ee Democratic atc Bellefonte, Pa., February 7, 1919. Teo Correspondents.—No communications published unless accompanied by the real name of the writer. P. GRAY MEEK, - z Editor Terms of Subscription.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to sub- scribers at the following rates: Paid strictly in advance - = Paid before expiration of year - Paid after expiration of year - $1.50 1.75 2.00 HOLDING FORTH IN GERMANY. Sergt. Clarence Smith Writes of His Wonderful Experience in the Big War Overseas. The following letter from Sergt. Clarence Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Smith, of Bellefonte, will doubt- less be read with a great deal of in- terest by his friends in Bellefonte. Sergt. Smith is a member of Ambu- lance company No. 2, attached to the First division, which was in action through most of the war. Sergt. Smith tells some of his experiences in such a straightforward, unassum- ing way that his letter is well worth reading. Montabaur, Germany, Jan. 2. I received the Christmas box on the 31st of last month. It certainly did come in handy. Candy is almost un- heard of here, the people have had none since the beginning of the war. The Y. M. C. A. gave out some choc- olate one day to the soldiers and you should have seen the natives eyes bulge. The children almost knocked one over in their eagerness to get some. Soap, too, is out of the ques- tion. With a cake of soap and a cake of chocolate one can almost buy out the town. I am now on detached service with the First division headquarters. I have three men with me. There is also a doctor here who ranks as maj- or. We have been on detached serv- ice since the 20th of November. We take sick-call for the men who are sick and run a dispensary. It is nice work and I like it very much. We had a nice trip coming here from Verdun. .We rode in trucks all the way with the exception of one day. We hiked twenty-five miles that day, which brought us to Coblenz. The major had already been there and arranged for rooms for us. While in France we had to take whatever we could get in the way of accommo- dations, which was not very much. France being an ally we had to take whatever they offered, and believe me, we had some bum places to stay. Usually houses or barns that had been almost shot to pieces and were barely any protection from the weather. So, when we arrived at Coblenz and found that our major had taken rooms for us at one of the best hotels in the city, you can imagine our surprise. Everything that a modern hotel in the States has, we found here. We came into the rooms with our hobnail shoes on and stepped on the nice car- pet. But what did we care. “To the victors belong the spoils.” Now, since ‘we are in Germany, we just take what we want in the way of accommoda- tions and it is always the best to be had. The people don’t offer any ob- jections. They seem to take it as a matter of course. The American sol- dier always seems to have lots of mon- ey and the people here think we are all rich. A mark is now worth about eleven cents in our money. Before the war it was worth twenty-four cents. The scenery .along the Moselle riv- er in Germany is beautiful. The riv- er is flanked on both sides by high hills. From the river's edge to the top of the hills is one stretch of vine- yards, planted on terraces. When they fertilize the ground they carry the fertilizer on their backs to the top of the hills. Some job! Nothing else will grow there and they use every bit of space on the hill. On some of the hills are ruins of old castles, and some new ones, too. The scenery here is in such a contrast to what we saw in France. There everything was al- most ruined. Towns and villages were literally destroyed, roads were torn up, and the big trees that adorn- ed both sides of the road were cut down and made use of by the Boche. It is too bad the Germans did not have some of their towns destroyed. Outside of the scarcity of food, you would never think they were in war. We were in Coblenz two days. It is quite a large city. We crossed the Rhine on the 14th of December and came to Montabaur, where we have since been. This place is about twelve miles east of Coblenz. Our company was a horse-drawn ambulance unit, and naturally we got closer to the front than a motor unit. We had but twelve ambulances and about 150 men. So it left us about 100 men for stretcher-bearers and first aid men. These men were distribut- ed among a regiment of infantry. So you see we were right in the big show. The last of September, when the big drive started in the Argonne woods our division was in reserve. But