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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-11-15

Sometimes women's complaints are
imaginary; again they are form of dreadful
disease. In any event, HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea has helped thousands Of women.
It has relieved their constipation. Women
swear by it, 35c-Ivey' Pharmacy.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-11-15

Fill the body with warm, glowing
vitality, make the nerves strong, increase
circulation, restore natural vigor, feel like one
born again. HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea
natures gift of wondrous herbs, pure, harmless,
SO scientifically blended, results guaranteed or
money back-Ivey's Pharmacy.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-11-15
Beautiful Buenos Aires.

There are in the city of BuenOs
Aires 81 parks, promenades, and plazas
with a total area Of about 10,727,COO
square meters (about $500 acres).
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-11-15
Can ( Do Both.

"De man dat wants to do all de
talkin'." said Uncle Eben, "is mighty
likely to leave other people do most of
the thinkin'."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-11-15

MeatIess Days Produce Longevity.
Plutarch recorded that the ancient
Britons were so temperate that they
only began to grow old when one hun
dred and twenty years of age. &.
Their food consisted almost exclusive
ly of acorns, berries and water"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-11-15
The Best Cheer.

"There is no cheer better than the
cheer that comes from giving good
cheer to others. "-Henry F. Cope.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-11-15
WISCONSIN FARMER LAWMAKER URGES
YOUNG MEN TO TAKE AGRICULTURAL COURSE

is at all possible for them to do so.
l am a firm believer. that the teachings
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1917-11-15
CALLING CARDS AND INVITATIONS

in correct sizes and styles, neatly print
ed at the Crawford Printery, Mineral
Point. Engraving work also furnished.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
Idol of French People in
This Country on War
Mission Will Stop Of
Here on Tour of Nation;
Royal Welcome Is Being
Planned
PARTY WILL REACH
HERE NEXT TUESDAY
Chamber of Commerce to
Name Committees to IN
sure Appropriate Recep-
ton for IllustriousFrench-
man Who Saved Paris

General Joffre. hero of the Marne
and idol of the French people, who
arrived in this country several days
ago to discuss war problems, will be
in Harrisburg, next Tuesday. He
Will be accompanied by his aids and
Rene Viviani, member of the French
Cabinet.
The Chamber of Commerce is
planning a big reception for the IL
lustrious Frenchmen. Committees
are being appointed and preparations
are being fastened for royal well
come.
The French party will leave Wash
ington Thursday to visit Chicago and
later will go to Kansas City, St.
Louis, Springfield, ILL.,, Philadelphia.
NewsY ork and Boston. At the con-
clusion of the tour, which will last
"a week or ten days the party will re-
turn to Washington
Members of the mission, including
Viviani, Marshal Joffre, Admiral
Chocheprat and the Marquis de
Chambrun, descendant of General
Lafayette, will travel on a special
train as the guests of the United
States government.
The party will include among
others the members of Marshal Jof
fre's staff, headed by Colonel Jear
Fabry ''the Blue Devil of France,
who says he is half American be
cause he has an American wooder
leg. replacing a limb shot away IL
action. A.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
Germans Planned to Blow
Up Morgan's Office to
Brighten Stock Market
BY Assoeiated Prcf,

New York. May 1.-Confession was
made in court to-day by Wolf Hirsch,
arrested last night with George Mey-
ringer, both Germans, that they were
on their way to blow up the Offices
of j. p. Morgan and Company with
bomb when intercepted by the po-
lice.
Hirsch supplemented before the
court an alleged confession he had
made earlier to the police that the
explosion of a bomb at the Morgan
office was part of a scheme to Gre
ate a stock market reversal from
which he and Meyringer could profit
financially.
Hirsch added that Meyringer had
induced him to speculate in Wall
Street and had suggested as a quick
er way of getting profits a scheme
to frighten the stock market. The
plan includeded blowing up the Nor
gan office and the sending out over
tapped telegraph wires of false news
that President Wilson had been as
sassnated. The men were held in
$4,000 bail each.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
Dauphin Turnpike's
Purchase by State
Proposed by Urich

