Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-19
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aged to keep the cars in the garages
and to help make us all better peo-
pie and more careful of the Sabbath
it has certainly caused a revival of
the popularity of the bicycle. More
| wheels were to be seen on the streets
| of Harrisburg and Steelton on Sun
day than known in a dozen years.
The country roads were marked by
the clouds of dust they kicked up
ana the people going to church and
from Sunday school had to duck
them. Old wheels which had not
been used for months came out and
boys were in their element. And at
| night the manner in which the city
ordinance requiring lights on bicy-
! cles was violated and men and buys
| roamed up and down the streets and
out corners without any warning,
! Just missing men, women and chill
| dren, was a reminder of old timeJ.
The policemen were not used to the
| swift-m owing wheels without II Shts
! and the miscreants gave them laugh.
ter when told to stop. If the b..
| cycle proves as popular next Sun
| day as 1t Yves last Sunday, there will
be plenty of excitement and the po-
| licemen ought to fatten their aver
| ages
When 1t comes down to a good
place to get out of the rain, COM
mend us to the Capitol Park SOUR
rels. Yesterday morning when the
rains were coming down and all ma
ture seemed weeping, a squirrel
woke up and took an observation.
He had gone to sleep in the cannon
of Spanish war days in front of the
State Museum, having possibly been
locked out of his home, and when
he found things were wet he turned
around and went to bed again.
Matt" johnson, who has charge
of registration matters at Major
Murdock's draft headquarters, which
never sleeps or seems to want to,
is now commencing to talk without
using figures. Mr.. Johnson had the
draft reports from PSI districts, each
one reporting in eleven columns, to
look after, and between mistakes in
kilograms, errors in transmission and
other polite names for blunders had
a cheerful time running down the
correct figures. But he finally got
them and now orders his meals and
p handles business by ordinary terms
instead of calling out figures.
S The fine cooper beech in Capitol
Park is to be taken care of when the
changes are made to the plaza on
e the west front of the great building.
this beech being what Superintend-
5 ent George A. Shreiner styles IAN in
stitution." The beech is one of the
L finest trees in the park and its color
! scheme attracts much attention. 1t
: is to be moved when the time comes
to enlarge things on the Hill.
Col. Frank R. Keefer, of the
. United States Army, who was here
yesterday at the conference between
state officials and heads of state in
>, stitutions, belongs to Harrisburg, al
though he has been for years in the
>, Army. He is a son of the late Ma
jor John B. Keefer and his mother
and sister reside at Front and Ham
10 ilton streets. He is the chief medical
- officer in the Office of the Provost
Marshal General, and in Washington
q they say he is going higher. T.
- General Willis ]. Hulings, former
Guardsman, Senator and Congress
a man, who was here yesterday for q
meeting of the State Armory Board
=, and remarked that things were kind
of quiet. I'm running for Con-
gress again up in my district" said
the Oil City man, but things are
Is kind of quiet. 1t does not seem like
the old campaigns. Maybe it will
liven up, but there is not much STIR
ring now"
Hummelstown seems to be strict
Iy on the map when it comes to hav-
= ing its men trained. The Harrisburg
Reserves have been sending details
] to that town to drill the men of draft
age and, although a number of the
men have gone to camps, there are
others coming on and they go right
in. Now steps are under way to re-
vive the Reserve organization in
Hummelstown to assist in the train
ing. In addition to drills, it is the
plan of A. Reeder Ferriday, who has
been working on the details. to have
= men give talks on war topics IN con-
d junction with Chairman C. M. Her
5 shey. of the board of instruction.
James C. Deininger, executive
clerk to the Governor is on his an.
nual vacation to Sullivan county
where he has his home heath. Mr..
Deininger likes to hike across the
mountains and. while not equipped
with seven-league boots, manages tc
make much mileage. He knows al
most every nook of that picturesque
portion of Pennsylvania and says
that for views it has some of those
better known far distanced.
Howard NJ. Hoke, secretary to the
Attorney General, is home from his
annual trip to Maine, which he has
been taking for years. Mr.. Hoke
came home by way of Fort Monroe,
where his son is a student in an ar
tillery school.