Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-01
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NSSOiNN " III OluSI " Culp tu0 az
tivities of those who try to take
unfair advantages of the housewife.
and the man who provides for ak
family table that forestalling has
been one of the offences which have
given the fathers trouble in Har-
risburg for a century. Early in the
history of the State the lawmakefs
were bothered by forestalling COM
plants and various statutes giving
local authorities power to deal with
IL were enacted. In the borough
ordinance books of Harrisburg
which come down to us for u period
of from about 1912 to 1860 there
are ordinances aimed at the fore \
staller, the wording of the mea-
sures indicating that there was
considerable antipathy toward those.
who engaged in the practice. JUST
before the Spanish war there werSS
complaints without number about
the forestallers who greeted the
farmers when they came into the
city on Wednesday and Saturday
mornings and saved them the
trouble of retailing their produce
by buying the whole wagon load
and carting it off to their own stalls
to sell. while the farmer with an
empty wagon and we'll filed
pocket book visited friends in the
market and swapped farm talk and
the gossip of the country side. An
ordinance was enacted at that time /,
which established some stiff penal
ties, but the police found difficulty.
in enforcing it, largely through the
failure of persons who had cried
loudest to make effort to get in
formation upon which to institute
legal proceedings.
While the world is discussing
proper punishment for the former
Emperor of Germany comes this
suggestion for the Peace Confer
ence from a young soldier now re-
covering from wounds in a base
hospital in this country. He be-
| lieves in the doctrine of an eye for
an eye and tooth for tooth, but
| otherwise is a normal, easy-going,
good-natured American doughboy
who gave cheerfully one leg and on6
finger for his country's cause. This
is his suggestion:
| THE Kaiser is about to be tried =
by worlds tribunal. Why not let 1
| the jury be twelve amputation cases
! from General Hospital number
three. No doubt, if it were put up
to them to name the punishment he
should receive, they would shout
with elective him an amputa-
| ton of both arms and legs and then
Immediately after recovering from
the effects of ether, give him a good
stiff lecture en- Kultur'"
HENRY,
U. S. G. H. 8.
Among the effects of a Harrisburg :
| officer which he has just received
| from overseas after months of wait
ing was a bedding roll containing
many pieces of wearing apparel and
some interesting personal belong
ings. Among other things was
sealed letter addressed to the mothes
| of a corporal of this officers COM
pany, who had been killed in q
night bonn bing raid, which letter
contained some trinkets that were
taken from the body OF the dead
soldier by the Harrisburg officer, but
had never been mailed owing to th<
regiment having been ordered ints
the fighting line about that time.
The belated letter and the keep,
sakes of the corporal were immedt<
ately forwarded to his mother in
the western part of the State. OnS
of the purposes of the American
Legion" now being organized is ia
aid soldiers in securing their rights
and last effects through the war;
ious departments of the army and
keeping in touch with each other.
Manifestly the farmers of Central
Pennsylvania are not suffering from
hard times or the high cost of liv-
J ing. The other day piano dealer
| in one of the towns not far from
| Harrisburg drove up to farlE
house in the hope of selling thf
mistress a piano. AS he approached
the broad front porch his hopes
faded because an automobile dealer
was already on the ground and had
made a sale, the demonstration
machine having been sent around
to the barn as the piano-man hove
in sight. 81 guess this is not my
day." said the piano agent, refer
ring to the automobile deal "Oh!
I dunno" said the farmer as a slight
drizzling rain began to fall. Put
your piano on the porch and let
Mary see how she likes it," He did
so and Mary was so we'll pleased
that the piano was also purchased.
have all the comforts of home.
Harry A. Boyer, county inspector
of weights and measures, while ON
an inspection tour in the upper end
of the county found an unusual
platform scale at Killinger, north
of Millersburg. The scale in addi-
ton to being provided with beam
for weighing in 5-pound quantities
by using a sliding weight, had
measurem ents on this sliding weight
accurately from one pound to sew
eral hundreds pounds. Mr.. Boyer
tested the scale, and found it in
good working order. He said that
it was the first one of its kind he
has ever seen.
Representative James A. Walker,
of Philadelphia, chairman of the
committee on banks and bankinN
in the last House and who holds
the record of introducing the most
bills, was here yesterday. He fig
ured out that most of the bills he
presented had become laws and his
friends claim that he put more laws
on the books than any other men,
ber.
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