\ Beworal atc. | BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —It was a year ago this morning that ‘we had a killing frost in many parts of Centre county. —Now don’t come around telling us that council isn’t going to have that new policeman any longer. —Sunday, Monday and Tuesday must ‘have been the kind that gave rise to the query as to what is rarer than a day in June. —The Britons may beat us at polo, but polo is a game that the skill of the boys from the back-lots has never had a chance to develop in. ——If Uncle JoE CANNON doesn’t say something pretty soon the public will be at a loss to know whether he has really been “lost, strayed or stolen.” —If the Inter-State Commerce Com- mission doesn’t want to make a ruling on that freight-rate case why doesn’t it throw up its job and go home. ——Brother AMOS may be confident ot the financial strength of the family but Brother GIFFORD has a better idea of the value of a real generous “angel.” —Talking about dry towns and dry counties Bellefonte and Centre county are about us dry as any places we know of now—so far as H2 O is concerned. ——High tariffs do tempt smugglers but the UNDERWOOD law is not open to that objection notwithstanding our pessi- mistic friend, the esteemed Philadelphia Ledger. —No, the Coinel won't speak in Pennsylvania in the fall. English throat specialists have decreed that he must keep quiet, if he hopes to save his vocal organs from total paralysis. ——Mexico need not despair of finding a strong man for President. There are plenty of men down there who smell strong and if the worst comes to the worst they are welcome to ROOSEVELT. —Nittany valley farmers are making hay. The grass is short but thick and should it set in wet after the first crop is taken off these early birds stand a splen- did chance of harvesting a better second crop. —Mothers who can’t find time to prop- erly chaperone those daughters who are just budding into womanhood might later spend all of their time nursing hearts broken by the downfall of the misguided ‘girls. —The total cost of the primary cam- paign for McCORMICK and PALMER, in the State, has now grown to $59,000.00. Anyway, political ambition has the ten- dency to put a lot of new money into circulation. —Dr. DIXON suggests that “if you must use alcohol in hot weather burn it in a chafing dish.” This is all very pretty, but wouldn’t a fellow be a sight toting a chafing disk along with him when he goes fishing. —Mr. PAGE says rich men stand very little chance of being elected to office. Happily for our candidate for Governor, who has already invested $33,000 in the chance, we don’t believe Mr. PAGE knows what he is talking about. —Have you been to the Carnival? It is not quite so uplifting as the Chautau- qua will be, but you might go and take a little slide backward just to cut out a lit- tle more work for Dr. PEARSON and his uplifters, when they come. —Eighty thousand men will be needed to harvest this season’s wheat crop. There probably are that many unem- ployed in the country, but, if there are, seventy-nine thousand of them would rathar die standing in a “bread line” than follow a binder in the harvest field. —In Clinton county the votes McCor- MICK and PALMER secured cost nearly $1.50 per vote. The campaign fund there was over $1400.00 and the total number of votes polled for MCCORMICK was 1419. Of the funds raised PAUL O. BROSIUS, the newly appointed postmaster of Lock Ha- ven, contributed $375.00. ' —A dozen or more motors go up High street every day with their “cut-outs” wide open, and we haven’t heard of a penny in fines dropping into the borough treasury. What's the use of the clause in the traffic ordinance if it is not to be enforced. Better take it out entirely than have it daily held in contempt. —Why is it that everv bit of a boy who walks with a girl on the street must needs grab her by the arm and hang on. She doesn’t need his help. He doesn’t need to be led. If mothers were to get together and do a little hard thinking over what these gradual bits of familiari- ty lead to we are sure that this one of the steps by which some girls get to the point where they are said to be so loose that they rattle would be cut out. —The President has unearthed an or- ganized campaign on the part of big bus- iness to scare Congress into adjourning before it has completed his program of legislation. Big businesg tried to scare Congress out of revising the tariff down- ward, it also tried to scare it out of pass- ing the new currency bill, so that big business ought to have discovered by this time that this Democratic Congress isn’t running to cover every time a big bug-a-boo bobs up. VOL. 59. SC ——. ‘Brother Amos is Inconsistent. Democratic Platform of Pennsylvania. | That there is considerable opposition | Mr. Amos R. E. PINCHOTT, brother of to the so-called Democratic platform pro- the Bull Moose candidate for United mulgated at Harrisburg on the 3rd in- States Senator in Pennsylvania, shows STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION, BELLEFONTE, PA.. J UNE 19, 1914. ee — stant is not surprising. For more than a hundred years the party has regularly expressed