Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-26
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Probably the high cost of Iivine
has had something to do with it, but
the fact remains that there have
been more turkeys taken into Har-
risburg homes through the rattle
than in years, according to men who
have been observing the trend of
the times in our fair city. The tur-
key rattle has been a sort of indus
try around Thanksgiving and Christ
mas times and while chiefs of police
and district attorneys have thun-
dered and launched crusades against
the enticements of the game, people
go to raffies who would never think
of playing nickel ante" and they
bear their prizes home grinning at
the kidding" they endure and re-
joicing that they have one or two
points on neighbors who will eat
duck or chicken. 1t is not uncom-
mon in the evenings at this time of
the year for half dozen men to
board trolley car with turkeys un-
der their arms and one visitor to
harrisburg Tuesday evening asked,
in his upstate innocence, where the
turkey sale was being held. Prob
ably one of the funniest incidents
was in Market Square the other eve
ming when five men each with q tur-
key and one with part of jag,
solmenly filed up to a policeman and
wished him good night" The
policeman looked them over and Just
where his thoughts went would not
be any more difficult to conjecture
than as to the rapid-fire thinking
going on in the minds of several by
Gf n mr.
charges made for turkeys has had
something to do with the blinking of
those in authority. but there has not
been as much complaint heard as in
| years gone by, owing to the fact that
success at raffies and copious liba-
tions appeared to go hand in hand.
With the issue of last Saturday the
| Up Grade, the weekly publication
of U. S. General Hospital No. 8, at
| Carlisle, comes to an end. Receiving
| permission from the surgeon general
| of the army, the staff put out its
first number May 5, and has issued
regularly every Saturday since then.
! UPGRADE has been a decided factor
in the life of the patients at the
General Hospital, embodying as it
did in its CHEEKY editorials and
articles the optimism and spirit of
those fighters who were struggling
Tor rehabilitation. AS the command
ant Col. +. r. Keefer, says in his
note of farewell, the paper has been
of inestimable value in promoting
the honey" feeling among the in
stitution. 1t is with great regret that
the staff is forced to discontinue
publication, according to an order
from the surgeon general. Col.
heefer, by the way, is a Harris
burger
One thing people who have been
visiting Harrisburg this fall COM
pliment and that is the cleanliness
of streets. Many men prominent in
municipal affairs in their home COM
munities have been Harrisburg visi-
tors, and almost without exception
they have praised the manner in
which the streets are kept clear Of
rubbish and dirt. This is especially
so, they say, in the business section.
Pennsylvania farmers have more
than 1900 tractors working on their
farms as compared with $500 year
ago, according to the statistical
bureau of the State Department of
Agriculture. This is taken as a di-
rect result of the war and the great
est increase has been made in the
lower Susquehanna Valley counties
and in counties adjacent to Phila-
delphia. Dauphin has been rather
slow. Lancaster county leads in
tractors, three per cent. of its farm
ers being estimated to be users of
such devices, while Berks, Bucks,
York, Chester and Montgomery in
the East and Washington and Allie
Sheny in the West are the chief
users. The tractors were doomed
at the outbreak of the war because
of the demands for men and animals
for national service and three-fourths
of those in use have been bought
since the spring of 1917 and many
more have been ordered for 1920
delivery. Another marked advance
in agriculture has come to light in
reports on farms, showing that there
are now about 43,650 silos attached
to Pennsylvania barns, an increase
of 1000 in a year. This big in
crease created some surprise and the
figures were checked up. Last year
there were $4,000 silos reported and
Tioga county had two-thirds of it's
farmers using them. Other counties
which have many silos are in the
dairying section of the Northern
tier, especially Bradford and Sus-
quehanna. In the West, Crawford
appears to lead in the numb Der, while
York, Lancaster, Chester and Mont
gomery have many. The silo has
not increased very materially in
Dauphin and Cumberland Valley
counties. The Northern tier farm
ers grow corn especially adapted
for storing in silos.
Lessons from the State sEduca-
tional Congress will be one OF the
big themes for the meeting of the
State Educational Associations in
Philadelphia in December, over
which Superintendent f. Z. Downes
of this city, the president, will pre-
side. School support, citizenship
and agricultural education will re-
ceive considerable attention, while
the groundwork of a new teachers
salary law will be laid. The pro-
gram is one of the most comprehen-
siVe ever outlined.