Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-07
EVENING CHAT

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Harrisburg must do something to
keepANest Shore business in the city
instead OF letting 1t get away in the
form of new commercial enterprises
ucfoss the river, unless il counts upon
waking up some day to find a large
ana thriving WEST Harrisburg COM
peting with it," said well-known
tiarllsburger yesterday after an auto
mobile trip to Wormleysburg, Wash
lngton Heights. Lemoyne and Camp
Hill. Those West Shore towns are
growing at rate that will very soon
carry eaeh one to the borders of the
other and the natural thing will be
the development of city on the Cum
perland county side of the river that
might we'll be called West Harrisburg.
1he cross river communities now have
almost as many advantages as Harris
burg. Their schools are good, they
nave electric lights, pure water. gas
anu Sidewalks. Within the past year
have seen develop along the pike lead
ing from the river to Camp Hill one
large grocery store, a hardware and
general store and garage that
matches anything to be found on this
side of the river. And playing right
into the hands of the epterprisinG
Cumpefiand county folks who are bent
on estab blishing business center in
the vicinity of the building of the
Lemoyne Trust Company are the
short-sighted people of Harrisburg
who will not get together with the VAL
ley Railways Company on some plan
whereby that corporation may be bet
ter able to serve the hundreds of peo-
pie who live on the West Shore and
want to do their purchasf in Har-
rlsburS. Under conditions as they are
1t is almost impossible to formulate
better schedules than those in OPP
Grafton and until closer connections
are established people who would 9TH
erWise come to Harrisburg will do
| their purchasing so far as possible in
| Cumberland county"
Some of the deer who remained
| hidden on the mountains in Perry and
Dauphln counties during the season
| when hunting was on have appeared
to show that they are still around
The other day couple of men who
| returned from an automobile ride up
! the Susquehanna declared that they
| saw two deer in a valley between Hall
! fax and Dauphin. Several men have
reported seeing deer in Perry county
and not far from the river. The deer
appear to know that the danger SEA
/ son is over
Friends of Colonel W. Hayes Grier
the Columbia editor. have sent him
their best wishes upon his decision to
| retire from active business life. The
! Colonel was superintendent of print
ing and binding and was here for sew
| eral years. In fact, there was not
year in the whole period from 1856
that he was not in or about Harris
burg' except. perhaps, in war time.
Men who have been observing the
| operations of the State Dairy and Food
Division say that as result of the
activity of Dairy and Food Commits
| sioner James Foust and his men the
sale of soft drinks" which had no
ancestry outside of a chemical factory
has been much reduced. They say
| that the sale of chemically made fruit
| ilavors' has been considerably reduced
| ana that the drinks come nearer being
! true to label than known for "a long
time. Lemon pop" which used to he
a fearful and wonderful concoction in
TINS city. now owns up to lemon for
its flavor
Charles Meredith. a West Shore lad,
| While skating on the river Monday
| found embedded in the ice near the
Cumberland side a large catfish. ap-
parently frozen to death. He dug 1t
out TOOK 1t home and put it into
/ bucket of water to 'thaw it out" In
the course of ten minutes the fish was
swimming about as lively as though it
/ mad not been in cold storage ever since
| the river closed some weeks ago.
| Many of the market people who
| We're in town yesterday started from
| home Tuesday. The roads in some of
the country districts were so slippery
that drivers were unwilling to risk the
trip during the early morning hours.
| They got into Harrisburg early Tues
! day evening, took in the theater or
moving picture shows, spent the night
at boarding houses and were on the
job bright and early in the morning.
One of the interesting things of daily
! life is watching the development of
candidates for city and county nomi-
| nations which will be made at the pri-
mary election in the spring. Nor.
/ people are commencing to feel the call
( of public service than for a long timA
and candidates are appearing in the
most unexpected citizens. 1t is safe TO
say that there will be more aspirants
for the county offices this spring than
known for Il long time and the fall
| campaign bids fair, even at this early
| date. to be one of the most diverting
| in long time.