Steamer Rock; Reaches Her Dock in Safety HB. N. S., Aug.' 26.—The Packet Company's j Chaudiere, is disabled at . |i, according to messages re- The steamer struck a I " Bhc sailed from here last 1 ' nearly 100 passengers j i.Bßbados and Demerara. The I jMre registers 2.500 tons. navigating the narrow ! I known as "Two Rock Pas- ; "Ho the Port of Bermuda yes- j the steamer struck, tearing ( her starboard side. Con- He water entered No. 1 hold. | -i steamer reached her dock : B She will be unable to con- ' .. jf Hirr voyage. :i ft at Mines Lower ■ban Year Ago, Is Claim Aug. 26.—Denying j I combination among bitumi- j 1 Ho:i 1 operators to fix prices ex- : D. A. Morrow, vice-president j , National Coal Association. ; Senate coal investigating! - to-day that such a com- i } would be impossible It' at- j J Prices at the mines, nc j declined under the com- | which prevails and are j ■ than they were a year ago. that the National Coat 1 is a combination to j . BBin prices are without founda- j fart," he declared: I cost of producing bitumi - i I is higher now than it was j .'•■B ago." he said, "due to the the mines then were oper- Bsa days a week and in many ■ now are onerating only four week and in some eases days a week. The over- of maintaining mints Bun just the same whether i ■s produced or not. When ' costs are considered ! with the general do- j in prices it is clear that j of bitumious coal operators i a BBiateriullv less than a year ago." j ■'XGSTKHS QUARANTINED was made that be of the quarantine for measles j ET'C Sylvan Heights Orphanage • H annual outing to have been Ben yesterday by the Motor Club ;B Harrisburg was abandoned for year. J. Clyde Myton, secretary ■ the club, announced however. B>t another treat is being planned ■lf the" youngsters. The outing i Bid been planned for the Sylvan , ■eights, Industrial Home and Nurs- Bv Home children, who were to ho Bken to Hershey Park. ■ . . ANNNIVERSARY BETHANY ORPHANSHOME WOMELSDORF THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 On the above date Hound Trip Ticket* will lie wold to Womcls dorf from stations named below ut rated annexed Rood on any train during the day. Children between 5 and lli years of age, hair rates. I | Spec'l From [ Fare |Lv. A.M. Harrisburg ...I $ 1.78 I 8.05 " Hummelstown ! 1.35 i 8.22 Swatara ] 1.23 1 8.28 Hersliey | 1.19 j 5!32 Palmyra 1.04 j 8.39 Annville I .83 1 8.49 Lebanon j .62 \ 9.00 Womelsdorf, ar.| 9.33 ♦Regular fare. 1 (War Tax S per cent, additional! KETlR\ l \(;—Special Train will lenvr Womelsdorf 5.2 p. j|. f or all stations to llarrisbiirß, con necting at I.ehanon for I.vkens and intermediate stations. Concert by RINGGOLD BAND Philadelphia & Reading Railroad MANY ijjj W GARMENTS : you now think are dead ones in your ward robe can be Revived and made to sparkle with Life. I You may be just a little anxious when our auto first carries them off. But you will be delighted when we re turn them New and Renewed. A TELEPHONE CAI.I. WILI, BRING OI K Al TO E GGERT' S 1243 MARKET STREET 801 l IR6O CLEANING, DYEING. PRESSING Dial 3717 ""HAVE YOUR " ,l,l "" L j LAWN MOWER PUT IN FIRST CLASS SHAPE Hedge Clippers—Grass Shears—Sides avd Edge Tools Sharpened , All Kinds of Machinery Repaired FEDERAL MACHINE SHOP Court and Cranberry Streets 2 ,ii , , ' TUESDAY EVENING, GEO. W. RHOADS HONORED BY G.A.R. New Department Commander Guest of Honor at Big Public Reception GEORGE W. RHOADS George W. Rhoads recently elect ed Department Commander the high est G. A. It. office in the State, was the guest of honor last evening at a reception given in his honor by j Post 38, G. A. It. More than fifty i members, in full uniform, paraded , from the lodge rooms at 26 North j Third street, to Technical High school, led by the Commonwealth i Band. Members of other city and Me jchantcsburg pests attended as did j members of Harrisburg Camp No. :13, Sons of Veterans, and members ; of the