Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-09-26
EVENING CHAT

SiuSlSu py city solicitors OF the score
or more of municipalities of that class
at meeting to be held here just be-
Tore the commencement of the General
Assembly next January. The general
operation of the law was considered at
a meeting held at Meadville and the
criticism and suggested changes of
the law were referred to the solicitors
TO consider in advance of the legis-
| latlVe session. a number of changes
nave been suggested, but there is u
| disposition to observe the working out
or the law before making changes.
Representatives of boroughs of the
state will also have meetings here
| prior TO the session of 1915, and il is
probable that suggestions for the pro-
! posed code of laws governing bor-
oughs will be made. The State Legis-
| latlVe Reference Bureau is about to
issue the first codification of the laws
of the State relative to boroughs, and
CRITICISMS will be invited in advance
OF its submission to the Legislature
| The whole subject of borough law
VIII be considered at the convention
! to be held before many months. 1t
mas been found that there are many
contradictory provisions in the statutes
| relative to the smaller municipalities
! Farmers in this section of the State
are showing a very canny disposition
IN regard to their wheat this autumn,
according to reports which are reach
ing the city, and there are a good
many hundreds of bushels that are
tucked away in barns and granaries
that will stay there for while. This
! section has produced an immense
amount of wheat and after the farm
ers nave taken out what they require
for seed for the coming years crop
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and above what they are able to store
that is available. This, according to
Well-posted men, is what is being sold.
The bulk of the crop is being stored!
Another interesting thing about
TINS years abundant crops is coming
10 nght, and 1T is the fact that farm
ers have taken to the old-fashioned
way of keeping apples by "burying''
| them, as 1t is called. Before the days
| OF cold storage warehouses and COM
mission merchants, who always found
market for the fruit, he farmers
used to place the apples and other
fruit that would keep in holes in the
ground, which were boarded up and
nlled with straw. They kept very we'll
during the winter and commanded
good prices in the Spring. This year
there are so many apples and other
fruits that farmers have been unable
|
have not buried apples for years
| have been planning to do so. It is
said that in some parts of the Cum
/ herland Valley they will be large
amounts of fruit stored in the hope
of better prices in the Spring.
When the present campaign ends
| there will he a sigh OF relief go up
around this part of the State because
| this city has been more or less the
center OF the whole political disturb
! ance and there really has been poli-
tics forced on the attention of people
| for eight or nine months. The guber-
material campaign appears to have
started up about the time the votes
were counted last November. IT is the
! longest campaign ever known because
the primary section was about as
strenuous as the present wind up. And
the end is five weeks off.
School News, the publication of the
State Soldiers Orphan School at Scot
| land, contains handsome picture of
Senator Franklin Martin, of West
| tairNiew. in its issue this week The
Senator is the Senate member of the
state commission and reference is
made TO his war record. Few know
it, but the Senator came out of the
war as a lieutenant in the heavy ar
| tillery, having served in Fort Monroe
and other big posts.
The paper presented at the Indus
! trial Welfare and Efficiency conference
by DR.. Thomas Darlington. of New
| 1ork, has been printed in pamphlet
form. 1t deals with methods of CO.
! operation between employers and en-
ployes for the betterment of conditions
in plants and is the result of years
of study. DR.. Darlington is a brother
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formerly health chief in New York
city. He is now the active spirit in
the welfare commission of the Amer
lean Iron and Steel Institute The
doctors paper is very practical one
and shows how fatigue, the greatest
enemy of efficiency can be overcome
| to a certain extent by surroundings
and care for men. It represents the
very highest spirit of American en-
ployment
Some of the trolley conductors are
men of very quick wit They have to be
to meet the jokers who get on the cars
| determined to amuse themselves. Last
| evening a pair of youths in latest garb
| from hats to socks got on a suburban
car and after taking their seats called
| out to know if the conductor could
| change a twenty.
Sure. come back and get It," an
swered the conductor, flashing large
| roll of bills.
The youths ddi not have two dol
| lars, let along twenty, and smiled in
sickly fashion.
! Come on and get it, insisted the
conductor. displaying the cash.
Jaw. we left it at home" responded
one youth
The conductor promptly rang the
bell to stop the car and called to the
youth that 1t was his place.
''I don't want off here" said the
gay lad.
oh" said the conductor, ringing to
| start up. II thought you wanted TO
go home and get your twenty to last
you tonight
And the whole car laughed.