NEWS: Items from The Evening News, June 19, 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., Wednesday, June 19, 1918 WOMAN HURT BY AUTO Mrs. Margaret Kennedy, Herman avenue, Lemoyne, was slightly injured this morning when she was hit by an auto truck in Market Square. The truck was owned and driven by Raymond Stonesifer. Columbia Boy Among Marines Killed in War Special to The Evening News COLUMBIA, June 19. - A telegram received last night by Howard Leber, from Washington, announced the death of his son, Paul Revere Leber, a member of the United States marine Corps, from wounds received in action in France, June 7. Leber was the first Columbia boy to die from wounds received in action. He was 20 years old, enlisted in the marines in January, 1917, and sailed from Quantico, Va., in May of the same year. He was one of the youngest men in the service from Lancaster county. No particulars accompanied the message announcing his death. His parents were not aware of his being in France until they learned of his death, having heard nothing from him since he entered the service. Preparing Asylum Here for Insane Soldiers READING, June 19. - It was learned today that the State asylum for the insane at Harrisburg is being prepared for the reception of soldiers who are insane and suffering mentally from shell shock. Preparatory to their reception many of the insane at Harrisburg are now being sent to other asylums throughout the State. Berks County was notified officially of this action and twelve of her wards are being sent elsewhere. DICKINSON PROFESSOR RECEIVES DEGREE CARLISLE, June 19. - Montgomery P. Sellers, professor of the rhetoric and English department of Dickinson College, was honored by Hamilton University during their commencement exercises this year by the conferring upon him of a degree of doctor of literature. WANTS HOTEL MOVED. Albert Fritz, a Lykens hotelman, filed notices in court today to the effect that he will apply to the judges on July 15 to have his liquor license transferred so that he may move his saloon from the basement of the Odd Fellows Hall. Main street, Lykens, to a building, 100 feet away at 147 Main street, which Fritz bought recently. TRANSFERRED TO INFANTRY Twenty-three of the enlisted men who had been attached to the Aviation depot at Middletown have been transferred to the infantry and were sent to Long Island today and soldiers to fill their places at the depot are expected to arrive in Middletown within the next few days, according to Major Garrison, the post commander. The entertainment given last evening at Fahnestock Hall, under the direction of the members of the orchestra of Troop No. 7, Boy Scouts of America, was attended by more than 500 guests. The Scout Troop, which is under the leadership of W. L. Bailey, assistant scoutmaster, was assisted by H. A. Bailey, C. C. Bailey and J. A. Ness, all connected with the Y. M. C. A. of York, who with W. L. Bailey formed a male quartet which gave a number of selections. Mrs. W. L. Bailey accompanied the quartet. H. A. Bailey also gave several readings. W. M. McCormick and Mr. Ness gave vocal solos. Herman and Joseph Goldstein, members of the orchestra, gave a violin and clarinet duet. Four members of the orchestra gave a demonstration in "first aid" and Scout Executive J. Fredrik Virgin talked on "Scouting." Troop No. 7 is connected with the Harris Street United Evangelical Church, and numbers forty-five members. Jerome R. Miller is scoutmaster. The proceeds of last evening's concert will be used for the camping fund of the troop. The members of the orchestra are as follows: Paul Henning, piano; Jacob Stocks, Carl Gingrich, Blair Gingrich, Herman Goldstein, violin; Donald Gemperling, saxophone; Joseph Goldstein, clarinet; William Goldstein, Charles Steiger, cornet; Rudolph Miller, bass viol; Paul Strue, trombone. Music pupils of Mrs. Ruth Hummel Derr gave a recital in the Town Hall at Wormleysburg last night. They presented some good selections and were assisted by Miss Potts and Ross Dell, of Harrisburg. The pupils who took part in the recital are: Jean Hummel, Margaret Sparrow, Alva Holcombe, Rhoda Neidhamer, Esther Kraber, Charles Fisher, Bernice and Romayne Sherk, Ethel Martin, Esther Baughman, Hazel Givler, Louise and Dewitt Balthaser, Donald Martin, David Rhinehart, Dorothy Latour, Maria Thompson, Catherine and Elizabeth Fisher, Catherine and Pauline Frederick, Sophia Curry, Dorothy Urich, Catherine and Marie Ammon, Ruth and Irene Arney, Mildred Ritchie, Earl Grunden, Gladys Schrack, Enola Heckert, Irvin and George Boose. Personal Briefs Ross A. Gingrich, of Washington, D. C., spent the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard M. Gingrich, 2286 North Sixth street. Mrs. Jonas A. Cassel, of 2286 North Sixth street, is attending the commencement exercises at Millersville Normal school, where her cousin, Miss Hilda Groninger, of Mifflin, is a member of the graduating class. Before returning home she will be the guest of the Rev. and Mrs. George F. Schaum, former residents of this city. Miss Elizabeth Leakway, a