DISTRICT BOARD MEN MUST ACT Conditions Surrounding Rail xoad Men and the Draft Up to the Appeal Bodies It is the duty of district appeal boards to adjust military needs to the industries is the notice sent to all local draft boards by state draft, headquarters as the result of a tele gram from the provost marshal gen-> Bral calling attention to the situa tion created by drafting railroad tien. The conditions have been tomplained of by the Federal Rail road Commission and seen to be sim ilar to some in the anthracite re gion of Pennsylvania. It is declared that many railroad tnen have been taken who are need ed and that care must be exercised by district boards, even up to the hour of induction of a man into the service, to see that no one is taken whose services are essential. It is also stated that class 1 should pe scrutinized carefully and that the difference between skilled and Unskilled labor, especially after a fear of the operation of the draft ind the advancement of a man in j his trade, must be also taken into Account. The state headquarters are calling ppon all 'ocai boards to prepare for the registration on August 24 of I foung men who have become twen ly-one since June 5. It is estimated that there will be 14,000 of them. To-day .ill boards reported to )tate headquarters the strength l of J Has:; 1. Chamber of Commerce Flag Design Contest Closes at Midnight The Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce flag design contest will close At midnight to-night. The designs on hand will then be turned over to the committee fori (udgment and for the best a prize &f live dollars will be awarded by the chamber and for the second best A consolation prize of one dollar Will be given by this newspaper. •Quite a number of contestants have submitted proposed flags, ail of them drawn or painted upon pa per. Designs left at the Chamber of Commerce offices in the Dauphin building or which bear postmarks sarlier than 12 to-night will be ae teptable, even though they do not leach the chamber until to-morrow. Standing of the Crews HARRISBURG SIDE Plilluilcllihia Division The 111 trew rii st to go after 1 o'clock: 108, 128, 102. 107. 103. Kogllieer f: r 108. Conductor for 132. Frckeman for 128. Engineers up: Getger, Frickman, •jimlenian, Conway, Beinhour, Brod heck.-r, Anderson. Fin men up: Ivahn, Clark. Sheets, Kennedy, Swartz, Eeach, Ellis, Alt poij.iv, Falk. Conductor up: Sta-k Biakemen up: Carroll, Bower, Btrmv, Johnson. Middle Division-—The 227 crew first to go after 1.30 o'clock: 22. 218, 308, £23. 232, 228, 214. Engineers up: Earley, Krepps. Firemen up: Haskins, Switzer, took. Barton, Gilbert, Myers, Ewing, Bwartz, Harris, Benson. Biakemen up: Meas, Eantz. Yard Honril—Engineers for 1-7 C, 2- BC„ 1-UC. 10C. Firemen for IC, 1-7 C, 3-7 C, 12C, I-15C, 23C. Engineers up: Essig, Myers. Boyle, Revie. Ulsh, Bostdorf,. Schlefer. Rami. Firemen up: Walborn, Matter. Joneiy Heed man, Bennett,. Soles, Webodan, Gruber, Lewis, Box, Sham bangb. Kupley. EN ill, A SIDE I'lli ndelpliin Division The 202 crew first to go after 2.45 o'clock: 211. 216, 209. 229. Conductor for 227. Brakeman for 211. Brakeman up: Selgula. I Middle Division —The 247 crew first ' to go after 2 o'clock: 244, 125, 118, 122. Engineer for 118. Firemen for 125, 118, 122. Brakemun fot; 122. Ynrd Hoard —Engineers for 3d 128, Ist 129. 140. Firemen for 3d 129, 4th 129, Ist 102. Ist 101. 'Engineers up: Fentcle, Bair, Brown, Quigley, Potter, Barnhart, Ewing, Hanlon. Firemen up: Ready, Caff, Miller, Bruce, Steffee, Bitting, Perry, Earl, Ready, Lutz, Felix, Morris, Yeage.v, Reed, Danner, Martin, Kline, ' Hall, Wallace, Crtstofaro. PASSENGER SERVICE Pliiliidelplilii Division Engineers up: Osmond Gillums, Lippl, Hall, Pleam, Gibbons. Lindley. Firemen up: Welch, Shive. McNeal, 1 Middle Division Engineer up: ConnC. THE READING 1 The 19 crew first to go after 12.45 ' o'clock: 7, 60, 71, 57. 