2 SWEETS PLENTY FOR CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY SEASON Tasty Nut Concoctions Made Up For Shortages Just how much Christmas joy witl toe taken out of the holiday season this year was estimated variously by confectioners and candy manufac turers of the city to-day. Some estimutes claimed that only 50 per cent, of the normal supply of candles will be on the market, while others ran as high as 80 per cent, of the normal supply for the holiday sea son. And while city retailers said they were not receiving nearly all the goods they have on order, they agreed that the candy situation for Christmas will not lie serious. One retailer made very clear the munufacturars' situation. Candles containing a large percentage of sugar, such as chocolate creams, jellies and gum goods, have neces sarily been cut down. Stick candies, hard cut drops, ulso clear toys, he said, can scarcely be purchased at all. Many Nut Candles On the other hand, it .was pointed out, candies containing fruit assort ments and nuts, almonds walnuts and pecans are being manufactured in large quantities. Manufacturers have been forced to make these changes in their products because of the 50 per cent, basis requisitions on which they have been placed. As another consequence of the shortage, manufacturers are limit ing the supply of candies in bulk, and producing more goods in pack age form. It is thought that this is being, done in order to keep the trade ofv fancy package goods, on which manufacturers base their re P" utations, tlio supply bcintf too small to fill both the bulk and boxed goods market. Situation Improves Again, many chocolate goods are being supplied to army training camps and forces abroad. A promi nent retailer in the city stated that while on a trip to Boston he observed a shipment of 400,000 pounds of high grade chocolates for one army camp alone. In one week, he said, a Trenton concern, not considered very large, made shipments to *ho Navy amounting to $36,000. ihe Hershey Chocolate Company re ceived an order this week for fifteen carloads of almond bars for sol diers abroad, one million pounds in nil. Although the sugar situation has been severe to candy manufacturers, thes: - conditions should not last long, said this retailer. The supply of j raw material in sugar is enormous at the present time, and with the re duction of the demand from Europe caused by the war, and with increas ing shipping facilities, the situation will be relieved within several months. And in the meantime, candy re tailers are not worrying that there will be a great shortage for the t'hristmas trade, for, practically all agreed that the situation is not that serious, and others expressed the belief that the situation at present would he somewhat relieved before the holidays. Church Controversies Never Come to Good End, Judge Warns Litigants "These church controversies and litigations never come to any good end," President Judge George Kun- Icel remarked near the close of a hearing in court this morning when the Rev. George Popovich asked for an injunction against officials of the St. Nickolas Servian Orthodox Church, of Steelton, alleging that he had been illegally dismissed. The priest when on the stand said that the trustees called a meeting of the congregation for August 25, on the same day that it was to be held, which he contended is contrary to the church rules. The meeting was held, however, and he attended it and was dismissed, his resignation becom ing effective October 25. He claimed that a majority of the members of the church who had the right to vote on his dismissal were not present and were not notified of the meeting. These factd were denied by the president of the church council when he was called to the stand. Finally Judge Ivunkel continued a further hearing of the motion for an injunc tion until December 16, stating from the bench that the court could not wait until the case wis prepared. Efforts to find among the scores of Serbians in court some who were members of the church, and could tes tify, resulted in much confusion and several times Judge Kunltel was compelled to call for order. In continuing the case he expressed the opinion tjiat the trouble should, be adjusted by the members and the priest together with his successor without having another court hearing. It developed during the hearting to day that the cause of the dissention was the action of the Rev. Mr. Pop ovich In leaving the borough without giving the required notiiie to the church officials and without their con sent according to a resolution which was approved in February. During his absence a child died and was buried without the priest of the par ish in charge. This act was charged against .him at the meeting in Au gust and was the reason for his dis missal church officials said. Courthouse Notts Common I'leu* Court Common (Pleas Court sessions will open on Monday morning when cases which were to have been heard during the week of September 30, will be dis posed of by jury trial. Tipstaves named for this session follow: John Pottroff. R. W. Green, M. F. Graham, Harry Fullchner, Samuel Johnson, H. C. Winters, Jacob Stouffer, Harry Everhart, Samuel Young, Nonh nock ens, John Battis, William Writer. I.lhrnrlnn Sick David Young, county law librarian, is ill at bis home in North Second street. Divorce Grnntcd —The court sign ed a divorce decree separating Lucy from John Hatchett. Wills Flctl —The wills of Pharles H. Snively, late of Williamstown, was probated and letters issued by Act ing Register James G. Miles to |Anha M. Gilbert, of Orange, N. J. The will of' Agnes Mudd was probated and let ters issued to Zelda Mudd, a nephew. .