Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, May 20, 1919, Page 5, Image 5

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    ARMENIANS IN
GREATDISTRESS
35,000 Refugees Alone in
Town of Erivan, Officer
Writes
London, May 20.—The sights one
sees in Armenia are almost beyond
belief, and the tales one hears are
too ghastly to be inventions."
This is an extract from a letter an
Armenian medical officer, writing
from the base of Mount Ararat, to
a fellow countryman in London.
The letter says:
"It may interest you to know
of the awful state of distress exist
ing in the country here. Thousands
ot people are homeless and abso
lutely destitute. In the town of
Eri\an alone there are 35,000
refugees. Their country has been
ravaged, the houses burned and the
survivors who escaped with their
lives have nothing but the rags they
arc wearing.
"I have been sent down here to
inquire into an epidemic of typhus
among the native population. It is
I'VE BEEN WRETCHED FROM
INDIGESTION, BUI NATONEX
GAVE ME RELIEF AT LAST
Mrs. J. C. Millheim of Forty
Fort Finds Real Help After
Years of Doctoring
"I want two more boxes of Na
tonex. It has given me the only re
lief after years of doctoring, and I
don't want to run a chance of being
without it," declared Mrs. J. C. Mill
heim, of Forty Fort, Pa.
"I have just been wretched from
indigestion," Mrs. Millheim said.
"It got so bad I felt as if I never
wanted to eat again. It interfered
with my sleep because I would have
a coming and going pain across my
chest that seemed to shoot to my
heart.
"My liver and bowels were irreg
ular, which showed in my sallow
complexion and little eruptions on
the skin over my body. My blood
circulation was so poor my hands
and feet would be numb and I had
to be very careful handling dishes
and the like, for fear of dropping
them.
"I used to be so nervous I was
afraid people would notice it.
"I had been looking for just such
a remedy as Natonex and when I
read about it in the papers I lost no
$5OO more than the price
of a Maxwell will buy you
mere size only Ummlln frtmthm
FOR a Maxwell has every single modern
device that any car selling within $5OO of
its price possesses.
The only thing an extra $5OO will procure is
size—a few inches of wheelbase, 2 inches of tire,
50 pounds more of engine, and 5 of 10 other
things that a $2O note would easily cover.
Then you run the risk of not getting as good
a car as a Maxwell.
For it is one thing to build a 10,000 a year
car and another to build a 50,000 a year car.
The chances are in favor by far of finding the
real merit in the latter.
The Maxwell has a record run of 300,000-
all of one model —behind it
That means sureness of design, freedom from
"temperament," reliability plus, economy for cer
tain, and always a ready market value.
A larger car costs more to maintain. A
smaller car has less luxury.
Hore miles on tires
Miller Auto Co. Inc.
B. F. BARKER, Mgr.
Mecbnnlcnbarg Branch, Harrlahurg, Pa. Lebanon Branch,
C. Gay Meyers, Mgr. 5S S. Cameron St. H. H. Harklns, Mgr.
ASSOCIATE DEALERS
W. M. Bnnhore, Sblppensburg. I.ykens Motor Car Co., I.ykena.
I). Boyd Alter, Aew Bloomflcld. Joe H. Walter,, Hummelntown.
S. I'. Diller, Boiling Springs. j. E. Enhrlmiin, Bnrhmant llle.
Irn lland, Rlvcrton. Amos -Martin, Annvllle.
West End Garage, Palmyra.
TUESDAY EVENING, HAIUUSBURG MAf TELEQIOPH MAY 20, 1919.
as serious as it was reported to be.
"For months the people have been
cut oft from all communication with
the outside world, with the excep
tion of a small area around Erivan.
The whole country has been over
run by its enemies. There are no
supplies of any kind and the popu
lation is on the verge of starvation,
many already having died of hun
ger."
Vocational Guidance For
State College Students
State College, Pa, May 20. —Voca-
tional guidance for the students of
the Pennsylvania State College has
been adopted by the council of ad
ministration of the institution. A
committee of deans of the various
schools has been authorized to pre
pare a booklet giving specific voca
tional information and advice about
the college courses for distribution
among prospective students.
During the first month of the next
academic year, the deans will under
take to advise students in their re
spective schools regarding the
courses they have selected. And for
the students already in the college,
conferences will be held next week
to provide guidance for thoso who
are in doubt about the courses they
shall pursue next year.
time in getting it. Now I feel like
a different person. I have improved
wonderfully in every way.
"I have a good appetite and no
distress after eating. The skin
eruptions are disappearing and the
pains having left me. I sleep fine.
