic In their predictions that th next legislature would not pass a law" forbidding fishing on the Sabbath and It was only decided to give the com- mltteo In charge of the fish code pro posed to be submitted authority to in ®*rs„a c 'iuse In the code forbidding angling on Sunday In the/ event that. It was found that the Governor would not a PProve It unless it contained such a prohibition. One speaker said that tHere were more peoplo riding on rail load trains on pleasure trips on Sun flay than travel by automobile for Pleasure on that day, and that if peo ple could play golf, tennis, croquet of* baseball on Sunday there was 110 rca-* son why men who worked ten hours a day six days a week should not bof ? r ! 1 ? to en J°y some sport fur nished by nature in the woods wheroi tne air is pure and where there arty opportunities for children to enjo/ country. Another point made! was that many fishermen who can goi to a place outside of the State for tu dollar and be permitted to iish all day UnS A ?i re to do that t0 paying IV tll.it ar , V? the State for a fishing JfJt *1 an ? tfl ero was any re^ ™ °l„ flshin P Sunday it would cost the State thousands of dollars* which men would be otherwise will ing to pay. The statements wer ™ considerable vigor by men, 4 ha i, ,hPy dl<l not flal OtV Sunday and did not countenance it, ♦• * ? ha(l I>een canvassing sentiment and were surprised at the> result. One man, an ardent church, worker, admitted the growth of a dis position on the part of people in th State to make Sunday more of a dav" of recreation than rest and said it would be a force which would havo to be reckoned with in the 1917 Legis lature. The discussion lasted a> hour* and impressed everyone in the meet ing because it was unexpected and. practically none of the members had.- tailced it over with each other, • ♦ Not often does an official on an In spection visit from another city rgC an 6pportunity to observe fire ap paratus in deadly serious action suclt as fell to the lot of City Commissioner E. Z. Gross and Fire Chief John Kind ler during their trip to New York a few days ago to investigate different types of motor apparatus for Informa tion incident to the proposed purchase by Harrisburg of $60,000 worth ofi motor equipment. But Park Commis sioner Gross and Fire Chief Kindier got into New York just about the timo the motor department was busily bat tling with the big film company blaze. Following their inspection of the New York lire apparatus the Harrisburgr officials went over to Elizabeth, N. J., and had a look at that city's motorized department. Probably one more trii will be made. This will be to Myers town to see a certain type of engino pump in action. Incidehtally whilo in New York Chief Mechanician De maree offered his services to Harris burg's new mechanician if the latter makes a little visit there. New York'.-* mechanician equipment is one of the best in the country and Mr. Gross wa* told that the "HI" ol' N'York's" depart-' mental head will be glad to show Harrisburg's new official 'round so a* to give him what tips he can pick ui on the way the great metropolis handles this Job. * • • Thus far, and there is no reason why ! there should be any difference, thu transfer of United States property to the Pennsylvania militia organizations which have • returned from El Pasu has been made rapidly and in a man ner that has brought general com mendation. The Pennsylvania Na tional Guard property system is recog nized by the regular army officers as far in advance of other States and the methods will be easily adjusted to take care of the many new proposi tions which are cropping up because of the placing of the Guardsmen on a footing more closely approximating the regulars. • • Although the streets were glazed with Ice and sleet In the recent storm that struck the city, the telephona lines still buzzed busily. In a certain section of town there are two women who live but a short distance apart and both are noted as being the most effi cient newsgatherers of the vicinity. The icy condition of the streets prohibited tl>e early morning call to 'swop' gossip, so they were forced to resort to the telephone. The follow ing conversation was heard by a visi tor that listened so well, that he was able to hear not only the booming voice of the obese (for libel's sake, wo will say) Mrs. Skyblue, but also tlio querulous screech of the angular Mrs. Darkbrown at the other end of tha line. "Good morning," said Mrs. Skyblua In answer to the call. "Good morning," came the reply* "I'm so sorry that I can't get over to see you this morning, but to venture out a morning like this is Just liko tempting Providence." "Oh, I'm so sorry, too," complained the other, "I had such a perfectly aw- Tul story to tell you about Mrs. 'you know' —that lives next door, only I couldn't tell you over the phone." Scarcely had she finished speaking until in hurried tones the following was heard: "Well, now maybe. If I put. on rubbers I could walk faster. I'll be right over—in three minutes." • • • Among visitors to the city yester day was Colonel Frank M. Vandling, a former llarrisburger and one of the best-known of the State's national guardsmen. He was welcomed by many friends. f WELL KNOWN PEOPLE —Dr. O. R. Altman, of Unlontown* has been eflected president of the Fayette County Medical Soceity. —Congressman J. Hampton Moore, who is objecting to special aid for farmers and none for manufacturers, represents the big manufacturing dis trict of Philadelphia. —Dr. F. W. Wright, prominent Fayette county educator, will become a State educational official in Massa chusetts. —A. A. Shoemaker, well known here, has been elected to head tha school director* of Montgomery v county. —Senator P. C. Knox will spend tho winter in southern States with occa sional visits to Valley Forge. | DO YOU KNOW | That Ifarrisburg has one of the largest bread outputs of any dtjr of 100,000 populution In the land? HISTORIC HARRISBFRG The leading provincial officials held meetings at Murris Ferry annually from 1755 to 1765. Raise in Price % The afternoon newspapers of Erie, Pa., the Times and the Herald, now sell for two cents a copy.
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