about the 4th of October we moved in. The Boche had been pushed back a number of kilometres and we were going over ground that they had held since the beginning of the war. We were waiting in a town until the doughboys took a certain other town so we could establish a dressing sta- tion there. While we were waiting the boche would throw over some gas, H. E. shells and shrapnel. We were sitting against the side of the hill and could see where most of the shells fell. We were practically safe from everything except gas. We could see the gas shells break and the deadly fumes rise from the ground. Once we were enveloped with the gas but we quickly adjusted our masks and in a few minutes it was all over. After waiting four or five hours we received orders to advance. We start- ed up the road from the town and went up a hill. When we reached the top of the hill we were shelled again. This time we had no protection. The boche knew all the roads and could put the shells anywhere, and he put them on the road, too. However, none of the shells fell closer than about one hundred yards from us. The ambu- lances were separated so that a space of about seventy-five yards was be- tween each one. We stopped where we were until the shelling was over then went on again. After we had traveled about an hour we were shell- ed again, and again we stopped and waited. While waiting this time a bunch of , boche planes came over, flying low. | At first we thought they were Ameri- can planes but they soon showed us different. Their machine guns began to rattle and the bullets to fall around us. There were five of us in a shell hole at the time, and over one part of the hole was a piece of sheet iron about four feet square. When the bullets began flying the five of us made a dive for the hole. Only one could get in it, and I was the one. I got my head and shoulders in. The boche had been shooting lots of gas over for several days, the weather was damp, just the kind for gas, and the shell holes were full of it, so we beat it out of there for a safer place. The boche seemed to be master of the air for a while. Our anti-aircraft ! guns were shooting at them and shrapnel from these shells fell all around us. I later found a hole which the boche had fixed up as a telephone station where I was pretty safe. Sev- eral of our ambulances got bullet holes through them. The Red Cross was plainly visible on the top of the ambulances and the enemy planes were very low, not over one hundred | 9Wn Old Glory very much in evidence. | to one hundred and fifty yards in the | I saw not only the King and Queen, Seanor says: air, but the boche would shoot at any- thing. However, we all got through it safe. But the next day they got two of our fellows. It has been a wonderful experience to go through. I want to say right here that we have been in all of it. | day and night duty for a week be-! The First division has not missed any- thing. We were the first troops to see the front and the last to leave on November 11th. I have come through all right and have been well all the time. Praise for Capt. Theodore Davis Boal. Centre county has always been proud of her soldiers, proud of their patriotism and bravery as displayed on the battlefield and proud of their loyalty to the green valleys and rug- ged hills of Central Pennsylvania; and now that the great European war is over there will be many more of them to evoke the admiration of their fellowmen, for of the almost two thousand young men who went forth to service in the greatest war upon earth not one of them will return with aught but commendation to his cred- it. And some of them will return lustre-crowned because of deeds per- formed upon the battle field or other ways in the cause for which they fought. And among this number is Capt. Theodore Davis Boal. In writ- ing a brief history of the Twenty- | eighth (Pennsylvania) division, R. E. | Aulanier and Paul Pimoulle, French officers attached to the division for liaison work, after speaking most glowingly of the admirable qualities of General Charles Muir, pays the fol- lowing tribute to Capt. Boal. I feel that I ought to say a word of your aide-de-camp, Captain Boal, ! that cultured gentleman, that staunch patriot. He would walk with the same ! elegant ease under machine-gun or | shell fire as when decorating a mess table. What a pity that such a gen- tleman did not have the chance to go through a war more brilliant than this one. I can so vividly picture him dashing against the enemy on a splen- did charger, fitted out in a glittering uniform, and smiling in the face of death as he