Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-23
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made the suggestion in letter sent
to- the Harrisburg Telegraph that as
| Victory Day is likely to be celebrated
annually hereafter in commemora-
ton of the triumph over Germany
on November IL that it would be
we'll to combine this day and Thanks
| giving Day. The Librarian would
have one great national thanksgiv-
ing celebration and says that it would
have the advantage of stabilizing
in a. natural way the thought of
! Thanksgiving and would prevent
congestion of holidays just before
Christmas. DR.. Montgomery. who
has the history of every occasion at
his fingers ends. has been giving
the matter much thought and be-
lieves the idea is worth discussion.
The Harrisburg Telegraph would be
glad to have the views of other peo-
pie on the subject.
Grant Ramey, of the State Insur-
ance Department, has run across an
| interesting souvenir of somewhat
stirring event in American indus
trial history in the form of one of the
| badges worn by members of "Coxey's
Army" when that nondescript band
made it's solemn ENTRY" into Wash
ington years ago. This army"
which started from out in Ohio and
had a strenuous march, furnished
the country with no end of discus
sion and newspapers printed yards
and yards of it. Some of the news
papermen who report the Legisla-
ture accompanied the army on the
march. The badge lisa white ribbon
| giving the official name Of the foot
| sore band and some lettering an
nouncing the occasion.
There is widespread and increas-
ing interest in the proposition to
make the Susquehanna river. navi-
able by the construction of a chan
mel in the bed of the river. Aside
from the commercial and industrial
features many who recall the old
shad fishing days are hopeful that
some such development will follow
the present discussion. These believe
that the system of locks which will
be necessary to such a project will
permit the shad to once more come
up the Susquehanna. At the present
time they are stopped at the Nc
Calls Ferry Dam and thousands of
the young shad are consumed by the
natural enemy of that popular fish.
!
, The branch of the Philadelphia
Inquirer known as "Everybody's
Column" recently contained this,
interesting article which relates to
: Harrisburg:
Editor Everybody's Column -
Isn't it fact that, long time ago,
Trappe and Harrisburg were called
Trap and 'Harrisburgh? / mean
the Trappe that we go through when
, driving from Reading to Norristown.
Some of my neighbors here in Berks
county say that I dream things.
Thanking you in advance.
BERT F."
Who will dare doubt either of
your statements when you produce
George Washington himself to cor
roborate both of them? In the great
mans diary of his trip to quell the
insurrection in Western Pennsyl-
vania in 1894, the following entry
will be found under date of Tuesday,
September 80:
81 left the City of Philadelphia
about half past ten o'clock this fore
noon accompanied by Colo. Hamilton
(Secretary of the Treasury and my
private secretary. Dined at Norris
Town and lodged at a place called
the Trap-the first II, and the lat
ter 25 miles from Philadelphia. At
Norris Town we passed a detach-
ment of militia who were preparing
to March for the Rendezvous at Car
lisle-and at the Trap late in the
. evening, we' were overtaken by Ma
jor Stagg." =.
And the following, under date of
Friday, October 8, will prove equally
to the point:
"Breakfasted at Hummels T. II
nd 0f ri a1-Vsic-
burgh on the Banks of the Susque-
hanna 23 miles from Lebanon. At
v NHarrsburgh we found the First
: Regiment of New Jersey (about $50
strong), commd by Colo. Turner.
drawn out to receive me-passed
along the line, to my Quarters-and
after dinner walked through and
around the Town, which is consid-
cradle for its age (of about or 8
years)."
Robert F. German, correspondent
of the International News Service in
this city, has received several copies
of peace" editions of newspapers
connected with that service, which
will be interesting wartime memen-
toes. Some look more like handbills
than anything else and were issued
to meet local demands. There had
| Deen so muCn unJuSIllleQ eNClI6Il6nI
over peace reports that the people
were on edge and wanted the news
when right. Newspaper publishers
generally arranged to give it when
the time came. That it caught some
of them mapping is well known, but
then with the news arriving at 2.46
on a Monday morning there was
some reason for hasty issues. The
special extra morning edition" of
the Sunbury Daily is half a sheet of
its first page put out at 2.5S a. m.
and containing the bare facts and
nothing else. The peace extra" of
the Hanover Record Herald is four
columns wide and two-thirds of the
ordinary first page in depth. 1t was
another early morning special and
after presenting the news says sem
tentiously, 1.-THE above dispatches
are authentic" The larger newspa-
pers of the state generally issued
special editions, which had been pre-
pared as far as possible in advance
and the morning newspapers receiv-
ing the reports of the Associated
Press found that their evening sis
ters were much on the job with
peace editions before dawn. The
smaller newspapers met the demands
in their localities with sheets that
I, look funny now but which gave the
news.
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