Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-28
LOCAL COMPANY
GRANTED CHARTER
Governor Also Approves the
Merger of Juniata Valley
Concerns

Inc Harrisburg City Improvement
Company, which is to have real estate
developments under it's care, was
granted a charter to-day with $4,000
capital. The men interested are 1. H.
Supplee. Bryn Mawr; w. II. Warren,
Philadelphia, and w. ]. Stewart of
Harrisburg.
j. Dress Pannell, Steelton, and H. T.
Evans, Shamokin, were to-day ap-
pointed notaries.
s. III. Templeton was to-day ap-
pointed justice at Fairview, Butler
county and w. II. Bovard for Slip
perry Rock.
Edward Manning Bigelow, former
state Highway Commissioner, was to-
day appointed director of public works
OF Pittsburgh, to succeed the late
Robert Swan. The distinguished en-
gineer filled the place thirty years
ago and his appointment was made
after repeated requests to him to take
charge of matters again.
Dairy and Food Commissioner
Foust was in Philadelphia to-day
looking after prosecutions in the
courts.
Ex- Representative ]. NJ. Reese, of
Schuylkill county, was at the Capitol.
Governor Brumbaugh to-day an
proved the merger of the Rockhill Coal
and Iron Co., and the Broad Top I'M
proVement Co., the combined COM
pany to have the Rockhill name and
capital of $1,200,00O. The presi-
dent is G. Theodore Roberts, New
York and S. j. Livingston. Philadel-
phla, Is secretary and treasurer. The
directors are G. Theodore Roberts, of
New York; Frank P. Howe, Johnson
CITY, Tenn; c. r. Ward, Philadel-
phia; H. Radcliffe Roberts, Villa
nova; Joseph l.. Woolston, Phila-
delphia; Alvan Markle, Jr., Halle
ton and Thomas II. Ingham Phila-
delphia.
Attorney General Francis Skunk
Brown expects crowd tomorrow
when the conference is held in the
hall of the House of Representatives
on stream pollution. He will preside
and Governor Brumbaugh will make
one of the addresses as will probably
Commissioner of Health Dixon and
others. Representatives of municipal
iues, manufacturing establishments,
railroads, Sportsmen's organizations
and others will attend.
Governor Brumbaugh will spend
Thanksgiving Day and the weekend
In Philadelphia. He will leave here
tomorrow with Mrs. Brumbaugh.
The United Gas Improvement Co,
of Philadelphia, to-day paid the State
$366,0OO in single payment as State
tax. 1t was the largest payment of
the week. 1t is expected that to-mor-
row, the last day of the fiscal year
the State revenues will run above Il
million. 1t is a race whether the
State gets $S5,500,000 for this fiscal
year.
B. Budd Cannon of Milton, candi-
date for Prohibition presidential cleo
tor in an expense statement filed to-
ceived nothing and spent nothing,
adding Nor was 1 elected"
Jacob B. waidelich, Democratic
candidate for Congressman-at-Lar
spent $202.06, while several candi-
dates for elector certified to spending
either nothing or less than $50.
f. G. w. Runk, of Allentown, to-
day charged in complaint filed with
the Public Service Commission that
the Allentown Bethlehem Gas Com
pany was without authority to operate
in Allentown and that the minimum
ldlS CHdIBeu is llleSdl. In addlt1On
he charges that the company's ac-
counts are not intelligible and that
its rates are too high.
Captain John NJ. Rudy, command
ing the Carlisle Company of the
Eighth Infantry was to-day reap
pointed in orders issued by the
Adjutant General
Only 100 school districts of the State
remain to be paid their shares of the
State school appropriation and State
Treasurer Young expects to complete
their payment by to-morroy night,
when the States fiscal year will end.
To-day $3S7,000 was paid to $50 dis
tricts. All told the school appropria-
ton paid this year will be over six
million dollars. The receipts at the
State Treasury to-day passed the
$750,000 mark for the second time in
a week. The total revenue for the fiscal
year is estimated at over s35, 900.
CATCH BURGLAR