Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-03
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Hundreds of High school boys
from cities and boroughs in the
southern and central counties of the
state are out helping the orchard
! owners of the apple belt in the
South Mountain region of Pennsyl-
vania to save their apple crops this
week. Scores have been passing
through Harrisburg every day the
last week. some of them coming from
as far as the northern tier, while
the agents of the State Department
| or Agriculture say that but for the
help the boys are giving many
thousands of dollars worth of fruit
would have been lost. All reports
indicate that there has been big
yield of apples in the southern ap-
pie district of the state. where ex-
tensive planting of orchards has been
going on for the last decade and in
some sections owners were con-
| fronted with prospects of serious
loss until the appeal was made for
boys from high schools to give help.
The educational authorities have
arranged that the boys will be able
! to make up their studies and for
| them to do a certain amount OF
work at their books while in the
apple district. This is the first year
in which boys have volunteered in
such numbers to help in the or
chards.
Perhaps the oldest of the letters
which have been received at the
Capitol since the general bracing
up of police service which followed
the outbreak of the war has
just been received by Secretary of
the Commonwealth Cyrus f. Woods.
Mr.. Woods department has charge
of the records of the state and is
sues the official copies of the laws
of the Commonwealth. few days
ago the newly-appointed chef of
police of Hustontown. hamlet in
one of the southern tier of counties,
wrote for information as to the
duties of his office. Copies of sta
tutes were sent to him and in ac-
knowledging them he stated that he
had desired to know the law so
that he could do right. Then he
added to his letter to Mr.. Woods
II wish you would send me at once
some handouts. l have only
billy.
State and county police author
tiles have had turned over to them
from the State Game Commissions
protectors in northern counties SER
les of reports of disloyal conduct
which are surprising even in the
list of those which have come
to this city lately In one in
stance man was reported as
having torn down an American fiaG
three times, but the game official in
seeking instructions suggested that
he be allowed to deal with him HIM
self. In another instance woman
was reported as covering younS
plants with an American flag to pre-
vent them from being damaged by
frost.
An abundance of nuts, especially
walnut and chestnuts is reported by
men who have been visiting 'he
woods and mountains in this section
preparatory to the opening of the
hunting season and farmers nave
4 also reported that the old Susque-
hanna Valley saying that when there
are lots of horse chestnuts there are
to be found plenty of others seems
to be we'll founded. This fall was
marked by an immense quantity OF
wild grapes seen in the woods and
4 along the foothills, according TO
1 game offic who also say that their
Il observation is that there Will be
plenty of hickory, walnut beech,
chestnut and other nuts where such
trees are to be found, although in
many sections they have been thin
ned out. Experiments with kaffir
corn for game have also been sue
cessful in many sections. The big
corn crop has been an attraction
for gray sqirrels which are very nu-
merous and inclined to be predatory
on a greater scale than usual.
The twelfth anniversary of the
dedication of the State Capitol,
which falls on tomorrow, will be
marked by the lining out of some
of the new shrubbery plots which
will take the place of the flower
designs which have been such fea-
lures of the park for the last forty
years. 1t is expected that the whole
decorative scheme of the states
domain will be rearranged when the
extension of the park is laid out
and meanwhile the flower beds will
| be replaced by native shrubbery.
The conservatories have been re-
moved and the growing of flowers
except on a limited scale in space
| leased in a greenhouse has been
| abandoned. The ornamental plants
which have to be taken care of dur
ing the winter will be sold or put
in safe keeping.
|
DR.. Leo S. Rowe, who spoke yes
terday before the Chamber of Com
merce and who is now an assistant
secretary of the Treasury, used to
| be a professor at the University of
Pennsylvania and number of Har-
risburg students listened to him.
"Rowser" as they used to irrevently
! call him, was always noted for plain
snac';inp He got to know the Latin
countries thoroughly and, of course.
bunch in his class promptly stud
led them up. When his mid year
examination papers were given out
he had specialized in United States
stuff and proceeded to funk bunch
for trying to play to the galleries.