NEWS: Items from The Evening News, July 25, 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., Thursday, July 25, 1918 James Bloomenthal Wounded in Action JAMES BLOOMENTHAL [photo] James Bloomenthal, son of Irving Bloomenthal, 2347 Logan street, has been seriously wounded in action in the front line trenches, according to a telegram received here today by the boy's father. The wound was received June 17, according to the telegram. The boy is but eighteen years of age, and is a private in Battery D, Seventeenth Field Artillery. He has been overseas since last December, having enlisted February, 1916. Marguerite Clark to Wed Navy Lieutenant NEW YORK, July 25. - Miss Marguerite Clark, motion-picture actress, today confirmed the report that she is engaged to marry Lieutenant H. Palmerson Williams, of New Orleans. The date of the wedding will depend on how soon Lieutenant Williams is ordered abroad. ST. JOHN PASTOR TO GO TO FRANCE The Rev. G. W. Hartman, pastor of the St. Johns Reformed Church, Fourth and Maclay streets, returned today from New York where he was notified yesterday that his offer of services to the Y. M. C. A. as a field secretary in France had been accepted. He conferred with officers of the National War Works Council of the association and will leave on August 5 for Silver Bay, N. Y., for a preliminary course of training. The congregation of the St. John's Church is now arranging for a farewell service for their pastor who is now serving his eighth year here. The Rev. Mr. Hartman expects to devote much of his time to physical instruction among the men of the army when he reaches Europe, and for this work he is especially well fitted, having been physical director of Franklin Marshall College, Lancaster, from 1893 to 1898. He was a traveling salesman for his father who was in the lime and coal business prior to preparing for the ministry, later teaching at the Kutztown State Normal School and still later filling the pulpit of St. John's Church at Orwigsburg. That was his first charge and after thirteen years at Orwigsburg he was appointed to the local pastorate. A brother of the minister, Colonel John D. L. Hartman, is a graduate of West Point, 1883, and now commands the Seventeenth U. S. Cavalry at Fort Douglas, Ariz. A sister-in-law, Miss Mary E. Reed, is now dietician at a French army hospital and a nephew, the Rev. John Hahn, of Mercersburg, is a chaplain at Camp Taylor, Louisville. MAJOR GARRISON GETS NEW POST MAJOR W. H. GARRISON, JR. [photo] Major William H. Garrison, Jr., who has been the commanding officer at the Aviation Depot, Middletown, since it was established early last Fall, has just received word that he has been transferred from Middletown, and he was ordered to report in Washington at an early date. Lieutenant Colonel George E. Nelson, of the Regular Army, who is stationed now in Detroit, will succeed Major Garrison as the depot commander at Middletown. He probably will arrive within the next few days since Major Garrison expects to leave for Washington on Monday. It is the Major's idea that he will go to San Antonio for a short time and then will come back to Washington. En route to San Antonio he expects to stop off in Middletown for a brief visit. Mrs. Garrison probably will go to her home in Laredo, Tex., after the Major leaves. Major Garrison is not certain what he will do but he expects an assignment to install his warehouse and storage system in Texas for the Aircraft Productions Board, in the Department of Aeronautics. A representative of General Goethals who was in Middletown this week looking over Major Garrison's methods, referred to the probability that the system will be used in three big quartermaster depots which are to be established in the immediate future. Colonel Nelson and Major Harrison are close friends. They met at Fort Riley, Kansas, while in the mounted service. BOY HIT BY CAR DIES OF INJURIES Robert Giltner, the seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Giltner, 1207 Market street, who was struck and dragged by a trolley car yesterday afternoon, near his home, died from his injuries at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon in the Harrisburg Hospital. His leg was crushed and his head badly cut, in the accident, and he had been semi-conscious most of the time. The boy's body was carried about fifty feet by the rear truck of the car, according to witnesses, who say that the fatal accident could not have been prevented by the car's crew inasmuch as the boy was struck by the side of the car. The case has been turned over to Coroner Eckinger for investigation. West Fairview Woman Killed at Lancaster LANCASTER, July 25. - Miss Margaret Tschudy, of West Fairview, and another woman of this city were instantly killed here late this afternoon by a Pennsylvania fast train. PROTEST AGAINST THE INCREASED SPEED LIMIT A formal protest against boosting the motor vehicle speed limit from fifteen to twenty-four miles an hour in the city is to be made to City Council next Tuesday, it is learned from prominent citizens who are circulating a petition. The petition recites that the Mayor was right in his attitude against the increase and it adds that the interests of the public will be conserved and there will be less danger of speed cranks running wildly and recklessly if speed is limited to fifteen miles. ANNOUNCE RECENT SALES OF REAL ESTATE Backenstoss Brothers real estate dealers, today announced the following recent sales: No. 221 Emerald street, Philip H. Rudolph to George W. Hauck, of Hershey. Northeast corner Hamilton and Logan streets, Camp Hill, Elvin C. Frey to Philip H. Rudolph. No. 523 Seneca street, Mrs. Anna Stine to Anna M. Chronister. No. 1940 North Seventh street, Shaeffer H. Stine to Harry Kinnard. ACTIVITIES IN THE REALM OF SOCIETY AND PERSONAL NOTES OF INTEREST Complimentary to Miss Bessie Smith, Mt. Gretna, Miss Charlotte Crabbe entertained