8 EVAN J. MILLER SE HELMET HOME TELLS OF LIFE AT FRONT Brimful of Information about the life "somewhere in France" of the Hospital Corps, Evan J. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman P. Miller, and a Princeton graduate, writes home again. Excerpts from some of his recent letters follow: U. S. Base Hospital, No. 8, France, Nov. 16. Dear Mother—l received several letters the beginning of this week. Some of them came over in just two weeks, tfhile others took three. Dad asked me several questions which I will try to answer. We have here in our hospital only American patients, about 100 of them, most of whom are suffering from minor ailments, such as rheumatism, arlpoe, sprained arm, broken legs, etc. Our hospital will probably be one of the largest American hos pitals in France, provided that the plans are followed out. We hear various rumors floating around— on© day that we will have a thou-; sand beds, the next day it will be double that number, and at one-time it was said there would be quarters here for 10,000. We are so located that there is no danger of our ever being bombarded> or bombed, and sometimes when there is not much to do we can hardly realize the war is going on. j j At present our quarters are still in j ' the main hospital building. In a j month or so we may be put in bar-; racks which have just been started right near the main building. Our food is just about the same we would have in the States. For; breakfast we usually have oatmeal | or mush with perhaps some baton or prunes. Some mornings we have scrambled eggs and once in a while hot cakes. I'll tell you what we had for dinner to-day: Soup, beef-; steak, boiled potatoes, can ) s, bread, butter, coffee and cornstarch for dessert. The meals are really i very good and I am beginning to take on a little weight. I weighed! myself this morning and the scales said 165. If they are right, and I'm pretty sure they are, I have gained j fifteen pounds since leaving home. I have been receiving the Tele graph off and on. One day I re- , ceived two copies, dated October 2 and 22. We have been having pretty nice weather and not as much rain as a few weeks ago. They are trying to start a foot-, ball team among our fellows to play I against some of the engineers and other soldiers who are located not I so many miles away. I have been! kept so busy with my photographic work that I don't find much time; for other things. November 25. j The regulations converning mallj have been changed somewhat since , I last wrote. We are now allowed j to send personal photographs through the mall and I am enclos ing three, which I hope will go through all right. (They did.) And we may send picture postcards which show neither localities nor places. As the cards we would like to send always show these, we'll probably not send many. We are also given more freedom in send ing packages home. I sent off two packages on the 23rd. The one, ad dressed to Dad, contained a German helmet, taken off a German soldier killed by the French in one of their small raids. I hope it reaches home all right without some one appro-1 priating It. * * • Thanksgiving even- I ing there is to be a show of some! sort following a turkey dinner. Ev ery week or so we have movies, but.' as our machine isn't very good and the films are rather ancient, I don't bother to see them. In one of her letters Lillian says: | "It Is evident I was in a small tovrti i of southern France." It is true thatj we are in a small town, but I may) not say she has the exact location, i I think I told you before that I am in the X-ray department and am | the official photographer for the unit. It is just a month to Christ-1 mas and I wish you all a "merry; Christmas" now, for it may take aj month for this letter to reach you. j France, December 16. It has been two weeks since 1 i last wrote—for I hear a rumor thatj mail was expected in soon and; thought I'd wait until it came. It didn't reach here till Friday, but it, was worth while when it did come, ] as I received twelve letters and one package. I think that I shall re ceive the other packages sent be fore Christmas, for we hear that lots of mall has arrived