Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-21

1nOnWedlln OWLS SuCn DullulnBS-
Practically every armory in a place
where there is a college or advanced
school where the war Department
has started training class has been
turned over to the national author
tiles by the State Armory Board.
In places where the armories are
in use for hospital use arrangements
will be made later for their use by
students enrolled in army classes or
where high schools are being given
instruction in military matters.
These armories are also in use by
units of the Reserve Militia.
Wheat Away Up-Pennsylvania's
acreage sown to wheat will equal
and possibly exceed the record
breaking total of 1,540,000 acres re-
ported cut this year according to
reports which are coming to the
State Department of Agriculture.
In many districts tractors have
handled the plowing and drilling
and made up for the shortage of
farm labor due to the war and in
dustrial demands. The acreage
given to wheat in Pennsylvania has
shown a marked advance in the
last few years. 1t went from
1,33S,OOO in 1916 to 1,373,500 in 1917
ard the 1918 report showed 1,45O,-
$50 acres. There will be a big
increase in rye and buckwheat acre
age compared to former years.
Certificates Filed-The Public Ser
vice Commission has announced the
filing of the following certificates of
notification: Mercer Water Co.,
Mercer, bonds 1000; Pennsylvania
Utilities Co., Easton, notes $115, 900;
Kittaning Telephone Co., Kittaning,
common stock $4,000; Clark's Ferry
Bridge Co., Duncannon, bonds $10,-
000: Eastern Pennsylvania Railways
Co., Pottsville, bonds $136,500.
State Leases Buildings-The State
Board of Public Grounds and Build
ings has leased the old United Evan
gelical Publishing House at Second
and Locust streets for additional Of
fees. The building is owned by Ro-
senberg, Fishman and Handler and
will be altered to provide offices for
some of the departments which are
NV crowded, while some which are
in the section of the Capitol used by
the Legislature will prbably be given
quarters when the work is finished.
The remodeling to suit the building
for offices will be an expensive prop
osition owing TO the cost of mate
rials.
woodward Hcre-James f. Wood
ward, of McKeesport, Republican
nominee for Secretary of Internal
Affairs, who was here yesterday, said
that Allegheny county would give a
fine majority for the whole Republi-
can ticket and elect Republican leg
islators. Mr.. Woodward served as
chairman of the appropriations COM
mittee in the last two Houses of
Representatives.
May Set Aside Law-While no
formal statement has been made in
regard to the manner in which the
federal railroad administration will
consider the full crew" law in op-
Grating railroads in Pennsylvania
during the war there is reason to
believe that emergency regulations
will be made which will virtually set
it aside. The formal action will
likely be taken in the decision hand
ed down recently by the Public Ser
wee Commission holding that the
Pennsylvania railroad had violated
the full crew" act in hauling coal
trains on what is known as the Sc
wickley and Bushy Run branches.
In these cases the company claimed
that it was n yard movement, but
the commission declined to accept
that view and directed that the num-