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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
—A failure of the new Liberty
Bond issue will be like a rainbow in
the sky of Germany’s present gloom.
—Of course Von Hindenburg
doesn’t want peace. Péace would
end his career as dictator of Germa-
ny.
—It is a hopeful sign that Belle-
fonte fans have been able to survive
without an electric reproduction of
the world’s series games.
—Herbert Hoover is crying for
“Hogs and Hogs and more Hogs!”
What a pity that so many of the vari-
ety we met every day can’t be made
to hear the call.
—“Let us continue to be victorious
and hold our peace,” says Von Hin-
denburg. In other words, I'll muti-
late the Belgian children and you say
nothing about it.
—Don’t let any one have to impor-
tune you to buy a Liberty Bond. Buy
it because it is a patriotic pleasure
and because it is the safest invest-
ment that you can make.
—~Cider and chestnuts are both
here, but the apple crop in Centre
county is short so there wont be much
cider and the chestnuts are reported
as being small and wormy.
—Just to keep the ball rolling, Ecua-
dor has decided to break relations
with the Kaiser. Pretty soon Bill
won’t have a friend on earth except
the nations afraid to be anything else.
—LaFollette wants the people to
have a chance to talk over the matter
of going to war. What’s the use of
post mortems anyhow? It’s a new
deal and we already have an ante in
of about nineten billion dollar chips.
—The only thing we know of that
has come down in price recently is
marine insurance and that doesn’t
help Centre county much because car-
go boats are no longer cruising about
“the head of navigation on Spring
creek.”
—Don’t for a moment lose sight of
the fact that it will take greater
crops in America next year than we
have been blessed with this to keep up
food supplies. Consider this fact
during the winter and plan for the
spring. ;
"—On and after November 2nd it
will require a three cent stamp instead
of a two cent one to carry a sealed
letter in the mails. Thus the odd
pennies that somebody else fails to
take from us will have to be dropped
into Uncle Sam’s bag.
—So the sailors in the German na-
vy have started to mutineering.
Gradually the internal discord and dis-
sension that has been suspected among
the Kaiser’s forces is showing itself
in acts. that need but to be fanned a
little before they . break out into a
general revolution.
—Elbert Hubbard says “The men
who say it can’t be done are con-
stantly being run over by those who
have done it.” How true. It is real-
ly the measure of success or failure.
The man who always thinks it can't
be done is never successful. The one
who thinks it can be done rarely
ever fails.
—Watch the Hon. Boies Penrose.
His mill isn‘t losing any water as the
plot thickens in the Philadelphia pri-
mary murder scandal. If they had
shot a few more policemen in the
Fifth ward and beaten more innocent
by-standers Penrose wouldn’t have
to make another fifty-fifty deal with
the Vares in a generation.
—Germany is said to be showing
symptoms of making another peace
offer. After reading the report of
the twenty-four Belgian children who
arrived in Philadelphia recently, only
one of them having both hands and
some of them neither, we are of the
opinion that Americans do not care
to hear peace proposals unless Ger-
many comes as a contrite supplicant
for terms.
—The impression that Roosevelt
would really like to leave in the pub-
lic mind is that American soldiers are
to be sent to France armed with wood-
en guns. Of course he didn’t say
that, but when he did say that there
are more wooden guns than genuine
ones about the various army canton-
ments he was just malicious enough
to figure on leaving the most unfavor-
able impression.
—Secretary of War Baker has
made it known that we “have today
more men in France than we had in
our entire regular army when war
was declared.” This would indicate
that’ we have about one hundred
thousand men in the various branches
of foreign service to which we are
contributing. The potentiality of
these one hundred thousand ought to
be equivalent to half a million when
we consider the spirit that actuates |
them and the resourcefulness with
which they are endowed.
