Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-11
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| JOnn M. PnllllpS Lne state Gam6
Commissioner whose interest in the
movement for people to plant black
/ walnut trees has attracted national
attention and brought out an Exc
cutive proclamation designating Oc-
tober Is as walnut planting day."
is getting letters from people alb
over Pennsylvania endorsing the
movement and expressing the hope
that 1t will be an annual affair. Out
| in Allegheny county, where Mr..
Phillips lives, the Boy Scouts have
been planting trees on Sundays and
have their elders considerably in
terested in the plans. Erasmus Will
son, of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times.
Chief White Pine" of the Boy
Scouts, has written some very inter-
esting things in his column about
the walnut planting in which he
points out that forty years ago Ger
many began buying up all the black
walnut timber that could be found
for alleged vencering, but in reality
for gunstocks. Mr.. Wilson writes
very entertainingly about the work
done in planting walnut and hickory
trees in Lebanon county by the Wei
mer family mentioning the fact
that the father of Edgar A. Weimer,
former mayor of Lebanon and scien-
tist, used to make a practice of o
planting walnut trees whenever a
tree was to be cut. He always re-
placed it by a walnut. The SON.
says Mr.. Wilson, still follows the
example set by the father and can
point to trees planted by him that
have been tagged and reported as
fit for gunstock timber"
Interest in the movement for re-
foresting the woods of the state with
black walnut hickory and other
hard woods is extending to the
inf hno ri
which have rapidly been passing
from the extensive woods of the
state and attention is at last being
given to the problems attending the
destruction of the hemlock forests
which formerly covered counties.
The Wild Life League and other or
ganizations have taken hold of the
walnut proposition, which has been
strongly urged by such men as John
M. Phillips, the State Game Com
missioner. and have urged that boys
everywhere plant black walnut trees
and attempts have been made to
bring the importance of replenish-
ment of the state with black wal
nut timber to farmers. 1t has taken
the war to wake up the state to the
loss 1t has sustained by the failure
to replace the hardwoods and now
there is demand for walnuts with
the hulls on for planting which is
have been many inquiries made at
I the State Department of Forestry
and the Department of Agriculture
y as to where Seeding trees can be
n secured not only of the black wal
a nut, but the hickory, beech and
chestnut varieties. Many of the in
q quirers seem to want to plant on
walnut day, October IS.
!, Newspapermen throughout the
II state and people at the Capitol Will
y be interested to know that Ed Hart,
n the legislative correspondent or the
Scranton Times and now acting pres
= ident of the Legislative Correspond
1t ents' Association, has been appoint
n ed district deputy of the Elks for
l. northeastern Pennsylvania. The
d, Times says: 'Pittston Elks receive
n recognition from the new head OF
y the Elks' organization in the coun-
'r try. Exalted Ruler Campbell an
)r nounced the appointment of E. ],
lie Hart, past exalted ruler of Pitts
Us ton lodge, No. 3S2, as his personal
l. representative in northeastern Penn
sylvania. AS district deputy Mr.. Hart
will look after the interests of the
grand lodge in the territory extend
ing from Easton to New York state
! line. The new deputy is we'll known
in Elkdom. He has been active in
w the affairs of the Elks of his home
city since attaining his majority, and
- has been prominently identified with.
the work of the Pennsylvania Asso-
al citation B. P. .. of Elks. Just re-
TO Gently he was named member and
10 secretary of the war relief COM
mission created at the reunion held
sc in Shamokin year ago. This COM
- mission, headed by ex-senator Ed
oy ward f. Blewitt, of this city, is
ut making every effort to have the
a, government establish a hospital for
Is returned soldiers in this end of
lie Pennsylvania"
The number Of Liberty Loan but
tons being displayed on Capitol Hill
is greater than in any preceding
I loans. There are very few depart
ments or bureaus which are not 100
J per cent.
Cassius A. Dunn. acting secretary
of the Harrisburg Rifle Club, has
called the members of the club to
come into the open air and shoot on
Saturday. Mr.. Dunn has announced
the annual members match for to-
morrow, starting at $50 a. m. and
there will be a free issue of Krag
ammunition as means of keeping
influenza germs off the range. Thir-
ty-eight members of the Harrisburg
Rifle Club have gone into the serv-
ice, of whom twenty-one are now
commissioned officers.
The old question of whether men
receiving commissions as MEM
bers of the VOLUNTEER state police by
appointment of the Governor should
pay fee to the recorder of the
county wherein they reside or not
has bobbed up at the Capitol. The
state has no control over the mat
ter. but as it is commissioning the
men with heavy paper sheets bear
| ing the seal of the state and some
j official signatures and not charg-
J ing the silver dollar which the law
provides shall be the fee for affiX-
ing the great seal, it has been held
by the Attorney Generals office that
the recorders OF deeds should not
charge the fees. However, the state
= and the Council of Defense have left
it up to the members of the police.
who get no salaries and the record
ers who depend on fees to settle it..