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“BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
—This is the
Spring.
—The candidates are all down to it
now and may the best man win.
—-LaFoLLETTE did come back, but,
happily, he landed in far off Dakota.
—One of Oklahama's delegates dropped
dead after the fight was over. Anyway,
he’s sure of getting into no more such
predicaments. .
—We fancy that if Mr. HARRISON
second morning of
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| VOL. 3%.
The Guthrie-McCormick Company.
From the beginning the pretenses of
— RII ITI
STATE
BELLEFONTE,
RIGHTS AND FEDERAL
UNION.
PA. MARCH 22, 1912.
| ateis still in control of the Republican{ _ The Parties at the Bottom of It.
machine and the veto power of the Ex-
| ecutive is yetin the hands of that party.
WALKER were elected county chairman the GUTHRIE-MCCORMICK conspiracy to | But the +
: passage of the bill through the
no one would have to tell him that he disrupt the Democratic party of Pennsyl- | House commits the Democratic party to
had forgotten to appoint his county com- ' yania have been based upon fraud and | that policy and it is reasonably certain
mittee.
falsehood. A committee which had been
| that the Senate will be Democratic in the
—If VANCE MCCORMICK is to continue | created for the specific purpose of solicit- | next Congress and the next President
to run the Democratic party in Centre ing funds for the use of the chairman of | will be of that political faith. For these
county there will be just about two more | the State Central committee, usurped the | reasons the passage of the free sugar bill
elections until Centre is as loyally Re-! power of removing the chairman and | ig a certain sign that the cost of living
publican as Dauphin.
—Mrs. EMILY DOAN JOHNSON, aged collected in packing another committee
sixty-two, committed suicide in Cleveland ' 10 consummate the fraud. No more |
for no other reason than that she thought glaring example of malfeasance in office |
she was ugly. She must have been de-
mented. No sane woman admits that
she is ugly.
———1In supporting ROOSEVELT, GEORGE
W. PERKINS, head of the Harvester trust,
is simply taking care of his own inter-
ests. Incidentally it may be remarked
that GEORGE W. usually does take care
of his own.
—In the last fifty years the light house
service of the United States has cost
$150,000,000. Statistics can’t tell us, how-
ever, how many lives have been sa
from watery graves by those signals to
the mariner.
* —The strike probability in the anthra-
cite coal regions looks a little less imi-
nent at this writing, but the situation is
not sufficiently clarified to assure you
that the price of hard coal may not be
very high by the first of May.
—What more could GUTHRIE expect
than chairman RITTER has offered him.
If he can’t come in on such a proposal
then every sincere follower he has should
desert him for the reason that he is not
sincere, himself, in wanting harmony.
—Saying that TAFT is a fitter candi-
date for President than ROOSEVELT is |
not equivalent to saying that TAPT is a
fit candidate. As a matter of fact there | 0Cracy of that
have been few weaker Presidents than |
TAFT but at that he is safer than ROOSE-
VELT.
“Boys flying kites pull in their white
__ winged birds,
But we can't do so when we are
flying words.”
Was written by WiLL. CARLETON before '
a certain ex-President of the United
States declared that he would never
again be a candidate for the office. ,
—Dr. WILEY has been proposed as a |
misappropriated the funds which it had
| has ever been known. But it was pos.
| sible because there was no rem.
| edy either in a court of law or equity.
The conspirators were secure against
punishment for the reason that they
could not be reached by legal process.
Since that they have kept up a false
| pretense of popular favor by false rep-
resentation of conditions in various places.
For example there was published, the
| other day, in the Johnstown Democrat
| and the Harrisburg Patriot, a fake dis-
patch dated Bedford, Pa., in reference to
| a recent meeting of the Bedford county
' Democratic committee. “The committee
' showed by their prompt and decisive ac-
| tion,"ythe bogus dispatch said, “that they
were decidedly progressive, favoring
| GEORGE W. GUTHRIE for chairman of the
| Democratic State committee and the big
| wing of the Democratic party he repre-
| sents.” Democrats in any community
| remote from the scene of action would
naturally imagine that the Democratic
' committee of Bedford county had declar-
led for the GUTHRIE-MCCORMICK con-
| spirators.
| As a matter of fact, however, nothing
. of the kind occurred. On the contrary
| the Bedford Gazette, the old reliable, re-
| sponsible and vigilant organ of the Dem-
county, commenting
upon that bogus dispatch says, in its last
"issue: “To the members of the committee
| from all sections of the county who were in|
attendance, as well as to all others who |
| were present, the stalement is known to be
Ia fabrication, as the name of George W.!
