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RAILROAD NEWS
BROTHERHOOD
LOCALTOMOVE
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Home of Lodge No. 694, B. of
R .T., to Be Moved From
Marysville to Enola
" Marysville, Pa.. Dec. El.— Bluo
.Mountain Lodge No. 634, Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, estab
lished In Marysville more than 30
years ago, is soon to find a new
home. After January 1, the lodge
will be removed to Enola.
Action to this effect was taken at
h recent meeting of the brotherhood
after considerable argument. The
local Includes In Its membership
freight brakemen from both Marys
ville and Enola Pennsylvania Rall
rr>ad yards and within the past five
years, tho Enola men grew from a
negligible Influence to the majority
power.
For some time Enola men had
been considering the pain of remov
ing the local from Marysville tc
Enola, and at the last meeting this
action was taken. The charter of
the organization has been sent to
grand lodge headquarters at Cleve
land, Ohio, to be changed.
'' The action In moving the location
of the lodge has not met with gicat
approval of the Marysville members.
They urge that the local was Insti
tuted here some thirty years ago
when some half-dozen men, some of
them still on the rolls of the body,
worked to bring about the orgraniza
tion, at decided personal expense
Some of the men are so opposed
to the movement of the location that
the plnn of the Institution of another
branch of the Brotherhood of Roll-'
road Trainmen for local brakemen
Is being considered. It was said last
night.
Perilous Ride Clinging
to Closed Car Door
*• .• Considerable excitement was cre
ated among the passengers on the
r southbound train on the Reading
Railway reaching Reading at 3
o'clock Thursday afternoon. Shortly
•iafter the train had passed through
! J.eesport a noise was heard outside
the clospd vestibule doors of one of
■ the coaches, and when braUevnan
Investigated iie found a mar. cling
ing desperately to the door but fart
losing strength. Shouting a warning
•to hold fast for a few minutes
• longer, he had the doors opened end
''the mnn 'orought inside.
: It developed that he had nonrded
the train at Lcesport on the side
J opposite the station, thinking that
the doois would ho opened, and
when he found his mistake It was
too late to go around the trnln to
the other side, so he held fast until
his cries aroused the passengers and
brakemen.
OLD INJURY CAUSES DEATH
Simbury. Pa., Dec. 21.—Charles
H. Umholtz, 13. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry M. Umholtz, Sunbury, died
at the Fountain Springs State Hos
pital to-day, of a broken leg he suf
fered In a fall a year ago. Tuber
„ culosls of the bone developed, ac
cording to the doctors.
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Millions of the oppressed peoples of Europe have just emerged from the
darkness of autocracy into the sunlight of freedom, self-government,
commercial and industrial development, and progress toward a higher
civilization.
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The POLES formerly a strong, heroic nation, but overwhelmed and The CZECHO-SLOVAKS, that great race of Bohemians, Moravians and
crushed by invasion and oppression, and split into fragments by their con- Slovaks which for 500 years has kept alive the inspiration of its torchbearers of
|. i •. i i • c , 1 . . ii.. liberty and freedom in the middle ages, have now at last thrown off the heavy
o e leuni ean given a ree roa o eir na lona estiny. yoke of Austrian tyranny and claimedtheir place in the family of free nations.
The LITHUANIANS, doubly oppressed by German landowners and Rus- v c , Aue ~ * , A t • j j c .u • i\/i
, -ii i r i . i. , , Ihe JUGO-SLAVS, ground down by Austria, and severed rrom their Mon
man bureaucrats, will now become masters of their own lives and national tenegrin and Serbian kinsfolk, have gathered their strength and seized the
affairs, either as one independent state, or in federation with other Baltic states. prize of liberty and reunion won for them in the world struggle for democracy.
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Watch the unfolding history of these and other resurgent races as it is
told from week to week in
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SATURDAY EVENING,
Soldier Son Dead, Man,
Temporarily Deranged,
Leaps From Car Window
Duncniuion, Pa., Dec. 31.—His
mind temporarily deranged by the
death of his only son, a soldier In
the United States service, Thomas
| Winters, t>o years old, of this piace,
I leaped head-first from the window
of a passenger coach of the Niagara
Express at Williamsport on Thurs
day. The train had almost stopped
.when Winters threw himsolf from
the window. His wife managed to
giab hint by the heels and hold him
for a moment; but her grip soon
loosened and he dropped, head first,
♦o the cinders beside the roadbed. He
wus not seriously hurt.