Ladies Circle of the G. A. R. ! Frank H. Hoy. Sr.. of Post 58. pre ! sided. i Lieutenant-Governor E. E. Beidle ; man was the first speaker. He spoke |of Mr. Rhoads. saying in par:: | "There has never been a mail in • the history of the Grand Army who i has been more faithful to his com rades than this man who has been | made Department Commander." • Other speakers included Philip Mover, of Harrisburg: Col. S. TJ. j Towne. of Philadelphia, Assistant i Adjutant General of the Department ■ of Pennsylvania: Adjutant Plover, of j Mecbanicsburg Post, No. 415. and several past commanders of Post. I "8. Mr. Rhoads made a few re marks. A short musical program was presented. Wholesale Facilities Wanted by Farmers ! The Chamber of Commerce com-! i mittee which has under considera- I tion tile matter of providing whole sale facilities for farmers and truck lers is hearing nothing but. approval lof the proposition. It is realized ; that every facility must be pro- 1 i vided for delivery of produce to city I dealers and consumers. Some farm- 1 i ers are understood to have resented i the forestalling ordinance to the ex tent of disposing of their stuff in j West Shore towns, compelling gro | cers and others to purchase their I supplies across the river. It is also • stated that some city dealers have | patronized York concerns, owing to ' the controversy over wholesaling here. It is believed that some deli | nite plan providing for wholesale | markets will be worked out soon. First Steps Taken For Erection of State Bridge j The State of Pennsylvania through j one branch of its government to-day I began proceedings to ask permission i from another for the construction jof the Soldiers and Sailors Memo- I rial Bridge authorized by the last ! Legislature to be a part of the Cap itol Park improvements, j The Board of Public Grounds and Buildings filed an application for a I certificate of convenience for the j huilding of the bridge from tlip I Public Service Commission which has jurisdiction where bridges cross public utilities. The application | contains notice to the city of Har risburg and the Pennsylvania rail road and will be heard on Septem | ber 11. Tether Ball Tournament State to Investigate Is Closely Contested Pittsburgh Strike The first round of girls' tether ball i , tournament played last night at 5 j of the city playgrounds resulted in j many close and hard fought contests, j ' Maclay, Reily, Reservoir, {Sycamore, j | and Penn survived the initial round | land will continue the tournament to-i I night. Maclay plays at Reily, S.vi a- | ' more at Penn and Boas, who drew tiie j i bye visits Reservoir, j Each of the five matches played at j Hamilton last night resulted in a ( three to two score. Hamilton won : the two junior matches, but lost the , three senior matches to Reily. Mabel | \t eigle, Jennie uooth and Katherine j i .Drake of Reily, defeated Serene Smith, j i Dolly Fetrow and Katherine Peeler, i jof Hamilton, respectively, by the j I three to two score. Mary Fester and j Dorothy Ncy, representing the jtieiiii.cn juniors. played Mildred i I Wlckersham and Mildred and Ffilkirl lof Reily and won in each case by i | three to two. j Playing at Emerald. Maclay won! three games: Charlotte Clauser, vs. j Martha De Hart, 3 to 0 Clare Rutter j vs. Vera Bretz, 3 to 1: and Fannie I Strickler vs. Mildred Enders, 3 to 1. ' The other two sots, juniors, fell to Emerald, Dorothy Jefferios defeating | Mildred I.owe, 3 to 1. and Kather- ! ine Fisher defeating Thelma Stipe, j 3 to 2. At Paxtang. Sycamore won three of j the five matches. Marie White play- , jed Elsie Zimmerman. 