Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, August 23, 1918, Page 8, Image 8

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More Penna. Men Obtain
Commissions in the Army
Washington, Aug. 23. —Pennsylva-
nians whose commissions were an
nounced yesterday at the office of the
adjutant general ; include:
First lieutenant, infantry. Aaron
W. Eslileman, Lancaster; second
lieutenant, infantry, James R.
Wheelock, Carlisle;; first lieutenant,
engineers, Henry H. McMeen, Harris
burg; Allen M. F. Stiteler, Beaver;
first lieutenant, engineers, Harry G.
Martin. Altoona; .second lieutenant,
engineers, Harold D. Beisel, Phila
delphia; John P. Downs, Greenville;
John K. Knowlese, Duquesne: George
P. McCombs, New Salem: captain,
ordnance, George H. Miller, Phila
delphia; second lieutenant, ordnance,
John S. Campbell, Jr., Butler;
Charles D. Carey, Lancaster; John P.
Egan. McKecsport; second lieuten
ant. quartermaster, Johni P. Lally,
Philadelphia; second lieutenant,
quartermaster, Harry A. Dewaele,
Philadelphia: James O. McMullin,
Bedford; Bernard L. McNlchol, Phil
adelphia; William T. Means, Brook
ville; Charles F. Stretch, Narberth:
Edward T. Wachter. Pottsville; first
lieutenant, chemical warfare service,
Clement R. Wainwright, Philadel
phia; second lieutenant, chemical
warfare service, Antonio J. DeChe
quier, Ardmore; Garner B. Mann,
Philadelphia: second lieutenant, sani
tary corps, Kenneth E. Appel, Lan-
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When We Are Passing
The eyes of men and women H
alike undergo a decided ■ ; ,
change. The type begins to H
I I blur, the figures begin to ■ ■
dance, we "drop" a stitch.
I I This is nothing to alarm you.
It is a perfectly natural condi
tion. Anyone who can do
without glasses at forty is an
exception. If your eyesight is ■ ~
| i changing, restore it to normal
by wearing glasses, which we
will gladly supply after a care
ful examination. H (
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OPTOMETRISTS &OPTICIANS
! I Nn.eaN.4EST. S% §3
HARRISBURG. PA.
111 MORE PROGRESS [i
ill; The electricians are at icork here I
||§|> now f and it wont he long until they'll \ gjj
be out of the way and the new cases i -fV
silS and fixtures will be here. |ljj|
We're more enthusiastic about this < ill
new store every day. You tcill be,
too, when you see the consummation >
of our plans. I
Bonnets and frocks are being *il
shown noiv to early shoppers in our
temporary quarters on the second ggj
floor. An inspection will be inter- £§|3
esting to you. SHV
MARY SACHS R
210 North Third Street' ffe
One More Week Only
QUR Biggest August Furniture Sale will
positively close August 31st. Prices
will then go back to former prices with
out further notice. If there is anything
you need in the furniture line GETBUSY
make some money by buying NOW.
Don't delay.
BROWN & CO.
1217-1219 North Third Street
Uptown's Big Home Furnishers
FRIDAY EVENING,
caster; Edwin H. Blakelock, Phila
delphia; second lieutenant, air serv
ice, aeronautics, Clarence A. Davis.
Erie; Philip K. Devers, York; John
W. Kurtz. Joanna; chaplain, first
lieutenant, Cyril B. Harris, Phila
delphia.
14 Canoeists Drown
When Boats Are Sunk
New York, Aug. 23.—Latest esti
mates indicate that sixteen persons
are missing after the upsetting of a
fleet of canoes in tow of a motor
boat oft Rockaway Point on the Long
Island shore.
Vincent Russo, who was rescued
from a buoy, said that he had been
on the buoy for ten hours. He said
that five other persons on the buoy
with him had become exhausted and
fell into the water.
Four airplanes from Fort Tllton
were sent out yesterday to scout the
water for missing canoes and sur
vivors, while submarine chasers also
hunted for survivors.
Fifteen canoes were capsized when
the leading craft in the tow turned
turtle,- according to reports which
said thirty to fifty men and women
were thrown into the choppy sea.
The party, with persons in forty
other canoes towed by three other
motor launches, were on tho way to
an outing.
