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Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-09-17
EQUESTRIANSHIP.

Best sadd horseback rdsr narrsu woman e' 500 $500
Best saa5 9Gls'Daok rlder natf'so woman oe 500 200
Best horseback rider single woman, cross
saddle o'o0 ~
Best horseback rider, single woman, side ooo
saddle ..........., ....'.''''.'. o'oo 4oo
Best roadster Weakley County horse, mare
or gelding, driven by owner, accompanied
by lady turnout so points, horse 30 points, 80
drivers manner of handling 20 points looo ooo
Best single rig driven by gentleman, lady to 1000 zoo
accompany ..,.............''" Ao'oO NV
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-09-17
SOWS AND PIGS.
DUROC JERSEYS.

One year old and over. ..........'..'''
Under year and over months ........
Under months. ........................
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1915-09-17
SOWS AND PIGS.

One year old and-over .........'...''.'..S
Under year and over months ..........
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
\ RIVERSIDE BoATHoUsE

YER since it was finally decided
that the "Hardscrabble" district
- was to be taken over by the city,
necessitating the abolition of the
lighthouses along that strip of the
river bank. it has been realized that
the city must take some step toward
providing facilities for the boat own
ers of Harrisburg. The river is dotted
during summer weather by myriads of
sailboats. and with the completion of
the dam at the lower end of the city it
is only reasonable to suppose that
there will result great impetus in
water sports of all kinds
City Commissioner Bowman is there
fore not a minute in advance of the
times with his proposal to lay before
Council plans for the construction of
a boathouse along Front street near
the central portion Of the city.
Mr.. Bowman's idea, as set forth by
the Telegraph yesterday, offers prob
ably the very best solution of the
problem. His plan is to concentrate
all of the boat storage of the city in
one municipally-owned boathouse so
located that it will be not unreason-
ably distant from any section of town:
charging for storage, etc, just suf-
ficient to cover the interest and sink
ing fund of the investment. This
would give the boat lovers of the city
what they never have had. a modern,
well-constructed boathouse. amply
for all purposes, and
which could be fitted for use as a
place for boat clubs, swim
ming clubs and the like.
Possibly some problems will arise
in connection with this development
that may need the further consid-
Grafton of councilmen, but on the sur
face the plan appears to be the most
feasible that has been offered. and
Council should give it the prompt and
serious consideration that it deserves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
THE COMPETING JITNEY

[From the Saturday Evening Post.1
The strange word "jitney" has be-
come OF quite poignant Importance on
the Pacific coast. Some etymologlsts
others that 1t is merely slang term for
a nickel. originating in sporting cir
cles. 1t means an automobile-general- =
ly loW-priced five-passenger tour
ing car-which operates over a fixed
route an competition with the street
cars. carrying passengers for five cents
head. There are said to be over 000
jitneys In Los Angeles alone, whose re-
ceipts average S. to 81 day Traction
people there place the loss in street
year and naturally want the competI-
ton suppressed, In San Francisco iit-
neys are said to cost one trolley line
over. $500 a day, The bankruptcy of a
petition. Meanwhile, jitney owners
have organized for mutual defense and
from deep trenches defy the traction
forces to bring on their forty-two CEN
timeter guns,
This is what often happens when a
firmly established industry, with an
- ense capital Investment is assail-
ed by an innovation. But the remark
able thing is that automobiles shouId
be able TO compete with street cars at
mobile was rare and expensive lux
ury. Now the dependable cars arc so
cheap and can he operated at SO low
a cost that carrying four passengers at
load, over considerable distances is
profitable-at least in Los Angeles,
where there Is fine pavement and omen
weather all the year round The RUE
IS that the newest things grows fastest
Within generation the newer cleo
trical traction has developed much
faster than the older steam traction.
and gasoline traction faster still
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13

