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CALENDAR. TUESDAY. 0. E. 8.

Regular meeting in ball this evening. Kappa llphi Phi Banquet, Hun tlngton hotel. Bente Uses Christmas party, Miss Bessie Gehrinng, west Tipton street "TriKappaa Misses BeryU Llpp man and Isabella Grayston and Mrs. Arthur Sapp, 424 East Franklin street, i Civic Improvement League Mem bora specially' Invited to attend opening reception In Commercial club rooms. WE0NE8DAY Christmas Party Kiss Teresa Martin, 1046 Cherry street.

Coffee Club If rg. D. Tingling, 930 Warren street M. and S. Club Mrs.

Albert Stevens, 1059 Guilford Btreet. I THURSDAY ningt afternoon. Thursday Club Mrs. C. W.

Eckcn berger, 855 Leopold street Phi DnltA Kanna Onmf da T1PA fit Eagles' Hall. FRIDAY. Kappa Alpa Phi Annual Christmas dance at Earles' Hall. GALAXY BALL. BIG 8UCCESS.

Fifty nine couples formed in the grand march, led by Mr. and Mrs. Moses Craig of Cleveland, at the Christmas Galaxy ball given Monday night in the Eagles Hall. The hall was prettily decorated in smilaz, ferns and the Christmas colors, red and green. Quite a number of out of town guests attended the ball.

Prof. Swihart's seven piece orchestra furnished the music. CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY. Mr and Mm. T).

Hnlm Nnrth Lafontalne street were very agreeably surprised Saturday evening by i. i la sincere gratitude we respectfully express our appreciation of the courtesies extended in Nineteen Hundred Eleven by Our Patrons. We hope Nineteen Hun died jTweJye will permit useyeirgreater fulfil your expectations of this establishment. 'Cordially, p. i ci.

i Ui V' the arrival of their son, Frank, who had been absent for nearly two years. He came especially to be present at the dinner given, Christmas day by the father and mother, commemorating their forty fifth wedding anniversary. The venerable couple were remembered with a number of tokens of respect and Christmas greetings and none more handsome or valuable than those "by the boys." Mr. Holm celebrated his seventieth birthday anniversary only a couple of months ago. 9 ENJOY FAMILY REUNION.

A family reunion was held at the J. J. Young home on Etna avenue Christmas day. Guests from" out of the city were Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Wilson and daughter of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Dayson Smith of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. F.

S. Drover of Indianapolis and Mr. and J. W. 'Hay den and daughter.

ENTERTAINS PYXYE8. Mrs. Floyd Savage entertained members of the Pyxye crowd Saturday evening. The affair was a shower for Miss Edith Rockefeller, whose marriage to Mitchell Jones of Marlon will take place January 1. ENTERTAINS CLASSES.

Miss Blanche O'Connor entertain ed the younger children of her music class Saturday afternoon at a Christmas party. Games were features of great amusement and each scholar gave a selection. GIVE DINNER PARTY. Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Goldsmith of Lalontalce street entertained a number of friends at a dinner party Christmas. Mrs. J. M. Baker and family of Roanoke were present.

TRI KAPPAS TO MEET. Hostesses at theyTri Kappa meeting Tuesday evening will be Misses Beryl Liptiman. and" Isabella Grays ton and Mrs. Arthur Sapp of The meeting will be at the home of Mrs. LIppman, 424 East Franklin street GIVE 8TAQ BANQUET.

The members of the Kappa. Alphi Phi fraternity will enjoy a stag banquet this evening at the Huntington hotel. GIVE CHRISTMAS PARTY; Members oJ the Bon te Mae club will be entertained at a Christmas party to be given at the home of Miss Bessie Gehring Tuesday evening. 80CIETY NOTE8. Members of the Jolly Club will be entertained Thursday (afternoon tit the home of Mrs.

George P. Fanning, A Christmas party will be given by Miss Teresa 1046 street, Wednesday afternoon. The Coffee Club will be entertained by Mrs. D. Tingling, 930 Warren street, Wednesday; 0 Mrs.

Andy Saal of East Market street entertained a few, relatives and friends at dinner Christmas. C. W. Eckenbarger, 855 Leopold street, will entertain members of the Thursday, club, at home Thursday afternoon from until 5 I v. The Order of Eastern Star iwll hold Its regular meeting in the hall Tuesday MAKES RECORD TRAIN RUN.

