Brora tn
INK SLINGS.
—Now that the election is over we
cease to be “the peepul.”
* —The weather man needs a few
new gaskets for his sprinkling de-
vices.
—DMore power to the arm of the law
when it starts to deporting radical
aliens.
—-About the only thing the radicals
produce is chaos and sane people con-
sider it a “non essential.”
—Many an old tank is taking up
the study of spiritualism since the
country has gone clear dry.
—This week has been more propi-
tious for the farmers who didn’t have
their potatoes raised or their corn
husked.
—If council buys ‘seventeen thous-
and dollar’s worth of new fire-fighting
apparatus will we get any come-back
in insurance rates?
—Holland refuses to give up the
Kaiser. If that is the kind of a coun-
try Holland is he is being punished
enough by staying there.
, —One thing we will have to be
thankful for on November 27th is that
we didn’t run for office in Centre
county on November 4th.
—That McKeesport coal dealer who
discharged an employee for giving a
customer short weight was flirting
with a commission in lunacy.
—Thanksgiving is less than two
weeks off. A glance at your dimin-
ishing coal pile will probably tell you
that real winter is almost at hand.
— Report has it that Rector Kent,
of Honey Brook, Pa., “took off” with
seven criminal charges hanging over
him. Another “flying parson,” we
should say.
—The miners showed superlative
wisdom when they voted to return to
picking coal in preference to picking
a quarrel with the government of the
United States.
— Editor Charley Bangert, of Du-
Bois, rises to remark that there were
four great printers in the world. One
of them was Ben Franklin. But he is
dead. The other three are Charley’s
sons.
—TIt appears that the Vares, of
Philadelphia, were disappointed in
the expectation of carrying a majori-
ty in the council body. But even that
will not convince them that they “are
down and out.”
—We have had such glorious victo-
ries since the Democracy of Centre
county and Pennsylvania was reor-
ganized that maybe some of these fine
days the “Watchman” will go so daf-
fy celebrating them that it will try to
make its readers believe that reorgan-
ization was exactly what the party
needed. J
—1It was a great disappointment
that Governor Sproul could not get to
State College for Pennsylvania day.
There was a record breaking crowd
there to greet him and the Governor
holds a rather unique position as a
chief executive of the Commonwealth
who has really commanded the re-
spect of all its people.
—Warden John Francies addressed
the Harrsburg Chamber of Commerce
recently; taking for his theme the new
western penitentiary of Pennsylva-
nia. Of course the Warden can talk
entertainingly on any subject, from
the dodo to the shimmy dance, but just
why he should have talked pen to that
bunch in Harrisburg has us guessing.
—The public school teachers of
Centre county have been with us all
week. It is a hopeful and altogether
gatifying sign: The seriousness with
which they attend to the work they
are annually called together to deo.
Time was when institutes were re-
garded by many of the teachers as
more of a week’s outing of a frivo-
lous social nature than a real school
for those who would teach school.
—At the institute on Tuesday one
of the instructors dissertated on “the
art of story telling.” While the lady
was very pleasing, both to look upon
and hear, we have reason to believe
that her’s was a work of supereroga-
tion. Any of the recently defeated
candidates for county office will agree
with us in that; for knowing, as they
do, how many people promised to vote
for them and then didn’t, they can
bear witness to the fact that the “art
of story telling” is one in which many
Centre county men need little instruc-
tion.
—It scarcely seems possible that a
year has elapsed since the armistice
was signed. A year ago last Tuesday
we were all supremely happy in the
thought that the trouble was all over
and it would be a matter of only a
few months until the country would
get back to normal. It is not back,
however, and the Senate of the Unit-
ed States must bear the responsibility
for whatever of disruption, discontent
and distress our people felt as they
thoughtfully observed the first anni-
versary of the day of deliverance
from war.
