Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-25

zassEzS ssz.aza ~ improved local
conditions and spreading the doc
! trlne of good health. Committees
were announced for 32 counties and
the Colonel says that he has called
upon all of the civic organizations
to lend hand and cooperate with
the direct agencies of the State De-
partment of Health"
The plan is to have the county
health council work with the county
medical director, the representatives
of the State Department of Health.
There will be a health council of six
IN each county, selected because of
! position in the community, interest
IN CIVIC work and experience in pub
lie matters.
The councils as announced include:
Cumberland-Dr. n. w. Hershner,
Mechanicsburg; the Rev. 7. ]. Fer
suson, Silver Spring; DR.. e. S.
Berry, shippensburg; DR.. e. r.
Flank, Merkel Lands and Miss Mary
Bosler. Carlisle.
Franklin-Col. w. c. Bambrick,
Scotland; DR.. T. D. White, Orrstown;
DR.. Barr Snively, Waynesboro; Mrs.
John w. Hol5e, DR.. j. M. Elwix, DIR.
| Charles f. Palmer and Harvey NJ.
Speesard, Cham bersburg.
Perry = James w. Shull, New
bloomfield; DR.. L. A. Carl, Newport; !;
DR., B. F. Beale, Duncannon; DR.. j.
RI. Sheibley, Shermansdale; II. S.
Sheibley, New Bloomfield.
DR.. Richard ~Reeser, Columbia; |;
DR.. c. j. Hawk, Tower City, and DR..
j. A. Singmaster, Gettysburg, are also
named.
Present plans of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture call for the COM
pilation of reports from every county
in Pennsylvania as to the manner
in which the dog license code was
enforced and they will be asked to
! furnish detailed information as to
| the licenses issued, the dogs killed
| because of failure to license them,
the actions against persons who re-
! fused to obey the law and the gen.
! eral conditions as well as the num-
Der of sheep killed or injured and
the damages paid by the counties.
On the experience of this year will
depend very largely the State policy
for next year. In event that it is
seen that county authorities have
not been energetic their attention
will be called to it and the State may
launch a campaign of its own as was
| done in several counties this year
with convictions and fines obtained.
Complaints have come to the Capitol
| of failure to enforce the code in a
number of sections.
The State Department of Health
has Established a clinic for New
| kensington with DR.. p. A. Brown in
charge. DIR. Max Fischer has been
named as an assistant at the Wilkes
| Barre dispensafy.
The meeting of the State Forest
Commission for discussion of con-
tracts scheduled for to-day has been
deferred until later. A report on
all timber cutting operations is to
be compiled.
Col. A. NJ. Holding, prominent
Chester county lawyer, was at the
Capitol.
The State Compensation Board
| has awarded compensation to Ed
ward Tolan, of Mahanoy City, an
employe of the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company,
because he lost a foot while crawl
ing under a train in order to get to
his work at mine. The crossing on
a private road was blocked by a
| train of coal cars and while other
men climbed over the cars, Tolan
crawled under. The train started
and he lost foot. The board holds
that he had to cross the train be-
/ cause of the road being closed and
| Ills GU llllIl W D6 Oll
! duty at a certain time. Lack of a
guard rail which would have pre-
vented Frank Sorrentino, of Pitts
ton, from falling into machinery in
| a breaker, is the reason for grant
ing compensation to his parents who
are advanced in years and who were
to a certain extent dependent upon
the sons earnings at n colliery of
! the Pennsylvania Coal Company.
Further appointments of officers
of the new Pennsylvania National
! Guard will be made before the end
of the week, it is expected. The
newly commissioned officers have
proceeded to organize their units. The
officers to be named will include
men in the medical and signal corps
| in all probability.
Prolonged litigation over the new
! fare system of the Wilkes-Barr
/ Railway Company came to an end
before the Public Service Commits
sion last night when argument was
heard before the Public Service Com
mission, all of whose members sat
to hear the lawyers. Numerous
questions were asked of the attor-
neys and for a time there was a
cross fire. The counsel for the city
and various boroughs attacked the
| fares as unjustified and assailed the
zoning system in summing up the
evidence adduced at the various
hearings held in the cases. Ex-
Judge W. Frank Wheaton, of Wilkes
Barre, counsel for the company, de-
clared that the fares were justified
and that the company had the values
on which to make the charges, while
he referred to the expense of main
tanning the system. The Commits
sion will receive briefs and act on
the case later on in the year.
Mrs. William @. SprouI has con-
| sented to serve on the Delaware