6 J. A. FUNK, LONG ! RAILROADER, DIES Served Entire Life With- the Pennsylvania Company; Saw Civil War Service John Aldus Funk, age 76 years, a ! ri tired employer o* tho Pennsylvania I railroad, and a p'o.veer in railroad- i ing in this vicinity, a'td yesterday at j "Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets (o. LEARN A TRADER * I I ' ' ;■'" \. .""" V: _ •. . ":' .j\ / .vS-v,-: E&St'vV ot our student* me maKllig UU.UU . ~ construction, automobile mechanism, wireless e,.gtuphy and radio telephone. Write lor particulars. ALTO Jt A KItOIM. A\ IC lIHCH.\,\I< Al, SCHOOL Bell 41131 Dial 1(160 Office: 25 N. Cameron St., Ilarrisburg, I'a. Training Uuurters nnd t IJIIIK I'lcltls Hnrrixlttirg Aerodrome. fourteenth and Sycamore Stn. One Day Specials—Thursday The following remarkable values are offered for one day only, Thursday. They are exceptional because they are timely and just the things that you would want at this time for gifts. Seven Piece Aluminum Cooking Set This is a shipment which was purchased a year ago and just arrived. It is worth $3 or $4 more a set. We are going to offer it in this One Day Sale tomorrow at the old price of $10.95. The set consists of one kettle, one pudding pan with handle, one Berlin kettle with cover. One percolator, one preserve kettje, one broiler and one insert. (The insert can be used as a combination with the broiler or kettle.) The set may be purchased on the club plan. Speedy Scooter Car For Boys and Tom Boys Thursday Only, 98c Good exercise, good fun, plenty of fresh air, this If) is real sport. Safe for 4-year-olds as well as lads of Ik v 15. Made of tough wood, no sharp corners, will hold /// Jik 200 pounds, nicely painted in white with red wheels, -/Ass^— Jfft red handle bar and name is in blue. A limited number (g$ on sale. It's worth at least $1.75. Liberty Blocks Thursday Only, 39c -c:-iSj|jj This set o£ blocks will be enjoyed by boys and alike - The various combinations involve the W patriotic colors of America can be made. Jointed Soldiers Thursday Only, A Set 98c / Jointed metal soldiers that can be stood up in various attitudes and placed in any position. A company of United States Soldiers which is very realistic. WEDNESDAY EVENING, the Garfield Apartments, 21 North Fifth street. He had been ill a short time. Death was due to a general breakdown. The survivors are a widow. Mrs. Dora Funk, one son. Harry Funk, one daughter, Mrs. Howard Sponsler; one brother B. Frank Funk, of Penbrook; and two grandchildren. Funeral Fri day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Services will be held at the home of the daughter, Mrs. Howard Sponsler. 2013 'North Fifth street. The Rev. A. M. Stamets. pastor of Augsburg Luther an church will officiate. Burial will be made in Harrisburg Cemetery. John A. Funk was a big factor in Pennsylvania Railroad history. He was a native of Oordonville. Lancas ter county, and came to Harrisburg when but 13 years of age. His father Levi Funk, was one of many who helped to build the first railroad sta tion at Lancaster and later became nil engineer, running and firing the first passenger engine between Har risburg and Lancaster. The son car ried water for the workmen on the Pennsylvania railroad up to the time lie moved to this city. When the Funk family moved to Harrisburg, it took up its residence on North Seventh street near Hamil ton, in the first house that was built or. that street above Herr street. He iLUDEN'Sj kMENTHOL COUGH DROPS ■ | GIVE QUICK RELIEF^ worked for two years as an engine cleaner, and was then given a posi tion as fireman. When the Civil War hroke out he enlisted In Coinpai E. I'vvn Hundred and First Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers. After the war he resumed his position as fire man and 10 months later was made an engineer, running between Har risburg and Altoona. He was given the Pacific Kxpress west in 1876, and his eastern run was the old Day Ex press. He was injured in an explosion and after recovery was given a position at No. l enginehousy taking ojiargc of the turntable. He tyas placed on ttie pension roll in 1913, after a half century service as railroad em ploye. Later he was made a park policeman and held that position .at the time of ills death. Mr. Funk vns a charter mtmber of Augsburg Lutheran Church, the first meeting having been held in his home on North Seventh street. He was also tin first deacon of that church. He was a member