Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-03

D. B. Ainey. of the Public Service
Commission, is spending few days at
his home in Montrose.
Commission Meeting.-The Board of
Public Grounds and Buildings will
meet Wednesday of next week. The
other State commissions will meet
Tuesday for monthly sessions.
State Board Meeting. - The State
Board OF Education will meet here
business and will probably take some
action regarding normal schools.
Spoke to Doctors. - Harry A
Nackey, of the State Compensation
Board, addressed the Dauphin Coun-
ty Medical Society members last night
on the compensation act.
Chasing Pupils.-Owing to the fact
that pupils from the DePaul institute
near Pittsburgh, an institution for
the deaf and dumb, were sent home
when measles developed State and
local health officers are hunting them
all over Western Pennsylvania.
To Boil Water. - c o m M 8 sioner
Columbia to boil all water owing to
complications caused by high water.
The local board of health is CO.
operating.
Representative Here. Represen-
tative ]. r. Wylie. of Philadelphia,
was here for the State school directors
convention.
Interested In Meetings. - State De-
partment of Agriculture officials are
taking a big interest in the farmers
institutes in this county because Of
the manner in which the marketing
problem is being put TO the front.
This is one of the subjects in which
the Governor has taken a deep inter-
est.
C.Io
was given to-day by Deputy Attorney
General Hargest to Dairy and Food
Commissioner Foust that merchants
holding licenses to sell oleomargarine
at retail cannot take orders for that
product in any city or town except
that designated in the license. 1t is
held that both the person and the
cense issued does not authorize an itin-
Grant business in oleomargarine." On
the latter point the opinion says. "If
a license We're a rowing commission to
permit taking of orders in cities and
towns other than one designated in
the license it would make inspection
or supervision by the dairy and food
commissioner extremely difficult"
Deputy Attorney General Collins
holds in an opinion to the Department
of Labor and Industry that if the Sea-
mems Boardinghouse Keepers Asso-
citation, inc, Philadelphia, conducts the
business of an employment agency it
must take out a State license.
School Complains. - Complaint
was made to-day to the Public Service
Commission by the Mansfield State
Normal school, Tioga county. against
the rates charged by the Mansfield
Water Company, which are declared
to be unreasonable and unjust
Stock Tax Pays Well. - The new
stock transfer tax, one of the series OF
revenue raisers provided by the last
legislature, yielded the Commonwealth
$33,116.2S, in it's first month. 1t be-
came effective January / and the war
business helped. The State Treasury
to-day received the cash from the
stamp agents which sent as follows:
Farmers and Mechanics, Philadelphia,
3,056.7S; Land Title and Trust Com
pany, Philadelphia. $12,32S.14; Colo
nial Trust. Pittsburgh, S4,974.16; Mel
Ion National, Pittsburgh, $1,S9S.94:
First National, Harrisburg, SS5S.26.
The amount of the tax is rather larger
than the State officials expected and
they believe it will be valuable
source of revenue as long as the mar
ket maintains it's activity.
Federal Agent Here. - Miss Deme
Passe, agent of the office of public
roads and rural engineering of the
CHlteu states DepdF FIInenJ OF ARrcul-
ture, visited the Highway Department
to-day to collect statistics relative to
road mileage in Pennsylvania.
New Justice. J. NJ. Taggart was
appointed justice for Girard township
| Erie county.
| Senator in Wreck. - Senator Joseph
Thompson, of. Beaver Falls, who was
in the wreck on the Pennsylvania rail-
| road yesterday, was at the Capitol
to-day not much the worse for wear
Robert NJ. Egan, Pittsburgh newspa-
perman. well-known here, was one OF
those injured. His hands were cut.
Governors Views. The Altoona
Tribune of to-day says: Martin G.
Brumbaugh, Governor of Pennsylva.
MIA, wires from Pinehurst, n. c., where
he is enjoying his honeymoon, that 'ft
the administration sincerely wishes
peace, and I think it does, there car
| be little or no danger of war. A firm
fair, forceful presentation of our rights
will win respect and secure our people
and property at home and abroad"
Dinner to staff. - The attaches oi
the State Arsenal were dined to-day
by Col i. V. Rausch, the superinten.
dent, in honor of his birthday.