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Demorad tpan, |
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
Ink Slings,
~The fair is about over.
election.
—Don’t let any one talk you out of a
conscientions determination to vote for
Bryan.
—A vote for SaiTH for Sheriff is a vote
to put a plain, honest reputable farmer in
that office.
—Piteshurg lost the National league
base- ball championship by a nose and not a
very Roman one at thas.
—WEAVER and DUNLAP have made
good Commissioners. When men bave
made good they should be encouraged.
Vote for WEAVER and DUNLAP.
—GEORGE WEAVER is a poor school teach-
er with only one arm. He is just as fis for
the office of Register as Mr. TUTEN and
needs it worse. Help WEAVER.
— FRED SMITH is 8 man about whom no
one says anything bat good. He is astar-
dy farmer of the cleverest kind and would
make an excellent Sheriff. Won't you
support him.
~The human heart weighs from eight to
twelve ounces, but thereare lots of them
thas seem bigger, bat none of the local Re-
publican leg-pullers count Congressman
BARCLAY'S in that class.
—Don’t wake avy deals. Let that all
for the TAYLOR, BROWN, HURLEY ocombi-
nation. They are trying to deal all the
rest out and themselves in and the other
fellows are beginning to get wise.
—Now it is said that we might all live
$0 be as old as METHUSALEH, if we take
the proper care of ourselves. What's the
use. Is seems that long, anyway, to the
fellow who failed to find his affinity.
— Vote for Musser for Recorder and be
sure that the office is to be filled by a ca-
pable man. Take no chavces on incompe-
tency, the court records are too precious
for that, besides some of your own business
mighs suffer.
—They actually tell us that FINK
doesn’s know that he is licked for Treasur-
er. Why, bless your soul, GEORGE,
JorNNy MILLER had thas office cinched a
month ago. The people decided that long
ago, and you're too late.
—Founders week in the State’s greatest
eastern city, Sesqui-centennial in the
State’s greatest western city and the Fair
in the State’s greatest central town looks
as though Penosylvania ought to have
enough to amuse her this week.
—You needn’t take anybody’s word for
it if yon don’t want to. Just eend to the
commissioner’s office and get a copy of the
statement published three years ago and
the oue published last March and compare
them. That will tell youn why you should
re-elect DUNLAP and WEAVER.
—It is not a personal master, nor one of
friendship. Every honest voter should he
for MEYER for the Legislature, whether
you regard him as a friend or otherwise.
You are not voting for MEYER personally,
you are voting to have an intelligent, able
man represent yon in a place wher2 brains
aod ability count.
Next, the
~The election is not a month off now
and everyone wants to get busy, especial
ly those who are interested in sending a
man to Harrisharg who can properly rep-
resent us in the Legislature. We want
MEYER, but it will take work to help him
win over the inflaences that are back of
TAYLOR, so we urge all his friends to get
busy.
—Dr. FREAR, of The PennsylvanviajState
College, recently discussed eighty-three
kinds of breakfast foods he tested for the
government and said : ‘‘Most of them
were very good.” If the Doctor really
sampled them all State might be having in
ber corps of scientists just now a Sunny
BiLL who mighs rival she breakfast food
king ‘‘Sunny Jim.”
— Look aronnd yon and see who the peo-
ple are who are knocking on DUNLAP and
WEAVER and we will show you a sore
head. No one can take exception to their
conduct of the Commissioner’s office conse-
quently the few fellows who are again
them either wanted something they were
not entitled to or are mad becanse some
one else than their particular favorite got
fu appointment or a county job.
—No doubt you have passed over lightly
the WATCHMAN'S declaration, made a
number of times within the pass year,
that ROOSEVELT is trying to wake a close
corporation of our government, il not an
absolute monarchy. We have seen that
ambition in bis every move for the past
four years and frequently called attention
to the dangers of his repeated usurpation
of power. Possibly you didn’s think there
was much in it If you didn’t we would
like to ask yon what you think of the an-
nouncement of the Hon. NicHornAs LoNG-
WORTH, member of Congress, and Presi-
dent ROOSEVELT'S son-in-law, made at
Rock Island, Iii, on Friday? In the
course of a political speech there he said
the pian is to have TAFT for President the
next eight years and then pnt RoosEvVELT
in for eight years more. The impudence
of the declaration is only exceeded by the
daring of the men who have conceived the
plan. It would practically mean sixteen
years of ROOSEVELT in the presidential
chair, for ROOSEVELT is TAFT'S master,
and after sixteen years he would have the
country beaten into such servility thas it
would be easy for him to continue in pow-
erat will. You don’t need to take our
word for it now. You have the word of
one of the President's own family.
