i on» FF "bands are going to suffer + prohibition. ..of players of wind instruments to put . a few drops of alcohol in the valves prt INK SLINGS. '—Sunday will be the shortest day of 1919. —1It is the spirit with which it is given, not the gift, that counts. —For the Holiday season more suitable weather could not be desired. ——The Presidential boom of Gen- . eral Wood is in charge of a Cincinna- ti soap manufacturer and he will probably boil it. — Senator Lodge imagines that "he is still fighting President Wilson but he is mistaken. He is fighting the American people. The President made a treaty ‘ in accordance with the provisions of the constitution. If the Senate refus- "es to ratify it he isn’t to blame. —With sixty cent sugar staring us in the face wouldn’t it be wise to go a little lighter on candy, cakes and flummery that consume so much of it. —If you are keen for a lot of Christmas day callers just let it be known among your friends that you intend having a bowl of egg-nog on tap at your home. ——The ending of the coal strike removes one source of danger to the people. Industrial life will revive now despite the efforts of the Repub- lican leaders to prostrate it. —This is the last issue of the “Watchman” you will receive during 1919. Don’t look for one next week as we will be gorging ourselves on kickless mince pie and other spine- less eats of a country that is dry. —A stitch in time saves nine and a friend in need is a friend indeed. Such were the thoughts of the writer - when he opened two letters this week, in each of which was enough to pay ~ for a patch on the trousers that gave out under the wear and tear of . squirming around on an editorial tri- pod during the struggles of their . wearer to write something that would be read. —It just occurs to us that brass through It has been the practice before going on parade in freezing weather so as to prevent horns from freezing up. Now some other kind of “an anti-freeze will have to be com- pounded or bands will be out of it " during extremely cold weather. - t.. —~There is some consolation in the “fact that Congress is being as univer- _ sally damned now that it is Republi- “ean as it was when it was Democrat- . ic. The turn over of power in Wash- "ington has brought none of the chang- ‘es that were promised and the public ‘to realize that swapping horses in the middle of the stream was a very disastrous transaction. The preceding Democratic Congress really did enact some constructive leg- islation but its successor, up to this moment, has done absolutely nothing. —James W. Gerard, former Am- bassador to Germany, has announced that he is an aspirant for the Demo- cratic nomination for President in 1920. It is a surprise, but not an un- pleasant one, for Mr. Gerard showed the stuff that real men are made of when he was upholding our rights in Berlin during the trying times before we entered the war. There may be those who will criticise him because he did not wait until it is known what President Wilson intends doing but this is a free country and Mr. Gerard is quite within his rights in his early announcement of his aspiration. —While the Supreme court’s find- ing that war-time prohibition is constitutional was a heart scald to many who had hoped for a few last dashes of real red likker it was whol- ly a legal interpretation and could -mot have been otherwise under the -Jaw. Personally, we think the court “would even have been justified in straining a point to reach the deci- sion 1t came to, for with the country aflame with feverish, industrial un- rest who can picture what might hap- pen were the thing that exhilerates men out of their normal condition of mind put within their hands at this time. — Well, old mother Earth is still rolling around in space, just like she started doing millions of years ago. Much, publicity was given to wierd stories coming from the great south - west to the efféct that a comet was to yun plumb into Earth on Wednesday and end it all: I. W. W., peace treaty, high cost of living, strikes, dry laws and all our worries, but it dién’t and here we are abiding our natural time and smiling at those foolish souls who evidently don’t believe the Bible knows what it is talking about when it tells us that the end will come like a thief in the night and not when some zealot predicts it. — Radical socialism is determined to “bore from the inside.” Victor Berger is running for his vacant seat in Congress from the Milwaukee dis- trict, and Rose Pastor Stokes, fresh from prison for having obstructed the draft law, has announced her inten- tion of running in the Fourteenth New York district. Conservative minds cannot but view these under- takings with alarm. Many will vote for such radicals upon principle and others will do it for much the same reason that certain sentimentalists carry flowers and dainties to the cells of condemned murderers. Let us "hope that both Milwaukee and New York will rise to the defense of American institutions as did Massa- .chusetts when she rebuked Long with .a deluge of ballots. _VOL. 64. STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION. BELLEFONTE, PA., DECEMBER 