2 The Day s News in Cities and Towns of Central Pennsylvania STATE WILL TAKE 7 TOLL ROADS Three in Lancaster and Two in York Will Be Abolished Before Very Long Seven turnpikes will foon be taken over by the State of Pennsylvania • according to an amendment made today by the State Highway depart ment, deeds being now In prepara tion. Three of the toll roads are in Lancaster county, t vo in York and two In Montgomery. The State has asked York county ommissloners to Join In bus Ing the Hanover and Maryland at slS,s4> and the Y'ork and Chanceford at $47,500. The State Is to pay half. The two Lancaster County pikes now being taken over are the Clay and Hlnkletown turnpike, and the Columbia and Marietta turnpike. The price agreed upon for the Clay and Hinkletown turnpike Is $24,000; that tor the Columbia and Marietta is $5,000. The county will pay 50 per cent of the cost. The Clay and Hinkletown road is 9H miles long; the Columbia and Marietta, 3 miles. Lancaster County has also agreed to pay half of the cost of the Mar ietta and Maytown turnpike, which Is costing $3,000. This road is two miles long and final papers are now In course of preparation. The two Montgomery County turn pikes for which deeds are now being prepared are the Springhouse and Sumneytown pike, from Kulpsville to / Green Lane, about 10 miles; and Green Lane and Goshenhoppen, about 914 miles long. The cost of the form er is $25,000 and the latter $13,200. Half will be paid by the State and half by the county. In the case of the Green Lane and Goshenhoppen pike, Berks county will Join, inas much as 1.6 miles of this road lies i In Berks County. New Medical Chief Is Assigned to Army Hospital Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 16.—C01. Hor i ace D. Bloomberg, formerly com i manding officer of the Evacuation Hospital No. 12, A. E. F„ has ar rived here and been assigned chief i of the medical service at the Gov ernment Hospital. Colonel Bloomberg is a Kansas man. In January, 1918, he organ ised the unit later known as the Evacuation Hospital Xo. 12, at Fort Riley. This organization sailed for overseas servftre from Camp Dix on August 1, 1918. with a personnel of 34 officers and 235 enlisted men. The capacity of the entire hospital was placed at 1,500 beds. After the armistice, No. 12 was <he first evac uation hospital to arrive in the occu [ pied territory. At this time the hos pital was housing 2,000 people, handling 500 incoming patients and 450 evacuation cases in one day. Gertrode E. Todd, of Hagerstown, Md., is here to direct the social ac tivities of the nurses and recrea | tion aides. Miss Todd, who served in the British leave area in France for six months, comes highly recom mended as a Y. W. C. A. secretary and social director. No Speed Sign Up, This Traffic Violator Goes Free Waynesboro. Pa., Sept. 15. Thomas H. King, a manufacturer of this place, was arrested by Mo torcycle Policeman Thompson on evidence of several witnesses of the I act, charged with violation of the I traffic ordinances and was given a | hearing before Justice of the Peace j J. A. Potter, who for want of proofs, j dismissed the case. At the hearing it developed the I borough does not have any signs up j telling the rate of speed while the i State law requires that signs with letters five inches high be placed at least every one-eighth mile in con gested districts. Miner's Widow Dies, Leaving Four Orphans Willinmstown, Pa.. Sept. 15.—Mrs. Annie Davis, aged 32 years, died at the Williams Valley Hospital here. Her husband was killed in a mine accident last summer. Four chil dren survive. The remains were taken to Wiconisco where burial will be made. ** CUT THEIR CORN EARLY Livcrpool, Sept. 15.—Corn is being cut early in this vicinity this sea son on account of the damage done by flocks of blackbirds that are nest ing in this section and feeding on the grain. Shocking the corn will save it. POST TOASTIES jdEk are about the best u thing made from com that you ever did taste POST TOASTIES are not ordinary com flakes. A, special way of making gives them unusual sub stance and rich flavor. At Grocers. MONDAY EVENING, Labor Chooses Men to Support For Office Stuibury, Pa.. Sept. 15.