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The Evening News, Harrisburg, Penna., Friday, August 23, 1918

ACTIVITIES IN THE REALM OF SOCIETY AND PERSONAL NOTES OF INTEREST

  Through misinformation given to THE EVENING NEWS, it was erroneously 
stated recently that Miss Marie Buffington, of Gratz, and 
Theodoropolous Gonge, of this city, were united in marriage.  Miss 
Buffington's mother, Mrs. H. G. Buffington, has requested that a 
correction be made, stating there is no truth whatever in the report.  
The statement was printed in good faith and upon what seemed at the 
time thoroughly reliable information.  Investigation has since shown 
that it was made with no apparent malicious intent but more in an ill-
conceived spirit of fun.  It should be pointed out, however, that the 
giving of misinformation to newspapers is a penitentiary offense. 

Irwin H. Sloathour Wounded in France

  Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Sloathour, of 587 South Front street, received a 
letter today from their son, Private Irwin H. Sloathour, stating he was 
wounded in action in France.  The letter does not state the nature of 
the wound.
  Sloathour writes that he is in a hospital with a Pennsylvania unit 
and is receiving the very best of treatment.  He is a member of the 
26th Infantry and enlisted shortly after war was declared.  Private 
Sloathour is a brother of Sergeant Spencer H. Sloathour, who also is in 
France, attached to a Medical Corps. 

LT. BAKER, FLYER, WILLIAMSPORT, KILLED BY HUNS

     By NEWTON C. BARKE
     International News Correspondent
  WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 23. - Lieutenant Howard T. 
Baker, of Williamsport, died August 15 of wounds received August 12 
when his reconnaissance plane was attacked by Boches, it was learned 
today.
     Special to The Evening News
  WILLIAMSPORT, Aug. 23. - Lieutenant Howard T. Baker, of this city, a 
member of the American Flying Corps, had been in the war since 1914.  
Although he was only 27 at the outbreak of the war, he went to Canada 
to get in the British expeditionary forces and then served twenty-two 
months in the trenches, taking part in, some of the heaviest fighting 
of the war.
  When the United States entered the conflict, Baker returned home for 
a brief rest and then enlisted in July, 1917, in the artillery and was 
sent to the officers' training camp at Niagara and was graduated with a 
lieutenancy.  He was sent to France, reaching there on December 25, 
1917, and was transferred to the aerial observation section of the 
American Aviation Corps.  He had recently been graduated from a school 
in France of which he received instruction in regulating fire of heavy 
artillery from an aeroplane. 

Koenig, a Kinsman of Deutschland Captain, Wounded Fighting Huns

  Corporal Fred Koenig, Jr., of Steelton, whose father is a second 
cousin of Captain Koenig, of the German super-submarine Deutschland, 
the first of its kind to cross the Atlantic, has been wounded fighting 
as a Yank in France, according to a letter received by his father this 
morning.
  He received his wounds while fighting in the famous battle of 
Chateau-Thierry, one of the Yanks' first big battles on the West front.  
The letter says he was struck by a bullet while in action and he is now 
in a base hospital in France.  He enlisted in Company D, of the old 
Eighth, just before the boys went to Camp Hancock in the Fall of 1917, 
and is now in the 112th Infantry.  He is a former employe of the 
PATRIOT-EVENING NEWS, having worked in the composing room.

T. Meredith, Penn Athlete, Commands Air Squadron

  PARIS, Aug. 23, - Ted Meredith, former University of Pennsylvania 
crack athlete, has been promoted and placed in command of an air 
squadron, it was learned today.
  
  Meredith is the present holder of the world's record in the 440-yard 
dash and the half mile run, having set these records while on the Penn 
team.  He was one of Penn's greatest athletes and after his graduation 
in 1916 ran for the Meadowbrook club at Philadelphia.  He is a graduate 
of Mercersburg Academy in Franklin County and is a product of Jimmy 
Curran's coaching.  Meredith captured honors in the last Olympic meet 
held at Stockholm in 1912, breaking several records.  He enlisted in 
the Aviation Corps at the outbreak of the war. 

LIEUT. THAW, FLYER, KILLED

     By FRANK J. TAYLOR
     United Press Correspondent
  WITH THE AMERICAN ARMIES IN FRANCE, Aug. 22 (Night) - Lieutenant 
Putnam of the American air forces has downed his eleventh German 
airplane.  The pilot and the observer were killed.  The machine, a 
Rumpler, fell within the allied lines in flames.
  Lieutenant Blair Thaw, brother of Major William thaw, was killed in 
an airplane accident Sunday when his machine side-slipped and fell.  He 
was buried beside Major Raoul Lufberry, with his mother and sister 
present at the funeral services.
  Lieutenant Thaw, who was a son of Benjamin Thaw, of Pittsburgh, was 
traveling in a pursuit group near the front toward Paris.  Engine 
trouble developed at an altitude of 2000 feet and the machine when it 
fell struck a number of telephone wires and collapsed, upside down.
  Thaw, although less well known than his brother, had just been 
promoted to command a flying squadron and was on his way to take over 
the squadron when he fell to his death. 

