Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-08
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entertain Harry Lauder at luncheon
at the Senate Hotel tomorrow at
noon. Lauder, who is a member of
the Rotary Club of marlborough,
Scotland, is a great believer in "serv-
ice,' which is the keynote of Rotary
and he will tell his Harrisburg fellow
Rotarians tomorrow some of the Incl
dents of his work in the hospitals
OF England among the war sufferers.
Lauder comes from the same district
In Scotland as Prof. Phillips, conduc
tor of Grace Methodist church choir.
But unlike Lauder, Prof. Phillips is
no longer citizen of the British Isles
but is very proud and loyal Amer
ican. Those in charge of the box
office at the Orpheum, where Lauder
will sing tomorrow night, say it is
remarkable how many Scotch people
there are in Harrisburg and vicinity
who hail from the same locality as
Lauder.
One of the most remarkable evil
dences of the wave of patriotic senti-
ment, which has been manifesting
itself in all parts of the country, is
movement which started a few
weeks ago for the erection of all-day
and all-night American flags on fac
tories and public buildings. The move
ment probably had its beginning in
casual remark by Edward l.. Frantz
OF Cleveland. On the completion of
his new factory, Mr.. Frantz hit upon
the idea of erecting large electric
lighted American flag on the roof. At
an accidental meeting of q few cleo
trical men at Cleveland Club, Mr..
F'rantz told of his plan. His friends
were quick to see the value of the idea
and soon 1t was nearly the sole topic
of conversation among the electrical
men OF Ohio. During the six weeks
after Mr.. Frantz CHANGED to say that
he believed every factory should have
an ll-day-all-night flag, over 1000
flags were either erected or ordered,
Toledo being far in the lead with
over 800 electric flags. John WHY'S,
employing 900 men, has erected
22 electric flags on his Toledo fac
tories. Some are inside, being placed
in important positions in each depart
ment, and others are placed outside.
The Toledo Courthouse was the first
public building to install a permanent
electric-lighted flag. The leaders in
the movement estimate that there will
be at least $4,000 electric-li Lighted "a
hours day flags flying over factories
and public buildings before the
Fourth of July. An effort will be made
to get the movement started in Har-
rlSburg.
A druggist in a nearby town has a
young colored man as a clerk and de-
| livery boy. Eddie as he is known,
is exceedingly superstitious.
I Last evening there was n hurry call
from a physician to send a prescrip-
! ton for the wife of a man who had
just died. Eddie" knew the man had
been ill. but didn't know of his death
neither did he know the medicine
was for the wife. He was told to
hurry.
1t was just a little after dark that
he left the drug store. An hour later,
two hours later, he had not returned
and several times the physician had
telephoned to know why the medicine
had not arrived.
Finally, in evaporation, the druggist
sent another clerk out with duplicate
prescription. Arriving at the home,
Clerk No. 2 found Eddie" standing
just inside the front yard in cold
sweat. He had been standing there
staring at the front door of the house
for two hours.
"Why don't you go in?" asked Clerk
No; 2.
CREAP," said Eddie" Dead men
don't have no business with medicine,
and if L takes it back the bossll fire
me-"
When the story of the suspected at
tempt to break into the city treasury
yesterday got round the courthouse,
there was more or less humorous and
near-humorous conjecture and COM
ment as to what q burglar might have
obtained had he been successful in
an effort to rob the treasury safe.
What would he have gotten any
way, Harry?" asked friend.
"Oh, not much," grinned Mr.. Owes,
mot very much"
well, how much?"
"Oh," retorted Mr.. Owes, in cas-
ual matter-of-fact way, mot more
than a few thousands. Probably
three or four thousands"
The conversation was overheard by
one of the professional panhandlers
who loaf about the city and county
offices. That particular professional
quickly hailed an official who is a
friend of Mr.. Owes. The latter, refused
the request for little loan."
"All right, then" said the would-be
borrower cheerfully, 'I'll put it up to
Harry. Would he lend Newell, say
Ia dime, do you think? He don't
have much regard for small sums"
The fine weather of the last few
days has caused quite an itching of
the arms of the golf flends and some
of them have bene out trying the win
ter greens on the Reservoir, Colonial
and Country Club links. The links at
Lucknow are to be maintained this
year and committee will put the re-
mains of the clubhouse in shape for
temporary use this summer while the
new clubhouse is being built.