Bemorvaic Walco
. BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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ri INK SLINGS.
_ —Next Monday will mark the end
‘of the trout fishing season.
— After all happiness is only an evi-
~ dence of one’s ability to see things right.
~—Don’t fuss and fret because the
weather is hot. Keep cool; its pleasant-
er.
—The wet weather of the fore part
of the week has seriously retarded
"the work of housing the grain.
—Thisdistrict should surely send a Con-
gressman to Washington who will be in
sympathy with President Wilson.
——Captain Koenig of the submarine
Deutschland says the ocean is deep and
wide. And monkeying around on the
bottom is dangerous.
. —Monday will close the trout fish-
ing season for 1916 and a lot of peo-
ple will have one less excuse for the
neglect of other matters.
—The average male heart weighs from
ten to twelve ounces. John D. Rocker-
feller’s is probably not near up to the
average else he would put the price of
gasoline down.
—We are not for the Allies, nor are
we for the Germans but we would like
to see the Deutschland make a clean
get-a-way, just because it is human
nature to be for the under dog.
——Lackawanna county proposes to
test the constitutionality of the Mother's
Pension act. The politicians up there
are probably afraid that unless the
mothers are cut out there won’t be
enough to go round.
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~If baldness is hereditary we have
reason to pity two little boys if they are
spared long enough to come into their
inheritance, especially when the days get
full of humidity and the flies are as pes-
terin then as they are now.
—The State Department of Agriculture
has called upon State Economic Zeologist
Surface to bite the dust, so far as his
future service to that Department is con-
cerned, and we are sure he would much
rather bite a cabbage worm.
—If Russia maintains its present rate
of increase it will have a population of
600,000,000 by the end of this century.
Certainly such statistics should throw
cold water on any Teutonic hope of be-
ing able to manufacture enough ammu-
nition to exterminate such a horde.
—The purchase of the Danish West
Indies gives to the United States pos-
session of islands of the utmost stra-
- tegical value, both as to military and
commercial affairs. Negotiations for
their purchase had been going on, off
and on, since the administration of
President Johnson.
—Childhood’s sweetest songster is
gone. James Whitcomb Riley is no
more, but the “Raggedy Man,” “The
Little Tin Soldier,” “The Old Swim-
min’ Hole,” “The Goblins’ll Get. You
if You Don’t Watch Out,” and many
others of his matchless verses will
charm the children of endless genera-
tions and impress the memory of the
Hoosier Poet indelibly on their minds
when shafts of granite are green and
neglected and figures of bronze have
corroded into meaningless shapes.
—Troop L is reported as being
quarantined because measles have
broken out among the troopers. Pre-
paredness is being carried so far
nowadays that we would not be sur-
prised to hear some of the extremists
charging the parents of the unfortu-
nate soldiers with not having the best
interest of the country at heart be-!
cause they did not expose their boys
to this infantile malady when they
were kills and thereby gave the tying
up of an entire Troop in a time of
emergency.
—There is absolutely no reason
why it should be so, but the Chautau-
qua has not aroused the interest in
this community that we thought pos-
sible. It might be that Bellefonte is
so continuously catered to with at-
tractions such as Chautauqua offers
that she is satiated with them. From
a purely intellectual standpoint, how-
ever, there should never be enough of
such refining diversion. The failure
to make the undertaking self-support-
ing is probably due to the fact that
there are not enough people in the
community who crave the Chautauqua
atmosphere. : :
—All the stories about hardships to
the contrary the “Watchman’s” corre-
spondent with Trool L, 1st Penna. Cay-
alry, writes to the effect that the boys of
that Troop are happy, getting a lot of
valuable experience and are being well
taken care of. Playing the real military
game isn’t an evening excursion to a
pleasure park and the failure of some
men to realize this is probably the cause
of many of the stories of needless hard-
ships that the soldiers are suffering in
Texas. All of the boys of Troop L know
what comforts are and many of them
have been accustomed to luxuries at
home, but we are exceedingly happy and
proud to hear that they have the good
sense to discriminate between what they
enjoyed as private citizens and what they
have a right to expect as soldiers.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Two hundred and fifty-three Williams-
port youngsters have raised one crop in the
school gardens this year and some of them
are getting ready to raise a second crop.
—Portage has a venerable couple in the
persons of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Miller, the
former in his 93rd year, the latter aged 89,
Both are in feeble health, but they are cheer-
ful.