WRIGHT IS GOING TO ITALY FOR Y

  Flavel L. Wright, of Paxtang, got word today that he has been 
accepted as a Y. M. C. A. secretary for special work in Italy.  The 
announcement was made public following an interview between Mr. Wright 
and the National Y. M. C. A. Board which took place at New York 
yesterday.
  The Italian government, recognizing the splendid results of the 100 
"Y" workers already in Italy, issued a call for 150 typical Americans 
of high moral standing to carry to the Italian people the American 
message of sympathy and co-operation.
  Wright is enthusiastic over the idea of the work in Italy and expects 
to be called any time after October.  The "Y" unit in this particular 
work is financed by the Italian government - that is, it pays 
transportation expenses and furnished the huts.  Each secretary is to 
have two assistants, two orderlies from the army and an interpreter, 
and must be prepared to suffer hardships and face great danger.
  Wright, who at present is general agent for the North Western Mutual 
Life Insurance Company, is a graduate of the University of Nebraska, 
and while there drilled under General Pershing who was commandant of 
cadets at the school. 

Negro Battalions Going to Marsh Run Depot

  Major Morava, constructing Quartermaster of the Government Depot at 
Marsh Run, today confirmed a report that one or more colored labor 
battalions will arrive for service at the Depot at an early date.
  It is unofficially reported that the detachment will number about a 
thousand men.  All arrangements have been completed to accommodate them 
and authorities at the Depot are now awaiting their arrival.

Youths Just 21 Must Register Tomorrow

  Young men of the city and county who have become 21 years old since 
June 5 last, will register tomorrow in the army draft.  The half dozen 
draft boards will conduct the registration and the young men will have 
to appear before the local boards of their district to get registered.  
The following data shows how the draft districts of the city and county 
are divided:
  City Board No. 1 - First, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Wards, 
Courthouse.
  City Board NO. 2 - Second, Eighth, Ninth and Thirteenth Wards, 
McFarland Printery.
  City Board No. 3 - Seventh, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Fourteenth 
Wards, Room 312, Commonwealth Trust Building.
  County Board No. 1 - Steelton, Highspire, Middletown, Royalton and 
Londonderry, West Londonderry and Conewago Townships, Electric Light 
Building, Steelton.
  County Board No. 2 - Middle Paxton, Lower Paxton, East Hanover, 
Derry, Swatara and Lower Swatara Townships and Paxtang, Penbrook, 
Dauphin and Hummelstown boroughs, Dauphin Building, Harrisburg.
  County Board No. 3 - Lykens, Upper Paxton, Washington, Williams, 
Mifflin, Wiconisco, Reed, Rush, Jackson, Jefferson, Halifax and Wayne 
Townships and Elizabethville, Gratz, Williamstown, Lykens, Millersburg, 
Halifax and Berrysburg boroughs, Daniel Building, Elizabethville. 

HONOR HOUCK'S MEMORY

  LEBANON, Aug. 23. - Lebanon City School Directors honored the memory 
of the late Henry Houck, of this city, by naming the public school 
building in the new Ninth Ward the Henry Houck Building.  He was State 
Secretary of Internal Affairs at the time of his death, but was for a 
long period of years identified as Deputy State Superintendent of 
Schools.

ORE MINE OWNER DIES

  READING, Aug. 23. - William G. Rowe, 70 years old, for thirty-five 
years superintendent of iron ore mines in Pennsylvania and Virginia and 
a partner of George F. Baer, deceased president of the Reading Railway, 
in mines at Boyertown, died here yesterday.

MARYLAND WEDDINGS

  HAGERSTOWN, Aug. 23. - Marriage licenses were issued here yesterday 
to these Pennsylvanians:  Austin L. Owens, Jennie F. Meck, New 
Bloomfield; David Leroyd Thomas, Elda Yorlet, Carlisle. 

ACTIVITIES IN THE REALM OF SOCIETY AND PERSONAL NOTES OF INTEREST

  BRIDE-TO-BE IS GUEST OF HONOR

  Miss Evelyn Joyce, 1314 Berryhill street, whose engagement to Donald 
B. Smith, of Philadelphia, was recently announced, was the guest of 
honor at a miscellaneous shower given on Tuesday evening by Mrs. Harry 
Williamson at the latter's residence in Highspire.
  Pink roses and gladiolas in the same shade were artistically used 
throughout the house and formed a beautiful center arrangement for the 
table.
  Mrs. Williamson's guests included Miss Evelyn Joyce, Miss Ruth Tock, 
Miss Ruth Atkinson, Miss Doris Bennett, Miss Mary Black, Miss Margaret 
Cover, Miss Katharine Miller, Miss Martha Wall, Miss Cecelia Joyce, 
Miss Mabel Maurer, Miss Esther Shirk, Miss Margaret Johnston, Miss 
Esther Wiseman, Mrs. Paul Beck, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hutchinson, Miss 
Louise Auginbaugh, Miss Margaret Murray, Mrs. Walter Fogelsanger and 
Miss Theodora Shilling. 

