2
TO TRY DOCTOR
FOR HARROWING |
DEATH IN CAMP
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Baker Court-Martials Two in 1
Expose Made to
Senate
Washington, March 2.—Trial by I
general court-martial has been or- '
dered by the Secretary of War of
Major Philip B. Connolly, medical
corps, National Guard, following the ;
death from spinal meningitis of First j
Class Private Albert Hestwood, of
Camp Doniphan, Okla.
Private Hestwood's illness and the
I. arrowing circumstances of his
death were told on tb* tloor of the
Senate January 24 by Senator Cham- :
berlain, of Oregon. Investigation ;
was ordered immediately.
Major General W. M. Wright, the I
commanding general of the division, ■
and Brigadier General L. B. Bern - ,
formerly commanding general, have
been directed to make a report as
to how such conditions as even found
in the camp came to exist.
M;ijor Connolly was the command
ins officer of the hospital and Lieu
tenant Kirkpatrick was the tirst of
ficer to examine Private Hestwood
after he was taken ill. "Deplorable ,
conditions" were stated to exist in a
leport made by the Inspector general \
to the Secretary of War.
This is the first case of high of- j
ticers being severely dealt with for
conditions in the medical service.
I-a I her Reported Distressing Story
Private Hestwood came from Li- i
ber.il, Kan. His death, when almost J
i n: ttended and with insufficient bed'- .
clothing and no fire in the stove in j
liis little shack, was told of by Sen
ator Chamberlain as an illustration !
tit why he believed the "military es
tablishment had fallen down."
The Senator read a letter from the
;; her of the boy. the Rev. Mr. Hest
wood. The communication, although
t! e names of the sender and the
i-uiap had been deleted, presented
tho facts without criticism or hope
Ot obtaining any personal redress,
but, the minister said, he thought ;
the situation should be laid bare to
prevent a recurrence of such trag- J
e.lics in the future.
It told the helplessness of an in- :
<\perienced orderly, who tried to,
give the dying boy a drink through !
• funnel: how the father went back
i) the shack by himself, and, as Sen
ator Chamberlain read:
"l had my pass into the building.
1 did not stop and knock, but opened
: ie door to enter, when it struck ,
oniething that would not let it open 1
further. I
"1 looked and saw that it was my
son's body lying on the floor of the
hall and it was his head that I struck
v.ifJt the door."
When Senator Chamberlann came
to this point in the letter, women in
ti>e galleries gave a gasp. Even Sen- <
:,tors themselves wept. Senator Till
i jn was so moved that he, with
■ h ering voice, arose and demanded
> know who was the author of the ;
tter so an immediate inquiry could
I held. •
Seven days later the War Depart- '
l.ient had its investigation under
way. Yesterday a digest of the re
-1 ort of the inspector general was
ir.de public by the Secretary of
\ .-tr. It read:
•'The case of Private (first class> '
Hestwood, Company H. Thirteenth
i.ii'ntry. Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, j
\SJS investigated by an officer of the
. :-pector general's department dur
,the period of January 31 to Feb
rua.y 12. At the same time a com- ,
\ re'.ienslve and searching inspection ;
was made of the base hospital at
this tamp and investigation made of .
other similar complaints which were
1 sought to the attention of the in- j
pector.
"The investigation disclosed that
piior to the date of Private Ilest
v.ood's death (December 25) and
lor a considerable period thereafter
, onditions in the hospital were noth- !
Ing short of deplorable; in fact, the
conditions cited by Private Hest
wood's father in his letter of Jan
uary 14 were found to be substan
tially correct.
"During this period the hospital
was in charge of Major Philip B. j
Connolly, M. C., who is held to be
responsible for such conditions.
"There were many causes which
produced these conditions, some of
which cannot rightfully be charged
to the local authorities. When the
hospital was first established the
medical officers were untrained in
military hospital ways and organiza
tion: the enlisted personnel was al-J
most wholly untrained: there were
no female nurses: there was a short
age of supplies, due to the unusual ■
number of patients which flooded the !
hospital; there was a long delay in i
completing the hospital; total lack
of nearby laundry facilities; lack ot
sewerage and plumbing'."
LECTURE BY DR. REED
Marysville, Pa., March 2.-Sun-,
nay afternoon the Rev. Dr. George l
E. Reed, will lecture in the Evan
gelical Church. His subject is a new
one prepared for the Marysville
people, "Rifts of Sunshine Amid the'
Clouds of War." Dr. Reed for twen
ty-five years has been one of Ameri
ca's leading educators and preach
ers.
