Beworrai atc Bellefonte, Pa., July 19, 1918. To Correspondents—Ne communications published unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. mn P. GRAY MEEK, - - Editor. Terms of Subscription.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to sub- scribers at the following rates: Paid strictly in advance - - $1.50 Paid before expiration of year - 1.75 Paid after expiration of year - 2.00 DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For Governor. EUGENE C. BONNIWELL, Philadelphia. For Lieutenant Governor. J. WASHINGTON LOGUE, Philadelphia. Secretary of Internal Affairs. ASHER R. JOHNSON, McKean County. Congress At Large. JOSEPH F. GORMAN, Lehigh County, FRED IKLER, Columbia County, J. CALVIN STRAYER, York County, SAMUEL R. TARNER, Allegheny County. Congress. Wm. E. TOBIAS, Clearfield County. Senator. MATTHEW SAVAGE, Clearfield County. Representative. JOHN NOLL, Bellefonte. BELLEFONTE BORO COUNCIL. Ad Fauble Elected to Fill Place of Dr. Brockerhoff Resigned. At the regular meeting of borough council on Monday evening the resig- nation of Dr. J. M. Brockerhoff, as councilman from the South ward, was accepted and on motion of James D. Seibert Ad Fauble was elected to fill the vacancy until the next general municipal election, which will be in November, 1919. Six members were present at the meeting and the elec- tion of Mr. Fauble was unanimous. Dr. W. K. McKinney appeared be- fore council on behalf of James R. Hughes, who is out of town, and pre- sented a drawing of the proposed memorial gate at the Bishop street entrance of the Academy grounds. The doctor stated that the plans for an archway had been abandoned znd that what Mr. Hughes desired was permission for the erection of two pil- lars, 2x3 feet in size, fifteen feet high. The plans provide for a twenty-five foot roadway between the pillars and there will be room for a sixteen inch gutter between the pillars and curb. Lights will be placed on each pillar. W. G. Runkle was present represent- ing Mrs. Dawson, Miss Snyder and W. R. Brachbill in their protest against the erection of the memorial gate and requested that a notation of their pro- test be entered upon the minutes. The matter was referred to the Street committee, borough solicitor and bor- ough engineer. Mr. Harris, of the Street committee reported the lower- ing of the sewer pipe along the line of south Water and Willowbank streets where the new state road is being built. Mr. Seibert, of the Water commit- tee, reported the water duplicate for 1918 taxes as $8,535.50. The Fire and Police committee pre- sented the burgess’ check for $41.50 for fines and licenses collected. The Special committee reported that the State-Centre Electric company had been notified in writing that the two hydraulic pumps have been putin good condition and are ready for in- spection, and had received in reply a letter stating that there are several thing yet needing fixing before the company will accept the pumps as being all right The matter was re- ferred back to the committee. Regarding the claim for damages of Mrs. Bliss Aikey the street com- mittee and borough solicitor were in- structed to communicate with her at- torney as to the exact date, time and place where the alleged accident oc- curred. The Water committee recommend- ed the exonoration of water taxes on Methodist parsonage for a period of six months during which time the par- sonage was unoccupied and council so ordered. Contractor R. B. Taylor presented an assignment of any money which will fall due him on account of the building of the new state road up to $4,500 to the Bellefonte Trust com- pany, which was accepted by council. The question of south Potter street was referred to the Street committee and borough solicitor to try and work out some solution of the matter. After the approval of the bills coun- cil adjourned. Trapshooter’s Tournaments. The schedule arranged for the Sus- quehanna Trapshooting League tour- naments is as follows: State College, August 15th. Selinsgrove, August 29th. Jersey Shore, September 19th. Milton, October 3rd. Lock Haven, October 12th. The league is composed of the fol- lowing gun clubs: State College, Snow Shoe, Lock Haven, Jersey Shore, Selinsgrove, Sunbury and Milton. The usual league trophies will be contest- ed for at the tournaments. A miner by the name of George Dixon, of Edendale, was found dead in the weeds near the P. R. R. station, Philipsburg, , on Tuesday afternoon. At first it was believed that he had been murdered but a thorough inves- tigation of the case led a coroner’s jury to render a verdict of alchohol- ism. The man had evidently died some time Sunday afternoon or even- ing as he was in Philipsburg that day and that was the last seen of him alive. At a French Port, May 23. Well, here we are safely over. We just came to anchor a few minutes ago and we have no orders when we will get ashore. We will have to have boats take all our men and equipment ashore as there are no docks here. We had an uneventful