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ait —Anyway there will be no excuse
“for a shortage of natural ice next
‘ summer.
tn There will be a few oases, of |
course, but after today the desert of
Sahara ‘won't have much on these
good old United States.
" “—The (folly of sending politicians
. to the work of statesmen should be
credited with the failure to ratify the
peace treaty and the league covenant.
% __Consternation is evident in many
quarters as it becomes known that the
States can’t repeal their ratification
of the Prohibition amendment. Eggs
once scrambled can’t be unscrambled.
—The appointment of Charles E.:
Dorfvorth as a member of the State
Water Commission carries a double
advantage to him. In addition to a
“Handsome salary it affords him oppor-
tunity to fish in every stream in the
Commonwealth.
+—Surely this will be a great day in
the history of the United States. No
‘matter how it’s anniversary may be
observed in the future; in the years
yet to come it can never mean to any
‘one just what it means to the parents
of the boys and girls of today.
' _Half of January is gone and
Congress has done nothing in the way |
‘of railroad legislation. Will March
find the roads being turned back to
private control without any govern-
“mental guarantee of support during
their period of reconstruction.
— Farmers have good cause to wor-
ry lest the coat of ice that is now cov-
ering most of the grain fields of the
county smothers the wheat as it did
"a few years ago when what had been
a most promising looking crop in the
fall turned out nearly a fifty per cent.
loss in the spring.
. —The aviator who made the forced
landing in the trees on top of the.
mountain near Cherry Run has at.
‘least partially exploded the theory :
“that it is extra hazardous to fly over
mountainous country. He got down
_with scarcely a scratch for himself
but a badly wrecked plane and the lat-
.ter result very frequently happens on
“Jess difficult landing ground.
© 27. On Friday afternoon last a copy
of the “Watchman” was carried to the
-postoffice in this place where it was
‘mailed for delivery to a resident of
“Linn street. At noon on Tuesday the
“paper was delivered at its destination.
_Four days to go four squares is some
_spéed in mail distribution and proba-
# “bly th
at is one of the reasons that the
* “Watchman” that is mailed here on
Thursday night does not reach Chica-
‘go until the following Wednesday at
noon. fee 2h Hugh
— My what a lot of talk there is
~~ “ghout state rights these days. A Tot
of fellows who, for convenience, were
willing to let this fundamental. princi-
ple of democracy gradually disappear
‘in the discard are now holding their
hands up in holy horror because it is
violated by the Prohibition: “amend- ,
ment. For years the “Watchman”
has inveighed against centralization
of government, but it has come and
if it has hit some where it hurts most
it is their fault and, so far as it ap-
plies to prohibition, we're mightily
glad of it. i
—AIl this agitation in the Pennsyl-
vania Farmers’ Alliance over the ef-
fect that air planes have on cattle and
horses, when skimming over their
farms, seems to us the veriest piffle.
Many years ago it was the steam lo-
comotive, then the steam-threshing
outfit and then the automobile.
Horses and cattle took fright. for
awhile but naturally became so accus-
tomed to the innovations that now
they are more: indifferent to their
passing than most humans. In fact
‘the gentle cow looks with such indif-
ference on the approaching motor
that nine out of every ten drivers
breaks the third commandment every
time he meets one on the highway.
— Let us hope that the constitution-
al revision committee will finally
come around to the adoption of some
plan for the distribution of state aid
to public and semi-public institutions
that will remove them from the bi-
ennial machinations of legislative log
rolling. Many country Members find
themselves completely at the mercy
of those from the larger cities because
of their responsibility for appropria-
tions to public institutions that may
be located in their home counties. For
fear that their local institutions will
not be properly cared for they “go
along” on special legislation that
often times would never get through
without such support. And the insti-
tutions, themselves, are continually
at the disadvantage of not having a
known income on which their develop-
ment can be planned.
—We note that Governor Sproul
has appointed Judge Wescott as
a member of the Philadelphia board
of registration assessors.
