FLAWS PICKED IN SEMAPHORE TRAFFIC SYSTEM I Moans of Using Signals to Advantage Yet to Be Worked Out Since the appointment of Mayor J. William Bowman there has been' considerable agitation regarding the! placing of semaphores at the inter-! section of busy streets in the city. Mayor Bowman has given the matter considerable thought, rather leaning toward the plan on the principle of! supporting anything that would benefit the police department and be an asset in solving the traffic problem. The feasibility of the system, how-, ever, now is being questioned for the j time being at least. The system, it j is said by some who have studied the matier, could only be operated onj Mfirkct Square without necessitating I considerable inconvenience. , Semaphores are used in practically, every large city in the country. New i York City, the originator of the sys-j tern, has semaphores on parts of! Fifth avenue and other streets where the street car congestion is heavy. Harrisburg streets are said to forbid j the use of semophores in any place i except at Market Square. Placing I tUem at the intersection of Third and Market or Fourth and Market, I would cause the extended paddles j to reach over the car tracks. At j Fourth and Market streets the sys tem might prove adaptable as there. are not many cars passing up Mar ket street to Market Square. How ever when a car passes it would lie I necessary for the policeman in I charge to remove the obstruction. Police Chief Wetzel is not very op timistic over the outcome of the es tablishing of this system. It has been suggested that semaphores could be placed on the corners of the streets, and thus do away with the policeman standing in the center to: operate them. This system has been tried in other large cities. Chief! Wetzel said to-day that he is ready | to accept any proposition that Willi alleviate the traffic congestion espe-1 ciully in Market street. However, the present system of having police men guide the traffic, by whistle sig-! nals, had met the requirements fairl> j well on nearly all the busy corners, j and the chief is loath to change un- I less something better and more j adaptable can be suggested. Mount Union Will Help in Y. M. C. A. Campaign Mount Union. Pa., Oct. 31.—Mount Union is to do her share toward raising the J35,000,000 for the V. M. C. A. fund that will be launched in a few days. At a dinner Monday nlsht at the home of C. 11. Ewing, the plan of the cajnpaign was out lined by the leaders for the Fifth district. Mr. Ttaldridge and Mr. Staf ford. of Hollidaysburß. The promi nent men of Mount Union who at tended promised to see that Mount Union does her share in the cam paign. C. B. Ewing and Professor W. P. Harlcy were made tl\e chairmen of the southern half of Huntingdon county. The following men attend ed the dinner and will do their share in the campaign: Judge E. >l. Beers, C B. Ewing. W. P. Harlev, super intendent of schools: C. C. Smith, principal of the High school; the Rev. C. W. Todd. Dr. Gregory; Mr. Corson, superintendent General Re fractories; Mr. Agnew, superintend ent Harbison-Walker Refractories: Mr. Haokman, superintendent Mount Union Refractories: C. B. Crum. mer chant; Frank Moore.treasurer Mount Union Refractories; the Rev. 8. S. Carnell. Robert X. Longacre, mer chant: C. H. Welch, publisher: T. C. Appleby, publisher; L. K. Ohilcotte, superintendent East Broad Top Rail road Company at Mount t'nion; the Rev. J. S. Shannon. Mr. Baldridge, chairman Fifth district: Mr. Straf ford, manager Fifth district. MGHTXIXG DESTROYS HEARIXG Marietta. Pa., Oct. 31. —Lewis Fake, living on a farm near East Prospect, lost his hearing yesterday during a storm which passed over that section. He was standing in the kitchen at his home when lightning struck the house, knocked down the stovepipe and tore up the oilcloth on the floor where he was standing. The house was badly damaged. RALLY DAY AT HALIFAX Halifax, Pa., Oct. 31.