Lid Deora tn. BY P. GRAY MEEK. INK SLINGS. —March came in like a lamb. —February was surely a winter month. — Gasoline is still going up and wheat is coming down. I should worry, says the poor man. —Already those garden utensils, ash piles and rubbish heaps are crying for a little attention. —Where are the English soldiers while the Germans are pounding the French around Verdun? ——No doubt all countries will be will- ing to disarm after the war is over, but look what the wait cost. —One year from tomorrow we will be inaugurating Woobprow WILSON Presi- dent of the United States again. —It is beginning to look as if Congress, having been caught bluffing, will lose its little play against the President. —Former Judge ALLISON O. SMITH, of Clearfield, is being groomed for the Dem- ocratic nomination for United States Sen- ator. —Anyway there has been enough ice harvested to insure the kiddies of the usual supply of ice cream cones next summer. —Really there has been so little ex- citement during the past week that we would have welcomed the appearance of a German U-boat in Spring creek. —Every time a two thousand-ton freight train comes to a full stop then regains its speed of twenty-five miles an hour it has cost the ‘company operating the train sixty-one cents. —The beginning of a new way to bring about Prohibition has been made in Pitts- burgh. If they keep on sending all the big brewers to jail out there there will be none left to run the breweries. —It is said that the forthcoming audit- or’s statement of the financial condition of Centre county will reveal that the county is entirely out of debt and has more cash in the treasury than has ever been reported before. Some business management, that. —HENRY FORD has deposed Frau SCHWIMMIER as chief “nut” to his peace parley at The Hague. If what the news- paper men who were with the party said was true the Frau must be a sort of cream “nut,” as she took the best of everything for herself. —This preparedness business is not a new idea at all. Why a fellow whose credit isn’t Al, wouldn’t think of going to a country sale without having first hunt- ed up some kind friend whose credit is good to accompany him—and, incidental- ly, go on the note for the goods he buys. —The people of the county generally will approve of the determination of the County Commissioners to take advan- tage of every opportunity that presents itself for public improvements. Every bit of State aid road possible to secure will be supported by the Commissioners, so that every community will have a chance to get what it needs. —Our Presbyterian friends have called a new minister. We understand that they were unanimous in their choice. We suggest that they meet next Sunday and unanimously resolve to let their new minister find out who and what each one of them is without any coaching from the side-lines. The worst place in the world to play favoritesis in a church. —Attorney W. G. RUNKLE came very near having his hair pulled in court on Monday afternoon by a couple of “able bodied” witnesses whose testimony in the case he was pleading he had just de- clared to the jury to be “a tissue of lies.” The attorney had scarcely gotten the words out of his mouth when the two women in question arose in the rear of the auditorium and “bawled him out” in a way that threatened a scene, until the brand new corps of tipstaves mobilized and restored order. —We want every reader of the WATCH- MAN to read the long article on page three of this issue, that concludes the Tylersville correspondence. We want you to réad it carefully and ther ponder over it for quite awhile. There are thoughts in it that will do you good to think, because they will reveal to you what a struggle many newspaper pub- lishers really have over a matter that possibly never enters the head of the hurried reader. The real question which our Tylersville writer brings up is as to whether the business office or conscience should dictate the policy of a newspaper. Of course there is only one side to the question altruistically, but it is imprac- ticable, nevertheless; for the reason that so long as the public craves all the sor- did details of crime and misfortune that paper cannot live that does not, ina measure, cater to the taste. We doubt if there is a single legitimate newspaper publisher alive who would not welcome the day when it could all be blue pencil- ed. The WATCHMAN has gone further in this direction than many of its contem- poraries, but it has lost business through it. We have heard within the past month of people who ‘‘do not take the WATCHMAN because it is too high toned.” And they mean by “high toned” because it does not exploit the things that “yel- low” journals thrive on and that lack of refinement leads many people to regard as news. STATE RIGHTS AN D FEDERAL UNION. VOL 61. A. MARCH 3, 1916. _ Ln Abate the Roosevelt Nuisance. BELLEFONTE, P Boss Palmer Must Be Opposed. | Wilson Challenges His Enemies. | § WILLIE REGISTERS A KICK. A correspondent of an esteemed Phila-| It is the bounden duty of the Demo-| The President has supplemented his { By an Unknown Author. y delphia contemporary protests against the exploitation of ROOSEVELT by