—Judge Charles N. Brumm believes in the
purity of the ballot box. He has just sen-
t d an unfaithful judge of elections in
VOL. 61.
BELLEFO
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NTE, PA. JULY 28,
1916.
csmmanmm—
Hughes the Choice of the Kaiser.
It is absolutely certain that the Re-
publican leaders were opposed to the
nomination of Justice Hughes as the
candidate of their party for Presi-
dent. Mr. Crane, of Massachusetts;
Mr. Barnes, of New York; Senator
Penrose, of Pennsylvania; Senator
Gallinger, of New Hampshire, and all
others affiliated with “the Old Guard”
resorted to every expedient to secure
another candidate. Neither did the
Progressive leaders want him nomi-
nated. Roosevelt had practically
singled him out as the one man under
consideration whose nomination would
not be endorsed by the Bull Moose.
His final appeal to the convention was
in behalf of Senator Lodge in order
to avert the nomination of Hughes.
There was an undercurrent of opin-
ion in the convention; however, that
was stronger than the stalwart lead-
ers and more potent than Roosevelt.
It originated in Berlin, Germany, and
under the fostering care of the Ger-
man embassy in Washington develop-
ed a strength which got beyond con-
trol. While Captain Boy Ed and Cap-
tain von Papin were hiring men to
blow up munition factories and pow-
der mills in this country they were
equally active in promoting the
Hughes movement in the Republican
party and when the Chicago conven-
tion assembled it had become a ques-
tion of taking Hughes or Roosevelt.
Neither was satisfactory but Hughes
seemed the lesser of the evils and he
was nominated.
Thus Charles E. Hughes, the nomi-
nee of the Republican party for Presi-
dent of the United States, is the
choice of the German Kaiser, the hy-
phenates in this country and the ir-
reconcilables who hate Woodrow Wil-
son. Roosevelt has no political prin-
ciples and never had any. There has :
never been a time when he was not |
willing to embrace any heresy that
would carry him into office. He un- :
derstands that Wilson defeated his
ambition for a'third term for all time
and hates him: with the venom of a
viper. He is perfectly willing to
adopt the candidate of the German
conspiracy in order to vent his spite
upon Wilson but the vast majority of |
the American voters will take another
view of the subject. |
Se
—Bill Sulzer is going to get a nomi-
nation for President even if he has to |
create a new party for the purpose.
That shows that he is the “same Old !
Bill.”
Penrose Disappoints the Public.
The acquisition of the Danish West
India Islands is another diplomatic tri-
umph which will increase and intensify
Roosevelt’s hatred of President Wilson.
The Colonel tried to achieve the result
while he was President and failed be-
cause the Danes justly distrusted him.
Other administrations have failed’ also in
this respect for various reasons. In
1865 negotiations were begun by Secre-
tary of State Seward and in 1867 a
treaty was made but it was not ratified.
During the administration of President
Grant another attempt failed and in
1892 President Harrison’s administration
took the matter up but failed to com-
plete the enterprise. In 1902 under
Roosevelt another failure was scored.
It was not until Germany developed
an ambition to become a great naval
power, however, that the acquisition of
these islands became important to this
country and only since the beginning of
the great war in Europe that the matter
became essential to our welfare. Then
President Wilson set himself to the task.
He didn’t bluster or boast about it but
he first satisfied the Danes of the integ-
rity of his purpose, enlisted their ‘friend-
ship and finally accomplished the result.
While Roosevelt was blathering that no
steps were being taken in the direction
of preparedness this most important of
all conceivable movements along those
lines was being advanced and now the
completion is announced.
The treaty must be ratified by the
Congress of the United States and the
Danish Parliament but those who have
been promoting the enterprise are en-
tirely confident of the issue. The price,
$25,000,000, is a considerable sum of
money but it will be put to a good pur-
pose for it will not only guarantee the
security of the Isthmian canal but will
prevent any other power from establish-
ing naval stations at a point where vast
harm could be done to us in the event of
war. This is the sort of preparedness
that counts and the kind of achieve.
ments that challenge the admiration of
the world. It represents the highest de.
velopment of diplomacy and the grand.
est victory of peace.
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Great Navy Provided Fo?.
