2 TIMELY NEWS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND CITY'S SUBURBS •"~ 1 ' \ f I I PARTRIDGES DIE OF STARVATION former Superintendent Pen Mar Park Reports Distress ing Conditions Due to Cold Waynesboro, Pa., Jan. 21.—Snow and sleet that has covered this sec tion ever since December 5, is caus ing untold suffering and the anni hilation of hundreds of birds, espe cially partridges. In the mountains. Whole coveys aro being reduced to three or four, while other coveys ure being wiped out entirely. William Hahn, former superin tendent of the Pen-Mar park, liv ing in the Blue Ridge Mountains near the Shockey station, was in Waynesboro yesterday and had dis couraging news concerning the birds. Mr. Harn says he has been working along humanitarian lines • for several weeks doing his part in the conservation of birds of all kinds by sprinkling feed at places in the mountain where he had seen sc v < al flocks of partridges. Not vitlv tanding his efforts in this di iei'tion many birds have succumbed t'i i old and died of starvation. Of two coveys of partridges, one com portul of sixteen and the other four teen birds, but four ramain of one and three of the other. The dead birds were found lying on top of the snow among the bushes two to •six in a huddle. He is of the opin ion that few will survive the winter in the mountains. As for rabbits, Mr. Hahn says they are getting along Tairly well, as they get their forage by knawing bark off trees and bushes. 900 DOG LICENSES Middleburg, Pa.. Jan. 21.—Countv Commissioners' Clerk B. J. Moye'r has granted over 900 dog licenses to date. Snyder county has 2,000 dogs and the constables of the countv have been ordered to kill all not tag ged. jP%He likes ggjo take r"f% i I N #lscverY I for Coughs e Colds The pleasant taste of thl9 fa mous 50-year old remedy is one reason for its remarkable success. The kiddies like it, ask for it, and it does them good. Slightly laxative, too, and keeps them in pood condition. Keep it in your I i _ dicine closet and give il to the LI ! -dies for all forms of coughs, c ''s an J croup. Just as effective for o.i iolka, too, especially for grippe. Get it at your druggists ra——— IIe;p your Stomach and Liver Healthy A vigorous Stomach, perfect working 1 : ver and regular acting Bowels, if you * i!l use Dr. New Life Pills. They correct Constipation have a tonic effect on the system—eliminate poisons through the Bowels. EDUCATIONAL r -s School of Commerce HARRISBURG BUSINESS COLLEGE I roup Hull.lint, 15 S. Market So Hell phone 4M| Dial 4393 Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Steno type. Typewriting. Civil Service. UUH OFFER—itlsht Training by Specialist* and High Grcde l J MSitions.* You take a Business Course but once. The ilest is what you want. Day and Night .-cmooL Enter any Monday. I A College The Office Training School Kaufman Bldg. 121 Market Street I Training That Secures. | Salary Increasing Positions In the Office. Call or send to-day for Interesting booklet. "The Art of netting Alone In Ihe World." Bell phone 694 R. UNDERTAKER 1745 ~ Chas. H. Mauk PRIVATE AMBULANCE PHONES MONEY FOR Next Chris SATURDAY, JAN. LAST DAY TO CHRISTMAS SA Union' Trust of Penna. '- ■ W MONDAY EVENING, HXRRISBTJRG TEXEGR3IIPHI JANUARY 21, 191 & $30,000 FIRE AT LYKENSSTORE Building and Stock of Mer cantile Company Destroyed Early This Morning Lykens, Pa., Jan. 21. —Fire about 2 o'clock this morning completely destroyed the main store building of the Lykens Mercantile Company, to-] gether with the entire stock of ; groceries, foodstuffs and supplies of; all kinds. The origin of the fire is' unknown. The loss is estimated atj $30,000. The Lykens Mercantile Company handles for distribution among the, local leaders and' retailers in this U/UU section of the county nearly all the! VultipilCS Willi K£QU6St goods disposed of by them. Thej I. If Ml HU main building was of concrete block! 10 IVlll UIQ TT OxK nOfSc construction and was adjoined by aj large frame building In which was Dallastown, Pa., Jan. 21.