the press of the country. The public is growing impatient, this writer declares, at “the continual posing of him as a classic, presumptuously rated beside WASHINGTON and LINCOLN.” Whatever question arises his views are paraded for popular guidance and featured as the last word. In this timely protest we most cordially concur. What has ROOSE- VELT ever done to entitle him to such distinction? He served seven years as President of the United States during which period trusts multiplied and mo- nopoly thrived, graft ran riot in every department at Washington and scandal was traced into the Executive Chamber. Is he to be canonized for this? Whenever opportunity offers ROOSE- VELT denounces President WILSON be- cause the country is not prepared to en- gage in a war of vast magnitude. Dur- ing the seven years that he occupied the White House not a single thing was done toward preparedness. He denounces the President because trusts are not restrain- ed yet while he was President his par. tiality for the MORGAN interests and his promotion of the unlawful deal by which the Tennessee Coal and Iron company was absorbed by the Steel trust, so com- pletely entrenched the trusts that it has been practically impossible to reach them. As a matter of fact nine-tenths of the evils from which the country is suffering now are traceable to ROOSEVELT’S misin- terpretation of the laws and misuse of power. ROOSEVELT is simply and solely a “scur- vy politician” who will pervert every principle and sacrifice every public inter- est to promote his selfish ambitions. He wants to be President again because he desires to flout a tradition created by WASHINGTON and strengthened by all his successors in the great office. He hates Woobprow WILSON for the same reason that “the devil hates holy water,” and he opposes every act of the administration with the blind bigotry of a crazy mind. Of course the public is growing weary of this constant ranting and the newspa- pers: which have the courage to set their faces against his exploitation will do the public a service of the highest value. Abate the nuisance. The Middie West, according to the Chicago correspondent of the Philadel- phia Public Ledger, firmly believes that ROOSEVELT will be the Republican nomi- nee for President. “It is all traceable to the GARY dinner in New York,” the cor- respondent continues. He satisfied the financial magnates then and there, that he can be depended upon to repay obli- gations and is ready to make the con- tract at any time. ‘That the selection of ROOSEVELT is made by Wall Street, is remarkable enough,” the Chicago writer adds, “but that this choice is ac- cepted more and more by people not particularly with that part of the world is still more wonderful.” Probably it is hypnotic. One thing is certain and that is if the stupid or venal Democratic managers had not pumped life into the political lungs of ROOSEVELT in 1914, when they brought him into Pennsylvania to “tear WILSON to pieces,” he would not have been a menace to Democratic success now. We don’t believe that his nomina- tion will fulfill the expectations of those who are striving for it. That is to say we are still confident that WooDRrRow WisoN will be re-elected no matter who the Republican candidate may be. But no other candidate than Roosevelt could carry any State against WILSON and therefore the perfidy of the Democratic managers of 1914, in restoring ROOSE- VELT to political life, is a source of trouble, if not.an actual menace now. The signs are strongly indicative of ROOSEVELT’S nomination as the Republi- can candidate. But we can’t imagine the thousands of Republicans who justly esteemed WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT asa worthy man will support ROOSEVELT. It is not probable either that the friends of Senator PENROSE, Mr. BARNES, of New York, Mr. CRANE, of Massachu- setts, and former Speaker CANNON will vote to recompense ROOSEVELT for his treachery four years age. But he is by all odds the strongest man the Republi- cans can nominate and the only man who can carry a State against WILSON. Never-the-less he ought to have been allowed to stay dead politically when he was dead and before the Pennsylva- nia stupids restored him to life. ——What else could have been ex- pected of OWEN WISTER? For fifty years his family has been grafting from the governmentthrough tariff taxation and the probability that his grip will be wrenched off has made him mad. crats of Pennsylvania to oppose the re- election of A. MITCHELL PALMER as a member of the Democratic National com- mittee for Pennsylvania. Mr. PALMER has never risen above the level of a fac- tionist. His mental structure is of such a nature that he can’t rise or expand much. His ambition is to manage an’ office brokerage so that he may reward servility and pay, without cash, for serv- ices performed. On at least two occa- sions he has been charged with using for personal gain his influence with the Pres- ident and always his party leadership has been used as “stock in trade” for the pro- motion of his own political, professional and commercial purposes. The election of such a man to repre- sent the State of Pennsylvania in the