Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-07
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Just as an illustration of the way
people regard gardening since the
war brought about a totally differ
ent conception of community du>I
in that respect 1t may be mentioned
that there are literally dozens o.
gardens on the outskirts of Has
risburg which are "farmed" by pee
pie living blocks and in in some in
stances miles away. There are not
! as many gardens as there were tyze
years ago or as many as last year,
but there are numerous plots being
cultivated about the city. Some o.
the, big tracts on the Hill turned
| over to gardeners are carefully
| tended and each evening the length
ening hours of daylight are employ
ed in making the plots look like
| prize affairs. An immense amount
| of time is being given to gardening
| in Harrisburg and often in the af-
ternoons women and children work
at them and the men take up the
job in the evenings. The war seem
ed to have gotten many residents of
Harrisburg either into the garden
| habit or to have awakened some
! recollection of other days when they
worked in the gardens or on the
| farm.
A group which attracted some at
| tention at the Capitol yesterday
| afternoon was Ex-Governor William
| A. Stone; Mayor A. T. Connell, of
Scranton, and General Harry C.
| TreXler, of Allentown. A few min
| uteS later A. B. Farquhar, the York
! manufacturer, passed. He is one of
the oldest and most active men in
civic affairs in the State, being
eighty-three and still very active.
| Major w. c. Murdoch, the State
draft officer, has sent kilograms to
the officers of the Philadelphia COM
mittee in charge of the welcome
home of the troops in which he
| urges that care be taken to recog-
nize the members of the Philadel-
phia draft boards in the plans for
| the parade. He says that they in
Quoted into the service more than
| 1000 men.
House cleaning at the office of the
directors of the poor during the last
few days turned up old records
which had been kept there for years,
among them books showing ac-
counts which were kept in 1928.
CllC VI NutSS 10 III lcuSeT lOTD1 SHOW
| ing payments for various supplies
and work at the institution. Some
of the entries follow: for 20 gall
Ions of whisky, $3.50; for one bar
rel of whisky, $S.25; for snuff, $40;
two cords of wood, S10.50; five cof-
fins, $3.50; one bay mare, $50; two
shad, 80 cents; one bull, 5000;
100 bushels of wheat, $11O; 7 bushels
potatoes, $2.S1; 20 head of sheep,
SAD. maids month SA.
stewards wages, two months, $3S.35.
In 1850 these were some of the en-
tries: 5S pounds of veal at cents
! a pound; 1856 feet of lumber.
$4O;27; 104 yards calico, $5.93;
head of cattle, $11S; cooks wages,
one month So; nurse, one month,
So laborer's wages, one month,
$3.50; sand, four loads, 81; 45 tons
of coal, $123.75; S61 pounds beef,
$19.S5. In 1910 these were some
of the items: 16 steers, S330; 40
cords of wood, $50; one SOW and five
pigs, Sc; II barrels of flour, 81 a
barrel.
Deputy Prothonotary Henry f.
Holler found a Humm elstown paper
the other day which had been pub
lished in 1895. In it was an ac-
count of his wedding, and also one
of the wedding of Irwin Kicker. The
other day Isaac b. SwartZ, an at
torney of the Dauphin county bar,
walked into the prothonotary's Of
flee, and Mr.. Holler said he had
| seen Mr.. SwartZ's name in the same
paper. Mr.. SwartZ inquired about
it and Mr.. Holler told him that it
was mentioned in connection with
the Kicker wedding, at which Mr..
Swartz was best man.
A Harrisburger who recently went
over the Sunbury and Iewistown di-
vision of the Pennsylvania railroad
tells a funny incident that came up
during the trip. A woman who was
exceedingly attractive in appear
ance, walked up to the drinking cup
| purveyor at the front of the car.
She was evidently unfamiliar with
1 the mechanism of the apparatus and
after she had inserted the necessary
copper, did not know what to do.
You turn the knob" her compan-
ion, an elderly woman, reminded
her. The first woman's face red
dened. You see, l don't know how
to operate these here new tangled
things" she declared, to the editica-
ton of the entire car.
There are two kinds of visitors
who never seem to tire of touring
the big gray building and who are
to be seen every day marching
through the corridors and about the
legislative halls. One group is COM
posed of soldiers, some of them
Pennsylvanians who take advantage
of stop offs in Harrisburg to look
over the Capitol of their State
which many of them have never
seen. The other are Harrisburg
school children, taken through the
Capitol by Charley" Boyer in his
series of outings. The youngsters
march around two and two, just as
they come from school and do not
seem to be scared even of legisla-