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.
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