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SUBURBAN
MIDDLETOWN
Santa Claus Arrived on the Noon Train
Yesterday
Sp»"ial Corresponds ir.i
Middletown, Dec. IS.—The Liberty |
'basketball team defeated the Rescue j
team last evening by the score of 20-9,
and the Union team defeated the Car
< onipany team by the score of 22-20 j
in tile M. A. C. rooms. A good crowd <
was present to see both games.
The Tenuis Club was defeated by the !
Kliza'bethtowu team at the latter place
on Wednesday evening bv the score of
4 119.
The sewer pipe from tiie Brandt prop
erty on Catherine street was closed up:
by the roots of the trees growing in !
them. .1. C. Thomas and force of men !
re aired same.
Santa Claus. Who arrived on the noon 1
train for I. 11. Doutrich was greeted
by a large crow of little folks and a
large number of grown folks were pros- -
ent also.
Mrs. Sherman 'Hawthorne, of Harris-j
bug, spent yesterday in town as the
guest ot' Mrs. Webster Weaver. \
11. A. Lenhart s force of men open-j
e l up a frozen water pipe at the Roth j
furniture building and had to .remove I
several tons of coal to get at same.
Mrs. C. !•'. Board is ill at his home |
on Main street.
Miss Margaret Palmer has returned j
George A. Gorgas, Edw. F. Doehne,
President. Vice President.
Security Trust Co.
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Open J. O. S. Poorman,
Saturday Evening, Treasurer
7 to 9 -
36-38 North Third Street
liome from a week's visit to friends at
Loyakasp, Pa.
Mr. and Mrs. George Seymour and
| daughter, of Harrisburg, spent yester-
I day in town.
Mrs. Clayton Bailsman and daughter
j returned home from a several days'
j visit to relatives at Hummels'towu.
The Middletown High school basket
j ball team will play the York High
; school team in the Luna rink this even
i i»ff.
Mrs. Kate Weaver is spending a few
days at Harrisburg.
Squire W. J, Kinuard transacted
business at Harrisburg on Thursday.
The illustrated pictures of the Life
I of Christ shown at the M. E. parson
age last evening was eu.joyed by the
large number of persons that were pres
| ent.
Miss Pauline Deihl, who had been
I confined to her home on Ann street for
i the past ten days on account of illness,
I is able to be out again.
NEW CUMBERLAND
Impressive Obsequies for Child of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Brinton
Special Correspondence.
New Cumberland, Dee. 18. —Impres-
sive fmneral services were held at the
j home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brinton
I yesterday afternoon for their little
! daughter, Mary Elizabeth. The body
[ rested in a beautiful white casket sur
| rounded by flowers. The Rev. J. V.
j Adams officiated. Mrs. William Keister
| sang very beautifully "Room in
HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 18, 1914.
Heaven for the Little One." There
were many beautiful floral tributes,
among which were the following:
spray of pink and white carnations,
from the family; white carnations,
Zona Packer and Irene Lytle; carna
tions, Verna and Ruth Brinton; pink
roses, Mr. a.nd Mrs. Edward Brinton;
sweet peas, Mrs. Boyer, Marion and
SoTa -lane Thompson; narcissus. Mr.
and Mrs. .Sherman Magonnel; blanket.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ross, Jr. Palftfoar
ers foui 1 •little girls, cousins of the
baby, Zora Packer, Irene Lytle, Miriam
Koch and Emma Brinton, Philadelphia.
Interment was made in Mt. Olivet
cemeterr.
Pile funeral ot Marv J. Mumper will
take place on Saturday morning at 10
o'clock (rom her late home at Elk
wood. The Rev. T. G. Ferguson, pastor
of the Silver Springs Presbyterian
church, of which Mrs. Mumper was a
charter member, will conduct the serv
ices. The interment will take place
at Silver Spring cemetery.
Dr. J. H. Young has gone to Phila
delphia, to visit his son, W. H. Young.