State purchase of the historic
Berks and Dauphin Turnpike Road
between Hummelstown and Werners-
vile is proposed in a bill introduced
in the House to-day by Mr.. Urich,
Lebanon. This company owns the
toll gates from Hummelstown to
near Wernersville, including those
which dot the main highway in Leb-
anon county. The bill carries an ap-
preparation of 100000.
The turnpike company is given in
the act as created in 1906 and it is
stated that it is part of the State
highway system and an important
segment of the William Penn high
way. The bill also says that aboli-
don of tolls on this section would
mean continuous main highway
between Pittsburgh and Philadel-
phia that can be travelled without
paying tolls.
After purchase or condemnation
the State Highway Department is to
improve the road.
Mr.. Urich also presented bills to
authorize employment of prisoners
on roads and to establish a system of
physical education in the public
schools.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
PARK EXTENSION
BILL CARRYING
HALF MILLION IN
Prompt Action on Improve
ment Measure Is Promised
by Chairman Woodward

The bill to appropriate $500, 900
for Capitol Park Extension improve
ment, which was presented in the
House last night by Representative
Woodward, chairman of the House
appropriations committee, will be
sent to a subcommittee late to-day
and there will be prompt action,
Mr.. Woodward said to-day.
The other Capitol Park bills will
be presented in the Senate.
Provisions of Bill
The Woodward bill provides that
the appropriation shall be made for
two years beginning June / for the
payment of the cost of work and ma
terials necessary in the treatment of
the Capitol Park Extension zone. as
shown on the plans and drawings of
Arnold W. Drummer, landscape ar
chitect, and now on file in the office
of the Board of Commissioners of
Public Grounds and Buildings, in
cluding the cost and expenses of the
necessary grading, filling, tunneling
for pipes, wires and conduits leading
to and from the proposed new power
plant, terracing and the planting of
trees and shrubbery, etc"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
BOY SCOUT CAMPAIGN POINTERS

Every penny raised for the Boy Scout Campaign in
Harrisburg stays in Harrisburg Lewis Buddy National
Field Scout Commissioner and Organizer, does get
of the funds.
The Harrisburg Rotary Club has guaranteed everv cent
of the expenses of the campaign
The $4,000 campaign fund be will for
the organization of permanent Boy Scout troops.
Every organization and every and woman in Har-
risburg is asked to cooperate in the movement.
Military qualifications service not required nor
requested of Boy Scouts There Boy
ing in military organizations and will be serve
Scouts carry weapons and do military drill
Read Before and After on page g.
The only weapons the Boy Scout will during the
present crisis will be the hoe, rake and shovel
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
Continued ON Page 81
Holland Town Attacked
With Bombs by AirpIane;
Dutch in Great Panic

London. May l. - Bombs were
dropped by an airplane Sunday night
Zigrikzee, in the Dutch province of
iceland says a Reuter- dispatch from
the Hague under Mondays date.
Three persons were killed and much
material damage was done, the mes
sage states.
The Hague, May 1. = The Telegraaf
OF Amsterdam states that the BON bs
which were dropped on Zigrikzee did
such extensive damage that the viii
lage is in ruins, more than 100 houses
being smashed or damaged. A terrible
panic prevailed in the town, says the
newspaper, intensified by the play of
men.
1t Is declared that the bombs were
not dropped by mistake, but were
purposely launched. The nationality
Of the airplane has not been estab-
lished: Advices from Sluyskil state
that last evening two German air.
planes appeared above HasVengent
and disappeared in southwesterly
direction.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
.SAM'L F. DUNKLE.
is ELECTED TO ,
CITY COMMISSION
Former Sheriff and Promi-
nent Businessman Will Fill
Bowman's Place
NO ACTION ON MAYOR
John t. Brady Is Elected to
Succeed Mr.. Umberger on
Planning Body

Samuel +. Dunkle. ex-Sherlff of
Dauphin county, president of the
Harrisburg Manufacturing and Boil
er Company and the Ferriday Paper
Box Company, this morning was
elected to fill the uneXpired term of
the late Commissioner Harry l.. Bow
man.
The nomination was made by Com
missioner w. l. Gorgas. Commission
ers Gorgas and II. u. Gross voted for
Mr.. Dunkle and Commissioner w. II.
| Lynch for William Pavord. of the
Harrisburg Shoe Manufacturing Com
pany.
Mr.. Dunkle, before he had received
I official notification of his election.
| said:
My election came to me as a sur
| prise. | haven't fully decided what
l intend to do, but will make a
speedy decision when l am officially
notified, as | realize Council has only
until May to fill the vacancy"
Friends of Mr.. Dunkle anticipated
J TCOntinucd On rHUe ri
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
RunnOr of Plague

