Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, October 10, 1918, Page 13, Image 13

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    Steelton News Items
Borough Reaches Million
Dollar Mark in Drive
Three Hungarian employes of
the Steelton steel works who were
alleged to have accompanied their
refusal to buy Liberty Bonds yester
day with depreciatory remarks about
Uncle Sam and the government in
general, were taken from their occu
pations by Chief of Police Grove and
hailed before Deputy United States
Marshal Smith. Once before the
marshal, the trio subscribed to bonds
aggregating $1,250. Eight other
Hungarians who had similarly re
fused to purchase bonds when ap
proached by salesmen, consented to
change their minds when confront
ed with arrest.
Those who were arrested but
later subscribed to the Liberty Loan
were James Egerszogi, 262 Chris
tian street; John 80gar,484 Mohn
street, and Joseph Fehel, 465 Mohn
street.
The million dollar mark was pass
ed yesterday in the Fourth Liberty
Loan campaign add ilgures will be
posted this morning at Front and
Locus streets, showing the total. A
noon yesterday subscriptions totaled
$990,950.
Influenza Sufferers Are
Facing' Shortage of Drugs
Used to Combat Disease
A complete shortage of certain
drugs much used for influenza vic
tims was threatened to-day among
Tells Woman
Where to End
A Long Search
Middletown Lady Says Friend's Ad
vice Brought Her Good
Results
A neighbor told Mrs. Harriet Rad
ford, of Middletown, near Harris
burg, where to end her long search.
"I had such splitting headaches,"
said Mrs. Radford, "that I felt that
death would be a relief. My stom
ach was in bad shape and I was
troubled greatly with indigestion
and gas. My neighbor told me to try
Tanlac. The first few doses showed
me that I had found the friend I
needed. I am now on my second ;
bottle and X feel almost as we'l as |
eVer. I am going to continue with J
Tanlac until I am completely well I
again. I can't say too much for it." |
Tanlac now is being specially in- :
troduced and explained at the
George Gorgas drug store.
Tanlac is also sold at the Gorgas
drug store in the P. R. R. Station;
In Carlisle at \V. G. Stephen's Phar
macy; Elizabethtown, Albert W.
Cain; Greencastle, Charles B. Carl,
Middletown, Colin S. Few's Phar
macy; Waynesboro, Clarence Croft's
Pharmacy; Mechanicsburg, H. F.
Brunhouse.—Adv.
RBI BRASSIERES
worn in connection with W. B.
*' i Corset*, assure gown-fit perfection
* j*M grace and finish*t bust that the
give finishing touch
Sold L-xclusiveiy in Harnsburg at ttowiua...
. —a To Win?— Bonds. To Lose?— Bondage.
Better. Buy More Bonds NOW. 1
Buy Clothes That Last
More Than One Season
Many men are wearing their last year's
clothes, cleaned, pressed and looking as good
as new. And yet others find their clothes
looking shabby after a few months' wear,
where does the difference come in?
IT'S ALL IN THE QUALITY OF
THE ORIGINAL GARMENT!
\Y hen you buy GOOD clothes you save for
yourself, because the clothes last longer.
Buy Hart SchafFner & Marx and
|J Society Brand All Wool Clothes
<■*s I hat means good service this year and next.
H. MARKS & SON
Fourth and Market Streets
"The Daylight Clothing Store"
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THURSDAY EVENING,
Steelton druggists. So heavy has been
the demand that prime ingredients
prescribed by physicians, sucl* as
phenacdtene, antiseptics, codine and
salol, are almost impossible to get.
The wholesale supply houses in
Philadelphia are said to be swamp
ed with orders and Steelton druggists
are awaiting to-day patiently for
shipments, which must come by ex
press or freight for narcotics are not
permitted to be shipped by parcel,
post.
