Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-13

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Hl9INHjH HTIVME ture has issued a
J3By0SS~ warning to far
mers that they
yrER9Asl& should feed the
BIRDS. 'fhe birds have migrated
from the South to Pennsylvania and
from what we have heard they have
been unable to get food because of
the SHOWS, and are dying in num-
bers," said Secretary of Agriculture
Patton. The loss of these birds
our division of zoology informs me
would constitute severe economic
loss and I hope that people will see
that they are fed"
The Department field officers are
calling attention to the importance
of saving the insect eating birds,
particularly robins, bluebirds, flick
ers and the like, which are of great
value to farmers and truck garden
ers and in some counties rural tele-
phone companies are giving infor-
nation. State authorities are rec
ommending that the birds be fed
until weather conditions are again
normal and the insects return.
DIR. II. A. Surface, the former state
zoologist, who reported many rob-
ins and bluebirds killed by the cold
and starvation, recommended that
cornmeal, chopped apples and fat
meat without salt be scattered about
for the birds.
Bonds Going Out-The Public
Service Commission has received cer-
tificates of notification for the fol-
lowing issues of stocks or bonds:
Brownstown Electric Light, Heat
and Power Co., Brownstown, bonds,
$1,000; South Pittsburgh Water Co.,
Pittsburgh, bonds $4,000; Penn
Central Power and Transmission
Co, Altoona, bonds, $4,000; Penn
Central Light and Power Co., AL
toona, bonds, $4,000.
To Give ShcepslIins city
and borough school superintendents
elected at the conventions held this
week will be given commissions by
the State Department of Public In
struction for which they were chos-
en-. The lists are now being made
up. So
Joint .Birthday-To-mor will
be the birthday of both Governor
Brumbaugh and Lieutenant Cover
nor McClain. Both were born on
April IA, but the Governor was porn
in 1862, two years before the Lieu
tenant Governor. Both are native
Pennsylvanians, the Governor being
from Huntingdon county, while the
Lieutenant Governor resides in Ian
caster, the city of his birth. 1t is an
interesting fact that the four Repub-
lican candidates for the gubernator-
ial nomination are also sons OF the
| keystone State.
MANY Observation-Disclosures have
been scheduled by the Public Ser
vice Commission for Harrisburg
Pittsburgh, Uniontown, Philadelphia
| Altoona and Wilkes-Barre during
| the coming week. After argumen'
on Monday the commission VIII con
slider transit matters from Philadel
! phia, Pittsburgh and other cities II
executive session. Action may alst
| be taken in regard to grade cross
ing cases, the director general o.
railroads having asked that orders
for construction be deferred unit
| after the war.
ExDect Early ActiOn.-Early actor
by the Public Service Commission OF
the report on the Pittsburgh railway
situation is expected at the Capitol
ArscnnI,S Record.-The State Arse
raj force of twenty-four men to-day
subscribed for $1,750 of Liberty
| Bonds.
TUenty-fiye Cases. The State
Beard of Pardons to-day announced
a calendar of twenty-five new appli-
cations for pardon to be heard April
II, one first degree case, Frank Lat
tart Philadelphia, being listed. Four
I.applications for rehearings have
| teen made, while three are held un-
der advisement, including the first
degree case of John Q. Christley
| Dauphin, and Louis di Berardino, as
sault with intent to kill, Philadel-
Thia.
JobnstOwn Gets Busy.-The Mayor
ard Counci!men of Johnstown to-day
/ filed complaint against the Johns
| town Traction Company's service and
| the increase of fare from five to SIX
! cents Another complaint filed by a
| Center county lime company attacked
! the State-Center electric railway fol
| increasing rates and discontinuing
| service.
| To File MOnday.-Represen
| james +. Woodward. of McKeesport
! chairman of the House Appropria'
/ tons Committee in the last House
to-day announced that proceedings tC
! attack the nominating papers oi
James Woodward, of Ashland. whC
/
| lican nomination for Secretary of In
| tcrnal Affairs. to which Mr.. Wood
ward also aspires, would be flee
| Monday, Several contests of peti
| items are expected to be started b!
candidates for other nominations, al
tho time for instituting such pro
ceedings will close Tuesday.
Delegates acknowledgements Brum
baugh to-day made the following ap
| roiutments
Delegates to the seventh annua
convention of the National Old Trai
Association. to be held in Kansa!
! CITY, Mo, April 17--S, 1918: JOSEPH
H. Weeks, Philadelphia, A. p. Ir
win, Chadd's Ford; w. d. Regmer
| Grvensburg; Frank j. Harris, Pitts
| burgh.
| League to Enforce Peace, to be helC
! in Philadelphia, May 1918, 1918: i
| r, White, Philadelphia; DR.. G. M
! Phillips. West Chester; DIR. u. d
! Warfeld. president Wilson College
! Chambersburg DR.. II. S. Drinker
president Lehig-h University, Soutf
| Bethlehem; DR.. S. b. Mccormick
| chancellor University of Pittsburgh
| John Stewart, Justice of the supreme
| Court, Chambersburg; c. LaEue Mum
son, Williamsport; the Rev. j. ]
| Curran, Wilkes-Barre; w. A. Stone
Uniontown; Julian Kennedy, Pitts
| burgh.
Smallpox Again. - Smallpox hai
! now appeared in LuZerne county
cases having been reported from
wilkes Barre. The infection came
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