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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-12
Illinois Secretary of
State Commits Suicide

Springfield, ILL.,, Oct 12.-Secretary
of State Harry Woods, one of the
Democratic senatorial candidates at
the recent primary and former oper-
ator on the Chicago Board of Trade
killed himself early yesterday morn
ing. His lifeless body, with a gaping
bullet wound in the center of the fore
head and an automatic pistol clutched
in his right hand was discovered early
to-day. The only clue was a bundle
of papers showing extensive dealings
in grain.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-12
Gilbert or Kaufman
May Succeed Trip
as Commerce Head

Directors of the Harrisburg Cham I
ber of Commerce will meet Thursday
for organization. A president will be !
elected to succeed George b. Tripp
who has removed from Harrisburg. |
Two candidates have been mentioned
Henderson Gilbert and David Kauf-
man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-12

Philadelphia; the Rev.
a. Maxwell Stamets, pastor of Augs-
burg Lutheran Church, and the Rev.
=. Il. Snyder pastor of st. Matthew's
Lutheran Church. of Harrisburg.
selections by the st. Matthews girl
cEolr were an interesting feature of
the service. Miss Catherine Zeiter
sans Hear Us. accompanied by the
girls choir. Recitations were given by
Margaret Nagle, Catherine Strohm.
Annetta Lotz. James Roberts. Robert
Swab, Carl Lott. Ruth S. Swab, Edgar
Dapp, Paul Swab, Carl Lott, Norman
Engle, Catherine Troutman. Helen
Crone. Margaret Albright and Annette
Lott.
The new Sunday school has total
enrolment of SO. Visitors present YES
terday numbered 100.
says Church Folk are Apathetic.-
The Rev. DR.. Clayton Albert Smucker.
OF the stevens Memorial Methodist
Episcopal Church. Thirteenth and
vernon streets, in a sermon last night
on why Can't Harrisburg Have n
Great Revival" said: IF the men
who occupy our pews on Sunday were
as apathetic in their business on the
other DAYS of the week as they are in
their church work. one-haIf of the
business houses and the monied in
sutu1ons in Harrisburg would be in
the hands of the receivers before the
nrst OF the year 1915. Business men
need to head the revival movement.
preachers have their part, but the
great revival that Harrisburg needs
to-day is one in which business men
from their various churches, who love
God and eschew evil. will come to-
gether, organize and plan for the
movement, and never give up until il
is a success"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-12
LITTLE FIGHTING REPORTED
By Assoeidted Press

Washington, d. c., Oct 12 - Dis
patches received to-day at the French
Embassy asid that aside from violent
cavlary charges there had been com
fog having made the use of artillery
impossible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-12

Secretary of the Commonwealth
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-12
LEGAL NOTICES

P F9eSsFTPIr 9coSsTIrHT16N H6oaENLE suBsIfrTRD T 1T To
THE CITIZENS OF THE COMMON
WEALTH FOR THEIR APPROVAL
0R RE8ESTIoSSt, BY rTH THE GENERAL G6NIM6N.
WEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE
SECRETARY OF THE COMMON
WEALTH IN PURSUANCE OF AR
TICLE XVIII OF THE CONSTITC-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-12
RIVERSIDE SUNDAY
SCHOOL IS GROWING
Leading Lutherans of Harrisburg
Speak at First Rally Day
Services

Rally day at the
newly organized Luz
theran Sunday School
at Riverside yesterday
resulted in large in
creases in member
ship. Many Sunday
school workers from
Harrisburg and else
where attended.
A id r e S S c $ were
made by the Rev. S.
ID. Daugherty, synod
ical secretary of mis-
sionary work of the
Lutheran Church. of
PhiladelDhia. the r ey
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24
SOME GUN, THIS.

