Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-11
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| Nlolets are blooming again in the
gardens and the hedgerows of Dauphin
| county and small bouquets were worn
yesterday by a number of people at
churches, the flowers having been
plucked in the morning. Most of the
flowers were small but were perfectly
formed and has a slight, sweet odor.
Violets have been noticed in quite
number of places in the last week Cy
so, their belated appearance being due
to weather conditions. In the woods
a number of flowers are blooming
again, some flowers akin to dogwood
having been found not far from the
State Hospital, while on the hills back
OF Reservoir park there are q num-
Der of beautiful late bloomers to be
found. It's rather odd to think about
violets when the corn has been
| Shocked and when the dahlia.
chrysanthemum, zinnias scarlet sage
and similar flowers represent with the
larkspurs the last of the glories of
summer gardens. In a few gardens
| about the city some fruit trees are
displaying flowers or some small buds
as though reluctant to give up the
season of increase.
Ten years ago there were probably
| four or five licenses for the sale Of
| oleomargarine in Dauphin county and
| they were conspicuously displayed on
| rear doors or some other part of the
shop not likely to strike a Gus
toner in the eye. The latest bulletin
of the State Dairy and Food Commits
sloner shows that there are fifty-two
retail and one wholesale oleo licenses
in this county, most of them in Har-
risburg. These licenses are now dis
| played in conspicuous places and oleo
is matter of daily sale. In some
stores it has the dairy butter business
beaten mile. In Lancaster county
there are almost as many licenses as
in this county Notwithstanding Ian
caster is the premier agricultural
county of the nation. Cumberland.
another rich agricultural county has
thirteen licenses and Lebanon four
teen' Even Perry has four.
Recent outbreaks of typhoid fever.
which have been reported from time
to time from counties near here have
caused considerable inquiry about
protective measures and a number of
physicians say that they have had ap-
pications for vaccination. One physi-
clan says that typhoid vaccination is
by no means uncommon in Harris
burg.
1t has become necessary to put on
the billboards in Harrisburg what are
moving picture shows and what are
not, said man with an eye for
things yesterday. The other day [
saw some posters on billboards and
movie Another poster bore this le-
gend "A real, not a reel show The
moving picture men have countered
with this Best moving picture of the
year for Harrisburg and "A motion
picture that reaches the emotions
The best of all is poster which bears
just Movies"
Travellers on the Second street car
line received a shock the first day
work was started replacing of the old
rails and laying of new paving in the
car tracks between State and North
streets. AS the cars, one after an
other bumped and shook over the
temporary rails from one track to the
other in order to pass the obstruction,
many thought the car had jumped tNe
tracks and visions of broken glass and
wreckage rose before their eyes. Now,
| however, the most nervous have be-
come thoroughly Injured to the
change, and although the conductor
| occasionally forgets to transfer the
| trolley to the other wire, things are
running smoothly. The tracks are
completely torn up from a point a
little below the monument at State
street to a point several yards above
North street on the east side of the
street and the genial foreman in
charge of the work states that it will
probably remain in that condition for
four weeks or more, provided they
can keep enough men on the job. The
new rails along that stretch were
badly needed and the correction will
make travelling on the Second street
line considerably more pleasant
|
Steelton is commencing to look pros
porous again. The smoky pail that
was so characteristic of the borough
half a dozen years ago is to be seen
hanging over the valley in which the
big works are located and it is visible
for a long way to trains coming up
and down the Susquehanna and even
from the Cumberland valley Steelton
has long been known as one of the
smokiest places in Central Pennsyl-
vania, but all seem glad to see the
smoke.
| Ex-Governor Samuel w. Penny
packer sat all through the meetings
of the Public Service Commission last
week in spite of his broken arm. lie
] took his usual keen interest in every
thing going on and his injury did not
interfere with his habit of firing
| numerous questions.