NEWS: Items from The Evening News, June 29, 1918, 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., Saturday, June 29, 1918 U. S. AIRMAN HIT, RETURNS SAFELY WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, June 29. - Lieutenant Jack Chambers, piloting a British bombing plane over the German lines yesterday, was severely wounded by a machine gun bullet but stuck it out and brought his machine back safely to the American airdome. Chambers and a British gunner went out to strafe a German troop train, reported to be moving some distance from the front. As they sailed over the enemy's positions, the latter cut loose with their "Archies" and machine-guns. Chambers was struck in the right arm. He calmly steered the plane over the train, while his companion showered it with bombs. Then he darted down through the enemy barrage so the Britisher might spray the train with machine-gun fire. After their object was thoroughly accomplished, Chambers returned home, growing fainter all the time. He spotted the American airdrome and glided down in a perfect landing. Then he keeled over, unconscious. When seen in an American hospital today, Chambers grinned and said: "It is worth a wound to get the care of these American girls, believe me." Private Joseph Leitzan, of the American field artillery, has been awarded a posthumous Distinguished Service Cross. The citation says that "On May 27, while under heavy bombardment, he voluntarily assisted other soldiers who were buried in a dugout. He was killed." The medal goes to his mother, Mrs. Annie Lietzan, of Hammond, Ind. CAPT. LASSITER IS TRANSFERRED MIDDLETOWN, June 28. - Following the arrival here yesterday of four more Army officers, Major William H. Garrison, commander of the Aviation depot, announced this morning that the post, in addition to being a supply depot and distributing center, is to be a training school in warehouse work for commissioned men who will spend several months here. The officers who came here yesterday are Captain Evans, Captain Tips, Captain Miller and First Lieutenant Miller. Eleven others are expected to arrive within the next few days. Major Garrison also announced that Captain Lassiter, who has been attached to the post since last Fall, has been transferred to the aircraft production division and will report in Washington on Monday. Captain Lassiter will leave tomorrow. The Major got word this morning that another squadron of enlisted men, now stationed in Camp Greene, will arrive within the next two weeks. There will be 173 men in the squadron that is coming. Twenty-three of these men will take the places of those who were transferred into the infantry last week. Construction work on the several new buildings in the aviation depot is almost completed and it is expected that the several warehouses will be put into service within the next fortnight, by which time more than 500 enlisted men will be attached to the post. There are several printers among the soldier boys and they are making arrangements to publish a small newspaper, containing camp news. The first publication probably will be issued next week. The printers have a small electrically-driven job press and with that they can publish a four page paper, about eight by fourteen inches in size. Auto Loses Wheel and Runs Mile Without It Oliver Acey, colored, and a party of friends started out last evening on an auto trip to Lancaster and just after they left Elizabethtown, when the machine was going possibly twenty miles an hour, one of the hind wheels came off and rolled to the side of the road. Acey didn't apply the brakes because he feared a more serious accident and the auto ran almost a mile on three wheels before it was stopped. Acey and his friends went back and searched but failed to find the wheel. They went to Lancaster in another machine and returned to the city by train. Chester Thompson, one of the Court House janitors, was one of the passengers in the disabled car. Draftee From Meade Ends Life at Mt. Penn READING, June 29. - Robert Lee Goodhart, 31, of Mt. Penn, who was a soldier at Camp Meade, on his first leave of absence, was found hanging in a barn about a block away from his home early yesterday. He also had gashed one of his wrists. Goodhart had overstayed his leave owing to illness, a communication to this effect