War era mercantile rules to cut costs in Harrisburg
City merchants hear a plan to enforce wartime economy with charges on deliveries and C O D shipments. A county director will enforce rules under state mercantile economy chief RE Fell, with Bowman leading a task committee to finalize regulations within two days.
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Harrisburg
Dauphin County
RE. Lawrence Fell
Fahnestock Hall
J. William Bowman
Fell
Well
War Industries Board
Boston
Philadelphia
William Smedley
Retail Merchants’ Association of Pennsylvania
Bowman
Chamber of Commerce
William H. Bennetham
Charles K. Boas
F. J. Consulman
P. G. Diener
George Jeffers
David Kaufman
A. K. Kreidler
J. 8. Lowengard
A. W. Moul
H. A. Robinson
D. H. Witmer
Nine Wharton Graduates to Finish at Tech Auditorium Tonight
Nine graduates from the Wharton School of Commerce and Finance of the University of Pennsylvania will receive certificates at a commencement in the Technical High School auditorium. The class includes Thomas J. Bard Lewis Ira Cargill William Henry Dimmick Charles Edward Fox Lee M. Hale Frank Morgal George LeRoy Nett Lawrence Aloysius Och and John Arskine Zock. Vice Provost Josiah H. Penniman will deliver the address and present certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wharton School of Commerce and Finance
University of Pennsylvania
Technical High School
Thomas J. Bard
Lewis Ira Cargill
William Henry Dimmick
Charles Edward Fox
Lee M. Hale
Frank Morgal
George LeRoy Nett
Lawrence Aloysius Och
John Arskine Zock
Josiah H. Penniman
University
Lewis Seymour Mudge
Pennsylvania
America
Fractured Wrist After Wagon Accident
Charles Heilig of 1009 North Fifteenth street suffered a fractured right wrist when he was thrown from a wagon near Herr street by the subway last evening and was treated at Fie relebure Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Heilig
North Fifteenth Street
Fie Relebure
Herr Street
Loyal Americans Open Convention in Board of Trade
The Loyal Americans open their fourth annual Supreme Temple session in the Board of Trade Building with Samuel R. Smith presiding and Mrs. M. J. Billings serving as secretary. Delegates discuss credentials, committees and officer nominations as events continue tomorrow. They visited Gettysburg yesterday and plan to tour the Capitol. the order has about 2,500 members in twenty temples across Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
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Supreme Temple
United States of North America
Board of Trade
Samuel R. Smith
Reading
M. J. Billings
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Gettysburg
Capitol
Loyal American Order
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Community Song Featured at Masonic Homes Sunday Service
A community singing event led by George W. Coover will open Sunday services at the Masonic Homes in Elizabethtown with Sylvia Coover as accompanist and Mrs. Caroline Coover as reader. Earlier events included the Boys Band concert and a Red Cross lecture on refugee work in France and Belgium. Prince Edwin Lodge members with families visited the homes for religious services led by Rev. Fuller Bergstresser.
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Masonic Homes
Elizabethtown
George W. Coover
Sylvia Coover
Caroline Coover
Public School of
Lancaster
American Red Cross
France
Belgium
Grand Lodge Hall
Margaret Gast
Prince Edwin Lodge
No. 486
Fuller Bergstresser
Middletown St. Peter's Lutheran Church
Y M C A Recruits Needed For France
Dr. John R. Mott urged immediate recruitment of Y M C A workers for France England and Italy. He said at least four thousand more workers are needed by September 1 with 2 210 to be recruited before July 1 and 1 000 monthly thereafter to support Allied front line service and prevent monotinous life for soldiers.
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America
France
John R. Mott
National War Council
New
England
Italy
Anon
Mott
Blain Boy Arrives Overseas With Regiment
Private Harry F. Patterson of Blain joins Battery FP 108th Field Artillery Twenty eighth Division overseas, after serving on the Mexican border and before his enlistment was employed by Western Union Telegraph Company. His wife has received advices confirming his safe arrival.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry F. Patterson
Blain
108Th Field Artillery
Twenty-eighth Division
Patterson
Western Union Telegraph Company
Y M C A Urges Major War Labor Recruitment Drive Overseas
The Y M C A outlines a six to eight point plan calling for 4 000 additional workers for overseas service by September 1 to relieve exhausted personnel. It cites deaths and injuries among workers, the need for successors, improved efficiency, and reserves to sustain morale and supply lines in Europe.
