alg de Bemorralic; Watcha BY P. GRAY MEEK INK SLINGS. —Let us send it off with a whoop tomorrow. —Gradually the Sundays are be- coming more gasless. —Serbia is on her feet again. Now for the rescue of poor Roumania. —If you pray for success help pay for it. Pay as you pray. Buy a bond. —The wets could buy a lot of bonds now and pay for them out of their savings after July 1st, 1919. —We are making the Huns dance and we’ve got to pay the fiddler for the music they’re dancing to. —The German morale is breaking. Let us give it its knock-out blow by putting the fourth Loan over in rec- ord time. —On July 1st, 1919, it will be up to the Big Spring to supply more than “chasers” for a lot of folks in Bellefonte. —Don’t wait to be coaxed to take bonds. If everybody maintained that attitude there would be no one to do the coaxing. —~Spanish influenza is doing more to the boys on this side of the war than the Huns are doing to those on the other side. —Pity Bonniwell, Sproul and all the rest of the candidates. They must be in total eclipse until the new Loan is subscribed. —Centre county must go over the top... Why not do it quickly? Why take three weeks to do what we can really do in one, if we just jump in and subscribe to the limit. —The man who finds his pay envel- ope twice as full as it used to be couldn’t make a better start at sav- ing than by putting about half of the surplus into Liberty bonds. —Read “Jimmy” Stein’s letter in this issue of the “Wat:hman.” It will convince you that the boys over there are worth all the bonds you subscribe for will buy for them. —Gen. Allenby is continuing his remarkable campaign in the Holy Land. He has captured about all that remains of the Turkish forces there and probably by this time has Pales- tine completely cleared of its one time oppressors. —When the great army of boys come back from the other side the Y. M. C. A. will ceme into its own on this side. Many of them had to trav- el clear to France to discover what this great non-sectarian christian or- ganization stands for and does. —Better lend the government your money at good interest than have it taken away from you in taxes. If Uncle Sam finds that he can’t borrow it from you he will tax it out of you, for he must have it and these are the only two ways he has of getting it. —~ Subscribers to the fourth Liber- ty loan will be asked to pay ten per cent. upon application. Five per cent. was the amount required on the three preceding loans. Twenty per cent. will be due November 21st, twenty per cent. December 19th, twenty per cent. January 16th and thirty per cent. January 30th. —Count Von Hertling, the German imperial chancellor, has admitted that the German situation is serious. He is sneering at the way America re- ceived Austria’s peace proposal, but inasmuch as he never referred to the American forces in France, in his re- cent speech before the Reichstag, we presume his former sneers for our “contemptible little army” have turn- ed to respect. In fact we know they have else he would not be admitting that the situation is serious in his country. —The “Watchman” this week pub- lishes the pictures of four of the Cen- tre county boys who have thus far been more unfortunate than their he- roic fellows who have gone to the de- fense of their country. While every one who wears the insignia of the United States in this great war, no matter what his or her assignment may be, is entitled to a place in the county’s Hall of Fame, we feel that a special niche should be reserved for those who make the supreme sacri- fice and those who suffer wounds and other injuries. Therefor we would regard it as a great favor if you would immediately inform us of any casualties that may have escaped our notice, and, if possible, procure a good photo and short historical sketch of the subject for our use. The “Watchman” wants to honor them all. —Cultivate the habit of saving. There is something of value in nearly everything you throw away. Noth- ing has brought this more emphatic- ally to the attention of great, big, easy going, extravagant America than the war. Now the government wants us to save peach stones, cherry seeds, nut hulls, ete., all because they contain ingredients that can be used in the manufacture of gas masks. It is not a recent discovery. They are - converted into carbon of a quality that is not otherwise obtainable now because of war conditions. The car- bon always was in these things that we have been throwing away for years, and while it is probable that in normal times it could be produced from other sources cheaper than from fruit pits and nut shells it is none the less an illustration that should carry home to us the great waste we practice in our daily exis- tence. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. yorL gn.” °° 5 Will You Send a County Paper to a Boy Over There. Perfidy Will Not Triumph. Mitchell Palmer has twice exhaust- | German Collapse Impending. | While preparations are in progress BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 27, 1918. NO. 88. INTERESTING LETTER FROM OVER THE SEA. Hivery iieon interested in the boys ed every resource at his command to in all sections “over here” to enlist a i James B. Stein Jr. Eulogizes Belle- of old Centre now at the front, and | Prevent the election of Arthur G. De- in the brave women who equally are | walt and Henry J. Steele to Congress. serving their country abroad, has an AS member for Pennsylvania of the opportunity to show his appreciation of the sacrifice they are making. The opportunity comes as a result of the generosity and thought of Colonel William Boyce Thompson, of New York, who has conceived and put into execution what is known as the Home Paper Service. Under the plan, every man and woman in foreign service will receive his home newspaper, and so be kept in constant touch with the places and the people they know and love. Publishers of newspapers in all parts of the country—the “Watch- man” included, have grasped with pleasure the plan outlined by Colonel Thompson, and they have agreed to co-operate in every way. Under the ruling of the War Indus- tries Board newspaper publishers are forbidden to send their newspapers free, even to soldiers. The newspa- per must be subscribed for in the reg- ular way, the only exception being soldiers who formerly were in the em- ploy of the newspaper and who left that service to enlist. Colonel Thomp- son therefore proposes that the pub- lic in each community contribute to a fund so that the home newspaper (in our case this newspaper) may reach every man and woman now in the service of his country. Anyone may contribute to the fund, and any sum may be contributed. It is not necessary to contribute the en- tire amount of one subscription. It does not matter whether the rich man sends in one hundred dollars or the poor boy or little girl sends in five cents. Each gift will be a message of love and helpfulness to the home folks “Over There.” The money will be lumped into one fund, out of which subscriptions will be entered as fast as the money is received. Contributors who send in the full price of a year’s subscription may, if they wish, designate to what partic- ular person they wish the newspaper sent, but if the name given is already listed as maceiving the paper, then we’ reserve the right to apply the sub- scription to some less fortunate sol- dier boy or nobl¢ woman who is just as lonely for news of home and home folks. : : The name ‘of every contributor to this home paper service will be pub- lished in the “Watchman,” and the name of every one entered for a sub- scription will be published as well as the number of those remaining whose subscriptions have not been covered. If the amount of money received shall be more than is necessary to send the paper to every person from the county now in the service, then the balance will be turned over to the Red Cross. The mothers of our boys are fac- ing an ordeal with a bravery that commands respect and admiration. Here and there where tiny stars are turned from blue to gold, where an- guish grips the heart, the nation stands in silence and honors the wom- en who have given of their blood, the very bone of their bone, to their ¢oun- try. To them, home has lost its meaning—the soul of it has fled— there is no home, it is just a place, and no place is quite so lonely, unless it be within the hearts of those brave sons in far off France who long for just a word of home. There cannot be a man, there cannot be a woman, no, not even a child, who will fail to contribute just a little to make the hearts of those patriots lighter. Not one. Not in our county. All the time our boys were on the Border we sent copies each week ito every one of them and the many ex- pressions of gratitude we received from them revealed how much they appreciated our efforts to keep them from growing home- From the moment the first boys went to France to this time we have been mailing copies of the paper to individuals, to Y. M. C. A. huts and other centres with the hope that all of the Centre county soldiers over seas would get an occa- sional glimpse of a Centre county pa- per. We have letters from some of the boys stating that the “Watchman” has been read and re-read until it has fallen to pieces. They have clung to it like an old, old friend. While some few of the boys sub- scribed and paid for their own paper it is quite within the range of truth to say that the “Watchman” has giv- en $250 worth of papers to our sol- diers since they started to the Border and since they have been in France. It would be only too happy to contin- ue this contribution to them but the government has ordered us to stop and we can no longer follow the prac- tice of the past. Col. Thompson has undertaken to overcome this obstacle by the plan suggested above and we now call on all of the people of Centre county to rally to it. sick. (Continued on page 4, column 3) Democratic National committee he was morally bound to support both i of them for election after nomina- tion. But moral obligations