Democratic National committee would be an outrage upon a large body of earn- est and honest Democrats. He sneaked into the party leadership under a false and fraudulent pretense. He asked the preferment as an opponent of bossism and at the very first opportunity gave such an exhibition of bossism as had never been seen or dreamed of in the State before. If WILLIAM A. WALLACE, SAMUEL J. RANDALL, ROBERT F. PATTI- SON, CHAUNCEY F. BLACK or any other of the great men who at one time or another has been recognized as party leader had undertaken to force a plat- form of alien doctrines upon the party, he would have been crucified by the in- dignant Democrats of the State. But A. MITCHELL PALMER perpetrated this crime upon the party in 1914 when he issued a platform that had never been voted upon by any constituted authority. He brought the paper with him from Washington and in Harrisburg revealed its contents to nine servile followers of his machine. The meeting which had been called to pass upon it was adjourn- ed by his direction before the paper was read to it and thus nine contemptible puppets of an arrogant boss usurped the sacred right of making a Democratic platform for a Democratic campaign. A man who will thus pervert opportunities to promote his own personal aims has no right to sit in the Democratic Nation- al committee for Pennsylvania. ——Really the American sheep do not deserve the care and consideration that has been bestowed upon them by ‘tariff mongers in the last half century. They are making more money for their owners now than they ever did when protected by high tariff. The European War. We have no more doubt today than we had a year ago as to the ultimate result of the European war. The entente al- lies will win for the reason that their triumph is necessary to the perpetuation of human liberty. A victory for Ger | many would make the world one vast military despotism in which Austria- Hungary and Turkey would be among the first sufferers. In the nature of things such a thing could not possibly happen in this period of civilization. But Great Britain has not performed her share in the work of compassing the necessary result. She has made great boast of what she can and will do but failed to meet her obligations. She has been liberal with money and loaned free- ly to her allies to meet their require- ment. But she has not offered the su- preme sacrifice. In other words she has not put her own sons before the can- non’s mouth as the people of Belgium and France have done and until she comes up to that standard she is not acquitted. The English are a boastful people but hitherto they have not been wanting in courage so far as the records show. In every previous national emergency she has shown the highest fighting qualities, though in the South African struggle she blundered grievously. There was excuse for that in the fact that she had had little recent experience in war. But after Earl KITCHENER and Lord RoB- ERTS reached the centre of activities con- ditions changed for the better and the opposition, however stubborn, gave way. In this war, on the other hand, the British appear to be laggards, if not cow- ards. ASQUITH tells the world every day or two what terms will be exacted to secure peace but the Germans are mak- ing progress on every battle line. This boasting ought to be stopped and real soldiering begun. The war ought to have been ended a year ago. Every day that it continues is a crime against civilization. But the British are to blame. They ought to go to the front. ——Still it is asking a good deal when we suggest to them that they wear plain black or white clothes because of the dearth of coloring matter. Nt Subscribe for the WATCHMAN recent admirable letter to Senator STONE | by a direct challenge to the opponents ! of his policy in Congress to make a record. As clearly expressed in the let- i 1 | ter to Senator STONE forbidding Ameri- | can citizens to exercise their absolute | right to travel on board ship would be a sacrifice of National honor. Still under some malign influence the talk of such prohibition by Congress continued until finally, on Tuesday, the President chal- lenged a “show down.” on the subject. That will settle the question finally. It may show who is behind the conspiracy. During weeks of most extraordinary trial President WILSON has been harrass- ed by the leaders of the opposition party and a contingent in his own party, who have been trying to create the impres- sion that his policies are not supported by Congress and the public. The result is that foreign governments practically flouted propositions coming from the President. It was clearly treasonable and might have involved us in the war now in progress in Europe. But such partisans as ROOSEVELT are not restrain- ed by considerations of patriotism. They want to make the administration a fail- ure even though the government is wrecked in the process. And it must be admitted that there are Democrats in the enterprise. The show down which the President demands will prove not only that Con- gress but the entire people of the coun- try are behind Wooprow WILSON in his policies. Not only will the House of Representatives