Somes cor
Temorvadic; ad
BY P. GRAY MEEK
INK SLINGS.
— Think of the giver, not the gift.
—Good-bye, old Central R. R. of
Penna.
—Are you a member of the Red
Cross?
—The good roads amendment car-
ried in Pennsylvania by 265,539.
__With this issue the “Watchman”
says farewell to its readers until 1919.
—1If you hang a Christmas wreath
in your window see to it that a Red
Cross is there too.
—Let your New Year resolution be
to get on the water wagon. Might as
well be fore handed about it and get
used to it before July rolls around.
— Europe is carrying on over Pres-
ident Wilson to such an extent that
we wouldn’t be surprised if the whole
world might wind up by trying to
hang onto Uncle Sam’s coat tails.
If it be true that soldiers will
want outside employment when they
return to industrial life there is in
the fact a probable solution of one of
the most stubborn problems of farm
operation.
—The children in Germany are de-
manding a voice in the government of
the schools they attend and the pow-
ers that be say they shall have it.
What those German kids need most is
a real good spanking.
—Are you going to be an eleventh
hour shopper on Christmas eve? Do
it now. Don’t put it off this year.
The writer once was a victim of the
eleventh hour habit and knows that
all the worth while things are gone
then.
— Wonder what William Hohenzol-
lern thinks about the little matter of
those American soldier boys sleeping
in one of his palaces in Coblenz, while
he and his precious son have no place
they can call their own wherein to lie
down.
—Anyway, Mr. Julian Sykes didn’t
have the distinction of having the first
aeroplane accident that ever happen-
ed in Bellefonte. Mr. Bonney holds
that honor because of the sensational
fall he made here on Thursday after-
noon, September 3rd, 1914.
—Even if it should be a snowless,
treeless and turkeyless Christmas
there is no real reason why it should
be cheerless. The spirit of Christmas
is what counts, after all, and if you
have that all the dark clouds will
speedily be turned inside out.
—The Bellefonte butcher who
thought he would fill an order for
sausage to be sent to Cleveland, Ohio,
via the aerial service decided he would
send it by freight after he found that
it would cost nine dollars and sixty
cents to send ‘ten pounds on the ship
that left here Wednesday.
— Cables from the other side inti-
mate that Pope Benedict will ask our
President to act as mediator in the
adjustment of the troubles existing
between the Italian government and
the Vatican.— “Blessed are the peace
makers for they shall be called the
children of God.”
— Bellefonte has been having a very
fly time for the past few days. The
novelty of so many aeroplanes sailing
overhead have caused many a house-
wife to leave something burn on the
kitchen stove, has reduced efficiency
in store and shop at least fifty per
cent., caused scores of children to play
“hook” from school and made rubber-
necks of all of us.
— Notwithstanding the govern-
ment’s telegram to his parents that
John Waite has been killed in battle
John continues to write letters home
and some of them are dated two
weeks after the day Uncle Sam de-
clares him to be officially dead. Un-
der the circumstances we think John
ought to be the best judge as to
whether he is dead or alive and, hav-
ing seen a letter in his own hand-
writing, dated November 20th, we
prefer to take his word for it.
—Judge Quigley is being very gen-
erally congratulated by those who fol-
lowed the first trial of the Gray case
and then listened to his charge to the
jury. It was eminently fair and impar-
tial and it is a triumph of justice that
it was so, since the question had been
raised as to whether the defendants
could have a fair trial in Centre coun-
ty, where they were so well known.
Certainly this charge has left no
ground for doubt as to the exactness
of justice so far as the Court is con-
cerned.
—-Honorably discharged soldiers
are beginning to arrive home from
the cantonments to which they had
been sent too late to get a hand in the
big fray. We have yet to meet one of
them who does not look upon his short
service as something worth while.
Disappointed, of course, as most of
them are that they did not get to the
other side they feel that the training
and glimpse they got into a scientif-
ically ordered life was quite the most
beneficial experience they ever hope
to have.
