Bera Was.
INK SLINGS. |
—Here’s hoping that the daylight
saving law won’t be repealed.
—Don’t put off making your income
tax return. The easiest way to keep
out of trouble is not to get into it.
—Whatever goes up is sure to
come down doesn’t apply to the price
of your old home newspaper, for the
very good reason that it didn’t go up
when everything else caught the ris-
ing fever.
—Tomorrow will be the first day of
March. It is proverbially the longest
and most disagreeable month of the
year, but we have had a pleasant win-
ter and a little rough weather will
make us appreciate spring all the
more when it comes.
—After July 1st it will be a bait
box not a bait bottle that will accom-
pany the angler to his favorite fish-
in’ hole. Maybe the “old hole” won’t
be such a favorite place either when
old John Barleycorn isn’t there to
brighten things up a bit when the fish
are not bitin’!
—Candidates are beginning to of-
fer themselves to the voters. It is a
wholesome sign when men take an in-
terest in political affairs and the pub-
lic would do well to investigate them
thoroughly so that none but compe-
tent, honest and constructive men get
into the county offices.
—Pennsylvania was the forty-fifth
State to ratify the dry amendment,
but she can’t take any glory out of
the “better be late than never.”
Everyone who knows the real feeling
of the present Legislature knows that
it is an hundred to one shot that that
body would have been holding up rat-
ification right now had the necessary
thirty-six States not already passed
it.
—What is Centre county going to
do with the good roads movement
that is sweeping over the State?
Many counties are taking advantage
of every opportunity to get a full
share of the vast sums that are to be
spent during the next four years and
we should be second to none of them.
Let us get busy and make the Bald
Eagle, the Buffalo Run and the Lew-
istown highways permanent brick
structures. It can be done.
—The President has returned and
gives us the bit of significant infor-
mation that it is the people of Eu-
rope, and not the rulers, who are in
the saddle and have to be dealt with.
“They want an assurance of permanent
peace, something with a guarantee
th4t the boys of tomorrow will never
be taken again for cannon fodder,
that war and all its attendant horrors
‘is done with forever. If they are not
‘given this either through a League
of Nations or in Some hee saiigfas
tory way the smouldering un is
“likely —~ ha come ‘a seething volcano
which will erupt with such force as to
shatter the foundations of all present
government. :
—The Fulton Democrat wants al
of its readers to “Help pull McCon-
nellsburg out of the Dark.” What can
our contemporary mean. Can it be
possible that the lovely town, nestling
in one of God’s most productive val-
leys and eternally watered by the lim-
pid streams from the majestic Tusca-
roras and Scrub Ridge has fallen into
a moral or financial slough? Surely
not! With not even the shrill shriek
of the iron horse to disturb its peace-
ful ‘calm McConnellsburg is what the
Salvation Army hopes for when it
sings: “Every Day Will be Sunday
By and By.” Pull such a spot “out of
the dark.” There is no darkness
there. It only seems dark to the Dem-
ocrat and others because they haven't
tried to look out over the tops of Cove
mountain and Scrub Ridge.
—Talking about Americanizing our
foreign born residents we believe that
it can be done in the simplest and
speediest manner. How many of the
“Watchman” readers say Good Morn-
ing! or Good Afternoon! to that man
or woman or child of unmistakable
foreign appearance who is met so fre-
quently on the street and who looks
at one uncertainly out of great dark
eyes? Have you ever done it? If
you have you have felt almost thrilled
with the instant smile coming out
from a soul that is really crying for
some expression of good will from the
natives whom he has come to make
his home among. He doesn’t learn to
speak our language because we give
him no chance to use it unless it is
bartering for his earnings. Let us
take a little interest in him. Let us
be cordial to him as we are to our
American fellows and we believe he
will be an American fellow before
we know it.
