Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-07-28
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The time of the year has come when
the city churches cannot boast of the
attendance at their evening services.
Inc heat and the natural biological
laZness of mankind good and bad,
lead many devout worshiper to seek
the coolness of some shady porch of a
Sunday evening and the empty pews
IN every edifice show how many such
there are.
Most of the churches, however, have
been making efforts to make the
church pews as comfortable as possible
and with good results. In some
churches the preachers themselves set
the men folks a CHEEKY example by
peelins off their coats and rolling up
their sleeves when the mercury scars
TO near the ninety mark. In still others
services are held on the lawn. The
Rev. DR.. Daugherty, now in one of the
larger Shamokin churches. but for
merry pastor or Ridge Avenue Meth
odist Episcopal Church, has installed
| electric fans in his auditorium and the
newspapers say the place is crowded
at every service.
Nearly all the pastors, however, have
the wisdom and goodness of heart to
cut their sermons short when the heat
waves begin to wilt stiff collars The
| day OF the hour sermon is fast passing
anyway and most theologians are be-
ginning to agree that nearly every
thing worth while saying can be said
| in fifteen minutes or therea bouts.
Harrisburg as a member of the
League of Third Class Cities of Penn
SylVania has officially been invited to
attend the annual convention for 1915.
The league will meet in Reading
this year and the invitation to the
commissioners of the Capital City was
formally extended yesterday afternoon
when Council met in it's weekly session.
The convention will be held August
81, September 1 and 2. Whether or
not Council will attend in a body has
| not been decided.
| The invitation was extended by
Mayor Ira w. Stratton, one of the
thlrd class city mayors of the State
who enjoys wide circle of friends in
Harrisburg officialdom. He has fire.
quently been visitor here and only a
rev weeks ago spent part of the aft
ernoon at Council session as the
guest OF Mayor Royal.
Have you been bothered very extern
| slVely by mosquitoes thus far this
summer? No? Well, there's a reason:
In years gone by the choicest breed
ing places in town were the stagnant
pools at the mouths of the old sewer
outlets in the river. AS a rule in low
water the mosquitoes held regular
! parties there. Now the big interceptor
has done away with all that. The
| mosquitoes that still prefer to take a
chance at raising families in Harris
burg hope for the best and breed in
! the big silt basins of the interceptor
! AND, as everyone knows, they can't get
out OF those darksome holes. So that
Is why you're not slapping at yourself
every evening with monotonous regu-
| larity.
| Take it from the druggists who used
20 90 much business in citronella, punk
and so on, Harrisburg is freer of
mosquitoes this year than ever before
in its history
| Seeing Harrisburg First" is becom-
| ing slogan for many residents. Not
a few are taking street car and iitney
rides over the city two and three times
each week. The other day one woman
told driver that she had lived in Har-
risburg for thirty years and had not
seen the Capitol grounds except along
Fourth street until recently.
| nave made two and three trips to
! Philadelphia each week" said the
woman. but go early in the morning
| and return after dark. It is seldom L
| get below Verbeke street except when
l go out of town.
Middletown has a woman who has
| never seen the subway in that town
She seldom walks three squares from
| ner nome and when she does it is into
the country and away from the busi-
ness section of the town. Over in New
! Cumberland, it is said, resides a
woman who has never ridden in troll
| ley cap to Harrisburg. She uses the
steam cars. Sometimes this woman
visits relatives in Steelton, taking the
steamboat to and from New Cumber-
land and comes to Harrisburg by troll
ley, but has never ridden on the trac.
ton lines between here and her home
/ town.