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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
Consignees Must Take
Eggs, Even at Loss

New York. Heavy losses faced
by dealers and spectators in eggs
because of n twenty -seven-cent drop
in the retail price, We're given con-
sideration by the Federal Food Board.
Their trouble is due to the heavy
shipments received in this city.
Many spectators, who are hardest
hit, have refused to accept shipments
of eggs in the face of such loss and
in these cases transportation COM
panies, which are holding 26,534, 1853
eggs here for delivery, have threatened
to sell them at the market price and
let shippers and consignees divide the
losses. The Food Board, however.
will force consignees to accept the
eggs they have ordered, according to
the boards director of transportation
and distribution.
Many of the eggs started for this
city three weeks ago. when the retail
price was seventy-two cents a Dozen
Since then the price has fallen to
forty-five cents.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
Will Reclassify Men of
Next Draft in Groups
AS to Physical Condition

Washington, March 8. Reclassi-
fication according to physical condi-
ton of the men called in the next
army draft is required in revised in
structions for Medical Advisory
Boards, which are being sent to local
boards throughout the country. The
new regulations. made public last
night. require that every man sum-
moned shall be placed in one of these
classes:
(A) Acceptable for general military
service.
(B) Acceptable for general military
service after being cured of remedi-
able defect.
co Acceptable for special or limit
ed military service in a specified ca
pacity or occupation.
CD Rejected and exempted from
any military service.
1t is the intention of the Provost
Marshal General to provide later for
further investigation and classified
tion of the men acceptable for limited
or special service, so that a record
may be made of the sort of work each
health. -A'N
Under the new regulations many
ailments al me and defects, which previous
Will result only in their being listed
in group B. Such men, if they choose
VIII nave the privilege of obtaining
the services of their family physicians
IN the effort to remove the defect
but If they have not, taken this on
portuntty within stated time they
VIII be called into service and sent
10 cantonment base hospital recon-
hnGnifnI oil - =
as designated by the Surgeon Cen
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
Delaware Co. Citizens Ask
Wilson to Stop Rum Making

Media, Pa, March Sat n mass
meeting of the citizens of Delaware
county held at Media, resolutions
were unanimously adopted calling
upon President Wilson to exercise
the authority vested in him by
congress to issue at once an order
prohibiting both the manufacture
ana sale of all intoxicating bever-
ages for the duration of the war.
The Senate of the United States
and the House of Representatives
are asked without delay to enact a
law prohibiting permanently the
manufacture and sale of all intoSi-
eating beverages.
In the raising and TRANSFORMATION
OF the necessary grains and other
foodstuffs for the making of intoxi-
eating beverages" says the resolu-
tions, hundreds of thousands of
men are employed and thousands of
railway cars are used and hundreds
of thousands of tons of fuel are con-
sumed and hundreds of thousands
OF acres of good land cultivated. all
of which might be employed to help
win the war instead of helping TO
produce that which destroys both
food and fuel and men.
THE grains consumed by the
breweries are sufficient to make at
least 100000 pound loaves of bread
each day.
In the manufacture of intoxicat-
ing drinks nearly $1,000 1000 ,OOe cap
ital is tied up that might be en-
ployed in useful business, and more
than 100000 tons of coal consumed
that might be used to warm the
homes of the people or furnish fuel
for factories.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08

