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2 Veteran Railway Postal Clerk Retires With Good Record Andrew J. Haer, aged 73, 113 South Thirteenth street, for many years a railroad mail clerk, ha 3 been retired. Ho is in good health and retires with a record that is interesting. He served in the Civil War in the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment, Penn sylvania Volunteers. When a young man Mr. Baer resem bled. from a facial standpoint, J. AVilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, and was taken for Booth during 1865 while talking to friends in the Central Hotel. The report spread rapidly that the President's assassin was in Harrisburg. A orowd gathered and prepared to capture the fugitive. Mr. Baer was told of his danger and escaped the mob. RELIEF EXTEItTAIN'MEXT Kabbi 1.,. Silver and Rabbi A. Tvtl baum, manager of the New York Cen tral Relief for European war sufferers, will speak to-morrow afternoon at the Channukah entertainment to be held in the Chestnut Street Auditorium, be ginning at 4 o'clock, and continuing during the evening. The entertainment is being held under the auspices of the Harrisburg Central Relief Branch. I^^. Wf / EXCEPTED \ vwwtvwmwwwvM I 25* 1 \\ DEPARTMENT JJ We are deeply grateful for the liberal patronage that has been ac- j corded us during the year 1916 and especially during this Christmas sea || son. | To those who have contributed ' directly or indirectly by their good will to all we wish A MERRY CHRISTMAS JI Soulier's 25c Store I | ; A Christmas Wish I j That this Christmas may be the brightest and merriest you VT have ever known and the New Year the happiest and most 1 profitable is the holiday wish of (\j l\ i I rsri Rex Garage ii 1917 N. Third St. IQl^rtsltqa^^hcer j Happy Days J Peaceful Nights : J i Pleasant Evenings j| Electric Lights! % And A Happy New Year I J Harrisburg Light and \ I Power Co. j i ——————— Prices Advance Wm. fl Kjf SSO Jan. First Immediate deliveries if desired, or make your deposit before first of year and secure present, prices for future delivery. Four and Five-passenger, *1085; Seven-passenger, $1550: Roadster $1065. PRICES F. O. B. FACTORY. asiei, Velie-Haxrisburg Co. SIXTH AND HERB STS. H. F. WILI.OUGHBY IIKI.I, PHOXR 271-J. Clare Williams, in "The Criminal," booked for the Colonial Theater Mon day and Tuesday. <ll AKK lIECOHUKD "Washing-ton. l>ec. 23.—A slight earth quake shock lasting from 4.35 until after 5 o'clock was registered to-day on the seismograph at Georgetown Uni versity. It apparently was about 4,600 miles distant. COMPENSATION AMENDMENT ON First Effort of a Proposed Change Heard From Phila delphia Lawyers An amendment to the administrative section of the workmen's compensation act of 1915 creating the Workmen's Compensation Board will be contained in a bill to be introduced at the next Legislature asking for the appoint ment of eight advocate counselors to represent claimants before the board • where the claimants would otherwise bo unrepresented by attorneys, ac cording to W. B. Scott, referee for the : Philadelphia district. "While many claimants are able to employ legal advisers, there are many too poor to do so," said Referee Scott last nlgl t. "The advocate counselors will look after their interests during the first hearing and continue to do so until the claim is finally settled. At present the referee not only has to sit as a Judge, but he is also frequently called on to conduct the claimant's : case." . , NOTICE HOW CHERRY EVERYONE IS TODAY? [Continued From First I'agc] them before; the landlord forgot to i rub In the fact that the high cost of j living is just as burdensome to the renter as to the tenant; the market [ man told you the price of his turkeys! a wee bit apologetically—at least you \ thought so, anyway; the wife admitted ; she was tired, but did so in a way that | made you feel like asking her to the i "movies" for a final bit of holiday j deviltry, and She—well, the chances i are she'll call you up, If she hasn't j already done so, to caution you not to forget to come out and help hang the —holly! In office, shop, street, car train, store, it was all the same—all Harris burg has finished a nerve-racking time of it and is