SHOP FOB MEH AT k MEN'S STORE J Neckwear ni 0r e convenience. Bath Robes "* "* r ~ J - b "'* and what's more, our *>[ . « (1(1 1(1 J7 M 25C AND 50C ,««. »n .m- «-»>• lower and at a saving Shirts H oslery f#p (lifts of , jt gy M|ta jHgff Mlf Tfl « fIR IOC TO 50C fjjjMyES mlu M -" u in xm»s box**. Eve rv thine in irk i m plain figures. Pur- j rßjwft; ? f Suspenders chases at our store jj ICP Rlin cnr 'oust satisfy or A. M. ! V ! I 6jb rtnll jub H. 0. D. if not satis- ! iß'Hf I I —————tied. A visit to our ft i Suits and farter, will convince " 1® 1 i Overcoats lOCTONC vouaß,owhat " esav - j| i $7.50 Tfl $30.00 of Smoking Sets. |jl ifi Latest Balma- Handkerchiefs Toilet Sets. Combina- i» | Jfefr caan Overcoats 5C 10 50C £. SB.SD TO $16.59 Our Stock of Men's Furnishings, Hats, Suits, Bal macaans and Overcoats is Complete On account of limited space, we cannot mention every item we handle, but you will find it at this store. The Quality Shop I —7 MEN'S STORE Open Open cuAninffo Front and Locust Sts. c .. Steelton, Pa. NEWS OF STEELTON Artistic Printing at :»tar-lndependent. ' POOR CHILDREN WILL BE GIVEN CHRISTMAS CHEER Civic Club Will Entertain Two Hundred :.nd Fifty in Trinity Parish House —Centenary V B Church Will "Pro vide Dinners for Many More * " Christmas eheer will be exemplified in the borough this week as never be fore in the history of the plaee. The iir-eate** efforts being made along this line - by a committee of the local Civ ic Club which is completing arrange ments to care for 230 poor children of the r.orougb bv having them come to Trinity Parish house Thursday after noon where each one will be presented witr. "ometij.ng of value in honor of the anniversary of the birth of Christ. The committee in charge of this af fair. through its chairman. Mrs. Charles A Aiden. requests ail persons who can >. \e donations to this worthy object, ousisting of candy, toys, or cash, to leave the same at the homes of the following women: Mrs. C. A. Alden. Mrs. W. K. Martz, Mrs. J. M. Heagy aud Mrs. K. M. Kutherford. Tee children will be admitted to the Parish Honse by means of admission tickets to be given out by the Civic ' tiou yesterday 0 n the Stough extension i campaign. The official bjar l of ten tenarv I n.ted Brethren church last evening decided not to take part in the , campaign as an organization, i When the subject was brought tie fore the members of the First Pre«bv 1 terian church yesterday, it was d'e •culed to support th e movement if a majority 0 f the other churches>if the borough do so. The matter will likelv be decided at a future meeting of the . local Ministerial Association. ' YOUTHFUL HIGHWAYMEN HELD -Jeff Stevenson. Richard Brown and - a.naniel Williams, three colored bovs, were placed ifnder arrest Saturday evenin. by Chief of Police Longnaker. The trio mil be arraigned before Squire l 1 lckinson on a charge of highway rot>- bery. - Where Quality Counts The most fastidious male dresser in the borough and vicinity can have his wants supplied to perfection by a pre- Christmas visit to the Quality Shop, front an l Pine streets, which up io !ate establishment is advertising all of the latest in men's goods on this' I' a ?e. Funeral of Charles G. Karl The funeral of Charies G Karl, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian war, who died Friday, was held from 2119 Sruth Second street, yesterday after noon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Charles A. Huyet'e. of the First Reformed church, officiated and burial took place in the Highspire cemetery. PERSONAL Harthur Keim, a student at the Conkey Corner , « CWubMi Prnot There's nothing that would please him bet as' ter. and nothing that would help hira more. (_'onkey'« Poultry Remedies are k standard and every poultryownerneedsthem. R Hadvira Ud Poultry Supply StorM m , Harrisburg ana Everywhere Paiveratty of Wisconsin, U spending I the holidav%with his |>arents, Mr. and Mrs. L. f 1 Keim, North Front street. Mrs. Melvina Whitebread, in