After all the talk, the bickering and
the buncombe which have been indulg-
ed in too freely for several weeks, the
Senate on Friday, passed the Naval
appropriation bill by a vote of seven-
ty-one to eight. It is the last word in
preparedness and involves an outlay
within a few years of $315,857,588.
That is a vast sum of money but in
the opinion of the highest authorities
the money will be wisely spent. As an
esteemed contemporary states “public
feeling in this country is such that a
large army will never be practicable,”
and “in proportion as the country is
averse to a large army in peace, it
must reconcile itself to a large navy.”
The building programme covers a
period of three years within which
time sixty-six ships are to be con-
structed. Of these four will be bat-
tleships of the super-dreadnaught
type, four battle cruisers and four
scout cruisers. There is little differ-
| ence in expense between battleships
and battle cruisers and the scout
cruisers will cost nearly as much as
either. But each of the types are
needed to make a well-balanced equip-
ment and when they are provided our
navy will be second only to that of
Great Britain and not behind it. The
bill also provides for twenty torpedo
boat destroyers, three big and twenty-
seven smaller submarines and fuel,
ammunition and hospital ships to
balance the force.
Of course a good deal of the sum
appropriated will go for other essen-
tials in naval equipment. There will
be an increase in the personnel and in
the coast guard as well asin the
aviation and munition services while
the dry docks will be enlarged and
modernized. A naval and marine re-
serve will be created and an armor
plate factory is provided for at an ex-
pense of $11,000,000. These are big
figures and imply ambitious plans but
they are needed in our business "and
the country will commend the action
, of Congress in providing them in time
to avert danger, if possible, or to meet
it if inevitable. Besides it takes the
sound out of roar against unprepared-
ness.
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—Don’t rely too implicitly on Gen-
eral Herrera. Possibly he wants the
mines open so as to enable him to con-
fiscate the products of their operation.
rece a— em
Another Diplomatic Triumph.
The report that Senator Penrose is
abetting the falsehoods in respect to the
mistreatment of militiamen on the Mex-
ican border and enroute thereto, is in-
credible. It was to be expected - that
politicians of small calibre would strive
to make party capital out of such things,
true or false. But men of character and
force are not expected to resort to such
expedients. Even if the tales were true
they should not be told for they impair
public confidence, not in the administra.
tion in Washington, but in the agencies
of government which are not influenced
by political considerations. If there is
fault it lies not in the executive office
but in the War Department primarily
and actually in the high officers of the
army.
Major General Tasker H. Bliss of the
regular army has just completed an in- |
spection of the militia camps on the
border and reports that they are in ad-
mirable condition. “I have now person-
ally visited all the camps, approximate
ly 30,000 men,” he writes, “and have in-
terviewed company, brigade and division
commanders. Without exception they
have denounced every story that has
appeared in the newspapers as to in-
sufficiency or poor quality of rations as a
deliberate falsehood.” No one can say
that General Bliss is influenced by po-
litical friendship for the President in
making such a declaration. He is sim-
ply telling the facts as they appeared to
his experienced mind after a thorough
investigation of the subject.
The movement of the militia to the
border was a vast undertaking. The
men were unprepared for service and
unfamiliar with the duties and respoz-
sibilities of actual army life. The rail-
roads were not fully equipped for the
service they were called upon to per-
form and at least a considerable pro-
portion of the men were used to more
luxurious accommodations than were
afforded. But every one concerned got
the best that it was possible to give and
no one actually suffered unless by his
own improvidence. The attempt to
magnify these incidents into faults is in
effect planting discontent among the
men and working injury to the govern-
ment. We had no idea that Senator
Penrose would descend to this sort of
scurvy politics.
‘that . through the instrumentality of
Protest Against the Deal.
The Progressives of New York are
less tractable than those in this State,
according to the signs. There Mr.
Perkins tried to use the steam roller
after the fashion which Flinn employ-
ed in Pennsylvania but failed. The
committee acknowledged that the
Progressive party is dead, but refus-
ed to pledge the support of the sur-
vivors to Justice Hughes. “I have
always supposed that the Progressive
party was primarily a revolt against |
machine rule,” says Bainbridge, Col- |
by, one of the Progressive leaders of
New York. “And yet,” he adds, “Per-
kins and Flinn are falling back upon |
the rankest machine methods, but
with slight success, I must add, in |
their attempt to deliver our party to:
the Republicans.” :
So far as Perkins, Flinn and Roose-
velt are concerned, the Progressive
party never had a higher motive than i
to conserve the ambitions of selfish
office seekers. For nearly a quarter
of a century Bill Flinn has been striv-
ing to break into high official life.