—We understand that work on the
improvement of the state highway to
Snow Shoe has been discontinued for
this season. If this be so surely some
one in authority will require the con-
tractors to repair the parts of it that
they have torn up and not remade so
that they are at least passable. It is
very poor planning that permits five
miles of a good roadway to be con-
verted into a veritable bog while less
than one mile is in construction. All
the detours to Snow Shoe have be-
come next to impossible and unless
some action is taken the main route
will be left in a worse condition
throughout the winter.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 64.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 14, 1919.
NO 45
Organize Labor in Danger.
The United Mine Workers of Amer-
ica have no just cause of complaint
against the court action taken at In-
dianapolis. The organization violat-
ed its agreement with the government
and the government appealed to a
‘court of equity to right the wrong.
That was the only remedy available
for a grievous evil. A coal miners’
strike of the proportions contemplat-
ed by Mr. Lewis, the acting president
of the organization, would have
been a public calamity. As Mr.
Lewis said industry would be par-
alyzed and commerce destroyed.
The railroads would have to be
shut down in a short time, the
steamships docked and every form of
production stopped. It is hard to im-
agine a man willing to cause such
trouble.
But the officials of the United Mine
Workers of America were equal to
this measure of iniquity, and in the
absence of a contract they might have
been able “to put it across.” The vi-
olation of the contract, however,
brought them within the reach of an
equity court, and they were properly
enjoined from carrying out a vicious
conspiracy. It is not true, as has
been alleged, that coal miners have
been enjoined from quitting their em-
ployment. No court has authority te
issue such a decree. But the officers
of the organization were enjoined
from ordering men out of the mines
and for paying them for carrying out
a conspiracy, in violation of their con-
tract to work until peace has been re-
stored.
The mine workers’ officials were
foolish in ordering a strike, thus set-
ting up a claim that their corporation
is greater than the government. Pos-
sibly knowing that it would have been
infinitely more foolish to defy the or-
der of the United States court to re-
scind the order for a strike, the offi-
cers of the United Mine Workers of
America obeyed the mandate, in joint
conference at Indianapolis, at four
o'clock last Tuesday morning, when
they voted, under protest, to call off
the strike. Any other action would
have marked the beginning of the end
of organized labor in this country.
The people. of the United States will
not tolerate a super-government by
labor or any other organization. Any
conflict over the matter would be re-
grettable for labor organizations have
accomplished great good in the past,
and they may continue their construc-
tive work ‘only as law abiding Amer-
icans with no rights superior to those
of any other class of citizens.
——Turkey boasts of being the
soundest country financially of the
late belligerents. That being the
case she should be required to pay a
fair share of the expenses of the late
war.
Dr. Van Dyke’s Startling Statements.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former Amer-
ican Minister to the Netherlands, ad-
dressing the World’s Christian Citi-
zenship Conference in session in
Pittsburgh, the other day, made some
startling statements. “Highway rob-
beries, race riots and murders seem to
be increasing in spite of prohibition,”
he declared, and added “the world
may be more sober but it is certain-
ly not more sane. On the contrary it
seems as if the pressure of human
passion and impulse has become more
intense while the restraint of reason
and conscience has relaxed.” Dr.
Van Dyke ascribes this lamentable
condition to the substitution of the
moving picture show for the church
as “the chief intellectual influence.”
In suggesting a cure for this
amazing state of affairs Dr. Van-
Dyke is equally positive. “It is inev-
itable,” he said, “that there should be
a partnership, a League of Nations,
to prevent or suppress any new out-
break of the war madness which cost
the world about $200,000,000,000,
nearly 8,000,000 men slain and count-
less thousands of aged men, women
and children starved to death. The
frivolity of certain American Sena-
tors,” he continued, “may keep us out
of the League for a brief time, but in
the end it is coming and we shall be
in it as sure as there is a God in heav-
en and a dominant common sense in
the American people.” It may he
madness and it may be malice instead
of frivolity that moves the Senators
in question to their course, but it will
fail.
