Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-12
EVENING CHAT

Announcement by Representative
Fred e. GeiseR of Easton, that he will
present a bill to make the laurel the
State flower means that the question
which created much of the entertain
ment in the last session will bob up
again. The propositions for State
flower, State song and a State box
ing commission to regulate prizefights
furnished opportunity for much
speechmaking when things were dull
and there was no uplift legislation
pending. Last session the first propo-
sition for State flower came from
ii. Clark Jackson, of Wayne county.
who wanted to make the daisy the
| flower. This was amended to make it
fthe violet when it got into committee,
but when the bill came out it was put
| back to the daisy again and then
| changed to the arbutus after several
COMMITTEES of ladies had gotten busy.
The tangle became so great finally
| that sponsors for State flowers gave
up. No less than four State songs
appeared in bills last session and the
| Legislature is already threatened with
more. Such bills invariably stir up
much opposition because many legis-
lators have constituents who are anx-
ious to shine.
The wash day lunch club" is the
most informal organization in Har-
risburg, If the term organization can
| be applied to a body that has no Of
ficers, no constitution and only one
rule-lunch at some appointed down
town hotel or restaurant every Mon
day noon. The idea originated with
John II. Nixon, division freight agent
of the Pennsylvania Railroad at this
point. Mr.. Nixon conceived the no.
| tion-just how one may do no more
than imagine-that the average wife
would as soon as not be free of the
encumbrance of her husbands pres
ence at lunch on Monday, and he con-
fided his theory to a few OF the live
wires of the Harrisburg Rotary Club.
| He was not much surprised to find
| that they agreed with him, and the
"wash-day lunch club" was the re-
suit. Every Monday noon it meets
and lunches informally. Anybody who
so desires is entitled to discuss any
thing he cares to, informally, but no.
body is permitted to make a speech.
Likewise there is no presiding officer
any everybody present pays for his
own lunch. Membership is confined to
the Rotary Club roster, and anybody
whose name appears on that list is
given a right to royal welcome. Yes
terday the CLUB" met at the Plaza Ho-
tel and so large was the attendance
that it overflowed the private dining
room where the Club" has hitherto
foregathered and additional tables
were spread in the large restaurant
room in front. The proprietor pre-
sented each man present with a leath-
er purse as a souvenir.
Frank l.. Mulholland, president of
the International Association of Ro-
tary clubs, will be the guest of the
Harrisburg Rotary Club at dinner at
the Harrisburg Club at o'clock next
Monday evening. Mr. Mulholland is
well-known lawyer of Toledo, Ohio,
and is prominent in Chamber of Com
merce work. Indeed it is said he did
more for Toledo as head of the cham
ber of that city than any man who
has ever held the place before or
since. The Harrisburg Rotarians have
been trying for a long time to get
Mulholland to visit the club and are
preparing a big time for him next
Monday. In view of the fact that the
day following will be Inauguration
day, the regular meeting of the club
will be omitted in all likelihood.
Winter wheat appears to have sur
ViVed the very cold weather of the
last thirty days, judging from the way
it looks in the fields about the city
Some of the farms within ten miles of
Harrisburg have larger areas in wheat
than they have had for n long time
the owners having scented the rise in
price which has come along as result
of the war. The wheat Is looking
strong and well even in exposed por-
tions of farms. When it is consid-
cred that the mercury was down
around zero several times. the wheat
has gotten through very well, and 1t
will take very severe weather to pre-
vent it being very productive next
spring. People who follow farming
say that there may be some spring
wheat sown this year as a result of
the high prices.