Sproul is a college chum and friend
of A. Mitchell Palmer. Judge West-
cott is the friend and political associ-
ate of Charles P. Donnelly who put
him forward for the appointment and
Charles P. Donnelly is the political
partner of A. Mitchell Palmer in Phil-
adelphia and he is the same Charles
P. Donnelly of whom Mr. Palmer said
a few years ago that the party had to
be purged before it could be reorgan-
ized. A lot of Democrats who were
caught by that stuff must just natur-
"means the rule of the majority of the
ally be wondering whether the party
ever has been reorganized or whether
it really didn’t just turn out one set
of leaders in order to take on another
get more selfish and less astute.
Governor
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
“VOL. 65.
Treaty Likely to be Ratified.
The friends of the Peace Treaty in
Washington are now hopeful that it
the vote will be taken in time for the
United States to participate in the
first session of the League of Nations
to be held in Paris today. These
hopes are based on recent conferences
between “mild reservation” Republi-
cans. ‘and Democrats of the Senate.
Senator Lodge has not consented to
any arrangement as yet, but it is be-
lieved there are enough Republicans in
. the body, anxious for enduring peace,
' to carry the point without the help of
| Lodge or the irreconcilables, such as
{ Borah and Johnson, Republicans, and
{ Reed and Gore, Democrats, who are
: opposed to ratification absolutely.
The Lodge reservation with respect
| to Article 10 of the covenant is admit-
. ted to be impossible. It would prac-
. tically annul the covenant for the
- reason that it absolves the United
, States from any obligations under the
! treaty. The purpose of the treaty is
| to prevent war ' in the future by a
| pledge of united action upon the part
{ of signatories, to punish deliberate
| and wanton acts of war. The Lodge
| reservation declares that such provis-
ion of the covenant shall not. be bind-
ing on the United States. If that
. contention should prevail each of the
other signatories might claim the
same immunity and quarrelsome na-
: tions like Germany would be free to
act in the future as Germany has
done in the past.
The friends of the Treaty in: the
Senate have about reached the conclu-
sion that most of the other reserva-
tions are innocuous and not worth
fighting. They are simply the product
‘of party prejudice and personal mal-
ice. Every interest of the people of
the United States was carefully
guarded in the original text of the
covenant. A But the vanity of small
: minds was aroused by the thought
that President Wilson and the Demo-
cratic party might score a triumph if
the treaty were adopted as written.
For ' this reason they proposed the
‘reservations’ that meant nothing but
held to them until it seemed that the
peace of the world would be imperil-
ed. Accepting them is yielding to u
“nasty spirit‘but apparently necessary.
—A crowd of about eight hundred
men stormed the hotel in George-
town, Delaware, at which a special of-
ficer of the State Board of Health
was stopping preparatory to enforc-
ing vaccination of the school children
of that place and ran him out of town.
Almost we are persuaded to believe
that our friend Burd Butler must have
been visiting in Georgetown at the
time.
Bryan's Base Surrender.
day speech, proposed to surrender to
the Senatorial conspirators on the
subject of the peace treaty, he flatly
contradicted all his professions of
faith made within the period since he
was nominated for President twenty
years ago. His voice has always
been for the people and against the
oligarchy of office. But in this crisis
.he aligns himself unreservedly: with
.officialdom against the people. Of
course his reasons for this change of
front is left to conjecture. When he
resigned from the Cabinet shortly be-
fore the last campaign for President,
many people thought he was bidding
for the nomination. Singularly
enough the same thought is freely ex-
pressed now. :
In his Jackson day speech Mr. Bry-
an said: “The Republicans have a
majority in the Senate and, therefore,
can by right dictate the Senate’s
course. Being in the minority, we
cannot demand the right to decide the
terms upon which the Senate will con-
sent to ratification. Our nation has
spent 100,000 precious lives and more
than twenty billions of dollars to
make the world safe for democracy
and the one fundamental principle of
democracy is the right of the majori-
ty to rule.” A “lame and impotent
conclusion.” Because “a willful
group” of Senators, not even in agree-
ment among themselves, are able to
prevent the registration of the will of
a vast majority of the people upon a
question of vital importance, the once
great Commoner and Tribune of the
people, would basely surrender.
