Pema ican
BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
—Everywhere in Centre county
goes up the cry that early potatoes
are small and few in a hill.
—Just to prove to you that fall is
coming faster than you think we re-
mind you that the Granger picnic will
be held next month and the schools
will re-open.
—Those scientists who keep insist-
ing that the earth is gradually cool-
ing off have probably been trying to
cool off themselves during the most
of this week.
—Maybe you think it was hot on
Wednesday. It was, but it wasn’t a
circumstance to the way the Hon.
John Noll is going to make it hot for
Harvey in November.
—Nothing would revive the droop-
ing spirit of Germany like the an-
nouncement that the United States
has selected a Congress not in sympa-
thy with President Wilson.
—The daily casualty lists are draw-
ing nearer and nearer to Centre coun-
ty. Surely we have been fortunate
thus far but shocks are certain to
come and we might as well steel our-
selves for them now.
—One of our boys of Glencoe, Pa.,
rendered eighteen Huns “hors du com-
bat” within thirty-six hours. If every
one of Uncle Sam’s khaki clad lads
were to have the same chance Germa-
ny would not have an effective fight-
ing man.
— When the sun gets so hot right
here in Bellefonte that it forces the
mercury to knock the top out of the
thermometers we temporarily aban-
don our hobby of talking about what
a lovely, cool town we have in sum-
mer time.
—Have you noticed that flies are
not nearly as numerous as they have
been in August of past years. Can
it be that swatting campaigns are be-
ginning to show results or has the
poor little musca domestica suffered
some kind of a blight this year.
— Under orders from fuel adminis-
trator Keller electric signs and store
window lights in Bellefonte are all
out of business on certain nights in
the week. While we never had many
of them it is surprising how noticea-
ble the change wrought by their ab-
sence is to the night pedestrian.
—Begin to arrange your invest-
ments now so that when the fourth
Liberty Loan is offered you will be
able to take your share of bonds with-
out inconvenience and without requir-
ing some one of the workers to spend
hours arguing you into a realization
of the fact that it is not only a duty,
but a good investment.
—The property owners of Nittany
valley are facing a loss in values,
through the threatened dissolution of
the Central Railroad of Pennsylvania,
that we fear many of them fail to
comprehend. We have heard men
prominent in finance in Bellefonte de-
clare that it will take ten dollars off
the value of every acre of farm land
in the valley and we are inclined to
believe that such an estimate of de-
preciation is too low.
— General Foch is apparently an
advocate of the “watchful waiting”
policy. Having forced the Huns to
cross the Vesle he seems in no haste
to press them further through fron-
tal attacks, apparently for the reason
that it would entail needless casual-
ties and lay his armies open to the
danger of driving into a Hindenburg
trap. The time has not come for the
grand allied offensive and until it does
our supreme commander is not going
to risk the loss of any men or guns.
— Federal fuel administrator, Dr.
Garfield, is going after coal operators
who are offering bonuses to attract
men from other mines to their own.
He has the reason very clearly doped
out when he states that the operator
who is offering bonuses is certainly
getting more for his coal than he has
any right to charge and as this is a
clear violation of the law he is going
after them. From what we have been
able to learn about such practices Dr.
Garfield will find a good field for in-
vestigation if he turns his sleuths
loose in tr= Philipsburg and Osceola
regions.
—How do you like the paper the
“Watchman” is printed on today?
Pretty fine, isn’t it for a country or
any other kind of a newspaper. In
truth you can’t find another newspa-
per in the United States that shows
anything like the quality that the pa-
per you have in your hands now
shows. It cost a pile of money and
we would like you, therefor, to cast
your eye on the label on this same
page and see if the date on it looks
as good as the paper. If it doesn’t,
send us a check. It will make us very
happy and make you feel like you
owned some of this very excellent
newspaper.