Reports from Switzerland of vague
and indefinite authority, assert that
the troubled conditions in Germany
have been intensified by a widespread
outbreak of typhus, said to be es-
pecially prevalent in the great in
dustrial regions. The epidemic is at
tributed to the growing food scarcity
but the story, like many other SINH
ar ones, lacks confirmation from any
reliable source.
The same veil which has been
drawn over events in Germany and
Austria obscures the situation in
Sweden where a great nationwide
also planned for to-day. Since the
outbreak of a couple of weeks ago
when rioting took place in Stockholm
The only news received as to condi-
tions IN Sweden has peen the bare
announcement that general strike
had been ordered by the labor lead
ers for May Day coupled with a
warning to the government against
undue interference.
French Strike Hard
on the fighting front in France
little change has taken place for
some days. The French are striking
hard in Champagne and have made
some gains, but without as far as the
official communication go, materially
altering the situation. The fighting
IN Macedonia, which was resumed on
a wide front last week, is still in
progress, but information regarding
u
whether the allies are engaged in "a
major offensive. In Mesopotamia
the British are pushing steadily for
ward, but here, too, details are too
meager to throw a light on the eX-
tent of the campaign or the i'm
mediate objective of the British COM
manders.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
Norway Loses e Ships
in Week From German
Submarine Activities

patch to the Daily Mail says twenty
three Norwegian ships. aggregating
$4,000 tons. We're sunk by submarines
last week. This is a record for Nor
wegian losses.
The correspondent says an expert
ment is about to be made with two
more ships, the hulls of which are
the fitness of such vessels for North
Sea trade. The boats will be of 1,O00
tons and 500 tons, respectively.
Ferro concrete lighters have been
used successfully for some time in
Swedish coast traffic. The Norwegian
boats can be built in four or five
months and are cheaper than those
of steel or wood.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
Race Against Time Is
British and French View
of Great World War

Washington, May 1. - The British
and French have presented the mill
tary problem to the American au-
thorities as a race against time. At
the present moment the contestants
are neck and neck in tbs race,
and the chances are as nearly even
as such vast chances can be.
The French and the British, ap-
palled by the satisfied and unhur-
ried confidence displayed by the AM
erican authorities, are bending every
effort toward speeding things up.
This was bluntly admitted to-day by
Il prominent member of one of the
missions. They have been delighted
at the tremendous vote of credit and
the quick passage of the conscrip-
ton bill. They are pleased at the
wooden ship program and the
schemes for conservations of food
supplies. But, as things look to the
visiting foreigners, America even
now hardly realizes that this is her
war and that she must win it or
eventually fight Germany alone.
The general public, it is believed,
is getting the idea that dispatches out
of Washington are doctored when
the government considers it neces-
sary.
The first case in point concerns
the Sunday statement of Grand Mar
shal Joffre to the Washington news
paper representatives The version
of this statement as given out by
the State Department was an expur-
gated version. 1t did not contain the
most vital parts of Marshal Joffre's
message to the American people So
much has been said and printed
about what Joffre said that it is now
no violation of agreements to state
that the part eliminated was an ur-
gent recommendation for the imme-
diate dispatch of American troops to
France, there to be intensively train
ed within sound of the guns" Units
as small as a division or even smaller
were urged.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
New Highway Bill
Calls For $685. 900

Chairman woodward, of the House
Appropriations Committee, to-day
introduced the new highway bill,
calling for $1S,8S5,00O
The principal items are State
highway construction, $4,000, 900;
highway construction in boroughs,
$2,000,000; acquisition of toll roads,
100000; for township dirt roads,
S1,35O,O00
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
Employees of Bethlehem
and Central Iron and
Steel Get Raises Today