pupil nurse at the Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia, is spending her vacation with her grandmother, Mrs. James Nalen, 423 Herr street. Mrs. Frank Swope, 2035 Green street, has returned to her home after spending a week at "Golden Rod Cottage," Mt. Gretna. Mr. and Mrs. M. Lee Goldsmith, 243 Woodbine street, informally celebrated their wedding anniversary Monday. Mr. and Mrs. William Bennethum and Miss Helen Bennethum, 2009 North Third street, will motor to Eaglesmere tomorrow, where they have taken a cottage in Eaglesmere Park for the Summer. Miss Matilda Heister, 1100 North Front street, is in Perth Amboy, N. J., where she is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Baldwin. James H. Wickersham, son of Frank B. Wickersham, assistant district attorney, was graduated from Yale University today with the class of 1918. Mr. Wickersham enlisted as a private May 30 in Battery B, 301st Field Artillery, and is now stationed at Camp Deven, Mass. He has received a furlough in order to be graduated with his class. His brother, Robert, of New York, will also attend the exercises. Miss Mary Jane Wills, of Duncannon, is visiting friends in this city. Miss Laura Bretz, a student at Goucher College, Baltimore, is spending the summer vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bretz, 1921 North Second street. Miss Martha O. Seiler and Miss Sue Seiler, 17 North Front street, spent the past week-end at Bonnymeade as the guests of Mrs. A. P. L. Dull. Miss Martha E. Fleming, Riverside Apartments, has returned from Chambersburg, where she visited Mr. and Mrs. Joshua W. Sharpe. Miss Mary Hunter Linn, of Bellefonte, is visiting Doctor and Mrs. William E. Wright, at Yverdon. Mrs. A. Wilson Norris, Sunset Apartments, has gone to Bellefonte for the Summer. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McCreath and their little daughter, Susanna, have returned from a visit in Chambersburg. Miss Mary Blanchard, of Bellefonte, has returned home after a visit with Miss Anne McCormick, Rose Garden. John Lescure, Jr., William Lescure, Parker Geistwhite, J. Mowell Hawkins, Jr., and "Ted" Morganthaler, members of this year's graduating class of the Harrisburg Academy, are doing construction work for the Government during the Summer at Magnolia, Md. Mrs. John Brua Keefer and Miss Carolyn R. Keefer, Front and Hamilton streets, have as their guests Mrs. R. P. Palmer and two daughters, Lexington, Mo. James W. Millhouse, Jr., Camp Hill, was operated upon for appendicitis at the Harrisburg Hospital yesterday. Miss Lillian Miller, a student at Wellesley College, is spending the Summer at her home in Cottage Ridge. Miss Lois K. Booker, 420 Maclay street, has returned from Williamsport, where she was the guest of the Story Tellers' League and the Business Women's Club. Miss Dorothy Wallower, Front and Maclay streets, has returned from Orange, N. J., where she was graduated from Miss Baird's school. Lieut. Richard Robinson, of Camp Meade, recently spent a few days at his home, Front and Reily streets. Dr. Jerome Marshall, lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the army, stationed at Camp Meade, has returned to the cantonment after spending a short furlough here. Mr. and Mrs. George Etter, 209 Pine street, expect to spend the week- end in Druid Hill Park, Md., with their daughter, Mrs. William Meredith Wood. Word has been received in this city of the safe arrival overseas of Sergeant Charles J. Yount, who sailed with the 108th Field Artillery, Battery F, which was previously stationed at Camp Hancock. Mr. Yount, who is a brother of Mrs. M. L. Faus, 1640 North Third street, enlisted in the Governor Troop in 1900. He was made sergeant major with headquarters, Troop C, at Philadelphia. Later he resigned that position to go to the Texas border with the Governor's Troop. When the troop disbanded he became a sergeant in his present branch of service. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Comp and daughter Helen, have returned home, after visiting F. M. Putnam, of Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio. Before entering training, Mr. Putnam was salesman for the Moorhead Knitting Company, this city. LOCAL ATHLETE NOW OVER THERE According to a letter received here yesterday, Harry "Peanuts" Waltz, one of Harrisburg's popular athletes has been "somewhere in France" for the past several weeks. Waltz was formerly associated with the Tarsus School of Gymnastics and was a star player on that football team for several seasons. During the baseball season he was a member of the Stanley and Enola Midway nines. In a brief letter to friends in this city, the athlete-soldier writes as follows: "The boys 'over here' are eager for sports of all sorts and the sport pages of all papers which arrive here are passed along until nothing but shreds are left. Among our company are several baseball players of wide reputation and we are 'eagerly looking forward to the time when we can secure a place on which to stage a real honest- to-goodness game of the "national pastime." The place where we are now