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ALL THE NEWS THE DAY IT' HAPPENS! FULL UNITED PRESS DISPATCHES THE WEATHER Overcast, and somewhat warmer tonight. Sunday unsettled," moderate south, shitting to north-west winds. MOUNT GARMEL ITEM The worm will turn, but he doesn't always demonstrate that, one go6d turn deserves another. VOL. XXIX.

NO. 69. MOUNT CARMEL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 191.7 PRICE TWO CENTS TO CONFER THE PAPAL REVIVAL SERVICE AT EVAN. CHURCH TONIGHT NINETEEN PERSONS INJURED IN WRECK BENEDICTION TOMORROW GAP MAN HIT BY TRAIN; MAY DIE SUBMARINES ON BOARD THE SEA RAIDER YOUNG BOYS ROB SAFE; 3 ARRESTS LAST TRIBUTE PAID ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY Tomorrof evening, service com (By United Presa I-eased Wire) INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 20 Nineteen persons were seriously in Although It Is not customary to hold services Saturday night in connection with the revival being conducted at the United Evangelical mencing at 7:00 o'clock, the Men's Retreat will close In the Church of Our Lady.

Father Stern will preach jurea wnen a street car going at a on "The Victorious Battle." At this service the Papal Benediction will bel high rate of speed left the tracks and plunged against the heavy railing of conferred. Michael Dean Found Frozen Jewel Tea Company Safe Reliev church, so much interest has been aroused and such excellent success being met with that a meeting must be held tonight at the usual time, 7:30 o'clock. A number of new people came for The largest audience of the week BUENOS, AIRES, Jan. 20. By Charles P.

Stewart, United Press Stan" Correspondent. Copyright by the United Press. Pleasant Run bridge early today. Fifty-five passengers were on the car. All were bruised and cut by flying glass.

Fast to Ground in His Own Blood Skull Fractured attended last evening, and the me of ed of $92.00 Kulpmont Burgess Makes Capture the parish listened to a profound ser mon. Father Stern spoke on "Man's ward last night and principally for Plenty submarines eighteen feet Battle," and he told of the old, old I The big safe of the Jewel Tea Com Frozen fast to the ground in his own blood, where he had been lying tueir Denent it was tnougnt aavisaoie to hold services tonight. Dr. Egge is i in length are carried by the German (B United "Prefs Leaser! Wire) WASHINGTON', Jan. 20 The last tribute was paid Admiral George Dewey here today.

President Wilson, Secretary Daniels and other government officials, Middies, Jackies, soldiers and civilians joined the impressive ceremonies which closed with "taps" at Arlington. At 10:00 o'clock private service was; said over the late Admiral's body at the residence. Then borne on a fight between right and wrong, and of pany, that occupies the room facing raider which has wrought such dam lie great rewara ior tne spiritually i I Maple street in the I. O. O.

F. building, ready to hold services at any and all times lor the saving of souls. age to Allied shipping in Atlantic waters. There is every indication that the Third and Maple streets, was robbed seating capacity of the large church I of $92.00 yesterday afternoon about HOW TO BECOME WEATHER WISE; OBSERVATIONS The captain of the captured British steamer Netherby Hall among those for several hours, exposed to the cold, Michael Dean, aged 48 years, of Locust Gap, found in an unconscious condition along the Reading tracks near Mount Carmel Junction by a freight crew about 5:15 o'clock this morning. The identity of the man will be found altogether inadequate three o'clock in a very clever manner tomorrow evening.

Father Stern's by juveniles ranging in age from 13 addresses have stirred the people of to 16 years. Charles and William landed at Pernambuco from the German prize ship Hudson Maru was authority for this statement today. the parish, and all want to hear his Shoffier and Anthony Cherneski, of SWITZERLAND MAY ENTER BIG WAR was not known at the time and he "There are three submarines car Kulpmont, who were arrested charg concluding sermon. was rushed to the State Hospital at Fountain Springs where he is reported Following is the first of a series of ed with the offense, were given a hearing before Justice Straub and articles written for the Item by De EXPLOSION IN each held under $500.00 bail for court to be in a very serious condition suffering from a fracture of the skull tective Joseph J. Dropesky, west Fourth street, on how to become Samuel Retallic, a youngster of and possibly a fracture of the right Kulpmont, approached Kulpniont's weather wise.

