Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-22
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| Inc MIIlerSDurS Slup
nual banquet will be held Thursday
evening, March 20. at o'clock in the
First National Bank Building at
Millersburg. This is one of the big
events of the year in the upper END or
the county, where good ROADS adVo-
Gates grow on every bush ana Where
even railroad track hands are the
proud possessors of automobiles. Last
year the club was to have had as its
guest State Highway Commissioner
Cunningham and it was on the after
! noon of the day on which the BAN
quet was to have been held that the
Commissioner was stricken by the Ill
ness that ended in his death. The Mil
| lersburg Club carries its enthusiasm
right along through the year and this
time there will be big celebration of
| the construction of fine piece OF
good road through part of the Mar
rows between this city and the upper
end metropolis, the movement Tor
which was started by the Millersburg
organization and pushed through by
Mr.. Cunningham
| If there is one thing more than an
other in which the Millersburg Mo-
tor Club is interested it is the erection
of bridge over the Susquehanna at
that point. This is not mere hobby
of community intent upon its own
| improvement The bridge is badly
needed from the standpoint of public
convenience. There is no bridge over
| lllC IlNtE ptlNtGll Sidlh
Sunbury. The road down through
the Lyl1ens Valley carries all the traf-
| fic to and from the Pottsville region.
On the west side of the stream lies the
rich agricultural territory of Perry
and adjoining counties, without a
single convenient outlet for the great
traffic that flows in and out of those
| farm districts. Millersburg with a
bridge would become double its size
in few years time. Likewise. a
b-f1 1ero
feeder of farm produce for Harris
burg. Senator Beidleman has been
working hard to get bill through.
Several times he has been almost on
the point of success. 1T has been a
long, hard fight" he told a party of
Millersburg people who called on him
recently much" the same as that
which marked the adoption of the plan
for the extension of Capitol Park.
Years of education will be followed by
a sudden decision of the Legislature
to act, and then the appropriation will
be made"
Millersburg people are great be-
levers in their town. Some of their
business buildings would do credit to
a large city and the streets are we'll
paved and kept scrupulously clean.
Indeed, there is not a better paved
town anywhere for its size than Mil
lersburg. That is because the Motor
CluD HIS WOFheu the EOOu TOduS
spirit to a. place where every Millers-
burg man is a good roads advocate.
Not only do they talk good roads but
on the annual Good Roads Day the
whole town takes to the country, each
man doing his Bit for the improve
ment of the highways and the women
and girls joining in by preparing
lunches, a box for each workman,
with lemonade and sandwiches on the
side for those who are athirst or grow
hungry between meals:
The annual cement gun story turned
up this week. The cub reporter every
year drags in the tale of the mar
velous invention of the gun that
sprays concrete in liquid form over
old fences and frame structures and
turns them in moment into walls of
solid stone. It's a perfectly accurate
news item. The only trouble is that
it was old when the opera house site
was prepared by convenient fire for
the coming of the new Penn Harris
Hotel Indeed. the cement gun was
used to cover the old walls there and
render them permanent.
Speaking of the Penn Harris, there
is not prouder man in the city than
Harvey Long, head of the Harrisburg
Poster Advertising Company. Mr.
Long had personal charge of the
erection of the big hotel sign on the
old opera house site and he has sent
| photographs of it all over the coun-
try. The big sign is one of the most
artistic pieces of outdoor advertising
ever seen in this city.
Many prominent men from various
sections of the State are expected to
attend the annual banduet of the En-
/ gineers Society of Pennsylvania on
Saturday night. 1t is planned to make
\ it one of the most notable gatherings
Il of the wide membership of the society
II and the list fspeal1ers will consist OF
several men very much in the public
Il eye.
II The Conodoguinet has not been
bearing out its reputation as a good
skating place this season declare those
II who have been accustomed to seek
smooth surface on the waters of the
Y much winding creek. 1t seems that
II when the big freeze came along the
II creek had q lot of broken ice and it
j was wedged in with the result that
Eplaces which used to be joys for
skaters are now anything but pleasant.
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! Among visitors to the city yesterday
| was Andrew Hourigan, prominent
| young attorney of Wilkes-Barre and
| formerly United States assistant dis
trict attorney. He was here on Par
don Board case.