Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-16
MIDDLETOWN
500 Cases of Influenza
Reported in the Borough

mi flight. Giight hundred cases of Spanish Spanish
nurses. first aids, first aid graduates.
ana any one wishing to assist. as
families are down with the dis
ease. The call for assistance has
been made through the Board of
Tor service at the drugstore of e. 5.
FeW% South Union street. If the
| epidemic continues to spread 1T may
pc necessary to open an emergency
Two large automobiles collided at
she corner of Catherine and Main
streets st estsas Yesterday afternoon, both l
Neither of the occupants were Injured
| Frank Shenfelt. mail carrier No.
l, Is or duty on account of illness,
ahd is being substituted by Lloyd
The captains and lieutenants of the
Fourth Liberty Loan committee met
King. Emaus street, Monday even
ing. and from reports turned in the
quota mark has reached 24l,S00.
Sna Msrd following town are the reports; Cone
the. Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Of town. $4,000; Royalton employees of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
$4,000 B. w, Kurtz. $1,000; Mrs.
s2,45o; H. T. Kaufman, $3.50; Lon,
S@n car eUmpaahp2 $780, GSS Jdhn nads e.
Kramer. $12,160; William Moore, $500;
4: Fl. Luckenbill,, $4,000; A. q.
Banks. tSa $1S.SOG; subscriptions through
$4,000 Ordnance Depot. $1,000: A. $.
Jedno.s LED n Home, s22 800; n: II. GINS IS
Annie 'sS ESy ssscO 50 c. Wincroft II fqof sSSU stove
Works, $3.50 hosiery mill $4,000;
Shale brick plant, $3.50; G. w. Core.
sdOG; Mrs. J. o. Coyan. $3.50; sub
$4,000; Citizens Bank, $4,000; Harris
burg Ordnance. S3,500 Mrs. ID. w.
tHhuntzieoerger, thd aiog, $l1,559. A meeting of
the markethouse in Emaus Street
yesterday afternoon to lay plans to
raise the balance. and the mark Of
S2t2,25O was reached at the meeting
Yesterday afternoon, leaving a ball
The Rev. II. f. Hoover. who was
pastor of the Church of God at
Ling lestown and Progress. has Sc
Stauifer. who has charge of the
electrical department at the local
car plant. The Rev. Hoover's throat
gave way while in charge at Eliza
bethtown. He was a former pastor
OF the local Church of God. He will
move his household goods to town.
The funeral of Felix Schraedley
VIII died at the home of his parents,
Mr. Rld Mrs. John Schraedley. South
catherine street. Monday night. will
| Thursday afternon with services at
2 O'Clock. the Rev. Fuller Berg
strehsser. pastor Of the st. Peters
| member. will officiate. Burial will
terry.
The Spanish influenza at the Avi-
/ OF h.
on the decrease. there was 16S cases
| and forty of them were discharged
from the hospital at the camp on
John schaefrer returned to his home
at Roebling. n: j., after spending
the, past week in town.
Mr.; and Mrs. John Statler received
Ralph Statler. serving in the 5f2th
Machine Gun Battalion in France
that he was slightly wounded.
LIEUTENANT Colonel D. NJ. Cheston
Jr, OF Americus, Ga. will be the new
commander of the Aviation DEPOT
vest of, the borough. instead of
G9aone1 Was tel secsad 81 " H coioi 9iTaGihen5uek who
ders. from Washington, d. c., were
Colonel G. V. II: ouachenbuck pse had
Deen transferred from Kelly Field
Meade, Md. the ar SERVICE to Camp
The Deimler shoe store, in Emaus
street is closed owing to all of the
ttamlly being ill with Spanish i'm
Mr.. and Mrs, George seltzer. who
| spent the past week in town, re-
turned to their home at Downing
=, George Irely. of Market street. and
nye OF the family are i'll with Span
| isl influenza.
DR.. c. f. Bowers, one of Middle
| towns physicians, is quite i'll at his
| nome IN Swatara street.
-, Miss Minnie Melhorn, who spent
| tne past week in town, returned TO
her home at Shippensburg. this morn
Mrs. Maggie Palmer who was visit
| ing IN town was called to Harris
! turS Yesterday on account of the
serious illness of her daughter, Mrs,
Miley Schaffer. -A 9
Claude Ettele, who spent the past
! several months in Japan, is visiting
MS parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Phiiip
EtteIe, Ann street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bentley Butler have
| returned home from a several davs'
Vlsit TO relatives at Hummelstown.
=, MRS Ellen Beaverson and daughter
| Miss Ida. Beaverson, who spent the
| past week in town returned to their
! nome at New Cumberland
Mrs. Alexander Nauss has return
c1 nome from a two weeks visit to
| New York state. "