Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-14
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Pennsylvania's season on small
game opens tomorrow but because it
Is Sunday there will be no hunting
until Monday morning. Reports COM
Ing to the office of the State Game
commission indicate that there Is an
abundance of wild turkeys, quail,
grouse and similar game in vicinity of
the state game preserves and also in
localities where farmers and sports
men took care to feed the birds last
winter. Quail are also reported in
southern and eastern counties where
they have been scarce articles for
years, largely duo to the liberating of
young birds last Spring. Some of
from Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
another kind of game which is re-
ported as very plentiful is rabbits, on
winch the season will open November
L. In many counties the Cotton
tails" have been seen running about
| the roads.
More deer of the legal age for shoot
ing are reported in the State now,
with exception of parts of the South
mountain region, than for years. Only
male deer with horns may be shot and
the animals have multiplied rapidly
In some of the game preserves and in
counties where they may not be shot
ior from two to three years. The deer
season opens on December 1 after the
close OF the game, bird and rabbit
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arrangements have been made for
display at the Engineers Society meet
ing on Monday night of two big reels
St Stato moving wing. pictures Of the
ete ineudinr iorest sonas visws at Mont Mont Alto
how fires start in the woods and how
they used to fight them. The modern
methods of detecting and checking
forest fires will be shown from the
actual work.
Rains and early frosts do not ap-
pear to have daunted the blackbirds
which have held forth in Capitol park
most of the summer and they are as
brisk in their hunts for food and as
quarrelsome with the fat, lazy pigeons
as ever. The blackbirds are in their
glory now, plumage being bright and
tridescent. They do not appear to be
in any hurry to start south and are
much admired by the visitors to the
park.
The William Penn Highway local
committee is doing a little work for
improvement of traffic conditions in
this section of the State in a way that
could be followed with profit by others.
When one of the men connected with
the highway finds car standing on
the wrong side of the street or where
no car should be he hangs on a tag
which reads so that all can see
Your car is standing in the wrong
place."
The fact that the harvest is past
and the summer is ended was rather
strikingly shown yesterday afternoon
when one of the city's garbage wagons
moved along with the heap of collec-
tons crowned by three straw hats.
To emphasize the occasion the driver
was wearing a Panama which had
been fine in its day.
The city Is cutting its annual hay
crop. Every year the municipal hay
cutters go out along the parkways
and the parks and other places which
the city controls and they gather up
an astonishing amount of grass, whileI
carloads of weeds are cut down. This
year the city Is garnering a hay crop
from along the Paxtang parkway for
the first time and there is also some
cutting along the Cameron parkway.
Golf players at the Reservoir are
rather cautious about taking off their
coats these days. The last week or
so the sun has been hot early in the
afternoon and last Friday and Satur-
day players appeared in summer
sleeved shirts. So did hordes of
mosquitoes and the wise players are
taking much care.
From all accounts the attendance at
the fairs in the vicinity of Harrisburg
are attracting more people this year
than last. There were many people
from this section at the Carlisle,
Lebanon and York fairs and the Gratz
fair is holding it's own as the big point
of attraction for people of the upper
end. The last of the Juniata Valley
fairs is under way, Newport being the
season closer. Up the State the
Hughesville fair ends the season.
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