Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17

oeen such "a feature of the work of
the pennsylvania Water supply Com
mission the last nine months appears
TO be over, as very few such papers
are being filed these days. The
Commission at its last meeting
have been given for the construction
of walls and making of creek
changes for coal companies in sew
eral western counties and for the
Victory Park Commission of Lewis
town to build a retaining wall and
make fills in creating n park in mem
ory of overseas men.
In the next few months the State
Public Service Commission will hand
down decisions apportioning costs in
construction work that Will eliml-
nate a score of grade crossings and
involve many thousands of dollars.
Some of the projects alone involve
between $4,000 and 100000 and
few even more. These cases have
been argued and the only question is
apportioning costs and the time for
starting construction.
Inspection of units by Federal Of
ficers for incorporation into the new
Pennsylvania National Guard will be
started the latter part of this month,
according to present expectations at
the Capitol. In a number of COM
| munities companies have been
formed for presentation to the COM
| manding officers of regiments and
| Following appointment of field Off
| GERS, which is expected to follow
| the visit of Major General w. G.
Price, the commanding general, here
this week more will be organized.
Divisional and brigade staffs will
1 soon be formed. Many former serv-
ice men are enrolling in the new
companies.
Thus far comparatively few hunt
ing accidents have been reported to
| the State Game authorities consider
ing the large number of hunters in
| the field. State Game protectors
| have been instructed to investigate
all serious accidents and to make
| reports. The small game season has
! entered upon it's last fortnight, as
hunting of almost everything except
deer, whose season opens December
/; bear, rabbits and raccoons. will
close on November 80.
Detailed reports on health condi-
tions in Pennsylvania during the
first half Of November show 225 cases
| OF diphtheria, a marked decline
from the same period of October.
There have been reported "a cases
of scarlet fever. "a cases of typhoid
fever, 17S of measles, 1T of chicken
pox and much whooping cough. The
| latter three diseases have shown in
| creases over the same period of Oc-
tober.
The State Compensation Board
finished hearings in the anthracite
! region Saturday.
"No act of the widow could
| in any way prejudice the rights of
| the children" rules the State
| Compensation Board in Gass vs.
/ Aetna Chemical Co., a Pittsburgh
case. The widow of a deceased en-
| ploye married, but did not appear
to have reported the fact and re-
| ceived compensation for the death
of the first husband for several
! months after her second marriage.
The compensation was ordered
, stopped in her case, but the second
marriage could not change the status
1 of the children as claimants. The
board has ordered new hearings in
| Marsh VS.. Ninton Colliery Co., Vim
| tondale; Rendt VS.. Wheeler, Rey-
| noldsville: Rumoid VS.. GiNen, Phila-
! delphia. In Bodner VS.. Berwind-
White Mining Co., Windber, the
| board says that it has mo power to
graduate an award in proportion to
the loss of vision" The board dis
| allowed the claim of Gandolfi vs.
| Rosenthal, Pittsburgh, holding that
the claimant was not ah employe at
the time of the accident, ana ds-
missed the petition in Alvano VS..
american Car and Foundry Co.. Bcr-
wick
State health inspectors are invcsti-
eating typhoid at Dover.