Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-12

ohiS lor Dy-prouucJ plant and the
merchant who had it for sale was
fined. Over fifty arrests were ordered
In Allegheny, Blair. Lawrence, Wash
ington and Westmoreland counties for
sale of 'bloated' oysters. eleven ar
rests were made in other parts of the
State for the sale of milk not only
found to be against the State stand
ards of fats, but actually unclean.
Cotton seed oil preparations sold un-
der the name of lard got a number of
people into trouble in Philadelphia
where arrests were also made for the
sale of cold storage eggs not properly
marked.
The receipts of the bureau amount
ed to $S,7S7.61 during March, MAX
ing a total of 1856, ,sSS.63 since
January. OF the receipts $1,SS0.11
came from oleo licenses.
Many Fire Escapes. - The State
Department of Labor and Industry is
getting after many buildings through
out the State on the ground that fire
escape protection is not sufficient.
Numerous permits have been issued
lately.
Increase Filed. - The Moulthrop
Steel Products Co., of Beaver Falls,
filed notice of increase of stock from
$4,000 to $350,000.
Samples at Work. - The agents of
the State Department of Agriculture
who have charge of the fertilizer and
lime sampling work are now engaged
in their respective fields. These agents
take samples of the various fertilizers
and watch that none are being sold
that are not registered with the State
Samples are taken in every section of
the State by the field force of fifteen
men and these samples are forwarded
to the Department of Agriculture
chemists for analyses. All fertilizers
are registered under certain guaran-
tees and these guarantees must also
be stated on the container. Where the
analysis does not show that the
guarantee is sustained prosecutions
follow. The same method is used
with lime products and every method
is used to prevent deception in the
sale of inferior products to the far
mers of the State.
Local Case Up. - Referee f. X.
Saylor, of the Workmens Compensa-
tion Bureau, will hold a hearing in
the Workmen's Compensation Board
rooms, Masonic Temple, Harrisburg,
Friday afternoon, April IA, on the
claim petition filed by P. D. McKissick
of 1852 Sixth street, Riverside. Nc
Kissick was employed in the scrap
yard of Williams & Friedman at
Riverside. On March g., his knee and
ankle were injured while he was load
ing iron on a car. McKisslck claims,
in his petition, that he is still disabled
and asks compensation.
Governors Visitors. Senator P.
W.. Snyder, Blair; Representatives
Nelson McVicar and ]. w. Vickerman,
Allegheny; NJ. B. Rich, Clinton, were
visitors to the Governors office.
Hearings Held. - Commissioner
Magee is sitting in the telephone rate
cases at Pittsburgh to-day. Commits
sioner Killing will sit at Pittsburgh
tomorrow on the Ohio Valley water
case.
May Drop Adams. - There were
rumors to-day that the State Insurance
Fund Board would drop Representa-
tive William L. Adams, of Luzerne, as
an employe shortly. the work for
which he was employed having been
/ finished.
Mr.. Cunningham the Same.-Word
was received this morning that the
condition of Highway Commissioner
! Cunningham was about the same and
that his physicians insisted. on rest and
quiet.
Officials Reappointed. Governor
Brumbaugh at l o'clock to-day an
nounced the reappointments of James
+. Roderick, Hazleton, as chief of the
State Department of Mines. and of
Nathan r. Butler, of Pleasant Mount,
! Wayne county, as commissioner of the
| Department Fisheries. The appoint
ments are for four-year terms subject
to confirmation by the State Senate.
Mr.. Roderick has been head of the
Mines Department since 1899, when
he was named chief of the Bureau of
Mines by William A. Stone, then Gov
ernor. In 1903, when the bureau be-
came a department he was named
chief and has been reappointed at the
expiration of each four-year term.
Commissioner Butler became the
executive officer of the Department OF
Fisheries in 1911.
Glass Here. Members of the in
dustrial engineering section of the
senior calss of State college, who are
on a tour of the industrial plants OF
the State to-day inspected the Capito
and Harrisburg works and were giver
an address at the Capitol by Commits
sioner of Labor and Industry Jackson
The students left later in the day fol
Philadelphia where they will visit 6
number of industrial establishments.
Justices Named. - Governor Brum.
baugh to-day appointed these justices
for Allegheny county: George c
Blair, Williamsburg; W. w. Hewitt
Edgewood, and William L. Douglass
Elizabeth township.
Service Commission announced to-day
that complaints to the number of 81
had been filed by the Wilkes-Barr
railway company against operators oi
jitneys in Wilkes-Barre and that the
operators would be required to an
swer. Protests against issuance of GER
tificates of convenience to a number
of jitney operators in Luzerne and
Lackawanna have also been filed and
will be heard here and at Wilkes
Barre. Brindle and Weir, Ashland
have filed q complaint with the COM
mission alleging that Joseph Young is
| engaged in the lighting business in
that community without authority from
the State. The complaint is the first o1
the kind ever received.
Local Tonight. - The Workmen'S
Compensation Board is in session to-
day and will hear the Maulfair appeal
from this city tonight
Not After Letter.-William II. Ball
secretary of Governor Brumbaugh re.
turned to the State Capitol from Phil
adelphia to-day. He said his visit had
no relation to the missing Oliver LET.