$27,000,000 IN ROAD AWARDS Tremendous Business Author ized by the State Highway Department in 1919 Over $27,000,000 worth of high way construction contracts have been awarded since the Sproul ad ministration took office and they rep resent 648.78 miles, the greatest amount ever under contract in Penn sylvania. Bids have been asked for 146 more and including work not let the grand total of the mileage for which Highway Commissioner Lewis S. Sadler has asked bids is 913.87, probably the greatest ever known in any state in a year. These figures include every kind of contract, primary highway, county highway, in which the State had a part, and State aid. The contracts on the primary system, that is the State main highways, aggregate 512.61 miles let at $21,514,212.63, three or four times the whole amount let 10 years ago. The tvpes of construction pro vided for in the State Highway, State-aid and county contracts awarded during 1919, up to Decem ber 1, with the price contracted for each type, were as follows: Tvpe Mileage C'ntr'rt Price R'inf'rc'd C'ncr'te 486.21 $21,558,111.6 a B't'm'n's C'ncrete 103.95 4.282,121.a4 Brick 6.7 5 383,001.26 Sheet Asphalt ... 50.61 i58.a40.61 Plain Concrete .. 1.26 38.040.60 Total 648.78 $27,020,120.66 The contracts let by various Penn sylvania counties and included in the total given above are for 24J0 miles—reinforced concrete, 19.74; and bituminous surfacing. 4.36 miles—at a contract price of $956,- 054.4 7. The contracts awarded for the primary and secondary highway systems and State-aid on highway routes were for a total of 598.13 miles, at a cost of $24,665,449.63. This mileage'included: Reinforced HAVECOLDRJN CHEEKS Be Better Looking— Take Olive Tablets To have a clear, pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples, a feeling of buoyancy like c'tildhood days, you must keep your body free from poisonous wastes. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets (a vege table compound mixed with olive oil) act on the liver and bowels like calomel —yet have no dangerous after effect. Take one nightly and note results. They start the bile and overcome constipation. That's why millions of boxes are sold annually. 10c and 25c. RELIEVES FERMENTATION, CAS, ETC., AND AIDS IN STRENGTHENING YOUR DIGESTIVE POWER so as to help get your stomach in such a condition that it will properly digest food without artificial assistance. It gires surprising relief in from ten to fifteen minutes in most cases. Your money refunded if it doesn't. Not a secret remedy. Composition of formula on every package. Ask your doctor. Sold in this city by ] < roll Keller G. A. Gorgfis 11. C. Kennedy CURED HIS RHEUMATISM "I am eighty-three years old and I doctored for rheumatism ever since I came out of tjie Army, over years ago. Like many others, I spent money freely for so-called •cures' and I have read about 'Uric Acid' until I could almost taste it. I could not sleep nights or walk without pain; my hands were so sore and stiff I could not hold a pen. But now I am again in active busi ness and can walk with ease or write all day with comfort. Friends are surprised at the change." You might just as well attempt to put out a fire with oil as try to get rid of your rheumatism, neuritis anil like complaints by taking treatment supposed to drive Uric Acid out of your blood and body. It took Mr. Ashelman fifty years to find out the truth. He learned how to get rid of Hie true cause of his rheumatism other disorders and recover his strength from "The Inner Mvster :os," now being distributed free by .in authority who devoted over twenty years to the scientific study of this trouble. If any reader or the Telegraph wishes "The Inner Mys teries of Rheumatism." overlooked by doctors nr.-d scientists for centur ies past, simply send a post card or letter to If. p. Clearwater, 127 J Street. Hallowell, Maine. Send now, lest jou forget! If not a sufferer yourself, cut out this notice and hand tins good news and opportun ity to some afflicted friend. All who send will receive it by return mail without any charge whatever. Your favorite smoke can l)e had at your favorite place at the same old price of Seven Cents. King Oscar Cigars are sustaining their 27-year-old reputation for quality and in creased production is trying to keep up with increasing favor. At all dealers. J. C. Herman & Co. Harrisburg, Pa. SATURDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 6, 1919. concrete, 438.53; bituminous con crete, 103.95; brick, 6.75; sheet asphalt, 37.64; plain concrete, 1.26. On the primary system ulone the following contracts were awarded: Type Mileage C'ntr'ct Price R'inf'rc'd C'ncr'te 351.49 $16,943,030.88 B't'min's C'ncrete 94.49 3.903,593.87 Brick 5.81 328,157.88 Sheet Asphalt ... 