COLLECTOR DAVIS
EXPLAINS TAXES
Liquors, Sugar, Automobiles
And Many Other Articles
Affected
The following taxes will be imposed
when the revenue bill now pending
before Congress becomes effective, as
it undoubtedly will. Collector of In
ternal Revenue B. F. Davis, of this
district, announces-:
A tax of $2.10 on each proof gallon
of distilled spirits in addition to the
tax now imposed by existing law.
This tax will apply to all distilled
spirits held by a retailer in ?xcess of
fifty gallons, or by any other person,
corporation, partnership or associa
tion In any quantity.
A tax of 15 cents on each proof gal
lon of rectified spirits; an additional
♦.ax of $1.50 on each barrel of beer; an
additional tax of sl.lO per gallon on
still wines, cordials, etc. if fortified
and contain more than 14 per cent, of
alcohol; if not fortified an additional
tax equal to the amount now imposed.
All wine held for sale in excess of
twenty-five gallons will be subject to
the additional tax.
Prepared sirups or extracts for use
In making soft drinks at soda foun
tains and bottling establishments, a
tax of 3 cents to 12 cents a gallon,
according to sale prices of same.
Unfermented grape juices, artificial
mineral water (not carbonated), soft
drinks, ginger ale. root beer, sarsa
parilla pop if sold by a manufacturer,
producer or importer of carbonic acid
gas. 1 cent per gallon.
Natural mineral waters, or table
waters, if sold by the producer, bot
tler or importer, in bottles or other
closed containers for more than 10
cents jier gallon, 1 cent per gallon.
Carbonic acid gas in drums or other
containers if sold for the manufac
ture of soft drinks. 5 cents per pound.
Cigars in addition to the present
tax of $3 per thousand, from SI.OO to
$7.00, according to retail price of
same.
Cigarets, "5 cent* additional per
thousand. Tobacco and snuff, 4 cents
per pound additional. The additional
tax on cigars, cigarets. tobacco and
Your Morning Toast
Your morning toait a Nperlal
delight uhen It's made on the
table with thl Electric Toam
er. It'* crlnp, delight fully
crinkly, and browned juat right
In 9 minute or two.
Dauphin
Electrical Supplies Co.
436 Market Street
Willow Grove
Excursions
Sundays, August 26,
September 2 and 9
SPECIAL EXCURSION* TRAIN*
! Spec'l
FROM FAREj I .v. a.m.
Harrisburg $2.50 ' 6.00
Humiiiclstown ... 2.50 j 6.18
Swatara 2.50 [ 6.24
Hershey ........ 2.50 j 6.27
Palmyra 2.50 6.35
Annvillc 2.50 | 6.45
Lebanon 2.50 6.57
Myerstown 2.40 7.11
AT. Willow Grove 10.15
Returning, Special Train will
leave Willow Grove 9.00 1\ 31. for
above stations.
Tickets good only on date of
excursion on above Special Train
in each direction. Children be
tween 5 and 12 years of age half
fare.
Free Concert Afternoon and
Evening
SOUS A AND HIS BAND
V- J
Resorts
ATLANTIC CITY, X. J.
LEXINGTON
Pacific and Arkansas Aves Running wutar In
rooms. Private Baths. Music-Dancing. Cap 600.
$9.00 up weekly-$2.00 up daily
Includca table supplied with best market sffords.
Only hotel where guests fro to surf in bathing
suits without using streets. Bath houses free.
Grounds Adjoin Beach and Boardwalk
Open surroundings. Fireproof Garage. Booklet
. CONTINENTAL
I Tennessee ave.. near Beach; alwaysoren; prl-
I vste baths; running wster in rooms; elerstor;
j excellent tab'e; white service; orchestra,
j Am }>lan ; 12.60 up dsiy : 112 to |s>> week'y.
[ Eookiem. Garage. M. frALSH DUNCAN.
SM IS. 51i.50.517.5, W#Wkty—Jl.Jo to 11.50 Dally
OSBORNE
Pacific and Arkanaaa Ave. 100 yd a. from Beach.