Assuming that some foreign power
may some day attack the Panama
canal, the war department is engaged
in terrifying it against possible fu-
ture emergency. The Army and Navy
Journal describes one of the guns
which will throw a larger projectile
than any other in the world There
is still about years work to do on
the 16-inch gun before it is sent to
the Panama Notifications. says this
authority. The gun has been ordered
shipped to Watervliet arsenal. where
an elevating groove will he cut in the
band near the braech. From Water
vliet it will be sent to Watertown,
and the gun will be installed in the
immense carriage, which is now near
ing completion. AT Watertown it will
have a shock test. after which the
gun and the carriage will be shipped
back to Sandy Hook for final test.
The progress of building the disap-
pearing carriage is attracting the at
tention Of ordnance experts of var
ious countries and great interest will
be taken in the firing test of the gun
after it is installed in its new car
rage. 1t will throw a larger proiec-
tile than any other gun in the world. 4
1t l. estimated it will have an effec-
tive range of something like sixteen
miles. which is beyond that of any
other gun in the world. The final
tests at Sandy Hook of two new II
inch guns for Panama canal fortifea-
ions are about completed. The ord
nance officers are highly pleased
With the success of the tests, and it ,
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

alls, milk cows, raise hogs and become
an actual producer and developer OF
the country.
eff every commercial club in the
state could secure from farmers lists
of former neighbors who are still re-
siding in the east or middle west and
who are planning to come west the lit
erature could be sent to those actually
interested, and not to mere curiosity
seekers who apply on postal card
for booklet. The ideal descriptive
booklet from the standpoint of the
man who wants information about
the west is an account of what some
other farmer has actually accomplish
ed in Oregon.
''Oregon has room and need for
thrifty tillers of the soil. She does
not need more people to come to her
cities and every effort of the promo
ton department of the commercial
clubs of the state should be centered
on the development Of our farming
lands
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24
LENGTH OF MADAM'S COAT.

After a rather heated controversy
between the leading manufacturers of
women S clothing at New York. re-
garding the proper length of coats to
be worn next winter. sort of COM
promise apparently has been agreed
upon. AT least a New York dispatch
says the United Association of Cloak,
Suit and Skirt Manufacturers has
decided that "the woman who wears
short coat in the early winter seas
on will be in fashion, and the woman
who later on i'll the season puts on a
longer one will also be in fashion. I"
This may seem to solve the difficult
ties of the coat makers. some of whom
insisted on a thirty-two inch length.
while others contended Just as strong
ly for at least a forty-two inch cut.
but it simply will add to the perplex-
ltles of the women when they come to
purchase coats for the coming winter
season. If the decree of the coat
makers is considered authoritative.
the woman of economical turn will be
IN doubt whether to take a chance on
the short length remaining in fashion
for the entire season. or run the risk
of being out of fashion for the early
part Of the winter by wearing long
coat. although assured that later on
the garment will be ''in style. F." Those
who afford two coats of course will
escape this dilemma. but such cases
will be the exception. rather than the
rule
However, it will appear to some that
this two-coat habit is possibly the
very thing which the coat makers are
aiming at and trying to encourage. .
Every woman tries to be in fashion.
ana II the winter season Is to be di- /.
yided into two style periods, there will |
be considerable temptation to possess
garments that will meet the double .
requirement. And it is rather signi-
drant that the coat makers have put
The short-coat period first. If they
had reversed the order it would be
possible for the women to provide
themselves with long coats. and when
the style changed 10 the shorter length
they could cut the garments to meet
.he new requirement. And probably
The coat makers thought of this when
they made their decision.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

Lingerie gowns in adaptations of the
styles made famous by the pictures OF
Kate Greenaway are popular for little
girls party wear. They may be plain
embroidered or trimmed with lace, but
q handsome sash is an invariable ac-
compartment.
Pictured here is charming frock of
hand embroidered voile The high
waist line and puffed sleeves are quaint
and attractive.
A charming garment for the small
girl is a little white nainsook made by
hand and hand embroidered. 1t is cut
in princess style, perfectly straight
from neck to hem except that low
placed band of ribbon is run through
wide loops of the material and tied in
a bow in front.
Hand embroidered with scallops and
dots is the neck, the ends of the short
cut in one sleeves and the bottom of
the little garment.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24
CAUSE FOR REGRET.