29.56 300,889.60 Plain Concrete .. 1.26 38,540.60 Total . .">.12,61 $21,514,212.83 Contracts awarded for State-aid not on highway routes were for 27.94 miles of reinforced concrete and 8.61 miles of sheet asphalt. A total of 36.55 miles, the contract price of which is $1,398,616.56. , Considerable work was done by the State Highway Department in boroughs. For example, the State paid the entire cost of the construc tion of 18.49 miles of concrete in boroughs on the primary system, at a contract price of $862,912.10. The price for 2.98 miles of new work in boroughs on State-aid or State High way routes was $138,457.36. Bor ough construction• on the State-aid plan, the boroughs not being tlie highway routes, were for 2.61 miles of new roadway, at a cost of $94,- 404.70. Suggests Commission to Take Up Question in Miners' Company Chicago. Dec. 6. —Governor Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois, last night telegraphed Fuel Administrator Garfield at Washington, suggesting immediate appointment of the com mission proposed by Dr. Garfield to take up consideration of the miners' wage question in an effort to settle the strike. Governor Lowden's telegram to Dr. Garfield said: "As I understand it from press reports, at the time you proposed a fourteen per cent increase in the wages of the miners, such increase being based upon the evidence you then had before you, it was also proposed to create a commission which should take up the whole sub ject of settlement between the min ers and the operators. I assume if such commission should find four teen per cent not sufficient to cover the increased cost of living, the miners' wages would be increased accordingly. "The secretary of labor is re ported to have said that thirty-one per cent would he required to cover the increase. Why would it not now be possible and consistent for. such commission to be appointed, com posed of high grade men, to ascer tain the exact facts? It might well he that the figure ascertained by that commission would be some where between the two figures above quoted. In any event, the public would know what justice required." President Will Not Withdraw Peace Treaty From the Senate Washington, Dec. 6.—President Wilson has no intention of with drawing the peace treaty from the Senate lor the present, Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, announced yesterday after his visit to the Presi dent. lie discussed the treaty question with the President briefly after the conference on the Mexi can situation. The President thinks the failure of the Senate to act on the treaty at the special session shifted the re sponsibility in the matter to "other shoulders" Senator Hitchcock said, adding: "He is just going to let it stay where it is at present." Sewer Gas Explosion Shatters N. Y. Windows New York. Dec. 6.—Hundreds of theatergoers were thrown into a panic last night by an explosion of sewer gas in the White Light dis trict which blew the tops off a score of manholes .sending blue flames leaping above the pavement. The explosion occurred as the theaters were opening for evening perfor mances and police reserves had to be summoned to control the fright ened crowds. Windows were shattered for blocks and electric lights throughout the region were extinguished. Several persons were severely in jured by flying glass and had to be treated at a hospital. The explosion continued for nearly an hour in the district and new blasts would occasionally send sev eral more manhole covers into the air. A plat* without a root wbteh IMI , ■ latlrfut l<k Cost* i ••&. ptataa Repair** Whllo Tm Weil AlAftßf'C DENTAL mHVIV a OFFICES ate MARKET ITHEBT EXTRA GOOD DEER SEASON NOW ON Stale Game Wardens Report Unusually Fine Hunting in This Part of Slate mission say that SjJyJ reached the ollices in tliis city from ijugf tain and Juniata sections and word tral counties that the lirst week of the deer hunting season was "extra good." in a comparatively small section of Perry county a warden reported 1! bucks killed, while in the Clearlield region there have been many bucks shot. The season will close December 15 and the game wardens have been instructed to obtain reports of the kills, so that estimates on restocking ran be made for the coming winter. It is believed the kill this year will run at least 250 ahead of last year, as there are more deer hunters out than ever known before. So many have been