having been sent to the Camp Meade officers by his attending physician. He was among the draftees who left here on May 25. He arrived home last Saturday evening but little of him had been seen by his family since then. Goodhart is said to have told some of his comrades that he could not stand Army life. He has a brother, Peter Goodhart, who enlisted in the aviation service and is in France. THREE BUILDING PERMITS Three building permits were issued today at the City Highway offices. Catino Magnelli will remodel the three-story building, 114 South Second street, for $300; Howard L. Poffenberger will build a one-story brick garage at the rear of 39 North Nineteenth street, costing $225, and the Capital City Junk Company will be a one-story frame shed at Tenth and Mulberry streets, costing $300. MT. JOY MARINE KILLED LANCASTER, June 29. - Among recent United States casualties in France was Sergeant Vincent M. Schwab, of Mount Joy, a member of the Fifth regiment, United States Marines. Although a German by birth, he was serving his third enlistment. He was 35 years old. CLASS 1 MEN FOR SPECIAL SERVICE Local Draft Boards Assign Selected Men to Various Colleges Many Harrisburg men in Class 1 of the draft have volunteered within the last few days for special service in the Army which they will take up at the close of a training course in schools and colleges in the east. Three men who were inducted by the local board of the Third city district will leave Monday. John O. Lash, 2213 Jefferson, and Charles Robert Swartz, 1413 Cowden, will go to the Spring Garden Institute, Philadelphia, and John Newton Heck, 922 North Eighteenth street, will enter Delaware State College, at Newark, Del. The First City Board is arranging to send more than a dozen men. Wilkins G. Wenrick, 1321 Marion street, leaves tomorrow night for the Polish National Alliance College, Combridge Springs, and George P. Myers, 208 South street, will go to Philadelphia Monday to enter the Spring Garden Institute. The following leave on July 15. Edgar L. Spayd, 606 North Second street, driver of the Hope fire engine, to the North Carolina State College at Raleigh; Benjamin H. Boggs, 115 Summit; Charles B. Hartman, 312 Cumberland, and William A. Davis, 403 Boas, to Lehigh University, South Bethlehem; Carl R. Schmidt, 318 Herr; Harry B. Hoagland, 1401 North Front; A. K. Belehas, 305 Market; V. G. Kaetsokledys, 305 Market street, and Chester P. Motter, 410 Herr street, to State College. Kaetsokledys, a Greek, was a student at Mercersburg, where he was active in athletics. HEARS FROM CAPT. BASSLER City Electrician Diehl received a letter today from Captain Harry Bassler, former pastor of the Second Reformed Church, who now is serving as a chaplain, somewhere in France, with an ammunition truck train unit. He has the highest regard and the utmost confidence in the American boys "over there" who are "sure to win" he said. His message to Diehl and all Harrisburg was: "Keep the home fires burning." A number of friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. O'Donnell were delightfully entertained at their residence, 133 Paxton street, recently. Music and games were enjoyed during the evening and a buffet supper was served to the following guests: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Keim, Miss Maude Keim, Mrs. Thomas Reinhard and son, Thomas, and daughter, Dorothy, Miss Mary Albright, Miss Esther Lentz, Miss Irene White, Miss Mary Garrick, Miss Carrie Kennedy, Miss Delphine Stewart, Miss Ruth Hilton, Ralph Shader, Porter Jefferies, Mr. and Mrs. George Conner, David Carr, and son, David, and daughter, Elsie, Mrs. Mary Reinhard, Mrs. R. Shader, Mrs. A. C. O'Donnell, Charles O'Donnell, Mr. and Mrs. George Eyster, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Reinhard, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. O'Donnell, and son, Roy, and daughter, Beatrice. Personal Briefs Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sanders, 644 Muench street, received a letter from their son, Clarence Sanders, in which he stated his safe arrival in France also that he liked the camp life there very much and was well and happy. Miss Harriet Fair, of Pittsburgh, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Fair for the past week has returned to her home. Captain John V. Miller, of the