Bemornaic arom \ INK SLINGS. By Georce R. Mes. —Angels, page Mr. Bryan and tell him England has dropped the gold standard. —It looks to us as if the fine [talian hand of Max Leslie might have stuck itself into the Pittsburgh orimary. —After fifty-six years of resi- jence in this particular column of his unusual country newspaper ‘Ink Slings” are threatened with eviction. The management is thinking of rel- »gating them to page 4. Can it be ‘hat we are slipping? —In view of the fact that ‘“Broth- aw" C. C. Shuey made the run he iid for nomination for County Treas- wer it is not surprising that some » his friends are urging him to ‘un as an independent candidate. fust how the gentleman is reacting 0 the suggestions we are unable to jay, but if he should decide to do i0 Jonesy would probably quote Andrew H. Brown and say: “I'se re- usted.” —We shall not accept the an- ouncement that more mail matter iow being handled in the principal wost-offices of the country is a sure ndication that old man Depression as started back-tracking. More nail matter might very easily be he result of the thousands of boys nd girls who had gone to the ities to work writing home for unds with which to get back to a seal ticket on the farms. —The Hon. P. E. Womelsdorf, one f the also rans in the recent race or the Republican nomination for he office of County Treasurer, has ublished “A Card of Thanks” to hose who supported him. Incor- orated in it is reference to others /ho slapped his back, smoked his igars and promised things he evi- ently thinks they didn't do. He ays he has thoughts as to them aat are not fit to print. We didn't now that the distinguished Pnilips- urger ever entertained sulphuric aoughts, but since he admits that e does why didn’t he just call the eople he refers to damned liars nd let it go at that. That would ave gotten something out of his ystem and offended no one, since je woods are so full of ‘damned ars” around primary and election 1at one feels like he is out of vings unless he has been classed ith them. )istle that throws the cloak of char- y over our delinquencies. We haven't entioned our “Private Bootlegger” nce then because we thought he had stly given us up as hopeless. Can »u wonder, then, that we are thrill- | with what we have just read. y, how we would like to show it that Owen K. Adams fellow from ck Haven who skinned us so ter- oly last week. Our “Private Boot- gger” happens to be among the erati and what he says about the ‘atchman and this column in partic- ar inflates us so that we fear at we could keep the Graff or the kron afloat forever. His letter 1s personal, however, and all we el privileged to say about it is to press the hope that our attempt building in the old home field ay some day approach his in dis- nt ones. —The depression is over so far as mnsylvania is concerned. There no need of calling an extra ses. m of the General Assembly, no ed of floating a bond issue. We've t a job for everybody, whether he jobless or mot. According to the w census there are approximately a million souls in Pennsylvania. suming that there are still five every family we have two mil- n who must win bread for their pendents, Giff. and Cornelia now ve only six automobiles and six auffeurs for which the State is pay- 7. Why not provide them with e million, nine hundred and ninety- 1e thousand, nine hundred and jety-four more. That would se every Pennsylvania bread-win- r a job as a chauffeur and think w it would help the farmers by eping Henny Ford's boys out of mpetition with them in raising obages and pigs. And the liv- es the chauffeurs would need auld make the woolen business so od that maybe American Woolen iid get another president who uld work for a million a year and » steel required would certainly itify throwing a few million dol- bonuses around. The gasoline con- ned would fix that industry up so it our poor old party wouldn't be rried by the threat of “Alfalfa” 1 Murray bustin’ in and running ay with our nomination for Pres- nt. The Pinchots are giving us enty-thousand miles of roads. yuldn’t it be wonderful if we ould save the country by giving 'm enough automobiles to ride sr them in. VOL. 76. BELLEFONTE LABOR MUST BE EMPLOYED ON BOROUGH WORK. tion Passed at Regular Meeting on Monday Evening. The working men of Bellefonte are to have the preferenc on all work within the limits of the borough in the future, according to a resolution passed by borough council, on Mon- day evening, and ordered transmit. ted in writing by secretary W. T. Kelly to street commissioner W. E. Hurley and water superintendent J. D. Seibert But it will likely be up to the workman, himself, to de- termine just how rigidly the new rule will be enforced, as he will have to work when called upon to do so. The question of the em- ployment of local labor was brought up by Mr. Cobb and after discussion a resolution to that effect was in- troduced by Mr. Ardery and passed without a dissenting vote. Every member of council was present when the meeting was call- ed to order by president Walker. Fire