—Corn stored hay, straw, etc. This frame, plying with the last request of Fred building was saved by the llremen. erick Wnprnan, an aged contractor, The fire in the main building had; who died several weeks ago at his made great headway before the home here, his old work horse was alarm was sounded. The tlier- shot yesterday by the direction of mometer registered twelve degrees! his widow. The animal was twenty below zero at the time of the lire.! seven years, and grew old in the John Kauffman, for a long time service of its master, who treated it manager of the plant, died about a in his last days as a pet. It was Mr. month ago. Wagman's wish that if the animal 1 outlived him, It should be dispatched 1,. ~,. , L D_t_ f _ rather than pass into the hands of immense roiaio crop .another owner, who he feared Will Moan Inw might not be kind to it. When the TT til iTlcall LOW I rice, , Widow sold oft some of her former UC lW,_ nl , COVIMOM husband's personal effects she called • Tf arns rariners i n a local veterinarian wlio killed Washington, Jan. 21.—Uncle Sam has just found that he has more po- j tatoes and less wheat than earlier j inventories had Indicateed. He has also found that the potatoes are being! consumed very slowly, that much of | the supply remains in storage and j that there Is a prospect of consid erable wastage unless marketing pf I potatoes becomes more general. So Uncle Sam urges you to cat | more potatoes and less bread. Thus, | instead of being wasted, the big po- j tato crop will release wheat for the use of men who are fighting in] France for your liberty. If the potatoes are not eaten this winter they may glut the market next spring-, and when the new crop comes on we will have more on hand than can possibly he eaten. If that happens the man who has been hold ing' will lose, as will the producer. And, what is of vastly more import ance than any individual's financial [ loss, our food resources needed to [ win the war will bo diminished. Past experience warns against a ! continued hoarding of the potato | crop. In 1914 the potato yield was large, 409,921,000 busnels. At the time that was the second largest crop ever known in America, but it is 32,- 615,000 bushels less than the present crop. In the winter of 1914 "that crop moved Into consumption very slowly —just as the crop is doing now. Much of it was held in storage on farms or in warehouses, until in the early spring of 1915 those who were hold ing suddenly realized that a new crop was coming on and that they must unload quickly. But it was too late. Everyone tried to unload at once. It was impossible to consume such quan tities of potatoes. The bottom dropped cut of prices—quantities were sold to starch factories for 35 and 30 cents per barrel (not bushel) —and thou sands of bushels spoiled or were thrown away. MEETING POSTPONED Camp Mill, Jan. 21. —The meeting of the Parent-Teachers' Association scheduled for Friday night has been postponed until January 21. The shutdown of the schools for ten days is responsible for the postponement. This will be a patriotic session and several out-of-town speakers will talk. LESTEIt WALL DIES Lemoyne, Jan. 21.—Lester Wall," three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wall, Herman avenue, died yesterday after a long illness from complications. No funeral arrange ments have been made. SOLDIERS IN CAMP The abrupt change from home comforts to camp life may be trying on your boy's health, but if he will take the rich food in SCOTT'S EMULSION it will create richer blood to estab lish body-warmth and fortify his lungs and throat. Thousands of soldiers are now taking Scott's Emulsion. It is just what they need. } <]/ Scott & Bowne. Bloomfield. N. J. 17-30 Gov't Buys Cordwood For Army Cantonments Waynesboro, Pa., Jan. 21.