Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-25
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July. That Is what is happening
to the thousands of young and old
persons who use the Harrisburg Pub
lie Library owing to the fact that
the library has to be closed for ..
month to make repairs to the waltz
and ceiling as the material witt
which they are covered has shows
tendency to curl up and drop or.
The library is now one of the bus
places because of the demands oS
people who want to take out books
for July reading and the arranging
for the close. Everyone of the
twenty some thousand books in the
library has to be handled and got
ten out of the way of the repairmen
and the library kept going at the
same time. The library has lately
been specializing in books of mils-
tary training value and for men who
are particularly interested in some
branch of industry having to DE
with war. Many of these are reaa
by people who can only get to tie
Front and Walnut streets institu-
ton in the evening and the plan is
to have them take the books home
for study. The same is to be done
with the Boy Scout books. which are
in marked demand, while the young
sters will be given several books for
July. And the serious way the kids
go about picking out the books they
! want is worth watching.
The five communities having the
| highest rating in the Third Liberty
Loan drive and receiving stars for
| exceeding quotas in the Third Fed
| eral Reserve district portion of
Pennsylvania are stated by Banking
Commissioner Daniel f. Lafean to
have been York Haven which sub
scribed for twenty times it's quota
and won twenty stars, GAINESVILLE
which got II stars; Irvona with 15;
Heckschersville, Schuylkill county,
which won fourteen and Glen Carbon
with thirteen. They lead the S71
communities in the third district
which won stars. The honors in the
western part of the state which Is
in the Fourth Federal Reserve dis
trict went to Thornburg which won
thirteen stars, followed by Edge
worth with 12; Etna and Ben Avon
with ten each, all of these being in
with nine stars and Cherry Tree with
eight are in Indiana.
Fish pirates who can not wait for
the opening of the new date of the
start of the bass season next Monday
and some who have not patience to
| fish for trout have been causing con-
siderable trouble for state fish
wardens and state policemen, game
protectors and forest rangers who
are working with them. In a num-
ber of instances foreigners have
been dynamiting streams and in
~, Vic h,ti1Hif1U
trout streams and using big nets.
On the Susquehanna there have been
some explosives used and close
watch has to be kept in industrial
communities.
DR.. John I. Woodruff, of Susque-
hanna University Selinsgrove. who
visited Harrisburg friends the other
day, is president of the Snyder
County Sunday School Association,
manufacturer of patent washing
machine which is his own invention.
professor of English, and a public
| speaker of prominence. DR.. Wood
ruff has had a number of unique
and interesting experiences in his
oratorical career and it is the custom
| for his friends to draw him out and
have his narrate some of these
tales. He was formerly president OF
southern college and later moved
to Selinsgrove where he began the
! manufacture of the washing ma
[ chine, and accepted the chair of
English. He has had long ex-
perience on the Chautauqua and
lyceum platforms.
It is not generally known that the
| famous cantor tenor singer, Joseph
Rosenblat. who sang at the dedica-
| ton of Kesher Israel Synagogue,
Sunday, was once offered a thousand
dollars an hour for singing on the
operatic stage. The famous singer
will not sing except in a Jewish
church or for the benefit of some
patriotic cause. His voice has been
recorded on the photograph and
members of the Jewish faith
throughout the nation accord him
the honor of being their greatest
vocalist. He has a voice which COM
bines dramatic and lyric qualities
in a great measure.
Col. Marlborough Churchill, who
has just been made chief censor of
the army is West Pointer in spite
of his English name, which has
puzzled more than one man here. 1t
happens that he was here couple
of years ago as the guest of Captain
George f. Lumb, superintendent OF
the State Police, and was immensely
interested in the organization of
which Captain Lumb has been very
vital part and in Harrisburg. When
Captain Lumb was in the Regular
Army at Fort McHenry, Col. Church
hill was a second lieutenant of ar
tillery.
Another regular army colonel OF
artillery, we'll known here who spent
a few hours in Harrisburg a day or
so ago while on his way some where,
| is Col. Roderick Carmichael. He
was on recruiting duty here during
the Spanish War.