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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
GEORGE KAPP DIES

Dillsburg, Pa, Feb. 20.-George
Kapp, father of J. S. Kapp, of the
firm of Kapp and Seibert, of Dills-
burg, died at his home at Mount
Royal, this county, on Monday eve
ming after an illness of several
months. He is survived by his wife
and three sons, John s., of Dills-
burg; William, of York, and Samuel
Kappa of Allentown. The funeral
will be held tomorrow. There will
be preliminary services in the home
and the body will then be brought
here and services will be held in
the Lutheran Church. Burial will
be made in the Dillsburg Gene
terry.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
PIKE FROZEN IN ICE

Blain. Pa, Feb 2o.-Dr. Fl. w.
Woods took dead pike from a piece
of ice at Waggoners dam that was
twenty-four inches long and weighed
four pounds.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
ANNVIDLE

Paul Bachman, son of Mrs. John
Bachman, of East Main street, who
enlisted in the aviation service, has
been transferred from Kelly Field,
San Antonio, Texas, to Waco, in the
same state.
The Rev. H. A. Smith, United
Brethren preacher. who lived here
while attending Lebanon Valley
College, has accepted service in a
southern department of the Y. NJ.
c.. A. at San Antonio, Texas.
Fl. Lenich Meyer, of the local
freight station, was at Harrisburg
on Monday.
Mrs. NJ. E. Brightbill has return
ed home from Hagerstown, Md,
where she was the guest of her
daughter, Mrs. Philo A. Station.
Conrad X. Curry, of Swatara Sta
| ton, made a trip to Annville on
Monday.
Miss Josephine Kettering was con-
| fined to her home with illness for
several days.
Miss Kathryn Stern spent Satur-
| day at Lebanon.
Mrs. Caroline Raub, of Dallas
town, has returned to her home aft
| er spending some time with her
daughter, Mrs. S. f. Daugherty.
Irwin Horst, of Schaefferstown,
was in town on Tuesday.
The coal situation in Annville is
partially relieved by the arrival of
milder weather and a few carloads
of fuel.
Corporal Price spent a short time
here among friends Saturday and
Sunday.
| Professor j. Il. Spangler spent
Sunday at Harrisburg the guest of
the Rev. Dr. ]. A. Lytery in Derry
street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
nRIG CLERIlS ARRESrEn

waynesboro, Pa, Feb. 20. - Charles
F. Kramer, a member OF the Pennsyl-
vania Pharmaceutical Board, was here
on Monday, and called at local drug
stores in an attempt to learn whether
there were any technical violations OF
the act of 1917 governing pharma-
cists. At the Miller drugstore and
at the Arco drugstore he purchased
a small quantity of tincture of iodine
from clerks, who are not registered
pharmacists, and information was
made against these stores for failure
to comply strictly with the law. The
case was heard before Magistrate
John A. Potter. who held the persons
making the sales under technical
charge.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
C(JTC)RA
SOAP

Will prove a revelation to those
whouse it for the first time because
ofits absolute purity, delicatemed-
ication, refreshing fragrance and
super-creamy emollient proper
ties for preserving, purifying and
beautifying the skin and complex
ion, two soaps ~ one at one price.
On rising and retiring smear the face with cu-
ticurs Ointment, wash off in Ave minutes with
cuticura Soap and hot water, using plenty Of
Sosp, best applied with the hands which it
softens wonderfully, and continue bathing
with Soap two minutes. For free sample of
Soap, Ointment and Talcum address: "Cut-
curs, Dept "a, Boston" Everywhere at zsc.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
HUMIMELSTOWN


Reed Walmer, of Philadelphia,
spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Walmer.
Mrs. Edgar Reed, of Philadelphia,
visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Isaac Nissley, of West Main street.
Miss Grace Shenk spent Sunday
afternoon at Harrisburg.
Joseph Wolaver spent several days
al Harrisburg with his sister, Mrs.
Walter Waddell.
Benton Leinbach, of Wonelsdorf,
visited former school friends here
over Sunday.
Edith Bobbs, of Harrisburg, spent
Sunday with her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs. Elias Earnest.
Esther Miller has returned ia
school after an absence of almost a
month caused by injuries sustained
in the shedding accident at Paxtang
January "a.
Margaret Cassel, who is confined
to the Harrisburg Hospital with in
juries sustained in the shedding ac-
cident of January "a, has developed
an attack of tonsilitis within the
past few days.
Mrs. George Etter, of Palmyra
spent Sunday with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Martin Miller.
Miss Josephine Burkholder has
been housed the past week by ill
ness.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
CUMBERLAND VALLEY
FAREWELL SURPRISE PARTY

