Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-04
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1NoAAto0uI6 PC0PhO eSPOAess-
tious? Wen. it might be said that.
some of them are. There are
number Of people who refused yes
terday to consider putting away
clothes in mothballs before the To-
Gust blossoms arrive just because
the groundhog must have been blind
not to have seen his shadow on Sum
DAY, There are some who will not
start an enterprise oE0trip on F'riv
day. But yesterday an opportunity
was AFFORDED around Locust and
Court to test whether people ae-.
bothered by superstitions, A mas
was working on the Miller building
and had a ladder resting agaihstst the
second story. Theres.was room for
people TO walk on the pavement be-
meath it. Did they?& They did not,
Phe first two men who, came along
crossed the street to the federal
building sidewalk at right angle.
They never looked at each other.
They Just went along. A woman
with basket made a detour to the
street. messenger boy skipped
out to the curb. Even a man with
crutch took to the street. And
the man working on the job did not
walk under the ladder. He walked
around 1T. All this took place in
ABOUT four minutes. And on the
other side of tho street how many
people walked on the big cellar
doors of the Telegraph building In
three minutes Just one. And the
one who did was a big colored man.
Two women, daintily walked around
IL newspaper reporter walked
TO the edge and escaped its infiu-
ence. A policeman took to the
curbside and couple of men stop
ped TO read the bulletins and walked
along the side. No wonder people
believe in the groundhog.
! Speaking about groundhogs and
| the weather some people have been
calling up Observer Demain for in
formation and have ELECTED the fact
that some of the most atrocious
Weatner mas occurred in February
ana that the coldest weather we
nave ever had came in the second
month. The abrupt fall in tenn
perature which marked the winter
OF 1917 and made record until
last year was in the middle of Feb
ruary and everyone remem hers what
last February was like. February
is somewhat noted for the weather
condftons 1t brings and along about
l9oS there were people who said
| they heard frogs starting in the
swamps near the city on January
2S and who repented in February in
fur coats.
Here is a story of a family. The
iather OF the family became much
interested in the subjects his daugh-
ter was studying away at school and
cohtrlouted some essays of his own
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words and she did not draw such
good marks. Then, says nv inform
ant. she took to tearing up what
rather was sending and writing her
own. The principal noted some
thing and wrote a letter of congratu-
latlon to the parents. The remarks
OF friends to that father are die
tated by the same kindly impulses
that lead golf fiends to telephone
one OF their former number who is
Just recovering from influenza that
the weather is exceptionally fine for
winter sport on the green's.
Speaking of influenza DR.. J. M. J.
Raunick' who handled the city's end
OF things during the epidemic. is
making a series of studies of tbs
cases that were reported to him. He
is finding all sorts of slants and has
found the manifestations totally .un-
like many recorded cases. The doc
tor thinks he will finish his. study
In about year. ~ .sy.. AZ.
Quit irritating. the ,groundhbr.
Just think. how we were wading
through snowdrifts a year or SO
ago." is the remark which it is said
Felix M. Davis, superintendent of
the Harrisburg Railways, is said to
have made. Mr.. Davis said last
winter that he had stopped keeping
track OF the separate snowstorms
and II the remark about the ground
hog is correct he probably meant it.
C. Laurence. Shep!ey, formerly of
the Harrisburg Telegraph and late
of the Patriot, who has retired to
60 into the insurance business, one
time went to the State Library to
interview man on some local his
torical matter. He started to talk
to him and discovered that 1t was
his old professor at Lebanon Valley.
Prof. H. II ,Shenk, chief of the di-
vision of records.
| Norris L. Longaker, the. we'll
known district, passenger agent of
the pennsylvania railroad, at this
point. spread a lot of trouble around
this city last week with a, story he
brought UP from down along the
Philadelphia division somewhere.
| With eyes bulging he rushed up
to aparty of friends upon his arri-
fyal from a trip to Philadelphia and
said: !-f.
Say, fellows, do you know what
I saw down along the line?"
NO" chorused the assemblage,
"What?" ...,-s -.
why" said Norris, "A fellow
down by a big eddy In the river had
two fishing lines in the water. Hon
est. the first of the season." t.
., Norris, it may be added, is fish
erman. So are his friends. And now
the fishing bug is at work thus early
In the season in Harrisburg, and
you know who turned it loose.
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i Speaking of angling, the Builhead
Fishing Club, a more or less we'll
known organization in Harrisburg,
l'held its annual meeting and dinner
the other night and Captain George
f: Lumb. of the State police depart
ment, was unable to attend.
Next day. he, called up fellow
member to find. out how the cele-
bration .had gone.
"And who was elected PRESIDENT"
he asked. .s
Well replied his friend, "all
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