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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
Retail Clothiers to
Meet in This City in 1920

The State Retail Clothiers' Asso-
ciaticn of Pennsylvania at its an
nual convention in Erie, to-day ac-
cepted the invitation of the Har-
risburg Chamber of Commerce, to
hold its convention in Harrisburg
next year. More than 700 clothiers
attend the annual sessions of the
associa ton.
An invitation to the association,
through its secretary, T. S. Morgan,
of Williamsport. was extended sew
eral days ago, prior to the conven-
ing of the convention, and this in
vitation was followed up yesterday
by a verbal representation made by
the Chamber through William
Strouse. of this city, former presi-
dent of the association, and member
of the Merchants Council of the
Chamber. Word was received from
Mr.. Strouse this morning that the
invitation of the local organization
was accepted. This is the fifth con-
vention which has been booked for
Harrisburg as a result of the activi-
ties of the convention committee of
the Chamber.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
READY TO TURN
ITALIAN PARK
OVER TO CITY
Executors of McKee-Graham
Estate Confer With Plan
ming Commission

Executors of the Mckee Graham
estate this afternoon discussed with
the City Planning Commission and
Mayor Keister, Commissioner E. z.
Gross and City Engineer NJ. B. Cow
den the offer to give the city with
out cost the Italian Park tract just
west of the site which has been
sold to the city school district.
1t is understood the estate will
transfer title to the park district
provided it is improved by the city
within a reasonable time. While
the executors said they would not
insist upon providing a lake or pool
in the new park, they said they pre-
ferred that plan of development and
wanted the city to determine def
nitely whether this could be done
before the officials gave up the plan.
The representatives of the estate
were T. Mckee Graham, Malcolm
McGriffin and H. E. Leety, who
came to this city from Pittsburgh.
During the morning they conferred
with the Planning Commission
members and were given detailed
information of the situation here
by Ed S. Herman, president of the
commission.
Following the session this morn
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
Central Labor Union to
Keep Free Of Politics

The Central Labor Union. of Har-
risburg. will henceforth take abso-
lutely no part in politics Action to
this effect was taken at a special
meeting of the organization last
evening. In previous years the or
ganization was accustomed to en-
dorse various andidates.
Further plans for the annual Labor
Day events of labor organizations
of the city, were made at a meeting
of the general committee in charge
of arrangements. at a meeting last
evening. Events this year will be
much the same as heretofore. H l..
Mclaughlin is chairman of the COM
mittee and ]. r. Hurst is secretary.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
Yes, Pigs Is Pigs, and
Ice Cream Is Ice Cream,
but When Is Dough Dough !

Pigs is pigs!
So is ice cream ice cream!
But, pray tell, when is ice cream

Pigs is pigs!
So is ice cream ice cream!
But, pray tell, when is ice cream
a luxury?
Dealers would like to know.
Clerks of the Internal Revenue De-
partment in this and other cities
wish the aforesaid dealers did know.
They have literally been besieged
with queries on the subject of late
days.
Despite the fact that the 2O-day
period of grace given to file returns
on the new luxury tax is past deal
ers still straggle into internal rev.
enue offices. They confess a pain
full ignorance of what is and is not
taxable under the provisions of the
new luxury tax visited upon you and
me and Mr.. Commonpeople on May
!.
A baked piece of dough. in COM
mon parlance, cone, placed about
portion of ice cream is a luxury,
saith official Washington. Ice cream,
on top of or adjacent to, the baked
dough of a pie is not a luxury, the
same aforesaid official Washington
DEGREES. Dealers would be pleased
to have this same official Washing
ton differentiate.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
CLOTHING AND
SHOES CERTAIN
TO BE HIGHER
Suits Are to Cost Fifteen to
Twenty Dollars More Next
Winter, Say Tailors
ARE FIG LEAVES COMING? ?
Twenty Per Cent. Added to
Price of Shoes, Is the
Prospect
ARE FIG LEAVES COMING? ?

