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vOMOvmcnAEi LETTER EXfflESVM Found in Field Without Food For Four Days Alter Incident Brighton, Sept 3. Worry because be had destroyed a chain letter was blamed by E. V. Buckwell, 56, to day for his four day disappearance. Buckwell was found semi con scious on the downs, apparently having been without food since he left home last Wednesday.

On his matchbox he had scribbled "I have broken a Flanders Field chain of luck and this is my punishment" Mrs. SuckWeil 'id her husband put the chain letter in the fire after reading it incident seemed to prey on his mind, she said. "He thought what he had done would bring bad luck. I am sure the circulation of such letters should be stopped." MANILA THREATENED WITH HEAVY STORM Bv Associated Press Manila, Sept 3. Weather signals were raised to day indicating the center of a typhoon was near, with the possibility of dangerous gales and heavy squalls.

All communications with the southern part of this island, Luzon, were disrupted. Weather reports last, night said the region was flooded by increasing rains. FILE 39 MORE VOTE PETITIONS i (Continued) petitions to ninety two on which there are 5730 names. Fourteen petititons were filed August 21, 14, August 26th and 23 August 29. The petitions, filed to day, were circulated by the folio persons: Claude Z.

Detweiler, 1906 North Third street; Charles H. Kinter, 804 North See cond: David E. Brightbill, 023 Emerald Abraham Mayer, 1611 Green; Mrs. Ella Erenisholtz, 1317 Liberty; C. H.

D. Mach amer. 668 Emerald: Edwin C. Thompson. 1304 Derry; Chester J.

Payne, 147 North lnirteentn; Mrs. Anna c. Montooth, 819 North Second; Mrs. Catharine Cree, 1513 Logan; M. P.

McAlicher, 402 Muench Miss Nell K. McCollough, 1307 North Second: Mrs. Flora Powley. 2328 Pros pect; Charles E. Wise.

1335 Howard; Harry T. Jacoby. 21 South Seventeenth: Vincent O. Wamendifer. 1325 Bartine; Dr.

LeRoy e. nowara, hbs eerrynm; Marrv nettling ,1013 South Tenth; Edward Diehl. 3028 North Third; Mrs. Margaret i. uenaer.

jmu Lexington; William XL. renstermacher, 1330 North Third; Harry l. noose, nortn sixteenth; Mrs. Syl via Garner, 2123 Green; Raymond G. eeuers, 212s Moore; Harry A.

Kreidler, 1707 Apricot; George Koch, 402 Reilv; Mrs. Sadie Lehmer, 207 Hummel; James A. K.ocn. 2535 North Sixth; George W. Dress, 1535 Derry; Mrs.

Elizabeth Cross ley, me north Fourteenth; A. Leroy x.guii, iiii nauaain. Mrs. una not te M. Blosser.

660 Emerald; Mrs. Anna E. Roathj 2128 Penn. CITY GRAYS WILL BE DISSOLVED (Continued) and various pieces of personal prop erty. The income from this fund will go to National Guard units in proportionate amounts, thus cart vino on the initial purpose of the or ganization 'the instruction of the young men in military tactics." Building of the new National Guard Armory cited as one of the reasons for the sale of the Second street property.

Non existence of Companies and of the National Guard, is also mentioned. The City Grays became a corporation in 1874 and has had a continued existence ever since. The Harrisburg Trust Company has been named as the liquidating trustee. The petition was presented by John T. Brady.

The four surviving members, signatory to the Darters filed tn are; President, Charles P. Ellinger; vice presiaenu, b. h. schell; secretary, D. Jenkins: treasurer.

M. E. Finney. State News in Brief Waynesboro. Under the direc tion of John R.

Wilson, physical director of the local Y. M. C. a Junior Life Saving Club was or ganied here to day. Snnbory The deal for the sale ff frViA HltflHnm 4 AJ4 itje street is expected to be closed today, by Mrs.

J. B. Cressinger, wife of the city physician, and the Beck Electric Company. Bioomsbnrg Bids will be re ceived this week for the completion of the five miles of road between Millville and Bloomsburg. snamoun A very interestine program has been arranged for the Schuylkill Fair to day.

