BE A WORKER NOT A SHIRKER IN NEXT WEEK’S CLEAN-UP CAMPAIGN.
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
EE ——
. INK SLINGS.
* —Let us clean Bellefonte up right
next week and keep her clean.
—We have been having some rains of
consequence during the last week.
~The Jitney is now the competitor of
the Movie for the spare nickles of the
local populace.
—As May takes on April temperature
it’s back to the woolen underwear for
the boys who had the B. V. Ds out last
week.
—Not an infectious disease is known in
Greenland, so there’s where we ought to
send Dr. DIXON as punishment for giv-
ing us a scare every Monday morning.
—Don’t nag. It Goes no good and
keeps every one upset; besides a Georgia
judge has just ruled that nagging is
cruelty and sufficient ground for divorce.
—Right now is the time to begin drop-
ping an occasional coin into a saving’s
bank so that you will have the mazuma
with which to “blow off” your friends
when they come back for Old Home
week.
—We are still looking for those show-
ers of green-backs, post-office orders or
checks that we had been hoping for.
There is danger of a drouth in our funds
unless a lot of subscribers come across
pretty soon.
—Now is the time when the sweet girl
graduate begins to worry about how her
feet are going to look when she sits on
the rostrum at commencement time.
There's nothing that shows up feet and
hands like a graduation day sitting.
—Between Count VON BERNSDORFF
and Mr. DERNBURG Germany has two
mouth-pieces in this country that
might have served a better pur-
pose as foot-warmers during the winter
campaign of her soldiers in the Carpath-
ians.
—1If you have an idea that whitewash
won't chase away gloom go down Cherry
alley and see what WAGNER GEISS has
made it do to the inside of his livery
barn. It will do the same thing to those
dingy looking buildings in your back
yard, if you can’t afford to paint them
next week.
—Sunday will be Mother’s day. Wear
a white carnation in memory of her if
you can. But whether you can or can-
not, plant a seed in your heart and pray
for it to blossom into a flower as
sweet and pure and sinless as was her
love for you when first she beheld you at
her side. 2 :
— Bellefonte always was a town of big
things therefor the Old Home week com-
mittee is working to get both the Liberty
Bell and President WILSON here in July.
Rightly they have their hopes pinned to
the stars but they have their feet on the
ground as well and have lines out for
BRYAN, ROOSEVELT, BRUMBAUGH and a
lot of lesser lights.
—When the stock market threw a fit
for fear war was going to be declared
against Germany its manipulators must
have thought that ROOSEVELT is still in
the White House. Inasmuch as Congress
is not in session and inasmuch as Con-
gress has the sole right to declare war
and inasmuch as we have a President in
the White House who respects the con-
stitution of the United States we can’t
see that there was much ground for the
bogey that frightened the speculators on
Tuesday.
—Talking about the *“Adventures of
KATHLEEN,” and “the Perils of PAULINE,”
have you read any of the poetry of
“PRISCILLA” that is being published in
the WATCHMAN. Ordin.rily we don’t
publish anonymous communications but
“PRISCILLA’S” contributions are so inter-
esting and so ultra jingling that we have
made an exception of her for your pleas-
ure. What worries us most, however, is
to find out who “PRISCILLA,” is and what
she does for a living besides gratuitous
rhyming for the WATCHMAN.
— Under date of May 1st, J. H. KING
writes from Tulsa, Oklahoma, the fol-
lowing:
“Enclosed find 5cts. for copy of
WATCHMAN, any date. I am told by a
good judge of the “art preservative”
that your newspaper in news, and es-
pecially typographical make-up, is the
BEST AND BRIGHTEST WEEKLY IN THE
UNITED STATES.”
We haven't an idea who Mr. KING is, nor
who gave him the information, but we
appreciate the opinion of his unnamed
informant. We trust that his expecta-
tions will not be disappointed when he
looks over the copy we have sent him
and we are inspired to even better work
by this unknown admirer.