19, 1919. NO. 50. Manifestly a Grave Mistake. The closing paragraph of General Pershing’s report deserves sspasial covering the period of his service ' attention. The report is addressed to | abroad in the world war certainly |; : ’ the Secretary of War and winds up in | caused thrills of pride through the ligheq the President these words: “In closing this report, Mr. Secretary, I desire to record my deep appreciation of the unqualified support accorded me throughout the war by the President and yourself. My task was simplified by your con- fidence and wise counsel.” These are plain, blunt phrases, becoming a val- iant and capable soldier. They ex- press in simple language the opinions of a man of action and achievement, whose difficult undertakings and haz- ardous work were helped by the con- fidence and wise counsel of those un- | achieved every end it aimed to der whose direction he was operating. _ But General Pershing must be mis- the part taken by the President and Secretary of War in the work of the General in command of the Expedi- tionary forces in the recent war. Senator Lodge and Senator Brande- gee and Hungry Hi or any of the Re- publican Representatves in Congress who remained as far away from the fighting line as possible could have told him that the advice and counsel | my drew first blood of the enemy in ! of the President and Secretary of War were pernicious and destructive. Why those eminent patriots have spent the year since the end of the war speaking through the alleys and sewers of public information in ef- forts to prove that President Wilson and Secretary of War Baker were plundering the public and striving in every way to defeat the purpose of General Pershing. 3 How could it be otherwise. Presi- dent Wilson and Secretary Baker are Democrats and for seven years the President and for about four years the Secretary of War have been standing deliberately in the way and preventing looting operations and grafting franchises such as disgraced the country during the Spanish- American war. Therefore these gen- tlemen couldn’t possibly be helpful to General Pershing who had no purpose in mind except the achievement of victory for our armies and the glory and honor of the country. Take the smelling committee of Congressional pirates who Were justly snubbed by General Pershing in Paris. It knows that the President and Secretary of War are traitors and thieves. ——Emma Goldman has been as- sured of a cordial welcome by the Soviet government of Russia when she gets there but Emma doesn’t want that sort of thing. Her life purpose is to be against the government. Garfield Attacks the President. President Wilson has again fallen a victim of misplaced confidence. Mr. Garfield, whom he unwisely placed at the head of the fuel conservation work when this country entered into the war and was recalled to the serv- ice when the coal strike began a few weeks ago, has resigned in a spirit of enmity against the President. Hasti- ly and self-invited he appeared before a hostile Senate committee the other day and declared that in the settle- ment of the coal strike the President had sacrificed the interests of the public in order to curry favor with the miners. Of course there is no foundation for this charge and it is a feature of the conspiracy to discredit the President. . Lal Garfield is’ a Republican who never ought to have been intrusted with any service of a Democratic administra- tion. His first act after entering up- on the service was to raise the price of the poor man’s coal thus bringing the maledictions of millions down up- on the head of the President. From the beginning to the end of his tenure of office his official acts brought cen- sure upon the administration but as he was the friend of the late Mr. Roosevelt they probably served his own sinister purposes. Now that the Republican managers are searching for a particularly malignant man to nominate for President Mr. Garfield may imagine that this last act of per- fidy will get him the favor. But if current rumors be correct Dr. Garfield’s dream of preferment will have a brief existence. It will be shown, according to Washington cor- respondents, that he was present and participated in the negotiations which resulted in the settlement of the coal miners’ strike and that if he didn’t assent to the plan he at least made no objection to it. If these facts are established the insincerity as well as the treacherous purpose of Mr. Gar- field will be clearly revealed and even Jim Reed would hardly want a man capable of such perfidy as his candi- date for President. In any event it is not likely that this last attack against the President will carry very far. — The election of Hampy Moore as Mayor of Philadelphia may have extinguished the Vares but they haven’t found it out. —The resurrection of J ohn Barley- corn “has ‘been postponed indefinitely. | General Pershing’s Report. i The report of General Pershing, ' States who enjoyed the pleasure of : reading it. It is an essentially soldier , instrument and entirely characteris- tic of its author. It recites in detail ' the operations of the American troops