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The Evening News, Harrisburg, Penna., Monday, August 5, 1918

PARADE AS 232 NEGROES DEPART

  Colored citizens of Harrisburg staged a farewell demonstration for 
232 colored draftees, selected from the city, who left this morning for 
Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich., for general military service in the 
National Army.
  Promptly at 11:15 a parade swung from Market street into the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Station approach and the men promptly entrained 
in the shods.  They were escorted by the Perseverance Band.  Throngs of 
friends, wives, mothers, sweethearts, brothers and fathers besieged the 
station to bid final farewells after the parade through the central 
part of the city.  The men, armed with helmets and sweaters, work of 
loving fingers, were quite jubilant and had labeled their cars 
"Philadelphia Special, Berlin or Bust."
  Mothers, white-haired and with back bent, were brave and cheerful.  
Belles reigned supreme and kept everyone's spirits soaring.  One girl 
in particular, dressed in the most purple of velvets and who wore on 
the head a hat of unmistakable cerise, garnished with black velvet and 
red roses, was here and there and everywhere.  Finally one of the 
future warriors found her irrestible and kissed her.
  When the train began to move there was much cheering and many shouted 
good wishes.  It was only after the train began to disappear up the 
tracks that the tears began to flow.
  With the same contingent from Harrisburg went the quotas from 
Steelton and Paxtang.  There were three other cars of colored troops 
attached here to the train.  They had come from "somewhere in the 
South."

Rainbow Boys in Front Trenches [photo]

  The picture shows some of the boys of the 42nd division - better 
known as the Rainbow - in the front trenches.  General March, Chief of 
Staff, has announced that this division is among the ones helping to 
drive back the Hun in the Soissons-Rheims district.  In this unit are 
soldiers from all states, including Pennsylvania.  Several 
Harrisburgers, among them Lieutenant Gross, son of City Commissioner 
Gross, are in the division.

112TH CHARGED OVER DEAD HUNS SAYS PERSHING

     Special to The Evening News
  WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. - Indications from various sources are that when 
the whole truth of the rout of the Germans from the Soissons-Rheims 
salient becomes known the French-American victory will prove even 
greater than the official or press dispatches have so far shown.  In 
the thick of this fighting, where the main aim of both sides apparently 
was to kill as many of the enemy as possible, were the Pennsylvania men 
who got their training in the old National Guard, the 112th and the 
111th regiments being in the very thick of the fire.  These regiments 
are a part of the 28th or Keystone Division, and in the 112th are 
upwards of 700 men from Harrisburg and vicinity, many of them members 
of the old 8th Regiment.
  The 112th is composed of the men from the old Eighth, with 
headquarters at Harrisburg and the 16th, from western Pennsylvania.  
These merged regiments are commanded by Colonel George C. Rickards, of 
Oil City, formerly head of the 16th Regiment.  Colonel Maurice E. 
Finney, of Harrisburg, former commander of the Eighth, is now in 
command of the trains connected with the Keystone Division.  The 111th 
Regiment was made up by the merging of the 18th and 6th National Guard 
Regiments with Colonel Edward C. Shannon, Columbia, formerly commander 
of the Fourth, in charge.
  The men of these regiments and of the entire 28 Division, according 
to a confidential report of General Pershing to the War Department, 
just made public, had literally to walk over dead German soldiers in 
driving the Huns back, for the rout was so rapid that the Huns had 
neither time to save their vast stores or carry off their dead.  The 
confidential telegram of the American Army commander in France, 
referred especially to the 28th Division, containing the 112th 
Regiment, and was made public by General March, the chief of staff, as 
follows:
  "An officer of General Muir's 28th Division, just returned from 
Fereen-Tardenois, reports that it does not seem possible for an army to 
have gathered as many guns, as much ammunition, as the Germans had 
abandoned in their retreat which had been so hasty that they had not 
had time to bury their dead.
  The ground was so covered with corpses that it was impossible to 
advance without walking over them, and further, that the advance of the 
28th Division had been extremely rapid in spite of the fact that their 
position was some distance from the nearest railroad."

BOARD'S ORDER VIRTUALLY BARS USE OF JITNEYS

  Jitney operation in Harrisburg was practically wiped out today when 
the Public Service Commission, in an order, directed sixty-six drivers 
of jitneys to cease operation until they have received certificates of 
public convenience.  At the same time the commission issued another 
order denying seventy drivers certificates that would permit them to 
operate cars in the city.
  The names of the operators, who were served with notices in the two 
actions are nearly identical.  The refusal of the commission to grant 
certificates of public convenience in these cases does not mean that 
the jitneura cannot apply for certificates but in applying they must, 
if their petitions are to be considered, specify the routes they will 
traverse.  These are very limited.
  Commissioner Michael J. Ryan, of Philadelphia, is the only member of 
the board who could not agree with the other six on these questions and 
he dissented from the action taken in both orders.
          Orders a Surprise
  The commission's orders were a surprise to the jitney men of the 
city.  Recently the Harrisburg Railways Company filed complaints 
against twenty-eight jitney men now operating and the jitney men 
instead of filing an answer within the specified ten days asked the 
commission to modify its original order restricting the area of their 
activities.
  The commission then took up for consideration the sixty-six 
complaints of the railways company and the seventy applications for 
certificates of the jitney men, filed more than a year ago.  August 24, 
1917, the commission issued its first order against the jitney men, 
following the receipt of the railways company complaints.  It then told 
the jitney men, whose applications for certificates covered the entire 
city, that they would be given thirty days in which to file schedules 
of their rates, but that these routes could not include the territory 
between the river and the Pennsylvania Railroad right of way, and the 
commission practically limited the jitney drivers to routes on the Hill 
through the Herr street subway.  One jitney man filed a route that 
complied with this order, but the others refused to do so and got the 
one man who filed to withdraw his schedule.
          The Local Situation
  Harrisburg is in a somewhat different position than other cities in 
relation to the jitney question, for the voters here virtually went on 
record as favoring the jitneys when they voted for the smaller jitney 
city license.  At the same time the Public Service Commission had had a 
survey of traffic and transit conditions here made by its experts and 
it issued a report in which it set forth that the service of the 
railways company is not all it should be.  Rerouting was recommended, 
but this has been held up, in part, by the fact that no action, 
definitely, has been taken on the proposed State Street Bridge.
  For these and other reasons the commission never issued an order 
directing the jitneys to get off the streets, and although the taking 
up today of the old cases now indicates that the commission considers 
that all jitneys operating here are running contrary to law and the 
regulations of the commission, the jitneys were allowed to operate for 
more than a year after the cases were instituted. 
  The orders in effect hold that all jitney operation here is wrong, 
unless certificates of public convenience are obtained, and to obtain 
these the jitney operators must prove there is a public necessity for 
their running.  It is said there are some jitney men operating with and 
without city licenses on certain days and against whom no complaints 
have been lodged by the railways company.  It is probable that 
additional complaints will be filed against these men.
          Jitney Man to Fight
  The jitney operators have contended that the commission has no power 
to act in their cases, because of the municipal ordinance, and there 
were indications today that the men would fight.  Under a recent act 
appeals must be filed with the Superior Court instead of the local 
court in Public Service cases.  It was also intimated by some of the 
jitney men that the bringing of the matter to a head by the commission 
now, at a time when the railways company is advertising the fact that 
it ought to have six-cent fares, would be followed soon by an 
announcement by the company that an increase would be made.  There was 
no confirmation of this rumor from the traction company, however, which 
has discussed increased fares but has not yet reached a decision.
  The orders issued to the jitney men direct that they "forthwith, 
cease and desist from carrying on or engaging in the public service set 
forth in the complaint, to-wit, operating as a common carrier a motor 
vehicle," until each jitney operator has secured a certificate in 
accordance with the Public Service Company law.
  The refusal of the applications of the jitney operators is 
accompanied by an order stating that "the commission finds and 
determined that the applicant has failed to establish that the proposed 
service is necessary and proper for the service, accommodation, 
convenience and safety of the public."
  The jitney men who are ordered off the streets are:
  C. E. Webb, George M. Swope, A. R. Stine, J. M. Walker, H. L. 
McLaughlin, H. Edward Forry, W. L. Grimes, J. W. Rehn, Jesse Carst, 
Daniel F. Jones, John B. Wilver, Charles E. Cummings, H. H. Schue, 
Albert J. Smith, D. C. Greenly, G. H. Smiley, W. Consylman, G. W. 
Schoffstall; John Kauffman, S. E. Webb, E. S. McLinn, William F. 
Hollands, Lee F. Zimmerman, D. P. Jacobs, H. E. Gilbert and G. Q. 
McClarin, Reuben Stretch, James A. Kistler, Martin J. O'Toole, William 
J. Oren, Frank Criswell, Robert Harvey, Harry C. Staub, F. M. Trostle, 
W. L. Gutshell, Clif Drabenstadt,
  Eugene W. Trayer, R. B. Hannon, Christian Crone, Charley E. Powley, 
James O. Cocklin, Samuel Swartz, Roy Cook. S. H. Dimeler, E. A. Mell, 
A. Baturin, F. T. Calhoun, Jennie Schreadley, David Gerlach, Joseph C. 
Johnson and James Vaughn, J. L. Gallagher, William Lotz, Elmer E. 
Firing, R. J. Dennin, E. B. Sundy, W. H. Gates, Jacob Snyder, F. E. 
Taylor, E. J. Lawyer, Harry W. Shoop, H. R. Yoder, S. Krantzman, C. J. 
Kennedy, Frank E. Miller, C. E. Webb. 

