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News Happenings of One Day in Central Pennsylvania Towns
LINEMAN'S FALL
MAY COST LIFE
Highfield Man Conies in Con
tact With Current at Kauff
man's Station
Chumbrrtliurc, Pa.. July 28.—While
-working on a pole along the line of
the Chambersburg, Greencastle and
Waynesboro Railway Company at
Kauffman's Station yesterday after
noon, Dewey Nicholson, aged 25, of
Hlghfleld, came In contact with a
high extension wire. He was thrown
to the ground and sustained a frac
tured skull. The injured workman
was brought to the hospital here and
an operation performed. He was not
expected to recover at an early hour
this morning.
State Health Officer
Sues Undertakers and
Sextons in Lancaster Co.
Lancaster, Pa., July 28. R. J.
Brauner, an inspector of the State
Department of Health, has prose
cuted a number of undertakers and
sextons of the county on a charge
of interring bodies without first pro
curing the legal certificate from lo
cal health authorities. Hearings
were given the accused by Alderman
A. K. Spurrier, and cases against
Paul F. Esbenßhade, New Holland;
Elam Martin, Weaverford.; J. C.
Honninger, New Holland, returned
to court. Several other charges were
dismissed.
FIX PICNIC DATE .
Dtlltthurg, July 28. —The Union Sun
day School picnic held its first meet
ing at the homt of G. L. Butcher.
M. C. Thumna was selected president;
J. J. Klugh, secretary, and J. S.
Kapp, treasurer. It was decided
that the Union picnic be held in Boil
ing Sprjngs Park on Wesdnesday,
August 20, and that the schools
should be transported by automobiles.
COW JUMPS TO DEATH
BY LEAP FROM ROOF
Pittsburgh, July 28.—A brown
and speckled cow that was being
driven through the streets of
Tarentum on the way to the
slaughter-house suddenly decided
to rob the butcher of a Job by
committing suicide. Leaving the
herd, it calmly walked into the
open doorway of an apartment
house, climbed up twenty-four
steps, turned at the landing and
then went up another flight. Here
it pushed itself through an open
window onto a roof. Turning a
last look along the way it came,
the cow jumped to the ground and
was killed almost instantly.
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ROPER WILL HEAR
DISTRICT PROTEST
Internal Revenue Commissioner Takes Notice of Objections
to Abandoning Ninth District; Congressman Griest Gets
Ear of Official; Fight s to Be Kept Up
Lancaster, Pa., July 28.—Although
Commissioner Roper gives no intima
tion that his order abolishing the
Ninth International Revenue district
by combining It with the First dis
trict will be reversed, the fight for its
retention Is to be continued unabated.
Practically every civic and industrial
organization of this city where head
quarters of the Ninth district has
been located for more than half a
century is enlisted in the campaign.
Through the efforts of Congress
man W. W. Griest, Commissioner
Roper has consented to grant a hear
ing to the contestants on Wednes
day afternoon, which is but two days
prior to the date set for the transfer
AIRMAN THRLLS
MECHANICSBURG
Crowds Swarm to Landing
Place Thinking Plane Had
Fallen to Earth
McchanlcMbnrg, Pa., July 28.
There was considerable excitement
here Saturday morning when an air
plane landed in a field belonging to
Martin Momma, in the northern sec
tion of tow.n. Several planes flew
over the town and about 9.30 o'clock
one attracted attention by flying low
and circling. Suddenly the engine
stopped, and the machine shot down
ward. Observers were horrified and
thought the airman in trouble, but
later it developed the flyer had made
a beautiful landing in the Mumma
field directly in front of the house.
Hundreds of people swarmed to the
place from all directions. Many,
came in cars and farmers and families
in the locality as far as a mile away
walked to the scene. The plane re
mained about two hours. Then it
gracefully skimmed across the field
and into the air. The machine was
one from Mlddletown searching for
another which accompained it. and
was forced to land, owing to engine
trouble near Camp Hill.
To Put Reading Beer
Under Probe of Experts
Rending. Pa., July 28. —Samples
of beer taken by representatives of
the local Internal revenue offices
have been forwarded to the offices of
United States District Attorney
Francis Fisher Kane, in Philadelphia.
A quart of beer was taken from
the vats of the four Reading brew
! cries. It will be analysed to de
termine the precentage of Its al
coholic content. The result will
later be used in evidence if suits are
brought.
Milton H. Brandt Dies at
Scotland Funeral Today
Scotland. Pa.. July 28.—Funeral
services were held this morning for
Milton H. Brandt, who died Friday
morning at his residence here. He is
survived by his wife and the follow
ing children: Mrs. John C. Millhouse,
Shippensburg; Mrs. John B. Watson,
Waynesboro; William H. Brandt,
Scotland; Mrs. Wilbur C. Plasterer,
Shippensburg; Mrs. S. E. Fogelsanger,
Hagerstown; Arthur M. Brandt and
Olga Brandt, at home. Interment
was at Salemn Church. He was 65
years old.
