Penocraiic atc
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Don’t worry, the coal man will soon |
get all the coin you haven’t given up to |
the ice man.
—Norway buys apples and prunes |
from the United States and we get Nor-
way pines for them. i
—We notice, with surprise, that some |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
vol. 90,
who are not old enough to vote are em- |
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGU
ployed on state road work in this county. |
—Of course these low neck shirts that |
young men are affecting would be called !
Labor Strikes and Their Causes.
There is a good deal of foolishness in
“ peek-a-boos if there were anything to !the gossip which ascribes to the German
peek at.
—The A. B. C. nations and U. S. are
going to do things in Mexico. And the
principal thing that should be done is
CARRANZA.
—Seventy babies are born a minute in
this grand old world and each and every
one of them is just the dearest, sweetest
little baby that ever was born.
—A great many of our ills are not
physical at all. They are purely mental.
For example, many a man gets “cold
feet” when his pedals are as warm as
can be.
—Local candidates for county offices
‘are all buying Fords. Probably they
think the dear public will imagine them
to be rich enough if they own a real
automobile.
—It is now nearing September and
KITCHENER’S much talked of new army
has not made its appearance. At least, it
has not appeared formidable enough to
make any appreciable break in the Ger-
man lines.
—The English just can’t get the tactics
of the old Duke of Yorkshire out of their
heads it seems. One day they march up
a hill and take a line of trenches and,
instead of holding them, they march
- right down again.
—It is estimated that Pennsylvania,
this year will produce 23,747,000 bushels
of wheat, 62,178,000 bushels of corn, 32,-
190,000 bushels of oats and 28,140,000
bushels of potatoes. Why long for gold
mines when we have such surpassing
fertility?
—Next month the great United States
will begin again 'its work of training its
coming citizens for the battles of their
lives. Teaching the young idea how to
shoot is a peaceful pursuit and would to
God that that will be the only kind any
of them will ever be engaged in.
—Old Doc Somebody has un overed an
Egyptian tablet on which he says it is
government responsibility for the labor
strikes and other industrial disturbances
which have occurred recently in localities
where munitions of war are being manu-
factured. Governments don’t, as a rule :
adopt that sort of methods to accomplish
their purposes. No doubt the German '
government would be glad to see all
manufacture of munitions for the allies,
in this country, stopped, just as the allies |
would be glad if the shipment of food
stuffs into Germany were stopped. But :
there will be no bribing of labor leaders |
or foolish conspiracies with mill em-'
ployees to compass the result.
The labor strikes that have occurred in !
factories engaged in the manufacture of |
arms and ammunition are - the result of |
the just and natural discontent of the |
employees of such establishments. The :
owners of them, usually corporations: |
have been making money, hand over |
fist, out of the labor and in most cases |
have refused to give any share of the ad- |
vantages to the men. These owners '
have been shedding crockodile tears for ;
years over the evils which tariff reform-
ers have been putting upon labor. But
when an opportunity is offered to give !
labor some real advantage they refuse
and then try to avert the necessity of
acquiescing in the just demands of labor
by raising a false pretense of patriotism |
‘and issuing a false alarm of German '
intervention. |
The shares in some of these industrial |
corporations have advanced in value |
vastly because of the profitable business '
they are doing. Yet they pretend a
willingness to shut up their shops rather
than give the men who earn the dividends
that multiply the value of their property
a trifling share of the increased profits.
As a matter of fact the recent labor dis-
turbances are attributable to existing in-
dustrial conditions and natural causes.
Work is plenty and labor scarce and the
logic of the law of supply and demand
makes for increase of wages or labor |
| apparent every day.
An Interesting Write-up of Happenings at Harrisburg.
HARRISBURG, PA., August 11th, 1915.
