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Beara Maton
BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
—Let us give the President a vote
of confidence.
—Give the President a vote of con-
fidence by sending Tobias to Con-
gress.
— Let us help the good people of
Clearfield send Matt Savage to the
Senate.
—Matt Savage has had a life-long
ambition to go to the State Senate.
Let us gratify it on November 5th.
— Vote for William E. Tobias for
Congress and comply with President
Wilson’s wishes as well as help to
win the war.
—A vote for the Hon. John Noll
for the Legislature will be a vote for
a2 man who will be worth while hav-
ing in Harrisburg.
—Matt Savage would make a real
Senator for the Thirty-fourth district.
He is an able man and knows what
the masses would want.
— The U-boat operations are di-
minishing in number and importance.
Before long the U-boat will degener-
ate into an unpleasant dream.
— Every European statesman
stands amazed at the achievements of
the United States in war work.
Roosevelt is the only dissenter known.
—1If Centre county gives Matt Sav-
age anything like the vote he ought
to have over here he will be elected.
He will carry Clearfield with a nice
majority.
—And this is November 1st. The
fact that you have received this copy
of the “Watchman” is evidence that
your subscription is paid up, at least,
until August 1st.
— Lace curtains at the windows in
the watch-boxes at railroad crossings
are one of the most visible evidences
of what women do when they break
into a man’s place.
—When making up your ticket
don’t fail to include Tobias, Savage
and, Noll in it. All are good men
wholly capable of rendering useful
service in the offices they seek.
—Vote for the Hon. John Noll for
the Legislature and insure yourself
of getting a Representative with ex-
perience and one who has no other
‘business on hand than that of serving
you.
—One good turn deserves another.
Matt Savage has often helped Centre
county men who were before the pub-
lic in Clearfield county. Let us all
turn in and show appreciation of it
by giving Matt a great vote in Centre
county.
—1It seems like a rather ridiculous
proposal to defeat an attempt to get
better roads in Pennsylvania because
we are not willing to trust any one
with the money we are asked to pro-
vide. Wouldn't it be the sane and
business like method to provide the
money and then, if it is discovered
that it is being misapplied, vote the
recreants in charge of it out of office.
— Take no chances with the influ-
enza. Physicians inform us that most
of the deaths that have resulted from
it have been caused by the patient
going out too soon after an attack.
The history of the disease shows that
pneumonia very frequently follows a
failure to be extremely careful for a
week or more after recovering from
influenza. In other words, the possi-
ble after effects are more serious than
the disease itself.
—1In another column of this issue
one of our news writers serves up the
startling information that “Our neigh-
boring contemporary, the Bellefonte
Republican, has been hard hit.” And
then he proceeds to explain the situa-
tion in a way that leaves a doubt as
to whether the blow has come through
its editor’s attack of flu or through
the fact that Edmund Blanchard Esq.,
and J. Thomas Mitchell Esq. have
been called in to produce the ponder-
ous political dope it will doubtless car-
ry this week.
—The Grangers seem to be divided
in their opinion on the No. 1 amend-
ment to the constitution, which is to
be voted on next Tuesday. While the
Grange, as an organization, has pub-
lictly declared its opposition to the
ratification of the amendment many
individual Grangers have come out
squarely in support of it. Among the
latter is no less a person than E. B.
Dorsett, a state organizer for the
Grange, and one of the most promi-
nent members. Mr. Dorsett is out
in a public statement urging all far-
mers to vote for the amendment.
