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UAIUUSDURG TELEGRAPH 18 MONDAY EVENING, APRIL; 18,. 1927 STRONG UNDERTONE IN MARKET PRICES Industrial list Sees Broad Buying Move ment Although Uniformity Is Lack irig in Advance vr Nw York, Appl 18. (ff) Stock prices displayed a strong undertone at the opening of to day's market. Burns. Brothers A showed an initial gain of points and Great Western Sugar, American Sugar Refining, Pathe and Colorado Fuel opened 1 to 2 points higher.

General, Motors and Allis Chalmers touched new high records. 1 A broad buying movement developed In the Industrial list despite the sharp in excess reserve "'shown In last Saturday's clearing liouse' statement. While the early "advance was by no means uniform, evidence of group strength devel Yoped in the sugar, chemical, to bacco, amusement and motor is tT50es. Marland sank to another low record, and heaviness de 1 veloped in. some of the other popular but'Houston aud General Asphalt continued to show Inde MARKET QUOTATIONS MEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE New York.

stock quotations, "furnished by West and Company, foembers of the New York stock Exchange; Commonwealth Trust Company Building, Harrlsburg. Open. Noon. DLjaX Rubber. .........11 11 filled Chem .........146 146 im Can 49 49 im For Pow 23 23 Am, Loco 109 Vi 109 Smelt 148 Xm Steel Fdy 44 44 Sugar 89 Am Sum Tob 58 Am Tel and Tel.

167 89 167 46 Anaconda 46 Ts Awnison Refining .182 182 112 Baldwin Loco ........190 190 'Balto and Ohio ifcieth Steel Bklyn Manh Trans JCallf Pete VjCerro de Pasco 'Ches and Ohio Chicago Gt West H'hi Gt West Pfd Chicago and ..116 ft 116 63 Ts 53 66 25 61 .169 15 66 24 61 10 15 28 83 93 87 45 76 5 99 5 64 12 64 91 10 45 25 29 194 166 28 82 'Chi I and Pac. 93 Chile Copper 37 Chrysler 45 sColo Fuel 78 Gas 96 Gag 99 ICpnsol Textile 6 fcontl Can 64 ontl Motors 12 fcprn. Products 64 rudible Steel 91 (Cuba Cane Sugar .10 jCuba. Cane Sug Pfd 46 Cuban Am Sugar 26 toaylaon Chem 29 foel and Hud .......194 pel Lack and West ..166 AuPont 249 249 Elec Storage 69 70 Mrie 64 63 Famous Players .....108 108 Fisk Rubber 18 18 Gem 83 Genl Electric 92 Gent Motors ..186 Goodrich a 66 Gt Nor Ore 20 83 92 187 57 20 21 22 18 74 '53 161 40 63 123 56 28 111 42 6 .15 31 .2 Gt Nor Pfd 86 74 21 22 18 74 Hudson Motors Hupp Motors Independent Oil Inspiration: lntl Bus Mach lntl Comb Eng lntl Harvester 63 ..162 .40 62 22 64 ..122 28" Intl Mer Mar Pfd lntl Nickel Kelly Springfield Kennecott Copper Lehigh Valley Loews Inc Ltfdlumi Steely Mack Trucks Marland. Oil Mex i Seaboarif 43 6 Miami.

Copper Mid Continent Pete Middle States' Oil 32 2 1 uiuney 10 on Diamonds, Watches Mid Jewelry. XiTlbsns Strietly Confidential A Jewelry Co. I 8aeef isprs to Jacob Tacsig's Sons 420 Market St i pendent strength. General Motors touched a new high record at 186 in the early trading and Dupont duplicated its previous top of 250. South Port Kican Sugar led the advance in that group by swiftly climbing four points to a new peak price.

