WOMEN DRILL
FIRST GAS WELL
Contract For Derrick, Organ
ize Company and Will
Soon Begin Work
McKrespert, Pa., Dec. 30.—Women
financiers have entered the natural
gas field, developed during the past
few months in Snake Hollow almost
within tho city limits, and arc drill
ing their first well. The pioneers
were Miss Isabella Milmoe, assistant
to the city treasurer, and Miss Irma
Atwater, assistant to the city solici
tor.
They heard so many stories of for
tunes being made in the new develop
ment that they found a bit of land
not under lease, contracted for a der
rick, and organized a company. Drill
ing is to be commenced as soon as
the plant is on the ground.
Development in the Snake Hollow
field is going on with every evidence
of the old time "wild-cat" oil and gas
boom. Town lots one the edge of
the city which three months ago
were next to worthless are selling for
as much as 110,000 each, and every
time a new well comes in the price
goes up.
A number of important wells have
been brought in by companies whose
business it is to search for and find
natural gas. But spectacular and
picturesque speculation and financing
are not lacking. Stories of the suc
cess of some persons who have be
come rich over night have attracted
others until the boom has claimed
wide attention.
STATE MAX KILLED IX WAR
Washington, Dec. 30.—Search of
the records of the American expedi
tionary forces has disclosed that
Private Archie L. Rowley, Warren,
Pa., was killed in action.
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TUESDAY EVENING,
FEARS DEATH OF
MIDDLE CLASS
Are Being "Slowly Ground to
Powder" in England,
Buckmaster Says
1-onrfan, Dec. 30.—Lord Biukmaster
lormerly Lord Chancellor, declared In
I the House of Lords the other day that
the people of "middle class" in Great
Britain were being "slowly ground to
powder under present conditions."
j "There is a large body of people
, whom." he said, "for want of a better
definition, I will call the middle
class, the people engaged as civil ser-
I vants, doctors, writers and school
! masters, all the people who earn rel
atively small incomes, say from £3OO
JS-.el' 000, , and who are tho most
thrifty and the most self-sacrificing
class in the whole country,
j "They are people who stint them
selves sometimes of almost the neces
'sities of life in order that they may
gi\e their sons a better chance at
school and at college; they are the
class which has recruited all our finest
people all over the globe.
"What is the result? Every time
the currency ig inflated the hand of
the state is put into their pockets, and
from their small, hard-won earnings
sums are taken away in order that
other people may have more.
"These are the people who are being
slowly ground to powder under the
present conditions, and I say It is
the class which represents the life
growing point of the nation. If that
class is once destroyed it will be im
possible that it should ever be re
placed."
Blames Stotesbury
For Blocking the
Philadelphia Port
Philadelphia. Dec. 30.—Richard
Spillane told the members of the
Board of Trade at a luncheon yes
terday at the Bel levue-Strat ford that
the "sinister influence'* that blocked
the development of the port of Phil- 1
adelpliia by holding up the construc
tion of a large drydock on the Dela
ware river was E. T. Stotesbury, a
partner of the firm of J. P. Morgan
& Co.
Mr. Spillane's assertion came un- 1
expectedly at the end of the lunch
eon. It was based, he said, upon
correspondence and information
which had been given to him by
Charles M. Ba!lent;ie, of German- j
town, showing that Mr. Stotesbury
had "vetoed" the plans of the Foun-
Dation Company, of New York, to
build a large drydock on the Dela
ware because he feared it would
jeopardise the interests of the Cramp
shipyards, In which he is a voting
trustee. i
Meet Foreigners on
I Common Ground Only
Way, Declares Weber
! Philadelphia, Dec. 30.—A "lack of
i tact" on the part_of many persons
who takix upon themselves the duty'
of Americanizing foreigners was as
-1 sailed by S. E. Weber, superintendent
l of schools of Scranton. In an address
before the Pennsylvania, State Educa
tional Association here yesterday. Mr.
Weber asserted the only way to
make true Americans out of foreign
ers is to meet them on common
gro"und. instead of talking to them
about the "obscure term of Ameri
i can ism."
Charles H. Judd. University of Chi
cago. addressing the- high school
j section, declared the schools are
turning out graduates unfit to cope
| with the problems of the present day.
! "We go on teaching ancient insti-
I tut ions and archaic methods of gov
[emment and tell our boys that with
this equipment they are fitted to
solve the problems of to-day." he
said "Every boy knows more about
Athens and Rome than Washington
or Harrlsburg. Our children know,
nothing of what happened in this.