[ . . • j \ A nourishing { f delicious drink 5 ! -for all -fche ;! -family.— \ \ INSTANT | POSTUM f I J j 1 SATURDAY EVENING, PRAISE TROOPERS FOR HEROIC WORK Officials Express Apprecia tion For Services Perform ed During Epidemic WUkcN-Ilarre, Nov. 16.—As a means of expressing to members of the four troops of State •Police the apprecia tion of the Harrtsburg officials for ' the during and glorious work per formed tjy-t'he trooper| during Ihe epidemic of Influenza, Superintendent G. F. Lumb is making a tour of in spection of the troops, calling the men of each troop together and per sonally telling them that their re cent heroism and work has not gone unnoticed by their superiors nor by j the executive officers of the Common wealth. Superintendent Lumb and Deputy Superintendent Leon S. Pitch er held an official inspection of Troop B at Wyoming and the super intendent expressed the state's ap preciation to the men immediately following. , Six privates and one sergeant of the State Police gave their lives in the performance of humanitarian duty during the epidemic, Superintendent Lumb said. Three of these. Sergeant Remaley and Privates Brown and Jackson, were members of Troop B at Wyoming. Superintendent Lumb said that the State Police exemplified the finest ideals of military and police duty during the recent epidemic and that the work they performed throughout the state will never be forgotten by those in the service or by the public of the afflicted communities. Men of each nf the four troops performed all kinds of service, the superintendent, said, some serving as nurses, others assisting physicians and nurses in caring for the sick and cling, some drove automobiles for the workers on their hurried trips and some even per formed household duties and prepar ed food for families in which the mother and father had been stricken and the children were either too young or too sick to care for them selves and the patients. At some places the troopers found horrifying conditions and one instance is cited by the superintendent, where his men entered a home where a vic tim had been do.ad for two days and little children sat crying on the floor alongside the body, while in another room the mother of the children lay at the point of death with no one to care for her or the children. It was such duty as this that the State Po lice performed with cheerfulness, bravery and unparaßeled devotion to duty, Superintendent Lumb explain ed and bis visit to Troop B is the only means he can find to show the men of the local troop that their no ble work at Exeter, Glen Lyon, Pitts don and other towns of Luzerne county has not been overlooked by their superiors. Officially, too, a memorial service to the memory of Troops Brown and Jackson and Ser geant Remaley will he held. With seven State Troopers victims of tile "Flu" and two others murder ed while in the performance of their duty, the casualty list Jif the force for the first ten months of 1918 num bers nine men. Superintendent Lumb explained and added that the loss of life in the service is a cause of deep regret and sorrow to the men and of ficers of the State Police. Trooper John Dargtis, of Inkernian. for set - eral years before his entry-into the service a noted athlete, was shot .and killed by a negro near Struthers, Ohio, early in the spring. Super intendent Lumb said lust evening that I lie State Police lived up to their repu tation as man-hunters and that the search for this negro who murder ed Dargus extended all over the na tion. A constable In a little town in Alabama chanced to receive one of the circulars and recognized the lesemb lance to a negro who had arrived there the day before under another name. The constable wired to Uar risburg: "I have your man, have you the $200?" Sufficient to say that the constable received the $2OO and the murderer was recently convicted of first degree murder at St.ruthers, Ohio, and is awaiting execution. The other State Trooper murdered during the year was Andrew Czap. of Swoyerville, who was killed near Tide. Indiana county, about five months ago by an Italian highway man, who had held up other Italians following a poker game and robbed them of $1,500. This Italian, like the Ohio negro, was caught and convicted. League of Nations Is Subject of Heated Debate in the Senate Washington, Nov. 16. The plan for a league of nations to enforce peace, as proposed by President Wil son in his fourteen principles and indorsed hy allied statesmen, was criticised and approved in debate yes terday in the Senate. Senators Walsh, of Montana, and Owen, of Oklahoma, both Democrats, praised the plan and commended the indorsement of it by Premier Lloyd George and other Britisli leaders in recent speeches, while Senator Poin dexter, Republican, of Washington, declared such a league would neces sitate revision of the federal consti tution and virtually would bring about the abrogation of the Monroe doctrine. Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania, Republican, characterized the plan as a "novel idea" which should be care- ! fully considered. He also inquired as to whether the league was not being advocated for the purpose of further ing free trade. PEACE AND PLENTY CONTRIBUTES TO FUND Through an oversight, a contribu tion of $l5 by Peace and Plenty Lodge, No. 59, to the War Work Fund, was not announced last evening. Deaths and Funerals CHARLES STRINE Charles Strine, aged 73 years, died yesterday at the home of his brother, Isaac Strine, 618 Boas street. Funeral services will be hdld at the above residence next Tuesday morning at 10.30 o'clock, the Rev. Dr. Miller, pas tor of the Penbrook United Brethren Church, officiating. Burial will be made in the East Harrisburg Ceme tery. Mr. Strine Is survived by several brothers and a sister living in thli I | city. CLARA 1.. NISLV Clara L. Nisly died at the Harris burg Hospital, Thursday noon after a brief illness, aged 60 years. She bad resided at 2406 North Sixth street. She win a sister of Mrs. E. K. Frazer, Isaac L. and E'mer K. Nisly, of this city. Ira TT. Nisly. of Penbrook: Mrs. F. 1,, lstndis. of Womelsdorf; Warren Nisly and Mrs. Emma Cassel, of Hum melstown. Funeral services will lie at the home of her brother. Isaac Nisly. 2406 North He -ond street, Monday 'morn ing at 10.30, the Rev. Clayton Smuek ;er offielatlnng. she having been a I member of Stevens Memorial Metho dist church. Private burial in East Harrisburg Cemetery. MRS. EMMA WEAVER Suffering. from a complication of diseases, Mrs. Emma Weaver, aged 40 years, wife of C. A. Weaver. 1314 North Second street, died late last night at her home. Funeral services for Mrs. Weaver will he held at the North Second street home next Toes day afternoon at ' o'clock. The Rev. Mr. Stanley, the Oosnel Hall singer! will officiate. Burial will he made In the East Harrisburg Cemeterv. A mother and aged grandfather survive. nn. C. E. MONTGOMERY DIES Chnr'es C. Montgomery, n druggist end prominent citizen of Chambers burg. wss fount unconscious on the streets Thursday and died after a day's treatment In the Harrisburg Hospital. Mr Montgomery was suffer ing from Influenza, kldnev trouble find a general rundown condition from overwork. IP m~Nßwa otthel \ s / Railroad Idlers to Be Spurred to Work Railroad men are to be stopped from laying- off for trivial reasons. This is the word that has gone out at Altoona by William A. Blackman, representing Driecter General Mo- Adoo, who expressed his amazement when reports show an intolerable condition which must be remedied at once. Altoona officials of the Pennsylvania explained to Mr. Blackman how the absence of work men employed to do certain Import ant tasks hampers the work. Offi cials are advised to discipline chronic loafers and the labor unions are urged to exclude men from mem bership who fail to do their duty. Railroad Notes Near Mapleton while train No. 608 over the Pennsy main line was passing and taking water "on the fly," Brakeman Charles Gindes, twenty-four, of Altoona, was struck by wajter splashing from the trough with such force us to knock him down. He was founu unconscious by a train crew, his clothing soak ing wet. For the first time since its incep tion women will be admitted to the railway mail service. On account of the rigorous nerve-racking duties required in postal cars, it is said, according to instructions sent out by the authorities at Washington, tnat women who enter this branch of Uncle Sam's postal system will not be employed on the road but will lie assigned to the office jobs and work at the large terminals. The new Mallet engines on the Reading are so long that the com pany may have to build an addition to the north end of its shop in this city in order to take care of them when general repairs are found nec essary. The employes in the passenger train service will don their new win ter uniforms on Sunday, November 17 - y Extra fare now charged on a few fast trains between New York and Chicago, New York and Washington and elsewhere, may be eliminated by the railroad administration. Director General McAdoo is consid ering removing these special charges, it was said, although action may not be taken for a week or more. Fireman Yocum of the Middle divi sion freight service, paid an involun tary visit to Lewistown Junction yes terday morning. Yocum was dead heading from Uarrisburg oa train No. 3 and falling asleep failed to get off at his own home town 12 miles east of Dewistown, Effective Monday, November 18, a slight increase is to be