Demaoralif alan BY P. GRAY MEEK. Ink Slings. —The fellow who shook his winter flan- nels too soon has been shaking with the cold most of the time since. --NEELY, RATHBONE and the other rob- bers of the Cuban postal system started in promptly to teach the untutored Cubans the tricks of the Republican idea of taking care of No. 1 at all times. —Though the Boers are daily being chased closer to Pretoria they seem to still understand how to set a trap and the blundering English can’t understand how to keep out of them. — Since ALBERT EDWARD has been ad- vised by his physicians to give up the use of tobacco the chappies will probably be able to pay a little to their tailors, from the saving in cigawette money. — The sad message that came to Belle- fonte from the Philippines on Wednesday is only one of thousands that have come since this war of conquest began, yet it brings the unholy cost of it nearer home to us than any of the others have done. — With the cholera in India, the bubonic plague in San Francisco, McKINLEY in the White House and QUAY in the soup the world is rounding out the nineteenth cen- tury with a variety of troubles heretofore unequaled. —You needn’t tell us that Senator CLARK wasn’t mad when the real Governor of Montana came home and appointed anoth- er man to the seat he resigned in the Sen- ate. We know something about red-headed people. We used tobe that way ourselves. —The highest tribunal in these United States, the Supreme court, has ruled that Mr. TAYLOR can’t be the Governor of Kentucky. Now let the law abiding citi- zens of that State show that he can’t con- done and pardon murder either, as he did the assassins of Governor GOEBEL. —It was no wonder that the sailors on the Battleship ‘‘Texas’’ have been having bacchanalian sport lately. They drank the alcohol out of the shellac that was given them for the decks, after it had been color- ed with ‘‘venetian red.” With such a concoction stowed away under their blouses it wasn’t any wonder that the blue jackets should be painting things red aboard the ‘Texas.’ —Now Secretary HAMILTON wants the farmers of the State to bolster up tbeir con- fidence in him, merely because he says he is going to give the pure food and dairy business his personal supervision. But the farmers are likely to conclude that JOHN has been wrapped in oleo paper so long that he won’t be able to detect the. smell of bad butter, if it should be exuded from an ARMOR or SWIFT tub. —Between the support of the liquo dealers and the Methodists President Mc- KINLEY evidently thought the former worth most in his next presidential cam- paign and that is probably the reason he endorsed the army canteen bill, which makes bar keepers out of some soldiers and drunkards out of many of them. It is cer- tainly the reason that the general Con- ference of the Methodist church in Chicago was so barsh in its criticism of the Presi- dent. —J AMES FITZHARRIS, alias ‘‘Skin the Goat,”’ and JOSEPH MULLET, two Irish- men recently liberated from life imprison- ment for Phenix Park murders, are com- ing to this country with the expectation of having a collection taken up for them. They left Queenstown on Sunday. Such acquisitions to our population are not of a very desirable kind and the authorities ought to make Mr. JONES ‘‘Skin the Goat’’ and his pal skin out of here about as soon as they land. —Just what Mr. ALFRED AUSTIN, the bum poet laureate of England, meant by saying, in his poem on the relief of Mafe- king, that the foe retired with his ‘‘rear split,’’ people not up to military language will have their own fun in discovering. According to our idea of it HARRY BARNE’S most juvenile effort makes Aus- TIN’s jingle sound like the rattle of an oriental tom-tom up against the soft tinkle of a distant cow bell. —The Turks’ talk about blowing our vessels clear out of the water, if we go over there to make a demonstration, has about as much sense in it as some of the Spanish ante-war talk had. If Secretary LoNG were to send a few of our best boats over there the ‘‘Sick man of Europe’’ would soon be the sorriest sight the world ever laid eyes on. The Sultan will find that lickin’ into Greece and trying to carve the American Eagle are very different proposi- tions. —There has been a great falling off in the steamship bookings from this side for the Paris Exposition. In fact the slump has been so great that officials of the vari- ous trans-Atlantic lines have caused an in- vestigation to be made. The result has been to the credit of the Americans, that they do not have enough interest in Paris and her exhibit to go over there to be rob- bed by cxtortionate hotel keepers and amusement fakirs. —The Methodist general Conference has at last wakened up to the fact that the women are entitled to some recognition and henceforth the poor sisters, who have to hold festivals when their parsons need a new pair of trousers and work their fingers to the bone to pay off all the bills before his departure for Conference, will be per- mitted to occupy a back seat and join in the singing at the general Conference once in a while. Demacrtic 2G TRO J atcha STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., MAY 25. 