—Politics came suddenly to the front in labor circles on Saturday when the or ganized unions of Northumberland county entered a list of candidates they will support for the nomina tions in both the Democratic and Republican parties. Upwards of thirty labor bodies are represented in the movement- Cards bearing the lists of aspirants for county offices the laboring' element will support were distributed through the large industrial centres of tho county. COMPLETES 26TH YEAR AS PASTOR Yeagertown Minister Beloved of People; May Keep on as Shepherd Lewistown, Pa., Sept. 15. The picture is that of the Rev. Dr. A. H. Spangler, of Yeagertown, this county, who has Just rounded out 26 years as pastor of the Logan pastorate of the Lutheran synod. This pastorate comprises the churches at Yeagertown. Reedsville - -IB REV. DR. A. H. SPANGLER and Alfarata. The trustees of these churches applied for and received a ruling that their pastor may re main as shepherd of these flocks as long as he is able to preach. Dr. Spangler has had offers from large churches where the salary is greater, but those offers have no attraction. He prefers to remain here among the people where he has become one of the most highly respected men in the community and where he can count all men friends and brothers. Dr. Spangler left the law business to enter the ministry. He came here from Pittsburgh 26 years ago. Dr. Spangler"s mother Is still living in Somerset county at the ripe old age of 98 years. Many at Funeral of Irene Letitia Sloat New Cumberland, Sept. 15.—Many relatives and friends attended the funeral of Irene Letitia Sloat at the home of her parents in Market Square on Saturday afternoon. The Rev. A. R. Avres, pastor of Trinity United Brethren church, preached an Impressive sermon. Members of the choir sang several selections. The pallbearers were Morris Hutton, Samuel Fisher, Bennle Sutton, Owen Best, Dewey Long, Chester Good. Among the beautiful flowers presented were a spray of pink and white roses from the Junior Christian Endeavor Society, and a large spray from her teachers, Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Miss McCracken and schoolmates. Burial was in Mount Olivet cemetejy. Automobiles in Crash; Another Turns Turtle Marietta, Sept. 15. Benjamin Kauffman, of Highmount, was se verely injured in an automobile crash near his home. Other occu pants of both cars escaped. The cars were wrecked. An Overland car turned turtle, landing in a field, injuring two men and wrecking the car, which went down an embankment of 15 feet. The men were Philadelphians and were taken to the hospital. CEREMONY MARKS NUN'S OBSEQUIES Dressed in Habit of Francis can Order With Manual in Her Hands York, Pa., Sept 15.—0n the anni versary of her entrance to the con vent, the funeral of Mary Elizabeth Helfrich, daughter of Sylvester Hel frich and postulant nun of the Third Order of St. Francis, Glenrlddle, Philadelphia, was held with all the ceremony and honors of the church and convent from the home of hor parents, 329 Cherry street, with mass at St. Mary's Catholic Church. This was the first funeral of a • nun in this'city and the first In i stance in the history of the order where the deceased was buried in the garb outside of the convent. Miss Helfrich was dressed in the full habit of a Franciscan nun, with her own manual in her hands. This per mission was granted by the superior general of the order, the Rev. Mother Mary Stanislaus, Glenrlddle. Three nuns of the Glenriddle convent at tended the funeral. Sister Mary Digna, Sister Mary Hildegarde and Sister Mary Pica. The parochial schools of St. Mary's parish were all closed to enable the sisters to attend the funeral. Short prayers were said at the house by the Sisters of Glenriddle and St. Mary's. The visiting nuns and the five Sisters of St. Mary's attended the funeral, following the casket, pre ceding the family to 'he church and the grave. St. Mary's school chil dren attended the funeral In a body and sang the mass. A solemn high | mass, in the Gregorian chant, was i sung under direction of Sister Mary i Madeliene, Superior of St. Mary's I convent, who presided at the organ. The cortege proceeded from the house to St. Mary's Catholic Church, where the mass was offered, the Rev. | George J. Breckel, pastor, acting as celebrant: the Rev. I-L J. Howarth, rector of St. Rose de Lima Church. I deacon; the Rev. J. N. Whalen, as sistant rector of St. Mary's Church, sub-deacon, and the Rev. C. M. Ehe halt. rector of St. Joseph's Church, Dallastown, master of ceremonies. [ The sermon was preached by the Rev. George J. Breckel, who took as his text, "Be ye Holy as I am Holy." Isaiah 1. Father Breckel depicted the end and aim of life as perfection, and pointed out that the deceased had selected as her voca tion the religious life, that of sacri fice, choosing the lowly task of work among the colored missions, bowing to the will of Almighty God. • The pallbearers were six young men, cousins of the deceased: Jo seph Feeser, Joseph Guebtner, Ro | man Shuman, Cletus Helfrich, John Taylor, of York, and John Helfrich, of Lancaster. Interment was made in the family plot at St Mary's Ceme tery. Among the people from out of town who attended the funeral were: Cletus Helfrich, seminarian of I Mount St Mary's, Emmitsburg; Mrs. Harry Diehl, Philadelphia: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Helfrich, Lancaster; Ralph Helfrich, Shamokin; Eliza beth Helfrich, Lancaster; Mrs. Kaetz and Mrs. Mary Braemer, Lancaster, and Miss Brady, Hanover. Woman Shoots Herself; Had Been in Sanitarium Hagerstown, Md.. Sept 15.