Gettysburg Stands Aloof
From Government Food
Gettysburg. Pa., July 28.—Gettys
burg is not going wild over the offer
of the Government by which citizens
are 'given the opportunity to pur
chase foodstuffs owned by the Gov
ernment at cost. Burgess Elcholtz
received a communication several
days ago relative to the matter, but
as yet not a single citizen has made
application for any of the goods.
Slashes Throat and Tries
to End Life by Drowning
Cliumbersburg, Pa., July 28.
Charles McGinnls, aged 65 years, made
two unsuccessful attempts to com
mit suicidQ early yesterday morning.
First he cut his throat with a pen
knife, inflicting a gash three inches
long. Then he waded into the
Conocoehengue Creek, but was pulled
otit. He was taken to the hospital,
where his wound was dressed.
LEW I STOW N MAN PINED
York, July 28. J. I. Thomas, forty
three years old, of Lewistown, paid
55 to the police for a bit of traffic
education. He had parked his car in
front of a fire hydrant.
Central Pa. News
Liverpool— The official board of
the Methodist Church voted to re
pair the church and parsonage.
•Stglnaw, Pa.—Hushed with or
ders the plant of the Union Stone
Company is now operating 12 hours
a day.
Liverpool —A. E. Kerstetter, for
many secretary of the Liver
pool Board of Health, has tendered
his resignatoin to take effect at once.
Goldsboro— Five hundretj persons
attended the annual picnic of the
Smoketown Sunday school in Free's
woods, near town. The Goldsboro
band furnished music.
York Haven—Harvet Home was
celebrated yesterday forenoon by St.
Paul's Lutheran congregation, the
Rev. Clarence Hershey, pastor. A
large congregation assembled for
the devotions. 4
Mount Wolf Property owners
and supervisors of Springettsbury
township appeared before the county
commissioners and petitioned the
Improvement of Dlehl's Mill road
for a distance of five or six miles.
Mount Wolf —The annual outing
of the York County Luther League
Society will be hold at Cold Springs
Park, near here, on Saturday, Au
gust 9. The Boys' Band of the
Tressler Orphans' Home, Loysville,
will play.
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of the office. The Lacaster Cham
ber of Commerce, of which I. H.
weaver, a leading tobacoo dealer, is
president, has addressed letters to
seventeen city organizations, twenty
live county bodies, thlrty-tlve banks
within the county, and fifty-seven
banks and twenty chambers of com
merce throughout the other fourteen
counties of the district, urging them
to send representatives to the Wash
ington hearing. It is expected that
the Congressmen representing the
counties affected will be present, and
the arrangements contemplated an
impressive and vigorous face to face
protest with the head of the de
partment.
COMMITS SUICIDE
SAME AS BROTHER
Bride of Five Months Shoots
Herself With Gun at
Home of Parents
Reading, Pa., July 28.—Brooding
over some troubles, after a married
life of less than five months, 22-
year-old Edna Trexler, wife of How
ard Trexler committed suicide by
blowing off the top of her head with
a single-barrel shotgun at the home
of her parents, near Sinking Springs
Four months ago her 18-year-old
brother, Paul L. Rollman, committ
ed suicide in the same room and in
the same way. .
The young couple had some dif
ferences about two weeks ago when
the husband left and he had not
since been seen by the young wife.
Wife Slayer and Suicide
Buried Beside Victim
Altoona, Pa., July 28. —Brief fun
eral services followed by ' interment
in Rose Hill cemetery were held
on Saturday afternoon over the re
mains of John Walden, the Alle
gheny Furnace man who ended his
otvn life after shooting and killing
his wife a week ago. The service
was in charge of the local lodge of
Eagles and was conducted at the
funeral parlors of Lafferty & Tobias.
Food Burglars Make
Second Visit in Darkness
Mount Oarmel, Pa., July 28| —
After making a first haul when they
took everything that was in the
porch refrigerator, burglars made a
second trip Saturday night to the
home of Attorney C. Elmer John and
were discovered at work by a son
returning home at 12 o'clock. The
strangers had food collected togeth
er in the kitchen ready to be taken
away. They managed to escape. The
high cost of food is thought to have
been the motive.
Wife of Legation Secretary
Sings For Charmian Guests
Waynesboro, Pa, July 28. —D. W.
Forcade, secretary of the Mexican
Legation at Washington, D. C., to
gether with Mrs. Forcade, have been
spending sometime at the Clermont
Hotel, Charmian. Recently Mrs.
Farcade entertained the guests of
the hotel with her exquisite voice at
a lawn bridge and five hundred party.