Clarence Harger brother to Captain Rudy Harger of the Central Fire Station and formerly a resident of Huntington, holds he speed record for the Galena division of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad Last Friday; he piloted a special train of four steel coaches from Chicago to Clinton, a distance "of 138 miles in 136 minutes. A stop for two minutes was made at Nelson for soal and water, reducing the running time to 134 BrtltnteaA Harger Is the youngest engineer on the road, having been there about nine' years. In tbe middle of the sixteenth century a professor of theology in Strass burg insisted upon having Individual communion' cups, and' during tbe plague In 1564 his demand was enforced. Baldwin, is the home of more supernatuated preachers perhaps, than any other town of its size in th world. The splrtt vt the place just suits them, for Baldwin Is owned and operated by Methodist and stands In a class by Itself.

I GET8 BIG RECEPTION. The Edward Doyle company played to two capacity audiences at the Huntington theatre Christmas day and two, better pleased crowds never left the theatre after performances of a stock company. That the Doyle company is a big favorite in Huntington was fully demonstrated by the patronage they were accorded on this visit The show "My Wife's Gone to the Country! proved a "button buster" and the crowd fairly screamed with delight at several of the ludicerous situations. The principal characters in the bill were entrusted, as usual to Cash E. Tomlnson and Louise Brown and as the ability ot these two performers is so well known in Huntington It 1b sufficient to say that they were simply immense.

The balance of the company displayed equal ability in their respective parts and sufficient to Bay were up to their old time standard. The matinee Tuesday afternoon was well attended and indications point to a capacity audience Tuesday evening. Wednesday the company will present the play that has won for them more favorable' comment id" Huntington than any piece they have, presented, "We Are King," is the offering and it is certainly worth seeing. MAJENICA. Mr.

and Mrs. Mack Harris transacted business in Huntington Saturday. Miss Lilian Craig returned Wednesday from an extended visit in Arkansas and other places in the west. T. F.

Hacker is recovering somewhat from his recent illness. Miss Mabel Poling of North Dakota arrived at this place last week to spend the winter with, friends and relatives. Miss Poling formerly resided here. The Rev. and Mrs.

W. D. Samuel were shopping in Huntington last Tuesday. 4 Miss Gertrude Mlnniear came home from Defiance, Ohio, to spend Christmas with her parents. Miss Ethel Brown entertained the Priscilla Embroidery Club at her home Wednesday afternoon.

Refreshments were served. C. H. Rlttenhouse of Wawaka is spending his holiday vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

W. D. Rlttenhouse. E. B.

Smuck and family were Warren visitors last Saturday. Carl of Valparaiso Is spending his Christmas vacation with relatives and friends at this place. Lens Bbnewitz is visiting his brother at Mt. Etna several days this week. Christmas programs were given at the M.

E. and Christian Churches Sunday evening. 1 i mm Another of our cherished ideas will soon be no more. The leech has been deposed from it3 sovereignty and Its "passing" f'ums the subject or an article in the Mois literalre et pettor esque by Jacques Boyer, who tells us that prior to 1870 a dozen wholesale houses in Paris were engaged In the traffic of this, "gibler pharmaceu tlque," and that they sold between 300,000 and 400,000 a month at the rate of 260 francs or 10 a thousand. One house alone' survives and tbe number sent out Is 130,000 and the price has fallen to about 70 francs a thousand.

A couple of womep, well seated on a crowded Street car, were loudly engaged in a conversation regarding woman suffrage, to the delight of their fellow passengers. The two were somewhat startled when the car passed the cornerat which they wished to alight They Tmstled through the standing crowd, continuing their conversation meanwhile. remarked a man to the conductor, "there's nothing backward about women nowadays." "Watch 'em get biff," said the official. They got off backward. New York Tribune.

1 A Wyoming cowpuncher, upon one of his. Infrequent tova town, went into a restaurant and ordered a steak. When it was served he looked over the assortment of bottles in the center of the table and, selecting one which was new to him, poured the contents liberally over his meat He cut off a generous bite, and the observers watched Ha progress to his mouth with some interest, for the bpt tta had contained tobasco sauce. He tried In vain to swallow the on his tongue, while surprise changed to anguish In his face. Finally he Jumped to his feet, and as he ejected the bite violently to the floor yelled: "Blaze! dura you, blaze!" Llppln jpott THE OTNHNGTON HERALD.

