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Mount Carmel Itemi
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Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania
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MOUNT, FRIDAY. U. i9i8. SliEASURES LOST, TO: HISTORY DURING THE TOLLDF 1 EPIDEMIC DEATH IN 235 Fanaticism of Spaniards on Ida do Mujeres Is Regretted by (- Archeologists. i Fortified by grim rocks from th wind-driven waves of the Yucatan channel lies the Isla de Mujeres Isle of Women.

The, Spaniards on a voy-ago in search of gold In the sixteenth century were tossed up on this island, THE REGION Take CHASCO-VIN The Tasteless Cod Liver and Iron Tonic THE RIGHT MEDICINE FOR ALL RUN DOWN CONDITIONS Every Town Has its Quota i' i ru ttfirte they found no gold, but had auu wiu uc f. Don't take any chances. If youi de Spanish: InttuerLa SEND SOME MONEY an, Interesting time. When they startM ed 0B.iin exploring tour of the Islnnqfc AkJf.amo upon aVrMMe LurW tect tha first stages of a fcpUti or cough, or feel creepy and cliRly or "i Tn THE IVAlStK Mrs. Addison KoadaTOieTTTSlysbur aged 25 years, died of pneumonia.

John Hoffman was the first to die of influenza at the emergency hospital at Edgewood Park. Mrs. B. H. Uurnurd died at McAdoo of pneumonia.

Daniel Dougherty, Ashland, died at Camp Stewart from pneumonia. have a Boreness throughout the body and a congested headache, either consult a Doctor or get a full size bottle of CHASCO-VIN, a tasteless Cod Liv. er and Iron Tonic and take it regularly, after eacli meal and at bed time. If you do this you will almost surely escape a case of Spanish Influenza. Dut do act quickly for your by the fumes of Incense, they entered and saw mnny idols representing goddesses, clothed in cotton garments.

Officiating at the ceremonies were women dressed lu bright cottons and decked out with feathers and ornaments of precious metals. The Spaniards, excited by this scene of Idol worship, rushed in, smashed the Idols, triumphantly placed an ini-ngo of the virgin on the altar and Making Dollars Into Munitions Patrick Leonard, Dear Valley, aged own sake. 43 years, died of influenza. Orville Chester Roup, aged one CHASCO-VIN is just the medicine for ail run down conditions and a year, of Sliamokin, died of Spanish influenza. Pauline Evelyn Mary Hill, ten splendid reconstructive tonic for those who are.

recovering from any serious illness. years old. of Reed's Station, died of CHASCOfVIN is sold in Mount, Snanish influenza. Cannel by Frank J. Tye.

adi? John Classic. 45 years old. dasnod LOAM ALL AROUND hold muss before the eyes the astonished priestesses and native worshipers. Archeologists have never ceased to regret the fervor of the Spaniards, who thus unheedlngly destroyed unique treasures of Mnynn civilization. The Spaniards named the plnce Isla de Mujeres for future reference and sailed nwny.

The frightened Mayans deserted their shrine. For years, the Isla de Mujeres lay still and forsaken. Gradually it awakened. A fishing village grew up near the ancient altars and the hunt the hawk-billed turtle where once Indian maidens swung the censers and chanted their prayers. i THE TOWN awaynt Springfield from la grippe.

Seven day old Joseph Veronen, Sliamokin, was fatally "stricken with influenza. Mattie Viola'. Johnson, Sliamokin, died at the Sliamokin hosjpitaf. The husband and an infant child born at the hospital survive. Albert Eisenhower, Itingtown, died at Camp Meade from influenza.

Walter Kauffman, former resident of Shenandoah, died at Camden after a long illness. Frank Whalen died at Maryd of pneumonia. Enoch Ulavage, 2' years old, died at his home in Girardville of pneu- Tliey Are Bargains in Ice Cream Before the close of the ice cream season, under order of the hoard, of health due to the eiiidemici there was a veritable rush for the luxury at the last minute. Some dealers feared they would be left with a large supply on hand and sold at a sacri ART OF WALKING REVIVED That's your individual role in this warto make your dollar into war munitions. Every Liberty Bond yu buy means more munitions, and more munitions mean more effectiveness for our men.

And these munitions how they are needed! Hundreds of thousands, yes, millions of. shell shot into the entrenchments and against the massed hordes of the Hun in even a brief offensive! How can we turn them out fast enough unless we make our dollars do the work! Pile up the dollars then Lend them by the hundreds, by the thousands, for Liberty Bonds. The faster, the more generously we turn our dollars into munitions the sooner we shall end the war, wipe out the blot of Prussian despotism, and bring triumphant our boys back home fice, the cream 'having been sold at'iuonia. Walter Cooper, formerly of Alali from 20 to 25 cents a quart. The demand however fur exceeded tlie Fighting supply on hand.

