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AEWS OF THE LEGISLATURE
SWEENEY STANDS
FOR A STANDARD
N T o Agreement Results From
the Conference Held With
the Master Bakers
James Sweeney, State chief of stan
dards, proposes to stand by his bill to
make sixteen ounces the standard loaf
of bread in Pennsylvania notwith
standing his conference with repre
sentative bakers here yesterday. Mr.
Sweeney says that while the consum
ers generally prefer a 5-cent loaf, un
der present conditions they do not
know what they are getting and that
under normal conditions 16-ounco
loaves can be sold at a fair profit and
that if people are compelled to pay
6 or 7 cents for a 16-ounce loaf they
'win at least know what they are re
ceiving.
"The bill will protect the bakers as
well as the public. There can be no
valid objection to a 16-ounce stan
dard," said he. The bill is in the hands
of a Senate committee and it is prob
able that the chief will appear before
it and advocate his position in the
event that a hearing Is asked.
Some of the bakers here yesterday
said that they could demonstrate by
statements from consumers that a 16-
ounce loaf would not be as satisfactory
to housewives as one of smaller size.
BELL-AM s
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. One package
proves it 25c at all druggists.
Wonder Clothes Are
Still $ll.OO
fThe green grass, the budding
flowers, the beautiful sunshine,
and the clear balmy days re
mind us of Spring, and with
the advent of Spring we must
talk about WONDER
A fresh shipment has just ar
rived from our factory in New
York, and such variety of pat
terns, such beautiful models,
have never before been wit-
We cannot tell you all we
know about WONDER
CLOTHES. It would take
pages and pages, but this will
suffice, that our values repre
sent genuine merchandise, and
for $ll.OO you are getting the
equal of SIB.OO and $20.00
values sold elsewhere in the
Buy Your Spring
Suit Now and
WONDER CLOTHES
211 Market St. Harrisburg, Pa.
NOTE: On and after May Ist, 1917, we will be compelled to
raise the price of WONDER CLOTHES to $12.50, due to the
enormous advance of raw materials which go into the make
up of a garment.
§ Here's Another
Good Snap For
Early Buyers
Women'* Genuine g-v Af
Brown Kid English c
Laceßoots, . .
New style, IJ4-inch leather
block heel, long narrow vamp,
excellent style and excellent
value. Hustle if you want
A ~.-ir
FRIDAY EVENING, HAKRIBBTTRG TELEOR7JPE MARCH 2, 1917,
GOVERNOR ASKS
LIGHT ON HEMS
Inclined to Go Very Slow in
Disposing of the Deficiency
Bill This Year
Governor Brumbaugh is seeking in
formation on some of the items in tho
general deficiency bill now on his desk.
This is the first appropriation bill to
reach him and as it carries consider
ably over half a. million dollars the
Governor is disposed to take his time
in acting upon it. Two years ago the
Governor carved thousands of dollars
from the deficiency bill and he will
make inquiries of branches of the gov
ernment on items which were not sub
mitted to him when* he made up the
statement for the framing of the
measure.
Included in the bill are the ex
penses of the escheat of the Harmony
Society on which there was a SIO,OOO
counsel tee paid outside of the $43,000
carried in the bill and a number of
legislative items. Some of the de
partmental items are also changed
from what they were when submitted.
When the general bill is made up
it is probable that the Governor will
seek an appropriation for art works
for the State Capitol in line with his
suggestion made at a luncheon of the
State Society here last month. The
Governor is also interested in com
pleting the decorations of the corri
dors before ho goes out of office, the
north corridor, which John W. Alex
ander was to have decorated, being
still without paintings.
The bill reached' the Governor
Wednesday and his time will be up
about the time the Legislature re
convenes.
