COMMISSION TO
STUDY CODES
Hearings Have Been Arranged
For March and April by
State Bodies
Meetings will
V\ \ 9 //J bg held and sche
*\\\ i'VVy dules of hearings
March and April
mission's created
tain laws. The
commission in charge of the study
of old age pension systems in plan
ning half a dozen hearings and the
commission on health insurance will
meet within a few weeks to outline
its program.
The State commissions on insur
ance laws will meet here in April to
consider ideas on the revision of the
numerous acts on that subject and
the suggestion that a code be draft
ed. The commission on banking
laws will meet hero next month and
arrange for hearings in Philadel
phia, Scranton, Harrisburg and
Pittsburgh.
Must Better Service—ln an opin
ion by Chairman Ainey the Public
Service Commission has directed the
Northumberland Water Company to
establish a new source of supply to
provide suflicient wator for domestic
and fire service; complete improve
ments at the plant in six weeks;
fence In and protect by means of
ditches to catch surface drainage,
Ihe sources of supply, lay new mains
ind keep a record of reservoir con
ditions.
New Regulations Notices of
withdrawals of schedules for such
service as "restricted use of power"
md of further changes in rates and
service have been filed with the
Public Service Commission by the
Penn Public Service, Penn Electric
Service and Citizens Light, Heat and
Power Company of Pennsylvania,
which operate in Blair.'Cambria and
other central counties, while notices
increasing unit rates for wholesale
users have been filed by the Penn
sylvania Power, New Castle Electric
md Shenango Valley Electric Light
I'ompanies, operating in western
tier counties.
Compensation Ruling—Decision
that appendicitis unless shown to
have been due to a strain received
while engaged in work is not cause
for compensation according to a de
rision by the State Compensation
Hoard in the claim ofllelpn Shearer
vs. Uerghan Knitting Mills, Phlla
lelphla. A ruling made (lismiss
ng the .claim of the Potter Title and
Trust Co., administrator of estate of '
Nick Taras, Pittsburgh, because it
ippears from the record "that the
i laimant was dead" before the pe- I
lition in the case was filed. The |
Hoard dismissed an appeal from an
award made in the case of Francis
'zekj vs. Thompson & Adams Lea
i her Co., Philadelphia, in which an
n nth rax claim was made and made
ruling in John E. Miller, vs. Ross-
Tacony Crucible Co., Philadelphia,
modifying the award.
Closed To-> 1 or row—All meetings
Hrheduled for to-morrow at the
Htate Capitol have been cancelled
und the departments will be closed
is it is Washington's birthday. ,
Boards Ready—Reports coming to
State draft headquarters are. to the
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Like the U. S. Consular Service, there is an organization
which maintains a loyal, patriotic, a country-serving
American in every important city in the world.
These Americans have direct access to ministers,,
officials and community leaders,—to all chief sources
of information.
Their duty is to report back every happening that may
interest or affect you and America.
You never hear the names of these men. The only sign
of their eternal vigilance is the modest credit line in the
newspaper you read: "by Associated Press.'
Nothing happens in all the world but an Associated
Press man is there to see it, report it and interpret it
for you. - -
Commonly this is called newsgathering.
But, truly, isn't it something more?
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The Harrisburg Telegraph Is the Only
Evening Newspaper in Harrisburg
Served by The Associated Press
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH! FEBRUARY 20, 1918,
effect that local boards are rapidly
getting men ready for the big
movement to Camp Meade, Lee and
Sherman commencing Saturday.
Some boards will have comparatively
few to send beyond the number call
ed, having made l up shortages.
Seven per cent remaining after next
week will likely go to Camp Lee in
March.
Eighteen Perry Co. Draft
Men to Go to Camp Meade
New Bloomfield, Pa., Feb. 21.
Eighteen of the following twenty
three selected men have been order
ed by the local draft board to report
at the Courthouse here on Monday
afternoon, February 25, at 3 o'clock,
for military duty. They will leave
here at 7:20 on Tuesday morning
for Camp Meade, Md. The full list
follows:
Frank S. Shuman, Newport.
J. A. Kretzijjg, Millerstown.
Chester M. Myers, Newport.
Robert McKim, Liverpool, R. D.
George J.*Cameron Millerstown.
Jacob S. Gunder, Duncannon.
Jacob H. Milford. Duncannon.
Clyde E. Black, Duncannon.
Cloyd H. Mitchell, Newport.
