Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-22
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stones and baby coaches the last
year is now giving a real and sub
stantial evidence that in spite of
feoeral Nominations and municipaL
nahitestoes, it is still on the job. A.
ilVe dollar bill was demanded and
IN IN cases paid for trees in Harrisburg
saturday and to-day. And this. too.
when there are fine eyerrreens and
spruce and other trees suitable for
the great display of the day of days.
IN thc christian world growing with
IN sight of the Capitol dome and
| owners of the land willing to sell on
snort notice. There are not a few
Vi US VINO can recall the days when
we used to go to Market Square and
select fine tree for from thirty
nVe TO seventy-ive cents among the
lots that were stacked against the
| Ola market sheds and there were
real bargains to be had for thirty
cents at Nerbeke street market.
A man who would have had asked
~ Tor tree in the piles that years
| ago used to be on sale on Third
street just below Market and around
salem reformed and Market Square
presbyterian Church pavements
would nave been snoWballed. And
Jet, on Saturday, there were trees
when some years ago could have
been had for dollar for which IS
[ ""' oSNtu anu palu. dealers de-
| Lended the charge and one man
figured out that his profit on a
tree that was priced at SIS would be
around 33 cents. lie went back
along the line. The tree came from
another state, and 1t does seem
strange that the farmers and others
owning land on the mountains near
Harrisburg do not go into the tree
business as a sideline to make some
| hrfe,
dealer said that the owner of the
Tree demanded more this year and
80 did the man who chopped it
Town. The owner of the team that
'afrled the tree to the place of pack
ing and shipping was paid more than
year ago. Freight rates. of course,
2an be blamed for almost anything
With more or less justification. Then
came the delivery charges and last,
but not least, the overhead of the
Tree dealer. 1t was a most impressive
showing and while he did leave out
any charges for inspection or car
demurrage, he did not miss much
else. 1t is not hard to understand
an advance in the price of holly
wreaths and mistletoe, but SIS for a
Christmas tree at the foothills of the
Blue Ridge does rather jar upon the
feelings and cause reflections upon
how welded to tradition is the aver
age Harrisburg resident.
The number of people who went
out yesterday for automobile rides
and brought home a Christmas tree
was rather indicative of the spirit
that the prices asked for the ever
green's had aroused. AS pointed out,
it is not difficult to get tree near
:, Harrisburg and some fine ones are
to be found within a dozen miles,
esterday there were quite few
automobiles that went up the river
. road or over the bridges, their oc-
cupants defying the sharp air. and
came home at nightfall with fine
trees. One party told of going to a
farmers house, bundling him up into
: their car and going to a piece of
= woodland he owned and of buying
= a tree "on the stump" The farmer
even helped cut it down and told
them to call around and see him
next year. r.
Shortage of sugar is going to have
a serious effect upon branch OF
farming that has been producing a
J honey crop valued at over a million
dollars year in Pennsylvania's
? agricultural counties, according to
statements which are being made to
officials of the Department of Agrf-
culture. Outbreak of the war and
the rise in the price of sugar stimu-
lated the Bookkeeping industry in
| every part OF the State and the
severely cold winter of 1917-191S.
< which killed many colonies of bees,
( caused the price obtainable for
Q honey to make it attractive to many
= farmers This year the price of
: sugar made conditions even more
f favorable and considerable money
; has been invested in bees. Unfor-
4 tunately in some sections of the
4 State. the sugar scarcity has pre-
1 vented farmers from securing sugar
t needed for, the winter store for their
1 bees.
!. Hundreds of applications for au-
i tomobile licenses have had to be re-
= turned to the senders in the last ten
0 days by the Automobile Division of
}. the State Highway Department
o which has charge of the issuance of
: the tags because of failure of the
r applicants to put down their ad-
: dresses. number of tags have come
: in with simply the name of the ap-
: plicant. In other instances the data
!. required is not complete and some
G instances have been heard of where
/: the information was all carefully
=. set out and the application sworn to-
|
: registration and license. Incident
i; ally, the State has to use trucks to
v handle its incoming and outgoing
t mail for the automobile division.
;.
v DR.. Thomas +. Finegan, the State
O Superintendent of Public Instruc-
z ton. who was stricken down with
n pneumonia on the eve of the State
: Educational Congress which he had
g worked so hard to prepare, will
o leave Harrisburg in n few days for
n Atlantic City TO regain his health.
G DR.. Finegan's doctor, Col. Edward
@ Martin, the State Commissioner of
i Health. has had his own troubles in
keeping his patient under rule. DIR.
Finegan hopes to get back to Harris
burg late in January to complete the
organization of his department, which
was interrupted by the illness which
II prostrated him so untimely. Incl
dentally, he says that he wants to
2, get into trim to beat his doctor at
IT golf on the Fort Hunter links of the
Country Club of Harrisburg next