Washington House Offered
For Sale But Withdrawn
Gettysburg, Pa., July 28.—Several
properties in the center of the town
went under the hammer on Saturday
at public sale. Of the two offered
one was sold, the property owned by
Mrs. George J. Wolfe, George W. Rex
was the purchaser at a price of $7,-
400. The other, the Washington
House, was withdrawn. Four thou
sand dollars was offered.
JOSnUA L. LAPP DIES
Marietta, July 28. Joshua L.
Lapp, 85 years old, the oldest of
Linevtlle citizen of Lineville, Lan
caster county, died last night from
apoplexy. He was a veteran of the
Civil War, and his parents were
among the first residents of this
Lancaster county village. A widow
i and nine children and several
grandchildren and great-grandchil
dren survive.
BRINGS FRENCH BRIDE HOME
Bellwood, July 28.—Sergeant Frank
R. Wesley arrived at home on Satur
day with his bride, a French girl
whom he married while In France.
Wesley received his training at Camp
Hancock, and sailed for France with
I a signal battalion with General Atter
bury's command. He was over a year
and a half in France, and was wedded
early In the spring.
BECOMES MINISTER'S BRIDE
Florin, July 28. Miss Naomi
Longenecker, daughter of the Rev.
and Mrs. J. H. Longenecker, was
married to the Rev. H. K. Geyer, the
Rev. N. L. Leinbach, of Philadel
phia, officiating. The ring cere
mony of the United Brethren church
was observed at the bride's home.
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HAJIRISBTJKG TELEGRAPH
RED MEN OF TWO
COUNTIES PARADE
New Oxford Scene of Big
Gathering of Fraternal
Order Members
New Oxford, Pa., July 28.—Red
Men of York and Adams counties held
their twelfth annual convention here
on Saturday. The event attracted
one of the largest gatherings the
town has ever entertained. Fourteen,
lodges from the two countries were
represented. The business of the
convention occupied the attention of
the delegates almost all day. Pre
ceding the closed sessions of the
lodge a public meeting was held, at
which the citizens of New Oxford as
sisted in the entertainment of the
I visitors. Address were made by
Charles E. Bell, of Philadelphia, Great
Sachem of the lodge for the State;
Hon. William H. Long, of Hanover,
Past Great Sachem; J. L. Williams, of
Gettysburg; -J. A. Cashman, burgess
of New Oxford, and John E. Wlsler,
of Mount Wolf, the president of
ficer of the convention. Hanover was
selected as the place of meeting for
next year. Perhaps the biggest
parade ever held here was given at
five o'clock in the afternoon. A large
number of prizes were awarded.
BANK TO HAVE NEW HOME
Hollldaysbnrg, Pa., July 28.—The
directors of the Hollidaysburg Trust
Company have decided to erect a new
bank building and business block on
the site of the company's present
home. It is expected operations will
be started within the year.
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< Judging now by the Warfacts —
The American Smoke
is a cigarette
NOT only because they proved such a rette is more popular than cigar or pipe
necessity with our fighting men on and as highly respected as either.
land and sea, but also perhaps because r\ • . ■,
, . j m / . . One cigarette m particular seems, as
they are the mildest form of smoking, .urn* r . l , '
. 3 4 • 6 the following facts show, to have won a
cigarettes have at last come into their own. ... V • a 1 r. • i
B position as America s first choice m smok-
Today among young men as well as old, ing, East and West, North and South
plain men and prominent citizens, the ciga- nation-wide. f#-**
—and one cigarette in particular:
\V asllincton Each day the Nation's capitol sees a new y UHflk
O throng of big professional and business men
A fnrt • from every state in the Union. *
1 * * But each day, at the Capitol Budding and *
at Washington's leading hotels, including the
Shoreham and the Willard, these changing
hundreds of men buy more Fatimas than any
other cigarette.
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Ju {Jjg AriHV At the big army training camps dnring the
J war were thousands of soldiers from each
A fnrt* State and Territory. At every one of these
*1 jaCI, camps, Fatima was a leader.
/ • •;> \\ f In fact, at many of them Fatima was steadily
.g. N ' the one largest seller. And over 740 million
x Fatimas were sent to our troops abroad.
JJJ jJjg NaW The officers in our Navy come, of course,
// / ' * from every part of America.
Ifi'i i ®V"'V A fnrt • But, regardless of where they come from,
\A\l | j'i N J I*l'* • Fatima suits most of them best. Of all the
1 1',* v / cigarettes sold in Officers' Mess throughout
j ' ) , the whole Navy, over 80* are Fatimas.
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With our NC N S e %TriT nw f ofle r n K e iS" l,
JJ Q pj. NC-3 and NC4 hailed perhaps from 15 differ-
But of the 15 men, twelve chose Fatimas
l ° . l^em com P an y on l^at long, lonely,
This, in three words, is the reason.
