Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-24
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ihe commissioners TO take the vote
of the Pennsylvania Guardsmen now
in federal service at the border who
met at the office of the Secretary of
the Commonwealth to be sworn in
and to receive instructions and sup
plies are following out much the samo
routine as in 1898 when the last COM
missioners to take the votes of militia
men were given their official notices.
The act providing for the naming oe
commissioners to take the votes OF
soldiers dates from 1854 and that tho
votes have been important is shown
by results in districts. The generat
ballot Will cover only the State
tickets, but there will be lists of can
didates for congressional and legisla-
tive districts from which soldiers can
make their selections, writing the
names on the ballot. The commits
sioners will conduct elections in each
organization and mail the official re-
suits to the Secretary of the Common
wealth and the figures will then be
worked out and added to the official
returns for each district. This will
be big job for the people at the
State department. The official returns
from each county will all be worked
out on tables for the State and those
for districts entered in books and the
soldier vote will be added. The COM
missioners will get no compensation
for their services, but are allowed ten
cents q mile going and coming. The
| commissioners will be paid upon pre-
sentation of their claims as Attorney
General Brown has held that they
need not wait until the Legislature
meets to be paid.
Some of the youthful drillmasters
which Captain Harry M. Slime select
ed to drill the Central High school
boys and girls for the big student
parade of November 4, have splendid
regulations behind them as instruc-
| tors for Uncle Sam. Captain Stine
mentioned Joseph Wall, a member of
the regular army recruiting staff in
discussing the qualifications of the
various teachers. Wall, he explained,
had been detailed as an instructor by
the War Department to help drill the
Yale battalion. He put in consider
able time at Tobyhanna, too, and has
also seen Border service. In addition
to Private Wall there are half a dozen
youths who have seen service either
on the Border or at the training
. camps at Plattsburg.
Although there are nearly $50 ap-
plications for registration by prospec-
tive electors already on file in the
County Commissioners offices, the
board has decided to receive them
until Saturday, November 4. The ap-
plicants must swear that they were
''unaVoidably absent" from the city on
the final registration day in order to
get their names upon the commits
sioners' books.
Hunters who have been out in the
woods up the Juniata valley and in
the Seven Mountains say that they
have not seen any woodcock to speak
of and that statement is borne out by
men who have been hunting in East
ern counties. Years ago the wood
cock used to furnish splendid sport
and there fine hDpS n10da
not far from Harrisburg, but the birds
have been pretty well eXterminated. In
some counties the shooting of wood
cock has been forbidden for three
years and they have been set out in
the State game preserves to propa-
gate.
According TO what men who follow
grain say Berks, Lebanon and Ian
caster counties are showing the most
wheat to the acre as usual and this
might also be said of some of the
farms in southeastern Dauphin county,
which is part of the same section. In
some parts of Berks as high as 20
and 26 bushels an acre has been Sc
cured and the average for the county
will run about "a. Lebanon and Lam
caster farms show a slightly lower
average but they are showing some
good averages in wheat considering
the rest of the State. In corn the
again.
Robert w. Herbert. one of the COM
missioners to take the votes of soldiers.
who was here to-day to ''get his or
ders," is a former newspaper corre-
spondent for Pittsburgh papers and is
now a newspaper magnate in Green's
burg. Mr.. Herbert was a great friend
of the late c. L. Magee and his articles
on Pennsylvania politics. especially
. s,1s,x % D~t, ,rl
vania, were read far and wide. He has
q son who is an officer in the Tenth
Regiment, and, coming from district
noted for military excellence, he was
a good selection for the journey to the
Border. He will take the votes of the
First Artillery.
Herbert d. Harry commission clerk
in the Executive Department, went
cunning the other day and is under
as o. nimrod and when he came home
could expect birds for luncheon. Finally
all he had shot could be totaled as
three squirrels.
But the kidding" that he endured
there.
Someone told the Governor about it
and the other morning DIR. Brumbaugh
ran for Mr.. Harry and said: Herbert.
Mr.. Rambo reports that he Is short
three squirrels in Capitol Park. VIII
you look it up for me?"