MANY BEAVER TO
BE PUTIN WOODS
Plans Made by the State Game
Commission For Propaga
tion of Old-Time Game '
ing developed by
about P lOO beaver
5. on the S ame pre "
serves located In
State forests dur-
S months as an cx
succeeds the
commission officials believe that'
they will be able to obtain many
more and to undertake somf ex
tensive stocking of the tracts set
aside for game conservation and
propagation. Orders liave been
placed for the beaver and the idea
Is to placo six or eight on each of
preserves.
According to what officials of tho
•"-.mrolasion say there arc now only
n few colonics of beaver in the
State. None of them is wild, all
having beor. placed in the woods by
wild lovers itfid persons interested
in such animals. These colonics are
in Potter county. A few years ago
there was a colony in Monroe coun
ty, but it has not been heard of
lately.
The commission is also arranging
to secure .Mexican quail to distribute
in tlio woods and has contracts for
numerous pheasants.
Permits Issued. —Tho State De
partment of Health has issued per
mits for extension of the sewer sys
tems of over a score of Pennsyl
vania cities and boroughs in the
last few weeks. Among them are
Sharon, Bradford. Lewistown, Mey
ersdale. 'l'hroop, Dunmore and
Forty Fort. Plans have also been
approved for the construction of a
comprehensive sewerago system and
sewage treatment works at Eliza
betbtown. Water improvements
have been approved for Tamaqua,
Mauch Chunk and Dushore.
Now Engineer.—The State High
way Department to-day announced
the appointment of 11. S. Matti
more as engineer of tests succeed
ing Julius Adler, who resigned to
accept a position with a big manu
facturing concern at Philadelphia.
Mr. Adler had been engineer for
four years, coming here from the
Philadelphia bureau of highways.
Mr. Mattimore has had experience
in testing for the national and vari
ous State governments.
State-Wide Meeting. Governor
William C. Sproul and various State
officials have accepted invitations to
attend the first annual meeting of
the Pennsylvania State Chamber of
Commerce at the Penn-Harris Sep
tember 29 and 30. An unusual list
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Sunday Excursion
TO
Willow Grove
September 14
SPECIAL EXCURSION TRAIN
From Fare Lv.A.M.
Harrisburg .... $2.50 6.00
Hummelstown . 2.50 6.18
Swatara 2.50 6.24
Hcrshey 2.50 6.27
Palmyra 2.50 6.35
Annville 2.50 6.45
Lebanon 2.50 6.57
Willow Grove, ar. 10.16
(War Tux 8 Per Cent. Additional)
"RETURNING Special
train will leave Willow
Grove 9.00 P. M. for above
stations.
Tickets good only on date of
excursion on above Special Trail*
In each direction. Children be
tween 5 and 12 years of age half
fare.
Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad
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Asthma
Hay Fever
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Using a remedy that is auto
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SATURDAY EVENING, HATtRiSBURG TFT.FGRAJPH SEPTEMBER 6, 1919.
of questions will be considered at
the sessions and will be mailed to
each member two weeks in advance
of the meeting.
Contract Lot.—The contract for
construction of road work on route
No. 76 of the State highway sys
tem in Allegheny county; has been
awarded to M. O'Harron Company,
Pittsburgh, at $225,204.04.
Huge Calendar. Seventy-nine
hearings including complaints, con
tracts and applications for char
ters for electric and other compan
ies, are scheduled for the Public
Service Commission next week and
the hearings will be held in Har
risburg, Stroudsburg, Wilkes-Barre
and Pittsburgh, a special calendar
of thirty-nine cases having been
made up for the latter city com
mencing Thursday. The State's
own application for the construction
of the Memorial Bridge in Capitol
Park comes up on Thursday. The
complaints include water, electric
rate, grade crossing and similar
complaints from Schuylkill, Colum
bia, Luzerne, Indiana, Lancaster,
Monroe, Northumberland. Allegheny
and other countries. In one in
stance a request is made for issu
ance of excess toll certificates by a
turnpike company, while in another
a natural gas company asks the
right to discontinue service. Twen
ty-three electric companies in Clar
ion, Butler and Armstrong com
panies are asking cljarters.
