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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-02
$NEWz AND NOTES OF THE BOY S10uTS 8

Harrisburg on the Hummelstown car
and hiked from Hummelstown to
Stoverdale. Supper was cooked on
the bluff overlooking the swatara
Creek and was interrupted by rain.
During the heavy downpour the 1el-
! lows found shelter in the pavilion at
the Stoverdale Cap ground. On ac-
count of the dampneSs many of the
younger boys were lodged at cot
tages for the night, while the older
ones made themselves at home IN
the comfDrtable depths of many
blankets.
AT 2.3O a. M, the members of the
Scoutmaster's staff hiked to Little
Round Top where they watched the
sun rise and then turned back to
camp, arriving in time to greet the
first early risers of the remaining
troop.
Morning wash was followed by a
setting up exercise and breakfast.
The corned beef was not marked
success but something better is
promised in the next attempt
The troop hiked back to Hum
melstown and rode to Harrisburg,
arriving in time to do justice to a
dinner cooked in mothers civilized
style.
The troop is in receipt of a box of
interesting things sent by 1. M. Ar
thur of the Governors Troop, sta
toned at Camp Hancock, Ga. The
box contained sugar cane, raw cot
ton, cotton boles, cactus, a young
Georgia pine tree and a number of
Southern plants. The curios were
exhibited to the members of the
troop and the Scoutmaster gave a
short talk on the part played by
king cotton" in American history.
Several copies of Trench and
Camp" the camp paper, were also
exhibited.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-02
Ambition
Pills
For Nervous People

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purchase price If anyone is dissatis-
fed with the first box purchased.
Thousands praise them for gen.
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mental depression and unstrung
nerves caused by over-indulgence in
alcohol. tobacco or overwork of any
kind.
For any affiiction of the nervous
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unsurpassed, while for hysteria,
trembling and neuralgia they are
simply splendid. Fifty cents at II.
&c. Kennedy's and dealers every
where.-Advertisem
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-02
Cave Explored by
Members of Troop Is

Twelve members of Troop No.
Is, of the Sixth Street United Breth-
rem Church, enjoyed an all-day trip
to the large cave along the Swatara
creek near Stoverdale, last Saturday.
The troop made the trip to Hum
melstown via trolley and from there
hiked to Stoverdale, where a very
enjoyable time was spent in playing
games, gathering nuts and perform
ing such stunts that Scouts are like
ly to perform when let loose in the
woods where there is no taboo on
the noisemaking. Several hours were
spent scaling the high rocky cliffs
overlooking the creek and the boys
had very exciting time pulling each
other up the steep walls of stone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-02
SCOUTS TOPLAY
BASKETBALL
Rules For League Are Drawn
Up by Scout Execu-
tive Stine

In response to the interest shown
by the scouts of the various troops
of boy scouts in the city for a bask-
et-ball league, Scout Executive Stine
has drawn up a constitution to regu-
late the playing of basketball be-
tween the scouts. There are now
twenty troops of scouts in the city
and no finer field for athletics of
any kind could be devised. The pur-
pose of headquarters is to work out
league for basketball among the
troops that may be a big thing once
1t is worked out.
The constitution as submitted by
scout Executive Slime sets forth the
name of the league as the Harrisburg
Boy Scout Athletic League. The
league will have president, vice.
president and secretary treasurer,
who will be elected for one year
terms every October. The business
meeting of the league will be held
monthly, with delegates from each
troop, who will also serve one year
terms. These meetings will be pre-
sided over by the president.
Any troop in the city of Harris
burg can enter the league with the
deposit of five dollars upon the af-
hrmative vote of the league. Only
amateur players are acceptable.
There will be an executive and a
games committee, and any other
committees that the league may in
time consider necessary. There will
be two classes, consisting first of
boys over 115 pounds, and second,
under 115 pounds.
The idea of the league, 1t is stated
in the constitution, is to provide
athletic sports in conjunction with
the scout work and drills. 1t is
thought that such a movement will
keep an active unrest in the work
among the bows
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-02

Brown, Spencer Hall, Henry Moffitt,
Jack Smith.
Faxon, Charles Kunkel Fox, Milford
Green, Joseph Kaufman, Richard s..
Meredith. James e. Moffatt, Frederic
A. Lumb, Robert M. Smith, Charles
l.. McIlvaine, Jr., John Charles
Kelly. Lewis NJ. Riley, d. Bailey
Brandt, Jr.. Charles Frederic Hoover
John A. Fritchey, Henry Boas Ma
guire.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-02
Troop Is to Take Its
Tenderfoot Examinations;
Hold Halloween Socia!