located is rather hilly and wholly unfit for baseball, in fact hoop rolling would be much more in style. "Several days ago we located a large pool which has since been cleaned out and we are now using it for a swimming place, this being the chief recreation at this time. "This war instead of killing athletics will boost them higher than they ever were before. Every company 'over here' has at least one or two athletes who have won distinction in some line of sport and every soldier is anxious to play baseball, tennis and any other sport which is possible at the place where they are located." Waltz is the son of Mrs. Annie Waltz, 501 Hamilton street, and is a member of Company E, 112th Infantry. Dozen More Selectives Called for Camp Lee The Paxtang Draft Board of the Second County District sent out notices today calling the dozen men who will be sent from that draft district to Camp Lee, Va. The unit will leave with the other Dauphin county men on Monday, but will be assembled on Sunday afternoon at the draft board's headquarters in the Dauphin Building. The list follows: Henry Y. Carmany, Union Deposit; William Kramer, Rutherford Heights; Levi O. Bolton, 1862 Walnut; Raymond J. Thompson, Paxtang; David A. Hinkie, Penbrook; Robert H. Sattazahn, Hershey; Addison C. Burkholder, Manheim; Ivan T. Dawson, Fort Hunter; Millard F. O'Neal, Jr., Harrisburg R. D.; Howard S. Bomgardner, Hershey; G. Ballard French, 1830 North; Robert N. Paine, Harrisburg R. D. Halifax News Briefs; S. S. Delegates Elected HALIFAX, June 19. - The following have been elected as delegates from the local Methodist Episcopal Sunday school to attend the county Sunday School Convention at Hershey June 27 and 28: The Rev. and Mrs. J. George Smith, W. C. Heisler, Misses Marion Krick and Virginia Shoop. Frank M. Toomis has arrived here from Plant City, Florida, to spend the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Meader and children, of Altoona, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John Meader over Sunday. J. Irvin Hoffman, who was sent with an upper end contingent several weeks ago to Camp Lee, Va., has been assigned to the Bureau of Standards and Chemistry at Washington. A family reunion was held Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. U. J. Moyer, in Halifax Township, when all the children and grandchildren of Burgess and Mrs. Isaac F. Chubb, of town, assembled to spend the day. Mrs. Daniel Ludlow and children, of Harrisburg, are visiting at the home of the former's mother, Mrs. Hannah Rutter. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Poffenberger and children, Daniel and Lois, of Marysville, spent Tuesday and today with Mrs. Poffenberger's mother, Mrs. Harry Kline. Miss Mary E. Hoffman is spending the week with relatives at Dietrich. The United Brethren Sunday School at Enders will hold its annual children's day exercises on Sunday evening. Mrs. Harry Sheetz and children of Enola, are paying a visit to the former's mother, Mrs. Cornelius Enders in Halifax Township. F. S. Tomlinson is seriously ill at his home on Market street. WOMAN FILES ANSWER TO HUSBAND'S DIVORCE SUIT Mrs. Mary Shaner, of this city, filed an answer in court yesterday to action for divorce which was brought recently by her husband, Robert S. Shaner. In that she alleges that she was compelled to leave Shaner and did not desert him willfully. Moreover, she says she will oppose the divorce action but needs money to present her case. The Court granted a rule on Shaner to show cause why he should not pay counsel fees to Mrs. Shaner. He has ten days in which to answer that rule. SUICIDE NOT DESTITUTE W. J. Kuhn, 1954 North Seventh street, brother-in-law of Albert Knull, the blind man who committed suicide Saturday by drinking poison, stated today that Knull had not taken his life because of being destitute in any way, as he was well taken care of by relatives and given all the reasonable comforts of home. Social A letter recently received by Mrs. Mary R. Meisenhelder from her son, Sergeant Harvey B. Meisenhelder, military police with the 103rd Regiment, told of his safe arrival "over there" and many interesting things about the treatment of the American boys. Quoting from Sergeant Meisenhelder's letter concerning the French people he states the following: "France is one beautiful place; the people are so good and kind to all the boys wherever we go, although it is a little hard because we do not know the language. Coming over the ocean we had a fine trip. Don't worry about me because everything over here is fine and I like it much better than the camp we were in in the U. S." SAY AUTOIST WAS DRUNK Alderman C. E. Murray will conduct a hearing tomorrow evening at 7 o'clock in the case of Charles Shetren, a Millersburg merchant, who is charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, Shetren was arrested Monday night by two State policemen who declare he was drunk and asleep and lying in his auto truck at the side of the road, near Heckton, when they came upon him. Shetren is out on bail. PRESENT CURTAINS TO THE MESSIAH CHURCH