Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-25
GOVERNOR ROLLS UP
SLEEVES AND WORKS


the upper end of the county, where he
round party of Millersburg Auto
mobile Club members and Halifax
people repairing the road near Bakers
school house. Harry NJ Fairchild. of
Mlllersburg, assisted by O. II. Watts,
RI. II. Hoy. John Klingman and II. w.
Bowman, was in charge of operations
at this point, and so efficiently and
energetically was the work being
pushed that the Governor took a hand
ana for an hour handled a shovel,
drove dirt wagon and guided
plough. on leaving he shook hands
with Foreman Fairchild. with the re-
mark:
IF we had ten men like YOU in
every district, good roads would he
assured for the whole State"
About twenty ladies who were in
the party at this point waved good by
to the Governor as he departed and
gave him the chautauqua salute.
Doing Big Job
At Maths farm the Governor found
another party or volunteers Under
state Highway direction tearing away
a big knob in the road and he stopped
Tor time to work beneath the folds
OF large American flag that had been
hoated from tall pole. He congratu-
lated j. h. Seal and George o. Loomis,
h.
his hat to Cornelius Waldron, aged so,
the, Oldest good roads advocate to WELD
a shovel in this county to-day
Near Halifax the executive party
found large numbers of farmers on
the roads and at one place he was
presented with a hugo shovel bearing
the sign:
I'VE want a bridge across the river
at Millersburg."
The Governor read it, smiled, and
said: Il am with YOU on that; you
ought to have a bridge"
The party made a stop at the huuga-
low of Harry NJ. Fairchild, where a
party of Millersburg ladies were pre-
pairing lunch for the workers, and
the Governor mado a speech to them.
Near that place he found a repair gang
of Pennsylvania Railroad employees
using a drag on the river road and
hundreds of farmers out all the way
to Millersburg. At that point he took
the ferry for Perry county.
Governor Makes Speech
The Governor found over 100 repre-
sentatives of the Millersburg Motor
Club and others at work with five
teams near Elizabethville. and made
his first speech there, congratulating
them on the spirit of service they
showed and the enthusiasm displayed
LOT SOOu lOduS. Among lnOSe VINO
were in charge there were DIR. w L.
Stevens. w. S. Weigel, d. NJ. Stine, c.
f Keefer. c. C. Romberger w. j.
Daniels. Otto +. Enders. w. A. Boulder
and Joseph and Henry Shultzbach, all
of Elizabethville: Isaiah Swab u. NJ
BeChtel and Fred X. Chance. Fred is
only years old, but he hustled about
with pick and shovel and received
smiling congratulations from Gov
ernor Brumhaugh. At this point also
the party found at work Ira r. Ulsh
Republican candidate for the Legis-
lature. Jimmy Lentz, County Re
corder, was boss of the job in this
district.
a party of Elizabethville school
teachers were out in sunbonnets
breaking stone and the Governor tried
his hand at that with considerable
success. He tried to teach the art to
Private Secretary Ball, who broke no
stones, but ruined one perfectly good
hammer in the effort.
The young women were shot" by
a moving picture man and all of them
kept pounding steadily away as the
movie" maker fired broadsides at
them.
From there the party went to
Berrysburg and Killinger and thence
back to the ferry.