Harrisburg telegraph. (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, June 04, 1919, Page 9, Image 9

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    VETERAN DIES AT
LEWISTOWN HOME;
CANALBOATMAN
Colonel John S. Garrett Starts
as Water Boy With Pennsy;
Captain on Old Canal
Colonel John Shultz Garrett, aged 77
years, died yesterday at his home In
Lewlstown. He was a veteran canal
boatman, and was known to railroad
ers In Harrisburg, and along the Mid
dle division. He was at one time lo
cated In this city, and was the first
charter member of Harrisburg Lodge
of Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
to be retired under the Pennsy's pen
sion plan.
Colonel Garrett was ill a short time.
l>eath was due to a stroke of paralysis.
He was a boatman on the old Pennsyl
vania canal and at one time was cap
tain of one of the largest boats run
ning on the canal.
Started as Waterltoy
His career began when the Pennsyl
vania railroad was under construction,
serving as a waterboy to the contrac
tors. Later he secured a position as
brakeman on the Middle division with
headquarters in Harrisburg. This was
in 1869. He subsequently became a
conductor, train runner and in 191"<
was made a yardmaster at Lewistown
Junction. He was retired from service
at the age of 70 years on May 1. 1913.
Mr. Garrett was a member of the Vet
eran Employes' Association of the
Middle Division.
Mr. Garrett served as sheriff of Mif
flin county and also, held office as tax
collector, school director and other of
fices. He served in Co. A. Forty-sixth
Regiment. Pennsylvania Volunteers,
during the Civil War and was also a
member of Co. E. Third United States
Volunteers. He was a charter member
and pastgrand of the I. O. O. R. M.,
and also of the T. O. O. F., of Lewis
town. and of Colonel Hulings Post. No.
176. G. A. R.
Railroad Notes
Ice is now being furnished to
Reading employes i.. all branches.
Freight tracks on the Middle Divi
sion near Durward were damaged
yesterday as a result of a freight
wreck. Traffic was delayed several
hours.
One hospital train and two soldier
trains en route from Camp Dix to
the West passed through Harrisburg
yesterday.
At a meeting of the board of di
rectors of the P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. j
last night, after routine business'
MORE RED BLOOD AND STEADIER
NERVES FOR RUN DOWN PEOPLE
The World Demands, Strong, Vigorous,
Keen-Minded, Men and Women
It has been said of Americans that they -work their habits over
time.
Many become nervous and inefficient by overwork.
By worry, despondency, social affairs, robbing brain and body
of needed rest; excessive use of tobacco, indulgence in strong alco
holic drink—excesses of every kind that burn up the vital powers
so necessary in these trying times to make both men and women
lit to be of help to themselves and others.
It is time to be temperate in all things. The man or woman
with impaired nerves caused by impoverished blood lacks vigor,
the ambition, the endurance and the keen mind of those who avoid
excesses,
Timldnrss, despondency, fear, trembling hands, want of confidence and
even cowardliness, are due in a large measure to abused nerves.
People with plenty of red blood corpaoclee and strong, healthy nerves hare
no desire to shirk work and lean on others for guidance and eappsrt.
There is hardly a nerve-shattered man or woman (unless of an organic
diseasei in America today who cannot become alert and clear in mind; vigorous
and energetic in body in a very few weeks and at trifling cost.
To become strong and ambitions, te feel that work Is net drudgery; te
hare steady nerves, abundance of red blood and power ef endaranee; te be net
only a man bat as men new ge, a superman, ysa most take seven tablets sf
Bia-feren every day for seven days—and tsks them faithfaliy.
Take two after each meal and one at bedtime and after seven dgys take
one only after meal until the supply is exhausted.
Then 1/ you feel that any claim made In this special notice is untrue—lf
your nerves are not twice as steady as before; if you do not feel ambitious,
more vigorous and keen-minded, the pharmacist who dispensed the tablets to
you will gladly hand you back just what you paid for them.