Mrs. John H. Ludwick and her mother, Mrs. Annie Marshall, have presented the new Messiah Lutheran Church with handsome green plush curtains in memory of Mrs. May M. Anderson. Steelton Negro Given New Chance for Life William Evans, colored, of Steelton, will be retried for the murder of Rufus Gielum, in Steelton on February 15 last, for which he was convicted of murder in the first degree during the first week in May. Judge Albert W. Johnson, of the Union-Snyder County judicial district, who presided at the Evans trial, today awarded the negro a re-hearing. Evans may be tried at the September criminal sessions. He had not been sentenced on the first degree verdict because his counsel, William H. Earnest and Thomas C. McCarrell, Jr., intervened immediately after the verdict was rendered and filed the motion for the new trial. The lawyers cited nine reasons why the conviction should not be allowed to stand, but the trial judge sustained only one of those points. The Judge, in his charge, inadvertently told the murder jury the Commonwealth contended that the motive for the crime was the fact that Gielum wouldn't give back $3 which he was supposed to have won from Evans in a crap game. The evidence did not show that the men had figured in a crap game and the Commonwealth's case failed to establish the motive. Evans maintained that he was drunk and didn't know that he had fatally stabbed Gielum. The Judge said he fears that possibly his erroneous statement influenced the jury. PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin billet and family desire to thank all those who so kindly assisted them and sent flowers during the illness and death of their beloved daughter and sister, Myrtle. CARD OF THANKS Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Bretz, 645 Harris St., wish to thank their friends and neighbors for their kindness during the sickness and death of their daughter, Mrs. Margaret Bretz Miller. In loving remembrance of our dear son, Harold Eugene Toland, who departed this life two years ago, June 14, 1916. Oh, how well we all remember Of the day you left our side, Many friends spoke words of comfort, But our hearts were truly tried. HIS PARENTS. NOTICE Letters of Administration, c. t. a. on the estate of David N. Thomas, late of the City of Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, deceased, have been granted in the undersigned; all persons having claims or demands against the estate of said decedent will make known the same, and all persons indebted to said decedent will make payment, without delay to H. W. THOMAS, Administrator, c. t. a., Paoli, Pa. Scott S. Leiby, Atty., Room 1, Russ Building, Harrisburg, Pa. 40 FROM CENTRAL TO GO TO COLLEGE Figures made available today show that forty of the 177 students who were graduated from Central High School this year will go to college. This is slightly under twenty-five per cent, but is considered very good in view of the great demand for workers in all branches of industry and the exceptionally good wages paid. Following are the students and the colleges which they have selected: Goucher College - Fay Moyer, Mildred Moyer, Kathryn Brackenridge, Sylvia Claster and Gertrude Kenney. Vassar - Emma Keeney. Princeton - Willard Smith and Jay Stoll. Swarthmore - Kathryn Cleckner and Richard Mount. Lebanon Valley - Dorothy Engle and Verna Beam. Smith - Nancy McCullough and Frances Hause. Baltimore Dental - Blair Smith. Dickinson - Mildred Burkholder and Elizabeth Watts. Bucknell - Arthur Gardner and Noble Frank. Pennsylvania State - George Pavord, Albert Rinkenbach, Thomas Caldwell, Elmer Herring, Hugo Rose, Kenneth Wingeard, Russel Wise, Harry Good, Edward Williamson, Harvey Baturin, Samuel Morris and Seymour Nissley. Muhlenburg - Thomas Lantz. Mt. Holyoke - Pauline Kast. Wells - Mary Blough. Wilson - Eleanor Jones and Beatrice Krebs. Sargent Physical Culture School - Faye I. Haverstick, Mildred Runkle and Margaret Reynolds. Presbyterian Hospital Training School, Philadelphia - Catherine Roeder. State Finally Gets Lee Properties in Park Zone The State today was absolutely assured that it had gained possession of the properties of Mrs. Helen M. Lee, opposite the Technical High School building in the Park zone. The properties were sold to the wrecking crews months ago, but she would not accept the money offered by the old Capitol Park Extension Commission. She appealed her case to the local and then the Supreme Court, but before the case was called in the latter she accepted a check from the State. Then she refused to turn over the properties and there was more legal processes needed. During the contest to gain possession by the State the Attorney General's Department and the Sheriff's office were kept fairly busy trying to locate the woman. Notices posted by the sheriff were torn down. Today, a month after she had been paid for the properties, and when more legal steps threatened, she sent the keys to the four properties to Deputy Attorney General Kun, who turned them over to Superintendent Shreiner of the Department of Public Grounds and Buildings.