Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-21

receipt in Kennedy VS.. Shuster. Phil
adelphia, and suspended payments
pending examination in Tachet VS..
Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Com
pany, Beaverdale.
Review of a compensation agree
men asked by claimant in Smith VS..
Adams Express Company, Philadel-
phia, is refused, it being stated that
medical testimony shows no relation
between present condition and the
accident in the original claim, while
the Board refuses to terminate an
agreement in Covelle VS.. Turner Con-
crete Steel Company, Philadelphia.
The Board has announced dis
missal of over forty appeals from
decisions of referees.
The New Guard-Adjutant GEN
eral Frank d. Beary is arranging for
a series of conferences with officers
of the Twenty Eighth Division upon
their return with view to ascer-
tanning how many of them will re-
enter the new National Guard. Steps
for the organization of units this
summer and fall are being taken
and the Reserve Militia will be con-
solidated with new organizations in
some cases and form the basis for
regiments.
Will Start Soon-Preliminar re-
ports received at the State Highway
Department indicate that there will
not be much time lost in getting
work started on several of the big
contracts for construction let early
this month. In several counties,
assembling of material has been
started and arrangements for labor
are under way, while county author
tiles have signed up agreements for
joint construction. Bids for over
fifty miles of new highway will be
opened at the Department early in
May.
Close of Draft-Supplement his
tories of draft boards are being sent
to State draft headquarters from a
number of towns where men who
served as members of organizations
in charge of the elective service are
completing writing of incidents con-
nected with the operation of draft.
Many of these statements deal with
the manner in which the draft was
received and how the letters from
men after they reached camps and
France changed sentiment. State
headquarters will be retained to
close up the draft work in various
lines.
Suggests OwncrShip-The Public
Service Commission. in deciding the
first complaint brought before 1t
against rates charged by a sewerage
company, directs the Wayne Sewer
age Company. operating in Delaware
county near Philadelphia, to submit
new rates to the commission. These
rates are to yield an annual income
of S1S,50O, being based upon a val
uation of 1917. The commission de-
clares that rates fixed by contracts
must give way when found to be
unreasonable, that it cannot sustain
covenants contained in deeds assur-
ing free service and that u perpetual
exemption of properties from pay
ment of rates would be contrary to
law. The opinion contains this para
graph: 1T may be that the acquisi-
ton of the respondents plant by the
municipalities in which complain
ants reside, at fair value, would
be the best solution of the difficulties
and thus relieve the rate payers Of!
the direct and unusual expense for
sewerage disposal"
To List All Mcn-Steps to obtain
about all men of the
keystone Division who have come
home in advance of the PENNSYLVANIA
Guardsmen as casuals or for other
reasons. are being taken by the Ad-
lutant Generals department. A num-
Der of men have been listed and it |
is the idea to get into communica-
ton with them as soon as possible
when the time for the parade is
fixed. The department is endeavor-
ing to arrange with the War Depart
ment some plan by which notice of
the sailing of ships containing Penn
sylvanians from France can be given
promptly.