The Susquehanna woolen mill will
close down the evening of December
23, and reopen January 4, and The
New Cumberland knitting mill on the
evening of December 24. and reopen
January 4. ■
The Rev. .1. V. Adams will preach a
Christmas sermon Sunday nioruin" De
cember 20, at 10.no. The choir will
render special music.
Mrs. John Beaver and son, John
Kenneth, of Shippensburg, and Miss
Grace Shelly, a student of the State
Normal school, are visiting Mrs. Ellen
tvhelley and other relatives here
Wi J" am Richards, of Hazleton,
and Mrs Thomas Marsh, of Chicago,
are guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. c. Weir
The preachers of the different de
nominations arc arranging for a week
of prayer to commence the first Sunday
J ii January.
Mr. and .\l t s. Harry Conrad, Fifth
1 street, announce the birth of a son
born yesterday. '
Mrs. Annie Atticka, of Harrisburg,
yesterday " NaUSS ' famil - v
HER ANTICS NOT SO FUNNY
School Principal Who Jumped Has
Truckman Arrested
New York, Dec. 18.—Miss Matilda
Brooks, principal of Public Sdhool .No.
-0, at I'nion avenue and Keap
Brooklyn, executed a hop, skip and
jump yesterday morning, to escape be
ing run over 'by a truck as she alighted
Irom a car at Greenpoint and Manhat
tan avenues. Her involuntary irapers
tickled 'Henry Rosenberg, the driver, so
much that he yearly rolled from 'his
seat.
! He was still roaring with laughter
when he stoppel a block further along,
but a tap on the shoulder sobered him
as he turned and saw Miss Brooks at
his side, and a crowd 'behind her.
" You are under arrest, young man,' 1
Phe teacher informed him, ''and vou
will come to the station house with
me.''
Rosen'berg went along and afterward
Miss Brooks, i\i the Manhattan avenue
court, charged Rosenberg with violation
of the ordinance which directs moving
vehicles to keep eight feet away from
trolley cars discharging passengers.
•Magistrate McGuire held him in SSOO
bail for examination.
A brave spirit struggling with ad
versity is a spectacle for the gods.—
Seneca.
Artistic Printing at Star-Independent.
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LIONESSES HAVE MATINEE
They Escape Cages and Spring Down
Among Playhouse Patrons in
New York Theatre
N?w York, Dec. 18.—Six full
grown lionesses, which had just been
put through an exhibition before 900
persons in the Eighty-sixth Street thea
tie, on the south side of that thorough
fare near Thiru avenue, escaped yester
day afternoon from their trainer. Mine.
Marie And tee, and her assistant, Carl
Turhquist, as they were being trans
-1 erred back-stage from their show
cage to their living cage. A drop cur
tain had been lowered after the animal
act, and a male quartet of singers were
caroling before this, when a screatn of
tright from the Frenchwoman caused
the song to go off-key and the audience
to look aibout in alarm.
Then one of the big, tawny 4ieasts
appeared at the right hand side of the
stage, gazed around for a moment and
leaped lightly into a box. At almost,
the same instant another showed itself
in an opposite box, to which it
had made its way through a passage
leading from the wings.
Instantly there was a panicky rush
for the exits The four singers on the
stage stopped in the middle of a note
and raced off. Yelling, pushing, aban
doning their hats, coats and wraps, the
men, women and children in the body
of the theatre forced their way toward
the front and side doors, which fortu
nately were numerous and wide.
But before half the crowd got be
yond the exits the other four lionesses
had come fron. behind the stage and
had leaped over the footlights into the
auditorium, where they mo\ ed a'bout,
undetermined just what to do. At least
two of them were in the thick of the
crowd for a time.
•So far,as could be learned, though,
no one was injured in the race for the
street. One man, Mark McDermitt,
511 East Eighty-fourth street, had his
forehead slightly lacerated by the claws
of one of the lionesses. He threw him
self on the floor for safety and the
beast, apparently by accident, placed its
foot upon him while passing over him.