1900. NO. 21. Is Bellefonte to Lose Her Most Promis- ing Manufacturing Industry ? It is no longer a mere rumor to be nois- ed abroad on the streets or rolled about the tongues of those who have time to discuss the business affairs of others, buta stern reality that confronts Bellefonte in the pos- sibility of remaining the home of the manu- facturing department of the Standard Scale and Supply Co., Lim. In January, 1892, the nucleus of this business that now pays $50,000 annually into Bellefonte's stores, and other channels of trade, was laid in a little building near the Valentine iron furnace. Seven men were then employed and the first steps were ones of great hazard and speculation. So carefully, however, was the infant in- dustry looked after by the young and am- bitious men who fostered it that it grew healthy and vigorous. As the product of the little plant was shipped to various points of the globe and held its own well in the field, so full of aggressive and long established competition, it became its own advertisement and was successfully pushed until the resources of the plant were over- taxed. To relieve this additions were made and the force of workmen was increased. This building up process went on all through the panicky times of 94 to ’98, never a day was lost at the works, nor was a pay behind time being disbursed, until to-day the buildings are bulging out with men and machinery and the company can- not secure another foot of ground to build further extensions on. The Standard scale is past the experi- mental stage. It is one of the established commodities of the world. The product of the Bellefonte plant can be found in the Philippines, all over continental Europe, Asia, Japan, the British Isles, Australia, Africa, Cuba, Mexico and the United States. The scale, itself, has been such a satisfactory advertisement that the firm is utterly at its wits end to build the produc- tion up to the consumption. With this condition confronting them the members of the company have decided to erect anew plant. $50,000 have been appropriated for such a purpose and on June 1st—not a day later—the location of what will be the permanent home of the Standard Scale and Supply Co. Limited manufactory will be settled. Will it be Bellefonte ? A number of other towns have made overtures to secure this industry. Some of them have advantages that Bellefonte can- not offer, but when all are carefully weigh- ed by conservative men our exceptional conservations to a high moral condition, efficiency and degree of contentment among workmen should have its effect upon the decision of the men who are taking this most important step in the history of the Standard. If the new plant is located here Bellefonte will share in its future prosperity. As stated ahove itis paying out $50,000 annually in wages; every cent of which is brought into the town from other quarters of the world. What might be the pay-roll of such an enterprise af the end of another eight years? The possibilities of the Standard are un- limited. At St. Johnsbury, Vt., the Fair- banks Scale Co. has a plant valued at $2,- 000,000, and the most rapid period of the Fairbank’s growth might be likened to a snail's pace in comparison with that of the industry now located here. The question is up to the people of Belle- fonte. ‘We have no authority for saying that any sort of an inducement will keep the Stand- ard Co. located here, but we have hopes that the best counsels of Bellefonte’s busi- ness men will be against leaving it go without making an effort to that end. At a meeting of the directors in Pitts- burg during the fore part of the week the motion was put to locate the new site at a point in Ohio, where exceptional inducements are offered. The motion was not put to a vote, out of respect to the wishes of the gentlemen from this place who are interested in the business. They ask nothing at our hands, but insisted that it would be an injustice to move the plant from Bellefonte without at least apprising her people of the conditions under which such a removal will be made. The facts are public property now. What is Bellefonte going to do about it? The time is short, there are no days of grace and if we are to build for the future, be the home of an industry that has not lost a day in eight years, employs and en- courages only the most sober and reliable types of high priced mechanics, is at pres- ent an annual profit to the business people and property holders of the town of at least $10,000 and has a business that is growing to magnificent proportions we must act at once. Don’t lament after it is gone, because something might have been done to retain it. Let us do what we can to retain it. Let us show the Standard people that Bellefonte appreciates them to-day and needs them for the future. Let the re- sponse to this business extremity be prompt and enthusiastic. An Opportunity to Halt Ring Rule. Whatever else may be the desire or pur- pose of the honest citizens of the State, at the coming election, on other political questions, it is clearly their duty to wrest the control of the next Legislature from the grasp of the state ring. Over and above all other issues or results this is most important to Pennsylvanians. Important, because we need a new reg- istration law. Because we need election statutes that will