—If this week’s edition of the
“Watchman” isn’t up to its usual
standard of typographical and gram-
matical excellence don’t criticise us
too severely. Our typesetting ma-
chine was out of commission from last
Saturday until noon yesterday and
the strain we have been under as a
consequence has been rather more
than nerves will stand withaut some
shock. In fact, had it not been for
the courtesy of the Gazette in per-
mitting us to use their machine the
“Watchman,” for the first time in its
career of sixty-four years, would
probably not have greeted you this
Friday morning.
VOL 62.
Roosevelt’s Mistaken Notion.
Colonel Roosevelt is still
portunity. Writing for a Kansas
City newspaper last Friday he reiter- !
ates a declaration that nothing has
been done toward putting the country
into a state of preparedness for war.
On the day that statement was made
by him the chairman of the House
and Senate appropriations commit-
tees announced that during the ses-
sion of Congress then closing appro-
priations for military uses had been
made aggregating $10,321,225,208.41.
During the preceding session of
Congress nearly three billions had
been appropriated, and all that vast
treasure is being expended as rapid-
ly, in the enlistment, organization
and equipment of the army and navy,
as is consistent with wisdom and hon-
esty.
Neither Roosevelt, LaFollette nor |
the leaders of the so-called “Indus- |
trial Workers of the World”
been able to charge dishonesty or al-
lege graft in the disbursement of
funds for the war. Every dollar so ex-
pended has brought one hundred cents
worth of service or materials for the
country. That being true the charge
made by Roosevelt that nothing has
been done, must be untrue, and un-
less he has entirely lost his reason,
he must have known that he was fal-
sifying the facts. Therefore his pur-
pose in making the statement is nec-
essarily sinister. He either wants
to cripple the government in its laud-
able desire to make the world safe for
democracy or he believes that by such
perfidious conduct he may promote
his own selfish ambitions. He may
impale himself on whichever horn of
the dilemma he prefers.
Soon after the close of the Span-
ish war Colonel Roosevelt boastfully
declared, in a signed magazine arti-
cle, that he fatally shot an unarmed
and fleeing Spanish soldier in the
back. He may imagine that such
brutality contributed to his subse-
quent political prosperity. He may
also believe that stabbing the gov-
ernment in the back will influence
the electorate to vote him into the
Presidency for a third term. But he
is mistaken in his estimate of the
character of the voters. They are not
savages who pay homage to barbaric
splendor or brutality. If Colonel
Roosevelt still cherishes an ambition
to get a third term in the office of
President of the United States, he
will adopt-a different line of action.
Manly and honorable men are not
won in that way.
Congressmen will be exempt
from the eight per cent. tax on sal-
aries .over $6000, which shows that
the Congressman “can always take
care of himself.”
Scandal Increases in Interest.
Later developments in the Philadel-
phia murder case, increases public
interest in that dastardly conspiracy.
It seems that months before the event
the purpose to import gunmen to in-
timidate the voters had been express-
ed by police officials. It also appears
that the Mayor of the city had full
knowledge of the plans of the police
and that one of the Vares had agred
far in advance to enter bail for any
of the conspirators who might be
“caught red-handed” and had to be
arrested, to “save the face” of the
machine. It was not intended to com-
mit murder, of course, but the inten-
tion was to carry the election for the
Mayor’s faction at any cost and the
murder resulted.
When one of these conspirators
was arrested State Senator Ed. Vare
expressed great indignation because
the personal liberty of a citizen had
been violated. Yet before the election
the managers of his fight in the Fifth
ward had arranged to arrest dozens
of election officers upon trumped up
charges and commit them to prison.
Mr. Vare could see no outrages in this
wholesale violation of personal liber-
ty contrived by his friends with his
knowledge and co-operation.
become the sufferers and then he
squeals like a stuck pig and protests
that a frame-up has been made
against him and his organization.
From their earliest appearance in
politics the Vares of Philadelphia have
been outlaws. They have acquired
a vast fortune by looting the city and
are now employing their tainted mon-
ey to perpetuate their license to rob.
