Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-12-01

I, =, conscience n q,
winch is the fund into which undesig-
mated and anonymous items are con-
signed. The previous year $531.1O was
through the conscience fund.
Exclusive of the $5,312,175.71 of
personal property tax the receipts for
the fiscal year were sS9S,663.75 more
than in the previous year, which is
due to the manner in which money in
litigation and certain State taxes were
followed up. Collateral inheritance
tax, which yielded $2,O3S,73S.27 in
1913 paid the State s2,516, 1850; tax
on corporate loans aggregated $2,-
29,O26.96 against $2,309,336.76 the
year before and the gross receipt taxes
went up to S1,S2S. .004.01, which was
also an increase. The capital stock tax
was Sl2,942,4S9.S9 against S13,553,-
537.97.
VIII AppeaI.-Arrangem are be-
ing made by the State Bureau of
Medical Education and Licensure to
appeal the optometry case, which was
decided against the case in Philadel-
phia. The Attorney Generals Depart
ment will have charge of 1t.
Time Up Thursday-The time for
hling expense accounts of the recent
campaign will expire on Thursday.
Most of the big ones are yet TO come
in
The New Directory.-The next Leg
islature VIII be asked to make an ap-
preparation to the Department of La
Dor and Industry for the publication
! OF the industrial directory of the State
which has just been issued in the form
of a departmental bulletin. 1t is the
plan of the Bureau of Statistics, which
had charge of the publication, to ask
. II l.. 4
| Irectory. The book just issued contains
the names, addresses and classification
of over $4,000 companies, firms and
| individuals engaged in manufacturing
land of organizations of manufacturers
employers, labor unions and employees
The compilation of the book occupied
many weeks. Forty thousand requests
for information were originally sent
out and as less than half addressed re-
sponded about $4,000 more were sent
Since the book has appeared there
thave been numerous requests for in.
sertion of names.
State Is Aiding. - PENNSYLVANIA Is
cooperating with other States, the
national government and numerous
corporations in an effort to secure q
standard code of causes of accidents
uniform form of report of accidents
and efforts are now being made tC
Preaching agreement on classification
of accidents and of injuries.
Increases F1led.-Among notices o1
increase of stock or debt filed at the
State Capitol the last few days have
been: Reading Bridge and Warehouse
Company, Reading, stock $1,000 tc
100000; Elk Natural Gas Company
Pittsburgh, stock, $1,000 to $500, 900
w. B. Mclean Mfg. Company, Pitts.
burgh, stock, $4,000 to SCI, 800
Johnstown Rubber Company Johns,
town, stock, $500 to 500, 900; Sun,
set Shirt Company, Slatington, debt
S2,500.
New Charters.-State charters is
sued included st. Charles Amusement
Company. Philadelphia, capital SAL.
1000, and Keystone Amusement Cor.
poration, Boston, capital $4,000.
New Ice COmpany.-A charter wa!
issued to-day to the new Merchants
Ice Company of this city with a CAPT
tai stock of $4,000. The directors are
Lewis w. Kay. w. E. Perrin. c. e
Sheesley NJ. p. Johnson, Bart b
Drum, James d. Miller and William
E. Koons, all of this city. There is {
large list of shareholders.
New Member Here. - Walter S
Young, of Lykens, member elect from
the Second Dauphin district, was a
Named Notary-William r. Ressler
of Shamokin, was appointed a notar!
Ipublic to-day.
In n.-Superintendent n. C
Schaeffer is in Monessen attending
local institutes to-day.
Want Road Improved. - Congress
man-elect B. K. Focht and E. H. Hi
lard, at Watsontown, to-day saw
Highway Commissioner E. NJ. Bige
low regarding the proposed improve
ment of the famous road from Logan
ton to White Deer. This is one of tn
old-time highways.
Awarded Contracts.-M. A. Abelson
Max Cohen and the Capital City Junl
Company of this city, to-day receive,
the contracts for taking waste pape
from the Capitol. There were numer
Gus bidders.
No Action TaIken.-The Public Ser
; vice Commissioners were occupied to
day in hearings on complaints agains
water rates and took no action on tn
protests against increases of passenge
rates up to an early hour this after
noon.
New Justices.-Justices of the peac
were appointed to-day as follows viii
liam j. McCaa. Caernarvon township
Lancaster county; w. o. Winslow. ia
, township, Elk county; John A. Snyder
Greenlane, Montgomery county; Cyru
| Raub, Freemansburg, Northampto
county; John w. Wilhelm, Dunbar
Fayette county.
: May Modify List.-Officials of tn
E State Livestock Sanitary Board state
r to-day that there might be reductio
5 of the number of counties in quaran
: tine for foot and mouth disease in tn
5 fortnight. The new quarantine al
fecting forty-one counties became et
| fective to-day. Word was received to
5 day that Virginia had established
quarantine for the disease
, Little But, Oh! My!-The commits
sion for Senator Boies Penrose wa
2 made out at the State Department tC
} day. 1t contains less than 200 word
HEARD ON THE HILL
The Philadelphia Rapid Trans
: Company to-day made the first pay
| ment in the new fiscal wear II turne