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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
Next week the Granger’s picnic.
—Let there be no let-un. Are you
still doing your bit?
— The frost came pretty near get-
ting on the pumpkin on Tuesday
morning.
— Plenty of $2 wheat can be bought
but we have yet to hear of coal hav-
ing been bought for $2.
—The first year of the war is to cost
us eleven billion dollars. That's going
some, but Uncle Sam always was a
good spender.
— Remember that there are only
one hundred and seven days until
Christmas. Look after the shopping
for that occasion early.
—Anyway if the Germans do con-
quer Russia they will be kept so busy
keeping it conquered that the victory
will avail them nothing.
—$2.20 per bushel has bean fixed as
the price for the 1917 wheat crcp. At
this rate it will not be long until the
farmers will be using Pierce-Arrows
instead of Fords.
— What Germany couldn’t do for
the United States she has done for the
Argentine. A sure sign that she real-
izes that she has taken on all the
trouble she cares to have.
—Potatoes are selling at ninety
cents the bushel in parts of Centre
county and they will be lower. How
easy it is to reduce the high cost of
living when everybody turns in and
helps a bit.
—Denny O'Neil, the new State
Highway Commissioner, has long been
making a noise in politics like a man
who could do something if the chance
were given him. Now he has the
chance and it’s up to him.
—OQur Allies made light of Presi-
dent Wilson's notes a year or so ago.
Now they have concluded that they
will let the last one he has written to
Pope Benedict te their reply te His
Holiness because they admit their in-
ability to improve upon it.
—Seventy thousand church bells
have already been smelted into muni-
tions of war in Prussia. So far as the
appeal they carry to a lot of people is
concerned there are seven bells in
Bellefonte that might as well be melt-
ed and run into bronze bushings for
automobiles.
—This week the other papers of
Centre county will tell you who the
first six men who were called for our
quota to the new national army are.
The “Watchman” told you who they
were last week. It is always about
seven days ahead when it comes to
real news announcements.
—One American soldier in the
French foreign legion has, single-
handed, captured thirty Germans.
Why at that rate Uncle Sam could
send his new national army over there
equipped with nothing more than salt
shakers and they’ll catch everything
in Germany old enough to carry a
gun.
—The capture of the Gulf of Riga
by the Germans will afford them
another naval base in the Baltic. It
may prove of little advantage to the
captors, however, because it will soon
be closed by ice and before it is open
again the Germans will probably be
so nearly licked that they will have no
use for it.
—Up to this moment we have neg-
lected calling attention to the fact that
“Priscilla,” the “Watchman’s” pet po-
etess, is again feeling the tickle of
the muse. We are hoping that she
will get down to business again and
supply us with a regular contribution
of the same charming verse that made
her so interesting a year or more ago.
—There was an increase of forty
per cent. in the number of cigaiettes
smoked in this country last year.
There were ninety cigars per capita
and twenty-six millions more gallons
of distilled spirits disposed of than
the year previous. The States that
have gone dry have evidently been
driving the wet States to drink all the
harder.
—Both W. Harrison Walker and
Edmund Blanchard seem: to be as se-
rious in their desires to be the next
burgess of Bellefonte as if there were
a salary of $10,000.00, “s7ith pickings”
attached to the office. It’s queer that
neither one of them realizes that es-
pecially now “uneasy lies the head
that wears the crown.” We are all
getting so foreign in our alliances
and our ideas that we might force the
next burgess to abdicate, just to show
that the Russians and the Greeks have
nothing on Bellefonte. And Harrison
and Ned would both get cold feet in
Siberia.
—An automobile law that fines a
man for drawing another vehicle be-
hind his licensed automobile, when he
does not pull “trailers” in a regular
commercial business, is all wrong.
And right here is a matter that the
Hon. Harry Scott might do well to
have corrected by the next Legisla-
ture. Companies and individuals who
operate machines with “trailers” prob-
ably should be required tv secure a li-
cense for the “trailer” but to require
a farmer to have a license tag on his
hay wagon before he can draw it over
a public road with an automobile,
should necessity arise, is ridiculous
and the “Watchman” doesn’t believe
that the law contemplated any such
requirement, even though it is so con-
strued by officers of the state constab-
ulary.
VOL. 62.
Pope Benedict Will Try Again.