I find The Nature remedies in Na
tonex are just the things for the
bowels, and my nerves are soothed
and quiet now.
"I am adverse to publicity and
never expected to give a statement
for any medicine, but Natonex has
been such a boon for me, and will
be for others, that I am glad to en
dorse it."
Medicine does not cure disease,
scientists say, but medicines do act
so that Nature can work the cure.
Natonex by cleansing, purifying and
invigorating the entire digestive sys
tem in a safe way, gives Nature the
chance to make purer blood, steady
nerves, good digestion, and the real
strength that the assimilation of food
should bring.
Natonex is fully explained by the
special representative here at the
main store of Geo. A. Gorgas, 16
North Third street, and anyone can
even test it absolutely free.
Natonex is sold by leading drug
gists everywhere.
MUCH DISEASE
FROM RUSSIA
Ukraine Closes Frontiers:
Against All the
Refugees
Stanislau, Ukraine, May 20. —Dis-
eases imported from Russia by the
way of Kiev and Odessa are spread
ing to such an alarming extent that
the government has closed the fron
tiers and closely examined civil
refugees and other former prisoners
of war returning to their homes.
An investigation by the Interna
tional Red Cross Mission shows that
possibly twenty-five per cent, of the
population of Lemberg and other
centews of Old Galicia are infected
by the various forms of typhus,
dysentery, turberculosis or other in
fectious or mental and nervous dis
eases. ,
The conditions are considered
worse here owing to closer contact
with Russia. In one hospital here
are 500 cases of typhus and 600
cases of social diseases. For a pop
ulation of 5,000,000 there are but
sixty physicians. Thus far six doc
tors have died of typhus and three
others are ill. The conditions are
made worse by lack of soaps, disin
fectants, change of clothing and
sheets. Virtually all the window
curtains have been requisitioned for
use as bed clothing or for making
women's underclothes.
Of a total of 250 drug stores,
."00 are without drugs. In the hos
pitals all kinds of cases are treated
in the same wards.
These diseases are spreading part
iv from Russia where it is affirmed
that the Red Army is contaminated
with social disease to the extent ot
seventy per cent. Many diseases also
were spread by Russian prisoners
who were interned in Hungary
who have returned to Russia since
the armistice was signed. Many of
these were in a horrible condition.
When set free by the authorities
and told to go home, they crowded
the trains in such numbers and
under such conditions that thou
sands died of hunger and illness on
the way. One tralnload stopped here
and discharged 300 dead. More
than 3,000 such unfortunates now
have been buried here.
, In one week there arrived at
kiev trains freighted with 600 dead.
The diseases are spread partly by
vermin. Lack of food is making
conditions worse. There is no coffee.
Tea costs $8 a pound, bread fifty
cents a pound, sugar J1 a pound
and coal, wood and soap are so high
that it costs fifty cents to laundry
one shirt.
"Y" BOARD TO MEET
The monthly meeting of the Board
of Directors of the Central V. M. C.
A. will be held in the assembly room
of the "Y" building at Second and
Locust streets to-morrow noon.
Routine burtness will be discussed.
BUILD BARRACKS !
FOR HOMELESS '
a• I
American Sailors Provide I
Temporary Homes for j
War Victims
New , York, May 20.—How the
homeless evacuees who streamed
back Into the rnined villages of
Northern France and Belgium after
the signing of the armistice, saw
j new barrack towns and villages
[spring up before them almost over
i night through the work of the i
I American Naval Relief Unit in the;
i devastated regions, is described in'
| a report just made public by the j
[American Relief Administration. j
The story of the achievements of;
the American sailor in covering the
devastated regions with hastily erect
ed barracks to serve the population
until they are able to build more
permanent homes, is one of the fin- j
est expressions of American helpful
ness brought out by the war. There
are thousands of people in Northern'
Europe to-day who owe their very
existence to the United States Navy-
Lieutenant Forter, U. S. N., a
young officer, whose home is in
Idaho and who, like Mr. Hoovor, was
a mining engineer before he went
to France, is in charge of the erec
tion of these barrack towns for
which the French and Belgians, who
would otherwise be without shelter,
are so grateful.
The latest report made by Lieu
tenant Forter shows that 205 bar
racks have already been erected by
his staff of 500 sailors. Sites liave
been selected, material delivered and
erection begun on 193 other bar-'
racks, and it is expected that, under
I ordinary weather conditions, the f
complete building program of four
or five hundred standard barracks,
laid out by the American Naval Re
lief Unit, will be completed this
week.
