wr ■^^Jj^s/Btftj^^^^^, ll ! Br | k i ■ XM \\ Jdsjrin hk ' v_i = B*y jfl £■■ H VCk-jS It. w - ■, ..••/ Y x - \ • i Bi***rß c/ ' // WELL TRAINED OF RED CROSS GIRLS HERE READY FOR WAR Society Girls Pass First Aid, Elementary Hygiene and Sur gical Dressing Examinaions With Splendid Marks; Will Respond Immediately to Call For Vol unteers For Work of Mercy Realizing the need of well trained ■workers in el<*mentary Red Cross ser • vice during an emergency, a movement was started in Harrisburg for the or ganization of classes to receive this special training. The local classes are known as Red Cross Chapters and are under the direction of the American Red Cross in Washington. The texts of the lessons are sent from Washington, as are also the final ex aminations. This final examination given after the members have finished the course entitles them, if satisfactorily passed to a certificate of qualification in "First Aid" and 'Elementary Hygiene." All persons taking the lessons and quali fying are registered at Red Cross head quarters in Washington and are sub ject to voluntary call at any time.. The surgical dressing class is, as the name signifies, intended for home but not active field service. I.earn First Aid Miss Hattie R. Ensminger, the only qualified Red Cross nurse in the city was selected as the instructress of tho first class.. Since that time she has liad all charge of the lessons in ele mentary hygiene and in surgical dress ing. Dr. Georee B. Kunkel instructed the classes in "First Aid." Miss Ensmifiger has also had charge of a similar organization in Steelton which will complete the course of les sons within a few weeks. The first class of which Mrs. E. W. Riley is president was organized one To Truck We carry a complete line of Goodrich Truck Tires always in stock. Our modern Hydraulic Pres* equipment operated by skilled workmen makes possible our very efficient tire service to tire operators. 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Magoun, Miss Elizabeth Kennedy, Miss Mary McLain, j Miss Mary Sponsler, Miss Elizabeth Knisely and Miss Katherine Hart. I Group 2: Miss Bailey's class, which finished the course March 1, includes I Miss Helen Hammond, Mis 9 Virginia ! King, Miss Dora Coe, Miss Frances Bailey, Miss Constance Ferriday, Miss S Helen Armor, Miss Sara Denehey, Mrs. jOarl B. Ely and Miss Katherine Etter. j Group 3: The class in surgical dress ing includes Mrs. peorge A. Matson, president; Mrs. Frank Black. Mrs. j Roy P. M. Davis, Miss Mary Boas, Mrs. 1 Carl B. Ely, Mrs. Berne Evans. Mrs. James I. Chamberlin, Miss Martha Fletcher. Miss Katherine Gorgas, Miss Marion Hean, Mrs. Chandler Hale, Miss Anne Hershey. Mrs. E. E. Law ton. Mrs. V. F. LeCoq. Miss Sara Mc culloch. Miss Anne McCormick, Mrs. M. E. Olmsted, Miss Elizabeth Ross, Mrs. Edward F. Rowe, Mrs. Mercer B. Tate, Miss Helen Viceroy, and Miss Muriel Warner. SEEDS TO PLANT 50,000 FEET OF GROUND COMING National Emergency Food Gar den Association Rushing Shipment Here Garden seeds sufficient to plant 50,- 000 square feet of ground and worth 1100, the gift of the National Emergen cy Food Garden Commission, Washing ton, D. C., are expected by the HAR RISBURG TELEGRAPH within a few days. Notification of shipment was received this morning. The seeds will be turned over to the Harrisburg Benevolent Association, which will distribute them. Those fam ilies who are deeply Interested in their gardens and who cannot afford to bujf a large selection of seeds will be sup plied first. The Associated Aid So ciety has received requests from more than SO city residents for guidance in making gardens, and the names of those who have also asked for seeds are given to the Harrisburg Benevo lent Association. If you nant n selection of theae need* aend in your name now to the llarrtaburg Benevolent Aaaoclatlon or the Associated Aid Soeletlea. The sop ply still be exhausted within a few daya after their arrival. Percival S. Rldsdale, executive sec retary of the National Emergency Food Garden Commission, in a com munication to the HARRISBURG TEL EGRAPH, says: Grateful For Co-operntlon "This gift is made through your paper to your city, on account of the enthusiastic co-operation which your papdr has been giving us in extending the food planting movement in your city. We very greatly appreciate all your efforts and hope that you will continue. X am sending you in separ eat package fifty primers on food gar den, which will be of service in con nection to the planting of these seeds. A list of the seeds in each collection is enclosed." 