2 "TIMELY NEWS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND CITY'S SUBURBS FIVE LAYERS OF FNOW ON WHEAT Inspection of -Field at Ru parka Shows Grain in Danger of Smothering Shi.-emanstown, Pa., Feb. 11.—Up on inspection of a field of wheat at Ruparka it was found that the snow has a depth of twenty-one inches on the level. This snow contains live separate layers or crusts of ice. The wheat is imbedded in a mixture of snow and ice, covered by five inches ot' snow, which has a solid crust of ice one inch thick, upon which rests fonrieen inches of snow with three ice crusts included. The snow and ice is very cold and dry and the ground is frozen solid to a depth of four inches. Th-j wheat is showing signs of be ing smothered, but holds its green color remarkably well or bging en cased in ice and snow, with but lit tle air and no light since the begin ning of December. Should the surface of the snow be thawed and then frozen solidly the wheat would be altogether shut off from the air and the danger from smothering would be greatly in creased. -Likewise, a w.dden thaw would cover many fields with too much water upon the under ice iay t thereby drowning the wheat. Unless the snow remains for a long time yet the outlook for the wli?at is considered to be favorable. II UiKHSTOWN I.ICENSRS Hagerstown, Md., Feb. 11.—Mar riage licenses have been issued here ti> the following persons: ICalph L. Given and Cecelia M. .loivs. both of Harrisburp. Ny 11. Shank and Ida May Cleary i of Greencastle. > Endia TEA Ceylon % Is Perfectly Pure ? Certainly a Worth While Quality IJOVE LITTLE TEASPOONFI'L MAKES TWO CUPS The principles which Lincoln followed for his life's work are the sound principles which cannot : ? ail to make a business grow, if they are follow ed as scrupulously as Lincoln adhered to them Our Final Reduction Sale of Men's and Boys' Clothing and Furnishings Starts With Renewed Vigor To-morrow It Provides Savings WM. STROUSE / THE MAN'S STORE OF HARRISBURG MONDAY EVENING, BJLRRISBURG TELEGRAPH! FEBRUARY 11, 1918. CUMBERLAND Soldier Narrowly Escapes Death on Returning Home Hagerstown, Md., Feb, 11.—Joseph Kershner, a soldier recently dis charged at Camp McClellan, at An r.iston. Ala., returning to his home here unexpectedly to surprise his family, narrowly escaped being shot while trying to enter the house. Kershner arrived after midnight- and went to the home of his sister. Mrs. J. H. McCune; climbed upon the back porch roof and was opening a door, when he was discovered by Mr. McCune, who mistook him for a burglar. McCune grabbed his revol ver and was about to fire, when his wife recognized her brother's voice, which had been weakened by recent illness. cam. INHERITS KO.OOO Hagerstown. Md.. , Feb. 11. —Miss Mildred .T. Price, aged 18 and pretty, a stenographer and typewriter em ployed by a baking company here, has' fallen heir to a fortune of $20,- 000, much to her surprise, left to her by D. W. Price, of Washington, D. C. He willed his entire estate to Miss Price, -who explained that her benefactor was an old friend of her family. Miss Price is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. T. Price and has been earning her own livelihood. SOLDIER HURT AT CAMP Haerstown, Md., Feb. 11.—Freder ick Rohrer, of Hagerstown, a private at Camp McClellan, at Anniston, Ala., is in the base hospital at the camp with serious injuries received while firing a gun on a tower. The gun, it is stated, worked loose and when it was fired Rohrer was knocked to the ground with his eardrums burst and both eyes injured. He is deaf. Rohrer is a son of Mrs. Mary C Rohrer and a former member of the local police force. Mrs. Clara Heiges Buried at Dillsburg Cemetery Dillsburg, Pa., Feb. 11.—Funeral j services for Mrs. Clara Heiges were ; held from her home this afternoon j and in the Lutheran Church, of ! which she was a member, anil burial was made in the Dillsburg Cemetery. Mrs. Heiges was spend ing some time with her son, Prof. |W. C. Heiges. at Harrisburg, and I had gone to visit her son Schuyler i Heiges. at Huntingdon. While there j she fell clown sairs and never re covered from the injuries. She was | taken to Harrisburg during the I past week and died on Friday morn ing at the home of her son. The i body was brought here yesterday. I She was 82 years old. Mrs. Heiges was the daughter of j the late George Klugh, of Franklin 1 township, and had survived all her brothers and sisters and also her husband. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Thomas Hoopes, of Wellsvile, and four sons, Prof. B. F. Heiges. of Manheim, Lancaser coun ty; Schuyler Heiges. of Huntingdon; i Prof. W. C. Heiges, of Harrisburg; I and George Heiges. of Harrisburg. | The Rev. George H. Eveler, of the Lutheran Church, officiated at the services. CHOSEN AS ORATOR Waynesboro, Pa., Feb. 11.—Arvid Anderson, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Arvid Anderson, has been chosen to represent the freshman class of Princeton University in the orator ical contest that is held annually on Washington's Birthday, an orator from each of the four classes in the university taking part. Anderson won this honor in competition with the best speakers in a class of more than GOO members. WINTER ADDS TO EXPENSE Hagerstown, Md., Feb. 11.—Accord ing to an official of the Hagerstown and Frederick Railway Company, whose system extends to Chambers burg. Waynesboro and Greencastle, | ir. Pennsylvania, the company has j been put to an additional expense of , about sl3/000 opening its lines as a ! result of snowstorms this winter. POSITION WITH COAI- CO. Dillsburg, Pa., Feb. 11.—Ray i Klugh, son of S. 11. Klugh. has ac cepted a position with the Rice Coal I Company, of Connellsville, Fayette 1 county. He had been employed by ' the Ilershey Chocolate Company at | Hersliey for some months and re signed his position to take the one with the coal company. KIRK AT STABLE Hummrlstown. Pa.. Feb. 11. ■ — A ! slight fire in Imboden's livery stable on Thursday morning caused an early ' morning alarm, but it was soon ex- I tinguished with small damage. COAL OUTLOOK MUCH IMPROVED Warmer Temperature and Thaws Render Conditions More Encouraging Shamokin, Pa., Feb. 11.. — The week just ended has marked the breaking of the anthracite coal blockade and, with decidedly more moderate temperature, accompanied by several thaws that served to re plenish to some degree the water service for the colliers, the anthra cite outlook is more encouraging to day than at any time during the past two months. Railroad and min ing officials are confident that, with a continuance of moderate tem perature during the next week, the shipments of badly needed coal for industrial and domestic purposes will go forward with a regularity that will establish new records. The reorganization of the Phlla | tlelphia and Reading Railway staff | of superintendents and train dis ! patchers has had the effect of stabi | lining what has grown to be a de | moralized condition of railrad serv ice. Assistance given the Reading by the New York Central lines in providing a number of its big en gines, with crews, has been the means of opening the coal and freight blockade in the Williamsport, and Newberry yards, thus permitting the shipment west of great quanti ties of anthracite. Through trains from Newberry to the Reading re lieved tlio intermediate yards along | the Sliamokin and main line divi sions and railroad men declare that but for the commandeering by the government railroad directors of the! New York Central motive power the Heading system would have continu ed in a state of chaos for a week or more. Railroads Eflicicnt As it stands to-day, the Reading is capable of handling expeditiously any quantity of coal that can be! mined. Empty cars are coming back! Into the region in long trains and I the week-end found each colliery) supplied with a full complement of I cars. The below-zero weather of | the fore part of the week served to temporarily curtail anthracite pro duction but with the moderation I came renewed activities at the mines |and attendant lecord production. The coal in tli* clogged breasts and •j gangways has been started mining | has resumed a normal basis and the 1 situation is decidedly more encourag-l 'lng from every viewpoint. Oji Systematic Basis Never in the history of the an thracite region has mining been on | the systematic basis of the present. | Where large forces of men were en;- j ployed in doing repair work, the' staff has been cut to a minimum. | | The continued shortage of labor ne-| I ressitated drastic action looking to | the cutting of coal to fill orders that | mining executives declare will keep j the collieries working full time for I the next ten months. To this end all repairmen with the i exception of those incapacitated from | active mining, were informed that I they could make their selection of ! working places for the purpose of ! cutting coal. A number rebelled at i returning to coal cutting and quit | the collieries, but in the majority of I cases, they either returned to the collieries at which they had been em j ployed or sought work as miners at j other collieries. The result has been that fully ten per cent, more men I than had been engaged in actual | mining during the last four month.