trip. I was the one who had to come aboard a day in advance of the organization. We had very smooth sailing the first few days then it got awfully rough. We could not sleep one night on account of the rolling of the boat. One minute we would apparently be standing on our feet and the next on our heads. This lasted two days and then it became quite calm. Yesterday it was like a mill pond all day. . We sighted land early this morn- ing and it was indeed welcome. We came over in a large convoy of ships and were well protected all the way. Six of us had the best stateroom on the ship, and we had a pleasant time. We spent most of the day on the up- per deck in the sun and went to bed at sundown. I finished censoring the mail of our outfit yesterday and it was an awful job to read the letters of 179 men, some of them having written three and four. I can’t get away from the idea that we are not still going. I seem to feel the vessel moving all of the time. It is a queer sensation but I know we are anchored. We had very good food all the way over. The vessel surely was packed with soldiers, just like sardines in a box. : Somewhere in France, May 27. My last letter was written on the boat before we landed. They have a beautiful port here. The city has about ninety thousand inhabitants and it is certainly different from any I have ever seen. The buildings are all of stone or concrete. No porches to the houses. Streets are narrow and have little small steel cars on them with a narrow gauge track. Pedes- trians walk out in the streets. Major Bruggeman and I spent our first afternoon in the city, after superin- tending the loading of our baggage on a truck. The camp we are in was one used by Napoleon for his army and is a most interesting place. We are living in tents and are very comfortable. I expect we will be moving on in a day or two. The infantry regiments are Lall to.ge first. On Saturday- Majors Bruggeman, Shipley and myself walked about four miles into the coun- try.and had dinner at a wine shop. We visited a Catholic church that is 302 years old. Our camp is located about three miles from the city, and the country is beautiful. It is seldom you see a woman in the city who is not dressed in mourning. There are also lots of wounded French soldiers, but no Frenchmen of military age at all. Spent four hours today censoring mail. Somewhere in France, June 4. For the past three days we have been on the train and arrived here last night. It sure was a tiresome trip as we traveled on those dinky, little trains with compartments, eight people to a compartment. I slept on the floor. There was no place to wash and all our food was put on before we left, and was all canned stuff. Of course there were no hardships, only inconveniences. The freight cars here are about half as long as ours at home. The enlisted men rode in box cars on benches, forty in a car. There was no place for them to lie down but they came in singing merrily. We will have them fixed up all right by night. 1 suppose you saw in the paper that a submarine got the President Lincoln as it was returning to the United States. It was in our convoy coming over and a fine, big ship. The place we are now in is also very beautiful. We are located in a little basin sur- rounded by low hills. Aeroplanes are quite numerous. Our hospital equip- ment should arrive today and then we will go to it. Every one is in fine spirits. I am writing this in the Y: M. C. A., which one finds everywhere over here. They are very interesting and great conveniences for all. We passed through where we saw both a French and U. S. hospital train taking sick and wounded back to base hospitals. Who should I see this morning but Dr. Will Glenn, of State College. We are only here temporari- ly and will likely move in a month. Sunday, Junc 9. Since I last wrote you we have been on the way again and are now doing actual work. We got in here yester- day after a two day’s ride on the train and we all went to work at once. Some of our officers worked and oper- ated all last night. They have eight operating tables going all the time, both day and night, so you see we are in a very busy sector, with hundreds of wounded and gassed patients going through all the time. I wish I could tell you the number of patients that passed through my hands alone, I know it would startle you. My job is sorting them out—evacuating those who could travel and sending the others to bed or to the operating room, RY INTERESTING LETTERS FROM Dr. DAVID DALE. Messages to Various Friends Tell of His Work and Condi- tions in War-Stricken France. Tells in Glowing Terms of Great Courage and Wonderful Morale of U. S. Troops. The hospital is located in a French college in a small town, but we are not far from a very large city. We can hear the guns and there are loads of aeroplanes above us all the time. They are humming all around as I sit here writing. Our officers are in a chateau about half a mile from the hospital, a beautiful house aud very