Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-03-17
EVENING CHAT

The organization of the Independent
Telephone companies which is to hold
lts convention here next month is real
ly a Harrisburg concern. It was
formed here ten or eleven years ago
when the Independent telephone busi-
ness was commencing to boom and
the men identified with Independent
companies for many miles around
gathered. There was a business meet
ing at which plans for closer cooper
alton were outlined and a banquet was
held at the Board of Trade. Lately
the organizations of the independents
nave commenced to revive and the
dreams of men who were moving
spirits in the early organizations have
Deen working out. The Bell company
has some splendid organizations to
promote efficiency and good fellowship
among its people and they have proved
very effective. The Independents who
are numerous, will doubtless form
some organizations that will make the
telephone situation interesting.
William d. Grimes, the Pittsburgh
lawyer who drafted the municipal cor
poration bill for Allegheny and Lacka-
wanna counties, is well known here.
He has appeared in a number of cases
at the Capitol and has served on COM
missions.
AS harbingers of Spring hepatica
may do for DR.. Eager and blue birds
Tor poets but visitors to wildwood
park last Sunday saw the real thing
The fine weather coaxed not a few
people into the park although the only
real attraction was the opportunity to
breathe fresh air. One little party
consisting of a couple of youths, a
young woman and several children
! who were among those who accepted
InnflITn'G faf fnV, -
make the most of their outing and on
one of the tables which stood out all
winter they spread a regular picnic
lunch produced from shoe boxes they
carried. This occurred just above the
dam. Farther down in the park at
the baseball grounds q number of
boys spent several hours during the
middle of the day hitting and catch
ing flies. All in all there was a dis
| tlnct suggestion of summer about the
park in spite of the fact that there
were no leaves on the trees and the
grass was still dead and brown, and
mere and there in the little ravines
and under bushes there fingered rem
nants of the last snow.
Among the writings on the subject
| OF temperance which have been re-
celVed by Governor Brumbaugh since
the local option fight became acute,
Is one By Maurice Floyd. 1t is very
much to the point and is as follows:
THE temperance people of a small
southern town mad long been battling
| to put the saloons out At last an
| electlon was ordered and a mass
meeting was held in the roomiest
| church. Near the close of the meet
ing, venerable looking old gentle
| man, dressed in broadcloth, walked
down the aisle and addressed the
audience. Friends, he said, If you
vote whisky out of this town I will
lose my job. l am getting old and
know OF no other way to make a liv-
lAGsi AS you all know, / keep the
Towns salooh-a nice respectable
place. Think of that before YOU vote
When he had finished, a care-worn
shabbily-dressed woman arose and
said: AS you know, / am the town
Washerwoman. For twenty years
nave made living for my family be-
cause my husband could not resist
the temptation offered by our friends
out and my husband will make a liv-
ing for us. Then the saloonkeeper can
have my job The town voted dry"
! Advocates of the laurel as the State
tlower have been getting on the job
IN earnest since the bill passed and
| are commencing to make themselves
1 Il
the plant because it is emblematic OF
pennsylvania, says Frederick e. Gels
| er, of Easton. who presented the bill
| for 1t, because it grows deep and is
i strong as well as beautiful. When the
bill was going through not an attempt
was made to amend ii as was done
| last session when the daisy, the violet
and the arbutus We're suggested.
Photographs of laurel have been show.
cred upon legislators.
| The State Fire Marshals department
! has been calling attention to the i'm.
/ portance of cleaning up in the Spring
: time and abating fire hazards. The
manner in which it is being done is
well worth noting. One circular is
headed. What Are You Doing?" 1t
| is all directly addressed and is one OF
| the most effective of the publications
on the subject issued by the State.
I'VE are not through with winter
yet, remarked one of the county's
| Oldest farmers this morning in mar
ket. Just take a trip through the
country and you will find snow in the
gullies in the fields and along the
| hedgerows and fences. You will turn
1t up in the most unexpected places
and you will be surprised to see how
much snow really remains on the
ground in spite of the warm sunshine
! We will have another snow, L am pret.
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