Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-10-22
AUTO DIVISION
TO GET BUILDING
Evangelical to Be Used by the
State. Bureau; Live Stock
10 Leave Capitol Park

The three-story brick building at
Second and Locust streets occupied
for years by the United Evangelical
Publishing concern will be occupied
within a few weeks by the automo-
the registration division of the State
Highway Department, Superinten-
dent George \. Shreiner. of Public
Grounds and Buildings. Sstated to-
day. The state has leased this
building for a period of years and
will be able tq afford accommoda-
tions to the gautomobile division
which it has badly needed" said Mr..
Shreiner. The remodeling will not
amount to much; in fact. there will
be very little to be done"
The division of distribution of
documents. now in the old Gordon
Manufacturing Company building in
Capitol Park extension. goes to the
third floor of the Kuhn building in
North Cameron street. which has
been leased. and the State Live Stock
Sanitary board will move into the
first floor of the Donaldson building
now occupied by the automobile diNi-
sion. The buildings in park extern
sion occupied by these two branches
will he torn down. We are moving
on with clearing the park and work
out out plan to take care of all
state offices without trouble" said
Mr.. Shremer.
Appointment of commissioners to
take the vote of Pennsylvania sol
diers in camps in this country Will
probably he decided upon to-mor-
hN- Df1If1a hal IlOh who
is to-day sending kilograms TO all
camps whose commanders have not
replied to Adjutant General Beary's
inquiry as to the number of Key
stone State men in their com mands.
The reports thus far show about 40
GOO soldiers, some of whom, how
ever, are under twenty-one. The
Governor said to-day that he was
seeking further information about
the number of men who might want
to vote.
The appointment of Howard Il.
ButZ. the Huntingdon editor and
member of the Harrisburg district
appeal board for the draft system,
to be state fire marshal, was stated
at the Governors office to-day to
have been a purely personal one.
Mr.. ButZ was a boyhood friend OF
the Governor and also of the late
G. Chal Port. whom he succeeds
He will qualify within a few days.
George Franklin Brum, Washing
ton party candidate for Congress in
the Schuylkill county district, to-
day filed his withdrawal as candi-
date.
DIR. {. II. Knapp. of Forest City.
was to-day appointed coroner of
Susquehanna county; Frank j. Stahl,
justice for IIushestown and John +.
Zechman Justice for Harris township,
Center county.
Complaints against new rates
were filed today by II. = Bomber
ger. of Palmyra, against the Ann
vile and Palmyra Gas and Fuel
Company, and the borough of Scott
dale against the Citizens Water Com
pany.
BY an opinion rendered to-day to
the State Board of Education the
Attorney Generals Department holds
that the board has authority to pre-
scribe equipment for schoolhouses
necessary for proper hygienic and
sanitary conditions: school boards
have no authority to make con-
tracts for new schools unless plans
have been submitted to the state
board or are from standard plans
prepared by the board and districts
which fail TO follow instructions
from state authorities as to building
may be punished by Withholding
state appropriations.
The state optomctry board is di-
reCted in an opinion rendered to-
day by Emerson Collins, deputy at
torney general, to make careful in
quiry into charges that temporary
offices have been established by
optom before determining
whether there has been any viola
ton of the provisions of the code
governing that branch of licensure.
Misses Margaret l.. Grove and
Katharine Haag. of the Governors
office, have volunteered their serv-
ices as emergency hospital nurses
during the influenza epidemic.
The St2,50O bond of James g.
Miles, as deputy register of wills of
Dauphin county has been approved
by the Governor. The Governors
office to-day stated that no selec-
ton of a register TO succeed Roy &.
Danner had been made. Numerous
names are being suggested
Auditor General snyder. members
of whose family had been very i'll in
the influenza epidemic, returnc.. to
the Capitol to-day and took up a
number of departmental matters.
Capitol visitors to-day included:
w. ID. Grimes Pittsburgh lawyer;
\. f.. Jones. Uniontown; Represen-
tatiVe II. Atlee Brum bauph of blair