—We understand that some of the
ladies on east High street became
very much excited on Wednesday
afternoon, when the fish on the court
house tower turned its nose around to
the north. Many and insistent were
the predictions that it meant cooler
weather and these right in the face of
the announcement from the weather
bureau to the effect that no relief
from the hot wave was in sight. The
cooler weather came with sunset and
we are ready to join the faith of the
east High street lady who apparently
has reason to believe that the court
house fish can see things that the
weather man can’t.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 63.
President’ Wilson May Answer.
President Wilson may be prevailed
upon to make answer to the nagging
politicians who are striving to change
the complexion of Congress in order
to reverse the war policies which have
been so eminently successful thus far.
His friends are urging him to take
the people into his confidence as he
did on other occasions and give his
side of the subject for popular con-
sideration. So long as the nagging
was limited to a few blatherskites
like Roosevelt and Chairman Hays, of
the Republican National committee,
reply was hardly worth while. But
when such men as former President
Taft are dragooned into the sinister
service, sensible men are inclined to
take notice.
One of the principal sources of
complaint against the war policies of
the administration was the failure to
send General Leonard Wood to France.
If General Pershing, the commanding
officer of our forces in France had
been incapable or inefficient, there
might be some reason in this demand
to send Wood abroad. But Wood is
the ranking officer in our army and if
he had been sent to France would
have automatically become the com-
mander, thus superceding Pershing.
No intelligent man in this country or
elsewhere believes that such a change
would have improved the service or
pleased our troops in the trenches.
But the carping critics who are una-
ble to see beyond the points of their
noses never considered this important
phase of the matter.
The other causes of complaint
against the administration are equal-
ly puerile and their purposes quite
as unpatriotic. No President could
have accomplished more in creating an
army and transporting it across the
ocean. No living man could have
achieved more in mobilizing the re-
sources of the country and adapting
them to military uses. Then why
should there be a reversal of these
policies? All our allies are satisfied
with the existing conditions. All our
troops on the firing line are confident
and cgntented. Not a living soul oth-
er than the scurvy politicians at home
and the “High Command” in the ar-
my of our enemies abroad are oppos-
ed to the policies’ of the President as
expressed in the conduct of the war.
“There can be no doubt,” writes the
Washington correspondent of one of
our esteemed metropolitan contempor-
aries, “that a Republican victory in
the Congressional elections would puz-
zle and discourage the British,
French, Italian and other Allied gov-
ernments and would be hailed joyful-
ly in Germany as proof that the Amer-
ican people, dissatisfied with the pro-
gress, were endeavoring to overthrow
the government charged with the con-
duct of the fight.” Are the patriotic
people of Pennsylvania willing to con-
tribute to this fund of comfort to our
ruthless enemy? If not they will re-
sent this partisan appeal as an insult
to patriotism and an offence against
justice.
What Became of the Trout?
Early last week, or only two days
before the close of the trout fishing
season, there were at least several
hundred fine trout in Spring creek
between the bridge and the falls, and
they were one of the biggest attrac-
tions in the town for strangers. Two
days after the season closed there
were less than a dozen trout in the
deep pool at the foot of the falls, and
not over fifty between the bridge and
the falls. The question is, what be-
came of the trout?
It has been the general belief all
summer that some person or persons
were catching the fish out of this por-
tion of Spring creek illegally, but
aside from the three Philipsburgers
arrested before they had even caught
a fish, the local officers have failed to
catch anyone in the act. And yet on
at least one occasion two men were
seen fishing in the creek in the early
morning hours, but the man who saw
them was unable to recognize them.
Any man or set of men who so de-
liberately violates the laws are a dis-
grace to any community and special
efforts should be put forth by the
proper officers of the law to bring
them to judgment.
— Denny O’Neil declines the
Roosevelt Progressive nomination for
Governor thus proving that he, like
Roosevelt, was using Progressiveism
as an instrument for personal ag-
grandizement.
——Our Republican friends will
have a hard time convincing the hor-
ney-handed sons of toil that taxing
luxuries is an unjust form of raising
revenue to win the war.
