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BY P. GRAY MEEK. |
INK SLINGS. the arbitration board at Clearfield
— —Gray & Son have completed extensive im-
—Vote for GRiM for Superior Court | provements to their glass plant at Falls Creek
and will begin work this week with one hundred
men.
—Williamsport hospital has thirty-six typhoid
Cases, only four of which are from the city. Most
ER were brought from lumber camps in the northern
part of the county,
=—Mrs. Harry Hooker, near Penfield, was pre-
paring to go into the yard to shoot mark with her
boy when the revolver accidentally discharged
—The Dumbleton Brothers, putting down
holes back of the Cold Stream dam, not far from
Philipsburg, found rich deposit on hard and soft
Judge. |
—*“Aunt” Emmy PANKHURST seems to
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_BELLEFONTE, PA. OCTOBER 31. 1915.
SAMUEL.
—Good roads will bring your farmer |
nearer to town and your home nearer
—It may not be benevolently but Mr. |
HUERTA seems to be determined to
assimilate Mexico in some way. {
—Next Tuesday will be election day |
oining Hands with the Standard Oil
Company.
We are without knowledge of the
Vote for Webster Grim. | Mr. Creasy and the Road Question.
Of the four nominees for Judge of the | While WiLLiAM T. CREASY was a | From the Johnstown Democrat.
Superior court WEBSTER GRIM, of Bucks The new tariff has been in effect for
and don't forget to vote for WEBSTER | identity cf the individual who has charge
GRIM for Superior Court Judge.
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—How many young men and women | being sent out from the Democratic State
are tl in the town: wito' kiave spent | headquarters for publication in the Demo-
whole nights dancing in the armory and
cratic press of the State, but we do know
yet won't take time to spendfan hour | that if the party has to depend upon that
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there with evangelist BOB JONES. |
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—Qur Judiciary is supposed to be non- |
partisan, and so it should be, but thatis
no reason why Democrats should not |
loyally support Hon. WEBSTER GRIM for
Superior Court Judge. He is the equal |
if not the superior of all the other can- |
didates and is the only Democrat on the
| has been committed and in these three
—The WATCHMAN would like to see |
Centre county give the Hon. WEBSTER |
GRIM a splendid vote for Superior Court |
Judge, not only because he is the only |
ticket.
stuff for either its arguments, its enthu-
siasm or its hope, we will need pray the
Lord's mercy on our prospects in No-
vember.
Of the five pages of closely type writ-
ten matter that reached this office on
Tuesday last—just two weeks before the
election—LESS than three lines were
devoted to any issue to which the party
is found the only reference that is made
to either the fitness of our candidate,
Mr. GRIM, for the position for which he
has been nominated, the importance to |
Democrat on the ticket, but because he | the party of his election or the duty of |
is the equal in legal ability of any of the
other candidates and the superior in
many of the other attributes that are
needed to qualify a man for the bench.
~The Grangers of Pennsylvania have
been fighting for thirty years for equali-
zation of taxes; that is, to make the cor-
porations pay their share. Now that
there is a chance to make the corpora-
tions build the roads of the State it
seems strange that the Grangers should
all be opposed to issuing bonds for that
purpose, bonds that the corporations
would have to pay.
—We think it is only expressing the
popular wish when we say everybody
wants good roads. It is only a plain
statement of fact when we say that we
can't have good roads unless somebody
pays for them. Next Tuesday every
voter will be called upon to record his
judgment as to who ought to pay tor the
roads. If he votes for the bond issue he
will be voting to make corporations pay
for the roads. If he votes against the
issue he will be voting to tax himself for
them.
—Those persons who are against the
road bond issue because the macadam
roads now being made are apparently
not durable shoul | remember that noth-
ing worth while has ever been found out
without experimenting. We would nev-
er have known that macadam roads are
not durable had none been built. Good
roads are only in their infancy and it is
quite possible that more money than has
ever been spent before will have to be
expended yet before the last thing in
economy, comfort and durability has
been found in road building.
—The idea of the non-partisan Judiciary
Act was to insure the presence on the
bench of men of all political beliefs.
Next Tuesday you will be called upon to
select two of four candidates for the
Superior court bench, but Remember
that WHILE TWO ARE TO BE ELEC-
TED YOU CAN VOTE FOR ONLY
ONE. As all of the nominees are Re-
publicans but Mr. GRIM there will be no
way of getting a Democrat on the bench
unless all Democrats vote for him. His
qualifications are all that could be de-
sired and he should be chosen. His elec-
tion depends, however, on his getting
more votes than at least two of the other
candidates.
