. NEW RULINGS ON RETIREMENTS Attorney General's Depart ment Decides Two Ques tions For Teachers Under an opln- Balsh, Secretary 7 ot the state Public £ School Employes' Retirement Board, uJBMwWWWf' ° eneral a Bepaid not received back any contributions to which he or she may be entitled, shall receive upon retirement the full benefits allow able. This is to be done whether the retirement is for disability or superannuation. It is also held that the rule to follow in commuting the State anuulty is that "the one one-hun dred-sixtieth of the final salary is for each year of service up to the age of 62, but not beyond that." First service records of Pciuisyl vanians in the war to be received at the Adjutant General's office from tho National Government have been sent by the Marine Corps, which has forwarded a large packet of cards containing records of Pennsylvanians who served in that branch of the Navy. The cards will be gone over and a card index established by Adjutant General Beary for purposes of reference. Governor Sproul wfll leave early Saturday for a.vacation of ten days. Highway Conimi>wioiier L. S. Sad ler Is to be a guest of Scranton high way enthusiasts to-morrow evening. Tho Berks OOunty Historical So ciety will have Governor Sproul as its guest on December 15. Dr. • Thomas K. Muiice, State "Veterinarian, is at New Orleans at tending the annual convention of the American Veterinary Medical So ciety. In addition to being an active member of the association, he rep resents the Eastern district of the United States on the executive board and is also a member of the legisla tive committee. Justioo John W. Keplm.it, of the Supreme Court, visifed tjie State Capitol yesterday. Superi#tendont T. W. Temploton, who had been 111 at his home In YVllkes-Barre, has returned to the Capitol. The Public Service Commission has granted the petition of the rail roads of the Slate for blanket author ity to file on short notice revisions of the consolidated freight classifica tions. It is expected that these changes will be filed with the Inter state Comraerco Commission and the State Commissions. It was stated at the offices of the Commission that this did not carry with it an in crease in rates, but that they will make uniform certain rules and de scriptions. Tile Public Service Commission has been asked to order re-established the agency station at Osceola on the New York Central lines in Tioga county. This agency was closed by the Railroad Administration during the war and this is the first effort to have a reopening. Dr. C. B. Couiiclley, tho now State Commissioner of Labor and Industry, is the first man to take the oath of office before the State Board of Par dons. He was commissioned yester day as Commissioner, having been active during the absence of Col. John Price Jackson in Europe, and 1 was there to make a sketch of I (Iron's Hoar like u feast. Tor the her. Luncheon was Just over, ancMpiuy toddlers there is a varied she was talking to a little knot oflnenu, sometimes Uneeda Biscuit women. The first words I heard, a milk, sometimes Graham Crack- I slid quietly into a nearby seat, werArs, Oatmeal Crackers or Lunch Bls "National Biscuit," is changed on special antly my own tasty Old Time Sugar Cook* eon. I liked her, and settled comßes or Fig Newtons and, rarest of fortohly as d I ** l sheasT)uo tiug\"there's Tlway*s ':3 ''L)on't think n"y°hour is Just a bit of pause when all the worlcßunch hour. It started us happily, seems waiting and and made us sure they children. Since every day—for things, I've we must feed habits. rne verdict IS we must ToZjr alwa y s the same because^^'thei? no Uneeda Biscuit are always the off same—their uniform lightness, crisp- Jj ness, and wholesomeness having won mi them the foremost position m 1 the biscuit world Bj BBCurr^" 8A ® hour " K| c 11 Beem 'Of I I°J HssiPs3Wood heavy enough Hour.M|l kyw BMldlSSinh dinner, but alwaya "You H® f PsSffKflld always dainty, al went on, Jf|W Iw^diBVr as only National nials. They arc ijj_ |i l ts can be. During the most tractable after IrftSSgSiigg INIIMMM my babies were growing something to eat. National rWUtg] W&** never missed the Chll dainties always begin ous cHBBWn'o Hour with ita tastv feast. Bliss Native Herbs-Tablets the Only Medicine that Dees the Work In the Bight Way "Enclosed find a one dollar money pation, kidney and liver complaint, order, please send to me one box and the many ills arising from a Bliss Native llerb Tablets. I have disordered stomach. When you buy used one box. At first 1 took two a box of Bliss Native Herb Tablets tablets every night and now I you receive a guarantee that If they about one-fifth of a tablet every don't do all we claim for them your night as my bowels are more legu- money will be refunded. Start in lar. I have suffered from constipa- to-day and begin taking them. One )tion for eighteen years, and that is j tablet at night will make the next the only medicine that has done the day bright. The genuine Bliss NR. work in the right way. tlve Herb Tablets are put up In yeI "RKV. BEN WEST, low boxes of two hundred tablets \ Houston, Tex." each, and bear the photograph I Every mall firings us testimonials of Alonzo O. Bliss. Look for [ from people in all walks of life as the trade mark on evert •SOJ |to the beneficial results from taking tablet. I Bliss Native Herb Tablets. They Price $1 per box. Sold by leading 1 are the only recognized standard druggists and local agents every- I herb remedy for the relief