Railroad Notes
The committee on standards of the
mechanical department, railroad ad
minlstrtlon has agreed upon the floor
plan and general designs for the pro
posed standard 70-foot passenger
coach and 70-foot combination pas
senger, baggage, mall and express
cars.
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The fast train 'deluxe between
Washington and New York, the Con
gressional Limited, is to be resumed
January 1. The railroad administra
tion liur announced that this train
will go buck to a five-hour schedule
nd that an observation car would be
added upon which seats will be sold
at the regular parlor car rate. In ad
dition, through passenger service be
tween New York and the South will
be placed in service on January 1.
The total movement reported over
the Middle division for Thursday was
as follows: Passing Denholm, 574
cars; interchanged with Tyrone, 68
cars, making a grand total of 6,42
cars. •
Clinton C. Branncr, aged 40. of
324 First avenue, of Altoon, a Pennsy
conductor, had his right index finger
fractured at 5 o'clock yesterday
morning while coupling cars at East
Altoona coal yard.
Engine No. 40, castwnrd, with a
train of slow freight tied up traffic
for quite a while on Wednesday night
at Lewistown Junction, when a steel
car buldgcd with the lading was dis
covered in the train.
The employes of tho Schuylkill
Division of the Pennsylvania Rail
road will be paid for the first half
of December on Thursday, December
26.
A meeting of the Reading Railway
officials was held at the Reading
Terminal, Philadelphia, for the pur
pose dr discussing changes, which
are to be made in the passenger
train service. It is said that some
of the trains that were taken oft the
Gerinantown and Chestnut Hill
branch and the main line, East Penn
and Lebanon Valley nre to be re
stored dt any early date.
SOLDIER DIES IN FRANCE
Suuburyh Dec. 21. —Private
Raymond Schopp, aged 22, a mem
ber of Company M, 314 th Infantry,
is officially listed as having died of
disease in France. He was a native
of Mt. Carmel, and the first graduate
of the Central Pennsylvania Odd
Fellows' Orphans' Home here to lost)
his life at war.
Personal and Social Items
of Towns on West Shore
Miss Bessie May, of Bowmansdale,
is spending some time with relatives,
at Shlremanstown.
Mr. and Mrs. George V. Coble and
daughter, Hulda Flora Coble, and I
Miss Hulda Larson, of Lemoyne,
spent Wednesday with Mrs. Coble's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Feis-|
ter, at Shlremanstown.
William Stough and son, Lloyd
Stough, of Mechanicsburg, visited tho
former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward W. Miller, at Shlremanstown on
Tuesday. .
Mrs. James Zerbe. son. Lawrence
Zerbe, and daughters, Emily Zerbe
and Mina Zerbe, of Spring Lake, vis- j
lted Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Zerbe at
Shlremanstown on Tuesday.
Lloyd Stare, of Shlremanstown, Is
home from Plalnfleld, where he was
called by the serious Illness of his
brother, Howard Stare.
Mrs. Mary Zimmerman, of Shlre
manstown. was a Mechanicsburg vis
itor on Tuesday.
George Miller, of Shlremanstown,
spent a day with his brother, John
Miller, at Steelton.
Mrs. Scott Brinton and son,
Charles Brinton, of Shlremanstown, j
are home from a visit with the for- i
mer's brother, Charles Barlup, and:
family at Emigsville.
Miss Katliryn Newmyer, of Harris- I
burg, spent a day recently with the
Misses Mlnnlt? and Helen Wolf at
Shiremnnstown.
Mrs. D. W. Harman, of Shlremans
town. spent Monday with her par
en** in Mechanicsburg.
Mrs. J. S. Brinton, of Shiremans-1
town, spent a day recently with hor
daughter, Mrs. George Romberger, t
at Harrisburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Holllnger and I
son, William Hollinger, of Shlre
manstown, are home from a visit
with the former's parents at Harris
burg.
Mrs. Daniel Knnub, who has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. George
Souders, at New Cumberland, wont
to Newark, N. J., to spend several
weeks with another daughter, Mrs.
Hambrlght.
Mr. and Mrs. Lowrie, of New Cum
berland, announce the birth of a
son. Mrs. Lowrie was Miss Mary Sut
ton before her marriage.
Joseph Kistler, of Center, Perry
county, was a guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Harlcn Noel at New Cumberland this
week.
John Reneker, of New Cumber
land, was at Philadelphia on Thurs
day.
PARTY FOR RETURNED SOLDIER
New Cumberland, Pa., Dec. 21.