informally last evening at her home, 1931 Whitehall street. Sweet peas and greens made the rooms most attractive and a watermelon supper was quite a feature of the occasion. The guests included Miss Virginia Forrer, Miss Dorothy Devout, Miss Florence Rinkenbach, Miss Ruth Towsen, Miss Catharine Eveler, Miss Marian Strouse, Miss Margaret Kimbler, Miss Elizabeth Lloyd, Miss Elizabeth Howard, Miss Gertrude McDevitt, Miss Mildred Deshong, Miss Lenora Rosenthal, Miss Miriam Cocklin, Miss Jean Whitman, Miss Marian Hoffer, Miss Josephine Klopp, Miss Nancy McCullough, Miss Helen Hoffman, Miss Mildred Sheesley, Miss Mary Kramer, and Miss Helen Kochenderfer. Rabbi Louis J. Haas, 810 North Second street, of the Ohev Sholem Temple, has just returned from a trip to Chicago, where he attended the twenty-ninth annual convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. During his visit in Chicago he visited the Great Lakes Naval Training station, Camp Grant and other camps in the vicinity of the city, in the interest of Jewish welfare work. David Dunkle, of Spring Run, Franklin County, who was wounded recently at the battlefront and now is in a base hospital, is a brother of Mrs. J. V. Shoemaker, 581 South Front street, this city. Dunkle lived in Harrisburg several years ago when he was employed at the Pennsy roundhouse and in the Enola yards but he was living in Denver, Colorado, when he was selected for military service. The "Story Hour" is getting to be quite the event of the week in the world of the small folks, and they eagerly awaited the regular Thursday morning parade and "Story Hour" which follows in the gymnasium of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. This morning the children were delighted with the stories, "The Little Prince Who Wasn't Hungry" and "Chicken Little," both told by Mrs. Harry G. Keffer, and a true story from the "Adventures of a Brownie," told by Miss Rhedna Mayer. Games and a general good time followed the stories which were enjoyed by many of the grown-ups as well as the children. A cordial invitation is extended to all interested young folks to join in the parade as well as the morning program which will be held next Thursday morning at the usual time. The parade starts at 9:45 o'clock and the stories at 10 o'clock. Miss Iva Weaver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Weaver, 1535 Hunter street, was the guest of honor at a birthday party at the home of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin A. Seely, 1450 Market street. Among the guests in attendance were Miss Helen Henderson, Miss Jessie Stoner, Nelson Bay, Charles Fackler, Herbert Lord and Milton Smith. The Misses Marian and Dorothy Wright, of Philadelphia, who are the house guests of Miss Rea Wright, Paxtang, were entertained on Tuesday afternoon and evening at the residence of Miss Helen Kochenderfer, Paxtang. The guests spent the afternoon in knitting for the Red Cross after which supper was served. Invited to meet the Misses Wright were Miss Nancy McCullough, Miss Helen Hoffman, Miss Dorothy Devout, Miss Eleanor Jones, Miss Elizabeth Howard, Miss Elizabeth Lloyd, Miss Gertrude Kenney, Miss Gladys Rudy, Miss Mabel Kramer, Miss Mildred Sheesley, Miss Mildred Deshong, Miss Gertrude McDevitt, Miss Florence Finkenbach, Miss Virginia Florence Rinkenbach, Miss Virginia Catharine Martin and Miss Marguerite Lauchne. James R. Diehl, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward C. Diehl, 3028 North Third street, a member of Battalion D, 107th Field Artillery, has sent a letter to his parents from France recently stating that he is well and enjoying himself. After enlisting in Williamsport June, 1917, Diehl was sent to Camp Hancock, whence he sailed for France the 18th of last May. Owing to the storm, the dance which was to have been held at Summerdale last evening for the benefit of the War Relief Fund has been postponed until Monday night. A large number of tickets have been sold and they will all be good for Monday night. Special cars will leave Market Square at 7:30 o'clock and 8. Sourbeer's Jazz orchestra will furnish the music. The committee includes Herman Deitz, Morris Klineman and A. Morris. Personal Briefs Russell H. Lindsay, 1706 State street, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Lindsay, who was appointed acting ensign in the United States Navy last June, left today for duty on the battleship Maine. Mrs. Victor Lecoq III, and her sister, Miss Elizabeth Boher, 401 North Second street, were in Carlisle today where they were ushers at the McMeen-Montgomery wedding. Master Richard Shoffstall, 1204 Market street, is spending his vacation in the country. Mr. and Mrs. E. Wurster, 1806 Market street are visiting at Mt. Gretna. Edwin W. Jackson, 121 Chestnut street, has returned from a short trip to Washington, D. C., where he was the guest of his son, James K. Jackson, Assistant Paymaster, U. S. N. Miss Lile George, 250 North street, is motoring through the Poconos. Charles P. Gurnett and family, 2002 North Third street, will leave the latter part of August for New York City, where Mr. Gurnett has accepted the position of manager of the service department of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Mrs. Edward Biddle, Philadelphia, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. James I. Chamberlin, 323 North Front street. Robert P. Bliss, assistant secretary of Free Library Commission, has returned to Camp Hancock, where he is camp librarian, after a brief furlough here. The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Silas C. Swallow and Mrs. Charles B. Bingaman, 25 South Front street, have gone to Ocean Grove, N. J., for the summer months where they will be guests at the Baker Cottage. Miss Mary Jordan, of Altoona, is weekend with friends at Carlisle. Fager, 25 South Front street. Mrs. E. Boyd Harrington and daughter Priscilla, 106 Chestnut street, are