Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-31
Ehpntng Gl1at

governor Martin G. Brumbaugh is
tne nrst Governor within the memory
or any residents of the State Capital to
marry during his term of office, and
Mrs Brumbaugh will be the first
oride 10 assume the duties of first lady
of the State in the mansion of the Gov
ernors on the River Front Every
Governor in the last half century. and
more, according to the older residents
OF Harrisburg, has been a benedict
when he took the oath of office with
the exceptions of Edwin S. Stuart,
the States first bachelor Governor in
almost century, and DIR. Brumbaugh,
VINO was widOwer when he began
his term. The Governor and his bride
are expected to return to Harrisburg
next week and while the plans of the
Governor are said to be to retain his
residence in Philadelphia he will live
here as did Governor John K. Tener
and other Governors who spent prac-
tically all of their time here and only
went away on public business or to de
liver addresses. Governor Brumbaugh
Will pay only occasional visits to Phfia-
delphia and will spend his Sundays in
the State Capital. He contemplates a
vacation divided probably between his
favorite places, the Maine woods and
the Poconos, next summer, but until
the end of his term Harrisburg will be
hhO"h do Ills hoAle
The State Capitol Park Commission
which has been making rapid headway
in acquisition of the properties in the
Park Extension zone will be in shape
to announce the completion of its task
before the end of the year There
are very few properties remaining to
be acquired and by February 2, 1917,
which will be the twentieth anniver-
safy OF the burning of the old Capitol,
the making of plans for the treatment
| or the park extension can be in full
swing. The commission will make its
| suggestions to the Board of Grounds
and Buildings this Fall and the Board
VIII then bring the matter to the at
tention of the Legislature.
Countries at war are not the only
lands where the State is reaching on.
TO hnd work for men who are Grip
pied. The systematic efforts of the
trench, German and other govern
ments to find employment suitable to
the capacity of men who have been in
Jured In various ways by war has been
duplicated here for the .cripples of i'm
dustry, accident or birth by the State
Employment Bureau. In the last two
or three months the headquarters of
the bureau here has received a num-
Der OF applications for work from men
who stated that they had lost arms
| or legs or fingers and from one who
had lost the sight of an eye. The Bu-
reau has received so many applications
| for hands that Director Jacob Lightner
began looking over the hundreds of
jobs offered and started in to fit the
crippled applicants into places adapted
| for them. While nothing has been
given out about the results it is under
stood that in several cases men have
been given work which they could do
a nrn
| January probation court SATURDAY.
must have dragged little in the opin-
ion of at least one spectator. She was
a pretty maiden in a dainty toque who
lsat we'll up in front OF Courtroom No
/ L. But she escaped ennui. Barris- :
ters have tried to vary the monotony
lof draggy court sessions in devious
waysi the newspaper, the neglected
lmanicurinS job, these have all been
ltried with more or less success as thd
Judges are inclined to frown upon this
sort of thing. Tipstaves know just
IWhat to do nowadays when a bored
lawyer unfolds a newspaper or un
i clasps his penknife. But the court at
Itachees were nonplussed at the lates
effort to occupy ones mind and fin
gers in court. The pretty witness sti
fled yawn or two; then perused ar
old court calendar. Finally rummag
thread and little shuttle
And then smiling happily she got busy
with her "tatting." So another court
precedent was established
J. Harvey Wilson, who came here
to attend the sessions of the State
Board of Agriculture, is one of the
: veterans of legislative service il
II Pennsylvania. He was born in 1S41
; and may be candidate for the Clar
ion county seat in the House again
He comes of family long prominen
in Clarion, their seat being Wilson's
MILL and he has farmed one tract fol
; over fifty-three years. Mr.. Wilson
was a member of the House in 1876
and of the Senate in 1887 and 1889
He came back to the House in the new
Capitol building in 1918.
i
Attorney General Brown says that
the trial in the banana trust case was
the longest of his career. It required
over forty actual trial days, to say
nothing of the immense labor o
preparation. The defendants won.