There are rumors current that Pope
Benedict has in mind another appeal
for peace. The reply of President
Wilson to his last note on the subject,
according to gossip, encourages him
to hope that expressed in a different
form, his proposal might be favorably
considered by the belligerent ene-
mies of Germany. It is not easy to
see how he has arrived at that conclu-
sion. The President made it particu-
larly plain that no proposition involv-
ing casus belli ante will be accepta-
ble to the government or people of the
United States. The allies of this
government have certainly given no
reason to imagine that they will be of
a different mind. They havea not spok-
en officially but unofficially have en-
dorsed the President’s position mest
cordially.
Neither the people nor the govern-
ment of the United States are in the
war for reprisals or conquest. We
believe that the government «{ Great
Britain is equally free from selfish or
sordid purposes. France may have in
mind to claim a restoration of terri-
tory taken from her by Germany after
the war of 1870. Italy may demand
the restoration of Trieste and Greece
is likely to insist on the return of ter-
ritory seized by Bulgaria after the
Balkan war. But the government of
the United States has nothing to do
with such questions. It has to do,
however, with the maintenance of
democracy wherever it bas been es-
tablished and the restoration of con-
ditions as they existed before the
present war begun would defeat that
result because it would ultimately es-
tablish autocracy.
The purposes of Pope Benedict are
admirable and amiable. He wants to
stop the waste of life and treasure,
which is repugnant to his christian
spirit and inclination. For this he is
to be commended in the most gener-
ous way. But it is a waste of his val-
uable time and mental energy to pro-
pose terms of peace unless he is com-
missioned by the German people to
speak for them under circumstances
which will guarantee fidelity to any
obligations assumed. The German
autocracy is irresponsible, insincere
and untrustworthy. A treaty with it
would be a scrap of paper made abso-
lutely valueless because it would be
tainted, and no candid people can af-
ford to deal with it. Therefore the
benevolent head of the Catholic
church may as well abandon his idea
of another note.
— If von Hindenburz will put his
ear to the ground he may get a new
idea or two as the troop trains travel
from point to point in this land of
liberty and abundance. Popular en-
thusiasm makes a loud noise.
Suspicions Greatly Strengthened.
The appointment of J. Denny O’Neil
to the office of Highway Commission-
er strengthens, if it does not actually
confirm, the suspicion that W. E. Ma-
gee is to be the Brumbaugh-Vare can-
didate for Governor naxt year. The
vacancy in the office was created by
the enforced resignation of Commis-
sioner Black who refusad to play pol-
itics. Mr. O'Neil will not disappoint
the expectations of his masters in that
respect. He plays politics consistent-
ly with everything and at all times.
No man in the service of the depart-
ment will be permitted to escape the
partisan tasks which will be imposed
upon him. It will always be a case of
“pring home the bacon or get out.”
Mr. O'Neil will probably be a fairly
efficient Highway Commissioner. But
he will make all interesc; subservient
to those of the party machine of which
he is now an important part. He
knows nothing about road construc-
tion, has had no experience in the
managing of such enterprises. But
he isa past master in political in-
trigue and manipulatin and every
mile of road constructed under his
administration will be made to pro-
duce its quota of votes for the Brum-
baugh-Vare party machire. The road
beds may be wretched, the materials
used in construction faulty and the ex-
pense high. But the Brumbaugh-
Vare faction will increase in strength
throughout the State in the precise ra-
tio of miles of road repaired or built.
Of Mr O’Neil’s successor in the of-
fice of Insurance Comm:ssioner little
can be said because little is known.
He has been a favored contractor in
and near Philadelphia for some years
and was defeated for the nomination
for Auditor General mainly for the
reason that many voters ceclared and
believed that he would use the office to
promote his personal interests as a
contractor in State work. Of course
he can’t do much in that direction in
the office of Insurance Commissioner
but may be depended up m to do the
best he can. As a late distinguished
Statesman said on another occasion,
“he will be no dead-head in the enter-
prise.” He will take care of himself.
—The slackers are not the worst
people in the world, though bad
enough. There are also traitors.
BELLEFONTE, P
Cheating the Kaiser.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
A., SEPTEMBER 7, 1917.
The German Kaiser ought to soon
see that Senator LaFollette and those
German sympathizers who are associ- |
ated with him in the work of delaying
essential war legislation can do him |
little, if any, good, and that whatever
money he is paying ther is wasted.
The highest vote he could summon to
his perfidious purpose yesterday was
twenty. His first scheme was to fix
the excess profit tax at seventy per |
cent. and he was defeated. Then he
dropped down to sixty-five, with the
same result. But he delayed the pas- |
sage of the measure some. By work- |
ing his scheme vigorously he may
consume a week or two in this way
while Germany is gaining on the Rus-
sian front and recuperating on the
western iine of battle.
