Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-06-07
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registration week appears to have
Drousht out the most surprising crop
u rumors and inquiries about the
""i ana the telephone bells in news
paper ofnces have been threatened
with cerebral thrombosis. The war
'ius lar has not been as productive
Vi crazy reports as was the Spanish
MAR, especially before the snanish
tie was put out of business at SAN
e,aso' put there Is probably tinoa for
bo.l,I IhaC record to be equaled but
iist surpassed Thus far the
nor "a, questions thrown at newspa-
per oiilces has been impressive, Prec-
tlcally every monarch in Enrona -.
psen dethroned and various catastro9
phes nave occurred to every arnvand
navy. President Wilson has been re-
ported as taking all kinds of drastic
ao.iols ana the National Guard has
peen ordered out every Tuesday wifi,
an occasional Friday report ~ that
erect For the last few DAYS there
nave been riots and rumors of riots
IN every place where there has been
a. sprlnkling of German population.
INVARIABLY o, winding up with a plain
that, registration and meetinSs
incidental thereto in Pennsylva-
ma and most other states have
peen without anything that could he
ciassed as disturbance. The bat
tieshlp Pennsylvania and various
,'tr otner vessels of the navy have been
Nctors and vanquished in these re-
ports. The list is infinite and II is
elIlarkaple that so many silly ru-
hiors should be spread One OF tha
CITY authorities on publicity, who IS
Soine traveller in the line of dissent
"t,Tii in tnIi,i od information, said last night
r6 ~ earklng ABOUT the manner in which
reports and rumors have gone up
ana down the streets "If the peonla
VINO near these reports would not
chatter them about, but instead
would either go to the bulletin boards
oL newspaper offices or call up on
me lelephone and ascertain if any
Important news Is out they would
save themselves and a lot of other
people time and possibly worry.'
rms man remarked that he believed
the war stories when he saw them in
PRINT and even then made allowance
LOT ulstance and that he thought in
time like this this rumor-monper-
ing was more than nuisance. He
ADVISED nnding out without chatter
lng II curiosity was too strong; 9TH
e erwlse, he suggested, wait until the
e papers come out.
A good story about registration
|
a attended to that duty and the crush
e pelng rather great he had trouble
gettlng out. So he had a chance to
near tne next man answer questions
e What racer" asked the registrar.
q The applicant looked about studied
d DIT ana then answered: Human
r
The action of the government in
nXlng wheat prices-and naming a
e ngure beyond which the price NAV
3 not go, allays the fears of many who
. looked for rises all along the line"
said a provision man to-day. Frugal
housewives, for example, who con-
L sldered the purchase of sugar in bar
rel quantities, have been told that
the government will not permit the
g. food barons to boost the price be-
yond reasonable figure. If 1t were
possible for the federal authorities
Z to fix figure for wheat it is also
possible to fix a limit for other
staples; and the ghost of high-prices-
u before-fall seems to have been laid
successfully.
Is The tremendous amount of freight
that passes through Harrisburg every
twenty-four hours is something which
- the average person does not note and
it would be interesting as we'll as
enlightening to know how many
o loaded cars are handled by the rail-
roads centering here. But still more
impressive would be a list of the
II railroads whose cars are handled in
our system of yards. 1t is not in
frequent to see cars from Canadian
| and Texan roads end to end and
| some of the through trains coming
into Rutherford from the South and
passing through Enola are made up
of cars from score of roads, many
oi them hundreds of miles away.
Locust blossoms. the signal for the
grand change" in underwear each
summer, have appeared and roads in
vicinity of Harrisburg and parts of
the parks are filled with trees white
with the blooms. The locust trees
present a beautiful appearance when
they are Towering and some of the
cld-time country lanes near Harris
burg which are lined with locusts
are we'll worth visiting. The preva-
lence of the locust rust the last half
dozen years does not seem to have
impaired the vigor of the trees If the
blossoms are anything tc go by. They
: are as numerous as ever, 1t seems.
The suggestions being made that
. German prisoners be placed on
farms in Virginia, Maryland, North
II Carolina and other States where
farm laborers are scarce is inter-
eStlng because one OF the projects
! which the Continental Congress
carried out in the Revolution was
to put British prisoners to work in
| Pennsylvania. There were a number
| of blast furnaces in Central Penn
| sylvania which were operated by
| men wanted to help the government
| but who were unable to get hands
| The Congress sent them a lot of
| Hessians taken at Trenton and they
did excellent work most of them
i becoming permanent employees of the
| plants after the war ended. In Berks
| and Lancaster counties descendants
| OF some of these men own farms to-
I day. In other States Scottish and
Irish prisoners of war sent to work
on farms became Americans before
:" the war ended and were valuable
he citizens.
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