Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-07-29

SmsSy:s.s The rem a n d e |
was paid by III
State.
The camp at Selinsgrove, which
was attended by the Ninth and Thir.
teenth regiments, the separate battal.
ION of infantry and six troops of cav.
airy, hal a pay roll of $3~1,978.35, OF
which the State paid $17,993.29 and
the federal government the rest, the
camp being a joint camp in which
regular army soldiers participated.
h camp at Indiana, participated
in by the Second Brigade, the Four
teenth Regiment, two troops of cav
airy, Battery B, the field hospital and
the signal corps company, had a pay
roll of s~4S,692.41, all of which was
paid by the State.
The Governors Troop received
S417.94 from the federal government
and $543.60 from the State.
Contracts Let.-Highway Commits
sioner Bigelow to-day let contracts
for two roads on which action had
been deferred last week. The con-
tract for the Improvement in Bloom
burg was let to the Empire Contrac-
tors Material and Supply Company, of
Newark. N. Y, and that in Ridgway to
b. II. Coryell, Williamsport. Readver-
tisement was ordered in the State aid
road in Franklin township, Greene
county.
Sold Adulterations.-Seven cases of
adulterated soft drinks were found in
Philadelphia to-day and prosecutions
ordered. In addition two arrests for
sale of adulterated milk were made in
Philadelphia and four in Lehigh.
Typhoid at ScottdaIe.-Ten cases of
typhoid fever have appeared in Scott
dale, Westmoreland county and Com
missioner Dixon has sem an engineer
to make an investigation.
Trustees acknowledgements Tener
to-day announced the following ap-
pointments of members of the board
OF trustees of the Mothers Pension
Fund for Fayette county: Mrs. Joseph
Rosenbaum, Uniontown; Mrs. Charles
p. Chick, Uniontown: Mrs. j. French
Kerr. Connellsville; Mrs. william B..
Clark. Connellsville;; Miss Ella Nora
Shallenberger, South Brownsville;
Mrs. Milton A. Mccormick, Fair
chance; Miss Perrie Abraham, Smith
field.
Waterways List.-The delegates to
represent Pennsylvania at the Seventh
Annual Convention of the Atlantic
Deeper Waterways Association, to be
held in New York, September 1926
have been named: Howard b. French,
Philadelphia; VIM. S. Harvey. Phil
a%delphia; James b. Bonner, Philadel-
phia; Murdoch Kendrick, Philadel-
phia; VIM. b. Irvine, Philadelphia;
]. S. W. Holton, Philadelphia; Eugene
w. Fry, Philadelphia; Selden Twit-
chell, Bryn Mawr; Joseph r. Grundy,
Bristol; j. Craig. Jr., Chester.
Big Bonus Paid.-The Union Switch
and Signal Company, of Pittsburgh,
to-day paid the State ~$5,S45.S9 as a
bonus on an increase of stock amount
ing to $1,669, 015.83. The Kutztown
State Normal School gave notice of an
increase of its debt from $1S9,451 to
$265, 900.
Ask Road Improvement.-Highway
Commissioner Bigelow yesterday
agreed to fix up as soon as possible the
State highway from Somerset to Jen-
nerstown this being an important link
connecting with the main road to
Pittsburgh. Judge F. j. O'Connor,
John Nj. Rose, eX-Sheriff Davis and
Samuel Wilson were in the delegation
which was here.
To Attend Reunion.-Captain John
w. Morrison, Deputy Commissioner of
Banking, and Captain c. II. Cook, of
the Capitol police force, leave to-day
for Beaver to attend the semicenten-
MIA of the attack on Petersburg, in
which they took part as members of
the n Hundredth Pennsylvania Regi-
ment. This command, known as the
"Roundheads,' was in the thick of the
fighting of the last two year and will
hold it's reunion at Beaver.
Judge Mellon Dies.-Judge Louis A.
K. Mellon, the youngest judge in the
state and a member of the Philadel-
phia municipal court. died yesterday,
aged 80. Governor Tener will name
his successor.
Meets August 1.-THE Public Service
Commission will meet August 4 for
the consideration of new complaints.
The only hearing of importance set is
the fight over water rates in the Ohio
Valley.
Not at Ford City.-Governor Tener
did not speak at the Ford City Eagles
home dedication. He was invited, but
could not attend.
Water Supply Meeting.-The appli-
cations for bridge permits in this and
counties will be considered
by the Public Service Commission at a
meeting tomorrow.
Will Return Next Week.-Nathan r.
Butler, Commissioner of Fisheries, will
return from his vacation next week.
He has been inspecting fish hatcheries
in Ohio and Indiana.
On Vacation. - Captain John III.
chief craftsman of the De-
partment of Internal Affairs, leaves
this week on an extended northern
trip.
Commission Meeting.-The State De-
~pendents Commission is holding its
July session at Philadelphia to-day and
the reports of local concerns recently
Investigated will be considered.
The Shoe pinches.-The Bureau of
of the United States De-
pertment of Agriculture, located at
wants to know whether
t. is the opinion of the Public Service
Commission that no exemption can be |
made in favor of the federal govern
in the matter of rates for cleo
trio power service. r. E. H~artenstine,
1926 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, and
J. Jenners. of Reading. inform the
commission that drinking water is not
on certain trains operated on
the ~Schuylkill division of the Pennsyl- |
vania railroad. |
HEARD ON THE HILL