2 PRICES OF FOOD VARY IN COUNTY Attains Price-Fixing Commit tee Finds Difference in Ar ticles Sold by Grocers Gettysburg, Pa., June 26. —The Adams county price-lixing committee at its meeting to tix the price of ne cessities for this week was up against f; some interesting questions in the way ii variations of prices in different j- i lions of the county. The principal thip?: brought out was the difference in '.lie price of butter throughout the county, and as a result the commlt i.e decided to add bread, butter and to the list of household neces sity on which figures should be placed. It was ■ revealed that some grocers were paying as low as thirty cents a pound for butter, while In Gettysburg they were paying from forty to forty-two cents. A sliding scale was accordingly adopted for this week, dependent on the quality < f the butter, and the retail price will bp from thirty-five to forty-five cents. The committee also reported to Food Administrator Markley that grocers m • i t selling goods below the price tixed by the committee, but the ad ministrator was of the belief that there was no way to prevent this, but that the chief Idea of the price-iix ing was to prevent the retailers from felling above the figures set. SOI,1)1 ICRS ON FURLOUGH * Itlaiu. Pa., June 26. —Four soldiers were home from Camp Meade, Md., on Sunday to spend brief furlough. They were Corporal William F. Hall. yon of Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Hall, Jackson township; Corporal James 1.. Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam H. Martin, of Blain; Miles B. Hritcher. son of Lewis Britcher. of Jackson township, and John John son. son of James Johnson, of Stony l'oint. DISTRICT S. S. CONVENTION Hlain. Pa., June 26.—0n Sunday afternoon and evening the Sunday schools of District No. 7 held a con . \ cntion in the St. Paul's Lutheran Church, in Madison township. Wil liam C. Smith, of Stony Point, presi dent of the district, presided. (HARI.ES R. BErKLGV Orllllciiiril GrtKi Teacher. Member I'Jafttern lon.inerelul Teachers' Association The Seven Principal Reasons Why You Will Want to Attend BECKLEY'S Office Training School 121 MARKET ST. (Kaufman's Store Hlilk.i I. It Hives I\DIVIDUAL I'KOMO- Tl.\, absolutely. •J. The DA* and NIGHT SCHOOLS ItvVllMK A 1.1. YEAH. S. It is the LIGHTEST and FINEST Kill ll'I'KD school in Harrlsburit —■ occupies 30041 square feet of floor space—Every student has ■ modern INDIVIDUAL, desk. • 4 It issues MONTHLY REPORTS of the student's progress to student and parents. 5. Its TEACHERS ARE EXPERTS In their chosen lines. 11. It locates its Rraduatea and many undericruiliiates In excellent po sitions located three students re cently In and sear Harrisburs each at 9100 a month. 7. Every one of Its students will recommend it to jou. GREGG SHORT HAND (Or Pitman) BOOKKEEPING. TYPEWRITING. CI VIAL SERVICE. 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American Plan Hates for June s2.so to $4 dally, $12.50 to S2O weekly N. B. Kennady. Proprietor >.0 no D)lr.s 1 1.KO nn Wkljr. A m. Plan ELBERON M Fireproof Annex. Tennuie Ar. nr. Reach. Cap. 400. Central;open surroundings, opp. Catho lic and Protestant Churches. Private baths. RUNNING WATER IN ALL ROOMS Excellent table; fresh eeiretableii. Windov-a screened. White service. Booklet. 1.1. IUOY, M. D. WEDNESDAY EVENING. SUBURBAN PERSONALS BLAIN George D. Martin, who had an operation performed at the Harris burg Hospital recently, came home Saturday much improved in health. Arthur Morrow and Miss Edna Quigg, of Harrisburg. visited at the former's home over Sunday. William Seiber, of McAlisterville, visited the Rev. J. C. Reighard. William Snyder, who was employ ed at Alliance, ©.. some time ago and was drafted, left Monday to answer the call. G. D. Flickinger returned home from a visit to Cffudersport, Potter county. Mrs. W. H. Martin, who had been bedfast from