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Bema Mato
BY P. GRAY MEEK. :
INK SLINGS.
—The Hindenburg line seems to be
more or less of a mirage.
— What was the use of planting
that garden if you are going to let the
weeds smother out everything you
planted.
—Reports from all the seed pota-
toes that the “Watchman” furnished
the public at cost are to the effect that
they promise a most satisfactory
crop.
—This will be the last day on
which you can subscribe for a Liber-
ty Bond. Have you done your full
duty? If not, call up your banker
and order as many as you can.
—Those who are sending sons to
the war are already giving till it
hurts. Let those of us who have no
sons to send give in other ways till it
hurts. Patriotism that costs us noth-
ing amounts to nothing.
—Billy Sunday says that if hell
were turned upside down “Made in
Germany” would be found stamped
on the bottom of it. If this be so, all
the more reason for the suppression
of vice for it is trading with the en-
emy.
—Commencements are about all
over and for once there is little uncer-
tainty about the future of the gradu-
ates. The boy will go to be a soldier
and the girl will start knitting socks
or sweaters or rolling bandages for
him.
—Mexico is showing signs of re-
covering her sanity. President Car-
ranza has officially notified the United
States that his government is in full
sympathy with the cause of the Al-
lies. It looks like the crafty old Mex-
ican were paving the way for a
“touch.”
— After all censorship has other
values than merely safeguarding gov-
ernment strategy. How much pleas-
anter it was to read that Gen. Per-
shing had arrived safely in England,
without being on the anxious bench
the five days that he was on the wa-
ter. It would have done us no good
‘to have known of the date of his de-
parture.
—The King of Greece has abdicat-
ed and they are saying that Uncle
Sam’s entrance into the war pushed
him off his throne. Of course our
Uncle might have been indirectly con-
tributary to the abdication because
he is the real big push in world af-
fairs now and he is crowding into the
war with such a determination that a
litle bit of the overflow might have
upset Constantine.
—If you want to know what a real-
ly withering look looks like follow
the Tyrone band around until one of |
its slip-horn artists, who is watching
a base-ball game instead of the direc-
tor, slips a ncte out after Prof. Pot-
teiger has waved his little wand to
quit. If the Professor were ever to
look down the periscope of a German
U-boat like he looked at his offending
artist at State College Tuesday after-
noon we know it would never have
the nerve to come to the surface
again.
—A household hint suggests that
fruit jars can easily be opened if you
take hold of the top with a piece of
sandpaper. Fine idea, isn’t it, but
in how many households will the need-
ful piece of sandpaper be found when
the tight lid is encountered and even
if it is there will the flustered house-
wife remember this hint when she is
wrestling with the jar of peaches or
cherries that she has hustled up from
the cellar with which to make the or-
dinary family dinner look good
enough for the eleventh hour guest
her husband has brought home unan-
nounced.
— The real idea of Liberty Bond is
not as an investment for funds al-
ready accumulated as much as it is
for funds the government expects all
citizens to save during the war. By
saving here and there, in the mere
matter of petty extravagances, most
any one will be able to pay off a
$50.00 bond in a short time. Those
who do it will be helping the govern-
ment in a two-fold way. First they
will be furnishing it with the sinews
.of war and, second, they will be sav-
ing and thereby doing their part to-
ward keeping down the cost of ne-
cessities.
—Surely this has been great grow-
ing weather for all vegetation. Has
it been the same for humanity ? Have
the great problems that are being
worked out in the world today had
any of your serious thought? Has
it commenced to dawn on you that
you are not living merely for your-
self. Has the world cataclysm
brought home to you the conscious-
ness that your welfare means the oth-
er fellow’s welfare and his means
yours. Are you growing in broadness
of mind? If you are not this titanic
struggle for democracy is your lesson
yet unlearned.
—Only ninety-six are needed
now to buy yarn out of which the la-
dies have volunteered to knit sweat-
ers for Troop L. During the week N.
B. Spangler Esq., and S. E. Weber, of
Boalsburg, each sent the “Watch-
man” his check for $1.50 which will
be passed on to the ladies. The yarn
will cost that amount and one hun-
dred and three sweaters will be re-
quired for the troopers. We need on-
ly ninety-six more. Will you make
it ninety-five? The boys may have to
go across the water. Will you come
across with the material for one
sweater before they go.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 62.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JUNE 15, 1917.
NO. 24.
