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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-10-24
Aviator Files Across Caucasus

Petrograd, Oct. GA Russian
aviator has arrived at vladikavkaz
after a flight Of ten hours from Tiff
lis. across the Caucasus mountains
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-10-24
PREPAREDNESS FOR COLD WEATHER.

GOOD WARM UNDERWEAR
For Men, Women and Children. FOrtify against the
chilling breezes by wearing heavier Underwear.
WOmen's FIannelete Gowns, white with stripe OF
color, with collar or cOlTarlesS; also Flmnelette
Gowns for Children and Nightshrts and Pajamas for
Men.
AT THE CORNER STORE
HYDE PARK A. j. CLARK
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-10-24
THE STATES WORK
Summaries Of September Reports Of State
Departments to Board
of Control
Financial Summary

Financial Summary
Cash balance, August 81,
1917 1851 1902. ga
Receipts for September. 223 OPT ~
1904 1923. So
Auditors orders paid in
September .$226, O70.06
Cash balance, September
80, 1917. 67S 1853 80
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-10-24
LOCAL MARKETS

Morrlsville Produce and Provision Mar
ket, furnished and revised weekly ex.
pressly for the NEWS AND CITIZEN by
ii Waite & Son. Der. "a.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1917-10-24
Wheat Beef and Pork There plenty good substitutes
Yrn Snn

While we say we "SEE' with the eye, this is not
strictly true.
Although the eye is necessary to the art Of seeing, vision
really takes place in the brain
Bot the eye must be normal in order to perform its
part.
good many people are suffering from physical
trouble which would be relieved if they would that
their eye defect remedied.
Some DO Jyot N/dnt TO N/ew Glasses
and continue to suffer and be Inconvenience you
do not know about your eyes have them looked after at
once.
There's comfortable set of frames for every face.
Think the Matter Over andsee you ought not to
suit a Reliable Optometrist.
My Experience Covers Good Many Years
Come In and We Will Talk About Your Troubles
A. r. @ A M p B E L l.
Optometrist and Jeweer,
PORTLAND STREET MORRISVILLE
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
INQUIRY INTO
FOOD IS NEXT
[Continued from First Pagc.l

CONTINUED from First Page.l
Chairman Hurley as the first wit
ness.
Other witnesses will be Vice
Chairman Stevens and John A. Don
aid, of the board. By resolution at
it; meeting to-day the committee
called on Chairman Hurley for the
following information:
AN itemized statement of all con-
tracts for both steel and wood ships
with the full name of each contract
ing person, firm or corporation, when
organized and when in operation and
tie place where the shipbuilding un-
dcc each. contract has been ris be-
ing carried on.
The number of ships construct
ed. where and by whom built.
Number of ships now under con-
struction where and by whom, and
the proportion of work done.
COPIES of all shipbuilding con-
tracts.
What ships are being built in pri-
vate Yards for other than govern
ment account and by whom"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
Sensational Stories
and Hoarding Alleged
Cause of Sugar Famine

Washington, Dec. 20.-Foundation
for the sugar shortage was laid while
reliners held large stocks last Feb
ruary by sensational stories of a
threatened famine and strikes caused
iN the |. w. W., Earl ID. Babst, presi-
dent of the American Sugar Refining
Company. testified to-day at the
suGar investigation.
Consumers began to hoard, he said,
and during the spring and summer
demands upon the refiners were un-
precedented. When consumers be-
gan 10 hoard, retailers raised prices,
he sad. but refiners did not increase
prices Correspondingly, as they did
not desire to increase the alarm.
Added to the scare stories came re-
ports of a Cuban revolution and de-
struction of cane fields which stimu-
lated the demand greatly, Babst said.
Then after stocks became low there
developed a difficulty in getting raw
sugar and when it was impossible to
supply the eastern trade with cane
sugar the car shortage prevented
new beet sugar from being sent east.
Americans consumed 100000 tons
more ~ 1917 than the year previous,
Babs, said. and 100000 tons of Gu
ban sugar usually coming to this
country went abroad.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
SSS9.55
Convention Hall in
Penn-Harris Hotel

President T.. u. Wallower has ad.
dressed a letter to the stockholders
of the Harrisburg Hotel Company,
calling attention to the original re-
vision of the plans on which basis q
reasonable contract was made for
the erection of the Penn Harris. 1t
was necessary, however, to raise
100000 additional by subscription
to the stock, which was subscribed
by few directors. President Wal
lowe- is now fully convinced that
the assembly hall. which was elinli-
mated for the present, should be in.
clUded during the construction Of
the main building. He says: "Ii9r-
risburg is a distinctly convention
city, averaging almost a convention
for every day of the year. It is
necessary to complete and round ont
the hotel for state functions, dances,
banquets and conventions, az well as
for revenue" He says that consent
of the United Hotels Company has
been given to include the assembly
hall under the terms of the lease. He
is presenting tn matter to the stock
holders with view to providing for
the assembly and banquet hail with
ont further delay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
HARRISBURG WOMEN PLEASED
WITH u. S. ARMY CAMP LIFE

