INK SLINGS.
—In ten days the shortest day of the
year will be here. Then, oh then, as
the days lengthen the cold strength- |
ens.
—As yet no sign of any of the
many deer that have been shot in
Centre county has been discovered in |.-
this office.
—For goodness sake, if you haven't
done that Christmas shopping, get
busy while there is a chance to get
what you want.
—Some miners must be content
ith the wages they are taking down.
Fifty cars of coal arrived in Belle-
_ fonte Tuesday.
Thank the Lord, the President
was well enough to sit down on Sen-
ator Fall’s attempt to plunge the
country into war with Mexico.
—It was forty-four degrees below
zero at White River, Ontario, on
Tuesday, and they say we're to get a
taste of it. Me for a place behind the
kitchen stove.
—That Snow Shoe hunter who held
his wounded deer by the tail until help
came and put it hors du combat sure-
ly would have been out of luck if the
tail hold had slipped, as it most al-
ways does.
—The nicest Christmas present you
could send a friend would be the
“Watchman” for a year and your or-
der to have it done would be a nice
present for us too. What a fine way
to kill two birds with one stone.
—The coal strike is off temporari-
ly. The miners have accepted the
President’s proposal of a fourteen
per cent. advance with a commission
to investigate and report within sixty
days on the practicability of a further
incraese in the pay.
. —Slacking at your work is one of
the causes of under production . and
higher cost of living. Unless a work-
er is really producing what he is be-
ing paid for the value of his product
must be watered to cover the loss oc-
casioned by his slacking.
. —The comb of the little red hen is
growing redder and redder. She is
beginning to sing a bit, as she
scratches and pecks around the yard
and her new feathers are maturing
fast. Unless we miss our guess it
won't be long until there is a drop in
eggs, | |.
. —Eleven dollar suits are quite the
fad in Paris as a means of overcom-
ing the old H. C. L. We would be
glad to take a chance in one, even in:
a rain storm and without the protec-
tion of an umbrella, but of eleven dol-
lar suits in this country: Well, there
ain’t no_such animal. !
~—A lot of the boys were getti
ready to wet their whistles last Mon-
day night when it was thought the
Supreme court would hand down a de-
cision declaring war-time prohibition
unconstitutional. But who ever heard
of the Supreme court handing down a
decision when it was expected.
—The time is drawing near when
George Harter will occupy the unique
position of being the only Democrat
who has a continuous job in the court
house of Centre county. It’s pretty
tough, isn’t it; the way they've pried
us out of everything except what the
law wouldn’t allow them to do.
—Assuming that the miners have
lost an average of twenty-five days
since they went out on strike and as-
suming that they will go back to work
soon at an increase of fourteen per
cent. it will take one hundred and
seventy-five full working days before
the advance will have squared the
Joss they have suffered through idle-
ness.
—Governor Sproul declares that
people want relief from governmental
meddling in their private and person-
‘al affairs. He might have been talk-
‘ing about any one of the half dozen or
‘more departments over which he pre-
sides here in Pennsylvania, but he
wasn’t. He was sounding the key-
note of the Republican campaign for
1920 and was referring to the federal
government. We Pennsylvanians are
living in such a fragile glass house of
our own that it seems very dangerous
for us to be throwing stones.
—Ole Hanson says that while the
country is deluged with red literature
designed to accomplish the overthrow
of our government we have nothing
to combat it but the press. In other
print he finds mothing but the consti-
tution and the Bible and, as he says,
“few people read either of those.”
How lamentably true is'this state-
ment of the strike-breaking Mayor of
Seattle, and how little need would
“there be for the fearless service he is
rendering the country if more people
did read the Bible and particularly
that part of it recorded in the ninth
chapter of 1st Corinthians.
—Some of our readers may look
upon our request for a little of that
money due us on subscription as a
joke, but we wish to impress upon
them the fact that it is no joking
matter. While very busily engaged
in getting out the last issue of the
“Watchman” so that all its readers
might have it on time we made the
horrifying discovery that the rear bo-
som was out of the only pair of trous-
ers we own. For years past we have
been going around without any of na-
ture’s covering for our head and have
always been able to put up a. good
front to the ladies and public at large,
but we don’t relish the aspect of not
being able to turn around without lay-
ing ourself open to the charge of be-
ing double-faced and trying to work
the public from both ends. So please
pay up.
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 64.
BELLEFONTE. PA., DECEMBER 12, 1919.
NO. 49.
Perturbed Republican Leaders.
