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DR. DIXON ISSUES 100 TH ARTICLE Health Talks Have Been Read by Millions of People in the Last Two Years State sioner of Health has just completed the 100 th of his weekly health and hygiene talks. This nor es talks was li nrawWtiiftew Inaugurated by the lit al. commissioner alniost two years ago as a means of MVlH lakltaaMri warning people to take care of themselves and to suggest that there were many ways to which little attention is given whereby people may build up or wreck their health as the case may be. They have been widely printed throughout the State, being a weekly feature literally read by millions and much commented upon outside of the State.

Tho talks have all been marked by a straightforward style and an abundance of commonsense. which has made them understandable by everyone. Dr. Dixon was congratulated to-day upon the cycle of talks, which form part of State activity which has been having an excellent effect. Crges Feeding of Gaiftr.

Dr. Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commission, has urged sportsmen in a letter to feed the game during the winter. Dr. Kalbfus calls attention to the work being done to preserve game and says that people should help the State. No Trouble Over Acts.

According to officials at the State Compensation headquarters the number of employers refusing to accept the compensation act is trifling. All of the big employers have come under it. Figures complied indicate that 1,700,000 employes will bo affected. It is also estimated that 35,000 children will come under the child labor schools. Over 120,000 will be affected.

I'ardon January meeting of the State Board of Pardons will be held on January 19. Over a dozen held-over cases are to come up then. Plans For Armory. Tlio plans for the new State Armory at West Chester will be ordered at the meeting: of the State Armory Board early next month. Institutes Xcxt Week.

Farmers' institutes will be resumed next week in five counties of the State. They will run until the middle of March. All Records Go. AH records for issuance of licenses were broken (his year. Almost 2860 licenses were The new year will probably go it better.

Public Service Meets. The Public Service Commission resumed sessions this afternoon on applications for approval of contracts and charters. Three applications from Berks and l.ehigh counties for electric companies were received. Heady For Changes. The State Highway department officials are all ready for the changes in the engineering and field forces which will become effective on Saturday.

The new men liave arranged to take up new work at once. Visiting Home. G. Hopwood, rhlef clerk of the Public Service Commission, is visiting his home in Favette county. Capitol Charles A.

Snyder, of Pottsville, and Alexander Simpson. of Philadelphia, were at Die Capitol to-dav Mr. Palmer Remembered. H. Palmer, of the Public Service Commission, was yesterday presented with a handsome mahogany easy chair as a sift by Ills Sunday school class In the Market Street Baptist I'huroh.

Mr. Palmer is one of the most active workers In the church. Mr. Brown to Return. Attorney General Brown, who has been engaged in court trials In Philadelphia courts for the last month, is expected here to-morrow.

Visiting Home Town. James C. Deininger. acting: private secretary to the Governor. is spending a few days in his borough of Sonestown at the foot of the big mountain.

To Attend Convention. Dr. J. George Becht, secretary of the State Hoard of Education, and other State school authorities will go to Scranton 10 attend the meeting of the State Educational Association. Hearing at Somerset.

F. Downs, of the Public Service Commission, will hold a hearing at Somerset on Wednesday in the Black-Garret electric case. Rilling will sit at Pittsburgh ir: the Ohio Valley water case. Wants Right to interest ingr hearing before the Public Service Commission to-day was the application of S. H.

Musselman for the right to furnish power in Franklin township, Adams county. Sue State Official. proceedings were brought to-day by the ommissioners of Northampton county against Highway Commissioner Cunningham With a view to compelling him to construct and maintain as a State road the highway from Nazareth to Bethiehem by way of Nawburg and Decktown. It Is declared that the road became a State highway or. June 1 last through operation of the act of 1913, but that the commissioner has not done anything, although a3ked to do so.

The Attorney General's department will tile an answer on behalf of the commissioner. Objections Public Service Commission to-day heard objections to the ordinances cf the borough of Frackville granting permission to the Schuylkill Hallways and Schuylkill County Electric Company rights to use its highways. Would Develop Processes For Taking Nitrates From Air by Electricity For U. S- Py Associated Press Washington. D.