Five of the lionesses were confined
in th« playhouse by the closing of the
doors after most of the spectators had
made their way out. But the sixth—
Alice, the star performer and most spir
ited of the six—esvaped through an al
leyway exit into Eighty-sixth street.
There was another wild scare then,
as the people who had just left the
theatre, and additional hundreds wiio
had run lm to see what the excrement
was, took to their heels.
'' Man Kating Beasts, Controlled by
a Woman's Hypnotic Eye," the lion-
I esses were described by the flaring post
ers on the theatrff billboards. And
here was one of them at large at a
crowded street corner and five more,
doing no one knew w'hat, within the
! pkavhousc.
But, luckily for every one, within
and without, the description was a-4k
tle exaggerated. Alice, the lioness at
jla - ge, was, after a series of incident*
bordering on comedy, cornered ou the
fourth floor of <j photographer's home
around the corner 011 Third avenue anil
eventually shot lo death
During the. extitenjent a man
emerged with cheerful mien and a bit
of a list to starboard To the horror of
those spectators who dared hesitate long
enough in their flight to look back,
the inebriate walked over to the lioness,
patted her head as though she were a
friendly dog, and then waveringlv
passed 011.
SAVESYpmi MONEY
At This Particular Season of the Year
Both Are Well Worth
Saving
What is more valuable at this time,
while the Yuletide is approaching, than
time! Somebody w'ho is watching the
exchequer says "money." Well, save
both time and money, then. How! It's
easy.
You have a cousin "down home"
that expects you to send the usual
Christmas pfesent. Theta there are
those friends that you visited last sum
mer, who ought to 'be remembered.
There are some other out-of-town folks,
too, who'll expect a little remembrance.
This will all require time and money.
But here's where the saving comes in.
dust clip coupons from the Star-Inde
pendent and present each one of these
'friends with a genuine flexible leather
$5 Bible. Nothing can 'be more appro
priate. The $5 volume is a most beau
tiful book, stamped in gold and packed
in a box which bears the label giving
the retail price, $5. and no other marks
appear thereon, so it becomes a $5 pres
ent for only one coupon aud the small
expense bonus amount to* defray the
necessary items of distribution.
Now, isn't that a real saving of time
and money? Everybody will appreci
ate such a present, too.
To-day's coupon is printed on an
other page of this issue, dip it and
save both time and money.
Duck Turns Into Soap
Lincoln, Xefo., Dec. 18.—At the State
University Museum is the 'body of a
duck that has turned largely into soap.
Dr. Wolcott found the bird up in the
sandhill region on a recent specimen
hunting trip. This -is the first known
specimen of the kind. Dr. Wolcott ex
plains the phenomenon bv saying that
the action of the sun on the alkali and
the fat simply made soap of. that por
tion of the duck that was susceptible
of 'being so transformed.
Musical Comment
" Yes," said Mr. Cumrox, '' we spent
a lot of money teaching our 'bov Per
eival Claude to play the violin. 'But it
was wasted." ' S*
' • Doesn't 'he [day !"
"Yes, 'hut if he know anything aboitt
1 music he'd realize how it sounded and
'wouldn't."—Washington Star.
THE SCHARNHORST CREW
CHEERED AS THE CRUISER
SANK BENEATH THE WAVES
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dei.-. 18.—
The German cruisers sent to the bottom
off the Falkland Islands on December
8 apparently were taken unawares by
the British, at a tune when neither side
was expecting an encounter. The Rrgt
detailed accounts of the battle, which
reached here yesterday from Puerto
GalJegos, Patagonia-, say that the Ger
mans were on their way to seize the
Falkland Islands, a British possession,
when they came 1 upou a lone British
warship.
The other members of'tlie British
fleet were taking on supplies from
neighboring islands. Before the Ger
mans were aware of the strength of
their opponents these ships closed in
on the in and the fate of Admiral von
Spee s squadron was sealed.