Injuries Received in Fall Fatal to Driver

  Henry Trout, a farmer, R. D. 1, Siddonsburg, York County, who fell 
from the wagon in which he was riding early Saturday morning, died in 
the Harrisburg Hospital at 10:50 o'clock this morning from injuries to 
his head.
  It is not known definitely how the accident, which took place on the 
West Shore, occurred, but it is believed Trout fell asleep and was 
thrown from his seat when his horse began to run. 

HEARS FROM HER HUSBAND RECENTLY REPORTED DEAD

  Mrs. John T. Hazzard, of West Fairview, who has been making inquiries 
in Washington as to whether the "John T. Hazzard, of Pennsylvania" 
mentioned as dead in the casualty list some days ago, was her husband, 
who is a member of Field Hospital Company No. 125, 107th Sanitary 
Train, now somewhere in France, was much relieved this morning to 
receive a letter from her husband, dated July 5.
  Mrs. Hazzard believes her husband wrote the letter after the casualty 
list which mentioned the other John T. Hazzard, had been sent to 
Washington.  The letter, however, does not prove surely that Hazzard, 
of Fairview, is not the man named in the casualty list, because the 
list was published since July 5 and did not state the date on which the 
man referred to had died. 
  
O'Neil Withdraws and Will Support Sproul

  State Highway Commissioner J. Denny O'Neil today filed with George D. 
Thorn, in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, his 
withdrawal as candidate for Governor of the Commonwealth of 
Pennsylvania, on the Roosevelt Progressive ticket.
  Commissioner O'Neil stated that he is going to give as much of his 
time as he possibly can during the campaign to the support of State 
Senator William C. Sproul and the entire Republican ticket. 

Kiwanis Members Take Glee Club to Camp

  When the P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. Glee Club went to Camp Colt, 
Gettysburg, last night to sing for the soldiers, it was members of the 
Kiwanis Club who took them there and home again in automobiles.
  Members of the club who lent their cars are:  L. N. Neefe, W. C. 
Alexander, William M. Logan, Joshua A. Rutherford and Al K. Thomas, S. 
A. Green, who is not a member of the club, also lent his car. 

BURKHOLDER VERY WEAK

  Albert E. Burkholder, 270 Peffer street, the brakeman who was 
terribly burned early Saturday morning in the explosion of two tank 
cars containing naptha near the SK Hump in the Pennsylvania Railroad 
yards, a short distance from the Maclay street station, was reported 
early this afternoon by physicians of the Harrisburg Hospital as still 
in a critical condition. 

Young Lancaster Captain Reported Killed in Action

  LANCASTER, Aug. 5. - Captain Henry E. Worthington, son of Mr. and 
Mrs. James Worthington, youngest captain in the Regular Army and pride 
of Lancaster, has been killed in action.  The announcement was made 
yesterday by Dr. Mull, of Franklin and Marshall College, who received 
the message.  The death was also announced in today's casualty list.
  Mrs. Worthington is not in the city.  Captain Worthington was wounded 
in action by shrapnel about four months ago, and was later decorated 
for bravery.  His sole hope expressed on the hospital cot was to meet 
the Boche again.
  Worthington was a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and of 
the Fort Niagara training camp.  He was also a member of the Chi Phi 
fraternity.  He was a member of the 9th Regiment.
  Mrs. Worthington recently announced the engagement to her son to a 
Massachusetts girl who is working in Hostess House in France. 

FATHER AND SON DROWN

  PITTSBURGH, Aug. 5. - Edward T. Hartranft, 47, and his son, Judson, 
10, were drowned in the Allegheny River near here yesterday.  The elder 
Hartranft was teaching his son to swim and while in deep water was 
seized with cramps. 

