O'NEIL ASKING BOROUGHS'HELP Writes to Thirty-eight Invit ing Them to Help on Highway Improvement ™Highway Com wealth divide on a proving streets the lines of state main highways within the municipalities. Practically every one of the sections of high way mentioned by him has been looked over by state engineers or has been complained of in some form or other. A number of the boroughs addressed are close to cities and their streets are reported as in sharp contrast to city avenues and state highways which are Improved to their limits. This is the most extorsive effort ever made by the state's highway department to obtain improvement of borough highways. Some of the boroughs have already started ne gotiations for the improvements and arrangements are being made for committees to discuss the plans with the Commissioner. Paint Law Was Needed. —Prelim- inary reports received at the Capitol on the first year's operation of the "pure paint" law are said by men in charge of the work connected with the law to show many samples which do not meet requirements. The law was designed to prevent fraud and to have constituents of paints set forth or containers proper ly branded. Samples were taken all over the state and in some instances shipments were withdrawn. No Schools—Officers of the State Department of Agriculture have an nounced that there will be no move able schools operated this winter in conjunction with the farmers' insti tutes. Lack of an appropriation is given as the reason. Millions Involved. —The Public Service Commission has received of ficial notice from the Philadelphia Electric Company of the issuance of $7,987,750 of common stock. The total authorized issue is given as $50,000,000 of which $17,000,000 has been issued previously. Twenty elec tric companies chartered by Scran ton people for operation in northern and western sections of the state have filed notice of issue of SSOO stock each of authorized issue of $5,- 000. The Pennsylvania Water and Power Company, of Holtwood, has filed notice of Issue of $500,000 of bonds; Wllliamstown Electric Com pany, of Huntingdon, $125,000 of bonds; Penn Central Light and Power Company, Altoona. bonds $40,000, and Penn Central Power and Transmission Company, Altoona, bonds SII,OOO. Visiting In Idaho.—Chief Clerk M. D. Llchleiter. of the State Depart ment of Agriculture, is visiting his daughter in Idaho. Signed Extradition Papers.—Gov ernor Brumbaugh signed the papers for extradition of the four gunmen arrested in the Bronx on charges of being mixed in the Philadelphia scandal yesterday as soon as he reached the Capitol. Tollhouses Sold. —Reports reach ed the State Highway Commission to-day that the tollhouses along the pike near Philadelphia had been sold. Commissioner O'Neil said that they would be removed Transportation Freight —Express —Motor Trucks OF WHAT use are a million Americans in France if their food, clothing and supplies are stalled in the railroad terminals through out the United States? They must be transported to the seaboard. Transporting goods to feed, clothe and equip our nation, its navy, its armies and our allies, is the most colossal task we have ever faced. Every transportation unit must be used to the limit—the motor truck has become as necessary as the railroad. Use your motor trucks for city to city hauling; to bring produce from the farms to the towns; to deliver merchandise to the door of the user; to speed up the loading and unloading of railroad cars and ships —to facilitate every phase of transportation. The whole world is relying on motor trucks to do efficient and speedy work. But the truck itself cannot do it alone. OFFICERS, EXECUTIVES, MANAGERS— the responsi bility is yours. It is your patriotic duty to see to it personally that your delivery system is adequately equipped and efficiently supervised. THE AUTOCAR COMPANY, Ardmore, Penna. "THE AUTOCAR MOTOR TRUCK" Harrisburg Dealer, Eureka Wagon Works, 616-618 North Street EUREKA WAGON WORKS HI" Harrisburg Agency For , THE AUTOCAR MOTOR TRUCK TUESDAY EVENING, promptly and that similar steps re garding houses along other turn ,,iKeti bought by the state would ue taken later 011. la \\ asiungton. —Acting Adjutant General oea.y was in Washington to-uay on miutia matters. Mail is lictfU. —Tlie totate authori ties nave moved to hold men arrest ed lor shooting deer aheau 01 sea soil. An example will be made of men arrested in Cheater county. Xo Attend Convention.