about ready to heave a mighty hearty sigh of relief and to turn its eyes backward some nineteen hundred years to a tiny town In far away Judea. Two in a Bow— Oil! My Elsewhere In the Telegraph you can read in detail just how Harrisburg has planned to spend Christmas. Most everybody, by the way, is feeling more than ordinarily cheerful at the way the calendar man arranged the dates this year. Two "loaf" days; yoi-yol! Switching Oil the I,ight At 9.15 o'clock to-morrow evening the giaift municipal Christmas tree will be switched into all the blazing glory that the experts of the Harris burg Light and Power Company can produce. To-morrow evening's bratlon, in the language of your "newsie" poet, is going to be a "bear." The Rotarians arranged rll the de tails and bore the bulk of the expense. \ Current was provided gratuitously by the electric company: the lamps were loaned and the wiring was done at cost. Chairman Frank B. Musser, of the Rotary Club committee, provided | the tree and appointed a committee of hustlers from the Rotarian organ- Ji/.ation which has planned such an en tertainment as Harrisburg will always remember. Tlic l*rosrani The Moorhead Knitting Company's giant chorus, together with the Mu nicipal band, both of which have of fered their services gratuitously, will furnish the music. The hour has been selected in a way to give the church folks a chance to attend. Here's the -program as announced by Chairman Musser: "Cantique de Noel," Municipal band, under the leadership of Frank Blu menstein; "Joy to the World," assem blage; three Christmas carols, "Watch man on the Walls," "Far Out Across the Hills" and "Christ in Glory." Moor head Knitting Company Choral So ciety, under direction of Abner W. Hartman; "O Faithful Pine," Munici pal band: "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks," Moorhead Choral So ciety: "O Sanctissima," Municipal band: "Holy Night." Moorhead Choral Society: "Adeste Fideles," Municipal band; "America." by the assemblage, and "Yuletide Fantasia," by the Mu nicipal band, as a closing number. The Prayers At the opening of the program the Rev. James F. Bullitt, rector of St. An drew's lOpiscopal Church, will offer a Christmas prayer, and the Rev. Dr. George K. Hawes, pastor of Market Square Presbyterian Church, will read a Christmas story. The band and the choral society will meet at the Board of Trade build ing. where the members of the chorus! will don their robes, and; headed by the band, will leave the building at 9 o'clock and march out Market to Third street, to Walnut, to Second, to Market Square, to their places in front of the tree, the band playing as a march "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The Angels' Serenade Just a word about the church serv ices, too. In every house, of worship to-morrow the exercises will have more than ordinary significance; choristers and choir singers haven't been on the job for nothing during these last few weeks. But it will be long, long after services that dreaming Harrisbur" will get its first delightful appreciation of the dawning of the Birthday. From church tower and nearby street corner bundled-up choirs will give a mighty decided touch of realism to the suggestion of the angels' serenade of nineteen handled years ago. To-night Harrisburg will observe Christmas Eve unofficially.' The Campaign's Seal "Belsnieklers" will be out in force to-night and after you have finished your shopping and helped Santa trim the tree, and so on, you might bring the wife down town. Bring some loose change along, too, for the final effort in the Red Cross Christmas sales PILES CURED AT HOME BY NEW ABSORPTION METHOD If you suffer frcm bleeding. Itching blind or protruding Piles, send mo your address, and I will tell you how to cure yourself at home by the new absorp tion treatment; and will also send some of this home trea'ment free for trial with references from your own locality If requested. Immediate relief and I permanent cure assured. Send no I raoniy, but tell others of this offer Write to-day to Mrs. M. Summers. Box P. Notra Dame. Ind. FLORIDA "BY SEA" Baltimore to j JACKSONVILLE (Calling at Savannah) Delightful Soil Flue Stenmem. l,on Fares. Beat Service. Plan Your Trip to Include "Finest Coastwise Trips in tlic World" Illustrated Booklet on Krqurat. MERCHANTS A. JIINEKS TRANS, CO W. I'. TUHNKH, U. P. A. Hallo.. Ud. Tour saving of garage rent will i quickly pay for a Butler Ail-Steel Gar age, 10x14 ft., $71.00 f. o. b. factory; larger slaes; fireproof, large doors, win dow ventilators, tool shelf; write for descriptive booklet. C. Frank Class, Union Trust Bids. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 23, 1916. I Flowers Delivered Anywhere For Christmas Si I OPEN TO-MORROW AND CHRISTMAS UNTIL NOON | ® n Harrisburg and Suburbs & ( , : Direct by Our J ' Automobile $ i Anywhere in U. S. and I Canada by Telegraph, Mail % i\ ° r s^ance I / Direct, Quick Service— I | SCHMIDT, MARKET ST. | campaign is to be staged this evening. Through the kindness of C. Floyd Hopkins, the theatrical manager, a big group of the singers, dancers, violin ists and funny folks of the "When Dreams Come True" company, which is booked as the holiday attraction at the Orpheum. will conduct an informal cabaret on the streets from a big truck stage. And 'tween acts the actor- ■ folk will go about in the crowds—sell- I ing Red Cross Christmas seals. CHARITY" MOVES 'MID CITY POOR [Continucii From First Page] ' the Christmas season prevails and ao-j cording to John Yates, secretary of I the Associated Aid Societies, this Yule tide will probably set a new record for Christmas giving. Five families have asked just re cently for children for over the holi days. Others are offering to aid as i much as possible in providing real Christmas cheer for those who are in need. Baskets of food, toys and clothing for children, candy, oranges, vaudeville entertainments and many other appropriate celebrations are being planned and will be held in the next few days for hundreds of boys and girls. Tech Roys Entertain In fact, the first entertainment of' ; the season was held yesterday morn- j ing in the Technical High School j Auditorium, wl.en the 550 boys in that school were hosts to the merry j boys and girls from the open-air schools. Candy and toys were dis tributed and a program of music and recitations was presented. This is an annual custom at the Walnut street! school. Yesterday afternoon 200 inmates of the Dauphin county almshouse re ceived a visit from Santa Claus. Mrs. A. Carson Stamm was in charge of the program. Afterward presents which were piled around the big tree, were distributed. One of the features of the program was a vaudeville en tertainment by all the participants in the acts at the Majestic. A Christmas dinner was served. Fraternal Groups Busy Members of Harrisburg Lodge, No. 12, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, have also arranged for a big Christmas celebration. To-morrow afternoon the Christmas committee will distribute 150 baskets to as many different families. Each basket will contain one dressed chicken, flour, cornmeal, potatoes, canned vegetables and other provisions. The other part of the Elks' cele bration is a Christmas entertainment on Monday afternoon between 1:30 and 5 o'clock, to be held at the home in North Second street. One of the large rooms has been decorated for the occasion and at one end is a ■ Christmas tree, full of pretty balls, tinsel and small electric bulbs. Ar rangements have been made to enter tain at least 300 poor children and part of the program includes a vaudeville show. Other numbers include sing ing and dancing. At the close of the celebration each child will be. given a box of candy, an orange, a toy and a small cake. Owls Distribute Baskets Twenty-six baskets of food, one cash donation of five dollars, one cash donation of two dollars and fifty cents and two pairs of children's shoes were distributed to-day by the local Nest of the Order of Owls to needy families as a Christmas gift. A total of eighty-two dollars and fifty cents to provide this Christmas Cheer was raised by voluntary offer ings taken in the last three meetings by the Owl's newly organized local lodge. The committee met last eve ning, and assisted by John Yates, secretary of the Associated Aid So cieties selected their list from nearly tifty applicants. Each basket supplied contains 5 pounds flour, tomatoes and corn, 1 pound