from start to finish and giving full | praise to the valor of the enemy and | the efficiency of the troops of other nations co-operating with his, shows | conclusively that the American army | won the war. It accomplished every | purpose it set out to accomplish and | achieve. | When the American army appear- | were precarious. German forces had | been victorious at every point and the | morale of the Allied army was near { the breaking point. After a survey of the situation he set about prepar- ing his men for action and with a constantly increasing force soon re- | established the confidence of the | French and English troops. His ar- | November, 1917, and from that mo- | ment the aspect changed and the tide | turned toward the allies. | suceeded in forming an American ar- ‘my under the flag of the United x : States with which he moved forward , almost without check until the defeat- is and dismayed enemy asked for an armistice. It is a glorious record of | courage and achievement. : { General Pershing claims no credit | to himself for these grand results but is generous in his praise of those i associated with him. Speaking of , Chateau-Thierry he writes: ~~ “On this ' Division wrote one of the most bril- liant pages of our military annals,” and adds: “Due to the magnificent dash and power displayed here and on the field of Soissons by our 1st and | 2nd Divisions the tide of war was def- ! initely turned in favor of the Allies.” | In equally liberal terms he praises | the officers and men under his: com- mand. “No chief,” ‘he declares, | “ever had a more ri ee body of assistants.” And somfe per: sons condemn the President for send- "ing him to the work. po ——Of course Congress intends to reduce the cost of living but not un- | til after the money of the people is | exhausted. Congress couldn’t think | of interfering with the profiteers. As to New Fire Fighting Equipment. | The “Watchman” yesterday receiv- | ed a communication from a prominent | provecty owner of Bellefonte detail- ing the difficulty the Bellefonte fire- men experienced in getting to the Funk bungalow fire on Wednesday night, and the low water pressure in | the borough mains when they did ar- rive and make hose connections. The writer further suggests that all the | property owners urge upon the mem- | bers of council the vital importance of { more adequate fire fighting appara- : tus. There isn’t any question but that all property in Bellefonte is entitled to the very best fire protection in order to safeguard the owner’s interests and the lives and possessions of the occu- pants. But there seems to be an im- | pression abroad that some members of the town council are either oppos- ed to purchasing new equipment or else carelessly negligent as to doing so. The writer knows whereof he speaks when he says that this is not correct. There is not a man in coun- cil today who would not willingly give an order for the best fighting appa- ratus procurable if they knew how to get the money to pay for them. The question of finance is the only thing | that has delayed the purchase this long, and as the situation now stands ! there is almost a certainty of some ac- | tion being taken at the next meeting | of council, which will result in the | purchase of such improved equipment | as will give the town far better pro- | tection than it at present enjoys. , ——Those scientists, astronomers | and millennium dawnists who proph- | esied the end of the world on Wednes- | day by collision with two vast mete- ors, evidently slipped a cog in their calculations, as the good old world is still here and we’re all plugging along as usual trying to beat the high cost of living but having a darned hard time doing it. However, regardless of the fact that nothing serious happen- ed to the world there were quite a lot of people deeply impressed with the prophesies made, and we even heard of one Bellefonte family who refused to go into the country to a big butch- ering on Wednesday because they were fearful that the end of the world would come and they all wanted to be home and together when it happened. ~The ‘Republican Senators are moving about in a fool's paradise but the next vote of the people of the awakening. Finally he ! occasion a single regiment of the 8rd ' United States will give them a rude | Census Enumerators for County. Last week the “Watchman” teenth decennial census, work on { which will begin on Friday, January i 2nd, as well as many pertinent facts jof interest pertaining thereto. i Through the kindness of Mr. Frank - BE. Costello, of Bradford, supervisor of Centre DR. THOMAS ORBISON s proclamation | ‘body of every citizen of the United regarding the taking of the four- i UNDER FIRE AT RIGA. pub- | The Thrilling Experience of a Former Bellefonte Boy in Service in Russia. The first accurate account of the ' political turmoil in the Baltic prov- ‘census for this congressional district, : ‘we are this week able to publish the ‘ list of census enumerators for Centre | ; county, so far as it has been complet- | led, It | there | enumerator has yet been appointed, will be observed, however, that | are seven districts