Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-15

seventy bushels to the acre. The
Department summaries also show a
substantial increase in the number
of farm tractors bought this year in
every county.
Mr.. Deininger Better.-James C.
Deininger, executive clerk, who has
been i'll at his home in Sonestown,
is improving and will be here in a
day or two.
O'Neil Meets Commissioners
Highway Commissioner O'Neil spent
considerable time yesterday with the
county commissioners of Berks coun-
ty going over roads which it is pro-
posed to improve. He continued
his tour into eastern counties TO
day.
Filling Boards.-Steps to fill va
cancies in state draft boards are be-
ing taken at the state headquarters.
been made lately.
Turkey Season On. - The states
wild turkey season opened to-day and
real sport is on in a number of coun-
ties. There are plenty of the birds.
Name Prc-cmpted-The name of
the Town Meeting party was pre-
empted to-day for the Lackawanna
{ ounty congressional and senatorial
and First, Second. Fourth. Fifth and
sixth legislative districts of that
county.
Valley Forge Land Casc-In an
opinion given to-day 10 the Valley
FCrge Park Commission, the Attor-
fey Generals Department holds that
the authority of the commission in
acquiring land is confined to fixing
the location and boundaries of the
land which it deems eXpedient for
the state to acquire and the giving
OF notice of its action to the owner
OF the legal title. When this is done,
the statutes, by its own force, appro-
PIRATES the property, which appro-
prla tlon includes all the interests in
the land condemned" The owner of
q leasehold must be compensated,
put such person, as well as others
interested, must, be compensated
act.
Palmer in Charge - Governor
mbaugh to-day formally placed
l. K. Palmer, chief inspector of the
Department of Labor and Industry,
In charge of that branch of the gov
ernment as acting commissioner dur
ing the absence of Commissioner
Jacks as major in the Engineer
corps. The Governor summoned
headS OF all bureaus of the depart
ment to his office and stated the ma
ture of the appointment and that
he desired policies to be continued.
Want More Cars-Residents along
the Bethlehem division of the Phil
adelphia and Reading Railway, be-
tween Bethlehem and Quakertown,
to-day filed complaint with the Pub
lie Service Commission against the
train service between those points.
contending that the evening train did
moi contain sufficient cars
More Powell Men Go-Three more
Powell appointees in the Auditor
Generals Department were sundered
from the payroll of that branch of
the government to-day, having been
carried over after the change of
administration and given notice some
time ago that they should look for
new places. The men were Walters
5. F'reelands. Jenkintown. and w. II.
HAYS, Royersford, Montgomery coun-
ty; w. a. Ntale. Brookville. Jefferson
county L. s. Hengst, York, was
dropped some time ago.
O'Ncil RumorS Again-Stories that
Highway Commissioner J. Denny
O'Neil contemplated running for
Governor were rife on Capitol Fill
again to-day, copies of letters alleged
to have been sent out by him to
friends in NcKeesport in advance of
the election being circulated here.
The letters stated that he contem-
plated running for a state office. Mr..
'O'Neil was not here to-day but
friends of the Commissioner declared
they knew nothing of the letter and
that the Commissioner had never
said he would run.
Representative Herc-Representa
tive Charles a. Shafer, of Columbia,
was here to-day.