  One hundred and four guests were present at the surprise party given 
by Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Miller at their residence in Lewisberry, York 
County, the occasion being the birthday anniversary of their son, John 
Miller.  Following is a list of the guests:
  Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hartman, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Coover, Mr. and 
Mrs. John Strominger, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kilmore, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 
Hess, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Strominger, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Peifer, Mr. 
and Mrs. Jacob Brenneman, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Logan 
Trout, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Funk, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Langlets, Mrs. 
Marlin Potts, Mrs. Jacob Trout, Mrs. John Haring, Mrs. Dora Kilmore, 
the Misses Beulah Hartman, Nellie Anderson, Mary Coover, Vernie 
Hoffman, Ruth Atticks, Esther Anderson, Hazel Anderson, Cledith 
Strominger, Catherine Snyder, Sarah Stettler, Edith Eppley, Bessie 
Hobaugh, Margaret Snyder, Pearl Bowman, Esther McClure, Hannah 
Eichelberger, Ethel Pathomer, Marie Peifer, Alda Hoffman, Lois Atticks, 
Frances Brenneman, Grace McClure, Ruth Haring, Ruth Coover, Maggie 
Shidle, Freda Hartman, Helen Langlets, Hazel Kilmore, Helen Kilmore, 
Anna Kilmore, Evelin Strominger, Viola Trout, Romaine Funk, Thelma Funk 
and Florence Kilmore, Daniel Kann, John Kann, Rankin More, Walter 
Billet, Howard Eckles, Blaine Seitz, Earnest Hare, Dewey Hess, Jacob 
Miller, David Miller, Clarence Trout, Russel Coover, Charles Wilt, 
Pleny Strominger, George Potts, Oran Brenneman, Charley Shindle, Edward 
Kaugler, Harry Atticks, John Eichelberger, Miller Hobaugh, John Shuey, 
Thomas Peifer, Earl Manning, James Snyder, Donald Peifer, Herman Potts, 
Ross Hartman, Guy Hale, Robert Coover, Chester Coover, Robert Redman, 
Lealand Pentz, Lealand Pentz, Gilbert Shettel, Floyd Trout, Bruce 
Miller, Russel Trout, Clarence Enterline and Charles Langlets. 

  Lieutenant Arthur Bacon Smith, of Los Angeles, California, who has 
seen active service in France for the last six months, was in 
Harrisburg last night and to a group of friends at the home of George 
A. Schreiner, Seventh and Forster streets, he told of many interesting 
occurrences in France.  Lieutenant Smith is connected with the 41st 
Engineers and has been sent back to America to train draftees. 

  Patrolman Harrison Bathurst and his bride of a few days have been 
presented with a mahogany wall clock and a half dozen cut glass 
tumblers and cut glass pitcher by members of the Harrisburg Police 
Department staff.  Patrolman Bathurst was married last Thursday and 
returned to this city yesterday.

  Many of the members of the Junior Department of the Sixth Street U. 
B. Church attended the outing held yesterday at Reservoir Park.  A 
special program to amuse the young folks was featured during the day.  
The Women's Missionary Society of the church held an outdoor meeting at 
the park at 3 o'clock.  A delicious picnic supper was served to the 
juniors and their friends by a committee in charge of Mrs. Strain. 

  Personal Briefs

  Miss Caroline Schulhof, of Philadelphia, is the guest of Miss Reta 
Buxbaum, 1613 North Second street.
  Miss Mary B. Robinson, 107 South Second street, has gone to North 
Hatley, Kuebec, for an extended visit.
  Miss Reba Boss, 702 East street, has returned home after spending 
several weeks with her sister at Atlantic City and Philadelphia.
  Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert, 203 North Front street, is visiting friends in 
South West Harbor, Maine.
  Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Linn, Miss Evelyn Linn and George Linn, 44 North 
Twelfth street, will leave tomorrow for Atlantic City.
  Miss Nellie Gourley, 224 North Third street, has taken a position as 
stenographer in the Agricultural Department at Washington, D. C.
  Prof. P. L. Hocker, principal of the Steele School Building, who had 
been taking a course in supervision of teaching and penmanship at 
Columbia University, has returned to his home, 2522 Lexington street.
  Moses Baturin, who is stationed in the Classification Department at 
Columbus barracks, has returned to the barracks after spending a five-
day furlough with his parents at 815 North Seventeenth street.
  Miss Mae Colledge, of East Maine street, Hummelstown, has returned 
after spending six weeks in Lancaster and Dauphin.
  Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fry, 1614 Forster street, and Mr. and Mrs. W. P. 
Kiem, 1611 Vernon street, motored to Ocean City, N. J., where they will 
remain for a short time.
  Arthur C. Leitner, of Richland, is spending the week with his nephew, 
Kermit Landis Leitner, at 20 South Twentieth street.
  Mrs. A. W. Peifer, 227 Muench street, entertained her son, L. W. 
Peifer, of the U. S. S. Princess Matoika, and two of his shipmates, 
Peter Reiland and James Weber, of Illinois, who were here for a 
seventy-eight-hour furlough.
  Prof. J. H. McLaughlin, principal of the Westfield, New Jersey, 
schools, is spending a short time with Prof. P. L. Hocker, 2522 
Lexington street.
  Miss Hilda Baturin, 815 North Seventeenth street, has returned to her 
home after spending two months with relatives in New York and Long 
Beach.
  Miss Julia Zudrell, 29 North Seventeenth street, will leave shortly 
for Asbury Park and Philadelphia.  Miss Zudrell's sister, Miss Anne 
Zudrell, who has been spending the Summer at Asbury Park, will 
accompany her home.
  Miss Helen Hollar, 1640 Market street, has gone to Buffalo, Cleveland 
and Niagara Falls.
  Miss Sara Baturin, 815 North Seventeenth street, has gone to New York 
City where she will spend several weeks with relatives and friends.
  Mrs. John S. Vaughn, 14 South Fourth street, has gone to Atlantic 
City for the remainder of August and the months of September and 
October.  From there she will leave for Connecticut to visit at various 
places and Boston, Mass., where she will spend a month.
  Mrs. P. A. Miller and daughters, Marion and Dorothy Miller, of 
Irvington, N. J., are visiting Mrs. Miller's brother, L. B. Wanbaugh, 
119 North Seventeenth street.
  Corp. George C. Neff, now attached to the Medical Corps at El Paso, 
Texas, left Wednesday for his cantonment after spending a fifteen-day 
furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Neff, 1810 North Sixth 
street.
  Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Morrett, 1439 Susquehanna street, have received 
word that their son, Elmer T. Morrett, who was stationed at Syracuse, 
N. Y., has been assigned to the instruction school, Gas Defense 
Division, Lakehurst, N. J.
  H. B. Dallmus has returned to New York after visiting his sister, 
Mrs. S. T. Morrett, 1430 Susquehanna street.  Miss Esther Dallmus, of 
Baltimore, is also Mrs. Morrett's houseguest.
  Mr. and Mrs. George Welch and Mr. and Mrs. William Welch, 310 
Cumberland street, and Claude Brean, 1634 North Fifth street, have 
returned to this city after a motor trip to Camp Lee, Virginia, where 
they visited G. Walter Welch, who left there yesterday for Fort 
Benjamin Harrison, Ind.
  Miss Margaret Brook and Miss Mary Umberger, of Dauphin, spent the day 
with Miss Josephine Koser, 1112 North Sixth street, yesterday.
  Miss Helen Bartruss, of Rose Glenn, is visiting friends in 
Harrisburg.
  Miss Lois G. Scott, industrial secretary of the Y. M. C. A., is 
spending a month's vacation at her home in Carnegie.
  Mr. and Mrs. Harry Houser and daughter, Mary, 920 South Ninth street, 
have returned from Lancaster, where they were visiting Mrs. Houser's 
sister, Mrs. Thomas Gochenaur.