coffee, 1 pound rice, one-half peck potatoes, 2 loaves bread, one half dozen oranges, 1 can syrup, 1 bag meal, 1 roast of beef, 1 cabbage, 2 pounds sugar and 1 pound beans. The celebration of the Knights of Columbus will be held to-morrow aft ernoon la Cathedral llall, the program opening at 2:15 o'clock. Children of the various schools will sing the choruses under the direction of the. Sisters of Mercy. The boys and girls of each of the parochial schools will attend in 3 body. The large hall has been decorated and a real live Santa Claus will give each child a present. Treat For Youngsters Another treat is in store for poor children on Tuesday evening when members of Harrisburg Aerie, No. 122 Fraternal Order of Kaglcs and the ladies' Auxiliary will give an enter tainment at the home, Sixth and Cumberland streets. A surprise is in store for all who attend, and applica tion may be made by children to the following for admission tickets: Hay mond Beitman, 434 South Fourteenth street; Samuel Dunlap, 641 Verbeke Btreot; L. M. Ammerman, 620 Muench street; J. h, Redman, 1215 Swatara street, and 1... H. Gardner, 404 Verbeke street. The social committee of the order l.as also arranged for a dance to be held on January 10; the second! of the series being held this season. ] Sunshine For 200 Another organization doing big! things this year is the Roberta Dis-1 brow Lloyd Sunshine Society which | has prepared many useful gifts for poor and needy crippled children. Al-! most 200 packages have been wrap-1 peed, including warm clothing and! toys. For elderly ladies and invalids a blooming plant will be sent with each little Christmas basket. The "newsies" of the city are on the job, too. They are arranging to entertain 100 boys at the Newsboys' Association headquarters, 304 North Second' street. j During the last three days the Tele- j graph furnished 100 small Christmas trees with trimmings to as many j families. , Rotarian Joy The New Year's dinner of the Ro tary Club to 200 boys and girls will! probably close the season of special j entertainments. The charitable work will be continued in destitute families under the supervision of the Asso ciated Aid Societies, and plans are be ing made for more extensive work along these lines during 1917. The Rotary Club dinner will be given in Chestnut Street Hall, and members of special committees of that organization are planning tot make it a banner day in the New Year. Never before in the history of Har risburg have so many Yuletide cele brations been planned. Even in the hospitals and orphanages Christmas trees are being decorated and ap propriate entertainments will be held. Chicago Woman Doctor Discovers a Third Sex Chicago, 111., Dec. 15. The "third sex" according to Dr. Bertha Van] Hoosen, of Chicago, has been evolved! from the feminine half of the race. "I have believed for some time that a third sex is being slowly evolved out of the old human material," Dr. Van Hoosen says. "A great many girls are discover ing early in life that their natures are not at. all domestic and that they j have no spark of the normal desire Ito marry and rear children. The bal j ance of power, which in their sisters . goes into the sex life, in these girts I seems to have been added instead to j their mental make-up. "It is up to such a girl to make a deliberate choice of careers. The new third sex is going to be an off-shoot from the main body of womankind. There are probably more examples of this sex evolving in New England than in other parts of America, but they are scattered all over Europe and the rest of the world, too. "The new individual who will bo of a neuter gender, will ha*'e more time to cultivate her—or its—brain than will the woman who gives up part of her time to child-hearing. In the sec ond place, she will be less emotional. Romance and sex affection will not influence her." Christmas Demands For Booze in "Dry" States Swamps Express Companies Baltimore, Md., Dec. 23. The Christmas demand for liquors of var ious kinds for the "dry" States of Vir ginia, West Virginia and the Caro linas, has swamped the express com panies from this city which serve these sections. Two of the companies im posed an embargo on liquor shipments at noon yesterday