Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-16
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lwouId ~ answer our queStionnaire
about = markets of Harrisburg we
would Q able to make some head
wav solving the market prob
lems OF only in Harrisburg but i'll
othe cities where they have situa-
tior something like what you have
he, said Guy c. Smith, chief of
tn State Bureau of Markets and
" original of Tell it to Smith"
y. Smith is a student of markets
i'd he is aiming not only to get the
hrmers to bring more produce to
ihe towns, but to find out what the
buyers want and what is wrong and
what is right. when we, speak of
the percentage of the food that peo-
pie buy at market or at u store or
how much they set from farmers we
do not want them to sit down and
review their household accounts or
go over their grocery bills, but we
would like to have an approximate
amount, just enough to guide us.
said he. That has been one of the
matters about what l have been
questioned. Just ask the house
keepers to give us general idea
nd we will try to apply it. Another
thing that the people seem to have
, in their minds in asking us some
questions is that we are after some
body or other. Well that is the last
|
want to get the producers and the
buyers together, to eliminate mis-
understandings and lost motion.
There is big chance in this city.
1t has problems like others and l
would like to make it Il model in
regard to market matters just as 1t
is being made in so many other
ways" The trouble appears to be
that the people in Harrisburg have
mot been realizing just what Mr..
iSmith wants. There have been few
answers given to the questionnaires
and fewer inquiries as to what is
wanted.
People who are lovers of nature
say that Harrisburg has enjoyed
more fine sunsets this autumn than
usual and that some of the rainy
days have wound up in blaze OF
glory. The sunset effects against
the Blue Ridge have been most at
tractive to persons who like colors
because the shades and the changes
have been rarely seen. AS there is
: never sunset exactly like another
there are many treats for those who
take a stroll along the river front
in the late afternoons.
u Lieutenant Governor Edward E.
Beidleman, who has quite a faculty
. for getting at the facts in a Board
y of Pardons case, rather disconnected
n a young lawyer yesterday at the Oc-
' tober session of the board. The man
was trying to make it appear that
some money had been lying around
loose, insisting that it had been al
i lowed to so without any protection
. whatever. He then said that some
p Italians had left the money so.
y mot If I understand it that way;
: Italians are too thrifty to allow
money to lie around the way you
d say" remarked the Lieutenant Gov
: nor.
n Speaking of the State Board of
r, Pardons, there was the greatest in
y terest taken in the McMeen case all
ls over Capitol Hill and in this vicinity.
Is The Juniata county man has been
n noted as the man who has served
= longest in prison and George Ross
Hull, the Harrisburg lawyer whose
e presentation bf the case attracted so
Is much commepdation y es t e y
Is among those who heard it, referred
'e to it. He mentioned the fact that
t. when McMeen went to prison the
Secretary of the Commonwealth had
te not yet graduated from college, the
n Attorney General had not become a
- member of the bar and the Secretary
10 of Internal Affairs was boy. He
ID drove home the length of the time
served and what it meant in life
lie time, especially when there were ele-
~ ments of doubt.
~ The State Capitol which has its
lg own orchestra composed of men IN
I'd the various departments and which
rehearsed in rooms used by legisla-
u tors at times now has dances. The
n attaches of the State Department or
l. Health were last night given the
privilege of having a dance all to
In themselves in the large office room
lis of the department by permission Of
III Col. Edward Martin, the Commis-
sioner of Health. 1t was the first
l. time a dance has been given and the
es clerks and stenographers and bu-
at reau officials and division CHIEFS
OF seemed to enjoy 1T Immensely.
ed Men connected with the State
IN Game Commission and the zoology
IN. divisions of the Department of Agri-
at culture and the State Museum had
in a chance to study blackbirds at close
'lr range last night, as fiocks containing
sh thousands descended on Capitol
ch Park at sundown. The trees We're
he literally filled with them ana the
US chattering could be heard Tor
il block. People crowded to see the
C. swarms which clustered thick on the
ay trees. 1t was the first time the
C. park has ever been used as roost-
ing place and steps to prevent the
in nuisance we're being taken to-day.
of The last Legislature had passed a
in law advancing the blackbird season
ng and the birds seemed to have found
90 out where it was done and come
around to protest
The State of Pennsylvania has
come close to getting a corner or
grouse. ring-necked pheasants and
Quail. Thousands of birds have beer
ps bought up by the Commission &c
n distribute to the various game pre-
4. serves and deliveries are being made
I'm I'm at a rate which are exhausting stocks
ne of birds owned for sale. Efforts are
ne now being made to buy numerous
,ee deer during the winter.
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