CUMBERLAND VALLEY FRANKLIN FREE FROM TOLL ROADS State and County Join in Buy ing Highways to Eliminate Tax on Users Waynesboro, Pa.. Feb. 4. —After! next Thursday, February 7. with the j exception of two and a half miles, j leading from Waynesboro to the Maryland line, Franklin county will be free from toll roads. On Friday morning the county commissioners were advised by the State Highway l Department at Harrisburg that First Deputy Commissioner Joseph Hun ter will be here on/Thursday to close j up the deal for the purchase of the ; Waynesboro, Greencastlo and Mer-. cersburg turnpike which is thirty-, 1 two miles in length. This means that the state and county will take over the turnpike making it a state road. Commissioner Hunter will represent the state in the settlement and has asked the county commissioners tp have ready the county's shore of the purchase. Franklin county's appor tionment will be $24,612 and the; state will pay a like amount, making the total cost of $49,224. The draft j is to be made to the order of the Waynesboro, Greencastle and Mer- j cersburg Turnpike oßad Company, j The passing of the tollgate is ex- j pected to be celebrated throughout i this section by large numbers of per sons gathering at each place where a tollgate has caused untold annoy ance. inconvenience, etc., where the j poles that were used for stopping, one's progress will be chopped off: and used for a bonfire. Mrs. Leas Celebrates Eighty-Sixth Birthday Mechanicsburg. Pa., Feb. 4.—To-1 day Mrs. Emma H. quietly cele-1 brated her eighty-sixth birthday an niversary at her home in North Mar- | ket street, receiving congratulations: and calls from friends. Although she has been confined to the house j eight years with rheumatitsm and j oft-times is a great sufferer. Mrs. Leas is cheerful and uncomplaining, i She was born in Carlisle on February | 4. 1532, and after her marriage to the late Squire Joseph Liens moved to J Mechanicsburg, where she has since resided, living for a period of tifty one years in her present home. She i has two children. Miss Fannie Leas, j at home and Charles W. Leas, of Harrisburg. HORSE BADLY INJURED Mechanicsburg. Pa., Feb. 4. —Ow- ing to the uneven roads caused by the deep snow, the horse of Abram Bowman, which he was driving at tached to a sleigh, slipped on the trolley track just as they turned from the driveway of the home in West Main street on Saturday after noon. The shafts were broken and one pierced the leg of the horse above the knee and tore the flesh from the bone, where it hung in shreds. . Neighbors ran to the assist ance of Mr. Bowman and the horse was cared for until a veterinarian ar rived. The sleigh was slightly dam aged but Mr. Bowman escaped injury. SNOW CRrSHES BUILDINGS Mechanicsburg. Pa... Feb. 4. — Three buildings here have collapsed from the weight of snow on the roof. The frame stable at the rear of the Owen home in East Main street; the j large building of Lewis Heiges in | West Simpson street, unoccupied at present, but formerly the scene of an j extensive business, and the brick sta- I Y>le at the rear of the home of Mrs. | Mary Elcock. in South Market treet, | have all been damaged. BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Druggists refund money .if it fails. 25c CATARRH <lulrkly KnilcJ by n Plraunt, (irrm- Killlne Antiseptic The little Hyomei inhaler is made ! n hard rubber and can easily be ear- ! 1 ied in pocket or purse. It will last ! ft lifetime. Into this inhaler you- pour a few j drops of magical Hyomei. This is absorbed by the antiseptic gauze within and now you are ready to breathe it in over the germ in fested membrane where it will speed ily begin its work of killing c atarrhal , germs. Hyomei is made of Australian j < ucalyptol combined with other anti- . septics and is very pleasant to I breathe. It is guaranteed to banish catarrh. ' bronchitis, sore throat, croup, coughs ! and colds or money back. It cleans! out a stuffed up head in two minutes. Sold by H. C. Kennedy and drug- j gists everywhere. Complete outfit, including inhaler \ and one bottle of Hyomei, costs but j little, while extra bottles, if after- I ward needed, may be obtained of any , druggist.—Advertisement. SET RID OF YOUR RHEUMATISM "Bliss Native Herb Tablets are without doubt the best medicine fori rheumatism I ever used." S. W. Mills, East Lynn. W. Va. "I am strong and healthy at sev enty-four, thanks to Bliss Native Herb Tablets," S. C. Martin. Stevens liurg. Va. Bliss Native Herb Tablets for over thirty years have relieved j thousands of sufferers from rheu matism, liver and kidney trouble, and constipation. Gentle and effective in | action, and economical in price. One dollar per box of 200 tablets. In- ; Fist on Bliss and you will get the genuine. Look for trade mark on box Sold by Kennedy's Drug Store and I agents everywhere. ~ DR. CHASE'S Blood SaiNerve Tablets Weigh Yourself Before Taking. PricettCcnta. SpeeUl M Cents. P* '"fc—■- 2M Xorth Tenth St. Philadelphia. Pa. CORE THROAT or Tonsilitii—gargle with warm, salt water (fj the apply- MONDAY EVENING, CARLISLE JAIL ESCAPE FAILS Prisoner Tries to Dig Through Stone Walls With Knife and Hands Carlisle. % Pa.. Feb. 4.