Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-15
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snow spoiled all chance of observing
Arbor Day on last Friday, the first
of the Arbor Days proclaimed for
this year, efforts will be made by
state authorities to have the second
Arbor Day marked by general plant
ing of trees. This day has been set
for Friday, April 26. The storm
prevented the Inauguration of the
greatest reforestration movement
ever undertaken in the state last
week, the State Department of For
estry having gotten ready to
plant 100000 Seeding trees from
state nurseries. This work will be
launched in few days in five up
state counties where camps have
been established and will be in full
swing over a wide area when the
second Arbor Day comes around.
An effort will be made to have plant
ing of trees along state highways
which has been urged by national
ana state officials made general on
the twenty-sixth and also to have
rural schools plant trees in their
yards. In several cities municipal
park planting will be done. Owing
to the incomplete condition of the
Capitol park extension because OF
litigation over properties in Walnut
street the constitution of the line of
trees known as Governors Row"
and designed to girdle the park can
not be continued this spring. The
first trees of this row were planted
last fall.
Pennsylvania's wheat crop has
not been injured by the April snow
according to people at the Capitol
who have been following up cron
| conditions Al,
cause of the national move to in
crease foodstuffs. In many sections
the snowfall was from two to five
inches and the wheat was not harm
ed, although it had been well ad-
Vanced because of the mild weather
earlier in the month. In the south
eastern counties, where wheat has
for years the crop is reported in
good condition.
1t is an interesting fact that Har-
rlsburg, which has never had an cleo
tive state officer in hundred wears.
mas no less than three candidates for
statewide nomination at the May
primary. These aspirants are Sen
ator e. e. Beidleman and Howard q.
Holstein for Lieutenant Governor
and Thomas II. Hamilton for Secre-
tary of Internal Affairs.
Although the time for filing NOM
natlng petitions for the Nav pri-
mary expired at midnight of Thurs
j. DAY and the period for filing with
0 orawals ended the following day the
0 mail of Saturday and yesterday con
talned petitions and Withdrawals
when 1t reached the Department of
0 the Secretary of the Commonwealth.
n There were dozen and a half with
? drawals which arrived in time and
half dozen which came too late
Whlle the number of aspirants for
d nominations who were behind time
( with their papers was fifteen. Some
= OF these candidates sent letters stat
o ing that business prevented them
n from attending to the matter earlier,
y Whlle one man travelled almost 200
miles to take Off a name, only to
find that he was a day late. Ex-
s animation of the petitions for re-
e corolng in the books at the DEPART
d ment SHOWS that an unusual number
$ OF legislative candidates have filed on
more than one ticket. This is es
pecially so of the anthracite region.
n Some OF the candidates for state
y offices have filed over 5000 names
!. When they did not need more than a
t tenth of that number.
In opinion of officers of the State
highway Department receipts for
= autom obile licenses for 1918 will pass
It the $3,0O0,000 mark and establish n
It new state record this week. BY July
: l the record of receipts for 1917 will
d have been passed. The number of
: new trucks being registered is great
er than in any previous year and
scores OF new tractors are being list
e ed because of the demand for such
d machines in country work.
s The display of War Posters now
e. being made at the Harrisburg Pub
lie Library has attracted attention
not only from Harrisburg people.
, but from nearby towns. 1t is the
| first attempt made to gather togeth-
er the art works which have been
brought out by the war in which art
lists OF international fame have civ
en- their best to awaken the nation
to the critical stage of affairs. The
display is an interesting study and
some of the appeals are striking.
. The Capitol squirrels have been
the most surprised of all the resi-
a dents of the city at the snow. They
: had things all arranged for spring
= festivals and had prepared a choice
I array of tricks for visitors when
a the snow came along and chased
\ them into their boxes whence they
have been coming a manner most
disconsolate. 1t must be as hard for
the squirrels as it is for us humans
to see hyacinths in full bloom ap-
pearing above the snow covering
AS for the Capitol pigeons they are
too disgusted to get in the way or
the old boardwalk"