NEWS: Items from the Evening News, June 17, 1918, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JudyBoo Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/dauphin/ _________________________________________ The Evening News, Harrisburg, Penna., Monday, June 17, 1918 Four More Graduate Nurses Enlist in War Four more graduate nurses have enlisted for Red Cross nursing service, Mrs. James I. Chamberlain, chairman of the local campaign Committee, announced this morning, as a result of the intensive campaign for recruiting graduate nurses for service in the Army and Navy in this territory. With the new recruits, the district's total is thirty-four nurses, which officials say is an unusually large contribution from any one district. The four newly enlisted nurses are: Miss Cecilia Erb, 17 North Fifth street; Miss Constance Egan, Lock Haven; Miss N. Whitman, Lock Haven; Miss Frances Lloyd, Northumberland. NAB ALLEGED DESERTER John Powell, alias John Cocklin, charged with being a deserter since last February from Camp Dix, was arrested this morning by Detective Speese at 525 South Fourteenth street. He will be returned to camp. Hummelstown Boy Was Wounded List Shows RALPH M. FOX [photo] The name of Ralph M. Fox, son of Mrs. Alice H. Fox, of Hummelstown, appears today in the casualty list from France, issued by the War Department, as having been severely wounded in action May 28. Fox enlisted shortly after war broke out in America from a western city where he was working. At that time his mother was living in East Hanover township. Ralph enlisted at the age of eighteen and was sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and there stationed with Company D, of the 28th Infantry. According to his mother, Ralph has been in France fighting for several months. The last letter that she received from him stated that he had been in the trenches and expected to go back into them soon again. This letter was dated May 12. The communication from Washington which arrived Saturday was addressed to his brother. Robert M. Fox, who is now in France with a hospital corps. The wounded soldier formerly lived with his mother at their home in East Hanover township and is well known in and around the Hummelstown vicinity. DAPP GETS FOUR MONTHS IN JAIL A four months jail sentence was doled out by Judge Henry in criminal court late Saturday evening to Edward B. Dapp, former jury commissioner, who was convicted a few hours before on a charge of false pretense. A character witness called in Dapp's behalf just before sentence was imposed, said that Dapp's "rep" was bad and the remark started the handful of court attendants. The testimony which convicted Dapp was a story that while he lived with a Stuppy family on Allison Hill almost two years ago he represented to Mrs. Stuppy that he had deposited $3000 worth of insurance policies with a local bank and also was arranging to buy the property adjoining the Stuppy house for $800. On the strength of that he induced Mrs. Stuppy to sign both a promissory and a judgment note. She thought, she said, that signing the papers amounted to "vouching for Dapp." More than $700 of the note remains unpaid and the $800 judgment has been entered as a lien against the Stuppy property. Dapp and his family have been living in Erie for almost a year. Saturday afternoon from 4 until 7 o'clock, Wendall H. Taylor, son of Dr. Louise H. Taylor, was host to a number of his young friends, the occasion being the anniversary of his thirteenth birthday. Games and sports formed the program for the afternoon with prizes for the successful contestants. Refreshments were served to Julian DeGray, Richard DeGray, Robert Malcolm Ryder, Morley Baker, Edward Hawes, Paul Kunkel and Weldall Taylor. Word has been received in this city of the safe arrival overseas of Corporal Frank Stover, Co. A. 103rd Division Supply Train. Prior to his departure Corporal Stover was stationed at Camp Hancock. Is Guest of Honor on Her Eighth Birthday SARAH BOYD [photo] Complimentary to Miss Sarah Boyd, who celebrated her eighth birthday anniversary on Saturday, Mr. and Mrs. William Metzgar entertained a number of her young friends at their residence, 1326 Fulton street. Red roses and American flags were used in an attractive decoration and games, contests and music were the delightful features of the program. Invited to help celebrate the occasion were the Misses Emma Bricker, Sallie Selfon, Jennie Selfon, Mildred Stall, Catharine Jones, Edna Thompson, Jessie