-—There is an old saying that the first
thing a Bellefonter asks a stranger when
he arrives here is: “When are you going
to leave?” While down in Lock Haven
they are credited with so much more
hospitality as to say: “Let's have a
drink!” So far as Bellefonte is concern-
ed personal observation leads us to be-
lieve that there is some ground for the
charge that is preferred against us.
Granting that it is true, in some cases,
for goodness sake, cut it out for awhile
and get out of the habit before Old Home
week time comes. Remember, our guests
are expected for a week and we musn’t
make them feel that their welcome is
worn out as soon as they arrive by ask-
T RID OF THE DIRT, WEEDS, ETC.
VOL 60.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
.
BELLEFONTE,
PA. MAY 7, 1915.
NO. 19.
The Present Navy
Former Secretary of the Navy GEO. |
VON L. MEYER, of Boston, continues to |
criticise the present administration of |
that Department and in reply to a recent |
statement of Secretary DANIELS on the’
subject says “that a program of two bat-
tleships with no scout cruisers and no |
battle cruisers will lead nowhere.” He
admits that “the navy is today recruited
to its maximum strength,” but complains
that “the fleet lacks in its complete equip- |
ment about 5000 men and a number of |
officers,” and adds “to put all the ships |
in commission that could be useful in |
time of war would require 18,000 addi- |
tional men and many officers.”
The Secretary of the Navy has no right i
to enlist more men than the law author- |
izes. While Mr. MEYER was secretary |
the maximum of enlistment was never |
reached and the full complement has not |
been attained under any administration
of the Department for nearly fifty years i
until now. Why, therefore, should a |
Secretary: who was himself Doturioutls
delinquent, censure a successor who has |
fulfilled every legal and moral obliga- |
tion? Besides we are not involved in |
war at this time and a complaint that all
the ships that could be useful in time of
war are not in commission is not only
absurd but mischievous.
During the four years that GEO. VON |
L. MEYER occupied the office of Secreta-
ry of the Navy Congress appropriated
nearly half a billion dollars for develop-
ment, equipment and maintenance of the
navy yet at the close of his official con-
nection with the Department the navy
was in the lowest stage of efficiency since
the beginning of CLEVELAND'S first ad-
ministration in 1885. How did Mr. MEY-
ER waste the money of the people? Did
he steal it or distribute it among his fa-
vorites as grants? Itis certain that he
didn’t use it wisely for the purpose of
strengthening the equipment. If he had
there would have been improvement.
Since the administration of Secretary
WHITNEY, 1885 to 1889, there has been
no such improvement in the naval ser-
vice of the country as has been shown
during the last two years. In view of
that fact the criticisms of GEO. VON L.
MEYER are as futile as they are prepos-!
terous. The navy is stronger and more
efficient now than it has ever been be-
fore and if the thieves and grafters who
preyed on the Department during recent
years are kept out it will continue its
progress toward perfection.
and the Past.
Bi GR
——With the purpose of keeping down
the cost of living Lord SALISBURY an-
nounces that he will kill the deer on his
immense preserves and send them to the
London market for sale. Now if some
philanthropic soul would arrange to in-
crease the supply of terrapin the poor
could look into the future with some
measure of hope.
The Childs’ Labor Law.
After a troubled voyage through the
Legislature the Child Labor bill is now
in the hands of the Governor for ap-
proval and will be a law soon, if it has
not already been signed. It is essentially
an expression of the views of Governor
BRUMBAUGH upon an important element
in social science. His life has been spent,
largely in the development and training
of youth and his anxiety to limit the tax
upon the mental and physical resources
of children*is the fruit of his experience
as an educator. But there are two sides
to this question and the opponents of the
bill are not to be condemned without a
hearing. ;
It is not begging the question to say
that to some extent the increased cost of
living is attributable to the increasing
force of idlers. In our father’s days and
almost to an equal extent in the days of
our own youth, every boy in the family
who had attained the age of twelve years,
contributed his mite to the family earn-
ing capacity. The withdrawal of this
feature can hardly help being felt in the
household, though if it finds recompense
in the greater physical and mental capac-
ity of the youth, it will serve a good
rather than an evil purpose. But that
remains to be seen.
