~The hail stones most effectually boxed
the ears of much of the corn in Centre
county oun Monday afternoon.
—Well, Bellefonte is playing some base-
ball these days. In truth we hear a noise
almost like the pennant flapping on Hughes
field.
— Philadelphia has really been showing
gigns of getting awake since the Athletics
lave jomped into the lead in the American
League race.
— Bellefonte pulled the school board ont
of a hole on Tuesday and some of the pauli-
ers are mad pow because the Board bas
construed the vote as ove of confidence.
—Manager CUNNINGHAM bas canned
another pitcher. It is getting late 10 the
season and that is the only wise thing to
do when they show signs of getting over-
ripe.
—HORACE wrote that ‘‘there is a sure
reward for faithfal silence.” Poor BILL
DoAK stands on the corner for a day ata
time without even hearing the tinkle of a
copper in his tin.
—The new tarifl measure begins its ex-
jstenoe without a single sincere friend,
says the Milwaukee Journal. And, we
might add that no one seems to love it for
the enemies it hus made.
—The wind at Atlantic City was so fierce
the other day that it partially disrobed a
woman. It couldn’t have been such so
terrific when you come to consider what
some of them wear at the shore.
—Little else could have been expected
ic the SUTTON case than a verdict that the
young naval officer took his own life. As
we said when the investigation was begnu.
The navy and theaimy bny their secrets.
—Mr. HARRIMAN ia coming bome from
Europe a very sick man.
the effect that be bas lost ten pounds. Bat
that isn’t a ciroumstance to what some of
the fellows lost in 1907 through taking his
dope on the market.
—*The average woman has much better
taste than the average man,”’ said Sir Wit.
L1AM RicHMOXD duriug an address at New-
castle, Eogland, recently, We presume
Sir WILLIAM basn’t been up against a
banoh of peach-basket hats yet.
—Greenshurg bas planned a clam bake
and the Connellsville Courier says ‘‘it may
be well to explain that the clams and
lobsters will be imported.” The Courier
‘tis said. How nice and what a great con-
solation this will be to the poor devils who
have to pay more for everything they eat
aud wear because Mr. TAFT was practicing
god when he should bave been making
that promise of his to see that the tariff was
revised downward.
—Dr. MeCorMICK, of Chicago, recom-
mends pie for breakfast as a oure for
dyspepsia. It is getting bim the langh in
a great mavy quarters but Pennsvalley has
been eating pie for breakfast since the days
of her earliest settlers and ——come to
think of it——we really never heard that
dyspepsia is prevalent over there.
—Considering the amount of discussion
before the event Tuesday's election was a
very tame affair. Due, probably to the
fact that there was nothing for the average
voter to do but support the new school
loan. Withont it the children would have
been without proper school facilities and,
knowing this, few persons felt like using
the little ones as a c'ub to get alter the
directors.
—The mimic war about Boston was
about as much of a “fixed” affair as il it
bad been between two crooked pugs in a
twenty-four foot ring. When they held
back one side because the other couldn’t
get there in time to attack it before it
might have gained a vantage poiot they
made a farce of a mimic war and convine-
ed the public that all they are after ie
burning up millions of dollars in blank
cartridges.
—Think of it! It costs $35,000 to make a
tweive inch gun for our government and
that amount would reclaim fifteen bundred
and seventy-one acres of arid land, mak-
ing homes for one bundred and ninety-six
people. What would you sooner do: Buy
guns and battleships to blow your money
away or make farms for the people? We
ksow what answer commen sense tells you
to make, but you are afraid tn make it, Mr.
Republican, because you are atraidjof your
party.
