Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-23
Ehfntttg Gl1at'

If the appearance of the fruit
trees in the districts about Harrisi
burg means anything, the crops have
not been injured by any cold weath}
er which has occurred this spring,
but there are going to be literally
hundreds of trees added to the
church spires of this city. This in-
crease of the fruit trees in tsa
Harrisburg district is something not
generally known. Like the tre-
mendous squirt taken in the lowea
SCsQuehanna counties in wheat rais-
ing since the war began it has
come unnoticed, probably becauss
peoples minds We're occupied with
other things. But q ride through the
countryside will show how exten1
sively people have been planting
fruit trees, especially peach and apl
pie, and that many of those planted
survived to reach the bearing stage.
Cumberland county has become ono
of the big fruit-raising counties in
the last decade and there are orr
chards of large extent within Il
short ride of Harrisburg, while the
hills of Dauphin county, which are
well adapted to fruit-raising iu
many sections, are at last being
put to work. Just now the fruit
trees are blooming everywhere and
If the multitude of blossoms and the
general appearances of the trees
mean anything, there will be plenty
of fruit. providing always that Jack
Frost does not make any May visits
and that the seventeen-year-old To-
Gusts will not affiict us in any great
numbers.
1t is evident that there will be-
some locusts in this section because
farmers have reported turning up
the grubs close to the surface in q
number of sections of the county.
In the> >Hummelstown region some
large lots were pIowed up and were
Immediately swooped upon by birds.
while they have also been heard
of in the Elizabethville section. The
distribution of the 1919 brood is
pretty general and there will be
more or less annoyance in the coun-
try and in many gardens next
month. The State experts say that
the only thing to do is to kill as
many as possible and feed them to
the chickens. The seventeen-year- old
locust is a smaller nuisance than
| the green fellows that are with us
| always, but active in flight and de-
structive of young twiggs which it
rips open to lay eggs and often ruins
whole trees.
According to Ed. Black, the art
ist, Strawberries are going to be
plentiful this spring. Black has a
cottage at Perdix, being one of the
original settlers there, and closely
| annexed is one of the most prom
| ising strawberry patches in that re-
gion. When they begin to ripen,
tho a rticf nlanc 10 10 Hic IrI1Chpc
| and other tools up there and paint
! landscapes at the same time he
chases blackbirds and robins. You
| ought to see the blossoms" said he
IF other patches are showing up
! half so well shortcake ought to be
popular dish next summer"
Camp Hill is going to have a
! Chautauqua next August. Enough
| people have become interested to
make the course possible and ar
| rangements are being made for two
weeks of lectures, concerts and en-
| tertainments that will make the dull
season in that suburb unusually
lively. Robert Cahill is at the head
of the enterprise.
The Camp Hill Presbyterian
Church. which took in fifteen new
IIltII1DSIS idSl ouuudS, Is
considering the erection of a place
of worship. A building committee
has been appointed and the matter
of design will be looked into and es-
Inmates procured as to probable
| costs The congregation is growing
as rapidly as any along the West
Shore and in a few years gives
| premise of being the strongest Pres
| byterian Church of those organized
hereabouts in recent years.
DR.. ]. George Becht, executive
secretary of the State Board of Edu-
| cation, who will speak at the Arbor
! Day exercises in Camp Hill Friday
afternoon, is one of the most sought
after speakers in the State service.
He has q wonderful command of the
| English language, and aside from
being born orator, has the happy
knack of saying highly instructive
things in an entertaining way, which
! is a gift few possess. DR.. Becht is
| particularly popular among the
school people of Pennsylvania, and
has so many invitations to speak
| that he has to be constantly refus-
| ing in order to attend to the bulk
| of work his position entails. Camp
Hill was fortunate in procuring him
in that it had friend at court.
Officers who were here yesterday
| for the hearing on the military train
ing bill before one of the legislative
committees expressed some surprise
that training in military matters was
not undertaken more extensively in
Harrisburg, especially in view of the
fact that the city sent so many hum
dreds of men into the Army and
Navy. One officer commented upon
! the work undertaken at the Harris
burg Academy and was rather aston
! ished that training once in vogue at
the Central High school had been
given up some years ago. They pre-
dicted establishment of training
soon.
watch your step" is the slogan
at the marble stairway in the Capt.
toll. Yesterday this was exempiified
when one of the senators from West
ern Pennsylvania was hailed as he
was descending the steps.
'FWait q minute, my mind is right
on these steps. Wait till I get to
the bricks" said he.