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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
10000 House Cats :
Sell Up to 80 Cents

st. Louis, Mo-, Jan. 23.-The fur
auction yesterday started off with
$4,000 civets. which sold for $685.
within few minutes. Yesterdays
sales totaled s55O.OOO. with a $780,
600 total for three days.
Twenty thousand house cats sold
from nine to ninety cents apiece and
totaled trifie under $4,000. Fifty
five hundred ringtails went quickly
for $500. Three hundred and eighty
hair seals found quick sales for more
than $4,000, and 400 mountain lions
brought $1,000. Then 1,700 leopards
and leopard cats went out for $4,000.
Fourteen hundred bears totaled
more than $4,000. One hundred and
thirty polar bears sold for around
$4,000. Except for civets. there was
not much interest in a forenoon's
sale, but the exchange was well filled
for 11S.000 ermine. Russian ermine
selling well above American and
choice lots. going at good average
prices. The entire ermine offerings
were well taken. totaling around
s2S5.o0O =
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
Bill to Have Boxing
and State Commission
Introduced Yesterday

A bill legalizing and regulating
in the Senate by Senator Crow.
in the@Senate by Senator Crow,
Fayette. by request. 1t provides
for n state athletic commission of
three. to be appointed by the
Governor and to serve four years
from June l, next.
The commission shall elect one
of its members chairman at an
annual salary of $1,000. The
other two commissioners are to
receive $4,000 each and expenses.
The commission may employ a
stenographer at $1,000 a year.
The commission shall have ju-
risdiction over all boxing clubs.
The annual license fees in Phila-
delphia shall be $500; Pittsburgh
and Scranton, S40O, and all other
municipalities, $500.
All boxing bouts are limited to
ten rounds and gloves of not less
than eight ounces.
The bill carries virtually the
same details as similar measures
introduced in previous Legisla-
lures.
The bill was introduced at the
request of boxing promoters of
Scranton.
Other features are that:
Applicants for license will be
required to file with the Auditor
General a bond for the sum of
$4,000, conditional for the faith
full observance of the rules of the
commission:
A detailed report of the number
of tickets sold and the total
amount of the gross receipts shall
be sent to the commission within
twenty-four hours after the box
ing contest;
A tax of five per cent. of the
gross receipts shall be forwarded
to the state treasury. Failure to
do this within five days will cause
a forfeiture Of the bond;
No person under seventeen
years of age shall be permitted to
participate in or attend any box
ing contest unless accompanied by
his parent. Fake contests may
result in revoking of the clubs
license. Any person knowingly
participating in a framed bout
will be barred from participating
in any bouts for a period of six
months.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
Germans in East Prussia
Are Opposing Bolshevism
BY Associated Press

Warsaw, Jan. 23-That the Ger
man population of the East Prussia
provinces not only are anti -Bolshe-
Wiki but are organizing an army
to protect the frontiers is the main
fact found during a journey from
Warsaw over the Polish frontier to
DanZig and Hemel. 1t also was
found that the army of General Won
Hoffman, both men and officers,
while .uncontaminated by Bolshevism
is demoralized and Indifferent to the
fact that the arms and munitions
they are selling to Lithuania will
later be used against the Germans.
From conversations picked up
aboard trains, which were crowded
with civilians and soldiers, it seemed
apparent that the new army has been
organized locally but is under vague
direction from Berlin. The single
district of Ostrowo furnished 10000
soldiers. 1t is affirmed that two di-
visions of the new army are gradu-
ally working to the frontier of East
Prussia, there to halt the Bolshevik
troops, against which feeling is Bit
ter.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
l,lS8 New Oil Wells
in Texas Last Yea,

