TO INVESTIGATE
MARKER ORDERS
I
Will Look Up Charges For War
Veterans' Tombstones Be
fore Paying Them
All orders for
JLJ j ( 111 markers or tomb-
M stones l'or the
® *2? graves of Civil
— ar veterans will
sioners until thirty
BTB hmiH days after death.
1 Fiinill Wlwi vision was given to
■■mhmJ H. Fisher after the
county commissioners went on record
on the question.
"We have had trouble continually
because of orders for markers or
tombstones, and hereafter will not act
on orders until a month has passed,
and we have had time to investigate
whether these orders are genuine. In
case there is no near relative of an old
soldier who dies, the county commis
sioners will decide who will be given
the order," Clerk Fisher explained.
Recorder Turns iu State Tax.
County Recorder James E. to
day sent $195 to the State Treasurer's
Department—State taxes on 402 docu
ments which were filed at the record
er's office last month.
Wants Jury Trial. Mrs. Annie
Berkheiiner to-day petitioned the Dau
phin county court, through counsel. F.
S. Simpson, to a jury trial to deter
mine the sanity of Mary Ellen Renner,
adjudged to be insane by a commis
sion. The petition was tiled.
Moves Oflioe. Attorney J. R. Ben- j
nett has moved his otSce from 12 0 !
North Front street, Steelton, to 21
North Third street.
Grants Charter. The Dauphin ;
county court to-day granted the char
ter of Capital City Nest, No. 1729, Or
der of Owls.
Order Child Sent to Hospital. An
order was given by the Dauphin coun
ty court to-day. to have Esther Mae
Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Har
ry G. Millers, of near Hummelstown,
sent to the Eastern Pennsylvania In
stitution for Feeble Minded and Epil
eptic Children. Mr. and Mrs. Miller
are each under $4,000 bail, charged
withe murder of their 21-year-old son
Clayton, who starved to death, it is
alleged.
llcar Neglect Case on 26t!l.—March j
26 was fixed for hearing complain of
Oeorge W. Hensel, representing the
directors of the poor. W h o alleges in
a petition to the court that Mr. and
Mrs. Isaac Rickert, of Coaldale, are \
neglecting to care for and maintain
their live children.
Adopted Child. Johns S. Werg
ner, constable in South Hanover town
ship for several years, was given au
thority to adopt Mildred Romaine Wil
son, aged 7 months.
Jury May Hear Divorce Case.
Harry H. Cleland to-day was granted
a rule against his wife. Mary J. Cle- |
land, plaintiff in divorce, to show j
cause why the case should not be:
heard before a jury. He is charged j
with cruel and barbarous treatment, I
but denies it.
File Suit For Dtlit. The Bogar
Lpraber Company to-day filed a suit
against Albert B. Smith, to recover
payment totaling more than SI,OOO, for
lumber sold to the defendant.
Wants Daughter Released. Daniel
Dunkelberger. of Berks county, filed a
petition for a habeas corpus proceed-
to have his daughter, Nora Dun
kelberger released from the State Hos
pital for the Insane.
Union Leaders to Plan
Their Part in Nation's
Policies of Defense
Washington, D. C., March T>. —Spokes- !
men of more than 3,000,000 American I
wage-earners have been called to meet
in conference here March 12 to deter
mine and announce the part labor shall
claim in the formulation of policies of ,
preparedness and defense in the cilsis
confronting the nation.
The call, made public yesterday, was ■
issued by Samuel Gompers, president of 1
the American Federation of l.abor, \
under authority of the federation's ex
ecutive council. It went to presidents
of 110 national and international unions
affiliated with the federation, depart- ,
ment presidents and the four great
railroad employes' brotherhoods.
There will be a preliminary meeting
of the executive council next Friday to !
arrange tor the conference, which
promises to be the most notable gath
c ring of Amrelcan Labor representa
tives ever held.
WEDDING AT SHI HEM AX STOW \ j
Shiremanstown. Pa.. March s.—Miss
Myrtle Gribble, daughter of Mr. and'
Mrs. C. A. Gribble, of this place, and
Charles Gnssinger, of Mecsanicsburg, 1
were married yesterday by the Rev. C.
R. Walker, of Pottaville.
••no\i: dry" nKi.tYKn
Washington. r>. C.. March 5. Early
yesterday morning the Senate agreed \
to . House resolution (postponing the i
••ffectlve date of the "bone dry" I
amendment until July 1.
"Feeling Tough, Jim---
I had spells like that, too —lazy, blue, no pep'—until wife gave me
Instant Postum
instead of coffee.
