Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-20
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Songs sent to the Office of Cover
nor Martin G. Brumbaugh, in re-
sponse to a call issued by him about
two weeks ago for the muse of
Pennsylvania to write a song which
would meet the needs of the hour
I'm the Keystone State have grown so
numerous that a special file has had
to be established to keep them. The
songs have been reaching the Cover
nor's office at the rate of from
three to twenty a day and range
from the printed copies of state
songs which have won their own
place In recent years, neatly type
written copies, some written on
| foolscap and some on ordinary note
paper. Some of the writer's have
sent letters setting forth that they
just wrote down the songs and
would like someone to put them to
music. When the songs first began
to arrive the Governors office sent
polite letters In which senders were
told of the interest of the Governor
in thNlr efforts, but lately these
have been cut down to mere ac-
knowledgm and the Governor
has suggested that the songs be sent
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it's. and has said very plainly that it
was not his intention to act as judge,
but just to arouse the slumbering
song-writing genius of the common
wealth.
Some people in Harrisburg may
read with interest this item from
Bloomsbury: "The ostrich farm
passed out of existence yesterday
when the farm was purchased of
Felix Constine, through his counsel,
A. w. Duy, ESQ.,, by William X.
Greasy, son of William L. Greasy.
The consideration was $4,000 and
the purchaser gets one of the best
| farms along the river There re-
mains, however, the question of what
is going to be done with the twelve
ostriches that are still left. Nobody
wants them and nobody wants to
take care of them. An effort is now
being made to sell them to the man
agement of some geological garden"
Mems haberdasheries and exclus-
i've women's shops present strange
paradoXes these days. So do the
cigar stores. 1t is interesting to note
how in the stores devoted exclusively
to masculine patronage, and where
the feet of women seldom tread"
the trade these days is largely with
women. Unskilled shoppers most
of them are, trying to buy the ties
and shirts and cigars that they think
would please their masculine rela-
tives and friends, and often pur-
chasing the commodities with taste
whose results make discreet clerks
get behind showcases to smile! They
are no less inexperienced than the
men who are filling the women's
shops, trying hard to avoid looking
at alluring "unmentionables," and
also trying to wear an air of non
chalence as they think what size
stockings mothers or sisters wear.
Clerks find the Christmas shopping
period not all work; there is too
much amusement furnished every
day by shoppers who are out Of
their element.
Major w. G.. Murdoch, the states
chief draft officer, has just request
ed the 2S1 local draft boards of
Pennsylvania to page Clyde Ruth
| erford. Mr.. Rutherford is not a.
resident of Harrisburg or its i'm
mediate vicinity, but he wants to
find where he is at. Last time he was
heard from he was receiving mail
at Yenangyaung, Upper Burma, In
| dia, and he wants to get certain
formalities in connection with the
draft Strengthened out. He has
written a letter to the major and
wants to know what local draft
| board has him registered. There
were something over 1000 900 men
registered in Pennsylvania and try
ing 10 locate Mr.. Rutherford so that
he can find out where he belongs
in Pennsylvania when he is residing
temporarily at Yenangyuang is GO
ing to be something of a job even
for the major.
Commissioners to the Presbyteri-
an synod, which closed its sessions
in Pine street church on Friday,
were complimentary of Harrisburg
hospitality and predicted that ii
would not be such a lapse of time
as eighteen years until the body
met here again. Pine street church
is unique in that it is the only
church edifice wherein the synod
has met three times since it's estab-
lishment in 1882. AS remarked in
the Harrisburg Telegraph a few
days ago, the central location and
historic interest of Harrisburg are
commencing to be realized through
out the state more and more.