CROSSINGS ARE TOGORAPIDLY Large Appropriation to Be Asked of Legislature. For State's Share crossings will be vVv*. jwy ordered abolished month, according 11 JM|WW|HBW to officials of the _ J Commission, who have been engag cd in study of the problcmsattending complaints against some of the places where railroads and highways meet. One of the rea sons advanced is that complaints w hose disposition was laid aside be cause of the war are now being taken up, while another is that the State Highway Department has list ed dangerous places on highways which are the most traveled and is proceeding systematically. In the last month orders for abol ition of nearly a dozen crossings have been issued, e\eryonc of them on main highways, orders being is sued apportioning the cost between the railroads, the State, the inter ested counties and townships. A number of additional orders will probably be issued before the end of summer as inquiries are under way. The legislature has been asked for a considerable sum to meet the State's share of abolishing crossings as there will be an increased de mand the next two years. In the case of the railroads arrangements have been made with federal au thorities to have the cost -charged to capital account so that there will be no delay in starting work. To Take I'p Claim*—The State Compensation Board is arranging to take up with federal authorities numerous claims for workmen's compensation as soon as the treaty of peace with Austria-Hungary is announced. These claims have been accumulating and cover a ozen or more lines of industry witu several points in question. Owing to the war the interests of the claimants has been in the hands of the alien property custodian. Investigation On—lnspectors and engineers of the State Department of Health are investigating water and smallpox conditions in Alle gheny county. Half a dozen are now at work. Increases Filed—Among notices of increase of capital stock filed at the State Capitol have been Wil liamsport Radiator Company, Wil liamsport, 1200,000 to 1350,000; Mahoning River Coal Company, St. Mary's, $25,000 to $15,000; Fuel Cor poration of America, Philadelphia, $5,000 to $40,000; Hamlon-Gregory NEURALGIA or Headache— Rub the forehead and temples with \^CK's\^Oßuilf "VOUIt BODYGUARD"-30*. eO'TtTjO MRS. MAY COULD NOT WORK Made Well and Strong by Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg etable Compound. Columbia, Pa.—"l was Tory weak and run down and had dragging-down .. |[lJMl||||[ pains and pains m 'o thought I would try it. Now I am , healthier than I ever wag in my life, and can recommend it to any woman who suffers as I did."—Mrs. ELIZA BETE MAY, R. F. D. NO. 1, Columbia, Pa. The reason Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is so successful in overcoming woman's ills is because it contains the tonic, strengthening properties of good old fashioned roots and herbs, which act on the female organism. Women from all parts of the country are continually testifying to its strengthening, curative influ ence, and the letters whicfi we are constantly publishing from women in every section of this country prove be yond question the merit of this fa mous root and herb medicine. r ' 4 IjjPjSfSd CORNS *■ ■ IIUNIONS CALLUSES GORGAS DRUG STORES / k UNDERTAKER 174 a Chas.H.Mauk "• iiV 1, Private Ambulance Pbomee YTUXATED VLSSk* ■ , owe it to youroeli to mike the following tert: Me how lenc can work or how far 7W can aralk-without becoming tired.! [Next take two five grain tablets (of NUXATEI> IRON three, [times per .day. for two weeksJ [jj Then tecryocr strength again! ■MM tend see how orach yoa huef VUmSeV lesiaed. Many people have mad* ■ this test and hsve been utoo -1 < ished at their increased strength; /h a endurance and energy. No sited "luf I llron ii guaranteed to give satis. T J faction or money refunded. At rg- -J £ll good drnegista. <^ iSKL • - 4> t" MOND AY EVENING, ' GIRLS FREED FROM THE TURKISH HAREMS TELL STORIES OF ATROCITIES | Many of Them Turned Into Streets With Babies Arc Found Crazed by Starvation and Exposure Xcvv York, June 2. —Stories told !by Christian women and girls of j Armenia who were deported from | their homes, led to virtual captivity [or slavery in the camps of the Turks, I Circassians and Arabs or held cap tives in Turkish harems in Asia : Minor have been received by the American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief. The