Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-12

SIT at scranton and WllkeS-Barre
the latter part of the week.
Allegheny County authorities look
for a record-breaking issue of hunt
ers' licenses. incidentally, the sports
men in that county are clamoring
for establishment of more forest re-
serves in the southeastern part of
the State.
The State Agricultural Department
has issued a bulletin that figures
studied show that Pennsylvania has
12,67S.519 acres of improved farm
land. 16,01S,961 acres being either
woodland or unproductive. It is also
stated that If the decline in number
of farms noted between the census
taking of 1900 and 1910 keeps up the
next census will show about 1000
/ farms in the State. An appeal is to
be made to farmers to make more
of the land productive by raising of
| live stock.
Farmers of Pennsylvania are not
as we'll advanced with their work
this year as last fall, according to
the statistical bureau of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The excessive
rainfall while helping wheat, rye and
pasture, has interfered with late SOW
Ing of grain and retarded husking
of corn. There is an enormous acre
age of corn which is delayed in a
number of counties. Warning that
this is the time to attack diseases
which have been affecting plums is
given.
A list published by the Department
of Agriculture shows that Dauphin
County has less than 2,700 farms
The census of 1910 showed 2,6S4I
against 2,S44 in 1900. Cumberland
has 3,o34 farms; Perry. 2,409; Juni-
OF
2,525; Franklin, 1880; Adams, 3,752;
Fulton. 1,424; Huntingdon, 2,2S5;
Union 1.455; Snyder, 1,S45; Center,
2.60S; Northumberland, 1884; York,
$3.50, and Lancaster, 1885, the
largest number in the State.
The Public Service Commission has
issued orders for the Philadelphia
Suburban Gas and Electric Com,
pany. to make extensions to mains
in Springfield Township, Delaware
County, and the Home Electric Light
and Steam Heating Company, or Ty-
rome. to make extensions in that
complaints. The Baltimore and
Ohio railroad was given an extension
of the time for abolishing the grade
crossing near Claysville Washington
County, until June 1, 1920.
The Philadelphia Railways CoH,-
pany has filed notice with the Pub
lie Service Commission that the
United States Shipping Board has ar
ranged a new one-way tariff between
Third and Jackson streets, Philadel.
phia and Hog Island, increasing fare
from five to eight cents. It is to |
be effective December 9.
Mine inspectors reporting to the
State Department of Mines to-day ,
gener1llv aYnraCSnd hn in,A
the miners would be back at work
very soon and that efforts of radical
elements in some communities to
keep men out would not amount to
much.
In an effort to restore the black
walnut trees of Pennsylvania the
State Forestry Department has un-
dertaken extensive seed planting at
the Mont Alto nursery. Commits
sioner Robert S. Conklin estimates
that $50 bushels of black walnuts
were planted in specially prepared
ground and that they should produce
10000 seeding trees for distribu-
ton next season. Many requests for
such trees have come from owners
of woodland who are anxious to start
groves of the trees whose wood was
in such demand during the war.
The Public Service Commission
has fixed November "a for the argu-
ment in the Bell Telephone rate case. |
Whether further testimony will be
taken has not been decided.
According to Philadelphia news
papers, Col. John C. Groome is be- !
ing very seriously considered for !
director of public safety. The COL |
onel has been mustered out of the |
army and is now back in civil life. |
His status as State Department Of !
fetal is restored automatically.
Insurance Commissioner Thomas |
B. Donaldson has been in Pittsburgh |
in connection with the insurance |
trials.
Contractors on State road work |
up the Susquehanna valley are run
ming a race with Jack Frost They |
are pushing construction as rapidly |
as possible especially in Lycoming |
county.
DIR. Thomas f. Finegan, state su-
perintendent of public instruction, /
addressed the State Woman Suffrage |
meeting in Philadelphia yesterday.
G. III. Getty, one of the State bank !
examiners for years, has been named |
as receiver of the Land Trust Com |
pany. of Pittsburgh, to succeed the !
late David Hunter, Jr.
Attorney General William I. Schaf- !
fer in an interview in the Philadel- |
phia Evening Ledger again calls at |
tention to the fact that liquor leg
islation is not a matter for the |
States, but for the Federal Govern |
ment, in which he takes issue with |
Judge Eugene c. Bonniwell.
Friends of DR.. j. George Becht, !
first deputy superintendent of pub !
lie instruction, to-day telegraphed /
their congratulations to him on his |
marriage at Williamsport.
John p. Dohoncy, investigator of |
accidents of the Public Service Com |
mission. is at Philadelphia investi- !,
eating the ferry accident.
Frank McGrann, of Lancaster, has !
offered the old McGrann mansion |
near that city to the State Police as |
permanent headquarters. The j
troop is now temporarily located |
there. but under the law will be es- |
tablished here, an appropriation for |
barracks having been made.
MOORE RECOGNIZED AS
PHILADELPHIA HEAD !
Philadelphia newspapers to-day |
carry extended stories that Governor |