Demonic Wald
BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
—Spring will be here in just twen-
ty-seven days.
—Many tractors will be working on
Centre county farms next summer.
—How thankful we ought to be that
we are not in Lock Haven’s plight to-
day.
—Friday, February 28th, 1902, is
the day of the greatest flood in Spring
creek ever recorded.
—Spring styles call for narrower
and shorter skirts for women. They
are going “over the top’—of the
shoes, but the bow-legged girl will
probably be a slacker.
—Col. Roosevelt is recovering and
will soon be able to be about again.
His ear was the cause of his danger-
ous illness; probably strained listen-
ing for a third call to the White
House.
—Pity poor Russia! Think of the
peace terms she will have to submit
to at the hands of her German con-
querors and imagine, if you can, what
the tyrants will exact of us and our
allies if we do not master them.
—Those draft evaders, who have
just been sentenced to twenty years
imprisonment at Leavenworth, stand
just one chance of getting out. Kaiser
Bill will release them, if he licks us,
but the if can’t carry much hope to
these slackers.
—The snow has been going away
without the expected disastrous floods.
A day or two of melting then a brief
freeze up to stop the water until the
streams subside enough to carry
away a new supply. Surely Provi-
dence is taking care of us.
—Let us let you in on a sure tip.
We know a man who knows when the
war is going to end. If you want to
know when that much prayed for
event will be look on page four of this
issue, for a little jingle that will tell
you just where you can find the new
wise man.
—As an incentive to rouse you to
the importance of greater gardening
efforts next spring just remember
how handy those beans, beets, toma-
toes, etc., that you canned last sum-
mer, came in during the winter. Its
far nicer to run to your own cellar
than to the store and it doesn’t cost
as much, either.
—A fight is on at Washington to
raise the minimum price of wheat to
$2.50 or $3.00 per bushel. Whatever
may be the outcome of it, however, it
will apply only to the 1918 crop. The
government will play fair with those
farmers who have taken it. at: its
word and sold their 1917 crops at
present prices by making it unlawful
for those who have not to hold their
1917 crops to be sold at any advance
that may be made for. the 1918 crop.
—President Wilson talked plain
English to William L. Hutcheson,
president of the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners. “Will you
co-operate or will you obstruct” put
it right at the labor autocrat in a way
that left no middle ground for him to
take. The President has shown ex-
treme consideration for labor ever
since he has been in the White House
and has a right to expect it to back
him up, but a greater right to show
it in plain language that there can be
no middle ground when it comes to
the matter of duty in the war.
—The “Watchman” is going to call
all of its 1917 men to the colors. Look
at your label and if you are in that
class the only thing that will save
you is a prompt remittance of $1.50.
If you don’t send it we're going to
conscript you, even if it costs a three
cent postage stamp to serve the no-
tice. There is nothing between a
much needed pile of news paper and
a pocket-book flat as if an elephant
had stepped on it but our readers of
the 1917 class and a few older ones.
Won’t you help us get over the top of
a new pile of paper? You did it a
year ago.
—Every day there is a new list
published of the names of our brave
boys who have died fighting for you
and for me in France. They can
never come back. They have given
God’s greatest gift for you and for
me. And what are we doing: Quib-
bling, complaining, rebelling because
we are asked to make less of gluttons
of ourselves, in order that the cause
for which they have died may live.
May the shades of the giant patriots
who are lying in French soil rise to
east a haunting rebuke over the pig-
my spirits on this side of the sea who
yammer at everything.
—If Washington doesn't soon curb
itself in the use of paper, ink and
presses there will be a famine in all
of these commodities. Never in the
history of this office has such a del-
uge of franked mail swept into it as
is now coming, and the torrent is
swelling daily. So much of it is ut-
terly useless to any newspaper read-
er, so much obsolete by the time it is
received, and so much previously cov-
ered by the metropolitan dailies that
it seems like a sheer waste of time
and material to permit its continu-
ance. This great leak is not only sap-
ping the funds at Washington but in
our own State as well. Every depart-
ment at Harrisburg has gotten the
habit and tons and tons of perfectly
good paper has thousands of dollars
worth of work put on it each week
and then burdens the mails in its
journey of uselessness to the scrap
basket under some desk.
