Trading Delayed by Bad Weather In Philadelphia Market
Weather delays influence Philadelphia produce and commodity prices. Oats, butter, eggs, cheese, poultry and potatoes show firm or higher trends with varied per unit costs. Chicago cattle, hogs, and grain markets report steady to mixed movements as Board of Trade closes on January contracts.
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Philadelvhis
Associated Press
Philadelphia
Ominal
Western
Egees
Higher
Pennsylvania
New York
Feive
Special Musical Program in Trinity Lutheran Church
A special evening program at Trinity Lutheran Church Mechanicsburg Pa directed by chorister Mrs Tol bert Beitzel features organ preludes hymns solos and duets by Miss Violet Beitzel Miss Miriam Orris Miss Claribel Geiger Mrs Murray L Dick and others with scripture lesson and benediction. Colonel Zinn Post officers for the ensuing term elected at the Woman's Relief Corps meeting include President Mrs Mary A Zinn and other officers. installation planned next month.
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Mechanicsburg
Dee
Trinity Lutheran Church
Tolbert Beitzel
Dudley Buck
Violet Beitzel
Ladies’ Quartet
Mra
Arthur N. Young
Elizabeth Hurst
Vergin’s
Massenet
Zinn
Woman's Relief Corps
H. I. Zinn
Mary A. Zinn
Alice 8. Hauck
Mary K. Diehl
Wiizn Mohler
Emma C. Bricker
Emma J. Rhinehart
Margaret Nicherly
Elizabeth Moyer
Newport Slotin Rumor Spurs Action in Illinois Borough
Reports of slot machine use in Newport borough, Illinois, provoke residents to gather evidence against shop owners. Local volunteers plan to hand the proof to county officials and push for legal action. Advertisement notes McNeil's Cold Tablets.
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Newport
Ill
Y M C A to Have Service Flag at Mass Meeting
A 48 star service flag will be unveiled at the Y M C A mass meeting in Fahnestock Hall with Dr. Arthur Holmes of State College delivering Milestones on the Road to Eternity. The Y M C A Red Cross booth raised about 10 dollars led by Helen Schwarz, honoring 48 local men serving in Army and Navy, with a list of names including many officers and members.
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Fahnestock Hall
Arthur Holmes
State College
Army
Navy
Helen Schwarz
Red Cross
Y. M. C. A. Red Cross
Walter G. Hilton
Elliott Hoagland
Harry W. Houck
Samuel Koplovitz
Charles A. Madden
J. W. Mumma
John Phillips
Paul P. Porter
Robert R. Rinkenbach
Edward Roth
Horace B. Rowland
Tra Louis Schiffman
Walter J. Shaffer
Paul Shaub
Robert D. Sisson
Joseph D. Smith
Joseph F. Snyder
E. J. Stackpole
James R. Storey
Oscar Landis Suteh
James Wheeler
F. G. Wrestling
Charles O. D. Wilson
Ike Windsor
Clarence W. Wolfe
Walter F. Yost
Night Watch Services Planned by Union Revival Churches
Watch Night services will be held Monday night in all cooperating churches of the Union Revival, opening Sunday afternoon January 6 under the Interdenominational Ministers Conference. Old fashioned covenant meetings will precede and follow the watch nights. Beginning Tuesday evening, cottage prayer meetings will run through Friday with pastors leading.
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Union Revival
Interdenominational Ministers Conference
A. J. Greene
Second Baptist Church
Make Christ King
Deaths and Funerals in Local area
Funeral services were held for Isaac Freed Civil War veteran who died after a heart attack at 13387 North Front Street Burial followed in Harrisburg Cemetery Freed a former Government contractor and Landis Christmas Savings Fund solicitor Survived by wife one son Professor Henry II two sisters five grandchildren Also funeral services for Mrs Mary Mulholem of 1631 Park Street at her late residence and burial in Oberlin Cemetery followed by details for Mrs Anna Walters of Park View with service at 1 20 pm and burial at Stoop's Church Cemetery
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Isaac Freed
North Front Street
J. Bradley Markward
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
Harrisburg
Freed
Landis Christmas Savings Fund
MES
Mary Mulholem
Park Street
HH. Kk. Bender
Ridge Avenue
Oberlin
Mulholem
Gladys Mulholem
Emma Wyant
Ella Demming
Mise Marie Emminger
Elsie Plummer
Wilson Wanamaker
George Wyant
Camp Fire Girls Visit Miss Elizabeth Hurst
Camp Fire Girls of Mechanicsburg Pa met Thursday afternoon at Miss Elizabeth Hurst’s West Main street home for games contests and refreshments. Guests included Margaret Blackburn guardian Rachel Shelly Ruth Miller Mary Keller Marjorie Baum Florence Orris Etta Miller Elizabeth Sw Crawford Miriam Orris and Elizabeth Hurst with Mrs R W Hurst assisting.
