Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-05
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secretary of the State Board Of
Education. who will be First Dep
uty Superintendent of Public In
struction, discussing Hoffman's
Woods location as high school site,
told Telegraph man that nearly
all progressive and growing COM
munities are placing their high
schools well out from the closely
built sections and not a few of the
new schools are much farther from
the center of population than il
Hoffman's Woods. The trend of tss.<
| times is toward large, open So.
for high schools" he said, anE
added. that even in the smalis<
| communities the tendency is to ozA.
regard central locations in favor ~
otherwise more advantageously si>~
! uated plots.
DR.. c. e. L. Keen, discussing tina
subject, recalled that during his ne
| cent tour of the West he had notad
that all the more progressive cit9s@s
in which high schools have beez
built recently, the same policy hs-H
been followed as is being urged fo<s
Harrisburg. mo attention is beifz
paid to the notion that it Is un-
/ fair to one section of a city to 10
cate school in another part" he
remarked to a friend recently.
These western cities took to the
greatest need for the greatest num-
per. Dr. Keen was particularly
| impressed with the university at Salt
Lake City, which is located in reIa-
ton to that city much as it is pro
posed for the high school in Harris
| burg. Hundreds of boys and girls of
salt Lake City attend this school
and make no complaint because
tney nave to use the street car.
wherever we locate our high
school," DR.. Keen said. 1--WE mist
realize that very large number
or the students must use the street
cars. DR.. Keen made a very care
iul study of school buildings during
ms Journey and was much i'm
pressed by what he saw.
muddy, said r. II. Lyon. better
known to his friends as Bob" 'but
out where / was on the opening dav
the water was clear as CRYSTAL and
we got eighteen bass-my son. a
irlend and l." Bob" says the loca-
non Ilon OF his big catch is a secret.
re gong to have lot of business
OUT that way this summer and has
no liking for competition. Two of
me pass he caught the first day
Ilpped the scales at two and ono
haIt pounds each. All of them were
taken on plugs-the artificial Iure
maze or painted wood that the skill
luI casting enthusiast finds SO sue
oesslui. incidentally Lyon and his
party were on the stream only two
hours in the afternoon.
"A friend of mine Introduces me-
TO a mighty seductive drink yester.
day, said well-known Harrisburp
man to-day
DRINK" queried his companion,
with his thoughts upon the dr.
edicts that recently have caused SO
much comment. What do Won
mean. drink" you
on: not that kind" was the re-
Ply, put very good nevertheless
" was nothing but a fine quality of
iced tea-very cold-with a. slice of
} lemon, sugar to taste and a sprig of
fresh mint. If you doubt me just
What would you say if some night
about l O'Clock, a night owl would
call you up on the phone and tell
you that there were four men nm
lawfully catching frogs Il guess
catching them is the term-or is it
oagglng them p some twenty miles
away. And you were nicely asleep
in good, warm bed when the call
came and felt that your position as
State Game Protector was not all
mat 1t was cracked up to be. Well.
that is exactly what happened to I
"A. BretZ. who occupies that position
IN the Lykens neighborhood. Mr..
BretZ doubtless felt the call OF
Morpheus as strongly as you or 7
put bravely rising and girding ND
i his loins with a couple of six shoot
ers he sailed forth and hired an
automobile prepared to do battle
, with the law breakers. After a long.
: cold, cherries ride Mr.. Bretz ar
rived in the vicinity of the crime
and having debarked from his lit
, ney crept up on the criminals. After
some little creeping. he appeared in
+ cloud of dust and with gun in
, | hand demanded their surrender. Ac-
, cordlng to Mr.. Bretz several of the
gentlemen, who hail from little
/ town near Lykens, were what Mr.. 7
CoDb, OF Georgia, would call three
sheets to the wind. or to be more
/, clear and A Officially, speaking.
, bokoo zig-Zag." This made no diff
, ference to the willy warden. how
ever, who kept them covered in his
. best billhart manner. And with the
, prisoners before him he made his
; way back to Lykens where the next
, morning the four merry wags were
fined sixty dollars each. AS each
of them had devoted more time To
: the late lamented John B. than thew
had to catching frogs, the total bag
was not more than twenty of the
I | specie. Frog legs are quoted in Nv
i kens at the customary high rate
.