PERSONAL-SOCIAL SENDING GIFTS TO FORESTRY MEN Federation of Women's Clubs Urges Contributions For Many Men in France Through the conservation depart ment of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. John Granville Godding, of Brighton, Mass., and Miss Myra L Dock, of Fayetteville. Pa., have been appointed a commit tee in charge of the Christnms .gifts for the First Regiment of Forestry men sent to France. has al ready been a considerable response by way of contributions, but the com mittee wants to do something large for the Pennsylvania men and the appeal has been made for funds which may he Ssent to Miss Mary Uhukiston. Fort Washington, Mont gomery county. Pa. „ There will soon be 10,000 fores ters, lumbermen and w relief work that may be necessary, lieutenant H. Y. Williams a chap lain of one of the forestry writes to Miss Dock from France that the men have lived in tents and cattle cars most of the time and the mud has been rather deep owing to excessive rains and snow, but the sun comes out for a day, we for get it all and are as happy as can be." He suggests in the way of need ed things heavy socks, candies, fruit cakes, phonograph records suitable for Columbia grafonolas, snappy pictures for walls of barracks and recreation rooms and sweaters. In a subsequent letter Lieutenant Wil liams adds to his suggestions oiparets, pipes and pipe tobacco and lie says the offer of the Federation of Women's Clubs Is greatly appre ciated by the officers and men. Lieutenant Lindsey. commanding a detachment of enginers, says in a letter to Miss Dock that the men are comfortably quartered In tents, are cheerful and getting enough to eat, but the thing they lack are sweets, such as cakes and chocolate, which it is practically impossible to get at the present time in France. Boyd-Lamont Wedding Is of Interest Here Pouglikeepsie, N. Y., Dec. 17. — Miss Katherine Lamont, daughter of the late Daniel S. Lamont, who was Secretary of War under President Cleveland, was married at 12.30 Sat urday, to Lieutenant James Boyd, of Harrisburg, Pa. The wedding was solemnized at Altamont, the Lamont home in Millbrook. Dean Howard Robbins, of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in New York, of ficiating. It was quiet, owing to the fact that both families are in mourn ing, only immedate relatives and a few intimate friends attending. The bride had no attendants, lieutenant Jackson H. Boyd, U. S A., of Harrisburg, acted as his brother's best man. Following the wedding the couple left on a brief honeymoon trip. Mrs. Boyd is a popular member of the social set at.MiUbrook and also in New York. Lieutenant Boyd is in the United States Army ambulance service and is at present awaiting orders for his assignment to active service. He is a son of the late John Y. Boyd and' Mrs. Eleanor Herr Boyd, of Harris burg. Post Office Gets Ready For Christmas Rush Forty or more ewtra clerks and mail carriers have been hired by Postmaster Sites to take care of the extra Christmas rush. The coming week will see more man nandieu 'at the post office than any other week in the year. Approximately 150,000 letters and parcels were han dled last week, an increase of 38,000 over the week before. The branch office at 231 Second street opens this morning- and will remain open in the evenings. People living in the vicinity of the branch office are urged to mail their par cels and letters there to relieve the congestion at the main office. The incoming parcel post matter will be arranged for local distribution in the newly-finished offices at the remod eled building. Post office authorities are urging the people to give "Baby Bonds" as Christmas presents. These bonds are on sale at all hours of the day and are carried by the mail carriers to f-ell to customers on their routes. To Consider Abolition of School Committees The special committee appointed to consider the motion to abolish all committees of the city school board will meet this week it was announced to-day at the board offices. The com mittee Includes President Robert A. Tenders, Director George A. Werner, who made the motion; Superintend ent F. E. Downes and .Secretary D. D. Hammelbaugh. The report of the • i.miiiittee will probably be submit ted at the first meeting of the board next month. Hids for the remodeling of the < amp Curtin schoolbuHding to be used for a junioY high school will be opened on Friday at the regular iioard meeting. F!ans for the work were made by M. I. Kast. architect. The contracts for the erection of the new junior high school. Nineteenth and Chestnut streets, including the heating, wiring and plumbing work, are being prepared by M. W. Jacobs, solicitor for the school board. They will probably be signed in a few duys. WRITES TO SANTA AND DIES Touching Ijctter of Four-Year-Old and Death Sliarc Paper's Pages Altoona, Dee. 17.