Rails 'were quiet although Texas and Pacific moved up to a new maximum quotation. Foreign exchanges opened firm with demand sterling quoted around $4.85 6 16" and French francs just below 3.91 cents. Mo Kana and Tex 46 46 Mo and ...102 102 Mo Paclnc 66 66 Mo Pacific Pfd ......105 105 Montg Ward 64 64 Air Brake '43 ,42 Central 148 and 62' 62 Norfolk and West ...182 181 North. American 50 Northern Pacific 86 Packard Motors 35 Pan Am Pete 58 Pan Am Pete B. 68 Penn Seaboard Pemia 61 and Coal 45 Philips Pete 45 Pierce 19 Pullman ..,174 Punta Ale, Sug 43 Pure Oil 27 Radio vCorp 42 Reading Republic I and 70 60 86 35 68" 68 61 45 44 18 174; 42 110 70 St and St and .109 109 It Schulte 49 Sears Roebuck 64 Shell Union 27 Simms Pete 17 Sinclair Cons 1 8 Skelly Oil 28 49 64 27 17 li 1 Southern Pacific .....112 112 Southern Railway ...126 v126 oiana uas ana.iaiec..

biVi 67 Stand Oil of Cal 54 Stand Oil of 36 Stewart Warner ....,,67 Studebaker 66 Submarine Boat 4 Tenn and 11 Tex Company 46 Tex Gulf Sulphur 61 Tex. and 71 Timken 88" 63 36 66 56 4 12 46 61 11 89; Tobacco Prods 96 96 Transcontinental 4 4 Union Pacific .......172 172 Ind Alo 74 74 Rubber 62 63 Steel ...........172 172 Universal Pipe 33' 33 Westg Air Brake ....153 153 Westg Electric 74 74 west Md 37 White, Motors 48 Willys Overland 21 Willys Overland Pfd" J(0 Yellow Cab Mfg 27 Dodge Pfcr. 74 37 47 21 90 27 74 Thrown From Bicycle Middletown, April 1 8, Miss Margaret daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Stotz, Pine street, received a fracture of the right, arm and contusions of the face rand body when she was thrown oft a bicycle on the Cole brook Road.

She was riding on the handlebars ot the bicycle, when her sweater' caught in the front wheel. Lewisberry Notes Xewlsberrj, April 18. Mr. and Mrs. Robert I.

Sutton and two daughters moved from "the Holtz man property near town to New Market, Mrs. John Laucks, of North Carolina, is visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis J.

Mummert, children. Pearl, Arietta, Lewis, Jr and Betty and Miss Stella Myers, passed, the weekend relatives at. Jefferson. r. Mrs.

Laura has returned home after, visiting her son in law, J. W. Kew Cumberland. Dorsey Stonesif er, Lemoyne, visited his. father on Saturday.

The borough school, Ira E. Shaw, teacher, closed its term on Friday. R. R. Trains at MUleraburg From South 9.01 A.

M. 12.37 P. M. 4.41 P. M.

8.25 P. M. 11.57 P. M. VILLIAMS VALLEY TRANSPORTATION CO, ANNOUNCES That Buwes Will Meet P.

'From North 8.34 A. M. 10.39 A. M. 2.39 P.

Ivl. 6.10 P. M. Hies oases Make' Connections for Rife, Eliia Loyalton, Lykens, Wieonisoo, Dayton, Wil Uamstowii, Sheridan Tower City, Reinerton, Muir and Orwia. 1 Also Connections at ElizabetliTflle, for Berrysbors? That A IFOR.

(xOUOEW LAW MAKERS OF Site WELL PAID Propose Other States $3 Daily to $4,800 Yearly Among the bills on Governor Fisher's desk awaiting, his action is one by Representative George F. Howe, of the Eleventh Allegheny District, to increase the salary of members of the General Assembly $3,000. II the Governo approves the bill Pennsylvania's lawmakers will, not be the highest paid legislative body In the country and neither will It be the poorest paid. Several other states now. pay their legislators more money than Pennsylvania.

In California senators receive $4,800 a session, and representatives The legislature there meets biennlaly, the same as In this State. Illinois also. Is more liberal to its lawmakers when it comes to compensating them." Both senators and representatives receive $.3,500 a session; In York and Massachusetts a salary of $1,500 a year is In the Empire state, sessions are held annually and senators are elected every two years and representatives annually. The job of being a legislator In Oregon" does not bring much financial reward. Both senators and representatives are paid $3 a day and the session limited to 40 days.