73, 55. 62, 54, 1 22, 67. 61, 66, 21, 4, 59. 51. 68, 15 8, 64, 53. 11. Engineers for 53, 55, 57, 62, 64, 66, 67, 4. . 1 Firemen for 53, 57. 59, 60, 61, 64, 66. 63, 71. 73, 4, 8, 15. 93. 19, 21, 22. Conductors for 64, 4, 19. Flagmen for 51, 54, 59, 64, 22. Brakemen for 53. 54, 55, 59, 61 64 66, 67. 71. 73. 4. 15, 19. Engineers up: Moyer, Jones, H. Mover, Ream, Linn. Andrew, Lackey, Bowman. Firemen up: Deckert. Leitner, Diir brow. Mereney, Miller. Klngsborough, 4fCellcr. Rife. Yeingst, looker, Bender, Esterline, Harris, Schisslak, Cline! Schreffler. Conductor up: Hetrick. Flagmen up: Donley, Spangier, Keener, Otstot, Hess. Reidell. Koons. Shank. Travitz, Gulden. Brakemen up: Thomas. Weaver. Ryan. Dnugherty, Chronlster, Koons. Epler., Ryan. Gilger,' Wray. long, Darrow, Floyd, Shiremnn, Wel.tr, Burtnett., Spies, Troupe. In ei Cup of INST/WT P? POSTIIM BP No Waste-No Worry QM Less Sugar- No Ml Coffee Troubles- frW ( Delicious Flavor. ITu - THURSDAY EVENING, HAmufiBURO TELEGR3LPH AUGUST 15, 1918. Stationed at French Camp With the 108 th JOSEPH D. WEBER Joseph D. Weber, of the 108 th Field Artillery, has just communicated with his mother, Mrs. Josephine Weber, 42 . North Twelfth street, enclosing his photograph and saying that the bat tery is now stationed att Camp de Meucon, near Vannes, France. 'Grease From Garbage For Shell Explosive Sufficient, grease was recovered from household garbage collected during the month of May from eleven American cities to make the explo sive charge for more than half a million 75 mm. shells, besides millions of pounds of soap and other products, according to figures Just issued by the United States Food Administra tion. The garbage grease was suf ficient lo produce 129,000 pounds of glycerine, trom which nitro-glycerine is made, and for which there is a big acinand at this time. The figures indicate an increase in the amount of grease recovered over the same period last year, par ticularly in Chicago, which showed an increase well over 200 per cent. The entire amount of grease recov ered is an increase of 43 per cent over May, 1917. The returns are from eleven cities having a total popula tion of over 8,000,000. Since the campaign for garbage utilization has been urged by the Food Administration there has been an appreciable increase in the amount Of garbage collected for reduction. This does not. indicate that there are more foodstuffs being wasted, but that the cities are making a more earnest effort to collect all available garbage, instead of permitting it to lie buried, dumped, or otherwise not utilized. A number of cities which have been wasting garbage have tak en steps to install reduction plants, so that the valuable materials con tained in table and kitchen refuse can be recovered. Small Trees in Danger From 17-Year Locusts Trenton, N. J.—"Seventeen-year" locusts will invade sections of New Jersey in 1919, appearing in the south Jersey counties in the third week of May and in the north Jersey coun ties a few days later. This predic tion is made by the state department of agriculture. Nurserymen are war ned to prepare against ravage by the pest. The tenth brood of "seventeen year" locusts appeared in this state in 1902, when large areas in Warren, Hunterdon, Mercer, Somerset, Mid dleday. Monmouth, Ocean, Burlington. Camden, Salem, Gloucester and Cum berland counties were infested The department of agriculture points out that t.he female locusts cause damage by their habit of slit ting, to deposit eggs, the terminal twigs of larger trees and in the trunks and branches of nursery" and other young fruit trees. On the large trees the injury is a mere trimming, as the twigs wilt and break, of per manent weakness, and sooner or later the branch