of the Royal Arcanum. Dauphin Lodge No. 160 I. O. O. F.. and the Middle Division Veteran Employes Association. West End Club to Hold Supper Tomorrow Night Members of the West End Repub lican Club will hold a sauerkraut supper to-morrow evening at the club rooms, 1410 North Third street. There will be an interesting musical program and several speakers will address the members. William For sythe, of Pittsburgh, will make the principal address, speaking on cur rent topics of interest. j CHARCS ED WITH ADDI'CTIOX i William Dozier, colored, of Geor ; gia, was arrested here last night by . Harrisburg police authorities,, ' charged vrith the abduction of two | small colored children from Wil | liamsport. All three were taken i back to Willtamsport to-day. The I two children, girls of two and four j years old, are his daughters, he con ' tended. He was taking them to his mother in Georgia, because the mother was unable to maintain them, he said. Police are inclined to be lieve his story. They wish him to take the mother with him also, since i it is alleged that it had been neccs ! sary for the city to provide for the i mother and children. Constipation Biliousness-Headache Or. Chase's Liver Tablets Maketho lirer active, bowel* regular, without pain or griping, relieve aick headache end that bloated feeling after eating, purify the blood and clear the complex ion. Large box, rnoofh (o last ■ month, SAc. UN ITED MEDICINE CO., Philadelphia Pa HA.KRISBURG TELEGRAPH CHRISTMAS SEALS ARE SELLING FAST Demand So Heavy That More Stamps Are Furnished to City; Children Doing Splendid Work Reports from a large number of city and county districts indicate a record sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals during the first three days of tlie campaign, according to D. D. Hammelbaugli, chairman of the Seal committee of the Dauphin County Anti-Tuberculosis Society. Numerous orders for more seals are being received by Mr. llammel buugh, and it was necessary to ask State headquarters to furnish 50,- 000 more in order to meet the re quests from the school buildings. The Seal campaign will extend until December 17. To-morrow booths will be erected at the post offlce, Penn-1 larris Hotel am! Penn sylvania railroad station and mem bers of Girl Scout troops will sell seals there. Throughout tlie city and county school children are making record sales. In one city building where 1.800 seals are sold each year by the children 3,300 were sold on the first day. Another large building was furnished 52.000 seals and yes terday ordered 13,000 more. In the boroughs and townships similar reports are made about the success of the campaign. One small district ordered 2,000 more and an other 4,000 more. Many other or ders for additional seals have been received from country schools. In reply to many inquiries about the use of the money derived from the sale of the Christmas Seals Mr. C. OF C. TO VOTE ON U.S. SHIPPING Referendum Is Being Con-! ducted Under Auspices of ( National Organization The Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce membership will vote this | week on the question as to what I disposition should be made of the two thousand ships in the posses sion of the United States govern- I ment or under contract. The vote i will be by referendum, and will ; record for the benefit of an tnvesti- j gution now' being conducted by the J United States Chamber of Com- j merce the attitude of local business, j professional and public men In re- j gard to an American merchant j ma rine. The questionaire will be sent to j the members to-day or to-morrow, and the vote must be recorded and ( returned by noon Monday, in order : that it can be filed with the United 1 States Chamber by midnight Mon day. The special committee appointed j to study the question reported in. favor of a merchant marine, and its j opinion is now being referred to the ! membership for substantiation. The 1 points-which they voted in favor of i are as follows: That wooden vessels and steel ves- j sels under 6,000 tons deadweight, be j sold on the best terms obtainable J from American or foreign bidders, j That other government-owned ' vessels be sold to regional assocla- j tions for transfer at cost to private j individuals and corporations of the | several regions. That the government Inbsorb the ! difference between the war cost and i the present value, as a war loss. That there be freedom from reg ulations as to