would at a fine lady! All his acts were inspired by his af- fection for his country and for the person of his general. Being of an age that allowed him to escape the hardships of war and possessed of im- mense wealth, which permitted him to enjoy all this world’s goods, Captain Boal left everything, forgot every- thing to come and fight in the fair land of France he loved so much. So great was this love that he sent over his only son, as early as 1914, to de- fend the honor of France in a French uniform. General, Captain Boal was your worthy assistant. Bugler Frank Crissman Reported Alive. Notwithstanding the fact that bug- ler Frank Crissman, son of Mr. W. Homer Crissman, of Bellefonte, was officially reported dead by the War Department on January 7th, reports from some of his comrades in France state that he is not only alive but get- ting along all right. A letter to this effect was received on Tuesday by Mrs. Butterworth from her husband, Lieut. Butterworth, of the 107th ma- chine gun battalion. Mrs. worth wrote to her husband in De- cember to find out positively about Bugler Crissman, and his reply, un- der date of January 12th, was in ef- fect that he had information that Crissman had been wounded in the thigh but was now getting along all right. Lieut. Butterworth further stated that according to information they had received the entire Twenty-eighth division (old National Guard of Penn- sylvania) will be sent home during the latter part of February and not later than the first week in March. Sergt. CLARENCE SMITH. ' Butter- | EXPLORED A SUBMARINE. Former Centre County Woman Writes of Her Work in London, England. Mrs. Willis Weaver, of Windber, has received another letter from her a native of Centre county, in which she tells of the many interesting things she has seen and experienced in her work in London, England. Her letter follows: London, England, Dec. 29, 1918. I had the wonderful experience of being taken over the famous U-boat 155, which is anchored here in the Thames. She was the Deutschland, ' America, you remember. How men !live aboard a submarine is beyond me. We were shown every corner land detail of the boat. Wasn’t that great? The next most thrilling experience i was to be here for the arrival of Wilson. It was | President and Mrs. almost as exciting as being in New { York on Armistice day. England | surely showed America every cour- | tesy and every honor it was in her | power to show. Think of the King and Queen going personally to the "depot to meet the President and his | wife—a thing almost never done— | and they had to wait fifteen minutes i for the train. When they returnec, ! King with President Wilson seated ion his right and the Queen in the | next royal carriage with Mrs. Wilson i seated at her right. I am sure your | papers have described the gorgeous- | ness of the carriages, the out-riders, ' the color-bearers, the guard of honor, | ete., etc., much better than I ean. | And think of it—1I stood just a couple { of feet from where they passed and {had a full view of every detail. It was the privilege of a lifetime. The | streets through which they passed | were decorated beautifully with bunt- ing and the flags of the Allies, our | the President and Mrs. Wilson, but | the Duke of Connaught, Princess Ma- | ry, Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, | in fact almost all the most talked-of | people in England today. The night patrol has been doing | cause the International Hospitality | League had 1,500 invitations from | private homes for men in uniform— { many of them from homes whose boys { would never come back. Wasn't | wonderful? As we do all the street work they asked us to come on duty in the daytime until we had boys to accept this hospitality. Boxing day is the day after Christmas and is quite as much of a holiday as Christmas, so we really had a longer day than we had Christ- mas. I don’t know just what Boxing day means. It seems they give boxes or gifts to the servants. Miss Mac- Gregor—my partner on the night pa- trol—we go in pairs—and I had a funny experience on Boxing day. About five o’clock we had an invita- tion from the Brompton Road Boys’ club for thirty men for tea and din- ner that night. We gathered up the men—all of them strangers in Lon- don— and then we could not get a taxi, a bus, a train, or any means of conveyance and the place was three miles, through these crooked, dark streets, so we volunteered to walk there with them. It was the funniest kind of uniform. We had Scotch, New Zealanders, Australians, South Americans, and we two women. They i voted us as good