—Mrs. Delia Thomas, wife of Arthur Thomas, while suffering from mel ancholia, attempted to commit sui cide by shooting herself In the breast with a pistol at the home of her father, Charles Deibert at Paramount. She inflicted a serious wound, but is expected to recover. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas went to visit the parents of the former. Securing a pistol belonging to her father, Mrs. Thomas slipped away from the other members of the family into the attic and shot herself. She had been suffering from the effects of a severe attack of influenza and had been in a sanatorium. Boy§ Find Body of Infant While Fishing I>c wis town. Pa., Sept. 15. —James Wheeler and Adam Smith, of Lewis town Junction, found the body of a male Infant near the mouth of the sewer at Lewistown Junction while fishing. Coroner Dr. J. W. Mitchell pronounced It an infant of prema ture birth and it probably was thrown into the water, as it could not have passed through the traps in the sewer. Hotel Employe Dies as Coffee Is Brought Him . Carlisle. Pa., Sept. 15. Stricken , with heart failure, Benjamin Smith, ! for many years an employe at the . Madison House in this place, died in the sample room of the hotel. He had complained of feeling badly and a waiter, George Sellers, had gone to the kitchen to get him a cup of coffee. When he returned with it he found Smith had expired. He was 70 years old and was a familiar character on the streets of this place. His wife survives. Little Lines From Nearby New Cumberland—Mr. and Mrs. F. Balr attended the Aldinger fam ily reunion at Brillhart, York county, on Saturday^ Mcchaniosburg—The funeral of Jacob Shugart was held in South Mlddleton township with burial at Churchtown this forenoon. Carlisle—Simpson Ott, a retired farmer living along the trolley line south of this place, will be 80 years old to-morrow and will celebrate the event. New Cumberland —Mr. and Mrs. D. Y. Yinger, Miss Grace ringer and Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Prowell are home from the G. A. R. encampment at Columbus, Ohio. Carlisle—Sergeant George B. Pres ton, who was reported killed over seas, was tendered a reception at his home at Middlesex. His obituary had been printed in several county newspapers. Mt. Holly Springs—Mrs. Mkry M. Fenton died here on Saturday morn ing, aged 52 years. Funeral serv ices will be held to-morrow after noon at 3 o'clock. Carlisle—George W. Willis, a prominent Baltoimorean who was graduated from Dickinson College at the age of 20. died at his home near Baltimore, aged 68 years. Cliambersburg—Reports from sev eral sections of Franklin county are that buzzards are seeking out and killing half-grown turkeys and the prediction is made that The national bird will be scarce and high in price hy Thanksgiving Day. Son Conducts Search For Father in Mountain Lewistown, Pa., Sept. 15. No trace of John Smith, of near Har riaburg, who disappeared from this section on August 24, lias yet been discovered. He carried about $l5O in cash and a SIOO Liberty Bond. George Smith, a son, and Joseph R. Peters, of Harrisburg, has been searching the mountains and lonely places for a trace of the man, but none has been found. The men have encountered many snakes and one of the searching party, James Brutin, was bitten. MARIETTA HOLDS BIG CELEBRATION Borough, Clad in Patriotic Garb, Gaily Welcomes Its Returned Soldiers Marietta, Pa., Sept. 15.—Marietta welcomed its soldiers home to-day in jubilant fashion. With hundreds of former residents here to Join in the celebration the event proved a big success. The two-day program began last evening with the river borough clad in most patriotic garb. Special prayers were offered in the churches. Last night hundreds of people, including returned heroes, Civil war and Spanish-American war veterans, wives, sweethearts and relatives, with the combined choirs and Sunday schools of the churches met on the school campus. Headed by the Liberty band of Marietta they proceeded to Centre Square singing, "Onward Christian Soldiers." The program rendered was as fol lows: Prelude, Liberty band; invo cation, the Rev. W. J. Huntsinger; singing, "America"; prayer, the Rev. Arthur Richards; singing, "The Awakening Chorus," combined choirs; reading Twenty-Third Psalm, the Rev. W. W. Moyer; gloria patri, choirs; beatitudes, the Rev. Herbert B. Pulsifer; singing. Hail Emanuel," choirs: addresses of welcome, John E. Malone, Esq.. and Bernard J. Myers, Esq., Lan caster; singing, "Star Spangled Banner", audience; response to ad dresses, Lieutenant Frank McClos key; solo, "We Welcome You," Dr. Frank Kocher; demobilization of service flag, B. Frank Hiestand. as sisted by Howard H. Hanlen, Sr., a veteran of the Spanish-American war. The boys were presented with a handsome