Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-27
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course or day than any place in
1arrispurg. barring Market Square
Where the tide of life of the state
Capitai and its vicinity moves in and
| OUT haif dozen times a day. Just
| now the benches are a pleasant
place 10 spend an afternoon and YOU
can near an argument on every
| lining from the League of Nations
" .ne price or a cut of pie, the real
| and the last game of the TwiIight
| League. Yesterday a Capitol squir-
| rel climbed a tree and when it
started down a sign which had been
placed TO guide the city's doctor
guests to a meeting this week began
to veer around in the wind and the
squirrel in fright FASTENED back 10
the fork of the tree. Each time it
started down the wind would give
the card another whirl and the poor
| squirrel spent most uncomfortable
quarter or an hour. Two flocks of
blackbirds came along about S d. m,
and made camp in a couple of big
| trees. The blackbirds are not well
come In the park. They are not city
bred and they chase the pigeons and
ROBINS. So one of the men in the
| park went out and threw some
horse chestnuts at the flock and
| chased them out of Father PENIS
| domain. A nurse wheeled q baby
coach about the Mexican monument
and two squirrels mounted the front
or II and sat like Positions while the
youngster in the perambulator cooed
and laughed at them. A boy more
intent upon making sales than
| guarding wares called out that he
| mad peanuts for sale in front of the
state Library and left his basket at
the foot of tree. The squirrels
| round the freight and he lost half a
quart. Two tomcats had to be
chased away from the gold fish III
the big fountain near General Hart
ranfts statute the other morning
and the same day boy cried when
the woman with him refused to al
low him to fish for the shining denl-
zens of the fountains. over on the
east side of the building there is II
large concrete place which covers
| the coal bins and it is an excellent
| place Tor youngsters to ride up and
down on their bicycles when the ash
conveyors are not working. Auto
mobiles are parked in another SPACE
on the lower side of the building
and day before yesterday policemen
pulled two men who had crept into
large car for an afternoon nap. In
the rotunda two children who had
never been in an elevator cried as
though their hearts would break
when their mother tried to take
them up to the fourth floor.
|
A number of changes are being
made IN Harrisburg newspaper work
these days. j. Douglas Royal, who
mas been connected with the Patriot,
mas resigned to take up the practice
or law. Guy Nordham, who had
been in charge of the Universal
News Service in this city for some
time, has been transferred to the
Chicago bureau where he will be
promoted to the place of assistant
manager In that large news center.
William Wesley Stonebraker. who
has been with the Patriot and Even
ing News as telegraphic editor, will
succeed him. A change is also made
In the United Press bureau, ]. A.
Leith going to Pittsburgh.
. Harrisburg is going to have a busy
week again. 1t has just been
through with the biggest annual
meeting of the State Medical Society
ever held here and Monday the
state Chamber of Commerce will
; open two-day annual meeting with
Alba b. johnson presiding and many
men prominent in business here to
, speak. Governor William c. Sproul
, is 10 De one of the speakers at the
| banquet Monday night and next day
State officials, steel men, experts in
research and various kinds of work;
VIII speak. Tuesday the State We'll
rare Commission will have a meet
l ing to outline its future program
D ana also to launch the inquiry into
: charges. The Public Service Com.
5 mission will take up telephone
: street railway, taXicab and other
Q matters. On October / veterans OF
4 the World War will commence to
4 come here for the first annual meet
s ing of the American Legion in Penn
s sylvania and a State organization
Y will be formed. Many prominent
D soldiers will be here.
v Wine with the Kick" taken out
4 of it and a bewildering variety OF
: soft" drinks based upon fruit Juices
o of every kind indigenous to the Mid
{ die States and some from the south
= land are being sold in Pennsylvania
1 now, according to reports coming tc
v the State Bureau of Foods. Recently
a agents secured samples of some al.
r legged soft drinks which smelled very
h much ike the native grape wines and
notes were taken of them as pos.
q sible grounds for making arrests fol
|, violation of the nonalcoholic drink
> law, the. labels declaring them to be
. free form punch" When ANALYSES
q were made it was found that the,
contained less than half of one pei
. cent of alcohol and that they were
- wines which had been treated In
q some way as to take out the alcoho
a or else watered so as to reduce the
\ volume of the kick producer" anG
:, that they were not against the law
!. Some of the fruit juices have beer
: inspected to see if they contain
I, preservatives.