in this coun try the past few days. There is no doubt t<u much mail that it will; take quite a while for it to be sorted and distributed. I have not heard of anything being taken from the vari ons packages received and the ma jority of them come in good condl-! tion. I'll thank you now for the things sent and am sure they will be very much enjoyed. I expect to spend Christmas here &t the hospital. They expect to have a Aiow and, no doubt, things i wih not be quite as slow as they might be. We'll hardly have any Christmas weather, as so far there! has been no snow or real cold. • • • As first class mall is given the pref-| crence, I think you might send me ■ New Universities Dictionary j|| ■ HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH J One Coupon Secures the Dictionary How io Get It Present or mail to this JMW*paper one like the above Mmutfmntmij with ninety-eight cents to Coupon packing, clerk hire. etc. secure this NEW ithertic UAIL DictiooKV. bound a ml ORDERS hlw*, fflaHMwl WILL uS.ioooma^'jo with (nil pages in color BB uk! (botoDe 1300 page*. PILLED 25 DICTIONARIES IN ONE AB Dictionaries published preci ous to this year are out of date WEDNESDAY EVENING, * EVAN J. MILLER clippings in your letters instead of speciyl papers. * • • Yesterday I. took a little vacation and went to j the nearby city of and Just I came hack this morning. I went with a couple of friends. We saw a good show, had two good meals and a line sleep. However, it seems good to get back here, as we h%/e been in the same place so long that it seems like getting home when wo return from a trip. • * * We havej been doing quite a little work in our, department the past few days. My! dark room has just been fixed up with running water and I now have 1 things conveniently arranged. I suppose after we get in full run ning order we may have as many as 200 plates to develop in one day, which is quite some work. The most I have done so far in one day is fifty-one. Some of the plates we use are 14x17 in size, so one has to be careful of them, as they cost a dollar apiece. I have tanks holding five gallons in which I develop the plates. Lillian asked in one of her recent letters: "How I was impressed with the horrors of war?" Here where; we are there is little excitement, but wo do get some idea of what the men up in the front lines have to go through and we can also see the effects of the war in the towns and villages. There are no young men to re seen unless they are in uni form and the women do a great deal of the farm work, and all kinds of work, for that matter. In the city we were in yesterday the street cars are run'by women ami when I was in Paris there were lots of women to be seen in the station, moving heavy trunks and boxes around* I think that everyone over hern hopes the war will be over as I—BILIOUS?-"! If you hare bad tate in mouth, foul breath, furred tongue, dull headache, drowsiness, disturbed deep, mental depression, yellow ish skin—then you are bilious. f SCHENCKS MANDRAKE PILLS quickly relieve this disorder, which is the result of liver derangement and severe digestive disturbance. Furely vegetable. Plain or finger Coated. SO YEARS' CONTINUOUS SALE PROVES THEIR MERIT. Dr. J. B. Schenek & Son, Philadelphia. CAUM AND COLDS ~ MED AT:* Opens Up Clogged Nostrils, | Vanishes Cold in head and Catarrh Like Magic CAMPHOROLE soothe* and relieves ; :atarrhal deafness, and head noises. I It drives out congestion without appa ratus. inhalers, lotions, harmful drugs, 1 smoke or electricity. Do not treat your :old lightly; this is pneumonia season. If you have cold in bead, pain in chest, or sore throat, send to nearest drug store tor a jar of CAMPHOROLE. and watch how quickly it will relieve you. •** '* Physicians recommend CAMPHOROLE for colds and catarrhal affections of the nose and throat, bronchitis. cr6up. asthma, stiff neck, sore muscles, lumbago, stiff joints, headache, frosted feet, rheumatism, cold In muscles, neuritis, hay fever. Ap plied to chest It will check development of cold and often prevent pneumonia. son as possible, but, unless some thing unexpected turns "p. it will last quite a while longer, X feel sure. As