An increase in wages of ten per
cent. went into effect at the Steelton
plant of the bethlehem steel Com
pany and at the Central Iron and
Steel Company to-day. A majority
of the 1000 steel workers at Steef4
ton are affected by the increase,
which is the third since the BethleS
hem Steel interests purchased tlle
Pennsylvania Steel Company pr9bs
erty. g., 'Ti'
majority of the workers at the
Central Iron and Steel Company are
affected by the increase. This is tie
second increase at these works il
eight months. The last ten per cent.
raise was made December 16. "a
Wage adjustments were made .ih
several other trades to-day. Threat
encd trouble was amicably adjusted
by patriotic pleas to the men. IN
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
1900 Ton Troop Ship IS
Sunk by Submarine; NJ
Trawlers Save Live

London, May l. 49, The PennsuLat
and Oriental Line steamship BalIarzt
of l1,12O gross tons, which was ussd
as troop ship. was sunk recentIys1p
German submarine. All the trao45s
were saved. ~
The Ballarat was carrying troops
from Australia to England. The sol
diers We're rescued BY British torpedo
boat destroyers and trawlers.
The behavior of the troops on hoalIl
the Ballarat was splendid, according
to the reports made by the com
manders on board and recalls the he
ro!sm displayed by the soldiers al
the time OF the sinking OF the British
troop ship Birkenhead, Off the Afri-
can coast In 1852.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
GIVE UP HOPE
FOR AMERICANS
ADRFT AT SEA
Naval Gunncrs Skipped on
'Torpedoed Vacuum Now
Regarded as Lost
INTERVIEW SURVIVORS
All Official Information of
Disaster Is Sent TO Wash
ington
BY .4ssociatcd Press

Washington, May 1.-Consul Gen
eral Skinner at London, reporting
the destruction of the Vacuum con-
iirmed that Lieut.. Thomas, COM
mander of the naval gun crew. some
of his men, Captain Harris and some
of his crew, still are missing and
probably lost.
Seventee nof the ships crew and
three of the naval gunners all in
one boat were rescued.
Pending receipt of more detailed
official information, the Navy De-
partment will not make public the
names of the gun crew.
Reported Drowned
New York. May 1.-Officials of the
Vacuum Oil Company here in re-
sponse to a cabel to London, asking
further details on the sinking of
their steamship, to-day received the
following:
Harris. captain, unofficially re-
ported drowned. Further details
later"
Have Full Details
London, May 1.-The survivors of
the American oil tank steamer
Vacuum, who will arrive in Liver
pool at midnight include Robert Will
liams Oscar Gales, w. Lundgren,
A. Byl and Raymond Nunez.
The details of the sinking on April
2S of the Vacuum have been re-
ceived at the American embassy here
but cannot be made public, it was
explained, to-day. The full par
ticulars are in the hands of Rear
Admiral Sims and the American
naval attache, who presumably have
made reports upo nthem to Washing
ton. The American consular officials
will obtain the customary full affi-
davits from the officers and members
of the crew who have already land
ed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
sWARTz BILL AMENDED

The Swartz bills to establish the
decedents' code were amended to
correct typographical errors in the
House and passed on third reading.
They Will be on final passage to-
morrow. The House passed finally
the Crow Senate bills amending the
nominating petition act to reduce the
period for filing from 60 to 40 days.
The bill requiring employers to de-
duct taxes from wages was edfeated.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
GRANT MORE FooD

LoHuOn, May I. = AS a result OF
recent strikes among the German
workers in the war industries, con-
siderable concessions in foodstuffs
have been granted, according to a
dispatch to the Daily News from Rot
terdam. The meat ration has been
raised by half pound weekly, while
the. potato ration has been increased
to five pounds
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
EVERY ANGLE OF
SCOUT CAMPAIGN
Is DISCUSSED
Field Commissioner Body
Tells Citizens Committee of
Aim and Aspirations

Every angle of the financial cam
paign to be waged in Harrisburg
May .. 10, IL and 12, in the interest
of the Boy Scout movement was
discussed and explained to the citi-
zens committee by Lewis c. Buddy,
field commissioner of the Boy Scouts,
at the first meeting in the Harris
burg Club at noon to-day.
Plans for the organization of a
local council was also outlined by
Mr.. Buddy. The local council will
appoint a man to take charge of
the work after Mr. Buddy has put
the Boy Scouts on the map for good.
[Continued on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
u. s. SILENT ON
PLAN TO SEND
ARMY ABROAD
Secretary of War Refuses to
Comment on Administra-
tion's Next Step
BY ASSOCIATED Press

