The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1914-12-12
Number Please?" Is
Query Responsible
for Disposing of g.
100 at 1ech Meeting
STEELTON NOW IN
1914 CAMPAIGN
Borough Committee Is Planning
House to House Canvass to Dispose
of Second Lot of 10000 Stamps
Mrs. L. E. johnson Chairman

More than 2,100 Red Cross Christ.
mas seals were disposed of last evening
when charity, education and entertain
ment formed triple alliance at the
Technical High school. Shirley B.
Watts, local manager of the Bell Tele-
phone Company, delivered an illustrate ell
lecture on 1.-The Telephone, Great
Modern Utility,' for the benefit of the
Red Cross in combating tuberculosis.
A selection on the piano was rem
dered by Miss Mary Fleischer, solo
by F. L. Lutz and two selections by
the Bell quartet, composed of R. E.
Stever and j. H. Hamilton. tenors, and
+. u. Lutz and H. +. Sigler, bassos.
MIR. Watts opened his lecture bv
showing what an important factor the
telephone performs in the modern life
and the utter i1npossibility of conduct
ing business on it's present high scale
without its use. The first slide shown
was that of Alexander Graham Bell. the
inventor of the telephone, who when
young man, came to this country from
Scotland In an effort TO save his life
from the dread disease. tuberculosis.
employees of the national organization
nearing his name devoting their time
and energy 10 fight this same dread
disease is an interesting coincidence.
Following the lecture, thirteen pret
ty operators each dressed in white. So
hclted the sale of Red Cross seals.
Telephone terms were not forgotten, as
was shown by the operators in passing
through the audience when they said,
Number, please The thirteen girls
who sold seals and acted as ushers
were: Caroline l.. Marzolf, chairman: ::
Mary Fleischer, Edith Dickert. Annie
Mccoy, Cora Redifer, Florence Tease.
Sarah Smith, Gail Metzger. Helen
IGlede, Ruth Richardson, Elizabeth
Kuhlwind Bertha Reed and Carrie
Smith.
Ten Thousand Red Cross Christmas
seals have already bgen sent to Steel
ton and 10000 more have been ordered
for delivery in a day or two.
Steelton got into the 1914 campaign
yesterday, when the borough commit
tee was organized and PLANS were
mapped out for conducting a vigorous
crusade against the onslaughts of the
''white plague" via the tiny Yule.
tide stamps.
John Fox Weiss, chairman of the
general committee in this city, met with
the committee yesterday and helped in
the organization. The Steelton com
mittee is made up as follows:
Chairman, Mrs. Lewis Johnson: vice
chairmen, J.. A. McCurdy and Mrs. Solo
mon Hiney; school committee. chair
man, Prof. Il. f. McGinnes, superintend-
ent of schools; Charles s. Davis, prin-
cipal of the High school, and the Rev.
Father J. C. Thompson, parochial
schools; business men s committee. H.
G. Wright, Daniel G. Becker, Matthew
M. Cusack, DR.. w. j. Middleton; resi-
dental committee, Mrs. w. H. Nell,
Mrs. Edward Mengle, Mrs. Eugene Seal,
Mrs. Harry Lupfer, Mrs. Harry c. Deik,
Mrs. John II Heagy, Mrs. John Bethelr,
Nrs. ]. P. Detweiler, Miss Celia Ter
by and Miss Hazel Smith.
The big feature of the Steelton cam
paign this year will be the house-to-
house canvass, of which the members
of the residential committee will have
charge.