—The hypocrisy of the Sproul Pro-
hibition pretentions has been shown
up by Senator Vare’s threat to the
liquor dealers of Philadelphia. Vare
is a Sproul man and Vare is the fel-
low who was beguiling the temper-
ance folks and Bishop Berry, of the
Methodist church, not later than last
spring, with the assurance that the
only hope of prohibition lay in the
election of Sproul as Governor. If
that were so then why does he now
confront the liquor people with the
threat that if they don’t elect Sproul
he will ruin their business at Harris-
burg Which means that if they do
elect Sproul there will be nothing do-
ing in the matter of ratifying the
amendment. The “Watchman” has
repeatedly warned the voters against
this double dealing scheme to elect
Sproul and the revelations in Phila-
delphia, on Monday, prove that the
warning was justified. Bonniwell
will clean up Pennsylvania, if elect-
ed Governor, and in this campaign is
the only candidate who is not actu-
ally trying to get votes by deceiving
the voters. Do you want a fearless,
honest man for Governor or do you
want a hypocrite.
—
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STATE RIGHTS AN
D FEDERAL UNION.
VOL 63.
PA...
President Wilson’s Appeal.
President Wilson’s appeal to the.
voters of the country for support of
his policies by “returning a Dero- |
cratic majority to both the Senate
and House of Representatives,” is a
timely warning of a grave danger. !
He understands as every close obser- !
ver of current political events knows '
that the Republican machine has set |
out to obstruct his work in this vifal |
period of war operations. Among |
those participating in this purpose !|
there may be some who are sincere in |
the belief that a reversal of the po-
litical majority in Congress would
help rather than hurt in the final ad-
justment of war conditions. But the
vast majority of them know differ-
ently and are acting, not for the pub-
lic good but for the selfish personal
or political interests.
The war operations of this country
have been conducted with marvelous
skill and ability. Under the direc-
tion of President Wilson, aided by a
majority in Congress in full sympa-
thy with him, he has earned the ad-
miration of every statesman and sol-
dier of Europe in sympathy with the
aims of the allies. If at the coming
election the political complexion of
Congress should be changed, these!
leaders in thought and captains in ac- |
tion, would naturally interpret it as a |
declaration of lack of confidence in |
the President. Naturally this will be |
discouraging on the other side. Those |
“over there” who have been relying |
upon him will feel that they have
been betrayed. The entire fabric,
created with care and at the expense
of much labor, will be disorganized.
The President’s appeal is not parti-
san. It has not been made in the inter-
est of a political organization. Its
purpose was to strengthen the lines
on the battle front, to concentrate the
forces against autocracy. It is an ap-
peal to the patriotism of the country
to sustain him in the arduous work
and should meet with a cordial re-
sponse from every voter. It is
addressed to the voters of this
Congressional district quite as direct-
ly as to those of any other. It implies
no aspersion upon the patriotism or
integrity of the present Representa-
tive of the District, but it conveys the
logical truth that the truest friend is
one in full thy with the pur-|
resident Wants
Democrats in Congress because they |
think as he thinks on public ques-
tions. ?
——A distinguished Pennsylvanian
once said that “a request from the
President takes the form of a com-
mand which the citizen is in duty and
honor obliged to obey.” The Presi-
dent asks every citizen to support
him by voting for Democratic candi-
dates.
Bonniwell Makes New Pledge.
The splendid answer of Judge Bon-
niwell to Senator Vare’s hysterical
attempt to coerce the liquor dealers
of Pennsylvania to support Senator
Sproul indicates the hopelessness of
the Republican campaign. Senator
Vare realizes that without the sup-
port of the liquor dealers his candi-
date for Governor will be defeated.
For a quarter of a century the Repub-
lican majorities in this State have
been made up from the votes of liquor
men. This year under the influence
of a panic the Republican nominee for
Governor. pledged himself to prohibi-
tion. Four years ago a similar pledge
was disregarded under the assurance
of Senator Penrose that it was only
pretense. But this year it was tak-
en seriously.
As the campaign progressed pub-
lic sentiment revealed the fact that
voters of the State are not willing to
take chances ona false pretense of
prohibition. With a view of checking
this trend Senator Vare in a speech
before the Republican committee of
Pihladelphia declared in substance
that unless the liquor dealers chang-
ed their purpose the Republican ma-
jority in the coming session of the
Legislature will punish them by en-
acting prohibition legislation. It
was an impudent as well as an unlaw-
ful threat. And it brought the ans-
wer.