The story of the battle was told by
passengers on the British steamer Oris
sa, which arrived at, Kinta Arenas from
t.allao, Chili. They say that the Ger
mans fought 'bravely to the end, even
the colliers refusing to surrender.
Losses of the British were placed at S.
men.
It was a formidable British Beet
which faced the Germans. Included in
it were the battleship Canopus, the
battle cruisers Invincible and Inflexible
and the cruisers Kent, Cornwall, Carnar
von, Bristol nnd Glasgow. It far out
matched in strength the German squad
ron, consisting of the five cruisers,
Scharnhorst, Giieisenau, Leipzig, Nurn
'berg a<id Dresden.
1 he 'British squadron arrived at Port
Stanley, Falkland-Islands, on December
< to take on supplies. The next morn
ing the ( anopus, which was guarding
the entrance to the port, sighted a hos
tile warship. - others quickly
camie into view and were recognised as
the squadron of > Admiral von .Spec.
The German waislfips had loft' -the
Chilian Wands of Juan Fernandez on
■November 15 for the Falkland Islands
to take possession of the islands and
destroy tihe wireless stution.
Only the Canopus was viui'ble at fir.-t
to the Germans, who steamed straight
at her. The Canopus opened tire and
the other British warship#. rushed to
her assistance.
The Scharnhorst. Gncisenau anil
Leipzig formed in battle line. The
Nurnberg and Dresden, however,
.dropped back from the firing line. '
The British warships concentrated
their fire on the Scharnhorst, Admiral
von Spee's flagship. When it became
evident that she was doomed, her crew
assembled on the forward deck. The
Scharnhorst refused to surrender and,
after an hour's fighting, plunged be
neath the waves. The crow preserved
its formation as the ship went down,
and cheered as the waters closed about
them.
The Glasgow engaged the
and sank her. The Gneisenau went
down 80 miles from Port Stanley. The
Nurnberg attempted to escape, but. aft
er a pursuit of two hours, was sunk.
The Carnarvon pursued the Dresden,
Ibut was not swift enough to overhaul
her. and the German warship escaped.
After the battle the British picked
up 194 Germans, including a few offi
cers. Of these survivors, 100 were
from the crews of the two German col
liers. An opportunity to surrender was
offered the colliers, but it was refused
and they were sunk.
The cruiser Cornwall was damaged
slightly below the water line. None of
the other British warships was dam
aged.
011 December 10 funeral services
were held for the eight British sailor*
who were killed, in the presence of the
commanders and crews of the squadron.
The British Admiralty reiporl of the
•battle staged that only seven men of
the British squadron lost their lives.
SAYS REBELLION IN SOUTH
AFRICA LS NEARING END
Ca'pe Town, via London, Dec. 18,
9.15 A. M.—General Louis Botha, Pre
mier of the Union of South Africa, con
siders that the rebellion apart from the
rounding uuof a few stray 'bands is at
an end, A'crordingly he has j>oin> 011 a
short vacation on liis farm before upder
taking the campaign against German
Southwest Africa.
With the capture of 'General De Wet
and the (Teat'h of General Beyers, in an
engagement, the South African govern
ment recently announced that the re
bellion started 'by the leaders was prac
tically a*t. an end. .Most of the fol
lowers of De VVet and Beyers, it is stat
ed, have been either captured or dis
persed.
British Issue Orders to Fire
York, England, Dec. 18, via 'London,
3.59 A. IM.—lt is announced that as
precautionary measures along the coast,
coast guards and patrols 'have been or
dered to fire on any person seen signal
ing with lights, flags or other devices.
