6 SOCIAL NEWS OF INTERE >tory Telling Hour Held This Morning The fourth meeting in a series of ■tory hours was held this morning at 10 o'clock in the gymnasium of 3t. Paul's Episcopal Church. At 9.45 o'clock the enthusiastic "kiddies" met at the corner of Green and Woodbine streets, from which place they paraded to the chucch. Mrs. Harry G. Keffer, president of the Story Teller's League presided at the meeting. "The Tongue-Split Sparrow" and "The Sun Sisters" Were told by Mrs. J. Sharon McDon ald. Mrs. George Watson interested the youngsters with a fairy tale, "The Two Princesses" and another charm ing story, "The Peddler." Games, singing and a social time followed the program. i 'OFF TO TRAINING CAMP Sergeant Carrol B. Davish, staff artist of the publicity department of the Harrisburg Recruiting Station, has returned to his duties after a short visit at Ocean Grove, N. J. He leaves next month for a field artillery officers training camp. Miss Agnes Carberry and Miss Mjiry Carberry, leave Saturday for Columbia to spend some time with their aunt, Mrs. Mary Finegan. Mrs. James C. Deininger, 710 North Seventeenth street, is spending two months with relatives in Hughesville, Pa. DISCONTINUE U!>THEO\S Chamber of Commerce luncheons have been discontinued for the month of August, Secretary Warren R. Jack ion announced to-day. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Mackln and family, of Retreat, Pa., motored to Paxtonia and spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Johnson, of Pax tonia. Mrs. M. E. Winfield, of 706 North Sixth street, left this morning for a two weeks' stay in Atlantic City, 3s\ J. Miss Lillian Hanf, of Colonial Acres, is spending several weeks at Ararat Summit. Captain and Mrs. George P. Drake, of 221S North Fifth street, announce the birth of a daughter, Edith Georgine Drake, Tuesday, August 6, 1918. Captain Drake is now serving In France. r N Keeney's Flowers Beautiful Floral Work 10% less than any other place in town. We will make a beautiful spray for 88e. A handsome wreath for S3.OS. KeeneysFlower Shop Sl4 N. 3rl St. 157 N. Front St. HnrriNburK Steelton ft Palm Beach Suits Cleaned and Renewed Send your Palm Beach Suit along with ra wuwyour shirts and collars or with the familv M ■ry**'"3h< wash and get it back cleaned pressed i liS ant * xe< l U P l'k e new for Sunday. Our 03 wSifiilSffil -process is thorough and does not shrink -LI. &J ki the goods ...... 75c ™ O Don't bother with the family wash this M wmmm hot weather let us relieve you of the drudgery. ELLIS LAUNDRY SERVICE BELL 4570 Steelton, Enoln and DIAL 4650 Woruilejsliurg Deliveries - ' - J j STECKLEY'S | Special 15 Day Sale j | Of Distinctive Footwear | Unusual Reductions 11 SHOES FOR THE FAMILY 1 I People who have patronized this Sale are tell- | B ing their friends, and the interest seems to be £ growing as the public becomes better acquainted 1 C with the unusual-values we are offering. I £ Notwithstanding the lively selling, we still have I your size and width. Our assortments were orig- 1 t inally so large that there is still the widest scope' < £ for making selections. I 1 We bought heavily before the sharp advances in , \ the wholesale markets and our Shoes were marked K away below what we would have to mark them if f we had to buy the same shoes to-day. I f During this Sale you not only profit by our fore- i sight in buying early—you enjoy the generous re -1 ductions from our former low prices. 1 Many of our customers, who are familiar with I Steckley quality, are buying both for present and 1 future needs. The §tyles and shapes are the latest and will be 1 popular next season. | Sizes li/ 2 to 9. Widths AAA to EEE STECKLEY'C 1220 N. Third St. O I STORE CLOSES AT 6 P. M. THURSDAY EVENING, .Dogwood Troop No. 2 Returns After Hike Dogwood Troop, No. 2, Girl Scouts, who were ir. charge of Miss Julia Stamm, scout captain, on a two-day hike to Williams Grove, returned i yesterday. The scouts left Tuesday morning, riding to Mechanicsburg and hiked from there-to Williams Grove. Mrs. A. Carson Stanim and Miss Cather ine Stamm motored over with the hincheon. The girls prepared two meals and spent the night in the open. POSITION IN WASHINGTON Miss Mary Eichelberger, of 167 Bosler avenue, Lemoyne, who has been associated with the dental of fices of Dr. Rhine, Market street, left yesterday for Washington, D. C., to take a clerical position in the Union Railways station. Mr. and Mrs. George Wirt and children, Elizabeth Wirt and George Wirt, Jr., have returned home, 1620 State street, after visiting in Chatn bersburg. Harry S. Smeltzer, of Keystone Bank, ttended the grocers' picnic at Hershey to-day. The Rev. M. O. Pelrce, minister of the First Baptist Church, is among the house guests of Mrs. Mahlon Evanli, at her summer cottage, Chel sea, Atlantic City. TRUCK TRAIN IN CITV A train of forty Army ammunition trucks was camped last night on the city circus grounds. Twenty-first and Greenwood streets. The trucktrain is one of the several which have been passing through the city in the last month. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Kase. of 15 North Seventeenth street, who are summering at their country home, Rocky Place, near Middletown, spent several days at their home recently. Miss Blanche Hillard, of 155 Syl van Terrace, leaves Saturday to visit relatives in Washington, D. C., on her way to Neuva Paz, Cuba. Mrs. E. Curzon Fager, of 25 South Front street,, will leave the latter part of next week to visit Miss Sara E. Cooper, at Asbury Park. Miss Sara Nunemaker, of 382% Crescent street, returns to-morrow from Chicago, 111., where she has jutt completed her course of study at the Moody Bible Institute, of that place. The graduation exercises were held at the school to-day. Miss Marguerite Reynolds, of Derry street, will spend the last week of August at Camp Nephawin, Can ton, Pa. AT THI-; SEASHORE Mrs. Ross Matter, Mrs. Elmer Eichelberger, Miss Violet Eichelberg er a.nd Mrs. W. J. Sheibley are spending the week at Atlantic City. Marvin A. Seely, who recently un derwent an operation in fhe Harris burg Hospital, has been removed to his home, 1450 Market street, where he is convalescing nicely. Miss Helen Dunlap, of 1507 North Second streett, will return home the latter part of next wek after spend ing a month with her family in Maine. Harrisburg Bo of His War Soldiers Want the Lighter Magazines For Relaxation; Tells of Intense Hatred of the Huns A Harrisburg lad In actlve'servlce at the front write* the following in teresting letters home: „ "Over Here, July 2, 1918. "I , haven't anything new to toll you but lust thought I would drop you a few lines to let you know everything Is going well. "It seems very peculiar not to tell you of every move we make, but it it quite out of the question. We have moved, however, since I last wrote and have viewed much new scenery. It is also a little more lively on this sector than on the one we recently left. "I haven't received any mall for almost a month, but we have heard that there is some at our base and it ought to be here in a couple of days. I am receiving the Posts and believe me they are a godsend. Heading matter i 3 as scarce as hen's teeth and though there is generally some at the Y. M. O. A.'s it consists of Outlook, Literary Digests and pro hibition magazines. I can't under stand why some of the well meaning women's clubs don't send some magazines that a soldier can read without the everlasting war articles staring him in the face. We want magazines such as McClure's, Met ropolitan, Cosmopolitan, etc. Not this war stuff all the time. There is plenty of that over here. "1 am afraid it will take another year to the trick, though I hope it will be sooner. I dread winter over here. The very first night I went up the line when I got my baptism of fire, it was a cold and blizzardy night and the snow was blowing about. It was the kind of a night one likes to spend about the tire at home with a good book or a nice girl and hear the wind whistle around the house. I'll never forget that I never was scar ed worse in my life and I thought that if that was war I'd go home JT I could. It seemed so big and imper sonal and lonely to hear that con stant tapping of machine guns and every couple of minutes the roar ot a big gun or see the flash when a shell burst and hear the shrapnel whine as it went through the air. Then see the great red liare in the sky when some sulphur was sent off. The ground was covered with" anow and the wind blowing it at "times and we were crawling out past the support line trench in little groups of four or five with our guns slung on our backs and feeling blue and scared and riot saying a word. Then r 'V5 woul< * "strafe" awhile with his artillery and we would lie in shell holes and look out into the dark sky and think how vast and super human the whole thing was and wish and pray that we could go home. And then we went back towards our dug out after a few hours' work and stopped in what was called a 'soup kitchen.' It was a dugout in the ruins of an old house. In there were two men who cooked boilers full of soup and had a big box full of ei garets and some biscuits. One can oe supplied the light and one of our allies guides took us in. Men sat around on boxes, etc., and'the flick ering candle threw nervous shadows on the wall. We went in and dusted the snow from our clothing and stood our rifles in the corner and had hot soup, biscuits and cigarets and chatted with our ally hosts and decided that the war wasn't so bad after all. We sat there for an hour by the iight of one candle, muddy and gruesome figures in the semi darkness piled up against the wall or squatting ofi the board floor, some snoozing, some silent, and