  Martin F. Frasch, 2038 Swatara street, who left yesterday for 
Philadelphia, where he reported for service with the Naval Reserves, 
was given a farewell party at his residence by the members of the Blue 
Ribbon Club.  H. E. Sutton acted as toastmaster during the evening and 
an address by E. B. Croman, president of the club, was one of the 
interesting features.  Mr. Frasch, who for some time has been manager 
of the Harrisburg Transfer Company, was one of the half backs on the 
Technical High School team during the years he was in school there.  
All the members of the club were present and during the evening they 
presented Mr. Frasch with a silver service fountain pen. 

  The children who attended the "Story Hour" yesterday in the gymnasium 
of St. Paul's Episcopal Church were delighted with the stories which 
comprised the morning's program.  Miss Dolores Segelbaum told one of 
the "Johnny Clutch" series and Mrs. W. N. Yates gave "The Peacock and 
the Nightingale."  Quite an innovation in the regular story-telling was 
"The Gold Mountain," given by Mrs. Yates, with original illustration on 
the blackboard.  An illustrated "Alphabet Story" also made a great hit 
with the children.  Mrs. Harry G. Keffer presided at the meeting and 
the usual games followed the stories.  The next meeting will be held 
next Thursday morning.  All children are cordially invited to attend.
  
  Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert, chairman of the Harrisburg Red Cross Chapter 
and E. J. Stackpole, of this city, have been asked to speak at the Red 
Cross festival to be held tomorrow evening at Red Bridge, two miles 
north of Dauphin.  Community singing will be led by one of the soldiers 
stationed at the Middletown aviation depot and it is expected that a 
large number of the soldiers will be present.
  Miss Sue Meyers, chairman of the Committee on Activities, has issued 
a request that every person bring reading matter along with them.
  An old fashioned chicken corn soup dinner will be served and cake and 
ice cream will be sold.  Money derived in this manner will be donated 
to the Red Cross.  The eatables will be furnished by members of the Red 
Bridge chapter. 

Big Locomotive Works for Marietta Is Rumor

  MARIETTA, Aug. 23. - Amoas M. Shank yesterday commenced tearing down 
the office building which stood on the Engle farms for at least three-
quarters of a century.  Today Mr. Shank's workmen are going right ahead 
with the work and will remove the old tobacco shed a little further 
west and on which a new roof had been put during the present Summer.  A 
small frame tenant house near the office building is also to be removed 
at this time.
  Mr. Shank refuses to confirm or deny the report that the large brick 
farm house with all modern conveniences, known as the Engle homestead, 
together with the large bank barn, silo and all outbuildings, must go 
to make room for a concrete and steel building 800 by 400 feet, this to 
be only one of the buildings connected with the locomotive works which 
are to come here.  Dame Rumor has it that the Pennsylvania Railroad 
Company has plans for every kind of a building needed in the 
manufacture and repair of locomotives to occupy the site west of 
Marietta except an iron foundry. 

Lebanon Motor Party Guests at Enola Home  [photo]

  Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Coldren, of Enola, entertained a number of their 
friends who motored in a large truck from Lebanon and spent the day at 
their home.  The party left Lebanon early in the morning and arrived at 
the Coldren residence at 9.30 o'clock.  The guests enjoyed games, music 
and outdoor sports during the day and after a delicious dinner and 
picnic supper returned to Lebanon in the evening.  The party included 
the following Lebanon people:  Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Runkel, Mr. and Mrs. 
Arthur McMinn, Miss Esther Runkel, Walter Runkel, George C. Runkel, 
Warren Runkel, Alfred Runkel, Russell Fernsler, Earl Carl, Mrs. William 
Copenhaver, Miss Marion Runkel, Emaus; Miss Emma Deichert, Suedburg; 
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Runkel and son, Harold, Pottstown; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph 
Runkel, Jonestown; Mr. and Mrs. William Collis and children, Christina, 
William and Beatrice, Enola; Mrs. Cora Miller, Enola; Mr. and Mrs. J. 
W. Coldren, Enola; J. Arthur Coldren and Russell Coldren, Enola; 
Charles A. Runkel and Miss Margaret Straub, Philadelphia. 

