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BY P. GRAY MEEK.
INK SLINGS.
— Russia sent Nick Rom-an-off, but
will she be able to make the Bolshe-
viki Trot-sky. :
—— German naval officers take to
the submersible service reluctantly
but they have to take to it when or-
dered “or else.”
The next gubernatorial cam-
paign in this State will be full of sur-
prises but the greatest surprise will
be in the result to the Republicans.
— Here we sit in Centre county
boasting of our superior intelligence
and our beautiful environment and
one hundred and eighteen out of every
thousand babies born die in infancy.
Think of it! Centre county has the
eleventh highest infant death rate of
all the counties in the State.
—Bellefonte’s heating prospect
looks good now. The government
coal commission has ordered four cars
a week to be placed for the use of the
local plant. The cars will be on the
sidings, and the coal is in the hill,
and all that stands between us and
heat is the dough that’s in the till.
Some time ago Philipsburg got
into the lime-light when a dead deer
was found in the reservoir that sup-
plies the town with water. If imita-
tion is really the sincerest form of
flattery our sister town ought to feel
all puffed up for a dead cat was fish-
ed out of Bellefonte’s reservoir a few
days ago.
—If “country butter” keeps on
soaring in price we'll have to screw
up our courage like we did when we
first acknowledged that our motor
was in reality a Ford, and take to
oleo. And, incidentally, oleo is about
as much superior to a lot of “country
butter” as the Ford is superior to a
lot of motors that we know of.
— Waste is evidently being warred
upon in Bellefonte. An aged garbage
lifter said, the other morning, that
there is so little in the cans now that
the pigs he has in charge are getting
go thin that it breaks his heart to
look at them. Aint it awful! Mr.
Hoover importunes us to stop the
waste and we do it. Then he im-
plores us to produce more fats and
we starve Tom Beaver’s pigs because
we can’t make his anti-waste rule
work both ways.
—1In exactly three minutes after
the most advanced detachment of
Canadians had taken a German posi-
tion in Flanders, and before they had
time to dig themselves in a Y. M. C.
A. worker was with them with hot
coffee and words of cheer. Isn’t it a
consolation to think that our sons and
our friends are fighting, always with
such company at their sides?
Shouldn’t it be a work of pleasure
and of love for Centre county to give
generously to support such a work.
The campaign for funds is on now.
Have you contributed your bit?
— The Y. M. C. A. is campaigning
for $35,000,000 this week with which
to carry on its work among the sol-
diers and sailors. Centre county has
given nearly four hundred of the most
precious young men to the army and
navy already and will give more and
more. There isn’t a mother of one
of these boys who doesn’t prostrate
herself daily and pray to God that her
son will be kept undefiled and return
to her clean as he left. Do you know
that the Y. M. C. A. is doing more
than any other human agency to help
answer that prayer? And do you
know you can help answer it too if you
reach down in your pocket and give
something with which to carry on the
wonderful work? Let Centre county
be lavish in her gifts to the agency
that is creating the sacred atmos-
phere of home for every one of her
sons who are away from it today.
— Last spring when the “Watch-
man” was furnishing seed potatoes
at cost to those who were unable to
procure them anywhere else the most
asinine stories were afloat as to our
purpose. The one most ridiculous of
all was to the effect that the “Watch-
man” expected to demand from each
person to’ whom it supplied seed a re-
turn of a like quantity of potatoes
out of the crop grown. It is needless
to say that we paid no attention to
such either ignorant or malicious
stories at the time, but now comes
one that needs some attention be-
cause it is founded on either the kind
of ignorance that should be suppress-
ed or is the machination of disloyal
people right in our midst. On Wed-
nesday the food conservation train
that is traveling through Pennsylva-
nia at the expense of the committee
of Public Safety was in Bellefonte.
Its purpose is to carry right to the
homes of the people the best exam-
ples of scientific experiments in con-
serving and preparing food and there-
by help everyone to make a little go
the farthest should a pinch come. All
over Bellefonte, on Tuesday, were
stories to the effect that the train is
only part of the governmental scheme
to find out what the individuals have
stored in their own cellars and if it
should prove to be more than they are
supposed to have the government will
confiscate the excess. What lies!
And why did people conjure up such
malicious stories unless it was to
frighten others into not visiting the
train and thereby remaining in igno-
rance of what they should know for
their own preservation. Let us warn
those who may have been guilty of
even repeating such a story that these
are dangerous times for glib tongues,
especially when the motives of the
gevernment are impugned.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 1
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6, 1917.