810-feren is without doubt the grandest remedy for nervous, rundown,
weak, anaemic men and women ever offered direct through druggists and Is
not at all expensive. All druggists In this city and vicinity have a supply on
hand—sell many packigM.
Dell 1BB1—235 l otted Wednesday, JOBS 4, 1818. Founded 18T1
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
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Why So Many Advertisers Prefer the Telegraph
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■Qr 28th 1919.
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The Harrisburg Telegraph,
Harrisburg, Fanna.
Attention of Mr* Ogelaby, Adrt.Mgr*
Dear Sir:-
The campaign on Eden Eleotrio Washing llaohines is
now drawing to a close, the offieial date, of dosing being
Jane 7th*
I want to take this opportunity to thank you for
the results we .hare obtained through the medium of your news-
P*per , and through your own individual-effort and oo~operation*
We hare been suooessfUl in telling a large number of
these machines and incidentally making a number of satisfied
customers, who will always remember that it was through reading
your paper that they found out that the wonderful Eden Eleotrio
•Washer was procurable at the Harrisburg Light * Power Company.
With hearty wishes for the suooess of your paper and
with many thanks, I am
Yours rery truly,
DA Campaign Manager*
was transacted, the board adjourned
to meet to-morrow night.
General Manager F. M. Focht, W.
I, ?F. Keffler and R. B. Rasbridge, of
I the Philadelphia and Reading rail-
I road, were in Harrisburg yesterday.
. I They stopped at Rutherford. Later
these officials visited l^hanon.
Lieutenant Sweeney Is
Home From World War
Lieutenant "Pat" Sweeney Isj
I home from overseas. He was given!
! a great welcome by his former as-1
sociatcs at the Pennsylvania rail-j
I road station. Lieutenant Sweeney,!
| who resides at No. 1 South Eight-!
I eenth street, enlisted at the outbreak!
!of the war. He was made a lieu- j
! tenant and assigned to the Head- j
| quarters Company of the old Eighth!
: Regiment. Later he became a first |
j lieutenant and was transferred to |
(the Three Hundred and Sixteenth (
Engineers. On reaching France he;
i was attached to a replacement bat-j
I talion.
DERBY DAY BACK
IN ENGLISH SPORTS
i
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; with the Prince of Wales and Prin
] cess Mary drove from the station in j
| landaus. All the familiar figures. .
' from the Earl of Lonsdale, the dean 1
of English sportsmen, wearing his '
I silk hat. to bookmakers from all j
parts of the kingdom were pres- ,
j ent.
j Panther Considered Sure Thing I
There will be fourteen starters. |
! Andrew Black's Panther has long j
' been considered a sure thing, al- j
though Sir Walter Bilbey's Whisky j
; Magnet, will be a strong contender, i
and Major Waldorf Astor's Buchan j
has been rated as a possibility. There I
has been much interest in All Alone, I
but this racer is owned and has i
been trained by Torrington. The
King's stables had nothing good
enough to start in the classic event.
JUNE WEATHER
RECORDS FALL
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R. Domain, of the local bureau says. !
He holds out the promise of fair ;
weather and continued warm.
The humidity to-day is lower than I
that recorded yesterday and makes i
the high temperatures slightly more '
bearable. The mark to-day is 41 !
las compared with 49 yesterday. It',
|is plenty hot, however, is the con- !
Isensus of oplrdon to-duy, especially!
, among pedestrians. Thermometers ;
tin some instances register 112 de-i
| greet and even more.
Cooler In Mississippi
I The weather report .issued to-day
from the local bureau says:
"The center of the western dls- j
turbance has moved from the lower i
Missouri to the upper Mississippi i
valley with decreasing energy; It has j
caused light to moderate showers In
the last twenty-four hours In the j
Mlsetsslppl and Missouri valleys and '
In Oklahoma. Showers have fallen i
also In the East Gulf States and In i
i the Atlantic States aouth of North I
I Carolina as a result of a barometric '
! depression oft the South Atlantic 1
coast. The amounts of rain-fall were ;
mostly small except at Charleston
: where 2.56 Inches fell.
| "It Is Bto 10 degrees cooler In the :
I middle Mississippi valleys and 4 to '
'l4 degrees cooler in the northern
1 border states from Minnesota west- \
I ward to Montana and In Nevada. !
