Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-15

plrds. The Commission has suggest
eo that the sportsmen be interested
because OF the damage done to young
plrds and TO nests by the crows.
Last year the Commission provided
corn doctored with strychnine to be
scattered in the vicinity of crow
roosts ard places wters the black
feathered birds were wont to assem-
Die by hundreds were selected for
tests. There was controversy as to
the possibility OF damage to domes-
tic animals end birds, but the State
officials claim that the corn killed
many crows which had been P nui-
ssnce to farmers and a menace to
game. In York and other counties
sportsmen organized crow hunts and
ralded roosts with shot guns causing
big slaughter.
Plans for this year call for war
ends and protectors and soJr.s,u1n
to feed quail and oths. game and 10
thin out the crows and vlr:ous birds
and animals which are destructive
OF insect eating birds and young
game.
Petitions for the merger of local
retirement systems with the state
teachers retirement system were re-
ceiVed and approved by the State
Teachers Retirement Board at a
meeting here yesterday from the fol-
lowing cities, which have voted on
the subject: Altoona, Chester, Erie.
Meadville. Scranton, Norristown,
Williamsport and Harrisburg. The
office of the Retirement Board re-
ported more than 10000 enrollments
in the State Retirement Association.
with many new enrollments daily.
Three new members of the board.
Miss Lucy Glass, of Jeanette: Miss
Grace Swan, OF Pittsburgh and r. e.
Laramy, Of Easton, recently elected
to represent the state school en-
ployes. took the oath of office and
met with the board for the first time
today.
The Workmen's Compensation Com
mission today announced that 1t has
refused petition for a review OF the
case of George Athens, McKees
Rocks and Harrisburg, VS.. the Car
negie Steel Company, Pittsburgh.
These other decisions were announc-
ed: Mrs. Mary Hart VS.. State Insur-
ance Fund, appeal from disallowance
! OF compensation by referee, new
hearing granted; George W. Cohen,
Philadelphia, VS.. Sprsckles Sugar Re-
AAhAA6 SoiiiPdhSs dppedl Dy uelenu-
ant from order of reference, appeal
| dismissed; Otto Bohn and Katie Bohn,
| Lancaster. VS.. Aetna Chemical Co.,
N. Y, petition for determination of
compensation under agreed facts, av-
| erage weekly wage found to be ex-
| cess of $50. and compensation fixed
| at 81 week for SEQ weeks; Henry
Gardner, Philadelphia, VS.. James II.
Ellington Co., Philadelphia, appeal
from order referee suspending COM
pensation, termination of compensa-
tion fixed at October 21, 1918, instead
OF October 29.
New Licenses in Ordcr-To- day
marks the commencement of the
second year of the state dog license
law of 1917. and from to-day on all
tags purchased for 1918 will be void
The dog license code of 1917 pro-
vided that the act should become
effective on January 10, 1918, and
while many thousands of dogs were
registered, hundreds were killed be-
cause they had no owners or owing
to failure of owners to register them
The act applies to all dogs over siS
months old and the county treas
urers are in charge OF the license
issues, the State Department OF
Agriculture being given administra-
| tive authority for the state.
7,413 With FTeet-Pennsylvan
had 7.413 Glass 1 men of its draft
lists in the service of the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation during the
war, according to a statement issued
to-day by . ajor W. G. Murdoch, the
states chief draft officer. It Is
expected that 17S of the limited
service men who ested as clerks tc
draft boards will be discharged by
the end of the week. They were
mustered in at Camp Colt and they
are being mustered out at Camp
Dix.
Major Aurdock has requested
| boards to include in their historical
sketches of the operation of the draf
in Pennsylvania the names of per,
sons who were volunteer and othel
assistants to boards in their work.