Benorea Watdp
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—Vote for FRANK SMITH for Register.
—Vote for JAMES E. HARTER for Treas-
urer.
* —Vote for JoHN B. HEAD for Supreme
court.
—Vote for FRANCIS SPEER for Re-
corder. .
—Vote for GEo. H. RICHARDS for
Sheriff.
—Vote for BRUNGART and Hoy for
Auditors.
—Vote for DAVID FOREMAN tor Pro-
thonotary. ‘
—Vote for GEO. B. ORLADY for Supe-
rior court.
—Vote for PAUL L. WETZEL for Coun-
ty Surveyor.
—Vote for D. PAUL FORTNEY for Dis-
trict Attorney.
—Vote for NoLL and GROVE for Coun-
ty Commissioners.
—Vote for ELLIS L. ORVIs for president
Judge of Centre county.
—VILLA is still at the head of a force
of soldiers but he only thinks he is fight-
ing.
—Don’t fail to vote for FRANK SMITH
for Register. He is all that you could
desire in a public official.
—PAUL FORTNEY has tried to be a very
diligent public prosecutor and he has
never been a public persecuter.
—KING FERDINAND, of Bulgaria, has
received the iron cross from the Kaiser
but he’ll get the “double cross” later on.
—Unless the Germans change their
methods of warfare even the ‘unspeak-
able Turks” are likely to become asham-
ed of their present association.
—The fact that intelligent people re-
fuse to hear ROOSEVELT talk is a hopeful
sign. When reason resumes full sway
the mention of his name will stir up
fountains of disgust in the minds of
thoughtful men.
—Automobiles have become so cem-
mon that even horses won’t notice
them any more. There is still some-
thing, however, about a certain make of
machine that you haven't seen. Next
Wednesday you will see a Buick car go
up Salt river.
—The complaint from the west that
most of the profits from war orders come
to the east is hardly justified in view of
the exportations of food stuffs during
the last year. The grain and cattle grow-
ers have had quite a harvest unless pub-
lished statistics are misleading.
—It’s of no importance to Miss
CAVELL, probably, because she is dead,
but the chances are that if the German
authorities had the thing to do over
again some milder sort of punishment
would have been discovered. Murdering
nurses is a poor way of vindicating justice.
—Vote for yourself. The ballot was
given you for the purpose of looking out
for your own interests. Your interest is
to have good, clean, economical county
officials. You have that kind now. Vote
for your own interests by voting to keep
those who have served you best in office.
——If the present County Surveyor
PAuL L. WETZEL, is re-elected to the
office, hundreds of maps will be retained
to the use of the public. These maps
are the private property of the present
holder of the office and are the accumula-
tion of over twenty years in the business
of surveying in this county.
—Only four more days to think over
the matter of who you are going to vote
for. If you are wise you will vote for
yourself by casting your ballot for the
present corps of county officials. They
are the men who have done the economical
team work that has paid your county
debt and reduced your taxes.
—If Centre county ever had a clean
cut christian man in the Register’s office
that man is FRANK SMITH, the present
incumbent. He is right every way;
morally, officially and socially. He is a
credit to every man who voted for him
four years ago as well as to those who
voted against him, because he is an offi-
cial that they can all point to with pride
as residents of Centre county.
—The county would be cutting off its
nose to spite its face were it to fail to
elect PAUL WETZEL county surveyor.
During the long career of his father as a
civil engineer they have accumulated
hundreds of maps that are their personal
property but to which the public has al-
ways had ready access. These maps do
not pass with the office hence you will
see the advantage to be gained by hav-
ing an engineer in the County Surveyor’s
office who has some fixed charts to refer
to. ;
—Senator PENROSE is proving his faith
in the credulity of the people. He tells
the voters of Philadelphia that unless one
Republican candidate for Mayor of that
city defeats another Republican candidate
for the same office, protective tariff will
be destroyed forever, the Republican
candidate will be defeated next year for
President and the country will go head-
long to the “demnition bow-wows.” And
he imagines that there are men outside
of insane asylums who will believe such
guff.