opposition to sumptuary legis- lation and this deliverance boldly de- clares for local option. From the begin- ning the party has insisted upon a strict construction of the constitution and this platform endorses the initiative and ref- erendum, a sort of Populistic device to subvert the constitution. Always the party has favored “the largest liberty to the citizen, consistent with the preserva- tion of law and order,” while this plat- form endorses every governmental en- croachment imaginable. These provisions of the measure, how- ever, are faults or merits according to the point of view of the individual mem- ber of the party. A man may be a local optionist and a Democrat or he may imagine that the initiative and referendum in no sense impairs the force of the con- stitutional mandate that the “legislative power of this Commonwealth shall be vested in a General Assembly, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” These are psychological questions and may be interpreted accord- ing to the frame of mind. But there is one fundamental condition which is ab- sent from the present platform of the Democratic party of Pennsylvania. It does not express the sentiments of the Democratic people. of the State in the manner they should be expressed. Some days before’ the meeting of the Democratic State committee at Harris- burg three gentlemen assembled in Phil- adelphia or Washington and prepared this paper. At the meeting of the com- mittee in Harrisburg a motion was adopted authorizing the chairman to ap- point a committee of nine, including the three gentlemen in question, to prepare a platform. This committee of nine ac- cepted the paper prepared by the self- appointed committee of three, and issued it as the platform. -* When members of the State committee asked that the paper be read fn der that it might be ratified or amended, , they were voted “out of order.” ‘The chosen representatives of the people were denied a voice in the matter. : The three gentlemen who met in Phil- adelphia or Washington may enjoy the highest esteem of the Democratic voters. But they were never commissioned to draft and promulgate a Democratic plat- form for the Democrats of Pennsylvania. Their usurpation of this power was ' the grossest and most offensive form of . bossism that has ever been perpetrated in Pennsylvania. If Colonel GUFFEY and two or more of his friends had under- taken such a thing they would have been crucified, figuratively speaking. The “Old Guard” was repudiated because its leaders were accused of bossism and for the reason that their successors in con- trol promised to eliminate bossism. Yet they are out-Heroding Herod in bossism. In place of giving to the party a Demo- cratic platform, they have simply given to the public @ one man platform. It is no wonder the document is being repudiated in every part of the State, and by Demo- crats generally. —It is only two weeks until the Fourth of July and naturally the ques- tion arises, will Bellefonte again cele- brate safely and sanely, as in the past two years. One thing is certain, Belle fonte merchants are not stocking up with fireworks, so that there will be no temptation along this line. ——For almost a half a day last week there were no prisoners in the county jail and sheriff A. B. Lee was thinking seriously of locking up and throwing away the keys when an accommodating officer of the law brought him several boarders. -——One great virtue of the WILSON administration has been overlooked. It has made some Congressmen earn their salaries and kept others in Washington so continuously that they .have been obliged to spend most of theirs, —1If the Pullman Company would try to “stop tipping” by offering its employees fair wages we would have more faith in the opinion of the General Manager of that company that “you cannot stop tip- ping.” —It's a pretty smart sucker that manages to evade the grappler and the small boy who keeps a close watch on the creek, during the day when the water is low. ~——Of course Dr. BRUMBAUGH “stands on his primary platform” but he can’t shove PENROSE off without tipping it up. They must stand together on or off the plaform. : more courage than discretion in reading GEORGE W. PERKINS out of the leader- ship of his party. What he says of PER- KINS is unquestionably true. He has been and still is one of “monopoly’s ar- dent supporters,” as well as “one of the most distinguished opponents of social and industrial justice that our generation has produced.” But he is the intimate personal friend and political adviser of THEODORE ROOSEVELT and the most lib- eral contributor to the Bull Mogse cam- paign fund. In fact it may be said that he was the heart of the ROOSEVELT cam- paign of 1912 and is the future hope of the Colonel. The intimacy between Colonel ROOSE- VELT and Mr. PERKINS began while PER- KINS was a member of the firm of MOR- GAN & Co. It developed during various visits of Mr. PERKINS to the White House, while that concern was “working” ROOSE- VELT, as President of the United States, for its own advantage. Colonel ROOSE- VELT cannot well allow such an asper- sion upon his friend to go unresented or unrebuked. If