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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
Program For St. Paul's
S. S. Entertainment

Wormleysburg, Pa, May Am
entertainment will be given by the
Sunday School of st. Paul's United
Brethren Church on Sunday morn
ing at $50 o'clock. The program will
include: Prelude, Sunday School
orchestra; singing, congregation;
prayer by the Rev. G. B. Renshaw;
violin solo, Harold MaIsh; music.
Rutherford Railroad quartet; vocal
solo, Mrs. Fulton; reading of the
Lesson, superintendent and congre-
cation; duet. Misses Sutton; secre-
tary's report, Arthur l.. Miller music,
mixed quartet; address, O. p. Beck
ley of Harrisburg; piano duet, Mrs.
Hummel and Miss Ruth Hummel;
music, Mrs. Fulton; music. Ruther-
ford Railroad quartet; music. mixed
quartet; sinsing, America" congre-
cation; Lords Prayer, led by David
Mohn.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04

daughter asked me to try Lydia Z.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as
she had taken it with good results.
did so, my weakness disappeared,
gained in strength. moved into our
new home, did all kinds of garden
work, shoVeled dirt did building and
cement work, and raised hundreds
of chickens and ducks. l cannot say
enough in praise of Lydia Z. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound and il
these facts are useful you may pub
lish them for the benefit of other
women. Mrs. NJ. o. Johnston,
Route ID, Box 100, Richmond, Ind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
Schoolboys Permitted to
Work on Perry Farm.

Duncannon, Pa, May 4. - Mem.
bers of the School Board met in ex.
ira session and granted permission
to the boys of the schools to work
on farms. This will take most of the
boys of the senior class and it was
thought advisable to dispense with
the usual graduation exercises. The
schools will close May, Is, making
eight instead of nine months.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
MRS. EMILY METZGAR DIES

New Cumberland, May A. - Mrs.
Emily Metzgar died at the home of
her daughter, Mrs. S. A. Williams in
Market street yesterday morning at
9 o'clock. She was 81 years old and
for many years lived in York. Three
years ago she came 10 make her
home with her daughter in New
Cumberland. She is survived by four
children, Frank Metzgar, a banker,
of York; Harry, of Little Rock,
Arkansas; Jacob, of California, and
Mrs. S. A. Williams, of New Cum
berland; also twelve grandchildren,
and twenty-three great-grandchil-
dren. Funeral services will be held
from the home of Mr.. and Mrs. S.
A. Williams on Monday morning at
IL o'clock. The Rev. A. r. Ayres,
pastor of Trinity United Brethren
Church will officiate. Burial will be
private and will be made in the
Harrisburg Cemetery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
Guard Detail at Sherman's
Creek Bridge at Duncannon

Duncannon, Pa, May 4. - A de-
tachment of soldiers have been sent
here to guard the arches over
Sherman's creek. known as the Six
Arches. They are encamped on the
banks of the creek and will be on
constant duty. 1t is rumored that
the reservoir furnishing water to the
town will also be guarded.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
FIRES NEAR MONT ALTO

Waynesboro. Pa, May 4.-Seven
large forest fires broke out in the
vicinity of the White Pine Sana-
torium. Mont Alto, this week. over
four hundred acres of valuable tim
ber was destroyed before the state
forester students of the Forest
Academy and many assistants sues
ceeded in getting the fire out
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
NEW MEMBERS FOR RED CROSS

Duncannon, Pa, May 4. - The
local branch of the Red Cross are
still swelling their ranks by the ad-
dition of new members. All the So
licitors are trying to rival their COM
rades in the sum total of member
ships turned in every evening.
large dial will be erected in the
window of Smiths Drug Store to
show the progress being made in the
number of new memerships. A
number of those interested in the
work will go to New Bloomfield next
Tuesday evening to organize an aux
iliary at that place.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
THOUSANDS OF DEAD GROWS

Waynesboro, Pa, May 4.-Thou-
sands of dead crows cover the fields
around Ashtown, Md. While the
cause of the death of the birds is
not definitely known. it is thought
they ate too greedily of corn that
had been allowed to remain in
shocks in the fields all winter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
TO CHAPERONE HIKERs

Miss Sylvia Naugle. of the Y. w.
c. A. and Miss Frances Acuff will
chaperone number of the Y. w. C.
a. girls on hike to the mountains
tomorrow afternoon. The party will
include members of the High school
and the Industrial Girls Clubs.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
STRIKE AT WAYNEsBoRO