The right of the majority to rule is
and always will be a fundamental
principle of democracy. But there is
no tenet in the faith which requires a
' majority of the people to yield with-
out resistance to the malice of a few
men who have set themselves up to
rule or ruin. If the majority in a
Legislative body is to rule absolutely
there would be no reason for a minor-
ity to attend the sessions and if a
, minority consented to such a sacrifice
. of right it would be unworthy a con-
stituency. The rule of the majority
people and not of the Senate. When
Bryan was attacking Wall Street he
didn’t give up in such a weak and
wably way.
BELLEFONTE,
will be ratified by the Senate and that
When Mr. Bryan, in his Jackson -
Liberty Not Hopelessly Outraged.
Congressman Mann, of Chicago, is
unduly exercised over the treatment
of Mr. Berger, of Milwaukee. He im-
| agines that the principle of personal
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liberty has been outraged beyond re- :
covery because Mr. Berger has been
‘ refused a seat in Congress the second
time. The people of Milwaukee are
entitled to representation in the
House of Representatives, he contends
vehemently, and the right to select
their own representative is inciden-
tal and inherent. But Mr. Mann is all
wrong. He may have the Chicago
stockyard interpretation of the case
Ee
NUARY 16, 1920.
NO. 3.
Democratic Work of Six Years. '!
There were a good many speeches
made at the “double-header” Jackson '
day celebration in Washington last
week but the really appropriate and
actually compelling address was de-
livered by Champ Clark, of Missouri.
Others spoke eloquently of ideals but
Mr. Clark addressed himself to
achievements. “It is only sober
truth,” he said, “that during six years
in which we controlled both the Ex-
ecutive and Legislative branches that
we put more constructive legislation
‘ on the statute books than was put up-
accurately fixed in his mind. But he
ferred to the period from March 1913
ly placed nor the slant of the healthy
rated as President, to March 1919,
- hasn’t the facts in the matter proper-
American mind properly measured.
The people of the Congressional | when the present Congress began.
district in Milwaukee in which Mr.
Victor Berger lives have a right to
representation in Congress only if
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they elect a Representative eligible !
to the office. They have no right to
claim the seat for an alien even
though every other voter in the dis-
trict favored such a perversion of the
franchise. They have no right to
elect a boy of twenty years of age
and if they choose to elect a criminal
the House has a constitutional right
to refuse him a seat. Mr. Berger has
been “seven years a citizen” of the
United States, no doubt. But he has
been legally adjudged a criminal and .
is at this blessed moment under sen-
tence of the court which tried him for
a very grave offence.
It affords us pleasure to assure Mr.
Mann that neither the Goddess nor
the spirit of Liberty is outraged by
the refusal of Congress to allow Mr.
Berger to participate in the enact-
ment of legislation for the : govern-
ment of the people of the United
States. The people of the district
on the statute books in twenty-four
years of Republican control.” He re-
when Woodrow Wilson was inaugu-
“For instance,” Mr. Clark contin-
ued, “we put upon the statute books
the income tax law for which some of’
us had been struggling for a quarter
of a century.” The election of Unit-
ed States Senators by the people, the
admission to Statehood of ‘Arizona
and New Mexico, bills for the preven-
tion of the corrupt use of money at
elections, establishing the Trade Com-
mission, the War Risk insurance, the
ship purchase, the Clayton anti-trust
law, a better Philippine bill, the Un-
derwood tariff bill, a conservation
bill, a land bank bill and the Federal
Reserve Bank law. Under the opera-
tion of these beneficefit measures
prosperity, such as had never been
seen before, was established and
maintained. !