Guthrie was not mentioned audibly in the
meeting.” The bogus dispatch was a
deliberate and malignant lie, manufac-
tured to deceive and create a false im-
| pression that popular sympathy among
Democrats favors the conspiracy to de-
| will be reduced.
Changed Political Conditions.
.
! Only a few weeks ago TEDDY wrote to
| the seven Governors who had importun-
| ed him that “I will accept the nomina-
| tion if it is tendered to me.” The Gov-
| ernors had told him that public sentiment
| was surging in his direction in tumultu-
joe waves. Nothing could stop it, they
declared, and he reluctantly bowed to the
| inevitable. But he didn't want the office
on his own account, he inferentially
added, and wouldn't seek it. Being a
patriot, however, he couldn't see the
country going to the dogs without offer-
ing himseif as a sacrifice. It was a severe
tax upon his patriotism, but he loves the
flag, adores the people and what else
could he do? Besides, the opportunities
for graft are great and TEDDY is a
grafter.
That was the political situation three
weeks ago when TEDDY “took his pen in
hand,” to write to the Governors. He
fondly imagined that his "I will accept,”
would be sufficient. The seven Gover-
nors, the Abernathy kids and Bat Mas-
terson would do the rest. The tumultu-
ous waves of popular favor would not
only sweep him into the White House
but would swipe such ungrateful vermin
as TAFT off the face of the earth. There
could be no misunderstanding the “voices
in the air.’ They formed a vast chorus
calling for leather breeches and the big
stick and only the potent phrase of ac-
| quiescense would satisfy. But things
have changed amazingly during the
period of time which has intervened since |
i The “Coinel” is no longer waiting in
| dignified placidity for the summons to
: service. He is out with an army of scouts
land a host of “beaters” looking for it.
: He iseven going to tcke the stump to
, plead for the nomination and he will
bd
presidential running mate for Dr. WIL- stroy the Democratic party by villifying | bribe voters, stuff ballot boxes or com-
SON; the two doctors to run on a plat- | Democratic leaders who have long been |
form of "Pure Democracy and Pure
Food.” The suggestion isn't a bad one, |
but we think the platform would be vast- |
ly improved by making it MORE pure
food. |
—Dr. HARVEY W. WILEY, chief chemist |
of the Bureau of Agriculture of the Unit-
ed States, and the only man there who secure a place on the committee on Ways :
had the courage to stand between the |
people and poisoned foods, resigned on
Friday. It was no use. Men who con-
scientiously try to enforce the laws are
ment and there was nothing else for Dr.
WILEY to do but resign.
—Certainly state chairman WALTER E. |
RITTER could have made no fairer propo-
sition to the Democratic disorganizers
than is set forth in his recent letter to!
GeORGE W. GUTHRIE. It remains to be
seen whether Mr. GUTHRIE honestly
wants to reunite the party or whether
his purpose is to hopelessly divide it. If
he can’t accept Mr. RITTER'S latest pro-
posal then we are sure that some of the
followers he has who actually are sincere
will discover his hypocritical purposes
and desert him.
—The ALLENS of Virginia are destined
to prove the heroes of the paper backs
for a generation to come. The most
daring of the crimes of the JAMES boys
of Missouri scarcely had more thrills than
the tragedy that was enacted at Hillsville,
Va., last week. Shooting the judge on
the bench, the prosecuting attorney and
the sheriff in a crowded court house and
then riding away into the mountains re.
veals a daring that cannot fail to com-
mand admiration, but being done in con-
tempt of law it is a crime on the trail of |
which law must camp until every last
one of the perpetrators is made to feel
its vengeance.
—In column 1 of its editorial page on
Monday the Johnstown Democral pays a
compliment to “the influence of Mr. BrRy-
AN,” whom it has always idolized. In
column 4 of the same page it speaks of
Mr. VANCE McCorMicK as favoring “the
Peoples Power” and "being far along the
road” toward BRryanism. Though we
don't believe it we are glad that the Dem-
ocrat can be so happy in its delusion. It
was not so very long ago that Mr. Mc-
‘CoRMICK traveled all the way to Denver
“with Col. GUFFEY in order that he might
help knock the Nebraskan into “a cock-
ed hat.” And Mr. BAILEY can bet his
‘last chance of election to Congress that
“when Mr. MCCORMICK gets in touch with
“the common people they'll have to feel
the thriil through kid gloves.
faithful.
