Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-01
Enrning Gf1at


war when it was having Liberty
Loan drives and various other things
calling for sacrifice on the part of
its people and effort and patriotism
and it has not slowed down a bit
now that peace has come and the
boys are home and we are trying to
readjust things, including our pay
ments on the aforesaid uAiberty
Loans. The latest success in going
beyond obligations is in cake. Har-
risburg, to use the slang term, has
taken the cake with cake When
the plans for the supper to the SOL
diers and sailors and marines of
Harrisburg were made, the supper
that took place along the river front
and will be talked about around fire.
sides all winter, there were esti-
mates made that 500 cakes were
the minimum needed. We did not
know that we were going to have
$500 lusty young fighters to feed and
the committee thought that 500
cakes would allow fair propor-
ton of cake after the neckless
chicken and other things, and Mrs.
William Jennings figured out that
the slices should be generous and
that there be enough for second and
third and emergency calls So the
word went out for 500 cakes. And
the cakes came. They arrived in
autom obiles, in wagons, on motor
cycles and on foot, in arms and in
boxes. The Civic Club looked like
a bake house storage place on the
afternoon of the big day. There
were cakes of every size and every
hue, cakes iced in pink and choco-
late, although cakes of brown and
, cakes of white, cake enough for
half a town for half a night. There
were cakes left over, some that got
away, some that were only half
| eaten and some that speedily became
memories. But the point is that
Harrisburg, accustomed to going
over the top, exceeded the speed
limit and destroyed the minimum of
cake, all home made and the kind
that mother really made.
Investigation into the marketing
conditions in Pennsylvania cities and
boroughs by the State Bureau OF
Markets have developed the fact that
Harrisburg has some of the oldest
markets in the country, several hav-
ling been discovered in reading re-
ports that have been in continuous
operation since colonial times. 9th
ers have more than a century of
activity to their credit and many of
them have excellent records as divi-
dend payers as well as rendering
public service. Guy c. Smith, direc-
tor of the Bureau of Markets, found
that So markets have been reported
as in operation and looks for still
more to be listed. The history OF
the concerns is being assembled.
Thirty-two of those reported upon
are curb or open markets and 26
in buildings and of the enclosed
type. Fourteen do a wholesale and
retail business, but the bulk are for
farmers to display and sell their pro-
duce to the housewife.
Pennsylvania is shy on It's buck
wheat honey crop. This State IS
producing a honey crop that is
worth considerably more than "a
million dollars year and the studies
have shown that there are various
kinds of honey, some farmers
specializing in varieties that have
proved to be profitable in their
localities. The buckwheat honey
crop is declared to be short this
year because at the time buckwheat
bloomed the weather was unfavor-
able for the flow of nectar, accord
ing to the experts at the State De-
partment of Agriculture. In the
last decade Pennsylvania has gone
to the front as a buckwheat raising
State and has a big acreage being
cut now.
J If one could only get to see some
of the letters that people are writ
ing to friends and relatives in other
cities about the monumental sue
cess of the welcome home staged by
grateful Harrisburg it would be
worth while and the archives of the
Dauphin County Historical Society
would &c enriched. But probably
) the best, the tersest and the most
: up in the Federal building, evident
: ly dropped by some one going to
mail it. This was the line:
YOU MISSED IT.
Some of the people of Harrisburg
have been rather prompt about tax
ing up the questions relative to the
markets and some discussions have
occurred which indicate that the
State authorities have taken the
proper way to get an idea as tc
planned to-day right out loud thai
farmers took her for the wife of 6
railroader and put up the prices
another said that the boys whC
hauled market baskets charged too
much; another that the city should
own the markets because then farm
ers would not have to charge in stall
rent for customers, while a fourth
said that people ought to stop buy.
ing eggs at market because over 6(
cents in August meant a dollar ir
December. Director Guy c. Smith
ought to get some first-hand infor'
nation of a valuable character, ano
that right early, if people put or
paper what they say.
A good story is being told or
Dean c. B. Connolly, Commissioner
of Labor and Industry. He has a
photograph in his rooms. He does
not get much chance to play 1t, but
somebody did. Some newspapermeu
living at the same place did not like
the music and they filed complaint
with the dean. The dean denied
musical tendencies at the time thai
the night worker wanted to sleep
To make things sure he put towe
into the horn of the music machine
: 1t has been played, they say, bui
b the mute" is on and the dean Is