Down in Alabama the pay is $4tfaily with a limit of 60 days for the session and the legislature gets together once in four years while in Kansas biennial sessions are heldi 1 'Y Alabama Is the only state In the union, that meets at four year intervals. Five states hold annual are Massachusetts, itr Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and South Carolina. 1 Pay of the legislators In the various states are: Alabama, $4 a a day; Artzone, $7 a day; Arkan sas, $6. day;" Cllfornla, fl.SOOa session; Colorado, $2,000 a session; Connecticut, $300 a session. Delaware, $10 a day; Florida.

$6 a day; Georgia, $7 a day; Idaho. $5 a day; Illinois, $3,500 a session; $6 a Iowa, $1,000 a session. Kansas, $3 a day; Kentucky, $10 a day; Louisiana, $10 a day; Maine, $400 a session; Maryland, $5 a day Massachusetts, $1,500 a year. Michigan, $800 a year; Minnesota, $2,000 a session: Mississippi, $750 a session; Missouri. $5 a day.

Montana, $10 a dayr Nebraska, lUUUTEtlOVlES wt ticca opbms f. end Pillow. 11P' Accomodating Neighbor $800 a session; Nevada, $10 a day; New Hampshire, $200 a session; New Jersey, $500 a session. New Mexico, $5 a day; New fork, $1, 500 a year; North Carolina $4 a day; North Dakota, $5 a. day; Ohio, $1,000 a year; Oklahoma, 6' af day; Oregon, a day.

Pennsylvania, $2,500 a session; Rhode Island, $5 a day; South Carolina, $400 a session; South Dakota, $5 a day; Tennessee, $4 a day; Texas, $5 a day. Utah, $4 a day; Verm at, $400 a session; Virginia, $12 a day; Washington, $5 a day; West Virginia, $500 a year; Wisconsin, $500 a year, and Wyom ing, $12 a Uay. V' LODGE WILL HOLD SESSIONS AT YORK York, April 18. Sessions of the Grand Lodge, Independent Order Mechanics, will be held In this city next Saturday. The Grand Lodge delegation will be guests of Keystone Lodge, No.

2, of this city. The sessions will be held in the lodge rooms on the third floor of the York County National 15 East Market street The convention will open at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I Lancaster Livestock Lancaster, April 18. Reported by United States Department of Apriculture, co operating with Pennsylvania Bureau of Markets." Market: 'Showing little action Compared with week go beef steers few heavies here, top weighty bullocks $11.50, most medium weights $10.25 and $11.00 one load prime Heref ords from nearby feed lot $12.40, average weight 1,138 pounds, lot 1,040 pound weights $12.00. Bulls, she stock and all cutters steady, bulk medium bulls $6.60 and $7.75, butcher cows $6.00 and $7:25, common and medium cows $4.75 and $6.00.

Calves steady with week's advance, choice vealers Hogs Tending steady with week's decline, few sales early. Receipts: For to day's market, cattle 7 cars; 4 Pennsylvania, 1 St. Poul, 1 Chicago, 1 Tennessee, containing 174 head; 57 "head trucked In from nearby feed lots, total cat tle 631 head, 10 calves, 190 hogs. ReceIptsfor week ending April 16, 1927, cattle 26 cars, 19 Pennsyl sylvania, 4 St Paul, 2 Chicago, 1 Tennessee, containing 667 head, 1,143 head trucked in, total cattle 1,810 head, 164 calves, 437 hogs, 8 sheep. Compared with previous week, cattle 25 cars; containing 590; head, 1,169 head trucked in, total cattle 1,759 head, 111 calves, 290 hogs, 25 sheep.

CRCWDED WITH A 'CUSSlWTfCiSEPORr OF THE ESfP4o YWhifl "THE 1 ZOiS cm' im up aswmst that ii rss vu. all I PRESBYTERY SITS: IN WRIGHTSVILLE Many Pastors Expected at Opening Session of Westminster Organization Columbia, April 18. Wrights ville will be host to many Presbyterian ministers, when the 114th semiannual session of the Westminister Presbytery convenes in the river town to day for a two days' session. The Presbytery will sit in Presbyterian Church of which the Rev. Nathaniel Chestnut is pastor.

