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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-12
WIDOW GETS $4,000 ESTATE
Former County Commissioner
Moore's Will in Probate

Former County Commissioner Robert
]. Moore, $40 South Tenth street, by
his will. pro5ated today, left a $4,000
estate to his widow, Margaret G. Moore
The will of Lillian f. Koenig, 1890
North Cleveland avenue, in disposing Of
an estate worth $4,000, expressed de-
sire to endow bed in hospital as a
memorial to her parents, and for that
shares in a building and loan associa
tion. Liberty Bond and bank bal
ance. The remainder Of the estate is
left to relatives Of The decedent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-12
HEADS MANUAL COURSE
William N. Miller to Train Student.
at Southern High

William N. Miller has been appointed
head of the manual training department
of the South Philadelphia High School
for Boys. Succeeding the late William
Odenott.
Professor Miller Jas been teaching in
manual training departments of different
schools for fifteen years. He was grad
uated from the Northeast High School
and studied electrical engineering at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-12
Home Defenders Help Registrars

Two companies Of the Home Defense
Reserves materially assisted the draft
officials of Local Board No. rs in en-
rolling the eligibles in the Twenty-eighth
Ward Companies and /, respectively,
commanded by Captain r. Bright and II.
Graeff. detailed their men to serve as
registrars clerks and messengers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-12
CITY Has $l7,245.3l7 in Cash

The amount paid into the City
Treasury during the last week totaled
$198,S9232. and the paym ments amounted
to S964,336.26. The balance on hand,
not including the Sinking Fund Account,
is $17,245,317.01.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-12

George Thomas. fifty-six years old,
331 Lyceum avenue. died today at ST.
Timothy's Hospital of injuries sustained
Works.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-12
TAKEN AT DRAFT BOARD
Murder Suspect Tried to Register
Three Times

While attempting to register for the
third time for the draft before board
No. so. Alexander Johnson, a negro,
twenty-four years old. Of Woodpeck. w.
~Va:, was arrested as a deserter and as
n man wanted in a murder case
The police assert that he was wanted
in Woodpeck for shooting and killing
n man. johnson gave an address on
Ridge avenue near Twenty-f1rst street.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
So Run Down She
Took Cold Often
Mrs. Fields Praises Tanlac; Thinks
1t Fine Tonic For Run
Down System
DID HER MUCH GOOD

IT certainly owe a debt of graft
tude to Tanlac." says Mrs. Susan
Fields, of 4S Furnace street, Steel
ton, Pa. for it has helped me Won
derfully and brought me back to
health and happiness so quickly that
1t is hardly believable.
Il guess my son must have had
his eye on me, for one day not so
long ago he brought me home a
bottle of Tanlac and persuaded me
to start taking it. I did it just to
please him, but, my goodness, it
helped me so much that I just kept
right on with it and now 1 can
truthfully say that it has freed me
from all my afflictions.
My headaches are all gone, I
feel bright and happy, and 1 have a
splendid appetite. My whole system
has been built up by this splendid
tonic. 1 certainly think that every
one who is run down should take it."
Tanlac is now being introduced
here at Gorgas' Drug Store.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

state preserves and in the. forests of
the state has been reported and 1t is
now the plan to have the animals
placed in some of the new preserves
and in counties which have not had
deer and have arranged for closed
seasons for such hunting.
The deer will likely be purchased
in other states and will be liberated
when the season is good. These ex-
periments have been tried with sue
cess in many parts of the state. One
some deer will probably be that
near Lykens, which was surrounded
by wire and placards this year. Quail
will also be put on this and other
central tracts.
To Entrain S92-Entrainment of
S92 colored men to begin general
military training at Camp Lee starts
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