—The clamor for good roads has be-
come too general and too justifiable to
think the building of them will be drop-
ped if the bond issue is not authorized at
the election next Tuesday. The demand
for good roads will continue insistent and
Legislatures will vote the money to pay
for them and when such appropriations
are voted it will mean that either our
public schools, our hospitals and our col-
leges will be pared in their appropria-
tions or else we will have to pay more
taxes. Sure as the sun rises tomorrow
roads can't be built without money and
the only way the State of Pennsylvania
has for -aising money is by laying taxes.
Will you vote for the bond issue and
make the corporations pay the increase
or will you vote against it and stand to
pay more yourself?
~If your house is old, and tumbled
down and you find no more comfort in it
and you want to build a new one and
haven't the money, what do you do?
Continue to suffer the discomforts of the
old house and work away in such a habi-
tation until you have saved enough to
build a new one. Some men might do
that, but the wise man would puta ila
mortgage on his place and build the new
one at once. Then he could work on in
comfort and save the money to pay the
mortgage. He would have the use of the
comfortable, new house all the time he
was working to pay for it. The new road
bond issue is exactly the same proposi-
tion, except better. We all want good
roads as quickly as possible and we want
them now when we are alive and well
Democrats to go to the polis and cast a |
ballot for him.
All the rest of these pretended “Demo- |
cratic campaign arguments” are devoted
to an effort to defeat the “good roads” |
proposition—an issue that every local
tax-payer in the State, be he Democrat
or Republican, has an interest in and— |
anjissue that is not, cannot or should |
not be made, a political one. It is a plains |
simple and direct issue as to whether |
corporations sl.all be compelled to aid in |
the building or betterment of our public |
roads or whether the local tax-payers |
shall continue to bear all the burdens
these impose, just as they have been
compelled to do since the organization of
the Commonwealth.
Strange as it may appear the argu-
ments furnished by this Harrisburg edi-
torial factory, why the amendment to
the Constitution (No. 1,) should be de-
feated, and thus prevent any hope of the
success of the “good roads” movement,
are almost identical in expression, in
reasons given and in results predicted, |
with those sent out by the Waverly Oil
company—an off-shoot of the Standard
Oil company——from Pittsburgh and which
reached us in the same mail. In fact the
similarity of the two are so nearly iden-
tical that one can readily believe that the
same interests, the same influences and !
the same individuals are back of both of
them.
We have placed on file both of these
circulars and would ask Democratic vot-
ers who can find the time to call and
examine them. They can then under-
stand the real motive some people have
for their opposition to the bond amend-
ment and the anxiety the “Standard Oil
company” is showing for the defeat of
that amendment.
If you want to vote as the Standard Oil |
company desires you should, you will vote |
against giving the State the authority to |
tax the capital stock of corporations
for road purposes. If you favor making
these corporations aid in maintaining our
public highways you will vote FOR amend. |
ment, No. 1. |
Under (any circumstances Democrats
should protest earnestly against being
placed in the position of joining hands |
with corporations on this question.
Bugaboo Without Teeth.
The Money trust is still raiding the
low rate government bonds. 'The man-
agers of that treasonable combination are
determined to force the price of the two
per cents below par. They had almost
succeeded once but Secretary MCADOO
checked their operation by a timely note
of warning. He admonished them, sub-
stantially, that the government will not
permit such a condition of affairs. He
didn’t indicate very clearly how the
administration would proceed to achieve
its purpose. But the admonition accom-
plished the end for the time. The money |
magnates know that MCADOO means
business and put a reef in their plans.
The two per cents were for the
tte of National banks to, secure sireula-
takes the of from
EE ioaius suronay
McApoo will not permit or
tolgate an attempt at either.
two per cent. t bonds
are worth one hu cents on the dol-
lar, whether used as for Nation-
circulation or not. no other
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and able to enjoy them.
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county, is easily the best equipped for the |
office. A lawyer of recognized ability
his long distinguished service in the State
Senate has given him an insight into
forms of legislation which none of his
associates on the ticket has had oppor:
tunity to acquire. In many cases the in-
terpretation of law is determined by the
legislative intent. These distinctions are
difficult problems to the average mind.
