Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-19
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ers this part of Pennsylvania may
be very valuable to the farmers as
fertilizer and be interesting to us
city folks because of the quantity of
SCOT and dirt that it collects In the
course of one busy twenty-four
Harrisburg hours, there is no gain
saying that it has been a very ex-
pensive proposition for this munich
pality and it's people When the
snow began it cost the Harrisburg
Railways Company some hundreds of
dollars and the railroad companies
spent money as fast as the snow
tell. Since that time householder
nave been pouring out their money
10 Keep the sidewalks clear and al
most every day it has been necessary
10 repeat the process. In addition,
merchants have been kept on the
Jump TO maintain their supplies and
tney had to spend money, while the
Oiliteu states government has been
contributor to the general snow
expenditure. What the snow will
cost the city will be interesting TO
know. 1t will probably run higher
open crossings costs hundreds of dol
lars and the bulwarks which have
arisen at street corners in the last
feW days rather point to the expen-
slveness of real winter. The clear
ing OF the business section has been
heavy task and when it is consid-
cred how enormously the traffic has
grown In the down town part of the
city the last few years and the great
Christmas business being done it will
be worth noting that street cleaning
is way to spend money.
This early December snowstorm
is doing a lot of people good" re-
marked a medical man yesterday.
It's getting them out to shovel snow
and that form of exercise l prescribe
for all who can stand 1t. Try it your
self. You will eat a lot afterwards,
but you will feel better. Shoveliug
snow is not only good for what ails
most of you indoor fellows, but it
does lot of good for the general
public. Go shovel snow"
Say, you go tell your doctor
friend to get the people to shovel
snow for economic and safety rea-
sons as we'll as health" remarked a
man more observant of conditions
from a public standpoint than the
medical man to whom L mentioned
the enthusiasm of the eminent ply
sician. IF he will get his patients
and his neighbors and his friends out
to shovel snow it will do this town
lot of good and solve problem.
Why, we can hardly get anyone to
shovel snow at all. We have to
pretty nearly corral men to shovel
off the pavements. The man of the
house is too busy, the boys have too
much on their minds now and as for
the people who used to pull our
doorbells out by the roots before
breakfast to clean our sidewalks,
they are not to be found. 1 sup
pose clearing the sidewalk will so
to the women folks
Both your people are wrong. The
sidewalks are being cleared about as
ever and don't let anyone think they|
are not. There is lot of snow and
it takes lot of work and consider
ing the weather conditions are fair"
said a city official.
Fears that Pennsylvania is going|
to experience the most serious short-|
age of seed corn in many years were
expressed by officials at the StateI
Department of Agriculture today and
steps to secure big supply are bel
ing taken. The matter will bel
brought up at the meeting of the
State Board of Agriculture in this
city next month and at the sessions
of the various allied bodies. 1t isl
stated that the supply in sight isl
much less than usual in the big cordj
raising counties, while in the north
ern tier much of the corn depended
upon for seed was killed and muchI
of it is standing unhusked as a rel
suit of the killing frosts which oc-
Cured during the early part of Sep-'
tember. In some of the westernI
counties the farmers had short crops
and sold extensively, feeling conf T
dent that the eastern counties would
be able to make up any deficiencies.
The eastern county men have sold
just as extensively, it seems.
State draft headquarters and the
Adjutant Generals Department are
commencing to receive many letters
from Russians in various parts OF
the state demanding to be released
from the draft. For a time they re-
quested it. Now they are officially
demanding to be relieved. Most cf
them contend that their business is
essential to the nation, but there are
many who now consider that their
country is out of the war and that
therefore they should not be classed
with the Italians and Frenchmen.
The Russian cases are being investi-
gated.
The Oil City Derrick, better known
among the people of Northwestern
Pennsylvania and in the newspaper
world as "Boyle's newspaper" has
issued one of the most notable of the
special editions of the year. 1t is
more than a mere newspaper publi-
cation; it is a historical record of
that wonderfully endowed section of
the Keystone state and a review of
it's enterprises. 1t is as unusual from
a typographical standpoint as it is