Since March 1, Lieutenant Forter's'
men have unloaded over five hun
dred and fifty-three railroad cars
carrying material for barracks and
miscellaneous supplies. This mater- .
ial is shipped to the point nearest
the job requiring material and un-.
loaded there.
German prisoners are used in un-'
loading cars, transporting material
and putting up barracks at all small •
towns adjoining the prison camps.
Naval enlisted men erecting bar
racks also have the assistance of
French civilians hired by the mayor
of each town.
In addition to the barracks, which
as a rule are sixty feet in length,
ten canvas hangars have been erect
ed at Lille and two steel hangars
have been delivered to the French
at Cambrai by the American sailors.
Two canvas hangars have been erect- •
ed at Valenciennes.
A brief resume of the history of <
this work of the American Naval
Relief Unit has been written for the j
American Relief Administration h.V [
William B. Poland, director for'
Europe of the Commission for Re-1
lief in Belgium and France. He j
describes why the French and Bel
gians have come to love the sound!
of the American sailor's busy ham
mer.
ASK FOR RECORDS
"Send us Victrola records!"
This appeal was received this
morning by Red Cross headquarters
from the Carlisle Military Hospital.
Records there have been almost worn i
out by constant use, and it is re-1
quested that any records be sent to j
the headquarters in the basement of j
the public library building at Front \
and Walnut streets. They will be j
immediately be sent to the wounded j
soldiers.
Middietown
Auto Hits Motorcycle;
Two Persons Injured
A team containing four persons 1
broke down at the Union street sub- !
way on Sunday afternoon by one of !
the wheels coming off. All escaped i
injury. The horse ran up Wilson j
street, where he was caught near I
the Windsor Hotgl.
A horse driven by J. Houck. of j
Hummelstown, became frightened at
an automobile at Center Square
Sunday, throwing the drover out.
I he horse was caught at Spring and
Main streets and returned to M r .
Houck. No damage was done to the
team.
A colt belonging to Newton
Shireman, who resides near Hills- ]
dale, brok through the fence and
strayed on the tracks of the Penn
syl- ania Railroad and was killed by
a tram.
Harry Noll, who spent the past j
several months in town with rela
tives, left to-day for Cedar Rapids,
lowa, where he has secured a po
sition.
Abram Kramer, who spent four
teen months overseas, but recently !
returned to the United States and ;
was stationed at Camp Dix, N. J., ,
has been mustered out of service j
and came to Middietown where he 1
will make his home with Samuel j
Proser.
Joseph Husack, who spent the
past several months abroad in the ,
interest of the Slav Home and has
charge of the Jednota printery. ,has
returned home.
Word was received in town that
Mrs. Webster Weaver, who is a
patient at the Methodist Hospital, j
Philadelphia, had been operated on
and was a success. She is resting
i icely.
Mrs. A. L. Miller, who was oper
ated upon at the St. Joseph Hos
pital, Lancaster; is Improving, the
operation being a success.
The Gettysburg Glee Club and
orchestra, which gave a concert In
The St. Peter's Lutheran Church lost
evening, was greeted by a large
audience and a nice sum was real
zed.
The Rev. James Cunningham,
-.astor of the Methodist Church, and
who has been quarantined with l-.ls I
ramily at the parsonage. North
Union street, for the past month,
will be able to fill his pulpit next
Sunday morning.
Mies Kathryn Weaver is spending
several days at Philadelphia visit
ing her mother at the Methodist
Hoppital.
H. M. Wolf and family, who
■spent the weekend In Royalton as
the guests of relatives, returned to
their home at Gettysburg.
Harry Weaver, of Lancaster coun
ty, and a companion of Lancas
ter, who were en route to Middle
town Sunday morning on the for
mer's motorcycle, was run down by
in automobile operated by Arthut
Coble East Main street, on the Pike
near town. Both men were thrown
"> the ground and were picked up
and brought to town and taken to
the office of Dr. O. M. Swartz, Spring
street. Weaver IS suffering from a
badij lacerated right ankle and his
right hand is badlytcut. The other
man was only slightly Injured. The
motorcycle was badly damaged.
Lr. W. P. Evans and wife will
ake a trip to California before the
I doctor will locate In Middletown.
The Middletown Praying Band
will meet at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Solomon Judy, South Catherine
sti-et, this evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Stipe Spruce
j street, announce the birth of a son,
Eliner Cleveland Stipe, Jr.. Sunday.
May 18.
Sergeant Gerald Stcck, who was
|Kaufman's Events Always A Big Success!