Enthusiasm shone from the face
of Miss Sarah Lemer as she told q
Telegraph reporter to-day of her ex-
periences, playing before the boys
OF the Navy at Camp Wissahickon,
New Jersey. Telling of the wonder
ful work the Y. NJ. G. A. is doing for
the men in the various camps, she
said.
1T is impossible to conceive any
idea of the work the secretaries are
doing. At Camp Wissahickon the
meE have nothing to do save idle
away their time when they are on
leave. The Y. NJ. c. A. secretary
wife has cots and a regular little
home for them, where they spend
thei hours of leave. Just as she
was ready to go on the stage at
Camp Wissahickon, a man rushed
up breathlessly to Miss Lemer and
said. Are you from Harrisburg
YES" replied the violinist. We'll,
I'm from Harrisburg, too" said Har-
old A. Buch, 500 Emerald street,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
MURDERED MANS
BROTHER SPEAKS
With Tears in Eyes He Pro-
tests Against Granting Par
don For the Slayer

With tears running down his
cheeks, Patrick II. Durkin, of Scran-
ton, to-day pleaded with the State
Board of Pardons not to grant an ap-
plication for pardon for Peter Mu-
sinski, who fatally shot the formers
brother in Lackawanna county in the
latter part of November, 1913. The
application for pardon was made by
j. e. Watkins, of Scranton, counsel
for Musinski, on the ground that a
tive-year sentence was excessive for
involuntary manslaughter and he also
brought in that the man in prison
had a large family and that his
friends were urging pardon for him
because of dependants.
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Cyrus f. Woods. one of the members
of the board, interrupted the lawyer
by remarking:
I'VE have got to enforce the laws.
People can't come here with senti-
mental pleas to open prison doors
But there is strong sentiment for
a pardon" said Mr.. Watkins.
We'll, why does. not the district
attorney say so? He sends a nom
committal letter." said Attorney Gen
eral Brown.
Durkin then arose from the seats
in the rear of the room and said:
Il am the brother of the man who
was shot May l speak?"
He related the circumstances of
the killing and declared the senti-
ment was not for pardon. This dead
man also had family. He was a
good man. l protest against a par
don. / lost a good brother"
His emotions choked him and he
went to his seat with tears running
down his face.
The board will decide the case later
in the day.
EX-District Attorney Spencer, OF
Lycoming, protested against a pardon
for James Salerno, convicted of muir
der in 1905 and granted communication
the following year. The Redsecker
appeal was heard this afternoon.
The board has a long list and will
announce its decisions tonight
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
DIR. LICHLITER
DIES AFTER A
SHORT ILLNESS
Was Chief Clerk in State De-
partment of Agri-
culture

The Rev. DR.. NJ. d. Lichliter, for
twenty years chief clerk in the De-
partment of Agriculture. died to-day
at the Keystone Hospital, to which
he was taken when he became seri-
ously sick last Friday night. He was
So years old. At his bedside was his
son, the Rev. NJ. II. Lichliter. pastor
of one of the largest Methodist
churches of Cleveland, Ohio, who
came here early Monday morning
when news of his fathers illness
reached him. Mrs. Lichliter and an
only daughter are on their way from
Boise City, Idaho. where Mrs. Lich-
liter had been visiting the daughters
home. Funeral arrangements will
be completed to-day.
The Rev. DR.. Lichliter was one OF
the bestknown Capitol attaches. He
was appointed chief clerk of the de-
partment by Governor Stone and
served continuously for two score
years. He had wide acquaintance
ship over the state and had spoken
in many pulpits in Harrisburg and
vicinity. Before entering the service
of the state he was pastor for twenty
years in various Methodist churches
throughout the western part of the
state. His home before removing to
this city was at Bellevue, Allegheny
county.
DR.. Lichliter was prominent in Ma
sonic circles, being a member of all
the higher branches of the order in
the city, and he was also a member
of the Junior o. L. a. NJ. and the
Odd Fellows.
Funeral Monday
He was state councillor of the Jr.
o. L. A. NJ, and for 20 years national
chaplain of that order. He was the
author of a work on historic land
marks of Western Pennsylvania
about to be published, and was at
work on a similar volume covering
Eastern Pennsylvania. He was a
former president of the Pennsylvania
Historical Societies.
DR.. Lichliter entered the ministry
in 1873 and was married some time
later to Mary f. McIlyar. daughter
of the late Rev. j. j. McIlyaT, of
Pittsburgh, and left the pastorate of
the Friendship Park Methodist
Church. Pittsburgh. on account of i'll
health to accept the place he hell
until death. He was educated in Mt
Union College, Alliance, O.
The funeral services will be held in
Grace Methodist Church, Monday
afternoon at 2 o'clock in charge of
Pilgrim Commandery, knight S
Templar.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
Agreed to Pay Armour
Company All Earnings
Over Nine Per Cent.

