Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-09

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! H-0Sssszz1l554 State Highway De-
=AzaszaAzAAN partment lof Ilh-
nois. desiring to start maintenance
| division, to-day sent a representative
to Harrisburg to secure data from the
| Pennsylvania State Highway DEPART
! ment authorities.
Is. y. Piepmeier, maintenance engi-
neer of the Illinois State Highway
Department at Springfield, visited the
/ Department today and went over the
system of maintenance in vogue in
this State with Second Deputy State
! highway Commissioner Biles under
whose jurisdiction the maintenance
work in Pennsylvania is being done.
Mr.. Piepmeier expressed himself as
| greatly pleased with the perfection of
| the pennsylvania system.
Opinion on vancements.-Attor-
ney General Brown to-day gave an
| opinion to State Treasurer Young for
/ ms guidance in making adVancements
| from appropriations for departmental
activities whereby the limitations of
1 ponds were defined. The Attorney
General also calls attention TO the
practice of departments paying direct
| instead of through the treasury.
Orchard War On.-The States or
chafd demonstrators who have been
mere most of the week undergoing in
stuc'loh IN orchards Will adjourn to-
MORROW ana start work in the State
demonstration orchards next week.
! The men were instructed bv state
Ioologist Surface in his own orchards
to-day, tests being made of various
processes for eXterminating pests.
Wanted For Bigamy. - Governor
Brumbaugh to-day issued a reuuisition
Ior the return to Baltimore or Mildred
+: Long, alias Griffith, arrested in
a nhaV IL
Would BE Legislator. - Elmer
George Thumm. student, Pittsburgh.
to-day filed petition to be a candi- |
date for the Republican nomination
FOR the House in the Eighth Allie
gheny district.
Appointed i'm GuaPd.-George Ross |
winters, of Pittsburgh, was to-day an
pointed first lieutenant in the med !
lcal corps of the National Guard and /
assigned to the Eighteenth Infantry
Candidate For DeIesate.-John %. |
Baker, of York, to-day entered a. peti- |
tlon at the State Capitol to be a can |
dldate for Republican national dele |
gate in the Twentieth congressional |
district.
justices Namcd.-Justices of the |
peace were appointed to-day as fol- /
lows: ColleSeville, Horace l.. Savior. /
LackaWanna township, Mercer county; |
D. j. Kerr; Delaware township, Mercer /
county, George w. Magee.
Clearfield Intervenes.-The Associa-
uon of Bttuminous Coal Operators of |
central Pennsylvania who have mines
IN the Clearfield and adjacent regions |
nave intervened before the Public |
Service Commission in the complaints
of the Pittsburgh Coal Operators' As
sociation against the rates charged bv
the Pennsylvania system from the
Pittsburgh district to PhiIadelpbia
Erie and New Castle. They desire to |
nave the existing basis of rates main
tanned.
Governors Visitors. - Among the
visitors to the Governors office to-day /
were James Scarlet. Danville. n l. /
Eyre, West Chester: w. ] Mason for
mer journal clerk of the Senate, Erie;
Ihomas Statler, Somerset. and Con-
gresham T. S. Crago, of WaynesburC.
Ordnance Officers Here.-Ordnance /
officers of the National Guard are
meeting with Adjutant General Stew /
arr to-day to arrange for the rifle
practlce season. 1t will start May 1. |
Installed Gates. - The Public Ser
wee commission has been informed |
that the Central Railroad of New
Jersey has installed safety gates and |
bells at Mill street, Parsons. about
which complaint had been made.
Appointed Superintendent. The
Board of Public Grounds and RuiId
ings has appointed Aaron Llovd as
superintendent of construction Of the
new State bridge at Spring City.
Approval Given. The Public Ser
vice Commission has given approval .
to the application to make the Petro-
leum Telephone Company a domestic
corporations; changing Grant street in
New Castle; and for an above grade
crossing in Ashley.
Ask About Fertilizers. - The State
Department of Agriculture is receiv-
ing many letters these days from peo-
pie asking about the best methods of
using local fertilizers. The work OF
the department in this direction is
attracting much attention and advice
is eagerly sought.
The Last Institutes. - The last
farmers Institutes are being held this
week. They will close with to-mor9
row and the lecturers will devote
themselves to farm advisory work
No Money Stolen. - Officials of. the
State Game Commission to-day called
attention to the fact that the State
had not lost any money as the result
of frauds among justices and others
on bounty claims. According to the
officials the vigilance with which
every claim was followed up resulted
in the State being saved from loss.
CumberIands Big Reserves. - The
Pine Grove Furnace reserves now
owns $3.50 acres of forest land in
Cumberland county.
To file Briefs. - The, filing of briefs
will close the long drawn out Phila-
delphia electric case. 1t has been
under way for over year and the
final testimony has just been taken.