Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-20

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Ef33NIHhHk1kMIE Square and double
kH2kYeSz track terminal in
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S11<sSssssss-. sss-.'-s---akAkD tween the Square
and Front street will be presented to
the Public Service Commission on
Wednesday morning at II o'clock. No
protest has yet been filed.
The action of the company is in
compliance with the public service
company law of 1918, it being required
that permission from the State be OBJ
tained for an extension of charter
rights prior to asking City Council for
a franchise.
Elevator Men Here. - The safety
regulation committee having in charge
the rules for construction and op-
Grafton of elevators met at the Depart
ment of Labor and Industry to-day.
The rules will be laid before the In
dustrial Board later in the year.
"Chiefy" Loses Cane.-"Chiefy" GIL
ner. chief of the secret service of the
Capitol, Is in dire distress. Someone
stole the cane which he bears as a
badge of authority. The matter was
brought to the attention of Captain
Lumb, deputy superintendent of State
police, this morning by Chiefly" and
q detail of the State police will likely
take up the matter. Chiefly" is under
the impression that the cane has been
Museum.
Trustee Named.-Ex-Judge w. E.
Rice, of Warren, has been appointed
trustee of the Warren State Hospital
to succeed the late ex-senator O. G.
Allen.
Baby Show at Johnstown.-TheD De-
partment of Health to-day opened a
baby saving show at Johnstown. A
number of small towns in that vicinity
will have shows as well.
Seventy-six Young. - Secretary of
Agriculture n. b. Critchfeld was rs
years old to-day and in honor of the
event heads of divisions of his depart
ment presented him with seventy-siX
roses, which were placed on his desk
as a surprise.
Opinion Given. - State Librarian
Thomas l.. Montgomery has been in
formed by w. NJ. largest Deputy At
toreny General, that in apportioning
State aid to historical societies the So
membership is to be taken to mean
payment of that amount as an initia-
ton fee and not as annual dues.
To Probe Some More.-The legis-
latiVe insurance investigation commits
sion has been called to meet in Phila-
delphia on July 27-2S to hear more
testimony from mutual companies and
also to make some inquiry about com
panies which enter business without
| HluCn capital.
1 New Clerk.-John Fl. Millison. of
Westmoreland county, to-day entered
Il upon his duties as a clerk in the State
Treasury.
Uncle Sam Pays.-The State to-day
received $4,000 from the United
4 States government in aid of the work
of State College agricultural depart
ments.
Good Roads BoOm-The cause of
good roads will be given a boost to-
morrow when State Highway Commits
sioner e. Nj. Bigelow will open bids for
seventeen miles of state highway on
the state-aid plan The plan is for
the State to pay half and the county
and township or borough or city the
rest. The roads will be in Ridgway
borough; Somerset county, two;
/ county; Venango county; Greene
county; Bucks county, two, including
Telford borough.
Worm Very BuSy.-Reports received
at the Department of Agriculture to-
/ day indicated that the army worm pest
i is general throughout Pennsylvania
and requests for information as to the
best way to kill 1t came from almost
every county. The department is issu-
ing bulletins giving directions and re-
quests statements as to the amount OF
damage done in localities, whether the
I worm confines itself to lawns or
whether it has raided farms. State
officials fear that the damage done will
run high in the thousands With few
exceptions the worm is reported in
! every city in the state.
As to Relations-An opinion was
/ given to DR.. Nathan c. Schaaffr, Super
intendent of Public instruction, to-day
by William Nj. largest, Deputy Attor-
ney General, in which the head of the
ar mr. n iu n1N hot H.
| provision of the school code requiring
a vote of three-fourths of a school
board to elect as teacher a relative OF
a director does not apply to a teacher
who is first cousin or niece of a
school directors wife. This is the
/ period of the year when teachers are
being chosen and numerous questions
under this clause have arisen. The act
| specifically enumerates those who
must have the three-fourths vote and
Mr.. largest holds that it affects re-
lationship by ties of consanguinty
only. except in the cases of affinity
mentioned"
To Camp Tomorrow. Governor
Tener and Adjutant General Stewart
will leave early tomorrow morning
for camp at Selinsgrove. They will
then go to Indiana.
Grangers on the Hill" - Several
members of the State Grange visited
the Capitol on Saturday after the meet
ing. They discussed school appro-
priations.
First Regiment Ready. The First
Regiment of Cavalry headquarters will
be in Philadelphia. Colonel ]. P.
Wood has named John G. Whitesides
! as adjutant The First Squadron goes
out on practice march on Wednes-
day.
Bulletin in Demand.-The bulletin
of the State Livestock Sanitary Board
on tuberculosis in cattle is in demand
all over the State and there are re-
quests for 1t from other States.
Won't Get Permits. - Threshermen
in Lawrence and other western coun-
ties are so sore at the new law requir-
ing owners of such machines to stand
for the damages they do to roads and
bridges that they have refused to take
out State permits, according to a dis
patch from New Castle. In the west
ern counties it is claimed that their
action will retard farmers.
Expected Home. - Dairy and Food