Interesting Statements Reviewed. :
i
One day last week one of our es-
teemed Philadelphia contemporaries
quoted from a circular issued by a
stockbroker of that city who was urg-
ing the purchase of Liberty Bonds,
the following: “It is no excuse to
say that one is unwilling to have his
money spent under the auspices of
the members of the present Cabinet,
because of their moral and mental de-
ficiencies. While we all would like to
see the President make patriotic
changes there, the very conscious-
ness of those deficiencies should make
us work all the harder to make up
for them.”
The day before another esteemed
Philadelphia contemporary contain-
ed the following interesting informa-
tion: “Careful investigation yester-
day showed that registration day in
Philadelphia has resulted in a gigan-
tic snarl that may take weeks and
possibly months to straighten out.
* * * * Fyery one of the 1336 divis-
ions in this city issued returns on
Tuesday that have since been found
to be incorrect. * * * * In the First
ward, the stronghold of Congressman
Vare, the conditions were ‘something
frightful,’ so the registrars admitted
frankly. Every return of Tuesday
night was wrong.”
The stock broker is probably one of
those thrifty Philadelphians who for
half a century have fattened financi-
ally on tariff graft and finds it impos-
sible to reconcile himself to a condl-
tion which eliminates special privi-
lege. He knows, if he knows any-
thing, that if the Republican party
were in power the official agents of
the nation would be of the type of the
agents of the government of Phila-
delphia whose mental delinquency is
revealed in the result of the registra-
tion for the selective conscription de-
scribed above. Boss-ridden, corrupt
Philadelphia expresses the moral and
mental measure of that party.
The present . administration at
Washington has nothing to fear trom |
a comparison with any of its Republi-
can predecessors since Lincoln. In
the conduct of the preparations for
the Spanish war graft and fraud
were the conspicuous features. Inef-
ficiency, if mot actual perfidy was
shown at every turn. .On the other
hand integrity and -efficiency marks
every act of the administration of
President Wilson and his work and
that of his official advisers has chal-
lenged and freely received the admi-
ration of the whole world.
— The strenuous efforts that Hin-
denberg is making to recover the
ground lost at Messines Ridge casts
doubt upon the claim that the with-
drawal from that point was voluntary.
President Wilson to Russia.
The Russian socialists and others
in that country who are bettering Ger-
many by urging separate peace or the
cessation of hostilities are dullards in-
deed, if they are not diverted from
their purpose by the very happy and
forceful statement by President Wil-
son, of the aims of the United States
in connection with the war. America
seks no aggrandizement, no selfish ob-
ject. “We are fighting for liberty,
the self government and the undic-
tated development of all peoples and
every feature of the settlement that
concludes this war must be conceived
and executed for that purpose,” he
declares. As much for Russia as for
any other country this enterprise was
undertaken and will be pursued.
Germany is the last stronghold of
autocracy. Russia has already up-
rooted it and Austria and Turkey are
not of sufficient importance to be
counted. But if Germany wins every
evil under which Russia suffered for
centuries will be reviyed and the last
citadel of popular government will be
menaced. To avert that calamity
President Wilson has sent a commis-
sion composed of eminent and able
men to the theatre of danger and in
his statement of the reasons for his
action he makes plain why every Rus-
sian should “do his bit” in promotion
of the undertaking. Germany has
been beguiling them by false promis-
es of safety. But there is no safety
except in the complete destruction of
the evil. :
The people of Russia can exercise a
vast influence in the achievement of
the desired result. They are demor-
alized now. The great power of self-
government recently assumed has in-
toxicated some and blinded others.
They were not fully prepared for the
change that has taken place and even
those who are true to themselves and
their country are not steady on their
feet. But if they will heed the lan-
guage of President Wilson they will
come out right in the end. The great
American Republic is behind them
and will give freely of the lives of the
people and the treasure which has
been gathered to prove their faith in
the brotherhood of mankind.
——The Socialist party got in bad
on the draft question but then the So-
cialist party always gets in bad.
Bigotry and Imbecility Responsible.
The tardiness of Congress in the
completion of war legislation is rap-
idly assuming the atmosphere of per-
fidy. The measure providing for
food survey and regulation has been
pending for weeks and as yet there is
little prospect of its passage. This
fact is attributable to two causes.