statement [issued by the Committee says that , the women whose narratives are made public were released by their j masters or rescued by Allied troops. I "After the signing of the armis . lice," says the Committee's state j ment. "many of the Turks, believing i that by so doing they could escape I punishment, turned the women— .many of them with babies—into the I street. Cablegrams to the Commit tee have reported that numbers of | these women were wandering about the country crazed by starvation and [exposure. As fast as possible they are being gathered up by the Com mittee's relief workers and placed .in homes established for their care. ,A late telegram said that fifteen such i homes have been established in Asia Minor." Take Affidavits j Stories of these Armenian victims [of Turkish atrocity were obtained by j Dr. Royal R. Wirt, member of an i expedition sent to Turkey by the Committee. They are taken down as related by Dr. W. A. Kennedy, Field Director of the Rord Mayor's Relief Fund of Rondon. After tak- ! ing them down. Dr. Kennedy as sured Dr. Wirt, he personally re-read ! the affidavits to the narrators and ' they signed them in his presence. Together these tales constitute one of the tragic chapters of the war. iThey were not isolated cases but in | some instances the experiences of 'as many as 5,000 refugees who had | j been driven from their homes and I' forced on journeys of hundreds of; miles from fertile Armenia into the j borders of the Syrian desert. On the Galvanizing Company, Pittsburgh,] $22,000 to $30,000. The following certificates of noti fication have been filed with the Public Service Commission: I.ehigh Valley Light and Power Company. Allontown, common stock $15,600; Metropolitan Edison Company. Reading, bonds. $4 5,000; Sayve Elec tric Company, Savre, bonds, $8,000; .Lntrobe Water Company, Latrobe, bonds. $650,000; Harrisburg Light and Power Company, Harrisburg, bonds, $50,000; Philadelphia Electric Company, Philadelphia. common stock, $1,803,205; Bearer County Light Company, Pittsburgh, bonds, $24,000. Colors Here—The colors of the 107 th machine gun battalion, one of the units of the Keystone dirision in France, have been sent to Adju- j tant General Frank D. Beary for, deposit in the State Capitol. Colors j of several Infantry regiments will i be sent here late in the summer. j .fudge to Speak—Superior Court Judge F. M. Trexler will be the ( speaker at the anniversary of Bar- i ger Lodge of Masons, at Allentown. | To Name Committees—More com -1 rnittees on standard baskets for i fruits and vegetables will be named I by Secretary of Agriculture Rasmus- j sen this week. They will meet during June. IxtcustK Heard From—Half a dozen reports from Cumberland j county regarding appearance of lo- i ousts in large numbers have been received by Zoologist Sanders. The | predictions regarding the brood are i being borne out. Mr. Alney Returns —Chairman W. i D. B. Ainey, of the Public Service I Commission, is home from Nash- j ville, where he attended the national j gathering of commissioners. May Act This Week—lt is pos- I sible that action may be this j week on some of the defei N ed , awards for State Highway contracts, j Information is being assembled by | the department experts for Commis- i sioner Sadler. Six Crossings to Go Within a Year Orders abolishing six more grade crossings, complained of by the State Highway Department as dangerous places on main highways have been made by the Public Service Com- J mission, cost of elimination being .apportioned in each case. These; complaints are included in a series filed by the State authorities as the' result of a study of conditions ex-1 tending over many months and the! locations are on roads which are! much traveled and which it is in- j tended to improve. The Pennsylvania railroad is or dered to bridge a crossing near Girard, Erie county, costing $70,- 000, the State to pay $12,500; Erie county $5,000; Girard township $2,- 000 and the railroad $33,000, the Highway Department bearing the balance. The Lackawanna will build a bridge near Martin's Creek junction I In Northampton county; the State to ! pay $4,620. This work also involves I relocation of a highway. | The Philadelphia and Reading will j bridge tracks near Port Clinton, Schuylkill county, at a cost of $56,- 081.39, the State paying $12,500; Schuylkill county $7,500; West Brunswick township S2OO and the Highway Department the balance, the share of the railroad being $24,- 925.10. The Pennsylvania and New York Central systems will bridge the road near Youngsville, Warren county, at a cost of $67,078.77, the State paying $15,000; Warren county $2.