Endeavorers Plan Outing at Reservoir Park
The Harrisburg Christian Endeavor Choral Union reception committee met at F F Schwartz’s home to finalize plans for the annual outing at Reservoir Park on Tuesday evening June 8. A supper at 6 30 in the pavilion will be followed by a social.
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Harrisburg Christian Endeavor Choral Union
E. Schwartz
Boas Street
Reservoir Park
F. E. Schwartz
annEd DeHart
E. S. Schilling
J. Frank Palmer
Sara McGraw
W. G. Hoover
Ida M. Sowers
Ruth Martin
John Harder
Henry Bruce
Henry Stewart
John Whistler
Emily Edwards
William Deal
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Christian Endeavor
Men’s League
Harris Street United Evangelical Church
Kelchner
Albright College
Myerstown
Ladies Missionary Union Holds Annual Meeting
The Ladies Missionary Union met at Paxton Presbyterian Church this afternoon with an imitation Japanese wedding as the feature. Rev. and Mrs. Harry B. King hosted the guests and F. Hoffsomer spoke after returning from Japan. Business sessions followed late. A benefit musicale is planned at Zion Lutheran Church for the new church house.
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Ladies’ Missionary Union
Paxton Presbyterian Church
Harry B. King
F. Hoffsomer
Japan
Zion
Lutheran Church
Messiah
Messiah Lutheran
H. W. A. Hanson
Funeral for Captain W. O. Smith Saturday at 2:30
Funeral services for Captain W. O. Smith Civil War veteran will be held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at Pine Street Presbyterian Church with Rev. Dr. Lewis S Mudge officiating. Smith died at his home 122 Cumberland Street after a brief illness. Burial will follow in Harrisburg cemetery. Mrs. Mary A. Bender died yesterday at her daughter’s home Mrs. Joseph Pyne in West Fairview. Funeral services for Bender will be Saturday at 2 p.m. with Rev. A. Wolf officiating. Burial in Harrisburg cemetery. Mike Pete age 5 of 1202 North Seventh Street admitted to hospital today with gangrene in the right foot after a wagon wheel passed over his toes several days ago.
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W. O. Smith
Cumberland Street
Lewis S Mudge
Pine Street Presbyterian Church
Mary A. Bender
Joseph Pyne
West Fairview
Rev. A. Wolf
Harrisburg
Mike Pete
North Seventh Street
Quarantine Law Overhauls Reporting and School Exclusion
The Walsh bill signed by the governor overhauls quarantine rules, requiring teachers to report skin eruptions sore throats and other disease signs in students. It cuts measles mumps German measles and chickenpox quarantine to sixteen days and allows readmission under physician certification after treatment and disinfection procedures.
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Samuel G. Dixon
Pennsylvania
Phillips Convicted of First Degree Murder in Mountain Killing
Charles A. Phillips, 36, was today found guilty of first degree murder for the January killing of Emanuel T. Leib a Civil War veteran. Leib was shot in his mountain home near Muncy Pennsylvania during a dispute over repayment of a note Leib held.
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Associated Press
Williamsport
Charles A. Phillips
Emanuel T. Leib
Leib
Muncy
Water rights suit seeks $3000 against Williams Valley and Maryland Fidelity
Harper T. Bressler and others sue Williams Valley Water Co and Maryland Fidelity and Deposit Co for $3000 with interest from Feb 17 1915 over water privileges taken on lands near Nine O clock and Morning creeks. A prior viewers’ award totaled $3761.36. an appeal reduced to $3000 but payment has not been made. Rain overflow damages City Clerk’s office walls.
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Williams Valley Water Company
Maryland Fidelity and Deposit Company of Baltimore
Bonding Company
Harper T. Bressler
M. Kaufman
G. Schoffstall
BE. B. Jenkyn
Anna Bressler
Jennie E. Schoffstall
Mary A. Gentzler
Franklin Township
John Gentzler
Elmer E. Evans
Michael Krout
Honor Men at Tech High Announced for 1915 Class
Honors for the 1915 class of Technical High School were announced with Franklin Metzler named valedictorian and top honors, and Norman C Stiteler, Charles Chayne, John Todd, Jesse Bernheisel, Stephen Anderson, Charles E Katz, Earl Shuey, Casper Wohlfarth, and William Scheffer ranked first through tenth. Metzler, son of Mr and Mrs John G Metzler, will deliver the valedictory June 17 and receive a $25 prize from the Tech Alumni Association. The 1915 class is the largest in school history with 48 graduates across College Preparatory Industrial and Scientific tracks.
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Technical High School
Franklin Metzler
Norman C. Stiteler
Charles Chayne
John Todd
Jesse Bernheiser
Stephen Anderson
Charles E. Katz
Earl Shuey
Casper Wohlfarth
William Scheffer
John G. Metzler
Lexington Street
Tech Alumni Association
Metzler
Tech Entertainment
Tech Tatler
Tech Nikull
Norman Critchfield Stiteler
H. John Stiteler
North Seventeenth Street
N. B. Critchfield
Stiteler
Reading
West Point
United States Military School
Cornell
Horace A. Chayne
Second Street
Tok
Chayne
Boston Tech
H. E. Todd
Tech High
Todd
Carnegie Tech
Jesse Bernheisel
Anderson
Charlies Everett Kutz
Kutz
Tech Wireless Club
Bucknell
Shuey
Bernheiser
Katz and Shuey
Norman Stiteler
Caspar Wohlfarth
George Miller
Cornelius Menger
Claude Alexander
Earl Flickinger
Venus Zimmerman
Fulmer Crane
Hary Reeser
Leon Bierman
Karl Steward
Merle Beach
Walter Klucker
Albert Compton
James Evans
Everett Katz
William Landis
G. Webber Knight
Harold Cobaugh
Victor Emanuel
Bernard Stansfield
Stanley Golden
David Heffflefinger
Frederick Little
John Morgan
Clarence Beck
Robert Andrews
Milton Garland
George Zerfing
Raymond Cless
Ryall Ryder
Edward Moeslein
Eldridge Miller
William Reiff
Governor's Vetoes Hits Memorial Day Funds and Other Bills
Governor Brumbaugh announced vetoes on May 29 targeting appropriations for Memorial Day observances to non Grand Army groups in counties without a post. He also rejected bills on charity building plans juvenile records open air schools court expansions municipal liens and mine code extensions citing indefiniteness duplications and constitutional concerns.
