WITMER, BAIR & WITMER I WITMER, BAIR & WITMER We Continue To-morrow and All of This Week Our Wonderful Sale of WOMEN'S AND MISSES' OUTERWEAR With Values That Are the Greatest Ever Offered in Harrisburg We have been planning for this sale for sometime Our thirty years of ex perience has taught us that all buyers remain at home Christinas week. We made a trip to New York and found the manufacturers anxious to unload. The styles are the season's l»est—the kind that will he in highest favor for several months to come and many will he just as desirable next year as they are now. There's the right Coat. Suit. Dress, Waist or Furs for everyone, and you can get two and three times as much as usual in many instances. The greatest bargains go out first. Don't put it off. Misses' and Women's Snits Women's & Misses' After* Women's & Misses' Coats $12.50 to $20.00 $c AA noon and Street Dresses v ,Ti oM oat '- a " ,i7 " u ves " tpt/•IFU *0 bust. No larger sizes in this Poplins" " Cheviots and fancv About 50 o t S Mr 0111611 S clllQ fin v weav • Manv new sample gowns at re „/ „ TIT , duced prioe '- Misses', 500 All New Late S3MO to $36.50 ||s 0Q s2s.oo!°'^d.OQ Models Suits, ..... .. . $19.75, etc. Black Zibeline Coats, Broadcloth. Gabardines. Men s ' ' About three sets of Marabou and ' $5.00 $25.00 I Misses' and Women's Ostrich. For this sale— AM prices between and special. $37.50 to $50.00 AA ... nn , aa New Spring Model Suits ASou , jo2(n 0[ Lto . $12.50 40 $25.00 -Made' up from winter materials. S erie - Cre P« de Cllin « Underwear All priees between and special. Broadcloth and Gabardine—Fur or will be banded out at ridiculous _ Self-trimmed. Interlined with light prices to close out. * CordllTOy COcltS J soft lining and Skinner's and best yarn-dyed Satin, he new Empire and Snow Flake. Two-toue, Plain Ripple Coat and Circular Skirt, Coats Brown, N'avv and Taupe, !> $19.75,525,527.50 Colored striped Zibeline and $12.50 t0 $25.00 t Sis and s4i) Mi "*' ' lo '" s r«' ,,L ,3 TS : ah b,™„n a«o *r v and Jri.7s, d» f Chiffon Velvet OQ 7C now ,UU Black Coats Coat $49.75, now V-7.10 Beautiful New Up-to-date Eponge Astr#chan fl ,„ liueeen ar ti.ged for the debutantes and those at i.me from universities and college" for the N uletidc. Beginning with the dance :i> be given by the Misses St amm at tiie Harrisburg Country Club to-night for their house guests, every afternoon and evening of the week will be taken up "ith dances, "at nomes," coming out parties, dinners or assemblies. Lpdegrove's in hestra will play for the dancing at the Country Chill this evening and the decorations, by I'M ley, will be of green with here and there a touch of bright scarlet, miniature pine 'rtes ami holly carrying out the color scheme. The guests will include: Misses Saia Dcnehey. Mary Eliza beth Sponsler. Arta William's, Marv' Williamson, Carolvne Lynch, Elizabeth Mercer. Eleanor Farle. Surah McC'ul loeh. Martha Anne Fletcher, Marjorie Mercer, Martha Bailey, Elizabeth Ross, Katherine Middleton. Elizabeth Penick, of Lynchburg. Va ; Marian an l Noeline Westervelt, of Englewood, N. J.; Paul ine M. Brook, of Detroit. Mich.; Ruth Anna Johnson, of Rosemont; Pauline Light, of Lebanon. Messrs. James Spencer Ross, Edwin Curzon Fager, William Hart. Charles l Williams, Robert 8011, Arthur King j Kunkle, George Shotwell, Archibald G. Knisely. Richard Robinson, John Mot ter Fletcher, Arthur Eugene Fox. John Harold Fox. William MeCreath. Thorn as Baldwin, William John M. Smith, Edward J. Staekpole, Jr., James I McCutcheon, Herbert Wallower, Albert f Staekpole, John Lenhart, Kenneth I Jones, Samuel Satterthwaite. James | Wiekersham, Fre . P. Stief, Jr., of Bal timore: Gilbert Seymour Elliot, of