Having acquired a vast fortune by the
misuse of official favoritism in mu-
nieipal contracts he imagined that he
could buy his way into the United
States Senate. But he was disap- |
pointed and joined the Progressive
party in the hope of achieving the re-
sult. Perkins occupied a precisely
similar position and was under per-
sonal obligation to Roosevelt for pre-
venting a criminal prosecution
against him for violating the anti-
discrimination laws. Of course Roose-
velt’s purpose was to get another
term as President.
But the rank and file of the Pro-
gressives were influenced, probably
by higher motives. Such men as Mr.
‘achievement
NO. 29.
ISN'T IT COOL.
M. MURRAY BALSAM.
Whene're on the street,
Some folks that I meet,
Tell me in a manner concise:
“The weather is hot,”
I say “I care not,”
I keep cool by thinking of ICE.
They say “Why, its fierce,
Old Sol’s rays just pierce,
I feel like a dish of boiled rice;
I wish I were you,
Had nothing to do, oe
"Cept keep cool by thinking of ICE.”
A friend (by the way)
I met, said one day:
“This weather for me will suffice.
I can’t stand the heat,
It’s got me dead beat ;”
“Keep cool,” says I, “just think of ICE.”
He mopped up his brow,
“I'm thinking right now,”
He said as he coughed once or twice.
Since then, sad to tell,
My friend's gone——well,
The place where they've no use for ICE.
Now don’t be a fool,
And foller this rule,
List not to my word of advice.
I perspire a bit
Myself, I'll admit,
"Cause I can’t write and still think of ICE,
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Helping the Good Roads.
From the Harrisburg Patriot.
The President’s signature to the good
roads bill providing an appropriation
of $75,000,000 for national aid to state
highway construction marks another
for the administration.
Under its terms, Pennsylvania may
receive $3,585,750 for highways, if it
provides a similar amount and agrees
3 national supervision of construc-
ion.
Two years or more ago, Pennsylva-
nia had a similar opportunity to share
in a lesser way in the same sort of an
arrangement. At that time Bigelow-
ism was rampant on Capitol Hill and
on the roads throughout the State.
The law, then as now, provided that
the State could cbtain bounty from
the national government if it raised
an equal amount and agreed to having
Colby may have indulged the hope itS plans and specifications for road
the new party certain abuses in pub-
lic life might be corrected. If that be
true, however, they were unwise in
thr choice of leadership. Recent ex-
perience has proven this fact and as
Mr. Colby declares, “no party machine
ever treated the party membership
with more contempt and insolence,
not even the Republican steam roller
of 1912.” Flinn and Perkins had de-
liberately sold the party, with the as-
sent of Roosevelt, to the old Republi-
can machine and the German conspir-
acy and were trying to deliver the
goods.
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——Lieut. Marchal who flew over Ber-
lin and dropped tracts is somewhat of a
humorist. But suggestions of humanity
are wasted on the residents of the Ger-
man capital. The only thing to drop
upon them is bricks.
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—All efforts to secure clemency for
Sir Roger Casement through legal pro.
cesses have failed but if the British gov-
ernment is wise it will extend clemency
as a matter of generosity to a misguided
but honest patriot.
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—Hughes seems to have enlisted all
the crooks to his support except Sulzer
and he'll probably get him in the end.
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—Bill Flinn is an elector on the
Hughes ticket which is a good price for
his perfidy.
tei ea acne
——Contributors to Bill Sulzer’s cam- | be
paign fund will probably ask for a re-
ceipt.
—Harry 8S. McDevitt, a former |
Johnstown newspaper man but now an
attorney for the State Economy and
Efficiency Commission paid the new
penitentiary at Rockview an official
visit on Monday. Mr. McDevitt is
much interested in the fact that the
penitentiary has in the neighborhood |
of three thousand acres of good farm [Great Idea? They do,
land, enabling the management to
thoroughly test prison farming on a
large scale. He is also interested in
the investigation of the commission
appointed to gather facts and report
upon the practicability of establishing
a plant for the manufacture of brick
on a large scale on the penitentiary
lands, to be used in constructing state
highways. This commission, by the
way, has not yet formulated a report.
