Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-09
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OF holding New Years services in
the county jail The affair on New
i ears day was SO auspicious that
1t has decided to have another next
year. Harrisburg, Highspire, Steel
ton, Penbrook and other nearby
towns We're represented among those
who had charge of the services and |.
the day was frightened for the pris-
oners by gifts of cakes, apples, cam
dies, holiday cards and reading mat
ter. Few people realize how much
OF thls KIND of work the women of
the w. c. 7. U. do. The efforts of
the members have been so much
along the lines of prohibition that
nNny persons believe that to be the
extent or their efforts, but such is
far from the fact. They are en-
gagged constantly in all manner of +
up-lift and educational enterprises.
They have seen prohibition develop
from mere theory to what in q very
short time will be an actuality, and
they now feel that their work along
this line is in such good hands that
they can safely turn their attention,
at least in large part, to other lines
of endeavor.
He was a French visitor in Har-
risburg home and the inevitable dis
cussion of the. English and French
languages came up. Said the French
man, You have a funny language.
You spell your Secretary's name
lansing and pronounce 1t
House," Who said the French wit
was without subtlety?
Already an amen Corner has
been established at the Penn-Harris
hotel. During the present week the
northeast corner of the main lobby
has been appropriated by Senator
David Martin, of Philadelphia, and
other old-timers who just naturally
gravitated to that corner of the big
hotel. Years ago the "amen cor
ner" of the old Fifth Avenue Hotel
in New York City was the daily
meeting place of the most prominent
leaders of the nation and the amen
corner" of the Penn-IIarris prom
ises to be no less famous as the
gathering spot of the prominent men
of Pennsylvania. incidentally. the
hundreds who came here for the or
ganization of the Legislature are of
one mind regarding the high char
acter of the new hotel and there was
universal praise.
David B. Kraybill, a recent addi-
ton to the vocational section of the
Pennsylvania State Educational De-
| partment, assumes his new duties
after record of high achievement
| in this kind of work and is well
| fitted for the position. Before en-
tering the United States service from
which he was released during the
latter part of December. Professor
Kraybill was director of the East
| Lampeter, Lancaster county, voca-
tional school, one of the leading
| schools of its kind in Pennsylvania.
! He made an enViable record rs head
of the Lancaster county institution
and was largely Influential in having
a handsome new structure erected
| for the school. He was graduated
from Franklin and Marshall College
in 1911, and while an undergraduate
was prominent in college affairs lie
is member of the Lambda Chi Al
| pha fraternity. He was principal of
Camp Hill schools for several years
after his graduation from college.
The change from the cash to the
check plan of paying railroad en-
| ployes promises to add quite an
amount of extra work for banks
and their employees. In some cases
banking officials are planning TO
| keep their institutions open on the
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to cash checks of employees of their
| territory.
They will be compelled in addi-
ton, officials say, TO have on hand a
| larger amount of currency than they
:. l.ordinarily carry in order that they
may favor the railroaders without
unnecessary delay. A bank in one
of the smaller nearby railroad towns
in which the payroll amounts TO
[ $4,000 every two weeks expects to
! be obliged to carry $4,000 more in
| paper money and specie than 1t or
dinarily does.
Some employees are well pleased
with the change in the system, but
others are not altogether satisfied.
| Considerable inconvenience Will be
occasioned for many OF them. En-
ployes in places without banking in
stitutions expect to have consider
able difficulty in having their checks
cashedA
Just as certainly as you can be
sure that Christmas is really here
when the magazines put in their
spring numbers, so you can be mo-
rally certain that at last it is really
the heart of winter, by the appear
ance in fashionable women's shops
and in the streets, of the flrsAstraw
hats for women. New Years day
was featured by a number of new
straw OF near-straw hats, worn by
Harrisburg's impatient, season-rush-
ing womankind. True to tradition,
even though the days are cold, and
the winter is only a few weeks old,
matrons and maids sally forth in
straw trimmed hats and silken chap
eaux decked with velvet carrots
radishes, celery and other garden
| products. All the Inats are small and
unusually bright in coloring. Just
why women should tell themselves
=. that January l is the time to begin
wearing straws is a matter which
no mere man can understand. Fash
iionable shops have them aplenty,
and men stand and gape The poor
ignorant fellows imagine they are
merely advance models on snow to
furnish the female of the species
with an idea of what will be worn
next spring. But she SCOTS at her
husband and informs him that when
spring finally does come, those hats
will be as much out of style as this
winters snow. In fact, 1t is an un-
deniable fact that one or two straw
hats whose owners for financial or
other personal reasons failed to
IreIegate them to the ragbag, round
their last summer straws clashing
with next - that is to say - this
springs straw hats.
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