On Tuesday evening, Troop 16 held
a Halloween party. The scouts and
their friends played several games
after which refreshments were
served.
Among the thirty present was AS
sistant Scoutmaster Weaver of Troop
20.
On Monday evening all boys of the
legal scout age will be required to
take their Tenderfoot exams, all but
the knots by order of. Scoutmaster
Fortenbaugh.
Halbert, Scribe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-02
I am Interested in Your Feet

believe 1 can Mt them In better
shoes and better-loOkinE shoes than
you will find in the average cut
price shoe store.
KNOW 1 cnn Mt them at n big
ger saving of actual cash than you
think IN possible In these times of
rapidly rising costs.
KNOW 1 am Offering the biggest
shoe values I'm Harrisburg to-day,
because L am selling so many OF
your friends.
ARE YOU GOING TO FOLLOW
IN THEIR FOOTSTEPSs
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-02

III. Geiger Omwake. Benjamin Rit-
ter, Frank Stineman, Hamilton
Schwarz. Lester Sheaffer, Austin
Starkey, Samuel Starkey, Edward
Schleisner, Harry Weigel, Victor
Zea.
Lower School
First Honors-Jack Burg, Charles
Augustus Doehne. Jr., Theodore Gil
bert, Hugh Hamilton, John B. Pear
son, William A. Pearson, Samuel
Wilhelm, John p. Bent, Philip s.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-02

nett Shelley, Hamilton Schwarz, w
Scott Thompson, Jr., Nelson wes-
coat. Donald Wren, Blake Bent
Harry Blocker, Harold Claster. PAU
Campbell, Leroy Consylman, Ern.
est Ernest, Howard Eldrdge, Jr.
Samuel Fisher. Frank Francis, Will
diam Galbraith, Richard Goetz, d
Hastings Hickok, Eugene Hale
Richard Johnston. Alfred Jennings
William McCaleb, Theodore Morgan
thaler, John Moffitt, Sidney Minor
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-02

Mems Tan Army
Bluchcr Lace Shoe
Made of Elk
skin uppers on the
NIunson last,
S3.95
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-02
GET CREDENTIALS

Troop 8 is the latest Scout organ
ization to receive credentials from
New York national headquarters, and
1t is now fully enrolled under the
leadership of Scoutmaster Charles II.
Hunter. The troop meets at and Is
connected with the Capital Street
Presbyterian Church. There are sew
enteen members at present, with in
dications that the full troop number
of thirty-two will be reached at an
early date.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
T. R.. s Boys Are
With Pershing;
a Taft In Army
Especial to The Times.)

WASHINGTON, July Both
OF Americas two living ex-presi-
dents will be represented at the
battle front by their boys.
Two Roosevelt boys are already
with Pershing. Both were orig
inal Plattsburgers. Theodore. jr,,
got a majors commission in the
officers reserve corps last Febru-
airy. Archy received a commits
sion as second lieutenant.
They are now serving in staff
positions, however, as they went
to France long before any OF the
new army units were ready for
active service.
Quentin Roosevelt is in an avia-
ton camp learning to fight in the
skies.
Charles P. Taft III. named after
the former presidents brother, is
an enlisted man In a field artil-
lery regiment now encamped at st.
Asaph's, Va, ear Washington.
Taft's other son. Robert, an at
torney of Cincinnati, tried to en-
ter the officers reserve CORPS. but
was rejected for physical disabil-
fly.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
FRONTIER BOOM TOWN..
Camp Abbott
String of Thirty Army
Trucks Makes Gravelly
Road Grim and Very
Business like; Drivers
Pet Names Picturesque.
By Mabel Abbott