——If the Kaiser were less stupid
he would have discovered by this time
that cruelty has no more chance to
win a war than it has to enlist popu-
lar admiration.
——XKing Ferdinand, of Bulgaria,
is missing and his present where-
abouts is a royal mystery. He is
probably hiding from the wrath to
come.
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Plans of Republican Leaders.
Senator Sproul formally opened his
campaign for Governor of Pennsylva-
nia at Lancaster on Monday, accord-
ing to political gossip. He made a
speech the feature of which was an
eulogy to Congressman Griest and a
pretense of support of the war work.
“We are not going to raise any par-
tisan questions,” he declared, “but we
are going to prepare for the days
after the war, when the bills have to
be paid.” In other words the present
object of the Republican machine is
to hold itself in shape for participa-
tion in the distribution of the spoils
of war after the victory has been won.
The Republican managers are experts
in such work.
But Senator Beidleman, Mr.
Sproul’s associate on the ticket, was
more candid. He “threw a harpoon
into the President,” to employ a cur-
rent colloquialism and “denounced a
one-man war,” with much vehemence.
“If the nation had opened war against
Germany when the Lusitania was
sunk,” he said, “Russia would have
been saved and the war would be over
now.” He failed to explain how or
why a premature declaration of war
would have achieved such results or
why the vast majority of the Repub-
lican leaders advised the contrary |
course. But he revealed the actual
purpose of the Republican machine
which is to reverse the war policies
of the government and prolong the
war indefinitely.
Taken together these opening ut-
terances of the Republican candidates
reveal the plan of campaign of the
Republican machine. Sproul is to pose
as the conservative and loyal states-
man while Beidleman will take care
of the political end. During the pri-
mary campaign the head of the tick-
et played to the Prohibition gallery
while the tail wiggled to the whiskey
trust and now they hope to play both
ends against the middle by a scheme
of false pretense equally transparent.
Meantime the real purpose of both
candidates and their managers is to
“cop” the spoils of war and fatten
upon the misfortunes of the country.
The plan shows scant respect for pop-
ular intelligence.
——About the time the first launch-
ing was in progress at Hog Island the |
henious Huns were sinking a hospital |
ship carrying a precious burden of |
wounded soldiers to safety in Eng- |
land. But the Hog Island incident !
was the more significant. It was a!
mark of the beginning of the end of ;
Hun atrocities.
“Hampy” Moore Complains. i
Congressman “Hampy” Moore, of |
Philadelphia, still clings tenaciously |
and somewhat hysterically to the ob-
solete issue of sectionalism. He is!
bitterly opposed to the pending reve- |
nue bill. The revenue it proposes to
provide is essential to the prosecu-
tion of the war but “Hampy” is dead :
against it nevertheless because New |
York will be obliged to pay more tax- !
es than Alabama and Pennsylvania !
will bear a heavier burden than Ar- |
kansas. These big Northern centres ;
of wealth are more able to pay the!
assessment which will be levied upon |
them than the smaller and poorer
Southern communities, but that is no
excuse in the opinion of ‘“Hampy.”
He wants to wave the “bloody shirt”
awhile.
The pending revenue measure is
incomplete but the aim of those who
are preparing it is to make a model
piece of legislation. President Wil-
son has expressed the hope that a
large part of the levy will be on war
profits, excessive incomes and luxu-
ries. Now there are very few war
industries in Alabama and Arkansas
and correspondingly meager war prof-
its and an income of a couple of thou-
sand dollars a year in those States
puts a man in the ranks of the plu-
tocrats. In New York, Pennsylvania
and some other Northern States war
profits run into hundreds of millions
and necessarily a tax of such subjects
hits more people in rich sectiones
than in those less favored by fortune.
