INK SLINGS.
Cheer up, it might be a good deal
hotter.
" _A Memorial day without 2a thun-
der storm was unusual in this neck-o0-
woods.
_ Crops in Centre county never
“looked more promising than they do
right now.
chance to thumb
She got what
—Austria has no
her nose at Germany.
-ghe deserved, too.
—Anyway when 2 girl graduates
she is always sure of having a new
white dress added to her wardrobe.
Eat abstemiously, drink plenty—
of pure water, keep your temper and
“the hot weather will agree with you.
~~ __ Attorney General Palmer missed
a trick when he overlooked the oppor-
‘tunity to blame the recent bombing
of his home on the “old guard” Demo-
rats of Pennsylvania.
*° __Centre county’s industry seems
to be absorbing the returned soldier
“boys without apparent dissatisfac-
tion, all of which is very creditable to
employer and soldier alike.
__Hallucinated by their pre-conven-
ing boasts we are beginning to exper-
jence disappointment that all of the
countries’ woes have not already been
cured by those Republican Congress-
men in Washington.
__If the capital of the new Rhine
Republic is located at Coblenz it will
probably last longer than any of the
other capitals of new Republics in
Central Europe. At least it will en-
. dure while our boys are occupying
‘that city.
_Rain kept the Milesburg team
out of the Red Cross league race for
a long time, but when it did get into
action it showed that crack South
ward aggregation and a lot of fans,
as well, that it intends to do some
reigning itself.
__Woman’s suffrage passed the
Senate Wednesday with six more
votes than the necessary two-thirds
majority. Three-fourths of the States
must now ratify before it becomes a
“constitutional amendment. True to
their records on the question Pennsyl-
vania’s Senators, Knox and Penrose,
voted against the resolution. The for-
mer directly and the latter through a
pair. ;
— Every time there is a bombing
outrage federal, state and municipal
authorities get a fever with determin-
ation to run the conspirators to their
headquarters, then the fever gradual-
ly subsides until there is a recurrence
of dastardly outbreaks. It is time
‘some one gets on the job and stays
there until the culprits are a 3
us that outrages havin
seems to us that ORCECC 1 timed
must. leave some sort of a trail 10
source. ;
— Every day the Germans in occu-
pied Germany are being more con-
vinced that it must have been Uncle
Sam and not Kaiser Bill who told Am-
bassador Gerard that he would stand
no nonsense. They started a strike
in the railroads running out of Cob-
lenz at 9 o'clock on Monday morning.
Immediately upon learning of it our
military authorities sent word to the
strike leaders that unless they had all
men back at work within four hours
the whole pack of them would be de-
ported. It seems needless to add that
they were all back.
— As an aftermath of the serious
collision of a Ford and a motorcycle,
that occurred east of Old Fort on Sun-
day, the driver of each machine is ac-
cusing the other of having been trav-
eling too fast. Of course we are not
advised as to the merits in this par-
ticular case, but our own experience
in meeting a motorcycle while acting
as pilot on a Ford always brings up
the story of the darkey who, in his
flight from a ghost, overtook a rabbit
running along the road and yelled at
it: “Get out de way, rabbit, an let
sumfin run what kin run.”
— This is to take the place of a par-
agraph written earlier in the week
for this column. In it we comment-
ed on the then thought fact that the
new “plain clothes” traffic cop has
been in town several weeks and no ar-
rests of speed violators have been
made. We have always believed in
giving the devil his dues and therefor
wish to announce that we have a
“tip” that the ubiquitous sleuth has a
big book full of numbers ready to be
turned in and among them is that of
the rattlin’ old flivver with which we
are more or less associated. |
—_The “Watchman” is taken to the |
Bellefonte postoffice on Thursday
night of each week. It is delivered to
subscribers in New York city on Tues-
day of the week following. And some
well meaning folks tell us that there
is nothing the matter with the postal
service. There are seven trains leav-
ing Bellefonte every day on which
New York mail could be started and
the slowest of them takes only thir-
teen hours to reach that city. Time
was when the “Watchman” was deliv-,
ered in New York Saturday morning
and nothing but inefficiency interferes
with the same being done now.