—The Hon. W. U., HEXSEL'S address on
“‘Historic Pennsylvania’ at the Alaska-
Yukon exposition at Seattle was exactly
what might have been expected from such
a cultivated and scholarly lawyer, but we
fear it was optimistic even beyond the
orator’s evidently hopeful view. When
Pennsylvania fulfills MILTON'S ideal of a
republic and ‘‘rousing herself like a strong
mam after sleep and shaking ber invincible
locks ‘‘even as an eagle mewing her youth
aud kindling her nndazzled eyes at the
full mid-day sun” it will be when the coal
and stone aod ores of her hills bave been
fused in the mighty furnace tbat will con-
sume all at the end of time. Then she may
become an ideal republic. In the future
of which no man knows. For then she
will be purged of the evil ones that coutrol
her now and her indifferent good will be
forced to take their proper place in gov-
ernment or answer to one w law will
be inviolable.
{ administration a campaign
Reports are to’
| adminis on, even if
by PINCHOTT are true.
yOL.5¢
Taft's Blunders and Roosevelt's Usurpa~-
- tions.
It has been practically decided that Mr.
NEWALL, chief of the reclaimation servioe
of the Iuterior Department at Washington,
will lose hie job as a resals of tbe dispute
between Chief Forester PINCHUTT and
Secretary of the Interior BALLINGER. It
ie also predicted that Secretary of Agrioul-
ture WiLsox and Mr. PINCHOTT are being
prepared for the toboggan. In face the in.
dications are that all the RoosEvELT ad-
herents in the publio service will be put
out of commission before the purpose of
their presence bas been achieved. Iu other
words the ROOSEVELT propaganda is to be
broken up before it can po<sibly accomplieh
ita mission which is to make the present
agency for
RoOSEVELT'S fatare ambitions.
Closer inquiry into the subject confirms
our conjecture of last week to the effect
that PINCHOTT'S object was less in the in-
terest of the conservation of the watersheds
of the country than the desire to exploit
ROOSEVELT. It is true that the Secretary
of the Interior bad restored to public nses
some of the public lands which ROOSEVELT
bad, jost before the expiration of bis term
of office, reserved under pretense of oon-
serving the forests. It is egnally certain
that corporations operativg in electrical en.
terprises have been trying to acquire water-
sheds in some of the territory in question.
But it is not certain tbat the chanses of
their success have heen improved by the
restoring order of the Secretary of the
Interior.
We have no apology to make for the
blunders of the TAFT administration and
no sympathy with any act or policy which
may interfere with the conservation of the
timber which 1emaivs a part of the pablic
domain. Bat the right way to conserve
the timber on public or private lands is to
remove the tariff tax on laember and open
the vast areas of Canadian forests to the
timber users of this country. Besides, as
we said last week, there is vastly more
danger to the coantry in the |
According to the
best information attainable the reservation
order of ROOSEVELT was nos only withont
authority bat in violation of law.
Our Wealth and Poverty.
An esteemed contemporary of a statistical
tarn of mind published the other day a
statement of the crops of this country lor
several years aud the statement was amaz-
ing. For something like ten consecutive
years the aggregate value of the products
of the soil has averaged something like
seven billion dollars a year,makiong a grand
total tor the decade of sevecsy billions of
dollars or a per capita of over $700 a year
for every man, woman and ohild in the
country. Such a multiplication of wealth
is without parallel in the history of the
world, It is an acoumulation of resources
far beyond the dreams of the optimists of
any age. It is simply astounding.
Bat uotwithstanding this marvelous in-
crease of national wealth the people of the
country have been suffering for vearly two
years from industrial and commercial
paralysis. With a productive capacity far
beyond the necessities of the people poverty
instead of wealth appears to be the reward
of industry and the recompense for thrift.
The people are generous livers but iudi.
vidual extravagance conld pot absorb so
much within so brief a period. The fanls
must be found somewhere else. It mast
be traced to some other source and that is
not difficult of achievement. Vicious legis-
lation and public profligacy have combined
to compass the evil consequences.