We all agree that excess profits ob-
tained through the war ought to pay
a big share of the expenses of the war.
But delay :n passing necessary war
legislation is adding to the cost of the
war more than the excess profits
amount to. Therefore the wise policy
would be to pass the pending legisla-
tion promptly to prove unanimity of
sentiment, and later, next year for ex-
ample, enact new legislation to in-
crease the tax on excess profits.
There will be plenty of time to tackle
the profit proposition before the war
ends. If necessary the profits can be
absorbed and the plants taken. The
present and pressing duty, however,
is to provide funds, needed immediate-
ly, to pay expenses.
The sooner the preparations for en-
gaging actively in the war by the
United States are cor:pleted, the
sooner the war will be over. By &
parity of reasoning the longer this
work is ‘delayed the higher the cost of
the war. This year it is estimated
$11,000,000,000 will be our share of
the expease. Next vear it will cost
us vastly more. The duty is, there-
fore, to stop it as soon as possible and
the way to stop it is to show the world
that the American peoplz are in it cor-
dially and as a unit. This country
will finish the fight and win the victo-
ry and there is no use in delaying the
process. Mr. LaFollette and his fel-
low conspirators are «heating ihe
Kaiser.
——The price of coal to consumers
has not been reduced since the recent
survey and order for decrease at the
mines. But dealers who are main-
taining high prices will be brought to
terms before long.
Error of a Southern Judge.
That Southern Federal judge who
declared the Congressional Child La-
bor law unconstitutional because it in-
fringes on the right of States to reg-
ulate police powers, drew too fine a
line. If the law had declared that no
boy or girl under fifteen years of age
shall be employed, or that no person
of that age shall work more than
eight hours a day, there would have
been cause of complaint upon the
ground stated in the judge’s opinion.
But the law simply declares in sub-
stance that no goods made in an es-
tablishment in which persons under a
stipulated age are emplcyed shall be
carried under the regulations of in-
terstate commerce and such legisla-
tion is clearly within the right of Con-
gress.
Half a century ago, probably, Cen-
gress would not have thought of cut-
ting so closely to the line which di-
vides interstate from intrastate com-
merce. But since the creation of the
Interstate Commerce Commission one
advance after another has been made
until now by legislation and judicial
declaration almost anything in the
way of regulation is under sanction,
if the commerce is from one State in-
to another. Under the legislation in
question a producer who sells only in
the community in which his factory
or mill is located, may inake his own
working conditions, in the absence of
State or local legislation. But if he
violates the act of Congress forbid-
ding the employment of operatives
under a defined age, he is excluded
from interstate commerce or penal-
ized.
Some Southern judges like some
Southern Congressmen are behind the |
present stage of progress and act as if |
they didn’t care to catch up. The Civ-
il war settled a good many questions
in dispute before that event and the
harnessing of electricity, the develop-
ment of resources and the vast in-!
crease in population since, have alte.- |
ed others. The Child Labor legisla- |
tion by Congress is one of the results |
of these changes and a step in the di- |
rection of progress which can never
be revoked or annulled. A court here |
and there may insist that we are still
living in the atmosphere of the period
before the Civil war, but their opin-
jons will not check the march of prog- |
ress or the advance of rivilization. i
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——Kerensky will either be a mar- |
tyr to patriotism or a saviour of his
country and at this distance and from
this angle it is hard to determine
which role he is destined te act.
NO. 35.
Incentive to Democratic Voters.
The meager registration in cities of
the third class on the two first days
indicate an unusual apathy on the part
of voters in that class of communities.
According to the best information at-
tainable less than fifty per cent. of
! voters registered during the first two
| registration days in those cities. Us-
ually nearly that proportion register
"on the first day and more than half
the remainder attend to the duty on
the second day, leaving cnly a small
‘ratio to be taken care of on the last
' day, which this year will be on the
15th of this month, a week from to-
morrow. The failure to register means
a small vote in the cities in which the
Republican majorities are great.
Possibly interest in the war move-
ments accounts for this indifference
to qualifying on the part of the voters.