STATE RIGHTS
AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 29, 1915.
NO. 43.
A Thought that Possibly You
Thought Of.
Haven’t |
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While in the last analysis there are re- |
ally no political issues entering into the
election of any candidate for a county |
office, other than the Member or Mem- |
bers of the Legislature that the county is |
entitled to name, it must be remembered |
that there would be grave danger in per- |
mitting county elections to deteriorate
into the class of “Most Popular Fireman’ |
and beauty contests.
Inasmuch as county officials are really :
only the employees of the county tax-
payers, selected for a term to do certain,
prescribed things, their selection should
be made with a view to getting the most
satisfactory return for the money invest-
ed in their salaries. It is the duty of
every voter to himself, to his family and
his community to vote for that man for
county office whom his best judgment
tells him would make the best official.
It doesn’t necessarily follow that
the most popular man would make the
most satisfactory county official, any |
more than that the finest looking man
would prove more satisfactory than the
homeliest. !
For obvious reasons certain standards '
of character should be demanded in
every candidate for county office. Am- |
bition is almgst instinctive in the human !
race. Every normal being has some goal
or other which he or she hopes some day |
to attain. Under our form of govern-
ment the highest secular achievement |
ambition can strive for is the Presidency
of the United States. Public office has |
ever been regarded as an honorable occu- |
pation. From the Presidency down to |
the most inconsequential elective post |
tradition has clothed the occupant with a |
modicum of honor.
The greatest incentive to the young |
manhood of today to live right, to be
right, is the approbation and the prefer-
ment of his fellows. This can only be |
expressed in a positive way when the in-
dividual decides to stand for an elective |
office. He then should reap the reward
that his character and fitness merit.
© Of course there are opportunities in
every walk of life for these same princi- |
ples to work out, but, as we have said
before, the one through which the great-
est honor flows is in the elective office. |
This being so is it not incumbent on us!
all to maintain the dignity of our public i
offices. If men of low standard are to
be chosen to fill them what secular in-
centive can there be for others to live to
higher ideals? Would your son deem it
an honor to be chosen to an office that
had been filled before him by a man
whose character was such as he would |
not emulate? Would it be any stimulus
to his ambition to see the things he has
striven for most questioned as to the
honor they confer?
This is not theory. It is a serious,
reasonable presentation of a thought that
should be on every voter's mind when
he approaches the polls next Tuesday.
There are not many, but there are some
men on the Republican ticket whose elec-
tion would detract from whatever of hon-
or there has been attached to the
occupation of the offices they aspire
to. If Centre county can make pub-
lic officials of them then it can
make public officials of almost anyone
within its boundaries, so far as inciting
its young manhood to its best endeavors
is concerned. .
The present corps of county officials
are honorable, upright, efficient, courte-
ous men. They fulfill every standard
that reason should demand in their re-
spective positions. They serve the pur-
pose of maintaining the dignity of our
county offices splendidly. And they serve
another purpose, as well: That of being |
the men whom the individual voter has |
tried and found profitable as employees.
The statements that have been pub-
lished broadcast over the county set forth
in cold figures the amazing results of
their stewardship. They should carry
conviction to the minds of every tax-
payer that the county officers have work-
ed for the taxpayer’s interests and those ;
of no machine, ring or combine.
Such officials should be re-elected, not
only as a safeguard to the integrity of
the offices they occupy, but as a ‘matter
of business prudence to you as a tax-
payer in Centre county.
You should rot vote for a man merely
because he “sets em up” every time you
meet him. Nor should you vote against
a man because he does not spend his
money like a Prince. JOHN DOE might
be a “hail fellow, well met” and yet be
the slickest rascal in the community.
