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noUNrr easMfu Monday, otctMetK Z2, ir rir Or-THE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26th. Doooon AT MAJESTIC TONIGHT MEXICAN WAR fhsy purehiM Traction Lln In Johnstown, Pa- Philadelphia, Dec. 22. It now comes out that the Duponts, of Wilmington, Cl art again too owners of tbo property of tbs Johnstown Passenger Rail-: way company," whkh controls and operates thirty miles' of street car service in that city. The property was purchased four fears ago by' the American Railways company, of Philadelphia, from the Duponts, and then leased back to the tellers, with an option to purchase.

Recently the management or the company exercloed the right of pur These pictures were taken rlRht on the and ent it- i uuu roox ot riirri 3fl "PROPOSAL FROM NOBODY 5th of a Series of "WHO WIW "BRONCHO BILLY'S F.LOPEMENT' AT VALENTINE TONIGHT M.rf 1" CLASSIFIED ADS FOIi. pALE An Edison phonograph and case with records In good condition. to George i Jones, Pa. Ad 18-Gt HOUSE POR RENT House for rent, I in good residential section, modern Conveniences. Apply to Vought, Moaer and Magrady.

Ad 19 1 FOR RENT House at Kulpmont, with all modern conveniences. Apply to Ray Evert, Kulpmont, Pa. ad2t GOT 22 RABBITS Harold Smith, centre of the 191.1 High School football team returned home on Saturday from Canton where he had been luiuting. He had a string of 22 raltbitjs and states that the hunting is good in that, region. English walnuts, filberts, all kinds of nuts and imported figs, FeudaAB'ft Store, corner Avenue and Vine, street.

Ad 11-tf IF YOU WANT SOMETHING for father, mother, sister, brother swetheart or friend go to Tidly's, 224 south Oak. tf American Special Flour makes more and better bread than any other your money refunded if not found as wa guarantee. Ad fl-eod BIG BARGAINS Our sale of coats and furs is going rapidly but we still have a good sup ply on hand that you can make a good selection from that will cIofc out during the next three days at a reduction of 15. Levlne's Dept. Store, Adv Opposite Majestic.

THEATORIUM Today's Program Fdith Storey Lea Delaney Ul THE NEXT GENERATION Special 2 Part Feature The pupil outmasters his master. The boy of today is the man of tomorrow. The siicceKling generations mil. 41 iteep apace with the march of progress A Biograph 'Dramatic THE MADONNA OF THE STORM I Featuring Lillian CJish and .1. Jlquel Laude Watch this space, we have arranged for something special every day this oiDDiaoa producers, are said to have given the play an elaborate mounting, the mountains of the Ozark affording on opportunity for some fine examples of the scenic painter's art.

The cast has been selected for this pcritliar fitness for each style. FOR SISTER OR SWEETHEART Nice toilet sets in ebony, ivory or silver and manicuring sets and oth er nice Christmas presents at Ad '20-4t Tiddy's 224 So. Oak St. CHRITMAS NOVELTIES Shirt waists, silk petticoats, hand bags, handkerchiefs, gloves, umbrellas, dolls, toilet sets, etc Simon Karns, Adv Third and Oak SI. Hem advertisements Ming results "The Shepherd of the Hills" the dramatisation of Harold.

Bfcll Wright's novel, which holds the record for the largest sales of any American work of fiction, which has been mado by Mr. Wright, with the assistance of ElEbery W. Reynolds, will be seen at th O. A. R.

opera house on Friday, December 26fb. scenes of the plav are laid among the Ozark mountains of Missouri. It Is a story of the hills and the simple life, yet. il has plenty of excitement and an air of mystery that will hold the auditor from beginning (o end." The -story has to do with the father of an artist, who, tired of city life, goes lnio the Ozarks for peace and quietude. He.

learns of a grelvous sin committed by his son, whom he mourns as dead. The son had visited the hills some years before, when he fell In love with a simple country girl. lie painted her picture and when he went back to the city, deserting the girl, he earned fame because of the canvas. The girl, deserted and 'broken-hearted, dies leading behind her a half-witted son. It Is to the homo of this dead and wronged girl that the father of the artlnt comes, and here ho is employed to watch tho sheep.

fl grows to love the coustry and its people, and he and the half-witted bov, Pete, become friends. Then there is a. love story running through the play that, adds to its attractiveness. It is the love of a young giant of the hills for Sammy Lane, a girl of unusual qualities. There are several characters whose quaint humor is a decided novelty.

Taken as a whole, the play promises to prove a refreshing change from the poneral run of dramatic attractions this season. Messrs. Gnskil) and MacViity, the Held of action auct are the first onlv scenes taken of the ores- mm I war iq Mexico. MARRY MARY' Nazareth" Ifi to All FIGHT TONIGHT Kid Sheeler, the best hoy at his weight in this region, will go to Olr-nrdvllle tonight where he will fight a ten round windup with Young Oriffo, of Shenandoah, at an all-star boxing show. Sheeler is in good cosdition and his friends believe he will defeat Oriffo.