ACTIVITIES IN THE REALM OF SOCIETY AND PERSONAL NOTES OF INTEREST

  MUNICIPAL DATES ARE ANNOUNCED

  Wednesday Club Prepares List of Recitals for Coming Season

  The first suggestion of Fall activities in the women's club life of 
Harrisburg was announced today by the Wednesday Club in the advanced 
program of bi-weekly musicales to be given during the season by various 
groups of club workers.  The recitals will start November 6 and 
continue until March 12.
  One of the outstanding points of this season's program will be the 
reciprocity feature with other clubs through the National Federation of 
Musical Clubs.
  Following is a list of the musicales with the accompanying artists:
  November 6 - Mrs. Wilbur F. Harris, Mrs. Robert B. Reeves, Mrs. John 
R. Henry, and Miss Mabel W. Wittenmyer.
  November 30 - Miss Sara Lemer, Mrs. Robert W. Bressler, Mrs. John C. 
Reed, and Miss Theo Laverty.
  December 10 - Mrs. William K. Bumbaugh, Miss Mary E. Worley, and Mrs. 
Henry H. Rhodes.
  January 15 - Mrs. Edwin J. Decevee, Miss Belle P. Middaugh, Miss Mary 
B. Robinson, and Miss Martha E. Snavely.
  February 12 - Mrs. J. G. Sanders, Mrs. Lee Izer, Mrs. William 
Harclerode, and Miss Marie Sultzaberger.
  February 26 - Mrs. Martin Cumbler, Miss Lenora Fry, and Miss Mary 
Corbett.
  March 26 - Mrs. Arthur H. Hull, Miss Agnes Hess, and Miss Margaret 
Vaughn.
  April 9 - Mrs. Roy G. Cox, Mrs. Hugh Hertzler, Miss Alice Decevee, 
and Mrs. J. L. Zimmerman.
  New members, who will be elected later, will be fitted into place in 
these programs.
  The evening musicales will be as follows:
  October 23, 1918, solo choir under the direction of Frank A. 
McCarrell.
  December 3, 1918, Louis Graveure, the noted French baritone.
  January 29, 1919, choral concert under the direction of Mrs. Wilbur 
F. Harris, with Miss Mabel Wittenmyer at the piano.
  March 12, 1919, Miss Frances Nash, the young American pianist.
  One of the outstanding points of this season's program will be the 
reciprocity feature with other clubs through the National Federation of 
Musical Clubs.
  The officers for the year are Mrs. William L. Keller, president; Miss 
Nancy I. Shunk, vice-president; Mrs. Edwin J. Decevee, corresponding 
secretary; Mrs. Roy G. Cox, recording secretary; Miss Mary B. Robinson, 
treasurer; Mrs. Wilbur F. Harris, choral director; Miss Martha E. 
Snavely, chairman of program committee. 

  A large number of friends of Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Brenizer gave a 
surprise party in the honor at their home near New Kingston, Cumberland 
County.  The guests enjoyed a delightfully arranged program and 
refreshments were served to Mr. and Mrs. G. T. P. Brenizer, Mr. and 
Mrs. Clare Brenizer, Mr. and Mrs. William Dewalt, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob 
Noss, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Spera, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Rebert, William 
Stambaugh, William Webster, Robert Herman, George Forney, Mervin 
Zeigler, William Kitch, Harry Keckler, John Rebert, John Webster, 
Melvin Kechler, Mrs. Harry Keckler, Clarence Noss, Miss Carrie Kitner, 
Martin Forney, Paul Forney, Dale Forney, Miss Margaret Keckler, Roy 
Zeigler, Miss Edna Brenizer, Lee Brenizer, Mrs. Harriet Her-Rutter, 
Miss Pearl Rife, Slye Brenizer, Lee Brenizer, Mrs. Harriet Herman, Miss 
Fay Brenizer, Miss Elsie Dewalt, George T. P. Brenizer, Jr., Clarence 
Hertman, Weir Stickle, Jacob Kitch, Miss Ida Brenizer, Miss Florence 
Hurley, Miss Mina Stickle, Rex Stickle, Miss Mary Kitner, Mrs. Minnie 
Kitner, Mrs. Kathrine Kimmel, Mrs. Lizzie Kitch, John Mentzer, James 
Sellars, George Mentzer, Miss Augusta Mentzer, Lafever Mentzer, Miss 
Jessie Rice, Charles Brown, Miss Laura Kitner, Miss Grace Reiff, John 
Kitner, Mrs. Stambaugh, Miss Grace Noss, Hoover Hurley, Joseph Yohe, 
Charles Mentzer, Byron Kitch, Miss Alice Rutter, Miss Ester Young, 
Robert Noss, "Billie" Lena, Arthur Putt, Alex. Sena, Charles Blessing, 
Clarence Blessing, Clarence Hurley, John Zeigler, Paul Young, Mrs. Ida 
Young, William Stambaugh, Miss Laura Karns, Elmer Hurley, Lee Handshaw, 
Millie Tornev, Russel Ritter, Miss Margaret Torney, Miss Elva Reckler, 
Mrs. Mervin Zeigler, Elmer Ritter, John Yohe, Miss Cicely Weldon, Miss 
Mary Rebert, Miss Evelyn Kimmel, Miss Pauline Stickle, Mrs. Robert 
Herman, Mrs. George Forney, Miss Helen Herman, Miss Susan Brenizer, 
Miss Zery Brenizer, all of New Kingston and nearby farms.  Mrs. Addison 
P. Daron, of Harrisburg, and Miss Helen Diehl of Watsontown, were also 
among the guests. 

  The wedding of Miss M. L. Ying and Dr. Pho Whaa Chen, which was to 
have been solemnized tomorrow in Market Square Presbyterian Church will 
take place in Bryn Mawr.  Miss Ying is a Bryn Mawr graduate and one of 
her classmates has asked to have the wedding at her home.

  The Harrisburg Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, has 
forwarded through Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, regent of the Pennsylvania 
Society, $51 to be applied to a fund for a field diet kitchen for Camp 
Colt, Gettysburg.  The State Conference will be held in this city 
October 21-24.

  About 250 people, including many Harrisburg guests, were in 
attendance at the big social entertainment held Friday evening at 
Williams Grove.  Community singing opened the festivities followed by 
an elaborate program, the main feature of which was Professor Colta and 
his troup, from this city.  Two clever readings were given by Miss Mary 
Hoover, of Harrisburg, and Miss Genevive Houston, of Carlisle.  
Refreshments were served after the program.  Beginning this week and 
continuing for two weeks there will be dancing Tuesdays, Thursdays and 
Saturdays.
  Plans are being completed for a Mardi-Gras to be held at the grove 
August 17 and the various committees are sparing no expense to make the 
affair one of the most successful of the season.  The grove will be 
specially illuminated for the occasion and there will be a carnival for 
children under 16 years of age.  Prizes will be awarded for the best 
floats and a band has been engaged to head the procession through the 
grove.
 
  Carl B. Ely, 307 North Front street, has received the commission of 
major in the air service production, according to an announcement made 
at Washington, on Saturday.  Before entering the service Mr. Ely was 
superintendent of the Bridge Department of the Bethlehem Steel 
Corporation and for a number of years was stationed at the Steelton 
plant. 

  Two hundred members are enrolled in the Cooking School at Reservoir 
Park, which is being held under the able management of Miss Anna M. 
Bender.  This large number makes it necessary to divide the class into 
three groups daily.  Special attention has been paid to the using of 
all was substitutes and advanced work will be given in the study of 
invalid diet and menu making.
  Miss bender will succeed Miss Frances Hamilton as instructor in 
domestic science at the Central High school as Miss Hamilton is now 
serving as dietitian with the U. S. Army stationed at Fort Barancas, 
near Pensacola, Fla.

