Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-16
FRANK PAYNE IN
NEW COMPANY
Harrisburg Man Interested in
Mt. Joy Shoe Concern;
Capitol Hill Notes

Frank Payne, of this city, who is
extensively interested in shoe manu-
featuring concerns in various parts
of the State, is one of the incorpo-
rators of the new Gerberich- Payne
Shoe Company, of Mt. Joy, chartered
with a capital of 100000 E. S.
and C. E. Gerberich, of Middletown,
are also interested.
The Penbrook Baking Company,
has been chartered with a capital
of 100000 by w. H. Wolf, G. w.
Wolf and Helen NJ. Wolf, of Pen
brook, who are interested in such
enterprises.
The State Highway Department
to-day brought complaint before the
Public Service Commission against
the bridge over the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks near Leaman Place.
1t is contended that the =. bridge,
which is on the Lincoln Highway,
should be reconstructed and To-
Gated in another place. The Com
mission also received a number of
complaints against illegal operation
of jitneys in Fayette and other coun-
ties in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Attorney General Schaffer to-day
assigned Frank N. Hunter, deputy
attorney general, to represent the
State in the argument before the
Supreme Court at Pittsburgh in the
Wasson appeal tomorrow.
First Sergeant James A. Walder,
of Philadelphia, was to-day ap-
pointed second lieutenant of Troop
A of the Reserve Militia cavalry.
The American Railway Express
Company has applied to the Public
Service Commission for registration
as a corporation to do business in
Pennsylvania as successor of various
express companies consolidated into
it. The proceeding is purely
formal one.
When a building on property in
charge of State Commission or an
institution is destroyed by fire the
insurance payment must be made to
the State Treasury for the State In
surance Fand and can not be used
by the Commission for temporary
sheds or any other purpose accord
ing to a ruling made to-day by the
Attorney General in a question sub
mitted by the State Commission in
charge of construction of the State
Institution for Inebriates.
The Public Service Commission will
act next week on applications for
charters for nine electric companies
which ask rights to operate in Mil
ton. Danville and districts of North
cumberland and; adjoining counties.
These charters are part of a big
power development up the Susque-
hanna. Action may also be taken
within n few days the Lebanon wa
ter cases in which Commissioner f.
Ray Shelby sat yesterday at Leba-
non.
The Glen Mills cases were heard
to-day in Philadelphia.
Chief Seward Button, OF the De-
partment of Mines, has returned from
a series of visits to the Southwestern
Pennsylvania mining district on safe
ty matters.
DR.. d. Franklin Roger, for 10 years
connected with the State Department
of Health, and acting commissioner,
after the death of DIR. Samuel G. Dix
on, has been made executive officers
of the Observation-Disclosures Health
Commission, which is undertaking an
extensive health program in Nova
Scotia He will reside in Nova Scotia
during the work. which is a combl-
nation of Canadian and Bay State Of
ficials and business people.
Governor Sproul is speaking before
the Erie Chamber of Commerce to-
day. He went from Easton to Buffa
10. and thence to Erie. 1t is his first
visit to Erie since he has been Gov
ernor.