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Brumbaugh
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army
Board of Public Charities
Funda
Senate
Philadelphia
Common Pleas Court
Navy selects Hood to command dreadnought Texas
Washington June 3 secretary Daniels designated Captain John Hood of the naval general board to command the dreadnought Texas, succeeding Captain A W Grant who moves to head the Atlantic submarine flotilla.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Daniels
John Hood
Naval General Board
Texas
A. W. Grant
Peugees
Competent State Game Wardens Sought Amid Recruiting Rush
State officials report a surge of applicants for game warden posts, with the secretary(Mr Kalbfus) saying only those who truly have the goods will fill the force. Anticipated completion may stretch into July with a July meeting to address hunters licenses and related matters.
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Joseph Kalbfus
State Game Commission
President Wilson calls Mexican leaders to quick peace
Washington awaits reaction as President Wilson urges Carranza Villa Zapata and others to end infighting and form a provisional government the US will recognize. Diplomats see pressure for unity and possible intervention if chaos continues. Red Cross relief begins in Monterey with limited rations. Gorgas seeks July 1 dismissal of engineers on Paxton Creek projects.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Mexico
Carranza
Villa
Zapata
Garza
United States
Washington, D. C
American Red Cross
Monterey
Mex
Hanna Today
Negro Denies Notes Used by Leo Frank in Appeal
Atlanta, June 3. James Conley, a black factory sweeper, finished a one year sentence as accessory to Mary Phagan’s murder and denied writing the Anna Maud Carter letters that figured in Leo M. Frank’s motion for a new trial.
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Leo Frank
Atlanta
James Conley
Mary Phagan
Anna Maud Carter
Leo M. Frank
Billy Sunday Shuts Saloons After Philadelphia Campaign
Fourteen retail liquor dealers relinquished licenses in Philadelphia as part of a wider closure linked to Billy Sunday’s anti drunk campaign. Wholesale dealers bottlers and one brewer also closed their doors due to unpaid license fees and declining sales. The action follows a campaign that reportedly reduced liquor consumption in the city.
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Philadelphia
Eigh
Billy Sunday
Albany Favours Two-House Legislature Report
Albany reports the legislative committee of the constitutional convention will favor the present two house form, ending any push for consolidating assembly and senate into one. In Tokyo the opposition backed resolution expressing lack of confidence, rejected 138 to 232 as cabinet members sat through a disorderly session.
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Associated Press
Albany
N. Y
Legislative Committee of
The
Constitutional Convention
Assembly
Senate
Tokio
House of Representatives
Dewitt Blair Dies Senior Blair banker in New York dies
Dewitt Clinton Blair senior partner of Blair & Co. in New York died at home in the city. He was in his eighty third year.
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Associated Press
New York
Dewitt Clinton Blair
Blair & Co
Retired Baggageman Is Showered With Gifts by Middle Division Men
Henry L. Bennett a retired baggageman of the Pennsylvania Railroad was surprised by train men from the Middle and Philadelphia divisions at his home with gifts including a leather rocker an umbrella a house coat and seventy carnations He completed his run from Altoona to Harrisburg and ended his active service after forty three years with the Middle division He was born in Wilmington served in the Civil War and joined the railroad on May 1 1872.
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National Guard
Mt. Gretna
C. B. Dougherty
Stewart
Petunias
Capitol Park
Capitol Plaza
Garvin
Thomas H. Garvin
State Commissioner of Fisheries
N. R. Buller
State Commission of Fisheries
Pennsylvania
Penal Laws Commission
Tener
Brumbaugh
John R. Farr
E. R. Connelly
Scranton
Foust
Allegheny
Cambria
Gunningham
Cunningham
Daugh Ra
Harrisure
Henry L. Bennett
Market Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
Bennett
H. O. Cook
Mr. Bennett
Altoona
Harrisburg
Middle Division
Wilmington
United States Navy
Eight More Bodies Arrive From Lusitania Disaster
Edgar Speyer the English baronet who resigned his privy council and other honors arrived in New York today aboard the American liner Philadelphia. The ship carried 715 passengers and the bodies of eight Lusitania victims.
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Associated Press
New York
Edgar Speyer
Privy Council
Philadelphia
French Finance Minister Proposes 5.6 Billion Franc Appropriation
Paris, June 3. Alexander F. Ribot, the French minister of finance, introduced a bill in the chamber of deputies to provisionally appropriate 5,600,000,000 francs for the third quarter of the current year. The sum equals about 1.12 billion dollars.
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Associated Press
Paris
Alexander F. Ribot
Chamber of Deputies
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