Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-12

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mere indicate very plainly that many
small districts are going to face diff
cultles because of lack of resources.
In quite a number of counties teach
ers have left that service because of
military service or the more attrac-
tive conditions to be found in indus
trial occupations. while the demand
for women in offices and in many
walks of life opened up to them by
the war is making inroads upon the
female teaching staff.
In addition TO the shortage of
teachers which will be more or less
of a big problem before long many
districts are complaining of the cost
pear to have gore up in price, while
furniture is hard to get and a score
or more districts have reported
abandonment of needed extensions of
buildings or new schools because of
the big advance in prices of building
materials. In districts where schools
have had to be consolidated the cost
OF transportation is another item
that is looming up menacingly.
State Road Work-Provision is be-
ing made in all contracts by the
State Highway Department for road
construction whereby the contractor
would be relieved in the event that
time would be lost and completion of
the improvement delayed through in
ability to obtain deliveries of ma
terials because of the priority order
in the use of open topped cars on the
railroads. In dozen counties the
state has been compelled.to suspend
construction work of its own and
maintenance operations generally
have been seriously interfered with
where the department was dependent
on transportation of materials by
cars, Where the stone needed can
be obtained from quarries located
along the highways and prices are
reasonable, work will go on as long
as weather permits. Repair work on
the main highways much in use for
motor truck traffic and which are
expected to be much used this winter
is being rushed and trucks have been
pressed into state service where pos
sible to haul stone and other ma
terials.
Wild Turkey ScaSon-PennsylNa-
MAS wild turkey season will open
Thursday, November Is, and run
until the last day of the month. The
law allows one turkey in the season
and from all accounts reaching the
office of the State Game Commission,
there are plenty of the birds in the
state, especially in the vicinity of
state game preserves, Considerable
success is reported to have attended
the propagation of the turkeys,
Farmhands Asked-Secretary of
Agriculture Patton's call to the
farmers of the state to save double
the ordinary amount of seed corn
this winter so as to provide corn
for farmersswhose crops were ruin
ed by frost, has brought number OF
responses, but more requests for the
aid of the state in providing hands
TO help get in corn not yet husked.
Nf,he Department of Agriculture has
been asked to secure men for potato
gathering and now the demand is for
husking help.
To-day the first of the series of
hearings are being held by the COM
missions representtive at Sharon in
the proposed uniform system of ac-
counts for water companies. Hear
ings are to be held in Philadelphia,
Harrisburg and Scranton later in the
week
Name Prc-empted-The name of
the Town Meeting party was to-day
pre-empted for the Eighth, Thir-
teenth and Sixteenth legislative dis
tricts of Philadelphia.
Big Water Case-Argument to be
heard tomorrow afternoon instead
of tomorrow morning, as originally
planned, 10y Gne Public Service Com
mission in the Springfield consolidat-
ed water rate cases will be the culm-
ination of proceedings before the
commission for over a year. The case
is sprobably the largest water company