2 fIMELY NEWS OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND CITY'S SUBURBS YORK COUNTY BOY IN FRANCE Oscar Gladfelter, of Man chester, Enlisted in Ice Plant Company Manchester, Pa., March 26.—Mrs. Harvey Gladfelter, has received a letter from her son, Oscar Glad felter, who is in France, with the Ice Plant Company, No. 301, Ameri ran Expeditionary Forces. Mr. • Iladfelter, although the last to en list from Manchester, was the first to get to France. After being re jected twice for being under weight, !: v ins been accepted by Co. C, KUtl'th RoKinieot, National Guard of I'cnrsylvania. and rejected, when the Vuard was mustered into the I"c.'Sera! and when about to be turned down for the third time, Mr. G'.adfeHer ur;;ucd /Ills case and Won otit through persistence. Y'jo fol'.ov.ing letter was received Is;. Mrs. Gi-iiifeltcr, on March 12: Somewhere In France, Feb. 17, 1918. 1 car Mother: I can hardly be lieve that a month ago I was in the States, as no much has taken place | within the past month, that I will not forget, even for a day, as long as I live. It has always been a hard job for me to write a letter, but it is twice as hard now. I might say we had a very rough trip across and one more trip back will be enough for me, although I did not even get sea sick. Some of the boys sure did feed the fish. We might call our location desir able. if we did not have to walk so far to get to town. Tell the boys to wear their old c lothtng and shoes when they start j their trip across. It is spring time j here, but the mornings and evenings j are very damp and chilly. When we are eating our dinner here, you people in the states are | onlv eating your breakfast. Tell any of the boys who expect to come across, to lay in a three month's supply of their favorite I'igarets, tobacco and toilet articles, as these things are almost impossi ble to get over here. Cake and candy are very scarce, but we can buy jam and French chocolate bars. We are having quite a time learning to I speak French. Every time we want j lo buy anything, we must get out , our guide book, or show them what we want. The French money is easily understood, and the French people are charging us double prices for most everything we buy. Tell Clark lo send me four cans of Tuxedo tobacco, and three weeks later, four cans more and I shall send him a money order for same, also send a half dozen pairs of can vas gloves. Let me know of any of the boys who ar over here and in what com pany and regiment they are. I hope I am the first one from Manchester lo cross the Pond, but I thing, Geo. Kverhart should be over very soon. I met Sam Krout, of York Haven. He is in our camp. Send me a York Dispatch once in a while as a newspaper is a rare thing in camp. My watch was ruined when p wave came up on deck, striking ! me and giving me a salt water bath. | The salt got into the works and ■ the jeweler said he could not repair ! it. I trust you are all well, I have | not been sick a day since I enlisted. OSCAR. Mr. Gladfelter was in the employ l' the Capital City Electrical Com rany at Harrisburg before his en listment. Hi:X.I V.MIN X. GANTZ DIES Florin, Pa.. March 26.—Benjamin N. Gantz, for many years a resident of I'lorin, died on Sunday evening, aged .">! years. He is Survived by his wife jnd one son, Neheniiah Gantz, of I'lorin; also by the following broth ers: Abraham Oantz, of Annvllle; i icorge Gantz, of fan Diego, Cal., and Uanii 1 Gantz, of llighville. The fu neral services will be held on Fri day with a short service at the home ! >•* 0.50 and later services at the Flor- j in United Brethren Church, where the] principal services will be conducted lt' the Mennonite Church. His wife survives. The Right Laxative For The Little Ones— ✓ The natural condition of a child is to bo Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin produces a free move- , happy and carefree. When the girl mopes ment of the bowels witho t griping. A very r.nd is indifferent to school and study, or the Kle required. "d >t • pleasant to take, boy is sullen and refuses to go out and play. A few hour " * fter iu u ° the wUI ** ,tB the child needs a laxative to empty the bowels self again. and stir up the liver. It is an excellent remedy for the mother herself, and for the other members of the But something should be given that will family, in obstinate or occasional consti produce