MRS. MARY VERNONE DIF.S. . 1
Enola, Pa.. March 2.—Funeral
services will be held Monday after
noon at 2 o'clock at the home of C. :
K. Wert, of South Enola for Mrs.
Alary Vernone, aged 69, who died;
yesterday morning. Burial will be |
made in the Camp Hill Cemetery. ,
YOU
SCHENCK'S
MANDRAKF
word for eonges- IT JIX Xm. Kk. Lj
tion, the beginning
of every serious
disorder, and near
ly every discom- |ll W W fl
fort. Rid yourself I I
of constipation and ■ MB il j*. 1
you will be free n*w
from all disease
aa nearly as pos
sli iroof against ,
In '" c act freely, but gently and comfort
ably, on the liver, stomach and bowels, cleansing,
sweetening, toning strengthening, so that a consti
pated condition will become impossible. Ordinary
constipation "curt*"' arc only laxatives that must ho taken regularly,
and-that finally I'orni a habit that is as dangerous a-, constipation
itself. Schenck's Mandrake Pills arc wholly vegetable: absolutely
harmless, they form no habit.
PLAIN OR SUGAR' COATED
PROVED FOR MERIT BY 80 YEARS' CONTINUOUS SALE
DR. J. H. SCHENCK & SON, Philadelphia
SATURDAY EVENING, HABBISBURG TELEGRAPH MARCH 2, 1918.
MISFORTUNE
FOLLOWS FAMILY
j Two Children Killed on Rail
road and Others Have
Met With Accidents
Sunbury, Pa., March 2.—Owen
Cooper. 14 years old, was killed and
his brother. Edward Cooper. Jr.. both
i of Sunbury. was slightly hurt by a
'locomotive here la?t night as they
j stood on the tracks looking at a rail*
road switch. It was Edward's job
! to keep these switches clean, and he
i was explaining its workings to the
j child wiijn death bore down upon
them.
Misfortune has followed this fam
ily. Ten years ago one brother ac
• cldentallv shot and killed his broth
er. Another boy has just recovered
; from being accidenialy shot in the
} foot, while a sister lies in the Ber
' wick Hospital with a broken arm,
suffered in a fall. The father, Kd
ward Cooper, is a Pennsylvania rail- I
1 road conductor.
Meeting at Carlisle on
Lebanon Valley College
Carlisle. Pa.. March 2. —-Delegates
from all the churches in tbe central
section of Cumberland county to-day,
heard the needs of Lebanon Valley
1 College presented in a special mcet
! Ing In the interests of the endow
ment fund of that institution held in
' the Grace United Brethren Church
here.
The main addresses were made by
| President Gossard, of the college,
i :>nd Congressman Aaron S. Kreider.
' Tho Rev. F. Berry Plummet-, pastor
|of the Carlisle church, presided. All (
of the delegates pledged their con
! ;-regations to the raisins of a pro
portionate share of the fund.
TF.MPEHAJtCK MF.IJAI, CONTEST
Carlisle. Pa.. March 2.—An event of
importance in temperance circles was 1
a special medal contest held in the
Franklin schoolbuilding here last
evening, at which tiuje a number of I
girls from all parts of the county j
' participated in the annual medal ora- j
torical contest under the direction of
L'he Cumberland County Women's
I Christian Temperance Union. The
recitations and compositions were
| ilong temperance lines. The deci
: f=:on of the judges as to the winner
will be announced later.
B VXQI F.T ON ANNIVERSARY
Carlisle, Pa.. March 2.—ln honor of
the ilrst anniversary of the organi
sation. the members of the Retail
i Merchants' Bureau of the Carlisle
I Chamber of Commerce will hold a
banquet and special meeting in
Mentzer Hall here on Thursday
evening. Invitations have been ex
tended to businessmen from other
1 communities to be present. The ad
dress will be given by William
, S-nedley, of the State Retail Mer
chants' Association.
BOY DIES AT HOSPITAL
Mechanicsburg. Pa.. March 2. W.
I Scott Graybill, Jr., the 10-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Scott Gray
! oill. East Louis street, died on Thurs
day at the Harrisburg Hospital,
where he underwent an operation for
appendicitis about ten days previous
i ly. The lad was on a fair way to
i recovery, when a sudden stomach
| trouble caused his death. The fu
neral services will be held to-morrow
j afternoon at his late home at 1.30
o'clock. Burial will be made in the
Mechanicsburg cemetery.