Waynesboro, Pa. Feb. 20 A
farewell surprise party was given by
a number of young women on Mon
day evening. to Miss Helen Anders,
who left to-day for Baltimore. where
she will enter the Johns Hopkins
Hospital and pursue the regular four
year course in preparation for a train
ed nurse.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20
SUBURBAN PERSONALS
RI,AVN

BlAlN
DR.. W. II. lFlicllinger, medical ex-
aminer in the electrical works of the
Westinghouse Company at Pitts
burgh, spent a week at his home
here.
George Shref1ler and Banks
Rohm were at New Bloomfield for
physical examination on Saturday,
being included in the next draft
from Perry county. The former was
rejected.
Miles Britcher, of Company C,
Three Hundred and Fourteenth
United States infantry at Camp
Meade, Md, since the first contin-
gent left Perry county last fall,
came home on Sunday on a four
day furlough to visit his father,
Lewis Britcher. Anderson Reeder
and Cyrus Bender came along from
the camp to their home near Ell
liottsburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-20

This sale is certainly the shoe sensation
of Harrisburg! JUST THINK! Offering,
at this time of exceedingly high prices,
women's So to 81 shoes at SS1.95 a pair
Better buy two or three pairs while this
low price is possible.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-20

only a part of it, TO systematic gymnastics your
gain would be enormous
or course these exercises require some effort
on your part but you soon become accustomed to
the effort, and when the habit is formed you Will
wonder why YOU did not begin before The begin
ming is the hardest part
When see a young girl running and jumping,
with every muscle brought into play, stop and
wonder what she may become in few years. 1t
is indsputabe that women are prone to lassitude,
if not lazness, physically, and this is due largely
to false ideas as to their part in life. They think
that the less they move about the less tired they
will be. Then they are surprised when they begin
to get fat. We have a proverb: Fat is a sign OF
old age" and no woman wants to get old or fat.
Few women stop to think that the natural way to
avoid getting fat is to exercise.
Every woman wants to be beautiful in form,
graceful appealing She may be sure of making
the most of herself physically if she devotes time
and effort TO dancing in the open, skating, walking
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-20

and all possible outdoor sports, as well 80 ., u,..
tematic gymnastc exercises ~ S'S
-, our latest attempts at outdoor dancing and au
the games that are taught in the pavgronnda os ~,
puohc schools are directed toward developing this
from her physical lethargy
1t Is true that our climate is different from +bo,
OF Greece and that We cannot always exercise IN
the open, and for this reason our sports and
amusements must be supplemented by systematic
gymnastic training
There 10 nothing painful or difficult about tol
ing proper exercise. 1t merely requires effort ~,
will and strong determination
If we had only known that our women vera
TO take the places of men to so great degree wa
might have prepared them for their task much bet.
ter. We shall have learned this much from the
war, with all its evils, that woman neglects ber
muscular development at her peril and that il she
is to do her full share in the worlds work, shc
must exercise regularly and correctly.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-20

rTHE war has brought about an astonishing
revolution. not ONLY in IDEAS AS TO world work
women may be permitted ia. do but far
reaching recognition Of their physical powers and
nossibilIties as part of their natural endowment.
Nothing WAS more firmly fixed I'm mems minds for
ovan,nIr lbon the notion that women could not
he trusted with machinery. Yet at Il recent meet.
ing Of the American Society of Mechanical En.
pineers If was stated by an authority that the
ancient faIIacy that women could not be trusted to
handle intricate hits Of machinery has been ex.
nloded for good since tho war began"
Further than this an investigation conducted
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-03-20
No Sex Difference in Strength,
Says Medical Science

An Investigation the Of physical coHege 2uet
Fad M that of conducted by Dr. Celia Duel MoaIe Stanford
lo Ln0erH and Prof. Ernest Gale Mat reported
the floo
conclusion: 9
There difference in the strength of women and men
which due such Such differences as are frequently found
differences in the the muscles brought about Inv tho
conventional limitations Of activity by Marked overweght or
marked undewht tends to lower the strength does lack
of coordination which is too frequently and xappa
a by their scan physical activity in childhood The effects of u,
training persist long after the particular has ceased
high degree of muscular power in her racial
efficiency
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
s, DAKOTA SOLDIERS
MAKE GOOD SHOWING
Men at Camp Funston Take
Pride in Organization-Many
Former Business Men.

