Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-26

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81 there will be. nc
Ctuendas arranged for the COM
mission. the Board of Pardons
and other bodies until after cleo
ton day. Owing to the orders rela-
tive to the influenza epidemic the
hearings scheduled for this week al
the Commission and Board of Par
dons have been postponed INDEFINITE
ly. The State Compensation Board
also cancelled its hearings scheduled
for several places.
The Public Service Commission is
arranging tentative schedule of ar
guments for the second Monday OF
November and will then take up
complaints against increases OF
trolley fares, rates and other mat
ters.
The Board of Pardons session will
likely be held in the middle of No
vember.
Enforcing Law - Comparatively
little trouble in enforcement or the
dog license code is now being re-
ported from the State Department
of Agriculture. As the result OF
series of opinions from the attorney
general and some suits brought IN
various counties against constables
and dog owners. in which the State
Police eco-operated, the procedure has
been pretty we'll laid down and late
reports indicate that unlicensed,
ownerless dogs have been pretty well
thinned out and that county COM
missioners are insisting upon clear
ing out such dogs from farming ana
sheep raising districts.
More Out In East-NIore hunters
seem to have obtained licenses and
gone out for the first week OF the
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ern counties of Pennsylvania than
in the western, according to reports
coming to the offices of the State
Game Commission. In some OF the
eastern counties the licenses issued
have been up TO the number OF last
year, largely due TO the fact that
many men have taken an interest
in quail propagation and that squlr-
rels are reported abundant. quite
a number of the western counties
have closed to hunting OF quail,
pheasants and other game TO per-
NIT them to increase and this ac-
counts for the absence of many
hunters.
Watered Milk Again-Fifty-five
arrests for the sale of milk contain
ing less than the state standard OF
butter fats and in some instances
watered have been ordered by
Dairy and Food Commissioner James
Fcust as the result of the taking
OF several hundred samples in Allie
Eheny. Clinton. Lebanon, York,
Philadelphia and other counties.
Some of the samples were taken in
restaurants and others from milk
wagons. The inquiry into food con-
ditlons has been under way by the
commissioner men for two months
and over 200 samples of various
kinds in addition to the milk have
been taken. Five arrests for the
sale of cold storage eggs which were
sold at fresh egg prices and not
marked as cold storage at all, as
Heuuired by law, have just been
made, and six for the sale OF butter
which was water logged, one sam
pie being thirty per cent. water
These arrests were i'll eastern
counties. while in central counties
seven arrests have just been made
for selling of alleged non-alcoholiic
drinks which had the Intoxicating
properties of high-proof whisky.
Irged TO Work. -. "Classihcations
of the younger and older registrants
OF september - should proceed as
aapldiy as local conditions warrant.
1t is quite probable that during the
the state can safely resume physi-
cal eNaminau says notice Is
sued to-day by Major W. G, Murdock.
state draft OFFICER Turks and sui
garians who have not declared their
intention to become citizens are TO
be placed in class OF.
Worked an Hour Longer. - Of
ticials and attaches of the state gov
ernment worked an extra hour to-
day without being. aware OF the tact
in many cases. Owing to the fact
that Saturday is ordinarily holi-
day on Capitol Hill. and that there
Joseph Pyne, the official clock re
pairman, started turning back the
clocks an hour in accordance with
the daylight saving plan early to-
attaches had to work because OF the
loss of time during the influenza out
break and went by the clocks as al
tered.
To Report Tuesday. - All of the
election commissioners appointed by
the Governor to take the votes Of
Pennsylvania soldiers and sailors, eN-
Cept the two men assigned TO the far
come here Tuesday to take the oath
OF office and to receive instructions
and supplies. To avoid conflict with
the antimeeting order they will ap-
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Woods at different hours of the day
The supplies including ballots and
pollbooks were delivered at the de-
Township in Hard Luck. - Spring
field township. Delaware county, to-
day filed an unusual complaint with
the Public Service Commission, al
leging that IL had been charged S4,-
$3.50 for fire hydrant service by the
Springfield Consolidated Water Com
pany, of near Philadelphia, without
any service rendered, actual or poten-
tial" There are seventeen COM
plants against the fire hydrant
charges of the company, which were
made after an order had been issued
by the Commission establishing a
basis of rates for service, but none
OF them is like that of the township.
IT is declared that il was not party
TO any of the complaints wherein the
order was made by the state author
ities, but that il considers the rates
made as unfair, excessive and unrea-
sonable. The township, says the COM
plant has no fire hydrants, has new
er asked for any fire service and
does not want any because IL is a
rural community, composed chiefly of
farms. Owing to the system of MAX
ing charges according to mileage of
pany's plant and thirteen miles OF
charged for service.
No Compensation. The State
Compensation Board in an opinion by
Commissioner Scott has disalloWed
compensation in Bell VS.. American
Sheet and Tin Plate Company, Pitts
ourgh.
CIVIL SERVICE EXAMS
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