INTERESTING PERSONAL AND SOCIAL NEWS
FAMILY REUNIONS
PROVE A SUCCESS
Local and Sunbury Parks Arc
Scenes of Dare, Hocker and
Romig Annual Gatherings
The local parks have been the so
cial centers within the last few weeks
of several pleasant and successful
family gatherings. Yesterday the
Dare, Hocker and Romig families
held their annual reunions which
many of their members attended.
The reunion of the Dare family
was held at Paxtang Park yesterday
afternoon. The outing proved a de
lightful treat for tho family mem
bers, especially the children.
Pleasures of the park, croquet and
all kinds of out-of-door games made
the'event a delightful one for tho
guests.
The Dare family are well known
in this city where many of the
"Dare boys," as they are familiarly
known, are engaged in business.
Among the family members at
tending the reunion yesterday were:
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Dare, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Dare. Mr. and Mrs. R. L.
| Dare. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Dare, Mr.
I and Mrs. J. W. Morris, Mr. and Mrs.
William Straw, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Dare. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spang
ler, Mrs. Alice Boyer, Mrs. C. A.
ShoeVnaker, Stewart Morris, Mrl
Franklin, Mr. Fink, George Rhine
"hart, Miss Ruth Morris, Miss Rachel
Dare, Miss Alva Dare, Miss Ethel
Dare, Miss Roberta Dare, Miss
Phoebe Spongier. Miss Florence
| Dare, Miss Rosalie Dare, Miss Ethel
j Spangler, Miss Ruth Dare. Miss Mil
-1 dred Straw, Miss Aletha Straw, Miss
Catherine Shoemaker. Raymond
Dare, Jack Morris. 'William Straw,
Harold Shoemaker and Francis Fink.
Hocker Family Gathering
The members of the Hocker fam
ily held their eighth annual reunion
at Reservoir Park yesterday. Many
members of the family were present
to enjoy the jovial fellowship and
good-time sociability with each
other.
Games especially arranged for the
children nnd delightful meals in true
picnic fashion made the day enjoy
able for tho guests. In the evening
the members of the family attended
the concert given at the park by the
Harrisburg Social Orchestra.
Outing at Rolling Green
The Spartan Family Community
spirit and the Scotch Auld Lang
Syne were also manifested in tho
gathering of the Romig family at
Rolling Green Park near Sunbury
yesterday. This was the sixth re
union of the Romig family members.
The outing was unusually well .t
-tended and a thorough success.
The officers of the Romig: Family
Association include: W. H. Romig,
of this city, president; J. Harvey
Romig. of Allentown, vice-president;
and F. W. Getz, of Lewisburg, secre
tary.
Miss Zena Cornman, of Carlisle.
Is visiting her brothers. Wilbert and
Ray Cornman, 118 Hoerner street,
this city.
Mrs. L>. Nickey, of Carlisle, Is vis
iting friends in the city.
J. Dale Fink, of 107 Chestnut
streret, is home from a trip to Me
chanicsburg, where he helped cele
brate the. birthday anniversary of
his brother. Sergeant William Fink,
who is -stationed at Camp Meade
prior to going overseas.
Herman Miller has returned from
a visit to his father. John Miller, at
Elliottson. Cumberland county.
Miss Mary Mishler Stroup, of 1921
Derry street, is visiting in Lykens
and Wiconisco.
Miss Ida Zorger, of 2127 Swatara
street, is spending some time in At
lantic City.
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Keefer and son,
Ellwood Keefer, of 1632 Park street,
are visiting her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Miller, of Detroit, Michigan.
Mr. and Mrs. William Orner and
children, Donald and William, of
Syracuse, N. Y„ are spending some
time with friends here. Mr. and Mrs.
Orner were former residents of this
city..
Mrs. Anna Stetler and Mrs. Walter
Stetler, of New Cumberland, spent
yesterday with Mr. and Mrs. G. M.
Leidigh, of 17 North Fifteenth
street. .
Miss Katherine Peters, of 1916
North Second street, will enter the
Presbyterian Hospital, In Philadel
phia, next month, to take up a
course of nursing.
For Enameled Fvrnitura
Removes dirt, stains •■ d
marks fi'om enameled furni
ture, baby carriages, metal
beds, plate glass, mirrors, etc.
Manufactured and sold by
I Hoover Furniture Co.
1415-19 NORTH SECOND ST.