Camp Funston. Kan, an. 7-One or.
as 1t is made up entirely Of men from
one state. 1t is Company Il, of the
342nd machine gun battalion. The en-
tire company including the non-com-
m~issioned officers claim South Dakota
as their home state. There is scarcely
II count that is not represented ON the
company roster.
This company has been in training
less than three months, but has pro-
crossed more rapidly than many other
organizations as lis men all have IA
common Interest and work in closer
harmony than companies made up of
men from different states. The boys of
the camps make the Il company bar
racks II South Dakota headquarters and
drop i'll to spend an evening occa-
sionally. A piano and monograph help
TO keep things lively n visitors al
ways report n good time.
There are many prominent South Da-
kota men soldering at Camp Funston
ana II" company has it's share of
them. William Wieland, formerly of the
firm of Wieland & Son at belmont. and
c. A. Guirich, formerly a business man
of Wakonda. are now the mpa
buglers. Sergts. Frank Brady and G.
c. Burnett and Corporal r. Il. Barry are
well known cattle men from the west
ern part of the state. Sergeant C. NJ.
Miller. formerly EARNED over 1000 acres
in Charles Mix county and there are
few people in that part of the state
who do not know him. Corporal e. c..
CanadaS was Professor of mathematics
at the University of South Dakota. and
Is now company clerk. Sergt. A. ID.
Campbell was in the automobile bust
ness and is well known i'm different
parts of the state. Corporal j. j.
OI3eilly was in business at Draper. All
these men are making good as soldiers
and show the same enthusiasm i'm the
business of soldering that they did in
their vocations in civil life.
There are few South Dakota boys at
Camp Funston that have advanced as
rapidly as William Wander Worst, OF
Lake Andes. He was mustered into the
natlona army as a private in Septem-
Der and was promoted to the ranks OF
corpora before he had finished his
first month in service. Later he was
again promoted to sergeant and at
present is acting first sergeant of Com
pany G, 340th machine gun battalion.
lie is one OF the $40 men of the camp
who have been selected for training
for commissions as l~ieutenants. his
comrades expect to see 'Bill' wearing
the pins when his three months train
ing are over.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
DEMENTED MAN MADE
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE

sioux Falls, S. d., IAN. 5-IldWard
Carlson. employed ON the construction
OF a local bank building. is lying in Il
hospital in a serious condition as. the
result of attempting suicide by diving
90 feet from the Eighth street bridge
to the ice on the Big Sioux river. One
of his hips was broken and he was
otherwise injured. 1t is expected he
will recover. The attempt at suicide
was made before daybreak ANA Carlson
was clad only in his night clothing at
the time. He made a weird figure as
he pranced about the cemen rail on tho
bridge shouting i~ncoherently. He is
believed to have suffered a mental re-
lapse. He is about 50 years of age and
came to Sioux Falls about four months
ago from MinneapOliS.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
ABERDEEN WILL HAVE
BIG RED CROSS MEET
Prominent Workers of State
and County Are to Have
Parts.

Aberdeen, S. d.. Jan. 5.-H.:C. Jewett,
chairman of the Brown county Red
Cross, has arranged for a meeting Of
the Red Cross workers at the Orpheum
theaterE on January IS. The speaker
Of the evening will be DIR. Frederick
a. Perry, pastor of College church,
Adrian, Mich. Other prominent men
who will be present will be j. T. Ge-
rould, director Of the bureau of de-
lelopment; Miss Crosby, assistant to
Frank Bruno, head of the civilian re-
,ief bureau; Coler Campbell, of the mil
.tarM relief bureau; Mrs. Cora S. Frid-
'ey, director of the women's bureau:
J.. III. Ellison, of the bureau of sup
plies; w. f. Grenell, of the bureau of
accounting, and f. T. Heffelfinger,
northwest division manager, who as
sisted Mr.. Jewett in arranging for the
meeting.
Prominent South Dakota Red Cross
workers who will be present will in
clude Robert j. Gamble. of Sioux Falls,
state chairman: George S. Douthitt. of
Sioux Falls. vice chairman. and c. III.
Burke, of Pierre, member of the state
board of directors and chairman of the
Hughes county Red Cross.
1t is expected the theater will be
crowded to capacity at the meeting.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
MANY SOUTH DAKOTA
TOWNS ARE FAVORED

