Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-04-13
STATE TO BUILD
SEVEN HIGHWAYS
Bids Asked For Improvement of a
Number Of Sections Under
State Aid Plan

bDOSS feet of road to be
built under the
- -:::xrs9 State aid plan,
whereby the State pays half the cost
of construction and the remainder is
divided between the county and the
borough and township benefited. The
roads to be built are in seven sections.
all but one being in boroughs as fol-
lows: Curwensville, Galeton, Blairs-
vile, Oakland, Turtle Creek and Clear.
field. The first named is the most
extensive calling for about q mile and
an eighth of highway. The township
road is to be built in Great Bend town.
ship, Susquehanna county, and will
be little over mile. Practically
everyone of the contracts will connect
with existing improved roads.
Bids for about 10000 additional feet
or highway to be improved under the
State aid plan are to be asked soon.
Out on Parole.-Five of the twenty
two applications for pardon made to
the State Board of Pardons for it's
April meeting are accompanied by
recommendations from inspectors Of
penitentiaries where men are con-
1ned. This Is requirement under
one or the recent acts and in every
one of the cases the men for whom
pardon is asked are out on parole.
The board also has before it an ap-
picatlon for pardon of Theodore
Eisenhower, who was sentenced to be
hanged in Schuylkill for a murder
committed in 1898. but who was
granted communication. Two men SEN
fenced to be hanged in Fayette county
on April 23 are asking Communication.
New Charters.---The following State
charters have been issued for western
Pennsylvania: Erie Scrap Iron Co.,
Erie. capital $4,000; Mathews Gray
lty Carrier Co.. Ellwood City, capital
S200.0O0; the Charles N. Hough Mfg.
Co, brass, etc., Franklin, capital $780,
600; Window Glass Rotary Pot Co.,
pittsburgh, capital 100000; Adams
Bros Mfg. Co. stoves, etc, Pitts
burgh, capital $4,000; American Auto
Sales Co., Newcastle, capital $4,000;
Charles III. Weitershausen Agency, in
surance, Pittsburgh, capital $4,000;
Donaldson Lumber Co., Butler, capital
$4,000; Windsor Music Co., Taren-
tum, capital $75,000 Fox Poultry and
Farming Co., Pittsburgh, capital ST.
300; Greensburg Market Co., Green's
burg, capital $4,000; Kane Glass Co..
Kane, capital $150,00O; the Smiler
Bottling Co., Pittsburgh, capital $780,
600; Pittsburgh Roofing and Heating
Co., Pittsburgh. capital $4,000; Nor
ris Amusement Co., Pittsburgh, capital
$4,000.
Light Contracts.-The Public Serv-
Ice Commission has approved the con-
tracts for street lighting in these west
ern Pennsylvania towns: Manor and
Manor Electric Co, Sharon and We
mango Valley Electric Co., and Sharps-
vile and Sharpsville Electric Co.
Wants Superintendent
"A. Nevin Pomeroy, of the State De-
partment of f.Public Printing and Bind
ing, to-day requested the heads of all
departments of the State government
to file duplicate copies of all reports
and State publications with him when
sending matter to be printed. This IL
to safeguard matter in case of fire. II
has been found that all of the copy for
publications in the recent fire was on
hle in storerooms or escaped serious
damage at the fire and that, except
Tor siXty-four pages of the Legislative
Journal appendix and index all of the
presswork on that publication has
been finished and that the greater
portion of it was only water soaked.
The copy is all in hand. The State ie
amply protected by its insurance on
the paper.
The removal of ruins of the roof OF
the printery began to-day and when
this work is finished it will be posi-
Bile to tell the extent of the damage
done to unbound State work.
The Aughinbaugh press was to-day
directed to return all copy to the Cap
itol and to make an inventory of work
in hand and not finished.
Governor Away. - Governor Tener
left to-day for Philadelphia to be alb
sent for several days. The meeting
of the Board of Public Grounds and
Buildings, set for tomorrow, has been
postponed until Thursday.
Want Pensions. - Applications for
mothers pensions continue to be filed
at the Capitol from counties where
there are no boards. Applications
came to-day from Montgomery
Greene, Blair and Fayette counties.
More Smallpox. State Health au-
thorities to-day communicated with
Health Officer Cairns, of Philadelphia
about the presence in Philadelphia of
smallpox patient from Toughkenne-
mon. The girls route in Philadelphia
is being traced and disinfection is or
dered. Smallpox has also appeared
in Gettysburg.