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Central Penna's Best Furniture Store . §| NORTH MARKET SQUARE ♦ ; ' VEDNESDAY EVENING, sary to pay its operating expenses and fair return allowed by law be cause it has no other place to go. It is not a charitable institution. As patrons are not expected nor can they be compelled to pay more than reasonable rates, neither can public utilities bo expected to survive on rates less than produce revenue to pay proper operating expenses and a fair return. The utility in render ing the service and the public in a community accepting the same should bear in mind this inter-de pendent relation." The State of Pennsylvania has 216 contracts for road improvement un der way and they have a value of over $?3,006,000, according to esti mates made at the State Highway Department. The bids received for the 20 contracts offered on Tuesday were over $3,500,000. Some of the contracts will be readvertised. The National niufc Regimental col ors of the 110 th Infantry, which was formed of the old 10th Pennsylvania and other units of the National Guard of Pennsylvania and which fought through the campaigns of the 2Sth Division in France, have been received by Adjutant General Frank D. Beary for deposit in the State Capitol. The colors bear a streamer with the names of the six major Engagements and campaigns in which the regiment participated. They were sent to Major A. M. Por ter, of the Department of Public Grounds and Buildings, a veteran of the 10th Pennsylvania in the Spanish and Philippine Wars, who took them to the Adjutant General. The State now has the colors of all units of the Keystone division. Adjutant General Beary lias an nounced tlie retirement as a brigadier general under the provi sions of the act of 1919 of Col. Frank G. Sweeney, of Chester, for years inspector general of tho Na tional Guard and an officer in the infantry arm of the State for a long time. According to reports made to tlie Bureau of Chemistry of the State Department of Agriculture, the amount of potash found in commer cial fertilizers on sale in Pennsyl vania this fall is considerably in excess of the content in complete fertilizers, as they are termed in the I trade, during 1918. The reports i also shows more potash than In the j fertilizers sold in the spring. Prices are reported lower generally. In some instances as high/its 5 and 6 per cent of potash has been found, j The Bureau says: "The fertilizer situation this fall shows a decided improvement in the amount of pot tash supplied." Ilartman Named—Fred J. Hart man, of Pittsburgh, has been chosen to succeed William Lauder, of Rid dlesburg, as secretary of the State Industrial Board. Mr. Louder will remain with the Board. Dismissal of four State factory in spectors last night by Commissioner of Labor and Industry C. B. Con- I' nelley after investigations into their conduct and reports that they had been interested in some patented , safety devices is expected to instill into minds of people connected with State service that they can not have interests in anything that comes within their authority. Some days ago men in the State insurance serv ice were told they could not have anything to do with writing insur ance and orders have been given that men connected with various de partments who make addresses in ■ lifts with their duties cannot take ! presents or honorariums for their | talks. I The men dismissed were all Phila- I delphia inspectors. George J. Gor | man, Archibald M. Campbell, Ed j ward Rhoads and Samuel Atmore. I Henry Koenig, also of Philadelphia, j has resigned. Governor William C. Sproul will ' remain here all week keeping in ] touch with the strike situation in various parts of the State and ex ! pects to not only hear by telephone from places where strikes are under I way, but also to meet men who are j coming here to give first hand in ! formation on the subject. Ever ! since last Wednesday tho Governor ! lias been in constant touch with i Pittsburgh and other strike centers ; and the long-distance telephone has been in constant service. Pier Daniels, of Pittsburgh, S deputy prothonotary of the Su ; preme Court, has been appointed i prothonotary for Western Pennsyl- I vania to succeed the late George , Pearson. Early decision has been asked of ! the Dauphin county court by Deputy Attorney General William I. Schaf | fer in the demurrer in the Collins i suit to prevent payment of appro l prlations to hospitals and homes al '( leged to be sectarian. The argu ! ment was concluded before the Dau i phin county judges late yesterday ) afternoon. Over forty attorneys ap ' peared in the case and in addition to Mr. Schaffer, Deputy Attorney j General W. M. Hargest, Ex-Judge W. K. Stevens, of Reading, and John I T. Brady took part. F. C. Menamin, : of Philadelphia, spoke for Collins. State agri<-ultnral officials are out ! attending the various county this week, including Lancaster and i Philadelphia. Long Wear II BostpfPX |i| | QnrterAn § BABIUSBURG TELEGRAPH CONFLICTING CLAIMS ARE j>OURING IN [Continued from First Pngo.l ing, but from other sources it was discovered that conditions had great ly improved. At the Locust street watchbox where normally 7XO men report for work, 658 reported this morning. The frog shop Is running with a full force, the number of men strik ing from this department being neg ligible, it is said. The bridge shop is running In good shape with a number of men striking yesterday, back at work Seven out of nine furnaces In the open hearth are working. One of the two not running has been out of commission for several months. These condi tions were told by plant officials. Strikers Meet Daily In contrast with the above state ment are the reports given at the union headquarters, where the of ficers claim that a larger number of men are on strike to-day, and that their ranks are constantly