When Penrose could not. stand their
coarse iniquities and quarrelled with
them rather than give sanction to fur-
ther outrages, he permitted them to
name a substitute, however, and the
present Mayor is the product of that
vicious bargain. It is the shameful
consequence of a long period of cor-
rupt government in which the rough-
necks and the respectables alike par-
ticipated and on terms of equality
shared the spoils of the operations.
Senator Vare is not half as
sorry because the political outrages
were committed as he is that they
were exposed.
“black-
jacking” the government at every op- |
have |
It only
becomes outrageous when his friends :
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. OCTOBER 12, 1917.
President Wilson Compliments Con-
gress.
President Wilson justly compli-
ments Congress upon its splendid
achievements during the session just
closed. “The Sixty-fifth Congress,
now adjourning,” writes the Presi-
dent, “deserves the gratitude and ap-
preciation of a people whose will and
purpose I believe it has faithfully ex-
‘pressed. One cannot examine the
i record of its action without being im-
pressed by its completeness, its cour-
iage and its full comprehension of a
: great task.”
sion nearly seven months and it sat
more continuously and worked more
assiduously than any of its predeces-
sors since the Civil war, at least.
and the full discharge of its obliga-
| tions are expected of everybody of |
men assembled in the interest of the |
But the present Congress
| public.
| during the session just closed encoun-
these requirements. From the begin-
ning of the session there was an or-
ganized opposition to the necessary
was difficult to meet. Under the rules
which obtained in the Senate previ-
ous to the opening of the Sixty-fifth
Congress it would have been impos-
up by LaFollette, Gore and a few
others. Even with the amended rules
it was almost an impossibility.
But the President was determined
and enjoyed the undivided confidence |
of the people and thus supported the |
patriotic
and Representatives held them to the
task before them with a tenacity that
commanded triumph. It was neces-
sary to invest the President with ex-
traordinary power and to levy upon
the people great burdens. But these
obligations were met manfully and
i as the President says, “the needs of
the army and navy have been met in
a way that assures the effectiveness
of American arms, and the war mak-
ing branch of the government has
been abundantly equipped with the
powers that are necessary to make
the action df the: pation-effective.”. oe
TT
——Putting the price of fuel and |
food under government control is a
rather tough proposition in the mind |
of a Democrat. But it is better than |
to let the coal and food pirates freeze |
and starve the public and that is what
they are threatening to do.
Any Old Peace Will Do.
There could hardly be anything
more futile than the discussion of Ger-
man peace terms. For some time a
controversy has been in progress be-
tween the German Chancellor and the
Reichstag upon the subject. The
Reichstag, according to current gos-
sip, insists upon a declaration that
“peace without annexation” will be
acceptable in Germany. For some
inexplicable reason the Chancellor de-
clines to make such a declaration.
He probably imagines that he can
fool somebody within or without the
German empire into the belief that a
peace with annexation is possible.
But he is only fooling himself. The
Kaiser himself must have come to a
realization of the opposite before this
time.
As President Wilson said the other
day the war will end when Germany
is beaten. He might with greater ac-
curacy have said it will end when
Germany is thoroughly licked. When
that desirable result is achieved,
Germany will not think of claiming
annexations, indemnities or any oth-
er sort.of recompense for her losses.
On the contrary in order to save the
German empire from obliteration she
will be willing to pay partial indem-
nities for the outrages perpetrated in
Belgium, Serbia, and Rumania. This
country will ask nothing for herself
or any one else but will stand in the
way of collecting just claims by oth-
ers and there will be a great many
just claims to be collected.
The war may continue for a con-
siderable time and will cost a vast
sum every day it continues. But
from this time on the trend will be
against Germany at every theatre of
activities. A few slight advantages’
‘may be gained at intervals on the
i Russian front but even those will be
meager and inconsequential from
this time on while .on the Western
front, in France and Flanders, the tri-
umphs will always be for the allies.