The industrial disturbance as well
as the moral decadence throughout
the country is directly traceable to
the delay of the American Senate in
ratifying the covenant of the League '
The seed of the evil
sections of central
of Nations.
comes from the
Europe which are dependent upon the
issue of the peace treaty for exist-
ence. With the ratification of the
treaty the differences and disputes be- |
tween those peoples would be adjust-
ed and the agitation cease. But the
American Senators referred to hy Dr.
Ven Dyke want war instead of peace
because they imagine war will afford
them political advantage and the af-
fairs of the whole world are kept in
tumult and disorder for partisan pur-
poses.
Raiding the Reds.
The arrest of ‘nearly fourteen hun- |
dred persons in several cities on
charges of conspiracy against the
government reveals an alarming state
of affairs. In New York, Detroit and
Akron, Ohio, breeding places of law-
lessness were uncovered, and proba-
bly there are many others in other.
Of one thousand arrested in:
the
cities.
New York only thirty-seven,
leaders, were held. But plenty of ev-
idence of their evil purposes was se-
cured and deadly weapons in abun-
dance were confiscated.
ed that a connection between these
mischievous enemies of society and
the leaders in the steel and coal min-
crs’ strikes will be shown by the lit-
erature captured which will greatly
facilitate the war upon them.
It is charged that the purpose of
the conspirators is to destroy the gov-
ernment of the United States and es-
tablish in its place a government sim-
ilar to that of Lenine and Trotsky, in
Russia. The documents captured in
the raids on Sunday night clearly es-
tablish this fact. The funds to sup-
port the movement are obtained in
Germany and Russia and the obvious
purpose is to nullify the victory
achieved by the war. It may be said,
moreover, that the most enthusiastic
endorsement of the fight against the
ratification of the peace treaty comes
from the fountains of treason main-
tained by these wretches in this coun-
try and abroad. They are the cheer
leaders for Reed, Borah and Hungry
Hi.
It is high time that steps be taken
to eradicate this dangerous element
from the life of the country. No gov-
ernment can endure which tolerates
treason and this government must
continue. It is the hope of civiliza-
.tion, the security of justice and liber-
ty. Whatever or whoever sets cut to
destroy it must be brought to account
and punishment and the process
should be summary and complete.
Whether the seat of the disorder isin
the Senate chamber in Washington
or the hovels of vice in New York is
of no consequence in the matter of
assessing the damage. Henry Cabot
Lodg=2 or “Big Jim” Larkin look alike
to the law they are striving to upset;
and equally deserve public censure
{for what they have done.
——Bulgaria intends to extradite
and punish former King Ferdinand
who sneaked away to Germany after
he had betrayed and looted the people
he misgoverned before the war. That
is the right spirit but a trifle tardy.
Celebration of “Armistice Day.”
It is believ-
If there had been no other celebra-
tion of what will always be known as
“Armistice day” in any part of this
great country, the message of Pres-
ident Wilson antl the statements of
General Pershing and Secretary of
War Baker would serve as an endur-
ing monument of the great event of
November 11, 1918. The proclama-
tion of President Wilson is a classic.
In the most eloquent periods he re-
cites the splendid achievements of
our troops and of our citizenship
which was behind them and in equal-
ly appropriate phrases he points out
the generous rewards of our patriot-
ism and courage. Every sentence
sends a thrill to the heart of right-
thinking men and women throughout
the country.
General Pershing is equally force-
ful and appropriate in his eloquent
tribute to the intelligence and valor
of the troops that accomplished so
much under his command and direc-
tion in the far-away battle fields up-
on which they fought and suffered
that the world might be made better
and future wars impossible. Secre-
tary of War Baker touches the heart
of every American. “While we mourn
those dead,” he writes, “we are grate-
Duty of Pennsylvania Democrats.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania
must do something to revive interest .
in the political principles they pro-
fess. The result in Centre county
was much like that in other sections
of the State. Admirable. candidates
were presented in almost every in-
stance but the campaign was listless
and the vote light. In this county the
local organization was at least earn-
est. But as we stated last week
“it has nothing to build on or with.
