Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-03

acreage" on one of the Unlteu
States Army quartermaster neios
near New Cumberland Septemp per
10 to %. Thirty tractors will be
assembled and a 250-acre field VIII
be plowed and sown with wheat.
The War Department officials have
arranged to allow the field to re-
main in wheat as the tract Is Rol
needed for the construction plan lor
the big depot in the upper end OF
York county and experts from the
National and State Departments Oh
Agriculture will use it for expert
ment9 purposes. The plans Tor the
demonstration have been worked OUT
with assistance of men from Wasn-
ington and the state authorities VIII
have charge. The tractors VIII plow,
disc, pulverize and drill.
The demonstration will be the
first conducted by the State and Ma
tional Governments.
Many Complaints.-Over score
of complaints against increases OF
fares by street railway companies OF
the state are listed for hearing dur
ing the fall by the Public Service
Commission, almost every announce,
ment of an advance being tollo"eu
by complaints. The street railway
mission is the most extensive since
the establishment or the department
and inquiries of wide extent are
probable.
Get Men Ready.-Some of the To-
cal draft boards of Pennsylvania
have begun to get ready their reg
istrants of the August "a class Tor
the October calls before the men
scheduled to go to camp this week
have departed. Special pleas nave
been sent out by state draft head
quarters for the speedy examination
and classification of the new regis
trants, especially as there are CANS
out for over 500 men to be sent 40
colleges for mechanical training.
Reports coming here tell of boards
being prepared to handle the Dig
registration on September IL and
that in many communities there will
be suspensions of industries and
business, as the occasion will be one
more farreaching than that of June,
1917. The movements to Camps Dix,
Sherman. Forrest, Meade and Green
leaf, comprising over $4,000 men, or
whom 5000 alone go TO Greenleaf,
started to-day and will continue un-
til Friday night. Every one of the
2S2 districts in the state is affected.
On a Vacation-Dr. Joseph Kalb-
fus, Secretary of the State Game
Commission, is on a brief vacation
in the northern tier.
Spangler Named-Charles Spang-
Ter. prominent resident of Allentown,
has been appointed county superin-
tendent of volunteer police for Le-
high. No announcement of the ap-
pointment was made at the Capitol.
Reed Bird notwithstanding of
reed birds has been started in east
ern counties under the provisions
of the game code, although there is
a federal law against it. State author
tiles will not interfere with the
shooting.
DIR. Becht Spoke - DIR. ]. George
Becht, Secretary of the State Board
of Education, was the orator of the
day at the dedication of the hand
some new school at Lehighton yes
terday.
Elks Break Loose-Residents of
White Haven have sent word here
that herd of elk, supposed to be
from one, of the state preserves, in
vaded that neighborhood. Efforts to
round them up are being made.
Attending Fair Representatives
of the State Department of Agricul-
IuTe nave gone 10 Gnllduelpnla TO at
tend the annual fair at Byberry at
which the state will present what it
is doing in the way of suppression of
pests.
Moyer Breaks LOOSE. w. Meyer,
a Pottsville attorney, has demanded
that state highway officials be in
dicted because of conditions of GER
tain road improvements in his counc
ty. There has been more or less trou-
bic in that county for years because
of the state highways and a favorite
diversion in the Bigelow days seemed
to be to indict the commissioner. Mr..
O'Neil is now the target.
More Paralysis-Additiona cases
of infantile paralysis have been re-
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