Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-26

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State Prison Labor Commission. but
the style will not be settled until the
new automobile law is enacted.
There is a question over the size of
the plates. The plan of the State
Highway Commission is to reduce
the size slightly.
The blue background for the tags
has not been used for years. In gen.
eral. the tags will resemble the pres
ent in lettering and dates.
The first tags are to be delivered
early in the fall and will be shipped
out in December.
Hearings on CodcS-Two hearings
on codes are planned by the State
Industrial Board for next Monday
in Philadelphia. One of them will
be on the code to regulate safety and
sanitation in breweries and the other
plan for installing locks on looms
in textile mills.
Brown at Capitol-Attorney Cen
eral Brown has returned from Wash
ington, where he consulted with War
Department officials regarding the
registration arrangements. The at
torney general made the visit at the
request of Governor Brnmbaugh in
order to secure the final details. The
Governor and attorney general will
go over the plans next week with
Adiutant General Stewart.
Smallpox Serious-Commissio or
Health Dixon to-day announced that
there had been further cases of small
poX reported and that Associate Medi-
cal Inspector Hull had been detaile>
to Mercer county to examine into the
situation there. Nurses in the Hamot
Hospital at Erie were taken i'll with
the disease and the hospital closed.
Governor Leayes-Governo Brum-
baugh went to Huntingdon county to-
day to visit his old home and to-
morrow will preach the baccalaureate
sermon at State College. He Will
spend Sunday afternoon at Boalsburg,
where he will meet members of the
machinegun troop of the First Cav
airy, of which T. d. Boals is cap
tain.
Visited Capitol. d. Herr. former
assistant economic Zoologist, was at
the Capitol.
baugh Will return here on Monday.
when meeting with the registration
officials will be held.
spoke mt EIizabethtOwn-Gov
Brumbaugh was the speaker at the
flag-raising at Elizabethtown yester-
day afternoon
Bill Signed. - Governor Brum-
baugh to-day announced approval
of the Senate bill dividing the Mid
die Coal Field Poor District into
four precincts the first to be the
city of Hazleton and borough of
West Hazleton; the second to be
boroughs of F'reeland and Jeddo and
townships of Halle and Forster; the
third to be boroughs of Beaver Mea-
dow and Weatherly and townships
of Banks, Lehigh and Lausanne;
and the fourth to be boroughs of
Mauch Chunk, East Mauch Chunk,
Lansford and Summit Hill and town
ship of Mauch Chunk. Each dis
trict is to have n director and an
auditor with one director at large to
be elected by the people of the dis
trict. The Carbon county court will
have jurisdiction over the district.
Minister Promoted.-Michael D.
Baumer, q minister, of Butler, has
been promoted to first lieutenant of
Company c, Eighteenth Infantry,
National Guard. Dr. Ralph Ramsey
Chandler, Wilkes Barre, has been
appointed a lieutenant in the dental
corps.
company MuSJ SIIdIISt IAdICS.-
The Public Service Commission in
has directed the Uniontown Water
Company to eliminate from its
existing tariff the provision which
seeks to make a classification of the
public buildings supplied with its
service and to file, post and publish
an amendment or supplement to its
present tariff so as to change the
same rate for service to all public
! buildings" This action is to be taken
before June 23 and is the result of
a complaint filed by the poor direc-
tors of Fayette county against the
rates charged for the almshouse.
Unusual Complaints. - Two un
| usual complaints were filed at the
Public Service Commission to-day.
One was from c. L. Aul, Devon, who
protests against his telephone being
connected with the Berwyn ex-
change, contending that the rates are
higher than for the Devon ex-
change with which he is now con-
pany. of Brownsville. Fayette coun-
! ty, filed complaint against nineteen
jitney operators, charging that they
are running without state certifi-
Gates.
Thirty Bills In Hand - Governor
Brugbaugh has thirty bills in his
hands to dispose of next week. The
Governor has signed more bills dur
ing the present week than in any
week of this session.
Automobiles PfeSented,-J Fred
Zimmerman, a Philadelphia theatri-
cal manager, has presented two auto
mobiles to the State. One has been
assigned for the use of Adiutant
General Stewart and the other will
be assigned for use of such persons
as the Governor may designate in
connection with the military work.
Eight Vacancies.-The State Po-
lice Department will fill eight vacan-
cies in the four troops on June 1 .
Fifteen men have been called up for
examination.