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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1917
Page
14
The State Public Service Commission will open hearings on Friday to review reports about the Schuylkill Navigation Company bridge over its canal near Douglassville Berks County deemed unsafe and inadequate. The session may set an important precedent for future bridge orders.
The largest class in Steelton history moves from the A grammar to the High school with special exercises in the auditorium. Fifty seven boys and sixty seven girls participate, including nine from Hygienic school. The program features a presidential address, music by the High School Orchestra, recitations, and constitutional conferral of certificates.
York Labor News editor W Thompson to speak in Middletown tonight Highspire tomorrow and Steelton Friday. John Stager visits Lancaster while W D Matheson returns to Reading. Liberty Fire Company and Red Cross events loom with school entertainment at Realty Theater being repeated for charity.
Registrars in five wards enrolled nearly 3 000 men with interpreters aiding. About 2 240 residents registered locally while at least 5 000 claimed residency elsewhere. Steel workers were allowed time off to register, easing noon and post shift crowds. Mrs Blanche Wilson and William Henry Lotz wed at St James Catholic Church with reception at home. couple to reside in Enhaut. Funeral services for Mrs Anna B Knisely held at home on South Second Street with burial in Baldwin Cemetery.
Final arrangements for the sale of Liberty bonds will be made at Frey’s Hall this evening by steel officials and department superintendents. The campaign opens tomorrow and runs until next Wednesday. Some 200 to 200 men will join the general committee to solicit subscriptions after tonight’s appointment of assisting committees.
Banks in Harrisburg and Steelton plan to substitute women for drafted men. Officials say ten of nineteen banks already employ twenty five women and more will be hired to train for future vacancies. Other firms may follow to avoid business disruption if many young men are drafted.
The State Forestry Department must seek a legislative deficiency appropriation to cover forest fire suppression costs. A prior $45,000 allotment is projected to be short by about $15,000, due to an unusually active spring with many small fires and high extinction expenses since April 1. Rain last week eased danger. foresters expect little to no fires before fall. Weather records show the driest spring in years with a May wind pattern aiding fire spread. Bugle calls mark opening of a registration site in Columbia. in Sixth ward, 35 men enrolled in under two hours.
Pittsburgh reports nine men arrested for failing to register in a police move. One claimed he was an actor who had registered in Berkeley Springs West Virginia two weeks earlier. The group was jailed awaiting further processing. ARREST FOUR Toledo men face conscription charges. August Bruns Karl Holbein John Heckman and Albert Werthoff detained by a U S deputy marshal. Holbein and Heckman claim they are under 21 while Bruns and Werthoff say they are over 21.
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