l-MIDDLETOWfI- - * I The Middletown Auto Club will hold Its monthly meeting at the office of A. H. Luckenbill this evening. Charles Benson is spending some time at Lebanon. Harry Bauglimoyer and Miss Blanche Noll, both of town, were mar ried at the Lutheran parsonage on Tuesday evening by the Rev. Fuller Bergstresser. Thev left yesterday for Columbus, Ohio, where they will make their future home. Karl Ulmer will leave for Pittsburgh where he has secured a position. E. M. Colquhoun, general manager of the Wincroft Stove "Works and G. C. Daily returned home from a busi ness trip to Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Keiper have returned home from their wedding trip to Pittsburgh. W. J. Crater of Hummelstown, and Miss Jennie Balmer were married at A Special P Women's Coats Enables Us to Sell These S3O and $35 Values AT $ Coming, as it does, at the beginning of an early spring season and right after Easter, this special offering should prove doubly tempting to wo men of taste. They are mostly the new loose belted models with large flare, self or contrasting , collars—some of silk—fancy cuffs and deep trench pockets—lined with -a high grade quality silk. Made in a wide variety of the season's most popular fabrics and Spring's newest colors. For the younger girls there are several pleasing models of serge, poplin or wor steds in all the newest colorings. Specially priced at $6.50. Values up to SIO.OO. THE GLOBE Ladies * Coat Salon / REMOVED 7 RUDOLPH K. SPICER Funeral Director and Em balmer, to 511 N-orth Second Street l The cigar with a personality KING OSCAR 5c CIGAR J has been making new friends and hold ing the old ones for more than a quar ter of a century by being "always the same" and always good. JOHN C. HERMAN & CO. Makers THURSDAY EVENING, the home of Charles Brighter of Witherspoon avenue Tuesday evening, by the Rev. O. M. Kraybill. Mrs. Sarah Sherman who has been seriously ill is improved. Mrs. H. O. Barnhart returned to her home at Detroit, Mich. The citizens of Royalton will meet next Tuesday evening to discuss the organization of a fire coraany and the election of officers will likely take place. John Snyder has returned to his home at Lancaster. BRAZIL TO HOLD OFF Rio Janeiro, April 12.—1t is believed here that the government will confine itself for the present to the severance of diplomatic relations with Germany and that a declaration of war will not be issued, at least in the immediate fu ture. A decision aj to seizing the German ships' in Brazilian harbors has been postponed. The German minister | was given his passports at Petropolis last night. GOVERNOR ORDERS LAND CULTIVATED Forestry Commissioner and Valley Forge Superintendent Receive Instructions Governor Brum- V. \\ * //J baugh has called VvW jrvy upon the boards of xXXV\*X trustees of all State institutions, upon VJihigßKnSjJfJ Kobcrt S. Conklin, SnKpszsrvn State Foroat r y Commissioner, and ' u D° n W. 11. Sayen, r OHI president of the IValleylValley Forge Park Wg— . '-U-wa-J Commission, to de vote all available land under their care to the growing of crops to aid in the crisis of the na tion. In his communication the Gov ernor says: "Whatever land you have surround ing the State institution over which you are the legal guidance I wish you to plant at once with such foods as will be most likely to contribute in a large way to the sustenance of the wards of the Commonwealth in your care, and, if possible, to obtain a sur plus that may be added to the general stores so immediately necessary in this crisis of our Commonwealth and na tion. "You are at liberty to call upon the Department of Agriculture for any service or assistance you may desire, in order to carry out these provisions. "Let us show that the State itself ia awake to the seriousness of the situa tion and by the example set by you may the inspiration take possession of all the farmers and people of the Commonwealth to proceed at once in the important and patriotic service of increasing the food supply of our peo ple." Xcw Game Code.