—The United States government is pur chasing large quantities of cord wood throughout the Blue Ridge mountain section in order to help reduce the demand for coal. Amos Shockey, who recently pur chased several acres of timberlantl from the Benjamin Shockey estate, in the vicinity of the Red Hen, near Pen Mar. has contracted with the government for the disposition of several hundred cords of the wood. James Brown has been employed by Air. Shockey to superintendent the cutting and shipping of the wood, which is being chopped by a large force of men. The wood is being hauled to a switch of the Western Maryland railroad at Pen Mar. and carloads of it are being shipped to Camp Meade and other cantonments in the United States at intervals of every few days. Better Electric Service For New Bloomfield New Bloomfield, Pa., Jan. 21. — Better electric service than ever be-1 fore is promised to New Bloomfield j by the Juniata Public Service Com pany, and as a result more local in dustries are planning to use elec trical power. A third electric wire is now being strung between New Bloomfield and Newport, providing a three-phase current for consumers. This will add much to the efficiency of elec trical power in this town. The New Bloomfield Hosiery Mills is one of the larger local plants that is plan ning to discontinue the use of steam power in favor of electric. Northumberland Sheriff Big Enough to Enforce Orders Sunbury, Pa., Jan. 21. Sheriff Jeremiah, of Northumberland coun ty, who stands six feet two in his stocking feet, entered the store ol Walter Chapalski, ■ a Mt. Carmel merchant tailor, to make a levy, and demanded the key. The tailor refused, and, it is alleged attacked Jeremiah with the ferocity of Ger man night attack. The sheriff picked up the fighting merchant and tossed him over a table. Squire Hughes finished the job by sending him to jail for six months for re sisting an officer. LEWISTOWN MAN IN FRANCE Lewistown, Pa., Jan. 21.—Leeds Clarkson. son of Dr. and Mrs. J. A. C. Clarkson, of Lewistown, was hold ing a lucrative position in a Phila delphia T. M. C. A. when the war broke out* He has a wife and two children in Philadelphia, and he went to Franco to follow Y. M. C. A. work. Now the young man is a member of the American Expedi tionary Forces as a lieutenant and is in active duty. A letter states that he is in good health and spirits. Leeds Clarkson is one of the best known young men of Lewistown. A few years ago he married Miss ■Blanche Kramer, a popular school teacher of Lewistown. His wife and children are staying with Lewistown friends while he is in Europe. The father, Dr. Clarkson, offered his services when the war broke out, but age barred him from enlistment in the medical corps. Suburban Notes III'MMEI.STOWN State High School Inspector C. D. Koch visited the schools here on Friday. Jerome K. Lauch has resigned his position with the E. Z. Etter store in the West End to Vjecome a mall carrier. Mrs. Catharine Furman, 8 4 years old, is now knitting her twelfth pair t f socks for the soldiers. Jlrs. Fisher, of Palmyra, visited r hei niece, Miss Minnie Landis, last week. Miss Violet Gingrich spent Friday afternoon in Palmyra. Mr. and Mrs. J. Landis Strickler entertained Postmaster Purdy and Dr. Poffenberger. both of Sunbury. - Mrs. Kate Ulrich entertained her brother, William Bowman, of Leba non. over Sunday. William Nissley, of Philadelphia, visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Nissley. over Sunday. Miss Pearl Blackburn has accept ed a position with the Deaf and Dumb Institute at New York City. Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Kautz and grandson, Carl Hughes, will leave shortly to visit their daughter and mother, Mrs. Ralph House at Übly, Mich., where Mr. House haa charge of a creamery. Mrs. Jacob Marts and Miss Man nie Earnest spent a day at Harris burg. Mrs. John Pynft, of Harrisburg, spent a day with her mother, Mrs. Mary Knull. David Slough, of New Bloomfield, visited his brother, James Slough. HE CM CHEEKS Be Better Looking—Take Olive Tablets If your skin is yellow—complexion pallid— tongue coated—appetite poor— you have a bad taste in your mouth— a lazy, no-good feeling—you should take Olive Tablets. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets—a sub stitute for calomel—were prepared by Dr. Edwards after 17 years of study with his patients. Dr.Edwards'OliveTabletsare a purely vegetablecompoundmixedwitholiveoil. j You will know them by their olive color. J To have a clear, pink skin, bright eyes, , no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like ! childhooddaysyoumustgetatthecause. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets act on the liver and bowels like calomel—yet have no dangerous after effects. They start the bile and overcome con stipation. That's why millions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. Take one or two nighUy and note the pleasing results. Milton Firemen Protest Removal of Chief Blair Milton, Pa., Jan. 21. — Shimer Hose Company, one of the largest and most influential volunteer fire fighting organizations here, in a resolution, declares it will not Recog nize E. S. Dawson, recently ap pointed as the head of the borough fire department, to succeed A. J. Blair, long fire chief. It declares that "petty politics" was played in removing Blair, an experienced man, for Dawson, who, it says, has no experience. Blair is a leading Democratic po litician, and has been a state dele gate to gubernatorial nominating conventions. Harrisburg Lad Sails for France With 2,000 Men In a letter to his grandmother, L. E. McGinley, 122 Chestnut street, tells of his starting for France. He is a member of the 12th Aero Squadron, and in all probability is now in France. The letter was written from Halifax, Nova Scotia, on December 10. He tells of the orders to hold all let ters and the one received here yes terday was sent to Washington, D. C., and held there until the Squad ron reached the foreign shores. The young man tells of a stormy pas sage, and a slight attack of seasick ness. The boat an English vessel sailed under cover of darkness with 2,000 men aboard. EDITOR MOVES TO MOUNTAIN Waynesboro, Pa., Jan. 21. —N. Bruce Martin, editor of the Waynes boro Daily Herald, together with his family, has moved into the Captain Schley cottage at Blue Ridge Sum mit, Mrs. Martin having purchased the property from Arthur W. Gil ijin, of Chambersburg. RED CROSS ROOMS CLOSED Complying with the order of the fuel administration, the local Red Cross workrooms and offices will be closed to-day and each succeeding Monday prescribed by the fuel ad ministrator. Team workers and captains in the Y. M. C. A. membership drive will meet for a supper at the Y. M. C. A. to-morrow night to discuss their Pjans and to hear the advance re ports of workers. At this supper the drive will be launched to continue through the week. The aifri of the association is for 500 members. At the men's mass meeting in Fahne stock Hall yesterday, a number of men expressed their willingness to join and from all indications, the campaign will go over the top, with a big surplus. The membership fee is $7 for full membership, including locker fees. Sustaining memberships are $lO. Boys membership are given at spe cial rates. The boys department, un der the leadership of Arch H. Dins more, boys' secretary, and the physic al epartment under Prof. C. W. Mil ler, have been greatly improved dur ing the past year. They are now fea tures of the association. WHERE GRAMMAR OAME FROM Barbarous Macedonian, Who Mado Himself Owner of All Egypt, Held Responsible For Invention The worM reached Its highent ! known stage of Intelligence before j grammar was even invented, much I less studied, Ernest C. Moore writes in the Yale Review. I have had ■ some curiosity to find out where and | how so great a blight upon young life first came into being, and why it ever became a school study, and I tind that the Greeks knew it not: that their triumphant literature anil their matchless oratory came to flower before grammar was dreamed of; that it was not in any sense one of the groat arts which they wrought t out and with which they armed the [ human race; that after Greece had declined, a barbarous Macedonian made himself owner of all Egypt, and In order to surround himself with the most spectacular form of ostentation of which his vain mind could conceive, he set to collecting j not only all the rare and precious ] objects and books and manuscript.", there were in the but he capped it all by making a collection J of the living men of the world who i had any reputation anywhere for j knowing and thinking. Taking them from their homes where they had some relation to the daily necessities of human beings, and had really been of some use, he | shut them up for life in one of his 1 palaces at Alexandria, which the folks were in the habit of calling "the hencoop of the muses;" and out of sheer desperation, since they could i do nothing better to amuse them selves, they counted the words in the