RAiuniin Protracted meetings began at the Second Salem church, last Thursday evening. Malon Thompson, of the northern part of Grant county passed away Sunday night He had been suffering for the past year with cancer of the neck. He leaves two sons, Dan and Will Thompson, two other children preceding him In death. The. school in the 'lower grades is dismissed until New Year's Day, when it will resume, work, C.

W. Fisher is teacher LICENSED TO WED. Harry A. Smith, 22, farmer, Roanoke, son of Charlea M. Smith, and Maude F.

Elliott, 20', Roanoke, daughter of Mrs. Anna WILL SPEND YEAR IN PRISON FOR Four New Yorkers, After "Cleaning Up" on a 8tock Swindle, Enter Pleas of Guilty. New York, Dec 23. Four men agreed to spend a year each on Black well's island for a consideration of $15,000,000. The men, who were promoters of the firm of Burr Incorporated, are: Shelton C.

Burr, president of the corporation; Eugene H. Burr, secretary treasurer; Charles H. Tobey, vice president; Edwin Wesley Preston. Their offices here were raided No vember 20, 1910, by tbe postal authorities, the men being charged with using the malls In a scheme to defraud Investors. Each of the defendants was sentenced to serve one year In the penitentiary on BlackweU's Island.

They were taken to tbe Island and began their sentences. Between 140,000,000 and $50,000,000 was obtained by Burr Bros, through its sales of worthless mining and oil stock, netting a profit to the defendants of $13,000,000 to $15,000,000, according to announcement made by tbe postal inspectors who raided the establishment Leavenworth, Dec. 23. Shelton C. Burr and Eugene H.

Burr, sons of Henry Burr, a pioneer resident of this city, were born and reared here. The elder Burr made a fortune in tbe manufacture of shoes. After be died his sons closed the factory and went to New, York. COLONEL URGED LETTER? Sheldon Avers Telling of Harrlman Story Was. Suggested.

New York, Dec. 23. George B. Sheldon, treasurer of the Republican national cojhmentlpg upon the publication of correspondence between himself and Theodore Roosevelt' relative to the1 Harrlman contribution to tbe Republican state campaign committee in 1904, and alluding particularly to bis own letter to the colonel, said it was written at Colonel Roosevelt's request Mr. Sheldon in describing what took place between Mr.

Roosevelt and himself said; "Colonel Roosevelt myself were aboard a train together. some ten days ago and this matter came up in conversation from something In the news. I said, 'Why was the truth never told about this whole business, bo that it could be shut Colonel Roosevelt said: 'Why can't you tell it That Is all there is to It" LEADER EXPOSES SWINDLES Mabray on Witness 8tand Tells Inside 8tory of Big Conspiracy. Council Bluffs, ia Dec. 23.

John C. Maybray, head of the "big store" gang of swindlers that for three years conducted operations in Council Bluffs and other cities with headquarters In Council Bluffs, concluded a wonderful story of the inside of the famous conspiracy upon the witness stand in a case brought against Benjamin Barks ot Council Bluffs, who is accused of furnishing police protection for tbe gang. For the first time a member ot the gang has gone on the witness stand and revealed the secrets of the operations by which over seventy victims were fleeced out of over a half million. Nine Illinois men are included In the long list pi victims robbed by the gang on fake races and wrestling matches. INSANE SON ATTACKS MOTHER Crushes In Her 8kull With Hatchet She May Die.

Belleville, 111., Dec. 23. While Mrs. Anna Moody, sixty years old, was stooping over a table her son Charles crushed her skull with a hatchet and struck her on the right arm, breaking tbe bone. Her injuries are believed to be fatal Ten years ago while John W.

Moody, the father, was working In a mine Charles plunged a pick into his back. "They made too much noise," the crazed son Queen Elizabeth, wife of the king of the Belgians, is a practical business woman, and has Just instigated the formation of a private company whose business it will be to promote the revival of lacemaking In Brussels, Mechlin and Bruges, and to increase the exportation of Belgian laces. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Barnes of Dayton, Ohio, arrived Friday in this city to visit ft the J.