of consti- where. I DBB JK NV HP THERE IS NOTHING I H FV H B=L MF BETTER THAN THIS I ■ - -T- TZZ— PURELY VEGETABLE I ■ LITTLE LIVER compound ■ FOR CONSTIPATION. ■ PI MINERAL REMEDIES I I ■ ■ \ OFTEN CAUSE LRFFCFVVOIT RHEUMATISM. RfWyE^\ f oR ™ I THURSDAY EVENING, on his resignation was named to be Commissioner. As Secretary of the Commonwealth Cyrus E. Woods was sitting with the board and it was important that he be sworn in at once, the Commissioner went to the Supreme Court chamber and the proceedings stopped while the oath was administered. Senator David Martin, of Phila delphia, was among the callers at the office of the Governor. He came to sec about some appointments. State Chairman William E. Crow was also among the Governor's visi tors. Governor Sproul assured a com mittee representing the Irish-Amer ican League of Northeastern Penn sylvania that he would attend the St. Patrick's day dinner at Scranton if possible. The Governor was un able to attend the dinner last March, owing to illness. Defends His Right to Send Children to Grade Schools Wealdstone. Eng.,. Nov. 20.—The local council here does not approve of Dr. Christopher Addison, min ister of health, with a salary of $2*5,000 a year, sending his daugh ters to a public secondary school at Harrow where the fees are only $lO a term. One councillor stated that ho did not consider that people with <>25,- 000 a year should monopolize the school which was Intended for the masses. There was a waiting list of 75. Dr. Addison replied that he would gladly pay higher fees if the rules permitted and declared that he had as much right as any other citizen to send his children to a public sec ondary school. "In my view," he added, "much advantage would accrue if there were less class distinction in our schools." U. S. Lets Down Bars to German Visitors Washington, Nov. 20.—The State Department announced that the bars had been let down to permit from now on the visit of German citizens to the United States on commercial missions. As a special dispensation permits recently were issued for the visit from Germany to the United States of an unofficial mission com posed of reputable German business men who are coming here to pur chase large quantities of raw mate rials for their respective industries. This policy has now been made general except that in each case tho most rigid precautions will be taken to prevent Germans coming to this country for ulterior purposes and to bar those German who might for some reason be objectionable. Freight Rates in Britain to Go Up London, Nov. 20. —Freight rates In Great Britain will soon be in creased by approximately fifty per cent, it Is stated. Passenger rates were increased by a like percentage during the war and have remained at that level ever since. Launch First Steel Barge For River Line Pittsburgh, Nov. 20. —The first of 15 steel barges for the Government for use in the Mississippi River service has been launched by the Dravo Contracting Company from its plant on Neville Island. BRUSHTOWNER i REFUSED AGAIN j State Board of Pardons De- I clines to Grant Rehearing to Israel Patterson" I The State Board of Pardons last | night announced that it had refused |to grant a rehearing to Israel Pat terson, the Brushtown bandit who was given the heaviest sentence as far as imprisonment goes ever im posed in Cumberland county, some years ago for robbery. Protests i against pardon of Patterson came | from ex-Judge W. F. Sadler, district j attorneys and citizens. I The Board was not in a very leni j ent mood. It had the longest list known in years and the decisions were not announced until very late. Twenty-one pleas were refused and only five recommended. All first degree cases were continued. Three reliearlngs were granted, Including Adolph Blau. the Scrantou banker, and five refused. David Rodin, of Monroe county, whose lawyer declared that he had been given the "third degree" In an Interview with State fire marshal officials, was refused. The decisions announced were: Recommended—Lee Ling, Elk, rape; Bert C. Ish, Erie, voluntary manslaughter; Lawrence Bailey, Ly coming, burglary; Ralph Olivia. Philadelphia, robbery; Henry Chris tenson, Westmoreland, pandering. Refused —Sofron Pulko, Alle gheny, second degree murder; Earl Major, alias C. H. Kohler, Bucks, larceny; John R. Edwards, Cambria, first degree murder, commuted; Sal vitore Staville, Cambria, second de gree murder; Bernard Foxwell, Delaware, robbery; Frank Redding, Delaware, burglary; Mont McCor mick, Fayette, assault and battery; Angelo Gengo, "Luzerne, second de gree murder; Lugi De Patrio, Lu zerne, receiving stolen goods; Dave Radin, Monroe, arson; Harry Vogel, Philadelphia, receiving stolen goods;' William Altshulter, alias Gordon, Philadelphia, burglary, etc.; Robert H. Smith, Philadelphia, larceny; John Driscoll, Philadelphia, larceny: Harry Orlck J. Childs, Philadelphia, larceny; James Dunmore, Philadel phia, larceny; Antonio Masterpoltfe. Philadelphia, attempted blackmail; Frank Wesley Hovencamp, Susque hanna, robbing freight cars: Chniles Rolintis, Schuylkill, second degree murder; Costa Marco, alias Marko vlch, Washington, second degree murder; Paul Lapcevic, Westmore land, second degree murder. Held under advisement—Benja min Fendall, Philadelphia. #econd degree murder; Harry R. Forry, York, assault and battery; Lewis Page. Fayette, first degree murder; Patsy Afflito, Bradford, arson. Continued—Lazarus Bolin, alias Bolen, Lawrence, first degree mur der; Alexander