refuse to adopt the mis- chievous resolution in question but it | ought to pass a resolution of confidence lin the President. From the beginning ! of the government no President has had’ as difficult problems to solve and no | President has solved the problems before him with greater wisdom and conscience, i Let Congress act promptly and upon its | action different reports will come from ! Berlin. The Kaiser will not be quite so | pgsitive when he finds the people behind the President. | | ——The various governments engaged in war are voting funds freely but when settlement day comes there will be trou- ble. Of course government obligations ; don’t have to be paid in cash but govern- | ment credit must be maintained by keep- ling the interest account balanced and the interest account will soon be a vast | burden. | A Splendid Idea. | Just now, when all eyes are turned hopefully towards Central and South | {| American countries, expectant that our limited trade with them will epxand won- drously because of their divorcement | from all European connections, the | thought presented in the appended com- munication is most timely. A real vig- orous, significant hymn, set to inspiring, | vibrant music, expressing the mutual in- | terests, sympathies and hopes of the peo- ples of the Western Hemisphere and ' voicing the spirit of the MONROE Doc- | trine would be a wonderful bond of sen- | timentality for the Pan-American coun- tries. The suggestion of the “Old Resident of Centre County” is a timely one and we publish it with the hope that its ap- peal will reach and interest some one who will contribute to make the idea a reality. ATLANTIC CITY, February 22nd, 1916. DEAR WATCHMAN: Why don’t we have a grand new Pan-American hymn to celebrate the ONE good hyphen. Something beautiful, sonorous, stimu- lating—the equal of the Marseillaise, or the Russian and Austrian national hymns. Not offensive, braggart, like “Brittania Rules the Waves!” It seems to me that “it is up to” Penn State College to give us both words and music. Among her students there is much musical talent, possibly genius, as well as poetic gift. Will not some generous Centre county millionaire step forward and offer a fat little prize for such a hymn; and put our fine old county at the head of the pro- cession. Also help some boy to get his education. One or two verses—crisp and clear, with a ringing air, that all may sing. Now then, boys, give your Alma Mater the credit for it, and fill with pride an OLD CITIZEN OF CENTRE. ——The German drives at Veraun accomplished nothing, thus far, except to kill men. The Crown Prince of Ger- | many is in command of the operations in question and presumably has ordered the men up to the slaughter day after day. Comment is superfluous. ——Still the report that HEARST is | likely to support ROOSEVELT may pre-. vent the Colonel's nomination. The HEARST suppott is a big handicap. He asked the House Committee on Rules to permit a vote upon one of the pending resolutions Since mother’s learned the modern steps things haven’t been the same; To gain distinction on the floor is now her only aim. When Dad suggests she sweep or cook, in anger mother rants. I wish she’d take the time to sew some buttons on my pants. She won a silver cup last week at Hooligan’s cafe; "Twas in a fox-trot contest—now she goes there every day. We've tried to make her give it up. We can’t to save our souls. I wish she’d darn my stockings, for they’re full of great big holes. She tells us she is perfect now, an expert, as it were; ’ She says this Mrs. Castle is a joke compared to her. 2 ; She classes most professionals as nothing more than fakes. I wish she’d stay at home a while apd bake some batter cakes. We're merely camping out at home; ours is a sorry lot. For ma this life appears to be one joyous tur- key trot. She simply won't ease up a bit, no matter how we beg. It looks as though our only hope is that she’ll break a leg. The Assault on Verdun. From the Philadelphia Record. It goes without saying, of course, that the German attack upon Verdun, which has so far been so thrilling and success- ful, is the result of most careful thought and months of most thorough prepara- tion. The chances of failure and success must have been weighed with great de- liberation, and the fact that the decision to attack carried the day is the best of proof that the German General Staff at- taches enormous importance to the cam- paign now under way. Otherwise it would not be willing to sacrifice the lives4 of many thousands of men and officers who cannot be well replaced. And yet, at the distance of 3000 miles, and with the imperfect knowledge of the situation which we possess, it is difficult to see how the capture of the Verdun fortress can, as a merely military measure, com- pensate for the tremendous losses which it necessarily entails. If the object is a renewal of the cam- paign against Paris it may be pointed out that in the salient held by the Ger- mans near Soissons they are already much nearer Paris than they will be at Verdun. If the plan is to pour a great ! army through a hole made in the French | lines by a successful assault it is? per- ! missible to wonder