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Mechanicsburg
Kittatinny Camp
Elizabeth Hurst
West Main Street
Margaret Blackburn
Miriam Zufall
Rachel Shelly
Ruth Miller
Mary Keller
Marjorie Baum
Florence Orris
Etta Miller
Elizabeth S Wrawford
Mriam Orris
R. W. Hurst
Brumbaugh Urges State Effort for School Aid and Postwar Uplift
Johnstown Pa December 29 Gov Brumbaugh at Cambria Theater closes the State Educational Association convention with a call for each community to appoint finance committees to secure equitable school funding. He urges escheating unclaimed bank estates to education and champions national unity and a future global university in Washington. He warns of continued war sacrifice and envisions postwar enrollment swelling with international students seeking American higher learning.
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Johnstown
Henry Houck
Brumbaugh
Cambria Theater
State Educational Association
Pennsylvania
Washington
Telegram complaint over Germantown Steam Co urges hand firing
Telegram today filed with the Public Service Commission by Walter Willard G W Shewell and R C Lea of Germantown alleging Germantown Steam Co not keeping steam due to broken automatic stokers and requesting that boilers be fired by hand. The commission ordered an inquiry into hand stoking viability. Deputy Attorney General Hargest issued an opinion to Secretary Woods that war revenue stamps are not required on bonds of notaries and other officers, stating Congress cannot tax state agency instrumentalities. Luzerne County Gas and Electric Co filed for a gas rate increase affecting Hazleton district set for January 22. Pennsylvania Fuel Supply Co notified rate hikes in Venango Clarion Armstrong Butler counties effective January 26. Hughesville Electric Light and Power Co plans a February 1 effective increase. Two smallpox cases reported to Dr Dixon in districts with no prior cases. Mrs Mary J Johnson, 72, stricken in Washington Township Indiana County December 19. Harvey McCracken of Elderton Armstrong County with a mild smallpox case, formerly employed by a local gas company at Youngwood Westmoreland County.
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Public Service Commission
Walter Willard
G. W. Shewell
R. C. Lea
Germantown
Germantown Steam Company
Hargest
the Commonwealth Woods
Congress
Luzerne
Clarion
Armstrong
Butler
Hughesville Electric Light and Power Company
Cnse
Samuel G. Dixon
Nso
Mary J. Johnson
Washington Township
Indiana County
Harvey McCracken
Elderton
Armstrong County
Youngwood
Westmoreland County
The Shepherds Story cantata at St. Johns Lutheran
Arrangements completed for a 25 voice chorus to present The Shepherds Story by Florence Morse Kingsley at St. Johns Lutheran Church Mount Wolf Pa on Monday evening under Sunday school teacher Mrs Ebaugh. Mrs G A Livingston directs rehearsals plays piano and reads.
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Mount Wolf
St. John's Lutheran Church
Ebaugh
G. A. Livingston
Florence Morse Kingsley
George Ebaugh
Chester Ebaugh
Lloyd Warner
Karl Hoffman
Earl Eisenhower
Arthur Seitz
John Lichty
Harry Hoffman
Warner Livingston
Henry Shearer
Anna Kinports
Marjory Strevig
Mary Hoffman
Margaret Arnold
Louise Arnold
Rachel Strevig
Clara Brenneman
Florence Miller
Mabel
Expect Water Rise in Reservoir Over Sunday
Commissioner Morgenthaler reports water use will drop over the weekend allowing the department to add several feet to the reservoir. A depth of nineteen feet was reported this morning. Pumps are under repair and should be finished in a few weeks. Engineer F H Shaw, who authored a prior report, is at a shipyard on government work and may not return soon. Officials may seek another expert to assess pumping station conditions and propose improvements.