STATE RIGHTS
AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 63.
BELLEFONTE, PA. FE
Not So Bad After All
Naturally there has been a good
deal of complaint about the plans
adopted for the conservation of food
and fuel. The average American cit-
izen grows restive under restraint |
and most of us say what we think re-
gardless of results. But as the sub-
jects of our complaints are analyzed
and fhe achievements of the regula-
tions reviewed we find that conditions ,
are not as bad as we imagined. For
example the meatless day and the
wheatless meal have not greatly im-
paired our strength or to any per-
ceptible extent harmed us in any way.
But they have accomplished wonders
in heartening our allies and comfort-
ing our friends in the = foreign
trenches. .
In an address before the alumni of
Williams College the other evening
Dr. Garfield told of the result of the
recent five-day industrial suspension,
which was so roundly condemned in
this country and in Germany. “Four
hundred and eighty ships carrying
more than 2,000,000 tons of food, fuel,
munitions and other war supplies
which had been tied up in Atlantic
ports were bunkered and sent to sea
between January 17th, the day the or-
der became effective and January
29th. A normal number of ships only
remained at anchor,” he said and
added, “and the flow of supplies nec-
essary to the American expeditionary
forces and the allies had been re-es-
tablished.” Besides that “the rails
were cleared for important shipments
of steel and other commodities to fac-
tories, without which the most essen-
tial war industries would have been
closed, but not in orderly fashion.” .
In view of these facts what Ameri-
can man or boy, woman or girl is not
willing to bear the small privations
and meet the trifling inconveniences
imposed by the authorities who have
carefully studied the subjects and are
acting for the public good? Most of
us like the good things of life and
some of us yearn for the luxuries.
But the necessities of our kindred in
foreign camps, who have offered their
lives that we may be secure of com-
forts in the future, are of greater im-
portance than our caprices. Nobody
in our government imposes hardships
simply to make others suffer and no
fair-minded person will refuse to do
a bit when the reward is so great.
___ Naturally enough the first sus-
picion of graft in the war activities
is developed in Philadelphia. It is
said that frauds have been perpetrat-
ed in the purchase of land for the
new shipyard on Hog Island.
Crime Fails of Its Purpose.
In debauching Russian mercenaries
with bribes Germany seems to have
“sown to the wind” and is now reap-
ing the traditional harvest. The Rus-
sian revolution was an impulse of pa-
triotism. But it was stifled by Ger-
man intrigue and diverted by German
conspiracy. Instead of serving the
purpose of freeing the people from
the yoke of autocracy it was made an
instrument to aid militarism through
the bribery of selfish and ignorant
men who had obtained control of the
government. By those base means
Prussian diplomats hoped to release
2 million of troops in service on the
Eastern front to steady and strength-
en shattered and tottering lines on
the West. But the conspiracy has
failed and the hopes withered.
In the history of the world there
has been no such era of intrigue and
organized crime as has characterized
the German conduct of the pending
war. Every principle of justice has
been violated, every element of civil-
ization outraged by the ruthless and
murdering Huns who are in control
of the German Empire. Kindly dis-
posed observers have tried to draw a
line which would exculpate the Ger-
man people from blame for this state
of affairs. But analysis disappoints
their amiable expectations. If the
German heart were right, if the Ger-
man mind were humanely inclined,
the brutalities,. the atrocities, the
beastliness of the German authorities
might have been checked. But the
worst meets approval in Berlin.
