Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-08

| TO be given annually to States which
Will assist in supporting courses in
agricultural, industrial and domes-
tic and household arts education.
PENNSYLVANIA will be represented
! by DR.. Nathan c. Schaeffer, State
Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton; DIR. j. George Becht, secretary
of the State Board of Education;
Profs. Nj. B. King, director of indus
! trial education and Lindley H. Den
mis-, director of agricultural educa-
| ton in the Department of Public In
struction.
1t is estimated that Pennsylvania
will receive during the first year un-
| der the new act S135,750 for indus
trial education and domestic arts
| and $76,S75 for agricultural educa-
| ton. The State and districts will ap-
propriate sums equal to what the
! government gives.
To List Cases-The Public Service
Commission has begun to list for
hearing in the next six weeks a
number of complaints in which
men operating jitneys under State
certificates are entering complaints
against those running jitneys with
| out State papers. There are a num-
| Der who claim that routes for which
they received State approval and to
which they adhere, are being invad-
| ed by persons running without any
licenses or certificates at all.
Board to Start.-The new State
| Board of Optometrical Examiners
will be called to organize within a
very short time for their work. I'm
der the act the members of the board
are given charge of education and
! licensure. They will be commission
ed until the end of the next Senate.
Mr.. Evans Home. - Berne H.
Evans, counsel of the Public Service
Commission, has returned from his
| vacation.
Crop Figures. to the
! bulletin of the State Department OF
Agriculture there is every indica-
ton of bumper corn crop in Penn
| sylvania and increased acreage and
improved growing conditions are ia
vorable for a record production"
! The bulletin also states that the
| peach crop in Franklin and Adams
counties will be one of the largest
| in years. The bulletin says that
| early season estimates on the oats
crop are being set aside by late re-
! ports which indicate better condi-
tions and greater production. The
] reports on the apple crop show
! decrease as compared with 1916.
| Owing to the lateness of the sea-
son detailed figures on the wheat
! production will not be available for
some time.
Ten File Increase. - Records of
| the Public Service Commission show
that ten of about 200 trolley COM
! panies operating in the state have
! filed notices of proposed increases,
some advancing from the five-cent
base to six and seven cents. Seven
companies advanced between May l
and July % and two companies fill
| ing will advance their rates late this
month or in September. Inquiries
made at the commission offices by
others indicate that others are plan
| ming to file notices. Increases have
also been filed by natural gas COM
| panies all over Western Pennsylva-
mia and several narrow gauge rail-
roads followed the example of the
| larger companies. Eastern gas and
electric companies have not advanc-
ed rates materially.
Nominating Pctitions.-Nominati
petitions were filed to-day by judicial
candidates as follows: Common pleas
judges-David LAWS, No. 8, Phila-
delphia; Otto Kohler, Crawford:
Dennis o. Coughlin, Luzerne; Robert
B. Mccormick. Clinton Cameron
Elk; William II. Ellsworth, Susque-
hanna; H. o. Bechtel, C. E. Berger
John Robert Jones. Schuylkill; John
G.. Harman, Columbia; ]. Q. Van
Swearingcn, James r. Cray. H. S.
Dumbauld, Fayette; James L. Ran
kin, Delaware. Orphans court :
James C: Work. Fayette. Associate
judges A. Shelly, Juniata,
James A. Noel, Perry; Jesse B.
Reeser. Clinton; Ernest H. Sloan,
Charles E. Hauck. Columbia: George
B. Mock, Fulton George Hunlock,
Philip c. Newbaker, Montour.
Young Takes OGice.-The oath of
office of Robert X. Young as Public
Service Commissioner was filed at
the Capitol to-day. Mr.. Young took
the oath in hospital at Blossburg
yesterday.
Rate Complaint.-The Lehigh Port
land Cement Company, of Allentown.
to-day filed complaint against what
are known as intermill hauling rates
which the Buffalo. Rochester and
Pittsburgh Railroad Company pro-
poses to increase in the New Castle
district.
Draft designations Held Up
Twelve members of draft boards
throughout the state have been unable
to resign. They sent designations to
the Governor and to other officials
in charge Of the draft, but no. action
has been taken. Following the notice
given recently that designations
would be accepted for only the grav-
est reasons. all such letters have been
filed.
Conference of Governors.-In the
absence of Governor Brumbaugh and
other State officials no information
was available at the Capitol to-day
regarding Pennsylvania partici-
patton in a conference of governors
at Chicago this month in regard to
regulation of coal mining.