fp
township.
Dentin
INK SLINGS.
—Christmas is just thirty-three days
off.
—At this time last year everything
was frozen up and there was Snow on
the ground.
—Anyway the mild fall weather is
not so hard on the coal pile even if it
does complicate the matter of exter-
minating the flu.
———Where the soldiers left off the
peace conference will begin and its
work though less hazardous will be
equally important.
We will probably not need
another big army in many years but
it’s a safe guess that when we do need
it it will be ready.
——Maybe Penrose will kow tow te
LaFollette in organizing the next Con-
gress but there ar a good many Penn-
sylvanians who have doubts.
—Centre Hall was the first commu-
nity “over the top” in the United War
Work drive and a committee of young
ladies did the great work there in a
surprisingly short time.
If the Republican victory at the
polls is turned into a defeat at the or-
ganization of Congress it will not be
a new experience for Penrose. He has
had a Brumbaugh and a Smith.
— There is one very sensational
reason why the Kaiser will not imitate
Napoleon’s return. He made such a
“ham” of himself in the windup that
nobody would follow him in another
war like enterprise.
—Of course the President should go
to France. If for no other reason than
to take a vacation. Surely no man in
this broad land has had any more
nerve racking work than he has had
during the past four years.
—Iron crosses which the ex-Kaiser
once bestowed on his most serviceable
fiends are now selling in Berlin at a
penny a piece. The price is so low that
we are denied the pleasure of remark-
ing that they look like thirty cents.
—Our schools are closed again and
about fifteen years from now there will
probably be a lot of college boys and
girls blaming “flunks” on the time
when Bellefonte had the flu so bad they
had to stay out of school and missed
a lot of the rudiments.
——The public will await with inter-
est the attitude of Roosevelt in the im-
pending war between the stalwarts and
progressives in the organization of
Congress. He has been on both sides
within a few years but his latest af-
filiation was with the stalwarts.
—If Holland doesn’t want Bill Ho-
henzollern as a guest any longer the
Allies would be glad to take him off
her hands as a prisoner of war. In
fact we might relieve her of her un-
welcome guest ere long through a po-
lite invitation to deliver him up to jus-
tice.
—Already there is casting about for
a name for the new aviation field which
Vern has located in Spring
ould it not be apropos to
call it the Foster-Brosius field in hon-
or of the postmasters of State College
and Lock Haven, who were so near and
vet so far.
—Next week will be Thanksgiving.
Of all people of earth we of America
will have most to be thankful for. Let
us go to our knees en masse. Let us
not forget that only a few weeks ago
we were there pleading with Almighty
God for victory and an end of the hor-
rors of war.
—Only the fighting pant of the war is
ended. Remember that. The great
problems of readjusting everything to
a peace basis are yet to be solved. We
can all help most and best in that work
by being reasonable, calm and chary
with our criticism. American thought
must be kept away from Bolshevism.
It must remain sane and even temper-
ed.
—O0ld Doc. Solff can protest his head
off about the hardships the armistice
have imposed on Germany. The sob
stuff falls on deaf ears over here. We
have some misguided sentimentalists
who send apple pie, carpet slippers and
bunches of posies to condemned mur-
derers, but the most of us are just and
we are going to be just just with Ger-
many. No more, no less.
—There are to be no more Liberty
bond flotations. The government will
do what financing may be necessary
in the immediate future with short
term notes. It is well that such is the
case, for with the war practically over
much of the hearty co-operation of the
public would be lacking and knowing
that no more great drives for funds
will be necessary money will be releas-
ed for use in peace time construction
work, which has been practically prg-
scribed for the past two years.
—Every day the sham of Germany’s
strength is being revealed. It appears
now that her grand fleet, which was
being prepared to rush out at any mo-
ment and give battle to the allied war-
ships in the North sea isn’t a grand
fleet at all. In the first place it was
rendered practically impotent by its
first brush with the English in the Ska-
gerat, in 1917 as a result of which the
Germans boastfully claimed a victory.
Recognizing the weakness of their sea
power then they began to dismantle
cruisers, battleships and dreadnaughts
salvaging the materials and guns for
the building of submarines. The result
is that their navy has been a bluff for
two years and they will have nothing
formidable to surrender.