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Morgenthaler
F. H. Shaw
New Telephone Manager Named at Cumberland Valley Co
Newport Pennsylvania report declares Percy W Zeigler will be the new Cumberland Valley Telephone Company manager in the town. The exchange has been moved to Zeigler's residence, away from the John 8. Eby Building. Liverpool note celebrates a Sunday School service with a lone star for Eldon Snyder, the first member of the church to enlist in the military service.
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Newport
Percy W Zeigler
Cumberland Valley Telephone Company
Mr. Zeigler
John 8. Eby
Liverpool
Liverpool United Brethren Sunday School
Eldon Snyder
Tractors to be Shown at Harrisburg Winter Show
Arrangements for a large tractor exhibit in Harrisburg during the State Board of Agriculture midwinter meetings. Ten firms including Frick, Huber, Case, International, Emerson-Brantingham, Chase, Moline, Cleveland, Aspinwall and Bates will display twenty patterns. Secretary Charles E. Patton says the display, the largest under one roof in the state, aims to help farmers meet labor shortages by using tractors on schedules.
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Harrisburg
State Board of Agriculture and Allied Agricultural
Charles E. Patton
Chambers of Commerce
Lancaster
Chester
Lycoming
Frick, Huber
Case, International
Emerson-Brantingham
Chase
Moline
Cleveland
Aspinwall
Bates
The Man Who Came Back at the Orpheum
The Man Who Came Back is praised for its gripping plot of love and reform. Henry Potter a dissipated heir is lured to Shanghai then saved by marriage to Marcelle as they return to his father for a happy ending.
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Orpheum
John Fleming Wilson
Jules Eckert Goodman
Ia Io
Henry Potter
New York
San Francisco
California
Potter
Shanghai
Henry
Dorothy Bernard
Marcelle
Young Potter
Cr Otely
Illiam Crowell
J. Irving White
Thomas Potter
Ss. B. Hamilton
Captain Trevelan
Harry Sleiht
Levinia Shannon
William Blaisdell
Sam Shew
Sing
Fellowship Day at Derry Street U B Church
The Derry Street United Brethren Church observes Fellowship Day with Rev J D Lyter preaching on The Fourfold Law of Christian Progress as a New Year’s sermon. Evangelistic campaign plans are underway as meetings begin Sunday January 6 and run for two weeks led by Rev Dr George E Guille of Moody Bible Institute.
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Derry Street
United Brethren Church
J. D. Lyter
George E. Guille
Moody Bible Institute
War spirit critique on American public support by Jerry Edwards
Jerry Edwards former YMCA secretary addressed St Andrews Episcopal Church urging understanding of wartime suffering. He contrasted American indifference with French and Belgian resolve and recalled harsh treatment before the war declaration. After the declaration, he said the mood shifted to comradeship.
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America
Jerry
Edwards
Aldrich’s Association
St. Andrews Episcoopal
Home from Camp Lyter visits city friends
Fred Lyter formerly in the Telegraph advertising department and a member of the Governor's Troop at Camp Hancock is now visiting friends in the city after returning from camp last summer.
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Fred Lyter
Advertising Department
the Telegraph
Camp Hancock
Coulson Brothers Enlist in National Aviation Corps
William T and Jacob Coulson brothers of Mount Holly Springs left for Philadelphia to enlist. Lake Coulson is in France with the AEF, having served four years in the Army and Navy. Mrs Anna Coulson of Elizabethville is their mother. Camp No 110 Patriotic Order Sons of America elected officers including Lester K Eby president and Earl K Romberger as vice president. Court Enola No 4506 Independent Order of Foresters will nominate officers next meeting.
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Carlisle
William T
Jacob Coulson
Mount Holly Springs
Philadelphia
National Aviation Corps
William Coulson
United States Army
Navy
Lake Coulson
France
American Expeditionary Forces
Mount Holy Sproat
Anna Coulson
Elizabethville
Patriotic Order Sons of America
Lester K. Eby
Earl K. Romberger
D. A. Andre
Russell Botts
Ralph L. Lehman
W. BE. Buffington
Warrep
F. Swab
David R. Mater
Mervin Warfield
Enola
Court Enola
Independent Order of Foresters
Deaths Anna Walters Park View age sixty eight
Mrs Anna Walters wife of John Walters died at her home Park View at 1030 Friday night aged 68 Funeral services Tuesday at 130 from her late residence Rev Henry officiating Interment Shoop Church Cemetery Relatives and friends invited to attend without further notice Also memorial note for William G Foultz dated December 29 1915 by Maggie Beck and others
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Walters
Anna Walters
John
Park View
Henry
Shoop's Church
Legal Notices and Real Estate Sale in Harrisburg Stream
Notice of filed accounts in Dauphin County Court set for January 17 1918 including guardianships committees lunatics and receivership. Executors announce public sale January 7 1918 at 2 PM in front of the County Courthouse Harrisburg of 1014 Market Street with 10 percent deposit and clear title except 1918 taxes.
