Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-19
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! Heavy Withdrawals of eggs andi
butter which were put.into cold stor-4
age last spring are reported as under
way at some of the big cold storagea
warehouses. This has been expected
py state officials as the time limit on
storage of many of the eggs will end
in December and the butter will ber
going out under operation of law inI
January for the most part. The
prices of these articles are generally
reported as rising throughout thet
state and the egg Withdrawals are
thought to be largely to meet the
| conditions, although shipments to-
| New York have been under way
from some sections It is generally
| believed that this part OF Pennsyi-d
Vania did not get as many Southernl
| eggs last spring as usual owing to-
! the demand elsewhere and there
| was such lively local buying that,
| shipments from our district did not
go much above ordinary years. The
thought here is that the stored sup
| plies OF both will be materially d.
| mlnlshe6 during the next eight
| weeks. The central part of the p4ate4
mas been pretty well secured by
| agents for produce men and the
eastern and western sections area
sending to the cities which they
normally supply, while the northern
tier is furnishing New York, Among
the complaints which come to the
Bureau of Markets at the Capitol are
that there seems to be no uniformity
of prices and that in the same mar.
ketS prices vary. Incidentally 1t has
developed that many housekeepers
have been preparing for Christmas
baking in Harrisburg.
More reports OF damage being
done to farms and orchards by deer
have come to this city and officers.
are making inquiries with a view to
ascertaining what was really DONE.
Deer have been developing fond
Tness for orchards in southern coun-
ties, where the apple and peach grow
ing have been gone into extensively
in recent years and have also been
raiding corn fields, tearing up the
shocks" of unhusked corn, while
some have gone into young wheat
y fields. Since the Blair county raid
a short time ago elk have not been
making much trouble.
II Apropos of Governor Brumbaugh's
suggestion that inmates OF state in
stitutions engage in knitting of
scarfs, sweaters and other articles
Tor soldiers, good story is told by a
- man formerly connected with one of
the insane hospitals. 1t was always
= one of the plans of this institution to
Ie keep its inmates busy. Knitting has
d long been followed as one means.
A However there was one intimate, y
man by the way, who took to knit
n ting eagerly and they are still trying
J. to figure out whether he was as
d "ratty" as suspected. This man
started to knit shawl. lie was al
ways more or less secretive and when
y his task was ended the value of Sc
L. crecY was manifested. He had care
n fully stolen bits of yarn from other
inmates and in some manner known
l. only to himself had worked them into
ID the fabric. He had Joseph's coat,
nj the rainbow. cubist paintings and
= scrambled eggs beaten forty ways,
~ "It is rather an interesting COM
~ mentary upon the times that the
~ newspapers give about one inch of
~ space to the execution of murderers
"a nowadays" said n man who observes
- newspapers. "In the last few months
ia there have been unhappy men sent
from this county for electrocution at
lRockview and the reports were mere
20 routine. Last week two men who
, + shot down n railroad officer on the
NJ other side of the river and whose
g crime aroused the public were sent
6 to the chair. 1t was barely noticed.
, recall when executions at county
a seats were times of horror and it has
Of not been so many years ago that each
,e infliction of the death penalty in
O. Harrisburg was an occasion for >eX-
on citement. Establishment of the
ne other system, terrible as it is, has
lis taken from county towns sad eXhi-
r. bitions and given newspapers a
To chance to avoid printing details. And
e. there does not seem to be any public
at demand for them, I am thankful to
ar say"
bv Dairy and Food Commission er
n. James Fousts speech at Reading
lis wherein he said that many city peo-
az pie were rather sorry that they hat
Id legislated hogs out of city limits
ne may interest a good many Harris
ok burgers who have been suffering ir-
he regular service in garbage collection.
IL In times gone by garbage was q
nuisance, but there were some hog
raisers who made it o business, and
4 a paying one, to gather up the offal-
They turned it into pigs. Now 1t
j wastes unless the driver of a wagon
chooses to stop and get it.
The manner in which Contractor
Augustus Wildman is making things
move around the government build
/. ing is attracting a good bit of favor
} able comment. The troubles of the
United States of America and its
contractors appear to have ended
and the time of occupying the re-
modelled and enlarged building is
= no longer regarded as indefinite as
the end of the war.