Boolian
BY P. GRAY MEEK.
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INK SLINGS.
— There will be no issue of the
“Watchman” next week.
—So far as being roundly condemn-
ed is concerned Mayor Thompson, of
Chicago, might just as well be the
Kaiser himself.
—Ain’t it awful! Nothing is just
right. Now they tell us that the po-
tatoes are all growing to tops and,
consequently, the tubers will be small
and few in a hill.
—The wild orgie that characterized
the closing session of the Legislature
was nothing new. It was only a lit-
tle wilder because this session has
been worse than any of its predeces-
SOrSs.
—Stealing a bill out of the Legisla-
ture to keep it from passing is a new
departure in Pennsylvania’s legisla-
tive proceedings. The resourcefulness
of Republican organization manage-
ment surely more often outrages the
public than it commands its admira-
tion.
— France went wild with joy when
the people saw real American fighting
men actually landing on their shores
to help them. And let it be known
right here that France, and all the
others of our Allies, will have more
reason for joy when Uncle Sam’s boys
get into action.
— Within three months twice as
many men have volunteered for serv-
ice in the war now raging as volun-
teered for service under the flag when
we were fighting Spain. No, the spir-
it of America is not dead and no one
will realize that more fully, eventual-
ly, than Mr. Hohenzollern.
—1It has been just a trifle over thir-
ty days since the decision was made
to send American troops to the battle
front in France. They are actually
there now. What an answer to those
among us who have been continually
criticising and declaring that our ar-
my is not efficient and our navy use-
less.
—The first detachment of Uncle
Sam’s real fighting men has landed in
France. A world’s record in move-
ment of troops over dangerous seas
"has been broken. The Kaiser must
surely now know that we mean busi-
ness and the apologies of all the
knockers are due the War Depari-
ment.
—Last week the “Watchman” call-
ed for more contributions to the Troop
L sweater fund. In all one hundred
and three checks for $1.50 were need-
ed. Mrs. T. K. Morris, of Pittsburgh,
Mrs. James Noonan, Henry S. Linn
and F. P. Blair and Son, of Belle-
fonte, have been the ones to respond
this week. Only ninety more are
needed. Who will be No. 90? Will
you?
— Scientists say that the applica-
tion of modern agriculture would
make Mesopotamia another Garden of
Eden. Don’t do it. Girls are getting
too fond of scanty clothes already
and if we were to have another Gar-
den of Eden we would have to have
another Eve. And if we have another
Eve we will have another fig leaf
dress and if we have another fig leaf
dress well, its all off.
—Potatoes are tumbling in price.
They dropped six dollars a barrel in
the Philadelphia markets during the
last week. What glorious news. The
campaign of the spring to make liv-
ing cheaper is already bearing fruit
and if “spuds” get down to seventy-
five or eighty cents a bushel the
“Watchman” will feel well rewarded
for the part i: played in the effort to
increase the planting of all food
stuffs.
—If Washington proceeds along the
lines already laid down affecting the
drawing of the new army Centre
county will be called upon for a very
small contingent. According to the
advance information each county is to
be given credit with all men who Lave
enlisted either in the National Guard
or any branch of the federal service
since April first and those in service
at that date are also to count, so it
would appear that with Troop L, the
Boal machine gun troop and the scores
of young men who have alieady gone
into the vegular service there will be
chance for only a very few, if any, to
be called from Centre for the first big
army.
—We hear mutterings of discontent
over the action of our council in hav-
ing passed an ordinance to sell certain
property devised for the endowment
of the Pruner orphanage. The ordi-
nance was vetoed by the burgess, but
at the next meeting of council was
passed over his veto. We know little
of the merits of the case, nor do we
care to open up a discussion as to
whether the sale really was a frame
up, as has been charged, by certain
persons in Tyrone, where the proper-
ty in question is located. We have
seen, however, a bona fide offer of
twenty-two thousand dollars for the
property and inasmuch as council
voted to sellit for eighteen thousand
to another party there is certainly the
appearance, at least, of something be-
ing rotten in Denmark. Bellefonte’s
council surely doesn’t want to become
a catspaw for any schemes, especial-
ly in so sacred a trust as that of do-
ing the best for orphaned children,
and it seems to us that it should at
least withhold making its recent or-
dinance finally effective until it has
fully satisfied itself that the offer the
“Watchman” refers to above is not
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 26.
You. 62.
BELLEFONTE, PA. JUNE 29, 1917.
Coal Industry on Trial.
