Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-06
Ehptttttg Chat

Sunday schools and churches
throughout the city are beginning to
feel the effects of the pleasant knee
deep in June" days. In many a school
on Sunday the attendance fell off
from 10 to 40 per cent and the con-
gregations in the evening were slim
indeed. Quite a number of churches
are planning to hold outdoor services
10 onset the objections of those in the
fold who refuse to sit in a pew of
sultry evening. In Pittsburgh nearly
dozen congregations met outdoors
Tor the first time on Sunday.
Church choirs, too are beginning to
teel the effects of warm weather and
directors of volunteer organization are
having the time of their lives keeping
the young people on the job and away
from from the lure of the canoe and
the moonlight stroll. A director said
the other day." Believe me you earn
your money trying TO keep a choir to-A
gether in the summer months and l
nave rendered my resignation to be-
come effective June /. To tell the
TRUTH he grinned, I'm sort of anx-
ious to get out in my car myself this
summer"
ragged, unkempt, typical bare
foot boy" with a keen commercial
sense, raked in quite few dimes while
being held on the Island the other day.
lie didn't break any of the park rules
to do 1t, either.
Taking advantage of the average
canoeists fear of consequences from
leaving his boat unmatched while wit
Messing the races, the youth offered to
stand guard over the canoes and con-
tents while the canoeists were away. At
least score of sportsmen eagerly ac-
cepted the terms.
According to a story told in the
LeWistown Sentinel recently an unfor-
tunate who visited Harrisburg two
weeks ago, preached temperance SER
mon on his arrival home. The man, it
was said had not sobered up, when
he arrived at the station in Lewistown,
but he was penitent enough to make
this speech:
"Booze Never touch it, me boy.
Sure it's the DEVILS own broth! And
it's no use for anyone to attempt to
make dumb FOOL of the man who
drinks it. He's one already. Look at
me; sure 1T cost me $695 to go to
Harrisburg last night, and get one
quart of bloomin' pizen, andd all l get
of it is a big head in the morning"
Lewistown is dry" territory.
| Many battles written in the history
of the War of the Rebellion will lie
fought over and over again this week.
Comrades who come to Harrisburg to
attend the annual Department En-
| campment of the G. A. r., were quite
prominent in Harrisburg during war
times, and they will want to see what
! is left of old Camp Curtin. They will
find it quite different than it was in
the COS. Some of the veterans, it is
said, have not been in Harrisburg in q
long time, and every effort will bo
made TO show them what has
/ he NA1 riN 1,.lfV. Lost rs-ss
Discussion in educational circles of
! the West Shore bring to light the fact
that although several of the towns in
that section are not in favor of the
Central high school move, it will go
! through. 1t is said that regardless of
the opposition several of the boards
who favor the move at present may
/ precede with plans and erect school
! for the town interested. According To
! Information received by one of the
promoters of the move, this system
was inaugurated in a community near
Pittsburgh, and has proved a great
success In this instance, only three
schools out of sixteen were in favor OF
the proposition and when others failed
to cooperate those interested proceed
ed and to-day all high school students
from the remaining districts are at
tending this school. The boards who
did not join in the move from the off \
set, at present are paying much more
toward the school than If they were
connected officially with it, The boards
are compelled to pay tuition for their
pupils.
The patriotic commuter who feels
keenly the covert slurs of fellow folks
in the office as to the ever-undepend-
able train schedules, from his own
home town, told this tale more or less
apologetically to-day:
We've got a mighty bright kid up
| in our town. One of the kind that
reads a lot. Sunday his mother was
preparing dinner for company which
was expected in town on a train from
! the city at a certain hour. frankie,
this 9-year-old son in question: sud-
denly disappeared in the direction of
the station to meet the guests. Mother
went leisurely ahead with her prepar-"
ations. Finally the clock registered
just one hour ahead of time-when she
heard the whistle of the approaching
local. Within the next few minutes
the folks arrived. That difference 6:
an hour puzzled this good woman like
sixty, though; she'd always considered
that particular clock mighty reliable.
Inquiry developed the reason; frankie
volunteered 1t. He'd been reading. he
said. about this daylight saving
stunt, you know. that can be accom-
plished by turning the hands of the
clock ahead. So he thought he'd try it
outi"
The reason for this tale easy. The
commuters train this morning was
late again.
When an organ grinder and 'cute"
| little monkey invade the city you may
be sure that there will be no more
frosts. The invasion came yesterday.
But when the boys begin to strip and
dive off the front steps" of the city,
then you KNOW that summer in all
her glory has been ushered in. And of
course the circus will be here in %
short time.
Last evening a considerable crowd
was attracted to the river bank at
| Muench street to observe the antics of
half dozen small boys who had be-
| decked themselves in more or less
complete bathing suits and were de-
sporting themselves in the high water
that nearly reaches the top of the
steps at this season. One of the
| ingenious youngsters had discovered
two long boards, which he projected
away out over the steps, and upon one
end of which he and his followers
piled rocks that were being used in
the riprapping process along the bank.
| ResuIt-a modern diving board that