Performance and Economy
Two Hupmobile Features
In speaking of the various "se
i lcct points" of the new series "R"
' Hupmobile, two big features stand
out and in a way speak for them
; selves. These points are the per
-1 formance and economy. In the mat
; ter of performance, it is claimed
' that this new Hupmobile even out
classes that of the series "X." It
develops more power and shows sur
prising strength in hill-climbing and
. in digging through heavy sand and
mud.
; This car is so glared that while
T running in high gear it can be
throttled down so as to equal the
i pace of an ordinary walk and with
a slight pressure of the accelerator
will jump from a speed of four
miles an hour to fifty miles an hour.
It is claimed in doing this there is
very little vibration. The riding
qualities are easily explained in the
; adopted phrase of the company,
I "The Comfort Car."
In speaking of the economy of this
now Hupmobile. Mr. Church, the lo
: cat distributor, says, "This car iF
economical because it is a practical
stranger to a repair shop. The
: sti;rdincs9 with which these cars are
; built assures this. From the tires
; up through the car to the tcp it is
built for long service. The fuel
question is onr that has been givert
| a great deal of thought by the en
gineers of our factory, especially that
of carburetion. The light weight ot
these cars added to the unusual per
. formance makes it indeed 'the com
. fort car.'"
RED CROSS EXAMINATION
Waynesboro, Pa., March 2.—Mrs.
, John A. Martin, the instructor of the
surgical dressing clashes of the local
• tied Cross, will conduct an examina
t on for' the Monday evening teach
! era* classes at 7.15 o'clock. The fol
ic wing Tuesday evening she will or
; ganize another surgical dressing class
| for begini.ers and anyone desiring to
J enter.
Y. M. C. A. PLANS
FOR THE FUTURE
Awakened Institution Now Is
Scene of Many New
Activities
The city of Harrisburg was for-;
tunate in securing a man of vision
and efficiency, Itoberi B. Reeves, to,
take charge of the local Y. M. C. A.,;
at this particular time. What the
war means to this organisation no!
one can estimate. It has been the i
supreme advertisement for one of!
the mightiest forces for good ever I
devised and from letters arriving j
daily it is now reasonable to forecast;
that the Y. M. C. A. will gather in.;
not thousands, but millions, after •
the war. Soldiers who never enter- j
ed a Y. M. C. A. room, who thought i
i ta sissy proposition or a gloomy]
religious project have discovered its j
opportunities and value. Mr. Reeves j
believes that a great proportion of j
soldiers who return will want to be |
linked permanently with the home'
branch and, in fact, is so sure of j
it that plans are to be shortly dis- '
cussed t'or building an annex on j
Locust gtreet. This would be an up
to-date establishment with dormi- j
tories, huge gymnasium and swim-.
ming pool and convention hall, a •
genuine community center, a real j
public utility.
Of all innovations in war the es- j
tablishment of sharks, Y. M. C. A.,
K. of C. and Jewish Welfare, is the!
one which will have permanent and j
profound results on building up a i
nation. War humanizes and the J
soldiers have found that the habit:
of gathering in fine, clean, whole-1
some shacks whore there is plenty 1
of fun. but no stupid horse play is
contagious. The Harrisburg secre-1
tary looks forward to the time when j
men and'boys will not be draped!
around the street corners ogling the I
parade, but gather in the Y. M. C. j
A. for some elevating and educative
recreation. Looking forward to this
he is now panning a program ofj
activity, to increase the membership |
and prepare valuable features which ■
will make the Harrisburg home even!
more attractive than it is now. j
These plans will not be outlined atl
the present moment but they will be
shaped up so that when the war ts
over they may be comprehensively!
taken up.
Had Not Awakened
Like many other cities Harris
burg has not awakened to the pos
sibilities of the Y. M. C. A. for ad
vancing human improvement and
stimulating ambition, although the |
youth of the neighborhood who pat-1
ronize the gymnasium, baths and •
reading room could testify that the ;
"old Y. M." is the jolliest place in
town. The management of these es-1
tablishments is elastic and gener
ous. While true to the meaning of
its title no religious cult or denorn- i
ination is favored. Jew. Roman'
Catholic and Protestant are alike
welcome. But there is always the
fixed unwritten law that a patron is j
to try to improve in virtue a little
each day. as Socrates put it many:
hundreds of years ago.
