Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-26
EVENING Chat

Colonel Frank X. Patterson's re-
port on the result of the trifie matches
held at Mt Gretna by the National
Guardsmen last summer show that
Harrisburg soldiers are still able to
shoot. and the names of some men
who have been upholding the reputa-
tion of the State Capital appear pretty
often. A. L. Dunn, Jr., of the old City
Grays, now member of Company d,
led the Fourth Brigade team In the
brigade match and the next three
men to him are Sewell E. Cutshall, of
Company f; V. b. Kennedy, of, Com
pany l, and Leo Shaffer, of Company
| l.. Cutshall is also listed in the indi-
| vidual match firing. Dunn also took
| the Governors medal, which was won
| by an Eighth Regiment man, Cleve-
land a. Stoops, of Company c, Cham
bersburg, last year, and which was
won nine years ago by the old reliable
tossed baggage and drilled and shot
around here for years before going
! to Philadelphia. In addition to Dunn,
Kennedy and Shaffer had a record in
the match.
The movie places that are showing
war pictures have the call just now,
according to a man who makes it a
point to visit the shows during the
week and who does not confine his
explorations to the brightly Lighted
palaces in tho central part of the city,
but who goes to the Hill and West
End. He says that the people ask at
the door when the war pictures are
going to be shown and that when they
are billed there is always a good crowd
throughout the afternoon and evening.
Maize the Muffin baker" and THE
Armor-p -platemaker's Revenge" are not
in it when a series of pictures from
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which army or what place is shown a
crowd is ready to greet it.
People in Market street were
amused on Saturday night by con-
test between chestnut vendors. There
are numerous men selling the nuts
and Saturday a young American un-
dertook to put some of the foreign
born men who make a business of SELL
ing peanuts, chestnuts and every other
kind of nut out of business. He
strolled along, calling out his wares,
and when he passed one of the regu-
lars he announced: Buy yer ches'-
nuts. These amt got worms" The
first time he did that the man with the
stand sized him up and when he passed
again and informed the public that
worms were not to be found in his
wares the man from the south of
Europe got back. And this is what
he said: 'Desa nut guarantee. No
cold storage"
When the new parkway gets fin
ished, which it is to be hoped will be
a matter which the city fathers will
take up very soon, 1t will afford one
of the most unique rides to be had
around any city. There are fine rides
to be taken through York, Reading,
Easton, Williamsport, Wilkes Barre
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around them such as the parkway will
offer. In fact, there are to be found
in the countryside right beside some
of Pennsylvania's cities very few such
pretty bits as the Cameron parkway,
the pl opposed link between PaXtang
and the Reservoir and some of the
country near the State Hospital. The
Paxton creek valley, which might be
put into the parkway, offers some of
the most attractive drives if one knows
how to get to them.
Men connected with the fiscal de-
partments of the State government
are wondering if the Commonwealth
Will be able to make up with receipts
from taxation of corporations and
from other sources the absence of the
revenue that formerly came from per-
sonal property taxes. This tax was
made a purely State tax by the Legis-
lature of 1913, and instead of the
State receiving one-fourth of $5,312,-
| l75, as 1t did last year, 1t will get
nothing. The State has been making
some pretty close collections of State
taxes on capitol stock, loans and other
corporation items lately, and the set
Elements are well advanced, but
whether the amount lost by the new
act can be made up is uncertain.
People throughout the State are
evidently demanding a good bit of
oleomargarine if the number of IL
censes issued for the sale of the sub
stitute for the product of the dairy
COW is anything to go by. Close to
500 retail licenses have been issued
in the last six weeks and the total for
the year is going to be a record
breaker. Oleo is now sold in practi-
cally every county in the State, where
as ten years ago it was not sold in
more than fifteen, at least openly.
Shirley B. Watts, the Bell Telephone
company's manager in this city, is be-
coming famous.
The other day two of his friends
met in Market street and one said to
the other: Did you hear about Shir-
| ley Watts? He's making a great sue
cess as a book publisher. The other
day he put out 10000 books and they
went like hot cakes"
What sort of books is he putting
out?''
"Oh. telephone directories for the
Fall season."
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