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Franklin Repository (Daily) from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania • 2

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FRANKLIN REPOSITORY CHAMBE RSBURG PA AUGUST 18 1909 PACE TWO JranRIiu dlepo5ltori) THE DEATH EIST A BIG NIGHT Vaudeville in Both Motion Picture Houses Fully 2500 people attended the two picture shows on Monday evening Manager Shinabrook of Rosedale gave tliree reels of very fine pictures and a song and dance sketch by Wood and Lawson This team has been making good and will be seen at Rosedale the balance of the week High class vaudeville will be a feature at Rosedale during the coming season Manager Weber of the new Star Theatre was smiling as usual last night and he had a perfect right to do so as the crowd was following the Star This house gave two reels of pictures and Mr Lawrence in illustrated songs It is hinted that this house will also give twenty-five cents worth of vaudeville in addition to the motion pictures for the old price five cents in the very near future natures PERr CT TONIC Something more than an ordinary tonic is required to restore health to a weaker itl rar down the medicine must possess blood-purifying properties as well because the weakness and impurity of tho circulation is jespoasiblc ior uo poor physical condition The blood does not contain the new ssary quantity ci rich red corpuscles and is therefore a weak watery stream which cannot ailord sufficient nourishment to sustain tho system in ordinary health A poorly "nourished body cannot resist disease and this explains why so many persons are attacked by a spell of sickness when the use of a good tonic would have prevented The trouble In will bo found both blood-cleansing and tonic qualities combined It builds up weak constitutions by removing all impurities and germs from the blood thus supplying a certain means ior restoring strength and invigorating tho system The healthful vegetable ingredients of which is composed make it splendidly fitted to the needs of those systems which are delicate from any cause It is Perfect Tonic free from all harmful minerals a safe and pleasant acting medicine for persons of every age rids the body ot that tired worn-out feeling so common at this season improves the appetite and digestion tones up the stomach acts with pleasing on the nervous system and reinvigo rates every portion of the body THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO ATLANTA GA HOW GREENSBURG DID David Rhea is here from Greens burg on a visit While here he told how Greensburg did with the when that road wanted to remove grade crossings and improve its facilities in the Westmoreland county city and finally plans were made involving the expenditure of millions by the Pennsy In giving the railroad the right to make these improvements do you imagine that Greensburg'' Council asked the to pay $1 5000m for the privilege of spending millions? Nay nay the town of Greensburg is progressive and growing and its Council is helping and required from the but $S000 and that for absolute damages The moral should be plain enough to need no big type CARRIERS ELECT DELEGATES At a meeting of the Rural Letter Carrier association of Franklin county held on Monday evening these delegates were elected to the State convention to be held at Greensburg: Snively and Hollinger Green-castle Miller Chambersburg The State convention will be field on September 6 and 7 Often The Kidneys Are Weakened by OYer-Work Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood Weak and unhealthy kidneys are responsible for much sickness andsuffering therefore if kidney trouble is permitted to continue serious results are most likely to follow Your other organs may need attention but vcur kidneys most because they do most and should have attention first Therefore when I your kidneys are weak or out of order you can understand how quickly your en- tire body is affected ami how every organ seems to fail to do its duty If you are rick or feel begin taking the great kidney remedy Dr Swamp-Root A trial will con-i vince you of its great merit i The mild and immediate effect of Swamp-Root the great kidney and bladder remedy is soon realized It I stands the highest because its remarkable health restoring properties have been 1 proven in thousands of the most distress-dug cases It you need a medicine you I should have the best I Sold by druggists in fifty-cent and one-dol-lar sizes You may have a sample bottle by mail free also a pamphlet telling you noma oi3mp-nt how to find Out if you have kidney or bladder trouble Mention this when writing to Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton make any mistake but remember the name Swarnp-I Root and let a dealer sell you something in place of Swamp-Root