OIL City. Pa, Jan. 23.-In the north
central Texas oil fields the year of
1918 will be recorded in oil history
as the most spectacular and exciting
ever known to the fraternity, accord
ing to the yearly review published by
the Oil City Derrick.
Drilling operations covered an area
larger than one-third of the New
England States. and the number OF
men connected with the industry out
number General Sherman's legions in
MS march to the sea. During 1918
there We're 1.1sS wells completed in
the held, with an initial production
OF 14S,362 barrels. There were 2sS
dry holes and twenty-three gas wells
The 1917 record was 1920 wells
completed. 50.eSS barrels initial pro-
duction, 262 dry holes and eighteen
gas wells. This is a gain for 1918
of 16S in wells finished. s7.3s4 bar
rels in Initial production. thirty more
dry holes and five more gas wells.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
RESENT BILL TO ESTABLISH BOXING STATE TECH TACKLES YORK ROSES TOMORROW
[hite Roses of York Will Be
ech's sOpponent SaturdayEve

in the York High School gymnasium
Friday night. and Coach Miller will
send the entire squad of nine players
to the White Rose city. 1t will be
the same squad that has been repre-
senting Tech in all of her contests.
Captain LinGle, ]. Beck and Elmer
will be the forwards: "Haps" Frank
and Wilsbach are still fighting hard
for the center position, while Kohl
man, Bihl, Smith and G. Beck form
the guards.
While individual scores will be
kept down by using nine payers in a
game, yet whenever a new squad of
players is placed in the game they
invariably try to run up a larger
score than ther predecessors. With
nine players trying for the team,
everybody is kept on the Jump for a
position. 1t is not a case of five
players having their jobs "cinched."
1t will be fight to the finish. Tech
should win hands down at York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
Chinese United on
Their Foreign Policy
BY Assoeiated Press

Paris, Jan. 23.-Discussing the po-
sition OF China with regard to the
Peace Conference, Q. T. Wang, q
member of the Chinese delegation
who has been prominent in the South
China government, said to the As
sociated Press correspondent to-day
that these two portions of China were
thoroughly united on the question of
foreign policy. The delegation now
in Paris, he declared, represents
China as an allied nation, independ-
ent of other nations. seeking the full
restoration of its sovereignty and
asking the conference to free it from
treaties and agreements which pre-
vent its economic development.
Mr.. Wang said that China would
seek the right to regulate her own
customs service and would ask the
restoration of all territory in China
formerly held by Germany. The
Chinese delegation is hopeful that
the peace treaty will result in the
opening of all China to foreign citi-
zens and equal commercial oppor-
tunities for all foreign citizens.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
Big League Boxing
at Motive Power Home
Next Tuesday Night

Three big features will attract
the Harrisburg boxing enthu-
siasts next Tuesday night to the
Motive Power bouts in their COM
Portable arena.a First, perhaps.
VIII be the appearance of Sammy
Schiff, premier local pugilist
with Knockout" Russell, of Lam.
caster. The second is the re-
turn of our friend Dick Conlon.
who makes q noise like a goose
when agitated in the ring, this
adding materially to the general
diversion. He is to encounter Kid
Frederick, of Allentown. A third
event is the major bout of the
evening, introducing Larry Han
son. the durable Dane, and MIR.
Dundee, who claims Allentown as
his home. Local boys will figure
too, with Knockout Vanasdian
who is said to be Bolshevik in
temper, hurled against Kid Hoff-
man, who is attached profes-
sionally to Whites gymnasium of
our city.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
Graft Charge Made
Against War Agent

Washington, Jan. 23.-William S.
Bennett, formerly a Representative,
representing E. S. Hines, a Chicago
lumber dealer, charged before the
Senate Buildings and Grounds COM
mittee yesterday, that Milton ].
Trainor, connected with the real es-
tate department of the War Depart
ment. had attempted to obtain q
commission of 100000 from the
Shanks Construction Company, OF
Chicago, in connection with a con-
ct for the construction of the Chi
cago speedway hospital.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
See Business Boom
With Stable Costs