Before nine o'clock nearly every dealer has sold out. Other dealers held the price as high as 40 cents all evening. Dealers will continue to make fee cream, but when purchased must he taken away anoy City, died at Camden. i Mahlon Sieger, Mahanoy City, died; of heart failure. Helen Heese, nine years old, died i at Lost Creek of bruin fever.

John Williams, passed away at the new emergency hospital at Mahanoy i City from pleuro pneumonia. Mrs. Martin Tunila, Mahanoy died of influenza. Miss Josephine Scully, 17 years of Ashland, died at a sanitarium in Philadelphia from pneumonia. from the business place to be eaten.

Dangerous Practice As soon as the fire alarm sounds in this town many of the autoists make a race in the direction of the So must you. To buy is the least you can do. Every bond is a big help. Buy more MOLESKIE PROMOTED TO SERGEANT That More People Take Beneficial Exercise Is an Indirect Result of Great War. The human race was forget ling the nrt of walking.

Vanity had something to do with It and the shoemakers, who catered to vanity. For the truth was, people were paying more nttentinn to the style of the shoe than to the comfort of the foot. Then came the war. Whatever else they are called upon to do, soldiers have to walk. In walking, one must have shoes that fit Khoes that do not cramp the foot, shoes with flat soles and low heels.

So the armies of the world provided their soldiers with shoes in which tliey could walk and the soldiers found the walking easy. Seeing these millions of soldiers with pnod feet, properly shod and finding that ihey could walk for long distances without tiring, the rest of the world gradually came to adopt sensible shoes. In the fulness of time all of us nmy learn to walk, and when we do we shall find that we had for many years overlooked the most delightful process of locomotion that has tis yet been Invented. Walking, is the best exercise that lias been devised, because it is the most natural. Man is a walking animal the process of walking involves every nerve and muscle of (lie body and insures health.

Men and women who walk do not suffer from any kind of disease. Hut the first principle of walking is proper shoe for the foot. -Southwest American. So far there lias not been any serious but if this practice continues much longer there will be a serious one. Another brainless practice is for an autoist to stop his ear in the middle of the street.

This is what happened at Second and Hickory streets the other afternoon. West End truck went east on Second and then' turntd onto Hickory. As they rounded the corner they had a narrow escape from colliding with a touring car standing in the middle Following Is a letter received from Sergeant Stanley Moleski, son of Walter Moleski, west Second street, who is in France helping to kick the Kaiser: September 1918 Dear. Friend: This ad is coutj ibuted in the interest of the Fourth Liberty Loan by the Philadelphia Bargain Store of the road. Only Ihe presence of TTTV 9 mind of Itudolph Angeli, the chauffeur, who managed in seine wny to dodge the touring car, prevented a serious accident.

We re'oacK A few lines to let you know I am 1 well and hope you are all the aaine. I am certainly glad lo hear the good news about the town, everybody working for tho Red Cross. They are certainly doing their bit. It may, not seem a big job for them, but we know it is. Jack 1 have met a few Mount Carmcl boys over I have 'met Persiug, Sliipnian wild Krunuack the fellow who managed.

SPENT MONEY FOOLISHLY (EBS GROWS LARGE RADISHES Saw Northern Lights Many people saw the northern lights or aurora Borealls, a most beautiful sight Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The lights were first seen about nine o'clock and grew brighter until about 12:30 they were most brilliant. Of on lilias Krebs, trolleyman and tire-lii, is meeting with success as a rnier. He has a war garden west of wu and has harvested an exeel-it crop. He gave the Item two int radishes this morning, each of licli weighed four pounds.

COUNTY MEDICAL INSPECTOR STRICKEN have been a great sufferer from stomach trouble and gall stones. No one knows the pains 1 have suffered. Since taking the -first close of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy am feeling fine, can work all day and eat anything 1 want. Have no more distress or palpitation, of the heart from gas on my stomach. 1 have spent great dual of money on doctors and medicine but got nothing to help me." It is a simple, harmless preparation that removes the catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and allays the inflammation which causes practically all stomach, liver and intestinal ailments, including appendicitis.

One dose will convince or money refunded, ad Dr. SniinU, county medical inspector lias been stricken down with the Spanish inuuenza. lie had been in Spanish Influenza. He had been in Edgewood Park. DEATHS FROM PLAGUE AT SHAMOKIN The number? (jft new eases of Spun-h influenza, "at Sliamokin is still Hie increase Seventeen more jatlis have been reported.

The llhorfties are working hard to try id abate the plague. Building the Pyramids. "Ia looking at pictures of the pyramids and the Sphinx everyone lias wondered how lioMi ieuf monuments could he built in an age when there was no such thing as a steam derrick. Discussion upon the point lias run through the centuries. An.

English engineer has bit upon what appears to be the true explanation?" His opinions are supported by the evidence of ancient inscriptions on tombs and ton; pies. This engineer states that in building a pyramid the Egyptians constructed an inclined roadway to the level of which the work had reached. As the pyramid grew taller the angle of the road constantly grew steeper nod its length greater. Up tills roadway passed all the material required in building the pyramid, hauled by slaves and pack animals. the South End.