—Nearly all lawyers when elevated
to the bench take on some sideline or
other in which they can find pleasant
diversion for the time which is not de-
voted to studying cases that are on
trial before them. It has remained for
Judge Quigley to break all precedents
and, incidentally, blaze a new trail of
usefulness for the leisure moments of
the judiciary. Think of it. One even-
ing within the week he stripped off the
judicial ermine and donned the white
cap and coat of the chef at the Belle-
fonte hospital and cooked the nice, big
juiey steaks he had carried out there
for some patients. We know that His
Honor is a regular cook, but for those
who have may have doubt as to his
ability in the cuisine we would call at-
tention to the fact that the hospital
mortality record is a clean sheet this
week,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
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VOL 63.
Staging a Pretty Party Fight.
Blessings frequently come in dis-
guise and possibly curses may find it
convenient to travel in the same kind
of vehicle. In fact there are many
reasons for thinking that the recent
Republican victory will assume the
form of a blessing to the Democratic
party and in the opposite form to its
political enemy. At least the news
from Washington indicates something
of that sort for the Republicans are
already staging what looks like an
irreconcilable quarrel among the lead-
ers in connection with the organiza-
tion of the next Congress. In the
Senate the progressives have declared
war against Penrose and other stal-
warts and in the House Fordney, of
Michigan, is scheduled for “the hook.”
Senator Penrose is the senior mi-
nority Representative on the commit-
tee on Ways and Means. These com-
mittees have charge of all revenue
legislation and the expectation of a
restoration of the tariff graft enticed
many a thousand dollars into the Re-
publican campaign fund. Penrose in
the Senate and Fordney in the House
are th emain cogs in the protection
machine and under the long existing
system of seniority are entitled to the
chairmanships of those committees.
But the progressives of the middle
west are not in favor of the tariff
graft and declare emphatically that
Penrose and Fordney must be over-
thrown.
Of course these gentlemen will not
yield complacently to the decree of
the tariff reformers. Senator Pen-
rose has already stated with some
positiveness that he “will be the next
chairman of the Finance committee
of the United States Senate,” and he
is not in the habit of surrendering at
the first call of the opposition. But
Magill McCormick, of Illinois; Len-
root, of Wisconsin; Cummins, of
Iowa, and others are equally deter-
mined that he shall not be chairman
and the outlook is for as pretty a
fight as has recently been seen in
Washington. Of course it is unim-
portant to the ceuntry which wins
because the fight will be carried into
the campaign of 1920 and result in
the election of a Democratic Presi-
dent...
—— Next Thursday will be Thanks-
giving day, but the Thanksgiving tur-
key will be scarcer than ever, accord-
ing to all reports, and higher in price.
In fact turkeys haven’t been as scarce
in years as they are this fall. Many
farmers have quit raising them be-
cause of the care and attention re-
quired to bring them through the ear-
ly stages of turkeyhood, while the
scarcity of help may also have had
something to do with the lack of in-
terest in turkey raising.
Taft and Roosevelt Again Rivals.
We are very likely to see another
more or less spirited rivalry between
Theodore Roosevelt and William How-
ard Taft for the Republican nomina-
tion for President in 1920. Ever since
the disappointment of his absurd am-
bition to become an American Kaiser,
Roosevelt’s life has been embittered
and he has taken every opportunity
to rave and rant at President Wilson.
Signs that Taft has been cherishing
a hope of another term in the White
House since his defeat in 1912 are
equally obvious. But until recently
they have been pursuing widely dif-
ferent lines to accomplish the pur-
pose. Taft has been “following the
lines of least resistance,” while Roose-
velt has been attacking the most for-
midable points.
Upon the recent death of Dr. Gal-
linger, of New Hampshire, and the el-
evation of Lodge, of Massachusetts,
to leadership of the Republicans of
the Senate, the national policies of
that party have taken a radical turn.