The fair opened Saturday and win enntfniw throughout the week. Danville The carnival nt the Washington Fire Comnanv is be ing held on the comoanv's lot all this week. Shamokin The dedication exer cises of the Hickorv R.iHoa rrninn Church were held SnnHov. ofw. lloon at 2.30 ocWlr nf fioAn to.

Wa services were conducted hv th pr 1UC George DueH. Lancaster. Jacob Flowm a. bridge, killed when Readine train strikes his automobile crossing at Lancaster Junction. jvorristown.

With more than 3000 members in line, narade fentjinw opening of twenty fifth annual State council Of the Order nf Tnrie. pendent Americans. New Kensmrton. Secretary of Labor James J. Davix orfrireue large gathering at.

Labor Day cele bration. Philadelphia. Lowber Stokes. Haverf oriL" 'Mooslv in lured in yviv ioiub jit. raswr oecween Philadelphia, Club and the Bun Baglea.V'.

t.j;. a J. D. I an HAItniSSUIlQ CJTELEGITAJPII TUESDAY EVENING 1 SEPTEMBER 3, 1929 Body of Aviator Washed Ashore May Be Missing Swiss Atlantic Pilot Bv Associated Press Lisbon, Portugal. Sept 3.

Belief was held here to day that the body of one of the two youthful Swiss flyers missing since August 19, when they made an attempt to cross the Atlantic to New York has been located and buried sear here. On Friday of last week the body of a fair haired youth clad In a yellow rubber suit and wearing aviation goggles was washed up on Ericeira Beach. The belief is that it was that of either Oscar Kaeser EDISON IS OUT OF DANGER WHEN PNEUMONIA ENDS Aged Inventor's Vitality Brings Rapid Recovery, Physicians Say West Orange, N. Sept. 3.

Thomas A. Edison, famous inventor, was recovering to day from an attack of pneumonia. A bulletin issued yesterday by his physician, Dr. Hubert S. Howe, vas the firs' intimation that the electrical wizard was suffering from anything more serious than a severe cold.

The bulletin said because of nis natural vigor and power of resist ance, Mr. Edison, despite his 82 years, had been aDie to overcome the infection and now was out of danger and in a convalescent stage. He should not resume work for two or three weeks, the bulletin said. Mr. Edison contracted a severe cold August 11.

Despite this he continued work in his laboratory for two days. Then pneumonia set in. 1 The inventor refused to permit any announcement of his illness to be made for fear those in charge of ih: celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the incandescent lamp to be held at Dearborn, on October 21, might think he would be unable to attend. GREEN MAY GET DAVIS' POST IN HOOVER CABINET By Associated Press Sept. 3.

Fred W. Green, governor of Michigan, arrived in the city to day to be the guest, of President Hoover at the White House. He will remain for several days. A Reports were current that Green might be selected to succeed James J. Davis, as Secretary of Labor if Davis retires from the Cabinet March 4, at the expiration of the one year period which he agreed to serve in the Hoover Administration.

There was, however, no confirma tion of these reports in official cir cles. HOODLUMS BEAT UP MAN PROTESTING STRAW HAT BREAKING By Associated Press Chicago, Sept. 3. Three self appointed nitwits decided that last nieht should be the end of the straw hat season. They strutted up and down Navy Pier knocking straw chapeaux from unwilling but unresisting heads.

They came finally to one man who fought back. The three ruffians set upon him. They knocked him to the pavement and pounded him without mercy. His skull was fractured' and County Hospital internes said he probably would die. FALLS TO DEATH WHEN PARACHUTE FAILS TO OPEN Niagara Falls, N.

Sept. 3. Thousands of holiday makers saw parachute jumper fall to his death on the Canadian side of the Falls. Leslie Mackey, 28, of Windsor, a professional parachute jumper, went up 2700 feet in an airplane. Witnesses said he had trouble getting clear of the plane, and when he finally dropped, the parachute failed to open.

