Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-18
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Disappearance of the winters
SHOWS, has revealed the fact that
hundreds of bushels worth of pota-
toes, turnips and other root-foods
and many stalks of corn were vast
ed in the so-called "war gardens" of
Harrisburg and vicinity. Indeed, to
look at some of the plots, is to real
ize the failure or inability to give at
tention to the gardens, lack of whose 4
produce probably caused many a.
penny to be spent that need not have
otherwise been expended by house.
keepers. In some gardens about the
city, potatoes have been turned up,
which were not gathered. because
they were small, while there are
other gardens where numerous tur-
nips and rows of cabbage are to be
seen, small. shrivelled, killed by frost
and eloquent of neglect. Not only
was 1T regrettable circumstance
that Harrisburg, which prided itself
upon 1t gardens last year, lost this
valuable produce, which would come
in handy now. but the fact that the
decaying remains of the plants were
not taken out. Such things are
breeding places for enemies of vege-
| tables and there will have to be
WIN bphS ILLS SDI1IlS TO over
come the pests, because the remains
were not taken out and burned last
fall. 1t is not too late to avoid this
trouble, say the men who understand
such things, but it will take prompt
action.
plane News" is the latest
trench" paper to reach this coun-
try. 1t is issued by the boys of the
aviation section of the American Ex-
peditionary Forces in France, and is
as bright little publication as one
would want to see. If you have any
notion that our lads across the water
are afflicted with the blues, you
ought to read plane News" which
shows that they are full of fun and
| frolic, and enjoying their adventure
| to the limit no matter how much
of peril may lie along the front for
them. "Plane News" is a two sheet
\ paper with a two sheet Feature
Section" most of which is given
over to the publication of original
cartoons and the funny strips
would put many an American metro
politan daily to shame.
There is one cartoon of band
playing before an officers barracks
at daybreak. to which are inscribed
the following verses:
"Orders is orders" the sergeant said,
And bravely forth his band he led,
Up to the barracks at break of day
To where the officers peacefully lay,
Dreaming of home and mother.
Orders were orders, their duty
plain.
And play they did with might and
Til the Sunday sleepers from blank.
cts rolled
(Oh the air was damp, and raw, and
cold)'
And forbade them to play another"
"Plane News hears that this pic
ture had some foundation in fact.
and this is the way the editor sizes
up the international situation:
1.-THE War Game-Last inning,
score tied; England, France and
Italy on bases; Russia out; America
at bat; Germany praying for the
Ump. to call the game on account of
darkness"
What is believed to be the record
for payment of direct inheritance
tax, has just been reported here. 1t
was a receipt for two cents, direct
tax under the act of 1917, and does
net cover the postage costs in filing
lllc lcpOII dI Tic 1dpIlOl. IIlG DdA-.
ment was made by the husband of
Grace Firth Robinson, late of Ches-
ter, who left 81 of an estate valued
at $565.75 to the husband, the rest
s.oinS to collateral relatives, on whose
shares tax will also have to be paid.
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Harrisburg has no complaint to
make, this year, of lack of attention
from robins. There are scores of
them to be seen about the city and
the Capitol and Riverside parks have
numbers of the redbreasts. They are
somewhat perplexed at the lack of
warmth, but seem to be making the
best of it.
, Providing one realizes that it is
all in honor of st. Patrick or rather
as a tribute to the part played in up
building our city, state and nation
; by the Irish, one can overlook some
of the incongruities in the wearing
| of the green. Many Harrisburg resi-
dents of North of Ireland descent,
yesterday, wore green ties or ros-
cites in honor of st. Patrick and it
was not surprising to see some whose
forefathers hailed from Africa sport
ing a knot The interesting thing
about it was that a couple of Greeks
wore green ties and some men, of
unodubted Slavic lineage were keen
to honor the man who chased the
snakes and made the kerns behave
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