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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1917
Page
6
Secretary of Agriculture Charles KE Patton urged the canning and preserving establishments and households to preserve the largest amount of vegetables and fruits ever stored in Pennsylvania. Officials are coordinating seed potato and supply contacts, recruiting harvest help, and promoting home gardening to build a wartime reserve food supply.
Allan J. T. Benson former Socialist presidential candidate says he will resign from the party until it repudiates the anti draft resolutions adopted at the St Louis convention. He signed a minority report protesting mass action against conscription and joins other leaders voicing protest at party leadership.
Louis Gathmann inventor of the Big Berthas dies at his daughter’s home in Washington aged about 101, born in Germany in 1843 and came to the U S in 1865 after his patent. He offered the weapon to the U S War Department which declined to adopt it. Dauphin funeral notices follow for Constance Stricker buried at Zion's Church after death at home of her parents in Clarks Valley with pallbearers William Harry Lewis Irvine Robert and Charles Fry.
Dauphin Pennsylvania prepares for Tuesday registration as about 51 young men from a 500 population will sign up. The town has sent two recruits, Ernest Shaffer and Walter Seiler, for army training while others await call. A Christian Herald note links ancient drink to national weakness and urges sobriety and unity amid looming military power.
State Highway Commissioner Black pressed for an $18.5 million road appropriation this year while pledging the department will continue work or build roads if contractors fail to come to the mark. He cited $3 million yearly from auto licenses and $6 million for the appropriation period, saying maintenance costs around $300 per mile for 10,000 state highway miles, and outlined how funds would be allocated including new highway work and county partnerships. He warned bids may need adjustments and urged reasonable offers, noting a 7 percent overhead and potential tax changes could affect revenue.
Delegates from St. Michael's Zion and Holy Communion Lutheran churches attend the 170th Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium opening session at Allentown. Rev. J. H. Miller of Bale Domunion Church serves as one of the synod statisticians. A monster celebration marks the 400th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation on Muhlenberg College campus.
Charles Mutzahaugh of 1213 Julia Street was assaulted on Cameron Street late Saturday night after being told to stand and deliver. He remained unconscious until hospitalized at Harrisburg Hospital and later identified two large Black men as his attackers. He had $16 and a gold watch stolen, the property of Edward Collin.
The foreign minister handed to Adolf Pauli the safe conduct for himself, legation members, and former German consuls in Brazil. Issued by the British minister and U.S. ambassador, the document enables travel. The Germans will sail tomorrow on the Frisia bound for Amsterdam.
Berlin reports the Chicago unit of the American physicians expedition under Dr. Frederic Hagler from St. Louis left Berlin for Christiania. Financed by the German-Austrian Hungarian relief committee, the group wound up its work and donated equipment from the United States to Graudenz military hospital.
In Dauphin County on a Saturday afternoon a simple ceremony at the Evangelical parsonage joined Sylvester N. Furman of Clarks Valley and Miss Ida A. W. Kline of Lebanon in matrimony. Reverend James M. Shoop performed the service.
Carlisle Pennsylvania June 4 Exercises of the 124th commencement season at Dickinson College end with 68 graduates from the college and 39 from the law school. Degrees conferred include A B and LL B with a long list of local degree recipients and prize winners such as I Earl Shaffer Lucetta McElheney Mildred Day Russell B Kohr and others.
Workers raised almost $2,000 for the Red Cross during Little Tag Day. Twenty five thousand pennies were counted at Red Cross headquarters as prizes were awarded for rooms and individual efforts. The list names prize winners from Webster, Fager, Vernon, Susquehanna and other schools, with sums ranging from $44.49 to 50 cents for girls and $22.75 to $4.03 for boys.
A minister asks Bessie to donate her new dime to missions. She replies she will buy ice cream and let the druggist deliver a portion to missions, illustrating a light anecdote from The Christian Herald.
Dr. Wiley extols wheat as a complete food and urges consuming the whole grain in a digestible form. Shredded Wheat Biscuit from Niagara Falls, N Y, steam cooks and bakes whole wheat to create a tasty nourishing meal with milk and berries.
Roman stripe tussarahs on a ground of over white or natural color 33 inches wide PALA over cerrers Pacts of MID Cube designs in attractive colors 33 inches wide Yard 2.50 Shantungs in sports designs yard 1.25 to 2.00
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