2 TIMELY NEWS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND CITY'S SUBURBS 1 1867 GRADUATE I MAKES ADDRESS Justice J. Hay Brown Attends Gettysburg College Gradua tion Exercises Gettysburg, Pa., June 14.—Three Har- ; risburg young men were in the class | that yesterday graduated from Get- } tysburg College—Paul Edward Lau denslager, George William Schillinger I and William Andrew Boyson. Three | others took honors in scnolastic work ) during the year, I<awson Deacon Mat- ! ter receiving class honors In tne junior class; William Andrew Boyson the high honor in the biology depart ment, and Raymond Harrison White honorable mention In mathematics. At the graduating exercises the ad dress to the class was delivered by J. Hay Brown, chief justice of the Su preme Court of Pennsylvania. Jus- | tice Brown graduated from Gettys- j burg fifty years ago in the class of, 1867, and with him to-day were the | six other surviving members of the j class for their fiftieth reunion. Honorary degree* of Doctor of Di- i vintty were conferred upon the Rev. j Victor Miller of Hagerstown, the Rev. G. Albert Getty of York, the Rev. Al- , bert Bell of York, the Rev. Henry j Anstadt of Washington, D. C., and the ! Rev. Luther A. Weigle of New Haven, Conn; Doctor of Science, Edgar M. Green, M. D.. of Easton; Doctor of Literature, James McConaughy of Philadelphia: Doctor of Laws, Arthur G. McGiffert of New York City: Civil Engineer, Charles Alvin Emerson Jr. of Harrisburg. COL. A. FRANK SELTZER DIES Lebanon, Pa., June 14.—Colonel A. j Frank Seltzer, aged "9 years, died ! yesterday at ills home In Hathaway I Park, this city, following a long ill- j ness. For fifty-two years he was a j member of the Lebanon County Bar | Association and served a term as dls- | trict attorney from 1593 to 1596. He ! won a captain's commission in tiie j One Hundred Fifteenth Pennsylvania I volunteers, serving with the army of 1 the Potomac, and was appointed an j aid de camp on the staff of Governor | William A. Stone. He delivered lec- [ tures and contributed many humorous j articles to the newspapers and other i publications under the pen-name of! "Paul Grave." Auto Road Map Free Mailed on ItequCHt. HOTEL ADELPHIA Chestnut, nt mill St., Philadelphia, PR. 400 Rooms—4oo Baths Rothert Co. 312 Market St. Curtains Scrim-Marquisette in white and ivory yards long. $1.50 to $7.50 pr. Dutch Effects -j s jg ! in Scotch Madras natural j m color grounds with pink, / 'mm ! blue or yellow designs. IS flgl i $3.00 to $3.50 JfirS Drapery Department ' C LT^BH Second Floor Safeguard your casings •with New is the time to see that your tube A equipment is right and ready to meet the conditions of summer driving. You can't afford to chance ruining perfectly good casings with worn out tubes. Replace the old tubes now —before Fisk Week goes by. How long has it been since you ex- New Fisk Tubes NOW will gioe you amined your tubes? Look them over better tire satisfaction and lower upkeep carefully and teplace any which you costs for the balance of the season. This are not sure will stand the strain. is the time to buy. tTHE FISK RUBBER COMPANY General Officess Chlcopee Fella. Meat. Fl HARRISBURG BRANCH ||\3 19 So. Third St., Bet. Market St Chestnut Naarby Branch a* in Philadelphia. Reading, Alltntown Trfcir.TiTr and Baltimore This is Fisk Tube Week r# x . THURSDAY EVENING, Big Class to Graduate at Bucknell University Lewlsburg, Pa., June 14.—Buck nell University has been but lightly hit by war conditions and all Its plans for the oixtv-seventh annual Commencement, from Juno 15 to 20, will bo carried out as arranged. Degroes will be conferred upon a class of 121 students and diplomas will bo granted to twenty-ono stu dents in domestic science and twenty in music. Only a few of the grud { uates have left for military service j and these will be granted their dl- I plomas. On Sunday the first Important I exercises will take place when In 1 the morning President John How j ard Harris will deliver the bacca laureate sermon and in the even ing the Rev. Charles Abbett Walker, of West Chester, will give a sermon. Tuesday of next week will be the big alumni day. MISS