National Guard to Mobilize at Mt Gretna Next Month
The state plans a Mount Gretna mobilization for National Guard units similar to June last year. Canvas shipments to the Mt Gretna site and state camp, water lines finished, and regimental canvas on the way. Adjutant General Stewart praised foresight for better mobilization and equipment. War Department to decide final destination. earlier plan to mobilize two weeks starting July 15 revised.
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Mt. Gretna
Stewart
War Department
Pennsylvania
State Prison Labor Commission
O'Neil
Philadelphia Underwriters’ Association
George Wharton Pepper
Chautauqua
Paul & Chalfant
Evening News
N. Y
Judge Brown
C. L. Brown
Philadelphia
Black
Delaware
Chester
Montgomery
American Aviator Believed Dead in France
Paris reports Corporal James Hall of Colfax Iowa a Lafayette Escadrille member believed killed in combat with seven German planes He was shot through the lung his plane fell inside French lines Hall author of Kitchener's Mob joined the American squadron recently after being wounded in the British army He had downed a German aircraft four days earlier
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Associated Press
Paris
James Hall
Colfax
Iowa
Lafayette Escadrille
Herald
Couporst Hall
Wedding Tonight for Miss Critchley and Frank McLaughlin
The ceremony for Miss Mary Elizabeth Critchley of 81 South Fourth street and Frank McLaughlin of 320 Chestnut street Harrisburg is set for this evening by Rev G N Lauffer of St John s Lutheran. After a honeymoon to the seashore New York and other eastern cities they will reside at 31 South Fourth street after August 1. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank O Critchley and a 1915 Steelton High School graduate. McLaughlin is a Bethlehem Steel machinist and musician formerly from Newville.
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Mary Elizabeth Critchley
South Fourth Street
Frank McLaughlin
Chestnut Street
Harrisburg
G. N. Lauffer
St. John's Lutheran Church
Seashore
New York
Harrisure
Miss Critchley
Frank O. Critchley
Steelton High School
McLaughlin
Bethlehem Steel Company
Newville
Enola
Speeding Violations Lead To City Police Hearings
Burgess Wigfield announced the largest fine since the traffic ordinance. Charles E. Cooper was fined 50 dollars for speeding at two locations and turning out his trailer. Additional violators faced hearings for speeding parking disorderly conduct and a pool room closing violation.
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Burgess Wigfield
Charles E. Cooper
Brookwood
Front Street
Gardner
Mary L. Graupner
Harrisburg
J. L. Feeser
South Third Street
Franklin Street
West Side
Hand
R. B. Hannan
North Seventeenth Street
Charles F. Hoover
North Second Street
John Nicholas
Christian Street
Haralambus Brothers
Front
Pine Streets
Sokol Members Urged to Enlist
The Croatian Sokol society of fifty members in the borough promotes patriotism and fund campaigns for Liberty Loan and Red Cross. Tonight they plan a special session to discuss financial and patriotic actions, including a campaign to support Union volunteers enlisting daily to serve in Europe and American forces.
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Sokol Union
Europe
America
Steelton
Sokol
Steelton School Teacher Melissa Johnson Dies After Illness
Funeral services for Melissa Johnson 45 former Steelton lower grade teacher and Milersville State Normal graduate will be held at First Methodist Church tomorrow at 11. She is survived by a daughter Martha. Her husband died about fourteen years ago.
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Melissa Johnson
First Methodist Church
Johnson
Melissa Devore
Steelton
Milersville State Normal School
Martha
Steelton Receives Use of City Sanitary Hospital
Steelton and Harrisburg health boards meet to abate contagious diseases among the colored and foreign population. They discuss smallpox cases and plan cooperation to quell spread. Harrisburg grants Steelton permission to use the sanitary hospital. two patients housed there. Dr. J M J Raunick, Steelton health officer, attends and offers suggestions.