the effects of a light paralytic stroke, is improving. H I'M MKLSTOW N Jacob Gruber, of Los Angeles. Cal., spent several days with Jacob Brehm here. Llewellyn Musser attended the fu neral of Martin Gipler, at Harris burg, yesterday. Henry Myers, of Tyrone, is spend ing the week with Charles Brehm' and family. MYs. Philip Deimler and son. Landis Deimler. were vfsiting at Har risburg yesterday. JOHN 11. OTT DIES Humnielstown, Pa.. June 26. John H. Ott, aged 26 years, son of William Ott. who lives west of town, died yesterday morning from tuber culosis. The body will be taken to Shippensburg on Friday morning for burial. Mr. Ott recently moved here from Shippensburg. BOYS WRECK 'HOUSE OF HATE' Twenty-seven Arrested at Co lumbia For Destroying Goods in Storage Columbia. Pa., June 26. —Chief of Police Samuel Campbell and Con stable Frank J. Bair have rounded up twenty-seven boys who are ac cused by Theodore L. Urban, a re tired merchant, with having made a rendezvous of a large store room which he formerly occupied, and which in late years he has used as a storage room. The boys, who range in age from ten to seventeen years, are charged with malicious mischief and trespass. At a hearing before Justice McCracken it developed that the place became known among the boys as "The House of Hate," and wlien they gathered there it was for the purpose of defacing the prop erty and scattering goods in all di rections. They tore out gas fixtures and pipes, broke skylights and win dow panes, and scattered buttons, ' lace, embroidery, silk, hosiery, rib bons and other goods found in the pla<;e. which, in late years has been used to store tliem. They also scat tered about ten thousand small ci gars, and destroyed cameras and a number of negatives many of which the owner will be unable to replace. Mr. Urban estimates his loss at from SSOO to SI,OOO. At the hearing ten. of the boys were discharged for lack of evi dence and the other seventeen were held over for a further hearing on June 29. Preparing For Liverpool's Fourth of July Affair Liverpool, Pa., June 26. —All the ' patriotic organisations of the town 'are planning turning out in the big patriotic parade on the Fourth of July in response to the request of President Wilson. The parade is scheduled to start from the Square at 2 o'clock. Red Cross address at 3.30 by Prof. G. H. Weber, of Sum merville. N. C., in the Square. In the evening a band concert, cake and fan carnival will be held in the Square. The are as follows: General committee—Mrs. W. G. Morris. Miss Puera B. Robison, Dr. W. G. Morris. Fan carnival —Miss Elizabeth Coff man, Miss Irene Coffman. Cake walk—Mrs. Jessie Zellers. Mrs. Walter Wert. Mrs. James Hol man. Refreshments —Mrs. J. D. Snyder, Mrs. S. A. Derr. MRS KIVTER KM'KRTAIXS Dauphin, Pa., June 26.—The Ladies' Aid Society, of the United Evangelical Church, was entertained last evening by Mrs. Catherine Kinter, at her home in Erie street. After the regular business meeting refreshments and a social time were enjoyed by all. PICXIC AT "THE KI.M" Dauphin. Pa.. June 26. Last even- Ins the Mite Society, of the Presby terian Church, wound up its meetings for the summer with a Ticnie at "The Elm." A good time was enjoyed by everybody, and those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Freeman C. Gerberich. Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Greenawalt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Williams, Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Poffenberctet Dr. and Mrs. William P. Clark. Mr?. Wil liam Lyter. Mrs. George W. Heck. Mrs. J. D. M. Reed. Mrs. Alice B. Hess. Mrs. H. M. Reed. Mrs. Bion C. Welker, Miss Marpraret Brooks. Miss Mary I'm- Ethel R. Forney, Miss Dorothy" Kline, Bertha Sellers, Miss Mary Poffen berger. Miss Esther Shaffer, Miss Ethel R. Forney, Miss Doorthy Kline, Miss Virginia Wallls, Miss Mary Wil liams. Miss Sabra Clark. Charles Shaf fer. William Shaffer, Donald Shaffer, Russell Reed. Paul Gilday and Wil liam Lyter, Jr. nMIIED DAY ANDNIGHT For Almost a Year. Hair Fell Out. Cuticura Healed. "My hair began falling out and changed from a shiny black to an ugly dead color. , My head itched and burned day and night for almost a _ C > year. I [thought I had dry *'-5 !g7 tetter and the humor got / worse. My hair came out by combfuls. "I was told to use Cuti cura Soap and Ointment andM did. The first application seemed very cooling so I continued using them, and in three months' time my wss completely healed." (Signed) Miss Sarsh Hurst, R. 1, East Earl, Pa., Oct. 3, 1917. Why not prevent these distressing troubles by making Cuticura your every day toilet and nursery soap aided by touches of Ointment as needed ? Saanptc Each Frea by Mall. Address post card: 'Cuticura, Dept. H. Bono*." Sold everywhere. So*p 25c. Ointment 25 and 50c. ANN VILXiK Dr. and Mrs. I. K. Urich motored to Ithacu, N. Y., where their daugh ter. Miss Josephine Urich, is teach ing. On their return home they will be accompanied by their daughter. Miss Helen Sears, an instructor in the Steelton Business College, spent Wednesday evening here the guest of Miss Arabelle Kelchner. The lliree Fink brothers, sons of IC. M. Pink, a baker of AnnvlUe. all of whom are in the service of the United States, are home on fur loughs. Homer is in the Ambulance Corps and is located at Washington, D. C.; Miles Is at Camp Meade. Md., and David in the United States Navy at Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Pox. Mas ter Robert Fox, Mrs. Paul J. Sykes and Ross Walters, of llummelstown, motored to Annville on Sunday and spent a short time here the guests of H. H. Shenk and family, in East Main street. Clarence Derickson, of Dauphin, visited his uncle, Prsf. S. H. Derick son. and family, on Sunday. Misses Minnie and Bertha Spes sard, of Pullman, Oregon, are spend ing several days here the guests of Prof. J. E. Lehman and family. Miss Edith Lehman, of Abington, is spending vacation with her par ents. Prof, and Mrs. J. E. Lehman. Miss Lucile Shenk spent Monday at Harrisburg. George Stein, a Philadelphia law yer, called on his father, George Stein, cashier, of the Annville Na tional Bank, on Monday. Dr. S. S. Hough, of Dayton, Ohio, was the guest of Congressman A. S. Kreider, on Saturday. CITY AD CLUB TO BE LIVE WIRE Officers Elected at the First Meeting of New Or ganization To better promote their mutual in terests. forty-one Harrisburgers in terested in the city business life met In the Central Y. M. C. A. last even ing, formed the Harrisburg Advertis ing Club. Frank R. Downey, mana ger of the Gately & Fitzgerald Sup ply Company, was elected president of the new organization. The other officers of the club in clude A. Boyd Ogelsby, vice-president: E. Fred Rowe, secretary, and J. S. Lowengard, treasurer. An executive committee of five members was ap pointed at this meeting, to include William 'Bennethum, Jr., J. William Bowman, A. W. Armstrong, David Kaufman and Lee Moss. Richard A. Foley and Thomas R. Elcock. of the Philadelphia Poor Richard Club, were present at last evening's meeting to address the Harrisburg men and to present the advatnages of 'advertising clubs. By-laws will be adopted and sub committees appointed at the meet ing of the executive committee next Thursday noon. A silver loving cup to the member who, in the judg ment of the board of directors, ac complishes the most for the club dur ing the next six months was offered by Mr. Foley that interest might be stimulated in the organization an# Its work. Arrest at Gettysburg May Clear Up Auto Thefts Gettysburg, Pa., June 26.