Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-02
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the three offices on the first floor
of the court house searching for
attorneys to answer telephone calls
and most of the time these lawyers
are out" Four of them, in par
ticular, are called more frequently
than others because usually they
are busy at that office. James G..
! Miles, deputy register of wills, is
one of the persons who has been
doing much of the telephone mes
senger service and he devised a
| scheme to save himself all kinds
| OF trouble. On a large sheet of
cardboard he printed the names of
four attorneys and after each name,
| In and Out" Between these
two words small arrow was fast
ened and each of the four lawyers
were urged to turn the arrow to
indicate they were in the office. At
the bottom of the card there was
room for another name. Mr.. Miles
| Jokingly printed in red ink This
space for rent" and five minutes
after the card was up another men,
| Der of the bar came along and took
1t seriously. He offered IS to have
his name added to the bottom of the
list.
John B. Demming, president of
| the junior class of State College and
son of Benjamin w. Demming, chief
clerk of the Adjutant Generals De-
partment, is a chip of the old block.
When college closed last June he
decided to see what there was to
the talk about harvest hands MAX
ing money in the Western States
and also to see the country on his
| own hook, being somewhat of an
independent nature. The other day
he wrote to his father that he was
getting SIS a day and his board and
lodging. The first place he worked
was Olathe, Kan. He went on the
same basis as the other hands
and when they turned him loose in
a hay field with scythe he had cut
eight furlongs, two swathes each.
before dinner. Then they put him
to work on the wheat. At night the
hands" found he could play the
piano and he played every sheet
of music IN the big home of a pros
porous farmer. Next day the farmer
cranked up the automobile and
drove many miles to Kansas City
where he bought a bale of new
music. From Olathe, when the rush
was over, he went to Manhattan,
Kan, where he got more expert
ence and now he is in South Da-
kota. He says that the wheat crop
has been hard hit in that section
and that when the folks found he
was from Pennsylvania they slapped
him on the back and said that was
where the good workers came from.
If you take a stroll on Allison Hill
and notice long white chalk lines
on the asphalt and the names of
some of the larger cities in Penn
sylvania and adjacent states, you
Will have before you a panoramic
view of the main lines of the lex
press wagon railroad" About u
dozen such corporations exist in
various parts of the district and
the directors, officials and train
crews are boys from about s to II
years OF age, who have small wagons
plenty of chalk and also plenty of
imagination. They have long par
ailei lines drawn on the sheet as
phalt and about every half block
there is a white square in which is
printed the name of the station.
Among them are Harrisburg"
Philadelphia" Lancaster" Pitts
burgh," Altoona" Reading" New
York" and many others. Here and
there tracks have been provided for
myers and to see the youngsters
tearing down the street you would
asphalt as on the mainline tracks of
the Pennsylvania Railroad. But the
youngsters enjoy it and storekeepers
are selling more chalk than candy
to these boys.
One of the recruiting officers sta
toned here who was with the Fifth
DIVISION in France tells the follow
ing story from the weekly paper
published by the division: Private
Joseph Rinaldi, of Company X, 6Oth
infantry, was with his regiment near
Esch, Luxembourg. Being unmar-
rled and of seeming romantic dis
position, Rinaldi thought he might
look around and see if some nice
LuXembourgeolse might not want to
come to this country as Mrs. Rinaldi.
One day he saw Sister Marie, MN
in the Ecole Menagere, and i'm
mediately fell in love with her. In
spite of the opposition of the Mother
superior, who placed every obstacle
In his way, Rinaldi assiduously
pressed his suit. Sister Marie had
been In the convent since early
youth and had taken the vows, but
Joseph was not to be denied and
snort while before the division
pulled out for Brest, he and Sister
Marie were married at Esch, after
dispensation had been given.
Some of the men engaged in nass-
ing around the petitions for candi-
dates to have their names printed
are running across peculiar situa-
tions' Some men insist on signing
with pencils, although that method
is no longer followed. Occasionally
when men refuse to accept such sig
natures the man asked to sign gets
mad and refuses to put down his
name. One man lost signer he
wanted for political effect through
his decllnation to allow a man to
use rubber stamp.