spending several days with Mrs. Harrington's parents in Duncannon. Sergeant John E. O'Connell, 203 Pine street, is spending a short furlough in this city. Mrs. James Fair and daughter Betty are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Fair at their residence in "Old Orchard." Mrs. C. A. Blanch, Etters, York County, has received word of the safe arrival overseas of her brother, Private Charles S. Willis. Willis, who left with the other draftees May 25, was stationed with the 304th Engineers, Co. A, at Camp Meade. "Engleside," the country home of Mrs. B. H. Engle, was the scene of a pretty wedding this morning at 10 o'clock when Miss Marguerite H. Engle, and Francis B. Snavely, of Clearfield, son of the Rev. and Mrs. B. D. Snavely, were united in marriage by the bridegroom's father, assisted by the Rev. D. D. Brandt, of Virginia, a brother-in-law of the bride. The ceremony took place on the lawn under an arbor of "brown- eyed Susans" and green willow boughs, while lovely bouquets of the same were most attractive on the porches and lawn. The bride looked charming in a gown of shell pink georgette crepe and carried an arm bouquet of pink roses. There were no attendants but a number of friends and relatives witnessed the ceremony. After an extended wedding trip the young couple will reside at Clearfield, where Mr. Snavely is athletic director in the high school. Both Mr. and Mrs. Snavely were graduates of Lebanon Valley College, class of 1918. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Troxell, 411 Maclay street, entertained over the week-end in honor of their son, Ira, who left for camp last Tuesday. The out of town guests included Mrs. Ammon and her small son Billy, Renova; Mrs. Robert Smithers, Lewistown; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mitchell, Philadelphia, and Frank Troxell. Mrs. Otto Buxbuam, chairman of the Ohev Sholem Sisterhood Auxiliary to the Red Cross, announces that owing to repairs being made in the temple there will not be a meeting of the auxiliary next Tuesday. OBTAIN COMMISSIONS Among the Pennsylvania men commissioned yesterday at the War Department at Washington were Horatio W. Glass, Sunbury, and Richard Reeser, Columbia, captain, Medical Reserve Corps; Charles A. Gundy, Lewisburg, first lieutenant, Medical Reserve Corps; Mervin J. Barrick, Etters, and William B. Reichard, Sunbury, second lieutenant, Engineers' Corps, National Army. Pennsy Conductor's Collarbone Broken A. H. Eastwright, 531 Peffer street, a conductor on the Pennsylvania Railroad, was injured last night at Royalton. He was in the cabin of his train when the air brakes were put on, causing him to have a severe fall. He was rushed as soon as possible to the Harrisburg Hospital and placed under the attendance of Dr. George Kunkel, who stated that Eastwright had sustained a broken collarbone. University to Be Open to Men Now in Service CHICAGO, July 25. - The boys who are fighting in France for the "preservation of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" rights, are today becoming eligible to a share in a gift of $2,500,000 made to the University of Chicago by L. W. Noyes, Chicago manufacturer. Under the provisions of this gift, the majority of the income from the bequest is to be used in paying tuition of deserving men who "served in the Army or Navy of the United States in the war for liberty into which our republic entered on the sixth day of April, 1917," or of their descendants, male or female, providing the soldier in question received his honorable discharge from the military organization to which he belonged or met an honorable death in service. State to give 1528 to engineers' corps WASHINGTON, July 25. - Provost Marshal General Crowder today accepted the voluntary enlistments of 1528 white men for the engineers' corps from Pennsylvania. They will entrain for Camp Forrest, Lyttle, Ga., July 31. At the same time he issued a call for 1500 colored men from Virginia to entrain for Camp Humphreys from August 1 to August 5. ZEIDER ARRIVES IN FRANCE Word was received here today that Oliver Zeider, of this city, a member of the 304th Engineers, has arrived in France. He was employed as a brakeman by the Philadelphia and Reading Railway before he entered the military service. Selectives for Special Training Leave July 31 Five draft boards of the city and county today announced the names of the men who will go to Syracuse on July 31 for special training. They include the following: City Board No. 1, Harry S. Bernheisel, 227 Reily; Walter L. Stern, 412 Briggs, and Elmer T. Morrett, 1430 Susquehanna. Board No. 2, George Wiley, 222 Chestnut street, and Harold Shaffer, 140 Hoernor street. Board No. 3, Guy L. Cook, 643 Schuylkill; Erastus H. Roberts, Fifth and Camp streets; William J. Cleary, 1526 Susquehanna, and Walter B. Shipley, 612 Boas. County No. 2, Paxtang, Edward J. Keiter, Enhaut, and Miles C. Hummer, Paxtang. County No. 3, Elizabethville; Ralph Grimm, Lykens; Uriah Corsnitz, Halifax, and George S. Wingard, Millersburg. TO QUIT FREIGHT BUSINESS HERE Peipher Line, After 58 Years, to Become Local Drayage Concern Pennsylvania's last private-owned freight company, the Peipher Line, of this city, after fifty-eight years of existence, will go out of business as a freight carrier August 1 and become a local drayage and warehousing concern. The company since 1860 has handled freight between New York, Philadelphia and Harrisburg. The closing up of the freight line is due to federal regulations that end all private ownership of freight lines. The Peipher Line was organized in the days when the big freight lines were not in existence by Thomas Peipher, of this city. There were many of them then in the country, but today there are said to be less than half a dozen. Mr. Peipher was struck by a freight train and killed in 1863 and his nephew, Joseph Montgomery, now 84 years of age, residing at 227 State street, took