—Liberty bonds are just as safe
and valuable today as they were the
day you bought them. Don’t think
that because some one else offers you
less than one hundred cents on the
dollar for them that they have lost
value. You didn’t buy them to sell or
speculate with. You bought them for
just what they are, the safest invest-
ment that can be made and also to
keep your taxes down by lending Un-
cle Sam money that he would other-
wise have had to raise by taxing you
far more than he is now. If any one
tells you your Liberty bonds are not
good, or that the government hasn’t
treated you right with them or tries
to make you sore over the purchase
he is a liar and an enemy of his coun-
try and probably is an I. W. W, or a
Bolshevist and the “Watchman”
would like to know his name. Your
Liberty bond is a mortgage on every-
thing in these United States. It has
a fixed time to run and when that time
is up you or your heirs will be paid
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNIO
N.
VOL. 64.
Wilson’s Home Coming Speech.
If the militant spirit expressed in |
President Wilson’s Boston speech does
not admonish the Senators to behave |
the fighting language will make it |
clear that there will be consequences. |
In sublime faith that the people of the
League of Nations Formed.
It may be said that the most im-
portant work of the Paris Peace Con-
ference has been completed. That is
the terms upon which a League of Na-
tions is to be formed have been adopt-
ed and that is the feature upon which
United States approve of his work in | opinions differed most widely. It may
the Peace Conference he declares that |
it shall be brought to the test. There ;
will be no backward movement. Our '
millions of soldiers went across the
sea to make a better world and hav- !
ing achieved their task it shall never !
be said that their sacrifices were in:
vain. Unless some such guarantee
for the future as the proposed League
of Nations is obtained, however, the :
full measure will not be attained.
As usual President Wilson is both
happy and forceful in his presentation
of the matter. He saw many pleasing
things during his sojourn abroad and
met up with many incidents which
gave him pride. But the one thing
which appealed to him stronger than
any other was the perfect confidence |
which the people of other countries |
show in the people of the United
States. “Was there ever so wonder-
ful a thing before?” the President
asks. “Was there any fact that so
bound the nation that had won the es- i
teem forever to deserve it?” he con-
tinued. There can be only one answer
and that is in the form the Amer-
ican representatives in the conference
has answered by the League of Na-
tions.
In any event the President has
thrown down the guage of battle to
the Senatorial prattlers who have
been parading their provincialism be-
fore the world. And he tells them
that he has fighting blood in his veins
and is entirely willing to “let it have
scope.” He knows his ground and he
understands the people of the United
States. He has planted our standard
on an advanced line and will not re-
cede. Like our soldiers in France he
will come back only when he wants
be added that this achievement is
largely the work of President Wilson.
As chairman of the committee to
which it was referred he practically
laid the lines upon which the instru-
ment was placed. It relies upon mor-
al rather than physical forces but it
| provides the necessary physical force
| if it becomes necessary. “Should any
of the high contracting parties break
or disregard its covenants,” Article
16 provides, “it shall thereby ipso
facto be deemed to have committed an
act of war against all the other mem-
bers of the league, which hereby un-
dertakes immediately to subject it to
the severance of all trade or financial
relations.”
A further punishment is provided
in the prohibition of all intercourse
between the nationals of the States
composing the League and the na-
tionals of the covenant breaking
State and “the prevention of all finan-
cial, commercial or personal inter-
course between the nationals of the
covenant-breaking State and the Na-
tionals of any other State whether a
member of the League or not.” Of
course no offending State could sur-
vive such isolation and the resistance
by force would bring the entire force
of all other States into action.
It is encouraging to know that all
the best minds of the civilized world
are in accord in the approval of this
important instrument. Among the
first to declare his cordial endorse-
ment was former President Taft, who
asks all American citizens to give it
moral and material support. It is to
be regretted that our new Governor,
William C. Sproul, takes an opposite
view of the merits of the measure.
to and that will be when the glorious
result is fully achieved. If the Sen-
ators want fight let them accept the
challenge and enter the lists. The
American people will determine be- |
tween him and them.
| ance.