In the current news there is some
promise of relief from the extortions
of the “coal barons.” Washington
dispatches indicate that “the coal in-
dustry is on trial.” - The offences con-
tained in the indictment are left to
conjecture but they are so numerous
that little risk is run. Presumably
they will relate only to the excessive
prices asked of the government for
coal supplies for the navy. Upon that
account there is abundant reason for
complaint. Since the opening of the
war the coal prices have soared out of
sight. The government was helpless
against the exactions of operators.
It had no legal authority to regulate
prices and had to have the coal.
But action which will compel these
“malefactors of great wealth” to sell
coal to the government at reasonable
prices and fair profits is not suffi-
cient. They have taken a “strangle
holt” upon the throat of the public
and must be compelled to relinquish
it. In this State especially their ne-
farious operations have been atro-
cious. Every increase of wages has
been followed by increase of prices
to double the amount. That was bad
enough but a more outrageous device
has recently been invoked to loot the
people. The Legislature biennially
puts a tax on coal. The price is in-
creased to five or ten times the tax.
Then the court declares the tax un-
constitutional and the coal companies
get back the tax but don’t reimburse
the consumers.
It has come to be the rule in this
country to crush the consumer of
every kind of commodity whenever
there is opportunity. The war in Eu-
rope multiplied opportunities and
since our entrance into it they have
been further increased. But the coal
men have led all others in the spolia-
tion. Under the false pretense of
scarcity of product prices have been
raised to levels impossible to reach
by men of moderate incomes and
thousands of families stand to suffer
inconceivable hardships because of
this extortion. The National govern-
ment is within its right and duty to
stop the robbery through overcharges
to the navy. But there ought to be
some way to stop the crimes against
the public. :
The price of anthracite is directly
traced to manipulations on the part of
operators and brokers, but such has
not been wholly the case with bitu-
minous coal. Failure of the railroads
to put more than a forty per cent. car
supply under the tipples of the bitu-
minous mines has brought about a
practice of bidding for the visible
supply each day and the highest bid-
der, naturally, gets it. The shortage
of cars has contributed to the situa-
tion in another way also. Many mines
with well organized working forces
last winter are only half manned to-
day for the reason that the miners
left them for fields where work is
steadier than the low and intermit-
tent car supply in certain districts of
Pennsylvania make possible.
Even with the disorganized condi-
tion of the bituminous mines, especi-
ally in Central Pennsylvania, the
“Watchman” is of the opinion that if
at least a seventy per cent. car supply
could be given them the price of bitu-
minous would be down to three dol-
lars at the tipple in a very short time.
It will probably be a long time before
it falls much below that figure for the
reason that the cost of running has
more than doubled since the days
when bituminous could be bought
around a dollar.
—Tt would be just like Bill Hoh-
enzollern to blame his reversals on
the weather. But he would have been
defeated just as badly and quite as
certainly if the weather had been dif-
ferent. Besides probably the weath-
er man is fitting him in this life to en-
dure the temperature that is coming
to him in the next.
——We are thoroughly convinced
that the women who are sentinelling
the White House grounds are emissa-
ries of the anti-suffragettes. At any
rate they are doing more against fe-
male suffrage than any other agency.
——Two of Roosevelt’s sons are to
be on the firing line in France or
Flanders and probably that will satis-
fy the “Coinel.” The late Artemus
Ward only offered to sacrifice his
wife’s relations in the Civil war.
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——Kansas is going to plant 10,-
000,000 acres of wheat next year and
our advice to the Kaiser is to get
things settled before the harvest of
that crop.
— If the bigots of the Congress
would cease riding their hobbies into
legislation the work of preparing for
war would be greatly diminished.
——The over-subscription of the
Red Cross fund is another notice to
the Kaiser that his job is in joepardy.
——Conditions in Russia are im-
genuine.
proving and improvement there means
disaster in Berlin:
.Democrats to meet them
Prepare for Future Victories.
The Democrats of Schuylikll coun-
ty have reorganized and are looking
forward hopefully to the important
campaign of next year. There are
two judges to be elected in that coun-
ty this year and though under exist-
ing law there can be no partisan nom-
inations the Republican machine has
given orders for a vote on partisan
lines and it is the intention of the
on their
chosen field. Other important local
offices will be filled next fall and the
result then will have an important in-
fluence on the State fight next year.
With the idea of “safety first,” the
Democrats of the splendid and
wealthy old county are preparing for
a victory this fall.