Harrisburg will revert to the fig
leaf-barefoot mode of living if prices
in clothes and footwear as predicted
for the winter do not alter.
Take the question of clothes, for
example. Local tailors are unani-
nous in saying that there will be an
increase of at least fifteen or twenty
dollars a suit this winter. Overcoats
will suffer the same treatment. The
ready-made clothing dealers are al
ready getting into action for the
colder months.
A. L. Sims, merchant tailor, says
there is an absolute lack of wool
and gives this as one reason for the
high cost of suits. The tremendous
demand on wool for soldiers uni
forms for so many countries has re-
suited in the shortage says Mr.. Sims,
and we are now getting none from
England at all. Cotton also is being
put up to prohibitive mark.
Shoe Problem Serious
Joseph d. Ross, another we'll
known of Harrisburg, likewise pre-
dlcts a great rise in price for the
winter. Mr.. Ross says that it abso-
lutely impossible to sell suits for
the prices that existed as late as last
winter, and predicts a fairly steep
rsSe.
The shoe question is also going
20 be serious one. From Franks and
Ciarlns comes the story that shoes
are going to approach twenty dollars
pair. and the same condition will
prevail throughout the smaller maxi
ers. The Harrisburg Shoe COMPANY
is going to raise their prices, as will
all other shoe companies in this
vicinity.
L. V. Fritz, secretary and treas
urer OF the Harrisburg company said
TINS morning that he expected a re-
tall rise in price of about twenty per
cent. AT present the price of green
hldes is 81 cents a pound, and this
Is petore they have gone through any
feining processes. Mr.. Fritz saws
THIS is an unprecedented price. He
makes the prediction that there will
be 40 per cent. rise in wholesale
prices, and retailers will naturally
pc iorced to put their prices up also.
Shoes which formerly sold at six and
elght dollars will so up to twelve
ana ntteen; they stand now at eight
ana twelve. Mr.. Fritz sees no relief
from this condition for some months
ana says 1t was unforeseen.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
Gross to Run Again For
Park Commission Place

E. z. Gross will not be a candi-
date for mayor, but will run for
park commissioner, the office he
now holds, on the Republican ticket
Gross is expected to formally an
nounce his withdrawal frcm the
mayorality race to-day or tomorrow
and to take out papers as a candi-
date for city council.
When this news got about to-day
friends of V Grant Forrer, assist
ant park commissioner, said that
with Gross in the field for park COM
missioner, Forrer would not allow
his name to be used. Forrers
friends had been urging him to run,
but he had not taken out papers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
j. s. MUST LOWER
PRICE OF FOOD
TO SELL IT HERE
Committee Awaits Final De.
ciSion on Stores Held at
New Cumberland

Unless Lieutenant ]. r. Boyle will
offer a new price list for Government
food. that will show greatly reduced
prices, the local food committee will
positively refuse to consider a pur-
chas. 1t is not probable there will
be a meeting of the committee be-
fore Monday. Lieutenant Boyle had
not returned up to noon TODAY
when Captain H. NJ. Stine, chairman
of the subcommittee left the city to
be gone several days.
In the meantime there is much
gossip throughout the city because
of the little headway the committee
IS making. Some people are under
the impression that they will not get
a chance to buy Government food at
a reduced cost. Regarding this
opinion Captain Slime said to-day:
Not In Favor of Prices
Il am not in favor of relieving the
government of food, now in ware
houses, at the prices quoted. No
other city has made a definite pur-
chase as yet except Altoona, and it
Is understood that the carload to be
sent to that city is not positively
goods at so per cent. of the Govern
ment price, it will mean prices even
higher than present retail prizes.
Bargains are what the people look
for and what they should have"
Other committeeman are of the
same opinion and argue that be-
cause the Government paid such out
landish prices when they bought the
goods. is no reason why the people
should come to the rescue and nav
even more than is asked at retail.
That this opinion prevails in other
cities is shown in the announcement
that as yet no sales have been made
by the Government to municipalities.
1t is the belief here that the local
committee will formulate a bid and
ask the Government to sell thir goods
to Harrisburg at the price offered
The latter will be based on the pres
ent cost of canned goods and meats.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
SPROUL ORDERS
MORE FREQUENT
BANK PROBES
Reorganization of Banking
Department Means Addi-
tional Safety