In the excessive tariff taxes the root of
the evil is planted. The late president of
the National Manufacturers’ association
estimated, in a statement to a committee
of Congress, that the DINGLEY tariff law
robbed the industrial element of the coan-
try of a million dollarsa day. A careful
investigation of the subject leads to the
conviction that his estimate is under rather
than over the actual figures. The new
tariff law iocreases instead of diminishes
this burden so that there is no hope of re-
lief for the present at least. Bat the next
congressional election wilkgive opportunity
to solve the problem. Tbe vicious policies
may be changed by altering the complexion
of Congress.
S——
Half Century Memorial Celebration.
Next year, or in 1910, it will be just
fitty years since ABRAHAM LINCOLN was
elected President and ANDREW G. CURTIN,
of Bellefonte, was elected Governor of
Pennsylvania and the fact bas been scg-
gested by a friend of the WATCHMAN that
it would be very opportune to celebrate
the doal events with special memorial ex-
ercises next year. The matter of celebrat.
ing the ball century anniversary of LiIN-
COLN'S election was brought before the
recent session of Congress and it is likely
that some action will yet be taken to make
it a national event of next year.
But Centre countians have a double rea-
{der thas she mistake might be corrected
STATE RIGHTS AN
BELLEFONTE. P30
being the aniversary of Cartio’s election
and it is nove too early to begin consider
ing such a proposition. The moss anspi-
cious time would be about regaiar Memorial
day, which will fall on Monday. In order
to make it the big event the occasion war-
rants it might be arranged as ao Old Howe
week and a celebration of she fiftieth an-
niversary of Cartins’s election combined.
As the latter is also of State importance
neighboring conuties, or people all over
the State conld be invited to join with
Bellefonte aud Centre counusy in at least
one or two days of the celebration. Such
is well worth considering by the people of
Centre conusy.
The War Game Folly.
tention of the conntry for a week recently,
accomplished vo good hus achieved its par-
pose, vevertheless. The pretense is that
such siliy performances educate the citizen
soldiery in the art of war and the National
Guardsmen of New York, Massachusetts
and the District of Columbia participated
in the sham, the regular troops assigned to
the coast defence being the antagonists,
The folly of it all was shown in the fact
that in a oritical moment the proceedings
were halted hecanse a transport which was
| $0 convey the assailing force from oue point
to another met with a mishap and failed to
reach its destination at the proper time.
In actaal war the mishaps of one cide
are the ‘‘velvet’’ of the other and if the
real purpose bad been to tustruct the troops
iu tactical maneuvering, those who bad
proved delinquent would have been oblig-
ed to pay the penalty of their fault. In
that evens the lesson of vigilance as well as
the value of ene:gy and promptoess would
have been conveyed to hoth sides. Bat
General LEONARD Woop, who never bad
any experience in real war, called a halt
upou the aotivities of the other side in or.
ip hick
The real parpose of the conflict, how.
ever, was not to teach the troops partici.
pasting in the affair anything. It was to
““bura up'’ money, and that result was
achieved with all the ‘‘pomp aud circom-
stance’’ of war, The trusts and predatory
corporations which are directivg the affairs
of the government understand the advan-
tage, to them, of an impoverished public
aod are ready as all times for enterprises
which eat up taxes and drain the resonrces
of the people who pay. The war game cost
several millions of dollars, it will be nec
essary to reimbarse the treasury in some
way for this loss and every additional bar:
deo put upon the people helps along the
scheme of subjugation.
Evil and the Remedy.
The Great
The solution of the problem ol corporate
regalation is plainly pointed out in the
platform adopted by the Democrated State
convention which met at Harrisburg on
the 4th instant and nominated the admira-
ble ticket that should be elected in Novem-
ber. ‘‘We favor the enlargement of the
powers of the Railroad Commission and the
passage of peual laws which will enforce
respect lor its decisions,’’ is the language
of that platform. If this duty is performed
by the Legislatore of Peonsylvania there
will he no necessity for the intervention of
the geueral government, and if all the
Siates pursue that policy, the government
‘at Washington will have no occasion to
concern itself on the subject.