some talk ing and laughing in a low, indistinct buzz. After that we used to look Miss Rebecca Elscheid, of 1810 State street, who is visiting in Wash ington, D. C., for a month will en- Joy part of the time at Colonial Beach, a Virginia summer resort. Mrs. B, IJoyd Harrington, lOfi Chestnut street, and Miss Mary Dun can, of Duncannon, leave this week for a trip to Longport, N. J. Miss Hester Rodney went home to Brookline, Mass., this morning after a ten days' stay among relatives in town. ' Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Keller and small son, Philip Keller, of Colum bus, Ohio, are guests of their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Amos F. Long, of Mar ket street. ' National Committee ' Accepts Eighty For Y. M. C. A. War Service During the present drive for Y. M. C. A. secretaries, the applications of 198 men have been accepted by the State Committee, it was stated to-day by J. B. Carruthers, secretary. Of this number, approximately eighty rften have been accepted for service by the National Committee. The district under the Jurisdiction of this committee comprises the entire state with the exception of Philadel phia and Pittsburgh. "E. J. Stack pole, Harrisburg, is chairman of the State Committee and J. B. Carruthers secretary of the State Y. M. C A is secretary. In addition to the men who have been accepted by the State Committee hundred* of others have volunteered their services. After the State Com mittee passes on applications, they are sent to the National Committee in New York City. I <r^K^ ,DE angle I ij; lenses that i i|i conform to the shape of j your eyes and permit unrestricted vision in all : :|: directions are our 6pec- ji; ialty. Until you have :j; worn glasses fitted with our new Toric Lenses you ; i: will not know what eye- ; :: sight keenness and comfort ; : mean. See us today. Consulta tion free. Small charge for examination of your eyes L cm„' ji | |&ohQl?inlwnbach&KoMi i {OPTOMETRIST* ANO OPTICIANS : > ij; No.f2N.4TM. Sr. | , J Jumusavno PA. TLA.RJRJSBTTRG TELEGRAPH forward to Being into that kitchen ©verrf night. It was cheery and comfortable to sit there in the mud and dirt and sip steaming hot soup cut of tomato cans used as cups and smoke the rottenest cigarets I ever came across, but the finest because of their associations. "Over Here, July 3, 1918. "You asked me for my feelings to wards the Huns. At first we had merely a feeling that they were our enemies and that they were nt re sponsible for what their 'officers per mitted them to do. A very vague feeling which I cannot describe, but nothing of hatred existed. We would have shared oifr last cigaret with prisoners. But now the feeling has changed. It has changed to a feeling of hatred and anger even to see pris oners. They are the most barbar- I ously cruel and fiendish instrument I of hell that exist. All chance of be- I ing treated right has been destroyed by their own actions. The Saxons are really fair fighters. They can be treated as good sportsmen and if we had them to contend with the war would be over, but unfortunately the major part of the German army Is made up of Prussians and Bavarians —the most damnably treacherous and low down humans that exist. They are hardly human for they are not even good savages. You can tell a Prussian and a Bavarian easily. They are the round-headed type with ugly eyes; dirty fighters but afrajd to come over alone; that is why they come in mass formation over the top, because they must feel the contact of their bodies with their fellows to give them courage. "They dislike the bayonet extreme ly and fear it though they are train ed in its use from boyhood. What would you think of an enemy who, when given an hour to bury their dead and bring in their wounded who lay all over 'No Man's Land' and hung on the barbed wire, carry out machine guns in their stretchers and drop them into shell holes and other convenient places for outposts? They thought they were not seen, but not a machine gunner survived, nor I were they given any more armistices. I know of one regiment which no longer takes prisoners. Germans who are unfortunate enough to fall into this regiment's hands are kilted, no matter whether they pray or weep for mercy. "It is all because one day in an at tack on a certain famous ridge, members of this regiment found one of their sergeants crucified to a barn door with German bayonets and was dying when they found him. In Ger man dugouts in the front lines have been found Belgian girls with their throats cut. I was In one German dugout, a massive concrete affair, re enforced with steel rails In which a crucifix had been found with a wire attached leading to an infernal ma chine. I was talking with a man whose comrade had been.shot in the back by a German whose wound# he was attending. The Boche lay wounded on a stretcher and the jock was