8Y PRP. GRAY MEEK.
A ——
Ink Slings,
—The spirit of reform is not created by
law. It is the product of righteousness.
~The Carroll Comedy company played
the Devil at Garmaos Wednesday night.
Really they did.
~The man who hedges bimsell about
with a spirit of antagonism will never be
able to see the truth in any argument.
—Mr. FORAKER'S days in the Seuate are
numbered, all right enough, which prob.
ably accounts for the fact that heis no
longer weighing his words.
—Between the TILLMAN pitchfork aod
the TEDDY big stick there has come a
clash that is likely to produce a riot of
language and a sarleit of liars.
~The Tenuessee night riders are to be
given a little rope-riding to do avd when
they get to the end of the line they won't
be back to terrorize any community again.
—The Tennessee Legislature has juss
passed a State-wide prohibition bill. I$
is designed to stop old JOHN BARLEYCORN
from doing any more wight riding io that
State.
—It was real mean that Toy LAwsoN
didn't have even a little Trinity or Bay
State Gas laid out for those burglars who
visited him a few nights ago and had to go
away empty handed.
~The time for the spring primaries ap-
proaches and with it the time for honest
men to look out for honest men to ran for
office. Nominate none but those whose
life reveals their fitness for the place.
— Whether the new battleship Delaware
be christened with champagne or with
water she will take to water anyway so
why all the fuss that the ‘‘wets’’ and
‘‘drys’’ of the honored Commonwealth are
making about it?
—There may be a difference between
sending a type writing machine belonging
to the government through the mails and
using a government hoat for one's personal
pleasure, but il there is it seems to be
merely a matter of who does it.
—The discovery shat it cost the govern-
ment twenty million dollars to maintain
the secret service last year makes it look
as though the discovery that BEN TiLL-
MAN bad sent a typewriter through the
mails was a pretty high priced revelation.
—Mr.
promise to give Philadelphia the post su
perb grand opera that city had ever seen.
He is now goiog one better.
Philadelphia a season of rare opera boufle,
with himself as star, caste, chorus and or-
chestra.
~Lnst Friday thirty-five hundred per-
sons were served in the free soup houses in
Philadelphia. Of course they were only
eating there becanse business was revived
with such a rush by TAFT’'s election that
the hotels and boarding houses could not
accommodate them.
—Ahoat all that one really learns from
the crimination and recrimination that is
going on in Washington is that there are
alot of men eatirely too narrow to fill wide
submerge
positions. Men who cannot
personal malice in public matters should
have no place in public affairs.
—The offer of Mr. E. T. STOTESBURY fo
thousand dollar
loan on Mr. OscAR HAMMERTYN'S new
Philadelphia opera honse insares a con-
tinuation of real grand opera for the people
of that city; that is for those who have the
It is not snoh a wonderful thing for
finance a four hundred
price.
the masses after all.
—We fail to see why 80 many papers use
the word *‘colored’”” when they refer toa
Easter eggs are colored. (A bet is
hereby recorded that within a week some
negro.
reporter even on this paper uses that
word. )—Johustown Democrat. Juss so, but
wasn't it the curse of the Lord that made
HAM black? Q. E. D. The negro is color:
ed.
—Mr. J. C. DUNCAN, of Lewistown, N.
Y., is on the program to make an address
on “Mutton Making'’ before the Pennsyl-
vania Dairy Union, at Harrisburg, on Jan-
vary 20th. As every one knows that mat.
ton making isa mere matter of allowing
the lambs to grow up, Mr. DuNcaN will
probably be talking on lamb growing and
not mutton making.
—City papers are just pow handing
around the information that the only sar-
viving daughter of the Revolution, in the
person of Mrs. HARRIET ESTES, bas just
passed away at Ithaca, N. Y. They prob.
ably don’t know that Mre. MARY ANN
ALLISON RISHEL, a daughter of a Revolu-
tionary soldier, a sister of a soldier of 1812
anu the mother of a soldier of the rebellion,
in still living and revered at Clintondale,
Pa.