Washington. Dec. 20.-At the Fed
eral Trade Commissions investiga-
ton of the Chicago stockyards here
to-day, e. r. Hart, one of the prin-
cipal figures in the stockyards COM
pany. testified it had been agreed to
pry j. Ogden Armour all the COM
pany's earnings over nine per cent
to keep Armour from moving the
yards away from Chicago and fur
ther west.
With other sensational testimony
to show the company was organized
to keep the plants from being moved
away. d letter from S. II. Fessenden,
a Boston broker, who assisted in the
organization, was read. saying the
proceeding was merely to legalize
rebates to packers so they might
have a portion of the plunder" and
might have their 'pickings."
Efforts of the Federal Trade Com
mission to discover the real owner
ship of the Chicago stockyards and
terminal railroads, began to-day
with an inquiry into the corporate
relations between tn Chicago Stock
yards Company, the Union Stock
yard and Transit Company, the Chi
cago junction Railways and Union
Stockyards Company and the Chi
cago Junction Railways.
Frank r. Pegram, treasurer of
the Chicago Stockyards Company,
and cashier for f. II. Prince, of Bos-
ton, testified he held $3.50 shares
OF the Chicago Stockyards Company
as trustee, but that he had. never had
the II in his possession. The, stock
was held, he said. subject to bearer
warrants, but he did not know
where these warrants were, though
he thought most of them were in the
safe deposit boxes of Mr.. and Mrs.
rinpp
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20

s1Z1OQ17.4O per case; do. current re-
ceipts, free cases, $3.50 per case,
western. extras. hrsts. free cases
$l'.lOQ1740 per case; do, frsts' free
"ssi Refined SnS'SU spsars per eaSe. Marke. Arm.
S%hc: contertioner A, S.25c,
Butter-The market is unchanged
by, prints. fancy. soc.
Live Poultry-Steady; fowls, ~ %
&c; rooster, 1Sc; spring chickens.
20 @ 24c; ducks. Peking. 24@ 26c; do,
Indian Runner, 20@22c; turkeys. 21g
Dressed Poultry 60 The market
choice TO fancy, 4O@42c; do,
fair to good. S5@.SSc; do. old 81 $dg$6c, 36t,,
d. western, choice to fancy as@ 4Sci so
old toms, 34@3 35c; do, old. common,
40 26c; fowls, fancy, 29@29hc, good
to choice, 27@2Sc fair to good, 22W
26c; old roosters, 23c; broiling chick
32c; ducks, nearby, 24@27c; do, west
ern, 23@26c geese, nearby, 23Q2R
do, western, 22025c.
Potatoes-Firm, fair demand; New
Jersey No. |. per basket, 10000 SSS
40 Q6Oc; New Jersey. per 100 lbs, ! 80
@2.2O; Pennsylvania, per 100 lbs, $2l
92.55; New York. per 100 IBIS, 500 a
20; western, per 100 fbs., $500 q
Flour : Steady; winter straight
S1CdUm l0.25: Kansas. clear, 50 7"@
lO.2O; do, patents, S10.SO5s LEO
spring firsts. clear, spot. $1,000 0@10.25
spring III Is. clear. mill snipment
S9.f5 5W1O.20; spring bakers, patent
spot, SLIPS @1150; spring patent, mill
shipment $1O.5Op10.95; spring, family
brands, S11.0O@11.G5.
Hay - Firm and scarce; tim
Mo n IarPs aeG1Fdnt bsias s2s o6 10 kS No
small bales. $2S. S.0092S.5O; No. 2. S26 OC
g21.0 No. 3. s23.O0@24.50; samples
S119c;00oV2l.OO, no grade. sl5.OO@
Clover mixed hay. Light mtNa1
$26OO@27.O0; No. /, Co. $25.00 q $500
/ No. 2. do. s22.O0023.O0.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
SOLDIERS WOULD
SWAP CAKE FOR
GOOD TOBACCO
Battling Yanks Have Hard
Time With Foreign
Grown Weeds
All dainty meats l do defy
Which feed men fat nc sminn-

