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The TIMES Is an up'to date morning newspaper which makes it an excellent advertising medium It is read by all prosperous business: men, and well paid mechanics in the city and county. If you want to reach the buyers place your ad. in the TIMES A II LOAD OF fill tew Y' THE CASH BUYERS' UNION 11 We bought its entire stock of new tiooks from the receiver in bankruptcy. We are closing them out at 10 CENTS TO 50 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. SAMPLE PRICES: Late copyright books $1.50.

My price 38c. List includes THE JUNGLE, HOUSE OP A THOUSAND CANDLES, CLANSMAN, 51EARTS AND MASKS, EBEN HOLD EN, MAN OP THE HOUR, AND DOZENS OF OTHERS. ENCYCLOPEDIA BRIT ANNICA. half Morocco. Regularly $36.00.

My price, 57.75. FAMOUS PICTURES. Regularly $12. My price, $1.50. SHAKESPEARE COMPLETE PERSONAL EDITION.

Regularly $24. My price $8.75. MILLIONS OP BOOKS, thousands of titles, chance of a lifetime to get almost any book or set of books you want for next to nothing while stock lasts. Subject to examination in your own home before paying. Books Shipped on Approval Every book guaranteed new and satisfactory, or subject to return at my ex pense.

Write for my FREE BARGAIN LIST of this stock before ordering. It costs nothing. Will save you money, postal card will bring it. David B. Clarkson, the Book Broker, Department 91, CHICAGO Scott's Santal Pepsin Capsules POSITIVE CURE.

For Inflammation or Catarrh ot tha Bladder and Siwaud Kldneri. No enra no pay. Gurea anlckly and imun. ontlr all lonatnral Dlieaaca at I ha Urinary Organa, Xb. aolot.lr bam Int.

gold by drnggiita. Prioa $1.00, or by mall, postpaid, tl.Q0,ar thru Doxatfut, Addrosa, "THESAMTAL PEPSIH For Bfllo by CHARLES RENTSCHLER, 848 Penn Reading, Pa. CITY TAXES for 190" are now due and payable at the office of the City Treasurer. A REBATE OF I PER CENT, will be allowed on all taxes paid on or Before tne 7IH OF AUGUST. ON SEPTEMBER 1ST A PENALTY OF 3 PER CENT.

will be added to all taxes remaining un paid on that date, and 1 per cent, each montn tnereatter. Office hour, 8 a. to 12 noon; 1.30 to 4 p. and 7 to 8 p. until September 1st, Saturdays inciuaea.

WALTER M. TYSON, City Treasurer. JiMESTOWN EXPOSITION and NORFOLK direct by steamers "Penn" and "Lord Baltimore," Ericsson Line, Pier 3 S. Delaware 0.30 a. m.

dally on and after June 1, arriving at Exposition and Norfolk in the evening. Fare $5.00 One Way; $8.00 Roont Trip Tickets Good for 30 Days. Beautiful soenery during the fntlre trip. Meals a la carte. Send for pamphlet.

F. S. GROVES, Agt. Pier 3, S. Delaware Fhtla, PROPOSALS PROPOSALS FOR STOCK FIRE INSURANCE.

County Controller's Office, Reading, July 1, 1907. Pealed proposals will be received at this office up to 10 a. m. Friday, July 12, 1007, for stock fire insurance on the following Almshouse Buildings: FRAME BUILDINGS. Wagon Shod.

45 by 80 ft. 6 in $2,500.00 Small Barn, 54 by 36 ft 1,000.00 Mule Stable, 44 by 45 feet 2,000.00 BRICK BUILDINGS. Laundry. 28 by 40 ft. 6 00 Creamery, 28 ft.

8 in. by 20 ft. 6 in. 800.00 Bakery, 24 ft, 4 in. by 28 ft.

4 800.00 Butcher Shop, 92 ft. by 27 ft. 6 In. 2,500.00 iiouer iiouse, 2a ft. by 45 ft.

9 1,800.00 Also insurance on the new pigsty, frame, two story, 36 ft. by 100 ft. Amount 1.800.00 Stock Companies only will be considered. All bids must be accompanied by a certified check equal to 10 per cent.of the aggregate amount of the bid. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids.

H. F. LIVINGOOD, County Controller; BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR SALE Green house and nursery business at Egg Harbor City, N. J. Stock and property Included.