dred delegates who bolted the Pro-
hibition convention the new National
party came into real being yesterday
by the adoption of q platform. The
original hundred or more delegates
were composed of Socialists, Single
Takers, Suffragists, Social Democrats
and Progressives. The platform on
which these elements united is long
and includes most of the cardinal
principles for which the varied ele-
ments composing the new party
stood as separate units.
Extension of the federal loan law
is among the important legislation
concerning farmers which is advo-
Gated. Advance loans upon crops or
products in storage, government in
surance of farms and stock, Federal
inspection of farm products at ter
mtnals and untaXing of all farm
equipment and measures to prevent
the holding of large tracts of land
idle are included.
Limitation of immigration, short
ening of working hours, government
tai insurance, more rigorous inspec-
ton of factories and working places,
adequate Enforcement of child labor
laws, are some of the things urged
in the labor plank. Tt is also adj
interstate shipments of articles made
by children, women employed more
than eight hours a day or six days
week. convicts under private con-
tract or persons employed in unin-
spected factories or mines. Aboli-
ton of contract prices on, labor and
the honor system in prisons is advo-
Gated.
Other conditions advocated are
freedom of speech both by word or
mouth and by printed matter, the
short ballot in state and municipal
elections. right of absentee citizens
to vote by affidavit. public ownership
of public utilities and extension OF
the postal and parcel post systems.
Virtually the only argument over
the platform came nthe question
of whether negroes should be speci-
fed in the suffrage plank and wheth-
er governmental insurance of labor
ers should be compulsory. A bril-
liant speech by John Spargo, of Yer
mont, kept the word negro" in the
first mentioned plank and it was de-
cided not to urge compulsory insur-
ance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
Must Conserve More Wheat
to Meet Demand of Allies

Washington. March s. All lex-
ceptions to the Food Administration
rule requiring the purchase of an
equal amount of substitutes with
each purchase of wheat flour were
revoked yesterday because of the
necessity of conserving wheat for the
Allies. The entire country thus is
put on a parity in regard to buying
of wheat flour. Exceptions to the
rule had been allowed in certain To-
calities where substitutes are little
known and hard to obtain.
Increased demands for breadstuffs
from the Allies We're announced sew
eral days ago, when the Food Admin
istration abolished the meatless meal
and the porkless Saturday, as it was
deemed more important to save the
grain than the meat.
Shortage in arrivals from Argen-
tina caused the enlarged requests on
this country.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
HUN HORRORS in
BELGIUM BEYOND
DESCRIPTION
Brussels Professor Tells of
Plan to Blot Out
Nation

A recognized authority on Belgian
affairs. the Rev. DIR. Henri Anet.
teacher of social sciences in Brus-
sells University. told a graphic story
last night at the Protestant Episco-
pal See House of just what the Ger
mans have done to poor Belgium.
After a brief Introduction by Bishop
Darlington, this patient Belgian
scholar and missionary arose and
gave his straightforward story in a
way that made a deeper impression
upon the hearers than all they have
read.
His narratives of brutality show
that barbarism of the Germans is
not confined to the "kultur" class
and the military, but that the blood
thirsty passions are common to near
ly all soldiers. On one occasion zoo
Belgians were jammed in an apart
ment and smothered to death be-
cause they refused to promise to
work for the Germans. He gave de-
tails of individual outrages which
made the hearers quiver with indig-
nation.
DR.. Anet said that without any
doubt whatever it was, and still is,
Germany's determination to abso-
lutely blot out the Belgian nation
by starvation and murder by quicker
methods. Nevertheless, the Belgian
army is in prime shape and the ma
tion resolute in it's purpose never to
make peace. The reconstruction of
this country after the war, he show
ed, win be a colossal task, for there
is practically nothing left standing.
At the present time coffee sells for
50 a pound; tea costs $40 a pound;
rice. 81; eggs, $3.50 a dozen, and milk
is 80 cents a quart. but almost i'm
possible to get.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
'ROTARIANS MEET
FOR CONFERENCE
Harrisburg Sends Two Score
Delegates to District
Convention

Lancaster, March S.-Rotarians
of Pennsylvania, Maryland and the
district of Columbia are holding
their annual district conference
here to-day. Among those present
are party of 81 Rotarians and
their wives of Harrisburg, one of
the largest delegations from any
city.
Much of the time of the delegates
was taken up with a consideration
of war work and reports of the
various clubs as to what Rotary is
doing to help win the war. All of
the clubs have been active, few
more so than that of Harrisburg
which is among the most energetic
and enterprising of any in the east.
During the morning Captain
George r. Lumb, president of the
Harrisburg Club, distributed cards
on one side of which was printed
the weekly and monthly doings OF
that organization and on the other
this boost for Harrisburg:
OVER THE TOP
I have been twice around the
world and from the rock bound
coast of Maine to the sunny
slopes of California. but You
could not drive me out of Harris
burg with club! Why2 1t is
the capital of the greatest state
in the Union-has more parks,
paved streets. live businessmen
and good neighbors than any city
of it's size in the United States,
is busting wide open with
PATRIOTISM and radiates the
spirit of ROTARY.
GEORGE f. LUMB,
Harrisburg Rotary Club.
Come and See Us.
The ladies are being entertained
by the ladies of the Lancaster Club
and the meetings will conclude with
q Joint social gathering this evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
National Party Urges
Immediate Passage of
Suffrage Amendment
By associated Press