Many of the voters are ia the instruc-
tion camps, others have enlisted and
fathers and brothers of soldiers are
giving attention to matters concern-
ing the welfare of their soldier
friends. But whatever the cause the
fact that a light vote is promised at
the coming election in the cities is re-
vealed and there are poo; prospects of
changing the conditions. There are
no State officers to elect, which might
| have some influence on the situation,
but judicial and local contests will be
effected by the light vote and person-
al interest in such contsis might have
increased the registration
“It’s an ill wind that blows good for
nobody,” and in the meager registra-
tion in the cities there is a chance for
the rural voters to exercise a greater
influence in the selection of officers.
‘he Democrats in the rural districts
should be especially encouraged by
the prospects of a smail city vote.
The Republican majorities are mainly
in the cities. Take away the majori-
ties of that party in Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh and the State would be
close if not actually Democratic.
Take away the Republican majorities
in the lesser cities and several coun-
ties now Republican wou'd give Dem-
ocratic majorities. This should afford
an incentive to Democratic voters and
we hope for corresponding results.
— The Pennsylvania State College
will open for the 1917-18 school year
on Wednesday of next week, and the
college authorities state that up to the
present time a Freshman class of six
hundred has been enrolled. This num-
ber about equals the Freshman class
of the past two years and the only
falling off there may be in the attend-
ance at college will be those members
of last year’s Junior, Sophomore and
Freshman classes who may have en-
listed for service in some branch of
the army or gone to work in some of
the industrial plants turring out ma-
terial for the government, and what
percentage of the usual total attend-
ance this will amount to cannot be
told until the final registration day.
——The hunting season opened on
Saturday, September first, but the
kind of game that came in season is
| not likely to cause any big rush for
hunters’ licenses in Centre county.
The season opened for raccoon, black-
birds, rail and reed birds, and while
’coons are quite plentiful in some por-
tions of the county the season is yet
too warm to either hunt them or eat
them. The season for squirrel, quail,
pheasant and woodcock will not open
until October 20th this year, but it
will be lawful to kill bear on and after
October 15th.
— Labor day in Bellefonte was a
very quiet affair but it evidently
proved too much for most of the Belle-
fonte councilmen, as only two of them
reported for the regular meeting on
Monday evening, and as two members
do not constitute a quorum, no meet-
ing was held. Of course, there was no
pressing business on the slate and as
the secretary has authority to pay all
labor bills and salaries it did not in-
convenience anybody.
— Mr. Gerard says that the Ger-
mans have hated Americans intensely
ever since the beginning of the war.
It is a safe bet that since the Kaiser
read the President’s reply to the Pope
the hatred has nct diminished in one
household.
— The Socialist conference at
Stockholm has been called off. Those
concerned in the movement couldn’t
find enough crazy men with money to
pay expenses in the whole world to
make a conference.
— Probably the defective cart-
ridges were the result of an unavoida-
ble accident but some accidents are
worse than crimes and the cause of
this one ought to be unccvered.
— Of course Bethman-Hollweg de-
nies everything assertad by Gerard
but Teutonic reputation for veracity
doesn’t stand high anywhere.
— We are getting onto the Ger-
man idea. They yield a point in or-
der to get a chance to try to get it
back.
Our Country is Doing Things.
' From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
© When we entered the war, it was
| pretty generally observed that our
{ weight would tell first and decisively
| in the shape of products and manufac-
| tures; not only food and war material
| but railroad equipment and ships.
There is daily evidence that the in-
! dustrial forces of this country are
i making tremendous progress towards
| the winning of this war. For exam-
ple, there is an announcement today
by the Baldwin Locomective Works
that they are now employing, in their
various departments, twenty-five
thousand men and last week made a
record of nine big locomotives a day.
Only a couple of years ago, this great-
est of locomotive building concerns
pointed with pride to a new record of
thirty locomotives in one month. The
Baldwin company has been working
under strong government pressure to
complete an order for 764 locomotives
for use abroad—presumably in
France. Other plants arz being push-
ed with equal vigor and it may be as-
sumed that many of the engines are
destined for Russia, which has been
begging for locomotives.
Similar conditions and achieve-
ments might be reported from a great
many big manufacturing plants, but
all of this production must wait upon
the solution of the ocean transport
problem—the building of ships and
their safeguarding from submarine
attack.
That problem also is being worked
out with furious energy but due con-
sideration. There are many things be-
ing done that need not be talked
about, for, with a little patience they
will talk for themselves. This is not
the time for boasting, but for doing;
yet it is well to cheer ourselves with
well grounded assurances that the
things that ave being dome will soon
begin to tell.
And let it be noted that labor and
big business, working together with
eager unity and patriotism, are doing
things. That the industrial slackers
of all types are few anil are justly
held contemptible. This is a supreme
effort of a great industrial democra-
cy, educated, alert and angressive.
