REAL BUSINESS AT AUTO SHOW Many Come to See Motorcar Exhibits and Dealers Report Sales Last evening there was an excel lent attendance at the automobile show. People who have deferred their visit because of traffic uncer tainties and unfavorable weather conditions all came to the show and dealers front adjoining counties are here in great numbers to inspect the models and transact business with the local distributors. If the snow made the going a little j uncertain, it certainly brought home' the message of closed cars for winter! usage and the convertible types for a 11-the-year-round \itility. The cur tains of touring cars have the un- ; happy knack of being open at in opportune moments. Snow was drift ing into many of them this week and \ closed cars stood out in comparison,' with their radiation of security and' comfort. Luxurious, yes, but strict- j !y useful when the personal equation is considered. Real businesses reported by many of the dealers ond when people buy motorcars with snow drifts almost! blocking al Ithe city streets and mak ing many roads almost impassable,] one can readily forsee what the do-! mand will he as soon as spring ap proaches. Every indication points l to a successful season for passenger cars and an exceptional demand forj' motor trucks because of the railroad congestion and increase of business i in every line of Industry. This evening and to-morrow should be record attendance if the, weather is favorable, as the showj closes to-morrow evening. Little Publicity Given to Surcharge Made by County Officials Much surprise was expressed in eounty official circles because of the mysterious manner in which it was decided to enter a surcharge against j Coroner Ecßinger for $2,170.84 in ■ fees which it is contended he should not have received. It developed to-day that the court ruling on which the county commis sioners and county controller based their action was discovered weeks ;tgo, and that when it came to light! bills which Coroner Eckinger had| filed were not approved. A letter notifying Coroner Ecking er of the decision and requesting J him to refund the amount which iSj, now surcharged was addressed to v him December 31. No reply has been received according to the county of ficials who are interested in the pro ceedings, the Coroner since lha. dale lias neither presented additional bills. It was first discovered, accord ing to an explanation made to-day, that witness fees which Coroner Eck inger had received in 1914. 1915 and lfllti in certain cases should not have been paid. These totaled $690.50. Late in November or early in De cember another investigation was made and the opinion in connection with payment of sums for qualifying Millions Use - It For Colds Because Pape s Cold Compound relieves cold or grippe misery in a few hours—Really wonderful! I Don't stay stuffed-upl Quit blowing and snuffing! A dose of "Pape's Cold Compound" taken . very two hours until three doses are taken wtll end grippe misery and break up a severe cold either in the head, chest, body or limbs. „ 11 promptly opens clogged-up nos trils and air passages; stops nast - discharge or nose running: relieves Announcement Effective on and after February 6th, 1918, the Chassis price of "The Autocar Motor Truck" Will Be $2050 Orders placed before February 6th, 1918, will be accepted at the present price of slßls, only for de livery as soon as we can possibly deliver. . * In order to protect our 6000 customers, and others who are in the market for Autocars, we must reserve the privilege of limiting the number of Autocars that we will sell at the present price to anv one business house.. The Autocar Company Ardmore, Pa. January 24th, 1918 Harrisburg Dealer, Eureka Wagon Works, 616-618 North St. A. H. Bailey W. Ross Bealor, Salesman FRIDAY EVENING, i COUNTY BAR TO r ELECT OFFICERS Charles C. Stroh to Be Hon ored by Association of Attorneys Nine of the de .JLI ). 