Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-04
Euftttng Gl1at

Inc conscience of PENNSYLVANIA
ald not hurt as much in the State
llscul year Just closed as in for
Iher years. according to the de-
tailed statement of receints a. ~
state Treasury. The revenue from,
.mut .,. source was only $47.65, which
was loWer than known in racan+
>. Moneys which are paid to
@ .!ie commonwealth by people who
ass a,aee Ihat they owe it to the state
i,.ar 49, having kept it back are mt
- .n;o Whtt is known as the Con
se'ence iund. 1t is separate from,
another fund known as the fnna iotn mn
Which' are paid moneys i'm which
,nere is a question as to idanify
eventually all funds. unless snecified
nS law, go into the general casb of
me commonwealth, which rms he
oweeh hVe and seven millions most
" me ume The last fiscal wear
9tV was received in the form
vi payments for taxes which bad
been withheld and which bur+ t.a
persons who did it. In former wears
me payments ran some times ove,
YIVV, MOST of them are made in
on. sums, anonymously and with
OUT specific statement as 10 wba+
u hiIlu OF tax. for what year or for
MHaI locality. Cranks occasionaIIv
wife ietters about the fund and
Wnnrn a
sent the State four pavments ,tnda.
an hallucination that he owed money
him. S'opped
Efforts to get owners and dri,,or,
| OF trucks to place mirrors or son,a
lranSements that will show what
10 Iollowlng them on such vehicles
e - oeihS made by men connected
with the St1ta
onhces. Investigations into varioIs.
truck accidents have shown tbat
tney were preventable and attention
OF men operating such machines IN
me Nalue of some device to furnish
view OF the road is being invited
III some states such appliances are
required by law. The number of
.suchS III service has increased ran
idiy In the last year.
a friend interested in Dammit,
| county history suggests that some eff
lorI should be made in the schools Of
the county to impress upon tbe
minds of the school children the i'm
portance of the early stand of the
seltlers IN Dauphin county for in
dependence and the stalwart char
1cter OF tnelr patriotism in the early
| DAYS of the Revolution, when tories
| We're active in parts OF PennsyIvania
| 1t has been said that there 1vnre
| no tories in the Harris Ferry conn
| Try, said he. We'll, when Won con
slder the declaration of the Han
over men, TO which you referred in
your Evening Chat column last
night. it is not surprising. It wonId
| not nave been a healthy country for
theh. 1t Is pity that something
is not done to get into the head -
| the school pupils of this citv ~
least the fact that il was within tIo
limits of their county that mon re-
solved two years before tho Dec
laration of Independence to trust i'm
| God and their rifles if oppression
was attempted from overseas ="
| The Hanover declaration to which
reference was made was the first in
| this section and was followed bv two
others made at towns in what is nov
| Dauphin county. The Hanover mon
are said to have met at or near Han
over Church, June A. 1774. with CoI
Tim othy Green presiding. The mon
of the Middletown quarter met on
June 10 with Col James Burd nre-
siding and the Hummelstown vicin-
ity meeting was held next day with
Frederick Hummel, the founder of
Hummelst presiding. Presiding
| treason to King George of England
and the fact that the leading men of
each community, whose names
should be household words in Dau-
| phin county. were chairmen and the
emphatic tenor of the resolutions
showed of what stuff were the men
who settled this county.
some interesting, if not exactly
tefaclous, tales are being brought in
RON .. tiie hills OF the south Mountain
region ny ueer hunters. There seems
10 De no rack OIL deer, but there is ap-
pareiltiY uearlh OF hunters who can
I seI me ueer. more hunters than
eNel e, hhoMh before are IN that sec
t''ii tio,, an1 iilcloehlaliy . tnere are more
t1.iit 80 10y lhs "rouiiu, Inc reason Is
| ',t.,tiis ll,s VI nc nc nuhters are mex
peIleiiIeu s1I ecu III the WOODS and they
% ~ ~, az I ueer mas dasned