The first hearings on departmental
estimates will be held by the State
Economy and Efficiency Commission
at the Capitol next Tuesday when Gov
ernor Brumbaugh will return from the
Inauguration. The estimates are *25,-1
000,000 higher than two years ago, but]
that u considerable portion of them
will be justified is contunded by State
officials,
Tho Increases which it Is expected
will be approved by the Governor and
his associates will be those in the
Btate Highway Department for coiui
building, including tho allowance for
boroughs! the Increase of $3,000,000
for the public schools and an increase
for the State Forestry Department to
buy forest reserves.
The plan is to clean up tho hearings
next week so that tho budget called
for by tho Dalx resolution can bo In
| the hands of the Appropriation Com
| nilttce the latter part of this month.
Saloonkeeper Again Held
Responsible For Death
By Associated ,l'r* s
Philadelphia, Pa., March 2. For
the second time in a litue more than
a year, a saloonkeeper was held re
sponsible by a Jury in Common Pleas
court hero yesterday for injury result
ing from the sale of too much drink to
a customer. The Jury awarded Mrs.
Mary McCusker a verdict for $6,000
damages lor the death of her husband,
I Frank A. McCusker, who lractured Ills
skull while leaving the saloon ot Cor
nelius F. wuiiui, Allegheny avenue and
A street, in an Intoxicated condition.
Testimony was adduced to pro\e
that when McCusker attempted to
leave tho saloon he fell on the pave-
and struck his head, and it was
charged that the indirect cause of his
death was the fact that he was per
mitted to obtain an oversupply of
liquor in Quinn's place.
Chinese Cabinet Crises
Follows Invitation to
Join Entene Allies
B.y Associated Press
Peking, March 2. The French
minister and the Belgian charge
d'affaires, representing the entenle
allies, have invited China to enter the
war, offering her remission of the
Boxer indemnity and a revision of the
I tariff as inducements. A cabinet crisis
is imminent. The vi<;e-president and
premier are urging China to join the
entente.
The president is receiving much
criticism for opposing immediate ac
tion. He gave out an interview to
day saying he preferred to act with
the United States and other neutrals,
but that he was willing for China to
join the entente if parliament ap
proved.
Dr. Wu Ting-Fang has resigned the
portfolio of foreign minister assigning
deafness, the result of a recent illness,
as the cause.
American Skipper Says
U-Boat Blockade Not So
Dangerous After All
By Associated Press
Paris, March 2. The American
freighter, Rochester, has been greeted
at Bordeaux with the same enthusiasm
which was shown in the case of the
Orleans, according to a Bordeaux dis
patch to the Havas Agency. Captain
A. Korowitz, in an Interview said in
regard to his trip:
"We left New York two hours after
the Orleans. The voyage was not
marked by any incident except for a
severe storm which we ran into. I
saw no submarine but thought it pro
dent to steam with lights out for four
nights. We entered the danger zone
on Monday evening but saw nothing
from then until we reached the
Gironde except one sailing ship. After
all it was not so very difficult to force
the blockade and arrive safely."
News Items of Interest
in Central Pennsylvania
Shamokiu. Six anthracite colller r
ies operated by the Susquehanna Coal
| Company, subsidiary to the Pennsyl
vania Railroad company, passed Into
control to-day of the Delaware and
Hudson company. Six thousand men
and boys are- employed at the work
ing.
Mt. CarmeL The Locust Springs
washery is tied up with a strike due
to the bank men wanting an increase
of 50 cents a day in wages.
Hazleton. Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Wallace, celebrated the fifty-third an
niversary of their wedding by giving
a family dinner.
Hazleton.—State inspectors ordered
•the discharge of many girls employed
at local stores and some industrial es
tablishments who did not come with
in the requirements of the law as to
age limit
Xesquehontng. The Rev. R. H.
Comley, pastor of Mead's Methodist
Episcopal Church here for a number
of years, has resigned from the minis
try. He has moved to Pottsville,
where he accepted a position in the
office of the Reading Coal Company.
Lebanon. The Philadelphia and
Reading Railway Company has award
ed to Bennett & Randall, of this city,
the contract for the construction of
steel and concrete bridges on the
Lebanon and Lancaster joint line, at a
cost of SIO,OOO.
