2 TIMELY NEWS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND CITY'S SUBURBS COAL MINERS ASKED TO WORK Lykens P. 0. S. of A. Camp Requests Labor on Wash ington's Birthday Lykens, Pa., Feb. 20.—Washing ton Camp. No. 238, Patriotic Order Sons of America, at a recent meet-! ing unanimously adopted the foi-! lowing resolutions: "That we request all loyal citi zens to celebrate AVashington'a birth- I day in the anthracite coal region by i working and by doing their utmost) to bring the output of coal oA thatj day above the daily normal pro-! duction, thus showing that we in- 1 l< ml to do as our Illustrious patriot. I George Washington, would advise us I if h< were among the living. Also, that this be published In the Har risbni g papers and the Lykens Stand ard." WILL GO TO FRANCE Hummelstown, Pa., Feb. 20. — Charles Brinser spent three days witii his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dud ley Hrinser, prior to leaving for Fort Slocum, where he has been ordered from Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. He has been chosen as one of a unit of forty men to go to France on war risk insurance and will leave shortly. COAL FOR SCHOOLS Hummelstown, Pa., Feb. 20.—The public schools secured three tons of coal on Tuesday from J. M. Whit tock, which will tide them over for a lew weeks. It was feared the schools would have to close for lack of coal at the end of the present week. . r . i J To Relieve Catarrhal ♦ Deafness and Head ; Noises ♦ ! If vou have Catarrhal Deaf- I I ness or head noises go to your } , druggist and get 1 ounce of ! Parmint (double strength), and I ! add to it hot water and just } I a little sugar as directed in . I each package. Take 1 table- 1 I spoonful four times a day. 4 , This will often bring quick re- I lief from the distressing head 4 noises. Clogged nostrils should 4 t • open, breathing become easy 4 , , and the mucus slop dropping 4 into the throat. It is easy to 4 i • prepare, costs little and is pleas- 4 nnt to take. Any one who has 4 ] I Catarrhal Deafness or head 4 | , noises should give this prescrip- 4 j 4 tion a trial. J | : I i , ♦ ; "HAD NERVOUS INDIGESTION Would Bloat, Was Weak" says Mr. Scales, steelworker with Bethlehem Steel Co., residing on Second street, Steelton, Pa. I suf- I fered intensely for many months I with nervous indigestion, would get j a gnawing, nervous feeling before i meals and I thought I would faint. After eating I would bloat and my | stomach would pain.rery much, at tines I would get so weak and dizzy that I would have to sit down to keep from falling. I worried a lot as nothing seemed to help me. I saw where Sanpan was doing to much good so X gave It a trial iind believe me I am as good as new, no indigestion nor dizziness, in fact have no ailments at all. Sanpan is being introduced at Keller's Drug Store, 405 Market street, Harris >urg. At Oar Annual $1.95 Sale 500 Pairs More of fl* -4AC Ladies' $3, $4, $5, $6, $7 V I Shoes Per Pair JL [ SALE | INCLUDE These Shoes include the best styles of the sea son —high lace, high top button; high and low heel models, fancy high top lace, patent and dull leather dress shoes, vici comfort shoes and dozens of other good styles. All sizes. This sale is certainly the shoe sensation Those who were unable to be waited on of Harrisburg! JUST THINK! Offering, last Saturday will find some very sensa at this time of excedingly high prices, tional values here to-morrow. Come in women's $3 to $7 shoes at $1.95 a pair. Thursday; don't wait till Saturday as we Better buy two or three pairs while this expect another record crowd again next low price is possible. Saturday. All Boys', ITSI Also Offer- Children's Shoes at Spe- UP REAL SHOE MAKERS iZj I Dr< ss Shoes I cial Reduced _ . __ _ at Savingsof | I 217 MARKET ST. k WEDNESDAY EVENING, CUMBERLAND VALLEY Cumberland Preparing For Tlurd Liberty Loan Sale | Carlisle, Pa.. Feb. 20.