Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-11

| the military serV
ice, because of incipient tuberculous
conditions, are being looked up and
| offered the medical advice of the
state authorities. Similar steps will
| be taken during the year in regard
to men rejected by local draft
| boards.
Some time ago State Health De-
partment officials began looking up
the reasons for reflections of men
at camps after having been passed
! by local boards. In some. districts
| the reports showed tubercular con-
| ditions and requests have been made
at Washington for data on the sub
Ject. Some information has been
secured, and the chiefs of the hun
dred or more dispensaries through
out the state have been instructed to
look up men residing in their dis
| tricts, and offer medical services.
The department is about to estab-
lish two additional dispensaries for
genito urinary diseases.
Five New CampS-Five camps for
the planting. of trees on state forest
lands are to be established this
spring by the State Forestry Depart
ment. The department some time
ago( issued a call for men to work
in the woodlands on the extensive
reforestation projects for which the
commonwealth has been raising
| trees for several years. Enough men
are in sight to warrant opening of
| five camps on state lands. Hun
dreds of thousands of trees will be
set out on the reserves, and water
and coal companies have asked for
many trees for similar work on their
lands.
Trucks Resistered-Heavy gov
ernment demands for trucks for mill
ltary use do not appear to have
caused diminution of the registra.
ton of solid tired motor vehicles at
the State Highway Department.
There has been a steady increase in
the number listed and more are now
owned on farms than ever before.
In the Cities. the increase has also
been notable. Coming of spring
weather, has also caused registration
I of cars which had been stored dur
ing the winter months.
To Protect Deer-Some of the
seven counties of Pennsylvania
whose special closed season on deer
Will expire this year, will ask for
extensions to further propagation
plans. There are over a score of
counties in which deer hunting has
been forbidden for the last three or
four years, and through operation
of the game petition law in
quiries have been made as to proce-
dure for extensions. DIR. Joseph
Kalbfus, Secretary of the State
Game Commission, says that the
movement for closing of counties to
ruffed grouse shooting is widely sup
ported.
Papers Filed. - Representative
Charles A. Michel, of Pittsburgh. to-
day filed n petition to be a candidate
for the Republican nomination in the
Seventh Allegheny district. Other
papers filed for legislative nomina-
tions were: George c.. Wagenseller,
Selinsgrove, Republican, Snyder coun-
ty, and Harry L. Kelley, Butler, Re
publican, Butler county.
Governor to Speak. - Governor
Brumbaugh is to address the sessions
of the Philadelphia Methodist Con-
ference at Philadelphia, Thursday.
To Free Pike.-The Willow Grove
end of the old York Road turnpike
in Montgomery county will be for
mally freed tomorrow or next day.
The papers are being signed to-day.
DIR. DixOn's WlII.-The will of
Commissioner of Health Dixon, leav-
ing over half a million dollars to his
widow, was probated at Norristown
on Saturday.