the mult in as simple and nat- pation. for, the relief of headaches, as an aid ural a way aa possible. Harsh cathartic* i n COUJ, Bn d fevers, minor skin eruptions and and physics are neither necessary nor de- a U disorder* where the basis of the trouble sirable. is constipation. ■ Many mothers have found that the com- The druggist will refund the money you bination of simple laxative herbs with pepain pay for Syrup Pepsin if it fails to do as sold by druggists under the name of Dr. promised. Dr. Caldwell'a SYRUP PEPSIN The Perfect JL Laxative NO INCREASE FREE SAMPLES In spite of enormous increased laboratory cost a Dr. Caldwell'• Syrup Pensin is the largest selling due to the War the manufacturer* of Dr. Caldwell'a liquid laxative in America, if you have never uaed it Syrup Pepsin are sacrificing their profits and absorbing and would like to sample it before buying, send your the war taxee so that this family laaative may remain addresa for a free trial bottle to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, at the pre-war price of 50b and sl l large bottle. So 46ft WahingtonSt..ManticelJoJll. If you have babiesin sold by druggists for 26 years. the family send for a copy of "Tke Care of the Baby." TUESDAY EVENING. HABJUSBURG Ofiisftg. TELEGRAPH MARCH 26, lyis News of Mifflin County Soldiers in U. S. Service Lewistown. Pa., March 26. —Frank Kline, in service at Canip Dix, Wrightstown, N. J., has been calling on Lewistown friends. William E. Austin, enlisted in the United States Army, is at present working for the government at St. Paul, Minn. % Robert O'Hara. in the United States Army in Illinois, is improving from a severe attack of illness. The next draft in this county will be largely drawn from the rural dis tricts. Robert Garret is now learning to fly in France. Victor Hinkle, in the United States Navy, is helping to transport troops to Europe. Lieutenant William Haverstick, in the United States service, has been calling on friends here. Clarence Minehart, of Lewistown, has been exempted from the service at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., for poor health. Robert Krepps, of Camp Meade, has been calling on friends here. Two physicians have joined the United States Army from Mifflin county, Drs. Rupp and McCoy. Dr. J. A. C. Clarkson, of Lewistown, of fered Ills services but his age was a couple years over the limit and he was rejected. Frank Giles, of Lewistown, is in France with the United States Army. Patriotic Sons of America to Hold Rally at Liverpool Liverpool, Pa., March "26. The j second of a series of patriotic ral j lies which arc being held by the Pa i triotic Sons of America in Liverpool and vicinity in honor of the Liver pool men who have answered the call to colors and to appeal "to those at home" to give them moral sup port for the successful prosecution of the war, will be held on Friday eve ning, March 29, in the Methodist Church. William I. Laubenstein, United States Army Aviation Re cruiting Service, will be the speak er of The evening. Other special features of the program will be two plays, "Mary Contrary Gives a Oar den Party" and "The Honest Wood cutter" and a tableaux, "The Red Cross Unit," the three to be present ed by Liverpool primary school, un der the direction of the teacher. Miss Puera B. Robison, who will also ad dress the meeting. MISS NETTIE WEAVER DIES York Haven, Pa.. March 26. —Miss Nettie Weaver, aged 3 5 years, died at the York Hospital Sunday morn ing. Miss Weaver is survived by her father, John Weaver, and a brother. Tobias Weaver, both of York Haven. She lived with her uncieifcyJohn Fishel. Funeral serv ices were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock In charge of the Rev. J. A. Gohn. pastor of the United Breth ren Church. GRADE EXAMINATIONS HELP Rlain. Pa.. March 26. —The eighth grade examinations for entrance to the Blain vocational school were held in the Blain borough school building on Saturday. There was nine applicants, namely: Miss Cul bertson, Miss Charlotte Meredith, Miss Mae Henry, Miss Sallie Wentz, Miss Jessie Wolaver, Frank Wentz. Roy Wilt and Ralph Wilt. The board of examiners are: Professor New ton Herßtetter, Miss Grace Zimmer man, Miss Margaret E. Riegel and Miss Frankie B. Dimm. 5i7,000 IX WAR STAMPS Liverpool, Pa., March 26. With the month closing March 10, Perrv county has invested $17,055 in War Stamps, or a per capita investment of 70 cents. Liverpool stands among the "top notchers." Postmaster George I. Thorp is on the job and every family in Liverpool has been personally appealed to with splendid results. Bit; PRICES AT SALE Marietta, Pa., March 26. —One of the largest sales of the season on a forty-acre farm was held at New Greenland when Henry Leaman dis posed of livestock and farming im plements at exceedingly high figures. ! Several horses brought over S2OO, I hay sold at S4O ton, and the aver age price paid for cows was nearly $l3O. MINISTER GOES IX) NEW YORK Marietta, Pa., March 26.