The poor, miserable, mercenary
culprits in St. Petersburg have en-
riched themselves, no doubt, through
the sacrifice of their country, but will
probably mot live to enjoy the evil
fruits of their perfidy. But that is
unimportant. The main fact is that
Germany has failed of her plans to
profit by a conspiracy which would
have been infamous even if success-
ful. The expectation of separate
peace has gone glimmering and in-
stead of sending the vast army of the
Fast to overwhelm the trenches in
France and Flanders it is now neces-
sary to withdraw energy from the
Western line in order to reorganize
the demoralized forces on the Rus-
sian border. It is a fit reward, how-
ever, for a brutal undertaking.
——With the price of wheat fixed
by law at three dollars a bushel “the
farmer can always take care of him-
self, oleo.”
Penrose Must Take Scott.
The latest gossip coming from the
Pennsylvania Republican trenches in- | ship carpenter’s strike in the right
dicates that Senator Penrose is reluc- | way.
| tant to accept John R. K. Scott as the demand of a rather absurd labor agi-
candidate for Lieutenant Governor. 'tator for a personal interview he
|
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Valuable Lesson Imparted.
President Wilson has settled the
In reply to a rather impudent
i In a previous reference to this subject | said: “It is the duty of the govern-
| we expressed the opinion that Pen- ment to see that the best possible con- | The slackers gaze at Anna's shin.
| rose’s self-respect would be outraged | ditions of labor are maintained, as it;
{if the Vares forced Scott upon him. is always its duty to see to it that
But the Vares are persistent in this there isno lawless and conscienceless
‘demand. They know that “the big | profiteering, and that duty the gov-
| fellow” will stand “the gaff” if he has | ernment has accepted and will per-
to and they dearly love to see him | form.”
A personal interview wasn’t
‘squirm. Long separation from the necessary to convey this information
‘spoils, protracted yearning for graft
have a chastening influence on minds
trained as his has been and though
he may protest vehemently, he will
| yield ultimately.
The gossip, however, removes all
. question of the nomination of Sena-
‘tor Sproul for Governor. At this
| writing his candidacy has not been
formally announced but it will be
| within a few days and may be before
| this issue of the “Watchman” reaches
its destination. Denny O’Neil’s am-
bition is already as dead as the tra-
{ ditional “door nail” and the Vares are
scheduled to decorate its coffin. It
won't be a joyful function either.
| The epithets which Denny has so free-
{ly hurled at Penrose are more music-
jal to the Vare ear than the squeal of
‘a pig in a South Philadelphia back
yard. But accepting Scott as a can-
“didate is punishment enough, they
, reason, and what’s the use of paint-
ing a rainbow.
It may be assumed, therefore, that
Sproul for Governor, Scott for Lieu-
tenant Governor and Houck for Sec-
retary of Internal Affairs will com-
pose the ticket. Houck is not entire-
ly persona grata to Penrose but he
will do. When Brumbaugh goes into
the hole Houck will be as servile as.
any one else could be and Penrose will
get three out of the four candidates
for Congress-at-Large. It is not all
he expected. It is not the proportion
he has been used to. But conditions
have changed and as it is all he can
get it will have to be satisfactory.
The Vares are his Nemesis and their
vengeance is inexorable. And it will
be worth while to see him trying to
look pleasant. #
CE
The war is costing vast sums of
money but if the savings now being
practiced and the thrift now being in-
culcated become a national habit it
won’t take long. to recover it all and
set a balance on the right side of the
account.
Talk of an Extra Session.
The report that Governor Brum-
baugh contemplates an extra session
of the Legislature is probably with-
out foundation in fact. There is no
reason for an extra session of the
present Legislature. The last three
Legislatures failed of the constitu-
tional duty to reapportion the State
into Congress, Senate, Representa-
tive and judicial districts. But it is
not likely that the present body, hav-
ing failed at its regular session to
fulfill its obligations would do so at
a called session. As a matter of fact
the Governor didn’t urge it on the
present Legislature or its predeces-
sor, though it was his constitutional
duty to do so, and the pretense of an
extra session on that account is ob-
viously false. .