—It does seem funny that ROOSEVELT
wasn’t struck more forcibly with the fact
that TILLMAN ‘‘franked’’ that government
typewriter BACK to Washington. Sending
anything back to Washington that belongs
to the government is a crime that should
bave made the whirl of the ‘big stick”
look like a sun burst. It is altogether so
unusaal to send anything back to Wash-
ington, after it is once gotten away, that
the Senator of South Carolina might well
be drawn and quartered for the pleasure of
the pusey-foot President whose administra
tion spends twenty million a year for d
teotive service and bas found out that
Senator wanted to buy some land at
government's own price.
HAMMERSTEIN made good his
He is giving
VOL. 54
The Route of The State High-way.
The WATCHMAN does zos understand
that thie proposed route of the State high-
way, recommended by Governor STUART,
to be built by the State between the cities
been located or agreed upon, or even map-
ped ous. His suggestions named but three
points, —Philadelphia, Harrisburg and
Pittsbarg—which if adopted would still
leave to those who will be charged with
wher to them would seeru best. That it
should be located where it will be of
the greatest good to the greatest
number—where counties not directly
along its live can most easily and at
the least expense build to it—where it will
touch the most central points and most
thickly populated localities, goes without
saying.
It is probable that from Philadelphia to
Harrisburg the old Lancaster pike would be
chosen as a basis. From that on there
would be great difference of opinion as to
the best and most feasible route. If Al-
toona, which is the largest town in this, the
central part of the State, was to be reached
by it, then the most direct, shortest and by
far the cheapest route to build, would be
along the line of the old Philadelphia and
Erie pike, through Perry, Juniata, Mifflin
and Centre counties, where it would diverge
up the Bald Eagle valley to Tyrone and
thence to Altoona. This route in addition
to being in the neighborhood of twenty-
five miles shorter, than it would be if bails
along the Juniata away down to Mouut
Union and then back up to Huntingdon,
would bave the advantage of having a well
graded and solid road-bed all ready to build
upon, the entire distance to Altoona with
the exception of about twenty-five miles
from Milesburg.
Or if it was thought to be important that
this State bighway should reach, and help
make more accessible, the State's largest
and most important educational ivstita-
tion—and one in which every county and
‘every section is deeply interested, the State
College—then it could diverge from the old
pike at Potters Mills, a distance of about
twenty miles west of Lewistown and cut
directly across the upper end of this coun-
ty to Tyrone and Altoona. Ol ali the routes
yes suggested this would be the most direct
aod shortest from Harrisburg to Altoona.
Another very feasible route would be
over the old Erie pike spoken of, via Lewis-
town and Bellefonte across the Alleghenies
to Clearfield, thence via whatever route
would hest accommodate the people of
western Pennsylvania. This route would
enable the counties of Huntingdon, Bed-
ford and Blair to make easy connection
with the State road at Unionville, and
would give Lycoming, Clinton, Potter,
Tioga and the connties lying along the Sus-
quebanna river, western conuection with it
at Milesburg, a distance of about fifty miles
west of Williamsport and exactly in the
centre of the State, going [rom the New
York to the Maryland live.
When the matter of the route is to he
determined—il ever it is—it is to be hoped
that only the wisest counsel will prevail
and that the best interests of the entire
State will be the controlling influence that
will fix it. Oar people want no more jobs,
no more steals. No more favoritism and
no more disgrace because of the johbery
and thieving of our public officials. Better
by far have no State highway.
Mr. President—Tos Small.
Too Small,
A quarter section of land, as surveyed
and chained off by the government contains
160 acres. For this the government price
is $2.50 per acre. Senator TILLMAN is
charged by President ROOSEVELT with an
attempt to get nine quarter sections,or 1440
acres, which all told would amount to
$3,600.
