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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1918
Page
2
The U S Army recruiting drive for those under 21 and over 31 continues through Thursday with nightly meetings at 325 Market Street. Major Garrison presides at Market Square with attendees from Midletown aviation depot and others including Major Gray and Attorney General Hargest scheduled to speak.
Philadelphia June 10 William Otter state fuel administrator has removed anthracite from the vocabulary of residents in twenty one counties in Pennsylvania. The action denies domestic sizes including peanut stove and egg to these counties during the coal year 1918 19. Pittsburgh and Johnstown are among the largest cities affected. George A. Schraefner state superintendent of public grounds and buildings, is in New York with Arnold W. Brunner discussing Capitol Park extension landscaping and will return tonight to present preliminary work details to the board.
An advertisement touts Dr James Headache Powder as quick and certain relief for dull throbbing splitting or neuralgia headaches. It urges readers to send someone to the drug store for a dime package and assures no disappointment if they purchase the product.
Frank B. Snavely, County Poor Director, calls a 10 AM meeting of the special committee on contagious disease hospital needs at the Directors of the Poor office. J M J Raunick reports four smallpox patients removed, five currently treated, involving Middletown Steelton and Harrisburg. Emma Shutt answers a divorce suit by Charles C. Shutt, claiming cruelty and desertion. Court confirms road view reports, including vacation of a Rush Township highway and opening a road in Middle Paxton Township, with a new Little Wiconisco creek bridge to be presented to the grand jury in September. Auditor W B Boyd reports 1917 financials: Prothonotary $14,699.24, Recorder $21,899.79, Register $5,482.31.
Two classes start Monday at Technical High School for registered men. One offers radio and buzzer work for Signal Corps trainees, the other carpentry for Engineers. Radio class requires prior telephone telegraph or railroad experience. no experience needed for carpentry. Registration 7 to 9 PM. signing a card updates records only.
The estate of Reuben Clements halted a proceeding to declare a son legally dead after counsel learned Jacob Clements died under an assumed name in a Phoenixville hospital years ago. The case opened recently and was continued for more testimony before authorities found the truth, after which the action was dismissed. Administration will proceed once affidavits are secured.
Lieutenant Jackson Herr Boyd, son of Mrs. John Y. Boyd of Oakleigh Paxtang, arrived overseas with his regiment. He sailed May 26 and now serves as chief aide to Brigadier General Flagler of the Fifth Field Artillery. He previously lived at 124 Pine Street Harrisburg and has served as ambulance driver and in Leon Springs Texas and Waco Texas.
President Judge George Kunkel opened criminal court by rebuking J Robbin Bennett for keeping $30 given by Harry Kennedy to secure bail. Kennedy testified Bennett kept the money, did not post Bail, and ignored requests to meet. Bennett argued the funds would cover his counsel, but the judge ordered the $30 returned and urged Kennedy to hire another attorney.
Washington notes new aviators commissioned among the National Army includes Harrisburg’s Lawson D. Matter as a second lieutenant in the Engineer Corps. Other officers listed include Renzie W. Deihl of Watsontown and James A. Marshall of Chambersburg, along with officers from Altoona Lancaster Milligan Selinsgrove and Harrisburg.
The War Department announced it will not participate in funding improvements to the Steelton Highspire highway. Harrisburg Motor Club secretary J Clyde Myton publicized the stance after the club requested cost sharing, having already contributed $50. State Highway Department told Highspire and Steelton boroughs the state will cover half the cost if they proceed.
The Public Service Commission postponed the hearing in complaints by the State Highway Department against grade crossings on the William Penn Highway and the Philadelphia and Reading Railway near Hummelstown and Swatara Station Dauphin county from Wednesday to June 19. The cases will indicate the commission’s wartime plan to abolish grade crossings and the highway department was ordered to prepare plans for the work to be submitted.
