BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
— Tuesday was surely one beauti-
ful fall day.
— Mexico evidently having decided
to be good Uncle Sam is about to lend
her some of his gold.
—Clean out the rats about your
premises. One nest of them will de-
stroy as much as would keep two sel-
diers in France.
—Again let us remind you that
Christmas is drawing near. Only
sixty-six days intervene before the
great festival will be celebrated.
— Buying a Liberty Bond isn’t giv-
ing anything to the government. It
is merely lending money at four per
cent. to the safest borrower in the
world.
—Centre county has sent more
than three hundred men to the colors.
And Centre county must-lend Uncle
Sam enough money to properly equip
and provide for them.
—The “Watchman” is itself again.
Thanks to the rehabilitation of a ma-
chine that miserably failed last week
and threatened to put an edition be-
yond the range of possibility.
—Really the “Watchman” had no
idea that there are so many “poor
people” in this community until 1t ar-
ranged to sell potatoes to some of
them at seventy-five cents a bushel.
—Of course Bellefonte ought to be
in the limelight. It was bugler Criss-
man, of Troop L, who was selected to
sound the call “to the standard” at
the great flag raising ceremony at
Augusta, Ga.
— Philadelphia hotels had a “beef-
less day’ on Tuesday but it took
twenty-six different varieties of food
and fish to coat the conservation pill
that was administered to the guests
of the hostleries.
—If we get licked there won’t be
any government to tell us that we
must pay $2 a bushel for wheat. The
Kaiser will tell us that we must give
him and his famishing hordes all of
the wheat they want for nothing and
if there should be any left, mayb
he’ll take that too. :
— Better lend Uncle Sam enough
money to equip him to lick the
Kaiser, because if the Kaiser licks
Uncle Sam you'll have to pay him
just what he demands and it will be
no small sum and it won’t be a loan
bearing four per cent. interest. It
will be tribute that you will never get
back.
—1It must have been a Hun. No-
body else would have been mean or
sacriligious enough to profane the
Methodist church in Bellefonte as
was done Tuesday “night when class
leader Charley Shuey’s brand new
Sunday hat was stolen while the good
brethren and sisters were devoutly
worshiping under his leadership.
—Everything has gone up in price
but the “Watchman,” and it gets bet-
ter every week without adding a cent
to its cost to you. Won’t you help us
through the struggle by sending in a
year’s subscription price NOW and
suggesting to your neighbor, .f he is
not a subscriber, that he is missing a
lot by not taking “the best country
paper published.”
—What if one of our boys who are
to go “over there” comes back home
and asks you what you did to back
him up while he was fighting for you.
Are you going to have to hang your
head and slink away because you’ll
be ashamed to tell him that you
wouldn’t lend the government even
the price of a Liberty Bond with
which to buy a gun, or shells, or shoes
or food for him.
—This isn’t the time to be asking
questions as to why we are in the
war or whether we ought to be in it
or not. We are in it and the cheap-
est way out is to back up the govern-
ment in its every move. By the way.
What are you doing to help along?
If you haven’t sent a son have you
loaned the government any money to
help support the boy some one else
has sent to fight for your liberty?
—Get the fact through your head
that all your land, all your cattle, all
your other goods and chattels repre-
sent the government of the United
States. When it offers a bond for
sale that bond is a mortgage on
everything you have, as well as on
everything every other citizen has. It
is the first of first mortgages, there-
fore what better investment could
you make than by buying a Liberty
Bond.
—Our County Commissioners, our
town council and all persons in con-
trol of public business should serious-
ly weigh the urgency of contemplated
public improvements. At this time
when men, money and material are so
essential to the successful conclusion
of the war public improvements that
are not absolutely urgent should be
postponed until such time as there is
not such a demand for men, money
and materials in more essental under-
takings.
—Good old Dr. Dixon is alarmed
about the high heels on women’s
shoes. He declares that they are
walking on their toes and physically
injuring themselves. While we agree
with the learned head of our State
Department of Health we are haunt-
ed with the idea that this habit of the
women in being “up on their toes” all
the time may have something to do
with their remarkable success in as-
serting their rights and establishing
their claim to equal opportunity with
big flat-heeled, broad-soled man.
VOL. 62.
BELLEFONTE,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
PA.. OCTOBER 19, 1917.
NO. 41.
Mr. Bryan Defends LaFollette.