if you do you will be disappointed Kodol For Dyspepsia and Indigestion If you Suffer from Indigestion Dyspepsia Gas 04 the Stomach Belching Sour Stomach Heart-burn etc a little Kodol will Relieve you almost Instantly Mary Elizabeth Upperman died at the home of her father Wm Upper-man Edenville last night at 5:30 She was aged 13 years 4 months 29 days The cause of her death was Diphtheria Funeral in the Edenville graveyard Repository told of the death of Mrs Catherine Wentz yesterday Funeral on Friday at 12:30 at the home of A Shuman interment in the graveyard at Marion LEG BADLY FRACTURED Edward Skinner son of Mrs Frank Skinner Memorial Square was taken to the Hospital last evening in the ambulance He sutlers from a doubly fractured leg Last evening with several companions he was out along the Western Maryland railroad track There are several stories as to how be was hurt but the most probable is this: While walking on the trestle at Horst's he made a mis-step and fell to the ground TROLLEY PROGRESSING The northward extension of theC trolley is progressing at a good gait There will be no trouble it is thought about the crossing of the tracks at Grant street and again at Park street Nor will there be any difficulty about getting over the Second street bridge for the requirements of the ordinance that the bridge shall be strengthened and widened will both be complied with liberally by the trolley company THE HEALTH OF YOUR HORSE will be best promoted best preserved if you are ready to give the proper remedy at the proper time The proper remedy for ail strains sprains or colic is Perry Painkiller The proper time to use it is when the trouble first shows itself Be prompt and not only save the borse suffering but spare yourself trouble and expense maybe save a long time waiting You ought to have a bottle ready The new size bottle costs 35 cents one larger 50 cents Be sure your druggist gives you Perry AT THE STAR The stage will be opened for the first time this evening A great novelty act will be presented by Mrs Welsh on Wednesday Thursday and Friday evenings Mr Lawrence will sing the latest songs and the newes: animated pictures will be shown Pictures changed daily Be sure to come Kodol supplies the same digest ive Juices that are found in a healthy stomach Being a liquid It starts digestion at once Kodol not onlydigests your food but helps you enjoy every mouthful you eat You need a sufficient amount of good wholesome food to maintain strength and health But this food must he digested thoroughly otherwise the pains of indigestion and dyspepsia are the result When your stomach cannot do its work properly take something to help your stomach Kodol is the only thing that will give the stomach complete rest Why? Because Kodol does the same work as a strong stomachand does it in a natural way J'OR SALE BY So neglect your stomach become a chronic dyspeptic Keep your stomach healthy and strong by taking a little kodol '1 or have to take Kodol all the time You only take it whwn you need it Kodol is perfectly harmleaa Our Guarantee Go to your druggist today and get dollar bottle Then after you have used the entire contents of the bottle if you can honestly say that it has not done you any good return tho bottle to the drugglalund he will refund vour money without question or delay We will then pay thedrug-r1 st hesitate all druggists know that our guarantee Is good This offer up-plies to the largo bottle only and to hut in a family The large bottle contains times us much as the lifiy cent bottle Kodol is prepared at the laboratories of DeWitt Co Chicago rs IL 'vnUAlWAN is a fine art unless you can trust your butcher It will be well worth your while to give us a trial order if you are looking a thoroughly reliable market where you can be sure of finding a pleasing variety of first class meats Beef Veal Lamb Ham Bacon Dried Beef Frankforth Everything here in abundance WENGER SON Second St opp Market house FEES OF JUSTICES INCREASED According to the Act of April 1909 the fees of: Justices of the Peace I were increased in three instances The cost of docket entry is now fifty cents whereas it was 25 cents under I the old law A subpoena is now tbir-j ty cents instead of 25 A hearing is I now 75 instead of 50 cents as l'or-! merly This change in fees affects only those justices who were elected I in 1909 The present schedule of fees can1 be found in Pamphlet Laws of 1909 page 160 GRANGERS PICNIC I For the Grangers Picnic at Will-j 'lams Grove August 30 to September 4 1909 the Cumberland Valley Raib I road will run special excursion trains 1 to the Grove and sell excursion tick-j ets as follows: Leave Chambersburg at 7:43 a 9:47 a 1 :20 and 4:40 Excursion tickets good to return until Saturday September 4 will be on sale from Monday until Friday at reduced rates