That the fight for the repeal of the Full Crew law is not ended, becomes more
Before the ink of BRUMBAUGH’S veto message was dry, in
June last, the railroad corporations begun forming their lines for a renewal of the
struggle in the next session of the Legislature. Now the roailroad trainmen are
organizing for the fight at the polls next year and no candidate for Senator or
Representative in the General Assembly will escape the inquisition that is con-
templated. There are some counties in the State in which railroad work is negligi-
ble. But there are a good many others in which trainmen are a potent force and
the full measure of their strength will be used to elect legislators who will vote
against the repeal and defeat candidates who favor it. Incidentally there will be
some reprisals in the vote. :
A meeting of railroad trainmen was held in this city last night, to organize for
the campaign next year. Trainmen from Columbia, Marysville, Enola and Sun-
bury participated and temporary officers were chosen. Another meeting will be
held next Monday evening to form a permanent organization and subsequently
similar organizations will be created in every county in the State. It will not be a
secret organization for its purposes will be openly declared but it will be an earn-
est and energetic movement. Men who are not railroaders will be educated in
the knowledge of the hazards of railroad work and ail labor organizations invited
to co-operate in the movement for the protection of railroad workers. It will be
a campaign for preparedness.
The State Department of Agriculture has been gathering statistics of peach
culture in the several counties ‘iin order,” as the Secretary states it, “that the
people of Pennsylvania who wish to purchase peaches may know where to buy
and that those who grow them may know where to look for a market near home.”
From his figures it appears that the crop will be abundant this year, though only
Adams, Armstrong, Blair, Cumberland, Dauphin, Fayette, Franklin, Indiana, Lan-
caster, Lebanon, Snyder, Westmoreland and York counties will exceed the normal
yield. Butler and Huntingdon counties will have a normal yield and the others
will fall below from one to seventy per cent. The Centre county crop will be be-
tween sixty-five and seventy per cent. of normal. Wyoming county will be seventy
per cent. short of normal.
We are certainly doing some “cheese-paring” in the Highway Department.
Though there will be a considerable increase in the number of automobile license
plates and tags as compared with last year, they will cost $35,000 less this year
than last. That is only “a drop in the bucket,” of course, but it is worth while
and shows that the new Commissioner is on the job. Besides the Department has
been doing other things. Bids were opened yesterday for three stretches of State-
aid roads. The first of these is for a road through Stroudsburg at a cost of $45,-
623.00, the second a street in Muncy, $41,877.07 and the third a street in Milton,
cost $28,144.43. Then the Commissioner has begun a systematic campaign for the
elimination of toll roads. Lancaster and Chester counties will be the objective
points.
ST 13, 1915.
~ NO. 32.
Carranza Isn’t Mexico.
From the Philadelphia Record.
General Carranza’s argument does not
lack plausibility. He declares that the
revolution in Mexico will not be complete
until the great agrarian and educational
reforms which were its objects shall have
been promulgated. It is requisite, he
says, that the promulgation be made as
a war measure—by military decree in
the first instance. Only by this method
! have the Mexican people ever obtained
| substantial reforms. When the latter
have been decreed, and not until then,
would it be practicable to call for the
election of a Congress. A Congressional
election before promulgation would mean
the end of the dictatorship, and ‘if the
Cientificos should secure a majority, or
even a strong minority, of the members
the revolution would have to begin all
. over if its purposes are to be achieved.
The defect of the argument is that it
assumes Carranza to be the whole show.
| He seems to take it for granted that he
, and his personal adherents are “the revo-
lution,” and that the other Mexican
leaders, who did as much and more than
i he to make the insurrection a success,
which was formulated at the outset of
the conflict by Carranza and a few of
his personal friends, was superseded by
the work of the Convention at Aguas-
calientes, in which all the leaders were
represented, including the First Chief—
although he subsequently repudiated the
adherence to the new plan given in his
name by General Obregon. .
