Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-28
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| heHloer OF Harrisburg people
VINO are going to spend their vaca-
| tions at home or its Vicinity this year
VIII be the greatest in wears and he
rather indicative of the spirit with
Which sPennsylvania's capital 90
heeuhs the duties of the war Last
year number of families accmss
TONED to going to seashore or noun
, saih or on automobile trips STAYED
mere ana helped with Red Cross
ana other work as a matter of course
and took what vacation thew ventsS
IN winter. Some did not go awav
| at all, but remained in the CITY oy
lts vicinity. Much the Same n,on
seems to be likely this wear rho
| heo cross parade demonstrates bonv
many people are interested in the
splehdld work of that Organization
a., Hna there are busy men of affairs
| t,,,, etty VINO are giving of their
1 s,ilie 10 tne various campaigns, the
| systematizing of efforts for the SOL
Hiers ana sailors and regulation of
ioou, tuel and other things withont
| tnouSht of remuneration, but rettIny
anuse and little credit for what tbas,
nave accomplished. These peonIe
NAVE put the old idea of a month
aMay out OF their heads and are on
g"t with the men on the railroads
ana In the mills as far as stickiny 10
| the Job is concerned. II 10 So.,,
me spirit and has been commeptaS
! upon py men in the ARMY and In
pubic service as lust what was Az
pected of Harrisburg" ~
scarcely day goes by but what
SnEwhere from half a dozen To n
uo1eh tarm tractors are unIoaded
tbis Lor alstribution to farms in
TINS section of the state and if +i,a
present rate of buying tractors
Keeps up there will be scores a.,
D1Cauphin and Cumberland counties
me Iarm tractor is Il beast about
Which the average city man knows
iItt'e except that it replaces horses
OF iohg time this community has
ueeh uralned of its horses and
.oi' ituies' II mas always had a repu-
ha,oh ba,,o lor good animals and thew
nave oeen bought up. As n resnIt
the farmers have been buvinp trarN
TORS and 1t is familiar sicb+
around Market street delivery vasds
anu the sidings of the agricuituraI
Ilpieilcht concerns to see the rcd
naohlnes. At first many people did
not know what they were Now
people feel like taking off their hats
10 them' especially after thew have
seeh tractor go through a field
speaking about tractors Secra+or,,
OF Agriculture Charles 70. Petto1
says that some people expect a trac-
Ior TO plow fields, which arc not
nerds, put Just plain hillsides. "Son1n
oi lhe nelds we have been asked to
PIow win the state machines have
sraaes that would require a machine
" pe equipped with wings and tho
man in charge to have stickers on
his feet" said he. And son,o 20
the helds about which we have re-
celVed letters have not been touch
ed Tor so long that there are sus-
plcions that the owners want them
broken in"
IL all reports are correct some of
the Austrian element in this citv
mas hot only been violating all food
es uiatlohs by laying in stores of
Ilour ana sugar, but have also some
explosives sticking around which
tney do not need for the killing of
ololetown or Lochiel mosquitoes In
spite OF the quietness which tho
Austrlans nave maintained they will
gear watching especially as fine
weather has come and wages are
hlgh' combination which some
tIlles makes men too strong 20
work. The search for weapons
which has been going on quietly is
something which should be support-
ed by every man If needed.
Lovers of roses, and there ara
many in Harrisburg and in the
country roundabout, will be inter
ested to know that the Charming
young woman who gave her name to
the Dorothy Perkins rose which is
the climbing variety now in bIoon
everywhere and so justly popular,
mas Just been blessed with a SON
she is Mrs. F. B. Estabrook. of
Germantown, the daughter of
George c. Perkins, of Newark.
D. Edward Long, the states su-
perintendent of public printing.
who has just let some contracts for
about a quarter. million dollars
worth of paper for the state govern
ment, thinks he is lucky. When
asked if the contracts ran for
couple of years he said: IT should
say not. 1 was mighty lucky To
get them made for a year and they
want the specifications within a
month"
Some one of these mornings Har-
r1sburg war gardeners" are going
TO wake up with choice crops of wild
mustard and chicory in their plots.
The outskirts of the city, largely
through the ignorance or neglect of
people, have been infested for the
last three years with the blue devil''
as the chicory is called and with
other plants which destroy the vaIu-
able properties of the soil about as
fast as anything can. They are de-
clared by Franklin Menges, one of
the states farm experts, to be one
of the things that gardeners should
get rid of promptly.