The future of our Y. M. C. A. is a t
most interesting thins to meditate;
on. Larger cities have gone far;
ahead of us, to be sure. The Bos-1
ton branch maintains a high class
law school; other cities have schools!
of finance and commerce: at the!
West Side in New York 2.000 stu-<
dents pursue various courses, get- j
i ting almost a university education.'
As Mr. Reeves told in his recent re- I
port a large amount of money has j
been spent in equipping the present j
building, installing billiard and pool
tables, a Victrola talking machine.!
an electric playing piano, a moving
picture machine, additional maga
zines and periodicals and new fur
niture. But the investment quickly
paid, as witnessed by the great
crowds of soldier boys who flocked
there during the summer. The Y.
M. C. A. is no narrow-gauge affair.
In this town it oponed its doors to
thousands of enlisted men who had
all privileges without cost.
The history of tbe last nine months
is guarantee of what Harrisburg
may expect in the near future of the
Y. M. C. A. The new secretary has
only been here nine months and in|
that short time, with able assist- i
ance, he increased the membership:
[from 419 to 1130. It is an encour
aging feature of the work that the!
building is now rapidly becoming'
too small. The 33 dormitory rooms
are filled every night and a dozen or
so usually turned away. A new j
building is therefore almost e4sen- 1
tial, but before that arrives forces
[ will be concentrated on the organ
! ization of a branch for colored men
: which is greatly needed.
I The vision of a greater Y. M. C.;
IA. is a dream at present, but aj
I dream which will come true, if for;
! no other reason than that it main-!
tains itself, with all its myriad calls, i
jon a sound financial basis. The
Harrisburg branch, for example,!
I closed its books for the lajt year j
I with all bills paid and a substantial [
balance in bank.
Mother and Son Killed by
Gas at Hagerstown Home
Ilagerstown, Md., March 2. —Mrs.
Emma Slick, aged 38, and her 18-
year-old son, Ferrell F. Slick, were
killed by illuminating gas in their
home in High street in this city,
both being overcome while they
were asleep. Young Slick was found
dead in bed while his mother was
discovered lying on the floor of a
rear room where, it is believed, she
had fallen v.liile trying to get to a
window. Mrs. Slick was a sister of
Roland Rhodenizer, a Philadelphia
and Reading engineer, of Harris
burg. The bodies of Mrs. Slick and
her son were found by J. S. Lillard,
a neighbor, who lives next door. Two
of Lillard's children were seriously
affected by the gas fumes that got
through into his side of the house.
' NEED IAO PHOTOGRAPHERS j
I A call to induct 150 photographers i
j into the service of the United States j
was received by state draft head-1
J quarters here. The registrants must i
be photographers of advanced ama-:
j teur or professional experience, who I
will act as aerial photographers in i
the aviation section. The photo
graphers will report to the United
States School of Aerial Photography,
at Rochester. New York, March 10.
COURSE IX <;.%S DEFENSE
i Annville. Pa., March 2.—George
A. Will-wins, a graduate of the class
of 1913. Lebanon Valley College,
who was in the Army Medical Corps
has been transferred from Wash
ington to Johns- Hopkins univer
i sarv, at Baltimore, where he is do
j ing research work in pathology in
j connection with the Gas Defense
J Service.
HOLD BOOSTER MEETING
A booster meeting of the P. O. 8.
! of A. was held in the hall of Camp
717, Penbroojc, Thursday evening.
Another booster meeting will be
held next Thursday evening, at
Penbrook.