This is a good example for Demo-
crats of other counties to follow.
During recent years the Democratic
organizations of Pennsylvania, State
and local, have been allowed to go in-
to decay. With the leaders operating
office brokerages in every section of
the State there has been neither time
nor opportunity to keep the organiza-
tion on an efficient footing. The pri-
maries this year will be in September,
less than three months off and yet not
a step has been taken, outside of
Schuylkill county, to prepare for one
of the most important campaigns that
has been conducted for mary years.
We have all the elements of success,
all the conditions for victory in our
hands and if we make proper use of
opportunities this year victory will be
certain and easy next year.
Schuylkill county is moving along
the right lines and making admirable
progress but we hear little of activi-
ty elsewhere. In this county, for ex-
ample, while we will have no import-
ant county officers to elect in the fall
there is no sign of an organization
that should be preparing in the off
years for winning fights when they
count. In adjacent counties appear-
ances are no more favorable. In the
cities political apathy is the rule and |
while Republican factions are tearing
each other into shreds and patches
Democrats are doing nothing. This is
all wrong. Every Democrat ought to
get busy and at once. A. Democratic
wave over the-county this: year will
hearten President Wilson in his ardu-
ous work and he deserves the encour-
agement.
— Tt is said that ex-King Constan-
tine, of Greece, is to receive $100,000
a year to maintain the dignity of his
present position. But we are not in-
formed as to where the money is to
come from. It will certainly not be
drawn from any fund subscribed by
the people of this country. We are
liberal to a fault but draw the line on
paying ex-kings.
Disgraceful Session of the legisla-
ture.
The Legislature which adjourned fi-
nally sometime yesterday, (it was still
in session when this was written,)
will go into history as the most dis-
reputable parliamentary body that
has ever assembled. Beginning with
a fight for the Speakership which
would have been discreditable to a
gang of pirates, it has dragged its
slow length through nearly six
months of disgraceful squabbling be-
tween the two factions of a party
machine alike rotten. Finally the
limit of iniquity was reached when a
member of the House stole a pending
measure of legislation in order that
an odious corporation might continue
its license to loot the city of Philadel-
phia.
For years the city of Philadelphia
has been endeavoring to escape the
clutches of the Rapid Transit corpora-
tion and create transit facilities ap-:
proaching public necessities. At the
expense of millions of dollars a sys-
tem of suburban lines was built but
the monopoly refused to enter into
traffic relations which are necessary to
make it available. A bill was intro-
duced into the Serate compelling suit-
able action which passed that body.
But it was held up in the House com-
mittee until last Thursday when it
was given to a member to report, that
being the last day under the rules.
The member to whom it was given
put it in his pocket and left the capi-
tol for the week, making action im-
possible.
The member who perpetrated this
outrage is a servile tool of Dave
Lane, an idol of Philadelphia, proba-
bly for the reason that his iniquities
are more open and flagrant than those
of any other man. Mr. Lane is a
stockholder, through the injection of
water, in the Rapid Traction corpora-
tion and may have ordered the rob-
bery to save the impairment. of his
dividends. But the people of Phila-
delphia will suffer unless the bill
is rushed through under special
orders before the adjournment.
The effort to accomplish this is
now in progress and may succeed
but the outrage will never be properly
disposed of until all concerned in it
are punished by severe prison sen-
tences. 3 ;
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| Defense Fund Will be Divided.
heard of the “defense fund” created
by the Legislature, amounting to two
millions of dollars. For a time it was
the dominant topic among politicians.
The Governor protested, with charac-
teristic vehemence, that as Command-
er-in-Chief of the military forces of
the State, he had fundamental right
to disburse the fund. The friends of
Senator Penrose, with equal emphasis
declared that because of irregularities
in previous accounts of the Governor
the distribution of the fund should be
placed in other hands. Even before
the appropriation was made a consid-
erable part of the money had been
pledged for expenses of administra-
tion. Since that nothing has been de-
veloped.
Under authority of the Governor or
some sort of a commission created by
him expensive agents had been ap-
pointed and luxurious offices in Phila-
delphia furnished. A “Publicity Ex-
pert” had been employed at fifteen
thousand dollars a year, offices had
been rented at enormous expense and
the Governor’s private secretary had
been put on the pay roll at $2,500 a
year in addition to the $5,000 a year
he received as private secretary. The
opponents of the Governor in the Re-
publican faction fight declared that
such profligacy would not be allowed.