hikers as any man. ; | When we got to the place they had’ ! because | stopped the refreshments i they thought we were not coming. | We pulled off our coats, helped make sandwiches and tea for those hungry having had a fine time. pressive, most beautiful service I have ever seen. I think I wrote you about = Saint Martins-in-the-Field— the lovely old church built in 1721— on our “beat” where we go to service every night at 10 o’clock if the street is quiet enough for us to leave. Well, this Christmas eve service is called “The Mystery.” The church is abso- i lutely dark. The first is the three shepherds with their lanterns follow- ing the star and seeking the manger, and follows in every detail the story of the Christ child. I never have heard such music and never saw any- thing so sacred. I am sure there never was a time when people so uni- versally prayed and read their Bibles. Your little brown testament is not neglected any day, I assure you. The things we see make us say many earn- est prayers, I can tell you. A repa- triated prisoner whom I was able to help a little gave me a cigarette case with the Iron Cross stamped in the corner. Last night an Australian convalescent gave me a button off the uniform he had worn when he went into battle at the beginning of the war. In two days I met three men who had been in Fallon—wasn’t that queer? ; And so on and so on the days go by. As my first month is over I went to Lady Ward the other day and asked her if I might go to France with Miss MacGregor, who leaves on the first. She was dandy and said they were releasing three girls from the night patrol who have completed four months’ service here and that they left only five Americans, two of whom were entirely new on the work; that if I would stay a month or six weeks longer she would write a letter so that I could either be sent in with ever I wanted to do in France with- sister, Mrs. Harriet Holmes Schaub, | the first submarine the Huns sent to | {in the first royal carriage rode the it | outfit you ever saw, made up of every : Welsh, Irish, Canadians, Americans, fellows, helped to get dinner on the’ way and finally left them at 9 o’clock | On Christmas eve, instead of going to dinner we went to the most im- the army of occupation or given what- | . ' {out any probation work there. Of | { course I am more than willing to stay ' because I came to work wherever I, am needed most, but wasn’t Lady | { Ward nice about it? I was glad to ! stay on my own account, too, because, tas I wrote you, working nights and { sleeping days does not leave much | time for sight-seeing and certainly | this is the most wonderful town in the world. Yesterday we went to the! ! House of Parliament. You can’t im- | agine anything so gorgeous as the | House of Lords. The House of Com- | mons is the other extreme, very plain - indeed. | HARRIET HOLMES SCHAUB. — ee | ; | News of the Soldier Boys. James B. Stein Jr., of Sunbury, landed in Hoboken last week, being one of the casualties sent home for further treatment. The young sol- 'dier will be better remembered by Bellefonte people as “Jimmie” Stein, son of Rev. and Mrs. James B. Stein. The family lived in Bellefonte a num- ber of years while Rev. Stein was pastor of the Methodist church. James Stein Jr., was among the first to volunteer after war was declared upon Germany, going across with a regiment of engineers. He saw con- siderable service and was finally wounded in the shoulder. His par- ents, Rev. and Mrs. Stein, now reside in Altoona. Lieut. Paul B. Seanor, who was badly injured in a motorcycle acei-' dent in Riverside, Cal., several weeks ago, is recovering nicely and it is ex- pected will be able to leave the hos- pital in the near future. Lieut. Sea- nor, who was in training in the avia- tion service at March field, Riverside, was out on his motorcycle when he collided with an automobile driven by Rev. Father Stephens, of Colton. His injuries consisted of two slight frac- tures of the skull, concussion of the brain and several painful cuts and bruises. He was taken care of in the army post hospital. Writing to the “Watchman” of their home there Mrs. “This is a perfectly | { wonderful country. The scenery and , climate cannot possibly be described. {One can be out of doors the year !’round, but even at that there can never be any place like dear old , Bellefonte to me.” | { i | Lieut. Commander A. Trood Bid- | | well, of Bellefonte, who has been on | duty in the Adriatic sea the past year | or more, was given a nice Christmas | | present by the Admiral in charge of as Far East fleet. and as all the destroyers