  The Rev. Dr. George Edward Hawes, pastor of Market Square 
Presbyterian Church, who presented a large silk flag to the 
Presbyterian Church of Augusta, Ga., as a gift from Market Square 
Church, writes a stirring account of the presentation services which 
were held in the church on July 28.  Following is an extract from Dr. 
Hawes' letter:
  "The flag was brought to the altar by a squad in charge of Lieut. 
Edward Rowse Herman.  The flag was carried by Boyd L. Lower.  He had 
beside him sergeant William Beckwith and Sergeant Gilbert Howard.  
Private J. Horace Nunemaker marched up one aisle and Private Gowdy the 
other.  The men met in line in front of the pulpit just as the organist 
finished playing "The Star Spangled Banner."  After placing the flag on 
the pulpit, the squad turned and faced the audience and - - - - risburg 
and all members of Market Square Church, except Private Gowdy, who is a 
member of Dr. Kremer's church."
  Dr. Hawes speaks of the service as one of the most impressive and 
memorable events of his life and in mentioning the congregations when 
the flag was put in place said "Old confederates wept and the young 
people could scarcely refrain from cheering, a thing which would be 
unpardonable in a Southern church." Note: - - - a line must be missing 
here. 

  Twenty-five little friends of Sarah Elizabeth Knauss were entertained 
Saturday afternoon at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. 
Knauss, 24 South Seventeenth street, in honor of her fifth birthday 
anniversary, which occurred today.  After various forms of amusement 
and music, refreshments were served to Marion Morton, Louise Diener, 
Ellen George, Mildred Saul, Leonora Gross, Mary Gross, Jane Bealor, 
Kathleen Kelly, Francis Heisey, Francis McMullen, Arlene Hershey, 
Wilbur Hershey, Geraldine Smith, Lola May Hertzler, Russel Hertzler, 
Jr., Beatrice Engle, Mary Engle, Joyce Fishel, Zoe Fishel, Rosalie 
Bowman, Dorothy Jacobs, Mildred Stoner, Edward E. Knauss, Jr., 
Katharine W. Knauss and Sarah Elizabeth Knauss. 

  Personal Briefs

  Mrs. Melville P. Fickes and her small daughter, "Betty," who have 
been the guests of Mrs. Fickes' mother in Washington, D. C., and 
friends in this city, have returned to their home in Phoenix, Arizona.  
Mrs. Fickes will be remembered as Miss Frances R. Black, of this city.
  Mrs. Seth Gelnett, Steelton, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Milton 
Thompson, New York City.
  Miss A. M. Kline and J. D. Kline, 1924 North Fifth street, have 
returned to their home after spending some time in Red Lion, Loganville 
and Hallam. 
  Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Welsh and daughter, Beatrice, 1525 North Third 
street, and Miss Merle Bushey, 2222 Penn street, have gone to Hog 
Island where they are the guests of C. Russell Welsh and Corporal 
Gordon Neye.
  Miss Ethel Wishard, Chambersburg, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. 
Holman, of Camp Hill.
  Mrs. E. Curzon Fager, 25 South Front street, is the guest of Miss 
Mary Jordan, Altoona.
  William Calaman and his granddaughter, Gertrude Lear, of Carlisle, 
spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Daron, 591 
Showers street, this city.  Mr. Calaman, who fought in the Civil war, 
Co. I, 13th Pennsylvania Infantry, is proud of his grandson, Jesse L. 
Daron, now fighting "somewhere in France."  Young Daron enlisted in Co. 
I, 13th Pennsylvania Infantry, but was later transferred to the 109th 
Infantry, 28th division.
  Kathryn Ringland Meyers, who is doing yeoman service in Washington, 
is spending a few days' furlough with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. 
Ringland, 1626 Third street.  
  Miss Maye Sullivan, of Boston, Mass., a student at Wellesley College, 
is visiting Dr. and Mrs. C. M. Sullivan, 1439 Market street.
  Mrs. Henry C. Claster and Miss Jeannette Claster, 2001 North Third 
street, returned to this city last night after a trip to Philadelphia.
  Burton E. Commings, 144 North Fourth street, returned yesterday from 
Lebanon.
  Dr. Sue Moyer, who has been one of the resident physicians at the 
Harrisburg Hospital for the past year left for Pittsburgh on Saturday, 
where she has accepted a position as medical adviser for the 
Westinghouse Electric Company.
  Mr. and Mrs. E. Bruce Taylor, 1600 Briggs street, and Mr. and Mrs. 
John W. Jacobs, 1908 Market street, motored to Gettysburg and 
Chambersburg over the week-end.
  Miss Mary C. Buterworth, 211 Forster street, has returned from New 
York, where she took a month's special course in welfare work at 
Columbia University.
  Mr. and Mrs. Arthur H. Hull and their children, 2133 North Second 
street, have returned from Cold Spring Cottage, William Mills, where 
they spent the past two months.
  Miss Sara Weaver, 1503 North Second street, is spending the month of 
August at Cold Spring Cottage.
  Dr. and Mrs. Albert C. V. McMeen have returned from their wedding 
trip and are with Mrs. McMeen's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. 
Montgomery, 902 North Second street.
  Miss Florence Fisher, 552 Race street, is spending her vacation at 
Locust Valley Farm.
  The guests yesterday at Cold Spring Cottage, Williams Mills, were 
Miss Belle Boyd, Miss Belle Middaugh, Dr. Louise H. Taylor, Miss Annie 
Tim, Miss Jennie Kipp, of Marysville, Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Holler and 
their children of Lancaster.
  A party composed of George Reinoehl, Frank Musser, John Musser, Gus 
Steinmetz, Robert Lyon, William Bowman and several others motored to 
Wildwood Crest for a week's fishing.
  Assistant Paymaster James K. Jackson, U. S. N., spent the weekend 
with his father, Edwin K. Jackson, 121 Chestnut street.  Ensign Jackson 
was detached from the school for paymasters at Annapolis, Md., last 
Tuesday and has been spending his furlough in Youngstown, O., and New 
Castle.  He has been ordered to report on Tuesday at Washington. 
  The Rev. Dr. George Edward Hawes, pastor of Market Square 
Presbyterian Church, preached yesterday in the Presbyterian Church at 
Greenville, S. C.  Camp Sevier is near this city.
  Word was received by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel R. Dobbs, 2237 North Fourth 
street, of the safe arrival overseas of their son, Guy L. Dobbs, who is 
in the Medical Detachment of the First Pioneer Infantry.  Mr. Dobbs was 
formerly city salesman for Swift & Company before enlisting in March 
1918.
  Miss Mary Hanlen, 108 Locust street, left today for a two weeks' stay 
at Briar Cliff Manor, N. Y.
  Lieutenant and Mrs. William Meredith Wood, of Baltimore, motored to 
this city on Friday for a visit with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
George Etter, 209 Pine street.  Lieutenant Wood, who has been stationed 
at Camp Meade, Md., has been transferred to Washington.
  Miss Ella Rothrock, of Philadelphia, is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. 
C. Shank, 1834 Regina street.
  Robert Ferriday, Jr., of Cleveland, spent yesterday in this city.  
Mr. Ferriday, who was formerly a resident of Harrisburg, is now one of 
the officials of the Big Four Railroad.  He is enroute for a visit with 
his mother, Mrs. Robert Ferriday, in Wilmington, Del.
  The Rev. Dr. Edward H. Green and Mrs. Green, of Danville, Ky., will 
leave tomorrow after a visit with Doctor and Mrs. Edward M. Green, Jr., 
at the Pennsylvania State Hospital.
  George W. Darby, 256 Cumberland street, left on Saturday to join Mrs. 
Darby and their children at Roaring Creek.
  Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones, 105 Locust street, has returned from a five 
weeks' visit in Toledo, Ohio. 

