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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1918
Page
2
Harrisburg Scouts gain access to a new community camp on a 100 acre tract south of the mountain north of Enola. Troops citywide will use tents cabins and lumber provided free for ten days to two weeks annually with a full announcement upcoming after inspections. The site lies two and a half miles from Enola streetcar loops with winter and summer use planned.
The first general examination for Second Class Scout rank will be held at headquarters on Thursday evening June 20 at 7 30. Scouts must obtain permission from their Scoutmasters using the official Certificate of Fitness For Second Class Examination and return it before testing. There are 96 second class in the city and 375 Tenderfeet.
Great preparations are underway for Troop Seven's concert to aid the annual camp fund. W. L. Bailey leads the orchestra with the Goldstein trio as featured performers at Fahnestock Hall next Tuesday at eight. The male quartet and H A Bailey will also perform and a First Aid corps will demonstrate.
Local headquarters occupy larger Calder building offices enabling all scoutmaster and scout leader meetings in well equipped rooms. Scouts are reminded that rooms 206 and 207 are always open.
Henry G. Schuessler of Harrisburg says Tanlac cured his long standing constipation rheumatic gout headaches and stomach troubles He praises renewed energy and now can work pain free Tanlac is sold at multiple Pennsylvania druggists including Gorgas Drug Store Carlisle W G Stevens Pharmacy Elizabethtown Albert W Cain Greencastle Charles B Carl Middletown Colin S Few’s Pharmacy Waynesboro Clarence Croft Mechanicsburg and H F Brunhouse Adv
Troop Six reports one victory and one defeat in a tight season as members juggle study for exams a musicale program and crafts. Tonight they face Troop Eight at H A C diamond while June 25 hosts a Scout event with singing readings and craft demonstrations led by Scoutmaster Jenkins and others.
Troop Twelve shifts its meeting to Friday night at the church Scout room. The group plans a hike and meets at seven with a hike to Wildwood pavilion arriving around 7 45. They light a fire play baseball and sleep overnight amid cold and noisy antics.
Harrisburg Chapter of the American Red Cross reports numerous patriotic gifts. George Masterton of the State Hospital donated 5.50 from selling photographic views with two cents per sale to Red Cross. Charles H. Hoffman of the Colonial Country Club golf committee sent 11.25 from a May 30 tournament.
William J. Shader former scoutmaster of Troop eight enlists in the Tank corps after a long history in boys work with the United Boys' Brigade of America and YMCA. The Harrisburg troop hosts a meeting with talks on scouting laws, guest speakers Shorty Miller and Mr Virgin, plans for a July camping trip, and a June 21 musical entertainment at Shimmell school.
The Scout Masters Association will meet Tuesday evening June 18 at headquarters. The scout executive seeks full leader attendance to discuss summer plans and July 4 parade arrangements along with other important matters.
Paris reports General Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Force, has adopted two French war orphans during a period of world conflict. The Stars and Stripes issue hints at the act without detailing circumstances. The news ties to the earlier loss of his own two children in a fire.
A Dauphin airman writes home from front lines near Rheims and Challons. He describes gas threats, smoke over trenches, balloon targets, and shelling shaping the landscape. He notes gas masks, temperamental machine guns, and a battlefield cinema in an improvised hangar with improvised seating.
Captain Axel Kaltenborn described his hour aboard the German U-boat Henrik Lund after its attack on his steamship. The commander, fluent in English, boasted of a 250 by 25 foot craft with two six inch guns and a 28 second dive, claiming two months ashore and six more possible.
A crew member aboard states he is sorry to sink the ship but insists war requires him to carry out his duty. The remark reflects grim acceptance amid hostilities and the duty-bound stance of a naval officer.
Community letters from Athol Massachusetts and San Francisco California praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for monthly pains weakness and female ailments. Two women recount relief after long suffering and doctors recommendations. They urge others to seek guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
Over one hundred thousand people in this country have proved that nothing relieves the soreness of chafing as quickly and permanently as Sykes Comfort Powder. 25c at Vinci and other drug stores. Trial Box Free. The Comfort Powder Co. Boston Mass.
The New Store advertises real summer straw hats as economical and urges shoppers to compare prices. It pledges support for wartime measures, invites customers to economize with guidance, and claims a growing list of satisfied customers.
After a five day furlough at his home with his wife Mrs. W. W. Marker of 245 South Cameron street he has returned to Camp Lee Petersburg Va Marker well known among automobile men in the city having worked with the Overland Harrisburg Company and later as local representative of the Sterling Tire Corporation he enlisted last April and is now in the Eighth Training Battalion of the Medical Corps awaiting active service Over There.
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