NO. 45.
Republican Factions Shifting.
One of the results of the recent
election, according to current reports,
is a complete readjustment of the
plans of the Penrose faction for the
immediate future. Previous to the
vote it was practically settled that
Senator Sproul would have the Pen-
rose support for Governor with a fair
prospect that the Brumbaugh-Vare
influence would be centered on Attor-
ney General Shunk Brown. But the
defeat of the Vares in Pittsburgh and
the narrow escape from a similar re-
puke in Philadelphia, has bowled
Brown out and substituted J. Denny
O'Neil, present Highway Commis-
sioner as the victim. “Denny” has
the Prohibition vote in his inside pock-
et and that makes him a “good bet.”
This shifting of favorites on the
Vare side has caused a similar trans-
fer of support on the Penrose side.
Pittsburgh has entered an emphatic
protest against Senator Sproul and
sent out a call for Senator E. E. Bid-
leman, of Harrisburg, and the per-
sonal friends of that gentleman de-
clare with much positiveness that he
is to be the candidate not only of that
faction but of the party. His force
as a “spell-binder” is said to have
been the influencing cause of his se-
lection. For some years he has been
one of the most willing if not among
the most eloquent of the “stunners,”
while Sproul is greatly deficient in
that respect. Sproul has money,
however, and Bidleman hasn’t, which
would indicate that some other source
of party revenue has been discovered.
Senator Bidleman is a lawyer un-
der fifty years of age and a devoted
adherent of the Penrose machine.
He served two terms in the House of
Representatives and is now in his sec-
ond term in the State Senate. It has
been understood for some years that
his ambition was in the direction of
Congressional service but the present
member of the National House from
his district is reluctant to get out of
his way and probably has engaged to
finance the gubernatorial campaign
as a sort of “consolation” offering for
the disappointment. Besides it is
whispered that an aversion which
Brumbaugh bears toward Bidleman
has made a deep impression on the
Penrose mind.
If the Fins imagine that Ger-
many can or will feed them they have
a right to help the Kaiser in his fight
for autocracy. But if they depend
upon the United States for food they
are pursuing an unwise course for the
people of this country will not feed
those who smite them.
Withdraw Support from Russia.
The government of the United
States has advanced large sums of
money to the provisional government
of Russia since the dethronement of
the Romanoff family. The first pro-
visional government was severe but
weak but received the moral support
of this country from the beginning.
The second was neither strong nor
patriotic and lasted for only a brief
period. Upon the accession of Keren-
sky, however, hope developed into
confidence and material as well as
moral, support was tendered. No bet-
ter use could have been made of the
money. If the reasonable expecta-
tions had been fulfilled, the new Rus-
sia would have taken an active and ef-
fective part in the world war for de-
mocracy. :
But the time has come to withdraw
the support of this country to Russia.
Obviously funds so appropriated will
be, if not already, misused. Long un-
der the debauching influence of autoc-
racy the people of that country are
either mentally unfit for self-govern-
ment or else they are so corrupt as to
be morally unfit. In either event the
material support of the government
of the United States should be stop-
ped until indications point with rea-
sonable accuracy to a government suf-
ficiently patriotic and stable to guar-
antee that the funds will be used in
the interest of democracy. The peo-
ple of the United States are not will-
ing to contribute to pay German spies
or subsidize Russian traitors.
For this reason the new loan to
Russia, in contemplation, should be
withheld for the present. If Keren-
sky returns and resumes control un-
der conditions which promise perma-
nency, he ought to be helped in every
way possible. He means to give Rus-
sia an honest government and the Re-
publican States of the world a faith-
ful sister. But the hoodlum adven-.
turers now in control in Petrograd
and Moscow have no such purpose.
Their aim is to betray the country
while filling their own pockets and
the people of the United States are
not in sympathy with such plans. For
the present, therefore, all moral and
material support should be withdrawn
and the shipment of foodstuffs stop-
ped.
ferences assembled for the conserva-
tion of food include an elaborate
“feed.”
Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
It is a curious fact that all con-'
Notable Service to the Country.
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Whole Truth About the War.
Only those who expected the Pres-| There is a good deal of humbug in |
ident to “rough-house” the Federa- the alarming stories of the scarcity
tion of Labor convention are disap- |of labor now current in all sections of
pointed in the President’s speech in
Buffalo on Monday. One of these, | scarce, comparatively speaking,
writing for a Philadelphia contem-
porary says: “Many of the Presi-
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the country. No doubt that labor is |
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that the farmers, especially, have dif- |
ficulty in getting the help needed to |
dent’s warmest supporters are disap- ! take care of the present crops and |
pointed to-night that.in his speech to
the American Federation of Labor
he contented himself with generaliza-
tions on the labor problem and failed
to reveal a broad constructive plan
for the adjustment of labor disputes.”
