Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-11
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gardens in and about Harrisburg
this summer there have been soma
fine yields of potatoes gathered and
the corn crop shows signs of doing
very well, indeed. In the Bellevue
district there are war gardens over
tapping each other and almost every
one shows that some one felt the
pull of the movies or had so much
other work on hand that the usual
hour of extra daylight provided by
the daylight saving" law was used
some other way than running a hoe.
But the ones which were cultivated
demonstrate results. They have fine
big cabbages and other things and
their corn is high and the ears stand
out with fastness. In the vicinity of
the Arsenal there seems to have
been much "elbow grease ex-
pended, because some big corn is to
be seen and the East End is to the
front with its usual number of we'll
worked gardens and the Tenth ward
has fair number which are worth
| complimenting. Tho First ward
does not seem to have as many as
usual and out in the Sibletown dis
trict people have been too busy at
the various works to go in very
extensively for garden sass"
Where people worked their gardens
the results are to be seen and there
viii be many welcome additions to
the potato bin and the canned goods
closet. But the fact remains thaS
quite a few passed up the gardens
either because they found the Job
too great or else had other things
more congenial to do. However. the
sum total of what will be raised this
summer will be worth recording
| If there is any one question
which seems to be filling peoples
minds Just now and which is caus-
ing no end of discussion 1t is the
age limit of the new draft. In all
references to 1t during the passage
or the bill through Congress 1t was
made to read IS to 45. In fact the
bill is Is to 46. A man who has
passed his eighteenth but not
reached his forty-sixth birthday
must register. There is nothing else
TO it. THE law says very specifically
that all men who have not reached
| their forty-sixth birthday must regis
ter and that will be required to-mor-
| row. said Major w. G.. Murdock.
the states chief draft officer There
is no mistaking it and every man
should see that this fact is known"
The manner in which big en-
ployers here have made arrange
ments to have their people within
the draft limits register has at
tracted attention. In many cases
special registrars have been ar
ranged and supplies of cards OBJ
| tanned from boards of the districts
where the men live. This has nee
essitated the making up cs lists of
employees and finding out where they
live and in which district they are
accredited. 1t has been a lot of work
which has not been realized, but
which will have an excellent effect
upon general business all over Har-
risburg tomorrow. The Bethlehem.
| Central and other big steel concerns
have worked out plans which will
avoid suspensions.
From what people in the country~
districts round about Harrisburg
have to say there will be a marked
increase in the area plowed for
wheat by means of tractors. The
tractors has not been in general use
on Dauphin and Cumberland farms.
although some farmers have been
employing it for two or three years,
but this fall there will be more
mechanical plowing than ever known
before. Some of the farmers have
gone together and purchased trac-
tors as a community proposition.
while others have arranged to have
fields plowed by commercial tractors.
Whlch Will run on schedules such
as are followed by threshers The
tractor is commencing to loom large
In the business affairs of farmers in
sections of Pennsylvania
Speaking of tractors, It is an in
teresting thing to note that some
farmers have the idea that the ma
chimes can clear up anything and
requests have been made for them to
plow up fields which have not been
cultivated for a dozen years. On
one farm there was a field which
had degenerated into a briar patch
and the owner became exceedingly
sore because the man who had come
along with the tractor refused to
tackle It,
"I thought you tractor fellows
could plow up anything. Don't you
want to help plant wheat and help
fight the kaiser?" asked the tiIler OF
the soil of the tractor man.
Say, what you want is a tank"
retorted the tractor mechanfcian as
he mounted his rackety apparatus
and trundled out of the land.
Harrisburg has new thing to tell
time by. The big whistle at the Har-
risburg Pipe and Pipe Bending plant
blows promptly at $50 and people
can set their watches by it. The
roundhouse bell the courthouse
bell and the Central whistle have
all been doing well as regulators of
the community time and now the
"P. &c p. B." comes along to help.
In these days of battles it Is pleas
ant to recall that it was a Dauphin
county regiment which, after hay-
ing been half shot to pieces in the
battle of Fredericksburg, where IL
was among the bravest of the brave.
saved part of the Union army at a
very critical time at Gettysburg.
This was the 127th regiment COM
manded by the late Col. w. w. Jen-
nings.