Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-06

| than usual this year.
The biennial moving of offices
of state departments and bureaus
/ which have been occupying legisla-
/ tive committee rooms for the last
year and a half has started and the
| quarters for the legislators are be-
! ing made ready for the session which
will begin u week from tomorrow.
The people moving from legislative
! rooms are taking quarters in the
| attic of the Capitol. The supplies
| for the session are in hand and the
! furniture and chandeliers in the leg
/ islative chambers have all been gone
over by the Capitol maintenance
| force and many dollars spent in put
ting them into first-class shape.
! ALL of the counties of Pennsyl-
vania except Luzerne have filed the
official returns of the election on
| November ., and in event that the
| controversy over the soldier votes
! in LuZerne is not settled within a
| few days the official count of the
votes will be started at the Capitol.
! The LuZerne officials have been LP-
| formed that they can obtain certified
| copies of the returns filed here, but
! that the state authorities will not
send out the originals without legal
| process.
j. Washington Logue, Demo-
cratic candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, and Elisha Kent Kane, Pro-
hibition candidate for Congress-at-
Large, havo filed expense accounts
showing that they expended less
than $50 in the campaign.
John II. Glass, of Shamokin,
Republican leader of Northumber-
| land, is beGg doomed for a place
at the head of one of the depart
ments of the state government. Caleb
| S. Brinton, former postmaster of
Carlisle, and William Hertzler. of
Port Royal, are being mentioned for
water supply commissioner. h
The Altoona Tribune protests
editorially on discrimination against
men connected with the present ad-
ministration who were for O'Neil at
| the primary, but who turned in and
worked Loyalty and energetically for
the ticket when nominated. Such
| men are not to be made targets, it
declares.
The Republican city committee
of Philadelphia, will give a recep-
tion to the new Governor within the
next two weeks.
The Philadelphia Record to-
day says that John NJ. Nobre, the
Philadelphia city engineer who
testified against Senator Ware has
been removed from his job. 1t also
says the Wares lost control of Phila-
delphia councils yesterday.
The Spangler boom for Speaker
seems to have clear track since
Representative George w Williams
says he will not fight for the honor.
Claude r. Reno, former mem
Der of the House, has been chosen as
| solicitor of Catasauqua, to succeed
| the late Warren X. Miller, who was
also his successor in the House.
DR.. George +. Holtzapple has
| been elected president of the York
city school board.
|, Calvin Price, Schuylkill county
Jury Commissioner, died at his home
! in Minersville.
The Philadelphia Inquirer has
this to say about the newly y-elected
| Senator from the Fiftieth district,
who defeated Raymond l.. Smith,
Democrat and Bull Mooser: James
Nj. Campbell served in. the 19O7-O9
! sessions of the Senate. He is a for
mer District Attorney of Mercer
! county and will cooperate with the
/ Penrose forces"
w. Fred Turner, who was
elected from the Armstrong district
to succeed the late Senator j. Frank
Graft, who frequently voted with the
| independents, is stalwart Repub-
lican and a former member of the
| House.
| GoVernor-elect William G. Sproul
! will be busy during the next ten
/ days. On Saturday night he will
attend dinner given by the Five
| O'Clock Club. Monday evening his
| successor as president of the Union
! League will be selected. The Com
mittee of Seventy dinner will be on
Tuesday and on Wednesday he will
| be the honor guest at the Congress-
man Moore banquet in Washington.
! Thursday night the retiring officers
of the Union League will tender a
| dinner to the incoming officers. En-
! Governor Edwin S. Stuart will be
| elected president of the Union
| League at Mondays meeting.
| Pittsburgh City Council has
! NOleu u dCCGpl liG w SStlHS lOuSe
mansion grounds as a city park and
is arranging a ceremony when taken
over
H. G. Mcknight, oil City Com
missioner and we'll known as for
mer owner of the Oil City Blizzard,
| is dead.
-Philadelphia's primary bill OF
| S400. 900 against the state is now in
| hands of the courts for settlement
/ George w, Hibbs. former mem
| ber of the Uniontown City Council,
| has assumed the duties of Fayette
| County Commissioner. to succeed
| the late Charles II. Mutt Mr. Hibbs
was elected to the first Council in
/ Uniontown under the third-class city
act, and was reelected a year ago,
He was superintendent of the depart
ment of accounts and finances. AT
the time of his appointment as
County Commissioner Mr.. Hibbs was
superintendent OF the mine of the
Deyarmon Coal Company at Fair
chance. He is we'll known here.