One is partisan bigotry and the other
mental deficiency. In the Senate the
other day Harding, of Ohio, revealed
his narrow partizanship in duscus-
sing the Liberty Loan. Possibly
hundreds of men who might otherwise
have subscribed will be influenced by
that speech to withhold contributions
to the fund. Senator Gore, of Okla-
homa, is the principal obstructionist
in the case of the food measure. He
is a near Democrat.
The food prices are becoming a
grave menace not only to the prosper-
ity of the country but to the lives of
millions of people. Speculating food
pirates are responsible for these pri-
ces. The only pessible way to check
this evil is the passage of the pend-
ing food control bill or some other
measure of like import. Under the
pretense that such legislation sets up
a dangerous precedent, it is being op-
posed by men of the Gore type. For
the reason that delay embarrasses the
administration it is opposed by men of
the Harding type. Together they are
working as much harm to the cause
of democracy as the German Kaiser
could do if he were successful in his
autocratic plans and purposes.
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Vrooman, after a tour of the country
for purposes of inquiry, reports that
“he had seen much hardship and suf-
fering, especially among the poor, be-
cause of the crimes being perpetrat-
ed against the American people by
the control of food prices by disloyal
food pirates.” The American Feder-
ation of Labor, the four railroad
Brotherhoods and the National Fed-
eration of Postal Employees have
started a movement to hasten the
passage of the food control bill. They
should be supported morally and ma-
terially by every citizen of the coun-
try. Unless the grip of these wolves
is shaken loose starvation is inevita-
ble and following that, as certain as
day follows might, anarchy." © *
There is a good deal of fear
among financiers that the Liberty
Loan has not been subscribed. The
time limit for buying expired last
night and the returns are not com-
puted. But it is a safe bet that any
deficiencies will be made up as soon
as they are discovered.
Sources of Proper Pride.
There are abundant reasons in events
of the last couple of weeks why citi-
zens of the United States should feel
thrills of pride. Within that period
upward of 10,000,000 young men be-
tween the ages of twenty-one and
thirty years responded to the call to
register for military service in Eu-
rope or anywhere else that such serv-
ice may be required. Within that
period, it may safely be said though
the actual figures are not yet availa-
ble, two billion dollars have been
subscribed to the Liberty Loan, which
will supply the sinews to make their
service effective. These are great
achievements. It is putting our men
and money to work together for the
preservation of liberty.
But this is not all. Our men have
not been forced to enlist. Our mon-
ey has not been drawn from unwilling
contributors. Both have offered them-
selves willingly to whatever service
they are required to perform. The
registration has been mistakenly
called a conscription. But it is not
that. The young men were invited to
come forward and enroll themselves
and they have complied. The pos-
sessors of money, rich and poor alike,
were asked to contribute of their
means and they have promptly re-
sponded. Where has there ever been
a finer exhibition of unselfish patriot-
ism? How could there be? Lives
and property are laid with equal free-
dom upon the altar of patriotism.
With such a spirit abroad in the
United States it is small wonder that
the soldiers in the trenches in France
and Belgium should be heartened and
that their blows upon the enemy have
been harder. All along the line on
those fronts the allies, our allies, have
been making progress ever since the
declaration of a state of war between
the United States and Germany.
Soon our beautiful red, white and
blue flag will be on the firing line and
our magnificent men beneath it and
then there will be a difference greater
than recent events have developed.
The war may last some time yet, and
our toll in lives may be heavy. But
the moment this country got in the
result was determined.
— General Pershing doesn’t seem
to have encountered any of the hor-
rors of war during his sojourn in Lon-
don but Pershing is not a carpet
knight and he will get to the seat of
trouble in -time to “do his bit.”
Treasonable Party Plans.
“The people of America are to be
informed on every important move-
ment made in the war with Ger-
many,” declares a Republican contein-
porary, “if the Republican members
of thea United -States Senate have
their way.” Senator Penrose has
joined Senator Harding in the move-
ment to force this result, according to
the same authority, and Penrose is
potential. This must be glad news to
the Kaiser. His government has been
at vast expense, hitherto, in getting
information of movements made in
the war. Spies take great risks and
demand commensurate recompense
for their services, and the construc-
tion and maintenance of secret wire-
less stations are costly. But the
Kaiser needs the information.
If Senator Penrose and Senator
Harding are able to accomplish their
purpose, as expressed by this Repub-
lican newspaper, all these hazards
and expenses may be avoided in the
future. The information that is so
freely spread before the American
people will with equal facility and ex-
pedition be given to the Kaiser and
his military marshals and our sol-
diers “will be welcomed by bloody
hands to hospitable graves” by forces
fully acquainted with their purposes
and amply prepared to defeat them.