‘But the Publicity Expert is still “do-
ing his bit,” the Governor’s private
secretary is still on the pay roll and
the expensive offices in Philadelphia
are still occupied. But the opposition
has been completely silenced.
The probabilities are that the dif-
ferences between the factions have
been adjusted. An agreement has
probably been reached for an equal,
or nearly 50-50, division of the spoils
between the followers of the Governor
and the adherents of the Senator.
The Vares will get their share and
McNichol will get his but the fund
will be disposed of and nobody will
ever know how or where. These polit-
ical pirates have no thought beyond
or above spoils and the looting of the
public. Each faction would prefer to
take all in sight all the time. But if
it can’t get all it is willing to take
‘part and it may be set down as certain
that the defense fund of $2,000,000,
will be divided between them.
Senator Penrose Needlessly Alarmed.
Senator Penrose is again borrowing
trouble for himself and sowing the
seeds of fear to disturb the minds of
others. “I cannot but feel,” he de-
clares, that “we are making a mistake
in creating so many commissions and
dictatorships. We are giving a tre-
mendous amount of power into the
hands of a few people. I think there
is a lot of fake and buncombe about
it. And, there is danger in it too.”
The high prices are ascribable large-
ly to inadequate transportation facili-
ties, he adds, and “a food dictator
cannot increase railroad facilities,”
which is true. But if railroads are
compelled to do their best and accu-
mulation for speculative purposes is
stopped, that result might be achiev-
ed.
Senator Penrosc appears to be con-
cerned only for business interests.
He is apprehensive that such re-
straints as a food dictator might find
it necessary to impose would hurt
commerce and impair business. “If I
wanted to make money and didn’t care
how I made it,” he continues, “I would
resign my seat in the Senate any day
to accept one of these dictatorships.
1 would not ask any salary and would
not want the place over a month. In
that time I could collect a fortune that
would almost equal Rockerfeller’s.”
Obviously the Senator has in mind the
conditions that prevailed during the
Spanish war. But conditions have
changed vastly since that “halcyon
and vociferous” period.
In the first place if the Senator
should resign his seat in the Senate,
he wouldn’t be appointed to the office
he covets or be given the opportunity
to make money “any old way” as
speculators and army contractors did
during the Civil war and the Spanish
war. The men chosen to administer
the duties of commissioner and dicta-
tor are experts in the lime to which
they are called and known to care
very much how they make money.
There is no riot. of corruption or or-
gie of graft in the service of the gov-
ernment and nobody will get rich as
Rockerfeller within a month. More-
over with the end of the war the au-
thority ceases and there is no danger
to business or anything else.
——Fast Linn street was oiled last
week and the result was it presented
a pretty slippery surface for auto-
mobiles. In fact one driver evident-
ly lost control of his car on Friday
night as the tracks showed a zigzag
course until the Lutheran church
where they cut in and right across the
corner of the pavement and out onto
Allegheny street.
—The Legislature has adjourned.
For some time nothing has been |
EXEMPTION
BOARD OF CENTRE
COUNTY.
Men Who Determine Available Men
for War Duty. How the Draft
Will be Made,
Sheriff George H. Yarnell, Dr. C.
E. McGirk, of Philipsburg, and Coun-
ty ‘Commissioner D. A. Grove have
been appointed the exemption board
for Centre county by Governor Brum-
baugh and the same has been approv-
ed by the War Department. The
above men will have the onerous duty
of determining just who of the men
drafted are entitled under the rules
and regulations which will be specif-
icaily set forth by the President to be
exempt from military duty. Natur-
ally there is considerable curiosity as
to just how the draft will be made and
this is explained in brief in the an-
nouancement sent out from Washing-
ton on Saturday as follows:
Regulations for drafting the new
national army, now awaiting Presi-
dent Wilson’s approval, contain pro-
visions for every step in the great un-
dertaking. No official announcement
tion is being withheld, but it has been
stated, and generally is accepted as
true, that the Federal Government
itself will do the drafting, probably
in Washington, so there will be no op-
portunity for local favoritism, politic-
al or otherwise.
In the United States there are ap-
proximately four thousand registra-
tion districts. In each there is a sep-
arate series of registration numbers,
beginning with No. 1. :
When the drawings begin, proba-
bly early in July, a board in Wash-
ington will select a number through
the jury wheel or other lottery sys-
tem. That number will be telegraph-
ed to each registration district and all
the men on the registration lists who
have that number will be called.
