Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-10
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~ 10 propaplo tnat the example or
Mayor A 7. Connell, of Scranton,
and of the executives of some of the
smaller municipalities of the State
In proclaiming Armistice Day as Il
holiday will be followed in a num-
Der OF places as q tribute TO the men
who fought in the greatest OF wars.
Action of the State cantonment of
the American Legion here last Sat-
uraay IN endorsing the movmeent to
make the day a holiday has been
much commended in the newspapers
and while State authorities can not
designate the day as a holiday with
out legislative enactment the idea is !
so popular on Capitol Hill that No
Vember's second Tuesday is pretty
sure to have some recognition. In I
several cities the posts of the Ameri-
can Legion have made preparations
to observe the day and the PROPOSE
tion will be strongly approved gen.
orally. There are many people in
Harrisburg who recall how joyously
Harrisburg got out of bed about 2
| O'Clock in the morning and started
| a celebration that was still going on
| at dewy eve with meetings of Cap
itol Hill folks in the Hall of Repre-
sentatives. impromptu prayer serv-
ices in the churches and parades of !
| school children with fire apparatus /
from Marysville, Annville and other !
places bringing firemen here to join
in the celebration. 1t was some day
here and the men who are now
home remember 1t as some day over
| There.
Frank B. McClain, former lieu
tenant governor, is wearing patched
| shoes, says a Philadelphia news
paper. II won't pay SIS for shoes.
It's exorbitant," he exclaimed. I'm
wearing 'em patched for the first
time in my life. 1t isn't because
can't afford to buy new ones. L am
wearing the old ones as a protest"
McClain Is here conducting the in
vestigation of alleged rent profiteer-
ing.
Allison Hill appears to be giving
uptown chase as regards the build
ing of new homes. The highways
which few years ago were stretch
ing out like the antenae of a city
with a house here and there are
now lined for blocks with solid rows
of dwellings, most of them of brick
because inability to get mill work of
good lumber at satisfactory prices
now is one of the handicaps of the
builders. Derry, Market, Walnut,
|
Forster, Boas, Herr and intermedi-
ate streets are pushing right out with
every chance that there will be
further development when the Har-
risburg Railways company builds out
, Herr street.
Attorney General William I.
Schaffer, who shares with Secretary
of the Commonwealth Cyrus E..
, Woods and Banking Commissioner
: John S. Fisher the long distance
walking honors of the State admin
istration, does not believe in Gov
ernor Sprouts plan of late break
fast and working straight through
without any lunch. So the other
ilday he told the Governor he would
bring him some lunch. He did. 1t
was a large round doughnut, one
/ of the kind we call fasnachts around
here.
5 Highway Commissioner Lewis S.
Sadler Is keenly interested in get
ting as much work accomplished on
improvement of the roads as pos
sible before the snow flies and he is
, bending every effort of his depart
2 ment to get action and squirting on
: contracts. The other day the Com
: missioner was talking with some
{ friends and all were having a "wish-
ing match" When the wish" got
3 around to Mr.. Sadler he out quick
: as a flash: "'one hundred days of
t fine weather"
l Members of the American Legion
| are discussing the situation brought
4 about by the action of the Legion at
b the first cantonment here last Sat-
g urday in denouncing de Valera. In
O Philadelphia some admirers of the
f so-called Irish president" demand
: ed that the action be set aside, with
s the alternative that some soldiers
| of Irish blood would resign from the
t Legion. AS the action could not be
r overturned because the cantonment
v adjourned Saturday, demand was
: made that sBryn Mawr post, one of
o whose delegates presented the reso-
luton, disavow it. That also met a
refusal.
i Capitol Hills orange crop is run
n ming a race with Jack Frost. There
f used to be half dozen orange trees
= which some one with an idea OF
: ornament rather than anything else
y provided for Capitol Park. The
= trees are small and show the eff
r. fects of northern windows. They
e are at the south side of the State
8 Museum and such fruit as survives
d the eagerness of the squirrels to
get the seeds is about the size of a
crab apple at this time in October.
a The skin is hard and dark green
' and the oranges sway in the winds
a in a way that tempts the squirrels
r. and woos the sunlight that never
i seems strong enough to give them
l. the ripening touch.