Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21

had been made to heads of depart
January l and is largely modelled
off so that they might go help farm
ers husk corn. One official said that
no such action was ever heard of
and that it was making light of n
serious matter considering the ap-
peals being made by the farmers for
help to husk corn.
More Coal Companies. - Addi-
tional charters have been issued to
coal companies for the bituminous
region. The capital of some of them
is 100000.
Name Pre-empted.-The\ name of
the Town Meeting party was to-day
pre-empted for the Chester county
congressional and legislative district
elections for 1918.
To Check Up Food. - Arrange
ments We're made to-day at the State
Bureau of Markets to have a state
ment of the ears of foodstuffs in the
railroad yards at Philadelphia pre-
sented tomorrow at the conference
between Howard Heinz, chairman of
the food conservation committee of
the state committee of public safety;
Dairy and Food Commissioner Foust,
]. w. Hallowell, Jr., assistant chief
of the market bureau, and others in
Philadelphia tomorrow on the food
supply. The dairy and food bureau
has called for special reports on all
cold storage contents.
Object to Subway-Objection to
the proposition of the Pennsylvania
railroad to substitute a passenger
subway for an overhead and a grade
crossing at a point near Fomeroy,
were made before the Public Service
Commission to-day by residents of
near Coatesville. 1t was contended
that it diverts wagon traffic for miles
New Merger Afoot-The Philadel-
phia, Baltimore and Washington
railroad. which recently merged the
Columbia and Port Deposit and
other roads, has filed application
with the Public Service Commission
to take over the Pomeroy and New
ark railroad, which has capital of
100000, and operates in Chester
county and Delaware.
Blanks BY the TOn-Seventy sacks
of blanks for the answering of ques-
tions under the new draft regulations
were delivered at state draft head
quarters to-day and will be sent inn
mediately to local boards so that the
information asked by the provost
marshal can be obtained. 1t is the
largest shipment of blanks received.
Baish in Charge-H. II. Baish, of
Altoona, was to-day placed in charge
of the work of the State Teachers
Retirement Fund Board as secretary
and the office formally opened at the
Capitol by the members of the board
named by the Governor. Three mem
bers of the board are to be elected
later on.
More Smallpox-SmallpoX was to-
day reported as having appeared in
Philadelphia and Center counties.
The former case was isolated at sthe
Municipal Hospital and is traced to
a labor camp near Jefferson county.
The Center cases are traceable to the
point where the Philipsburg and Blue
Ball cases started.
Attending Trial-Auditor General
Snyder is attending the Donahue
murder trial at Pottsville in which
he is one of the counsel.
State Keeping Tabs-State inspec-
tors were at Enola to-day looking
over the situation. One new case of
typhoid, making sixteen in all, has
been reported.
Many Hearings Held-SiX hearings
were held by the Public Service Com
mission to-day. They included the
Hanover, Benson and other cases.
Capitol Visitors - EX-Repres enta-
tive +. p. Barnhart, of Johnstown;
Roger Dever, Wilkes-Ba lawyer;
EX-Secretary of Agriculture n. B.
Critchfield; George w. Allen, former
Pittsburgh legislator; Representative
F. c. Ehrhardt, Scranton, and Fran
els Feehan, Pittsburgh, were among
Capitol visitors.