Mr. Bryan is neither frank nor fair
in censuring citizens in private life
for criticising the policies of the
President as expressed in pending
legislation and justifying Senators in
Congress in opposing such legisla-
tion. In an article in his newspaper,
The Commoner, Mr. Bryan takes
that anomalous position. “With the
citizens,” he writes, “the question of
duty is sometimes more important
than the question of rights. The vi-
tal question is not what he can do but
what he ought to do. The Legislator
must discuss questions before Con-
gress—this is necessary to intelligent
action by Congress, but this necessi-
ty does not confront the citizen in pri-
vate life.”
Obviously this fine distinction with-
out a difference is drawn to justify
Senator LaFollette. Mr. Bryan says
that “Senators and Representatives
in Congress are part of the govern-
ment; they exercise authority confer-
red upon them by the constitution.
They are as much a part of the gov-
ernment as the President himself;
and the oath which they take is as sa-
cred and binding as the one adminis-
tered to him. A Senator or Repre-
sentative has as much right to ex-
press himself on matters properly
coming before Congress as the Presi-
dent has to express himself upon sub-
jects with which he has authority to
deal. They not only have the right
to express themselves, but
should do so when such expression
becomes necessary to the discharge of
their official duties.”
Mr. Bryan misinterprets the rela-
tive value of the offices in question.
All the Senators and Representatives
compose'one of the three co-ordinate |
branches of the government and the
President another. Each has its
functions clearly defined. Congress,
not one Senator or five, has the right
to declare for war or against war,
and while that question is pending
each Senator and Representative is
entitled to an opinion and has the
right to express it on the floor of the
chamber of which he is a member.
But when a majority of both branch-
es . declares for war the individual
members have no right to imperil the |
cause for which war has been declar- !
ed by factious opposition to legisla-
tion essential to the successful pros-:
ecution of the war.
Moreover, after war is declared the
equality of the respective co-ordinate :
branches of the government with re- |
spect to the war, ends. Under the
constitution the President is com-
mander-in-chief of the army and na- |
vy and in_that capacity is invested |
with the authority to determine the
disposition of both forces.
tally with this authority he has the
power to disburse the funds to defray
the expenses of the movements of the |
army and navy and to provide food, |
The Senate !
and House of Representatives must
clothing and equipment.
appropriate the money and the obli-
gation to do so is imperative unless !
there is an intention to betray the
country and sacrifice the cause. Sen-
ator LaFollette has been resisting
this plain obligation to the full meas- |
ure of his power.
When the country is involved in a
war declared according to the consti-
tution, Senators and Representatives
in Congress are as firmly bound by
the duty to support the government
as the private citizen. A Senator
may imagine that he has inalienable
right to chatter perennially and air
his opinions constantly. But in doing
this if he impairs the interests of the
country, puts the lives of soldiers and
sailors in joepardy or in any way
gives aid or comfort to the enemy, he
is guilty of treason and no sophistry
will conceal his crime. Probably it
isn’t worth while to mind what La-
Follette says or does but when Mr.
Bryan defends him it is different.
——The base ball championship has
been settled for a year but Chicago
mustn’t get too cocky over the victo-
ry of the White Sox. Next year some
bush league players who don’t make
as many errors as the New York gi-
ants may get into the scrimmage.
——The Philadelphia reformers
who expect the Union League to de-
clare for decent government are like-
ly to be disappointed. The Philadel-
phia Union League wants govern-
ment with tariff graft in it or no gov-
ernment at all.
——The Prohibitionists never knew
how to accomplish their professed
purpose. The liquor sellers have
achieved more in that direction in one
week by raising prices than the oth-
ers did in a hundred years.
——Fuel Controller Garfield prob-
ably means well but he is confusing.
He has the coal dealers in such a
frame of mind that they can hardly
tell “how much the traffic will bear.”
Meantime the question of who
forged Governor Brumbaugh’s name
to the telegram sent to General Clem-
ent supercedes the mystery as to
who struck Billy Patterson.
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Inciden- :
i Liberty Loan Bonds Dragging.
The new Liberty Loan is not meet-
| ing with the success that was expect-
ed. Some time has elapsed since the
opening of the sale and only a small
pose the election of the 50-50 ticket
proportion of the total has been tak-
‘en. The banks and big corporations
. have done fairly well but the general
| public has not responded with the en-
{ thusiasm hoped for.
It is true that:
' the first issue of the bonds dragged |
| along until near the end of the time
| limit and then was greatly oversub-
| scribed. Probably the same thing |
| will happen this time. The President
| has fixed a rally day and other stim-
ulating agencies have been set in mo-
tion. But the result up until the pres-
ent moment is not satisfactory and
there is no use disguising the fact.