James E. Ulsh, Millerstown.
Edward I J. Baker, New Bloom
field, R. D.
C. R. Powell, Millerstown.
Benjamin F. Keller, New Bloom
field.
Ralph E. Flickinger, Newport."
Herbert Humpfrey, Lorganice.
Chester L. Emlet, Loysville.
Lawrence E. Shey, Landisburg.
Charles .W. Wright, Newport.
Roscoe L. Satzler, Millerstown.
Samuel L. Bucke, Duncannon.
J. Paul Charles, Duncannon.
Austin E. Kraft, Newport.
Laurence Yohn, Shermansdale.
Temperance People
Circulating Remonstrances
Newport, Pa., Feb. 21.—Remon
strating against liquor licenses in
Newport is on. The confusion con
cerning the judgeship has delayed
the obtaining of the papers, but they
are now being circulated and in
three days more than one hundred
electors and more than 100 adult
women have placed their names on
them.
Many new ones appear on the lists
and various reasons are assigned for
this. Some people claim that the
Perry county bar has not" been fair
to the temperance cause and have
at times antagonized it strongly.
Others complain because the New
port hotels did not close their bars
while soldiers were encamped in the
town. The guar'd tent was constant
ly occupied by soldiers under dis
cipline for drunkenness in the town,
and one or more it is said have been
dismissed from the national service
for drunkenness in Newport. A man
passed through the public square on
ten different days keeping tab each
day and in only one day in the ten
did he fall to find one or more
drunken men there. A man infuri
ated with drink tried to take the
life of one of the civil officials and
was only kept from it by the inter
ference of one of the ministers.
Only Four Aliens Register
as Residents of Adams Co.
Gettysburg, Pa., Feb. 21.—Adams
county's registration of enemy aliens
shows that only four such persons
are residents of the county, only one
of them living in Gettysburg. No in
formation would be given out about
them except their names. One of
them Is John Alexander, a workman
at the Bittinger stone quarries in the
eastern end of the county, who not
long ago was arrested and held in
custody on the allegation of making
statements which were regarded as
unfriendly to the United States.
MT. WOLF MAN
REFUSES FOOD
Case of Employe of American
Wire Fabrics Company
Puzzles Physicians
Mount Wolf, Pa., Feb. 21.—Re
maining abed and refusing food and
water since last Saturday night, al
though his health appears to be
normal, Melvin Wine, aged 2 0 years,
lias been puzzling a local physician,
as well as Mr. and Mrs. Jacob F.
Buser, with whom he lives.
Last Saturday evening the young
man came to his boardinghouse and
went to bed, apparently in good
health. Next morning ho refused to
arise for breakfast when called. He
declares he is not sick, but gives no
cause for his strange action, He told
the physician that he will take no
medicine. No water has passed his
lips since Saturday night, so far as
the members of the family know,
and he is beginning to show the ef
fects of his fast. 'Mr. Buser has
communicated with the young man's
parents, who live near the borough,
asking them to take him In charge.
The young man is employed at the
plant of the American Wire Fabrics
Company here.
York County Bridges Are
Damaged by Ice Floods
Wellsville, Pa., Feb. 21.—-Leath
ery'3 bridge across the Big Cone
wago creek, several' miles south of
this place, was swept from lis piers
yesterday morning when the ice on
the creek broke up.
The second pier of the five-arcli
bridge near Mount Royal was also
damaged to. such an extent that it
has been closed to traffic. At a point
in the vicinity of jfount Royal the
water reached fifteen feet above nor
mal. The measurement was made
by G. AV. Harlacker, who has rec
ords reaching back to the flood of
1889. At that time it reached nine
teen feet.
The bridge at Emig's mill was also
damaged. One of the heavy stone
piers was knocked out of plumb by
the ice.
When Women
Are Nervous—
Every woman lias days when her
nerves are at the breaking point,
when irritability and restlessness in.
dicato that the enervated nerve cells
of the delicately organized body need
replenishing. Shattered nerves mar
the disposition, the appearance and
retard mental progress. Sleepless
ness, exhaustion, indecision, faulty
memory, lack of continuity of
thought, languidness are the natural
results of depleted nerves, and de
pleted nerves are the natural re
sult of excessive drains upon the vi
tality. Then it is a serious and
dangerous mistake to resort to the
use of so-called tonics or drug
stimulants. Weak and exhausted
nerves need food and nourishment
not stimulants that lash them into
temporary activity. The food and
nourishment advised by present day
physicians is just one 5-grain tablet
of pure bitro-phosphate taken during
or immediately after each meal.
