Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-12
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OF the Dauphin county bar and one
OF the official court reporters, had his
hands more than full Friday afts
noon at the first annual picnic of the
Dauphin county bar association at
Inglenook.
one of the features of the enter
'alhment program was a rifle and
pistol target match. Some of the
lawyers most of them in fact, hadn't
haholed rifle or revolver for years and
Sears-not since the days when they
shot sparrows with fiobert or used
.ne oid British bull dog and blanks
10 celebrate the advent of Independ-
enee Day. But they Joined in the gen
@ eIal trials with both rifle and re-
NolIer with much gusto. Incidentally,A q
,,1. smHir marksmanship showed the re-
S, suiIS OF the passage of the years sans
Sniali isl arms practice. The shooting, as
InIgnt be expected, was just a trife
erratlc to say the least
ana captain Ziegler, commander of
COMPANY l, Eighth Regiment, n. G.
=, was the official inspector of small
arms practice" His job was to watch
and mark the "hits!''
Appropos of the first annual picnic
OF thls same county bar association
n iienlpers who saw President Judge
tGeorge hunkel play ball realized to
thelr secret amazement that the pre-
siding jurist of the county Is some
thlhg more than a mere fan" When
the game was organized Judge Kunkel
was one of the first to shed his coat.
toE up his sleeves, and heft a bat.
tuoltionaI tr,,d Law Judge McCarrell, it is
true, didn't actually get into the
game but he offered sage, kindly and
instructive advice to the president
JuuEe-ln plain baseball language
Juoge McCarrell, so admiring men,
oers OF the bar have 1t, helped wonder
lully In coaching"
About all folks have been talking
ABOUT in the streets, in the offices, in
the elevators, street cars and railway
eralns-and yes, even in the churches
sundays the Republican conven-
ton. 1t made great ammunition for
the oarbers and Saturday morning in
SIX chair barber shop a keen listener
would have found all six BARRIERS talk
lne convention to the chaps on the
chairs.
City police this year have forgotten
all about their thin blue shirts and
iittie bow ties, which were the favor
lies last year about this time. Cool
damp weather during the last few
downtown traffic officers, makes "the
blue coat with brass buttons feel
mighty comfortable. One or two of
them even went over to the side of
the Berks county weather prophet
who predicts cool weather all sum
mer and declared that they do not ex-
pect to get a chance to discard their
coats.
Charles T. F1eck, desk officer at the
police station, is up to more tricks
these days, since the red and pink
roses are in bloom. Nearly every day
Charlie" brings in a bunch or has
some given to him and when a stray
child is picked up or visitor admires
them Charlie begins his little trick.
lie has small piece of tin and bit
of sulphur Lighting a match, the
desk officer melts a drop or two of the
sulphur on the tin and then holds a
red rose over the fumes. The process
bleaches the rose partly white if not
continued too long. In the course of
sortment of roses with a big variety
of beautiful tints. Try it.
Notwithstanding the fact that many
of the veterans who will attend the
annual meeting of the Middle Division
Veteran Employees Association in this
city next Thursday, travel on passes,
they seldom get away from their
home towns. According to one off,
cia. of the association there are on
his list of acquaintances no less than
| fifty pensioners who get away from
home once year, and then to attend
the reunion. They have passes, good
anywhere between Pittsburgh and New
| York City, but prefer home circles.
One veteran, according to reports has
pass that takes him anywhere and
boasts of two trips each year, one to
the reunion and the other to visit
relatives in Philadelphia. They spent
so many years on the trains they are
tired of riding.
While not officially reported It is
understood that A. Wilson black, a
retired Pennsylvania Railroad passenger
conductor, and past commander of
Post 5S, G. A. r., will be one of the
delegates to the National Encamp-
ment of the G.. A. r.. at Kansas City.
Conductor Black, while not a dele
gate, has been prominent at Grand
Army encampments. He is also a
popular man at other conventions ana
has a record of having visited nearly
every State in the United States. In
railroad circles he seldoms misses an
annual meeting of veterans, and will
be one of the prominent pensioners at
the big gathering in Harrisburg next
Thursday.
Some of the foremost colored men
in the country spent almost a week in
the city attending the centennial ses-
sion of the Philadelphia A. M. e. con-
ference, in the Bethel church. This
conference is the oldest in existence,
and leaders of the colored race ap-
peared here to make addresses on big
church campaign plans. Among these
were Bishop Evans Tyree, of Nash
vile, Tenn; Bishop w. H. Heard, of
Philadelphia; the Rev. r. c. Ransom,
of New York City, editor of the A.
NJ. E. Church Review one of the fore
most colored religious papers in the
country; DIR. B. F. Watson, of Wash
ington. d. c., secretary of the Cen
eral Conference Church Extension
Society; the Rev. r. r. Wright, Jr.,
of Philadelphia, editor of the Chris
tian Recorder; the Rev. George W.
Woodson, dean of the Payne Theo-
logical Seminary, Wilberforce, Ohio.
With the forming of a Community
Forum in connection with the work
of the West Shore Ffremen's Union
which is under way by the firefighters,
residents of that section will have a
good opportunity to assist in the up
building of that community The
forum according to preliminary plans
will mean better schools, better safety
appliances, better roads. and many
other minor helps, which the district
Is badly in need of. Should this pra-
iect go through, the move in actioH
A.. .at,oaI boardz of that