Lebanon Daily News (Newspaper) - August 1, 1917, Lebanon, Pennsylvania ewi Leads in Beet in Local and Foreign and Exclusive f l This Newspaper the Full Service of the United Press Government and Maryland Fair warm today and J 44th EIGHT PAGES WEDNESDAY AUGUST TEN CENTS A WEEK SINGLE 2 W Others to Notices Being Sent to Draft Eligibles by the Boards of Exemption Examinations for 1 Will Start Next Monday Morning In Room Court and for District 2 In the Union Hose Com pany House at Annville Local Trolley Employes Get Increase wore sent out today by tho Lebanon county exemption boards to the under the draft who are to appear for exam next August tho first day fixed for the These will be followed tomorrow and Fri day by similar notices to other elig until the whole number as con in Lebanon countys quota un der the first call will have been for mally summoned and on the succeeding days of next Examination The board in charge of District comprising Lebanon und the bor of Rich land and Jonestown hns decided to call 85 for examination on at 7 oclock in the They nro to assemble in Room Court as follows 25 at 7 So nt 0 oclock and SO at one The examinations will place in the grant Jury room and will bo in charge of Sheriff County Commissioner Will Continued on Fage Two Flames Bring Ruin On Farm of Roy Valentine Lightning Struck Grain Sentto My Hook and Ladder Which Made Trip With Apparatus in 14 Lightning for con damage to grain sheds at the farm of Roy near on Tuesday At oclock in the afternoon one of three sheds was struck by a bolt from the and took The company of Womelsdorf saved the structure with no great damage to the Myerstown Twiddles About oclock another fire broke out in one of the other Whether It was set afire by another lightning or by a spark from the fire earlier inthe afternoon which smoldered for a time and then ed the place Is not but the Womelsdorf firemen again respond ed to a This they were unable to the and they sent a call to the Keystone Hook and Ladder company of The latter responded at and made the to the farm In fourteen minutes with their new Seagraves auto Charles Schaeffer and Albert Nye were In charge as driver and engineer and had a force of willing workers manning the New laurels were again won for the Sea graves auto engine from tho many firemen present from all sections of that Sucking water from the creek which flows through the farm they worked from to 10 before they had the fire In the grain The building and Us contents but the other grain sheds were together with the other property of the Jacob Hoffa is the tenant on the SHIPS QUICKLY to News bv Press steel and wooden ships must be built and built chairman of the Emergency Fleet told ship builders here Matters trough to my attention only this morning indicate the vital importance of pressing this construc tion We are In this war far more than a vast ma Every ounce of our strength must go into the prosecution of this Capps The merits of wooden and steel have noth ing to do with the Both es are Important in the Miss Rose Reilly Recovering After An Operation Miss Rose of 1268 Forge who underwent an operation at the Good Samaritan hos is recuperating at her and has the best wishes of many friends for a complete and rapid re Miss Reilly with and was a patient at the hospital for eleven days Realized On Cow Sale Francis Holtzman this at the William Penn hotel sales sold 57 head of real izing at public The FISH WARDEN CIVIL OFFICER OF THE STATE Pierce Arrow Trucks for Lebanon Brewing Company William proprietor of the New Lebanon has received two fine Pierce Arrow which he ordered several weeks They are fine In appear ance and are of the latest type for heavy The fifth increase this year in wages of street railway conductors and 350 in Reading and 250 in Lebanon and was an by tho Reading Transit It Is 1 cent an or a Fair to Receive State Appropriation Attorney counsel for the Lebanon County lea who had filed with the county commissioners a protest against the payment tothe Lebanon Valley Fair Association of the annual state ap propriation of has Informed County Slegrist that no further opposition to the pay ment of the money would bo made by the league now that the fair asso no longer has a liquor li There is owing the fair associa tion for reimbursement for tho pay ment of premiums for agricultural exhibits and the money is expected to be forthcoming shortly is the result of Governor Brum baughs approval of legislation cov iring this feature of promotion of agricultural LEADER HANGED TO A TRESTLE Special agitator witO was recently deported from Arizona on account of labor troubles there and had