Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-29
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| ~ 10 6Oih6 " LdhO 1hOI0 IlldIl Iu0
green signs of rules and regulations
and the gray clad park policemen to
prevent men and boys turning the
citys parks and parkways into hunt
ing grounds unhappy for the bir,aa
and squirrels andmore or less annoj-
ing to visitors. Under the regulations
| ADOPTED by the city fathers some
! years ago at the instance of the Park
Commission the use of firearms waa
forbidden within the park system.
| similarly that noiseless but most
ettectlVe weapon of boyhood, tha
sllngshot, was also put out of bust
ness along with the air rifle. Wiid-
WOOD park Is still wild as far as the
plrds, squirrels, rabbits, quail, bull
frogs, snakes and occasional foXe=
and deer are concerned. The CAM
| eron and PaXtang parkways are full
! or charm because about all that has
been done has been to fence them in
| ana build roads. Otherwise, they
are as natural as the ravines out
back of the State Hospital or the
valley of Beaver creek. The unfor-
tunate thing about it appears to be
that this is season when wild life
is frlsky and this year 1t seems to
be very abundant. Hence the temp
tation of gunners or boys who rout
out rabbit or spy a squirrel is 60
let drlVe. What the city needs is a
| couple of arrests for hunting in tho
places set apart for pleasure of all
lest In q Few years they come to be
regarded as a game preserve.
|
Some of the farmers in this sec
ton OF the state who have not been
attending city markets and who
showed no interest in the proposed
curD market say that the city folks
themselves are to blame for not get
ting things brought to market.
why, I'll bet 1 know a dozen far
mers that have regular callers in
automobiles every week." was the
rather surprising statement made by
one farmer living in the Cumberland
valley, while it is no secret that there
are plenty of vegetables bought every
time some people go out into the
country for an automobile run.
Some of these report some interest
ing experiences with farmers who
insist that they have sold all of their
produce and that they can't listen to
any proposition. When the PROPOSE
1ions nave been made at good prices
sales have resulted.
The demand for grapes on the part
OF people of foreign birth in this
section, which is accounted for by
the activity of the foreigners in
making their own wine in order to
avoid the tax which the governments
lays upon the wines and liquors sold
| generally, but which people who
: make their own are not called upon
TO meet, is causing some farmers to
get good prices for crop which
, often yields very little. There are
farmers and orchard owners in this
section who have grape vines to
which they give little attention and
some nf thnnn roiCn fhn O.
their own use. This fall they have
been selling the grapes at a profit
) for the first time. Some of them
sold grapes on the vine. The buyers
in almost every instance were for
eigners. incidentally, it may be add
ed that brewing companies have
been looking closely after their
'empties."
Men interested in the development
of the Susquehanna Trail highway, ,
which is planned to extend from this
city to Elmira, have organized one
: of the greatest collection of boosters
to be found along any road route in
the state. 1t includes many promi-
: nent in affairs in the counties and
towns traversed and working from
Williamsport they have interested
men in practically every town who
, talk up the historic and sentimental
features of the highway, which is
said to follow the old Indian trail,
and then urge citizens to work for its
3 permanent improvement. The same
plan is being followed in the Sulli-
van trail, dedicated to the march of
Sullivan's expedition against the In
3 dams in reprisal for the Wyoming
massacre, and the Perry highway,
which will go to Erie. Lieutenant
Governor Frank B. McClain, an Off
| GER of the Lincoln highway and who
t helped make 1t famous, says that
these highways not only bring better
roads, but get people interested in
D local history. 1t is probable that
when the war activities which have
called the men prominent in the
}William Penn highway to directing
other and more important work for
the nation end that the great central
highway project will be revived. 1t
is interesting to note that practically
everyone of the directors of the Penn
highway is q leader in the Liberty
Loan, War Council or other big
| things of the day.
Farmers are being urged to help
out the general food situation by
raising fish in the idle waters on
manv farms. Some months ago
Nathan r. Butler, the State Fish
Commissioner, issued a pamphlet on
what an acre of water on a farm will
raise, giving practical advice about
! preparing a pond or a brook and
stocking it. William e. Meehan, for
mer commissioner and now in
charge of the Philadelphia city
aquarium, is writing q series of arti-
cles on the same line. One of them
| appeared last week in the Pennsyl-
vania Farmer 1t would seem from
what these two experts are writing
and saying as though the farmer was
letting a good thing go by. People
will buy fresh fish off a farmers
stall in a market as speedily as ever
they did when "Meeley" Russ useG
to get up at 2 a. m. to sell fish to
| pillars of this community who did
the marketing on Market Square.
Harrisburg is getting to be very
| much in the parade class. Travelling
men who have been here remark
upon the patriotic interest of the
community and say that the fame of
the State Capital in not having to
| send men under the draft has been
noised throughout eastern states.
The big patriotic parade last spring
is held to have materially stimulated
things hereabouts.
WELL KNOWN PFOPI E