her eightieth year, is seriously ill at her home on North Front street as a result of a paralytic stroke. Mrs. Margaret Baldwiu. after spend- j 4»g several days with her daughter, Mrs. I. M Durnbnugh, North Front street, left for Philadelphia this morn ing. accompanied by Miss Lillian Durn baugh. where they will Spend the holi days with Mrs. Baldwin's daughter, Mrs. W. F. Morau. l«e\vis Kobbin, 337 South Front 1 stieet, a student at the College of I'hy ' sir inns and Surgeons, Columbia Univer sity, New York, is home to spend the 1 Christmas vacation with liis parents. David Baker. South Second street, l was injured by a fall on the lev side- I walks Saturday and is now confined to ; l-.ia home. S STBLTON NOTES A fine cantata will be rendered in St. Peter's Lutheran church. Highspire, Christinas evening at 7.43 o'clock. An early morning service at 6.50 o 'clock will be held in the same church Christ ' mas morning at which there will be special music. An every member canvas was made by a committee of twelve members of the loeal First Reformed church yes terday afternoon. The town was di vided into sections and the canvass j made to stimulate interest in the j church work. The ladies' Auxiliary of the Ger- I man Quartet Cluii will hokl an enter i tain men t in the German Quartet'hall, : Front and Washington streets, Christ- I mas evening. Miss Bessie lloffer, IS Pine street, rendered a violin solo in the First Re- I forme,l church Sunday evening. She I was accompanied by Miss Clara liar j olerode at the or^an. As a result of changing his resi ! dence from the Kast End to Second . and Pine streets. Frank Steese has lost ' his sea-t in the borough council and I the First ward is shy one member in ; that body. Steese represented the First precinct of the First ward in j council and the borough fathers will elect a new member for that district at i their next monthly meeting. The Steelton Triangle Club. Xo. 411, has ordered fifty uniforms which will He used by the club in the Mum mers' parade at Harrisburg New Year's Day. The club will use a lium -1 her of uniforms which they already | have in addition to those being pur ! chased. The local Merchants" Association will hold its regular monthly meeting j in the G. A. R. hall. North Front stree*, ! this evening. \ The annual entertainment of the Centenary Sunday school will be given in the church on Friday night at 7.30 o'clock. On the same evening the annual offering for the Quincv Or phans' Home will be made. Wednesday night seventy-five sing a. in., from 12.30 p. m. to 1.30 p. m. A Universal Bottle Is Just the Thing Keeps liquids hot all day and 1 nijr!»t or cokl until the third day. Patent Bustless Shock Absorber i protects til'er against breakage, j This is the most sanitary bottle i made. We carry a complete assort < men?. ' Lunfh B " x $1.50 I nrafe '• $5.00 Kood Jar $2.50 Vacuum Bottles. SI.OO to $2.50 Drinking Cups. „ . $1.25 v >er set | Forney's Drug Store 426 Market Street 7c a Day far Thaia FINE WATCHES The Watch and the Price Defy All Competition I Women's and Men's Open face or Hunting case. These watches fully guaranteed, Elgin or Waltham movement, ex pansion balance, polished regu lator, display winding works, pat ent self-locking setting device, and rust-proof case guaranteed for 25 years. Perfect in' every respect. •Only $14.00 SOc a Week—Can Too Beat It? . Full Line of Xmis Goods Now oo Display American Watch t Diamond Company Opes Evenings ' . COE. 4TH and CHEBTNTTT 3TS., HABRISBUBO The Harrisburg Polyclinic Dispensar; will be open daily except Sunday a :: p. in., at its new location. Front au ■ Harris streets, for the free treatmen of the worthy poor. DOGS AND MONKEYS RUN THEIR OWN TOWN <«3s A w* J ra • Se A jmm H M ''»■ 12 • ... -;:... "■ I 1 Wouldn't it strike you funny if you stepped off a train some day and found yourself in a village that was run en tirely by animals: where there wasn't a maa in sight nud dogs and monkeys roamed the streets in swell clothes, kept