—The official vote of Pennsylvania
has just been announced and shows
that Governor-elect Sproul had 245,
293 more votes than Judge Bonniwell.
The returns reveal the interesting
fact that Judge Bonniwell was not the
weakest of our state candidates. J.
Washington Logue, our candidate for
Lieutenant Governor had 275,396
votes less than Beidleman and Asher
R. Johnston, for Secretary of Inter-
nal Affairs, was 277,004 behind James
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FEDERAL UNION.
VOL 63.
BELLEFONTE, PA. DECEMBER 20, 1918.
NO. 50.
Honors to Wilson and His Country.
must be to every patriotic citizen of
the United States, is not the most sig-
nificant incident of his trip abroad.
The enthusiastic popular acclaim was
in some part a tribute to his person-
ality and in large part an apprecia-
the great war in behalf of civil liber-
anxiety shown by the advanced states-
manship of all the countries concern-
coming peace that his voice be heard
and his wisdom expressed in the de-
liberations of the conference is a
country.
they did when Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States, land-
soil. The
eruption of a long pent up gratitude
for deliverance from a dreaded evil
upon the honored representative of
the people whose prowess and courage
compassed the magnificent achieve-
ment. It means the permanent broth-
erhood of nations which have suffer-
ed alike though at different periods
from a similar menace. As Lafayette
psychological moment.
But other peoples and other capi-
tols will welcome President Wilson
with equal earnestness if less emo-
tion because he is universally recog-
nized throughout the civilized world
as the foremost citizen of the most
prosperous, progressive and powerful
people. There are grouches in this
country and possibly in that which
lies prostrate in defeat who begrudge
him the honors which the world is
willing to bestow, but their silly and
stupid lamentations only give force
sions of confidence which come from
the hearts of all worth while. Hon-
ors bestowed upon Woodrow Wilson
are tributes to the wisdom of the
their Chief Magistrate.
——1It is said that Charlie Schwab
resigned a dollar-a-year job to resume
one at a dollar-a-minute. Well he
was so faithful in the low priced one
that nobody will begrudge him the
prosperity of the higher rate employ-
ment.
State Agricultural Work.
One of the most gratifying pieces
of information that has come out of
Harrisburg recently is a statement
that the State Department of Agri-
culture is to be reorganized on prac-
tical lines. At present the Depart-
ment consists of a Commission com-
posed of a dozen excellent and well-
meaning gentlemen and some fifteen
specialists. There is a Commissioner
and an ex-officio board composed of
nearly all the State officers. There is
a president, vice presidents, an exec-
utive committee, an advisory com-
mittee, a committee on resolutions
and a committee on legislation. Only
the Commissioner draws salary and
he has a number of clerks and some
traveling agents and bureau heads
who are well paid.
The new plan contemplates such an
organization as that in the corres-
ponding service in Washington. It is
said to be Governor-elect Sproul’s in-
tention to seek such legislation as
will enable him to appoint a capable
man to head the department at a sal-
ary sufficiently high to entice the best
talent into the service and that done
to make the department an instru-
ment of good in the agricultural de-
velopment of the State. The war has
taught the importance of conserva-
of work fairer than agriculture. The
farmers of Pennsylvania are entitled
to the best and it is said that under
the existing system the department
is not worth the money it costs.
There is a possibility, of course,
that the proposed change is more for
political than agricultnral develop-
ment and in that event the subject
should be handled with great care.
There is here and there a useful par-
ty worker who is likely to be thrown
out of a job in the approaching
change in the personnel on Capitol
Hill and a reorganization of the De-
partment of Agriculture might help
of the committee get no recompense
work that might be paid for. As our
“there’s the rub.” But in any event
government by commission is an
abomination.
Roosevelt’s pet dog has disap-
peared, according to press dispatches.
When the Colonel read the account of
Wilson’s reception in Paris he prob-
ably kicked the poor brute.
F. Woodward. It was all bad enough
{roi o _emocratic standpoint but Mr.
Palmer’s two pets didn’t do nearly so
well as the candidate he played Judas
to.