But we are not entirely surprised that
the news from the inner circles of the
Republican machine should take on
this sinister slant. Anything that
| promises advantage to the Republican
party will be invoked by these selfish
partisans.
The conduct of the administration
both in preparing and in organizing
for the war has been admirable. The
President has shown the greatest
measure of wisdom and patriotism in
every step taken. But there are still
vast possibilities for harm and the
most available as well as the most
mischievous of them is in exposing to
the world the movements in relation
to it. A stupid, if not malignant,
Congress has already caused consid-
erable embarrassment by delaying
legislation necessary to successful
military operations. But that is not
half as bad as the proposed publicity
of pins and purposes would be. Only
the narrowest partisans would invite
such a danger. Will Penrose take the
chance?
A complete list of the men of
Centre county who registered on
Tuesday, June 5th, will be found on
the second and third pages of today’s
paper. The list was compiled by
sheriff George H. Yarnell and a big
force of volunteer assistants who not
only worked hard every day last week
from the time the returns came in on
Wednesday, but even worked on Sun-
day in order to get the list completed
for the printers. To give an idea of
the job it was a duplicate card had to
be made of every registration card.
Then each district had to be arranged
in alphabetical order and a type-
written list of every name made.
This was accomplished so that all the
copy was ready for the printers Mon-
day morning, and the result is the
“Watchman” is able to give the list
complete this week.
— James Moyer, of Mann’s Nar-
rows, was arrested on Saturday on
the charge that he had attempted to
prevent his sons from registering on
June 5th, and was placed in the Mifflin
county jail. On Tuesday his case was
investigated by Roy McHenry, a dep-
uty federal district attorney of Scran-
ton, and he decided that there was
nothing traitorous in Moyer’s remarks
and he was discharged. Moyer is a
native and for years a resident of Pot-
ter township, this county.
— The Senate Appropriations
committee on Wednesday recommend-
ed an appropriation of $15,000 for the
Bellefonte hospital, an increase of $1,-
000 over that recommended by the
House committee.
Those Philadelphia registrars
just couldn’t help it. They are so
used to perpretating registration
frauds that they naturally bungled
the conscription enrollment all up.
— Japan is showing some desire
to get into the war actively and it is
not improbable that she may have a
chance. And Japan is “some fight-
er.’
A ——————————
— Billy Sunday says he can emp-
ty hell in fifteen minutes. If he will
guarantee to keep it empty forever,
here’s our share of the expenses.
The American destroyers in the
English channel seem tu have solved
the U-boat problem and there are a
lot more destroyers here.
— Now that Uncle Sam is thor-
oughly aroused this country is be-
coming increasingly unhealthy for
traitorous aliens.
——Probably Major Bacon is only
pointing the way for Colonel Roose-
velt.
Chad ba tee
torneys and marshals’ with 3
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TO ARREST NON-REGISTRANTS.
Time Limit Having Expired All Who
Failed to Register Are Subject
to Law.
Under date of June 11th Sheriff
George H. Yarnell received the fol-
lowing dispatch from Governor Brum-
baugh, which is self-explanatory:
The Sheriff of Centre County:
“Washington advises quotas are to
be assigned to the several States in
proportion to their population as de-
termined by the Bureau of the Cen-
sus and not in proportion to the reg-
istration. The result is that every
person who has failed to register is
seriously increasing the burden of
those who have registered. Ample
notice and every opportunity has now
been given anc there is no longer any
argument upon which the conduct of
non-registrants can be condoned. The
period of leniency now has passed.
Attention is invited to paragraph six-
teen of the regulations.
It is requested that every effort be
now made to detect and arrest per-
sons subject to registration who have
not registered and to bring each case
promptly to the attention of the near-
est reprasentative of the department
of justice. Wide publicity should be
given to the effect of non-registration
in increasing the burden of those who
have registered. Care shculd be tak-
en that the lists prescribed in para-
graph thirty-nine are promptly post-
ed and all registrants Roki be asked
to assist in bringing non-registrants
to the attention of the police. Sum-
marization report of registration from
the various boards should be compar-
ed with estimates of the census bu-
reau and effort should be concentrated
on these districts where discrepancies
between registration and estimates
seem greatest. :
In case of doubt as to the age of
persons who have registered the tab-
ulated record of political organiza-
tions and other local records should
be consulted and data may be obtain-
ed from the Bureau of Census.