BATHING ALLOWED fROM HOTEL
New Rooms With Private Bath
100 ROOMS WITH RUNNING WATER
Orch. Dancing. Elevator. Ex. Table.Whiteaerrka
Garage. Cap. 30Q. E~eklt. MBCELEY A.
NELLUNIDV Virginia av. 2d
house from Beach.
1 minute to Steal Pief, eitallect cui
sine; white service; private baths;
running water; elevator to street
level. Capacity 250. Special $12.10 up
weekly: 12.50 up dally. E. H. LUND'.T.
HOTEL SILVERTON
Beach and Piers. Elevator. Open sur
roundings. Capacity 200. up weekly,
♦ 1.50 up dally. Excellent table, fresh
vegetables, white service, homelike.
Bathing from hotel. Booklet.
JOHNSTON & HASLETT.
WILD WOOD. It. J.
SAVOY HOTEL
Surf Avenue and Beach. 200 feet
from Ocean Pier; private baths,
££Rsv 200 - Booklet. W. H. GER
STEL. Owner and Manager.
CONTINENT
WEDNEbpAY EVENING, HABHISBURG TELEGRAPH AUGUST 22, 1917.
snuff to be imposed ten days after
enactment of act.
Cigars in the hands of dealers in
excess of 500, tobacco and snuff in
excers of 100 pounds, and cigarets in
exceet of 1.000 will be taxed at one
half the additional tax. An inventory
of stock on hand must be taken by
dealers on the day the act Is' passed.
Autoa Tnxed
Cigar.et papers. 1 cent per 100
sheets; 2 cents per 100 tubes.
A tax of 3 per cent, of amount paid
for transportation of all freight. 1
cent for each 25 cents paid for ex
press packages, 5 per cent, of amount
paid for fares by rail or water, in
cluding mileage books, and a like
amount for seats, berths and state
rooms on parlor cars, sleeping cars
and vessels; 5 per cent, of amount
paid for transportation of oil by pipe
line.
Five per cent, for each telephone or
telegraph dispatch, message or con
versation for which a charge of 15
or more is made.
Motorcycles. $2.50 per year. Auto
mobiles, from $5 to $lO per year, ac
cording to the listed retail price of
same. Tax on automobile reduced 10
per cent, for each twelve months
elapsed since original sale, not to ex
ceed 50 per cent. Automobiles used
exclusively for business not taxable.
Powerboats and motorboats subject
to tax according to slee of boat.
A tax of 2 per cent, of the price at
which sold on all tennis rackets, golf
clubs, baseball bets, lacrosse sticks,
balls of all kinds, fishing rods and
reels, billiard and pool tables, chess
and checker boards, dice games ex
cept children's games.
Theater Tickets Taxed
A tax of 2 per cent, of sale price of
all toilet article.'*, and proprietary
medicines and cameras.
Tax of l cent on each 10 cents or
fraction thereof paid for admission
to theaters, moving picture shows and
other places of amusement. Religious
and educational societies and agricul
tural fairs not taxable.
A tax is imposed upon all bonds,
deeds, documents, stock certificates
and other instruments.
Parcel post packages weighing
more than four ounces. 1 cent for each
25 cents paid.
Additional tax on playing cards, 3
cents to S cents per pack.
Tax of 2 cents per pound on coffee.
5 cents per pound on tea, 5 cents per
pound on manufactured cocoa and
chocolate, cent per pound on sugar.
1 cent to 2 cents per gallon on mo
lasses, Coffee in excess of 200 pounds,
tea in excess of fifty pounds, sugar in
excess of 500 pounds and molasses in
excess of fifty gollans in hands of re
tailers will be subject to above tax.
SOLDIER IMPROVING
Arthur E. A, ungst, who is sta
tioned at the camp, neqr Browns
ville, Tex., had an accident while
cleaning his gun.
Some acid used in the operation
splashed into his eyef. A letter
received by his mother at Penbrook
yesterday, however, said he was im
proving and the surgeon had assured
him that his eyes would soon be as
good as ever.
