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
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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
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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
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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 ,
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Entire Stock of Trimmed Winter Hats at Clearance Prices |
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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
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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
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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
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| 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
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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 '
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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
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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.