11l fendants appear- Judge McCarrell, mo st of tI) e youngsters had committed their first offense and were released on probation.. One boy was sent to Glen Mills, and another to the Paradise Protectory, at Abbotts town. The defendants discharged before Judge Kunkel were Morris Glover, aggravated assault and battery; Samuel \V. Brady, larceny; David W. Sliolly, larceny from the person; Charles Hoffman, felonious entry; William Perkins, serious chargje; Millie Bennett, felonious entry: Mabel Uettcnbaugh. serious charge: Joseph Smith, carrying concealed deadly weapons: alirl Potteiger, larceny. \niimil liur UeetlDK — The annual meeting of'the Dauphin County Bar Association will be held this even ing. Officers who were nominated at a recent session and who will be balloted for follow: President. Charles C. Stroh; vice-president. John It.. Geyer; treasurer, W. H. Musser: secretary, Job J. Conklln; directors, William M. Main. Benjamin F. Um crger, T. S. liargest, Charles H. Berg ner. J. B. Patrick; censors. John Fox Weiss, Frank 10. Zeigler, Arthur H. Hull. B. Frank Nead, Jr., Harry B. Saussaman. rre-eniptlon* Kllol The Town Meeting party was pre-empted to day in (lie Nineteenth Congressional district. Thirtieth Senatorial and First Representative districts of Blair county in papers filedl to-day at the prothonotary's office. Will Filed The will of Dr. I 11. James has been filed for probat with Register Danner. >IIIS S\K\H JAXK MY Kits Mrs. Sarah Jane Myers, aged 42 : years, wife of John Myers, of Enola, (died yesterday afternoon at the home of her brother. William Foultz, 22!' South Fourteenth street. Funeral I services will be held Monday after- I noon, at 2 o'clock, at the home of the I brother. 229 South Fourteenth street. Services will be conducted by the Bev. Ellis X. Kleiner, D. D., pastor of He formed Salem Church. Burial will be made in East Harrisburg Cemetery, resides the husband the survivors are: Two .-••ns. Stewart Myers and Ed i gar Myers. The latter is in service at Camp Hancock; four brothers. I John Foultz. Stewart Foultz, Walter I Foultz and William Foultz, and one sister, Mrs. Ruth Palmer. nquests and returning view reports was noted. Upon the failure of Mr. Eckinger to make any reply to the communi cation addressed to him a meeting of the Commissioners. County Con troller Henry W. Gougli and Coun ty Solicitor Philip S. Moyer was held on January IS when action was taken on the plan to surcharge the coroner with amounts which had been paid to him prior to the find ing of the opinion. It was decided to make the surcharge in the an -1 nual report. The question will be submitted to the court later for final disposition. sick headache, dullness, feverishness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness "Rape's Cold Compound" is the nvickest. surest relief known and cost>- only a few cents at drug stores It acts without assistance, tastes nice, and causes no inconvenience. Don t accept a substitute. Insist on "Pape's"—nothing else. DAUPHIN'S ROAD CHIEF ABOUT DUE Folstrom * Turns Down the Job; Hi Sinimars Is Men tioned For the Position Oscar Folstrom, an uptown resi dent who was tendered the vacant place of superintendent of state highways in Dauphin county, by Governor Brumbaugh, has declined the job. Folstrom has been promi nent in. politics, but not in road work. It was rumored about the Capitol to-day that Hiram McG. Simmars, who was clerk to Mayor Meals some > ears ago, and is well known in the city, is about to be tendered the i place. The State Forestry Commission . to-day laid over all matters relative to additional forestry lands and dis ; j cussed ways and means to get labor i to carry on the extensive plan for I reforestation which has been outlin ed. The state lias large numbers of j young trees in its nurseries which it | is planned to set out in half a dozen ) sections and has asked State College . for students who will work during , | the summer. Tile Heading Cliamlx'r of Com merce to-day tiled formal complaint with the Public Service Commission against the Heading railway's grade crossings at Penn, Cherry, Franklin | and Chestnut streets in Reading, i submitting plans for elimination and lan engineering report. The cham ; ber requested an early hearing. The j city of Reading filed a similar com j plaint some time ago. Residents of I.ehanon county t<>- ! day tiled complaint against the new fare schedule of the Kphrata