Aberdeen. S. D., Jan. 5.--Twenty-twe
South Dakota. cities ana towns. listed
below, will hear some noted speakers
representing the United States food adj
ministration about the middle of Feb
ruary. After a conference with w. A
Milne, representing the speakers Blu.
reau of the food administration. C. n
Herreid. federal food administrator for
south Dakota, the following
schedule. subject to change. for the
three speakers who will visit this state:
Sioux Falls, Canton, Mitchell, Elk Point
Vermilion, Aberdeen, Yankton, Water
town. Selby, Ipswich, Webster, Mil
pank, Redfield, Madison, F'aulkton
Huron, Flandreau, Woonsocket, Miller,
Pierre, Tyndall and Higkmore.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
No RUSSIANS At
PEACE MEETING
BoIshevist ENJOYS Fail to Show
Up at Brest-Litovsk -
Want Parleys Taken
to Stockholm.
GERMANS STIR UP STRIFE
Negotiate With Other Russ Fac
tions to Coerce Leninites
Into Accepting Their
Terms.
GERMANS STIR UP STRIFE

London. Jan. T.-When the delegates
of the central powers arrived at Erest-
Litovsk to resume the peace negotia-
tons they found no Russian delegates
there. according to Il Vienna dispatch
to Zurich, forwarded by the Exchange
Telegraph. All that awaited them was
q telegram frcm the Russians asking
for ~transfer of the negotiations to
Stockholm.
Although the bolshevist foreign min
lster. Leon TrotSkY. announced that the
German peace terms would not be ac-
:epted, it was expected that the Russian
delegates would return to BreSt-Litovsk
for the meetings which are to be re-
sumo today To inform the central
powers of RusSia'S attitude. The Rus
slams requested transference of the ne
gotiations to Stockholm. because they
would have less difficulty there in OBJ
aiming full publicity concerning the ne
gotiationS and also ecauS they pre-
ferred a neutral place to the German
eastern headquarters for holding the
discussions. The German chancellor.
Won Hertlins. told the ~reichstag main
committee on Thursday that the Ger
nan delegates had been instructed to
refuse to transfer the negotiations to
Stockholm.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
SIOUX FALLS TROUBLE
OVER VACCINATION ENDS

Sioux Falls, s. D.. Jan. 5.-There will
be no INTERPRETATION meeting in the
city auditorium. as planned this eve
ming. This announcement was made
~ Grant Lines. chairman of the last
meeting, after Il consultation with the
members of the investigation commit
zee that has been looking into the
smallpox scare conditions.
The committee reached the conciu-
sion that another meeting was not
necessary since DIR. w. +. Keller. city
health physician rescinded his ban on
the balance of the unvaccinated chill
aren n declared that the epidemic
was over. All children and pupils We're
admitted to the schools and the feeling
over the order of last month rapidly
vanished.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
SHOWS WORLD NOT
so BIG AFTER ALL

Milbank, S. D., Jan. 5.-That the
world is not so large after all. was
demonstrated in the case of Mrs. Her
bert Atkinson. of Milbanlk. when she
was handed a letter by q woman friend.
Mrs. f. l.. Thompson. extending thanks
for a garment which Mrs. Thompson
had knitted and sent through the Red
Cross to soldiers and sailors at the
front. the letter proving to be from Nj.
l.. Bridges, q brother of Mrs. Atkinson.
The surprise of Mrs. Thompson can be
imagined when she took the letter to
her %neighbor and discovered that the
epistle was from the brother OF Mrs.
Atkinson. Young Bridges is assigned
to an American warship and one of the
peculiar incidents of the war was that
he should chance to receive the knitted
garment sent by q neighbour of his sis
ter, the garment having been sent With
thousands of others through the Min
neapoliS branch of the Red Cross. That
this garment should fall into the
hands of this particular young man,
aboard a United States man of war in
far distant waters, could scarcely be
believed by the two
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
GOVERNOR NoRBEck TO
BE CANDIDATE AGAIN

