Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-17
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What is getting the matter with
Dauphin county hunters? The State
Game Commission has received word
from Z. b. Lightner, the special pro-
tector, who spent considerable time
IN the upper end of the county, that
olily TWO bucks were shot during the
season which ended on Monday. This
is lhe result of u careful survey and
VIII probably make some hunters eX-
pain, because this county licensed
lhousands OF men and there were
any number of ambitious nimrods
Soihplng the county above the First
| Mountain. The State liberated 50
/ ueef In the Haldeman forest reserve
IN the abthville- -LylSens region
iast year, 20 of them being bucks
| anu they nave been seen in many
sectlons, some straying down into
Clarks valley and others being noted
IN the vicinity of Halifax, while they
nave been seen in the woods which
| me the ridges north of Peters Noun
tam Must il be said that the Dau-
phln county hunters can't shoot?
| Ihere were many of them out with
aVowed purpose of showing that
Dauphin county had regalned it's old
tlme prestige as q good deer hunting
! county and either they must not have
been experienced deer hunters or
else the animals We're too feet for
them. In any event. il is estimated
lhat there We're about 100 deer hunt
ers out for each buck known to be
in the county and only two pairs Of
antlers have been taken.
Among visitors to the city yester-
day was Col. Samuel w. Miller. of
the United States Army. who was
! officer rhDrpp n icl,t
recruiting district just after the
Spanish War and who commanded
the Fort Niagara training camp at
which Captain Jack" Sproul, son Of
the Governor, and other officers were
trained in 1917 Col. Miller was ad-
Vanced to be brigadier general. but
made such record in charge of
training camps that he was kept in
command of these important estab-
llshments. Twice he was given
hrigades and then placed in charge
OF camps. including Fort Sill part of
the last six months of the war He
is now the officer in charge of militia
affairs for the eastern part of the
United States and stationed at Gov
ernor's Island.
The State of Pennsylvania's own
orchestra will give a concert in the
'1'tt'N NttplIOi NOlll " NON-
ernor and Mrs. William G. Sproul,
State officials. attaches and their
wives and families next month. The
orchestra is composed entirely of
men connected with the various
branches Of the State government
and is directed by Howard W. Fry,
secretary of the State Highway De-
partment. Capitol officials have
given it the use of Il caucus room for
Is. II.
selections have been practiced where
presiding officers of legislative
houses have been nominated and
where some of the biggest Public
Service cases have been argued.
Announcement of the dividend
earned by the Harrisburg Hotel
Company the past eleven months
) shows how even the most expert of
fnanciers can he fooled by an invest
ment. There We're those who Il year
ago to-day would have sold their
stock at nifty cents on the dollar and
few banks cared to loan o. st. 'rhe
investors went into it for the most
part as Il patriotic duty. But there
were those at the opening dinner of
the Penn-Harris who believed in the
soundness of the investment and who
predicted that it would become zone
of the best paying induStrials in Har-
risburg," which it now bids fair to
do. 1t also proves that those who
used to tell us that "a dry hotel will
never pay" didn't know what they
7 We're talking about, and since the
Penn-Harris has been made to pay
without a bar, hotel keepers who will
sell no more liquor need not despair,
=. as one of them said day or two ago,
for what they lose in one place they
will make up in another, ''if the serv-
' ice is made good enough"
l In spite of the weather conditions,
which are not any too pleasant these
= days. there have been a number OF
people coming to Harrisburg on
automobile trips. They are mostly
men who have business in the cen
trail section of the State and who
prefer running their own cars to
\ the vagaries of trains. December
n automobile tours are something un-
n usual for Pennsylvania.
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