where such an army | is to be obtained without weakening the | rest of the Teutonic line, and how it can ' hope to beat down the numerically super- ior forces that will be opposed to it. In order to advance, the Germans must have many more than the 300,000 or 400,000 men credited to them as con- stituting the Crown Prince’s army. Such considerations prompt the thought that the object aimed at in this vast slaughter of men is political and moral rather than strictly military. It is ap- parently planned to impress upon the | belligerent nations as well as upon neu- trals like Rumania an idea of the tre- i mendous offensive strength of the Teu- tonic Powers and their unlimited re- sources in men and munitions of war. Possibly it is hoped to detach some one of the hostile countries from the pact not to agree to peace terms except as a whole. Whatever the motive, the Kaiser and his advisers evidently attach very great importance to it, or they would not be ready to impose such appalling sacri- fices upon their troops. To the outside observer the fall of Verdun, if itis brought about by Teutonic prowess, would seem to have no more decisive effect than the captureof Warsaw or the crushing of Servia. Events of the com- ing month are likely to throw much light upon these interesting problems. Practical Peace Experts, From the Johnstown Democrat. If Congress wants some testimony on the causes of war, from the class for which it has most r spect, it should call Jacob Schiff and Admiral Chadwick to testify. Jacob Schiff says that “world wars will never cease as long as custom houses exist.” He ought to know, for his firm has had splendid opportunities to get inside views of the financial end of modern international wars. Admiral Chadwick says that the way to maintain permanent peace is by ‘“‘do- ing away with custom houses all over the world.” He agrees with Mr. Schiff that without free trade wars will not cease. These men are not theorists. One is a practical and very successful business man. The other knows all about the practical side of war. It may be that Mr. Schiff and Admiral Chadwick do not yet realize that free trade means more than abolition of cus- tom houses. It means freeing of indus- try from all taxes and from all tribute to monopoly. Taxes devised by States and Municipalities on labor and its products interfere with trade, as also do corpora- tions or individuals who monopolize land which must be used to produce or to transport wealth. To get universal peace we must give absolute freedom to the things that make for peace. Nice Weather We're Having! From the Houston Post. The Ohio papers are ridiculing Cyclone Davis and we shall not restrain them, but will they tell us why Theodore Roose- velt has no Ohio grandchild and why an animated ism like Jake Coxey is permit- ted to run loose? ——Are you a_ subscriber to the I O. O. F. souvenir program? If not, why not? Look for the souvenir window cards. ! SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. ~The town of Indiana will celebrate its cen- tennial by a big celebration beginning June 19th and ending June 24h. —Henry W. White, aged 72 years, an old and well known citizen of Williamsport, committed suicide on Monday evening by shooting himself in the head. —All records for the present epidemic of measles in Johnstown were broken last week when 128 new cases were reported, bringing the total up to 235. —Alvin L. Kriner and Miss Nora Pepper, resi- dents of Lycoming county, were married on Thursday of last week after a courtship extend- ing over a period of nineteen years. —Howard T. Baker, a resident of Williamsport when at home, a graduate of the Williamsport High school, class of 1909, is now a British soldier in the first trenches, “somewhere in France.” —Andrew Sagnak, aged 13, a resident of Hawk Run, Clearfield county, was handling a dynamite cap when it exploded and blew off three of the fingers of his left hand and inflicted injuries on his right hand. —Charles E. Kuhn, who was the conductor on the ill-fated Ligonier Valley passenger train which was wrecked on the Wilpen branch, July 5th, 1912, was on Thursday awarded $10,000 damages by a Westmoreland county jury. —M. O. Smith, 69 years old, editor and pub- lisher of the Hanover Record-Herald, and one of the last of the pioneer weekly journals of the State, died on Monday. He was a Civil war veteran, school teacher, historian and promoter —Herbert Confer, aged 43, a resident of the Newberry section of Williamsport, was found dead in his bed on Thursday morning. He com- mitted suicide by drinking laudanum. Inability to find employment is thought to have driven him to the act. —Harrisburg is suffering the worst outbreak of measles in a decade. Scores of cases have been reported daily and some of the schools have small attendances, with possibilities that they may be closed. The outbreak has affected the attendance at moving picture theatres, too. —Exhaustion from plodding through snow drifted to a depth of several feet is believed to have caused the death of John Carroll, of Car- rolltown. early Monday morning. He had walk- ed about a mile to the place of his employment. He was 75 years old and the exertion