Roosevelt's Unpaitriotic Ambition.
The President’s son-in-law, Congressman
“Dick LONGWORTH, revealed the reasons
for ROOSEVELT'S frenzy of avxiety for the
election of TAPT, in a speech delivered at
| Rook Island, Illinois, a few days ago.
LONGWORTH who is old enough to be
trusted with family secrets and prominent
enongh to be a member of the committee
on Ways and Means of the Hoose of Rep-
resentstives, told his audience that the
present plaus of the fawily contemplate
two terms in the Presidency for TAFT and
at the expiration of that time, the-
re-election of RoosEveir. If they can't
Mexioanize the government within thas
period of time noder such circumstances,
they bave lost their cunning beyond ques-
tion.
Mr. LONGWORTH’S announcement oreat-
ed a good deal of consternation in official
circles at Washington and a day or two
after the evens, he denied it. ‘‘The pur-
pose is to re-elect TAFT and at the expira-
tion of his second term the country will
look to some other State for a President,
probably New York,’ he declares is what
he said. He adde that the audience and
not he suggested ROOSEVELT. Bat the re-
porters of the metropolitan newspapers
who were present agreed in their report.
They are among the brightest of the news.
paper correspondents of the country and
e chances are that the perpetration of so
{fine oh a blunder as misquoting the Presi-
dent’s son-in-law on such a subject would
cost them their jobs.
It may be assumed, therefore, that Con-
gressman LONGWORTH revealed a state as
well as & family secret when he told of
the plans, or it might better he character-
ized as the conspiracy, of the President to
Mexicanize the government. Everybody
who reasons at all knows what the effect
of restoring ROOSEVELT to the White
House would be. Everybody who thinks
at all knows how reluctantly he surrenders
she power even to the proxy he has chosen
to keep the seat comfortable. It will be
recalled that more than six months ago
when opposition to TAFT threatened to
defeat his plan, he declared tbat he would
yield to no other and that ‘if they didn’t
take TAFT they would have to take him,”
RoosgveLr.
ROOSEVELT meant that il he ever meant
anything in bis life. He doesn’t want to
relinquish the power of the Presidency and
he doesn’t intend so do so permanently. He
covets power as a savage animal covets
flesh and he intends to bold to it as long as
he can. TAFT has consented to serve as
his proxy fora time and when by exoes-
sive taxation the people are sufficiently
impoverished and by the exercise of favor-
itism the army and wavy have been made
sufficiently tractable, he will claim control,
not for a tern or two, bus for life, and he
will transmit the power to his sons whom
he is training to the truoulenoy that is
necessary to carry out his nefarious
schemes. ROOSEVELT is not a patriot as
many well meaning people think. Heis
ambitious for empire and will yield bis
bopes only when he has to.
Centre va. Blair,
It Centre county people want a Blair
county man to act as Sheriff for them
they will elect W. E. HUurLeEy. He has
lived and voted in this county but seven
years, and we presume that if horse trad-
ing about Philipsharg should prove un-
profitable he would pall up stakes any day
and go back to Blair county, where his
real iuterests are.
On the other hand Mr. FRED F. SMITH
is a native of the county. He has made
his living by honest and hard work on his
farm in Rash township, since he was a boy.
He has been a tax-payer in this county for
over twenty-five years, and if farmers in
this county are to be cousidered as deserv-
ing as horse jockeys and speculators, Mr.
SMITH should certainly receive the support
of every voter wha thinks so. Personally
Mr. HURLEY may be all right bot he
would bave a much strooger claim for the
sapport of Centre county voters if he had
ever done anything to deserve that support
or had lived in thé county long ecough to
be classed ae one of its people.