* ! are now assisting the last four I months arc now assisting in supply i ing the needs of the nation. ! MRS. WILLIAM COOK BURIED Dillsburg, Pa., Feb. 11.—Funeral | services of Mrs. William Cook were | held from the home of James Cook, lin Carroll township, this morning, ! and burial was made In the Dills \ burg Cemetery. Mrs. Cook died at • t her homo at Harrisburg Friday 1 morning and the body was brought j here yesterday afternoon, and taken Ito the. homes of .Tames Cook, in I Carroll township. She was 43 years ! old and is survived-by her hus band, four brothers and two sisters: ! .Tames Blauser, Rossville R. D.; I John Blauser, Dauphin county: Au gustus Blauser, California; Calvin : Blauser, Dover R. D.; Mrs. William j Heiges and Mrs. James Cook, of Carroll township. CENTENARIAN DIES Marietta, Pa., Feb. 11.—Mrs. ! Elizabeth J. Clemens, of near here, died Friday night from infirmities of I age In her one hundredth year. Her , father was a soldier in the war of ! IS!2. She is the last of a large family. 2 SOLDIERS IN SERVICE Marietta, Pa., Feb. 11.—A service flag containing ninety-twp stars will be flung to the breeze' here soon. Several members of borough council are on a committee to purchase the emblem. Suburban Notes HL'MMELSTOWN Augustus Zerfoss has returned ! from a visit of several days with his bro'.her, Charles Zerfoss, at Ann vilie. Harrison Shoop is spending a short furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Shoop. He is stationed at Camp Laurel, near Washington, D. C. Miss Carrie SchaiTner has return ed from a six weeks' visit with her brother, the Rev. Alfred Schaffner, at Orangeville, N. J. Arthur Holler, stationed at Phila delphia with the Nuval Coast Re serves, spent a day with his parents, I Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Holler. Ellen and William Potts have re j turned to their home at Harrisburg j after spending several days with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Fox. Miss Gertrude Winters, of Eliza bethtown, spent a # week with Miss Helen Gresh. Mrs. David Boyer is visiting her son. Earl Donley, of Elizabethtown. Clayton Hershey, son of Mrs. Mary Hershey and an electrical engineer employed with the Swissvale Union Switch and Signal Company for sev eral years, left on Saturday for Fort Myer, where he is now stationed with the One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Engineers. Mrs. Charles Hoffman and Mrs. Frank Hummel visited at Harrisburg on Friday. Mrs. Mary Cassel will shortly move to her property In East High street, Irvin Keller has returned to Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga., after a fur lough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Keller. I Mrs. Malinda TJngle fractured her | arm when she fell on the icy pave j ment in front of the Grand Hotel. Mrs. Frank Brantner has return ed from a visit of several days at York, Pa. Mrs. Jerry Nltrauer and Mrs. Mary | Deimlcr spent yesterday at Harris [ burg. Sleighing Accident Reduces School Attendance Average Hummelstown. Pa., Feb. 11.—-The fifth month of the public schools closed on Wednesday with a total enrollment of 516 pupils and an average attendance for the month-"of 415. The extreme cold weather and the accident which befell the High school pupils January 24, when re turning from a sleigh ride to Shoop's Church, lowered the percentage for the month to 88 and for the whole term to 9.5 per cent. One hundred and twenty pupils were reported sick during the month and fifty-six pupils who had missed no time at all during the four preceding months were absent during the month Just ended, lowering the number present every day of the term to 47 pupils. Twenty-four visits were paid during the past month. The High School Literary Society meeting, which was postponed two weeks ago out of respect to the death of Alice Suggett, :t member of the junior class, was held Friday afternoon at which time the students rendered a Riley