GEORGE W.' GUTHRIE, VANCE C. Mc-
CorMicK and A. MITCHELL PALMER are
obsessed with an ambition to control the
Democratic organization for selfish pur-
poses.
Speaker CLARK for President in order to
and Means and promised favors to his
Democratic colleagues in the House in
order to induce them to join him in his
| guerilla attack upon the existing organi- '
not wanted in the Agricultural Depart. | ization. GuTHRIE and MCCORMICK be- |
came willing ments in his hands in
| the expectation that he would promote
their ambitions. But the people have
grown tired of their conspiracy and now
they are resorting to lying reports to
bolster up their fraud. The Democrats
of the State will not be deceived, how-
ever. :
Cost of Living Will Tumble.
The bill to abolish the tariff tax on
sugar passed the House of Representa-
tives in Washington on Friday last by the
decisive vote of 198 to 103. Of those
voting in the negative, seven are Demo-
crats, representing the sugar cane grow-
ing constituencies of Louisiana and the
sugar beet raising constituencies of Col-
orado. Twenty-four Republicans voted
in the affirmative, being the majority of
| the group known as progressives. Every
available expedient was invoked to break
! the solid front of the majority. But
| Chairman UNDERWOOD conducted the
{ canvass so admirably that only those
| whose constituents might be adversely
effected, deserted his standard.
{| This is a real step in the direction of
! decreasing the cost of living. Sugar is
{ an absolute and universal necessity alike
to the rich and poor. Like salt it is an
essential to health and strength and the
tariff tax upon the commodity aggregates
the enormous total of $100,000,000 a year:
Divided among the consumers this may
not seem a great burden upon an indi-
vidual. But it is a singular fact that the
poor individual requires and consumes
about as much sugar annually as the
rich, while the ability to pay is not so
equal. Therefore the removal of the tax
on sugar and’ levying a tax of about equal
proportions on incomes of $5,000 and up-
ward will work an adjustment of the
burdens of government which must ap-
peal to the sense of fairness.
Of course it is not certain that this
desirable t will be accomplished dur-
ing the ent session or within the
term of the present Congress. The Sen-
So na no
mi
mit any other crime against the law to
| secure it. He wants the office. For
. more than than three years he has been
, obliged to pay his own grocery bills and
| it is just possible that on his recent trip
| to Ohio the railroad hit him for a mileage
Mr. PALMER professed to favor | book. That was the last straw that broke
i the camel's back. He must get back
| where he can graft for his living and hold
! up the railroads or the government for
| his car fare.
Guthrie Fitly Answered.
In an interview published in the Phila-
| delphia Record, the other day, Hon. WAL-
| TER E. RITTER, chairman of the Demo-
| cratic State Central committee, fitly and
finally disposed of the proposition of
GEORGE W. GUTHRIE that Mr. GUTHRIE
and Mr. RITTER together make up the
roll of the Democratic State convention.
“As a matter of fact,” says Mr. RITTER,
“the roll of delegates at the convention is
not within the power of either Mr. Guthrie
or myself to control. Under the law the
roll must be made up of those delegates who
have the certificate of election from the
County Commissioners. That ends that
part of the proposition.”
It may be safely said that Mr. GUTHRIE
never had any mental delusions on that
subject. His proposition was simply a
dishonest and hypocritical subterfuge to
deceive the public. He knows as well as
any man living that what Mr. RITTER
says on the subject is absolutely true.
But with characteristic assurance he put
forward his absurd proposition in the
hope that it would fool a considerable
number of the voters of the State into
the belief that he wants to be fair, Asa
matter of fact GEORGE W. GUTHRIE is
not fair and never has been. For more
than a quarter of a century he has been
| begging favors from the Democratic or-
ganization and whenever they have been
bestowed upon him he has proyed rec-
reant.
Some years ago he was nominated by
the Democrats of Pittsburgh for the of-
fice of Mayor and at vast expense to the
Democratic leaders, he was elected. But
when he came to distributing the patron.
age of the office the Democrats received
no consideration and machine Republi-
cans were named for all the important
appointments. This form of party treach-
ery naturally incensed Democrats who
had contributed the money and perform-
ed the work necessary for his eiection
and because they frankly expressed their
displeasure Mr. GUTHRIE has since been
opposed to the organization and has
never lost an opportunity to villify the
party leaders.
