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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
PLAN DEVELOPMENT
.OF FAIRGROUNDS
Municipal League to Discuss Park
Improvement Measures
Monday Evening

Plans for the development of sys-
tenn of Fairgrounds and Improvement
of two available park tracts in Steel
ton will be discussed at a meeting OF
the Municipal League Monday evening.
Under the auspices of the Civic club,
a number of Fairgrounds were started
in various parts of the town, but on
account of a lack of funds and the
proper equipment these places were
abandoned this year
That some steps should be taken inn
mediately for the development of the
parks now available and provisions
made for Fairgrounds while ground is
available is the opinion of many of
the borough's prominent citizens.
Harry C. Wright. president of the
Municipal League, in speaking of the
need for playground facilities this
morning said:
1--WE certainly must make some pro-
visions to keep children off the streets
and give them suitably equipped play
gronds. We have been taking rapid
strides toward making our borough an
ideal place in which to live in recent
years, but we have neglected the chill
dren.
1--WE are now spending thousands of
dollars to make Steelton the best
paved borough in the country; we
have voted $4,000 for sanitary hos
pital; we are improving the lighting of
our streets; our schools are of the
highest standard of efficiency+but we
| have spent not one cent to provide
recreation places for our children. 1t
isn't right. We must face the the sit
uation fairly and squarely and get to-
gether to provide a system of play
grounds and parks.
| Now here is another year gone and
we have done nothing toward the de-
velopment of the Luther r. Kelker
park tract. presented to the borough
| several years ago. This tract and the
plot of ground surrounding the reser-
| Yoir could be turned into ideal recre-
alton places at little cost to the bor-
| ough."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
BAD BREATH
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets Get
at the Cause and Remove It.

DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets. the sub
stitute for calomel, act gently on the
bowels and positively do the work.
People afflicted with bad breath find
quick relief through DR.. Edwards Olive
Tablets. The pleasant. sugar-coated
tablets are taken for bad breath by all
who know them.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets act gent
ly but firmly on the bowels and liver.
stimulating them to natural action.
clearing the blood and gently purifying
the entire system.
They do that which dangerous calo-
mel does without any of the bad after
effects.
All the benefits of nasty sickening,
gripping cathartics are derived from DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets without grip
ing, pain or disagreeable effects of any
DR.. f. NJ. Edwards discovered the
formula after seventeen years of prac-
tice among patients afflicted with
bowel and liver complaint with the at
tendant bad breath
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets are pure
ly a vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil, you will know them by their
olive color.
Take one or two every night for a
week and note the effect. 10c and csc
per box. All druggists.
The Olive Tablet Company, Column
bus. o.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23

Company. of York, was awarded the
contract from the Allentown armory.
Sufficient funds to make up difference
between bids and appropriations were
found.
After Watered Milk.-Agents of the
State Dairy and Food Division are
after sellers of watered milk in eastern
counties and are following up a num-
Der of complaints which were recently
made to the State officials. Arrests
have been ordered in half a dozen
counties.
Hamburg Inspection. = Governor
Tener, who will attend the dinner to
be given tonight in Philadelphia by
Edwin S. Stuart will go to Hamburg
tomorrow with Commissioner Dixon
to make an inspection of the new State
Sanatorium.
Hurrying Fishway.-The improve
ments to the fishway at McCalFs
Ferry dam are being hurried accord
ing to word that has been received
here. 1t is hoped to get them fin
ished by the time ice forms.
Six Per Cent.-In an opinion given
to State Banking Commissioner Will
liam H. Smith, Attorney General John
c. Bell holds that cooperative bank
ing associations may not charge more
lidH per cent. lnleTeSl. Inc QueS-
ton arose in Philadelphia and it is
held that a cooperative association
Incorporated under the act of 1893 is
subject to the provisions of the acts
of 1858 and 1877. 1t is also held that
the charter of such an association
should he presented for recording in
the office of the recorder of deeds and
also in the office of the prothonotary.
In an opinion given to the State High
way Departments bureau of township
highways it is held that township su-
pervisors have no right to take timber
or wood from adjoining lands under
eminent domain for repair of bridges.
They have such right to take stone
and gravel for road repairs, but not
timber.
Industrial Cases. = The industrial
railroad cases involving the claims
for restoration of allowances to the
short lines by trunk lines will be
argued before the Public Service
Commission on November 19. The
final testimnoy will be taken Novem-
ber in two cases postponed from
this week. Fifteen railroads are in
volved, eevryone being controlled by
various Industrial enterprises.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
CHURCH HOLDS MUSICALE

