Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-29
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The Telegraph Letters from the
Front department is attracting at
tention not only in Harrisburg but
abroad, as is shown by this extract
from brief letter Of appreciation
from j. K. Roseberry. a well-known
travelling man, who spends many
week-ends in Harrisburg. He says:
Il cannot refrain from writing to
you to tell you how much I appre-
| ciate the Letters from the Front
which 1 read occasionally whenever
L can get hold Of the Telegraph
! along my way. These letters are SO
human, so clear cut, so enthusiastic.
They tell as no skilled writer could
! tell the experiences our boys ARE
having in France and they must be
great educators for the lads who are
still with us and awaiting the call.
myself have tried for the training
camps, but l am too old. This is O.
young mans war and the letters
which you are printing are from
young men to the people of all the
homeland as well as to their own
friends. The Telegraph has in
terestlng and important columns in
! these Letters from the Front and
think everybody who receives such
a letter should give it to the paper
Tor publication"
To many fathers and mothers,
douptless, these documents are more
precious than gold. They are being
cherished as heirlooms in many fam
mes, the Telegraph knows. But
what Mr.. Roseberry says is true.
| Ihey are letters of American boys
10 the American people and in al
cases they should be copied ana
given to the newspaper for publica-
ton.
IL the American camps in France
are as spick and span as that at
Gettysburg they will be like home
| sweet home to their occupants" said
| Howard c. Fry upon his return from
that camp the other day. I'VE found
a number of the Harrisburg boys
housed in tents built to take care Of
a squad of eight and each one of
them was outfitted in the most COM
plete fashion. The tents were clean
and comfortable 1 saw no evidence
of the much talked of shortage of
army supplies at Gettysburg. Indeed
ii struck me that the government
had been exceedingly generous to it's
men.
Just as we were about to leave
1t struck me that we had a fine large
fresh, perfectly good cake in our
car that might taste good to the
boys in whose tent we had been Wis
iting. 1 mentioned it to the man
who was showing us about. He was
polite and rather tinridly suggest
ed that we might need it ourselves.
But there was a lad on a nearby cot
whom 1 thought up to the moment
was sound asleep who was not so
backward. Sitting bolt upright and
rubbing his eyes, he hlurted out:
Say, Jimmie, could we use fine,
I, large, fresh perfectly good cake?
Well, / rather guess we could, now
couldn't we?"
And so they got the cake"
Something is the matter with the
pumpkin crop in many gardens here
abouts according to reports that
i. have reached the garden editor of
the Telegraph. The vines in many
places, starting out unusually we'll
? and developing pumpkins rapidly,
i have died down and left the imma-
ture fruit to rot on the ground.
Blight is responsible in some sec
= tions and an unusually dry period
during one week in July are said to
be responsible.
0 Friends in Harrisburg heard to-
day with sorrow of the very serious
illness of Mrs. Butler, wife of N. r
4 | Butler State Fish Commissioner
: Mrs. Butler has been ill for some
time but during a period of rest at
Cape May had shown signs of re-
! covery. Last evening Commissioner
Butler found 1t necessary to cancel
J all engagements and go to the be-
side of his wife. There are few more
devoted couples than the Buffers. To-
gether they have driven by automo-
bile over almost the entire State and
were almost constantly together. Mr..
Butler gives up number of very
important speaking engagements in
order to be with his wife.
Robert E. Reeves, the new gen.
eral secretary of the Harrisburg Y.
NJ. c. A., will preach next Sunday
morning at the Camp Hill Presby-
terian Church, in the absence of the
pastor who is on vacation. This
flourishine young congregation is
still worshiping in the assembly
hall of the firehouse of the town
but in a short time will begin to
think of church home for itself. II
has purchased a lot Just off the troll
ley line on one of the principal
streets in centrally located section
and is about ready to transfer the
deed. The Methodists and the Lu.
. therans are both located on the main
thoroughfare of the town which is
traversed by the trolley line and
have fine places of worship but the
Presbyterians will follow the ex.
; ample of the Episcopalians and
. have chosen q site that promises