But he has enlisted under the banner
| of Lodge and Smoot to fight the Pres-
ident in any and everything so that
, what he says about the League will
be taken with a large grain of allow-
. damental right in government but
rin Washington were working to de-
League of Nations as is self deter-
work in the Peace Conference in Par-
BELLEFONTE. PA., FEBRUARY 28, 1919.
Significant Incident in Philadelphia.
There is considerable significance in ,
an incident which occurred in Phila- ;
delphia on Sunday last. At a meeting
called for the purpose of advancing !
the cause of self government in Ire- |
land were the Catholic Cardinal Arch- i
bishop of Baltimore, several other
Catholic prelates and three Protes- .
tant Doctors of Divinity. As might
have been expected it was under the
auspices of the Catholic charch but
the Protestant clergymen fairly divid-
ed the honors of the occasion with
their Catholic colleagues. In fact the !
ovation to Rev. Dr. Myhew was equal
to that bestowed on Cardinal Gibbons
and the famous and eloquent Rabbi
Krauskopf was welcomed as cordially
as either of the others.
‘Thus the most distinguished of the
clergy in the Catholic, Protestant and
Jewish faiths were brought together
on a single platform to raise their
voices in common for the great prin-
ciple annunciated by President Wil-
son of the self determination of peo-
ples. Ireland has been striving fer
seven centuries to achieve this fun-
never before has the aspiration devel-
oped such a spectacle as that wit-
nessed on Sunday when sect and creed
were submerged in the righteous pur-
pose of Jew and Gentile, Protestant
and Catholic to promete the result.
The head of the Catholic church in
America personally congratulated the
Protestant clergymen upon the com-
pletion of their addresses.
And while this splendid spectacle
was being unfolded in the city in
which civil and religious liberty had
its real birth a cabal of conspirators
feat the plans which the leading
statesmen of the world hope will pro-
duce the result for which they were
assembled. Self determination in
Ireland is as much a part of the
mination in Germany or Armenia.
But the Republiean partisans in Wash-
ington are willing to jeopardize the
achievement everywhere in order to
discredit President Wilson and rob
him of the honor he has earned by his
is. - In their minds politics is more
tothe limeli;
‘too many p
——DMr. Bryan is trying to get in-
s usual but there are
hibitionists now: to make
that a-certain vehicle. All the Pres-
idential candidates will be on the
water wagon next year. ;
——On the second page of today’s
* complete history of the work perform-
ied by the Centre county exemption
{ board from the time it was appointed
| until it made its final returns to Major
| Murdock at the State selective serv-
i ice headquarters in Harrisburg. It is
Lincoln’s : Memory Dishonored.
There were considerable more than
{ “Watchman” will be found a full and
i1 : 'S day only that per centage is so small
| interesting because of the fact that it. ¥ y p ) mn
exactly what you paid for it.
the usual number of Lincoln day cele-
brations this year but it can hardly
be said that the fact indicates an in-
creasing respect for the memory of
the great Civil war President. Ad-
miration for the work of the great
emancipator is a wholesome sign of
an enlightened patriotism. As the
period since his activities lengthen
animosities diminish and prejudices |
disappear and it might well be, as in
the case of Washington, that only
kindly emotions are aroused by the
approach of the anniversary of his:
birth. But unhappily that is not the
case in this instance.
cle for disseminating slanders against
Woodrow Wilson.
In every section of the country
meetings of partisan Republicans
were held on Lincoln day at which the
speakers seemed to contend with each
other in the virulence of vituperation.
In New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Chicago, Louisville, St.
Louis and San Francisco the same
sordid note was sounded from the
throats of partisan wind-jammers un-
der the false pretense that the pur-
pose was to honor the memory of
Abraham Lincoln. As a matter of
fact this concert of action was the re-
sult of propaganda created and em- |
ployed with the view of impairing the
influence of the President of the Unit-
ed States in his splendid efforts in be-
half of Christian civilization and civ-
il liberty.