You know, and, possibly like, lots of men
whom you wouldn’t trust your own busi-
ness to. Is it not plain to you then that
you should seek other standards, those of
character and efficiency, in the men you
are going to choose for your county offi-
cials.
they would not speak to his little daughter, he acted like a wild man.
-—Have your Job Work done here.
Has Long Perjured Himself?
In the Keystone Gazette of today appears several affidavits, the principle one
of which has been made by CLARENCE LONG, keeper of the hotel at Rebersburg.
They are published, of course, for the purpose of assailing Judge ORvis. After
reading them carefully no sensible person can discover that Judge ORVIS is in any
way involved, so that the entire matter might be dismissed as irrelevant were it
not for the fact that other men whose names and character are precious things to
them have been charged with doing things that they swear they have not done.
So far as the WATCHMAN has been ableto learn LONG is a man of very fiery
temper and of more or less intemperate habits and it is quite possible that dis-
appointed over the outcome of an unpleasant litigation in which his sister was in-
volved he has gone into a passion and made oath to statements that are not the '
truth. .
However that may be, as Judge ORVIS is in no wise involved in the controversy
we can see no use in devoting space to such affairs other than to give the gentle-
men whom LONG has assailed the opportunity to defend themselves, which they do
in the sworn statements following which are so positive as to make it a very
grave question as to whether LONG has not actually perjured himself for the pur-
pose of working injury to a perfectly innocent man.
SWORN STATEMENT OF COL. TAYLOR.
The affidavits in the Keystone Gazette are without truth or a foundation and 18
a conspiracy framed up at the last moment for political effect.
Senator Heinle, before his death, was attorney for Clarence Long, I had been
his attorney for some time. Several months ago he directed his sister, Mrs.
i Walker, of Miles township, to employ me in the criminal case of Walker against
Corman, with instructions that no one should know that he directed her to my of-
fice. The Grand Jury ignored the bill and Mrs. Walker in a rage charged me with
not looking after her interests carefully and demanded me to have Corman re- |
arrested which I refused to do, and discharged myself then and there as her attor-
ney. The citizens of Miles township and Pennsvalley will understand the refer-
ence to this case as they are well acquainted with the facts and the charges
therein.
While in Brush valley some weeks ago I visited Mr. Long, who had always
seemed to be a kind friend of mine and found him in a highly incensed state. The
moment he saw me he started to upbraid and curse County Chairman Sheriff Lee
and N. B. Spangler, Esq., threatening them with his enmity for life and declared
to me that they had schemed with me to interfere with his License for the reason
that he had not received his petition from me. I explained to him that such was
not the case that they had never spoken to me in reference to him or his License,
and that the petitions that I represented had not been sent out, but at that time
were in the hands of the stenographer and would be sent out shortly, were mailed
on the 18th of October. I could not peacify him, he berated the community, the
Minister of the neighborhood and even the Sunday-school children claiming that
I talked to
him quietly and gentlemanly under his excitement and tried to show him that he
was in error, that his License petition would be forwarded to him regularly,
but he would not believe it. He claimed there was a set-up job to take his Li-
cense away from him because he had been for Quigley for Judge. I then and
there told him that he should have supported under the laws of manhood Judge
Orvis first, or N. B. Spangler, second. The one who had granted him the License
against all protest, and the other who had loaned him money to enable him to
carry on his business. He became so offensive, claimed that he would transfer
the License and leave the town, when I became disgusted with him and told him
then and there that I would not represent his transfer, neither would I represent
his License this year that he should look for some other attorney. Because of his
actions and the rumors of his illegal acts in running the hotel I told him that his
wife was compelled to tend bar during his ahsence which was against the rules of |
the Court, that he was continually absent in. his automobile and his tours were
much questioned by the neighborhood, that he had been accused of selling whis-
key and beer at wholesale by the gallon and case, and although his hotel was
, nicely fitted up and meals served were good, he had violated law and his manner
towards me at that time was caused probably by the Walker-Corman case. And
I said, that I would never have anything more to do with him or his hotel.