—A letter to Santa Claus was published in a local newspaper, from Julius RefTner, aged four, of Roaring Spring, and in another section of the paper apeared the death notice of the little boy, who succumbed to membraneous '•roup two days after his appeal had been written. His letter reads: "Dear - Santa, please send me a r.ew overcoat, a swing horse,, a drum and candy and nuts. Your little friend." PERFUMIZERS Many kinds—Many prices GORGAS l N. Third St. Penna. Station MONDAY EVENING, LITTLE KNITTER FOR RED CROSS Marv Klzabetti' Smith Is the Youngest Knitter Connected With the Local Chapter > ' 1 *■ .. '' v: ■£> *.*- ' ' . ' MARY ELIZABETH SMITH Mary Elizabeth Smith, the attrac tive little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley C. Smith, 1605 Green street, is live and one-half years old, and the youngest active Red Cross work er, as far as is known, in Dauphin county. She is a member of the Red Cross Chapter of this city, and so far she has turned into the Red Cross branch two squares, wheh she has knitted, and is about finishing the third. Her greatest hobby is knitting for the soldiers and she is almost always found with her knit ting bag hanging on her little arm. MISS ANNA BRETZ BECOMES BRIDE OF JOHN FEEZER Miss Anna Eliza Bretz and John E. Feezer, formerly of Littlestown, were married Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Anna M. Bretz, 30 South Thirteenth street. Only the immediate families were present be cause of serious illness in the fam ily. Tho ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Thomas Reiscli, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church. The bride is a graduate of Central High school, class of 1913, and Har risburg Conservatory of Music, class of 1911. She is a member of the Wednesday Club and of Christ Luth eran Church choir. Mr. Feezer is em ployed in the office of the Philadel- ' phia division of the Pennsylvania j railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Feezer will j he at home January 15, at 34 South i Thirteenth street. (Other Social News on Page fl) | Make This an Electrical Christmas There's Something Here For Every One We Invite You to Inspect Our Spe cial Display of Electrical Devices OToys Irons Toasters Heaters Percolators Lamps Chafing Dishes I?" I™* 1 ™* bnowers Flash Lights ™ — r ,s. t 1 ' ■""' * v acuum Cleaners Health Vibrators Washing Lanterns Machines Harrisburg Electric Supply Co. 24-26 South Second Street fa. New Wes£ End At 1603 N. jpßy lfc;.4i" V WE HAVE GAS HEATERS TO BURN— Egrllj ALL SIZES—Gas Lights, Hardware, Electric Supplies and Plumbing Supplies—Here are *■ few of the goods we sell— • X I For Xmas „ For General Use Train Sets $5 to $7.50 Gas* Burners. _ Transformers .. to ( : ' aS a^ s ' Flashlights .... 50c to $2.5p .Glassware. Motors 30c to $3 Window Glass. H. J. WOLFORD, Ej&si TAKE A LOOK AT OUR WINDOW 1? YANKEES FIND RELIEF FROM CARE IN SMOKES Tobacco Only Thing Soldiers Have to Turn to in the Trenches Since life and the anxieties that share Our hope anil trust Are smoke and dust, Give me the smoke and dust that banish care. The rolled leaf bring Which from its ashes phoenixlike can spring— The fragrant leaf whose magic halm Can. like nepenthe, all our suffer ings charm. In the trenches men are subjected to a strain, physical and mental, such as men have never experienced be fore. Their senses—which we used to believe nature had intended for Among - the many gifts which arc useful, the Elec trical appliances and fix tures are increasing in popularity. The various beautiful effects and the convenience whi c h the numerous appliances per mit, make them desirable and appropriate to every home, the modest one as well as the more pre tentious. HARRISBU FtG TELEGRAPH the good of man—are so many doors wide open to let destruction in. Hu man nerves cannot endure the ham mer, hammer, hammer of the multitu dinous instruments of hell day and. night, night and day. To protect soldiers "from the as saults of hell, there is one great helper, tobacco. To the wounded, suffering nerves, tobacco, Nature's great nurse, applies Its healing aid After men have been torn, maimed, shattered, the Red Cross ambulance, with kind men and tender women, minister such comfort and help as surgery, medicine and nursing can give. But during the expectant in terval, "while' th? soldiers are waiting to be torn,- mai.ned and shattered, the ambulances of the Red Cross, the kindliness of men, the tenderness of women can do nothing. Tobacco alon6 can enable men to endure the unen durable waiting for the sudden com ing of agony and death.' Tobacco alone can bring with H the present assurance tho the men in the trenches that there is a wealth of kindness, of tenderness, of gratitude at home. ' Let those v/ho take pleasure and pride i,n