Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-11
COMING
To HARRI ISBUR R c
Senator Will Meet Representatives
of Organized Railroad Men
Here Tomorrow
BOILING SPRINGS WILL BE NEXT
Will Speak at the Big Farmers Re.
union in the Cumberland Val
ley on Thursday

Senator Boies Penrose is to spend
the latter part of this week in South
Pennsylvania and tomorrow night in
this city will meet a number of friends
and some representative railroad men
who want to talk over matters with
him. The senator is expected to ar
rive early in the evening and will re-
main here until the noon of the fol-
lowing day, when he goes to Boiling
Springs to make an address to the
farmers.
The senator's itinerary as announced
is as follows:
To-day at Mount Gretna, where he
will be the guest OF Brigadier- General
Price during the evening and Wednes-
day afternoon.
Wednesday, August 12-Some time
during the afternoon of Wednesday
Senator Penrose will proceed to Har-
| risburg, stopping at the Senate Hotel
over night
Thursday, August Ex-senator PEN
rose will leave Harrisburg about 2
p. m. on Thursday for Boiling Springs,
| Cumberland county, where he will be
the principal speaker at the big farm
ers' picnic. After addressing the pic
nickers and spending the afternoon
with them the senator will go on to
Carlisle for the night.
| Friday. August 14-An early morn.
ing start will be made from Carlisle
| for Chambersburg, arriving there by
| 1890. From Chambersburg the SEN
| ator will be taken by a committee to
| visit manufacturing plants at Waynes-
| boro and to hold a reception to the
employees thereof. This reception will
| be held during noon lunch hour and
the senator will also make a short
| talk. From WDVneSboro tho marty
will go on to Greencastle, where a
! harvest home day celebration will be
| in progress. The return to Chambers
burg will be made in time for dinner
and at $50 that evening the senator
| Will receive residents of Chambers
burg and vicinity. He will remain in
Chambersburg over night.
Saturday, August 15-The day will
be devoted to visiting and delivering an
address at the Path Valley old home
picnic. This picnic is an annual event
| attended by thousands from Franklin
| Huntingdon, Perry, Juniata and Fulton
counties. and is held thirty miles from
Chambersburg, at Dry Run, Franklin
county. The party will arrive at the
| grounds about II a. m. and spend the
day there, returning to Chambersburg
| in time for dinner. Senator Penrose
will remain in Chambersburg Saturday
night and return to Philadelphia on
Sunday by automobile via Harrisburg.
Indications are that the farmers
picnic at Boiling Springs on Thursday
will be one of the largest of the kind
ever held in Cumber-
land county and if the
Picnic Will weather is fair there
Be Notable will be a big attend
Gathering ance not only from
Cumberland, but from
York, Adams, Frank
lin and Perry. This is one of the
gatherings which attracts men who
like to compare notes with their
neighbors on crops and farm work.
The visit of Senator Penrose has at
tracted much attention, and he will be
warmly greeted. EX-State Treasurer
William II. Berry plans to visit the
picnic, too Senator Penrose is to
ispeak at o'clock and there will be
band concert.
Organization was effected by the
school board of the new borough of
PaXtang last evening at meeting held
in the school house.
Thomas w. Small
fwood, the burgess, Paxtanp
Ia I e as temporary Directors
chairman, and j. H Organized
Sheesley was elected
las presid ent with
Joshua E. Rutherford as vice-presi-
dent; Harry G. Widder as secretary
and Ralph I. Diehl as treasurer Will
liam c. Sourber and Joshua e.
Rutherford were named on the COM
mittee on finance and teachers and
supplies. Miss Hattie NJ. Weidenham-
mer and Miss Eva NJ. Kunkel, the
teachers last year, were reelected
The board will meet with representa-
tives to the Swatara township school
board on Monday to arrange to care
for the education of children nearby
Some of the people who were in
strumental in having Vance c. McCor-
mick make speech at the farmers
picnic at Blain are re-
ported to be somewhat
McCormick's indignant at the politi-
Speech in cal nature Of the
Poor Taste speech by the candi-
date. One story comes
from the district that
the speakers were requested to avoid
politics and yet judging from the re-
ports of the speech, Mccormick did
not talk much else. On the other
hand EX-Congressman B. K. Focht.
of Lewisburg. although a candidate
for congress, did not refer to politics.
but discussed the nations opportunity
in the European crisis and talked on
patriotic matters. Mr.. Focht paid a
tribute to President Wilson and ex-
tended sympathy in the death of his
wife. Mr.. Mccormick was apparently
so heated up that he made a politi- |
cal speech. It appears to have been
bad taste to say the very least about
It.
Republican legislative candidates
who have been making quiet tours in |
Cumberland, Franklin, Lebanon and
some of the Juniata
Valley counties say
that conditions are Legislative
more favorable to Contests are |
their election than Growing Warm |
has been the case in
recent campai gns.
To begin with the Bull Moose move |
ment, which allowed the Democrats
to slide in some candidates a few
years ago, appears to have lost its
hold and the quarrels among the Demo-
cracy over the primary campaign have
not been healed, but in some places
have been dntensifed by the appoint
ments to post offices. In Cumberland
county Messrs. Shopp and GOODYEAR
have received much announcement. |
In the upper end of York county the
reelection of Representative Robert