he resents the attack of Brother AMOS upon his friend and bene- factor he can’t come into Pennsylvania and ask support for Brother GIFFORD without stultifying himself. Therefore, denouncing PERKINS by one PINCHOTT is clearly destroying every hope of the elec- tion of the other. Moreover Brother AMOS is quite as in- consistent in denouncing PERKINS as he. is indiscreet. ROOSEVELT himself is hardly less ardent in his support of mo- nopoly than PERKINS and Boss BILL FLINN, of Pittsburgh, has PERKINS “skin- ned a mile,” as an opponent of “social and industrial justice.” How can Broth- er AMOS condemn PERKINS and cherish ROOSEVELT and FLINN? It is true that: PERKINS is less hypocritical than the. oth-- ers and possibly doesn’t make as much pretense of virtue. But he has never been more servile to monopolies than ‘ROOSEVELT or half as efficient. T J fore, if Brother AM OTHE £3 : a censorship he ought to play. fair with all concerned. 0 ~——The esteemed Allentown Democrat expresses confidence in the success of the Allentown Chautauqua. Let us hope that it will be run on a different plan from that which has made the Allentown" fair famous. Morris Waging Factional War. Mr. ROLAND S. MORRIS, chairman of the Democratic State committee, con- tinues to wage a factional fight in the party. If he knows anything at all he must be aware that complete harmony affords the only hope of success at the ' coming election. For the office of Gov- “ernor, for example, the aggregate vote of MCCORMICK and RYAN, at the May primary, was 200,854, while the Republi- can candidate, Mr. BRUMBAUGH, received 253,788. Mr. CAUFFEL, Mr. Woop and Mr. RITTER, candidates for the Republi- can nomination, polled a total vote of 66,309. If Mr. MCCORMICK is able to hold ‘all his own primary vote and get that i cast for RYAN and the’ three minority , Republican candidates, he has a chance of election. But this result can hardly be expected if the chairman of the Democratic State committee persists in factional war. ' Those Republicans who voted against BRUMBAUGH for the nomination have lit- tle encouragement to come to the Demo- ! cratic candidates if the manager of the Democratic campaign is driving Demo- cratic voters away. Men inclined to leave their own party are not likely to attach themselves to an organization which is weakened by discord and dissensions. They need the incentive of the hope of i success to entice them into new alliances and there can be no such hope where ! there are factions. The margin is meagre under the most favorable conditions. But there is a fighting chance. | Chairman MORRIS is plunging into fac- tionalism with all his energy, neverthe- less. With the view of gaining strength in the Philadelphia city committee he "have not asked enough. They are enti- | With that purpose in mind he is trying NO. 25. The Mexican Settlement. From the Philadelphia Record. 3 There shall be a provisional junta d gobierno to take over the Mexican gov- ernment from General Huerta; and the United States, together with the A. B. C. Powers of South America, will formal- ly recognize this government as soon as - convenient after its institution, This, in substance, is the first article in the peace “protocol, and it has been agreed to by the American and Mexican delegates and by the three mediators. The wording of the article indicates that General Huerta is to have no hand in the proposed trans- Mr. Frick’s Ideas and Hopes. ! Mr. HENRY C. FRICK, former partner of ANDREW CARNEGIE and since that’ closely associated with J. PIERPONT MOR- GAN in the Steel trust and kindred enter- : prises, has returned from Europe and joined the chorus of calamity howlers. “The equanimity of affairs has been up- set,” ‘he declares, “by tariff legislation and the administration’s attitude toward business.” But happily he is not without hope. “I look for a great landslide for the Republicans in 1916,” he adds. Speaking of the request of the railroads aay for permission to increase freight rates “Tye three delegates from Mexico are five per cent.; he says “the railroads expected to see to it’ that “political pacification” has been obtained, and that tled to more.” His motto will proba- | the Sovemment to be rablisted in su. “ ; » cession to the present regime s j bly always be “all the traffic will bear. ; one that will command the confidence of ~ Of course and naturally Mr. FRICK' all Mexicans and the support of public “would like to see the Republicans get | opinion. The three delegates will deter- control of the Senate in the next elec- | Mine when hese foditons have been Asa . : ' secured, so that Huerta may eliminate tion. The coveted landslide in 1916 himself in accordance with his promise. wouldn’t be much use to men of the ' To the objection so long and so persistent- FRICK type if the Republicans are in the ly adhered to by the mediators, namely, minority in the Senate and the next elec- | that ju 3 ITI OF Sccession now De tion is their only chance to get control. ¢onetitution, the answer is thata con- There would be no use in taking the | stitutional succession is impossible. President away from his breakfast to ab- | Mexico has no