There ought to be no disappoint-
ment in the sales of these bonds. The
annual income of the United States is
estimated at forty billion dollars a
year. The government is asking the
appropriation of less than one-fifth
of this amount to protect the life of
the government and guarantee its
income. It is also asking for the ten-
der of the lives of millions of men,
and getting prompt response. Is
money more precious than human
| life? Do we put a higher value on
! dollars than we do on men? That is
| not the American habit. It is not in
| accord with the traditions of this
| great country. Then why should
‘ there be disappointment in the sub-
seriptions to the Liberty Loan while
the response to the call for men is
prompt, enthusiastic and generous.
There is another and more serious
angle from which to view this ques-
tion. An esteemed contemporary has
said that “it costs money to win a
war but it costs a darn sight more to
{lose it.” Subscriptions to the Liber-
ty Loan are contributions to the safe-
ty of the government. If we don’t
provide the government with funds
to make the war successful now we
will have to subscribe vastly greater
sums to recompense the enemy for
licking us. Now contributions are
practically optional. Then they will
be forced and by the most cruel pro-
cesses. It is for the public to choose
between these expedients. No man is
expected to give all he has. But
every man is expected to give what
he can.
If Senator LaFollette is sin-
cere in his statement that he “would
do anything to help his country,” he
has an easy problem to solve. He
‘might try keeping his mouth shut.
Bernstorff a Murderer.
The record of perfidy and duplici-
ty which is being revealed by the
State Department at Washington
against Count Von Bernstorff, recent-
ly Ambassador of the German em-
pire, is without parallel in the histo-
ry of modern civilization. Pretend-
ing friendship and professing to be a
man of honor Von Bernstorff was en-
‘gaged for months in conspiracies to
murder innocent and unsuspecting
people and destroy property where-
i ever he imagined the perpetration of
such crimes would work to the advan-
tage of his own country. If these in-
famous crimes had been of his own
motion they would have stamped him
as a monstrous beast. But according
to the evidence they were suggested
or acquiesced in by the German Kai-
ser.
What can be said of a people who
will perpetrate such crimes for any
purpose? And the entire German
people stand not only indicted but
convicted of them. From the Kaiser
through the Chancellor, the Foreign
Minister, the Ambassador, to the
brutal assasins who executed the
crimes the word passed without pro-
test. It will be said, of course, that
these emissaries of evil were acting
in the name of patriotism. It will be
claimed that devotion to country in-
fluenced the criminals to their dast-
ardly work. How clearly this proves
that “patriotism is the last refuge of
a scoundrel,” as declared by Dr.
Johnson long ago and he must have
had the German type in mind when
he wrote. .
When the war is ended there
should be reparation for these crimes
against humanity. Von Bernstorff,
von Papen, Boy-Ed and the rest of
the homicidal horde should be appre-
hended and punished as other mur-
derers are punished, for these brutal
crimes. This country is offering the
lives of thousands of her best men
and tendering billions of treasure to
make the world a fitter place in
which to live. No indemnity or rep-
aration will be asked for the sacrific-
es made. But the brutal murderers
who conspired to kill and destroy in
the cowardly way adopted by Von
Bernstorff should be hunted down and
punished. There can be no safety in
a world in which such beasts live. |
——And troops are being shipped
to France in great numbers notwith-
standing Roosevelt's statement that
nothing is being done toward prose-
cuting the war.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
The better element of the Republi-
can party of Philadelphia is prepar-
. Philadelphia Reformers Moving. | Liberty Loan Meetings for Centre
County.
On Wednesday evening , October
ing for a fusion with the Democrats | 24th, the day set aside by our Presi-
and other reputable citizens to op-
set up by the contractors and put an
end to “government by murder” in
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that city. A ticket of highly respec-
table citizens has been named and the
machinery for an active campaign '
‘has been set in motion. But an inau- |
spicious incident was encountered at
the outset. The candidate named for
District Attorney has declined to ac-
cept for the reason that he is under
obligation to the contractors which
he is in honor bound to discharge.
Naturally such a situation is embar-
rassing to the better element.
Meantime the Vares and Mayor
Smith are going on with their can-
dent as Liberty Loan Day, mass
meetings will be held in the following
towns in Centre county: :
Boalsburg, Centre Hall,
Millheim, Spring Mills,
Rebersburg, Pine Grove Mills,
PortMatilda, Penna Furnace,
Stormstown, Gatesburg,
Lemont, Fillmore.