And its behind this little $3,600— (call
it steal if you will, although the South
Carolina Senator would have been required
to pay for it just as any other citizen
wonld) that the President of the United
States imagines he can hide all bis viola-
tions of the constitution ; all his outrageous
usurpations of power ; all his interference
with the rights of other departments ; all
his arrogance, his insolence and his insalts
to the Senate and Congress and through
these to the people of the country, as well
as the flagrant extravagances thas have
characterized both his public adwinistra-
tion and his private life.
For after all it is only to draw public
attention from hic own acts, that he has
seized on this TILLMAN affair,and hopes in
this way to put the Senate and Congress on
another trail.
Bat think of it. Why, that $3,600
wouldn’s hide the one twentieth part of
the graft he bas had out of a single pleasure
trip be and his family have taken down the
Potomac bay, oo the government vessel he
had fisted ap and maintains at publio ex-
pense, through all his administration for
his own private use and personal pleasure.
Oh! no, Mr. ROOSEVELT, no such a
mole-hill as $3,600 will hide your sins ard
short comings. It only shows how anxious
of Philadelphia and Pittsburg, has either |
locating the road the power to fix the route
BELLEFONTE. PA,
you are to bave public attention drawn to
some other subject, and away from the
wrongs you have committed against the
position yoa have been honored with and
the people who have honored you.
Let The Fight Go On!
While others are deprecating the un-
seemly wrangle that now promises to devel-
op into a fight to the finish between the
President, Congress, and the various de-
partments at Washington, the WATCHMAN
can see no reason for feeling badly over is,
or no cause for wishing that it may be
either stopped or settled without running
its full conrse. Out of all the fuss and
fury, the bitterness and blathering, the
suspicions and spying that are heing re-
sorted to, by and between those who make
our laws and these who are supposed to ex-
ecate and enforce them, some good is sure
to come and whatever little does, will be
that much for us to congratulate oorselves
over.
It bias been years since there has been a
general shaking up between the different
departments of the government at Wash-
ington, and now that someshing of the kind
is not only probable but almost certain,
everyone of us should join in and do our
best to help it along in every way possible
until we have such a war, such a digging
up of matters, such a layiog bare of official
sores, official wrongs and official short
comings, as the country bas not witnessed
in a century.
It will tend to the purification of every
department.
It will be a warning and a danger sigoal
to every public official.
It will be a notice to every individual
who assumes to represent, act for or serve,
the people in public capacities in the futare
that the day may come when rottenness
and wrong, incapacity and dishonesty will
be exposed, just as it promises to be at
this time; and in this way prove a check to
those inclined to do wrong aud an incen-
tive for greater effort and watchinlness on
the part of those who are disposed to do
right.
And then, it Presidential arrogance
and extravagance are curtailed, it will be
that mach for the better. If congressional
carelessness and jobbery is lessened it will
be that much for the public good. If de-
partmental insolence is checked and ioca-
pacity expoeed it will be that much wore
to the credit of the conntry and the benefit
of the public.
It may not stop all, but it will surely
end some of the wrongs that have been, and
still are, inflicted upon the country.
Let us all hope for its continnance.
Let us pray for its intensity as well as its
effectiveness.
Roosevelt's Reel in Lawlessness.
Senator CULBERTSON'S resolution to in-
quire into the relations of the President to
the absorption of the Tennessee Iron and
Coal company by the Steel trust is signifi-
cant because it will reveal the utter in-
sincerity of THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By
his own confession President ROOSEVELT
guaranteed the Steel trust managers im-
munity from prosecution or punishment in
the event of the violation of the law hy
that transaction. Judge GARY and Mr.
HexNry C. FRICK pointed out the fact that
the SHERMAN act would be violated in case
the deal was consummated. But Roose.
VELT advised them to proceed notwith-
standing the probibition of the act and
subsequently wrote the Attorney General
instructing him to refrain from prosecuting.
The President of the United States is
sworn to see that ‘‘the laws are faithfully
executed.” He has no authority to abro-
gate or suspend the operations of a law.
