Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-23
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mon M. Kephart. chief clerk of the
senate who comes from Fayette
county. In his interest for the Repub-
M Miicth nomination for the State treas
uferShlp recalls an Interesting CON
Gition In regard to this office. In ad-
ultIon TO the Fayette man, the first to
formally announce his candidacy. there
are mentioned residents of Montgom-
eLs' .is' delaware. Blair and Allegheny In
me Ine last twenty years the Office has
oeeh ABOUT equally divided between
the east and the west but has not
aItefnated. Captain John w. Morri-
son, VINO went out of office in 1894,
was the last state Treasurer in a list
rom rom the east. Then the west had a
9 0E tIle Ireasurers in order being
>, NJ. Jacksn, of Kittanning; b. J. Hay
WOOD, OF Mercer; James S. Beacon,
or Westmoreland; James E. Barnett.
OF washington, and Frank C. Harris,
OF Clearheld. The latter was really a
central man, but the first from that
long time. Then came w. l.. Mathues
ana w. II. Berry, of Delaware; John
~ SheatZ of Philadelphia; j. A. Sto-
per. OF Lancaster, who died before
taxing office, however, and was sue
Geeueu py e. F. Wright, of Susque-
mama, and then the present Treasurer,
Eopeft x. Young, of Tioga. 1t went
from the southern to the northern
TIER IN the last decade, but il did not
cross the mountains. The governships
pave generally alternated, as have the
Auditors General.
The Scranton Republican of vester-
| day had this to say of q late Harris
purS man: "A great many Scranton
people were grieved to learn of the
death at Harrisburg of Robert w.
| kiple, who was reared and educa+ad
here, the family home being at Linden
street and Jefferson avenue. Pneu-
monla cut him off in the very prime of
me- Just when most promising career
! was opening before him. ] remember
the time when Mr.. Kiple was one of
| Scranton's best known young men. He
was graduated from the Central high
| school and the School of the Lacl[a-
wanna, and obtained prominence as n
lootball player and musician as we'll
as in the city'S social life He made
ms entry into the electric business
with the old Suburban Electric Com
pany, later going to the General Utili-
ties Company of New York and East
| ern pennsylvania In 1904 he was
J made manager of the electric light
| plant at Lyons, n. Y, and later was in
charge of the commercial department
| of the electric company at Sayre Pa.
| Later he held similar position at
| Easton, going month ago to Harris
| burg, where he became the business
manager of the light and power COM
pany IN that city. Mr.. Kiple was very
energetic and resourceful and pos
sessed pleasing manners"
Lafayette College alumni are getting
ready for a project dear to the hearts
of the Dauphin countians who got
their degrees at Easton. 1t is the plan
of n banquet of the alumni. In all
| probability it will be held in January
| n CT i'm artti icI1o S,f
Lafayette connected with the State
government will attend, together with
President McCracken and alumni from
other cities.
Charles Henry Hart, who has stirred
up Philadelphia by his attacks on the
authenticity of some well-known pic
| lures, including the portrait of Penn
in armor and the Peale Washington
| was here last week as a witness in the
Donato-Hershey case. Mr.. Hart seems
to have gotten hold of some ancient
objections to the Penn portrait.
h While the general results of the
election in the State at large have
been known since the day after cleo
ton on November 1t may be the first
of December before the official re-
suits can be announced AS far as
the State Government is concerned the
election is not over as Philadelphia
and Allegheny counties have not re-
ported The size of the ballots and
the involved work connected with
computing the results have retarded
the making of official returns to an
extent never known before. Accord
ing to State officials no other means
of getting results are in sight.
A year and almost a half of the war
does not seem to have dimmed the
popularity of "Tipperary!" It was
played about the city last week by
half a dozen belated hand organs and
the eX-German band which spent the
week with us and varied IFS perform
ances of works of art which the aver
age man does not understand by
playing the British fighting air. Even
the Saturday afternoon winds could
not drown out the band or Tipperary.
Few of the exhibits here last week
in connection with the Welfare Con-
ference attracted more attention than
those of the railroads which were
placed at Ninth and Market. The big
engines were clambered over by
hundreds of men and youngsters, while
quite few women, some of them
wives of railroad men, were among
visitors. 1t was noticeable that quite
q few businessmen visited the big en-
gineS.