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2 MUGE FIGHT ON MEN WHO HELP SALOONS W. C. T. U. Plans to Publish the Names of AO Who Sign Liquor License Applications Five members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Dauphin county, will visit the Courthouse next week to obtain from the records the names of men who sigu liquor license applications.

Acordlns to one of the plans for the no-llcense campaign in this county, these names are to be published and spread broadcast in the nieetintf of the executive committee. yesterday afternoon, at the home of Mrs. Walter Fisliel. Jonestown Koad. the central committee was empowered to act with the Ministerial Association, the Anti-Saloon I-eague and other temperance agencies in a campaign to drive liquor from the countv.

On this committee of flvc are: Mrs. M. M. Stees. Mrs.

S. O. Goho, Mrs Harriet Kennedy. Mrs. C.

M. Spahr and Mrs. S. A. Fishburn.

Tills committee is to have charge of the publication of names of those opposed to the "Dry movement. At the meeting yesterday final plans for the tlav of prayer for the nationwide prohibition movement to be held in Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, on January 15. were made. Mrs. A.

E. Flowers was elected head of the franchise department. An invitation to attend a temperance mass meeting in t'urtin Heights Church, on January -1, was accepted. News Items From Points in Central Pennsylvania evening woman's Relief Corps, No. 2G, met in the O.

A. R. rooms in the Wayne Build- I ing, and elected officers for the year. Alt the old officers were re-elected. Mrs.

Charles T. Davis, president of the cltib, begins her twenty-second year in that capacity. Elizabeth. The Elizahethtown council organized yesterday by electing H. L.

Horst. president: J. W. Riswer, clerk, and the Elizabethtown National Bank as treasurer. The other members of the body are Philip Singer, A.

li. Gish. 11. H. Brandt, George Shtssler, S.

P. Kngle. the new burgess succeeds Frank Bissinger. Marietta. engagement of Miss Katherine McDevitt, of Lancaster, and Herbert H.

KaufTman has been an- nounced. The wedding will occur in the near future. Mr. Kauffman is as- distant supervisor of the Baltimore dl- ision of the Northern Central Rail- way. Waslilnsrtoiiboro.

Katharine S. Domvach, of this place, was mar- ried yesterday to Joseph E. Heagv. of Hanover, by the Rev. Abram B.

Herr. of New Danville, at the parsonage of the church. Waynesboro. B. Huff, of Blue Mountain, and Miss Mary A.

Brenner, of Smithshurg. were united in marriage on Thursday evening by the Rev. Austin A. Kelly, pastor of the Lutheran Church, this place. Kline, of Shamokin, and Miss Helen Hoy.

of were married here on Thursday night. Laura Benfer and Charles Fries, of Middle Creek township, Snyder county, were married in the parlors of the Central Hotel, here on Thursday night. Neiswenter and Miss Ellera Kerstetter. both of Danville, came here Thursday afternoon and were married by the Rev. M.

H. Wert. Second Fire in Same Building in Two Days Columbia, Jan. second in the same dwellinghouse within forty-eight hours caused considerable excitement in this place late last night. On Tuesday evening tire broke out In the cellar of the residence of Abram K.

Shultz, at 124 North Fifth street. Frames issued from the woodpile and after an hour's work the lire department extinguished them. The household goods were ruined and the house was locked up pending an adjustment of the loss by insurance men. Late last night Mrs. Ephraim Morton.

who with her husband and two lives with her father, Cyrus Mathirt. next door, in the same building. hearing someone In the street shouting "Fire!" went to. the. front door to find out where it was.

She was shocked by the news that it was her own dwelling that was on lire and she quickly ran to an upstairs room vflrcre her father was In bed asleep awakened him. She then grasped sT one of her children, asleep in a crib, and ran to a window, from which she was assisted to the street by the firemen. Her also got out safely. Tho fire depurement worked nearly two hours before they were able to extinguish the blaze. It is supposed that it originated In smouldering sparks in the first tire.

There was no Insurance on the contents and the t'amf llv loses much of their possessions. I ASKS FOR INVESTIGATION Washington. Jan. Faison, of North Carolina, In a statement Hied with the House Committee on Agriculture has asked for an investigation test and studies of electrical processes of getting nitrogen from the air at a high temperature. That Wonderful Event 1 V-.