come here to urge the strikers n their fight against the found this hanging by the neck from a On hla Dreast pinned the following significant Send for his night He had been taken from his room at four oclock this morning by a of young men and The erm Send for his night clothes is Interpreted to mean more to follow if you dont get Little was a menhir of the execu tive board of the and right hand man of president of the Miss Messner Here ROBERT BOYER IS NOW DEPUTY PROTHONOTARY Robert of 242 South Sixth this morning assumed his new duties as deputy in the office of Rother mel at the court He will suc ceed Deputy of Ann who on August 15 will retire from the post which he has accept ably filled throughout the present term of the Until Mills leaves the office he will devote his time Instructing the new deputy in the Boyer in becoming deputy relinquishes the post Luther Brown Wins a Place At Annapolis Luther of Auburn who tho United States at this and who passed one of his examinations most was born DeKalb and Spruce on a son of Frank who conducts a pharmacy at He has been a frequent visitor In where he Is at all times a welcome guest of his or his uncle and and Harry on Chestnut at Doe His friends wish him every success In his future Lebanon was tied with Philadel phia as tho hottest place In the Unit id In tho torrid wave of According to the official figures given In the metropolitan newspapers this Philadel registered a temperature of 101 with Washington and Atlantic City tied at 100 101 for second place Tho maximum official temperature or Lebanon during tho day was is given at the United States Weath er Observatory at the Central Labora ory of the Bethlehem Steel Corn At when the made a call for the afternoon BAR ROOM OF DROVERS HOTEL Thieves Gained En trance by Forcing the Transom of Door EARLY THIS Made Their Escape With Booty Valued at Fifty Dollars The bar room of the Drovers Ex change Seventh and Willow was visited at oclock this morning by thieves one of whom gained entrance by climbing through a transom of a door on the north side of the building and handed the booty out of a window on the Sev street side to his who was stationed on the Made f Prank whose home Is opposite the saw the two men at work only to discover that he wna Peerless to effect their capture be far military training Is of salesman on the local corps of the cause hs Remington rifle was out of j necessary by an which Reading transit and light WINDOW AWNING AT STRATFORD WAS ABLAZE Lebanon One of Hottest Places In the Country Mercury On Tuesday Registered the Highest In Past Sixteen Persons Slept i Porches During the Night registration It was it thought that It would be but the Inter afternoon hourt brought additional intensity to blistering rays of the sun and degrees were added to the tlon before the sun began to down to the Slept on But even the disappearance ot sun afforded little The tdr rld waves of heat continued and pie sweltered during the quite as much as they did during Scores of families found homes and many of Continued on Page States Draft Quota Has Been Increased by 60 Every Exemption Board In United dered to Call Additional Q ing to Numerous Exemption Claims Pennsylvania must send men to the mobilization camps for tho first draft army of in stead of the number fixed as that States quota by Brigadier Gen eral This Increase of 6086 in the that must be select Special to News by United salaried fish warden is a civil officer of and no member of tho Leg can be appointed to such a post during the term for which he was This is the law as construed to day by Deputy Attorney General j to On Her Vacation Miss Margaret Messner of a daughter of John of nere to n Kun for F sh Commissioner tlon th t f brothe ID nr rna Fire threatened the Stratford hotel this and through the alertness of William a bag bageman at the and the structure was saved from what might have been a disastrous It was six oclock when Mor ris who attends to the in saw the blaze eat ing one of thp on the second floor of the and Weands attention to In a minute who Is a mem ber of the Independent Borough fire climbed up the side fire es cape and ripped the awning from its slightly burning himself about the It is supposed the awning caught fire from a hot cinder dropped by a passing however gave the alarm with the result that the beat a hasty Worth of Booty They took with them of cigars and cigarettes to the value of WAS TORPEDOED BY The opinion is being studied at the capitol today to see if It may have a bearing on the case of Senator William of recently named superintendent of the Farview State Inform al charges have been made