Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-30


days have been: Royalton. s1,299.75;
Elizabethville. 81. .2SS.47; Halifax town
ship. $1,576.94; Elighspire, S2,055.52;
Jefferson. Ss22.OS: Upper Paxton,
s2.006.s2; Reed. s515.55; Uniontown,
S25345; Williams township, $1,194.3S;
Williamstown, S2,91S.05.
Many of the smaller districts in in
terror counties are receiving their
checks and more will be paid before
long.
Departments Interested. - The va
rious departments of the State gov
ernment which have joined in the Well
| fare and Efficiency conference have
begun preparation of statements of
their activities which will be submitted
when the meeting is held next month
Inspectors Busy. - The factory in
spectors to-day began inspections or
mattress factories, renovating estab
lishments and stores to see If the law
! in regard to labelling was being fol-
lowed.
Studying AllentoNn.-State Health
department officials have been busy
making inspections of Allentown's wa
ter supply with a view to determining
causes of typhoid fever. Flies are
blamed by some of the people in that
town.
Mr.. Clement Here. - Samuel NJ.
lawyer, was at the Capitol to-day.
Cumberland and Dauphin will re-
ceive their township aid money in
short time. The checks are now being
made out.
Police to Hclp.-Members of the
| State police force have been asked by
! q number of managers of county fairs
to assist in handling the crowds at the
exhibitions. Unfortunately, the num-
/ L f-
small.
F. w. Wheaton, of Wilkes-Barre, was
at the Capitol to-day.
Dental Council. - The State dental
council will have it's Fall meeting to-
morrow. 1t will arrange for various
details of the new law and eXamin-
atoms.
Compensation Board. The State
| Workmen's Compensation Board is in
session to-day and will act upon a
number of forms. The Board may Sc
| lect a secretary.
DIR. Schacffer to Speak. - Superin-
| tendent Shcaeffer will be one OF the
speakers at the dedication of the Pal
myra school on October IL.
! To Survey Government.-The most
| complete survey ever made OF the
State government system will be in
auEurated by the new Economy and
| Efficiency Commission, of which Gov
ernor Brumbaugh, Attorney General
Brown and Auditor General Powell
are members. The work has been
PLACED under the direction of Harry
| S. McDevitt, counsel of the commits
sion, who was secretary of the Tener
commission. The plan is to study each
department in detail and then to take
Up the various State activities work.
| an Il oil off 10
daily wage learners, and suggest
| changes in the management, fiscal and
other arrangements where deemed
necessary. The last Legislature made
an appropriation for the work.
State Agents Active.-Agents of the
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
| to-day brought seventeen prosecutions
in Philadelphia and Luzerne counties,
most of them in Philadelphia, where
agents found rotten eggs, rotten figs,
candy infested with vermin and ice
cream not up to State standards.
Inspectors Meet. - The States or
chard inspectors gathered at the office
/ of State Zoologist Surface for their
annual Fall roundup and discussion
/ of the work. Each man made a report
on conditions in the orchards in his
district and DR.. Fl. A. Surface, the
| Zoologist will give instruction in new
methods. The meeting will last three
! DAYS.
Illinois Barred. - The State Live
stock Sanitary Board to-day declared
a quarantine against any shipments of
cattle from the northern part of Illi-
nois for any purpose whatever. The
order will also prevent shipments be-
ing made through the State from
Illinois.
Prominent Men Here.-Among vis-
itors to the "Hilr' to-day were Su-
perior Court Judge John w. Kephart,
Chief Clerk Fl. NJ. Kephart. Colonel
Fred Taylor Pusey, of the Governor S
staff; Congressman D. F. Lafean and
Representative ]. A. Dale, York;
Representative S. A. Whitaker, T.
Larry Eyre and ex-senator o. l..
Thomson, Chester county; Senator w.
NJ. Lynch. Lackawanna; B. NJ. Clark,
PunXsutawney; Representative w. ].
McCaig, Pittsburgh; Representative
William Adams. Luzerne: Senator
John w, Hoke, Franklin, and Cyrus T.
Fox, Reading.
Local Association. - The Investors
Building Association, of this city, was
chartered to-day with 100000 capi-
tai by Samuel Fishman, Samuel Katz-
man. F. b. Aldinger, Lewis Baturin,
Peter Magaro, James Stiner and Rob-