COPENHAVER DESIGNS SHELL-MAKING DEVICE

  Thomas A. Copenhaver, until recently a resident of this city, and a 
brother of C. F. Copenhaver, real estate dealer, of 2215 North Fourth 
street, was a draftee, but rejected for trench service for physical 
reasons.  Being determined to do something to help down the Kaiser he 
has designed several machines for making shells.  He is a draftsman 
formerly employed by the Pennsylvania Railroad at Sunbury and in this 
city. 

AMBROSE MADE REGISTRAR

  The County commissioners today appointed Buford McC. Ambrose as the 
Democratic registrar of the Fifth Precinct of the Second Ward.  Ambrose 
lives at 325 Buckthorn avenue.  The old registrar of that district 
resigned some months ago. 

Lamke in Service

CHARLES R. LAMKE  [photo]

  Private Charles H. Lamke, popular Steelton boy, is now in the 
service.  He is a member of Company F, Thirtieth Infantry.  In letters 
to his parents, he says he enjoys the army life.

NEW DRAFT WILL WIN, SAYS LODGE

  WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. - Hailing the new man power bill as the weapon 
with which America will win a complete and final victory over Germany, 
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Massachusetts, today outlined to the Senate 
the "irreducible minimum" which, he said, the allies should agree to in 
making peace.
  The essential conditions of a complete, secure and lasting peace, as 
Lodge outlined them are:
  Restoration of Belgium.
  Return of Alsace-Lorraine to France, not from sentimental reasons 
alone but to deprive Germany of the coal and iron of Lorraine.
  Restoration of Itala Irredenta, including Trieste to Italy.
  Re-establishment of Serbia and Rumania as independent states.
  Security for Greece.
  Establishment of the Jugo-Slavs and Czecho-Slovaks as independent 
peoples.
  Independence for Poland.
  Restoration to Russia of provinces taken from her by the treaty of 
Brest-Litovsk.
  Relinquishment of Constantinople by the Turks and establishment of 
the Dardanelles as a free international waterway.
  Elimination of Turkish influence from Palestine.
  Such a victory, Lodge said, "must be won inside, not outside the 
German frontier.  It must be won finally and thoroughly in German 
territory and can be won nowhere else."
  The man power bill is the means to this end, Lodge said.  His speech 
was received with great attention, not only because of its remarkable 
outline of peace terms, but because Lodge is slated to become 
Republican leader of the Senate, succeeding the late Senator Gallinger.  
What he said today was at once accepted in the Senate as reflecting his 
party's peace terms, thus placing the Republicans on record as "bitter-
end-ers." 

BOILING SPRINGS NEWS; ARRIVALS AT PARK HOTEL

  BOILING SPRINGS, Aug. 23. - Mrs. Druvilla Myers and three daughters 
of Harrisburg are visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Kuhn, of this place.
  Miss Miller of Philadelphia is the guest of Miss Josie L. Brandt.
  Lieutenant and Mrs. Parker Vaughn Ahl announce the birth of a 
daughter, Mrs. Ahl was formerly Miss Helen Reid of Anderson Harbor, N. 
Y.  Lieutenant Ahl is at present stationed at the Aviation Camp, 
Americus, Georgia.
  Mr. and Mrs. Herman Gootshall have returned to their home after 
visiting friends in Hanover.
  Vernon Wagoner has returned to Philadelphia after spending his 
vacation with his mother, Mrs. George Otto.
  Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lee Learight of Philadelphia are the guests of 
Miss Josie L. Brandt of this place.
  The Harrisburg Republican Club will hold its annual picnic at Boiling 
Springs Park tomorrow.  An interesting program has been arranged for 
the day.  There will be dancing in the afternoon and evening, music 
will be provided by Lamason's orchestra.  A large crowd is expected.
  Recent arrivals at the Boiling Springs hotel follow:  Dr. and Mrs. 
William Irvin, Pittsburgh; Mrs. B. L. Beegle and son, York; Miss 
Irving, Pittsburgh; Mrs. and Mrs. J. W. Gosnell, York; Mr. and Mrs. 
William Moore and Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Huber, Harrisburg; Mr. and Mrs. 
Paul F. Smickey, Miss Margaret Smickey, Mrs. George W. Laucks, Misses 
Margaret and Dorothy Strock, York; John F. Thompson, Baltimore; F. A. 
Copenhafer, York; Herbert Harbock and family, Harrisburg. 

OBITUARY

JOHN C. STOOSS

  Funeral services for John C. Stooss, 73 years old, of Lemoyne, who 
died at his home yesterday as the result of a stroke, will be held 
tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock from his residence.  Burial will be 
made in the Prospect Hill Cemetery.  St. Stooss is survived by three 
daughters, Mrs. George E. Ellis, of Lemoyne; Mrs. J. W. Walck of 
Steelton, and Miss Pansy Stooss, at home. 