—The game code, introduced by Representative Milli ron, was reported in the House from the committee with amendments. The code now provides an open season for alt small game, excepting woodcock, opening November 1 and closing De cember 15. The opening date for woodcock is October 15. The limit on ruffled grouse was changed so the daily bag limit will be four birds, and the weekly and sea son limit twenty-four. The rabbit daily limit was fixed as it is at present, ten a day, with the weekly and season limit at sixty. The difficulty in arriving at a satis factory agreement on seasons was em phasized in the committee, and it is possible the Game Commission will be empowered to fix the time for each county. The idea is to enable the State to be divided into a northern and a southern zone. The Wild Life League and other sportsmen's organizations who pro tested against the late season for birds, preferring an earlier opening if the season were to last six weeks, have not yet decided what their course will be in regard to the bill. Small|x>x at Wampum.—Dr. H. L. llull of the State Department of Health, who went to Wampum bor ough. Lawrence county, yesterdaa to investigate the outbreak of smallpox reported to Doctor Dixon, has return ed. lie reported that smallpox had been existing in a mild form in the district for about two mqnths, and that during the last two weeks more violent cases had developed. Doctor Hull found eighteen cases. There was one family in which nine persons had had the disease, one contracting it by contact wiih another. It was found that some of the schools were not ob serving the vaccination law and Com missioner Dixon has warned the school boards that this must be done, and also notified all the doctors of Law rence county to observe all their cases closely and look for any symptoms that might be those of the first stages of smallpox. MAYOR RAPIDLY IMPROVES Mayor E. S. Meals is rapidly im proving in the Harrisburg Hospital The Mayor even orders his meals a day ahead "to be sure that he gels just what he likes." He laughs and jokes with his friends and assures them that he will be in "fightin" trim" in a day or two. fU A brush YOUR teeth with I D ALBODON I yy\AHt> THEY'LL BE CLEAN I Why Do You Brush Your Teeth? You brush your teeth, not because it is customary or a habit, but to keep them clean. It stands to reason that the dental I cream that will clean your teeth best is | that one which contains the highest I percentage of actual cleansing and j polishing properties. ALBODON is that Dental Cream Every dentist know M the formula Every dealer sells it Trial tube free on request to ! ALBODON CO., 154 W. ISth St.,N.Y. iThe Kosine Treatment for EPILEPSY tan be used with absolute confidence. It relieves all fear of the attacks which are so frequent in that terrible dis ease. MVe want every sufferer of lOpi lepsy to give the Kosine Treatment a trial, for the success of the treatment during the past fifteen years has proved the Kosine Treatment to be of unusual merit. Call at our store and get a larg bottle for $1 50. If, after using, you are not entirely satisfied your money will be refunded. Booklet giving: com plete dietary, etc., freo on request. George A. Gorgas, 1C North Third street. —Advertisement. A plnte without n roof, n hteli doea not Interfere with taste or speech. l'lateai repaired while you unit. Come In the morning, have yuur teeth made the name day. MJIPK'Q DENTAL mttvll O OFFICES 310 HAHKET BTHEIST V- ■ ■■-■J HXRRISBtmO TELEGRXPH NEWS OF S WAR INDICATIONS IN STEEL MARKET Higher Prices, Wage Increase and Scarcity of Labor This Week's Development Higher prices for pig iron and fin ished steel, greater scarcity of labor, and further wage advances, increased demand upon all steel and metal-work ing capacity to' fill enormous orders of the government—all are indicated by the developments of the first week of the war. The Iron Age in summarizing the situation to-day says: "The steel trade, to begin with, has to deal with 300,000 tons of Government orders for navy and other shipyard work. As much more for like work will be placed later. That the prices arrang ed—s2.9o for plates and $2.50 for bars and structural shapes—are less a hardship for the Steel Corporation than for any other manufacturer goes without sayii.g. How this low-priced tonnage will now be distributed is yet to be worked out. "The labor problem is giving no lit tle concern. Workers released by the expiring of foreign munitions con tracts are being absorbed by other lines of industry. When later the gov ernment places war orders on a large scale, many of these workers will be drawn back, but meanwhile recruiting will add to the scarcity of shop labor. Costs will increase at the same time thalr government orders carry prices far below those secured on the expir ing European contracts. "Filling the immediate requirements of the government does not appear formidable, considering the present output of more than 42,000,000 tops of steel ingots a year. But the