Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-19
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correspondence of Governor Will
iIaih - sprouts office has broken all
records of the executive department.
Men familiar with the office saw that
nothing like il has ever been known
III the first half year of any previous
governors. The mail accumulation
Is TOO much for the post office box
allotted to the department and in
mas to be sent to the State CAPITOL
III bags. 1t is all of an official char
acter and the whole office force is
>ePt puSy in the mornings prepay
ing IL TO be handled. The Governor
Is peihS deluSed with requests for
souvenirs and autographs, appoint-
menus 10 Office and the numerous
othef matters which ordinarily 20 to
the office. One of the unusual
features of the correspondence Is
that many Of the writer's are rec
ommending to his notice badges.
banners, memorials and other things
growing out of the close of the war.
Many suggestions are also being
nlade about recognition of the men
IN the Pennsylvania units.
washington county ranks first in
pennsylvania in pure bred bulls and
eStmoreland leads in. pure bred
stallons and boars according to
hSures issued today by the Bureau
Oh statistics OF the Department of
agriculture. The figures are based
on reports from 6S5 townships. The
reports show $40 stations, 4,637
puiiS, S,47S boars and 1874 rams
| Which nave good family connections.
IL Is estimated that if these figures
rule Tor the rest of the State that
FehhsylVania has 1916 stations and
over lO,5O0 bulls. The bureau saws
tnat the reports show q decline in
the number of stations in the st
year. probably due to the demands
OF war for animals. but that bulIs
ana other live stock for breedinp
nave increased. 1t is estimated thai
| approximately five per cent of the
iarmers of the State are feeding
| I'VE stock for the markets, which
! Is u decline of two per cent FROM
iast year and attributed to the high
cost of feed. Lancaster county ia
estimated to be the leading steer
leeulng county, forty-ffve per cent
or It's farmers being engaged in tbis
business with Adams with twentv-
Iour per cent. and York following
WIN sixteen per cent. AS a result
OF survey of farm values if is es-
tlmated that the average value of
larms' including buildings, in Penn
SElVahia' per acre is S6S.5O per acre.
highway Commissioner Sadler has
informed the State College of Wash
lnSton, located at Pullman. Wash
lngton' that he is unable at this
llhle' 10 suggest the name of n per-
son suitable for the position of PRO-
lessor of Highway Engineering at
that college. Prof o. /. Waller.
mead of the Department of civil
Engineering at Washington State
College, wrote to the Highway Com
missioner of Pennsylvania and said
that the western institution has ur-
gent need for an instructor who
VIII bulld up big road construc-
tlon department in that College.
we want someone who has had
education and practical experience
III road construction, and who has a
capacity to put it over to young
meh-some man who has pep, get
up ana go about him, to- build UP
| Dig department" The Highway
| Commissioner has men in his De-
! partment capable of holding down
the position offered by the Wash
ington State College but, because OF
the intensive and extensive road
construction program planned bv
the Commonwealth of PENNSYLVANIA.
he will retain them.
Major W. C. Murdoch. officer in
| charge of the draft, to-day notified
the chief clerk of local draft board
III an unnamed district that the gov
! ernment could not give him the desk
and typewriter he used during the
draft as payment for 1915 hours
over time, 21 pounds of flesh lost
during service as chief clerk and a
patch of good, black curly hair from
the top of the head for the loss of
about 250 friends because they were
sent to the army" Major Murdock
! remarked that he thought the man
entitled to some compensation for
such an extensive and unusual loss,
| but that government regulations
gave him no discretion.
|
Among visitors to the city yester-
day was p. ]. Mccormick. head of
the firm which built the Mulberry
| street bridge. 80 you are going to
build another big bridge here" said
he referring to the Memorial bridge
| be a grand one" MIR. Mccormick
has expanded. This city has GER
! tainly spread out and it is becoming
a fine place. / am delighted to visit
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