over the business and conducted it until three years ago when he retired and his grandson, Montgomery Trace, and Fred L. Morgenthaler, long associated with the freight line, took charge of the company. LABOR BUTTON EXPOSES THIEF Because the $65 which, with a gold watch, was stolen Saturday night from the home of Hiram Shope, at Jednota, opposite the Ordnance depot, wasn't equally divided, William Roosevelt, Jr., alias Theodore Johnson, who claims he stole the money but was given only a $5 note as his share, implicated "Kid" Flowers when he made a clean breast of his crime, yesterday. He said Flowers was his accomplice and got the rest of the stolen money. Both men were jailed in default of $1,000 bail, following a hearing late yesterday afternoon before Alderman E. J. Hilton. A. H. Baum, one of the patrolmen at the Ordnance depot, played a clever bit of detective work before he apprehended the accused men. After a long search around the Shope home he found Roosevelt's labor button which was issued to him when he went to work on the Government job at Marsh Run and which he must produce to collect his wages. When Roosevelt was first accused of committing the theft he denied it but it wasn't long until he went back to the Shope home and searched for the button, bearing No. 4154. Then he was nabbed. He had sold Shope's watch at the Ordnance depot for $6. When Flowers was arrested the police say he still had Shope's purse and money. The watch was recovered. Roosevelt went back for the button because he needed it to draw $35 wages on pay day. Harry Schiffman Is Made First Sergeant Circular letters from the War Department signed by Adjutant General W. T. Bates, have been sent out to all of the recruiting bureaus over the country, authorizing the head of the station to appoint one first sergeant from his recruiting force. A copy of the letter was received by Lieutenant R. W. Lesher, of the local station, and the lieutenant has complied by appointing Harry B. Schiffman, of the local force, a first sergeant. Lieutenant Lesher also announced today that the best recruiting period in the history of the Harrisburg District is now underway. The force in this city is daily recruiting between thirty and forty men and they credit it all to the men who stand at the front of the station on Market street and urge every available man to enlist, and also to the newspaper publicity that they are been given. Lieutenant Lesher said today: "It is wonderful work that we have been doing in the past week, I don't know where all of these recruits come from." Farewell Reception for Jewish Selectives H. C. Claster, chairman of the Harrisburg Branch of the Jewish Welfare Relief - Army and Navy - said this morning that all arrangements have been made for the farewell reception to be given in the Y. M. H. A. rooms at 8 o'clock tonight to the fourteen city and Steelton Hebrews who will entrain here tomorrow morning for Camp Lee, Virginia. Eugene G. Cohen will preside at the reception. Addresses will be made by Rabbi Romanoff and Rabbi Louis J. Haas. Prayer books and Bibles will be furnished to the selectives. FAREWELL FOR REED A farewell celebration was given last night in honor of George H. Reed, a yard brakeman on the G. I. hump of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at the yardmaster's office. Reed left today for training camp with a draft quota, C. S. Shelley, assistant yardmaster, presented him with a wrist watch, the gift of fellow employes. Reed has worked with the company for several years and is [Note: The article stops here.] SHIPPING EXPERT STATIONED HERE To Expedite Shipments of Material Sent Through City to Shipyards Recognizing Harrisburg's importance as a center of distribution of goods from the West, North and South, Frank C. Joubert, manager of the Transportation Department of the Emergency Fleet Corporation of the United States Shipping Board, after conferring with W. W. Hardwick, assistant manager, has ordered a transportation expert to be stationed in this city permanently to expedite the delivery of shipments of material passing through Harrisburg to the shipyards. R. I. Dunigan, formerly of the Philadelphia office of the Transportation Department, was yesterday announced as the man who will fill the local position. He arrived in this city yesterday and immediately arranged for a suite of offices in the Bergner Building, where he will handle the clerical details of his work. Mr. Dunigan stated that Mr. Joubert and Mrs. Hardwick will be in Harrisburg shortly to look over the Harrisburg situation in detail. The new Harrisburg representative for the Shipping Board will have work enough to keep a good sized clerical force hard at work. Part of the job will be rushing the materials from local plants, engaged on ship- building contracts, to the yards, as well as that arriving here from other stations to be further distributed. 16 Soldiers to Go to Syracuse on July 31 The entraining dates for the movement of 1200 drafted men to Syracuse, N. Y., for limited military service training, were issued from state draft headquarters today and show that the sixteen men to be sent from this city and county will leave July 31. The city will send nine men, board No. 1 sending three; No. 2, two; No. 3, four. County, No. 1, two; No. 2, two; No. 3, three. DOCTOR WAS ALSO THERE CONNELLSVILLE, July 25. - Dr. L. P. McCormick, a local draft board member, says that Clarence Ringer, who was arrested for not registering, is 21 years old. The doctor says he attended the mother at the time the boy was born. Both Ringer and his mother claim he is only 19. CAPITOL SMALL FOR TEACHERS Sessions of County, Institute to Be in Fahnestock Hall All the lecturers at the Dauphin County Teachers' Institute which will be held here during the week of October 14, are big educational workers who never before appeared before the county institute, it was announced today by