Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-27
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

bring a series of announcements of
candidates. by members of congress
and possibly some of the men talked
ot~as possible candidates for State
nominations may speak. The DEM
ocratic bosses council to be held on
the banks of the Potomac to make
a slate for the people of Pennsyl-
vania is not expected to be conclu-
siVe. The machine leaders will cam
vas the situation and decide to await
the result of the well defined harm
ony move which is under way among
thinking Republicans in Pennsyl-.
vania.
According to one story which has
reached this city, Senator William
c. Sproul will make a number of
visits to dinners and similar gather
ings in Eastern Pennsylvania next
month. Guesses are that the Sem
ator will be n candidate, but there
are reports from the Western end
of the State that Senator William e.
Crow is wanted.
chairman W. ~ De- All6N, OIL Ine
Public Service Commission, who has
ambitions, is to make a speech to-
night at Tunkhannock, which will
probably have some reference to
politics. He is the first man con-
nected with the State administration
in an important way to be listed for
Il speech for weeks.
County appointments are be-
ing made generally and some attract
attention. Auditor General Charles
y. Snyder has been reelected county
solicitor of Schuylkill and Represen-
tative Adam C.Schaeffer. of Mahonoy
City, has been chosen as State clerk
in the Office of the county commits
sioners. Thomas j. Evans has been
reelected chief clerk. He succeed
ed Paul w. HOuck, secretary of In
ternal Affairs.
Montgomery county commission
ers have appointed Raymond Craw-
ford. of Willow Grove, mercantile
appraiser at a salary of from $500
to $500 a year, and DIR. j. Quincy
Thomas, of Conshohocken, trustee at
the State Hospital. There will also
be Il change in the office of Sht'ilfi
on January l. 1t was announced to-
day that Maurice j. Clayton, now
deputy clerk of courts, would sue
ceed William w. owen. The latter
has been deputy sheriff for fifty
years.
-Reading's city council has just
framed up "A budget of $1,0S4,7S1
for the new year and will have a
ten mill rate. The expenditures are
about the greatest ever known in
that city. Reading will be a second
class city in the next census.
Scranton city officials presented
f.. Il. Jermyn. who will retire as
mayor next week, with a handsome
silver service.
Reports are that Secretary of
Agriculture Charles +. Patton may
try for congress again. Friends of
the secretary have been urging him
to make the fight.
District Attorney-e Rowand,
of Allegheny. has named Robert II.
Braun, of that city, former chief
deputy to Sheriff Richards, as chief
of the county detectives. Assistant
district attorneys have been named
as follows: c. b. Pritchard, Homer
n. Young, well known here; Harry
a. E,step, Major A. b. Hay. S. ii.
Gardner, William f. Walsh G. f. p.
Langfitt and J. Edward Little.
According 10 SOIllG SlOIleS WHICH,
are heard there will be a lot of eX-
citement when the new city of Beth
lehem gets on the map on January l.
A shake-up of officials is likely.
-Easton's city employees were
refused an increase and went on
strike.
CONGRESSMAN John r. Farr, of
Scranton. is out for denomination.
He has served three terms and
County Commissioner NJ or g n
Thomas wants a term.
The Philadelphia Record says
that philadelphia city budget will
be "burdened" with unpaid bills.
David +. Wells, postmaster at
Gracedale, has been arrested on a
charge of misappropriating $3.50.
Representative Harry B. Scott,
of Centre, is being talked of for
congress in his district.
The Philadelphia North Ameri-
can says in a Johnstown dispatch:
compensation commissioner James
w. Leech apparently has Joined the
official contingent that is busy as
certaining Just how many people
there are out through the state who
believe that Attorney General Fran
els Skunk Brown is the man the
Republicans should nominate for
governor. Leech has been quite
busy in Cambria County as Food
Commissioner Foust has been in
Blair. Both men say that the at
torney general stands we'll with lab
or, is a fighter, would run we'll in
the county and would run well in
Philadelphia
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