Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-17
HIGHWAY GIVEN
A BIG BOOST

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ductor found him gazing in spellbound
admiration at a KinG Oscar sign in a
cigar store window and he was led
back to the train in a trance, from
which he is gradually recovering.
And all the time the special was
steaming along right through the heart
of the dry territory. Yep, dry on both
sides and not a drop aboard the train.
But nobody would have guessed it.
Not much. Old King Alcohol in his
prime never kicked up a bigger rough
house than that special witnessed from
Harrisburg all the way to the Noun
tain City.
Some unprincipled wretch-rumor
has ii DR.. Samuel u. Shope-who tried
to bribe us to silence by the presenting
of an eyeglass screwdriver (this was
not exactly graft, for everybody got
one)-well, rs we were saying, some
unprincipled wretch during the alb
sence of the party from the train
mixed up the grips and hid q lot OF
them in the baggage coach ahead.
y lot OF the members got real peevish
about II and young William Benne-
thum-right in the presence of his
father, too-said il was gosh blamed
shame. and he'd be hunswaggled if he
would raise a hand TO get his back, so
there! But it all came right in the
end and meantime some of the mem
bers who hadn't been getting as much
fun out of the trip as might be got
mixing around, sociable like, so maybe
the unprinCipled wretch wasn't so un-
principled after all.
Up at Mifliin the party got an in
sight into the practical workings of
local option when George w. Wilson
told them that the lookup in Mihlin
has been abandoned since the town
went dry and that Miffiintown is think
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the vacant cells of the county Jail And
revenues have gone right on getting
bigger and bigger, too, despite the alb
Sence of the license money, so that last
year they took a leaf out of Harris
burg's notebook and began to pave the
town. Which is some little temper
ance sermon. is ii not"
1t was in Mifflin, by the way. that
cur own Ed. Moeslein took a strange
hold on the hyphenated American and
after kicking the everlasting stuffinG
out of his carcass tossed his mangled
form 10 the dogs. Moeslein had been
going ii pretty strong on what Harris
burg was. is. >and $ going to be, and
then, just to let his hearers know
where his heart lies, even though his
speech does smack strongly of the
Fatherland. he told his audience that
the moment the United States went
10 war he would he ready to respond.
Il would he ready TO shoulder my gun
in two hours time ana my last cent
would go to the defense of this great
est commonwealth in the greatest ma
ton on earth
That, ii is submitted respectfully
is some spread-eagle speech, but il
doesn't look nearly so Spready eagley
in print as it did when Moeslein, fig
uratiVely speaking, waved the starry
banner in the air and whooped 'er up
in fine style for Om Glory and every
thing pertaining thereto.
Al Lcwistown
LcWiStO own gave the eNCurSioniSts s
the grandest little reception it has
been the pleasure of those who have
participated in all such trips in recent
.ears to attend. At the station the
cars and the party conveyed to the
town proper The eXcursonists
marched to the han to the tune OF
that glorious old air. Hail. Hail,
etc, singing as they went. and there
found spread for them a chicken din
ner with all the trimmings and flXings
for which Aliflin county is famous.
Not only that. but the visitors were
treated TO as fine a feast of oratory as
was handed out any place along the
line. The Rev. Charles T. Weigle. of
Chicago, said grace, and the address
of the day was delivered by DR.. James
NJ. Yeager. Mr.. Yeager is we'll known
in Harrisburg and he can handle the
kings English just as skilfully as he
used TO do years ago i'm the Legis-
lature. He recalled the intimate asso-
Citations between Dauphin county and
Mifflin county. saying that Harrisburg
had benefited by the Dulls. the McCor-
micks, the Crosses and the Stackpoles
who had gone out from there.
Lewistown, the visitors We're told. is
on the top wave of prosperity and
could employ to-day 900 men at high
wages if they were obtainable. The
tries there are running fun time and
booked up ahead.
The responses at Lewistown were
made by Park Com missioner E. H.
Gross, whose wife was n Lewistown
girl; j. II. Bell. of the Bell Realty
Company, who is a Lewistown prod
uct, and J. Grant Schwarz whose
business interests extend throughout
this region. j. W. Hughes. president
Of the Lewistown Chamber of Com
merce. presided.
President j. William Bowman, OF
the Harrisburg Chamber. pronounced
the reception the finest of the trip.
Visiting Il Boom Town
Mount Union is war boom town
bul not wholly SO. ne Aetna powder
factory has a big factory near the
town. but the place depends for its
permanent prosperity upon the Mount
Union Refractories Company and other
big brick manufacturing concerns r
p. NJ. Davis, by the way, is president
of this company, and, as all we'll
posted HarrisburSers know is a resi-
dent of the capital city and a prime
mover in the Chamber of Commerce
He is on this trip and it was sorrow
full moment when that arbiter of rail
road schedules. Brooke Moore, in
formed him that the train was late
and there would be no time to make
the contemplated visit to the big fac
tory at the lower end of town.
Andy" Buchanan made the address
of the day at Huntingdon. Andy
talked about the William Penn High
way and he knows almost as much
about that project as he does about
the Pennsy main line, SO it was a good
speech. That Mount Union is en-