gold star for their ser vices. Fitting remarks were made relative to those who gave their lives, and a cannon, the property of the Grand Army, was wreathed and drawn by six members of the Red Cross; silent tribute and pray er, Rev*. Francis J. S. Morrow, who was chairman of this celebration; taps; singing, "God Be With You, Till We Meet Again," audience; benediction, the Rev. Arthur W. Brandt. Postlude and a special musical program followed nntil a late hour. To-day was a red letter day. Their was sports this morn ing, and a parade of four divisions and amusements this afternoon. This evening there will be a con cert and dance on tho main thor oughfare. Old Trainman's Body Brought to Lewistown Lewis town, Pa., Sept. 16. The body of Charles F. Kissinger arrived here from Aspinwall, Pa., \vhere he was trainmaster on the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was an old railroad man, having been one of the first trainmasters of the Lewtstown division of the Pennsy at Lewiston Junction in the days of William Phillips as superintendent. He continued in this capacity until the office was re moved to Sunbury, when he took a position at the Jersey City Ferries and later was sent to Pittsburgh to assume charge of the Monon gahela division. The body was taken to Selinsgrove for burial. Potatoes More Profitable to Farmers Than Tobacco! Hallam, Pa., Sept 15. —Probably I the largest potato yield harvested in this section of York county was that of William Diets, whose crop is 1,800 bushels. The crop of W. W. Wilson now being packed will average more than 300 bushels to the acre. Farm ers will devote more acreage to the cultivation of tubers next year, they say, casting tobacco aside. Larger returns are obtained from growing potatoes, and In addition to requir ing less work the spuds are not sub ject to damage by storm, as is the tobacoo. Waynesboro Man Is Held as Fake Canvasser Hagcrstown, Md., Sept. 16.—El mer F. Seiple, of Waynesboro, Pa., was arrested in that place by Sheriff Starliper, of this city, and brought here to face a charge of false pre tenses. It is alleged he represented himself an agent for a pictorial pa paper and was taking subscriptions here. A warrant for Seiple's arrest was sworn out by Mrs. John H. Len ard, who said she gave him $2.50 for a subscription to the paper, which she failed to receive. Seiple. it is said, gave receipts signed "E. F. Green." (Other State news on Page 8) BITE With False Teeth? SURE Dr. Wernet's Powder If your dental plate is loose or drops, to get instant relief use Dr. Wernet's Powder regularly. You can eat, laugh, talk with ease. Guaranteed by Wernet Dental Mfg. Co., 116 Beekman St., N. Y. 25c, 50c, ft SI.OO. I At Drug and Department Stores. Refuse ! mi tat ion*. Thia da ihm nmitmmmi enmrfu . J Says Potatoes Are Not Worth More Than $1 Per Bushel and Sells Them Waynesboro, Pa.. Sept- 15.—Way nesboro claims the distinction of KITCHEN FURNITURE WEEK I at the Hoover Furniture Co. Stores Special Prices on All Kitchen Furniture Will Prevail All Week. Demonstrations of Kitchen Specialties Daily Detroit Vapor Oil Ranges This Elegant Kitchen Cabinet, "Burn Like Gas" S4S # OQ Heat-Cook-Bake at a cost impossible to any other Range on 111 ® the market. ' White porcelain top; roller-bearing doors; waxed oak No Wicks, Smoke or Odor outside finish; White-enamel interiors. An elegant cabi c n n , .• net com P lete in every detail at the price of an ordinary See Big Demonstration one . Sterling Electric Washing Machine Ideal Fireless Cookers (T*\ A practical cook tOVC f ° r home. I ( ( American Water-Motor Washers I\' V Cylinder type of water machine, <f T O 7K I \ I; M —.ll' llSgi/l ' with Cedar tub, fully guaranteed * & & —ll B anner Water-Motor Washers "Rubs the clothes like hand," revolving tub type with re- (jCO/l versible, universal wringer. 1 I (O A laundry in itself. Everything complete. Large steel ; bench for rinse-tub, bluing tub and basket. No stooping The highest grade water-motor 7!Z or lifting. $lO makes you a member of club. washer made r# %J Harrisburg VJF \T "jC" Carlisle, Pa. 14J7 N. 2nd St. f| , . JfC 23 W. Main St Open Evenings FIIXIII tllF© Co* Open Evenings having the only woman in the United States to voluntarily apply the Golden Rule In parting with her produce. She raised 26 bushels of potatoes in her back lot and de ducting the amount she needed for her family over the winter, some j i twelve bushels, she sold the balance ! for $1 a bushel, the local retail price | SEPTEMBER 15, 1919. being $2. Explaining her act, she said: "Potatoes were not worth more than $1 a bushel and why charge more in these times when people were being bled to death by those who produce and those who handle the necessaries of life." The name of this philanthropic woman is Mrs. Clinton Middlekauff.
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