16 Former "Y" Secretary at Camp Meade Ends His Life by Shooting Farniliigton, Conn., IVc. 15. Harry Drake, 43, of Somerset. Pa., ' committed suicide on TnloOtt moun- j tain to-day by shooting himself. Drake is said to have suffered a ner- ' vous breakdown following long service as a Y. M. C. A. secretary at Camp Meade and came here with his wife in an effort to regain his health. • He was a son of James S. Drake, of j Springlield, Mass. AFFLECK IMPROVES John A. Affleck, "2 North Six-j tecnth street, president of the Har-, risburg Shoe Manufacturing Com pany, who has been in a serious cor.-] dition at the Harrisburg Hospital, is; to-day reported to be itnproviig. 1 A mas Flowers I v Laurel Wreaths .. . . 30c Boxwood Wreaths . ~,..55.00 up Magnolia Wreaths $2.00 up j§. : Baskets of flowering plants and ferns, $ ■& $3.00 up I J Roses —the finest . $2.50 per doz. Narcissus $1.50 per doz. -J § Keeney's 814 N. 3rd St. J •&. Harrisburg X Mm. i&rmwe Following our usual custom ice will be open only six evenings before Christ mas. I Beginning Thursday evening, De cember 18th, you will be able to do your shopping at Harrisburg's Depend able Store from 8:80 A. M. until 0:00 P. until Christmas. The Real Christmas Store ~ LEARN A TRADE ' Some ef our students are making 1120.00 a ' * " r j month while learning. We can place you. MMI We teach aeroplane iperating. piloting and construction, automobile mechanism, wireless telegraphy and radio telephone, W'riie tor particulars. ALI TO A. AI:IU>IM.AM: II;IIH.\KAI, SCHOOL Well 4081 Dial 'ttHo Office: 2,' i Cameron St., Harrisburg, Pa. Training ((Darters and 1- lying Field: llarrisliurg Aerndroine, FotirtceiHl> anil Sycamore Sis. * . ' I Just Discovered I B THE MUSIC STORE WHERE PLAYER PIANO : ff. . ROLLS CAN BE PURCHASED AT :J[ PRE-WAR PRICES J ; | POPULAR HAND-PLAYED "HITS" I I AT 50c I 9 Just a Few For Example 29605 —The Vamp. 29567—Carolina Sunshine. | 29558—0h, What A Pal Was 29582—Pretty Little Rainbow. ft 2951" —Weeping Willow Unie. " 9001 Bre<!Ze - I* k. 29519—Sweet Hawaiian Moon- -'"79 -I'm Forever Plowing M' jm light. Bubbles. I EMERSON RECORDS J 1 10-INCH—LATERAL CUT, 85c § . Good Sellers M' Golden Gate (Open For Me). ' f'i'he Vamn •. 1057 1090 *s if'- [Maybe Some Day You'll Remember. [ln Slum. A m : . ... f Freckles. (Tell Me. H. 1991- 10100 - M [l'm Like a Ship Without a Sail. [Hippity Hop. -<■ Try Our New Demonstration Booths if- IYOHN BROSt 113 North 4th St. iES" £>T,' W * § "Open Evenings Until Xmas" : MONDAY EVENING, SALE OF SEALS IS RECORD BREAKING i City Holds Ij> Its Kiul in Piii-t-litisiug C.liristmas Slickers For Benefit of l übereuhir Children Sales of lied Cross Christmas Seals by sehool children <>.f the city iand county will continue until VVed ! nesday. The Seals will also be on [sale at booths in lite downtown dis trict until that date. Reports to-day from a number of city buildings indicate that the [children will break all previous Seal campaign records this year. One. j school building, the Stevens, imreas led its sales 800 per cent., while a ' number of other buildings report I 100 per cent, more sales so far Ibis j year than in 11117, Willi three more .days remaining belorc tile cam paign closes. lii a number of county districts similar increases arc reported, ac cording to l>. I>. I laniinclbaug!i, I chairman of the Seal Committee', I with many ordering more Seals. ! This is the lirst. Seal campaign in which the city junior high schools | participated, ami the committee is watching the records being mane by j the Edison and romp Curtin pupils, jAt tlii' former school about SO.otiO Seals have lieen ordered and most j of them are sold, while at the Camp 1 Curtin school 50,000 seals have been ordered and practically nil of them are sold, it is said. < .til Scouts at the Seal boot lis in the post office. Penn-ilurris Jlotel and Pennsylvania Station, report j many sales. Those in charge of Hie | post ollice booths ordered more Seals |on Saturday from Mr. Hatnmel i buugh. I Stale Is Buying , More Than Quota Set Donora, Washington county, was the first town to