A musicale will be held in the East
Steelton Church of God this evening.
The program is as follows:
Selection, choir; prayer, the Rev.
Mr.. Higgins; solo, r. G. Westbrook
piano duet, Philip and Edith Bretz;
selection, Glee Club; reading, Miss
male chorus; solo, Miss Viola Linn
selection, Glee Club Quartet; piano
solo, Miss Goldie Fackler; tableau
Miss Margaret Sweigert; duet, Misses
Sarah and Ella Edwards; piano solo.
Roy Hurst selection, choir quartet
solo, Francis Smith; reading, Mrs.
Chester Reigle; piano solo. Philip
Brett; solo, Elmer Keim; duet, Edgar
and Alfred McNear; reading, G. Diff
fenderfer and Mrs. Chester Reigle
singing CONGREGATION
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
CTQa1 nNr0 00lDOL OLeTOWn EflGhsplRe@
- - - sR2aAb
STEELTON SNAPSHOTS

new Rector Here.-The Rev. Father
Nicoh Pavloff has assumed charge of
the Bulgarian Orthodox Church,
Franklin and Front streets, wednes-
day. The Rev. Father Pavloff comes
from Macedonia. He succeeds the
Rev. Father Gregori Chizmaroff.
Properties Change Hands.-ReaI es-
tate sales in Steelton recently include
the dwelling of H. 1. Newlin to Efie
II. Stees. nominal consideration; Rob-
ert G. Wolf to Emma N. Schlessman,
$1,000; 2. Harlacher to Anna Fox,
$500.
Fire Company Meets. = There will
be special meeting of the Hygeinic
Hose Company this evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
@MTDDLETOWN- = :
MRS. SARA HoFFER DEAD

Miss Sara H. Hoffer. 40 years old,
died at the home of her sister, Mrs.
yesterday morning. She is survived by
three brothers. c. II. Hoffer, Main
street; S. II. Hoffer. Neffsville, Lam
caster county; the Rev. II. II. Hoffer,
of Hershey; three sisters. Mrs. Peter
Gruber Bachmansville; Mrs. M. B.
Reed, of Lawn, and Mrs. S. NJ. Baum,
of Round Top Mill. Funeral services
will be held tomorrow noon from the
home of her sister. Mrs. S. M. Baum,
at 2 o'clock, at the Hoffer Church, in
Conewago township. The Rev. Jacob
Fl. Longenecker, bishop of the Church
of the Brethren, will offlciate. Burial
will be made in the cemetery adjoin-
ing the church.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
RECEPTION TO sHUPP

Plans for holding a parade and re-
ception in honor of John E. Shupp, Jr.,
chief of the Steelton volunteer fire
department, who was elected vice
president of the State Firemen's As
sociation recently. will be made at a
meeting of firemen in the Citizen fire.
house this evening. All the fire COM
panies in Steelton will take part in the
parade, which will be he'd next Friday
evening. A reception in Markley's
Hall, South Front street, will follow.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
GEzA szABo GETS 9 MONTHS

was sentenced to serve six months in
the Dauphin county Jail and pay a
fine of $40 for illegal use of the mails.
by the United States District Court at
Scranton yesterday. John Kis, an
other foreigner, who was arrested at
the same time, was dismissed when
the charge against him was with
drawn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
LIKE CARRIER PIGEONS

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tions If desired. Telegraph Printing
Company.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
OBSERVE ARBoR DAY

Arbor Day was observed in the Mid.
dletown public schools to-day. Lee
lures were given by the teachers on
the planting and care of trees and a
special program was followed by the
children. A number of prizes were
awarded by the Mothers Congress
Circle for the neatest gardens kept by
pupils of the schools during the sum.
mer.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
MRS. II NJ. BROWN DIES

