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ifflKsiinirli 6 $22.00 FUR MUFFS ft ffc 1 BROWN ilUFFS $3.49 SETS $14.98 Wijm THIS liKt fUr P0NY ml wM Coats I Vi. Now 69c la SAMPLE! DON'T MISS' THIS S6, $7 and $8 SILK Dresses SATUR DAY So, 98 $25 Willow Plumes, s12 60 ALL OUR SWELL HATS TRIMMED VALUES UP TO $5 $1.50 THE READING TIMES, READING, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, i 9 1 3 CHILDREN'S SETS $1.98 $5.00 FUR SCARFS $2.98 $14.98 WHITE ICELAND $7,98 FOX SETS $1.00 WASH WAISTS, NOW 50c ism .00 Skirls, row 01 $uu sweaters $1,50 MUSLIN Qfltsn GOWNS $1.25 Combinations, now 49c Drawers now 69c 25c 75c Petticoats yin Now tions ton $2.00 Gombina oou Seven hig sous IITOII READY FOR BIG TAFT 0 SCHOOLS LITERARY NIGH Members of Camp No. 678, P. O. S.

of Friday eveningr passed a resolution requesting President Taft to sign th immigration bill, passed recently by Congress. Secretary Gring was instructed to forward a copy of the resolution to the president One candidate wan initiated and two propositions received. Next Friday evening John Hoffman will make an address on "Immigration," the first of a series of talks on current topics. District President Nathaniel Gring made a short address. The Uniform Rank of Camp 678 will hold a cake sale in the various market houses Saturday afternoon and evening, February 1.

Camp No. 329, P. O. S. of received five propositions.

Eugene Hendricks made an address. K. of P. Debate Mt. Penn Lodge, No.

65, K. of initiated five Friday evening and received one proposition. The presentations were postponed until next Friday evening, when a smoker wift be held. A. C.

Bush and Charles W. Copp debated: "Resolved, That cigarette smoking retards growth, mentally and physically. Mr. Bush, the affirmative speaker, was awarded a box of cigars by the house. Next Friday evening the convention committee will meet at the hall of Lodge No.

5. Laing Council. Post Councilor Dana Luigard installed for D. J. Laing Council, No.

995, O. I. Past councilor, Heber Bryan: councilor. Passmore Brison; vice councilor, Raymond Heckman; assistant recorder, Philip W'essner; inside sentinel. Earl Ensiel; outside sentinel, Merrice Miller; trustee, Harry Berjeer.

Refreshments were served. Initiation in two weeks. Visitors were present from Perseverance Council, No. 19, and Resolute Council, No. 27.

The degree team association elected' two members. Mrs. Ellen Shalters, Reading, district president P. O. of installed officers for Camp 145 at Shoemakers ville, Friday evening.

Camp No. 176, V. O. of Pleas antville, will have an oyster supper February 15. Reading members will attend.

Mrs. Sallie Feather, organizer of Camp No. 17, P. O. of Reading, will entertain friends February 15, her birthday anniversary.

Onnip 17 Anniversary. Sixty one members attended the campfire of Camp No. 17, P. O. of Friday evening.

One proposition was received. George W. Schafer, state secretary, addressed the members. The 26th anniversary program of the camp (April 13) will be arranged by Mrs. Ellen Shalters, chairman; Anna Blessing, vice chairmna; Carrie Kirschm'ann, secretary; Mary Bogel, treasurer.

MEMBERS OF ALLEGED ARSON RING INDICTED BT ASSOCIATED PRESS. Chicago, Jan. 24. The grand jury today returned indictments charging arson against Joseph Clark, Harry Brown and John Kabizak and Samuel Rottenberg. The charges form a se quel to the recent investigation made into the operation of the alleged "ar son ring" said to hace been respon sible for scores of incendiary fires in Chicago.