routes and rates. That there be restriction for a j period of years upon transfer to a , foreign flag of steel vessels over 6,- 000 tons deadweight purchased ; from the government. That preference be shown for American underwriters, and that the underwriting market of the iworld be used for insurance not covered by American underwriters, without intervention by government \ Insurance. That encouragement be given to j an American classification society. \ That Congress be asked to make 1 a general declaration of a policy j to give aid toward the maintenance [ of a privately-owned and operated j American merchant marine. That the operation of the com- I petent American shipbuilding yards on private account, both as to yards and the vessels they construct, bo j continued. The referendum committee Is j composed of Francis J. Hall, chair- I man: Arthur D. Racon, J. Austin Brandt, Robert. E. Enders, W. O. Hiokok, 3d, Paul Johnston, C. W. Lynch, W. P. Magulre, R. W. Moorhead, W. M. Ogelsby and George W. Reily. Unfilled Order?, of U. S. Steel Increase New York. Dec. 10.—Unfilled or- [ ders of the United Stnteß Steel Cor- ; poratlon on November 30 were 7,- : 128.330 tons, according to the cor-' poration's monthly statement, issued j to-day. This is an Increase of 646.- ! 662 tons, compared with the orders on October 31. This is the sixth consecutive month to show an increase. The figures on October 31 were •6,472.668. and on September 30 they were 6.284,638. There was nothing In the statement of the company to indicate whnt percentage of the unfilled tonnage i was the result of the strike in its plants. HOLIDAY REGULATIONS The American Railway Express Company will refuse any package j weighing over twenty-five pounds, paper wrapped or in an ordinary paper board box, whether such box is wrapped or unwrapped. Also, packages of any we'ght i nan ordi- \ nary paper board box. the outside dimensions, length width and depth added, exceeding fifty inches, unless crated, will he refused, T-he express company is demanding t>at nothing but . first-class shipping containers i be used, corrugated or solid fiber ] containers must be properly packed, sealed and marked. SIGNS DAYLIGHT BILL Philadelphia. Dec. 10. Mayor I Thomas P. Smith yesterday signed ! the daylight saving ordinance passed > by city councils last week. Under the new law the clocks wll be ad- j vanred one hour on t?ie lost Sunday j In March and will betutrned back on ] the last Sunday in October. MAMII4GF. MCKXHRS Jeremiah %K. Koun. Knhaut, and ' Ethel M. Kelm. Rteelton. Theodore R. Royer, Union and Gladys f, McGregor, Harrlahurg. I,eo T. Connelly and Margaret M. I O't.earv. Harrisburg. Guv C. Rutter Halifax, and Helen I 11. Zimmerman. Millershurg. Parke A. Groff and Dora M. Strum I Harrisburg. I Hammelbaugli said to-day that about eighty per cent. of all the money received in the city, county and West Shore will be used here to tight tuberculosis. "In other words eight of every ten seals sold in Dauphin county will furnish funds to aid in combatting the white plague here," he explained. Cho-Cho, the health clown, was at the Camp Curtin Junior High school auditorium this afternoon. At the first of his two meetings fourth, fifth and sixth grade pupils of the Steele, Maclay, Itelly and open Air schools, and the seventh grade in the Camp Curtin were entertained and heard his health talk, while at the incetjng at 3.4 5 o'clock pupils of the River side, Cameron and Hamilton build ings, the uptown parochial school and the Hurrisburg Academy saw the clown. To-morrow c'hO-Cho will go to Middletown and will appear proba bly at the Realty theater at 2.30 o'clock. Pupils of the Middletown, and likely the Royalton schools, will be given an opportunity to hear him. Friday afternoon he will be at the Chestnut Street auditorium at 3 o'clock, and pupils of the fourth, fifth and sixth grades of the follow ing schools will go to the large hall: Hoas, Calder, Harris, Paxtang, Penn, Stevens, Verboke, Wiekersham, Wil lard and the Seiler school, St. Law rence, St. Patrick's Cathedra) and Sacred Heart parochial schools. Final Estimates Not Made on City Budget Some of the city departments fail ed to complete estimates for the 1920 budget and councllmen at their meeting last night decided to post pone consideration of the appro priation measures for next year. They will likely meet again on Fri day evening, when the commission ers hope to liuve all estimates