Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-26
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Although the beilsnickles of our
childhood days have turned into Hal
lowe'en mummers and New Years eve
frolickers there are still some of the
traditional Harrisburg observances of
Christmas day about the States capi-
tai. The disposition to make 1t a day
of rest and to preserve it as q time of
family gathering is if anything grow
ing stronger and there are few social
affairs and they are confined to greet
ings of friends and neighbors. The
bells of old Zion church ring on the
morning of Christmas day as they
have done for fifty years or more and
the bell of the Cathedral seems
to have a more mellow note in it's early
call to service. Milkmen, postmen
aud newspaper carriers are given
pilates" of cake and candy and the
presentation of new money continues
to put strain upon the banks sup
plies of fresh coins and notes. More
| and more the display of wreathS at
windows and on the doors and the
placing of evergreens at entrances is
coming to be regarded as of as much
importance as the Christmas tree in
the home where there are youngsters.
/ NOT rev conductors are told to keep
the change" by the regulars who
| travel on their lines and it was to be
noted this morning that a good many
men who appeared with a couple of
days sprouting of whiskers did not
seem to mind the kidding" of the
more fortunate mortals who can shave
| themselves because the BARRIERS want
ed the day off. 1t might be added that
whether 1t was because the girl went
to Perry county for Christmas or as q
protest against the high cost of living
the number of Harrisburgers who sat
at meat at hotel tables on Christmas
day was larger than a year ago.
An entirely new Christmas feature
was contributed by nature on Saturday
night when a display of Northern
light occurred. 1t was visible for n
short time, but the glow and the fash
ings were unmistakable. The aurora
was about the time the people were
going home and those living in the
country saw the beams above the
mountains quite plainly.
Somehow or other every time there
are crowds thronging the stores. like
Saturday night, for instance, there are
some young cubs who jam into the
aisles just to have fun and not to buy.
Saturday night the usual display OF
such horse play occurred, but what
happened in one store to couple of
young men who had some beer in
their stomachs and froth in their
heads deserves to be written about
for the sake of the future. These two
lads began pushing and showing in the
aisle of one of the Market street
stores. They were asked to behave
themselves and became insolent
Then they started to crowd people
worse than ever. A nice plump girl
standing at counter was literally
lifted up and carried six feet She
was one of the kind that you would
not think would get mad easily. But
she did. And with a word to the tired
girl behind the counter she snatched
up two of the long steel hat pins
OH sale and went into action. A few
minutes later one youth holding his
handkerchief to his cheek was wildly
threatening to "sue some one" while his
companion was being chucked through
a door by O. couple of men who had
been stung into action by the nice
plump girl who discovered she had
temper.
Jere S. Black, the York lawyer, who
died Saturday, was well known to
many Harrisburgers He was one ct
Princetons half backs in the years
when will" Spicer was the other
and Mervin Randolph, who lived here
several years and is connected with a.
number of Harrisburgers, was an end.
Mr.. Black was best known, however,
as Democrat He was a great Bry
an man and had much to do with the
! | OTSdHlHdJlOn OIL T6nnSylNanla Demo-
! Gratis against the Guffey domination in
1907 and 1908. He was known here
, as q lawyer before he was picked as
the nominee for Lieutenant Governor
in 1905, and his speeches in which he
took the chandeliers in the Capitol
/. the best of that strenuous
. campaign. Mr.. Black was also
!. a stormy figure in the last
Democratic State convention, that of
1912, and his friends here were sorry
: to note within the last year that the
health of the genial and able York
> Democrat was falling. He was the
r third generation of notable Democrats
and had he lived would have been
heard from
, The State Educational Association,
3 which will begin its siXty-seventh an
r nual convention here tomorrow, has
been meeting in Harrisburg every two
years for a generation. For a time
the meetings were held in various
parts OF the State, but it became the
| custom to hold sessions in Harris
burg just before the Legislature met
so that the thought of the educators in
regard to the school legislation would
be fresh upon the incoming lawmak-
ers. 1t is interesting to note that
three of the men who will make ad-
dresses tomorrow are former presi-
dents of the association. They are
Governor Brumbaugh, Secretary
Houck and Superintendent Schaeffer.
|
People here recalled in yesterdays
Christmas celebrations that it was just
six months ago that the Pennsylvania
National Guardsmen m obiliZed at Mt.
Gretna for Mexican border service.
The Guardsmen assembled on the site
of the previous encampments on the
twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth, the
artillery being the last to go in. For
not few men departed from their
homes half a year ago was the last
they have seen of families and the ex-
periences of the camp will linger long
in the minds of many men who wanted
to go on service but who could not
get by" the medical man.