—-The tax-pager in Centre county who
has his own andthe county’s interest at
heart is just as certain to cast bis vote for
DUNLAP and WEAVER as he is to go to the
polls on November 3rd. These two officials
have paid off almost the entire debt that a
Republican board of Commissioners had
fastened upon the county ; have paid up
the balance due on the soldiers monument;
have reduced the actual ruvning expenses
of the county over sen thousand dollars per
year, and bave stopped all the extrava-
gance, profligacy and grafting that oharao-
terized the management of that office under
Republican control. They bave been mod-
el officials and the tax-payer who votes to
put e2w and antried men in that office,
and [fails to recognize the good work that
the present board has accomplished, is
neither just to himself nor fairto people of
the county.
! unknown to us.
STATE RIGHTS AN
The government statisticians, State and
National, are busy these days, juggling fig-
ures to prove an amazing measure of pros
perity throughout the country, notwith-
standing the evidences to the contrary.
These gentlemen are well paid public of-
ficials whose business it is to perform pab-
lic duties. Bat they are working at pub-
lic expense creating political capital for the
Republican party and perverting official in-
formation to deceive the people. In most
oases their cooked statistics are conveyed to
the public at the expense of the Associated
Press and other news agencies. In every
instance they prostitute the public service
besides misrepresenting ihe facts concern-
ing whioh shey write.
For example the government at Wash-
ington recently issued a bulletin which
purports to give valuable statistios in rela.
tion to savings banks throughout the coun-
try. It was prepared by government clerks
in the office of the Comptroller of the Cur-
rency and alter a comprehensive summa-
ry bad been sent out by the press assooia-
tion the entire balletin was distributed
through the mails unller the frank of the
treasury department. The purpose of the
balletin is to show that the loss in savings
bank deposits on account of the panio is,
comparatively speaking, tnfling. To ac-
complish that result these bogus stasissi-
cians have been compelled to resort to de-
ception but they have not besitgted to do
80.
Almost simultaneously the Bureau of La-
bor statistios of she Department of Internal
Affairs at Harrisburg issued a bulletin oov-
ering the manufacturing interests of the
State in which the highest measure of pros-
perity is claimed. Both are dishonest, of
course, and that emavatiog from Harris
burg is the worst of the two. It compares
the record of 1907 with that of 1906 and as
the panic came toward the evd of 1907, in
the midst of anexampled prosperity, the
comparison is more than favorable, it is
flattering. The Washington bulletin rus
into 1908 only as far as May and covers the
prosperous period of 1907. It shows only
a trifling loss in deposite from the savings
banks because they had not been hit much
up to that time.
The campaign managers who are steering
these bogus statisticians in their operations
must imagine that the average voter is an
imbecile if they believe that he can be fool-
ed by soch rubbish as these bulletins con-
tain. The panic of lass fall was bardiy per-
ceptible until about the holidays, thoagh it
began with the failure of the Kniokerbock-
er Trust company in New York, in Octo-
ber, and though industry was paralyzed by
the first of May, the savings bank deposits
had scarcely been touched up until that
time. Men who have savings bank ac-
connts withstand a considerable period of
idleness before they draw on their reserves,
Since May, however, deposits have been
reduced vasly and the manufacturing in-
duetries have suffered immensely since the
flush times of 1907.
—Dr. KocH, the German scientist who
discovered the tubercle bacillus, declares
that the tuberculosis of cows and the tu-
bercalosis of human kind are not the
same, hence the deduosion that it can
not he contracted by drinking the milk
or eating the flesh of affected cattle. All
the other scientists of the world seem to
be arrayed against KocH’s theory, but he
was on the job first and his opinion ought
to he worth something at all events.
Vote for the Man Who Deserves
a
If Mr. EARL TUTEN, either before his
election or since, has ever done a thing for
his party or for any individual, other than
try to look pleasant and mysterious, it is
As a nonentity, either in
politics or business, or anything that enti-
tles a man to be of some importance in
something, he would draw the prize. Why
then should any one vote for him in pref-
erence to the one armed, hard working,
honest citizen, G. F. WEAVER.
