12 Reading Newlyweds Issue Letter to Public Reading, Pa., Dec. 21. —la re sponse to the inquiries of the many friends of Caroline Steinmetz Schweitzer as to the origin of the |My| You Pay Less for Better Quality at Miller & Kades J !^L j-[ERE'S the biggest Furniture Sale of high-grade dependable merchandise you 110 per cent of aii Sales? ever heard tell of, right at the Christmas Season. This is the chance of a life | for Benefit of Red | time t 0 get Furniture Gifts at Half Price, or to furnish your own home at small B I L_J \ Cross Fund $ cost. No. C. O. D. or Phone Orders accepted. Small articles must be taken with you when pur- SL-MapjasS :co C coo:::;oflco:aoc jof c^ Positively no articles charged during this sale which ends Saturday night. " f Mahogany § $290.00 Living Room Suites. Sale Price $145.00 " 11 jfek Mlll If $185.00 Living Room Suites. Sale Price ... $ 92.50 ' ■' ■ 1 T? $142.50 Living-Room Suites. Sale Price $ 71.25 — ————lol* J $ 78.00 Davenport Suites. Sale Price $39.00 MILLER & KADES, J™!' OPEN EVENINGS 7 North Marke OPEN EVENINGS 111 "J FRIDAY EVENING. romance which culminated In her marriage two weeks ago to J. Wil liam Schweitzer, of Los Angeles. Cal., Mr. and Mrs. Schweitzer have prepared a statement for the public, giving the details of their courtship. Mrs. Schweitzer is of a literary turn of mind and v.-as one of Heading's wealthiest women . The statement of the couple says: "Away oft in the West lived a tramp who was variously known as "The Baron," "The Intellectual Ho bo,' 'Von Sinbad, or 'Silky,' because of certain peculiarities of facial fol iage, studies, name, travels, manner of speaking and habits. It happened that the tramp knew and associated HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH with those of a literary turn of mind, and one day as he happened to be reading a story In a magazine that had" been handed him by a friend who had written that particular story, he looked through it and read a contribution by the girl. Struck by the forcefuln'ess of the "writer, he de cided to write and see whether or , not her personal correspondence was > as interesting as her writings for "•ess. "The rest of the story is local hls ' tory. Alter a correspondence of nearly A year, which required some 500 letters to transmit nearly 3,000,- 000 words of love, philosophy and poetry, we, the newlyweds, met, an- nounced the engagement and were married . "There are those who have crit icised us, and to those narrow, con ventional, evil-minded persons, we. Bay, 'Cheer up, because there are many things that you do not under stand. "When you know us better you may find more things to say, wheth- DECEMBER 21. 1917 er they be true or not. But then, blacksmiths are not supposed to be gcutlemen, and women who go with married men before their husbands have died, are not supposed to be ladies." lII.OOD POISON CAUSES DEATH Hagerstown, Md„ Des. 21. —Harry K. Reclier, a young' businessman died yesterday from blood poisoninl caused by cutting a pimple on lii face while shaving. He wrfs em ployed for thirty years by S. M Bloom and Company, wholesale gro• cers, and is survived by a wife, on son and two brothers.