THE PATRIOTIC GARDEN
ONE YEAR'S VEUETAHI.E RATIONS I'OR FAMILY OF FOUR
AIHLTS. BY WHICH THE PLANTING OF THE EX
PERI MENTAL GARDEN WAS PROPORTIONED
Summer —127 Days
Yeicctnblc No. Rons Serving!*
•Peas 7 14
Reets, 2 10
Cabbage 15 heads 15
Corn S 40
Turnips t 5
Carrots. J 10
•Kohlrabi t 4
•Eggplant '.... 1 25
•Cauliflower 15 heads 15
Tomatoes ;i Indefinite
Okra 2 15
Sorrel, , 20
Beans, t 50
Lima beans ;t 15
•Squash (crookneck), 4 hills ;ii>
•Peppers 1 25
Total number of servings grown 299
Required total (number of days), 127
Surplus of summer vegetables (to be canned or
dried) 172
Wintcr-7-238 Days
Yeselnble Xo. Rows Serving*
Beets 2 10
Parsnips ;t 15
Salsify, ' ' 4 20
Carrots .... 2 10
Cabbage, 9 heads 9
Rutabagas .7 1 18
Winter squash ; hills 10
Onibns, 4 40
Total number of servings grown 132
Required total (number of days) 23S
Deficit of winter vegetables 106
Hence there must be on hand for winter, in' addition to the above
winter vegetables, the following, canned or dried, from summer's
surtdus:
Corn, .... 25 cans for 25 servings
btring-beans 25 cans for 25 servings
Ureens (beet tops, etc.). 12 cans for 12 servings
Okra (dried), 250 pods for 10 servings
Tomatoes, \ 24 cans for 24 servings
Lima beans (dried), 10 pints for 10 servings
Or a total of 106 servings
Tho summer's surplus shown above provides about half as much
more, which allows a fair margin tor extra service.
The space given over to potatoes allows 402 hills; at a fair yield a
hill a day. or 365 hills in all, should be enough for a family of four.
This allotment of ground, therefore, may be considered sufficient when
the proper conditions of soil have been secured.
Add ' of tho above amounts for each additional member of a
family. .
* Xot considered for canning.
SCIENTIFIC management is ap-1
plied to the bacUyafd by Grace j
Tabor in an 'article entitled, '
I "Making the Smallest Quantity ,
I Reach Farthest," contributed to ;
'The Garden Magazine (Xe\y York).;
jAn experimental garden was con- \
\ ducted last year by Miss Tabor to as- j
i certain how modern scientific meth- I
| ods could be effectively introduced i
i into the patriotic garden. She j
j worked out the essential problems j
j of efficiency in space, succession, and !
quantities of food crops for any defl
| nite ntimber of persons without any
excess going to waste: and she gives
] charts, plans, and data. In the first
place. Miss Tabor gives us her opln- i
ion of the average back-yard gar- !
den. which she considers "the most 1
lamentably wasteful bit of earth on :
I earth." It usually contains, she ;
| says, "string-beans by the bushel,
1 when you can't give away quarts." j
Then there is lettuce daily—when
j half a head furnishes enough for the '
family, and green corn by the score 1
ears—just" when there are plenty
;of beans and beets and the okra is i
[demanding to be cut. She goes on: '
"This is the way it goes, until the ;
gardener is quite out of his mind I
with the worry of it: and like as not
sits down and gives up in despair,
■ letting everything go to seed or to '
j waste—which is usually one and the .
I same. Very few had, up to last:
j summer, arrived at the stage of dry- :
j ing their own beans and corn and 1
] okra. And in addition to the surfeit I
there is usually the famine—the lack
jof certain worthy vegetables that
I have either been crowded out. or ;
J else have not been planted in sufti
j cient abundance to meet the needs :
j of the household.
"So in the last analysis it is not i
| how much we raise, but how much i
j we use. that is important: and in-
I stead oj being smart we are simply!
stupid when we overdo. It is noth- j
ing to boast of that we had 'such a i
world of tomatoes!' if a world of 1
tomatoes was more than we needed,
more than we could use. Rather is I
it something to be ashamed of, for it i
reveals poor management. Prodig- j
ality again: prodigality everywhere!
—our besetting sin. It Is this as- i
sertion. taken as a warning, that
| sounded the key-note of the war
garden that is the subject of this
article. j
"The 'clearly defined ideal* was
j 'just enough and no more!' Deter
mining what would be just enough
: meant, of course, ascertaining, first
of ail, what the year's market would
i t be. In other words, what would the
' family which this garden was to be
•tried out' on cat during the year—
finishing up with next to nothing I
j
FARMER COMMITS SUICIDE
Marietta. Pa., March 2.—William
Y. Stoppard,.aged 50 years, a farm
er. of Chanceford township, coni
; mitted suicide by shooting himself
with a rifle, death being instantane
•! ous. lie was brooding over the
I war and the disposition of his farm
: which he was soon to vacate. His
wife survives, lie used a 22-caliber
! rifle.
FIRST AID CLASS
Xew Cumberland, Pa., March 2. — 1
A class in first aid instruction will
'be organized hero n*xt Tuesday
j evening at the schoolhouse. Dr. 1
Lenker. of Harrisburg, will instruct
; the class.
