Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-25

noon will be devoted to health in
surance.
Members of the State Commissions
on Health Insurance and Old Age
Pensions will attend the. meeting.
Industrial physicians and surgeons
throughout the State will be invited
to attend.
Board to Mcet-The Pennsylvania
State Compensation Board Will re-
sumo sittings at HARRISBURG Septeh-
Der and at Philadelphia September
3, 4 and S, meeting at Scranton and
Pittsburgh later on.
More Men Sent - Additional ex-
perts and agents of the State Agri-
cultural Department have been de-
tailed to 60 into the anthracite field
to observe the conditions of the
potato crop, this being the region
| in which the potato wart disease ap-
peared in such serious phase last
year. For the last year a Federal
and state quarantine has been estab-
lished in this district, a laboratory
having been opened at Freeland. The
plan is to see how the potato crop
stood up in the region which was
the only part of the State affected
to any extent.
New Style Company - The first
charter to be granted by the State
of Pennsylvania to a corporation
! without capital stock or shares OF
| only nominal value has just been is
sued to the CAeswick Power Co. OF
the sum of $500 has been paid in.
Mergers Begun-A merger of cleo
trio corporations of considerable
size along lines of those recently
made in Western Pennsylvania will
come before the Public Service Com
mission next Tuesday when the Le-
high Valley Light and Power Co. and
the Lehigh Navigation Electric co.
will present papers for merging un-
der the name of the former. The
various companies in the Mauch
Chunk-Carbon group have applied
for approval of a merger into the
Industrial Power Co, which is to
operate large plant in the middle
anthracite fed.
Increases Filcd-The Public Serv-
ice Commission has given notice of
the filing of a certificate of notitica-
ton of $25,000,000 60 per cent
thirty-year bond issue by the Du-
quesne Light Co., of Pittsburgh, part
of which is to be used for construc-
ton and others for retirement of
bonds of subsidiary companies. The
company also filed notice of issu-
ance of $2,000,000 of per cent
three-year notes. Other certificates
of notification filed include: West
Penn Traction Co., Pittsburgh,
bonds, $295,50O; Marietta Gravity
Water Co., Marietta, common stock,
$4,000; Girard Water Co., Philadel-
phia, common stock, $450,000; State
Centre Electric Co., Clearfield, bonds,
$474,000; Blandsburg Water Co.,
Philadelphia, common stock, $15,-
900; Penn Public Service Corpora
ton, Johnstown, preferred stock,
$1,517,700, and common stock, $3,-
50,000; Overlook Steam Heat Co.,
Philadelphia, bond, $4,000; Lewis
Jones, Inc, PHILADELPHIA, bond,
$4,000; Osceola Water Supply Co.,
Osceola Mills, common stock, $780,
600; Mahoning and Shenango Rail-
way and Light Co., New Castle. car
trust agreement Z per cent notes,
$25,10O.
Bridge Order Made-The Public
Service Commission in an order is
sued to-day orders bridge improve
ments in the boroughs of East
Concmaugh and Franklin, Cambria
county. The complaint was made
by East Conemaugh that a new
bridge should be completed connect
ing the towns and over lands of the
Cambria Steel Co. and of the tracks
OF the pennsylvania RallrOad co.
The Commission orders that watch
men be placed and that traffic be
restricted to six miles per hour.
Clement to Command Major
General C. M. Clement, former
commander of the National Guard,
will command the big Knight
Templar parade in Philadelphia next
month.
Governor in Park - Governor
Sproul. who spent several days |
touring Yellowstone Park, is on his !
way TO Washington with a commit
tee of governors.
Increases Made-The Miller Auto
Company, of this city, has filed
notice Of increase of stock from
$4,000 to $125,000 and the Bell
Motor Co., of York, of $4,000 to |
100000.
Bellevue Chartcred-The State has
granted a charter to the Bellevue |
Stratford Hotel Co, of Philadelphia,
to operate the big hotel. The cap
ital is $1,2OO,0O0 and a number of !
prominent men are interested.