until 9 a. m. to-day with the view to relieving the conges tion. The express company officials say that for the past week they have been receiving and handling an average of 35,000 to 40,000 packages of liquor a day. The packages vary in size from a quart to several gallons. FIREMAN KILIjKD Lewistown, Pa., Dec. 23. While responding to an alarm of tire yes terday afternoon, the Henderson Fire truck skidded on the Ice at the corner of Third and Valley streets and ran against a telegraph pole. One man was killed and two others injured. Schuyler Brought was driving the truck which carried a number of lire men. George Wentz who was rldtng on the truck was caught between the pole and the truck and one of the ladders on the truck fell on him. He was instantly killed. FIND BODY OK DEAD INFANT NEAH SEWER Information last night was given Coroner Kcklnger that led him to in vestigate the front cellar of 1007 Wal lace street, where he discovered the body of a dead infant hidden between the walls, near the sewer. Neighbors reported the case and when the body was discovered its appearance indi cated that It had lain there undiscover ed for several months. The house Is at present occupied by IJOUIS Frank, but a search is being made for a huckster who lived there prior to Frank. Raise Notice Christmas Present to Prudential Insurance Co. Employes The Prudential Insurance Company of America has made Christmas cheerier for its Home Office employes and industrial field men by an an nouncement of additional salary pay ments to be made early in January. ! About $300,000 will be disbursed in this manner. None of the officers of the company, or managers, will share in the distribution. The plan in brief is as follows: One 1 extra week's salary is to be paid to all home otfice employes who entered - the company's employ prior to Oc tober 1, last, and who are receiving , $5 a week or under, and $25 is to be . paid to all other clerks receiving be i Iween $25 and S4O a week. In the I field, industrial agents are to be paid $lO each and an additional sum based on the increased business writ ten by thein during the last quarter of 1916. Agency organizers and as sistant superintendents are to be paid sls each and a similar addition. Exercises at Lemoyne's Christmas Tree To-night Lemoyne, Pa., Dec. 23. Exercises under Lemoyne's community Christ mas tree will be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock, with a program of sing ing by the schoolchildren of the High School, Seventh and Eighth grades, under the direction of Miss Erma ; Snyder, instructor of music in the local j schools. The ministers of the town | will take part. The tree is situated ; just below Lemoyne Square in Huni j inel avenue, and Is decorated with 300 ! varicolored bulbs. The celebration is I in charge of the newly-organized Le- I moyne Municipal League. I / A Merry Christmas and | Happy New Year to you all is the wish of Chas. M. Stieff and employes 24 North Second Street TUST a sprig of mis <Jl\\ tletoe to convey to (J all our friends the sea- IWUVC son's greetings. May jlf iSW iwli your Christmas day /"j be most enjoyable and the New Year the hap- piest ever. Jacob Sons "i"n°d JcTr™ -t * 420 MARKET ST. Death of German Prince Complicates Coleman Case Lebanon, Pa., Dec. 23.—The death at Berlin of Prince Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, father of Dr. Guido Ilinkel, contestant irf the Coleman will case in the Lebanon county courts, may further complicate matters in that suit. Dr. Guido Hinkel, of Freeburg, Ger many, had already taken steps in the court here to have his father's deposi tions taken to establish his identity as the natural son of the late Mrs. Rosalie Parent Coleman, of Paris. Dr. Hinkel Is seeking to break the will of Mrs. Coleman, who, after ori ginally naming him as her universal legatee, disowned him by codicil, declar ing liiin to be dead to her on account of serving as a surgeon in the Kaiser's army. Mrs. Coleman had an interest in the Cornwall iron ore mines which she, in disinheriting Dr. Hinkel. bequeath ed to J. Coleman Drayton, Ronald George de Router and Camllle Besson. T'-Coleman estate is estimated at * w" 1 1 I ■ M l mil, I HEADQUARTERS fOH SHIRTS SIDES & SIDES