and even the trunk breaks. Where t.he insect appeared in 1902 there should be no pruning of orchards and no young trees should be set out until after the lo custs have disappeared. Shortage of Homes Adds to Civic Woes of Danes l.onrinn —A shortage of homes is adding to the woes of residents of Danish cities. Many brickyards, ac cording to a dane who has just re turned here from Copenhagen, have bad to close, with the result that building virtually has ceased and flat hunting had developed into what might be called flat auctions. If a flat was advertised for rent in the papers, probably a hundred per sons would assemble that day out side the building. No one was ad mitted to the flat, but the caretaker, when he thought a large enough crowd had collected, would throw open his window and say something like this: "The rent of this flat, ladies and gentlemen, is so much a year. Which of you will pay me most for arrang ing matters?" The flat famine has developed to such an extent that the diligent flat seeker studies the death announce ments, proceeds immediately to the resident and assails the mourners with regard to the flat. Wormleysburg Soldier Is Now in France Jill v ■ CLARENCE A. HOUDESHF.U, Clarence Albert Iloudeshell, son of Clarence Houdeshell. of Wormleys burg, is safetly- In France. Houde shell enlisted with Company E, Three Hundred and Fifth Ammunition Train, American Expedition to France, and It is not unlikely that he Is already in the thick of the fight ing. Call 12,000 Qualified For Limited Service Washington. Aug. 15. Provost Marshal General Crowder to-day called upon thirty-four states to fur nish a total ol 12,000 white draft registrants qualified for limited mili tary service for entrainment August 30 and 31. The men called will be sent to three camps, 3,000 to go to Camp Upton, Yaphank, N. Y.; 4,000 lid.l, 11)01—2SS0 UNITED HARRISBUKG. THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1018. . FOUNDED ISTI ~^ 8 " " ' Notion Specials .Six serges colors are MH _ navy and black three H ™ % Mercerized Ri c - Rack silk, in tan and gray three .MA jrfj _ B J __ _ _ braid > f yards to bolt. Fri =::: r rid ay Bargains t MO.UU J , Tape me asures —6O in- Wash Dresses 1 Safe, 'Sh, ,ip ' Friday These Friday specials have proven of great import- „ 4c broken sizes. Friday sale, ance to economical shoppers. You should read them I dV bo sai e ?^^ Ssizes4 $5.98, $7.50, $12.50 rom week to week very carefully and see how many 12c bowman's Th'rd Floor bargains we offer in just the things you need. S a£ lm each Lo ° u haircrim P s ' j 3 Dress Goods " Odds and ends throughout the store priced specially saie°bue! chine oi ' Friday plain"' suiti„gs n< and S for this day ar d indicated by the green cards. 12c the most oooular fabric . r . . of the day very smart and i; i . .. AC lllle cans. Friday serviceable. Friday sale, WEStI vjQOCIS U Uedar Mop Corsets ' Domestics ' yard ' 40 and 44 inrW nlain Triangular shape with . . , „ /- L . JC,, <r ' P , long handle. Friday sale, One lot of fine coutil cor- Gingham suitable for Cube pins, best steel, 48 to and fancy voiles, in a good each sets, medium bust, well- , • . , , cube. Friday sale, , . ... line of shades and designs. CQ„ boned and reinforced over school waists and dresses, sh-nhTrd check Friday sale, yard, . abdomen; sizes 23 to 36. in stripes and plaids —27 10c 8 ,1 Butcher Knive. Friday „l. each, i„ chcs wid , Friday sale , _ T . <M AC varH t J ' Kin gs giant thread QQp . Good quality various p1.5/J y . tor car pct and buttons. Fri -36-inch silk and cotton sizes, slightly rusted. Fri- v V sa ' e > 36-inch colored Batiste in Tussah, navy and white < la >" '• cia ny d pSed° f Friday X 8 C a complete line of shades. grounds with coin spots of 9tr fl1 ATT ' r* ->s T-. Friday sale, yard, ' various colors in two sizes. $1.45 Cretonnes —36 inches Pocket scissors. Friday CO Friday sale, yard, Rj ce Boiler BOWMAN-s-Sec.nd Floor wide fast colors, good sale ' each ' CA —— Coat Hangers st > de for comforts or 9c 36-inch Palm P.each suit- handy° flmify Extra good quality all curtains. Friday sale, yard, Dressmaker's shears, 8 in * s n ? ura ai ? 