Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-21
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These are the days when the Cap:
l0i Hlll mail bag is mighty interess
ing II one could take a peep into irs
contents There are tenders of mill
tary organizations being made by pa
trlots wholly disinterested and only
wanting to be commissioned as
heads of the organizations which
they desire to raise. The mail con-
lalns offers of almost every arm of
the service, even an offer to form an
aeroplane squad. There are numerous
men who would like to form machine
gun companies, but who do not seem
TO be mechanics. What many of
these people do not realize is that the
United States and not the State &
pennsylvania, is to have charge
OF the army for Mexican border SER
wee The State ends it's part when the
men are mustered in at Mt. Gretna.
Atter that 1t is up to Uncle Sam. One
OF the things about which many are
writing is the machine gun compan-
les Until the act which becomes eff
IectiVe July l was passed such COM
panies were not legal parts of the
Guard 1t is held at the Capitol.
mere were some provisional compan-
les but they never got any guns from
uncle Sam. The flood of letters re-
garding the soldiery end of the State
government is almost as great as in
1898, but owing to the developments
OF military science there is much
more variation.
Harry A. Boyer, county inspector of
welghts and measures, school director
ana former president of the board, got
/ q inb
acting receiver of delinquent taxes by
eX-City Treasurer 0. NJ. Copelin.
since relinquishing his post as
guardian of the city funds to city
treasurer Harry F. Owes, Mr.. Cope
I'm has maintained quite busy Of
and city taxes which held over from
the past year. In doing so he shared
the quarters of Mr.. Boyer in the court
house.
So in winding up his affairs prepara-
tory to reporting at Mt. Gretna for
arms practice for the Eighth regiment
OF the National Guard, Captain Cope
lin turned his books over to Mr.. Boy
er to complete the collections.
Major General Clement. who will
command at Camp Brumbaugh, was
lieutenant colonel of the old 18th in
fantry when it mobilized at Mt. Grctna
! in 1898. The camp was then called
Camp Hastings. General Clement be-
came the colonel of the regiment the
Following year after having gone
through various camps during the
Spanish war He was made a briga-
dier general few years later and rose
to the two stars last year. General
Clement Is one of the best-known law
yers in the Susquehanna valley and
prominent in affairs at Sunbury lie
| Of hA % j II.
! Episcopal laymen in the State.
A good story is going the rounds
about the mobilization and new au-
tomobile. It happens that a man who
had Just received a new car was going
up Second street very proud of the
vehicle. When he reached Forster
street man hurriedly left the resi-
dence of Adjutant General Stewart
and hailed the car, asking the owner
if he could get him to the station in
three minutes. The proud owner was
at first inclined to retort that he was
not operating jitney, but then he re-
called having heard something about
the National Guard and Mexico and
considering that he had been COM
Wandered he stopped, wagged his
head, opened the door and started for
the station. He left a trail of dust.
outraged policemen and astonished
motormen. But he goth the man t%
the station on time. The funniest
thing is that he did not stop to get
the officers name or his rank or
where he was from.
A prominent Harrisburg medical
man was recently called upon to take
a foreign body from the throat of q
woman. Foreign body may mean any
thing from a grain of corn to a shoe
button. The doctor found that a part
of needle had lodged in the throat,
each end being imbedded in the side.
He got it out and in following up the
history of the case found that the wo-
man had run it into a knee several
years before.
The squirrels in Capitol park are
getting the war fever too. Yesterday
about seven modified on one tree and
when Major Frank d. Beary, deputy
adjutant general, came along several
passersby swore that the squirrels
were wigwagging or else saluting
with their tails. There were suspic-
ions that the presence of Judge Har-
gest with a pocketful of luncheon
nuts was the cause of the demonstra-
ton.