Aberdeen, s. d.. Jan. 4.-The political
prosnostricators who We're predicting,
or hoping, that Gov. Peter Norbeck
would seek a se-atorship and retire
from the g~ubernatorial race, were dis
credited when the governor, while in
Aberdeen. gave out al interview stat
ing that he would be Il candidate for
domination for a SECOND term before
the republican state wide primary next
May.
The governor stated he would base
his candidacy on the record he has
made in the first two years of his in
cumDencY of the position, and that he
would like a reelection in order to
see South Dakota through the war. and
to see the state maintain it's position
well to the head of the procession both
IN the matter of the soldiers sent to
the front and in the support given the
government by the folks at home.
Il have tried to do my duty and
serve the best interests of the state
ana of the people, and | am going to
ask the people who believe | have done
this to vote me another TERMS" said
the governor. =
Il want to see this wal through to
q victory. | want to help and to hold
south Dakota to a high place in the
activities that win the war, both with
the boys at the front and the folks
mere at home. I want to finish what l
have started. I shall make the race
upon the record of these first two years
under my administration"
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
THE NUMBER THIRTEEN
HAD IMPORTANT pI ACE

Cotton, s. d., Jan. Sc. A. Grinde
once county auditor, member of the
state Legislature, a successful farmer
ana an all round good citizen, arved
up a half dozen turkeys a few days
age, the occasion being when the chill
dren all came home to spend the holi
DAYS with father and mother and tt
make the occasion a real family re
union.
Raising her specks, Mrs. Cirindt
remarked: This seems to be a family
or l3 children and IS grandchildren."
And that was true. Then some one
that it was just 13 years
g that the last family reunion was
The day before. the 10 children had
a!lven to Dell Rapids to have their
plc.ures taken. 1t was just 13 miles
There We're just 13 in the picture.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
SON IDENTIFIES FATHERS
BADLY MANGLED EODY

Aberdeen. S. ID, Jan. 7.-"Why, that's
my father" exclaimed Frank Myer,
at Mobrldge, 5. d.. as the mangled
body of the victim of II railroad acci-
dent, his features disfisured so he could
not be recognized, was carried into the
station. The son recognized the father
by his clothing.
The elder Myer was employed in the
Milwaukee yards. His body was found
lying across the tracks. 1t is assumed
he attempted to crawl under Il freight
train while about his duties in the
yard, when the train started, causing
his death.
Myer was 80 years Did and leaves n
wife and sin children. besides an aged
father and mother.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
MAKING CLEAN UP OF
ALL CRIMINAL CASES

Hot Springs. S. d., Jan. 5.-A mum
Der of criminal cases which had been
attracting attention for some time We're
disposed of during a term of state cir
cult court, which has just been held il
this city. The authorities are making
a general clear up of the county, ana
all criminals either will be driven from
the country OF landed in the SIOUX
Falls p~enitentiary. Among the GRIM
mails are cattle "ruStlers," who have
been attempting to operate on a large
scale during the past few months. II
now is believed the gangs have been
broker up and hat cattle raisers will.
have no trouble with them in the flu
ture
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10

Even Washington himself was once
1rafted INTO the service of his country.
X was i'm 1898. long after the revolu-
lion, and after Washington had been
president for two terms. and had gone
into a well earned retirement at Mount
Vernon. France had broken relations
with us, and war impended. Congress
appointed Washington commander OF
the army. and the secretary OF war.
carrying the commission to him, found.
him in the harvest field. When WASH
ington learned the errand on which his
visitor had come, he. said. IL am ready
for any service that I can give m.
country."
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
STUDY WATER POWER
ON MISSOURI RIVER

Pierre, s. D., Jan. THE immigra-
let devoted to the question of water
power development on the Missouri
river. showing with maps, drafts. and
photographs the great possibilities for
water development on this STRAIN
throughout its course in South Dakota
Seven particularly promising sites of
potential power are discussed in the
booklet. these being located at Big
bend, Little Bend, Mulehead Point,
Chamberlain, Reynolds Point and Bad
Hairs place.
The possibilities. of these seven places
would give a total of 242. 900 horse pow
er as a minimum. and the average flow
heads a total OF $50. 900 horse power.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1918-01-10
is A MUCH SoUGHTs
MAN AT PRESENT

Brookings, S. d., Jan. ARTHUR TO
liver, h made his escape from the
Bookings county authorities after be-
ing arrested on the charge of creating
a rough house at his home, finds him
self in a peculiar predicament. He is
registered under the selective draft law,
and If he does not appear and fill u
his QUESTIONABLE he will have "a flock
OF deputy United States marshals on
his trail, who will require him to make
a settlement with Uncle Sam. With
both the state and federal authorities
after him he appears certain to have
to serve a prison term.