Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-04

no longer i've ana a1Ier lnNeSuBa-
ton. There were 1,767 foreign cor
porations, chartered in other states.
stricken from records upon filing of
affidavits, statements and after in
Quiry; 312 stricken off on the basis
of revocation of charters by the gov
ernors of Delaware and New Jersey,
and 3S9 limited partnerships elimi-
mated because they have gone out
of business.
In addition, five corporations not
organized for profit have been
stricken off. There have been 40
corporations stricken off as sold, 164
as merged. 557 as dissolved by court
order and 80 because of reorganiza-
tions.
Flags of Tooth Field Artillery, for
merly the 3rd Pennsylvania Artillery,
which had been placed in the custody
of the War Department, have been
sent to Adjutant General Beary. The
regimental standard is already here.
The flags to come include the
guidons. This rgiment came mainly
from Luzerne county.
Second Lieutenant ]. S. Hill, Nor
ton, has been promoted to be first
lieutenant and assigned to Troop A
of the Reserve Militia Cavalry.
Insurance Commissioner Thomas
B. Donaldson has been authorized
by the Dauphin county court to take
charge of the Tower City Mutual
| Fire Insurance Co, of Hazleton. "A
hearing will be held october 20. =
Bids for construction OF State
highway bridges in Armstrong,
Crawford, Susquehanna, Venango,
Fayette, Wyoming and Sullivan
way Commissioner Sadler and action
will be taken in a few days. Bids
for some of the bridges run as high
as $4,000. G. w. Ensign, Inc, of
this city, bid on all bridges. They
are all on State highways. The Com
missioner has rejected bids for
building $1,000 feet OF improved
road in Erie county.
Argument will be heard by the
Public Service Commission in this
city on Monday on the application
for a charter for the Easton Aero
Service corporation. the first to ask
| for such rights, and on numerous
other cases which have been heard
lately. Hearings will be held in Har-
risburg and Pittsburgh during the
| week.
| Attention of State officials and
| legislators all over Pennsylvania has
been attracted to the test of the non
partisan judicial law computation
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the Dauphin county court on Tues
! day afternoon in the mandamus ac-
tion brought to require the Secretary
| of the Commonwealth to certify the
name of Judge Henry G. Wasson, of
! Pittsburgh, as candidate for judge in
| Allegheny county. The action is the
! first to be brought since the enact
ment of the amendment of 1919
which was designed to provide a
| L, - soI ~ hn Tttn
toned, and State officials say that
when the legislation was pending
they thought that the Allegheny
county situation was in mind. In
addition to Deputy Attorney General
w. NJ. largest, who argued the
mandamus cases growing out of
judicial nominations two years ago.
it is probable that Attorney General
William I. Schaffer will take part
| in the argument. Many inquiries
have come here about the policy of
| the State authorities in constituting
the act OF 1919 and it may have bear
ing upon other contests.
Governor Sproul and State off,
cials attended the annual party by
NJ. c. Kennedy at Ragged Edge to-
day. The Governor will return here
late tonight
Colonel George Nox Mccain, the
newspaper correspondent, was in
Harrisburg for a few hours.
Speaker Robert S. Spangler came
up from York yesterday to discuss
appointments with Governor Sproul.
Warden R. j. McKenty's manage
ment OF the Eastern Penitentiary
which has been under FIRE was COM
mended by the Philadelphia grand
jury yesterday according to word re-
ceived here.
Philadelphians at the Capitol say
that meeting of the Philadelphia
city Republican committee to en-
| dorse Congressman ]. Hampton
Moore Is only matter of a few
days.
An answer win be filed by the At
torney Generals Department in the
Wasson mandamus proceedings to
test the method of computing Judi
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