The Germans are stubborn fighters
and they may prolong the struggle a
good while. But the ultimate result
is inevitable and the pretense that
Germany expects annexations or
hopes for indemnities are both false
and fraudulent. She will be lucky to
retain autonomy.
——They are talking of cutting
cuffs off trousers as a measure of
war economy but so long as fashion
doesn’t interfere with wrist watches
the average dude may be fairly hap-
-| PY.
This is unusual praise
but it is the result of extraordinary
conditions. Congress had been in ses-
The free performance of its duty !
tered unusual difficulties in meeting '
legislation and under the rules of!
Congress, though meager in size, it |
sible to overcome the obstructions set .
impulses of the Senators |
LaFollette’s Lame Defense.
Senator LaFollette misconstrues
himself and misinterprets public sen-
timent if the language of his defen-
|
_NO.40.
War Taxes and War Spirit.
From the Lancaster Intelligence.
The war tax has become a grim re-
ality—a foretaste of other grim reali-
| ties which will urge us to win and end
sive speech on Saturday correctly ex- |
presses his reasons for opposing war
legislation. - He declares that he act-
ed entirely in the interest of free
speech. “If we are to forestall the
danger of being drawn into years of
war, perhaps finally to attain impe-
rialism and exploitation,” he said,
“the people must unite in a campaign
along constitutional lines for free
discussion of the policy of the war
and its conclusion on a just basis.”
It is impossible to forestall the dan-
: ger of being drawn into war. We are
already in and the only thing now for
us is to get out victoriously.
The moment the German govern-
| that moment the right of a Senator
| States anywhere to hamper or delay
ecution of the war ceased. Under our
| system of government certain legis-
ment declared its purpose of waging
ruthless war our participation in the .
world struggle became inevitable. At!
the war.
“Booze” gets a knock-out blow to-
day from the war taxes and there will
be few mourners who will not at least
profess to be fully resigned, if they do
not declare that booze is served just
right. The measure is made up of hard
knocks, but we must stand them. Time
will tell—just a little time—how the
drink habit, as well as other habits,
will be affected by the heavy taxation
provided by the war tax bill for many
things that certainly are not natural
necessities although, for many, habit
has made them seem necessary; how
habits may be broken or only changed
or restricted; how a prospect that now
seems hard and distressing may
brighten with blessings in diguise.
Thus the war tax provisions, falling
like a wet blanket upon all those who
have failed to realize what a great war
means, will dampen the spirits of some
but should quickly awaken those who
have slumbered and arouse the war
spirit of all. For it presents no other
or Sir : : i ict s
in Congress or a citizen of the United | Prospect of relief than by victory
It demonstrates that patriotism must
i mean much more than wearing a little
preparations for the successful pros- |
| become an imperative command,
| lation was essential to the fulfillment |
! readiness for war must now be paid
of our obligations in this direction.
Retarding that legislation was
ing and abetting our enemies.”
j sophistry can disguise this fact and
so far from the actions of LaFollette
| being in the interest of free speech
they were directly in supervision of
| his moral obligation to loyalty as a
Senator.
| It is true that Lincoln and Clay op-
posed the war with Mexico but Na-
. tional spirit was not as fully devel-
oped then as now and besides the war
with Mexico was not as vital an af-
fair as this struggle between autoc-
racy and democracy. Lincoln lived
long enough to regret his part in op-
posing the war with Mexico and had
ability and patriotism to make repa-
ration for his youthful follies. But
LaFollette is already past the me-
ridian of life and has neither the
character nor the chance to undo the
evil he is now and has recently been
doing. The fact is that for more
than a year he has been serving the
German government in its desperate
| fig] 1t for autocracy and should be fit-
13 punished for his treason
——The State College High school
foot ball team played the Altoona
: High at Altoona last Friday, and dur-
ling the game Paul Zeigler, a State
i College back, was kicked three times
on the back of the neck, causing a
slight concussion of the brain. Rus-
sell Tressler, another State player,
had his left ankle severely sprained.