—Disap pearance of a number of automobiles in Philadelphia will likely be ac counted for in the arrest here of James Williams. He was arrested on a local cnarge but when given the third degree in the county jail he told of the theft of about thirty ma chines in Philadelphia during the past several months with which he was connected along with his pals. lIKD TRIANGLE LEAGUE Mount Tnloit, Pa., June 26. H. W Love, state secretary of the Y. M C A. Red Triangle League, was in Mount Union last night, delivered an address and then proceeded to organize a Red Triangle League in Mount Union. His hearers elected the following officers wlto will begin an active campaign to interest the citizens of the town in the project: President, C. B. Ewing; first vice-president, J. B. Agnew Jr ' second vice-president. Lawrence Is'! Crum: secretary, W. P. Harley, and treasurer. J. Frank Moore. Commit tee heads will be appointed in a few days. Gladys Gracey, Isabella Postleth wate. Bessie Bair, Idessa Rinker. Mae Jones, Ruth Taylor, Ruth Cunning ham. Helen Taylor, Mary Campbell and Ivan Hou< k, of the teaching force, will leave Monday to attend the sum mer sessions at State College, Pa. EBERSOI.E-RUPP WEDDING Huinmclstown, Pa., June 26. Walter K. Ebersole, of Hummels town, and Miss Clara V. Rupp, of Swatara township, were married on Monday evening at the home of the bride's parents, by the Rev. Edward Rupp, pastor of the Otterbein Unit ed Brethren Church, Harrisburg, and a brother of the bride. Mr! Ebersole is in the National Army : and Stationed at Camp Meade, Md. W. S. S. MEETING Linglcgtown, Pa., June 26.—0n Friday evening a meeting to fur ther the sales of War Saving Stamps will be held in the Union Chapel at 7.30 o'clock. The principal address will be made by Sergeant Russell Davies, who has seen much active service with the British Army in France. LETTER ON AIRPLANE CLOTH Liverpool, Pa., June 26. Mrs. George Kepner has a letter from her son. James A. House, Seventh Com pany, Fifth Regiment Marines, in France, written on a piece of Ger man airplane which was brought to Ihe ground by the "•Yanks." The fabric is about twelve inches square of fine texture and of a linen color on one side and a mingling of colors on the other side. THREE. STARS ADDED Liverpool, Pa., June 26.—Three new stars have been added to Liv erpool's service flag In honor of John Trimmer, George Barge and J. I. Zellers, who left Monday with Perry country's draft quota for Camp Lee Liverpool's honor roll numbers thirty-six and about fifteen of these are in France, and one is on the way to Italy. JOHN H. CASSELL DIES Humnirlstown, Pa., June 26 John H. Cassel died at his home in North Duke street, yesterday morn ing, after an illness of four weoks. Mr. Cassel was 70 years old and is survived by three children* Irvin Cassel. of Harrisburg; Clyde Cassel, of Hummelstown, and Miss Viola Cassel, at home. He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church and of the men's Bible class. Funeral services will be held on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at his home and services will also be held in Zlofi Lutheran Church. The Rev. Herbert S. Games will officiate. gGUUimHURQ IWSIt roLBQItULFg HAPPINESS FOR SOLDIER BOYS Perry County Sabbath School Association Recommends Close Touch of Members Newport, Pa.. June 26.—T0 keep in closer touch with the soldier boys of the several Sunday schools to aid in bringing'lnto theif life in camp, cantonments and foreign fields a lit tle more of happiness, was one of the principal decisions reached at the semiannual convention of Dis trict No. 3 of the Perry County Sab bath School Association, held on Sunday at the Perry Valley, Green wood township, Sunday School. It was further recbmmended that the seventeen schools of the district each arrange to send regularly each quar ter a Sunday school quarterly to its sons in the service. Sessions were held both afternoon and evening, attended by over one hundred delegates and visitors. The principal address of the afternoon session was delivered by the Rev. • T. Uell, of the Newport Methodist