Judge Bonniwell declares in a pub-
lished statement that if he is elected
Governor it will “mark the end of the
Vares.” Of all possible things that
is the most desirable. The Vares have
been looting the public for years and
maintaining their power by all sorts
of crime including murder. The end
of the Vares in Philadelphia will re-
store to Philadelphia a government
of the people and a vast majority of
the voters of Pennsylvania will wei-
come and strive for such a change.
It is no longer a local issue but a
question of State wide morals and it
may safely be said that the pledge of
Judge Bonniwell, who always keeps
his promises, will get him tens of
thousands of votes.
Toch, Pershing, Haig and Diaz
are entirely satisfied with the policies
of Woodrow Wilson but Roosevelt
dissents.
———Only the Germans are com-
BELLEFONTE,
! candidate for Congress, William Xi.
plaining of our airships now.
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Democrats Can Strengthen the Presi- :
i
dent.
As the campaign for Governor of
Pennsylvania and for Representatives
in Congress, a Senator in the Gener-
al Assembly for this district and Rep-
resentatives in the Legislature draws
to a close, the indications point un-
mistakably to a Democratic victory.
From every county come reports of
increasing confidence upon the part
of the Democratic voters. Judge Bon-
niwell, our candidate for Governor
has made a personal canvass and re-
ceived assurance everywhere of an
aroused spirit and determined pur-
pose on the part of the voters. Our
Tobias, is universally acclaimed vie-
tor and Matt Savage, our candidate
for State Senator is certain of victory.
Judge Bonniwell is eminently fit
for the duties of the office to which
he aspires. Long a leading lawyer in
Philadelphia he is familiar with the
laws of the State as well as the du-
ties of the office and having served on
the bench for several years he appre-
ciates the obligations as well as the
responsibilities of public service. No
encomiums are needed in reference
to William E. Tobias and Matt Sawv-
age, of Clearfield. They are both
well known throughout Centre county
and highly respected wherever known.
Of Hon. John Noll, our candidate for
Representative in the Legislature it is
only necessary to say that he has al-
ready served the people with entire
satisfaction in that office.
There never has been a time when
Democratic success was more needed
than now. Our great President,
Woodrow Wilson, is engaged in the
prodigious task of directing the ar-
mies of civilization in the greatest war
of all history. The success of the candi-
dates of his and our party will
strengthen his hand and steady His
mind in the work and we would be
worse than recreants if we failed to
do our best to thus support him. The
election of our candidate for Congress
NOVEMBER
The Real Call of Love and Duty.
The time is rapidly approaching
when another great drive will be
launched in this country, a drive that
will not appeal to the investment ad-
vantage of our people but purely to
their feeling of love for and duty to
the boys who are away from the solic-
itous care and moral and physical
ministrations of their home folks.
During the week of November 11th
$170,500,000 must be raised with
which to carry on the various activi-
ties of the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A,
the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish
Welfare Board, the War Camp.Com-
munity Service, the American Libra-
ry Association and the Salvation Ar-
my among our soldiers, both at home
and abroad.
It was a splendid conception to
lump all of these wonderfully benef-
icent activities into one budget with
a view to cleaning them all up in one
drive and eliminating the necessity
for separate and frequent appeals to
the public.
Under the plan of the great cam-
paign that is so soon to open all of
the contributions that will be needed
for a year for all of the organizations
mentioned above will be solicited at
this time and there will be an end of
going to the well so often with the
pitcher.
The question that will probably
most frequently arise in the minds of
many will be this: “If peace comes
early next year will these organiza-
tions still need this vast sum?” Cer-
tainly they will and more, for we
must remember two things: Demo-
bilization will be long and tedious. It
is quite probable that it will be a year
or more after peace is declared before
the last of our soldier boys finds his
way home. And the period between
the declaration of peace and the final
mustering out of the men will be the
one fraught with the gravest dangers
to their moral and physical welfare.
