Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-09

vice, william Jennings; Jewish Wei
fare Board, a worker at Camp Up
| ton, New York, whose name has not
| been secured.
The Middletown soldiers quartet
is composed of Sergeants Parfitt and
Mullaney and Corporals Roberts and
Corbin.
Only inclement weather will pre-
vent a huge turnout when the meet
! ing begins at $50 o'clock. Every
! Harrisburger who has a friend or
relative at the front or in an Army
camp, it is thought, will be on hand
to see how the soldiers are being
cared for by these war belief or
ganizations.
A band. the Liberty Singers, and
| the Middletown soldiers quartet
will furnish music. Patriotic airs,
mingled with popular soldier airs,
will arouse the enthusiasm of the
crowd.
The industrial drive is on its
! last lap to-day. Already some of
the team captains have turned in
their reports, although the canvass
of industries will continue unabated
until Monday noon. Chairman Star
key, of the industrial committee, still
lis of the opinion that employees should
contribute more literally than has
! been the response in some quarters.
In view of the high wages, he feels,
! workingmen are in a better posi-
ton than ever to match the contri-
! buttons of their employees.
The reports of the team captains
! of the industrial committee will be
received at a meeting in the Har-
risburg Club Monday at noon, when
the Industrial canvass officially ends.
| When the industrial totals have been
computed, they will be assigned to
the wards in which the various plants
are located. and then the quotas for
the homes committee will be worked
! out for announcement at the meet
ing of the homes canvassers in the
| Chestnut street auditorium MondGy
evening.
At ward meetings held during the
week, the workers were instructed
to meet in North Second street
! above Market for a parade to the
| Chestnut street auditorium. They
! will be led by a band, and the meet
ing, which leads off the homes can
vass, is expected to be featured by
the enthusiasm of the workers. The
homes canvass, continuing Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, will be
concluded with another rousing mass
meeting in the auditorium Thurs
! day evening.
| j. Il. Hoffman, a Y. M. c. A.
! overseas worker who has recently
returned from his strenuous duties
! among the soldiers along the west
ern front, will address Monday even
ing's meeting 1t is expected the
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homes campaign.
| The following ward meetings were
held last night:
First ward, C. H. Hunter, leader
62 workers reported 30 present;
Second, A. Carson Stamm, 20 work
ers reported, so present; Fourth, Jo-
seph Claster, 46 reported, As pres
ent; Eighth ward. j. e. Gipple, 65
workers reported; Eleventh, j. p.
| Mccullough, 100 workers. rs pres
ent; Fourteenth, II. r. Omwake, 1S
workers, all present.
Ward meetings tonight, with
speakers and instructors, will be as
follows:
Third ward, j. w. Rodenhaver,
leader, court room No. l, j. Will
| liam Bowman, instructor; Flavel l..
Wright, speaker.
Fifth ward, FRANK 4. sites, leauer,
| United States court room, third
| floor, Post Office, Paul Johnston, in
/ structor, Jesse e. B. Cunningham,
speaker.
Three big war work meetings have
been arranged for tomorrow and
Monday. Chairman E. K. Romber-
ger and his committee, of Elizabeth
Vile, announce that there will be q
rally at Elizabethville tomorrow af-
ternoon at o'clock in the United
Brethren Church, to be addressed
by DIR. j. George Becht. secretary
of the State Board of Education, and
noted orator, and another at Pill