Fillmore, Mildred Lytle, Catharine Isaaic, of Chicago; Sara Boyd, Edward Coss, Cyrus Thompson, Fred Martz, John Thompson, Charles Marlin, Philadelphia; Leon Isaaic, Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Metzgar, Mr. and Mrs. Martz, Lou Hummel and Hattie Miller. Miss Rebecca Wellis, who celebrated her birthday anniversary last Friday, was the guest of honor at a beautifully appointed dinner, given by Mrs. L. Minnich, at the latter's residence, 1306 North Second street. Patriotic decorations made the house most attractive and cards and dancing followed the dinner. Those in attendance were: Miss Edna Lynch, Miss Hallie Bell, Miss Weills, Mrs. Minnich, Clayton Keys, Charlie Matthews, Russell Carpenter, J. H. Bermuda, William Stitler, of Harrisburg, and Lawrence Minnick and son, Earl, James Clancy, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy McKissick and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Porter and Charlie Wynn, of Dauphin. The prizes in "500" were won by Mr. and Mrs. John Porter, of Dauphin. A surprise party was arranged on Flag Day in honor of Scoutmaster William A. Frantz, Troop 10, Boy Scouts of America, by a number of his friends, including Mrs. Frantz, Scoutmaster Preston Smith and Miss Stambaugh, guardian of the Camp Fire Girls. The guests included members of Troup 10, boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls of the Second Reformed Church. Mr. Frantz was presented with a Baby Bond and a number of Thrift Stamps by Mr. Smith. Games, music and dancing were followed by the serving of refreshments. ENLIST IN NAVAL RESERVE Edwin Myers, of 1217 North Third street, has returned from Philadelphia where he passed the examination for the Naval Reserves. Myers is employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad as an engine inspector. He expects to be called for military service at any time. Personal Briefs Sergeant Thomas L. Yingst and Corporal Piser, both members of Company C, 304th Signal Battalion, stationed at Camp Meade, were the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Yingst, 520 Emerald street. Dr. Harry Montis Vastine, 109 Locust street, who has been out of the city for several months, has returned to his home. Private Thomas M. Reese, Company E. 304th Engineers, Camp Meade, Md., will return this evening after a short furlough spent with his parents, the Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Reese, Camp Hill. Thomas Kittera Van Dyke, 228 Boas street, who has been ill at his residence for some time, is reported to be greatly improved. Miss Olga Meley, 909 North Fifteenth street, assistant principal at the Lemoyne High School, left yesterday for Chicago where she will enter the University of Chicago for the Summer months. Mr. and Mrs. Dean M. Hoffman have moved from the Commercial Bank apartments, 1224 North Third street, to their new home, 2139 Green street. Miss Cordelia Welmar, Wheeling, W. Va., is the guest of Miss Marian B. Whittaker, 1701 North Second street, who has lately returned from the Russel Sage College of Science and Art, Troy, N. Y., where she is a student. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bernard Black have opened their Summer home, "Wyoming," Perdix. Among those who spent the weekend with Henry Miller and his daughter, of Carlisle Springs, were Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Miller and grandchildren, Dorothy and George Benner; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Hess and daughter, Mildred, and Miss Elsie Kreiner, all of North Fifth street, and Willard Wallace, of West Fairview. Mrs. C. R. Sponsler, of Baltimore, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Sponsler, 25 South Front street. John C. Kunkel, 3rd, is home from Yale University and will spend the Summer vacation with his mother, Mrs. John C. Kunkel, 11 South Front street. Assistant paymaster James K. Jackson, U. S. N., who will report tomorrow at the school for paymasters at Annapolis, Md., spent the week end with his father, Edwin W. Jackson, 121 Chestnut street. Mrs. Charles K. Imbrie and her children, of Lancaster, N. Y., are spending some time with Mrs. Imbrie's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Fleming, 104 South street. The Rev. Charles K. Imbrie has been granted leave of absence from his charge as pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Lancaster and has entered war work. Lieut. Donald Johnston, of the Aviation Department of the Signal Corps, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnson, 