I therefore deny specifically that I ever was authorized directly or indirectly
* by Judge Orvis or any other individual to ask from him money as a consideration
for his license. On the face of it that would be preposterous, when he is unable
and hard run to pay his just debts or reduce his debt against the property held by
the Banks and always hard up. I further deny absolutely that any consideration
was demanded of him for any purpose or any guarantee given him in reference
to or for his License. He is a liar, and a perjurer, and a conspirator, and with
this I will leave the facts and question of his truth and veracity to the citizens of
Miles township where he is best known.
H. S. TAYLOR.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 28th day of October, 1915.
H. MUSSER, Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA |
SS.
COUNTY OF CENTRE J
Before me, za Justice of the Peace in and for said State and County, personal-
ly appeared J. Mac Heinle, who being duly sworn according to law deposes and
says, that I have read the affidavits in the Keystone Gazette of October 29, 1915
relating to an alleged interview between myself and Clarence Long. That the
principal portion of said affidavits are totally false; that I was neither authorized
by any one to solicit campaign contributions nor have I solicited contributions.
That my only purpose in Miles Township was to meet the friends and acquain-
tances and relatives of my late father, Senator Heinle. That it is true that Clar-
ence Long asked me to intercede with Judge Orvis to protect him, the said Long,
and guarantee his license, notwithstanding any charges that might be made
against him, and said that he would be willing to pay a large sum of money for
such a guarantee. I then and there told him he must be crazy, that I would not
dare go to Judge Orvis with such a proposition, that it would only hurt Clarence
Long and disgrace me with the Judge. That the story told by Long and the other
affiants is plainly a frame-up and is absolutely without truth except so far as my
having been in Miles Township on the day mentioned. Upon my refusal to in-
tercede for him with Judge Orvis and accept his offer of money, he then assured
me that he had or would contribute largely to Mr. Quigley’s campaign, and that
he would do all he could before and on the day of the election for Quigley’s suc-
cess. And further affiant saith not.
J. M. HEINLE
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 28th day of October A. D. 1915
H. MUSSER, Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA |
SS.
COUNTY OF CENTRE §
Before me, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid,
personally came John J. Bower, who after being duly sworn according to law doth
depose and say, that on Friday, the 15th day of October, at about nine-thirty P.
M. he stopped at the hotel in Millheim, that Clarence Long, proprietor of the
Hotel at Rebersburg, was in the Hotel and called your affiant aside and asked for
a private conversation; that the said Long told your affiant that Col. Taylor, of
Bellefonte, had called at Long’s Hotel on the preceding Wednesday, namely Oc-
tober 13th, and had demanded of the said Long the sum of Three Hundred and
Fifty Dollars, and had said that unless the same was paid that his license would
be refused, and asked your affiant whether such a demand had been authorized
by Judge Orvis. Your affiant then informed him-that he had positively no knowl-
edge of any contribution that Judge Orvis authorized from the Hotel men and
assured him that no such solicitations would be made. Mr. Long offered to make
a contribution of money as he said for Judge Orvis’ support, but your affiant re-
fused absolutely to accept any money and explained to Mr. Long that he would
not or could not accept such a contribution in the interests of Judge Orvis. He
further informed Mr. Long that he would communicate the information received
from him to Judge Orvis at the earliest opportunity, and that early the next week
would be in Rebersburg and communicate to Mr. Long the result of the interview
with Judge Orvis. Your affiant was at the Hotel at Rebersburg for supper on
Tuesday, October the 19th, and in leaving the dining room met Mr. Leng in the
hall and told him that Judge Orvis had told your affiant to state that he positive-
ly had not authorized anybody to solicit campaign contributions from the hotel
men of Centre County nor would he allow any person to make such solicitations,
and that the matter which Mr. Long had reported was in no way countenanced
by him. Your affiant has had the immediate charge of Judge Orvis’ campaign in
Miles township and was never authorized or requested to make any campaign
contributions from the hotel men or any other persons, and that the first and on-
ly knowledge he had of the allegations as alleged by Mr. Long in an affidavit pub-
shed in this week’s Keystone Gazette, was conveyed to him by Mr. Long as above
stated. ey
Your affiant further says that the affidavits published by Mr. Long it the Key-
stone Gazette were made after Mr. Long had been assured by your affiant that
Judge Orvis had not authorized the solicitation of any contributions from him, and
that any such solicitation would not be countenanced by Judge Orvis.