'•J "<ama mmN ' the choice of shrewd, knowing
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J s. HH H 1 Kb / The famous Fatima Turkish blend
IL -JHLM ▼ .ariHktae contains J"* l enough Turkish-just
m'~ • . enough to taste right and just enough
A £ 1 /al I £"V t / £ to leare a man feeling right, eren when
cA bensible Ltmrette h r k ir.r:;ri,^ m
L_s out-selling all of the fancy, expensive,
£* straight Turkish cigarettes—even at
I I 1 -#nv 7 O r+s%is% -i-r* places such as Palm Beach and French
£bk\J /vf Jm£ | Cvtt'o " Lick, and at America's smsrtast hotels
N and clubs,
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THIEF GETS $99
IN NIGHT VISIT
Takes $9.00 From Trousers
Pocket and S9O From C.
E. Beard's Wallet
Waynesboro, Pa., July 28. —A mid
night thief cleaned up 899 at the
home of C. E. Beard, in this city, last
night. He made a hole In the screen
door and lifted the latch. In the
trousers of Abram Hahn, lying be
side his bed, he got 29.
In the trousers of Beard," in an ad
joining bedroom, he took 290 from a
wallet. A watch lying on the bureau
was overlooked. The time was lo
cated about 11.30, as at that hour a
lodger upstairs heard the house cat
scampering up the stairway in ah
agitated manner as though badly
frightened.
Three Milkmen Fined
$25 and Costs at Carlisle
Carlisle, Pa., July 28. —Charles Losh,
F. B. Myers and J. Mullen were be
fore Justice Mullin charged will sell
ing milk that Aid not come up to the
State's standard. They were fined
225 and costs. Each paid 231.99.
SOLDIER OUT FOR SHERIFF
Chambrrshurg, Pa., July 28.—Cap
tain Roy R. Kriechbaum, who saw
hard service in France, has announced
his candidacy for sheriff, on the Re
publican ticket. He is the second ex
soldier to enter the political arena.
TWO WHO BREAK OUT
OF JAIL ARE TAKEN
Turnkey Beaten Into Insensibility by Inmate Who Takes
Keys and Opens Doors of Hollidaysburg's County Prison;
Kenny and Livingston Captured Hiding in Cellar'
Hollldaysburg, Pa., July 28.—Rob
ert Kenny and Gilbert Livingstone,
who with Edward Mrown, of Al
toona, escaped from the Blair
county jail at this place on Satur
day, were rounded up by officers in
the celler of a private residence aft
er being at large for two hours.
Brown was still at large last night.
Brown, who had the freedom of
the corridors, threw pepper into the
eyes of a trusty, Harry Gill, gnd
then beat the officer into insensibil
ity. He then used the officer's keys
to open the cells, liberating Kenny
Lima Beans Selling For
sl6 For 32-quart Crate
Hagerstown, Md., July 28. The
lima bean crop in Washington
county, due to favorable weather,
prohises to break all yield records.
The price, also, has broken all
records. The first lima beans of
the season were marketed at Kceds
vllle for shipment to Eastern mar
kets. The buyer paid 216 Per crate
of thirty-two quarts, or nearly
double the price two years ago.
JULY 28, 1919.
and Livingston. The three men es
caped over the jail walls.
Kenny and Livingston were dis
charged soldiers, who robbed the
residence of former State Senator J.
M. Jones last week. "3hey were
arrested In a Pittsburgh pawn shop
last Tuesday. By hiding themselves
in the railroad yards below the town
the fugitives eluded a large posse
of officers and citizens.
A former constable of the Fourth
ward of Altoona, who himself was
Incarcerated In the Jail, has been
servmg as a helper and who was
serving the prisoners with dinner .
Naval Commander Will
Wed General's Daughter
Lock Haven. July 28. Lieut.
Commander James Chatham Kress,
U. S. Navy, of this city, son of Cap
tain and Mrs. W. C. Kress, is to wed
Miss Gertrude Greely, daughter of
General A. W. Greely, U. S. Army,
according to an announcement made
in Washington. The wedding will
occur next month at the summer
home of the bride's family at Con
way, N. H.
THREE FAITHFUL
RAILMEN QUIT
Renovo Employes of Pennsy
Betired After Years of
Diligent Service
Rciiova, Pa., July 28. Three
faithful employes of the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company here have
been retired from service. Jacob O.
Ball, one of the best known em
ployes of the car shops, who en
tered the service of the company In
1881, but left the shop for several
months, returning August 20, 1882,
had been employed continuously
ever since.
Horace G. Hanna, who entered
the service in 1871, as an apprentice,
has also been retired.
John Bengston, another Pennsyl
vania Railroad employe, was retired.
He came to Renova from Halm
stead, Sweden, in 1882 and was em
ployed in the blacksmith shop.
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