Boy Scouts Aid in Fight
Against the Epidemic
Steelton Boy Scouts arc out to
'fight the influenza epidemic here,
| their services in this respect start
ling to-day. From now on -i squad
{front Troop 1 will gather statistics
| for the Board of Health to help the,
jlatter in following the disease. Ac-'
curate figures on the malady were
{Unavailable until yesterday so en
igrossed have the doctors been in at
tending to their patients,
j Scouts, hereafter, will secure new
lists of Influenza sufferers daily
.from the local doctors which they
I will bring to fhe health officer en
abling a dally tabulation to be made,
j Influenza cases within the borough
j now total 831. A few of these have
| recovered. Four deaths from pneu
monia haVe been recorded thus far,
each a product of influenza.
Miss Margaret McCurdy
Dies of Pneumonia
After a Short Illness
Following an illness of a few "days,
i Miss Margaret Elizabeth McCurdy,
1 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. McCurdy, Third and Lo
cust streets, died yesterday at 12.20
o'clock of • pneumonia. She was a
Junior at Penn Hall, Chambersburg,
and had come home ill last Friday.
Surviving Miss McCurdy are her par
ents and two sisters, Mrs. S. S. Zim
merman and Miss Anna McCurdy.
Funeral services will be held Sat
urday morning at 9.30 o'clock.
DISTRIBUTE RULES
Rules and regulations governing
the collection of garbage in this
borough, were distributed' yester
day. The regulations were passed by
council several months ago. Yester
day's circulars are printed In Eng
lish, Italian and Croatian.
CALL FOR NEW DRAFT
A call for twenty-three white men
qualified for general military service
was received by local board No. 1
of Dauphin county yesterday. They
will be sent to Camp Greenleaf, Ga„
at a date subsequent to October 1.
STOLE CASH FOR RED CROSS
Connellsvtlle. Pa. Little Johnny
EUenberger, 10 years of age, will
probably be a philanthropist some
day. The police allege that he "lift
ed" $25 from the pocket of a foreigner
and immediately donated sl2 to the
Red Cross. The boy then bought ice
cream cones for every youngster in
the street. ,
Owners of Liberty Bonds of the
present Issue will receive a five per
cent, discount at the store of James
H. Brenner, 6 South Fourth street,
he announced this morning.
[
Little Talks by
Beatrice Fairfax
It is curious, but the things a
mother appears to most highly es
teem in a daughter are the quali
ties she is apt to be deficient in her
self.
If the mother is a good seam
stress or a good housekeeper, or a
thrifty and economical administra
tor of the family fortune, she re
gards these gifts as negligible on
the part of her daughter. She may
go even further, and cherish a
vague If not a positive antipathy to
! her daughter becoming proficient in
any of these things.
"I don't wish Gladys to learn how
to sew," one of them once said to
me; "if she doesn't know how, some
I one will always do it for her—l
know," she finished rather bitterly,
"because I've spent my time sewinft
for all the Incompetents of the
family.
So Gladys was not taught to sew,
Instead she went to "a finishing
school." And took music lessons
and French, though she never really
learned either accomplishment.
"The Spring Song" was her highest
musical flight, but she could never
play it consecutively. And her
'French would not have carried her
farther than ordering lunch in a
cafe where the menu was written In
that language. But her mother
persisted in the belief that if her
daughter did not know how to do
all the useful and interesting things
in which she excelled, somehow life
would be easier for her child.
And doubtless there is one Gla
dys, at least, to every inree fami
lies in the United States. Some
times the ratio is three Gladys to
one family.
The chances for happiness and
usefulness of such a girl are be
ing spoilt, because her mother im
agines she would enjoy being the
parent of "a society girl" or a high
ly successful woman of the world
I and she begins an attempt to hoist
| her daughter to the top of the lad
;der by cutting away the inter-
I vening rulings, the theory being
I that Gladys must reach the top be
cause she Is entirely unacquainted
with the bottom.
There may be no money in the
family; no prospects, nor any con
spicuous talent, but mother persists
!in her fond delusion that if Gladys
pays as" much for her hat as Eu
nice Vanderpool, with whom she
went to school and who is heiress
to a few millions, daughter's
chances somehow or other will ap
proximate those of Eunice.
