STEELTON AND NEARBY TOWNS VOTERS SANCTION! LOAN TRANSFER pass Measure by Overwhelm ing Majority; McEntee Elected Burgess The transferal of the $12,000 iso-! lation hospital fund to be used in' paying for fire apparatus and other ( purposes was carried with an over-1 whelming majority by a vote of 692; to 85. In the First precinct of the First ward and Third precinct of the! Third ward there were no votes cast 1 against the measure. T. T. McEntee was elected burgess! by a large majority over G. R. Nause| by a vote of 936 to 307. The light for the position of councilman of the' Third ward was closely contested. P. S. Blaekwell won out over Chester) A. Books by a majority of 41 votes, the final count standing at 216 for) Blaekwell and 175 for his opponent. l Gardner Defeated T. V. Gardner was defeated by a| big plurality for justice of the peace I By James L. Dickinson. I There was little excitement over the election as has been prevalent onl election day in the borough for years. | Most of the candidates for office were I assured of election at the primaries.! Comment on Transferal Officials of the borough were elat ed over the results of the loan trans feral. For sometime there was some! opposition evident in several sec-i tions of the town. Practically all of this was wiped out by firemen who! were directed in their campaigning' by borough officials. Those elected to office are: Bur-' gess, T. T. McEntee; tax collector,: James P. Detweiler; justice of" the. peace, James L. Dickinson; school, directors, G. S. Vickery, two years;! Quincy Bent, S. A. Brehm, and J. B. Martin, four years; auditors, D. C.I Becker, and C. A. Groff: council. T.I J. Nelly, First ward; H. O. Smith,! Second ward; John C. Craig, and P.I S. Blaekwell, Third ward; Benjamin! C'apella, Fourth ward: Charles Reisch | and Ira B. Reider, Fifth ward. WTOMOBTI.F. ACCIDENT ! Ati automobile delivery truck own- j ed by the Steelton Glove Companyj was slightly damaged when struck i by an automobile owned by W. S. j Leinbach of Lancaster, between, Adams and Trewick streets this [ morning shortly before 10 o'clock. ! The truck driver did not give a sig- j nal that he intended to turn and I did so before the Lancaster man j could stop his car. The touring carl was not damaged. Buy Your Soldier Boy's Xmas Gifts Now Postmaster General Burleson says all Xmas \ gl gifts for "Our Boys'" w across the seas must be \ WBfck mailed by Nov. 15th. i | CiJjjK It would .also be advis- Ll a b' e to mail your Xmas gifts to "Our' Boys" on l\ / this side of the water about It that time, too. It will in i jpXh s re prompt delivery j|| H&flL lighten the burden of the C f P. O. employes and you don't have to worry about A are read y w ith a full and complete line of Mili- tary Gifts that will make your boy happy. Enlisted Men's Wool Suits Officers' Overcoats Enlisted Men's Cotton Suits Olive Drab Blankets Officers' O. D. Serge Uniforms Khaki Writing Kits Officers' O. D. Wool Uniforms Wool Spiral Puttees Officers O.D. Cotton Uniforms Side-Laced Leggings Rubber Caps Folding Camp Stools Money Belts Buckskin Lined Coats First Aid Kits Officers' Rubber Capes Pistol Halyards Book of Handy French Spurs Slickers O. D. Gloves O. D. Shirts Ponchos Insignia Service Hats Hat Straps Whistles Web Belts Folding Pails O. D. Braid Chevrons Hat Cords Toilet Cases Folding Cots Dimmer Goggles Overcoat Braid Garrison Caps , Breeches Lacers Trench Mirrors Folding Basins Pigskin Puttees Legging Lacers O. D. Sweaters Housewife Kits Swagger Sticks Sheepskin Coats Cowhide Puttees Khaki Kerchiefs Sheepskin Vests Collar Ornaments Canvas Leggings Shaving Outfits THE GLOBE " The Big Friendly Store" If sls, S2O or $25 meets your idea of price— Worthy Suits and Overcoats Are Your Best Bay There's more style, more quality, and more service to the square inch in Worthy Clothes than in any other. That's saying a good bit—but no more than the garments them selves Will substantiate. 