But one who has had much experience
in the making of laws easily discerns the
nicer points and comes to a wise con-
clusion. The language of a law does not
always express its full meaning.
All other considerations aside, there-
fore, WEBSTER GRIM ought to receive the
support of a majority of the voters irre.
spective of party. But there are other
| considerations worthy of attention. The
purpose of the framers of the constitu-
tion of the State was to divorce the courts
from politics. That the people are still
in that frame of mind is proved by the
universal demand for such legislation as
would make the office of Judge non-
partisan. But the machine politicians
practically defeated that purpose by en-
acting a political trick into law. In view
of that fact WEBSTER GRIM ought to be
elected for the double purpose of defeat-
ing the trick of the machine and fulfilling
the wishes of the people.
If two of the Republican nominees for
Superior court Judgeare elected minority
representation on the bench in this State
will be practically at an end. The Re-
publican machine managers are now de.
vising means to accomplish this result.
They are striving to so divide the vote
of the party on two candidates as to elect
both of them. Of course this is bad faith
to the people of the State and perfidious
treatment of the nominee of their party
faith to be sacrificed. But these men
care nothing for honor or obligation:
They want political advantage at any
price and imagine that complete control
of the courts is an immense political ad-
vantage. Minority opinions from the
bench are sometimes embarrassing.
The only certain way to defeat this
perfidious conspiracy is for every Demo-
crat in the State to vote for WEBSTER
GRIM. Where he is well known he will
command a considerable Republican vote
notwithstanding the efforts of party lead.
ers to prevent it. His reputation for abil-
ity and rectitude will guarantee that. But
he deserves the vote of every Democrat
for various reasons. His election will
promote the principle of a non-partisan
judiciary, it will continue minority repre-
sentation on the bench and it will insure
the public a capable, earnest and honest
man on the bench. We sincerely hope
that every Democrat in Centre county
will do His share toward this result.
President Wilson and Mexico.
In his treatment of the Mexican ques-
tion President WILSON has revealed the
highest quality of statesmanship. There
were many disturbing elements in the |
situation which might have led to seri-
ous consequences. The retiring adminis- |
tration had left a confused state of af-
fairs which was difficult to deal with.
But every exigency has been met and it
looks now as if the troubles will be com-
posed within a reasonable time without
great cost or any sacrifices of life or
honor. Mr. HUERTA will ultimately be
obliged to surrender the government to
the people and that is all the President
has contended for.
President WILSON might easily have
settled the Mexican question temporarily
by adopting a make-shift policy. HUER-
TA might easily have been tricked out
of his usurped place and power as he
tricked himself in. But such a settle
ment would simply have invited future
troubles and that sort of diplomacy
doesn’t appeal to the President. He is
determined o establish a permanent
friendship between the governments of
the United States and Mexico and that
can only be achieved by pursuing fair
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bonds, | means to a just end. In other words the
people of Mexico must be drawn to us
by admiration for the spirit of justice
rather than driven by force.
It may be set down as a settled fact
that the elimination of HUERTA from the
public life of Mexico is an essential pre-
requisite to such a settlement of the dis-
orders in that unfortunate country. The
blood of his predecessor will cry for re-
venge so long as he is in a conspicuous
place and there can be no peace while
such voices are in the air. That is the
reason why President WILSON wants Eu-
008 to sep het hands off fob pres-
ent. If HUERTA is recognized by Europe
8 | out such recognition it is comparatively
for an office. “In my prayers at night,”
‘she writes Mr. PALMER, “I ask God to
Representative in the Legislature a prop-
osition to appropriate a million dollars
for road building was pending. Mr.
CREASY then said it would be impossible
to take that amount from the general
revenues and introduced a bill to levy a
special tax of one-tenth of a mill upon
all corporations to supply the money.
Now he declares that an amount from
five to eight millions may be taken from
the revenues without impairment of the
interests of the State or the public. What
is the cause of this change in his views
upon the subject? The ratio of receipts
and expenditures have not materially
changed since.
It is the concensus of intelligent opin-
ion that comprehensive plans for road
building can only be carried out by pro-
viding an ample fund. It is universally
agreed that an adequate system of road
construction is making provision for
posterity. Any sensible man understands
that expenses incurred for posterity
should be paid for, in part, by those who
will be benefitted. There is no necessity
for graft or extravagance in the con-
struction of roads under the proposed
plan. The bonds can be issued and dis-
posed of as the money is needed and in-
terest will run only against bonds that
are sold. Even if it were expedient to
draw from current revenues there would
be no saving by the operation.