He fell into a field at Niagara on the which is across the river from Youngstown, N. where his parachute jump was to have been the feature of a Labor Day celebra tion. Heflin's Son Arrested Phenix City, Sept. Tom Heflin, son of the senior United States Senator from Alabama, was in jail here early today on charges, of drunkenness and violating the state prohibition law. M.

Haines, of Standing Rock, his companion, also was in jail charged with operating an automobile while drunk. a for Images and Voices Are Carried Over Same Wire By Associated Press 1 New York, Sept: 3. Simultaneous transmission over wires of images and voices was successfully demonstrated here in the studio and laboratory of the Baird Television Cor ration. The demonstration was over wires linking the studio and the special laboratory, several blocks apart, but official of the Baird Company explained the system could as easily or Kurt Luescher, the boyish Swiss flyers. i The body was buried in the local cemetery.

The flyers took off from a beach near' here on August 19, hoping to complete a nonstop flight to New York. They subsequently were seen out on the Atlantic 170 miles west of Lisbon by a steamship and there was a report that 'they had been seen over one of the islands of the Azores. Nothing more was heard of them. Tiered and Weary Man Calls For His Motor i By Associated Press EVANSTON, 111, Sept 3. THE distinguished looking, but dishevelled gentleman leaning against the lamp post at Dewey and Foster avenues, was tired; very.

It had been a holiday, and yon know how holidays are this hot weather. He dragged himself to a police call box, the door of which was conveniently open. Send my car right over," he said, listlessly. 'Til wait." They sent over the car with the lengthwise seats and the screened windows. The man, too tired even to say who he was, climbed wearily aboard.

"Drive right home," he said. When he awoke this morning, ex pecting to be at home, he wasn't. ENGLAND WILL NOT ENTER COMPETITION IN NAVY BUILDING By Associated Press Geneva, Sept. 3. The British government "declined absolutely to build against the United declared Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in his disarmament speech before the League of Na tions assembly to day.

"That not only the word of a labor gov ernment. I think I can say it Is that of a conservative govern ment." MacDonald announced that the Anglo American naval agreement probably would contain twenty points. "Only three of these points are he said. The labor leader expressed be lief the agreement would be com pleted before the adjournment of the League assembly. BUTLER'S FRIENDS URGE CANDIDACY FOR GOVERNORSHIP By Associated Press Philadelphia, Sept.

3. The Phila delphia Evening Bulletin to day says that a movement has been started to" boom Major General Smedley D. Butler, former director of public safety of Philadelphia and now com mandant of the Marine Corps base at Quantico, for Governor of Pennsylvania. General Butler, in a telephone talk from Quantico, said he wanted it understood that he had nothing to do with the movement, that he was not jseeking the place, and did not know whether he, would accept if a nomination was offered him. BEACH RESORT IS SWEPT BY FLAMES 4.

Bv Associated Press Ocean City, Sept. 3. Fire of unknown origin destroyed fifteen concessions along the boardwalk of Maryland's only ocean resort early this morning, causing damage esti mated at $250,000. Aided by fire fighting apparatus from seven near by towns the fire was brought under control at 2 o'clock after it had been burning for more than an hour. At 1.15 the flames reached the At lantic Hotel, but did no damage to the structure.

The section burned extended 400 yards north of the hotel to Playland, an amusement park where the fire was supposed to have started in a sandwich shop. Scolded Daughter Kills Herself Edison, Sept. 3. (JP) An gered by a reprimand from her par ents oecause sne nad attended a motion picture show on Sunday, Miss Pearline Hammack committed suicide by shooting herself in the head with a revolver. Dry Agent Is Slain Gadsden, Sept.

3. (IP) Dep utp Sheriff O'Bryan, 43 was shotNto death shortly after he walked out of church at Hales Schoolhouse, twelve miles south of here. Sleeps Eight Days Chicago, Sept. 3. Asleep for eight and a half days, Mrs.

Emma Williams, 48, awoke with a request water. be used by radio stations for broadcasting. Captain W. J. Jarrard, American representative of the Baird Company, said arrangements have been made in England, and Belgium for regular broadcasting of films of images and sounds, similar to sound motion pictures.