Up to Police. State Highway-
Department authorities to-day de
clared that it was up to local au
thorities to enforce the act of June
12, requiring lights on all vehicles
moving on highways of Pennsyl
vania after dark and forbidding
passing street cars on the side
where passengers are laaving or
boarding a car. Complaints have
been made that in some instances
the law is not being enforced and
the department says that the act
makes police officials responsible.
For Stool Towers. —An appro
priation of $7,200 has been made by
the State Forest Commission for the
erection of six steel fire towers to
be used for observation purposes in
central Pennsylvania State forests.
These tours are to be built at once
and will be modelled after some of
those which have been successfully
used In eastern Pennsylvania forest
tracts which are privately owned.
It is the beginning of development
of a forest fire fighting system of
the State government which now
has over a million acres of wood
land, some of which is Just com
mencing to pay a handsome re
turn.
Autos Break Record.—The num
ber of automobiles in use in Penn
sylvania is 50,000 greater than last
year. The number of licenses is
sued for automobiles and trucks is
greater than expected at this time,
the issuance of license No. 425,000
for a pneumatic tired machine hav
ing just been announced. The last
1918 license was No. 371,690.
Penbrook Contract The con
tract between the Harrlsburg Light
and Power Company and the bor
ough of Penbrook for street lighting
for five years, is listed for presenta
tion to the Public Service Commis
sion next week.
Many Detours ■ — The State High
way Department has listed more
than eighty detours on State high
ways due to construction work.
There are only two in this section,
Clark's Ferry and near Lebanon.
Will Help Town The State
Highway Department is arranging
to have a survey made at Littles
town to determine what road im
provements are needed. This is the
result of tho call of the committee
made yesterday at the Highway De
partment.
Carson Honored Hampton L.
Carson, former Attorney General,
has been unanimously selected to be
president of the American Bar As
sociation.
Bcidleman a Speaker Lieuten
ant Governor Edward E. Beidleman
represented the State at the banquet
of the American Chemical Society
at Philadelphia, last evening.
Clement to Report Public Serv
ice Commissioner Samuel M. Clem
ent, Jr., will on Monday submit the
report of Commissioner James S.
Benn and himself on the Philadel
phia taxicab situation to the Public
Service Commission. It is likely
that further steps will be taken and
the inquiry broadened.
Maurer's Idea —James 11. Maurer,
president of the State Federation of
Labor, is quoted, at Reading as say
ing that th/ cdtaimunist outfit at
Chicago had their feet in the air and
their heads in Europe.
Increase Filed The Cumberland
\ alley Creamery and Dairy Com
pany, of Chambersburg, filed notice
of an increase of stock from $4 5,000
to $250,000.
Martin to Help—Dr. Edward Mar
tin, commissioner of health, yester
day pledged co-operation of his de
partment in the campaign against
tuberculosis in Philadelphia.
Tenants Win In four of the ac
tions started by Philadelphia ten
ants to prevent rent gouging the
Suporior Court has upheld the ten
ants organization and the cases of
others will be reviewed. The action
was taken under one of the new
laws.
State to Watch The State will
be represented at the investigation
of the Eastern penitentiary which
starts to-day.
Httzleton to Fight Mayor Heid
enreich, of llazleton, is planning the
campaign against Increased water
rates in that city which comes to a
hearing before the Public Service
Commission next week. People are
sending paid water bills to the Mayor
to show the payments.
Registration in
Philadelphia Today
This is the final day for registra
tion in Philadelphia and the greatest
interest is being manifested at the
State Capitol. The Moore people
would like to see from 75,000 to 80 -
000 of the 132,000 persons unregis
tered put down their names but the
Vares say that there will not be more
than 50,000.
Pittsburgh registration Is claimed
by the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times
anti-Leslie, to show that the Senator
is going to be defeated. It is figured
out that the registration for Thurs
day, the first day, will be over 43-
000. In previous years the first
day's registration has run about 32,-
Next Saturday is the last regis
tration day for third-class cities.
Declares U. S. Troops Are
Used as Catspaw of Allies
Washington, D. C., Sept. 6.
American troops are in Russia in
violation of constitutional authority,
and simply to carry out the politics
of Russia and Japan, S rnator Borah,
of Idaho, charged yeuterdny in an
impassioned plea for the Immediate
return of the American troops before
the winter season sets in and ties
them up in Russia until next sum
mer.