Dec. 27. To free the United States army from its dependence for nitrates for the manufacture of explosives. Brigadier General Crozler, chief of the ordinance department In his annual report to-day says the government, if necessary, should develop the electrical processes of taking nitrogen from the air. The country now is dependent for nitrates upon the Chilean fields, which might be cut off in time of war.

and a store of sodium nitrates piled up sudden emergency would not last any considerable time. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears Signature of MOM DAY EVENING, HAKRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 27, 1915. BRITISH REPULSE TURKS WITH LOSS From First piiprr correspondent, 11. Gournarls declared the policy of Greece was unchungvd and that she did not wish 1o ho dragged Into the war but he could not commit himself as to what Greece mtght do should Bulgarian troops enter Greek territory. Teutons to Advance Conflicting reports continue to reach I I.ondon from the scene of the Near i East campaign.

Statements from some sources make It appear the tonic allies are preparing steadily for ian offensive movement, in conjunci tlon with the Bulgarians and Turks. Other advices, however, are that the Bulgarians fear to attack less they lie caught between two iires in the strip of territory from the Salonlkl-Dolran to the Salonlki Glevgoll railroads. The central powers are still nego! Mating with Greece. An interview with Premier Skoulodous forecasts failure I of the efforts to prevent an invasion of I Grecian Macedonia. It is estimated i that If an Invasion Is undertaken the Athens government will devote Its efj forts toward obtaining guarantees of the evacuation of Greek territory lm.

mediately following the oompletlon of military operations. Along the western front. Paris reports successful artillery actions by I the French In the Champagne and Yosges. Berlin says operations are restricted by incessant rain. Persians Driven Back Petrograd reports a victory for the Russians In Persia against a wellj armed force that included several thousand Persian insurgent gedarmes.

I The Insurgent army tied after It had I suffered heavy losses it is declared. On the Higa-Dvlnsk front in Russia Germans have resumed their activity according to Petrograd. but without any gain of ground being recorded. Gas was employed In some iof the German attacks, the Russian report states. Berlin declares that nothing worth reporting has occur! red on the eastern front.

I On the front in France neither Ber- I lln nor Paris reports operations of note, the activity being confined to artillery play and mine explostons. Kaiser's Condition Is Rumored Alarming Special to the Telegraph London, Dec. 2. Alarming rumors prubably of an exaggerated nature, are being circulated in Switzerland concerning Emperor William's illness, according to the Zurich correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company. Tho rumors state, says the corre- I spondent, that the Emperor's condition I Is causing profound anxiety In Berlin.

RUSSIANS IX DIRE WANT By Associated Press Berlin. Dec. 27 (By wireless to Say- ville). from the Caucasus, received here from Constantinople, i state that the Russian army is demur- i alized as a result of cold, hunger, cholera, typhoid and poor equipment, says the Overseas News Agency. Poles In the Russian army whose homes ure in districts occupied by the Germans are deserting or begging i that they be sent home.

Germans Refuse to Allow Shells to Spoil Christmas With The German Army in Dec. 24, via Lille and Berlin to Lon-! don, Dec. is no respecter of customs. Therefore there was no cessation of activity along the line In Northern France on Christmas eveif possible the Frenoh artillery Are more nearly approached the elebrated "drum fire" of the lato September offensive than at any time since then. Christmas to the average German, however, is the most important day of the year and the Bavarians in Northern France refused to allow the French artillery to spoil their celebration.

All along the line from the most advanced trenches to the communication points in the rear Christmas trees blazed almost as if opposition to the liare of exploding shells. Declares It Is Impossible to Oust Allies From Greece Athens, Dec. our batteries of heavy artillery and men behind them, it is Impossible to oust the allied forces from said General Castelnau, chief of the French staff in a statement to-day to the Associated Press. General Castelnau gave the interview after being received this morning by King Constantine and attending a luncheon at the French legation. "The situation at Saloniki to-day Is most excellent," the general continued.

"I may say also that position provides the most favorable conditions for offensive as well as defensive operations." Lloyd-George Makes Fervent Appeal to Labor I.ondon, Dec. 27. David Lloyd- George, Minister of Munitions, addressing a meeting of 3000 union officials and workshop stewards at Glasgow yesterday, made one of the most i eloquent appeals of his career. "What we are experiencing Is not i a passing shower," he said, "it is the deluge; it is a convulsion of nature; it is a cyclone which is tearing up by its roots the ornamental plants or modern society and wrecking some of the llimsy trestle bridges or modern civilization. It is an earth-j quake which is upheaving the very locks of European life; it Is one of I those seismic disturbances in which nations leap forward or fall back-; ward generations in a single bound, "All this chattering relaxing a ruin and suspending a custom Is out of place.