36-inch Gabardine and sale, each, • styles. Friday sale, each, 90s* inches long. Friday sale, fancy stripes Friday sale, Hnen finish pongee suiting in <M AQ l£. * UC eacb > ar ' 15 seasonable plain shades. DC „. _ ! 39c 69c Friday sale, yard, ■ ■ Art Ticking 3l inches BOWMAN'S—Main Floor. 49c Chamoisette Gloves , ' ' Friday J p r j da ga j. 1 • .. sale, yard, and cotton Tussah, in 10 FRIDAY 4UC Shoes and Pumps g° od shades plenty of SALE PAIR Steel knitting needles, set Women's combination ylrj Two-clasp Gloves, in white, black, mastic and gray. Unbleached sheeting —36 ° a] 4 ,n ,eather case ' Frida y kid pumps full Louis heel 1 he^e are sec onds, from one of the best-known makers inches wide, smooth even ' OA Fridav sale, pair, • 49 C of loves in th , e w ° r ' < ?' ™ h ° se " ame we are permittted round thread _ v ;n wash . ZUC to use on a sale of this kind. Some are imperfect, but the Ihi V. *1 f a SI.OO • Our remnant counter imperfections are so slight that only an experienced per- easi y- <rida >' Lead dress weights. Fri wi 1 1 he iled hi v h son could detect them. If perfect, these gloves would saie, yara, da y sa i ej bunch, Women's white lace can- with all kinds of useful seli for a,most Floor. 20c ? r vas shoes, rubber soles and lengths in voiles, ginghams, heels. Friday sale, pair, percales and linings the ■ l d r* tr i j e1 .0 result of our "extensive Lunch BoXe Draperies Embroidered hemstitched and ey ; whtte or $1.4!/ summer selling—everything nillow cases 45x36 inches Rr?4 *i ass ° rted sizes. at one price. Friday sale, Japanned handy size Remnants of white and ( ~f f [ ' ~ „ . ysa e, card, Women s black calfskin yard, for the school boy or girl. ecru curtain material, also ° Ur 1 eren pa ems. ri oxfords, medium heel. Fri- Friday sale, each, cretonne in good length. Fri- } sa l e each, LC day sale, pair, 19c da y sa ' e . Motor veil pins assort (•>. AO I Z9c f\ 1_ 1£ D • 45c cd colors, glass tops, 3on $1.90 BOWMAN'S Main Flour. Une-halt KriCe card, 4 inches long. Fri- Bowman'a Second Floor da y sa J e card Women's champagne, m j Clothes Basket Lot of very heavy medium ' a" light and dark gray, dark ' colored cretonne—36 inches brown, and patent leather dio-htlv imncr- wide. Friday sale, yard, j pumps. Friday sale, pair, Men's Union Suits fect . Friday sale, each, 28c Hoslerv ton-whiteo? 61^.'Friday <l:9 CQ nA * r>l y sale, spool, Bleached cotton, "sleeve- ZOC Blue ; g r , een 3£ d mulberry 01/ . BOWMAN'S Main Fioo, k sho mercenzecT popTTn -36 m- Men ' s half hose - plain L '2 C .. . , v- . ches wide, for draperies. Fri- ~ , , . . , . . — sleeves, ankle length. Tri- Dolls day sale, yard, black and plain white, Colored celluloid thimbles. day sale, each, " .. double soles, high spliced Friday sale, each, Silks • Q Drcssed _ various styles 49c heels, seconds. Friday sale, 3 C 36-inch Foulards satin T" sH^htl y da maged. hn- Blue> brown, green, rose ,)a!r ' Wood button moulds Fri twill or Punjab weaves, Shirts and drawers and day sale, each, and garnet mercerized Sun- 191/ sale bunch dark grounds with various j union suits _ broken lines, . 