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HAHBISBTJUG TELEGRAPH
Another Harrisburg Boy
Arrives Across Waters
URM
JAMESON LEWIS
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Lewis, 73 North
Seventeenth street, have received
word of the safe arrival In France
of their son, Jameson Lewis. He
was a graduate of Technical High
school, 1912. At the time he enlisted
he was studying at Wooster College.
Wooster, Ohio. He was stationed
with the Twenty-fifth Recruit Squad
ron at the Aviation Camp, Waco,
Texas, and transferred to the Three
Hundred and Seventh Aero Squad
ron, Charleston. N. C., Camp Greene,
at which place he was acting ser
geant major. He is now in the Three
Hundred and Thirty-second Aero
Squadron.
Arthur Kelley, of Slddonsburg, Is
visiting William L. Shetter, of IB
North Fifteenth street.
Miss Ruth Geyer, of Mlddletown,
will enter the Misses Shlppley's pre
paratory school at Bryn Mawr, the
latter part of September.
Miss Eleanor Elder, of Frederick,
Md., is the guest of her aunt, Mrs.
E. Clark Cowden, of South Front
street.
Major Keiper Entertains
State Reserve Officers
Lancaster, Aug. 23.—Desiring to re
ciprocate the-kindness shown bun
when a visitor to the encampment of
the Pennsylvania reserve militia at
Mount Gretna, Major H. B. Keiper,
president of Lancaster's largest iron
works, last evening entertained its of
ficers from all parts of the state.
More than 200 guests were quartek~j
at the Stevens House ' and Ho'.el
Brunswick. A committee headed by
Colonel John M. Groff and Lieutenant
Governor Frank B. McClain escorted
them -to their hotels. From there
they ve * escorted to the Kiper man
sion, on North Duke street, by the
local reserve machine gun company.
A reception lasted from 4 tto 6
o'clock, during which a flag-raising
took place. At 7 o'clock a banquet
was served, and the band and orches
tra and double quartet from the
Combs Conservatory of Music, of
Philadelphia, furnished music.
Among the guests were General Al
bert J. Logan. General Charles I.
Cresswell, Lieutenant Governor Mc-
Clain. Chief Justice J. Hay Brfcwn,
State Supreme Court; Admiral Mit
chell McDonald, U. S. N.; General C.
T. O'Neill, Adjutant General F. D.
Beary, General H. C. Trexler, General
Willis J. Hullings and Edward E.
Beidleman.
THIRD CITY BOARD
INDUCTS FOUR MEN
City Board No. 3 this morning an
nounced the names of the four men
it will send to Camp Greene, Char
lotte, N. C., for special limited mili
tary service. The men will leave
at 7 o'clock next Friday evening along
with the quotas of the other city and
county boards.
They are James L. Donnelly. 1923
Penn; Alfred John Edwards. 407 Kel
ker; Raymond Edward Smith, 2055
Penn, and Cloyd Richard Burris, 2115
Moltke avenue.
HEALTII OF ARMY IS GOOD
By Associated Press
Washington, Aug. 23.—Health con
ditions among troops in the United
States were very satisfactory during
the week ending August 16, the War
Department to-day announced. The
death rate was 2.71, a decrease from
the previous week. Total deaths
numbered 119.
TO ENLARGE ROLLING FIEI.D
By .4jic'ated Press
Washington, Aug. 23. Boiling
aviation field, on the eastern branch
of the Potomac river is to be enlarg
ed as a base for aero patrol and pro
tection of Washington and to serve
at the same time as an officers' train
ing post. Approval of an expendi
ture of $103,000 at the field was an
nounced to-day.
John C. Hill Announces
His Arrival in France
JOHN C. HILL
Mrs. John C. Hill, 1934 Penn
street, nas received word that hfer
husband "ha arrived safely on for
eign soil. Mr. Hill is a member of
Company I, Fifty-third Pioneer In
fantry. He was formerly employed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad and
a member of the Tabernacle Baptist
Church. He is a son of Mrs. C. C.
| Shook, 1105 Montgomery street.
Practice Folk Dancing
at Reservoir Park
All children from the various play
grounds who are going to take part
in the folks dancing on Romper Day
are to practice Saturday, August 24,
at 2.30 o'clock, at Reservoir Park.
Miss Lillian Kamslcy, the folk
dancing teacher for the city play
grounds, will be there to Instruct.