You cannot haggle I with an earthquake, and I beg the skilled workmen of this country, in whose keeping are the doctrines of labor, to lift up their eyes above the mists of distrust and suspicion and ascend to the height of the greatest opportunity that ever opened before their ciass, and by so doing, reemerge after this war that future hops which the great leaders of democracy of all ages have pictured in their dreams." SALE OPENED TOITAY Wltmer, Bair Witmer's Seml- Annual Pre-Inventory Sale opened today, and will continue Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. See advertisement page 4. 202 Walnut St. MEMORIAL SERVICES Mechanicsburg, Dec. 27.

Thursday evening memorial services were held by the Col. H. I. Zinn Post No. 415 in honor of the following comrades who died during the past year, Daniel Glace, Alfred S.

Martin, Adam J. Mountz, William H. Rice, Fred E. Myers, John C. Nesbitt, Ira D.

Coover, Jacob Zimmerman, Daniel Emerick, and Israel J. Weaver. Commander H. S. Mohler had charge of the service.

ROYAL'S MONDAY COURT Mayor John K. Royal this afternoon held his last Monday police court. Tit had a big: list to look over. Most of them were Christmas and Sunday drunks. Five panhandlers wero in the lineup.

In all a total of twenty-two prisoners were registered on the police docket. -mn OQiDOLerown a efr U.t^yAkron'Qe^At>.enftAUTl GERMAN SINGERS TO GIVE CONCERT Include Folk Songs and Carols in Program; Celebration to Close Friday I German residents of Steelton have almost completed plans for the program to be Riven Wednesday evening at the Community Christmas Tree celebration on the High school campus. German singers in a large chorus will give carols and folk songs which will be the feature of the evening. The opening of the celebration on Friday night was the biggest Christmas event held in the borough in many years. New Tear's eve.

the same choruses of hundreds of school children, will again take part In the program. Christmas was widely observed in the churches also, entertainments and musical programs including cantatas featuring the observance. Announce Program For 43rd Anniversary at Centenary U. B. Church Plans for the forty-third anniversary celebration in the Centenary United Brethren Church and for the I reopening and dedication of the new extension to the main building have been completed by the committee In charge.

The program for the celebration which will continue eight days, beginning next Sundays, follows In part: in morning. In charge of the Rev. Dr. D. D.

Lowery, superintendent of the East Pennsylvania Conference; address In the evening by Dr. Lowery. address by the Rev. Dr. J.

A. Lyter, of Derry Street Harrisburg, on "The Christian Church." School night; address by W. D. Reel, superintendent Pennsylvania Sunday School Association. night; address by the Rev.

George M. Richter, Coatesville, on "Missionary Problems and Prcsep' Opportunities." Cnattvor night; address by H. B. Macrory, of Pittsburgh. secretary of Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor Union.

Men's night; address by the Rev. F. Berry Plummer. of Carlisle. Fellowship night, with addresses by local pastors.

Sunday. January and praise service at 9 o'clock, conducted by H. J. Sanders; sermon at 10 o'clock bv the Rev. 1.

E. Hunk, of Scottdale; annual Sunday School rally at 2 o'clock annual C. E. rally at sermon at 7:30 by the Rev. Mr.

Runk. Christmas Presents Ruined in South 2nd St. Fire Fire shortly after 4 o'clock this morning In the home of Welty McCullough. 271 South Second street, caused more than S4OO damage to the house and furniture before it was extinguished by firemen. The blaze started, it is believed, on the first floor, from an overheated stove which set fire to the curtains in the middle room.

The flame were discovered by men on their way home from work. An alarm was sent in at Rox 22, Front and Swatara streets. Mr. McCullough and a relative who is visiting at the home over the Christmas holidays, were sleeping on the second floor, but were aroused by neighbors. Mrs.

McCullough was away on a visit. Much of the damage was done bv the heat and water, and a number of Christmas presents in the parlor were either hadly scorched or ruined. The property is owned by E. C. Henderson.

Yesterday morning the companies responded to an alarm from Box 51? Harrisburg and Lincoln streets, and" exinguished a small blaze in the chicken coop of Addison Goodfellow of 128 Lincoln street. The tire was caused by an overturned lamp. Little damage was done. Deaths and Funerals CHARLES A. BONGFHT After an illness of several months, Charles A.

Bongert, aged 58 years, died at the Hamburg sanatorium yesterday. He is survived by his mother, two sisters. Mrs. W. K.

Byrem, and Mrs. W. R. Zinn, and a brother, Milton P. Bongart, all of this city.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock from his residence, 1418 Derry street. LEVI WALTERS Levi Walters, aged 77 a retired groceryman, died Christmas morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Kobler, 602 Boas street. The survivors including the following children: Mrs. John Kobler.