These meetings are to be arranged
by the publicity committee recently
organized at State College to eco-op-
erate with the executive committee
of Centre county. The members in-
clude David F. Kapp, chairman; Ray
. D. Gilliland, secretary; Dean R. S.
vass to elect the 50-50 ticket and Sen-
ator McNichol who opposed them so
vigorously in the Fifth ward prima-
ry has assured them of his fidelity to
their combination.
has not revealed himself yet on the
subject but the chances are that he
will stick to the machine. The pro-
Senator Penrose
Sackett, Dr. Wm. Frear, Dr. Geo. F.
Zook, John T. McCormick, John L.
Holmes and a number of auxiliary
members.
In each instance the speakers will
be men of prominence and ability.
The quota assigned to Centre coun-
ty (excluding Philipsburg) is $600,
, 000, and the Federal Reserve bank of
fessional politicians have their per-
sonal differences and some times '
great bitterness is developed. But
they are spoilsmen first and last and
common purpose to loot. In the final
alignment the Vares and Penrose and
Mayor Smith and McNichol will be
moving forward together keeping
step to “hail, hail, the gang’s all
here.”
Philadelphia (on behalf of the Treas-
ury Department) is co-operating with
the county organizations and the
bankers to see that the nation’s needs
: ) } ; are filled.
in emergencies drift together in the ;
It is the duty of every loyal Cen-
tre countian as an American citizen
Of course there are enough reputa- |
ble citizens in Philadelphia to over-
come the machine and elect the ticket
named by the Town Meeting commit-
tee if they could be induced to sub-
merge partisan prejudices and con-
sult public interests. Philadelphia is
a big town and enjoys a fine reputa-
tion for business enterprise and in-
tegrity. But the men who have earn-
ed that reputation for the city either
do not vote at all or are so careless
in the exercise of the franchise that
they serve the machine rather than
the public. Once or twice they have
registered an opposite purpose but so
rarily that it becomes an exception
to prove the rule and gives little hope
for the future.
Are German Spies Operating?
That German incendiaries are op-
erating throughout the country
scarcely admits of doubt. Within a
fortnight a flouring mill was burned
at Steelton and 400,000 bushels of
wheat consumed. Another was de-
stroyed by fire in Brooklyn and more
than a million and a half bushels of
wheat were burned. Two garages
have been burned at Harrisburg with
a total of nearly one hundred automo-
biles reduced to ashes and scrap iron.
In Kansas City, on Tuesday, 80,000
head of cattle were burned in a fire.
Powder magazines and munition
storehouses have been burned in va-
rious sections of the country.
It cannot be possible that all these
fires have been the results of acci-
dent. Each one of these destroyed
contained war materials for wheat
and automobiles are quite as much
war materials as powder and bullets.
Accidental fires are less discriminat-
ing in their operations. They are
likely to select a barn or dwelling
house occasionally or strike a general
store or ordinary warehouse at times.
But these fires invariably discrimi-
nate in favor of war material store-
houses or factories and every such
fire is a contribution to the campaign
of the German army. It takes bread
out of the mouths of allied soldiers.
We know that the Germans are ca-
pable of any atrocity. We know that
with the sanction of the Kaiser the
Ambassador of that empire in this
country conspired with other murder-
ers to destroy life and property even
while professing friendship. Know-
ing these things it is not hard to im-
agine that the recent fires, involving
as they have, war materials have
been caused by incendiaries in the in-
terest of Germany. At least the sub-
ject ought to be looked into with care
and a repetition of the conflagrations
prevented if possible. Flour, cattle
and automobiles are too valuable to
be let burn.
——The bear season opened on
Monday but so far no bear carcasses
have been on exhibition in Bellefonte.
The season for pheasant, woodcock
and squirrel will open tomorrow (Sat-
urday) and a general invasion of the
woodlands of Centre county is likely
to occur. Up to three o’clock yester-
day afternoon just 1783 hunters’ li-
censes had been issued, which is not
nearly as many as last year at this
time.
——At the annual convention in
Pittsburgh last week Ives L. Harvey,
of Bellefonte, was chosen one of the
vice presidents of the State Sabbath
School association. The association
chose Johnstown as the place of
meeting next year.
