JOINT MEETING I ON STATE DEFENSE Important Conference Will Be Held at the State Cap itol Tomorrow at 10.30 fenso Commission tivos of the Pub-1 sylvanla will meet II JmBSSSs at the office of, X&llllBOIjfll baugh to-morrow j to discuss reports j complished dur ing the summer and the plans for the fall and winter. The com-1 tee will present statements of what it has done, notably in the food con- j servation campaign wherein Penn- 1 sylvanla secured more pledge cards from the women of the KfTMSUI ftate than -were obtained in all of, the rest of the United States. An outline will be given of the | plans for the fall and winter, in-! eluding the assembling of informa tion on farm labor and the work of the farm counselors, formerly em- ! ployed by the State Department of Agriculture, but taken over by the state committee. Cases Passed Upon—Numerous j decisions have been given by the State Compensation Board in setting aside awards by referees in cases brought against railroads engaged tn Interstate commerce. Th 3 board decisions are in line with the pi-in- j ciples laid down in the United 1 States Court decisions and cover) half a dozen railroads. The awards. made amounted to hundreds of dol- j lars In many cases. Attended Fair—L. IT. Wilile, chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Sta tistics, attended the York fair yes- j terday. He said that the attendance was very large. To Visit Col. Shoemaker—Gover- j PYRAMID F° r A. Trial Piles^^^^Free The <1 You ie a Frrr Trial of l*yratnfd Pile Treatment the ilet ter. It Is What You Are Looking For. Don't talk operation. If you can't i wait for a free trial of Pyramid : Pile Treatment g4t a GOc box at any drug store and get relief now. If not near a store send coupon for ' free trial package in plain wrapper and get rid of itching, bleeding and protruding piles, hemorrhoids and epch rectal tronbles. Take no substitute. FREE SAMPLE COUPON PTRAMTD DRUG CCXrPANY. 647 Pyramid Building.. . Marshall, Mich. Kindly send me a Free samplff" . or Pyramid Pile Treatment, in r plain wrapper. Street . „T. .„. retv stat* Immediate Delivery This closed car production was sell at such low prices. planned by the factory Th „„ beauties-side win months ago so that you dowß and ri hu fold awa would not be mconven.enced enti „, out of ai ht wh > by the usual delay in delivery. you want a tourin? car or And these beautiful combina- roadster—close up tight as a tion open and closed cars limousine when you want a were part of an enormous closed car. The change is production order for Model easily made and takes but a Eighty-Fives—fours and sixes moment. —from material purchased Come in and let us show you when prices were much lower. the height of all-season lux- It will probably be a long time ury. before such luxurious cars And remember —we can prom can again be produced to ise you immediate delivery. Prices J. o. b. Toledo and tubject to change without notice The Overland-Harrisburg Company Open Evenings Both Phones 212-214* North Second Street Service Station and Ports Department, 26th and Derry Streets Newport Branch— y or k Branch- Opposite Railroad Station 128-130 W. Market Street THURSDAY EVENING, nor Brumbaugh will be gueit of Col. Harry W. SWbemaker, a member of his staff, at Restless Oaks, his coun try home, near McElhattan, next week. , Boroughs to Help—Highway Com missioner O'Neil to-night announced j the names of the boroughs which ' he had Invited to unite with tho state in an equal division of tho cost of improving highways wltfeh E ro borough streets on the line of state highways. He pointed out that by boroughs uniting better prices could be obtained. Tho towns are as fol lows: Springdale and Cheswick; Al legheny; College Hill and Home i wood, Beaver;; Bedford and Everett, ! Bedford; Sinking Springs and Mt. ' Penn, Berks; Gaysport, Holllsdays ' burg. Duncansvllle and Wllllams i burg. Blair; State College, C-.-Mer; Malvern, Chester, Clarion, Clarion; Flemington. Clinton; Bloomsburg 1 and Briar Creek. Columbia; Carlisle 1 and Shippensburg, Cumberland; I Paxtang and Highsplre, Dauphin; ' Yeadon, Delaware; MeConnellsburg, Fulton: Mill Creek and Huntingdon; LaPlume, Moosic and Moscow, Lack awanna; Mercer and Grove City, Mercer; Trappe, Montgomery, North l umberland, Northumberland; Way -1 mart and Prompton, Wayne; Lig onier, Youngstown and Adamsburg, \ Westmoreland. _____ Award Contract For New Moose Lodge Home The building committee of the j Steelton Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose in session last night awarded tho | contract for drawing plans and re i modeling the newly acquired prop j erty of the lodge in Front street near Trewick, to C. Harry Kaln, of Har