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DR. DIXON ISSUES 100TH ARTICLE Health Talks Hnve Been Read by Millions of People in the( Last Two Years State Commissioner of Health Samuel G. Dixon 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 Compen sation headquarters the number of employers reiusing to accept tne compensation act is trifling. All of the big employers have come under it. Figures compiled indicate that 1. 700,000 employes will be affected.

It is also estimated that 35,000 chil dren will come under the child labor schools. Over 120,000 will be af fected. Pardon Board. The 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. The plans for the new State Armory at West Chester will be ordered at the meeting of the State Armory Board early next month. Institutes Xext 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 oleo licenses were broken this year. Almost 2860 licenses were old. 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 Iehigh counties for electric companies were received. Ready For Changes. The State Highway department officials are all ready for the changes in the engineer ing and field forces which will become effective on Saturday. The new men Snyder, of Pottsville, and Alexander Simpson.

of Philadelphia, were at the Capitol to day Mr. Palmer Remembered. Judson H. Palmer, of the Public Service Commission, was yesterday presented with a handsome mahogany easy chair as Christmas gift by his Sunday school class in the Market Street Baptist Church. Mr.

Palmer is one of the most active workers in the church. Mr. Brown to Return. Attorney I 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 Board of Education, and other State school authorities will go to Scranton to attend the meeting of the State Educational Association. Hearing at Somerset. W.

F. Downs, of the Public Service Commission, will hold a hearing at Somerset on Wednesday in the Black Garret electric case. Commissioner Rilling will sit at Pittsburgh in the Ohio Valley water case.N Wants Right to Operate. An interesting hearing before the Public Service Commission to day was the application of S. IT.

Musselman for the right to furnish power In Franklin township, Adams county. Sue State Official. Mandamus proceedings were brought to day by the rommissioners 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 Bethlehem by way of Newburg and Hecktown. It is declared that the road became a State highway or. June 1 last through operation cf the act of 1913.

hut that the commissioner has not done anything, although asked to do so. The Attorney General's department will 31e an answer on behalf of the commissioner. Objections Heard. The Public Service Commission to day heard objections to the ordinances ef the borough of Frackville srranting permission to the Schuylkill Rrilways and Schuylkill County Electric Company rights to use its highways. Would Develop Processes For Taking Nitrates From Air by Electricity For U.

By Associated Press Washington. D. Dec. 27. To free the United States army from its dependence for nitrates for the manufacture of explosives, Brigadier General Crozier, chief of the ordinance department in his annual report to day says the government, tf neces.

sary, 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 tip against sudden emergency would not last any considerable time. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Bsgoatuic of MO. DAY EVKN1NG, BRITISH REPULSE TURKS WITH LOSS Continued Front First Tajce.

paper correspondent, M. Gournarls declared the policy of Greece was unchanged and that she did not wish to bo dragged Into the war but he could not commit himself as to what Greece might do should Bulgarian troops en tr Greek territory. Teutons to Advance Conflicting reports continue to roach London from the scene of the Near East campaign. Statements from some Bourcea make It appear the Teutonic allies are preparing steadily for an offensive movement, in conjunc with the Bulgarians and Turks the 100th of his weekly health and hygiene talks. This series of talks was Inaugurated by the commissioner almost two year ago as a means of warnlujr people to take car, of themselves and to sug rest 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. The talks have all been marked by a straightforward style and an abundance of commonsenw. 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.

Urges Feeding of Game. Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game Commission, has urged Other advices, however, are that the Bulgarians fear to attack less they oe caught between two tires in the strip of territory from the Salonlkl Dolran to the Salonlkl Glevgoll railroads. The central powers are still negotiating with Greece. An interview with Premier Skoulodous forecasts failure of the efforts to prevent an invasion of Grecian Macedonia.

It Is estimated that if an Invasion is undertaken the Athens government will devote its efforts toward obtaining guarantees of the evacuation of Greek territory immediately following the oompletion of military operations. Along the western front, Paris reports successful artillery actions by the French in the Champagne and Vosges. Berlin says operations are restricted by Incessant rain. Persians DriTen Back Petrograd reports a victory for the Russians in Persia against a well armed force that included several thousand Persian insurgent gedarmes. The insurgent army tied after it had suffered heavy losses it is declared.

On the Riga Dvinsk front in Russia the Germans have resumed their activity according to Petrograd. but sportsmen in a letter to feed the I without any gain of ground being re corded. Gis was employed In some of the German attacks, the Russian report states. Berlin declares that nothing worth reporting has occur red on the eastern front. On the front in France neither Berlin nor Paris reports operations of note, the activity being confined to artillery play and mine explosions.

Kaiser's Condition Is Rumored Alarming Special to the Telegraph London, Dec. 2. Alarming rumors probably of an exaggerated nature are being circulated in Switzerland concerning Emperor William's Illness, ac cordlng to the Zurich correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Company. The rumors state, says the correspondent, that the Emperor's condition 1b causing profound anxiety In Berlin. RUSSIANS IN" DIRE WANT By Associated Press Berlin, Dec.