Both were treated at the Altoona hos-
pital, Tressler returning home with
the team while Zeigler was taken
home on Monday.
——An honor roll was placed in
the vestibule of St. John’s Reformed
church of Bellefonte and one in the
hall of the chapel last Sunday upon
{ which are inscribed the names of the
i eleven young men who have enlisted
in the army and navy from that con-
gregation. The honor rolls are illu-
minated with two U. S. flags in col-
ors, and the portraits of Washington
and Lincoln.
——It appears that when the two
men who were killed when the Jack’s
creek bridge, below Lewistown, col-
lapsed under the weight of an auto-
mobile, were pedestrians whom the
driver of the car had picked up along
the highway in order to give them “a
lift. “The bridge and all fell into the
creek, twenty feet below, but the driv-
er escaped without injury.
——Wages are high even extrava-
gant, as some of the employers state.
But they have to move up rapidly to
keep within sight of the prices of
necessaries.
——Senator LaFollette hopes to
make a martyr of himself but the
indications are that the completed
product of his labor will represent an
ass.
———The fight for the Pittsburgh
Mayoralty is still in progress but the
: soft seat in the Public Service board
i is kept open for Mr. Magee.
——The Liberty Bonds are going
faster than hot cakes and what is
-more important they will bring bet-
ter results.
——Governor Brumbaugh was in
Pennsylvania three or four hours the
other day and only issued one proc-
lamation. :
Need of the Hour.
From the Chattanooga Times.
The hour has struck, as these cita-
tions show, for an end of sedition and
of obstruction in this country, and
every voice, every printing press and
every irfluence must be brought to
bear to join every mind and heart into
a sincere, cordial and vocal recogni-
tion of the legend, “America First.”
——At the Free Methodist confer-
‘ence held at Clarion last week Rev. G.
B. Tingue was appointed on the Belle-
fonte and Fleming charge.
“aid- |
No |
flag on your coat or flying a big one
from your window; that the appeal
to every. body to “do his bit,” has now
and
that the long years of easy-going un-
for.
We have reason to be thankful for
the broad ocean that protects us from
paying for them, even financially, as
Great Britain, France and Belgium
have been paying, and reason for hope
' that we will not have to pay more than
i
may be good for us. But that depends
upon how we face the music, pay the
bills, practice thrift and self-denial
and back up Uncle Sam so that he can
“hit the line hard” and go through to
a peace safe for democracy.
German Intrigue.
From the Wiliamsport Sun.
Investigation into the activities of
Bola Pasha, now under arest in Paris
as a spy, is bringing new revelations
of German intrigue and methods of
propaganda. Bolo Pasha’s efforts were
to be directed toward corrupting the
French nation by the use of German
money obtained in America. Nearly
two million dollars was placed at his
disposal for that purpose. The plot
is in the same futile class as the Ger-
man efforts to inspire Mexico to de-
clare war on America to recover Texas,
Arizona and New Mexico.
The mental degeneracy behind this
conception of uses of diplomacy is the
reason for the menace to civiliza'ion
which a victory by the kaiser dad
mean. . Such plottings cannot be dis-
missed indulgently as the futile efforts
of ¢hijldish diplomats, because back-
ing this kind of international immor-
ality is the full power of the kaiser’s
fighting machine.
If the war should end before kaiser-
ism is overthrown and democracy es-
tablished in Germany, these Levantine
methods would be elevated to still
greater heights of sacred worship by
the kaiser and his paranoiac followers.
If the kaiser were allowed to enter a
secret peace conference before being
compelled to state his terms in ad-
vance, it is certain that the Bolo Pasha
kind of sinister activity would be
directed by the German peace dele-
gates.
There can be no trust put ‘in the
kaiser and the advisers who now sur-
round him. Nothing is too extrava-
gantly preposterous for them to at-
tempt as a sly way of winning a vie-
tory. Their words cannot be taken,
and their signature, to the most sol-
emn agreement has no value. Peace
with the kaiser’s crowd can only be a
peace at their pleasure.