14 N. THIRD ST. s o„. WEDNESDAY EVENING* Loan Transferal Vote Yes. No. First ward— First precinct 40 Second precinct 150 7 Second ward— First precinct 4 4 7 Second precinct 5 3 5 Third ward— First precinct 7 4 13 Second precinct 122 20 Third precinct 8 Fourth ward 96 7 Fifth ward— First precinct 34 13 Second precinct 71 13 Totals 692 85 Army Recruiting Station Now Located in Electric Light Hall, Front Street A substation of the Harrisburg Army Recruiting office was opened in Electric Light Hall yesterday. The government has secured rooms 49 and 50 for the work. Men wishing to join the service will be recruited here and given preliminary exam inations and then sent to the main office at Harrisburg. For some time men have applied at th exemption board office which is situated in this building for enlist ment in the service. They were re ferred to the Harrisburg office, and officials believe that sometimes some of them did not find the headquarters. On one day several weeks ago twelve colored men applied at the exemption board to enlist. Sergeaent Charles R. Lassiter will have charge of the office. Sergeant Jacob Casteen has charge of the of fice temporarily. Meeting of Associated Charities on Monday A report of the committee from the Associated CharJties appointed to de vise ways and means of raising money to conduct the work of the organization this winter will be made at a meeting of the Associated Charities on Monday evening. A plan to raise money has been work ed out and will bo presented to the charities for approval. SPECIAL. PROGRAM A special program entitled "For Christ and Native Land," will be pre sented in St. John's Lutheran Church this evening at 7:45 o'clock. The program will consist of songs and recitations. To Cnrf n Cold tn One Dny Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S sig nature is on each box. 30c.—Adver tisement. 100 APPOINTED ON COMMITTEE Large Number ofBusiness men to Solicit Money For Y. M. C. A. War Fund Members of a committee of 100 residents of Steelton and nearby towns to conduct the Y. M. C. A. War Fund campaign work in this terri tory will be announced to-morrow. A meeting; of the advisory board of fifty members was held in the office of Quincy Bent, chairman, yes terday afternoon and preliminary plans for the campaign were made. Ministers of the local churches will preach sermons on the work of the Y. M. C. A. and war, on Sunday. This Will mark the opening of the campaign which will close the fol lowing Sunday. Must Kaise So,ooo This section is asked to raise $5.- 000, which seems a very small amount compared with the large amounts subscribed to both issues of the Liberty Loan and the Red Cross war fund. Working in conjunction with the general committee will bo a com mittee of women of this district to raise SI,OOO for the benefit of the Y. W. C. A. work. Boy Scouts and the Camp Fire Girls will be asked to give their support in the work. The executive committee has charge of this work and members are of the opinion that the boy scouts will come forward In this campaign as they did in. the second liberty loan campaign. Businessmen of the borough, En liaut, Highspire, Bressler and Oberlin who were prominent in the Liberty Loan campaigns will be appointed members of the committee to have charge of the campaign next week. The plan to be'followed out In col lecting subscriptions will be along the same lines as the second issue of the Liberty Loan when committee men. were appointed to see ten men each. Contribute 650 Xmas Gifts For Soldiers A report of Mrs. W. H. Nell, chair man of the Christmas Gift Commit tee of the -Red Cross Society reported to-day that Including collections from boxes in the stores up to yes | terday 650 packages have been made jup An appeal for families of the I borough to contribute Christmas | boxes consisting of two packages of I clgarets .and two bars of chocolate I was made by Red Cross officers this I morning. It is necessary for the j people of Steelton to come forward with their contributions If this | borough is going to fill its allotment |of 1.000 gifts by November 10, an j official raid to-day. The Red Cross Society has taken up the registration work and all wo men ■willing to register to do some kind of work are requested to come to the Harrishurg street headquar ters. Everything is in readiness for the card party to be held by the chapter in the headquarters to-mor row night. Arrangements have been made to afford entertainment for those who do not wish to play