—The entire ' organization which has been so suc cessful In the sales of the war savings stamps will bo drafted In its entirety to back the Third Liberty Loan, ac . cording to plans announced to-day by George E. Lioyd, chairman of the savings committee and of the Lib erty Loan. The three hundred agents of the savings committee will take sub scriptions for bonds. One hundred and forty automobiles will be l'ur ! nished to aid canvassing and the J message of the needs of the new j loan will be carried to every section, i Eugene L. Martin, of Carlisle, will jhe executive manager of the loan I drive under Mr. Lloyd, with M. C. Bunyan, secretary of the safety com mittee as secretary of the loan com mittee. Walter Stuart, of Carlisle, will head a special bankers' com mittee and local committees of bank ers named include tho following: Carlisle—Merkcl Landis, Mervin Line, Adam Keller. Mechanlcsburg Charles Eberly, M.L. Dick, S. I. Swartz, T. J. Shaull. Mount Holly Springs—C. G. Hall. New Cumberland—F. E. Coover. Lemoyne—Robert 1* Myers. Grantham— S. S. Weingor. Newville —J. S. Gracey, S. B. Hewlett. Shippensburg—J, A. Geesaman, Howard Ryder. GEORGE KAPP DIES Dillsburg, Pa., Feb. 20.—George Kapp, father of J. S. Kapp, of the firm of Kapp and Seibert, of Dills burg, died at his home at Mount Royal, this county, on Monday eve ning after an illness of several months. He is survived by his wife and three sons, John S., of Dills burg; William, of York, and Samuel Kapp( of Allentown. The funeral will be held to-morrow. There will be preliminary services in the home and the body will then be brought here and services will be held in the Lutheran Church. Burial will be made in the Dillsburg Ceme tery. TESTING SANITY* OK MURDERER Hagerstown. Md., Feb. 20. Wil liam G. Coughenour, here awaiting trial for the murder of his wife, was subjected to a severe examination by three members of the Stato Board of Lunacy at the county jail to test his sanity at the request of the authori- ! i ties of Cumberland, where the crime was committed. Coughenour, a rail i rond man, formerly of Hagerstown. is i thought to be demented. The board j will make its report to the Court on | Friday. ' IDA IP ( Will prove a revelation to those who use it for the first time because I ofits absolute purity, delicate med ication, refreshing fragrance and j super-creamy emollient proper- 1 | ties for preserving, purifying and i beautifying the skin and complex ; ion, two soaps ; n one at one price. On rising and retiring smear the face with Cu- i I ticura Ointment, wash off in five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water,using plenty of Soap, best applied with the hands which it j i softens wonderfully, and continue bathing j with Soap two minutes. For free sample of I Soap, Ointment and Talcum address: "Cuti ( curs, Dept. 3A, Boston." Every where at 25c. 1 FAREWEI.L Si:KPHI*K PARTY Waynesboro, Fa.. Feb. 20. A farewell surprise party was given by a number of young women on Mon day evening, to Miss Helen Anders, who left to-day for Baltimore, where she will enter the Johns Hopkins Hospital and pursue the regular four year course in preparation for a train ed nurse. DHIU CLEHKit AHUESTED AVaynesboro, Pa„ Feb. 20. Charles F. Kramer, a member of tho Pennsyl vania Pharmaceutical Board, Was here on Monday, and called at local drug stores In an attempt to learn whether there were any technical violations of the act of 1y 17 governing pharma cists. At the Miller drugstore and at the Arco drugstore he purchased a small quantity of tincture of lodine from clerks, who are not registered j pharmacists, and information was i made against these stores for failure I to comply strictly with the law. The ' case was hoard before Magistrate John A. Potter, who held the persons making the sales under a technical charge. CAUGHT IX MEAT CUTTER Waynesboro, Pa., Feb. 20. Mrs. Grant Dong, of Fayettevllle, severed an artery in her left arm while op erating the moat cutter, and nearly bled to dedth before medical aid ar rived. The gash in her arm was three inches long and to the bone, severing the main artery between her wrist and ! elbow. STUDENT DIES AT HOSPITAL Waynesboro, Pa., Feb. 20. Harfry Carver, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Car ver, died in a Pittsburgh hospital, Monday afternoon, after an illness of four days of bloodpoisoning. The young man was 22 years of age and a student of the Carnegie Polytechnic Institute. He was a graduate of the