—Fire Mar shal t J ort and otiier oitlcials of his department will attend the State ilea lis tscc Governor. —Uovernor Brumoaugii saw Heads of a number 01 tne departments 01 the state gov ernment to-uay, tatting up matters pertaining to ine state government. nr. Askxun improving;.—commis sioner 01 neaiUi UIXOI4 la rapiuiy improving, ne stood tne trip irom ~i„at Alio very weiL Capitol \ i-sitora. —Capitol visitors to-u.y nicluueu James r. Hoodwara, iimiruiaii ol tlie ilouse Appropria tions committee; Ivepreseiitaiives iiich, Clinton and IJricn, Lebanon; Senator X. Lyre, Chester; totutu Chairman W. L. Crow, cniet C'lerK Gallagher, of the Senate; itesident CierK and others well Known in legislative aifalrs. Mr. Itcjnolds V lsits. —Ex-Lieuten- ant uovernor aoliu in. Keynolas, 01 Uediord, came here 10-aay in con nection witn hignway improvements. .vssuiucil Unties —Charies Johnson, Deputy auditor uenerai, actively as sumed his uuties last evening, lie was warmly greeted by friends at the Capitol. Mr. uavis Here.—Deputy Auditor General Davis, who has been in New York on legal matters, was here to day in consultation with Sam uel C. Todd and George E. Etter, of the Capitol Parle Extension Com mission. about closing up matters in the park negotiations. Xo Selection Made.—lt was ap thoritatively stated to-day that no selection of any one either in Dau phin, Philadelphia or any other county had been made for the po sition of Chief of the Bureau of Sta tistics in the Labor and Industry De partment. Rumor has been working lately and seems to have had some assistance. M ATEII COMPANY SOI.D Lebanon, Oct. 2. The Lebanon Valley Consolidated Water Supply Company property, situated in Union, North Lebanon, South Lebanon, South Annville and North Cornwall town ships, and Jonestown borough, was sold at public sale under foreclosure proceedings to David Gring. of New port, Pa., for $7,000, subject to a mort gage of $650,000. The sale was held by the Commonwealth Trust Com pany, of Harrisburg, foreclosure be in made on the second mortgage, the bonds securing the first mortgage having been recently purchased by the Bethlehem Steel Company. Gring is president of the Lebanon Valley Consolidated Water Supply Company, and acted as agent In the purchase of the first mortgage bonds by Charles M. Schwab and his asso ciates. A reorganization of the com pany will now be effected. PARINGS YIELD POTATOES Hazleton, Pa., Oct. 2. Forty bushels of potatoes from parings was the record of James McLaughlin, of Jeddo, who read the advice of Gover nor Brumbaugh to save the peelings and tried the plan. McLaughlin put the forty bushels on exhibition at the Jeddo farmers' exhibit here and won a prize. The Jeddo miners who turned farm ers last spring harvested 7,000 bushels of potatoes, 10,000 heads of cabbage, 150 bushels of carrots, 500 bushels of beets and 500 bushels of onions. {TRIES SUICIDE FOURTEEN TIMES St. Louis, Oct. 2. ln his fourteenth attempt at suicide within a week. Jo seph Dailey killed himself by shoot ing early yesterday morning. Ex amination of the body at the morgue revealed thirteen stab wounds and police say were self-inflicted In vari ous saloons last week. John Quinn, proprietor of a hotel and saloon, was in the saloon prrparatory to opening it for the morning when he turned from his work at the bar and say Dai ley. MIDDLETOWN I— . Red Cross Society Elects New Officers A meeting: of the Red Cross chap ter was held in the chapel of the St. Peter's Lutheran Church last evening. The following officers were elected: Chairman, H. J. Wickey; vice-chairman, Fuller Bergstresser; secretary, Miss Kathryn Raymond; treasurer, C. S. Few; assistant treas urer, A. G. Banks; executive com mittee, E. S. Gerberich, Mrs. D. P. Deatrlch, Mrs. A. G. Banks. The other committees were continued to act until changed or reconstructed. Methods were discussed to increase the attendance at the workroom in the Rambler building. Professor H. J. Wickey made an address urging more members to be out and take more interest in the work. Those present at the meeting were: H. J. Wickey, Dr. T. C. McCarrell, Mrs. Arthur King, Mrs. Fuller Bergstres sor, Lydia Seiplemry, Mrs. D. E. Mc- Gowan, Mrs. C. C. Etnoyer, Mrs. .T. T. Frank, Mrs. Ross Seltzer, Mrs. ames Covan, Miss Anna Eby, Miss Kathryn Raymond, Miss Kathryn Quickel, Miss Margaret Emminge'r, Miss Rachel McCarrell, Miss Annie Bletz, Mrs. D. W. Huntzbcrger, Miss Sadie Smith, Mrs. A. G. Banks and Mrs. Robert Halton. Leonard Heagy left this morning for Butler, where he will attend the state firemen's convention, being a delegate from the Rescue Hose Com pany. The food conservation train of the State Department of Food Supply, was at the Catherine street crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad to-day and was visited by several hundred persons, where lectures were given on canning of fruits, vegetables and fresh meats. The ladies' Bible class of the Church of God. taught by Mrs. O. 51. Kraybill, will meet at the home of Mrs. Harry Nissley, North Union street, this evening. Edward Cole, who ran away from his home at Philadelphia several weeks ago and came to Middletown where he had secured work, was taken home by his father. The following officers were elect ed by the United Brethren Sunday cchool board: Superintendent, D. B. Keiffer; assistant, C. N. Jackson; recorfling secretary, A. R. Geyer; treasurer, D. W. Gingrich; pianist, Pearl Shenffor; chorister, C. N. Jack son; librarians, Edgar Robinson and Frank Detweiler; executive commit tee, Mrs. Annie Nissley. Mrs. Wil liam Wagner, E. E. Robinson, Kath ryn Shoop and C. T. Erb; primary superintendent, H. R. Bauder; or ganist, Grace Bauder; superintendent home department, Mrs. L. B. Rook; superintendent cradle roll, Mrs. Grant Auch. Temperature Ranges of 47 Degrees in September With the exception of heavier rain fall than the normal of September weather conditions last month show ed no unusual changes, according to the report of E. R. Demain, forecaster in the local Government Weather Bu reau. The highest temperature was 87 de grees, the lowest 40 degrees. Total rainfall was 4.23 inches, which is 1.38 inches above the normal. There were 12 clear, 8 partly cloudy and 10 cloudy days; 4 thunderstorms; 2 frosts and fog on 4 days of the month. SPECIAL. MEETING The members of Harrisburg Circle No. 85, W. L. M. C., are requested to be present at their hall. Sixth and Cumberland streets, Wednesday evening, October 3. Business of im portance will be transacted. ROSE M. TASTER, Secretary. mmi HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH STEELTON SENIOR CLASS FESTIVAL FRIDAY Arrangements For Affair Will Be Completed This Evening The sixteenth annual senior class festival will be held in Felton Hall, Friday evening. Arrangements for the affair'will be completed by the class this evening. There will be thirteen booths erected in Felton Hall, Thurs day evening afid the proceeds of the affair will be devoted to the athletic fund. Miss .Elizabeth Couffer is chair man of the general committee. Other committees are; candy. Miss Lena Hoffman, Miss Lydia Wilt, Miss Cecelia Tieman, Miss Nellie Polston, Dewey Morrett, William Goon; cake, I.eona Prowell, Virginia Eckenrode, John Mannix, Karl Hoover, Harry Dayhoff. Paul Wueschlnski; lunch, Margaret Gardner. Freedn Levltz, Garrett Punch, Margaret Hoffer. Claude Knoderer; fancywork, Dorothy Whitman, Marian George, Mary How ard, Annie Ferguson, Russell Sheffer, Raymond Sultzaberger; flowers, Lydia Wilt, Virginia Kckenrode. Francis Yetter, Hugh Sowers; punch, Doro thea Raver, Elizabeth Rutherford, David Kiselic, George Porr, Monroe Cohen; grab-bag, Roscoe Zelgler, Le roy Eppinger, Robert Thompson; art gallery, Charles Hoffmaster, Ross Spink, Roland Ross, Raymond Sulza btrger; fortune, Chester Loy and Harry Levitz; guessing, Prow ell; cave, Everett Miner, George Trlece, Charles Page; zoo, Leo Cole ir>an, Leo Callaghan, William Relst; callers, William Relst, Rodger Green; auctioneer, Leo Callaghan. To Organize For Sale of Liberty Loan Bonds in Steelton Shortly Businessmen of the borough will meet either the latter part of this week or early next week to organize for the sao of Liberty bonds. The sale of bonds will be probably along the lines of the Red Cross war fund campaign which was very suc cessful 1 here. This borough