As court fools are no longer
| needed it is hard to think up a job
came to us we went to France at the |
and effect to the spontaneous expres-
tion and there is no field for that sort |
The splendid ovation bestowed upon
President Wilson by the government
and people of France, gratifying as it’
tion of the service of this country in
Roosevelt the Only Peace Maker.
Colonel Roosevelt is not deceived
by the enthusiasm of the French re-
ception of President Wilson. He may
be disappointed in the signs that any
American, other than himself, should '
be thus acclaimed, and somewhat
chagrined that the admiration of the
world should be even momentarily di-
rected toward another individual. But
it doesn’t alter his plans or shift his
' purposes in the least. He is going to
ty throughout the world. But the
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ed in the war and to be affected by the | is not a member of the Peace Confer-
greater honor both to him and his | fairs of civilization.
ed on that war-torn and devastated | he is proverbially unconventional and
reception expressed an:
‘American people who chose him as |’
some in placing them. The members
for the work they do and they do |
late friend Hamlet would have said,
formulate the terms of peace and de-
termine the destinies of the world in
his own way and at his own time. He
ence but that is unimportant. He !
fought the battles, he won the victo- :
ry and he will settle the future af-
“js no dead;
Colonel Roosevelt
It is said that Paris is emotional | head in the enterprise,” to quote the
and France is proverbially enthusias- | language of another distinguished
tic. But neither Paris nor France has | politician. In proof of this he has al-
ever so overwhelmingly asserted con- | ready laid down the lines upon which
fidence in and affection for a man as | peace must be made. He uses a mag-
azine as his vehicle of expression
rather than the usual method. But
whatever method he adopts is the:
right method in his mind. What the
British Premier, the French Premier, |
the Italian Premier, and the President
of the United States think or do, is
“but leather or prunello.” They can
frame no conditions that will satisfy
Colonel Roosevelt and he must be sat-
isfied. That is why he is still on earth
and ever ready and eager to assert
himself.
In a magazine article which is hap-
pily exposed to public view just as the
peace conference is about to assemble,
Colonel Roosevelt volunteers his peace |
conditions, not tentatively but as a
mandate. There must be no diminu-
tion of armaments, no decrease in the
army and navy of the United States, |
no abandonment of forced military
service in this country during peace
periods and no tolerance of anything :
or policy that has not been cordially :
approved before hand by the great |
Colonel. To humor the chancellories
of Europe he may permit a league of |
nations but it must be on lines laid
by him and warranted to be absolute-
ly innocuous. It must. never inter-
fere with his plans. : i
the purpose of retarding the work of
our great President in behalf of civ-
ilization and humanity. But he will’
not accomplish his nefarious purpose. :
The people of the United States as
well as those of Europe have his
measure and his perfidious fulmina- |
tions though ferocious are futile. The i
spokesmen of the American people at |
the peace conference are at their posts |
of duty and what they do will be sat-
isfactory to all their fellow citizens
with the exception of the Colonel. We |
want peace now and tranquility in the |
| future and if the Colonel isn’t satis- :
fied with that he may hie himself to
the American jungle and kill to his |
heart’s content.
Another Good ~ Appointment.
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Governor-elect Sproul continues to!
inspire popular confidence by his ap- |
pointments to office, even though he !
does occasionally “spill the beans” in |
discussing policies. The recent an-:
nouncement of his appointment of
Lewis S. Sadler, of Carlisle, to the
important office of Highway Commis- |
sioner will meet with strong approv-
al. It is in line with his previously
announced appointments of Attorney
General and Secretary of the Com-
monwealth and indicates a standard
of fitness rather than expediency in
his selections, though neither of the
gentlemen named is a political nov-
ice. Mr. Sadler belongs to an office-
holding family and is a particularly
shrewd politician.
In the immediate future no office
will afford greater opportunity for
meritorius public service than that
into which Mr. Sadler will be placed.
