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<Jod workers
in France and the association is pi\-
ing its assistance in the work of pro
viding comforts for these nien
looking after dependent families and
to secure a fund to be used for an>
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
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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.
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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 <Jf .110,000
to the SIOO,OOO fund which tho
Knights of Columbus, are raising In
this state for the war work of the
order. This Is the largest contribu
tion yet made.
One-third of the total amount has
now been obtained and the mem
bers expect to exceed Ale sum ask
ed. The total* now in "hand is $41,-
000.
The Overland
Touring Sedan
For a Gift —
\
What a gift!
What pleasure to bd
derived from thi*
all - year - 'round
closed - open car!
A gift to thd
family—
that will show the
family every
member has been
thought of.
A gift useful every
minute— -
for all kinds and any
kind of weather—
for business, for
pleasure, for shop
ping, for social
calls—■
Let our man deliver
this OVERLAND
TOURING SEDAN
gift to your home
to-day.
DJI ;
AND
CLOSED CARS
$1240 TO S2BOO
THE OVERLAND.
HARRISBURG CO.
212-214 North Second li
Open Evenings
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