I normal in eastern districts and maxi
j mum readings Tuesday afternoon
I were at or near the high record for
| June In the Middle Atlantic and New
i England States."
MRS. EDWARD McGEEHAX
DEAD IN MIDLAND, PA.
The death of Mrs. Edward Mc-
Geehan, in Midland, was announced
yesterday. Mrs. McGeehan for a |
number of years was a resident of |
Steelton and was well known here, j
She leaves a husband and five daugh
ters. Burial will take place in Mid- |
(land to-nfo- J[
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&XRRDSBT7RG UfiSAl TELEGTtAPfI
COAL SHORTAGE IF
j BUYERS FAIL TO ORDER
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i i' failed to call attention publicly to
the facts.
Illg Decrease In Production
"Ever since the armistice was
signed production of bituminous coal
has fallen far below the tonnage
necessary to maintain if the coun
try's normal needs are to be met. Of
ficial returns to the United States
Geological Survey show that from
January 1 to May 10 the output of
all mines in the country dropped 25
per cent, below production during
the corresponding period last year,
or approximately 50,000,000 tons. The
mines are now producing coal at the
rate of 8,000,000 tons a week. They
should be producing 11,000,000 tons,
if the people are to have enough coal.
"Unless the lost production is
made up. at least in large part," says
President Montgomery, "domestic
consumers will be unable to obtain
sufficient fuel next winter, the trans
portation agencies will be crippled,
public utilities generally will have
to curtail their activities, industries
will run on part time and all the dis
tress due to the coal shortage of
1917-18 will be repeated, perhaps
even aggravated and intensified.
"It would be extremely difficult, if
not impossible, to make up the ton
nage already lost, if the mines were
all to start working full time to
morrow. Already there Is a short
age of labor in certain coal fields: in
others there is every indication that
there will be labor shortage, and the
industry generally faces the loss of
4,000 foreign born employes who
have made their plans to return to
Europe as soon as they can get pas
! sage.
Many already have gone back and
| there will not be men to take their
! places, for immigration is restricted
and the tide of trans-Atlantic travel,
as soon as peace is signed will flow
strongly to Europe. In addition, the
incustry faces the loss of thousands
of men who are seeking and obtain
ing less hazardous work and at more
regular working time.
"The entire cause is failure of the
1 public to keep the mines going full
j time by placing its orders for coal.
! The mines are now working half
! time and quarter time."
Stocks accumulated during the fall
j of last year in Harrisburg have been
almost depleted, and President Mont-,
i gomery says within a few months
everybody will be trying to place or
ders. It will be a physical impossi
bility for the mines as well as the
coal dealers to produce sufficient
coal in the short time remaining be
fore the cold weather to meet the
demand. Fuel Administrator Gar
field has urged the public to place
Its orders now. The Coal Exchange
emphatically indorses this advice,
for the man who longer delays In
arranging for his coal supply for
next fall and winter stands In grave
danger of not getting it,
Thief Suspects Leave
Names in Typewriter
Ashland, Pa., June 4. Thieves
who broke Into the parsonage of the
Baptist Church here and stole valauble
possessions of the Rev. Mr. Kern left
some very valuable clews as to their
identity when they sat down to prac
tice on the minister's typewriter.
Unconsciously, perhaps, the writer
could think of nothing better to prac
tice on than his own name and several
of his companions, which he left In the
machine in the scramble to escape.
Arrests' are likely.
Fierce Sun Draws Higher
Wages on State Boulevard
Fayettevllle, Pa., June 4. With
the mercury close to the 100 mark in
the sup yesterday, workmen making a
new stretch of Stat ehlghway between
this place and Chambersburg concluded
It was time to demand real hot-weather
wages. They notified their foreman 10
cents more an hour was the only way
to have them continue work with the
sun's rays almost burning holes in their
| hats. They were given the raise.