The people of the State have author-
ized the e: penditure of large sums of
money in the construction and main-
tenance .of highways and it will re-
quire a level head as well as a keen
intellect to get the best results out
of the expenditures. Past experience
has not been conducive of confidence |
in future operations but Mr. Sadler’s
reputation for personal probity and |
energy lays a substantial foundation |
for hope. It is said that he is not a |
scientific builder but he is practical
and that is an important feature of
equipment.
Governor-elect Sproul is himself a
good-roads specialist and it may safe- |
ly be predicted that he will make the |
best uses of the facilities of the State |
to build to advantage. There will
probably be no expensive junketing
under the false pretense of road im-
provement or investigation but work
| will go on. The demobilization of the
| army will provide the necessary la-
bor and the credit of the State ample
| funds so that Pennsylvania stands to
take a front rank among the States
in the matter of highways during the
incoming administration. To achieve
| this result will be a laudable ambi- |
| tion of the Governor and his Commis-
that would be suitable for the recent
Crown Prince of Germany.
sioner and a substantial monument of
their efficiency.
—— Subscribe for the “Watechman.”
: who runs may read.”
: may be said that some of the conjec-
‘Thus this blatherskite raves on“for
Needlessly Disturbed Minds.
There is a good deal of alleged
mental energy being wasted these
days in efforts to determine what
President Wilson had in mind when
he made “freedom of the seas” one of
the essential conditions of peace. The |
conference will begin its deliberations
within a few days and President Wil-
son will express his meaning of that
and all other parts of the “fourteen
points” in language so plain that “he
Meantime it
tures of the British press and most of
i the predictions of newspapers oppos-
ed to the President in this country
will be disappointed.
For example some of the British
‘ naval officials apprehended that Pres-
ident Wilson means the abolishment
of the navies of the world which
would leave England helpless against
enemies and an expert writing in one
of the leading London journals imag-
' ines that it means the elimination of
blockades in the future.
‘equally prominent London newspa-
: per holds that it means no future
Another
fighting on water for the presumed
reason that there is greater peril in
sea than in land fighting and a French
paper in sobbing sentences protests
that “saved as we have been by the
naval power of our British allies, and
by the blockade which it enabled us
to establish, we cannot give up the su-
premely efficacious weapon against
any continental imperialism.”
In the early period of the war the
President protested frequently and
forcefully against seizures of Amer-
ican ships by British navy ships when
our vessels were in pursuance of le- |
gitimate commerce. He declared that
it was an unjust infringement on the
rights of American citizens to Have |
ships laden with cargoes not contra- :
band seized and if not taken at least
delayed. The renewal of this protest
in a form and at a time to make it ef-
fective is probably what the President
meant and in any event there is no
occasion to worry over the matter.
President Wilson will ask for nothing
that is unjust and England may con-
tinue to be justly proud of her great
pyy-
——Let us hope that the evidence
taken in the investigation of contri-
butions by liquor interests to politi-
cians will eliminate William Randolph
Hearst from the politics of the future.
——Every shout that arose from the |
crowds in Paris became an added rea-
son why the Republican managers ob-
jected to the President’s trip.
— Bethman-Hollweg says that the
late Kaiser is a liar and so far as we
| are able to find out that is the first
time Bethman ever told the truth.
——After all what’s the use of wor-
rying about the whereabouts of the
late Kaiser? His power of mischief
is ended everywhere.
| it is a safe bet that the Colonel would
see no impropriety in going abroad.
Penn State Will Continue Required
Military Training.
Demobilization of the Students’ Ar-
my Training Corps is now under way
at The Pennsylvania State College.
The vocational section,
600 soldiers sent to the college for
technical instruction, was discharged
last week. The men were paid off and
sent to their homes to engage in
peace-time pursuits.
Students in the collegiate section
are now having physical examina- | ©
tions preliminary to their discharge
from the army. They will be demo-
; bilized tomorrow, December, 21st, in
accordance with the War Depart-
ment’s orders.