risburg. Mr. Kain was Instructed to draw plans for the lodge home and submit them to the committee. After they are approved work on remodel ing the building will be started. Com mitteemen believe they will be start j ed on the hme in two weeks. |: 0 BERLIN : : : : OBERIJX Mrs. Howard Wells and son, Mar ! iin, have returned home after several [ days' visit with relatives in Allen | town. Miss Katherine Short spent the j week-end with friends In Mechanics- I i>urg. Earl Brehm spent Sunday with j friends in Lancaster. I Mrs. Hobort Batdorff and son Gll ! Bert have returned to their home in j Philadelphia after several weeks visit j here. Mrs. Batdorff was accompan ied by her father, Aaron Lyter. Mr. and Mrs. William Look ino ] tored to AUentown on Sunday. Mrs. C. E. Zell, of Greencastle, Is visiting her brother, Harry Eshen- j aur. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Parthemore, ; of Spearville, Kansas, spent several 1 I days with Mr. and Mrs. George Swei- j gle. The Rev. Daniel E. Rupley, accom -1 panied by George Hocker, as dele-' ! gate from Salem Lutheran Church,' ' are attending the East Pennsylvania j ; Synod now in session In Zion Luth- I eran Church, Harrisburg. The Harvest Home service on Sun-1 i day at Salem Lutheran Church, in j behalf of Loysville Orphan Home, j was a success. Three barrels of flour and a large assortment of groceries, j potatoes and other needful things; was the result. The Rev. H. E. Kelfer with his' delegate, G. A. Stengle, of the United Brethren Church, are attending thoj annual conference of that body con vening at Lebanon this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoverter, of Harrisburg, spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. John Reed. Mr. and Mrs. William Tetter, of Greencastle, visited several days with Mr. and Mrs. Gorden Horner. The Rev. and Mrs. John T. Fox! and children, of Conshohocken, are| the guests of Mrs. L. L. Hackman. NEWS OF STEELTON MAN KILLED AND ANOTHER INJURED George Drawbaugh-, of Me chanicsburg, on Motorcycle, Collides With Truck When the motorcycle on which they were riding collided with an automobile truck at Front and Washington streets, last evening, George Drawbaugh, of Mechanics burg, was killed and his brother John Drawbaugh was slightly In jured. George Drawbaugh was seated on the tandem of the machine and when It struck the truck he was thrown up against It. He was taken | to tho Emergency Hospital, of the j steel company and died at 6.30 [ o'cftilA;. His brother who was operating the machine sustained a | woung above the right ear and j silglit bruises and after receiving treatment at the Emergency Hos pital went to his home. Tho truck belonging to the Steel ton Cigar Company, was driven by Charles Books. The driver was j crossing Front street toward Wash- I lngton street, when the machines collided. The brothers were on their way home from work at the avia tion camp near Middletown. T'hree other accidents occurred In the borough and Highsplre yester day. Those who figured in these j accidents were not injured. Three I automobiles, a motorcycle and a] wagon were slightly damaged as the ; result of collisions. A. J. Lehrman,. Steelton and J. E. Keefer, Highsplre, both driving automobiles collided near Keefer's home. A delivery wagon owned by H. M. Cohen was struck by a street car at Front and Cranberry Avenue. A motorcycle with a sidecar struck an automobile at Second street. Little damage re sulted to the vehicles in any of the collisions. Mexican Evades Police After Shooting Another Mannel Oporla, who shot Manuel Rabage in the back as he lay asleep' in a Mexican boardtnghouse in Myers fetreet yesterday is still at largo. Op orla evaded the police after tho shooting and started toward Harris j burg along the Susquehanna river. Rabage is in the Harrisburg Hos pital. Chief of Police Grove, Patrol -1 man Bowermaster and Constable i Gibb took up Oporia's trail soon after but have been unable to locate him. Steelton Snapshots Fractures Leg.—Milton Weisen ford. Jr., aged 5. sustained a fractur-j ! ed right leg when he tumbled down a I flight of steps leading to Cottage | Hill off Swatara street. He was taken |to the Harrisburg Hospital. He is; j a son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Welsen- j ; ford. Fourth and Swatara streets, j Building Permit.—Borough Secre- 1 ' tary Charles Feldt yesterday Issued I < a building permit to Streso Dimltroff I ! to erect a building at Myers and Franfi*. streets to be used as a bowl ing alley. Attending Fair.—Dr. and Mrs. J. <A. McCurdy attended the York fair to-day. Joint Rally Day.