Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-11
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- DeiiSNeu 10 De q rec
price offered for farm labor has
peen reported to the Bureau of 4
ployment, which is q branch of
state Department of Labor and
dustry. 1t was an offer of s5 cd
an hour. with board and lodg
Offers of from 20 to 80 cents h
been made from time to time
this offer, which was authentica
IS the record as far as known at
Capitol. Men at the emnlovm
bureau said that the terms W
prompted because of an emerge
and that they. were able to shin 81
men VINO had been engaged in
other part of the state to the Fl.
10 help on the crop. Offers Of
tfactlVe wages have also come n
regions Where apples, peaches
potatoes are extensively raised
there nave been some inquiries II
sectlons where tobacco is a big q,
Inc 35-cent offer was an extra
clnafy one and the officials saw
IL should not be taken as any
terlon on prices. as the need
great. BY system of keeping tr
OIL men furnished for special wd
Dig jobs and for emergency wv
the state authorities have been
aoled to shift forces from part
part or the state, the employer u
ing the transportation cost gladlJ
almost every instance.
All boarding houses no longer
alke to one particular Pennsylva
iRallroad clerk, especially when bo
nam and cabbage is on the bill
rare. lie resides in the central d
oL the city. Directly next door TIL
Is another boarding house. Z
thursday on his way to the noon
meal ne detected the odor of bo
nam and cabbage. 1t came
torce through an open door.
young man walked into the ho
10 the dining room. put his hat
the pack OF his chair and got /
with the meal. At intervals he
| tced some strange faces. Once
twice he detected smiles on II
races. Finally he came to the dess
hhlshed his meal, and then starte
ieave: How do you like our cd
ing said young woman. Lool
round the clerk at once real
thai, he was in the wrong no
Apologies followed. Now when
| detects the odor of his favorite nd
day meal, he looks for the nun
on the house before entering.
|
The farewell demonstrations
the men of the Eighth Regiment
week nave stirred memories of
partlng scenes when Civil War
carnations left Camp Curtin for
front. There were notable para
and the boys turned out with [
drums and citizens formed com1
tees to escort the soldiers. w
commands remaining at the camr
ways took part. An old residen
the city was asked yesterday NJ
was done when the One Humid
| and Twenty-seventh Regiment.
Jennings Regiment, went away
war.
"Done?" replied the veteran. q
whole town turned out to give II
we'll to the Harrisburg compa
and people came in from nes
towns to say good-by. Most of
command came from right in
part of the State"
The demonstration yesterday
in weather very different from
attending the departure of the I
risburg units for the mobiliza
camp of the Spanish War. The
were not as in this summer. hell
home stations for over six weeks.
had not that many days. They
early on an April morning when
weather man got his signals m
and sent a snowstorm. When they
| to Mount Gretna there was notI
but mud and the men of the Eie
roasted that night in the pod
building of the exhibition conn
which then held forth at the m
lization point.
John H. B. Campbell, who was
| islatiVe correspondent of the Pf1
delphia Evening Telegraph du
the last session, has sent some 4
tographs to friends here which
dicate that he is representing
newspaper at Camp Hancock.
Campbell, who is somewhat
ficient in the use of English, spo
and written, is studying French a
will probably accompany the Pd
sylvanians abroad.
The Pittsburgh Post has issued
anniversary edition in honor of :"
enty-five years of progress in
workshop of the world" which is
only in the highest degree credit
to the virile organ of real DemocI
in Western Pennsylvania, but
history of the wonderful city
whose making the Post has play
notable part. The Post has m
admirers here and the recent
present owners. A. j. Barr and
Hart Given, are well known to
merous Harrisburgers. Not the |
interesting feature of an edition fl
with interesting matter about p
burgh and its people is a fac sill
of the Post on September TO-. 1874
One of the oldest things a.
the draft operation is the way
who have to go occasionally get
those exempted. The other day S
draft headquarters received a Id
from man who declared that a
who was exempted was as good
any and that the claim of fiat
was a blind. In another case a
who was taken insisted that the
of another were not false.