Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-07
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ernment works out some plan where
by the farmers can get help. This
kind of weather is causing things
to move on the farm and we want
to increase the foodstuffs and do
lots of things after the hard winter
which we have passed, but we need
help" declared William t. Greasy,
former Master of the State Grange
ana boss farmer generally Mr.
Greasy estimates that the supply of
farm labor in Pennsylvania was
short about seventy-five per cent be-
cause of the war. 81 don't mean
| that so many farmer lads have gone
| to the Army. Plenty of them are
under arms, but there has been
many who left before the war be-
gan to go to the industrial centers,
on the railroads and to other lines of
work. The farms have been hit and
stable farm labor is needed" con-
tinued the farmer. "Pennsylvania
is getting to be a big food-raising
state and we have important work
to do feed our people. But we need
help on the farms, that is all there
is to it. The subject is one which
must be worked out and that right
Learly."
Col. George Nox Mccain, who
Will be in charge of the news end
| or the State Food Administrator, at
salary of nothing a year at his
own request, is we'll known to many
Harrisburgers. The colonel was for
years the political editor of the
Philadelphia Press and was a col
mel on the staff of Governor Hast.
lngs. Few men in Pennsylvania
know the state better and few are
better known. The colonel has been
In every county and although re-
tlred he has grasp of affairs
equaled by few. He is noted not
only as a writer and observer, but
as traveller and lecturer. The COL
nels good hard sense and apprecia-
ton of news values will simplify
things for the Food Administration.
There are some very practical
ideas being spread regarding ad-
dresses to be made here by men
who are out of tune with the times
or relative to any proposed meet
ings by organizations not in SYM
pathy with the struggle in which
we are all engaged. A couple of
men engaged a policeman in con-
versation about the matter and the
officer when asked what he would
terse. wait" was what he said.
"Guess not" muttered one of the
men, II can throw eggs and run
faster than you"
Linwood w. Wanbaugh, Harris
burg boy serving his country in
France, writes to his father, Linwood
B. Wanbaugh, a member of the Tele-
graph Family, that the captain of
the company of which he is acting
mess sergeant is not going to be
without garden sass" the coming
summer if he knows 1t. The COM
pany is attached to a supply base
and likely to remain at its present
| headquarters indefinitely. The cap
tain has instructed Wanbaugh to
| skirmish about for garden seeds and
to see that a big plot nearby and
available for the purpose is planted.
| The soldiers of the company will do
the cultivating and the harvesting.
! Little Kathryne Frick, the mar
velous deaf and blind girl she is no
! longer dumb, having learned to talk
has knitted two pair of wristlets
for soldiers and is now at work on q
sweater The little girls parents
live in Harrisburg but she is a stu
dent at Mt. Airy School, near Phila-
delphia. This is a fine example for
girls more fortunate than Miss
Frick," says one of her teachers
commenting on her talent and in
dustry.
While there has been no. notice
liable decrease in the number of mar
riage licenses issued in Dauphin
county, the clerks of this~bureau for
the first time in months are having
dull days. Since the first of Jan
uary on a number of days no Ii
censes were issued-an unusual rec
ord-as last year during the entire
twelve months there were only one
or two days on which no certificates
were given out
Highway Commissioner O'Neil was
being waited upon by some folks the
other day who wanted road built
and according to Capitol gossip the
| commissioner was given some graf
uitous information about construct
| ion. His caller evidently was well
versed, but he did not think the COM
missioner was. So he rambled on
! and on and used technical terms and
much inside road stuff. Suddenly
the commissioner remarked that the
methods were old and proceeded to
| lay out lie argument. Inen SOHl6
one told the caller that Mr.. O'Neil
had been the main factor in the con-
struction of Allegheny's road
system and knew the subject better
! than anything else.
Capitol Park attaches are sweep
! ing the grass. This is not a joke
but fact. Every spring there is
found. when the snow passes away.
an accumulation of cigar ends, nut
shells and what not, all thrown up
on the snow. The only way to get
rid of it is to sweep it up.
|
Mayor Daniel L. Keister, who is
urging the people to sit down and
work out their war garden plans, in
tends to do so himself. I'm going to
sacrifice some flower beds and
what's more I'm going to do some
work myself" said he.
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