Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-02
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Docks which the trustees of the Han.
risburg Public Library have secured
reach Harrisburg, preparations foi
immediate establishment of twent,.
one branch libraries IN the pubic
schools OF the city will be maCe.
This is the information which seems
to be desired by 999 school children
in Harrisburg just now. 1t is os
more importance than the worlds
series or whether there will be
chestnut crop. That is, at least,
from the tenor of the inquiries that
are being made over the telephone
at the library. The boys and girls
want the libraries opened, especially
the eleven new ones which haze
| been arranged, and they are keep. !g
| right on the job with Inquiries. -
fortunately, book shipments are ,or
rapid these days and cannot alwu .
De depended upon to arrive Just It
the right time. The library is a.
ranging Ior Its story hours. and Sat-
| uroay the new student class viii
meet for the first time. Incidcn-
tally, during September, of 7,2e4
| BOOKS circulated there were 1 Iis
taken out by school children, who
| formed a large portion of the rei.d-
ers at the institution. The library
IS hitting a pretty lively gait III
work Tor school children these days.
That the Penn Harris is making
a reputation for itself far ana above
anything that Harrisburg ever
dreamed of was demonstrated the
! other day when a well-known Orc
gon gentleman stepped into the
managers office, where Assistant
Manager Worthington was giving
dlctauon. Pardon me for integ-
rupting YOU" he said, but I'm Just
starting off on another leg of my
motor trip this morning and
wanted to say something to you be-
fore l left. I've covered more than
5000 miles to date on this trip and
stayed at some of the best known
hoteis in this country, but never
have l received such uniform cour-
tesy, perfect service, and Interested
attention as l have in your hotel.
want to thank you for it. and the
next time | come this way I shall
make it point to stop off at Har-
risburg and spend a night at the
Penn-Harris.
. There were many amusing Incl
dents during the feeding of the SOL
/ one of the tables were two old Civil
, War veterans, bent and tired, but
entirely ready to go after the food.
Having demolished half q chicken,
several spuds, small mountain of
peas, and numerous other things,
one of the old-timers looked at the
other one and said. "u tell We.
4 conrad, if they'd give us this here
3 sort a food in the Army of the Po-
4 tomac, we'd a been settin' thar yet"
And his busy comrade nodded his
head in agreement. Another Incl
{ dent of the feeding was the appear
g ance of the movie" man with his
busy camera. Several "huskies" were
: going to the food with all the pep
: in the world, when the clicking of
= a machine was heard and they
looked up to see the camera stand
= ing at their table, the crank grind
ing out some very moving pictures
. of full faces. They were unable to
= talk, but expressed their pleasure
!, by waving hands, forks, and anv
= other implements of warfare which
. came into their grasps. The Civil
. War veterans came in for their
9 share of movie attention, too. The
= machine was set at the head OF one
: table where an old fellow was work
ing away, entirely oblivious to his
surroundings, and when the veteran
started that precarious feat of bal
= ancing sixteen peas on n knife, pre-
: paratory to sliding them down, the
!, movie" machine clicked and it was
u all registered to show the public the
. latter part of this week.
Fish baskets have been established
at frequent intervals along the
: course of the Juniata River, under
= recent legislation. For years these
e contrivances were prohibited as n
;, menace to the fish with which the
u Juniata River had been stocked by
y the State. Those who are familiar
u with the old days along this parti-
e lcular river will recall the quantities
. of eels captured in fish baskets and
!, it is reported from Lewistown that
u tons of eels will be put on the mar
u ket this fall at 80 cents a pound. In
former days they were captured1
70 and salted away in barrels for win
e ter use. Old fishermen have not
u forgotten how on every slight rise
- of the river the big eels would drop
. all over the falls of the fish basket
y and be scooped into bags for trans
u fer to the picking station of the
IL groups of individuals who gave
= most of their time to eel fishing in
> the autumn.
|
= philadelphia Press has this to say
g about a man we'll known here:
y mot very long after j. Hampton
l. Moore ceased to be a reporter on
n the Ledger" John Keim Stauffer
e. became a reporter on THE Press"
J. Everybody in this town knows
what happened to Congressman
Moore last week in the way of being
nominated for Mayor. Reading Re-
publicans did as much for Council
man Stauffer in nominating him for
~ Mayor of Pennsylvania fourth lar
/; gest city. AS a town, Reading with
~ it's more than 100000 population. is
w hummer and If Mr. Staufter pc
!. comes Mayor he will in the words
% of the poet be a humdinger. Like
~ his brother, Randolph, WHO is son.
&c in-law of President A. 7. Dice, OF
~ ~ the Reading. John Stauffer is grad
- uate of Yale