report getting its j quota. More than one hundred ■ Health Bonds have been sold in Donora. I Franklin county, under the chair manship of Assemblyman F. F. Magill, is the first county to go over. Ohambersburg was the first in the county 1o reach the goal. More than SSOO worth of Seals were sold in the rural schools of Frank lin. York county now has its sale | Hilly under way. Delaware eountv i will stage its big sale this week. A j special campaign is on at Chester [for the disposal of Health Bonds. [Warren county is out to raise SIO,OOO | to be used in the tight against tuber culosis. . V lO towns which secured ad ditional Seals the past week front State Headquarters and the amounts . follow: I Blnirsvilie. 15,000; State College, 10,000; Hloomsburg. 50.000; Sayrel .70,000: Carlisle, 25.000; Oil Cilv. 30.- | 000; Meyersdale, 1 o.ooth Harrisburg, ] 80.000: Montrose, 50,000: Reading, i 200,000: Johnstown. 50,000, West moreland county, 180,000; Titusville, | 10,000: Bellefonte, 2.000; California, I 50.000. l.eechburg, 20,000; Lovsville! 2,000: Susquehanna. 30,000. in Lancaster City SI,OOO worth of Seals were sold at booths in the first ten days. Half of rural Lancaster has bought more Seals than set in the quotas. Mount Joy, listed for 5,000 has sold 15,000." Johnstown public school students bought 600 per cent, over the quota set. Sixty Little Tots at Mont Alto Beg Santa Claus For Presents Sixty little tots up at Mont Alto I are not going to be without Chris j mas cheer this year if the American Red Cross Toy Mission can prevent. Miss Ringland, Home Service Ex ecutive, has received sixty letters all addressed to Santa Claus, and now I depends upon what response the ! public gives to the Red Cross call j for toys, food, candy and nuts as I well as cash. Requests have been made for all | forms of toys, balls, jacks, dolls ( with curls (the curls are most ini i portant) dishes, three wrist watches I asked for, popguns, too, are in the 1 list, and two or three little tots ask lor heavy underclothing. Miss Ringland is enthusiastic over I the response that has thus far been given, but still the demand is great ! er than the response will permit of being tilled. One Sunday school class hase come forward and has volun teered to take a whole family and provide not only the toys for the ; children, hut some heavy clothing ' and some food, candy and nuts. I From Lancaster came a check to help in (he work. From many ! sources help has been forthcoming. I but there is need for still more. The Red Cross will call for any 1 articles which are to he given. Or I articles may he left at Uowmaii'a, D. j I I'. <& S., Kaufman's, S. S. Pomeroy's 1 two stores, Robinson's, Third and J i Rroad, Dotterel's. Sixth and Kelker. I East End bank, Thirteenth and 1 Howard; Althouse's drug store, j [ Thirteenth and Market. In tiie event that the donor elects I to give cash, checks should be made I payable to Miss Margaret Ringland, I and mailed to her, care American J Red Cross, 119 South Front street. Fire Aboard De Kalb Is Extinguished Before Much Damage Is Caused By Associated Press I Now York, Dee. 15. Fire which : broke out last night in one of the I cabins of the steamship lie Kalb, a | former German liner, now undergoing j .alterations here to be entered in the I S< uth American service, were exting j uished to-day before any material 'damage had been done, officials of t the United States Shipping Board ! l.ere said to-day The tire did not j penetrate below the main deck, they added, and there is no damage to the ship's engines. As a matter of pre caution the ship was beached, but it can be flouted at high tide.