He said it was planned eventually to broadcast in this country the images and voices of living persons. cody FOUND IN SACK, LIYSHFIES POLICE Method Used by Slayers Not Revealed in Early Probe Morris, UL, Sept 3. Police knew they had a murder mystery confronting them to day, but they frankly agreed that they had no idea how the killing had been done. The body of a woman, 50 years old, found in a burlap sack beside a main traveled highwayyesterday bore no sign of violence. The cir cumstances, however, all pointed to foul play.

i A post mortem to day was to seek the cause of death. Traces of gas and poison were particularly looked for. Shock to Discoverers Mrs. Joseph Hunt, of Detroit, dis covered the body when her curiosity led her to push a large rock from the top of the sack and to open it. She fainted and her husband, who was repairing their automobile nearby, notified the sheriffs office.

Fresh grass beneath, the sack indicated the body had been put there only a few hours before. The rock, dissimilar to any in this locality, led officials to believe that the person who had left the body had intended dropping it in the Illinois River, about a mile away. Coroner Hoganson stated that death occurred about a month ago. The only elue to the woman's identity was a dental bridge with two front gold teeth, police said. ENDURANCE PILOTS FIND TASK HARD IN SEEKING NEW RECORD By Associated Press Chicago, Sept.

3. With second honors already in their possession, Russell. Mossman and C. E. Steele, pilots of the refueling endurance flight plane, Chicago We Will, the 256th hour in the air at 3.31 this morning.

They hoped to beat the 421 hour record of the St. Louis Robin. Mossman and Steele gave indica tions that, although their craft was functioning perfectly, the long grind was becoming irksome. "Hello, world," said a note, which Steele dropped. "Jf you think 240 hours in the air isn't a long you're all wrong.

A telegram from Dale Jackson and Forest OBrine. who set the records of the stf. Louis Robin re ceaitly, was received at the Sky Harbor airport, base of the Chicago We Will, to day. It read: "Go to it, boys. We are right behind you." Airport attaches expressed sym pathy and also relief when informed that the Empire State Standard had been forced down in Syracuse, N.

after 178 hours in the air. 'Bumpy" air late yesterday made flying difficult, and the sixty fifth refueling contact was made at an altitude of 5000 feet, where the air was calmer. IMMEDIATE START ON RIVER CHANNEL (Continued) taken immediately towards deepening the river channel to permit all' kinds of river boats to pass from the lower basin, to the basin near McCormick's Island. Mr. steward suggested that if work is started at this time em ployment could be given to some of the hundreds of workmen from the river coal dredging industry who are at present idle due to the low state of the Susquehanna which has caused this industry to come to a temporary shut down.

River At Lowest Stare For years this improvement has been under consideration; but it is ow proposed to take up the project seriously and make such rec ommendations as will bring about practical Not for several years has the river been so low as now. Not only are the rocks visible in every direction, but the shore line discloses much of rubbish which must be removed. Especially in the nortnern section of. the city for a considerable distance west of the line of the "Front Steps" there is a deposit of rocks and sticks and tree limbs, barrels, boxes and much refuser which has apparently been accumulating since the river front improvement was completed some year? ago. Commissioner Earley is going to give tms matter also serious con sideration so that some Plan mav woe adopted for removing the rub tasn and' restoring the river front to something more attractive than this appearance of a public dump.

J. c. Shawfield. a well known contractor who has much exoeri ence in such work, believes that a flat with a steam shovel can da much to 'restore proper conditions along the front steps for a consid erable distance from the shore line. He proffered his services this morn ing and such co operation as he is in Dosition to give.

Steward Suggests Raising Dam "Long familiar with river con ditions, Mr. Steward believes raising the dam at Iron avenue at the same time the channel is ooen ed will do much to provide safer passage from the bridges to Rock ville. He also is ready to co operate with the committee which has been asked to undertake the improvement. Cabinet Minister Killed Halifax, N. Sept.

