Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-10
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giving more concern to men who are
| telegraphing to DIR. B. T. Royer, the
State Commissioner of Health, since
the influenza closing order went into
effect than the church door. In the
last week, the first seven days of
the closed period, DR.. Roger has re-
ceived scores of kilograms regarding
phases of the closing order. many
! of which are of character which
have been left to discretion of local
authorities to settle. Some of them
have been insistent and some criti-
cising. A number of those received
have come from owners of saloons
who want to know whether the clos
ing order will prevent them from
leaving the family entrance" open
| or whether they can serve customers
| who come with pals to the side
door. Still others declare that they
are in dangersof losing customers
who eat at their places and who are
resentful of their refusal to sell
liquors with the viands. Some of
! the kilograms have questioned au-
thority and demanded reference to
statutes on the subject The bulk
of these inquiries said DR.. Roger,
should never have been made. The
authority of the department in such
cases is ample. 1t was enacted into
a law in 1905 and has been upheld
|
raised nine tenths of them are mat
ters with which local authorities can
deal. AS far as liquor dispensing is
concerned there is nothing doing as
long as the order lasts. We have
made provision for sales on pre-
scriptions if there is need of stimu-
lants in cases"
1t takes the great seals OF the
(NN,1 n.lf I, 80 De-,
the State of Minnesota to enable
two American missionaries away
over in the eastern part of the Bel
lgian Congo to get married. One of
the missionaries is the daughter of
Mrs. Laura Polling, of South Fork,
Cambria county, and the difficulties
of the affianced pair came to light
through request she made at the
Capitol The missionaries decided
to marry last winter and in May ap-
piled to the Belgian authorities
They were told that they would
have to comply with the laws on
,the subject in their home states.
Indications are that it will be De-
cember before they can wed. 1t
was necessary for the clerk of the
Orphans Court of Cambria to take
sheet containing the questions
asked in applying for a marriage
license andsto certify that it was so
used under his hand and seal. Then
he had to send it to the Secretary
of the Commonwealth for the proper
certification from that officer and
this was given for one dollar, which
the law stipulates must be paid when
: the great seal, in gilt, is affixed
: Now the papers are all ready to
start to the Congo as soon as the
same set of documents is received
from st. Paul. Minnesota being the
home state of the prospective groom.
The pair are in a remote part of
East Africa. 4
State Game officials are awaiting
the fourth conviction of a Somerset
county Austrian to take some dras-
tic steps against him. This man has
been three times arrested and fined
this year for having firearms in his
possession. incidentally, he has
violated the game laws. Each time
his gun had been confiscated, but
he turns up with another one and
pays the fine each time. The war
dens and State Police are trying
to find out where he gets the fire.
arms and why he is so persistent.
The state authorities want to see
that he gets the limit of the fine
next time.
People who attended the funeral
of Fire Marshal G. Chal Port at
Huntingdon on Tuesday tell of the
|, remarkable proofs of affection shown
by the people of that place to the
marshal. Mr.. Fort was for years
one of the active men of the COM
munity, borough and county Off
cial and was known to everyone.
Men left business and work to at
tend the public services in spite Of
the influenza order and the mes
sages received at his home came
from many prominent citizens of
the state. .'
Almost any evening there are men
to be seen out along the River Front
above Maclay street with field glasses
, watching the river and studying var
ious localities. They are men who
are after ducks. Often the ducks
drop down during the late afterI
noon and make themselves comfort
able and the duck hunters spot
them and go out before daylight.
Half dozen big fiocks have been
located by these men in the last
week and the sound of guns heard
early in the morning shows that
they are on the hunt.
The excess fare slips about which
so much fuss was made a week ago
are losing their novelty and con-
ductors say that people are refusing
to take them. The conductors have
all been pretty we'll instructed to
offer them when the six-cent fare
is paid and they are commencing
to laugh at the. way people pass
them up. The conductors call them
rain checks" and pay some days.
About half a dozen of the people
who get on the cars take the checks
and some of them tear them up.
|
Here's another angle on the six
cent fare. A conductor said that
he wished it had never been put
on because it makes so much work
for change. But I'm not in it with
the fellows at the office; they're the
ones that have to suffer They have
more work and they swear at the
pennies more than we do. What we
want is a six-cent piece"