—An attempt to escape from the Carlisle jail was discovered late Saturday afternoon when falling plaster disclosed the efforts of Herman Ledbetter, 19 years old. to dig his way through the walls. Ledbetter was sentenced to six months on a larceny charge brought by Reading workmen from the lower end. He stated in court here that he was originally from the neighborhood of Philadelphia'. The theft of clothing tor which he was arrested occurred on the same day that he was released from the Dau phin county jail, after serving a term there. He had nearly made a hole through the walls here with a knife, dislodging the mortar and re moving the stones by hand, when the attempt was discovered and he was placed in another cell. Cumberland County Women to Meet at Carlisle Carlisle, Pa.. Feb. 4.—Friday of this week has been selected for a meeting of women of the county un cer the allspices of the local Civic •""aib and of the Cumberland County Division of the Women's Committee of National Defense. There will be an all-day session in Mentzer Hall. ■\ ith a number of addresses featur ing. A box luncheon wiall be held at noon. The speakers will be Mrs. Robins. Philadelphia, state director of the Department of Women in Industry, and Mrs. I<ee, state director of the Department of Food Conservation and Home Economics. Delegates from various women's organizations throughout the valley are expected to attend. MEETING OF SUPERVISORS Carlisle. Pa., Feb. 4. —Arrange- ments are being made for the an nual meeting of the supervisors of Cumberland county, to be held in the Courthouse here next Friday, morning and afternoon. Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'N'eil will speak in the afternoon. Features of the discussion will be me'hods of keeping rural roads clean in winter and improved highways to aid_ farm ers in marketing their products at a less expense than at present. AUTO FREIGHT ROUTE OPENS Carlisle. Pa., Feb. 4.—To-day marked the formal opening of an automobile freight route in this sec t-cn with Carlisle as one of the lead ing stopping points. The route runs from Harrisburg to Hagerstown. i.-ith stops at intermediate points. Later, it is understood. It will be extended from Philadelphia to Pitts burgh. Philadelphia and Harrisburg capitalists are said to be behind the venture TRIBUTE TO MEMBERS Carlisle, Pa.. Feb. 4.—With patri otic exercises, marked bv an unveil ing of a service flag, the members of the First Lutheran Church con gregation paid a tribute to the mem bers in the United States service. The exer?ise.? were held last even ing, the address being made by State Senator Scott S. Leiby. The flag was the gift of the Sunday school of the church. STUDENTS WIN PRIZES Waynesboro Pa., FeFb. 4.—Prin cipal Alpheus V. Beckner, of the commercial department of the high school, has received a number of re wards from the Remington Type writer Company for his students in recognition of their efficiency on the machine. These receiving prizes this week were Miss Hazel Crim. Miss Myrtle V. Hooper. Leo Buhrman, Eula Gordon, Kathryn Greenawalt, Clara Rtickell and James Boone. TEUTON LEADERS MEET FOR SESSION [Continued from First Page.] of Germany are lackine and the Ger man newspapers give little informa tion concerning actual happenings. Vorwaerts, th Socialist organ, says it is impossible to give news because of the force of circumstances. Will Meet in Berlin A significant announcement is made semiofficially in Berlin. It is said that the foreign ministers of Austria and Germany and General Von Ludendorff, chief quartermaster general, will meet to-day in Berlin. Thpy will discuss economic anil political questions affecting the in terests and territories of the two countries, both of which have be<=-n troubled recently by strike ou breaks. due to food difficulties and the peace negotiations with Russia. 14 Planes Brought Down 1 aids at isolated points and artil lery bombardments In various sec tors mark the operations on the fronts in France and Italy. Fourteen enemy airplanes and one captive balloon were brought down bv en tente aviators on the Italian front, while in Northern France British air men account<>l for ten German ma chines. Death Penalty Threatened German Strikers Who Refuse to Resume Work Feb. 4.—General Von Kessel, military- commandant of Brandenburg province, in which Berlin is situated, threatens sum mary punishment of strikers who fail to obey his order that they re sume work to-day. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copen hagen says the proclamation set 7 o'clock as the hour at which thev must return to work, adding: "Employes falling to resume work will be tried by court-martial, which is authorized to impose sentence of death, execution to take place within twenty-four hours or the time the • ntence is Imposed." Wilhelm Dittmann. of the Reich stag, who was arrested while ad dressing strikers, is accused not only of infringing martial law, but of In citing to high treason, according to the Berlin press. The Local Anzelger says he urged in his speech that the strike must be maintained. An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from The Hague says that a great number of Socialist leaders were ar rested In Berlin at the same time tha% Dittmann was taken into cus tody. UP TO GARFIELD TO EXPLAIN NOW His Statements on Fuel Sup ply Never Have Been Ver ified as Correct