Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-12-14
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Friends of Frank Vert. who began
his newspaper career as reporter
ioI the Telegraph, will be pleased to
Iearh OF ms success in another field.
ror several years Mr.. Vert has been
manager OF public relations for tho
Mahoning and Shenango Railway and
1IsHl company, one of the largest
anu must up-to-date public utility
companies in the East with headquar-
ters at youngstown, Ohio, and OPP
Grating in this State, Ohio and West
va RMS number of the Em-and- Ess
Electric News the organ of the COM
pahy' OF which Mr.. Vert is editor, an
nounces the establishment of a new
bureau in the department of which
ne is the head. 1t will be known as
lne bureau of adjustments and Fred
H. Delbel, Youngstown newspaper
man, with one assistant, will be in
charge. The publication also con-
talns a paper read by Mr.. Vert be-
fore the Em-and-E -Ess Club on the pur-
pose and scope of the new bureau.
Mr.. Vert went from the Telegraph to
the Patriot from the Patriot to Bal
tlmore and from Baltimore to Phila-
delphia. Leaving newspaper work
FOR the wider field of publicity he has
made such splendid success of his
efforts with the Em-and- Ess company
time to time and his methods widely
copied. He is son of Professor j.
Howard Vert.
Mrs. Edna Croft Diehl, of Paxtang.
whose Aunt Este stories and Plumpy's
Hollow Tales have appeared from time
to time in the Telegraph has been fa-
vored with places in a number of the
Christmas magazines. A little playlet
entitled "A Santa Claus Party" and
The Santa Claus Song" appear in
The Normal Instructor and Primary
Plans, the most widely circulated
school journal in America. The play
let is intended as q vehicle for the
distribution of gifts at a school en-
tertainment How the Gnomes Tried
to Prevent Thanksgiving" is another
story by Mrs. Diehl in What to Do,
Sabbath school publication. Mrs.
Diehf is rapidly making a place for
herself among the countrys popular
writer's for little folk.
Send me a couple of "Thorn's
books quick" was message received
at the State department yesterday.
Chief Clerk George d. Thorn has been
issuing a booklet for several years
giving dates for people interested in
politics and digestS of important
acts. 1t has been so useful that the
different State committees stole it and
put it out as their own. This year
there were reports that it would not be
published owing to short appropria-
tions, but enough was sqeezed through
600, one man having asked for 1000
alone.
Harris l.. Sproat, who will retire as
district attorney of Chester county to
become the assistant district attorney,
| is the man who bore the banner in
| the West Chester club parade here
on Inauguration day. He is 6 feet
inches tall and as able and energetic
as he is high.
The other day Penn" whose in
teresting column in the Evening Bull
letin of Philadelphia, has been one of
the important features of that news
paper for several years referred to the
old form of "his eXcellency" as apply
| ing to the Governor of Pennsylvania.
| He points out that this phrase and
similar phrases smack of the old days
of royalty and have no place in ouR-
present official life. During the ad-
ministration of the late Governor Pat
tison, who had no use whatever for
highfaluting forms and ceremonies,
the use of his eXcellency' was dis
continued. Governor Pattison also
declined to ride to the Capitol and in
other ways emphasized his dislike for
| ceremonial formality.
Just as an idea of what the people
of Harrisburg are reading it may be
stated that rs per cent. of the 300
books taken out at the Harrisburg
Public Library last month were fic-
ton. This is a rather lower per-
| centage than usual and shows that
people are reading more standard
works so to speak. There is de-
mand for books dealing with the
scenes of warfare.