Mr. Dropesky, wh leg, besides bruises and lacerations. Chief Burgess R. E. Stroup yesterday A MUNITIONS (Rv TTnlferl Press Leasad Wlrel WASHINGTON, Jan.

20 has always been observing, has cents, Mr. Burgess; it is stolen money The man was employed as laborer on the night shift at Alaska colliery ried by the raider," he said, in an interview at Pernambuco. "They are capable of operations over small radius and are equipped with torpedoes, dynamite, and ammunition." Such additional details as this indicating the typical German thoroughness with which the raider was prepared and equipped led shipping circles to predict a long chase by Allied warships before the sea scourge is cornered. Certainly she had not been definitely located today, according to dis made a life long study of weather With Minister Ritter acting on in afternoon, and said, "Here is ten forecasts. and quit work between eleven and structions from his home government and I don't want it." The well known Officer could true twelve o'clock and left for his home, PLANT; 40 DEAD today, issued orders through Swiss This sounded interesting to the ly be termed a weather prophet an It is thought that when crossing the consuls in America that all reserv flag-draped caisson under escort of Annapolis Midshipmen and other military units, the casket was taken to the Capitol, where in the rotunda the public might attend.

Chaplain Frazier of the Olympia, Dewey's fighting parson at Manila, said the simple eulogy. At noon a salute of nineteen guns sounded over the city, while battleships at distant points took up the same farewell. From the Capitol the funeral cortege moved to the City of the Dead across the Potomac-Arlington, the National cemetery and funeral guns and taps bade the Hero of Manila Bay "reriuiescat." All Government departments were closed today and Congress was ad- journed in honor of the American Admiral. All private stores stopped business for an hour during the procession from the capitol through the city and throughout Washington street car traffic was suspended. Burgess who questioned the young he doesn't make his predictions from railroad tracks, about fifty feet north ists on o8hditional leave are ordered ster, which led to the arrest of the a goose bone either.

He has made of the station, to get to the trolley- home immediately. (By UnitP.rt Tress Leased Wire) three accused boys. They had been spending money freely about town. study of atmospheric conditions. road, he was hit by a light engine or LONDON, Jan.

20 At the same time Minister Ritter a freight at about twelve oclock, and clouds, which he will give an ex patches at South American ports was ordered to issue these instruc Thirty or forty bodies have al buying gum boots, etc. When search- planation of in brief form. In his ar knocked to one side. ready been recovered from the ed a total of $43.00 some cents were tions, he received notification that three additional swiss army corps are A freight crew happened to notice ticles he will also tell of many sign and this despite the fact that a big fleet of warships is now literally raking the ocean for her. Wireless dis wreck caused by last night's explo- collected from their pockets.

They that many people predict the weathe sion in a munitions plant near Lon-jhad also given money to several peo to be mobilized on January 24th. don, the Home Office officially an- pie, who were arrested on a charge Dr. Ritter said today his Govern the man lying alongside the tracks this morning about 5:15 o'clock. His head was badly cut and his body bruised and he was frozen fast to the patches received today said that the auxiliary British cruisers Macedonia from. No.