Mr. CREASY has a grievance against
the present Governor, with or without
reason, but the good roads movement
should not be held up indefinitely on that
account. The term of the present Gov-
ernor expires before the Legislature can
possibly make provision for either the
issuing of bonds or the disbursement of
the funds in the event that the constitu-
tional amendment is adopted. There-
fore there is no necessity for Mr. CREASY
to carry his quarrel into the matter of
road building. On the other hand, if
Mr. CREASY and those associated with
him in his present fight had supported
the Democratic candidate for Governor
in 1910 the present Governor wouldn't
be an element in the affair at all.
——Miss OLGA NETHERSOLE is amazed
at the “allness” of the American girl,
and small wonder. WMiss NETHERSOLE
declares that the American girl of “to-
day is the mother of tomorrow.” That
scarcely gives them time to get marriage
licenses.
Wise Little Girl of Nine.
The nine year old girl who wrote to!
Congressman PALMER in behalf of her |
father's ambition to be postmaster re- |
cently, deserves a favorable response to
her unique petition. She has the real
PALMERian instinct. She wants something
and goes for it with all herenergy. More-
over she knows where to go, and how,
help my dear papa, and I hope and trust
you will make my papa postmaster” |
What more pathetic plea could be present. |
ed? And what a clear understanding this
little miss reveals of the mysteries of
politics and the disposal of patronage? If
she had been twice as old she could
hardly have done better.
There is a tradition of a military genius
who on the eve of battle instructed his
followers to “trust in God but keep your
powder dry.” The implied profession of
christian faith sounded well in the ears
of those who supplied the sinews of war,
and the admonition with respect to the
powder indicated that some dependence
must be placed in secular agencies or
forces. The nine year old girl appreciated
the potency of prayer, no doubt, but she
also had a marvelous grasp of the prac- | peen
ticalities in approaching the pie counter. | sen
Prayers might help her dear papa in
some things but Mr. PALMER alone could | t™™-
get him the postoffice. Faith may move
mountains but it doesn’t make a practice
of issuing commissions to postmasters.
We sincerely hope and firmly believe
that the father of this infant prodigy wiil
get the postoffice in question. He de- | ha
serves at least that much recognition for
training his child to a full appreciation
of providence. Another child and of even
maturer years might have written to the
President or the Postmaster General. But
not this meager bundle of wisdom. She
addresses the only dispenser of patronage |
with a registered trade mark and while
she directs her prayers elsewhere she
knows exactly who can make her papa |
postmaster. Mr. PALMER is the man and |
to him she appeals. If the father of this
child has half her discernment he will
have PETROLEUM V. NAsBY skinned a
mile within a year. |
—[t would be funny if Governor |
“HL” JOHNSON, of California, should un- |
dertake to “wrest the Progressive leader- |
ship from ROOSEVELT.” That is to say |
it would be fun for everybody except
JonNsoN.
just four weeks.
It has been attended by no disaster.
Mills are still busy.
Factories are crowded with orders.
The railroads are face to face with a
car shortage.
The demand for labor is strong.
Retail trade is
Mining and manufacturing and indus-
trial life generally are in a heal state,
is no real sign in any on
of that everlasting smash which was so
hy icted by oe a ro
oun r inspiration in tari
dream books
As a matter of fact business is good.
Trade is expanding.
Market conditions have seldom been
more favorable.
Prices may not yet have shrunk
preciably, but they are bound in due
course to yield to the influence of freer
competition.
Already the effects of this freer com-
petition are visible in certain cases; they
will become more generally visible when
the readjustment actually takes place.
That nominal prices may remain pretty
much what they have been is not unlike-
ly. But real prices are certain to yield.
ese real prices will reveal themselves
in the higher quality which will be found
in the goods which go into the hands of
the ultimate consumer; there will be
more wool and less shoddy in the clothes
the people wear; there will be less glucose
and epsom salts in their footwear and
more real leather.
The of readjustment will go
forward steadily and as industry begins
to feel more and more Sensibly m
ulus of a | freedom and the quicken-
ing effects of a livelier competition, we
may expect to see a ROM OF aioe
his demand, a rising tendency in wages
and therefore a corresponding expansion
of the whole industrial life.