Military training will be continued
at Penn State, however, through the
reinstatement of the Reserve Officers’
Training Corps, beginning about Jan-
uary 1st. As the proposed military
organization will obtain for its mem-
bers subsistence from the government
‘and certain perquisites, the college
authorities do not believe the discon-
| tinuance of the S. A. T. C. will have
a marked effect on the State College
attendance.
It is expected that the number of
students leaving the institution be-
cause army pay and college expenses
cease with the abandonment of the S.
A. T. C. will be equalled by former
students returning from army camps
| when the next semester begins, Jan-
uary 2nd.
— Christmas is only a few days
‘off but that will make no difference
in the high quality of motion pictures
shown at the Scenic. In fact it will
be manager Brown’s ambition to show
pictures next week suitable to the sea-
son and the public generally is invit-
ed to attend and enjoy them. Noth-
ing like a good program of moving
pictures to make one forget the wor-
ries of the day’s work, and the Scen-
ic is the place to go.
—— South Water street is now open
as far as the railroad and business
' men along that thoroughfare are nat-
| urally delighted with the improve-
ment.
comprising |
Airplane Mail Service Started Be-
' tween New York and Chicago, via
| Bellefonte on Wednesday.
; Lot ;
| History has been in the making in
| Bellefonte this week with the inau-
guration of the airplane mail service
| over the Wilson aero route between
New York and Chicago, Bellefonte
being the first relay station from Hew
. York. The first airplane to carry
mail was No. 24236 driven by pilot
Leon Smith. It left Belmont Park,
New York, at 7:20 o’clock on Wednés-
day morning, an hour and twenty
minutes late, and it being pilot
Smith’s first trip over the course he
became confused as to direction and
distance and swerved too far south
with the result that he sailed over
State College and after circling
around several times finally came
down in a field about a mile southeast
of the College to find out where he
was at. He spent some time there
then arose and came to Bellefonte,
finally landing here at 11.15. While
no accurate statement could be got-
ten as to the amount of mail he car-
ried it was estimated at from eight to
ten sacks, but it was all for Cleveland
and Chicago and not even one letter
for Bellefonte. :
Pilot Smith expected to meet a re-
lay here but was disappointed and as
his map only gave him the route from
New York to Bellefonte he was at a
loss to know what to do. Finally
Robert F. Hunter fixed him up a map
from Bellefonte to Cleveland, and
after taking on a supply of oil and
gas and getting his dinner, he left
here at 1:45 for Cleveland, taking
with him from the Bellefonte post-
office two sacks of mail, one for Cleve-
land and one for Chicago. So much
| for the first flight west. The flight
east was not entirely successful on
the opening day, as the machine bear-
ing the mail failed to reach Bellefonte
at all on Wednesday.
So much for the inauguration of
: the service on Wednesday. Prelimi-
i nary to that time, however, a number
| of machines made scouting trips over
, the route. The first of these, three in
' number, reached Bellefonte shortly.
. after the noon hour on Monday ¥
were piloted by Daniel Davids
“C. Ebersole and Julian Sykes. It was
! the first trip either of the men had
made over the route and naturally
they were somewhat handicapped as
to locating Bellefonte. Flying over
Sunbury they took what they suppos-
ed was the straight course and cross-
ed Brushvalley at Madisonburg. In
crossing the Nittany mountains they
swerved slightly north and came out
at East End, Nittany valley, where
they saw the big silo on the farm of
Eugene Heckman, between Mackey-
ville and Salona, which they took for
a monument. They then swung up
the valley and over the Bald Eagle
mountain, finally locating Bellefonte
and the landing field on the Beaver
farm.” Mr. Davidson, who was pilot-
ing the machines had no trouble land-
ing. Mr. Sykes, in endeavoring to
land, kept too far south with the re-
sult that he struck the top of a tree
at the east end of the field and knock-
ed a chunk out of his lower left wing.