Waynesboro, Pa. May 4.-Nearly
all the men employed in the pattern
shop of Frick Company, went on
strike for more wages yesterday. Be
cause the advance they requested
was not allowed, they walked out.
Employees of the molding depart
ment have also asked for an in
crease and If not granted they will
also quit, it is reported.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
MRS. SUSAN WITMER

Hummelstown Pa, May Airs.
Susan Wilmer died at her home near
Round Top. yesterday from pneu-
monia, aged SO years. She is sur
vived by one son and a daughter
Funeral services will be held Sum-
day afternoon at l o'clock, at the
Hill Church, with burial in the Hill
Gem eterN
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CHILDREN FIRE HOUSE

Waynesboro. Pa, May Awhile
her mother had left the house for
short time, May, the four-y year-old
daughter of Mrs. a. S. Maun, and
her baby sister. together with Nita
Noll. little playmare, set the house
on fire while playing with matches.
The house came near being destroy
ed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
JOINS MEDICAL CORPS

Halifax. Pa, May 4.-Dr. Fred
erick c. Smith, a well. known Shysi-
clan and surgeon, of Halifax. on
Monday received his commission as
a first lieutenant in the United
States Medical Corps, subject to the
call of the War Department.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
COUNTRY STORE"

Halifax, Pa, May 4.-"Si Slocum
Country Store" is the title of home
talent play to be given for the bene-
mt of the Halifax Athletic Associa-
ton in the High School auditorium
on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings,
May and Q. 1t will be under the
direction of Miss E. June Breimeier
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
MRS. AARON EMERICH DIES

Hummelstown, Pa, May AIRS
Aaron Emerich died at her home in
West Main street, yesterday from
heart disease. aged 65 years. She
is survived by her husband and two
daughters, Mrs. Harry Etter and
Mrs. Harry Wagner, both of Hum
melstown Funeral services will be
held tomorrow afternoon at /
o'clock in the Brethren church, with
burial in the Hummelstown Gene
terry
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
OLD BUSINESS MOVES

Marietta, Pa. May 4.-John j.
Carroll. who in 1875 succeeded his
father. Robert Carroll, in the cigar
business, and with the two were in
business more than sixty years, has
vacated the building and removed Il
other quarters. This business is the
oldest in town.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
ANNUAL SETTLEMENT

Blain. Pa. May 4.-Joint Council
of the Zion's Lutheran Charge, with
churches at Blain, New German
town and st. Paurs, will hold its
annual settleme ent tomorrow morn
ing in st. Paups Church, in Madison
township.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
LANCASTER COUNTY DEATHS

Marictta.-Mrs. George II. Lea
man, aged SO, of Lands Valley, died
Wednesday night. She was for 55
years member of the Mennonite
church. Her husband, eight chill
dren and a number 1r grandchildren
survive.
Marietta.-Mrs. John NJ. Snyder,
aged Al, died at Lancaster. Wednes-
day evening. She was a member of
the Catholic church. Her husband
died last December. Several chill
dren and a number of brothers and
sisters survive.
E1izabcthtown.-M Amos Esben-
shade, aged 36, died yesterday from
pneumonia. after a short illness. She
was member of the United Breth-
ren church. Her husband and aged
parents survive.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04

from my age that
when going up
stairs I had to go
very slowly with
my hands on the
steps, then sit
down at the top
to rest. The
doctor said he
thought l should
have an opera
ton, and my
friends thought
| would not live
to move into our
npW bOusp NV
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ADDRESS BY SUPERINTENDENT

Blain. Pa, May 4.-The Rev. DR..
Maurice e. Swartz, the rewly-elected
district superintendent of the Meth
odist Church for the Harrisburg dis
trict, will deliver his initial SER
mon in the Blain Methodist Episco-
pal Church this evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
w. C. I. Q. MEETS

Shiremanstown. Pa. May Am
interesting meeting of the Shire
manstown Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union was held Tuesday
evening at the home of Miss Jennie
Kaufman.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
RED CROSS AT MOUNT JOY

Marietta, Pa, May "A branch
of the Red Cross has been organized
at Mount JOY, and already has a
large membership. Mrs. Lecocq, of
Harrisburg, addressed the chapter in
the Council chamber.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
ENTERTAINs 9. S. G. CLUB