JNO. J. BOWER.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 28th day of October A. D. 1915.
H. MUSSER, Justice of the Peace.
[Concluded at bottom of columns 4 and 5, on page 4.1
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WHY NOT?
She don’t know how to hone a knife,
Or how to grind an axe;
Nor sharp a pencil, save her life,
Or how to pay her tax.
She couldn’t even write a check,
Or execute a note—
And yet! She almost breaks her neck
‘To gain the power to vote. E
—J. S. REED, Sullivan, Ind., in Cincinnati
(Ohio.) Inquirer.
“And yet’’ she helped him pay the bills,
When he was on the rocks;’
She nursed the kids thru all their ills,
And washed his dirty socks;
And put up with his grouchy way,
And wore her last year’s coat,
When he earned just two plunks a day,
So why not let her vote?
—A. E. WARREN, in Ada (Ohio) Récord.
You're going to let her vote, old scout,
Although some folks may doubt it,
Because you know that in Life’s bout
She's handicapped without it.
You know when Trouble comes, she’s there!
i She sticks—she’s not a quitter!
So mark your X right in this square
| Yes
| Amendment No. 1. X
: No
GOSH—AINT THE ANTIS BITTER!
—Twinkles.
Keep the Appellate Benches Non-partisan,
Now that six candidates for Judge of
the Superior Court will appear on the
official ballot it is important that voters
should make certain that Judge JOHN
BENEDICT HEAD and Judge GEORGE B. OR-
LADY are elected. Both of these just and
capable jurists have served the State
faithfully and well. Judge HEAD is a
Democrat, the only Democrat on the
bench of that Court. Judge ORLADY is a
Republican. The office is not partisan
and should be kept free from partisan-
ship. But judges are human and sub-
ject to the prejudices and weaknesses of
other men. Therefore it is desirable that
' the minority party be represented on the
appellate benches. It makes for the
| greater certainty of non-partisanship.
In the primary contest the Republican
| machine was afraid to set up an organ-
| ized or systematic opposition to Judge
Heap. His record was so admirable and
had made so favorable an impression
upon the bench and bar of the State that
the Republican machine leaders were
afraid of the subsequent consequences of |
fighting him. But at the general election,
next Tuesday there is no such menace to
i restrain their partisan prejudices.
There are three judges to elect and itis
possible that Republican voters will be
ordered by the bosses to vote for three
| Republicans, in the hope of making the
{ Court unanimously Republican. The big
| vote cast for WILLIAMS, of Philadelphia,
at the primary election is substantial
| evidence of the potency of boss orders
| upon the Republican electorate.
| Ninety per cent of the Republican law-
jyers of the State will vote" for Judge
. HEAD even though orders are sent out to
, elect another candidate. Ninety per
| cent of the litigants who have experienc-
ed the beneficent effects of his legal
lea/ning and judicial temperament will
vote for him under any circumstances.
If the rank and file of the Democratic
| voters will give him active and earnest
i support his election will be assured,
{ whatever the machine managers’ may do
against him and notwithstanding any
: orders which may be issued on the sub-
: ject. But it is up to the Democratic
i voters of the State to see that he gets
| the full vote of the party. Present con-
| ditions require vigilance and energy.