books which real men had writ ! ten, and prepared tables of the forms and endings which the users of books employed. The lifeless dregs of i books which their distilling left we I now call grammar, and study in stead of books and even speech It self. In their lowest depth of In difference to the moving, pulsing life of man .not even the Alexandrians sank so low as that. Millionaire's Wife Goes Back to Socialism v Ly nOSCI' PASTON STOKER When the split over the war came In the Socialist party last summer J. G. Phelps Stokes, the young mil lionaire New Yorker, who had mar ried Rose Pastor Stokes, a brilliant youns Jewess of the "East Side," and his wife quit it. They stood be hind the President and let pro-Ger man Socialists go their way. Now. however, Mrs. Stokes has changed her mind, and she will go back to the party. Her husband will not. WEST SHORE NEWS WEST SHORE IN NEED OF COAL I- uel Administrator Myers Hopes to Get Enough Soon to Prevent Suffering "Unless coal arrives the early part of this week the situation on the West Shore will be bad," declared Robert L. Myers, West Shore fuel administrator, in a statement this morning. Efforts are being made to get coal from several operators to relieve the situation. Every West Shore town is in bad shape, Mr. Myers said. Every dis trict has but temporary relief and coal must arrive very shortly or some residents suffer. Mr. Myers said that all West Shore businessmen were observing the Garfield holiday. The Valley Rail ways Company has been granted permission to run cars as they find necessary to take care of the travel. Mr. Myers announced that the Camp Hill schools opened this morn ing. Only a small supply lias been given to this institution and it is likely the doors may be closed at any time. The schools were closed for ten days and dealers have prom ised a supply to last three weeks. West Fairview and Lemoyne schools did not open this morning. Mr. My-* ers was unable to give any idea when these schools would open. He em phasized the. fact that coal will be supplied to the homes before any Is given to schools. l records by brilliant genius Proclaimed throughout Europe as a violinist whose gifts rank him among the great of the generation, this young Russian's visit to America aroused unusual interest. llEp| His successes abroad have been duplicated in this country. By the astonishing magic of his bow, he has established him self in the affections of the American public. And he has taken his place with the world's greatest artists who make Victrola Records exclusively. The four Victrola Records by Heifetz just issued bear convincing testimony to his wonderful mastery of the violin: Valse Bluette (Drigo) Jacha Heifetz i£, Chorus of Dervishes (Beethoven) Jascha Heifetz / '[ Victrola Red Seal Records 64758 and 64759. Ten-inch, $1 each — Scherzo —Taran telle (Wieniawski) Jascha Heifetz yijlfS —■-= | Ave Maria (Schubert-Wilhelmj) Jascha Heifetz |jl 1 | v~ 1 ■ -jg Hear these new Heifetz records to-day at any Victor • dealer's. He will gladly play any music you wish to hear § I and demonstrate the various styles of the Victor and — = | Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J. Important Notice. Victor Records and Victor Machine, are scientifically coordinated and synchronised In tha . 1 ■ ?§=i proceaaea of manufacture, and their uae, one with tha other, ia absolutely essential to a perfect reproduction. pjj -L.i.l "■ New Victor Recorda demonstrated at all daalars on tha lat of each month PBfjlS I Victrola fl "Victrola" is the Registered Trade-mark of the Victor TaUtinc Machine Company designating the producta of thia Company only. Travel on Valley Railways Greatly Reduced Today Lemoyne, Jan. 21.