Gallinger was a strict partisan but
the element of patriotism was-strong
in him and he supported the Presi-
dent’s war measures. But Lodge has
been able to see nothing in the war
legislation except an opportunity to
make partisan capital and Taft ap-
pears to have lately fallen into his
notions. Under the delusion that
brigandage is in popular favor and
that Roosevelt was getting away with
the bacon Taft turned from a course
of mildly supporting the President to
constantly nagging him.
Thus in commenting upon the ab-
dication of the Kaiser the ponderous
ex-President, the other day, thrust a
dagger into the Wilson ribs. “The
situation would have been much more
satisfactory,” he writes, “had we sent
a larger force to Siberia and Arch- |
angel to enable the decent elements
in the country (Russia) to organize.”
But the policies of the Allies with re-
spect to Russia were not dictated by
President Wilson. All those concern-
ed in the overthrow of autocracy
agreed upon the action taken and the
result of the war seems to vindicate
the judgment expressed. Roosevelt
imagines that he could have done
everything single handed but Taft,
equally critical, is more cautious and
less candid.
——If it be true that there is scarcity
of food in Holland it may: be necessary
to feed the Kaiser on black bread.
No Occasion to Worry.
| There are impatient souls ,mostly
: selfish politicians, who are worrying
their minds needlessly upon problems
growing out of the termination of the
war. “We are no more prepared for
peace now than we were for war two
look sorrowful as they say it. But
their fears are without foundation in
fact. Conditions will adjust them-
selves for peace just as they did for
war and nobody will be badly hurt.
The only real danger comes from
those who are so mortally afraid and
there is little danger from that source
because as a rule they are unimport-
ant people who have little influence
on the current of events and will have
little to do with them.
The close of the war will release
from military duty three or four mil-
lion people in the course of time but
there will be no such flow from the
non-producing to the producing ele-
ment that is likely to overwhelm or
actually embarrass the industrial life
of the country. It is to be expected
that a reduction of wages in some im-
portant industries will ensue, but as
there will be a corresponding de-
crease in the obligations of the indi-
vidual ,this fact will be less an evil
than might be expected. With say
fifty per cent. of the able bodied men
non-producers each of the other half
is obliged to produce for two. With
the demobilization all may become
producers and the burden on each
lightened proportionately.
In any event President Wilson and
those about him may be depended up-
on to solve the problems as they arise.
The selfish politicians were greatly
worried over the preparations for the
war and if the President had listened
to their senseless babble there would
have been great reason for worry.
But he didn’t pay any attention to
them and proceeding with his work
won the admiration of the whole
world by his achievements. He will
probably pursue the same course naw,
at least while he has a friendly Con-
time the country will have passed
from a war to a peace basis with
practically no serious disturbance of
the industrial and commercial
the country. whe nth Me RY
does not shove the sale of war sav-
ings stamps over the top it will not
be because he is devoid of energy in
pushing the good cause. Last week
through his own individual efforts
and personal canvassing he disposed
of $65,000 worth of stamps and over
his own signature in another column
in this week’s paper he is offering
strong inducements to the schools of
Centre county to make a strong pull
next week to go over the top. And
just here we might add that any
school or any individual who cannot
secure all the stamps they want at
their postoffice, if they will telephone
Mr. Walker any time up to two o’clock
of November 30th he will see that
they get all the stamps they want at
the November price, $4.22.
Conduct After the ‘War.
Probably the most perplexing prob-
lem the authorities will have to deal
be those blood-lusting persons in the
newspaper offices and counting rooms
of the country who insist upon repri-
sals against Germany. They are in-
variably men who remained out of dan-
ger during the fighting period, of
course, but now that the danger is past,
insist upon “an eye for an eye and a
tooth for a tooth.” The gallant men
“who bared their breasts to the bullets
of the enemy” magnanimously desire
to stop fighting and end atrocities and
come home. But the editorial room
and counting house warriors have a
different idea of things. They want to
punish Germany ‘properly.”