  A liberty sing was held on the lawn of St. Paul's Episcopal Church 
last evening at 7.45 o'clock.  Owing to the threatening weather the 
attendance was not so large as was expected.  However, the evening 
program was carried out as had been previously arranged.  The feature 
of the evening was the artistic singing of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hobbs-
Ley.  Mrs. Hobbs-Ley will be remembered as Mrs. Florence Cooper Ackley 
before her marriage.  The evening program included:  "My Country 'Tis 
of Thee," congregation; "I Love to Tell the Story," congregation; 
quartet, "Tarry With Me O My Savior," Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hoffs-Ley, 
Miss Mary E. Worley and E. H. Lane; "I Need Thee Every Hour," 
congregation; duet, "Crucifix," Faure, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hoffs-Ley; 
"God Be With You," congregation; solo, "Shepherd of the Fold," Elmer 
Hoffs-Ley; "Star            Note: The article stops there. 

  7 DRAFTEES LEAVE TONIGHT

  The three city draft boards will send seven men this evening for 
special limited service.  They will go to Syracuse, N. Y., and the list 
is as follows:  Board No. 1, Peter Vanderloo, Jr., 230 North Second 
street, and Samuel Miller Lenker, 1415 North Third street; Board No. 2, 
Charles C. Curry, 311 Hunter street, and Herman A. Attick, 260 South 
Fifteenth street; Board No. 3, Ralph Broymesser, Carlisle, and John F. 
Owen, 1634 North Fourth street.  [Note: article says 7 only list 6]

Elizabethville Parade in Honor of Selectives

  Instructions in the making of a soldier were given on Saturday to 150 
draft registrants of the Dauphin County Draft Board, No. 3, at 
Elizabethville, by representatives from the Harrisburg Reserves, 
detailed for this duty.
  Saturday's program was an elaborate one.  The program was opened by 
the Elizabethville Citizens' Band.  The audience sang "America."  These 
selections were followed by a number of addresses.  The following were 
the speakers:  Burgess E. K. Romberger, Chairman James E. Lentz of the 
instruction board, Millersburg, the Rev. L. C. Bair, of Millersburg, 
and Captain Harry M. Stine, of Harrisburg, who was in charge of the 
drilling.  W. J. Daniel, a member of the board, officiated as chairman.
  At the end of Captain Stine's address more than 500 people 
participated in a parade which marched through the principal streets in 
town and wound up at the borough park, where drill was promptly 
started. 

TOLD TO HIT KAISER

  Horace Burton, colored, Hickory street, was arrested Saturday night, 
charged with throwing a brick at Charles Budd.  Burton is a draftee, 
and because he is going to be a soldier of Uncle Sam in the near future 
Alderman Fritz Krame, who tried the case, left Burton go free on the 
grounds that Burton take a number of bricks with him in order to soak 
the Kaiser for Alderman Kramme.  
  Burton promised to do his best. 

Boy Declines to Give Name of Playmate Who Accidentally Shot Him

  Shortly before 11 o'clock Saturday night, Paul Erb, 17 years old, 
1804 North Sixth street, was accidentally shot through the right hip by 
a fellow camper on Independence Island.  Erb refused to give the police 
the name of the boy who shot him.  All he would say is:
  "Chubby didn't mean to do it, so why should I get him into trouble?"
  The bueet, which was red from a .38 calibre revolver, entered Erb's 
hip, grazed the bone, passed at a vertical angle from his leg, and 
pierced the floor of a wooden building on Independence Island in which 
the boys were talking.
  Three years ago Erb was burned so severely while at play with a 
sparkler on the Fourth of July that it was necessary to graft skin onto 
the injured leg several times to save it from being amputated.  For 
many months he had to be moved about in a wheel-chair.
  The bullet, which was fired from a leg at the hip, just where the 
most delicate of skin grafting had been accomplished.  The ball made 
such a deep wound that physicians fear that more skin grafting will be 
necessary.  Erb is employed at the Pennsylvania Railroad Station as a 
clerk. 

Sexton Retires After 38 Years of Service

  Charles A. Davis, 1629 Logan street, holds the long-distance record 
for the city as church sexton.  He has just completed thirty-eight 
years of continuous service as sexton of the Market Square Presbyterian 
Church, and has quit because of advancing years and ill health.  The 
church has placed him on a pension and engaged J. S. Miller as his 
successor.
  Mr. Davis was born in Philadelphia May 11, 1834, and was the son of 
the Rev. J. W. Davis, at one time pastor of the Dauphin Presbyterian 
Church, and later chaplain of Camp Curtin, this city.  His mother was 
Arra Dall.
  In October, 1861, Mr. Davis enlisted for three months' service in 
Bayard's Cavalry, and after his discharge he enlisted, this time in the 
99th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, in which he served as a sharp-
shooter, taking part in many of the big battles.  He was wounded just 
before the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, which event he witnessed.
  At the close of the war he came to this city and after several years 
entered the employ of "Bailey's," later the Central Iron and Steel 
Works.
  In 1880, he became sexton of Market Square Church, which position he 
has filled until old age and ill health forced him to retire.  On the 
occasion of Mr. Davis' sixtieth birthday members of the church 
presented him with a gold watch as a token of their appreciation of his 
faithfulness.
  He is a charter member of the Paxton Fire Company and for many years 
was prominent in Post 116, G. A. R. 

Shippensburg Boy Who Died in France

WILLIAM DURFF [photo]

  William Durff, 23 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Durff, of 
Shippensburg, who was reported killed in Saturday's casualty list, is 
the first Cumberland County boy to meet death in battle.  He was in 
Company I, of the Fourth Infantry.
  Several nearby men were included in yesterday's casualty list, Wilmer 
Rowe of Williamstown, and Edward Stoud, of Tower City, were among the 
wounded.  Two York boys, Roy A. McClane and Calvin A. Carbaugh, were 
reported killed.  Lieutenant King Alexander, son of the Chambersburg 
postmaster, was reported as wounded.
  Rowe, the Williamstown boy, who is only about 20 years old, is a son 
of Dr. and Mrs. Martin L. Rowe, and resided on Fifth street, 
Williamstown.  His mother received word of her son's injury last 
Thursday by telegraph.  He enlisted in the old Fourth regiment, 
recruited at Pine Grove, and has been in France for a couple of months.
  Edward Stoud, who is reported as seriously injured, is a son of Mr. 
and Mrs. George Stoud, Tower City, an is about 24 years old.  He also 
was a member of the company recruited at Pine Grove, and previously to 
his enlistment was employed as an outside laborer at the mines.  His 
family received word Friday of his injury.