Our up town contemporary in its issue |
of this week says:
“It is up to the voters of Centre
county to choose between W. HAR-
RISON WALKER, who is the willing
tool of the GUFFEYites, (meaning
the real Democrats of the county) or
A. B. KiMpORT, who stood true to his
people at Harrisburg, (meaning those
people who are trying to create fac-
tional trouble in the party.”
It might have continued that Mr. Kim-
PORT is now riding over the county at
the expense of VANCE C. McCORMICK, of
Harrisburg, who has undertaken to boss,
politically, not only Centre county, but
the other four counties in this Congress-
ional district. It was Mr. MCCORMICK'S
money that paid Mr. KIMPORT'S expenses
when he went to Clearfield a few weeks
ago to betray the Democrats of his home
county, and to join in a conspiracy to
prevent them from securing one of the
delegates to the National Convention.
It was Mr. McCORMICK'S money that
last fall, hired men, professinglto be
Democrats, to try to split the party in
this county into factions and thus secure
the defeat of the Democratic county tick-
et.
It was Mr. McCorMICK'S money that
less than two weeks go paid the ex-
penses of Mr. I. J. Drees to Philadel-
phia to act as a self constituted chair.
man of the Twenty-first Congressional
District, at a fake committee meeting, and
sent him home a full-fledged candidate
for delegate to the State convention, to
defeat, if possible, one of the best and
most sustantial Democrats in the county.
Mr. ABRAHAM WEBER, of Howard, as del-
egate to the State Convention.
‘This is not Mr. KiMPORT'S fight at ali,
He has nothing to do with it, only to run
as the stool-pigeon of a little coterie of
men outside the county, who have oppos-
ed the Democracy oftener than they have
supported it, and who want to get in a
position to control and dictate to the
Democrats of Centre county.
Fellow Democrats, are you not able to
manage own affairs? If so you will
remember that Mr. KIMPORT 40d™Mr.1
DREESE are both candidates at the in-
stance of outside parties, and that their
expenses are being paid by these men
who seek to get hold of your organiza-
tion within the county.
——Well ROOSEVELT is adding to "the
gayety of nations,” as well as entrench-
ing in the public mind the validity of the
unwritten law against a third term, con-
secutive or otherwise. We will probably
never hear of such an ambition again
and that is something to be thankful for.
Which—Lack of Knowledge or Lack of
Truth?
The Centre Reporter advocates the reorganiza-
tion of the Democratic party in Pennsylvania be-
cause it believes the old organization impotent
and partially discredited.
It believes the old organization, that for years
has managed the Democratic party in Pennsyl-
vania, to be contented with Republican rule in
Pennsylvania, because under Republican rule a
number of them hold office, and do so without
opposition from the Republican party. Notably
among these so favored is J. K. P. Hall, who has
been re-elected to the State Senate in a Republi:
can Senatorial district.
The above we got from our Centre
Hall contemporary of last week.
While we very much dislike to think
that brother SMITH would wilfully pub-
lish what every intelligent citizen in the
county knows to be untrue, we would
much more dislike to believe that it was
ignorance on his part that led him to
base his reasons for being a re-organizer
on a supposed condition of affairs that
has neither truth nor the shadow of
truth about it.
The facts in this case are that Senator
HALL’S district, in place of being “a Re-
publican Senatorial ” as Mr,
SMITH alleges, is the second surest and
strongest Democratic district in the State,
but one—that of Berks county—being
more certainly Democratic. It is com-
posed of the counties of Clarion, Elk,
Clinton, Cameron and Forest—counties
that have a normal Democratic majority
of over 1500, and which, at times have
given Democratic candidates as high as
3,000 Democratic majority. :
As an editor our friend Mr. SMITH
ought to know this fact. If he does then
his statement must be written down as a
wilfull misrepresentation, made for the
purpose of deceiving theLhonest Demo-
crats who read and rely upon his paper
for information on matters in which they
are interested, and about on a par with
the usual stuff the little coterie of dis-
organizers, of which he styles himself
one, are sending all over the State.
If he does not know it—that’s another
need of a political schoolmaster for some
people who are trying to pose as political
lights to show the way tor Democratic
voters to walk.
Honest Injun, Wes, didn't you know
any better ?
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! Resignation of Dr. Wiley.
and
t it must be admit-
8
It paralyzes industry
Yation. It should not be lightly consider-
stitute for coal, some means of su
Bea}, light and power ind
Has No More Chance Than a Dead One.
From the St. Louis Republic.