lions upon millions of fertile acres that
in years past have provided amply
for the communities they ordinar-
lily supply are lying idle. Whole arm
les of workmen have been withdrawn
from the farms. The wheat crops, the
potato crops, the fruit crops and all
sorts of vegetables must suffer, where
they are not entirely wiped out.
Nevertheless. the people who have
been accustomed to deriving their food
supplies therefrom must eat, and they
are looking towards the farms of
America to meet the deficiency at
home. This means that more than
ever before the United States will be
called upon to export provisions, and
in the United States, with the extreme
likelihood OF consequently higher
prices. Therefore. more than ever be-
fore it becomes the duty of Americans
to see to it that the ground they own
or control shall yield its maximum
during the coming summer and that
as little as possible of it shall lie idle
at time when the whole world is cry
ing for what it might be made to pro-
duce.
There should be no idle lots in the
towns and cities of the United States
this year: no fallow fields by the road
side. Back yards by the millions are
eyesores TO the communities that
might be transformed into places OF
beauty and at the same time made to
help handsomely towards the family
dinner table.
The Christian Science Monitor has
suggested the organization of an army
of American men, women and children
for the promotion of backyard garden
ing and points out that if everybody
enlists and does his part small or
large, there will be no cry for bread
throughout the wide earth this year
or next to which the people of the
United States cannot promptly and
generously respond.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
DEMOCRATIC YALE

"HoSE who have been regrettlng
the decline Of democracy in the
: big universities will be glad to
note that Henry Wang. Ningpo,
China. has been awarded the Ten
Eyck prize for speaking at Yale
against able competitors. including a
son of the principal OF the University.
This Is a tribute to the broad and lib
erai spirit that prevails at Yale, where
a youth can come unknown from the
IA away Orient and be permitted to
carry off by sheer merit one Of its
most coveted honors.
Pull" may help in the big colleges,
but success is based on something bet
ter. II is a fine thing to know that
the spirit of democracy, so far from
being dead. is alive to the extent that
1t outweighs all other considerations
in the affairs of that great educational
institution, Fathers may well trust
their sons to such schools as this, con-
fident that they will be taught no
tricks of snobbery, but will be trained
up along the lines of the best tradi-
tions the country knows,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
WILLIAM SHERMAN STEELE

T HE death of William Sherman
Steele, principal of the Central
n High School, removes from the
educational circles of Harris
burg and the State at large one of
the most popular and efficient school
executives that the Commonwealth has
sVeP known,
Professor Steele was not only be-
loved of his pupils, but by all with
whom he cams in contact, He did a
splendid work at the Central High
School under conditions that would
have doomed to failure the efforts of
less resourceful or determined man.
Doubtless overwork. through endeavor-
ing to keep the school up TO standard
under a handicap that made efficient
work impossible, had much to do with
precipitating the illness that resulted
on Wednesday in his death.
Not only will he be missed in Har-
risburg, but at the PenHsylvania Chau-
tauqua in Mount Gretna, of which he
was the chancellor. and in the State
Educational Association. of which he
was prominent and active member.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
STORY RITEN'
BY THE MESSENGER BOY

The morning Patriarch is as full of
surprises as q old wolly dog is full
of fees, and they are jist about as eff
fecktive-makin it snap back at itself
to ease its own hide of the itches
Whenever news is skarse 1t prints two
or 3 columns of destructive imagina-
shun which is laffable or pityble, ac-
cordin to the circumstances of the
kase, whether its foolish or ignerent
Sometimes when 1t makes a fool of it.
self 1t has sence enuf to keep its mouth
shut afterward, and sometimes 1t
doesn't.
The Patriark acks like It was sore,
and is tryin to cover up by acl<tin pee
wish and farsickal like a kali with the
foot and mouth disease. Everytime
the wind changes It ketches a cold in
the editors colum and weeZes or else
the cork blows out the froth bottle
and hits the kazoo in the eye, or shoots
the Star into the sky. 1t ought to take
the advice that Lara Lean libby rites
about the lovelorn and how to revive
their hopefulness without bein mean
about it.
Patriark reporters goes about the
city with microscopes and probes
tryin to find holes in the asphalt pave
ments, and lookin to see if the river
has washed away any of the pebbles
on the new bank fill. They also rites
anonymous letters to themselves tellin
the solushuns of MYSTERIOUS merders
and how to find the fellows that done
it by lookin up the disgised handriten
of each person in the direcktery. They
are as full of wiseness as a swiss cheeze
is full of holes.
One of the Partiarkis favrite raps is
at the skool bord in Supposed sar-
kastic way which has turned silly with
staleness; BY callin each fellow they
don't like on the bord :Man-so- n-so''
they intermate he aint whot he ought
TO be, which is how the Patriarch feels
about most everybody ekcept itself.
and sometimes it gifts to slippin in that
direckshun
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13