“Hampy”’ must have some cause of
complaint, however, against anything
suggested by a Democratic President
and proposed by a Democratic major-
ity in Congress. He is one of those
politicians who has been “nagging”
the administration ever since the be-
ginning of the war and insisting that
only Republicans of the Philadelphia |
type are fit to administer government.
His model is Mayor Smith, no doubt,
whose capacity for administration is
being exhibited in the Chester county
courts at this time, and is revealed
more fully in the action of the Federal
authorities in taking charge of the
police force of Philadelphia in order
to avert anarchy.
——If you really want to support
the President you will vote the Demo-
cratic ticket this fall. Every vote cast
for a Republican candidate is a punch
at the war policies of the administra-
tion.
——Whenever a profiteer is hit
some Republican statesman feels that
a client has been injured.
thim. That was
BELLEFONTE, PA,, AUGUST 9, 1918.
— No.3L
Russia Rescued from Evil Powers.
The most important incident of the
week in relation to the war is the an-
nouncement, made on Sunday, of an
agreement among the Allies, for the
help of Russia. The plan as announc-
ed by President Wilson is for the
United States and Japan to send
troops into Siberia with the purpose
of helping the Czecho-Slovaks to res-
cue Russia from the elements which
have combined to surrender that vast
empire to Germany. It is none the
less gratifying that this is the plan
of President Wilson to accomplish a
potential result. The Philadelphia
Ledger, not too friendly toward the ad- |
ministration, says that the President
“has stood as steady as a rock for his
fair, friendly policy of the open hand |
of help.” i
The attitude of Russia has been a!
menace ever since the Bolsheviki con- |
trol. Trotsky. and Lenine, plainly |
under the malign influence of the Ger- |
man government, were gradually sur- |
rendering to the autocratic power |
everything in Russia that was of mil- |
itary or strategic value. The war-
ships and merchant marine of Russia |
were passing without protest into |
the hands and under the control of |
Germany to be used against the Allies |
and the products of the soil in so far
as it was available was being shifted
in the same direction. But this trend
of evil will probably be diverted now
that the allies have accepted Presi-
dent Wilson’s plan, not of military in-
tervention, but of beneficent helpful-
ness of stricken and prostrate Rus-
sia.
Even if Russia had been prostituted
into an agency for aiding autocracy
through the recreancy of the Bolshe-
viki the cause of democracy would
have triumphed ultimately. But the
victory would have been postponed
probably for years and the costly and
cruel war continued indefinitely. Now
that a plan of friendly intervention,
not military but moral, has been ac-
cepted by the allies and will be put
into practice by the joint action of
the United States and Japan, the men-
ace of Russian hostility is practically
removed and the German hope of sup-
plies and man power from Russia dis-
sipated. It is a great moral as well
| as material victory and the honor is
to our great President.
The casualty list from the
French front is increasing in length
but the heroes who compose it from
day to day, are “paying the last trib-
ute of devotion” in a just cause.
Roosevelt Scores at Last.
That pestiferous ward-whanger of
Oyster Bay, Theodore Roosevelt, has
at last framed an indictment against
| Woodrow Wilson which demands at-
tention. Our government has done
something to Haiti and San Domingo
which must have been awful. We
don’t know what it was and the Col-
onel leaves it to conjecture. But it
estops us to protest against the
crimes of Germany. We can’t go “in-
to court with clean hands,” the Col-
onel protests, on account of this atro-
cious thing. He admits that it is im-
possible for him to say “whether our
action in these two cases has been
right or wrong.” But he knows there
“was no possible excuse for such se-
cret diplomacy in these cases.”
As nearly as we can ascertain the
facts the government of the Untied
States admonished these warring Re-
publics against some contemplated
immoralities. = Mr. Roosevelt had
himself set the precedent for this ac-
tion but in a more bombastic and fu-
rious way. He waved “the big stick”
over the heads of all the weak coun-
tries in the Western hemisphere and
in the Panama case secretly organized
a revolution against one of the friend-
ly and feeble Republics and supported
it with warships and bayonets. But
he declares that it was in the open.