Philadelphia. Jan. 3.-Predictions
that there will be great activity in
building throughout the country this
year, which will create a big demand
FOR building material. among which
VIII be electrical goods. was made
by Charles Howell Cook, president
OF the Cook Pottery Company, Tren-
ton. n. j.. in an address at the month
Iy luncheon of the Electrical Credit
Association of Philadelphia yesterday
IN the Cafe Arcadia. The speaker
said that he believed that business in
general will not be better until costs
of raw material and labor are stabi-
lized. He pointed out that he did not
favor the lowering of wages, but
urged businessmen to endeavor to
nave the labor people in turn for
high wages give a sufficient honest
days work. When this is done It
will gradually lower the present costs
of products, he said.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
Colored Association
Resents Lynching of
Negro by Texas Mobs

A communication of John R.
Shillady. SECRETARY of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, in which his tele-
gram requesting the authorities of
Texas to take action against the
mob which on January 20, lynched
Bragg Williams. a negro, at Hills
boro. Texas, is cited. has been made
public here by G. Augustus Jackson,
president of the local branch of the
national association. The telegram of
Mr.. Shillady calls the Texas govern
or's attention to the fact that more
than one hundred lynchings have
taken place since the beginning of
the war, and calls upon the Texas
authorities to punish the mob which
caused Williams death.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
ENTERTAINs SEWING CIRCLE

BIain, Pa, Jan. 23.-The Ladies
Sewing Circle was entertained on
Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs
Clinton H. Wentzel. Refreshments
were served. Those present were:
Mrs. David P. Stokes, Mrs. Blaine
II. Rhmesmith. Mrs. James c. Rick
ard, Mrs. John II. Bistline, Mrs
Loy Bistline. Mrs. Danlee G. Keck,
Ralph K. Hench. Mrs. William II
Sheaffer, Mrs. Daniel w. Sheaffer,
Mrs. Elizabeth Stine, Mrs. Creigh
Patterson, Mrs. David H. Snyder
Mrs. Frederick A Kern, Mrs. ]. c.
Martin, Mrs. n. Kurtz Bistline and
Mrs. Riley NJ. Smith.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23

Kinley Manual Training School.
kshington, D. c., has been added
he basketball schedule of the
hical High School, and that
will appear in this city Febru-
IA as a Valentine attraction. The
{hl City lads are always we'll rep
led in athletics, and on several
hons the Tech runners have
[pitted against them at the Penn
|. They will be the strongest
Tech will meet outside of the
|e, while it is doubtful If any
in the eague is stronger than
Iare.
en- Tech scored sixty-two points
|st Allentown, they set a high
u for the Central Penn season.
seldom that such a large score
been made in the league. On
|hme evening. Reading trounced
60 to II. The game was
u at Reading. Tech will play
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
Gordon FOrd's Hustlers
Will Meet champion
Hancocks Tomorrow

Hancock, the winner of the
American League for the first
half. will appear at Chestnut
street auditorium on Saturday
night with the same team that
won the pennant. Several stars
of the state league are in the
visitors lineup. Powell, who ap-
peared here two years ago with
the Nanticoke club, will play one
of the forward positions with
Trautwein. who was former
Penn College basketball star and
formerally with the Vincome
club. Hugg, who has been jump
ing center with various clubs
around teh country will be the
pivot man for the visitors. Arm
strong and Wood will play the
guard positions for the visitors,
they are considered the best de-
fense in the American League.
The local Independents are
travelling in championship form
since Haggerty has Joined the
club and they can be depended
upon to give good account OF
themselves when they line up
with the champions on Saturday
night. Dancing will follow the
game. The lineup:
INDEPENDENTS HANCOCK.
McCord, +. Powell. T.
Wallower. T. Trautwein, (.
Haggerty. c. Hugg, C.
Gerdes. g. Armstrong, g.
G. Ford, z. Wood, g..
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
AT AGRICULTURAL SHOW

Blain, Pa, Jan. 23.-Jesse H. Sny-
der and Robert A. 10y made up the
corn judging team which represent
ed the agriculture department of the
Blain Vocational school. at the
farm product show in Harrisburg,
this week. Benjamin B. Bower and
Leroy Gutshall, pupils of the school.
are also in attendance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
GET SHORTER DAYS