Mrs. J. B. Maxwell. Harry Walters; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren, and two brothers and two sisters The funeral will take place Tuesday afternoon.

Services will be conducted by the Rev. E. A. Pyles, D. pastor of Fifth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, assisted by the Rev.

W. W. Hartman, pastor of Ridge Avenue M. E. Church Burial will be made In Harrisburg ceemtery.

For 45 years Mr. Walters conducted a grocery' store at Sixth and Hamilton streets. He was a charter member of the Fifth Street M. E. Church.

MICHAEL H. SMITH The funeral of Michael H. Smith, 1222 North Front street, will take place to-morrow afternoon. Services will be conducted at the home, by the Rev. J.

Bradley Markward, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Burial will be made in East Harrisburg cemetery. Mr. Smith was a retired passenger conductor of the Philadelphia division of the Pennsylvania railroad, and was 80 years of age. He died Thursday after a short illness.

The survivors are one son. Lewis this city, three daughters, Mrs. Tbeada Bertner, and Mrs. Alice Green. Baltimore, and Mrs.

Sylvia Loffer, Philadelphia. SIRS. MATILDA WITHEROW Mrs. Matilda Witlicrow. aged G9 years, died yesterday at her home, 1C25 North Fourth street.

The survivors are her husband, James two daughters. Miss Mary and Miss Sallle Douglass Fairbanks at the Colonial MIDDLETOWN HAS BIG CELEBRATION Hundreds at Christmas Tree Events; Music and Entertainments in Many Churches Christmas at Middletown this year was more widely celebrated than ever before In the history of this thriving borough. The Community Christmas Tree celebration Saturday evening, followed by early morning services yesterday and the Christmas entertainments and exercises during the day, brought to a close, a complete observance of the season. Christmas morning services In some of the churches, opened the celebration, and the program at the three In the evening was the big event of the day. Hundreds of people, young and old, crowded around the lighted tree for the short exercises.

Entertainments were given last evening in the Royalton United Brethren Church; the local Church of God. and the First United Brethren Churches. Christmas music was the feature of services in the other churches. To-night the Ladies' Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church, will resent "Christmas at the Pole," a playlet on the discovery of the North Pole. Steelton Snapshots To Give Croatian Sokol will give an entertainment this evening in the hall at Second and Washington streets.

Collect sl4l For congregation of the Centenary United Brethren Church, contributed $141.98 last night for the Qulncy Orphanage, at Quincy. All attendance records were broken by the big crowd present last night. Fmik-Boiighter Wedding. Miss Eva Amelia Funk and Charles Samuel Boughter were married at the parsonage of the Main Street Church of God by the Rev. G.

W. Getz. Mr. Boughter played centerfleld on the Steelton team of the Central Pennsylvania League during the 1915 season. The couple will reside in Steelton.

To Admit members will be admitted with impressive ceremonies this evening at the meeting of Carthage Lodge. Knights of Pythias. League to Meet. The monthlv meeting of the Municipal League will be held this evening. Funeral of J.

A. services for J. A. Brandt. Second and Pine streets, were Held this afternoon, the Rev.

W. C. Sanderson officiating. Burial was made at Middletown. Services For Mrs.

Wolf. services for Mrs. Harry Wolf, of 830 North Front street, were held this afternoon, the Rev. H. W.

Germer officiating. Burial was made at Oberlln. CAUGHT UNDER METAL Charles Boughter, aged 41. an 'n the B. and C.

department of the Pennsylvania Steel Company, whtle at work this morning was caught under a heavy piece of metal, receiving a compound fracture of the left leg above the knee. He was admitted to the Harrisburg Hospital. f-MiUDLETQWfI- I MIDDLETOWN NOTES The executive committee of the Evangelistic campaign will meet this evening in the United Brethren Church. The school board will hold another specialnieetingthis evening to consider plans for the proposed continuation schools. BIRTHDAY PARTY Mr.

and Airs. H. B. Hollinger, of Royalton. entertained recently in honor of the 21st birthday of'their son.

Warren. Those present were: Harry Heiser. Lebanon; Charles Ilouser, Bertha Wolf. Daniel Lyons. Edna Epdegraff, George Wolf, Fannie Boughter.

Eli Metzler, Nora Conrad Joseph Bryan.Ruth Conrad.John Kre-i ser. Mrs. Kathryn Rutherford and daughters. Sadie and Grace Ruth Rutherford. Mr.

and Mrs. H. B. Hollinger, sons Warren, Jacob. Claude daughters, Thelma and Helen.

