Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-08

sSSo its of State money
/ s-@zES@ssz on that date. No
banks in the county
outside of the city had any deposits.
and only one in Cumberland, the Me-
chanicsburg National, had any deposit.
and il had $4,000 of the sinking fund.
! me printed statement shows 90 in
active repositories for all funds ex-
elusive of the State Compensation In
| surance Fund. There are six active
repositories. In Dauphin county the
Harrisburg and Commonwealth Trust
companies, actives. held respectively
S4SS,629.1S and S220,175.7S on Feb
I ruary l. but these sums were heavily
reduced by payments the latter part of
last week and the first of this week,
The only other bank in the city to
have State money was the CONNER
cial, which showed $1,000 of the sink
| ing fund.
/ While the statement showed the
| general fund to contain 3.1s7,269.77,
largely because of heavy payments in
the last fortnight. the resumption of
school payments and demand of de-
| partments have put a crimp in the
/ cash and the end of March will show
/ 1t reduced.
Orchard Men at Jednota.-The State
/ orchard demonstrators went to the
Jednota farms this morning, where
representations for spraying, pruning
state Zoologist II. A. Surface. The
orchard men will visit other orchards
! in this county and also go to Cum
berland county.
| To Talk Safety.-Paul y. Furman.
| chief of the bureau of statistics and
! information of the Department of La
/ Dor and Industry. will lead a round
table discussion on the medical and
surgical phases of the workmen's COM
pensation act at the meeting of the
/ Lehigh Valley Local Council. No ;.
OF the National Safety Council, TO be
held in Easton on Thursday evening,
March ..
Shcchan's Paymant. - Register of
Wills j. B. Sheehan, OF Philadelphia
paid the State Treasury $685. 900 as
State tax yesterday
To Meet Tonight. - The state
/ Board of Property will have its Spring
meeting tonight.
Big Insurance Payment. TIL @
New York Life Insurance Co, of New
York, paid the State $90,524.34 as
State tax on premiums.
Still Considering. The Public
Service Commission is still considering
the objections filed to the sale of GER
tain property of the Hummelstown
Consolidated Water Co. of Hummels-
town, to Charles l.. Jackson.
Governor to Visit. - Govern
Brumbaugh will go to Reading to-
morrow to address the State Grocers'
Association.
Expect More Deer. - 1t is expected
that more deer are to come here
from Northern States for stocking
preserves. Some may go into the
Perry county game preserves.
Lebanon Chairman Here. w. ].
Noell, Republican county chairman of
Lebanon county, was at the Capitol
yesterday.
Addressed Sales smcn. - Chief
Chemist James w. kellogg and Cen
eral Agent George G.. Hutchison of the
Department of Agriculture made ad-
dresses before a meeting of the feed
statesmen of Philadelphia on the work
OF the State in inspection OF feeds
suits Brought. - The Department
of Agriculture through the Dairy
and Food Bureau has ordered prosecu-
tions for the violation of the pure food
and cold storage laws as follows: Cen
| ter county, milk cases; Philadelphia
2 peaches; raisin, containing unde-
clared sulphur dioXide; lard cases
cottonseed oil and beef fat: 2 fish
cases, cold storage, not labelled, and
egg case, cold storage, not labelled.
Order on Heat. - The Public Ser
vice commission to-day issued an or
der to the Bellefonte Gas and Steam
Heating Company to maintain a GER
and congorm to rules and regulations
of the commission. This is the first
order of the kind to be issued.
Blake Out Again. - John w. Blake
an Altoona blacksmith, who has fig
ured in several congressional cam
paigns, to-day filed petition to be a
candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for Congress in the Nineteenth
district. His petition was the first
congressional paper to be filed
Members to Run.-Representa
Samuel McCurdy, Hollidaysburg, Sec
ond Blair, and +. F. G. Harper. New
Castle, Lawrence county, filed petit
tions to be candidates for Republican
denomination for the House.
Auto Licenses Climb. - The States
receipts from automobile licenses to-
day passed the s1,S00,000 mark, which
is considerably ahead of the payments
to this date last year.
Governors Vis:tors. Visitors to
the Governor to-day included General
|C. NJ. Clement, Senator Marshall
Phipps, Venango; Senator j. H.
Thompson, Beaver; ex-senator f. T..
Blewitt. Scranton; o. ID. BIeakley and
j. NJ. Murdoch. prominent in Polk in
stitution affairs.
Named to Place.-Governor Brum-
bau2h to-day appointed i. III. Breiden- |
baugh, of Martinsburg. Blair county, |
to a position in the State Compensa- |
tion Bureau to succeed the late Major
NJ. A. Gherst.
Arranging Inspection. - L. r. Pal |
mer. State chief factory inspector. and
r. NJ. Pennock. inspector of the State
Insurance Fund, went TO Pittsburgh
to-day to arrange for more compre-
hensive inspection work in Western
Pennsylvania counties. Some of the
factory inspectors will be transferred.
To Install Filters. Arrangements
were made to-day by Commissioner
Butler for installation of filtration
plants at the Johnsonburg paper mills
and a number of tanneries in Central
Pennsylvania. The patent rights on
the filter perfected by Chief Warden
Albert were to-day turned over to the
Commonwealth for use of everyone in
the State without cost.
RESCUE COMPANY TO MEET