Buf falo, X. V.; Coleman Nicholson, of Pittsburgh; Donald Watt and James Shand, of Lancaster: Carl Betz. of Buffalo. N. V.: Forrest Mercer, of Me chanicaburg; Malcolm Lowe, of Engle wood. N. J. Some of the Week's Affairs To-morrow afternoon Mrs. William Henderson and MTS. Sanford DeWitt Coe will introduce Miss Dora Wicker sham Coe to society at a tea at Mrs. Henderson's residence, 23 North Front street. A dinner dance will follow, in the evening Miss Grace Ensniinger will give a large card party at her home. Second and Chestnut streets, compli mentary to Mrs. Thomas Allan Ba yard. of Canada, and Miss Maude Smith, of New York City. Miss Anna Bacon wilH-entertain to-morrow evening at a dance at Hanshaw's Hall, com plimentary to her house guests. Miss Doris LeSaucheur. and Miss Mary Tomkiu, of Norfolk. Va., and Katherine Kaupp, of Wiliiamsport. Mrs. Meade D. Detweiier's luncheon for Miss Mary Elizabeth Meyers, a debutante of the season, will be an event of Wednesday, and that evening. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford DeWitt Coe will give a dance at the Harrisburg Country Club for their daughter, Miss Dora Wiekersham Coe, and her cousin. Miss Leavitt Wiekersham, of Lancaster, and their house guests. On Thursday evening the first as semble- of the season will be held in the Masonic Temple, the annual dance of the Sholem Sisterhood will be held in Chestnut street hall, and the Christmas nnce of the Triangle Club will be held in Winterdale with supper at the Senate to watch the New Year in. "At Home" at Executive Mansion The social feature of New Year's Day will be the "'at home' f held by Governor and Mrs. John K. Tener. the last of their functions at the Executive Mansion. New Year's night'members of the younger set will hold their masquerade carnival at the Harrisburg Country Club, with Miss Elizabeth Bailey. Miss Virginia Hargest King, Miss Marga TTARRTSp:~T?(i MONDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 28. 19H. retta Fleming an.l Miss Marian Angeil as hostesses. A the 'dansaut for the Belgian Re lief Lnil:! will bp given at the Harris burg Country Club next Saturday from 3 to 6 o'clock an.l will wind up the week's social activities. On this com mittee are >Lis« Emily Bailey, Miss Sar ah Hastings. Miss Frames Bailey. Miss liOuise/Carney. Miss Helen Hammond and Miss Mary Williamson. Guests at Mr. McCormick's Dance The lests at the dinner dance giv en Saturday evening at the Country Club by Vance C. McCormick, included Miss Mary Emily Reilv, Miss Mary Elizabeth Meyers. Miss l>ora Coe. Miss Margaretta Memiug, Miss Constance Ferriday, Miss Louise Carney, Miss Katherine Etter, Miss Mary katherine Jackson. Miss .Susanna Fleming. Miss Elinor Darlington. Miss Margaret Mc- Ijain, Miss Sarah Hastings, Miss Mary Robinson. Miss Anne McCormick, Miss Frances Bailey, Miss Emily Bailev, Miss Elizabeth Bailey, Miss Helen Hani momi. Miss Alice Walks, Mr. and Mrs. Ross A. llickok. Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Ely, Mrs. (.handler Hale, of Washing ton, D. Herbert Wallower, David Shotwell, E. B. Mitchell, George Kun kel, Minster Kunkel, Franklin Etter, J. V. W. Revnders. Jr.. William Calder. David Fleming, 3d., William MeCreath, Elliot Darlington, James Munn, John Lenhart. H. M. Gross, Thomas Baldwin, John Eric-son, Robert McCormick, Dr. George R. Moffitt, Mr. Trail, George Shotwell. Frank Brady, Charles Hickok, of Cleveland. O.: Daniel M. Dull. Hale Stineman, of Lancaster: .1. Clarence Funk and Mr. Reber, of State College. State College Dance To-night This evening the annual dance of the Harrisburg Club of Pennsylvania State College will be held in Winter dale, with the Loeser orchestra playing. The