3. (PI John F. Mahoney, who rose from a waterfront worker to minister of natural resources In the government of Nova scotia, was killed last night in a collision of his automobile and a street car. He was 34 years old, the youngest man ever to occupy a cabi net position in the province. BOOTLEGGERS SAY POLICE COLLECT CONEY FM.I TUETJ Graft Charges Hay Be Pet Before Grand Jury For Investigation 4 Bv Associated Press Los Angeles, Sept.

3. Possible grand jury action was expected here to day upon two reports, one by the Federal prohibition office and another by a confessed bootlegger, naming a large number Los An geles policemen as members of a "shakedown ring" exacting tribute from' the illicit liquor trade. The Federal prohibition office re ported that sixty two policemen of the metropolitan area, ranging from captains down, had been named by Federal investigators as members of the ring. i "Protection Money" At the same it was disclosed that Harry D. McDonald, a bootlegger, had made a statement to District Attorney Burton Fitts, Implicating iweniy nve policemen in tne alleged operations.

McDonald, who declared he was "tired of the continued iriDuie exactea oy tne police," was reported to have charged that the officers, instead of turning in the liquor they confiscated in raids, sold it to bootleggers from whom they were receiving "protection money." District Attorney Fitts indicated that he might lay the matter before the county grand jury to day. Federal officials, said they would take no further action in view of Fitts' inclination to investigate. Prefers Jail McDonald, who was arrested after he had made his statement, declines to furnish bail, saying threats had been telephoned to his wife, and that he preferred to remain in a cell rather than to be at liberty. Fitts placed a guard over his house. In his statement, McDonald named one' police captain and four lieutenants as members of a ring which visited him here.

Shaken Down Over glasses of his liquor, McDon ald charged they demanded and obtained "protection money" from him. In spite of this protection money, he declared, occasionally his place would be raided, and later the liquor taken as evidence would be resold to him under pressure. "I had to pay them regular wholesale prices for this confiscated whisky, Just taken from me," McDonald said. He named several witnesses whom he said would corroborate his story that it was this protection which resulted in only one arest in five years. He was charged with con spiracy and violation of the prohi bition laws.

War Veteran Slain Farrell, Sept. 3. (PH The body of Joseph Paiadino, 35, crippled World War veteran, was tound witli two wounds in the back of the head and a rope twisted about his neck in the rear of a vacant lot here early to day. Urges Radio Law Revision Washington, Sept. 3.

UP) The standing committee on radio law of the American Bar, Association to day made public a report to the association recommending an almost, complete revision of pres ent radio legislation. OBITUARY MRS. CARRIE MOUNTZ The White Shrine and the Order of Eastern Star will hold funeral services for Mrs. Carrie Mountz, 27 worth Third street, Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the Reese funeral parlors. JAMES E.

JONES, JR. Private funeral services for James E. Jones, Jr, 11, Colonial Road, Har risburg, R. D. 4, near Shoops Church, died yesterday, will be held morning at 10 o'clock.

Burial will be in the Mt Lebanon cemetery at Lebanon. Body may be viewed at the home this evening. He is survived by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. James E.

J6nes. MRS. FANNIE KOLMATCH Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Kolmatch, 77, 713 Mohn street, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Francis Horlocher, will be held at the home on Thursday morning at ff o'clock, with, the Rev.

John Weber officiating. Burial will be in the St. John's Mt. Calvary Cemetery. She is survived by her daughter and a son.

Nicholas Kolmatch, of Europe. 5 MRS. S. B. HIPPENSTEEL Funeral services for Mrs.

Sher man A. Hippensteel, 55, who died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Elliot S. Mosey, Market street, Le moyne, Sunday afternoon, will be held at the home Thursday afternoon, at 2.30 o'clock, with the Rev. Thomas Ferguson, of Mechanics burg, and the Rev.

J. H. Lehman, pastor of the United Brethren Church, of Lemoyne, officiating. Burial will be in the Enola Ceme tery. The body may be viewed Wednesday evening.

She is survived by three children a son, Floyd E. Hippensteel, of New Cumberland; two daughters, Mrs. Elliot S. Mosey, of Lemoyne, and Mrs. Lena Zimmerman, of Bal timore, Md.