013 Press, Atlantic City, N. J. TMs is Just What We Neecl Esenwcln's Aromatic Balsam A pleasant, safe and effectual remedy for Dysentery, Diarrhoea or looseness of the Bowels, Cholera Morbus, Summer Complaint, Colic, Sour Stomach, crying and fretting of infants, and all bowel affections, giving tone and vigor to the irritated mucus membrane. IT NEVER FAILS. The prevailing epidemic of Diarrhoea can be promptly cured by a few doses.

35c a bottle. We warrant it. Prepared at Esenwein's Drug Store 6th and Franklin Streets Reading, Pa. CARPET CLEANING CALL, PHONE OR WRITE Tthe old reliable Reading Carpet 4 Cleaning Works Prompt service and clean work. Moth destroyed.

Carpets laid. Feathers renovated. Don't throw away your old carpets. We are agents for the Indian Rug of Carlisle, who make fine rugs out of worn out carpets. Call and see samples and get catalogue.

It will pay you. 339 Penn Street BOTH 'PHONBS. P. F. Bradbury, Prop'r.

We Print Letterheads Billheads and General Commercial Work at the Right Prices. If Printed by us It's Done Right. THE, a as Reading Times ThA Tl i u. Steamers leave and Detroit vsolc days p.m.. p.

m. (central time) reaching their destin atlon the next morning. I)lreot connections with early morning trains. Lowest rates and superior service to all points west. Kail 1 icketa Available on ataamen iiunico il iiuntn raum iruuiuff via Michigan Central, Wabash and flrand Trunk Railways between Buffalo and Itetroit, in either direction will accepted for transportation on D.

4 B. Line Rend two cent stamp for Illustrated pamphlet and Great Lakes map. Address, I G. Lewis, G. P.

1, Detroit, Mich. Detroit 6c. Buffalo Steamboat Co, Philip H. McMillan, A A. Schantz, ice President.

Gen'l Manager. PROFESSIONAL. DR. THOS. A.

STRASS'Efi 931 PENN STREET. EYE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT AND NERVOUS DISEASES A BrH.CIAI.Ty. Refraction of the Eye and Adjustment of Glasses. Bpectacln and Eye Classes furnished at low est cash prices from $2 up. RADIUM TREATMENT for Cancer, Lupus, Eczema and Nerve Diseases.

J. E.GE, M. 142 N. 8TH ST. DR.

W. F. MARKS, 48 North 9th street. Office hours to 9 and 12 to Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women; 6 to 8, Medical, Electricity, Kays, Static, Oalvanlo and Fa ratlc Currents. Sundays by appointment.

LEWIS CRATER. 204 South Sixth Street: Will open, post and close books, audit and examine accounts; keep books for parties not requiring a permanent bookkeeper. PRACTICAL BARBER WILL CALL AT your home, to do work In all Its branches, at reasonable rates, city or suburbs, o. Nuel, 54 North Sixth street. SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, From ptomaine poison contained in beef.

Mrs. Charles Wagner and her two daughters, Miss Maine Wagner, aged 17 years; Estelle, axed 6 years, and a son JNorman, aged 12 years, who were close to death's door, will likely recover, With a large charter'tnembershlp, a lodge of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, a negro organization, was in stituted at Pottsville. The appeals of the big coal corpora tion irom the increase of the tax valuations on their lands, which amounts to upwards of $15,000,000, began at Pottsville before the County Commissioners. The companies claim that the assessors placed a valuation of $500 an; acre on many tracts of coal lands which are not worth $50, and that gross discrimination has been made in favor of farm lands. At a convention of the Schuylkill county doctors at Pottsville, Dr.

A. F. Bronson, of Glrardvllle, was elected as censor for Schuylkill county, one of the three counties of the Eighteenth Dr. Charles Lenker, of Schuylkill Haven, was chosen representative to the convention of the State Medical Association, which meets at Reading on the 26th of September. Since April diphtheria has been preva.

lent in the rural districts surrounding Pinegrove, and so far seven deaths have occurred. Efforts are being made by the local physicians to stamp out the dread, disease. MONTGOMERY COUNTY. Admitting that they "held up" aged Andrew Quigg, of Swedeknd with a re volver, knocked him down and robbed him of his watch and $2, William Am bler, Carl Newding and William Conlen of Manayunk, were sent to Jail by a Norrlstown magistrate, As a sequel to a fight In trolley cars A mad dog that ran through the streets of Chester was shot and killed by Samuel B. Logan, agent for the So ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

James A. Anderson, yard conductor at Chesterwas caught between a shifting engine and car which he was coupling together in the Thurlow freight yards. He was so seriously Injured that his death occurred while he was being conveyed to the Chester hospital. While playing along the bank of Dar by creek, John McClosky, the five year old son of a widow, whose home is in Philadelphia, toppled from a boat, at Chester, landing In the water, and was drowned before assistance could reach him. After several hours' dili gent search the child's body was recov ered and taken to the undertaking es tablishment of C.