Reorganization of the State Bank
ing Department so that examina-
tions of financial institutions can be
made two or three times or oftener
a year, which has been one OF the
primary policies of the Sproul ad-
ministration since it took Office, has
been in progress in a quiet way ever
since the approval of the new bank
ing code and a> >Alpidly as competent
and experienced men can be secured
they will be put on duty as bank
examiners. Governor William c.
Sproul, who has been in constant
touch with Commissioner of Bank
ing John S. Fisher since the affairs
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
PRICE OF BREAD
Is REDUCED BY
LOCAL BAKERS
Size of Loaf to Remain the
Same at Cheaper
Cost
CENT OFF TO CONSUMER
Housewives Took to Baking
When Prices Went Up
Week Ago

The price of bread in Harrisburg
has been reduced.
Instead of going up a half-cent a
loaf to the retailer, it will be reduced
a half-cent a loaf.
The new scale of prices to re-
tailers goes into effect tomorrow,
according to announcement of the
bakers to-day.
When it was decided to advance
certain grades of bread a half-cent
loaf the announcement was made
that it was to discourage the use of
the small loaf, due to the fact that it
required more workmen to make
the smaller loaf and that the price
of labor has gone up.
Economics Proposed
The bakers also announced that
they were making the advance in
conformity with the bill which the
Governor was expected to sign,
making the pound loaf a standard
in Pennsylvania. The Governor We
toed this bill and this is one of the
reasons, the spokesmen for the
Harrisburg bakers said to-day, they
were able to offer the smaller loaf
TConfinnaI nv, paua @
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
WHEN IS AN EGG FRESH?
AYE, THAT'S THE QUESTION
All the States Men and All the States Experts to Examine
Humpty Dumpty

Chemists of the State Department
of Agriculture will gather with Sec
retary of Agriculture Rasmussen and
Director OF Foods James Foust to-
night to determine the question Of
when is an egg a stale egg?
Under a law recently approved by
Governor Sproul 1t is a misdemeanor
to sell a stale as a fresh egg and
the chemists Sto-night are going to
try to decide just what constitutes
a stale egg. Special Agent Robert
SINNERS. of Philadelphia. has brought
to Harrisburg dozens of eggs of va
rious ages. Some are a week old,
others two weeks old. some have
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
Cloudburst mandates
Town and Destroys Homes
BIZ Associated Press.

Wcllsboro, Pa, July 23. - A
cloudburst, which occurred over this
place late last evening, rendered
nearly a dozen families homeless,
completely destroyed over three
miles of the track and roadbed of
the New York Central Railroad be-
tween here and Wellsboro juno
ton, and washed out several bridges,
causing a property loss estimated
to-day at 100000.
The storm broke shortly after 7
o'clock and within a few minutes
time the whole town was flooded,
streets being from two to three feet
under water. Houses were washed
from their foundations, barns and
outbuildings swept away and trees
and telephone poles leveled. Nearly
a score of automobiles left standing
in the streets were completely de-
molished.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
Bolsheviki Granted
Armistice of Eight Days
in Search For Peace

London, Tuesday, July %. - A
Bolsheviki delegation has arrived at
Kishineff with an offer of peace to
the commander of the Rumanian
Dniester troops in behalf of Nikolai
Lenine, the Bolshevik premier, ac-
cording to a Berlin government
wireless dispatch.
An armistice to last eight day
has been concluded on the Bes-
sarabian front and the delegation
has gone to Rumanian headquar-
terS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
America to Sign Peace
Treaty With Turkey
BIZ Associated Press

Washington, July 23. - The
United States will sign the treaties
with Bulgaria and Turkey, il was
announced to-day at the State De-
partment.
Although the United States never
has been actually at war with Bul-
garia and Turkey. it will sign the
treaties to show its concurrence in
the terms imposed upon these allies
of Germany and Austria. Like those
with the Teutonic powers, the treat
les change boundary lines and create
new nations, some of which, partic-
ularly Armenia, probably will ask
that the United States act as man
datory for them under the League
of Nations covenant.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
CAMPERS ESCAPE TO
HIGH GROUND WHEN
TWO DAMS GIVE WAY
Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls Crawl
toMountain Side When Waters Sweep
Over Boundaries of Raging Greek
HIGHWAYS ARECOVERED AND
CELLARS FILLED WITH WATER

