Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-13
Ehentug Gllat

Within a few days the Harrisburg
Public Library will undertake the es..
tablishment OF libraries in half .
dozen of the schools of the city in
accordance with the plan worked otr,
with Superintendent i. Il. Downes. of
the Harrisburg School Board, for ex-
tending educational advantages to the
children throughout the city. The
collections of books are now being
made up and will be sent TO widely
separated and outlying schools where
they will be placed under DIR. Downes'
direction after which Miss Susan Il.
Clendinin, who is temporarily in
charge of the extension work of the
Library, will visit the schools and as
sist the teachers in organizing the cir
culation, special instruction having
already been given the teachers by
Miss Alice r. Eaton, the librarian.
The plan is to have good. wholesome
reading placed within the reach of
every youngster. Not all of the boys
and girls can get to the Library where
a special department has been Great
ed for them so the Library is going to
them. The parents of the children
VIII also be interested by the teach
ers in the plans for the extension of
the activities of the new institution.
The receivership of the Pittsburgh
Bank for Savings, which was estab-
lished by the Attorney Generals and
Banking Commissioners departments
under the new act recently, is al
ready showing good results. The 9TH
er day securities were sold for al
most at what the bank held them and
the expenses of the receivership are
lower than ever known in Allegheny
county. In addition Deputy Attorney
General Davis is looking after the
legal end so that the State is saving
the depositors legal costs as we'll as
receivership expenses.
AT least one man who sat through
most Of yesterdays session of Janu
| airy criminal court is of that type that
knows what he wants and when he
wants it. Incidentally he got what
he wanted. President Judge Kunkel
was charging a jury at the time. The
| spectator arose in his seat and start
ed to leave the room. The tipstave.
mindful of instructions to prohibit
walking about while the judge was
addressing a jury, refused to let the
man pass. The man muttered: the
| tipstave motioned him to a seat; the
muttering grew louder; the man be-
gan talking aloud; finally he raised
his voice. Then Judge Kunkel saw
him.
why do you permit that?" he de-
manded of the tipstave, don't you
know this interrupts us as we are ad-
dressing the jury? Put that man
out!''
THANK you, Judge Your Honor"
replied the impatient one relievedly
as he hurried out. That's all |
wanted-to get OUT"
John S. Musser, president of the
Dauphin Electrical Supplies Com
pany, has Just returned from a visit
of several weeks among old friends
in Nebraska. Few people know that
Mr.. Musser was at one time a deputy
sheriff and later a practicing attor-
lney in Nebraska. lie was also promi-
lnent in secret society circles of that
State, and, whisper it gently, led the
Aurora band and played in the Sun
day school orchestra. He was APP
pointed a member of the Governors
military staff of the State and as an
officer in the State Guard accompanied
Buffalo Bill to assist in putting down
the last Indian uprising in that part
of the West. He has not been in his
old stamping ground for nearly TWEEN
he knew still on the job and mighty
glad to renew old acquaintance.
The Wilkes Barre Record almanac,
one of the few almanacs published by
the newspapers of Pennsylvania
nowad days, has been issued for 1916,
handsomely gotten up and abound
ing with information not only of the
States third greatest county and one
of its most progressive of municipal
tiles. but of the State as well. The
Record has issued this almanac Tor
thirty-one years and has never allow
ed anything to interfere with its ap-
pearance so that it is IAN old ana
reliable for the people of that
flourishing district. The Record
almanac fills a niche in LuzeTne
county that nothing can touch and 1t
is probably the most extensively used
publication of any in the heart of the
hard coal country.
Among visitors to the city yesterday
was Paul w. Houck, of Shenandoah
one of the workmen's compensation
referees. He was here on business
connected with the board. He met
a number of State officials and talk
ed over things.