Use McNeil's Pain Exterminator--Ad
AMUSEMENTS
Q BPHEU M
Tomorrow
F. W. G Kit HARDY Presents
THE MISCHIEF
MAKERS
FI LL OF GINGER AMD LAUGHS
Monday ELT Aug. 27
I*. J. Kelly find Robt. Campbell
Offer
Frederick V. Bowers
In the Musical Comedy Sucre**
"His Bridal Night"
With the WAR REX TWINS and
Exceptional Cn*t
Augmented Orchestra
Seats i St .50, *I.OO, 75e, 50c, 25c.
MAIL ORDERS XOW
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TO-DAY OXLY
Olive Thomas
The Moat Photographed American
Beauty In
"Madcap Madge"
TO-MORROW
Her Excellency The
Governor
A Drama of Love and Politics
With WILFRED LUCAS
Friday and Saturday
The Message of the Mouse |
Regent Theater
A Nation Obeyed Her Command
IX THE WOULD SINCE HISTORY BEG AX
JOAN OF ARC
stands supreme as the greatest woman who ever lived. Ignor
ant. unlettered, she rose from a peasant's hearth until, within a
short span of two years, she stood beside kings.
At seventeen, years of age she was commander-in-chief of
the French armies. At nineteen she was burned at the stake
by the people she loved. They did not understand.
It is a story which has thrilled men, women and children
through the centuries. Now it Is told, beautifully, wonder
fully by the marvelous motion picture.
Geraldine Farrar
A. the Immortal Maid of Orleans In Cecil B. DeMHle's
Cinema Masterpiece
"Joan the Woman"
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
August 27, 28, 29, 30
ADMISSION 150 AND 250
BIG FOOD SURVEY
TO START TODAY
Federal and State Authorities
Will Find Out How Much
Food Is on Hand
Uncle Sam and Father Penn to
days began a general survey of the
food supplies held in the retail and
wholesale fcrocery bouses of the state
to ascertain the extent of holdings of
such supplies as are needed for army
rations. The work is under the joint
auspices of federal and state agents
and bega:i In Blair and Butler coun
ties with investigations booked for
Altoona, Tyrone, Juniata and Butler.
Dr. Clement S. Brinton, chemist of
the United States Bureau of Chem
istry. and J. B. Kethe, United States
Food and Drug Inspector, will be
assisted in the work by 11. M. Good
erham, of Patton, and M. H. Neafter,
of Altoona, agents of the dairy and
lood bureau of the State Department
of Agriculture.
The sur\ ey Is being made tinder
the recently enacted food law and
every dealer must respond to the call
for reports asked by the federal and
state agents under heavy penalty.
The work will be carried on through
out the state. Largo report blanks
are submitted to dealers in food
products and prompt action Is re
quired in every case, only a few
hours being allowed for the return
of filled in records.
Gen. Clement Reaches
Georgia Training Camp
Augusta, Ga., Aug. 22. Following
the arrival yesterday of Major Gen
eral Charles M. Clement, commander
of the Twenty-eighth Division of the
United States Army, formerly Penn
sylvania National Guards, the first
detachment of troops from Philadel
phia came in this afternoon and went
immediately to Camp Hancock. The
troops included: Battery E, Second
Pennsylvania Field Artillery; Captain
H. Hellyer, First Lieutenant Howard
Ennis. Second Lieutenant Charles
Jordon, Second Lieutenant Charles
Ferat. There were IS6 men and full
equipment.
General Clement was welcomed by
a delegation of citizens, headed by
Mayor James R. Littleton. General
Clement arrived at 9.30 o'clock yes
terday morning.
Theirs was an informal reception to
the general and the members of his
staff and into it entered that unaf
fected cordiality which Augustans are
to extend to the Pennsylvania troops
who are to follow.
Bite of One Mosquito >
Kills Three of Family
Richmond. Va.. Aug. 2?. —. The bite
of one mosquito, communicating per
nicious malaria, is held responsible
for the quick death of three members
of the Skinner family here. John
A. Skinner. Jr.. died yesterday. His
mother and brother died Monday. All
died in violent hiccoughs.
NO HEADACHE OR
NEURALGIA PAIN
Get a 10 cent package of Dr.
James' Headache Powders
and don't suffer.
When your head aches you simply
must have relief or you will go wild.