secure honest elections and a correct return of the same. Because we need an equalization of tax- ation. Because our public charities and state asylums need attention that is now de- nied them, and money of which they are now robbed. Because the opportunities for official stealing should be lessened and aid to the public schools enlarged. Because we sbould have different and more creditable representation in the United States Senate. To secure either one of these objects, if all cannot be attained, is worth more to the honor of the State and the welfare of her citizens than all the political victories that can he won through partisan preju- dice or political devotion. There is nota man in the Commonwealth, whose neck is not chafed with the collar of the boss, be he Democrat, Republican, Prohibition- ist, or whatever he may call himself, who will not admit these facts. Neither is there any one so poorly informed as to public sentiment, as to believe a united effort on the part of honest citizens of all parties to accomplish such purposes would fail, if properly started and honestly car- ried on. Why then is there not a general move- ment—an organized effort—looking to this end? This section of the State is, and we believe other sections are also, ripe for any movement that will promise the overthrow of hoss rule and ring rottenness. Every legislative district adjoining this county—Clearfield, Cambria, Blair, Hunt- ingdon, Mifflin and Union—that are counted on to.send tools of the state ring as Members to the House of Representa- tives,can be carried for reform,if the proper efforts are made in time. And it is so with two-thirds of the other country dis- tricts. But they won’t be if left to drift as they are drifting, and no attempt is made to agree upon a basis of action until the time for placing tickets in the field is upon us. The most important part of a campaign is getting started in time and in starting right. It is the duty of those who com- pose the committees recognized as the or- ganization of the party—the state and county committees—to see that this is done. Will these bodies waken up to this work and give the people the hope of overthrow- ing the ring that has robbed and disgraced Pennsylvania for years; or will they content themselves with official places without per- forming the duties expected of them, and thus allow the opportunities now present- ed to pass without effort to take advant- age of them. The people see the public drift and will hold to strict accountability those who fail in this hour of great promise of relief from ring rule. New York’s Democratic Year. This is not a moon-sign imagination, a goose-bone prophesy, a ground-hog pre- diction or a superstition of any kind. It is simply a statement of figures and facts that Democrats can take such encourage- ment out of as they see proper, and Repub- licans cry-down as they please. All the same the facts given are a part of the polit- ical history of the country, and are neither to be denied nor doubted. For thirty-six years New York has never voted at two successive presidential elec- tions for the same party. It has changed its support of party candidates as regularly as presidential elections come around. Beginning with 1864, it cast its electoral vote for A. LINCOLN, the Republican nom- inee; in 1868 it changed and voted for the Democratic candidate, HORATIO SEYMORE; in 1872, it went back to Republicanism and voted for GRANT; in 1876, it gave its solid support to the Democrats for TILDEN; in 1880, it was again for the Republicans and voted for GARFIELD; in 1884, it was in the Democratic column again and its vote made CLEVELAND'S success certain; in 1888, it turned up for HARRISON; in 1892, it was back again with the Democrats for CLEVELAND, and in 1896, its electoral vote helped swell the majority for MecKIN- LEY. Thus, in thirty-six years, it has never voted for the same political party twice in succession, when Presidents were to be elected. On these facts Democrats can build such hopes as they are disposed to. Out of them, certainly; Republicans will get but little consolation or encouragement. Under all precedents this is New York's Democratic year. And New York’s Dem- ocratic year means the triumphant elec- Yon of the Democratic candidate for Presi- ent. A Ring Nomination. It now looks very much as if Mr. QUAY’S state committee would have its first job of nominating candidates in select- ing a Congressman for the Republicans of the 25th District. The fellows who want a place on the ticket have been fighting over who is to have it for the past year, and their conferees have been meeting, and balloting, and adjourning, for weeks, with the result that they are further apart now than when they first met. The contest is a bitter one and likely to grow bitterer as it grows older, for the district is largely Republican and the desire to pluck the political plumb great. That a henchman of the state ring is sure to be the candidate chosen goes with- out saying, for if the aspirants of that faction find it impossible to secure a nom- ination from the conferees they need only continue the dead lock and Mr. QUAY’S committee will take the matter in hand and determine it. For this the new Re- publican rule provides