5 MISS KEGINA C. DICK Miss Regina C. Dick, 74, died this morning at the Home for the Friendless, Fifth and Muench streets. She is survived, by one brother, James E. Dick.

Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at the home, the Rev. C. Waldo Cherry, 1 pastor of, Pine Street Presbyterian Church, of which she was a member, officiating. Burial will be in th Harri.burg. Cemete Return After Fortnight in Bermuda lliili1 mp pill.

Yip: I MISS MILDRED LINGLE Miss Lingle, 929 North Sixth High street, Hummelstown, arrived Bernuda liner, Fort Victoria, after Birthday Party Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Jacoby, 619 Harris street, entertained recently at a birthday party for their daughter, Mary Jacoby, who was 7 years old.

The guests were: Ann Adams, Gladys Mountz, Dorothy Emma Lu bold, Margaret Pipp, Alice Pickle, Bertha Imsioler, Florence Lick, Winifred Jacoby, Evelyn Dingers Lillian Putt, Helen Putt, Katherine Jacoby, Ge.raldine Jacoby, Gertrude Dice, Helen Shoemaker; Frank Bressler, Robert Campbell, Thomas Adams, Earnest Vincent, John Margens, Warren Mertz, Joe Kniss ley, Harry Pipp, Samuel Earhart, Donald Deckard, Roy Radle, Arthur Firman, Al Nolty, Kenneth Lick, David Ritter, Clarence Shearer, Roy Shearer, Montraville Shearer, Lee Shearer, Vincent Shearer, Nester Shearer, Stanly Jacoby, Mr. and Mrs. N. M. Jacoby, Mr.

and Mrs. D. A. Jacoby, Mr. and Mrs.

R. E. Jacoby, Mr. and Mrs. H.

I. Jacoby, Mr. and Mrs; W. R. Shearer.

Can Club Meet The Blue Ribbon Gun Club held a meeting recently at the clubhouse near Mt. Holly Springs. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. John Early, Mr.

and Mrs. Stephen Shutt, Mr. and Mrs. B. C.

Agle, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ritter, Mr. and Mrs. John L.

Haines, Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Hain, Mrs.

M. Miller, Mrs. L. Haines, and Mrs. E.

W. Wit manMr. and Mrs. M. J.

Hocker, George A. Hocker, Miss ennie Hocker, Mr. and Mrs. George Turns, Ralph Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Witman, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Myers, Eugene Myers, Bobby Ritter, Mr. and S. J.

Seiger, Mr. and Mrs, P. B. Witman, Elmer King, Grace Willis, Mr. and Mrs.

Jesse Rhoads, Mr. and Mrs. John Rudy, Mr. and Mrs. Grove, Mr.

and Mrs. C. Miller. Start Collections The Salvation Army is collecting rags, papers, old furniture and other articles These; articles are sorted and the good is given to the needy and that which is unfit for' use is sold for junk and the money used for the benefit of the community. Those desiring the truck to call may arrange for by calling Bell 3 2311.

Hosts at Cards Mr. and Mrs. James W. Miller, River Road, entertained! recently at Their guests were: Dr. and Mrs.

Leroy Howard, Mr. and Mrs. John Feity, Mr. and Mrs George Gru ber, George Mcllhenny, Miss Ruth Wells, John Felty, John Miller, Miss Edna' Hocker and Mrs. Raymond Monley.

Missionary Meeting The Sarah, A. Herr Foreign Missionary Society, of Grace Methodist Church, will meet in the church parlor. Thursday night, at 7.45 o'clock. Mrs. Samuel Eckels will be in charge of the program and Mrs.

W. H. Spooner will be chairman of the committee for the meeting. Ox Roast An ox roast will be held all day Saturday at Ira Coupon's store, Mt. Victory, midway between Mt.

Holly and York Springs. A festival will be held on Friday night, with chicken corn soup and other refreshments for sale. Club to Meet The Women's i Democratic piub of Dauphin County will, hold a meeting in Reservoir Park on Thursday, September 12. Steamer Founders; Manila. P.