As a matter of fact those who enter-
tain such thoughts on the subject are
not warm supporters of the Presi-
dent, but are secret allies of the Ger-
man Kaiser, and aiders and abettors
of his ambitions.
President Wilson didn’t go to Buf-
falo to take the delegates to the la-
bor convention by the throats and
force upon them the acceptance of
doctrines repugnant to their sense
of justice. He went there, as he
stated, to speak, “not the words of
authority but the words of counsel,
the words which men should speak
to one another who wish to be frank
in a moment more critical perhaps
than the history of the world has ever
known.” With that exalted idea in
mind he appealed to the best impuls-
es of his audience to the righteous
end that “the power of this country
and the productivity of this country
is raised to its absolute maximum,
and that absolutely nobody is allowed
to stand in the way of it.”
It was gravely suspected that an
organized effort would be made by
emissaries of the Kaiser to disturb
the councils of the American Federa-
tion of Labor by introducing sinister
differences among the leaders of the
organization and diverting it from
the patriotic course it has been pur-
suing since the beginning of the Eu-
ropean war. But President Wilson's
wise words addressed to the reason
of those who compose the body quick-
ly dissipated this danger and restored
those responsible for the good work
to the full confidence of the organi-
zation. It was a notable service to
the country and promptly removed
apprehensions which were as disturb-
ing as it was possible to be.
Subscribing for Liberty Bonds
is a good #ign that the heart is in the
right place but not an absolute guar-
antee that a workman of German or
Austrian birth is to be trusted in a
munition factory or powder mill.
Exploiting the Soldiers’ Vote.
The election returns from the mili-
tary cantonments make plain the ne-
cessity for improving the methods of
taking the soldiers’ vote. Nobody
wants to deprive the soldiers of their
right to vote. Having offered their
lives, “the full measure of devotion,”
to the country, they certainly deserve
the right of a voice in selecting the
officials in the communities in which
those near and dear to them live. But
the opportunity to exploit their sa-
cred privilege of voting by crafty
politicians must be checked. The re-
turns of the votes from the camp in-
dicate that frauds have been perpe-
trated or deceptions practiced upon
the soldiers of Pennsylvania that have
nullified their purposes in voting.
Of course little of good was expect-
ed from an electoral machinery con-
trolled absolutely by Governor Brum-
baugh in the interest of the party pi-
rates who control him. Ever since
his induction into the office he occu-
pies he appears to have been striving
to prove his unfitness for the trust
reposed in him by the people. But in
nothing has he succeeded so well, in
this respect, as in the perversion of
the power to regulate the taking of
the soldiers’ votes, so as to make it
an instrument for promoting the po-
litical ambition of the Vares in Phil-
adelphia and the Magee interests in
Pittsburgh. The soldiers seem to
have had no choice in the selection of
candidates or else their votes were
changed in the returning process.
It will be impossible, of course, to
change the system of voting in the
camps before the next election for the
Legislature doesn’t meet until after
that event. But progressive and hon-
est citizens of the Commonwealth
may, during the next campaign, take
such steps as will at least inform the
soldiers who are running for offices
and what each candidate stands for.
If this had been done during the re-
cent campaign it is not likely that a
unanimous vote of one of the canton-
ments would have been cast for the
Vare ticket, even though the voters
were negroes. Both tickets were
composed of Republicans and colored
voters have differences of opinion
even though they are mostly Repub-
licans.
While we are fighting fer free-
dom,” President Wilson said in his
Buffalo speech, “we must see among
other things, that labor is free.”
Mr. Hoover's bread rules prom-
ise to accomplish something besides
vindicating his reputation.
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get ready for the greater crops hoped |
for in the future. But with proper
vigilance and sufficient energy, the la- |
bor can be procured. There are plen-
ty of idle men in the cities and a great |
WHO MADE THE KAISER.
Some people were made to be soldiers,
The Irish were made to be cops,
Limberger was made for the Germans,
Spaghetti was made for the wops;
Fish were made to live in water,
Bums were made to live on booze;
Banks were made to hold money,
And the money was made for the Jews;
Everything was made for something,
Most everything but a miser;
God made Wilson for President,
But who in H——1 made the Kaiser?