Prof. F. E. Shambaugh, County Superintendent of Schools. The institute will be held in Fahnestock Hall this year, instead of in the House of Representatives in the Capitol, as had been the custom for years, and the section meetings will be held in churches or other buildings in the central part of the city. The change is made because Professor Shambaugh and the teachers think the House of Representatives is poorly ventilated and also because the seating capacity is limited. A big feature of the next Institute will be community singing by the teachers. Among those who have been selected to address the teachers are the following: Dr. Charles H. Judd, of the University of Chicago; Dr. George Betts, of Cornell College, Iowa; Dr. Byron Forbush, head of the Institute of Child Life, Philadelphia; Miss Roxana Steele, of the Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York, and Miss Emma Bolenius, of Lancaster, author of a textbook on English. 297 SELECTIVES GOING TOMORROW Five of the half dozen draft boards of the city and county will send 297 Dauphin County men to Camp Lee tomorrow night, leaving here at 10:15 o'clock. The first city board will send 51; the second, 90 and the Third, 82, making a total of 223 while the Steelton board will send 44 and the Paxtang Board 30, an aggregate of 74. The Steelton men all reported to their board this morning for final instructions; the Paxtang board's men reported this afternoon and the city men will report in the morning between 10 and 11 o'clock. There will be no formal celebration when the selectives leave. NEEDS 15 RURAL TEACHERS Prof. Frank E. Shambaugh, county school superintendent, announced today there are fifteen rural schools in the county without teachers and that there are no teachers on the available list to fill the vacancies. The superintendent is hoping that the next teachers' examinations to be held in August for the benefit of those instructors who are taking up special summer work, will furnish enough for the rest of the schools. R. R. Employes' Club to Entertain Guests The Harrisburg Friendship and Cooperative Club of railroad employes will hold an important meeting this evening in Eagles' Hall at Sixth and Cumberland streets. A delegation of thirty-five members of the Altoona Friendship and Co-operative Club will be here as the guests of the local club this evening and there will be several speakers present who are prominently connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad. They are: M. W. Smith, general superintendent of the Eastern Division; F. K. Smith, superintendent of the Philadelphia Division and J. J. Johnson, superintendent of the Middle Division. Major Gray, of the Ordnance Department at Middletown, will also make an address. The principal business to be discussed at the meeting will be railroad affairs in general, connected with the war regulations of the administration. TO ELECT SEVEN H. S. TEACHERS Seven High School teachers, four for Central and three for Tech, will be elected tomorrow afternoon if the school board at its special session adopts the recommendations of City Superintendent Downes. Some other business of minor importance is on the School Board's calendar for tomorrow's special session. The teachers picked for Central include these: Miss Anna E. Read, of Carlisle, commercial department, salary $1000 per year; Miss Anna Mae Bender, city, domestic science, $750; Miss Clara P. Segelbaum, city, history, $800; Miss Mary E. Lockwood, Morgantown, W. Va., French, $1100. The following have been chosen for Tech: W. A. Brunner, of York, physical geography and history, $1300 per year; W. S. Hafer, city, English and mathematics, $1200, and Erle K. Diehl, of Pottsville, mathematics, $1200. The superintendent has suggested the election of Miss Florence M. Werry, of Johnstown, as teacher of the continuation school at $1000 per year. He has endorsed these changes in the elementary grades: Transfer Misses Isabel Saul, Sarah Burgoon and Gertrude Edwards from the substitute list, without assignment to place, at $475 a year each; elect Miss Esther Nell, city, and Miss Mary A. Meehan, of Bloomsburg, as regular substitutes and employ Mrs. Margarite K. Fletcher at $2.50 a day and Mrs. Emily Baldwin at $3 a day when needed. The board will consider the resignations of two teachers, Miss Evelyn Joyce and Miss Elsie M. Landis. J. E. Belt, another teacher, will ask for a leave of absence for the duration of the war to enable him to take up Y. M. C. A. work. William S. Morrow, who is going into the Army, also has asked for a leave of absence. These other matters will be considered by the board. Approval of Secretary Hammelbaugh's $2000 bond; applications for admission of Marian S. Cadwallader and Edna K. Lantz, of West Fairview, for admission to High School; request for use of Tech High auditorium on the evenings of September 26 and 27 for entertainments for the benefit of the Second Baptist Church and recommendations to pay $313.55 commission due Architect M. I. Kast for work on new school building plans. 