Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-15
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II am always glad to come back to
Harrisburg. 1 like its people and I
certainly like the town." said ex-Gov-
ernor John K. Tener. last night just
before taking a train for New York.
The former governor came here to at
tend the Lindemuth-D -Detweiler we'd
ding and met many of his friends
while in the city. II have not been
able to get back to Harrisburg as often
as wanted" continued the big forme-
er executive. Baseball leagues are
pretty strenuous affairs just now and
l nave been kept busy, so busy, that
have been able to get here only twice.
But Ia ! am going to come oyer here in
the Fall and play some golf and meet
my friends. I'm told Governor Brum-
baugh likes Harris burg Well, don't
blame him. / have found its people to
be good warm friends and I like the
spirit OF hustle and progress that has
marked 1t ever since have known 1t.
1 am interested in seeing Harrisburg
patronize the new baseball club prop
erly and 1 know that the kind of ball
that is being played will be appre-
ciated."
The Cumberland Valley Telephone
Company's big motor truck which is
used for line extension work has been
put to various purposes lately. The
other day 1t was used to help pull
down tree. then it was loaded with
branches cut from trees. then it was
hitched to a cable and made to pull
wires and finally it took the men home
to supper.
The heat of the last few days has
made the city parks havens of rest
TO hundreds of weary Harrisburgers
who have tin roofs over their sleep
ing rooms and asphalt streets around
their homes. Yesterday morning in
reservoir Park scores of people were
lying asleep on the grassy slopes and
River Front Park, too, was dotted with
loungers who sailed forth early to get
breath of fresh air before the sun
began to sizzle and make things mis-
cradle.
Caterpillars, according to City Fores-
ter Mueller, frequently go in for high
diving.
Many people" said the forester"
place band of cotton around the tree
with the idea of preventing the cater
pillars from crawling into the
branches. The theory is a good ono
| as 1t is generally known that cater
pillars can't get across the cotton.
But they have solved the problem.
-dOSJ VI lIle trees SldIu close TO houses
and the houses afford an opportunity
to get to the trees. If they can't get
up the trunk they just crawl up to the
Iroof of the nearest house and then
they dive! That isn't a joke. They
really dive, upward and outward to-
ward the nearest leaf. If they land
| they can cling to the leaf; If they miss
it or roll off they fall to the pavement.
That doesn't kill them. it merely stuns
them as a rule. And after awhile they
crawl up along the house to the roof
and try it again"
The way potatoes are being taken
care of on the farms around ff6rris-
burg and on the patches in the out
lying districts of the city there are =
good many people who are looking for
good prices this Fall. To begin with
there has been a large acreage of po-
tatoes planted in this section, the in-
crease being almost as great propot-
tionately as of corn. The gardeners
are giving close attention to the plants
and every bug that gets away witt -
leaf will have reckoning.
Judging from reports which are be-
| ing received at the State Capitol this is
an extraordinarily bad year for pests
on the farm and in the orchard and
thus far it seems as though the corn
Will be the only crop not hit by some
disease or bug. The corn acreage this
| year is greater than known in a long
time, being 102 to 103 per cent. in
area sown as compared with the aver
/ age OF the last ten years. No pest has
been reported as affecting it yet How
ever the wheat has been afflicted by
the hessian fly, the pears and apples by
the fire blight, the apricots by the
woolly aphis, the rest of the fruits by
the red leaf beetle, the peaches by an
especially pestiferous borer. Various
bugs are also reported as destroying
vegetables while the potatoes are con-
fronted with the blight ana the fam
iliar bug.
Harrisburg druggists and medical
men are inclined to smile a bit over
the announcement from Washington
that whisky and brandy will not be
mentioned in prescriptions and that
as far as the list of medicines Is con-
cerned they will not be known. AS a
matter of fact Spirits Frumenti" has
been the standard way of prescribing
and the use of stimulants in prescrip-
tions will probably go on where it is
justified.
Out in Nebraska the Governor re-
ferred the selection of the most emf
nent Nebraskan to be honored by the
Panama a-Pacific exposition to a COM
1t is interesting to note that william
Jennings Bryan received only a few
Votes Governor Brumbaugh, who
asked the editors to name the man in
this State, is getting many suggestions
and the contest being conducted by
the Philadelphia Press is attracting
wide attention