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» >li|SiWy/ SPRING OPENING DAYS \
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(vf~E2\ An event when all Harrisburg gazes into the Style Mirror for glimpses J ;
\| of coming fashions. Thursday, Friday and Saturday will tully establish Si
Spring shopping —it's essential with Easter lurking in the immediate 1
I IP" 1® lilik background —and Bowman's —with greater than ever assortments of
iv : I# Pl\% apparel for your spring wardrobe; choicest ofyard fabrics and accessories; 9
1 ifl I \\\ in tact everything pertaining to Spring, with beautiful spring-like sur- y
rrTOi ivV ft* roundings giving added charm —extends to YOU a welcome in its true g[ !
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| Lovelier Than Ever Of Millinery J
■» . This is not a boastful imagination, for comparison has born out the facts. -
9 Spring came to us in a brilliant assemblage of all that's new and practical— . *
M suits that Harrisburg women can and will wear. "ie Greatest Showing
f . Because it offers the greatest variety, and a very few can equal it in massive- I
1 But to grasp the real inspiration, we must step back into the thirties, when ncs> , Lagt mout h we "surprised Harrisburg in our advanced showing, and this * J
wide skirts and high waist lines were the glory of designers, and at times it city is due anotlrer surprise to-morrow when the Millinery Department steps
V seems that those same modistes must live in our daw for the resemblance is out in full spring dress. £
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T the high neck effect: and buttons upon buttons, are suggestive of the military (_ yQflflOt DQ J\6W&r~" £
w a 11,1 ' Our representatives are continually in New \ork making personal observa- ■j- •
? This showing is authentic to the final word. —representative of all the latest tions, and just as soon as a new style ti end appeals it i.s nt NV i>> 1
1 .. , ' - ~ . c , , . .... . , here—almost to the dav, and alwavs it embodies the same new teatuies shown I
0 creations, and our preparations for this Spring display, justify us m saying that over voiider "
• it will surpass any we have ever held. Q £
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•§■ Snnnd ( • And it goes without saving that Bowman Millinery is in a class of its own. £1
V I' V/UUl'U# Here are striking creations that found their origin in the most fashionable and £
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? f JL licit SIIOW tllC Chanee known modistes; a number of which we be
•3- O lieve famous Parisian designers would envy. jy\ 1
L Inthe Season ' s St y les Together With Our J&jgl%
T Tliis in itself is adequate to weave an interesting story around, but let us a o +-5 /\« o (\/ , / \ \ 7
-3- only touch lightly on this feature. creations J
V They're wonderfully different, to be sure, with a strong tendencv toward showing js most complete and _ 1 Z
decided flares at the bottom edge. High waist lines are verv prominent, and authentic; >*°" 11 ® ° c "Je —lVyvy
? 1 , ,0 A +•, 1 4.1 1 i-iii trimming —feathers. We want \ou to see Y \ \y7 \°\
1 belts alc used treelv; three-quarter length or slightly shorter. tlu . ( .ffeetiveness of this new idea. v/J Jl
• In A Word, they are examples of approved style, and excellence of materials But we want you to sec them all. >»,
| and workmanship. Come in to-morrow. W
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TAKE ALLEGED DYNAMITERS
State Constabulary Arrest Two Charged
With Murder of Six
Greensburg, Pa.. Mardh 10.
Through an alleged confession by a
prisoner in the State constabulary bar
racks here, the Slate police say they
have apprehended the two men respon
sible for the dynamiting at Superior
on November 15. LSI 4. of the home
of Noah Pinizzi. which resulted in rhe
death of six j-ersons, including three of
Pinizzi's children.
According to the police, John Mc-
Berney. Ala - John Kelly, who was ar
rested in Younfcstown. 0., February 18.
but whose arrest was ke;«t secret, ha?
admitted complicity in tiie ■ rime and
has involved Joseph Sheets. The latter
was arrested yesterday a * Sujierior.
The clue to Mcßerney's whereabouts
i-ame through the arrest recently of a
»ran on a charge of stealing brass from
the Jamison Company's coal tipple near
This man. it is asserted, said
thai Mcßerney had taking
part in the blowing up of the Pinizzi
heme.
Mcßerney's allege! confession, ac
cording to the State constabulary, said
that, following the dynamiting, he and
Sheets spent the night sleeping in a
coke oven and that on the next day
they fired an old log house adjoining
the" Pinizzi property. For years there
had been a belief that in the cellar of
tie old house was an enoromus treas
ure of gold.
SNOWBALL CAUSES DEATH
School Girl Becomes 111 After Being
Pelted by Boys
Camden, N. J., March 10. —Thelma
Howell, nine years old, a daughter of
Mr. and >Mrs. Charles Howell, of 442
Spruce street, this city, died yesterday
as the result of being struck on the
head with a snowball. Cerebral men
ingitis. superinduced by the injury, was
the cause of her death.
Ten days ago when the child was re
turning from school, a crowd of mis
chievous boys pelted her with snow
balls. Several hours afterwards she be
came ill. The boys who threw the snow
balls escaped, and no arrests have been
made.
Amos Scott Dies at Lewlsburg
Lewisburg, Pa.. March 10.—Amos
Scott, 74 years old, former chairman
of thf Union County Re üblican com
mittee and director of the Lewiefburp
Trust Company, died here yesterday, A
widow and two daughters, Mvs. Rachel
Beale, of Scranton, and Mrs. Walter
Wilcox, 6i Lewisburg, survive.
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HARRISBURG STAR-INDEPENDENT, WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 10. 1915.