Mr. Roosevelt never quotes any
accurately. In the same in
marks on the Dread Scott
Emancipator cannot?
published it, because he admits that he
WAHTCMAN hereby extends to Mr. WALK-
ER the use of its columns for the publi-
cation of the letter in question because it
with him in declining to publish his
communication after assuring him that
he would.
——George N. Fisher, of Boalsburg,
came to Bellefonte on Monday morning
and threw consternation into the local
Republican organization camp by filing
his papers as a candidate for delegate to
the State convention and declaring him-
self as out and out for Roosevelt for
President. Mr. Fisher will make his
fight under the Roosevelt standard and
pledges himself to stand by the Rough
Rider in the State convention should he
be elected to represent Centre county in
that body.
——The food adulterers and the official
conspirators have at last succeeded in
getting Dr. WILEY out of the Bureau of
Chemistry in Washington but they will
never get the memory of his faithful
service out of the minds of the people.
If President TAFT had committed no oth-
er crime against the public his aid in
the attack on Dr. WILEY ought to con-
demn him to defeat next fall.
——With GeorGE W. GUTHRIE and
Vance C. McCormick in control of the
Democratic organization of Pennsylva.
nia the Geld-bugs of 1896 would feel that
their recreancy had not been in vain.
——The Philadelphia North American
is still for RooseveLT but the North
American would rather be wrong than be
President.
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It is time that science provided a sub-
pendent oF
Mr. Taft complains that Mr. Roose-
velt did not quote him accurately, but
he did an injustice to Mr. Taft he muti.
lated some of Abraham Lincoln's re-
decision. Does
Mr. Taft expect to escape when the
——Naturally a great many people
must be curious to know just what was
in the letter W. HARRISON WALKER wrote
to the editor of the Centre Democrat. It
must have contained something that
didn’t suit Mr. KURTZ else he would have
asked Mr. WALKER to write it. The
feels that Mr. KURTX has not dealt fairly
—After an idleness of several months work has
been resumed in the Carbon silk mill, Lehighton.
—Large and populous as Montgomery county
is, not a single marriage license was issued within
its bounds for an entire week.
~The board of censors appointed to investigate
the charges against A. L. Cole Esq., a Clearfield
county lawyer, completely vindicated the gen-
tleman.
—Mrs. Rachel Wiley, of Saltsburg. who cele-
brated her 106th birthday on Sunday, is thought
to be the oldest woman in the State. She is un-
able to get around on account of » fall some time
ago.
—Morris township, Clearfield county, is going
to vote on the question of bonding the township
for $39,600 to built new school houses at Munson
and Allport and improve the building at Morris-
dale.
~The Osceola Silica Brick company is expect-
ing the present month to be the banner one thus
far in the history of the plant. The prospects are
that the manufacture and shipment of brick will
reach fully 700,000.
ed will not satisfy the in whose —Twenty-one white tail deerarrived at Li
Ligonier
belialf he has labored so nan years. He. . \fichiganon Monday. Theyscemed nervous
after their long journey and will be given especial
caze until they learn to be at home on the Laure]
Ridge game preserve.
~—A Sunbury lumber company is arranging to
of | clear off all the remaining timber on the 20,000
acres extending from Clearfield to Karthaus. It
is expected that at least 40,000,000 feet of lumber
will be obtained in this “Clean-up.”
—Mrs. Anthony Strong, aged 53 years, of Phil-
ipsburg, was found dead in bed a few days ago.
enemies he has made.” He has done | Her husband is sadly bereaved, being left alone
Soe than auy other individual in the | and helpless. Some years ago he had both legs
gounry for the safeguarding of the pub- ' amputated because of having them frozen.
lic health by his warfare on impure food | _George Apsley. Lock Haven's oldest resident,
products. Those who cheapé fonds 10 | was94 years old a few days ago. He does the
mankind, and it is on record that adul- Sig fue his shoe establish and wain. oa
customers. He retains his faculties wonderfully
teration has been carried on to the ex- | Ly ond his friends expect him to reach the cen-
tent not of ill health, but actually to mark
the death of some of the victims of the tary
~—While driving to Conowinge to meet his wife,
who was returning home from a visit to relatives
at Wilmington, Del., James Wayne, a farmer, of
near Delta, wasdrowned, and Harry Thomas, a
ferryman, at Peach Bottom, had a narrow escape
from death.
—Huntingdon physicians are divided as to
whether the disease epidemic in that town is
really scarlet fever. A State Board of Health
official may be called on to decide. There are
bined | twenty cases now. Three new cases of measles
were reported.