3 to 2; Mary Kavelic played Viola Gumma, 3 to 1. and Katherine Dunlavy won from Violet Zimmerman by the same score. I Paxtang won the other two matches. ] Margaret Gummo defeating Ruth ! Fritz, 3 to 2, and Jennie Rogers de- I teating Dora Smith, 3 to 1. ] At Penn all the games were 3to 2 scores. Winning for Penn were Anna Wilsbach, playing Katherine Klotz. | and Klda Forbes playing Dorothy j Shadel, and again Anna Wilsbac.i j playing Matilda Shaw. Winning for Harris were Margaret I Rudy, playing Alice Cohen and Ma : tilda Shear playing Dora Harris. Reservoir won from Twelfth i Street. Ada Kaufman, Ida Eintig and Dorothy Shuitz were the winning •players. The other matches were | I won by Reservoir by dcfai. lt. Kipona Celebration Is Inspiration of Song The Kipona celebration is making j the poets sit up and take notice. l)r. ' Hamilton has written an otticial i Kipona song and now comes 11. 13. Mihvard, writing to the Telegraph from Reading, to contribute the t'ol- 1 lowing song called Kipona, to be i sung to the tune of "Forsaken, 1 Foresaken," which is a real little ! gent of its kind: I On the many-bridged river that sparkles along, We, gather to revel in light and in song, O'er its bosom of beauty our gar- I lands are thrown Kipona, Kipona! Dear river our | own! O, city of Jewels! How fair thru the night, j On the clear sparkling water thy lights gleaming bright! jNo sapphires more radiant e'er gleamed from a throne, O, City of Jewels, our hearts are thine own. i O, this is our homeland! our hearts | hold thee dear, The song of thy waters Kipona we hear. In all Nature's music no sweeter is ' known, Kipona! Kipona! Dear river our: own! i Middletown U I William Garver, son of Mrs. Sol- ! onion Garver, of North Catherine street, found a bag under the Union j street subway on Saturday afternoon j containing over ?4U, which had been lost by Vernon Tritch, driver of tae i delivery truck of Hendrlckson, the | baker. Simon Landis, of town, met with I an accident Sunday afternoon. He I was going up Swatara Hill in ius ; automobile and when near Youngs- ! j port his machine skidded, throwing ! his machine over on the trolley j | tracks. The machine was slightly ! damaged and Mr. I-andls received a : j broken nose. I Agnes Shirley, the three-year-old 1 • daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jasper i j Shirley, of East Water street, fell ' jon the pavement in front of hci | j home while playing with some other | i children and broke her left arm at | j the shoulder. She was taken to the ! j Harrisburg Hospital where an X- i ! Ray was taken. The Daughters of Liberty of town j . will picnic at Hoffer Park on ! : Thursday of this week. I Mr. and Mrs. James Walsh and • son, Harold, of Norristown, are j | spending some time in town as the i ! guests of Mrs. Isaac Kspcnshado, | Spruce street. John Reiger, clerk In the Farm- I j ers' Bank, is off on a week's vaca- j i tion and has gone to Asbury Park, j ! N. J., with his sister, Mrs. J. F. I Naiers, of Philadelphia. Grant Crull has returned home j from a weekend visit to relatives j : at York. Miss Mary Engle is spendiug I some time at Wilmerding as the j I guest of her sister, Mrs. H. E. Co j baugh. I Mrs. Andrew Rehrer, who spent j the past two weeks in town, having | been called here on account of the ! serious illness of her brother, Henry | Hippie, of Swatara street, returned I to her home at J ancaster.' Mr. and Mrs. Wessley McCreary, I Miss Kathryn Essig and Earl Stipe | are spending several days at Mill i Creek as the guests of Mrs. Mc • Creary's brother, John Leiby, and | family, making the trip in the for ! mer's automobile. