Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-17
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Ing the catch limit of bullfrogs in
Pennsylvania this year. The new
bullfrog and terrapin law. under
which. by the way. the swapping tur-
| tie is not to be classed as terrapin.
forbids the hunting of "bullies'' with
| lights at night and there have been
many more frog voices raised in
| peaceful chorus at night this sum-
mer than known in many years. In
some sections which have been noted
| for the splendid frog sticking in
times gone by it would seem than the
nocturnal concert has been more ex- .
tended. the tones more far reaching
! and the splashes of the frogs moro
aggravating because they cannot be
speared by the light of bullseye.
electric flash or plain old torch. The
catch is fifty in a season and twen-
ty-tive in Il day and they must be
hunted without the aid of a light.
! State fishery authorities have ar
ranged to begin the shipment OF
| small mouthed black bass and blue
gills from the Union City hatch
| cry during the next week. There is
an abundance of these fish in this
hatchery. The shipment of trout
| from four to six inches in length
from the Rellefonte and Cory hatch
cries has assumed better proportions
than hoped for and thousands are
being put into streams by fishermen,
who have volunteered to help be-
cause of the shortage of men in the
| fisheries department. Later on 1t is
expected to start shipment of large
numbers of sunfish from Torresdale
hatchery.
The fact that the official birth rec
ords of Harrisburg do not go beyond
1875 has become public information
| in the last fow days and has caused
| considerable surprise as it was tho
general opinion that some attention
had been given to such matters af-
ter the Civil War. One result of the
failure to maintain records in chose
days has been that persons seeking
copies of certificates in the matter
of registration in order to substan-
tiate their ages have been forced to
either do without or fall back upon
family Bibles, baptismal records and
even the advertisements of births
which used to be printed in those
days by many well-regulated fami-
lies. In this city there has been more
or less embarrassment because some
men who were sensitive about their
ages few years ago are now some
what insistent upon getting the facts
to establish that they are older than
they really look.
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Harrisburg friends of "Thee"
Brown, the old University of Penn
sylvania pitcher, will be interested to
know that he is in France in charge
OF important work for the Y. NJ. c.
A. He is an engineer who was for
merly at Steelton and when the
Americans got into the war he went
| out with the Y. NJ. G. A. handling
the construction end. Now he is the
head of it and is spending about
$16,oeO.OoO a year.
Pennsylvania is getting rid of its
infantile paralysis outbreak, accord
ing to reports coming to the State
Department of Health and 1t has not
been bothered with the Spanish in.
fiuenza. During August there werd
eighty-three cases OF infantile para.
lysis reported. but at the present rat4
September will not have half that
number and some of them were old
cases from the previous month
which had been delayed in reporting.
No new cases have been reported for
three days and the only two centers
of any account are Pittsburgh and
Chambersburg. Chambersburg had a
dozen cases Friday, but none has
been reported since. OF the August
cases it is interesting to note that
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coming of cold weather it is believed
; the disease will abate. State health
authorities say that nothing like
Spanish influenza has appeared at
: any port as far as known, but Off
: GERS have been instructed to watch
for it.
F. r. Stevens, who is in charge Of
organization of the farm labor and
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of National Defense, says he is get
ting more first-hand information on
the characteristics of the people OF
the Keystone State than he ever
dreamed of when he was in charge OF
the farming and industrial work OF
the Lehlgh Valley railroad. Mr..
Stevens has been travelling about and
finding much war spirit.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
says in it's Current Topics column:
my money belt" said a "Y' man,
starting from Philadelphia for the
front, (which good Philadelphia
women gave me for the poor in
France.
Whenever I see a bunch of tat
tered and hungry refugees I am to
help them, as far as the money will
hold out.
81 was in a store on Market street
a few days ago when a woman came
in and ordered 10000 little twisted
wire puzzles for our boys over
there
That's what I call a real and
practical religion-the sort that
counts in these piping times of war"