THERE IS a time above all times when a yy 1 woman should be in perfect physical condition It is the time previous to "he coming oi her babe. (f During this period many women suffer from headache, sleeplessness, pains of various description, poor appetite, i justice to the new life about to be ushered into this world. I PT. PIERCE FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION Is a scientific medicine carefully compounded by an experienced and skillful fj. physician, and adapted to the needs and requirements of woman delicate system.

It has been recommended for over forty years as a remedy for those peculiar ailments which make their appearance during the expectant" period. Motherhood Is made easier by its use. Thousands of women have been benefited by this great medkine. Your druggist can supply you In liquid or tablet form, or you can send 50 one-cent stamps for a trial box of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescriotior.

Tablets, to Dr. Pierce, at Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo. I It is your priviledge to write to Dr. Pierce for advice, and it will be gladly given free of charge. Of course all communications are confidential.

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1. R. Commander Lantz, of Central Pennsylvania Association, Outlines Plans of Veterans Special to The Telegraph Jan. 10. With a purpose of discussing ways and means of perpetuating 'the Grand Army of the Republic in the fact of increasing depletion of the ranks by death, rallies of the Civil war veterans in all tho counties of the Central Pennsylvania district will be held during the coming summer.

Arrangements to this effect were announced to-day by ex- State Senator Cyrus R. Lantz, of Lebanon. commander of the Central Pennsvlvania Association of the G. A. consisting of Berks, Dauphin.

Chester. Lancaster. York and Lebanon counties. It la proposed to hold rallies in the county seat of each of the counties in question, the district being composed of fifty-four posts, with an aggregate membership of 2,400 members. It is expected that after the rallies are held In each county a united effort of some kind will be agreed upon to effect the purpose in The annual report of Commander Lantz which has just been issued shows the following membership In the Grand Army of the Republic in each of the counties of the Central Pennsylvania Association.

Berks, Lancaster, 486; Dauphin, 471; Chester, 595; York, 530; Lebanon, 155. Recent Deaths in Central Pennsylvania Special to The Telegraph Grantville. William Hetrick, nee Look, of Shellsvllle, died on Thursday evening after an illness of a week of pneumonia. Mrs. Hetrick was a woman of an admirable disposition and her death is mourned by a host of friends.

Her absence will be most deeply felt in her family, nelghborlioor and also In Shell's Church, where she was an active member of the Lutheran congregation. Besides her husband she is survived by one daughter, Bertha, residing at home, several brothers and sisters. The funeral will take place on Tuesday afternoon with services in Shell's Church. The Rev. Mr.

Blttner and the Rev. Mr. Relter will officiate. Silver L. Miller, the oldest resident of this section, died from an attack of grip.

He was 83 vears old and all his life was lived in I this section. One son survtves. Columbia. C. Forrev.

75 years i old. a well-known retired farmer, died at his home here. He was a prominent member of Salome United Brethren (Church and a director of the Columbia I Trust Company and the Columbia Wagon Company. T. Cook.

95 years I old, one of the oldest residents of York I county, died yesterday at the home of his son. Two sons and one daughter survive. Lewistown Fire Warden Orders Shacks Torn Down By Special Correspondence Lewistown. Jan. 10.

Robert I Hoffman, of Harrisburg. has returned I home after a visit to friends Miss Mildred Wcntz, a student in music in Philadelphia, has returned to take up her studies after a visit to her Howe, one of the best known young business men of the town. Is 111 with kidney trouble. old unoccupied shacks in the town arc to be torn down by order of the tire wives of railroaders here are much put out at the new rule doing away with Gottschalk. the Burnham inventor, has invented a new bake Carolus has taken a large contract of getting out tie pin and handle wood in the Isabella Klnsloe burned about the body some time ago while playing with fire with a brother, has almost Bertha Hoffman will leave to-morrow for a trip to New York Hoffmun has returned home from a trip to McCoy, of this place, 36 years old, claims to be the youngest grandfather in the State.