——The firemen of Pleasant Gap
will hold their big fifth annual fire-
men’s festival, at Noll’s grove, Pleas-
ant Gap, Saturday, July 29th, 1916.
All the refreshments of the season
will be served. Music will be furnish-
ed throughout the evening by the
Pleasant Gap band. Go and have a
good time.
——The “Watchman” should be
read in every home in Centre coun-
ty. Why don’t you try it?
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building drawn by
ernment and
federal agents.
Representative Humes offered such a
measure. It was an embarrassing mo-
ment for Bigelowism, nee
meant the exposure of its road-build-
ing methods and a contrast with the
federal system of road-making. So
rather than accept this help, the gang
turned down the federal offer.
A‘ similar opportunity awaits the
new Legislature. If its political com-
the national gov-
its work inspected by
: Plexion is Republican will it have the
courage to accept this Democratic
lift?
From the Harrisburg-Star Independent.
It comes from London that England
has placed a number of American
firms on the prohibitive list, meaning
that residents of England are forbid.
den to buy from those on such a list.
Where would England be now if a
year ago the United States had put
the entire nation on the prohibitive
list? The very ammunition used
against Germany by England while it
was perfecting its own ammunition
factories was gotten by contract in
this country. ;
It may be that England is a trifle
Saick on the trigger. She has not yet
efeated Germany, and Germany has
resources that may prolong the big
struggle indefinitely, in which case it
is quite likely that England will again
be hunting shells, explosives and guns
in this country. There is such a thing
as a boycott, and even nations may
employ it, if required.
The British blacklist against these
American firms is only another evi-
dence of the narrowness characteristic
of Great Britain since the war was
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A Great Idea.
gun.
From the Youth’s Companion.
Not for years have rags and waste
paper brought such high prices as
now, and not for years have Boy
Scout patrols and groups of Camp
Fire Girls felt such an implacable
need of raising large sums of money
for baseball uniforms and vacation
trips. Do not those two deep thoughts,
thus placed side by side, suggest a
indeed, and
some of the boys have already seen it.
One patrol has made $58.39 by gather-
ing and selling old rags and papers.
There is no patent on the plan, and,
best of all, those who adopt it will be
doing a real public service, for almost
every business in the country is suf-
fering, in one way or another, from
the shortage of rags and the high
price of paper.
Too Tolerant.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
Bishop Conrad said at a dinner in
Newport “News”: a
“Some folks regard their sins in too
generous and tolerant a way. They're
like Cal Clay.
“I said to Cal one day:
“ ‘Calhoun; my man, General Doug-
las has positive proof that you looted
his chicken house last week. I should
think you’d be ashamed to take com-
Wunion after such a rascally deed as
that.
“‘Mah goo’ness, sah,’ said Cal re-
proachfully, ‘Ah wouldn’t let a few
measly chickens stand ’twixt me an’ de
Lawd’s table!” ”
Schuylkill county to serve a term of seven
years in prison.
—DMore than 200 foreign residents of West-
moreland county expect to become American
citizens during the last week in August, at
which time the license court will be in session
at Greensburg.
—Scott Woods Jr., of Philipsburg, was
knocked senseless by a bolt of lightning and
remained in that condition for nine or ten
hours. One arm was painfully burned but he
bas recovered from the scock.
—While his father stood only a few feet
away, Albert Borring, aged 16 years, under-
took to jump from a freight passing through
New Florence, his home town, fell under the
wheels and was instantly killed.
—Judge Francis J. O'Connor, of Cambria
county, who had a leg amputated some months
ago, has procured an artificial limb and is now
learning to walk for the second time. It is
said he is making rapid progress.
—James Hotchkiss, of Coal Run, Somerset
county, is still mining coal, although he is 76
years of age. He has been working in mines
for 66 years, having begun as a boy of 10. It
is not likely his record can be surpassed in the
State.
—Woashington Camp No. 166, P. O. S. of A,,.
presented the public schools at Muncy with a
large American flag last Saturday evening.
Judge A. W. Johnson, of Lewisburg, a mem-
ber of the Order, delivered the presentation
address.
—Charles T. Huston, the founder of Wil-
liamsport’s first daily newspaper, was buried
from the home of his son, Charles N. Huston;
in Williamsport, Monday afternoon. He died
in Hanover, York county, last Saturday, at
the age of 83 years.