Rottenberg, Clarke and Brown are public fire insurance adjusters and Kabizak is said to be on of the "torch bearers" employed by the combine. The bonds of, each defendant was fixed at $40,000. RESIGNS RAILROAD PRESIDENCY TO HELP GOVERNMENT IN CASE BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. New York, Jan. 24.

E. H. Fitz hugh, who resigned yesterday as pres ident of the Central Vermont Rail road, testified today as a witness for the government before that federal grand jury investigationg the New England transportation situation. It is understood that Mr. Fitzhugh will remain her for a time as expert assistant to the government's attor neys, who are trying to reindict offi cers of the New Have Railroad and the Grand Trunk of Canada for violating the anti trust law.

STATE NOT HEWING TO LINE IN CLAY CASE, SAYS JUDGE STAPLES BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. Jan. 24. That too much attention has been paid by the attorney of the commonwealth to proving fraud and too little attention to proving conspiracy, was the suggestion made today by Judge Staples at the trial of Henry Clay, a former director of public safety, charged with conspiracy to defraud the city. "It is not necessary," said the judge, "to prove that fraud was committed.

What should be proved is that these men combined to cheat." The defense called witnesses today In an effort to show that no fraud was committed in the execution of the contracts under investigation. STATES WILL HELP MAKE GETTYSBURG REUNION SUCCESS BT ASSOCIATED PRESS. Philadelphia, Jan. 24. Reports as to what each state is doing to help make a success of the proposed reunion in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg, on that historic field next July, were presented at today's session of the planners of the great event." Many of the states reported that their Legislatures had appropriated money to send veterans to the celebration.

North Carolina and Texas, however, were two exceptions. SPECIAL TO THE TIMES. Mohnton, Jan. 24. The pupils of the three lower grades of the Mohnton public schools will give a literary program in the Mohnton Auditorium tomorrow evening, the proceeds of which will be devoted to the decorating of the respective rooms.

The teachers of the first, second and third grades are: Frank Matz, Miss Ethel B. Stamm and W. A. Dunkelberger. The program: Song.

"America," pupils; recitation, "Welcome Address," Harry Sweigert; recitation, "Off for School," Paul Wenrich; song, "Little Sparrow Birdie," pupils of second grade; recita tion, "filing the Baby," Helen Relg ner; recitation, "The Snow," Harriet Peters; recitation, 'The Boy and the Fish," Elmer Showalter; dialogue, "Keeping Store," pupils of third grade; recitation, "They Didn't Think," L11 lian Leininger; recitation, 'The Three Rabbits," Russel Weber; recitation, "AVork to Do," George Arnold; song, "What the Clock Says," pupils of sec ond grade; recitation, "What I Have," Catharine Matz; recitation, "The Queer Little Story," Paul Madeirae; concert recitation, "Wonderful World," pupils of third grade; recitation, Helen Hangen; recitation, "A Little Gentleman," Martin Hill; motion song, pupils of first grade; recitation, "Wonderful Fly," Warren Kessler; recita tion, "What the Choir Says," AliceJ pier; recitation, a Fert utue spar row," Charles Seitzinger; recitation, "Baby," Carrie Wolf; song, "Stand for Truth and Right," pupils of third grade; concert recitation, "The Check adee," pupils of the first grade; recitation, "Who Likes the Rain?" Earl Hatt; concert poem, "The Merry Brown Thrush," pupils of second grade; dialogue, "Friday Afternoon Compositions," pupils of third grade; recitation, Kitten Fright," Doyle Corwin; recitation, "Naughty Patty," Carrie Mosser; motion song, "Obedi enee," pupils of second grade; closing address, "Goodbye," Thelima Ecken P. O. OF A. MEMORIAL FEB. 23.

The Washington and Lincoln birthdays celebration by the Reading camps P. O. S. of A. will be held in the Hippodrome Sunday afternoon at 3.15, February 23.

CATECHISM LECTURE. In St. Stephen Reformed' Church. Friday evening, Rev. Elam J.