marshal John J. Bower was in evidence and informed council that fire protection in the borough is now in such shape that efforts will be resumed to secure & reduction of fire insurance rates. The matter was referred to the Special com- mittee for cooperation. Charles R. Beatty was present and asked permission to install an additional one thousand gallon gas- oline tank under the pavement in front of the Beatty Motor company property, on High street, and the matter was referred to the Fire and Police committee. Mr. Beatty also asked that he be allowed a reduction in rent for the brick “uilding at the Phoenix mill property as he is not occupying the basement. Referred to the Water committee. O. B. Malin, chief of the Logan Fire company, was present and of- Et, aL SE. tested and unofficially reported as meeting all ents the Underwriters’ Association. He stat- ed that the old White pumper has been sold to the Westfield, Pa. fire department for $1800, which means that the borough will get a rebate of $400. So far the company has been unable to find the title to the old pumper and it is possible a du- plicate will have to be secured. Mr. Malin was uncertain as to who would stand the expense of delivery of the old pumper to Westfield. Borough engineer H. B. Shattuck was present and explained in detail his plans and survey for the pro- posed sanitary sewer down Spring creek. He suggested the laying of a vitrified clay pipe in cement as the cheapest and most durable sew- er. So far, however, no permit for laying the sewer has been received from the State Water Power and Re- sources Board, so that no action could be taken by council. A lengthy communication was re- ceived from the Bellefonte Engineer- ing and Construction company set- ting forth the reasons why council should pay a bill of $150 for the preparation of plans for the Lamb street bridge, which plans, however, had not been used. The letter was referred to the Street committee and borough solicitor. The Street committee presented the street commissioner's report of work done since the last meeting of council as well as checks and re- ceipts for $94.74. Mr. Badger also reported a very bad pavement along the Johnson property, on Logan street, which ought to be repaired, and the committee was instructed to notify Mr. Johnson. The Water committee reported va- rious repairs, the new pumping sta- tion shut down because of eels clog- ging the water wheel and collec- tions of $345.49 on water taxes, rent, etc. The Finance committee reported that the heirs of the late Mrs. Har- rison Kline had requested the pay- ment of two notes and interest, amounting to $3175.59 in order to settle the estate. Old notes amount- ing to $26,100 were presented for renewal and new notes for $8,500 authorized. Mr. Ardery stated that the Belle- fonte fish hatchery has a number of large trout, ranging in size up to eighteen inches, which have passed the days of their usefulness as breeders and he suggested trying to get some to put into Spring creek. The matter was referred to the Spe- cial committee of which he is the chairman, Borough bills amounting to $5087 and water bills for $2140.82 were approved for payment after which Says Borough Council in a Resolu- | double BASEBALL SEASON A BATTLE ROYAL Centre Hall Wins County Champion- ship from Bellefonte by Score of 5 to 4. 1000 Spectators Spend Thrilling Afternoon Watching Balls and Fists Fly. The Centre county base-ball league season closad when Centre Hall won the championship from | Bellefonte, at Hecla park, last Sat- |urday afternoon by the score of § to 4. The two teams were playing off a tie and excitement was at fever heat. The boys from over the mountain had won the first half of the league season. Our team won the second, and a play-off was necessary to decide where the pen- nant would go. The teams were each two-up and one to go in the final game. There was bad blood between them because of razzing from the bleachers that players had been giv- en in previous combats, and while none of the thousand people who went to Hecla Saturday afternoon expected what they got, they did count on a good ball game and got that too. Everything was going fine up to the beginniag of the seventh. The score was 2-1 in Centre Hall's favor and both sides had been playing airtight ball. Bellefonte raised a little ruckus over an impire's decis- ion in the 6th, but it wasn't much, because the one state policeman present ironed that out by merely appearing on the field. In the Tth, however, Centre Hall's pitcher, Martz, was trapped between second and third. In the attempted rundown he is said to have treated Bellefonte's second base-man, Paiy Torsell, rather rough. At least it was rough enough to raise Patsy's ire to the point where he forgot all about playing ball and pasted Mr. Martz one in as ie plenty of time to do because both teams and all the spectators except the state policeman and a few othe ers rushed onto the field. Among them was Jim Leitzell and, 2!! un- mindful of the lickin’ he got in the recent primary, poor