Chicago, March 8.-Following the
opening of the National party con-
vention to-day kilograms were sent
to President Wilson and United
States Senators urging immediate
passage of the Susan B. Anthony suf-
frage amendment. 1t was planned
to send a message to the British la
Dor party suggesting representa-
tive be sent to this country to cam
paign for the National party. Elec-
tion of officers was expected to con-
sumo much of the days session OF
the convention, the list as tentative
ly arranged including fifty or more
committeeman. directors, national
committeeman ana chairman.
Augmented by more than a hun
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
Curious About
M--L--?
IL Stands for the Best Cold
Cough and Catarrh Medicine
Ever Discovered, Which Is
-Mentho Laxene

Mentho-LaXene has been on the
market seven years. 1t is concen-
trated compound of healing, sooth-
ing, curative extracts to be mixed
at home with granulated sugar
syrup--a full pint-or it may be
taken in doses of ten drops in the
raw state by those who do not
like sweet syrup.
The very first dose brings won
derful relief in head or chest colds
of children or adults. Every bottle
sold is guaranteed to please or
money back by The Blackburn Pro
ducts Co., Dayton, Ohio.
1t is economy to make a full
pint. Much cheaper than buying
leady-made cough or cold remedies
besides, you cannot buy a more
effective medicine anywhere. One
bottle will last a season for most
families, and it checks or aborts a
bad cold if taken promptly. Every
well-stocked druggist supplies Men
tho-LaXene. Don't take a substi-
tute-for your sake.-Adv.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
Church Quits German
For "Children's Sake

York. Pa, March s. The council
of Christ Lutheran Church has de-
cided to suspend the services in the
German language. For the last 100
years German and English services
have been conducted in this church,
which is the oldest Lutheran congre-
cation west of the Susquehanna river.
Rev. DR.. G. Wenders, who has since
been registered as an enemy alien,
declared that services would be con-
Church as long as he was the min
lister in charge.
The resolution which suspends the
German services states that action
is taken for the best interests of the
church and Sunday school, and es-
peciallY the Younger generation"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
FOR SORE THROAT,
COLD on CHEST
Mustarine Subdues the Inflam-
nation and Eases the Sore
ness Quicker Than Any
thing Else on Earth

Pay only % cents and get a big box
of Begy's Mustarine which is the
original substitute for the old-fash-
ioned mustard plaster and is made
of strong, real, yellow mustard - no
substitutes are used.
It's known as the quickest pain
killer on earth, for in hundreds of in
toothache. earache and backache in
minutes.
It's a sure, speedy remedy - none
better for bronchitis. pleurisy, lum-
from your sore feet there is nothing
so good. You get real action with
Mustarine it goes after pain and
kills it right off the reel. Yes, it
burns, but it won't blister - it doesn't
give agonizing pain a slap on the
wrist. 1t does give it a good, healthy
punch in the jaw-it kills pain.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
Auto Production to Be
Reduced 30 Per Cent.

New York, March 8.-A curtail-
ment of 80 per cent. in automobile
production for the present year was
the most important action taken by
the members of the National Auto
mobile Chamber of Commerce at
their semiannual meeting yesterday.
Many of the large plants have al
ready curtailed their production of
motor vehicles to a larger extent, in
view of taking over the munitions
work for the government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
FIREMEN TO ATTEND
SERVICES IN BODY

The Shamrock Fire Company will
attend the special service at the
Bethany Presbyterian Church. Cam
eron and Cumberland streets. Sun
day evening at 7.S0. The company
o'clock in full uniform to proceed to
the church in a body. The meeting
will be addressed by Mrs. John Y.
Boyd on the subject, THE Present
War in the Light of Prophecy" Spe-
cial music has been arranged and the
firemen of other companies have been
invited.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
Wireless in Norway Reaches
America, $500 Miles Away