—Sunday, November 4. will be Rally Day in the United Brethren Sunday school and plans are now being made to have it the banner day of the year. There will be special music. "SUCHTBIG CHANCE" SAYS MRS. ZIEGLER Used to Fed So Tirc<l and Miserable But She's Bright and Happy Xow TAN LAC THi: REVIVIMEK "Words cannot tell you how happy I am over the return of my health and energy," cries Mrs. S. Ziegler. of 539 Rockland street, Lancaster. Pa., whose happy smile confirms her words of praise for Tanlac, the mas ter medicine. "I was a sufferer from nervous in digestion for over a year and all that time everything I ate caused me pain. Even cold water would dis tress me and when I did force a lit tle food down such quantities of gas would form that I would have a heavy feeling in my stomach and I would have pains in my back and around my heart, that were so bad sometimes I thought I would die. "I had awful headaches, too, I was so nervous I couldn't sleep or rest and would get up feeling so tired and without energy or ambition. "Finally I started taking Tanlac and it gave me almost immediate re lief and now I have so improved that 1 can eat anything with a relish and never sufTer a bit afterwards. I sleep soundly every night and wake up fresh and rested and I haven't had a sign of a headache in weeks." Tanlac, the famous reconstructive tonic, is now being introduced here at Gorgas' Drug Store, who has se cured the exclusive sale of this mas ter medicine in Harrisburg. Tanlac is also sold at the Gorgas Drug Store in the P. R. R. Station; in Carlisle at W. G. Stephens' Phar macy; Elizabethtown, Albert W, Cain; Greencastle, Charles B. Carl; Middletown, Colin 8. Few's Phar macy; Waynesboro, Clarence Croft's Pharmacy; Mechanlcsburg, H. F. Brunhouse.—Adv. WEDNESDAY EVENING, Letters From the Front DODGING BOMBS FROM AIRPLANES IN FRANCE B. Franklin Etter. son of George E. Etter, of this city, has written home from the front in France that a stone blown loose by a bomb hit him on the head and dented his helmet. He, how ever, was not injured. According to his latest letter, the only excitement his detach ment is having is dodging airplane bombs. Every night a guard is kept to warn the sleeping men of approaching airmen. His letter follows. Sept. 23, 1917. i Dear Family: At last I have received a letter | from you and the second box and ; I sure was glad to get both. I want to thank you all for the stuff, it sure will come In handy. Of late, tha only excitement I've! had is dodging airplane bombs. We are still camped behind the lines ini nn old farmhouse and every night the Boche planes come sailing ovcrj and drop a few bombs. We used to run to the abri until one bomb hit within fifty feet of the place and knocked dirt and rocks down on us and made the place unsafe. Since then we run to the open fields ind ; wait for something to happen. Every night we have to stand guard to' warn the fellows sleeping when a f Promptly Promptly | Q8:30 A.M. 8:30 A.M.D 1 Miry iSURPLUS STOCKS 1 S o Starts Friday Morning, November 2, Promptly at 8:30 O'clock **■ u §5125,000 Dollars' Worth Of The Newest Winter Merchandised c ——- ' ■ ——" ————■ ————— Q 0 Comprising the Choicest Stocks of tjj 0 Purchased Far Below Present-Day Market Fou/y Here Is An Exact Copy of Our Letter o 0 $125,000 of Surplus Stocks I M a Ued to of Manufac- | $125,000 of Surplus Stocks | at the Most Notable Reduc- | I Comprising Fine, New, Staple n 1 tions Since the Outbreak of Such Abnormal Conditions, Merchandise at Less Than 5 j the World -War! Read Every Word Of it Current Market Prices! Q ] The accompanying facsimile copy of our ijM Please bear in mind that our Sale of Sur- H i letter, which was mailed to hundreds of man- KAUFMAN'S . ,^i„ o +1 A i * . U n ufacturers and iobbers is thorouehlv consist- fIPRz UNDERSELL.NG STORES P llls Stocks comprises the choicest and best g . 1 1 r ri . b - ? ' 1 merchandise that our corps of experienced ft ent with our policy 01 always striving to be 46 - 8 sooth market square 1 1 1 pioneers in lowering prices.' The launching buyers could purchase. These surplus stocks !, of our Surplus Stock Sale in face of present- have l)een spread throughout the store-every H 1 day obstacles, was only made possible through "ft*?. department fairly brimming over with fresh, g ; our close affiliations with the leading manu- onr Annaml ,0T " dependable merchandise for the home, or H facturers and iobbers of the world's markets. e j ntlßUOU ' of mnhuttn *• * r.t - personal wear. In every offering, whether for U J , , . •• 70" undoubtedly know, this 1* an •ataDllshed r / &' " iV "" A We have earned and deserved their co-opera- S? Man, Woman or Child, the value is a remark- „ I ... /. .1 A Sn!? 4 ;! 