shop, etc.? That would be a funny sight, wouldn't it f Well, that's the sight you will see in one of the acts this week at the Orpheuav Derkins' animals have an aet all to themselves, and they put on a real sketch, not simply au aft in which dogs and monkeys jump through rings and the like. These dogs and monkeys have a village. The monkey policeman ; arrests the dog badman after he goes t in the dog saloon ami gets drunk, and there is a great time in Pogville. Santa Claus also is at the Orpheum this week, or at least each afternoon un til Christmas, with a present for every child in the audience. Adv.*** AARON t'ARPRXTER, So, l>lK< Head of Leather Firm and Lay Preach er in Philadelphia Philadelphia. Dec. 21. — Aaron E. i Carpenter, president of the oil and leather firm of E. F. Houghton & Com pany, and widely known as a lay , preacher, died last night at his home, 2025 Spring Garden street. He was Si> years' okt and had been ill but a few i months. Mr. Carpenter was born in R-oxbor i ough. May 12, 1529. He was a grad j uate of the theological school at Lewis i burg University, and while always ac tively engaged in business, he officiat ed as clergyman for many years in J charitable -institutions and churches which were too poor to pay a minister. The firm of which he was president was formed in IS7O, when Mr. Carpen ter and others entered int« partner ship with E. F. Houghton. li}.lS9o he had become the sole proprietor of the business, lyhich was incorporated in 1310. He had resided at 2025 Spring Garden street for more than half a century. He is survived by a widow, two | sous. Serjeant Thomas B. Carpenter. ! I". S. A„ and Charles E. Carpenter, ; who will succeed him as president of | E. F. Houghton £ Company; and two daughters. Mrs. E. C. Buchanan, of | Tampa, Fla„ and Mrs. John L. Glen | denning, of Germantown. CREW BOARD HABBIEBUBG SIDE Philadelphia Division—ll6 crew to go first after 4 p. m.: 102, 110, 103, 108. 101. Engineer for 113. Firemen for 116, 108. Conductor for 108. Brakemen for 116, 102./103. 10S. * Engineers up: Snow. Foster, Criss, well, Bissinger, Kennedy, Long, Hen necke, Albright, Smeltzer , MeGuire, Speas. Buck. Newcomer. Foremen up: Huston, Hartz, Ackey, Pennwell, Lantz, Yentzer, Balton. Reno, XtcCurdy, Wagner, Spring, Martin, j Kegleman, Duvall. | Flagman up: Bruehl. Brakemen up: Bahozer, Griffie. (Hip j pie, Gouse. Hivner, Brown. ' _______ Middle Division—-18 crew to go first after 3.45 p. m.: '2Ol, 218, 241. Engineer for 18. Flagmau for 18. Brakeman for 18. Engineers up: Kugler. Smith, Hertz ler, Simonton. / Firemen up: Kuntz. Wright, Pot teiger, Sheeslev, Fletcher, Gross. Brakemen up: Heck, Schoffstall, Frank, Mathias, Reese, Troy, Ale Henry, Spahr, Henderson, Peters, Kissinger, Kohl,, Keiffer, Black. Yard Crews—Engineers u-p: Harvey, '"Sahsman, Kunn, Snyder, I'elton, Shaver, Landis, Hoyler, Rudy, Brenneman, Thomas, Houaer, Stahl, Swab, Crist. Firemen up: Crow. Reive, Bosttlorf, Scheiffer, Raucb, Weigle, La;ii k to normal "by !t o'clock in the morning. The principal delay w.us oii the subur ' ban lines. Ka.ir weather is forecasted for to night and to-morrow and will likely | continue longer than that. .No changes ; are expected in the river conditions, the stream still being fro; - .on over op posite this city. The snow and sleet i spoiled the skating for the tame, at ' Wild-wood lake. Publishers Ask Wilsou to Dine Hy Associated Press. Washington, Pee. 21.—President i Wilson to-dav was invited to attend the I annual dinner of the American News j paper Publishers' Association in New ] York next April by Herbert L. Bridge man, of New York. The President doubted that he could accept because of his contemplated trip to Panama and | San Francisco. Hail for Commerce Commission By Ansoi'intgil Press, Washington, Dec. 21. —Prosidont Wilson, it was learned to-day, ptens to ■ reappoint Henry Clay Hall, of Colora do Springss, 001., member of the Inter state Commerce Commission whose i term expires January 1. 7