in which no | inces, and of the wounding of Dr. Thomas J. Orbison, a well-known Los Angeles physician, now head of the American Relief ~~ Administration, Latvian section, during the bombard- ment of Riga, here yesterday, in a personal letter from Mr. J. C. Weaver, of Philadel- phia, who received the story from his son, Harry C. Weaver, who is located and Mr. Costello is desirous of secur- | in Los Angeles, where Dr. Orbison ve- ing applicants for these districts as sided before entering the service. | merator to perform the work in his district. Following is the list as { completed to date: | No. 8—North Ward Bellefonte borough, George W. Rees. No. 9—South Ward Bellefonte borough, D. Paul Fortney. No. 10—West Ward Bellefonte borough, George O. Gray. No. 11-—Benner township, Miss Vienna L. _ Grove. : No. 12—Boggs township | __borough, vacant. i No. 13—Boggs township, vacant. No. 14—Burnside township and Curtin township, vacant. 0. 15—Centre Hall borough and Potter township, W. W. Kerlin. No. 16—Potter township, Witmer E. Lee. No. 17—College township, I. J. Dreese. and Milesburg ne, No. 21—Gregg township, James R. Condo. No. 22—Haines township, George S. Cun- spgham. No. 2 ler. No. 24—Halfmoon township, vacant. No. 25-—Howard borough and Howard township, Charles Confer. No. 26—Huston township, Miss Lydia Eb- erts. - No. 27—Liberty township, Daniel H. - New oa Mari : BP nh “No. arion township, John R. Harter. No. 20—Miles township, William R. Brun- ship, Calvin A. Weaver, No. 31—Patton township, T. M. Huey. Philipsburg boix- No. 32—Wards 1 and No. 53 Ward 3 Philipsburg b 0. ar sbhur, orough, Re- NOI C: Eaten, 4 % 2 ® No. now oe borough and Snow Shoe tgwaghip. do RR. BUDS. Cin Nitett Toa hoe township, Hugh H. lette. No. 36—South Philipsburg borough and Rush township, Harry E. Nixon. No. 37—Rush township, Irving Achmoody. No. 38—Spring township, W. I. Miller. No. 39—Spring township, Henry T. Noll. No. 40—Spring township, John S. Spearly. No 1) State College borough, M. . Nei- gh. No. 42—Taylor township, vacant. No. 43—Unionville borough and Union township, Jacob E. Hall. No. 44—Walker township, vacant. Yo. 45—Worth township, George E. Arde- Many Prizes for State College at Stock Show. Livestock exhibited by The Penn- sylvania State College at the inter- national livestock show at Chicago this year won nine first, seventeen second, twelve third, and four fourth prizes as well as being in the money in several other classes, and receiv- ing a total of $1141.00 in prize money. With fat cattle Penn State took first place on Galloway steer herd and on Galloway junior yearling; second on polled Shorthorn steer calf, junior yearling Hereford steer, Galloway senior yearling steer, three Aberdeen Angus grade steers get of sire, and second in the special class for Aber- deen Angus grade steers. Also sev- i eral third, fourth and fifth prizes were won on cattle, amounting in all to $423. In the swine classes it was second on Duroc Jersey barrow under one year; on pen of three Berkshire bar- rows under six months; on Chester White barrow under six months and on Chester White pen of barrows, get of one sire. In the Clay Robinson company special class for hogs exhib- ited by colleges, The Pennsylvania State College won the championship. On cross-bred barrows weighing be- tween 250 and 850 pounds it was sec- ond, winning in all $358 on hogs shown. College sheep were exhibited in the mutton improvement demonstration. In this Penn State took first place on pen of Southdown-Merino range wethers, Shropshire-Merino ewe lambs, Shropshire-Merino yearling ewes, Shropshire-Merino: wethers, on an individual Shropshire-Merino lamb and on Cheviot wether lamb. Second place was obtained in four classes of Lincoln and Shropshire-Merino cross- es, on yearling Cheviot wether and on carcass of Southdown grade lamb. A pen of Lincoln cross-bred range, and a pen of Leister wether lambs each won third place in its class, as did Shropshire-Merino wethers and the carcass of a Southdown grade lamb, making $330 in prize money. When you got up those cold mornings during the past week and shoveled the snow off your pavement did you think of the many people who have been hoping for a white Christ- mas? ER smile of content now sitteth upon the face of the ice man. No. 18—Ferguson township, Harry L. Nov TOE: hip, vi 0. ‘erguson township, vacant. NO. 20-Grege township, W. H. Sinka- Harris township, Wilfred N. Kel- gart. No. 30—Millheim borough and Penn town- | taken in his estimate of the value of ed on the battle front conditions | well as applicants for substitutes in j each district in order to be prepared | having been a son of Mrs. N. J. Or- i for any emergency, such as sickness | bison, a sister of Mrs. Adam Hoy, Dr. Orbison was born in Bellefonte, i or death or the inability of any enu- | Mrs. Potter, Mrs. Sommerville and | Mrs. William P. Humes, deceased. Dr. Orbison, who is now entirely recovered from the wounds received during the opening of the assault on Riga, is still under fire daily, as are other attaches of the relief adminis- tration’s office, his letter states. Out- numbered three to one in men