Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-09
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William H. Horner. the Republican
county a good bit in a quiet way. be-
ileVes that there will be considerable
!nterest taken in national matters in
ehis Fais campaign although the
presidential election does not come
until next year. People in Dauphin
eounty are pretty we'll booked on ma
lonal affairs he finds as he goes
an ong them and the chances are that
the presidential campaign of 1915 will
oeSln with the year International prob
!!sms, Mexico, tariff matters and other
oig questions are themes for discus
sion almost everywhere and this means
lively interest taken in the county
ana ana muAlclpal election which is set for
TINS year The chances are, according
70 some men who observe political
trends, that there will be a bigger vote
PolIeo tnis year in the county than
since 1Stz, interest in local contests
and in the coming presidential cleo
tion being mentioned as causes. The
enrolment is not taken as meaning
very much as 1t occurred this year at
time when people in industrial lines
were busy and those in rural districts
were working about the farms. # will
oe recalled that in 1914 there were
many people who failed to enroll in
Daupnln county and yet the vote out
side of the city at the November cleo
ton was of the variety to confound
me prophets. The city registration
thls year is to be a real sizable one
according to City Chairman H. F.
owes, who has been preparing along
with the other men active in political
aHairs TO get large percentage of the
voters listed.
Young folks who started out yester-
day morning for the mountains or the
woods got Sunday ducking for which
they had not bargained when they
started early in the day. The storm
came up rather unexpectedly and peo-
PIE VINO mad counted on spending the
DAY under shade Of trees out in the
country or in woods discovered that
| there are few more uncomfortable
places than a grove of trees with a
well developed thunder storm rafting
about the neighborhood. A good many
oedraggled parties came into the city
in the afternoon.
After a lapse of months applica-
| tions are again being made for in
corporation of electric companies.
When the Public Service Commission
meets Tomorrow it will have eighteen
applications for incorporation sched-
uled for action. This reminds one OF
the days some two years ago when a
couple dozen electric companies used
to be incorporated in a day and Gov
ernor John K. Tener, who used to sign
all such papers, got tired of afr1xing
| MS name and sent word to another
department that as long as the enter
| prises were legal and entitled to
charter papers he wished they would
| take counties at a shot instead of
townships piecemeal.
Eugene Guy Miller. who is the new
manager of the Hotel Walton in
Philadelphia, which is owned by the
Goelets, is well-known 10 many Har-
rtsburgers. Mr.. Miller was head of the
st. James for time. lie is a grand
son of John Guy, who for years con-
Quoted Guys Hotel, one of the old
| timers of Philadelphia, and his father
was also in the hotel business.
The martens which live UP around
the Board of Trade building have be-
come disgusted with the weather and
are showing it by perching on teIe-
graph wires in the evenings and chirp-
ing their opinion of the meteorological
conditions. The other night about
twenty perched on wires crossing Mar
ket street near the Senare and ar
ranging themselves in tiers attracted
fmuch attention by the display and thu
racket.
Another place which is a great
favorite of the birds is the home OF
Edwin c. Thompson. president of the
Citizens Bank, at Thirteenth and
Derry streets This house, which is
one of the landmarks of the Hill dis
trict, is surrounded by a garden most
attRactively kept and the wall of the
business building which towers above
1t on the east is covered with vines
The birds frolic and forage in the gar
| den and then go to the vines for
homes, chatterfng about it all day
llong.
w. c. Fownes. Sr., of Pittsburgh,
who has been visiting here, has played
on most of the golf courses in the
State. Mr.. Fownes, although keen
businessman and interested in many
lines in his home county, is very fond
of golf and has travelled about the
State trying the various courses on
which, by the way, he generally man.
ages to make an excellent score.