More than ten years ago the WATCHMAN
asserted the proposition that the remedy
for corporate discrimination and rebating
was in the criminal courts. The prosecu-
tion and punishment by imprisonment of
one railroad president or corporation man-
ager guilty of this offense against the pub-
lic imterests, would work more reform
than the fining of a houdred, however
drastic the fine might be. Yet the Repub-
lican party has invariably resisted any and
all attempts at legislation looking toward
that result. ROOSEVELT himself refused to
prosecute PAuL MoRrToN, though he had
publicly confessed bis onlpability, and
punished the innocent stockholders of the
Santa Fe railroad by fine for his erime.
The constitution of Pennsylvania, adopt.
in the hands of the Legisiature the means
of correcting this great evil. Yet the
Legislature, always in control of the Re-
publican party in one or both branches, has
refused or neglected to perform this daty
to the people. The result of this negleot
is that hundreds of miliions of dollars bave
been drawn from the earnings of the peo-
ple to feed the rapacity of corporations.
We submit that the time has arrived to
rebuke this delinquency by turning out of
power the party responsible for it. The
Democratio party stands pledged to this
legislation and if the people are just to
themeelves they will give it the opportuni.
ty to fulfill the obligation.
son for holding such exercises becanse of it |
an event would be a very laudable ove avd |
The “war game'’ which occupied the at-
ed more than twenty-five years ago, placed:
D FEDERAL UNION.
The Coming Campaign.
Toe Democrats of Pennsyivania bave
never heen quite as eager to get into a
political scrimmage as they are at this time.
It is little more than three weeks since the
convention met io Harrisburg and nomi.
uated the excellent ticket which will be
earnestly supported daring the impending
campaigu and yet we hear on every side
importanities to get vo work. Usually the
bot weather drives the thoughts of political
contention out of the minds of men. But
in Peunsyivania, this year,even hot weath-
er fails to repress enthusiasm and hope of
victory combined with admiration for oar
| candidates urges party workers to activity.
It way be predicted, therefore, that the
campaign will begin early and be waged
with unusaal energy and warmth,
There are certain prelimivaries which
necessarily delay active operations in poli-
tios. Custom requires the formal nvotifica-
| tion of the candidates and arranging a
meeting for that purpose consumes consid-
erable time. Bat the arrangements for this
function are practically completed now and
before another issue of the WATCHMAN bas
| been taken from the press the meeting will
have been held. Immediately after that
event the active work of the campaign will
| be inaugurated. That is to say public
meetings will be arranged and eloquent
speakers will visit the principal centres ol
population to present the issues of the
campaign so that all voters may under.
stand. It will hea campaign of energy
worthy of the admirable candidates nomi.
nated.
But much of the more important work of
the campaign may and ought to be per.
formed belore that feature is begun. After
ail the most effective political work is that
which is performed quietly by the earnest
men of the party in the school districts. A
distinguished Senator of the opposite party
once said of a leader of the Pennsylvania
Democracy that ‘‘he never hunts with a
brass band.”” Neither excitement nor
parade is necessary to get voters registered
& re paid of
wy
hope no Democrat in this connty or State
will fail of his duty in this respect this
year.
The Gospel of Reason and Patriotism,
Mr. B. F. YoARUM, chairman of the
executive committee of the Rock Island
railroad system, gave the farmers of Okla.
homa some wholesome truths in an address
before the Farmers’ Union of that State, at
Shawnee, the other day. After declaring
that ‘‘this conntry needs what our fore-
fatbers ansed in laying its foundation--a lot
of old-fashioned common sense,’”” Mr. Yoa-
KUM proceeded to desoribe some of the
modern follies that produce misery, pover-
ty and ruin, and adds: “The same disre-
gard of value of money would send the
strongest private business in this country
into bankruptoy. * * * We wonld better
spend more of the money we burn upin
powder in making new farms.”