Jim stepped right into a “haymaker” that Rim- mey, the Centre Hall catcher, had sent flying. And Jim probably saw votes, and stars and sheriff's badges and what not dancing around ashe went down. Then Mr. Gross, anoth- er Centre Hall pitcher, tramped on him. It was a battle royal. Fists were flying everywhere. The lone State policeman evidently knew he was helpless to cope with such a mess, so he sat on the bleachers and laughed. After everybody who had longed for a poke at someone had either fulfilled his desire or had it squelch- ed by getting one himself things cooled off and the game was re- sumed. Pitcher Martz's eye was already so bedecked with crepe that he couldn't spot the plate so the fellow was called in from the bull-pen and pitched two innings so effectively that Bellefonte lost the champion- ship. It was a great afternoon. Great in many ways. A thousand peo- ple at twenty-five cents per got into the game and left only $84.50 at the box office. There would be no difficulty in figuring out from that how many crawled under or over the fence if there had been a fence. Since the 622 who didn’t pay to see the game have registered no kick everybody evidently got their mon- ey’s worth. Centre Hall won't have to apologize to Bellefonte for treat- ting her visitors rough. Bellefonte is ditto because the game was play- ed on neutral ground. The only thing we regret is the impatience of that fellow Rimmey from Centre Hall. He might have held that punch and given our friend Jim a chance to show what kind of a Sheriff he would have made. ——Constitution day, last Thurs- day, was appropriately observed by the Bellefonte chapter Daughters of the American Revolution with a dinner at the Nittany Lion Inn, at State College, seventy-five members being presnt. Mrs. John G. Love, regent of the chapter, presided. Rev. Stuart F. Gast, rector of St John's Episcopal church, of Belle- fonte, gave a very interesting talk on “Washington and the Constitu- tion.” ——-The cabin which Mr. and Mrs. G. Oscar Gray have erected on the park grounds at Hecla was complet- ed two weeks ago and they are oc- council adjourned. cupying it now. JUDGE FLEMING NAMED AS POSSIBLE CANDIDATE FOR AUDITOR GENERAL. Political Put Him in Line for Nomination in 11982. Down in Harrisburg, where polit- ical dopesters have a knack of forecasting party candidates, Judge M. Ward Fleming, of Bellefonte, is named as a probable candidate for the nomination for Auditor General by the Republican party in 1932. Whether the Judge will respond favorably to the rumors we know not, but it must be admitted that such a nomination might have con- siderable appeal to him. By the end of next year he will have completed his 5th year as judge of Centre county, which would leave him five more years on the bench. His salary is $9,000 and for five years it would be $45,000. The term of an Auditor General is four years but the salary is $12,000, or $48,000 for the term. Thus it will be seen that in one term as Auditor General he would receive $3,000 more than he would get in his last five years on the bench, and the work would probably not be so exacting and nerve-racking. Regarding the possibility of Judge Fleming as a candidate the Harris- burg Telegraph says: ‘With respect to the Auditor Gen- , to be filled next year, a name was heard at the Capitol rday—that of Judge M. ard , of Centre county. ust who tossed the Fleming hat the is not apparent, but his name is bobbing around in State Bo circles as a likely possibil. ; was nominated for Ju Ip rth Lar riuage Senator Harry B. Scott, of Centre, who has been mentioned for Auditor General. He and Scott are close friends and political allies. Both were of the late I fo Done or roposed for Judge the year owing L 2 as 8 what Bellefonte might offer in the way of inducement if it were to lp- cate a branch mill here. W. T. Kelly, Board, made a survey as to avail- able buildings already constructed, as well as to the probability of se. curing the amount of labor to be required, which would be seventy- five at the start. The Phoenix and Gamble mill properties were listed Metal works building at McCoy's. This information was forwarded what were the “inducements” spok- en of in their first inquiry. In ed a letter stating that they will require a building with from 25,000 to 35,000 square feet of space all on one floor. This community would have to provide the building, sell $30,000 in preferred stock, give freedom from taxes for ten years and free rent of the building for one year. Those are the conditions under which Bellefonte can secure a new industry. Is the town interested in going further with the proposal? ————— A ——— JUSTICES OF PEACE PILE UP BIG COSTS FOR TAXPAYERS TO PAY. In Seventy-one Cases on Docket the Costs, $1288.85, Were Put Upon the County. The taxpayers of Centre county will have to foot a bill of $1238.85 for cases returned by various jus- Ey ats the r|the defendants being discharged and cabinet, and other administration the costs put upon the county. leaders, but he came through with | On the quarter sessions docket in flying colors. He has been ing over courts in Philadelp! and elsewhere, was formerly governor of Rotary Clubs in this district and is well known throughout the State.” d- PINCHOT LEADER HERE GIVEN NICE APPOINTMENT AT $3000 YEARLY SALARY James O. Heverly Made District Manager in Department of Labor and Industry. Faithfulness on the part of J. O Heverly to Governor Pinchot has finally brought it's reward in the shape of an appointment as district manager in the Department of La- bor and Industry at a salary of $3,000 a year. Announcement of the appointment was made on Tues- day. Mr. Heverly's headquarters will likely be in Bellefonte. The new appointee was Pinchot's campaign manager during the pri- maries and also the pre-election campaign last year. He has been one of his most faithful adherents ever since and it was generally un- derstood that he would be rewarded with an appointment of some kind. His interest in the candidacy of Har- ry Keeler, for the nomination for sheriff, which was claimed as a Pinchot victory, probably had a lot to do with bringing the appoint- |p. ment at this time. MRS. HERRON GIVEN A JOB James A. Herron, superintendent of the Huntingdon until his death two months ago, has been appointed a dietitian in the Welfare Department at a salary of £3360 a Whether she will continue to On Saturday evening he decided to burn the weeds and the fire madea light visible for some distance. The result was a kindly indi- vidual telephoned the Bellefonte fire department for help and the Logans responded. But their help was not needed as the weed fire was under perfect control. ——The population of Pennsylva- nia, as given by the 1931 census re- port is 9,631,850. It is a gain of 10% % over the 1920 report. The urban, town and city, population is 6,633,611 while the rural is 3,007, the prothonotary’s office exactly 211 entries are listed in the September sessions. This does not mean thal that number of Commonwealth re- turns had been made, as inquests, the grand jury report, etc. are all entered on the quarter sessions docket. But at that the list was by long odds the largest ever enter- ed for any court session in Centre county. And the astounding fact is that in the 211 entries are just seventy- one in which the defendants were dis- charged and the costs put upon the county. The costs ran all the way from $6.75 up to $84.38 a case, or a total of $1238.85. That is the sum the taxpayers will have to pay because of over-zealousness on the part of those whose business it is to uphold the law. A —— FIELD DEMONSTRATION MEETINGS TODAY. Field demonstration meetings at which the proper methods of select- ing seed corn will be shown have been arranged by county agent R. . Blaney for this Friday afternoon. They will be conducted on the fol- lowing farms: Wm. Clevenstine, Hecla Park, at 1:15 a. m. Ray Shearer, Centre Hall, at 4 Q m. In addition to selecting seed corn at Clevenstine’s discussion of alfal- -——The Lamb street bridge has been practically completed and will be thrown open to all traffic on October 8, which will be just twenty-one days after they started pouring the concrete. The pouring of the concrete on the bridge was finished, last Saturday, and this week the bridge crew have been smoothing it up and placing the railings on both sides of the bridge above the curb line. It is a substantial structure and should stand up under any traf- fic that will cross at that point. ——Fifteen students have left the Bellefonte high to continue their school work at the Academy, mak- ing the day enrollment at the latter institution the highest it has had in a number of years. Passaic, N. J. Concern Would Lo- cate a Plant in Bellefonte Which Would Employ 75 to Start With. Some time ago the Pontiac Silk Corporation addressed an inquiry to, subscription of $150,000 the town can the Bellefonte Board of Trade asto secretary of the as available, so was the old Titan to the Pontiac Corp., with request for more specific information as to reply to that Mr. Kelly has receiv- SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONR —State College officials have released 240 ringneck pheasants raised on the experimental farm there in co-operation with the Game Commission. ~—Three men, who ten days ago held up the paymaster at the construction job of the new county courthouse, at Reading, and robbed him of $1800, were sentenced to from five to ten years’ im- prisonment at hard labor and solitary confinement, —Pennsylvania farmers will plant thé smallest winter wheat acreage this year since the Civil war, according to the State Department of Agriculture. Farm- ers reported planning to seed 887,000 acres, just half the total area harvested “lin 1903, the high record year. —State highways and adjoining land- scape were swept clear of illegal adver- tising by maintenance forces of the Pennsylvania Department of Highways, who pulied down 36,907 tattered legends in a thirty-day campaign. The 1981 drive netted nearly 65,000 more signs than had been pulled down in the 1930 