This being the situation, the insistence
by this Government upon an accord
among the warring Mexican factions and
an ageeement of the leaders to recognize
some neutral person as Provisional Presi-
dent is well justified. This Government
refuses to recognize the anarchic strife
which has followed the withdrawal of
Huerta a year ago as a continuation of
the revolution. If the Mexican chiefs
decline to get together this Government
will ignore them all. If some of them
unite in a reasonable compromise and
one or more refuse to accede the latter
will be ignored and the others will re-
ceive the moral Support of the United
States and the Latin-American Powers in
their efforts to settle Mexico's troubl
on a Constitutional basis. This, in sub-
stance, is the plan of Washi . The
meaning of it ought to filter through
even the crust of vanity and .self-conceit
in which Carranza has permitted his
thinking apparatus to become encased.
What of the Allies on the West?
A ER STE ainsi,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Joseph M. King, aged 18, a resident of Du-
Bois, had his neck broken by a fall from a swing
while attending a picnic at Edgmont park.
—Many prominent residents of DuBois are ac.
tively engaged inthe task of raising $30,000 for a
hospital to be known as the Maple Grove hos.
pital,
—Clearfield county is to have two assistant su-
| perintendents of public schools. They are C.
| B. Wilson, of Winburne, and David A. Yingling,
of Westover.
—The approaching reunion of the McAllister-
ville soldiers’ orphans will be held at the old
school building. at McAllisterville, on Wednes-
day and Thursday, August 24 and 25.
—All the departments of the Cambria Steel
company at Johnstown are running full time -ex-
cept one of the car shops, which is running full
time by day but only half time by night.
—As the result of a row at Allport, Clearfield
county, George Legoss is believed to be dying at
Spangler hospital, his skull having been fractur-
ed by a blow from an axe in the hands of his as-
sailant.
—An Italian miner employed by a coal corpora:
tion in Westmoreland county has been detected
trapping robins and was fined $30 and costs for
killing three. He preferred to go to jail for thir-
ty days.
—John and Harry Beers, of Indiana county,
acknowledged their guilt when charged with
having killed rabbits and raccoons out of season
and were assessed a fine and costs amounting to
$65 each.
—Five cases of diphtheriain a certain section
of Williamsport are traced by the attending phy-
sicians to poisonous exhalations rising from a
Sewer excavation in the street on which the vic-
tims reside.
—The Philipsburg Fire Brick plant is working
full time. The General Refractories company’s
brick plant, at Blue Ball, is working day and
night to fill its orders, while others are coming in
from day to day.
.—During a recent severe storm which visited
Houtzdale aud Brisbin hail fell as large as wal-
I are’ rebels. The “plan of Guadalupe” nuts and did much damage. Brisbin suffered the
greater loss in broken window glass and the de-
struction of gardens.
—Lightning tore off the weatherboarding of
the barn of J. A. McNichol, in Cherrytree town-
ship, Indiana county, shattered the windows,
jumped over a stall in which a horse was stand-
ing and broke the leg of a hen that was running
about in the barn.
. —While sleeping in the show window of his
store the other morning Samuel Runzo, of Blairs-
ville, was fired at by some unknown person.
Three shots were fired through the heavy plate
glass show window, the balls entering his back
but not inflicting dangerous wounds.
—Finding two 32-calibre shells and not know-
ing what they were, Mrs. John Polack, aged 36,
of Barneshoro, began digging them apart with a
hair pin. An explosion followed by which the
woman was terribly burned, She is in the
Spangler hospital, in a critical condition.
—Amael Baeler, who disappeared from Boliver
nearly a month ago, has not yet been run down.
His friends fear that he met with foul play.
When the man suddenly vanished he was engag-
ed in building a house in which he and his pros-
pective bride expected to make their home.
—Mrs. Vincent Buckley, of Johnstown, has
been missing from her home for nearly two
weeks and her friends are much concerned. The
‘woman and her husband had frequent disagree,
ments and it was after one of these disputes that
she vanished. Her husband says he has not the
“least idea where she is.
