Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-12
OLD CHARTER Is
TOBE RECORDED
Attorney General Gives an
Opinion in Document
Dated Over so Years Ago

Attorney General Brown to-day
gave an opinion that the State De-
partment may enroll and record the
charter of THE rector church war
dens and vestrymen of Zion Church.
Philadelphia county" whose articles
of association were approved In
1864 by w. NJ. Meredith, Attorney
General, and the justices of the. Su-
preme Court. Mr.. Brown says that
approval having been given, it is not
clear why the remaining steps were
not consummated. He does not con-
slider that it constitutes a fatal omis-
sion, but that "The incorporators and
their successors of his company have
slept on their right in this matter for
a considerable period of time. No
right of the state will suffer by en-
rollment or recording at this time
and as the case is one which calls for
liberal construction he feels that 1t
can be recorded.
The Heights Water CO., of Leb-
anon, against which residents of u
Lebanon ward complained because
of water service several days ago,
to-day filed complaint against the
Lebanon Consolidated Water Com
pany. from which it purchases its
supply. The terms of the complaint
are the same as the original COM
plant.
Adjutant General Bcary and Chief
Clerk Demming were last night made
honorary members of the Infantry
Corps of the National Guard at the
seventy eighth annual meeting held
in Philadelphia and which they at
tended. This organization was the
start of the Second Regiment, which
began, in 1870. Members of the
Armory Board, who were also honor
ed, inspected the renovated armory
or the regiment for which credit is
due Colonel Albert II. Hartung and
his staff. 1t is now used by the Re-
serve Militia.
Ex-senator T.. T.. Blcwitt, of Scran-
ton, was a Capitol visitor.
Notice has been received at Cap
itol that the Supreme Court has ad-
vanced the argument in the appeals
from the decision of the Dauphin
county court upholding the consti-
tutionality of the escheat acts and
the court will hear them in Philadel-
phia in the week of January 6.
The Auditor Generals Department
will be closed tomorrow because of
the funeral of Chauncey p. Rodgers,
Jr., special deputy and chief of ac-
counts, and Auditor General Charles
A. Snyder and his entire staff will
attend. The Auditor General will
pay brief tribute and the Rev. DR..
l.. S. Nudge will speak and then the
body will be taken to Cory. Pay
master William Rogers, U. S. N, and
Hale Hill, of Pittsburgh, a former
colleague, arrived to-day to attend
the funeral.
The Hearings in the Public Serv-
ice complaints against the Susque-
hanna and Penbrook Extension
Water companies from the PEN
brook-Progress district, were con-
tinued to-day as efforts to secure a
supply of water from the Harrisburg
municipal system are under way. The
hearings were continued for one
week.
Macs Garage, Inc, of Harrisburg,
was chartered to-day with $4,000
capital by Harry NJ. and John b.
Cohen and Alvin G. Mcmillan, of this
city.
Governor Brumbaugh IS to speak
on states and education at the con-
ference of Governors at Annapolis
next week. The Governor will leave
for the Maryland capital on Monday.
Heads OF departments and their
wives will be guests of Governor
and Mrs. Brumbaugh at dinner at
the Executive Mansion tonight.