It may be safely said that if Lin-
coln were alive he would be among
the most earnest of the protestants
against this treasonable perfidy. At
the time of his death he was entering .
upon a process of pacification very !
similar to that in which President
Wilson is now engaged and the lead-
ers of the Republican party were or-
ganizing a force to resist his amiable
intentions with respect to the South- |
ern States. If Lincoln had lived he
would have broken with the party
which had twice elected him President
and his untimely, unfortunate and
tragic death made the atrocities and
corruptions of the reconstruction per-
iod possible. His memory is not hon-
ored by the use made of Lincoln day
celebrations.
——Nobody can satisfy the Repub-
lican politicians. Not long ago they
were clamoring for a big army and
navy and now they are protesting
against force enough for safety.
King Emanuel, of Portugal,
slipped a cog on his attempt to get
back to the throne but he is better off
than some of the ex-Kings.
Lincoln day |
‘| was this year perverted into a vehi-
i details the enormous amount of work :
| entailed upon local boards in the car-
| rying through to a successful issue of .
i the selective service system. And to
i the credit of the Centre county board
{it can be said that they made one of
; the best records of any board in the
: State and were pioneers in the intro-
i duction of the system of military in-
struction to the selected men as well
as the entertainment provided for
them.
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Salary Increases Halted. |
Governor Sproul has called a halt
on the salary increase projects which
cropped up so abundantly at the open- |
i ing of the session, according to re- |
ports from Harrisburg. The spoils-
men had set out to make the money !
fly in royal fashion and bills had al- |
ready been introduced to boost the
salary of the Governor as well as |
those of most of the judges of the
| State. Monday night of last week the !
bill which had been reported out and |
passed on first reading was recommit- |
ted and it is rumored that the action |
was taken at the instance of Gover- !
nor Sproul, who has also given orders
that it be buried.
This is a wholesome sign. Years '
ago profligacy in appropriations was
taken seriously and Legislators who
squandered * the public funds were
"held to account by the people. Late-
ly, however, profligacy has been in-
| terpreted as a merit in legislation.
| The only question was in the distri- |
bution of the spoils. No matter how .
-much money was spent the people of
a community made no complaint so
long as a good share of the boodle
came in that direction. The result of
this was the enormous increase in ex-
penditures and a corresponding in- |
crease in taxes. But there was no
complaint. Each Legislator easily !
i reconciled his constituents by showing !
| that “he got his.” !
|
|
Legislature salary increases have
| been numerous. A few years ago the
| salary of the State Highway Commis-
| sioner was raised from $5000 to $8000
| without exciting a syllable of com-
' ment. The bill recommitted on Mon-
i day night boosted the salary of that
| official to $15,000 and nobody said a
"word until it was discovered that one
| of the judges had been inadvertently
omitted. In this way it came to the
knowledge of the Governor who called
! the halt. There will be lots of money
| spent within the next four years and
| every section will be taken care of.
| But there will be few if any salary
: as to be almost negligible. Most far-
: inconvenience.
worked or not.
! ever, are comparatively isolated and
. was boosted five cents in Bellefonte
| and it may be necessary to give her
During every recent session of the |
j-increases.
imnortant ‘than justice.
‘—Farfiiers;, we believe, ‘constitute
the principal objectors to a continu-
ance of the daylight saving law.
While it is certain that it does cause
some of them inconvenience in hand-
ling such labor as they secure by the
mers board and lodge their help so
that if the fields are too wet to start
to work in at six o’clock, sun time,
they can change their hours without
In cases where an ex-
tra hand comes to help out for a day
or so it is different. His time begins
when he arrives on the job and, for
the most part, ends when he has spent
eight hours on it, whether he has
Such instances, how-
when weighed over against the extra
evening time at home the new regu-
lation gives the vast army of indus-
trial workers who rarely have a
chance to see their families in day-
light it seems that it ought not to
count for much.
