Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-31
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Tonight will be the first Halo
we'en in a long. long time in Har-
risburg that the boys and girls have
been unable to have some fun on
the streets and the parades and
corn throwing are things of other
years. Between influenza bans and
war conservation orders the only
fun left is dressing up in costumCj
and looking out at the street ligks.S
as even pumpkin lanterns are taboo
by the federal authorities. Tic
tao" night, made miserable by the
weather, anyway, passed with pre-
cious little observance and except for
some squads of youngsters who were
out on their bicycles and mighty
fleet in their movements there was
practically none of the traditional
funmaking. Tonight it is possible
that there will be very little of the
bobbing for apples and holding of
lighted candles because Halloween
parties when bridge gatherings are
under ban and there are sick in
many homes do seem somewhat out
of line. The year 1917 was put
down in many a juvenile book as
a year when a lot of things had to
be given up. but this year is a good
bit worse and the things that are
being said about the regulations of
war and epidemic are rather rough.
But, as DR.. Royer remarked to-day,
there will probably be a chance for
lots of fun on New Years eve.
Governor Brumbaugh in suggest
ing that on the two huge pylons
which are to be placed at the west
ern end of the Memorial bridge
which will be part of the Capitol
park extension program be inscribed
with the names of the cities and
the counties told an interesting
story. when they built the bridge
| over Rock Creek at Washington
they used up some discarded stones
! from the Capitol and the architect
inscribed them with the initial of
each of the thirteen original states.
Pennsylvania stone was the key
stone," said he. 81 think it would
be fine idea to have the names of
the counties on one pylon and of
the cities on the other. 1t would
| give the bridge a state significance"
|
The amount of "oleo" sold in Har-
risburg these days is far greater
than good many people imagine,
said man interested in the food
trade. There was a time, said this
| citizen, when oleomargarine was q
product which no one would buy,
but which owing to cheating by
people a great many folks ate with
out knowing 1t. Now it is served in
many places and eaten with as much
relish as it was by a former State
Secretary of Agriculture, who un-
Willingly used it on his bread in
York and remarked what fine butter
it was.
The Philadelphia Inquirer prints
this interesting story about Henry
X. Boyer, who was quite a figure in
Harrisburg as State Treasurer and
speaker of the House. 1t says:
1T was while he was State
Treasurer that he undertook to
frame legislation to meet the grow
ing needs of the state and the var
ious counties for additional reve-
nue.. At that time there was a
three mills tax upon money at in
terest, mortgages and bonds and
capital stock of Pennsylvania cor
porations, and of the moneys COL
lected by the state from these
sources one-third was turned back
to the respective counties from
which the taxes were collected.
Under the Boyer bill the tax levy
was increased to four mills, and
instead of one-third it was provided
that three-fourths of the total
amount of taxes raised in any
county must be returned by the
state to such county for local pur-
poses. There were great obstacles
to be overcome, but we finally sue
ceeded in passing the bill,' remark
ed Mr.. Boyer, a few nights ago in
chatting about the enactment of
this legislation"
The influenza epidemic has in
creased the business of the local
telegraph offices immensely and
added to the lot of newa work
brought by the war has almost
swamped the offices. One of the
most melancholy features of the
increase is the number of kilograms
telling of deaths.
A couple of young men who. like
to go out and hunt on the first day
are back from the mountains above
the city and declare that they saw
some wild turkeys on Second Noun
tain and flock sailing around on
Peters Mountain. These flocks
have been reported annually for
some time. but when turkey season
comes they are not about. The be-
lief is that they are part of the
Perry county contingent. The hoop
pole" county and wild turkeys have
always been fond of each other and
often turkeys have been traced from
that county clear down into Leba-
non. the supposition being that they
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