LEBANON BRAKEMAN KILLED IN YARDS HERE

  C. J. Hartman, of Kent street, Lebanon, twenty-six years old, a 
Pennsylvania Railroad freight brakeman, died last night while being 
taken to the Harrisburg Hospital in the city ambulance, from injuries 
received when he was thrown from a car he was riding over SK Hump, near 
Maclay street, between two box cars.  It is believed one of the box 
cars ran over his stomach.  The accident occurred about 9:45 o'clock.
  Hartman's wife was notified immediately of the accident, and at a 
late hour last night started by automobile for this city, accompanied 
by a Lebanon priest.  Coroner Jacob Eckinger was notified.  He 
announced that an investigation would be made. 

Magaro Sells Movie Theater in Carlisle

  The Orpheum motion picture theater, 41 West High street, Carlisle, 
which has been conducted for the last nine years by Peter Magaro, 
proprietor of the Regent theater, this city, has been sold by Magaro to 
Louis Silbert, of Harrisburg.
  Extensive improvements will be made to the house in the next two or 
three weeks during which the seating capacity will be increased by 
fifty percent through the removal of the vaudeville stage.  The theater 
will be refurnished throughout, James Leone, who has been house manager 
for the last five years, will be retained in that capacity.
  Magaro will devote his entire time hereafter to the management of the 
Regent in this city. 

Calls for 10,892 More Men From This State

  Provost Marshal General Crowder last night called upon Pennsylvania 
to furnish 10,000 white men and 892 colored men for general military 
service.
  These men will all be sent to Camp Lee, the white men entraining 
during the five-day period beginning August 26 and the colored men to 
entrain August 22.
  Major Murdock at State draft headquarters today said that work on the 
quotas and schedules will be started at once. 

Jewish Soldiers Are Entertained Here

  Jewish soldiers from Camp Colt, Gettysburg; the Aviation Corps at 
Middletown, and the Harrisburg Recruiting Station were the guests 
yesterday of the Harrisburg branch of the Jewish Welfare Board, and the 
Jewish citizens of this city in general.
  The soldiers were first entertained at a big dinner in the old Board 
of Trade Building and in the evening they motored to Summerdale, where 
they were the guests of Henry C. Claster at his summer home there.
  Immediately after the feast in the Board of Trade, Mayor Keister made 
a short address in which he welcomed the boys in behalf of the city, 
while Henry C. Claster represented the Welfare Board and the Jewish 
people.  Rabbi Louis J. Haas led in prayer and the benediction was 
pronounced by Rabbi R. Romanoff. 

VISITING IN THE SOUTH

  Miss Rachel Thomas, 3212 Green street, and her two brothers, Alvin 
and Osborne, are in Clarksburg, W. Va., visiting the Shakespeare 
family. 

Local Boards May Call Some of 1918 Class One

  The call for more than 10,000 additional men for Camp Lee will 
probably wipe out the available men in Class 1 of the 1917 registrants 
in many boards in the State.  While the quotas are unknown the chances 
are that it will mean that some of the 1918 class men in class 1 will 
be called from the local boards.
  It is difficult for some of the boards to keep absolute tabs on their 
available men.  Local Board No. 3 in the city knows that it has but ten 
white men and ten colored men left in the 1917 class, but it may have 
100 1918 men in Class 1 when the medical examinations are completed.  
So far it knows of at least fifty men of the 1918 registration who will 
be available.  Board N. 2 has numerous appeals pending and some of its 
Class 2 men are now working on farms and may be called in.  It has at 
least seventy-five men to draw from the 1918 class, some men of this 
year having been inducted into the Emergency Fleet, the Navy and the 
Marines.  Board No. 1 is now working out its list of available men. 

Notified of Nephew's Death on Battle Field

  Orlando Bonsall, 626 Verbeke street, a car inspector of the 
Pennsylvania Railroad, was informed today that his nephew, Lieut. 
Herman E. Bonsall, of Pittsburgh, died on July 19 as the result of 
wounds received in battle in France.  The telegram contained no 
details.
  Lieutenant Bonsall was an officer of Company M, 59th U. S. Infantry.  
He enlisted in Pittsburgh, in July, 1917, and was commissioned a second 
lieutenant at Fort Oglethorpe.  He was raised to a first lieutenant 
shortly before he sailed for Europe last April.  He was a graduate of 
the New Kensington High School, also the Lane School of Technology, 
Chicago.  Before enlisting he was employed by the Aetna Explosives 
Company, in Pittsburgh.  In the last letter his parents received 
Lieutenant Bonsall stated he was on the Marne front where the German 
raid on Paris was shattered.  He is the youngest son of Harry E. 
Bonsall, editor of the Kensington Keystone, and besides his parents, is 
survived by one brother and two sisters. 

Local Boy, Wounded, Wants to Fight Again

  "I expect to fight the Hun again," writes James Bloomenthal, local 
boy who was reported in action recently on the west front, in a letter 
received today by his father, Irving Bloomenthal, 2347 Logan street.  
He tells how he received the wounds that sent him to a base hospital, 
where he is now recovering.
  The wounds he received were caused by a high explosive German shell, 
which injured him about the nose, cheek, neck and shoulders.  He was 
fighting in the front line trenches where the shell exploded near him.  
He was wounded June 17 and news was received here last month.  He is 
with Battery D. Seventeenth Field Artillery, and is only 18 years old. 

County Commissioners Go to Pittsburgh Today

  Methods of determining coal land valuations will be among the topics 
to be discussed by Dauphin County commissioners who left here this 
morning for Pittsburgh to attend the annual meeting of the County 
commissioners of Pennsylvania to be held there tomorrow, Wednesday and 
Thursday.
  Dauphin County's representatives at the gathering are:  County 
Commissioners C. C. Cumbler, H. M. Stine and H. C. Wells, Chief Clerk 
Ed. H. Fisher, County Controller Henry W. Gough and County Solicitor 
Philip S. Moyer. 

DRAFTEES ENTERTAINED

  Colored draftees of this city were entertained by members of the 
Unity Lodge, No. 71, I. B. P. O. E., Saturday evening at their newly 
remodeled home, 1213 North Seventh street.  An elaborate luncheon, 
dancing and music were enjoyed by the guests.  Addresses were made by 
District Deputy James R. Wilson, C. H. Taylor, A. C. Gray and Secretary 
James E. Taylor.  Many guests from Philadelphia, Lancaster, Reading and 
Washington were present. 