1719 North Second street, returned today to his post at Kelley Field, Texas. The Rev. Dr. Luther DeYoe, of Philadelphia, who is attending the dedicatory services at Messiah Lutheran Church, is the guest of the Misses Clute, 309 North Second street. Mrs. A. M. Clay is seriously ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Charles E. Reeser, at 2323 North Fourth street. Mrs. Lavinia Hursh, of Decatur, Ill., arrived in Harrisburg Saturday where she will remain for some time as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Getter, 1857 Market street. Mrs. Hursh spent yesterday at Camp Colt, Gettysburg, where her son, Joseph E. Hursh, is in the heavy tank service. 71 SELECTIVES FOR CAMP LEE Names of Those to Leave Here for Training June 24 The names of the seventy-one city selectives who will be sent to Camp Lee, Virginia, next Monday were announced today by the draft board of the first city district. The board also has sent out notices ordering nine men to report and be prepared to substitute for any of the seventy-one who for one reason or another may not be able to report on time. The selectives will be organized at the draft board's headquarters in Room A of the Court House next Sunday afternoon. The list follows: Hess Kline, 579 South Front; Joseph Cluster First, 113 Tuscarora; Albert Ferrar, 32 Butler street, Trenton, N. J.; Louis Chios, 216 North Second; Chivetta Jaetano, 14 South Dewberry; Louis Rogers, 326 Liberty; Daniel John Dwyer, 903 North Third; Charles Richard Perry, 403 Herr; William Horace Knisely, South Third (Savoy Hotel); Speros Chianos, 305 Herr; Harry Allen Gault, 241 North; James Frank, 427 Herr. Charles Porter Johnson, 226 South; William John Smith, Jr., 1818 North Third; Walter William Benner, 589 Showers; Warren Sylvester Towsen, 812 North Third; William Lewis Johnson, Box 105, Benton Harbor, Mich.; Stewart A. Koser, 333 York street, New Haven, Conn.; Nicola Di Guisepppe, 120 Mulberry; Rosario Borsignore, 517 Henry street, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Pete Fortugno, 116 Dock; Benjamin Franklin Hoover, 862 Erie avenue, Williamsport; Dewey Leo Brown, care Brick Plant, Milton; George Kirk Bratten, 618 North Third; Percy Victor Gross, 107 North Front; Harold Loraine Hursh, 123 South Third; Vincent Raymond Maher, 1301 South Thirteenth; Ralph Stuart McClure, 232 Mulberry; George Walter Keener, care Bates and Rogers, New Cumberland; Frederick Gilmore, 235 Locust street, Johnstown. William Miller Faust, 2037 Boas; Raymond Jacob Snyder, 565 Race; William Dimitre Grimis, Sunbury, Pa.; Luigi Acconcainesso, 637 Walnut; Harry Allen Cohen, 928 North Sixth; James Pagonis, 225 Market; Charles Edward Kinard, 123 South Second; George A. Drexler, 1301 North Third; Edward Ensinger Gipe, 532 Race; Edward Wert, 273 Herr; Charles J. Fisher, 1340 North Third; Joseph Frederick Schleicher, 116 Nagle; Clarence Keister Geiger, 588 Showers; John Francis Corcoran, 928 Penn. John Patterson Rice, 1329 James; Ross Wilbur Coulter, 1302 North Third; Salvatore Carmine Firriolo, 103 Hanna, Walter James Fisher, Box 677; George Martch, 521 South Second, Steelton; Gust Zols, 22 North Fourth; William H. Sparver, 207 West Market street, Lewistown; Charles Lester Bay, 1407 Penn; James Donaldson Brown, Wichita B. B. Club, Wichita, Kan.; William Daniel Rogers, 943 Paxton; Jack Field Wills, 1121 North Second; Edwin Bower Kennedy, 1082 South Cameron; Frank Ebert Rogers, 943 Paxton; Francis Jordan Kenney, 703 Race. Andrew Sebastian Shroad, 1910 Arch street, Philadelphia; Frank Monroe Ilgenfritz, 1312 Penn; Edward Henry Walton, 270 Herr; Earl Eugene Durborow, 925 North Third (D. C. P.); Roy Harrison Swails, 1410 Green; Julius Shlomberg, 427 1/3 Verbeke; Nick Lalos, 14 North Third; Robert Arrington Marshall; 415 Verbeke; Thomas Roberts, 309 East 7th street, Wilmington, Del. The Substitutes The nine substitutes are: Joseph Sachs, 425 Herr; Jacob Cohen, 928 North Sixth; Earl Sylvester Koch, 406 1/2 Verbeke; William Frank Lenker, 1332 South Thirteenth; William Howard Eby, Jr., 613 North Front; Samuel Grant Saltzgiver, 207 Barbara; Harry Brower Hoagland, 1401 North Front; Chester Perry Motter, 410 Herr; Harvey Philmore Penner, 511 Race. The four colored men who will go to Camp Sherman are as follows: Frank F. Shorter, 803 South Tenth; Robert L. Grove, Washington, Va.; William B. Miller, 1409 Marion, and Alfred G. Bell, Chambersburg. H. V. CRANSTON ENTERS NAVAL OFFICERS' SCHOOL Henry Vigor Cranston, of 