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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
5
The Steelton plant forms an employee driven relief association to take effect January 1, 1920. Dues are forty cents per month with the company adding thirty two cents per employee. Membership and board elections will be set next week with additional directors chosen from employee groups. Surplus funds will halt future assessments.
A large squad reported on first call for positions on the High School varsity five. Principal C. B. Davis notes more players than in years, with talks of forming a league to develop talent. Notable returnees include Samuel Bucerri Charles Sellers James Roth and Cornelius Dailey.
A steel company official said no expansion is planned though it has purchased the John Hoffer Flocking Mill site at Frederick and Trewick streets. The acquisition covers land below Trewick between the Reading and Pennsylvania lines, with some nearby dwellings already owned. Rail yard changes are expected next year near Trewick Street, possibly expanding the yard on the new land. The flour mill property, about two acres with several buildings, was destroyed in a major borough fire two years ago.
Baldwin Hose Company plans a supper and dance on December 12 at the Quartet Club hall Front and Washington Streets to honor 21 World War I service members. Honorees include A D Bell C F Fisher Dr J S Gallagher William Holden Wayne Jeffries J J Masters Frans Marsho P D Masters J I McCahan Robert Neusbidle Joseph Sukley Robert Sanders Stanley Shupp Samuel Singer Abe Singer Roy Shelley Carl Shelley Forth Shupp Fran R Turano George Zerance and Clarence Gibb.
Borough school children will open the Red Cross Christmas seal campaign next Monday with seals supplied by Mrs. J. M. Heagy of the Dauphin county Anti-Tuberculosis Society. A post office booth at Second and Locust streets will sell seals, with over 75 percent funding local TB efforts.
About 22 000 people will receive Christmas saving checks totaling roughly 85 000 dollars on December 10. At Steelton Trust Company 55 000 dollars go to about 1 500 savers. at the People's Bank 30 000 dollars go to about 700. The new club opens at Steelton on December 26, while the People's Bank club is already open.
Prof I E McGinnes superintendent of the borough schools, who has been ill for a month, was taken to the Harrisburg Hospital for treatment today. His condition is not believed to be serious by physicians. He had been unable to work but was overseeing school affairs and was expected to return to duty without further treatment.
The bulletin lists the Philadelphia Division crews with first departures after specific times and names for engineers firemen brakemen conductors flagmen and yard board across multiple divisions including Enola side and Reading. It records laid off crews and engineers firemen and brakemen up with numerous named individuals and numbers for each position and division.
In Steelton this week the St John’s Lutheran choir will sing a special program Sunday marking Rev. E A Bowman’s first Sunday as pastor with an 8 o’clock rehearsal tonight. Mr and Mrs William Sweitzer hosted guests at 63 Myers Street on Sunday including Miss Blanche Rice and William Tally from Youngstown Ohio and several Harrisburg Steelton residents. A consistory meeting at First Reformed Church will discuss officer nominations and business tonight at 8. Miss Tirzah R McGinnes, a Rittersville Hospital nurse supervisor, visits Steelton this week. Centenary Church will host Rev Dr H F Shupe from Dayton Ohio, editor of the Watchword, preaching Sunday evening and speaking at the 6 20 Christian Endeavor service. he will also attend a Foreign Missionary Society board meeting in Harrisburg.
Pennsylvania Railroad and Philadelphia and Reading Railway announce limited operations to save coal. Only essential departments run full time. express trains prioritized while preference freight cut out. Trains hauled at full tonnage with no speed focus. November and December demand remains high as anthracite shipments rise.
Secretary Ira P. Dean of the local Y M C A returns after seven weeks away to open a big class for school children in the association auditorium. New features include special stereopticon pictures and the first session of the Boys and Girls Bible class for the season. A new senior member class started last Monday promises to grow into a major part of Y M C A work with next meeting on Monday at 7 in the association parlor.
The American Legion Post 27 hosts a free winter draft discharge party for veterans and service members at Chestnut Street Hall at 8 PM. A jazz program, film from Washington, and talks by Col Jim Kemper and others are planned with Boy Scouts and Y helpers present.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets marketed as a vegetable laxative aid to clear bile and relieve constipation. The ad claims they improve dull yellow complexions and pallid tongues, noting millions sold and pricing at 10 and 25 cents.
Italian soldiers opened fire on a crowd in Rome after being attacked with knives. One man was killed and 12 others wounded in the incident reported Wednesday night.
Mr. Frank Harbaugh of Cincinnati Ohio, a barber with over forty years in the trade, states a cheap at home mix can darken gray hair and leave it soft and glossy. The recipe combines half a pint of water with one ounce bay rum one box Barbo Compound and one ounce glycerine. Applied twice weekly until the desired shade, it purportedly makes a gray haired person look twenty years younger.
An advertisement touts Marmola Prescription Tablets as a simple weight loss method requiring four tablets daily. It claims no dieting or exercise, invites readers to buy from a drugstore or mail order, and asserts the tablets are harmless with no risks.
Advertisement proclaims Allenrhu as the guaranteed cure for rheumatism. It promises rapid relief by dissolving uric acid deposits and expelling rheumatic poison through kidneys and bowels, with a money back guarantee if pain persists. The inventor James H. Allen and agent George A. Gorgas endorse the claim.
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