Hun U-Boat Hit by British Ship Near British Port
An Atlantic port report says a German submarine was attacked and apparently sunk by a British steamship a week earlier off a British port. A U S Army officer who saw a single shot fired at the U boat judged it a clean hit. The British vessel was escorted in by a scout seaplane after meeting the port liner 150 yards away. the liner carried 176 passengers.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
United States Army
French Regain Lost Positions In World War I Salient
Allied forces counter German attacks around Noyon as wind shifts and gas shells injure both sides. Some enemy divisions withdraw after heavy casualties, with fresh units replacing them. In Washington on June 11 nine thousand white draft registrants are called for special limited service to join the military aeronautical corps and work in airplane production at Vancouver, Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noyon
Washington
General Crowder
Military Aeronautical Corps
Army
Vancouver
Wash
Army recruitment rally on circus grounds in Harrisburg
The Harrisburg recruiting bureau set up an Army tent in the city of tents to boost enlistments with a Kaiser head display and a nail the Kaiser event. Veterans groups will lead rallies with speakers including Attorney General Hargest Major Garrison and Major Gray. Odd Fellows parade and municipal band Parade planned with Frank B. Wickersham and Rev. George N. Lauffer as speakers as drive continues across twenty two counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Hargest
Garrison
Gray
Order of Odd Fellows
Odd Fellows
Frank B. Wickersham
George N. Lauffer
County Officials To Pick Site For Contagious Disease Hospital
County commissioners and poor directors will visit the county poor farm next Monday afternoon to select a site for a contagious disease hospital. The move follows today’s special committee meeting led by Commissioner Henry M. Stine and involves city officials in the site decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry M. Stine
Frank B. Snavely
Charles Yost
Steelton Health Department
E. S. Gerberick
Middletown
S. F. Hassler
C. R. Phillips
J. M. J. Raunick
Stine
J. W. Bayles
Phillips
State Department of Health
Betsy Ross Home to Host Flag Day Addresses
Gabriel H. Moyer of the Auditor General's Department and Judge Albert W. Johnson of Lewisburg will speak at the Betsy Ross house in Philadelphia on Flag Day. The Patriotic Order Sons of America plans daily observances with a parade involving thirty thousand marchers and eight brass bands. The order has contributed over $5,000,000 to Liberty Loans and significant aid to war efforts and the Red Cross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gabriel H. Moyer
Auditor General's Department
Patriotic Order Sons of America
Pennsylvania
Albert W. Johnson
Lewisburg
Betsy Ross
Philadelphia
P. O
Red Cross
Wife of Soldier in France Dies After a Long Illness
Mrs. Margaret Bretz Miller 22 dies after months of illness from a complication of diseases aided by worry over her husband Harry Miller in France. Survived by husband, her parents Mr and Mrs Samuel Bretz, three brothers Claude Warren and Norman and sister Jennie. Funeral Friday at 1 30 from parents home with Rev Alfred N Sayres. burial East Harrisburg Cemetery.
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Margaret Brett Miller
Harry Miller
France
Sam
Samuel C. Brets
Harris Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Reilly Street
Alfred N. Sayres
Second Reformed Church
East
Harrisburg
New Cap Changes U S Soldiers Headgear In War
Washington reports a brimless cap matching army color is now worn by all American soldiers overseas. It fits under helmets and is safer for tall men since campaign hats could show above parapets.
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Washington
Marietta Flyer Killed in Airplane Fall
Arcadia Fla June 11 Lieutenant Benjamin Hiestand of Marietta Pa was killed and Cadet Caston of Pennsylvania seriously hurt in a Dortfield Florida airplane accident. The machine was only about 100 feet in the air when it fell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arcadia, Fla
lLieutenant
Benjamin Hiestand
Marietta
Caston
Pennsylvania
Dorrfield
Market Pressure Against Leaders Leads to Mixed Stagnation
United States market notes show Chicago Board of Trade closes with mixed grain and livestock activity on June 11. Corn futures trend higher while oats and pork, lard, ribs show modest gains. Philadelphia reports steady to firm prices in grains dairy eggs and meats, with notable ranges for butter cheese and poultry. Cattle and hogs in Chicago inventories reflect demand and price shifts, with beef and veal varying by grade and type as market watchers track receipts and pricing across regions.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Board of Trade
San Bog Ae
Ayi Pele
Western
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Maine
Delaware
Maryland
Michigan
Florida
South Carolina
Tierces
Kansas
U. S. Bureau of Markets
Small Lots Coal Prices Fixed by Fuel Director Harrisburg
Ross A. Hickok the Dauphin county fuel administrator fixes nut and pea coal prices for under one hundred pounds. Nut coal 75 pounds 40 cents 37 pounds 25 cents 18 pounds 15 cents. Pea coal 75 pounds 35 cents 37 pounds 20 cents 18 pounds 14 cents. Peddlers selling under 100 pounds must obtain authority from the Federal Fuel Committee of Dauphin county, except established retailers receiving shipments direct from mining companies.