Aside from the economic aspect of the
question there is much to consider. Be-
tween the ages of twelve and twenty
healthy boys accumulate a good deal of
surplus energy which must have vent. It
becomes a grave question, therefore,
whether it would not be better to direct
this surplus energy toward some whole-
some productive activity than to allow it
to dritt into some less desirable channel.
There is an adage to the effect that
Satan always finds employment for idle
hands and it is also said that he is an
exacting taskmaster. Possibly, however,
this legislatation is in the right direction.
—When a man has nothing else to do
he just sits. When a woman finds her-
ing them when they are going to_leave. ! self in that position she darns or knits.
Our Weekly Summary of Legislative Activities.
Feeling that the people of Centre county have a personal interest in what is
being done by the Legislators at Harrisburg and that iaws that may affect the
future of every individual more directly than ever before are under consideration
now and may be written into the statutes of the Commonwealth, the WATCHMAN
has arranged to publish a weekly summary of what has been done at Harrisburg.
It is not the purpose to go into detail of the various Acts proposed and furnish
you with a burdensome account of them. Merely to set them, and whatever else
is deemed of interest to the people of this community, before you in a general,
unbiased statement that will keep you informed of the progress that is being
made. The contributor of this Summary is one of the most capable and best
informed of Harrisburg’s newspaper ten and the WATCHMAN has been very for-
tunate in enlisting his service for this work.—ED.
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HARRISBURG, PA., May 5th, 1915.
Senator SNYDER’S fight against the child labor bill developed nothing more
serious than “a tempest in a teapot.” The Senator made his speech and admon-
ished the Legislature against the danger of executive encroachment. But the
Machine Senators were quite as docile as the Machine Representatives and took
the medicine out of the Governor's hand willingly if not with relish. Senator
CROW tried to dodge the issue but his vote was recorded for the amendment first
and for the bill finally. McNICHOL and VARE never faltered a minute. Obviously
they have made terms with the Governor. :
The manufacturers have not accepted the situation complacently, however.
GRUNDY, the grouch, emitted a howl! yesterday, which shows that he is hard hit
by the ingratitude of the Governor and the perfidy of the Machine. “The Gov-
ernor’s Child Labor bill having been forced through both branches of the Legisla-
ture with all its lamentable blunders uncorrected,” he declares, “the management
of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ association feels that it should make a final
statement regarding its attitude toward the measure in order that the blame for
the hardships, the suffering and the serious curtailment of industrial opportunities
| which it will produce—indeed is already producing—may be placed upon the
shoulders of those who are responsible for it and not upon the shoulders of the
employers of Pennsylvania.”
Then he proceeds to accuse the Governor, not only of usurping authority but
of corruptly influencing votes in the Legislature and false pretense generally. He
declares it is not a 51-hour bill, but a 374-hour bill and adds that while it will ben-
efit nobody it “will seriously harm those it was designed to help.” But Mr. GRUN-
DY won't be taken seriously by those who know him. He is “as mad as a marsh
hare” now because things didn’t go his way. That is his habit. But when the
cry of distress comes from the G. 0. P, as it will in the near future, GRUNDY will
come to the rescue with his purse and his energy. He may say that BRUMBAUGH
is a thief and a scoundrel, that he is a moral leper and a human monster. But
he will be certain to add in a subdued voice “but otherwise he is all right.”
That our statesmen are running at a High rate of speed may be inferred from
the fact that appropriations were made the other day at the rate of a million
dollars a minute. Of course there is no deliberation in such proceedings and it
is equally certain that half ‘the members dide't know what they were voting on
and probably didn’t care. As a matter of fact half of them didn’t vote at all but
were “marked up” by the clerks. Such proceedings are disgraceful and every
official in each branch of the Assembly perjures himself every time such a thing
is done. But these gentlemen actually take pride in their performance and
point to the achievement as evidence of what is called efficiency. If there were
no other reason for it a new constitution ought to be adopted to correct this
great and growing evil.