Friends of the Governor have also
suggested the desire of ratifying the
prohibition amendment to the Feder-
al constitution as a reason for calling
an extra session of the Legislature.
If there were even a remote possibil-
ity of that result the extra session
might be worth while. But during
the regular session of the present
Legislature a proposition to consider
local option was voted down by a
large majority. Will the Governor
say that he has information of a
change of heart on this question by a
considerable number of the Senators
and Representatives in the present
Legislature? Unless he has such in-
formation the calling of an extra ses-
sion for that purpose would be abso-
lute folly.
An extra session of the Legislature
would cost the tax payers of Penn-
sylvania betweén five and six hundred
thousand dollars. That is a large sum
of money and we know of no place
where money grows on trees. Yet
the re-apportionment of the State and
the ratification of the prohibition
amendment might be worth it in the
opinion of many. On the other hand,
however, there is no need of hurry in
either case.” If the next Legislature
will get on the job promptly there
will be ample time to attend to one
before the next census an( “e other
before the amendment can go into
force. , The probabilities are, there-
fore, that the Governor's purpose is
ulterior and the extra session will be
for partisan purposes.
The Republican National com-
mittee refused to elect Mr. Adams, of
Towa, chairman because of his pro-
German proclivities, but elected him
vice chairman in spite or because of
them. That is drawing fine lines.
and there has been no personal inter-
view. But there was a pertinent and
persuasive question in conclusiqn,
“Will you co-operate or will you ob-
struct?” the President asked.
A personal interview with the Pres-
ident would have been a fine subject
for boasting for a demagogue who
had revealed a willingness to sacri-
fice the interests of the country for
his personal aggrandizement. He
could have said that he had brought
the government to its knees begging
his indulgence in a little personal en-
terprise and that the President was
obliged to reckon with him. But he
was sadly disappointed. The Presi-
dent couldn’t see any public advantage
from a personal interview and made
his ideas on the subject entirely plain
by putting a direct question where it
would do the most good. “Will you
co-operate or will you obstruct”
means precisely the same as “are you
for or against us.”
Labor is entitled to full and even
generous recompense. It has been
patient, patriotic and forbearing. But
all working men are not unselfish and
attempting to take advantage of the
necessities of the government to force
even just concessions to labor is quite
as bad as employing the same oppor-
tunities to profiteer in other things.
The government was paying good
wages for ship carpenters and willing
to do better. But the President was
not willing to let a selfish demagogue
use a labor organization to hold up
necessary work in order that he might
exploit his importance before the
world. Mr. Cunningham has learned
a valuable lesson by this incident and
“alit-us hope it will do him good.
There are Roosevelts, Cham-
berlains and Hitchcocks in England
as well as in this country and faith-
ful officials and capable soldiers are
being nagged into impatience on both
sides of the sea.
Centre Countians No Shirkers.
Frank L. Dersham, of Lewisburg,
the income tax man who spent two
weeks and three days at the court
house in Bellefonte, did not complete
his work here on Wednesday as ex-
pected but will be here the first five
days of next week. Before he came
here the internal revenue department
figured that at least fifteen hundred
people in Centre county were subject
to the income tax law.
A “Watchman” representative
asked Mr. Dersham how nearly cor-
rect this estimate was, but he was un-
able to give figures because he was
only here to give information and not
to take in returns, and until the final
returns are made public it will be im-
possible to tell how many people in
Centre county will pay income tax, or
the total amount thereof.
But one thing was evident during
Mr. Dersham’s stay in Bellefonte, and
that is that there are few, if any
shirkers in Centre county so far as
paying income tax is concerned.
Every day that Mr. Dersham was here
he was busy all the time answering
questions and assisting men and wom-
en in making out their returns. Men
would wait hours for a chance to in-
terview him, and some had to make
the second and even the third trip to
the court house before they got a
chance.