7<C c J a ? t mad J as . fo £ d °?f cur- IL /2C ' ' white figures. Friday sale, I , I /v. tains —36 inches wide. Fri- JC vard ,IRht wei S ht cotton - Friday day sa i e vard , . , y ' sale, each, - . *a Women s thread silk Duplex safety pins-black $1 29 en Gases 59c • stcfckmgs white and col- only. Friday sale, card, 50C Bowman's _ Second Floor ° rS - d ° uble S ° leS > hi g h S P lic " 2c 42-inch colored pongee ™wAxr-s mi mi Rattan with leather ed hccls ' wide S arter toPS with a rich lustrous finish, B an oor. trimmings and leather straps Friday sale, pair, Wire hair pins, one dozen five of the season's best a " a round. Friday sale, White Goods paper. Friday sale, shades. Friday sale, yard, M ,-A -i $1.25 j-q .pfl.OU White snow flake Mar- Men's Pajamas uisett , e ' 38 inche^ wide - Fri - Women's stocking - ° dd lot of butto s - all Remnants in a vatie.y of ' Bra., Va.e. day Sale ' piamThi.e and pUin Mack. 12 " useful lengths and weaves, Percales and Madras JQ j nc hes high extra double soles, wide garter S3 C ' J S^jr P^f silk fr ° es ' and pearl but " quality. Friday sale, each, White Pique —36 inches tops, firsts and seconds. sale yard, " tons ' Frida y sale ' each ' 7C. ide ' \ n shor , t lengths. Fri- Friday sale, pair, Collar bands Frid j fIJI OQ '> C day sale, yarcl, each> 98c $1.59 35 c 35c BOWMAN'S Main Floor. I Dinner Set Longcloth, "Bowman's BOWMAN'S Main Floor. BOWMAN'S—Main Floor! " ' Special," 8 yards to a piece. r*— ———————-———————— ___ Bowman's ! rsFfeH? "jOT' Summer Sale Of get August Furniture Sale $12.98 absorbent —lO yards 'to a I J ■* /f | * ~ 7 ~ ✓ piece —lB inches wide. Fri- VI dD HQ ffd H The first two weeks of this sale have far exceeded last C'A QAI- day sale, piece. i-VJLCt.HIIC4.CLc4.iI LJIIII LO year's success. And, considering the factory price ad- Utter 3et> # a1 Art vances since this furniture was purchased, the reductions ; • vl.tU represent values that are really extraordinary. Consisting of large jug Bleached twilled crash The choicest P a tterns and materials of this famous Fifth Floor For Fine Furniture— fery S y S - make of shirts are here for your selction at prices that Quality Construction and Price Reduction A _ sa^e ' ya A ' will average twenty and twenty-five per cent, reductions. */OC OC BOWMAN'S-Main Floor. —IOWMAN'S ItwßU'l ■>. *.fi flj-t ————————o————— , Silks , to Camp Dodge, Des Moines, la., and I 5,000 to Camp Greene, Charlotte, i N. C. Pennsylvania will send 1,4001 1 | men to Camp Greene. ' Anthracite Output Bigger Than Last Year •| Washington. Aug. 15.—Production t| of anthracite coal for the week end > ing August 10 was 1,640,044 gross | > | tons, an increase of 50,590 over the same period last year. The total an- 1 j thraclte coal mined durtng the cal endar year to date was 30,139,948 1 | gross tons as compared with 29,- | 510,311 tons for the same period in j 1917. i Foch Pershing Is Name Given Upstate Youngster I Altoonn, Pa., Aug. 15. A little i waif, born recently at the Blair coun ty home, was not given a name, the steward declaring It was no part of his business to name children. Pennsylvania laws, however, make a name mandatory, so Dr. Frank R. Shomeaker, president of the Board of Health, solved the problem by naming . the babe Foch Pershing. . ' . ' Wounded Pennsylvanian Begs to Stay in France 1 Lewlstovvn, Pa., Aug. 15.—Cheer- 1 ing news received by Lewistown' mothers since the big drive began In France was contained In a letter to Mr. and Mrs. William Young from their son, John Murray Young, 20 years old, of the 112 th Infantry, In •a hospital In southern France. -He writes: "When I fell unconscious from gas late in the second day's fight' Company M was virtually intact. Few had fallen and we were doing fine work." ■ Company M, 155 men and three officers, was recruited here a year i ago and Young shows how they stand. "Mother, they talk of sending me home from here, but nothing doing. It's me for the trenches again. I want to gel a few more of the Huns before I retire." Eight of Young's ( uncles fought In the Civil War and a brother, William Carl Young, 18 years old, Is now In France with the motor mechanics. 3
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