CONCERT BY GLEE CLUB
Annville. Pa., March 2.-—Lebanon ]
Valley College Glee Club, will give
a concert in the Academy of Music, 1
at Lebanon \on Monday night. Prof.
Sheldon, director of the club, an
nounced the loss of eight members
through enlistment or the draft, but
he has found sufficient talent, to
take the places of these men with j
out serious loss to the club.
ANNVILLE
Irina Rhodes, of Lebanon Valley
College, visited friends at Harris
burg this week.
Miss Dora Zeitlin, of Lebanon
Valley College, has been called
home on account of the illness of
her mother.
Miss Madeline Statton is spending
I several days at her home in liagers-
I town Maryland.
Edgar Hastings, a former student
•; of Lebanon • Valley College, who is
[ | ward master at the base hospital at
: j Camp Wadsworth Spartanburg, S.
' j C., spent part of a ten-day furlough
'! visitins friends here.
1 | Eden Fry spent Thursday at Har-
J risburg.
HUM MELSTO W X
Howard Goodman is spending a
; several days' furlough at home. He
j has been with the army since June,
*' enlisting when the Harrisburg boys
' j were encamped on the Island.
• j Mrs. George Fox spent a day at
? ! Harrisburg with her daughter, Mrs.
■ ! Baird Petts.
Samuel Zeiters. Railroad street
- J merchant, was seriously ill several
I , days at his home.
* i Miss Carrie Schaffner is visiting
her brother. Dr. Daniel Schaffner, at
' Enhaut
i Floyd Light left on Friday morn*
■ i ing for Seattle. Washington, where
)! he has been ordered by the govern
., ment to join the forester."
? Mrs. Oscar Clobbs. of Harrisburg,
II spent Wednesday with pare nts, Mr.
mud Mrs. Eiiaa Earnest.
Ile/t over when the garden products
of next year begin to be available?!
ISo many bushels of potatoes, so
, many measures of beets, and of
! carrots and parsnips, and so on,
through the list, could be roughly
I guessed at. of course; but this seem
jed altogether too vague, too much
i the old liit-or-miss way. There must
be something more definite than this
or it would not deserve to be called
j scientific management.
"Obviously it must be brought
down to the individual, in order to
be exact enough to meet this
and to form a basis of operations.
How many potatoes will an indivi
• dual eat during the year? How
j many beets? And carrots? And
parsnips?—and so on. Sounds ab
, surd, at first, does it not? But act
ually it is simply a problem in rat
ioning which, when solved, is to be-
I coupled up to the gardening plan
j ning problem, and there you are!
"So thus it was all planned, root
I crops and top crops, with pages of
figures set down before quantities
j were finally determined."
As a result of Miss Tabor's plan
1 we have a supply of each vegetable
i based upon a division of the year
into producing months and non-pro
. ducing months. There are approxi
' mately eighteen weeks during which
.each day's supply may be taken
j fresh from the garden, leaving thir
ty-four weeks to be provided for
| with canned, dried, or preserved
j products, or with the strictly winter
: vegetables. The writes goes on:
"The thirty-four weeks, or 238
; days, of winter have eight strictly
! winter vegetables and six canned or
; preserved to be divided among them:
i that is, there must be enough of the
! fourteen to serve seventeen times
| each, or as much more of a favorite
! as may be wanted, with as much less
iof some other. Against this, eight
j times serving each of the fifteen
; available during the 126 days of
, fresh green stuff—this reckoning
'does not include salads, nor gar
j nishes, nor the side issues, such as
j radishes—will carry through the
i summer, roughly speajting. i
"The canning and drying are look
| ed to first, and only when the re
-1 quisite amount is reached is the gar
i den product freely consumed during
the growing season. This does not
i mean any dearth of fresh, green
; vegetables, however, for the list does
I not include salads, but the garden
j includes them the year around, with
j the help of its three frames. Also,
1 it affords fresh kale during the very
' early spring—late winter, actually—
i and spinach also, and there are per
| ennial onions, furnishing the 'seal-
I lions' of early spring, tucked away
iin a corner."
, LANCASTER COUNTY DEATHS
i Marietta. Pa., March 2.—John
Mohn, 77 years old, died from a com
j plication of diseases. He was a re
' tired baker at the Zion Home, Neffs
ville. Three children survive.
,i Henry K. Springer, aged 59, a
prominent farmer of Mount Joy
i township, died Thursday after a
I long illness. His wife, four sons, a
i brother and a sister survive.