Considerable regret will be caused
by the denial made by Andrew Ger.
negie, of the report that he had de
cided to give fund of several million
dollars to help found country libraries
The original statement of this matter
brought out the fact that there are
still 2.200 counties lacking any public
library. 1t is field needing help
quite as much as the many towns
which have already received Mr.. Car
negie S generous assistance, among
which Dallas is included. 1t will be
hoped, however. that he may still be
considering some plan of this kind.
Of course in many Of these 2,200
counties there are book and magazine
clubs. But such informal organiza-
tions usually dispose of the volumes at
second hand sale. Nothing is accu-
mulated for future years. Moreover,
such organizations are also very much
hit or miss in their methods. Com
mittees on choosing books are formed
on the basis of social popularity.
Their idea of literary excellence may
be the book that advertises with the
blacklist and largest type.
The selection of books for a com
munity reading calls for the best edu-
cation and common sense. The read
ing club committee may look at a
standard work like ''Quo Vadis, and
seeing the name of Nero, decide that
it is history, and they don't want it.
They studied all the history they need
ed in school. So they buy the froth
of the moment. which will be valuable
to the junk man year later. The
country library is a part of the ma
chinery necessary to make rural life
attractive. With wide awake books.
the long evening in the farm house
looks much less lonesome. The most
important thing is a little permanent
library home. which the Carnegie
scheme of giving has always provided.
As long as the book collection is kept
in some ones clothes closet, or on
some fly blown counter in a grocery
store, its volumes reflect the transient
character of its surroundings. If
means can be found to erect a build
ing, the nucleus of a library takes on
the dignity of a permanent home. The
people the thereby encouraged to help
the enterprise along and work to make
it grow.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24
this "new wealth. scarcely could re-
suit otherwise.
AUTOS AND RURAL MAIL.

The serviceability of the auto in the
delivery of rural mails is about to re-
ceive formal recognition by congress,
in way that very likely will result in
aatos completely supplanting horses
for this work. This change has been
recommended by Postmaster General
Burleson, and in accordance with this
suggestion the house committee on
postot1ices and post roads has approx
ed and reported bill proposing TO
pay rural carriers, with automobile
routes of fifty miles, $1,000 per year,
the present established routes being
only twenty-four miles long and the
rate of pay being $1,000.
The extra compensation Of 5000 per
wear is intended to cover the expense
of auto purchase and operation by
rural carriers, and it has been care
fully estimated that this sum is amply
sufficient. For the government, on the
other hand, the proposed change will
effect considerable saving, as the ac-
tual service of each carrier will prac-
tically be doubled, with an additional
expense of only fifty per cent. Nor
will this necessarily mean a reduction
in the number of rural carriers employ
ed but rather an extension and i'm
provement of the service already rem
Jered. Carriers would cover twice
the ground, which would enable a re-
arrangement of routes that would take
in many country roads now neglected,
and bring the mails to the doors of a
much larger number of rural dwell
ers. This has been demonstrated in
Polk county during the past season.
Nor is it to be overlooked that this
plan will also mean "boom' to the
manufacturers of cheap autos. 1t will
open up new field for the sales of
such ears and give fresh impetus to
the entire auto industry. Also it will
have a very important effect on the
good roads movement. For when au-
tos are generally used in the distribu-
tion of rural mails. there will be a
new reason for making the country
"good,o and keeping them
in that condition through all seasons
of the year.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24
HOW TEMPTING.

