Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-04

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monthly repor I
was submitted to-day to the county
commissioners.
Inspector Boyer made 1904 inspec-
tions. 151 adjustments, sealed 965 and
condemned 239.
Fourteen different varieties OF scales
were tested, totaling 100 inspections,
forty-nine were adjusted and twenty
were condemned. OF liquid measures,
S5S We're inspected. 271 sealed and
eighty-seven condemned. OF dry
measures a total of 362 were inspect
ed. eighty-nine of which were con-
demned. while 273 were sealed.
Every kind of a weight from an
eighth-ounc to ten-pound was ex-
amined. The total, including miscel-
laneous, was $50. of which 102 needed
adjustment, and forty-two had to be
condemned. The one-pound and the
half-ounce weight were the chief Of
tenders, seven of each being rejected
Six four-pound, five single ounce, four
two-pound, four two-ounce and three
eight-ounce weights were also con-
demned. Three styles of automatic
pumps were inspected and all were
passed upon.
List 100 Criminal Cases. - To date
about hundred cases have been list
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beginning March 16. About sixty of
these are holdovers. The list will be
ready for printing by Saturday.
Wants Insurance on Horse.-Suit to
recover $50 insurance on his mare
"Bess," was filed by Milton o. Sides
yesterday against the Elizabethtown
Protective Association now the Mutual
Livestock Company.
Realty Enthusiastically transfers
included the following: A Reels heirs
to w. S. Wallower, Maclay and Orange
niger 435 Market street. 81; F. B.
Aldinger to G. c. Feeser, 225-37
Fourth, 1636-42 Apricot, 3S6-Ss South
Cameron street, 81 each; C. z. Huffer
to Olive E. Evans, 1922 Emerald, 81;
F. F. Hetrick to John E. Gipple, Nine
teenth and Regina streets, 81; PENN
sylvania Railroad to Harrisburg Light
and Power Company, Tenth and State,
$24S; Alma Ellenberger to State for
Capitol Park extension, 14S North
Fourth street, $500.
Bids For Street Paving.-Bids for
the paving of Seventh street from EN-
erald to Woodbine streets will be ad-
vertised for within the next thirty
! days With this advertisement will
appear the request for proposals for
paving Maclay street from the Penn
| sylvania Railroad to Cameron street.
Until these bids are disposed of it is
doubtful if any action relative to bids
for the sewer bids under the "omni-
bus" measure will be opened
Ex-Prison Warden Meetch Home
Harry w. Meetch, former Dauphin
county prison warden was a court
house visitor to-day. Mr.. Meetch has
Ijust returned from an extensive visit
| to Florida.
Begins Work on Front Street Sewer
Work on the construction of the
sewer in North Front street from a
point fifty feet north of Seneca to EN-
erald streets was begun to-day by Con-
tractor G. w. Ensign.
Prison Inspectors to Act on Cordes
Death.-At to-morrow's meeting of
the Dauphin county prison board,
plans will be made for the attendance
of the members at the funeral SER
vices of Henry Cordes on Saturday at
2 o'clock. The board will adopt reso-
lutions appropriate to the death of
Mr. Cordes. No action relative to the
appointment of Mr.. Cordes' successor
was taken to-day and it is doubtful
f any choice will be made for several
weeks.
To Sell Orsinger Hotel.-March 80
has been fixed by the Dauphin county
-ourt loT tne nearing upon the queS-
| ion of whether the Orsinger Hotel,
| Third and Verbeke streets, owned by
Vincent Orsinger's estate, should be
old at private sale to Frederick Laus-
| er for $4,000.
To Settle Mortgage Question.-In a
petition to the Dauphin county court
| o-day, Mrs. Alma Ellenberger asked
| hat mortgage held against No. 143
| Iorth Fourth street for more than
| wenty-one years by Elizabeth Gerber,
| marked satisfied unless the sheriff
| an obtain traces of Mrs. Gerber or
her heirs. The mortgage was for $500
md it is understood has been paid
out this does not appear on record.
rhe property was yesterday transfer
| ed to the State by Mrs. Ellenberger
or S8,500. 1t was required for the
proposed Capitol Park extension.