This did not include only people
from Bellefonte and other towns in
the county, but throughout the coun-
try at large. In fact, if the exact
truth were known it is quite likely
that a big per cent. of the people were
farmers. One particular case the
writer has in mind is that of a farmer,
well up in years, who came to Belle-
fonte last week with his son to see if
he was liable for income tax. He
owns and farms a small farm and un-
hesitatingly stated that off of their
small farm they were making over a
thousand dollars a year. But as his
wife is living and he is the head of a
family he was told that he was ex-
empt up to two thousand dollars.
“Well,” said the old farmer, “I kind
of thought I was, but not knowing for
sure I came in to find out because in
a time like this I don’t want to shirk
my part in the affair, and I'm a little
too old to go out and fight.”
And it is this spirit of every man
doing his part which will make the
United States the big factor in win-
ning the war and making the world
safe for democracy ever after.
Mr. Will Hays has been elect-
ed chairman of the Republican Na-
tional committee. There’s Will, Wil-
lie, Nil, Nillie and Nit.
BRUARY 22, 1918.
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HOSE-ANNA.
From the Pitchfork.
The new spring hose that Ann has got
Prove her to be a patriot.
Upon each one there is a flag,
Red, white and blue—the latest gag
Of fickle style
And for a mile
Recruiting service she is in,
The flag upon the court house tower
May float unnoticed by the hour;
The solemn solons may be wise
But Ann knows how to advertise.
Is Holland Coming In?
From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
On the eve of the more active re-
sumption of warfare on the western
front, attention is suddenly invited to
Holland by an announcement that the
Dutch merchant marine, or all that is
left of it, has been placed at the dis-
posal of the Entente Allies for trans-
portation, presumably of merchandise,
outside of the danger zones.
This is not a violation of neutrality,
nor would such freight-carrying with-
in the war zones be such violation. As
often pointed out when we were neu-
tral, refusal of such freight would be
violation of neutrality, as it would
deny to those belligerents who had the
mastery of the sea, one of the advan-
tages gained by force of arms; name-
ly the benefit of commerce and of the
receipt of war supplies and muni-
tions.
On the other hand, Holland and the
Scandinavian nations, and even Spain,
have been the victims of constant Ger-
man violations of neutrality by the
sinking of their merchant ships with-
out warning. In mortal terror of the
fate of Belgium Holland has endured
everything to keep out of the war, and
has been so extremely careful to avoid
any offense to Germany that even this
announcement, that the very consid-
erable remnant of her great merchant
fleet will be at the disposal of the En-
tente for carrying trade outside of the
danger zone, is noted as a nervy per-
formance. .
_ Germany has promptly taken no-
tice by a statement from the Berlin
foreign office that the use of these
ships “for Germany’s defeat” is re-
garded with grave concern. And the
warning is added, “We must protect
ourselves, for our national life is at
stake.”
This may threaten more than the
Submarining of the Dutch sh*-3, for
the Dutch evidently hope to keep
them out of the danger zones.. The
incident suggests once more that sud-
den developments bringing little Hol-
land into the war and vitality affect-
ing the whole western front may fol-
low, for the food situation in Holland
is also serious and its supplies can
only be supplemented from over the
seas; while it can bring the seas over
the land to bar invasion and summon
naval help. The Dutch ‘may also find
that their national life is at stake.
Now that Russia has been wrecked,
Holland, rather than Denmark, may
be the pivot of new war developments.
Feel Better, Look Better.
From the New York Tribune.
There is one of the food advertise-
ments that strikes us as a pattern of
eloquence. We gladly take it as a
text, “Eat less, feel better, look bet-
ter,” it runs. Now it is everlastingly
difficult to persuade an American
stomach to understand just how giv-
ing up his pet dish once or twice a
week is going to make or break the
German nation 3,000 miles away.