But the profits of Big Business are not
going to be quite what they were. And
this is the sting of the whole matter as
far as Big Business is concerned.
Only Scratching the Land.
From the Denver Republican.
After making a tour of this country to
study our agriculture. Mr. Bauwens of
Bel gitm goes away jaughing at us. a
ntends to report to government that
there is no such animal.
PRY, Batwens gomes from 2
" ated couniry ivf Europe.
Belgium has something over 11,000 square
miles, which support *a population of
7,074,910. Wisconsin, one of our leading
agricultural States, is about five times as
large as Belgium, and supports 2,333,869
pechle. With the same density of popu-
ation as that country it would have 35,
000,000.
There seems no reason why at least
half of this country could not produce
crops as heavy as those raised in Bel-
gium, where every acre maintains a hu-
man being. Here half the land is waste,
There no unused soil can be found. It
all pays its way somehow. The fact is,
of course, that farming in the United
States is just beginning to get on its feet.
Landowners are only now awakening to
the possibilities of production. When the
scientific attention is given to culture
that is paid to manufacturing the results
The statement of Me. Bauwens that
Wisconsin is merely scratching its land
and not farming is probably the truth.
It has been so easy to make a living with-
out putting brains and expert knowl
into the business that farmers have fol-
lowed the line of least resistance. In the
future this will not be the case. Farming
is going to be as much a business for ex-
perts as is the making of steel rails.
The Next President.
From the Philadelphia Record.
“If you think too much about re-
elected it is very difficult to be re-
There have been Presidents of the
United States who made their first term
n the Presidency a four-year battle for a
second term, f ing a mount duty
to the nation in the ce of per-
sonal ambition. The tendency in this
direction may not spring altogether from
selfish or unworthy motives; but it has
80 common as to create a strong
himself to the country by and con-
scientious service that he is bound to
succeed himself in spite of himself as a
Canada and Our Navy.
From the Hartford Times. GM
apanese navy,” says on-
treal Star, “could ver attack British
Columbia without the American
navy to our rescue.” prom,
Tor Ro Cone $0 sean a Iss Mo with
contem
the United States as “a menace to the
integrity of the British Empire.” This
represents the attitude of a large of
the anti-reciprocity element
in
They are bitter] to anything
| tine Cir this Tots a ae Donel or hE
United States, but are only too glad to
look to this country for assistance in
time of need.
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN
clay. It is probable the find will be developed.
=A hunter near Mt. Union shot a gray squirrel
and wounded one. The squirrel started to run
away and a gray fox caught it. The hunter shot
the fox while it was stopping for the squirrel and
$0 got them both.
—Dead eels in the Susquehanna above the
mouth of Bald Eagle creek bear out the conten-
tion of Lock Haven people that the contamina-
tion complained of by Williamsport people is
farther up the line.
—Mary Frank, aged nine years, who put bolts,
spikes and stones on the railroad track at Baker-
ton, “to see if the engine would get broke” is to
be examined as to her sanity. She is said to
show signs of derangement.
—A fall during 2 picnic in Idlewild in the sum-
mer is blamed for the death of Ethel Pahel, re-
cently of Derry, now of Irwin. The young girl,
8p- | who was 15 years old, injured her hip in the fall
and unsuspected trouble developed.
=A drop of water caused the death of Walter
Bestanit, of Jerome. He was in a mine cage de-
scending when the drop fell on his neck and he
reached back to wipe it off. He reached just a
little too far and was struck by a timber.
—Craig & Gouid, on a 500 acre tract of land
near Brisbin, are putting in a slope to tap a fine
body of “B" coal. The vein is over four feet
thick, and a very fine quality. They expect to be
ready to ship coal by the first of January.
Some time beetween 11 and 12 o'clock last
Thursday night a robber or robbers jimmied
open a window in the front of the Rossiter post-
office, blew the safe to pieces, and made a get
away with $20 in cash and about $400 in stamps
—John Erble, of Lycoming county, murderer
of Grace Stidfole, heard the date of his execution
officially Saturday. Sheriff Tomlinson read to
Stim- | him, at three o'clock Saturday afternoon the
death warrant signed by Governor Tener last
Monday.