large grounds with a deer park. I don’t think the grass has been cut for several years, and probably no cre has lived in the house in all that time. The caretaker’s family, though, is still living in the gate house. This morning we got our first mail since leaving the States. Our soldiers sure are making good and their spirit is wonderful. Th2 wounded boys come in with never a ccniplaint and all anxious to get back to the front. One boy said to me yesterday: “Major, you ought to go on up to the front and see our boys go at them. It is the greatest sport in the world.” I saw hundreds of them and it sure does one good to hear them tell how they went through the German lines. I haven’t seen Bertha Laurie anc if I do it will only be by chance. Am going to drop her a line. Must have passed through where Bud Morris is, as we went through the U. S. aero- plane camps and saw hundreds of them up in the air, but we didn’t stop long enough to go and see them. Have met a lot of officers I know. Before we came here we were about a two and a half hour’s walk from where Jean d’Arc was born. There is where I saw Dr. Glenn. While there I met several officers I knew who are with the John’s Hopkins base hospital No. 18. It certainly is wonderful over here in this work. I wouldn’t miss it for anything. We will be here only a few days then go on and put up our own evacuation hospital near the front. That will be livelier than this. We have heard the big guns going all day today. I am writing this letter sitting under a tree. We haven’t had a day’s rain since we landed in France but it looks now as if it might rain soon. The other day I saw Bob Culler, whom I haven’t seen since I left Gettysburg. He is a lieutenant colonel in the regular ar- my, medical department. I am feel- ing fine and am glad to be here where I can help. We were sent here tc help out at this hospital which has been swamped with work, but it has quiet- ed down some today. Our boys'made a drive early yesterday and gained all their objectives, but we really don’t know as much of what is going on as you do at home. Only occasionally we see the papers and they don’t give much. Just as I left the hospital to come up here I met five ambulances going in with wounded from the front. Some of the slightly wounded are dead tired. They go to sleep about a second after they lie down. We give them hot coffee and something to eat then they go to sleep and sleep until we waken them to send them back to the base. Give my regards to all my friends. Somewhere in France, June 17. I am stealing a minute this morn- ing to write to you. We evacuated a lot yesterday, and then there were a lot of gas cases received. I have charge of the gas cases, shell shock, sick, inoperable chest and abdominal cases, and then the surgeons are al- ways calling me to see cases which they have operated upon and who have some bronchial or other trouble. The gas cases are the most inhuman results of warfare. Our soldiers have made good in this sector, particularly the marines. During the past few days I have seen Fred Yeager, who was in Troop L. He is now a second lieutenant in the infantry and his battalion is bil- leted here in this village, held in re- serve. He invited me over to his of- ficer’s mess for dinner yesterday and I went. I also saw Lieut. Claude Smith. Lieut. Dick Taylor is near here and I will likely see him. I also saw Dr. Huff's friend, Lieut. Col. Crookston. I meet lots of doctors over here I know. I still have the censoring to do for our outfit and some of the wounded men have written home and I have had their letters to read. They cer- tainly are a brave lot of boys and one can’t help but be proud of them. They are so cheerful and never complain, All they want is to get back at them. I am sure tired when night comes but I think we are going to have lighter work as several more hospitals have been established nearer the line. Am iceling fine, however, and in the morn- ing am rested up very well. Night before last there was an air raid and the anti aircraft guns here opened up. Somewhere in France, June 19. Am enclosing a clipping from the Paris edition of the New York Herald which tells about the hospital we are in. It has quieted down a little so far as admitting cases is concerned, but I am still busy as ever with gas and medical cases. I saw Dick Taylor yesterday. He is first lieutenant in the 110th infantry and is in command of his company. They are located near here. He gave me a Gazette of May 10th with Bud Morris’ picture in it. I also saw young Lingle, of Phil- ipsburg, who is a sergeant in one of the companies located near here. There is nothing much doing up at the front in this sector now. It is raining this morning and real cool. I am stll wearing my winter underwear and it has not been warm enough so far to make them uncom- fortable. I am going into gay— some of these days to go through the hospitals. Want to see how they do things there. We got our motor transportation the other day