So the family goes without and
Gladys gets the hat, but no miracle
happens.
Nothing a Year.
For the same reason, Gladys, af
ter completing her course at the
finishing school, does not take up a
profession or go into business. Her
destiny Is to be "a society girl" on
father's salary as a bookeeper, de
partmental chief, confidential clerk
or assistant something or other.
It Is a pretty Clnderella-ish busi
ness, but mother is sure the prince
is going to discover Gladys. The
girl Is rather fed up on the prince
legend, as It has not been so long
ago she stopped reading fairy
stories and taking them seriously,
and she is quite willing to sit
around, look pretty and wait till she
is dlseovere'd.
But as the years go on the prince
proves to be rather a poor Sherlock
Holmes, he doesn't discover Gladys
or make any attempt to do so, and
she gets rather peevish waiting for
him to come and find her.
She notices that the girls \frho
have gone Into business at the same
time she started her career as "a
society girl," on nothing a year,
have nearly all married young men j
whom they met in business and
these young people are now wholly
occupied In buying a house Ui the
suburbs, saving for a Ford or pride
fully relating the baby's latest
trick.
j Gladys no longer feels very much
at home with these yoyng married
I people. Their Interests seem such
j miles away -from hers it is hard to
i get on the same plane with them
:even for conversational purposes.
, She feels superior to them in being
j "a society girl," and yet they have a
i homely happiness that she can't
jhelp resenting. Somehow or other
j the world seems to be passing
! Gladys by.
| And yet she keeps right on being
helpless-—-and like Mr. Macawber,
waiting for something to turn up.
Her mother continues to manage for
her; she still does much of her sew
ing and mending, waits on her and
j apologizes for the delay in the
prince's appearance.
I Mother Responsible.
I Mother having begun the princely
legend, feels it is up to her to make
good with the mythical son-in-law;
j she feels responsible for him and
I his failure to materialize is a
source of keen mortification to her.
To retrieve poor Gladys and her
hopeless prospects, her mother
would cheerfuMy go to v the stake."
Her maternal Instinct warns her
that it is now too late to teach
anything practical to Gladys; the
time has passed when a girl regards
a successful culinary flight in the
kitchen as an achievement. There
is no great adventure in a spoiled,
disappointed girl's making a batch
of doughnuts, or a -cherry pie—
these things have to be taught
young.
Glady's cake invariably turns to
dough; that is the history of the
type. But the great war has given
such as she the chance to redeem
I the spoiled loaf. She may now turn
it into toast, or a pudding, and
serve it with sauce, piquante and
convert what promised to be an ut
ter failure into a partial success.
For it has given "the society
girl" on nothing a year, a chance
do honest work, to redeem the
utter folly of her mother in trying'
to make of her a product of elegant
leisure on an empty pocketbook.
She would have been ashamed to,
embark on a career of usefulness'
without the magnificent excuse of a
world war. That saved her face—
it enabled her to work honestly and
not wholly abandon the "society",
legend, because she was working
for patriotic reasons—Gladys is do
ing her bit.
And after the war the world will
be such a changed place that she
will never be obliged to go back to
that terrible niche she once occu
pied in the family, that of a "so
ciety" Cinderella, waiting for the
prince who never came.
KARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
HARD FROSTS ARE
LATE THIS YEAR
Damage Done Has Not Been
Very Heavy, Say Reports
to the State Capitol
'
fewer in number
I ? an( ' ' eBS harmful
thia J' ear than last
I moreover been
rtsjilJ ports reaching
t ho State Depart
, , mcnt of Agrlcul
ituie. Last year there were very so
lvere frosts early in September—and
| grat damage was done to corn and
tomatoes, especially in northern and
central counties and they were fol
lowed by hard frosts within a few
weeks in southern counties., The
winter also came early and much
corn remained in the field until
Christmas.
r S t frosts of any vigor came
this year on September 11, but were
more or less restricted and not so
severe as those of about the same
time last year. Other frosts were
reported the first few days of Octo
ber. This week's frosts have been
general, but have not been very
harmful as people were prepared
tor them.