In fact he stated to a Congressional
committee of investigation afterward
that “he seized the canal zone and let
Congress talk about it” after the
event.
The truth is that President Wilson
can’t please Colonel Roosevetl, try
as he may. The Colonel had set his
heart on an ambition to smash the tra-
dition set by Washington and concur-
red in by all his successors in the
| Presidential office and Woodrow Wil-
son’s election in 1912 disappointed |
“the unpardonable
crime” which cannot be condoned and |
never will be forgiven. Because of |
it Roosevelt will continue to utter
anathemas and emit seditious ecriti-
cism of the administration as long as
it exists. Wilson wasn’t to blame, of
course, for the incident. It was the
people who elected him because they
had better sense than to elect Roose-
velt to a third term. But Roosevelt
blames Wilson.
——The rain storm on Sunday
night did more general damage to the
roads in Centre county than any oth-
er one we have had this season. The
western end of Ferguson township
was practically the only section of the
county to escape costly washouts.
—Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
To “Der Tag.”
A. Scott Harris in the Pittsburgh Gazette
Times.
When the last gun shall have boom-
ed; when the winding trenches that
scar the devastated fields of France
and Flanders are silent and deserted;
when at last Germany with her law
of force, her doctrine of might has
been brought to her knees by a force
more righteous and a might more
compelling; when Belgium and
France, Roumania, Serbia, England,
America and Italy shall demand res-
titution for all the wanton destruc-
tion which they have bornc; when
these nations shall demand punish-
; ment of those responsible for crimes
against their peoples, crimes whose
enormity of brutality and lust pre-
cludes all thought of adequate pun-
ishment; when this day comes, how
shall it be with Germany?
When Belgium points to Louvain
to Albert, to Bruges, to all her peace-
ful hamlets now blackened ruins,
think you she will accept the answer,
“Military Necessity ?”” These inhuman
brutes may be able to justify them-
selves and their actions to the Ger-
man people whose thoughts they di-
rect and whose morals they dictate
with such an answer, but no, it will
not be accepted by the Belgian peo-
ple! They will demand a very real
punishment for a very real crime.
“Military necessity” will not be con-
sidered as justification by France
when she asks why the priceless gem
of Rheims, her beautiful cathedral,
was day after day wantonly bat-
| tered down, nor will she be placated
iby this answer when she asks why
“her non-combatant citizens were lined
Lup and shot without trial and without
mercy. Oh no, “military necessity”
will not be accepted as a valid ex-
cuse for the unbridled lust of the
German soldiery, the scars of whose
crimes not even death can heal,
neither will she be content with this
answer when she asks why her fields
were devastated with a thoroughness
so fiendish that even the wells were
polluted and the fruit trees hacked
down. France has a name for all
these crimes. It is not the name that
Germany gives them nor will any
reasoning of Germany alter her deter-
mination that the real culprits shall
receive real punishment.
It was “military necessity” given
as the reason by Von Bissing for the
murder of Edith Cavell. Take
her cell Lo ed
nied call. the petore.
own race and faith, this heroic wom-
an whose only offense was that she
had aided some of her refugee coun-
trymen to escape into a neutral coun-
try, this gentle nurse, who wore on
her arm the red cross of service to
friend and foe alike, faced the firing
squad and met death unflinchingly.
Does Germany think that England
can be England and allow that crime
to go unpunished? Does she think
that “military necessity” can again
palliate this black act of murder?
For the thousands of her women and
‘children murdered by air raids in de-
! fenceless towns, for the drowning of
her non-combatant seamen is she
blind enough to think that England
will not be avenged of ?