Mrs. II. NJ. Brown. 81 years old,
died at her home, $50 Front street,
yesterday. She is survived by her hus-
band, two children, two sisters. four
brothers and her father, Henry Crum-
Itch, Shepherdstown. The body will
be taken to the home of her father
tomorrow. from where funeral serv-
ices will be held.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
sTEELToN PERSONALS

Miss Elizabeth Myers. of Lancaster,
is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Robert
Geesey, Swatara street.
Miss Effie Bogner. Conestoga street,
has returned from visit to Philadel-
phia.
w. ]. Jones, of Delta, York county,
spent yesterday with friends here.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23

I called frequently at his office: finally
she was suspicious or nearly all of his
women callers.
II got tired of hearing things" she
said.
"And the fact that woman would
come to his Office afterward was
enough to make you suspicion? Were
| you suspicious of your husband or the
women?" asked Mr.. Smith.
Both" said Mrs. Carman, firmly.
Some women. Mrs. Carman said,
were more attractive to her husband
than she was, she had thought She
| did not know If there were more than
one, but she waited to find out. II
had no particular woman in mind" ("
she said
Mr.. Smith asked if she thought Mrs.
| variance, the middle-aged nurse whose
face she slapped, was more attractive
than she. Mrs. Carman smiled and
answered mo"
Under the rapid volley of the dis
trict attorneys pitiless questions Mrs.
Carman's color rose and fell. She bit
her lips; she clenched her gloved
hands. She appeared to be about to
faint. but her bottle of smelling salts
revived her.
Saw Money Passed
She was made to describe the entire
scene with Mrs. Variance. She said
she saw DIR. Carman give the nurse
| S15 and saw her kiss him afterward.
1t was the passage of the money and
not the kiss that disturbed her. she
said.
you didn't object to another woman
kissing your husband in gratitude?"
"Oh, no." replied Mrs. Carman.
How long after the passing of the
money was the kiss administered?
"A few minutes. They were sitting
down alongside each other at the
time"
Mrs. Carman said she did not rap
on the window when the kiss was
given, but waited until Mrs. variance
started to leave the office.
Now, as to the night of the shoot
ing" said Mr.. Smith. Did you hear
shot?"
mo. I heard some commotion."-
What then?"'
"I don't know whether 1 heard a
shot or not. l heard a noise.''
And your curiosity was aroused ?"
An Unusual Sound
Surely. 1t was an unusual sound. -
She thought 1t had come from the rear
of the house and 1t took her about q
minute to get downstairs, j. she said.
AS she reached the head of the stairs
she saw two women going down the
hail. but she made no effort to find out
who they were. After she went down
stairs she walked into the waitine
room and leaned against a mantel-
piece for moment She did not see
anyone downstairs and went directly
upstairs again after having stood by
the mantel two minutes, perhaps.
Mrs. Carman's redirect examination
was then begun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23

reply to all questions District Attorney
Smith might ask her.
She faced a crowded courtroom.
Among the 200 or more spectators
who occupied every available bit of
space were longtime friends and
neighbors whose faces were wreathed
with hopeful smiles as she began her
story Ranged directly opposite her
chair, within the enclosure and less
than dozen steps away, We're the
mother, the daughter and the husband
of the woman whose life the state
asserts she took.
Before the defendant took the chair
she crossed over to her mother, Mrs.
Conklin, sitting at the counsel table,
leaned over and kissed her.
Mrs. Carman." began the district
attorney, you said you were sus-
picious of your husband. When did
you get susplcious?"
About year ago"
What caused her suspicion, she
could not say. woman did not
cause it-'iust rumors."
Were the rumors about a woman p
Devil with the Girls
NO. Just someone asking him
about his girls. Somebody told me he
was devil with the girls
she could not recall who told her
this, or where, or when. At Mr..
Smiths bidding she named many men,
friends of DR.. Carman. but could not
name one of them as having said How
are all your girls?'
Somebody was asking him that
question all the time" she said They
were jesting, / thought at first, but
after while I thought maybe there
might be some truth in what they said.
They would say to me The doctor is
some devil"
did you have an inclination to hear
what the doctor had to say to his
women patients ?"
I'm a way, yes. Some of his pa
tents"
did you ask him where he was
when he was out all night?"
"Yes; and he told me-"
did you believe him?"
Yes sometimes"
did your suspicious increase with
timer"
They increased right up to the time
of the murder. They have all been
dispelled now"
How long have you been in that
frame of mind?"
Ever since the terrible tragedy.
What heard. or rather what didn't
hear over the telephone instrument
reassured me-"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
MIDDLETOWN NOTES.