NISSLEY TO GRADUATE Hummelstown, Pa., June 14. Miss Catharine Nissley, daughter of the late J. Paul Nissley, will be 1 graduated from Smith College, l Northampton, Massachusetts, this ■ week. Miss Nissley is a Hummels -1 town girl, being the granddaughter !of the late John J. Nissley and of , the late Dr. Thomas Fox. She is | very popular here and her host of ! friends will bo glad to hear of her graduation. She is an alumna of the local high school, class of 1913. During the past year she and her mother have lived In the college town, returning to Hummelstown during vacation. Her aunt, Miss Mary Fox, left yesterday for North ampton to attend the graduation exercises. MAY BE MURDER MYSTERY Hagerstown, Md., June 14.—Sheriff Isaac Long was called to Downsvllle district yesterday to investigate the; discovery of the bloodstained clothing, of a man found in the bushes at the I edge of a wood. A thorough search of the wood was made without finding any clue to what the officers believe is a murder mystery. There was no evidence of a struggle where the clothing was found. FINKSTOWN MERCHANT KILI.KD Hagerstown, Md., June 14.—George; W. Riner, a well-known merchant or | Funkstown, died at the Washington County Hospital here from injuries ■ sustained, by his horse scaring at a ] passing automobile, throwing him out upon his head on the state road. His skull was broken. COMPLAINT AGAINST RATES ' Carlisle, Pa., June 14.—That the increase was not properly advertised and that the rates were exorbitant were the principal features of the complaint to the Public Service Com mission sent by the Carlisle Chamber of Commerce to-day against the raise in rates of the Cumberland I.all way lines. | News Items of Interest in Central Pennsylvania Pottsvlllc.—Good roads day was ! obseryed here yesterday under i j the leadership of the Tamaqua Mo- I tor Club. Over 200 men and boys j with fifty teams and auto trucks | aided In Improving several miles of •: roads. i Ha/.lcton. —Soldam James, lieu j tenant of Battery A, Third Field Ar ' tellery, and son of .former Senator ] Edward F. James, sustained a frac i tured Jaw by being struck by the j crank of his father's automobile. Hazleton.—Henry Wolfo was lln led $36 here, and Newton Davis, John Reinhardt and Lionel Zlordt were fined $lO each by Mayor Har vey when arraigned on the' charge of being Involved in the sounding of a false alarm. Shenandoah. —John Hancheck, 27 years old, of Mahanoy Plane, was instantly killed at Lawrence Colliery when squeezed between cars. He had a wife in the old country. Mitnheim. —The estate of George H. Danner, who left the bulk of his wealth to found a charity here, has been estimated at $189,161. The fa mous museum is valued at $15,000. Stony Crek Mills.—Mrs. Pearson Groff, who some time ago shot her husband in the legs, was sentenced to pay a line of SSO and serve a year in the Berks county jail. The hus band asked for a lenieijt sentence for his wife. Aslilajid.—John Obenezer, 28. of Frackville, Pa., is dying at the State Hospital, from razor wounds on the head, face and neck. State police are looking for Louis Lewy, his al leged assailant. SHOT, THEN BI'RNED ALIVE Pittsburgh. Pa., June 14.—The body of an unknown white man, badly charred from the hips up, was found In a thicket near the Westmoreland j Allegheny county line, a short dts- J tance from Pitcairn. to-day. He had | been riddled with bullets, and then i saturated with carbon oil and burned, for the evident purpose of hiding the crime. Physicians are of opinion that the man was not dead when the torch was applied to his oil-soaked cloth ing. Shots were heard in the vicinity where the body was found at a late ' house last night. j SCHOOL TEACHERS ELECTED Hummelstown, Pa., June 14.