Officers of the Presbytery are: The Rev. Dr. Walter W. Edge, moderator; Elder M. H.

Diffen baugh, vice moderator; the Rev. Dr. Robert L. Clark, stated clerk; the Rev. George H.

Shea, perma nent clerk, and the Rev. William S. Baltz, treasurer. The' Presbytery "comprises York and Lancaster Thirty three churches are in the district and each will be represented by Its pastor; and a lay delegate. The first session will ope today at 1.30 o'clock and the second at 7.30 m.

Afternoon and night sessions will be held Tuesday. The first will begin at 9 a. m. and the closing session will start at 1.30 p. m.

Business sessions will be interspersed, with addresses. This afternoon the Rev. Dr. George II. Johnston will speak on "The Moderator." and the Rev.

Milton W. Brown on "The Service Pension Plan." Tuesday afternoon and evening sessions will Vbe exclusively to business.v The closing address will be by the Rev. Dr. Guv D. Wingerd," 'of the Columbia Church, his theme being, "Christian Life and "Work." Business Men Meet Middletown, April 18.

April meeting of the Business Men's Association "will be held in the Council chamber to night The opening of the Kreider Shoe Factory, which has' been closed for nearly a year, will be discussed. Buys New Business Middletown, April 18 C. A. Farthemore has purchased the coal and ice; business of the Hoke Brothers, located at Front street, Highspire. Mr.

Parthemoretook charge of the new business this morning. rf i SECTEDLV SHERIFP'S rVB5 CATCH THAT; 'mm RE ELECTED Will Be Head of Civic Club For Another Year; G. Rots Hull Speaks Mr. Harvey" F. 9mHh was elected president of the CWip Club.

at its annual meeting to day at the clubhouse. Others elected were: rtr.3t vice president, Mrs. Walter E. erance; second vice president, Mrs. Walter Spofford; third vice president, Mrs.

William E. Bailey; recording secretary, Mrs. Martin W. Kager; correspdnding secretary; Mrs. Herman Tausig; treasurer, Mrs.

Harry T. Neale, and Mrs. William E. Wright and Miss Anne Mc Cormiclt, directors. Departmental reports were given and Mrs.

John E. Fox read Miss U. Wert's paper on current events. The speaker of the afternoon was George Ross Hull who told ot the coming Welfare Drive. Church Events The second Auxiliary Missionary Society, ot Market Square.

Presbyterian will hold its monthly meeting to morrow night. Mrs. L. B. Jones, Mrs.

Harold Gulick and Mrs. Clarence Thumma Trill speak. George Chlsley, of the Holy Cross Episcopal Church, will sing Negro spirituals. The hostesses for the social hour following tht meetlnr will be: Mrs. Harvey Taylor; Miss Dorothy Taylor and Miss Cora Shertzer.

Angsbnrtr Lutheran The congregation ot Augsburg Lutheran Church will give a reception to morrow. night to new members. ZioB' Lutheran A reception to new members ot Zlon Lutheran Church will be held on Wednesday night. Miss Helen Brenneman will give an illustrated lecture on Friday night on "India ind Our Mission Worl Tbpre" The police inspecting What YOU know the law automobile brakes 7 Do you know you may be called upon any day to demonstrate to the police that your brakes are in good working order and will stop your car within a certain number of feet? Avoid such penalties as fines.suspensions of license and suspensionsof registration by having your brakes inspected.If theyarenotin good condition have them relined or readjusted at once. Be sure they will pass police inspection.

Stops in less distance than police require AFTER your brakes are lined with Rusco, you can meet any police requirement. You can do more. Rusco will stop your car in less distance, at a given speed, than Police require. Bell 7.M07 Brake kAtA)T TetL 1Tl if SURE S.DAH!M TOO HARD JTfJ jA 1 dm Cheerful Chrrti TKe little is not er.t:nct I tKis ir pol.r tvllc I'm quit rejoiced I've fIt like tL ETHEL LEHMAN EKGAGEDTOTO Announce, Betrothal to Cleon Musser, Columbia, at Luncheon Rev. Dr.

and Mrs. Arthur S. Lehman, 1508 Derry street, have announced the engagement of their daughter, Miss Ethel M. Lehman to Cleon Musser, son ot Mr. and Mrs.