Mr. YoagkUM doesn’t fail to point out
some of our follies, either. ‘‘It costs §55,-
000 to make a twelve-inch gun,”’ he says,
“The money that goes to pay for this gun
would reclaim 1,571 aores of arid land,
providiog homes for 196 people. When
all the guus on all the battleships are shot
one time the government blows off in noise
and smoke $150,000. This would reclaim
more thau 4,000 acres of land, giving
homes to moire than 500 families. The
mooey consumed in powder is lost to all
future. The farmer who buys the reclaim-
ed land must pay the government back in
ten years, so it does not cost the govern:
ment anything to build up the country by
helping the farmer. We shonld make more
bomes and not so many fighting ma-
chines.”
That is the gospel of reason, of under-
standing and of patriotism. The absurd
idea that the greatness of the country is
‘measured by the number aud size of her
battleships is the product of a diseased
brain. Building battleships keeps the
people poor and dependent but contributes
nothing toward the glory of the country
or the bappiuess of a rational people. The
profligacy of the recent administration isa
oriwe against the country and the sooner
the people come to the views expressed by
Mr. YoARUM and abandon those which
are characterized as the policies of RoosE-
VELT th: better it will be for the country.
Thrift and industry should be fostered in-
stead of taxed.
~The Logan fire company ate down
in Jersey Shore attending the annual con-
veution of the Central Pennsylvania Dis.
triot Firemen's association, which convened
there yesterday. The Undines are not at-
tending io a body but are represented by a
pumber of individual members. The Lo-
gas left here in fine shape yesterday after-
poon and were headed by the new City
band.
GUST 20. Loo.
beginning of the active campaign. We ment’s experts estimate shat it
Can They Check it Out?
From the New York World.
The Republican Congressional Campaign
Committee was courting scandal when alter
the elections in 1908, it failed to issue a
etatement of the contributions so its fund.
Its persistent refusal to publish any state-
ment bas kept alive and aggravated the
scandal.
In connection with the woolen schedules
in the new tariff law the Republican ma-
! jority in Coogress is confronted with di.
| rect charges of corruption. The retention
| of the old schedules was suspicions. The
| tacties employed in keeping those schedules
| unchanged were suspicious. Taken to-
gether with the secrecy maintained by the
Republican Congressional Committee as to
the sources of ita fund they become doubly
suspicions. H. J. Hamill, of Philadelphia,
director of the Carded Woolen Manufactar-
ers’ Association, challenged the Coogres-
sional Committee to disprove the charge by
producing its accounts. But no accounts
bave been produced, no proof presented,
clearivg the committee, and the tariff deal
stands.
Until last year the party of high pro-
tection bad no trouble in financing ite cam-
paigns. Although by law the corporations
were then barred from contributing, there
was no great shortage of fonds. Against
their will the members of the National Re-
ublican Committee found themselves
orced to make public a statement of the
names of contributors and the amounts of
the contributions. With whas excellent
results the Republican Cougressional Com-
au organization of quite as much import.
ance in some respects, preserved secrecy
was shown by a Washington dispatoh to
the Sanday World yesterday. Did is re-
ceive and apply moneys which the other
committee did not care to account for in
its public report ? Did it handle the stand-
patters’ slosh fond ?
‘When a political party bas two commit-
tees collecting and disbursing money, one
of them recognizing the principle of pub-
licity and the other adhering to the old
secret methods, the worst evils of cam-
paige corruption bave not been cared. The
epulican Congressional Committee bas
long been under suspicion. It is vow
openly accused. Do the party managers
believe that they can check it out ?
The Price of Flour.
From the Pittsburg Post.
will amount
to more than 710,000,000 bushels, as against
672,000,000 bushels lass year. Aud yet we
are facing an increase of a very considerable
amount iv the price of flour. Tbe price of
this commodity was increased 25cents a
barrel Saturday by local middlemen. What
will be the increase in price to the ultimate
consumer has not been announced.
The two facts, the largely increased crops
and the largely increased price of flour, are
wholly incompatible with economic laws.