—Emanuel Kausse, of Robertsdale, an inmate
at espanol for the downtalh of man, | aes wioubtes sre ane” ace the | The Game Commission proposes o liberate from 1000 to 1200 deer and a vast | CT fof the Huingdon ja, swaiing fal om he ie
S45 Atter-all-it might -be-NOAH'S ark and not 2 of wages but*¥ “that is-.impossib ible: ther | umber of wild { irkeys in the gaaie ts of the State during the coming fall + From the Harrisburg Stardndependent. . + charge of latseny, attempted to commit suicide... TEI
———_— Ny lt dete ar pu ~«... p-and winter. The deer will be purchased in Michigan where they will be taken in | ~ After resistance by the Russians -far | 07 hanging, but the rope used was not strong.
Apam’s apple at all that sticks out so |'the other is necessary. : DS ild d 1b ; : : more vigorous than was looked -for by | €flough to do the business. He was found on the
promineniey. Just above our. Soller button. I | a wild state and li erated in game preserves and forests in counties that have those who write the war news for Amer- sey hier in an exhausted condition. Illness of
— Every indication points to the fact | been closed to deer hunting. There are a dozen counties which have been closed | ican consumption, Warsaw finally fell | Mis Wife made Kausse despondent.
—Come to think of it'wouldn’t it be a
fine plan to have every one a candidate
for some office or other all the time.
Men are so amiable, polite and con-
siderate when they are candidates that
their perpetual pleasantness would per-
fectly palliate their perpetual pestifer-
ousness.
— With Italy fighting the Austrians and
Germans on the south; Belgium and
France fighting them on the west and
Russia fighting them on the east, Eng-
land, the much vaunted mistress of the
seas and the empire upon whose territory
the sun never sets, seems to be doing lit-
tle more than crying “sic em Tige.”
—The Panama-California exposition at
San Diego is one of the few that have
ever been held that have paid expenses.
At the end of July all expenses were paid
and a big balance left on the profit side
of the ledger. The exposition is really
wonderful and, if all reports be true, it
must be the most beautiful temporary
conception ever recorded.
—The liberty bell of the women has
come and gone, and out of all the oratory
of the suffragist campaigners the most
sensible suggestion we have heard of is’
their announcement that when the wom-
«en vote the men candidates will be only
too happy to hold their babies while they
are making up the ballot. A great many
men candidates are well up in the art of
handling bottles on election:days and if
it will be water on their mills it will mat-'
ter little to them whether its milk or
booze that fills the bottles. Pity it is
that we can’t try out this new proposition
. this fall. What a sight it would be to see
someone’s inquisitive kid trying to get a
peep at that favorite rubber band that
one of our eminent candidates can’t stop
chewing or a handful of the whiskers of
another aspirant for the same office.
—If automobiles get more numerous
and the hearing of the police department
no more acute there will be no living in
Bellefonte ere long. Really it is a shame,
Mr. Mayor. Of course the WATCHMAN
knows that one policeman patrolling
down town can’t catch a machine going
up Linn street with an open muffler, but
the nuisance is becoming more unbear-
for the peace and nerves of Bellefonte
we think it would be money well spent
to employ several plain clothes men fora
week or more to break up the nuisance.
All that will be needed will be a few
salty fines and proper publicity given the
matter.
short paragraph two machines, one large
touring car and one of the town jitneys
have gone up Spring street with cut-outs
wide open. ei,
! i no more chance of election than have the
able as the number of cars increase and |
While I have been writing this
that there will be ‘a large delegation of
automobilists from Altoona, Tyrone,
Philipsburg, Huntingdon, State College, |
Lock Haven, Bellefonte and other places |
at the motorists’ picnic to be held at |
Hecla park today. There will be severa |
good addresses by persons interested in |
good roads and automobilists should |
encourage the movement with their |
presence.
Purpose of Bull Moose Leaders.