During the war Germany revealed a
spirit of barbarism which was as sur-
prising as it was revolting. Under in-
structions from some one in authority
a system of frightfulness was inaugu-
rated on the'German side of the battle
front that was disgusting and horri-
ble. Washington, London, Paris, Rome
remonstrated vehemently against the
; cruelty in battle and the beastliness in
{ camp and denounced both as outrages
"against civilization.
| cration, the stay-at-home warriors of
i this country are lusting for blood and
i yelling for reprisals. Berlin must suf-
fer as Brussels suffered, they say, and
curiously enough thoughtless people
al
The war is practically over and the
end a splendid triumph for civilization.
But if the victorius allied armies
should proceed to levy reprisals as
these “carpet knights” demand, what
would civilization gain as the price of
the great sacrifices that have been
made? So far as the people of the
United States are concerned there
would be absolutely no advantage. We
are not after spoils or revenge.
murdering children or raping women.
They are promoted by the opposite
course and the opposite course will be
pursued. ' .
Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
years ago,” they say, and they try to.
gress behind him and within a short
life of
If W. Harrison Walker Esq.,
with during the next six months will |
But now that
i ruthlessness has been stamped out and :
{ marked everywhere for popular exe- |
who know better seem to give approv- |
We are |
simply concerned in the preservation |
of our ideals and the diffusion of the
principles of democracy. That cannot |
be accomplished by burning cities, .
Sproul for a New Constitution.
adelphia newspaper ‘on Sunday Gov-
| ernor-elect Sproul indicates a pur-
| Pose to move, during his administra-
i tion, for a new constitution of Penn-
i sylvania. The present constitution,
adopted in- 1874, is archaic in many
respects and has been patched and
tinkered so frequently as to be scarce-
ly adequate for any useful purpose.
It is gratifying to note, therefore,
that the newly elected Governor will
take steps to provide for a convention
to create a new constitution. Besides
the conditions are auspicious for such
an enterprise. The war is already
practically ended and the people of
this and ‘other States are in a frame
of mind fit for such work.
Nearly half a century ago the pres-
ent constitution was created and it
was a model of wisdom and efficiency.
In the making some of the best minds
and greatest men participated and the
spirit of selfishness and partisanship
was as nearly absent as it was possi- |
ble to make them. But half a centu-
ry works great changes in affairs and
in endeavoring to adjust the provis-
ions of the measure to the changing
conditions some absurdities have un-
avoidably crept in and now the con-
stitution of Pennsylvania is a poor
excuse for the purposes of an organ-
ic law. The movement to abrogate
it, therefore, and substitute a more
modern instrument is commendable
from every point of view.
The legislation creating the con-
vention of 1873 was enacted in a spir-
it of altruism rather than partisan-
ship and any step now undertaken to
enact a new fundamental law should
be guided by the same lofty ideas.
We have every reason to believe that
Governor-elect Sproul will approach
the work, if he undertakes it at all,
in the right spirit. But in that pur-
pose he will encounter strong oppo-
sition in his own party. The selfish
elements which have created factions
and fostered corruption in the State
: will strive to inject into any contem-
plated constitution provisions which
will serve politicians rather than pub-
lic interests. It is up to the people to
prevent such disaster to the State.
rm
| "™Afiison in the Peace Conference.
The announcement that President
Wilson will participate in the Peace
Conference will be gratefully received
by every right thinking American. It
will be equally gratifying to the advo-
cates of democracy in every country
concerned in the deliberations of the
conference. He is admittedly the mas-
i ter mind of the civilized world. From
{the moment the government of the
| United States entered into the conflict
{ he has been the recognized spokesman
of the allies. His pronouncement was
| made the basis of the armistice and the
| foundation of the hope of peace. To
i eliminate him from the most important
"service in connection with the affair
‘would be a sacrifice of opportunity to
‘get the best results.
i The triumphs of the allied armies on
, the various firing lines were great
!achievements but the full value of
| them depends upon the use made of
| them for the benefit of humanity. For
{that reason the deliberations of the
| peace conference bulk big. Upon the
actions of that body rests the gravest
1 questions. A temporary peace is not
{worth the sacrifices that have been
made to achieve it. An unjust peace
will not afford recompense for the mil-
lions of lives that have been lost in at-
taining it. The best minds in the
countries concerned should be brought
to work on the problems which will be
presented. They will have great men’s
work to perform and only great men
are equal to the tasks before them.