It's needless to suffer when you can
take a remedy like Dr. James' Head
ache Powders and relieve the pain
and neuralgia at once. Send someone
to the drug store now for i dime
package of Dr. James' Headache
Powders. Don't suffer. In a few
moments you will feel fine—head
ache gone—no more neuralgia pain.
—Adv.
AMUSEMKXTS
MAJESTIC
Matinee, 10c und 20c
Evening, 10c, LI Or und 30c
\ow Snlnglnic lllsch on n New
Season.
Hlgh-Clnßx \ audevllle
WHO'S TO BLAME
15 People
KELLF.It MACK aiul AXXA EARL
3 Other Splendid Attractions
COMING THIRSDAY
Cabaret de Luxe
*- ' — 4
REGENT THEATER
TO-DAY
FANNIE WARD
Playing tbrre role*—n knottier and
her two duuKlitera In
"THE CRYSTAL GAZER"
TO-MORIiOW
KATHLYN WILLIAMS
and WALLACE REID
"BIG TIMBER"
A wonderful atory, centered In
tlie beautiful Sierra
lumber region*.
1 I
J| AMUSEMENTS J
I IHMllHlWlllHH—numiiiiiiniiinniiinuiiiiiimiiniiimiiniii
Geraldine Farrar as Joan
or Arc, to Be Seen at
the Regent Next Week
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Based on the life of the Immortal
Joan of Arc, a motion picture pro
duction entitled, "Joan, the Woman,"
directed by Cecil B. DeMille, with
Geraldine Farrar in the roal of Joan,
will begin an engagement of four
days next week at the Regent, start
ing Monday.
Although Miss Farrar a year ago
acted in three short photoplays, "Joan
the Woman," will mark her first ap
pearance as the star in a cinema
drama of length sufficient to com
prise an entire evening's entertain
ment.
Ihere is a certain timeliness about
the story of Joan of Are. as it has
been reported frequently from France
that public interest in the Maid of
Orleans never was so keen as at the
present moment. Although the story
or "Joan, the Woman." written for
the screen by Jeanie Macphersin, has
been carefully guarded, it is said that
Mr. DeMille and Miss Karrar have
touched upon this feature of modern
ism in relating one of the most fasci
nating stories of medievalism.
Nothing more strikingly portravs
the lavishness with which "Joan, the
\\ oman," has been staged than men
tion of the members of the cast. The
hero is played by Wallace lieid; Ho
bart Boswortli, as La Hire: Theodore
Roberts, a Cauchon; Raymond Hatton.
as King Charles VII. and Charles
Clary, as La Tremoille.
ORPHEUM
Thursday, matinee and night. August
"The Mischief Makers." (Bur
lesque).
Monday, nip-ht only, August 27—"His
Bridal Night."
COLONIAL
To-day Olive Thomas in "Madcap
Madge.
Thursday—"Her Excellency, the Gov
ernor. *
Friday and Saturday Anita Stewart
in "The Message of the Mouse."
REGENT
To ." d , a X Fannie Ward In "The Crys
tal Gazer."
Thursday Kathlyn Williams and
VV allace Reid in "Big Timber."
Friday Vivian Martin and Sessue
Hayakawa in "Forbidden Paths."
PAXTANG
Vaudeville
Now that the vaudeville season has
commenced, patrons of the Majestic
are promised some distinct
A tre , ats in the way of new
iJ/1. *5 nd , expensive headlines
during the present season.
... , The bill the first half of
this week is one that is meet'ing with
a great deal of popular approval.
Heading the list of acts is a musical
?5l e V . , three scenes, entitled
\\ ho s to Blame?" An added attrac
tion on the bill is Bessie Remplev and
Company, presenting- the symbolic
You, and th act, together
with Charles Ledegar, clever come
?j"'? on the tightrope; Lewis and
White, two young girls in a daintv
song offering, and Mack and Earl, in
a breezy song and patter skit, round
out the bill. The feature booked for
the last three days of the week is
"The Cabaret Be Luxe." a singing
and dancing act with eight people.