All dainty meats l do defy
which feed men fat as swine
He Is q frugal man indeed
That on a leaf can dine.
He needs no napkin for his hands,
His fingers ends to wipe
That keeps his kitchen in a box
And roast meat in his pipe!
Get the idea? Way back in the
days of Queen Elizabeth a poet
named Samuel Rowlands knocked off
that little verse. Tobacco had just
been introduced then by Walt
Raleigh, and vet this very human
gentleman found roast beef in his
pipe" Food, we wot. And if food
then it is the same now. Odds bod
HinS, you can say that in italics. If
you don't believe it read a short let
ter from Private Romanowski, who
Is "tatoned somewhere in France
with American artillery forces; he is
whiting to his mother:
The weather over here is rotten
for it rains all the time. Still we are
strong and healthy. Along the road
SIDE in this country you see crucifiXes
lust like you told me there were in
your country when you were little
girl. People that go by kneel down
and say prayers.
Il can't thank you enough for
those cigars and cigarets. We did
not have thing to smoke. A
cisaret is just like eats to me. I can
do without a meal if l have the
smokes. Other fellows here say the
Sa me.
THE French tobacco is so fierce
that we can hardly go it. Chestnuts
are plenty here, big as our horse
chestnuts. For two sous you can get
all you want. If you are going to
make up another box soon please
give me more tobacco and less cake"
This is sample of thousands of
similar letters. Always tobacco, is
the cry. Send what contribution you
can, however little, but send it in
now. Soothing smoke is a healing
feature in the recuperating hospitals.
No longer a luxury. it is an essen
tial.
The following contributions have
been received by the Harrisburg
Telegraph Tobacco Fund
Previously acknowledged E. SS77.O5
Veterans of Foreign Wars. =. 1000
1917" 500
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
Weekly Prayer Service
For American Troops

The regular weekly service Of
prayer for our countrymen will be
hel dat Pine Street Presbyterian
Church tomorrow afternoon at 5.15
O'Clock. These meetings are but
half an hour long; there is no ad-
dress, and music is a special fca-
ture, there always being a solo by
one of the members of the choir,
besides several hymns.
In the rush of the Christmas sea-
son, and amid the overpoweringness
of the woes that beset the world, a
season of quiet intercession 10 the
Ono who can bring peace out of TIM =
moil. is restful to soul ana body.
Everyone is invited to these meet
in%s, which are set at an hour that
makes them especially convenient
to shoppers or to men returning from
business.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
DOn't Forget the
Lumber Jacks"

Miss Mira l.. Dock writes the
Telegraph further about the work
in behalf of the Lumber Jacks" III
France. These men are With the
American forestry regiments and the
y orlt that is being done under the
Federation Of Women's Clubs is for
their comfort.
Miss Dock has had another letter
from Lieutenant Williams, the chap
lair of one of the forestry regiments,
erclCsing a list of things which the
Nor most need. He suggests sub
SCriptions to magazines, music for
the company band, about 100
sweaters, tobacco in its various
forms, playing cards, dominoes,
checker boards and other games. He
likewise mentions various soaps and
toilet preparations, and safety
raZors.
Persons interested in this NOV e.
rent can communicate with Miss
Dock at Fayetteville, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20

who is now in the service IF Uncle
Sam
Popular songs and extracts from
the classics comprised the program
of Miss Lemer and Mrs. Roy G.. Cox.
She tells how the boys joined IN
singing with vigor, THE Old Gray
Mare" and other songs of he day.
Self-sacrificing members of the Y.
NJ. G. A. gave up their Christmas
vacations to become "go-betwe2ns,"
carrying messages from the quaran-
tine camp to the outside world.
THAT is what the Y. Nj. c. A. does to
. the boys; it gives them the 'plf't of
sacrifice at any cost" Miss Lemer
said. She met Austin Hughes. for
mer tenor of the Metropolitan
Opera Company, who sang in Har-
risburg several years ago in. the
Girl of the Golden West" Hughes
assisted in the program.
Miss Sara Lemer, violinist; Mrs.
Roy G. Cox, soprano; and Mrs. Karle
accompanist, composed the party
who sang at Camp Wissahickon, ap-
pe&ring under the auspices OF the
Y. NJ c. A. War Work Council.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
RAILROADS TAKE
FURTHER DROP
Indications That Investors May Suffer by Reason o
Complicated Railway Situation Causes New
Decline; Liberty Bonds Unchanged

