Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-31

alone five people were reported i'll
with grip yesterday and most of the
heads of departments or deputies
have been doing extra work to handle
matters which required immediate
attention and which they did not
have people TO do. The worst havoc
has been among the stenographers,
many of whom live in nearby towns.
Several of the victims of the grip
have been messengers and men who
looked over the mails. and as the
mail is one of the biggest things at
the Capitol just now there has been
some hustling to keep things moving.
One of the effects of the epidemic
has been more open windows in the
big granite building than is ordin-
arily the case at this time of the
year.
Rush For Auto Tags.-Attaches of
the State Highway Department will
keep "watchnight" tonight in the
mailing rooms of the automobile divi-
sion, but it will be owing to the de-
mands for license tags for 1915 which
have swept into the department in
the last few days. AS Is usually the
case many people have waited until
almost the last minute to file their
applications for licenses and the con-
sequence is a rush. 1t is expected that
a record for 1916 licenses to be issued
L
Record VIII BE Good.-State
health officials, who have been study
ing reports on contagious and infec-
tious diseases believe that in spite of
outbreaks of typhoid and other dis
eases that the State record for 1915
will be good. 1t is thought that the
birth record will run higher than
known and the deaths from the dis
eases against which science is work
ing will show decline
Plans More Conferences.-Plans are
being made for more conferences be-
tween the State fishery authorities
and the commercial trout growers.
Plans being made call for co-opera-
tion in many details for next sum-
mers work.
Visiting Home.-Hale Hill, corpora
tion clerk in the Auditor Generals
Department, is visiting his home in
Pittsburgh.
To Return Monday. Governor
Brumbaugh is expected to return to
the city on Monday.
Commission Next Month.-The State
Commission of Agriculture is sched-
uled to meet in this city next month.
Its members will attend the meetings
of the State Board of Agriculture.
Rush For Oleo LiCenses.-The rush
for 1916 licenses for the
sale of oleomargarine is greater than
ever known at this time of the year.
Probably 1000 will be issued by mid
night tonight. The 1915 list shows
not far from $500.
Must Show New Tags. State
Highway Department officials to-day
reiterated their warning that 1915
automobile license tags would not be
legal tomorrow and the whole force
of the department was engaged to-
day in rushing tags to owners who
have applied late or whose applica-
tions were held up by the delay in
shipment of a car of tags. 1t is eN-
pected that all who have filed to-day
will receive their tags by tomorrow
or Monday. The income from auto
mobile license applications has been
between 100000 and $4,000 day
lately
Holiday Tomorrow. Tomorrow
will be holiday at the Capitol and
there was a rush to clear up bust
ness to-day. Most of the departments
closed soon after noon to-day.
Movie Act Upheld. - The Phila-
delphia courts yesterday upheld the
right of the State Board of Censors
to order changes in pictures. This
settles an important question as the
suit was a test.
Public Service Hearing.-The Ohio
Valley Water case is being concluded
at Pittsburgh by Commissioner Rill-
ing to-day. The commission will re-
sumo sessions here on Monday.
Uncle sam Joins In. - The United
States authorities have Joined with
the State in prosecuting people who
''fatten" oysters. Federal and State
agents will cooperate.
Can Build Bridge. - The State
Water Supply Commission last night
approved the application of the
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
for the right to reconstruct its bridge
at Sunbury.