Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-17
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Lewis Buddy, feld commissioner of
the Boy Scouts er America, who will
be the guest of the Harrisburg Rotary
Club at its luncheon next Monday il
one of the mott successful worker,
among boys in America. He has put
the Scout movement on a financially
sound basis in many of the large cities
of the country and is in so much de-
mand that aside from the time he is
able to give to the Harrisburg club he
will be occupied with engagements
constantly for more than year ana
he is already outlining his work for
three years ahead.
The troubled with the Scout move
ment has been that it has depended
too much upon volunteers who have
had neither the time nor the money
to get the most good out of it for th,s
boys. Not al of them have been tN
the position of Scoutmaster WooS
of Lewistown who has a wonderful
record as a Scout worker. Mr.. Wood
comes from an old and wealthy fam
lily. He lives in a large mansion over
looking the Juniata river, but he
doesn't care much for society. He
finds his recIeation in the open and he
is never so happy as when in COM
pany with his Scout Troop he is off in
the mountains back of town hiking"
| for wildhowtrs, nuts or berries This
summer he purchased a tract of land
| in the Seven. Mountains, far from any
settlement and ideally situated with
| fine, pure water for drinking and
swimming, and there he built a camp
for the Boy Scouts of Lewistown. This
is Mr.. Woods contribution to the
home town. It is the hope of Presi-
dent Howard c. Fry, of the Rotary
Club, whose invitation brings Mr..
Buddy to Harrisburg, that something
| like this may be done for the Scouts
of this city and that the organization
be placed on a permanent and active
basis here. Some very excellent troops
of Scouts claim Harrisburg as their
| headquarters, but it is hoped to do far
more in this direction than ever be-
fore.
w. r. D. Hall, statistician of the
State Highway Department. who
caught a 450-pound shark on hook
and line from motorboat near
Avalon during his recent vacation
trip. is some fisherman. Catching
| sharks is not his only accomplish
ment. He is skillfuI surf caster
and last season caught with a light rod
and line a 36-pound drum fish that
gave him fight that lasted nearly an
hour. "At one time thought he. in
tended to go straight on across the At
lantic," said Mr.. Hall in telling the
story, '"and I was wondering whether
l ought to let him haul me into the
ocean when the line ran out or give
him the rod as we'll as the line, when
he suddenly turned and headed in to-
ward the shore. think I was as tired
as the fish when l finally landed him.
The shark catch was made while Hall
and a party of friends were cruising in
a motorboat. They saw the fin of the
fish, halted, baited a big hook and be-
gan to angle for the man-eater. The
shark darted for it at once and then
ran out 500 feet of line before stop
ping. A fortyfve minute battle fol-
lowed.
One of the largest hay crops ever
harvested in Pennsylvania is reported
by the State Department of Agricul-
ture, which estimates the 1916 crop
at 100000 tons The production last
year averaged LIS tons to the acre
and 3,55S,000 tons were harvested
This year, the acreage was increased
greatly and the yield per acre was
much larger. The ten-year average is
1.33 tons to the acre. In some coun-
ties, the present average is nearly two
tons and it is expected that final fig
ures will make an average per acre
close to II tons
There is a young grocery clerk in
Harrisburg who has a large Dauphir
county swapping turtle on his hands
His name is Allen Barbush. Yester-
day was the young mans birthday an
niversary. Friends in Halifax did not
know what kind of present to seno
him, so boxed up a big turtle. AS he
is not fond of turtle soup he is at 9
loss to know what to do with his pres.
ent. With the turtle came a card or
which was inscribed, "Congratula.
tions. May you live as long as this
fellow, and then some more. Thought
you would like to treat your friends
to snapper luncheon" The turtle is
still at the Barbush home.
Speaking about turtles, local river
men report an abundance of Susque-
hanna Terrapin in the river. They are
not yet large enough to be caught, but
in the Fall, after there has been a
heavy frost. there will be a lively
search for this valuable river product
Local terrapin hunters claim they
send from 200 to 500 terraph to
Philadelphia and New York every sea-
son and also keep the Harrisburg
restaurants well supplied. y
Bang! chug- -chug! bang! Must be
an artillery battery or at least a
machine gun company, though. the
Front street pedestrians between Broad
and Herr streets the other evening,
as the sharp crack of what sounded
suspiciously like a gun was heard
drawing nearer and nearer the curve
at Front and Calder. But it was only
an automobile. with two gay young
sters aboard, working the carburetor
backfire for all it was worth. Which
only goes to show" said passer-
by" that the spirit of the soldier takes
queer forms"