Ellsworth Claspby is recovering from a very sore linger poisoned by a cat Thomas, of Burnham, has taken a position in Honolulu. Test Measures of the Ice Cream and the Peanut Vendor Whether or not both the peanut and the ice cream man have been slipping one across on innocent patrons through the medium of short measure is to be the subject of an investigation in the near future by Harry D. Reel, city sealer of weights and ures. Mr. Reel and County Inspector of Weights and Measures Harry A.

Boyer will go to Sunbury next week to attend the convention of sealers of the State on uniformity of systems; the ice cream box and peanut measure inquiry will be started upon his return, I he says. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I NEXT SUNDAY'S 1 PUBLIC LEDGER I I Are you keeping a complete set of the superb I Supplements of the Sunday PUBLIC LEDGER The I fifth instalment next Sunday more to complete my I the series. Exquisite reproductions in full color of Violet Oakley's Paintings i famous William Penn pictures in the Pennsylvania Steite Capitol at Harrisburg. THE COPPERPLATE PICTORIAL Sixteen pages of half-tones on coated paper, reproducing select photographs of a variety of tArrl interesting subjects germane to the week's news. And a wealth of timely and informative articles; departments vvty) covering various fields of interest, and all that goes to make up a great Sunday newspaper of more than ordinary scope and value.

PUBLIC LEDGER I DAILY TWO CENTS SUNDAY FIVE CENTS First Thing in the Morning Since 1836 Agent for Harrisburg, Pa. HARRISBURG NEWS AGENCY 102 S. Second St. Bell Phone 1667 W. United Phone 781 INVI Two Well-known Lawyers of Allegheny Courts Die Special to The Telegraph Pittsburgh, Jan.

10. Scott Ferguson and John Marron, two of the best known criminal lawyers in Western Pennsylvania, died yesterday within two hours of each other. Mr. Ferguson, who died of acute indigestion, was 72 years old. Mr.

Marron, who died of pneumonia, was 59. Either Mr. Ferguson or Mr. Marron, or both, have been in the thick of the light in almost every big criminal case tried in the Allegheny courts in the i last twenty years. Both were deter- I mined, resourceful and effective legal champions.

Each leaves behind a record of brilliantly won court battles and the reputation of an indomitable fighter. Both participated in the trials of the socalled "Allegheny graft cases." and both represented Augustus Hartje, I in his divorce suit. Ferguson was born in Pittsburgh, January 24, 1842. He received his early education in the Pittsburgh schools. He entered the office of Hus: sey, Wells a large steel manufacturing concern, and while with that I company studied law.

Attorney Marron had practiced law since 1875. Increase in Wages For Firemen and Policemen i Boston, Jan Fitzgerald, last night announced an vance in wages for flrement and pollicemen, affecting 2,600 men. It was the second increase granted by the mayor within two years and was due "he said, to the greater cost of living and to the fact that although wages of carpenters, bricklayers agid painters have been almost doubled within 25 years, the policemen and firemen, notwithstanding the danger and difficulty of their work, have received Increases of only i 6.7 per cent, within the pe! riod: The new schedule which be- conies effective Jan. 16 will add from to S2OO to the yearly pay of each man. Friedmann Patient Dies in Pittsburgh Special to The Telegraph Pittsburgh, Jan.

10. Mrs. Mary Clara Heid, wifa of Mr. Austin Heid, who went to Germany almost one year ago to obtain cultures of the then famous'turtle seruin of Dr. K.

F. Fried- i mann, the German scientist, died yes-! terday. Mr. Heid brought enough of' the seruin to Pittsburgh to treat forty persons. The first trial was made upon his wife.

Mrs. Heid underwent the regular! course of treatment for four weeks, i and Dr. Heid said there had been no improvement in her condition. When Dr. Heid first learned of Friedmann's cure he sold his automo-1 bile to obtain funds enough to defray! the expenses of travel, in the hope! that ho could induce Dr.

Friedmann to give to him some of the serum. was one year ago yesterday that he left Pittsburgh for Germany. He returned I February 5, 1913. Dr. Heid was asked if the serum had done his wife good, and he answered: "If it had she woukl not be dead." WANTS "FORTUNES" TAXED By dissociated Press Washington, Jan.