Virginia Stauffer, Miss Helen Jen-
nings, Miss Romaine Jennings, Mil
ton Fesler. Blair Fesler and s. P.
Fesler.
SUNDAY SCHOOL GLASS MEETS
Enola. Aug. 22.-The Ruth and
Naomi Sunday school class of the
Methodist Church, taught by Mrs. w.
L. Troup, held it's monthly meeting
at the home of Mrs. Charles II. Mil
Ter in Wyoming avenue. The house
was patrioticafly decorated with ma
tional and allied colors. Those pres
ent included: Mrs. NJ. Heckert.
Mrs. Claire Shaffer, Mrs. Roath, Mrs.
w. c.. Smith, Mrs. William Murphy
Mrs. George Keller, Mrs. Boyer, Mrs
Charles Miller, Mrs. w. L. Troup
Arty Miller, Arlene Heckert, Kath-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
Personal and Social Items
of Towns on West Shore

Miss Flora Williamson has return
ed to her home at Lambertville, N. j.,
after spending some time with her
sister, Mrs. L. K. Bitner, at Shire
manstown.
Mr.. and Mrs. George f. Jacobs of
ShiremaRstown. attended the funeral
of Mr.. Orris at New Kingston, on Sum
day.
olen Singer, of Pittsburgh; Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Straley, son Deanr Misses
Kate Malone and Mary Malone, of
New Cumberland; and Charles Her
flehnger. of Hampton. Va. were en-
tertained recently by the Misses
Louise Noell and Kate Noell and Mrs.
Mary Dean, at their home at Shire
manstown.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claire Miller, of Pitts
burgh. spent several days with Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Drawbaugh, at
Shiremanstown.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. K. Eshleman, son
Kenneth. Mrs. S. X. Morgret, daugh-
ters, Mary. Margaret and Pearl and
son. Carol, Mr.. and Mrs. John Neb-
niger, daughters, Hulda and Rena,
Mr.. and Mrs. L. r. Zerbe, son Qeith,
of Shiremanstown, spent Wednesday
at Paxtang Park.
Miss Dorothy Miller. of Shiremans-
SS"'i AtiOhu9 III SdTllSle on
Sunday.
Miss Mildred Wiley has returned
to Washington, D. c.. after visiting
Mrs. Sara Beamer at Shiremanstown.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Frey, daugh-
ters, Elizabeth Frey and June Frey,
and Mrs. Frances Lambert, of Shire
manstown, motored to Good Hope on
Sunday where they visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob Walters.
Mrs. Marie Sarch Wharton has re-
turned to her home in Harrisburg,
after being the guest of Mrs. Orrell
D. Klink at Shiremanstown.
Mrs. Daniel Straining. of Shire
manstown, was a recent guest of
her aunt. Mrs. Naomi Drawbaugh at
Lemoyne.
town is spending her vacation with
friends at Coatesville, Philadelphia
and Lambertvilh, N. J.
Mrs. Mae Free, of Philadelphia, is
visiting GIG. Guistwhite's family in
Second street, New Cumb berland
DR.. ]. II. Young. of New. Cumber-
land, has returned from Dillsburg
camp, where he spent several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Meyer. of Phila-
delphia, spent Tuesday with Mrs.
Jere 'Spahr at New Cumberland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Fencil and
Russ Beckley's family, of New Cum
berland, have returned from a trip
to Atlantic City.
Mrs. Wiererbach and two children,
of Allentown, are visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Williams at New Cum
berland.
Mrs. Bearerson and daughter, OF
Middletown, are guests of Mrs. Clar-'
ence Sweeney at New Cumberland.
Leonard Rosenberger. of New Cum
berland, has returned from Mifiin,
where he spent the summer, he was
accompanied by his cousin Lena
Robertson.
Mrs. w Gohn and son, of Johns
town. are visiting w. w. Zimmer-
mans family at New Cumberland.
Mr., and Mrs. George Ruhl, of Balti-
more. ars guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Leafs family at New Cum
berland.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. R. Rosenberger and
daughter, of Washington, D. c., are
visiting relatives at New Cumb erland.
The Rev. and Mrs. ]. B. Adams
and daughters, who have been guests
of Mr.. and Mrs, L. H. Kohr on Third
ktreet New Cumberland, have re-
turned to Williamsport.
Prof and Mrs. e. G. Rose of New
Cumberland, are spending their vaca-
tion at Meadville.
Ralph Peterman, of New Cumber-
land, went to Eagelsmere.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