At a conference with the leading Senators and Representatives in the Legis-
lature, yesterday, the Governor gave assurance that in the event of good behavior
during the remainder of this session, he will not call an extra session. This ex-
emplifies “ the ruling passion strong in death.” The employer promises a holiday
or increase of pay in consideration of satisfactory service and the schoolmaster re-
wards merit in the same way. But the conditions must be met. The compen-
sation measures he has underwritten must be passed “or else.” The date of
fina! adjournment has been practically fixed for May 20 and there is plenty of
time to enact that and all other needed legislation meantime if “Barkis is willin’.”
Another conference was held on revenue legislation yesterday and it was
agreed that the anthracite coal tax bill will be pressed and the House immediately
passed it by a vote of 174 to 4. A bill compelling relatives to refund State money.
expended for indigent insane in State institutions; the bill to tax stock transfers;
the bill to increase the automobile license tax and that to shift the expense of
primary elections to the counties were also chalked for passage. The shift bill
has already been defeated in the House but its passage in the Senate gave it new
life. Bills to levy a four mill tax on corporation bonds and to place a tax on
manufactures were not approved by the conference. The proposed increase on
motor vehicles, as scheduled by Representative Wilson who has the measure in
charge is $1 on motorcycles; $1 on pleasure cars under 20-hcrse power; $2 on
cars between 20 and 35-horse power; $5 on cars between 35 and 50-horse power
and $10 on cars of over 50-horse power. Itis estimated that these increases
and the passage of the bills named will add nearly $7,000,000 to the revenues of
the State and be ample to meet all proper appropriations.
The chairmen of the Appropriation committees have been on the anxious
bench for some time. Every Senator and Representative wants liberal appropria-
tions for institutions within their districts but have not been willing to enact leg-
islation to increase revenues. At the beginning of the session the Governor served
notice that the appropriations should be kept within the revenues for the reason
that he doesn’t intend to continue the unlawful and mischievous system of “cut-
ting,” inaugurated by Governor STONE some fifteen years ago. Accordingly the
committee Chairmen undertook to prune the bills to a point that ‘would bring
them within the limit. In other words they determined “to cut the coat accord-
ing to the cloth.” ] J
As one after another of the revenue bills was defeated the demand for liberal
appropriations increased in vociferousness and importunity. The Chairmen
“walked the floor” to no purpose. Finally, the other day Chairman WOODWARD
of the House committee ran up a danger signal and declared the situation grave.
«It is making it particularyly hard to keep the expenditures within the revenues,
but” he added, “I will do all in my power to accomplish the result.” The hope-
lessness of the task, however, was revealed in the tone of his voice.
The Governor has broken all records in the matter of vetoes. Up until Mon-
day of this week he had vetoed thirty-six and approved 135 bills. The sponsors
of one of the vetoed bills propose to go into court to test the validity of the act
and upon the face of the matter it looks as if they might score. The bill in ques-
tion is the Optometry measure. It passed finally on April 20 and was vetoed May
1st. The constitution declares that “if any bill shall not be returned by the Gov-
ernor within ten days after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be
a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the General Assembly, by their
adjournment, prevent its return.” The time limit for the veto, it is contended,
expired on April 30, whereas the veto message is dated May 1st. It is proposed
therefore, to compel the Secretary of the Commonwealth to record the bill as a
law by mandamus proceedings. It is a rather interesting situation.
Among the bills signed by the Governor within the week are that : establish- |
ing the size of fruit and vegetable containers. It creates four standards, the
“pony” jumbo baskets and standard tray. When vegetables and fruits are sold
by the quart the cubical contents shall be 76 1-5 cubic inches. The violation of
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VICE AND ADVICE.
[Written for the WATCHMAN.]