10. the District of Columbia as a 1 paradise for tax dodgers," Represen-1 tative Borland, of Missouri, to-day an- 1 nounced that he would introduce a bill when Congress reassembled calling for a revision of the taxation laws whereby "the fortunes brought here from'other States to escape taxation i will be taxable." TO PRESIDENT Special to The Telegraph i Pass Christian. Jan. front of a typical Southern house the cheerist and most, enthusi' astic reception that President Wilson i yet has hjdd from his hosts of Dixie Land toOk place yesterday. Although It was distinctively a children's festil va.l, both young and old took part In i It and practically the entire village of fast Christian was present.

Murderer, Pardoned, Refuses to Leave Jail' By Associated Press Baltimore, Jan. 10. by Governor Goldsborough December 21 i last, after serving 15 years, Matthew Jones, a prisoner in the Maryland pen- itentiarv, refuses to leave. Although is given absolute freedom about the institution and permitted to go I out when he chooses, he always comes I back. I He has visited practically every moving picture show In the neighborhood jof the penitentiary.

With his own i over to him when his pardon was granted, he jls free to do what ho chooses. But the outside world seems uninviting. He doesn't know what to do nor where I to go. "I'll be back," he always informs the authorities when he goes out for his daily visits to the "movies." He still serves as a trusty. Jones was convicted of murder in the second degree.

Resumption of Buying Expected This Month I While there has been an increase In purchases of finished steel during the I last, two weeks, values have been sacrificed, and whether current quotations will continue is open to debate. With the Increased cost of production taken into consideration steel prices now are at as Jow a basis as during the price war 1911 and the depression of 1904 and 1908. Manufacturers state that one or two months must elapse before they will bo able to furnish definite opinions on the trend of'the market. Because of the light buying; (luring November and December, the closing of mills and accumulations of orders, 1 It is expected that January will ness a resumption of buying. what's an anomaly? anomaly, sah.

Is a bed of mint in prohibition sylvania Punch Bowl JANUARY 10,1914. FOR DANDRUFF, FALLING ill OR ITCHY SCALP CENT DANDER! I Girls! Girls! Save your hair! Make it grow luxuriant and beautiful If you care for heavy hair, that glistens with beauty and is radiant with lite; has an incomparable softness and is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine. Just one application doubles the beauty of your hair, besides It immediately dissolves every particle of dandruff; you cannot have nice, heavy, healthy hair if you have dandruff. This destructive scurf robs the hair of its lustre. Its strength and its very life.

I Mechanicsburg Business League Elects Officers Special to The Telegraph Mechanicsburg, Jan. 10. On Thursday evening the annual meeting of the Business Men's League was held in the League House. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, E. A.

Burnett; vice-president, It. H. Thomas, recording secretary, F. E. Herr; treasurer, M.

E. Anderson; board of governors, three years, F. E. Wilcox, M. G.

Mohler, Dr. 1 Not satisfied with your hair? Too short? Hem out Rough? Uneven? Then why not consult your doctor? Isn't your hair worth it? Ask him if he endorses fh Ayer's Hair Vigor for these hair troubles. A kit Does not color the hair. L.S.firiuS,' 11 nd if not overcome It produces a feverishness and itching of the scalp; the hair roots famish, loosen and die; then the hair falls out fast. If your hair has been neglected and is thin, faded, dry, scraggy or ton OIIS', get a 25 cent bottle of Krtowlton'a Danderine at any drug store or toilet counter; apply a little as directed and ten minutes after you will say this the best Investment you ever made.

We slnberely believe, regardless of everything else advertised, that if you desire soft, lustrous, beautiful hair lots of dandruff itching scalp and no more fulling huir must use Knowlton's Danderine. If not now? Frank ltitchey; two yearn, M. Siyder, W. M. Kollcr, M.

Dick; one year, It. W. Blddle, G. 11. Lucas and T.

Skartz; bouse committee, F. M. Slyder, M. Koller, M. L.

Dick. BLINDED BY FLASHLIGHT I Waynesboro, Jan. 10. Claud Haugh, electrical contractor, will be confined to a dark room ut his home In North Potomac avenue for about I four days, as the result of his becoming effected Wednesday evening while he was making a flashlight for a photographer..

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