Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-24
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watching the ice go swirling down the
| Susquehanna river. The number of
residents of this section who go to
the subtropical State is increasing
every year and some of those who
travel to the East or West coast go
every year. William Russ, Fl. Shutz-
| enbach, Jr., Ross Oenslager and State
! Printer W. Stanley Ray are ENJOYING
their annual trip and are in the neigh
borhood of Miami where they have
! been having a fine time and plan to
go to Havana. w. A. Metzger and
Walter Atticks, of this city, and H. A.
Arnold, of Dillsburg, are at st. Peters,
burg, where they have been doing
some tall fishing, catching about 400
pounds of fish in one day. One fish
weighed fifteen pounds and kept them
all working to land him because of
his remarkable activity. Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Brenneman are at another
| part Of the State.
Many Harrisburgers will learn with
regret of the death at Nashville of
Sumner Archibald Cunningham,
founder and editor of the Confederate
Veteran. Mr.. Cunningham was one
or the notable figures in the Gettys-
burg reunion, which he had helped
along by word and pen from the
time that 1t was broached. He went
from State to State in the Southland
urging that people participate and his
personal efforts brought about much
interest. The Sunday before the re-
union began he spent in this city, at
tending Market Square church, ad-
dressing its Sunday School in the af-
ternoon and visiting at the homes of
some of our well-known people. Mr..
Cunningham was a splendid type of
man, one who while keeping alive the
traditions of the Confederacy yet
loved his reunited country with love
as abiding as heart could know.
Sportsmen and farmers in nine
tenths of the counties in the State
where quail are to be found have
written to DR.. Joseph Kalbfus secre-
tary of the Game Commission, agree
ing to see that the quail are fed in
their districts. Some time ago DR..
kalbfus sent out a circular asking
that folks give a little attention to
bob White" and remarking that un-
less the quail were fed they would
not be calling in the hedgerows next
summer and that gunners would not
see them in the Fall. The result has
been an avalanche of letters in which
sportsmen commend the humanitarian
instincts Of the commissioners and
agree to make it their business to
feed the birds. Some of the letters
contain promises to take automobile
trips to districts where quail are
known and to scatter grain.
Among the insurance men there is
lively competition in the writing of
policies and a number of the larger
companies in this country have sys-
TENS of recognizing meritorious serv-
ice. John r. Rote, of this city, rep
resentative of the Equitable Life AS
surance Society, has just been re-
ce1ved into what Is known as the Five
Year Corps of the Pittsburgh Vet
eran Legion. Previous to entering the
life insurance field, Mr.. Rote was for
many years a manufactures, himself
directing the selling of the product
and the knowledge and experience
thus acquired in the handling of
statesmen and the qualifications neces-
sary to their success naturally quail
fed him for the position of supervisor
of the eastern department which he
now holds and has most creditably
filled during the past three years. He
has high record and is a member
of the Tarbell Club. In 1910 he es-
tablished for himself record for
regularity by scoring at least one pol
icy each week for fifty-three success
year has maintained a high standard
among the company's regular and sys-
tematic producers.
Word has been received by Park
Commissioner j. Horace Mcfarland
from the mayor of Houston, Texas, to
the effect that Lamar Lyndon, the
expert chosen two years ago by the
Municipal League to thresh out and
report upon the electric merger ordi-
nance, has just finished a similar job
for the Texas city. And it was the
reputation Mr.. Lyndon acquired in
Harrisburg that obtained for him the
choice. When the merger problem
was before the people of this city the
Municipal League employed Mr.. Lyn-
don at a salary of $1,000. The ordi-
nance which marked the birth Of the
new Harrisburg Light and Power
Company and better, cheaper and
more serviceable electric lighting IA
cilities, the elimination of poles and
wires from the streets, ETC., was the
result of the leagues action. Several
months ago Houston needed an ex-
pert for the same service and Mr..
Mcfarland was written to about the
choice of an expert, preferably Mr..
Lyndon. On the Harrisburg officials
recommendation Mr.. Lyndon was en-
ployed. His work was so satisfactory
that Houston'S city council paid him
just five times what the Municipal
League here had to guarantee be-
cause councils Objected to the ex-
pense."
Hiram Billet, the Swatara township
farmer who is superintendent of the
big farms of the James Boyd estate,
has been elected vice-president of the
Pennsylvania State Livestock Breed
ers Association. Mr.. Billet is one of
the progressive farmers of this sec
ton and takes a big interest in i'm
provement of the cattle in the county.
The Bonnymead herd is known far
and wide.
Commendations are being showered
on the officers of the Harrisburg
Typographical Union for not having
any liquor served at the banquet given
recently in honor of the anniversary
Of Franklin's birth. But this is no
innovation with the printers of the
country. big Six" as the New York
union is known to the craft, has
served no liquor at it's annual dinners
for the past three years and an officer
of No. 2, of Philadelphia, who was a
guest at the local dinner, stated that
his organization would shortly cele-
brate its sixty-third anniversary with
banquet at which nothing stronger
than "demi-tasse" would be permitted.
Five years ago this would have been
considered impracticable.
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