For then will come the reaction, the
inclination to celebrate, to cut loose,
will be a personal service to him and | to feel that their government is no
the success of our whole ticket 2a mor-
al help that will encourage him to
greater effort in his admirable admin-
istration of the government. And if
every Democrat does his duty that re-
sult will be achieved. .
“ZL The “Coinel” says that at the
beginning of the war the President
ought to have “constructed a coali-
tion, non-partisan cabinet, calling the
best men of the nation to the highest
and most important offices,” and
naively adds that he had “put him-
self unreservedly at the service of the
President.” But it seems the Presi-
dent didn’t call him and by the same
token that was “the head and front
of his offending.”
Help the President.
President Wilson’s appeal is to
every voter in every county in all the
States. He is performing the most
arduous work that has ever been wun-
dertaken by a hfiman being. He asks
every voter to help him bear this bur-
den in the only way that is available
to the citizen. That is he implores all
to give him that moral support that
follows complete confidence. It will
cost the voter nothing more than the
time necessary to go to the polls next
Tuesday and cast a ballot for the can-
didates of the party that is in full
sympathy with him. Failure to do
this is an evidence of want of confi-
dence in his administration of the war
service of the government which mec-
essarily weakens his power.
It may safely be said that ninety
per cent. of the voters of Centre coun-
ty have absolute faith in the ability,
patriotism and integrity of Woodrow
Wilson. But a large proportion of
this majority is so bound up in parti-
sanship that it does not realize te
importance of the moral support the
President asks. Such voters imagine
that it makes no difference to the
President who represents Centre coun-
ty in Congress or the General Assem-
bly or who is Governor of the State
of Pennsylvania. If they did, the op-
position vote on Tuesday would be
meagre. But it does make a vast dif-
ference. The election of men of the
President’s party is interpreted both
at home and abroad as a token of con-
fidence and a writ of authority to con-
tinue the policies which have so well
succeeded.
The war could not be continued if
money to pay the expenses were not
provided. « The troops in the trenches
would not be as comfortable and cour-
ageous if the Red Cross agencies
were abandoned. The people of this
county have contributed freely and
generously to the Liberty loan and
Red Cross funds. A vote of confi
dence in the President at the election
next Tuesday will be quite as heart-
ening and just as effective in support-
ing the war as contributions in mmon-
ey. Therefore every voter in Centre
county should take the President’s ap-
peal directly to himself and vote for
the candidates who will support him
in his great war work, It is a patri-
otic duty which every voter can ful-
fill.
— The Kaiser is willing to sacri-
longer dependent upon their strong
bodies and alert minds and tempta-
tions to excesses will be on all sides.
Then the strong, loving arms of the
home folks must be thrown about
them more tenderly, more appealing-
ly $ifan_ever through these lic-
‘al organizations that are about to ap-
peal for the where-withal with which
to do that very thing.
Centre county must raise $41,000,-
00. She will doit. The price is
cheap when we remember that we
have nearly two thousand of our most
precious boys in the service. The
amount would not be too high if it
were to save only one of them.
You all know what the Red Cross,
the two Y’s, the K. of C., the Library
Association and the kindred organi-
zations have been doing. Scarcely a
soldier’s letter comes home that
wasn’t written in one of their huts,
that isn’t effervescent with praise of
and gratitude for the wonderful com-
forts these organizations have been
able to throw around the boys where
none were to be expected.
This won’t be a Liberty bond invest-
ment drawing 4% per cent. interest.
It will be a far greater one than that.
It will be an investment in the bodies
and souls of our sons and the interest
return will be too great to estimate in
dollars and cents.
Two thousand boys are the stake.
Let us show them that our concern
for them abroad is even greater than
it is for them at home.
Amendment No. 1, Boiled Down.
