Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-10
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State, county and city supervisors
of gardening activities were to-day
calling attention to the sleet which
fell at intervals yesterday as evidence
that there may yet be some nasty
weather and that people should not
plant seeds or set out young plants
too early. The remarkable interest
being shown in the war gardens"
in this city and by people at Steel
ton, as well as in the circle of bor-
oughs round about, has led the men
who are in charge of the general en-
people not to throw away their eff
forts. The traditional "onion snow"
for which Central Pennsylvania
waits before putting out its onion
sets, has not come as yet according
to some local weather prophets ana
until it does. fall it is unwise to
spend much time or money in plant
ing. Instead people are urged to
have the garden ground, dug up or
plowed and if it has been plowed te
prepare it for planting. Shirley T..
Watts, who is in charge of the war
gardens" for the Chamber of Com-
merce, is having troubles of his own
to hold back the eager gardeners.
The trouble seems to be the same
in the county section which is under
the agricultural authority of II. G.
Niesley, the county farm agent,
where there are many inexperienced
gardeners who wanted to start
planting in March and who have
failed to note the way the farmers
handle their planting. UP at the
Capitol the word is going out from
the Department of Agriculture to
the war gardeners" not to plant
too early.
The manner in which iron and
steel are being turned out at the
mills in South Harrisburg and Steel
ton is probably not being noticed by
one person in a thousand, but it is
said to be at the greatest rate Dau-
phin county has ever known. In
the last half year the production at
the Steelton plant alone has gone
beyond records and constant in
| creases are being made without be-
ing talked of.
Are the birds next to the day
| light saving move?" asked q man
who observes things a day or so
| ago.
Maybe you are only finding out
they are on the job early" was the
| suggestion.
well, every morning at a certain
time the last week a flicker or some
fiickers sharpened their bills on the
| tin roof over my head. 1t may be
that 1 am nervous. but the fact is
that by the same time by the clock
| ten days ago when our new time
had not commenced to work that
hfrd NO 1otn 6a sY,gr
\ Now they are not missing any time.
They start on new time where they
worked last month"
Some of the operatives on the
! Second street line seem to consider
the abolition of the short stops
something which can be extended.
Complaints have been heard that
men run by such streets as North,
Reilly and Maclay with no following
car in sight. The other day one
man who had run by a prominent
! street was met later in the day by
q passenger who asked IL the street
he had run by was on the mo stop
list.
mo, but it ought to be-" was the
bland reply.
'Well, when I signal you to stop
| there, I want on" came back the
citizen. "If you don't I'll have to
report you"
"Go ahead and report. Lot of
good it'll do" was the somewhat
| stunning answer.
And the joke is that the motor
man did run by him soon after just
where he said.
One of the popular sports of the
day just now appears to be to feed
the fishes in Wildwood and Paxtang
/ parks. Both parks have been stock
ed with young fish and they seem to
be on good terms with visitors. Sun
day is a great day for Wildwood
park visitors and they have been
induIging the fish, much to the
delight of the aforesaid fish. In
PaXtang park the watchmen have
to be on the alert to see that the
fish are not overfed.
|
! Pennsylvania decisions upon ap-
peals from the Compensation code
have now reached a point which
people at the Capitol believe will
cover every phase and the bulk of
the opinions will hereafter likely be
affirmations, on the part of the State
Compensation Board. The board has
cleared up scores of appeals, cover
ing such matters as lightning, sun
stroke, men setting themselves on fire
while striking matches on oil soaked
clothing heat prostration, injury
while at horse play. accidents due
to pranks by fellow workmen, de-
fects in machinery, ETC., premature
explosions, runaways, falls from
buildings, crossing accidents, people
struck by autom obiles while on err
rands and the like, while occupa-
tional diseases have also been pass