Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-30
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Although school doors open and
lessons begin in public schools almost
within sight of the dome of the State
Capitol to-day. yet only a small per-
centage of the pupils are summoned
back to their books. The city boys
and girls have ten days more of vaca-
| tlon and In some rural districts the
bells will not ring until September 13.
This condition is due to the fact that
the State authorities do not prescribe
the dates for the terms. merely requir-
ing the minimum term and leaving
the local authorities to designate the
time for opening and closing the
period of instruction. This is due to
the fact that in the country conditions
are often favorable, as far as roads are
concerned, for school in periods whicn
the city boy would consider as in
tegral parts of his vacation. There
are said to be few districts in the
State where school begins in the mid
die of August, but not many. Quite
number of districts started their terms
to-day. although they are mostly in
tho country or smaller boroughs. The
cities will start school on Tuesday OF
next week, September Z, the first Mon
day being Labor Day, although in
some cities the start will not be until
ednesday. In other districts the
preliminaries will be arranged on Mon
day. AS far as known, no districts
will fail to open their doors because of
financial difficulties. although the
state has been very tardy in it's pay
ment or the money for the support of
education. The cash which the State
VIII give out by millions in the next
sixty days is for the last school year
made in 1913. 1t is intended to be a
| sort of reimbursement and in many
cases does take up loans made by
school boards during the previous
term.
City Commissioner Harry F. Bow
| man. superintendent of public safety,
is the first of the departmental heads
aside from W. L. Gorgas, superintend-
ent OF finance and accounts, to issue
his annual report for 1914 in neatly
bound form in accordance with the re-
cent instructions of a counciimanic
resolution. Mr.. Bowman submitted
| his report of the bureau of water and
lighting, public safety and health and
sanitation months ago and when
Council authorized the binding of the
report a few weeks ago the superin-
tendent of public safety got busy. His
bound report was presented to Council
Iuesday. Facts and figures are ar
! ranged in convenient form and the
pook is an invaluable addition to most
any businessman's desk.
| To-day is the grand old busy day
for the man who takes an interest In
| politics. Tomorrow is the last day
for flling nominating petitions and
that explains the fact There are the
last touches to be put to nominating
petitions to-day and the chances are
That some petitions which have been
signed up will be disposed of and not
by fling at the Courthouse. AS mat
ter of fact. it is estimated that about
one In twenty petitions signed never
gets into the Courthouse. Often more
are signed than required and are held
back or else a candidate decides that
there VIII be nothing doing.
r. j. Hardy, burgess OF the indus
trlal town of Carnegie, is a candidate
Tor county treasurer in Allegheny. He
Is well known here. as he has a num-
Der OF friends in Dauphin county.
One of the most sensible things to
De seen In the way of feminine head
| gear during the rainy season was worn
py some women from Steelton on Sat-
urday night. 1t consisted of a bath
| ing cap. With raincoat and over
shoes' IL ntted in very well.
Among visitors to the city yesterday
was Commander A. Althouse, United
states Navy, who came here on an
automobile trip with some friends.
He spent several hours in Harrisburg.