Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-23

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Department of Forestry on the cath.
The examination in scholarship will
be held in the city High School
building on the 25th, and only those
applicants will be admitted who
have already passed the physical ex-
animation.
All applicants must be citizens of
Pennsylvania, not over &c years of
ago and not under IS. The exam
ination in scholarship will include
the ordinary high school branches,
algebra, plane and solid geometry,
arithmetic, English grammar and
composition, physical geography,
civil government physiology. history,
reading, writing and spelling. An
average grade of IS per cent. must
be attained to pass. No specimen
examination papers will be supplied.
Fifteen students who pass the ex-
aminations with the highest stand
ing will be assigned to foresters on
States forests for two months of
practical work in the woods. At the
end of this period an additional test
will be given. The ten men passing
the test most satisfactorily will be
admitted to the Forest Academy on
September 1st.
Price A General. william G..
Price. Jr., who returned from France
recently as head of the 53rd artillery
brigade, has been commissioned as
major general of the National Guard
OF Pennsylvania, shortly to be re-
constituted. as of May. 16, the day
following his honorable discharge
from the United States Army. Gen
! eral Price will soon take up the de-
tails of the formation of the new
Guard, into which will be incorpor-
ated the Reserve Militia.
Major Jere H. Leaman, deputy
adjutant general. has been commits
stoned major and quartermaster and
assigned to the First Brigade staff.
Appointments in the Reserve
Militia announced are: Hartley ].
Zeigler, Franklin, captain; Marshall
Gault, Oil City, first lieutenant. and
Francis Black Hollister. Franklin.
second lieutenant, Company l.. 3rd
| Infantry: Louis A. Bisbort, Philade.-
phia, first lieutenant. Company. e.
1st Infantry; George NJ. Dudley, Am
bier. first lieutenant, Company l, lst
/ Infantry.
General Price has been a member
of the States armed forces since
| Nav "a. 1885, when he Joined COM
pany of infantry and became col
onel in 1901. He served In the
Spanish war as lieutenant colonel
and became q brigadier general in
1910.
No Rchcaring. - Notwithstanding
published statements to-day the
State Board of Pardons did not grant
rehearing in the case of Adolph
Blau. the Scranton banker. 1t was
refused on sight.
On Hatchery Tour.-Commissio
of Fisheries Nathan r. Butler left
| to-day on a tour of hatcheries to
speed up work for the fall. .v
Board AdjournS.-The State Com
pensation Board adjourned it's sit
ting at Pittsburgh last night. The
board will meet the rest of the month
in Philadelphia.
To Return Monday. - Governor
Sproul will return to Harrisburg on
Monday evening.
Much Amcndcd.-The bill Great
ing the State Department of Con-
servation which is on the House first
reading calendar has been so much
amended that 1t would not know
itself. The authority is now vested
in the conservation commission in
stead of the commissioner and the
com missioner is to be the secretary
of the commission. The plan is SINH
lar to that proposed for the De-
partm ent' of Agriculture four years
ago but which was hamstrung before
it got a chance to work out.