bandaging him. When he turned his back to get a pair of scissors the Hun shot him in the back, needless to say the man's comrade buried the gun butt in the German's face. In some cases I have seen some of the things. So you can see from these tales the kind of an enemy we face, and yet no one fears him, for right down in his rotten core the average German is yellow. For my part I would sooner be shot than be taken Into Germany as a prisoner. His pistol bullets are nearly all dum dums. Every seventh or tenth ma chine fhin bullet is explosive and his bayonet has saw teeth on the back of it." Charged With Disloyalty, Will Be Given Hearings Before U. S. Commissioner Jordon Richardson, of Shlppens burg, charged with making disloyal remarks, and "Dick" Allday, of Cham bersburg, arrested under the splonage act for alleged prorGermanism, will be arraigned before United States Commissioner N. L. Bonbrake at Chambersburg on Saturday. Richardson although claiming to be a loyal American, was arrested yesterday at Shippensburg, because it is alleged that he said the Presi dent ought to bo shot so that the food shortage might be satisfactorily adjusted. This remark was made, it Is said, while Richardson was in a heated argument on July 16. The ar rest was made by Deputy Martial Harvey T. Smith, of this city. Allday, real estate operator, in surance agent and Democratic poll tican, was also arrested yesterday by Marshal Smith. Given a preliminary hearing before Bonbrake, he was held under $5,000 bail for Saturday's hearing. He was a candidate for Congress from the Seventeenth Dis trict several years ago. Hen Drinks Water Sun Has Heated; Then—but Let the Farmer Tell It Huimnclstowii, Pa., Aug. 8. — Farmer Jeremiah Backlash strolled into a local bank here to-day with the champion hot weather story of the year. "Pretty hot," observed Cashier Ralph I. Deihl, as Farmer Backlash deposited hi& money bag on the counter preparfed to stow the pro ceeds of a horse sale where it would be safe for future needs. "Yep, darned hot," observed Mr. Backlash. "But not so hot as it might be," continued Cashier Delhi. "X read in a newspaper to-day that the apples are actually being baked on the trees in Virginia." "That's nothin' compared to the thing that, happened , out our way yesterday," boasted Mr. Backlash. "Toward the middle of the afternoon one of our old hens strolled up to the kitchen door and took t a drink of water from a rain barrel that had been standing in the sun all iay. Five minutes later site laid a hard boiled egg." Special Council Session; May Appoint Patrolman City Council will meet in special session to-morrow afternoon to pass Anally the ordinance increasing the salaries of a number of water depart ment employes at the niter plant, pumping station and pipe line shops. Mayor Kelstcr is expected to recom mend the appointment of an addi tional patrolman and a police matron. No meeting will be held on Tuesday. Does Our Country Need a New Name? One Writer Calls It "A Country Without a Name" Rwona t Wliy tlio Name ''Articrica" Is Sufficient as Well a.s Appropri ate. By GARRETT P. SKItVISS Professor Ellen Hayes, of Welles ley, writing in "Science" under the t.itie "A Country Without a Name." avers that "that particular federation of American States which begins with Maine and ends with Washington needs a name more than it needs a national flower." This is based upon the idea that It is unjustitlable arro gation to employ the single word "America" to designate the nation whose full official title is "United States of America." Now, it .is custom that, establishes these things, and there can be no doubt that the adjective "American" is universally recognized abroad as well as at home to designate a citizen of the United States o£ America. The noun "America" applied exclusively to the United States has not been so universally used, but the tendency so to use it has increased enormously since the present war began. How the matter was regarded abroad Just before the war is plainly shown by this statement in the eleventh edi tion of the Encyclopedia Britannica (published 1910-11): "Officially the name is "United States of Ameria,' but 'The United States' (used as a singular and not a plural) has become accepted as the name of the country, and pre-eminent usage has now made its citizens 'Americans' In distinction from the other inhabitants of North and South America." It is always desirable, as profes sor Hayes Indicates, that a country should have a name consistinf of a single word, from which a corre sponding adjective can be formed. But we by no means present a soli tary example of an official national name consisting of several words, and what we do when we call ourselves Americans is precisely what inhabit ants of "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" do when they call themselves British, only their