Special efforts are being made this
year to make the Romper Day ex
ercises a bigger success than ever
before.
A small orchestra, under the di
rection of Harry E. Hammond, has
been provided for the practice to
morrow afternoon.
Harrisburg Couple i
Wed at Red Lion
Miss Bertha Gosnell and C. A.
Slothower, both of Harrisburg, were
married yesterday at Red Lion at the
home of the bride's sister. Mrs. W. H.
Brubaker. The Rev. J. Theodore
Petit, of St. Paul's United Evangeli
cal Church, performed the cere
mony.
After a short wedding trip the
newly-married couple will reside at
210 Hummel street.
VISIT IN VARIOUS PLACES
Mrs. C. S. Scmple and daughter.
Miss Ella Semple, of 22 57 North
Sixth street, left this morning to
spend several vyeeks' vacation with
the former's son, Edward Semple,
in Orb'sonlft, Huntingdon county.
Pa., aa I with relatives and friends
in Altoona and Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Clara Baumgardner, of North
Fifteenth street, is spending three
months in Adams county.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bailey, of
Paxtang, are enjoying a motor trip
through the New England states.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Long and
son of Landlsvllla, motored to this
city Wednesday. Mr. Long returned
home that evening and Mrs. Long is
visiting Mrs. Mardle Nicholas, at 216
Herr street.
The Misses Irene B. Wolfe and
Florence P. Wolfe, bookkeeper and
stenographer for the New Cumber
land Knitting Company, New Cum
berland. Pa., will leave Saturday lor
a week's vacation at the Delaware
Water Gap, Pa.
Mrs. Robert H. Denchey and little
daughter, Mary Alma Denehey, of
809 North Seventeenth street, are
visiting the former's sister. Mrs. Lu
ther Swank, Lancaster.
SINGS AT PINE STREET
Mrs. H. F. Heisley will sing at the
morning and evening services at the
Pine Street Presbyterian Church,
Sunday, Atigust 25.
Germany at Last Admits
Our Strength in France
Amsterdam, Aug. 23.—At last the
German press has given up struggling
against the truth. In a short notice,
which appears In virtually all the
papers, the Identical nature of which
suggests official inspiration, the re
luctant admission is made that Secre
tary Baker's figures regarding the
strength of the American forces in
France are about correct.
One or two papers add the lame ex
planation that their former figures
were based on the position prior to
May, and that the really big ship
ments of men from America began
since then.
William F. Sheridan
Enters Military Service
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WILLIAM F. SHERIDAN
William F. Sheridan, who has been
chief clerk of the Water Supply
Commission of Pennsylvania, here,
for several years, left yesterday for
his home in Philadelphia. He will
leave there Monday, August 26, for
Camp Lee. Petersburg, Va.. to enter
military training.
Are You Knitting
a Great Deal?
Good eyes are very essential to
be able to see the various
stitches quickly and without
effort. If four eyes are being
strained in this direction it
will be well for you to have
them examined by us now
to determine their exact con
dition. Perhaps yon need
glasses; maybe not. We'll tell
you frankly whether you do
" or not.
WILL ASSIST YOU TO GET
THE GLASSES YOU NEED
NOW. YOU MAY PAY FOR
THEM AT INTERVALS
WHILE WEARING THEM
J. S. BELSINGER
Registered Optometrist
212 Locust St. Next Door to Orpheum
DON CARRUTHERS
STILL IN CHINA
Harrisburg Boy With Y. M. C.
A. Work Among Legation
Guard in Peking, Writes
DONALD W. CARRUTHERS
Donald W. Carruthers, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James Bruce Carruthers,
1350 State street, who is' connected
with the Army Y. M. C. A. work for
Legation Guards in Peking, China,
has written tho following interesting
account of conditions in that coun
try:
"Dear Polks: This is the 14th of
July and I imagine the French aro
celebrating the day of their found
ing of the republic—regardless
whether it is Sunday or not. Two
days ago there was an official Chi
nese holiday on the first anniver
sary of tho restoration of the Repub
lic instead of the restoration of the
Monarchy as our friend Chang Hsun
would have preferred last year. He
is still in a foreign legation as a
refugee and the chances for his con
tinuence seem to be quite good. In
looking back over the past year it
seems that the country is much more
in need of help than at the same
time last year even though there
were attempts to restore the mon
archy. To-day there are fightings
within and without the country and
worse than these —Chinese be
traying and selling their country
each day. The forests and mines and
natural resources and railroads that
are available are being pledged in
security for foreign loans to the
neighboring country of Japan for
better or for worse. It will mean
that the country will be so involved
at the time of the payment of the
loans that the securities will have
to be turned over to the creditors.