Was it “military necessity” that
drew together a band of murderous
plotters in a country with which Ger-
many was at peace and influenced
them to plan in cold blood the de-
struction of a passenger boat leaving
a port of that country and carrying
as passenges 110 of its citizens, many
of them women and children? Was
it to emphasize and glorify this deed
of “spurlos versenk” that the German
Kaiser personally decorated this
German murderer? Was it because
they rejoiced over the murder of their
fellow-countrymen that German-
Americans sent this same murderer
loving cups and other tokens of un-
bounded admiration? Was it “mili-
tary necessity” that influenced and di-
rected the mind of Zimmerman when
he plotted to hand over the land and
people of a white race with whom
Germany was at peace to a mongrel
race of Mexicans and an alien race of
Japs? Can any law of necessity, mil-
itary or otherwise, reconcile one to
so monstrous and hellish an intention
such as this hatched in the German
brain of Zimmerman? Is the Ger-
man intellect so dulled and the mind
so perverted that it can think that
America will overlook so deadly a
wrong as that?
When peace comes, when civiliza-
tion conquers, then let Germany face
the firing squad. Let those suffer in-
dividually where they are individually
responsible for crime. That this shall
be is the fixed, unalterable purpose
of France; and France has suffered
long and much. It is the determina-
tion that has been slowly but surely
crystallizing in the minds of all the
peoples who have suffered so much
from the brutal savagery of Germany.
Against this determination
sinister plea of “military necessity”
will avail them not at all. At the bar
before which they shall be summoned
right shall be might, and Justice,
stern and unyielding, shall brush
aside their specious plea and bid them
stand up and receive sentence.
Suggestions for a Russian Business.
From the Ohio State Journal.
We have a theory that an enter-
prising man who could go to Russia
and establish a string of free-lunch
counters could be elected Czar with-
out opposition.
——Of course the report that Hin-
denburg had died was false but that
is an unimportant lie.
Sr ——————
——Put your ad. 1 the “Watch-
man.”
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—To notify his mother of his safe arri-
val at camp, Bud Naumann, of Pittsburgh,
released a homing pigeon that he had car-
ried with him. In four hours after he ar-
rived at Fort Thomas Covington, Kyy his
mother in Pittsburgh was notified.
—The Carlisle Indian school, cond icted
for the education of American Indians, has
just been permanently abandoned. The
700 students will be transferred to other
Indian schools. The buildings will be
turned over to the War Department for
hospital purposes and for the rehabili-
tation and re-education of sick and wound-
ed soldiers.
‘—When the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie pas-
senger train arrived at Dickerson Run one
night recently, Brakeman Robert Reed
heard a strange hissing noise in one of
the coaches. Investigation showed it to
be coming from an angry snake of un-
known species which instantly offered
battle. After a long struggle up and down
the aisle the reptile was subdued.
—Mrs. Helen L. Bligh, of Reading, has
instituted divorce proceedings against her
husband, Harrison J. Bligh, on the ground
of “indignities.” Mrs. Bligh alleges that
her husband has refused to maintain a
home for her, but persisted in being in
the company of other women. In her bill
of complaint she says that “his eyes would
glow with delight when he would tell her
of his orgies with other women.”
—Ground has been bLroken at Elwood
City for the first 50 homes to be erected
there for the employees of the Shelby plant
of the National Tube company. They are
to be completed in four months. The sec-
ond 50 of the several hundred homes to be
erected are to be completed in eight
months. The Tube company is also to
erect a three-story rooming house for sin-
gle men. It will contain 50 rooms.
—At a sale of peaches for the benefit of
the Reading Red Cross, Mayor Filbert, B.
Y. Landis and S. Ruttenberg bought sin-
gle peaches at $5 each. Others brought
from $1 to $4. The sale was a side feature
of an auction of old rubber tires contrib-
uted by motorists for a Red Cross fund,
the 20,770 pounds of old rubber bringing
$1,080.04, or about 5 1-8 cents a pound, the
police bureau conducting the sale in Penn
square.
—Miss Irene Davies, 55 years old, a
member of one of the best known families
in Bradford county, was found lying in
the Susquehanna river at Towanda on
Monday afternoon, one hour after she had
waded into the water to her death. Mel-
ancholia and a long illness are believed to
have been responsible for the suicide.