It has had no voice in the distribu-
tion of party patronage.” That is
equally true in other counties. Those
favored by the party in dispensing
the fruits of victory were indifferent
to the results of the vote. In some
instances they were actually opposed
to the candidates.
The fault lies in the State organi- |
zation of the party. It is maintained,
not to elect Democratic candidates, |
In the last: :
i not curtailment of consumption be-
but to select nominees.
gubernatorial campaign the party or-
ganization openly fought the candi-
date for Governor because he had de-
feated the candidate the perfidious
leaders had set up. This year all the
energies of the State organization
were spent in framing up candidates
for delegate to the Natienal conven- |
tion and members of the State com-
mittee next year. That is the reason
of the failure of the party candidates
in many counties this year. The suc-
cess of the candidates this year might
have impaired the prospects of the
machine purposes next year. °
The Democrats of Pennsylvania
should set their faces against this sin-
ister control of the party organiza-
tion. The State committee has no
right to use the machinery of the par-
ty for or against any candidate for a !
purely party office or a candidate for
the nomination for any office. Every
movement in the direction of bossing
the primaries works an injury to the
party. It is a crime against the vot-
ers of the State. Because of such
practices the Vares, of Philadelphia,
have been defeated and no Vare has
ever carried his enmity to the extent ;
of opposing the party nominees, as
the Democratic organization did in
1918 in the State and in some in-
glances in county contests in 1919.
——1In view of the results of the
elections, the demoralization of the ate a decided stir. If the leaders are:
' wise, however, they will act promptly !
industrial life of the country and the
perversity of Congress some of us
may have doubts about Thanksgiving
but we can be thankful that we have
a President who can write so beauti-
ful a proclamation. :
After Shoe Profiteers.
Agents of the department of jus- |
tice are traveling through the country
rounding up retail dealers who are
profiteering in shoes. Last week, ac-
cording to reports, a stranger drop-
ped into a town not very many miles
from Bellefonte and going into a shoe
store purchased a pair of shoes for !
$12.00. Going to another store he
bought almost the same kind of a
shoe for $10.50. He then showed his
credentials and demanded the whole-
saler’s bills for the shoes. The bills
showed that the shoes for which he
paid $12.00 had cost the retailer $4.00
and those for which he had been
charged $10.50 had cost $3.50. Both
dealers were promptly arrested, it is
said, paid their fines and are now
, selling shoes at a reasonable profit
ful for their achievement and for that |
of their living brothers, and in the
name of both we may hope for an ear-
ly accomplishment of the terms of
peace that shall finally complete their
work upon the battle fields of
France.”
And while the hearts of the people
were rejoicing in the hope of this!
glorious consummation from one end
of this great country to the other a
group of traitorous Senators in Con-
gress were striving to defeat the pur-
pose for which these magnificent men
offered their lives to achieve. That
they will not be able to do this das-
tard work we may all fondly hope for
the spirit expressed by President Wil-
son, General Pershing and Secretary
| Baker is the spirit that permeates the
manhood and womanhood of the coun-
try and it will prevail, notwithstand-
ing the conspiracy of evil being nur-
sons in the malice of defeated ambi-
tion.
——Attorney General Palmer
spends more time telling the public
(it. Palmer certainly believes that it
pays to advertise.
i ——The farmer has to work long
{hours in order to keep those who
' work short hours in food.
tured in Washington for partisan rea- !
|
\
“over and above the cost to them.
The above story is given just as it
Palmer Misses the Mark.