A large number of local sports will witness the bouts. Buy Useful Christmas Presents Don't waste your money on trinhets that nobody wants. Nothing will be appreciated more than a good pair of stylish and serviceable shoes or slippers. LaFrance Shoes for worn- 671 Crossett Shoes for men. Educator Shoes for the whole family.

Slippers for men and Women, Boys' and fiirls, 50c a pair and upwards. BUT BUY THEM AT YODER'S Shoe Store where you have a selection. The Shadow of Admission, Either House FOR BROTHER OR FRIEND dents' pocket manicuring sets, tonr-dst Rets, military brushes, smoking fietn In brafls or china. Also hundreds of other useful Christmas preS' ents, at Ad 20-4 1 Tiddy's 224 So. Oak St, 33 SOUTH OAK STREET is the place for men's desirable gifts, such as ties, shirts, bath robes, raincoats, combination sets, neckwear, bags, etc.

il'-'- Wm. Schoener UNCLAIMED LETTERS The following letters remain claimed in the Carmel Postofflee for the week ending December 22: W. B. Newman. Thomas R.

P. M. Gut Price in Cut Glass Closing Out Entire Line at HALF PRICE a Cj worth j. v. ujyiuiy Oak St 11 MM Christmas I mm I Ju'Mi IPi MtAMtKI HOSE GO.

BALL The sixteenth annual ball of the American .) Hose and Chemical Com pany will be held on night, December in Masonic Hall, com mencing at eight o'clock, and It is believed a crowd will be The admission for gentlemen will be Fittc. The firemen are now sell ing tickets and are having no dlffieul ty in disposing of them. CANT HANDLE ALL THE MAIL If you want to see one office in the town where every.lody Is in a hurry and doesn't have a. minute to spare just drop into the post office for a Today the regular force is handling five times the usual amount of mall with the assistance of an extra carrier and a horse and wagon, the 'parcel post clerk was unable to deliver all the packages that arrived here 'today, The office is being over-flooded and the men won't be sorry when Christmas is over. GENTRALIA WOMAN CALLED TO REST Mrs.

Catherine Dempsey, widow of the late Edward Dempsey, of Centra-lia, died this morning at. eight o'clock at her home in CentraMa. She had been ill for a long while from kidney trouble and an abscess on one of her lungs. Her husband died about elev en years ago. She is survived iby Mrs.

J. T. Mor rison, of Mount. Oarmel; Mrs. John O'Donnell, John, Patrick and James, of Centralia.

Mrs. Denwsey was about fS years old and was oie of the finest ladies of this region. Many friends regret to learn of her death. BOUGHT BARBER SHOP Frank Machinsky has purchased Tony Patrick's barber shop, on Third street, near Oak, next door to Morris Bloom's confectionery store, and started in business for himself today, resigning his position at. Peter Dor-kosky's shop.

Frank is a skillful bar her, and will undoubtedly do a hi? business. CLOSE ON CHRISTMAS At a recent meeting held by the local Harbors' Association, it was decided to close shop all day on Christmas. It was customary to remain open half a day on Christmas in former years. WILL HOLD BANQUET The Young Men's Literary Club of Locust dap is planning for the annual banquet to be held at the Gap in the near future. This affair is always attended by every member of the organization and is one of the nicest social gatherings held in Locust Gap.

This year the banquet will be better than ever. INVESTIGATING ACCIDENT County Coroner Fred Steck, of Shamokin, has been Informed of the death of Bolich Chocila, who was killed at. the Scott colliery, and is now investigating into tlie accident. FELL DEAD While reading at his home last night, Newton Shindel, a well known church worker of Sunbury, suddenly let his newspaper fall to the tooor. His wife who was standing nearby stooped to pick it up when her husband fell on her, dead.

Death was caused by heart failure. HIT ON HEAD BY FALLING ROCK Daniel Shummon, of Mount Carmel, employed as a boss at the jock slope at the Locust Spring colliery, was struck on the head by a piece of falling rock this morning and was rendered unconscious. He was revived in about an hour and was removed to his home in the colliery ambulance. His head is lacerated and bruised and he will be unable to work for several days. CHEST CRUSHED Samitel Bapsey, of Shamokin, employed as a carpenter at the Henry Clay colliery, had hjs chest crushed on Saturday afternoon wh5n a heavy beam fell on him.

NEW POSITION Ralph Harbold, west Third street, who had been working at Snyder's grocery store, south Oak street, is now employed by Rudolph Varano, at Third and Poplar streets. SUNRISE SERVICE, A service will be conducted in Grace Lutheran Church Christmas morning at six o'clock. CAN chase, forming the Johnstown Traction company to take over the property, it now develops that the Duponts are the men back of the new company. Although declining to state the price that the Johnstown property had been sold officers of the Ameri can Railways company said that the property would be formally turned over to the Duponts the first week of the new year. The price supposed to have been paid Is between five and seven million dollars.

The Johnstown Traction company will be merged with the other Dupont interests in Johnstown. PRINCETON BANS STUDENT DRINKING Will Prosecute Thos3 Selling to Minors. Princeton, N. Dec. 22.

