Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-15
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too much money. There are sew
eral branches of the government
which are struggling to get out from
under heaps of money orders and
certified checks and cash, which
keep coming In so fast that the peo-
pie in charge are working at nights
to get 1t sorted out and sent to the
State Treasury. It Is estimated that
1t will be the end of tho month be-
fore tho conditions become normal
and the money Is banked and all
books posted.
This rush is due to the demand
for 1918 automobile licenses, which
Is heavier than ever known before
and which is causing thousands of
dollars day to be handled: the rush
| for licenses TO sell oleomargarine,
which is also breaking records, and
for other licenses and papers which
the state hands out at the first of
the year. Clerks who are expert
enced in such matters say that they
have never known anything like the
rush this year. The money is all
in vaults and guarded.
| oNeiIC ShdUibtT Ol commerce,
| winch recently named n committee
TO make an inquiry into old age
pensions, which will keep in touch
with the State Commission on the
same subject, will also name com
mlttees on revision of banking and
insurance laws. on which the state
has commissions. The data gathered
| by the Chamber of Commerce will
be made available for the state au-
thorities and the General Assembly.
The Rev. DIR. Lewis s. Nudge.
pastor of Pine Street Presbyterian
church, told a good story before
the Harrisburg Rotary Club at
iuncheon yesterday at the Y. M. C.
"A, anent the propensity of many
ministers to debate the meaning of
obscure passages of Scripture. He
said:
Three preachers were gathered
together one day trying to find a
passage in the Bible upon which
Ihey would all agree absolutely,
Ihey discussed the matter for hours
ana ana We're not able to find verse
that meant absolutely the same
thing to all of them. A friend
growing weary of the prolonged de-
pate and hoping to end it, suggested
as solution to their troubles thar
passage which says, And David
danced hefore the ark
We'll, said the first, L take 81
Lhat the passage means that David
danced in the presence of the arlt'
II beg to differ said the sec
ond' but 1 have no doubt that the
writer meant that David danced he
fore the ark was built
on the contrary, observed the
snlra; nave no hesitancy in voic-
ing the opinion that what is meant
Is mat David danced before the ark
The oyster famine apnears +o
nave nit Harrisburg hard. PeonIe
: IN this city have been accustomed
10 getting the same succuIent hi
valves that the philadelphia epi-
cures and the Baltimore connois-
ssurs st ueIght in and to talk of, but
tle spell OF hard weather seems TO
raste,, Sul OH the supply. Men at
restaurants yesterday, who have
inade 1t a rule to eat oysters on
Mondays because they generally pet
sood ones in the shipments that a.
rive monday morning We're sroU1inc
ana saying all kindsN of dreadf,ti
LILIES. LILIES. Ihe. men at the head of tbe
va.Iiis places We're in despair and
10 %oiiaeang sg what they were going to
oysters in Harrisburg and Won oa',
not put over any old kind. Harris.
purs Is on the direct line nonti,
from Baltimore and is used to god
ones. W Soou
IN connection with the weatbar u
hntS, pe SAID that the men at the
l1 notes say that this cold sneiI nro,iIs
? that prohibition is not far off PrHees TIe
nave been times, say the n,ep ;'1
Mnite aprons, who admit that tbo,,
VII soon nave to be looking for
other JOBS, when zero waathon
!. iieanI aozens of men dropping in FOR
MP. and sometimes getting 10
i tahy P,at hlps' to keep out Jack Frost
e tba , enex are FEWER and, although
= manI fo mas been hard, the de-
lilaHu Tor hard liquor has bean
smaller than in ordinary winters
Ihere is only one answer and that
tndt the man with liouor m -.
~ ~ eatH ana rum kinks in his head
- not wanted. Only a few vears
7 s,7 Meather such as we have heen
noand f would have caused a de-
the harn nJr not Scotches." Now. saw
tne Dafkeeps, there are Iot
young sports who drink hot cbooo u
Lales and hot drink is NOT caIIos
LOT once week. You can COO raoIe,
ma hot water apparatus ~, n4S
? par In Harrisburg now and tbe
l thir Mdser Kettles, globes and simiisr
, sta,is st1ss are TO befound in every drug
: store and candy place. urus
D Capitol Park has regained its old
. I I1ine tavor with the youngsters "
' harrisburg as a coasting proT,r5 ol
les thhesterday afternoon the slopes of
sIIaa Te PARK and the driveways wera
Tbe iTbeu Win Ii sliding, shedding children,
ne PoLcemen looked on with
tne trees and chartered at The a. ~
Fasion or their precincts. III