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Steelton and
Harrisburg Health Boards
Harrisburg Board
Steelton Board
Steelton
J. M. J. Raunick
Finns Permit German Prisoners to Escape
June reports say more than 3500 German prisoners and 100 officers escaped from Russia via Finland last month. Finns are said to have given little aid to recapture them, with escapes spanning various parts of the country.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
Russia
Finland
Moose Concludes Purchase for Front Street Clubhouse
The Steelton Moose home committee confirmed the Alleman property at Front and Second streets in a meeting last night. About one hundred members attended as the trustees were placed in charge of alterations and repairs to convert the brick dwelling into a clubhouse, with work not expected to begin for about three months.
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Alleman
Front
Second Streets
Steelton Moose
Board of Trustees
Front Street
Steelton News Highlights Include Prizes and Elections
Lee Taylor of Steelton High School awards twenty five dollars in prizes for the Douglas event Association with the condition winners enter college. Knights of Pythias elect officers for its twenty fifth anniversary. Ben efit program and Red Cross sewing machines funded by a party at Colonial Country Club. Exemption draft board sworn in. First Cornet Band concert on July 4 with a festival and colored speakers at Second and Adams streets.
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Lee Taylor
Steelton High School
Douglas Event Association
Steelton Fooes
Knights of Pythias
Charles E. Pass
Harrisburg
Red Cross Benefit
Red Cross Society
Colonial Country Club
Star Steelton
Dauphin County
Justice of the Peace Steel
B. T. Dickinson
E. Allen Crawbaugh
C. C. Cumbler
Highspire Bank
Cornet Band
Second
Adams
Middletown Deaths and Local Notices Spark Community Update
Ruth Gross aged 14 months died at home with funeral set for Saturday at 1 80. Sadie Manning 51, dies at Hillsdale mother Mrs Martha Manning. funeral at Geyer Church with burial at Geyer Cemetery. Middletown lodge No 268 K of P elects officers for six months. Woman's Bible Class picnics at Reservoir Park. Carnival preparations on South Union street for July 4 under Liberty Fire Company. Mrs William Schaeffer returns home from Sharpsburg. Colossal trade totals compare New York export and import values per inhabitant. Vessel tonnage data for 1915 notes 82 246 601 tons across foreign flags and U S ports.
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Ruth
John Gross
Catherine Street
Lorettia
Robert
I. H. Albright
U. B. Church
Middletown
Sadie Manning
Martha Manning
Hillsdale
Co. F. Smith
Geyer Church
J. H. Brinser
Brinser
J. S. Brinser
Geyer
Middletown Lodge No
K. of P
8. E. Evans
F. H. Schradley
Harry Kuradnema
Maurice Stauffer
William Hickerwell
H. C. Lindemuth
B. C. Schi
John Boyer
South Union Street
Carnival Company
Liberty Fire Company
William Schaeffer
Sharpsburg
New York
Draft rules approved by President for WWI exemptions
Washington June 28 Final approval to regulations governing exemptions from military service in forming the National Army of 625 000 to be drawn by draft next month has been given by President Wilson. Regulations cover fifty pages and will be released to the press for publication on a date set by the Public Information Committee. Four classifications for exemptions are physical unfitness war industry employment religious exemptions and dependents with unbreakable family ties.
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Washington
National Army
Wilson
Committee On Public Information
Exemption Boards to Decide Special War Service Rules
The article describes local exemption boards appointed to judge exemptions for physically unfit, religious objectors, and dependents. It notes appellate exemption boards will handle occupational exemptions and appeals. One board will be formed per judicial district. It discusses potential noncombat roles behind the lines and the need to decide physical qualifications in such cases. The War Department considers bantam regiments of smaller men, sparked by a letter from a man seeking to raise a compact unit if allowed.
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War Department
Department
Scranton Jitney Drivers Fined by Public Service Commission
The Public Service Commission fined ten Scranton jitney operators $100 each for failing to obey cease service orders. They have five days to pay. nonpayment may lead to Dauphin County court injunctions. An appeal to the Superior Court followed the commission’s earlier decision.
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Commissi Wns
War Department flexibility on minimum height and weight for recruits
The War Department notes that a minimum height of five feet four inches and weight of 120 pounds are applied flexibly. Recruiting and medical officers are instructed not to reject a man who appears to be a good risk. Men under 21 receive allowances and even bantams with fighting spirit and fitness are welcomed despite smaller stature.
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War Department
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Gle
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