Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-08-10
Ehfntng Chat

IchhSylNdnlaS state ScnOOl Iunut
which was established by the trainers
OF the State school code which became
a law in the first year of the Tener
administration, now contains over
$1bO,0O0 of permanent investments,
the last purchase of bonds having been
made yesterday. The fund had $4,000
OF investments several months ago ana
since that time over $4,000 has been
turned over to 1t by the State Forestry
Department, as under the law all reve-
nue. from forests goes to the perma-
nent fund. From this latter sum
there have been purchased $4,000
Wilmington, Del, bonds, $4,000
Charleston, w. ", &c., Rochester,
Pa, $40. 900 Nashville. Tenn, $4,000
Louisiana State and $4,000 Oil City
bonds. The fund already contained a
number of Pittsburgh and other bonds.
1t is expected that this fund, the prin-
ctpal of which may not be spent, will
ultimately amount to millions, as to it
must go not only the income from the
state forests. which now aggregate
over million acres, but all sales of
State property and all escheated estates
and money. Under the operation of
the new escheat act, which is to be-
come effective on January /, it is ex-
pected the State will receive much
more money for this fund While IT Is
accumulating the fund the State will
use only such portion of the interest as
will be actually needed for relief of
school districts in distress.
Attorney General Francis Skunk
Brown has secured and hung in the
Attorney Generals department an oil
painting of George Bryan, who was
President of Pennsylvania" in 1878.
Mr.. Bryan was President of the Su-
preme Executive Council, which was
managing the affairs of the Common
wealth in that dark revolutionary year.
having succeeded Thomas Wharton
when that noted Philadelphian died in
once. The painting is well preserved
and has been appropriately marked.
Up on Riverside Drive the other
night about IL o'clock an autoist
stopped with a blowout He worked
and cussed, as is the custom in such
cases, until long about o'clock in the
morning. But he was not without
company After he had been plugging
away at his tire trouble for about a
half hour along came another machine
-boom went a tire. and he stopped.
soon another car. driven by a hilarious
lady, stopped with a third blowout,
and the feminine driver sang in a loud
voice, "Everybody's doing 1t" Needless
to say. the neighbors didn't sleep
thereabouts.
One of the Harrisburg manufacture
ers has devised a scheme for control
of some of his men who take unex-
pected leaves of absence, generally
for bibulous reasons. He worked out
plan whereby men who took a day
on without notice had to stay off two
days. 1t worked very we'll for time
and 1t happened that last week that
one of the men who had been caught
felt like taking a rest and. not desir-
ing to lose two days, called UP the
manufacturer to give notice" What
the manufacturer said was a shame.
1t seems that he called up at SIS
| a. m.
Highway Commissioner R. ]. Cum
ningham is terror on placards ana
posters and other things tackled up
along the State highways There is a
State law prohibiting advertising mat
ter along State highways and many
local politicians have disregarded 1t. in
various counties of the State. Their
cards have been coming down as fast
as put up and have no favoritism
over Aunt Somebody's sovereign
remedy or anything that grown folks
dream about.
A couple of city chaps were out in
the country the other day and found
farmers looking lugubriously at the
| fields of corn almost laid fiat or bent
| away over by the force of the storms
that have occurred the last week. One
farmer said that unless the corn got
Strengthened out he would stand to
lose good many dollars.
TRY a rope" suggested one Of the
city boys.
Rope? What for" asked the agri-
culturalist.
why. start at one side of the field
and run the rope under the stalks and
then straighten them up" was the
bright suggestion.
The farmer went back to his house.
Joe LeCompte, assistant cashier of
the State Treasury. is approaching
what he calls his vacation season. He
has lately had the number of paw
checks which he handles jumped from
1000 to 1900 and now he is about to
| send out the 2,500 checks to school
districts for payment of the school an
| preparation and 1900 to townships for
road bonus purposes.