Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-11-18
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Men elected to seats in the next
legislature are commencing to come
W harrisburg to look up boarding.
houses and to make their arrange.
ments for the session as well as to he.
com come familiar with the State can;+o,.i
Ine pulk of the visitors are the new
nia lmennners who have never been here
90 sIIips On nylng visits and they arei
Harry Baker. of the Senate. and ResiI
uent .i',I clark w. s. Leib, of the ,FIouse<
where iists are kept of hotels and
otner places where members and their;
a,ii.ies tan mes may get accommodations for
tne session. Men who will sit in ti,a.
next House are also commenc;ng to.
lsk .ss ABOUT their seats, although such,
lungs are not assigned until late IN
december. The usual number Of an
t;n picahts Ior front row places is no.
ara Salthough Tor years these places
ana ana those on the aisles have beeni
gwen to members of extended service
rIs az soon as the official returns are com
pieled the Governor will issue hisl
tpnIocIamatlon ~ announcing results oft
hae tme various , elections and the mems
WIS VIII receive official notices.
y
arnnr mr.n1n an the next week or so Gov
,va ior n, Rrumbaugh will draw a speciaII
navn eli. on emergency funds for thet
wbn pJy niene ', OF the mileage of the men,
| take tha eh. 70 the Mexican border. toi
| tinnai ,ie Votes OF the PENNSYLVANIA MAJ
tionai Guardsmen on the recent a1ec.i
@ .ion uay: Under the act of 1854 th.i
COMMISSIONERS are allowed fen centsl
IN aiiie Tor each mile going and com
a ancorut. Uut no other compensation. The,l
Execnt;v. are now being audited by,
oh'soiier samuel @. Todd-l
EIecuon returns of almost twentvI
ttouhties were sent back to prothoro1
ts taries Dy the Department of the Secre.
thy thy os tne Commonwealth to-day sol
u snae the votes Of the soldiers shouISl
oe included in the official figures Tn
each case the county officers had 6Iad
tne returns without regard to the sol
uler vote, some assuming that # wouIdi
p pe added here from the duplicated
just forgetting it. With the reiecta6l
returns went new blanks and definitel
instructions that the soldier vote rn,,st1
pc added to the total of the vote oSi
tne county according to candidates anal
ser Do ehtered at the county seats. In
some instances county officers wanted
TO know if they could not send tbeJ
soio1er vote separately. The tabuIae
tlon work, which was started this
Week mas been stopped until the com
pie,e oIhcial returns come in which
,enst mir not r pc Tor over week at the
1 G.
used at the voting places in each or;
ganization. There are several hun-
oreds OF them and in number of in
stances whole book had to be madeI
out because of one man. One instance
| is where man detailed to tbe fieId,
bakery lived in Connellsville. althoneb
the section of the bakery to which he!
was attached was located in Pitts
| burgh. ' i''s-
Ihe coming OF the Methodist Men
OF pennsylvania to HARRISBURG for
their State convention next weeis re-
caiis the fact that one of the earliestl
ana largest of mems Bible classes I'M
tne country was that organized by and
taught for many years by James Nc
Hornick. While the venerable teach
er no longer takes an active part in
It's affairs, the Mccormick Bible class
continues 10 be one of the most
prominent religious Organizations inl
the CITY, 1t has numbered among ifsJ
members many of the most PROMINENT
hiea. nem OIL 1ne city ana some of the hum
Diest. Years ago, when he was pi1ysi-
caiiy able, Mr.. McCormick's greatest de-
light was to visit homes of members.
Never did one of them fall upon dayst
OF misfortune or sorrow that the ready
nana OF the teacher was not extended
IN ald. always with the injunction that
his name be withheld. The McCor-
mick class was one of the forerun-
ners of the great Bible classes that
now number their members by the
| thousand.
| The president of the Rotary clubs
| OF the third district, which comprises,
pennsylvania, Maryland and Della
ware, will meet in Harrisburg Novem-
Der rs in the parlors of the Common
Wealth motel, for days conference.
International President Klumph. Vice.
President Gundaker and Governor NC
t9rland Will be in attendance. This
Will bring to Harrisburg a number of
Rotarians prominent in their home
cities and we'll known all over the
East: President Howard C. Fry, of
the Harrisburg Club, is in charge.
|
Several of the Democrats who plan
to attend the Inauguration of the
President next March are men who
We're present when Grover Cleveland
took the oath in 1885. They are try
ing to get the same location to see
the parade next year.
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