commercial department of tho Waynesboro high school, class of 1911. CARS CRASH INTO HOLDING Hagerstown, Md., Feb. 20. A large three-story brick building at the plant of W. D. Byron and Sons, tan ners, at Williamsport, who also op erate a large tannery at Merccrsburg, Pa., was badly damaged when a draft of cars crashed into it from a siding. Both walls were badly bulged and a hole torn in one side. SAVED FROM TUSCANIA Hagerstown, Md., Feb. 20. A de layed cablegram received by Mrs. James Findlay, this city, from her nephew. Lieutenant Frank Kennedy, of the United States Field Artillery, revealed the fact that he was on the transport Tuscania, which was recent ly sunk by a Cerman submarine off the Irish coast, but escaped. The fate of Lieutenant Kennedy was unknown ' until the cablegram was received. HAGERSTOWN LICENSES Hagerstown, Md., Feb. 50. Mar riage licenses have been issued here to tho following Pennsylvania couples: Brenard A. Calaman. Steel ton, and Charlotte M. Winand, Pen brook; Allon C. Knsminger, Mercers burg. and Edith B. Bell. Foltz; George J. Myers and Bertha M. Fuhrman,! Hanover; Clifford R. Martin and A. j Blanche Kuhn. Greencastle; R. E. Ben der and Emma J. Benninghoff, Leba non: Harry I* Weaver and Alice Rlch wein, Carlisle. VETERINARY SURGEON DIES Hagerstown, Md., Feb. 20. Dr. H. J. Cozens, aged 81, the oldest veteri narian in this section of the Cumber land Valley, died at his home here yesterday from pneumonia, after a brief illness. He was born in Eng land, and had lived here since the Civil War. He is survived by four sons and a daughter, and also a sis ter and brother in England. BREAD PHICE STANDS Hagerstown, Md., Feb. 20. An at tempt to advance the price of bread I in this city by some bakers and re- J Callers from nine to ten cents a loaf was promptly checked by local Food j Administrator W. B. Littleton, who at: once issued a statement to the public that the price for a standard loaf would remain the same, and dealers were warned not to charge more than nine cent* for it. ELKS' FRATERNAL VISIT Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 20. —Officers of the Harrisburg Lodge of Elks last evening paid Carlisle Lodge 578 a fraternal visit and initiated candi dates. On February 28, the Carlisle officers will perform similar duties at Harrisburg. These are the first of : a series of fraternal visits of this na ! ture to insure greater co-operation I between the lodges. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH MASS MEETING ON FOOD SAVING Delegations From Cumber land Valley Towns Told of Plans at Carlisle Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 20. —In spite of the inclement weather a record au dience filled the Carlisle Opera House last evening at a big meet ing staged under the auspices of the Cumberland County Safety Com mittee to increase interest in the food saving campaign and to aid In the war on sedition. Delegations were here from West Shore towns, Mechanlcsburg, Mount Holly Springs, Newville, Boiling Springs and Shippensburg, while several score persons from Frank lin county came for the event. Lewis S. Sadler, executive manager of the State Safety Committee, was here for the event. Members of the coun ty safety unit occupied places on the stage, which was arranged with palms and American beauty roses. Judge S. B. Sadler was introduced iby S. M. Goodyear, county chair man, and presided. The commun ity chorus of 200 voices was pres ent and sang American airs. Sing ing of the Belgian national anthem by Miss Dunegun, head of the music department at the Carlisle Indian school, and of "God Save the King," by Hugh R. Miller, featured the mu sical program. Miss Suizanne Silvercruze. mem ber of a prominent Belgian family, for a time a nurse and identilied with the relief movement in her country and in devastated France, related incidents of the German in vasion with gripping fervor. Lieutenant Sutton, of the British Army, who served In Flanders and in the fighting in the attacks around Constantinople, told of the war from the viewpoint of the man in the trenches, and Charles J. Hep burn, Philadelphia lawyer and for mer Carlisle man, legal adviser to the State Food Administration, re lated the methods used to Insure saving and the vital need of con servation. Post Will Honor Members Who Died During Year Newport, Pa., Feb. 20.