Miss Davies was the daughter of the late
G. M. Davies, Lieutenant Governor of the
State during the term of office of Gover-
nor Beaver.
—Lightning accompanying Sunday
night’s rain storm struck the bara on the
farm of E. W. Kelly, of Clearfield county,
and, besides shattering one end of the
structure, blowing a mow of hay over a
large area and practically exploding a con-
crete watering trough, killed a dog. Three
horses and some other stock as well as
implements and supplies that were housed
in the building, were uninjured. No fire
resulted and the building was saved from
damage other than that inflicted by the
blowing out of one end.
—Creditors of the old Hyde Park bank,
| at Scranton, which failed thirty years ag
“haye received 165 per cent. on their he
M. Mott, assignee of the bank, has just
announced an additional 15 per cent. will
be paid creditors holding proved claims
on August 15 or 16. They have already
been paid 150 per cent. The fact that
creditors have arranged to receive such a
remarkable percentage is due to the care-
ful and shrewd manner in which certain
assets of the institution were managed.
—Game warden E. W. Kelly, of DuBois,
last week rounded up seven Italians who
were camping in a car along the railroad
near Lumber City, Clearfield county, and
in searching the car found one gun, plen-
ty of rabbit hides and the feathers of
wild birds. Kelly secured Constable
Joseph Lines to assist him and the offi-
cers took the seven Italians before Jus-
tice Eli Hile, at Lumber City. The Ital-
ians were glad to settle by paying a fine
of $75 and costs of the case. The officers
confiscated the gun and it is now the prop-
erty of the Commonwealth.
—Clyde Bowman, sixteen years old, and
Clarence Hoffman, nineteen, drivers of am
express company, were arrested at Hunt-
ingdon last Thursday, charged with steal-
ing a package containing $8,000 which had
been shipped by a Philadelphia banking
house to the Earlston Furnace company
at Everett, Bedford county, Pa., The boys
confessed, according to detectives who
made the arrests. All but about $300 of
the money was found on the prisoners,
the detectives said. The package disap-
peared after reaching Huntingdon where
it was to have been transferred to anoth-
er railroad.
—Numerous outbreaks of rabies have
been reported to the Pennsyvlania Depart-
ment of Agriculture during the past few
weeks from many sections of the State
and the Livestock Sanitary Board is issu-
ing a special warning to borough and
township officials and to the public to
guard against the danger during August.
Strict enforcement of the dog law is urg-
ed in all communities and close watch on
suspected animals by all owners for any
symptoms. Whenever there is any indi-
cation of an animal showing traces of rab-
ies some local veterinarian should at once
be notified and a strict quarantine put in-
to effect.
—After seriously wounding Mrs. Tillie
Bower, whom he had followed to the home
of her sister, on a farm near Williamsport,
last Saturday morning, Elmer R. Weber
ran into the woods nearby and with the
same revolver which he had used on the
woman, ended his life while searchers
were scouring the section for him. His
dead body was not found until several
hours after the crime. Mrs. Bower, who
is in a critical condition, formerly was
employed as a housekeeper for Weber at
Newark, N. J., but left him some time
ago. Letters found on the man’s body in-
dicated his intention to kill both the wom-
an and himself.
—38. 8S. Reighard, food administrator of
Blair county, has a puzzling question to
answer following the receipt of a letter
from a Roaring Spring farmer. The far-
mer asks the administrator what he is to
do with his supply of rye. In the letter
it is explained that the farmer is unable
to dispose of his rye and that he needs
the room immediately. In addition he
needs the bags, the money from the sale
of the rye and the rye produets food, as
he keeps thirty-seven hogs. The farmer
visited three mills in the Morrison Cove
region and each refused to buy the rye,
the mills not being in “a position to grind
it into flour for consumption.” The far-
t
a
mer was previously instructed not to feed
the rye to his stock.