Snyder lectured on "The Heidelberg Catechism" before a large audience. The lecture was illustrated. $3.50 Recipe Free, for Weak Men Send Name and Address Today You Can Have if Free and Be Strong and Vigorous. I have in my possession a prescription for nervous debility, lack of vigor, weakened manhood, failing memory and lame back, brought on by excesses, unnatural drains, or the follies of youth, that has cured so many worn and nervous men right in their own homes without any additional help or medicine that I think evary man who wishes to regain hJs manly power and virility, quickly and quietly, should have a copy. So I have determined to send a copy of the pre scription free of charge, in a plain, ordinary sealed envelop to any man who will write me for This prescription comesTrom a phy, sician who has made a special study of men and I am convinced It is the surest acting combination for the cure of decient manhood and vigor failure ever put together.

I think I owe it to my fellow man to send them a copy in condenc so that any man anywhere who Is weak and discouraged with repeated failures may stop drugging himself with harmful patent medicines, secure what I believe is the quickest acting restorative, upbuilding, SPOT TOUCHING remedy ever devised, and so cure himself at home quietly and quickly. Just drop me a line like this: Dr. A. E. Robinson, 4831 Luck Building, Detroit, and I will send you a copy of this splendid receipe in a plain ordinary envelope free of charge.

A great many doctors would charge $3.00 to $5.00 for merely writing out a prescription like this but I send It entirely free. (Adv.) When Selecting Your Liquors and Want; Bottled in Bond GUARANTEED QUALITY QUANTITY SEE THAT YOU GET IT HANNISVILLE (Full Bot. in Bond) OLD OVERHOLT (Full Bot. in Bond) READING RYE (Full Bot. in Bond) MT.

VERNON (Full Quart, 6 Yrs. Old) 90c 77c 80c CALIFORNIA PORT OR 'I SHERRY WINE, per XOt SPANISH TYE DOMESTIC Port or Sherry IMPORTED PORT OR SHERRY WINE 90c 40c 75c FARMERS HOTEL AIID RATHSICELLER FIFTH AND WASHINGTON STS Opposite Post Office. The Administratoro' Sale of Hoffman McKinney'a Entire" FURNITURE and RUG Stock of S25.QOO has been far above our expectations. We have sold heaps of goods, but we still have wonderful bargains. AD new up to date Furniture.

Lots of it was bought for this spring's trade, but it must all be closed out to satisfy the administration of Mr. McKinney's Estate. SPECIAL SALE FOR SATURDAY AND ALL OF NEXT WEEK IN BEDROOM, DINING ROOM AND PARLOR SUITES. bi We have values for you. We can save you money.

HbfJmasi (StMcKraney 812 PENN STREET SHILLINGTOH LODGE CELEBRATES SECOND ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL TO THE TIMES. Shillington, Jan. 24. At the second anniversary of Shillington Lodge, No. 1175, O.

O. addresses were made by the following visiting members: E. DeLong and Charles Adams, of Mount Penn, No. 518, of Reading; Edward T. Rose, of Philadelphia, and Charles Smith, of Worn elsdorf.

Henry Brooks, of Shilling ton Lodge, responded. At tho close of the exercises a lunch was served. A package party was held and netted $35. Those present were: Charles C. Adams, J.

E. DeLong, Samuel Mitchell, G. H. Trout and Claude Kitzmiller, of Lodge No. 618; H.

Broks, E. T. Kraber, C. Heffner, Victor Boyer, J. B.

Whitman and Charles Hollenbach, of Lodge No. 194, all of Reading; James Keiser, John G. Keiser and J. S. Keiser, of Lodge No.

660; E. T. Rose, Lodge No. 2, of Philadelphia; C. J.

Smith, Lodgo No. 231; W. H. Naus, Lodge No. 202; Lot W.

Franghauser, Lodge No. 454; G. W. Arnold, Lodge No. 294; Orvillo Becker, Lodge No.

