Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-30
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There may be something to tho
tradition that every other year is a
big dandelion year. In fact, some
people say that it is u fact, not u
legend or a belief. In any event,
there is abundant proof in and about
Harrisburg, that the dandelion is
attempting to get into it's own here
abouts. Not for years has there
been plague of the yellow dots to
/ be seen on the lawns and in the
gardens and the parks of this city
as at present. The flowers are lit
orally blooming everywhere and
! even the border grass plots along
the streets are filled with the blooms.
Boys are making all kinds of money
picking them out and if circus was
! TO come to town soon, there would
be Kids with so much capital that
| they would have coin TO see the
main and the side shows and to buy
everything offered The dandelions
seemed to have profited by the
weather of last year. There are many
which survived the hard winter and
| those which bloomed had usually
! large blossoms and the seeds were
, scattered everywhere about the city
| by the winds. Then, too. the weather
conditions have been favorable for
the growth of the plants and they
have spread rapidly. The weather
conditions have likewise been just
right for the wild flowers and the
fields and woods are bright with
them. People who have gone on
Sunday walks or hikes have been
amply repaid and have found much
to enjoy. Many rare blooms have
been found and even if the dandc-
non has run riot in the cities, the
country is beneftting by mild
weather as far as flowers go.
Most trout fishermen are waiting
for May weather TO clear up the
streams for fishing. Some good
catches have been made hereabouts
since the season opened, indicating
the presence of trout in goodly num-
bers in the streams. but conditions
for fishing have been very unfavor-
able and it has been by mere chance
that men have brought home we'll
iilled creels. What is needed is
warm weather and absence of rain
TO bring the streams up to their
best. When the bugs begin to ny
ana the water gets warm. the trout
take the flies most readily. Also,
there are many who believe that tho
larger of the young trout then begin
to come down from the smaller
brooks into the larger creeks where
the fishermen have better chance Of
reaching them. Most of the big
catches have been made on worms
TINS sprinE. the water being too cold
: for flies, although Robert III. Lyon,
one of the best fishermen in the
city, caught seven in fifteen minutes
between showers the morning the
season opened, all on q fly.
The indications arc bright for n
good ba"s year, unless the rains are
so frequent that the streams arc
kept muddy. we'll known angler
who spent considerable time along
the creeks in harrisburg this spring,
observing conditions while fishing
, Tor suckers, says he saw more big
pass Jump than he has noted IN
many year. The bass had an easy
winter - plenty of warm weather
and no heavy ice floods to kill thou
sands of them and sweep thousands
more out of the creeks into the
rivers. Bass fishing in the streams
near Harrisburg has been steadily
improving the past three or four
years and if the laws are as strictly
enforced as they have been, there
is no reason why in a year or two
more fishing should not be as good
as 1t was twenty-five or thirty years
ago. Commissioner Butler who has
placed many young fish in these
, creeks. is in no small measure re-
'ponsible for the improved condi-
, tions.
1t is not often that a legislative
hearing is interrupted by airplanes.
t but that is what happened Yesterday.
The aerial squadron came over the
: Capitol about the time things wero
| busiest and the members simply
went out and watched them.
Sneakers on bills found Themselves
: without audiences and went out, too.
, A general plan in regard to Arm
, ory building on behalf of the State
viii be outlined at next months
meeting of the State Armory Board.
The Board has bills pending for BIZ;
appropriations and it is the hope to
get projects started for an armorv
in every place where a unit of the
1 National Guard is located. In a
2 number of instances cities and coun-
l ties have united and offered lots at
; county seats on condition that the
9 state erects the building At least
{ half dozen of third class cities OF
1 the State have taken steps to offer
t properties to the State. Nothing has
= yet been done in Harrisburg although
the suggestion that a site fronting
I on Capitol park be offered to the
t state If it will build, has been made.
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