——Speaking of Christmas a Lib-
erty Bond would be a lovely gift.
to attend the meeting in the centre
nearest to his home. He owes this
duty to his country, his county, his
town and his home. He and his fami-
ly should attend the meeting, learn
the noble plans of our government,
learn his own task and then—sub-
scribe to his fullest ability.
New Postage Rates.
The new rate of postage which will
apply after November 2nd, 1917, will
effect letters, postal cards and all
matter sealed against inspection, or
in other words, matter of the first-
class only. The rate will be three
cents an ounce or fraction ‘thereof
and must have one full rate of post-
age paid at the office of mailing. This
will affect letters, postal cards anc
all sealed matter that is to be weliv.
ered through another office only. Ali
first-class matter for delivery through
the local office which includes rural
routes emanating from this office as
well as boxes and general delivery
will still be mailable at the old rate
of 2 cents an ounce. The meaning of
the word “drop letter” as it applies to
the Bellefonte office is one that is in-
tended for local delivery only, and it
may be dropped in any street letter
box as well as at the postoffice. A
supply of three cent stamps is on
hand at the Bellefonte office and en-
velopes with three cent stamps and
postal cards with two cent stamps
printed thereon will be furnished as
soon as a supply can be secured from
the Department. All patrons wish-
ing to order envelopes in quantities
with return card and bearing three
cent stamps thereon should place
their order early. In this connection
postmaster Gherrity calls the atten-
tion of the public to the importance
of mailing Christmas packages in-
tended for soldiers and sailors of the
American forces abroad at as early
date as possible and to wrap and pack
them securely and address them
plainly, not forgetting to put your re-
turn address on the upper right hand
corner of the address side of the
package. These instructions apply
to Christmas packages mailed for de-
livery in this country as well, and
may have written or printed on the
words, “do not open ’till Christmas.”
The Colonel Must be Drawing on His
Stock of Good Stories.
As most of you know Col. J. L.
Spangler, our own Jack, is now tour-
ing the west as a member of Presi-
dent Wilson’s special commission that
has in hand the difficult work of try-
ing to bring about a more peaceful
situation in the turbulent labor dis-
tricts of the Coast.
The personnel ef the Commission
we announced several weeks ago.
While all of the gentlemen -are emi-
nent and specialists in their lines, it
is not improbable that Col. Spangler
is the best mixer in the party and the
one who will contribute most toward
smoothing over the rough ‘places
when they undertake to soothe the
apparently savage I. W. W’s who are
making the most of the labor trou-
bles in the west.
Of course the Colonel would recog-
nize the futility of attempting to cap-
ture and tame them with a salt shak-
er and has evidently fallen back on
his ability as a raconteur. The fol-
lowing from the Arizona Republican,
published at Phoenix, Arizona, would
at least give ground for our suspi-
cion. :
“Colonel J.L. Spangler is a Penn-
sylvania coal operator, conducting a
large business and for many years
has acted as the representative of the
Pennsylvania coal operators in ad-
justing labor difficulties. A man ac-
customed to large things, tolerant
and with the saving grace of humor.”
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—When the employees of the Pennsyl-
vania Glass Sand company at Mapleton
were told that they would get an increase
in wages the merchants of Huntingdom
advanced their prices. Butter jumped
from 40 to 45 cents a pound and other ar-
ticles underwent proportionate boosts.
—Although his back was broken five
years ago, George Whipkey, a farmer of’
Laurelville, Westmoreland county, has
been accepted for service in the national
army. Whipkey has only a lump now
where the vertebrae was dislocated, and
he says he is strong enough to make it
| warm for the Germans.
—As the result of a chestnut fracas last
Sunday with a Salem farmer, Charles
Warner and Philip Bernet, of Berwick,
have paid $100 and the costs to settle the
case. The men were hunting chestnuts om
the Seybert farm and Seybert asked them
to go to the mountain for chestnuts, as he
wanted the chestnuts on his land for him-
self. Enraged, they severely beat Seybert
and he had them arrested. They were re-
leased after paying Seybert damages and
costs.
—While drilling for gas with which te
operate mine machinery, employees of the
Rine Run Coal company, near Bethlehem,
Jefferson county, struck a new oil well.
The flow is at the rate of from 80 to 100
barrels a day. Immediately following the
discovery of oil, many speculators visited
the section endeavoring to negotiate leases
for land in the vicinity. The new well is
located in Clarion county, but is several
miles from the recognized Clarion county
oil fields.
