Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-09
RIFLE CLUB ACT
RULED INDEFINITE
Opinion Given by Attorney
Generals Dept; Keep
Roads Up Order

The act of 1917 providing for
county commissioners to make an
preparations for maintenance and
rental of rifle ranges and Cor rifle
clubs whose members stand ready
to answer any call for special mill
tary service at request of the Cover
nor was to-day pronounced in an
opinion from the Attorney Generals
Department to Nbe vague ana in
definite as to the character of sery
ice whichsthe members of such rifle
clubs may volunteer to perform"
The opinion was given to Adiutart
General Beary who inquired as TO
whether members of clubs had TO he
uniformed, to take an oath and
compensation in event of a call for
service. 1t is held that no uni
form or oath is required.
Instructions were issued To-day
TO hfteen division engineers and fiftv
road superintendents of the State
Highway Department to make spe-
cial efforts to protect state roads.
Ihey have been told by Commits
sioner O'Neil to request owners of
wagons and motor trucks to use
precautions in driving over roads
when soft and to avoid ruts: to
make more frequent hauls rather
than heavy loads and to co-operote
The department will keep drainage
places open as far as possible to nre-
vent slides in mountain regions. Mr.
ONeil says it had cost 800. 600 70
Keep open roads in the last eight
weeks. e'sh'
Howard w. Palm, LoysvilIe, was
to-day appointed justice for Tyrone
township, Perry county.
The complaint of Miss Sarah NJ
Penrose against the Carlisle and
MI Holly and Cumberland raliwnvs
mas been withdrawn before the
fuoilc Service Commission. It re-
iateu TO an increase in fare and is
the first to be withdrawn.
Ihiee new cases of smallpox have
peen reported to the State Densrt-
ment OF Health to-day from the fol-
lowing places: Jacksonville. noco-
tur township. Clearfeld county.
An employe of the HARRISON &,
walker Brick Works just outside of
TnlIlpspurg borough ClearfieId
county He left Macon. Georgia
January Esd and sickened in clear,
hela h county February Sd. Probably
oeSdnhe infected in Georgia. An
other case in Coggin's Camn Nor-
wich township, Mexican conn,
state constabulary are guarding the
entire camp. 'iie
Arrangements are BEING p,odo
mere Tor an important meeting of
people interested in feeding stuffs
Tor cattle and poultry. IT viii he
held under Agriculture Department
auspices. ''-te |
Governor and Mrs. Brumbaurh
VIII be guests of Col. and Mrs. T F.
Murphy while in Florida.
Dairy and Food Commissioner
James Foust says that his financial
statement for the year Just closed
VIII break all records.
INFORMAL complaints were made
to-day against the service OF the
YORK County Consolidated Gas Com
pany which it is claimed mas been
wlthorawn in some localities. The
vestigate.
The first complaint to be u,odo
against taXicab service in lIhiIa-
delphia was brought to-day befora
the Public Service Commission bv
isaac Samuels, Philadelphia, against
the Blac kand White Company
"nIch ne alleges refused service
inc Public Serviol Commission
mas dismissed without prejudice to
renew at a more normal time com
plants of w F. Page VS.. PennsvI-
Vania Railroad and L. V. Hailman
VS.. Reading Transit & Light Com
pany.
The State Compensation Bo,rd
to-day refused the contention of tha
pennsylvania and Reading Reilvav
IN the claim of Mary A. Koch
Reading, that she is not entitled to
compensation because when her
husband, crossing watchman. was
Killed he was engaged in helping on
interstate commerce. The companv
Is held not to have clearly pr3vidaI
lts case. A new hearing is allowed
IN hazmierczak VS.. Stahl, Reading
ana Engesser VS.. GARNER Stove
company, Erie. The board has
ruled in .Ciambella VS.. American Ice
company, Philadelphia, that when
dependents of an alien remove 10
another country after an award and
establish a residence they shall he
entitled to two-third of the compen-
sation due residents of the United
States.