which consists of a Dodge touring car, mo- torcycle with side car and three trucks. Our work here is very interesting and these soldiers are without doubt a fine lot of boys. One can’t help but admire them. The entire Pennsylva- nia National Guard (that was) is near us in reserve, and will likely get in it one of these days. I hope they make as good as the marines. Am feeling fine and sleep and eat well. Somewhere in France, June 22. This letter will have to do for all you folks at home, as I haven’t time to write to each one individually. This afternoon is the first time since we landed at this hospital that I have taken any time off and I came here to the chateau at two o’clock and went to sleep and slept until nearly five. Got up early this morning as we had an evacuation of patients by hospital train and I had to go over all those in my wards before they were loaded. Sent out most of my gassed patients. We are now pretty well thinned out and if activities don’t start on this sector we may have a rest. The or- ganizations that I told you about be- ing billeted here are leaving tomor- row morning, but I don’t know if they are going up into the line or not. They all seem anxious to get into the fight. The gassed cases to my mind are the worst forms of warfare, and I just hope times more of it than our men get. There is a band concert going on now over at the hospital. This will be the farewell one from this regi- ment, and we will miss it, for it is a fine band. I understand it is compos- ed largely of the Greensburg orches- tra. Last week some of us went down to the base hospital through which our cases were evacuated to learn about their condition, etc., when they arriv- ed. IfIhad had time I would have looked up Bertha at the addess you gave me but I feel she is not there, but perhaps some one could have told me where she is located. If I get in again I will go there. This is a nice, clear night and I suppose the boches will put on an air raid for our amusement about mid- night. I just saw two squadrons of French machines going up toward the front. We have a small American cemetery just alongside of the French one where we bury our dead. The other day one of the boys, I think his name was Dennis, was looking over the names posted on the crosses and there he found his brother’s name. He had died here in our hospital. This boy” knew his brother was in one of the regiments that was up on the line, but it was a queer coincidence that he should find his grave. The postal service is very slow over here, as I haven't gotten any mail since the first batch. I suppose it will all come at once. We have a fairly good mess. We are issued the French black bread and I really like it quite well. We get beef, some potatoes and the rest is mostly canned stuff. Every- thing is very high over here as you can see from the enclosed bill of my wash woman. They do the mending, too. Major Bruggeman and I are work- ing together. I think we will get a room near the hospital tomorrow, which will be more convenient, in that it will be closer and they can get us easier at night. 1 am anxious to get some mail and find out how you all are. It looks as if it will be a long time before this war is over, and there is no doubt in my mind but that Germany would have won had we not gone into it. As it is it will be a big task before we can get an army big enough over here to do the trick. I hope they hur- ry up in the U. S. and realize what a tremendous job it is. If we only had five million men on this front we could beat them to pieces. Our sol- diers have surely done wonders. They are some fighters and won’t run away. Their spirit is so wonderful, and the wounded boys are anxious to get back at the boches again. Give all my friends my regards and with love to you all, good night. DAVID DALE. Wagon Mine Operators and Local Consumers. In answer to numerous inquiries and complaints I desire to notify wag- on mine operators and the public in general as follows: First. Wagon mines must deliver their coal first to domestic consum- ers. Any wagon mine operators neg- lecting or delaying domestic orders for the purpose of leading box cars will be deprived of box cars. Second. Wagon mines must load clean coal. Operators loading dirty coal will be fined 50c. per ton. Third. The price of coal at the mines is $3.05 per ton. When sold by the bushel, the price must be the strict equivalent of $3.05 per ton. To this may be added a reasonable charge for delivery which will be fixed by the fu- el committee in case of an excessive charge. Complaints of violations of above rules should be made to the under- signed. : HARRY KELLER, Chairman Centre County Fuel Com. we give them a million i HOW THE WAR IS VIEWED IN FRANCE. Another Very Interesting Letter from Basil J. F. Mott. Decisive Issue Expected Soon. Somewhere in France, June 12. Dear Mother: — On June 2nd three letters reached me, yours and one each from Ray and Mary. They were the first and words cannot express the joy I