—The interesting statement is made that
Mrs. Orrin Chittester, of Falls Creek, Clear-
field county, attempted suicide by swallowing
a quantity of butter coloring, and it is added
that nothing but the heroic work of physicians
and others saved her life.
—Kenneth Geist, five years old, admitted to
the Altoona hospital three years ago suffering
from tuberculosis of the spine, was on Satur-
day sent to his home strong and fully cured.
A four inch section of the boy's right shin
bone was inserted into the spine.
—According to a dispatch from Indiana,
presistent rumor credits Rochester & Pitts-
burgh interests with the immediate purchase
of more than 10,000 acres of coal lands in the
Jacksonville district, the sellers being the
Clearfield Bituminous Coal corporation and the
Kent Coal company.
—The Cambria Steel Co’s plant, it is re-
ported, will turn out the 50,000 tons of barb-
ed wire for which the Midvale Steel and Ord-
nance Co. recently received an order. The
Johnstown plant is the only one of the Mid-
vale string equipped for manufacturing barb-
ed wire. Thousands of tons have already
been sent out from Johnstown.
*—Near Punxsutawney a few days ago an
automobile crashed into a buggy in which Mrs.
Samuel Holben and Ler daughter were driv-
ing, smashing the vehicle and scattering the
produce they were taking to Punxsutawney all
over the road. The big machine never slow-
ed up but soon disappeared, leaving the wom-
en lying in the road. Fortunately they were
not seriously hurt.
—A party of autoists by the name of Swartz
rassed through Millheim, Centre county, a few
days ago while the household goods of the late
Henry Brown were being sold. They pur-
chased some old-fashioned pieces, among them
a venerable chest which after investigation
proved—according to an inscription— to have
been made in 1797 by George Swartz, a great-
great-grandfather of one of the purchasers.
—The National hotel property, of Lewistown,
owned by Mrs. Robert Eider, of Leadville,
Colorado, was sold on Friday to H. J. Cohen
for $40,000. The property is located on the
public square in the heart of the business sec-
tion and has been idle since license was knock-
ed out in Mifflin county in 1908, at which time
it closed its doors to the public with furniture
and fixtures intact. Mr. Cohen will convert
the lower floor into a store room and the sec-
ond and third stories into a temperance hotel
and lodging house. *
—It has been discovered that ex-County
Treasurer William J. Grover, of Coudersport,
an old soldier and for years familiarly known
as “Honest Billy,” is $12,160 short in his ae-
counts. He admits the shortage and has turn-
ed over his 400-acre farm, about $6,000 worth
of personal property and other real estate, all
of a total value of $24,000, as security. No
man in Potter county could boast of a better
name, and the revelation has astounded every
person in the county. The banks are amply
secured. :
—Charles Dunkleberger, a well known con-
tractor, of Kulpmont, is suffering from a se-
vere case of blood poisoning as a result of
which it is feared he will lose his left arm.
Several days ago Mr. Dunkleberger picked a
small pimple on kis arm. Infection develop-
ed and within a short time the arm had
swollen to almost twice its normal size. Dr.
Fegley, of Kulpmont, is administering treat-
ment and is doing everything in his power to
check the spread of the poison and save the
affected arm. :
—Standing in front of a mirror in Room 72
in the Central Y. M. C. A. building at DuBois,
Saturday morning at 11.20 o’clock Robert Fish-
man, age 26 years, local manager of the Sulz-
berger & Sons Beef Co., wholesale meat deal-
ers, committed suicide by firing a bullet into
his brain. The shot was fired from a 32 cali-
bre revolver, and an examination of the gun
later showed that an attempt had been made
to fire every cartridge, but only one exploded
and that one the bullet that extinguished the
spark of life. He killed himself without mak-
ing preparations and did not leave the custo-
mary note explaining the cause.
—Miss Mellissa Copenhaver, the 16 year old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Copenhaver
who reside a short distance above Clearfield,
was drowned Sunday evening at nine o’clock
in the Susquehanna river in front of her home
while wading about in the water a few feet
from shore. Her body was not recovered until
seven o'clock Monday morning when it was
seen lying on the old dam near the N. Y. C.
station in the lower part of the town. Miss -
Copenhaver was with two other girls at the
time. All got in deep water and Mr. Copen-
haver. rescued the other two not knowing that
his own daughter was drowning before his
eyes.
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