SUBURBAN MIDDLETOWN Xhe School Board Held a Regular Ses sion Last Night Spocial Correspondence. Middletown. Nov. 10.—Mr. aud Mrs. Roy Cregs. of Harrisburg, spent Sun day in town as the guests of the lat ter's parent*), Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Gingrich, Swatara street. Master John Schiefer is spending the week at Harrisburg as the guest of rel atives. Miss lleba Ilendrickson entertained the 1). F. Club at her .home on West Main street last evening. The School Board met in regular ses sion last evening with all members present but Garman and Force. The board decided to close the school on Wednesday, November 25, and remain closed until Monday, November 30, owing to Thanksgiving Day. The boil er in the Susquehanna building which sprang a leak was ordered repaired. Fifty new dictionaries were ordered. Charles llouser was elected truant of ficer for the month. The bills' ordered paid amounted to $136.33. The board will meet the lirst Monday in Decern ber for reorganization. The borough council held a short ses sion last evening with all members pres ent but Albright and Gingrich. The tiiain discussion of the evengag was the vacating of the streets for the car com pany which passed lirst and second reading last evening and the council will hold an adjourned meeting on Wed nesday evening to on third read ing. The bills ordered paid amounted to nearlv $2,000. Miss Grace Kicfuv spent Saturday and Sunday at Shippensburg as the guest of relatives. The ilrv grass on Hill Island caught fire on Saturday which is thought to be from persons gunning. Those living 011 the Island had quite a time- in ex tinguishing the fire. M i ley Si haeffer, traveling salesman to: the Winerot't Stove Works, spent the 1 :ist few days in town. I!. K. Force, a salesman, spent the past few days in town with his fam ily di« High street. The Mis.sionarv Society of the M. E. church will meet at the home of Mrs. John 1 ore. State and Catherine streets, on Thursday evening. 1 1. Miie- sherrick, the liveryman. w(io had two horses stolen about a month -.go. received word yesterday afternoon from a farmer living near Alt toiia that one of his horses had been lett there. Tlic animal had become lame ami they asked the farmer if they could leave the horse there and they would call for it the next day. Tha f;trmc" be aine suspicious and began an investigation and found out that a pair ol horses had been stolen and the de scription tallied with the one left there. Mr. Sjierrick left for that place to day. M.--s Jennie Lerch spent Sunday at liaiabridge as the guest of friends. !!. Friedman spent Sunday at Har ris burg. Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Palmer will go to housekeeping in the Peters' prop erty 011 Swatara street. K. F. Hartman. the Ann street gro wer, received a carload of potatoes from 1 Lancaster county to-dav and is selling same at < 0 cents per bushel in five bushel lots. Howard \ oung and wife, of Harris burg, spent Sunday in town. NEW CUMBERLAND Miss MacAlarncy Will Speak ou Suf frage Question, November I a Special Correspondence. -New Cumberland, Nov. 10.—On Thursday evening, November 12, Miss MacAlarncy. a teacher in Columbia I Diversity, will speak on tiie suffrage question in Hutto.ii A. Kline's hail, to which all are invited. Mrs. J'.dua Keihl will entertain the nttei'bein Guild of Trinity U. B. church at her home at liikwood this evening, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Zimmerman, of Geary avenue, entertained the following friend* at dinner 011 Sunday: Mr. anil Mrs. 1). If. IMioudes. Mrs. Mary Rhoads, Russell Prow 11, Km melt Barnes, of Ilar ri-burg, and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Cook ei'ly, of til's jda.'c. Mv. and Mrs. (icorgc Zorger. Fifth street, announce the 'birth of a daugh ter, \ ioln Fay, 'born ou Saturday, Xo vonvber 7. Miss Sam Xccly, of 'Harrisburg, was a guest of Miss Tressa Kern on Satur day. '.Mrs, Florence Hoc-kcr, of Boyd Sta tion. spent last night with Mrs. T. R. i -Vevin. i Air. and Mrs. William