Grouped around this headliner are-
Chappelle and Tribble. colored come
dians and singers; Tiller Sisters, in
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Cocoanut Oil Fine
For Washing Hair
If you want to keep your hair in
good condition, be careful what you
wash it with.
| Most soaps and prepared shampoos
I contain too much alknli. This dries
the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and
lis very harmful. Just plain mulsi
| fled cocoanut oil (which is pure and
entirely greaseless), is much better
• than the most expensive soap or
anything else you can use for sham
pooing. as this can't possibly injure
the hair.
Simply moisten your hair with
water and rub it In. One or two tea
spoonfuls will make an abundance
of rich, creamy lather, and cleanses
the hair and scalp thoroughly. The
lather rinses out easily, and removes,
every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff
and excessive oil. The hair dries
quickly and evenly, and it leaves It
fine and silky, bright, fluffy and easy
to manage.
You can get mulsifled cocoanut oil
at most any drug store. It Is very
cheap, and a few ounces is enough
|to last everyone in the family for
months.—Adv.
AMUSEMENTS
' r \
Paxtang Park
Theater
PLAYING OM.Y THK BEST IN
VAUDEVILLE AT POPULAR
PRICES
ErcofA~r
WORLD'S GREATEST
XYLOPHONE PLAYEH
Jeane St. Anne
A MUM H SOI.IHKK SINUER
Geo. Moore
CLOWN JUGGLER
Cycling McNuts
A Kut Comfdy Rlcyrle Offering:.
Bothwell Brown & Co.
IN A SPECTACULAR DANCING
PRODUCTION
Free Fireworks Display
Thursday Evening
up-to-date songs; Jack and Jessie
Gibson, comedy singers, dancers and
bicyclists, and one other Keith act.
Olive Thomas, a new Triangle star,
will make her first- appearance to lo
cal picture patrons
Olive 'MIOUIIIH In to-day in "Madcap
"Madcap Mndice" Madge." Miss
Thomas has been
called by Harrison Fisher "The most
beautiful American show girl." Tills
play, produced under the direction of
Thomas H. Ince, contains many beau
tiful settings, most of them being laid
at Palm Beach, the fashionable winter
resort. Olive Thomas, the star. Is
probably the most photograpned
beauty of the day, being one of the
celebrated "Midnight Krolic" girls on
New York's well known roof garden.
To-morrow only. Triangle will offer
a drama of love and politics, "Her Ex
cellency. the Governor," starring Wil
fred Lucas and Elda Miller. Friday
and Saturday the Greater Vitagraph
will present an unusual drama of
diplomtic intrigue, "The Message of
the Mouse," by George Randolph
Chester.
It is not unusual for photodraniatic
ptrtists to be seen in dual roles, but
the versatile
j I'nnnlr Ward at Lasky-Paramount
the Hegent To-day star, Fannie
Ward, goes these
one better by appearing in three
characters in her forthcoming produc
tion, "The Crystal Gazer." which will
be the feature attraction at the Re
gent to-day. Miss Ward in this un
usual story, plays as the mother and
two daughters, and with her splendid
dramatic ability, gives each a dis
tinct characterization, and at no time
is one confused as to their identity.
To those'unfamiliar with lumbering
operations in the big tree districts of
California. the announcement that
Wallace Reid and Kathlyn Williams
will be seen to-morrow in "Big Tim
ber," will be of unusual interest.
"His Bridal Night." in which Fred
erick V. Bowers is to star this season
is one of the promised the
"lll* atrical good things of th
Bridal year, and will be presented
Mght" at the Orpheum for an en-
, gagement of one night, next
Monday. It lias tested the capacity of
all the theaters in the larger cities.
"His Bridal Night" is an ingenious
farce in which one of two twins is
married, quarrels with her husband
on their wedding flay and convinces
herself that she loves another. Where
upon the other twin, who really loves
the other young man, pretends to be
the bride, which causes many some
what risque complications. These are
said to have been handled so skillfully
by Margaret Mayo, whose "Twin'
Beds" is well remembered, that they
give no offense. It was played last
year as a straight farce, but the
management decided this year to
make it a musical comedy and engag
ed Mr. Bowers, whose song hits have
made his name famous throughout
the land, to write the music as well
as to play the leading role. The twins
of the play will be played by the
Warren Twins, whose wonderful like
ness and dramatic ability fit them for
the part. Alma Youlin will sing the
prima donna role. Others prominent
in the cast are: Sue Talmage, Harry
Lillford. Billy Wayne and Milton Daw
son. A chorus of pretty girls will aid
in the musical and dancing numbers.