constitutional President rogate laws of Congress against combina- by whose act a devolution of that office tions, as he did when the Tennessee Iron he. 3 reas rd eo and Coal company was absorbed by the text of legality? The junta de gobierno Steel trust, if a Democratic majority in ' would be frankly a revolutionary and un- the Senate could veto the iniquity. Constitutional body. “ The character of the new provisional For Mr FRICK'S purposes all branches of ' government being agreed to, it would be the government must be obedient to the | | necessary only to secure an agreement call of monopoly. upon its personnel A i Of opin ion as to the agrarian and other reforms As a matter of fact Mr. FrICK knows ' to. be instituted in Mexico Was arrives at about as much of the science of 8OVern- in the first stage of the mediation. The ment as an Angora goat knows about. the | prospect of an early. completion of the signs of the zodiac. Having through the | conference, is, therefore, excellent. The fruitage of special privilege acquired a ho st beans ists; of Sourse, : Saim a right vast fortune he has fallen into the habit probably be 50 favorable to their cause of buying what he wants at whatever | that they. ‘will have difficulty in finding price asked. But the Defhocratic admin- j reasons to. object. With one of their istration of WOODROW WILSON has made TO feceniatives, n the Presidency, aud such traffic in affairs of government as! aac opty. in. the junta which is nme ~ committed to Constitutionalist reforms, he has been accustomed to impossible | what more could the insurgents ask for. and he wants a return of old conditions. | mt : settlement will be an unconditional res- Canada’s oil Boom. to make the people believe that indus- s TE ‘trial paralysis is present or imminent and a & San Praneiecs Chronicle, eriédy. He may fool a few But mot | to a Helght of 0 feet, “¢ met ‘re. enough to accomplish his purpose. | port presented to the Dominion’ “govern: 8 Dy ua pur : ment by Alfred von Hawnmerstein, who : more than four years ago predicted a big ——The weather this week has been rina mide) Yeasin she extremely cool for this time of year, the | 14rure 1or oil and natural gas in that re- 3 . gion. Hitherto Canada’s contribution to thermometer Wednesday morning being | the world’s annual petroleum supply has down to forty-eight degrees above zero. been Something lees than op barrels The same day ripe cherries were brought : Out of a total of more than 350,000,000 to the Bellefonte market, hay was being | barrels, but if such gushers are well _dis- : | tributed over what is admittedly an oil- made in some parts of Centre county and ; bearing area of great extent both. of on some farms the corn was just showing | these amounts will be increased enor- through the ground. A good soaking | mously. rain about this time would be welcomed i Haas of onsuing a ov by the farmers. since itis a further guarantee that the 3 | increasing supply of the most efficient { fuel will keep pace with the rapidly in- rin j creasing demand. To Great Britain, with The Interstate Commerce Commission | her large navy, and still larger merchant | - . - “ - has been dallying with the rate question | Marine y Togo be peo Faun for more than a year. It is one of the | Githin her own dominions, while, of problems left over from the TAFT admin- istration. The railroads east of the Mis- i Canada it in most of on C sissippi river ask the privilege of increas- | Far from being adversely affected, Cal- ing freight rates five per cent. Their | fore wii be considerably benefitted by : 3 | The competition with our managers say the increase is necessary ’ product will be a trifling circumstance to avert bankruptcy. The most exten- | compared with not only the consequent sive shippers have freely consented to advantage to manufacturing consumers, the proposition. They understand that', © commercial gravity to the Pacific the consumer will have to pay, anyway, | coast. : and it makes no material difference to | Moreover, the Alberta oil fields consti- them whether the rate is high or low. | tute another assurance of ample traffic But it makes a vast difference to the con- 10% he Panama Condi, while Son yan sumer. It will add millions of dollars a | a] centre between those fields and the year to the aggregate cost of living. great waterway. Whatever industrial paralysis there has been within the past year is ascriba- ble to the delay in settling this question. | The Evil of Commissions. Saving Deposits, From the Wall Street Journal. is fer of authority. His contribution to the | but with the certain shifting of the cen. ' | tled against the railroads the chances -quence. But the Commission doesn’t de- has resorted to every conceivable trick. In one Senate district his followers called | the meeting of the ward committee at one place and heid it at another. In| other districts fake contests have been | created and in still others the fairly elect- | ed State committeemen are being malign- If decided in favor of the railroads they would start the boom instantly. If set- are fifty to one that necessary improve- ments and repairs would be made