- , From preliminary examination : made early to-day an olTicer of the Shipping Board in charge of the con ! structlon work said that the fire I would not delay the entry of the vea j set Into the South American service, i The damaged sections, he explained, j would lie torn out anyhow, to male i way tor changes in cabin eonstruc- I tion necessary to her new service. Boy's Tenth Birthday Pleasantly Celebrated Tlie tenth birthday of Charles Koons. son of Mr. and Mrs. John Koons, of 1505 Hons street, was hap pily celebrated at their home. After games and music refreshments were served. The table centerpiece was a huge birthday cake adorned with ten lighted candles and decorations of green and red. On the invitation list were the Misses Margaret Woliung, Mildred Yeagley, Kebecca Donmoyer, Flor ence Hutchins. Martha Hutchins, I'Ted Kaub, Hubert Itlley, Harold i Grubb, Charles Koons, George Ben- I edict. Claire Davis, Grant Davis, ; Mansfield Carroll, William Carroll, i "Hilly" VanDyke, Hirani Koons, 1 Harold Yeagley, Peter Ehler, Elmer , l.ong, Everett T.ong. Donald Koons, | Mrs. Mickey, Mrs. Tleinbaugh, Mrs. 1 Hutchison and Miss Esther Yeng | ley assisted in entertaining the 1 guehts. HA RRISBTJRG %&&&£>. TELEGRAPH PEACE TREATY STATUS QUO President's Statement oil His Position Has No Effect on Situation . \\ tier. ir>. —The White j ' -'otis'' statement apparently lias no effect in chanKinK the treaty situa tion, Democratic leaders, indorsing 1 the President's views, declared that , it did not preclude a Senate com- . : promise and that compromise ef forts would proceed. Republican leaders reiterated that the President was responsible for the present ! status and must make the first move towards a solution. Senators hoping ; I to kill the treaty alone expressed : salisfaetion. . Ihe President's position, re gardod as peculiarly significant in ; t view of the recent disc ussion in the f . Senate of a compromise, was set | ; fort h as follows. It was learned from the highest ; authority at the executive otllces to- j day that the hope of the Republican •leaders of the Senate that thePresi ; dejit would presently make some I j move which will relieve the situ j alion with regard to the treaty is : ; entirely without foundation, he lias • no compromise or concession of any : kind in mind, but intends so far as ! he is concerned that the Republican I leaders of the Senate shall con- , j tinue to bear the undivided respon- ! j sibilit.v for the fate of the treaty ' .and the present condition of the i world in consequence of that fate." I I 'in one point only, apparently, j I were all Senate factions in harmony i -—•namely, that decisive action on I j the treaty probably would he de- I ferrod until next month, after the proposed holiday recess of f'on- I ftress. planned to end January 5. Senate debate, probably centered about the White House statement, is expected to he reopened to-morrow witli fresh vigor. The Democratic compromise campaign also is to lie pressed, according to Senator Hitch cock, of Nebraska, administration leader. Post 27 Will Organize at Legion Meeting The meeting of American 1-egion Cost, No. 27, will be held to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock, in the court house. when the organization of the post and various plans for the com ing year will be completed. At the meeting htld last week nominations were submitted for lite offices of the organization, and these names will lie voted on to-morrow evening. With the withdrawal of • 'aptain Stine. on account of the clause of the constitution which for bids holders of political office front becoming lajgion officers, the com mandership lies between Captain Crank A. "Awl and I.ieutenant Colo nel Kdward S. Schell. The recent sntokar added ma terially to tlie membership of the Degion, which had passed the five hundred mark before the smoker was undertaken. The Spanish- American War Veterans have offer ed the I.egion the use of their club room and a decision on this offer will be made to-morrow evening. Bury Carlisle Veteran in National Cemetery < nrliMic. Pa., Dee. I!s.