- 500; Broken Straw township $250, the Pennsylvania and New TYork Central each 37 *4 per cent, and the State Highway Department 25 per cent, of the balance and also the cost of paving. The Wllkes-Barre, Dallas and Harvey's Lake street railway will abolish two grade crossings near Dallas, the State Highway Depart ment relocating a State highway. The apportionment of the cost is State Highway Department $20,000; State of Pennsylvania $1,500; Dal las township, SIOO and the rest by Luzerne county and the railway, the county paying four-sevenths. The Pennsylvania railroad will bridge tracks near Youngsville. War ren county, the apportionment of j cost being State of Pennsylvania \ $15,000; Warren county $2,500; | Brokenstraw township, $250; Penn-1 sylvania railroad 76 per cent, and j the State Highway Department re mainder ot balance. • way hundreds at a time were sepa rated and massacred often in the i most diabolical way. Taken Frofti Families [ Hundreds of girls Were torn from ; the other members of their family .and taken none knows where by the [Turks, Kurds or Circassians. Scores were compelled to live in captivity naked for months and suffering from [sunblisters and beatings. Armenian girls who escaped death were barter ed like cattle. After their fathers or relatives had vainly paid ransom for them. Some saw their fathers or friends murdered. In the tents of the Arabs'in the Syrian desert many [were bour.G and forcibly tatcoed on the forehead, lips and chin to mark ; them as Moslem women. Generally, the stories Indicate that the captives were moved sometimes in large groups from Armenia south 'ward toward the desert of Syria. The stories told by at least three Armenian Christian girls deal with the movement of one of thes9 great groups consisting of 2.000 families lor 5,000 persons. Om story of this awful journey into the desert was j told by Takouhl Guezekuchukian, a : girl of eighteen who with her father. ; mother, four sisters and a brother 'was deported from Hadjin. in Adana province, in May. 1915. They were moved southward to Aleppo and thence further on toward the Syrian • desert until the partv numbered about 2.000 families. At Sivaria, she said, thev were told that on payment j of 5.000 Turkish liras they would bo i allowed to return. | "The refugees said they could not 'give this amount," the Armenian told j Dr. Kennedy. "Then the Clrcass'ans of the tribe of Chechen who had control of them separated out 1.100 of the poorer families and took them away. The same evening som of [these people returned and said they had escaped and that four hours j after they left, the Chechens had | begun to kill them with Iron-studded clubs. [N. Y. Girl, Home From War, j to Wed Albanian Prince l | New York, June 2. —Miss Ruth ; ( Todd, of Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson, . who recently returned from Europe, ' j where she served several months 1 | with the Red Cross Albanian relief !! commission, announced her engage , j ment to Prince Selim Mihil Wassa, 'I of Albania. I j The prince is 30 years old, five ' j years the senior of his fiancee. He ■ was educated in Constantinople and j England and speaks seven languages. | He is the author of a historical book on Albania. He won the rank of II captain in the late war. United Presbyterians Hit Wilson's Rum Plea ! Monmouth, 111., June 2. —The .United Presbyterian general assem bly convention expressed "deepest 1 regret and sorrow" that President i Wilson had advised the repeal of (wartime prohibition, and a message I will be sent to Congress urging pas sage of legislation enforcing the prohibition constitutional amend | ment. Delegates approved the plan to i raise a $10,000,000 fund to be used , to endow missionary and educational i work. No action was taken on pro j posed union with the Presbyterian j Church. I Quality First j Boston Garter I | * contributes to peace of mind and persona) j | efficiency. Sold Everywhere QCORGE FROGT CO , MARCRI, BOSTON .. I. H 1.., I"N SEBORRHEA A HAIR SCOURGE Seborrhea is the scourge that kills the hair. 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