and it was to give Mr. QuAy and his followers the choice of candidates that this rule was adopted. In this case, and in all others of the kind, the fellow who will prove the most subser- vient to the will of the boss is sure to suc- ceed. Citizen, the Opera House and the Police. The open letter which ‘‘Citizen’’ ad- dressed to Burgess BLANCHARD on Mon- day was all right, so far as suggesting the severe punishment of the thoughtless rascal who cried fire and almost caused a panic in the opera house, last Thursday night, was concerned, but it was all wrong in in- sisting that it is the duty of the Burgess to police the opera house at all. It is a pri- vate amusement enterprise for which Mr. GARMAN pays a license tax and has abso- lute jurisdiction over it, so long as he con- forms to the law. He holds out induce- ments in the way of theatrical attractions to direct the public to his house and it is his duty to see that they are properly pro- tected when once there. If the manage- ment fails to see that its patrons are com- fortable and secure from the leers of com- anew drunks, or the panic exciting cries of roistering youngsters, then such patrons are fools if they return to the place. They have no one to blame but themselves for such predicaments as they found them- selves in last Thursday night. We have no desire to criticise anyone unjustly in this connection and, therefore, state that probably manager GARMAN felt himself exempt from responsibility be- cause he had his house rented and the entertainment was not being given un- der his direction. However this may be it seems to us that the good name of his house and the patronage of the public ought to -make the matter of good order one never beyond his most careful personal supervision. “‘Citizen’s’’ foolish idea that the Burgess should have ordered all the police to the opera house last night will lead some of his friends to believe that he had some- thing doing in the outskirts that he didn’t want officers to interrupt. ——We notice that the published pro- gram for the next meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, which will be held in Lock Haven, June 6th, 8th, contains the following : “Pure Food Laws and their Enforcement,” Major Levi Wells, Harrisburg.” Under the light of recently discovered circumstances the deduction is logical that what Maj. WELLS doesn’t know about the enforcement of the pare food laws will fill a book. It will, necessarily, be inter- esting to find out what he pretends to know. But what's all this about, any- how? Maj. WELLS has been fired as chief of the department of pure food and he will hardly have the impudence to appear at the Lock Haven meeting to talk on such a subject. ——The Ministerial Association of Belle- fonte has passed resolutions condemnatory of the practice of holding funerals on Sun- day, except in cases of extreme necessity. At the last meeting, on the 23rdult.,the As- sociation passed resolutions against the practice because it interferes with regular church services and often assumes the ap- pearance of ‘ ‘sabbath desecration by turning the holy day into one of feasting and irrev- erance.”’’ Nittany valley farmers are at their wits end in the effort to stop the tree des- truction by caterpillars. The worm is un- precedented in numbers down there and it is thought the long dry spell has had much to do with it. Many fruit trees are entire- ly denuded of their foliage. ——Many fruit trees in Centre county seem to be entirely covered with the nests of the tent caterpillar. It seems strange that tree owners do not take steps to stop the spread of this destructive worm. Some orchards near town seem to be almost white with their tents. A Sensible Republican Paper’s View of the Kentucky Situation. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. _ The decision of the Supreme court refus- ing the petition of Governor Taylor, of Kentucky, for relief against his political rivals does not decide that Goebel and Beckham were honestly elected. It simply holds what everyone knew before, that every state constitution provides the final tribunal for the determination of state contests, and those final tribunals in Ken- tucky having given their decision in favor of Beckham, the United States courts can- not interfere. It is, of course, a deplorable condition of party spirit, that a decision should he made which appeared to overset the vote of the majority. There are other things that are deplorable. Itis an even more amazing exhibition that party spirit should produce the assassination of Goebel, and lead the acting Governor and Republican claimant to issue a'sheaf of pardons to everyone ac- cused of connection with the deed. Of the same grade of partisan injustice as the Ken- tucky decision is the unseating by Congress of Democratic Members with thousands of majority to their credit. With regard to such legal decisions the only way is to ac- cept them when fully made, and appeal to a public sentiment which, rightly aroused, will make absolute injustice impossible. Governor Taylor now has no course left but to yield possession of the Kentucky state government to the Democrats, as hie might wisely have done some time ago. That done there should be a union of Demo- crats and Republicans