Now I sleep better, smile oftener, and nerves behave. Never knew
. how harmful coffee was 'till I quit it. Why don't you try Postum?"
"There's a Reason"
• MONDAY EVENING,
U. S. GOVERNMENT IS
BEST; SA YS MARSHALL
By Associated Press
Washington. March 6. —Vice-Presi-
dent Marshall made his second Inau
gural address before the Senate to-day
—a statement of his creed of citizen
ship under a government for which,
he said, "I ought to be willing to live or
to die, as God decrees, that it may not I
perish off the earth through treachery
within or through assault from with- i
out." The address says:
"Everywhere in America are clam- !
ant and strident voices proclaiming !
the essential elements of patriotism. I
He who seeks out of them all to se- j
lect one clear note of love for coun
try may fail. I conceive it to be far |
more important to examine myself j
than to cross-examine another. May I \
make boll to insert in the record some j
elements of the creed which I have j
adopted In this period of retrospection'.' |
It does not embrace what I know but i
holds part of what I believe.
"I have faith that this government
of ours was divinely ordained to dis
close whether men are by nature tit
ted or can by tducatlon be made lit j
for self-government: to teach Jew and ]
Greek, bondman and free, alike, the !
essential quality of all men before the J
law and to be tender and true to hu
inanity everywhere and under all cir- !
cumstances; to reveal that service is.
the highest reward of life. I cannot i
believe otherwise when I read the I
words and recall the sacrifice of the j
fathers. If ours is not the Golden Rule '
of Government, then Washington
COMPENSATION IS
STILL UNDECIDED
City Commissioners Can't
Agree on Contract to In
sure Employes
After weeks of deliberation, confer
ences and discussions pro and con.
City Commissioners are still undecided
about awarding the contract for work
men's compensation insurance for city
employes.
It is understood in city official cir
cles, that three plans are considered,
but the commissioners can not agree
on any one. By giving the State fund
the contract, the city will be saved
several hundreds of dollars, it has
been pointed out.
By injuring with a stock company,
other advantages will be gained, rep
resentatives claim. The third plan is
to have the city adopt the same policy
as last year—to Insure its own risk. In
case of a catastrophe, however, this
would result in a loss of thousands of
dollars to meet compensation claims.
GERMAN PRESS
DIVIDES ON PLOT
By Associated Press
Berlin, March 4, via London,
March s.—While some of the German
papers have received the news of the
German-Mexican intrigue with com
parative indifference, others have vig
orously denounced the policy of For
eign Secretary Zimmermann and
among these latter is the Tages Zei
tung. Count Von Boventlow, former
ly one of the most ardent advocates of
unrestricted submarine warfare and a
general supporter of extreme meas
ures, writes in the Tages Zeitting:
"As a result of the publication of
the German offer to Mexico sentiment,
which has heretofore been divided in
America, is now solidly behind the
President. This circumstance, or its
possible results, are hardly calculated
eo till us with pessimism, however,
those circles who have been basing
hopes for the preservation of peace
on divided *niblic opinion in the Vnited
States are now forced to deplore the
turn things have taken and to doubt
the wisdom of the German policy
which, so far as Mexico is concerned,
may. be stigmatized as bringing a
lighted match in contact with a pow
der cask."
VETERANS PLAN RECEPTION
Members of Howard L. Calder Post
31. Veterans of Foreign Wars, will
meet at the hall. 3ti Xortli Third street.
Wednesday evening, to arrange for the
reception of Commander-in-chief Al
ebrt J. Rabing and staff, who arc now
on a tour of inspection of the various
posts of the organization throughout
the country, and are expected in Har
risburg the latter part of this month.
The ladies' auxiliary of the post will
meet the same evening to arrange for
the reception of the ladies of the visit
ing party.
wrought, and Lincoln died, in vain.
"I believe that the world, now ad
vancing and now retreating, is never
theless moving forward to a far-oIT
divine event wherein the tongues of
Babel will again be blended in tlie
language of a common brotherhood;
and I believe that I can reach the high
j est ideal of my tradition and my line
age as an American—as a man, as u
i citizen and us a public official—when
1 I judge my fellow men without malice
i and with charity, when I worry more
about my own motives and conduct and
less about the motives and conduct
iof others. The time I am liable to be
| wholly wrong is when 1 know that I
|am absolutely right. In an individual
| istlc republic, 1 am the unit of patriot
| ism and if I keep myself keyed in uni
| son with the music of the union, my
! 1 judge my fellowmen without malice
j fellowmen will catch the note and fall
i into time and step.
l'ntrlotism First
"I believe there is no finer form of
government than the one under which
we live and that 1 ought to be willing
j to live or to die, as God decrees, that
it may not perish from off the earth
. through treachery within or through
assault from without; and I believe
that though my first right is to be a
partisan, that my first duty, when the
only principles on which free govern
ment can rest are being strained, is tl
i be a patriot and to follow In a wilder-
I ness of words that clear call which
bids me guard and defend the Ark of
our national covenant."