L. Black, at Norwood. LEBANON COUNTY. John Schott, of Myerstown, broke his arm by falling from his bicycle. LEHIGH C6UNTY.

Minnie Markowitz, the three months old daughter of Morris Markowitz, of North Second street, Allentown, is now awake, having slept three days. The sleep, it Is said, was due to a patent medicine given to t)ie child for summer complaint. LUZERNE COUNTY. Hanover township, Luzerne county, is claimed by "flie Mt. Carmel News to have the highest taxable valuation of any township in the state.

The total valuation 6f the township is now $18, 000,000 instead of $12,000,000, the valua tion before the agitation for an increase in assessment. This is due to the large deposits of coal, upon which about all the Increase of $6,000,000 has been made. Bids for the paving of two and a third miles of the Hazleton turnpike In Hanover township, Luzerne county, are be ing received and the contract for the work will be awarded in a week. The entire thoroughfare will be macadamized, and will when completed make orte of the finest drives in the county. The ambulance of the state hospital was struck by a Lehigh Valley freight train at Hazleton and the driver a nd READING DAILY TIMES, READING, PiL, THURSDAY.

JULY 11, 1907 FROII OYER THK BERKS BORDERS Dr. Laycock were slightly Injured. Ths men were on the way to the Lehigh Val ley depot to get William Wlegand, who to accept the position of principal of the had been Injured In the same manner at Delano. The accident was due to the failure of the watchman to lower the gates. Thomas A.

Buckley, a veteran1 newspaper man and justice of the peace at Hazleton, was banqueted on 60th anniversary of his taking the temperance pledge. He was presented a gold badge. Plans have been made for the celebration of another old home week in Hazleton. The event is to take place In connection with next year's convention of the six County Firemen's Association there. between drunken men and boys, How 4versitv of Pennsylvania, to the chair of ardParker, proprietor of Sanatoga Inn', was held under bail, charged with selling liquor to minors.

Some of the boy participants in the rumpus alleged that they got the liquor at Parker's bar. Although the 80 foot bridge was au thorlzed by the proper proceedings, the citizens of Pottstown are Indignant over the holding up by the County Conimls sioners of the new structure to replace the century old bridge. It is claimed that the Commissioners want to take advantage of the new law limiting Dridges in boroughs to 60 feet. Ell S. Root, who died near Pottstown was born and lives all his 90 years of life on the same farm.

Samuel Smith, Norrlstown's heavy weight cop, has resigned to work as an underkeeper in the county Jail. While Andrew Schwenk, of Stowe.was weeding his garden, a bullet, fired by an unknown person, whizzed by his ear. The Hollowbush tamily held a reunion at Llnfield, and the 50 or more who attended were given an automobile rida A1 little girl, who had taken her father's dinner to one of the Warwick lurnaces, ai roustown, picked up a piece of red hot metal that she thought was sonie kind of a toy, and both her hands were badly burned. Charles Smith, of Pottstown, was seriously lnJui.Ni by being knocked down by an automobile. Wilmer Bergey, of Norrlstown, dislo cated his shoulder while taking a good "stretch." Of 20 automoblllsts heard before Justice Egbert, of Norrlstown, for speeding their machines in Norritou township, seven were fined $10 and costs and another had to up" $25.

The Philadelphia Fire Company, of Pottstown, will make a trip to the Ef posltion at Jamestown and other points of interest in the South. DELAWARE COUNTY. A car of the Cheater Traction Company struck a bottler's Wagon In Eddy stone, destroyed a large quantity of li quid refreshment and injured the driv er, Patrick McLaughlin. Dogs to the number of 1,380 have been registered at Chester since the first of July. LANCASTER COUNTT.

