Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-06-23
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The picnic held yesterday at VIII
liams Grove by Messiah Lutheran
Church is the first Sunday school
gathering from this city to be noted
at the old time resort along the Yei-
low Breeches in long time. In the
last half dozen years the trolley COM
panies have taken away from the rail-
roads their old-time business and the
parks which can be reached by special
cars have been getting the business,
places like Boiling Springs, Mt. Holly, !
Hershey, Paxtang and others so much I
in the public notice to-day. Days were
when Pine Grove Furnace. and Mont
Alto were great places for Harrisburg
Sunday schools but both have dropped
out of sight. Pen Mar still retains
some of It's popularity, but has not
had much Harrisburg business for
years. Then Penryn was for time
a great picnic place and until recent
years brought a transformation into
q real summer resort Mt Gretna got
good many. Cold Springs, in Lebanon
county; Montebello Park and Marys-
Vile parks in Perry and Island Park
| in Cumberland also had great vogue
for time. Nearer the city Hoffman's
woods. Deer Park and Spruce Hollow,
near the State Asylum and Cameron's
woods were once very popular for
Sunday schools. But the trolley cars
have changed all that.
Yesterday had more varieties of un-
usual weather and they came in more
rapid succession than the average as
tsortment on a bad day. To begin with
1.-THE sun did not shine until the mid
n M For
a short time. Most of the time it was
cloudy. Then about 100 the sun
came out a bit. A few minutes later
the sky became overcast and in a
short time it was so dark that down
ftown and in many homes electric
lights were turned on. Ten minutes
later 1t was raining "cats and dogs"
and the sun was shining. Then the
sun retired and the cool, chill air of
the morning became noticeable. Soon
after the sun was out again and its
rays were as hot as the day before
and windows which had been put
down because of the chill of the rain
were hastily put up.
1t is no wonder that Governor
IBrumbaugh has escaped the atten-
tions of men who want to talk over
appointments and other matters with
him. He has been on the move al
most ever Sl1Ce leaving mere. Inc
Governor said when he left that he
wanted to get away and take it easy,
looking at some of Pennsylvania's fine
scenery meanwhile He has been in
at least dozen counties since that
time.
Mercer B. Tate, who has taken an
Iactive part in the negotiations to get
the Newark club transferred to this
city, has been in the forefront of every
movement in behalf of athletics here
since he came back from college. He
was instrumental in getting Lehighs
football team to come here for
match and has done everything from
. acting as head booster or referee to
helping to bear the expenses And
in the latter he has been as willing as
in the first.
A Capitol Park guard had the sur
| prise of his life yesterday when he
( saw a couple of kids with an ex-
| press wagon coolly start out on the
; lawn near the Library building and
commence to pick geraniums. AT first
{ he could hardly believe that anything
, as sacrosanct as q Capitol park flower
bed would be razed. He found that
the youngsters had come from away
/ up in the Seventh ward and liking tho
looks of the flowers were going to
1 ! take SOHle UOIue W hOHls IneS
, were told to hasten home and as long
/ as they had taken off the flowers they
could keep them, but they were never
: to come around on botanical expedi-
tons again.
During the hearing of one of the
l desertion cases in June court Mon
day an attorney referred to the al
l legged action of the husband who had
cruelty beaten his wife. The husband
! was on the witness stand.
Didn't you tell her." demanded the
attorney that you'd beat her face
! into jelly?"
mo, sir, that isn't true-I did not, '
Indignantly denied the witness.
'FWell, what did you tell her?"
why I just said I'd beat her face
to pulp!"
The Lalance and Grosjean tin plate
mills in the upper end of the city will
Iprobably be making some material for
the use of the European armies be-
fore long The news columns tell OF
large orders for tin cups and other
tin vessels and 1t is understood that
companies which draw plate from
here will receive some of them.