pre sented. Mayor-Elect George A. Hoverter was present last night and will at tend all meetings of the council members when they are considering the new budget. Requests' will be made, it Is understood, for salary increases for city patrolmen. City Solicitor John E. Fox, at the meeting explained in detail the agreements which had been made with nine property-owners on the west side of North Front street, in the Hard scrabble district. It is likely council will approve these at the meeting next Tuesday. An Enviable Reputation Already Won Hundreds of dealers who drove new Cleveland Sixes from the factory in Cleveland to their home cities have written the factory expressing- their admiration and confidence in the car. What they all say is summed up in this sentence from one of them, "I can look any man in the face now and tell him the. Cleveland is regular automobile." And that's what the Cleveland Six is— a outs and desert sands where other cars stall and regular automobile, an unusual automobile. stop. Its power and endurance have already Hundreds of Cleveland Sixes, within the past won the Cleveland an enviable reputation lour months, have undergone long, gruelling, This is not surprising for skill and sincerity cross country drives, with honor. They have are built into this car by men who have con passed over great hill drives and long moun- tributed their genius to the building up of tain climbs, plowed through mud and wash- one of America's finest quality cars. Five Passenger Touring Car, $1385 Three Passenger Roadster, $1385 (F. 0.8. Pactory) J. SLDinu,! SitfLE, JR., 301 Cumberland St., Harrisburg, Pa. ! j THE CLEVELAND AU7OM 081 L E COMPANY; C t eVeTTn HI O ~ 01385> ' He Wants Ferdinand Brought Before Jury By Associated Press Geneva, Dec. 10.—Determination to ' bring former King Ferdinand, of Bui- | garla to trial was expressed by M. j Slambuliwsky. the Bulgnrlan pre- I mier, in passing through here on his j way home to s.ilia lrom the Paris ( ''race Conference, fhc premier said: i e would immediately demand the <*x- j • king's extradition and would pita? j | the prosecuti •!. o f 'he members of > the former Bulgarian cabinet, witicli j was recently arretted on the charge i | of betraying Bulgaria into a disas- . | trous war. j A dispatch from Geneva last month I | reported former King Ferdinand at j Munich and credited him with the in | tentlon of proceeding to Switzerland if his extradition were demanded. A i Sofia message on November 7 stated | that the government had already be- j I gun negotiations to obtain the extra- ; ! dition of the former king and other j Bulgarian refugees whom the gov- I ernment wished to try. | Tse McNeil s Cold Tablets. Adv. I €ct On | NUXATED IRON I | Master Strength-Builder j Of The Blood Helps Make| ' f Strong, Sturdy Men and Healthy, Beautiful Women 3,000,000 People Use It Annually R THE WHOLESOME BAKING POWDER Look for the felll big pound tin IAKIMO I —sixteen full PoWppj ounces. The powder with a food valuo. Go buy it today - —-—l: —r I DECEMBER 10, Why not have a little extra money for Xmas '—a saving of s lft ■ ■ —awaits you See Friday Evening Papers GEORGIA and THE CAROLINAS Steal away from the cares of the daily grind, to the beckoning resorts of the great Southland where congenial people await, eager to join in making your vacation a period of delight wholly worth while. You may golf over well-kept courses under smiling skies • with just that undcfinable whip to the air that makes exercise a joy and e tonic refreshment. Motor over smooth roadways through novel Southern scenes. Fish in strange waters where the sport finds a new zest amid unfamiliar surroundings. Play tennis. Ride horseback through the echoing hills with their endless vistas into Nature's wilds and majesties. And after the day in the open find pleasures in the great hotels of Aiken, Ashe ville, Augusta, Camden, Charleston. Pinehurst, Savannah, Southern Pines, Summerville, Thomasville. Attractive Winter Excursion Fare 3 to Resorts in the South ore offered by the United States Railroad Administration. For Fares, # Schedules, Service, Maps or Eoolclet,''Florida and Southern Winter Resorts," apply to cr write nearest Consolidated Ticket Office or •UNITED STATES RAILROAD ADMINISTMUON- Travel Bureau Travel Bureau Travel Bureau 64G Transportation Building 143 Liberty Street 60J Henley Building Chicago New York Atlanta
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