VICTOR MURDOCK, of Kansas, chairman
of the Bull Moose party National com-
mittee, declares that his party is “going
into the 1916 fight as a party and to
win.” He had just completed a three
months’ personal canvass in the Middle
West and Pacific coast, and found con-
ditions to justify his statement. The
same conditions exist in the East, he
adds, and not only himself but his party
is intoxicated with hope. The battle will
not be over candidates, he continues, but
over platforms; “The storm will rage,
not in the Committee on Credentials, but
in the Committee on Resolutions.” The
stand-pat Republicans will roar for an
endorsement, of the TAFT administration
and thus the issue is definitely drawn.
There must be some purpose in this
mid-summer madness. A week or two
ago a similar declaration of confidence
issued from a conference held in New
York. Last week language of similar
import was put into the mouth of Mr.
DETRICH, chairman of the State Commit- |’
tee of the party in Pennsylvania and
publisted in the papers as an interview,
All these men must know that such
statements are utterly absurd. The con-
ditions in other States are precisely as!
they are in Pennsylvania. They are the |
same in other counties of Pennsylvania |
as they are in Centre county. In 1912
ROOSEVELT and JOHNSON polled in this |
county, 2612 votes. By the enrollment
completed recently the party has now
in the county 108 votes.
The Bull Moose party has no more
chance of carrying the Presidential elec-
cion next year than has the Prohibition-
ists. The local candidates of the party,
if local candidates are nominated, have
candidates of the Socialist party. Ob-
viously, therefore, there is some ulterior
motive in the claims of the party leaders
issued almost simultaneously from three
sections of the country. Probably it is
hoped that such expression, of confidence
and purpose will ‘influence Republicans
to put Bull Moosers on their tickets,
thus giving them a share of the spoils
which they could not’ otherwise hope. to
| and not conscientious.
secure. The Bull Moosers are hungry
‘Commissioner Ja
under the act of 1913 and the Secretary of the Game Commission imagines they
will multiply rapidly under his beneficent policy. And possibly they will though
experiments with other species of imported game hardly justifies sanguine hopes.
The hunters license tax affords the funds for this experimentation, however, and
our game commissioners are long on experiments.
Old General LETHARGY is certainly in command of all the political forces in
the State this year. Within a couple of weeks of the last day for filing nomina-
tion papers for Judges, only a few have been filed. There are three vacancies to
be filled on the Superior court bench, thirty Common Pleas Judges to elect, two
Orphans’ Court judges to be chosen and six Associate Judges to be named and
there is apparently “nothing doing.” Of course there will be candidates for all
these offices and their petitions will be filed in time. But other years the filing
was done much earlier and a vastly livelier interest was taken in the matter.
Everybody believes that Judges ORLADY and HEAD will be renominated and re-
elected to-the Superior court bench but there ought tobe dozens of candidates for
the remaining seat.
In lovely old Bellefonte, where everybody has all the money he wants all the
time, you don’t know much about the loan shark evil. But you will be glad to
learn, nevertheless, that Banking Commissioner WiLLiAM H. SMITH is constantly
guarding the public against these pirates. “BILLY” SMITH is an old newspaper
reporter and probably knows something of the inconveniences of ‘‘shortage.” Be-
sides that he has d keen sense of justice and abhors sharp practices in all things.
Recently he has been regulating these loan sharks more or less. Heretofore some
plethoric pirate in New York or elsewhere would organize half a dozen or more
companies and under different names start them in the fleecing business in a com-
munity. Now each company has to expose the name of its owners, officers and
managers so that he may be held responsible for any of the tricks of his man-
gers.
The Pure Food Commissioner has been “going after” manufacturers of “soft
drinks” and thirty-five arrests were made during July. The temptation to adul-
terate soft drinks is no doubt very great for at best soft drinks are an abomina-
tion. “WhenlI feel like taking a soft drink,” said a professional humorist to me
one day, “I just take a long breath and throw away a nickel.” But when any one
is imposed upon by such devices, he ought to be given something pure at least.
It seems, however, that all sorts of expedients are resorted to to increase the
profits or decrease the original cost of these libations. Commissioner FOUST is
going to change this condition, if possible, so he declares.