Bert Yates is in our outfit. Wo are always together and talking Kbuut the town ana hoping to return soon. I would like to write v. few lines and let you know some cf bo thirty that happened ever here. I have received many Items and I certainly enjoy reading them.

They come a distance of miles and are still in the same paper. We are doing important work and some pretty good work. The weather is warm, same us tho U.S. I guess by this time there are very few left in Mount Carniel. I don't think there are any who have cold feet.

To bad about H. L. Ceist. He played his part and it. will never be furgot-ten.

I went a little higher lately. I was promoted to a Sergeant. Well 1 guess I will have to close. It is getting time to do something. Sending my best wishes and luck to eacli and every one in Mount Canuel.

Goodbyo Sergeant Stanley B. Moleski Co. Oth U. S. Eng.

A.E.F. Show it. This war is not of guns alone Your share is your utmost. The boys over there are counting on you. Will you dare to fail them Advertise in the ITEM C5T2 For War News Read the ITEM.

Get the Habit of Drinking Hot Water Before Breakfast $2.75 $2.75 Says we can't look or feci right with the system full of(poiscn6. Millions of folks bathe Internally SHAMOKIN MINER KILLED now Instead of loading their system with drugs. "What's an inside bath?" you say. Well, it is guaranteed to perform miracles if you could belters these hot water enthusiasts. There are vast numbers of men and women who, Immediately upon arising In the morning, drink a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of lime For the next few days we are putting on special sale several lots of Women's Dress Shoes.

These Shoes are made up in lace and leather and cloth topsi most of them have medium high heels and formerly sold at Bonds Fight Behind theGuns Now is Your Time to Strike The stump of a. pillar rushed upon and crushed to death yesterday afternoon at Big Mountain colliery, Au-thony Mcklinski, aged 33 years, mar-Tied iijUd employed in No. 8 vein of No. 5 slope. The remains were removed to the homo i.on Chemung street, Sliamokin.

a Species of Whippoorwill. The cry of the whippoorwill Is Its song and only the male utters it. The female is fcilent. When it is singing, just as likely as not the whippoorwill is sitting on the ground, although it sings from the treetops at times. It doesn't Pinjj after midnight.

From dark until about 10 o'clock is its favorite time for ringing or yellng. In the South there is a kindred bird, somewhat larger than the Northern whippoorwill, which Is called "chuck-wiU's-widow," because that Is what some folks assert It says. And in England there is bird very similar to the whippoorwill known ns the "goat-sucker," berause it Is supposed to ohjaln its food (froiu the milk of goas. A II i Her Prophecy Came True. Aitstory Is told tothe effect that Simon Bolivar, when he was a child of seven, had for a playmate in Spain a boy of about his own age named Fer-dinnud.

the future Spanish king. One day, while engaged iu a game of battledore and shuttlecock, a stroke by young Bolivnr knocked the cap from, Ferdinand's on old; who witnessed. the and who was deemedna l.othsayer. declared that some driy Bolivar would knock the crown from the king's had. Which feat he certainly did accomplish, so far as South America wa ROBT.

H. DAVIS $4.00 and WhilJ theVt a th price is j4 stone phosphate in it. Tnl3 is a very excellent health measure. It is la-tended to flush tho stomach, liver, kidneys and the thirty feet of intestines of the previous day's waste, sour bile and indigestible material left orer ia the body which if not eliminated eTery day. become food for the millions of bacteria which infest tho bowels, tile quick result; is poisons and toxins which are then absorbed into the blood causing headache, bilious attacks, foul breath, bad taste, colds, stomach trouble, kidney'nilsery, sleeplessness, impure blood and all sorts of ailments.

People who feel good one day and badly the next, but who simply can not get feeling right are urged to obtain a quarter pound of limestone pijoBpbate at the drug store. This will cost very little but is sufficient to make, anyone a real crank tin the subject 'of iuternal sanitation. Just as 'Soap and hot water act on the cleansing, sweetenlttg' and fresheningso limestoue phosphtite and hot water Bet on Hhc stomach; liver, kldueys aud'howels! It is vastly more important to bathe on the inside thau on the outside, because the skin pores do not absorb impurities into tbe lllood, Fiile the bowel pore do. i ARRIVES IN FRANCE David II. Davis; 301 north Oak street, has received word that her son Hubert II.

Davis, woldlor boy, has-'arrived saftdy 'in Franco. $2.75 i nrhi .) it) tCj "trie war by i fa TWO c'jrHX'lVL M'ella Margrtli. sitstcrs, ill at their, home. No. 44 south Viuo street, Buffering.

from Spauibh iuflueuza. D. A nger and Lotus Fein berg Yoder Shoe Store cuccernfcd. (L'outluueU rrum nret Ps).

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