Martin Musser, Columbia. Both Miss Lehman and Mr. Musser are ''graduates ot Lebanon Valley College. Mr. Musser is director of physical education in the schools ot Boswell, and Miss Lehman is a teacher ot English in John Harris High School.

The announcement was made Saturday at a luncheon given by Miss Lehman at her home in honor of Miss Eidean Lerew, Dillsburg, who has been in Hot Springs, for the past several years. The guests who were Miss Ethel Hartz.TVIrs. Harry Stoner, Miss Verna Hess, York Springs and Mrs. Harvey Flshburn, Norristowh were all classmates of Miss Leh mn pt Vallev Col'ente. are now HAPPENS TO automobile 1 about yours? in regard to Even if the policechoose a rainy day when the brakes are wet, you need not worry.

Rusco controls your car exactly as well in wet weather as in dry. Not all brake linings will do this. Write for booklet about Rusco Brake Lining, FINES! Suspensions of License Suspensions of Registration Brake Lining. He pays more for Rusco than for any other brand of lining because he wants quality. But he doesn't charge you more.

You can depend on such a man. In the following garages are brake lining who use special electriclal equipment for properly countersunk riveting of Rusco Broke Lining. It will pay you to use their Qenuine Rusco is branded "Rusco" and silver cross bars Installed by Any Garage or Service Station Distributed by HARRISBlURG AUTO PARTS CO. 1013 15 MARKET STREET T. 4683 inspection your protection commands the AH L0N PROSPECT CR V0HO IS OH visit To vrib.

CAT FUtLCR PHUN ivKtiuno rrrr unsi jt iww TO BE HOSTESSES AT BRIDGE SUPPER Helen Robiton and Helen DeWalt Will Entertain Tomorrow Miss Helen SOfl Cres cent street, and Miss Helen De Walt, 2238 Green will be honteoses to morrow night at a bridge supper at The invitation list includes: Mrs. John' Reading; Miss Anno Gross, Philadelphia; Mis3 Virginia Wallls, Pittsburgh; Miss June Beard and Miss Dorothy Rob AUantlc City; Miss Helen Morton, Woodcliffe, N. MIm Ruth Crooks, Hawthorne, N. Miss Miriam Craiglow, Orange, Miss Doughman, Mif flin; Mrs. Merle Gerdes, Mrs.

Ross McCord, Jack Froehllch, Mrs. Frank II. Wolfe. Mrs. George Whitehead, Mrs.

John L. Menger, Mrs. Grant Melxell, Mrs. Charles Magill, Mrs. Wlnfleld H.

Loban, Mrs. William H. Cleek ner, Miss Anna' Senseman, Miss Helen Ventch, Miss Margaret Peace. Miss Catherine Miss Catherine Mlsaj Susan Moltz. Miss Emille Klnpp, Miss Mary Harris, Miss Ellen Har ris, Miss Louise Plank, Miss Glady Wolfe, Miss Margaret Crowley.

Miss Florence Hardy, Mlss'Cath erine Hargest, Miss Esther Reber, Miss Gertrude McDevitt. 80 Ycar Old Egr Hagerstown, Md April IS. Mrs. Howard Bazel, of .55 Charles street, Hagerstown. claims to have the oldest decorated Easter in It is 80 years old.

The egg was colored. and by. her grandfather, Andrew Bownrd, a potter, for his daugh. ter anrf given to her on her birth flnv. Frbrunry 28.

1847. skill. car! ByEdVktehn 'A 31 fctL wih brakes care, bent free. Address Dept. 1017, Russell Manufacturing Company, Middletown, Connecticut Established 1830, (Branches: New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta.) Wfio to go to A GOOD man to go to, to have your brakes inspec relined is the man who tells Rusco.

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