F. Barnes home. RUSSIA KITS BACK Duma Leaders Propose Prohibitive Tariff on Products of United States. WILL AB0USH FREE LIST Action Is Regarded as Retaliation for the Recent Abrogation of the Treaty of 1832 by President Taft and Congress. St.

Dec. The erection ot a' tariff wall between Russia and the United States at the expiration of the Russo Amerlcan commerce and navigation treaty of 1832 Is the object ot a bill Introduced in the duma by ex President Guchkoff and 113 other signers representing the Octo brist and National parties. These par. tlest constitute the majority in the duma. The bill proposes to raise existing Russian duties by 100 per cent, and to impose a duty of 100 per cent, on articles admitted free under the present Russian tariff.

Besides these Impositions tbe bill proposes to levy double tbe gross weight tax established by the law or June 21, 1901, on merchandise arriving by tea and toMevy a double tonnage tax. Should the present American tonnage tax. be raised to tbe disfavor of Russian vessels, the Russian tonage tax will be correspondingly Increased. Calls U. 8.

Tariff Prohibitive. It Is said that tbe schedules are to be applicable to" all countries which do not grant to Russia the most favored nation treatment In commerce and navigation. The proposal will be submitted to a financial commission. Necessity for the proposed legislation Is explained Id an accompanying declaration tbat tbe regular American tariff schedules which will be. applicable to Russian goods at the expiration, of the treaty of commerce and navigation of 1832 will be so high as to have a prohibitive character and that they greatly exceed tbe Russian normal tariff and navigation taxes wblch would be applicable to American goods In the absence of the treaty.

Has Influence Through Budget. The province of foreign affairs lies outside the competence of the duma, and treaties are not subject to its approval, nor is the minister for foreign affairs answerable to the duma on the state of foreign relations. Nevertheless the duma exercises through tbe budget an Influence on foreign affairs and relations. In the long declaration accompanying the bill tbe signers deal fully with the Russo Amerlcan situation and recount the formal steps taken by tbe president of the United States. The declaration says: "Abrogation of the treaty between Russia and America has a direct connection with tbe annual Russian agitation which has been conducted energetically in America for the readmls slon of American citizens of Jewish faith.

Declare American View Unfounded "Article 1 of the treaty establishes the mutual rights of entry, but contains a stipulation for the observance of Internal laws. In spite of this stipulation, deeming that the enforcement of the general Russian laws In regard to the foreigners of the Jewish religion the case of American Jewish citizens constitutes an infringement of the treaty, the house of representatives voted for its abrogation. "There cannot be any doubt that this view Is unfounded." OWENS HITS SUPREME COURT Oklahoma 8enator Calls High Tribunal a "Bulwark of Privilege." Oklahoma City, Dec. De clarlng the Supreme court of the United States "has become a bulwark ot privilege," United States Senator Robert L. Owen at the session of the State Bar association replied to the arraignment of the judiciary recall by Judge B.

C. Stuart. Senator Owen said he did not impugn the motives or honesty of tbe United States 'Supreme court judges, hut that "all were influenced by their previous training and associations." RESENT IDEA OF SUICIDE Relatives of Captain Logan Tucker Uphold Coroner's Verdict' Philadelphia. Dec. 2: An Intimation that Captain Logan Tucker, United 8tatea Marine corps, retired, committed suicide in the William Penn Inn on Wednesday night because of financial difficulties was resented by bis widow, Mary Barbour Tucker, and by other relatives.

Coroner King rendered a verdict that death, which occurred suddenly, had been due to natural causes. PLAN HASTY WEDDING BAN Kansas BUI Demands Thirty Days' "Declaration Intentions." Topeka, Dec. 21. That a "declaration of intentions" be filed by the prospective bride, and groom 30 days prior to the Issuance of a license to marry If one of the requirements ot a bill to remedy the divorce evil to be presented to the next session ot the Kansas legislature. This requirement.

Judge 81ms holds, will diminish cases of love at first sight" and make marriages more stable. PAGGE THREE. HOW TO PRESERVE YOUTH AND BEAUTY. One great secret of youth and beauty for the young woman or the mother 1m the proper nnderttandiol of her womanly lystem and well bein. Every wooes, young or old, should kmtm keruif end her physical make up.