27 (By wireless to Say ville). Reports from the Caucasus, received here from Constantinople, state that the Russian army is demoralized as a result of cold, hunger, cholera, typhoid and poor equipment, says the Overseas News Agency. Poles In the Russian army whose homes are in districts occupied by the Germans are deserting or begging that they be sent home. Germans Refuse to Allow With The German Army In France. Dec.

24, via Lille and Berlin to London, Dec. 27. War is no resnecter have arranged to take up new work atiof customs. Therefore there was no once Visiting Home. John G.

Hopwood, chief clerk of the Public Service Commission, is visiting his home in Fayette county cessation of activity along the line in Northern France on Christmas eve if possible the French artillery fire more nearly approached the elebrated drum fire" of the late September of Capitol Visitors. Senator Charles Vul V6 slnC 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 flare of exploding shells. Declares It Is Impossible to Oust Allies From Greece Athens, Dec.

27. "With our batteries of heavy artillery and men behind them, it is Impossible to oust the allied forces from Saloniki," said General Castelnau, chief 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 the position provides the most favorable conditions for offensive as weli as defensive operations." nations leap forward or fall backward generations in a single bound.

"All this chattering about relaxing a ruio and suspending a custom is out of place. You cannot haggle 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 class, and b3 so doing, re emerge after this war that future hope which the great leaders of democracy of all ages have pictured in their dreams." SALE OPENED TOTJAY Wltmer, Bair Witmer's Seml Annual Pre Inventory Sale opened today, and will continue Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. See advertisement page 4. 202 Walnut St. Adv.

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 II. S. Mohler had 'charge of the service. ROYAL'S LAST 3IOXDAY COURT Mayor John K. Royal this afternoon held his last Monday police court.

He had a big' list to look over. Most of them were Christmas and Sunday drunks. Five panhandlers were in the lineup. In all a total of twenty two prisoners were registered on the police docket. Rev.

I. K. Runk, of Scottdale; annual PL II 0 iTi i ounuay sciiooj rally HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH DECEMBER 27, 1915. Ctai GERMAN SINGERS at i o'clock an kJlltUS IU OUVll nuai tu. rally at sermon Lloyd George Makes Fervent Appeal to Labor London, 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 eloquent appeals of his career. "What we are experiencing Is not 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 of modern society and wrecking some of the flimsy trestle bridges or modern civilization. It is an earthquake which is upheaving the very rocks of European life; it is one of those seismic disturbances in which 0 by the Rev.

Mr. Runk. at Christmas Presents Ruined in South 2nd St. Fire Fire shortly after 4 o'clock this morning in the home of Welty McCul lough, 271 South Second street, caused more than $400 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 Box 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 hv neighbors. Mrs.

McCullough was awav on a visit. Much of the damage was done by the heat and water, and a number of Christmas presents in the parlor were either badly 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 i of 128 Lincoln street. The fire was caused by an overturned lamp. Little I damage was done. Deaths and Funerals CHARLES A. BONGERT 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. Bon gart, 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 unurcn, assisted Dy tne Kev. w. W.

Hartman, pastor of Ridge Ai'enue 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. MTCHAEL 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 Lutacran 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.

Theada Bertner, and Mrs. Alice Green, Baltimore, and Mrs. Sylvia Loffer, Philadelphia, MRS. MATILDA WITHEROW Mrs. Matilda Witherow, aged C9 years, died yesterday at her home, 1625 North Fourth street The survivors are her husband, James two daughters.

Miss Mary and Miss Sallie MIDDLETOWN HAS BIG CELEBRATION Include Folk Songs and Carols Hundreds at Christinas Tree in Program; Celebration to Close Friday German residents of Steelton have almost completed plans for the program to be given Wednesday evening at the Community Christmas Tree celebration on the High school cam pus, nAHm U(lB11 vicumuuu kii ii i evening, iuuutu German singers in a large chorus by mornlns serviL.es yesterday 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 pro gram. Christmas was widely observea in the churches also, entertainments and musicat 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 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: Sunday Dedication in morning, In charge of the Rev. Dr. D.

D. Lowery, superintendent of the East Pennsylvania Conference; address in the evening by Dr. Lowery. Monday "Church address by the Rev. Dr.

J. A. Lyter, of Derry Street Church Har risburg, on "The Christian Church." Tuesday Sunday School night; address by W. D. Reel, superintendent Pennsylvania Sunday School Association.

Wednesday Missionary night; address by the. Rev. George M. Richter, Coatesville, on "Missionary Problems and Present Opportunities." Thursday Christian Endeavor night; address by H. B.

Macrory, of Pittsburgh, secretary of Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor' Union. Friday Men's night; address by the Rev. F. Berry Plummer, of Carlisle. Saturday Intermediate Fellowship night, with addresses by local pastors.

Sunday, January 9 Prayer and praise service at 9 o'clock, conducted by H. J. Sanders; sermon at 10 o'clock by the 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 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. Kntertainments 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 Ladles' 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 Entertainment. The Croatian Sokol will give an entertainment this evening in the hall at Second and Washington streets. Collect $141 For Orphanage. The 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.

