Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-12
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Boys who try to demonstrate their
prowess as marksmen by means of
the old-fashioned "slingshot" will
not only get into trouble with local
authorities, but be arrested by State
came Protectors and State Police-
men II they shoot at protected birds.
Ofncers of the Game Commission to-
uay made this plain as the result Of
numerous complaints of the actiy
1ty OF the juvenile sharpshooters and
reports that robins, warblers and
other Notwithstanding birds had
| peen targets for stones and bullets
from sings. From all accounts there
mas been an increasing number of
such shooting and game girds have
also been attacked. There will also
be an effort made to prevent any
aliens from obtaining licenses as has
occurred in the past. The number of
aliens arrested for having firearms
| In their possession has been large
this year, due mainly to the activity
OF the wardens and policemen be-
cause or the war conditions but
there have also been quite a number
or complaints heard about their
hunting of game out of season. Con
ditions are generally reported favor
able for the small game. In eastern
counties there has been an unusual
ana pheasants. They are mainly
protected in the western counties.
squirrels and rabbits are abundant
and in some sections woodcock have
peen seen. The duck hunters have
found good sport, although the sea-
son is early and have thus far es-
capped any collision with federal au-
thorlties over the bag limits. Deer
and bear have been reported in the
made to buy number of pheasants
TO distribute next spring. They will
be held on preserves during the win
ter.
Bert" Blough. who has attained
some heights as a Liberty bond
salesman, was doing business in
prlsk way in front of the court
mouse the other afternoon and was,
Kidding" Abraham Lincoln Holler
about being Slow" 1t happened
that Mr.. Blough had to take a man
lnto Sheriff Caldwell's office to sign
MIN up and in his absence Mr., HoI-
Ter sold some bonds. Suddenly he
sighted well-dressed woman COM
ing along the street and started to
sell her a bond. Mr.. Holler was per-
sistent and was just about to show
tne lady where to sign her name
when Mr.. Blough happened to come
out of the courthouse
Great Scott" he shouted, Look
at Hoiler trying to sell bond to my
wife!"
Down in the eastern end of the
county there lives man who has
property, a sense of security under
our laws and -noncombatant ideas
, when 1T comes to buying Liberty
) Bonds. He had refused to buy, He
{ does not believe in war
Down on the mans farm there is a I.
hen house and until a few evenings
, ago there was fine flock of hens.
About the darkest hour the other
evening some one stole the hens.
Down the road to a lawyer came
, the man, indignant, demanding pro-
lection for property as an American
citizen.
Say, can't you git the State Po-
lice to come out and watch around
my place." said he to the LAWYER
) when he told how unknown mis-
creant Huns had cleaned out the
roost.
The lawyer was the man from
. whom he had refused to buy even
: one of Uncle Sans bonds and the
lawyer could not resist.
Get State Police?" Why, man,
} the State Police don't care what
| happens to you any more than 1
do was the way he hit back.
; w. Grant Rauch. of the Common
wealth Trust Company, who has
given up business to help the State
, Department of Health fight infu-
enza, as representative of the Dau-
: phin County and State Councils of
Defense, is now gaining a rare
amount of experience. Mr.. Rauch
has been working some sixteen
hours a day and among his jobs
have been to get a special train to
! go from Harrisburg to Pottsville
lalong about midnight; to supply au-
tomobiles by long distance telephone
to doctors 100 miles away; to see
that nurses are met by some one in
getting off at stations in the coal
regions and keep a flock of mes
sengers ready to handle messages
and keep lines open in these con-
gested times of communication.
"The fact that the reports the
trust companies and state banks
made to the State Commissioner of
Banking as of September 81 showed
a general gain in assets and in de-
posits in the face of a decline in the
number of depositors is one of the
finest things 1 have seen in a long
time and it should be remembered
by every person when the Liberty
Loan men come around" said one
of the city's bankers. Indeed
Pennsylvania has shown up remark
ably in its banking records when
one considers that it has 100000
men in national service and that
virtually all business is now on n
war basis. The old state has al
ways been there with the goods and
the bank report reflects a fine con-
dition."