Sranng under continued from the rains the
big dams Mt Holly and Laurel partly last night
leasing of which down through the valleys
with great force.
Big camps Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls located along
the inundated the boys and girls being forced to
climb higher ground The girls from Ezabethtown and
the boys from this city.
The youngsters managed of their property and
time danger. The however
gardens carried portions OF highways and bit of railroad
drowned horses did much damage crops filled cellars
washed small oubudngs and caused much inconvenience
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23

been in cold storage for a month,
and others have been in cold storage
for three and six months. Director
Foust has gathered dozen of eggs
that have been laid by local hens
to-day.
The food experts claim that they
can determine by physical appearance
the difference between a stale egg
and a fresh egg, but they are un-
able to determine the difference be-
tween stale eggs and cold storage
eggs. All of the chemists of the
Department and some of the agents
in large cities have been summoned
dorse various candidates.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
Mooney Did Not Get
Justice, Says Investigator
By Associated Press.

Washington. July %. - Thomas
j. Mooney did not receive full JUS
tice in his trial at San Francisco
for alleged connection with the
Preparedness Day bomb explosion.
according to a report of John B.
Densmore, former special agent of
the Department of Justice, who in
vestigated the case for the govern
ment. The report dated November
l, 1918, was submitted TO the House
to-day in response to a resolution.
The plain truth is" the report
said, that there is nothing about
the case to produce a feeling of con-
hdence that the dignity and majesty
of the law have been upheld.
There is nowhere anything re-
sembling consistency, the effort be-
ing a patchwork of incongruous
makeshift and often of desperate
eXpediency"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
Dog Run Down by Auto
Is Nursed Back to Health

The owner of a fine white setter
dog can have the same by applying
to Frank Stewart, 1912 North Fourth
street.
The dog was run over by an au-
tomobile near Stewards home last
week and Stewart, who is a lover of
dogs, took the. injured animal to his
residence and nursed it back to
health. The animal is we'll bred,
white with black ears.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
rs Rebel Bands With
1000 Men, Operate
Against Carranza Army
By Associated press

Washington, July 23. - Twenty
1ve distinct bands of rebels with a
strength of about $4,000 men now
are operating in Mexico, according
to a tabulation which has inst been
published in Mexico City. Oppos-
ing them Carranza has n fo,ce of
ABOUT $4,000, which, however, is
ape TO control little more than the
railway lines with a narrow strin
along the Pacific coast from Guav-
mas to San Bias and the territory
around Tampico.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23

Neither of the dams were WdSneu
entirely away. Holly dam gave way
on but one side while the big Hood
gates in the Laurel ice dam was
swept away.
Entire Section flooded
When one of the fioodgates at
the ice dam at Laurel gave way
last evening due to the high water
in the Mountain creek, the entire
section of the valley from Laurel
to Mt. Holly Springs where the
stream flows into the Yellow
Breeches creek, was flooded, the
water washing out the roadways,
covering bridges, carrying away
small cottage and a tent. and sur
rounding a girls camp at Pine
Grove Park.
There was no loss of life except
at Huntsdale where three horses
were crossing a bridge when II gave
away. They were drowned. The
cottage and tent at Laurel just oe-
low the dam were untenanted.
Huckleberry pickers had left the
tent late yesterday afternaon. Ell
forts to locate it end the cottage
failed.
Highways Covered
The foodgates on the roadway
side of the dam held and with the
water in the creek above the dam
receding no further damage is eX-
pected. Just after the one flood
gate was washed out the water in
the creek below went up in height
more than six feet, covering the road
and the railroad tracks of the Phil
adelphia and Reading Company.
Cottagers along the roadway at hrst
feared that they would be COM
PEELED to leave, but the water only
came up to the doors.
Twenty Camp Fire Girls from
Elizabethtown were camping at
Pine Grove Park and were maroon
ed when the high water surround
ed them. ]. r. Williams of the
State Forestry Department, by go
ing up the railroad finally managed
to reach the girls. He took them
to the cottage of Mrs S. j. Harris,
of Harrisburg, where they spent the
night
Tracks Carried Away
Between Toland and Gardeners,
two villages along the Reading rail-
way, the tracks We're washed away
five feet. Bridges along the creek
were covered to the top guard rails.
1t has not been determined yet
whether any of them have been
washed away, but it is believed that
most of them have been damaged
and must be repaired before they
can be used again. Much damage
was done to the roadway through
the small valley also.
Boy Scouts Move
Reports early this morning said
that the Boy Scouts of Harrisburg
who have been camping this sum-
mer at Mt. Holly Springs Park were
compelled during the night to move
their tents and effects to high
ground along the mountain. The
boys at no time were in danger and
their training stood them in good
stead in their difficulty.
A great body of water rushed
down Mountain creek when one
side of Holly dam was swept out.
The torrent rushed down the val
ley digging out gardens and carry
Der of cellars We're flooded and the
creek was at its highest point to-
day in recent years.
The dam backs up water over an
area of between ten and twenty
acres and supplies water for the
Mt. Holly paper mills. Recent rains
have caused a strain on the struc-
ture.
Word from the scout camp said
that at no time were the boys in
danger. They had their tents pitch
ed on fairly low ground so as to be
near the water. Their camping field
quickly was flooded when the creek
began to rise to unusual heights.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
THE WEATHER