At home Mr. WEAVER, crippled as he is,
has earned for himself a position among its
foremost citizens, while Mr. TUTEN, with
all his opportunities and advantages,
amounts to uo more in the public life of
Bellefonte than if he had never been born.
Mr. TUTEN has certainly hgd all that a
Democratic county shonld give him.
——Dr. P. 8. Fisagr. for Coroner,
should bave an easy time being elected this
fall. His term of two years has been one
of the most economic of any coroner in the
county, while he has been very efficient
in rendering good service. The voters of
the county, irrespective of politics, should
see that he is re-elected.
——There is nothing to fear in support-
ing BRYAN this year. If he wanted to he
couldn’s make times much worse and we
have a sort of suspicion that his election
would make them much better,
——Thomas Howley last week parohas-
ed the stock and fixtures of the Marion
Supply company, on Bishop street, and is
now running a grooery of his own.
D FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE PA, OUTOBERS, 1008,
Republican Prosperity in Chicago,
Fifteen thousand school children starv-
ing in Chicago is she startling annoance-
ment made in she daily newspapers of
Chicago and which has brought gloom and
consternation to the managers of she Re-
publican national committee in shat city.
They have been preaching prosperity and
the “‘full dinner pail” shrough she con-
tinuance of the Republican party in power
and the maintenance of a high tariff. The
Republican newspapers of Chicago without
exoeption have given this Republican claim
the lie direct. In publishing with big
headlines the report of the special com-
mittee appointed so investigate the condi-
tions in public schools, they show that
thousands of children are suffering from
hunger and actually dying from starva-
tion in that great industrial and commer-
cial city.
Here are the headlines running across
three coluamuos of she Chicago J=fer-Ocean
a Republican paper of the rabid kind ;
“Hunger Menaces 20,0000 Pupils in City
Schools ; Many Beg Refuse to Eat.”
“Siaciling soudisious in Citieago Shows by
re nvestigating mittee, 0
Fiod Starvation Has Maoy Victims,”
45,000 Have No Meal in Morning.”
“Body Asks Food for Children, Some of
Whom Have Forgotten Taste of Batter,
Living on Dry Crusts Earned by Hero.
of Mothers, Who Go to Bed Fast.
ing.” .
The Tribune, another leading Republi-
oan journal of that city, heads its article :
‘‘Huonger Stalking io City Schools.”
‘Five Thousand Pupils Don’s Know What
a Fall Meal Means and Ten Thousand
Others are Underfed.”
The Inter Ocean begins the horrible story
telling of the starving of the little opes in
the midst of ‘Republican Prosperity’ with
the following :
“Five thousand children often go to school
breakfastiess. Fully fifteen thousand
school children of Chicago are ander-fed
and babitually hungry, Mothers go to
bed in order shat sheir children may
have food in she morning. Half clad
and crying children have heen found on
the streets begging dead fowls and rotten
fruis to eat.”
These are some of the statements in the
report on indigent children filed with the
school management committee of the board
of “ducation. :
Summarizing the canses which produce
the conditions of hunger the Tribune cites,
“lack of employment,’ and the ‘‘constant
inorease in the cost of living without a cor-
responding increase in wages’' as the chief
reasons for the horrors,
Among vumerouns instances of suffering
it gives the following :
“In Armoar school district—Father
out of work, mother sick ; not a scrap
of food in the hoase; five children,
three half naked and one garbed only
in undershirt, eryiog for bread. For
three days they had lived on tea,—no
bread, milk, or sugar.
In Jenner school district—Oune moth-
er sapports a family of four children
ou §1°50 a week sewing paute,
In Drammond school disérict—Fam-
ily of seven, No food in the house.
Father out of work. Went to lake to
commit suicide, but changed his mind
and committed misdemeanor in order
to be locked up and get prison meal.
In Sonthwestern district—Family of
#ix fonnd hungry, almost crazed by
lack of food. Had lived five days on
bread and water, and last loaf has heen
eaten for breakfast,
And these are only a few of the many
thousands of similar cases reported.