Food will win the war. But don’t ask
any stomach to believe you. Far bet-
ter approach the eager, yapping
thing with an argument addressed to
its own level of understanding. Talk
to it not of ideals and the civilization
of the world, but get right down to
digestion, blood, adipose tissue, speed,
comfort and the hope of a happy old
age free from pills and pepsin. The
capitalist’s figure is coming out and
the military figure is coming in. The
sooner the stay-at-homes digest this
truth the better. There is no spare
time in which to act. The beauty that
comes from a slender waistline is not
to be won over night, as how many
fox-trotters have learned to their
grief. Eat less, feel better, look bet-
ter. Begin now. You will just about
be able to become a husky, roaring
youth again with the health of a lum-
berjack and the beauty of an Adonis
by the time the peace treaty is signed.
Fooling Themselves Only.
From the Johnstown Leader.
It is not at all remarkable that the
Berlin newspapers crow with great
joy over what they believe is demor-
alization of the American morale by
the Tuscania disaster. “Frightful-
ness” has been greatly relied upon by
Germany, ever since the war began.
Armless Red Cross nurses, babies im-
paled on bayonets, sunken hospital
ships and hundreds of other horrors
are part of the premeditated German
war plans.
It goes to show how little Germany
understands the character of the oth-
er peoples of the earth. She cannot
realize that America is in the war to
put down such things as this Tusca-
nia “frightfulness” and that the more
of such things the stronger America’s
determination to put an end to them.
It will be an enlightened Germany
when her policy of “frightfulness”
comes home to roost.
——When $50,000,000 worth of war
stamps can be sold in a few months,
mainly to children, it means that the
people are behind the government
war policy with all their might.
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Patrons of the R. F. D. route out of
Derry are in danger of not Ifaving any
delivery very soon. At present there are
none after the job although the route pays
over $100 a month.
—Mrs. Mary McClellan, an aged and
highly respected resident of Philipsburg,
on Wednesday of last week delightfully
celebrated her ninety-third birthday an-
niversary, a family dinner being the fea-
ture of the day.
—The long-expected award in the ap-
praisal of the Huntingdon Water compa-
ny's plant for its sale to the borough of
Huntingdon was received last week. The
value of the plant is placed by the ap-
praisers at $157,684.
-—Naz Giamaria, an Italian, was takem
to the Williamsport hospital Friday morn-
ing from Emporium, suffering from a se-
rious stab wound in the lungs, inflicted
by Nick Patalio with a jack knife, when a
quarrel arose during a game of cards.
—Fire destroyed the big dairy barn eof
Herman Brinkman, Latrobe, last Friday,
when four cows and two hogs were burm-
ed to death. Two horses and four cows
were taken out, but one of the horses was
so badly burned that it had to be shot.
—A Canadian slacker, named J. Frank
Leslie, arrested several months ago near
Peale, and since confined to the Clearfield
jail awaiting the action of the immigra-
tion authorities, has been sent back to his
native land to be dealt with by the Cana-
dian authorities.
—Peter Folkody, of Blairsville, aged 30
years, who shot himself through the mouth
last Wednesday after killing Constable
Joseph Artley, of Blairsville, died at the
Indiana hospital on Thursday as a result
of the wound. He was unmarried and had
been employed at the Blairsville coal mines
for several months.
—Frank Dandrea, of Tarentum, is out
of jail under $1,000 bail. He is charged
with selling liquor without a license. Fif-
teen barrels of wine were found in his
cellar, but Frank said they were for ‘“fam-
ily use.” The authorities say that he has
soothed the thirst of many an arid soul
of his immediate family.
—Over two hundred students of Mer-
cersburg Academy, Mercersburg, Pa., were
hurriedly sent away from the school om
Sunday because of an epidemic of scarlet
fever among the students. There are fif-
teen cases at the institution and it is fear-
ed that these boys who have gone to their
homes may spread the infection.