New York. Dec. 20 (Wall Street, -
Indications that investors may suffer
by reason of the complicated railway
situation caused further substantial
declines to new minimums at the
opening of to-day's stock market.
altimore and Ohio common dropped
2A points and the preferred a point
on postponement of the usual divi-
dend declarations. Union Pacific made
an initial gain of L Is points, all OF
which was soon surrendered. Indus
trials, equipments and utilities also
tended lower after an irregular open
ing.> Liberty bonds were unchanged.
Additional low records of the
morning included transcontinentals
rangers, New York Central, coalers
and cotton carriers ait II tceSsions of
l to 2 points. Among industrlals,
United States Steel, CruciDie Steel,
Mexican Petroleum. Texas Com
pany, American Tobacco and Ma
tional Lead yielded / to 4 points.
Selling abated after the first hour
and by noon prices had rallied to
2 points among the leaders. Bonds
were heavy, the Liberty As changing
hands at 97.06 to 81 and the Y IS
at 9S.44 to 9S.32, the latter quotation
representing a new minimum.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
Six Enlist in the New
United States Guard

Twenty-siX men were sent from
the Harrisbur gdistrict yesterday
This is considered as good, as most
of the men sent were over or under
the ages included in the 7elective
srvice bill. A few of the men sent
yesterday were in the draft age
limits, but had signifled their inten-
ton of enlisting before Saturday.
1t was reported at the recruiting
office that about six men had
signed up to enlist in the United
States Guards, composed of men
over the age of 81.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
Large Amount of Local
Securities Offered For Sale

The Commonwealth Trust Company
this afternoon offered at public sale
securities of a number of public and
private corporations of the city, and
vicinity. Among the securities which
the Harrisburg Trust Company, Har-
risburg Traction Company, Middle
town, Highspire and Steelton Street
Railway Company. Cumberland VAL
and Coal Company, Dauphin Realty
Company, and Middletown and Eliza
bethtown Street Railway Company A
few bonds of some of these corpor-
ations also were listed for the sale.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
Miller & Kades Give Ten
Per Cent. to Red Cross

A special spot cash sale in which
the local rhapter of the Red Cross
will benefit is theannounrement of
Miller & Kades, North Market
Square, which will be found on an
other page of this paper.
The big furniture firm inaugural
ed to-day a special Christmas
sale of furniture, floor coverings,
etc, which they announce will be
sold at half price during the event.
Ten per cent of all sales made from
to-day until Saturday night, inclu-
sive, will be turned over to the local
chapter of the Red Cross as Miller
& Kades' contribution in the present
drive.
Further particulars regarding the
sale and items ocered will be found
in firms advertisement printed else
where in this paper.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
To Open New Clubroom
at ST. Augustine's Church

The new club room at st. Angus
tines Episcopal Church, Thirteenth
and Herr streets, will be opened by
the Right Rev. James Henry Oar
l!ngton. Bishop of the Diocese Of
Harrisburg this evening OF o'clock
The affair promises to be an excel
lent one ,and a large attendance is
expected. Refreshments will be
served.
The .clubroom is provided espe-
Cially for the Young Peoples So
ciety. of which there ar cover 100
members, and of these, 6S are young
men and boys. There also Will be a
confirmation service held, when a
postulant for Holy Orders will re-
ceiVs the laying on of hands.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
New Members Join the
Newly-Organized Kiwanis

Enthusiasm was the keynote of the
weekly luncheon of the Kiwanis
Club held in the Elks Clubhouse at
noon to-day A feature of the occa-
sion was Santa Claus, who distribute
ed cigaret cases to the members,
with the compliments of william
Strouse. Addresses by club members
made up the program. New mem
bers taken in to-day are Robert b.
Frazer, DR.. Harry b. Walter, Will
liam r. Miller, Ashton d. Peace, NJ
d. Hartings. Paul P. Wagner.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
Wilcox May Resign
as National Chairman

New York., Dec. 20. - William
r. Wilcox may resign as chairman
of the Republican National Commit
tee, at a melting of the committee
here in February, it was authoritat-
lively learned to-day He is under
stood to haze told a number of his
personal friends that his business
activities have become so pressing
that he would prefer to be relieved
of the political post he holds.
Mr.. Wilcox declined to-day 20 dis
cusS the matter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-20
SCOTT REACHES u. 5.

An Atlantic Port, Dec. 20.-Major
General Hugh L. Scott, United States
Army, who is to be assigned us
chief instruction officer of The new
National Army, returned to- day from
Europe on an American steamship.
He has been at the front in France
studying conditions there. A num-
ber of United States Army officers
arrived here with him.