World since ISSO."
Hapgood Out by
Refusal of Senate
to Confirm Him
Washington. Dec. SO.—Norman
Hapgood is no longer American min-I
ister to Denmark, it is said at the
State Department. Officials explained
tllat the Senate had failed to confirm
his nomination before the end of the
special session on November 19. and
that since he was not given a recess
appointment by President Wilson, his i
commission automatically expired on
that date.
Mr. Hapgood. who returned from
Copenhagen several days ago. was in
conference to-day with Secretary!
Lansing, discussing the situation in
Soviet Russia. It was said that the!
situation pictured by the former min- ;
ister on the basis of information
reaching Him at Copenhagen did not
differ materially from that described
in dispatches reaching the depart
ment from other sources.
Officials would not discuss report
ed charges that Mr. Hapgood had
been sympathetic toward the Soviet
authorities while he was acting as
American minister in the Danish
capital.
Attempt Was Made
to Bribe Councilmen
Is Charge of Moore
Philadelphia. Dec. 30.—Mayor-elect
J. Hampton Moore caused a political
sensation here last night when nt
announced that rumors reached him
to-day from two sources suggesting
that three of the eleven councilmen
elect friendly to the incoming city
administration had been approached
with the purpose of winning them
away from Mr. Moore. The mayor
elect refused to mention any names.
Hut said he intended consulting with
the district attorney to-morrow with
a view to seeing that all "who go so
far as bribery and corruption may be
halted." , , ,
All eleven men have denied, any t-l
tempts had been made to bribe them
to desert the Moore administration.
Mayor-elect Moore takes office next
Monday. At the same time twenty
one members of the new city council
will be sworn in. The eleven council
men friendly to Mr. Moore expect to
control the body.
Bishop Weekley to Speak
at Sixth Street U. B.
Bishop W. M. Weekley. of Park- j
ersburg, W. Va„ will address a Rally
service in the Sixth Street United
Brethren Church Thursday evening.
Bishop Weekley, who was a former
resident Bishop for this district, is
well known in Harrlsburg and vl- (
ctnity and it is expected that a large
audience will be present to greet
him.
On Wednesday night at 10 o'clock ,
the congregation will hold Its annual ,
watch night service, at which time
the choir under the direction of |
George Troup will repeat their Cjin- i
tata entitled "The Great Light."
"VICTORY" STAMPS ISSUED
Ixrndon. Dec. 30.—"Victory" post- |
age stamps in celebration of peace
arc being issued for 1920 in Barba-'
Ida
I "g e Sure of Your Store" I
I Doutrichs Clothing Reductions I
f On All Suits and Overcoats I
It is news indeed when you
hear of genuine reductions such as this
j "Live Store" is offering. But it's part of our busi- ~
f|| • ness policy to dispose of everything within the *
season for which it was bought. We don't carry
merchandise over from season to season, because
I • S we realize it don't improve with age. Some mer<
k' A chants get the wrong conception about their
stocks, especially at times like the present. They
' * * A. ure I*' B better to hold on to what they have with I
Fmm But we figure differently, we bought J
°ur present stocks when they were very much lower in
price than they could be purchased for today. We realize that they
are worth considerably more than the prices we are asking for
them, yet, in spite of all this, we are keeping our faith with the
public and giving them the benefit of our early purchasing in of
fering these extraordinary values at our usual January Reduc
j J! |H|| Hart Schaffner & I
ImmMm Kuppenheimer I
& Society Brand I
1. JBf ijpfll ■ Remember we reserve nothing. You I
1 "\ j \ have the finest and most widely-known brands of
IP' HnKjjß clothing at your disposal. We don't try to attract our customers
IpLM 'V. 1 and their friends with a few undesirable Suits and Overcoats that
\ vV? Dac have been picked up from the manufacturers "at a price." That's
1 lilll- ' a joke these days and the men who buy these "mistakes" which
\ * i *have been palmed off on the unwise merchant will regret it
f sooner or later. You had better pay safe—Come to Doutrichs, j I
I ' 3nmb where you can get nationally-known merchandise at lower
1 $35.00 Suits and Overcoats $50.00 Suits and Overcoats I
$40.00 Suits and Overcoats $33-50 $55.00 Suits and Overcoats M 7.50 I
$45.00 Suits and Overcoats flaS-SO $60.00 Suits and Overcoats $51.5Q I
All Boys' Suits and Overcoats Reduced |
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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
DECEMBER 30, 1919.
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