Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-17
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Judging from the interest being
shown generally in the first annual
dinner of the Pennsylvania State So
ciety to be held in Philadelphia next
Thursday it will be a notable gather
ing of men prominent in the life of
Pennsylvania. The society is COM
posed of the officers of the State gov
ernment and members of Congress
and the Legislature of the Keystone
State. There are monthly luncheons
week. Four governors, natives or the
State, will be guests of honor and
Governor Brumbaugh will speak on
behalf of Pennsylvania. Secretary of
the Commonwealth Cyrus e. Woods,
president of the society, will preside
at the dinner. AT the meeting of the
committee in charge held yesterday 1t
was reported that the responses in
ciuded many prominent men and that
dinner which would be an event of
4 the year would be held. For long
tlme Pennsylvanians have been going
70 the Pennsylvania Society dinner in
| New York, which is held every De-
cember, and the active men of the
State have been 'reunioning' in Man
haitian. 1t is the plan to have the big
men OF the State get together just be-
fore thanksgiving in Philadelphia an
nuaily ana to have famous sons of
the Keystone State who have won
honors in other commemorative be
guests Many of the decorations will
be notable and the State and city flags
vii be features.
1t is not often that ANYBODY gets
the better of Uncle Henry Houck.
| the ever youthful Secretary of In
ternal Affairs, but Gabriel IL. Meyer
| Drought new one to town yester-
day. Down in Lebanon, where Uncle
Henry is u favorite campaign speaker
1T Is customary to put him last on the
program, saving his speech as a des-
sert, so to speak. Uncle Henry" has
grown so accustomed to this that the
other day when he was made chair
man OF the meeting he forgot that
he was at the beginning instead of
the end and wound up his plea for
Mr.. Hughes with--"And as for Penn
sylvania, the old Keystone State will
roll up at least 100000 for the whole
Republican ticket - and now good
night" Then he sat down and it was
not until the applause died away that
he remembered, remarked: Gracious,
folks, I'm not the whole program"
and got down to the business of intro
ducing the other speakers.
An automobile with a load of long
pipe is about as bad as q flock of red
steers on city street. Yesterday aft
ernoon a truck swung around a cor
ner with some long, long lengths of
pipe. The pipe just missed a street
car and then grazed an automobile.
The driver stopped to answer some
comments and blocked the street.
When he got started he just missed
the nose of very much surprised
horse. Finally he got on his way and
| q lTnnSt W cChpnlpirlS
Southern Telephone News, printed
in Baltimore by the Bell Telephone
people to show the march OF progress
south of us, contains an interesting
article about Thomas Tyson Cook, who
was stationed here for time and who
is well known to many Harrisburgers.
This is what they say of Tommy"
who got some valuable experience
while he lived here: THE fine report
of the Pioneers Convention in this is
sue Of the News is made possible by
the kindness and ability of Thomas
| Tyson Cook, editor of The Transmit
ter. the publication of the Chesapeake
& Potomac Telephone Company. Mr.
Cook was selected as the man best
suited to handle the story of the con-
vention for the News, and he came
down from Baltimore in response to
our call. That he has done a good
job and met every expectation will be
leNlOenL 10 you when you TSdO his con-
vention report and sidelights. 1t is
difficult to make proper acknowledge
ment to Mr.. Cook in limited space. He
says he had good time and enjoyed
every minute of his stay. He was al
ways in evidence with camera and
pencil when they were needed and
appeared smiling and Immediately
clothed at the dances and other
parties. How he found time to do so
much actual work and do it so well
is a secret-no doubt the secret Of
his success"
The first snowstorm OF the season
came early Wednesday morning, but
while it was merely n Squall in this
section it was q blizzard in other parts
of the State, notably at Erie. Local
weather prophets believe that we are
due for q long and hard winter.
This comes from Local History
Wonder how many people know that
the late Edward the Seventh of Eng
land, then Prince of Wales, visited
Harrisburg in 1860. He was given q
warm reception and was shown much
consideration by the people of this
city.
Auditor General-elect Charles A.
Snyder, who was also reelected a
member of the State Senate, appeared
yesterday before the State Board of
Pardons as attorney in a murder case
from his county. The new Auditor
General will hold his seat in the Sem
ate until the first Tuesday of May
when he will become the controller.
BY a singular coincidence his two
predecessors did the same thing.