" 1ME was, and not so long ago al
that, when il would have been
= difficult to hold even a small
automobile show in Harrisburg.
To-day two large exhibitions of motor
cars OF all kinds and their accessories
will throw open their doors to a pub
lie that has been waiting impatiently
for some weeks for an opportunity of
seeing the very latest things in auto
mobiles.
These two shows reflect the growth
of popular interest in motor-driven
vehicles as perhaps could be demon
strated in no other way. That the au-
tomobile business has come to stay
and that the power vehicle has met a
popular want is very we'll illustrated
by the fact that during 1914, when
almost every. other line of business was
either PROSTATE or at best displaying
no more than feeble activity. the auto
mobile trade was the greatest in the
history of the world. Almost every
firm of established reputation manu-
factured and sold more cars than ever
before and not a few new makes were
successfully launched. while the few
failures reported could be attributed
10 bad business methods rather than
TO lack of orders.
Whether you will buy an automobile
this year or not, do not fail to go TO
the automobile shows. If you do in
tend to purchase a car some time dur
ing the coming season go prepared to
place your order now. This is the
time to buy whatever you design to
buy this year. If you keep the money
you intend to spend stuck away in a
bank it will do business no good. II
YOU are going to spend it, put it into
circulation now. The business of the
country would be vastly improved If
everybody did that. and it applies to
automobiles quite as much as 10 any
other line.
In the end. chances are, you will be
the owner of an automobile. The
time is fast coming when those in very
moderate circumstances will be able to
enjoy the pleasures of automobile driv-
ing. The most marked development
of the past year has been the
steady decline in prices of standard
makes and the equally steady improve
ment in quality. 1t is possible to-day
to purchase for a thousand dollars a
car in every way superior to the ma
chine that sold for five times that
amount five years ago, and the end
is not yet here either in the matter OF
improvements or in lower prices.
The automobile holds an attraction
that few can resist. It is poorly in
formed man indeed who cannot dis
tinguish the different makes at a glance
or who does not know something
of the mechanism of the car his neigh
Dor drives. The automobile shows are
places of entertainment and of useful
information and they doubtless will
be as largely attended as they deserve
to be.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
IN STATE
PLATFORM STAND
McNichol and Ware Make State
ments That Promised Legisla-
ton Must Be Enacted
NO FIGHT ON ADJOURNMENT
Senators Say That If the Legisla-
ture Can Get Through Earlier
So Much Better

Speaking in Philadelphia yes
terday. Senators McNichol and
Ware declared themselves favor
able to the redemption of the Re
publican platform pledges. Their
comments were regarded as un-
usually significant, in view of the
reports in political circles that
Governor Brumhaugh is planning
a call for an extra session should
the present Legislature fail to re-
deem the party pledges. The
House has already set May as
the date for final business and the
resolution to that effect now
awaits the pleasure of the Senate.
"Thc platform legislation must
lac enacted before adjournment,
declared Senator McNichol.
Il think that the time fixed by
the House is about the right time
for adjournment, provided the
Governors legislation has all been
acted upon by that time" stated
Senator Ware. in fact, | would
he willing to see the Legislature
quit even earlier, provided we can
get through with our business. In
order that this may be accom-
plished, I believe we ought to stay
in Harrisburg at least five days a
week If necessary to clean up the
work. AS far as | am concerned,
| am going to use my best efforts
TO expedite the important legis-
lation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13