Simple advice, but its soundness has
been proven over and over again.
Moreover the remedy Is within the
reach of every sulTerer from weak
nerves, as a large package of bitro
phosphate tablets, (sufficient for two
weeks' treatment) can be obtained
from Forney, Kennedy. Gorgas, Clark
or any first-class druggist at reason.!
able cost and every package is ac
companied by a binding guarantee of
satisfaction or money back.
JOINS ROYAL FLYING CORPS
Gettysburg, Pa., Feb. 21. —Bruce
Swamley, stationed at Fort Worth,
Texas, has written a letter to his
mother at New Oxford, stating that
he enlisted in New York in the i.oyal
Flying Corps and was sent first to
Toronto, Canada, and then to Fort
Worth for training. The young man,
while at Fort Worth, has broken
several cadet records. Ascending to
a height of 10,700 feet, and staying
in the air two hours and a half in
one flight are some of the things he
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Washington's Birthday
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> One Hundred and Eighty-Six Years Ago Washington Was Born |
\[Al T , this time every year, you are reminded of the old story of George Washington and the £
| gggg cherry tree. H
< But this year, let us think of George Washington at Valley Forge and at Yorktown, jj
\ when he was laying the foundation of our United States on the principles of freedom and
I democracy. |
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, | Today we are defending these same principles and in the heart of every American is the jj
| loyal resolve that the life of Washmgton shall not have been lived 111 vain. IWillions in men
* and billions in money, we are ready to give to such a cause. i:
L Commemorate him this day and do your part, whatever it may be. jj |
Ten Years Ago . j
This "Live Store" came to Harrisburg and set forth a |§
new method of doing business and its square-dealing methods were wel
corned with open arms by "the people" throughout this section of the country until to-day
DOUTRICHS is the "best" known clothing store in Pennsylvania lt's a store in which
you can have absolute confidence because it is thoroughly dependable and the enormous
patronage Doutrichs are enjoying is the result of appreciation shown by YOU and YOUR
friends for having an "always reliable" store, which gives its customers every possible
advantage. - .
This is the greatest year in our history and today we are reaping
the benefits of our earnest efforts and by honest representation and greater values, we are
pressing forward, reaching a new goal year after year You will fully realize the great service we have been
rendering our loyal customers this year if you come HERE to our Semi-annual
Mark-Down Sale
Where Everything In Oar Entire Stock Is Reduced
CExcept Arrow Collars, Overalls and Interwoven Hose)
The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes
| has achieved. He expects a com
mission in the near future.
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TEA FOR RED CROSS s
Duncannon, Pa., Feb. 21. To- ]
morrow afternoon, Washington'.■ ,
birthday, from 3 to 5 o'clock, a tea
will be held at the home Mrs. Ir- i
ving Martin by the Duncannon Story
Tellers League for the benefit of the
Duncannon Red Cross Auxiliary, i
Stories relating to the life of Wash
ington and to the Red Cross So
ciety will be told.
ENROLLING IN RIOI> CROSS
Ilummelstown, Pa., Feb. 21. —The
Rev. Herbert S. Games addressed the
school pupils in behalf of the drive
for Junior Red Cross members on
Tuesday afternoon. Clinton Her
shey on Wednesday morning and
Harry M. Horst, on Thujiu&ay
morning. Postmaster J. Landis
Strckler addressed the pupils on
Wednesday aftrenoon explaining the
advantages of buying Thrift Stamps.
The eighth grade has already en
rolled 100 per cent In the Junior
Red Cross and the other grades are
I busy enrolling. Forty-three pupils I
from High School had enrolled |
| Tuesday evening.
CAPTURES TWO OPOSSUMS I
Duncannon, Pa., Feb. 21.—M. L. I
Lindemuth, mall carrier on rural
• route No. 1 from Duncannon, on a j
i recent trip captured two live oppos
sums.
KILIiED 810 SHEEP
Duncannon, Pa., Feb. 21. W. A.'
• Reed, of Pennell's church, near Dun
cannon, claims to have recently kill-
Ed one of the champion sheep of
Perry county. This specimen, a 2-
year-old one. weighed 205 pounds
when dressed.
Itching Rashes
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!l With Cuticnra
Soap 25c. Oiatncat 2D aad 00c.
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