Episcopal Church, on "Co-opera tion." At the evening session State Senator Scott S. Leibyvof Alarysvllle, delivered the principal address on "Sunday School Work." Ci. 11. Brown, of Perry Valley, de livered the address of welcome at the afternoon session. Prof. George W. Parnitz. head of the Newport schools, delivered the response. Wil liam Rounsley, of Billerstown, vice president, presided at the afternoon session and in the evening the presi dent. T. V. Miller, of Newport, was the presiding officer. Thomas V. Miller, of Newport, was re elected president of the dis trict for the ensuing six-months term. Other officers elected include: \ ice-president, William Rounsley, of Millerstown;,secretary. Mrs. H. L. Ulsh, of Newport; treasurer, S. G. Sarver, of Newport; elementary de patment superintendent, Mrs. Carrte E. Jeffers, of Newport; home de partment superintendent, W. H. Bit ting, Newport; missionary depart ment superintendent. Miss Sarah Kipp, Millerstown; teacher training superintendent. Prof. George W. Barnitz of Newport; temperance department superintendent, G. G. Brown, Millerstown; secondary divi sion superintendent, Frank Sharer, of near Newport; organized adult bible class superintendent, -Josiah Rowe, Millerstown: rural depart ment superintendent. Miss Margaret Alexander. Millerstown. Mrs. Newton Cox Drowns in Spring at Seven Stars Millerstown. Pa., June 26. —Mrs. Newton Cox, wife of Newton Cox, of Seven Stars, was drowned in a spring near her home on Monday evening at 9.15 o'clock. She had gone to the spring for a drink and was found by her daughter ten minutes later ly ing with her head and one shoulder in the water. It is thought she fell and was knocked unconscious and unable to help herself as her head was considerably bruised. She is sur vived by her husband, one daughter. Ida Cox; two sons, Feaster Cox, at home, and Lewis Cox, a railroad mail Clerk, at Pittsburgh. CRUM-BRANDT WEDDIXO. Marietta, Pa., June 26.—Miss Mary Brandt, of Marietta, was married to Norman H. Crum, of Stevens Hill, by the Rev. John S. Brinser, at the home of the bride. JACOB AIMES DIES Marietta, Pa., June 26.—Jacob Aimes. a native of Greenbank, died from the effects of a stroke while visiting at the home of his daughter at Philadelphia yesterday. He was 65 years of age. The body will be brought to New Holland for burial. FIRST TO ( IT WHEAT I Marietta, Pa.. June 26.—John Ha becker, residing on a farm in Raplio township, will be the first Lancaster county farmer to cut wheat, havins engaged the men and will begin to morrow morning. There are about fifteen acres. WOUNDED ix FRANCE Lewis town. Pa., June 26. —Lieu- tenant A. J. Mateer, of Company M One Hundred and Twelfth Infantry, of Lewistown, has been wounded in France. In a letter written home Mr. Mateer states that he was wounded in one hand by a fragment of shrapnel. While the wound is very painful it is not serious. He gives no particulars but it is likely it hap pened during an air raid. AUTO Rl'N TO HERSHEV Columbia, Pa., June 26.—Colum bia businessmen at a meeting yes .terday planned to have a big auto run on Thursday, July 18, the objec tive point being Hershey, where they will take supper. Every business man who goes will be expected to in vite his clerks and salesmen and the affair is to take the form of a community outing. MISS ENGLE GRADUATES Palmyra, June 26.