Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11

llOh anu VIII De Undertaken III Il lew
weeks. Preliminary data is now be-
ing assembled which is said to show
numerous schools of the primary
grades at which attendance is aver
aging from twelve to sixteen. These
schools are in rural districts and it
is believed that better results could
be obtained If they were to be con-
solidated and provision made for
Transporting the pupils, as is done
in quite a few districts now.
Many of the country schools have
closed and the pupils are now help
ing on farm work. Some of the
the required period of teaching, ow-
ing to expenses and a number of re-
quests have come to the State Board
to help get teachers for the new
term which starts in the fall. The
dearth of teachers is one of the most
serious problems in state educational
affairs.
Studying Pests.-Systematic study
of the pests which have been pre-
venting Pennsylvani grape raising
industry from attaining larger pro-
portions has been arranged by State
Zoologist ]. G.. Sanders, who has
sent field agents to the various coun-
ties where grape raising is a speciality
on farms, to study leaves and insects
on them. These studies will be made
in cooperation with the temporary
experiment station established at
Erie. Similar studies are being
made in the apple districts of south
ern counties.
Eleven Homicides-Eleven cases
involving homicide of various de-
grees are scheduled to be heard by
the State Board of Pardons when it
session. There are thirty-four cases
all told to be heard. % being new
applications, six applications for re-
hearings and five held over cases.
William Warren, Chester, is asking
commutation from a death sentence
and the case of Frank Lattari, Phila-
delphia, has been put down for de-
termination. He made an apphca-
ton for commutation in April. Louis
O. Hine, Philadelphia, granted COM
mutation in 1907, is seeking pardon.
Four new applications for pardon
of second degree murder cases and
one of voluntary manslaughter are
on file for hearing and three second
degree cases were held over. There
are. cases from seventeen counties.
Next to homicide applications, rob-
berry or theft is the most numerous,
Anthracite Appcals.-The State
Compensation Board will hold an
thracite region compensation appeal
hearings next week. The sittings
will be held in Wilkes-Bar on
Wednesday and at Scranton on
Thursday. The following week sit
tings will be held in Philadelphia.
Benninger's Case.-The complaint
of Representative w. M. Benninger,
of Northampton county, against Il
grade crossing at Lehigh Gap is to
be heard by the Public Service Com
mission Monday. This is the first
case in which legislator appear as
complainant. Wednesday complaints
from Lansdowne and Norwood
against Philadelphia suburban gas
rates will be heard there. Hearings
will be held during the week in
Pittsburgh and Beaver Falls.
Van Week over There.-tirst Lieu
tenant l.. Il. Van Week, of the 1l1th
Forces, has arrived safely, overseas
according to a card received by w. a.
Wynn, Engineer of the Bureau of
Township Highways of the state
Highway Department. Lieutepant
Van Week, formerly was connected
with the State Highway Department
as road superintendent of Erie
county.
ley Transit Company has filed notice
of increases of rates on it's lines with
the Public Service Commission. 9th
er notices filed were Columbia Gas
Company, Columbia, increase of
rates and change of discount; Penn
sylvania Light and Power and Du-
quesne Light Companies, Pittsburgh
and Conneaut Lake Electric Power
Company, Crawford county.
Hetzel Goes On-Substitution of the
name of Isaac ID. HetZel as candidate
for Republican state committeeman In
the third district, Philadelphia, for
the late John Nirdin was made at the
department of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth.
Greer ReappOinted.-I. X. Greer. OF
Danville, was to-day reappointed a
trustee of Danville state hospital.
Won't Give Service. - Complaint
that the White Deer Mountain Water
Company had refused to extend mains
to Montandon was filed with the Pub
lie Service Commission to-day by
John Nesbit, who asked the commits
sion to have a hearing in that vicin-
ity.
buildings in North Fourth street, in
the Capitol Park Extension district
were sold to-day to e. G. Ensminger
for s31 and will be removed at once.
They once contained a groggery of
renown.