and Lebanon Traction Company, which i will be asked to make an answer by the commission. Notices of increases were filed l.v the Wilkes-Barre Railways Company increasing fare from live to six cents and discontinuing commutation tick : ets; Citizens' Gas and Fuel Com- I pany, Oxford; City of New Castle Water Company. Newcastle, which , advances rates twenty-five per cent, j and making charges for water for ! schools, streets, drinking, fountains and public buildings; Hrockway Telephone Company, Brockwayville; I Altoona Gas. Light and Fuel Com pany, and Dushore Electric Com | pany, the latter abolishing the flat ; rate. Mayor A. T. Council, of Scranton, who has been advised that he can i hold both the position of mayor of that city and state registration coni ! missioner, came here to see the Gov , ernor to-day, but declined to make j any statement. The Governor also I refused to discuss the visit. There | ivree reports to-day that Mr. Con j nell might hold the place until the j time comes for the registration com missioners to begin sittings. Nathaniel Murray was to-day ap pointed a justice of the peace for Upper Tyrone township. Fayette county. The Progressive Wage F-arners I Building and Loan Association, ofl ITurrlsburg, was chartered to-dav with .$1,000,000 capital bv Mahlon A. { Govens, W. T. Shields, W. S. Will-1 iams and F. E. Culllns, Harrisburg, I land John W. Starns, Steelton. The! Lykens Valley Coal Sales Company, Potts\ ille. wan chartered by people j > from that city with $5,000 capital. Contracts for reconstruction of j two sections of state highway in I j Erie county which will aid in link-! ing up New York. Pennsylvania and i Ohio roads were let to-day by Com missioner O'Neil, who stated that' they \vere needed for transportation j j of military supplies and foodstuffs. Bids for road construction in Clear field borough were rejeeted because Clearfield authorities refused to join j I in contracts. < tHAD BRA "The reason ! you don't like 1 Wagnerian mu- ! sic is *lhat you | "That's one of ' my two objec- i tions to it. 1 [ | don't under- | stand it and I ' don't like fh j way it sound; HAJEtRXSBURG TELEGRAPH THRIFT STAMPS HAVE READY SALE City Has Done Well Toward Starting Saving For Buying of the "Baby Boonds" * . "Harrisburg started off the year in | style in buying Thrift btamps ami Baby Bonds," said Postmaster Frank C. Sites to-day. The postmaster has been working with William M. Don aldson to get the Thrift Stamp idea before the people of the county, and the newspopeis and the letter carriers have been speeding things up. The re sult has been that in spite of tlje weather, people have learned how to start saving for the stamps all over the county. To-day was the first day for the $4.13 price for the Baby Bonds, but it did not seein to matter. The last few days people have been busy buying the bonds at $1.12, and there was a small-sized rush yesterday. In some instance* people planked down the price for a SIOO Baby Bond. This they got by paying cash, and the dis count was something worth while. Postmaster Sites says that thus far $51,000 have been taken in the stamps, in January tiie sales were s:i4,oon at the l'ost Office, $25,000 be r ins for liarrisburg. These figures are Incomplete as far as the county is concerned, as there are many returns yet to come in. HOUSEHOLDERS TO GET COAL FIRST [Continued irom First I'ago.] Mr. Hlckok said. Not a car of coal arrived in the city yesterday, and the coal secured by Mr. Hickok may not be started toward Harrisburg until to-morrow. Mr. Hickok re ceived no assurances front either Mr. Potter or the operators, that Har risburg will be taken care of in the future. The temporary relief secured by the local fuel dictator at his con ferences with Potter yesterday, were the only promises he could secure. Mr. Hickok said he was only one of several score of county fuel admin istrators who were at Philadelphia yesterday. Mr. Hickok warns all coal con sumers that they must continue to use coal sparingly. Household coal users must also resign themselves to an ever-increasing use of bituminous. Half of the coal promised for next week is bituminous. The Philadelphia