Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-25
Ehrntt1g Ullat

Penbrook's big Republican demon-
stration the other evening with men
on horseback and marshals and aids
wearing ribbons on their hats and
redfre and wagons brought back to
the minds of many the days when
| presidential campaigns were marked
by great parades in Harrisburg. PER-
maps the last campaign in which there
was anything like old-time parades
was in 1896 when the Mckinley cleo
uon took place and the Sound Money,
II. l.. Hershey, M. e. Olmsted. John
E: Fox and other Republican clubs
which succeeded the First ward
Ihtrd ward, Fourth ward and Sixth
ward Republican Clubs marched with
much redfre and rare vintages of
high hats. But there has been little
in that line since The Harrisburg
and West End Republican Clubs hav-
turned out annually but their parades.
IL must be confessed, have been moth
ing TO the days when procession
LOOK , an hour to pass and when men
used TO parade in oilcloth capes and
when horses for miles around were
commandeered for political purposes.
Inc memory of the Harrison Invinc-
lpies, the Hancock Legion and the old
Sehtral democratic Club. justly noted
lor lts Vociferous enthusiasm, fingers
and good many confess that they
would like to have a revival of the old
tlme political spirit. The leaders say
enat campaigns are getting so expen-
sike s"h, ana that it costs so much to
Diock precincts" and to do other
things under new laws that there is
not enough money for the old-time
parades with their wagonloads of red
nre and rivalry to see whether one
parry OF the other could get the most
panus' the most udily-uniformed
men and the best marchers. But tbe
people remember them and a good
many sigh for the days of parades.
open-air mass meetings, flagpole rails
ings and bonf1res.
When, at the opening of divorce
court, the members of the Dauphin
county bar gather with the judges to
consider the trial lists, President Judge
hunkel always calls off the surnames
of the libellant and the respondent in
order to properly mark the case for
hearing" or Continuance" as the
case may be. That's the reason there
was a gentle giggle throughout the
courtroom, a broad grin round the
bar enclosure and a genial smile from
the bench the other day when Presi-
Ident Judge Kunkel gravely called out:
"Rata against Ratz."
School directors of the West Shore
are making efforts to put clearly the
central High School for that district,
General opinion has it that the pro-
1ect will have the usual time passing.
but directors are striving daily to con-
vert many voters who oppose the
measure. The sooner the voter real
ICES that his offspring will pay largely
for the erection and upkeep of the
school, the better off he will be, they
say. Many of the voters claim that it
Will raise the mill rate several mills.
but 1T will also be raised in some of
the districts if the school is not
erected. Many of the students at
tending these schools are arising to
the point where they find they can
} secure several years of up-to-date high
school training at the expense of the
district in which they live. If every
member of the classes that graduate
In the next few years attend Harris
burg High School, the mill rate will
be raised several mills. The cost of
sending a student to Harrisburg High
Is $71.26 per year. In many districts
five and six are going.
You don't have to go miles from
the city to find gray squirrels to
shoot" declared a man in q hunter'sG
coat in Market street the other day.
Il was in woods back of Paxtang
about three miles the other day and
saw five big gray squirrels in less
than a half hours stroll. They may be
straying Capitol Park squirrels who
have tired of eating handled peanuts
hho WIN iOli6 LOT Tie JOYS ana ndZdrQS
of the great, wild outdoors, or they
may be just common ordinary squir-
rels, but anyway they're out there
and I'm going cunning for 'em be-
fore many suns go down on the West
Shore"
Hillborn Darlington, of Bucks
county, is practical man. He is one
of the men selected to be an election
commissioner and when the commits
sioners met at the Capitol yesterday
there was dismay at the size of the
bundles they have to care for. Dar-
lington looked at the assortment and
said, "I'll get mine there if have to
put it into hay balerr"
) In connection with the Pennypacker
memorial meeting held at the Capt.
toll last night, which, by the way, was
one of the most dignifled meetings
ever held in the Capitol, it is interest
ing to note that when Governor Brum-
baugh published his first book the
foreword was written by Samuel w.
| Pennypacker. The Governor said re-
Gently that he learned much about
writing books and where to get ma
terial from the then judge.
The fact that men in the Pennsyl-
vania regiments on the border have
been receiving winter clothing is re-
garded as pretty conclusive that it will
be some time before organizations now
in camp will be returned Letters re-
ceived here tell of preparations for
winter stay and of plans for ex-
tensve training.
Among those here for the meeting
of the Federated Humane Societies
convention was John s. Ritenour, for
} years connected with the management
of Pittsburgh newspapers and later
owner of one of the Uniontown papers.
He is now active in affairs of the hu-
name organizations in Pittsburgh and