—President C. H. Bishop, of the Valley Railways Company, operating cars on the West Shore, in a statement to-day, said that practically about the same schedule that was in force on Sun day was being used to-day. A few more cars are being used in the morning and evening to take care of the working travel, but aside from this no changes have been made, The company has been granted per mission by the fuel administrator to run cars necessary to take care of the travel. This was left up to the Judgment of the company's officials. President Bishop said that the travel this morning was one-third less than normal.. P. O. S. or A. INSTALLATION Enola, Pa., Jan. 21. J. J. Hem mer, district president of the Pa triotic Order Sons of America, will have charge of the installation of the recently elected officers of the local Camp. No. 680, in the lodge hall, this evening. Stale Senator Scott S. Leiby, of Marysville, will make an address. The officers to be Installed are: Past president, M. L. Miller; president, F. M. Bitner; vice president, R. M. Addams; master of forms, Grant Heckert; conductor, E. H. Murray: inspector, O. J. Cassel; outer guard, William Shuey; finan cial secretary, H. H. Minnich; re cording secretary, W. K. Burkholder; treasurer, George H. Horning; trus. tee, M. L. Miller. The program for the exercises fol low: Singing, "America;" prayer, the Rev. B. L. Moore; oration, Lin coln's address at Gettysburg, Miss Esther Reigle; solo, R. M. Addams; Installation of officers, J. J. Hem. raer; address, Scott Leiby; music, Blain Red Cross Gains Fifty-one New Members BlaJn, Pa., Jan. 21. —By the re cent drive lifty-one new members ewere added to the Blain Red Cross Auxiliary, namely: Mary B. Gut shall, H. TV. Woods, Mrs. Margaret J. Pryor, Arlene Woods, Lenore Woods, Frank Neidigh, Mrs. W. 11. Book, A. J. Sliumaker, Elsie Baker, Mrs. N. p. Flickinger, Mrs. W. W. Shumaker, Minnie Fisher, Laura Johnston, Mrs. W. L. Smith, Mrs. Sai-a Loy, Mrs. W. N. Zimmerman, Mrs. Elizabeth Kline, R. M. Smith, C. H. Wentzel, Mrs. C. H. Wentzei, R. K. Hench, Israel Lupfer, Mrs. Israel Lupfer, Mrsl. Sliuman, Mrs. G. P. Stine, Mrs. F. A. Kern, Mrs. Lydia A. Gray, James Sliuman, S. M. Woods, H. C. Henry, Lee Smith, Ruth Hench, W. M. Hench, Mrs. H. O. Hench, N. K. Bistline, Mrs. M. D. Garber, Mrs. D. P. Stokes, Grace Zimmerman, Mrs. E. M. Rice, Mrs. D. H. Snyder, H. B. Kline, Frank Lupfer, A. D. Neidigh, E. M. Rice, Zella Book, Leo Rice, Jacob Snyder, Mrs. Jacob Snyder, Mrs. Fannie Kistler and Mrs. Caro line Kistler. Renewals are: W. C. Garber, Marie Garber, Madeline Garber, Mary Garber, Margaret E. Riegal, C. C. Zimmerman and Mrs. Mary Zimmerman. SEVEN MEMBERS HONORED Enola, Pa., Jan. 21.—The congre gation of the First United Brethren Church honored its seven members of the church and Sunday school who are now in the Army and Navy at the evening service yesterday. The flag was presented to the church by Class No. 8 of the Sunday school, the Rev. Paul Shannon, of Leb anon Valley College, made the pre sentation speech. The acceptance was made by G. G. Shellehammer, president of the class. mixed quartet; oration, "A Tribute to the Flag," Miss Ruth Reigle; mu sic, male quartet; solo, R. M. Ad dams; dismissal, "God Be With You 'Till We Meet Again." Fruitgrower and Merchant Feeding Birds in Winter Waynesboro, Pa., Jan. 21.—C, O. Bonner, a large fruit grower, living near Tomstown, north of Waynes boro, is following his annual cus tom of providing for birds during the long winter season. For sev eral weeks the ground has been cov ered with snow and ice, making It impossible for the birds to secure food of any description from the ground, l)flr. Bonner has been feed ing thirty-four partridges since the first snow fell. He was given some millet by Daniel Rinehart, a mer chant of Waynesboro, and this he mixes, at his own expense, with cracked corn and wheat. He walks some days two and three miles in order to feed the birds. Along with these, he is feeding a flock of red birds that have been spending their winters on his premises for the past ten years. PUBLIC SAFETY MEETING Middleburg, Pa., Jan. 21.—The two hundred and sixty members of the Snyder County Public Safety Committee attended a meeting at the court house at Middleburg. Lieutenant Mac Quarrie, an officer of the British Army, Senator Tustin and Ex-Congressman Logue mado addresses. The Public Safety Com mittee of Middleburg organized Fri day night and elected Dr. H. D. Hayes, chairman, and Mrs. A. D. Gougler, secretary. The safety com mittee will endeavor to organize a home defense company for Middle burg. BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Druggists refund money if it fails. 25c
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