“Judge a tree by its fruits,” and
upon this record the Democratic par-
ty has a just right to ask for popular
endorsement. For years the Repub--
lican party in full power and author-
ity had been promising such legisla-
tion but failed to fulfill the promises.
that elected him are deprived of rep- | But within the brief period of six
resentation by the incident, but if | years the Democratic party accom-
they persist in flouting decency by | plished these things and more. It.
electing a man of Berger’s type while | created and transported across the sea
he is under sentence of imprisonment, | an army of more than two million
they deserve the punishment implied. : men, put under training an equal
An act disfranchising the whole ca- | force at home and armed and equip-
boodle would about fit their offence
and it is certainly the duty of Con-
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ped all without scandal and free of
corruption. Any citizen may be
gress to refuse a seat to Berger every proud of membership in such a party
time he is elected.
interest for the modern health cru-:
“sade, the Pennsylvania Society for the |
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the leaders of the Democratic
i iti cP PEL Gy may demand a remewal of the
In order to stimulate greater lease thus honored.
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It does look funny that Rus-
Prevention of Tuberculosis is an- | sians can keep up a war so long when
nouncing that four banners will be
awarded to counties making the best
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they have no money to buy food.
There is an old tradition that war is
records in the crusade during the lat- | expensive and we all know what the
ter half of the school year 1919-1920.
Full particulars will be found on the
inside page of this issue.
from the fourth to eighth grades in
the Bellefonte public schools are en-
rolled in this second tourney and we
hope other schools in the county will
help us make ours a banner county.
Governor Sproul an Easy Boss.
Governor Sproul has made up his
mind that there shall be no scrap in
the Republican party over the selec-
tion of candidates for State offices
this year. Some time ago the indica-
tions were strong for a vigorous fight.
There is a candidate for Justice of the
Supreme court to nominate and can-
didates will be named for Auditor
General, State Treasurer and United
States Senator, and there. were signs
of a disagreement upon the selection
of a chairman of the State committee.
But the Governor has taken the mat-
ter in hand and will name all the can-
didates. No name has been suggested
to oppose Penrose, Gifford « Pinchot
.having been “fed up” on favors until
he is ready to eat out of Penrose’s
hand.
But aspirants for the other nomi-
nations were not so easy to suppress. !
For the office of Justice of the Su-
preme court there is a widespread
sentiment in favor of Judge Kunkel,
of Harrisburg, who carried three-
fourths of the counties when he ran
for the office three or four years ago. |
Kunkel is widely known and highly
esteemed as the jurist who tried the
capitol graft cases and sent some of
the party leaders to the penitentiary. |
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh defeated
him then but the margin against him
was so meagre that the bosses are a
trifle afraid of him this time. The
Governor has determined, therefore, .
to nominate Judge Sylvester B. Sad-
ler, of Carlisle, brother of the High-
way Commissioner. :
Of course Charlie Snyder will be
taken care of in the deal and the plan
is to transfer him across the corridor
to the office of State Treasurer. When
Charlie “got his feet wet” in the cap-
itol building a few years ago it
meant permanence for he never lets
go of an office until there is another
in view. Colonel Martin, of Green
county, is to be the candidate for
Auditor General by the same decree,
though Samuel T. Lewis, of York,
hitherto in high favor, wants that fa-
vor badly. The new Governor is cer-
tainly developing high qualities as a
boss and as he gets along without
protest he appears to be an easy boss carrying Emma Goldman sailed for |
at that. No other leader succeeded and nobody seems to care whether it
. the “Watchman” is always the best.
so completely.
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“sinews of war” are.
All pupils | Capt. Dick Taylor Called to a Place
in Washington.