alike, to secure the honest and unprejudiced trial of those ac- cused of the assassination of Goebel, and the full punishment of whoever is proved to be guilty. Our Poorly Paid and Overworked Officials ? From the North American. - The Republican officials on the hill as Harrishurg are very much overworked. During the past six months Governor Stone, receiving a salary of $10,000, was present 97 days and absent 53. Secretary of the Commonwealth Gries, receiving in salary and fees $22,500, was present 53 days and absent 67. Attorney General Elkins, receiving in salary and fees $12,000, was present 60 and absent 60. Secretary of Internal Affairs Latta, re- ceiving salary and fees $5,200, was present 38 and absent 112. Adjutant General Stewart, receiving in salary and fees $4,600, was present 77 and absent 73. Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds Eyre, receiving in salary and fees 30.000, was present 37 days and absent pe Banking Commissioner Powers, receiv- ing in salary and fees $6,000, was present 36 days and absent 113. Insurance Commissioner Israel W. Dur- ham, receiving in salary and fees $15,000, was present 3 days and absent 147. When a conscientious Republican reads this record and considers how faithful and attentive to duty these Republican offlcials are, it will probably make him feel proud that he is a Republican. , England’s Grim Spectre in India. From the Philadelphia Record, The following report from the British Commissioner at Kherwara to the Central authorities at Calcutta, written with re- gard to the regulations governing official communications, by its very terseness and directness brings the situation in India more vividly before the mind’s eye than could long columns of eloquent descrip. tion : Kherwara— Crops—Practically nil. Water—Hardly any. Cattle—All dead. Fodder—Nil. People—Thriftless class, dead. People with small means, at the end of their resources and either on relief works or dying. Crime—Abnormal. In the rubric headed ‘‘remarks,’’ the Commissioner adds : I have tried desperately to keep the Kherwara Bazar open to all, but as I have only 6000 rupees, lent me by the Merwer at Darbar, with which to Pires grain. I have miserably failed, and hundreds come to me daily for permission to buy and have to be refused. This is merely one of thousands of simi- lar reports from administrative officers at the head of provinces and other subdivisions of India, containing a population of 50,000- 000 human beings. Imagine that the re- port from Kherwara should be true of every city, village and hamlet of the United States east of the Mississippi and that the same should also be ravaged by cholera and plague, and one would gain an insight into the awful extent of the famine and the suffering and misery in India! A Protectorate to Rob. From the York Dispatch. While the Cubans were fighting for their liberties one of the most frequently re- peated charges against Spain was that the officers she sent out to govern the colonies farmed and stole the revenues so that though they left Spain poor they returned rich. These charges were accompanied in most instances with circumstantial evidence sufficient to substantiate them and they filled the American people with indignation and disgust. We promised ourselves that when the islands were once under our care these things should cease. But they did not as is proven inthe Neely case where $100,000 is known to have been stolen from the postal funds and there is a strong proba- bility that the stealings amounted to a great deal more. President McKinley is, of course, not responsible for the dishonesty of officials sent to Cuba, but he is largely responsible for the adoption of the form of government which made such gigantic thefts possible and that form seems to be as potent in prompting Americans to betray their trusts as it was in the case of the Spaniards. The Cuban postal frauds should prove a lesson to the law-makers of this country and prompt them to drop the imperialistic idea, with its system of alien office hold- ers, before they have gone too far. If it should have this effect the $100,000 theft will prove a veritable blessing in disguise. Spawls from the Keystone. —David Louder, of Fermanagh township. Juniata county, while at work with stone masons at Duncannon last week fell from a derrick and fractured two ribs. —On Tuesday of last week while Isaiah Graham, of Long Hollow, Mifilin county was engaged in hauling telephone poles from Jack’s mountain, one of his horses kicked him on the left arm, breaking the bone about halfway between the elbow and shoulder. —Reports from Portage are to the effect that Samuel Smith, the man who went to Johnstown while in the early stages of small pox, has developed a very serious case of the disease at the house where he is isolated near Puritan. Dr. Kress, representing the Cambria county poor board, is looking after the patient. —Mrs. John Bingston, of South Renovo, was severely injured Friday afternoon by an attack made upon her by a ferocious cow. The animal plunged at her like a mad bull, knocking her down with her horns and In- juring her so severely that a physician had to be called. The lady also suffered consid- erably from the fright received. —Officials