The Evangelical Association annual camp meeting has been opened in the grove at Adamstown. A young son of William S. Barnholt, of Philadelphia, who was visiting his grandparents at Lancaster, was shock ingly burned by the explosion of percus slon caps in his pocket. During the progress of a thunder storm over Lancaster county a large barn on the farm of Christian Rohrer, Manor township, was struck by light ning and destroyed, together with crops and implements, On the farm of Frank Bausman a tobacco shed was blown down and the barn unroofed. In other parts of the county young crops were washed out and fruit damaged.

Louis Frledbergen, of Lancaster, has been adjudged a voluntary bankrupt in the United States District Court. Liabilities, assets, $1,300. The referee Is John A. Nauman. At the funeral of Marcus Kirchner, in Lancaster, the services were conducted by his son, Father Roman Kirchner, of New York.

The altar boys were his grandsons and the pall bearers his nephews. The trustees of Franklin and Marshall College have elected Prof, Garrett W. Thompson, of the faculty of the TJnl modern languages, to succeed the Rev. Dr. Frank C.

Smith. The trustees also decided to create an assistant professorship in astronomy and mathematics, to assist the Rev. Dr. J. E.

KIrschner, and have elected the Rev. Dr. A. T. G.

Appell, pastor of the Reformed church at Fredericksburg, Md. YORK John H. Jones, of York, arrested for wife beating, was seized with a convulsion while draining a goblet of water in his cell in the York Jail, and bit off a big mouthful of glass and swallowed it. The prisoner may die. Mrs.

Edward Hake and her daughter, Lulu, about 20 years old, were both rendered unconscious by a stroke of light ning which struck and set fire to the nouse in Mancnester. Tne two women were seated in the dining room of their home, which is only a few miles from York. C. S. Snyder, the band leader of Yoe, York county, has placed himself on the hero list by saving William Raber, 12 years old, from drowning, at High Rock, along the Muddy creek.

BUCKS COUNTY. spaniel belonging to Harry Hough, of Doylestown, went mad on Sunday, and after roaming over the country for miles, biting a number of dogs, was fin ally killed at Warrington, four miles from Doylestown, after biting Mrs. Benjamin Hough In the leg. Ball for May Prior and Clifford Wat son, of Trenton, who are In the Bucks county Jail at Doylestown, awaiting tri al for murderously assaulting George Vanneliss, a Trenton business man, near Morrlsville, has been fixed at $1,000 each. Applications for nearly eight miles of good roads have been filed by the supervisors of New Britain township, Bucks county.

Three Bucks county men are myster iously missing. George Winder, of Bris tol, has been gone sine June 26, and William Winters and John Honeyman, of Morrlsville, since July 4. CHESTER COUNTY. It has been rumored in West Chester that District Attorney MacElree would not conduct for the commonwealth the trial against Irwin A. the young Franklin township farmer, now in jail charged with the brutal murder and burial of little five year old Mary New lln, hia step daughter, near Avondale, several weeks ago.

A committee from the Historical Society, of Pennsylvania visited Phoenlx ville and inspected the proposed site at Fountain Inn on which the shaft is to be "erected, marking the extreme point In Pennsylvania reached ythe British army under' Lords Howe and Cornwal lls, September 17, 1777. Judge Joseph Hemphill, of the Chester County Courts, with some friends has gone to Chester Sound, on the southwest, coast of Nova Scotia, where they will spend several weeks. Harry M. Hall, who has been a conductor on the West Chester Street Railway for nearly eight years, has resigned because of the long hours and few holidays for the employes. The farmers of Chester county are, now busy harvesting their hay crop, which has been greatly benefited by the recent rains and Warm weather, and some fields will yield two tons to the acre.

Prof. Addison L. Jones, Superintend ent of the West Chester Public Schools, reports nearly 1,300 pupils enrolled. There are quite a number of candi datesfor appointment as Commissioner in Chester county, to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Jesse J. Hickman.

Helen A. Lownes, aged 13, of Sole bury, was awarded a cash prize for writing the best essay on "Value of" To tal Abstinence to Life," by the County W. Q. T. U.

i Members of the Reformed churches of Eastern Pennsylvania will hold their eighth annual reunion at: Menlo Park, Perkasle, on Saturday, July 20. The Fame Fire Company, No. 3, of West Chester, has decided to attend the firemen's parade in Chester on October 24, and about 60 fire companies are ex? pected to participate. At a meeting of the Coatesville School Board, G. I.