Then when he finally struck the
ground he attempted to make a short
turn with the result that his left wheel
broke and his machine turned up on
| its nose. The pilot was uninjured but
{ one blade of the machine’s propeller
| was broken. In the meantime many
| people flocked onto the field and pilot
: Eversole had some difficulty in land-
ing, with the result that when he did
come down he was considerably vex-
The aeronauts were then confront-
i ed with another question. The gas
' ordered had not yet arrived and as
' none could be gotten in Bellefonte it
| was necessary to send to State Col-
lege for gas, the result being that the
men were compelled to remain here
until Tuesday morning. Their flight
! from New York to Bellefonte was
' made in two hours and a quarter, ac-
cording to their time. Tuesday morn-
ing at nine o’clock the two machines
arose gracefully and sailed west on
their course.
Shortly before noon on Tuesday
another machine piloted by a Mr.
Todd arrived in Bellefonte. He claim-
ed to have made the flight from Eliz-
abeth, N. J., to Bellefonte in an hour
and twenty minutes. He got dinner
here and left for the west early in the
afternoon. Later in the afternoon
another machine piloted by E. A.
Johnson arrived in Bellefonte. He
remained over night and left at nine
o'clock Wednesday morning for
Cleveland, taking with him one sack
of mail for that city.
Another machine piloted by Lieut.
D. I. Lamb left Belmont Park, N. Y.,
on Tuesday morning but in the neigh-
borhood of Selinsgrove he developed
engine trouble and in endeavoring to
x “the ush
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Joseph Yeagle, of near Montoursville,
Lycoming county, butchered two big pork-
ers, which weighed 1,524 pounds, one going
! 746 and the other 778 pounds. One meas-
ured seventy-two inches around the body
i and the other eighty-two inches. Thir-
' teen cams of lard were secured.
| © —A bet made by Wallace Enders with
| Patrick Cashell, both of Milltown, that he
i would set fire to the Milltown school
hdlise led to the boy’s conviction in juve-
i nile court. Enders staked a bicycle bell
{ against Cashell’s dollar. The school house
i was burned one month ago, with a loss of
| $3,000.
—A thief ransacking the home of George
I. Hilbert, at Reading, driver of a police
patrol motor, got $330 in cash and eseap-
ed. Hilbert was on duty at police head-
quarters, and Mrs. Hilbert was alone in
the house. She was not aroused, and the
robbery was not reported until Tuesday
morning.
—Breaking away from a group of high-
waymen and jumping on the running-
board of an automobile that was passing
at the rate of probably twenty miles an
hour, Max Josephs, a Chester business
man, saved his roll of $500 and a diamond
ring, which, he says, is worth $300 more,
late Monday night.
—Alphonsus L. Wagaman, of Square
Corner, Franklin county, who was shot in
the leg on the opening day of the deer
season, died as a result of tetanus. Wag-
aman was shot by his son when he had
moved out of his position in a drive, the
son mistaking him in the brush for a
deer. The wounded hunter was getting
along nicely until last Thursday, when
tetanus developed.
—Peter Smollok, of Xulpmont, Nor-
thumberland county, confessed wife-mur-
derer, was on Tuesday sentenced by Pres-
ident Judge Cummings, in the Northum-
berland county court, to be electrocuted.
After a drinking bout last summer, Smol-
lak crushed in his wife's skull with a
hatchet. He pleaded guilty without a ju-
ry trial and was adjudged guilty of first
degree murder by the court.
—A note written to “Violet,” containing
many alleged endearing terms, and found
in the pocket of Clarence E. Coles, of Har-
risburg, by his wife, overshot the mark,
he told the court. According to Coles, he
sought that means of making his wife
jealous and more attentive to him. So ef-
fective was the alleged fake note that the
Coles now are separated, with an applica-
tion for divorce between them. Coles was
ordered by the court to pay his wife $40 a
month.
—Although assessors for the borough of
Centralia, Columbia county, returned to
the county commissioners that there were
thirty dogs in Centralia, the constables of
that borough have sworn that they have
so far this year killed 299. Under a State
law, the county commissioners are bound
to pay $1 to a constable for each dog he
kills. It is amazing, according to the offi-
cials, how many dogs there are in Centra-
lia. It is a mining town of less than 2000
population.
