Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-03
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into their own. Only O. few days
ago George S. Reinoehl, an ardent
disciple of Isaac Walton, was elect
ed president of the Chamber of
Commerce, and yesterday DR.. Fred
erick E. Downes. superintendent of
Harrisburg public schools, was made
president of the Pennsylvania State
Educational Association by unani-
nous vote. DR.. Downes, who is just
recovering from a severe attack of
pneumonia, has been very active in
the affairs of the association for
years, and he is we'll qualified for
| the office, the Importance of which
is growing with the membership of
| the association. But, to get back
to fishing, DR.. Downes is one of the
most skillful bass anglers in this
section of the state. He knows
more about the creeks in Central
pennsylvania than most men and
he seldom comes home from his
fishing excursions with an empty
creel. He disdains the use of live
bait and takes his fish for the most
part on plugs" those ugly wooden
lures which bear no resemblance to
anything else over the earth, under
the earth or on the earth, and there
fore escape the biblical injunction
| against being sworn by. Swear
bys' somebody has called them, but
there are those who believe that
| 'sWear-ats' would be more fitting
| But, be that as it may-when DIR.
Downes goes fishing there are al
ways those who would like to go
| along, for he is one of the keenest
| outdoorsmen in Harrisburg. II
have been with him under the most
trying circumstances" said a COM
panion of some of his blngs the
other day, "and 1 never knew him
to be ruffled. He is always able to
swim just a bit better, walk little
farther and get out just a little
more line on the cast than the other
fellow. But he does it all so we'll
and so modestly that his compan-
ions have nothing but the most
friendly appreciation for his abil-
ity.' That, by the way, is saying a
great deal, as any outdoorsman will
know, for it is on the hike, the fish
ing or the hunting trip, when wealth
er turns bad, or the fish won't bite,
or other adversely comes, that the
true qualities of the man come out.
Many a fair weather sportsman is
a poor companion when the rain be-
gins to fall.
DR.. Downes came to Harrisburg
High school and upon the death of
the late superintendent l.. o. Foose
and has been the head of the school
system ever since. He has come
into almost as many trying situa-
tons as such as have confronted
him in the woods and along the
streams, but has proved as good a
sport in the office as out and has
weathered all of the storms with
triumph for himself and with good
results for the school system. 1t
is admitted that he has made the
best of difficult circumstances for
years in the Central High School,
and has maintained the efficiency
of that institution when the con-
ditions were all against first class
results. He is an advocate of fair
pay for teachers, believing that the
man or woman who is worrying as
to where the months rent or the
price of a new suit is to come from
is not in fit frame of mind for
effective work in the school room.
| Harrisburg has developed recent
ly one of the cleverest after-dinner
speakers the town ever had the
pleasure of boasting. He is Preston
Crowell director of the Harrisburg
Rotary Club, and represents one of
the big breakfast food and feed
companies operating in the United
States. His speechmaking abilities
were discovered more by accident
than design when he was assigned
to preside at a meeting of the Ro-
tary Club one day and now no
function is complete without a few
remarks from Preston. He is an
ideal toastmaster, quick of wit, brim-
| ftt1 Nf htt,, I'D nlx Iii i,,1I IN,
the personal shafts he knows so well
how to, direct. Mr.. Crowell is just
recovering from a severe attack of
influenza but he was able to send
his regrets in humorous verse to his
fellow Rotarians on the occasion of
their luncheon at the Penn-Harris
this week.
Wheat looks better than I have
seen it in many years." said Harry
, Collins, a well-known salesman who
makes" the rural districts of Cen
trail Pennsylvania once or twice a
month. The weather has been par
ticularly favorable, he says, and the
fly has not been much in evidence.
If it should happen now that the
weather would become colder and a
heavy fall of snow would cover the
wheat for the next five or six weeks,
the yield next summer would be
phenomenal. At all events Central
Pennsylvania farmers will bring to
market more wheat next year than
ever before, the prospects now are.
1.-THE coal situation seems very
good in Harrisburg just now," said
,, a well-known dealer yesterday,
land unquestionably it is far better
than last year at this time but it is
my forecast that a week of severe
weather would cause run on the
local yards that would take them
down to the bottoms of their bins.
, Some people who have only ton
or so on hand seem to think they
are perfectly safe and they are, but
If cold snap descends suddenly
, on us they will become panic-strick-
en- and will be on the backs of the
coal dealers in short order"
|
Fishermen all over Pennsylvania
, are delighted that Commissioners
Butler is to be continued in Office.
Mr.. Butler has done very much for
the fisheries of the state and has
} stood constantly between the fish
pirate and the law-abiding angler.
J He has been particularly active in
stocking the streams of this section
| with and undar foUnr.