—A Camp Meade Soldier.
FERTILIZER EXPERIMENTS.
many in city and country who" could
help along even if not able to do the
full measure of a man’s work. In
the stress incident to war these men |
ought to be willing to help and if not |
willing should be made do their part.
Nearly a million men have already
been taken from the industrial life of
the country for the service in the ar-
my and navy and it is now proposed
to increase this draft by eight or
nine fold. Meantime the industrial
life of the country must be maintain-
ed and the agricultural interests con-
served to the highest standard of ef- |
ficiency. But these results can be
achieved if every man will do his
share.
or the old man that he can’t do as
much as one will when maturity is
reached or the other could when in
full physical vigor. But it is the
fault of the youth and the old man if !
they refuse to do what they can at a
time when every little counts.
The people of the United States
must win this war for democracy and
this result can only be accomplished |
by every one doing his part in full.
If we don’t win it the people of the
United States will become serfs of the
German war lords just as certain as
the sun rises in the east. In that
event all will have to do their part
not for the cause of civil and reli-
gious freedom, but for the glory and
pleasure of militarism dominated by
autocracy. The war is on and in
earnest. It will continue for a long
or short period accordingly as the
people of this country give prompt or
reluctant support to the army and
the government. It is for us to say
and to do but we must act promptly.
Samuel - Blythe, in a summary of
the situation published in the Satur-
day Evening Post says “We must
whip Germany or Germany will whip
us.” That is “the whole truth and
nothing but the truth.” If we fail to
whip Germany with the help of Great
Britain, France and Italy, Germany
will find it an easy task to whip us
with the help of the navy and mili-
tary equipment of our conquered al-
lies. We can whip Germany if we
go about the task in the proper spir-
it. But we must eliminate the slack-
ers in finance, industry and army and
navy. Every one must do a full
share according to his capability and
it must be done promptly and cheer-
fully. Otherwise Germany will put
faster upon us greater than we can
ear.
The food conservation train
which visited Bellefonte on Wednes-
day was visited by hundreds of peo-
ple, including most of the school teach-
ers in attendance at institute. The
people in charge of the train are giv-
ing their time and their labor in an
honest effort to impress upon the peo-
ple of Pennsylvania the necessity of
the very utmost conservation of food
supplies and every one who visited
the train as it stood on the siding
near the Pennsylvania railroad pas-
senger depot can make their work
worthwhile if they simply cut the
waste down to the very lowest mini-
mum and conserve in every way pos-
sible. This does not mean that any
one is to go hungry or not have suf-
ficient of the actual necessities of
life. But it does mean to get along on
plain, substantial food and cut out
many of the luxuries that require so
much sugar to concoct, and to save
the fats and use them in the most ec-
onomical way. By doing this you will
suffer no real hardship yourself and
will help to save what our soldier
boys need at the front. The train
was in charge of J. S. Foster, of
Philadelphia, while the lecturers were
Mrs. Frank H. Griffin, of Swarth-
more; Mrs. Mary McClain, Miss
Louise J. Robertson and Miss Marga-
ret Hiller, of State College. The reg-
ister showed that just 650 people vis-
i the cars while they were in Belle-
onte.
——Wednesday was butchering day
for our friend, George Robb Sr., at
his home along the mountain, and
from the three nice hogs he killed he
got three good sized cans of lard, so
that there is little danger of his run-
ning short on fats during the ensu-
ing year. Of course Mrs. Robb serv-
ed the customary big dinner which
had the effect of drawing some of
their friends who did not do very
much at the butchering. The honor
guests of the day were Mrs. Robb’s
brother, Samuel Irvin and wife, of
Osceola Mills, the first time that Mr.
Irvin had been at the Robb home in
forty years.
It isn’t the fault of the youth |
Inspected by State College Experts
and Farmers, Near Snow Shoe,
Last Friday.
| Last Friday morning a corps of ex-
perts from the School of Agriculture
| of The Pennsylvania State College,
i headed by Dr. E. E. Sparks, president
{ of the college, prominent agricultur-
ists throughout the State and a half
| dozen or more newspaper men, includ-
ing a representative of the “Watch-
| man,” motored to Snow Shoe to in-
| spect the fertilizer experiments being
conducted there by college experts in
, an effort to reclaim wornout land.