—0n j Tuesday evening the school board ! elected teachers for the three va- I cant positions in the borough j schools. Miss Gertrude Kraber, of j Hanover, was elected to the sixth i grade as departmental teacher in | it, as well as the seventh and eighth ! grades. Miss Margaret Wetzel was | elected to the vacancy in the fourth I grade and the second grade choice j was held over until the next meet j ing bf the board on July 2. Suburban Notes HALIFAX, Jacob Sponsler and family of Luex now spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lebo. Miss Emma Miller is visiting rela tives at Washington, D. C., and Phila delphia. The Halifax Grange will hold a big festival in the Halifax Athletic Park on Saturday evening. All kinds of re freshments will be sold. Washington Camp No. 676, P. O. S. of A., will hold memorial services for deceased members on Sunday evening, commencing at 5.45 o'clock. The graves will be decorated at this time. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bowman of Altoona were week-end guests of Mrs. | G. W. Westfall. ! Peter Bressler of Duncannon is vls ! iting at the home of Z. T. Lebo. Frank Brubaker of Coatesville is visiting his father, Harry Brubaker. Harvey Enders is spending some time at Logansport, Ind., and Spokane, | Wash. i Children's Day exercises will be j held in the United Brethren Church ; on Sunday evening, beginning at 6.30 j o'clock. A special program will be rendered and there will be some good music. HUMMELSTOWN Miss Annie Nye spent a day at | Harrisburg. j The sale of Liberty bonds in Hum melstown has now reached the $53,- | 000 mark. Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Hershey and : children, of Hershey, was callers on Mrs. Hershey's mother, Mrs. B. F. Rohrer. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Gates are visiting Mrs. Gates' parents prepara tory to leaving for Indianapolis, Ind. Miss Minnie Basom is spending j the week at Frederick, Md. HARRIS BURG FFSJFIFF TELEGRAPH WEST SHORE NEWS Social and Personal News of Towns Along West Shore Frank E. Ebner, attorney-at-law of Brainerd, Minn., spent several days with his sisters, Mary and Flora Eb ner and Mrs. Clayton Miller, all of Market street. New Cumberlsmd. Mr. and Mrs. John Spangler and son Curtis of Wellsville rilotored to Shire manstown, where they visited Mrs. Spangler's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Bentz. Mrs. Hattle Berger has returned to Harrisburg after visiting Mrs. H. M. Rupp at Shlremanstown. Miss Effie Brinton and Miss Grace Brinton of Shiremaftstown are visit ing their brother at Camp Hill. Mrs. William Bates has returned to her home in Harrisburg afttr being the guest of Mrs. Samuel Bates and Miss Susan Mater at Shlremanstown. Mrs. Scott Brinton and son Charles of Camp Hill spent Sunday with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Brinton, at Shiremanstown. Mrs. Benjamin Clark and Mrs. Eliz abeth Bender of Letort Springs spent Tuesday with the latter's relatives at Shiremanstown. Mrs. Rae Harlaeher of Harrisburg spent a day recently with lier parents, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Stansfleld, at Shiremanstown. Mrs. Bertha Strock and two children of Harrisburg are spending some time with the former's parents, Mr. and Mm. H. M. Zearing. at Shiremanstown. Mrs. Clarissa Sterrlt, of Pitts burg:, Kansas, visited her niece, Mrs. Jessie Sipe, at New Cumberland. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rheam and children, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Houck, ut New Cum berland, have returned to their home In Bellwood. SUIT FOR EMBEZZLEMENT Carlisle, Pa., June 14.—Charged with fjifse pretense and embezzle ment. John C. Gill, a Harrisburg real estate dealer, has been committed to jail by Justice W. G. Hughes, in de fault of SBOO bail. A detainer from Dauphin county has also been lodg ed on another charge against the man. It is claimed that Gill had a contract for the sale of real estate of ,T. H. Renneker, of Mechanicsbtirg, and that after this had expired he sold the property in question to Sey mour Sherman, of that town, secur ing SIOO, and that he never made a report to his principal. PARTY ON BIRTHDAY Enola, Pa., June 14. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Weigle entertained at their home last night in honor of their daughter Mary's seventh birthday. The home was decorated with flags and flowers. Refresh ments were served to Gladys Kline, Elizabeth Concklin, Marguerite Tar man, Isabel Ringland, Martha Whistler, Dorothy Horting, Mary Rtngland, Gladys Haehnlen, Helena Concklin, Catherine Welker, Mil dred Rockey, Leslie Patterson. Edna Kuntzelman, James Rockey, Donald Vogelsong, Frederick Rockey, Ed win Shell, Mr. and Mrs. Cripple, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Rockey. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Welker and Mr. and Mrs. Weigle. WEATHER PREVENTS OILING Lemoyne, Pa., June 14.—Rainy weather of the last ten days has proven disastrous to the oil fund of the Lemoyne Welfare League. The league was unable to have the oil placed on the streets on account of the weather and was compelled to pay a demurrage on the car where the oil is stored. The car has been on a siding at the Indian Reflning Com pany for more than ten days. Pome of the oil has been applied and efforts are now being made to have the work finished. HEALTH BOARD REORGANIZES Wormteysburg, Pa., June 14.—At a meeting of the Board of Health Tues day night, officers were elected and the board reorganized. Burgess J. Fred Hummel swore in George Kis inger as president of the board. Roy Bruce was made health officer ana Coover Neidhammer was named a member of the board. The other mem bers of the body are: Harold Danner. Booker Myers and J. S. Ort. There are yet • two vacancies in public of fices in the town. A councilman and a constable are yet to be elected. CHURCH PICNIC Camp Hill. Pa.. June 14.—The Camp Hill Methodist Church held its annual picnic at Boiling Springs Park to-day. Two cars conveyed the picnickers to the parks and many went in automo biles and on the regular cars. A fine program of races, contests and usual picnic sports was followed out. The picnickers will return at 9 o'clock to night. SOLDIER PROMOTED New Cumberland, Pa., June 14. Howard Nelson, who came to New Cumberland May 6, with five other members of Company F, First regi ment, U. S. N. G., to guard the rail road bridge at the mouth of the Yellow Breeches creek, has been promoted to corporal and was sent to Philadelphia yesterday to recruit men for the company. NO PREACHING SERVICES New Cumberland, Pa.. June 14. There will be no preaching services in the Church of God, Lutheran or Trinity United Brethren Churches on Sunday night. At Baughman Me morial Methodist Church the bacca laureate sermon will be delivered by the Rev. A. G. Wolf, pastor of St. Paul's Lutheran Church. ADDRESS BY EDITOR Enola, Pa., June 14.—C. William Thompson, editor of the York La bor News, gave an open air address last night on the subject, "The High Cost of Living; How to Meet It." Mr. Thompson came here in the in terest of the local Socialist organi zation. ALUMNI ENTERTAINMENT Lemoyne, Pa., June 14.—Lemoyne High School Alumni Association will hold a public meeting and entertain ment In the high school auditorium this evening. One of the most inter esting debates will be discussed at this meeting. The subject Is. "Re solved. That United States should send an army to Germany." An ex tensive program has been arranged. CAMP HILL COUNCIL MEETING Camp Hill, Pa., June I.4—Borough council will meet at the Camp Hill flrehouse to-night. Debts Incurred in repairing and oiling Market street will be paid. An ordinance to request the water company and the gas com pany to lay pipes next spring in prep aration for paving Market street will be introduced. ANNOUNCE BIRTH OF SON Enola, Pa., June 14, — Mr- and Mrs. L. B. McCaleb, Wyoming ave nue. announce the birth of a son on Sunday, June 10. Hailstones Hauled Away { Week After Big Storm Waynesboro, Pa., June 14.—As in the case of the poor, we seem destined to have the nail ever with us. Last Wednesday the storm and flood tilled the Bank of Waynesboro building, in which the post office is located, with tons and boatloads of hail, swept from the public square In the swirl and lashing of the deluge at that point. They are still harvesting hall there. Yesterday several cartloads of hailstones were taken from the cel lar and hauled out to the dump. Some as large as walnuts were removed from the building after they had been there for a week. MOTORCYCLE RIUEIt HURT Hagerstown, Md., June 23.