—Three business houses, including the
McMeen department store, one of the larg-
est in the lower Juniata valley, were burn-
ed at Mifflin on Monday with a loss of
probably $100,000, partially covered by im-
surance. The fire started from a defective
flue and swept a block. In addition to the
McMeen store, the hardware establishment
of Guss Bros. and restaurant of Mrs. G.
B. Duncan were destroyed.
—While Albert Bollman, of Eichelber-
gertown, was unloading coal cars at the
Savidge mines near Riddlesburg, on Feb-
ruary 8th, he fell from the car, a distance
of about seven feet, and had his neck brok-
en, dying almost instantly. He was aged
about 29 years and is survived by his wife
and three children. The unfortunate mam
was buried at the Reformed church ceme-
tery in Yellow Creek, Bedford county.
—The sum of $22,500 changed hands
when the property of the Williamsport
Iron and Nail company “¥n the borough of
South Williamsport changed hands re:
cently. The purchase price was made pub-
lic Wednesday when the deed was filed for
record in the register and recorder’s office
at the Lycoming county court house. The
sale was effected January 17th. The pur-
chaser was Ellis Claster, of Lock Haven.
—Mrs. Sophia Smith died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Guyler, at
Duncannon, last Friday, after a short ill-
ness from diseases incident to her age.
Had the deceased lived until March 2nd
she would have rounded out her 100 years.
She was born in Perry county, near where
she died, on March 2nd, 1818, and retained
her faculties until twenty-four hours be-
fore her death. She was able to read and
knit without the aid of glasses all of her
life.
—Ray Meyers, aged 17 years, a son of
Mr. and Mrs. William Meyers, of Clear-
field, was run over by a train of cars im
the N. Y. C. yard at Clearfield on Wednes-
day, the 13th, and instantly killed, his
body being badly mangled. He was em-
ployed in the yard, and when run down
was standing on track No. 1 making notes
of the seals of a train on an adjoining
track. He was a switch tender, but was
temporarily relieving another in looking
after the seals.
—Fleming B. Rich, a Dickinson Semi-
nary student, and son of W. F. Rich, a
wealthy woolen manufacturer, of Wool-
rich, has been sued for damages as the re-
sult of a fatal automobile accident near
Avis last July. Rich was driving a car,
which collided with a machine owned by
William D. Heck, of Jersey Shore, killing
a two-year-old child of Howard R. Drake,
of Renovo. Drake sues for the death of
the child and Heck for damages to the
machine.
— Two men were drowned, a three-spam
steel bridge washed away and many homes
in the lower lands inundated at Tionesta
on Friday, when Tionesta creek, backed
by a jammed ice pack running in the Alle-
gheny river, flooded the towm. The other
bridge was so badly damaged by the flood
waters that it has been closed to all traf-
fie. Walter and Jesse Dawson, brothers,
are the victims of the flood. Their home,
located near the river bank, was complete-
ly covered. A gearching party discovered
the bodies on Friday.
— County Feod Administrator Charles L.
Davidson, of Fayette county, last Friday
reported to State officials of the finding of
3,000 pounds of hoarded flour in 12 resi-
dences at Keister, a mining town near
Uniontown. In one house the raiders
found 900 pounds in sacks between the
outside wall and a false wall. In another
house, 800 pounds were confiscated and in
another 600. The flour in sacks had been
sewed in a mattress in one place while in
another, sacks were placed between the
mattress and the bed springs on unused
beds.
—Captain J. T. Danforth, named to com-
mand the company of reserve militia at
Warren, has placed twenty-six men on du-
ty guarding property, including explo-
sives, endangered by floods at Corydon,
Warren county, although the company has
not beem mustered into State service. The
captain reported having armed and pro-
visioned the men from local stores and
that he had established headquarters in a
school house. He was commended by Ad-
jutant General Beary for his action and
will report to the capitol while the men
are on duty.