Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-06
Ehpttttts Glrat

While there are a dozen Pennsyl-
vania municipalities which are vot-
ing on loans to-day, Steelton is the
the ballot whether a loan voted at
a previous election for a specific OBJ
ject may be used for another. 1t iS
the first borough or city in the state
to have the chance to vote on a ques-
ton in that manner and the results
will be watched with much interest.
There are probably a dozen places
where loans have been voted %or
subjects which are regarded as more
or less impracticable now, especially
where prices have advanced so muclA
for materials that construction could
not be worked out under the original
estimates. There are other places,
just as in Harrisburg with its pros
posed Walnut street viaduct, where
judgment of men in authority is
against location of an Improvement.
In fact, the Walnut street bridge,
which has been proposed to be run
on the line of State street, is now
AAiOt lleIi IL IHeIC City be-
cause of it's effect on the plan of
the commonwealth for enhancement
of the Capitol Park extension 1t is
of state interest. The .Steelton elec-
ton is to divert money voted for an
isolation hospital to better fire ap-
paratus and street improvements.
There are a number of boroughs
which may follow suit. 1t is a real
referendum in spite of what 1t NAV
be called.
The soldiers who vote to-day in
the various camps in which PENN
sylVanianS are quartered will have
all the comforts of home as regards
voting. There are not only lists of
candidates provided by the state for
every county, but in quite a number
OF instances friends of candidates
nave thoughtfully provided ballots
printed with names of their favorites
thereon so that the soldiers will have
chance to vote as in the old times.
Poll books are kept and there is a
voters, check list, which reminds one
OF right here in Harrisburg, Penn
sylvania.
-haJoI ~ II. Scnel, VINO is quar-
| termaster at the big camp at Hous-
ton, Texas, sends an Interesting ac-
count OF the way the Liberty Loan
was taken in that camp. There was
a total of 1000 subscribed and
every unk in the whole division took
bonds some as high as $4,000.
Speaking of Houston, the way it
| goes after publicity is worth watch
/ ing IF h1G inst 80
port and it looks like a tourists
| handbook. Houston is announced on
white and blue cover as the place
where some seventeen railroads or
| twenty-five railways go to the sea.
| The report covers over 600 pages
and has pictures that cover three
and four pages. And it hasn't nearly
as much to show as Harrisburg,
either.
Wild geese and wild ducks are
commencing to make Harrisburg
their headquarters again before go
| ing to the South. Half q dozen
| flocks have been seen lately along
the Susquehanna, the ducks being
| more numerous Geese in wedge
shaped formation were noticed yes
terday morning, but high up. Very
few have been shot in this part of
49, StNNS eNAAN SiiNS loNS DSCiA IOllIt-
ably fat.
People who have been out towaM
] Linglestown say that the crows
which were so numerous in that sec
ton during the early fall have nearly
all gone. The same is said to be
| true in regard to Perry county, too.
Large flocks have lately been seen
going south over Cumberland and
| VrW.l- Il
clare that the flight presages a hard
winter, that these wise birds foresee
it and are starting their annual mi
| grafton to a southern climate. An
other sign of a cold winter is ad-
vanced by Juniata Valley hunters.
who report all kinds of wild bird
food" plentiful. Wild cherry trees
are bending under the weight of
this fruit; there are more naws or
wild thornberries this year than in
many seasons past; the red brush
acorns and nuts are remarkably
plentiful, and there are plenty of
pigeon and wintergreen berries. All
of these are favorite foods of the
pheasant. Old-time observers de-
clare that such abundance of food
for wild life is invariably accompa-
MED with a severe winter.
| fTOl' FRANKLIN MeUBeS, OF Jn0
State Department of Agriculture,
was here yesterday with a stalk of
red clover which was nineteen inches
long. 1t grew near Middlesex and
represented comparatively little work
on the soil. 1t was just watched.
| The professor thinks that with more
watching of the same kind notable
results may be attained.
The forethought of the states Pub
| lie Service Commission in providing
form of certificate upon which men
| travelling on state business could pre-
| sent to railroad ticket agents or Pull
man conductors certificates from
| their chiefs as to the errands which
took them on the road seems to
| have caught other departments nap
ping. When the war tax bill was
| signed 1t seems that Chairman Ainey
at once took up the proposition,
reached an agreement with the rail-
roads and drafted the certificate.
The Commissions men were using
them on November 1. Some depart
| &C. nH