1500 New Homes for Bethlehem Steel Co. WASHINGTON, July 25. - Three hundred acres of land have been purchased in Bethlehem on which the Bureau of Industrial Housing and Transportation will construct 1500 houses for war workers of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. The contract has been awarded and a large force of men is at work there now. All of the houses will be constructed of brick. In addition to the houses, a men's club will be erected to provide recreational facilities. In another section of Bethlehem the Ordnance Department is building a dormitory to accommodate 1000 men. 25,000 STUDENT NURSES NEEDED The United States must have 25,000 student nurses now - student nurses to release graduate nurses for work at the front. Pennsylvania must have as her quota 2870 of this number. To meet this new demand a nation-wide campaign will be waged from July 29 to August 11 to recruit student nurses both for the Army School of Nursing and for all accredited training schools connected with the civilian hospitals. The campaign will be conducted under the direction of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National defense, of which Mrs. John W. Reily is the local chairman, and there will be two local bureaus of information, the Harrisburg Red Cross headquarters and the City Health Department, in the Telegraph Building. The recruiting station will be at the Harrisburg Hospital between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. - by appointment after 3 o'clock. The Surgeon General of the Untied States Army, the United States Public Health Service and the American Red Cross have asked the co- operation of the Woman's Committee, Council of National Defense, to end their every effort to make this campaign a success and Harrisburg is endeavoring to go "over the top" in the registration of nurses to answer the Government's call. Gold Star on Black to Represent a Hero WASHINGTON, July 25. - Relatives of men lost in the great war may wear a black band with a gold star for each son sacrificed. President Wilson today endorsed adoption of the insignia, to be worn on the left arm. The band will be three inches wide and the stars may be made of either gold metal or cloth. The badge will not be patented nor commercialized the Council of National Defense announced today. READING BIBLE TO KEEP OUT ARMY FAILS HIM When William Harling, who is said to live with a Jacobs family at 1116 North Third street, was arrested this morning by agents from the Department of Justice and then taken before the draft board of the third city district, charged with evading the draft, William said he guessed "it's all up now; my method has failed and I'll have to go into the Army." He explained that by saying that he kept out of the Army by "my own method" and the method was "reading the Bible." Now William probably thinks that the method was strong as a bubble because members of the draft board examined him this morning; found him physically fit for general military service and ordered him sent to jail until tomorrow morning when he will be sent to Camp Lee with other Harrisburgers. Harling is 30 years old and a machinist by trade but he told the draft board that he has not worked for more than three years. He had not filed his questionnaire but his excuse for that was that he never received any. His questionnaire containing the postmark, "returned for better address, not lifted, etc.," has been on file in the draft board's office for several months. BUYS BOARD OF TRADE Purchase of the old Board of Trade Building by Henry C. Claster, Market street jeweler, from the Commonwealth Trust Company has been announced by the trust company. The purchaser has not stated what he intends to do with the building. At one time it was planned to convert the building into a terminal for the Valley Railways Company but that idea was abandoned months ago. KING DECORATES A YANK LONDON, July 25. - King George personally decorated Lieutenant Commander A. C. Carpenter, of the U. S. destroyer Fanning, with the Distinguished Service Order, at Buckingham Palace today. The destroyer Fanning sank a German submarine last Fall and took the first U-boat prisoners credited to the United States. Alleged Draft Evader Up Against New Trouble Paul Rose, the Italian shoemaker, who was arrested in his Derry street shop charged by Deputy U. S. Marshal Smith with being a draft evader, became confused this morning and was at a loss to know what to do because he couldn't get a marriage license to wed Mary Still, 20 years old, notwithstanding that the deputy marshal ordered him to marry the girl before he goes to Camp Lee tomorrow. For more than two years Rose has been living with the girl and has represented her to be his wife. He made that claim in the questionnaire that he filed last Fall. When they applied for the license they brought their child along. The girl's parents are dead; the Judges are away on their vacations and although the Recorder has authority to appoint a guardian for the girl to consent to her marriage, neither Rose nor Miss Still knew who they could get to act as guardian. They left the Courthouse with the hope that they could find someone to act as guardian. Frank S. Hesser Now With Kaufman Stores FRANK S. HESSER [photo] Frank S. Hesser, for years associated with large department stores in Harrisburg, is now with Kaufman's Underselling Stores as manager and buyer of hosiery, underwear, women's neckware, laces, and small wares. Mr. Hesser has a host of friends in Harrisburg and will welcome them all to his new business home where he says, he will be glad to extend to them careful and painstaking attention. Irvin Lyter, Tarsus Star, enters Service Irvin Lyter, of 1624 North Fifth street, left this morning for Fort Bliss, Okla., for training in the field artillery branch of the service. He enlisted on Tuesday night. Lyter was a member of the Tarsus School of Gymnastics, where he won his letters both in basketball and football. He was employed at the Lucknow Wheel Shops, and played on the Storehouse baseball team there. He was given a wrist watch by his fellow-employes before his departure. WAYNESBORO PLAYER DIES WAYNESBORO, July 25. - Martin Luther Miller, a former resident of Waynesboro, died in Philadelphia, on Monday afternoon. Miller, who was known here as "Dusty," was an excellent baseball player and at one time played professional ball; he also played with the local club here. He is survived by several children and several brothers and sisters. His remains will be shipped to Hagerstown, where interment will take place. Lightning Kills Two Girls While Swimming SHENANDOAH, July 25. - While Miss May Agnes Young, seventeen, daughter of Joseph A. Young, a leading merchant of Ashland, and Miss Dorothy Agnes