will make efforts to make a good showing in this campaign as in the other when with the steel company assistance it raised $750,000. The amount of sub scriptions to the Red Cross fund was also very large. It is likely the campaign will be conducted from October 22 to 27, Steel company officials have not yet announced whether they would take any part in the work from a com pany standpoint, but individually they will give the work their sup port. Red Cross Will Ship Materials This Week The local Red Cross rooms in Har rlsburg street beginning next week will be open on Friday only instead of four days each week. Officers of the society believe that women who are working on knitted goods can get more accomplished by working at home. The local chapter expects to send four cases of hospital supplies and winter garments to the Sammies in France this week. The boxes are being packed now and will "be ready for shipment in a few days. The chapter has taken as its quota 600 each of the knitte articles needed at once for the army. There are now a large number of women engaged in making supplies for the local chapter. COMMISSION MEETING Plans for the fall campaign will be mapped out at a meeting of the shade tree commission in the council chamber to-morrow evening. The campaign conducted this year will not be as extensive as last year'sr WATER BOARD MEETING The monthly meeting of the w; ter board will be held in Council cham ber Friday afternoon. Routine busi ness is scheduled. TO ATTEND CONVENTION. The local volunteer fire depart ment will be represented at the State Firemen's convention in Butler this week by John E. Shupp, Benjamin Billett, George Attick, Lloyd M. Glattaclfer and J. Clyde Snyder. SCHOOL BOARD MEETING. The monthly meeting of the school board will be held this evening. Nothing of importance is scheduled to be brought before the body. RED CROSS OPEN The Red Cross chapter to-day an nounced that hereafter the head quarters will be open Monday, Wed nesday and Fridays and on Friday evening. China to Send Laborers to Europe as Its Bit in War Peking. Oct. 2. China's first and most important contribution to the cause of the entente allies in the war doubtless will be laborers. Before China joined in the war against Germany and Austria she had already supplied more than 1000,000 laborers to France, Eftgland and Rus sia. Coolies for agricultural work and dock work have been going to Western Europe for nearly two years. Russia has also been drawing from China's Inexhaustible supply of labor for Siberian mines and Siberian farms. Now that China is actually in the war, the task of recruiting laborers for work beyond the seas will be far easier. The government will lend a willing hand and competition which hitherto has existed between the vari ous powers in recruiting coolies prob ably will be eliminated. Of the 400,000,000 persons In China it is estimated that at least 40,000,000 are men capable of carrying arms or doing some sort of labor directly con nected with the war. Of this num ber 20,000,000 are living within rea sonable distance of transportation facilities, and could be mobilized were it necessary. China has such an abundance of men that millions could be spared to the advantage of those remaining at home. Premier Tuan-Chi-jui is enthusias tic about sending an army to Europe, lie believes 1,000,000 soldiers could br trained and sent to Europe within six months, were the allies to supply equipment and officers for generail sunervision. Figures concerning the actual num ber of men under arms in China are imperfect and misleading. Each of the provinces has its own army. In addition to the central government has many troops. There are prob ably 500,000 men in all under arms in China at the present time. Perhaps half of these or 250.000 would meas ure up.to the standards of a modern nrmy and be an effective fighting frrce. if properly equipped and train ed for a few months under foreign supervision. • AUTO FACTORY FOR I.F.WISTO\V\ Lewlstov.