have no influence on his mind. These very able and efficient Democratic Con- gressmen had failed, or refused, to kow tow to his “imperial majesty” and he determined to punish them. He carried his fight against them in- to the recent primaries and was again badly defeated. Therefore he deter- ; mined to strike down the party cita- del in the expectation that they will suffer with the rest. Mr. Palmer's venomous attack up- on Judge Bonniwell, the Democratic nominee for Governor, was inspired by his desire to defeat Dewalt and Steele. The conditions were propi- tious for injecting Bolshevick meth- ods into the politics of Pennsylvania. The Republican candidate for Gover- nor is Palmer’s personal friend and college chum. His election will en- throne Palmer in the kitchen cabinet as a back-door force. Having public- ly pledged himself to prohibition and secretly promised to aid the liquor interests, Sproul was distrusted by both and plainly “riding for a fall.” In these circumstances he gains the aid of Palmer who at the expense of his own party interests and by the sacrifice of honor tries to destroy every Democratic chance of victory. But Judas Palmer’s expectations will be disappointed in the main. That is to say Judge Bonniwell will be elected Governor of Pennsylvania and Congressmen Dewalt and Steele will be triumphantly returned to the seats they have adorned. Democrat- ic hopes in some of the other Con- gressional districts may be disap- pointed as the result of Palmer’s per- fidy and the defeat of a few Demo- crats for Congress in Pennsylvania may give the Republicans control of the next Congress and inspire the Kaiser with new hope. But it will not accomplish Palmer’s expectation of electing Senator Sproul as Gov: ernor of Pennsylvania and defeating Arthur G. Dewalt and Henry J. Steele for Congress. —The bone dry bill is getting near- er and nearer to the President. The House and the Senate are in agree- ment on most of the amendments and it is expected that only a few days will elapse before the bill reaches the President for his signature. When it is affixed the country will go bone dry on July 1st next and a lot of “tanks” will commence making goo-goo eyes at the town pump. The Passing of the C. R. R. of Pa. At twelve o’clock tomorrow night the Central Railroad of Pennsylva- nia will cease to operate. The fires will be drawn in all the locomotives and it will cease to exist as a com- mon carrier so far as the present company is concerned. The move- ment that was started six weeks ago to interest the people of Nittany val- ley in an effort to keep the road in operation almost died a bornin’ when the financial obligation was thor- oughly discussed, and so far neither the P. R. R. nor the N. Y. C. has made any move that would indicate they . are earnestly interested in keeping the road open. Just what will eventually happen to the material part of the road is not known. The charter has been surrendered by due process of law but that does not get the bondhold- ers anything on their investment. Naturally the matter is up to Drexel & Co., of Philadelphia, who are the main parties in interest, and what they will do with the property re- mains to be seen. They may dispose of it at private sale and may elect to get rid of it at a public auction. Whatever course is taken, however, if a sale is made it will likely be du- ly advertised. As to the employees: it will prob- ably take a month to clear up all the business and get rid of the stuff at the various stations along the line, so that they will not be thrown out of | work immediately. Most of them have other jobs in view, and consider- ing the demand for help of all kinds at the present time, not one of them should have any difficulty in secur- ing work, though it will probably re- quire most of them changing their location. ——All persons who have been list- ed as speakers in the big Liberty loan drive which will begin tomorrow should bear in mind the fact that if for any reason they are unable to fill one or more of the appointments as- signed them it is up to them to se- cure a man in their place, and also notify the motorist for that night whom they have secured so that the right man can be picked up. ——For high class Job Work come to the “Watchman” Office. i vast army for service “over there” i the news from the various battle lines | indicate the early collapse of the Hun ! forces. In Palestine the Turks are | | running before the allied forces, in . ! Bulgaria the Serbs and Greeks are driving the Bulgars mercilessly and on the western front the enemy is being pressed backward all along the line. General Pershing hasn’t been doing much within a week but he is making preparations for advancing on the forts at Metz in a way that proves his determination to raze that stronghold of autocratic power unless it yields to the inevitable before he gets the proper range. ‘Every day brings cheering reports from Marshal Haig and General Pe- tain and the other French command- ers who are supporting his