It is bard to believe that the demand for
wheat bas increased more rapidly than the
increase in the supply. When the increase
io the world’s population is given as the
reason for the advanced price of wheat, it
must be remembered that this is to be bal-
anced by the world’s crop and its increase,
vot alone by the increase in this country’s
crop.
Oane is forced to the conclnsion that not
economic laws, but the infraction of them,
is responsible for the advance all along the
line—in wheat, in flour, and in the poor
man’s loaf. Ths explanation that the
higher price of flour is due to the inability
of millers to get sufficient cash wheat to
meet requirements is not in the least satis-
factory. If wheat prices had not been sub.
jected to Sauptlation by Patten and his
trailers in the Chicago pit, would this ad-
ditional burden have been laid on the poor
wan ? Does any person believe that if the
price were regulated in normal fashion, iu
accordance with the law of supply and de-
mand, it would not be much lower?
Relegating of Berkey.
From the Altoona Times,
Governor Stuart did the proper aod pa-
tiotic thing when he removed Jobn A.
Berkey, the former Penrose boss of Somer-
set county, from the office of state banking
Som] oat. fie tna Bed been cbar-
acteriz y comspicnous incompetency,
flagrant absenteeism and political nor.
ing, that reduced its efficiency until it be-
came almost nul.
Berkey was chosen for the impertant post
from which he bas been deposed because
he was a political favorite of Senator Pen-
rese. He had practically no knowledge of
banking, a fact which was freely comment-
ed upon at the time, and which brought
about the demoralizatien of the depart.
went that had been predieted by those who
criticised his advancement.
Bavkiog interests will warmly commend
Governor for his actien in removing
Berkey, and the conduct of the depart-
ment will unguestionably improve ander
the more intelligent direction is indi-
cated by the appointment of Wiliam H.
Smith, a Philadelphian who bus bad some
experience in banking matters.
Progress of the Cow Puncher.
From E! Paso Herald.
It is mo lounger considered form to
shoot the glass insulators off of the railroad
telegraph lines in the Southwest. This
was once the popular pastime of cow punch-
ers and others who toted a brace of guns,
and the railroads kept a repair man oon-
stantly on the move along the line with a
keg of the glass knobs, replacing those that
some festive range rider chosen as his
target. The custom of shooting up the
telegraph lines is no longer in
the Southwest and the trouble men on the
roads bave their work lessened materially
because of the change in styles in the
Southwest.
You mise a good thing if you don’t
take the WAT@HMAN.
Spawis from the Keystone.
—An average of one insane person is taken
to the insane asylum every two weeks in
Clearfield county. This indicates an increase
iu this most horrible of all diseases. ’
—A New York Central train running from
Philipsburg to Muusou, last Friday, was
wrecked and the baggage car and a coach
overturned when the engine struck a cow.
Nobody was hurt.
—Charged with baviog stolen upwards of
$50,000 worth of brass valves from railroads
in the vicinity of Wilkesbarre, Edward Me~
Cormick was arrested Weduesday and held
for a bearing. He is said to have taken al.
most 3.000 valves, valued at $17 each, and
"| told them to various junk dealers.
—Indiana and Cambria counties are excite
ed over another big strike of oil. Itis om
the farm of F. B. Williams, part of which is
in both counties, and the gusher produces
225 barrels a day. Williams owns 667 acres
of land in the vicinity of the strike. Prepa-
rations are being made to sink other wells.
—Albert Kivert, the Perry county des-
perado who was captured by the aid of his
own brother, who receives a rewardjof $50
for his deed, wos discharged from the Har-
rishurg hospital where he had been removed
to recover from his wounds and was immes
diately taken in charge by the Perry county
authorities.
~The story about the big oil strike ou the
border of Indiana aud Cambria counties iss
big fizzle. The strike was said to be ou the
land of B. E. Williams, bat if he is a million
aire by lucky oil strikes, he knows nothing
about it himself and denies the whole tale.
Wells being drilled fornished the basis of
the wild reporta.