The identity of the numbered men
will be unknown to those in charge of
the draft machinery and can be es-
tablished only by comparing a nuirker
with a printed list in the man’s home
district. As the members are drawn,
they will be telegraphed to the home
districts where the registered men will
learn if they have been drafted.
EXEMPTION QUESTIONS ARISE.
It will be up to each man, individ-
ually to ascertain whether’ he is se-
lected. He will not be requiztd until
a general summons is issued for all
drafted men to come forward for ex-
amination. ;
At that time he will have opportu-
nity, if he desires exemption, to pre-
sent his case to the local exemption
boards. It will have power to decide
physical exemptions and excuses bas-
ed on dependent families.
Occupation exemption pleas must
be heard by the appelate boards. If
a drafted man desires, he can appeal
to a national exemption board, which
the regulations create, and which is
the supreme court of exemptions.
TO PUBLISH DRAFTED MEN.
To make sure that no eligibles es-
cape, the names and numbers of draft-
ed men will be made public. Origina:
registration lists are also being made
public so “slackers” may be detected
by their neighbors when their names
fail to appear on the list.
In this way all those available for
service out of the ten million who reg-
istered will be made ready for the
country’s call, and fron: them the first
increment of 625,000 will be assem-
bled. The others will be called as the
need develops as the war goes on.
Plenty of time will be given for draft-
ed men to arrange their personal af-
fairs and report to the cantonment
camps. It is hoped to have them all
in training by September 1 or very
soon {hereafter.
REGARDING THE QUOTA OF ENLIST-
MENT. :
The War Department authorizes
the following: :
June 30 is the last day upon which
enlistments in any State will count to-
ward that State’s quota of men to be
selected from those registered. In-
structions to this effect were sent out
Friday night to each Governor, and to
the commissioners of the District of
Columbia, by Provost Marshal Gen-
eral Crowder.
This indicates that the process of
seléction and exemption of registered
men will begin soon after July 1.
The National Guard authorities in
each State are asked to report, as soon
after the close of recruiting on June
30 as possible, the total number of
men recruited during June. With
this, the figures will be complete for
recruiting from April to June 30, both
inclusive, and these will be added to
the men in the National Guard in each
State on April 1. Men enlisted in the
regular army between April 1 and
June 30 will also be added and the
sum of these items for each State—
number in National Guard April 1,
number enlisted in both National
Guard and regular army during April,
May and June—will make the total to
be counted in as part of each States
quota as apportioned under the selec-
tive service act and the regulations
to be promulgated.
Members of the National Guard
who may have been discharged from
that organization since April 1 will
count in the total of enlistments the
same as men remaining in service.
(According to the above Centre
county’s quota for the present will be
almost made up by Troop L and the
Boal machine gun troop.—Ed.)
Pennsylyania should worry.
acer a vmmtats
—The “Watchman” has all the news
has been made and official confirma-’
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Gov. Brumbaugh has asked for a safe
and sane Fourth.
—Thomas Gough, aged 45, was perhaps
fatally injured and a score of others sus-
tained minor hurts when four hundred
persons were pinned beneath a large tent
owned by a lyceum bureau which collaps-
ed during a severe electrical storm at Ta-
rentum on Tuesday night. The crowd,
panic-stricken, struggled amid the burst-
ing of electric bulbs and falling poles until
released by three cempanies of the Taren-
tum firemen.
—-One of the most revolting cases of bru-
tality to come to the attention of the Mt.
Carmel authorities in recent years was
that of little Peter Yuskosky, aged twelve.
The lad, who is mentally deficient, was
stripped of all clothing, tied to a tree at
the rear of the parents’ home, and both
father and mother applied heavy straps
on the child's bare skin. The parents were
arrested and the boy has been sent to a
home for children.
—Buffalo. interests, headed by Messrs.
Loman and Pierce, have purchased the
Tozier Clay and Coal company properties
in the immediate vicinity of Benezette.
They are opening a top prospect for de-
veloping a large coal mining operation.
Among other activities they are building
a mile and a quarter tramway road, con-
necting their property with the Buffalo
and Susquehanna railroad, so that coal
can be shipped direct to Buffalo.
—Grampian was visited on Sunday night
by a gang of yeggmen, and after making
a raid of several barns and outbuildings,
carrying away blankets and other articles,
made their way to the passenger station
and, blowing open the safe, made their es-
cape with about $60 in money. The whole
proceedings were carried on without dis-
turbing the slurubers of the populace. The
robbers overlooked a nice fat bundle of
greenbacks on the top shelf of the safe.