—Civil War veteran**, soldier** of the present day, lodge members and citizens, turned out to pay a final tribute to Captain William E. Miller, the hero of Gettys burg. who died here 011 Wednesday. J Services were held in St. John's Kpis- j copal Church here yesterday and the, remains were taken to the National Cemetery at Gettysburg for inter-I ment, following the wishes of the vet- ! eran fighter, whose charge at the j head of a detachment of the Third j Pennsylvania Cavalry is given credit for turning the decision at the battle there. The honorary pallbearers were for mer Judge W. F. Sadler. John Hays. J. Webster Henderson and John Hind - - ner, representing Carlisle; Dr. W. F. Horn and E. M. Goodyear, the Ma sons and M. A. Embick and 'W. P. Beatty. Post 201 G. A. It., of which Captain Miller was the first command ant. Soldiers from the Government Hospital formed a guard of honor. Y§s No f J Don't fear to take Aspirin marked with "Bayer Cross" to relieve your Pains, Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, Earache, Toothache, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lumbago, Neuritis. Safe and proper directions are in each "Bayer Package." The "Bayer Cross" is on the genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for over eighteen years and proved safe by millions. Bayer-Tablets^Aspirin Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets coat but a few cents— Larger packages. Hoses of 12 tablets —Bottles of 24—Bottles of 100 —Also Capsules. Aspirin is tbc trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidcster of Salicylicacid Put it in the Cup— J&6m a ? you do Su^ar ——~ Jy Absolutely Pure—Delicious Coffee M ""THEN pour on boiling hot water and a the coffee is ready. Dissolves instantly. /J, . /I Nw^— _// Strength regulated to suit taste by the quan- JjZrL/1/* / / // tity used. Pure coffee—absolutely soluble— (Zfj ># Yfg J\ /l/MI ✓/ /gyl If \\ retaining all the delicious flavor and quality. " # w m m %/ § %/Sg [ TVo coffee-pot needed . 11 / /// w* \\ /// G. Washington Sales Co., Inc., Jfc JF 'V [NEWSY JOTTINGS OF THEATER AND SCREEN OKI'l I FTM To-night only—Otis Skinner in hi*< new comedy, "The Rise of Peter Barban." Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday, matinees daily-—The popular priced melodrama "A Bittle GIF in a Big f'ity." portraying tio- pitfalls that lurk in the large city for lonely ! girls. MAJEST!T High crude vaudeville- .farrow. ihe talking rnagi' ian: "Hello! Judge." a musical comedy girl act when the jazz bounds are tried b> a Jury composed en tic! el v of women; three .other Ke'th headlinev acts: also an-' I other episode of "The Fata! For tune." featuring daring Helen Holmes, and the last installment of "Who's Who in llarrisburg." This • is the reel in which the men turn ! around and ffice the audience. GOI/jMAB ; To-day. to-morrow and Wednesday Elaine llummerstein In "The Coun try TouSin." ! Thursday, Friday and Saturday- May . Allison and other prominent screen stars in "Fair and Warmer." adapt ed from the stage success of the same name. VICTORIA To-du> and all this week Mary Pickford in her greatest produi - j tion. "Heart o' the Hills," adapted; from the novel by John Fox. Jr.. also a laugh rollicking comedy. REGENT 1 To-day—Enid Bennett in "The VI r -1 tuoiis Thief." ! To-morrow—Bila Dec in "The Heart 1 of Youth." ' Wednesday—Dorothy Uinh in "Out of 1 Buck." [Thursday —Ethel Clayton in "The: I Sporting Chance." Friday—Mary Pickford in "Esmer alda." Saturday William S. Hart in "Branding Broadway." EL %I N K II AAI M Kit STEI N AT t'OLO.MAI) THEATER Elaine Hainmerstein. who is being j featured at the Colonial Theater :o- } day, to-morrow and Wednesday in her latest production. "The Country j Cousin," is the daughter of one of the , country's theater magnates. Oscar Hammerstein. She entered the "movies" not more than two years ago after successfully starring in nu- 1 merous musical comedies. Her sain< brilliant acting has marked her screen career, and critics who have followed her acting particularly, claim she is at her best in this pic ture. which is a love romance of two, youngsters which started back on the farm. , r , Thursday. Friday and Saturday or this week "Fair and Warmer," adapt ed from the celebrated stage success, will be shown, featuring May Allison. , ENID BENNETT OPENS REGENT ALL STAR WEEK Enid Bennett will appear at the Regent Theater to-day in her newest Paramount picture. "The Virtuous Thief." She opens the All Star