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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1915
Page
4
Two bids were received today for a concrete bridge over Armstrong Creek beyond Halifax. The Fer ro-Concrete Company won with a bid of 1,373 dollars. The reinforced single 44 foot span will have an 18 foot wide driveway.
The vacant block at North and Filbert streets in the Eighth ward has been opened as a temporary playground for colored children. Park Commissioner Taylor will soon open a smaller section of the same plot for white boys, using the pit for summer with permission from the Capitol Park Extension Commission.
The June Bell Telephone Directory for the Harrisburg district, from Telegraph Printing and Superintendent Shirley Watts, lists 9,400 phones after adding 250 patrons since February. The new edition is larger, with more names per page and updated guidance on calls, telegrams, and rates, reflecting local service growth.
Six persons were injured in three motorcycle crashes over the weekend. Victims include Mrs Mary Denk at 345 Kelker Street with back bruises, Clyde Denk with a fractured right hand, Cornelius Denk with a bruised leg and facial lacerations, Mrs EB Hesson at 1402 North Third Street with slight injuries, L M Yost with body bruises, and William Schroeder of Mechanicsburg with a fractured right ankle. Schroeder was first injured when his motorcycle stalled on Market Street near Fourth Street and was struck by another vehicle. Mrs Hesson and Mr Yost, riding together, collided with Edwin Keister’s car at Green and Calder streets. The Denk family motorcycle collided with a jitney at Wallace and Verbeke streets. no occupants of the jitney were hurt. The Denk machine sustained light damage.
American ranchers Frank Pauline and Joseph W Carrie from the Yaqui River Valley displayed photographs in Washington showing brutally slain Americans, stripped bodies, mutilation, and ranches burned with entire crops destroyed.
Atlanta bride Lucy Hurst McGraw explains she married a Chicago man after a year of letter writing. John Kell, a jitney driver, faced Mayor Royal amid testimony he was intoxicated and claims the charges were retaliation for refusing to transport several colored men. In Annapolis, seven more midshipmen were named in the court of inquiry into the academy cribbing case.
State Health Commissioner Samuel G. Dixon received national recognition from the American Medical Association for Pennsylvania Health Department exhibits at the Panama Pacific Exposition. The message from President William L Rodman praised the tuberculosis symposium typhoid and school hygiene displays and urged a prolonged Philadelphia educational showcase.
Miss Katherine Stemer of Duncannon aged 18 and Daniel Smith aged 23 announced engagement last fall. They married April 15 with Smith propped in bed as the officiant spoke. Six weeks later she became a widow as he died, her father also dying at the same age and time thirteen years earlier.
Harrisburg hospital board of managers met for the regular monthly session. Principal items included the election of officers for the coming year, appointment of hospital staff, and routine business. H. B. McCormick served as president in the past year.
County Commissioners visited Suburban Country Club along the Hummelstown pike west of Rutherford to assess renting it as a temporary house of detention. John B. Gipple of the leasing concern accompanied them to review economy, access, and suitability. Decisions await their Friday return as they also plan to attend a state county commissioners convention and await bridge bid specs.
Joe Ready an old offender from the Soldiers Home Hampton Roads Virginia was found sleeping off a drunken stupor in a wagon at Front and Emerald streets. He walked from Virginia to Harrisburg and told the mayor of his journey. He was allowed to leave on condition he returns to Hampton Roads.
Munich Bavaria June 28 Munich the great beer drinking center has been forced to cut beer consumption as military authorities expropriate a large share of brewery output. Public supply now only one third of normal amount.
Lrma Peru June 28 news arrives of Guillermo Billingsurst former Peru president and 1912 electee who was deposed in 1914 revolution and exiled. The report also notes Charles Harman candidate for Dauphin county commissioner on the Republican ticket.
The only operation of its kind recorded in Harrisburg almshouse history was performed today by Steward 8 F Barbour and attendants on the familiar street figure known as Shoestring Pete. A stroke left him unable to freely use his hands. a severely long nail on his right great toe was cutting through his shoe. An amputation of the nail was done with a hacksaw to relieve pain and fit him for a larger pair of shoes.
Special to The Telegraph Hoboken N J June 28 Frank A Magowan former Mayor of Trenton N J and once a millionaire rubber manufacturer died today in St Marys Hospital He was taken there after asking a policeman for aid Magowan was active in Republican politics and was once mentioned for the Gubernatorial nomination He left Trenton years ago after domestic troubles and business reverses that wrecked his fortune Twenty years ago he was an influential businessman in Trenton and led in Empire Rubber Company He lived in a mansion called Magowans lolly later converted into dwellings His downfall was traced to his infatuation with Mrs Barnes Magowan then wife of one of his salesmen.
Colonel Joseph B Hutchison issued curfew warnings to Samuel Walters of Chestnut Street near Third William Parker of 25 North Tenth Street and Harry Milch ers of 616 State Street after three 13 year old boys were found asleep in Russ Hall corridor at 10 30 p m They said they had been away all day and feared going home.
Joseph Howson the official dog catcher is in jail serving four months for larceny of chickens. He will begin duties Thursday if released by July 1. Col Hutchinson says Howson is the only man who ever attended to duty, so a new catcher must be found since he won’t be out before October.
Chicago news reports Mrs Aileen Waite Whitney testified in Judge Walker's court that her husband Henry L Whitney Jr kept a book listing 100 other women. She named Bunny O Brien the Lessier woman Ruth and Mickey as correspondents in her divorce suit.
Clarence Branyan aged 17 was arrested Saturday on a charge of larceny. He gave bail for a hearing this after noon before Mayor John K Royal. Clarence Wilson aged 18 claims he lost a watch while swimming at Island Park weeks ago and met Branyan with the watch in his possession. Branyan refused to give up the watch, claiming he had bought it.
Colonel Joseph B. Hutchison and Eighth Regiment officers plan to leave July 8 for Mt. Gretna for the annual encampment from July 9 to 18. Local D and I company members depart July 9 with tent preparation details earlier July 6. Police compile lists of firework vendors amid a warning on sparklers and pyrotechnics. Three toy revolvers were taken from boys to stop frightening horses. Reports of shooting near Regina Street and Reservoir Park Saturday night yielded four revolver shots and a fruitless search for the shooters.
Mrs Elizabeth Santo aged 68 of 559 South Front street died suddenly this morning after spending the day with her husband Solomon Santo. Found dying at 2 o clock by her husband, she died before a physician could be obtained. Survived by brother Charles M Fisher and sister Miss Cecelia Fisher of Steeton. Funeral Wednesday at 3 pm, East Harrisburg Cemetery.
A New York man calling himself Ike the Inventor says he owns trained dogfish and will send a pack of sea hounds ahead of American vessels to scout for submarines in war zones. He claims Brooklyn officials will hire him and that the dogs will bay loudly upon spotting a submarine.
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