Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-02
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A brand new State law placing
every public dance to which an ad-
mission is charged, which is con-
Quoted in connection with instruc-
tion or to which admission is had
py any ticket or token and with
Which there is any charge for car
ing for coats and hats connected,
under control of the mayors of the
three classes of cities in Pennsyl-
vania takes effect to-day. Every
such dance must be conducted under
permit issued by the mayor or
some official designated by him and
every hall or place where public
dances are conducted comes under
the same law. The new law has
been the subject of much CORES
pondence with State officials. Copies
| of the act, which was approved
some days ago, have been in demand
and the State printer has been di-
rected to push along printing of
| copies so that the provisions may
be available Some of the letters
received display resentment at the
placing of supervision in the hands
of the mayors, while others ap-
parently welcome the control. 1t is
estimated that hundreds of dances
will come under the authority of
cities One of the effects of the new
law, it was pointed out to-day by
people at the Capitol will be to in
crease the number of dances held at
summer parks and similar resorts
until the law gets to running
smoothly when 1t is not anticipated
| that there will be any trouble. The
! enactment of the law seems to have
been a surprise even in this city
J where the Legislature meets and the
| fact that a license would have to be
| paid for by each hall and that a
dollar fee for each license to hold a
dance would be required from the
people in charge was rather a shock.
| In Harrisburg there are not so many
! dances in, summer as in winter
which would come under the new
law. In the main, say police au-
thorities and people interested in
| public dances, there has been very,
very little to complain of about
dances in Harrisburg in years The
old hops" that used to create talk
and which were generally accom-
panied by plenty of beer for those
attending passed away long ago.
May and June appear to be the
favorite months for the annual re-
unions of family clans which has
become a prominent feature of
|
suggested by Prof. j. Howard Vert
exhibiting to the writer his invita-
ton, just received, to the Vert re-
union to be held, June IL. on the
fair grounds, at Bueyrus, Ohio. And
then the Professor gave a reminis-
cent sketch of the growth and mi
grations of his branch of the Vert
family which is culled from the
following brief synopsis: The
ancestors of the family, now
widely scattered over the Unit
ed States, came to Philadel-
phia not twenty years after Penn
had founded that city. Some years
later most of them removed to the
Lehigh Valley settling in the region
where Bethlehem, Allentown and
Catasauqua now stand. But many
years before the Revolution a con-
siderable number of the family push
ed on to the Susquehanna region,
one branch establishing itcelf in the
Lykens Valley section of Upper
Il Dauphin, whilst another moved on
to that part of York county which
subsequently became Adamsa@ But
soon after the Revolution many OF
the family, especially those of the
Lykens Valley section migrated to
the far West of that day, the famed
Ohio. But descendants of those
who settled in Ohio are now found
, in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas and almost every western
and southwestern State. Yet Ohio
continues to. be recognized as the
Vert headquarters and it is in some
} city of that State that the annual
: reunion is always held, the mem
bers of the clan coming by hundreds
from the more distant States as to
an old home shrine. About the time
that many members of the Vert
} family went from the Susquehanna
section to Ohio, a less numerous
J migration moved south. From this
branch of the family came Judge
: Thomas w. Vert, for many years
one OF the leading jurists of the
State of Alabama.
Secretary of Agriculture Frederik
Rasmussen, who has been taking
series of rides through the farm
ing districts in this section of the
State has been impressed by the re-
sponse of the farmers of the Susque-
hanna Valley to the call for a grain
supply. Last year, he says, the
farmers turned in to raise wheat on
scale never before attempted in
Pennsylvania and the yield promises
= to be large. Much corn planting is
under way in sight of Pennsylvanias
!, capital.