2019 Green street, who went overseas a year ago as a "Y" secretary, entered the United States Navy in November and for four months served on the Transport "President Lincoln," which was sunk on May 31. He was transferred from the "Lincoln." However, several weeks before the sinking to a merchant vessel plying between Portland, Me., and Texas, on which he spent six weeks. He returned home ten days ago on a leave of absence, departing this morning for Pelham Bay Park, New York, where for two months he will attend the Officers' Material School for Naval Reserves. CAPIN SEEKS TO HAVE HIS SENTENCE MODIFIED Judge Henry, of Lebanon, will come here again next week and reconsider the case of Samuel Capin, the North Third street tailor, who was given a sixty-day jail sentence on Saturday after he was convicted on a charge of assaulting one of his tenants. Capin struck the tenant over the right eye causing an injury which necessitated an operation to remove a small piece of the outer skull bone. Capin has been on bail since the sentence was imposed. An application to modify the sentence is pending. Sentences Forger to six Months in Jail Judge Kunkel handed out a six-month jail sentence this morning to Earl Durborow who pleaded guilty in criminal court last week to half a dozen charges of forgery. The Judge wouldn't hear the defendant's plea for a suspended sentence so that he can get into the military service. Sentence was suspended in the case of Ezra Wilt, a West Hanover Township farmer boy, who confessed last week to stealing a watch. The lad was penitent and convinced the court he is sorry he took the time piece. All in a Day's Work in Pennsylvania Politics Judge Bonniwell, of the Municipal Court, Democratic candidate for Governor, has made no preparation to leave the bench while seeking election. "I'll meet that question when I come up with it." Replied Judge Bonniwell. "At the present time I don't feel that I have to concern myself with such a matter." A reception will be held here tomorrow night for Judge Bonniwell at the Court House at 8 o'clock, it was announced yesterday by H. O. Holstein, who was the judge's running mate at the primaries. According to the announcement Judge John W. Westcott, of Camden, New Jersey, will deliver an address which will be in the nature of a reply to National Chairman Will H. Hays of the Republican Party, who spoke Friday at the conference of the Republican State Committee in Philadelphia. Judge Bonniwell is scheduled to attend a meeting of the Six Counties' Firemen's Convention at Shamokin today and tomorrow and he will arrive in Harrisburg at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Mr. Holstein announced that the Judge will be met at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station by a Reception Committee and escorted to his headquarters which will be at the Bolton House. The following Democrats were named by Mr. Holstein as officers of the meeting in the Court House. Temporary chairman, B. F. Meyers; permanent chairman, Henry C. Niles, of York; vice presidents; Robert Stucker; John K. Royal, W. L. Gorgas, Charles D. Stucker, Warren Van Dyke, Milton H. Plank, Dr. C. A. Fritchey, W. K. Meyers, W. M. Hain, H. W. Jones, Louis Simonetti, J. L. Morganthaler, Fred Morgenthaler, J. L. Wohlfarth, Chris Nauss, H. O. Holstein, D. U. Hershey, A. C. Young, John H. Maloney, John Marshall, T. K. Van Dyke, Henry Opperman, Chas. F. Spicer, Roy Danner, George A. Werner, Charles B. McConkey, George W. MacWilliams, J. Edgar Rodenhaver, P. Vanderloo, Harry Phillips, George S. Sides, O. C. Bender, Aug. H. Kreidler, Fred Wieseman, H. L. Reynolds, William H. Massoner, Sam T. Kinsinger, E. J. Fogarty, Charles Kirby, D. W. Bowman, William L. Orcutt, Thomas Holahan, John Elscheid; Harry C. Wells, James Ritchie, George Kobler, A. B. Hartman, George Deiker, George D. Herbert, Henry Hare, Aug. Geisel. L. F. Kast, Richard Sales, Charles E. Commings, Peter Fitzpatrick, Chris. Kramer. J. M. Welsh, J. A. Hennecke, W. Sherman Reel, Harry Dettling, Adam Rohrbach, Frank Keffer, John W. Filling, John Gillum, Chris. Whistler, Kirk Shelley, Bart Shelley, W. A. Phillips, J. A. Bennett, Aaron Klugh, William P. Murphy, John Low, H. H. Mercer, Jacob Foreman, George W. Dougherty, Raymond Shearer, Charles Kohler, David H. Reigel, Howard Herbine, Charles Snyder, Edward Moeslein, Dr. C. Ross Swartz, Henry Hershey, J. Wm. Rodenhaver, John W. Heller, Lemual Love, A. C. Rochow. Secretaries: James Miles, John A. Snyder, Oscar