On Thursday evening a party was
held at the home of Frank Kelster
in Market Square in honor of Pri
vate Joseph Landis, who returned
from Columbia University, North
Carolina. Dancing, games and mu
sic were features of entertainment.
Those who attended were: Misses
Pauline Wright, Verna Bair, Verna
Pyffer, Dorothy Lenhart, Naomi
Conley, Evelyn Freeburn, Ollie
Cramer, Beulah Kaufman, Luetta
Kaufman, Lillian Kaufman, Kathryn
Scip; Private Joseph Landis, Frank
Keister, Don Hench, Merle Landis,
Ray Fehl, Frank Updograff, Samuel
Fisher, Earl Lechthaler, Charles
Geisklng, John Parthemore, Harold
Beckley, Clark Balr. Chaperones |
were: Miss Lillian Grove, Charles i
Fleurle and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lech
thaler.
HARRISBURO TELEGRAPH
Sailor Boys Will Tackle
the Independents Tonight
The Cape May Naval Reserves
will present a strong tearh to
night at Chestnut Street Auditor
ium against Gordon Ford's jlnxed
Independents, who will make one
mighty effort to drive the demon
from town. Ford was bunged up
considerably at Tamaqua on Wed
nesday but will be on the Job,
along with Ike McCord, Eddie Wal
lower, "Gollnth" Beck and Gerdes.
and the battle will not lag. The
Jack tars have a top-notch team
including Murphy and O'Nell. New
York city stars; Robinson, of Pitt,
and Martin, of Chestnut Hill Aca
demy. A special dancing program
will follow the fray.
Democrats to Move Into
New Clpbhouse by March 1
the opening of the new
club rooms at 243 Walnut street,
were discussed at the weekly meet
ing of the Central Democratic Club
last evening. It is likely the club
will mov e into its new rooms by
March 1, and efforts will he made
to move In even earlier, Washing
ton's Birthday, If possible. Remodel
ing of the present building at 213
Walnut, and the building of the new
structure in the rear, are progress
ing rapidly.
The annual election of officers will
take place at next Friday evening's
meeting. Fred I* Morgenthaler, the
president, is unopposed, and will be
elected for another term, as will
Robert N. D(ernhelsel, the vice
president, members say. In addition,
a financial secretary, treasurer,
membership committee of three, and
house board of directors, seven in
number, will be elected.
"SYRUP OF
CHILD'S LAXATIVE
Look at tongue! Remove
poisons from stomach
liver and bowels
Accept "California" Syrup of
Figs only—look for the name Cali
fornia on the package, then you
are sure your child Is having the
best and most harmless laxative or
physic for the little stomach, liver
and bowels. Children love its de
licious fruity taste. Full directions
for child's dose on each bottle. Glvo
it without fear.
Vice-President Asks
Harrisburgers to Join
Red Cross Campaign
7 Tho Red Cross was omnipresent
and ycry helpful during the war
and Harrlsburg people should join
It as a thank offering for past ser
vices and a guarantee of future sup
port. Vice-President Thomas R.
Marshall said last evening in New
Cumberland, while on his way to
iOUR GREAT 3-DAY CHRISTMAS j
Talking MacKme Clubj
STARTS TONIGHT I
p| I
| Lowest Prices in Town.
Carlisle where lie addressed the
Chamber of Commerce of that bor
ough last evening.
"1 v/ould ray that the people of
Harris-burg ante the entire state owe
their unanimous membership to the
lied Cross as a thank offering for
what the Red Cross has done." said
the Vice-President. "Let me Illus
trate to you: There is a feuge snow
covered mountain near the City of
Mexico. High though the plateau
is on which Mexico City is built,
this mountain rears its lordly head
far into the sky. You leave Mexico
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City for the South in the morning.
When evening comes the huge head
of the mountain seems not to have
changed at all. Then moring
Comes. Then noon again. And
th e giant mountain is nttll visible,
towering toward the heavens. That
was the way with the Red Cross
during tho eighteen months which
began with the entrance of the
United States into tho war. The
Red Cross wus omnipresent and ever
helpful. No matter, where the call
came from the Red Cross answered
it. And for that reason alone Har
rlsburg and your entire Red Cross
Chapter district owes It to the Red
Cross tcr Join' during the present
campaign as a thank offering for
past services and a guarantee of
future support."
BEER $lO PER BARRED
Sltamokli), Pa., Dec. 21.—Beer
went to sl6 a barrel here to-day,
and the retailers immediately ratted
the price to 10 cents a glass.