abstemiousness and in preaching, 'preach at boys at home or at idle women who smoke too many cigurets, but let them not be so wrong-headed as to do anything to stop this one possible manifesta tion of human kindliness in the UXCTEIC • Christmas morning, and the tree sparkles high. Kiddies romp in ere Sanlta scarcely has disappeared up the chimney. Never was such a Christmas. Sodn mother appears. There, outshining all the other gifts, is Her Gift for Every Day of the Year, a beautiful Frantz Premier Electric Cleaner —and iust as useful as beautiful. Already the Frantz Premier is at tached to the nearest electric socket. At a slight twist of the wrist it croons its song of busy-ness and bet ter housecleaning. For Mother it marks the end of housecleaning drudgery; It foretells hours of leisure; Her Christmas Gift is indeed an Everyday Christmas Gift —the gift she has so longed for. Free DeinoiiMtrntlonn. Call or Phone THE FRANTZ PREMIER J)IST. CO. 206 N. Court St. Will there be an Everyday Christmas Gift in YOUR home? trenches, the plentiful giving of to- . bacco. The following contributions have been received by the Hurflsburg Tel egraph's tobacco fund: Previously acknowledged. .$870.55 U. S. Broomall 2.00 •('ash 1.00 Clara A. .Mahaney ....i... .50 Viola Helcker .50 Total $371.55 First Arrest Made in Crusade Against Gambling John Papas, owner of the "Cave" poolroom in Market street, was ar rested Saturday night by Detective George Shuler and held under S3OO bail on a charge of operating a gam ing device. The arrest of Pupas is in lin with the plan recently inaugurated by the Mayor to ptitf a stop to all gambling in the city. As n result of the Mayor's recent edict, a quietus has been put on punchboards, clot ma chines and other favorite gambling machines. Tho police are keeping a sharp watch in an effort to break up the practice of betting around pool tables in the city. For Him or Her—for Has she a maid? Does she do IF XpV WANT to do something the eutc Kiddles or her own housework? - real right "httndsome," give her an just the dear friend * No matter it isn't Electric Washer possible to make a mis- It just cuts wash-day right Electrical Gifts take if >" ou ' ve square in the middle. And It .... K r. P f! T R i r "111 put you as u gift-chooser will please b.v their utility and v iri i u ri i'jvJb "over the top" or her list: sense—suit the sender by their 1 A This Is America's consistent prices and their in- All over the country tills is to Electricar Christmas herein value. he "America's Electrical Christ- Everybody is going to give Electrical Gift lust nioi.„ ~ mas." For Electrical Gilts are practical, uscrul presents. An Mcctncal Gifts last. Make it llseflll vcrv dny in tho yt . ar _ Electrical Gift tills that de an J.leetrical Christmas. ami f or years. scription exactly! We've big stocks Everything Electrical J ia ?f ' cm suitable • , 111111 ™i . for babies, up, at any to choose from for the Home and Office price vou want to pay ' Dauphin Electrical Supplies Co. Everybody Wants—This Year— Something Practical and Useful Here is a suggestion which fits the circumstances exactly and you can't make a mistake, no matter for whom the gift may be intended Give Some ELECTRIC A L This Christmas OUR STORE IS AN ELECTRIC STORE We are specialists in things Electrical. Can tell you the actual (accurate) current cost on any appliance; how it should be used to get the most service. All connections and mechanical parts will be in perfect running order. This is important where the gift passes on to another home. Harrisburg Light and Power Co. 2a NORTH SECOND STREET * LIGHT YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE Hectrioilly X! 10-15-25-40-Watt Mazda Lamps!"" "' . Red Seal and Columbia Dry Batteries, Electric Portable, Electric Stoves E. Blumenstine, 14 South Court St. Lloyd George's Statement on House Mission London, Dec. 17.—When a cor-! i respondent of the Associated Press! called on Premier Lloyd George with the news" of the arrival In America of the House mission the Premier authorized the following statement: "I am very glad to leftrn of the return of the first great American mission to Europe. I say first be cause I hope it will be Uie prelude to many more, for the experience has brought home to me even more i strongly than before the paramount I importance of ever closer and more A Man's Gift From a Man's Store H Wm. Strouse Sjf DECEMBER 17. 191 constant association between the | United States, the free democracies, of Europe and the nations of the | British commonwealth, not only in tho prosecution of the war, but in future contact in the world's affairs. SIO,OOO GIFT TO K. OF C. Organization Rcki-Ivcs Donation L'br • War Work From P. S. du Pont Wilmington, Del., Dec. 17.—Pierre S. du Pont, head of tho powder com pany, made a gift to-day