Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-25
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It's a pretty far cry from a soldiers
orphans school TO a superior court
judgeship, a Observation-Disclosures ana
a prospective State treasurership, but
the three Kephart boys made it. They
were in Harrisburg yesterday and last
night-Harmon NJ. Kephart of Con-
nellsvtlle, next State Treasurer of
pennsylvania; Judge John w. KEEP
part. 9, Enensourg, superior court Of
pennsylvania, n Lieutenant Colonel
Samuel kephart of the marine corps,
United states army. The three Zap.
harts are "~Sixteeners." and years age
attended the Soldiers Orphans's
school at McAlisterville, Juniata :
county. They met many old class
mates during yesterdays reunion.
The kepharts are native Cambria
oountians. Their father died when
they were very young and they were
sent to McAllisterville. After they
were graduated they went to work.
Harmon kephart went to work on the
pennsylvania railroad and was a fire.
man out of Conemaugh. Later he
went to Connellsville and eventually
became an engineman. John w. KEEP
hart was a telegraph operator at Will
more for u number of years, after
wards studying law. His sensational
campaign for the superior court judge
ship in 1913 is still remembered. Out
OF a field of 16 he finished fourth in
the primary election; and in the gem
eral election led Judge Henderson in
the State outside of Philadelphia.
stationed at a New England post. He
came to Harrisburg with Judge Keep
mart, at whose home in Ebensburg he
is spending a few weeks.
Harmon Kephart is we'll known in
Harrisburg, as he is in Pennsylvania
| ~ l. a soc LIZ at
vote IN the primary election last May.
With Ha%rrisburg's first Kipona only
a few days away. the river in front of
the city is slowly beginning to take
on the appearance of a canoeists'
training ami.
From one end of the race course at
the Market street bridge to Municipal
Fort, almost any time now you can
see pairs of canoeists working UP
speed as they skim over the course.
Last evening there were at least a
half dozen canoes on the course at
one time n quite a few spectators
were attracted to watch a husky
youth and pretty young miss in bath
ing suit Of the latest mode out run the
other contestants in a trip over the
full half-mile course.
You'll see hat couple on Labor
Day!
Five beans for a r~ed-headed girl''
doesn't sound particularly hattering to
Inc Tltlan-haired beauty if one con-
siders the matter from the stanG-
point of the intrinsic value of a bean,
put as a matter of fact a red-headed
girl In the schedule of the boy scout,
figures way up at the top of the list.
A red-headed girl is worth two-and-
one-halt white horses and fully equiv
alent to five broken windows. Just
think of that!
the scouts are taken on one of their
accustomed hikes, a prem;1m IS
placed on the sharpness with which
the boys use them eyes. One of
the scoutmasters carries a bag full of
beans, which arc handed out to the
boys n or two at a time as they
discover things of interest. For in
stance, a birds nest brings one bean,
a broken-window the same, a white
horse two and a red-headed girl five.
n since most r~ed-headed girls are
OF genial disposition, they do not mind
having a young scout rush up to them
and peep under their broad hats to
find out the color of the concealed
hair.
|. The strong influence that the scouts
WELD is strikingly illustrated by the
case of the Red Rims Gang" of New
ark an organization of young hood
lums in that town who terrorized the
neighborhood. The scout executive
finally reached the conclusion that
something ought to be done and that
it was up to the scouts to do it.
So he called his boys together and
put the proposition up to them, stat
ing that the gang would have to be
broken up. To his surprise one of the
newer members of the scout troop
got on his feet and explained that it
was too late, hat a short time before
they had taken the gang, one and all,
into the troop and mat he himself
had formally been the leader of the
Red Ring Gang. The attractions of
scout life had appealed to them more
than their former method of living
and they became the strongest scouts
in the city of Newark.