‘Woodrow Wilson is easily the fittest
man in the United States to perform
this work. If tradition stands in the
{ way of the fulfillment of this obliga-
! tion to humanity, tradition must go. If
- there is danger in the undertaking, the
: danger must be ignored. He has earn-
‘ed the good opinion which is entertain-
red for him by faithful and effective
| public service but until the peace con-
ference has completed its work his
| tasks are unfinished. Secretary of
State Lansing, Col. E. M. House, and
{ Elihu Root are admirably equipped for
the service but the presence of and
participation in it of Woodrow Wilson
will not only increase but multiply the
influence of the United States in the
greatest conference in history.
——The tractor demonstration that
was to have been held yesterday after-
noon was postponed on account of the
wet weather and will be made tomor-
row afternoon. Seven of the tractors
entered are here and ready for the trial.
| ——When Woodrow Wilson sails
away to attend the peace conference
Theodore Roosevelt will feel certain
that the country is slipping off to the
“demnition bowwows.”
——The Kaiser and the Crown
Prince are located but nobody has giv-
.en any definite information as to the
‘present postoffice address of Prince
Max.
—A Wellsboro lad was warned not to
go to the neighbors because a physician
was seen to call there, and the boy was
warned that it might be flu, and it would
be a discretion to stay away. But he
went ‘over the top” unbeknown to the
family, and came back triumphantly with
| the news: “I know. what ails the Colo-
nel,” he said. “His liver turned over and
he has billiard trouble.” .
BELLEFONTE, PA. NOVEMBER 22, 1918.
In an interview published in a Phil- |
§
3. : NO. 46.
WE THANK THEE.
By M. V. Thomas.
We thank Thee, O Lord of the Ages,
Who didst send us far over the sea;
That Thou hast made us a nation
To teach all the world to be free.
We thank Thee, O Judge of the nations,
That this is the land that gave birth
To the avengers that Thou hast chosen
To destroy the dread tyrant of earth.
We thank Thee, O Father of Mercy,
For the abundance that Thou hast de-
creed,
Shall be used for clothing the naked,
The hungry and starving to feed.
We thank Thee, O Father of Wisdom,
That Thou hast decreed from above,
That all may have part in this kindness,
And help in this labor of love.
We thank Thee, C Fond, Loving Father,
For the great gift of all Thou hast
given—
Thy Son, to remove the great barrier,
And open the portals of Heaven.
If Germany Had Won.
From the Philadelphia Record.
If there are any persons outside of
Germany who think that the armistice
terms framed by the allies for the
vanquished are unnecessarly harsh it
may be well to remind them that, in
comparison with what Germany
would have demanded if victorious,
they are mild indeed. Only as late as
June 30, when the German offensive
was still in full swing, the cry of the
Junkers and Pan-Germans was that
there must be no armistice until Par-
is was occupied and the British driv-
en from France. If the allies acted
in this spirit they would insist on the
occupation of Berlin before consent-
ing to talk of peace. They, however,
ropose no such humiliation for their
oe, though they could easily drive his
demoralized armies back to the Prus-
sian capital if they cared to. In the
final terms to be agreed upon Ger-
many will be forced to give up Al-
sace-Lorraine (already lost to her);
Schleswig, whose Danish inhabitants
have proclaimed their province a re-
public, and that part of East Prus-
sia which was sliced from Poland
more than a century ago. Germany
has no moral right to these terri-
tories, which were acquired by con-
quest, and no injustice will be done
to her if she is compelled to give them
whi n J an , fan
ine the plans of the
only four months ago, as formulated
by Count von Roon, son of that Prus--
sian Minister of War who co-operated
so enthusiastically with Bismarck and
von Moltke in building up the war
machine which has brought such woe
upon the world: :
German annexation of Belgium and the
Channel coast to the south of Calais; an-
nexation of the Briey-Longuy iron region,
annexation of Belfort Toul and Verdun
sud all French territory east of these
orts.
Restitution to Germany of all her col-
onies, including Kino-Chou.
Great Britain to cede to Germany such
naval bases and coaling stations as Ger-
many might designate; Great Britain to
return Gibraltar to Spain, to surrender its
naval fleets to Germany. to restore Egypt
and the Suez Canal to Turkey.