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Bausman, of ] South Union street, entertained in j honor of the former's brother, Wil ; liam Bausman and wife, who were I recently married at Hagerstown, Md., August 1. Those present were ■ Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bausman, Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Bausman, two daughters and Mr. and Mrs. William | Bausman. H. C. Lindemuth has returned | home from where he at j tended the Knights of Pythias con ( vention. The Sunday school class of the Methodist Sunday school and taught by N. C. Fuhrman, will picnic at Clifton on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. James Myers and daughter, of Wilmington, Del., are spending some time in HighspiVe and Middletown with relatives. John Ellsrode, of Pittsburgh, is spending some time in town as the. guest of his brother, G. O. Ellsrode and family. Spring street. The Middletown Praying Band will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Erastus Shaffer. State street, | this evening at T. 30 o'clock. Bennle Randall, who spent the ' weekend in town us the guest of j Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Etnoyer at the i Washington House, returned to his home at York. ' HAHFtISBURG TELEGRAPH Representatives of the State Gov ernment will go to Pittsburgh imme diately to make an investigation of the conditions surrounding the strike of the Pittsburgh Railways Company employes and the attempts of the receivers to operate cars. This ac tion was decided upon to-day by Ad jutant General Frank D. Beary, Deputy Attorney General R. S. Gaw throp and other otlicials after re ceipt of telegrams and messages from the receivers of the company and otlicials of the city as to con ditions. The receivers asked an in quiry as to the situation attending the running of cars. State officials emphasized the point that an inquiry was intended merely to obtain information as to condi tions and that the State could only act in emergency after local author ities exhausted all efforts. New rates and regulations of the Lewistown-Reedsville Water Com pany, were attacked in a complaint filed to-day before the Public Serv ice Commission by J. L. Shreffler. J. ' ■ Taylor and W. 11. Miller, residents of Lewistown. The commission will —| S Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart ■ / / j New Bedroom Furniture Joins the August Sale Mr 4- &I I ??? ! hbJm ! l his will be an Snterestin £ xveek in the ■lk lij Mir ! ( | v t pat { Furniture Section/ despite the fact that it is if j jj If] i JJy ie ' as * wcck ot yhe sale. A belated ship jJL —— L.j| W niCnt ° f bcdroom furniture has just been un ljl I 1 il j it packed and placed on the floor. j| 1 i M.uj | ||: This August Furniture Sale has distri =■= *1 | y s 'irTi __ buted values that arc impossible to dupli " " '— cate to_da >'- Tt fortunate for those who and wb ° are s f )ccia,l y in I1CC(I °f bedroom j I" l )icccs - that l!lis lot of goods came in in time 1 I for the wind-up of the sale. A week later j £ would have seen the passing of the August 31ii _f Sale and everything on the floor marked at Tapestry wing chairs and rockers. Aug- ~ I ■ If New and charming adaptations of ad desigr.-s with a finish that smacks of the old work ust Sale Price $29.50 6t--~ - - manship. Made from finest stock, gracefully carved, hand-rubbed to a dull gleam with ■■ ■ J- Jl unusual lights and shadows. $59.00 mahogany book cases. August Sale *55.00 set of six mahogany dining chairs, brown leather seats. August Sale price, $27.50 r " ce $39.00 | Solid mahogany dining room suite in Queen Anne period, nine pieces. August Sale $125.00 tapestry davenports; 78 inches I U price. ', $210.00 long. August Sale Price, $lOO 00 1 11 . Queen Anne dining room suites, 66-iich buffet, 54-inch extension table, six leather seat cJ \ chairs. August Sale price $"9O 00 Mahogany library table, of the William II J 1 Queen Anne dining room suite, in American walnut." '6O-inch buffet,' '4B-inch' extension ami Mary period, with book shelf and w w table and six leather seat chairs. Augmt Sale price .... s°7s oo long drapers. August Sale Price, $28.50 $24.50 fibre chairs $11.25 i $6.95 walnut chairs, ..... # # ....... .$3.50 _ , _ „ , __ . $24.50 fibre rockers, .$.'2.25 I $9.50 old ivorv chairs Dives. Pomeroy & Stewart, I' les to $19.50 Price * 2 - 50 t0 $8.95. Dues, Pomeroy & Stewart, Men's Store. Street Floor. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Second Floor. ' ''- - J call *ipon the company for an I answer. ' Hearing was held to-day by Com missioner S. M. Clement, Jr., on ap plications for merging of electric companies chartered for Carbon county into the Industrial Power i Company and for the merging of the j Hehigli Navigation Electric Com- j pany, with the Lehigh Valley Light j and Power Company. General W. G. Price, Jr., com-I mander of the new National Guard, I and General C. T. Cresswell, com mander of the Reserve Militia, are , in Pittsburgh in connection with . militia matters. BUILDING PERMITS John McKonly, contractor for John C. Beck, secured a building j permit to-day to erect a one and i one-half story brick house at the | southwest corner of Nineteenth and I Sycamore streets, at a cost of $3,- j 500. C. F5. Haul man. contractor j for Mrs. Ella M. Hagerling, will re model the property at 30 South I Thirteenth street, making apart- I ments. The improvements will j cost $3,500. Other permits were ' issued as follows: Homer Simon- j etti. H. G. Hippie, contractor, re modeling 305 Chestnut, $800: W. F. Boyer. one-story concrete building, 1821 North Seventh, $2OO. In Again, Out Again, "Sonny" White's Record "Off again, on again" Finnegan i had nothing on "Sonny" White, col l ored, who might quite properly be | dubbed "In again, out again" White. "Sonny" has the rather unfortu- I nate faculty of being able to get into I the clutches of the law within as short a time after being freed, as I few other Harrisburg men. This afternoon he will appear in police court to answer a charge of having raised a disturbance with Jeanette Leonard, Cowdeu and Uorr street, last evening. He had been released on a larceny charge just a i short time ago, and even before that, | he had a record of fair length at po j lice headquarters. 1 DEMOCRATS TO EAT HARD SHELL CRABS A banquet will be given this evcn j ing in the rooms of the Central 1 Democratic Club, with hard shell | crabs as a feature of the menu. Ad | dresses will be made by candidates. CLINIC TO REOPEN Austin N. Miller, secretary of the j Mental Clinic, announced that the work of that organization will be 1919. resumed a week or two after the schools reopen. Find Mosquitoes Worse Than the Bolsheviki ICcni, Russian Lapland, Aug. 2 6. American railway forces and other Allied troops operating on the Mur mansk front this summer found the Arctic mosquitoes worse foes than the Bolsheviki. "After the war is over," one Yank recently told the cprrespondent. "we're, going to come up here and organize an expedition to hunt these mosquitoes for their ivory. They're ' not like ordinary mosquitoes. They buzz up. bite a piece out of your leg, and then fly away into the trees and eat it." ••DRYS" TO JIKKI SOON Wcxtervllle. Ohio. Aug. 26.—Ernest H. Cherrington, secretary of the x- I ecutive committee of the Anti-S.r -j loon League, to-d ly announced that a conference of the officials of the national organization and the super intendents of all State Leagues will I be held in Chicago September 17 and i 18 to take steps for law enforcement j in the United States and prohibition I efforts in other countries. German Proposal fto Pay For Work Done By Press. Berlin, Aug. 2. M — The Vorwaerts, the Socialist prints a sensa tional article onj the approaching transport crisis fin connection with the coal output/ and makes the fol lowing revolutionary proposals: That workmen be plaid according to the actual work dlone by them; that workmen musft .be made to under stand that golod pay is only obtain able in rcturln for good work, and that capable fworkers must have the opportunity 110 earn, by greater ap plication torwork, more than the amount represented by a fixed scale. F.'lvOK LEAGUES Thirty-e/ght labor organizations, with a mc/mbership of 7,800 work men, through delegates voted unanimoi/isly to approve the League of Natioiis, the Labor Charter and the Pea