increasing in number. Definite figures could not be secured. Daily meetings are held in Union Hall at two o'clock. At yesterday's meeting the speaker was John W. Brown, strike organizer, who ad dressed the men, and complimented the foreign born strikers for "show ing so much backbone in fighting for their rights." I-Je also scored the many Americans "who seemingly lacked the courage of their fore fathers." Five Men Held by Police The five men who were alleged to have been arrested last night by police explained this morning to Burgess McEntee that they were on tjheir way to work appre hended. Asked why they took such a round about way they replied that they were afraid to enter in by the proper gate because of the pickets posted there by the strikers. Although this story seemed to con flict with their attitude towards the policemen last night, \ the burgess took them at their word and left them go. They asked for protection BO that they could go to work with out fear of being molested. At the union headquarters this morning came reports from pickets that they had been told by police men to refrain from talking to men on the way to work and in a few cases had been roughly handled by the officers. Union officials this morning held a conference to dis cover if possible the truth of the reports brought in by pickets. After the conference the following state ment was made by Frank B. Tour son, secretary to John Brown, strike organizer: Resent Attitude "We resent very much the attitude of police officers towards our pickets. Especially so since Chief Longnaker has assured us that as long as our pickets remained quiet and peaceful they would not be disturbed. Ac cording to reports from our pickets they were ordered from their points of duty on the public highway. In each case they were ordered off by Bethlehem Steel Company police." Officials of the Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Company plant reported all departments in opera tion except the open hearth depart ment. That as far as has been learned the number of men out on strike was small. The return of more than >lOO men yesterday put several other departments In full running order. More men reported they would be back on their shifts to-day. Claim Increase in Number of Steelworkers in Ranks of Strikers By Associated Press. Pittsburgh, Oct I.—With labor leaders advancing the claim that all plants in the Pittsburgh district have been crippled by the steel workers' strike, and the employers maintain ing that more men are returning to work each day and that the mills are operated at nearly full time, the situation to-day remained as it has been for several days past, virtually unchanged. According to the latest figure* from strike headquarters 375,000 iron and steel workers of the coun try are on strike, this representing an increase of 33,000 over last week's total. A majority of the men who joined the strike during the last three days walker out from Bethlehem Steel Company plants and the Jones and Laughlln Company mills in Pittsburgh, strike leaders say. The first show of strength by the strikers came last night, when a meeting was held here. It was esti mated that more than 6,000 men at tended the session. Speakers urged the strikers to be peaceful and warn ed them to have no association with radical agitators. 1,500 Bethlehem Strikers Urge Kenyon to Investigate By Associated Press. Bethlehem, Pa., Oct. I. —Fifteen hundred strikers, forbidden from holding mass meetings here, sought refuge in Allentown last night and after a rousing session, addressed by Thomas Kennedy, President of dis trict No. 7, United Mine Workers, addressed a petition to Senator Ken yon asking his compiittee which is investigating the steel strike to in clude Bethlehem in the investigation. The petition says that the strike is the result of the failure of the col lective bargaining system of the com pany "which can be manipulated wholly for the interests of the com pany and to the detriment of the men." Judge Denounces Foster as Dangerous Enemy By Associated Press. Philadelphia, Oct. I.—William Zebulon Foster, leader of the strik ing steel workers, was bitterly de nounced as "a dangerous domestic enemy" by Judge Joseph Buffing ton, of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, to-day. Judge BufUngton with Circuit Judge Morris, of Wilmington, Del., presided over a session of the natur alization court to-day and he warn ed the prospective citizens to beware of such dangerous agitators as Foster. PICKETS MOLEST WOKRMEX By Associated Press. Sharon, Pa.. Oct. I.—When work men attempted to enter the plant of the Sharon Steel Hoop Company to day they were turned back by a crowd of pickets a short distance from the mill gate. Police were rushed to the mill and dispersed the pickets, one of them being placed under arrest for molesting workers. AID SOCIETY MEETS The regular monthy meeting of Iho Women's Aid Society of the Harrisburg Hospital will be held in the manager's room of the hospital, to-morrow ufternoon at 2 o'clock. This being tjie first meeting of the winter months a full attendance has been tequested g "The Live Store" "Always Reliable" | The Doutrich Policy What It Means Right here now is the most unmistak able evidence of the value to the public of this "Live Store's" merchandising methods and policy, which have made Doutrichs the largest distributor of men's and boys' good clothes in this section of Pennsylvania. In these days of high prices we are thinking more of the future than of the present dollar. We yg 11 have tremendous quantities of merchandise bought way under present market prices—not as a public benefaction, but as a hard headed business proposition, we are selling these goods just as low as we can, instead of for as much as we can get. I We could easily double our | profits this season and still give better