Injured at Works.-Charles Parthe-
more sustained a fractured collarbone
at the Middletown car works Tuesday
Bible Class MeetS.-The mems Bible
this evening in the lecture room of
the church.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
An Unusual Sound
FREE DEMONSTRATION sATUR-
DAY

Demonstration of our spiced pre-
pared mustard. You are invited to
come in and sample it, Made only of
the finest and purest spices. Grand
Union Tea Company, 208 North Sec
ond street,-Advertisem
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
MAIZE YOUR CHILD HAPpY

Just received a carload of Model
Rockers, one to be given with each
purchase of one pound of Baking
Powder for so cents. Grand Union
Tea Company 208 North Second
eet,-AdVertisement
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23

members oil I n e
State Miners Examining Boards in
Schuylklll and Dauphin counties and
part OF northumberland from exahin-
ing miners as to their practical eX-
perlence in mines tomorrow. The
actlon was taken because of a suit
now pending in the Dauphin county
court which raised the question of
"nat constitutes practical experience
as miner. This was heard some time
ago and counsel for the miners declar-
ed IN court to-day in asking for the
injunction that this week miners who
had been mentioned in the proceedings
mad been ordered to appear before
examining boards to give further evil
dence as to their experience The in
junction was asked to present the sta
tus quo or the proceedings.
The hearing will be held October 27.
Hearing Goes On.-The Public Ser
vice Commission to-day continued its
hearing of the objections to the mer-
ger. of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern and other railroads into the
New York Central. This will be the
final hearing of the week before the
commission.
Governor Away.-Governo Tener
and executive controller left to-day for
Philadelphia.
Arbor Day On.-Observance of Ar
'fbor Day appears to have been general
throughout the State judging from re-
ports received at the Capitol to-day.
Thousands of copies of DIR. Schaeffer's
proclamation were sent out through
the State.
Rife Practice Efgures.-The Adju-
tant Generals Department has issued
the figures on the rife matches held
last summer at Mt. Gretna. They give
interesting information about the
work done.
Heinz IncreaSeS.-The II. ]. Heinz
Company, of Pittsburgh. has filed no.
tice of an increase of stock from s6.-
10000 to $4,000, 600.
Contract Let.-The A. L. Mennough
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
Suspicious of Callers

For several minutes Mrs. Carman
sought to evade a direct answer to the
district attorneys questions as to
whether she thought her husband was
truthful Finally she said NO" She
explained that sne nad no real reason
to doubt him. however. She was sus.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
MRS. CARMAN TELLS
JURYMEN WHY SHE
DISTRUSTED DOCTOR

[Continued From First Pagel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-23
RODER|CK HAILED
INTO COURT AGAIN
Mine Certificate Suit Takes New
Turn in Consequence of a
Recent Circular

A prelimin a r Y
/ n j u n C ton was
granted by Judge
McCarrell in the
Dauphin co u n I Y
court to-day on
p a y er of two
Schuylkill county
miners restraining
S t a { e Chief o (
Mines James +.
r o d e ric k and
members of t h e
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-03-05
STRIKE AT HOTEL ENDS

Boston, Feb. 2S-After a short strike
stationary f1remen employed at the
Hotel Vendome returned to work, the
agreeing to the unions
eight-hour schedule. Previously the
firemen had worked a twelve-hour
day. The men will receive the same
wages for the shorter work day, and
more firemen will be employed Off
GERS of this union also announce that
the Boston Opera House firemen have
been granted an increase of $3.50 a
week This rate now equals the stan
dard union rate. The new schedule
of working conditions has been agreed
to by ninety-nine per cent of the en-
ployers. These gains are the result
of a vigorous organization campaign
which has brought the membership up
to 1900 Efforts are now being made
to increase wages for fremen, oilers,
watertenders, screen men and help
ers employed by State commissioners.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-03-05
TO ENFORCE LABOR LAWS.