BRIEFS FROM THE '
BIG NEWS EVENTS
By Associated Pratt
S* York. Major General Wil
liam R. Smith arrived here to-dav on
the transport Patricia, with 2,846 of
ficers and men of the Thirty-sixth di
vision.
I.ondon. —General Semeneff, leader
of the Cossacks in Eastern Siberia,
has been elected grand duke of Mon
golia.
Washington. —New steamship lines
soon will be put into operation to
both coasts of Central and Southern
America, Ldward N. Hurley said here
to-day.
Washington. Military provost
guards maintained in all cities ad
jacent to Army camps are to be ma
terially reduced by June In, the War
Department announced to-day and
will be discontinued entirely as soon
as possible.
Philadelphia.—Directors of the Le
high Valley Railroad to-day declared
a quarterly dividend of 1 % per cent.
German Newspaper
Favoritism Denounced
There is considerable discussion on
Capitol Hill of the several bills cut
ting out the favoritism shown the Ger
man element of the population in of
ficial advertising. Provisions in exist
ing laws at the beginning of the pres
ent session of the Legislature the sen
timent among the members was strong
ly in favor of repealing the common
clause so frequently appearing in many
acts , to wit: "One of which shall be
in the German language." But as the
session draws to a close the German
interests have managed to pickle in
committee one or more of these re
pealers and it is boasted in certain
| quartres that the German clause will
be retained through political influence.
| All that is contemplated by the pend
j ing legislation is the repeal of the man.
I datory provisions in favor of German
newspapers.
I*^
for After-War Ills /
Influenza and Wartime Strains have left Thousands f
with Weak Kidneys - 1
WE must see to it that the years 1918-1919 do not leave the curse of kidney dis- * ||
ease that followed the Civil War. The most common causes of kidney weak- ' ••! I
ness are fevers, colds, chills, exposure, overwork, worry and unwholesome diet, and ;
our two war winters have been full of these conditions for both soldier and civilian. ?
Pay attention to the first signs of kidney weakness backache, rheumatic pains, i ■
dizzy spells, headache and any abnormal kidney action. Use Doan's Kidney Pills /
promptly. It may save you from a later attack of gravel, stone, cystitis, dropsy or i
Bright's disease, and in Doan's you will get the most widely used kidney remedy in I
the world. It is the remedy recommended by the people for the people. J
I These Harrisburg Cases Prove Doan's Good , I
NORTH SIXTH STREET NORTH PENN STREET
Charles R. PVP, 2004 N. 6th St.. says: "I have had my share Mrs. R. B Mclntyre, 1500 N. Penn St. says: "1 was troubled
of kidnev trouble and 1 never want any more of It. I was "jy kidneys for a long while. There was a constant
™n4 tinn .hniit five years aio Kverv muscle in mv miserable feeling in my back and a meat., dull ache In the gm
back waa and /am e? an dahar p! <°u 11 inKP a I nsw ouldd art small of my back On bending over or lifting anything g
up and down mv back. The Sidney secretion* were scanty A 6 * 4*? r>m YL atraißhten.
Inri irroaninr in and ware also hitrhlv colored I A relative had used Doans Kidney Pill* with such Rood re
o aet un often at niKht on this account Frequently u 'hat I got a box at Kennedy s Drugr Store and before,
millions of colored specks would float before my eyes, blurr- u^narvoufi b °* ' WaS ontire,y cured " (Statement Riven
io^rond""'? l^B^ 1 Doa d n"Vidney' Pm a . r and b rt was "" February 22, 1919. Mrs. Mclntyre added: "1 recommend
not longbefore"they helped me? boxes of Poan's gave tf&ST&W £&
me a complete cure. jf j ever nee d a kidney medicine again l will use nothing but
■ Doan's."