and even more in guns and equipment, the Lettish troops are battling for Riga, fighting heroically to prevent the Ger- mans and Russians, headed by an ad- venturer, from conquering that sec- tion of the Baltic provinces, he states. With evidences of war on every hand, shells bursting in their midst, and wounded coming into the city every hour, Dr. Orbison and his assistants are carrying on the work of feeding: the scores of thousands of children and civilian population, Dr. Orbison says in his letter. Dr. narrow margin when a high-explosive shell struck the corner of the window near which he was sitting at work at his desk in the office of the American Reltef Administration. : WRECKS OFFICE. “At 3 o'clock,” Dr. Orbison writes, “The shell struck just back of me, knocking a big hole in the house, ex- ploding- with all kinds of noise, and | completely wrecking my’office. “Pieces of the shell went.complete- ly through a thick dictionary within the reach of my hand. Everything was blown off the walls of the room, except a small American flag! I re- ceived some scalp wounds—not ser- ious, but the escape was truly mirac- ulous. Everything became dark, due to smoke and debris. I at once made my way to the outer room and called out to find if any one was killed. For- tunately there was no one there. The next day we moved to our new office, where we now are.” The exact situation, Dr. Orbison points out, is not known to the out- side world. : “We are really in the midst of war,” he says. “The city Riga has been undergoing a bombardment for two weeks and more damage has been done by shells than during all the rest of the five years of war. Evi- dences of war are all about us. Just now a detachment of Lettish troops is passing my window, singing some sol- dier song. Their spirit is excellent, even though they are frightfully out- numbered. “You can get an idea of this situa- tion from these figures. On October 10, the Letts had 11,000 soldiers, four field guns, two heavy guns, twelve machine guns and one airplane. Against them the German-Russian forces brough up 385,000 soldiers, for- ty-seven field guns, twenty-four heavy pieces, 165 machine guns and six air- planes. “At present the Letts increased their men by mobilizing, and have captured a lot of enemy supplies. There are only 8,000 Russian troops, all the rest being Germans, who have continued to come to this all along. Many are recruited in Berlin at the present time, ostensibly to fight the Bolsheviki! The British navy has been of great help to the Letts, as at the last moment they opened fire on the Germans. The latter are under a Russian adventurer, but behind him are German officers. : «All is very clear under the surface. It is Germany’s desire to own this country and dominate Russia. They could not do it openly, and are trying this method, that means a sacrifice of lives and property to the avarice of Germany and her tools.” The crashing of the shell into his office was not the first danger exper- ienced by Dr. Orbison, according to his letter. Ten days earlier, while bringing a wounded soldier to Riga, he was pursued by a German airplane for about five miles ,with the German firing his machine gun at Dr. Orbi- son’s automobile. “He fired upon me, and bullets whistled all around,” the doctor writes. “They hit the road just ahead and I am thankful I finally escaped.” ARE APPRECIATIVE. But the dangers are-not: without compensations, for the Lettish people r (Continued on page ‘4 column @). October 20, arrived. Orbison escaped death by a SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE. —1920 automobile license tags are now being sent out. —Watsotown has lined itself up with Milton and Lewisburg in a general protest against an increase in rates announced by the White Deer Mountain Water company. The borough council has named a commit- tee to file a protest with the Public Serv- ice Commission contesting the right of the water company to raise its tariffs. —Aged ninety-four years and claiming that the easiest money he ever made in his life was $3 a day husking corn a few weeks ago in the fields of Adams county, Daniel J. Eyler, of near, Gettysburg, is making plans for a stroll to Frederick, Maryland, thirty-two miles away, shortly. “Stuffy steam cars,” he says, “are not to be chosen in preference to the fine free air.” —Hog cholera has caused thousands of dollars loss to stock raisers and farmers throughout the Roaring Creek valley, Co- lumbia county, section during the past several weeks. The epidemic is still rag- ing. Hogs ready for the market have been stricken with the deadly scourge and have died suddenly. One man lost twenty from his herd, while 2a number of others have lost from six to fifteen. —Berwick authorities are looking for a party of autoists, who on Friday evening carried Joseph Valentine, aged fourteen years, to his home in that city in a dying condition after their car had struck him and then made a hurried getaway. The boy, his entire left side crushed, opened the door of his home, crying, “Help me, mother! I'm dying. An auto struck me,” and fell to the floor. A physician who was summoned said that