Have you ever noticed, dear paid,
up subscriber. how really beautiful
gum-chewing makes girl appear
Take her defacto, and gazing steadily
one cannot find more ideal picture
With a sharp click-click her teeth,
very pearly and white, are clashing to-
gether as, with cowish glee, she masti-
Gates her cud. Then, too, you note her
health tinted, well-rounded cheeks as
they grow little more rotund,
through the aid of a luscious hunk of
gum. And, really, who can imagine a
fairer spectacle than that of her dain-
ty up-turned nose, as it gently rises
and falls in wave-like undulations
over the abysmal depths revealed at
each pressure against her mass? How
deliciously tempting is that rose bud
mouth as the maiden fills it with a
soft pliable chunk, and champing like
a festive goat revelling in the lux
uries of the succulent tomato can,
she greets you in tones husky with
gum.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

1t ism t altogether a thankless task
serving the government in an official
capacity. Nice-President Marshall
and Speaker Clark have both been al
lotted $500 automobiles. There are
plenty of good men who would serve
their country most patriotically even
in the arduous position of vice presi-
dent if they could be the recipients
of such perquisities.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24
THE MEN WHO BUILD

The Observer fully endorses the
following recent editorial sentiment of
the Portland Journal:
What Oregon needs Is not the man
who comes here to make easy money
or to look for a job or even to go into
business or a profession already well
represented, but the man who will 90
out on the land, who will wear over
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

Dallas should lose no opportunity
for advancement, remembering that
history is replete with instances of
communities that rose while confront
ed with the hardships of development,
but which, when the earlier tasks
were accomplished, and the road to
prosperity was reached, forgot that
growth is the result of vigorous eff
fort, and fell by the wayside.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24
Subscription Rates.
MARY MAGDALENE.

"Why wilt thou cast the roses
from thine hair?
Nay. be thou all a rose-wreath,
lips and cheek.
Nay. not this house-that ban
quet house we seek.
See how they kiss and enter.
Come thou there.
This delicate day of love we,
too. will share
Till at our ear loves whisper
ing night shall speak.
What, sweet one! Hold'st thou
still the foolish freak?
Nay, when | kiss thy feet
they'll leave the stair"
"Oh, loose me! See'st thou not
my Bridegroom's face
That draws me to Him? For
His feet my kiss,
My hair. my tears He Graves to-
day. And. oh,
What words can tell what other
day and place
Shall see me clasp those blood
stained feet of His?
He needs me, calls me, loves me.
Let me go!'
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24
TEN BILLION DOLLAR CROP.

When the average person reads that
the commercial value of the crops
raised in this country this season will
amount to $4,000, 100000, he glibly
repeats "ten billions without grasp
ing the real significance of the sum
thus stated. In fact, it is hard for
anyone to fully appreciate the value
thus expressed. The New York World
has been trying to convey an idea
of what it means by comparisons,
Some of them follow:
Ten billions would buy all the real
estate in New York and Chicago at
assessed valuation, and leave prince
ly fortune over. Ten billions would
pay every penny of the tremendous
war debts of France and Germany.
Ten billions would pay off our own
national debt nearly ten times over;
it would pay its interest charges 435
times. If next years crops are four
hundred millions less than this year S,
the 1914 and 1915 products of the
soil would buy every railroad in the
country at the 1911 capitalized val
uation.
"Our iron yield" says The World,
sis incomparably the greatest of the
nations; the industries it feeds are
called basic. Yet our iron product
is only about one-twenty-third part of
that of the farms This years
field products will be worth fourteen
times the value of the annual coal
output at the mines, seventy times
the value of a years yield of petro-
leum. This years crops will be worth
seventy-fve times as much as the
latest reported annual product of gold
and silver combined. 1t is greater
than the entire worlds stock of coin
ed gold and silver. 1t is more than
two-thirds Of all gold dug. coined and
consumed in the arts in all the world
since Columbia discovered America.
Do these comparisons of The World
begin to give you an idea of what ten
billions of dollars means Then try
some of our own, that bring il down to I,
matters closer at home for most of us :
The average wage in this country is .
about five hundred dollars wear. .
The yield of this years crops would .
pay the wages of twenty-millions of /.
men. The mere annual income from
this year crop yields at five per cent
would pay the wages of a million men.
Ten billion dollars would build five
million miles of road at two thousand
dollars a mile-euough to 90 around
he earth two hundred times. Ten
billion dollars would build a mil
Non sehoolhouse at ten thousand dol
ars each. 1t would build two million
homes at five thousand
'ach.
Possibly this may help You to get
of an idea of the stupen-
ous sum represented by this season
utput of farm products. which either
ireetly or indirectly will go to enrich
very citizen of this land. And in
rasping this idea You also will com '
renee to understand why the presi- {
ent and others are predicting an era
{ unprecedented prosperity for this l
alton, for the distribution of all {
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

