Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-27


the year 1919. Hay and buckwheat
showed the most marked average,
declines going from $26.05 per ton
to $25.45 for hay and s1.66 to S1.40
for buckwheat. The other declines
were small, wheat. oats and potatoes
being an average of cent. The
average farm wage with board paid
in Pennsylvania this year is given as
| S404, against $35S in 1918, when 1t
also advanced. The average daily
wage went from $3.50 to $2.53 on
the farm, while figures on harvest
hands showed an average of 1925
| against an average for 1918 of $2.95.
Female help on the farm commanded
an average of $3.50 q week against
$3.50.
Pennsylvania will have a million
dollars set aside for its permanent
! fire insurance fund next week, this
| being the accumulation made in less
than four years under the operation
of the act of 1915 which provided
| for the State to carry its own fire
! insurance. The act provided that
various items, including interest,
| should go to establish the fund and
that when it reaches $1.00O.0O0 the
| items should go to the general cash
balance of the commonwealth and
the fund should stand. AS most or
belief is that a million dollars will
| be ample and the State will stop
paying insurance premiums and carry
| its own insurance. Just how the
| fund would be replenished in event
of big fire is interesting some peo-
pie, as it is contended that there
| is no provision whereby the items
can automatically be sent back into
| the fund once they are diverted.
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which were started on December l
and had an interruption because of
! Christmas week, will be started
! again on Monday in Beaver, Mer-
Ger. Forest and Centre counties. A
! continuous schedule has been ar
ranged for January, most of the
meetings having been cut down to
one day. In a number of instances
meeting places have also been
| changed.
| Charters being issued by the State
the last few months have shown a
big increase in companies for the
I sale and care of automobiles and
/ also for operation of garages. Most
| of these enterprises start off with
good sized capital and some of them
are apparently community affairs,
! judging from the number of incor-
| porators given. Other companies
which are showing an increase in
| number are for the manufacture of
silk. Most of those incorporated
! lately are for the anthracite region.
The State Compensation Board
will resume its sessions on January
6 when a meeting will be held here,
followed by three days in Philadel-
phia.
DIR. Lee l.. Driver, the director of
| the new State Bureau of Rural Edu-
! cation, will assume his duties in the
! Department of Public instruction
! the middle of January. He will I'M
mediately begin preparations for a
survey of rural conditions together
with men familiar with the sltua-
tion in various counties in this State.
I Capitol Hill people are awaiting
with the greatest interest develop
ments over this weekend in State
politics. The last Saturday of the
old year is always time when there
are gatherings of men prominent in
Republican politics at Philadelphia
it being a time when there are nu-
merous dinners. Some of the gossip
going to-day concerns prominent
State officials. The Philadelphia In
quirer says that there is talk OF
State Commissioner of Banking John
S. Fisher for auditor general and OF
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and S. b. Sadler, of Carlisle, for Su-
preme Court justice. The Press says
that the much rumored fight be-
! tween Joseph r. Grundy and State
Chairman William e. Crow was
likely to be called off," saying that
w. Harry Baker. secretary of the
| Republican State committee had
ironed things out. The Press was
very positive that there was going tc
be a direful fight n week ago.
Justice Robert Won Moschisker, oi
the Supreme Court, will administer
the oath to Mayor-elect J. Hampton
Moore when he takes office in Phil
adelphia.
The new Delaware river bridge
commission yesterday furthered its
work and started toward getting
plans. The cost will run about $2O,.
100000.
The State Board of Pharmacy has
brought suit against DR.. T. c. Hart
er, a prominent Columbia county
doctor on the charge ofviolating the
narcotic act. Two violations are
charged. DR.. Harter has given bail
for court and will fight the charges
Warden II. j. McKenty, OF the
Eastern Penitentiary, says that he
intends to speak on the attacks
against him and to reveal the ami
mus behind the whole matter.