1 By Joseph J. Dropesky nounced today. of receiving stolen goods it is claim ment's dispatch declared Switzerland and Omnia had arrived off Probably 100 seriously injured in ed. Whe ngiven a hearing a plea of has no fear of any hostile move by The following indications of the the explosion. not guilty was entered for the boys.

either group of belligerents. The new ground. At first it was thought that he was surely dead, but when it was The most detailed description of character of approaching weather The Home Office however esti- oungsters, supposed to be tliose troops he believes are to be used to seen that there was still life he was changes are afforded by local obser the German raider yet given was re mates the casualties were less than arrested, entered the Jewel Tea Com relieve parts of the two army corps taken at once to the hospital on the vations of the wind and the baro vealed by the captain of Netherby now mobilize, it is said. have been feared. The statement pany every day this week, and after said that practically all explosives in receiving permission used the office 5:30 o'clock train.

vations of the wind and the barom London reports have recently men CENTRALIA eter. When the wind sets in from Hall in dispatches from Pernambuco "I began calling for help by wire less the moment I sighted the raider," tioned massing of large German the factory let go and that the factory telephone. The safe in tlie omce is was comnletelv destroyed. near the window and the telephone is When the husband and father failed to come home a search was made for him and at the Junction station points between south and southwest forces on the Swiss frontier and fear he said. "I kept this up until a shot ami tlie barometer falls steadily, The exnlosion caused fire in neieh- between tne sate ana wnere tne or they learned the truth when they iden was expressed that Switzerland lieu trallty might be violated.

across the bow of my ship showed it storm is approaching from the west horine factories and three rows of nee Hands usually worn. esteraay was useless for me to try to escape or the northwest, and its' center houses were demolished. tii'ied his cap and Dottle. Up until this time the railroad people didn't afternoon three youngsters eiuerea the store and telephoned to Kulpmont DANCE BIG SUCCESS The raider was equipped with several will pass near or to the know who the injured man was. At north of the observer within twelve about a big sale that was being con THE RECITAL machine guns, in addition to her can non, and also carried three submar- the hospital the man was identified ducted in Mount Carmel.

While the or twenty-four hours, with winds WITHDRAWAL ines about eighteen feet long, capable by a patient, who is from Locust Gup boy was standing in front of the safe The man not only suffers from and telephoning, it is thought the other two must have gotten the $92.00 shifting to northwest by way of southwest and west. When the wind sets in from points between east and northeast, and tlie barometer falls WAS SPLENDID The dance conducted by the girlp. his severe injuries, but. also lrom ex FROM MEXICO from the safe. When the cash was of Ontralia in the St.

Ignatius Hall" -last night was a social success and was one of the nicest affairs of its posure and he was so weak this morning that it was feared hat. the end was near and his family was balanced last evening there was a steadily, a storm is approaching from shortage and an investigation started. Mount Carmel people should have tlie south or southwest, and its cen kind ever held in this section. summoned to his bedside. He is mar opportunity to enjoy more entertain Approximately 250 couples from all (Bv Unltetr Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Jan.

20 Announcement of orders for Gener Struck on the head by a log while ried and besides his wife has the ments like the kind given last evening in the Methodist Episcopal ter will pass near or to the south or east of the observer within twelve or twenty-four hours, with winds shifting to northwest by way of over this section were in attendance loading timber near Conyngham. Ben following children: John, Thomas, Michael, James, Rose, and Kathryn, and the hall was beautifully decorat al Pershing's withdrawal may be ex jamin Simms was killed. church. A large audience attended ed. Red and white were, used in the i pected almost at any time, War De and found great pleasure in the recit the last four being under sixteen north.

The rapidity of the storm's partment officials suggested today; MECHANICSBURG PAPER years old. approach and its intensity wil be in The preliminaries of the with al given by Miss Margaret Ruth, B. of Wernersville, assisted by Mrs. Laura K. Eltringham.

Five years ago Mr. Dean was in dilated by the rate and amount ot decoration scheme. The spacious hall never looked prettier. The music by Hall's String Orchestra, of Wilkes-Barre, was delightful and gave the fall in the barometer. RAISES PRICE drawal are already staged.