Christiania-A new wireless sta
tion Just erected at Stavanger has
succeeded in communicating easily
with American stations during trial
Regular transatlantic service between
Norway and the United States will be
started whenever the American Gov
ernment grants permission.
Stavsnger is an inlet of the North
Sea on the west coast of Norway, 100
miles south of Bergen. From Stavan-
ger to the nearest American soil is
about $500 miles.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
FARM PRICES HIGH

The farm sale of ]. f. Rupp, on
the Bishop Zimmerman farm, near
Sporting Hill, brought some high
prices. One horse sold for S272; one
pair of young horses brought SAG.
Cows came high as $3.50. The total
sales were S53S0,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
UNIQUE RULING
ON MANS HANDS
Compensation Board Holds
That Altoona Worker Can
Not Make Whole Claim

T h e S t q t e
G o m p e n sation
Board has de-
clined to rule that
Jerry Willis, of
Altoona, a claim =
ant against the
Altoona Coal and
Coke Co., sus-
tanned a total
loss of a hand
when he had
only part of a
hand IN lOca
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08
f. Y. PLOYER WITH THE GLORE

Mr.. Ployer, who Tor many years
was connected with d. n. Biddle &,
Son, of Mechanicsburg, is now asso-
ciated with The Globe clothing store.
Mr.. Ployer is resident of Mechan-
icsburg and is well known through
out the Cumberland Valley. His
many friends will be glad to learn
of his new connection.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-08

Case 1724-School teacher; Resdence-Ken-
lucky; severe operation; left her weak, amaze
mic, nervous; low vitality. Physician recon-
mended Bio-feren Two weeks treatment
showed remarkable improvement. Doctor re-
ported "Bio-feren had done wonders for her."
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-12
~ToMMYs DICTIONARY OF THE TRENCHES"

point.
 Observation Post. A position in. the
 front line where an artillery officer
 observes the fire of our guns. He
 keeps on observing until a German
 shell observes him. After this there
 is generally a new officer and new
 observation post. O. C. Officer commanding. N Officers Mess. Where the officers eat l. the mess the O. S. have cooked O.. s. Officers servants. The lowest
 ranking private in the army, who
 feeds better than the officer he waits ."OH Can.r Tommy's term for a Ger man etrench mortar shell, which is i. an old tin filled with explosive and junk that the Bochesshave no .furth- CT use for "one Up." Tonmy's term for lance corporal who wears one stripe. The private always wonders why he was overlooked when promotions were in
 order.
 "On the Mat" When Tommy is haled before his commanding officer to ex- plain why he has broken one of the
 1000, ,0G0 Kings regulations for the government of the army. His 'ex- planatio never gets him anywhere unless it is on the wheel of a linn Der.
 "On Your own." Another famous or
 infamous phrase which means Tom my is allowed to do as he pleases. An officer generally puts Tommy lon his own" when he gets Tommy into a dangerous position and sees no way to extricate him. Orderly Corporal. A commission ed officer who takes the names of the sick every morning and who keeps his own candle burning after he has ordered Lights out" at night. | Orderly Officer. An officer who, for a | week, goes around and asks if there are "any complaints" and gives the 1 name of the complaining soldier to the Orderly Sergeant for extra pack l drill.
 Orderly Room. The captains office, where everything is disorderly. | Orderly Sergeant. A sergeant who,
 for a week, is supposed to do the l work of the Orderly Officer.
 "Out of Bounds" The official army
 term meaning that Tommy is not al- l lowed to trespass where this sign is | displayed. He never wished to un- | til the sign made it's appearance. "Out There" A term used in Blighty 1 which means fin France" Conscien- 1 tious objectors object to going "out there.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-12
BARROW 10 MANAGE RED sOX
Former International League President Refuses to Reconsider Resignation and Assumes Leadership of Boston Team -Question of the Abandonment of international Put
 of Until April l. National Commission Explains
 Method of Collecting War Tax.