Bismarck, N. D., March 5. The Bis
marck Typographical Union has ap
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-03-05

reported to the legislature the results
of its investigation in the confection-
cry and paper box industries of the
state. IL is shown that the general
wage for girl confectionery workers in
Greater New York is SIS a week. Male
workers receive between So and $l4
More than one-half receive less than
$40 week. One-half of the women
are paid less than Sc week, while
less skilled ones receive as low as
$3.50 a week. Deductions for absence
and fines and lack of employment dur
ing slack periods lower the incomes.
In the paper box industry the majority
of women workers are rated under
$3.50 week. More htan 700 girls I'm
der Is earn less than S. "These fig
ures that we have obtained up to the
present." said Chairman Wagner,
SHOW conclusively. the necessity for
an improvement in wages" The com
mission recommended that the hours
of labor of children between 14/and
16 years of age, in mercantile Iestab-
lishments, be limited to 48 hours
week, instead of 81 hours, as at pres
ent, and that the provision limiting
the hours of women in second class
cites to 81 hours week be extended
to all the cities of the state. Drastic
changes in labor law penalties are
favored The maximum penalty was
increased for first violation from $50
to $500 and prison sentence of 10
days made possible; for a second Of
tense, the penalty was raised from
$3.50 to $4,000.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-03-05
ACCEPT STATE PLAN.


Columbus, March employers in
this state are accepting the new
workmen's compensation act. Fig
ures show that 1881, employing 5O7,-
$50 workers, are now subscribers to
the state insurance fund. Their to-
tai contributions to date amount to
nearly 100000, one-half Of which
has been received since the first of
he year. The employers who have
decided to carry their own insurance
number 537. These are large employ
ers, and many of them, the board re-
ports, maintain safety and f1rst-aid-to-
the-injured organizations. Under the
law an employer can provide his own
insurance with the consent of the
state board. It is estimated that there
are about $4,000 employers, subject to
the compensation act, who haze not
yet either subscribed to the fund or
made arrangements to carry their
own risks, but under the provisions of
the law, the employees of such default
ing employers are under compensa-
ton, and, in the event of their injury
or death, the amount of compensation
due them may be determined by the
industrial commission and recovered
from the employer by civil action,
with an added penalty of so per cent,
+ or, if the injured employee desires, he
may maintain civil action directly
against his employer for damages and
the employer is not entitled to the
usual common law defenSeS.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-03-05
A COAL ROADS PROFITS.

Philadelphia, March Sat a hear
ing before the Interstate Commerce
Commission in this city it was shown
that the New Jersey Central Railroad
made profit of more than 62 cents
ton above the cost of transportation.
which amounted to fraction over So
cents. The latter figures applied to
a haul of 100 miles and included as
sembling cost, line haul, terminal cost
and return of empty cars. In the case
of the Reading Railway it wa shown
that it paid to the Reading Company
since 1896, $17,297,881 to replace
equipment it had leased from. the
Reading Company, which had an orig
inal cost of $11,2O5,7S7. In addition
the exhibits showed that the railway
company paid the Reading Company
8 per cent on $18,OOO,OOO on equip
ment leases and from to 6 per cent
on an additional $17,OOO,OOO for
equipment leases. The commission is
holding hearings for the purpose of
deciding whether certain hard coal
freight rates are reasonable or exces.
sive. n
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-03-05
WILL INITIATE LAWS.

Lansing, Mich, March 5-Oficers of
the Michigan Federation of Labor
have complete the work of mailing to
every section of the state intiatory Pc
titions calling for changes in the
state laws relative to the eight-hour
work day and the right to regulate
the hours of work for men as we'll as
women and children. At it's conven-
ton last year resolutions calling for
the petitions were adopted by the
state branch. An effort will be made
to change the constitution whereby
the legislature will be empowered to
regulate the hours and working con-
ditions of men in the state. Another
amendment provides for universal
eight-hour day in every branch of la
Dor in the state