Dallas has had a long run of
"luck" with respect to the absence of
serious fires, and everyone should be
on the alert to keep this luck from
changing.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

As compared with other lines,
where a return is sought for invested
funds, there is a safety and sureness
about realty that appeals to the av-
erage mind and in itself serves to
impart confidence. which is such an
in all classes of investment.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24
APRICOT LINEN GOWN.

back, from sash bow or edge of jacket
to ankle. Others have a widely far
ing cut or are set into the waistband
with small plaits or even gathers.
The gown pictured here is of apricot
linen with long tunic. part of which
is arranged in box plaits. The kimono
blouse is cut with a low front. into
which is fitted a vest and fare collar
of white organdie. The gown is adorn-
ed with white bone buttons and has a
girdle Of patent leather.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

Speak well of Dallas business es-
adjustments, its professional men, its
schools, its churches. and other insti-
tutions, and if there are any grum-
blers they will be awed by the unani-
nifty of the sentiment for an improved
city. In short, be booster.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

From the viewpoint Of the suffra-
gets. Secretary Bryan is surely a mod
el husband. He says he will ask no
political rights for himself, which he
is not willing TO grant to his wife.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

For summer wear the striped sweat
er Of silk is undoubtedly the cry of the
hour. In green. lavender. blue. wheat
and tango this beautiful and costly bit
Of sports wear with its sash is partic-
ularly effective with the white skirt or
the white suit.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

The railroads again are placing
large orders for ears, rails and en-
gines. Further evidence of the antici-
pated return Of good times, largely as
the result of the bountiful crops.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

The hop picking season will soon
be with US again, when thousands of
people from other sections of the state
will come to Polk.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24
LONG TUNICS.
They Are In the Ascendant For Gowns
of All Types.

The long tunic is seen on every type
of costume. from the street suit to the
negligee. Fluffy lingerie frocks Of
sheer organdie and embroidery have
the staid and stately tunic. and if there
must be rutfies the rutfies are put on
the tunic.
Some of the long tunics worn in the
street are buttoned down in front; 9th
ers show buttons all the way down the
back. Some of these tunics are quite
simple in cut. with slight fare at the
sides and a very straight line at the
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

While the political campaign is still
in its infancy, there is every indica-
tion that Oregon will 90 republican
this fall by surprisingly large ma
jority. From all sections of the state
comes the information that republi-
canism is in the ascendency, with
bright prospects for the election of
not only a United States senator and
a governor. but of the lesser nominees
as we'll. And while this condition ap-
pears to obtain as a whole, Polk
county will be in line. The Observ-
er's grapevine service brings encour-
aging news from nearly every pre-
cinct in the county, its correspon-
dents asserting with no uncertainty of
opinion that their respective locali-
ties are infected with the spirit of
republicanism to such an extent that
the contagion is absolutely beyond
control by the opposition, and that
the ticket will be elected from top to
bottom.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

is stated that II remarkable record of
accuracy was made by the guns on
long range firing.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

Real street Improvements will be in
augurated in Dallas within the ensu-
ing fortnight.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

The country not only Is proud of its
tremendous wheat crop. but it also
is commencing to feel its oats.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-24

Seeking redress seems to be the
only sport that appeals to some folk.