Enola, Pa. Aug. 22.-The regular
meeting of the Ladies' Aid Society
of the Methodist Church will be held
this evening after the weekly prayer
service. Plans will be made for
raising $3.50, the amount pledged by
the society toward the parsonage
debt. A committee of ten members
will have charge of collecting the
money.
On account of war conditions the
annual picnic this year has been
called off.
ENOLA SCHOOLS TO OPEN
EnoIa, Pa, Aug. 22.-The schools
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
HOME ON FURLoUGH

Lemoyne, Pa, Aug. 22.-Sergeant
Major ]. A. Reany, of Camp wads-
worth, spartanburg. s. c.. spent a
seven-day furlough at the home of
Miss Margaret Hoover. Hummel
avenue, Lemoyne.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

to securing one for the town. The
committee will hold another meet
ing next Monday evening to make
further arrangements at Kaufman's
store.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
TO BUY DEER.
FOR PRESERVES
State Game Commission to
Increase Number of Ami
mails During Winter
Arrangements

Arrangements
ara being made
by the State
Game Commits
sion for the pur-
chase of a. num-
ber of deer to be
distributed among
the states score
or more of game
preserves I n | s
fall. An increase
IN fhA lnnr 4n fha
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

of Enola and East Pennsboro town.
ship will open for the coming term
on Monday, September 2. The en-
rollment this year will probably go
over the one thousand mark, the
highest in the history of the school
district. Miss Helen Markell, will
again be supervising principal of the
schools. One new feature for the
Summit street building will be the
departmental system of teaching.
The teachers have been assigned for
the various branches.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
CANNING DEMONSTRATIONS

Marysville, Pa, Aug. 22.-The
demonstration Of this afternoon in
the-series arranged by Perry County
Food Administrator William Dor
wart, was given at New Buffalo by
Miss Mary Whiting, of the Pennsyi-
vania State College Farm Bureau
Extension. This evenings demon
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
SPEND DAY AT PARK

MarysviIle, Pa, Aug. ga few
more than score of Marysville
persons motored to Boiling Springs
Park yesterday to spend the day.
Included among those in the party
were: Mr.. and Mrs. ]. C. earns, Mr..
and Mrs. William A. Fortenbaugh.
Mrs. L. G. Clouser, Mrs. F. w. Geib,
Mrs. Porter Fesler, Mrs. Jennie
Stauffer, Mrs. Jennings, Miss
Gretchen Geib, Miss Margaret
Clouser, Miss Velva Kennedy, Miss
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
WANT TO RAISE $3.50

ryn Miller. Florence Troup and Mar
garet Smith.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22

stration. scheduled to start at q
o'clock, will be given at Duncannon.
To-morrow's schedule includes
Liverpool at 2 o'clock in the after
noon and Millerstown at z o'clock
in the evening.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-22
HONOR ROLL BULLETIN

New Cumberland, Aug. 22.-F. S.
Frazier, representative of the In
ternational Honor Roll Bulletin, was
here Tuesday evening to confer with
a committee of citizens in reference
Arizona republican., 1918-08-04
NO SOLDIER ALIMONY

(New York Sum The supreme court of New York state has no power to enforce an
Arizona republican., 1918-08-04
The Second German Retreat