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Benjamin Brenner
Cou
Harrisburg
County of Dauphin
State of
Pennsylvania
Market Street
Cameron Street
O. R. Potter
Louis Silver
Lewis Baturin
Great Southern Lumber Company Stockholders Meeting
Notice is given of the annual meeting of Great Southern Lumber Company stockholders to be held at Room 409 Kunkel Building No 301 Market Street Harrisburg Dauphin County Pennsylvania at 11 a m on Monday January 14 1918 for the election of a Board of Directors to serve for the ensuing year and for other corporate business. December 29 1917 Fred A Lehr Secretary.
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Great Southern Lumber Company
Kunkel Building
Market Street
Harrisburg
Dauphin County
Pennsylvania
Notice of Adminstration for John C Jennings Estate
Letters of Administration for the estate of John C Jennings late of Harrisburg Dauphin County Pa have been granted to the undersigned residing in Harrisburg Pa All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment and those having claims will present them for settlement E D Jennings Administrator 2012 North Fourth Street Harrisburg Pa
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John C. Jennings
Harrisburg
Dauphin County
Sarah Ll. Lewis
Central Trust Company
North Third Street
Philip Abel
Harrigeburg
Central Trust Comp
Notice of Letters Testamentary for Mary Emma Pancake
The estate in Harrisburg Dauphin County Pennsylvania has letters testamentary granted to the undersigned. All persons with claims or demands against the decedent must present them and all indebted parties must make payment. Albert H. Edwards 524 Paulson Ave Pittsburgh Harrisburg Trust Company Harrisburg PA
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Mary Emma Pancake
Harrisburg
Dauphin County
Pennsylvania
Deneline
Albert H. Edwards
Paulson Ave
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg Trust Company
Executor's Notice for Sarah L. Lewis Estate in Harrisburg
Central Trust Company hasLetters Testamentary for the Harrisburg Pennsylvania estate of Sarah L. Lewis. Creditors and debtors must file claims or demands and make payment promptly to Central Trust Company at 1230 North Third Street.
Administrator's Notice for Estate of Philip Abel in Harrige burg
Letters of administration granted to the undersigned. All persons having claims or interests must present them, and those indebted must pay promptly to Central Trust Co. of New York.
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Thle International Paper
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Camp Fire Girls
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Great University
Telegram
New Cumberland
Fred Houck
Harry
Signal Corps
Hoys Mechanicsburg
Charles Berkheimer
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School
South Ma's Street
Charles Stuckey
James Stuckey
Paul Neff
Wayne Kitzmiller
Roy Wentz
Glen Wolf
Clarence McNeal
John Long
Lloyd Baker
Arthur Zook
Harry Berkheimer
Max Robertson
U. B
Coulson Boys’ Service Record
Mt. Holly Springs
Foresters TO
Memoriam
William G. Foultz
Maggie Beck
Court of Common Pleas
H. A. Loser
Sarah A. J. Rudy
Susquehanna Township
William Blanning
Jane Haskins
Williamstown
Ida B. Goodyear
Harrisburg Trust Co
Daniel C. Fralick
Commonwealth Trust Company
Victoria K. Elder
M. B. Stewart
Harrisburg River Coal, Land and Stone Company
Harrisburg River Coal, Nd and Stone Company
J. D. O'Neil
York County Mutual Live Stock Insurance Company
T. K. van Dyke
Trust Mutual Relief Association
Emaus Orphan House
Henry F. Holler
Robert Rosenberg
Fred A, Lehr
Hartford Fire Insurance Company
Saturday Evening Post
E. O. Dare & Son
Hartford
N. Third Street
E. D. Jennings
North Fourth Street
United Ice and Coal Co
Forster and Cowden Streets
iiMhi
Reo
Hurlburt
Harrisburg Auto Co
4Th and Kelker Sts
Spead
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