Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-08-28
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BY the Ex-Committeeman

State Senator William Wallace
Smith, from the Eighth district. COM
prising northeastern wards of Phila-
delphia, died late yesterday after
noon at the Jefferson Hospital, fol-
lowing two operations for a chronic
throat affection.
He had been at the hospital nearly
| three weeks. during which time Mrs.
Smith had remained at his bedside
almost constantly.
The Senator was the son of Will
liam b. Smith, a former Mayor of
Philadelphia. He was born in Phila-
delphia, April 8, 1871, was educated
in the public schools of the city and
was graduated from Nazareth Hall
! Academy in 1887, when he entered
the employ of j. B. Shannon & Sons,
hardware merchants. From 1889 to
1899 he was with the Philadelphia
and Reading Railway Company. He
was a professional baseball umpire
with the National League clubs in
1899 and 1900.
1t was in 1901 that he became as
sociated with his father-in-law,
Thomas Johnson, in the business of
printing specialties for the textile
trade, to the management of which
he succeeded in 1905.
He was president of the Lynwood
Manufacturing Company and enlisted
in Company A, First Regiment, n. G.
p, in June. 1888, and served as pri-
vate until October. 1889, when he
was elected second lieutenant of
Company c, Third Regiment Infan-
try, and in February, 1890, was elect
ed captain of Company G, Third
Regiment Infantry, from which he
resigned in September, 1892.
He was q member of all Masonic
bodies and other patriotic, fraternal
and trade organizations and political
clubs to the number of forty-seven.
lie served one term on the Phila-
delphia School Board, Twenty ighth
district, and for twcnty-one years as
q member of the Twenty eighth,
Thirty eighth and Forty-third ward
Republican executive committees. Ele
was elected to the State Senate in
November, 1914.
Ex-Judge John w. Bittenger, 80 |
years old, of York, died at his home
last evening, after a three weeks
of chronic nephritis. He
served on the York county bench
twenty-one years, having first been
appointed to the office in 1890 by
Governor Beaver, to fill the vacancy
|
Gibson. He was elected twice to the
office by the Democratic party.
Charles E. Pass, who will be
nominated for prothonotary on the
Republican ticket, without opposi-
ton, is nevertheless making a sys- I
tematic canvass of the county. He
was once elected poor director by the
largest vote ever given a candidate
for that office in Dauphin county.
Joseph II. Haines, who is a can
1idate for poor director on the Re-
publican ticket, is blind.
Reports from Lebanon country
are that conditions there are bright
for the success of the whole Repub-
ican ticket by large majorities the
coming November.
Thomas Hughes and John Hays
have retired from the race for may
Or of Scranton.
There will be two candidates for
District Attorney on the Republican
ticket in Venango county-Lee A.
of Oil City, the incum-
bent, and A. B. Jobson, of Franklin.
The same men were candidates four
years ago.
President Luther J. Schroeder,
Of the Columbia School Board has
been named by the Republicans as
will have as his opponent Frank j.
a Democrat, and the
present incumbent.