patronesses will be Mrs. John K. Tener, Mrs. Edwin Earle Scott, Mrs. John Price Jaeksion, Mrs. J. V. W. Revnders, Mrs. S. F. Dunkle, Mrs. Ed ward E. Beidleman, Mrs. John K. Roy al, Mrs. Robert M. RutherfoM, Mrs. Harry Leonard. Mrs. Dingle, Mrs. Hen ry F. Quickel, Mrs. Thomas Earle, Mrs. Frank B. Carney, Mrs. Herman P. Mil ler. Mrs. E. L. Rinkenbach, Mrs. Oscar 0. Wickershani, Mrs. Bertram W. Saul, Mrs. Edward Bailey, Mrs. Arthur Hull, Mrs. Charles B. Pager, Jr., Mrs. W. 8. Steele, Mrs. Martin Cuxnbler, Mrs. Jo seph B. Hutchinson, Mrs. W. P. Darby, Mrs. William Nell ami Mrs. J. Harry Messersniith. PARTY FORJRFDE-ELECT MISS Sarah Edna Kuhn Quest of Honor at Delightful Social Af fair To-day The Misses Mary and Nora Regan entertained at cN»rds at their home on south Cameron street this afternoon in compliment to Miss Sarah Edna Luhn, whose marriage to Frank J. baulben stein. an attorney of Ashland, Pa., will 1 lake place on Friday evening. The i guests included: Misses Mary Toomev, Agnes Toomey, | Evelyn Aldinger, Maine Hope, Ann Sweeney, Kate Sweeney. Celia Joyce, • Evelyn Joyce. Nan McPudden, Eleanor < Watler. Ma:ia Molville, Kit MvCosky, Margaret Dougherty, Martha Fox, Nell , Swoenev, Hannah Vanderloo, Johamiuh Reese. Agnes Townsend, Etna Mutza baugh, Genevieve Carroll, Mrs. A. H. Hunter. Agnes Snyder. CHOIR WILL (JIVE CANTATA Members of Camp Hill M. E. Church Will Sing "Angelic Choir" The choir of the Camp Hill Metho dist Episcopal church, under the direc tion of Mrs. E. O. I'ardoe, and assist ed by several well known singers, will render a Christmas cantata, "Angelic Choir" iu the auditorium of the church to-morrow evening at S o'clock. Mrs. EJjerhardt Mueller, of \'ew York City, will be the a.-com pa nisi and the soloists will include Miss Elizabeth Anderson, Miss Elizabeth Stevenson, Mrs. George W. Rrinton, Mrs. R. E. Cahill. Miss Nieolls, Miss Flora Kurz enknabe, John Henry and Lewis Moe nell. Prior to the concert Mrs: John Henry will .five several instrumental numbers. No admission will be charged but a silver offering will be taken. Choir Sings Christmas Carols The members of the choir of the Tabernacle Baptist church spent a very pleasant Christmas evening going to the homes of the members of the church and to the homes of sick people and singing Christmas carols. Iu the choir were Mrs. F. Criswell, Mis. I'rich, Mrs. Arnold, Mrs. Weber. Mrs. Hunter and Mrs. R. Shoemaker, Misses Ruth Weeber, Ethel Waid, Eve lyn \\ aid. Blanche Livesy, Manjrite Wild man, Hallie Mathews, Winne Jones, Mabel Blessing and Bervl Kawei. Messrs. George Sharp. William Jones, 1.. Jones. M. I'rich. P. Arnold, R. Shoemaker, F. Weber, P. Waid and William Swart/.. Nevs of Persons Who Come and Go Miss Mary Palmer, of Lancaster, and Miss Martha Wright, of Philadelphia, are spending the week with Mrs. Alviu 1 Miller, 15 South Third street. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Ritter and Miss I.eona Shaw nave returned from Dun-lo where they were called by the death of Mrs. Ritter's brother, the Rev. B. C. Shaw, who was pastor of the Dunlo charge iu the Allegheuy conference. Mr. aDd Mrs. J. 'B. Minima, of Beth lehem. and Mrs. S. Stolru, of Pittsburgh, are spending the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Zimmer man, 1938 Kensington street. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Householder, of Kaiser, W. Va.. are spending the holi days with the former's mother, Mrs. Householder, 408 Market street. Miss Betz, of Pittsburgh, is spending several weeks as the guest of Mrs. Householder, 40S Market street. Mrs. Wiilis Heist New-bold and Willis «e;st Ne>vool<4, Jr., 1857 Market street, are s;>ending a few days with relatives in Lancaster. George Fitzgibbous and James Brcn nan, of Oswego, New York, are spend ing several days in Harrisburg. Reginald Clarke, of Boston, Mass., is spending several days visiting friends in Harrisourg. Mrs. Howard an I daughter, Miss Jane Howard, of Staunton, Va., are giiests of "Mrs. Martin F.. Oimsted, 103 North Front street. IM s u Gra e Snyder, Philadelphia, is tiie guest of her s'.ster, Mrs. Walter Cle'an I, J44 V Reel street. R. S. Green. of Schenectady, N. Y., is spending several days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Holman, 1832 Regina street. Miss Clara Gronninger, Port Royal, is the guest of her sister. Mrs. J." H. Dunkleberger, 30 South Sixteenth street. Earl C. Gro-e, New Freedom, is .-pending t'hc hoii lays with iiis parents. Mr. a;i 1 Mrs. J. E. Groce, 1254 Wal nut street. Alton Floyd, South Bethlehem, is rhe guest of his parents. I.Mr. and 'Mrs. M. A. Fioyd, 35 Briggs street. Miss Julia Hickerman. 133 South Thirteenth street, is spending a week with her parents in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. 0. A. Ranker, 428 Orescent street, spent the week-end with the former's parents at Wrights ville. Mr. and Mrs. Percy Kooiis. 2041 Peuu street, were visitors with relatives at Chambersbuig. Mr. ani T ... t !', j/** ~4||f||||| biuation or eet the entire st t ling Silver Initial J f ( , onßistinß o( nine (9) picces Thin Blown Tumblers ||'\|rn with One ( 1 ) Coupon and 4H cents. |j * Only One Coupon 10 cents extra by mail. ' w . ' 111 | , , j i \ I j ! the advertised charge. Two (2) piece set r[ jiTillll ' - Tar " wanted by mail, —Sugar Bowl and | Jll| Ullll tlie amount Oeam Pi teller, •| I specified. Sterling Silver In- (r} I j , f jfi I v + i itial. i I Y , ou " mst be a . ; IIHIII reader of One (1) Coupon i , 111 I f| TL and 48 cents. |'j | ( 1 I |~| n J||| Thf ■ f Star=lnJ«p«nd>al One Largo J ' to take ml 'WaterPitcher j/jLXb i/Mr\|| 'VIMA I M ™ for only 73 AISVJ j Jl \ I st>ts will 1)0 cents and one I I j m I B<) ' a /■in | —, inTu coupon, which (1) Coupon. J, I 1 , i " iM appear 15 cents extra ll' V '! j 111 I llif PII dailv Oil page |?~Hf8l) icdzP ' REMEMBER: This newsvaper with several others, before entering into a contract with the to offer this glassware to its readers, investigated everything, and now guarantee each piece ot' glass to lie perfect, and last but not least, the sterling silver cannot be removed, and if tbev were put on sale in the ordinary way each piece would cost at least three or four times the amount we ask. Women readers ot THK STAR-INDEPENDENT will not need much in the wav of persuasion to seo the unusual value of this new offer. Ibis ware is of the finest jjlass. and each pieco is decorated with your own initial in iniarauteed Sterling silver. They will look well on the table or in the efiuia closet. This Fancy Combination Initial Glassware was never sold in the ordinary way and couldn't be purchased in the city of Harrisburg now, if we hadn't entered into an arrangement with the decorators to give our readers a chaure to purchase them at factory cost. Clip the Coupon From Page Two (2) Present or mail it to THE STAR-INDEPENDENT with the required amount aud the set is vours Sets now on display at the office of THE STAR-INDEPENDENT 18, 20, 22 South Third Street Harrisburg, Pa. returned from a visit to Xew Bloom - field. Mr. and Mrs. David H. Swope, 2031 North Sixth street, returned from New Bloomfield. Frank Corkle. 4 10.Woodbine street, is spending the holidays with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Corkle, at Mc- Veytowu. Mr. and tMrs. Harry Baer and chil dren, Miriam, Dorothy and Henry, 1909 Penn street, are visiting in Phila delphia. Henry Wartnirton Abbott returned to Boston alter visiting Mr. and .Mrs. Charles Hatton Mercer, Cottage Hill, Steelton. 