El Coto, the xylophone player, who
is the feature act on the bill at Pax
tang this week is one of
Paxtang the few musicians in vau-
I'ark deville who ever-succeeds
Bill in attracting more than
passing notice. But it is
different with El Coto. He has won
himself an enviable reputation in
every quarter of the world where
vaudeville is played and all be
cause no other artist ever succeeded
In getting quite so much real music
out of the xylophone as he does. An
other act on the park bill that is at
tracting considerable attention is
Jeane St. Anne, the French soldier
singer. Not only is Jeane St. Anne an
excellent singer, but the fact that he
was wounded while serving in the
French army during the present war
wins him much enthusiastic applause
from the park audiences.
Other acts on the park bill are:
Bothwell Brown and Company, in a
spectacular dancing offering; George
Moore, the clown Juggler, and the
Cycling McNutts, in a whirlwind com
edy bicycle act that is about the
fastest act of its kind in the business.
To-morrow evening an elaborate
fireworks display will be shown at
the partk. A varied as well as a beau
tiful assortment of bombs and rockets
will make up a large part of the pro
gram. together with numerous set
pieces of special design.
Government Needs Many
Men in Navy Yards
The Government urgently nefeds for
Navy yards:
Brooklyn, New York
49 shipwrights ... . $3.04-SI.OO
Charleston. S. C.
1 anglesmith 3.28- 4.00
fi boatbuilders 3.04- 4.00
6 chippers and calkers.... 2.88- 3.60
1 galvanizer 6.04
4 shipfitters 2.96- 4.24
8 shipwrights 2.60- 4.00
Norfolk, Va.
5 coppersmiths 2.72- 4.24
18 sailmakers 2.64- 4.00
37 shipfitters 2.96- 4.48
18 shipsmiths (blacksmiths) 4.03- 4.24
Philadelphia. Pa.
7 boilermakers 3.28- 4.24
22 coppersmiths 3.28- 4.24
12 drillers 2.18- 3.04
6 liolders-on 2.00- 2.48
26 painter's helpers 2.00- 2.48
7 rivet heaters 1.20- 1.68
5 sailmakers 3.04- 4.00
4 sheet metal workers
(helpers) 2.00- 2.48
76 shipfitters 3.28- 4.21
2 shipsmith (blacksmiths). 3.8- 4.24
39 shipwright's helpers ... 2.00- 2.48
Portsmouth, N. 11.
3 anglesmiths 3.28- 4.32
7 boatbuilders 3.12- 4.00
3 boilermakers (flange
turners) 2' 2 2"
6 shiplifters 3.28- 4.32
Puget Sound, Washington
3 molders 3.04- 4.40
100 general helpers 2.00- 2.80
Washington. D. C.
2 canvas workers 2.88- 3.60
60 machinists, all around.. 3.60- 4.59
H. W. Gough Is Elected
Treasurer of State Elks
Sliamokin, Aug. 22. The annual
convention .of the State Order of
Elks assembled in the opera house
yesterday, with Judge Fred Moser,
chairman.
Charles Snyder, Pottsville, Auditor
General; Gabriel Moyer, Lebanon; T.
J. Jennings. Scranton. and Oliver Co
well, Sunbury, retiring state presi
dent, also delivered stirring speeches
of a patriotic nature, whereupon the
convention was adjourned until yes
terday afternoon, when the delegates
assembled in the Knights of Colum
bus Hall for an executive session.
State secretary reported a total
membership of 22.274 and 104 lodges,
the receipts from dues being $1,622.50.
T. J.' Jennings was elected presi
dent, H. W. Gough. Harrisburg,
treasurer, and W. S. Gould, Scranton,
secretary.
A large crowd last evening wit
nessed a parade of automobiles, the
line being led by George Higgins, of
tbls place. The day's program ended
with a display of fireworks at Edge
wood Park.
15 Germans Arrested
Under Espionage Act
Sioux Falls, S. D.. AUK, 22. Fif
teen Oermans were arrested at Tripp.