-n. Pa.. Oct. 2. The North American Tannery buildings, idle for twenty years, are being remodeled for the accommodation of the Belmont Motor Company, of Harrisburg. The new company will manufacture auto- j mobiles. COUNCIL CALLS ASH COLLECTORS TO CONFER [Continued from First Page.] existed early this year because of no regular collections. Must Collect Ashes Health Officer J. M. J. Raunick and Commission.ers Gorgas and r'l mnff nf SCU^ e<l tho question most, calling attention to action by coun cil and reports made early in tho fhatTho y r r ' ■ When jt was stated hantilnp £, an Surety Company. h™ r> Pennsylvania Reduc tho £.r? P *r n & mißht l!a - a mov ° n n , t of th ® city to employ men ™ to KO on wlth the ash ? Commissioner . d,?clare <l the only thing he cared to see accomplished was the removal of the refuse. tako 14 to court if they t™u ,V collect the ashes," Mr. ch . r * pll ed when such action was hniS" i e u was finally decided to Sol ' citor Fo * notify the Re duction Company and the Bonding lompan ytd have representatives present next Monday afternoon to settle the question' of collections until the present contract ends on February 1. next year. A letter was received from Chief of Police Wetzel addressed to Mayor iiowman and the commissioners asking for some action to fill the ™ lr vacancies in the department. 1 hree patrolmen and one detective a Hf, needed. The communication will be submitted to the civil service commission. Mayor Bowman presented a letter from the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis ask ing for the appointment of delegates to a conference to be held in Balti more October 16 and 17. It had been referred to the Harrisburg Acad emy of Medicine. Dr. Raunick, the president, recommending the ap pointment of Drs. J. W. Kllenberger David S. Funk and W. J. Middleton! To Discuss Compensation Commissioner Lynch introduced a nordinance on first reading award ing a contract fo rworkmen's com pensation insurance from October 1 "The Live Store" "Always Reliable" Where Quality Counts I In spite of extreme pressure and against the most urgent solicitation, we have held to our Quality standard —a standard as high as was ever set by any store any where. We have returned our backs upon thousands of most attractive looking garments of manipulated fabrics that we knew would not give satisfactory wear. We can safely say that the quality ' of our merchandise is higher this season than ever before. These plain . statements of facts are of utmosl importance to every man who wears clothes— If you would like to buy your clothing from a store that's doing busi ness on such a basis, you'll find a hearty welcome awaiting you here, as well as tremendous stocks in the widest possible range of models, 15 - '2O - '25 - '3O I t C ' Se try * ng to get a "Hat," but I [ -■ jPKSjj! somehow it seems impossible to get Ii ÜBt what I want Yet that same cus- S lifrrVf l / tomer purchased the first Hat shown w|y ij|| W ™ him at this "Live Store" —we get these WJ/J compliments daily because here's a \ I stock so large and varied that it's the If' ' least of our troubles to sell you a be coming Hat Try Doutrichs first— I Scratch finish Ilats, $2.50 to $5.00 I I Velour Hats, $5.00 to $7.50 I I "Manhattan Shirts" I | 304 iiPPt PA " a this year, to December 31, 1918, to the L'nited States Fidelity and | Guuranty Company. Because of the problem confronting. the officials earlier in the year Commissioner Gross suggested a conference should be held to discuss the question. He also called attention to an ordinance introduced earlier In the year trans ferring funds for payment on. an in surance policy which had never been passed finally. Commissioner Lynch asked per mission to construct the steps at the Summit street approach south from Market street. An appropriation of $1,500 has been made for this work, Mr. Lynch statins the city can. do it much cheaper than by letting a contract. Apparatus Passes Test Commissioner Gross reported the last three chemical trucks and two ladder trucks for the tire depart ment had passed the official tests and had been accepted and that the entire department is now motorized. Some of the fire hose which was bought a few weeks ago lias been, re ceived and tested also. The statement from Solicitor Fox recommending the payment of SIOO to Percy V. Ritter to settle a dam age claim against the city was re ceived. 