reported that State Com mission officers believe that the ag gregate of hunters' licenses this year will run 50,000 ahead of the total [for 1918. No plans have liecn made as yet by the State military authorties for organization of units of the naval militia and it is not likely that much will be done until the Navy Depart ment is heard from. The State will give the use of armories to naval ujiits. When the war began there were four units of the naval militia, two in Philadelphia and two in Erie. The keystone which lias been a distinguishing feature of /he auto moblie license tags issued by Penn sylvania ever since it began to reg ulate motor vehicles will disappear with 1919. The Hrst shipment of tags to start oul from the State High way Department will he shipped next week and will be plain plates with out the keystone or the manufac turers' number. The numbers will also be divided on the thousands. First shipments will be of many thou sands. Public Service Commission hear ings will be held during the'coming week in Harrisburg. Lebanon and Pittsburgh, a long calendar having been prepared for the later city on Thursday and Friday. Philadelphia will have hearings on December 19 when jitney applications will come up. The Commission has listed hear ing on the right of a railroad in Lancaster county to discontinue train service without Commission approval for Monday and will hear argument on contested jitney cases from Bucks and Lycoming counties and on alleged excessive toll road fares in Berks county. Executive sessions will be held Tuesday and on Wednesday complaints against Erie railroad crossings in Susque hanna county will come up with the Marysville independent telephone controversy. The Lebanon cases are also listed for Wednesday and in volve water complaints. Street railway, natural gas, water and jit ney cases are listed for Pittsburgh. Five districts have been established by the State Department of Agri culture (or the mid-winter State farm products show to be held in this city. The State is supervising the proposed show and no entry fee is required. As the. State raised the largest crop of corn in its history this year, it is the idea to stimulate production and improvement of quality. Attendance at the Cumberland county farmers' institutes was very gratifying and it is expected that the Franklin county scries will be as good. State officials who visited the meetings said that there was plenty of questioning' and that the plan of having men acquainted with the specialties of the neighborhood was a good one. State Health officials are watching the development of the diphtheria and smallpox situations with consid erable anxiety. Appeals are being made to locul health authorities to be on their guard. Fernando Ixnidermilch, of Hali fax township, formerly steward at the county almshouse, has been named as watchman at the Auditor General's Department. The Litlt/. Gas Company will next week ask approval of the Public Service Commission for its organi zation. it being a reorganization of the Lititz, Manheim and Ephrata Gas Company. Tile Ford and Kcndig Company, of Philadelphia, has filed notice of in crease of its stock from $500,000 to $1,000,000. Constitution Board Meets on Tuesday Prominent men from many coun ties of Penslvania will be here next Tuesday to witness the opening of the State Constitutional Revision | Commission's sessions, which will I continue throughout the winter and jure expected to produce drafts of 'numerous changes to the organic law of the State for consideration pf [the next Legislature. While the I < lorn mission will have authority to recommend any revisions or omis sions that it pleased, the indications are that it will not make any sug gestions for wholesale changes and that it will not recommend alteration of the scheme of government, but deal only with such clauses as have been criticised or which are consid ered as out of date and likely to hamper the future development of the Commonwealth and its municipal divisions. Opening of the sessions will be a formal affair. Presence of men who sat in the constitutional convention of 1873, State officials, judges, legis lators and others interested in public, affairs, is expected. There will be no curds of udmission and the sit tings of the Commission will be open to the public. Its organization and procedure will bo determined early in the first day's work. Attorney General William 1. ScHnffer, one of the foremost students of the consti tution and an authority upon the history of law, will bo the chairman. Pennsylvania's plan of revising its constitution has attracted .consider able attention in other,states and the deliberations of the Commission will tie closely followed. Will Contest Habeas Corpus For Goldman Washington. Dec. 6. —The Gov ernment will contest hubeas corpus proceedings in New York Instituted with the purpose of preventing the deportation of Alexander Borkman and Emma Goldman, Anthony Cifminelti. commissioner general of immigration, and is satisfied that it can support'its deportation order. Use McNeil's Cold Tablets. Adv. LEIB IS GUILTY, JURY DECLARES His Counsel Asks For an Ar rest of Judgment; Re leased on Bail Philadelphia. Dec. 6.