LABOR PUBLICITY
BUREAU PLANNED
Union Representatives Will
Meet Here to Form News
Distributing Agency
The action of the Labor Forum in
calling a general conference of labor
unions here on March 25 to decide on
the establishment of a central pub
licity bureau for the sysytematic and
'accurate dissemination of labor news,
1 has met with a hearty response.
' The following resolution, adopted
by tfce firemen of Lodge 673, Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and En
ginemen, is typical of the replies com
ing from the various unions:
"Whereas, it is evident (hat the
1 needs and desires of the great masses
of people rarely, if ever, find adequate
expression for public enlightenment,
and
"Whereas, the welfare of our re
public, its institutions and its people
demand that truth, justice and free
dom shall prevail without stint or fa
vor, and anything interferes or curbs
the inherent right of its people to ex
ercise the liberties granted in the fun
damental principles that underly this
government is a menace to the people,
and
"Whereas, the great masses of peo-
I pie generally, and those represented
:in the organized labor movement in
particular, have suffered unjustly;
I their hopes and ambition thwarted,
jtheir cause prejudiced to the public,
; and their interest in government de
terred with the inevitable dissatisfac
tion. antagonism and conflict, and
"Whereas, this course cannot con
tinue indefinitely, and in order that the
| wage earners, whose vast economic in
terests forms the main basis in society,
may be more equitably established in
our national life; therefore, be it
"Resolved, that we endorse un
qualifiedly the action of Labor's Open
Forum for a conference of labor
unions for the purpose of establishing
a central publicity bureau, and we
urge upon every union in the city and
every union man to use their best ef
forts to make this vitally important
matter the concern of all unions by
attending the conference."
Barbers' Union, No. 591. was among
the first to endorse the conference, and
has delegated E. J. Wagner, State or
ganizer of the national organization,
to attend and represent their interests.
Other national officers that are
booked to attend are John Murray,
secretary Pan-American Federation of
Labor Conference committee, in
charge publicity department, Ameri
can Federation of l>abor, Washington,
and John F. McNamee, editor and
manager B. of L. F. and E. magazine,
Indianapolis, Indiana.
LABOR CONVENTION HERE
The State Federation of Labor this
morning sent out a call to subsidiary
member for a convention to be held
here May S. The representatives of
the unions will meet In the Board of
Trade Hall.
S. S. BOARD TO MEET
New Cumberland, Pa., March 5. —
The Sunday school board of the
Baughman Memorial Methodist
i Church, New Cumberland, will meet
on Wednesday night at the close of
I the prayer service.
RARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
IA Bargain Basement SaleTlia IWill Mean
DOWN WITH HIGH PRICES
| Our Annual Ten-Day Bargain Basement Sale
(Begins Wednesday Morning, March 7, at 8:30 o'clock\
£lt Will Be a Typical Bargain Basement Sale in Every Ways
All This Spring's Newest & Most Wanted Merchandise
>Will Be on Sale at the Biggest Kind of Savings
Anticipating the upward- trend of the market cost of all spring goods, Mr. Zug, buyer and manager of our Bar
gain Basement, searched all the best markets for standard, staple merchandise some months ago, and planned and '
i prepared for this EXTRAORDINARY BARGAIN EVENT.
Regardless of the hue and cry of high prices and scarcity of merchandise, there are always some manufac-
S turers and jobbers who are willing to make price concessions for the ready cash. Then again our buyer had the
£ good fortune to run across a number of manufacturers with quite an amount of merchandise on hand for which 1
r they held orders to be shipped to distant points; but owing to the embargoes in handling freight, the manufactur-1
J ers were unable to make shipments and rather than hold the merchandise longer they sold it to us at reductions
1 for spot cash. I
* Our storeroom is packed to the ceilings with merchandise purchased for this special event. That our buyer
% has been entirely successful in securing large quantities of merchandise and that we will offer it at prices far be- %
( low what you could begin to buy it for anywhere else will be thoroughly demonstrated during the sale. 1
( REMEMBER, a Dollar Today Does Less For You Than Ever and Present |
I Market Conditions Make It Necessary.
| For You to Make You I
| Just as Hard For You as You Do For It < 1
( This Big Ten-Day Bargain Basement Sale Will Help You Make Your Dollar Do Double Duty, j
r The Following Lines Will All Be Sale In Our Bargain Basement Beginning?