“A guilty conscience needs no ac-
cuser.,” Since the day of Senator
Lodge’s victory and the German tri-
umph in the defeat of the peace treaty
the wiser Republican leaders have
‘been in a state of consternation. All
| sorts of fears have sprung up before
i them and every imaginary evil haunts
| them. National chairman Hays im-
| mediately fssued orders to sound pub-
lic sentiment and organize defences.
Finally the bulky form of former
President Taft loomed up as an
| avenger.
‘Republican National committee held
on Wednesday and make formal pro-
test against the un-American action
of the Senate in serving the cause of
German autocracy. :
But this was only an imaginary
danger superinduced by the conscious-
ness of wrong done. Mr. Taft ex-
pressed regret that the leaders of his
party were obtuse and perverse
enough to perpetrate so grave a
crime against the country and human-
ity. But his indignation never takes
the form of action. He is a fine
gentleman, who abhors evil and is
willing to make mild protest against
it if he can do so without offending
any one. : But the idea of him appear-
ing in the open and vigorously pro-
testing against: anything is repug-
nant. He would hardly trust him-
self to dream anything that might
disturb the equanimity of his bitter-
est enemy. William Howard Taft is
simply about two hundred and seven-
ty pounds of amiability. :
“The wicked flee when no man pur
sueth.” Strangely enough the fears
of these guilty Republican leaders as-
sociated the person and whiskers of
former . Justice Hughes with Mr.
Taft in an imaginary crusade against
the unrighteousness of Lodge and
Knox and Sherman. In the recent ex-
altation of Hungry Hi Johnson to the
supreme leadership of the party Jus-
complaint. But for Johnson’s perfidy
Hughes might have been elected Pres-
ident in 1916 and the trend of affairs
litical pacifist like Taft and neither
“of them.is. likely to.lead a revolution
There are others, however, and the
future is threatening.
——Probably Senator Newberry, of
Michigan, has arranged a “pair” for
the period required for his trial on a
charge of fraud. But he must have
induced Jim Read, of Missouri, or
Gore, of Oklahoma, to oblige him.
No Hope of Improvement.
The promise of “greatly improved
political conditions” in Schuylkill
county, will be taken with a grain of
allowance by close observers of poli-
tics in Pennsylvania. It will be ad-
mitted that there are plenty of rea-
sons why political conditions should
be improved in that county. Only the
other day the Republican leader and
one of the foremost citizens of the
county was convicted of forgery in
Philadelphia, and stuffing the ballot
box has been a favorite diversion of
‘the voters in that county for years.
But such crimes have been profitable
to those concerned in them and as no-
body else appears to take any inter-
est in the matter, there is not likely
to be any change in the program.
A few weeks ago the election board
of one ‘of the voting precincts in
Pottsville was brought into court
charged with a fraudulent return of
the vote. Twice as many voters tes-
tified that they voted for a certain
candidate as there were votes return-
ed for him.. The ballot box was open-
ed and found empty and other evi-
dences of fraud were presented. But
the jury acquitted the defendants and
the judges allowed the verdict to
stand. The plain inference is that the
jury as well as the court was in full
sympathy with the criminals. It
must have been agreed that the law
shall not be permitted to interfere
with the principal industry of the
county. It is not an infant industry
but needs nursing.
Political = conditions in Schuylkill
county will improve when the pres-
ent leaders of the Republican and
Democratic parties in that county are
safely lodged in the penitentiary. In
some sections where party vice pre-
vails the death of the leaders might
work reform. But that is not the case
in Schuylkill county. There, when
one crook dies another trained to the
iniquity takes his place and the sin-
ister progress of corruption goes on
as if nothing had happened. The
leader who escaped on a legal tech-
nicality last week will continue to
serve in the public office into - which
ago and will ‘enjoy. uninterrupted con-
trol of the party and the county as
long as he wants to.
——The withdrawal of many trains
from railway service may accomplish
two worthy ® purposes.” It may con-
serve - fuel and “create the habit of
staying at home.
tice Hughes had ample reason for |
vastly changed. But Hughes is a po- |
or create even a teapot tempest.
he was pitched by fraud some time
|
It was thought that he!
would appear at the meeting of the
‘mines.
resolution a couple of weeks ago pro-
‘with Germany is over.
‘to indicate his desire with regard to
‘was courteous as well as complete. “I
-he said, and added, “it would consti-
said sufficient to satisfy any rational
to the Executive and to the Executive |
End of Miners’ Strike.