Crum, also seventeen, daughter of First Lieutenant Harry A. Crum, of the Lehigh Coal Company police, of Lost Creek, with other prominent young ladies of this section, were bathing at the Country Club reservoir at Fountain Springs yesterday afternoon, a bolt of lightning struck the Misses Young and Crum and both victims sank to the bottom of the reservoir. Miss Catherine Price, of Ashland, one of the party, made frantic efforts to go to the assistance of the young women, but without success. The bodies of both girls were recovered and rushed to the State Hospital and every means known to medical skill resorted to, without success. The bolt of lightning killed both girls instantly, physicians say. TWO YEOWOMEN ACCEPTED WILLIAMSPORT, July 25. - The first two yoewomen accepted by the local Navy recruiting station were sworn in yesterday. They are Miss Dorothy Payne and Miss Dorothy Palmateer. Thirty naval reserves and five male recruits for the regular U. S. Navy were also sworn in. PERSONAL IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE of our darling Evelyn Mae McKissick, who left this earth one year ago today, July 25, 1917: A precious darling from us has gone, Her voice we loved is stilled, A little red chair vacant in our home, Which never can be filled. Gone but not forgotten by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. McKissick, and little sister, Clova. LEGAL NOTICES EXECUTOR'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE Pursuant to an order of the Orphans' Court of Dauphin County, the undersigned will expose to public sale, in front of the Court House, Harrisburg, Pa., on SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1918, AT TWO O'CLOCK P. M., The following described real estate, situate in the City of Harrisburg. BEGINNING at a point 45 feet 6 inches east of the southeast corner of Mulberry and Nectarine streets; thence south along west brick wall of property No. 1223 Mulberry street 74 feet 1 « inches to property of B. DeVout; thence west along said DeVout property 15 feet 3 inches; thence north on the dividing line between properties Nos. 1221 and 1219 74 feet 1 « inches to the south side of Mulberry street; thence east along the south side of Mulberry street 15 feet 3 inches to the place of beginning. Thereon erected a 2 « -story frame dwelling, known as No. 1221 Mulberry street. See deed book "U", vol. 15, page 163. TERMS of sale: 10% of purchas money on day of sale; 15% additional on or before confirmation of sale on October 8th, 1918; and the balance on the first day of November, 1918, when deed and possession will be delivered. The property to be sold free and clear of all encumberances. George Gottwalt, George W. Liesmann, Executors of Marie Mester, deceased. FOX & GEYER, Attorneys. EXECUTOR'S SALE OF REAL ESTATE Pursuant to authority contained in the last will and testament of Albert T. King or Kuehne, late of Harrisburg, Pa., deceased, the undersigned will expose to public sale on Wednesday, August 14, 1918, in front of the Court House, Harrisburg, Pa., the following described real estate, late the property of said decedent, situate in the Seventh Ward of the city of Harrisburg aforesaid, to wit: No. 1. Fronting on the west side of Cameron street, 69 feet 7 inches, and extending in depth 164 feet more or less. Being lots Nos. 19, 20, 21 on plan of Winters & Mumma, recorded in Plan Book "A," page 65. No. 2. Fronting 70 feet on the west side of Cameron street, and extending in depth on the north 81 feet, more or less, and on the south 165 feet, more or less. Including lots Nos. 22, 23, 24 and 25 on said plan. No. 3. All the right, title and interest of said decedent in and to the land lying between the two tracts above described, fronting 20 feet on the west side of Cameron street, and extending in depth, same width, 165 feet, more or less. Being designated on said plan as Dauphin street. Sale to commence at 2 p.m., when terms and conditions will be made known by the undersigned. COMMONWEALTH TRUST CO., Executor. LEGAL NOTICES AUDITOR'S NOTICE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, appointed by the Orphans' Court of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Auditor to make distribution of the balance as shown in the first and final account of the Allison Hill Trust Company, Executor of the last will and testament of Lena M. Brown, late of Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, deceased, to and among those entitled thereto, will sit for the purpose of his appointment in the Dauphin County Law Library, Court House, Harrisburg, Pa., on Friday, August 9, 1918, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, when and where all persons interested may appear and be heard. J. DOUGLAS ROYAL, Auditor. ROBERT N. McGAINEY RETURNS AS CHANDLER'S MANAGER Robert N. McGainey, formerly manager of Chandler & Bros, in this territory, but who for the past year has been at the home office in Philadelphia, has resumed his former position here, owing to the transferring of Mr. Culver to the Chicago branch. MRS. MARY HAWK The funeral services of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hawk, 76 years of age, will be held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bennett, 624 Geary street. The body will be taken to Shippensburg on Saturday morning by the Hawkins' Estate for burial. ALL OF THE NEWS OF STEELTON, MIDDLETOWN AND DAUPHIN COUNTY STEELTON Three Boys Held for Juvenile Court Albert Baker, George Heinhouer and Paul Carchidi, the three youths charged with robbing the furniture store of Wilt Brothers, Walnut and Front streets, last Sunday afternoon, at a hearing last evening before Justice Dickinson, were held over for Juvenile Court. The Baker boy, the alleged leader of the three, was sent back to the Detention Home in Lucknow, and the other two boys were released on bail. The Baker boy when asked how he liked the home in Lucknow spoke very approvingly of it and when told that he must return there seemed pleased with the prospect. 