Excursion tickets good for two days i will be on sale from Tuesday until Friday of $100 for the round trip I Aug IS 2023 25 27 28 Chambersburg Pa August 18 1909 A NEVIN POMEROY Editor and Proprietor JAE A HAMILTON City Editor TUART BROWN lui Manager Delivered by Carrier Dally Edition Six Cent a Week By mall In Franklin county Dally Edition $300 per Year Weekly Edition $100 per Year Weekly outiide county $125 per Year Advertising rate on application Address all communications to FRANKLIN REPOSITORY Cbambersburg Pa WESTERN RAILROADING Standard Railroad of Is a term long since applied to the Pennsylvania and it has maintained it to the present Well too does it deserve this distinction for from every point of view it merits it Those of us in the East read much in magazine advertisements of the the Shasta the Angeles the "Over-lancT etc Pine trains they all are but none surpass and few equal those of the Pennsylvania over which not one half the fuss is made by that company The Pennsylvania has set the pace for nearly all the roads in the country Others have sought to imitate it but as they advance they do so merely to find that the great road bearing the name of our own State has gone just little beyond While the roads in the west possess fine rolling stock and travel in this respect is made as pleasant as possible the absence of the well ballasted track is observed and the safety with which passengers on the Pennsylvania are surrounded by the block signal system is entirely lacking on the western roads One great advancement that has been made in recent years is the oiling of the tracks with crude petroleum to lay the dust This process is gone through with about three times a year Cars used as sprinklers are attached to trains and for hundreds of miles the track is oiled its entire width and to the sides Bo abundant is the oil along the Pacific Coast that it can be utilized in this way without any very great expense to the railroad company After being placed upon the track all dust and sand is allayed for three or four months unless a desert sand storm should blow more upon the track This process keeps down the dust but the sand ballast fails utterly to take the place of the stone ballast used in the East In almost every instance in the (West there is a total absence of the block signal system which has made the Eastern roads a means of greater safety For miles and miles the train speeds on its way without any dictation from an official over the wires It is practically impossible to establish telegraph offices for the line lies along a desert far removed from civilization or on the side of some mountain range where the operator would have for his companions only the howling coyote a mountain lion or a bear Naturally a much larger salary would have to be paid an operator to accept such conditions than the company would care to expend The result is the block signal system is an improvement yet to come with a greater civilization Until it does come and more safety is given the passengers the railroads of the West cannot hope to be placed on an equality with those of the East The West is a great country and in time will be the peer of the East bin there is much yet to be accomplished before that day will dawn and of this no less important is the adoption of the system of railroading in the East which places around the patrons of the road an element of safety that does mot now and cannot exist for years to come in the West FULTON AND HIS STEAMBOAT Notable among the strong features of the September Century will be the first chapters of "Fulton's Invention of the written by his great-granddaughter Alice Crary Sutcliffe The narrative dealing in this issue with the trial-boat on the Seine will be told largely in extracts taken from papers of the inventor never before published and will be ilustrated with plans by Fulton only recently discov ered and with portraits Lavavar Is as nscrui in me home as a varnish when staining is not required Ask for clear Lavavar A SHEJUE 116-dtr ANTI-FADE CO Shakespeare Said: doth not the Appetite alter? A Man loves the Meat in his Youth that he cannot endure in his PAVING CENTRAL ALLEY Contractor Lewis Danfelt had his force at work paving Central alley from Market street north back of the court house The Commissioners of the county agreed to pay their share for running the paving back beyond the exit door of the Star Theatre The iron fence back of the court house will be reset and an opening made on the north side of the rear vestibule of the court house which will be especially convenient in bringing people from tile jail into the court house NEW SILOAM ENGINEER Philip Oliver the well known dray man is moving his family to Si-loam where he will assume the duties of engineer at the borough water station succeeding John Stevens