-—The Rev. F. L. Teter, for a number of years pastor of the Stony Brook United Evangelical Church, left to day for his new field of work at Wayland, New York. He was ten dered a farewell last night. "MYSTERY GUN" MADE IN AUSTRIA [Continued from First Page.] fired from longer and heavier guns and with a more powerful propellant than we have any knowledge of." From Paris has come the sugges tion that the extraordinary range of the gun is due to the projectile be ing provided with a second charge, which explodes when tile first stage of the (light is completed, giving It a fresh impetus. This theory is scouted by General O'Callaghan, as is also, the variant of it that the projectile is fitted with a propeller, enabling it to continue its Journey when it no longer is driven by the projecting force from the gun. Now Department In ItnlllMieH "It would seem," says General O'Callaghan, "that A new departure in ballistics can alone explain the enormous ranpe, which is three times that of anything hitherto accom plished." One expert estimates that the weight of the projectile is about 380 pounds and that it leaves tlio gun with a muzzle velocity of about 4,000 feet per second, the gun hav ing an elevation of about sixty-five degrees, "which very quickly takes the projectile into a stratum of rari fied air in which resistance is great ly minimized." The strain upon the gun, he says, must be enormous and probably it would be unable to sur vive more than a hundred rounds at the most, the cost of each being 1,000 pounds sterling. All the experts agree that at such a tremendous range even approxi mate accuracy is out of the ques tion and, therefore, the gun is only of use where a target is presented on a vast scale, like Paris. The ob ject aimed at, they say, is rather more moral than material, but in bcth respects the gun is likely to prove less effective than airplane raiders. Washington, March 26. The German mystery gun was lirst iden tilied as probably being an Austrian Skoda, in Associated Press dispatches from Washington last Saturday. Ordnance experts of the allied mis sions here, on hearing of the long range bombardment of Paris, de clared that if the shells actually w :re being thrown a gun, it undoubt edly was the Skoda, as that was the only gun they knew of susceptible to such loiffer range development. They did not consider, however, the possibility of shells being thrown such an unheard of distance by a new gas. I, A BOH MANAtJKII ChOSKN T. ('. Kvniift. of liiincnMer, Appointed to Alt Farmers to Olinln Help l.nnciiNtrr. Pa., March 26. T. C. Evans, of Lancaster, lias been ap pointed farm labor manager for lan caster county to assist in placing emergency workers on farms. He will work in connection with the State Agricultural Labor Service Com mittee, of which Lieutenant Governor McClain is chairman. Mr. Evans is one of fourteen county farm labor managers now at work. Six of these have just been appoint ed They are: Crawford county, W. S. Wise, Meadville; Mclvean county, H. J. Rice, Smethport; Allegheny county, M. J. Grubbs, Pittsburgh; Juniata county. E. T. Nelson, Mifflintown; Franklin county, A. S. MacDowell, Chambersburg, and Northumberland county. J. M. Fry, Sunbury. GEKMAVS HHI.IHSi: SWEDISH STEAMEH By Associated Press Stockholm, Monday, March 25. It is reported that the Germans have released the Swedish steamer. Prin cess Ingeborg. The Princess Ingeborg. while bound for a Swedish port after having un loaded a Belgian relief cargo, was captured by a German submarine off the Skaw on March 16, and taken to a German port. The Swedish Govern ment protested against the capture to the German Government on March 21. PIG SOLI) FOR RED CROSS Blain, Pa., March 26.