) Wednesday Morning, 8.30 O'clock, and Continuing for 10 Days (
C Bamboo and Oak Furniture Specials Aluminum Ware Far Below the Regular Price §
r Housewares and Cut Glass Bargains Bed Spreads at Tremendous Reductions K
J Table Damask and Napkins Below Price Good Towels at Unheard of Low Prices ft!
II Rugs and Linoleums Beloiv Market Prices Muslins and Sheetings at Startling Big Savings f
S Cotton and Wool Bed Blankets For Less Than Usual If indow Shades at Ridiculous Small Prices g
I Bed Sheets and Pillow Cases at Big Reductions Curtain Materials, 'Way Dotvn in Price J
I 1 Wash Goods at Less Than Market Rates TSew Washing Machines Far Below Their Worth
C Baskets and Hampers at Big Savings J acuum Cleaners at Very Small Prices j
C Feather Pillows Beloiv Wholesale Cost Window ami Door Curtains at Extremely Low Prices S
f Be Sure to See Our Big Announcement in This Paper To-morrow i
lEvery Item Will Be a Money-Saver and Well W 7 orth Securing|
Recent Deaths in
Central Pennsylvania
JACOB GI'YKK
Mechanicsburg, Pa., March 5. j
Jacob Guyer died ear'v yesterday
morning at the home of his son, \\ il
liam J. Guyer, after two weeks' ill
ness of pneumohia. He was aged 64
and was a member of the First United
Brethren Church. He was a member
of Logan Lodge, No. 79, Knights of
Pythias, of Altoona.
His wife and two sons survive as
follows: \V. J. Guyer, of Mechanics
burg. and Frank Guyer, of Altoona.
Funeral services will be held to-mor
row morning at 10:30 o'clock con
ducted by the tlev. E. C. B. Castle and
burial will be made in Mechanicsburg
Cemetery.
MRS. CLARA BHICKEK
Mechanicsburg, Pa., March 3.
The death of Mrs. Clara Ann Briclcer,
wife of Joseph Bricker, occurred at
her home in Silver Spring township
on Friday evening, after severat years'
illness. The funeral service will be
held to-morrow atternoon at 2 o'clock
at the home of her daughter, iirs.
Eckert, in Silver Spring township, and
services will be conducted by the Ucv.
T J. Ferguson, of the Silver Spring
Presbyterian Church. Burial will bo
I made in St. John's cemetery.
JOHN" BINGOLS
Highmount, Pa., March 3. John
Bingols, aged 78, a veteran of the
Civil War, died at the Brethren Home.
During the war he was twice wounded.
He was the last of his family.
MISS MARY COOVKR
Mechanicsburg, Pa., March 5.
After a short illness, Miss Mary Coover
I died on Saturday morning at the home
lot Israel Miller, in Upper Allen town-
I ship. She was aged 68 and was a
| member of the Methodist Episcopal
j Church here.
I.EGAI. HEIRS NOT NAMED
Sunbury, Pa.. March a.—The will
of Mrs. Barbara Reis. who was found
I dead in bed at Milton, has been pro-
I bated. She was the widow of a retired
clothier. Zella Loeb, of Bich Hill, Mo.,
is given $200; Alma Loeb, of the same
! place, $25; George C. Chapin, a Mll
| ton banker, $100: Mrs. Theresa Bam
] berger, Cincinnati, 0., $100: Cornelia
' Reis and Theresa Reis, sllO each,
anc) Alfred Ulman, $25.
The residue is given to the legal
heirs of her husband, but the will
does not say who they are. It was
mad? December 1, 1915, and witness
ed by J. W. Eckman and S. C. Clem
ens.
WILL INITIATE CLASS
New Cumberland, Pa„ March 5.
Riverside Council No. 87, Order of
Independent Americans, will Initiate a
clawj of twelve members next Tuesday
evening, March 13.
RECEPTION FOR BAND
| Carlisle, Pa., March 5. Retired
| members of the Eighth Regiment band
| will this evening tender a banquet and
1 reception to the band which returned
1 from the' Mexican border a week Ago.