Week, which will he staged at the Regent. Under the program announced, a dif ferent star will appear daily t n i* 3 week in a notable production. to morrow Bila in "The Heart of the South." PLAYING "FILLED GENTLEMAN" Nick Oogley is wondering how 1 many pictures the Goldwyn Company will do in which there is a culled gentleman" part. His interest arises from the fact that as soon as he liad finished playing Uncle Toby in "Tobv's Bow." starring Tom Moore, fie went to work in "The Bittle Shep- I herd of Kingdom Come." which is to j be the first Goldwyn picture of Jack I Pickford. in it Mr. Cogley plays an important part—that of the. old negro i butler in the home of Major Buford. ' For vears Nick Coglev has been con sidered the best actor of negro roles. Tie has so mastered the art or mak ing up to look like an African thai even as he walks from his dressing room to the stage, he deceives those 1 who see him. and on the stage or the. screen, it is impossible to tell that he j is not colored. Mr. Cogley has had twenty-five years' experience on the stage. ••LITTLE GIRL IN BIG CITY" "A Kittle Girl in a Big City" is to, he the attraction at the Orpneum Theater Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week with daily] matinees. This Is a wonderful melo drama which teaches a lesson to voting girls who contemplate going "to New York to live alone. Edward' Bok in an editorial in The Ladies'' Home Journal says. "Probably no question is so often asked this maga zine by parents as, "What are our, daughter's chances of earning a liv- . ing if we let her go to New York?" These thousands of parents will find j the best answer in "A Bittle Girl in a Big City." OTIS SI\INNER \ IKM E \ Hit IN I'HH-WTtl, IN Pl.t ENt'K Dtis Sklnm-i. who will he seen at Ihe Orpheum Theater for one per formance only, to-night, in "Th'c Rise ■! Peter Itarhan." his new com* dy by Maud Skinrer and Jules Eckert Goodman, is a firm believer in pre natal intl-iietiec. In proof of which he cites the following interesting anec dote connected with his own family and personal history. "My father WHS H countr\ parson and lived in Somerville." said Mr. Skinner. "My mother was a woman of highly artistic sensibilities. For a year before my eldest brother was horn she aspired to literature. She wrote poetry and essays and read a great deal. My eldest brother. Charles, turned out to be a journalist, and at the time of his death was managing editor of Hn Brooklyn Daily Eagle. "I was Iter second son. Some months preceding my birth. my mother paid her first visit to the the ater. She was taken by some friends,! t* witness a performance at the old Boston Museum. The performance: enthralled and delightful her. and she became very much interested in the drama and the. art of acting. Maiic how I. her second son, took to the] stage like a duck to the water. "My youngest brother developed, into an artist, and before he came.; into tlie world my mother was de voted to the brush and palette and ! gave all her leisure time to painting and drawing. "The study of pre-natal influence is a pretty deep psychological problem: hut in view of the above facts which! I had from my mother's own lips, you cannot wonder that I am a staunch! believer *n its doctrine." >IIE COMPS I r SMII.ING Ann Forrest, who is playing now inj •'Dangerous Days," the Mary Roberts' Kinehurt story which is being I screened at the Goldwyn studio, plunged twenty fee.t. head first into the movies, and eume up smiling. It, was this way: Ann can't remember the time when she didn't know how to ride and swim. She was only a tiny youngster when her parents: I brought her to this country from her j native Denmark, and even then sue was an accomplished athlete. Her girlhood was spent in Tacoma and : ne lin v she mounted her favorite j horse and rode away with the state- | nieut that she was going for a little jaunt across the Tinted States. She I journeyed down the coast as far as; Bos Angeles and there a film director 1 who had read in a newspaper that i she was an expert swimmer, asked I her her to do a high dive for him in a picture he was filming. She did it. And she never traveled across the • country horseback, because she has been In motion pictures ever since. ORPHEUM TV ESI) AY, WKD XICSDA Y ANI) THURSDAY Matinees Daily THE STARTLING SENS4T|(7NAL ! Th PI LUNG 4 ACT MELODRAMA! ilmtfrllraJli 'lk HI ~ sal *ll* M." I JLi THE STOPYOF i ! WHAT HAPPENED TO AN INNOCENTYOUNG GIPL FROM THE COUNTRY WHO CAME TO NEW YORK IN SEARCH OF EMPLOYMENT i I livening SI.OO, "5c t# soc ! I Matiiicc>. 