Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-15
When officer Was Taken
Prisoner He Took off En-
blem and Gaze 1t to His
CaptOr, BelieDing'He Would
Be W-Treated If He Con-
tinued to Wear 1t

Gettysburg, Pa, March 15.-Sam-
trophy from his nephew, Louis Bush
man, who enlisted with the medical
detachment of the Fourth United
States Infantry when that outfit was
here during the summer of 1917. and
who is now with the army of occu-
patton at Plaidt, Germany, which he
prizes highly. The souvenir is a sill
Yer cross, a German decoration for
distinguished bravery which is given
to officers ranking from captains to
colonies. 1t has the date 1914 en-
graved upon one side and 1913 on
the other. In a letter received about
the same time the soldier says to his
uncle, Il am sending you an iron
cross which I got from a German
soldier some time ago. He had been
decorated with the cross for bravery
in action against the British in Flan-
ders. When he was taken prisoner
by us in the Argonne he pulled the
cross off and handed it to me think
ing he would be ill-treated If he
continued to wear it or have it in his
possession. The cross is of the sec
ond class, being worn high on the
left side of the chest near the CEN
ter" This cross has not yet ar
rived.-One of Gettysburg's old land
marks is gone. The old McConaughy
building, for years one of the fore
most buildings of the day in town,
where practically all of the public
events of the community were held,
as well as being used as the opera
house, has been torn down to make
way for a modern structure which
will house the plant of the Times
Publishing Company.-Misses Helen
Cope, Anna Hake, Nellie Blocher and
Elizabeth Rummel, and Guile w. Le-
fevre, of the Gettysburg schools. at
tended the Central Pennsylvania
Shoolmasters' Association at Harris
burg. is strong that there
will be 5000 soldiers at Camp Colt
by the first of April. but as yet there
is no Verification of the report
The missionary pageant The Torch
bearers" was given by the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Church.-Scott White, of
McSherrystown, was hit on the head
by ck-pin ball and is now suffer-
ing from u slight fracture of the
skull. He was among a group of
spectators at the Gettysburg Mr.
Sherrystown match rolled in the
eastern end town when one of the
Gettysburug players had started to
send his third ball in the frame he
was playing down the alley. The pin
boy had jumped into the pit and the
bowler tried to stop the ball from
travelling down the alley and striking
the boy, but the ball slipped from
his hand and travelled through the
air, striking Mr.. White, who was dis
tant about twenty feet, squarely on
the head.-In the auditors report or
the Aims House account it is shown
that during the past year six hundred
and eight-two tramps were furnished
lodging and one thousand three hum
dred and seventy-two meals were
furnished by the steward to these
wanderers.-R. w. Taylor, of near
Brysonia, suffered a painful INJURY
when he had the first two hngers OF
his left hand cut off while operating
a wood saw at the farm of >. j.
Taylor. Both fingers were severed
at the second joint. 1t was while
operating the same saw about year
ago that the injured mans son,
George p. Taylor, had the first two
fingers of his right hand cut on.
At that time his father refused 10
let him run the saw again and com
menced operating it himself.-A DEBT
of thirteen hundred dollars remains
on the ornamental center of the pub
lie square and the borough council
has been asked to assume the DEBT
The work in the square was done
by private citizens and not as
municipal undertaking.