——Men of Centre county lay aside
| your prejudice and be fair with your
| women Tuesday. They have answered
| satisfactorily your questions of whether
they will use the vote; whether all
| women want to vote; whether they think
| the laws need changing; whether they
are sure they can still be good mothers
land home makers; whether they will
' stand for the enforcement of good laws.
They have’ promised to lose none of
| their attractions, and scores of other
' questions never required of you when
| seeking this privilege. The fact that
equal suffrage is now the established
order in 49} per cent of the territory of
| this country, and that not one of these
| States which have given the vote to
' women has ever had a serious move-
' ment to revoke it, is proof enough of
' how it works.
‘——The efforts put forth by some of
the women of Bellefonte last spring to
prohibit as much as possible the fishing
| for trout in Spring creek, from the falls
to the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania
station, ought to be appreciated more
' readily now by the daily sight of the big
trout on their favorite spawning beds
opposite the WATCHMAN office. Trout
from a foot to over two feet in length
are to be seen and strangers in town
stop and look in amazement to see such
big trout right in the heart of the town.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Some Indiana county farmers have organized
to make the situation interesting for hunters
who trespass upon their land without having re-
ceived permits from the owners.
—The transportation department of the New
| York Central railroad has put 100 laborers to
work storing coal at Avis, Clinton county. Itis
said 1,000 tons will be stored there.
—A recent death in DuBois was that of Mrs.
Elizabeth Ellen Shobert, who had almost com-
pleted her 89th year. She was the mother of
fourteen children, of whom eleven survive.
—Miss Maggie Rothrock, of Turbett township,
Juniata county, raised a head of cabbage in her
garden that weighed sixteen pounds. But Mrs.
John A. Kohler, of the same township grew one
weighing 20% pounds.
—The body of Kate Curry, a girl who wandered
away from her home in Karthaus, Clearfield
county, some time ago, was found in the woods
near that town last Sunday morning by a young
man who was taking 2 walk.
—The house occupied by Luther Showers in
Avis, Clinton county, was destroyed by fire
Thursday afternoon. A crippled boarder named
Charles Shaw narrowly escaped cremation. Most
of the furniture was burned.
—One rural route delivery man in Clearfield
county complains that since the government
lengthened the routes he has no time to stop
along the way and converse with his patrons
about the happenings of their community.
—The Shamokin Iron Works, owned by John
Mullen & Son, were purchased on Tuesday by J.
H. and C. K. Eagle, New York, who will convert
the plant, covering two city blocks, into a silk
mill. The purchase price was not made public.
—The members of Moshannon chapter, Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, Philipsburg,
visited Osceola Thursday afternoon and marked
the grave of Abraham Goss, a Revolutionary
soldier, and one of the early pioneers of that
section.
—Alfred Fant, charged with the killing of
Adolphe Kamperine, at Bitumen, Clinton county,
has been found guilty of manslaughter, with a
recommendation to the mercy of the court. He
was sentenced to four years in the western
penitentiary.
—Mrs. Rose Gallivan, one of the oldest women
in the State, died in St. Joseph’s hospital, Lan.
caster, on Monday, aged 103 years. She wasill
only four days. She was an expert on fine
needlework, and was at work in that line until
taken ill. She was a native of Ireland.
—The McClure Plain Dealer has a subscriber
who dropped in the other day and handed the
editor a sufficient sum of money to pay his sub-
scription up to April 19th, 1923. This model sub-
scriber has been getting the paper from the
beginning and has preserved each issue.
—As a result of the comprehensive plans for
improvement adopted by Charles M. Schwab at
Loretto, roads will be changed, houses will be
cut in two, other houses will be moved around
over ravines and over the tops of trees and the
appearance of Loretto will be materially changed.
—A defective flue set fire to the fine house of
worship of the Methodist Episcopal society of
Luthersburg, Clearfield county, last Sunday
morning while the regular preaching service was
in progress. Fortunately the flames were mas.
tered before damage exceeding $200 had been
done.
