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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

Harrisburg people, especially
mothers with small children,
will be glad to know that the out
side" treatment for cold troubles
-Vick's Vap-O-Rub Salve =
that has made such success in
the South, will shortly be intro
duced here. Arrangements are
being made for a number of the
leading druggists to give away
packages free. If your druggist
is one of these the coupon below
will entitle you to 25c size jar
free.
This treatment is entirely diff
ferent from the usual Internal"
medicines, which disturb the di-
gestion and are especially in
furious to the delicate stomachs
of children. 1t comes in salve
form and has twofold action.
For cold troubles you just rub it
we'll over the throat and chest
and cover with warm flannel
cloth. The body heat releases
vapors of Menthol and Camphor,
Eucalyptol, Thyme, Cubebs and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
Heavy Rails For Lehigh;
Will First Make Tests

The Lehigh Valley railroad has pur-
chased $500 tons of 136-pound rails.
Tis is the heaviest rail ever rolled
for a steam railroad and the mainten-
ance of way department plans to eX-
pertinent with it with a view to its
adoption as standard by that line.
The 136-pound rail means that every
running yard of it weighs 1876 pounds.
Growth of heavy traffic and desire to
attain that best possible efficiency for
its rails is responsible for the expert
ment.
The new rails will be seven inches
high and G1a inches wide a the base.
When it is remembered that a no.
pound rail is only six inches high and
Y inches wide at the base, the diff
ference is readily apparent. The in
creased height and width means a
much better rail in every way, ac-
cording to Lehigh Valley officials.
The design for this rail permits the
rolling of the best quality of steel. and
the height and other dimensions are
such as to make this rail less liable
to break than other rails. The weak
est point in the track is at the joints
between the rails, and the height of
the 1S6-pound rail insures greater
strength than is possible. with light
er one.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
43rd Anniversary of
Centenary U. B. Church

The forty-third anniversary cele-
bration of the founding of Centenary
United Brethren Church will open
Sunday and will be continued until the
following Sunday night The Rev. A.
X. Wier, pastor, has completed an in
teresting history of the church, includ-
ing the charter members and the pas
tors, since its organization almost half
a century ago.
The celebration of next week will
mark the completion of improvements
and additions to the church started
seven months ago and costing about
$1,000. The committee on building
included G. w. Parks, J. T.. Mentzer,
w. II. Cumbler, Il. L. Herman, NJ. C.
Zerby and the Rev. A. K. Wier. I'M
provements and additions to the
church in recent years have cost more
than $4,000, 1t is estimated, while
many new members have been added
by the work of the pastors and with
the aid of evangelistic campaigns. The
charter members of the church, which
was organized in 1872, follow: John
Shaftner, Mrs. John Shaffner. Samuel
Nissley, Mrs. Samuel Nissley, Jennie
Nissley. Uriah Harpel, Mrs. Uriah Har-
pei, Mrs. Samuel Reitzel. Samuel Reit-
eel, Fannie ReitZel. Fannie Mohn, John
Lingel. Mrs. John Lingel, George Curt
ner, Mrs. Moses Young, G. w. Parks,
and Agnes Parks. Pastors of the
church from its organization to the
present time follow: The Rev. Van.
Hoff Gusweiler. 1S7S-1S74; the Rev. J..
II. Light, March, June. 1874; the Rev.
Lewis Peters, 1S741S76; the Rev. II.
c. Phillips, 1S76-1SS0: the Rev. ]. NJ.
Mumma. 1SS0-1SS2; the Rev. ]. r.
Hutchison. 1SS2-1SS5; the Rev. Lewis
Peters, 1SS5-1SS9; the Rev. e. L.
Hughes, 1SS9-1S92: the Rev. Joseph
Meredith. 1S92-1S93; the Rev. e. uud-
wig, 1S93-1S96; the Rev. ]. NJ. Shelley,
1S96-1S99; the Rev. A. r. Myers, 1899
1907; the Rev. L. A. G. Bossler, 1907
1919: the Rev A K Wier 1a12
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
SONS
PLAN NABANQUET
Eastern College Men to Gather
at Harrisburg Club
January II

