Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-01
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Construction of the dormitory at the
Harrisburg Academy il stimulating
interest in the school on the part of
the alumni and it is being manifested
in manner that will not only enhance
sentimental regard for the Academy.
but also perpetuate the names of
those who have been prominent among
lts students and supporters. Under
the plan OF the alumni. contributions
are being gathered for furnishing thS~
dormitory on the room plan. The cost
or equipping each room has been
worked out and donations covering
the cost are being made. It is the
idea to place on the door of each
room brass plate giving the name
OF the donor of the furnishing fund.
There are in Harrisburg a number of
families whose sons have attended the
school. some for a couple of gem
erations, and in this way names which
have appeared on the lists of students
for many years will be found in the
buildings. Just as in colleges the names
of donors are placed over lintels or
inside vestibules. This plan was
adopted in the furnishing of rooms
in the new home of the Young wom-
ems Christian Association and will be
followed at the Academy so that
future generations may see the names
OF families who took an interest in
the institution in it's present revival
o. which have been represented In the
student body.
The cool evenings of the last days
OF August started an early boom in
the buying of Fall clothing such as
underwear, top shoes, light overcoats
and so on, according to merchants in
the central part of the city. In one
sporting goods store the swimming
suit and the canoe equipment already
Rave given way to the football and
the heavy sweater. Nearly all the
haberdasheries are showing the latest
ran neckwear and the shoe stores
ana hat stores are displaying the
latest models. In the womens suit
ings sections of the department stores
crowds of prospective buyers can be
seen looking over the new shades and
cuts at almost any time during the
day, and as for women's hats-theyve
been the proper thing for the last
three weeks.
Members of the Millersburg Motor
Club who were in Harrisburg to-day
on their way to Hershey for their an
nGal picnic are among the most ag-
gressive motorists in the State. On
Good Roads Day they were out by the
dozen in the Lykens Valley and their
wives and sweethearts Joined in pro-
viding them with lunch along the
roads where they were at work. They
are very much interested and are CO.
operating with the Motor Club of Har-
risburg in an effort to procure right
or way for a State highway along the
bed of the old canal along the base of
the mountain between Millersburg and
Dauphin. They will also join next ses-
sion in an endeavor to have the Legis-
| lature appropriate money for the erec-
tton of a bridge across the Susque-
hanna at the upper. end of the county.
Well drillers are drilling a couple
| of wells in the Allison Hill section of
| the city and this calls to mind that
recently in spite of the excellent water
wells are by no means out of use in
the city. Probably half dozen wells
have been drilled in Harrisburg in the
last two years. One of the wells in
use is right in the central part of tho
| city. having been drilled in the yard
| OF the Commonwealth Hotel about
twenty years since.
|
Inquiry at the Capitol fails to shoXV
| that there is anything like the whole
| sale enlistment of men for special coal
| and iron policemen for steel works
and coal mines and similar plants lust
| now that many people believe Even
| the Bethlehem Steel Company, which
is center of war order activity, has
not materially added to it's guarding
force. Less than a dozen men have
| been commissioned for that company
| by the State in the last two months.
! IN that time ten men have been COM
missioned of railroads or manufactur-
| ins companies in Dauphin county.
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