Anyone who has ever been pres
ent at the birth of a frontier
boom-town has a very fair idea Of
the impression given by the first
stage OF the construction of the
army cantonment at American
lake.
The beginning of the canton-
ment construction is really four
miles beyond the mobilization
camp at the lake, near the little
town of Dupont, in the middle of
a brown and yellow prairie girdled
by neat evergreens like Christmas
trees
Multiply typical boom-town
by dozen or so, station guards
on the roads by which you enter
it, add a row of tents for the civil
engineers and a truck company,
and substitute huge gray army
trucks for the buck boards and
bronchos of an earlier day, and
you have the cantonment as II is
today.
Might BE Saloons.
Save for its size, the admins
tration building, in it's raw, rec
tangular newness, might be the
dance hall without which no from
tier town would be complete. The
telegraph building and non-com-
missi0ned officers barracks on
either side might be a real estate
office and general store: and
the giant warehouses across the
dusty road might be saloons.
And far across the prairie to-
ward the distant rim OF ever
greens, stretch irregular lines of
little wooden stakes, like the trail
of frenzied town-lot locator.
They are not town-lot stakes,
however. They mark the center
CONTINUED on rage Five.)
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
u. S. ASKS
CITY ADD
TO FORCE

An increase of 30 Der cent
in the number of men on the
Tacoma police department is
Immediately necessary, to
convince the government
that Tacoma intends to do its
part towards regulating NOR
ais and crime in the vicinity
Of the American lake army
post.
This was the message given to
city officials Friday afternoon by
representatives of the national de-
Tense council, it was limited today.
Although no statement was
given out regarding the warming,
1t was intimated that the city
council had been instructed to
get busy" at once.
The government expects Taco
ma to prevent vice or immortality
from creeping in with the rapid
increase of population that will
result from the army post. In Or
der to do this, besides controll-
ing street traffic and preventing
crime, the police department must
be increased by at least so men.
Have Money Plan.
None of the city officials was
at liberty Saturday to announce
details of the visit of the council
members.
But it was reported on good
that the city council
would be asked next week for so
men on the police de-
partment. The national defense
council members also have a plan
whereby the additional police help
can be compensated. despite the
depleted condition of the city
treasury.
Four Groups.
If so men are added to the de-
one-fourth of them will
be detailed to traffic duty, an
other fourth will be assigned as
many of them going
to the outlying residence dis
tricts, and the remainder will be
assigned to central police head
quarters and to duty as morals
officers, according TO preliminary
plans. 1t was understood that
the request of the national coun-
Al for Increased police efficiency
n Tacoma was instituted by the
var department.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
Il .Az Y
HUB
At !

After rearing six sons to
manhood. and cooking the
meals for 1.-THE old man" for
dozens of years, Mrs. Joseph
kirkland, 20. IL practically
destitute today at Orting.
abandoned by her husband
and sons to face the few re-
manning years of her life
alone.
This information came into the
hands of the county authorities
Saturday, and as a result, a war
rant was sworn out in Justice
Linck s court for the arrest of the
woman's husband. Elias w. Kirk
land, 77-year-old Civil war veter-
an, charged with being lazy
husband.
The old veteran is said to be
somewhere about Tacoma. and
Constable Mitchell, with the war
rant, sworn out by County Charity
Commissioners Watkins, is search
ing for him.
Ii was stated at the prose-
cutting attorneys office that
warrants may he sworn out
later for one or more of the
six sons, all of whom are de-
clarcd to he working In Ia
coma.
All that lies between the aged
woman and starvation, it is de-
clared, are the rations dealt out
by the state to old soldiers and
their families at Orting. The sol
diers' pension which Kirkland
draws from the government would
be enough for her support, says
Commissioner Watkins, even if
none of the sons could be forced
to come to her aid.
The ages of the sons are given
at 22, 23, "a, %, 26 and 81.
County officials say that three
times Veteran Kirkland has tried
in vain to have his wife put in
the insane asylum.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
TO DEP0RT GERMANS
GREAT GAINS
FOR UNIONS