Prominent men will speak and a musi
cal program has been arranged.
Parent-Teachers' Winter
Session at Rockville
Rockville, Pa., March 5. On
Thursday evening the second winter •
session of the Parent-Teachers' League !
of Riverside, Coxestown and Rock
ville was held in the grammar school j
room at Rockville. Miss Mary Rudy, |
vice-president, called the meeting to!
order. "How Betsy Made the Flag," !
led by Miss Walter, was sung by the
school. A feature was an impromptu
exercise by the pupils of the grammar !
school.
Mrs. John Reily spoke on "Cheerful
ness: Mr. Minsker gave a. talk on ;
"Conservation of Song and Insectivor- j
ous Birds."
A temperance song "When We Are i
Old Enough to Vote," Miss Mary |
Horner, leading, was sung by the j
school.
Through the efforts of Mrs. J. W. j
Miller and Miss Mary Rudy, a library
with 9H volumes and others to follow !
has been added to the school. One of !
the late acquisitions to the school j
room is a "reading table."
ELI ROBERTS DIES
Columbia, Pa., March 5. Eli !
Roberts, one of the most widely known
farmers, and one of the widest resi
dems of Manor township, died at his '
home in Washingtonboro, aged 78
years. Mr. Roberts was the oldest l
member of the Church of God in that i
place, and had served nearly all his,
life as a school director in the!
borough. His wife, one daughter Mid
twe sons survive.
j
FOB RUN-DOWN PEOPLE
The condition of being "run-down" i
is one that doctors do not recognize as
a disease; the physician of today who
gets his training in a hospital where
severe disorders only are encountered
knows little about it. But those who
are run-down in health know that it
is not a fancied affliction.
The expression "run-down" comes 1
from the feeble artion of an unwound '
clock and the comparison is a good one.
Applied to heai h it means a condition
! ; n which all the bodily functions are
jnfeebled. , Appetite fails, the digestion
is impaired, the nerves are impoverish
;d, the complexion becomes pale, there
is no animation but rather, worry and
mental Jepression. Fatigue u a con
atant 3ymptom.
No particular organ doing affected
you must look for relief to the blood .
that cimlates everywhere. Improve- j
! mentin theblood isquickly feltthrough- |
; out the entire system and Dr Williams'
Pink Pills foi Pale People are the best
, and most convenient blood builders. !
As the blood becomes rich and red, the :
various organs regain their tone and I
the body recovers its vigor. If you have
•my or all of the above symptoms try j
the tonic treatment witb Dr. Williams* j
Pink Pills. Fifty cents a box at your
druggistf
MARCH 5, 1917.
Samuel J. Tritt, Former
Cumberland Surveyor, Dies
Carlisle, Pa., March s.—Samuel J.
Tritt, a well-known farmer and fruit
grower of Cumberland county, died
at his home at Cummingstown, on Sat
urday. He was county surveyor for 30
years, lie was 6s years old and is
survived by his wife and theße chil
dren: Mrs. Thomas B. Peffer, Le
moyne; William I'. Tritt, Cummings
town; Mrs. George H. Eckert, Mechan
iesburg; John C. Tritt and Mrs.
Tobias Hertzler, Cummingstown; also
a brother, John A. Tritt, of Carlisle.
Funeral services will be held from
the home to-morrow morning at 10
o'clock.
MRS. 11. A. KIIM'LK
Mrs. H. A. Kipple, aged 58, died
Saturday evening at her home, 1222
Walnut street. She is survived by
her husband and three children, Mar
garet. Harry and William, all of Har
risburif. Funeral services will be held
at the home Wednesday morning at
10 o'clock. Burial will be made in the
Hecktown cemetery.
BOOSTING UNION SHOES
H. S. Baxter, a representative of the
Boot and Shoe Workers Union is in
town as a representative of the Fed-
You are looking for real
down-right pleasure and I am
the fellow who can give it to i
you. My name is
KING OSCAR
5c CIGAR
Meet me any time anywhere,
or better yet keep me always
with you.
JOHN C. HERMAN & CO.
Makers.
eration of Labor endeavoring to inter
est dealers in shoes that bear a union
label. Members of the Federation are
instructed to wear no shoes except
those that bear the label.
TO lIK I,l* MICATK IA IST ARTICLES
Cards are being prepared by the
police department that will help them
to locate articles lost by pasengers of
the jitneys. The cards will call at
tention of the passenger to the num
ber of the jitney. Repeated complaints
from passengers in Jitneys who lost
articles caused the police department
to take this step.
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