soon as we begin to receive American wounded from the front we will, I thinjc, find our work more interesting:, for it is up In the front line where all the excitement Is, al though, as in our case, one may get j 308 Market St. Harrisburg's Exclusive Woman's j Our Great Semi-Annual Sale Begins Tomorrow Morning at 8.30 This is the millinery sale the women of tnis city and surrounding towns have awaited, because our previous selling events have proved beyond all question that 1 1 for GENUINE BARGAINS in high grade, stylish millinery there is no sale to com ffi pare with our great Semi-Annual Clearance Sales. ' § $ ' Our enormous stock and the practically unlimited variety of the newest things jf ' p—j in millinery make this sale unusually attractive. Every wanted shape and style for * mmec^ate wear . i s represented in this sale. / *'\ IS , v Remember this great sale starts Tomorrow, Thursday Mornings at 8.30 ( fv ' / g Entire Stock of Trimmed Winter Hats at Clearance Prices | We make but one Clearance Sale Reduction and that so LOW that no further reduction will be necessary to sell the Hats. Black Satin Sailors Grou P No ' 1 <**> No - 2 Grou P No - 3 Grou P No - 4 I Gold Lace Hat, I 53 Trimmed with Ostrich Bands and <£ Jf\ f\ " Of\ Draped Velvet Crown ffi | s^^£r rs_Jam ' ary SI.OO j>j.oo pj.oo 04.00 I For hats that regu- For hats that regu- For hats that regu- Fbr hats that regu- Moo <paoo larly sold up to larly sold up to larly sold up -to larly sold up to Regular Price, $5.98 $3.98. $7.98. $9.98. $12.00. Regular Price $5.98 pd Velvet Sailors Other Trimmed Hats at $5.66, $6.66, $7.66 and SB.BB Black Velvet Sailors | dyj Trimmed with Pheasant feather breasts Formerly Sold at $12.98 to S2O | And Turbans Iff jjy —January Clearance Sale Price, , _ - , Trimmed with o.tnch top.—very bmntifni— 0* j# ££ Children's Trimmed Hats Reduced ■" pe " ect c.c e *..• u $£•00 Regular values up to $2.98 Ql /|/11 Regular values up to $4.98 f\f\ SI,BB sbt Regular Price, $5.00 are now tyI.VU \ are now UU rJL ITwm 2 • I r"WLACK"vELVET^/nLOR*^SAPES V **| Children's Ready-to-Wear Velvet and AQ 1 | I AND TURBANS . . •! Felt HaU are now j; AND LARGE TAFFETA SAILORS ii i i;B ii "°!rr $2.44! c. T.,i Regular Price $3.98, Sale Price $2.88 ii® ■g | iwruiar lTtcc, •! rUrIUTDanS sm auu. Regular Price $4.98, Sale Price $3.66 ii ® .wvMww<vv\vvvvwwvwwmw\vwwMivwwwwM\ Plush Sport Hats and !/4=, All Draped Velvet Turbans Reduced Reg! Price $5.98, now I>r ' f ° Draped Silk Mourning Turbans § m R eg" lar Price QQ Regular Price tf* QQQ Reg. Price $7.98, Now $5.88 ■• : .y $2.98. Now 1 jOO $3.98. Now OO Reg. Price $9.98. Now C* O /)/) \ 1 rimilieClJ Regular Price d*o QQ Regular Price £a QQ Reg- Price $10.98, Now $7.88 Regular Price $4.98, January Sale Price, $3.88 Icj $5.00. Now <pO.OO $5.98. Now S4iOO ————————— —————J Regular Price $5.98, January Sale Price, $4.88 | All Our Untrimmed Winter | ! iT~T t Lot No. 1— pf Lot No. 2 pf /\ Lot No. 3 00 ea er urbans Values J Values Values *1 GIRLS' VELVET 1 I REDUCED to $2.98 £4xJ\j to $3.98 KJXJXS to $5.98 J- TAMS M p Ils9 oo A. oo Black and colored Velvet Shapes Black and colored Velvet Hats — Your choice of any Silk Velvet or ♦ Us! Kegularly $2.98, at XX and ready-to-wear Hats—including large sailors and ready trimmed Hatters' Plush Hats—values up to Regtllaily SI.OO, now PS Cy Silk Velvet Sailors and Mushrooms. Sport Sailors. • $5.98. „ ' ('lie. Spl fQ Regularly $3.98, ats2 .88 WWWWWHWVWWWWmMWWWWVWWWWWWIVWVWWM' I VC .^ U > UOW >. (, I I ¥ Regularly $5 98 at mm I New Satin and Combination Hats { j VdourHats ii ST™ S 1 S g y —^ 3 - 88 ii Group No. 1 *0 Group No. 2 ii ii ii - ii Value, to $3.98, at Values t054.98, at pO ii j; a ■ j —— < Beautiful Panne Velvet, Satin, Bro- !l J[ PriCe $-.98. Now •HI.BB J \\TUi+m r> uq *i 1 i'' 4 J Elegrant new shapes in Sailors, Tur- caded—draped Chin Chin with Plush J[ ' p r OR Mnu- MR natters r'usn oailors, m, FANCY HAT ORNAMENTS ;! bans, Military Shapes. Mushrooms, Chin Brims—large Satin and Straw Sailors <; j! eg- r y GC Regular Price d* O f\(\ ! 1 iLJ <| Chin Sailors —Gold and Silver Brocade and Shapes—all styles and colors for I > <! Regf. Price to $5.98, now J&3.44 !