General Pershing is ready to move his en jured near the same place when jumping off a passenger train, he had Miss Ruth is an elocutionist of rare of being operated over a small radius, and equipped with torpedoes, dynamite and ammunition. "I would put the raider's speed at 22 knots and she always travelled at top speed during the daytime. At night she slowed up, but her engine-room crew was always held in readiness to jam on her full speed." Trailing the Raider RIO DK JANIERO, Jan. 20 (By II. I).

Robertson, United Press Staff Correspondent. Copyright by United Press.) First reports indicating the general location of the German South Atlantic raider was received here today. The Brazilian packet steamer Ba-hia reported she had sighted a vessel believed to be the raider ofT the coast of Rio Grande do Norte on Thursday, the stranger was travelling north at a speed estimated at about twenty knots. No consort was sighted with her. Practically all South American nations are taking steps to strictly guard 1.

Upper clouds, average altitude tire force northward. This will be ability. She is a teacher of the art boarded at the old Alaska station. In a little over six miles. About 75 people of this city were The Mechanicsburg Journal has an done gradually, it was said.

Cirrus. (Cl. Detached feathery present and say that it was ooe of mistake for a train stopping at the Gap. His injuries at that time were nounced an advance in price to 2 When Pershing returns his men of oratory and expression, and the audience last evening was given a demonstration of real skill. She presented a varied program, in which the nicest dances they ever attended.

cents, effective on February i. maw- will be distributed along the border clouds usually white, often arranged in belts with an effect of perspective, converging toward one or two points The program could not have been im serious and he was in the hospital a long while. the ing all of the newspapers published This will be sufficient to guard proved upon. The committee in border, with other syailable Regulars, in Cumberland county sell at this there was wit, and pathos, and on the horizon. The Ci.

and Cu. of charge are to be complimented for figure. is the military view. ten take part in forming such dialect, and in everything her work was great. he grand success of the entire affair.

belts. BANQUET FOR Beginning with "Raphael's Last Not Yet Moving SA NANTONIO, Jan. 20 "Absolutely nothing to it," said Cirro-stratus. A fine Painting," dramatic. Miss Ruth turn MERCHANTS' H.

S. GIRLS DEFEAT whitish sheet, sometimes completely ed to something entirely different and General Funston this afternoon when asked it reports thai Pershing's ex BAND TEACHER covering the sky, sometimes appearing like a tangled web. Often pro ecited "Dick Perkins' Toboggan UNIVERSITY TEAM Slide," humorous. "A School Day" was next, and then came a scream. BANQUET pedition was on its way out of Mexico were true.

duces halos around the sun and moon, 2. Intermediate clouds Mount Carmel Girls' basketball Professor Valeno, Philadelphia, the team, champions of the region the last several seasons, started their sea Cirro-cumulus. Small globular masses, arranged in groups or often in lines "mackerel sky. Ml DVALLEY BOY SIGNED We have been informed that Mich The annual banquet of the Retail son with a victory last night when Merchants' Protective Association ael Bolick. the hard hitting and clev- Average altitude, 4 to 6 miles.

hey defeated the Susquehanna Uni or ihirH liMsiPmnn nf Mulvallpv wlin will be held at Marble Hall the night "Mrs. Tubbs at the Sewing Circle." In this she perfectly mimicked a common gossip. There wasn't a dry eye in the audience when the speaker concluded the presentation of "Kiss Me. Mama, I Can Not Sleep." a tragic number Something unique was the recital, "A Perfect Day," given to piano accompaniment by Miss May Wardrop. Alro-cumulus.

Dense glob versity aggregation on their own floor was a sensation in this section last or February zutn. ine principal au new instructor for the Mount Carmel Italian Band, will arrive in Mount Carmel on the 8:50 Reading train tonight, when a committee of the band will meet him and escort him to the hotel of Peter Purin, west Fourth street, where there will be a reception and banquet in honor of the great band teacher. The Italian band is in ular masses of white or grayish cloud at Selinsgrove, 17 to 16. The game season has been siened to Dlav with a dress ot tne evening win De maue uy arranged so closely in groups or was well played. team in the New York State League William bmeuiy, ot tne rennsjivania The Mount Carmel girls have been the coming season.