demands upon iron and steel works directly and indirectly due to the billions of dollars the government and its allies will spend with American manufacturers in the coming year point to the fullest employment of capacity. The ques tion of increasing output is largely one of coke, and the coke problem is still a real one. "That the Steel Corporation, with a larger output in March than in three preceding months, still added 135,000 tons to its unfilled orders, is definite proof of the great strain upon the in dustry." State Work on House to House Canvas For New Red Cross Members Officers of the Steelton Red Cross society yesterday afternoon completed arrangements for a publicity campaign to increase its membership to 2,000. The town was divided into eight sec tions for a house to house canvass for members and Mrs. W. H. Nell was ap pointed on a committee in charge of this work. District chairmen will be appointed later. A new department in the local or ganization to be known as the cutting department was established and Mrs. John Bethel was appointed superinten dent. The officers decided to have the rooms at the Trinity parish house where the sewing is done, open Wed nesday afternoon and evening in ad dition to Friday afternoon. Steelton Snapshots Reception For Pastor. The Rev. W. H. Shaw, recently appointed pas tor of the " First Methodist Church, will be given a reception by church members in the social room of the church, Fourth and Pine streets, to morrow evening:. A program has been arranged for the affair. Class meeting.—The monthly meet ing of Mrs. Stees' Sunday school class of the First Methodist Church, will be held at the home of Mrs. Weaver, North Front street this evening. On Vacation. The Rev. G. N. Gauffer, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, and Airs. LaufCer, left yester day on a ten-days' vacation. They will spend the time In Gettysburg and in Maryland, returning April 22. Hoist l-arse Flag. Employes at the frog shop of the local steel plait yesterday at noon hoisted a large Ain erican flag above the building with patriotic ceremonies. William Fred ericks made a speech. As the flag was raised the men sang patriotic airs. Cosmopolitan Dance. The second formal Cosmopolitan dance will be held in Frey's Hall, Front and Pine streets, this evening at 9 o'clock. Mu sic will be furnished by Stauffer's Military orchestra. On the commit tee are: C. B. Shelley, Richard Mum ma, Frank Turano, Benjamin Sellers, Philip Waidley, Roy Shelley, Dr. H. M. Cumbler and Bart Shelley. Police Patrol Chauffeur. Night Sergeant I.eon Hand, who Is acting as chief of police until another man is appointed, is taking daily instructions on running the automobile purchased for the Highway department. The car will be used a.s a patrol at night arfd Burgess Wigfield announced to-day t hat it is likely the car would be used to run down automobile speeders through t he borough. Decorate With Flags. On nearly every desk "in the office of the local steel plant, Front and Swatara streets, employes have placed small flags. The office forces grasped by the patriotic wave that has caused many flags to be hoisted in the plant, have put these (\jiißS on the desks. l,eaue Business Mcetinsr. A busi ness meeting of the Epworth League of the First Methodist Church will be held to-morrow evening at 7.15 o'clock. * POLICE COURT HEARINGS Emma Donley, Myers street, will be given a hearing before Burgess Fred Wigfleld this evening on a charge of disorderly conduct. George Campbell, Adams street, charged with disorderly conduct, and resisting an officer will j be given a hearing by the Burgess to night. Patrolman Samuel Bowermas ter made the arrest. At a hearing be fore (he Burgess last night, Thomas Griffin, who said he was from New York, was lodged in jail for thirty days on a charge of disorderly con duct. ENTERTAINS CIRCLE General Reynolds Circle No. 34,1 Ladies of the G. A. R., held a special I meeting in honor of the Colonel Sim mons Circle No. 17, of Harrisburg. After the business session refresh ments were served to Mrs. Ncidhamer, of Wormleysburg; Mrs. Backenstoss, Mrs. Hodge, Mrs. Ettla, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Dougherty, Mrs. Shanness.v, Mrs. Danner, Mrs. Feeser, Mrs. Attick, Mrs. Hahn, all of Harrisburg; Mrs. Charles W. Peck, Mrs. Emma Frantz, Mrs. Emma Corbett, Mrs. Annie Stahler, Mrs. Conklin. Mrs. Mame Sherebocker, Mrs. Carrie Shrauder, Mrs. S. Keagle, all of Steelton. RUSS TAKE GRAIN April 12.