Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30
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Major William G.. Murdock, exc
ecutive officer of the draft in this
state during the war and who Is
now winding up odds and ends of
the selective service system, is puz-
zling over a letter sent to a Phila-
delphian who was certified to him
as deserter away back in the Lag
summer of 1917 and which turne6
up in his mail bag the other day
along with some correspondence re-'
lative to men whom Uncle Sam is
seeking for evasion of draft duty.
The letter was sent to a man wro
was reported by Quaker City draft
board for failing to comply with the
regulations two years ago. The les-
ter went to the address given "a
once and came back two days asa,
The major is now trying to find Qua
where 1T has been all this time. I.
bears only the Philadelphia mark
and is in good condition.
Another mail problem which is
puzzling people here is the cores
pondence reaching the Governors
office addressed to DIR. Martin G.
Brumbaugh as Governor. In spite
of the fact that the Philadelphian's
term as Governor ceased in January
letters are reaching the office every
them coming from counties near
Harrisburg. These letters are for
| warded to the former Governor and
in ninety-nine cases out of ten turn
\ out to be official matters relating to
the office of the Governor and not
personal at all. DR.. Brumb baugh
has been sending them back to Har
risburg as fast as he gets them and
ascertains their purport. The clerks
at the Governors office are now
| wondering what they can do to
| to save the former Governors time
and delays in the business.
It's astonishing the way the smoke
of a fire on a dump in the north
end of Harrisburg is carried for
many blocks by the winds these days
There are dumps up around Third
street and Reels Lane which are
always in more or less violent erup-
tion and the smoke filters into the
air even though there does not seem
to be much fire and it is carried
for long distances down town. AS
far South as Verbeke street people
were hunting rubbish fire last
night and then discovered that it
! was all due to the dumps.
The Philadelphia Record prints
this interesting item about the Gov
ernor:
Historical facts are being un-
earthed by Architect Clarence Will
son Brazer, who is restoring the
old courthouse in Chester, the old
est in the United States to it's orig
lnal condition, for Governor William
Z. Sproul, who is paying for the
hn
ernor Sprouts fifth great-grandfather
Nathaniel Newlin, was a member of
the provincial assembly for Chester
county that appropriated the money
for building the old courthouse.
Newiin was also member of the
chester County Commissioners. and
had charge of the erection of tho
original building. Other members
OF the board were Robert PYLE and
Samuel Hollingsworth. The clerk of
the court was Richard Marsden who
was succeeded in 1923 by Joseph
Who among us can recall the
uays When you could go to the mar
et mouse In Market Square and buv
corn for boiling at one cent an % =
and when there were some sneciaI
nne ears that commanded two and
three cents? Now corn sells at Eve
cents an ear. This is the story of one
dozen ears. They came to town
with a farmer Saturday morninp
and when the $50 marketers wnre
around they sold around 35 cents n
oozen. When the 8 o'clock brigade
reached the scene, corn was 30 cents
dozen. At one place in a market
IL is said that a straight price of
hVe cents an ear was asked, but that
was not by farmer. In WORKING
on the high cost of living it is aI9
ways well to remember the human
/ equation.
The Matterhorn continues to DEFY
the efforts of successive crews ~
wreckers. The house that Homer
Matter built in Fourth street and
which required dynamite and crow
bars to level almost to the street
mas been discovered to have been
founded on rocks in truth. The last
week another crew of men started
work on it and gave it I'D because ~
the weather-they alleged. The
foundations have been found to have
been OF the same solid concrete as
the walls and removal of the bases
or the unique dwelling is going to
be as big a job as tearing out tho
foundations of the old Paxton f1our
and feed warehouse.