— The granite walls of
the town's new SIOO,OOO high school
building, 120 feet front and 140 feet
deep, are completed. It is expected
that the building will be ready when
the schools open next fall.
KAISER IS CONFINED TO
HOUSE BY SEVERE CHILL
By Associated Press
London, March 2. The German
Emperor is suffering from a severe
chill, according to a Berlin report re
ceived by the Exchange Telegraph
Company byway of Amsterdam. It is
stated that the Emperor is compelled
to remain indoors but receives the
ministers and communicates daily
with headquarters. The dispatch says
that the patient's condition does not
cause anxiety, but that his doctors in
sist on great cauUon.
ABRAM BAER DIES
Mechanicsburg, Pa., March 2.
Abfam Baer, a well-known former
resident of Mechanicsbprg, died at the
home of his half-sister, Mrs. Mat
thews, near New Kingston, on Wednes
day night. Mr. Baer was stricken with
paralysis three years ago and had been
I ill since. He was a member of Cum
berland Valley Council of the Kniglitt
of the Golden Eagle. Mr. Baer was
unmarried and was 81 years old. He is
survived by two brothers, William and
Harry Baer, of Canton, 0., also these
half-sisters, Mrs. Matthews, of near
New Kingston, with whom he lived;
Mrs. Sarah Balmer, of Harrisburg;
Mrs. Bella Hertner, of New Kingston;
and Mrs. Hoffman, of Boiling Springs.
Funeral services will be held at the
Matthews' home to-morrow morning
at 10 o'clock, with burial at the
Evangelical Cemetery near New
Kingston.
REFUSE FREIGHT INCREASE
Washington, D. C., March 2. Pro
posed general increases In freight rates
from Scranton, Wllllamsport and
other points In Pennsylvania to Chi
cago, Duluth, St. Paul and Lake
Michigan and Lake Superior ports
were disapproved yesterday by the In
terstate Commerce Commission. Tho
proposed Increases ranged from IV4
to 6 cents per 100 pounds, and wtere
to apply to all classes of freight '
COMPENSATION
RULE ON AGENTS
Man Can Not Collect Claim
When Employer Has No Con
trol Over His Actions
Tho State Compensation Board to
day reversed an awarVl by Referee
Scott, of the Philadelphia district, to
I sad ore Ileinlan, of. Phtladelphpla,
against a llfo Insurance company by
which he was employed. Heiman was
a solicitor, employed by three Insur
ance concerns. He fell on the pave
ment near his home and suffered In
juries for which he filed a compensa
tion claim against ono of tho com
panies, asserting that he was on Jlls
way to solicit a certain person for that
company.
Chairman Mackey in his opinion
says he was not an employe in the
sense of the workmen's compensation
act. "He was not limited to the ex
clusive presentation of the merits of
any partichlar one of these companies
at any one time," says he. "As a mat
ter of fact, no doubt, should he have
failed to Interest a prospective risk In
the merits of one of these companies,
he would have urged the attractive
features of one or both of the others."
It is also held that "none of these com
panies retained any power over him,
as an employe, to direct his course in
any particular, either as to time when
he was to solicit for them, persona
upon whom he should urge the merits
of insurance, nor could they control
him in the arguments that he would
use or the methods that he would em
ploy in order to secure business, as
suming, of tfourse, that all his efforts
were proper and within the law."
The board affirmed the award in the
case of Selva vs. Allegheny River Mln-
Fine Reports of Popular
Kidney Medicine
Ever since Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-
Root has been placed on tho market
It has enjoyed a satisfactory demand
in our locality and after a person tries
the preparation they are much grati
fied at results. In cases of gravel Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root has proved to
be a very valuable and reliable medi
cine, and judging from reports re
ceived from our customers it is well
worth a thorough trial in any case of
kidney, liver or bladder troubles.
Very truly yours,
SOLDAN & HORNER,
Druggists.
110 North Sallna,
Oct. 18, 1916. Syracuse, N. Y.