Washington, May /. - With the
judgment of the French war mission
and the American army general staff
seemingly in conflict as to when
American troops should be sent to
France, particular interest attached
to a conference at the White House
yesterday between President Wilson
and Rene Niviani, head of the
French mission.
Decision rests with the President,
through his constitutional function
as commander-in-c chief of the United
States army. 1t was generally as
sumed that the views of the French
ofhclals, disclosed in Marshal Joffre's
statement yesterday advising that
American forces be sent to the battle
front soon, were formally presented
to Mr.. Wilson during the confer
ence.
No Real Information
NO information as to that discus
sion was given out, however, and no
administration official would com
ment upon the statement of the
great French soldier.
upon that subject. | have no
comment to make" was the reply
with which Secretary Baker met all
interrogations.
There is no question, however, that
the general staff disapproves any
suggestion that American forces be
sent abroad until they are fully train
ed and equipped for the task before
them with the exception of final
touches to be given behind the battle
lines. That has been made evident
by testimony given by many staff Off
GERS before Congressional committees
within the last two years and by the
administration selective draft bill,
under whose provisions no element
OF the army, regular, National Guard
of conscript would be ready for
service for many months.
volunteers Not Wanted
So far as volunteers are concern
ed there has been no indication that
the administration would favor the
proposal that separate provisional
volunteer army be raised for early
service in France. The administra-
ton measure did not include any
such provision. although the request
of Colonel Roosevelt to organize q
division for immediate duty abroad
was on file at the War Department
when the bill was framed.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
GROSS SKATERS
HOPES FOR RELIEF
IN ASH PROBLEM
Finds He Can Not Ask For
Contract Award Without
Appropriation

Hopes of residents of the city for
the promised relief in the ash situa-
tion and that provision would be
made to-day, after much delay, for a
complete survey of the ash and gar
bage disposal system, were shattered
when Commissioner +. u. Gross found
he could not ask Council to award a
contract without first making an ap-
preparation to pay for the work to
be done.
Two weeks ago proposals from
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
BERLIN FEARS LABoR

London, May 1. - The Daily MaiI's
Hague correspondent ascribes to the
Koelnische Volks Is eitung the state
ment that the Socialist leaders have
announced that they are Il nable Il,
take responsibility for the mainten-
ance of peace and order in Germany
after May Day. =
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01
THE WEATHER

For Harrisburg and vicinity; I'm
settled weather this afternoon
and Tonight, probably with
some light rainj Wednesday
fair; continued cool.
For Eastern Pennsylvnnia; show
ers to-night; Wednesday fair;
fresh to strong south to west
winds.
The SuSauehanna river and all it's
branches will remain nearly
stationary. A stage of about
AZ feet IL Indicated for Harris
burg Wednesday morning.
General Conditions
The Southwest disturbance of the
last few days has moved rap
idly nOrtheastward during the
last tVventy-fOur hours, with in
creasing energy and Is now
central over the northern pOr-
tiOn of the Lake Region; 1t
has caused showers generally In
central and northern districts
from the Plains States eastward
TO the Atlantic coast, and was
attended by thunderstOrms
Middle Mississippi valleys and
the Lake Region. SHOWS and
rains have continued In the
northern Rocky Mountains and
thence westward to the Pacific
ocean.
Temperatures have risen to IL
degrees in the Atlantic States
from Virginia southwark, else
where east of the Mississippi,
including the West Gulf States.
Temperatures s n. m., 4S degrees.
Stunt Rises, 4i5S a. m.
MOoni Full moon, May @.
River Stagei 4.3 feet.
Yesterdays Weather
Highest temperature, ~.
Lowest temperature. 81.
Mean temperature, o..
Normal temperature, SO.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-01

Auditor General Snyder, an hour
after taking office, closed his depart
ment for the dav. sending all clerks
and attaches home with the request
for their designations Immediately,
adding that he would notify those
who were to be re-employed. Those
who VIII be dropped from the roll
will receive two weeks annual va
cation pay.
When Mr.. Snyder reached his of
flee he found his private office filled