Greece to be re-established under King
Constantine, with frontiers as before the
war.
Austria and Bulgaria to divide Servia
and Montenegro.
Great Britain, France and the United
States to pay all of Germany’s war costs,
the indents being a minimum of $45,-
,000,000. hey also to be forced to de-
liver raw materials to Germany according
to dictation. .
Occupation of France and Belgium by
German armies until all these conditions
are met, the costs of occupation to be
borne by the enemy.
Germany will have to pay dearly
for her crimes. But the penalties
will be gentle in comparison with
those she would have imposed in her
brutal and ruthless fashion, if for-
tune had favored her arms.
The Tragedy of Albert Ballin.
From the New York World.
The creator of the great Hamburg-
American Line of steamships was
representative of a small body of
Uithghen opinion in Germany which
will be heard more of now, but which
was dragged into the mad vortex of
war at the start and perforce remain-
ed submerged to the end.
1t had become well known that Al-
bert Ballin’s judgment was against
the whole performance of the Kaiser
and his military clique. Even when
the fortunes of the day were bright-
est for them, there circulated out of
Germany a story that he had said his
ships were taking more trenches
every day from the enemy before the
war than they were claiming to have
captured in a month. Whether he
ever shared in the frenzied pride of
the nation over the piratical doings of
the U-boats is not known, but it is
known that he regarded as fatal to
German hopes of victory the prose-
cution of the submarine warfare to
the point of bringing the United
States into the conflict.
SA rere
Wilson’s Fight on the Kaiser.
From the Springfield Republican.
It does not appear that the Presi-
dent of the United States would think
of claiming the overthrow of the Ho-
henzollern dynasty and the downfall
of the monarchy of the Prussia of
Frederick the Great as a personal
victory, yet the verdict of historians
will have to be that no one of the rul-
ing statesmen among Germany’s foes
in this war aimed at the German Kai-
ser so directly and so persistently as
did Mr. Wilson. The abdication of
William IT and the smashing of the
Hohenzollern family as a ruling house
are the results of a political and dip-
lomatic offensive which Mr. Wilson
.more than .any other man conceived
and directed.
‘| ing over the electric plant. of the
Pan-Germans |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Floyd Austin, of Austin, was work-
ing about a pulley shaft in the pump sta-
tion nearby, when his clothing caught in
the rapidly reyolving machinery, and he
was whirled around till the engine was
shut down. Though he had one arm and
one leg and both feet broken, as well as
several ribs fractured, it is thought he
will recover.
—The family of Casper Redinger, who
moved to Larimer, Pa., from Ebensburg,
has been almost annihilated by influenza.
Casper was taken ill and died first; them
his wife died leaving an infant. Two of
his children then died and another one is
very low. Two other children recovered,
and now another son, Billy Redinger, is
not expected to live.
—The Hershey Chocolate company, at
Hershey, has received an order from the
United States government for 2,000,000
chocolate almond bars of one-half pound
each. The order will make fifteen car-
loads of chocolate. It is for the American
army in France, must be ready for ship-
ment December 5 and will be served as
Christmas gifts to soldiers.
—The contracts for the new buildings to
be erected by the New York Central Rail-
road cempany at Avis has been awarded
to the Walsh Construction company, of
Davenport, Iewa. The extension to the
car shops will be 202x350 feet, and the ad-
dition to the blacksmith and machine shop
will be 126x206 feet. There also will be a
steel mill building with brick wall and tie
roof. The cost of these improvements is
estimated at $900,000.
—It was definitely decided in Gettys-
burg Wednesday morning that Adams
county will try Clarence Collins and
Charles Reinecker, the confessed slayers
of George J, Busman. The lads have
been held in the Dauphin county jail at
Harrisburg since their apprehension and
arrest several weeks ago. The body of
Busman was taken by them in an auto
from that county to a point along the
river road north of Harrisburg and
thrown into the bushes.