—A very prominent contractor in
Bellefonte who seems to think that a
particular easy chair on the porch of
one of our most representative men’s
clubs fits him better than anything he
ever sat in was very much surprised,
a few evenings ago, when a woman,
who was passing made a remark, loud
enough to arouse him from his siesta.
He thought her voice sounded famil-
iar, but he couldn’ think at all when
it came to him that she had said:
“We have an arm chair exactly like
that one on our porch at home.” This
is a story with a moral; for the lady
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VOL. 64.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
. PA., JUNE 6, 1919.
League of Nations Essential.
In his memorial address delivered
at Suresnes cemetery,
morial day, President
the high note when he said,
for the time when every man
now puts his counsel against the
united service of mankind under the
League of Nations will be just as
much ashamed of it as if he now
regretted the union of the States.”
The heroes of the Civil war fought
and offered their lives to “secure the
freedom of a nation.” The dead over
whose graves he was speaking, gave
their lives to “secure the freedom of
mankind.” The aim of the League of
Nations is “to see to it that the moth-
ers of America and England and Ita-
ly and Belgium and all other suffer-
ing nations should never be called up-
on for sacrifice again.”
The President was addressing a
vast concourse assembled to pay lov-
ing tribute to Americans who had
made the supreme sacrifice and lie
buried in a foreign land. His audi-
ence was mainly French and without
understanding of the language he
spoke. But each person was fully
aware of the purpose of his speech
and in complete sympathy with the
sentiments expressed. Every grave
in that consecrated ground was deco-
rated and as President Wilson said
thus “the noble women of Suresnes
have given evidence of the loving
sense with which they received these
dead as their own.” Premier Clemen-
ceau had feelingly expressed his sym-
pathy in a letter and given assurance
that “France will preserve in peace,
as an inspiration and example, an un-
dying remembrance of the enthusi-
asm, discipline and courage” of Amer-
ican soldiers.
In such an environment it was nat-
ural that the President’s thoughts
should turn to the important part, yet
to be performed, in connection with
the great tragedy. “No man with a
heart in his breast, no American, no
lover of humanity,” he said at the
outset, “can stand in the presence of
these graves without the most pro-
found emotion.” No rational mind
can contemplate such 4 situation
without a feeling that the paramount
obligation time is to prevent
Shligaus x ~guch aca ae
the war just ended in a triumphant
victory for democracy against autoc-
racy. That is the reason for the
League of Nations and those who set
themselves against this guarantee of
enduring peace are traitors to the
country and enemies of civilization.
—— General Wood’s name is less
frequently mentioned as a Presiden-
tial candidate than it was some weéks
ago and in that fact there is cause for
anxiety on the Democratic side. De-
feating that “carpet knight” would
be as easy as “cutting butter with a
hot knife.”
Legislation Against Sedition Needed.
The second almost nation wide ef-
fort to murder prominent officials of
the government and conspicuous citi-
zens of the country within the period
| Germany and the Peace Problem.
~statésmen. Forwa
of a few weeks is an admonition to :
the Legislature of Pennsylvania as
well as other States to take prompt
and effective measures to check such
monstrous crimes. On April 1st Rep-
resentative Flinn, of Elk county, in-
troduced in the House of Representa-
tives a measure looking in that direc-
tion, which was referred to the com-
mittee on Judiciary General the same
day. So far as our information goes
it was defeated later, afterwards re-
aonsidered: recommitted and left to
ie.
The bill even if it had been enacted
into law might not have prevented
the bomb operations in Cleveland,
Pittsburgh, Washington, Philadelphia,
New York and Boston on Monday
night, though evidence already ob-
tained indicates that it was a Phila-
delphia enterprise. The miscreants
who engage in that sort of wholesale
slaughter of human beings work se-
cretly and cunningly. But it would
have made the organization of the
conspiracy and the perpetration of
the crimes more difficult and there-
fore less probable. For these reasons
the measure ought to have been pass-
ed promptly. Anyway there is time
yet to act.
