Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-15
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Some of the men named as com.
missioners to take the vote of the
| soldiers and sailors In various camps
and stations throughout the country
have declared in turning in theiE
books that they never want to go
again. The commissioners, with few
exceptions, were men who had nevUT
| had any experience in such matteEt
as taking soldier votes and some OF
them had never served on an elec-
| tion board. The greatest difference
appears to have ruled in the way the
commissioners were received at the
various camps. At most of them the
camp adjutants took the commits
sioners in charge and made them ~
| home, but in others the commie.
sioners had to argue about getting
permission to hold elections. The
right to hold the elections was never
| questioned, only the way to 20 about
| it, And, incidentally, the bulk of the
commissioners held forth in Y. M
| c. A. huts where they could get into
| them. In one case the commission
ers organized the election boards in
| the auditorium of the camp and had
regular voting bee from to
o'clock. The general statement
] HOW6NeI, ny lllt commissioners ID
| that the soldiers were not interested
in voting. The men were all busy
with training, drilling or studying
and, although politicians had been
around to see them, they did not
show much concern about the re-
suits and some men only voted when
| they found their comrades were go
| ing to ballot The belief is that the
| whole cost to the state will run over
$4,000.
A good story on the high cost of
living comes from Nerbeke street
market. 1t seems that woman OBJ
| iected to paying some advanced
| prices for eggs and asked the man
in charge why the rate was away up.
Feed, Missus, is the main thing.
| 1t costs an awful lot to feed chick
ems these days, and then we have to
take care of them" explained the
farmer.
Say, man. when was raised on
farm we turned the chickens out
| to run and did not feed them any
grain, and the only care they ever
got was when chicken hawks came
around. And we gathered the eggs
as fun" responded the woman with
some vigor.
The farmer was nonplussed and
then bluntly replied: well, amt
the railroaders making lots OF
money!"
Captain r. C. Bailey, commanding
the motor truck company of the Re-
serve Militia, got off duty Wednes-
day for the first time since the in
! fluenZa cStbreak began and was on
duty again before night. The cap
tain was put in charge of the move
ment of supplies by trucks when the
| epidemic began to assume such pro-
portions that the state had to take
hand, and then was made the Of
| ficer in charge of hospitals at Steel
fton and other places in this section
| He worked day and night and when
he had reported off duty he was re.
called and sent to Western Pennsyl-
vania to straighten up some hospital
conditions.
A handsome, large-sized photo.
graph of the portrait of Ex-Governor
Samuel w. Pennypacker in the Ex.
ecutive Department gallery has been
placed in the meetingroom of the
| Public Service Commission at the
Capitol, where he presided over the
business of the body.
The hearing to be held by the Su.
perior Court at Philadelphia the
first week in December in the appeal
of the Harrisburg jitneymen from
the decision of the Public Service
Commission has attracted attention
all over the state because of the large
number of jitneymen operating. II
was thought that the decisions OF
the Commission in the Scranton
Wilkes-Barre and Allegheny cases
would cover all matters that could
arise, but the local cases brought out
some new angles.
Members of Grand Army posts in
Harrisburg heard yesterday with the
| greatest regret of the death of Col
r. Bruce Ricketts,, of Wilkes-Barre
commander of the famous artillery
unit at Gettysburg and other hard.
fought fields. Col. Ricketts, was
| Democratic nominee for Lieutenant.
Governor in 1886 and came near be.
ing the party candidate for Governor
in 1890. He was well known here
and was a member of the Gettysburg
Military Commission.
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