The "Black Diamond," a coal trade journal, In its current issue says: The worst prophesies that were made last spring and summer of a coal famine for this winter have been so far surpassed they seem not to be very mild forecasts whereas, at the time, it seemed that they were so nearly impossible they could not be true. The places which appear to be hardest hit are the very centers of population in the East, namely. Bos ton. New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. It is hard to tell wljich is harder off for coal. New York or Boston. They occupy almost pre cisely the same position except that Boston does seem to have gotten a shade the worst of it. For example, manufacturing con cerns are closing for lack of fuel even on the days when the govern ment order permits them to burn coal and in some places the public utilities companies are in danger of being closed down. It is almost im possible to imagine what a catas trophe it would be to have a gas plant forced to suspend and have its mains subject to an intermittent How of gas. Such things are always con sidered most extremely dangerous because of the likelihood that people will allow their valves to remain open and then reap an explosion later as a consequence. Regardless of this grave danger the gas com panies and other public utlity com panies and other public utility com that they are going to be able to run. Thousands of homes are without any coal at all and factories are being compelled to close for lack of coal. It is almost impossible to describe accurately in a word the situation in New York. There has not been a day since the first big blizzard when shipments across the river have equaled the figured daily consump tion of coal in New York. What is more, the ice jam is almost impas sable and even the ferries which carry passengers across are taking a half hour more than usual to ne gotiate the distance through well broken channels. Adding to that the railroads cannot get coal to the piers and as a consequence the piers them selves can only work about three hours a day when in such a condi tion normally they would be working twenty-four hours a day. Situation Is Bad The situation in Baltimore is ac curately described in one figure. Since the terminal pool was organ ized there, the heaviest shipments in any one day have been 400 cars of bituminous coal, whereas the daily requirements are 800 cars. In Pittsburgh the coal supply has been cut both by rail and by water route. A great many of the manu facturing concerns have depended entirely upon coal by water. The rivers have frozen over there and have been frozen for several weeks with ice gorges which have prevent ed the movement of any coal at all. In consequence the river coal com panies and consumers have to shut down. Now the ice has begun to break and as it moves out is destroy ing coal equipment, including tipples on the river banks. The destruction is almost incalculably large and there is not the slightest indication when the situation will be relieved. In the rail movement the carriers have been so blockaded with snow that even coal for coke ovens which were keeping the munitions plants going has not moved and thus plants are shut, slowing down production of iron and steel all through the middle west. Cincinnati is in about the same position as Pittsburgh, but the con dition north and northwest of that point are considerably easier, but everywhere the distress for coal is most acute. With these facts confronting America to-day the people look back at the frequent assurances which were given by Dr. Garfield and the Federal Trade Commission that no one need to worry because there was going to be plenty of coal since the government would see to it. They are beginning to ask which they should have asked long ago, what reason Dr. Garfield had for making any such statements about the fuel sup ply. Fire in Historic Dane Hall Destroys Priceless Records Boston Feb. 4. Cadets at the School for Ensigns at Harvard Uni versity proved their mettle yesterday afternoon under the *>*es of A. Law rence Lowell, president, by risking their lives in salvaging 300.000 rifle cartridges during a fire which de troved all but the falls of the famous Dane Hall in the college ward. It was one of the oldest buildings on the quadrangle. The fire started in the rear of the basement, several feet from the am munition where two carboys of acid were stored. The cause of the firse has not been determined but is believed to have been caused by an overheated furnace or a cigaret. The youn gmen of the school, fu ture officers of the United State Navy, made trip after trip into the base ment using handkerchiefs as gas masks as they groped through the smoke. Several fell, half unconscious, as tliev staggered out. but each car ried a box of potential death. When the last of the ammunition was re moved college records were saved. Several of the cadets were scorch ed, but there was no sign of fear nor any signs of holding back until the last box of explosives had been re moved. The material damage will mount into the thousands of dollars, but per haps even more valuable were some of the documents that were burned. The most valued of these papers, however, were saved as well as the examination papers of the cadets' en