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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1917
Page
6
City council contemplates municipal ash collection next year with an estimated first year cost near 100000 dollars or the revenue from two mills of the tax rate. Officials consider raising taxes to ten mills while eight mills fund services other than refuse.
Anti-Saloon League official E W Claypool reports strong enthusiasm for national prohibition. Congress faces a key vote Monday December 17 on the Senate approved amendment. Pennsylvania representatives Graham Crago Garland McLaughlin Scott urged to back the measure. Dry groups plan January church events to begin the state ratification campaign.
President Spreckels of the Federal Sugar Refining Company testifies before a Senate committee that there is no U S sugar shortage and the famine is confined to the Atlantic seaboard The raw sugar passing through New York to Canada fetches higher prices and refiners lament loss of refineries due to supply constraints He cites 900000 tons unused from last year and an estimated 1270000 tons excess for 1917 18 outside German allied and Russian production.
Joseph W. Hunter announced the state Highway Department bought the Old York road section from the Philadelphia city line to a mile north of Hatboro for 105000 dollars. The line has Revolutionary War era records and was once controlled by Cheltenham Willow Grove Turnpike and Hatboro Warminster Turnpike.
J E B Cunningham spoke to the Keystone chapter of the United States Daughters of 1812 at the Civic Club in Harrisburg. He urged strong Red Cross support and noted Harrisburg’s wartime role while praising allied nations' women and calling for increased membership. Officers were unanimously elected: Regent Mrs James B Mersereau, and others including First Vice Regent Mrs Charles J Wood Jr and Treasurer Mrs James E Dickinson. The meeting ended with the national anthem and tea hosted by Mrs George Preston Mains.
A historic note recalls the first artificial road in America built from logs and planks on a highway. In 1894 trolley tracks were laid and some of the logs and planks were unearthed during excavation. The text mentions a council meeting in July.
Alpha Theta Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha to be installed at Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster Pa with initiation of Harbaugh Club alumni at 536 West James Street Warren A Cole grand high alpha will lead ceremonies among Harrisburg district alumni including Rev W R hartzell Paul N Fox A W Lick L C Lightner and others.
Federal Food Administrator Hoover lifts the embargo on baked beans allowing twenty five percent of the pack to be canned. The embargo previously barred canning due to bulk transportation of dried beans and was modified today in Philadelphia.
The Wickersham Auxiliary formed by Mrs. L. R. Palmer leads colored churches and organizations in aiding the Red Cross. The executive committee is all colored women, with colored clergy on the finance committee. Officers include Miss Mary Baltimore president and several vice presidents. Dr. C. H. Crampton chairs the board of directors.
Gettysburg Pa December 14 The local school board faces a shortage in the high school commercial department. Prof R B Sunderland of Clearfield has been released to join the quartermasters corps of the Army. Attempts to secure a replacement have failed as qualified teachers hold government or other positions.
The 1918 budget prep begins with an executive session next Monday night as departments present expenditure estimates. Probate expense for ash and garbage rises to 100000, street improvement cost 25000, labor and material costs up, and departments seek salary increases, likely creating a difficult budget under the new commission form of government.
Miss Bessie Huber of 1602 Derr Street slipped en route to war injuries, dislocating her ankle this morning. Emergency responders attended.
Relief comes instantly as a dose taken every two hours for three doses to end grippe misery and break a severe cold. It opens clogged nostrils air passages relieves headache feverishness and sore throat. The genuine Pape Cold Compound costs only a few cents at any drug store.
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