German enticement to crime has
been working in this country for
vears. Immediately before and dur-
ing the war thousands of emissaries
of the German government were ac-
tively teaching crime in this country.
Many of them are yet operating
along those lines. This must be stop-
ped and the only way to achieve the
purpose is to enact legislation which
will enable intervention at the first
sign of sedition. The Flinn bill was a
step in the right direction. It should
be taken out of the committee prompt-
ly and pressed to passage before the
adjournment of the Legislature. If
it is up to Penrose let him give the
order.
ee merm—
— German statesmen may try to
shift the service from one to another
but it is a safe bet that one or the
other of them will sign.
——Subsecribe for the “Watchman.”
was the contractor’s good wife.
| with official procedure. .
BELLEFONTE
The German delegates to the Peace
France, on Me- ' Conference at Versailles must be
Wilson struck | more stupid than public opinion sup-
«I look | posed.
They were given terms of
who | peace to accept or reject and their re-
ply is counter proposals. This would
indicate that they have not yet heard
of the results of the war. They im-
agine that they were victorious and
entitled to fix the conditions upon
which peace may be predicated. That
is either absurd or insolent. As a
matter of fact they are not entitled
to a voice in arranging the terms of
peace. They gave no option to Rus-
sia. They offered no choice to Ruma-
nia. They never at any time offered
a chance to any country they had con-
quered. Why should they be treated
differently ?
The German authorities want to
continue fooling the German people.
They think that by dickering they
can save their pride and persuade the
burgoise that the armistice was
compromise equally desired by both
combatants. As a matter of fact it
was an undeserved mercy extended to
a broken and helpless army. In grant-
ing the armistice the Allies were more
philanthropic than wise. The Ger-
mans had experienced none of the
horrors of war. They had escaped all
the just penalties of their mad pas-
sion for plunder. It was a mistaken
mercy. The war ought to have been
continued until invading troops had
desolated Germany as German troops
destroyed Belgium and parts of
France.
The people of the United States,
France, Great Britain and Italy are a
unit in the opinion that the terms of
peace are more generous than just.
They are in complete agreement,
moreover, that the peace terms should
be dictated to Germany rather than
negotiated by Germany. This being
true no quibbling on the subject
delegates refuse to sign the alterna-
tive is plain. General Foch has an
ample force of highly trained troops
on the border and an order to march
toward Berlin will get an understand-
ing of what’s what as well as who's
who, in that quarter of the globe, into
the dense minds of
tent order.
——Senator Borah, of Idaho, may
imagine that Senator Penrose treated
him cruelly but he will find consola-
tion in seeing what the big Pennsyl-
vanian did to Senator Vare.
Hun gry Hi’s Absurd Ideas.
Senator Johnson, of California,
“Hungry Hi,” has fired his broadside
against the League of Nations and
sounded the depths of Senatorial stu-
pidity. The obvious purpose of the
Senator is to becloud the subject and
in pursuance of his plan he misrepre-
sents every feature of the convention
before he has acquired any under-
standing of its provisions. His speech
was in support of a resolution intro-
duced by himself demanding the full
text of the covenant. As the text has
not been completed it would be im-
possible to comply even if the resolu-
tion were adopted so that his enter-
prise is an impudent interference
But it pro-
vides a vehicle to dump upon the pub-
lic his absurd prejudices.
Senator Johnson dwells fondly up-
‘on that stale and overworked fabri-
cation of Reed and Sherman that
Great Britain controls the Peace Con-
ference and that for some sinister
purpose of Lloyd George the League
of Nations will abrogate the Monroe
Doctrine. His idea of the Monroe
Doctrine is probably that promulgat-
ed by the late Mr. Roosevelt in his
inferential statement that it clothed
Uncle Sam in the uniform of a police-
man and gave him a big stick to
scare children with. As a matter of
fact the covenant of the League of | the answer of the Bellefonte gentle-
Nations, as tentatively agree upon by | man as follows:
the conference, enlarges the Monroe
Doctrine and extends its operations | yion unfit t
over the entire civilized world.