—Frank Wheelock, of Sugar Grove, is
operating an apple evaporator. To date
about 8,000 bushels of apples have been
run through the evaporator. By means
of hot air the water in them is all taken
out but the sugar remains and the indus-
try this fall is an important one in help-
ing the farmers to dispose of their big
apple crop. He has about 2,000 bushels
more on hand at the evaporator factory
and probably that many more will be run
through before the season closes.
—Negotiations are about being com-
pleted by the State Highway and Attor-
ney General's departments for the pur-
chase by the State of 2.78 miles of turn-
pike in Adams county to be added to the
State Highway system. This streteh,
which extends from the Franklin line is
owned by the old Waynesburg, Green Cas-
tle and Mercersburg Turnpike company,
and the State will pay $2,700 and the coun-
ty $2,000. This will be about the last pur-
chase of a toll road to be made by the
State.
—After one of the hardest fought and
most bitter campaigns in the history of
the community the voters at the polls on
November 5th, by a majority of 511, cast
their ballots in favor of increasing the in-
debtedness of the borough of Sunbury by
the sum of $225,000 fer the purpose of tak-
Nor-
thu 1 County Gas. & Electric con
pany, for municipal and commercial pus-
poses. In each of the nine. wards the ma-
jority of the votes were in favor of the
proposition.
—Former prothonotary Harry S. Myer,
63 years old, of Lycoming county, and
formerly vice mayor of Williamsport and
former member of city councils, died sud-
denly at the home of his brother-in-law,
Lester W, Seamons, at Wellsboro, Wed-
nesday, whither he had been called from
Pittsburgh, where he was employed by
the Westinghouse company, on account
of the illness of his daughter. He was
formerly in the insurance business in
Williamsport and was a veteran of the
Spanish-American war.
—Ira N. Mitchell, of Locks Banks, Mif-
flin county, shot a 200 pound black bear
one night recently while hunting coons on
the Seven Mountains. The dog treed some-
thing and in the darkness Mitchell mis-
took the animal for a large raccoon and
brought it to earth with a single shot
only to learn that it was a full grown
bear. Mitchell went to Lewistown the
next morning and paid over $50 to J. J.
Slautterbach, the local game warden, for
having shot the bear at night which is a
violation of the game laws.
— Edward Nicodemus, manager of the
John A. Nicodemus apple orchards at
Zullinger, finished harvesting this year’s
crop last week, the yield being 15,000
barrels. Six thousand barrels of these
were placed in cold storage at Russell
Station, on the Western Maryland Rail-
road, 5000 with the Chambersburg Cold
Storage company and about 4000 barrels
were sold at the orchard, much of the lot
going to the various cider mills. The
fruit at these orchards was unusually
fine this season and brought good prices.
— The Interior Oil & Gas company, of
Warren, has struck another big oil gush-
er on the new Deerlick field near Sheffield,
making the third large well struck by this
company within the last three months.
The well is flowing at a rate estimated at
forty barrels daily. The fact that the
company has struck a big gusher on each
of its three leases has caused excitement
and the field is claimed to be one of the
richest in that section. Leases in the vi-
cinity of the big wells are in demand af
high prices. The Interior company has
started drilling operations on two other
wells.
__With the probability that Camp Crane
on the Allentown fair grounds, will be re-
tained as medical corps headquarters he
the large regular army that Chief of Sta
March has announced will be maintain-
ed by the United States after the war,
work is being pushed on the four Tow
barracks and other extensions at the
same speed as if no armistice had been
signed and peace was not in sight. o 3
Howard McC. Snyder, commandant of the
camp, said that he had no official a
mation bearing on the War Department's
intentions.
—A., W. Eckess, a state policeman, sta
tioned at Jersey Shore, on Sunday morn-
ing arrested David S. Group Jr. and Wil-
liam C. Weidler, on a charge of hunting
on Sunday, The men were first located
in Limestone township, near the Wind
farm, but before the policeman had
reached them they had made their way
into Clinton county. Mr. Eckess tracked
them and found a wild turkey, still warm,
hidden under an old iron kettle. The
men were arraigned Monday before Jus-
tice of the Peace M. Edward Toner, at
Jersey Shore, and both admitted their
guilt and were fined $25 each and costs.