Alter conviotion he may order the suspen-
sion of sentence or pardon or commute.
Bat he bas no more right to make an agree-
ment in advance of the event to promise
immunity than he bas to assist in the prep-
arations for a marder or a burglary. That
being true his agreement with GARY and
FRICK was equivalent to compounding a
felony and justifies impeachment aud re-
moval from office and prosecution in the
criminal courts. It involved not only that
but marks him a perjurer. It was a
violation of his cath of office, and a
prostitation of hisjofficial authority.
President ROOSEVELT boasts of his fidel-
ity to the principle of equality before he
law. He shrieks to the galleries his im-
partiality to wealthy malelaotors. But
when multimillionaires come to him with
their schemes for plundering the people, he
readily acquiesces in their plans. This
proves that he is nos sincere. It shows
that his attempt to seize coniroi of the
business of the country was nos for the
purpose of regulating it in the interest of
the people but to gratify his lust for power
and his vanity to control. He is neither
honest, courageous normanly. His ad-
ministration has been a reel of lawless.
ness which isa disgrace to the civiliza-
tion of the country.
~The board of auditors are now at
work auditing the accounts of the various
county officers for the year 1908.
The differences between Congress and
the President bave reached au acute stage.
Neither can recede now without acknowl-
edging a fault. The President doesn’t
want to avers the impending encounter,
probably. In his absurd vanity be imag-
ines that his course is something like that
of ANDREW JACKSON. But there is a vast
difference between bis quarrel with Con-
gress and that of Old Hickory. JACKSON
was candid, courageous and truthful.
ROOSEVELT, on the other hand, is a woral
and physical coward. He is afraid to walk
across the street without half a dozen
secret service men about him. Besides
that be is a vilifier and a falsifier. No man
of bis temperament can hold the admiration
of the American people.
But the public is largely to blame for
the mental and moral infirmities of Presi-
dent RoosevELT. Ib the beginning they
applauded hie iniguities. When he made
a corrupt bargain with Quay orao advan-
tageons deal in patronage with some other
scarvy politician, the achievement was com-
mended as freely as if some meritorions
service bad been performed. Congress was
servile because Congressmen found it con-
vepient to engage in corrapt commerce
with bim in dispensing the patronage of
the government. Now we are reaping the
harvest. Drunk with usurped power
ROOSEVELT has come to believe that his
caprioces are the law of the land and some
drastic corrective measare will be necessary
to disabuse his mind of that dangerous
illusion.
Of course Congress will be obliged to ap:
ply the remedy or sacrifice every vestige of
popular respect. It makes no difference
to Speaker CANNON, naturally. Repre-
sentatives like Joux M. RevyNoLDs, of
Pennsylvania, are not outraged either. A
few official plums will reconcile him to any
indignity or outrage. But the self-respect.
ing American citizen will resent the ruf-
fianism which puts a stain upon the honor
of our law-making body. Because of this
fact there can be no compromise so far as
Congress is concerned. The President can
back down, for like all bullies he is with-
out self-respect or a sense of decency. Bat
Congress mast vindicate its honor and Con-
gressmen resent insults, The people have
no time for poltroons.
The Sprisg Primaries.
One week from tomorrow evening both
the Democratic and Republican primaries
will be held for the nomivation of eandi-
dates to be voted for at the February elec-
tion for she various horough and ward offi-
ces. The WaTcHMAN has no axe to grind
and in keeping with its polioy refrains from
advocating the rights or cisims of any can-
didate for any office prior to the nomina-
tion, as it is only fair that all should have
a free field and no favors. The only thing
we do urge is for the voters of Bellefonte
to make their fizhs at the primaries for the
nomination of good men. Do not wait
until afterwards and then reflect on your
party because the candidates nominated do
not size up to your estimation of what they
should.
There are plenty of good men in Belle-
fonte who are willing to serve the borough,
and by the time of the primaries there
will be enoogh of them that the voters will
have ample opportunity to make a very
good choice. The borongh election this
year is an important one. Every office
from burgess down to the smallest ward
office is to be filled and ouly competent
men for each and every place should be
selected. Therefore, let the voters turn
oat on January 23rd and vominate good,
strong men for the various offices.
