Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-06

two-party lines; Kittanning Tele-
phone Co.. Armstrong county. maxi
ing new charges for connection. etc.
State and national cooperation in
surveys OF Pennsylvania counties
containing coal is being effected In
Fayette and Somerset counties
through forces of the United States
Geological Survey, the new State
Bureau of Geological Survey and
the topographic corps of the State
Highway Department DR.. George
II. Ashley, the State Geologist, is
working on plans to extend the sur
veys to other counties. The threo
agencies will work together and
avoid duplication. 4 program for
more than two years will be worked
out
Argument on the necessity for the
Hanover and McSherTystown Street
Railway Company abandoning part
OF its line in the terminal towns
will be heard by the Public Service
Commission late to-day. It will be
the first case OF the kind to come up.
Fred J. Hartman, Of Pittsburgh,
to-day assumed his duties as secFe-
tary of the State Industrial Board,
succeeding William Lauder, OF Rid
dlesourg. who resigned as secretary
to serve the board In another ca
pacity. Mr.. Hartman was born In
Pittsburgh and graduated at Central
High School in that city and Kenyon
College. He was engaged in news
paper work and in construction
operations in Pittsburgh. Lately ne
has been connected with Carnegie
Institute OF Technology. The State
plans call for an extension of the
work of the board.
Director Frank u. McCfaln, OF the
State Welfare Commission, has
started the inquiry into rents at
Philadelphia having sent out some
Investigators and also held confer
ences with tenants. He expects a
new form of lease TO be adopted.
The PaSchal Building and Loan
filed notices OF an increase of stock
from 100000 to $5.00o.o00
Commissioner OF Fisheries NJ r.
Butler. who has been on q business
trip to the northeastern part of the
! State, has gone to Erie, Union and
Cory. where inspections of the de-
partments hatcheries at these places
will be made. Before returning he
will 90 to Buffalo, n. 7, where a
tug is being constructed for the de-
partment for use on Lake Erie
Increases of capital stock and
debt to $4,000 are announced by the
Pottsville Baking Company. an en-
terprise controlled by Bernard
Schmidt
The argument I'm the wasson
mandamus case will be lESs'd to-
morrow afternoon in the Dauphin
county court.
Attorney General William I. Schnf-
fer is at Pittsburgh to-day to ap-
pear in the Supreme Court in the
Atlantic refining tax case which will
set an important precedent
The Horst complaint against the
Metropolitan Edison Company, of
Reading, which involves power lines
in Lebanon county, Is up for argu-
ment before the Public Service
Commission to-day.
In the last of bids asked by the
Highway Department for road con-
struction is n section of the Lacka-
wanna Trail. A contract on this
section was let recently and this new
work will connect UP a larger dis
trict
Adjutant General Frank D. Beary
and Deputy Adjutant General Jere
NJ. Ieaman attended the Lancaster
welcome home to the soldiers
More arrests of people implicated
in the North Penn Bank affairs are
likely. Four indictments were found
by the Philadelphia grand jury.
Mrs. o. G. Norwood, of Tuxedo
Park. is out with a statement in
which she says that state boards of
censors are taking the art out of
movies. She seems especially grieved
at the way things are run in Penn
sylvania.