R. L.. Munce, of Washington, Pa.,
prominent farmer and president of
the Pennsylvania Good Roads Asso-
ciation, yesterday issued a statement
summing up the situation regarding
the $50,000,000 bond issue for road
improvements, which comes before
Pennsylvania voters election day. Mr.
Munce said:
“Boiled down, the bond issue prop-
osition is simply this:
“Pennsylvania voters are asked to
approve an amendment to the consti-
tution providing that the State may
issue bonds to a total of $50,000,000,
the money to be used for road im-
provements.
“Approval by the voters is only the
first step. The Legislature then pass-
es enabling legislation, setting forth
what amount of bonds will be issued,
when they shall be issued, and how
they will be issued. I do not believe
it possible that over $10,000,000 worth
will be issued at any one time.
“No bonds will be issued until after
the war. Work on the roads will be-
gin after the war.
“If in the reconstruction period
which follows the coming of peace
Pennsylvania labor is idle for any
reason the State, if the bond issue is
approved, will have the money with
which to build roads and employ many
thousands of men at good wages.
“Approval by the voters will not
mean that the bonds will be issued
immediately. It means merely that
the proposition is in shape to go to
the Legislature, which must pass en-
abling legislation before any bonds
can issue.”
fice everything except his job.
Subscribe for the “Watchman.” *
1, 1918. NO. 43.
Our Candidate for Senator Addresses
You Again.
_ The nearness of the election makes
it obligatory upon candidates to pre-
sent their claims at once ifatall.l In
speaking, therefore, of my candidacy
for State Senator in the General Ags-
sembly of Pennsylvania, I am remind-
ed of a Michigan chiropedist who of-
fers to chirop with any man for one
hundred dollars a side. If beaten he
says he will acknowledge the corn.
In such a situation I suppose I would
be compelled to say: “Here too.” I
have to say however in this connec-
tion that if Clearfield and Centre and
surrounding districts will kindly give
me the customary vote usually accord-
ed worthy candidates I will be proud
of it and I believe it will secure the
election. I will confess in heart to heart
way that I would appreciate the votes
of my neighbors and friends without
regard to party in every section very
much and with lasting gratitude. It
has been a principle of my life never
to forget friends or favors and to be
vigilant always in their ehalf and
ready likewise to be useful if possi-
ble to friends at any time an oppor-
tunity is presented and to be eager
and certain to return favors.
Standing as I do at the edge of the
twilight zone in the evening of life, I
do acknowledge that since the nomi-
nation for State Senator came to me
from both Centre and Clearfield coun-
ties unsolicited and unexpectedly I
would greatly appreciate the election
by my neighbors and the voters of the
34th District and would prize the hon-
or with both pride and gratitude.
Having come to Clearfield in 1879 to
teach school and removing my family
here from New Washington in 1880 I
have resided here ever since and there
has never been a moment in these
long years since then I can proudly
say that I have not tried to do every-
thing and anything in my personal
power or within the range of the in-
fluence of my newspapers, the Public
Spirit and the pioneer Daily Public
Spirit, started in June, 1901, for the
development and upbuilding of Clear-
field. I have always done my best in
boosting our growing little city and
neighborhood as a matter of personal
and public duty and pride and with-
out ever once seeking any credit for
so doing in any way and yet I have
been many times told that my efforts
for the town were fruitful and have
been publicly thanked for what I ac-
complished as well as for what I have
tried to get done for the growth of
the place. Fo
It would be considered unneitssary
and superfluous to recapitulate here
the principles which I have stood for
in the past as politics have been large-
ly suspended and all the voters seem
to be inspired more by patriotism
than by partisan spirit and I there-
fore appest for support to all the vot-
ers, and if elected I will try not to
give any voter doing so reason to re-
gret having voted for me.
Very sincerely yours,
MATT SAVAGE.
And the Clocks Were Tarned Back.