have been ordered to return to home ports it means that Commander Bidwell will return to the United States within the next few months and that will prob- ably mean a leave of absence to visit his home folks. Robert S. Walker surprised his Bellefonte friends by arriving home ‘very unexpectedly on Tuesday even- ing. So far as general knowledge was concerned Mr. Walker was still in Scotland, but it seems that he was returned to this country very unex- pectedly. He landed in Philadelphia the latter part of last week and at once got into communication with his wife who was visiting in Philadelphia. He then called up his mother, who was at Bryn Mawr, and the three of them ! came to Bellefonte Tuesday evening. Mr. Walker has a ten days’ leave of absence when he will report at Nor- folk to receive his discharge. | Charles McCoy, one of theBellefonte overseas young men who turned out to be alive after having been reported | killed in action, returned home on : Tuesday. More of the Lost Boys Located. | The “Watchman” is happy to be able again to reassure a number of ! parents and friends as to the where- | abouts of their boys on the other side who have not been heard from for so | ‘long as to cause anxiety. Our connection with the Home Pa- per Service of America has been worth | while. . It affords us opportunity to i | render service to the public that is | worth while and in rendering this | | service the “Watchman” furnishes | | another proof of its claim so general- | ily acknowledged by persons who | | know, that it is the really worth while | paper published in Centre county. i WILBERT I. LYKENS Has no casualty report. His unit, | i Co. G, 362nd Inf., at latest reports | was at Lateret-Bernard, Belgium, | with the 91st Division; the entire Di- | vision being on the priority list for | early return home. | GEORGE W. BAILEY | No casualty report. His unit, Sup- | ply Co., 60th Coast Artillery, sailed LJanuary 26th, for New York on the Cedric which was due to dock on Tuesday of this week. It will then proceed to Fort Washington, Md., a coast artillery station about fifteen miles down the Potomac from Wash- ington. MORRIS COLYER His unit, the 83rd Inf., is at Pan- ama. The casualty bureau has no in- formation as to condition of members, nor is it possible to say when the 33rd will return to this country. DAVID H. LAUCK David Lauck was reported killed in action November 1st, but his parents have had some doubt as to the accu- racy of the report. We regret that our information fur- nishes no substantial ground on which to base hope that the first report might be incorrect. There has been | no alteration of the original report. ' His unit, Co. H, 814th Inf. is at Sou- , illy, France, and forms part of the ar- | my of occupation. | Other inquiries that have come in since the above were received will be answered just as promptly as we can ! get thorough investigation made. i | along all right. dishes. AT WORK IN MILLIERES. Miss Rebecca N. Rhoads Tells of the Work in Her New Location. Millieres, France, Jan. 3. I had a strange New Year's day. . It was mild as spring almost, and sun- ; ny and nice most of the day. I was to have left Nogent for here several ; days before I did but asked to stay one day longer and then was ready to lea’e on Tuesday, December 31st. I haa everything packed and ready but ‘ when the head colonel heard of it he wouldn’t let me go until after the New Year’s eve entertainment in our “Y.” It was too funny. He had just . come in his car, a big Cadillac 8, with i another officer or two, one French, to take me to see the room we had select- ! club. Our “YY” | ed for the officers’ truck driver came to the decor of the | car to say that he had my luggage on the truck and was all ready to take me to this place but the colonel order- | ed him to take my things back to my billet and the consequence was, of | course, I had the pleasure of that last | entertainment. “Y” man and said he would send me | over whenever I wanted to go. But I knew they were expecting me, and needed me over here, so I wasn’t will- ing to stay longer there than that | night. I came here in luxurious style “in the Cadillac car on New Year's i morning. Both generals were at that entertainment and expressed regret at my leaving. I can never cease to be thankful that I did not allow personal inclina- tion to keep me at Nogent, now that I see how very much needed a “Y” | I confess I shed a | Iam: woman is here. tear or two at leaving Nogent. supposed now to be attached to the 5th army corps, and have the insig- | nia and authority to wear it. As soon ! as I arrived here