TO-DAY'S VICTORIA SPECIAL
One of the most intensely dramatic
and morally inspiring motion picture
stories shown in Harrisiburg in many
months is "The Warning," an excep
tionally strong play in three reels. The
polt is simple and streightforward but
decidedly melodramatic and skillfully
f -s
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Sterling Silver, Gun Metal and
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With H. C. Claater
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4 On Xmas Clothing 0
!WHAT ARE THE THREE A
most useful Xmas gifts that you can jf
think of? (1) A good set of Furs.- y
(2) A fashionable Coat. (3) An A
* overcoat. Surely, you have a friend Y
V or relative who will be pleased with y
A one of these. Or, perhaps you nfeed A
5 winter clothing for yourself? Gome jf
V in this week, open your charge ac- \f
A count, take the garments, and pay A
us after Christmas,' |
i FUR SETS—And single pieces in all
v the newest styles and the most fash- 0
A ionable furs. Low prices from $4 up. JL
A WINTER COATS—For women and •
V misses in all of those smart plaid zibe- y
« lines, plain broadcloths, and other A
weaves. Low prices : sl2, sls, $16.50,
Q $lB and S2O. Q
ft MEN'S OVERCOATS-In single A
« and double-breasted styles, plain and
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V $lB, S2O, $22.50, $25. V
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Suits, Girls' Coats, Men's Suits, Men's Hats, 0
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ileveloppil toward a liijfh pitched cli-1 reels and intensely interesting throug*h
max. Reports from other cities where j out. every foot of film.
"The Warning" lias been shown <le- I "The Girl in Question," in 0110 reel,
dare audiences have been held spell- a" l ' "The Pat'be Daily News" conclude
bound by the wonders in working out 1 ,0 l '»y '* program at the Victoria,
t'bis extraordinary 'film which is full of \ ' Adv ### •
novelties and scientific exploits in its ■—
production. Ought to Be Warm
Another thrilling photoplay at the l " Waiter, this pudding is quite cold. "
Victoria to-day is "The Oity of Dark- ( "Impossible, sir! This is the fifth
ness," an exceptional story of the tin-I time it has been warmed since morn
derworld in a great »-ity. It is in two|ing."—Paris .Journal Ainusaut.
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i WITHOUT BOOKS~THE. BIBLE AND KM
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41 THAT IS NOT ■PROM ONE-OP *Hf 5E WQ H . I
I i The above Certificate
; i Entitles bearer to this $5.00 Illustrated R|ble!!
« ' If presented at the office of tVie newapaper. together with the elated amount that I >
cerefi tbe neceiur, EXPENSE item, of thU greet distribution < '
clerk hire, cod of packing, checking, express frem factory, etc., etc I I
MAGNIFICENT ( e illustration in announcements from day to day) is ♦!
0 111 IICTDATCfI j . full flexible limp leather, with overlapping covers
< > iLLUo IKAI til and title stamped in gold, with numerous full-page plates j I
<| (e Edlilra in color from the world famous Tissot collection, together < >
( , 9» oi the with six hundred superb pictures graphically illustrating (1
"BIBLE and mak ' n K p' ain the vers S in.lfie light of modern Biblical!!
! 7 . , knowledge and research. The text conforms to the"
, ( authorized edition, is self-pronouncing, with copious ■ < I
«» marginal references. maos and helps; printed on thin L .» J!
1 | bible paper, flat opening at all pages; beautiful, EXPENSE 1 '
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' ' BIBLE which is in tilk cloth; b«e been most fortunate in securing the I I
contains allot the illuo- Catholic Bible, Douay Version, endorsed ■ ,
J ! tratlons and f~~ . . by Cardinal Gibbons and Archbishop ( I
maps. One free I Q1- rvprNer < nQW Car Anal) Farley, as well aa by the < >
certificate aad OIV. 3r - various Archbishops of the country. The I I
] items illustrations consists of the full-page en- < >
' 1 out the Tissot and teat pictures. It wHI be dist*ibu^in*t^e°aame^indings h as the T'ro-< '
testant books and at the same Amount Expense Items, with the necessary Free Certificate. < I
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