=A wound inflicted in his upper lip when one
of the mules he was driving swished his tail in
his face sent C. W. Cassel, of Fishing Creek, Per-
ry county, to the Harrisburg hospital, for treat-
ment. The wound had become infected and he
will be given electrical treatment.
—Irvin Flinn, of Shamokin, fell off a wall Sun-
day and broke his right ankle. He lay unable to
move for several hours. Without funds to pay
car fare, he then hobbled and crawled for fifteen
miles tothe Mary M. Packer hospital, Sunbury.
There the surgeons and nurses found two broken
—That Pennsylvania is the strongest State, by
a large margin in the Union in National banks, is
shown in the complete proceedings of the Ameri-
can Bankers’ Association convention held in Bos-
ton.. The book shows that Pennsylvania has 523
national banks, while the next State, New York,
has 376, Illinois has 311 and Ohio 220.
—E. Faux, serving a term for larceny in the
Lycoming county jail, had been so trusty that he
was given cartain tasks that involved a certain
amount of liberty. A few days ago, while sweep
ing the sidewalks, the temptation to take advan-
tage of the liberty within grasp was too strong
and he took French leave. His cousin, at a near-
by hotel, was arrested as an accessory.
~The petition of Huntingdon citizens to the
court against the Huntingdon Water company to
show cause why water rates should not be
reduced was argued and developed the fact that
the company gets a yearly return of $27,000 on an
investment of $80,000. The amount of expense of
running the plant must be estimated before the
net return can be arrived at or an order in the
case be made.
—Elsie Miller, a 17-year-old maid in the home
of W. U. Mussina, an automobile dealer, who
lives in Vallamont, a suburb of Williamsport,
fought a burglar Saturday evening, and prevent.
ed him from getting beyond the hall. The noise
of the fight was heard by a telephone exchange
girl, when the desk phone on a table was upset,
but the operator was unable to inform neighbors
because of the line being open. The burglar fi-
nally made his escape.
—A narrow escape from a horrible death oc-
curred at the Huntingdon hosiery mill on Mon-
day. Miss Helen Lindsay, leaning over a ma-
chine to adjust the yarn, had her hair caught in
it. Her screams attracted others. One girl went
to turn off the power, but Miss Anna Dauphin-
baugh was able to quickly throw the belt from
the wheel and save her friend. Miss Lindsay
: | suffered so greatly from shock, however, that she
was unable to continue work.
—Thomas Hardy, of Philipsburg, now employ-
ed at Sandy Ridge, while at Tyrone on Friday
evening about 5.30 o'clock, jumped from the rail-
road bridge into the Juniata river. That he was
not killed, and escaped with only a slight injury,
is a marvel. He had been imbibing too freely. it
is said, and evidently hearing a train on the main
line, and thinking it was on the branch road, took
a plunge into the river. Hardy says an engine
hit him, but witnesses tell a different story.
~Norman Smith, aged 10 years, of Miiton, was
shot by an unknown hunter near New Berlin, on
Saturday. Smith started out early in the morn.
ing on a hunting trip, accompanied by Clyde
Rank and Al Noriconk, and William Benfer, of
Lewisburg. The four men were seated on a log
when two other hunters came over a ridge and,
not seeing Smith and his party, one of the men
shot a squirrel in line with Smith. The latter
was hit in the face, neck and shoulders, but the
wounds are not serious.
~A prominent Lewistown merchant was fleec-
ed to the extent of $13.11 by one of his clerks
cashing a worthless check for a stranger in ex-
change for merchandise. The man, who gave
his name as Campbell and said he was working
for the Acme Picture company, gave a check
drawn on a West Virginia bank. The bank had
received checks from other places which were
evidently drawn by the same man working under
other names. He is thought to be somewhere in
central Pennsyivania working his slick game.
—Martin Fleming, a former Cambria and Blair
county young man who followed the vocation of
a lunch counter man, was found guilty in Harris-
burg Friday, of first degree for the killing of his
mother-in-law, Mrs, Louisa Bryan. His counsel
prepare reason for a new trial at Harrisburg. At
12 o'clock in the morning of May 3 last, Fleming
went to the home of his mother-in-law in Harris.
burg. He pried open a rear window and went to
his mother-in-law’s bedroom, presumably to see
his wife and baby, Mrs. Bryan awakened, heard
Fleming and ordered him from the house. He
fired three 38-calibre shots into her body, killin®
her almost instantly,
immediately asked for 10 days’ time in which to -