A good way to arrive at this knowledge is to get a good doctor book, such for instance, as "The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser," by K. V. Pierce, M. which earn readily be procured by sending thirty cso cents (or cloth bound copy, addressing: Dr. Pierce, at Buffalo, N.

Y. The womanly system is dclicato macliino which csn only be compared to the io tricate mechanism ot a beautiful watch which will keep in good running order oaJy with good core and the proper oiling at I lie rifclit time, so that tbe delicate mecb nmin ndV r.Ct hi had to klra enfnoone Dr. Pierea's Favorite Mbb. Williams. to try jour FavurlU The get old or ra.i d(rv.

tho improper depression, flashes and many cystctn can be Co, in (hoss lrinj Una. (Tiff. TVnxtAMi, sine my naaiui travu 1 (motored throe takes but on bottle ft rm bottles of Karaite and now I I DOUnda. 1 wv In whatever part of the house you want it, you can get it best and quickest with a Perfection Smokeless Oil Heater. The Perfection kibe moat reliable heater on the market, aodyoa can move wheteref yoa please.

Start tn badroeai ef betsroosa, and yon drew la comfort on the coldest atoroing. Tske il to dw aniog room, andcarly breakfast becomes a plena nl, coaey tnesL A touch el a ststch at duo, and all is mug lor lbs orauog. The Perfection SstoUets Oil Heater is beaubiully Sakheo aa nrasnisa anywhere. Drams ef eJeta steel enamelled in blue nickel Dunning. A special aatosmabe device aiakei smoking impossible.

Burner body eaaeet become wedged. All pans easily cleaned. Damper ten. Cool kaadU. Dailan ni aLui ef write oWriulita droalar ts mr aaac si sVs i Standard Oil Company (laearparmted) The Opinion of an 1 Advertising, Expert 2 4 (FRED J.

BUNDE, IN 'SIGXS OF THE TIMES.) 2 2 "The lighted electric bulb is today one of the greatest advertising mediums in existence. "The growing use that this medium has been put to in recent years is phe 9 nomenal. lTL f. a i.L today that lean actually talk to us, and that can readily give usv action in our ads." 2 Ask pur New Business Depart ment about Animated Signs. 5 Telephone 179.

.2 Tic Huntington 22 26 West 2 6 FINDS REAL WINTER SNOW H. Heastoa Says Saw HexJe Looks Hue. LII Wltb eight inches of snow on the level and the temperature twelve degrees below sero, the Miami valley In New Mexico had much tbe appearance of Indiana In weather, writes J. H. Heaaton in a letter to The Herald.

Rapidly rising temperature, however, soon caused the snow to disappear. Mr. Heaaton, after a year as a fanner near Springer, Is again anxious te resume his work as a druggist and Intends to register under the laws ot New Mexico. nrr Vr. marv hmM unnnJ More their timo through ignorance and c.f this human mechanism.

Mental confused head, backache, headache, or hot tyx.ptoms of derangement of the womanly avoided by a proper understanding of what to times thct cone to all women. of Lynnhaven. wrote: "It Is sis wy. I hl female trouble and an tbe uid 1 wanLl die. I wee not ahU tA do all the time.

FfnaJW. mad In thenam ai PrncrlDtion. and decided ts trr H. 1 had I until I found it had done me rood. I took, In JL Preacrlptioa and twe of GoMen Medical am able to do ail nrr boneeworii.

and bars srateeaV adviee all women who anffer from female Ii.mIX i the criy malldne on. earth." Handy Heater 'ERFECTIOl Seomiaa You often need some heat in early Fall, when you have not yet started the furnace. Light fuel Co. Franklin St. G.

II. BR0DBECK PHYSICIAN AND Office ever Kay tor's Dni Store. Phonea Office, 438; Residence 107ftV Office Hoursa to 10 1 to 7 to E. W. ZOOK CLAIMS BRIDE.

At the residence of Rev. B. Wlke on Cllne street. Miss Winifred Cllne and Everett W. Zook Were married? Saturday afternoon.

The couple' ars well known in Lancaster township where they will reside on a fans. Mlaa Cllne is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Cllne and the groom.

Is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Zook..

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