Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-02-26
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constant demands for contributions
for war work and the usual chari-
ties are actually in some cases, suf-
fering because of funds cut down, it
is a relief to hear of a patriotic So
ciety enlarging its gifts without les
sening its help to the Red Cross and
like institutions. The Washington's
Birthday celebration of Harrisburg
Chapter, Daughters of the American
, Revolution, Miss Cora Lee Snyder,
Regent, was marked by a special
contribution of $50, gathered in a.
few minutes, to endow a day, the
chapter anniversary, May 10, in the
| Berry School of Georgia. This
means that the money goes to pay
the principal expenses of the school
for that day. The school is doing a
| wonderful work in educating the
children of the mountaineers, giving
them the practical things of life,
as we'll as the "book larnin' they
are so anxious to get. Many of the
boys of Berry School are in the
United States service and the girl
graduates are serving their country
as nurses and teachers as we'll as in
the home.
The manner in which snowbanks
were cut down and ice chopped out
of cutters in the business section of
the city yesterday was not lost on
many people and several men active
| in affairs promptly proceeded to give
| orders to have their places cleared
up. Some of them were subjected
to Kidding" as to the cause of their
activity.
IT saw a robin Sunday; that's en-
ough. I'm getting ready for spring
business said one.
| ''Won1 an ara ruaor rinr ,nrtz.. x.s4
with bright flowers" said another.
We'll, saw you fellows clearing
up; that's why I did" was the frank
admission of the fourth.
Ralph j. Baker, a member of the
legal firm Of Hause & Baker, has a
new job. 1t was thrust upon him by
Uncle Sam. Mr.. Baker is associate
general counsel for the custodian of
alien property, who is A. Mitchell
Palmer, and as Mr.. Palmer has to
take charge of all property of aliens,
amounting to tens of millions he
has to run companies as we'll as look
after investments in Liberty Bonds.
Not long ago the government took
over a big plant in PHILADELPHIA,
sent the head of It to a fort and as
the place. was running on govern
ment work, proceeded to set UP a
whole new organization. Mr.. Palm
er named Philadelphia bankers and
| businessmen to be directors and Mr..
Baker is the secretary. When the
war is over the plant will be hand
| ed back to the owners, but mean
while Uncle Sam is taking no
chances.
zone of the most surprising
things about the recent cold spell
was the amount of candy sold in
Harrisburg" said a businessman.
Il do not know whether the cold
weather caused a craving for candy
or whether people wanted to enjoy
1t while it lasts or whether it was
due to the desire to stock up over
Sundays and heatless Mondays. but
they bought and bought largely"
|
Several newspapermen who come
tozHarrisburg every now and then
! are recalling Leon Trotsky as a re-
porter on papers in Pittsburgh and
New Castle and also when he work
ed for time in Philadelphia. They
say he paid but little attention to
ofhee rules and when facts collided
] with his ideas in writing Stories
simply forgot the basic principles.
AS commentator upon current
events and government he was un-
usually proficient even though the
time of going to press came around
with inexorable regularity.
Snatches of conversations heard
about Third and Walnut streets these
days are nine times out of ten about
how many stories the new Penn
Harris is to be and commendatory
of the persistence of the builders in
handling their job in the face of
a winter which has had no equals
in this community for sixty or more
years. ''It took us a week to get
Strengthened out after the last big
blizzard, that of February, 1899, Just
about this time of the month,
think" said a practical builder,
But this bunch seems to recover
in a day. L have been watching
them and they have not lost any
twenty-four hour periods to speak
of. I'll bet they grudge Sundays"
"That idea of telling farmers and
city people, too, to use some care
when they drive over country roads
when they are soft and to quit going
in ruts is good hard sense" said the
owner of several delivery wagons
that go all over the countryside, to-
day. discussing Commissioner o.
Neil's idea of getting people inter
| ested in saving highways" This
man said that as a result of the
snow the roads this years will be
badly washed and that the very cold
weather has made deep frosts so that
when the real thaw comes there is
| going to be q mess. People can
help, says he, by being careful where
they go and by endeavoring to avoid
the ruts. "The road repair bills are
going to be something to make us
shudder this spring." says Chair
man C. C. Cumbler. of the county
commissioners.
An item of expense that is going
to confront farmers this year is dam
age to fences. In many parts of
Dauphin and Cumberland counties
the roads have been so badly drifted
that people took to the fields to get
anywhere. This meant either cut
ting of wire fences or tearing down
wooden ones. There are places on
the Linglestown and Jamestown roads
where the driveways are actually in
the fields and in Derry township
some fences have been taken down
and scattered.