made in the rates covering shipment of pack ages and marketing in baggage cars on passenger trains, in the Phila delphia suburban territory reached by the lines of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company^and the Phila delphia and Reading Railway Com pany. Railroad Director McAdoo is named as the defendant in a suit for $20,000 damages, brought at Camden by the heirs Michael Pallndino, who was killed on August 30, by a West Jersey and Seashore Railroad train at Atco while riding his motorcycle. McAdoo is named as defendant in accordance with a recent ruling made by himself. TO GET HALF PAV Dependants of employes of the City School District, who are now in mili tary or naval service, will reecive one half of the sadary of the employe, the city School Board decided at a meet ing yesterday afternoon, after receiv ing an opinion from the board's so licitor, M. W. Jacobs. The directors also authorized the purchase of a mo tion picture machine for Professor John H. Bickley, supervisor of special activities, aiid approved the appoint ment of two teachers. LAST FLASHES OFF THE WIRE By Associated Press Paris. German officers, guilty of having ordered or of having them selves committed shocking crimes in Lille and the region of the North, are to be tried by court-martial. Basel. The Galician leader, Ds zynski, has been appointed Premier of Poland and charged with the for mation of a cabinet. Basel. Prince Adolplie of Schaum bourg-Lippe, has renounced his throne for himself and family, says a dis patch from Buckeborg. New — Since the I'nited States entered the war, thirty-three Y. M. C. A. workers, twenty-nlnfe men und four women, have given up their lives in service abroad. Of this num ber nineteen were killed and four teen died of disease or by accident. Washington. Secretary Baker has planned to stop all movement of ad ditional troops to Europe with the ex,- ception of surgical units. Senators were told to-day at their weekly con ference with the War Department of ficials. Chaniberslinrg. The Rev. T. Bahn Thomas, pastor/of Second Lutheran Church, sent his resignation from New York and urged its early acceptance. He made up his mind at the Lutheran merger meeting to accept a position as Y. M. C. A. worker. Washington. The Treasury to-day extended a credit of $7,000,000 to the Czecho-Slovak National Council. Great Britain to-day was given a new credit of $200,000,000. Italyv $50,000,- 000, and Belgium. $9,000,000. Snvnnnnh, Ga. The frame for a 3,500-ton vessel lias been laid In three days in the yard here of the Terry Shipbuilding Corporation. Officials expect the vessel to be planked In twenty days anB the last Y. M. C. A. man killed in the war. Fifteen men and three women attached to the Y M. C. A. have been killed by shells, gas or bombs t during hostilities. The Harry Gibson mentioned in the foregoing dispatch as having been killed in France is thought to be the Harry Gibson who was assist ant secretary of the Harrlsburg Y. M. C. A. during the years 1890- 1891. Homer Black, who knew him then, said to-day that Gibson left Harrlsburg to go to Lancaster, where he became general secretary. After ten years he went to Massachusetts as assistant secretary of the boys' department for the state, under It. M. Armstrong, with headquarters In Boston, later becoming state sec retary of this department. Mr. Black said he had been in corre spondence with him as late as a year ago and did not know that he had changed his residence back to Penn sylvania, as indicated in tho Paris dispatch. This might cast some doubt on the identity of the man ! killed. DAY AND NIGHT SCHOOL DIAL 4016 ENTER ANYTIME BELL 694 - R Ttvo Night Schools: Kloodny, Wednesday, Friday Nlghta—Tuesday, Thursday Nights BECKLEY'S BUSINESS COLLEGE THE: OFFICE TRAINING SCHOOL 1-1 MAKKET ST. School Reopens Wednesday, November 6 Can't sleep! Can't eat! Can't even digest what little you do eat! _ One or two doses MIiSW ARMY & NAVY Jwmi DYSPEPSIA TABLETS YHHV w ||l make you feel ten years younger. Best known remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach 25 cents a package at all Druggists, or . sent to any address postpaid, by the U. S. ARMY & NAVY TABLET CO. 260 West Broadway, N.Y. HURT IN RUNAWAY ACCIDENT Pillow, Pa., Nov. 16. —Milton Sny der met with a painful accident on Tuesday morning when his mules took fright and ran away. He was thrown under the wagon and had hiR shoulder dislocated and other serious bruises.—Webster Snyder, of Trevorton, transacted business in town on Tuesday.—Mrs. W. H. Mil ler and Mrs. Isaac Kebach, of Berrysburg, spent Wednesday at the home of Frank Snyder.—Mr. and Mrs. John Snyder of Malta, visited his brother on Wednesday.—Misses Katie Wolfgang and Cardie Long, of Hickory Corners, spent Sunday In town. —Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Snyder are spending several weeks at Sha mokin. with their children.—Mr. anil Mrs. Michael Gottshall wero sum moned to Gordon on account of tho serious illness of their son.—Mrs. P. B. 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