Capt. E. R. (Dick) Taylor has been
tendered and has accepted a post in
Washington. He will be connected :
with the Department of Justice and
starts in a position carrying a salary
of $2500.00 a year. ;
The ‘announcement of Capt. Tay-
lor’s appointment was made yester-
i day by Col. J. L. Spangler upon receipt .
of a telegram from Attorney General
Palmer announcing that the position
was open for the distinguished young
Centre eounty soldiers Sat
If this appointment is to be cred- ;
ited to the interest of Mr. Palmer we
congratulate the gentleman on having |
done something that will receive ‘the
heartiest “endorsement of the Demo-
crats of the county. Capt. Taylor's
war record alone merits the recogni-
tion he has received but aside from
HUNTING AS IT USED TO BE.
“Watchman” readers down Nittany
valley will read with interest the fol-
lowing article from Will Truckenmil-
ler, a former resident of Hublersburg
and at one time a regular contributor
to this paper. Years ago he went
west and now is located at Blackfalds,
Alberta, Canada.
Dear “Watchman” Editor:
In reading my last week’s “Watch-
man’ I saw the account of the McMul-
len party’s hunt in Little Sugar val-
ley and it made me think of a deer
hunt I once took part in at the old
Hines orchard.
I went into the orchard one cold
morning and discovered that deer
were feeding on some little sweet ap-
ples. Thinking that if I waited I
‘might get a shot I hid by the fence
and strained my eyes and ears for at
least two hours, but no deer came.
The only living thing in sight was a
squirrel that kept running up and
down a-hickory tree a few hundred
yards away.
At last, cold and disgusted; I left
my hiding place and went over to the
hickory tree and shot the squirrel, and
then, with the crack of my gun, I saw
not one hundred yards distant a white
flag flutter and a nice deer went leap-
ing into the bushes.
Oh, many a hunt have I taken since
then, successful and unsuccessful!
Deer and antelope, geese and brant,
ducks and cranes and prairie chick-
ens have been included in my trophies.
When I was first in northern Montana
it would have been possible to kill
twenty to thirty antelope in a day,
had I so desired. When homesteading
in North Dakota I could take my gun
any evening and get ‘a half dozen
ducks or prairie chickens.
And spring and fall, when the vast
flocks of geese and brant were mi-
grating, I went out with a trained
hunting ox and gathered them in by
the dozen; or digging a pit and put-
ting out decoys I let them come to
me instead of going after them.
But the cranes, the sand hill and
the great white, whooping cranes, the
man who got one of those earned his
game. Shy ever watchful, they were
most difficult of appr
The numbers of these birds,
cially brant, that fed on the Dakota
.grain fields every fall were so vast as
to be almost beyond belief. There
were millions of them. But along
about the years 1894 and 1895 they
began to grow fewer in number until
today only a few scattering thousands
feed where the millions fed in years
gone by.
And the herds of antelope that
roamed in Montana and southern Al-
berta are all gone, victims of the re-
peating rifle and the game hog.
Even here in central Alberta the
game has almost vanished. Scarcely
a deer is left. In fact I did not see a
deer track the past year, and I, who
used to go out on hunting trips of a
week’s duration, contented myself
last fall with a dozen pheasants, eight
ducks and one rabbit. |
WILL TRUCKENMILLER.
Editor Dorworth Appointed a State
' Water Commissioner.
Governor Sproul last Thursday. ap-
pointed Charles E. Dorworth, of Belle-
fonte, editor of the Bellefonte Repub-
lican, a member of the state board of
water supply commissioners to take
the place of R. A. Zentmyer, of Ty-
| that he has many other qualities that
| recommend him as a man who will
| give the country faithful and capable
| service in the position to which he has
| been called. :
— If. it were a matter worth while
probably a lot of people would be in-
| quiring which side of the peace treaty
| question former President Taft is on
! this week.
— The Attorney General doesn’t
seem to be the right man to force
' prices down, Every time he tackles
“a particular case the prices go up.
—Attending the Democratic Na-
tional convention this year will be an
' expensive luxury. San Francisco is
almost as far away as Tiperary.
