Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-15
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While the folks in Harrisburg
that are being made in offices stora.
INNS and many other places througb
ne steaoy entering into military
~. ',Ss Oh the young men more than
ECu &C uiu year ago when the National
uarusnen were mobilizing and the
easer spirits were thronging the re-
oluiting offices, it is only when q
rasiS siA IS taken through some of the
residential sections or a ride to sur1
rounding towns that there is resIi-
Zauon of what manpower means
me departure of the Guardsmen
ana the men who went out in tha
hrst half year of war left a good
many holes, but we shifted aronnd
now the draft calls and the enlist
ments and the moving of men to es.
9entlai industries are making more
80 40 lhe service star that tells the
STORY. There are streets in Harris
burg where the service flags gIaar
ON every other house and when we
pass the two and three even four-
Starred houses we feel like raising
ouL hdts. But out in the country
anu IN the small towns is where the
service star carries its appeal. Up
near Rockville there is a small
| mouse which flies two stars. Near
S SSDerIih there is another isolated
House winch also flies two and near
Hummelstown three shine. Just
! what the service means to these
households we can imagine. R,,t
probably one of the most striking
Illustrations of the way the youne
men in the small towns responded
| Is given In Wormleysburg where
| there is block of four houses. each
showing star, one of them two.
I
| Pennsylvania trout fisherman .ora
enjoying better trout fishing in J,,Iv
! than ever known before and have
not only been making record
catches, but have been finding trout
| Where they have, not been seen for
| years. This Is one of the oddities in
nshing produced by the unusual
weather conditions of 1918. Reports
coming to the State Department of
isnerles nave shown, morever, in
| spite or the war that there are fully
as many fishermen this wear as he,
iore and that many women have
peen enjoying the angling. The trout
season was retarded this wear. II
Will be recalled, by a snowstorm
winch swept the state on the first
uay and brought in it's train such
cold weather that it was May before
streams were in any sort of condi
tion Tor nshing. Recurrent storms
ana periods of cold weather for sum
mertime spoiled much of the NAV
ana June fishing, but the last twenty
/ Gays reports indicate that the best
trout hshfng in a long time is being
| enjoyed. Thanks to the svstena atic
planting of fish able to take care
OF themselves. both brook and brown
trout nave been seen and caught
ooer a VIDE area. The western county
reports are all very favorable to n
sooo' II late trout season. This
and wall-eyed pike or Susouehanna
salmon seasons began with July and
the weather which favored front
1shing spoiled much good general
pass hshing. Northern and western
counties have reported to Commits
sloner Nathan R. Butler that very
little good bass fishing has been en- =.
Joyed, although there are apparently
plenty of fish. In the Susquehanna's s
iower reaches some salmon have
oeen taken, but the best of the bass
hshing thus far has been in the
large creeks ir the southern part of
the state. Some fine catches have
come from streams stocked q few
years ago with the smalI-mouthed
black bass. The end of the trout
season on July 81 should find the
pass hshing in full swing and the
shifting of the weather may not in
terfere with the sport so much afte
all.
The army construction truck does
not seem to know the days of the
week. They are in motion most of
lne daylight hours during the week
ana yesterday a number were to ba
observed getting up rush supplies for
some or the construction near the
clty. The army truck takes I'm n
good Dit OF room and is often oper-
ated by young man who disregards
speed ninlts' traffic cops, cut-out or
ders and the public, but it has enc
ceeded in getting some Improvement
10 the roads between Harrisburg and
new cumberland, an improvement
near Highspire and in galvanizin,r
the borough fathers of Paxtang and
Lemoyne into a realization that som q
OIL the1r highways look like solidified
sea waves.
1T strikes me that the new State
Sapltol park policemen, of whom |
opserveo number should be put
through dog drill. If thew are nor
better posted in regard to dogs the
squirrel population of the state do
main VIII be thinned out" remarked
man who has considerable bust
ness at the State House. For n
while the dogs were pretty we'll
trained and avoided the park. Lately
there has been relaxation and T
nave noticed some fine dogs racing
around in the park, innocently cbas.
ing squirrels and scattering the pig
cons that the children love to feed.
Just write that dogs are all right
but not in Capitol Park.
|
People in this city will be inter
ested to know that the directors of
the Susquehanna Trail Association
which was formed to develon tbe
great North and South state high
way viii meet this week in sun
bury to arrange to make the road n
national affair. The meeting will bo
to further the plan to have it made
highway from Buffalo to Washing
ton' passing right through Harris
burg. The new road section at
Clark's Ferry will be part of this
road.