These experiments were begun in
+1915 on what is known as the Morgan
farm about three-quarters of a mile
beyond Snow Shoe on the road to Gil-
i lentown. The land had been abawdon-
ed as farm land for a period of forty
years, and during that time had been
used as a baseball ground. Nothing
would grow on it but weeds and a lit-
, tle sour grass. The land is known as
the DeKalb soil, a combination of
sand and shale, and which, while new,
will grow crops for a period of eight
or ten years but being light in com-
position requires constant applica-
tions of fertilizing elements to make
it produce, and the object of the ex-
periments being conducted by the col-
lege experts is not only to see if the
land can be made productive but
whether it can be made to produce at
a cost that will make it profitable to
undertake it on a general farming
scale.
While the mid-year would seem to
the “Watchman” editor as a better
time to have made the trip of inspec-
tion, when the grass grown on the ex-
perimental plats was at its best, yet
the difference between the fertilized
and unfertilized plats was very evi-
dent last Friday. The fertilizing ele-
ments used inthe experiments were
ground limestone, acid phosphate, mu-
riate of potash and barnyard manure.
The best results were obtained where
a combination of all the above was
used. The plats are one-tenth of an
acre in size and the tests made were on
Kentucky blue grass, white and sweet
clover. According to the records
kept by the college the ground can be
made to produce so as to become
profitable to any one who will give it
the proper attention.
When the crowd of experts, farm-
ers, etc., arrived at the experimental
land they were a rather chilly bunch
and Mr. George G. Hutchinson, of the
State Dairy and Food department,
led a wood-carrying brigade and soon
had a rousing bonfire which soon
spread warmth among the guests.
Then F. W. Gardner announced the
sad tidings that Dean R. L. Watts was
unable to be present as he had been
summoned to his old home on account
of the death of his mother. After
stating the object of the gathering
he introduced Prof. J. W. White, who
has been in charge of the fertilizer ex-
periments, and that gentleman took
the crowd over the field and gave the
facts and figures in connection with
each plat.
While this was being done several
college students were busy preparing
a lunch. They built a big stone fire-
place and made a huge boiler of cof-
fee and when it was ready a very sub-
stantial luncheon was served all pres-
ent. In the meantime Dr. Sparks
made his appearance and he took oc-
casion to thank everybody for show-
ing enough of interest in what the
college was trying to do to journey to
the top of the mountain that morning.
He also invited the crowd to attend
the Pennsylvania day exercises at the
College on Saturday and see the home
work of that big institution.
In addition to the college experts
there were present F. R. Stevens, the
agricultural expert of' the State
Chamber of Commerce; H. V. White,
of Bloomsburg, chairman of the
State Agricultural Commission; Geo.
G. Hutchinson, of Warriorsmark;
Hon. Harry B. Scott and A. J. Ander-
son, .of the “Pennsylvania Farmer,”
Philadelphia. Returning home the
party arrived in Bellefonte a little
after two o’clock.
— There was no necessity for is-
suing that admonition against cran-
berries. Sugar is scarce, of course,
but the scarcity of turkeys is the
main reason that there will be a di-
minished demand for cranberries.
— Those Kansans are an invent-
ive bunch. One of them has discov-
ered that the Congressional Record
may be made useful as a fly swatter.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Beaver county has the unenviabie rec
ord of having 700 men classed as slacker
in its three exemption districts. Sherif
J. P. Bryan has received instructions t
round up the men.
—QGovernor Brumbaugh has granted a
respite to Frank Alfred Wendt, of Blair
county, staying his execution from Na-
vember 19 to December 3, to permit of 1m
appeal to the State Board of Pardor i
—Two brothers, Joseph and »
Mancuso, were instantly killed Wed y
evening, when they were caught under a
fall of rock in No. 9 mine of the Pennsyl-
vania Coal & Coke corporation at Cresson.
—The sugar shortage continues to be
quite acute in DuBois and there is little
promise that there will be any relief im
the near future. In one instance a pound
was sold at one time and the price fifteem
cents.
—Wiliiam McKinley, aged 40 years, was
terribly injured Monday afternoon by am
explosion of dynamite in the Dagus mines,
ten miles from Ridgway. He had one hand
amputated and will probably never have
the sight of his eyes.
—Slab wood used in the school build-
ings of Williamsport, is probably the
hardest kind of fuel to find this year. Im
former years the school board obtained
two carloads without delay, and paid $3
a cord. So far not any has been obtained :
and what is available costs $8 a cord.
—Ralph Charovelli, the DuBois man whe
has been in jail at Clearfield for the past
year because of his connection with the
killing of Abe Horn, and who was found
guilty of murder in the second degree last
spring, was sentenced to serve a term of
not less than 12 nor more than 15 years im
the western penitentiary.