Foreigners are not selling the coun
try but the Chinese themselves and
these are irresponsible leaders in
power. I am quite surrf it is not the
will of the people and the Parlia
ment (if there were any constituted
popular opinion on the subject that
these indignities should take place)
but it seems that there is little to
prevent such rank corruption. The
Opium combine Shanghai has but
lately received new concessions to
traffic in opium and the ban on
opium has been severely disrupted.
In the neighboring provinces there
are many fields right at this minute
in full bloom with the poppies.
There has been a real sentiment
against this use of opium for the
past ten years and all thought that
they were getting rid of it when lo
and behold the bars are le£, down
once more and the cancerous sore is
allowed to spread.
Much Government Graft
The longer I stay here the more
and more the truth dawns upon me
that Christianity alone will save the
nation l'rom the evils that Infest
it now. I honestly do not see any
other means of saving China —I
mean not in a narrow way but in
all that pertains to the best inter
est of the people, their physical,
social and spiritual development.
Mr. Eddy showed very clearly how
that it was impossible to develop
the national resources until men
were really changed spiritually—so
that the only way to develop the
natural resources which nature has
scattered with bounteous hand is to
begin with the training of the moral
life of the individual, then the family
and finally when the individuals have
been really leached then and not
tjll then will the resources be de
veloped for the benefit of the mass
of people. Profits at the mines now
never reach the main office because
there is so much graft, railroads are
o u ncz
J THE GLOBE'sM i
Initial Presentation of 11
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I THE GLOBE jf
AUGUST 23, 1918,
not built because the money goes:
Into the pockets of the officials and
so one might go on to pointing! out
the litter lolly of trying to make the
nation a great industrial power in
the coming new ago after the wax
unless at the very bottom of their
society are ingrained those essential
Christian principles of simple hon
esty, confidence and justice without
which a last.ng nation is altogether
impossible. China has the message
of Christ and were she to accept and
apply in reality His message then
you and I would witness the greatest
of all modern miracles without any
exception whatsoever.
For Wider Experience
I have been in communication!
with the London office of the Warl
Work council relative to my being,
transferred to Mesopotamia with,
tho Army Y. M. C. A. after Sep-j
tomber 15. 1918. I have not vetj
heard from them concerning this
although 1 have Written several
months ago but tho malls are very
Irregular out here in tho far east.
My reason In planning to go to Mes
opotamia was that I felt that per
haps my half talent might be bet
ter used In a locality where there
wus present a greater moral and
spiritual seriousness than presented
here In Peking among the Marines
who have not yet realized fully that
there aro great moral and religious
crises being worked out before their
eyes in the great field of battle that
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nnHE new Dresses upon which Dame Ln
I'l If Fashion has smiled her approval arc
here —and the way they were re- |
ccived by our salespeople bespeaks your
D instant approval—and desire for owner- \ |
ship.
mj EW Dresses in Serges—Satin and" jj
jjj I Serge Combinations—Tricotines—
and Wool Jerseys —in Navy, gj
Taupe, Deer, Rookie, Burgundy, Brown, j Jjj
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| A WONDERFUL showing of Wom
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well as an assortment of stylish
S stout numbers, so that every woman
may be fitted here. *
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Is upon iho western world, even |
though because of geographical op
portunity we in the far cast arc un
able to see with our own eyes. There
are places where men are facing tho
issues of life and death ami many
are thinking on some of the deeper
problems of one's relation to those
of his spirit and to Ood to himself.
It la in such places as this that men
aro actually hungering and thirsting
for the means of eternal life. This
was my reason or desiring to leaved
for the actual scene of activity not
for my own pleasure for the experi
ence would be tilled to tho full with
all manner of privation in the trop
ical sun and climate which actually
tries men's souls.
Funeral Flowers
10%
less than any Umc
place in town.
Special
A Beautiful Spray . Mq
A Handsome Wreatb,V...tlM
KEENEY'S SHOPS
81-1 N. 3rd St. 157 N. Fron* St.
Harrisburg Stoelton