Bogen, H. W. Vollmer, George Yentzer, Lee Werner, W. H. Diffenderfer, Edw. Kreidler, F. E. Downey, William Good, Calder Shammo, John A. Riley, Charles Moeslein, J. Douglas M. Royal. The Reception Committee is to be as follows: Milton H. Plank, chairman, Charles D. Stucker, Dr. C. A. Fritchey, H. O. Holstein, J. L. Wohlfarth, J. L. Morgenthaler, H. W. Jones, D. U. Hershey, A. K. Kreidler, Louis Simmonetti, E. J. Fogarty, Chris. Nauss, A. C. Young, John H. Maloney, Harry C. Wells, George A. Werner, Charles E. Commings, P. Vanderloo, Edward Moeslein, George S. Sides, John K. Royal, John Elscheid, Robert Stucker, Harry Phillips, W. K. Meyers, W. M. Hain, T. K. VanDyke, Kirk Shelley, Bart Shelley, George Dougherty. Mr. Holstein said that the Judge will announce the platform upon which he proposes to stand for the benefit of the voters of the State as a whole and for the members of the State Democratic Committee which will meet here on Wednesday. Judge Bonniwell attended a luncheon given by his intimate political friends Saturday in Philadelphia at the Hotel Adelphia. The Judge intimated that unless he is allowed to have things pretty much his own way when the State Committee meets Wednesday, that he will try to set up a new organization throughout the State. The Judge, it was declared, will insist on being allowed to name the man who is to be chairman of the State Committee. Among the men who attended the Philadelphia meetings were former Congressman Michael Liebel, of Erie; Representative John M. Flynn, of Elk County; Thomas H. Greevy, of Blair County; former Sheriff S. E. Frock, of Fayette; Judge John M. Garman, of Luzerne, and Mr. Holstein, of this city. Shoots Up Crap Game and Lands in Prison Robert Robinson, 45 years old, colored, of Waltonville, is in the Dauphin county prison, charged with shooting Robert Johnson, of Waltonville, with intent to kill. The shooting, which took place at the Walton quarries, was said to have been caused by a quarrel which the men got into over a crap game. It is said that Robinson fired five shots at Johnson, but that only one took effect. It was in the left arm. Persons who witnessed the fight notified Constable Reigel, of Hummelstown and he promptly arrested Robinson. VISITS THE LENTZ HOME Miss Stella Shoop, one of the transcribers in the Recorder's office spent the week end in Elizabethville, with the Recorder and Mrs. James E. Lentz. ERRING SPOUSES SALTED IN COURT Judge McCarrell made an order in desertion and non-support court this morning directing H. C. Gordon, a young Harrisburger, to pay his wife $50 a month. Mrs. Gordon said that because of her husband's misconduct she was obliged to withdraw from his home. She produced numerous letters which said her husband received from a girl named "Helen." Judge McCarrell made another heavy maintenance order in the case of Frank H. Blake who was directed to pay his wife and children $40 a month. Hearing in the case of Nik Honehut, charged with non-support, was continued because the Judge thought there is hope that the couple will get together. Nik said he met and wooed his wife one day and the next day eloped with her to Hagerstown, Md., where they were married. He is 41 and his wife is 16. The wife said she was deceived. Judge Kunkel told Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Swartz, this city, that there is no good reason why they should not be living together and for that reason he couldn't allow Mrs. Swartz much alimony. He ordered Swartz to pay her $1 a week and to pay $6 additional for the support of their two children. Several times the Judge urged them to get together but Mrs. Swartz each time said "No." Johnson Found Guilty in One Homicide Case "Preacher" Ben Johnson, the Wiconisco township colored man who was tried in criminal court last week and acquitted of one murder and found guilty only of voluntary manslaughter in the second homicide case, has been granted ten days in which to file reasons for a new trial in the latter case. W. Justin Carter, his counsel, said this morning that he has not fully decided whether he will press the application. Johnson slew Tucker and O'Dell Copeland, brothers, and put in a plea of self defense at his trial. The jury was divided, eleven to one, and deliberated nearly eight hours before the verdict was reached Saturday evening at 6 o'clock. The decision means that the murder of Tucker Copeland was justifiable and that the slaying of O'Dell was more or less accidental - at least without premeditation.