Healings Off—The Public Service
Commission has canceled all hear
ings fixed for next week. They
would have included several impor
tant Dauphin county water cases.
New dates will be fixed. This action
was taken because of the influenza
outbreak.
Prisoners Work— Prisoners from
the Beaver and Dauphin county
prisons are now helping out the
state in road construction and re
pairs and Highway Commissioner J.
Denny O'Neil wants .to make ar
ragements with more counties for
the same kind of workers. In Bea
ver county the prisoners are cm
ployed on "a war road" or section
of highway which is essential to link
up improved roads used for moving
army trucks and the government
and state have made contributions
for the work. In Dauphin county
the prisoners are working on a state
highway between this city and San
bury. Prisoners are employed in
more than a dozen counties on alms
house farms cutting corn and pre
paring the farms for the winter as
well as about the barns. The num
ber is larger than ever known be
fore.
Caucus Room fioc* —The state
authorities in turning over to the
State Department of Health the Sen
ate caucus rooip at the State Capitol
for emergency offices during the in
fluenza epidemic have now given up
for business all of the big chambers
Senate and Houses of Representa
tives. Practically every committee
room is used for an office and a
serious problem will be presented
when the Legislature meets to find
room for them as state offices arfe
in seven or eight buildings about
the city. The House Caucus roqm
is occupied by the District Appeal
Draft- Board and the Senate Caucus
room has been used for hearings by
the Public Service Commission.
More Wart Found—State zoolo
gist's agents have turned up some
additional centers of the potato wart
disease in the lower anthracite field
and are now making inquiries in the
upper section. In a number of sec
tions people have agreed to refrain
from planting potatoes next year
to allow the soil to clear from' in
fection.
Many Want to Go. —Applications
for voluntary induction to the three
calls for white men with grammar
school educations to go to State
College, University of Pittsburgh and
Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh for
mechanical training for the Army
were to-day reported at state draft
headquarters as far exceeding the
number required- The call is for
less than 2,500 men, but the head
quarters' advices are. that in many
places the iyiplicants are ten times
the number asked. One board
which has a quota of five assigned
has reported ninety-five applicants.
The calls will not have to be filled
by drafting.
At Washington.—Adjutant Gen
eral Beary is im Washington in con
nection with the establishment of the
proposed state bureau at the na
tional capital to look after the in
terests and welfare of Pennsylvania
soldJiers and sailors and to take
up the influenza epidemic with Army
officials.
Bureau Wins Case.—The decision
"Mother's Tender Flowers"
1 V
VVatch the tongue of your young!
Children droop and wither if you permit constipation
poison to be absorbed into their delicate systems.
Hurry! Give Cascarets to clean the little clogged-up 1
m liver and bowels. Children love harmless Cascarets because
Cascarets taste like candy—only 10 cents a box! Grand!
□ §;
When a child's tongue turns white, breath feverish, stomach sour,
mothers can always depend upon safe old "Cascarets" to gently, yet
thoroughly clean the little liver and bowels. Cascarets are just dandy
for children. They taste like candy and no child need be coaxed to
take them even when cross, bilious and sick. Each 10 cent box contains
directions and dose for children aged one year did and upwards.
AS Age Advances the Liver Requires
fcll '* occasional slight stimulation. CARTER'S LITTLE
•> LIVER PILLS correct CONSTIPATION.
Ap&m' \ I I* ia* Genuine
J .feu™
Colorless or Pale Faces Otter's Iron Pflb
of the Superior Court in the neuro
pathic test case handed down a few
days ago establishes the right of the
state to regulate that branch of
medical treatment. It was claimed
that because no drugs were used
that it did not come under the state'
medical bureau. . The court holds
that it does. A number of practition
ers will be affected.
