Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-18
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Ten members of the last House of
Representatives have resigned their
seats. making the largest number to
resign from the lower chamber in less
than year from the close of n ses-
sion in long time. Should it be
necessary to have n special sessions
their places would be vacant or n spe-~
cial election would have to be held.
SIX OF the designations were from the
Philadelphia delegation.
Miles B. Kits. member from the
city of Erie, resigned when elected
mayor of that city. Cleon N. Bern
theiZel, Columbia, resigned soon after
the November election and Walter S.
Young, Lykens. recently filed his
resignation. John G. Kaiser, Pitts
burgh, is the only one from Western
PennsylVania to resign. The Phila-
| delphians who resigned were William
IL. wilson, chairman of the judiciary
general and rules committees: Fred
erick Boyer, John H. Drinkhouse, II.
j. Bauerle, Jefferson w. Smith and
L. w. Willard.
Pennsylvania is the banner buck
wheat State according TO the State
partment of Agriculture. bulletin is
sued at the Department states that over
70 per cent. of all the buckwheat
raised IN this country is grown in
| Pennsylvania. New York is second,
but Pennsylvania leads with half a
million bushels.
The department of the secretary
of the Commonwealth which has to
do with commissions charters, cor
porations. trade marks and similar
matters has just been asked the best
way to raise beets. The request was
received in a letter addressed to the
Secretary of the State. 1t was sent
TO secretary of Agriculture Patton
after the charter experts had scanned
| it.
The intensely cold weather of the
last few days appears to have driven
away all of the Spring birds who
came from the southland early in the
week. Last Sunday robins were seen
in half dozen places thoroughly en-
1oying the mild day, but now a robin
would be hard to find unless some one
had taken pity on him and fed and
sheltered the bird. One man who is
great lover of birds advanced the
idea that the birds that were not
frozen headed away for the South as
soon as they got an inkling of the
weather and that while many were
lost the birds will all be about again
soon.
! y couple of men were speculatins
| to-day upon the effect of the decision
in the jitney cases. 1t was estimated
that over 5000 iitneys in the State
would be affected. Philadelphia has
jitneys by the thousands, but strangely
enough they have never gotten a hold
in Pittsburgh.
Judging from the advertisements
being made by the State Highway
| I1pnartf11nnt hn Of
Pennsylvania must be getting ready
quite a store of munitions Bids are TO
| be opened next week for dynamite,
powder and Illuminating caps. These
explosives are not for defense or fer
the use of the organized militia in re
pellinS possible invasion of the State,
but to enable the State to push along
its work for better roads The state
authorities have to supply large guam =
titles of such materials for the main-~
tenance forces which must not only
keep the roads clear, but also the
sides of the roads and engage in con-
siderable reconstruction work.
Homer Green, the poet lawyer of
Northeastern Pennsylvania, who was
stricken while in court at Honesdalo
the other day, is we'll known to many
here through his writings. He is one
of the most versatile of the lawyers of
the northeast and was much in the
limelight because of his candidacy for
Congress a few years ago.
|
C. P. Rogers, Jr, Of the Auditor
Generals department, who is to run
for Senator in Erie county, is part
! Harrisburger. He is a nephew OF
Messrs. j. r. Speel and A. r. Specl,
of this city. His mother came from
Harrisburg.
|
Senator w. NJ. Lynch, OF Lacka-
wanna county, who was here yester-
day, is a practicing physician in his
county. He was formerly superin-
tendent of a big hospital and then
coroner of the county.