W. Garwtt. of Philadelphia, was elected principal of the Mer chantStreet School. Prof. E.

B. Hess resigned as principal of the High School schools at Oxford, Mary Neufrokwho has been in this country but one week, had a narrctar escape from deatK by gas asphyxiation. She' blfew out the'as in her room at PR0SPE6l)S ORGANIZATION ''A .11 I i.i... INTERESTING FIGURES SHOWING GROWTH OF. ODD FELLOWSHIP IN THIS STATE THE PAST YEAR.

The annual report' of the Grand Lodge of the I. O. O. has been issued giving an account of the proceedings of the held in this city and showing the financial and numerical strength of the order in Pennsylvania. Berks county has a total membership of 3,364, showing a gain of 84 over the last report.

The lodges in this county are divided into three sections. The seven in Reading comprise District No. 1. Thomas C. Darrah is the District No.

2 comprises nine lodges, and Benjamjn F. Lelnbach, Strausstown, is the deputy. C. H. Hine, of Douglass ville, is deputy of District No.

3, which consists of eight lodges. The totaf num her of lodges in the county is 24. Rurai Berks has twice as many as the city. The total amount of relief paid out during the year was $22,474.42, or $4, more than shown in the last report. The total receipts were $33,162.49, or $210.80 less than the previous report shows.

At the last report the total value of ihe lodges in the entire county was $115,434.26. This report shows they are worth $125,750.94, a gain of $10,316.68. The Reading lodges have a total membership of 1,330, or 15 in excess of the last report. For relief $10,541.43 was paid out, or $1,475.69 more than the last year. The receipts for the year were $14,091.51, qr $1,579.84 less than the previous term.

The total assets fyt the Reading lodges" is $64,306.08, a gain of $3,944.23. The report of District No. 2 is as follows: Number of members, paid for relief, receipts, total worth of lodges, $41,728.32. The report of Disict No. 3, follows: Number of members, 879; paid for relief, receipts, total worth of lodges, $19,716.54.

District No. 2 has 276 more members than No. 3, and paid out $340.79 more in relief. District No. 2's receipts were $6,501.07 more than No.

3, and its lodges are worth $22,011.78 more than District No. 3. report of the Berks lodges, combining districts Nos. 2 and 3, is as follows: Number of members, 2.034; paid for relief, receipts, total worth of lodges, $61,444.86. In memberships the county lodges exceed their city brethren by 704, and paid out $1,844.56 more in relief, and the receipts were $5,123.47 more than the city lodges.

The latter, however, exceeded the county lodges in financial strength by a margin of $2,861.22. Vigilance Lodge, of this city, is still Mhe richest in' the entire county, having a J)ig lead on all others li is worm over $20,000 Oley is the second richest, with Progressive close behind Mount Penn passed Emblematic Lodge, which now in fifth place Mount Penn still has the largest membership in the city, with 254 to its credit Neversink Lodge, of Blrdsboro, is the largest of the county lodges, having 256 members. Symmetry Lodge, of Hamburg, is the richest in District No. 2, and second in point of finance in the entire county, ranking next to Vigilance. It also has the largest membership in District No.

2, with 225 to its credit. In District No. 3, Neversink Lodge has the largest membership, and it is also the wealthiest with over $6,000 to its credit. This firder stands second in point of membership and finances of all secret organizations now operating in Berks. The P.

O. S. of A. Is first, and the K. G.

E. and Red Men are close aspirants for third plade. IN THE FIELD OF HONOR WITH WAVING PLUMES AND THE CLANKING OF SWORDS THE SIR KNIGHTS DRILLED AT' SARATOGA RACE TRACK. Special to The Tlmes.J Saratoga. N.

July 10. Competitive drills were the feature of this, the third day of the triennial conclave of Knights Templar'. With waving plumes and clanking swords the bands of gallant knights met in the field of honor and drilled before youth and beauty and brave swords at the celebrated Saratoga race track. Though tired after the long parade of yesterday, the knights buckled to their task with vim and spirit, Sustaining the reputation they hold for perfect military maneuvres in the field. The pretty evolutions of the several commanderles won salvos of applause from the great field of spectators.

All the Masonic emblems were formed by the knights on the field and cheer after cheer rang out as the gallant bands evolved crosses, triangles and echelons in rapid succession. In Convention Hall tonight, in the presence of a host of pretty women and knights in uniform, the winning cemmancieries were pre sented with four handsome emblems in token of their skill. INDIANA GOLF TOURNEY. Contest to Decide the Championship of the Booster State. Special to The Times.

