Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-29
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Resumption of work at a. number %
long idle blast furnaces, the speeo.
ing up OF production at coal min =.
and the demands of the railroads for
men nave caused what State officials
IN charge Of employment matters con-
slider the most serious condition I'M
regard TO labor in years. There have
been more applications made to the
state employment agencies in the last
three weeks than in any month since
they were started and men in charge
Of iron works and mines have taken
to using the long distance telephone
instead of writing letters or sending
telegrams asking for help. As fast
as a name Is put down at the agencies
men in lines which need men. and
they include almost every one. are
communicated with. Jacob Iiphtner
chief of the States employment agen-
cies' says that the three bureaus have
found work for 900 men and have
appllcatlonS on file to take care of "A
good many more men if they will ONLY
send along their names. In Centra
pennsylvania number of furnaces
are being started and managers are
seeking men, while the railroads have
been recruiting in the country during
the winter months. Although it will
be weeks before much outdoor work.
can De done contractors and farmers
are seeking information as to how
they can get hands. With industries
at top notch and the ordinary supplN
OF labor from abroad shut off the de-
mand has come at q time to test the
new State bureau.
People Of Pennsylvania do not ap
preciate the sport there is in fishing
for the yellow perch, says Commits
sioner of Fisheries N. r. Butler il
the course of a statement made here
to-day on the prospects for fishing in
the State next Spring and summer
The commissioner has arranged I'd
plant" many thousands of trout, bass
sunfish, catfish and perch this wear
and a particular effort will be made
to popularize the yellow perch. The
latter fish he contends should be bet
ter known because 1t can be takeI
with any bait and may be caught by
women and children. In number
of cases these fish have been set ou
by the department so that they will
propagate in regions where people
camp in summer.
Practically every desk in the hal
of the House of Representatives in
the State Capitol has had to be re-
paired the last few months as the re-
suit of the strenuous times during the
Legislature of 1915 and because o
the numerous occasions on which tho
hall was used for meetings. One car
penter has been working for severa
weeks simply repairing places where
the desks had been worn or cracked
or where seams had opened.
Stamp collectors are on the trai
of the new Pennsylvania State stock
transfer stamps, which are used as
evidence that the tax of two cents on
the hundred dollars of value have
been paid. The act has been in effec
for about four weeks and number
of inquiries have been made as I'd
how collectors may obtain a set OF
the stamps. The stamps are all sold
through agents and not directly from
the State Capitol.
This item. from Johnstown may in
terest a good many residents of this
city: Members of the Johnstown
Boosters League which has prac-
tically every church and social service
organization in the city on it's roster
conferred with the county commits
sioners to-day relative to the establish
ing of work farm for delinquent
children. At present local delinquents
are sent to state institutions. The
boosters plan is to have a farm where
practical agriculture will be taught in
connection with agricultural classes. A
tract of ten acres is under consid-
Grafton as a possible site"
Senator William G. Sproul, chairman
of the State Historical Commission and
president of the Pennsylvania Fed
Grafton of Historical Societies, will bd
senator again from Delaware county
His friends in that county have lined
up for him already. His election neXt
November. which is a fOregone con-
clusion, will be his sixth term. He il
now the ranking member of the upper
house, the Father of the Senate
Next January about this time he will
begin his twenty-firSt year as senator
of Pennsylvania. distinction given I'd
few men and certainly merited by the
Delaware legislator, who, by the way
is a native of Lancaster and only abou
forty-siX years old.
Charles A Wilhelm, who celebrated
his eightieth birthday yesterday.
probably one of the best known Odd
Fellows in this part of the State
He has been a member of the order
for half a century. Mr.. Wilhelm has
been staunch Democrat no matter
what happened for many years.
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