—Chief of police Ross Chambers, of
Williamsburg, Blair county, John W. Far-
rell, a constable, and John Fluke, pleaded
guilty in court last Wednesday to the
charge of involuntary manslaughter. The
three men shot ard killed James Curry, a
negro, who was resisting arrest for a mi-
nor offence. The court suspended sen-
tence upon the recommendation of the
district attorney who stated that the wid-
ow of the dead man had received $2,500
from the three defendants to compensate
her for her loss.
—Trying to save Miss Elsie Ross, of
Goldsboro, from drowning in the Susque-
hanna river at that place Sunday after-
noon, Lloyd Balsbaugh, of Hershey, Pa.
manager of a store in Steelton, was drown-
ed. Miss Ross, with several other Golds-
boro girls, was bathing and she got into a
deep hole. Balsbaugh, believing she would
be drowned, went in after her and sank,
His body was recovered and although doc-
tors worked over him with a pulmotor, he
was past reviving. Miss Ross was saved
by Edward Sipe.
—Several days ago a bear attacked a
flock of sheep belonging to Jeff Long,
whose farm is located on the Allegheny
Mountain, several miles from New Balti-
more, and killed eight. The State game
authorities were notified, and an order
was issued allowing hunters to enter the
woods and pursue the animal out of hunt-
ing season. In case the bear is killed, the
lucky hunters are ordered to present the
skin to the county authorities and secure
the legal reward. The mountain is being
scoured by hunters looking for the beast.
—Highway Commissioner Black last Fri-
day signed the final papers for the pur-
chase of the Lancaster Pike from Phila-
delphia to Paoli and it will be freed of
tolls on July 15. The freeing of that piece
of road will leave but twelve miles of toll
road between Philadelphia and Harrisburg
on the State main highway. The section
taken over will cost $165,000, Montgomery
county having agreed to pay $5,000, while
Delaware and Chester counties will also
contribute. The section is fourteen miles
long and the toll charges were seventy
cents. The original turnpike company
which owned the road dates from 1792.
—James Sutton, aged 92, a pioneer
merchant of Wilkes-Barre and for a quar-
ter of a century a bachelor recluse, known
to but few of the younger generation, in
his will filed Friday, bequeaths $500,000
and his residence in Wilkes-Barre for the
establishment and maintenance of a home
for aged men of good moral character. The
estate is valued at $700,000. Of this
amount, $200,000 is given to local charities
and to his niece and nephews. Living in
retirement with no relatives is believed to
have induced the aged merchant to provide
a home for aged men finding themselves
without near relatives or the comforts of
a home in their declining years.
—One $20 gold piece was all that was
saved from the $2,900 kept in the stove
bank of the boarding house of Mrs. Joseph
Kripps at Brinkerton, a mining town in
Westmoreland county, when Mrs. Kripps
lighted a fire in the stove Sunday morn-
ing. The money represented $900 savings
of the boarders and $2,000 belonging to the
Kripps. Fearing banks the money was
kept in the house, but on account of re-
cent robberies the money was hidden each
night in the stove, kindling and coal being
piled on top of it. Sunday morning Mrs.
Kripps was in a hurry to start the fire and
forgot about the money, which was all cur-
rency except the one gold piece.
—Hundreds of people on Sunday viewed
and inspected with an unusual interest the
first armored car built by the American -
Car and Foundry company, at Berwick,
for the United States government, which
will be shipped to the government prov-
ing grounds at Sandy Hook. The usual
type of construction and the fact that
Berwick’s produce will very likely be
placed in active service on the battle front
in Europe, combined in making the inspec-
tion one of double interest. The masslve-
ness of the car, the wonderful ingenuity
in its construction, all combined to make
Berwickians generally feel proud over the
fact that the car is a product of their
town.
—J. B. Eberhart, of Lewisburg, was run
down by a Philadelphia and Reading pass-
enger train at the Grove crossing between
West Milton and Lewisburg. The acci-
dent happened about six o'clock Sunday
evening. Mr. Eberhart works for the Bell
Telephone company at Lewisburg and was
on his way to fix a telephone line near
West Milton when the accident occurred.
He was driving his Ford car and just as
he was almost over the tracks he heard the
whistle of the locomotive and he turned
his car to one side thus avoiding the full
force of the collision. The train struck
the car a glancing blow and turned it
completely around, Mr. Eberhart escaped
with a slight shaking up, but the car was
completely wrecked.