Terre Haute, July 10. Golfers of Indiana rounded up here today for their annual tournament to decide the championship of the state, which will be In progress during the remainder of the week. The entrants include representatives of the golf clubs of Indianapolis! Anderson, Muncle, Marlon, Richmond, Kokomo, Ft. Wayne and TerreHaute. PARCEL ROOM SERVICE AVAILABLE AT ALL PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD STATIONS.

the convenience of the public, beginning July 1, patrons of the Pennsylvania Railroad will have the privilege of checking hand baggage and other small articles in the baggage room at all ticket stations which do not now have special parcels checking A charge of five cents for 24 hours or fraction thereof will be made for each article checked, except from Saturday noon until Monday noon, when goods will be held for five cents. After th first 24 hours, an additional charge of 10 cents for each additional 24 hours or fraction thereof, with a minimum charge of $1.00 per month. fiesta A food to work on A food to smile on A food to sing on Energy and good nature in every package. The most nutritious wheat food. The Hollenden Hotel is crowded with automobile men mixed with golf experts (for the golf championship began here today).

More than60 newspaper writers on automoblllng and golf are in the city. Among the writers of automobll lng news now in Cleveland are J. S. Patterson, of the Record Russell Field, of the Brooklyn Eagle, E. A.

Binford, New England Auto Journal, E. G. Westlake, of the Chicago Post, 3os ephJ.G. Ryan, of the Chicago Inter Ocean, L. C.

Bordman, of the Chicago Examiner, Frank B. Barnett, of the Automobile, N. H. Van Sicklen, of Motor Age, many other correspondents and a considerable array of press agents including R. H.

Johnston, of the White Company, Montgomery Hallowell and George Davis, of the E. R. Thomas ind others. N. Lazarnick, F.

Ed. Spoo ner and A. H. Shapiro form a group of representative photographers. 7 A number of the entrants drove to Cleveland in the cars they are to use Jn the tour.

H. C. Shoemaker, of Freeport, 111., was one of those who arrived. He said he had found the tour roads in bad, condition between Toledo and Cleveland. He Is driving a new type of car, the Shoemaker, and expects some great things of it.

Yesterday morning C. S. Johnston, E. J. Kehoe and Edward Bean arrived at the conclusion of a long run from New Haven in a Continental runabout which is to compete lor the Hower trophy.

Others who are already here and preparing to" start on the 1,650 mile Journey are F. Offenhausen and A. N. Reynolds, who will drive Maxwells; F. S.

Dey and A. A. Ledermann the pilots of Pierce Big Six; A. J. Scalfe, of Pittsburg, and family, who will ride In a big White; H.

P. Branstetter, of Chicago, the driver of one of the Dragon runa bounts which will start; Sid Black, of Cincinnati (Lozicr) H. M. Coale, of Philadelphia (Autocar); I. C.

Karkham, of Brooklyn E. S. Lea, of Trenton (Walter); and "Wally Owen," of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania runabout). There has been some shifting of club colors in the endeavor to complete club teams and in cases where there have not been enough individuals in club teams to make the requisite allowance, In moisture and dust proof packages. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY AUTOMOBILE LETTER TO "TIMES" READERS TOURING COMMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE ASSOCI ATION ARRIVES FROM BUFFALO QUARTERS AT HOLLENDEN.

Special to The Times. Cleveland, July 10. When the Touring Committee of the American Automobile Association arrived from Buffalo, headquarters were at once opened in the Hollenden Hotel and the entire executive force of the tour began the distribution of numbers, badges, pennants and route books to' the. contestants. The headquarters rooms were visited during the day by more than half the entrants and these emerged with business looking bundles done up in brown paper and smiles of satisfaction.

ChairmanF. B. Hower and his aids, E. L. Ferguson and Mortimer Reeves, of New York, were among the early arrivals and a little later Secretary Dai Lew is made his appearance.

Up to noon the only other member of the touring committee was L. E. Myers, who arrived from Chicago on an early train. Chairman Hower and Mr. Myers established themselves in the headquarters rooms and personally explained details to "the contestants and other tourists who appeared.

Several entries had been accepted after closing Of the list on July 3, and these included two American Mors cars, one of which is to be driven by Fred Pardee, the sales manager of the company. At noon the list included 80 cars, 75 of these being entered for either the Glidden or Hower trophies. Of these 63 were Glidden contestants ancT12 were entered for the Hower runabout prize. The five non contesting cars are confetti, press and official cars. 3 the entrants have shifted their allegN ances.