n / E.N EfS III the history OF lne
M United States have the industries
! of the country been so ham,
pered and handicapped as dur
ing the past year. Times have been
excessively dull. Some mills have been
closed entirely, others have been
forced to reduce working forces and
in not few instances profits have
been cut almost to the finishing point.
Yet in no instance worthy of mention
has there been a disposition to reduce
wages. Few greater tributes could be
paid to American manufacturers than
this, that they have maintained the
wage standard of prosperous times
throughout a period of unexampled
adversely.
Manufacturers have been willing to
forego profits and dividends for a time
for the sake of maintaining their or
ganization intact and preserving the
wage scale they have been accustomed
to pay at time when reductions
would have been excusable and would
have been comparatively easy to make
because of the large number of men
willing TO accept work at any price.
Friends of free trade have scoffed at
the assertions of leading business men
who based their plea for a protective
tariff on the fact that they desired to
pay wages as generous as industrial
conditions would permit, but their attl-
tude during the present depression is
such as to lead to the conclusion that
they were sincere.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
welt KNOWN pEoPE

Alba B. Johnson, PHILADELPHIA
manufacturer, highly commends Sun
day as a worker
Senator George T. oliver will be
one of the guests at the launch of
the Pennsylvania.
John II. Bigelow, district attor
ney or Luzerne, was attacked by a
wild man at Wilkes Barre as he left
the train yesterday and somewhat
beaten up.
Captain NJ. Churchill, L. s. A, is
inspecting the States artillery.
A. ]. Palm, the new postmaster
OF Meadville, is a newspaper pub
Usher.
Archbishop Prendergast will ded-
icate a new church in Philadelphia
tomorrow.
Justice Won Moschisker is at the
seashore.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
q BOOKS and ia
XII MAGAZINES&1M
~ 90 M4Sd

1t TOOK II Dig man. Il very wise man,
a patient man. determined and vet
a kindly man. to command the army of
laborers on the Panama Canal. In Colo
mel Goethals' second article in the April
Scribner he tells of the Labor Prob
lens Connected With the Work" Near
ly all the nations of the world were
represented among the workmen, and
TO keep peace among them, to keep
them at work, solve the wage questions
and the hours of work, etc. called for
mighty good judgment. 1t doesn't take
many men long to appreciate an atti-
tude like this, however: IAN effort has
been made to treat the men fairly and
humanely, Strengthening out their diff
fculties and differences when possible,
assisting them when necessary, as well
as taking personal interest in their
affairs when advisable so to do"
There are few story writer's who
leave with you a more convincing i'm
preston of sincerity and knowledge of
the human heart than Mary Synon.
There's big note in her work, a big.
wholesome one at that. In the April
Scribner she has another of her stories
of the wilderness. "Esau's Daughter"
story of an old love made new on
the far trails.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
A See-America
Summer

This will be the greatest sea-
son Canadian and United States
summer resorts have ever
known.
Millions of dollars usually
spent abroad will be distributed
at home.
One great resort region ON the
Canadian border is already book
cd 10 capacity.
1t is q season when newspa-
per advertising will be UNUSUAL
ly effective-because more peo-
pie will he studying the adver-
tisIng to see where TO go.
Summer resorts and railroads
will find their newspaper appro-
priations unusually profitable.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
HE WAS RIGHT.

Mamma: Bob
bic, can you tell
me how t. spell
''Cat"?
Bobbie: I can,
but I think you
ought to look It
up for yourself, !
had to.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
PLANT SOMETHING

~ LIANT something. The Telegraph
has advised that on many pre-
= vious occasions, but it is we'll
worth repeating. Plant some
thing, and be sure that the yield will
help reduce your grocery bills next
summer and do its part in keeping
down the growing high cost of living.
All the world is looking to America
for food stuffs, not entirely for imme-
diate consumption, but very largely
with view to the future. In the war
devastated countries of Europe mill
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
DO YOU KNOW

That Harrisburg has more
churches to the thousand popu-
lation than any city of its size in
the State?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13