program. Knitting Mill Working For Government Short of Coal Milton. Pa.. Feb. 11. —The West Branch Knitting Company, which is working on an order for three million pieces of underwear for the United States Army, is operating its plant under trying circumstances. No coal has been received for several days, and wood has been resorted to, the refuse of planing Jjtills and a bam boo factory being bought. Every ounce of coal the local dealers could give has been furnished and unless relief comes operations will have to be suspended until fuel comes, ac cording to the management. Dillsburg Literary Society Votes on Equal Suffrage Dillsburg, Pa., Feb. 11. —Friday evening's session of the Dillsburg Literary Sociey was one of the best meetings held up to this time, and the question for debate, "Woman suffrage," attracted a large crowd so that the auditorium was filled. The singing was well done and sev eral times the singers were called back. The Gazette, by John Heiges, gave the news of the school and the world at large. 11. M. Evans, C. E. Cook and Gretna Beitzel were the judges selected for the debate, and decided in favor of the affirma tive and the young women won out. C. E. Cook, representative in the General Assembly of this district, addressed the audience and asked those present twenty-one years old! or older to express their views on I the suffrage amendment by a rising l vote. While a number would not vote, the vote stood 28 for to 23 against equal suffrage. ICE YARD THICK OS RIVER Sunbury, Pa., Feb. 11.—Ice on the Susqueßanna at this point is a yard j thick, according to rivermen. This is I the heaviest ice ever heard of inj this vicinity, and indicates the mil lions of tons that will be brough* down the stream if the spring breakup comes early. Boathouse owners are taking precautions to avoid losing their property by mov ing it high and dry. Wagoners and automobiles are driving on the ice and hundreds use i it regularly at all towns in the val- ; ley. STEAL COATj FROM RAILROAD ! Danville, Pa., Feb. 11.—Hundreds of tons of coal, it is believed by the police, have been stolen from Penn sylvania trains on the east side of! the Susquehanna river opposite this borough. With the ice more than two feet thick, the stream is easily cross ed and bags and sleds are loaded from trains, which are often stopped j for long periods on a siding there. ! Railroad police are working on the I case and wholesale arrests are ex pected. MORE THAN ENOUGH ICE Hummelstown. Pa., Feb. 11.—A. H. Imboden has entirely filled all his storage room for Ice and still has sixty tons not cut op his ice dam. The extreme weather has made the ice harvest this year unusual. Cuticura Cares For Your Face and Hands Dainty women everywhere use 1 | Cuticura Soap and no other for every ■ day toilet purposes with touches of ! Ointment tea >purify and beautify the complexion, hands and hair. Abso lutely nothing better than these fra grant, super-creamy emollients. Sampl* Each Fr## by Mail. Address post > card: "Cuticura, Dept.lSA, Boston." Sold I everywhere. Soap 25c. Ointment 25 and 50c. lilßGl IHIS DELICATE CHILD VIOL And He Got Well and Strong—That's True Monaca, Pa. "My little boy, who is the youngest of three, was weak, nervous and tired all the time, so he was most unfit at school, and noth ing seemed to help him. X learned of Vinol and gave it to hinr. It has restored his health and strength and he has gained in weight." Mrs. Frederick Sommers, Monaca, Pa. Vinol Is a constitutional cod liver and iron remedy for delicate, weak, ailing children. Formula on every bottle, so you know what you are giving them. Children love it. Geo. A. Gorgas, Druggist, Ken nedy's Medicine Store, 321 Market i St.; C. F. Kramer, Third and Broad | Sts.; Kitzmlller's Pharmacy, 1325 ; Derry street, Harrlsburg, and at the | best drug store In every town and I city in the country.—Adv. Hummelstown Officer Weds Girl at Toronto, Canada Huninielstown, Pa., Feb. 11.—Lieu tenant Norman Helff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Helff, was married to Miss Edna Irene Colby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred F. Colby, at the home of the bride, 37 Elm avenue, Toronto, Canada, on Wednesday aft ernoon at. 2.45. Lieutenant John Helff was his brother's best man and the wedding was witnessed only by the immediate relatives of the con tracting parties. Lieutenant Helff is stationed at Camp McClellnn, Anniston, Ala., and before returning to camp the briflal couple will visit his parents in Hum melstown. APPLES KOR GOVERNOR Elliottsburg. Pa., Feb. 11.