Man Killed When Two boilers Explode

  NEW BETHLEHEM, Aug. 23. - George Songer, 30, is dead and Ernest E. 
Shumaker, 40, and William Layton are seriously injured today as the 
result of the explosion of two boilers at the brick plant of the 
Clarion Fire Brick Company at St. Charles, seven miles west of here.  
Shumaker, superintendent of the plant, sustained badly fractured legs 
and severe scalp wounds.  Layton was the watchman.  His collarbone is 
broken and he suffered bad cuts on the head.  The damage to the plant 
is estimated at $10,000.  Surrounding buildings were damaged. 

Dare Family Holds Reunions at Paxtang

  The Dare family held a reunion at Paxtang Park yesterday afternoon 
which was greatly enjoyed by the participants.  Croquet and other games 
were the entertaining features of the day.  Heads of the Dare families 
are widely known here, being interested in business in this city.  
Those present were:
  Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Dare, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dare, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. 
Dare, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Dare, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Morris, Mr. and Mrs. 
Will Straw, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Dare, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spangler, 
Mrs. Alice Boyer, Mrs. C. A. Shoemaker, Steward Morris, Mr. Franklin, 
Fab Fink, George Rhinehart, Misses Ruth Morris, Rachael Dare, Alva 
Dare, Ethel Dare, Roberta Dare, Phoebe Spangler, Florence Dare, Rosalie 
Dare, Ethel Spangler, Ruth Dare, Mildred Straw, Aletha Straw, Catherine 
Shoemaker, Raymond Dare, Jack Morris, William Straw, Harold Shoemaker, 
Francis Fink. 

Wounding of Corporal W. T. Cook Confirmed

CORPORAL WALTER T. COOK  [photo]

  On August 14, Mrs. Walter T. Cook, whose home is near Rutherford, 
received a telegram from the War Department advising her that her 
husband, Corporal Walter T. Cook had been severely wounded in action, 
while fighting in France, and confirming a similar announcement 
contained on the official casualty list.
  Corporal Cook, who is a member of the 101st Supply Train, enlisted 
for service in July, 1917.  He was sent to Mount Gretna for preliminary 
training, from which place he was transferred to Camp Hancock, Ga.  In 
May last he sailed with his unit for over the seas and since then he 
had seen active service up to the time that he was wounded. 

To Leave August 30 for Limited Service

  Names of the selectives of the limited service class who will leave 
here Friday evening, August 30, at 7.30 o'clock, for Camp Greene, 
Charlotte, N. C., were announced today by some of the draft boards of 
the city and county.  Those to go are:
  City, No. 1 - Robert Henry Thomas, 1317 Front; William J. Putt, 222 
Chestnut, and Gratin Grant Glace, 1326 « North Third.  County No. 2 - 
Charles M. Stepp, Enhaut, and Norman B. Nornhold, Grantville, county 
No. 3 - Waldron Lebo, Berrysburg; Roy Seip, Wiconisco; Francis Reigle, 
Williamstown.

LEWISTOWN BOY KILLED; YORK COUNTIAN MISSING

  Charles Klein, of Lewistown, and James B. McGurk, of Muddy Creek 
Forks, York County, are two Central Pennsylvania boys whose names 
appear on today's casualty list.  Klein is listed as killed in action 
and McGurk, who is a son of Mrs. Joseph McGurk, is reported as missing 
in action. 

Bressler Boy in Camp

JOHN L. BOWERS  [photo]

  A former Bressler boy, John L. Bowers, is now with the 209th Aero 
Squadron, at Waco, Texas.  He has written a number of letters home, 
telling of the work.  Before enlisting in the service, he was a painter 
___ varnisher. 

ALL OF THE NEWS OF STEELTON, MIDDLETOWN AND DAUPHIN COUNTY

MIDDLETOWN

  29 Children Enter Red Cross Contest

  Approximately twenty members of the Middletown Chapter of the 
American Red Cross were present at the rooms, on South Union street, 
yesterday afternoon to take part in the completion of the present month 
allotment, which is expected to be done away with at the first meeting 
of the coming week.
  Twenty-nine children of the borough have entered their names in the 
pony and cart contest.  Those who have registered are Harold Webb, John 
Brown, Walter Stoops, Claude Green, William Young, Raymond Young, 
Harold Romberger, Harry Longsdorf, Earl Hevel, Wilmer Good, Chester 
Brown, Donald Hunter, Earl Cain, John Hass, William Welsh, Ethel Welsh, 
Hilda Shireman, George Rife, Hazel Rife, William Siler, Mearle 
Campbell, Lyburn Cobaugh, Marlin Fager, Anna Bates, Edgar Cryder, 
Nelson Rife, Charles Welcomer, Evelyn Deimler and Ruth Leggore.
  The little girls from town and Royalton have entered the Organ 
Contest, which is also being carried on here by the local Chapter of 
the Red Cross.  The votes sell at one cent, and the one receiving the 
most votes will be given the organ.  All returns for this contest must 
be in on Saturday, August 31, and turned over to Mrs. C. C. Etnoyer, of 
South Union street, head of the local Chapter of the Red Cross. 

  SEEKS TO HAVE HUSBAND PLACED IN THE U. S. ARMY

  "If he is a slacker he should be put in the army, where he belongs, 
and if you can locate him for me, that is where he will go," says Mrs. 
Mary Stipe, of Girard avenue, this place, who is endeavoring to locate 
her husband, Clarence W. Stipe.  Mrs. Stipe says she understands her 
husband has been in Philadelphia for more than a year and is working in 
a munition factory.  Failing to find him, she said she went to State 
draft headquarters at Harrisburg and examined the list of registered 
men from that city, but did not find his name.  "If he didn't register 
and is a slacker," she wrote, "he should be in the army, as he is a big 
husky man and has not given me one cent toward the support of his 
family since he left." 