47 TO GO TO CAMP LEE Forty-seven men reported to local Draft Board No. 1 of Dauphin County at 9 o'clock this morning to receive final instructions prior to their departure for Camp Lee, Va., tomorrow night at 10.15 o'clock. The entire forty-seven men who were called for this draft reported this morning, not one failing to appear. Although the call was for only forty-four men, the forty-seven reporting will be sent, the extra three having been called as alternatives, in case others might be beyond the reach of the local board. BAND LEADS PARADE The First Cornet Band, Steelton's only colored musical organization, has been selected among the several bands which have been furnishing the music for the Knights of Pythias on the Island during their convention this week to lead the big parade this afternoon in Harrisburg. The band in full uniform met this morning at Adams and Front streets and took a special car for the capital city. This band has been engaged for the entire week by the Knights of Pythias to play at every session of the convention. DRAFT BOARD ORDERS Local Board for Division No. 1 of Dauphin County, has received orders to furnish twenty-five clerks and stenographers and eight mess sergeants to entrain for Camp Kelley, Texas, August 1. A general call has been received for men qualified for general military service to entrain for Camp Lytle, Georgia. The local board has received orders to induct doctors and physicians qualified for special or limited military service. SAFE OVERSEAS Word has been received here by relatives of the following soldiers telling of their safe arrival overseas: Lieutenant Miles Morrison, 311th Machine Gun Battalion; Corporal S. Frank W. Morrison, 304th Engineers; Corporal Harry E. Mitchell, Infantry; Corporal Frank A. Krasovic, Company A, Fourth Supply Train. 40 RESERVE MILITIAMEN WANT TO JOIN REGULARS Adjutant General eBary today said that since the encampment of the Pennsylvania Reserve Militia at Mt. Gretna last week thirty to forty officers and enlisted men have notified him officially or unofficially that they will ask for their resignations from the State organization in order to join the Regular Army. [Note: does say eBary] WOULD EXTRADITE TWO Governor Brumbaugh today made requisition upon the Governor of North Carolina for the return to Allegheny County of Buck Dunmore alias "Whiskey" and Bennie Rowland, alias "Goldie," who on July 4, murdered a Mexican, it is said. MIDDLETOWN SOLDIERS ENJOY BATHING Members of the 634th and 610th Areo Squadrons of the United States Army, who are stationed west of this borough, under Major William Garrison, are now taking advantage of the fine bathing on the island opposite their encampment. Eager for the close of day, so as to be able to discard their warm uniforms, many of the soldiers each evening after retreat at six o'clock, hasten to the shores of the Susquehanna, where they enjoy a refreshing swim. UPSETS BREAD WAGON One of Hendrickson's bread wagons, which is driven by Marlin Brinser, was badly damaged yesterday morning, while on its way to Highspire, on the Harrisburg-Lancaster Pike. The horse was frightened at a passing train and made a dash for a field on the right side of the road. The wagon hit a tree, near Nissley's farm, just outside of town and damaged the wagon to a great extent. WILL HIKE TONIGHT The Young People's Society of the St. Peter's Lutheran Church, of North Union street, will hike to the home of Mrs. H. H. Strayer this evening, and the organization will meet at the home of Miss Mary Gingrich on North Union street. LIEUTENANT CAMPBELL OVER Word has been received in the borough by Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Campbell, of North Union street, stating that their son, Lieutenant H. Brua Campbell has arrived safely on French soil. Lieutenant Campbell was an attorney stationed at New York City before he entered the Officers' Training Camp last fall, and was stationed at Columbus, Ohio, where he finished a special course in Aeronautics prior to sailing overseas. MIDDLETOWN PERSONALS John Sites, of West Main street, is spending several days at Lebanon, at which place he is the guest of his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Fornwalt. Mrs. John Heininger has returned to her home on Susquehanna street, after spending some time at Pittsburgh, at which place she was the guest of her son, Mr. Jacob Heininger and her daughter, Miss Mary Heininger. Miss Catherine Ulmer, of East Water street, is spending several days at Sunbury, at which place she is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. M. W. Lahr. Mr. and Mrs. Karl Bowers and daughter, of Philadelphia, are spending some time in town as the guests Mrs. Charles E. Bowers, on South Union street. Second barn at Hershey Destroyed by Lightning HERSHEY, July 25. - A large barn containing four horses, a large number of farming implements and a big proportion of this year's crop of grain and hay was struck by lighting and totally destroyed about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The barn was owned by H. F. Imboden, of the east end of Hershey. The barn is said to be insured but as yet no estimate of the loss has been made. Until the arrival of the fire engines, Mr. Imboden and his family who were in the house but a few rods from the barn, knew nothing of the fire. Mr. Imboden's barn is the second to be struck by lightning within twenty-four hours in Hershey, the other being at the Hershey Industrial School, which was struck Tuesday night at 9 o'clock. Seven years ago Mr. Imboden's barn was destroyed on the same spot where the present barn was struck. The heavy storm accompanied by strong wind, rain and lightning, continued from 3 o'clock until quite late in the evening and did much damage to crops in the vicinity of this place.