experienced when they arrived or the happiness I have gained by reading them at least a hundred times. As yet we are not allowed to dis- cuss the progress of the troops or send i picture post cards, but permission has been granted us to mention our loca- tion. We are attached to camp hos- pital No. 26 at St. Aignan, Noyers, Loier et Cher. St. Aignan is just across the river and can be found on the average map, about 25 miles di- | rectly south of Bois in Loier et Cher. Howard Rowland favored me with a surprise visit recently. I found him in the laboratory wher I returned from mess, and you can imagine how glad and astonished I was, because it was the first I had seen or heard of him since March. He was at the front, having been one of the men se- lected to take fresh troops up. He had an opportunity to see much of inter- est and on the return trip was allow- ed to visit Paris. The Germans are making another drive but in spite of their formidable preparations and lavish use of poison gas shells are being held with mag- nificent firmness and heroism. The little ground they have won in these offensives has been at an exorbitant price in lives. They have failed in their efforts to disrupt the allied forces and succeeded only in sacrific- ing thousands of men without the compensating success. . The concensus of opinion over here is that the issue is not far off because Germany has failed in her greatest effort and the allied forces are becom- ing stronger every day, due to the constant and increasing influx of our troops. The American boys are well trained and anxious to get into the fray, differing from the French and English in that they are not content to hold the enemy in check but want to become aggressive and go after them; and they do so whenever permitted, as you must know, because their deeds of valor have been exploited by the French and undoubtédly have reach- ed the home papers. The hospital here is being enlarged and generally improved. An electric lighting system has been installed and shower baths were here when I arrived. The French get their water from wells, and there were no water pipes around this section when we ar- rived. Recently the engineers drilled a deep well in the hospital grounds and installed a pumping system to convey the water to a number of large tanks which serve as reservoirs, with pipes leading to each building. The patients are given all the com- fort that can be desired and everybody is well clothed and nourished. The food is better here than at any camp I have been at. Lieut. Bean, our com- manding officer, gave me his cot, which he had mo use for at present, so I am very comfortable at night. We are still billeted in French homes, al- though there is some talk of erecting barracks for the hospital personnel, which will of course include us. I don’t care, however, because we can- not expect to be any more comforta- ble than we are at present. By the way, send me some of the weekly papers and write often. You cannot imagine how eagerly I watch for the post. Remember me to all my Friends. Your loving son, BASIL. of War Centre County’s Purchase Savings Stamps. The report for the week ending Ju- ly 6th showed that Centre county's per capita purchase of war savings stamps that week was $1.21, making the total per capita to that date $9.62, or a total of cash purchases of $421, 452.20, whch puts Centre county in the fourth place in the eastern district of Pennsylvania. Edward C. Bendere, who is assist- ant to chairman Cassatt, while in Bellefonte last week figured up Cen- tre county’s cash sales and pledges and combined they total $1,020,000. Inasmuch as Centre county’s quota is $876,200, it can readily be seen that if all the pledges are met, and the chances are they will be exceeded, Centre county will go away over the top in the purchase of war savings stamps as it has done in every other war movement. — A ee —— John Speece Sentenced to Jail. John Speece, of Coleville, the young man arrested by the state police sev- eral weeks ago on the charge of sell- ing whiskey on Sunday, plead guilty to the charge at a brief session of court yesterday, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $500, costs of prosecu- tion and serve six months in the coun- ty jail. Charles M. Colyer, charged with jumping a board bill of $31.00, was given a suspended sentence on condi- tion that he pay the bill and costs, now amounting to about $76.00, with- in three months. —— Stephen Fiflick, the Austrian who shot Stanley Petroveski, a Po- lander, at a christening at Mulligan hollow in Rush township om Sunday, July 7th, is now in the Centre county jail, having been held without bail on the charge of felonious assault, and if his victim dies, will be held for ‘murder. AHH 1 Essential Work or Fight—The Duty of Everyone. The Pennsylvania Council of Na- { tional Defense and Committe of Pub- {lic Safety has just issued a call to all of the county units and to every citi- | zen of Centre county to co-operate !with the