and Reading operators, ami the Pennsylvania operators, promised to send some anthracite coal to the city. The Reading will send fourteen cars and the Pennsylvania eighteen cars, it was announced. This will be dis tributed to the dealers according to their needs, Mr. Hickok said. I'rged to Help Selves People are being urged to go to their dealers and buy coal in small quantities and carry it home when they cannot secure regular deliver ies. A scale of prices to regulate the sale of coal in small quantities is being arranged by the local fuel commission, working with the retail I coal dealers. Mr. ilickok said this morning that he conferred with the Federal Trade Commission while in Philadelphia on a list of juices for coal in small quantities, and found that local dealers have been selling their coal in bushel or two bushel lots at very fair prices. There are one or two cases of gouging which will be investigated and prohibited; he said. Mr. Hickok will talk to the dealers this afternoon on the matter of regulating those prices, he said. Investigate Reports The fuel commission has been in vestigating reports of coal hoarding. Jn some cases they have gone intot cellars that were reported overload ed, with the intent of removing and redistributing coal. Mr. Hickok said that have not found any extreme cases. Where customers overloaded, he said, severity of the winter has already consumed nearly all their coal supply. Ross A. Ilickok, fuel administra tor, has received added instructions from Washington regarding fuelless Mondays. Since the announcement J came that all amusements, including billiard and poolrooms, may remain open, he has received a telegram I that cigar stands, or barber shops, in ! poolrooms or billiard parlors, must lie closed on Monday, but may open I on Tuesday, when the billiard and pooltahles are not allowed to oper ate. in other words, proprietors of cigar stores, or barber shops and billiard or poolrooms, combined, will be allowed to have heat in their buildings both Monday and Tues day, provided both businesses are conducted in the same room, but will be allowed to operate half their business on each day. Holiday Closing Regarding Monday closing on the 11th, tlie>lay before Lincoln's birth day, theaters, which remain open on Monday, must close on Tuesday, Lincoln's birthday. The only excep tion to this rule is that theaters may reopen on Tuesday, the 12th, with a patriotic entertainment, but not a theatrical entertainment. They must receive special permission from Mr. Hickok to take advantage of this one exception. ITALIAN TRKATY IS QUOTED Counsel for the parents of John Libcrato, who was killed in a stone quarry two years ago, quoted party of a treaty with Italy which quar antces "Italian subjects a right of action in tribunals here." The at torney cited the treaty when it was claimed nonresident alien dependent parents are not entitled to any bene fits under the workmen's compen sation act. Liberato's parents are living in Italy. IUTLIXfi OX ACCOUNTS A ruling wus made by Judge Kun kel that under a new act executors, administrators, trustees or guardians will be required before filing their accounts to give a special written or verbal notice to any claimants i<glnst the estate, announcing when (he account will be filed for confir mation by the court. JSoamanZ —23*11 VMTIQH If ARRISBI H<;, FRIDAY, FKIIRI'ARY 1, 1018. FOUNDED 11 A This Is Really a Happy Season in NatureM The snow—the storms, are glorious; everything that nature gives us is for a purpose the 1 reason of which is often unknown to us; so we must take it as philosophers. If there were no seasonable changes life would be vastly different you may be sure perhaps no life. We are adapting ourselves to a more inspiring view which a comprehension of our place in the universe has given us. - * Spring will soon be here—the sun will smile from a higher point in the sky the trees will be come radiant the grass will carpet the earth - the raindrops laugh. Everything in nature will begin anew, growing with beautiful perfection. It is this store's pride that happiness comes through daily trying to reach that ultimate perfec tion of