Shiremanstown, Pa, May 4.-Miss
Mary Rupp entertained the Sunshine
Girls Club, at her home here, on
Wednesday evening Vocal and in
strumental music and games were
enjoyed and a buffet luncheon was
served.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
GOLDEN WEDDING OBSERVED

Marietta, Pa, May AIR. and
Mrs. William Compf, of near Lam
caster. yesterday celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary with a
reception by relatives and friends.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
JOINING RED CROSS

Shiremanstown, Pa, May 4.-Since
the patriotic meeting, held Tuesday
evening. fifty-five members have
Joined the Red Cross Society.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
"Chimes of Normandy"
Given at Irving College

Mechanicsburg, Pa. May A.
Chimes of Normandy" comic
given by the Mechanicsburg Choral
Society and orchestra in Columbian
Hall, Irving College, last evening,
under the direction of Professor H.
c. Harper and 1t was one of the most
successful musical events of the year.
Soloists were: Miss Romaine King.
Miss Mae E. Singiser. Miss Margery
Lilly and Miss Ida IL. Weber
soprano; George C. Dietz and Frank
L. Hollinger, tenor; Harry f. Bethel
and Charles F. Berkheimer, baritone;
Lloyd NJ. Ulrich. bass.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
CLIMBED STAIRS
ON Her HANDS
Too Ill to Walk Upright.
Operation Advised. Saved
by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

rms woman now raises chickens
and does manual labor Read her
story:
Rlchmond, lnd.-"For two years
/ was so sick and weak with troubles
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
ENTERTAINs SEWING CIRCLE

Shiremanstown, Pa. May 4.--Mrs.
John II. Sheely was hostess for the
Ladies' Sewing Circle at her resi-
dence in East Main street
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SCHOOL TEACHERS MEETING

Enola, Pa, May 4. Monthly
meetings of the School Teachers AS
sociation of East Pennsboro town
ship will be held Monday evening in
connection with the patriotic meet
ing in the Summit street building
auditorium.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
ENLISTS IN MEDICAL CORPS

Marysville, Pa, May Jennings
Myers, a student at the Carson Long
Institute. at New Bloomfield, has en-
listed in the medical service of the
United States army.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-04
CHuDREN's DAY SERVICE

Blain, Pa, May 4.-The Methodist
Episcopal Sunday School will hold
Childrens Day Services, with a
special program, June 8.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

government clothes contracts, that ade-
quate pay be given to soldiers and that no
new revenue tax be imposed upon sugar.
Declaring that the Consumers League is
confronted by grave crisis, Florence Kel-
ley, its secretary, has sent out an appeal
for the preservation of the short-hour day
statutes and the maintenance of the pres
ent sanitation and safety measures.
Rather ironically comes the final phase
of the famous Danbury hatters' case in
voving the rights of labor to concerted ac-
tion as consumers. After thirteen years Of
legal warfare the order comes for the sale
on July 16 of the homes of the workmen
defendants under the hammer Of the
United States auctioneer to satisfy the
claims of d. Z. Loewe & Co. for dam
ages in the amount of S250,0O0. The cot
tages of the employees who were guilty Of
Loycotting will bring only 100000, thus
the sale will leave them homeless and in
debt, all in triumphant proof that the anti
trust laws of the United States are capable
of enforcement.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

r IBERTY Bond distribution is COM
l. plete only in the sense that the banks
have underwritten a large block of the
81, 900, ,O00,O 900 bonds, though it is estimated
that two million people participated in the
purchase of the issue, thus making it a
peoples loan. Apathy characterized the
campaign in many reserve districts. New
York achieved distinction by greatly over
subscribing it's quota and furnishing about
40 per cent of the entire loan.
With an estimated loaning power of slO,-
900 900, 900 the banks accepted their final
share Of the burden lightly. but way has
to be made for the loans Immediately to
follow. Andrew Bonar Law, in the House
of Commons, announces that England has
borrowed q total of s2,000,000000 from
US already. The loaning habit has yet TO
be properly acquired by the American
people, lest, as the American Bankers
Association bulletin says, the banks be
asked to use for war loans an undue pro-
portion of funds which are required for
current business. Secretary of the Treas
ury McAdoo has been much criticised pr-
vately for his amateurish notions as to
billion dollar fotations among non-bond-
buying populace, the banks being obliged
to raise funds gratuitously to advertise
snd market this new commodity.
At various stages of the marketing
working committees reported the progress
as unsatisfactory" The West was charged
with apathy. and the retort was flung
back East. German newspapers capital
lied this sluggishness as colossal fall
ure of the Liberty Loan" France and
England were quick to congratu ate us on
its success. On the whole, the perform
snce is regarded as creditable to a public
unused to popular purchase of national
bonds.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