—A Petrograd dis patch to Renter's says the provisional government has ordered all reserves of the 1916 harvest of corn and cereals which are tit for fodder to be placed at 'he disposal of the state. The en tire reserve of the 1917 harvest ex cept what Is required for seed and the needs of tile families of the peasants, has also been expropriated. PROVIDE MONEY FOR APPARATUS Councilman Gives Out Infor mation Concerning Additional Money For Garbage Trucks By increasing the amount of the borough's share of the intercepting sewer cost by $5,000, making it $30,- 000, Council plans to purchase two garbage trucks, which were to have been bought with t he fire apparatus under the $25,000 loan passed last year, according to a councilman to day. This is the solution to the question that has occupied the minds of many residents since council on Monday night purchased American LaFrance apparatus, over opposition by several councilmen. Council asked for permission to raise the bonded indebtedness of the borough $25,000, the money to be used in purchasing fire apparatus and garbage trucks. By purchasing six pieces of apparatus for $27,000 from the LaFrance people Council has al ready overstepped its amount by $2,- 000, and has not purchased the gar bage trucks. Business circles are still discussing councilman Obercash's resignation to day. Mr. Overcash resigned Monday evening, he said, because only one company was allowed to bid on the apparatus. A contract for the purchase of the apparatus is being drawn up and President T. J. Nelly said to-day that he expected to sign the agreement be fore the end of the week. Put Repaired Blast Furnace in Operation Xo. 5 blast furnace at the local steel plant which has been out of use for several weeks on account of repairs, was put in operation yesterday, bring bring the blast furnace production to the highest point ever known in the history of the local' plant. The battery of six furnaces will be kept in operation for about ten days and then No. 3 will be shut down for repairs. No. 5 furnace was shot down when No. B furnace, the largest type furnace in the plant, was put into op eration. HI'BKR-SN YDlilt WEDDING Raymond Huber, of Main street, Steelton, and Miss Eva Steela Snyder, of Mifflinvllle, were married by the Rev. G. W. Getz, pastor of the Main Street Church of God yesterday. The bride was attired in a graduate "of the Mifflinville high school fn class. 1015, and has been employed at Bacon's Candy factory, Harrisburg. Mr. Hu ber is employed at the recording de partment of the Steel worksfl After a brief wedding tour they will reside at the home of the groom's parents. SACRED MUSICAL The Church of God at Highspire will present a sacred musical in the church this evening. An offering for the benefit of the Easter fund will be taken. t MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POWDERS FOR CHILDREN, A CertiiolWitf for l-'ererlahnean, Constipation, Ueadßcbci, fliotaaob Traable*, Teething W.'rVJ! BV'L AWJIV. any tufeelitttt*. MOTHER GRAY CO., Le Roy, N. T. Who Ever Told you, Mr. Merchant, That a Woman Isn't ill a Business Man! TL THY, every home depends on a woman to get value for its income. fen -rgS In these days of high living costs, the housewife's business knowledge is the bulwark against r=s careless, unthinking, extravagant methods of some =5 old merchants—especially in his delivery service. S3 The American housewife knows! She likes to see =3 her packages come home in a sturdy, business-like, F" ' motor delivery truck which she knows is built for the pEE =3 purpose —the VIM Delivery Truck. EE§ The VIM truck is the car designed solely to meet package delivery needs. [Cheaper to operate 3 than a converted pleasure car —and always on the job. The VIM Delivery Truck can cover three times as rsi much territory as a horse and wagon. It does its EE Eg work at less expense than the converted pleasure car— |p— Esj saving of gasoline, tires and repair bills. It brings Rp=; =5 greater volume, more orders on the books, larger EE. 3 profits in spite of close margins—and cuts delivery EEE And the VIM Delivery Truck is the easiest delivery BpE unit on the market to buy —through our Deferred Pay- BsEE; 20,000 progressive American merchants are paying Ks= || for their VIM Trucks out of their delivery savings. jEEE Full information about the VIM plan on request EE Thoroughly equipped VIM Truck Sales and Service Station here in this city tor the benefit of VIM owners. | ANDREW REDMOND | THIRD AND BOYD STREETS P . I mjra Mi delivery wilfi car r-'il Th Chauu eelle for $64). Complete 