Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-09
Ehet1tt.g Gl1atI

soou many people in Harris
purg are just now considering the
appointment of watchers and not of
'he political kind, either. They are
alter watchers who will watch their
saruens and from all accounts they
are gong to be considerably need
gu ABOUT this city and its environs.
never IN the history of the citv bava
So many gardens been set ont and
SO much land put under cultivation.
Ahere are gardens to be met on
oVeiS oiock That is not built up ar...
some OF the fields which have been
ialu out IN lots the last few wears
nave been subdivided and c,,+ IN
INTO truck patches until thew look
IKE checker boards. In many casas
the gardens are carefully markad
out Dy stakes or bordered with wires
on small posts. In Derry street some
OF the plots have been surrounded
oy hedges of pine trees which were
cut miles away and still others are
dehned by boards, tincans and
prlcks set up in a sort of garden
poruer. A few men have outlined
their plots by flowers which should
make pretty setting for cabbage
and potatoes later on. But what is
worrying these gardeners is how are
their plots to be watched. Manv of
the gardeners live blocks away from
ne places which they till and many
vi tnem can only do their hoeing at
evening time. However, it seems 10
pe pretty well understood that any-
one Taldlng plot will get into trou
te' ne cut near Penbrook and Paxtang
.lere are extensive gardens on which
r,en, women and children have put
many hours of labor and as time
goes on it looks as though the vol
iunteer watcher would be a pretty
important person.
West Fairview's efforts to obtain a
new schoolbuilding have been com
nlended in the latest bulletin of the
state Board of Education. The board
mas issued a list of the progressive
places which have been moving FOR
better school conditions and praises
thelr campaigns.
Senator William C. Sproul. who
| spoke at the dinner of the JeeisIa-
1--WE correspondents the other even
| lhS' salu that one of the most in
spring things about the registration
| was the way that the press of the
| country lined up behind the Presi-
dent and the national officials. Every-
Where newspapers urged that the
registration be carried out and their
| patriotic efforts were declared bv
the chester senator to have shown
10 the world that the greatest factor
IN pubic affairs was united.
This is the open season for bills
10 BUY various things for the State
Museum. No less than five bills are
pending in the Legislature to pur-
chase collections of various kinds.
three of them to buy Indian relies.
| Ihe collections are declared by men
IN charge of the bills to be remark
ably complete and interesting and
10 represent not only various meth
ods, but different epochs. The only
difficulty is that the prices asked are
pretty steep. 1t is hard to gauge the
value of a collection of Indian relics
at any time, but the cost to the State
Museum, which should be present.
ed with the articles, seems to go up
as the years roll on and the bills
multiply in the legislature.
According to what is being said
leNAAhOiib AlNSi lllGIlt lnt river coal DuSl-
ness this year will be one of the
greatest ever known because of the
demands for the future and the ef-
forts of every concern to get a pile
stored up. Locking up money in a,
coalpile seems to be pretty good bus
mess and the rivermen say they are
going to work as long as the river
stays open and they can find coal.
I,,
being given to the fishermen's license
Phil before the Legislature it is in
teresting to note that the State cal
culators have figured out that the
state has 10000 miles of fishing
streams. This distance includes not
only the rivers, but many small
brooks, which are, nevertheless,
noted as trout streams. Dauphin
county has half a dozen creeks be-
tween the Mahantongo and the Cone
WACO which could be made good fish
ing streams if care were given. The
State has been willing to donate the
fish for planting" but no one has
come forward to agree to take
charge of the efforts to restock
streams which used to be filled with
trout and other fish.
This is peony time in Paxtang, and
Illle BdIutlt VI Mis-. arthur
bailey is the center of interest. Mrs
Bailey's peonies have been one of
the sights of the borough in June,
and this year there are thousands of
blooms. The choicest are to be eX-
hibited next week at the American
peony show in Philadelphia, the first
to go from this vicinity to that ex-
hibition.
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Woods has been asked to locate John
Francis Coughlin, who is thirty-seven
Years of age. When anyone wants
information the secretary is address,
ed In this case the mother of
ICoughlin, Mrs. Margaret Lyons
Coughlin, 2SS Third street. South
Boston, Mass, seeks information
about him. She says that he is a
machinist and has not been heard
from since 1912. The reason she
wants him is because of the death