Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-25


has been granted to the Harrisburg
Rail Co., Harrisburg, capital $4,000;
incorporators, John 70. Fox, A. @.
Eden and John r. Geyer, and to the
Lykens Motor Car Co.. Lykens, cap
ital $4,000, incorporaters James d.
Helt, Harvey ID. Helt, Lykens and
Charles E. Uhler, Miilersburg.
Supreme Court Papcrs--The time
for filing nomination papers for tho
Supreme Court will expire to-mor-
row night and the time for with
drawal will end on Friday ut p.
m. There are now nino candidates
in the field for tho two seats to be
filed at ths November election.
(Lebo WithdrEws-Wlll!um C. Lebo,
Illuminated on tho Prohibition Leg
islative ticket In Porry county, has
withdrawn.
/ Hearing Plans---Public Service
! Commission hearings have been ar
ranged for tomorrow In Harrisburg,
. Philadelphia and Erie, with sessions
at Scranton and Pittsburgh on Fri
! day. Executive sessions will be re-
sumod on October 8.
Eighty Charters ovory eighty
charters, tho largest number acted
upon in single day in years. were
approved to-day In the number
were sixteen coal companies. nine
chemical or iron manufacturing, six
automobile concerns, five land, two
! housing. four hosiery and two bank
| ing companies with four building
and loan associations, ono Of the lat
ter being named for President Will
son.
| Eric Visitors-Ex-Aud Gen.
eral \. e. Sisslon and ex-Judge Gun
nison. of Erie. were at the Capitol
to-day.
In Philadelphia-Majo w. q.
Murdock. chief draft officer, was in
! Philadelphia meeting medical men
| connected with the draft administra-
ton.
! Meeting Chiefs-Governor Brum-
haugh spent mcst of to-day meeting
heads OF departments and discuss
ing administration matters which
have accumulated since he went
away.
To Begin Work-State draft head
quarters has received word from
| Provost Marshal General Crowder
directing that general classification
! of registrants of September IL be
started at once, but that until boards
are familiar with new regulations
regarding draft officials, policemen,
! firemen and government officials and
employees nothing is to be done with
those classes.
Raiding Aliens-Further raids on
! aliens who have been harboring dogs
and keeping firearms about prem
! ises have been made in coal regions
/ by State Game Protectors. The fines
tivity of officers.
Police Visit Hill-Chiefs of police
of various places here for the meet
! ing yesterday visited the offices of
! the State Police Department yester-
day and discussed matters with Su-
{ perintendent Lumb.
! Work to Go Ahead-The work of
the State Council of National De-
fense in regard to agricultural ad-
visers is to go right ahead until
the coming of December. The serv-
ice has been very valuable and there
! is big demand for the men.
| Borough Objects.-The borough
of Norwood to-day entered omplaint
before the Public Service Commits
| sion against the gas rates OF the
! Philadelphia Suburban Gas and
! Electric Company, charging that the
! quality of the gas had also been di-
minished. The commission was ask
ed to suspend the new rates and to
! authorize issuance of excess payment
| certificates, Claim of overcharge Of
! S15,6S7.19 was made by w. z. Crow
and Z. B. Palmer, receivers of the
| United Lumber Company, against the
! ursina and North Fork Railway and
| the Susquehanna Lumber Company,
| charged that Begin & Co. wanted to
| charge 81 per loaded car handled On
a siding at Nanticoke instead of 25
cents offered by the lumber COM
| pany which also stated that it mad
| been refused siding. The con-
! troversy between local telephone
! companies over alleged invasion. Of
! territory in Bedford and Fulton
! companies, which involves charter
rights, was heard by Commissioner
| Killing.
Can't Employ on Strcets.-Attor-
neS GeneI al Brown has given an
! opinion to the Department of Labor
! and Industry that II would not be
! lawful Ito employ male minor ur-
| der fourteen years of age to dis
| tribute merchandise on the streets
| or other Public places" under the
provisions of the child labor law. If
il is unlawful to employ such minor
IN slcre !: is unlawful to send
him ont on he streets 20 sell or
Governor Meets Heads. - Governor
Brumbaugh. who has just returned
from his summer vacation. to-day as
sembled heads of departments of the
state government under the executive
and asked that during the remainder
of the present administration they
maintain the same standards that
have prevailed during the summer.
The Governor said that he desired his
administration to close with the same
activity as at present and that there
pecially asked that everything pos
sible be done to support the nation in
the war and complimented them upon
what Pennsylvania has done since the
struggle began.
Thorn Goes Up. - The appointment
of George D. Thorn, chief clerk of the
state department, to be acting deputy
secretary of the commonwealth. sue
ceeding Frederic A. Godcharles, who
has been commissioned a captain In
the Ordnance Corps of the United
State Army, is expected to be an
nounced in a few days. Mr.. Thorn is
a resident of Adams county and. has
been chief clerk for years.
Influenza About. - Reports of out
breaks of Influenza at Camp Colt, Get
tysburg. where a number of men are
in the camp hospital, and at points
in Chester county reached the State
Department of Health to-day State
inspectors will cooperate with Army
officers. Inspection to determine
causes of typhoid outbreaks in Della
ware, Clearfield. Clinton and other
counties are under way.
Inquiry On. - State Health officers
are looking up an outbreak of typhoid
fever near Parkesburg, which is one