—With their ranks greatly thinned since the for mation of the order in 1883, the twenty-four members of the Lieu tenant Arnold Lobaugh Post, No. 297, G. A. R., will hold its annual memorial service in the Methodist Episcopal Church on Friday evening at 7 o'clock, when the eight com rades who died during the past year will bo fittingly honored. The Rev. J. W. Glover, pastor of the Metho dist church, will deliver the princi pal address. The eight veterans who died dur ing the past year were: Martin Noll, W. A. Zinn, J. H. Irwin, G. D. Rob inson, S. P. Campbell, W. H. Kough, William Kipp and William Liddick. SUBURBAN PERSONALS ANXYTLLE Paul Bachman, son of Mrs. John Bachman, of East Main street, who enlisted in the aviation service, has been transferred from Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas, to Waco, in the same state. The Rev. H. A. Smith. United Brethren preacher, who lived here while attending Debanon Valley College, has accepted service in a southern department of the T. M. C. A. at San Antonio, Texas. H. Lenich Meyer, of the local freight station, was at Harrisburg on Monday. Mrs, M. E. Brightbill has return ed home from Hagerstown, Aid., where she was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Philo A. Statton. Conrad K. Curry, of Swatara Sta tion, made a trip to Annvllie on Monday. Miss Josephine Kettering was con fined to her home with illness for several days. Miss Kathryn Stern spent Satur day at Lebanon. Mrs. Caroline Raub, of Dallas town, has returned to her home aft er spending some time with her daughter, Mrs. S. F. Daugherty. Irwin Horst, of Scliaefferstown, was in town on Tuesday. The coal situation in Annville is partially relieved by the arrival of milder weather and a few carloads of fuel. Corporal Price spent a short time here among friends Saturday and Sunday. Professor J. T. Spangler spent Sunday at Harrisburg the guest of the Rev. Dr. J. A. Lyter, in Derry street. • IJIVERPOOI; Nevin Wagner and Herman Wil liamson were called to New Bloom iield on Saturday for examination for service but both failed to pass the physical examiantion. William Hoons, of Carlisle, was a recent visitor at Edward Shuler's. Henry Freed was a recent visitor at Harrisburg. Mrs. J. C. Werick and son. James, were visitors at T. E. Werick's. Mrs. Charles Mottern, who spent the greater part of the winter at Washington, D. C., has returned to her home here. John Trimmer, of Harrisburg, was a recent visitor here. Mrs. Vernon Glass, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kerstetter, has returned to Northumberland. Mrs. William Dayton, of Harris burg, was a Sunday visitor at T. E. Werick's. Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Shuler and daughters, Mary Elizabeth and Ger trude, were recent visitors at Mil lersburg. Maurice Shuler was a recent vis itor at Harrisburg. The Rev. H. B. Ritter has return ed from a trip to Weatherly, Ohio. 1. A. Shumaker, of Dalmatia, was a recent visitor here with his moth er, Mrs. Sara Shumaker. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Plack, of Harrisburg, were recent visitors here. Mrs. Hughes, of Paoli, is visiting her mother. .Mrs. George Wert. Mr. and Sirs. Harry Werick were week-end visitors at the former's brother, T. E. Werick. Cleve Hoffman, of Company C, Three and Fourteenth infantry. Camp Meade. Md.. is spending the week with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hoffman. Mrs. Rumberger and daughter. Elsie, of Miliershurg. were recent visitors here with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Williamson. FIREMAN CAUGHT SOUNDING ALARM Three Members of Carlisle Company Arrested For Sending in False Alarms Carlisle, Pa., Feb. 20. —How rivalry between firemen of Uie local depart ment was responsible for a series of false alarms which caused much confusion here, injury to firemen and damage to apparatus, was dis closed to-day when formal indict ments were prepared by District At torney Lloyd against George Sny der, foreman, Esker Sharpe and Syl van Clay, members