> $5 Q H nw Jn X. 113 1 f-'h ' BTn Gold. Silver. Steel. Bead and Hats. Black and all colors. early spring wear. |[ !- b INOW •• * _ _ ' ~ . f . 'AVWVWWWWWtWMWWWMWVWmWWMWWWWWMMMWWWW' J ,lj rur. (Jne table assorted, tor- _„„^^ _____i__^™___________^„ p ; j| jKri y 75 c an d sloo. ch o,c. Our Enormous Stock c )f Mil I All styles from regular stock. This sale includes all the very best and most desirable novelties used so extensively at this time of the year. Feather jj&j n.25—88c $2.98—51.88 —Genuine Paradise Sprays—Velvet, Satin and Gold Flowers—Fur Bands and Trimmings—jet, gold and silver and fur orna- ffl ~ _J ments and hundreds of other wanted trimmings are now offered at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. —— A Great Sale of ( Feather Breasts Ostrich Bands ,* Edgings Genuine Paradise ° ur Whole Large stock of tp u , ust go ft these prices 98c Ostrich Edgings, Now 790 Reg. Price $1.98, Now $1.79 Genuine Ostrfch PlumeS and TipS ffl r Regular Price $1.49. Now *1.19 $1.49 Ostrich Edgings, Now 91.19 Reg. Price $2.98, Now $2.48 . D* ffi fj Regu ar Price $1.98 Now g1..,9 .98 Ostrich Edgings, Now *1.58 R c |. Price $3.98, Now $3.53 Clt Half the Regular PriC6S gJ m i; egU , r u nce cVoq M ai'T. $1.98 Ostrich Bands, Now #f.6G Reg. Price $4.98, Now $3.88 Reg. Price 98c, now 49 Reg Price $1.49, now 75c Ml W, Kegu ar I rice J Wow. Kegular l nee o-v x. -Now Reg. Price $6.98, Now $5.88 Reg. Price $3.98, now $1.98 Reg. Price $4.98, now $2.49 [j) , : : y Aigrette Hat Brims Pheasant Feather Brims T Rc £- Z r l ce E3 H ow Reg - Price $5 98> now $2,98 Reg - Price $6 - 98 - now $3 - 49 Iffl *y All $1.98 and $2.98 Aigrette Hat Brims QQ. All $1.49 and $1.98 Pheasant Keather OQ. Keg. Price $.98, Now $7.88 . _ „ , OJ are now Brims, are now oc | Reg. price $9.98, Now $8 48 Far Trimmings and Far Bands Reduced Far Hat Brims Curly Aigrette Hat Edgings Reg. Pr. $12.98, Now SIO.BB JJ eg - '' r - go C ' n ° w Rel'p Pr '<tTio now q 9 r m M D . „ OQ . 4it| r „ Reguhr Price 98c Edgings, Now Reg. Pr. $14.98, Now $12.88 u Cg " Pr'sl OS i SJd pS Pr Vos "° W ? K il \ ( 4 Reg. Price $2.98, at #1.69 R eg ul.ir Price $1.49 Edgings, Now 98* * * o° g 'S oo I, p g \f J?™ W Hoi y ? P Reg. Price $3.98, at $2.29 Regular Price $1.98 Edgings, Now $1.29 Re S- Pr. $3.98, now s2.Bßyd Reg. Ir. $4.98, now s3.Bßyd m All Styles of Aigrette Fancies „ Novelty Wing Fancies at lowered prices IS In Black, Taupe, Brown, Sand, Purple, Gray, Etc. Reg. Pr. 49c, now 300 | Reg. Pr. 75c, now 59* m x > Reg. Price 49c, Now 39* I Reg. Price 75c, Now 59* I Reg. Price 98c, Now 79* iu*uiar *1.25, now .. 88c Reg. Pr. 98c, now. 79* Reg. Pr. $1.25, now 88i(t y| M Reg. Price $1.25, Now 98* Reg. Price $1.49, Now $1.19 Reg. Price $1.98, Now $1.48 V"' """ ■ ■ , 9 Reg. Pr. $1.49, now 98* Reg. Pr. $1.98, now $1.29 0j Reg. Price $2.49, Now $1.79 | Reg. Price $2.98, Now SI.BB 1 Reg. Price $3.98, Now $2.88 Herular Price sa!4', HAKRISBURO TELEORIPH n little excitement in the trip over! from tho States. * * * With love toj all, PRIVATE EVAN J. MILLER. . The heliret and several souvenir pencils made by the boys in the Trenches from shells arrived safely and are most Interesting to view. Motorists Turn River Into Novel Racecourse WJlllamaport, Pft., Jan. 9.—West Branch Valley • Motorists have dis covered a new winter sport With a covering of Ice over the river, the thickest in years, they have turned tho river into a race course. Three machines traveled from North Bend to Lock Haven yesterday on tho ice. The motors have driven boats from the river. WASHINGTON CAMP ELECTS At a meeting of Washington Camp No. 16, Patriotic Order Sons of Amer iea, these officers were elected and Installed: President. George Chapman; vice-president, I. C. Bodmer; master 01' forms, Lawrence Khinehart; re cording secretary, J. H. Chambers; as sistant recordln gseareUuy. Thtfin* Numbers; financial secretary. Jacob Morsch; treasurer, John W. Seaman; conductor, C. A. TOakert; chaplaiaj Joseph Kalbfus; Inspector, J. B. Dlv-. in; guard, G. W. Myers; right aentl-* nel, James Lark; left sentinel, S. W, Brlggcns; trustees, Thomas Nnmbers, E7. J. Herbert, C. R. Bankes.
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