Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-27
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tL WIN markham, The Man With
t tne NOE but he would write about
my, 1me woman who digs in the garden.
Ihls city has a collection of war
% %iuehs that is worth travelling
naos1 " see and has caused many
tbe IL. "lo nave come to town In
t tle IasC lew months to admire the
InrlIt and energy as well as the nub-
nc spirit shown in the cuItivation
VI SO much ground and the donation
ot the vacant lots for raising of veg
tdpieS. Every man who can work
IL ~ iiarIispurg has job waiting for
MIN and there are places for q GOOD
many men outside of the citv end
as INDUSTRY, railroad work and gem
eral business are going at a high
| rate and the hours of daylight and
tWlilght for after-supper work ara
limited 1T is up to the women and
girls 10 noe the potatoes and pull the
meeas. AND they are doing it. They
| are not waiting for afternoon. either
Almost anywhere in the city Won can
see women out in the mornings and
even working through the heat of
MONDAY to get gardens into good
shape Men who are on night turns
give up couple of hours otherwise
devoted to recreation or rest or cor
ner-talklng to the gardens, but the
| women go out early and seem to
SUCK at it all day. No more will the
renhsylVanie folks who go abroad
eHclalm at the sight OF women work
| ing IN the fields. 1t is q common thing
on the vacant land in and about Har-
IlspuIs TO see women welding gar
oeh implements in a manner that
siloulu make men pay attention and
as Ior the country women, they are
working as energetically as they
nave every time an emergency has
arisen. Harrisburg is proud of her
women with the hoes and it is in
ordef Tor some bard to sing their
praises and to hold them up as an
example Tor the folks of the future.
Little Kathryn Mary Frick. the
deaf, dumb and blind girl of Harris
burg, who is being educated at the
expense of the State, and who is no
longer dumb because she has been
taught to talk, is very much inter-
ested in the war and all that per-
talns TO 1t. She knows how to oper-
ale a typewriter-using the touch
system-and shortly before her re-
turn home for the summer vacation
she wrote this to her father relat-
ing TO the Liberty bond issue;
Ihe other day l counted 100 in
l-6 minutes. Miss Whitman cher
teacher) told me that at that rate it
would take me about fifteen DAYS to
i,VVp'VVV' anu IL would take
tifteen thousand days to count ,OOO.-
100000. That would be forty-two
years. 1t would take about eighty
Tour years, counting day and night,
TO count 2,0OO,0 100000. The United
States Government wishes to raise
$1,000, 900 on the Liberty Loan.
1t Will take a long time to count the
money. l think everyone who can
; AFFORD 1t should buy Liberty bonds
to help their country carry on the
war"
There are fish stories and fish
stories. You probably know scores of
them yourself but here's one told by
an old fisherman who came east some
Years ago that can't fail to rank with
the leaders.
AS he tells it, he was fishing in a
little creek out in Colorado when he
saw a monstrous big wave coming
upstream. When it passed beneath
the bridge he was on he saw it was
caused by y whale of a muscallonge
nosing along. 1t went by too fast for
the fisherman to hook him he says.
but he decided he would get the old
boy on his way back. SO he went
home, got big pitchfork, packed his
grub bag and anchored on the bridge.
Seven days and seven nights passed
he says this you know-and no
muscallonge came along. Finally on
the eighth day he saw the wave
swirling down stream. When it got
under the bridge he left drive with
the pitchfork.
Let him finish it himself.
mo | didn't get the big brute, but
man, | got steak off that fish big
enough to feed ten hungry men three
meals day for seventeen days"
People interested in road mainte-
nance in this part of the State are
doing some splendid work in keep
ing the sign-boards in good condi-
ton on the highways leading to this
city. Harrisburg is the hub of al
most n dozen and a half spokes of
State highways and scores and scores
of roads branch off from or cross
the roads to this city. In spite of
the Importance of sign boards there
are still a number of vandals who
make it their business to smash them
or disfigure them. The self-consti-
tuted vigilance committees have kept
after the people in charge of boards
and the result is that the ways are
better pointed out about this city
than ever. before.
| Harrisburg is certainly going
| strong on war gardens. | do not
know of any place where 1 have seen
so many and looking so WELL" re-
| marked State Game Commissioner
John M. Phillips, of Pittsburgh, on
the occasion of visit here. Mr..
Phillips took a ride about the city
and was impressed with the number
of the gardens and the way people
are working them.
Harrisburg Is very much on the
map and looking prosperous and
happy" said Col. George Nox Nc
Cain, author, newspaperman, travel
| er and lecturer, while on visit to
Harrisburg yesterday. The Colonel
| used to report the Legislature for
the Philadelphia Press years ago and
| knows the city of old. He is now
living the life of a gentleman farm
er in Bucks county and taking big
interest in development of the high
ways. He came here to see State
officials and to watch the Legislature
| work. 1T recalls old times to see
the hustle for the finish, but, except
Dick Baldwin and Harry Gransback,
do not see many in the House who
were here when l was covering the
| session. There are some of the old
timers left in the Senate, but not
many of them" said he. Colonel
Mccain was immensely interested in
| the Capitol Park extension project
and in the improvement Harrisburg
has made on the fine River Front