Lafayette alumni from all over Cen
tral PENNSYLVANIA will gather round
the banquet board in the Harrisburg
Club Monday evening. January IL. for
the first reunion of the followers of
the Maroon and White ever held here.
The gathering of the Eastonians
may lead to the formal organization
of Lafayette Alumni Association for
Central Pennsylvania
For weeks an active committee, con-
sisting of Casper Dull, ~, w. w. Da-
Wis, 50. DIR. J. George Becht, 80.
ex-senator Fred A. Godcharles, '9S, Will
liam II. Earnest. '97, Charles X. Boas.
II, Frank P. Snodgrass, 80, secretary
treasurer, and ex-senator John E. Fox
SIS. chairman, has been working on
the details and the outline of the
plans as announced by Mr.. Snodgrass
to-day indicate one of the jolliest gath
erings of Lafayette men since their
student days.
Governor Brumbaugh to Attend
Some of the foremost men of the
state will be guests. These will in
clude Governor Martin G.. Brumbaugh,
DR.. Nathan c. Schaeffer. Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction; DIR. John
Henry McCracken, president of Lafay-
cite. and DR.. William B. CBnrD
Owen, Of the faculty.
Other guests will include representa-
tive graduates from other colleges and
universities. DR.. Arthur +. Brown
emy, will represent Harvard; Hen
derson Gilbert, Yale; DIR. William
NJ. Irvine. principal of Mercers-
burg Academy, Princeton; President
L 81
Marshall; Additional Law Judge S. J.
NJ. McCarrell, Washington and Jeffer-
son; John L. Dapp. Gettysburg; Paul
G. Smith, Bucknell University; Dr.
John Price Jackson, State Commits
sioner of Labor and Industry. Penn
sylvania State College: John r. Geyer,
lebanon George L. Reed Dickinson:
Percy L. Grubb, Lehigh. and A. Boyd
Hamilton, University of Pennsylvania.
Fresh From College
Then, too, there will be a repre-
sentative from the undergraduate body
of Lafayette and a quartet from the
college glee club. Lafayettes grad
yates expect to sing and cheer as they
did on football field and campus in
years gone by and the college quartet
has been invited to add a touch of
pep to the singing and cheering of
the later years. Not ir songs and
cheers and the reunion of the class
mates will the spirit of Lafayette be
suggested, however: footballs, cups,
banners and other trophies which the
Eastonian warriors have wrested from
athletic foes will be hung on the walls
of the banquet hall of the Harrisburg
Club. Flags and bunting of Lafayette
colors will help out in the decorative
scheme. The music will be furnished
by Weber's orchestra.
The ToaStS
From seventy-five to n hundred
graduates are expected to attend the
dinner. DIR. Becht will be toastmaster
and among those who will respond to
toasts will be Governor Brumbaugh,
DR.. McCracken. DR.. Irvine, DR.. Owen
and Deputy Attorney General Emer-
son Collins, 'S4.
The menu will be arranged on hand
some souvenir folders bound in the
college colors and containing on the
cover page a reproduction of a famous
portrait of that gentleman of France
after whom the EaSton college was
named-the Marquis de LAFAYETTE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
Scientists Hear Talk on
Railway Disease Uncertainty
Special to Tic Telegraph

Columbus. Ohio. Dec. 81. =. Ivy L. Lee,
who is a member of the staff of the
Rockefeller Foundation and who was
formerly executive assistant to the
president of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
yesterday delivered an address on. "Un-
certainty-The Railroad Disease" be-
fore the American Association for the
Advancement of Science in session in
this city. He said, in part:
"At the end of nearly ten years of
regulation we now find the railroads
subject to the Interstate Commerce
Commission. and to the separate and
unrelated commissions of forty-siX
States. all with very wide powers over
railroad rates and practices. Further
than that, the four years 1912 to 1915,
inclusive. saw the introduction in forty
three State Legislatures of 5000 bills
relating to railroads. of which 442 be-
came law.
system of railroad regulation which
has so far been developed in this coun-
try is that IL is indefinite. inconsistent
and not yet established on recognized
principles--ln other words, that there
is in IT nothing certain by uncertainty
The railroads have no standards as to
what the various regulating bodies will
consider reasonable rates"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
Post 351, G. A. R. to
Install New Officers