Erney, two ■ hildren, Mrs. N'emuger, son Robert,! and Miss Sylvia Erney, attended the! dedication of the Evangelical church at | Steelton ou Sunday and were enter tained by Mr. and IMTS. Charles Erney. I Miss Lena Hoffman, of Steelton, was j a guest of Mr. aud Mrs. George Ma-! thias over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Danner. of Har- ' risburg, spent Sunday with Mr. aud j 'Mrs. Elmer Sunday, Market street. Mrs. W, W. Zimmerman and son,' Harrv, spent Monday with relatives in! Goldsboro. Mrs. F. R. N'ivin and son, Travel',' visited the former's j a rents, Br. Audi Mrs. D. >B. Traver. in Steelton. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer "Dewalt sipent I Sunday with relatives at Boiling | Springs. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wire, son Charles: M iss Bessie Adams ami Miss I Nellie Dewalt motored to Carlisle on | Sunday where they spen't the day wi{h friends. Paul E. Reiff and Miss Gra-ce Heff feirian spent Sunday with Professor Bussell Ko'hn, at Oakville. William Leicht, who keeps, a flout and feed store on Seconl street, met with a painful accident. While chop ping feed for a customer liis left hand was caught in tlie cutting machine. He had two lingers cut ofl\ Dr. H. W. Ijine'baugh took him to the Harrisburg hospital where he had t'lie wounds dressed. Mr. Leicht has been very un fortunate. Some time ago a finger was ••aught in a machine and injured. The latter part of .September he wa3 thrown out of an automo'bile below Mechan icsburg. A small 'bone in his log was broken and also a rib from which in juries he has not fully recovered. Boss Sweeney, of Buffalo, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sweeney. The Ladies' Circle of St. Paul's Lu theran f'hurch will hold a bazar in the hose house on Fourth street next Fri day evening, November 13. Home-made "bread, pies, cakes, candy, ice crcaint and fancy work will be for sale. Mrs. Ellen Shelley and Augustus Wright are visiting Mrs. Xeelev Fisher in York county. Moss Carrie Simmons, of llcrshey, was the guest of' Mr. ami Mrs. William Simmons on Saturday. Harry Falcomer and wife, of Camp Point, 111.; Miss erta Reiff, a student of Dick inson College, spent Suuday at her home here. A meeting of the Sunday school teach ers will be held at the close of prayer meeting in the M. E. oburcli Wednes day evening. HUMMELSTOWN Party Held for Mrs. Clayton Swope Last Evening •Special Correspondence Hummelstown, Xov. 10. —Tickets for the play, "Farm Folks" to be given in Hummelstown hall by the I. T. 1. club ou Friday evening, December 4, have been placed on sale. The play promises to be well produced as many of the young folks in the cast have had experience in tho production of local talent plays. Mrs. Louisa Longnaker left last evening for her home at Steelton after spending several days with her daugh ter. Mrs. W. B. Sliopc. Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Hummel spent yesterday afternoon in Harrisburg. The annual meeting of the junior congregation of the Reformed church will be held iu the church on Saturday afternoon, Xovember 21. » A party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Swope. West Main street, last evening, in honor of Mrs. Swope. About twentv guests were pres ent. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nhslev and daughter, Beatrice, are spending the week with relatives iu Harrisburg, Mrs. H. F. Holler was a visitor in Harrisburg yesterday. DUNCANNON Miss Josephine Beam Is Attending the Teachers' Institute at Harrisburg Special Correspondence. Duncaiinou, Nov. 10.—Mrs. Charles llogue entertained friends from Xew Bloomfiekl Sunday. -Miss Josephine Beam is in attend ance at the Dauphin county teachers' institute at Harrisburg this week. Misses Edythe and Edna Ma le.