The telephone girls in Aberdeen have won their
demands
The mill and logging camp workers have asked
for an eight-hour day.
These two statements, appearing on successive
day, and others that have appeared recently are
interesting in themselves; but they have as back
ground condition that is still more interesting,
and c hardly yet realized: ...,. =, -, ,. -,
day what he situation in organized labor in the state
Seven thousand and have been
the first of i'm western Wahngon alone said he
Industries organizing organized
Men women Joining the unions their
never did SO before Practically every trade feels this
The two big reasons for this condition, Taylor
thinks, are the war and prohibition.
ut began about year after the war broke out"
he points out, when a considerable number of
aliens were taken out of industry by being called
to the armies of their own countries. That made
slight shortage of labor.
Recently, much larger number has been drawn
out Of industry by enlistment in our own war, and
still larger number will be taken by CONSUMPTION
consequently, men are not afraid now of los
ing their jobs if they organize.
generally necessary get
Prohibition threw perhaps 5000 workers out of Jobs this
work such shpbuidns being organized themselves
Most increase in shipbuiding
s % s tn the the % Se
establishment of the army post here.
the bankruptcy have hundreds dollars
treasures Prohibition the best thing that happened
1T was feared that as male Dor grew scaree the entrance
atons but the fact that the organizing they
I'm places wages
even in an capacity The push Of the high of v
ment on the other and the help the organized labor which
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
TO
MAKE A
SHOWING

The progress made in the third
week of construction work at the
American lake cantOnment makes
more of a showing than in any
previous week.
Besides the first of the IL 200
man barracks which we're begun
during the last week and which
when completed will make it
possible to employ still more
workmen, large building for the
auditing force Is half done, just
back of the administration build
ing. Its present location is tenn
porary and it will ultimately be
moved to one of the other units.
Sites for buildings for two
more regiments have been staked
off, and work will begin on them
as soon as the material is on hand.
May Heat by Steam.
Instructions were received
Friday by Hurley-Mason Co. to
disregard the original plans for
the use of stoves in the buildings.
This is supposed to mean that
a steam heating plant will be
built, which would have to be one
of the largest in the northwest If
it is to serve the whole canton
ment.
The payroll Saturday is almost
double that of last Saturday.
About $4,000 will be paid out
in wages this week, and 1t is be-
lieved 1t will double again with
in another week. A thousand
workmen are now on the job.
Major Stone has recommended
to Washington that all concessions
at the cantonment be handled by
the Red Cross, with a committee
of Tacoma people to pass on their
nature and admit only those
known to be proper.
Let Road Contract.
Major Stone proposes to have a
large area Of ground set aside for
features, including
pictures, vaudeville houses
and stores for merchandise not
carried by the army canteens.
Ten miles of permanent roads
are to be built On the cantonment
site, II was announced yesterday,
the contract going to the indie
pendent Asphalt G Paving Co.
of Seattle.
The Washington Pipe & Foun-
dry Co. is to construct five wooden
tanks for the 000,000-gallon
water storage needed In the first
unit.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
Song of the
9th Engineers

(The following war song was
written by member of the Sth
regiment, u. S. engineers, at
American lake, and is reprinted
from The Spiker,' Il weekly
paper published by member of the
company
by Albert G. Wilson, c Co.
We don't belong to the regulars,
We're railroad engineers.
We're only part of the rank and
file,
But someone holds us dear.
Many a mothers heart will ache
Within the coming year,
But Uncle Sam will take off his
hat
To the Railroad Engineers.
Shakespeare,
1.empsbeer,
Cherootes,
(War Hoop.
We're from the wild and woolly
West,
We're almost civilized. !;
From Rocky Mountains to the
Coast,
We've counted many ties.
From Canada to Mexico,
Beneath the Western skies,
We've come to help the soldier
boys,
And the job is just our size.
YELL.
Well lay the track through No
Mans Land,
Well lay it there to stay.
Well use American methods,
And we'll work the modern
way.
Wen take our own equipment,
And we'll lay it right to Krupp.
And then, when once we lay 1t
down,
Well be damned If we take 1t
up.
YELL.
We don't know much about the
drill
The soldiers have to do;
Well make the kaiser clear the
track,
And boys, we'll shoot her
through.
Well highball down the Asine and
Sonme
And this is what we'll do,
Well ramble into Germany
With the Old Red, White and
Blue,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
SEEK Prevent STRIKES

E. P. Marsh, chairman; Charles
Perry Taylor. of the American
Federation of Labor; ]. G. Brown,
president of the Shingleweavers
International union; William
Short, Seattle. district secretary
of the miners union; C. e. Spur
geon of Everett, representing the
Railway Brotherhoods; II. L..
Hughes, chairman state industrial
insurance commission; George p.
Listman, Seattle, general trades
unions, and p. w. Dwler of the
building trades.
The labor committee will meet
In Seattle on the Fridays preced-
Ing the semi-monthly meetings of
the State Council of Defense in
Olympia.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
TO REASON
BARRED FROM MAIL