State Banking Department, has gone to spend the weekend with his sister in Lewisburg. Miss Lola H. Heist, of Philadelphia, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Fred M. Gilbert at her residence in Paxtang. Miss Heist was accompanied by Miss Helen Scott, of Germantown, who was on her way to attend the missionary conference which is being held at Wilson College, Chambersburg. Miss Matilda Heister, 1100 North Front street, has returned from Perth Amboy, N. J., where she was the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Baldwin. Miss Heister was accompanied home by Mrs. Baldwin who will remain here for some time. Mrs. R. W. Fair and Miss Martha Means of "Old Orchard" have gone to Chambersburg to attend the missionary conference which is being held at Wilson College. Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Austin Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Moul and Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman will leave on Monday for a camping party at the Tentz Cottage, situated along the Susquehanna River above Dauphin. R. F. Kilgore, 2006 North Fourth street, who has been recently been in the employ of the P. R. R., has gone to Detroit, Mich., where he has accepted a position with the United States Government. Major Thomas H. Lowe and family, who have been the guests for several days of Mrs. Lowe's parents, Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy J. Wolfe, at their residence, 2149 North Second street, left yesterday afternoon for a camp in Alabama. Major Lowe has been in Honolulu for several years. Mrs. Samuel Freedman, who is living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Leiby, 306 North Second street, has received word that her husband, Corporal Samuel Freedman, of the 324th Machine Gun Battalion, has arrived safely in France. Miss Jacobina Mayers, 1611 Green street, and Miss Irene Burns, of New Cumberland, left last night for Cambridge, Mass., where they intend to take a six weeks' course in physical training at the Harvard Summer School. Before returning home they will be the guests of Miss Marjorie Bolles, who is spending some time with relatives in Boston. Miss Katharine Middleton, of Camp Hill, is spending several days with friends in Baltimore. DeForest Lescure, of 803 North Second street, is home from Philadelphia, where he has completed his course of study in the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Jess Warner and son, of 1409 Thompson street, have returned home after a recent visit with relatives in Lancaster. Mrs. Carl B. Ely with her children, Jane, Elisabeth and Gertrude, 307 North Front street, will leave shortly to spend the Summer months in the Adirondacks. Carl Ely is in Washington, where he has accepted a position in the Bureau of Aircraft Production. Mrs. C. M. Spahr, president of the Harrisburg Branch of the W. C. T. U., was in charge of the organization's outing at Paxtang Park yesterday. The Woman's Aid Society of the Camp Hill M. E. Church will hold a supper in the Fellowship Building tonight from 6 to 8 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Barton and daughter, Helen Barton, of 13 North Fifteenth street, are spending some time in New York. Miss Beulah Starry, 33 South Eighteenth street, a junior at the Sergeant Physical Training School, will return the early part of next week from the Sergeant Camp in Petersborough, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Ensminger, 1325 Vernon street, who are touring through the West, are now at Waterloo, Iowa. Mr. Ensminger, who is recuperating from a severe sickness, is greatly improved in health. Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Goldsborough, Front and Forster streets, expect to return from their motor trip to Bass Rock, Maine, on Monday, and will leave soon with their family for their summer home in York. Mr. and Mrs. Berne H. Evans, Elphinstone Apartments, left yesterday by motor for Bedford. They will return today and next Tuesday will leave for Seabright, N. J., to spend the summer with Mrs. Evans' mother, Mrs. Fleitmann. Complimentary to Mrs. Margaret Gough, Miss Margaret K. Gough, her daughter, entertained a number of friends at a surprise party at their residence, 2126 North Fifth street. Beautiful bouquets of sweet peas, daisies and ferns made the house