Harrisburg and Vicinity; Fair to-
night and Thursday, not much
change In temperature, lowest
Tonight about 6S degrees.
Eastern Pennsylvania; Fair to-
night and Thursday. no change
In temperature. Gentle variable
winds, mostly west and north
west.
River: The main river will rise
except the upper portion will
begin to fall late tonight or
On Thursday morning. All trib-
utarlcs will fail tonight and
Thursday. A stage of about B.3
feet Is indicated for Harrisburg
Thursday morning.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
TO VISIT COVER THERE.

Athens George. formerly proprietor
of the Victoria Theater and inter-
ested in numerous business ventures
about the city, will leave tomorrow
on a trip of four months to the 9TH
er side after which he expects to re-
turn to Harrisburg. Mr.. George will
visit Paris. London. Berlin, and the
battlefields of Europe.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
MURDERED IN BED

Glassboro, n. J., July 23. - Mrs.
Clara Sabor, 80 years old. was muir
dered in bed early to-day. Mrs
Jennie Krasge. of Wilmington. Del
her mother, was shot and seriously
wounded. Mrs. Krasge said the
shooting was done by masked burg
lars, but shortly after the tragedy
the police arrested the husband. of
Mrs. Sabor and held him without
bail.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
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$780, 900 ASKED TO
FIGHT BIG FIRES
BIZ Associated Press.

Washington, July %. - Congress
was asked to-day by Secretary Lane
for a special appropriation of $780,
900 to fight forest fires in Montana,
Idaho and Washington. Latest re-
ports from Idaho, he said, declare
the fires cannot be eXtinguished
save by a heavy rain of which there
is no imm ediate prospect"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
MAY RUN sHAMNO

Democrats may run Calder Sham
mo for recorder of deeds at the fall
elections. His name was mentioned
for the place at a conference of
Democrats last evening. Democratic
candidates are not coming forward
in any numbers.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
FAMOUS MINSTREL DIES
BIZ Associated Press.

DV HooUCFuItU I1TtSS.
San Diego. Cal, July 23.-George
H. Primrose. famous minstrel, died
to-day, following a severe illness that
began one month ago. He was born
In London, Ont. 66 years ago.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
HERE'S THE NEW
DOPE
Fair
Tonight
and
Tomorrow
II? ?!?!?!

Forecaster z. Z. Demain, OF
the Harrisburg Weather Bureau,
says so.
After a number of petty wrang-
lings, resulting in much rainfall
during the past ten days, st.
Swithin, who has held sway for
the past several days; Old Sol and
the Weatherman held a caucus.
The Weatherman's announce
ment is the pleasing result.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23

One of four brothers, all of whom
were officers in the Army, Colonel
Charles NJ. Steese is visiting his par
ents at Mount Holly Springs. He
has just returned from Army serv-
ice overseas, where he was given
commission as colonel for his work
in France. Colonel j. G.. Steese, a
brother. was sent to France recently
on a special mission from the Secre-
tary of War.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-23
MARRIAGE LICENSES

William Mex Lester
and Anna NJ oberholtzer " ~s
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