Letter to
Dr. Kilmer A Co*#
j Bingham ton, N. Y.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For
You
Sent ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Blnghamton, N. Y., for a sample size
bottle. It will convince anyone. You
will also receive a booklet of valuable
Information, telling about the kidneys
and bladder. When writing, be sure
and rnention the Harrisburg Dally
Telegraph. Regular fifty-cent and
one-dollar size bottles for sale at all
drug stores.
Living st on ' ;
f 9 S. Market Square j
New Spring Arrivals—Coats—Suits—Dresses !
We are showing wonderful assortments of Spring attire, and all the leading shades and styles can be \
found here, and, if you are not already acquainted with LIVINGSTON'S Prices, come and investigate. We
guarantee to undersell any house in Harrisburg—(Here are some specials for Saturday).
Spring Suits ? Spring Coats Spring Dresses '
Gold, Mustard, Apple -/PhA*n array of colors ' 1
Green, Blue, Black, /MB|W * f ' ey f S Combinations, etc. <
Tan, made up in styles UU lT Rood to look at—in Y BS3UI\ All colors and styles ,
, , ~ , . JR) jpvfwl any material or de- ; IVjAIV V. - SIO.OO Dresses, $6.98 (
shown by he best MttW
shops in the land. JWjnm * ggfjU $15.00 Dresses, $8.98 i
$15.00 Suits...s9.9B IBlflft SPECIAL PRICKS
SIB.OO Suits, $10.98 liUml IklA $7.85 Coats, $4.49 7/ 'I Ik n.cJ {
g'SO lu£- III M 11 it IIAI n I f * * l2 - 98 !
3>zz.:>u auits, jpio.oo |i|| c 0 Coats $7 98 W i \ \\ We are snowing one
$25.00 Suits, $17.98 TOl|l|JWr l * r $12! 8 5 Coats' $8.98 of the largest collec- i
All sizes and 14 to 50 $15.75 Coats! $9.98 & ; ,ons ° f Dresses in
/\u sizes ana it 10 DKJ ai* town and sizes range <
stout. Full range of sizes. • from 16 to 54 stout. (
Spring Hats Spring ens an< * oung en s
Just arrived—new Spring Sailors, CTIN/V PIAIIIVM/W
all colors and styles Mli, iTllllMlH ODrillff 110111111? (
SPECIAL PRICES /wL£ v .L If I Hlfßlf ®
$1.50 Hats 980 / [TO H B A wonderful section of new '
$2.00 Hats $1.29 \ A A A | Spring Clothes. Very latest in col- (
$2.50 Hats $1.69 AM Mm or and styles
$3.00 Hats #1.98 ®W{l W 0r and StyleS '
——■ —————— A 1 | I n • $15.00 Clothes $10.98
c • w• i w yjm\ VAt Bargain slßooc,othes * i2 - 5 °
oorinff Waists s auM $20.00 ciothes $15.00
* 6 nnv/inn $22.50 Clothes $17.85
Never in the history of merchan- || L W .
dising in Harrisburg have we car- U x 1111.
ried such an elaborate line of waists | lrif-fiAo
Po P ,ins ' Se^es ' Gabardines, Silks, Taffetas, UU J S
Lawns,' Et c' ' ' £=; shades and styles. Special Ages 2to 18 years.
$125 Waists 796 Saturday prices— ' 3
|l:5o Waists:::::::::::::::: 9s| $ 2 .00 ser ge ski.- 98 * SPRING DESIGNS
$2.00 Waists ; $1.29 $3.00 Skirts $1.98 $3.00 Suits $1).98
$2.50 Waists $1.49 $4.00 Skirts $2.49 $4.00 Suits $2.49
$3.00 Waists $1.98 $5.00 Skirts v $2.98 $5.00 Suits $2.98
$5.00 Waists $2.98 $6.35 Skirts $3.49 $6.50 Suits $3.49
_56.00 Waists $3.49 $7.85 Skirts $3.98 $7.85 Suits $3.98
$7.00 Waists $3.98 $8.50 Skirts $4.98 $8.85 Suits $4.98
*
lng Company ( an Armstrong county
case and in that of Blake vs. Conquest
Coal Mining Company, Centre county.