'Miss Sabra Clark. Dauphin. is vis iting Miss Mildred Wrigly, Philadel phia. 'Miss Lillian Decevee. 'Brooklyn, N. Y„ returned home after visiting her cousin. Miss Alice Marie Decevee, 607 North Second street. Miss Ruth Johnson, ißryn Mawr, is the guest of Miss Maude Hanson Stamm, 333 South Thirteenth street. William Henry Kgle Holmes. Indian apolis. who has been visiting Miss Cath erine Irwin Egle, 303 Ncpth Second street, spent the week-end in Philadel phia. Mrs. Merrill Smith, I'rbana, Ohio, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Prank E. Ziegler, 106 State street. Ross Rogers. 709 South Front street, is home from Pittsburgh for the 'holi days. Miss Alice Decevee, 607 North Sec ond street, is visiting friends in Phila delphia. Miss Edna Mills, 1640 North Sixth street is the guest of her uncle in Phil adelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dintaman and daughter, 1112 Penn street, are spend ing the holidays with the latter's par ents at Bressler. William fShaken and Miss Mary Shaken, Lewistown, are guests of Mr. and Mrs, J. L. Wirt, 410 Woodbine street. Mrs. S. Walter Dolfman, Philadel phia. is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Logan. 1120 Green street. Mrs. Prank Derr ami two children, 2514 Jefferson street, left to dav for a visit to Philadelphia. |Mr. and (Mrs. .loiin Shraedley and children, I*l2 North Fifth street, spent yesterday at Mifflin. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick V. Rockey, of Liverpool, were Christmas guests of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Hummel, 821 North Second street. Miss Mame Cohn, Baltimore, is the guest of Mrs. Char'.es Aaronson, 257 Forster street. Miss Blanche MeCormick, 530 Race street, returned from a visit to'Colum foia. Mr. and Mrs. A. Starr King, Toronto, Canada, returned yesterday after a holi day visit with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles King, 439 Hamilton street. Mrs. H. Guy Kinch, 664 Emerald street, is spending several days in Phila delphia. , Miss Nora Benne't, 231S Jefferson street, is visiting at Elkhart, Indiana. Miss M. L. Wood, who has been the guest of relatives at Williamhia, is the guest of her cousin. Mix" Ella Kennedy, 336 South Thirteenth street. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Zerbe left f« their home in New York yesterday a it er a visit with the latter's parents, M» land Mrs. Edwiu Pieehler, 120 V SwataiS street. The Misses Carey. Hartford, Coma arc guesta of their brother, the Re| Daniel Carey, 1416 Market street. * Mrs. George Young, Sunbury, aijjf Mrs. Ray Wolfe, of Coatesville, r| turned to their homes after spendiifi the holidays with their parents, M» and Mrs. F. Atkinson, at Middletown. Robert Nicholson and Charles Nidioj son, 1641 Market street, arc guests <* relatives at Shamokin. Albert Drake returned to AltooiJ after a visit with his parents. Mr. auj Mrs. Benjamin Drake, 1422 Stab street. Walter Ritter, of ■Philadelphia, is t!j| guest of his mother, Mrs. Mary Ritt<# Hummel anil Kittatinny streets. Mrs. P. Cooper, 600 North >treet. r# turned from Lebanon after spending s week with her son, E. S. Cooper, nni family. Mrs. J. Crewl returned to PhiladcA phia after a visit with Mrs. T. I). Ma® Avoy, 193$ North Sixth street. Raymond Carper returned to N'oi York after spending Christinas with hn parent* at. Steelton. John Hopwood, of the Public .Servi jj Department, returned from PhiladelphS after spending several days with IIM patents. Miss Irma Williams, 122 South Thi* teenth street, is the guest of relatives H Philadelphia. 3