Wastes in Food.
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
If the wastes charged up to faults
in shipping methods and temporary
faults in transportation inciease in ra-
tio to the additional w oe thrown
upon the railroads by the extraordina-
ry drafts official alertness may find in
them a profitable field for watchful re-
covery of values. In tbe absence of
comprehensive statements covering
more than local marketing and con-
sumptive areas it is impossible to even
estimate with accuracy what the ton-
nage of waste in farm products
amounts to in the national aggregate,
but basing any guess upon known fig-
ures for a given locality the total is
certain to be enormous.
Instances are not rare cf trainloads
or of a number of cars of a train load-
ed with farm products arriving in such
an unsatisfactory condition that com-
mission merchants refuse to receive
them or have defective portions sort-
ed out and removed because of the ex-
pense. The railroads likewice refuse
to make a sorting becausz the market-
able remainder might not be sufficient
to meet freight bills to which would
be added the expense of sorting. In
such cases, in some large cities, the
matter then is automaticzlly present-
ed to the health department if one ex-
ists, and cases have been reported in
which 70 per cent. of rejected ship-
ments were found perfectly good and
were distributed among the very poor.
In these cases the farmers get noth-
ing for their time, labor and seed, and
the railroads get nothing for the haul-
ing, which complicates the question of
waste. It is possible that if all the
waste and loss between producer and
shipping terminals could be eliminat-
ed the difference in market prices to
consumers would be appreciable. Per-
haps if this single item of waste were
removed the lesser instances in indi-
vidual kitchens would have a far less
serious aspect even in a time like the
present.
Modern Magic in Money Making.
From the Columbus Dispatch.
A gentleman in Chicago testified re-
cently that he had made something
like $10,000,000 this year in dealing in
wheat. He admitted that he had not
owned a bushel of wheat; that he had
never so much as seen a bushel of the
grain, and he had neither asked for
the delivery of a bushel nor had de-
livered a bushel, Yet he “bought”
millions of bushels and “sold” the
same amount. He had performed no
useful function; he had not assisted
in growing a crop nor :istributing it.
Yet he had made $10,000,000 and had
the money. Somebody paid the mon-
ey—somebody had to produce it
through labor or service. It came out
of somebody’s pocket and it did not
go into the pockets of those who had
grown the wheat or assisted in dis-
tributing it. It is one of the marvels
of civilization that such things are
possible; that we have done so many
wonderful things in working out re-
forms and making living conditions
better, but have net adjusted our af-
fairs so that such practices have been
rendered impossible. It does not an-
swer anything to state that almost
any man would have cone exactly
what the Chicago man did if he had
believed he could make $10,000,000. It
does not refute the statement that we
are still working along the very crud-
est lines when we tolerate such prac-
tices. :
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Two hundred thousand dollars, the
largest sum of money ever distributed in
wages for a two-week period by any con-
cern in the history of DuBois, was paid to
the men employed by the Buffalo, Roches-
ter & Pittsburgh railroad on Saturday.
—The Monongahela railroad has award-
ed a contract to the Roberts & Schaefer
company of Chicago, for the construction
of a combined 500-ton concrete, three-track
coaling plant, electric cinder handling
plant, and a “Rand S” gravity and sand
plant, all of concrete, to be erected imme-
diately at Brownsville, Pa.
—Two men were burned to death near
Williamsport on Monday when lightning
ignited a barn in which they sought shel-
ter from a thunder storm. They were Ed-
ward Poust, 35 years old, and George
Eichenlaub, 40 years of age, both living
near Hughesville. Eichenlaub’s wife was
badly burned in an attempt to rescue her
hfisband.
—The State Highway Department has
laid over for study the bids received for
fourteen road contracts. On eight con-
tracts there was but one bidder each and
on the work in East Bethlehem township,
Washington county, there were no bids.
There were six bidders for work in Lack-
awanna county, three for McKean, two for
Dauphin, Lehigh, Butler and Cambria
county work.
—Harry Richardson, a West Bradford,
Delaware county, farmer shot his best calf
& few days ago in mistake for a ground-
hog. The calf was really a heifer weigh-
ing 700 pounds, but it was still following
its mother at the time. Richardson was
hunting for groundhogs when he noted the
nose of what he supposed was that of a
woodchuck protruding from a thicket and
he shot with his rifle. The calf was hit
and fatally wounded.
