Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-17
EVENING CHAT

! LLxLNlIvO OHHI
The judges of Dauphin county court
and the members of the bar who at
tended the annual banquet of the
Dauphin County Bar Association
Monday evening paid a tribute to
DaViu +. Young, the veteran, ever
lIeauy, alWays-willing law librarian. In
songs We're in order and to give zest
70 tne vocal efforts of the assembled
parrlsters, big stereopticon was sci
III motion. Among the pictures flashed
upon the screen were those of Presi-
gent Judge Kunkel, Additional Law
lyyuuge McCarrell-and Mr.. Young.
! Chuer each picture was an appropri-
ate caption and the LAWYERS greeted
each slide with vociferous song. The
songs changed to cheering when the
picture OF Mr.. Young appeared. Then
1ney all swung into Hello, Davey,
You're Friend o. Mine" Beneath
MI ouhg picture was the caption:
The Man Behind the Bench"
Many employees of the PENNSYLVANIA
steel Company will miss the monthly
visits of the Frog Shop Digest" the
publication of which has been sus-
pended under the company's recent
economy program. b. A. Hankin. for
| many years connected with the Phila
delphia Record, edited the little ma
per 1t was filled with breezy sketches
OF happenings about the big steel
plant that never get into the daily
papers besides a great many special
arucles pertaining to the operation of
the big plant.
| congress 3. *. Focht is making
some interesting comments on things
IN IN ltar5sburg in his paper, the Lewis
purg News, these days This is the
way he discusses recent legislative
acton: Under the provisions of a
constitutional amendment adopted by
vote OIL the people of PENNSYLVANIA it
was proposed to do away with the
Office of Secretary of the Interior.
which was thought to have served its
uay OF usefulness. But the amend
ment as voted on and carried bv the
people had one step further to go.
ana that was to be passed a second
time by the Legislature. on Tuesday
the bill was called up in the Senate.
but did not receive single vote. So
the Hon. Henry Houck will sit tight on
thls Joo during the term for which he
was elected last Fall. No doubt
Henry said, when he heard of the vote.
Goodne3s gracious how lucky / am.
III seems | am better off than the fell
low VINO rushed up to the stamp win
| uoW IN the post office and requested
that the clerk sell him five postal
cards as he wished to write all his
friends. Uncle Henry Houck has an
injection that il contagious, something
that radiates and diffuscs and kicks
uull care out of the window and raises
the curtains that admit what is equiva-
lent to the glory OF the morning-the
cheer and good will which only a
true and noble soul could transfuse.
NOT one vote against the bill? That
| was not II. 1t was not one vote
against Henry! There are no votes to
De cast against anything which seems
to be Henry's. especially when the call
10 nm came through the medium of
Long may his glorious sunset linger."
Among the visitors 20 the city YES
terday was the Rev. George Israel
Browne, former rector of st. paul's
Church. and now rector of St Johns
at Lancaster. He came here 10 see
friends and visited The Capitol where
he ran across the Rev. c. f. Swift
former member from Beaver. Mr..
Browne is noted for his strong ideas
and he and the Beaver man ran a tilt
Ex-senator James l.. Adams. of
Pittsburgh, who was a visitor to the
city this week, is one of the best in
formed men on road Improvement
matters in the whole State. He has
made it study for years and is prob
ably as we'll posted as some of the ex-
perts. Mr.. Adams is thinking out
some of the provisions of the new
highway department act.
VII. Il. Nelson Bennett prominent
Wilkes-Barre city official, was in the
city for the third-class legislative
hearings. EIe has been active in civic
affairs in Luzerne county for wears
and is one of the best-known authori-
ties on the business of that great an
{ thracite district.
Frank Vert, who started his news
paper career on the Telegraph, and
who was afterward city editor of the
Patriot and connected in an editorial
way with various Philadelphia and
Baltimore newspapers, is making
good as head of the Department Of
Public Relations of the Mahoning and
ShenanSo Railways and Light Com
pany, corporation operating extern
! siVely in eastern Ohio and western
Pennsylvania. A part of his duties
consists of editing monthly publica-
tion known as the Em-an- Ess E,lec-
trio News. The publication shows the
earmarks of Mr.. Wert's long expert
ence in newspaper work. 1t is bright.
chatty and devoted largely to safety
| first and efficiency, and is one of the
| best little journals of it's kind to reach
the Telegraph exchange desk.
Roller skating appears to have come
| back with full force in many sections
of the CITY since the snow has dis
appeared from the streets and young
sters in residential sections are having
fun tagging on" to automobiles. One
car this morning "towed' something
like six kids on their way to school.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE
Congressman John r. Farr. of
Scranton, says he means to push his
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