case is more complicated than ours, since those who come from Ire land call themselves Irish. "America" is the geographicivlly descriptive or localizing: word in our long national designation, and since its employment by us in its adjective form has met with universal accept ance there can be no objection to our making similar use of the noun, ©t.her States of the new world, whether by preference, convenience or courtesy, have, in this sense, left the name "America" to us. The official designation of Mexico is "Kstados Unidos Mexican os," or Republics Mexicana"; that of Argentina is "R-. publica Argentinia," and that of Bra zil is "Kstados Unidos do Brazil." All the other North or South American States use their own par ticular names. Canada, for instance, has never shown any desire tobear any other designation, and the Ca nadian does not feel, and has no rea son to feel, any Jealousy of the ex clusive use of the word America to designate a citizen of our Republic. So, it does not appear that our country or our countrymen have need of any other names than those which, by their own choice and "thQ com mon consent of mankind" they al ready boar. At home we call our selves Americans and speak of our country as the United States: abroad everybody calls us Americans, and everybody is rapidly learning to dis tinguish our country by the exclusive name of America, so much so that the "American abroad seldom uses the term United States in conversing with 1 Europeans. There remains, of course, an in convenience, and to some extent a source of confusion, especially for the historical writers of a remote future, in the double application of the name America, to designate, flrkt, a con tinent. and, second, a particular part of that continent, but the names of the old continents were often employ ed in the same way. and that, without producing any very serious misunder standing even in subsequent cen turies, when the double designations had ceased. Thus "Asia" meant for the Greeks, at one time, both the great, eastern continent generally and the region centering around Ephesus in particular. Even if it were desirable, it would be impracticable Vo give our country a new name comprised of one word. In the first place, we could not agree upon a choice, even "Washingtonia" would not suit every body. It is true that Bolivia took the name of its deliverer. ISimoln Bolivar, but that was done in the first flush of Bolivar's reputation and of the people's new enjoyment of freedom. We could not imitate the example of the American missionary who bestowed upon the settlement of enfranchised negroes in Africa the name of "Liberia," first, because we are not a new community; second, be cause an invented title, like that, based upon an abstraction, would be ridiculous. Such things must grow up by tra dition and have their roots in the re mote past. "Columbia" would be no more suitable than "America," . and, besides, it is already appropriated. We could hardly choose a name from among the tribal designations of the led men, for none of their tribes or nations occupied more than a limited part of what is now the Unite<r States. We must. in fact, admit that the other countries on our side of the world have had better fortune than ours in this matter. Canada is a euph onious and manageable name, of Mo hawk Indian origin, found by the French at Montreal, and happily adopted for the whole country. Mexico is a Spanish rendering, or combination, of Aztec words mean ing the place of the war god. Brazil seems to have derived its name from the legendary island of Brazil flater identiflod with one of the Azores), he cause it was found to produce a red wood resembling brnsil wood. Chile and Peru are of aboriginal origin. Ar gentina is an invented name based on the Tjit.in word for silver, as Dio de la Plata, the name of its chief rivei*. tpeans silver river in Spanish. Will Send Two Men For Boards in Other States In addition to its quota of eight men. the first city board will send other men to Camp Wadsworth. Spar tanburg, Va. to-night at 9.10 o'clock. They are Martin Aronson, 125 Chest nut street, who was registered at a city board in Chicago, and Hugh P. Calvert, 823 North Third street, reg istered at a board in Akron, Ohio. Harry Hurvitz, 236 North Second street, whcr was inducted for service as a stenographer in the 814 th Aerial Squadron at Washington, D. C., left for duty at 1 o'clock this afternoon, having been inducted by board 1. CHARIiOTTE KEIBLE Charlotte Keible, 1609 Swatara street, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Keible, died at the home of 'her parents this morning. She was 17 years old. Burial will be made at Chambersburg, Saturday morning at 9 o'clock. Miss Eleanor Harrold, East Main street, Mechanicsburg, spent the weekend the guest of Miss Esther Sipe. In Goldsboro. 