Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-09
Ehrntng Chat

The unusually fine weather of the
first week of November was the l~E
of the Indian summer and we MAJ,
look out for the cold rains, the white
frosts and the chill evenings OF t~G
early winter, in the opinion or sonre
of the weather wise. As matter of
fact, the autumnal fine days were pro-
longed somewhat beyond their usual
period and such days as Saturday anS
Sunday and even yesterday were rarA
indeed The period which can b.
classed as Indian summer comes late
in October, say men who have studied
the weather history of this part of the
Atlantic seaboard. 1t is just before
persimmon time and when the leaves
are commencing to fall in showers in
the morning breezes. Well authenti-
Gated records show that it has oc-
Cured as a rule a week or so before
the Fall election day. This year the
fine days were heightened a whole
week after the usual termination of
the pretty days and the mountains in
stead of being marked by trees bare of
leaves present the gorgeous tints of
autumn. some of the trees having still
red leaves, although the majority are
the russets, the suns and the browns
and the yellows. The countryside
about Harrisburg has more resembled
mid October the last ten days than the
early part of November and Wildwood
lover of nature in her mellow au-
tumnal mood.
Shipments of coal being made
through and around the city the last
week or so have been so immense as
to attract general attention. Steel cars
by no means comprise the bulk of the
trains which pass through on the
Pennsylvania main line or over the
Cumberland Valley and the Reading
| or slide down the Susquehanna on the
/ low grade. Cars which show signs of
| having been idle for months are now
in trains, and wooden cars, early steel
| cars and some which show the rust of
| a year on sidings are to be seen side by
| side with the huge spick and span
steel cars that carry off 100000 pounds
] and sing over the wheels as they do so.
Frank l.. Rimel the Chester county
boy who raised 14S bushels of corn on
one acre of land. has written to Gov
eronr Martin G.. Brumbaugh, telling
him how he did it, and the Governor
has told him that if he looks after his
work so well he will become one of
the successful farmers of Pennsylva-
MIA. The National Top Notch Corn
Club recently gave a. medal for the
best corn record in the country, each
state having medal as well. Rimel
won for this State and the Governor in
|
he raised the corn. The State eXecu-
tive also detailed Professor Franklin
, Menges, of York, to go to West Ches-
ter this week to present the medal on
his behalf. The winner says his father
showed him how to raise the corn and
he had an acre marked off on the farm
of Wycoff Smith, Colebrooll Farms,
Whitford, Chester county. He put on
twelve two-horse loads of manure.
ploughed the ground seven inches, used
a disk and spring-toothed harrow, put
fertilizer in each hill and three grains
of corn to the hill. When the corn
came up he used a hoe and a horse
cultivator and sprinkled phosphate
about when the corn was two feet
high. Then he hoed and cultivated
until the corn ripened. The total
! weight of corn raised on this acre was
1885 pounds. The young farmer is
! about seventeen years old and tn"
) Governor says his example of work is
too good to lose. q
A businessman in the central part of
. the city who prefers to have business.
not arguments, in his establishment
| ended two interesting verbal combats
| the other evening in quick time. Two
men got involved in the war and be-
came heated. The owner turned out
the lights and began to say things
about the electric company. The de-
; baters went to the street Soon after
! two men got into wrangle about the
City Council. The lights went out
again. They were on again after the
discussers had departed.
. |
George w. Williams, the representa- =
! tive who presented the local option bill
in the last House, was here yesterday
to talk over matters on Capitol Hill.
He met number of friends, including
members of the last House.