Members of Sergeant Samuel w.
Lascomb Post. No. 351, Grand Army
of the Republic, will install officers
for the year at a meeting tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock. Following are
the officers for 1916: Fred Dengler,
commander; Samuel Weaver, senior
vice-commander; c. A. Gallagher,
junior vice-commander; John C. At
tick, quartermaster; David R. ,Hoff-
man, chaplain; William w. Gemmill,
surgeon; John McAfee, officer of the
day; Charles e. Scott, representative
to department encampment; George
Hopes, alternate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
MANY LOSE LIVES
WHEN CRUISER SINKS
[Continued From First Page

lI1l dSCsI
extent and violence Russia maintains
a mysterious reticence concerning her
military operations there. 1t seems
certain, however, that extremely i'm
portant events, the full significance of
which are not as yet officially dis
closed, are occurring at the only point
pressure to bear on the Balkan situa- =
tion without actually crossing Ru-
manian territory.
Many reports reach here that the
Austro- German and Bulgarian forces
are not only abandoning all prepara- =
tions for an advance in Macedonia,
hut are actually withdrawing troops
tributed to the Russian offense in
Bessarabia, but most of these dis
patches bear the impress of the wish
being father to the thought.
Close in on Bulgars
Active operations in the Near East
are now centering in Albania where
the Serbian army is said TO be suffer-
ing from harrassing attacks made by
Albanian forces. From the progress
they have made in Albania it is pre-
dicted that the Italians will soon clash
with the Bulgarians in that territory.
Paris newspapers asserts the entente
forces operating in Albania soon will
nave Ine powerful support OF ESSa d
Pasha, the Turkish leader there.
Athens claims that the diplomatic
situation shows a growing cordiaIity
between Greece and the entente DOW
ers, France having assured the Greek
government that the occupation of the
island of Castelorizo was a necessity
of war and only temporary.
No special importance according to
this report, is attached to the island,
as its status is underlined.
To Compel "Slackers'
historic meeting OF the British
cabinet, at which the final draft of
the compulsion measure will probably
be adopted is expected to-day. The
bill, it is reported, will embody the
following principles:
Compulsion to be applied TO all
single men who fail to attest: for this
purpose the machinery of the Earl of
Derby's plan to be made statutory
and the provisions of the law to be
enacted to apply only for the duration
of the present war.
The labor conference on compuI-
sion came to no decision as to its at
titude. but a strong feeling of sus-
picion toward the reported cabinet
solution of the problem is manifest
The labor leaders probably will not
settle upon n policy until the rank
and file have had an opportunity to
express their opinion.
The Montenegrins admit the recap
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
Carnival Dance on Stage
at Majestic Tonight

A carnival dance. which Manager
Hopkins says is the same as any other
dance except that the stylish steppers
appear in grotesque costumes. has been
arranged to add the grand finale of the
New Year celebration at the Majestic
Theater to-nigh,.
At the close of the vaudeville per-
formance with its injections of extra
celebrations, the affair is to conclude
with a dance on the stage to which all
masqueraders will be invited.
While the applause of the audience
will guide the judges in making their
decisions in the various contests. never
theless experienced judges will reserve
the right to make the final decision. The
judges will be. Robert Hoy, William
Orr and Robert BuX.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
JOSEPH DENNIS DIES

Joseph Dennis. one of the Oldest and
most widely known residents of the
borough and an employe of the Penn
sylvania Steel Company for many
years. died this morning at his home,
529 North Front street, from a compli-
cation of diseases. He was 20 years
old
MIR. Dennis came to the borough
more than forty years ago and worked
until recently at the open hearths of
the Pennsylvania Steel Company.
Later he was employed by the high
way department of the borough for a
short time. He is survived by his
wife and one sister. Funeral services
will probably be held Monday at the
St. James Catholic Church, followed
by burial at the Mount Calvary Gene
terry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

ture of Raskova Cora by the Aus
trians, but declare they have had sue
cesses elsewhere. making $500 pris-
oners in an engagement in the San1ak
in which an Austrian detachment was
wiped out. On the Lovoen (Dalma-
tian) front the Montenegrins report an
Austrian repulse.
Berlin has reports that the Greek
government has again protested
against fortihcation by the entente
allies o fterritory around Saloniki.
An Austrian official report declares
that the French submarine Monge
was sunk by an Austrian Adriatic no
tilla on Wednesday last. one officer
and fifteen men of the submarine be-
ing made prisoner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

