Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-27


S. Killing. one of the new public ser
vice commissioners, was closing his
law practice and business connections
at Erie and arranging to come to Har-
risburg to live as the resident commits
sioner, was received with great pleas
ure by many people here. Mr.. Killing,
who is an attorney of high attain
ments, is well-known to hundreds of
Harrisburg folks and will be a dis
tinct addition to the city. For years
he has been among the leaders of the
bar of the northwestern part of the
State and has taken an active part
in civic and educational movements.
Years ago Mr.. Rillfng was chairman
of the Democratic State committee
and was frequently in Harrisburg. He
retired from politics early in the nine
ties and was selected by Governor
Tener to act as q member Of the COM
mission which drafted the school code.
his extended legal knowledge making
him one of the most valuable mem
bers of the body which framed
monumental work. He was naturally
! selected as a member of the State
Board of Education, where his col
league was the present Governor. Mr..
Killing will remove to this city next
month.
Two half frozen automobile parties
came into the city late last night on
their way to Gettysburg They came
from the northern tier where it is or
but they were unprepared for what
came in the way this week. They
wired home for overcoats.
One of the interesting tables Of the
series arranged at the Harrisburg
| Public Library is that containing
books for ready reference and reading
on trees. 1t has the best known and
latest books on municipal and indi-
vidual care of trees and some popular
botanical works. In addition the State
| has loaned several sets of mounted
butterflies and moths for identiflca-
ton. There is also a collection of
butterflies for those who want to know
the names and characteristics of the
native flies.
| The remark of Governor Brum-
| baugh yesterday, when he saw a work.
man along one of the State highways
with a pipe in his mouth, a pick over
| his shoulder and a shovel in his hand,
| that there are three tools like" led
a Market street tobacco merchant to
the assertion last night that the Coy
| ernor is not the only man in Harris
burg with a fondness for the pipe.
| There are more men smoking pipes
to-day than at any time within the
| past twenty-five years. said he THE
] big tobacco packers are convincing n
| lot of smokers through their very
| effective ads that the way to draw
! tobacco smoke is through the stem of
well-seasoned pipe. Time was when
you seldom saw a well-dressed man
| down town smoking anything but a
cigar or cigaret Now some of those
whom the clothing merchants love to
| call our 'smartest dresserS' may be
| seen any afternoon or evening logged
out in their best and putting content
edly away at a black little briar or a
| caiapaSh."
well-known public speaker, ad-
dressing a Harrisburg audience the
| other day. took occasion to tell his
| hearers that newspaper advertising
was overdone. His audience did not
| know that of all those who came to
| Harrisburg recently on missions SINH
! lar to his he was the only one to see to
| 1t that the newspapers got in advance
| copious extracts of his address care
| fully prepared in typewriter form.
And when the extracts did not all ap-
| pear in print 1t is whispered that he
was not very well pleased. Which may
or may not carry its lesson.
The manner in which people inter-
ested in manufacturing enterprises are
| keeping on the trail of the workmens
| compensation bills now before tho
| Governor for action indicates the wide
| effect they will have. In many sec
tions of the State the bills are being
| discussed at civic meetings and in
some plants they have been the sub
| ject of explanatory meetings. The op-
Grafton of the system will interest the
| whole country because of the pre-
eminence of Pennsylvania in manufac-
turing.