sign school, most of these having been i nthe safe in the offices of Charles A. Mason, bursar of the univf-rsitv on the seco dflooncmfwyaodlaoidlai on the second floor. Ma warms em up for breakfast.and U- J; Gec.they're good!x,4 POST TOFLSTIES * MADE OF CORN /O** HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH! JsjOCo7na4Z% HEM. 1901—2356 UNITED 11A Hill Sill' HG, MONDAY, KKHIIIiARV 4, IttlS. KOI'NDKD 1871 Buy The Butterick Fashion Quarterly Buy Thrift For Spring Now on Sale Smilea£e Stamps at Pattern Section ' Books Chapeaux L' Exquisite— at $5.00 and $6.00 * n millinery finds beautiful expression in these new Spring Hats, designed and fashioned with discriminating selection in America's most notable work-rooms catering to the | smartest shops of Fifth Avenue and the stores of fashion throughout the country. || —"This display of Spring Hats is the largest we have ever shown for fin advance exposi || / * v tion; there is everything from a smart, stylish, inexpensive Hat to the extreme and dressv v models." | | The Five and Six Dollar p Vogue-and-Assures Yo Beautiful Crepe de Chine Waists at $2.98 ized White Voile Below Regular Price A maker of high class waists who respects this —This cotton voile was converted by us direct; store as an outlet for quantities sells us these waists at bought from the loom and bleached and finished by a specially low price. us through contract with the mills. New models made of fine crepe de chine in —The saving is considerable and we are privi colors, white, flesh, coral and bisque—white satin col- leged to offer this fine voile at 20c a .yard—2o yard lars, ties and cuffs. They re handsome—and—cost pieces for $3.75 —4O inch width—adaptable for but little. waists, dresses or for curtain requirements. BOWMAN'S—Third Floor. BOWMAN'S —Second Floor. New Spring Silks—The Sorts lit Inspired the Fashion World / , Jpb Silk—the war-time fabric—recommended by the government as the best fabric /!j '.> ( to use generally for milady's gowns. # / V'&h ---Best for appearance, style and economy---also saving the cotton and wool {[ for other purposes. UmVn Every JVoman W'ill Have Striking Garments This Season of Silk—-and Tomorrow It/111 ) Our Silk Section JVill Feature the New Weaves y| \yf / / i V Plain silks, Fancies with spaced colorful designs, Novelty stripes, Lace effects, Plaids and squares \ J// , A display of distinction which will appeal to the woman who wants to look indjvidual~-yet dress in good taste. Some of the New Silk Fabrics: .1 Special Display of Silks j 36 and 40 inch printed pussy willow 36 inch Rickaway Hunt Pongees q tH . ~ oee the beautiful silken fabrics 1 i~ . 36 inch fancy novelty silks in mono- from Pelgram and Meyers silk inch plain pussy willow tone squares, plaids and stripes—won- mill,' located right here in your 36 inch Ruff-a-nuff silk derfully rich colorings. home city—a credit to Harrisburg. BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. * There's Plenty of Ice —and It's Free As the Air —Economical Now to Make Ice Cream There are two well known makes of ice cream freezers which we can recommend t The "Gem" and "White Mountain" ■ The Gem ice cream freezer is The White Mountain ice one of the best for practical use. cream freezer is also excel- Pails are made of selected north- lent for making smooth, firm ern white pine with electric cream—a freezer known for 5 | welded wire hoops—runs easily over forty years and used in • in wwi I and freezes quickly. thousands of homes. "'~* r 1 quart size at $2.10 1 qt. size, $2.50 2 quart size at $2.25 2 qt. size, $3.00 § ;JKU§§|r;' 3 quart size at $3.00 3 qt. size, $3.65 " art at $3.50 4 qt. size. $4.30 of he th°e p ? m ?! Bowman February Furniture Sale Has Recorded the Greatest Volume of -To piovide for the future is wisdom for every householder, for it is now that tfie results of months of preparation are available in their choicest selection of furniture of known high quality. THIS IS A COMPREHENSIVE FURNITURE SALE as there are no limitations in quantities, nor variety, and the display is arranged for easy and comfortable selecting WE GIVE HINTS OF THE SAVINGS . , Antique Oak Dining Suite as Pictured American Walnut Dining Suite as Pictured ■\\ illiam and Mary period, finished in a new shade of antique oak—dust One of the latest Grand Rapids creations shown in the pooular William proof partitions in all cases, finished interiors. Feb. Sale pr., 4 pes., $175.00 and Mary Period. Antique Mahogany or American Walnut Bejlroom Suite 60 inch buffet, 48 inch top extension table—china cabinet—diners uphol- A very attractive period suite—roomy dresser—chiffonier—triple mirror stered in tapestry. February Sale price $168.00 dressing table—full size bed. February Sale price, 4 pieces, $119.00 Colonial Oak Dining Suite Antique Mahogany Davenport Table Suite consists of quartered oak buffet—six foot extension table—six One of the new period pieces—for davenport or wall table—size leather seat dining chairs, plank top on buftet. Feb. Sale pr., 8 piece, si>s.oo inches. February Sale price ; sl7 7.> Special Box Spring—full size or twin size—good ticking—well mad'., BOWMAN'S— -Fifth FIOOR." • • very comfortable. February Sale price $14.9.7 FEBRUARY 4. 1018 3
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