Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-09

-N-~NS "-SA ZIG OiiCldlS III CHarBe OF
the road work OF the United States
Department of Agriculture.
Pennsylvania will be represented by
w. Fl. Uhler, chief engineer, and w.
K. d. Hall, statistician of the State
Highway Department, and data re.
garding the highway situation in
Pennsylvania will be discussed. Soon
after than it is likely that there will
be some selections of roads for i'm
provement
Decisions will be reached shortly re-
garding advertising for further road
construction by the State.
Rain Interfercs.-State Agriculture
Department reports indicate that wet
weather has caused much damage to
wheat and hay crops in some of the
southern counties. In some sections
crops which were very promising a
month ago suffered extensively. Rains
have also badly washed the corn fields
in some districts of the State.
To Visit Massachusetts,
Ball is planning to spend part of his
vacation in Massachusetts. He will
leave next week.
Will Tour Coast.-Secretary of the
commonwealth Woods will make an
automobile tour of the New Jersey
coast. He will be accompanied by
Mrs. Woods.
No Date set.-No date has been set
by the Public Service Commission for
the hearing of the Hummelstown
Water Company case. 1t will likely
be taken up with other water COM
pany cases in this section next month
To Retain Counsel.-Retail coal
merchants of Philadelphia, are plan
ming meeting to-day to have their
interests protected before the State
Anthracite Coal Probe Commission.
The commission will soon resume its
sittings in Philadelphia.
Codes Adopted.-The State Indus
trial Board yesterday adopted the tex
tile and electrical workers codes
which have been long under discus
sion.
After Men.-Major ]. F. Edwards,
formerly of the medical corps at El
Paso, has gone from Mt. Gretna to
pittsburgh to aid in getting men for
the National Guard organizations.
In Philadelphia. - Commissioner
jackson is spending to-day in Phila-
delphia on matters connected with his
department He attended the Indus
trial Board meeting yesterday.
Reading Crossing Case.-The Pub
lie Service Commission will have an
inspection made of the Bingaman
street grade crossing in Reading about
which complaints have been made.
Got Sunburned.-H. c. Motherwell
chief of the bureau of elevator inspec-
ton, has returned from a brief vaca-
ton trip with severe sunburn. He
had to see a doctor.
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thousands of dollars are represented
in the notices of increase of capital
stock and debt being filed at the State
Capitol these days. On some days the
increases have gone into the hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. Some
Pittsburgh increases call for a mil
lion.
Charters Sent to Maine-Charter
applications are being sent to Cover
nor Brumbaugh in Maine for his &C
ton. There have been number listed
for this week.
Reynoldsville earing-A hearing is
being held at Brookville to-day by
representatives of the Public Service
Commission on the application of the
borough of Reynoldsville for permis-
sion to establish its own water plant.
Fischer Case on 17th-The hearing
in the quo warranto proceedings
against Mayor Jonas Fischer, of Will
Transport, will be held before the at
torney general on August 18th.
Sheehan's Big Payment-Register
of Wills James B. Sheehan to-day paid
the State $S9,021.61 as the State share
of collateral inheritance taxes in Phil
adelphia.
More Suits Started-Agents of the
State Dairy and Food Commission
have started over a score of additional
suits for the sale of soft drinks" that
were adulterated. In some cases rank
substitution of chemicals was found
Big Tax Payment-The first big
state tax payment to be made this
summer came from the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, which paid $139, ,9SS.01
as capital stock tax.
Pay for Camp.-Checks for the pay
ment of the camp service of the men
of the Third Brigade have been sent
out from the State Capitol, money for
the purpose having been placed at the
disposal of the a6jutant generals de-
partment by the State Treasury. The
checks for the officers annual allow
ances. which are a reimbursement for
money paid, and those for the sergeant
instructors of National Guard organ
izations, are still held up because of
the low state of available funds in the
treasury. State Treasurer Young was
engaged to-day in an effort to get the
funds together to meet the semi
monthly payroll at the Capitol. Requi-
sitions for a million and a half dollars
are on the desk of the Treasurer and
cannot be filed because of the state
of the funds.
Borough Asks Protection.-The bor-
ough of Breckenridge, Allegheny
county to-day brought complaint
against the Allegheny Valley Water
Company, alleging that it had failed
to furnish the borough with adequate
fire protection as required by terms of
a contract made in 1911 and that some
sections of the borough were without
water service.
Surface Gets Into Action.-Dr. H. A.
Surface, the Stale Zoologist, to-day got
into action on Capitol Hill. The tus-
sock moth attracted his attention be-
cause of the depredations it was COM
mitting in Capitol Park and the dis
position to mobilize on some of the
trees. The zoologist sent letter to
Superintendent Rambo about the mat
ter and force of the Capitol garden
ers was deployed against the drive of
the moths in larvae form. Tents were
ruthlessly torn down and the units of
the moth expedition dispersed.