WASHINGTON, July z. : The
mails have been barred to numer-
GUS publications since the espion-
age act was approved June Is.
The latest stop order was issued
yesterday against the Appeal to
Reason, socialist weekly of Girard,
Kansas.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07

The labor committee of the
State Council of Defense, which
met in Seattle Friday evening,
rendered its offices to bring about
conference between employers and
employees in the single industry
and longshore work, where strikes
seem imminent, according to
Charles Perry Taylor, state Or
ganizer for the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, who is a member
of the committee.
1.-The labor committee heartily
agreed with the State Council of
Defense on the necessity of fed
eral guards for irrigation projects
and farming districts" reports
Taylor.
Committeeman present were
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
Omitted Press Leased Wire.)

LONDON, July 7.--Thirty-seven
men, women and children were
killed and al wounded when the
fleet of 20 German aeroplanos
bombarded London early today.
Lord French officially an
nounced the casualties this after
noon. or the dead, rs were men,
six women and three children.
The injured included "A men,
80 women and 81 children.
The admiralty announced three
Of the German air raiders brought
down over the North sea and Lord
French announced the destruction
of another which was brought
down at the mouth of the Thames
river.
Fly Near Ground.
Apparently profiting by their
poor aim In previous raids, due
to the great height at which the
bombs were released, today's Ger
man air pirates flew very low.
They were plainly seen from
the street. This was in direct con-
trast to the great raid of June
IL, when the 16 German raiders
flew at such q great height that
they were practically invisible.
Spectacular Battle.
AS the anti-aircraft guns got
into action and air-fighters of the
home defense forces took to che
sky, they mounted to greater
heights.
These battles in the air were
waged with the British machines
relentlessly pursuing the Germans
who Unanswered and twisted and
turned In an effort to prevent
their retreat being cut off.
Shrapnel from the anti-aircraft
guns burst all about the contend
ing aeroplanes.
Guns Give Warning.
The curiosity OF Londoners,
heretofore responsible for MANY
deaths because of a rush to the
streets to cape at the invaders.
has now worn off.
1t was noticeable today that as
soon as the sound of the anti-air-
craft guns engaging the raiders
was heard, most of the populace
hurried into their cellars. The
peppering of the guns firing at the
Germans gave ample warning of
the raid.
Lord French, commander of
the home defense forces, made the
preliminary announcement TODAY.
but without giving details.
Flyers Attacked.
Previous to this announcement
of the London raid, Lord French
had issued statement saving:
AT $50 this morning hostile
aircraft in considerable numbers
and In two parties have been
sighted off the Isle OF Thanet and
the east coast Of Essex" The
raid on London occurred at 1890.
The enemy aircraft approach
ed London from the northeast
and proceeded north and west. .
Lord French stated. "They
crossed Lnndnn from tina r~~sh-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
US. Orders All Former
Embassy, Consulate
Employees Quit This
Country at Once
Un.ted Press Leased Wire.)

Vhted PItNs Leased WIFe1
WASHINGTON, July All German diplo-
matte agents are to be cleaned out of the United
States as the government proceeds with its work Of
stopping the leak of military information
Count Won Bernstorff's assistants who remained
in America when he departed to leave in short
time for Berlin, high government official said to-
day.
H. Chauffhausen and G. Bern, German consular
secretaries, will GO first.
The remainder, some of whom have been tempo
rarily attached to the Swiss legation, will follow.
The state department today made arrangements
for Bern and Chauffhausen to quit the country
Others, including German consuls scattered in
other potts, German clerks and other German en-
ployes will follow
American employees of the Spanish embassy in
Berlin, assisting in handling American interests,
will be removed directly thereafter as natural re-
taliation.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-07
GIRL TOSSES RUDE
BANDIT OVER FENCE
AND DOWN A BANK

SEATTLE, July 7.-Exasper-
ated by the boldness of a high
wayman who snatched at her
purse after she had given him Is
cents, when he held her up near
her home Friday night, Miss Leila
Branscome of 1926 Newport way,
picked the young bandit up and
threw him over railing and
down an embankment. Then she
reported the holdup to the police.