—Miss Aida Derr, who had both legs
and an arm broken and was nearly scalp-
ed seven weeks ago when the auto im
which she was riding was hit by a traim
near Milton, suddenly recovered conscious-
ness a week ago and has since been recu-
perating rapidly. Her parents, sister and
aunt were killed in the accident.
—James Flynn, aged 69 years, for many
years a resident of DuBois, was found
dead at the bottom of the Johnson stone
quarry, by quarrymen when they report-
ed for work Tuesday morning. It is
thought that he lost his way going home
the night before and walked too near the
edge of the quarry and fell to the bottom
of the pit. y
—Mrs. Minerva Stiteler, of Smicksburg,
was seriously burned at her home om
Thursday, when her clothing caught fire
from a hot plate. She was cleaning about
the stove and had set the hot plate on the
floor and her apron brushed over it and
caught fire, the flames burning most all
her clothing before neighbors came to her
assistance.
—The property of the Northumberland
county traction company operating street
car lines in Sunbury and Northumberland,
was sold at foreclosure sale last Thursday
for $200,000 to the Bondholders Protective
committee, composed of Allen P. Perley,
John L. Hall and David A. Howe, all of
Williamsport. It is understood the bond-
holders will operate the road.
—Caught between a cabin and an en-
gine while switching in the Williamsport
vards of the Pennsylvania railroad at
about 10:15 o'clock Thursday night, Hor-
ace W. Gross, of Northumberland, receiv-
eduinjuries that proved fatal a short time
later. His head was caught and crushed.
He died while being rushed to a Williams-
port hospital in a police ambulance.
—Wirt brothers, of Huntingdon, have
the honor of taking the first bear from the
Seven mountains this season. A large
black bear which dressed 350 pounds was
taken by them near the Martin Wirt farm
in New Lancaster valley last week. Bruin
was feeding on the frozen apples in one of
the wild orchards that abound in that lo-
cality, relics of the early lumbering days
of that section. The bear with two cubs
was treed by the dogs and the mother
bear shot, the two cubs making their get-
away in the semi-darkness of the early
morning.
—Rumors abroad say the iron ore mines
in Formaugh township, Juniata county,
will again be worked in the near future.
These mines are located just across the
Juniata river from Denholm water and
coaling station on the Pennsylvania rail-
road and were abandoned finally in 1889
after the big flood had put the Pennsyl-
vania canal out of business. The ore tak-
en from the mountains at this point was
considered among the best in the State
and ‘their working was only abandoned be-
cause it meant hauling the ore three miles
over an inaccessible road but the advent
of the state highway and the automobile
has furnished a remedy for this drawback.
—Frederick Shields, a hero of the Cri-
mear war, and for many years a well
known resident of Stumptown, near Osce-
ola, died on Wednesday, November 7th, at
the Clearfield county home, well advanc-
ed in years. He was a native of England
and served under General Lord George
Paget in the Fourth Queen’s Own Light
Dragoons during the Crimean war and was
a member of the regiment for five years.
He was in the famous “Charge of the
Light Brigade.” He came to America in
1865 expecting to enlist in the service here.
The war being over he, of course, was
obliged to seek other occupation, and be-
came a coal miner in the Moshannon min-
ing region.
—A sugar cargo valued at $28,000 and
placed in the Rink warehouse in Wilkes-
Barre several weeks ago has mysteriously
disappeared and three banks of that city
are holding worthless security in the form
of releases that governed the sale of the
commodity. Noah Raskin, of Harvey's
Lake, original owner of the sugar has
been arrested and accuses the manager of
the warehouse with having sold the sugar.
The manager denies the charge. The su-
gar was posted as security fer a $22,000
loan made by Heights, south side and
Wyoming Valley trust banks, it is said.
These banks held the releases and declare
the sale of the sugar was illegal without
their consent.
—Owing to the outbreak of smallpox at
Blue Ball, Clearfield county, state health
authorities have ordered train service to
and from that station discontinued and
the schools to be closed not only in the
village but in the surrounding townships
until all pupils have been vaccinated. One
of the patients is a justice of the peace
who has been transacting business until
recently. Sunday schoels will be closed
and probably churches. Smallpox has alse
appeared at Trout Run, Clinton county, im
the family of the postmistress, requiring
transfer of the office to the home of the
assistant and fumigation of all mail
Bight people, six of them children, were
in the house with the patient.
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