Irom the Lancaster Intelligencer.
ing conference at Harrisburg last
Thursday, urged the common people
to wear their clothes a little longer,
and thus allow production to catch up
with demand. ‘The Attorney General
should have addressed his remarks
rot to the “common people,” but the
. “high fliers.” Close association with
the “common people” would convince |
- Mr. Palmer that the “common people”
are now, i
ing until it is threadbare and danger-
ous to wear from a law and order
| standpoint.
clothing galore that might well
| stretch out a little; no one but them-
t selves would know that they
well dressed.
| The whole idea of. cutting the cost
| of living by reducing consumption is
out of tune with modern ideas. In-
creased production is what is needed;
| cause
| food, ete., are curtailed and the public
| gets used to it, when the foreign mar-
i kets no longer call on the U. S. A.,
| which is less than a year off, then bus-
| iness must stagnate if consumption by
| the home folks is not at high tide.
Better housing conditions and more
housing as well as better roads are
i going to take up the slack as an in-
| dustrial feature long after Europe
| and the rest of the world stop “eat-
{ing up” our resources. But even at
| that, what has been gained by the
common people during the war in the
way of better wages and working con-
ditions should not be lost, not only
for themselves but in the interest of
business. generally. Merchants will
agree that they are best off when the
“common people” have money.
ness keeps booming then. When the
i merchant can sell, the manufacturer
ican sell and when the manufacturer
| can sell, he hires and pays and the |
greater the demand, the more he hires
'and the better he pays.
! Let the common people alone. They
| make prosperity. When prosperity
| takes flight, they are the ones who
: suffer.
I
Must End the Strike.
From the Philadelphia Record.
That mandate of the Federal court
| at Indianapolis to the mine leaders t>
| cancel their order calling for a strike
with the best grace possible, and then
start a movement for negotiations be- |
tween the men and the operators over
{ the demands of the former. It seems
! to be generally agreed that the men |
i are entitled to some increase in pay,
and they ought to receive it through
amicable adjustments. They made a
great mistake when they allowed their
excessive claims by the threat of a
walkout even at the request of the
government.
A week’s experience of the strike
has shown that the government and
i public cannot be browbeaten in this
high-handed manner. A large amount
of coal is being mined by non-union
workers, and the volume of this is
likely to increase steadily. Public
sentiment is practically unanimous
| against the leaders of the miners, who
| are responsible for the strike, and the
| American people are prepared to suf-
| fer considerable discomfort and incon-
i venience rather than submit tamely to
| methods that suggest the highway-
! man and his pistol. Government and
| people are united on this point. The
strike must be canceled and the way
opened for arbitration or some other
{ plan of friendly negotiations. The
| quicker the leaders are In grasping
Attorney General A. Mitchell Pal-
mer, addressing the High Cost of Liv- |
and have been during the
. whole period of the war and recon-
struction so far, wearing their cloth- |
There is a class with!
were not |
if consumption ef clothing, '
Busi- |
of soft coal workers is bound to cre-
leaders to attempt to enforce their
strike, and refused to postpone their
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
| —Governor Sproul last week issued a
, respite staying the electrocution of Alex-
. ander Dale, Schuylkill county, from the
| week of November 3rd to the week of De-
* cember 1st.
© —Suit for the recovery of $2,857 damag-
es was started at Reading on Saturday by
Margaret Fissell and J. H. Fissell, her
husband, against the Director General of
' Railroads for injuries sustained by Mrs.
Fissell at the main station of the Reading
, Railway on December 24, 1918.
~ —State Senator T. Lawrence Eyre, of
. West Chester, who announced his inten-
| tion of going into the mines as a work-
man provided fifty of his friends would
do the same in case of a coal famine, was
presented on Saturday with a silver-plat-
ed miner's pick by ‘W. L. Kane, of West
: Chester, who says he will outfit other am-
ateur miners in like fashion upon applica
tion if they decide to dig coal. ‘
. —Three car loads of condensed milk
{ were shipped from Lititz, Lancaster coun-
ty, recently for export trade. It was sent
from there to New York, where it will be
. loaded on ships. The milk is shipped
| through big agencies so that it is not defi-
nitely known where the destination will
be, but it is thought some of it will go to
{ England. A Lititz firm has been filling
orders for foreign shipments for months.
