New Bureau Created to Survey State Resources and Needs
Governor Sproul signed a bill creating a State bureau of topographic and geological survey under a state geologist to be appointed by the Secretary of Internal Affairs. The bureau, replacing the State Geological and Topographical Commission, will survey coal oils clays soils and minerals plus highway materials and will take effect immediately with general appropriations.
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Sproul
Leslie Senate
Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey
Department of Internal Affairs
Secretary of Internal Affairs
State Geological and Topographical Commission
Senate
Orphans’ Court
Judge Advocate General’s Department
State Game Commission
House
Delaware
Sistant County
T He
Court Approves Venues for Juror Attendance in Sessions
District attorneys authorized by court approve venues to hold jurors for quarter sessions as needed. This act aims to facilitate trials when murder cases are on the docket.
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Quarter Sessions Court
Harrisburg Leads Pennsylvania In May Building Permits Increase
Harrisburg reports 52 permits for $173,275 in May, up from 27 permits for $29,259 last year, a 492 percent surge. Nationally 28 of 164 cities show declines. Philadelphia and Altoona follow with large percentage gains while Reading shows a loss. The average May permit value nationwide is $2,614 indicating more new developments and fewer remodels.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Altoona
Reading
Realty Expert to Speak Here at Major City Meeting
C. E. Hawk president of Hawk Palmer Company will headline a key gathering at the Penn Harris Hotel next Thursday evening. He will discuss Building Buying Selling and Financing Homes. A 6 30 dinner for about 200 delegates precedes plans to recruit local realty professionals for attendance. The event leads into national realty board sessions in Atlantic City June 23.
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Penn-Harris
C. E. Hawk
Hawk-Palmer Company
Youngstown
Ohio
Hawk
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Milwaukee
Stanley G. Backenstoss
Edward Moeslein
A. C. Young
Building Firm Formed by Sherk and Gipple in Harrisburg
J. E. Gipple and H. A. Sherk form Sherk & Gipple a new building firm with offices at 1251 Market street. Sherk acts as contractor while Gipple handles sales and financing. Ground breaking planned for twelve homes at Twentieth and Chestnut streets.
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J. E. Gipple
Harrisburg Real Estate Board
H. A. Sherk
Sherk & Gipple
Market Street
Gipple
Sherk
Twentieth
Chestnut Streets
Track rules limit seventh and eighth grades to track events
Entries may be made on the field just before events begin with little time to spare. Only seventh and eighth graders may compete in track events while tug-of-war and other events are open to the smallest participants.
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Lake
Professor Rose
Messrs. Beck
Traction Company
Ferrer
J. Frederik Virgin
Boy Scouts
Hhe
Walter Shaffer
Middletown
Traction “Company
Ool
Allies prepare German reply on peace treaty two day response
Paris June 14 British French and American delegations expect the reply to German counter proposals to be delivered Monday with two days for the Germans to answer. If they refuse to sign and armistice suspends June 21 hostilities resume. Glazov captured as Siberian troops advance toward Viatka with fighting near Sarapul and Ufa.
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Germany
Paris
Council of Foar
Glazov
Omsk
Ural
Viatka
Sarapul
Ufa
Real Estate Transfers in City and Cloverly Heights Development
List of property transfers includes John Lupold Estate to Charles E. Holly and Calvin Walters to Robert W. Crawford with nominal consideration. Other transfers cover multiple residences and commercial properties on Earlington Kelker Calder Susquehanna Herr and Green streets. Cloverly Developments reports William J. Lohland purchasing land for Housing Construction Co to build thirty homes at Cloverly Heights fronting Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets.
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John Lupold
Charles E. Holly
Earlington
Camp Hill
Calvin Walters
Robert W. Crawford
Robert McClelland
L. M. Orr
Kelker Street
Derry Block Apartment Company
Samuel Lack
Line of Olivet Presbyterian Church
Jacob Kerr
S. Harrison
Et al
Cloverly Developments
William J. Lohland
North Third Street
Cloverly Heights
Building boom near as Harrisburg real estate grows
Harrisburg real estate merchants praise public spirit of city banks for liberal home building loans. Since January permits totaling about $975,535 are issued for construction, surpassing all of 1918, with major projects including a $120,000 Front and Boas street apartment house and about 55 dwellings valued at $3,500 to $10,000 each.
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Harrisburg Real Estate Exchange
Penn-Harris
C. L. Long
Front
Boas Streets
Moffitt
North Front Street
Board of Trade
Henry C. Claster
Thirteenth Ward
Derry Street
Twenty-fourth Street
H. A. Hipple
W. J. Sohland
Front Street
Second Street
Bellevue Park
Chestnut Street
Chestnut G. A. Flinck
Cavalrymen Honor Annual Reunion At Mount Gretna
The Governor's Troop Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry veterans held their annual reunion at Mount Gretna near the old encampment site. Nearly fifty attendees gathered as a new flag was raised atop the monument mast. Read letters from distant members and those serving in France. Ten World War II era veterans who served in 1898 were noted, with officers elected including President Jacob F. Wolf and Vice President William K. Byrnes. Eighteen members remain in association since the troop was mustered in 1898.
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Veteran Association
Governor's Troop
Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry
Porto Rico
Cavalry
Mount Gretna
Pennsylvania National Guard
Conewago
Association
United States
France
Edwin A. Nicodemus
William L. Adams
Benjamin W. Kline
W. Stuart Barker
Frank A. Awl
Horatio V. S. Negus
John A. Good
William R. Bigler
Edward L. Riley
Herbert 8. Houck
Jacob F. Wolf
Lebanon
William K. Byrnes
Philadelphia
W. Stuart
Barker
Harrisburg
Jonas K. Reist
Steelton
William S. Youngman
Boston
George C. Jack
John W. Springer
David E. Wenrick
Gospel Tank Begins Busy Summer Season Tomorrow
The Gospel tank of the P R Y M C A starts the summer season tomorrow with a busy schedule. Services will be held every Sunday evening at a designated point near Forrest and Moore streets and will include pictures on the trips. Ira P. Dean, religious secretary, has set the program in motion.
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Forrest and
Moore Streets
Ira P. Dean
Statewide quarries to be run by state department
Approval of the act authorizing the State Highway Department to buy and operate quarries was announced at the Governors office. The move will speed highway construction and maintenance and aim to reduce high material costs for the Commonwealth. Reception for Soldiers Thompsontown Pa June 14. A reception for returned soldiers was held in the Center Lutheran church.
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State Highway Department
Thompsontown
Center Lutheran Church
M. E. Schlegel
Roy Hull
Philadelphia
Lutheran Church
B. H. Branthoffer
Lewistown
J. C. Tennis
New York
Abram Landis
Ephrata
Roy Colyer
Harrisburg
Cloyd Colyer
Hollidaysburg
William Colyer
Walter E. Brown
Susquehanna University
Selinsgrove
8. Fetz
Little Son
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Geological Commission
The
Dauphin County Firemen’s Association
Roshon
New York Hotel
Manhattan
Seventh Avenue
33Rd Street
Pennsylvania Station
Theatres
Pennsylvania Statler
Pennsylvania Terminal
Lexington St
John Corr
Harrisburg’s Real Estate
Backenstoss
Gospel Tank
Philadelphia Diamond Grid
Diamond Grid Battery CO
S. Cameron Street
Business Properties For Sale
Moving Picture Theater
New Cumberland
Brinton-Packer Company
C. Vernon Rettew
Wm. J. Sohland
the Lot Man
Harris and
Cameron
Bell Realty CO
Bergner Building
Sherk and Gipple Builders of Better Homes
Bell
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