Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-28

Heidelburg townships, DIR. G. 5.
Reber West Reading; Beaver coun-
ty, Harmony and Economy town
ships, DR.. John II. Boal, Freedom;
Clearfield county, Burnside borough
and Greenwood township, DIR. w. Z.
Brown; Lancaster county, Christl-
ana borough and Salisbury town
ship, DR.. It. S. Irwin; Lycoming
county, Nippenose, Piatt. Porter and
Watson townships, DR.. l.. NJ. Good
man, Jersey Shore; Somerset coun-
ty, Somerset township, DIR. James
E. Dull; Tioga county, Liberty town
ship, Dr. G. d. Castlebury.
Health officers have been name"
as follows: Lancaster county, Little
Britain and Fulton townships, John
c. Fulton; Dauphin county, Lykens
township, Thomas G. Lentz, ELIZA
bethville.
l. NJ. Burlington, of Gratz. has
been appointed registrar for Gratz
and Lykens township, Dauphln
county.
DR.. w. ]. Ezickman has been ap-
pointed chief of the genito-urinary
dispensary, Phipps Institute, Phila-
delphia, and DIR. Clifford H. Arnold
as first assistant at the Chester City
Dispensary.
Plus Glessner, Somerset, has been
appointed manager. of farms at the
Hamburg Sanitorium.
The State Highway Department
has turned into the State Treasury
$4,000 realized from the fees 1or
| sets of plans and specifications for
! State roads. For years the State
furnished such plans for nothing or
required a deposit fee. Recently
! fee of $3.50 for all plans was es-
7 Ill fc1, 81 80 hn n
erty of the contractor paying Tor
them. The big demand for plans is
reflected in the payment made TO-
i day.
/ State experts are investigating re-
ports of the appearance OF the
dreaded European corn borer IN
northern counties. Some. samples of
! horers have been obtained, but it is
not certain whether they are the de-
structive pest or some native borers.
/ Permission was granted by the
. Public Service Commission last
! night for the Southern Pennsylvania
/ Traction Company, operating in
/ Delaware county. to reduce rate
| of trolley fare from eight to seven
| cents on one days notice. The
! company some time ago announced
an advance in fares from six to
| eight cents, effective October 70.
| Complaints were filed from people
{ living on the Darby and Media Di-
vision and the company applied for
permission to reduce the new fare
to seven cents. c. L. S. Tingley,
| president of the company, appeared
in person.
Ex-Attorney General w. S. Kirk
! patrick, of Easton, and several at
torneys from Easton, Bethlehem
and Allentown, appeared before the
Public Service Commission to argue
the complaint of the Lehigh Valley
Transit Company against the tolls
| on what is known as the New Street
Bridge. The transit company. rais-
ed its fares to meet the tolls and
complaint was filed against it. The
| Commission also heard the attor-
neys for the North Branch Transit
Company, the complainant not ap-
pearing. The Commission gave
considerable time to the Johnson
complaint that the Philadelphia
Suburban Gas and Electric Com
pany had refused to extend gas
ware county. The Shubert theater
complaint against installation
charges of the Philadelphia Electric
Company was continued.
State Market officials were to-day
making some inquiries about the
charge of twenty-five and twenty
eight cents made for brown sugar in
| Harrisburg. The sugar situation has
been a subject of interest at the
Capitol in view of the possibility
that the steady increases here may
, conflict with some State laws.
The State Board of Pardons has
, started listing cases for the Novem-
ber meeting. At least one first de-
gree case will be on the calendar.
| A series of changes hnS taken place
in the Department of Public Grounds
, and Buildings the last few days,
which affect people connected with
the Capitol and the Eecutive Mansion
as we'll r. L. Gilchrist, one of the
clerks, has been transferred to the
resident engineers office which is in
charge of bridge and other ,construc-
tiCn; Claude Thomas. of Scranton, has
been appointed a stenographer, sue
ceeding Miss Mary Mark. stenograph-
| er. who takes a position with the
Public Service Commission. where she
was formerly employed; stephen w.
! Cross, of Pottsville. has been named
/ as file clerk. These charmen have
! been named: Fred w. Darrow, De
| Witt Franklin, Thomas Gosney, AL
| bert C. Johnson and Edward Tate, of
| this city. Lucy Ray has been ap-
! pointed cook at the Executive Man
sion and Ottlia Grant appointed
| housemaid.
Charles Johnson, Deputy Auditor
General, is being congratulated by
his friends upon his election to the
/ presidency of the Peoples National
Bank, of Norristown, of which he has
been long a stockholders.
The Harrisburg Railways Company
yesterday paid the State S2S,671.09
as State tax.
The State Game Commission has
ers' licenses in counties where no
arm tags are available owing to the
demand having exhausted the supply
to make their own tags. Such per-
sons must display on the tag the
county and serial number and have
their receipt for payment of the
| license at hand when asked
Lieutenant-Gover IL. T.. BcidIc-
man will speak tonight at Cham
bersburg and at Pittsburgh on Sat
urday.
Insurance Commissioner Donald
son is in New York in connection
with the Pittsburgh Life and Trust
Company affairs.
Karl B. LOhman, engineer in the
Town Planning Division of the
Bureau of Municipalities of the Dc
partment of Internal Affairs, has
returned from Remove where he
made a preliminary study of a plot
of ground which will be developed