Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-26
Enrntng Chat

Serious consideration is being given
by State Game Commission officials
to the suggestion that the next I,egis-
iature be asked to pass a law for n
eioSed season on quail for at least
TWO years in order to allow them 10
propagate now that the federal quar-
antine has cut OFF any hopes of i'm
porting quail from Mexico or Cuba
Tor many months to come. The
Legislature forbade the hunting of
wild turkeys for two years a couple
or years ago and the result was that
through the safety the birds enjoyed
and 1udicious distribution of turkeys
from other States Pennsylvania had
the best wild turkey shooting II had
ever enjoyed last Fall. The federal
action will stop importation of over
iO'OOO quail for the commission, which
had appropriated the money for them
and sent an agent to Mexico to buy
them and will also prevent many
dealers in live game from getting
birds. The disease against which the
quarantine is aimed is due to a para
site which affects the digestive
organs. IT has killed off MANY yaIu-
able quail imported into this coun-
try.
State officials who have been oh
serving the registration of automo-
biles believe that the number of cars
owned by farmers and used in farm
or market work will pass the $4,000
mark this year. Reports received
from assessors and crop reporters bv
the State Department of Agriculture
indicated that there were over %, 600
owned in the country in December
and since then agents have been busy
getting orders for cars for Spring
delivery.
Organization of an additional en-
glneer company for the National
Guard will soon be effected il is be-
heVed about the Capitol, the interest
taken in preparedness having caused
| a number of moves to get official
countenance for such an organization
The State now has two engineer COM
panies one in Philadelphia and one
in Scranton. Altoona and Pittsburgh
nave been mentioned for the third
but nothing has been announced by
the militia authorities.
Folk who know the Beckleys, who
live near the Colonial Country Club
are smiling these days as they see in
one of the seed catalog lads" running
| in the magazines, a babyhood pic
ture of o. p. BeclIley's son, Park. Mr..
! Beckley is one of the horticultural
experts of this country taking
!
Mount Pleasant Press where it has
| become one of the most important
ends of the business. When his boy
Park was a youngster he was forever
and anon taking pictures of the little
rascal in beautiful floral poses. The
| one the seed company is using in its
ad is particularly artistic, showing the
lad smelling of beautiful flower.
Intimate friends of the Becllleys have
seen that same picture in the photo
| album on the living room table of
their beautiful country home, for it
is one that 30. p" never fails to
show his friends.
| BY dint of industry more than ff-
| teen tons of waste paper have been
gathered by the Mems Bible Glass of
Derry Street United Brethren Church
during the last several months and the
men are now busy trying to gather
| fifteen tons more. When the thirty
tons are collected 1t will be shipped
in carload lots to waste paper jobbers
and the proceeds will be turned into
the church building fund for the big
| Easter offering which is an annual
! event at Derry Street. This Mems
Glass. with 400 men, is the largest
in the city and it is doing a remark
/ able work on Allison Hill. 1t has one
of the best orchestras in the city,
which plays each Sunday under the
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younger attorneys of the Dauphin
County Bar. It's got drums, too,
despite the opposition of some of the
old-time religion folk who imagine
it's not quite the proper thing to make
music in church on much other than
an organ. Next week bells are to be
introduced, 1t is announced. One OF
the progressive steps recently taken
| by the class was the institution of a
regular monthly class dinner, where
the fellows all get together, fill them
selves with good things of the earth
and then settle down to well planned
business meetings. The dinners are
served at actual cost and just to show
what can be done not long ago the
menu was turkey and all the flxins
at a cost of twenty cents.
|
Major General C. M. Clement of
Sunbury, the commander of the Ma
tional Guard division, is one of the
oldest officers in the Guard. He has
served in it for over a quarter of a
century and commanded the Twelfth
infantry in the Spanish war.