Senator Dimeling Honored,
Senator DIMELING bas great reason for
feeling proud of the compliment paid him
by his fellows Senators and the Demooratio
members of the House as Harrisburg, last
week, in naming him as their choice for
United States Senator. As he neither
sought nor expeoted such a distinction the
fact that it came to him unsolicited
and avanimous only emphasized the goodly
feeling and enviable opinion thas those
who have learned to know him, entertained
for him. In naming Senator DIMELING for
this important position, the Democratic
Senators and Members not only honor him
bat the distrios as weil, and the WATCH.
MAN takes pleasure in extending the
thanks of the more than ten thousand
Democratic voters, who are proud to be
among his constituents, for the distinguish-
ed honor that has been shown bim and,
through him. conferred upon the district.
~———1t is leas than three years since Sena-
tor TILLMAN produced the evidence prov-
ing President ROOSEVELT'S close relation-
ship to the Honse of ANANIAS. We all
know who shese people were. Everybody
understands how natarai is would be for
them to magnify an «fort to locate a sec-
tion of land into an attempt to steal a
state, and knowing these things the general
public will be inclined to wait for the fall
returns from Oregon rather shan accept Mr.
ROOSEVELT'S report of results out there.
>
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
What Senator Tillman did was to direct
certain land agente to secure for him and
his at the government price certain desir.
able lands .thas were supposed to be for-
feited to the ment ; as he bad a per.
fect right to do unless it is considered that
senators should be withheld hy coosidera-
Sioa of caation from buying government
a.
Senator Tillman has made his explava-
tion to the Senate of the president’s aconsa-
tion and charged that it was made in mal-
ioe ; which charge is fully shown to be trae,
since that agaiost the senator is shown to
involve no criminality and to afford basis
at worst for no more than a obarge of
indiscretion, and the ground for even that
is slim.
Senator Tillman fairly criticises the pres-
ident for thus taking note of his desire to
get some 1,400 acres of government land at
the government's price, while he, as presi-
dent, has so far failed to obey the direc
tion of the law to deprive a railroad inter-
est, controlled by Harriman, who seems to
be the president’s alternate friend and foe,
of some two million acres of a land grant
which has been declared so be forfeited.
This is a fair bit and it is one to which
the president is justly open. This Till-
man incident is one very illustrative of hie
character, which leads him into any depth
of meanness and todo any degree of wrong
to his enemies, when it is safe todo it;
but which moves him to make them bed-
fellows when his own interests demand it.
He is thoroughly selfish with an eye single
to himself, and a disposition to self-service
which po imagination can estimate too
highly.
‘ Demonstrates His Malevolence.
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
The attack made by the president on
Senator Tillman is manifestly malicious.
It is evident that is bad been elaborately
prepared and pigeon-holed to be brought
out on demand. The demand came when
the president was assailed in Congress for
his use of the secret service, and was
brought out and sent to Senator Hale,
whose tardiness in publishing it made it
necessary for the president’s that
he should himself publieh is, that it mighe
come in to meet the resolutions of the
House condemning him for his imputation
upon congressmen and the utility of the
seoret service in keeping tab on the conduct
of its members,
The Tillman papers have carefully
sought to impute wrongdoing to the sen-
ator in connection with an application
made by him for land thrown open to pub-
lic entry out of a lapsed railroad grant.
Of course, it was proper for Senator Till-
man to make an entry of land thrown open
to the public for entry in payment of the
price. Tiare
This is all that he seems to have done ;
and certainly his being a senator did not
forbid his doing what any eitizen could do.
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We are of opinion that the president
will make nothing by this assault upon
Senator Tiliman save the demonstration to
the people of his small-minded malevolence.
From the Springfield Republican.