218; J. Knauer, Lodgo No. 169. The local lodge was represented by the following: J. a Weiss, H.

G. Hain, Adam Brown, Jacob Kindt, C. J. Strauss, C. D.

B. Kindt, J. D. Earl, Frank Shupp, L. T.

McAndrews, Edward Lawrence, W. B. Yeager, M. F. Savage, Allen Schlegel, W.

S. J. Young, S. B. Klopp, Reuben Ney, A.

C. Klopp, L. Clouser and H. B. Matz.

After the exercises a group picture was taken by L. T. Mc Andrews. 3Hss Wertz's Party. A party was held at the residence of Mr.

and Mrs. John M. Wertz, Lan caster avenue and Sterly in honor of their daughter, Miss Carrie White Wertz. Those present were: Misses Edna Wertz, Elizabeth Wertz, Carrie W. Wertz, Edna Zwally, Jennie Wolf, Blanche Boone, Irene Shilling, Dorothy Boyer, Miriam Boyer, Hilda Sands, Annetta Stoner, Ftora Forn wald, Susan and Lizzie Wertz, Clara Kurtz, Lilli Dietrich and Harold Wertz, Grant Wertz, Luther Wertz, Walter Andrew Gehret, Clarence Hill, Earl Werner, Elwood Miller, Warren Griffith, Mr.

and Mrs. John M. Wertz, Mr. and Mrs. John W.

Wertz, Samuel Wertz and Harry Wertz. C. Eshelman moved his family into hfs house, southwest corner of Lancaster and New Holland avenues, recently purchased from W. S. Bach man.

Mr. Eshelman opened his drug store with a full line of drugs. W. S. Bachman, proprietor bf the Shillington Hotel, spent a day in Ai lentown.

Air. and Mrs. Harvey Schrmoyer and daughter, Mabel, of Plainfield, N. are spending a week's vacation with Mr. and Mrs.

H. Mohn and family, New Holland avenue. Mrs. Katie Boyer, of Womelsdorf, and Mrs. Ellas Hoff master and Miss Lizzie King, of Reading, visited the home of Harry Hill and family, Lan caster avenue.

a NO PLACE FOR MARRIED WOMAN. "The corner of Seventh and Cherry streets is not the proper place for a Hyde Park married woman," was the opinion of Alderman Breen handed down to Mrs. Catherine Strunk, who had sworn out a warrant for the arrest of Robert Ansel, charging him with assault. The case was held under advise ment, with the understanding that young Ansel shall not speak to the woman. ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN AT STOWE.

An attempt to wreck the train leaving the upper Reading station at 6.15 m. for Philadelphia was made hear Stowe Friday morning. Engi neer Thomas Eck noticed an obstruc tion on the track while the train was making probably 40 miles an hour. It was impossible to avoid striking the iron plates which had been placed on the track. The locomotive.

No. 225, was not derailed, but the flying paltes broke some of the steaan piping which held up the train nearly 10 minutes. MR. BAFJl'S GARDENER QUITS. After 32 years as gardener for George F.

Baer, at his summer home at Hawthorne, Ferdinand Heck will quit April 1. Mr. Heck will make his future home in Wyomissing with his sons, who are florists. READING SCHOOLS GET STATE MONEY The long overdue state appropriation to the Reading schools has been received. Treasurer John B.

Ren ninger.fof the city district, receiving a check for $72,030.76. Thia sum was figured in the local school as made in March, 1911, and was due since the close of tha. fiscal year, in June, 1912. In the meantime the school code has bocome operative, changing the time of closing the fiscal year to July 1, and also the time for making the formal application for the appropriation from the first Monday in June to the first Monday In October. PENNYPACKER REOPENS HARD COAL FREIGHT CASE BT ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Philadelphia, Jan. 24. Former I Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker, a member of the State Railroad Com mission, today reopened the hearing in the matter of the Philadelphia com plaints that the anthracite coal freight rates to this city are excessive. 'J.