Within a week the actual draft OF
Americans for the European trenchestakes
place. This drawing Of conscripts will
constitute the greatest lottery ever par
ticipated in by the human race. 1t is en-
pected that 1000. 900 names will be drawn
to obtain the first $4,000 of fit troops.
Upon the heels Of Federal registration
comes the state census for military pur-
poses. The enumeration Of about 5,600,00o
adult residents Of the state is under way,
involving great detail. The general in
QUESTION will provide the state with the
names, addresses, age, occupation, educa-
ton, race extraction, special training.
color, sex and general capacities of every
person, male and female. Women too re-
fined to vote are not too refined to register.
A new school Of slackers will also be
developed, and new penalties imposed and
new prosecutions instituted against those
who fail to answer the queries. Some
SO, 900 volunteer enumerators are at work,
among them many women. A great deal
of confusion has been encountered as to
the exemption" possibilities.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

~OCIALIST Charles Edward Russell,
an accredited envoy of the United
~ States 10 the Provisional Government
- Russia. was expelled from his party IN
New York City for being mllitarlst, and
therefore unfit for his mission of democ-
,,cv 10 new Russia, and on the same day
Socialist James Ramsay Macdonald, NJ. P,
=, . mission for the Labor party Of Great
Britain to the democracy of new Russia,
vas expelled from his party in London
for being a pacfist
This anomaly is explained on the
ground of national interests, race patrio-
nsm having usurped the place of other
social cements The British Labor party
stakes all upon Allied victory. and Ram
s.v Macdonald, its chairman, is out OF
English alignment in having pacifist lean
ings like the Russian radicals. The Amer
;can Socialists are divided between anti
English and pro-English leanings. and
Allan Benson, William English Walling,
JG. Phelps Stokes and Upton Sinclair may
\. eypected to follow Russell into the clear
ing. Arthur Young in "The Masses
twits Russell with having repeatedly said
in public and in private; There is put
one enemy-the capitalist system. Don't
b. misled, one enemy only" Mr.. Russell
s now bound for Petrograd with Mr..
Root by way of Siberia. The British
government has refused to withdraw
Ramsay Macdonald's passports as dele
gate to Petrograd, but nevertheless Mac
donald's party has postponed its errand'
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

NEGROES treking northward during
Y the last two years have wrought
a change in the labor market. Not
less than 100000 have joined the great
exodus, materially affecting the manhood
registration returns from the South. Ken
lucky and other states have imposed severe
penalties upon labor buyers acting as
agents for northern automobile factories
for soliciting" negroes to leave their
places in the South, though nothing as eff
fective as the fugitive slave law has been
instituted or invoked. The lure, according
to THE Crisis" the negro organ, is the
$3.50 wage in the North, assisted by the
spread of lynching and of negro enlighten-
ment in the South.
Complaint is made by "The Public" that
the Northern employers have made no ade-
ouate provision for the housing OF the
negro when he gets North. so that the
negro tenement question becomes acute
because of the social restrictions surround
ing negro real estate occupation, while
DR.. William J. Schieffelin says the negro
is untitled economically for city dwelling.
The assault upon labor safeguards con-
tinues in some states, though, Governor
Whitman has vetoed the vicious Albany
measures. The National Federation OF
Settlements opposes the breaking down OF
protective laws under war pretexts and
l. N
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17
Registration Aftermath

