Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-30
Etrrtttt1g Glrat

Notwithstanding the fact that
the newspapers have been printing
yards and yards about the new post
age rates made necessary because OF
the war there are a lot of people
mere In Harrisburg who do not real
re that letters sent to other places
atter November will have to bear
three cents in stamps" said one of
ihe men at the post office. "I have
peen calling it to the attention of
people, but they do not appear to
nave walked up and there are going
TO be lots of letters sent back or held
up ana some penalties paid The
other day one of the live men in this
community came in and started to
puy stock of stamps. When sug-
gested he lay in some three centeTs
ne asked mo why and seemed sur
prlsed. Then along comes another
man VINO Is supposed to be up with
the times and suggests that the gov
! eminent sell two and one cent
| stamps In books for greater con-
Ven1ence. We've been doing that
Tor year and although he buys lots
| OF books he was not next to IL. The
wise Harrisburger is going to watch
the regulations"
| Large quantities of chestnuts are
going to waste in mountain counties
| or pennsylvania, especially those in
the southern section of the state ac-
cordlng to reports which are reach
ing the Capitol. This part of the ~
state, which is also the big annie
producing district, has been handi-
capped by lack of people to pick the
| apple crep and the chestnuts are
railing without care and are not get
ting TO markets, although prices are
higher than for years. Sections of
| the state forest reserves where ef-
forts have hnnF1 Il o.
inroads of the chestnut blight have
produced largely of chestnuts this
year and there have been very few
requests for permission to gather
them. In some tracts game has been
attracted to the chestnut groves and
hunters have found immense quanti-
ties OF nuts on the ground. Ordina-
rily this section of the state supplies
the general market with large
amounts of cheStnuts, but the ship
ments have been small this year. In
other counties many nut trees have
not been visited and the game will
be well provided with food for
winter.
Arrangements are being made by
the State Public Service Commission
to group all cases involving allega-
tions of violation of the full crew
law for hearing on November 21 and
|
now In hand two specific complaints
and number of allegations of viola
tions covering four distinct features
| OF train operation against the Penn
sylvania and Reading systems. This
plan was followed over q year ago
and decisions handed down in all
| presented.
The average man has little idea of
what 1t costs u man who has to
make addresses to keep engage
ments or the tremendous nervous
strain that public speaker has to
undergo to keep fit and fresh and
have his ideas ready to roll out. A
couple OF men were chatting about
the travelling necessary to keep en-
gagements in a restricted area like
Pennsylvania and some one told of
the experience of Dr. j. George Becht
secretary of the State Board of Edu-
cation, last week. DR.. Becht landed
in Milford, we county seat of Pike
County, early in the week as the top
liner in the Pike County institute.
He was due for four speeches which
were distributed over two days. On
the afternoon of the second day at
4:35 he started for Dushore, the me-
tropolis of Sullivan County, when
Eaglesmere is not running. He went
from Milford to Port Jervis, N. Y,
thence to Susquehanna and thence
to Binghamton, moving on to Owe
go and then to Waverly, where he
took an early morning trolley to
Sayre and caught local train to To-
wanda where he boarded q train on
| the Bowman'S creek branch Of the
Lehigh Valley railroad, turning up
bright and early at Dushore at sos
a. m. without wink of sleep. Insti-
tute starts early in the country and
the doctor had just finished wiping
the cinders out of his eyes when he
was summoned to breakfast and then
rushed to face q battery of keen
country schoolteachers. And they
had him down for five speeches
that day. AS he had to be in Will
Transport next day and there was no
train he took an automobile at Du-
shore when the shades of night were
falling and drove over the mountain
to the Lycoming County seat, meet
ing, among other things, six inches
of snow in bowling storm. He got
some sleep when he got back to
| Harrisburg.
The oaks in the ROW of the Gov
ernors" are going to grow straight
and righteous as becomes trees
named for such illustrious person.
ages. The saplings planted with
such formal ceremonies last Friday
| have all been roped and wired so
that they shall be inclined toward
| Heaven, as we'll as an example to
other trees in the Capitol Park.
| .
Col. Henry W. Shoemaker, the au-
thor and publisher, who was here
yesterday to see the Governor, was
much interested in the plan to have
a row of trees named for the Execu-
tives of the State. Col. Shoemaker
is one of the authorities on Pennsyl-
/ i.n An.nn