of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad Friday announced that DuBois had been decided upon for the leca- tion of immense new locomotive shops of the road. The buildings, together with the nec- essary sidings, will cover twenty acres. About 1,000 men will be employed. —Dr. C. E. Belcher, formerly of Munson, has invented an Automobile attachment, which can be applied to any common wagon, thus transforming a buggy, road wagon, de- livery wagon, surrey, hack, or other vehicle to a horseless carriage or automobile. It will be manufactured and sold in Clearfield. —Two mad dogs have for two days been biting cattle between Fairfield Centre and Huntersville, Lycoming county. An armed posse of farmers mounted on horseback have been in an exciting chase after the dogs. They came upon the animals at Rabbit’s Hol- low and killed them. The number of cattle bitten cannot be estimated. —Mahaffey, Clearfield county has a schcol board that is very ‘‘weighty.”” All the six members of that board are heavy men, their combined weight being 1314 pounds. They lay claim to being the heaviest board in the State. Their names are: D. E. Williams, secretary; H. B. Mosser, Fred Albert, Dr. Ash D. Bennett, president; E. E. Clary, Emery Mahaffey. —By a vote of 112 to 56 the convention of the Central Pennsylvania diocese of the Episcopal church at Scranton decided to divide the diocese. This action creates the northern diocese comprising the counties of Potter, Tioga, Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne, Pike, Monroe, Luzerne, Wyoming, Lackawanna, Columbia, Montour, Union, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Sullivan and Northumberland. —Seven hundred and fifty weavers in the John N. Stears & Co. silk mill struck at noon Friday at Williamsport, their grievances be- ing what they call systematic reduction of wages. The wages paid are four and one half cents a yard for luxor, satin and taffeta, and they demand that it be increased one cent a yard on all material. The weavers of taffeta were granted their demands, but re- fused to go to work until the others receive what they ask. —The shingle mill of G. B. Merrill & Bro. on Dent’s Run, Clinton county, was burned to the ground about 1 o'clock Wednesday morning. The origin of the fire is unknown. The mill had been running on Tuesday. A bucket brigade was organized, but the fire had gained such headway when discovered that it could. not be extinguished. The loss is from $1,500 to $2,000, partly insured. —While driving toward Madera Sunday, John B. McGrath, Esq., of Houtzdale, and his wife and young son, were thrown from their carriage and all seriously injured. The wheels of the carriage ran over the edge of an embankment, turning it over with the occupants underneath. Squire McGrath was hurt internally and had two ribs broken. His wife was even worse hurt, three ribs and her wrist being broken. The child got a broken leg. All are in a serious condition, but itis thought their injuries will not result fatally, —The Blossburg Oil company, in the new Tioga county field, beats the record for gush- ers. Their well No 5, Billings lease, was drilled in Friday and astonished the oil ex- perts by developing another gusher fully as large as the one struck two weeks ago. Over 1,000 barrels of oil have been put into the storage tanks within ten hours. This makes three gusher on one lease and breaks all pre- vious oil records. There is no doubt about a large new oil field having been discovered, and the busy scenes of Bradford of a few years ago will be repeated in Gaines. Bless- burg No. 4, which was the second gusher,and started off at twenty four barrels, is produec- ing better than two hundred barrels a day. The Wellsboro Gas company’s well, on lot 12 was driled on Saturday, and is good for about twenty barrels per day. —Chief Clerk Conklin, of the state forestry commission, says the unusual number of for- est fires raging throughout Pennsylvania this spring is the result of the general lack of customary spring rains and the consequent dryness of the undergrowth of the forests. The growth of leaves on the trees have been very backward and the conditions have been favorable to spread the forest fires. There are no steps that cau be taken by the forestry commission inthe direction of fighting the fires except through the fire wardens of the various townships and the county commission- ers, who are vested under the law with the responsibility of preventing the spread of the destructive flames. —The Philadelphia and Reading railway company has purchased seventeen acres from the Follmer estate and from Showers and Hoffman adjoining their lines, in West Mil- ton. It is said to be the intention of the road to erect on this land a round house capable of stalling twenty locomotives. They will also remove their car repair shops from Catawissa to West Milton. It will re- quire nearly all the land they have secured for the buildings and trackage. This will be good news to the people of Milton and West | Milton and will stimulate business in both this town and the one across the river, It will be a serious blow to Catawissa, which has depended almost entirely upon the Read- ing for its support. wl,
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