And Chicago is only one of the scores of
larger cities in the country that are feeling
the effects of the Republican panic and Re-
publican rule.
It is to that party that this condition,
with its distress and suffering, and help-
lessness is chargeable. 1t has now and has
bad for vears control of every department
of the government, and while the good
Lord has blessed the country with a full.
ness of everything that man needs, it has
by legislation so controlled the distribution
of that which should be within the reach
of every one, that only the few have plenty,
while the many are without the common.
est comforts or necessaries of life.
And yet there are those who have the
effrontery to ask the continuation in pow-
er of the party that has brought the coun-
try to the condition that the starving
thousands of our people show it to be in.
Honest voter do you not think it time to
make a change ?
—— EMANUEL KLEPPER, of Philadel-
phia, was in town shis week and a more
rampant BRYAN man yon never heard. A
BRYAN man from Philadelphia is a nov.
elty, but EMANUEL is quite a successful
contractor down there and must know
what he is talking abont when he says
they are going to oarry the 41st ward of
that city for the Great Commoner. He has
made a number of canvasses, personally,
and says he can scarcely believe himself
the wonderful change of sentiment to De-
mooracy. All of which we hope will be
justified by the results in November, but
however that may be EMANUEL’S Centre
county friends have the assurance that this
year Phifadelphians are awake and work-
ing for the great cause that we are all so
much interested in.
{| tor the people of the country to
From the Pittsburg Post.
During the intermittent a
ppearances in
these latter days Mr. Tals is permitted hy
his master to make, she traits of sabeer-
vience and vacilliation are exhibited
even more distivos detail. Before Congress
adjourned Mr. Bryan asked Mr. Tales
co-operation to indace that body to enact
a campaign fond publicisy law. Republi.
can organs chuckled because a Tals letter
to ex-Senasor Chandler was disclosed
wherein the candidate ostensibly indorsed
the idea. Bya 9 to 1 majority the steam
roller convention crushed she notion. In
bis itifiostion Spesth Mr. Tals taseried
again his personal favor toward publicity
hefore election. Now he is saddenly con-
verted, the scales fall from his eyes on his
way, not to Damascus but to Kausas, and
he accepts meekly the twisting argument
in
spawils from the Keystone.
~In the small mining town of White
Station, Indiana county, there are fifteen
cases of typhoid fever ; in Homer City there
are seven cases of scarlet fever, and in Salts-
burg there are a number of cases of diph-
theria.
~Miss Deborah Belles, aged 80 years,
living alone near Harmony, Butler county,
was drugged by two men who entered her
home on Saturday night, as she slept. They
took $400 in money, besides nearly all her
clothing.
~The Altoona Construction and Supply
company began the erection of the uew Lock
Haven hospital at Lock Haven on Monday.
General Mauager Frank Brandt is in charge
of the work, and hopes to have the structure
under roof by December 1st.
—Esarly Monday morning the residence of
the Rev, T. 8. Wilcox, district superintendent
of the Williamsport district of the Methodist
Episcopal church in Williamsport, was en-
tered for the second time within a few weeks
by burglars, but they were heard by mem-
bers of the family and fled without taking
anything.
—A fierce fire raged at Ebensburg early
Monday morning. The Central Hotel, the
two-story general building owned by Mr.
Shields, the two-story mercantile structure
owned by Biggs Hassoun and the three story
residence of C. F. Roberts were destroyed.
The firemen had a very weak stream of
water owing to the low condition of the
water supply. The loss is estimated at $25,
of Mr. Roosevelt, so generally denounced | 000
by the press. Does this give the world as-
surance ofa man, a man who bas that
Horatian quality; ‘‘tenacity of purpose ?"’
He is like clay in the potter’s hands.
At Bath, Me., he made a speech hreath-
ing the very essence of redaction of tariff
duties, though his chief had kept a tomb-
like silence for seven years, except when he
advised Mr. Watson, of Indiana, in 1906 to
stand pat. Now that Senator Crane is
trust agent as headquarters and “Sunny
Jim’ Sherman oootrols the dominans
Cannon wing of the campaign, Mr. Tals
spasmodically becomes an arrant stand.
and endorses even that socialistio
tasy of a government guarantee of rea
sonable profits. Always the opportunism
of the man bred to desk routine, $o hum-
ble bowing, without e of positive
opinion or steadfastnes« in its maintenance.