—Ralph Mil ligan, farmer, held a sale on Friday on the old homestead ,form, near Kistler, which amounted to about $3,000. Two best covrs sold for over SIOO each. A mare with foal brought $260. The Fort Robinson Red Cross aux iliary served meals and did the huckstering at the sale, realizing $55. The pig presented to the auxiliary by Edward R. Loy, of near Center Church, was sold at public sale and was bought by Samuel Flickingcr, of Andersonburg for $8.50. SURPRISE ON lIIUTHDAY llnllfnx. Pa., March 26.—A birthday surprise party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry. Shoop, near town, on Saturday evening in honor cf their daughter. Miss Effie Shoop, who celebrated her sixteenth birth day. A number of young people en joyed the evening by playing games and with music. Refreshments were served. IN FIVE DAYS HUNS RETAKE BUT PART [Continued from First Page.J ENGLISH RESUME RECRUITING TO FILL NEW GAPS I/ondon, March 20.—T0 till the gftps caused by the German ad vance in France, the authorities have decided to place the recruit ing machinery in motion again throughout the country. In order to assist the Government the min srs have placed the organization of their unions at the disposal of ;he recruiting officers. a fearful toll exacted by machine guns and artillery. The fighting on these sectors continues of the most severe character. Germans Suffer Heavy Loss Southeast of Arras the British line has yielded only about three miles at the greatest depth since Saturday. Immediately west of the Somme, south of Peronne, the Germans suf fered heavily in forcing a crossing of the river and seemingly have not been able to advance as fast as they did before Jme river was reached. In the Bapaume region, the Ger mans have driven a. long salient in toward Longueval and have widened It somewhat southward in the direc tion of Peronne. However, unless the salient, is widened still more it may prove a menace to the enemy as the British line still is holding well to the north and south. British and French Fall Back On the low-lying ground between the Homme and the Oise, where the French have come to assist the Brit ish. the Germans have reached Nesle and Guiseard, the British and French falling back under orders, but restating the oncoming enemy forces strongly. Around Cliauny the Germans apparently have made no effort to cross the Oise and strike south and the French north of the Oise probably are falling back to it toward the old line as it existed before the German retreat of last March. t Retire Toward Sonimo In their original attack the Ger mans made their strongest efforts immediately west of Cambrai and between St. Quentin and I.a Fere and drove forward on those sectors 111 the form of the well-known "pincers" operations. The British, however, met this by retiring in the center toward Somme, eluding the jaws of the "pincers" and forcing the German advance to take the form of a wedge with a blunt apex and wide wings. As the battle now stands it is not much greater in length than the line which the Germans attacked, but the enemy now has exposed his front to flank attacks both from the north and the south. In five days the Germans have advanced over ap proximately two-thirds of the ter ritory devastated and made almost a barren waste in the retirement to the Hindenburg line a year ago. Airmen Bag 67 Hon Planes British airmen continue to give strong help to the infantry and ar tillery and the latest statement re ports that they accounted for sixty seven enemy machines, forty-five of which were shot down. The British loss was ten. Kntente aviators also have bombed Cologne and railway stations behind the battle line as well as airdromes and billets. In Palestine British troops cross ing the river Jordan in force north of Jericho are within three miles of Essalt, south of Mount Gilead. They now have covered nearly half the distance between the river and the Hedjas railway to the east. Left Bank of Oise Firmly Held by French Is-Official Statement Paris, March 26. —The batUo con tinues with the greatest violence and the Germans are making still greater efforts along the whole front be tween Noyon and Chaulnes, the war office announces. Noyon was evacuated by the French during the night. The left bank of the Oise is being held firmly by the French. The statement follows: "The battle continues witli vio lence. During last evening and in the night the enemy multiplied his attacks on the