Tightening the Embargo.
From the New York Sun.
The United States, in refusing to
neutral shipping coal for the trans-
portation of supplies that would even-
tually reach the enemy, has taken an-
other very decided step in strengthen-
ing the embargo against the aid that
border neutral nations have been fur-
nishing Germany. The effort is to cut
off foodstuffs and other necessaries
that come from the Latin-American
countries, practically the last remain-
ing source of supplies. In this move
the United States has the support of
the other allied nations. The United
States was able to send abundantly
directly to the allied nations. There
thus remained no longer any reason
for their not joining in an urgent mea-
sure that was aimed at the defeat of
their common foe. The position of
the Northern neutral nations under
these new restrictions is no doubt
more unsatisfactory than it was be-
fore in that they are deprived of a
source of supply. They have not yet
made the statement concerning their
| actual need for home consumption and
; their traffic with the Central Powers.
| The question of the permanency of the
' embargo will depend upon the action
of the neutrals themselves upon the
information that they will furnish re-
garding their requirements. But upon
one policy the Government is decided.
It will not permit the United States
to contribute to a trade that will
undoubtedly accrue to the benefit of
the enemy. If this is rigidly adhered
to it will be as powerful as armies in
bringing victories to the Allies’ cause.
Organized for Destruction.
From the Wall Street Journal.
Free speech means one thing in time
of war and another in time of peace,
but neither in war nor peace does it
mean indictment to destruction and
murder. It is to be observed that the
I. W. W. is not constructive like ‘a
labor union;. its sole policy is to tear
down, with the hope that in the en-
suing scramble the most lawless ele-
ment will secure the lion's share of
what is left. This is an intolerable
combination, and it is to be feared
that the timidity of Washington has
given it a strength it should never
have possessed.
to the “Watchman” Office. /
For high class Job Work come
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The twenty-three vacancies in the state -
police force have been filled from the wait-
ing lists.
—Paris green, either accidentally or in-
tentionally scattered where the animals
were feeding, caused the deaths of three
elk at the Dyer place, in the Black For-
est. The carcasses were found Sunday
and from appearances the animals ‘had-
been dead three or four days.
—A. M Stine, of Clearfield, will move
his portable mill to Loganton, Clinton
county to cut 3,000,000 feet of lumber for
T. H. Harter, of Lock Haven. Mr. Stine
has been cutting timber tracts in Clear-
field county for several years.
—T B. Lewis, 8) years old, died at his
home in Williamsport Monday He was
captain of Company B, in the Forty-sec-
ond Pennsylvania volunteers, the famous
Bucktail regiment, during the Civil war.
He worked as a machinist in the Penn-
sy’s Renovo shops for many years.
—John Harsh, aged 23 years, of Junia-
ta Scales, employed by the company as a
truckman, suffered abrasions of the right
wrist and a fracture of the arm, Tuesday
afternoon at 1 o'clock, when a coal wagon,
driven by his brother Ralph, ran over his
arm. A Juniata physician attended him.
—Joseph F. Hartle, the Kylertown
butcher, slaughtered an eighteen months
old calf the other day which tipped the
beam at 534 pounds, which is surely a rec-
ord for that section of the country The
average price per pound received in dis-
posing of the meat was 30 cents, or a total
of $160 20.
—Rembrandt Peale, of St. Benedict, the
head of extensive coal operations in Clear-
field, Indiana, Cambria and Jefferson
counties, has resigned his official connec-
tion with those concerns, since being ap-
pointed bituminous coal advisor to Dr.
Harry Garfield, and has removed to Wash-
ington for better performance of his vol-
unteer duty.
—Citizens of Clearfield borough and ad-
jacent territory have asked the Public
Service Commission to abolish two grade
crossings at the end of a new bridge on
state highway route No. 57, crossing the
Clearfield creek at Leonard station. The
respondents are the New York Central
and Pennsylvania railroads, Lawrence
township supervisors and the State High-
way Department.