DR. SUE MOYER LEAVES

  Dr. Sue Moyer, who for more than a year has been stationed at the 
Harrisburg Hospital as resident physician, left for Pittsburgh 
Saturday, where she has accepted a position as medical adviser for the 
Westinghouse Electric Company. 

Service Flag Unfurled at Losh's Run Hut

  A short but impressive ceremony was held Saturday when the parents 
and friends of six boys raised a service flag containing six stars over 
the "Hut at Losh's Run," in honor of the six boys who built the hut and 
who are now fighting in France.
  The six young men thus honored are:
  William Jennings and Ross Jennings; brothers; the sons of Mr. and 
Mrs. William Jennings, 7 South Front street; William Brown, son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Newton Brown, Duncannon; John Helff and Norman Helff, 
brothers, the sons of Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Helff, of Hummelstown; and 
Richard Hamer, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hamer, 1100 North Second 
street, this city. 

Victor Emanuel in Quiet Sector at Front

  Victor Emanuel, a former star athlete at Technical High School and 
Gettysburg College, has written friends here that he is at present 
stationed in one of the quieter sectors of the western front.  The 
letter, which was written July 6 states that he is well and happy.  He 
is with an ambulance division, having trained at Camp Crane, Allentown.  
He played on the "Usaacs" football team there last Fall.

PERSONAL

  Wm. McMorris, Wormleysburg, Pa., desires to extend his thanks and 
appreciation to the friends and neighbors for their help and sympathy 
during his bereavement in the death of his wife, Nora and son, Donald. 

LEGAL NOTICES

PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY.

  Wednesday, August 7, 1918 at 10 o'clock a. m.
  The executor of the last will and testament of Sallie Simonton, 
deceased, will offer at public sale, on the premises No. 1926 Fulton 
street, Harrisburg, Pa., a general assortment of household furniture, 
including bed and table linen, counterpanes, blankets, chinaware, 
dishes and cooking utensils.
          ALVIN LYONS, Executor. 

FORMER RAILROADER WRITES FROM FRANCE

  Sergt. Charles J. Zigner, formerly employed on the Williamsport 
Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and now connected with the 112th 
Infantry, fighting in the Soissons-Rheims district, has written a 
letter to his old working comrades on the railroad. 

  Zigner states that, although they are not serving their country by 
shouldering a gun and marching into battle, they are doing their bit in 
every bit as important and great a way by their desire to do right and 
stand by their jobs. 

ALL OF THE NEWS OF STEELTON, MIDDLETOWN AND DAUPHIN COUNTY

HUMMELSTOWN

  HUMMEL VERY NEAR TO DEATH

  Corporal Describes Attack Made by Huns at Midnight

  HUMMELSTOWN, Aug. 5. - Corporal John Paul Hummel, an ambulance driver 
with the American Expeditionary Forces in France, has written a letter 
to his brother, Harry Hummel, in which the former describes his 
experiences while witnessing an attack by the Huns on the Western 
front.  The letter follows:
  LUNDI, June 24, 1918
Dear Folks: - 
  It has been some time since I have written you about what takes place 
over here from day to day.  I trust the censor will find no objection 
to what I have to say, for I know you will be interested to hear these 
few words.  Of course, some very important information, is occasionally 
put by the censor's office; such as the following "I am sorry I cannot 
tell you where I am because C'est defendu for me to say, but I will say 
that I am not where I was but where I was before I left here to go to 
the place from which I have just come."  Now where am I?
  Well one evening I went to bed at nine o'clock and slept soundly 
until about midnight, when I was awakened by heavy bombardment.  Just 
as I began to realize what was going on, I became aware of the fact 
that there was something more than ordinary coming off.  The guns were 
thundering a short distance from camp, the shells were screeching 
through the air over our heads on their way to an important road not 
far behind our dug-outs; the high explosive shrapnel was tearing holes 
in the quiet night air and the avions were busy dropping bombs for 
bridges, and troops marching along the line.
     Feeling Under an Attack. 
  If you have never gone through an attack by the enemy, you cannot 
know just what sort of a feeling steals over your feeble frame.  The 
best way I have to describe it to you, is by saying that if it were 
possible for you to feel or to have the lack of feeling such as you 
never had before, then you feel like I did as I awoke that night of 
nights.  I lost no time in dressing, for you know it doesn't take a 
long time to slip on a pair of Army shoes?  I turned on the light but 
the concussion of exploding shells caused the light to go out, so I 
went out, too, with my helmet and gas mask.  The night was black, but 
as I emerged from my dug-out, the tongues of flame leaping from the 
mouths of the hugh cannon, and the flashes caused by the exploding 
shells gave the whole surrounding country an elaborate Fourth of July 
aspect, but it was not exactly the same, don't misunderstand me.  Some 
extra cars had been called to our Poste de Secour and all the boys were 
very much awake.  Suddenly we heard the peculiar "POP" of the gas 
shells and we prepared to don our masks.
  In a little while the deadly poison reached us and we found our eyes 
and nostrils burning sharply; we put on the masks and waited.
     Close Call From Shell
  While about a dozen of us were standing near my dugout there was a 
terrific explosion not more than twenty-five yards from us and we all 
threw ourselves to the ground.  The shell having landed in a soft, 
sandy soil caused the dirt to be thrown high in the air, and over an 
area of at least fifty or sixty metres in diameter.  All of us were 
covered with sand as it fell and we waited breathlessly for a piece of 
the shell to come tearing a hole into our physiognomy.  But none came - 
many thanks.  We picked ourselves up, and you can imagine, just how we 
looked at each other, speechless.
  We realized our narrow escape, our very narrow escape, as at daybreak 
we found shell fragments within a few feet of where we had stood, and 
the hole made by the shell was about eight feet deep and not less than 
fifteen feet in diameter.  We had been "pitching quoits" there for 
several weeks and this "invader" dropped directly between the two 
"megs."  (A RINGER, EH?)  The bombardment continued, becoming more 
severe, and soon came the news that the "Boche" had come "over the top" 
and were advancing.  The boys made many trips over roads that were 
being shelled and over which enemy aviators were flying and 
occasionally sweeping the roads with a rain of machine gun bullets.
     Wounded a Pathetic Sight
  The town in which our main "Poste" was located, was being shelled in 
a way which I cannot describe.  Suffice it to say that the fellows do 
not care to go through it again.  As the town was evacuated we lined up 
our cars along the roadside in a woods just across the river, and there 
we picked up as many of the "walking wounded" as we could haul and took 
them to a hospital farther back.  One who has never looked upon such a 
crowd, cannot imagine the picture they present.  The tired and troubled 
look, the bleeding limb, swathed in an improvised bandage made from a 
shelter-half or a part of their uniform.
  The poor fellows, trembling like leaves, staggering down the road 
under the weight of their heavy packs, as these young men and older men 
wend their way slowly, the shrieking shells hiss and burst all about 
us.  How many thoughts race through our troubled brain.  But we must go 
on and we do it gladly when we know that we are making the wounds of 
these heroes easier to endure.  We loaded up our cars and took them to 
the hospital, only to find that the hospital was to be evacuated and we 
had to take them farther on.  We received orders to move camp in the 
forenoon and at noon we heard that the Huns were holding the town from 
which I had returned the morning of the day before.  This is only the 
beginning of what I shall write you if the censor permits.  In writing 
these few lines you will understand that I am omitting many things 
which I shall be glad to tell you when I come HOME.
          Corp. John P. Hummel.