President Wilson has said that
United States troops are in Russia
to protect a railroad, the Senator
said, but Winston Churchill has re
vealed the true purpose when he
said that the troops are there to
establish a government that is pleas
ing to the Allied Powers.
New York Decides
to Make Wednesday Part
Holiday to Greet Pershing
New York, Sept. 6.—Funds weie
provided for the Board of Alder
men yesterday to insure a
worthy of the city for General
Pershing and the famous First Di
vision. The last of the troops came
home on the transports which ai
rived yesterday and the commander
in-chief of the Expeditionary Forces
will return on the Leviathan which
is due early Monday morning.
Not only did the Aldermen ap
I "The Live Store OpCJT T "Always Reliable" I
Of Our Semi-Annual |
I Where Everything Is Marked Down (Except Collars And Interwoven Hose) E
Monday will be too late to attend this sale This has been
the most successful "clean-up" we have ever held. There is yet time for you and your friends to
take advantage of our extremely low prices. Yes, we will be rushed and there's no excuse why we shouldn't be,
we are selling at prices that would tempt anybody to "spend to save."
We are just finishing the most wonderful season in the history of the store.
Merchandise has gone from here in tremendous quantities, we have made room for Fall stocks, our warerooms
are being restocked with Fall goods, and had it not been for this big mid-Summer sale we would Have been greatly handicapped in
finding space to contain our incoming shipments. Today, Saturday, we will transact the greatest volume of business that has ever been
done in this "Live Store" in a single day. It will be a regular "Garrison" finish, leading and outclassing any previous records.
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We will be glad to have you and your friends come here and wit
ness this closing event, we know you will be enthusiastic about how freely the thrifty buyers
spend their money at Doutrichs because they get such great returns for it in square-dealing, honest representation
and greater values.
—"Sale Ends Tonight"— j
Shirts—Hosiery—Pajamas—Underwear—Neckwear—Sweaters— 1
!! Gloves—Bath Robes—Men's and Boys' Caps—Overalls—Trousers 1
j —Work Shirts—Rain Coats—Boys' Suits—Knee Pants—Belts— 1
I At our extremely low Prices and all I
Hart Schaffner&Marx, Kuppenheimer |
& Society Brand Clothes I
propriate $lOO,OOO to pay the wel
coming expenses but they declarod (
next Wednesday, when the division
will parade with Pershing at its
head, a holiday in all city depart
ments. The funds set aside yester
day will make a total of $550,000
expended by New York in tho en
tertainment of home-coming sol
diers.
"Bill" Donnelly's Feat
With Snipers Wins Medal
New York, Sept.. 6. One lieu
tenant colonel, twelve other officers
and 250 snipers of the German Army
cried "kamerad" to Sergeant "Billy"
Donnelly, a fighting Irish member
of Company B, Eighteenth Infantry,
during the second battle of the
Marne and thereby placed Ser
geant "Bill" up In the class with
Sergeant Alvin C. York, of Pall Mall,
Tenn., champion hero of the World
War It was announced here.
York killed more than twenty
Germans, put thirty-five machine
gun nests out of business and took
prisoner 132 of the enemy, includ
ing a major.
Donnelly, according to his official
record, with a squad of six men,
"surrounded" a chateau in which
German snipers were at work, drove
them to their "bomb-proof," and
then loudly called for grenades with
which to blow them up.
The result was that all surrend
ered, filed out and marched back to
tho First Division lines under Don
nel'.v's able direction, and won Ser
geant "Bill" the French Military
Medal and rocommendatiOn for the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
Members of Sergeant "Bill's" com
pany at Camp Mills announced con
fidently to-night that "General Per
shing and the First Division will
parade with 'Bill' on Wednesday."
ABOLITION OF 'JIM CROW' CAR
Washington, Sept. 6.—Abolition of
the "Jim Crow" car in interstate rail
road traffic was urged before the
House Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee. Representative
Madden (Republican. Illinois), who
has Introduced a bill requiring "equal
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and identical rights,
and privileges" for both raeei^^^'-
way trains, urged that
part of the Esch railroad bill.
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