—Miss Helena Greininger, the night op-
erator of the telephone exchange at Lo-
ganton, Clinton county, and two women
occupying adjoining rooms, heard a bur-
glar moving about in the Loganton Na-
tional bank on the first floor of the ex-
change building, about three o'clock
Thursday morning, and quietly called up
: fer and other men. A posse of
citizens surrounded the bank, but’ the:ac-
cidental discharge of a gun frustrated the
capture of the burglar.
—Alleging that they were disfigured for
life when they were thrown on top of the
big furnace of the Central Iron and Steel
company, at Harrisburg, when a draft of
gas was forced through the chimney which
they were painting, Norman Skillen and
Neil Maloney have brought damage suits
for $45,000 damages. The men clung to
the chimney until overcome by the gas.
Fellow workmen pulled them off the fur-
nace after they had been terribly burned.
Maloney says his nose was burned off.
—A dream in which the name of the per-
son who robbed him last week, in a hotel
on ithe south side, Bethlehem, of money
that he had intended to use in paying for
a Liberty bond for his son in France, led
Levi Fogel, of Lehighton, to cause the ar-
rest on Saturday of Benjamin Franklin,
of the same place. Franklin admitted the
theft, stating that he took $130 from Fo-
gel. Only $16 was recovered. Alderman
Rueter committed Franklin to jail. Fo-
gel went home to try to dream a plan to
get back the missing $114.
—Pennsylvania has not only materially
increased its commercial orchards raising
apples and peaches in the last few years,
but it now has orchards which are rais-
ing pears, plums and prunes, crabapples
and quinces, cherries and currants. A
state survey of all such commercial places
as distinguished from those owned by far-
mers or privately operated has just been
finished. There are 1,444 apple and peach
orchards, Adams county having the largest
number. Throughout the State these
orchards have more than 725,000 bearing
apple trees.
—Jesse Hayes McCartney, aged 16, son
of Robert and Grace McCartney, of Al-
lenport, a suburb of Mt. Union, was shot
and instantly killed at noon on Saturday,
the shot presumably having been fired by
a hunter on Chestnut ridge, about a mile
south of town. Jesse and his brother, 8
years old, had gone to the woods to get
some wood and he was using his axe when
he was shot in the breast and face and in-
stantly killed. The little brother went to
his home and informed the parents, the
lifeless body of the boy being found when
they and others went to the scene.
—TFive members of the family of Rev.
John Ricker, pastor of the Eagle Evangel-
jcal church, on the Blooming Grove road,
Lycoming county, are ill with influenza
and all have been removed to the Wil-
liamsport hospital. Permission was re-
ceived from Mayor A. M. Hoagland to
drive the police ambulance to the Ricker
home Sunday afternoon and Rev. Ricker
and wife and two children, all ill with the
influenza, were removed to the hospital.
One other child was taken to the hospital
Sunday evening. All were reported from
the hospital as getting along nicely.
— Frank McQuaid, aged twenty-eight, is
at the point of death in the Elk county
general hospital in Ridgway, as the result
of being shot by Robert Ritchie, at a
lumber camp located on Irwin Run, three
miles from Arroyo, late Saturday even-
land struck a tree which was uproot-
ed and the machine badly wrecked. |
Naturally he did not reach Bellefonte
and on Wednesday Harry Winton |
went to Selinsgrove in his big truck
with a force of mechanics to try and |
put the machine in repair.
ONE PILOT KILLED.
The inauguration of the service was |
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ing. Ritchie is now a prisoner in the Elk
county jail where he will await the out-
come of McQuaid’s wounding. McQuaid
had been engaged in a heated discussion
with Ritchie in the lobby of the camp of
the Central Pennsylvania Lumber compa-
ny. Ritchie has a quick temper and went
upstairs and procured a 38 calibre revol-
ver. He quickly came down and while
within a few feet of McQuaid, fired point
blank into his body.