Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-01
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hackneyed subject, but 1t Ii OF un-
usual interest to many people hare
just now and they are greatly CON
cerned about it II it is going to BE
mild the rest OF the winter they hare
plans to make and garments 20 -
range. but II the winter king Is 80
ing to make up for lost time they
will not buy mothballs Just yet
Street car men declare that Feb
ruary is going to be pleasant
month. basing their contention on
the fact that yesterday was q hne
day. THE last day OF January gov
erns the next month";" said a con-
ductor. He said he hailed from
Berks county and as that is the
habitat of the goosebone and other
prophets perhaps he is right. This
idea of the last day of January gov
erning" the next month Is an old one
and is said to come from early set
tiers. Next is the grounding. His
day falls tomorrow, and 1t Is in
delibly implanted in the minds of the
people of Harrisburg because of the
Capitol fire which destroyed the big
building on the second day of Feb
ruary, 1897, one of the worst days.
from weather standpoint ever
known in the city. Singularly. the
first day of February, 1907, ten
years after the Capitol fire. was the
date of the destruction of the Grand
Opera House. Some Harrisburg peo-
pie were nervous about grounding
day in 1917, ten years later, but the
rule of three" on fires was busted"
to use the language of a cub reporter
who stayed up most of the night to
be in on a big story.
Harry G. Proctor, who has writ
| ten the first book on the achieve
| ments of the Iron Division in France,
Is a Philadelphia newspaperman,
| connected with the Evening Bulletin
and we'll known here. He was one OF
the newspapermen assigned to the
Capitol investigations and Is an au-
| thority on Pennsylvania. knowing
| every county and its towns. He
knows Maryland, New Jersey and
Delaware equally we'll. On military
matters he Is exceptionally well
| posted and attended National Guard
camps and the mobilization in 1915.
In that year he accompanied the
| Pennsylvanians to Ell Paso and next
year was at Camp Hancock.
| There are some people in Harris
burg and vicinity who are not aware
of the fact that the erection of the
Penn-Harris has caused some new
air currents about Third and Wal
nut streets. There are currents where
there were zephyrs before and hats
and other things have been dis
turoed. 1t is well to watch the way
things are going when passing that
| cOrnpF and fo I'm dxy 20 errah I,..l
wear and garments.
1t will be interesting to many
Harrisburgers to know that at the
annual dinner of the Pennsylvania.
Society at the Waldorf-Astoria the
Harrisburg flag was carried at the
head OF the procession of CITY flags
OF the State. The city was we'll rep
resented at the dinner by several
well-known citizens, who are mem
bers of the society.
Secretary Of the Commonwealth
Cyrus e. Woods, has just received a.
unique letter from a man who wants
to be notary. The letter reached
the Capitol the other day, and the
applicant says that he did not send
in the paper earlier because he
wanted his commission to be signed
by Governor Sproul. He asks that
Mr.. Woods also sign the commits
sion. Both are required to do so by
law.
Golfers are generally about as
keen as any people to take advant-
age of weather conditions, but there
has been more golf played on the
links about Harrisburg the last fort
4 night than ever known before In the
middle of January. This week
there have been dozens of men on
the winter green's" and they are
talking SO much about It that they
are going to have recruits If the
weather man continues good.
The last conference held in Har-
risburg by the State organization of
the Daughters of the American
Revolution was ten years ago. The
first gathering Of the kind was held
back in 1900 in the old Y. M. C. A.
building. and was the largest held
up to that time. Mrs. Levi B. AL
ricks was regent of the Harrisburg
chapter at that time.
|
During the course of an address
at the d. A. r. conference last week,
Mrs. Guernsey, a prominent mem
ber of the society, said that patriotic
ferver had come to such a height in
the United States that it was re-
garded In some places as unpatriotic
to eat frankfurters, or limberger
cheese or sauerkraut.
DR.. Robert Bagnell. the next
speaker, said he begged leave to
differ and offered strenuous obtec-
| tions to the classification of aansr
kraut. He added that during q long
period of years his wife had striven
in vain to make him likeit, and now,
when he had at least convinced him
self that he thought he liked 1t, he
declined to be termed unpatriotic
for eating it. Judging from the ap-
plause there were many, many 9th
ers in the aristocratic assemblage
who had strong leaninss toward
kraut and pork.