Maitlnixl Files.—E. M. Maitland |
has tiled a substitute nomination
for the Prohibition ticket in Lycom
ing county..
t T p to Uncle Sam. —Highway
C ommissioner O'Neil yesterday in
formed a committee of the Johns
to^ n , Chamber of Commerce which
asked his approval of a bond issue
for an improved highway from
Johnstown to Westmont that such
matters were for the Federal capi
tal issues committee.
Bellefonte Visitor.—H. H # . Keller,
prominent Center county lawyer, was
here to-day on a visit.
At Meeting.—Dr. J. George Becht
and the state educational officers are
at Pittsburgh for the meeting of
the committee on legislation; which
is drafting the teachers' payroll.
Armory Opened. Adjutant Gen
eral Beary to-day ordered the state '•
armory at Corry opened for use as an
Inliuenza hospital and directed that
when the shipment of tentage and
cots to Duzerene county is finished
that arrangements be made to care
lor any western counties which may
be affected.
Horn Withdraws. William H.
Horn has filed a withdrawal as Town
Meeting. Washington and Prohibition
candidate for Congress in the Fifth
District. • i
Appointments Made. C. W
Walker, of Devon, and Daniel P. Ob
linger, of New Hope, were to-day ap
pointed trustees of the Spring City
State Institution, succeeding Jesse C.
Hall and John O. Gilmorc. T. Milton
Lutz, of Llanerch. was reappointed a
trustee. Dr. G. A. Reed, of Erie, was
appointed a trustee of the State Hos
pital at Warren. Patrick Cawley was
appointed alderman of the Nineteenth
Ward, of Pittsburgh.
Object to Kates. The boroughs of
Norwood and Prospect Park to-day
filed complaints with the Public Ser
vice Commission against the new tire
hydrant rates of the Sprigfield Con
i nTty~" 9 f P liTuule i"i> li m? ' b flu^'
declare that the advances In rates
will mean extra expense, respectively,
of $1,654 and $1,735.70, for which no
provision has been made and which,
owing to the .burden of taxes which
must now be imposed would be. unjust
additions to the borough budgets.
There are thirteen complaints of simi
lar character pending and they were
to have been heard next week, but
will be postponed owing to the influ
enza epidemic. An engineering con
ference is to be held by interested
parties. C. 'Z. Robbins, of Blooms
burg. to-day complained that the new
rates of the Bloomsburg Water Com
pany are from 33 to 150 per cent, of
an increase.
Spoke at Scrnnton. Dr. Joseph
Kalbfus, State Game Commission sec
retary. spoke to Scrariton sportsmen
at a conference last night.
At 100. The Executive and State
departments have gone 100 per cent,
on the Liberty Loan.
Grip I'iitlcntK. A 1 Shome and
Lester First, of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth's Department, are ill
with influenza.
Commission Sees Governor. The
State Commission on Agriculture,
which held one of its sudden session
here to-day, spent some time talking
over the farming situation with Gov
ernor Brumbaugh. Tt held a short
business meeting with four members
present.
On With War Is the
Washington Program
Was! ting-ton, Oct. 10.— President
Wilson, as Commander-in-Chief of
the Army and Navy of the United
States, is going ahead with- vigor
ous prosecution of the war, regard- j
less of the peace overtures made by '
the Central Powers. In high respon- !
sible official quarters it was asserted 1
that the President's mind was fully 1
miade up regarding the course he |
intends to pursue and that he did
not purpose to take the slightest I
chance in dealing w}th those who I
have undertaken to speak for Ger
many.
It is not the expectation of the
Administration that the situation I
now existing in Germany will reßult'l
in any immediate unconditional ac
ceptance of the terms laid down Dy
the President. If the reply of PriHCe
Max is negative, the war of course
will go- on to a finish.
To Avert Disaster
Foe's Only Aim Now
Washington, Oct. 10.—Germany's
plea for an armistice is founded,
American and.allied military officials
here believe upon recognition in Ber
lin of the fact that the German
army organization in France is disin
tegrating unde rhte campaign of
Marshal Foch.