Billy Bump can hop and jump
And preach Salvation from the stump
He saw a Sinner—"‘on the dump”
And hit him with a dreadfui thump,
Oh Billy Bump you naughty lad
You make us feel so very sad
By doing things so awful bad.
Billy Bump can deal out trump
And race the Devil ‘round a stump
He saw a Preacher—‘on the slump”
And branded him a worthless chump.
Oh Billy Bump you have the sand
The whole ca-bocdle you have canned
You know exactly where they stand.
Billy Gay is making hay
_ And working hard both night and day
He saw a Serpent—*‘made of clay”
His Royal Highness he did slay,
Oh Billy Gay you have the sting
You're not afraid of anything
Your hat is always in the ring.
Billy Gay can watch and pray
While lots of money comes his way:
He's always ready—‘‘for the fray”
If people have the nerve to pay.
Oh Billy Gay do not deiay
But salt it down where it will stay
And save it for a rainy day.
— Priscilla.
The Bosses and the Colonel.
From the Washington Star.
No politician in the country can be
otherwise than amused by Mr. Roose-
velt's deliverances against bosses. In
the language of the drawing room, they
are just too funny for anything. It was
Satan who introduced the droll fashion
of rebuking sin in quarters where it
seems a familiar if not a welcome guest.
Some of the deliverances, however,
are funnier than others. Take the one
relating to Mr. Penrose. That, in the
lingo of the theatre, is a “scream.”
According to Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Pen-
rose was recommended to him for na-
tional campaign manager in 1904. Mr.
Penrose says he was not an aspirant for
the place, and has heard now for the first
time of the recommendation. But Mr.
Roosevelt declares the recommendation
was made, and that he turned it down
because Mr. Penrose was a boss of the
kind he disapproved. He would not per-
mit his campaign to be managed by such
a man.
But did that rule Mr. Penrose out of
the game entirely that year? Bless you,
no! He took charge of the campaign in
Pennsylvania, where ‘he belonged and
| so much service that he rolled up a ma-
| jority approaching half a million for the
| Republican ticket. Did this anger Mr.
Roosevelt? Did he show hesitation
about accepting the fruits of Mr. Pen-
rose’s activity? Bless you, no! He not
only accepted them, but in the heartiest
. terms thanked Mr. Penrose for what he
| had done.
i Pennsylvania returns.
Had Mr. Penrose managed the nation-
i al campaign, would his methods have
differed materially from those he employ-
ed to carry his own State? Probably
not. He would simply have studied the
| different States, as would have been his
: duty, for pointers as how best to advance
| the fortunes of his party. Asa boss he
would simply have spread out, becoming
i a National instead of a State quantity
that year. And would that have been as
| acceptable to Mr. Roosevelt as was the
' Penrose achievement in Pennsylvania?
| The question answers itself. In the lan-
! guage of the “boys,” it sure would.
{ Mr. Roosevelt has known all, and at
one time or another worked with all, the
Repubiisan bosses, big or little, of his
ay.
i they were for him. He has been served
at one time or another by all. But at
i last, “the sad hour of parting’ came for
! many of them; and since then Mr. Roose-
| velt has gone over the list and is admin-
| administered only honey and praise.
Penrose and Mexico.
| From the Milwaukee Journal.
i Mexico are worse than in Cuba when the
' United States intervened. Of course,
_ they have been worse in a score of years,
"but let that pass. What is the object of
| Senator Penrose’s remarks? Does he
| mean that we should make war on Mex-
i ico? That is the only thing that would
| give any point to his mouthings. But
i Penrose doesn’t say so. Of course, if he
| did, there would then come the question
| of what general we should choose for
our attack: for there is not here a ques-
tion of an oppressing foreign nation.
| But first let's have it settled wheth-
rer Penrose and the others like him
who are trying to make politics of this
thing want this nation to raise an army
and go down to Mexico. If not, just
what are they talking about? :
i Americans are not afraid to undertake
"a proper and right solution of the Mexi-
ican situation, even should that mean
going to war. But the American people
‘do not want war. It will take a very
‘ clear proof of our right to intervene to
{ persuade this people that American lives
i and treasure must be poured out freely.