who resigned and went to Martinsburg to work for the An expert from the Worthington Pump Co Philadelphia came here and instructed Mr Oliver in running the new pump-engine WIFE BEATER HELD Steiner Yonson of Waynesboro is under $200 bail for court to answer a charge of beating his wife Yonson came home drunk early yesterday morning and after a dispute with his better half began to beat her The police were called and Yonson then started to beat them lie do so well with the officers who landed him in the lock-up LURAY AND BERRYVILLE The Cumberland Valley ran a large excursion to Luray and Berryville this morning An extra section of train no 3 was run consisting of ten cars all crowded Out of Chambersburg 41 tickets -were sold to Luray and 12 to Berryville FOREST FIRES PUT OUT The forest fires which have been destroying much valuable timber land in the mountains on South Mountain for the past few days have at last been conquered after doing great damage Mill Hand Expected to Die Three years ago Webster a mill hand of Lisbon was suffering with bronchitis and consumption The doctors gave him up to die but Mr Webster hearing of Father Medicine began taking it faithfully and was cured Prevents pneumonia and comsumption Not a patent medicine 50 years in use no opium morphine or poisonous drugs in any form 100 Mens Shirts 35c great bargains j-ISJtd HENNINGER FOUYSKlMEYCOPJi Makes Kidnevs anl bladder in lit oooooooooooooooooooooooooc Bieno Bieno Bieno Means Real slate I in Esperanto the new universal language I want ALL who 0 are interested in buying or sell- ing real estate to read this and 0 call on me Look over the following for sale: Fine brick house 10 rooms wide hall bath furnace gas stable a fine home Philadelphia Avenue Frame bouse 9 rooms bath summer kitchen gas furnace At 50 200 feet East Market street Double frame house 7 rooms bath summer kitchen: electric light furnace A good renting property West King street Small farm clean lime stone acres good house and stable other buildings cistern and well right along trolley short ride from Chambersburg Frame house 7 rooms Elec trie light bath furnace 5th Ave A splendid home Frame house 11 rooms summer kitchen German street Double house pressed brick 7 rooms closets in bed rooms bath furnace regulated from first tioor electric light hard wood finish range to go with house water can be attached to furnace A good substantial house good location in eastern section RESULT fM ANTf FADE The Above 4 Pieces Furniture Given Away Free to every purchaser of 24 boxes of ANTI-FADE providing purchaser uses 4 and sells 20 to his or her neighbors for advertising ANTI-FADE which sells for 25c per box What is ANTI-FADE? It solves the problem of fast colors to the user Colors cannot fade or run together if used A necessity to every housewife This cut with $500 entitles the sender to the above offer for 30 days only from date of Only one suit to any one address ANTI-FADE CO Buffalo this ad Here was a wise mail long sincegonc to his eternal rest blit one who recognized made note of the fact becoming more patent every day that as we age light foods must be employed in connection With stimulating beverages in order to digest and strengthen us as in our youth It is for this reason that the consumption of Malted Beverages is gradually increasing With a light percentage of Alcohol' ust enough to take the place of any medicine to awaken the gastric juices to activity Ale Beer or Porter is becoming more widely used daily as people discover tlic healthfulness cleanliness purity and stiength contained in a glass of this product Everything that science and up to dale ipethods can secure is placed at your command when you call for Ale Beer or Porter at Hotel Club or Cafe or by to your residence Henrv Sons 8 BREWERS HARRISBURG PA FREE TRIP FIVE DAYS AT ATLANTIC CITY or FOUR DAYS TRIP TO NIAGARA FALLS I Transportation and Hotel Bills Paid by the Casino With each cash purchase of Cigars Tobacco Pipes Confectionery Howling Pool Billiards in fact anything we sell a voting coupon is given which may be voted for yourself or friend The person having received the greatest number of votes at close of i contest Aug 31st is entitled to either one of above trips From list given below showing the great number of votes already collected it is plain the winner will have to hustle and will need i all the assistance he can get If you feel interested in any contest- i I ant do not wait until tomorrow or next week but help him today and continue helping to the end of the contest Aug 31st Remember these coupons are given absolutely free with each (cash purchase at regular prices they cost you nothing and mayi get for vour friend a splendid trip at our expense The approximate vote to date is as follows.

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