with industrial activity as an inevitable conse- cide. Presumably the commissioners want to favor the railroads but are afraid of the consequences. Public resentment is an unpleasant if not a dangerous force. Public commissions are not courageous bodies. They prefer lines of little re- sistance. Yet the tendency everywhere is toward government by commission. It is the ready answer to every vexed problem that arises. If tariff reform had been left to a commission the ALDRICH-- PAYNE tariff would have looted the peo- ple for a generation. commissions serve a double purpose of the politicians, how- ever. They evade responsibility and multiply offices. They avert blame and ed in the bitterest terms. Probably Mr. i supply jobs. = They are a delusion and a Morris doesn’t want to win, however. | snare and the man who proposes a com- Men of his calibre usually prosper better | mission for any purpose of government in the minority and it looks as if he is is a public enemy. The record of the “’electioneerin’ fer a lickin.’” The can- | didates who have more at stake should call him down. { ——Calamity howling is absurd enough | anywhere but Senator PENROSE howling | calamity from a pulpit is the limit. Interstate Commerce Commission in its treatment of the rate question is ample proof of this fact. ——Remember that the WATCHMAN costs you no more than the cheapest pa- per in the county. AAS “Never in my experience have I had to inform so many persons of deposits on which we pay interest,” said the raceiv- ing teller of one of the largest savings banks in New York. weeks several dozen accounts reached the $3,000 limit and some of them were started a comparatively short time ago. New accounts are increasing in number every week. Thrift among all classes seems to have increased tremendously during the past year.” 3 EE ——————— Her Life Work Invested. From the Brooklyn Eagle. . A seamstress has given, not bequeathed, her $100,000 life savings to the work of the Methodist board of foreign missions; We can only guess that she must be a very old woman to have saved so much ata trade that is only so-so as a money maker. At any rate, there has been no sowing to the wind, and she is doing what she likes with her cash. No Monte Carlo at Panama. From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. The plan of Parisisians to make Panama the world’s gambling center does not take into account the interests of the United States in that Republic. An insti- tution of that sort would be quite as wel- come to this country as a return of mos- quitoes and yellow fever to the former plague spot of the world. y .——There is no comparison between the WATCHMAN and some other papers that cost you just as much. “In the last few | SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —The rebuilding of the plant of the South Fork Brick company, which was destroyed by fire some time ago, will be completed in the next few days. Almost the entire structure was new- ly built. —George W. Hipple, a prominent manufacturer at Lock Haven, died at his home at that place on, Friday afternoon. He was sitting in an easy chair and was suddenly stricken, dying shortly after. Mr. Hipple was in his 8lst year. —Four thieves of Lock Haven, who have made a practice of visiting a certain house, were scared away on Thursday night, when Mrs, | George Good, a neighbor to the victims of the thieves, hissed a vicious bulldog on them. —Edward Elinksky, a coal miner employed near Snow Shoe was taken to the Lock Haven hospital Tuesday suffering from probably fatal burns the result of an explosion of powder. His hands, arms, face and head are badly burned. His home is in Wilkes-Barre. —The great task of re-indexing the recorder’s office at Sunbury, which will cost about $20,000 and the contract for which is held by former Rocorder E. V. Nicely, was begun last Thursday ‘by a woman, Miss Grace Crosby, of New Yorks . an expert in this line of work. —In the Quemahoning coal mines, at Jerome, Alex. Bartholomew, aged 27 years, was badly in- jured in a wreck, His left lung is punctured, a splinter from the mine cars having penetrated his body. He was hurried to the Johnstown hospital, where it is believed that he will die. —Mrs. Dora Daire, aged 35, mysteriously dis- appeared from her home in Coalport. Ever since the tragic death of her son, who accidentally blew out his brains while playing with a shot gun, she has been mentally unbalanced. Search- ing parties are now scouring the mountains fo her. —Joseph Bobish, aged 12 years, of Patton, was ‘dragged to death by a cow near his home at Pat- ‘ton on Tuesday evening. The lad had a rope at- tached to the cow and the other end tied around ‘his waist. The cow: scared at an umbrella and made a wild dash dragging the lad after her and breaking his neck. - —Ray Corsell and Roy Jones, of Carbondale, were drowned in Miller's pond near Pleasant Mount, Wayne county, on Tuesday, when the boat from which they were fishing was over- turned by the wind. Neither of the men could swim and sank two hundred feet off shore before help could reach them. 4 —Dewey Culver, of Kylertown, while in bath- ing with several other boys