Governor BRUMBAUGH is enjoying himself in Maine, these days, and was un-
able to visit the camp of the Second Brigade, N. G. P., at Indiana, this week.
They had made great preparations to entertain him out there but the Governor is
not inclined toward military matters and there is great comfort in a well equipped
summer resort on a mountain stream. Therefore nobody is likely.to blame His
Excellency for passing up what would seem like work in comparison. But the
Governor will be home next week at the time set for his junket to the Panama-
Pacific exposition. That will be a great trip and during all the time the Governor
will be the “main guy” in a distinguished company.
Even Pennsylvania steel manufacturers are compelled to acknowledge an im-
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provement in industrial conditions though it goes hard with Senator
plan of campain for next year. = The Pennsylvania Steel Company, the extensive
plant of which is in our southern suburb, Steelton, is operating now to seventy-five
per cent, of its capacity, and is getting in shape to increase its activities. For a
long time this concern appeared to justify the calamity howl which PENROSE was
handing out and while other enterprises of the kind were overrun with work it
was silent. But the strain was too much and it is now getting ready to harvest a
share of prosperity.
The Department of Fisheries is giving attention to the pollution of streams in
Clarion, Clearfield and other counties and expresses a determination to put a stop
to that evil. State Wardens have sent in the names of a number of manufacturers,
and thine owners who have refused to install filters. ' The complaining Wardens :
have been summoned to meet the Commissioner at Pleasant Mount, Wayne county,
on Saturday for a general conference on patrol work. Commissioner BULLER is
certainly trying to conserve the fish interests of the Commonwealth and he ought
to have the moral support of every citizen in his work.
. The State artment of Labor has issued a bulletin on inflammable liquids.
n says; “Inspections made throughout the State reveal the
fact that persons who use benzine, gasoline or other inflammable. liquids do not
exercise the amount of care necessary in handling this material.” He adds, infer-
entially, that unless this fault is corrected more drastic action will be taken.
- A resident of Rochester, Pa., has contributed $50 of his good though probably
tainted money to the conscience fund of the State treasurer. May be that will fix
him up all right, but it is not certain. ly :
yesterday into the hands of the Germans
and Austrians, and the Teutons now are
reported to be pressing the retreating
armies of the Czar whose chances of
escape intact are said to. be. somewhat
doubtful.
The fall of Warsaw, the capital of
specific and impressive accomplishment
of the immediate material benefits gained
by them, is sure to have a far-reaching
psychological effect on their friends and
on their foes in the field. It will serve
to encourage not only the German and
Austrian soldiers, wherever they may be
entrenched, but also the Turks in their
defense of Gallipoli Peninsula; while on
achievement by a foe must tend to dis-
hearten the forces allied against the
Teutonic cause. t]
The brunt of the recent losses leading
up to the fall of Warsaw has, of course,
fallen directly on the Russian arms, and
the surprising point about it all, as view-
ed from this distance from the scenes of
strife, is that the French, British and
Belgian Allies have apparently been so
inactive on the West front while ‘the
Czar’s forces have been making so great
a sacrifice in the East. Sah oan
It is hard to understand why the Allies
have not undertaken in any convincing
way to smash the Western ‘front of the
Germans during all the weeks the Rus-
sians have been engaging the best of the
German forces in the East. If the Allies
hope ever to advance toward Berlin it is
difficult to figure out why they haven’t
attempted it this summer. Of what ad-
vantage to the Allied cause has been
the tremendous Russian sacrifice if not to
have given the Allies on the West the
chance to strike the temporarily weak-
ened Teutonic lines there? i Reig
When the Teutons have driven the
Russians as far back as they can or as
far back as they think necessary, it will
not require anything like as powerful a
German force to keep the Russians
there. Then the greater part of the
German strenth can be diverted to the
‘West front.
. Do the Allied forces think it will be
easier to strike then than now.