—If Mr. Bryan ever was “knocked
into a cocked hat” he may have been
slightly disfigured but it can’t be said
| that he is not still in the ring.
Probably Mr. Bryan would like
' to have the Commoner’s name chang-
ed to the “Government Bulletin” but
| was too modest to say so.
! ——Maybe that naval officer who
| thinks that he kept Spain from join-
ing Germany in the late war thinks of
| running for President.
——The lawyers are getting more
'out of John Barleycorn dead than
they ever hoped for while he was
! alive and cavorting.
| ——Nobody knows where the ship
got there or mot.
rone, whose term had expired. Very
few people in Bellefonte knew that
‘Mr. Dorworth was an applicant for
the appointment until they saw the
announcement in Friday morning’s
papers that he had been named for
the place.
The position pays $3,000 a year and
expenses. The work connected with
it is of such a character that it will
not take much of his time from his
duties of conducting his paper. We
congratulate our fellow journalist on
his good fortune especially because
we believe the appointment comes
more as recognition of faithful serv-
ice to his party while he was doing
political work on Pittsburgh and Phil-
adelphia papers, before he assumed !
of the Republican, than
interest of local leaders.
control
through
While we would not minimize the help
Mr. Dorworth most certainly must
have had from the local organization
we view his appointment more as a
| personal recognition than anything
else for the men who are in the saddle
in the Republican party in Pennsylva-
nia today are the men among whom
he began his metropolitan newspaper
work and they knew him then to be
what he is today a man who will make
a very capable official and be a credit
to the administration that has honor-
ed him with this appointment.
| Clemenceau is pleading for
big families in France. Wonder if he
, imagines that our failure to join the
| League of Nations .will encourage
Germany to try it again. :
They are all good enough, but
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
{ —The old Edgewood Park hotel near the
| Shamokin recreation park, in which for.
| tunes have been made and lost in the last
| twenty years, was sold last week for $3,=
| 000 to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Rakosky,
i who will convert the hostelry into a
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—One of the most important gatherings
| of Elks in Central Pennsylvania will be
| that at Williamsport, February 23rd, whem
| Grand Exalted: Ruler Rain and his staff
| will assist in the initiation of a class of 50
| into that. lodge. A banquet in honor of
the visitors will be held in the evening.
—Samuel Hurd, former tax collector of
Lamar ‘township, Clinton county, who left
for parts unknown early in 1919, leaving
a shortage in his accounts, has been taker
into custody at Miami, Florida, and is be-
ing held awaiting extradition to face
charges in Clinton county.
—Mrs. Edward Falk, of Williamsport,
bled to death one day last week after hav=
ing several teeth extracted. She was a pa-
tient in the Williamsport Private hospital
following an operation, when that institu-
tion was destroyed by fire two years ago.
It was feared that the excitement of the
fire would cause her death, but she recov=
ered from that illness. :
—Jacques Davies, who gained an envia-
ble record for bravery and daring as.a
flier in the United States air service dur-
ing the war, shot and killed himself om
the main street of Mahanoy City, on Sun-
day afternoon, when he discovered his
sweetheart, Miss Violet Stahler, a tele-
phone operator, with another man. Da-
vies resided with his mother in Reading.
—D. C. LaRoss, 60 years old, is dead at
Lewistown after suffering for more tham
a year from a carbuncle on his jaw which
later caused cancer. Deceased was a na-
tive of Hummelstown, and went to Lewis«
town forty years ago to work for the
Standard Steel Works company. Thirty-
three years of this time he spent as fore-
man at the “Hub” hammer in the forge
shop.
—When Anthony Orasky, arrived at
Mahanoy City from Scranton on Monday,
he was arrested by detective Samuel C.
Samuels for the murder of John Cherba,
of Mahanoy City, almost five years ago.
George Homanyek, a fellow country-man,
gave the information leading to the arrest.
