Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-09
MANY ACTIVITIES
FOR CIVIC CLUB
Social Meeting at Colonial
Clubhouse Yesterday
Largely Attended

There was large attendance at the
social meeting of the Harrisburg Civic
Club held yesterday afternoon at the
Colonial Country Club, with Mrs. Will
liam Henderson, the president, presid-
ing.
Mrs. Henderson announced that il
there is no appeal from the decision
of Judge Kunkel sustaining the will
of the late Mrs. w. r. Fleming and
giving the Fleming property to the
Civic Club, temporary caretaker
will be put in charge at once, and
committees will be appointed for the
furnishing, financing and care of the
property.
Announcements were made of the
conference of the Central Pennsyl-
vania Division of Federated Clubs to
be held this week in Wellsboro; of
the State Federation meeting TO be
held in Philadelphia, October 1918,
for which the president was author
lied to appoint three delegates; of
the biennial National Federation of
Women's Clubs in New York, May
23 to June 3; and of the practical
demonstration of what Philadelphia
is and what she hopes to be, to be held
at the Commercial Museum, Thirty
fourth, near Spruce street, that city,
May Is to June 10. The directors gave
their approval to the plan of paying
for 10000 leaflets for distribution
among school children, showing the
destruction done by the fly and the
mosquito and how to prevent breeding
these insects.
Vance c. Mccormick addressed the
gathering on "Know Your City; It's
Good Points and Its Bad Ones" urg-
ing civil service control of city depart
mpnfG and in Of !,
ditions remarked that the city is at
great expense to repair continually the
damages caused by poor housing con-
ditions in some of the wards In some
parts of Harrisburg the housing con-
ditions are shocking.
Mr.. Mccormick said the Civic Club
has every reason to be proud of it's
past achievements, for through its eff
forts were largely due the establish
ment of the Juvenile Court, the House
OF Detention, the fly-swatting cam
paigns, the Fairgrounds and the back
yard gardens, and the club can bear a
large part in the campaign for paid
nre department, for o central tax COL
lector and for insistence on the re-
moval of the island coal wharf that is
such blot on the beautiful scenery
of our River Front.
The president appointed chairmen
OF the standing committees as fol-
lows: Bureau of information, Miss
Mary Jennings; child labor, Mrs. John
I. Stine; Consumers League, Mrs.
John Oenslager: current events, Miss
Blanche Clute; hospitality, Mrs. Rob-
ert A. Lamberton; program and year
book, Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones; mem
bership. Miss Eby and vigilance, Mrs.
John w. Reilly.
Miss Sarah Harper and her niece,
Miss Mary Gastrock of 1926 Carna-
ton street, left for a short visit
at the home of Miss Harper's parents
in Burnham.
Mrs. w. S, Enders of 1926 Herr
street, and children, Miss Pauline En-
ders and Clair Enders, have returned
after two weeks stay with relatives
let Enders, Pa.
Mrs. Mary Noecker of Schuylkill
Haven is spending the week with her
daughters, Mrs. w. Fl. H. Repp and
Mrs. j. F.. Matz of North Eighteenth
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Nissley and
daughter Beatrice of Hummelstown,
Pa, spent the weekend at Schuylkill
Haven with relatives.