most attractive. The following guests enjoyed an informal evening of music, games and dancing: Mrs. William Trout, Mrs. William Ford, Mrs. H. L. Rote, Mrs. H. M. Rudy, Mrs. Stanley Stonesifer, Mrs. William Adams, Mrs. Harry Shaner, Mrs. Laura Hartzell, Mrs. A. A. Yaple, Mrs. E. Keefer, Mrs. G. W. Diebler, Miss Mildred Hartzell, Miss Helen Adams, Miss Mary Rote, Miss Helen Rote, Miss Jean Keefer, Frank Ford, Edward Gough, Charles Gough and James Gough. Several Harrisburg artists assisted at a concert last evening at Camp Colt, Gettysburg, among them were: Mrs. Ada Culp Bowman, soprano; Miss Jennie Shartzer, contralto; Edwin McCoy, tenor, and Henry W. Stewart, bass. A humorous number was well given by Christ Kautz and Francis Hoy which scored a decided hit. The Rev. Alfred N. Sayres gave several interesting readings. The wedding of Miss Annie Carolyn Young, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller, 538 Chestnut street, and Richard Francis Currie, son of Mrs. M. E. Currie, of Philadelphia, took place at the Parish House, Saint Matthew's Roman Catholic Church, Rhode Island avenue, Washington, D.C. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miller and Mr. and Mrs. James B. Foose motored to Washington to attend the wedding. Miss Young wore a smart suit of navy blue and French turban to match, with a corsage of orchids. Mr. and Mrs. Currie are spending their honeymoon at Eastern resorts. Mrs. Currie attended the Seiler School of this city, and Beechwood School, Jenkintown, Philadelphia. Mr. Currie is a graduate of Villa Nova, and is now connected with the American Chicle Company. STEVENS CHURCH TO UNFURL FLAGS Emblems Will Be Dedicated at the Morning Service Tomorrow The congregation of Stevens Memorial Methodist Church will dedicate tomorrow morning a new silk American flag and a sixty-six star service flag, both the gifts of Mr. and Mrs. George W. McIlhenny. Fitting ceremonies will be held in the church. Scheduled to participate in the exercises are sixty little girls dressed in patriotic colors. Others who will appear on the program are George W. McIlhenny, A. W. Black, Miss Vivian Eaves, Joseph Steele and the Rev. Dr. Clayton Albert Smucker, pastor of the church. The young men represented in the new service flag are only those who are members of the Church or Sunday School. The flag to be unfurled tomorrow stands for the following honor roll which occupies a conspicuous place in the church vestibule: W. Stuart Baker, Harry Wilhelm, LeRoy D. Smucker, Howard Seidel, Charles R. Walker, James Redman, Lee Warner, Harper Wharton, Emory Sourbeer, Charles Snyder, James McFarland, Robert Fohl, Russell Challenger, Marshall Como, Albert Compton, Herbert Wolf, Robert Storey, Fred Ramey, Harold Moore, Gordon Berkstresser, Charles R. Meek, Harry D. Schriver, Walter L. Vanaman, P. G. Bennett, J. Oram Wible, Paul Shope, Robert M. Mace, William Berkstresser, Harold Black, Elsmere Burns, Ray Johnson, Ritner I. Feister, J. Stewart Askins, Clifton H. Turner, Franklin Moore, John McAllister, Ross Willis, Albert Fean, Fabian Bumgardner, Wilson Black, Frank Wolf, Jerome Hamilton, Raymond Coble, Harry L. Bricker, Howard Perry, Charles B. Bowers, Samuel E. Bowers, Charles A. Hiller, William R. Hoffman, Allen W. Saussaman, Charles W. Phillips, Bruce A. Hess, L. U. Doyle, Russell Allen Kline, William A. Boyer, Samuel D. Wilson, Harold E. Earp, D. P. Cocklin, John C. Carey, Merle Beaver, B. H. Bennett, Joseph L. Fean, Tarold K. Hamilton, Miss Blanche Iona Fiester, Howard E. Mussleman, Daniel Graham. York Airman Killed CHAMPAIGN, Ill., June 29. - H. Charles Noble, believed to be a son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Noble, 23 Carlisle avenue, York, Pa., was killed late yesterday afternoon in an airplane fall. This is the first death at Schanute Field. Young Noble enlisted last February. Retiree M. E. Minister Dies in Tennessee The Rev. J. B. Palsgrove, a retired minister of the Central Pennsylvania Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, and since his retirement a resident of Carlisle, died at Chattanooga, Tenn., Thursday night. Services will be held in the Allison Memorial Church, Carlisle, Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock. He was pastor of the Fifth Street Church, of this city, for one year - 1900-1901. NOTICES NOTICE - Letters of Administration. Testamentary on the Estate of Fabyan Trosic, late of Steelton, Dauphin County, Pa., deceased, having been granted to the undersigned, all persons indebted to said Estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims will present them for settlement to WILLIAM J. URICH, Administrator. 