—Miss Ruth Kint, aged 25 years, of
Watsontown, was instantly killed when
an automobile in which she was riding
turned completely over, landing again eon
its wheels. Miss Kint was riding with
Clyde Wenrich and was on her way to
Lock Haven. When approaching Jersy
Shore, going 25 miles an hour, Wenrich
tried to turn out for another car and got
too close to the edge of the bank. A
quick turn to get out of danger tore off
a wheel and the car rolled completely
over.
—Theatres, churches and all other pub-
lic gathering places have been closed im
Liverpool, Pa., by health authorities and
a State-wide warning sent out to any per-
sons who attended the funeral of James
H. Stailey, on October 3rd. Susan Straw-
ser, thirty-four, who attended that funer-
al, has smallpox. Authorities say she
must have had it then. Persons at the
funeral included men and women from
Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Milton, Altoona
and probably other points. Miss Straw-
ser’s case is of a mild, but well defined
type.
—After reporting a loss of nearly $2,000
in operating their municipal light plant in
1916, with a greater loss in prospect for
1917, the Catawissa borough council has
decided to sell the plant to the Columbia
and Montour Electric company, which is
associated with the Northumberland
County Gas & Electric company, pending
approval by the Public Safety Service
Commission, and the latter will furnish
electricity for the town in the future. The
light plant only ran eight hours a day.
The receipts for 1916 were $4,425.97, and
the expenditures $6,284.21.
—Because William Albright, of Morgan
Run, Clearfield county, has to support a
family of twenty children, he stopped the
editor of his favorite county paper and
told him that he would have to curtail ex-
penses somewhere on account of the high
cost of living and that the paper should
be stopped. Chief of Police Bowman, of
Hollidaysburg, who happened to be with
the editor and overheard the statement,
after satisfying himself that Albright’s
family numbered twenty children, said:
“No, such a sized family could not get
along without a county paper. T’ll pay
for it. For any paper to lose twenty read-
ers at a clip is too much for any country
editor to stand.”
—The largest verdict ever rendered in
the Northumberland county court on a
negligence charge was returned at Sun-
bury when the jury which heard the evi-
dence in the case of Joseph Ford vs. the
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron com-
pany, returned a verdict of $$11,686 in fa-
vor of Ford. According to the testimony
in the case, which was tried by Judge
Fred B. Moser, Ford was employed as a
driver in the Alaska colliery, near Mt. Car-
mel, on April 8th, 1913, and while he was
busy coupling coal cars another drart of
cars bumped into the ones on which he
was working, and his left leg was caught
in the wreckage and so badly crushed that
it had to be amputated.
—The Central Pennsylvania Lumber
company, of Williamsport, is completing
a government contract for thirty portable
saw mills to be sent to France. Ten of
these mills have been completed and the
tests which followed were successful. The
company is building these mills at its
several plants. The timber is being saw-
ed at one place, assembled at another, and
then knocked down and shipped to an At-
lantic port, from where it is sent te
France. These portable saw mills are to
ed at one place, assembled at another, and
it is probable that the company may send
men across the Atlantic to assist in erect-
ing and to operate them. Large quanti-
ties of timber, hewn from the forests of
Lyconming county, have been shipped to
cantonments.
—The woman track walker, forced to
the front by the exigencies of war and the
resultant shortage of male labor, has made
her debut in the Pennsylvania yards at
Sunbury and Northumberland. Nine rep-
resentatives of the ‘gentler sex’ demon-
strated beyond an inkling of doubt that
they are equal to almost any emergency,
when they took up their work as signal
keepers and track walkers. All are em-
ployed in the “MW?” department at Sum-
bury and in the Northumberland yards.
Some of the women are classed as track-
walkers, covering a certain area of track
each day, and reporting all unusual com-
ditions that may be discovered.
—One of the most interesting real es-
tate deals in years has been consummated
at Indiana, Pa., when, with a cash trans-
fer of upwards of $150,000, the stockhold-
ers of the Clymer Brick and Fire Clay
company, of Clymer, relinquished their
holdings to Hiram Swank’s Sons, Inc., of
Johnstown. The entire block of stock was
taken over by the corporative interests,
the transfer netting the stockholders 100
per cent. on their original investment.
Hiram Swank’s Sons, Inc. is regarded as
one of the most successful and enterpris-
ing corporations in the United States, and
with the acquisition of the Clymer con-
cern, they broaden their scope of activity
and plan vast extensions which will ulti-
mately place Indiana county further up-
wards on the list of progressive commu-
nities.