8 AID SOCIETIES TO HOLD SESSION Annual Meeting to Be Open This Evening to the General Public The public is Invited this evening to the Civic Club where the Asso ciated Aid Societies will have their annual meeting, which, in addition to presenting the year's finances and progress and electing officers, will be devoted somewhat to acquainting Harrisburg with the knowledge of what this great charity is doing for the city and its citizens. The gath ering will be in charge of Mrs. Ly man D. Gilbert, president. The per t-dns who have served the last year with her in develops this most capable benevolent organization were Mrs. George Kunkel, first vice-presi dent; Edwin 8. Herman, second vice president; Mrs. Mercer B. Tate, sec retary; Vance C. McCormick, treas urer; Donald McCormick, assistant treasurer. The other directors are; Francis J. Brady, Mrs. Francis J. Hall. Mrs. William Henderson, Miss Mary C. Hiester. Morris E. Jacob son, Mrs. Marlin E. Olmsted, Dr. Clarence R. Phillip9 and Miss Mary E. Reily. The Associated Aid has from its beginning followed a policy of broadening out, more and more each vear, until now it is not merely a relief giving institution, but a care fully planned and managed system, supported by trained workers. Ymong the speakers this evening will be Miss Betsy Llbbey. of the Philadelphia society. The routine business will be cut as short "as pos rible and the evening given to live ly, interesting talks on the work of this organization. MOCK TRIAL POSTPONED Postponement of their mock trial scheduled for this evening until "February 3, was announced by the Hlck-a- Thrift class. The regular meeting of the class will be held on that evening, and the trial will be given at the close of a short busi ness session. SIOO.OO REWARD RHEUMATISM Kout, sciatica, iumbaso, neuritis o* other uric acid disorder If fnTOM proves after using refined alKla sai trates that this is not the equal of *njr treatment ever perfected for quickly eliminating the uric acta and any oth<* Impurities from the system, flushing out clogged kidneys or stimu lating a sluggish, congested " v er- This standard compound, obtains !e ai little cost from any druggist, repro duces certain essential constituents found in the waters of famous natural medicinal springs, hence its wonder ful effectiveness even when numerous other treatments have failed. Get a trial supply to-da*r, dissolve a little in plain hot water, and notice the amazingly quick effects of what users term "Spa treatment at liotne." The refined alkia saltrates com pound referred to above 's alwavs kept in stock locally by all good druggists.—Advertisement. , EM LESS WEAT ~ AND TAKE SALTS IF Kins HURT Says a tablespoonful of Salts flushes Kidneys, stopping Backache. Meat forms Uric Acid, which excites Kidneys and Weakens Bladder Eating meat regularly eventually produces kidney trouble In some form or other, says a well-known jiuthority-, because the uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, they be come overworked; get sluggish; clog up and cause all sorts of distress, particularly backache and misery in the kidney region; rheumatic twinges, severe headaches, acid utomach, constipation, torpid liver, sleeplessness, bladder and urinary irritation. The moment your back hurts or kidneys aren't acting right, or if bladder bothers you, get about four ounces of Jad Salts Vrom any good pharmacy; take a tablespoonful In a Klasa of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act line. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithla, and has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimu late them to normal activity; also to neutralize the acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder disorders. J?id Salts cannot Injure anyone; makes a delightful effervescent lithla-water drink which millions of men and women take now and then 10 keep the kidneys and urinary or gans clean, thus avoiding serious kidney disease. 5 To Stop a Persistent, | 9 Hacking Cough C: The bt remedy !• en* yon ran Q V eatlly make at home. Cheap, 5 S! . but very effective. 8 Thousands of people normally healthy in every other respect ere annoyed with L persistent hanging-oil bronchial con eh year after year, disturbing their sleep and making life disagreeable. It's so needless —there's an old home-made remedy that will end Bucli a cough easily and quickly. Get from any druggist "2\(j ounces of Pinex" (60 cents worth), pour it into a pint bottle and fill the bottle with plain, granulated eugar syrup. Begin taking it at once. Gradually but surelv you will notice the phlegm thin out an>i then disappear altogether, thus ending a cough that YOU never thought would end. It also promptly loosens a dry rr tight cough, stops the troublesome throat tickle, soothes the irritated membranes that line the throat and bronchial tubes, and relief comes al most immediately. A dav's use will us ually break up an ordinarv I'iroat or rhest cold and for bronchitij, croup, whooping cough and bronchial asthma there i% nothing better. It tastes pleasant and keeps perfectly. Pinex is a most valuable concentrated rompound of genuine Norway pine ex tract, and is used by millions of peo rle every year for throat and chest colds with splendid results. To avoid disappointment ask your Hruggist for "2V-i ounces of Pinex" with full directions and don't accept any thing else. A guarantee of -absolute satisfaction or money promptly re funded goes with thl preparation. Xhe Pine* Co.. Ft. Wayne. IwL THURSDAY EVENING, LAND TAKEN TO RECLAIM COAL Big Corporation Becords Deed of Trust For Twenty-Two Parcels Along Streams Sunbury, Pa., Jan. 31.