—Ludwig Novadosky, a foreigner resid-
ing near Ramey, was taken to the Clear-
field county home on Wednesday, August
29th, in a demented condition, preparatory
to being sent to the Warrea asylum. Ear-
ly the next morning, in the temporary ab-
sence of the nurse, Novadosky committed
suicide by fastening his belt around his
neck and hanging himself to a nail in the
wall. He was aged 45 years and leaves a
wife and four children.
—Two men were drowned in their bunks
aboard a dredge which sunk at the Phila-
delphia navy yard on Monday. Forty-
eight other workmen, employed by A. H.
Taylor, a New York contractor, escaped a
similar fate when they were awakened by
the inrush of water and swam ashore. The
dredge was used in the construction of a
new drydock. A member of the contract-
ing firm said the dredge was in good con-
dition the night previous.
—Acute shortage in the lobor market at
Sunbury is being met in a1 unusual way
in the building of the new $50,000 St John’s
Methodist church, Rev. John H. Daugher-
ty, pastor. Across the street is the Nor-
thumberland county prison, with fifty idle
convicts. By arrangement with Warden
Barr the more trusted ones are allowed to
work on the job, eating and sleeping at the
jail, and in this manner the work can be
pushed. The men are allowed $2.50 a day,
the same as is paid to other workmen, and
they have done satisfactory work, accord-
ing to the boss.
—-Lightning caused probably $900 worth
of damages at the First Presbyterian
church in Milton on Sunday afternoon.
Twenty holes were knocked in the slate
roof, some of them a foot in diameter,
while in the steeple heavy wooden posts or
uprights were tern off, as clean as though
they had been broken with an axe. Some
of the weather boarding was also torn off.
According to Pastor Brinkema not a sign
of any fire was to be found. Persons stand-
ing on porches in the vicinity declare the
crash was terriffic and that it sounded like
two trains coming together. The damage
will be repaired at once.
—A week ago last Sunday Nant-y-Glo
baseball players before a friendly justice
paid a $2 fine for playing ball on the Sab-
bath. Anti-Sunday baseball crusaders,
not satisfied took the case to 'Squire Wa-
ters, of Ebensburg, who held the players
for court. Friday the Rev. H. M. Davies,
of Nant-y-Glo, hurrying by automobile to
the county seat to see that Squire Wters
did his full duty, was nabbed by Burgess
Knee, of Eebensburg, for speeding. The
minister was fined £10 and costs. The base-
ball case will be fought in ccurt, the play-
ers insisting that blue law g¢dvocates went
half a mile from their homes to have their
Sabbath peace and quiet.
—Beginning Tuesday,, September 11th,
and continuing until Thursday, September
13th, the State Council, of the Junior Or-
der United American Mechanics, will meet
in Clearfield. Several hundred delegates
from all over Pennsylvania will be in at-
tendance. A large number of the members
of Good Will Council expect to attend the
sessions on Wednesday, September 12th.
On Thursday evening, September 13th, the
State officers and many of the Juniors
from different parts of the State will be
entertained by the local Council. Friday
evening, September 14th, the Altoona
Council will entertain and initiate a class
of candidates. many of the Tyrone team
helping with the military work.
—Effective September 1st, all closed
packages containing apples grown in the
State must show in plain letters and fig-
ures the name and address of the person
by whese authority the apples were pack-
ed, true name of the varietv and the mini-
mum size, and numerical count of the fruit
in the package. The conditions are impos-
ed by the Pennsylvania Packing law which
was passed by the last Legislature and are
aimed to secure a uniformity in packing
and prevent deception. The face or expos-
ed side of the boxes shall represent the
average character of fruit contained and
any person violating the set in any par-
ticular is liable to a fine of fifty dollars for
first offense and one hundred for all sub-
sequent offenses.
—Righteen persons were arrested after
lightning had killed two people participat-
ing in a party at Ellsworth, Lancaster
county, on Labor day. The merrymakers
were playing games when the lightning
flashed from a clear sky, and killed John
Smith, of Bentleyville, and Michael Si-
mon, of Maryiana, and slightly shocked the
other eighteen occupants of the house.
With two dead men in ther midst a num-
of foreigners picked up the bodies, carried
them to the rear of the yard and then call-
ed upon the other persons to aid in dig-
ging a grave, which was quickly done, and
the bodies interred. The party games
were then resumed. Meantime a nearby
resident, seeing the impromptu burial,
summoned Dr. A. L. Kanner, and he, with
Constable James Gilmore, went to the
scene and arrested all the occupants of the
house.