of the Friend j ship Company. The three men presented signed confession of their part in the alarms and implicated others. The rivalry between the four en gine companies as to which shall got first to a bla'zc is keen and a num ber of Friendship men, tired of the jokes and sneers of other companies as to their late arrivals evolved the scheme to be first on tho scene. The arrests came after an alarm Saturday, when a man, later iden tified as Clay, was seen sending in the alarm and he was arrested, con fessed and implicated Sharpe and Snyder. The original alarms first sent in were fro ma section to throw suspicion on another company. Tho alarms have aroused citizens and the borough council held a special meet ing and ordered the cases pushed to the limit. According to the statements, the engine was ready and turning over ready to respond at the first tap of the alarm, while a time was chosen when it was believed that the others would not be ready. There has been some agitation to move the com pany, which is without a regular driver, to another section and this was also partly responsible for the act. The alarms were sent in in bad weather and three firemen, including Fire Chief Brindle, were slightly injured, one engine damaged and some serious accidents narrowly pre vented. The Rev. Reuben S. Stair Elected to Lutheran Charge Lewisberry, Pa., Feb. 20. —The Rev. Reuben S. Stair, 62 and for twenty-two years was an active itinerant In the church and snrved charges in Lebanon, Perry, Bucks, Dauphin and Montgomeryy counties. He was a native of Lan caster county, having been bom in Manor township in 1833. He was a remarkably well-preserved man and, notwithstanding his advanced age, bis eyesight was excellent and ho tcok a deep interest in the progress of the church. He attended nearly every session of conference and at a session held several years ago he was presented with a handsome book by Bishop G. M. Matthews as the o'dest minister present. He is sur vived by several children. VALENTINE PARTY AT RI.AIN Blain. Pa., Feb. 20.—A Valentine party was held at the home of Pro fessor Newton Kerstetter on Friday evening. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Creigh Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Snyder and two children, Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Heneli, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Woods and two daughters, Professor and Mrs. W. C. Koons. Miss Golda Dimm, Miss Frankie Dimtn, Miss Grace Stambaugh, Miss Marga ret Riegac, Mr. and Mrs. If. C. Hen ry, Edmund Book. Miles Bowers, Pro fessor and Mrs. Kerstetter and daughter, Arlene. PIKE FROZEN IN ICE Blain. Pa.. Fob. 20. —Dr. 11. W. Woods took a dead pike from a piece of ice at "Waggoner's dam that was twenty-four Inches long and weighed four pounds. FEBRUARY 20, 1918. COUNTY ROADS IMPASSABLE Annville, Pa., Feb. 20. —• County roads both in North and South Ann ville township remain in almost Im passable condition. In many places the drifts are six or inoro feet deep and of frozen snow almost as solid as ice, whereas the fields through which the temporary roads lead are becom 'ng muddy so that neither sleigh I nor wheeled vehicles can bo used j with satisfaction. § Venus of Milo There is only one genuine Venus of Milo. Whatever is genuine possesses a degree of excellence never found in imitations. There is only One Genuine Aspirin Bayer-Tablets of Aspirin contain the genuine, which ha 3 been made in the United States for more than ten years. Every package and every tablet bears. "The Your Guarantee Bayer Cross— of Purity" The trade-mark "Aspirin" (Ree. U.S. Pat. Off.) is a srunrantee that the monostotic acidecter of talicylicacid in these tablets is of the reliable Bayer manufacture.. PERMISSION TO PAVK STREET Middlcburg, Pa., Feb. 20.—Proper* ty owners in Main street on FridaJ night presented a petition to th< Borough Council, asking permission to pave the street from th© Middle* burg National Hank to the depot The Council acted on tho petition at once granted the property own era the right to pave, it being um de.rstood that the borough pay on<* third, the property owners one-thirj and tho state tho other third.