Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-22
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seventy-five cents per pound for tur-
key" repeated a dazed Harris
burg man who had been pricing tur-
keys at provision stores. This man
had been buying turkey every No
vember for thirty years and he said
with feeling that the worst would
never come. For it had arrived.
THE price of turkeys is high be-
cause we pay it," was the way he
put it. I'm going to hitch up my
automobile and go out to Perry or
Lebanon county or the upper end of
Dauphin and buy my own. The
average man does not know how he
can cut down charges and run up
gasoline bills by going into the
country for his provisions. 1t will
enable the farmer to come into Har-
risburg to see the movies" without
bothering to so to market to raise
the wind and perhaps when the
| farmer is in town he will be able to
purchase a few auto robes" The
complaint of the city man caused
an older resident to murmur about
the way people had been letting OPP
portunities go by. This city is fur
nishing an amount of garbage that
is very attractive to men raising
hogs. What's the reason the old
time custom of raising chickens and
carrying turkey along until Christ
mas time is passed up? A quarter
of century ago everyone in Har-
but the raising of fowls was discour-
aged by some foxy people and 1t
became questionable to rear them
and complaints about the early
morning rooster were heard. Now
we are paying the bill and paying
some one to take away the garbage.
l believe Harrisburg is going to go
back to the old days when it raised
its own fowls and had turkey on
the three big holidays"
It is a matter of record that
people connected with the State
Department of Agriculture have
been urging residents of this sec
tion to raise fowls. They have been
telling the farmers to raise more
chickens and the town folks to do
the same. The farmers declare that
they can not afford it because the
grain required to feed the fowls in
winter is too high and they have
sold their chickens to an extent
never before known in Dauphin
county. At the same time the peo-
pie who have the means of keeping
ten or a dozen chickens have let the
chance so by. And they will pay
the bill.
Edwin Charles, secretary of the
Old Boatmen's Association, is very
enthusiastic over the plan to make
the Susquehanna river navigable.
Certainly it can be DONE" he said.
I've Travelled over every inch of the
river. 1t is very practicable. have
a petition with 5000 signers and l
can get 10000 right in my own dis
trict." Charles is an old boatman
who rode the canalboats for many
years. Formerly living alongside
the river, he is brimful of tales
about old canal days. He is now a
resident of Middleburgh, Snyder
county, and holds the combination
office of register and recorder. He
is prominent member of the
Pennsylvania Alpine Club.
Three youngsters of a nearby
suburb raised S5 for the War Work
drive by a novel method. Having
many doting relatives who give them
more toys than they really ought to
have, and having accumulated q lot
in their playroom which they sell
dom used, they resolved to rig up a
store in an alcove under the hall
stairs of their home, using book
case and a box as basis of opera
tions. Here they set their spare
toys out in an attractive array and
added to them an assortment of
candy, cakes and other things dear
to the childish heart which they
bought as low as the grocer would
sell and priced as high as they
! thought the traffic and the worthy
! object in view would bear. Then
| they invited in every boy and girl in
the neighborhood who had a cent
| to spare and the sale was begun.
The proceeds mounted slowly at first
but after a while the trade became
established and s9.99 was in the
| treasury when the store closed it's
doors Somebody threw in a cent.
Five dollars went to the War Work
and five to the Red Cross, and the
nursery was cleared of n lot of junk
| that had been the worry of the
housekeeper for months.
One of the certain signs that the
war is about ended as far as Har-
risburg is concerned is the fact that
the movement of army truck trains
through this city has ceased and
the children living in towns along
the Carlisle pike and the William
Penn highway to Reading no longer
have the long strings of heavy cars
to cheer as they go by. No one
seems to have kept any count of the
number of trucks that passed
through Harrisburg, but there were
hundreds of them, as high as sew
enty-five a day not being unusual.
The fields near Twenty-first and
Greenwood were a favorite place for
! the trains to camp.