These officers regard the move of
the German chancellor as a despe
rate elventh-hour attempt to escape
serious military disaster.
Dredged Up Buried
Treasure From Water
Rochester, N. Y. Buried treasure
has been discovered in Charlotte Har
bor.
, It has been dug up from the bed of
the Genesee river. It is neither gold
ingots, silver bars. Spanish doubloons
nor pieces of eight. What the treas
urehunters found was ordinary lead,
but they resorted to the modern al
ehemy and turned the lead into gold.
The treasure hunters were not real
ly treasure hunters, but the crew of
the that was constructing the
turning basin in the Genesee river,
were putting- the finishing
touches on the Job last Thursday and
were working near the east bank
when a large, heavy object was
brought up from the bed of the river
which proved to be the keel of a
racing yacht. The workmen, realiz
ing the value of their find, stripped
off the lead and hunted up a Junk
meVaT' ° pal? 1 them 1300 for the
The keel is no doubt the relic -of
earlier days when yacht racing waS
popular off the mouth of the Gene
see. It "probably happened that when
*The Live Store" "Alway Reliable" I
Wear Clothes That Do j
You Credit I
Strangers must rate you by your
dress and general appearance-they cannot
know who you are or what your ability is. So be par
ticular to wear the clothes that will do you the most
credit—Society Brand.
If they cost a little more—what of
it? They will more than repay the difference
in wear and style because there is nothing better in fab
ric, fit and workmanship. What you gain through ap
pearing able and alert in the eyes of others is extra value
that the price does not cover.
Society Brand Clothes E
are being worn by the men who
are making America industrially great. Be
one of them. Come in and begin now. The label iden
tifies every Society Brand garment—and pledges the
maker to satisfy you as long as you wear the clothes.
304 MARKET ST. HARRISBURG, PA. I
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OCTOBER 10, 1918.
the owners grew tired of the sport,
Junk not being worth then what it is
now, they'simply took the boat over
to the east bank and abandoned it.
Time and the spring freshets did the
rest. ,
Several anchors and a 300-foot chain
have also been salvaged, but the crow
is not expecting any more J3OO prizes.
BOY SURVIVES 33,000 VOLTS
Decatur, 111.—Although 33,000 volts
of electricity passed through his body,
George Hendrian. aged 13. still lives.
He was playing near an elevated high
tension traction line wire with some
some other boys, who told him If he
touched it a queer noise would be
heard. He climbed the pole and did
it. There was an illuminating flash,
a report like a cannon cracker, and
Hendrian fell to the ground, ten feet
below.
SNAKE AS HAT CATCHER
Manhattan, Nov. Newspaper office
cats are under the ban as mice and
rat catchers in the office of the Man
hattan Magnet here. Instead the edi
tor has a large bull snake to war in
the rodents. The snake sleeps in a
box and comes out at intervals for
reconnaissance. Occasionally ho
startles visitors by crawling around
their feet ab they stand at the coun-
ter.
i
Stomach Misery
Get Rid of That Sourness, Gas
and Indigestion
When your stomach Is out of or- -
der or run down, your food doesn't
digest. It ferments In your stomach
and forms gas which causes sourness,
heartburn, foul breuth, pain at pit
of stomach and many other miserable'
symptoms.
Mi-o-no stomach tablets will give.
Joyful relief in live minutes; If takeit'
regularly for two weeks they will
turn your flabby, sour, tired out
stomach into a sweet, energetic, per
fect working one.
You can't be very strong and vig
orous if your food only half digests.
Your appetite will go and nausea,
dizziness, biliousness, nervousness,
sick headache and constipation will
follow. „
Ml-o-na stomach tablets are small
and easy to swallow, and are guaran
teed to banish indigestion and any or
all of the above symptoms or money
back. Kor Bale by 11. C. Kennedy and
all leading druggists.
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