Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-07
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ing indeed. The vote in Dauphin
county in the great Presidential CAM
paign of 1912 was the greatest ever
polled here, being greater by over
1000 than the total of the Presidential
year OF 1900. which saw over $4,000
as total. The aggregates of the
votes OF the county on national State
ana judicial elections are extremely
interesting. In 1906, the Stuart elec-
ton year. there We're 20,635 votes
polled In the county, Stuart getting
over 10.600 ror Governor. Two years
later there were 24,661 votes polled.
Taft receiving 1887 or about 1000
less than Roosevelt four years before.
In 1910 when there was a big fight
Tor Governor, ,234 votes were poled
or over 5000 less than in the preced-
ing Presidential campaign. In 1912
the total vote of the county was 25,-
S29 Roosevelt having 9436, Wilson
7.470 and Taft 6,012. In 1918 in a
judicial election less than 1000 votes
We're cast for superior court. The next
year the Brumbaugh- Mccormick cam
palgn year, the total vote polled ran
up TO 1875, the highest of any guber-
nator1al year, Brumbaugh getting 49,
VA as Republican alone, and Nc
1ormick 1O,24S on Democratic and
washington tickets combined. That
same election Judge Kunkel got 21,-
4os OF 22,730 votes polled for supreme
Gour. and Judge Trexler 1878 of
i9.442 poled for superior court In
tne superior court campaign the next
| November Judge Oflady got 1920
votes as the highest man, those run
nlng next to him getting about $500
apiece. The election was for three
Judges and six candidates divided 49,
4sz votes, each voter being entitled
to vote for three men.
| Just 45, ,303 official ballots were pre-
pared for distribution in city and
county to-day, 1903 of which were
| intended for the city and 26,2S4 were
FOR the use of the county voters out
side the city. The number of speci-
| men ballots that was ordered by the
county commissioners totaled 1857.
In addition to taking his regular gen.
eral election ballot into the booth with
him. Harrisburg's voter also carried an
extra ticket. This was the jitney bal
lot upon which the voter had q chance
to indicate his views on the proposed
1itney ordinance amendment. The
high school loan question was in
cluded on the general election ticket.
"All West Shore owes much to Ed
ward F. Baum. of Wormleysburg, for
his good work in the joint high school
proposition for this territory" said a
West Shore man to-day. "In all news
paper accounts of the proposition very
seldom was the name of this "live-
Wire mentioned. He preferred to
have his name withheld, claiming
that he could do more successful
work. Many days and nights he
secured the West Shore seeking men,
bers of boards in several of the towns
who did not favor the proposition, and
after much persuasion turned the pro-
1ect into a new life after it had ap-
peared to sink. About five years ago
1t was through Mr.. Baums efforts that
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he was unable to keep the work mov-
ing and it finally died down. When the
project took on a new life months ago
Mr.. Baum was the selection of the
directors as pilot of the project. Every
public-spiritcd resident OF the West
Shore should give Mr.. Baum hearty
handshakc whether the project is
passed or defeated"
|
1t is getting to be suspected that
i Congressman Aaron S. Kreider really
likes to campaign. The Congressman
knows this district like a book and
as he drives his own car and gets into
districts remote from the general lines
of travel as often as he gets into the
cities and boroughs he mixes with the
plain people. AS matter of fact, the
Congressman is a good mixer and he
knows the viewpoints of the work.
ers and the farmers. Not long ago he
was spinning along when he met
farmer leaning against fence. The
farmer was not interested in the Con-
gresham and did not take pains to
move his position, Kreider got him
into an argument on the way to turn
a furrow and when he left the man
was shouting for him.
; Among visitors to the Harrisburg
Public Library a few days ago was
Miss Sarah r. A. Bogle head of the
nf hn rnt neriA 4
brary at Pittsburgh. Miss Boyle spent
some time at the Library and was
much interested in its rapid growth.
AS matter of fact the development
OF the Library has attracted much at
tention and the extent to which it has
branched out among children has
been much noted in other cities.
Robert M. SINNERS one of the vet
eran agents of the State Dairy and
Food Division, has given a chill to
people in eastern counties by predict
ing that the price of eggs may go to
seventy-iive cents q dozen. Mr. SIM
mers has been studying the food
situation and says one reason for the
high prices is the weather and the
other is that there is q big demand
from Canada tor American butter and
eggs. Many eggs are going abroad.
Several incipient forest fires which
have broken out on First and Second
mountains in the vicinity of the Heck
ert and Manada gaps were pretty
promptly stamped out by people living
in the neighborhood, who were sum-
moned by telephone. Giving a fire
alarm by telephone is a common
enough thing in a city or town but it's
strange to hear of it being adopted as
a means in the country and in the
mountain country at that. The teler
phone has saved many valuable tract
of woodland in this county in the last
few years.
The Man in the Moon has the
benches in Reservoir, in the River
Front parks and along the citys
Front Steps to himself these eve-
nings; the electric lights no longer
interfere. All the park lights have
been switched off for the winter and
from now until June the moon and
the stars alone will have to illuminate
the parks.