move- ments. The Hindenburg line is giv- ing way at various points and prom- ises to become only a bitter memory to the Kaiser as he contemplates the destruction of his great armies all along the line. The campaign of mis- representation has “o’erlept the mark.” Even the stupid and stolid German peasantry can no longer be fooled by the false promises of fu- ture victories with which they have been fed during the past three years. The truth is percolating through their thick skulls and promises to cause a revulsion when fully realized, Even in Italy the enemy seems to be in full retreat before the forces of King Emanuel. Austria is in dis- ' pair and Germany has no troops to save it from impending disaster. In fact the whole line is showing signs of a complete collapse just as we are preparing to send a greater army than has heretofore been dreamed of : to move in mighty force against the enemy. But there should be no ces- sation of the work. We must make a complete job of this destruction of autocracy. We must make it impos- sible for another war of the kind we have had for the past four years to be organized and the only way to achieve that result is to lick the Kaiser to his knees. —Spanish influenza is playing ser- ious havoc among the boys in the ar- ; my camps on this side the Atlantic. { Thirty thousand cases are now re- ported and when we realize that that is only seven thousand less than | have been put out of action from all | causes on the other side we can read- i ily see why the government is so par- | ticular about the health of soldiers | when calling them to service and after they are inducted into it. i eT { The Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign Will Open Tomorrow. Six billion dollars, rate 4% per cent., ! payable in twenty years. Can you | beat that as a stable investment? | That is what the government is offer- | ing you in the fourth Liberty loan. | Germany must be beaten to her i knees; there must be no inconclusive peace, but a peace made on our terms, and on German soil. She can only be subdued by the argument of FORCE; the argument which she best under- stands and for which she has been chief champion. For more than a generation her people have been taught to believe that with this weap- on they could conquer the earth. They have waited until the time seemed ripe for its use, making, meanwhile, such mighty preparations that success seemed assured. They struck when the world was unprepared, but the spirit of liberty cannot be subdued, and they are now confronting a tide of opinion, backed by their own argu- ment of force, that will overwhelm them. How is force applied? Through one agency, MONEY! Money will call men to arms, train and equip ; them, feed them. It is the one essen- tial requisite; all else waits on it. Through its use victory is assured. We have the money; our resources have scarcely been touched. Neither have we been called on for any real sacrifice. Compare the little incon- venience we suffer with what our soldiers undergo, even under the best conditions. ! The fourth Liberty loan will show what we are. It will be large, requir- ing the help of every one. No one can escape this direct responsibility. Give it your wholehearted support. CHAS. M. McCURDY, Chairman. ——On Wednesday evening engi- neer Edward Nolan picked a sprig of dewberry vine near the Krumrine station on the Bellefonte Central railroad that contained fifteen large, fully developed ripe dewberries and two red ones. It is not unusual to ' find during the fall season a second | blossoming and even fruit develop- ment but the dewberries brought to | this office by engineer Nolan were so ' much nicer than the original crop of | the fruit during the hot summer ‘ months that they certainly constitute a freak of nature worthy of exhibit in the “Watchman” office window. fonte and Tells of Life in France and On the Battle Front. Many Bellefonters remember “Jim- mie” Stein, son of Rev. and Mrs. James B. Stein, of Altoona, but who lived in Bellefonte not very many years ago when Rev. Stein was pastor of the Methodist church here, and it seems hard to associate the boy with the young man who is now serving his country in France. He was a student at Dickinson Seminary, Williamsport, when war was declared and he at once left school and joined Company F, 1st engineers, and was among the first Americans sent abroad. He was gassed by the Germans in June but has practically recovered therefrom and the very interesting letter pub- lished below was written to a friend in Bellefonte while yet at a base hos- pital: Nantes, France, Aug. 27, 1918. Several days ago I received a let- ter from mother dated July 8th, in which she stated that you would be much pleased to receive some word from me. I assure you that it gives me as much pleasure to know that my old friends in Bellefonte have-not forgotten me, as I hope you will de- rive when you receive this letter. I always look back upon the days I lived in Bellefonte as among the hap- piest in my life. The town, during