—Albert Hartman, of New Providence,
Lancaster county, who is the largest
grower of ginseng in that part of the State,
has made it a profitable industry. Recent-
ly he and his two sons took an automo-
bile trip to the mountains of Union and
Clearfield counties in search of some of
the wild variety, which is worth much
- more money in the New York market than
the cultivated. They found quite a supply
of it, and it met a ready market.
i —Lucian Imes, of Doyles Mills, Juniata
! county, aged twenty-two years, died at
{ the Lewistown hospital on Saturday from
'a gunshot wound received when he was
. shot in his right leg by a companion with
whom = he was hunting rabbits. Adam
Thomas, of McClure, was shot by his
brother, Erie Thomas, of Lewistown,
while they were hunting wild game. A
partridge flew between the two brothers
and Erie shot at the bird, the lead pellets
penetrating Adam’s legs and hands.
—Apples grown in Pennsylvania won the
silver cup at the recent apple show held
at Milwaukee by the International Apple
Shippers’ association. Thirty varieties
from this State, collected and prepared by
the horticultural department of The Penn-
sylvania State College for the State Hor-
ticultural Association, were on exhibition. °
The results of the competition have dem-
| onstrated to the satisfaction of authorities
| that the quality of apples which Pennsyl-
| vania can produce are not inferior to the
best that can be grown in the United
| States.
+ —An unusual method of chicken stealing
is being practiced at Donegal Springs,
York county, on the Cameron farm tenant-
ied by Mr. Frank Watson. A few daws ago
an auto stopped near the buildings and
| the occupants left a little dog out of the
‘car. The canine quickly grabbed a fine
| large hen and took it to the car when the
| man lifted both dog and chicken into the
| car. The day following there was a du-
{plicate of the above, both events being
| Witnessed by members of Mr. Watson's
} family as well as neighbors. This is a
, modern way of stealing and it will be ex-
: pensive if Mr. Watson learns the names of
| the >
violators.
| —General inquiries into the manner in
which foods of various kinds are being
. made up, especially with regard to use of
water, flour and other materials to ‘fat-
ten” them, are being undertaken by the
| agents of the State Bureau of Foods. In
.'a number of instances it has been found
that sausage was watered and dredged
with flour, while charges that water has
been used have been made in regard to
milk, vinegar, and other articles, includ-
ing butter. The problem which the State
authorities must meet is to establish that
the food was watered and that the water
did not get into the product naturally or
in proper processes.
—Whiskey everywhere, was the motto
| of John Paluso, of New Kensington, until
| the state troopers swooped down on his
| house and discovered his hoarded liquid
, refreshments last Thursday night. ‘I'he
i troopers were not looking for booze, but
| for “reds” and “red propaganda.” They
| found three stoves filled with bottles of
i bonded liquor. There were bottles in the
stovepipe; the chimney; in Paluso’s bed;
{ at least thirty immersed in the rain bar-
| rel; the half-filled barrel of pork in the
| cellar had not been neglected, and the old-
| fashioned clock had no room for the long
{ pendulum to swing. More than 500 bot-
i tles of the best brand of bonded whiskey
| were found.
| —Twelve years ago W. E. Jacoby & Co.,
! coal operators of Bigler township, Clear-
field county, began action against the
was told the “Watchman” reporter, this fact the better chance they will Pennsylvania railroad, alleging discrimin-
but ve cannot vouch for its absolute
authenticity. One thing is self-evi-
dent, however, there is a great deal of
profiteering somewhere, not only in
shoes, but clothing and everything
else, and if the agents of justice can
uncover the real profiteers they will
undoubtedly help very much in reduc-
ing the hight cost of living.
——Labor organizations must ac-
knowledge some respect for the gov-
ernment of the United States if they
want to retain the respect of the pub-
lic and the sympathy of the people.
Pennsylvania Day at State College.