Newport, Pa, Jan. 23.-Eight-
hour days have been instituted at the
Newport tannery. The, wage scale
has been changed to such an extent
that employees will suffer no reduc-
ton in total amount earned as a re-
suit of the shortening of the hours.
Slightly less than one hundred en-
ployes are affected.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
HAS LEGS BROKEN

Tower City, Pa. Jan. 23.-While
constructing timber work in the
gangway in the mines of this place,
oscar Bender had both his legs
broken when an immense piece OF
timber fell upon him. He was re-
moved to the Miners Hospital at
Ashland, Pa.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
MRS. MILLER,s FUNERAL

Blain, Pa, Jan. 23.-The funeral
of Mrs. Sallie Miller. who died at the
home of her niece, Mrs. Charles Nc
Keehan, near New Bloomfield, was
held to-day with burial in the Blain
Union cemetery. The services We're
conducted in the Zion Lutheran
church by the Rev. DIR. John Wesley
Weeter, of New Bloomfield.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
GOOD SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

Balm, Pa, Jan. 23.-The follow-
ing pupils of the Blain Vocational
school, attended every day of the
fourth month: Lester NJ. Kern, Jo-
seph Kistler, Lare Snyder, Jesse
Snyder, Miss Myrtle Collins and Miss
Nellie Smith. One pupil, Miss Nellie
Smith, has perfect attendance so
far this term.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
HURT AT MINES

Lykens, Pa, Jan. z3'-MICnde I.tIS
Begani, while assisting to place tlln-
her in a tunnel of the Susquehanna
Coal Company mines to-day, was
slightly injured when a piece of the
mber fell and struck him on the
back. .--... -.... .......
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-23
next league game on February I, a

The c. I. & S. League game last
evening. on Leonard alleys, resulted:
a
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-03-12

center to center. Furthermore, good
and decent railroad facilities, become
a great civilizing and uplifting agency
to any community, and sometime ago,
the writer read statement from an
authority who stated that a certain
railroad in China had done well-nigh
as much for the uplift Of the people
as the Christian missionaries.
Everybody who is interested in the
question of better railroad facilities
for Summcrton and the western sec
tlon of Clarendon County, are cor
daily invited to attend the meeting
of the Railroad Commissioners of
South Carolina, at Summerton, on
Thursday, the goth day of March.
1t is the fault of the people alone
that they do not have good railroad
facilities. because in this country,
the people rule.
Yours very truly,
J. j. Cantey.
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train would pay or not, for the simple
reason, the plan has not been tried
out, and the proof of the pudding is
the eating thereof"
Furthermore, Secretary McAdoo
has made the statement that the Fed
cral Government could not determine
the question of the success or failure
of government operations of railroads
under a period of five years, and most
men in any kind of business require
a period Of five years or more to
establish themselves upon a paying
basis.
In addition, the experience of other
shortline railroad companies, which
operate separate passenger and
freight trains, goes to show that the
operation of separate passenger and
freight trains does pay on shortline
railroads. From Lucknow, through
Bishopville, to Sumter, distance of
about forty miles, there operates
shortline railroad, and on this road
there are four passenger trains per
day and in addition two freight trains
per day.
From Hodges to Abbeville, dis
tancc of about eleven miles, there
] operates a shortline railroad, and on
this road there are four passenger
| trains per day and in addition two
freight trains per day From Prcg.
| nall to Orangeburg, =. distance of
about sixty miles, there operates a
short line railroad, and on this road
there are four passenger trains per
day and in addition two freight trains
per day. Surely, it would appear that
it would pay financially as we'll other
wise for the Northwestern Railroad
| to operate passenger train twice
| each way from Sumter to Wilson Mil,
a distance of about forty-six miles,
and in addition operate freight train
once each way per day, and in this
way, remove all complaints, furnish
the Accommodations desired, and relieve
an over-worked set Of faithful en-
ployecs, by putting on two sets of
employees.
Now, there are some people who
have no further use for railroad
than that Of hauling in fertilizer and
hauling out cotton, but that is an cx-
ccedingly selfish view, which does not
take into consideration the common
good. There are hundreds of people
in the western section Of Clarendon
who must pay excessive automobile
hire, in order to catch the trains at
either Manning or Sumter, in order
to transact business with the outside
world.
Some weeks ago, on a certain Fri
day banker Of Summcrton register.
ed twenty thousand dollar check tc
his correspondent in Charleston, but
, on account of poor railroad connec
tions, said check did not reach Char
: lesion until the following Monday, ant
the credit of the banker was consid
! crably damaged. in addition, the peo
pie of the western section of Clar
, endon, including Summerton, hav,
been ridiculed by the people Of tn,
outside world, on account of tolerat
ing such railroad facilities, and tn,
5 prosperity of the entire section ha.
, been retarded for many years. Be
2 Sides. good railroad facilities for tn,
western section Of Clarendon, woult
+ help the entire county, and expedit,
business and communications from
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-03-12