—Record of j a deed of trust for 22 parcels of land j bordering on and in some cases reaching to the center of Shamokin j and Mahanoy creek, in Northumber- j land and Schuylkill counties, made j here this week, show what is appar ently a plan to reclaim and sell coal that has been turned into these streams from the Shamokin mines, on a large scale. The deed shows that the property was secured by purchase or option at a total cost of $81,080.77 by a corporation known j as the Eastern Coal Company. It is made in favor of Edwin S. Meade, of Charles J. Farrell, of; Mt. Vernon, N. Y., and Donald C. Muhlman, of East Orange, N. J., and j the Central Trust Company, of New York City, is the grantor. The trustees are required to guar antee the interest on the principal amount of $81,087.77, and are to manage and operate the property as they see tit For this they are to have a $3,0t)0 yearly salary. They will also, the deed says, be allowed to issue $1,000,000 in par ticipation certificates, which are to be turned over to Frank B. Schmidt, whose residence is not given, in ex change for $200,000 and the seventy five shares of the capital stock of the Eastern Coal Company. Since coal has gone to its present sky-high prices, and because of its scarcity, great quantities of this coal is being taken from creeks and is lands adjoining, where it has been washed by twenty years of spring freshets, huge quantities of this coal I have been mined and shipped. Much of it is nothing but the finest dirt, | but is is sold at a good profit in Phil- I adelphia and vicinity. In Sunbury alone, R. IJ. Beoic, a coal dealer, has 100 men taking out this coal from a bed of it on the property of William Reflfeor, adjoin ing Shamokin creek. Reffeor gets a royalty of five cents a ton, and it is ! said to sell at $2.75 a ton on board j cars here. University President to Speak at Sunday Y.M.C.A. Open Meeting For Men Dr. S. B. McCormick, president cf the University of Pittsburgh, will bo the speaker at the men's mass meet ing in Fahnestock Hall next Sunday afternoon. The meeting will' open a "Thrift Week," to be conducted under the auspices of the local Y. M. | C. A. Dr. McCormick is president of one of the largest educational insti- | tutlons in the country. His work has been a potent factor in education for many years. He is a well-known orator of grtat ability. The first meeting of the business men's class in public speaking was recently held at the Central Y. M. C. A. The class has an enroll ment of eighty members with a big waiting list. The fee for the course is sls. which includes full membership privileges as well as a I set of textbooks known as Carnagey's Course in Public Speaking. The class is under the instruction of Dr. J. George Becht, executive secretary of the State Board of Education. The officers are: Couls A. Irwin, presi dent; Wayne A. Kershner, secretary; W. A. Riddle, chairman membership committee. Knrollments for the first-aid class to be conducted under the direction of C. W. Millar, physical director of the Y. M. C. A., will be received at the association headquarters at any time by Daniel P. Culp, office secre tary. The class is to be conducted j for drafted men in Class A of the selected men. Doctors in charge will | include Dr. Jesse Eenker, Dr. Charles I E. Emerick and Dr. J. C. MncMullen. j A Father and Son banquet is txeing j planned for sometime in February i by the boys' division. Boys will ' bring their fathers to this banquet, j The boys' division will hold a social I in their rooms Thursday evening. Members and friends are invited! Motion pictures and other features will b© Included in the program. j Enemy Aliens to Be Registered by Police Machinery for the registration of all male enemy aliens over the age of 14 is being oiled, and police will start the registration at the police station February 4. and continue un til February 8. Enemy aliens who do not voluntarily register will be In terned for the duration of the war. Every registrant will be given a reg istration card to show that he regis tered. United States Marshal James P. Magee has addressed a letter to all the newspapers in his district, stat ing that under no circumstances will any one be allowed to charge fees for advice to German aliens on how to register. THOI.LKV SWKKPKHS ARE K KIT BI'SY CO XSTAXT I, V As evidence of the severity of the winter through which they are pass ins. officials of the Harrisburg Rail ways Company last night showed that their sweeping operations thus far in the winter have consumed more than twice as much ruttan as was used in the entire winter last year. More than 3,400 pounds of the rattan have been used thus far, as against. 