Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-21
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guests of former Mayor George
kreamer, of Lock Haven, aboard his
houseboat on Bald Eagle creek, near
that city, have returned home loud
in their praise of the hospitality of
the former mayor and pleased with
what he did for Lock Haven during
the period of his administration as
mayor. Lock Haven is one of the cit
les of the State that has prospered
ernment and to Mayor Kreamer be-
longs most of the credit 1t was he
who was instrumental in keeping poliS
tics out OF council and who worked
for street paving, improved street
lighting system, oiled highways and
other municipal features that make
Lock Haven one of the best towns
of it's size in the State. Mayor Kream-
er is great lover of his home town
and he belongs to that class of citi-
zens who believe that the successful
businessman owes a part of his time
and energies to the development of
the municipality in which he lives.
He set an example in Lock Haven
by paying personally for the install
lation of boulevard lighting stand
ards in front of the postoffice block,
which he owns, and then induced ev--
cry other businessman along the
main highway to contribute his share
toward removing the old arc lights
and replacing them with lights of
the latest standard pattern. The cleo
trio light company did it's share, too,
and under an ordinance fathered by
Kreamer the whole system will be-
come the property of the city after a
siX-year period. Many other improve
ments of the kind were worked out
while he was mayor and the leading
figure in council.
Mr.. Kreamer is a great hunter and
fisherman. When they first ran him
for mayor he didn't want the office
and on election day was at his lodge
in the mountains cunning. The dele
cation that went out to notify him
next day found him with gun in hand
far more interested in flushing
covey of partridges than in the elec-
ton returns. His houseboat on the
Bald Eagle is q handsomely equipped
structure and there he and Mrs.
Kreamer spend the larger part of
| their summers. Bald Eagle creek is
a beautiful stream, admirably suited
to bass, Susquehanna salmon, blue
gills, catfish and sunfish. Mr.. Kream-
er and others have spent considerable
| of their own money improving fish,
ing conditions there and Lock Hav-
en- people, who use the creek by the
hundred, are hopeful that the State
| Department of Fisheries will be able
to spare some fish of various kinds
with which to restock it. Kreamer is
at the head of this movement and will
shortly come to Harrisburg to take
the matter up. Both he and Mrs.
Kreamer are we'll known here, they
having resided in Dauphin years
ago when he had large numbering in
terests in the mountains near there.
That the youthful recruits enlist
ed in this section for service on the
border are sent to Fort Dupont,
Del, instead of Fort Slocum, N. Y,
isn't generally known perhaps among
Harrisburg folks, but it is fact that
the young men who are accepted by
Captain Henry M. Slime, of the Ma
tional Guard, and Lieutenant R. w.
Lesher, of the regular army, are sent
directly to Dupont for preliminary in
struction. The latest youngsters to
leave for Dupont were John E. Hef-
flefinger and Loban Lewis. They were
enrolled and sent down yesterday.
There's a little story connected with
Heff1efinger's enlistment according to
Captain Stine. Just year ago Heffie-
| finger enlisted after having given an
incorrect statement as to his age. HiI
father refrained from exposing thM
until the youngster was about ready
to pass muster at Fort Slocum; Then
the father probably figured that the
boy, after all, was too young. Anyway
Hef1efnger was refused because he
was only seventeen. Eighteen is the
age for enlistment with or without
parental consent. Monday he was
eighteen. And yesterday he enlisted.
Dauphin county's good men and
true who sit hour after hour through
long drawn out criminal or civil court
sessions no longer need say things
about the penury of the countys tax
payers who have made their chairs
so uncomfortable while they trans
acted the county's business. The
county commissioners have solved the
problem at least so far as the main
courtroom is concerned by purchas-
ing swivel chairs. These will replace
the uncomfortable seats that for years
have accommodated the jurors be-
'hind the main railing. The jurors
feelings will be realized only so long
as they sit in the courtroom however;
when they go to their jury room to de-
liberate they'll find the same old
chairs The courtroom chairs are
simply to be moved upstairs At that
sthe seating accommodations in p~S
Jury rooms will be vastly improved.
For years the furniture has been of
the type that may or may not have
been popular in the Ark.
Thomas H. Greevy, the Altoona
lawyer, who was here yesterday in
the Westmoreland county murder
case before the State Board of Par
dons, was Democratic candidate for
lieutenant governor in 1910. He has
been prominent in BLAIR county af-
fairs for years and is one of that
county's ablest and most pugnacious
lawyers.