New York, Feb. 11-President H. H. Frazee of the Boston American League clu3s announced here tonight that he lad just appointed Edward G. Barrow as manager of the Red Snx.
 The news of the selection of Bar row as the Boston clubs new manager was not unexpected. Earlier in the evening Barrow announced that his resignation as president of the In- ternation2l League, which he rendered to that organization last December, had been accepted. He also stated that at a meeting of the. Class A league here today, a compromise had been offered him in regard to an in crease in salary which had been re- duced from s7,5o0 to $2,500 a. year at the December meeting Barrow said that he was negotiating for an other position. which he expected to accept some time tonight. and he had refused to reconsider his resignation.
 As soon as Barrow's resignation h;td been accepted at today's meeting of the International League, President c. T. Chapin of the Rochester, N r.. club was chosen as acting president of the organization. At the close of a protracted session President Chapin stated tl-at the International League club or'7ers all of whom were pres ont, had hopes of being able to con tinue the operations of the league for the coming season.
 Owing to the unsettled conditions of the Buffalo situation" he said, land in view of the prospect of Sunday baseball in New York state being le- galized at Albany, the club owners had decided to adjourn until March 21 On that date a meeting will be held here at which the definite poll icy of the league will be announced In the meantime the players con- tracts will be sent out as usual, be- fore March in conformity with tue rule to that effect"
 While Mir. Chapin denied that any action was taken in regard to nomin ating a man to succeed to Barrow $ position in the league, several names were mentioned informally during tie session. Among these were James R. Price, Newark, N. J.. John A. Gammens, Providence, R. l.; Arthur Irwin, manager of the Toronto club last season; David l.. Fultz and John M. Ward both residents of Brook lyn and former diamond stars.
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-12

tap code to me, but was fed up and didn't bother with it. Then he sent o. s. and l was all attention, for this was a call used between us which meant that something important was on. I was all ears, in an instant. Then CaSsell turned loose
 You blankety blank dnd, have been trying to raise you for fifteen minutes. Whats the matter, are pou asleep? Gust as if anyone could have slept in that internal racketi) Never mind framing nasty answer. Just listen
 Are you game for putting some thing over on the Boches, and Old Pepper all in one2'
 T answered that was game enough when it came to putting 1t over the Boches, but confessed that I had weakening of the spine, even at the mention of Old Peppers name.
 He came back with Its so absurd ly easy and simple that there is no chance of the old heathen rumbling it. Anyway, if we're caught, I'll take the blame"
 Under those conditions I told him to spit out his scheme. It was so dar- ing and simple that 1t took my breath away. This is what he proposed If the Boches should use that road again, to send by the tap system. the target and range. I had previously told him about our captain talking out loud as if he were sending through
 orders. We'll, if this happened, I was to send the dope to Cassell and he would transmit it to the Battery Com | mander as officially coming through i the observation post. Then the bat 1 tery would open up. Afterwards, 1 during the investigation, CasseIl | would swear he received it direct. 1 They would have to believe him, be- cause it was impossible from his post
 in the battery dugout to know that ! the road was being used by the Ger 1 mans. And also it was impossible for i him to give the target, range and de- grees. You know a battery chart is not passed around among the men like a newspaper from Eighty. From 1 him.. the investigation would go to 1 the observation post, and the observ- ing officer could truthfully swear that 1 I had not sent the message by phone, l and that no orders to fire had been 1 issued by him. The investigators would then be up in the air, we would be safe, the Boches would receive a good bashing, and we would get our l own back on Old Pepper. It was too good to. be true. gleefully fell in with the scheme, and told Cassell l was his meat.
 l Gro Be Continued Tonorrow.)
Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-12

Later on Hoyt went to Montreal, where he put in the greater part of the season.
 While ha won only seven games and lost IT, his work with the Canadian team was much better than this rec ord would indicate. He ranked 12th among International pitchers in the matter of earned runs, and old-timers in the International say he has every thing that tends to make a great pitcher.
 Hoyt is believed to be the youngest boy that ever signed a big league con tract, being only IS when he signed with New York. Stuffy McInnis. of the Athletics, was 17 when he. first signed with Mack, a kid schoolboy, while George Sisler was IT when he first signed with Akron. This con- tract later was sold by Akron to Pittsburgh and it was on this con- tract that Barney Dreyfuss based his claims on this famous player. Sisier however, never had played with Akron,