Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-10-09

5gEgGSG@ of the State Depart
-7ssss<s:s=:GgIAm ment of Agricul-
sAAssIsAas ture. The institute
dates have all been worked out by
Director A. L. Martin with an idea of
providing each district with lectures
at time when local conditions will
be favorable. Each county will have
at least two institutes and some as
high as a dozen.
The lecture corps includes a num-
her of men who have been connected
with this line OF work for years on
cials of the Department and members
of the new Commission of Agriculture
will attend institutes and some will
lecture or conduct the question boxes,
discussions or special sessions Con-
siderable attention is to be given to
educational features.
The dates are as follows for this
county: Gratz. January 81 Halifax
February 2; Anglestown. February 4;
Cumberland will start at Newburg on
January II and have institute at Gen.
,erville January 10 and Hogestown on
January 21. Ickesburg starts the
Perry series on December 90 and
Greenpark will have institute on De-
cember %.
MAY Close More. The State Game
Commission will consider at a meet
Ing next week petitions from various
counties for closing of their territories
for hunting of game of various kinds
for five years. Fourteen counties are
now on the closed list, eight of them
having been closed until 1919 only n
short time ago. Cambria, Fayette
Somerset and Westmoreland are closed
TO the hunting Of deer and elk until
December l, 1916, while Blair is closed
20 hunting of pheasants and quail until
October, 1917 and to hunting of deer
until the same month of the following
year. Butler county is closed to hunt
ing of quail, grouse, pheasants and
wild turkeys until 1917 and to deer
hunters until 1919. Indiana is similar
ly closed. Several eastern counties
are understood to have petitioned for
closing for deer hunting and move
ments for closing so that other game
may propagate are under discussion.
Board May Mcct.-The State Water
Supply Commission may meet next
week to consider several pending
Eases.
Can Shoot Turkeys Soon. - Wild
turkeys will he legitimate came in
Pennsylvania for the first time in two
years on and after next Friday, Oc-
tober Is. The prohibition imposed by
the act of 1911. which made a two
& year closed season on these game
birds, expires next week. The closed
season is said to have resulted in the
turkeys increasing rapidly in a num-
ber of interior counties notably those
in the Juniata and other central val
Ieys. In other counties wild turkeys
imported from other parts of the
United States have had time to breed
and are TO be found in considerable
numbers. The law permits the kill
ing of only two turkeys each season
by one person.
Refusing Rehearing. - The Public
Service Commission has refused a re-
hearing in the request for approval of
sidines in Eddystone for the new mu-
nitions plant. The commission de-
ferred the Stag hearing and that on
the Kittanning water works until later
in the Fall,
Many Took Test. - In the neigh
borhood of 525 officers of infantry
organizations of the National Guard
have taken the examinations on the
courses of instruction prescribed by
the War Department and the examina-
tion papers are now being gone over
by the officers at the adjutant general $
department. Ratings will be given
and announced in general order. The
preparations for the new courses of
instruction have been made.
Licenses Go Out. Almost fifty
State licenses have been issued 20
companies engaged in the business of
making small loans with or without
collateral under the new license sys-
tom established by the last Legislature
and a number of examinations are
now under way by State officials The
State Banking Commissioner has re-
luired an examination to be made III
each case and has given notice that
licenses will be refused unless It can
be shown that the applicants are
worthy to engage in the business.
lnI ha nnnr
Check Company. of this city. in which
Il number of Harrisburgers are inter-
ested, to-day filed notice of increase
of stock from $4,000 to $1,000.
Spyker Takes Place. Samuel l.
Spyker. of Huntingdon, the new asso-
ciate counsel of the Workmen's Com
pensation Board, assumed his duties
yesterday afternoon.
Spatz in Luck.-Cap pitol Hill read
with considerable interest to-day the
news that Herr Charles b. Spatz, of
Royertown. former member of the
House and prominent Democrat in the
old days, has received word of an in
heritance of half million dollars. He
was for several sessions one of the in
teresting figures at the Capitol.
More Test Cases.-It is likely that
several cases to test the so per cent.
clause of the nonpartisan judicial act
will be brought IN the Dauphin County
Court within the next ten days in ad-
dition to the Rosster equity suit from
Erie county. which is to be heard next
Wednesday. Reports reaching here
were that candidates in Philadelphia,
Montgomery and other counties where
there were disputes as to the method
of computations were likely to start
actions to enjoln the Secretary of the
Commonwealth from certifying nomi-
nations.
DIR. Kalbfus Home. DR.. Joseph
Kalbfus. secretary of the State Game
Commission. has returned to the city
after trip to the Panama-P Pacific Ex-
position and inspection of game pre-
serves and game propagation work in
western states. He has arranged for
shipment of deer to the state after the
weather turns cold.
New Rules Discussed.-Issuance of
the new rules governing moving pic
lures in Pennsylvania by the State
Board of Censors has started much
discussion. but no intimations have
come to the Capitol of any intention
to take them into court.
The Ballot Form. - The arrange
nnent of the parties on the official
sample ballot prepared at the office of
the Secretary Of the Commonwealth
for the November election shows the
Democratic square to lead the first
column. followed by Washington. Re-
publican. Socialist. Bull Moose. Roose-
welt Progressive. Prohibition. Keystone
and Personal Liberty. i'm the order