Sept. 3. IIP) The steamer Mayon, owned by the Manila Railroad was reported to have foundered In a typhoon 'yesterday afternoon off the Pasacao Ragay Gulf. Of the thirty seven passen gers aboard the steamer, only nine were reported to have been saved. No mention of members of the crew was contalnd in brief dispatches received here by railroad officials.

Ella Barnett Studios. N. Y. AND MISS ETHEL WAGNER street, and Miss" Wagner, of 291 West Sunday in New York on the Furness a stay of two weeks in Bermuda. GUILD PDESENTS $200 TO DR.

AND MRS.REISCH The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Reisch returned recently from the Lutheran Summer Assembly at Sel lnsgrove. On Friday evening the Ladies' Altar Guild of Christ Lutheran Church, Mrs.

H. C. Gettel, president, and a number of friends, made a surprise call at he parsonage. They presented a large basket of flowers to Mrs. Reisch.

To the basket was tied a card containing an inscription of best wishes and welcome. Within the basket was con cealed a box containing over $200 as further expression' of good will of the guild and friends. The presentation remarks were made by H. C. by Frank B.

Spink. Dr. Reisch responded expressing his gratitude. To Plan A Convention Mrs. Edgar Weimer, Lebanon, first vice president of the district Parent Teacher Association, and Mrs.

Frank Wagner, president of the Dauphin County Parent Teacher Association, will meet with representatives of the P.rT. A. from Lebanon and Dauphin counties to morrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock, at the Penn Harris, to plan for the district convention to. be held here next month. Noaker Cromleigh Miss Mary Cromleigh, Carlisle, formerly employed by the Department, of Revenue and John C.

Noak er, son of Mrs. Ada Noaker, Carlisle; were married in Washing tori, August 27. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fox and J.

K. Gephart were the attendants. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Mary Cromleigh, Carlisle. Mr; and Mrs: Noaker will live in Carlisle.

Besecker Kepner The Rev. 3. H. Schmidt, pastor of Trinity United Brethren Church, New Cumberland, officiated yesterday at the marriage of Miss Dorothy J. Kepner, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Kepner of New Cumberland, and Guy M. Besecker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Besecker, Highspire.

Mr. and Mrs Besecker will live in New Cumberland. Weli Baby Clinic The Enola Well Baby Clinic will be held to morrow from 2 to 4 o'clock, in the social rooms of the Methodist Church. Dr. W.

Minster Kunkel and Miss Edith Lewis are in charge of the clinic, i Republican Council to Meet Mrs. Charles A. Alden is president of the. Dauphin County Council of Republican Women which will hold its first fall meeting at Pythian Castle, on Thursday night, September 19. Aid Society Meeting Mrs.

Johh B. Corl is president of the Ladies Aid Society, of Trinity United Brethren Church, of New Cumberland, which will meet Thursday evening at the church. Wins Tournarnent Mrs. Charles Simpson won the flag tournament held by the women toilers of the Colonial Country Club yesterday. TO GIVE TREASURE HDI1T FOR GUESTS Miss Miriam Gallagher to Be Hostess at Party.

Tonight Miss Miriam Gallagher, 1721 State street, will be hostess to night at a treasure hunt in honor of Miss Bessie McElroy, of Bryn Mawr; Miss Eleanor Kilker, Girardville, and Miss Mary Meluskey, of Shenandoah, and the guests win be Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Morganthaler, Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Warner, Mr. and Mrs. James K. Bowman, Mr.

and MrsT Charles Hoover. Miss Lillian Sullivan, Miss Mary Sullivan, Miss Phyllis Elliott, Miss Margaret Gilmer, Miss Kathleen Edy, Miss Harriet Mathias, Miss Margaret Keans, Miss Thelma Way, Miss Elizabeth Miller, Miss Eleanor Shawfield, Miss Mary Mumma, Miss Ellen Potts, Miss Marie Weir, Miss Edna Burk, Miss Maria Baum, Miss Helene Burg, Miss Helen Ebert, Miss Betty Pendergast, Miss Emmetins Sherk. Samuel Wilson, John Stapf, Lan dis Fisher, Robert Greene, Clarence Bachman, James Cobb, Bill Prey, Alfred G. Eden, Ralph Kin singer, Dr. Paul Zuckerman, William Dickinson, William Martin, Wendell Morganthaler, James OXeary, Alton Maxwell, Frank Wenaker, James Viall, Leo Fetter man, Joseph Furher, Charles Gilmer, Kermett Hoffman, Ben Gamer, Edward Weiss, Gilbert Pendergast, Hamilton Nuss, Bernard Gallagher, Miss Lillian Sullivan will entertain Miss Gallagher's guests at dinner and bridge at her home, 273 Cumberland street, on Thursday night.

