Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-18

HSHeFdl department.
The decision was rendered in the
case of eggs which had been in cold
storage in Chicago and were with
drawn by the owner who shipped
them in his own name to Philadel-
phia and there sold them. This
transaction Is held by the Attorney
General to be proof that they were
Withdrawn for purpose of sale and
uhoer the act Of 1919 they cannot
be stored again.
Farmers institutes will be started
In Greene, Cambria, Susquehanna
ana Cumberland counties under the
new arrangement of the State De-
partment of Agriculture on Decem-
per l and each county will have
speakers familiar with the special
ized line of agriculture or kindred
branches that is followed in the
district. The Greene county insti-
tutes Will have live stock and sheep
specialists; Cambria will have pota-
TO experts; Susquehanna dairying
speakers and Cumberland, men to
talk on wheat, fruit and general
work. This plan will be followed
generally throughout the month.
The plan is to have institutes in
twenty counties in December.
Cumberland institutes will be held
at Hogestown, Plainfield, Newville
and Newburg.
Objections to the chartering of
the National Auto Tours Company,
OF Nazareth, were argued before the
Public Service Commission by rep
resentatives of half a dozen trolley
companies in the district between
Philadelphia and Stroudsburg. The
company seeks the right to carry
passengers, operate tours, carry
freight and operate q garage. 1t
was contended that it can be char
tered for only one purpose and that
it should be called upon to specify
routes and conduct it's business as
other common carriers. The argu-
ment was also heard in the objec-
tons of the Shubert Theater of
Philadelphia to the charges of the
Philadelphia Electric Company for
wiring theater. The price was de-
clared a war time cost with pay
ment for a cable which the company
had to supply in an emergency. This
latter charge the theater insisted it
should not bear.
The Public Service Commission
will have investigation made of the
Hog Island grade crossing accident.
Conditions in this vicinity have been
under inquiry for some time and
men who have been running trucks
and cars to the shipyard have been
summoned to hearings in Philadel-
phia with the idea of establishing
regulations.
Friends of DIR. Thomas e. Fine
gan, the State Superintendent of
Public instruction, to-day sent him
their condolences on his illness.
G. Fl. Getty, receiver of the Wig
Wam Building and Loan Association
an Allegheny concern, is starting
some suits to clear up it's affairs.
Pittsburgh people are talking of
establishing q whole signal battalion
of the new Guard in that place.
More arrests for the sale OF
watered butter are likely to be made
in the vicinity of Philadelphia. State
agents have been busy gathering
evidence and taking samples.
State officials were to-day greatly
interested in reports that suits to
restrain payment of legislative ap-
preparations to hospitals on the
ground of sectarianism might be
renewed in separate form as the re-
suit of the decision of the Dauphin
county court yesterday that the Will
lis Collins action was "multifarious."
1t was reported to-day that two
suits, separate proceedings, would
be started to make a test. The costs
in the proceedings just decided were
placed on the plaintiff and are said
to have been quite heavy. A con-
sultation will be had between the
fiscal and legal officials regarding
payments to the institutions included
in the act as the payments of APP
preparations were held up when the
suit was brought
People who follow politics I'm this
city were considerably interested in
this statement in the PHILADELPHIA
Inquirer of to-day: Suspicion that
the budget submitted to City Coun-
ellis by Mayor Smith and his advisers
for municipal expenditures during
1920 has been slashed and cut by
more than $2,000,00O, in order to
starve the city departments during
the first year of the Moore adminis
tration has caused q quiet and thor
ough investigation by councilmanic
leaders friendly to the Mayor-elect.
The inquiry is under way at the pres
ent time and may result in a series
of revelations within the week. The
fact that 'shortchanging' on a large
scale has been discovered by the
investigation was confirmed last
night by Harry J. Trainer. Select
Councilman from the Third ward -
Considerable interest has been at
tracted at the Capitol by the vigor-
Gus manner in which the conyen-
ton of the P. o. s. of A. camps of
Berks county have dealt with James
II. Maurer. former member of the
Legislature and president of the
State Federation of Labor. The
camps at a meeting attended by
men from all over the county for
mally invited the President to send
James H. Maurer to Russia, decler-
ing that 1t has the Soviet government
of which he appears to be SO fond.
State game protectors say that the
rabbit hunting appears to be excel
lent in many parts of the State thus
far and that some good wild turkey
shooting is reported.
Mine inspectors have been report
ing some interesting drops in Lacka-
wanna and Luzerne counties due to
mine caves. The only work the
State can do under present condi-
tions is to record the caves.
The State Board of Pardons meets
tomorrow with the largest list of
cases known in many months.
DIR. Mary @. Wolfe, of Lewisburp
has been appointed superintendent
of the State home for women at
Laurelton and Miss Anna Gather
man, of Miffiintown, has been named
as assistant.
Philadelphians here to-day said
that Mayor-elect j.. Hampton Moore
was letting the folks guess on rahis
net makeups. He intends to consnit
leaders during the week.