—William S. Leib, Scliuqlkill county commissioner and former resident clerk of the State House of Representatives, was found guilty in Quarter Sessions Court here last night on four counts charging him with forging the names of Stat? clerks on duplicate tax receipts. Counsel for Leib asked for an arrest of judgment and pending further proceedings Leib was released on $3,000 bail. The jury was out more than eight hours. I.eib was acquitted of a sec ond charge accusing him of deliver "The Live Store" "Always Reliable" "Be Sure of Your Store" I \ * To the Man Who Has / His KUPPENHEIMER Overcoat YOU'VE got something. Reserves of warmth, enduring comfort, style that sur vives passing fads, long, honest service. That KUPPENHEIMER overcoat of yours is ready for any emergency, but, of course, * * j you feel best when it's on duty, serving lou're fixed you through cold and snow. | for Winter— Perhaps you don't know how valuable j all set your KUPPENHEIMER overcoat really is I now. Try to buy another and you'll find out. They're scarce—very few left in any store. If you've got a KUPPENHEIMER overcoat, you're to be congratulated upon your foresight. You should be right happy. To others: The only KUPPENHEIMER over coats in town may be seen at the store named below. You can't get one any where else in town. Some few overcoats are coming in right along. They may have the overcoat you want right now. 9he HOUSE OF KUPPENHEIMER .A National Clothes Seroice . \ Kuppenheimer Clothes Are Sold Exclusively in Harrisburg by' 304 i; Market Street ing the alleged forged receipts to James D. Evans, vice president of the Evans and Merchant Company, of this city, which concern had sought Leib's assistance in having its State tax levy reduced. Evans testified that Leib delivered the al leged forged receipts to him between January 4 and 7 of this year, and Leib produced many witnesses who swore that the defendant was in Harrisburg attending his legislative duties during that time. The Kvuns and Mercliunt Com pany had given Leib a cheek for more than $5,000 to pay its taxes. He was given the money in October. J9lB. and did not pay the taxes into the State Treasury until February of this year, according to testimony brought out at the trial. When the verdict was rendered counsel asked the court to arrest judgment on the ground that his acquittal on the charge of having delivered the alleged forged tax re ceipts to Evans and to establish his innocence. Judge Johnson, of Lew isburg, wl;o presided at the trial, disagreed with counsel and refused ihe arrest of judgment. Counsel then poutrjchs I made the usual motion for u new • trial. Leib. by virtue of having been a j Republican leader in Schuylkill | county for many years and his long i •service In legislative circles in Har-j rtsburg, is widely'known throughout \ Pennsylvania. SCHOOL HOAHI) ORGANIZES [ Dlllsburg, Pa., Doc. 6.-—The Dills- i burg school board lias reorganized j for the ensuing year as follows: i President, James Millard; secretary, ! J. A. Goudy; treasurer. Chester J. 1 Stauffer. The board is composed of j entirely new members. Guticura Soap The Safety Razor Shaving Soap CntkoraßoapihaTew withootraog. Everywhere 25c. —And PARK AND POLLARD'S Famous lay OR BUST" DRY MASH Still Continues to Be the Mash Used by Leading Poultrymen Everywhere Lay or Bust Dry Mash Makes Hens Lay More Eggs Many have tried out the "just as good" kinds, but the eggs decreased instead of increasing. So now they ure back feeding "Lay or Bust'' and their hens are laying eggs abundantly. If your hens are not laying eggs your feed is expensive. "LAY OK BUST" Wil l. MAKE YOUR HENS KAY MOKE EGGS Order It Now—Buy it by the hundred und save money Prices 100 lbs., $1.50; 10 lb. bag, $2.25; 20 lb. bag, $1.20; 10 lbs., 00 Cents. Walter S. Schell Quality Seeds POULTRY FEEDS AND EQUIPMENT Rolli Phones. 1207-00 MARKET ST. Open Saturday Evening Harrisburg, ii Penna. 9
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