the summer having a wonderful cli- mate, with the rows upon rows of shade trees in full leaf, leaving upon me many pleasant memories. And then the sports in winter, especially the good coasting made possible by the hills among which the town nes- tles. And then, the big spring. Well do I remember how, with the first roll of film, when I received a camera for a birthday present, I took a picture of the spring from the window of the lit- tle bicycle shop just across the street. I still have that negative at home. I have looked at it many times and thought of what it stood for; from the purity of its depths it gave rise to a busy commonwealth at the cen- ter of a central State of the original bo thirteen sparsely popu . States. How history has progressed from the time our forefathers gave their life’s blood to erect a form of government that recognized the equality of man. How that country they founded was torn by internal strife and saved through the efforts of that great and good man, Abraham Lincoln. Belle- fonte is proud to remember that it gave freely in those times. A great Governor and good aid to the Presi- dent, not to mention the hundreds of men who left their wives and mothers, sweethearts and sisters and gave their all to the support of the gov- ernment their father’s fathers had fought to establish, was what Belle- fonte offered. The town has grown and prospered and I know they now are giving just as freely of their young manhood. That they are opening the pocketbook so that their boys may be the best equipped, best taken care of soldiers in the world. Many men, better fit- ted to present facts, have written ar- ticles and made speeches upon the ne- cessity for but one result. To achieve that result every effort and every sac- rifice is being made. Nothing that one can do will be overlooked. The more that is done at present, so much the sooner will the young men of our country finish this contender for mili- tarism as against the principles of the right to life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness. Our cause is just and God will help us crush the Hun. Let us all do our best, and God will help us do our bit. You have read much of what Ameri- ca is doing in France to support their soldiers on the front and I cannot add to that. You have read stories by many authors, American, British, Ca- nadian and French, of real action. You have imagined horrors which in the imagining are worse by far than the reality. Perhaps I could add to those stories, were I allowed to write. I may say, that as yet, I have never read a story that gives the impression of war that I have received. Every- one sees it differently, and a writer can picture a thing only as it appears to him. True enough, the mud is there, the irresistible humor of our boys is there; so are the Huns and the shells and the gas and the guns, but, like everything else; you must be there in person to get all of its sen- sations. The power is not given to me to describe it successfully. Enough, that our people at home know that an American can fight and will, every time he gets a chance. And oh, how good a letter makes one feel, especially if one has not heard for some time. You drop everything else to open it. And then you re-read it ever so often till the next one comes. You ought to hear them learning French and trying to translate for someone who doesn’t understand quite so much. (Continued on page 4, column 1) SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —Mrs. J. B. Kelly, of Crosby, 70 years old, a member of one of the pioneer fam- ilies of McKean county, fell from her ve- randa last week, while watering plants, and broke her neck. The distance was four feet. She was dead when picked up by her husband. —Edgar S. Richardson, a Reading attor- ney, who has three brothers in the Ameri- can armies in France, saw in a local pic- ture theatre a film depicting a row of tanks captured from the Huns. On one of the tanks was written the name of his brother, Charles Richardson. —Wolf & Punchios, lumbermen, of Cur- wensville, Clearfield county, who are cut- ting the tract of virgin pine on the Joseph Magill farm in Clover township, Jefferson county, cut a tree recently that had a di- ameter, breast high, of thirteen and one- half feet and scaled 9127 feet, board meas- ure. Eight trees on the tract scaled 50,- 231 feet, board measure. —To provide power for the Milton Man- ufacturing company at Milton, which is making shells for the army, the War De- partment has authorized the construction of a 4000-kilowatt electric plant, with all necessary equipment to cost $350,000. The company eventually will take over the new plant, paying for it by deducting a part of the price on each shell. —Creditors of the Wellsboro Glass company, of Wellsboro, filed a petition in the United States court at Scranton on Monday, asking that the company be de- clared bankrupt. It is alleged the com- pany owes the petitioning creditors over $10,000 and that it permitted other cred- itors to secure