- were guests of friends in Mifflin over the n eek-eud. Mr. and Mrs. M. F. Masters left for the South last week, where they will spend the v.intar months. Miss Isabella Moon, of Lykens, was a week-end guest of friends here. Miss Meta Harper spent the past week among friends in New Cumber laud. Many of our local people have been in attendance at the Stough meetings in Harrisburg. WEST FAI'RVIEW Harrisburg Young Folk Hike to Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Weaver'B Special Correspondence. West Fail-view, Xov. 10.—A party of Hairi> burg young folks were chaperon ed from Garfield and Deary streets, Har risburg, to the 'home of Mr. and Mrs. •J. P. Weaver, Railroad avenue, this plaice, by Mr. and iMts. H. A. Forrest. A very pleasant evening was had by all. Refreshments were served to the fol lowing: Mr. and' Mrs. H. A. Forrest and sons, Aimer and Harry; Mrs. Alice For rest. the (Misses Elizabeth Kiehman, Helen Kiehman, Ethel Peace, Pearl •Steckiey, Florence Carpenter, Rea Ar nold. E/dna Lightner, .John Kiehman, Edwin Arnold, Paul Rich-man, Charles llouser. Edgar Xealing, Edward 'Glad felter, Edward SHles, Mr. and iMrs. J. P. Weaver and daughters, Hazel, Josephine and Emma: Sophia Curry and Albert Curry. Miss Sara Palmer, of the Stough party, preached a very able and inter esting sermon Sunday morning in the 'Methodist church to a full 'house on •'lsaiah's Call and Vision. J. A. Shettel attended the U. B. min isterial in Wormleypbnrg yesterday aft ernoon. The December meeting will be hold in the U. B. church here. The Ottei'beiu Guild of Grace I'. B. churcdi met last night at t)he parson age. HALIFAX High School Committee Purchased a Chickering Piano Special Cor'-espondence. Halifax. Xov. 10.—The first quarter ly conference was held in the United Brethren church on Saturday evening. The district superintendent, Dr. D. D. Lowery, presided. Dr. Lowery also preached in the church Sunday evening to a fair audience. William T. Rodgers, of Harrisburg, was in town on business Monday. The piano committee of the Halifax High school went to Harrisburg Satur day and purchased a Chickering piano from the J. H. Troup music house for use in the High school. Miss Helen Westfall, of Harrisburg. was home with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Westfall, over Sunday. William Hilbert expects to move his family to his farm in Snyder couuty next week. Miss Ivy Hoffman, of Matainoras. visited friends in town on Monday. LINGLESTOWN A Number of Our Sportingmen Are on a Hunting Trip Special Correspondence. Linglestown, Nov. 10. —H. A. Lewis Hiram Becker. Jacob Eshlemun, Au gustus Nauman, Harry Bechtel and Lenon Hildebrand, all of Ephrata, spent several days of last week as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. George. Mr. George accompanied them on a hunting trip. Miss Elizabeth Shreiner returned to her home in Lancaster, after spending the week as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Shreiner. E. J. Dare spent Sunday with friends at Harrisburg. Mr. and Mrs. William Bitner, of Har risburg, spent Sunday as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Shepler. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hager, of Harrisburg, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Shreiner on Sunday. .Miss Minnie Mcllhenny spent Sun day with friends here. The Misses liulda Longenccker, Ver UARRISBTOG STAR-INDEPENDENT, TUESDAY KVKNING, NOVEMBER 10,-1914. na Juillard, Ellen Bolton, Sara Zim merman ami Evelyn Longenecker spent Sunday as the guests of the Misses Annie and Carrie Bolton, near Buck's Tavern. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gruber, of En | haut, were week-end guests of Mr. and j Mrs. Edward Shreinor. Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Look moved i into their new house at Paxtonia, which : they recently built, on Thursday. Hairy Houses!, of Harrisburg. was i the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. George I on Saturday and purchased a tine rab bit dog from Frank George for the sum of S4O. I The Misses Emma and Katie Kunkle j and Miss Berg, of Meehanicsburg, were | the guests of K. O. Hassler and family ! on Sunday. | A. O. Duncan ami Mclvin Dare, of • Paxtonia. were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Shreiner on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Look and daughter, Kay, were the guests of Mr. and Mis. John Look, near Piketowu, on Sunday. Mrs. Mary Khein is having a new tin root' put on her house this week. The teachers of Lower Paxton are attending Teachers' Institute, held at Harrisburg this week. A number of out young men of this community attended the lecture given by Evangelist Stough to men only at Harrisburg oil Sunday afternoon. M. \V. Shriner spent Friday with friends at. Oberlin. Miss Sybil Bench is spending this week with friends at Harrisburg. Miss Ruth Bain spent Sunday with friends at Harrisburg. Ihe Rev. George Sigler and grand daughter, Miss Emma Prantz. visited friends at Meehanicsburg pn Monday. MECHANICSBTJRG Many Folks Are Attending the Stough Meetings at Harrisburg 9p«v;al Corresponds •. h i Meohanicsburg, Nov. lO.i-Mis. Alice Geistwhite, of Harrisburg, was a yi.-i'tor here yesterday. She lias sold •ier house on \\ efet Simpson street to Mrs. Catharine Reamer for 51,525. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde King, of Re j novo, are Visiting Mr. Kiu-g's* parents, ■ Mr. and Mrs. William King, Loeutft j and Arch streets. : Mrs. Kate Hotter is visiting friends | 11 i h tire h't own and Carlisle, j Mrs. Rudolph By id, ol Windsor, was ! t iic guest of Mrs. John Bowman. South j Market ttreet. Clarence Shipley, of Gamp Hill, was j a visitor here vesterdav. Every day and evening many of o.ir people go to Harrisburg to attend the Sto-ug'h meetings. Mrs. s. (. Beitzel. of Halifax, is spending the week in the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. G. Rice, West IMaiu st'-ee., 'Miss'Margaret Siyder. who is tea ii t ing in Halifax, is attending the Dau phin County Teachers' Institute in Har riiibury, making daily trios to Harris burg frcm her home here. Announcement is made of the mar riage of Wayne K'oerly. of Pittsburgh, ami Miss Mary Rose Hall, of Centre | ville. 'Md., which tool; place in Dalti- I more November 7. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. I>. VV. Bberlv. s w tii IM'arket street. He is a native of this place and s'->cnsiiis boyhood here. He is a graduate ot' the Meehanies'bur*' Hiuii school. * LEMOYNE~ Sewing Class Will Hold a Bazar Novem ber y» and 31 Special Correspondence. Lemoyno, Xov. 10, —A Home Mis sion cntcrtaimmeut was iieid in Trinity Lutheran chunh on Sunday evening which, despite the imlcincut weather, was veil attended. Mrs. Marv Smith, of Illinois, is vis iti"S hor cousin. Mrs. John Beu*/, of Herman avenue. "Ihe Ladies 15 'le hiss will hold their monthly meeting in the class room of Trinity Lutheran Sunday school thi • evening after which a social will be tendered by the social committee of the class. A full attendance is de sired. Mrs. Jacob S. Oumaiings e-pcrt last week with friends at Pine Grove, Schuylkill eouuty. Mrs. Z. F. Lightuer's Sewing class of Trinity Lutheran church will hold a •bazar in the firenieu's hall on Friday and Saturday. November 20 and 21. J IDG EIOI XIS JIA X V I,IX ES Decides Tax P.oll Copyist Charged Suf folk County St 1,428 Too Much New York, Nov. 10.—After exam ining 2,708.957 items ol' evidence con tained in the 1910, 1911 and 1912 tax roils of Suffolk county, Supreme Court Justice Blackmar of Brooklyn granted judgment of $11,428 yesterda.v in favor of the plaintiff iu the suit brought by William S. Smith, a tax payer, to recover excess charges made by Dayton Hedges, a Supervisor of the town of Brookhaven, L. I„ who collect ed $27,089 for copying written lines of the Suffolk tax rolls for the years mentioned. The tax rolls put iu evidence com prised seventy volumes of 400 pages each. Justice Blackmar had to count and compare each line of the tax roll. Hedges claimed that under contract lie was to be paid one cent for copy ing each of them. Smith claimed Hedges had counted as lines to be copied the headings of pages iu the tax books and items in the recapitu lation books. The case was tried last July. Since then Justice Blackmar had been going over the