1 '* s If you need Glasses come to me. Scientific work, re liable goods. NO HIGH PRICKS Sechrist —Optometrist Expert la Eye Examinations 9 N. Fourth St. (2nd Floor) Ovar Viva Years at Thla Address Three Missouri Friends of General Pershing ■* AUNT^utAW^?Wirr' J. C.CROV/DEB General John J. Pershing, comm-ander of the American troops in France, the man on whom world depends to beat Germany in her war against civilization, was raised in Laclede, Mo., a small frontier town at that time. And here are three of the close friends with whom he was brought up. Charles Spurgeon went to the village school with him. as did J. C. Cro-wder. Aunt Susan Hewitt was well known in the town. She was older than the general, but she was one of his boyhood friends. GROCERS' PICNIC DRAWS THOUSANDS [Continued from First Pago. ] keynote of the day's activities for getting trouble and renewing youth. "Many Contests Enjoyed Other athletic contests of various sorts in the morning combined to make the day an interesting affair for all who were present. Score* Participated while many others looked on and cheered their efforts. After a big dinner at noon in which wartime regulations were strictly ob served. amusement lovers went to the park theater where they saw the show without cost. Another carnival of enjoyment will be held to-night. For music lovers there will be a big WITMER, BAIR AND WITMER WALNUT NEAR SECOND | Our Store Is Much Cooler Than the Average Shopping Place August Clearance Sale Dependable merchandise at late season prices. Summer Frocks, Wash Skirts, Silk Skirts, Suits and Coats at August prices. Showing Jersey Dresses, Satin Dresses, Serges and Georgettes; Misses' Suits; Sport Suits, in Mixtures and Oxford; Novelty Top Skirts, in a wide range of Plaids. $25 Natural Pongee Dresses, sizes 18 and $11.50 White Voile Dresses, misses' sizes 42. Overskirt touched with O fine t" ck ed skirt. *7 C embroidery. Special $ 1 Special *PU lD $12.50 Black and White <£Q Q C $28.50 Navy Taffeta Suit, <t -| r\ Voile, size 16. Special .Z/%J Special $16.95 Green and Tan Striped Voile <t9 o cr> *. c Dress, size 18; large white dj 1 A Atf K8.50 Taffeta Su.t ,n <£ 1 A Afi collar and cuffs. 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Special Pl t/D v 1 y WITMER, BAIR AND WITMER i WALNUT NEAR SECOND 1 •- - ' AUGUST 8, 1918. hand concert at the open-air audi torium and for dancers there will be a free dance in the large pavilllon. It is estimated that more than 5,000 people are attending to-day's picnic. It is usual to have a cfowd of ten thousand merry-makers but because of the war, the number has been cut almost in half. Kvery effort was made to comply with food adminis tation regulations In the serving of the big dinner to the thousands of picnickers. No Special Train The effect of the war was seen when, several weeks ago, the request of the association for a special train for Hershey was refusedi In past years it was necessary to have at least three sections of a special train to transport the many thousands to the park. Because of congestion of traffic and use of railroads for wa purposes It was necessary to elimi nate the service. To accommodate the crowds the Harrlsburg Railways Company last night announced that a number of extra cars will be placed on the Hummelstown line. In place of the usual two cars an hour, the schedule was announced as double headers every half hour, or Just twice the regular number of cars. In addition to this there were hun dreds of automobiles which took peo ple to the scene of the festivities. Hundreds of people on the athletlo field at Hershey Park saw an excit ing baseball game between uptown and Hill grocers at the big grocers' picnic this morning. Because of the strenuous nature of the game, it was impossible for the officials in charge of the contest to announce any score. In fact, it is said the game became so Interesting they forgot to score. Both sides claim the victory and it is said that the umpire and the scorer are now endeavoring to decide just who won. The result will be made public, officially, at a later date. There were host of people who watched the two teams clash. There were other hosts who gathered to watch races, swimming contests, polo climbing feats and other athle tic features. While sport lovers watched these various contests, there was plenty of room In the big park for the hundreds of people to get together and renew acquaintance ship. The spirit of auld lang syne pervaded the park and after the ath letic stunts, thousands gathered for the big war-time dinner. tacroft jQj —| _ Gas Ranges Oir*"] All Styles and Sizes, M Up-to-the-Minute \ Features ~lnde nt Mlddletown For Snlf by Your Dfaler and Your Oai Co. STOVE WORKS I make all eye examin ations personally and guar antee every pair of glasses that I fit. ! 12 N. Market Square Second Floor, Front.
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