—-The St. Mark's Lutheran and Central Baptist Sun day schools will hold a joint Rally ; Day observation in the St. Mark's | Church at Second and Lincoln streets Sunday afternoon. HAHRISBURG TELEGRAPH Steel Employe in Army Presented With Tokens j WILLIAM CHUMP William Crump, who Is employed ! in the accounting department of the ! local steel plant was presented with a | wrist watch, an Identification locket I and a trench mirror by his follow ! workers when he received notice that he had been called for military serv ice. He is to leave for camp on Sat urday. Lee Miller made the presen tation speeclie. Payments on Red Cross Fund Pledges Are Slow J Announcement was made by mem bers of the finance committee of the | Red Cross war fund that final puy ; meats on the pledges due the first of j the month are not being paid very I fast. M|ny are standing out and the ' committee requested that all pay up j in full so that they will be üble to settle. JOIIV WAGNER DIES John Wagner, aged 60, died at the 1 home of Phillip Belter, 720 South | Second street, yesterday after ! noon at 5 o'clock from pneumonia. r He was for a number of years a resi dent of the West Side and was a ' member of the West Side Hose Com pany. No funeral arrangements have been made. : MtDDLETOWNI i; ———4 Woman's Club Issues Program For Season The Woman's Club has given out its program for the next six months, i Instead of holding meetings at the homes of the various members, the meetings will be held in the high school building. October 4—lnformal discussion, "Woman's Sphere," Sirs. W. H. McCrea, Newville, Pa.; Mrs. Ira Stringer, hostess. October IS—"Wom | ar's Work for War Relief," Mrs. Anna [Wallace, LaDomus, Philadelphia. No | vtmber 2—Masquerade social, high school building, in charge of the hos : pitality committee. November 29 Thanksgiving program: Mrs. H. W. George, hostess. December IJ. "Court Week Among Women." Mrs. Jane I Deeter Rippin, chief probation officer. Municipal Court, Philadelphia- De | comber 2S, 5.30 p. m.—Surprise pro gram; open meeting In charge of en tertaining committee. January 10— "The Suffrage Question," Mrs. Mabel Jones, Harrisburg. January 24—"A Story Hour," Miss Lois Bucher. Har risburg; Sirs. & C. Toung, hostess. February 7—"ln Honor of Lincoln," Mrs. H. B. Garver, hostess. February 21—Washington, Memorial; "Our Red Cross Day." March 7—"The Home Economics Movement." including food j values and a demonstration!," Miss H. i F. Yarnell, graduate domestic science,! Philadelphia. March 21—Musicale, i Mrs. J. F. Few. April 4—A Story- Telling Hour." Mrs. Fuller Bergstres ser, in charge of civic committee. May 2—Annual business session: election of officers. May 16—Tree Conservation: address by member of State Forestry Department. May 13 —Memorial Day, in charge of Pro gram Committee. 03 MOTO It CYCI.ES ARRIVE! AT AVIATION WAREHOUSE Sixty-five Harley-Davidson motor cycles were received at the aviation building yesterday. Several of them are being used foy the boys stationed there. > The carpenter work on the barracks will be finished by the end of this week. Warren, the three-months-old eon of Mr. and Mrs. F. Johnson, died at the parents' home In Market street at noon yesterday. Burial will be made on Friday afternoon. The Rev. O. M. Krayblll left yes terday for Altoona, where he will at tend the East Pennsylvania Eldership of the Church of God. Harry Countryman, who is em ployed at the shoe factory and en listed in the United States Ambulance Corps, was presented with a wrist watch, field glasses and a trench mir ror by the cutting department of the shoe factory. Mr. Countryman will leave in a few days. Master Karl Schiefer, who has been ill with typhoid fever for the past several weeks, is somewhat improved. The funeral of Lewis Bubb was held from his mother's home yesterday. The Rev. James Cunningham, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, officiated. The pallbearers were Boyd Bishop Jr., Charles Zimmerman, Ar thur Stoner and Henry Patton. Burial was made in the Middletown Ceme tery. Miss Elsie Stipe was taken to the Harrisburg Hospital, where she was operated upon for appendicitis. Work of erecting the three build ings at the aviation grounds Is being pushed forward and stoves have been placed in the sleeping tents. Harry Mayer is visiting at May town, Lancaster county, for several days. Walter Baumbach has returned home from a six weeks' trip to Youngstown, Ohio. Work was started yesterday on tearing down the tenant house on the Eagle Farm, which was recently pur chased by the borough to make the r.ew road for the overhead bridge. The putting up of the bridge will be started sljertly, as most of the mate rial has arrived. J. H. Bergstresser is attending the State Firemen's Convention being held at Butler this week, represent