The purpose of this télegram is to
inaugurate from tomorrow (Tuesday)
a vigorous, aggressive and effective
enforcement of the penal clauses of
the selective service law against all
who have by their failure or refusal
to register brought themselves under
these provisions. The ‘department of
justice is sending today (Monday)
similar advices to United States at-
C-
tions to release on their recog-
nizances all persons arrested by mar-.|
shals or deputy marshals or by State,
county and municipal police officers
and turned over to them who prompt-
ly register under the terms of para-
graph forty, “Registration _ Regula-
tions.” The Secretary of War con-
strues section five of the select serv-
ice law as requiring compulsory reg-
istration by the officer making the ar-
rest of each arrested person immedi-
ately upon his conviction. Please give
notice to all who have any duty en-
joined upon them in connection with
the enforcement with the penal claus-
es of the paragraph sixteen of the
regulations.
SHERIFF'S PROCLAMATION.
In pursuance of the above telegram
the Sheriff has sent the following no-
tice to police and constables of Cen-
tre county:
As ample notice and every opportu-
nity has now been given, and there is
no longer any argument upon which
non-registrants can be condoned, the
period of leniency now has passed.
Therefore it is requested that every
effort be now made to detect and ar-
rest persons subject to registration
who have not registered; and to bring
each case promptly to the attention
of the nearest representative of the de-
partment of justice. It is the duty of
all registrants to assist in bringing
non-registrants to the attention of
constables and police.
The Secretary of War construes
section 5 of the selective law as re-
quiring compulsory registration by
the officers making the arrest of each
arrested person immediately upon his
conviction.
GEO. H. YARNELL,
Sheriff of Centre County.
Big War Budget Passed by Senate.
Washington, D. C., June 138.—The
$3,000,000,000 war budget finally got
over the last obstacle in Congress to-
day and went to President Wilson for
his signature, which will make it law.
It appropriates the greatest sum ever
voted at one time by any Legislative
body. Its amount is greater than the
total cost of the Civil war.
The budget provides principally for
army and navy expenditures. Aside
from that feature its most important
single provision is an appropriation
of $750,000,000 for an American mer-
chant marine, to be constructed by the
Shipping Board under the direction of
Major General Goethals.
Liner Sinks Submarine.
An Atlantic Port, June 13.—De-
struction of a German submarine by
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Johnstown has had 110 cases of scar-
let fever since the first of January. Only
two deaths occurred, but two children were
crippled by the disease, one perhaps per-
manently. .
—The Moose of Johnstown have appro-
priated money for the purchase of a large
lot of glass jars which will be sold at cost
to all housewives and school pupils who
wish to use them for preserving food this
| summer.
—The sale of 80,000 tomato plants by. a
single dealer in Altoona within the past
three weeks gives some idea of the way in
which the people of the Mountain city
have thrown their energies info th= ‘“pre-
paredness farming’ movement.
—Edward Broadwater, aged 15 years, re-
siding on a farm near Berlin, Somerset
county, hanged himself on the !irst anni-
versary of his father’s death. 'I'he father
hanged himself on June 10, 1916: the son
died at the same spot in the barn exactly
a year later.
—The Huntingdon & Clearfield Tele-
phone company has sent out to its patrons
a notice announcing a termination of old
contracts in thirty days, at which time
they will advance the rates in accordance
with a schedule filed and accepted by the
Pennsylvania Service Commission.
—The authorities of Westmoreland
county have taken a score of the inmates
of the county jail to a camp near Seward
where they will be employed on a county
road. Other prisoners are to be put to
work on the county farm as soon as the
garden and field crops require attention.
—A Union county fruit grower was in
Sunbury on Monday, completing arrange-
ments for the sale of 30,000 boxes of cher-
ries and strawberries. Beginning next
Saturday, he stated, he would offer this
fruit for sale at the local market house.
Three teams and wagons will be used to
transport the first portion.
—William A. Shaffer, aged 55 years, a res-
ident of Latrobe, was instantly killed by
lightning Sunday afternoon. He and a
nephew had taken refuge from the storm
in a barn near Latrobe. The bolt entered
the barn and penetrated the body of Shaf-
fer, splitting his clothing, tearing his
right shoe completely off and badly burn-
ing his body.
