Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-05
EVENING CHAT

While state officials admit that 1t is
too early to obtain any statistics on
the wheat yield this year, they believe
that 1t will be around 24,000,000
bushels. and If dollar wheat" should
happen to be reached the farmers of
the Keystone State will have that
u in sight. unless they have al
ready sold 1t. as some are reported to
have done before threshing. However,
there are no reports of such trans
actions at hand and it is to be as
sumed hat the wheat is all in the
hands of the farmers. Two years ago
the wheat crop amounted to about
1900, 600 bushels and it is thought
that last veal the yield was somewhat
larger. although it is stated that a fair
amount of wheat is still in the barns
of some farmers and some is in ware
houses subject to their order. This
year. Notwithstanding the ravages of
the Hessian fly in some of the u
ties. the wheat crop has been i'm
mense, but from reports and OBJ
~servation it is thought that it will be
around $4,000, 900 bushels. Even with
wheat selling at 80 cents that repre-
sents a tremendous amount of money
for the farmers of the state, but If 1t
climbs another dime at elevators in
this state 1t means a fortune in addi-
ton. A good many farmers have not
threshed wheat as yet and refusals to
sell are common.
Complaints are being made at the
offices of the State Commissioner of
Fisheries against the existence of fish
An Tna - "a aN,hA 20 A. -
the state. The Susquehanna river APP
pears to be especially complained
against and between Milton and Co
lumbia it is said tina" scores of dams
exist. The use of such devices is for
hidden by law and they are a menace
to the many canoeists who are COM
mencing to use the stream. Some of
the dams have been repaired this year
and 1t is suspected that they are being
used for illegal fishing.
Ha%rrisburg's City Council may at
tend in a body the first annual conven-
ton of the Municipal Home Rule
League of Pennsylvania, which is to
be held in the near future in this city.
The invitation from the league was
read in Council yesterday and while
that body did not take any further
formal action than file the commune
cation and announce that representa-
tives would be sent it is the general
opinion that all the members will sit
in The sessions will last one day, the
date having not been fixed. In calling
Councils attention to the invitation
Mayor Royal said he thought that the
city would be included in a general
way in the plans for which the league
was organized-the adopting of some
amendments to the public utilities act
which would be of greater benefit to
hnInnRhC and nfhn- ~ tlNtnin 1iffnG
Speaking in Philadelphia, DIR. Emory
r. Johnson. Public Service Commits
sioner and one of the national authori-
ties on traffic, said yesterday he could
not see how the United States could
derive any great benefit from the
European war; in fact, he thought
that the losses would exceed the gains,
even should this country be able to
take the place of the other nations of
the world and obtain a portion of the
trade of South America and the
Orient. While saying he was not a
student of international law, the doc
tor spoke of some of the possibilities
this country would have in selling its
food products in the countries now, at
war and referred to the recent Boer
war, when three American ships laden
with wheat were seized by the Eng
fish, to prove his point that American
products n grain would not be easily
marketed abroad.
Members of the Governors Troop
are celebrating to-day as their day of
invasion, as it was just sixteen years
ago that the organization took shin at
Newport News to go to Porto Rico.
The troop had been in camp at the
S~htpbuilding town for some DAYS be-
fore n on August 5 embarked on
the good ship Manitoba and sailed
away for Ponce, where a few DAYS
later the organization arrived to get
an opportunity to do a lot of hard
work.
Harrisburg Typographical Union,
No. IA, will be represented at the
sixtieth session of the International
Typographical Union at Providence,
r. l., next week by Harry Eugene
carp. Mr.. carp has made some
amusing preparations for advertising
Harrisburg and No. IA Typo at the
great gathering of printers of the
world, and n of the methods he has
adopted is a clever little card system.
Mr.. Earn provided himself with two
styles of cards, his own business caro-
and a more or less burlesuue per-
sonal card. On the back Of the latter
is this couplet:
I've been a good fellow, boys,
I've earned all I've spent;
Paid all I borrowed,
Lost all 1 lent.
7 Iovad a uopnap onoa