Orasky has made a partial confession, and
is in the county jail at Pottsville. Cherba
was shot to death and robbed of his pay
as he was homeward bound from the
mines, April 28th, 1915, leaving a widow
and eight children.
" —As Mrs. Matilda Briceland, cashier of
the Briceland furniture store in Federal
street, Pittsburgh, stepped from a street
car in St. Luke's square Saturday, at mid-
night, William Hurley got off, too, and
just as the car moved away Mrs. Brice-
‘land’s purse, containing $500, was snatch-
ed from her hand. Responding to the
woman’s screams, several persons, includ-
ing policeman William Dougherty, chased
Hurley. The fugitive had a good start
and would have escaped if his trousers
hadn’t caught on an iron picket fence in
an alley. Dougherty got him and recov-
. ered the money. ; :
—TFive hundred and fifty-two gallons of
whiskey, in twelve barrels, were stolem
from the McHenry distillery at Benton,
Columbia county, last Wednesday night.
liquor, which: had been in bond eight
government men, the theft constitutes an
offense against the government and secret
service men are making a search for the
guilty parties. Heavy iron bars on the
doors were cut during the night and the
twelve barrels selected were rolled out and
loaded in automobile trucks. There were
about two hundred barrels of whiskey in
the warehouse.
—As Gerald Moore and Leonard Eck.
each about twelve years of age, of Lime-
stone township, Clinton county, were com-
ing down the Millport hill on their way
from school last Friday, they heard a pe-
culiar noise in the woods along the road,
and upon investigation were confronted
by a wildeat, which showed every evidence
of being ready to fight. The boys, thor-
oughly frightened, made a short pause
and then started to run for a neighbor's
about an eighth of a mile away, the wild-
cat following them all the way. As the
boys reached the house in safety the ani-
mal abandoned the chase and went up a
‘nearby mountain.
—Dr. J. George Becht, deputy state su-
perintendent of public instruction, has
been slated to succeed Dr. John P. Gar-
ber, superintendent of schools in Philadel-
phia, according to reports from the Qua-
ker city. John Wanamaker, a member of
the school board announced that Dr. Gar-
ber had agreed to resign at the end of his
term. It is understood that four mem-
bers of the board have interviewed the
Harrisburg official concerning the posi-
tion, but no announcement will be made
of the identity of the new head until Dr.
Garber resigns. This will take place with-
in the next few months, as the school
- head is almost eligible for the retirement
list.
—The profits of last year’s Allentown
fair, according to the report of the audit-
ors, were $21,556.95, the largest in the his-
tory of the society. The receipts of the
fair also reached a record mark, aggre-
gating $108,537.40. Among the Jig items
of expense were $18,000 in premiums, of
which $6000 were for poultry and $10,000
for speed. The society received $35,150
i for the restoration of the grounds after
| the abandonment of the ambulance camp,
which did not nearly pay for necessary
repairs and improvements. When the so-
ciety was formed 67 years ago the par val-
ue of the shares was fixed at $25, with the
proviso that no dividends should ever be
paid, but that all profits go into improve-
ments and expenditures for the betterment
of agriculture. The 884 shares outstand-
ing now have a book value exceeding $400
| each.
— Mrs. Marietta Fuedale, of Mt. Carmel,
| was awarded a verdict of $25,500 by a
| Northumberland county jury last week, in
| her case against the United States Rail-
road administration. The verdict was one
| of the largest ever handed down in a sim-
| ilar case and it is expected that the de-
| fendant will carry the case to a higher
court. Mrs. Fuedale’s husband, Frank
Fuedale, was killed on February 15th,
| 1919, when his automobile stalled on a
crossing. Fuedale and his nephew, whe
was with him, made a frantic effort te
flag an engine drawing one car and a cab.
The train was going but six miles an hour
and could have been stopped, but none of
the crew was watching the crossing and
the crash was the first intimation they had
that the car was stalled in the path of thé
engine. Negligence in the operation of the
train was claimed by the plaintiff,