drive. . my —If Clearfield capitalists will put up - w————— secure a stainless steel plant that will employ 250 or more men. The Sterling Stainless Steel So., backed by wealthy New York interests, will put $500,000 in to the plant if Clearfield people will raise the sum named above. Investors are offered preferred stock in the new company. : —A husband who tweaks the nose of his wife is in danger of divorce. At least, so ruled Judge Albert Duiton Macdade, in Media on Monday, in grant ing a divorce to Estella P. Wallace, 33, of Chester, from Joseph Wallace, 87, of Booths Corner. The charge was cruelty. Mrs. Wallace testified her bartender hus- band often pinched her nose when he came home half-intoxicated during the early hours cf the morning. —Mrs. Carl Snavely, wife of the Buck- neil University’s football coach, was in- jured slightly near Tyrone Saturday, when Snavely’s automobile collided with a truck. The coach escaped injury, and after Mrs. Snavely received medical at- tention they continued to their home in Lewisburg in another automobile. The Snavelys are well known in Bellefonte, having lived here when Mr. Snavely was coach of the Academy football team. —A flood of silver dollars streamed down on J. W. Thompson as he was re- moving a hollow steel pipe between two cells while engaged in razing an unused police station, in Pittsburgh, last Fri day After shining them up and congrat- ulating himself on his good luck—he was informed by U. 8S. secret service agents that they were coins, all right— but fake ones, and had probably been hidden there by a counterfeiter to es- cape detection, ~—Within less than 12 hours after be- ing arrested for spot-lighting deer in Smith valley, Huntingdon county, Irvin Lamberson and Jesse Lamberson, of near Mapleton, and Fred Stewart, Mount Union, began serving a sentence of 500 days each in the Huntingdon county jail the trio of defendants were unable to pay the fines imposed. They began serv ing their sentences immediately, —J. BE. Lloyd has announced that he will discontinue his general store in Jersey Shore on or about September 28 and will remove to Rebersburg, where he will continue in the store business, Mr. Lloyd has conducted a general store in Jersey Shore for the past thirty-one years, being in his present location for the past twenty years, The removal of the New York Central Shops from Avis to West Albany, N, Y., has been a se- vere blow to business in Jersey Shore, which is probably the dominating factor in Lloyd's leaving the town, —With the completion of the Safe Harbor dam, the tremendous sum of $900,000 will have been paid out for wages. This great amount of money, locally distributed, has meant much to Lancaster and York counties and busi. ness men as well as laboring men will miss the Saturday shower of checks which for more than eighteen months have been falling weekly on that favored communi- ty. It is estimated that in the building of the Holtwood dam, Connewingo dam, Safe Harbor dam and the Columbia bridge $28,000,000 were paid in wages. —What is believed to be Pennsylva- nia’'s only gold mine is now in operation near Haneyville, Lycoming county. The gold mine is located on a tract of for est land owned by William Jacoby, and gold-bearing quartz has been discovered in several parts of the tract, The mina has been leased to J, B. Asper, rural mail carrier of Haneyville, Initial as- says of the quartz, Asper said, showed the ore running $42.91 to the ton. Asper will continue working the mine on a small scale, he says, and has hopes cf some day making ‘‘a rich strike’ on the tract. Ce ee— —Former Governor John S. Fisher is the principal incorporator of a new Wil. liamsport Manufacturing company which on Tuesday received a charter from the State Department. The company, The West Branch Corporation, has a capital stock of $6400 and is Incorporated to manufacture, sell and deal in parts and devices for automobiles, Paul O. Brosius, Lock Haven, is treasurer of the come pany and the other incorporators and number of shares held by each are: War- ren J. Bauman, Lock Haven, fourteen shares; Guy C. Brosius, Lock Haven, four shares, and John 8S. Fisher, In- diana, thirty-one shares, —Upon mutual agreement of the Board of Game Commissioners, Department of Forests and Waters, and Board of Fish Commissioners, the game, fish and for- estry laws for 1881.32 will be printed separately. Formerly all three of these laws were incorporated in cne pamphlet, In addition to the eegular game law pamphlet, the Game Commission is also preparing for distributton in the near future a simple digest of all the game laws, of a size which may be carried conveniently in a pocket. ‘This digest outlines the things which hunters may do and may not do, as well as a great deal of other information. Every law is covered in brief and simple form, and for those hunters who are interested In them merely from the standpoint of knowing them generally, the digest will prove invaluable, it is believed, Severe 5%
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