The turning back one hour of the
clocks on Sunday morning occasioned
no perceptible hitch anywhere. Every-
body got an hour more sleep Satur-
day night, or at least was able to lie
in bed an hour later Sunday morning
than usual and that was about all
there was to it. Of course it becomes
dark earlier in the evening now than
it did last week, but the morning
makes up for the evening.
The town clock was turned back be-
fore eleven o'clock on Saturday even-
ing and most people turned their
watches and clocks during the even-
ing and did not wait for Sunday
morning. And thus the whole coun-
try is back again to the standard time
as set by the sun, moon, etc.
The only place there has been any
mixup on the turning back of the
clock so far as we have been able to
learn, is out at Col. Emanuel Noll’s.
The colonel has a pen of nice blood-
ed chickens and during the summer
he fed them regularly at five oclock.
In fact he was so regular in his feed-
ing time that the chickens knew the
time almost to a minute and ever
since he has turned his clock back
they make a fuss for their feed
promptly at four o’clock and are not
satisfied to wait until five. They evi-
dently believe that tie daylight sav-
ing law should have been kept in ef-
fect.
——Our neighboring contemporary,
the Bellefonte Republican, has been
hard hit this week. Editor Charles
E. Dorworth was stricken with influ-
enza on Monday and has been con-
fined to the house ever since. On
Wednesday J. Thomas Mitchell and
Edmund Blanchard invaded the ed-
itorial sanctum and got right down
to business like old-timers, thus ma-
terially assisting the regular force in
getting out this week’s issue.
Matt Savage in the Senate and
Hon. John Noll in the House at Har-
risburg, will guarantee the President
cheerful and capable support in the
Pennsylvania Legislature.
The success of the six billion
dollar loan put Kaiserism on the bum
and a Democratic victory next Tues-
day will send the Hohenzollern fami-
ly to the scrap heap.
Rabbit season was ushered in
this morning and a bunch of Belle-
fonte nimrods are out after the cot-
tontails.
ber of men at games.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—The * Altoona Storage & Forwarding
company’s warehouse, B. Cohn, owner,
was burned early Monday with all its con-
tents, involving a loss of about $50,000.
The building was insured, but the heav-
jest loss is on the contents, on which lit-
tle insurance was carried.
—David Dallas, of Conshohocken, is not
satisfied with the award of $43,750, which
a jury of view made to him for his tract
of 191.65 acres at Valley Forge, which land
was taken for purposes of Valley Forge
Park. He has appealed to the Court of
Common Pleas for a jury trial.
—Men connected with the State Audit-
or General's office are commencing to speed
up the collection of direct inheritance tax-
es under the new Act, and it is believed it
will come close to $3,000,000 for the year
ending with November. The first three or
four months produced over $600,000.
—The Pennsylvania Water and Power
company, operating the McCall Ferry elec-
tric plant, will raise the big dam oppo-
site Pequea, when they submerge the fa-
mous Indian Steps island, where a York
attorney has been years building one of
the most unique and interesting residences
in Pennsylvania. The fight is now on.
—The State has just recommissioned
more than 1400 men as volunteer state po-
licemen under the Act of 1917, “for the per-
iod of the war.” These men were orig-
inally commissioned for a year only un-
der a plan adopted at the Governor's of-
fice, but owing to a change brought about
by the length of the war, commissions are
being made in the new form.
—There will be no dearth of apple but-
ter in Jersey Shore homes this winter. A
score of Jersey Shore women, who are
members of the food conservation depart-
ment, gathered one day last week at the
home of Mrs. James Krom, chairman of
the department, and spent the day in par-
ing apples, cutting them and stirring the
bier. They made several hundred gal-
ons.
—TFifty-eight vacancies now exist in the
state police force, the largest number
since the four troops were organized.
This is due largely to men entering mili-
tary service when their terms of enlist-
ment expired and to the fact that the class
of men from whom the police have been
recruited are now in the army. Some of
the recent recruits are men almost forty
years old, but they are physically fit.