—William Fair, aged about 80 years, a prom-
inent resident of Cherryhill township, Indiana
county, either fell or threw himself from a sec-
ond story window of the residence of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Archie Stewart, last Wednesday morn-
ing, sustaining injuries which caused his death
three’hours later.
~The rightleg of Judge Francis J. O'Conner,
i of Cambria county, was removed at a point some
inches above the knee last Saturday morning as
the best means of checking the infection which
resulted from diabetic gangrene in the right foot.
| The operation was performed in Mercy hospital,
Johnstown, by Dr. C. E. Hannen.
—On Sunday night, shortly after 9 o’clock,
while the family was at Osceola attending church,
the house of Lorenzo Fulton, on the old John
| Lucas farm one mile west of Osceola, near the
' brick plant, caught fire and was totally destroy-
| ed, together with all the contents, except the
! piano and a little furniture on the first floor.
—John Gambo, a Westmoreland county indi-
i vidual with a partiality for beer, drank two bot-
tles of the amber fluid and then stretched himself
out on his bed for a nap. When he awoke the
contents of his wallet, consisting of eight $20
bills, one $10 bill and a $5 bill had vanished. Joe
Kilpock, a fellow boarder, has been arrested on
suspicion.
—Milos Tomasto, of Franklin borough, Cam-
bria county, sued his wife for assault and battery.
The lady was found guilty and sentenced to serve
thirty days in jail at Ebensburg. But she prosecu-
ted her husband on the charge of desertion and
non-support and he was also sent to jail in de-
fault of bail. They were taken to Ebensburgon
the same car.
—Mrs. Emma Stork, widow of a Lutheran
clergyman who died half a century ago, celebrat-
ed the centennial of her birth last Sunday at the
home of a son, in Germantown, Philadelphia. She
says she ascribes her long life to ‘having a clear
conscience, trying to lead the life of a Christian,
true to my God and church, and being tem-
perate in all things.”
—A small piece of glass baked in a loaf of
bread by Mrs. Mary E. Smith by accident caus-
ed her death Friday. The Smiths live at Red
Lion, York county. While baking bread the
piece of glass in some way got in the flour. It
was baked in the bread,and Mrs. Smith got the
slice of bread containing the glass. It lodged in
her throat and brought on blood poisoning.
which caused her death.
—Eighteen-year-old Dale Schaffner, of Falls
Creek, was loading ashes at the plant of the Falls
Creek Brick company on Thursday when curiosity
led him to enter one of the kilns. When he was
in the kiln collapsed completely burying him
with the exception of one arm. Workmen who
heard the crash made haste to remove the pile of
bricks and rescued him in due time. He was
covered with bruises and scratches but no bones
were broken. .
—S. O. Watt, the well known real estate dealer
of Lock Haven, on Monday sold to Miller Bros.,
of Mifflinburg, a tract of timber land comprising
forty acres, known as the C. Cowling place, situ-
ated between Mill Hall and Sugar Run, and con-
taining about 400,000 feet of white pine, and
white oak, rock oak and red oak. This is one of
the few remaining virgin tracts of timber land in
Clinton county. Some of the trees are very
large, measuring more than three feet in diame-
ter. The sale includes only the timber rights,
The purchasers will erect a saw mill on the tract
within the next two months and will begin saw-
ing the timber thereon.
—There are ninety-nine cases of typhoid fever
in Shippensburg at present, another case having
developed over Sunday. Only three suspects are
now under surveilance. The patients removed
to the Chambersburg hospital are said to be
doing well, but there are grave fears that the dis-
ease may result in more deaths in Shippensburg.
In York, North York and West York sixty cases
have been reported, but they are widely scatter-
ed and the disease is not considered to have
reached epidemic proportions. Since October
6th the York health authorities have been keep-
ing close watch and are not at all alarmed. As
yet they have not called for assistance from the
State Health Department.