The acce of the nomination achieved
as it was, the vaocilliation shownon the
stump, the pitiable ignorance of political
facts, 80 sharply rebuked by evea his own
partisans, reveal a Taft that none can dub
statesman. . x
——
Unloading Caution,
From the Altoona Times, :
Repudiation by shree Republican aspi
rants for congress in Iowa of Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon is indicative of the in-
oreasing hostility to his re-election to a
position which he has used to stifle the
will of the people. ‘‘Uncle Joe’ is a load
that has hecome almost soo heavy for his
party to shoulder, and it need not be sur-
prising if sufficient opposition develops to
curh Bis Srvapsion ik Sadi regal power,
A bitter struggle is being waged against
Speaker Canncn in his Illinois district, bat
he is so firmly entrenched that his oppon.
ents Smpais of accomplishing his over-
throw, e next bess thing, therefore, is
dd ind of
aspirants for congressional honors an un-
equivocal pledue thas they, if elected, will
not vote for his re-election as speaker,
should the calamity of his retarn to con-
gress again be visited upon she vation.
No Republican who is in accord with
President Roosevelt can hold admiration
for *‘Uncle Joe.” He consistently and
determinedly opposed measnres advocated
by the ohief executive, and stood firm
against every relief demanded by the peo-
ple. He is the representative of special
interests, a practical, scheming politician,
the antithesis of the ideal public servant.
Every voter ought to make plain to
suppliants for his soffrage his estimate of
Speaker Cannon and urge that he not be
re elected to the speakership. As long as
he oconpies this position there is little
reason to expect that congress will be re-
sponsive to the popular will. A law unto
himself. his pleasure paramount to every
other consideration, and regarding the peo-
ple as mere dumb driven cattle, “Uncle
Joe” is eufficientiy powerful and sufficient-
ly uuscrupulons to block the most right-
eons and moss urgently-needed measures
relieving the oppressions from which the
masses are suffering.
Taft's Burchard,
From the Washington (Pa,) Record,
Blaine had his Burchard aud Taft has
his Longworth. As a sequel to the manner
in whioh President Roosevelt used the
power of his office for the nomination of
Taft for president and bas since the nomi-
nation descended from the high position of
the exalted office which he holds to the
level of a politician, dragging his dignity
in political filth, come: Mickey Longworth,
the bushand of Alice, and predicts that
they will keep Taft in the presidential
chair for eight years and then the Taft in-
fluence as president will be used to reseat
Teddy. Thus the Teddy dynasty will be
preserved for 24 years. [In ihe light of this
revelation the peculiar conduct of the pres-
ident becomes significant,
—
Happy Over the Prospect,
From the Huston Texas Post.
In this heantifnl sunkissed, dew spang-
led, zephor-swept Sabbath morning, when
the good Lord aud all his radiant angels
are with us in Heavenly Houston—the city
of Athens—it ie a sweetly solemn thought
that, after wondering in the wilderness for
years, the serene and saintly Democrats
may now trudge up the purple slopes of
Pizgah and view the Promised Land where
ripening postoffices, juicy oollectorships,
sebaceous consulships and other glorious
fruits await the coming invasion.”
Ee —— ——
“The Small Boy" in Fighting Trusts,
From the Indianapolis News,
Attorney General Bonaparte admits that
he is ‘‘the small boy’ in the fight against
the Trusts. The country would never
have called Lim that. But now that he
himself puts it that way, we suppose it
can be taken by consent. At any rate we
do not recall any Trust that has really been
busted. And certainly no truster of them
all bas ever been put behind the bars. It
is so hard, so impossible, as Mr. Bonaparte
eays, to get evidence !
~——Now be honest ! Did you ever see a
nicer, cleaner more interesting little fair in
all your life than we are having right here
in Bellefonte this year ?
~The twenty-fifth annual reunion of the
survivors of the One Hundred and Tenth
regiment, Pennsylvania volunteer infantry,
will be held in Tyrone, Friday, October 16th.
