Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-09
COMMUNITIES
AND WAREHOUSES;
Secretary Patton Outlines the
States Plans For This Year;
Capitol Hill Notes

state plans for the organization of
farmers community organizations
for marketing products and COM
munity warehouses and experiments
for eradication of pests newly dis
covered in the orchards and grain
nelds of Pennsylvania were outlined
to-day at luncheon of the State
Society composed of heads of depart
ments of the State government, by
Secretary of Agriculture Charles r.
Patton
MIR. Patton said that the sheep in
Pennsylvania had increased by the
thousand in the last year and that
there would be still further increases
when the new dog law goes into
operation. He outlined plans which
IT is hoped will aid in relieving the
shortage of farm labor by more gem
eral use of machinery and by State
purchase of seed corn for sale at
cost.
The borough of Norristown to-day
Drought formal complaint before the
Public Service Commission against
the action of the Reading Transit and
Light Company in increasing fares
from five to six cents, declaring that
under an ordinance of 1896 the COM
pany could not raise the fare beyond
nVe cents. The company will be
asked to make answer. When the
complaint of the borough of West
Chester against the Philadelphia
Suburban Gas and Electric Company
was brought to a hearing counsel for
the borough wanted to limit the
valuation to the West Chester plant,
but the company objected and argu-
| ment Will be heard later on.
James Rudtsill, prominent in the
| printing business at York, was named
to-day as a trustee of the Harrisburg
state Hospital to succeed Richard
E. Cochran, resigned.
In an opinion TO Chairman Charles
! T. Aikens of the Building Commis-
sion of the new Eastern State Hos
| pital, it is held by the Attorney Gem
! erals Department that the commits
sion has not authority to employ u
| paid secretary. The legislature failed
to provide for "a secretary, specifying
! only a chairman and a treasurer to
! be members of the board who are
to receive no compensation and the
| question was raised whether a secre-
tary could be employed under
authority to have a superintendent
and such other persons as may be
necessary in the course of business.
More smallpox has appeared I'm
/
to Ohio township. Cases in Mercer
county have also been traced to
| Ohio and drastic state steps are
| likely.
senator Penrose passed through
! this afternoon on his way to Pitts
burgh to attend the Armstrong din
ner and was greeted by number of
| friends. Auditor General Snyder left
| for Pittsburgh to-day and Senator
Beidleman and Secretary Baker will
| leave tomorrow.
The complaint of the Ridge Ave-
nue. Building and Loan Association
against the Springfield Wter Com
pany, of Philadelphia, growing out
of an unpaid water bill on a Willow
Grove property taken over by the
association, was postponed to-day
| because similar case is pending in
| the supreme court.
No objection was made to-day to
acquisition of the stock OF the Eddy
stone and Delaware River Railroad
| by the Pennsylvania system and the
Public Service Commission win
probably approve it.
Studies of the conditions along the
proposed Lackawanna Trail High
way will be made by the State High
way Department. The state is ready
4 to take it over If the construction
can be distributed over a period of
| years,