Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-04
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Six of the men elected common
pleas judges and one of those chosen
to the orphans court bench are well
known to many residents of the city
because of frequent visits. Judge
George b. Orlady comes from up the
Juniata valley, too, so that he is almost
a Harrisburger. His colleagues, j.
Henry Williams and John B. Head,
have been frequent visitors to the
city. Donald p. Mcpherson, who sue
ceeds Judge Swope in the Adams-Ful-
ton district. is member of the we'll
known Mcpherson family and served
in the State Senate back in the last
decade with Cyrus E. Woods, william
Z. Sproul, John e. Fox and Fred
Goqcharles. He is a graduate of Get
tysburg and Harvard and is the son of
EDWARD Mcpherson, the congressman
from the Gettysburg district and long
identified with the national govern
ment. lie is also a relative of Judge
John f. Mcpherson, formerly of this
CITY, George A. Baldwin, new Judge
OF Beaver, served in the Legislature 4.
couple of terms and was an insurgent.
lie was chairman of the "LeXow" COM
mittee which closed the stormy session
OF 1918. Judge-elect Baldwin was also
one of the men who defied the au-
thority of the Speaker of the House
IN 1911 and the sergeant-at-armS had
to take the official mace to him to
make him sit down. Thomas f. Bailey.
the judge elected in the Huntingdon-
Mifilin- Bedford district, is Princeton
man, used to sing in the Princeton
glee club and comes from families
which are we'll known in this city. j.
f. j. Hause, the new judge in Chester,
has appeared in the Dauphin county
courts many times, having been coun-
sci in the West Chester Normal School
case. Judge -elect Henry C. Quigley.
OF Center, is better known to residents
of this city as Harry" Quigley. He
| is a graduate of State College and one
or It's most consistent supporters. He
served in the National Guard and was
Republican county chairman for a
couple of years. And then there is
Judge-elect ]. n. Langham, of Indiana,
| former congressman and former COR
poration clerk of the Auditor General,
| who has more friends than he knows
on Capitol Hill. The judge is exceed
ingly ropular here and one of the best
story tellers in many counties. Judge
elect III. d. Schaeffer. of Reading, is
| a relative of DIR. N. c. Schaeffer and
has frequently been here. His oppo-
nent, Robert Grey Bushong, appointed
| to the orphans court bench. by Gov
| ernor Tener, served in the House as a
Republican and local option member
from Reading.
Among the the governors elect who
| were chosen on Tuesday is Samuel w.
| Mccall, of Massachusetts. He was a.
distinguished member of Congress for
| several years and was warm friend
and admirer of the late Congressman
Marlin e. Olmsted, of this city. He
accompanied Mr.. Olmsted on tour Of
Europe shortly before the illness which
resulted in his death.
Now that the election racket is about
| rit
| thorities to give personal attention to
| the vandalism which has already re-
suited in serious damage to the stand
ard lights and the concrete work along
| the front steps of Harrisburg. Tt
ought to be an easy matter to appre-
hend the culprits who have been exer-
cising their destructive propensities in
breaking the large frosted globes at
| different points along the River Front.
| A drastic example or two would soon
cure the evil,
Four new mayors of Pennsylvania
cities. in addition to Thomas B. Smith.
| former Public Service Commissioners,
are we'll known to many of us here In
fact, James Fischer, mayor elect OF
Wiiliamsport. was here yesterday. A.
l.. Reichenbach, of Al1entown; w. l.
w; Jones the first mayor OF Coates
Vile. and Fl. l.. Trout, reelected mayor
of Lancaster. have all been here in
less than a month. DR.. Trout has
many friends here.
The word "kiclS" is no longer Sian z.
We have it on the authority of one OF
the leading members of the Dauphin
bar who is somewhat strong on die
| tion himself. It seems that the word
has been used in the Supreme Court OF
tho United States, where slang does
not appear and where English is con-
! ceded to be of the purest in the land.
1t was used by learned justice in
\ delivering an opinion and appeared as
a verb. In fact, the justice said 'IIe
| kicked about it," AS he said 1t from
the bench, slang lists must be revised.
Ernest H. Davis, president of the
| Lycoming Edison Electric Company,
of Williamsport, was among visitors TO