Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-02
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Ieopl6 neeu nave no lear IudI VIC
are going to scatter around poisoned
corn right and left in our effort to
kill the crows which have been
making considerable trouble for
farmers and destroying bird life,"
said DIR. Joseph Kalbfus, secretary of
the State Game Commission. The
corn will be carefully prepared and
put where it is not likely to be found
by domestic animals or fowls. 1t
never was the idea to have the corn
thrown around promiscuously. The
plan was worked out to have the corn
put where the crows gather and to
have them get the benefit. There are
some crow roosts in this state which
are isolated and which other birds
do not frequent. ! know of some of
them which are in the southern
counties and those are the places
where we will work principally. L
have received some letters which in
dicate that people do not understand
what we are trying to do and who
are much disturbed over the danger
to chickens and game. We have had
tests made with strychnine in the
quantities that we will use to get the
crows. quail and pheasants do not
NINA 1t. Neither do chickens. On
the other hand strychnine will kill
crows, ducks and sparrows. The quail
have been tested again and again"
some belated applicants for auto
mobile licenses were rather indic-
nant yesterday when they storned
the oifice OF the automobile division
and found it closed. The day was a
holiday and the whole force and
some extra clerks had worked al
most the whole night before to get
the mail cleared up. Most of the peo
pie who had forgotten to make ap-
plication in time ran their cars with
1917 tags.
Trolley cars have been held up on
halt the streets in Harrisburg upon
which they run the last week or SO
py coal teams, whose drivers have to
dig ways for their wagons to de-
liver coal. The ramparts of snow
and ice from last months storms
are three feet high on many streets,
and some of them are so solid that a
wagon cannot go through, but must
either go over them, which means
trouble, or else have a place cut
through which to move. A few driV-
ers have refused to dig ways for
their teams holding that it is the
householders' business. The house
holders insist that at the prices they
are paying and the small amounts of
coal they must order they should not
have to dig holes in snowbanks.
1t was surprising the amount of
mail handled by the Harrisburg post
office during the last ten days. The
Christmas rush was unusual. Then
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siderable amount of matter to send
out. Then the state shipped tons of
automobile license tags by parcel
post and thousands of letters to cor
porations and others for reports, TO
say nothing of the various licenses.
If there is one thing that has i'm
pressed people having to deal with
the draft it is the great field for
practical Americanization. There are
many good citizens in the making
who could give little instruction in
American ideals and with their ma
tive shrewdness for looking out for
what property or money they may
have accumulated become as staunch
in their love for their adopted home
or community as any of the descend
ants of revolutionary soldiers. There
has not been a systematic effort to
win new citizens in this district, one
of the big industrial sections and the
taking of some interest with a view
to helping, not isolating, the men
, from enemy countries will be prof.
table in the end. Men who take pride
in the fact that their children were
born here and are enrolled in schools
where English is taught, are good
material for instruction in Ameri-
canism.
These ara tho 6oys 1uI,an t1,a T,ao
itol pigeons and squirrels are sur
prised, not only at the coldness of
the atmosphere, but of the visitors
TO the park, and no one need be sur
prised to find n squirrel making a
flying dive for the back of coat or
clinging to coat sleeve. The ami
mails are hungry and frankly so.
superintendent George A. Shreiner
has fund from which he buys nuts
for the squirrels in winter time, but
the trouble is that the animals are
so fed up because of visitors that
the rations do not suit their appe-
tites. AS for the pigeons they fairly
fall over one another to secure boun-
ty from visitors.
! Postmaster Sites says that the
people of Harrisburg appeared to
think the baby bonds" and the thrift
stamps very good investments to
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| postmaster says that Harrisburg
will have pretty fine showing of its
own before any drive is made in be-
half of the bonds and stamps.
Clerks in the telegraph offices are
commencing to breathe again. In
the language of one man who
handles many messages it seems as
though every soldier in camp got a
message from home and sent one In
reply" From all accounts the camp
fluctuations were numbered in the
hundreds and probably thousands
from Harrisburg and vicinity. In
spite of the operators lament it is
a fine custom and one that should be
encouraged.
Steelton's home defense unit is
getting right down to business. Fol-
lowing the meeting at which the
outline of the Harrisburg Reserves
was given gatherings have been held
for drill and the men are now study
'nP the manual Of arms and COM
mencing to salute on the streets.
This COUNTY has home defense or
ganizations in three places and there
are prospects of units being formed
in Millersburg and some of the coal
towns. They would be subject only
to calls from the county or local