1 •* P**' o ";®' of ° cuetomra. who hav oontrlbutd ao 7 tion and support, m view of the immense out- able one. This sale comes along at the right S j let that this store affords the manufacturers " '* •' ■>■ time-just when you want to replenish your jt 1 a"fl jobbers. In every instance, we gained LKs personal wardrobe or your household with JJ J enormous price concessions and we are giving SSSSISH;. new Winter merchandise. And again, we H j you the full benefit of these tremendous sav- * "-- " <*have taken the lead in setting the pace for U i iugs. We are faithfully pursuing our policy "• holding down prices. In doing so, we can 2 ! of putting the brakes on the advance of J r.i, f.!K •SitfpiJtfSJ.'S'it;* " safely predict that this sale of surplus stocks prices. It is an ironclad underselling policy "" will long be remembered by the people of O g that means very substantial savings for our Harrisburg and vicinity as a record-breaking fl customers. Economy Event. q j - I Buying More We Can Buy for Less Selling More We Can Sell for Less E 1 $125,000 OF SURPLUS STOCK A TJITlpa J\F $125,000 OF SURPLUS STOCKS Q |TO SERVE THE PUBLIC AND /\ THAT WILL TURN THE TIDE S | KEEP THE PRICES DOWN! | y IN THE RISE 0F PRICES! g Read Our Advertisement in To-morrow's Newspapers, Giving Full Details and Complete Price Lists 5 oaOßOßoaoßOcaoaooonoooaoaOE3ononoaomooE3oooßaoaoEionomono | plane comes. When it conies we nil I jump out of bed, grab a coat and a j pair of slippers which we always have ready, and beat it. The other night they dropped a bomb whicU made a whole five feet deep and ten feet 'wide: when we went to look at it, the pieces of bomb were still warm. Now we are all working hard digging a ditch seven feet deep which we are going to cover over with five feet of logs, railroad rails and sand bngs and then put a layer of dirt and rocks on top of that. Two days ago we gc word that a king was going to pass by our camp. Of course everybody wanted to see a ; real live specimen "of royalty, so we all sported up and went to a sharp ' turn in the road where he had to slow up. We did think of putting HAFRISBURO TELEGRA PH tacks and broken glass .in the road, I but decided that he might not like the delay. After waiting about 15; minutes a whole procession of "vol- j tures" came down the road. Kingj Albert of Belgium and President | Poincare of France were in the firstl oar which flew the flag of France on | the left and the flag of Belgium on ! the right. Albert is certainly a fine: looking man; he has fair reddish hair and his features are fine enough i to be called noble. He certainly looks like a king. He was dressed in j a general's uniform of khaki color. ■ President Poincare wp.s not so in- 1 pressive; he is rather fat, wears aj short gray beard and was dressed 'n; a dark blue uniform. In the next! car came General Petain and a Rel- j gian General and then Joffrc and an- j other French General and then a j few more lesser lights. But the} whole bunch saluted us, even "Al" j and "Rty." There was also swarm j of aeroplanes overhead watching to prevent a Boche from dropping j bombs. Which reminds me, yesterday I j saw a wonderful air battle; aj Frenchman and Bociie met right; above our post and went for each! other like a pair of roosters. They j circled around, dodged and jockeyed around for a favorable position and j at last the Frenchman got it and j opened up with his mitrailleuse. He| got the pilot of the Boche plane and; the machine started to fall, turning | end over end as it fell. The French-j man circled around and followed | him .down like a hawk. About 100 j feet from the ground the Boche j recovered himself and started to j glide away. But the Frenchman was right on his trail and pumped a few j more quarts of lead on him and he had to descend, which he did about: a quarter of a mile from us. It j seems that the Frenchman shot the| Boche pilot through the nose and | knocked him unconscious for awhile] . and when ho recovered he was so | dazed that he had to