—In ordering ome-half of A. M. Geyer's
income diverted to his wife for the support
of herself and two children, Judge E. H.
Reppert entered one of the largest alimo-
ny decrees on record in the Fayette coun-
ty courts, income considered. Testimony
in the non-support case showed that Gey-
er, who lives in Uniontown, averaged $140
per month as a railroad engineer and for
the past several months has not contrib-
uted to the support of his wife or children.
—Carl L. Millward, who has been acting
superintendent of the Milton public
schools, has been elected to the superin-
tendency to succeed Lieutenant Colomel
W. W. Fetzer, 110th infantry, one of the
first Pennsylvania officers to lose his life
during action on the western front. Col-
onel Fetzer was killed last July, having
been struck down by an enemy shell near
his regimental headquarters at the same
time Colonel Kemp, the regiment's com-
mander, had a narrow escape.
—The old canal bed above Lock Haven
has been a favorite rendezvous for ama-
teur poker players during the pleasant
days of the last few weeks, One day last
week a city policeman surprised a num-
When the officer
appeared all attempted flight. The police-
man counted forty-seven, of all ages, and
white and black in eolor, running along
the banks of the canal in different direc-
tions. All but two escaped. One of the
captives was a one-legged man and the
other was lame.
—August Connell, aged twenty-one, who
went to Hazleton from Easton some time
ago, met a horrible death at the shell plant
of the Worthington Pump and Machinery
corporation at Hazleton, while c¢iling a
forge press. According to officials of the
works, he failed to make any notation on
a card provided for that purpose that he
was engaged at the press and an operator,
started the machine, not knowing that
Connell was there. The oiler was thrown
through the pit of the press to the base-
ment and instantly killed. He is survived
by two sisters.
—Some time between seven o'clock and
midnight Sunday night a man crawled
through a transom over the side entrance
to the Franklin hotel at Chester and car-
ried off a quart of the best whiskey. He
was no ordinary thief as several hundred
dollars in the open cash .register proved
to the proprietor. The man climbed upon
a ledge near the door and then forced his
way through the transom. He tore a por-
tion of a curtain in climbing through the
transom. This he placed on the bar and
left by the same route. His foot marks
were plainly visible. Henry Haas, owner,
when he entered the barroom before retir-
ing and found his money was safe he be-
gan an investigation to see what prompt-
ed a man to risk his life and not take any
money.
—Authorities in Clearfield county are
endeavoring to clear up the msstery sur-
rounding the death of David John Star-
rie, an Italian resident of Heverly, Clear-
field county, who was found recently
along the railroad track with his left
arm, left leg and head torn from his body,
presumably by a train. Two companions,
Frank Attalski and George Copechink,
who were found intoxicated following the
finding of the body, are in jail, where they
stated that all of them were drunk and
that Starrie fell in front of a train. A
post mortem examination conducted by
the authorities brought forth the fact that
Starrie had not been drinking, so both
his companions are now being held as
murder suspects. Mystery also surrounds
the presence of the liquor, six quarts of
it being found on them. They said they
had purchased it in Coalport, but would
not disclose the place.
—Reuben Morley, of Burnside, Clearfield
county, through his attorneys, has entered
suit against the Pennsylvania Railroad
company to recover $5000 damages for per-
sonal injuries received in a peculiar hap-
pening. Morley is a coal miner and while
walking on a pathway parallel with the
railroad, to the mine at which he worked
near McGee's Mills, was passed by a train.
As the train was passing the fireman
found a chunk of “bony” in the coal and
hurled it from the tender. The “bony”
struck Morley on the head and fractured
his skull. His injuries were so severe that
he was taken to the Clearfield hospital and
remained there under a doctor's care for
fifteen weeks. Morley claims he was fore-
ed to make an outlay of $250 for medical
treatment, that his earning power siffer-
ed by reason of permanent injury and asks
the court to direct the railroad company
to reimburse him to the extent of $5000.