Any information desired in connection with
the same can be had by writing to the sec-
retary, G. W. Buck, Altoona, who will fur-
nish any that may be desired. Preparations
are under way to make the reunion one of
the best yet held.
—The fears of the people of Burnham,
Lewistown and vicinity, that the steel works
at Burnham would be removed, are quieted
by a letter from the office of the firm in
Philadelphia, which says that “There is no
truth whatever in the reports that we have
any intention of moving the works, selling
out or otherwise changing the present ad.
ministration of the Standard Steel works
company of Burnham.
—When Douglass J. Hyer, proprietor of
the Greensburg Fish and Poultry market on
Pennsylvania avenue, in Greensburg, pried
open a clam on Tanrsday an immense white
pearl popped out and fell at his feet. The
stone is almost three-fourths of an inch long
and fully a half inch wide, weighing forty
grains. It is worth at a low estimate about
$200. Local jewelers say it is the most per-
fectly formed gem of the kind they have
ever seen.
—Murphy & Maloney, a law firm of
Sydney, Australia, are asking for informa-
tion concerning the whereabouts of Michael
Crowley, a man said to have been employed
by the Western Union Telegraph company
between Altoona and Harrisburg several
years ago. Crowley formerly resided in
Australia and is wanted by the law firm in
order that the estate of a deceased sister may
be settled, Crowley being entitled to an in-
terest in it.
—Fishermen are having great sport at the
chute of the river dam at Williamsport these
nights gigging for eels. Monday night one
man, secured eighty-four, another one seven.
ty-two,and still others sixty-two, forty-seven
and thirty. Bushels of them are earried
away every night. The chute is dry in its
lower course and the eels come over the
brink of the dam and are left high and dry
as the water gets away through the cracks
in the planking.
—It is said that one of the largest brick
plants in Central Pennsylvanin is to be es-
tablished at Graziarville,just west of Tyrone,
by the Peunsyivania Pressed Brick Co., that
company having purchased large tract of
land st that place and intending to begin oper.
ations just as sooa as the necessary buildings
and furnaces can be built. The operations
will cover an area of two acres and will be
devoted to the manufacture of a fine quality
of shale paving brick.
—Constable W. L. Joyce, of Penfield,
Clearfield county, presented a bill for $1,179
to the county commissioners last Thursday
morning for services of men whom he had
employed fighting forest fires in Husten
township during the past month. The com-
missioners have already paid out about $1,500
and when the bills are all in it is thought
the total cost for fire fighting this fall will
amount to nearly $3,000. The state will re«
imbnrse the county two-thirds of the amount
expended.
~Last Tuesday evening an attempt was
made to destroy the barn on the Kratzer
farm, at Keewaydin, Clearfield county ; the
mules and cows were turned out of the stable
and the torch applied in three places in the
stable, which soon caught the hay overhead.
William Price, who lives in the farm house,
heard the mules out in the yard, went out to
investigate and was not a minute too soon,
for the fire was beginning to get headway.
An alarm was sounded and by prompt assist.
ance the fire was soon extinguished.
—A contract for extensive repairs and ime.
provements to the High street Methodist
Episcopal church in Williamsport was awards
ed on Thursday night und work will be
started this week. The contract involves the
remodeling of the building, painting inside
and out, papering, new pews installed, new
carpets for both the auditorium and base-
ment, and the erection of a tower, the build-
ing of an alcove for the pulpit on the south
aside of the building and the removal of a
partition and gallery on the north side.
~The most important financial merger in
the history of Westmoreland county has just
been consummated in Greensburg in the con
solidation of the Barclay Trust company and
the Westmoreland Saviogs and Trust com.
pany, which went into effect on Thursday,
October 1st. Thus the oldest and one of the
strongest banking houses in Westmoreland
county and one of the youngest and biggest
become merged into the Barclay.Westmore-
land Trust company. The consolidated com-
pany will be conducted in the present quar-
ters of the Barclay Trust company. The
Barclay - Westmoreland Trust company leaps
into the front ranks of financial institutions,
with a capital of $400,000, surplus of $300,000
and total resources of $2,500,000,