descend. It j was a wonderful fight and all the i Frenchman cheered when the Bocho ! fell. I don't know where you heard that ; tale about a bullet going through my i helmet, but it isn't true. I have seen ; several such helmets but usually the | fellow was in no condition to wear it | afterwards. The thing that did hap ■ pen to me was that a shell exploded j close to me and threw a stone which j put a dent in my helmet. ! Am enclosing some pictures which | X have just gotten developed. The | one is of myself and Steve Dresser, I the boy from Maine I was telling j you about. It was taken while we i were on repos. The other is a pic | ture of my car which ran down the [ hill and turned over. Am having I some more developed and will send j them later. Yesterday I saw the first Ameri can soldier in the war zone. Ho wanted to see what the front looked j like so we took him to our post; just | as we got there the Boches started to ; shell the place and nearly scared the } pood lad to death. Of course he was not used to it, but it certainly was funny to see how terrified he was. j He felt better after we got fiini in side an abri, but he didn't want to | see any more of the front and left as ; ?oon as we could take him down. It looks very much as if I am here j until the end of the war. I sure do ! wish I could come home for Xmas, j but I guess it can't be done. You j see, since the U. S. has taken over ' the service, they want us all to stay and are making It very hard for us j to leave; besides, I'd hate to quit j now that I am needed and am cap ; able of doing the work. So I guess j you had better give up the idea of I seeing me for awhile. I am all right and enjoying myself a lot, so don't worry about me and for goodness sake don't imagine I am reaching up and picking bullets out of the air or looking for them to bite. I'm using all the care I can and am reasonably safe. Except for times when the Oerinnns bombard the road or batteries along the road or shoot at us directly, which doesn't very often happen, we have a good chance of getting away with it. I did a thing last week which very few people have the opportunity of doing. I can't tell you anything about it, as much as I would like to, bijt will leave it to your Imagination. I saw Verdun, the city Itself and went all through it. I suppose I have told you all the news and am anxious to get some more from home, so write soon. Any time you feel like sending some cigars or tobacco, don't hesi tate. Tobacco doesn't last long with a gang of fellows like this. So —you get my point? Love to all and write soon. FRANKLIN. Gov. Brumbaugh Addresses Carlisle's Commerce Body Carlisle, Pa., Oct. SI. —A record attendance of over 140 members of the Carlisle Chamber of Commerce assembled in Mentzer Hall at noon to hear Governor Brumbaugh speak at the weekly luncheon of the local trade body here to-day. The Chief Executive of the state arrived here about 11.30 o'clock and an Informal reception was held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. Governor Brum baugh chose as his topic "Recent Legislation in Pennsylvania" and paid special attention to laws gov erning highways and state aid to boroughs. OCTORF.R 31. 1017 $747.78 FOR WAR LIBRARIES Carlisle, Pa., Oct. 31.—Final esti mates made at headquarters hero to day show that Cumberland county save >747.73 to the war library fund, although there was no formal can vass. Final reports were sent in to day. Boiling Springs gave $16.71; Camp Hill, $87.25; Carlisle, $155.54; Lemoyne, $40.40; Mechaniesburg, $267.60 i Mt. Holly, $2; Newvllle, sl3; Diabetes Sufferer Not Give Up In Despair Warner's Safe Diabetes Remedy lias brought health and happiness to many who thought themselves lc --yond aid. Diabetes is a peculiar and baffl ing disease which the medical pro fession seems to be unable to accu rately describe and definitely cure despite the many years of experi menting and research by foremost physicians throughout the world. Diabetes Is invariably the result of Impaired nutrition and assimilation —this result is an excess of sugar in the blood and failure of the food to nourish, hence a gradual wasting away while eating well. 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