Until such proof is forthcoming, Presi-
dent Wilson's policy will be very much
more in favor than the cry for interven-
tion, part jingo, part capitalistic, but
| chiefly politics. Does Mr. Penrose want
| war? If not, what does he propose? And
just what is the purpose of his talk?
i Condemning the policy of the Adminis-
} tration is easy. Suggesting a better pol-
!icy is the only reason any man has a
| right to offer for such condemnation.
‘But that politicians like Penrose seem
very slow to do.
——1It is estimated that 2600 cities and
towns are conducting their own cam-
" paign against dirt and unsightly sur-
roundings this spring—let us be one of
‘ them. 28
could hope to be of service, and was of |
He was dee-lighted with the
He was always for them while |
| istering excoriation now where once he |
Senator Penrose says that conditions in :
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Two Lock Haven women who gave their
names as Ruth Confer and Minnie Thomas, have
b-en sent to jail charged with having robbed a
woodsman, out for a “good time,” of about $180.
—By a recently enacted law the trustees of the
proposed State Industrial home for women, at
Muncy, have been authorized to purchase an ad-
ditional 500 acres of land, so as to control the
water supply.
—The grand council of the Royal Arcanum of
Pennsylvania will hold its next annual session in
Williamsport on Wednesday and Thursday, May
12th and 13th. It is believed nearly 500 members
and their wives will attend the meetings.
—The State convention of the Order of United
American Mechanics will be held in Punxsu-
tawnsey this week, beginning Monday and last-
ing three days. About 250 delegates from var-
ious sections of the Commonwealth will attend.
—Fire following a stroke of lightning destroyed
the barn and all the outbuildings on the William
Anderson farm, two miles from Cassville, Hunt-
ingdon county. Four horses and two mules were
cremated and all the farm machinery destroyed.
—The Rev. Dorsey N. Miller, pastor of the
Methodist Episcopal church at Lewistown, re-
cently paid a fineof $3 that had been assessed
against a man for drunkenness. The preacher
Faiiie fine in order that the man might go to
work.
—The State Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
at Harrisburg has completed the first inquiry
made into the maple sugar industry in this State
and it shows that people in thirty-five counties,
or over half the State, are engaged in it. The
production runs over a million pounds of sugar
a-year.
—With his wife dead, one daughter in the poor
house,another daughter ready to appear in court,
this week, against him in a case involving
charges of cruelty and inhuman treatment,
Obadiah Benjamin, 45 years old, of Wyalusing
township, Bradford county, committed suicide
Saturday morning.
—According to the Indiana Evening Gazelle,
Mr. Albert Dick, of Indiana, has a farm of 100
acres seven miles from Indiana which he will
divide among a certain number of applicants,
presumably residents of Indiana, if they will
manifest a bonafide desire to cultivate the
ground and live upon it.
—Pleading guilty to defaulting in the payment
of $1,000 of the funds of the Catholic Beneficial
Society of Mount Carmel while he was its treas-
urer, Joseph Perembo was on Monday sentenced
to serve two years in the Northumberland coun-
ty jail. He offered to pay back $50 a month, but
the society rejected his offer.
—Frank Winters, aged 20, an epileptic living in
Northumberland county, while on a fishing trip
with his father was missed by the latter, who
after a short search found that the youth had
fallen into the stream where it was about a foot
deep. His head and shoulders were immersed
and while powerless to aid himself he drowned.
—The historic Alleman property at Selins-
grove, known as the home of Simon Snyder, one
of the State’s early Governors, is to be sold and
an effort will be made to buy it for historical
purposes. It was built and occupied by Governor
Snyder in 1816, and it is the same asthe day it
was built, as to architecture, although modern
improvements have been put in.