—Miss Ruth En gle, of Palmyra, was graduated with honors from the New England Con servatory of Music at Boston, at commencement exercises in Jordan Hall at the conservatory buildine yesterday afternoon. She has suc cessfully completed the pianoforte teachers' course, which aims to pre pare young people for educational work. She had as her principal in structor Lee Pattison and has done much practice teaching under direc tion of F. Addison Porter, head of the pianoforte normal department. MOTOR DEALERS TO DISCUSS WAR CUTS Under the auspices of the Harris' burg Motor Dealers' Association deal" ers of Harrisburg and vicinity will meet Friday evening, at 8 o'clock In the Board of Trade Building for 'the purpose of considering proposed lea islatton directed against the passen ger automobile during the continua tion of the war. Calls for the meet ing have gone out over the signature of George G. McFarland, president and J. Clyde Myton, secretary. ' F. W. A. Vesper, president of the National Automobile Dealers' Associa tion, and E. E. Peake, executive sec retary of the same association, secre tary of the Kansas City Motor Car Dealers' Association, and president of the National Association of Automo bile Show Managers, will be present at this meeting. jjf A healthful table 1 | drink that war | jS conditions make §| exceptionally proper ■ I POSTUMI Stars in the Service Flag of Harrisburg On this page are numbered many of the stars that appear in the serv ice flag oC Harrisburg. ' It is a flag of sacred memories; it is emblematic of unflinching patriotism and ar dent devotion to an ideal; it is a record of splendid youth surrender ing all that life holds dear and of fering their all on the altar of hu manity; it illuminates the spirit of chivalrous manhood, it also portrays the patient heartaches, the sincere prayers, the steady flow of substan tial help, fears, hopes and tears of Service Flag of Harrisburg In Honor of Her Fighting Sons Figures in Each Star Indicate Number of Men in the Service ■ -The Office y PetroJeum 1 J Street 1 J Dept. y Plow S I Products 1 / 1 I Store \ J Works \ VT7 T* \S' den Truck Harvester Co. Hmou nrBC S Moorhead Jr V Distributors S j A °* ■ \ \ sportmg C * S *C^"*P^reisburg Supplies Sons Co. Commercial Manufacturing j W Trust Co. f Boiler/^ V. ' ar^ w. O. 7 \ Class S iy Power Hickok Building J c,^nston #<r~v^ri- .TWttr 7 \A.B^u, t / X'"",7 Company f X"" 1 ""/ f Nephew 1 f *" d 1 IM. I.CTHER { f Jnme PasonU 1 / P<"mbln* # MINMCH 1 I in service 1 I Signal Corps I Auto Company Harrisburg ST Keystone 7 1Q 145-155 S. Gas Co. S - Motor Cr Schmidt's ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★ the loved ones at home. These young men came from all ' .sorts of occupations and represent the life forces of the community ' and the future managers of our Jn • dustrial institutions. It was no r slight sacrifice these young men have ' j made for life was sweet to them, ■ j with its exhilarating joys and future 11 possibilities. Love's young dream ■ .enchanted them; ambitions beckoned ■ j them to heights of achievement • they were building for future suc ' j cess in their chosen occupations, i j They went forth willingly, and cheer i: fully, to do wattle in the cause of • j human freedom; armed with a ' I righteous indignation against the de- JUNE 26, 1918 mands of autocracy the would-be world conquerors—the ruthless de stroyers of national freedom, and de termined to crush forever the false principle that "might makes right." These men were Inspired by the Battle Hymn of the Republic— "ln the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea. With a glory in His bosom that transtigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, while God is marching on." Fight on, fight on, brave sons of ' State, You fight for Union strong and great. Humanity with all Its fears. With all its hopes of future years, Is hangnig breathless on thy fate. Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears. Our faith triumphant o'er our fears Are all with thee, are all with thee." Two of the number on these stars have give ntheir lives to their coun try. Guy W. Showers, formerly with E. Z. Gross' Drugstore, who was Killed in France while on an errand of mercy in the Ambulance Corps, and Charles L. Phillips, a youth of much promise, formerly with Bow man & Company, who lost his life at sea.
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