32 Walnut St., Steelton, Pa. NOTICE - My wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Baker, having left my bed and board, I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by her, H. M. BAKER. Bully Barred From Park Fined $5.50 yesterday afternoon by Alderman A. M. Landis, on a charge of using profanity and interfering with smaller children, on a city playground, Leroy McIntire, 1619 Logan street, was set up as an example by playground officials of what will happen to bullies here after. The boy was denied future use of the playgrounds. AUTO HURTS LITTLE GIRL The condition of Dora Johnson, four years old, 1297 Apple street, who was last night struck and injured by an automobile, was reported this afternoon at the Harrisburg Hospital to be very serious. The driver of the machine is unknown. TOOK IODINE IN ERROR Drinking iodine in mistake for medicine last night, at her home, 1806 Wallace street, Ellen Michael, 23 years old, is being treated today at the Harrisburg hospital. She is believed to be beyond the danger point, although very ill. WILL GO TO FRANCE Miss Hazel Blackburn, who recently graduated as a nurse at the Allentown Homeopathic Hospital, is spending a week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Blackburn. Miss Blackburn has volunteered as a nurse for foreign service and expects to soon leave for France. EBERSOLE DWELLING SOLD The frame dwelling house of Levi W. Ebersole at Second and Hanover streets, has been sold by Richard B. Earnest, real estate broker, to Addison Landis, of Swatara township, for a private consideration. Mr. Landis expects to occupy the property in April, 1919. PERSONAL MENTION Mrs. Daniel Cassel and daughter, Mrs. Charles Pugh, of Lancaster, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Hummel. Mrs. Annie Bell, of the Lutheran Home for the Aged at Washington, D. C., is visiting at the home of her niece, Mrs. Vernon Walters. ANNOUNCE MARRIAGE Announcement was made yesterday of the marriage of Dr. William L. Croll, in London, England, to Miss Alice Olcott. Doctor Croll, son of the late William and Anna Croll, of this borough and also a brother to A. B. Croll and E. H. Croll, of town, is a practicing dentist in London, England, at which place he has resided for a number of years. The ceremony was performed in the church of the Savoy at London. The newly married couple will have apartments in Lower Berkley Square, of the English metropolis. Local Men Elected to county S. S. Offices HERSHEY, June 29. - The annual convention of the Dauphin County Sabbath School Association came to a close last evening with the election of officers as follows: President, H. Howard Hoy, Millersburg; first vice president, H. Hamilton, Harrisburg; second vice president, J. W. Fortenbaugh, Harrisburg; third vice president, the Rev. J. A. Greene, Harrisburg; statistical secretary, C. L. Dice, Harrisburg; corresponding secretary, Col. H. C. Demming, Harrisburg, and treasurer, W. H. Repp, Harrisburg. STEELTON PERSONALS Miss Ellen McGinnes is spending a short vacation with friends in Portland, Me. Mrs. Harry P. Sharosky and sister, Miss Gladys Pemsten, of Gary, Ind., have returned home after a short visit in this place as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. Sharosky, South Front street. B. F. Lipp, 424 North Front street, has returned home after a short visit with his son, Chester A. Lipp, now stationed in Camp Mills, N. Y. Word has been received of the safe arrival overseas of Charles N. Brown, a member of the 145th Infantry. NOTICE Having bought the meat business of A. A. Markley & Son, and also the property of A. A. Markley, I will continue in the meat business at the shop where I invite all our old customers and new ones to call, where you will find always on hand, a full line of home dressed meats. All phone orders in before 9 o'clock will be delivered before noon. Thanking you all for your past trade and kindness. I beg to remain, Edward C. Markley 340 to 346 S. Front St. Steelton, Pa.