Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-10
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~AN~ci NiiE " WIdI anu
people who come to the State Cap
itol and the city markets from the
country districts say the reports
ABOUT a serious shortage of chick
ems Tor the coming spring and sum-
per Is no IDLE dream, but a very Sc
we're reality. A year ago men active
IN farming sounded a warning that
tnCre would be fewer chickens this
Winter than for long time and
thal the number might be reduced
ny thousands and the fowls soar
higher in price than they roost in
campmeet1ng time. They based
tnese predictions upon the fact that
the prices offered for chickens were
so attractive that farmers wives
We're cutting down their stock and
that the state propaganda against
keeping useless roosters was gain
ing converts. Then. too, it was
pointed out that the price of feed
was going up and that this winter
IT would be worse than for long
time for the chicken raiser. NeN.
came the fall with its general
scrambling to get food for winter
lined up and the poultry put into
cold storage was something worth
noting. And on top of it all there
came the cold wave, the coolest
known in a long time with farmers
III many parts of the state having
only frosted corn to feed their chick
ems What the cold did not kill the
corn of low food value almost put
out OF business. In order TO over
come the sickness and lowered vi
tality among the chickens fed with
such corn the state experts are sug-
gesting that the corn be dried or
parched. And now with eggs away
up 1t looks as though the number of
would hn l,a,
Altogether the 1918 poultry outlook
is anything but good.
There must have been some very
interesting periods in the hearing by
the Supreme Court of the appeal in
the recess appointments case at Phil
adelphia when Attorney General
Brown spoke on behalf of the Gov
ernor. Not only did Mr.. Brown
make some charges and cross swords
with the learned justices in the mat
ter of quo warrantos, but once when
the question was raised as to wheth-
er certain views were held in the
convention which framed the con-
stitution of 1873 he turned to Jus
tice John Stewart, who had been
one OF the delegates to that notable
gathering and said he would correct
him if he made an error In an
other instance when there was u
remark about whether the conven-
! ton had considered some phases the
Attorney General presented the
courts the very law books which had
been used in the convention by Al
eXander Simpson, father of his law
partner, Alexander Simpson, Jr.
Frederic A. Godcharles, Deputy
Secretary of the Commonwealth and
one of the crack shots of the state,
has become secretary of the Harris
burg Rife club one of the growing
organizations of the kind in the
country. He is a resident of Mil
ton but has many affiliations here
and will help make the clubs range
work notable.
George G.. Hutchinson, who is in
charge of certain field work for the
Department of Agriculture, was here
| yesterday on some departmental
business, and was well jollied by
some friends about the comments
! upon his activities in the state gov
ernment in the late Governor Pen
| nypacker's autobiography in the
Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger.
It's all true what was written.
but there is one thing wrong about
it," said the genial George.
What's that?"
w ell, Salu IIle man from war
rior's Mark. THAT all happened,
but the old Governor got me mixed
up with some one else. / never was
zoologist, never did the things he
SAID / did and never drew the pay
of the office in which he placed me
| in his memoirs. He meant a man
named Mccartney"
One of the oldest things about
1NA nf NIa
roads is the manner in which travel
ers greet each other when they meet
at the State Capitol. People come
here on business from all parts of
the state and the first thing they
now ask is not what is the weather
but how long did it take to get to
Harrisburg. Yesterday men who had
come from Pittsburgh found to their
surprise that they had made the
trip in the same length of hours
that it had required friends from
Philadelphia to get here, while a
man came from Pottsville in the
time that one arrived from Altoona.
When it comes down to real grit
some of the carpenters and builders
around Harrisburg are to be COM
mended for sticking to work in the
last three weeks of such winter as
we hope will not come around again
for a long, long time. There are
some building operations under way
in the city and its suburbs where
the men have worked outside in zero
weather. They have had fires going
to keep coffee hot, but they have
endured pretty severe conditions.
One builder said that he knew the
men could not do as much work as
he or they wished, but they wanted
to keep going and he wanted to hold
them.