Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-30

corps and the advisors will be busy
all spring and summer.
Many to Plant-State Agricul-
tpral officials believe that planting
OF corn will be on one of the most
extensive scales ever known in Penn
sylvanfa this year. Many requests
TOT information as to seed corn sup
pies have been handled and the only
drawback will be labor, which con-
dltion Will be overcome in counties
through the dozens of tractors which
nave been bought and put into use
py chambers of commerce, local
committees and other organizations.
including some community clubs.
The states tractors will nearly all be
In service in another ten days it is
hoped.
The Fare Cases-The difficulties
OF the Shamokin and Mt. Carmel
Transit Co., which declared that it
could not issue excess certificates
for six cent fares pending decision
in litigation over the increase of a
cent because its employees union re-
fused to do it, will be heard by the
I Public Service Commission here on
Wednesday along with a number of
other trolley complaints, including
those of the city of Coatesville
against the West Chester Street Rail-
way Co., and complaints against the
| Ephrata and Lebanon Traction Co.
Monday will be devoted to argu-
ments, including the Middletown
water and Pure Oil pipe line cases.
The commission will also have hear
ings in Philadelphia, Wilkes-Barre
and possibly Reading.
To Take Over Lines-The Penn
sylvania Railroad will ask the Pub
lip
nesday, for approval of the acquisi-
ton by the company of the fran
chise, property, rights and credits
of .the Cornwall and Lebanon and
Susquehanna, Bloomsbury and Ber-
wick Railroads. The commission a
short time ago approved the transfer
of the lines west of the Pennsylvania
system to the Pennsylvania Rail-
| road. In addition the company will
ask the approval of the commission
of the proposed Goth street branch
in Philadelphia, which will include
a contract with the city of Phila-
delphia and crossings in the .40th
ward. 1t will also present applica-
ton for industrial sidings in the S1st
ward of Philadelphia.
Governor Away-Governor Brum-
baugh is spending the Easter holi-
day in Philadelphia and will return
Monday.
| To Meet Thursday-The State
Banking Law Commission will sit
at the Capitol on Thursday.
To Visit Son-Banking Commits
sioner Lafean has gone to Rock Is
land to visit his son.
Tractor For Huntingdon.-J. G..
Dell, member of the Legislature from
Huntingdon county, to-day arranged
for fra e.
the vicinity of Shirleysburg. The trac-
! tor will be shipped at once.
Further Hearing.-A further hear
ing in the Philadelphia transit lease
! is being arranged for next month.
1t will probably not be settled for
some time. The next hearing will
be held in Philadelphia.
Armstrong County Now.-Small-
poX has appeared in Armstrong
| county, according to State Depart
ment of Health reports.
No Building.-The State Commits
sion in charge of the Inebriate Hos
pital location is about ready with its
site, but there will be no construc-
ton during the war.
Making an Inquiry Dairy and
Food Commissioner James Foust has
been in Clinton and adjoining coun-
! ties making an inquiry into some re-
! ports of food law violations.
Kephart Ffles.-State Treasurer
! Harmon NJ. Kephart. of Connells-
vile, to-day filed petition to be a
candidate for the Republican state
committee from Fayette county. 9th
er state committee petitions filed
were: Joseph L. Campbell, Repub-
lican, Forth-fourth district (Alle-
gheny); II. B. Sherwood, Demo-
crat, Wyoming: Elisha Kent Kane,
Mexican, and r. p. Allen, Mercer,
both Prohibition.
Legislative Papers. - Senatorial
petitions filed to-day were: ]. P. Tiff
fany, Democrat, Wayne county,
Fourteenth district; J. r. Wylie, Re-
publican, Forty-fourth district (Alle-
gheny). House petitions filed were:
Lewis Treglow, Democrat, Clinton;
David r. Jones, Republican, Law
renee; Edward L. Alum, Republi-
can, Mercer; Paul P. Lyon and ]. V.
Anderson, Prohibition, Mexican; ].
S. Mccoy, Prohibition, Mercer.
Appointments G. N. Leis-
ter, Pottstown, was to-day appointed
a trustee of the mothers pension
fund of Montgomery county
Thomas 9. Jones was appointed all
derman Eighteenth ward, Pitts
burgh, and Clyde Leonard Patterson,
justice for Wilson, Allegheny coun-
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