—Unable to decide the question them-
selves the women of Scranton asked their
pastors whether or not it was permissible
to knit for soldiers on Sunday and in
church The pastors agred that no knit-
ting should - be done in church, but are
divided on the question of Sunday Kknit-
ting. Some pastors declare the need is
not great enough at this time, while oth-
ers “say that no harm will be done if
church work is not hindered.
—By the arrest of Alfonzo Buene and
his alleged confession on Thursday, the
4th, the mystery surrounding the killing
of Frank Condello and Mrs. John Ram-
sey by blowing up their house near Mt.
Union two weeks ago by a bomb has been
seemingly cleared up. Buene, according
to the police, confessed that he and An-
tonio Saia made and placed the bomb that
killed the couple as they slept. Jealousy
was given as the cause of the tragedy.
Saia was arrested soon after the crime
and is now in jail.
—The towboat Twilight, owned by the
Rogers Sand company, of Pittsburgh, and
valued at $45,000, sank in the Mononga-
hela river near Braddock, on Monday
Fourteen members of the crew narrowly
escaped death by drowning when the big
boat turned over and sank within three
minutes. The Twilight, pushing a barge,
was' running at full speed when the acci-
dent occurred. The wash of the boat,
coming in over the bow, flooded the hull
and caused it to sink. An attempt will
be made to raise and repair the hulk.
—Back fire in an automobile last Sat-
urday started a conflagration which wiped
out the sales ware rooms and garage of
Andrew Redmond, of Harrisburg, destroy-
ed nearly fifty cars and caused a loss of
approximately $100,000. The Redmond ga-
rage was one of the largest in the city.
Many of the burned cars were individual
property, occupying rented space. The
flames spread so swiftly that few cars
could be saved. This is the third time
that Redmond has suffered a total loss
since he entered the automobile busines.
—Harvey Lamberson, who resides on
the river road about two miles below Dan-
ville, was found dead in Mahoning creek at
that place Saturday morning. It is not
known exactly how he met his death, al-
though there were no evidences of foul
play. It was not considered necessary to
hold an inquest Harvey Lamberson was
a veteran of the Civil war He was a na-
tive of that locality and with the excep-
tion o° the time that he spent in the mil-
itary service he resided in Danville or
nearby. No one was more widely known
than he.
—Two men were killed on Monday when
the bridge over Jack’s creek, near Lewis-
town collapsed as the automobile in which
they were riding was passing over it.
Just before reaching the bridge the men
had ben invited by Alexander Maurerer,
of Harrisburg, to ride with him into
town. From papers found upon one of
the victims he is believed to have been
Thomas Snell. The identity of the other
man is unknown. Maurerer was only
slightly injured although he was thrown
with the car and the _other two men into
the water thirty feet below.
—Preliminary steps for the location of
the units of the Pennsylvania reserve mi-
litia will probably be taken this week and
the bulk of the places where the new or-
ganizations will be established will prob-
ably be announced. The general plan is
to locate the companies where the State
owns armories, which it does to the num-
ber of forty. The number of applications
for units is larger than expected and there
have been many names of former officers
of the National Guard suggested not only
to officer the new companies, but to com-
‘| mand the three regiments and the squad-
ron of cavalry.
—Mrs M. A. Simpson, of Williamsport,
on Monday received a message announcing
the safe arrival in the war zone of her
son, Charles Emerson Simpson, a member
of Company A, Tenth United States engi-
neers, three days’ after the receipt of a
cable telling of the death of the young en-
gineer from cerebro-spinal meningitis in
an American hospital in France. Simp-
son, who was a graduate of State College,
enlisted some months ago with several ccl-
lege companions who agred to cable news
of their arrival in France to a friend in
State College. That cable, after being de-
layed, reached State College Monday aad
was relayed to Simpson's family.