—Walter Douty, aged 15 years, was kicked in
the side by acolt the other evening about six
o'clock and was so badly hurt that he died nine
hours later. The lad struck the colt, which was
supposed to be very gentle, with a whip and it
responded with the fatal kick. The accident
happened near Loganton, Clinton county, on the
farm where the young fellow resided.”
—Some folks who have been viewing Charles
M. Schwab’s chicken ranch, near Loretto, are:
, convinced that he is going into the business of
, raising chickens on an extensive scale. Perhaps
a mile of iron fence is being erected around the
enclosure, in which are a score or more of
modern hen-coops. This fence is ten feet high
' and the iron pickets are four inches apart.
—Verna Wagner, aged 15, a domestic employed
at the home of George W. Sheary, of Lewistown,
succumbed to terrible burns at the Lewistown
hospital on Sunday, after suffering great agony.
On Saturday while working about a gas stove,
the girl’s apron ignited, and, realizing her dan-
ger, she ran outdoors, where a stiff breeze fanned
the flames. Two-thirds of her body was serious-
ly burned before John Eisenhauer and Milton
Ruble extinguished the flames by rolling the girl
in a carpet. :
—Fenton N. Niehart and Milton Bitting, two
young residents of Trevorton, were committed
to the Northumberland county prison on Mon-
day charged with having held up a car on the
Shamokin and Edgewood electric road last Sat-
urday and stealing $2,500 which was being taken
to that place to pay silk milk employees. The
money has not been recovered. It was the most
daring robbery ever committed in Northumber-
| land county, the men holding up a car that car-
| ried a number of passengers.
—After carrying the dead body of H. G. White
upon their shoulders for four miles down the
| mountain, the fishing party composed of John
M. Whelan, of Philadelphia, Associate Judge C.
H. Bressler, Clyde M. Flack and son, William, of
Lock Haven, arrived in Lock Haven on the 11.20
train Saturday morning. The body was prepared
for burial by undertaker E. B. Waters and the
remains were sent to Philadelphia on the 10.05
train Saturday evening, accompanied by John M.
Whelan. Mr. White died very suddenly of acute
indigestion. !
—William F. Balsbach, formerly postmaster of
Bellwood, Blair county, pleaded nol contendre to
the charge of detaining, destroying and delaying
United States mail in the United States district
court at Pittsburgh on April 20th. Federal Judge
Charles P. Orr sentenced him to serve five days
in the Allegheny county jail. Balsbach, while
postmaster at Bellwood, is alleged to have seized
seyeral hundred postcards sent out by former
President Theodore Roosevelt, asking for the
support of Gifford Pinchot, Progressive candidate
for United States Senator in the November elec-
tion. Most of the postcards were burned.
—The Club house at Gardner on the Tyrone &
Clearfield railroad, the property of the Tyrone
Rod and Gun club, was destroyed by fire last Sat-
urday night. The building was a two-story frame
structure valued at $2,000. The individual loss to
the members of the club will total several hun-
dred dollars, as all the lockers and chests in
which were kept hunting togs, guns, fishing
tackle, etc., were completely destroyed. In-
surance tothe amount of $1,300 was carried on
the building. The fire is said to have been of
incendiary origin. A meeting of the board of
managers will likely be called at an early date to
consider plans for rebuilding. .
—Dr. Arthur D. Cowdrick, of Clearfield,
through his attorney, A. R. Chase, has entered
suit against the New York Central railroad com-
pany for $10,000 damages for illness occasioned
through being delayed at the railroad crossing at
the lower end of the Clearfield yards, near W B
tower on the morning of March 10th Ist. The
plaintiff's statement alleges that a train of the
defendant company blocked the crossing from 1
o'clock a. m. 'till almost 2; that he was returning
from a professional call at Shawville and being
kept at the crossing for almost an hour in very
inclement weather and as a result of this wrongly
enforced exposure hecontracted articular rheum-
atism and was incapacitated for considerable
length of time and suffered great pain and in-
convenience. :