Hu'-hlnon county. P. L>„ yesterday,
bv dcral officers, charged with vio
lation of the espionage act. according
to advices received here late, yester
day afternoon. They were taken to
Yankton. S. D„ and arraigned before
United States Commissioner E T
White for preliminary hearing.
Soft Coal Prices Fixed
by President Wilson For
Duration of the War
Washington, Aug. 22. Sweeping
reductions in the prices that may be
charged for bituminous con! were an
nounced by President Wilson last
night.
It Is the first actual price-fixing
that hns been effected under the food
and fuel control law.
The reduction In prices from those
heretofore prevailing under the agree
ment between the operators and the
coal production committee of the ad
visory commission of the Council of
National Defense is in all Instances
more than 3.1 per cent.
The prices fixed by the President for
coal in Pennsylvania are $2 a ton for
run-of-mine coal, 12.25 for prepared
sizes and J1.75 for screenings or
slack.
The prices agreed upon heretofore
ranged from $3 a ton to 13.50 for pre
pared sizes.
The prices contained in the list an
nounced by the President were de
cided upon by the Federal Trade Com
mission based upon the cost of pro
duction.
Rotten Eggs Seized
by State's Agents
State dairy and fooil reports are
to the effect that quantities of liquid
frozen eggs that were unfit for food
were found in Pittsburgh while in
Philadelphia nine bakeshops were
raided and four were found to be
using rotten eggs In baking.
Commissioner James Poust has in
structed his agents to be especially
active this fall for deceptions in the
sale of eggs as he maintains that
with the high price the public should
be amply protected. In a Pittsburgh
cold storage warehouse sixteen cans
of eggs out of shell were found that
were unfit for food and tliev were
tagged and are being watched by
agents that they are not sold for food
purposes.
It has been a practice of some bak
ers to use rotten eggs in baking
but the raids on the Philadelphia
shops disclosed four offenders who
were immediately prosecuted. In ad
dition six other arrests for the sale
of rotten eggs were made.
A new brand of grape Juice has
been found to be bleached with sul
phur dioxide.
WA It WORK DISSOLVES FIRM
New York. Aug. 22.—War work for
the United States and France by
members of the firm of Eugene Mev
er, Jr.. & Company, one of the best
known banking houses in Wall
Street, was given to-day as the rea
son for the dissolution of the firm,
which will take place September "0.
Mr. Meyer has been in Washington
for three months engaged in Govern
ment work with the War Industries
Board, while Charles J. Thurnauer,
the other member of the firm, is a
French citizen and expects td oiler
his services to his country.
ISLAND CAMP TO CLOSE
The last week of the McCormick
Island summer camp maintained bv
the City Park Department will close
on Saturday. The last bunch of
youngsters to be taken to the camp
left earlier in the week. More than
-00 boys and girls have been taken
care of during the six weeks of
camp. •
ZEPPELIN SHOT DOWN AT SE\
London. Aug. 22. British light
naval forces destroyed a Zeppelin air
ship yesterday morning off the Jut
land. Denmark, coast, savs an official
communication. The communication
and.* that there wore no survivors
from the crew of the airship.
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Store will be closed to-m
noon for the employees' summer
Try and Arrange your Shopping Bright and Early in the Morning.
A Word of Prices and How to Meet Them
The average increased cost of production in 53 different
lines of merchandise, ranging from silks to hosiery has been
over 2 1 per cent.
Transportation charges have, also greatly increased and
continues to increase.
Our Army and Navy are taking thousands of workers from
the normal production of goods.
We are not only financing a great portion of the civilized
world but we are being called upon to feed the people of war
ridden countries. ,
/
These are a few causes for high prices, which we believe
have not reached high level.
And so Bowman's will try to meet the conditions help
fully. .
We have been preparing with interior remodeling to
facilitate the handling of a larger volume of business and
with heavy advanced buying to such a degree, that we fully
expect to do the largest business in our history.
There will be plenty of money circulating in Harrisburg.
We will carry more complete lines of moderate priced
not cheap—goods than ever before.
We will carry fine merchandise of course; but plenty of
the better goods at popular prices. There will be a lessening
of profits distinctly to your advantage.