cards. I MIDDLETOWN" ! *- Gingrick Wins Out in Four-Cornered Fight For Office of Burgess , S. B. Gingrick, Republican candl | date for burgess, won out in a four cornered fight by a big majority. The votes for burgess were: Ging rick, 485; Lewis Miller, 206; H. K. Baum, 258; D. W. Plasterer, 94. The fight for councilman in the First i ward was closely contested, Jerome Embriek, Democrat, and G. Souders, i Republican, won out over William | Hippie, Democrat, and H. E. Myers, ! Democrat. C. E. Witman, Demo crat. was elected tax collector, de feating John Wagner. Mrs. Miley Schaeffer and daugh ter, of Carlisle, are visiting in town. Mrs. John Keifer has resigned as organist pt the M. E. Church. The Mothers' Congress Circle met last evening to finish packing their kits for the soldier boys from town and Royalton, and will be forwarded I shortly. Mrs. Ella Beaverson has returned home from New Cumberland. The Royalton borough council will meet on Thursday evening. Harry Countryman, paymaster at I the shoe factory, left to-day for I Yaphank, N. Y. t where he has en listed in the Signal Reserve Corps. A special meeting of the Sunday' i school teachers and officers of the St Peter's Lutheran Sunday school | will be held this evening. Urges Filipino People to Show Gratitude to U. S. Hy Associated Press \ Manila, Philippine Islands. Tuesday, N'ov. 6. ln an address to the Senate I t-day. Manuel Quezon, president of I the Senate, urged that the Filipino ! people show their gratitude to the i United States by espousing its cause lin war, in which, he asserted, the Philippines have more vital interest at stake than America herself. He said the United States would not be en dangered by a defeat, whereas the Philippines stood to lose all their hopes of liberty in the event of a German triumph. "Uet us tight for America and the cause of small nations, which means the ultimate fulfillment of the hopes of the Filipinos," he said. "If assist ance of the Filipinos is accepted there will be no need of compulsory ser vice. The Filipinos, even veterans of the insurrection, will volunteer to fight for the sake of liberty." New Austrian War Loan to Mature in Forty Years By Associated Press Copenhagen, Nov. 7. The seventh Austrian war loan will be of the 514 per cent, type and will be issued at 92H, maturing in forty years, accord ing to a Vienna dispatch to the Vos ische Zeitung, of Berlin. Subscribers will receive a bonus for a month's.interest and the hanks will get a commission of one-half of 1 per cent., so that the loan will net the 1 Government approximately 91V4 Hungary will! Issue nonmaturing bonds of both 6 and 5',4 per rent. The Government hopes to secure subscrip tions equal to iho sixth loan, which totalled 6,900,000,000 crowns for both countries. HAKRISBURC TELEGRAPH :OBERLIN ;::: Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Lutz spent the weekend with the latter's pat ents at Dauphin. Benjamin Shope and daughter Dorothy, attended the golden wod ding anniversary of Mr. Shope's par ents. near Carlisle. Mjs. Nelson Hopple left Monday evening to join her husband who is. working at Toronto, Canada. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Eshenaua? an<i Mr. and Mrs. Roy Osnian spent <e-day at Middletown. Mrs>. C. A. Gsell, who has been visiting here for a month, has re tmr.ed to her home at Upton. She was accompanied by her brother, Harry Eshenaur. .Mrs. Enos Aungst spent Saturday and Sunday with her parents at Hlcrhspire. Sergeant Raymond Keim, who wan appointed a drilling officer at Camp Meade, is now home on a furlough. Raymond Gerhart spent Saturday at Union Deposit. Mrs. Edmond Taylor, of Bigler ville, visited for several days with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Weikert. Harry Hanshaw, of Pleasant View, is spending a week at Coates ville. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Putt, of Roanoke, Va., returned after a stay with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Greena walt. Eugene and Charles Relikugler spent Sunday at York. Fred Core visited at Middletown. Mr. and Mrs. J. Hoffman, of Reading, Mr. and Mrs. George Hushower, Mr. and Mrs. "William Ho.shower, of Bearville, spent sev eral days with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hushower. Professor Fabler Stengle, who has been seriously 111 from an attack of acute indigestion is slowly improv ing. The bazar held in the engine house hall by the High school, for the benefit of" the Athletic Associa tion. netted $145. The Junior Christian Endeavor of the United Brethren Church, have changed their time of meeting from Sunday afternoon, until Wednesday afternoon at 4.00. "The Live Store" "Always Reliable By an overwhelming majority this "Live Store" has been favored F f by thousands of loyal patrons throughout i iIV M Central Pennsylvania as the authoritative Clothing Store, fm Iff m everybody is talking about the Supremacy of Doutrichs E H M and the success of our latest achievement, the /V ■ ■■ 'M "Overcoat Fair" j I r- 11 • 1 0 I' 'dw M 1 his event surpasses anything we have ever attempted—it's com- ■ 1 ~ „ 111 1 * *>Blo Jsorj mon talk that you can see more Overcoats j B at Doutrichs than you would expect to see in an entire I city the 3ize of Harrisburg we began the "Overcoat I www** Fair" with forty-three hundred "Overcoats," enough I t... styles, fabrics and colors with price advantages to satisfy | M * Hi every known wish or desire that you might have in refer- ; | V ence to your new topcoat This is The Home of the Overcqfl Where the great family of clothes buyers come to gq known quality merchandise and the greatest values together with tlffl square-dealing and honest representation that has made this "Live Store" famous and the lasting confidence and good will of the people. V Try This Dependable "Manhattan Shirts" "Stetson Ha^| 5Sn WAR PROBLEMSTO CLAIM ATTENTION State Board of Education Will Have Important Meeting Here Next Week Members of tlio VV\ jtyyJ State Board of N\\\ Education have AXNVM? summoned for a special meeting to MMSSHD®® be ,ielcl here next Iffllflq Q fifiVj Wednesday, Nov- II IwKlHWwtetf ember 14, for dis ilislMlilPlfl cusslon of war jgl|K)cflfcoiyil3lfe problems in the schools and the normal school sit uation. The members of the lioard have been making observations on conditions throughout the state brought on by the war and its stim ulation of certain industries and al so the effect of advancing prices i'or supplies. In many partr of the stato there has been reported a shortage of teachers duo to men going into the Army, being drafted or trans ferring their activities to better paid occupations, while women are also making changes. Reports will be discussed on the inquiry Into the extent which physi cal training has been taken up in the schools of the state and the in vestigation into the number of sav ings funds in school districts. Farmers Need Help.—lnability of farmers in a number of southern Pennsylvania counties to obtain labor is bringing a condition which pre vailed In the apple raising belt of fall when many apples were allowed Adams and Franklin counties this to remain on trees which is now likely to prevent harvesting of po tatoes. Numerous reports have come to this city that last week potatoes had not all been gathered and there were fears of serious damage by the frosts which have been growing heavier. Work Stopped—lt is estimated that work on twenty-six milea of road maintenance haa been hit by the Government's priority order on open top cars. Complaint* Filed —Complaints were entered to-day against Increases of coal rates in the Ix>ck Haven district and against telephone contract ob servance by companies in the Som erset county Held. J. C. Delnlnger 111 —.Tamos C. Doin inger, executive clerk, is ill at his home in Sullivan county-. Gratuity Killing —An opinion fjlven to-day to penitentiary authorities by the Attorney General's Department ho'ds that the cash and clothing grat uity given by the state to discharged or paroled convicts can apply only to those who have been found guilty and sentenced and not to prisoners who are discharged by reason of their conviction or sentence having been determined to be illegal. Draft Directory —-A general di rectory of members of all boards con nected w 1 l*i the administration of the draft law in Pennsylvania is to be issued by the state draft registration htadquarters. It will be for guid ance of persons desiring