—Charging that county commissioners
and their clerks have connived with hunt-
ers and trappers in the paying of fees for
the killing of noxious animals causing a
State wide scandal, Governor Brumbaugh
has vetoed the Mitchell bill which would
have made the State liable for the claims
amounting to $80,000 which have already
been paid by the counties.
— Robert Pursel, who pleaded guilty to
the second degree murder, when he was
brought into the Montour county court to
answer the charge of killing Mr. and Mrs.
John Kerns, of Danville, is still in the
Montour jail and Sheriff Waite has not de-
cided when he will take him to the peni-
tentiary. Pursel was sentenced to serve
not less than twenty-three years in the
penitentiary.
—The receivers of the Merchant's Coal
eompany disposed of all of the company’s
holdings in Somerset county at public sale
at Somerset on Tuesday afternoon. The
Orendo plant at Boswell was knocked
down to Wm. M. Robinson, of Pittsburgh,
on his bid of $450,000. The same bidder
secured the Elk Lick plant for $26,500. Mr.
Wright bid in practically everything of-
fered at the sale.
—_Messrs. Liveright and Gleason, of
Clearfield, attorneys for M. W. Dennery,
who was sentenced to death by electrocu-
tion by Judge Bell for the murder of John
Rowles, have taken an appeal from the
verdict and sentence in the case to the
Supreme court of Pennsylvania. The rule
was made returnable on Monday, June
4th, but the case will not be passed upon
by the Supreme court before the October
term.
— Last week at Greensburg Charles H.
Kuhn, former Ligonier Valley railroad
conductor, in charge of the excursion train
wrecked with great loss of life a few years
ago, won a verdict of $14,740 in his suit
against the railroad—an increase of $4,700-
over the $10,000 verdict awarded in the first
trial. The case hinged upon alleged ver-
bal orders to the excursion train conduc-
tor, which the latter declared he had not
received.
—Hope Marshal, an employee of the
Ridgway Brick company, at Watsontown,
was instantly killed Tuesday morning by
a dynamite blast. The fatal accident was
caused by the blast taking an unusual
course, due to a pocket in the shale which
was being blasted. Immense quantities. of
the shale demolished a shelter in which
Marshal had taken refuge. Marshal was a
son of George Marshal, of Muncy, B. D.
He boarded with a sister, Mrs. Edward
Barto. He was 21 years of age and was a
member of the I. 0. O. F.
Henman Bros., of Altoona, have pur-
chased from Cole & Herman the Home-
stead mine, near Osceola. The mine has
had a rating of one steel cart a day, but
the new owners have secured a rating of
two steels per day, or about 110 tons. The
present capacity of the mine is about 150
tons daily, but this will soon be increased,
Henman Bros. having already strted the
work of putting up a new tipple, new
buildings and otherwise improving the
property. It is expected that ere long this
mine will be doing a much heavier busi-
ness.
__It became known this week that the
purchaser of the Eagle Brick works, at
Mill Hall, Clinton county, sold at receiver’s
sale last week, was the General Refracto-
ries company, manufacturer’s of fire brick.
The plant will be placed in full operation
at once and largely extended. The Gener-
al Refractories company is controlled by
Senator William C. Sproul, of Chester, and
has plants in Centre, Clearfield, Blair and
Huntingdon counties, Pennsylvania, and
in Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois. It is un-
derstood that the HKagle plant will be
supplied with fire clay and coal from the
company’s own mines at Morgan Run and
Karthaus.
—One man, Charles Stutzman, was kill-
ed, and three others, Mr. Stutzman’s son,
an American steamship was reported
by the merchantman upon the arri-
val today in an American harbor. Her
officers refused to discuss the encoun-
ter except to say that by agile maneu-
vering the steamer managed to ram
and sink a U-boat shortly after two
of the underwater boats had attacked
the merchantman, one from either
side. The liner lost a blade from her
propeller.
Henry Spangler and Henry Snyder, all of
Buckstown, not for from Johnstown,
were injured Wednesday night, June 6th,
when the fiercest wind and hail storm of
the season swept over Northern Somerset
county. Thousands of dollars’ worth of
property was damaged. Orchards and
gardens were ruined by the hail and wind.
Roofs were blown off barns and sheds for
miles around Buckstown. Stutzman and
his son and Spangler had gone into the
barn for shelter when the building was
struck by lightning. Snyder was stun-
med as he stood near the barn.
——For high class job work come
to the “Watchman” office.