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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.