ing the Liberty Fire Company. W. W. Beitzel has accepted a posi tion as clerk in the office of the car works. M)ss Jean McClure, who had been 111 at the home of Mrs. J. W. Dewalt for the past several weeks, is able to resume her duties as teacher In the Wood and Ann streets school building. Mrs. John Statler and Mrs. George I. King are spending a few days at Philadelphia. The Otterbeln Guild of the United Brethren Church entertained the women of the local society last eve ning, and a fine program was ren dered. Refreshments were served. The Red Cross members are knit ting sweaters for the boys who are stationed at the aviation plant, which will be very acceptable to the boys. Supplying Cots and Equipment For Hospital Officers of the local Red Cross so ciety announced to-day that they would supply four cots and all equipment to the base hospital which is Steelton's portion. There are lorty-elght kits that go with the hospital unit supplies. Kits for the Steelton boys who have been selected have been completed by the local society but will not be present ed until official announcement Is; made that they have been accepted for duty. There are forty-eight of these kits. An annual report of the organization is being prepared and will be issued next week. j Girl Uninjured When Two Cars Pass Over Her Miss Ruth Phillips, 176 South Sec ond street, an employe at the freight station of the Philadelphia and heading railroad In Trewick street, narrowly escaped serious injurv when she was thrown under a draft of freight cars near the Trewick street crossing. Two cars of the train passed over her before it was brought to a standstill. Miss Phillips sustain ed bruises of the body. COMMISSION YEARLY REPORT BEING PREPARED At a meeting of the Shade Tree Commission last night plans for thfc fall campaign were discussed Noth ing definite was decided bv mem bers. The yearly report of the bodv is being prepared and will b e in shape to present to council at its monthly meeting Monday night. • 1 I There s an Increasing IB r.xn m;t: urlT r^H It .'Hz .-i'i}i I In our children's department day after M day—-the boys seem to be "getting in" they look exceptionally happy after they have bought their new school suit here, for they roll right out full of enthusiasm because they have found exactly what they wanted The beys don't leave here with a "sour face" ask your boy friends why they go to Doutrichs. J 'flj New Velour Hats I [. ft? Don't wait until you're 1 last fellow) to Buy a New Hat V —notice the Handsome Velour Hats that are y IS coming from this "Live Store" then wish your / \NvJ self the best looking one, they're here in all A^ Sv \N s k colors for men and women. 1*5.00 S $ 6.50 $ 7.50 I Scratch finish Hats, $2.50 to $5.00 I Spear & Co. Cravanetted Caps SI.OO to $1.50 I Kuppenheimer Clothes I "Manhattan Shirts" "Stetson Hats" I 304 PA. | Dies at Hospital From Blow on Head Charles Palm, 192 South Front street, died last evening at the Har rltburg Hospital, from a fractured skull. Palm was working on con struction worlt at tho Bethlehem Steel Company's plant in Steelton, when a piece of falling material hit him on the head. He was imme diately taken to the Harrisburg Hos pital. |: HIGHSPIRE At the Sunday morning service in the United Brethren Church Miss Christie Partliemore, a member, pre sented tho church with a flag five by eight feet in dimensions. After thanking her for the gift and the patriotic spirit that prompted it the congregation arose and sang, "My Country Tls of Thee.''' Mrs. Jacob Rhoad, mother of the Bev. H. F. Rhoad, and William Sea man and family, of Grantvllle; Grant Houser and family, of Belle Grove, motored to town on Sunday and were the guests of the Rev. H. F. Rhoad and family. Mrs. William Wendel and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Orris left on Sunday night on an automobile trip to But ler where Mr. Orris will attend the firemen's convention, having been elected as the delegate from the Citi zen Fire Company of town. From Butler the party will motor to Cleve land, Ohio, and by boat to Buffalo, on their return trip home, i Sunday afternoon the Rev. H. F. Rhoad, pastor of the United Breth ren Church, submitted tho follow ing report for the conference year ending September 30, 1917: New members received during the year, i 21; present membership, 355; num ber enrolled in the Y. P. s. C. E, OCTOBER 4, 1917. 2001 enrolled In the Sunday school, 662; average attendanoe In the Bun-. . duy school, 270; amount of money raised for benevolences, MM. 71 j amount raised for homo and foreign Daughter That Saved '*2/8* Mrs. iirin h °m j t hem > been %BS I MRS. MARY K. 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