who are camping near that place, was drowned on Thursday after- noon. He was caught in a whirlpool and the strong suction drew him under. Culver was an orphan 16 years of age. His body was found several hours afterward, —John Svinor, a miner in the No. 42 mine of the Windber-White company, at Windber, was killed on Saturday afternoon when a train of empty cars became uncoupled. Svinor was caught in the smashup and his body was badly mangled. He was only 22 years of age and had been married but a short time. *. —Miss Ruth McKinley, aged 17, of Williams- port, at a hearing before an alderman at that place admitted that she in company with a young man, forged checks on several banks in the city, totalling $1,000. She at first laid the blame upon her mother, but finally admitted to the charge. The young man disappeared with the loot. : =A colony of men furloughed at the Standard steel works, ‘at Burnham, during the past week are preparing to leave for the harvest fields of Oklahoma, working their way towards the north- western wheat belt as the season advances. They | cansee no indication of industrial improvement at Burnham before’ the winter sets in and the Ros MRO, Pi Sibi ol —While he was sleeping on a chair on on his front porch Saturday, John Sarachine, of Wallopsburg, fell heavily from the porch to the ground, a distance of about fifteen feet. He is now in the Punxsutawney hospital suffering with a severe concussion of the brain. Recent word | from the bospital said that the injured man had | mot recovered consciousness and his recoyery , Was a matter of doubt. . —Miss Florence Bauer, of St. Mary’s, while sleeping at her home Tuesday morning, was suddenly awakened when she felt her face smart. She arose and found that some one had thrown red pepper in her face in the hope of blinding | her. On going down-stairs she saw a man ! running through the yard, and also found thata | window in the house was open. The man evi- dently was bent on robbery. | —Earl Shearer, aged 23, of Johnsonburg, was I accidentally shot in the abdomen on Friday after- | noon. He wanted to buy a revolver from a friend of his by the name of Rhinehart. To properly display the weapon Rhinehart buckled course, to the Pacific coast division of the belt and holster around Shearer’s waist, and in showing how quickly the weapon could be [ drawn, the revolver was discharged. Shearer is lina serious condition in the Lock Haven hos- | pital. . | —One thousand pennies were presented to ' Alderman James I. Paul at Williamsport Friday | morning by the Heller Dry Cleaning company in payment of a ten dollar fine imposed for exceed- ing the speed limit in violation of the provisions of ! the traffic ordinance. The alderman stated that | hereafter all those who paid their fines in cop- pers must have them wrapped up in packages of 25 each or he would not take the trouble to count them. —"Now I'll have a quiet smoke,” said Michael Berish, of Munson, on a fishing trip, as he lit . | a pipe of tobacco and proceeded to take huge whiffs. “I love the pigs and chickens, but this is the life.” ‘““Look out there, Mike, you're sitting on a rattlesnake,” shouted Code Davis, coming up the stream with hook and line. Michael | jumped just in time to prevent the spring of the rattler and the two men caught the snake with a : forked stick. It was adorned with twelve rattles. —While swimming in the river at the mouth of DeerCreek yesterday Dewey Culver, of Kyler- town, aged 16 years, lost his life by drowning and Arthur Dale, of the same place and about the same age, made a very narrow escape. Neither of the boys could swim very well, and had ventured out where the water was too deep. YoungDale was rescued and revived by some companions, but Culver could not be reached and fully two hours elapsed before his body was re- covered. The boys were part of a number of young people who had gone to the river to enjoy the day picnicking. : —On Monday of last week Chief Game Warden Berrier, Harrisburg, and Joseph Smith, of Muncy, a game protector, went to Renovo and arrested four men, E. A. Hillard, William Mills, Lloyd Kunes and Edward Smith, charged with killing and eating a wild turkey. The men con- fessed their guilt before a magistrate and paid a fine of $100, the costs running the sum up to $110. The men shot the turkey while on a fishing excursion. It proved to be a hen and from the number of eggs it contained there would have been quite a flock of young turkeys in that sec- tion had the hen not been shot. —Inventory of the estate of Abram Benner, a Dewart storekeeper, who died suddenly about two months ago, shows that he was worth $82,- 095.48. More than $70,000 of this was in cash in banks. He had $54,894.24 in the Watsontown National bank and $14,535.88 in the First National bank of Milton. Nothing about Mr. Benner’s store in Dewart indicated that he was worth more than the proverbial “thirty cents.” The store was small and dingy and he carried but little stock, the inventory showing that he had only $293.99 worth of goods on hand. The money will all £0 to distant relatives, about six in all.
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