Getting at the Reason.
From Judge.
It has just occurred to us that all this
unrest among women is possibly due to
the fact that she has had to labor so in-
cessar.tly at household chores for so
many generations that she really doesn’t
know how to rest.
Having a Hot Time Anyhow.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel. ;
St. Louis astronomers report seeing
new sun spots. Maybe European pow-
ers really at last are finding their cov-
eted places in the sun.
More Work for Burbank.
From the Detroit Free Press. = 153
- Having removed the slip from the
banana peel, Mr. Burbank’s next .en-
deavor should be to extract the colic from
cucumbers. : re
Russian Poland, though anticipated, is a:
the other hand such an important
—State troopers working under the direction of
the district attorney of Westmoreland county,
‘recently rounded up twenty-five slot machines,
punch boards and other gambling devices in a
raid at New Kensington. At Monessen only
| three gambling machines were found. Warrants
charging theowners with maintaining gambling
places were sworn out.
~—It is reported that Jersey Shore will not get
the Fold-Easy House Manufacturing plant, that
is seeking a new location. It is now doing busi-
ness at McClure, Pa., and expects to remove to
Geneva, N. Y., that town having made induce
ments to locate there. Jersey Shore business
men made an effort to secure the new industry,
but did not meet with sufficient encouragement.
—Fire of unknown origin totally destroyed the
barn of Arthur Small, near Forward, Somerset
county, at a late hour one night last week, in-
cluding all the year’s crops that had been har-
vested, wagons, buggies and farming machine-
Ty, together with about fifty chickens. Several
of the cows in the barn were badly burned. Mr.
Small also received severe burns, but is likely to
recover.
—A large amount of deer, wild turkeys and
other game will be placed in state game reserves
and liberated in various parts of the State the
coming winter under plans of the State Game
Commission. Arrangements are being made
now for the purchase of the game. More than
1,000 deer and hundreds of turkeys will be placed
in counties where they will have a chance to
breed and increase. :
—The contest for judge over in Jefferson coun-
ty has reached an acute stage already. Stewart
H. Whitehill, one of the candidates, has made
public an affidavit in which he charges that L.
Mayne Jones, president of Jefferson county’s No
License League, said the league would endorse
him if he made a contribution of $10,000 to the
campaign fund, a proposition which he declined.
The league has endorsed Charles Corbett.
—Upon the authority of a party of berry pick-
ers who recently visited Nippenose valley in
search of berries, the Williamsport Gazette and
Bulletin tells something of a snake story. A
young lady berry picker discovered a large ball
of closely intertwined snakes. She called the
men of the party who at once proceded to slaugh-
ter the reptiles. Some got away but the dead
ones numbered twenty-five, all copperheads ex-
cent one large rattlesnake.
—Frank Shankle, who resides with his father,
H. H. Shankle, near Luthersburg, Clearfield
county, went to a field to finish some farm work,
taking a horse with him. While the animal was
being hitched it suddenly kicked young Shankle
on the head, producing concussion of the brain.
A younger brother mounted a horse and started
for Luthersburg for a doctor. Riding at a rapid
rate he was thrown to the ground with great vio-
lence when the horse stumbled. Both lads are
in a dangerous condition.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Moore celebrated their
sixtieth wedding anniversary at their home at
Kylertown, Clearfield county, on ‘Saturday, the
7th, in an enjoyable manner. Mr. Moore was
born in Perry county, near Loysville, in 1832, and
on August 4th celebrated his eighty-third natal
day. © At the age of twelve years he drove on the
old Juniata canal and also drove on the old North
Branch canal, ‘At the age of twenty-three years
he married Catherine Wyland, daughter of John
and Sarah Wyland, in Snow Shoe township, Cen-
tre county, and for some years resided in Centre,
Juniata, Huntingdon and Blair counties. In 1878
they moved to Clearfield county and -since resid-
ed there. Eleven children were born to the un-
ion and eight of them survive. )