Dale, Schuylkill, first degree murder; James Fdrd, Bucks, larceny; Harry G. Smith, Lancaster, voluntary manslaughter; Joseph Pa lumbo, Schuylkill, manslaughter. Rehearings granted—Adolph Blau, Lackawanna, embezzlement; Lewis M. Brown, Montgomery, larceny; Harold John Shaner. Washington, robbery. Rehearings refused—W 111 ia m Webber, Berks, murder, commuted; Thomas E. Patterson, Cumberland burglary; D. Frank Kline, Lan caster, abortion; Anthony Molinare, Lackawanna, second degree murder; Frank Pollard, Philadelphia, assault and battery. Additional Men Walk Out From the West Virginia Mines Charleston. W. Va., Nov. 20. The coal strike situation in the t'ionized southern mining districts of West Virginia took on a more serious aspect last night when re-' ports were received from the New River coal fields showing that hun dreds of miners had walked out, closing a number of mines, which had been operating since the rescind ing of the strike order. According to the reports, the men began quitting work yesterday fol lowing notification by the mine superintendents of the various com panies to the ecect that the "check off" system had been abolished be cause the miners had abrogated their contract by participating in the strike of November I. The new strike is reported to be spreading throughout the New River district, where approximately 8,000 miners are employed in 130 mines. Labor Conference Approves Plan of Child Labor and Age Washington, Nov. 20. Unani mous approval is given by the In ternational Labor Conference to the plan of submitting to the govern ments represented an international agreement regarding child labor and fixing minimum ages of employment. For all countries except Jaban, India and a few others in the Orient, the agreement would prohibit any child I being put to work under 14 years old. The age fixed for Japan and India is 12 years. Employment of women In indus tries where the materials used might be detrimental to maternity was dis approved by the conference in the adoption of a report of the commit tee on "unhealthy processes." The report also recommended the adop tion of some plan for the disinfec tion of wool and hair to prevent the spread of anthrax. > i Take Steps to Prevent New "Flu" Epidemic London, Nov. 20. —Medical opin ion seems to be divided here as to whether English people will experi ence another outbreak of Influfnza, but the Ministry of Health has taken active steps in preparation for a possible recurrence of the plague. Premier Offers to Help Oust the Middleman Sydney, N. S. W., Nov. 20. —Pre- mier William Hughes has offered to assist Australian producers to reach markets direct by eliminating the middleman. This Is part of the vig orous trade campaign being under taken by Australia. Promises Schools For Korean Children Seoul, Korea, Nov. 20. —The gov ernment has declared Its intention to establish a hundred new schools annually daring the next four years for Korean children. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH Judge Orders State to Restore the Mines by Monday at 2 P. M. Bismarck, N. D., Nov. 20.—Judge "VV. L. Nuesslo, in district court, is sued an injunction directing Adju- "The Live Store" Reliable" The "Ovm Is making a great many warm friends for Doutrichs. The weather seems just right to have men appreciate a good "Overcoat" the kind we are selling for such very reasonable prices at the "Overcoat-Fair." It's no wonder November has been a busy month, the busiest month of the year, for the Overcoats we are offering the public cost from $5 to S2O mo *e today than what we paid for them when we con tracted for these huge quantities months ago in anticipation of this much talked of "Overcoat- Fair." You'll walk miles without finding the equal of the good quality of Fall clothes we are selling. The alarming thing about the clothing situation is that good clothes are mighty scarce and we urge you not to wait too long to decide whether you are "going to buy" for if you wait until the last minute you are not going to get the kind you want, for in some stores there's a very limited supply. We however have a very liberal quantity at the lowest prices you can find anywhere. You'll be glad that we plunged and bought heav ily when they were obtainable from the manufacturers when you look at the exceptional values in our big assortments. / 1 304 Market Street ———— tant General Fraser and Captain L. N. Balrd, of the State Guard, to re store to the Washburn Lignite Com pany, not later than 2 o'clock Mon day afternoon, the mining property at Wilton, N. D., seized last Thurs day under orders from Governor Frasier. "It seems to me that it amounts. 1.1 / ■ ■ ■ ..I. | 1 llDoutrlchSll on one hand to confiscation and on the other to Involuntary servitude," declared Judge Kuesalo, in review ing the action of Governor Frasier in taking over lignite mines in North Dakota, and In enforcing his procla mation by the use of available mili tary resources. NOVEMBER 20, 1919. PIiEACHKR IN FIKK BOItAMBLE CUnmborsburg, Pa.. Nov. 20. The liev. J. B. Marquard. a native of Scotland, Franklin county, was a guest at the Bancroft hotel at Spring- Held, Ohio, when fire was discovered on the top floor of the hotel and guests hurried out. No one was In jured. but the hotel was damaged to the extent of $60,000 One Treatment ■ with Cuticura : Clears Dandruff < At! itrnarvisU: 76, Ointmrrt 2* Jr 10, Talrtjp fIL Bftmnl* e*rh f-*# D-pK K, f Harrisburg, Penna. 17
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