689 Arrests Are Made in Last Three Months, Police Report Shows Chief of Police Wetzel to-day sub mitted the quarterly report from the police department to council. During the last three months there were 689 arrests; 387 calls for the patrol and 2B calls for the ambu lance. Of the arrests 339 were for dis orderly practice, 172 for violating city ordinances; 35 for safe keep ing, 31 larceny from the person, 21 for assault and batery and 35 for surety of the peace. The total fines, forfeitures and costs collected were $3,166.22, sl,- 447.83 In July; $657 In August and $1,061.39 In September. OCTOBER 2, 1917. Delegates Are Off For Firemen's Convention Members of the different fire com panies of the ctty left to-day for But ler, where they will attend the annual State Firemen's convention. The local delegates who are representing the Capital City at the conclave are: Fred Swartz, Friendship; Benjamin Genslider. Hope; John Ensmlnger, Citizen; Harry Ross, Washington; W. L. King. Mount Vernon; Charles Dut tenhofter, Paxton; W. D. DeSilvey, Good Will; Albert Keefer, Mount ■Pleasant; Harry Dixon, Susquehan na; James Conners, Reily the Rev. John Warden, Shamrock Daniel Huber, Allison Edward Gohn, Camp Curtin John Dougherty, Royal. REV, DR. YATES DECIDES TO RETAIN PASTORSHIP Tho Rev. Dr. William N. Yates an nounced to-day that he will not ac cept a call from a church in Mt. Pleas ant and will remain In Harrlsburg as pastor of the Fourth Street Church, which post he has held for several years. He was extended the call to Mt. Pleasant several months ago. but did not decide on the matter until this week. TO ACT ON REPI.Y Mayor J. William Bowman's letter to the Harrlsburg Ministerial Asso ciation on unmoral shows, will be taken up by the executive commit tee In a few days, and acted upon by the association at the regular meet ing, October 23. MOTOR CMJB TO MEET The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Governors of the Motor Club of Harrlsburg, will be held at the Businessmen's League, Mechanics burg, next Friday afternoon. Supper will be served at the National Hotel to members. FREE DELIVERY STARTED Marietta, Pa., Oct. 2.—Two free delivery systems were started in Lan caster county yesterday at Marietta and Lititz. The volume of business done at these two offices was the di rect cause of the people having their mall collected and delivered. The carriers from the Marietta office are John H. Smith and Charles M. Resch, and from the Lititz office, Samuel Leaman, Jr., and Morris McCloud. DRAFTERS ON HONOR ROLL Chicago, Oct. 2. The name* of tl® members of the eighty-six draft boards who served In this city will constitute a roll of honor In the city'a archives, according to action takeni by the city council yesterday In order-* ing that their names be engrossed on the roll of honor as part of the city's permanent records. Try Making Your Own Cough Remedy Yen can rare about ft, and hare a better remedy than the ready made kind. KaaUy done. If vou combined the curative proper ties of every known "ready-made" cougli remedy, you would hardly have in then* nil the curative power that lies in thia simple "home-made" cough syrup which* takes only a few minutes to" prepare. Get from any druggist 2Mi ounces of Pinex (60 cents worth), pour it into at pint bottle and fIU the bottle with plain granulated sugar syrup. The total cost is about 85 cents and gives you a full pint of really better cough syrup than Vou could buy ready-made for $2.50. Tastes pleasant and never spoils. > This Pinex and sugar syrup prepara tion geta right at the causo of a coughs and gives almost immediate relief. Ifc loosens the phlegm, stops the nasty throat and heals the sore, irri tated membranes that line the throaty chest and bronchial tubes, so gently; and easily that it is really astonishing'. A day's use will usually overcome the ordinary and for bronchitis, croup, whooping cough and bronchial asthma, there is nothing better. Pinex Is a most valuable concentrated compound of genuine Norway pine ex tract, and has been used for to break up severe coughs. To avoid disappointment, ask youO druggist for "2 Ms ounces of Pinex" with full directions, and don't accept any thing else. A guarantee of absolute patisfaction or money promptly re funded, goes with this preparation. ITig Pinex Co., Ft. Wayne, In 4, 9
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