The fifth year of the war is not opening auspi- cously for the Germans Checked near the end of the fourth, they yielding rapidly before counter offensive still in progress which threatens to deprive them of all their spectacular gains two months ago. The retirement of the Germans in the Aisne- Marne salient is in violent contrast to the German movement August g. 1914. That the day that General Emmich crossed the Belgian frontier and two weeks later Lege had fallen and Namur to fall after followed by a crumpling of the French and British During the time, the two three weeks, the Germans held up in Belgium the French farther south, comparatively free from attack planning and actually began a counter offensive, but with the fall of Namur and the defeat of the British at Mons resistance gave way and almost unopposed the Germans came within twenty-siX miles of Paris the northeast and occupied all the territory where the fighting is in crossed the Marne and occupied line parallel with it and about twenty five miles south of it. South Chateau Thierry this line turned northwest and lay across the Marne north of Meaux.
 That the position month after the war, for things had moved with marvellous rapdity. The gov ernment had abandoned Paris and expected its cap ture when Klucks army, the First, suddenly moved to the southeast. Things were continue to move with rapidty. The British and the French preparing counter offensive The first battle of the Marne began in the evening of September and ended in the retreat of the Germans which was concluded on September Il. The accounts of the retreat would well describe the present retreat of the Germans over the territory to the Aisne. There is the familiar crossing of the Ourcq and the mention of other names which the dispatches since May 27 of this year have made familiar to the whole world.
 1t may now be believed thaN that territory, now four times traversed by the armies will be free from further devastation. After the first battle the Marne the Germans yet maintained that superiority of artillery which had facilitated their That advantage is no longer with them and they will never again be able to secure it. They have been to the MaIne for the last time.
Arizona republican., 1918-08-04
PASSING OF THE MELoDloUs MULE

By operating mule scientists have succeede making him voiceless.-News Item. A few can touch the magic string
 And noisy Fame is proud to win them, Alas for those who never sing,
 But die with all their music in them
 Oliver Wendell Holmes How often, the dusk drew near
 And vagrant breezes stirred the pool We've paused beside the path to hear
 The evening carol of the mule. A simple and unstuded strain As from a heart that overfowed It rose and fell and rose again
 And died in echoes down the road But science, with it's ruthless knife These vibrant cords has learned to sever; That song that spoke the joy of life
 In zigzag bars is stilled forever. A kindly and impulsve brute
 In silence must pursue his ways The song upon his lips is mute
 And all his days are brayless days. Now, science may be right, of course
 Perhaps the mule is no musician And merely prayed till he was hoarse
 To gratify false ambition Perhaps the Muses passed him by
 Carusos genius may have missed him; And yet it's sad that he must die
 With all that music in his system James J. Montague, in New York American
Arizona republican., 1918-08-04
SAYS ARMY CARE IS
 NOT FOR HEALTH
(New York World)

Uniforms as worn by our soldiers today come in for severe criticism from Dr. Walter B. James of New York in an article in the Medical Record. Those of our sailors are far more hygienic, he insists, while those of the Scots are better still, and the scant dress that is the feminine fash ion of the day is best of all
 Doctor James points out that the Source of the bodys energy is the blood, that the distribution of the blood is regulated by the vaso-motor nervous system, and that only when this system is regularly drilled b. changes of temperature can it be re- lied on to prevent the local conges- tions that are first stages of inflam- nation.
 Therefore. he contends, we are fool ish to shield ourselves from all at mospheric changes by overheating our houses and bundling our bodies in heavy wraps and furs. For when some sudden alteration against which we cannot protect ourselves arises having become sluggish and ineffi- cient, is caught mapping and we get sick with colds bronchitis, pneu- monia and such diseases.
 Women are superior to the wea- ther. while men are its slaves Doc tor James says. Tt is only necessary | to note the size and character of the | woman's scanty handkerchief, as com pared with the mans and the woman''s scanty need of it, except as | a trinket, as compared with her hus- bands slavish dependence upon it, to convince one that as far as the upper respiratory tract goes the so- called irrational dress of women has few if any apologies to make.
 "The present fashion of abbreviated skirts has been attended with no in- crease in throat maladies among it's devotees, and there is good reason to believe that as the daytime dress of the sex approaches more and more closely to that of the Scotch High landers so will they in their bodily vigor and resistance to the weather approach more and more closely tC that most hearty and vigorous of all people.
 Army and Navy Contrast
 But nowhere is the irrational ir dress more striking than in military life. The chief points in the army uniform are the close fitting wooler and often padded coats which mus
Arizona republican., 1918-08-04
Capital Punishment