n
TO follow, and the epidemic will have
added several to its number. says DR..
Raunick. Very late hours, insufficient
sleep, carelessness about draughts
when oVerheated between dances and
general needless lack of the ordinary
precautions is just as sure to count
YOU out for a few days as though the
germs We're handed to you or a silver
platter, insists the health officer.
Another thing that is a source of
great wonder to Dr. Raunick as we'll
as to all who have lived in the mod
ern age, is the apparel now worn by
the women and girls. Take for eX-
ample the fur about the neck-now
YOU see it and now you don't, because
II has been shifted to the ankles and
the neck is perfectly bare. And yet
milady keeps right on going and does
not seem to suffer much, or if she does
she refuses to admit it. But ones vi
tality is unquestionably diminished by
lack of sleep, and when one dances
one cannot sleep, and when ones vi
tality is diminished ones resistance is
less. and, as DR.. Raunick says, you
run far greater chance of acquiring
grip If your resistance is below nor
NAL Quad erat demonstrandum," to
speak geometrically.
Prominent Folk Have II
Just now Harrisburg is doing it's
best TO emulate Philadelphia in the
spread of the grip epidemic which has
seized it's quota in every institution and
establishment in that city Capitol
filll seems to be suffering as much as
any other, with Auditor General Pow
ell, Commissioner of Labor and Indus
try John Price Jackson, and A. +. Mil
lar of the Public Service Commission,
laid up with almost any one of the
three. grip, La Grippe or influenza.
Doctors state that the epidemic is con-
fined largely to the women and chill
dren, but whether the fact that their
resistance is less or their dresses too
short is the cause, is not mentioned.
DIR. j. Nj. ]. Raunick, city health Off
Ger, gave it out as his opinion this
morning that the epidemic is spread
ing, and what we need badly is a good,
cold spell.
Doctors. Too. Sure!
Even the doctors themselves are not
immune. DR.. William E. Wright has
Just recovered from a recent attack,
and there are others laid up who have
had to put themselves in the position
of patients. The Rev. w. n. Yates.
school director. is also a victim. Indi-
cations point to q slim attendance at
the meeting of the Harrisburg Acad-
emy of Medicine tonight at $50 for
the election of officers for 1916. Many
of the physicians will probably be out
treating patients, but the meeting will
not be postponed, according to the
president Harvey F. Smith.
The Harrisburg hospital has been
suffering to the extent of two doctors.
Benjamin Garfinkle and j. o. Crist
and five nurses, three of whom are
now on duty again. The polytechnic
hospital had but one nurse incapaci-
tated and one patient developed a
slight attack while in the hospital.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
SteeltOn Snapshots

Elect Officers.-Members of Steeltor
Lodge. No. All, Knights of Pythias
elected the following officers last
night: Chancellor commander, George
w. Dress: vice-chancellor, Fl. C. Light,
Fl. X. Fries: master of work, II. w
Foulkers; master at arms, II. r. Rupp;
inner guard, w. A. Shipp; outer guard,
Chauncey Cargil; trustee, d. J. Bech-
told
To Repeat Cantata.-The cantata,
"In David's Royal CITY," will be re-
peated by the choir of the Grace
United Evangelical Church Tuesday
night, January 4.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
New York Central Changes
Affect Passenger Agents

New York Central announces the
following changes, to take place Janu-
ary l w. r. Barnet. assistant general
passenger agent. having resigned to
engage in other business, the following
appointments are made effective Janu-
AIRY /, 1916: c. c. Howard, assistant
general passenger agent. with Office at
Grand Central Terminal, New York;
W. V Lifsey assistant general passen-
ger agent, with Office at 1916 Broad
way, New York; Harry Parry, assist
ant general passenger agent, with
office at 377 Main street Buffalo, n. Y.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
G. W. Kirchwey Appointed
as Sing Sing Warden
By Astoeiated Prcts

Albany. N. Y, Dec. 81. - George w.
Rirchwey, of New York, former dean
of the Columbia Law School. was APP
pointed agent and warden of Sing Sing
prison to-day by John B. Riley, State
superintendent of Prisons, to succeed
Thomas Mott Osborne. No conditions
were attached to the appointment,
which contained no limitations as to
the length of its duration.
In a brief statement. outlining his
plans. Professor Kirchwey said he con-
templated a continuance of the Mutual
Welfare League founded by Osborne and
an improvement of industrial work at
the prison.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
GERMAN LIEUTENANT
DESERTS WITH PLANE

Paris, Dec. 31.-"A German aviation
lieutenant. accompanied by his me-
chanic. deserted with an aeroplane,"
says the Calais correspondent OF the
Excelsior "They flew over the Dutch
border, being GREETED by volleys from
the frontier guards, and landed at the
village of Aardenburg. They have
been interned at Flushing"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
Idaho Has Drastic I.nw