—A site in Huntingdon county in the vi-
cinity of Barree or Alexandria may be chos~
en for a state sanitorium for consump tives.
Dr. Samuel E. Dixon, head of the state
health department, and Robert 8. Conklin,
head of the state forestry department, went
over the surrounding territory locking fora
suitable location,
There is at least one crop in the vicinity of
Williamsport that is not suffering any as the
result of the drought. It is ginseng and
there promises to be a bountiful supply of
this vegetable, which is one of the hardest
on the market to raise. Ginseng sells for $8
a pound so that the growers feel sanguioe of
good returns for their troubie.
—Heilwood, Indiana county, is a new
town, which, instead of showing effects of
the recent depression in that section growing
out of the miners’ troubles, is very prosper
ous. The Peunn-Mary company has been
runuing operations day and night aud every
house in town is occupied, with tenants te
snatch up new ones just as soon as they are
completed.
—~N. G. Cole, a farmer residing near
Franklin, owes his life to a oat. He was.
sleeping beneath a tree when a four foot
rattlesnake approached bim The cat fought
the reptile and ke
pt it away from the man.
"=New sards thops ne
along the Franklin & Clewrfield railroad,
being built through the coal fields of Penn~-
sylvania by the New York Central, and Da.
Bois may get them. Officials of the Lake
Shore have made several trips over the new
line for the purpose of selecting a site for
the yards and shops, but it is not likely that
definite action will be taken for several
months
—Even if Altoona does get vatural gas
some of the little towns along the route of
the pipes may not. Ebensburg, Cresson,
Gallitzin and Patton expected to get it and
any one may be disappointed. The reason
is that the farmers ask such enormous
amounts of money for the privilege of the
right of way across their lands. Scme want
$2,000, so that if the company does lay pipes
it will take the shortest possible route.
—Benjamin M. Suyder, Jr., of Elmira, N.
Y., and Wallace Brockman Porter, of
Youngstown, O.. bave been aunouuced as
the successful candidates for the Frank
Thomson scholarships. With the addition
of these two young men, there will be six
holders of these scholarships, which amount
to $600.00 annually, aud which are awarded
upon a competitive examiuation, to tons of
employes of the Penusylvanis Railroad sys-
tem.
—Following a fight of three women in the
subui bs of Shamokin before daylight Mon-
day morning. people gathered up almost $100
which the women evidently lost from garter
purses or their stockings. After the fight
the women fled, feariug arrest. John O'Cone
ner came along and picked up $50 in a wad.
Later avother pedestrian fonud a $20 bill.
News spread that there was money Iying
around loose ou the street and a large crowd
gathered.
—A largely attended meeting of the citi.
zens of Barr towmship was held in Nick-
town, Cambria county, to discuss the good
tosds mevement, and iv this gathering the
township commissioners were urged to push
forward the movement to secure a needed
road in their township. The meeting pro-
nounced itself in favor of good reads and a
bond issue of $300,000, not paying more then
four per cent. interest, if such an issue be
necessary.
—Grange Day, Soptember 7th, will be one
of the biggest days in Huntingdon's “Old
Home Week.” Farmers from all over Hunt
jngdon county will be there and every
grange will be represented. A squad of
state constabulary will be in the town to
help preserve order aud keep the parade
routes cleared. In the industrial pageant to
be held during the week, every town iu the
county has been invited to have a float. All
the different lodges avd orders neceived a
like invitation.
~The Southern Cambria Street railway’s
lines are to be in operation by November, se
cording to promises made by the officials to
the public. The Bailey farm, uear Mineral
Point, is now the scene of activity. Here
are being built the car barns, the offices and
power house. One hundred men are at
work on the structures. The company mines
I gu own eos, not Jo yards Ho i a"
# reservoir on & near f
nishes ater. Wl steingiog of Wires il be
started t y
~ " 1 be delivered in the
Cambria
Beat fu lines.
county will be connected by electric