Senator Reed, of Missouri, in his | He should no
recent diatribe on the same subject | any country he could call home.
brought out a ghost of a negro dom- | ¢hould be driven ou
inance for the purpose of scaring the | jes of h
southern people.
cy with the view of terrori
people in the Pacific States,
know, if they know anything, that
their assertions are not only mislead-
ing but viciously false.
nant of the League of Nations,
tion of any race or power for the rea-
son that it requires unanimous con-
sent to adopt any policy concerning
which there is a difference of opinion.
But every jackass has a right to wag
his ears. *
Austria also thinks the peace
terms are hard but if Austria had
been less hard on Servia in 1914 there
would be no occasion for peace terms,
hard or soft, now.
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— The Republican Congress is
failing to fulfill its pre-election prom-
ises but they were not made to be
kept after election.
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Penrose in Command Again.
There is hope in the news from
Harrisburg. Senator Penrose is in
command and “one blast from his bu-
gle horn is worth a thousand men.”
Some weeks ago he visited the capi-
tal and set things right. But person-
al troubles called him away and the
Vares cavorted around scandalously
during his absence. Every promise
of reform legislation for Philadelphia
was “knocked into a cocked hat” and
the country members were in dispair.
The big Senator got back last Sunday
evening, however, with the garlands
of victory safely fixed on his head,
and reform hopes promptly revived.
He called gn the Governor first and
then issued a statement. In that
statement the death knell of Vareism
was plainly discernible.
playing fast
The Governor ha
and loose TOE TBS of Philadel-
phia ever since Penrose took himself !
away from Harrisburg but he has!
been called for a show down. In any
event Penrose has given public notice
that the Philadelphia bills must be
passed without further delay. This |
means either that the Governor will
approve whatever legislation the big |
Senator dictates “or else.” About |
this time four years ago a similar ul-
timatum was presented to Governor |
Brumbaugh. Mr. Brumbaugh reins
ed to obey and his political life was
measured. It is not likely that Gov- |
ernor Sproul will follow that exam-
ple. The big Senator is more power-
The whole |
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machine is at his feet.
This is gratifying information to!
say the least and concerns the whole |
State. The city needs reform legis- |
lation and has suffered in repute for |
years because of the failure to re-
strain the vicious practices of those
in authority. But the people of the
State are more concerned about re-
forms in the election frauds which
should be tolerated. If the German have time and again nullified the pub-
lic will by making false returns of
votes on State offices. We of the ru-
ral districts might look on compla-
cently at the local iniquities for it is
sort of a case of “dog eat dog.” But
when State elections are reversed by
the frauds in Philadelphia it is dif-
snt and we are compelled to sym-
se with Senator Penrose. =
— Senator Lodge is keeping quiet
in so many languages these days that!
a careful observer is forced to believe
that he has either lost his voice or.
found his reason. !
What She Would Do With the Kaiser.
From an article published in a Eus-
tis, Fla., paper we observe that Mrs. |
Harriet Thomas Kurtz, formerly of |
Bellefonte, won the prize offered by
the Vesta theatre management of that
place for the best answer to the ques- |
tion, “What Should be Done with the
Kaiser?” Mrs. Kurtz's answer fol-
lows:
“Have him, with all his damnable
subjects transferred to Belgium and
be compelled to build up the devas-
tated regions. When this is satis-
factorily finished, then Bill should !
be sent to a lone and deserted |
island, where he can there commune
with his evil conscience until death
only shall be his salvation.”
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WHAT “HE” WOULD DO WITH HIM.