——George M. Harter, farmer, of
Marion township, this week officially
announces himself as a candidate for
the nomination of County Commis-
sioner on the Democratic ticket, and
James E. Harter, of Penn township,
is out for the nomination for County
Treasurer. Both are good men,
staunch Democrats and worthy any
favor the party may see fit to bestow
upon them.
——The price of all kinds of drinks
on Wednesday morning, and the size
probably reduced, so that the “small
libation” or “a mouthful” will now
cost about as much as a fair-sized jag
used to in ye olden times.
Germany is licked all right but
not entirely satisfied. It would be a
pity to let history record the fact that
she wasn’t licked enough, however,
another turn.
——The State Senate at Harrisburg
on Tuesday ratified the prohibition
constitutional amendment by the vote
of 29 to 16, thus making Pennsylva-
nia the forty-fifth State to ratify the
amendment.
Look out for Senator Lodge
for President Wilson is back. His
heart is none too good now and a
shock might prove fatal.
——It must be conceded that “the
colored troops fought nobly.” But
something of that sort was said more
than fifty years ago.
—The people want peace but the
Senate of the United States is doing
its best to deny them that blessing.
The Governor of Kansas wants
to get back to the old industry, which
is raising hell.
Monroe and the League.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Mr. Borah will have none of the
League of Nations because in his opin-
ion it destroys the Monroe Doctrine.
What does Mr. Borah suppose the
Monroe Doctrine is?
It is true that in his letter to the
British government regarding the
Venezuelan boundary Secretary of
State Olney used language which, tak-
en by itself, would give the impres-
sion that the United States claimed
some authority over the other coun-
tries of the Western Hemisphere, and
recognized obligations to protect them
from their enez.ies. Mr. Roosevelt
undoubtedly accepted that as the
meaning of the Doctrine. But that is
a great extension of a principle of ac-
tion that had stood for more than 70
years when the Venezuela boundary
became an exciting subject, and the
United States is not committed to it.
In the first place, the Monroe Doc-
trine was beyond dispute a defiance of
the Holy Alliance. Beginning as a
means. of preventing war, this Alli-
ance quickly developed into a machine
for the suppression of liberalism, first
in Greece and afterward in South
America, where Spain’s colonies had
virtually established their independ-
ence, but had never had their inde-
pendence acknowledged by Spain, and
the Holy Alliance showed a disposi-
tion to aid Spain in re-establishing its
authority on this hemisphere, after it
had, as a matter of fact, ceased.
In the second place, the Monroe
Doctrine was a notification to the Ho-
ly Alliance that if it should begin the
suppression of popular government we
should not wait to be invaded. The
United States was the greatest men-
‘ace to the divine right of Kings, and
the suppression of the South Ameri-
can Republics was wo be only a pre-
lude to the suppression of ours. Eu-
rope could operate against the Unit-
ed States from Mexico much better
than it could from the other side of
the ocean.
What we -announced in the Monroe
Doctrine was that any part of Amer-
ica which had emancipated itself from
monarchy should not be subjected to
monarchy by external force, because
any combination of nations that did
that would be in a position to attack
us. If anybody started a fire on our
neighbor’s premises we should put it
out without waiting for our own house
to catch. ;
We have never made ourselves re-
sponsible for the conduct of South
American countries or undertaken to
all their enemies.
rotect them against ¢
We allowed Spain ‘to have a war ‘with
Chili, and we allowed England, France
and Germany to collect debts in Vien-
ezuela and the West Indies by a na-
val demonstration. But no European
nation should establish a lodgment on
this hemisphere from which it could
menace us.
The League of Nations is as unlike
the Holy Alliance as possible, The
one thing the League does not pro-
pose to do is to prevent disturbances
within a country—that is, revolutions.
It is a safeguard of the United States
as it is of France. Mr. Taft is per-
fectly correct when he replies to Sen-
ator Borah that Article X of the cov-
enant of the League of Nations ex-
tends the Monroe Doctrine over the
world:
The high contracting parties under-
take to respect and preserve as
against external aggression the terri-
torial integrity and existing politic-
al independence of all States members
of the League
Pershing at Brest.