—Gover nor Martin G. Brumbaugh was a greater admirer of the exhibit of apples from Perry county which took first prize at the recent fruit exhibition of the State Agricultural Association at Harrisburg. At the conclusion of the exhibition, a con tainer of the choicest apples on ex hibition were sent to the Governor, who has sent a letter of ackno wlcdg sPcakin& highly of the county exhibit, to Daniel Rice president of the county association. CYRUS OLWEH.ER BURIED Elizabethtown, Pa., Feb. 9 Fu neral services for Cyrus Olwe'iler a former resident of Conoy township, and a veteran of the Civil War, who qTv^ d ,^Vr? rlvate in Company H, fcixtj-third Regiment, Indiana Vol unteers. was held on Friday after noon at Good's Meeting House, un der the auspices of the Mennonite Church, of which he was a member Burial was made in the -hnrch graveyard. SOLDIER RE-ENLISTS New Germantown, Pa., Feb. 11 Milton Dean Stephens, who recently completed an enlistment in the United States service, has re-enlisted in the Aviation Signal Corps. He has gone to Fort Leavenworth, Kan. —————■——^i————— . } BUOWN & CO. Home Furnishers J 1217-1219 N. Third St. February Furniture Sale ] If you wish to do so, look over the stocks of all other stores. After doing so be sure to come here. If we can not prove to your satisfaction, our ability to save you money, purchase where you please- THIS IS A SURE TIP After The Shock— We were thinking of the The street car business is "Shock Units" the Ger- not the only business in mans throw against the this plight not by a long Boys on the Western shot. Do you know any Front! business that can get all the goods it needs now? After they hit, the Boys 11 • i i . push on and hold the posi- T1 Here \ mother thing, tions and improve them- ™e war has brought more business and more people After the recent drub- to Harrisburg. That was, bing the city got from a practically speaking, a sud hard blow of Winter den growth, weather and snow which But and this is vital put a crimp in the traction j|- h as a } so taken away men business for a while the from our ranks and it's street cars are coming back st jH taking them. And into the line again even street cars must have men with the added difficulties to run them. of getting supplies to re- „ , . *%ir 1e " us where to get the men and the materials, and If we would have known we will get them. You that the war was going to might say that we ought be carried to our own to know. Yes, under nor shores we would have laid conditions we do in supplies to last for years. know but these are AB NORMAL times and we As it was we only had sup- a re willing to be shown. plies to last six months at \y/ i . • i . j j , We are working night a time and under normal j j . . .1 v,• ,1 . and day to get the cars re conditions that was more • j j l 1 .1 , paired and back on the than enough. Hnes and be ag happy Then we began to order as y° u are when they are equipment a year in ad- on B°' vance. And now we can't But with all the trouble get a manufacturer to say —for you and us—it's not when shipments will be nearly as bad as being in made. / the trenches. HARRISBURG RAILWAYS COMPANY FUEL SITUATION IMPROVING | New Bloomfield, Pa., Feb. 11.— j Gradually the snarls in the -uel sit-i uation In Perry county are being un- j ravelled. D. H. Meek, of New i Bloomfield, is fuel administrator for ! the county. He is being assisted in j Newport by T. W. Biissett; Marys-1 - I|e, E. B. Leiby; Duncannon, S. L. I Shull, and Bluin, D. P. Stokes. 1 " to Send Money Qmcklyfliink of WESTERN UNION TRANSFERS There are many, many uses for Western Union Money Transfers. To meet banking obligations—to pay insurance policies— to purchase railroad tickets—to pay taxes—to send anniversary gifts—to supply salesmen on the road —to send money to soldiers in camp. More than seventy million dollars was transferred last year by THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCEI> Liverpool, Pa.. Feb. U.—An nouncements have been received here of the engagement of Miss Marie Balr, daughter of Mr. 1 and Mrs. George I;. FSair, 31 West Cen ter street, Shenandoah, formerly cf this place, to Walter Snyder, son of Mj'. and Mrs. Advid Snyder, East Coal street.
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