11 ■■ wilh Open Eipreaa body. *695t with /A \ r J Closed Panel Lodv. $725. Ten other I atanderd bodies. All pries* r. O. a 'APRIL 12, 1917. EXPECT EVERY LOT TO BE CULTIVATED [Continued From First Page.] Boy Scouts, called a meeting of his troop lost night in an effort to aid the Chamber of Commerce in the garden work. He asked the boys of the troop how many would like to work on the farm during the sum mer and twelve responded to the call. Mr. McAllister then made applica tion for a section of the Bellevue Park grounds. The chamber will grant the section within several days. The scouts are anxious to reduce the high cost of living and other troops will no doubt take up the work soon. Teutons Want to Help George B. Kasadean, of 1018 Ilerr street, a Rumanian, who with his fam ily and a score of others came to this bountry several years ago, because of the oppression of the Austro-Hungar ian movement, applied at the cham ber offices yesterday for a plot of ground in that section. He stated that while living in his native land he followed the occupation of a farmer and that he was familiar with the work. When applying for the gar den plot he told the chamber that he wanted to help in any way possible. An aged colored man entered the office yesterday and applied for a plot of ground saying, "X waitf. a shot at the high cost of living." He gave his name as Lewis Moten, 622 North street, and said that he had been a Southern slave and was thoroughly familiar with tilling the soil. He wiil be given a pulot. Dozens of other applications were received yesterday and to-day. The Chamber of Commerce is anx ious to have every vacant lot in tho city, that is fertile enough to raise No More Stomach After Takin t Feels Ten Years Younger Now and Enjoys the Best Mrs. H. N. Holbrook, of Arko, Minn., who is seventy years old, has written to the Pinus laboratories that, thanks to Fruitola and Traxo, she is now very well and feels ten years ~ ' ■for ffl and 1 ' rnme diately began to feci bet ! Ed from the original Kdsall formulas B|| drug stores; a doctor's 1 * prescription ' j. s not necessary. Fruitola in a purn MnQ TT * T rrn, n T-> T.T fruit oil that acts as an intestinal MKo. ri. JN. nOLBROOK lubricant and disintegrates the hard _ , ~ , ened particles that cause so much suffering, discharging the accumulated waste to the sufferer's Intense re lief. One dose is usually sufficient to indicate its efficacy. Traxo is a tonic-alterativo that is most effective to rebuild and restore the weakened rundown system. A booklet of special interest to those who suffer from stomach trouble can be obtained by writing to the Pinus Laboratories. .Monticello, Illinois. -THORLEY'S DRUG STORE IS NOW LOCATED AT 404 BROAD STREET wmmm ** Mmmmmmgmmkmmmmm mm vegetables, under cultivation and re quests those who wish such plots to apply at the chamber office in the Kunkel building, for the same. The chamber also requests that those who have such lots und wish to turn them over for this work, notify the cham ber as soon as possible. Agricultural Committee to Meet The agricultural committee of the chamber will meet to-morrow after noon and further plans for the carry ing on of the work will be made. A. B. Shenk, Hershey, president of the Dauphin County Furm Bureau, will be present at the meeting and an ef fort will be made to have the farm agent employed at once instead of waiting until July 1, when government impropriations become available. Mr. Shenk writes as follows to the cham ber in regards to its suggestion that it would be glad to aid in having the county farm agent employed at once: Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce. E. L. McColgin, Secretary, Dear sir: Copy of your letter to Professor McDowell of State College (in charge of extension work and the establishment of county farm bu reaus) received. I heartily agree with your movement, and shall be glad to give what little aid I can. The Harrisburg Chamber of Som merce certainly deserves great credit for the work it is doing in the inter est. of the Dauphin county farmers. I agree with you that this is an op portune time to begin more intensive farming; both for the farmer and the consumer. Very truly yours, A. B. Shenlc, President, Dauphin County Farm Bureau. PENFIEI.D LEAVES FOR PAJIIS By Associated Press Geneva, April 12.—Frederic C. Pen' field, formerly United States Ambassa dor to Austria, and Allen W. Dulles, former third secretary of the embassy, have left for Paris. 13
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