H. EDWARDS ON BALKAN SITUATION The Academy of Music service on Sunday afternoon at 3.30 will be one" of unique interest, especially to" those interested in the war situation between the Turks and the Balkan There will be shown one hundred very fine pictures of scenes on and near the battlefields, and th story to be told will be such as to en able all to get a grip upon the situation as can not be secured in any other way. Many of the pictures have Just arrived in this country. Tha service will be directed by Secretary Edwards. Everybody invited.

A SMILE In Every Sip of Chaffless Old Glory Coffee Roasted at OLD GLORY COFFEE 128 North Ninth St. ANTWERP PIGEON FEED Rest on the market today. DANDY SCRATCH FEED The kind that delights the appetite of well bred poultry. We have a large stock of IDEAL INCUBATORS AND BROODERS TRY THEM AND BE CONVINCED. STRUNK MOYEk 924 Franklin Street.

General Poultry Supplies. Both Thones. MHMM iM I BUYING JEWELRY on easy payment is a matter of strict confidence. Our reputation as reliable Reading jewelers can not be disputed. Learn to know us.

Ad. I dress Telegram Times. HIIMIIIM MMiMMIMMMj 1 J. 11 At this season we direct your attention to our very large variety of the best canned and dried meats, salt and canned fish. We have the best in every approved brands in these lines.

Superior guaranteed sug'ar cured hams, sliced ham of our own boiling, boiled ox tongue, whole or sliced, kosher cured ox tongue, many varieties of bacon, the famous Burke sausages, bologna, frankfurters and many rare meat products too numerous to mention. Our canned meats form a long catalogue and include a large variety of canned fowl. Salt, dried, smoked and canned fish. We are always offered and select the best, both foreign and domestic. Our list includes mackerel from every good fishery.

Bloaters, cod fish, canned salmon and lobster, herring, sardines, and all fish classed under the heading "delicatessen." Anchovies, Finnan Had die, fish paste, caviar, sardines. You can run your table for a long time on meats and fish obtainable here. We know our stock and stand by it, guaranteeing every article to 'be palatable, in good condition and high quality. SPECIALS FOR TODAY AND MONDAY The following specials, for today and Monday, you will find attractive both in quality and in price: Own A Importation Purest French Olive Oil, large 45c bottles, 39c. 18c Extra Choice California Apricots, 14c lb.

18c qualitv Pure Bulk Cocoa, no shells, I2l2c lb. Loose Elbow Macaroni, 4 lbs. 25c. Own Fresh Roasted Cafe Blend Coffee, 24c lb. Own Fresh Roasted Real Java and Mocha Coffee, 30c lb.

Large Bottles Queen Olives, 14c bottle. I2j4c Fancy Yellow California Peaches, 3 lb. 25c. California Dried Grapes, 3 lbs. 10c.

California toe large Blue Raisins, 4 lbs. 25c 10c cans Burnham Morell Clam Chowder, 4 for 25c. 12c cans Baked Pork and Beans in Sauce, 3 for 25c. Fresh Packed Cafe Lobster, Vij lb. cans, 23c.

Fresh Country Laid Eggs, 27c dozen. Strictly fresh. Own Make Fish Cakes, 4 for 10c. Fancy Grade Elgin Butter, 35c lb. Florida India River Oranges, 22c, 25c and 28c doz.

Florida India River Grape Fruit, 5c each. New Canned Soft Sweet Corn, 5c can. 10 lb. Cans Pure Lard, $1.19 can. Fresh Roasted Peanuts, 8c Per pk.

30c Carpet Brooms, 20c ea. Franklin Fine Granulated Sugar, 4 10 48c New Bermuda Potatoes, 40c Vz pk. Penna. Crisp Celery, 20c bundle. Own Make Chocolate Marsh mallows, 17c lb..