Of cotton are produced and shipped
from year to year, and where the peo-
pie are educated and given to travel,
the railroad facilities have been limit
ed to one old rusty and dilapidated
freight train, without connections and
without Accommodations, and it is even
expected that one set of railroad en-
ployces should do all of this tremcnd-
Gus amount of labor from year to
year.
At Wilson Mill, where the Atlantic
Coast Line and the Northwestern
Railroad, are supposed to make con-
necton, there is no boarding house
or hotel and no telephone or telegraph
instrument in the depot, by means of
which the travelling public can deter
mine the whcreabout of trains, the
result being that many of the ladies
and gentlemen Of Summerton and
other points have been dumped off at
Wilson Mill to spend the night in the
woods, without any means of tele-
phoning or tclegrapning over to
Manning or elsewhere to their friends
| to send them an automobile.
The experience of the people of this
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-03-12

determine the whereabout of trains
and thereby make better railroad con-
ncctions.
All Of the western portion of Clar-
endon County, between Sumter and
Wilson Mill, is served exclusively by
the Northwestern r" road Co., of
South Carolina, and the people Of this
section, so far as railroad facilities
are concerned, have been in condi-
ton of blockade for a period Of
twenty years, more or less, despite
the fact that said railroad is sup
posed to serve some OF the best peo-
pie in the world ana traverses the
finest agricultural lands outside of
the Mississippi Valley.
During all Of these twenty years
or more, the people Of this section Of
Clarendon County have been without
passenger railroad facilities and for
equally as many years, the people of
this section, have signed petition after
petition to the Railroad Commission
of South Carolina, asking for some
relief, without avail.
In this fine section of old Clarcn-
don, where many thousands Of bales
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-03-12
RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS
TO MEET IN SUMMERT0N

Summerton, S. c., March 8, 1919
Editor of The Manning Times:
On Thursday, March goth, at ~
o'clock, noon, the Railroad Commits
sion of South Carolina will hold a
meeting at Summerton, for the pur-
pose of considering the question Of
better and improved railroad facili-
ties between Sumter and Wilson Mill
At this meeting, the following
propositions will be advanced and ad-
vocated by number Of speakers, to
wit:
I) A passenger train twice each
way per day between Sumter and
Wilson Mill;
(2) A freight train once each way
per day between Sumter and Wilson
Mill;
(3) The installation of proper tele
phone instruments at Wilson Mill, in
order that the travelling public may
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-03-12

section goes to show that it is too
much to expect one old rusty freight
train, with one set Of railroad en-
ployecs, to do all Of this work, day
after day, and year after year, and
the writer is frank in stating that
the lack Of decent railroad facilities
in this section, is not due to the rail
road employees, who are simply over
worked and cannot by any process Of
reasoning be expected to do more than
they are now doing.
The remedy for the situation is to
be found in the simple operation of
separate passenger trains and freight
trains, with an additional set of rail
road employees, but whenever this
phase of the question Is agitatcd, the
argument is made that separate
freight and passenger train would
not pay. But no one knows whether
separate passenger and freight
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-03-12
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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-03-12
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