Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-02
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OInclalS connected with the fiscal
end OF the state government do not.
look to the direct inheritance tax law
10 pegin to figure as extensively ass
expected in the revenue of the state
until some time next year. This ts
because certain counties have been
SLOW In getting started. and while
estates coming under the act have
been noted and preliminaries ar
ranged the machinery for handling
the proposition is not perfected. In
Fhliadelphia, it is stated here. new
dockets are to be opened and a num-
oei VI matters arranged. while in
Solne o'her large counties little prog 4
ress mas ben made. Allegheny coun-
" Is stated to be one of those which
mas started off without difficulty
Many questions have arisen in other
counties on which rulings have been
asked and some legal matters have
turned up. Most of the counties of
the state have filed appraisements
under the new law. the smaller ones
oelng the first. while a number have
also maze payments. The amount of
IeSehue M 10 be raised this year, how
ever VIII not be very great in opin-
ION Oh people at the Capitol.
Three hundred bushels per acra
has been found to be the average
yleld of onions in Pennsylvania by
the statlstlcians of the State Depart
meht OF Agriculture who looked up
the matter for an inquirer living in
the "onion belt of Crawford conn
ty, where onion raising is spe-
lclalty. The department found Where
as high as 400 and 500 bushels an
acre had been gotten but they were
exceptional cases and the figure
given is twenty-four bushels better
than the average for the country.
The planting of onions this year was
more extensive than known for a
long time and the increase in the
Icrop is expected to send the total for
pennsylvania over 100000 bushels.
]. II. Gingrich. who retired as day
chief operator of the Postal Teie-
graph Company here this week, was
known to a generation of newspaper
correspondents and businessmen
and the friends of lightning sling
ers' all over the state. Mr.. Gingrich
spent over quarter of a century in
charge of wires in the Postal office
and in that time handled copy of
some famous newspapermen and on
many big story sent out of Har-
risburg, which is somewhat noted
Tor the news which originates here.
lie now gets a well-earned rest Mr..
Gingrich is to be succeeded by Frank
lTeusper, son of the manager of the
Western Union for years.
There is not going to be as much
hunting in this neck of the woods as
usual this fall, although in the deer
hunting counties there will probably
be numerous parties. One reason is
that a number of young men who
made it point to go into the woods
every fall have gone into the Army
or are away and another is that am
munition now costs considerable
money Such a thing as investing a
couple of dollars in ammunition and
going out for an afternoons sport
now means more than fiVe-dollar
bill.
Some of the men who have been
lcultivating war gardens are get
ting ready for next summer, and 1t is
to be noted that they are taking the
advice of the men at the State Cap
itol and are clearing the grounds of
old potato stalks, tomato vines and
other masses of vegetation so that
the insect pests will not have roost-
ing places and bases for attack next
year. 1t is also to be noted THAI
ground is being fertilzed and put
into shape for a good yield next
year.
The suggestion that automobile
owners give soldiers lift appears to
be pretty generally observed here
abouts. There are seemingly as
many soldiers about here as before
the Guardsmen went away because
of the proximity of the Gettysburg
camp and the aviation warehouse
and the recruiting work and the SOL
diers have good time getting rides,
especially to and from Middletown.
Speaking of Middletown, 1t is in-
teresting to see the tremendous ship
ments being made to the govern
ment storehouse at that point. You
can not get very near the storehouse,
but the fact that 152 motor trucks
were mobilized there in one day for
storage awaiting rush order shows
what the building can accommodate.
Just what else Uncle Sam has in the
big building that squats just below
the site of old Camp Meade would
be interesting to recount, but that
would be telling.
James McCrea, Jr., who will go
with Atterbury and Kennedy, the
railroad chiefs, to France, to help
rebuild the railroads behind the lines.
used to live in Harrisburg. Mr.. Nc
Crea is one of the high officials of the
Pennsylvania in the western district.
His father, who later became presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania, was super
intendent here during the strike of
1877. Young McCrea, as he was
known in college days, was guard on
aI1p, fox rrr1,n
Hickok was the other guard.
Representative John Mckay, of
Luzerne county, was among visitors
to the Capitol yesterday. He came
here in the interest of several mat
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