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Chandler Brothers and Company
New York
Philadelphia
North Market Square
Harrisburg
Chestnut Street
Pine Street
Allis Chalmers
Car and Foundry
Baldwin Locomotive
Bethlehem Steel
Butte Copper
California Petroleum
Central Leather
Chesapeake and Ohio
Chicago
Pacific
Chine Con
Col
Crucible Steel
Distilling Securities Tees
Rie
General Motors
Goodrich
Inspiration Copper
ABN
Kennecott
Tees
Kansas City Southern
Lackawanna Steel
Midvale Steel Ae
Seecees
York Central Oe
Hatchens
York, Out and West
Northern Pacific
Pittsburgh Coal
Ray Con Copper
Reading
Republic Iron and Steel &4
Southern Pacific Southern Ry Oor
Studebaker
Tee
Union Pacific Ra O. Seee
Utah
Virginia-Carolina
Westinghouse Mfg
Willys-Overland
Ross A. Hickok
Dauphin County
Federal Fuel Committee
Dauphin County Committee
Urges French Sailors to Boycott Germans
In The Mafin Havelock Wilson president of the British Sailors' and Firemen's Trade Union calls upon French merchant seamen to refuse after the war to work with sailors from enemy nations to handle merchandise from enemy countries or to patronize shopkeepers dealing in such goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Havelock Wilson
Sailors’ and Firemen’s Trade Union
City Assessor reports progress on ward property revisions
City assessor James C. Thompson announces completion of property valuation revisions in the First Second Fifth and Sixth Wards with Twelfth Ward under review. He expects a net increase of at least 6 million dollars under the triennial assessment, with some assessments lowered where too high. Also notes mixed coverage across the city and pending review in remaining areas. In a separate note, Earl R. Potteiger of Camp Street is reported safe in France serving with the Eighteenth Field Artillery after enlisting last November.
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James C. Thompson
Thompson
France
A. Potteiger
Camp Street
Earl R. Potteiger
Eighteenth Fiel Artillery
Fitzpatrick Son Commissioned Second Lieutenant in Army
Mrs. Sarah Fitzpatrick reports her son James Fitzpatrick has been commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry. He attended an officers training school at Camp Claiborne, Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Fitzpatrick
James Fitzpatrick
Gamp.Cualer
Mich
Spring Rain Aids Parks Dept In River Embankment Work
Heavy rain helped the parks department advance the river embankment and new walk from Maclay Street southward. Commissioner Gross expects completion in a week or ten days as vines and plants are set on the graded slope.
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Department of Parks
Maclay Street
Gross
Hamilton Street
Woodbine
Sees Mother Ship in Company of Raider
Survivors of the American freighter Pinar del Rio said the German submarine that sank their vessel 110 miles northeast of Cape Henry last Saturday morning was accompanied by a large ship they believed to be a mother ship. They described the submersible as about 6,000 gross tons with a single funnel amidships, gray color, and observed the other vessel in the offing as the two ships headed away after signaling the Rie to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Manteo
N. c
Cape Henry
Walter C. B. Burrows
Demands Drastic Saving of Coal to Avert Famine
Washington June 11 The nation faces industrial idleness unless drastic economy in coal use is adopted immediately by domestic consumers and less essential industries are curtailed Fuel Administrator H A Garfield says the time has come to face the situation squarely He refuses to let summer conditions pass without action to avoid winter shutdowns due to transportation congestion and coal shortages The degree team of Dauphin Encampment will confer the first degree at the hall of Dauphin Lodge No 160 Friday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
H. A. Garfield
Garfield
Dauphin
Dauphin Lodge
Thirteenth and
Derry Streets
Flag Day Exercises Planned by Harrisburg Elks at Reservoir Park
Arrangements are nearly complete for Flag Day ceremonies by the Harrisburg Lodge of Elks at Reservoir Park Friday evening. Choirs from city churches will march with the organizations to the park and participate in the program. Congressman Edward E. Robbins of Greensburg Pa will deliver the principal address on The Flag, with Miss Florence Jukens Newbold of Irving College performing two numbers. The Municipal Band will play, and a tribute to Captain Henry M. Stine will follow the parade planning.
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Harrisburg Lodge of Elks
Reservoir Park
The
Elks
Harrisburg
Edward E. Robbins
Greensburg
Congressman Robbins
Florence Jukens Newbold
Department of Expression
Irving College
Newbold
Meade D. Detweiler
Henry M. Stine
Municipal Band
Front Street
Harrisburg Republican Club
Steelton Band
North Street
Rotary Club
North’ Street
Central Democratic Club
New Cumberland Band
Liberty Street
Harrisburg Cigar Company
Kiwanis Club
Derry
Thirteenth
Seventeenth
Walnut
Eighteenth
Heinz Addresses Pennsylvania Bakers Convention
Howard Heinz Food Administrator of Pennsylvania spoke at the state bakers convention in Reading urging duty in a war expected to last five years. He predicted a long conflict and called for bakery workers to contribute to the effort.
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Heinz Spurs State Bakers VY Associated Press
Reading
Howard Heinz
Pennsylvania
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Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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William A. Thomas
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