In this connection it might be add-
ed that last November the DuBois
Daily Express, a supposedly reputa-
ble newspaper, also offered a prize
for the best answer to the above ques-
tion, and among those submitted was
one from a Bellefonte gentleman. In
due time the Express published the
answers and announced as the prize
winner the Bellefonter, but while
Mrs. Kurtz was paid her prize
promptly we are reliably informed
that up to date the DuBois Express
has failed to make good on its offer.
And to show our readers what “He”
would do with the Kaiser we publish
“Let him live, but as human car-
o taint the soil and atmos-
phere of any nation on the globe.
t be allowed a place in
He
t of the sanctuar-
onest men, stalked with the
never be welcomed as
land or on any sea,
fellowmen and shun-
ned by children as.a loathsome crea-
ture; and thus would I let him live
retribu-
Thus I
— There is no use in trying to ex-
press sympathy for Carranza and
keep a straight face. Nobody but an
imbecile can sincerely have sympathy
for Carranza.
—
President Wilson is making en-
emies both in Germany and this coun-
try but millions of people will love’
him the more because of the enemies
he is making.
—If it is true that good booze can
be made from honey we can see where
the busy little bee will be busier than
ever after J uly first.
NO. 23.
SABBATH SCHOOL CONVENTION.
The annual convention of .the Cen-
tre county Sabbath school association,
held in the Presbyterian church of
Bellefonte on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, commemorated the fortieth an-
niversary of the organization. The
sessions were opened at 9:30 o'clock
on Tuesday morning with song serv-
ices conducted by Prof. B. D. Ackley,
of Philadelphia. This was followed
with the address of welcome by bur-
gess W. Harrison Walker, of Belle-
fonte. The response was made by E.
R. Hancock, of Philipsburg.
The first speaker of the day was
Miss L. Grace Kane, who gave a very
lucid talk on the purpose and pro-
gram of the children’s division. She
was followed by W. G. Landes, Gen-
eral Secretary of the State associa-
tion, in an exhortation to his audi-
ence to always be organized for serv-
ice. Prof. John Hamilton conducted
devotional services and the morning
session closed with prayer by Dr. Me-
Kinney. At noon the visiting dele-
gates were served a luncheon at the
Lutheran church by the children’s di-
vision workers.
The convention reconvened at 1:30
and after fifteen minutes of music the
convention divided, the teachers of
the children’s division going to the
Methodist church, Miss L. Grace Kane
taking charge. At the Presbyterian
church Mr. Landes talked on the ad-
ministrative in Sunday school work.
A. N. Korman talked on “Our Dis-
trict President” and J. Kennedy John-
ston on “Our Pastors.” The conven-
tion then combined and Prof. I. L.
Foster gave a very interesting talk on
“Sunday Schools and Bolshevism.”
Rev. James P. Hughes was introduced
as the only surviving member of the
original organization and spoke brief-
ly on past reminiscences of Sunday
school work. Devotional services were
led by Rev. C. F. Catherman after
which committees were appointed as
follows:
Place and time of next meeting, S.
S. Williams, Mrs. S. W. Smith, W. K.
Corl.
Auditing, Robert Thompson, wil-
liam Freeman.
Resolutions, C. E. Royer,
Faust, E. R. Hancock. ,
Nominations, A. N. Corman, Wu E,
McWilliams, R. L. Watt.
At Tuesday evening’s session Rev.
Alexander Scott led the devotions,
Rev. M. DePue Maynard talked on re-
lief in the Orient, and Mr. Landes
talked on “Leadership”—by prayer,
program, provision, promotion, lead-
Rev.
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ership. Dr. Schmidt made the clos-
ing prayer.
WEDNESDAY’S SESSION.
At the conclusion of a half hour’s
song service at the opening of the
convention on Wednesday morning a
Round Table conference was held to
study the district standards adopted
by the state association. Immediate-
ly following the committee on nomi-
nations made its report and the fol-
lowing were elected officers of the as-
sociation:
President, Ives L. Harvey; vice
president, E. R. Hancock; secretary,
Darius Waite; treasurer, C. C. Shuey;
elementary superintendent, Mrs. J. F.