draft board of Centre county | to the end that Provost Marshal Gen- {eral Crowder’s ruling on the work or | fight regulation be strictly enforced. According to the instructions re- ceived at the office of the Centre coun- ity committee of the Council of Na- i tional Defense and Committee of Pub- lic Safety no men of draft age—that is, between 21 and 31 years old, dare be employed in any of the following occupations, as they are listed as non- productive employments: (a) Persons engaged in the serv- ing of food and drink, or either, in public places, including hotels and so- cial clubs; (b) Passenger-elevator operators {and attendants; and door men, foot- ! men, carriage openers and other at- | tendants in clubs, hotels, stores, apart- {ment houses, office buildings, and | bathhouses; : (¢) Persons, including ushers and | other attendants, engaged and occu- | pied in and in connection with games, | sports, and amusements, excepting actual performers in legitimate con- certs, operas, or theatrical perform- | ances; | @ Persons employed in domestic | service; (e) Sales clerks and other clerks ‘employed in stores and other mercan- tile establishments. | Every citizen of Centre county is | therefor called upon to promptly re- | port either to the local draft board or {to this office the name of any person | of draft age who is working in any of ithe above capacities in Centre county. {Upon investigation it may be found {that such persons, while of draft age are physically unfit for military or {any productive service. In such case ithe draft board will probably grant exemption. This order is effective July 1st and all men of draft age are directed to at once seek employment in what are regarded as productive lines of em- ployment. ’ GEORGE R. MEEK, Secretary. Penna Council of National Defense and Committee of Public Safety. William Hall, Escaped Convict, Cap- tured in Altoona. William Hall, the Blair county con- vict, who escaped from the Rockview penitentiary on June 9th, shot at guard Harry Whiteman on the morn- ing of June 17th, when the latter cap- tured him down at the Red Roost, and up in Altoona on June 24th when he shot police sergeant Frank McPher- son when the latter attempted to pick him up, was finally captured in Al- toona last Friday night and is now boning the bars in the Blair county jail. The penitentiary authorities were promptly notified of Hall’s capture and two guards went to Altoona on Saturday to bring him to Bellefonte, but as the authorities there had sev- eral charges against him the peniten- tiary officials wiaved their claim and will allow the man to stand trial be- fore the Blair county courts. The charges against him there are carry- ing concealed deadly weapons, felo- nious shooting with intent to kill, breaking, entering and robbing. That Hall will be convicted at the next term of Blair county court is practically a foregone conclusion, and will most likely get another sentence to the pen- itentiary. If he lives to serve out any new sentence that may be given him he can then be held by the ‘penitentia- ry officials on the old sentence and es- caping jail, so his prospect for a spell of freedom is not very bright. ve — — Hotel proprietors, boarding house keepers, grocers and others in Centre county who failed to make their report and secure sugar cards from the office of the federal food ad- ministration, Centre county Branch, will now find it impossible to buy su- gar in quantity. The fault lies en- tirely with themselves as ample time and ample notice has been given the public through circulars and the news- papers. Our people must remember that they are to rely on the orders as to food, fuel, etc., as published in the newspapers, as the government has no other way of disseminating its rul- ings. And to that end we would ad- vise all to read the newspapers more carefully than ever and not to pass up any government ruling without as- surance that its requirements do not apply to your case. A commission in lunacy having declared Fred Commons, an Italian, of unsound mind he was taken to the Danville asylum on Tuesday by Coun- ty Commissioner W. H. Noll, commis- sioner’s clerk H. N. Meyer, Mrs. Ed- ward Kane, keeper of the borough home, and Mr. and Mrs. John Noll, in Mr. Noll’s car. On the 26th of April, 1900, Mr. Commons was hurt on the head by a premature blast in one of the quarries of the American Lime & Stone company and has been a public charge ever since. He had been an in- mate of the borough home a number of years and lately has had irrational spells so that it was deemed best to send him to Danville. roe The condition of Jack Mont- gomery, who has never recovered from the attack of rheumatism which necessitated his being brought home from Culver, Indiana, two months ago, has become serious, owing to compli- : cations. Jack’s illness originated in a severe spell of tonsilitis while at school. again made his escape, only to turn : od A «Sh
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