To all intents and purposes the coal
strike ended when the miners in ses-
sion in Indianapolis, on Wednesday
accepted President Wilson’s proposal
for a settlement. President Wilson
revealed a deep feeling of sympathy
for labor interests but pointed out
that the public interests are of para-
mount importance. He would cheer-
fully give assent to any scheme that
might conserve the interests of the
miners if it did not work impairment
of the interests of the people.
The miners’ strike was threatening
all branches of industrial life. Every
industrial activity is dependent, di- |
rectly or indirectly, upon it. Without
fuel shops and factories employing
millions of men will be forced to shut
down and the sources of supply of
food will be closed. At this season of |
the year, moreover, the public health |
is imperiled by the closing of the |
But the government cannot !
afford to intervene in a way that
would increase rather than diminish
the distress. To increase the price of |
fuel to the consumers at this time |
would aggravate instead of mitigate |
the evil of scarcity. The remedy
had to be found in another direction |
and that is what the President plead |
for.
With this purpose in mind and |
with * sympathy for suffering in his |
heart President Wilson appealed to
the miners. “I ask every individual
miner” he wrote, “to give his person-
al thought to what I say. I hope he
understands fully that he will be
hurting his own interest and the in-
terest of his family and will be throw-
ing: countless other laboring men out
of employment if he shall continue
the present strike.” That was a solemn
as well as a melancholy truth. It is
equally certain that “he will create
an unnecessary and unfortunate prej-
udice ' against -organized labor.” We
need the conserving influence of or-
ganization in the industrial world and
to sacrifice it would be calamitous.
‘After .considering . the President's
proposal during a two day’s session’
the mine chiefs voted, with only one
dissenting, to go back to .werk at the
‘fourteen per cent. increase proposed ,
But whether the workers
remains to be seen, Because, in some
fields, the advance allowed is actual-
lyly less. than they were getting when
they. quit. This may seem inexpli-
cable to some, but can be explained
in this way: The miners do not al-
ways work for the scale they have
agreed to. In some fields they are
paid more than their scale and the
government increase, being based on
the agreed scale, in many cases will
not be as much as the premium they
were receiving before.
_ This is likely to cause trouble in
adjustment and may keep some mines
closed indefinitely.
Some Senators Snubbed.
Senator Fall, of New Mexico, will
probably concur in the opinion that
there is no symptom of mental weak-
ness in President Wilson’s letter con-
cerning a resolution introduced into
the Senate by Mr. Fall, the other day,
“requesting the President to sever
diplomatic relations with the Carran-
za government of Mexico.” The let-
ter also conveys a tip to Senator
Lodge and other constitutional quack
doctors which they might well consid-
er carefully. The suggestion express-
ed in the Fall resolution was of pre-
cisely the same tenor as the Lodge
posing that Congress declare that war
Senator Fall asked the President
the Mexican resolution. The reply
would ‘be gravely concerned to see
such a resolution pass the Congress,”
tute a reversal of our constitutional
practice . which might lead to very
grave confusion in regard to the
guidance of our foreign affairs.” If
he had stopped there he would have
mind. But he went a step further
and added, “I am confident that I am
supported by every constitutional au-
thority in the statement that the ini-
tiative in directing the relations of |
our: government with foreign govern-
ments is assigned by the constitution
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only.” .
Senator Lodge proposed in his res-
olution that the war with Germany '
be daclared at an end. Senator Fall
proposed that Congress instruct. the |
President to sever diplomatic rela-
tions with the Carranza government. |
The propositions are equally imperti-
nent and absurd. The President has
taken an- oath. of obedience. to the con- |
stitution. and the constitution specif- |
ically fixes the President as the agent
to. initiate all movements in relation
to affairs with foreign governments.
Senator Lodge called. Senator Fall |
and Senator Brandigee into confer- |
ence upon the receipt of the letter to
Fall. They probably decided: that the
Presidential mind is unimpaired.
Germany Getting Gay.
One effect of the refusal of the
Senate to ratify the peace treaty is
revealed in the refusal of Germany to
sign the protocol and fulfill her oblh-
gations to pay indemnity for the
ships sunk by her submarines during
the war. The German autocrats in-
terpret the action of the Senate as ev-
idence that the government of the
United States declines to aid Europe
in “struggling back to consciousness
and order.” Without the help of
{ America Germany could not have been
“stricken to her knees.” Now that
the aid and support of the govern-
ment of the United States has been
; withdrawn Germany feels that she
can flout the European Allies of the
; United States and refuse to fulfill
her pledges.