Dr Newell Dwight Hillis the Brooklyn minister and patriotic lecturer will address the Harrisburg Academy senior class at the annual commencement in the Orpheum Theater Thursday at 10 o clock. No tickets are required due to the patriotic nature of the address.
Chicago market report shows hog receipts 34 000 steady to strong with prices from 15 50 to 16 95 officials note top hogs at 16 95 and light to heavy classes in line. Cattle receipts 14 000 active steady to strong with beef prime cattle at 16 75 to 17 78 and sheep receipts 13 000 mostly 25 cents lower with lambs 17 40 to 17 75 and ewes 14 25 to 14 50.
Governor Martin Brumbaugh will not discuss charges against Philadelphia draft appeal board No. 2 until he reviews all papers. Major W. G. Murdock plans an inquiry into low alien registration in Philadelphia. Inspectors in Eastern Pennsylvania will assist in miner classification to maintain coal output.
Philadelphia market notes show steady wheat earnings No. 1 and No. 2 soft, corn at $1.56 to $1.60, oats firm, butter at 44 46c, eggs around $11.40 per case, cheese firm, refined sugars steady, live poultry varied with many prices, potatoes mixed by region, tallow weak, flour steady and hay and clover priced per ton.
Two automobiles reported stolen last night remained missing this morning. Dr. G. A. Dapp of 1818 North Third Street had his car taken, license 84. Lookstown resident Charles Look also reported a theft, his car bearing license 79,050.
A Harrisburg Ministerial Association committee led by Rev. Robert Bagnell and Rev. Stewart Herman released a Declaration of Principles urging churches to support the war effort while condemning Sunday spectacles and profane rhetoric. The statement calls for loyal, prayerful civic action, prudent patriotic demonstrations, and conformity to moral standards in the nation’s war effort.
A U S transport crew, under swift command, rammed a surfaced U boat and sank it, then fired on another submarine in heavy haze. The clash unfolded with the captain ordering to sink, witnesses on deck cheering as the subs were destroyed. London dispatch notes the action amid minefield navigation and naval danger.
Washington reports a surge in American merchant marine growth since the war began. From January through May 1918 the Bureau of Navigation numbered 629 new vessels totaling 687,055 gross tons, bringing the U S fleet to about 10,000,000 gross tons. December January figures show rapid monthly gains, with May leading the pace in ship numbers and tonnage.
The Pershing casualty list shows the Rainbow Division heavily engaged with the 168th Infantry and Machine Gun Battalions from Wisconsin and Georgia. Companies A C and D of the 168th suffered thirty seven casualties, while the Wisconsin Fond du Lac unit accounted for two officers and nine enlisted men in the latest report.
Former President William H. Taft told Delaware College graduates that the United States must establish an eastern front in Russia. He praised Allied resistance at the Marne and urged whipping Germany with superior material and manpower to end militarism.
Major John Price Jackson, in the U S Army in France, reports Captain Buckwalter died while constructing a communicating trench at the front. Buckwalter, formerly with the Engineering Division of the Public Service Commission, had built a strong reputation among the department and its workers. He died from a shell while performing his duty.
Notice that Mechanics Trust Company is administrator of Phoebe H Dunn late of Harrisburg Dauphin County Pa deceased and requests debts and claims be presented for settlement. Bondholders of Penn a Milk Products Co are urged to present bonds Nos 439 and 456 to Union Trust Co of Pennsylvania for payment on or before July 1 1918.
Walter C. Graham of Philadelphia was appointed as referee in workmen compensation for the Philadelphia district succeeding William B. G. Brumbaugh announced state appointments including delegates to the International Industrial Exposition in New York from May 30 to November 1918 and new trustees for Northumberland County who administer the Assistance Fund plus board members for the State Hospital and other institutions.
The Loyal Order of America holds its supreme temple convention at Board of Trade Auditorium beginning tomorrow. Proposals for furnishing paper and binding for official printing are invited until noon June 18 1918 at the Office of the Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding Harrisburg with bids due by twelve o'clock noon that day.
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