In the case of Simons vs. General
Chemical Company ( Easton, the ap
peal was continued until the Supreme
Court disposes of the case of Adams
vs. Pittsburgh Coal Company, the de
fendant in the meantime to pay com
pensation to the defendant on the
basis of Its computation; The same
action was taken in the case of Felgle
vs. Central Iron and Steel Company,
Harrisburg;
LANCASTER COUNTY DEATHS
Marietta. Mrs. William J, Lewis,
aged 59, died Wednesday night after a
long Illness. Her husband, her aged
mother, and a number of brothers and
sisters survive.
Ephrata, • Abraham Stoner, aged
81, died Wednesday. He was a retired
farmer, and served on the school board
a number of years.
Our Men's and Men's $ jpv m* /v
Winter Suits and Overcoats' / Jy
Your Choice of Men's $ll.OO, $12.00 and M ——
$13.50 Winter Suits .... I
$12.00, $13.50 and $15.00 Overcoats V
LAST DAY TO-MORROW, SATURDAY
Hurry Men There Is Still a Goed Chance to Get a Rare Bargain
They are the remainder of our dandy Winter Suits and Overcoats
that carried much higher price tags early in the season. Lots of good
size materials and colors left from which to make a pleasing choice.
Men's & Young Men's up to sls Men's & Young Men's up to $13.50
OVERCOATS WINTER SUITS
Of good Mixtures, Velours, etc., in the latest In winter's most fashionable styles; cassimeres
Belt-Backs, Form-Fitting and Conservative and worsteds; Venetian-lined coats, handsome-
Models Blacks, Blues, Browns, Grays, etc., ly tailored and perfect fitting. Choice variety of
with or without velvet collar. All sizes, clever, smart, new patterns. All sizes. Splen-
Actual $12.50, $13.00 and $15.00 values. Your did $ll.OO, $12.50 and $13.50 values. Choice
choice to-morrow, gA to-morrow, the last day, An p'a
the last day, for V • tOU for V •OU
Special Saturday Sale of MEN'S PANTS
AT AO MEN'S AT A 1 QC MEN'S AT $ O /f Q MEN'S
PANTS Jpl.yD PANTS pZ<4t7 PA NTS
WORTH UP TO *2.50. WORTH TO $3.00. WORTH TO 3.80.
Choice of good durable fabric*, In Worßtede and Cas.imeres; good a iM°<S2S?mS, B Md wSmeds^AU
all sizes, for work or desk wear. patterns for dress or work. All sizes, sizes.
KAUFMAN'S- First Floor.
"Bone Dry" Legislature
Now Virtually Assured
By Associated Press
Washington, March 2. Legislation
barring shipments of liquor Into pro
hibition States even for personal us*
became virtually assured to-day as a
result of the adoption by the House
last night of the conference report on
the poßt office appropriation bill con
taining the Reed "bone dry'' amend
ment, The report now goes to the
Senate where favorable action is look
ed for before to-morrow night and
then It will go to President Wilson
for his approval.
The report also contains a provision
for continuance of the pneumatic tube
service.
V. 1 I
Ambassador Fletcher
Confers With Mexican*!
By Associated Press
Guadalajara, Mexico, March S.
Henry P. Fletcher, the American am--
bassador, and General Agullar, Mexi
can foreign minister, arrived here last
night and had a conference with Ig
naclo Bonlllas, recently appointed
ambassador to the United States, and
Bllseo Arredondo, former ambassador.
Later Bonlllas, Agullar and Arredon
do conferred with General Carranzat
concerning the appointment of a sec
retary of foreign relations to replac*
General Agullar, who Is to be candi
date for the governorship of Vera Cruz.
It is Indicated that Senor
do probably will be General Carran
la's choice for the foreign secretary
ship.