books. He directed Hedges to repay $11,428. TURKEY DINNER FOE MASONS Perseverance Lodge Will Observe An niversary at Temple To-night At a turkey dinner to be held this evening at the Masonic Temple by the Perseverance lodge, No. 21, Free and Accepted Order of Masons, the speak ers will be Dr. F. E. Downes, Robert W. Hoy, W. Harry Musser, Charles L. Shaffer, John X. Peregoy. J. Henry Williams, Philadelphia; Edigar Falls Smith, Philadelphia: Jesse B. Cunning ham, James M. Yeager, Lewistown. The occasion is the one huudred and thirty-fifth anniversary of the lodge. Formen to Be Fire Wardens The State Department of Forestry is to appoint all section foremen on the Reading railroad as (ire wardens, according to notification which has been received by supervisors of the road from the division engineer at Reading. An Old Mark It is said that the dollar mark can •be traced back to the fifteen century. But at that it isn't near as old as the easy mark.-*- 'Birmingham News. THE STAR-INDEPENDENT'S FREE $5.00 BIBLES Going Faster Than We Can Get Them Here We had thought wc had fully anticipated the demand that would follow bv reason of the Star-Independent'a unprecedented offer. and had a supply on hand .that we believed would last us the first month We knew a great many were clipping, but it now appears that everybody is Imsv cutting out the Bible Certificate ap pearing daih ou another page. The Star-Independent will try fo keep you supplied, but there is a limit of r!T'oO beautiful art pictures, by the world's greatest artists, are I BOih Catholic 2nd printed with the type matter, where they at once explain the subject _ which they accompany. These magnificent illustrations alone cost Protestant Editions #">0.000. 11l addition thereto are full-page plates of the world-famed Tis sot collection in colors. These beautiful color engravings are also care pi esented under the same fully selected, with the object of further making plain obscure pas v '.i'-'rt 11 , lU , I ' IP * ree sages in this greatest of all Hooks. It can truthfully be said that never ceiti c.ite printed elsewhere. before-have illustrations so vividly portrayed their subjects and embod- ied in them the spirit of living realitv. OUT-OF-TOWN READERS WAIL ORDERS Any book by parcel post include EXTRA 7 cents within 150 miles, 10 cents 150 to 300 miles; lor greater distances ask your postmaster amount to include lor 3 pounds. Address The Star-Independent, s ÜBGE A NEW COURT HOUSE Grand Jury Acts After Sermon by Minister on a Murder Jury Scrauton, Pa., Nov. 10.—Condemn ing the present court house as inade quate for the conduct ot' the public business, the Grand Jury yesterday i recommended that either a new court house be built or the present structure enlarged. Judge lidwaids said that he agreed with.tie RevonuufiJUiß.tiop, Mod v«;iU init the report to the County Comrais i ; sioners. The report follows a sermon Sunday! night at the John Raymond Memorial | | Universalist church in which the pastor, ! the Kev. Thomas B. Payne, after hav-1. | ing been tied tip for more than a week i 1011 a murder jury, related his cxperi-i I ences in the uncomfortable court (juar-i 1 ters. la ne in an Electrocuted i Wilkes-Barre, Pa.. Nov. 10. As lie! I worked on the fop of a pole yesterday. James Uallagher. a liuenfaii, was elf' j trocuted. Other linemen say that Gal-i lagher's fingers .were burned off and j fell to the ground. HOE SUITS WITHDRAWN Action Brought by Miss Mae A. Sulli- j van Stricken From Calendar New York, .Nov. 10. —Justice ling erie h. in the Supreme Court, yesterday, j struck from the calendar the two suits | brought Vv IMiss ,\lae A. Sullivan against Arthur 1. Iloe. One of the suits was for $150,000 for alleged breach of promise to marry, and the other, for $75,000 was based on an alleged prom ise of Mr. 'Hoe to pay 'her SI,OOO a week for life. Mirabeau 1.. Towns withdrew.as Sullivan's counsel anil Warren M, • Conihv succeeded him. When uo a;- pearanve was mode, Edward O. Priugle, Mr. Hoe's eounsel, made the motion to strike them off. 9