  PICNIC AT BOILING SPRINGS

  Fourteen local residents enjoyed an outing at boiling Springs Park 
Wednesday.  Before returning home a trip was also made to Carlisle.  
The party was conveyed to the Cumberland County resort in the large 
auto transfer of A. L. Cobaugh.  Those in attendance were:  Mrs. 
Charles Dasher, Mrs. William Wagner, Mrs. William Houser, Jr., Mrs. 
Barbara Horst, Mrs. M. Espenshade, Mrs. Joseph Ebersole, Mrs. F. I. 
Atkinson, Mrs. George Selser, Mrs. John Baker, Mrs. Lydia Page, Mrs. 
Charles Wade, Mrs. Katharine Selser, Miss Nellie Selser and Miss 
Victoria Kavanaugh. 

  WILL FILL PULPIT

  The Rev. E. A. G. Bossler, of East Water street, will fill the pulpit 
of the local Presbyterian church, on North Spring street, this coming 
Sunday morning, as the pastor, the Rev. Thomas C. McCarrell, is on his 
vacation, and is spending several weeks at Atlantic City, N. J.  There 
will be no evening service, but the members of the Christian Endeavor 
Society of the church will meet as usual on Sunday evening at 6.30 
o'clock.

  LEFT FOR TOLEDO

  Wellington Bowman and Stewart Snavely, of the borough, who for the 
past several months have been employed with the Wells Brothers' 
Contracting Company, and who have completed the erection of the large 
Aviation General Supply warehouse, west of town, have left for Toledo, 
Ohio, where they will be employed by the same company.

  CALL TAKES 290 FROM COUNTY IN EARLY SEPTEMBER

  New Drafts calls, announced late yesterday by state Draft 
Headquarters, calling for 209 men to be sent to camp from the city and 
county during the first week or two in September, embody requests for 
many men in the limited service class and one call is intended to take 
all the colored men in the general service division of Class 1.
  The days on which the selectives will leave cannot be announced until 
after the train schedules have been made up.  Forty-seven men are to be 
sent to Camp Dix and they are to include only limited service 
selectives.  In choosing these men draft boards are cautioned not to 
take men who can qualify as court stenographers or draft board chief 
clerks.
  Six colored men of the city are to be sent to Camp Sherman and it is 
anticipated that this call will take all the colored eligibles because 
the boards must send some colored men to take the places of selectives 
who have been rejected by camp examining physicians and sent home.  
Following are the quotas in the new calls:
     The Camp Quotas
  Camp Dix, white men, (city) Board 1, ten; Board 2, eleven; Board 3, 
eleven; (county) Board 1, five; Board 2, five; Board 3, five; Camp 
Sherman, all colored men, (city) Board 1, three; Board 3, three; Camp 
Greenleaf, all white men (city) Board 1, ten; Board 2, twenty-eight; 
Board 3, twenty-five; (county) Board 1, forty; Board 2, thirty-two; 
Board 3, twenty-one.
  A number of selectives have volunteered and have been inducted by 
local draft boards within the last few days.   Some already have gone 
to camp, the rest will go between this and the first of September.  
City Board No. 1 yesterday sent James N. Stewart, 1408 North Second 
street, to Camp Glen, Burney, Md., where he will join an engineering 
corps.
  George M. Muth, Hummelstown, volunteered to the Paxtang Draft Board 
and he will be sent to Sacket Harbor, N. Y., on August 29, to serve as 
a draftsman in the aeronautics corps.  Muth had been a draftsman with 
the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company. 

     Thirteen Leave Today
  Julias C. Rudy will go to Cambridge Springs September 1 for service 
as an auto mechanic.  Robert M. Maulfair, Hershey, will be sent to 
Newark, Del., for instruction as an auto mechanic.
  Clayton Mav Muohle, Paxtang, also volunteered his services and will 
be sent to Newark, Del.
  Thirteen colored selectives entrained at noon today for Camp Lee, 
Virginia.  In the unit were seven men sent by the Steelton Board, one 
by the Second City Board and five by the Third City Board. 