1.800 pounds all of last winter. The company is expecting 2.000 additional pounds of rattan from Boston and Brooklyn. The cost of rattan has more than doubled dur ing the past year, it is said. BOYS IX GYM CLASS Boys of 10 and 11 years are man ifesting a great deal of interest in the "prep" gym class at the Y. M. C. A. building. Nine boys have joined the class, and it is announced that as soon as there are eighteen enrolled the class will be opened The membership fee is $2.50, which includes Saturday class privileges. Arch H. Dinsmore, Bovs' Work sec retary. and C. W. Miller, physical director, are in charge of the class. LEVATOR TO ADDRBg* rEOPI-K'S FORUM, SUXD.VY Senator Wesley J. Jones, of the state of Washington, will address the People's Forum in the Technical High School Auditorium, Sunday. Members of the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club have been extended special invitations to the lecture by Dr. Charles Crampton, the president. Senator Jones will speak oil "The Work of the Red Cross in the War." BI RNEI) ABOUT EYES David Gardner, aged 2!, is in thp Harrisburg Hospital with bis eyes badly burned as the result of an acid explosion last night. Gardner la a chemist at the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Worka v a Cheerfully Refunded j Our Policy: "Do It Bet j 1 | b,J"V,L, |——i " ! THE MAN'S STORE OF HARRISBURG ZZZZZ FINAL REDUCTION SALE When you pick up that mean everything to get and so high. your wardrobe against and the old tickets are your paper this evening —it's the merchandise. \y e have a policy. We future higher prices! on the goods—just like and read this news you We clear decks at the stick to it. This sale Don't waste time every B * le that we h * ve ought to have one set wind up of each season. wa inevitable because thinking it over. Here —you have only to pick purpose when youV We're going to do it it's our rule not to carry i. the merchandise, you starUonFri foushed-to attend aga ;„ now _ even good. over. know it i. the right kind day and te's ing to Wm.Strouses malße- though conditions are And so the whole . —it's the sort that has make February a very u "on aaie. different, even though store is affected. It's ma de a deep and lasting busy month for the New While it is a Reduc- some people think it's outfitting time for every impression on the best Store kept new by tion Sale in the true not necessary, since man and boy. It's an dressed men of the com- adhering to our policy sense, it is not the prices merchandise is so hard opportunity to fortify munity, it's all reduced not to carry goods over. Men's Suits—Overcoats . Were fllfv 00 N0W...... $11,75 / Were now . $17*75 J \*I999R !mm ,*■'& Were 825-0° n0w. ..... $19 . 75 j \ fr —I j 1 Were N0W. ... ; . $23.75 I Were $35-°° NOW $27.75 ' Shirts | Underwear Sweaters ~| > Final Reduction Sale * Final Reduction Sale > Final Reduction Sale Were $1- 00 Now -*> 85c Was $1- 50 Now -* $1.15 Were $2- 50 Now_> $1.85 ♦ Were sl-50 Now-* $1.15 Was $2-00 Now-* $1.55 Were $3-50 Now-* $2.85 Were $2-50 Now_* $1.85 Was $2-50 Now-* $1.85 Were $4-00 Now-*. $3.15 Were $3-00 Now-* $2.45 Was $3- 00 Now-* $2.45 Were $5-00 Now-* $3.85 Were $3-50 Now-* $2.85 Was $3-50 Now-* $2.85 ' Were $6-00 Now-* $4.85 Were $5-00 Now-* $3.85 Was $4-00 Now-* $3.15 Were SB- ( Now-* $6.85 Were $7-50 Now-* $6.45 Was $5-00 Now-* $3.85 Were $9-75 Now-* $7.85 tWere SI.OO. Now 85c rt JO •• ■ 3 Were $1.50 Now $1.15 DOVS bUItS. UVCrCOatS Were $2.50. Now $1.85 J 1 < and Mackinaws Hose Final Reduction Sale Were fsc na Now d " Cilon ,19c Mothers, Fathers and Boys who do Were 50c. Now 35c their own purchasing will find a safe were $im N Now .'. .. . 85c investment and great economy in each I of the following lots: The Hat Sale Pajamas & • Night Gowns\ ere f j*"?!! m° W or I ¥ ~ Final Reduction Sale $6.50 Now > $4.85 Jf IS Oil were $1.50. Now $1.15 " Were $7.50 Now > $5.85 Were $2.00. Now $1.55 W *1 nnn W *7 CC PvMti U® Were $2.50. Now $1.85 o Were SIO.OO N0w—57,.85 -Mm ( 1 $0 Were $3.00. Now $5.45 JJSgL Were $12.75 Now * $9.85 Y an d £ P-PsS Were $15.00 Now * $11.85 <r- u fefl / will buy the snappiest hat that any r; n „l R prlllrl inn <\nlp - Boy S lCn66 P(Ults """ v if i two dollar bill ever had the chance to xt ,n \fiwMAll sizes A 7 / buy. Best styles. Best Colors | Were 25c. Now 19c AUSis. ■ fejV i / All sizes. The New Store of Wm. Strouse—Ever New—3lo Market Street HA3WIMBPRG TELERA-PH JANUARY 31, 191g.
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