This attitude, though alarming is
not surprising. Early in the Senate
discussion of the subject Senator
Knox, of Pennsylvania, expressed an
opinion that the treaty imposed un-
just conditions upon Germany and for
that reason ought to be rejected. His
colleagues lacked the courage to
adopt his suggestion by defeating the
ratification but accomplished the re-
sult by attaching reservations that
nullified it. Naturally this action en-
| couraged Germany to resist the en-
forcement of the conditions to which
she had agreed in the peace cenfer-
ence. The cunning but not too con-
scientious Germans discerned in the
situation an opportunity to repudiate
the treaty and insolently declared so
to the Council.
The latest information indicates
that the Allies in Europe contemplate
coercive measures to enforce the pro-
visions of the treaty. This means, if
it means anything, a resumption of
hostilities and a renewal of the hor-
rors of war. But probably that is
what Lodge and Knox want. Their
Leaving the Treaty.
| From the Philadelphia Record.
The determination of the President
not to withdraw the treaty, but to
leave it where it is for the present, is
obviously proper. In the exercise of
his constitutional authority he has ne-
gotiated a treaty; the Senate has not
consented to it, and there ‘it is; there
is nothing at present to do with it.
There is no use in withdrawing the
treaty and re-submitting it, or of con-
tinuing the debate on the treaty until
it has been ascertained that 64 Sena-
tors will vote for it. Amendments or
reservations may be made to it, but
they must be of such a character that
after they are agreed to 64 Senators
will vote for the treaty. Aa
It is better that the treaty should
fail than that it should be ratified and
repudiated by the same vote. The
treaty with the present réservations
has no more effect than no treaty at
all, but it makes the United States
ridiculous; it invites contempt for us
by making certain promises and then
reserving the right to keep them or
not, as we shall please when the oc-
casion shall arise.
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The killing of two bandits at Orwell,
Ohio, Tuesday morning was the result of
information as to the attempted bank rob-
bery that was given the Ohio sheriff by
the Pennsylvania state police.
—After walking fourteen squares out of
his way to save a few cents on a peck of
apples he purchased, Jacob Lucziewicz, 38
years old, of Mount Carmel, who has only
one eye, was hit by an automobile at &
street crossing and sustained two brokea
' legs. .
| —Elias Cawley, of Washington town-
i ship, Snyder county, who mysteriously
disappeared about eight years ago, hss
been declared legally dead. His will lefg
in the custody of William Moyer, of Free~
burg, has been probated in the registers
office and letters testamentary issued
thereon.
—While members of the family of Mrs.
John Fortner, of Centralia, were in the
kitchen, a few days ago, the waterback im
the kitchen stove exploded, blowing parts
of the stove and hot coal all over the
kitchen. Miss Edith Fortner was burned
by hot water. The women saved the home
from being consumed by fire. 3
-—Fire destroyed the large tipple of the
Pennsylvania Coal and Coke company af
Winburne, Clearfield county, on Thursday
evening of last week, the loss being esti-
mated at $6,000. The blaze is thought te
have criginated in a short circuit in the
electric wires. The tipple is located at
mines which have been closed during the
, strike.
—Some time during Wednesday night of
last week robbers entered the stationery
istore of J. H. Styers, in Selinsgrove, and
carried off a case of fountain pens valued
at $60. Strange to say, nothing else in the
store was disturbed. It is believed that am
entrance was gained through a cellar win-
dow which offered easy egress to the store,
The robbers operated without leaving a
single clue that might aid in establishing
| their identity.
If the Republicans had honestly de- | —In his effort to slaughter a pig,” Rob
sired certain changes in-the treaty
they would have voted for them as
amendments. They did not do this
because their purpose of defeating
the treaty would have been too evi-
dent; they pursued what they deemed
. the more cunning method of adopting
the reservations, which have the ef-
fect of destroying all the agreements.
attached to the treaty reservations
which nullified the agreements. They
‘may remain under the guilt .of sacri-
| ficing the treaty in an effort to score
‘on their political opponents, or they
can agree on such reservations as will
not nullify the treaty. That is entire-
ly possible, and the President has al-
ready indicated his willingness to ac- |
| cept reservations which wo not de-
feat the treaty itself. or
If the Republicans do nothing
wiih
! will go into next year’s campaign wi
{| The responsibility for: the failure is ;
on the Republicans. It was they who |
friends in New England and Pitts- | the sole responsibility for’ defeating
burgh may thus hope to get new con-
tracts for munitions and materials of
war out of which they can spare lib-
eral contributions to debauch the
| the peace treaty ‘and arraying . the
| United States against i of
| Nations, and by the side of Germany
‘and the militarists. If
ert A. McMeans, .-of near Dayton, Arm
strong county, shot his nine-year-old som,
who is now in the hospital at Punxsutaw-
ney with a bullet through his spleen. The
father was just about to shoot the pig
‘with a 22-caliber rifle, when a dog chased
the pig. Mr. McMeans, in running after
the porker, shot while it was on the
“wing,” and instead of hitting it, sent the
bullet into his son’s body.