Young; associate elementary superin-
tendent, Miss Ella B. Ward; home de-
partment superintendent, Mrs. S. W.
Smith; mission superintendent, Rev.
C. F. Catherman; temperance super-
intendent, Rev. W. K. McKinney;
young peoples department superin-
tendent, George E. McMillen; assist-
ant, Mrs. George E. McMillen; adult
superintendent, T. M. Gramley; teach-
ers’ training superintendent, A.
Thompson; rural work superintend-
ent, F. M. Pletcher; administrative
superintendent, E. R. Hancock.
After a brief service of consecra-
tion the financial interests of the as-
sociation were taken up and TM
Gramley offered a motion that the as-
sociation build its budget for the en-
suing year on the basis of ten cents a
per capita member, and that each dis-
trict assume the responsibility of rais-
ing its allotment, which is as follows:
District No. 1, $280.00: No. 2, $80.00;
No. 3, $70.00; No. 4, $108.00; No. 5,
$105.00; No. 6, $63.00; No. 7, $225.00;
No. 8, $50.00; No. 9, $290.00; No. 10,
$90.00; No. 11, $200.00 and No. 12,
$250.00. Closing devotions were led
by Rev. W. S. Lyle and the conven-
tion was dismissed by Rev. C. C.
Shuey.
At the opening of the Wednesday
afternoon session Rev. W. L. Dudley
led the devotions. Rev. C. F. Cather-
man made an address on missions and
Mr. Landes spoke in behalf of the
Pennsylvania Herald. Treasurer C.
C. Shuey submitted his report and on
motion the same was approved and
accepted. The young peoples workers
again went into conference in the
Methodist church with Mrs. George E.
McMullen in charge, and the remain-
der of the afternoon session was tak-
en up in a discussion of the question
of teachers’ training by A. C. Thomp-
son and Mr. Landes.
The principal feature of the final
session on Wednesday evening was
an ‘organ recital and with the reports
of the committees the convention ad-
journed.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Major Albert King, of the 110th regl-
ment, Iron division, who returned to his
home in Altoona, resumed his former po-
sition with the Pennsylvania Railroad as
assistant foreman of road tests.
—The Cresson Publishing company has
purchased the plant of the Star Printing
company, publisher of the Patton Courier.
The Courier will be moved to Cresson,
where the paper will be published.
— Altoona city employees have complet-
ed the planting of trees on the watershed
above Kittanning Point. Between 60,000
and 70,000 trees were set out during the
spring. Norway pine and white and
Scotch pine are the chief varieties planted.
—Announcement has been made that
through a bequest made by the late Geo.
R. Seep the Knights of Coumbus will soon
be enabled to have a home of their own in
the central part of Titusville. Prior to
his death Mr. Seep provided that $20,000
should be appropriated from his estate for
such a home.
— Northumberland county's treasury
shows the healthy balance of $203,894.73.
This is believed to be the largest single
balance ever carried in the history of the
county. It indicates, according to Deputy
Treasurer William H. Deppen, that Nor-
thumberland, outside of the more densely
populated counties, is one of the richest
in the State.
—W. H. Manley, constable of Brady
township, Lyeoming county, has encoun-
tered a wild turkey hen worthy of the
name. Manley came upon the bird as she
had her young brood out for a promenade
and was made the object of a hostile at-
tack by the alarmed mother. When her
young had scampered to safety she made
a strategic retreat.
—George Hilshansk, a one-legged man,
of Johnstown, had until a short time ago
used the folds of his trousers as a bank.
He lost more than $1,000 from his unique
pocketbook and he will have a new bank
from now on J. E. Fornsberry, another
one-legged man, has been charged with
the theft. Hilshansk says he divulged his
hiding place to Fornsberry.
—The public school teachers of Wil-
liamsport are certain of at least a 14 per
cent. increase in their salary next year. At
a recent session of the board of education
the minimum salary of High school in-
structors was made $100 monthly, and the
compensation of every member of the
city’s teaching organization was increased
upon the basic average of 14 per cent.