Word reached Lancaster county of
j the death at Cincinnati of Mrs. Eliza
beth Diffenderfer, who died after an
i illness of several months. The fam
j ily went west a few years ago. The
! body will be brought to East Pet-
I ersburg for burial. Her husband and
I several children survive.
ROBBER DRIVEN OFF
Marietta, Pa., March 2.—While at
i tempting to rob the home of Ham-
I ilton Weller, at Wrightsville, Thurs
j day night, the would-be burglar was
, greeted with four shots by Mr. Wel
| ler and it is believed that he was
struck. He was about to enter the
kitchen door when discovered. A
posse started'after him and lost the
thief in the dark."
n 11 s
Soft White Hands
follow u*e of Cuticura Soap and Oint'-
ment. At night bathe them with the
! Boap and hot water Dry and rub In the
ointment. Wear old gloves during night.
Sample Each Frc fcjr Mail. Ad-Ire** port
' card: "Cuticura. Dept. 10A, Beaton." Sold
everywhere. Soap2sc. Ointment 25 and 50c.
Austrian Sentenced to
Seven Years For Murder
Lewistown Pa., March 2.—At ar
gument court held hero yesterday,
Eli Lukac, of Burnliam, the Austrian
who shot and kliled Michael Smith,
proprietor or tne Burnham Y. M. C.
A. restaurant, several months ago re
ceived sentence for second degree
murder. The sentence is that Lukac
shall pay the costs of prosecution, a
fine of $1 and servo not less than
seven or more than nine years in the
western penitentiary. The crime of
which Lukac. was convicted was the
killing of Michael Smith, several
months apo while Smith was going
home from his restaurant after
closing for the night. Smith was shot
from an ambush, and next day .Lukac
was found missing and circum
stances fastened tho crime on the
Austrian.
HOME FROM HOSPITAL
Hummelstdwn, Pa., March 2.
Thomas Sutoliffe was brought home
from tho Harrisburg Hospital on
Wednesday night after a five weeks'
stay there. His sister Rebecca Sut-
On Land or Sea,
In Gloom or Glee,
Helmar Cigarettes for me.
ollflfe, Let a Alwoin, and Margaret
Cassel and Earl Martin are.still in
the hospital, they being the re
mainder of the sleighing party hurt
in the trolley accident in January.
Impudent German Told
Police Chief Where to Go
Sunbury, Pa.. Murlch 2. —Because
lie told Police Chief Hanson, of Mil
ton, to go to the place where many
believe the Kaiser will go some day,
Andrew llaefner, of near Milton, was
taken into custody yesterday and will
be held pending the investigation of
his claims that he is a naturalized
citizen. Hanson said ho urged llaef
ner to either register under the alien
enemy law or show his citizenship
papers, when Haefner violently urged
lxim to go to a warmer clime.
FIVE HUNDRED AItTIOI.ES SOLD'
Mechanicsburg, Pa., March 2.—At
the sale of L J. Shrlver, a farmer, of
Ilampden township, on Thursday,
500 articles were sold, with the
amount aggregating about SI,BOO.
The highest price paid for a horse
was $150.50; cow, $129.50, and other
rlock in proportion.
"Lazy Bob Perkins"
For Junior Red Cross
Dauphin, Pa., March 2. —The play
entitled "Lazy Hob Perkins," which
was given by the seniors of th .1
Dauphin High school for the bene •
fit of the Junior Ited Cross branch
last evening in the high school room
was successfully rendered and well
attended. The sum of S2O was real
ized.
The cast of characters was as fol
lows: Hob Perkins, Clarence Per
ickson; Cal Watson, William Shaf
fer; Eleanor Lawson. Helen Ken
nedy; Sydney DeHaven, Georgc,F*i
ser; Sol Hofer, Melvin Strohin;
Jothoni Clese, Lawrence
Oliver Pomery, Seth Dowden; Lais,
Robbins, Mtna Lyter; Jennie Lap
ham, Rebecca Lyter; Mrs. Plnmlcv.
Ruth Ward: Mrs. Laxon, Ellen Fea
ser; Mrs. Partlow, Artie Singer:
Henrietta Laxson, Mae Yoder: quar
tet, Mr. Blacksmith, Ruth Deibler
Jelley Jones, John Lyter; Hon. Dus
ty Doolittle, Susan Jackson; Mi
Rawley, Clyde Garman,