—Pennsylvania Railroad employees must
‘cease ‘‘cussing” during the time they are
on duty, is the edict of a new order thag
has come down the line. The use of pro-
fane language is being frowned on by rail-
road officials. On the middle division
there has already been a number of em-
ployees suspended for the use of profane
language. Violators of the anti-cursing
edict will be harshly dealt with on the
first offense, and if repeated will be dis-
missed from the service. Sp
© The seventh annual meeting of the
Pennsylvania State Educational associa~
tion will be held in Philadelphia Decems
ber 20th to. January 1st. Arrangements
have been .made with the United States
Railroad administration for one and one-
third fare on the certificate plan. The
vote and elect a Republican President ¢&08 care to go into the campaign headquarters of the association will be at
‘next year. In any event a renewal of
the war would discredit the present
administration and help Lodge in his
ght against President Wilson. And
that . is'nourishing - food te. Lodge’s
vanity. =
. ——It would seem to.the average
mind unnecessary for a court man-
date to prove that “strike breaking”
is “an extra hazardous employment.” i
But some people imagine that they
must be shown everything.
——On the sixth page of today’s
paper will be found the President’s
proclamation calling attention to the
fact that work on taking the 1920
census will be begun on January 2nd,
which is just three weeks away. Fol-
lowing the President’s proclamation
is given a list of questions which the
enumerators will ask - and which it
will be up to the head of every house-
hold to answer, or every person over
eighteen years of age. In order to
have the answers to all the questions
ready it would be well for every adult
person to read the list very carefully,
and it will greatly facilitate the work
of the enumerator if the answers to
all questions are prepared in advance.
But please remember, that every
answer given must be absolutely cor-
rect and truthful and no attempt must
be made at evasion of any question.
No information given the enumerator
will be made public so far as individ-
uals are concerned, so that there will
be no reason for refusing to answer.
But there is another reason why you
should not refuse, and that is that any
one doing so, or giving evasive or un-
truthful answers is'liable to a fine of
one hundred dollars. Just who the
enumerators for Bellefonte or Centre
county will be is not known at this
writing. is BSE 2
—Cut the first ice that forms thick
enough for housing. Our experience
during the last summer was sufficient-
ly trying to make the ice question one
worth careful attention. It behooves
everyone who has an ice house to fill
it and the earlier it is filled the better
Lit will keep.
— Every treaty entered into by
the government involved the surren-
der of some sovereignty and every
citizen yields some part of his person-
al liberty when he attaches himself to
a community.
——1It may be possible to make a
Presidential candidate out of General
Wood but nobody will ever succeed in
making a military hero of a man who
never fought a battle.
——Senator Fall’'s Mexican mare’s
nest hasn’t stampeded the country to
a great extent. But it probably raised
the hopes of munition makers.
——Free ‘speech is -a great asset
but licentious mouthing is a danger-
ous liability frequently mistaken for
free speech. ’ 2 ;
—Don’t guess in your business deal-
ings. Try to know it.
. with such a handicap, we admire their |
| daring more than their sense
dy The country wants e . thro
| ouf thie. world, » ad to
join other nations in’; “world
assurance of this. ' If the Rept
choose to “go into the next national
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vies, and as the champions -of force
represented by military power, rather the Susquehanna river at Lock Haven since
than the champions of right, pledged
to prevent any. nation from attacking
i another till all the resources of a
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| campaign as’ the allies’ of Germany, as |
| peaceful settlement have been ex-
hausted, they have a right to commit
i suicide.
country.
Why Worry?
i From the Lancaster Intelligencer.
| Verily these are the days of hope
triumphant. -
All sorts of alarms are ‘sounded in
But they will not carty the scores of persons are being put to great
the Hotel Adelphia and the general ses-
| sions will be held in the Central High
school auditorium. The department and
"round table meetings will be held in the
{ William Penn High school and the Girls’
—A petty dispute between the commis-
| sioners of Clinton county and the ferry-
man in charge of the scow which has been
hauling men, beasts and vehicles across
the old covered brodge was burned down,
oyer whom shall assume the responsibility
for purchasing poles wherewith to propel
the craft, has resulted in a cessation of the
traffic. While the disputants squabble
. inconvenience daily and are forced te
make an extensive detour to get to Lock
Haven from across the river or vice versa,
—Five thousand dollars’ worth of furs
, and high-grade women’s apparel was gtol-
‘en Saturday night from the store-room ‘of
the daily news, but nobody bothers.
