Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-24
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about year from now when the
State Sportsmen's Association will
hold its thirtieth annual shoot in
this city. The shoot will last a
week and will be one of the largest
and most important held in years,
bringing to Harrisburg the crack
shots of the country. This city was
selected last week at the annual
meeting at Butler largely through
the efforts of Captain Frederick
Godcharles, deputy secretary of the
commonwealth, the secretary of the
association, and he has already
started to get ready for it. The cap
tain won quite few prizes last
week and was busy working up
sentiment for the Harrisburg meet
ing on the side. The city is rep
resented on the board of directors
by John G.. Martin, of this CITY.
captain Godcharles who spent much
tlIne looking up the history of the
organization, says that it has wide
effect upon fish and game legisla-
tlon in this State and is regarded
as one of the most influential asso-
clatlons of its kind in the country.
he gives this little known story of
lts early days: The Pennsylvania
state Sportsmen's Association is the
oldest, largest and strongest organ
lZauon OF its kind in the United
states. 1t was organized at the
crosby House, in Cory, Pa, August
z2nd, 1890. There were present at
TINS meeting these we'll known low
ers OF outdoor sport: H. A. PEN
rose A. NJ. Howard, James VOL
StSencrott,, Joseph Thurman, Jr..
f. g. Austin, j. f. Austin, F. Laurie.
j: Mcclure. r H. Blydenburg, c.
Wilcox f. E. Ward, A. j. Rush and
a few others whose names are not
OF record. These sportsmen repre-
sented six active and influential gun
clubs of Pennsylvania"
In years gone by there used to
be number of tournaments held
mere but recently other cities have
been after them Captain Cod
charles records show that tourna-
ments have been held by the Asso-
cation as follows: 1891, Williams
port; 1892, Reading; 1898, Harris
burg; 1894, Altoona; 1895, Philadel-
phla; 1895, Harrisburg; 1897, Oil
CITY; 1898, Reading; 1899. Erie;
1900 Chambersburg; 1901, Allen
town; 1902, Oil City; 1903, Phila-
| delphia; 1904, York; 1905, Pitts
burgh; 1905, Milton; 1907, Lebanon;
1908, Bradford; 1909, Reading; 1910.
philadelphia; 1911, BuBois; 1912,
Sunbury-Selinsgrove; 1913, York;
1914, Pittsburgh; 1915, Milton; 1916,
Lansdale; 1917, Bradford; 1918,
Lancaster, and 1919, at Butler.
! From all accounts Harrisburg is
backing up Colonel Edward Mar
tins campaign to get rid of flies
rather better than most people sup
! pose. In the city markets there
| nave been more reams of fly paper
displayed than known for a long,
| long time and the number of flies
that are swatted in homes is un-
countable. In some of the manu-
| featuring establishments of the city
time is taken at the start of work
and again at lunch hour to make q
united effort to get rid of flies and
to carefully cover up everything
that might attract the insects.
|
Some excellent, if belated, trout
fishing is being enjoyed in Perry
county by number of Harrisburg
| fishermen who have found some
| streams which demonstrate that
planting by Commissioner Buffers
men is worth while. Other parties
have gone into Cumberland county
| and others into parts of Lebanon.
There is also fair fishing to be had
| in the upper end of this county.
trout fishing parties on July for
the first time in long time.
Up on Capitol Hill they are still
telling about a battle with a bat
waged by Samuel C. Todd and
Frank Hoy, who were working late
one night and who were visited by
a large grandfather bat with a de-
! sire to learn all about State secrets.
| The pair turned on the lights and
went after the bat with brooms,
opening all the windows. Finally,
when both were wringing wet with
! perspiration the bat went out. They
resumed work. The bat came in
again. He visited all the offices in
! the Department of State and they
declared war on him again. When
| he had about worn them out he
went out again, much pleased with
the evenings entertainment.
Storms which swept over the
central section of the county the
for the corn crop and have damaged
many fields of grain materially. The
planting of corn this year was on
very extensive scale all over the
county because of the prices at
which the grain has been selling and
the demand which seems likely for
a year or more. In some Swatara
and Derry township districts fields
were seriously washed. Cum berland
county suffered the same way.
According TO some farmers and
chicken fanciers chicks are having a
hard time to get along this month
because of the rainy weather. Some
heavy losses of fowls have been re-
ported from various parts of Dau-
phin and Cumberland counties. The
big chicken farms have had to adopt
some measures OF great care to pre-
vent dying of the chicks. Large
numbers were hatched this year be-
cause of the good prices and the
losses will fall heavy not only on
the men who make a business of
raising chickens but on the house