ID EGISTRATION of Americas young
IN manhood, while it has fallen from
5 to 10 per cent below the census
estimates, has otherwise been gratifying,
especially in the ease of its accomplish
ment Scattered incidents marred the oc-
casion. the aftermath revealed little knots
of slackers, and some severity is still to
be practsed on the recusants, but the
sum of the whole procedure is Success"
Official returns from thirty-three states
at the Provost Marshal Generals office in
Washington show 6,358,3SS persons of
draft age, from which it is estimated that
the entire nation registered 5000, 900 men.
The government estimated that 7,063.00
would be secured from the thrty-three
states in question. Draft quotas are to
be assigned to states in proportion to orig
ina census estimates and not in proper
tion to registration.
Provost Marshal General Crowder,
after allowing several days of grace,
ordered the arrest and prosecution OF all
slackers. Already many had been ap-
pretended and trials are under way. The
penalty is a years Imprisonment and en-
forced registration. In Detroit alone 1000
additional registrations were allowed after
the legal day, employers forcing all to show
registration cards or accept non-employ-
ment.
A large percentage of registrants,
over 100000 in all, claimed exemption
from draft because of having dependents.
Another large percentage were aliens.
New York State registered a total we'll
above one million men, New York City
furnishing nearly 100000 of these. The
dearth of young men in the South was
the big surprise, caused in great part by
the exodus Of negroes to the Northern
factories.
In New York 1881 young men
claimed exemption because they had de-
pendents. Some raised a plea of being
vepetarians and therefore opposed to the
taking of life. At Flagstaff, Ariz.,
band of Navajo Indians refused to reg
ister and threatened to go on the war
path. At Butte riots occurred. At Rock
ford, Ill.,, 1856 |. W. W. followers SUBJ
mitted to arrest in body rather than
register. Forty-fve members Of the
Farmers and Laborers' Protective Asso-
citation were arrested in Texas for Sc
diton.
The successful registration was hailed
in France by NJ. Jules Cambon as evidence
at once of the determination Of the United
States to rescue the Allies and Of our
enormous manhood resources. In London
THE Daily Express referred to the out
come as perhaps the most heartening
event that has happened in three years"
Army recruiting received fresh i'm
petus at the outset, but more recently
there has been a marked falling of in
volunteering since registration. The
English government has seized the occa.
sion, however. to press its chance for
rounding up the 100000 British subjects
of military age in this country. General
W. A. White, in charge Of the recruiting
mission, expects $4,000 of these to volun-
teer. leaving the others TO wonder what
new form Of stress will be employed to
conscript them.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

be delivered within eight months. Later
he awarded contracts to other firms for
ten additional hulls. The total vessels
recently ordered is 80, 32 Of which are
composite, 18 of which are steel and 80 of
which are wooden. Meanwhile, the wooden
ship advocates quote the electrical engine
manufacturers as saying that there would
have been no difficulty in supplying the
necessary number of engines for the pro-
posed feet of small wooden hulls.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

thing TO sell are recommended to see these
two buyers for the foreign department.
Canada, our neighbor ally, proposes TO
run us a neck and neck race on drafting.
Premier Borden sprang conscription sud-
denly upon Canada, and the result is
crisis. He resolutely aims to make good
the Canadian losses, and as no volunteers
are forthcoming and young men scarce ne
wants authority to draft men as old as
fortv-five. French Quebec accepts this
programme for 1000 conscrlpts as aimed
at them. Sir Wilfrid Laurier was not to
ne mred into a coalition ministry, but in
sists rather upon going TO the country
with the conscription issue. Australia
rejected conscription by referendum vote.
f p. Patenaud, Borden's Secretary OF
State. has resigned and the race feeling
is exceedingly bitter throughout the prov
inces.
VVIORLD unrest was never more mani
w fest than now, with China enter
tanning a schism, Sweden suffering riots
Hungary in a political upheaval, Spain
sizzling with cabinet crises and war
feyers, Greece adding a king to the dis-
card, Bohemia threatening revolution
and Russia requiring exterior applica-
tions and foreign mission liniments.
Chna's revolt arose from President Ii
Yuan-Hung's refusal to enter the war
against Germany, as importuned by the
limited States, England and the Young
China party. General Chang Hsun, at the
head Of formidable body Of troops, de-
,iyered an ultimatum to Ii Yuan-Hungs
Parliament demanding its dissolution.
TIL. breaking up of China into two parts
/, imminent, the rebels threatening to
overthrow the existing republic and to re.
New-York tribune., 1917-06-17

Gargantuan pur-
chaser of supplies.
He will set up a
purchasing depart
ment in New York
with an enormous
capacity for taking
that surplus crop
which Americans
are now feverishly
raising on farm, in
garden and in tene-
ment window boxes.
The French also
have a purchasing
mission that en-
ploys a large num-
Der of men, and
those with some