MIDDLETOWN

  $70 FOR THE RED CROSS

  Approximately $70 was raised Saturday night at the musicale held for 
the benefit of the Middletown Chapter of the Red Cross.  Several 
members of the 610th Aero Squadron of the United States Army, located 
west of the borough, under Lieutenant Colonel Benson, assisted in the 
music.  Miss Catherine Bosner, of Pittsburg, was present and sang 
several selections.
  The musicale was held at the homes of Mrs. A. L. Etter and Mrs. Anna 
Raymond.  The lawns were prettily decorated for the event. 

  SERVICES AT ENCAMPMENT

  Special church services were held yesterday morning at the Aviation 
Camp, west of town, at 9:15 o'clock, when the soldiers of the 
encampment assembled in their barracks.  The service was held under the 
direction of the Rev. James Cunningham, pastor of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church.

  CHESTER JOHNSTON WEDS

  Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Johnston, of Rife's Extension, have received word 
of the marriage of their son, Chester Johnston, to Miss Nellie Rissler, 
of Waynesboro.  The ceremony was performed at Long Island, on June 13.  
Mr. Johnston is a member of the United States Army stationed at 
Hazelhurst Field, Long Island. 

  MIDDLETOWN PERSONALS

  Mr. and Mrs. J. Croll Nisley have returned to their home at Palmyra, 
after spending Saturday and Sunday in the borough as the guest of the 
former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nisley, on North Spring street.
  Alexander Conley, Sr., of Philadelphia, spent yesterday in town as 
the guest of Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Fuhrman, on South Union street.  He was 
accompanied home by his son, Alexander Conley, Jr., who has been 
spending the past several days in the borough as the guest of relatives 
and friends.
  Mrs. Edward Millegan and daughter, Miss Rachel Millegan, of York, are 
spending some time here as the guest of the former's sister-in-law, 
Mrs. Nathaniel Lerch and family, on East Emaus street.
  Edward Mahler, of Allentown, is spending some time in town as the 
guest of friends.  Mr. Mahler formerly resided in town and was employed 
at the Middletown Car Works as an inspector.
  Mrs. Charles Oberly, of Wilmington, Del., is spending several weeks 
in town as the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dasher, on 
East Water street.
  Mrs. Clarence Sweeney and son, Donald, of New Cumberland, have 
returned to their home after spending Saturday and Sunday in town as 
the guests of the former's mother, Mrs. Ella Beaverson, and sister, 
Miss Ida Beaverson, on Swatara street.
  Miss Clara Bailey returned to her home at Clearfield last evening 
after spending the past several days in the borough as the guest of 
Miss Oma Lutz, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William V. 
Lutz, on East Emaus street.
  Mrs. A. R. Bosner and two daughters, Miriam and Catherine Bosner, of 
Pittsburgh, who are spending several weeks in town at the home of the 
former's father, Mr. Alvin McNair, on Union street, will leave this 
morning for Ocean Grove.  They will be accompanied by Miss Jeanette 
McNair. 

STEELTON

  Patrolman Attacked as He Arrests Woman

  When Patrolman Bowermaster attempted to arrest Mary Stanton, colored, 
yesterday afternoon at Franklin and Myers streets, he was attacked by 
about fifteen colored men and narrowly escaped injury.  When the 
patrolman attempted to arrest the woman, her brother and a number of 
other men attacked him.  After a short scuffle Bowermaster freed 
himself but not before the Stanton woman had severely bitten the back 
of his left hand.  Bowermaster drew his gun and without further trouble 
made the arrest.
  After a hearing before the burgess, the woman was held for court on 
$500 bail.  She is now under two indictments for the next term of 
court, having been held a few weeks ago on charges of assaulting 
another colored woman on the West Side.  No other arrests were made in 
yesterday affair, as the officer could not identify any of the 
assailants other than the woman's brother but in consideration of his 
departure for the Army he was not detained. 

  SPECIAL MEETING

  Class No. 27 of the Methodist Sunday School will hold a special 
meeting at the home of the teacher, Mrs. M. F. Steck, South Second 
street, tomorrow evening.

  ATTENDING CONVENTION

  James H. Washington, 314 Lincoln street, is attending the convention 
of the Pennsylvania Baptist Sunday School in Philadelphia this week.  
He will also spend a few days in Atlantic City before returning home.

  CONDUCTOR INJURED

  Harold Clocker, aged 22, a conductor on the Steelton and Highspire 
Railroad, was injured about the body Saturday morning while coupling 
cars in the yards of the steel plant.  Clocker was caught between two 
cars but worked himself loose.  He was found by other members of his 
crew and taken to the Harrisburg Hospital.  He is expected to recover.

  CAPTAIN FRYE HERE

  Captain R. E. Frye, of Camp Meade, is spending a week's furlough as 
the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Frye, South Second 
street.

  W. C. T. U. TO MEET

  The local W. C. T. U. will meet this evening at the home of Mrs. J. 
H. Miller, 126 Lincoln street, instead of at the home of Mrs. Orndorff, 
as previously announced.

  WAR MOTHERS MAKE PRAYERS AT PARK STREET

  The Park Street United Evangelical congregation, held special 
patriotic services last night. The form of German Government was 
discussed in an interesting sermon by the pastor, the Rev. A. E. 
Hangen.  The church was beautifully decorated with Allied flags.  
Prayers made by Mrs. B. F. Sunday, 20 North Fourteenth street, and Mrs. 
W. F. Gramm, 1718 Miller avenue, were features of the services.  Mrs. 
Sunday has two sons in the service - Charles E. Sunday, who is with the 
112th Pennsylvania Regiment, and Edward S. Sunday, who is with a 
cavalry unit in France.  Leroy Gramm, son of Mr. W. F. Gramm, is a 
corporal in the United States Ambulance Corps. 

  Dr. Smucker Ready to Take Up Camp Duties

  The Rev. Dr. Clayton Albert Smucker, pastor of the Stevens Memorial 
Methodist Episcopal Church, has been appointed minister for Camp 
Douglass, Wisconsin, during the month of August by the National War 
Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church.  He left Saturday for the 
camp to take up his new work.  Yesterday, Dr. Smucker stopped off in 
Chicago where he made two addresses.  After his work at Camp Douglass 
is completed, he is scheduled to visit a number of naval stations.
  While absent from the city, Dr. Smucker's place will be filled by Dr. 
George Edward Reed.  Owing to Dr. Reed's illness, the services 
yesterday were presided over by Dr. G. P. Mains.  Dr. Reed expects to 
be able to take charge of services next Sunday.