State Merchants' Association, woo is lines that their edges meet. They often pass into at the centre and at the edges into Ci-eu. Average having a rather hard time getting well known here, a aeiigmiui ana the neutrality of their territorial waters. The Uruguayan government sent the steamer Corsario from Montevideo today to patrol its coast line. The Brazilian government has already dispatched several of its war vessels to back up enforcement of neutrality.

Meanwhile dispatches up and down the South American coast indicated a concentration of Allied warships In these waters. Wireless advices from the Falkland Islands said that six British warships had sped north from there searching for the sea terror. Pernambuco reported arrival of two British auxiliary cruisers. Yarrowdale Located AMSTERDAM, Jan. 20 The British steamer Yarrowdale, games as they are in a class by AT THE THEATRES TODAY interesting program will be arranged 5a nourishing condition.

altitdue. 1V2 to 2 miles. hemselves. The local fans can feel I ror tne evening Alto-stratus. A thick sheet of proud of their splendid work.

In Robert Warwick in "All Man," a ha three years that a girls' team has Albert Bitfenbender, a Hazleton five act World feature, a strong dram- SON OF COAL OPERATOR WEDS been in Mount Carmel they have nev merchant, sustained a. fractured skull er suffered a defeat in any game on tic story about a bevy of girls and a a nil so me hero; two especially pretty bluish or grayish cloud, exhibiting a bright patch near the sun or moon. It does not cause halos, but some times gives rise to coronae. Altitude, 3 to 3V (Continued next issue) when his team ran away on Jeanes ville Hill. or off their own floor.

There is scarce heroines, a dear old father, a railroad ly a team 1 nthe state that can equal president and something else worth this. seeing. Sour Krout and mashed potatoes tonight. ad20-lt Town Park Hotel Miss Kathryn Rogers, business man There is a tremendous railroad This was most effective. "Jimmy Browns Adventure with the Baby" was simply a scream and convulsed the audience.

As an encore she recited "A Little Child." "Little Christel," an old-time piece, was followed by a Dutch dialect number. This was exceedingly funny. "I Got a Lickin'," a juvenile selection, closed her admirable repertoire. "My Heart at Thy Dear Voice," from "Samson and Delilah." was sung by Mrs. Eltringham, with' Miss Wardrop accompanying.

This was a perfect rendition, and showed the wide range and purity of the singer's contralto voice. As an encore "Lullaby" was presented. The famous popular song of Italy. "My Bride Shall be My Flag." (English version by Rotoli, won much applause. ager, is to be commended for getting the game with the Susquehanna ro SOCIAL TIME AT (By Unltc -ceased wire) HAZLETON, Jan.

20. Alvin Mafkle, son of the anthracite coal operator, and Miss Gladys Jones, daughter of T. D. Jones, principal owner of the Mill Creek Coal Company with operations at New Boston, were married at the First Presbyterian church here this afternoon by the Rev. Robert J.

Jack. ds. A return game will be played wreck in which two passenger trains come together when traveling fifty miles an hour, and are destroyed. Then there is a canoe that goes over officially announced to have been "brought in harbor" with survivors from other prizes taken by the German raider, is at Swinemunde. according to a Cologne Gazette dispatch here today.

FRATERNITY CLUB ere next Saturday. precipice, several hundred feet high aitpipp iirin rnnu and many other thrills. All In. Friend I was Just in the art gallery admiring your "Napoleon After "Waterloo." The fidelity of expression on Bonaparte's face is positively wonderful. Where did you get it? Mr.

Dob-ber From life. I got my wife to pose for me the morning after she gave ber first reception. Puck. In the words of the critic "All The Fraternity Club held a delightful social time at their rooms last night. Following the business session when officers were elected luncheon was served.