THOMPSON STREET
* MELROSE STREET
Mrs. J. L. Anspach, 1542 Thompson St., says: "Some years ————
ago 1 began to suffer with my kidneys. My back ached ter- William Mars, 908 Melrose St., says: "I cannot sav too
rlbly and it was sore and lame. When I stooped over and much In praise of Doan's Kidney Pills after my pleasing ex
straightened up quickly, sharp pains would strike me in the perience with them. I was all out of shape with kidney
back. I often suffered from attacks of dizziness and blurred trouble some two years ago. Kverv time I stooped over
sight and my kidneys caused me considerable annoyance hy sharp pains would dart up and down'my back I had to get
their irrgular action. I knew I needed something for my kid- up often at night to PSHS the kidney secretions and their
neys, so I started taking Doan's Kidney Pills. It was not appearance showed that my kidneys were congested and slug
long before Doan's put an end to this trouble and I was as gisli and needed a good cleansing out. if I stood In one
well and strong as ever. I have used this medicine since as position any lenth of time I would get so stiff and lame 1
a preventive and It keeps my back strong and my kidneys rould hardly, get around. Doan's Kidney Pills soon had me
normal." feeling better and only a few boxes gave me a lasting cure."
I Doan's Kidney Pills I
Every Druggist Has Doan's, 60c a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Manufacturing Chemists, Buffalo, N. Y. B
TAKE ON BURDEN !
TO SAVE REEVES
"Y" Men Want Convalescing
Secretary to Return With
No Problems to Solve
Enthusiastic officials and mem-'
bers of the Hnrrisburg Y. M. C. A. 1
have determined to do a kindly ucti
toward Oeneral Secretary "Bob"!
Reeves, who is away on sick leave
trying to recover from the effects ot |
the "flu," by raising during; his ab-1
sence the SIO,OOO which is necessary j
to meet the budget of the associa-i
tion and give SI,BOO to the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Y. M. C. A. for the:
next year.
Mr. Reeves had been much wor
ried over financial prospects. The,
association has grov-n so rapidly and
the activities have increased so
gfeatly that the association reve
nues, while much larger than the
year previous, will not meet needs.
So Arch Dinsmore, the trustees and
directors determined to raise tho
necessary funds during his absence
and let him start work when he re
turns putting over the big program
he has arranged for summer and
fall work at the "Y."
Captain George F. Lumb has con
sented to act as director in charge
of the drive and at a luncheon of the
team captains at noon to-day plans
were outlined to complete the round
up Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day of next week. C. Gaurence Shcp
ly was nnmed as chairman of pub
licity, the remainder of the commit
tee being Wellington G. Jones, J.
Douglass M. Royal and Emory Glitz.
The drive will be made by fifteen
teams under the following captains;
No. 1, L. F. Neefe; No. 2, Frank
F. Davenport; No. 3. John F.
O'Neill; No. 4. Captain E. J. Stack-
JITHIV;.. Jr..- XW.. 7>., JOHN fit. WiHeetr:; NR.
. F. W. Covert; No. 7. William M.
JUNE 4, 1919.
Hoerner; No. 8. D. L. M. Raker;
No. 9, Wl'llam Uarman; No. 10, Mr.
Barker; No. 11, Robert Oahlll; No.
12, Dr. H. M. Kirkpatrick; No. 13,
J. Harry Messersmith; No. 14. A. G.
Murray, P. R. R. Y. M. C. A.; No.
15, A. L. Holler.
Elizabethville Class to
Be Graduated June 17
Commencement exercises of the
Elizabethville High school will be
held Tnesda.v evening, June 17, in
the auditorium at the upper end of
town. The graduates are Irene A.
Hentz, Dorothy E. Margerum. Elma
M. Moyer. Amy A. Swab. Erma M
Stroup, Florence M. Whitman and
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Miss Len-tz is a daughter of Coun
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The class flower is rose of Sharon
and the class colors are green and
white.
DIES IN ASYLUM
Mrs. Victoria Duccwski, 6S years
old. died in the Pennsylvania State
Hospital yesterday. The body will
be taken to Reading by Undertaker
Sourbeer and funerail services will
be held there.
ATTEND CONVENTION
H. O. Holstcin, past state presi
dent of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, and a dozen other local
members, are in Wilkee-Barre at
tending the annual convention.
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