Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-20

$50 has been months
since charter was
railroad. but three are now filed. one
of which is for line which was first
projected for electric power, but which
was found TO be impracticahle. The
proposed corporations to establish
summer camps TOR boyx are to be
located in the Monroe Pike region.
At the present rate moro building
and loan associations will be incor-
porated this year than in any recent
year. These organizations have been
incorporated at the rate of from two
10 five week lately, most of them for
Philadelphia.
The number of mining and manu-
featuring companies being incorpo-
rated is higher than usual this year,
while the jitney has caused numerous
applications for charters for auto-ous
lines
Woman Heads Company.-Clara NJ.
Ware, of near Lancaster, who is given
as president of an electric company
formed by merging several Lancaster
county concerns. is the first woman
given as president of n corporation of
that kind on the records of the de-
partment of the Secretary of the Com
monwealth. The merger was of the
Farmers Electric Companies of Penn,
Warwick, Mannheim, Upper Leacock
and East Lampeter townships into the
Farmers Electric Company. which will
operate near Lancaster. The mereed
company is headed by Clara NJ. Ware
ana has $4,000 capital.
Pardon Board List.-But one appli-
cation for Commutation of sentence
of electrocution is listed for the State
Board OF Pardons meeting on Wednes-
day, May 25. This is the smallest num-
her in a long time. Two applications
nj 20 nhaa Vi fNFY mn
tation and two from commuted muir
oerers seeking full pardon are also
listed.
Sweeney Named. - James Sweeney,
chief of the State Bureau of stand
ards. has been appointed by Governor
Rrumbaugh as delegate TO represent
the State of Pennsylvania at the ma
tional conference of weights and
measures officials at Washington. May
1926, and he will present what this
State has been doing in the way of
supervision OF weights and measures.
Mr.. Sweeney will also urge that the
New York idea of having a weights
and measures week" be extended to be
made q national affair. Reports re-
ceived here from various counties show
considerable interest in the project,
says Mr.. Sweeney. and there is in his
opinion. no better way OF bringing to
the attention of the people what
honest weights and measures mean
than by national observance of a week.
He called attention to the parades and
demonstrations held in New York
which were backed up by large buSi-
ness enterprises and which aroused
great interest.
To Improve Fishing. - Inspections
made along the Susquehanna river in
the vicinity of MCCallS Ferry the last
few DAYS by Federal and State fishery
officials will probably lead to the adop-
80, aF . TAfn aeraIv- n 1fYNer h1
improvement of fishery conditions on
the lower reaches Of the Susquehanna.
The cooperation OF the McCall's Ferry
dam owners and others will be asked
so that means 10 restore the shad fish
cry can be worked out.
To Pay Men Soon.-Pennsylvani
national guardsmen will be paid for
the service they gave in the Allegheny
county strike district within a few
weeks. the payrolls of all but one CCn-
pany of the infantry organizations in
service and of the four troops of cav
airy being the only ones not Yet re-
turned 20 headquarters. The cavalry
payrolls are now on the way 10 the
officer in command Of the troops.
general order has been issued from
National Guard headquarters that
financial reports are TO be forwarded
10 the Adiutant General by accounting
officers between June Is and June so.
In addition TO customary announce
ments It is stated that an annual allow
ance of not more than IS per enlisted
man will be made from the annual
appropriation for the maintenance of
The sanitary detachmentS OF the regi-
ments and organizations OF the Guard.
Supreme Court.-The State Supreme
Court will begin its annual sitting in
Harrisburg on Monday. The list will
he called at 100 p. m. and the list
Of cases includes those from Dauphin
snd Fulton counties, with two trans
farred from Luzerne county. There
ere several tax cases on the list.
More Telephones.-Three rural tele-
phone companies are listed FOR presen-
tation Of applications for approval OF
INCORPORATION on the Public Service
Commissions calendar for Monday.
This is the largest mum Der OF telephone
companies to apply for approval at one
time since the commission began busi-
ness. In addition there are a number
OF ttney lines asking for certificates.
Most OF the hearings IN contested cases
will be held next month in Wilkes
Barre and Pittsburgh.
Farm Labor Scarce.-Reports to the
State Department Of Agriculture are
that the scarcity OF farm labor this
Spring has thrown farmers from one
10 three weeks behind with their work
IN some counties in the central and
northern parts OF the State. In the
southern counties the same condition
has delayed work from one TO two
weeks Farm labor is being paid
higher prices than for long time, 1t is
reported.