Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-04-04
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Failure of many members of the
bar to appear in court yes
terday when the April term common
pleas trial list was being called off
Tor the purpose of determining what
cases will be tried and what cases con-
tinued, caused some more or less caus-
tic comment from the Bench. Incl
dentally a new order was promul-
gated. Hereafter instead of marking
cases continued" when attorneys fail
ed to answer for trial." It will be as
sumed that all cases will be marked
for trial unless otherwise called. "If
counsel doesn't interest itself enough
to appear when the list is being called
OF, declared President Judge George
hunkel there is no reason why all
the cases shouldn't be marked for trial
unless continuance is stipulated.
That will be the rule hereafter"
When the buildings included in the
sale of Capitol Park extension struc-
lures scheduled for Saturday have
been disposed of there will be quite
a difference I'm the park area and peo-
pie will commence to get some idea
of what it will be like. At the present
time dozen properties are being
taken down and probably as many
more will be removed this month.
Then the fifteen or eighteen in the
new list will go. 1t is the hope of Gov
ernor Brumbaugh to get those along
the railroads removed this summer.
David Martin, former Secretary OF
the Commonwealth. Insurance Com
missioner and Senator, who is can
didate for the Senate again. prides
himself on being a farmer He has a
farm Tnrrasdaln nd hoe chi inlT
and garden sass" and other things.
He raises some of the prize vegetables
and when he was commissioner used
Ito come here on noon trains with
lunches of huge asparagus for Cover
nor Stuart and other friends on the
Hill.
Fishermen who like to fish for trout
are making anxious inquiries of farm
ers and others who live in the coun-
try what effect the heavy rains and
high water have had on the trout. II
would appear from what has been
learned about the places where they
sell tackle in Harrisburg and Steelton
that the streams in Cumberland and
Perry counties have not been bother
ed much. The trout planted" by the
State authorities recently are all OF
an age to take care of themselves.
Cigar store men in this city say they
have been notified that the country is
on the verge of match famine be-
cause of the war. Millions of boxes
of matches are imported each year
during peace times from Norway. Swe-
den, Denmark and Germany, and with
the coming of hostilities this supply
has been cut off to a great extent. As
q consequence American match manu-
facturers are now trying to supply the
entire demands of a great match-burn-
ing nation and prices are
going sky-hgh. Safety-matchcs
which used to sell over the counter OF
the stores of a big cigar store chain
company with several branches in this
city at five cents are now seven cents,
and another raise is expected very
soon.
Charles johnson, who resigned rs
insurance commissioner last week,
was the seventh man to hold the place.
The office was created in 1873 and
the late J. Montgomery Forster OF
this city, the first commissioner, held
the office from its creation until 1891.
George B. Luper, who had been deputy
succeeded him. Colonel James II.
Lambert. the late Israel Durham and
David Martin, three widely-known
Philadelphians, succeeded between thhl
early part of 1895 and the end of 1908.
Samuel w McCulloch, the present act
pert, was commissioner for two years,
being named to act as deputy again
when Mr.. Johnson came in.
,
. Commercial men are commencing
to come here with their ideas for
next Fall and winter. 1t is a saying
among Harrisburg hotelmen that
, when winter ends the travelling men
come around with things for the next
|, winter. The other evening a couple
of men were talking and agreed that
the average merchant did not appear
to be much worried about business
= prospects as orders were being given
freely, and that what most of them
J appeared to be really concerned about
was promptness of delivery.
James Collins Jones, Philadelphia,
who was here yesterday in connection
with the Juniata valley jitney case be-
fore the Public Service Commission, is
prominent lawyer who is Identified
uith mum her 0f Pantr raj