he probably died immediately after his fall. His condition was such that he must have been carried to the door, as he could not have taken a step. —The largest mink that has ever been captured in Lancaster county, and so big that he might be styled the “grandfather of all minks,” recently came into posses- sion of James W. Bell, the Lancaster fur- rier. The animal was captured in a musk- rat trap by J. H. Koser, of Mount Joy, and when stretched out on a board to dry the pelt measured forty-two inches from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail, which is more than twice the size of the average mink. Mr. Bell declares that jin all his twenty-eight years’ experience in the fur business he has never seen a fur pelt anywhere near the size of this one. —With an income of $5260 monthly in addition to her salary as stenographer in the general offices of the Natiomal Tube company, Miss Anna B. Smith, of Mec- Keesport, is not worried over the high cost of living, and the prospects are ex- cellent that her income will be doubled in the very near future. The big well which came in on Monday on her property with “a 10,000,000 foot flow of gas, had only been drilled four feet into the Speechly sand. Expert gas men say that when the drill reaches the required depth in the produc- ing strata the flow of gas will be doubled and the stenographer’s income will jump to $10,000 monthly. : —Reversing the general order of things and putting the moral of the story first, the fellow who has $750 to sew im his shirt, instead of putting it where it belongs, should never wash the shirt.” At Blairs- ville, Indiana county, it is a custom of the “employees ofthe glass factory to de their own washing of elothing soiled while Gt“ % = their work. A foreigner was cmptying some waste water after one of these wash- ings when he saw some greenbacks being sucked into the sewer. It developed that $750 had been sewed in one of the shirts washed and had gome down to enrich the waters of the Conemaugh. It was net pos- sible to recover the money. —Miss Mattie Perry, forty-nine years old, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Joshua Per- ry, twenty-five years old, of McCoy’s Ford- ing, drowned in the Juniata river near Granville, Saturday afternoon when they were thrown from an overloaded boat in- to the stream. Miss Perry and her sister, Mrs. Arthur Turner, also of Philadelphia, with Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Perry, were crossing the stream in an old row boat te take the train at Granville station after a visit at the home of their brother, Mr. . ¥ of water. Mr. Perry swam ashore and with the assistance of others saved Mrs. Turner, but the other two women drown- ed. —The Pennsylvania Forestry Commis- sion has made arrangements with the Cen- tral Pennsylvania Lumber company for the purchase of 187,000 acres cut over land in ten counties, in the central part of the State. Expert “timber cruisers” will tour the sections ineluded in the deal to esti- mate the value of the standing timber. Op- tions will be taken on other holdings of the company to previde for purchase when the State Legislature acts at the 1921 ses- sion. Gifford Pinchot and Col. Henry W. Shoemaker are urging that the State es- tablish a 5,000,000 acre forest and game reserve in Pennsylvania and the purehase of the above lands is a big step toward this goal. —One of the most sensational cases ever heard in Snyder county court is that be- ing tried this week, being an action brought by Dr. E. G. Williams, of Port Treverton, against Rev. A. S. Bierly, of the same place for professional services to his daughter. Dr. Williams asks $7,600 with accrued interest from 1911, making a total of $10,000. His rather unusual “fee” is itemized as follows: $100 for each of the twenty-seven professional visits he claims to have made; $50 a month for the time he treated the girl in his sanitarium at Port Treverton; $25 a week for a year and a half that he treated her at his home; and $3 each for 193 electrical treatments which he gave her. Rev. -Bierly, by the way, is not bothered by poverty as are many of his brethren. He “owns three fine farms in that famous garden spot. —The New York Central station at Avis, which was a passenger and freight sta- tion combined, was completely destroyed by a fire of unknown origin at about ten o'clock last Thursday night. The station was closed after the departure of the last train at 8:30 o'clock and is not reopened until morning. George Gaberline, who was passing the station about an hour and a half after the last train for the night pulled out, discovered the fire, broke in one of the windews and secured some pa- pers from the desk and turned in an alarm to the fire company, but the fire had gain- ed so much headway that it was impossi- ble for the company to do anything more than to keep the flames from spreading. The entire building and its contents, in- cluding’ some freight in the freight sta- tion, were completely . destroyed. The freight included four pigs in a crate. Perry, when the boat capsized in ten feet .
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