JITNEY BUSES [X PHILLY
450 of Them May Soon Be Running in
Quaker City
Philadelphia. March 10. '"Pour
hundred and fifty jitney buses on the
streets of Philadelphia" was the pre-:
diction made yesterday Dy Edwin W. I
Hembright, 2025 Norri< street, the
city's first "jitney.'' after just one
week's trial of his bus on the North
Broad and North Thirteenth street
route, between Diamond and Chestnut
streets. Beginning with the second
day, Mr. Hanibright says, he has cleared
$S a day above expenses, and is mak
ing arrangements to put several other
"jitnevg"' in seivice in the more con
gested routes out of the downtown dis
trict. "I can beat the trolley cars on
speed'' Mr. Hambright added, "and I
can beat the taxicabs on price; and
there is no straphanging.
"If 'jitneys' succeed in Philadel
phia,'' he continued, "75 per cent, of
the chauffeurs in the city will be run
ning cars of their own by the end of
the summer. It will be possible to go
from the City Hall to the ball grounds
by automobile for a nickel.''
So far the "jitneys" are operating
without any passenger-carrying license,
according to Mr. Hambright. The city
authorities told him to go ahead, he
savs, when he first broached the idea
to them. Superintendent of Police
Robinson says that he is investigating'
to see if the "jitneys" come under any
ordinance requiring a license. Inspect
or W. E. Saxton, of the Bureau of
Highways, said he had asked City So
licitor Ryan for an opinion.
COLOR LINE COUBTESY FATAL
Trial for Alleged Murder After Tip
ping Hat to Negress
Norristown. Pa., March 10.—John
Monohan, of Lamott, is on trial in
Criminad Court for the murder of
James Beattv, who suffered a fractured
skull when Monohan struck him be
cause he lifted his hat to a negre<s.
William Engard, of Philadelphia, is
on trial for the death of Albert f*mith,
of North Wales, who was killed by
being run down by Engard's motor
truck at Gwynedd Square.
Follows Mother to Death
ißangor, Pa., March 10.—Mrs. Mary
Allen, aged 35. wife of William Allen,
committed suicide yesterday by drink
ing poison. The family stated that Mon
day was the first anniversary of the
death of Mrs. Allen's mother and that
she had been worrying greatly over her
mother's death.
ENRICHES FAITHFUL ONES
Merchant's Will Generous to Widow
and Employes
Allentown, Pa., March 10.—Liberal I
treatment to his wife and the cm-,
ploves, who helped him build up his'
business, is the outstanding feature of j
the will of Thomas J. Koch, clothing l
merchant and banker, who died Febru
ary 11, leaving an estate valued at •
about $250,000. Mrs. Koch gets the:
homestead and cash and bank stocks,
vahied at more than 150,000, and a
fine income from a trust fund of $150,-
000.
Six employes, for their faithfulness,
are to succeed to his business, being
given 10 years to buy his store an.!:
real estate. They are Willis E. Kuhns,
Harry Jordan and John Ritter, who
are each to have four-sixteenths; Sam-<
1 uel Kuhns, two-sixteenths, and Elwood
Kuhns and Samuel Ritter, one-six
teenth each, and each receives a bonus
on the business dbne in the past.
Bulclde Follows Rebuke
Potetsville, Pa., March 10.—Rebuked
by friends for alle>ged misconduct so
grieved Clayton Zimmerman, of Llewel
lyn, yesterday that he took his own life
with a revolver. His mother arrived at
his room just in time to witness the
deed. i
TAFT AT PRINCETON
Ex-President Addresses Polity Club at
University
Princeton, N. J., March 10.—Former
President William H l . Taft spoke bcforp
an open meeting of the International
Polity Club of Princeton last night in
Alexander Hall. The former President
had been announced to speak on the
subject of "Problems Before the Coun
try," but he changed his subject to
"The Presidency" because "my views
might not coincide with tihe powers
that be."
Colonel Thompson, a prominent Re
publican leader of Trenton, met Mr.
Taft on his arrival and extended to
him an invitation to go to Trenton la
ter last night following his address
here and speak at a Uepublican rally.
Mr. Taft declined, but said: "Tell
them for me that 1916 looks good to
me.''
Huntingdon's Oldest Lawyer Dies
Huntingdon, Pa., March 10.—Wil
liam H. Woods, Huntingdon county's
oldest lawyer, is dead in his 86th year.
He was a grandson of John Wither
spoon, one of the signers of the Decla
ration of Independence, and an uncle
of President Judge Joseph M. Woods,
of th<» Huptingdon-Bedford-Mifflin dis
trict.
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DYING- MAN REFUSES TO TELIj
Thinks He Will Recover and Ke<
Assailants' Names Secret
Atlantic City, March 10. —Alt hod
dying at the city hospital from a fxj
turfd skull sustained in an altercatl
in the back section of the city, Geoi
Smith refuses to divulge to the pol
the identity of his uswailants. Ho j
lieves that he will recover and dcclaj
that he will then settle the matter]
his own way.
Peter Van, Charles Moore i
Smith's wife have been arrested 1
suspicion that they were
in giving Smith his injuries, but h«j
fuses to sny whether or not they I
guilty.
JURY DOUBTS FORGERY
I Finds a Verdict Ignoring Expert's E
dence in Court
Lancaster, Pa., March 10.—In a a
on a $2,000 bond against J. F. & P.
McLaughlin the defense alleged I
gery, and experts testified that the I
natures of P. W. McLaughlin i
forged.
The jury paid no attention to (
testimony, but found in favor of
plaintiff, John J. Pennell, for $2.5
the full amount of the claim and inl
est to date