that Lynch Is constitutionally ineligible for such a post during his Baby Girl Born At Henry Spangler Home Mr and Mrs Henry of 824 Locust announce the birth of a balby girl Spangler prior to her marriage was Miss Mabel of Alfred Gates was the physician in priced cow brought the low price was HO er waj Opening of the Southeastern Playgrounds Officials of the Southeastern play ground association held an open air meeting on the playground site at Second and Walnut streets last eve when recent improvements were looked and a discussion held as to the plans for the opening The opening will occur In the near and it is planned to have an ice cream and candy sale on the on thai conducted by Ray Messner and family of and of North Ninth and also her Delmer of this Marvin of Truck In the Hospital Marvin of Truck Company of the Ammunition at was brought to the Good Samaritan Hospital on Tuesday af for an operation for His parents reside at Ches His case is regarded as not necessarily Six Carloads Of For the Week the Cumber land street automobile this morning unloaded another carload of Chevrolet making j the sixth carload to be brought here for his agency this has broken all previous records In the sale and delivery of motor oars this j and Ills Chevrolet sales have been to News by United American steamer was torpedoed and sunk by a submarine the Admiralty announced Twenty two survivors were The Montano correct was a steel screw threemasted ship of 2730 property of the Standard Oil Com pany of New Jersey and registered at New SENATE VOTES ON PROHIBITION AT 4 TODAY Special to News by United a vote on the Sheppard nationwide pro set for 4 oclock Senate wets and drys making supreme efforts to corral the stray Both sides see an extremely close Twothirds majority is ed to the Debate today limited to teB minute hence Activity tered In wi NOTICE AH Members of Lebanon Valley Council of wishing to attend the funeral of Abner meet at the Hall at 1380 August NOTICE Effective August freight stations of the undersigned railroad companies will Close at for receipt and delivery of Philadelphia Beading w Railroad Railroad Co Occupants Escaped When Their Auto Dashed Into Bank As Albert stable boss at the William Penn and a party of friends were enjoying an automobile spin in his Pullman car in an effort to throw off the withering effects of the sweltering heat Tuesday the car stuck its nose Into a along the Horseshoe turnpike near Although the car was somewhat Mays and the other pants of the car escaped Gilbert To Entertain Tall Cedars County Commissioner GUbr of this will this evening en at his Bunker Hill cottage members of the committee of ar rangements for the annual outing of Tall to he held at tor the picnic wll then be decided Music will be turn was sent Tuesday to every one of the 4557 districts throughout the United directing the hoards to send 10 per cent more men than their quota to the mobilization General Crowder figures after men reach camps and begin training 10 per cent will be od by appeal boards or for reasons that were not considered sufficient to warrant exemption J the cases were before the Wholesale which are being made by the local boards that have begun work of drafting have ed General Crowder that it Continued on Page Elf hi Many Heat Prostrations Were Recorded Humanity Sweltered and Many Employed III On and On Were Suffered Intensely yl citizen of Lebanon was deeply conscious of swel Insufferable torrid on but few realized that it was the worst In Such It There were a number of heat prostrations in this but fortunately no People aban their home to sleep in yards ind porches and Relief came this morning when storms skirted the and when rain fell In parts of the Three Railroaders Were One In Hospital Yesterdays almost unbearable heat wave resulted in the prostration of three Reading railway company At noon an ning one of the big 1600 enroute from Reading to was removed from his engine al local After medical ance and a rest in the baggage rooj he was put on a passenger sent to his home In engineer in this city into service to take the freight pa v About nine oclock in the Lament a freight passing through hera exhausted and was to Good Samaritan condition today Is is still suffering with a pump the local was Continued on Jonestown Bridge Inspected Today The county commissioners this morning made a trip of inspection to Jonestown bridge where It has leen found necessary to strengthen he wing walls by the use of con WELL WISHES FOR ON DANCING Every evening to at the uw wW be furnished by Johns Reformed fa r hearty congratulations today of his birthday His natal day dates back
