Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-05
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People who start out from Harris
burg on automobile rides or runs or
Trips, as the case may be, on market
mornings can not help but be i'm
pressed with the few number of
horses seen on the roads. This sec
tlon of the lower Susquehanna val
ley has long been noted as one of tho
most progressive from an agricul-
tural standpoint and it's horses have
averaged we'll with those of other
sections and in many instances been
superior. Thanks to efforts made
some twenty years ago attention has
heen given hereabouts to breeding of
good farm work horses and Dauphin
county mules, have been good ones.
lt is not so many years ago that
the roads leading to Harrisburg used
TO be filled with professions of farm
wagons coming to the city for mar
ket twice a week, some coming in
early on the night before. Now the
norse-drawn farm wagon is much
reduced i'll numbers and the auto
mobile seems to have been crowdlnR
It clear to the side of the road The
saturday afternoon buggy riding in
tne country is now automobile rid
ing. The horse, If there is one. is
ethef working or out in q field, al
tnough Just at present the chances
are rather in favor of pulling a Gull
tlVator or plow. One man who has
attended Verbeke street market for
years and who runs an auto market
wagon said that If automobile prices
ala not go up too fast there would
be lot of buying by farmers as soon
as tney got their harvest money this
month and that team of horses was
as valuable as a car and cost more
10 Keep. Ar eastern Dauphin county
farmer who went in for stock raising
some years ago said that without
people being aware of it scores of
Iarm horses had been bought IN
from farms and sent to the ARMY.
lie was of the opinion that with the
automobile and truck factories work
ing TO the limit on vehicles for the
Army that there would be a demand
TOT horses again this winter. But"
he added, ''the farmer knows that
a car don't eat its head off in winter
tlme and that gasoline and oats diff
er In price," In Harrisburg one has
only to visit the neighborhoods of
the Chestnut, Verbeke or Fourteenth
street markets to see that the small
cars nave displaced the old black
covered market wagon with the glass
doors and the feed box for the
When 1t comes down to knowing
what housing conditions are ill., ;S
an industrial community such no
harrisburg is growing to be Dr
D. M. j. Raunick, the city health of
ncer, ought to know. DR.. Raunicls
pFlor TO his service in combating the
various ills to which flesh IS beiT
IN harrisburg which has taken him
INTO every part of the city, was for
years in surgical work at Steelton
he mas probably seen the inside of
as many houses in this district as
anyone. 90
-, When 1t comes to demonstrations
the Dauphin County Farm Bureau
seems to be strictly on the lob
AGENT Nlesley has been working
lately to get people interested in the
money 10 be made in hogs and var
lous farms in the county have beetk
placarded with signs telling where
the information is to be had. The
larm agent has been rewarded bv
seeing that there has been a notable
increase in the number of swine on
Fennsylvania farms and the demon
stratiohs nave attracted whole farm
ers' families, which means that there
VIII De money in the bank for some
one next year.
BY the way" remarked a busi-
nessman last evening, have you got
ten any gold lately at the banlsq
You nave not The way the federal
authorities are quietly gathering in
the gold in circulation is Interesting
IL wise move, too, although I i'm
aglne there will be fewer gold pieces
put into Christmas envelopes this
year. ''i'
And now another place to get the
tlme in Harrisburg has gone. The
western Union telegraph office.
Mhlch gave the time when the Bell
Telephone Company discontinued the
practice. has become too busy. N
does seem strange that in a civ rho
SIZE OF harrisburg one has to RELY
on the whistles to get the time lust
as IN the country the bell rings for
dinner time. The kaiser is to blame
for much. "'i0
An interesting advancement in
rank announced in the last few davs
was that of Captain Rudolph r
helKer, Jr., to be major in the engi-
neer corps. The new major was
visitor here last week on his return
from washington to Camp Grant
rockford, ILL.,, where he has been
stationed as captain and adjutant of
one or the engineer regiments. In
dooltion to being promoted to major.
ne becomes camp adjutant and
ne l..