—The new state law placing every jublic
dance to which an admission is charged,
including so-called dancing schools, under
control of the mayors, went into effect on
Monday. Every such dance must be con-
ducted under a permit issued by the may-
or or some official designated by him and
every hall or place where public dances
are conducted comes under the same law.
—Dr. J. George Becht, secretary of the
State Board of Education, and who is
likely to be the man chosen by State Su-
perintendent of Public Instruction as his
first deputy, was the first secretary of the
Board and is a personal friend of the new
superintendent. The first deputy is to be
paid $7500 and the second $6000. These
are substantial increases over present sal-
aries.
—There are two women in Lancaster
county who have gone over the century
mark. They are Mrs. Sarah Miller, of the
Brethren home, at Neffsville, who reached
her 10lst year a few days ago, and Mrs.
Maria Herr, of Collins, who passed her
101st year on May 3lst. Until a few
months ago, Mrs. Herr had retained all
her faculties. Mrs. Miller is very well
preserved.
—Some months after John Cornell, 2a
United States soldier, was reported killed
in action in France, last fall, his widow
married Clyde Baughman, at Clearfied,
and the two live at Tyrone. Baughman
recently discovered that Cornell had not
been killed, but had returned to this coun-
try and is now at Lloydell, Cambria coun-
ty. So Baughman has applied to the Blair
county court for a divorce.
Suit for $847.70 has been brought by
the West Branch Xnitting company, of
Milton, against the Philadelphia and
Reading Railway company, for alleged
loss of a bale of fibre silk while in transit
between Milton and Shamokin. According
to the plaintiff's statement a bale contain-
ing 220 pounds of the material was ship-
ped from the Milton plant of the corpora-
tion to the plant at Shamokin. It never
got there, the papers say and although
repeated demands were made for a settle-
ment none was ever secured.
—Dr. Thomas E. Finegan, the new State
Superintendent of Public Instruction, took
the oath of office on Monday and at once
took charge of his department. The oath
was administered by Captain F. A. God-
charles, Deputy Secretary of the Common-
wealth. Dr. Finegan said he would grad-
ually work out plans for his department
and expected to have conferences with the
Governor this week. The new superin-
tendent will meet the appropriations com-
mittee of the House to explain his requests
for appropriations, which will include
enough for studies of rural schools con-
ditions.
—A photograph showing Hndenburg re-
viewing German troops as they marched
into the battle of Fismes is one of the in-
teresting war relics brought back home
by Dr. John P. Harley, of Williamsport,
who has just returned from France. Dur-
ing the battle before Fismes, the Wil-
liamsporter was on duty in a front-line
dressing station where one of the men un-
der treatment was a German officer, in
whose possession was found a camera con-
taining an exposed film. Development of
the film revealed the picture of Hinden-
burg inspecting his troops on the march
to face the gallant men of the Iron divis-
jon, who sent them reeling and staggering
back toward the Rhine, The photograph
shows the usual self-satisfied expression
of the Hun leader, which must have
changed after that encounter with the
Pennsylvanians.
_ Frederick Sassaman, of Sunbury, died
at the Mary M. Packer hospital in that
place on Friday, of a shot through the
head, alleged to have been inflicted by P.
D. Bailey, his next-door neighbor, who
was committed to jail without bail. Bai-
ley alleges that his wife was too friendly
with Sassaman. Thursday night, Bailey
said, when he returned from his work as
a Pennsylvania railroad locomotive engi-
neer, Sassamen and Mrs. Bailey were on
the Baileys’ front porch reading a news-
paper. Sassaman started to walk into the
areaway between the two houses. Bailey
drew his revolver and fired two shots, one
lodging in the back of Sassaman’s head
and the other going through his right
arm. He fell unconscious. Bailey says he
then tried to shoot himself, but the car-
tridge failed to explode and he lost his
nerve. He turned the revolver over to his
wife. Mrs, Bailey denied any wrongdoing.
Sassaman was single and the sole support
of a’ widowed mother.