From the New York Sun.
General Pershing’s report to the
War Department on the conditions at
Brest should go a long way toward
putting a stop to the hysteria about
that camp.
If Brest were to be judged by the
stories recently told, before Congress
committees and elsewhere, our sol-
diers in France were subjected in
peace to horrors worse than those of
war. Yet we have the assurance of
the commander-in-chief, who has per-
sonally inspected the camp within the
last month, that the general camp con-
ditions and the method of handling
troops at Brest are good. The fact
that the death rate in the camp is low-
er than it was in the earlier months
of the winter certainly shows that
there has been no recent collapse in
the sanitary system. :
Brest is not an ideal camp, being
undeniably a muddy region, but its
convenience to shipping made its use
necessary. It is probable that our
soldiers have undergone great discom-
fort there; but the difference between
discomfort and death is considerable.
Income Tax Refund.
From the Williamsport Sun.
The government stands a reasona-
ble chance of losing millions of dol-
lars, collected through income taxes
in the last few years by the recent de-
cision of a federal court that this tax
on stock dividends is not collectable.
Of course, the government will not
meekly return these sums without in-
voking the aid of the land’s highest
courts to prove that the lower tribu-
nal is wrong in its findings, but as the
decision hangs fire, the hope that the
courts will concur cannot but help to
act as a tonic to the man who is now
figuring on his present levy. If this
phase of the tax should be declared il-
legal it will not be necessary for any
one entitled to restitution to employ
legal aid to secure the rebate. Claims
may be filed at the home revenue col-
lector’s home or by appeal to the
Treasury Department at Washington,
where some of the most cautious hav
already placed them. ;
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—D. A. Leighty and Chorles Hodge re-
port seeing grasshoppers in the woods
near Newry, Blair county.
—An increase in sheep raising in the
State during the past year has added
many additional sheep to the total in the
State and the enforcement of the dog law
promises to keep the interest.
—Hog cholera is prevalent in parts of
Indiana county, and at the Indiana coun-
ty home alone twenty fine porkers have
died of the disease. The majority of the
cases seem to be in the vicinity of India-
na and Homer City.
—The Central Pennsylvania annual con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal church
will convene in St. John’s church, Sun-
bury, Rev. John H. Daugherty, D. D., pas-
tor, on Wednesday afternoon, March 19th,
at 1:30 o'clock with, it is expected, Bish-
‘op Edwin Hughes presiding.
—Mrs. Elizabeth Croft, sixty years of
age, of Harrisburg, dropped dead in Broad
Street Station, Philadelphia, early Sunday
morning, while waiting for a train to
Trenton. Dr. Vane, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad staff, said that death was due to
heart failure. Mrs. Croft was on her way
to visit a sen in Trenton when she died.
~—A can of peas in the home of Irvin
Keener, Marion Center, Indiana county,
exploded with enough force to wreck a
kitchen range, but without injury te any-
body. One of the children of the home
placed a can of the vegetables in the oven
of the stove, and later Mrs. Keener came
around and fired up the stove. The liquid
in the can formed into steam and caused
the explosion.
—Reuben Cuff, ten years old, was found
guilty of manslaughter by a Cumberland
county jury, the result of the death of his
companion, Ephriam Pierce. The testimo-
ny was that Cuff became enraged when his
companion refused to play with him. He
secured a shot gun and shot him through
the heart. The jury deiberated only half
an hour. Pierce's brother was the only
eye-witness to the crime. The families re-
side at Bridgeton.
—Game Warden Hilton, of Punxsutaw-
ney, at the direction of the State Game
Commission, last week sent to Harrisburg
the hide of the 510-pound bear which Fred
Shobert shot along the North Fork. It
will be mounted for the State Museum.
Friends of Mr. Shobert who are worried
because he shot the bear out of season
are unduly exercised. The State ganie
laws give specific permission to kill any
animal at any time in self defense.