Philadelphia members of the
Legislature are learning that the Com
mittee of One Hundred and other or
ganiZations working for the Williams
local option bill are on the job. The
first instalment of the 10000 cards
sent out to voters began to filter into
the legislators to-day. with the pros
pect that they would be followed up
by many voters in person. George G.
Dewey, chairman of the general COM
mittee, declared that posters "vividly
portraying the horrors of the drink
evilf would be placed in and about
many industrial plants. Dr. Dewey
said some employers had consented to
enclose small circulars in the pay en-
velopes. The circulars which the
workmen at the big industrial plants
will get assert that 95 per cent. more
accidents befall workmen who drink
than occur to total abstainers. An
other contrasts the cost of government
in Greene county, which is dry" and
Elk county, which is wet" The cost
to Greene county per voter is placed at
a cents, as against Elk's S1.S4.
The Pennsylvania Sabbath School
Association, it was declared to-day,
has competed plans for uniting all the
Protestant Sunday schools in the State
in demand that the local option bill
be passed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
| OUR DAILY LAUGH

USUALLY THE
WAY.
Going to watch
the old year out
and the New
Year in?
I'm going to
watch the old
year out in such
a way that the
New Year will
look like two.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
NO POEM TODAY
by Wing DlnRer

Foreman: Look here. Wing, I'm busy,
This sheets got me darned near dizzy,
And your poem isn't written,
So I've come to hand the mitten
To you and your verse for this day.
'Taint no use to show your dismay
BY frown or frantic caper.
You can't get space in this paper"
Dinger: Don't tell ME your trouble.
If you've got to troth and bubble
Go on somewhere in the corner,
Just like little Jackie Horner;
| will see the boss this minute.
When this sheet is published, in 1t
I'll bet YOU you'll find my verses
Despite you, so curses, cursesw
Reader dear. l just have come from
The big boss. VINO with much humdrum
Said: Wing, il. you have a poem eat
it,
For it won't get in, now beat It,"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
Need Hose
MWSE g RslfFssTFSHES.R

[From the Telegraph. March IS, 1861
kinston Captured
Philadelphia, March 13.-Schofield
has reported the capture of Kinston
n. C. Bragg, rebel commander, is re-
treating.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
MAksgs keo NSoHS HfSo1bAY

From the Telegraph, March 13, 1861
Shad at One Dollar Each
Fresh shad have appeared on the
markets and are retailing at 81 apiece.
Need Hose
scarcity of hose for use by the
firemen has been reported to the coun-
ell.
Lutherans I'm Session
The Lebanon conference of Lutheran
churches has opened at Lancaster.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
Opens communications

Newbern. March fisherman has
opened communications between Will
mington and Fayetteville, where his
army is resting and plans are being
made for another advance movement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13
HE KNEW.

George: I sup
pose you know
I'm engaged to
your sister?
Bobbie: Sure
/ know all de fell
lers she's engaged
to.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-13

me WINCH q respite was ISSUED TO the
convicted officials of the international
Lumber Company a few days ago.
Judge Robert +. Umbel, who has
agreed to retire from the Fayette
county bench in 1917, will not resign
before then, according to a statement
he made last night in comment on
the report that Representative Stern,
of Philadelphia, has prepared an i'm
peachment petition to be presented to
the Legislature next week. In his for
NAL statement the Judge saws; TN
view of the threat to make the Fayette
county situation the subject of fur
ther legislative investigation and 10
avoid any misconstruction which
might be placed on what ! would now
say, / have decided to make no state
ment until the Legislature Indicates its
intention. adding that | will not resign
before 1917, and l confidently believe
that, in View of the fact that my resIe-
nation at that time will avoid one
judicial contest, my agreement to do
so has practically the unanimous en-
dorsement of the people of this
judicial district"
John ]. Green, Democratic candi-
date for Secretary of Internal Affairs
some years ago and a stalwart Demo-
crat. was yesterday selected by Phila-
delphia judges to be member of the
board of viewers to succeed Judge
Shoemaker. Mr.. Green, who is now a
registration commissioner. is we'll
known here. W. n. Trinkle. counsel
for the Public Service Commission,
was also mentioned for the place.
Woman suffrage is due to come I'm
in the Senate on Monday night on
final passage. So will the Daunhin
county third judgeship bill. and there
does not appear to be much opposition
to either.
The President will make a num-
Der of recess post office appointments
and also name b. F. Davis revenue
collector again.