M. The funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial will be made in East Harrisburg cemetery. MRS. RACHEL ZARKKR The funeral of Mrs.

Rachel Zarker, 126 Evergreen street, took place this morning-. Services were conducted at the home, at 10.30 o'clock by the Rev. J. Bradley Markward. pastor of Bethiehem Lutheran Church.

Burial was made in Harrisburg cemeterv. Mrs. Zarker died suddenly at her home Friday. The survivors are one brother Leighton and one sister, Mrs. A.

D. Radabaugh. THOMAS K.VISELY Funeral services for Thomas Knisely will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clock at the homo ol a sister, Mrs. Lukens, 621 South Front street. The Rev.

R. L. Meisenhelder, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church will officiate. To-morrow morning the body will bo taken to Mexico, Juniata county for burial. Mr.

Knisely was 48 years of age, and is survived by the father, William Knisely, and two sisters. Mrs. Lukens, and Mrs. Maggie Stevens. MISS KDXA E.

RI'DKR Miss Edna Elizabeth Ruder, aged 17 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Ruder, 2126 Greenwood street, died last night after a two weeks' illness with pneumonia. The funeral will be conducted at the home at 2 o'clock by the Rev.

Joseph D. W. Deavor. pastor of Bpworth M. E.

Church. Burial will be made in Prospect Ilill cemetery. Witmer, Bair and Witmer Begin Semi-Annual Sale Witmer, Bair Witmer began today their semiannual preinventory sale of women's apparel at 202 Walnut street. This sale will continue lo; morrow. Wednesday and Thursday of 11 his week.

Through an oversight, postal card (announcements of this event stated that the sale would take place next week, which was an error. The event began to-day and will close Thursday, las will be noted in thelr'advertisement 1 on another page of this paper. After Christm Now What Philadelphia whole week of celebrations until New Year's Eve. It is just to show what a business and a building of this size is capable of. Surely Everybody Knows that there never was since The Centennial Show of 1876 many people ever in any one building day after day as there were with William Penn looking down from City Hall at the throngs coming ia from the city and country.

We Are Making a Special Time of this last week of the old 1915. 1 Expecting our usual inundation of visitors from out of town who have been too busy to come before Christmas. surprise the city people with the entire transformation of the Store into a revelation of new goods. Some people all last week But no rummaging sales were saying, "We wish our here. We do not need them friends coming next week with fresh stocks rightly could see how our Store does priced that sell themselves, things." Here and there in the varl- Very well, come along.

The ous sections of the store some Great Organ and band will play morning, noon and even- henceforth belong to the ing- Emergency Aids. Some of the holiday decor- This morning this fine ations will remain. building is practically. A New Store of New Fashions You can see for yourself. John DECEMBER 27,1915 The Store That Invites You asks you within four walls which The merchandise of the Store is include an entire city block in the so great in volume, so extensive in heart of Philadelphia, covering an variety and so busily changing all area of 480 feet long and 250 feet the time, as to form a permanent wide.

exposition unequaled in any mar- Its height from sub-basement ket in the world, floor to roof is 281 feet, and its For the convenience of visitors floor space for the display and sell- there are numerous rest rooms, ing and movements of merchan- picture galleries, halls of music, a dise, and the convenience of custo- hospital, two great restaurants, mers, is almost forty-five acres. smoking rooms, writing rooms, It is a building of solid stone free checking rooms and informaand steel, absolutely fireproof, t' oo bureau, a corps of guides, and ventilated by a new system that in- a promenade on the roof giving a sures constant changing of air, and ew tb hole of Pniladelphia i drawing its heat, light and power and much of the surrounding counfrom a separate building across tr Thirteenth street in another block. The Store immediately acces- Fifty passenger elevators, lo- rom bot the enns yl va nia cated in double banks, make easy nd the Philadelphia and Reading and convenient passage from floor Terminal stations, each a block and t0 oor a half away; by the principal trol- Six main stairways go from roof ley lines which ass its doors to basement. the bwa y-Surface and Subway- Eight brick-inclosed fire towers, stems which have each with two staircases, lead down Station in the Store and from New to the street from all floors. Strse Fefries three minutes Two great fire walls divide the ride the 9ubwa store in three cross sections, and a Store of great merthe doors of these walls on each chandise, great buying, great floor are so made that they will selling, great hospitalities and close automatically in case of fire.

gjeat welcomes. John Wanamaker Philadelphia 7.