2.h' unci 50c* 1 si VICTORIA THEATER Beginning Today for a One Week Engagement MARY PICKFORD can shoot and she shoots to kill in this delightful story of love and feuds among the mountains of Kentucky J where the mountaineers know no law except the laws of conscience. £A\ Adapted from the Novel by John Fox, Jr. /1 "Heart o'the Hills" Hgf You will fall in love all over again with Mary Pick ford in this story of her loyalty to "Pap" in the feudists' battles of the Kentucky hills. The Third Production from Her Own Studio Also a Laugh Rollicking Comedy DECEMBER 15. 1919 MIOOTS ONA N FATHER TO SAVE STEP-BOTHER Bat In-1 than see his sw-etheart'rt j mother murdered. Jason Honeycuitj shoots his own father in "Heart •' the Hills." adapted from tin? story by! John Fox, Jr.. starring Mary Pickford and which will he shown at the Vic toria Theater, commencing to-day and running all week. The marriage of the Widow llawn to Steve Honeycutt was bitterly op posed by the children, who know that Tin- elder Uoiicycutt's love plena wore nothing more than trickery to enable him to marry the widow in order in got control of her valuable Kentucky mountain lands. This production is Miss Pick ford's latest from her own studios of which her mother is the business manager. Bhe has acromplishod the unique feat of mixing heart throbs with chuckles ! in a most delightful manner in this attrsetion and the management of the Victoria Theater predicts that "Heart: o* the Hills" will fie one of the most, pleasing of Mary Fiekford's long list 0 finternational successes. ••HKLI.O! .HUGE" ll. WING AT MAJESTIC THIS WEEK, "Hello! Judge." a spicy musical 1 1 nmedv girl act which is featuring nil the Majestic the first hull' ol this, week is unusual in many ways. Jn j the first plnew it there is a jazzland. j there must bt a court. So two weiij known vuiideville sketch writers got together and framed an extremely j i'unn.\ act based on the type ot cases , a jurv composed of jazz girlies woiiul | fie called upon to render verdicts lor.; MAJESTIC STARTING TODAY HELLO JUDGE A farce on tlio rases a jury or women would liavc to try. 4—Other Keith Acts —4 Also last reel of W HO'S WHO m HARRISBURG The picture showing ti I local business men from a front view. COLONIAL THEATER | TODAY, TOMORROW AND WEDNESDAY Is love easier to Hud in tlie elty or in the country? The city has many girls: the country hut I'ew—don't answer until you have seen petite ELAINE HAMMERSTEIN in her greatest photoplay success, entitled : "TIIE COUNTRY COUSIN" THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY "FAIR AND WARMER" Adopted from the Celebrated Stage Play. Thin is onl\ one of the live Keith acta playing at thin theater, however. In elucled in the other acta ia Jarrow, th" talking magician. The second reel of "Who's Who in HarriMttirgr." showing the S4 promi nent business men when they turn around, will be shown. Those who uticam-il will have the opportunity of !seingf hew neurly correct their an swers were. I Dee. I .">-20 DIM*. 15-20 # i REGENT I • All Star Week All Star Week , I Admission and * . PItOC.ItAM CHANOKS DAILY • Today Only ; Kit id Bennett : • in her newest Paramount Picture • • "The Virtuous Thief"; • Tomorrow - • l.ila l.ee in "The Heart of Youth". , Wednesday , Horotliy Oisli in "Out of Luck". . Thursday . . Kthel Clayton in . . "The Spurting Chance" . „ \II New Paraniount-Artcraft • Picture ORPHEUM TONIGHT ONJYY Charles Frohman OTIS SKINNER ill a new comedy "The Rise of Peter Barban" BY Maud Skinner and Jules Eckert Goodman PRICKS 50c to Sll.OO
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