ALL OF THE NEWS OF STEELTON, MIDDLETOWN AND DAUPHIN COUNTY

STEELTON

  PRIZE WINNERS ON ROMPER DAY

  STEELTON, Aug. 23. - As was previously predicted the third annual 
Romper Day of the Steelton Playgrounds, held yesterday afternoon on the 
Cottage Hill Athletic Field, was the most successful and largest 
attended of any since the institution of this final event of the 
playground season.
  Upwards of 800 people, including the contestants in the meet, 
gathered on the field at 1.30 o'clock at which time the first event, 
the championship game of the baseball league, was played.  The 
contesting teams were the Fothergill and the Major Bent playground 
boys.  The game, which was very close and interesting, resulted in a 
victory for the Fothergill team.
  The second event, the championship game in tether ball, was won by 
Zerance, of the Fothergill playgrounds.  The quoits match was won after 
a close battle by the Hygienic from the Fothergill boys.
     May Pole Dance Pleases
  The most spectacular event of Romper Day was the May pole dance by 
the girls of the West Side playgrounds.  It showed that much persistent 
work has been done by these girls and their instructors in training for 
this number on the day's program.
  The May pole dance was a fitting close to the Summer's efforts of the 
West Side playground and much credit is given this playground for the 
excellent work accomplished this year.
  After the volley ball championship game, which was won by the 
Fothergill boys, the girls of the various playgrounds in suitable 
costumes presented several folk dances, bringing much applause from the 
audience.
  The final event on the sport program for the day was the Newcomb 
championship game, played between the Fothergill and the Hygienic 
girls, resulting in a victory for the latter. 
     Red Cross Prize winners
  After a careful examination of the Red Cross work of the several play 
grounds during the Summer a committee of Red Cross members headed by 
Mrs. Chick decided that the Major Bent playground was the winner of the 
prizes for the best and most work done in this branch of the playground 
work.  They further decided that Esther Lipstitz, of the Fothergill 
playground, was the winner of the prize for the best and most work done 
by an individual.  The ones to win the prizes offered for the best work 
done by the smaller children of the several playgrounds were:  Mary 
Bason, Major Bent; Beatrice Kitner, Lawn; Lillian Bense, Hygienic; Nora 
Mahoney, West Side and Mary Ament, Fothergill.
  This department of the playground work, which is under the Junior Red 
Cross, has accomplished much work during the Summer in aiding the 
Steelton Chapter to complete for shipment its extra large assignment of 
hospital and army supplies due for completion on September 1.  Several 
hundred pieces have been made by these small children during their play 
hours during the Summer vacation period. 

  TEACHER ELECTED

  Miss Mae Byerly, of Millersburg, has been elected teacher of 
mechanical drawing in the High School.  She succeeds Paul A. Miller, 
who was drafted for military service.

  RETURNS TO BOROUGH

  Miss Eva Lingle has returned to the borough after spending the last 
two weeks of her vacation with her parents in Oberlin.  Miss Lingle is 
making her home at present with her sister, Mrs. Anna C. Jacks, 325 
Walnut street, and is one of the first female employes of the old 
Pennsylvania steel Company. 

Marietta News Notes; Water Lines Repaired

  MARIETTA, Aug. 23. - The Marietta Gravity Water Company has adjusted 
the trouble with its lines in the reservoir, and the patrons are now 
promised the best of service.  The company had the pumping station in 
readiness in case of an outbreak of fire during the nights, while the 
repairs were being made.
  A community dance has been scheduled for Chickies Park on Monday 
evening next, under the auspices of the Columbia Chapter of the Red 
Cross.  Music will be furnished by the Liberty Band of Marietta.
  Mrs. John Miller, of near Falmouth, is confined to bed from injuries 
received in falling down a flight of cellar stairs at her home on 
Wednesday night.
  Mr. and Mrs. Norman White announce the birth of a daughter.
  Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Penwell, residing in East Marietta, celebrated 
their forty-fourth wedding anniversary.
  Mrs. John W. Espenshied, of Marietta, celebrated her birthday 
yesterday.  Mrs. Espenshied is the wife of the custodian of the old 
Town Hall bell and today the couple is celebrating their forty-first 
wedding anniversary. 

2 MEN IN CRASH WHERE 3 WWERE KILLED July 21

     Special to The Evening News
  MECHANICSBURG, Aug. 23. - William B. Neff and George W. Garrison, 
both of Dillsburg, narrowly escaped death this morning when an auto in 
which they were riding was struck and demolished at York street by an 
electric car due here at 7 o'clock from Dillsburg.
  It was at the same crossing on Sunday, July 21, that in a similar 
accident, three autoists were instantly killed and four severely 
injured.  In both instances, it is said, the alarm bell at the crossing 
failed to sound to warn of the approach of the electric car.
  Neff and Garrison, not hearing any warning bell ring this morning 
drove onto the tracks.  As they got halfway over they saw the car 
bearing down on them.  Neff, who was driving, turned the machine down 
the track.  The electric car struck the auto in the rear.  Garrison, 
seeing the danger, jumped and rolled off the tracks.  The electric car 
dragged the machine, with Neff still at the wheel, for a distance of 
fifty feet and then threw it against a fence.  Neff was pinned between 
the car and the fence. 
  John Feiser, motorman, and Alexander Wireman, conductor, both of 
Dillsburg, immediately got Neff out of the auto and much to their 
surprise found Neff had received only a few scratches.  He was, 
however, suffering from severe shock.  Garrison was not injured at all, 
but the machine is a total wreck.
  Both Neff and Garrison blame the accident on the alleged fact that 
the electric warning bell at the crossing did not sound.  They both 
said they listened for it before attempting to cross the tracks. 

SHOOTS WOMAN AND SELF

  BRADFORD, Aug. 23. - Mile Plummer, a half breed Indian, shot and 
killed his housekeeper, Marie Cohen, and then turning the weapon on 
himself committed suicide at his home here early today.  No motive for 
the tragedy is known.  Plummer came here several years ago from Red 
House, N. Y., where he was born on a reservation. 

DEATHS

  BALDWIN - On August 23, 1918, Caroline Stephen, wife of C. C. 
Baldwin, of Perth Amboy, N. J.
  Private funeral on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the residence 
of her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth S. Hiester, 1100 North Front street.  
Burial private.

FARMS

  80 ACRES - The "Ed. Cassel" farm, just north of Progress is up for 
sale, including all crops.  Make me an offer.  H. G. PEDLOW, 3 S. 
Thirteenth street. 

NOTICES

  I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE for any debts contracted by my wife, Mrs. 
Rosie Look. - Roy R. Look.