judgments upon which the sheriff of Tioga county sold all the as- sets on August 2 last. —Unable to erect new buildings be- cause of wartime conditions, the Ha- zleton school board is being forced to re- open long abandoned structures to ac- commodate the constantly growing army of children. The High school staff is short three instructors. Rev. J. H. Kindt, pastor of the Salem Evangelical church, in his younger days a High school teach- er in the west, has been pressed into the service. —Several more persons have been quar- antined for infantile paralysis in Frank- lin county recently in the epidemic by which that county was hit more than a month ago. An unusual incident was re- ported when it was found that four chil- dren in the home of Douglass Alleman, near Chambersburg, were stricken with the disease. One case that has been re- ported is that of a Waynesboro boy who is 17 years of age. —More than 1,800 acres of coal land and limestone land in Big Beaver township, Lawrence county, valued at approximately $175,000, is included in a purchase made by the Crescent Portland Cement company | of Wampum. The properties include the holdings of the Beaver Coal and Coke com- pany, Wampum Coal company, Mehard- Dinsmore interests and that of Matthew Gunton. The new owners plan to increase the production and employ many addi- tional men. —Michael Patrick, aged 26, of Union- town, was shot and wounded, probably fatally, at a carnival near Edenborn Sat- urday night. He received a bullet in the abdomen and one in the stomach, and was removed to the Uniontown hospital. Pat- rick told hospital physicians that two male employees of the carnival had quar- reled over a woman member of the com- pany. One of the men fled when the oth- er drew a revolver. Two shots were fired into a crowd of persens standing nearby and Patrick fell wounded. —Mrs. Sarah K. Fry, of Harrisburg, widow of Edwin H. Fry, who was killed July 18 when he was thrown from a wag- on which he was driving in Middletown, has brought suit against the Harrisburg Railways company for $25,000 damages, Fry was in the wagon at the time of the accident and it is alleged it was struck by a car of the railways company which was loaded with rails to be used in relaying a section of the track. Mrs. Fry claims that as a result of the death of her husband there are five children and herself with- out support. —John Bodner, convicted wife slayer, of Erie, who was awaiting definite announce- ment as to the date he was to be electro- cuted, died in Hamot hospital at Erie on Saturday as a result of self-inflicted inju- ries in jail. He jumped from the fourth tier of cells to the concrete floor below, sustaining internal injuries, a broken arm and a deep scalp wound. Bodner first overpowered an aged guard locked him in the cell and then started to climb over the steel tiers. However, he encountered a second guard and jumped to the concrete floor 35 feet below. Bodner is the man who was brought to the death house as soon as sentenced but had to be taken back to Erie by the sheriff of that county. —Forty-four men who live in the vicin- ity of Hyde City, Clearfield county, gath- ered on Sunday afternoon at the little farm of Emanuel Schonewalder and with- out asking permission of anybody walked into a five-acre field of corn and cut and shocked the crop in about three hours. They did a good job of it. Mr. Schone- walder’s only son is with the American expeditionary forces in France and the old gentleman has been laid up for the last two months with blood poisoning in his hand. A short time ago other neighbors cut his oats and placed it in the barn. The movement was headed by Milo Law- head and Sawyer Carr, and there were about a dozen citizens of Clearfield tewn in the action. —The activities of the Law and Order League, of DuBois, headed by the Rev. John Calvin Allen Borland, pastor of the DuBois First Methodist Episcopal church, have resulted in suits and countersuits before DuBois aldermen until the pros- pects are bright that things will termin- ate in the Clearfield county courts. Lead- ers of the league have brought suits against a number of men supposed to have been implicated in the attempt to duck the Rev. Mr. Borland in the Sandy town- ship watering trough, and four of them have been held in bail for court. Those held are William Haley, William McDon- ald, George Heilbrun and James Alexan- der. The Sandy township people in turn have been watching closely the manner in which the Rev. Borland has been driving his automobile, and when the parson was arrested by Constable Mike Divine he (the Rev. Mr. Borland) mailed a check for $14 to pay for fine and costs for passing a street car while taking on passengers. There are still hearings scheduled for the widow Alexander, who has been selling ice cream on Sundays, but the big show is expected to take place at Clearfield when the Sandy township men are tried for dis- orderly conduct for being implicated in the ducking party.
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