—=State Senator William P. Graff,
Blairsville, Indiana e¢ounty, and T. L.
Eyre, of Chester, Chester county, have
pooled their coal mining interests in the
Blairsville section under the name of the
Kiskiminetas Coal company, with offices
at Blairsville. The new corporation is
capitalized at $100,000. Senator Eyre is
president; Senator Graff, treasurer, aad
F. M. Graff, secretary. The company was
formed from the old Kiskiminetas and
Roaring Run Mining companies and is
said to have valuable holdings.
—The last remaining fact that Punxsu-
tawney, Jefferson ceunty, was once a
“wet” town was thrown to the discard
Saturday, when the license of the Punxsu-
tawney Brewing company expired. The
brewery in pursvance of government or-
der had not manufactured beer since De-
cember of last year. They had a consid-
erable stock on hand and had a right to
sell until the expiration of the license. No
arrangements have been made for the fu-
‘ture of the brewery, but it will probably
be conducted “as an’ ice-mamifacturing -
plant. :
—Albert 8. Mills, merchant, of Gettys-
burg, was shot twice in the head in his
store Saturday night by a robber. John
N. Miller, recently discharged from the ar-
my, was arrested Sunday morning, and pe-
lice are searching for a second man. It is
believed that robbery was the motive. Mrs.
Mills: was in the store when the shooting
occurred. One of the two men asked for
a package of cigarettes, and while he was
making the purchase, the second, partly
masked, entered the door, said something
about money and fired two shots. Mills
fell and the men fled.
Patrolman John B. Gro. of the Lewis-
town police force, won his claim for com-
pensation amounting to $8£6.25 for the less
of an eye while following his regular oc-
cupation. Patrolman Gro claims he was
on his beat performing his regular duties
when some foreign matter was blown into
the eye by the high wind prevailing at the
time, which was responsible for the loss
of the eye. Gro was awarded the amount
of his claim and had been paid in part by
the borough when the insurance people
called a halt and the case has been under
litigation for two years. Referee W. W.
Champion, of Williamsport, made the
award.
—Plans for the Methodist Home for the
Aged to be established and maintained by
the Methodist Episcopal churches of Cen-
tral Pennsylvania conference were discuss-
ed last Friday afternoon at a meeting of
the board of directors which was held in
the First Methodist Episcopal church of
Tyrone. A number of sites have been of-
fered for the home and are now under con-
sideration. The board of directors is com-
‘posed of the following: Revs. S. B. Evans,
C. W. Karns, A. 8. Fasick, G. F. Boggs,
A. Lamberson, James Glass, W. J. Shaffer
and J. B. Stein. The membership of the
board will be completed by the addition
of several laymen.
—More than 300 girls were rescued by
firemen, a score overcome by smoke and a
dozen injured in a spectacular fire which
late on Monday destroyed the building oc-
cupied by Duff's Business College, in the
heart of the business district of Pitts-
burgh. One girl, who fell from the arms
of a fireman at a third-floor window, prob-
ably was fatally injured. Of the 450 stu-
dents in the school when the fire alarm
was sounded, shortly after 3 o'clock, only
about 100 girls and 50 boys were able to
reach the street in safety before smoke
and flames cut off the escape of 300 others.
Trapped on the second and third floors,
the remaining students were taken from
windows or jumped into fire nets in the
street below.
—~Charles McKee, of Altoona, Blair
county, who claims to be.in the produce
business, but who has been referred to as
a sort of a “tin horn sport,” was before
the Clearfield county court last week on
a charge of conducting turkey raffles at
Chester Hill and other Clearfield county vil-
lages. The fine was $100 and costs $50 and
Judge Singleton Bell decided that he would
remain within the confines of Clearfield
county for a period of four months, with
postoffice address in care of Sheriff Gor-
man. The reason that McKee was ‘sat
on” so heavily is because this was the sec-
ond offense, although he tried to escape
by means of a borough license he had from
one of the villages where he conducted the
rafiling match.
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