Thus the New York Motor has added several entrants to its team. Ths Autocar and Dragon entries, made in the name of the Quaker City Motor Club, have been shifted to the New York Motor Club, bringing the team of the latter organization up to 11, which is one better than the Chicago Automobile Club Team which led at the start of the entry getting. Many of the entrants are showing with elation the sets of "gog glettes" presented to each contestant by Meyrowltz, of New YorkA They are a modern pneumatic rubbeXtired affair with glasses which can be changed clear to smoked with a simple twist of the wrist. The contestants are in receipt of many cans of oil and grease, while there is a perfect fight on the part of tire men, speedometer makers and hustlers for other equipment to place, gratis, all kinds ot things on the cars This afternoon at five o'clock thera will be a general meeting of the contestants, when ihe rules will be explained and discussed and everything will ba rounded up for the start OHIO BAR ASSOCIATION Sp.ctal The Times. Put in Bay, July 10.

There was an increased attendance this morning when the Ohio Bar Association began the second day of its annual convention. The feature of the day, aside from tha annual address before the association committee reports and the transaction of a considerable amount of routine business, was the annual address before the association. The address was delivered by CharlesJagel, of St. Louis, who took as his subject Lawyer's Part in the Administratis of Justice." AUMAN On the 9th Levi AumKn, aged 65 years, 9 months and 28 daysiv Funeral from 142 North Sixth street on Friday morning at 7.30 o'clock. Pro ceed to Bernville, where services will held.

Remains may be viewed on Thursday evening after 7 o'clock. OESE On the 9Jh inst, Sarah, wife of Charles Oese, aged 38 years, 10 months and 1 day. Funeral from 426 laurel street on Saturday at 1.30' o'clock. Interment private in Charles Evans cemetery. SNYDER On the Jth Chester Snyder, aged 6 months and 26 days.

Funeral' from the residence of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bertolet D. Snyder, street, on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment in Charles) Evans cemetery.

FXEMMING On the 8th Norman, W. Flemnjing, aged 22 years, 1 month and 4 days. Funeral from 1422 North Sixth street on Friday at 2 o'clock. Interment in Charles Evans cemetery. NEWMOYER On the 7th tost, arry Newmoyer, aged 82 years.

Funeral from 405 North Eleventh! street on Thursday morning at 8.S0. Requiem mass at the St. Paul Catholla church at 9 o'clock. Interment In Geth seraane cemetery. TICE On the 8th Lucy, widow of Henry Tice, aged 81 years, 1 month, and 23 days.

Funeral from 207 North Ninth street on Thursday, leaving 7.40 trolley car for Womelsdorf. Services at Tulpehocken, church at 10.30 a. m. Interment in Tulpehocken cemetery. KUTZ In Greenwich township, on tha 6th Jacob Kutz, aged i yeans, 3 months and 14 days.

Funeral from his late residence, in Greenwich township, two miles west rf Kutztown, near Kutz's mill, on Thurs day, 11, at 9.30 a. m. Services in St. John Reformed church, Kutitown, Interment in Falrview cemetery. STIEFF On the 6th Ellas Stleff, aged 55 years, 1 months and 18 days.

Funeral from 128 Moss street on Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment private in Aulenbach cemet" KERN In Orwlgsburg, Pa on the ithi Henry S. Kern, aged 91 years and 6 months. 'Funeral from his late residence, in Orwlgsburg, on Thursday at 2 p. m.

In'. terment in Orwlgsburg cemetery. HOFFMAN In Sinking Spring, on th 6th Dr. Christian N. Hoffman, aged 73 years.

10 months and 25 days. Funeral from his late residence, Sinking Spring, on Thursday at 2 p. fa. Interment in Sinking Spring cemetery. Broken health is a sign of neglected I duty.

A healthy rose of full bloom is as pretty as its nan open ouu. a. woman's duty is to be healthy.iViva and attractive. If her eyes lose their brightness, if her cheeks lose their roundness, their softness and their color, it is her fault. It is ner duty to make herself as beautiful and as strong and as graceful as possible.

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Sciatic Flatters and H(. Derma Lotion." for Sale at Stein's baroiacy. Cor, Penn and Eighth 5ts..

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