I saw the divisional | secretary was right, and that here is where the need is greatest. There are twice as many men here in this little place as at Nogent, and with scarce- ly nothing being done for them. Such "a dreary, dismal “Y” when I first saw it late New Year's afternoon. The | secretary is a nice man from Califor- nia but brand new over here, only left the States in Sentember, and a sol- dier or two helpers is all we have. Just a long wooden army barrack for our “Y” hut. There is not even a floor in it, no platform or canteen counter, and scarcely a shelf; abso- lutely barc walls, about four trestle tables, a few plain benches, several He was made | army stoves which smoke terribly, one commander of the destroyer Gregory ' tiny candle was burning, about twen- ty men hugging the stove and no sup- plies in sight. Well, you can imag- ine how I felt! It’s a dead little vil- lage, no sidewalk of any kind, mud The colonel himself ! went with explanations to the head ! Military and Naval Discharges. It is of great importance to each soldier and sailor in Centre county, who has received an honorable dis- charge from the military or naval service of the United States, that a permanent record of such discharge be preserved. We are glad to announce that Wil- liam H. Brown, the present recorder of deeds, will record all such discharg- es of all soldiers or sailors from Cen- tre county, without any charges to them for his service, and will be able to do same as soon as he can get the necessary record book; all dis charges to be taken to said office and same to be called for. STRICKLAND. — Franklin Pierce i Strickland died at the Blair county hospital on Saturday evening of apo- plexy, aged 66 years, 5 months and 1 day. For a number of years he re- ¢ sided at Snow Shoe, this county, and i was a member of the Odd Fellows . lodge of that place as well as the | Methodist church. He is survived by three sons and four daughters, name- ly: J. F. Strickland, of Juniata; W. { J., of Parkersburg, W. Va.; F. L, in | France; Mrs. E. L. Foster, of Cone- i maugh; Mrs. G. M. Culp, of Schells- ! burg; Mrs. Thomas McOnagle, of La- | trobe, and Mrs. Dowell Kinzley, of Cleveland, Ohio. He also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Oscar Miles, of Miles- burg, and Mrs. Jeffries McCallion, of Howard. The remains were brought to Milesburg on the Pennsylvania-Le- high train Wednesday afternoon and burial made in the Milesburg ceme- tery. il Il ADAMS.—Robert Adams, only son of William and Julia Gray Adams, i died at his home on Penn street on Sunday of tubercular meningitis. In October he had an attack of influen- { za and from it developed the disease which caused his death. He was born in Hagerstown, Md., on August 5th, 1875, hence had reached the age of 44 years, 6 months and 3 days. He had been a resident of Bellefonte a num- ber of years. In April, 1918, he was united in marriage to Miss Lavina Thomas, of Virginia, who came north three years ago and lived at State College prior to her marriage. His only survivors are his wife and par- ents. Funeral services were held at his late home at 2:30 o’clock on Wed- nesday afternoon by Rev. L. V. Jones, pastor of the A. M. E. church, after which burial was made in the Union cemetery. j Il BROUSH — Edward Brouse, son of William and Mary Brouse, of Boals- : burg, died on Sunday evening of dia- . betes, aged nine years. The boy had ! been sick only twenty-four hours and everywhere, at night so black that I | being an unusually bright child his cannot see the face or even form of | untimely death is a sad blow to his the man going with me to the “Y.” This is certainly very much like the ers and three sisters. He also leaves three broth- Funeral serv- | parents. real front line work. Over at Nogent jces were held at 10:30 o'clock on the boys all said they would get drunk | Wednesday morning by Rev. S.C. if I left, and while it was gratifying Stover, after which burial was made to know they didn’t want me to leave, they are in Paradise compared to these equally fine fellows over here. I in the Boalsburg cemetery. li BKUGGER.