The placid serenity of the public, ia
the face of the successive develop-
ment of all sorts of: strikes, the sugar
shortage, the failure of the Senate to
ratify the peace treaty, the prospect
of a coal famine, and last and decid-
edly least—the appearance of another
of those pesky Mexican war clouds,
remains undisturbed. There are lots
of croakers, of course, and calamity
howls continuously fill the air; but
nobody really minds. Nobody appears
to care a continental what threatens,
or even what happens. The: stock’
market may show considerable nerv-
ousness of speculator investors in ad-
dition to its chronic depression, but
even speculation goes merrily on—ifor
money is scandalously cheap and quite
a few people have more of it than is
good for them while most of ‘us are
too merrily busy gathering fifty-cent
dollars to pay the H. C. L. to bother
about anything else of merely human
importance. The most startling news
provokes only the most casual com-
ment—ever placid and philesophical.
Why worry? Pegvis
The cause of this apparent indif-
ference is distinctly evident in the bed
rock conviction that all troubles and
disturbances are merely a part of the
after-the-war readjustment and will
fade away in good time. It is a war-
ranted conviction. What if the world
is turned upside down.. It will ail
come right with patience and when it
does those who best mind their own
business—and best understand what
it is—have the best chance of finding
themselves on top; or at least right
side up. Inn? denfpas
So let us, in the words of the war
song, “Pack up our troubles in our
old kit bag and smile, smile, smile.”
Warnin g to Bachelors.
From the Columbus Dispatch.
With the greatly increased dispar-
ity between the sexes that the war has
caused there may be more than the or-
dinary: danger to bachelors in the leap
year that is only a month away now.
Is There a Connection?
From the Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
P. Deisroth’s Sons, of Hazleton. Entrance
was gained by the transom over the main
entrance, and at their leisure the thieves
looted racks and display cases. Shirtwaists
of high grade, valued at about $1000 were
taken, some of the more expensive being
removed from the show cases. Three val-
uable fur coats, forty-one neck pieces and
eight muffs, together with silk garments,
were also included in the loot. Police are
working on the theory that a gang of
thieves from outside the city robbed the
store.
—Bears have become such a nuisance in
parts of Potter and McKean counties that
Seth E. Gordon, acting secretary of the
State Game Commission, issued a state-
ment in which he expressed the hope that
hunters will go into that section. “I have
just beer investigating reports that bears
have become so numerous that they are
destroying sheep and raiding farms in
Potter and McKean counties,” said he, “I
have found such reports well founded and
there is good bear hunting to be had. This
is the last week of the season for such
hunting and I hope sportsmen can help re-
lieve a local situation in that part of the
State.” ' .
—Ground has been broken for the first
of a group of orphanage buildings at the
Evangelical home, located just north of
Lewisburg. The structure will be erected
at a cost of $40,000. It is the plan of the
board of trustees to erect a building =a
. year during the next ten years. Plans are
now under way for the first wing of a
hospital building. The Rev. A. A. Win-
ter, superintendent of the home, went
there from the western conference of the
Evangelical church. He has asked the
church for $100,000, to be used in exten-
give improvements during the next four
years, and an active campaign is now on
throughout the denomination to raise: the
amount. t
—The Lewistown housing and Develop-
ing company, with a capital stock of $300,~
000, became a fact last week when the di-
rectors of the local chamber of commerce
decided upon a name. At the regular
meeting of the organization Friday night
$55,000 of the stock was subscribed and the
balance assured. This will give the or-
ganization a borrowing capacity of $400,-
000 with which it is proposed to erect 200
houses to cost from $3000 to $3500 each
when completed. The organization has al-
It is. claimed there is ‘more money ' qv secured options on the O'Meara
in the United States than ever before, , sor once ur
A t hE | r ¥ gently considered in the
and it has been said, that the love 0 i building of the Masonic home now located
| at Elizabethtown, and the Fleming tracts,
money is the root of all'evil..
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both located to the east of Lewistown,
and at the head of the Lewistown Nar-
the “Watchman” is. always the best. . rows. .
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