whole front between Noyon and Chaulnes. The Frenck artillery, well established in the re gion of Noyon and supported effect ively by our infantry, is retarding the German thrust. Frequent counterattacks have been made and heavy losses inflicte don the enemy "Noyon was evacuated during thV night in perfect order. The French are holding the left bank of the Oise firmly." FRANCE REPORTS DRIVE SLOWING UP [Continued from First Page. 1 compelled to await development of the battle before meeting the onrush with counter measures. There is ev ery sign in to-day's situation that the terrific attack, in which approximate ly one million Germans of all arms arrarent.y are engaged, is being slackened. The resistance of the Al lies seems firmer and the arrival on the scene of French reserves sent up to the southern flank brought wel come support to the British, who sustained the first powerful rush, (irouiitl of I.litle Value The German divisious which began what evidently was intended to be an irresistible 'forward movement were ho cut up that they were re placed by fresh formations. It is these divisions wh'ch have been checked at the positions on which it was foreseen by the Allied general that a stand would be made. The ground over which the fighting has taken place possesses small tac tical value, but it permitted the Al lies to retire in perfect order. It had been devastated by the Germans before they retreated last year and the inhabitants had not had time or means to build It up again. While retiring across what was virtually fcrt to overcome the resistance he encountered. Plmt Itnxll Stopped . When the retiring British reached the Somme and the canal they turned about and gave, battle, meeting re peated and long-sustained endeavors of both Infantry ami cavalry. The initial rush of the enemy seems to have been stopped. Military opin ion generally is that this first phase of the great battle, In which even more troops were employed than In the battle of the Marne, gives no in dication what the result will be. Nevertheless, developments are awaited by the Allies without anx iety. Hummelstown Sunday School Dedicates Flag Hummelstown, Pa., March 26. Zion Lutheran Sunday school hold dedication services for the service flag containing the twenty-eight stars for their boys in the service on Sunday morning. The roll of honor is as follows: Ira Lentz, Ralph Gingrich, Arthur Holler, Harold Yingst, HomerYingst, Chauncey Yingst, Jacob Shope, Earnest Shope, Lester Ebersole, George Burns, Carroll Light, Fldyd Light, Paul Sykes, Thomas • Fox, Russell Hummel, Bertram Hummel, Prowell Mack, Hoover Eby, William Levens, Henry Hanshaw, Edgar Ilaehnlen, Roland Moore, Paul Cas sel, John Burkholder, Walter Breckenmaker, William Bassler, Charles Kaylor, Charles Ruof. CONFERENCE CLOSES Ilaliinx, March 26.—At the closing sessions of the Philadelphia confer ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Philadelphia, assignments were made. The Rev. 11. B. Slider leaves the Halifax Church after a successful two-year pastorate and goes to a church at Bustleton, near I hiladelphia. He is succeeded here *>: ¥ the J? ev ; J - G- Smith, pf Bryn Mawr. The Rev. Mr. Smith has been in the conference since 1911. MRS. MARY WINTER DIES Dunennnon, Pa., March 26.—Mrs. Mary Deise Winter died at the home V er son. Thomas E. Winter, on Sunday evening, aged 91 years. Mrs. SV inter was the oldest resident of L>uncannon and perhaps the oldest person In the country. She was the widow of John Winter, who died sev c-ial years ago, and is survived by two sons, Thomas E. Winter, of Dun cannon, and John Winter, of Harris- I'urg, and one daughter, Mrs. Eliza beth "\\ ilkinson, of Duncannon. Fu neral services will be held at the home of her son, Thomas E. Winter, i n Thursday afternoon at 2 o.'cloek. COLLINS' GREAT EASTER SALE NOW IN PROGRESS O ¥ HP ¥ \ T Greatest Values in Men's, § I I I I I V f I § Women's and Children's Clothing Ever * A M T MmJ IJ A Offered in Harrisburg Before Easter Attend and You Will Save Money Women's and Misses' Suits Women's and Misses' Coats Hundreds of New Spring Suits in any style you could The Spring Coats come in many clever styles and a wide 1 wish for, colors are Navy, Black, Gray, Tan, Pekin, Clay, range of new colors, including Pekin Blue, Gray, Sand, | ,jßose, Sand and others. 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