"88" CLUB DANCE SHAMOKIN FIVE Man Is one of those exceptionally fine pictures without a GEORGE AUGUSTINE NOW A "DADDY" Congregational basketball team The seventh of the series of ten dances by this club will be held Monday evening. An excellent program has been arranged for this affair. 2t REAL OPPORTUNITY defeated the Oriole team, second best aggregation of the Shamokin City league last night by the score of 29 DANCE TONIGHT Valentine "The the first episode of "Pearl of the Army," in two parts, featuring Pearl While, as the American "Joan of Arc," and "God's Half Acre," a five act Metro, featuring Mabel Tallafferro, are the excellent offerings here today. to 23. Lineup: The West End A.

C. will hold a dance in West End hall tonight. The Mount Carmel Symphony Orchestra will furnish the music ad It Mount Carmel Positions Raber Forward Bensinger Forward An Old Smallpox Cure. The following primitive "cure" for mallpox was discovered by the Ley-tonshire (England) guardians in one of their registers for the year 1700: "Take thirty to forty live toads and burn them to cinders in a new pot, then crash Into a fine black powder. Dose for smallpox, three ounces." Shamokin Dane Doyie Dune Murray) TO HORSE OWNERS You will find it to be a paying proposition to keep your horse well covered with a good blanket these cold days.

We ofTer 20 off on any blanket in the store. See window display. Wardrop's Hardware George Augustine, basketball and baseball player, will probably retire from the sporting vorld for it is doubtful if he will have any time from now on for sporting events. A new girl has arrived at his home and George will be busy doing the bed room glide, and waltzing up and down the halls during his spare moments entertaining the young lady. Butts Mazari FOR SALE The Estate of W.

K. Lord, deceased, offers for sale the property now occupied by the George J. Moleskl store. This property occupies two lots each 25x150 feet, covering in all 50x150 feet. It is the best business site in Mount Carmel.

It is recognized as an ideal location and is a real opportunity for any individual or syndicate. For particulars see Raymond B. Tobias Executor of Estate of W. K. Lord Centre Guard Guard Southwood Gallic AT RECCE'S Strawberry, made of fresh berries, cherry, peanut, coffee and lemon sherbet.

Try a butter Scotch sundae. Field goals Raber 6, Bensinger 6. Butts, Mazari. Dane 6, Murray, Gallia Majestic Charlie Chaplin in a burlesque on "Carmen," in four reels full of screams and laughter, and "Satanas," the sixth episode of "The Vampires," in three reels of thrills and sensational mysteries, at the Majestic today. Goals from foul Butts, Doyle 5.

.1 LITHUANIAN BAND DANCE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Dance in Yetsko Hall, Marion Heights, Saturday night. Ad 19-2t Sour Krout and mashed potatoes tonight. ad201t Town Park Hotel Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Herman, ork City, are guests at Marble HalL; A Matter of Distance.

Aesop was asked how far It was te a certain place. "Let me see yon walk," replied Aesop. The man protested that he wished a civil answer. "Tou foolish person!" said Aesop. "How can I tell bow far It Is to that town uutll I see at what pace yon Ira voir FREE LUNCH The Lithuanian Band of Mount Carmel will conduct a dance in the Washington hall at Kulpmont on Saturday evening, January 20, 1917.

Everybody welcome. Good time assured to those who attend. Music by the band. 19-2t DANCE A dance will be held in Washington Hall, Kulpmont. Monday night.

Jan. 22. Good music. Everybody welcome. Ad 20-2t GENERAL HAULING done promptly.

Have iiVeral teams. M. Moser, both phones, second floor Trust Co. building. adtf AUTO FOR HIRE Seven passenger car, for funerals, weddings, 75c return trip to hospital.

W. M. Moser. Both phones, 2nd floor Trust Co. building.

ad tf DANCE TONIGHT in St. Johns Hall. Cherry and Willow streets. Good music. Everybody welcome.

Art It Free lunch tonight at the Moose Cafe. Everybody welcome. ad.