service, which always seems a little beyond human endeavor. With the Near Beginning of Changing Seasons Comes the First News of Women's Early Spring Apparel I This first showing of new spring apparel has a ■ ■ - distinctive air of exclusiveness. * JT The designs—the trimming —the lines all have tsJSfefc a smartness that will find favor with the fashionable New Suits New Coats New Dresses —Suits of serge, gabardine, poplin and KMBgpply Tfifttfhi Guernesy cloth in Eton jacket effects, plain tailored T \ ■ —Coats of crystal cloth, bolivia and burella for 1 \ \ 1 dress occasions and khaki in new military models. —Dresses of serge, silks in plain and fancies— /// soft foulards and jersey cloth—styles for dress, * * y business and sport wear. Sggggaw; ~ There Will Be Marked Public Inte SALE OF FURNITURE 1 1 = ' . : 3 _ ~ if "" W Bj J ] j —And —we base our prophecy upon the large number; 1 = rj] 'I of visitors who took advantage of the preliminary review L Tj -i \_:j - during the three courtesy days—and upon advance selection^ 4jj mac^e ow^n 8 to the economies the presentation affords. Please bear in mind that the furniture offered here is oil the uncommon sort —not the thrown-together sort made by^ yTff factories whose specialty is the poor stuff made for alleged j lL "sales"; but furniture of superior construction, of art, of dur- ' m ability—a combination that characterizes every piece. Yes The February Furniture Sale Is On —And Will Grow in Volume as the Month Goes On | More of the Good Values Follow: American Walnut Dining Suite Popular William and Mary period. One of the most tractive dining suites displayed in the department. 60 inch buffet—4B inch top extension table —new style china closet — tapestry upholstery on chairs. 9 pieces. February Sale Price SIOB.OO Dull Mahogany Dining Suite Suite includes buffet, 48-inch top extension table, china | closet, 6 chairs with black leather seats. 9 pieces. February Sale Price Golden Oak Dining Suite 54-inch buffet, 48-inch extension tabic, china closet, serving tabic and six chairs with leather seats. 10 pieces. February Sale price #89.00 Ivory Vanity Bedroom Suite A very attraclivc suite with a vanity dfesser. The finish is old ivory—chiffonier is the low boy style without mirror. Full size bed. 3 pieces. February Sale Price 5H128.00 The Bowman Restwell Mattress in the February Furniture Sale specially priced at ... .$8.90 This mattress is made for Bowman & Company and only the very best of materials used in its manufacture. All sizes— roll edge—one or two parts. Some Good Values in the Housefurnishing Basement French plate mirrors—with oak frames—loxl4 inches, 98? —10x17 inches, $1.50 —12x16 inches $1.75 Wash boilers —heavy tin. Price $2.15 Galvanized wash tub —Rochester make—with wringer at tachment $2.00 Old-fashioned sad iron, nickel plated—weighing about 5, 6 and 7 lb. at 50?, 60? and 70? Sleeve iron—nickel polished base with point .00? Toilet Paper 4 For 25c Large rolls—good quality paper—excellent value. BCXWMAN'S—Basement. ■ FEBRUARY 1, 191S j *y-y "fy Brass Beds as Pictured ' lil'i tJiiH P° sts with fivc substau- , V' I | '"'Willi! Iliflf'lll tial 1-inch filling rods „ I I I Jlujy U head and foot. February j -Sale Price $14.9. > ' ' sJ Twin Poster Beds Dull Rubbed it jj Mahogany (j Size 3 ft. 3 in. wide, sub- 3 — 1 IfTHTD ! stantial size posts, beauti- Jn > | o ful turned cross rail in ,Jr - funl' foot end. Sold single or —-——■ il . '.j ])airs. February Sale I —CTj3 price #18.50 each BOWMAN'S—Fifth Floor © Window Ventilators Selling large numbers of these window ventilators —; m easily put to use as a screen—allowing fresh air in the room minus the draft—9-inches high extending from 23 to 37 inclvs ; in width. Price : 3!if Two Very Excellent Offerings of HUCK TOWELS Union linen buck towels—hemmed—size 16x30 inches. Union linen buck towels with figured border and space for monogram—size 18\33 inches : 3,"><4 BOWMAN'S—Second Floor. < v Oil Stoves Featuring the best oil stoves—scientifically constructed to j burn the least amount of oil and yet give the best results. Oderless Smokeless #4.50 to SB.OO 3
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