Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-12-09

Szzsz.naAAa.n11AzssAe1AnB 412,OOU 1eet OF uu-
plicate films were certified to.
These figures are stated at the office
of the board to represent a decrease
of 1.916,000 feet of film examined as
compared with the previous year.
There were 1907 reels examined,
2S,412 duplicate reels certified to, 244
reels. covering 80 subjects, condemned,
and out of ,429 reels, originals and
duplicates, examined 11,914 elimi-
nations were ordered. Fifty per cent.
of the examinations were of dramas
and 40 per cent. comedies. In the
prior year there were 1898 reels ex-
Hmined and 80 subjects condemned.
The revenue derived from the ex-
animation of reels amounted to $45, ,429
and from fines $685., an increase in
fines of s1,420.
Seventy per cent. of the fines were
collected in Pittsburgh for violations
of the act in Western Pennsylvania.
To Discuss Buying. - Superintend-
ents OF all State institutions will be
here on Monday for a general confer
ence in the offices OF the State Board
of Public Charities on uniformity in
regard TO purchase of supplies The
result of investigations made of pur-
chases of all kinds of supplies by State
institutions during the summer by
JletlIy =. MCDeNlll, COunSel OF Jne state
Economy and Efficiency Commission,
will be laid before the superintendents
and Governor Brumbaugh will prob
ably communicate his views. The pur-
chases aggregate many thousands of
dollars in value annually.
Twenty-Five Cases. - Twenty-Five
cases, twenty of them new appli-
cations, are listed for the meeting of
the State Board of Pardons on Decem-
Der 20. 1t will be the last meeting for
the year and there will be several
murder cases in which clemency will
be asked.
What Week Means.-The question
of how the week mentioned in the
women's employment act is to be cal
culated will be decided by the Attor-
ney Generals department during the
coming week. 1t was discussed by the
State Industrial Board and an early
decision asked. The chief question is
whether a calendar week Is meant or
whether 1t shall run from Monday to
Monday.
Governors Message. - Governor
Brumbaugh plans to undertake the
preparation of his message to the last
Legislature of his term during the
coming week. The Governor has been
making studies of various matters for
weeks ond a considerable amount of
information on State administrative
matters has been accumulated here
for him. portion of the message
will be devoted to a program for pub
lie works.
Buckwheat Shy. - Experts of the
State Department of Agriculture de-
clare that the weather is responsible
for Pennsylvania producing only four
fifths of IT'S average buckwheat crop.
This state is among the leading grow
ers of buckwheat in the country and
this year produced only 4,4S0,0OO
bushels, the decline in bushels to the
acre running in some cases as high as
30 per cent. Only the counties west
of the Alleghenies, Bedford and Cen
ter came near average yields, while
only five east of the mountains had
fair crops. They included Berks,
NORTHAMPTON, Dauphin, Montgomery
and Lehigh.
Prepare Cases.-Of1cials of the At
torDey Generals and Insurance Com
mtSstoner'S departm are working
up the States end of the proceedings
for the receiverships of the Pension
Mutual and Union Casualty Companies
and it is possible that an effort will be
made to get into the testimony in the
Pension Mutual some of the insurance
transactions with which Lyndon A.
Wood was connected in New York
State and in Wayne county. Pennsyl-
Nania. The big effort will be to get
some of Woods record into the court
records. Commissioner O'Neil is in
II lItSDuTBH, WneTe ne Is SCneduled to
meet number of men in regard to
the Pension Mutuals affairs in Allie
gheny county.
Big Cases hstcd.-The Public Serv
ice Commission has listed for hearing
on Monday the application of a num-
ber of electric companies in Philadel-
phia for permission to transfer prop
critics to the Philadelphia Electric
Company and applications made by
the city of Philadelphia for the COM
missions approval of construction of
an additional station on the Frankford
elevated at Huntingdon and Kensing-
ton avenue and for construction of A
double-track surface passenger rail-
way on Oxford avenue and other high
ways to Byberry and Bensalem nike
The companies sought to be trans
ferred to the Philadelphia Electric are
the Pennsylvania Light, Heat and
Power, Kensington, Brush, wissa
hickon, Southern, Powelton, West End
Manufacturers. Suburban, Diamond,
United States, Germantown, Northern.
Overbrook and Columbia
Attending Dinner.-Senator Penrose
and number of State officials, includ-
Ing Auditor General-elect SNYDER. will
sttend the annual dinner of the Penn
sylvania Society in New York tonight
Board Adjourns.-TheC Com mpensation
Board adjourned its Philadelphia sit
tings last night. IT will meet here
next week.
Discussed Sewerage.-C. A. Finer
son, Jr, sanitary engineer of the De-
partment of Health, was at Reading
yesterday in regard to the sewage
problems. A hearing will be given
by Commissioner Dixon on Reading
and Lansdale questions.
Commission Meets Again.-The an
thracite coal price probers reopened
their case yesterday at Philadelphia
and held q hearing for representatives
of waterways associations who sun
ported Commissioner Magee's ideas on
canal transportation to bring down the
price of coal.
State Representative State was
represented last night at the meeting
TO organize the Sullivan Trail High
way Association. This organization
will boost a distinctively northern road
and State aid will be asked as was
done in the case of the Susquehanna
Trail.
Sanders to SpcaIS.-Zoologist ]. q.
Sanders, OF the Department of Agri-
culture, made an address at the an
nual meeting of the Chambria County
Horticulture Society at Wilmore on
Friday evening. DR.. Sanders will go
TO Columbus. Ohio. next week, where
he will work for several days in iden-
tifying insects for a special collection
he is making for State use.