The cowardy shooting yesterday of Billy Woolf again emphasizes the need of restoring capital pun lshment in this state. The abolition of capital pun ishment in Arizona a hopeless experiment a con- oession to some otherwise sensible well meaning peo pie to whom the taking of human life was repuenant and who believed it could be avoided It was though temporary victory for a mawkish element to whom the abolition of capital punishment was a reform fad
 Theoretically, and by of a manipulation of statistics it has been made to appear that in some states where capital punishment has been abolished there has been lessening of homicide We doubt very much whether that has been the result of the abolition of capital punishment anywhere It is prob ably true that in some states where capital punish ment has been abolished murder has been more promptly punished than formerly for feeble minded Jrres sometimes refuse to find verdict involving the death penalty. In such it cannot properly be said that there is capital punishment even though il be in the statutes
 capital punishment, to be effective must be im- posed, and where it is imposed as it is in England and not as it is in New York and Chicago it is deterrent The number of homcides in all England is less than that of the two greatest American cities Capital punishment in England means death
 But granting that there is a condition somewhere Of society which warrants the abolition of capital punishment. it is cetranly not in Arizona We have an element in population whom any lesser punishment is not deterrent We have also rem uant of the lawlessness of another age
 In the old days human life in Arizona was not held in high estimation. Even outlaws were seldom hanged for murder unless the murder was of such a character as to arouse the populace and then some
Arizona republican., 1918-08-04

order for alimony against soldier in the United States army, declared Jus
 tice Aspinall in the supreme court in Brooklyn in the case of Mrs. Flor ence .Merriman against Rapley P. Merriman, a private. It is the first decision of it's kind here. Justice Aspinall gave the opinion in acting upon the request of Mrs. Merriman's s attorney. who demanded Merriman be forced to pay $40 on the first busi- ness day of each month. Tt is ob- vious that the defendant could not comply with a direction that he pay $40 on the first business day of each month" said the justice. when $40 is more than the rate of pay of his grade, and the time of payment of a soldier is necessarily very irregular"
Arizona republican., 1918-08-04
BOGUS COIN WORTH
 MORE THAN FACE
Scientific American)

shipper of platinum from Vene- zuela recently sent to this country several counterfeit coins which were unusual in that, although counterfeit, they were worth about five times their face or bullion value. They were included in a shipment of crude grain platinum and the consignee, believing they were gold, as they seemed, care fully removed them from the lot of platinum and sold them to gold re- finer as gold bullion
 Later advices from South America informed him that the, coins were platinum, plated with gold, and re- quested that he have them assayed to determine their real value. The agent hastened to the refiner who ad- mitted that he had had hard time melting the metal and had himself discovered it was platinum. Some 1 settlement was made satisfactory to both the refiner and the agent. but | the coins were destroyed and no analysis was ever made to determine the exact value of the metal.
 | In another shipment of grain plati- mum. received at a later date, the same shipper included a single coun- | terfeit piece. The agent took this to a laboratory for analysis, but intrin- sically the single piece was hardly worth the cost of the analysis from 1 the purely commercial viewpoint; b,- sides the coin being an excellent piece 1 of work in a fine state of preserva- ton, it seemed a pity to destroy it. | The gold plating is somewhat worn, disclosing the white metal beneath in spots. It is a counterfeit of an old Spanish piece bearing the date 17S9 and the head of Charles ". It weighs 6.4S5 grams and has a spe- cific gravity of 1S.9 This of course shows that if it is not gold. it must be platinum or an alloy consisting principally of platinum. The color of the metal after removing the gold plating, and it's hardness, are suffi- cient additional proof of it's char acter.
 It seems that these old Spanish pieces pass current in Venezuela. at least for their bullion gold value. Some unprincipled person in the long ago must have discovered that tn, native platinum. found to some ex- tent in Venezuela and more plenti- fully in the neighboring republic of Columbia, would if melted make fair substitute for gold in coins, provided the color were properly disguised by a thin gold plating.
 Whether these commercials wer, made at or near the date they beaI or at some much later period is un- known They are probably a com
 paratively recent product-but they
 must have been made some time be-
 fore our South American friends were
 able to market platinum at a price
 above that of gold, and that is long
 ago. Whenever they were made, wt
 now have the curious condition of {
 counterfeit gold coin intrincisally
 worth several times it's face value.