23 Seleetlon* of Seed • In the package there are 25 selec tions of seeds, each selection being enough for a space 40 by 50 feet, or they can be divided into 50 selections, enough for 50, spaces of 20 by 60 feet. Each of the selections contain the fol lowing: Six quarts assorted beans, sufficient for six 50-foot rows, 2>,i feet apart. One pint dwarf beans, sufficient for one 50-foot row, 2M feet apart. One ounce parsnips, sufficient for one 50-foot row, 2H feet apart. Two packets lettuce, sufficient for one 50-foot row, IV4 feet apart. Two ounces beets, sufficient for two 50-foot rows, 1% feet apart. One ounce Swiss chard, sufficient for one 50-foot row, 1% feet apart. One-fourth pound carrot, sufficient for three 50-foot rows, 1% feet apart. One ounce onions, sufficient for one row, IV4 feet apart. One ounce radish, sufficient for one 50-foot row, 1',4 feet apart. Two packages tomatoes, sufficient for two 50-foot rows, 3% feet apart. ARM BURNED AT FIKE New Cumberland, Pa., April 7. About 12 o'clock last night a fire broke out about ft chimney at the home of Lloyd Hlppensteel here, which for a time threatened to spread, on account of the high wind, but by prompt action of the firemen and neighbors the flames were extinguish ed. Mr. Hlppensteel Is employed at the Harrisburg postofllce and usually comes from work on the last car. When he reached the house at mid night he funelled smoke and -ran across the street to the home of Fire Chief Harry Baker, who immediately gave the alarm and the firemen re sponded, In trying to extinguish the flames, which werf burning in a par tition and under the slate roof, Mr, Hlppensteel had his arm severely burned. The damage to the liouee Is small, KABTKH AT ST, JOHN'S Shiremanstown, Pa„ April T, — Easter at St, John's will be a day of rejoicing, At the morning service Mrs, George Kubacher will play ''Mar che Pontificals," by Lemons, and Al legro in E Minor by Bach, The usual Easter procession of the vested choir bearing Easter 11 lie, will be seen at this service. Mrs, Joseph L, Doug herty will sing ''Christ Is Risen," by Dressier, and the vested choir wiil sing, '"Awake Thou That Sleepest," by Stainer, Tho theme of the u. HARRISBURQ tfsfcftl TELEGtTLPH K. Lantz's sermon will be "The Risen Redeemer." Besides receiving new members, both sacraments will be ad ministered and the usual Easter offer ing for church extension will be re ceived. Easter vespers will be jointly cele brated by the Bible school and con gregation at seven o'clock. Easter carols will be sung; the Easter cross tilled with Easter lilltes, and Miss Agnes Mollis Ising will sing "Alleluia Christ Is Risen," by Heeley. The or ganist will give a short recital before the service opens. "Purr" and "Punch" Two Power Ranges Combine These in the Peerles The delectable purr of an ideally soft, smooth, flexible motor may now be had in a car capable of stupendous feats of power and speed. Two Power Ranges make the Peerless Bight a car of "dual personality"—of un believable contrasts of performance. A "Loafing* 9 Range For all ordinary driving you will use its "loafing'* range. In this range it performs all those feat# of smoothness which distinguish the really fine from the ordinary car in the every day service of an exacting owner. And in this range it is on half rations, con suming fuel so sparingly as to shame many a lesser powered six—even many a four. A "Sporting" Range Among the finer cars of the day, there are a few ' n A A which pretend no compromise with the demand for Jr the gentler virtues of soft, smooth flexibility. Such Tf I^l cars are out and out exponents of the more rugged & virtues of brute power and speed. In its "sporting" Cfy !£ /■ range the Peerless is ready to vie with such cars in 'W/ that me their own chosen field. name implies" your motor car will mean to you when you can run the whole gamut of motor car jj&SBpST \ftlf tK performance with one and the same car— KEYSTONE (Peerless Eii/h f KACIXG STABLES BI'RX By Associated Press New York, April 7.—Club houses, stables and grandstands at the Bel mont Park race track on the outskirts of Brooklyn were almost entirely de stroyed early to-day by fire. The dam age is estimated at $175,000. Night watchmen said that the flames burst out in five places at once. The police are hunting for an incendiary. APRIL 7, 1917. OSCAR STRAWBRIDGE WES | Mount Joy, Pa., April 7. Oscar Strawbridge, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Strawbridge, died on Thursday at his parents' home at Bainbridge after a short illness. He was 12 years old and is survived by his parents and one brother, Herbert. The funeral will take place to-morrow afternoon at 1 o'clock with burial in the Bainbridge Cemetery. 13 FIVE DAYS IN OX'KX BOATS By Associated Press London, April 7. A Rotterdam dispatch to the Times says that the steamer Borneo is bringing to Yumi den seventeen members of the crew ot' the Danish steamer Esther, which lias been sunk.. The men had been live days in open boats in snowstorms when they were rescued and tlio ma jority were unable to walk. The Belgian relief ship Trevier is reported to have been still afloat on Thursday afternoon.
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