Nothing traer or more cleaving was ut-
tered in the House debate on the resolu-
tions laying ou the table the Secret Service
paragraphs of the President’s annual mes-
sage than Chairman Perkin’s remark that
‘“‘no legislative body will be respected by
the people unless it respects itsell.”” By
an overwhelming vote of 212 $035 the
House demonstrates that it will not re-
ceive from the Executive unjustifiable and
untruthful aspersions upon its honor as a
legislative body, and thus leaves no possi-
ble doubt that it will maintain its self-
respect at whatever cost.
Nor can the President’s counoter assanlt
upon Senator Tillman affect in the sligbt-
est degree the merits of the question which
the lower branch of Congress has met. The
South Carolina Senator may he a knave,
bat at least he had no fear of the Secret
Service or of official inguiry into its own
acts, inasmnch as it was Senator Tillman
himself who initiated by his own request
the Goverument investigation by postal in-
spectors which has fornished to the Presi-
dent the ammunition which he now uses
against him. If Senator Tillman, however,
or any other Senator, has disgraced the
Senate, that body will know how to deal
with him. For the Senate bas yet to act
on the issues raised by the President in
connection with the Secret Service. The
House bas vindicated itself.
The House Is Justified.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The house of representatives bas par-
liamentary jastification for adopting the
resolutions on the president’s message re-
ported by its special committee yesterday.
There are doubtless a few congressmen who
need watching and who objeot to any zeal-
ous and efficient federal secret service.
There are jobs ontside of congress. There
are men inside of congress ready to aid
them. But this did not justify the presi.
dent in his sweeping assertion, which be
has since modifiad, and both houses of con-
gress have a tangible grievance in his atter-
ances, with which each is dealing.
How Much Better 'Twounld Be.
From the Florida Times-Union.
We build Socatidg forts now. How long
before we shall build floating hospitals
instead to take the weak and sick into
summer seas on the of winter ?
Is it not nobler to millions to save
life than to epend millions in the expecta-
tion of taking it ?
~The Senior class of the Boggs town-
ship High echool will hold an ice cream
and cake festival in the ball over Wetzler's
store tomorrow (Saturday) evening. Pro-
ceeds for the benefit of the High sobool li-
brary and other equipment. The public
in general is invited to attend and all are
assured of a royal good time.
Spawls from the Keystone.
—Big preparations are being made for the
celebration in York, on Tuesday January 19,
of the one hundredth birthday anniversary
of the poet, Edgar Allan Poe.
—An epidemic of scarlet fever has appear-
ed in the twin boroughs of Pennsburg and
East Greenville, Montgomery county,
twenty cases having been reported.
—No. 2. furnace of the Pennsylvania Steel
works at Harrisburg has been started after
a year's idleness, and No. 1 Paxton furnsece
will be put in operation in a short time.
—For the first time since September 15th,
there is now sufficient water to supply all
the collieries in the Mahanoy region, Schuyl-
kill county, the recent heavy rains baving
started the dried up springs.
—Thieves broke into the Mzsonic temple
in Reading, on Tuesday night and stole offi-
cers’ jewels to the value of several hundred
dollars. The Orpheum theatre was also for-
cibly entered and a lot of articles belonging
to actors and attaches stolen.
—John Krouse, a confectioner of Lock
Haven, has an apple, in good condition, al-
though it was grown two years ago last sum-
mer. The apple was received by Mr. K rouse
over two years ago in a consignment of fruit
from the state of Washington.
~The first all-steel dining car ever built
by the Pennsylvania Railroad company was
put into service at Altoona Thursday. It
was built at the Altoona shops. The new
car is elaborately equipped and will accom -
modate 30 persous at the tables at one time.
—A record breaking shipment from the
Adams express office at Latrobe was made on
Friday morning, when fresh beef and pork,
totaling 13,900 pounds, were shipped by the
East Liberty Home Dressed Meat company,
of Latrobe, to various dealers in and about
Pittsburg.