And in presenting goods of reliability at very moderate
prices, together with superior service, we believe that we shall
perform a patriotic duty.
Our advice to you is to buy in reasonable quantities for
reasonably future requirements, for merchandise cannot cost
less in any event for a long time to come —and is practically
certain to cost more.
usefulness, satisfaction and economy.
GERMANS IN
OF PEAC
By Associated Press
Berlin, Aug:. 22. Chancellor
Mlchaelie Informed the main commit
tee of the Reichstag yesterday that
Germany would not reply to the papal
peace note until she had consulted
her allies.
l)r. Allchaelis added that In view
of the fact that Germany had pre
viously repeatedly and positively in
dicated her readiness to enter peace
negotiations the Vatican's appeal of
course is looked on with sympathetic
approval. Germany, however, could
not again offer peace in face of the
summary rejection of previous pro
posals and continued declarations by
the entente that no peace Is possible
until the central powers are defeated
and crushed.
The chancellor Informed the cbm
mittee that no steps would be un-
Bread Card System to Be
Used by Swiss October 1
By Associated Press
Berne, Switzerland, Aug. 22. The
Federal Council, yesterday chose Oc
tober 1 as the definite date when the
bread card system will be introduced
in Switzerland. The daily consump
tion will be limited for the time being
to 250 grammes per person plus iiOO
grammes of Hour monthly. Even bis
cuits and cake hereafter will be pur
chasable with bread cards.
The council also took measures to
reduce the coal consumption, especi
ally through the conservation of elec
trical energy. Hereafter all me
chanical work dependent upon coal
must be authorized by the Federal De
partment of Public Economy. Each
canton is ordered to save coal by an
early closing of theaters, moving pic
ture and public establishments. The
sale of warm food is interdicted after
9 o'clock p. m.
WANT MORE I HON CROSSES
Amsterdam. Aug. 22.—Deputy Mar
quart, of the German Reichstag, re
cently proposed that a mbre exten
sive distribution of Iron crosses be
made. Emperor William has caused
to be published the fact that 2,250,000
crosses of the second class had been
distributed up to June 1.
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dertaken toward peace without fully
consulting the Reichstag. He then
declared that the military situation
on all frotn was exceptionally au
spicious and read a message, received
from great headquarters in which the
U-boat campaign was given liberal
credit for Its effect In successfully
warding oft the allies' offensive In
Flanders.
Dr. Richard Von Kuehlmann, the
new foreign secretary, and other
newly-appointed government heads
were presented to the committee
which then took a recess. Constantln
Kehrenbach, one of the Centrist party
leaders, was elected chairman of the
main committee to succeed Dr. Peter
Spahn. Dr. Michaelis conferred con
fidentially with the Reichstag lead
ers during the day while party fac
tions were also in session In tha
morning.
Editor of German Paper
Is Jailed in Arkansas
Little Rock, Aug. 22. Curtis Ack
-3 ermann, editor and proprietor of a
- German language paper, published
here, was interned in the county jail
; here yesterday, at .the direction of
1 United States Attorney General Gre
- gory. •
; Ackermann was arrested on August
J 8, charged with publishing an article
considered as an encouragement to
violation of the draft law.
TO RECRUIT MARINES
Washington. Aug. 22. Recruiting
officers of the marine corps were
opened to-day after having been clos
ed since August 11 when the corps
reached its authorized strength. As
enlistments will be received only to
nil vacancies, only a limited number
of applicants can be accepted and
; examinations will be stringent.
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FOOT SEVERED BY CARS
Ernest Crook, aged 46, 832 South
Cameron street, employed as a flag
- man on the Philadelphia and Read
- ing Railroad, lost his right foot yes
: terday morning when a draft of cars
- passed over his leg. He was taken
1 to the Harrisburg Hospital. The ac
) cident occurred on a siding of the
l Bethlehem Steel Company, at Steel
ton.
PROSTRATED BY HEAT
G. Wagner, 1539 North Fifth street,
a fireman for the Pennsylvania Rail
i road Company, was overcome by the
heat yesterday afternoon. He was
- taken to the Harrisburg Hospital and
will recover.
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