—Miss Mary Morris, a 17-year-old Renovo girl
was struck by an engine on a grade crossing in
that town recently. She was picked up
scious and hurried to a hospital where it was
found that, although badly bruised, she was not
seriously injured.
—Opening her kitchen door to get her baby
drink of water in the early moming, Mrs. W.
Williams, of DuBois, found it a mass of flames.
She was just able to get out in time to save herself
and two little ones. Her husband is a trainman
and was not at home. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
Ra
sand bushels of potatoes in his cellar which he
had been offered $1.50 per bushel for, but was
holding them for $2 per bushel. A few days ago
all of the potatoes were frozen and now he is
to be the crisis as jauntily feeding them to the cattle.
as if they were stepping in a —G. C. Shultz, of Hillside, wakened by the calls
% 4 UE Hiend oukeifs, Hiuped out of De nena
et there is the wror.~f the | moming to find the floor hot under his feet an
British strike the v of our Tr dow of * his reom just in’ time
strike of ten years ago, when direct - | to escape going down into the blazing room be-
of $10,000,000 resulted and no end | low. His wife and child were away from home
and he was in the house alone.
—QOscar Whitscell, of Hunlocks Creek, Luzerne
county, carries off highest honors of the Senior
class at the Bloomsburg State Normal school this
year. Although he is quite blind, he has not only
been successful in class work but also in athletics
being one of the best broad jumpers in the
school. He will be class orator.
~John Parrish, a 13 year old boy who spent
several weeks in the Altoona hospital last fall,
after he had run away from his home at Win-
terset, Cambria county, is confined in the jail at
Ebensburg, the self-confessed murderer of his
father. On Wednesday evening the boy shot his
father as he was sitting in the barn.
~Fifty passengers ‘‘changed cars” between
Sunbury and Danville a few days ago in double
quick time—all because a Sunbury woman whose
home was quarantined for measles got on the
train there. The car was fumigated and the
home she went to at Danville placed under the
ban. When it is lifted she will be arrested.
~Francis Wilson, who resides near DuBois, has
a broken collarbone. He and his father were
drivingon a country road a few evenings ago.
The horse made a misstep and they went over a
twenty-foot embankment. The injury above
mentioned was the worst on the listand nearby
farmers assisted in getting the outfit back on the
road
~There was a mixup near Latzobe on Sunday
night which resulted in the death of Mrs, Thomas
Webb, aged 36 years and the wounding of her
husband. George Ray and Belle Green are under
arrest, the latter for murder. The four met ata
neighbors and an altercation occurred. Miss
Green claims that she fired the shots in self de-
fense. All are colored people.
—The Warren Times is authority for the state.
ment that in all probability the telegraphers of
the Pennsylvania railroad system will in the near
future close their keys, and donning coat and hat,
walk out. The information comes from a reliable
and direct source. It is stated that unless the
demands of the telegraphers are acceded to .one
of the most serious strikes in the history of the
Pennsylvania system will be inaugurated.
—Wilkes-Barre's oldest resident, Mrs. H. B.
Hillman, was 100 years old on Friday. She was
joverated on for appesulicitia during the past Year,
with no other anathetic than cocaine, and sub.
sequently had, bronchitis and pneumonia. She
has survived her husband and eight of her ten
children. The two who are living are both very
sick, unable to visit their mother on her century
birthday. Mrs. Hillman lives in the present
rather than in the past, reads the newspapers and
says she would like to take a trip to Europe in
the suramer.
~The body of Mrs. Hackenberg, wife of former
State Senator William H. Hackenberg, of Milton,
who committed suicide on the morning, of Jan-
uary 23rd, was found Thursday morning floating
in the river at a point opposite the Pennsylvania
freight transfer yard about three and a-half miles
above Northumberland. It was identified
Henry H. Purdy, formerly of Williamsport, 2
word was at once sent to Mr. Hackenberg at his
home in Milton. Coroner Fred Steck, of Shim
kin, was notified but decided that it was t nec-
essary to hold an inquest. i
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—1t is estimated that over five thousand deer
are confined within the enclosure of y
park, located on the headwaters of :
run, in the upper end of Clinton county and the
owners find it quite a problem as as an ex-
pense to feed them during the long months
Even in summer, when vegetation is‘at its height’
extra food is necessary at times, ag the deer de-
vour the sweet briars, tender twigs and
Sthies vegetation oh Which thes Dives almost
quickly as it grows. During the winter it hs
| required a car load of hay every two weeks to
feed them.