Idaho viii 90 dry Tonight by virtue
of statutory prohibition. Most of the
state has been dry under local option
and only about $50 saloons will be
forced out of business. Idaho's pro-
hibton law is said to be the most dras-
tic in the Union. IT not only pro-
hibits the manufacture and sale of
liquor. but makes possession of any
kind of malt or spirituous liquor a
crime excepting wine for sacramental
purposes and pure alcohol for medi-
cal. scientific and mechanical uses,
which is procurable only on an order
from the probate court.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
KING BOOZE WILL
BE KNOCKED OUT
CONTINUED From First Page.l

closing tonight. Under the Mulct law
repeal, statutory prohibition is re-
stored, pending the action of the next
legislature and the people on the pro-
posed amendment for prohibition,
which is to be disposed of within the
next two years.
In Oregon the manufacture Or sale
of any kind of Intoxicating liquor is
absolutely prohibited. L rug stores are
not permitted to sell liquor for any
purpose with or without a doctors
prescription. Each family may import
for personal use a maximum either
of two quarts of spirituous or vinous
liquors or twenty-four quarts of malt
liquor in any period of four successive
weeks.
In the state of Washington the
initiative prohibition law permits resi-
dents to purchase from dealers outside
the state two quarts of spirituous
liquor or twelve quarts of beer each
twenty days.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
Interstate Ruling May
Improve R. R. Conditions

Washington. Dec. 31.-The Inter-
state Commerce Commission to-day
declined to suspend schedules of the
Pennsylvania, New York Central and
other trunk line railroads which pro-
vide for reduction from 80 to is
days in the allowance of free time on
export freight.
This means that the commission has
approved the free time allowance re-
duction beginning January /. 1t may
improve congested freight conditions
at the port of New York. The reduc-
tions apply also to freight shipped to
Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nor
folk and Newport News.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
CLOSE AT sUNDOWN

Columbia. S. c., Dec. 81. - The
South Carolina dispensary system un-
der which 10 out of a. counties oper-
ated liquor dispensaries will cease to
exist at sundown to-day. individuals
may obtain through shipment one gall
lon of liquor a month for personal
use. Certain spirits are permitted\for
the church, arts and sciences.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
PREPARATORY SERVICEs

Services preparatory to holy COM
munion will be held this evening at
7:45 o'clock in Redeemer Lutheran
church. conducted by the pastor, the
Rev. e. Victor Roland. Holy COM
munion will be administered Sunday
at both morning and night services.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
Reductions in Coal
Rates Again Postponed
BY Assoetatca Press

Washington. Dec. 81. - Reductions
in rates on anthracite from the Penn
sylvania fields to the Atlantic seaboard
were again postponed to-day by the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
They will become effective April l in
stead of January /. They were orig
inally ordered for October / and have
been twice extended.
The commission wants to give the
coal roads time to work out the new
rate schedules they have been ordered
to make,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
THE READING
Harrisburg DivIsion-14 crew

Harrisburg Diyision-14 crew first to
go after "a m: 10. l, 4, 5, ., 6, s, Z, 8.
East-bound = SO, 5S, 60, So.
Engineers for 81, 6. 2. SO. !, s, ., 10.
Brakemen n nO for r-6 81. s.. i, 8, 8. 8. 10.
Engineers up: Wyre, Fraunfelder,
Merkle. Ferner, Morrison. Griffith,
Kaufman.
Firemen up: woland, Geib, Grim,
Dowhower, Keefer
Brakemen up: Hinkle. Taylor. Smith,
Miller, Connel, limerick, Holbert,
Kline. BoltZ. stephens. Gray, Miller.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
RoyAI, no CLEAR DOcK EFT

Mayor John X. Royal will turn over
to his successor on Monday a clean po-
lice docket. In order to do this he has
ordered a police court session for Mon
day morning. at o'clock All arrets
n'clock and Mondav rnorninR Vnil yui,i at >
taken care OF by Mayor Royal.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
VICE CHANCELLOR EMORY RESIGNS
BY associated Pr

Trenton. N j., Dec. 81. - Chancellor
Walker to-day accepted the resignation
of Vice Chancellor John r. Emory, of
Morristown, as member of the Court
of Chancery. Mr. Emory is rs. years
old and has served three terms of seven
years each as a member of the court.
Ill health is the cause of the resigna-
tion. Chancellor Walker will announce
mis- selection of a successor to Mr.. EN-
ory next week.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31
TWO s. p. G. A. PROSECUTIONS

Two prosecutions were reported
during the last month, according to
officers of the Harrisburg s. P. C. A.,
who held their monthly meeting yester-
day. The annual meeting of the So
ciety will be held next Thursday after
noon at o'clock in the offices of the
president, John T. Olmsted, 5 North
Third street.