—Arthur Baker, aged 19. of Roxbury, while rid ing a motorcycle to this city to go to work at the Western Maryland Rail road transfer sheds, was fa_tally In jured by his machine being struck by a big touring car. The accident oc curred on the state road at "Death Curve," where half a dozen fatalities have happened. SCHOOL PRINCIPAL ELECTED Marietta. Pa., June 14.—Prof. J. \V. Bucher of Ephrata has" been elected supervising principal of the Marietta schools and principal of the hlgn school. Miss Gherst and Miss Roddy were re-elected assistants. The tax rate was fixed at eight mills. \' •**.'•* ' '> ilPPiiP '' \ • ••••• "V ► --< "■ CHJCUt COMPANY manager of the Claridge Hotel, Times Square, New York City, says: When I find myself under a mental strain I chew Adams Pepsin Gum and get relief. Its soothing effect on the nerves is remarkable." Adams PE P S 1 N * THE BIG BUSINESS-MANS GUM / ; Cooling Peppermint Flavor 2,000 Attend Second Picnic of Cumberland Co. Grange Boiling Springs, Pa., June 14. — Yesterday the second picnic of Cum berland County Pomona Grange, No. 2, was held here, with about 2,000 grangers and farmers in at tendance. Guy Carlton Lee, of Car lisle, member of Penn Grange, made the address of welcome, which was responded to by Dr. Ezra Lehman, principal of the Shippensburg State Normal school, a member of Middle Spring Grange. Dr. H. H. Longa- Uorf, chairman of committee of canning and drying of Public Safety committee of Cumberland county, arranged a schedule of canning demonstrations throughout the county. _ Tho Rev. H. B. Stock, of Carlisle,' spoke of the difficulty of getting rural membership to the American Red Cross in a stirring half-hour appeal. The Pomona Grange endorsed en masse the American Red Cross and pledged efforts to form rural chap ters in grange centers. OLD EMPLOYE RESIGNS Waynesboro, Pa., June 14.—Captain William Wallace has resigned his po sition as engineman for the Emer son-Brantingham Company, hls'reslg nation taking effect to-day. Captain Wallace ran the locomotive for the Geiser Company and Its successor, the Emerson-Brantlngham Company, for thirty-nine years. JUNE W, 1917.; Carlisle Buys $225,000 in Liberty Loan Bonds Carlisle, Pa., June 14. —The last drive for Liberty Loan bonds was on to-day with a corps of women enlist ed to aid in the work. I These wom en, headed by Mrs. E. W. Biddle, raised . a fund of $18,400 among themselves in twelve houfs, which was subscribed toward the Issue. T'he latest report showed over $225,000 given in Carlisle alone, -vCitH the county total near three-quarters of a million. GIRL'S ASSAILANT JAILED Sunbury, Pa., June 14.—Benjamin Povis, of Shamokin, has been com mitted to jail here charged with the attempted murder of Miss Madeline Madara, at a. pleasure park near there several weeks ago. The young woman's clothes were nearly torn off and an arm nearly torn from the socket. The girl, still in the Sha mokin State Hospital, refuses to talk about how the injury took place. BOY DROWNS IN RIVER Sunbury, Pa.. June 14. —His first attempt to go bathing in his life re sulted fatally for Leroy Neidlg, 10 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Am brose Neidig, of Sunbury, last night. The boy plunged off a fiat in ten feet of water, paddled a short distance, went down twice, then a third time, and was seen no more. FARMERS MUST REPLANT FIELDS Corn, Wheat, Hay and Pota toes Ruined by Franklin County Hailstorm Waynesboro, Pa., June 14.—Farmer* who lost all their crops of wheat and most of the hay. together with their crop of fruit and some portion of their corn, through the hailstorm, have be gun to prepare these fields for other crops. The wheat fields will be plant ed with corn—mostly sweet corn beans, potatoes and other truck. It Is thought that a large percentage of the early potato crop will be saved, al though the vines were cut Into shreds and nothing was left by the stalks. The leaves have begun to shoot out again and it is thought that a fair crop will be harvested. NEW CHIEF OF POLICE Waynesboro, Pa., June 14.—William F. Gillan has been appointed chief of police for Waynesßoro, to succeed Stephen W. Staley, resigned. He en tered upon his duties last night.
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