Funk Boughter 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. Bouehter played centerfield on the Steelton team of the Central Pennsylvania League during the 1915 season. The couple will reside in Steelton. To Admit Members. New members will be admitted with Impressive ceremonies this evening at the meeting of Carthage Lodge.

Knights of Pvthias. League to Meet. The monthlv meeting of the Municipal League will be held this evening. Funeral of J. A.

Brandt. Funeral services for J. A. Brandt, Second ana Pine streets, were held this afternoon, the Rev. W.

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

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

Burial was made at Oberlin. CAUGHT UNDER METAL Charles Boughter, aged 41. an em pioye the B. and C. department of me eunsyivama steel Company, while 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. FMDDLETOm MIDDLETOWN NOTES The executive committee of the Evangelistic campaign will meet this evening in the United Brethren Church. The school board will hold another special meeting this evening to consider pians ior tne proposed continuation schools. BIRTHDAY PARTY Mr. and Mrs.

H. B. Hollinger, of Royalton, entertained recently in honor of the 21st birthdav of "their son, Warren. Those present were Harry Heiser. Lebanon; Charles Hons er, Bertha Wolf, Daniel Lyons.

Edna cpaegrarc, ueorge Wolf, Fannie Boughter, Eli Metzler. Nora Joseph Bryan, Ruth Conrad.John Kre i ser. Mrs. Katnryn Rutherford anrt 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 MRS. RACHEL ZARKER The funeral of Mrs. Rachel Zarker.l 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 Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Burial was made in Harrisburg cemetery. Mrs. Zarker died suddenly at her home Friday. The survivors are one brother Samuel Leighton and one sister, Mrs.

A. D. Radabaugh. THOMAS KNISELY Funeral services for Thomas Knise ly will be held this evening at 7.30 o'clbck at the home of a sister, Mrs. Mary Lukens, 621 South Front street.

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

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

RUDER 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. Dea vor. pastor of Epworth M. E.

Church. Burial will be made in Prospect Hill cemetery. Winner, Bair and Witraer Begin Semi Annual Sale Wltmer, Bair Wit mer began today their semiannual preinventory sale of women's apparel at 202 Walnut street. This sale will continue tomorrow. Wednesday and Thursday of this 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, as will be noted in their advertisement on another page of this paper. TV 1 1. In "Double Trouble' UUUglCl5 I dir UcUJIU) at the Colonial After Christmas Now What at the Philadelphia Store Well a whole week of celebrations until New Year's Eve. It is just to show what a business and a building of this size is of.

that there never was since Surely Everybody Knows The Centennial Show of 1876 I so many people ever in any one building day after day as there were her 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. 1st Expecting our usual inundation of visitors from out of town who have been too busy to come before Christmas. 2nd To surprise the city people with the entire transformation of the Store into a revelation of new goods. Some people all last week were saying, "We wish our friends coming next week could see how our Store does things." Very well, come along.

The Great Organ and band will play morning, noon and evening. Some of the holiday decorations will remain. But no rummaging sales here. We do not need them with fresh stocks rightly priced that sell themselves. Here and there in the various sections of the store some mussed and soiled pieces are to be had, but rummage sales henceforth belong to the Emergency Aids.

This morning this fine building is practically. A New Store of New Fashions You can see for yourself. John Wanamaker DECEMBER 27, 1915 The Store That Invites You asks you within four walls which include an entire city block in the heart of Philadelphia, covering an area of 480 feet long and 250 feet wide. Its height from sub basement floor to roof is 281 feet, and its floor space for the display and selling and movements of merchandise, and the convenience of customers, is almost forty five acres. It is a building of solid stone and steel, absolutely fireproof, ventilated by a new system that insures constant changing of air, and drawing its heat, light and power from a separate building across Thirteenth street in another block.

Fifty passenger elevators, located in double banks, make easy and convenient passage from floor to floor. Six main stairways go from roof to basement. Eight brick inclosed fire towers, each with two staircases, lead down to the street from all floors. Two great fire walls divide the store in three cross sections, and the doors of these walls on each floor are' so made that they will close automatically in case of fire. The merchandise of the Store is so great in volume, so extensive in variety and so busily changing all the time, as to form a permanent exposition unequaled in any market in the world.

For the convenience of visitors there are numerous rest rooms, picture galleries, halls of music, a hospital, two great restaurants, smoking rooms, writing rooms, free checking rooms and information bureau, a corps of guides, and a promenade on the roof giving a view of the. whole of Philadelphia and much of the surrounding country. The Store is immediately accessible from both the Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia and Reading Terminal stations, each a block and a half away; by the principal trolley lines which pass its doors; by the Subway Surface and Subway. Elevated systems, which have a station in the Store, and from New Jersey Ferries by three minutes' ride on the subway. It is a Store of great merchandise, great buying, great selling, great hospitalities and great welcomes.

John Wanamaker Philadelphia.