—The voters of York will be called on at
the election in February to decide for or
against a loan of $450.000 for the completion
of its sanitary sewage system and the erec-
tion of a disposal plant. The proposition of
making such a loan last year was defeated by
the voters.
—Altoona bas been selected as the next
mecting place for the convention of the
State Association of Postmasters, which will
be held June 16th and 17th. The meeting
will be the second annual convention of the
organization, which was formed at a meeting
held last year at Harrisburg.
—The quadrennial weighing of the mails
handled by the Pennsylvania Railroad com-
pany will begin on February 1st snd contin.
ue for a period of thirty to ninety days. A
man will be stationed on every train to do
the weighing and on the result the contract
for the next four years will be made.
~—Michael Niedemeir, eighty years old, of
Altoona, a Pennsylvania Railroad company
pensioner and a veteran of the German ar-
my, while on his way to his lodging house
Wednesday night, fell into a diteh along the
sidewalk and lay there all night usnoticed
by passersby. His body was found Thursday
morcing frozen stiff.
—Joe Koltilfky, a Polander, aged about
fifty-three years, employed as a miner at
Olanta, Clearfield county, while opening a
keg of powder on Thursday was smoking a
cigarette, when a spark fell into the keg, ex~
ploding the powder and very badly burned
him about the face, body and left leg. He
was taken to Cottage hospital Philipsburg,
for treatment.
—Alleging that the jurors drank intoxi-
eating liquor during the trial, counsel for
Harry Fisher, convicted for the murder of
Miss Sarah Klinger, at Shamokin, are en-
deavoring to get another chance to make a
fight for the life of their client, They hold
that the jurymen were unable to appreciate
the value of the testimony introduced. The
jurors deny the accusation.
~The Goodyear Lumber company, of
Galeton, will during the coming summer,
remove all the timber on the Nine Mile
tract, which is located in tho vicinity of the
Farnum Lyon place, and is estimated at
twenty million feet. This means that a
great amount of work will be done in that
section during the coming year, and that the
stock of the mill at Galeton wiil be greatly
increased.
—The next annual encampment of the
Sons of Veterans of Pennsylvania will meet
in Milton in June next, and it gives every
promise of being the largest and most im-
portant meeting of the division ever held.
At a preliminary meeting in Milton a few
days ago it was announced that Governor
Stuart had consented to be there to review
the parade on Thursday, July 1st. The de~
partment officers of the Grand Army of the
Republic will also be there on that day.
—Viewers that were appointed recently to
assess the damages on the farm belonging te
the Latta estate near Derry, Westmoreland
county, by reason of taking eight acres for
constructing a sewage disposal plant thereon
by the town of Derry, met on the premises
last Thursday for that purpose. Heirs of the
estate claimed damages to the amount of $25,
000, as part of the ground is laid out into
building lots, and different witnesses esti=
mated the damages at from $300 to $20,000.
The jury’s award was $1,250. The owners
say they will appeal.
~The funerals of father and daughter,
Charles Crouse and Mrs. John Cashen, oc~
curriug at one time, was the sad service con-
ducted at the St. Bonifice Catholic church at
Williamspori, on Tuesday. The father and
daughter died on the same day, Saturday,
and their bodies were laid in the grave fol-
lowing one funeral serviee. Mrs. Cashen
died in the Williamsport hospital at noon
from an attack of Bright's disease. Her
father died that night from the effects of a
stroke of paralysis. He was proprietor of the
Junction hotel, South Williamsport.
~JIt will cost the State of Pem sylvania
about $150,000 to pay for advertising the fact
that constitutional amendments are on their
way through the legislature. Up till today
all the newspapers have sent in their bills
but twelve, and the amount totals thus far
about $147,000. The advertisements were
sent out from the office of the Secretary of
the Commonwealth and bills were rendered
to that department. These bills, however,
will have to pass inspection in the Auditor
General’s department. Every newspaper
has its own advertising rates, and in the case
of the amendments the prices range from 5
sents to 25 cents a line.
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