Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-03
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High cost of living is causing some
lively discussions. On any market
day groups of women may be seen at
all local markets telling farmers and
others what they think about the ex-
orbitant prices. One woman remark
ed. you can't turn around before
something goes up a cent or more.'
Then she told about pricing eggs at
stand nearby as follows: IT asked
that woman over there how much eggs
were dozen. She told me 80 cents.
L noticed a friend at another stand
and told here about the eggs. When
my friend reached the woman the
price of eggs had gone up two cents.i !
What made the price soar l never
found out. 1t only shows that some
people put up prices just because we
are willing to pay. Stop buying and
prices will come down."
Speaking about prices, here is a
/ clipping from paper telling of prices
| found in store book 80 years old:
Eggs, cents a dozen; butter, s
cents pound; sugar. 10 cents
pound; pepper, so cents pound; cof-
| hee, 81 cents a pound: tea, S1.50
wheat, 40 cents a bushel; oats Is
cents bushel; corn. 25 cents n bushel:
muslin, S71a cents yard calico, so
cents yard; fowered wallpaper, Az
cents yard; plain wallpaper, cents
a yard"
Recent moves taken by educators
IN West Shore towns point forward to
| the passage of the proposed high
school loan for the West Shore. In
Enola, West Fairview and Wormleys-
burg, mass meetings were held and
| ad
| TO the voters to pass the measure for
| the benefit of the children. Many ad-
Vocates point out that children of the
voters will in the end take the brunt
of the burden of taxation on their
| shoulders in the years to come. AL
though the measure has not been
agitated much in Lemoyne, due to the
| fact that the town has been fighting q
typhoid fever epidemic, it is the gen.
eral opinion that the measure will
pass there. Public spirit was display
| ed in Wormleysburg last night when
nearly all the school children in town
paraded in favor of the measure, and
the town hall was crowded with voters
| eager to hear of the proposed meas
ure. Wormleysburg board has also
issued official statements to their vot-
ers explaining the measure clearly.
Men from Reading, Allentown and
| Easton who met Harrisburgers yester-
day at the dedication of the connect
ing links of the William Penn High
way near Bethlehem asked almost the
same questions: when are you going
to put up that new hotel? You need
it." In fact the big topic of CONVEX
sation among the men who talked to
people from the State Capitol was the
hotel. Reading and Easton have some
fine new hotels and they are commend
ed everywhere for their excellence and
as almost any one of prominence in
these cities has been here from time
to time the lack of n hotel suited to
Harrisburg has been impressed, to say
the least. The enterprise of the citi-
zens who raised the money to start
things was highly praised by everyone
who talked hotel.
Next in interest to the hotel was the
roads leading into Harrisburg. The
State was given praise for the manner
in which it has maintained the State
highways and the streets of Harris
burg are generally praised for their
upkeep, but what was said about some
of the highways through boroughs
clustering about Harrisburg was some
thing awful, PaXtang and Camp Hill
suffering worst of all.
Among visitors here yesterday was
Col Henry w. Shoemaker, president
of the Altoona Tribune Company and
one of the men who has made Penn
sylvania traditions and legends known
throughout the land. Col, Shoemaker
went to Allentown to attend the road
dedication.