An unusually large crowd of peo-
ple from all over the State attended
the Pennsylvania day exercises at
State College last Saturday. In fact,
the influx of visitors began on Thurs-
day and continued throughout Friday. |
The chief feature on Saturday morn-
ing was the exhibition drill of the col- |
lege cadets which was reviewed by
Major General Rickard.
pleasing feature of the day was the
presence of Dr. E. E. Sparks, who has
improved so much from his recent
nervous collapse that he was able to
visit the college and make a brief ad-
dress.
was Auditor General Snyder.
The principal event of the after-
noon was the State-Lehigh football
game in which State came out the vic-
| C ! LIC | tor by the score of 20 to 7. Dances
| what he is going to do than in doing!
were held at the various fraternity
houses both Friday
evenings.
——Rumor has it that Rash Irvin
is to be the new clerk to the County
Commissioners.
Another |
Among other brief speakers |
and Saturday
| have to make a graceful retreat. They
! made a great technical blunder, just
as was done in the steel strike. This
is no time for any more follies of that
kind.
Elections and League of Nations.
From the Springfield Republican.
The man is gifted with second sight
who can see in the elections any pop-
i ular verdict on the League of Na-
tions. The League was almost for-
gotten in this State, where a Repub-
‘ lican was elected; and in New Jersey,
| where a Demecrat triumphed, the
| League cut no more of a figure than
‘last year’s almanac. Voters every-
where had their domestic issues to at-
tend to, and they accepted the League,
apparently as a matter of course or of
fate.
would recognize.
Standing of a Horse Thief.
{ rem the Detroit News.
Churches throughout the country
are asked by a New York speaker to
look upon profiteers as worse than
horse thieves. This will give the
younger generation an idea of how
well a horse thief used to stand.
Farmers Not Proletariats.
| From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
With Kentucky farms selling up to
$400 an acre, one wonders how the la-
bor leaders hope to persuade the far-
mers that they are proletaviats who
should arm and alarm against the plu-
tocrat.
——About the only comfort that
comes to the ex-Kaiser these days is
reading the proceedings of the Unit-
ed States Senate.
The Senate may as well get.
down to business at once and approve .
the treaty in a form the other Powers |
ation in the distribution of coal cars. The
| Interstate Commerce Commission awarded
| them $22,000 damages. The district court
i affirmed the award. It was carried
! through the courts, the Supreme court of
¢ the United States finally setting aside the
judgment and ordering a mew trial, which
| commenced October 24th. Then Isaac
{ Weber, member of: the plaintiff firm, was
stricken with pneumonia. Next one of the
| railroad’s witnesses was called to Wash-
ington by the coal strike. Now the trial
| has been set for November 24th.
—The farmers of Mifflin county have or-
! ganized a milk society and clubbed togeth-
er for the purpose of purchasing a carload
| of pure bred Holstein dairy cows for bet-
| ter breeding purposes and they propose to
| make Mifflin county one of the most pro-
lific of the State in the production of milk.
This will not aid materially the local trade
as condensary plants have sprung up in
various parts of that county at which the
whole milk is sold and utilized in the man-
: ufacture of ice cream and bakery products.
It is the exception rather than the rule to
make creamery butter at those plants, and
it has been the practice when short of
milk to purchase sweetened butter on the
market and reconvert it into cream to be
| used in the manufacture of ice cream.
—The entire police force, augmented by
a housewives’ posse, went on a search for
burglars who entered the bottling works
of the Coca Cola company’s plant at Shar-
on, Pa., Wednesday night of last week,
and made off with a ton and a half of the
most-coveted article of the household to-
day—granulated sugar. Taking advan-
tage of a break in the wall of the bottling
works made several days previous, when
a street car ran amuck, the burglars went
to the second floor, where the sugar was
stored. Thirty one hundred-pound sacks
were carried down two flights of stairs
and through the hole, where it was load-
, ed on trucks and hauled away. A consid-
erable quantity of sugar, stored in anoth«
er part of the building, was overlooked.