Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-16
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The fact that there are five Thurs
days in this month is believed to be
the reason why the Thanksgiving day
proclamations were not put out earlier
wait for the President. 1t seems that
this year the last Thursday falls ON
the thirtieth. the last day of the
month. When some business people
discovered that they began hustling
around to get the official day for Civ
ing thanks fixed for Thursday, ths
twenty-third, one week from to-day
on the ground that 1t was a fourth
Thursday anyway and that it would
not force all business for the month
to be closed up on Wednesday. The
average business man hates to have
his month close on holiday. 1t ID
bad enough when the last day e
Saturday and worse when it is Sum
day. But a holiday makes it still
worse. The matter is said to have
agltated Washington and every State
capitol in the Union. Governor Bruns
baugh has been cogitating about it.
but with the Difference due to the
President he has been waiting until he
hears from the banks of the Potomac.
=, The The figures Of registration. which
their names as desirous of getting
DOCKS from the Harrisburg Public
Library, mean that about one person
IN every five in Harrisburg has quail
lieo; 1t does not cost anything to
quallfy. All that is needed is to sign
name In book and then get what
book Is wanted. The total registra-
ton is 14,067. If Harrisburg has TO-
Voo people, as some conservatives say,
1t means one in five. However. there
are are people from miles around who
quite number from steelton.
Here is the tale of how William TT.
BaH, secretary to the Governor,
chased DR.. Brumbaugh over half the
State of Pennsylvania yesterday and
how he caught him out in Mercer
county. The Governor was scheduled
to speak at Sharon last night and de-
cided to go over the mountains by day.
light. So he rose at 6 o'clock. Mr..
Ball did not set his alarm clock. In
any event half an hour before the train
left the Governor went to Mr.. Balls
lodging house and offered to help him
dress. But the secretary dia not get
all the papers together that he re-
quired to attend to business on the
for the train. He got it. Mr.. Ball
did not. Mr.. Ball started for Pitts
burgh six hours after the Governor
and ran him down as he began to
speak in Sharon. Deputy Attorney
General Horace Davis acted as tha
| IeHlpoFttTy SeCTetdTy HlSdnWnllo ana
introduced the folks to the Governor.
"In spite of lot that is said to the
contrary the Keystone State is away
in the lead in militia affairs and l
know it from things that have been
unwittingly said" remarked a man
who follows military matters the
other day. II was in Washington and
] found that the army officers cares
fully looked up the way Pennsylvania
did certain things before deciding and
that when it came down to what is
ords and the like Pennsylvania was
right up to the mark. In fact, l
rather got the idea that Pennsylvania
led in good many things"
Insurance Commissioner J. Denny
lO'Neil has Joined the ranks with Genj
eral Thomas j. Stewart. Both are
presidents of newspaper publishing
companies. General Stewart says nd
gets fits from the man who managed
his newspaper because every time any
news is given out the general forgetd
taken care of. Mr.. O'Neil, who haS
been very busy with some insurance
companies that needed attention, put
out bully story for Allegheny county,
the other day. And now he is wonJ
dering whether the home paper got it
The town of Chambersburg had q
gay old time the other night when
Wilson's reelection was celebrated bS
the enthusiastic Democrats. A huge
parade with redfire and much noise
sounding of hautboys, etc., started the
excitement. Believing the party to be
a little too tame, however, the fire en-.
gines were pressed into service to ass
sist in the gayety and when they were
located in one end of town the enter
prising merrymakers started q roaring
bonfire in the other end of town. The
none-too-big force of policemen forth
with tried to arrest the culprits, but
they were difficult to find in the surg
ing mob and the good-natured crowd
didn't sympathize with the strong arms
Of the law. at all. So they refused to
be arrested.
Visitors to the city yesterday in.
cluded ex-Auditor General A. e. Sis
son, who cal me down from Erie to at
tend to soLle business at the State
Capitol. General Sisson met num-
ber of old friends and seemed much
interested in what other people
thought about the election. Among
those he met was ex-Representative
r. w. Fair who was a colleague in
the Capitol Investigation Commission.
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