Princeton bas taken another step toward the so lution of the drinking problem among students. Dean Howard McClenahan has serv ed notice to the proprietors of all the drinking places in Princeton that the university will hold them to strict ac count if liquor is served to minors. "The present attitude of the college administration with reference to drink ing is due to the belief that a strict insistence upon obedience to the laws of the state offers the best chance for the solution of the liquor problem in Princeton," said Dean McClenahan, The Daily Princetonian, the undergraduate publication, stands back of Dean McClanahan, and in a long edi torial says: London, who cannot even be accused of temperance in his 'John advances as his reason for excessive drinking the fact that liquor is so easy to get. The bars are open, a man's friends are drinking why not? ft is a reasonable assumption. The true way to curtail drinking would be to make liquor hard lo get without total prohibition." THIEVES OVERRUN CHESTER Burglars, Pickpockets and Ordinary Sneaks Make Several Rich Hauls.

Chester, Deo. 22. Pickpocltets, burglars and sneak thieves had a busy time in Chester, according to report? received at the city hall. Miss Emily Cross reported that $28 which she had tucked away in her pocketbook to buy Christmas presents was stolen by a plcl pocket. William Upton, an uptown merchant, had $M5 taken out of his cash register.

A wallet containing $47, two over coats, two hats and two walking sticks were stolen from the residence of Joseph Three diamond rings, two gold bracelets, a gold watch and chain and $67 in money were taken by a burglat from the residence of E. il. Bartow. Mrs. William Kerr says a roan in a frock coat and white tie called at her home and snatched a pocketbook con taining $25 from a table in the living room.

Before she could summon the police he escaped. SUIT OVER MISSING COMMA Valuable Instrument Seized as "Piano Stool" Under the Law. York, Dec. 22. The alleged lack of a tiny punctuation mark is at the bottom of a suit which Constable William Herman, of York, has brought against David Everhart, a music dealer; Frederick G.

Furst, a piano salesman, and Harvey Rudisil, a driver, charging the larceny of a piano which Herman alleges he levied upon In the home of Mrs. Edith McHugh for rent. For the defendants who removed it, it Is claimed that the piano belongs to the music house, as it was not entirely paid for by Mrs. McHugh, and that moreover the levy read, "One piano stool and scarf," with no com ma to indicate that piano and stool were meant instad of "piano stool." Two Boys Die In Burning House. SomervUle, N.

Dec. 22 Two ten-year-old boys were burned to death in a Are which destroyed a farmhouse occupied by five families of foreigners at Manville, near here. The ffre started in the ldtchen from an overheated stove. The dead are John Wiecorek and liis cousin, Henry WorsUi. Mrs.

Frances Wrlecorek may die from her burns. Her husband was Injured serl ously. Bey Gets Year For Stealing 11 Cents. Wllkes-Barre, Dec. 22.

Michael Lents, eighteen years old, was sen-' tenced to serve one year in prison for the theft of It cents from his boarding bass, John Sabam. It was believed tbe court would parole him, but Judge O'Boyle sprung a sensation by sending blm to prison for one year an Imposing a fine of $25 and ocsts. 1 it Pre-Holiday Sale Of Coats, Suits, Furs and Dresses The Remarkable Pre-Holiday Sale of the very latest Women's and Misses Coats, Suits, Furs and Dresses shows the great height we have reached in value giving These new, stylish, practical and warm garments show every New Fashion Idea Color and Material. Your size is here for you. A chance to buy Women's and Misses' Suits, Coats or Furs at a fraction of their real worth.

If you need a new Coat or Suit or a set of Furs you can't afford to miss this sale. It's a Sale that places before you Beautiful Fall and Winter Garments at Prices That Represent About Half Their True Worth. Remarkable Pre-Holiday Sale of Fashionable Furs of all kinds Mothers This will be a good day to present your sons, daughters, husband or yourself to the best kind of shoes-Walk-Overs. A new Overcoat or Suit for husband or son. New Coat or set of Furs for the girl.

Big easy Turkish Leather Rockers. Handsome Dining Table or Buffet Nice set of Leather Chairs. Toys that you do not find elsewhere. Doll Carts at 98c Rubber tires, folding with large hood. Reed Carts $2.98, $3.98.

Guinan's Big Store COME TODAY OPEN EVENINGS ljs 11 1 Every woman admires rich, handsome Furs and would be pleased with such a gift. A pretty petticoat makes a useful Xmas gift. A full line of all the wanted colors in Messaline at $1.98, $2.98 and $3.98. Kimonas are acceptable gifts, we have them from $1 up to $6.98. Waists in Silk or Cotton from 98c up to $4.98.

Children's Furs Nothing pleases a young miss more than a Set of Furs for Xmas. We have a beautiful assortment from $1.50 to $10 a set. Umbrellas make wise and useful gifts for men, women or children. We have them with large variety of handles from 98c up to $3.50. Many other Useful Christmas Suggestions sveh as gloves, Hoisery, Underwear, Neckwear, Dress Goods, Silk Etdl for which we are headquarters.

L. Grossman Mercantile, Co. 1 (gPt.