proved too much for his strength. —Five leaders of the no-license campaign in Lebanon, including Rev. T. Clifton Harris, of the First Baptist church, have been arrested on charges of conspiracy brought by the saloon- keepers because of the activity of the men in procuring remonstrances against the hotels for the 1916 term of license court in January. —The Interstate Commerce Commission on Saturday held that allowances made by the Pennsylvania railroad to coal and coke com- panies for hauling their products over private rails to through carriers, complained by the Mitchell Coal and Coke company of the Clearfield district in Pennsylvania, were unreasonable. —Miles Shaffer, aged 65 years, one of the best known farmers in Lycoming county, dropped dead Monday afternoon about 5 o'clock while talking with a number of friends inthe yard of his home, near Jersey Shore. Death resulted from an attack of apoplexy. Deceased is sur- vived by his wife, one son, Lynn, and one daugh- ter, Cora, —Flossie, the 15-year-old daughter of William M. Stoner, of Fermanagh township, Juniata county, believes she swallowed a set of false teeth a week ago. The physician who was call- ed administered an emetic without result and then advised that the house be searched care- fully for the teeth in the hope that the girl is mistaken as to their location. —A breach of promise suit for $500,000 was | filed on Monday by Miss Nettie M. Richardson against Henry Denniston through her attorney, William H. Pratt. Denniston is the 76-year-old recluse of Swissvale, said to have a fortune of $1,500,000 and for whom relatives sought to have a guardian appointed. Miss Richardson is cashier in a downtown hotel at Pittsburgh. —After months occupied by promoters in clos ing up multitudinous details . operations are ex_ pected to be started this week on the new half- million dollar railway equipment plant just over the Indiana county line in Westmoreland county, The plant is operating under the Du Roth patents and will employ about fifty men to start, making steel ties, car trucks, collapsible steel cars and car wheels. —MTr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Bogart, of Milton, on Monday brought suit in the Northumberland county courts at Sunbury, seeking $10,000 dam- ages from the Lewisburg, Milton and Watson- town Passenger Railway company for the loss of their son’s life. The son, Nelson Bogart, 19 years old, was fatally hurt last February when a car owned by the defendant company ran into his buggy near Riverside Park, above Milton. —Game Warden Harry Hummelsbaugh, of Clearfield, has just received another shipment of ring-necked pheasants including a dozen hens and four cocks. The birds have been released in covers of Clearfield county and as they mul- tiply rapidly, are expected to add a lot of birds to the numbers in that county. The male birds liberated were bedecked with the usual fine olumage, highly colored at the neck and on the long tail. —F. Q. Hartman, of Danville, who superin- tended the erection of the plant of the Watson- town Throwing company, has contracted to erect a silk mill at Middleburg, at Turbotville and at Dalmatia. Each of the mills will be of ‘the very best, and equipped with a full com- plement of the latest improved machinery for weaving, spinning and throwing silk. Ample capital is back of these industries and they will give employment to a large number of hands. —A single drop of sweat from the brow of a working man, dropping into a tank containing twenty-four pounds of cotton, saturated with nitric acid, caused a loud explosion at the Atlas Powder company’s ,plant at Mount Carbon, Wednesday. Workmen nearby narrowly escaped injury when the explosion came and immense rolling clouds of smoke passed through the building. A drop of water on this preparation will cause it to explode. The plant makes large shipments every week of high explosives for the French army. —E. L. Ungard, a freight conductor on the Susquehanna, Bloomsburg & Berwick railroad, has as much confidence in the number “13” as President Wilson. Ungard carries pass No. 13 on his road, running out of Watsontown. He was conductor of a train pulled by locomotive No. 13, which was derailed on the 13th day of themonth, causing the train crew to make 13 hours over- time. The accident occurred on Ungard’s 13th wedding anniversary. Ungard considersihimself fortunate to have escaped injury of anylkind on such a day of ‘‘thirteens.” —William Dodge, of Northumberland, has a new job. Dodge by covenant written, signed and sealed and delivered to the Northumberland county commissioners at Sunbury, agrees to watch the tri-county covered bridge crossing the Susquehanna river between Sunbury and Blue- Hill, keep the dirt off the floor, report all dan gerous planking to the commissioners and be the man in charge of the structure for a salary of $2 per month. Added to that, Dodge owes the county §250. He has agreed ‘to pay the debt in labor on the bridge at the rate of $2 per month and he will have to work ten years to get the bill paid without interest, He must also. give bond for the faithful performance of his duties.
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