1 Our Immense Purchasing Facilities Bring These Special Values |
s f Many people have |J Right at this time, I
J been wondering why we while we are holding the [I
1 are j° ing , su . ctl a tre " , manufacturer's sale of
$j men us business, why surplus stocks and can- t|
| our store is always busy 1 1 Y 1 Nl celed orders we are buy- |j|
1 and why the . crowds K/r/ ing many lots of mer- |
i come here. It is an easy Kar chandise in all lines for (3
jjl matter for us to explain. Our patrons constantly spot cash. This obtains for us the very lowest jS
it expect the extraordinary of us and we therefore are , , . _ W
| continually on the lookout for big opportunities so pnce ' conse qently we can and do give our custom- |
jjj that we will always be in position to save our cus- er s the kind of values they expect and have a right
tomers money. to expect of Kaufman's Underselling Store.
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I Tomorrow, The Big Sale of Surplus Lots of Capes |
| 4 Big Lots—Just 128 Capes in all |
I .stfxiht 0 are ver y popular and will be more so as the summer t
S "iepspy 1 season comes on and now you have the opportunity to buy a cape in the [i
y season's most fashionable style and material at very much less than regular— jj
jjj owing to a special purchase of manufacturers' surplus stock. I
| O Capes at $£J5 Capes at s|>.7s |
I JmK Values to *lO.OO © V fc£oo > j
y r/' jj ! \ j/j K Just 25 in the Lot Just 44 in the Lot |
f // 11/ f Smart styles in all wool navy men's wear These are navy and black men's wear serge |
Hi v ' K It serge. Some are all navy while others have and all wool poplin, some are reversible, some |J
!| // '/1 I Mjj colored coatees. For women and misses. with checked collars, some braid trimmed, |
H| 11 / //'J i[ some fringe around the bottom. For women
M m $O-75 Oapesat s*|yE7s
I %/T7?sf Values to $15.00 Values to S&& I
J ' Jjy Just 32 in the Lot $22.50 * R
S] These stunning capes are of all wool Just 27 in the Lot
s A b/\ men's wear serge and all wool poplin. Some These arc of navy and black men's wear 5
ilj have plaid collars while others have con- serge with coatees, fancy lined. Many are
trasting collars, some are all navy. For braid trimmed. Charming new models for k
U| women and misses. women and misses.
| THE BIG SALE OF SCREEN DOORS j
1 ENTIRE SURPLUS STOCK OF WITMAN BROS. HARRISBURG, PA. |
1 486 SCREEN DOORS IN ASSORTED SIZES [
| STARTS IN KAUFMAN'S BARGAIN BASEMENT TOMORROW MORNING |
| AT FAR LESS THAN PREVAILING PRICES I
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| 3-Panel Plain Doors Plain Panel Doors Fancy Pine Doors I
| Walnut stained, black -wire Natural stain, two-coated Selected pine lumber, finished |
I cloth, flush corner- wire cloth. , natural w0 ° d |
H| l§§ij , ... 1 with two coats of S
111 jMR ed niould,n S- r ' fill varnish, black wire. \{
, Sale Price § f Sizes: js
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y mffim 3x7 2.10x7 dßm 2.10*7 |
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1 Fancy Pine Screen Doors Extra High Transom Doors I
Si KEEE2S3B7I Four-inch stiles, %-inch thick; finished rcsiss3ri3| f , , ii
jf i.r in the natural work with two coats of var- la<c - ° se cte lumber, two good |j|
S r- r j| nish; black wire.cloth. lipif I of varnish- all sizes; about 50 |
Jj |sjj!T: [ doors; worth up to $4.00 each. |
r 2.5*6.8 Sale Price J* m 28x7 S*lp PmVp
1 i| 2.8x6.10 piSi 2.10x8 oaie rrice
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1 Screens pßHpißj Screens I
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I i fill 8 Bis 28x41 inches. Each 30x43 89* I
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stationed at Camp Custer, Michigan,
war mustered out of service and re
li.iucd to the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George Steck, Race
tV eet.
Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Billett, Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Billett. Mr. and
Mt Edward Strathmeyer, Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Chambers, three chll
drtr., Dorothy, Marian and Roma'.no
Chambers, and Miss Beatrice Dil
lett, who spent the week-end in
tewn as the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
John Kurtz, Sr., South Main street,
returned to their home at York.
The Middletown baseball team
will play the St. Mary's A. A. teum,
of Sleclton, on the fair grounds on
Saturday afternoon.
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M Particulars mailed Tree to any addreaa,
j Hall Cbcnv Co. Drjgt. B-50 St. L-h.Mo.
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