to make ap pears, as many letters are sent to the wrong boards. Gas Goes Up— The first notices of increase in rates of manufactured gas companies in eastern Pennsylvania to be filed for some time have been en tered before the Public Service Com mission by the Atglen, Christiana and Parkesburg Gas Companies, op erating in towns of those names In Lancaster and Chester counties. The new rates are effective December 1. Xoiv Coimrflmnn Fry—Howard W. Fry, chief clerk of the State High way Department, is now a council man. He was elected to office in Lancaster city as one of the best known and best equipped young men of his ward. Interest In Election —Unusual in terest was shown in election results at the Capitol to-day and many at taches from various counties wire checking up reports. URGES D. s. CONTROL Government ownership, as the only practical solution of railroad prob lems. is urged in a letter just writ ten l>y the Pennsylvania Federation of to President Woodrow Wil son. Commandeering of railroads for NOVEMBER 7, 191 7. PETROGRAD POPULACE IS IN STATE OF REVOLT [Continued from Pago.] government. The entire city is now guarded by loyal troops. The situation is complicated fui tlier by the action of Premier Keren sky in suspending three Maximalist and two Conservative newspapers. The city authorities last night or dered a disconnection of the bridges between the quarters of the city in habited by the working classes and the center of the capital, thus stop ping the tramways. In addressing the preliminary par liament to-day Premier Kerensky charged the military committee of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Dele gates with having distributed arms and ammunition to workmen. "That is why I consider part of the population of Petrograd in a state of revolt," he said, "and have ordered an immediate inquiry and such'ar rests as are necessary. The govern ment will perish father than cease to defend the honor, security and in dependence of the state." The government has decided not to resort to armed force for the pres ent against the military committee of the Soldiers' and Workmen's Delegates, hut has ordered the min istry of justice to prosecute the mem bers of the committee. The military will take the necessary measures in case of a revolt. The revolutionary military com mittee of the Soldiers' and Work men's Delegates demanded the right to control all orders of the general staff in the Petrograd districts, which was refused. Thereupon the com mittee announced that it had ap pointed special commissioners to un dertake the direction of the mili tary and invited the troops to ob serve only orders signed by the com mittee. Machine gun detachments moved to the Soldiers' and Work men's headquarters. The government hopes for a peace ful settlement of the dispute on which account it reached the decision not to resort to force for the pres ent, However, the Soldiers' and Workmen's committee was decreed an illegal organization and precau tionary steps were taken to defeat any attempts at a revolt. Russi fttf acrifi Pur* Da 11 a .t. Trow; Nov: 7. Thu anaem ■ focatlon with men and women who had (ofJßlto tell of Russian valor In uiq great war, and of tho necessity that the sympathy and material nld of the Basil Hwoschinskl. of the Russian Navy, was on the stage, also A. J. Sack, di rector of Bureau, in Jst&> had come Jjotfe his first address', Mayor Martin Benrmair, or leans. introduced, .the jor Washburn thrfpii^jß^^i®lx^il tliat won tbo sy iu piytjtyy ton, Atlanta and already had been nrfT Pro-German Traitors to This-Coantry By Af.iociatei Prt.it "® Now York. Nov. 7. Ass<SrUri|'-Hi)e a concerted pro-German propafefH## is behind persistent efforts to 'lnittow fere with the National HousewtxwM league's co-operation with the QoiW rrnment's food conservation plans, warning was issued here to-day by Mrs. Julian Heath, the league's pfefllj dent, to the women of the UpiieVl States against "women alien etitohle*" advising them to treat every Vowhrt who discourages food conservation "as a traitor to this countrji." <tm f SUNBURN m Needs a soothing, r cooling application ofAmjj&ud kp Lmlf lod-(ird Inlaw \teiSiMai 11
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