The guests will be Miss Margaret Keane, Miss Marian Wilson, Miss Emmetine Sherk, Miss Eleanor Shawfield, Miss Janet Bowman, Mrs. Helen Coryell, Mrs. Anne E. Bowman, Mrs. F.

W. Shimmel, Mrs. Jane Hoover, Miss Lila May Steckley and Miss Mary Sullivan. Attend Bailey Reunion Mr. and Mrs.

H. B. Hadley Bailey, Dolores Bailey and Emerald Bailey, 2456 North Sixth street; Mr. and Mrs. John Michael and Mr.

and Mrs. C. E. Shull, 2639 Reel street, and Mr. and Mrs.

W. L. Trout, 2112 Moore street, went yesterday, to the William Paxton Farm, near Parkesburgr where they attended the Bailey reunion. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs.

Milea H. Orth and family, 2611 North Second street, have returned from Mt. Gretna, where they spent the month of August. Calvin K. Hummel, of Washington, was the weekend guest of his brother in law and sister, Mrs.

J. M. Shelly, 2436 North Second street. Miss Beatrice L. Stones 405 Boas street, has returned from Wildwood.

N. where she spent the Labor Day weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Charles E.

Booser and their family, 1326 Derry street, are at home after a month's stay at Mt. Gretna. Mr. land Mrs. J.

A. Geiger, and Marlin Geiger, 222 Crescent street, left to day for a visit in Charleston, W. Va. Miss Ruth Seitz, 2109 Moore street, Miss Edith Sandy, 2410 Green street, and Miss Edna Robinson, 310 Hamilton street, are at the Monticello Hotel, Atlantic City, for the week end. Mr.

and Mrs. M. Wevodau, 3221 North Third street; Mr. and Mrs. Chester Trout and Bobby Trout, 2112 Moore street.

went for the weekend to Atlantic City, where they were registered at the Trever ton Hotel. Miss Mary Fletcher Lewis, Richmond, was guest for the last two weeks of the Misses Reuwer, 7 South Market Square Mr. and Mrs. John Warden and Jackie Warden, 2819 North Second street, will return this week from Ocean City. Miss Rebecca Harman, 19 South Seventeenth street, and Miss Mary Dean, 1808 Chestnut street, were guests at the Dodge Hotel, Washington, D.

over Labor Day. Mr. and Mrs. W. T.

Barnes and Elizabeth Barnes, Philadelphia, were week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Bodmer, 318 Church street.

Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bodmer and June, were week end guests of Mr.

Bodmer's parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Bodmer, 318 Church Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Gangi, 202 South Thirteenth street, will sail September 13 from Naples, Italy, on the S. S. Vulcania, for this country. They expect to be in New York September 23, and will return to this city September 26.

Mr. and Mrs. George Keefer and children, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Miller, Edgar MillerJ and Mr.

and Mrs. J. Espenshade, of West Fairvww; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barley and children, New Cumberland, and Mr, and Mrs.

M. Espenshade, of Hummelstown, motored recently Washington and Mt. Vernon. Mrs. W.

H. Phillips has returned 1 to her home in Philadelphia after a visit of ten days with Mra. Robert Ward, 1207 Walnut street. Announcing Virnia Dare Products Ins. i7th and Chestnut Streets Homemade Ice Cream A Perfect Meal in Itself CONTAINS An Vitamines.

Rich in Minerals High In Fat. High in Carbohydrates. Rich in Complete Proteins. Calorie Value Equal to One Meal. WE DELIVER PHONE 3 1531.

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