—Mrs. Emma Thomp- hadn’t been here two hours until I in- | son Brugger, wife of John Brugger, stinctively felt that there was a lot of i died at her home in Johnstown last talent here in the way of acting and | week. She had been an invalid for . singing, and it has already proven I | many years. She never had any chil- ' was right. { dren and her only survivors are her First of all I decided we must have husband and her mother. The re more light and determined on some | mains were brought to Unionville for kind of a holder for candles. I found . burial on Monday. a boy from DuBois, Pa., who made out of cigar boxes three “chandeliers” for | the ceiling of the building and six side : lights, all lined with tin to act as re- flectors. Then, fortunately, I had | brought some discarded posters with me from Nogent, very pretty and , bright ones, and after trimming off the torn edges I tacked these up on the bare walls making the place look more cheerful and last night (my sec- ond here) the “Y” was crowded. It really looked brilliant with the twelve candles glowing and the light from the stoves. During the day I had drummed up some musical talent and with a violin- ist and a splendid male quartette we really had a wonderful evening. To- day I visited the various company offi- ces and we now have entertainments promised for three evenings with more in prospect. Among the soldiers here are actors, dancers, vaudeville performers, a tight-rope walker, com- edians, etc., all of whom helped save the world for democracy at the battle of Chateau Thierry and other places. They have been cited for bravery and commended by the French govern- ment any number of times. They are the boys of the 101st infantry of that wonderful Twenty-sixth division. We kept the one telephone wire hot with our insistence that supplies be sent here at once and tonight they came, and also a moving picture. In the month and a half these boys have been here they had only one moving picture entertainment before this and only one local talent performance. Last night the following note was handed to me: To the only girl we have seen in a month and a half: e give you a standing invitation to join our little 0 party in the Y. M. C. A. hut. A short talk on what is doing back in the U. S. A. will greatly relieve our home- sickness. e remain, ete. THE GANG. The “Y” secretary has secured the nicest room obtainable for me, in the same house with the major. It has an open fireplace and is so filled with dishes, bric-a-brac, beautifully carved and heavy furniture, that one can hard- ly turn around, but it is very comfort- { able as long as it Joes not get colder. The old French woman is an inces- sant talker and is, I fear—as one of the officers put it—“soused” much of the time with “vin rouge,” but we get My room was for- merly the “salle a manger”—dining room—which explains the numerous on Brief Meeting of Borough Council, | Every member was present at Mon- day night’s meeting of borough coun-, cil with the exception of Mr. Cherry. There were no verbal nor written communications. Mr. Harris, of the Street commit- tee, reported that men were at work cleaning out the Thomas street sew- er and outlined some changes which would in a measure prevent its clog- ging up. The committee was instruct- ed to make the necessary changes. Mr. Harris also reported that Isaac Baney’s horse had broken through the bridge at the Phoenix mill and the bridge had been repaired. The Water committee reported fix- ing a number of fire hydrants and also submitted their recommendations on the various requests for water tax exonerations, with the recommenda- tion that on the requests disallowed property owners be given fifteen days in which to pay the tax and if not paid at that time the water will he turned off. The recommendation of the committee was accepted and ap- proved by council. The Finance committee reported a balance in the hands of the borough treasurer on January 20th of $1300, and also asked for the renewal of a note for $2000 for six months from January 2nd, and a new note for $5000 for three months to meet cur- rent bills, both of which were author- ized. Secretary Kelly read a notice of a meeting of the Pennsylvania Federa- tion of Boroughs to be held at the Penn-Harris hotel in Harrisburg on | February 25th and 26th, with a sug- gestion that council send a delegation to the meeting. Council voted to send the burgess, solicitor and the chair- men of the Street and Water commit. tees. President Walker appointed A. Miles Barr an auditor for the Pruner orphanage. A complaint was received from the Pennsylvania Match company regard- ing the condition of the railroad tres- tle above the passenger station, which in a time of high water is liable to clog the stream and flood their prem- ises. Inasmuch as the railroad com- pany is now working at this trestle to get it cleared out the matter was re- ferred to the Street committee and borough solicitor. Bills to the amount of $4521.16 REBECCA N. RHOADS. were approved and council adjourned.
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