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Jike the one that was wished on their
INK SLINGS.
—In nine days spring will be here, !
that is the calendar spring.
—As a puzzle, “how old is Ann?”
had nothing on What is Hoover's
polities ?
—The snow and ice are going but
not much before the expiration of the
ground-hog’s sway.
—Some people are too lazy to even
call “Come in!” when opportunity
knocks at their door.
— Don’t get your flivver out of win-
ter quarters too soon. Gasoline is
scheduled for another jump of two
cents per gallon.
— Honestly don’t you think Herbert
Hoover will be just a wee bit disap-
pointed if both Chicago and San Fran-
cisco pass him up.
— There are some who think that
President Wilson has placed himself
in a position where he will be com-
pelled to run for a third term. We
don’t.
— The time approaches when the
fly-swatter must be thought of. Swat
the first one you see in the spring and
there’ll be millions less to pester you
next fall.
—The first few spring-like days
we've had have taken away piles of
snow and ice without noticeably rais-
ing the streams. It must all be going
into the ground.
—Youngstown is contemplating
laying a bachelor tax of twenty cents
a2 month on all unmarried residents.
We know at least two of this class in
Bellefonte who are so tight that if
our council should pass such an ordi-
nance they’d move out into Spring
township.
—If the robberies of distilleries in
various parts of the country continue
at the rate they have been going for
the last month or so Congress won't
need to bother about the passage of
that bill to provide Uncle Sam with
funds with which to employ guards
for the stuff.
. —Farmers in the vicinity of Hecla
report that grain in that section looks
yellow since it has been uncovered by
the melting snows. In other sections
of the county, however, we have the
report that it is looking unusually
green and has evidently gone through
the winter well.
— Talking about the pleasure of
starting off. with a clean slate the new
Board of County Commissioners
would have been plumb out of spit
and had the sleeves of their coats
worn out with the rubbing already
had they inherited one that looked
lecessors. eight years ago.
— That Weinberger Esq., of New
York and Russia, who tried to ‘pre-
vent the deportation of Emma Gold-
man and Alexander Berkman and is
now trying to shield deserter Grover
Bergdoll from the punishment he
merits, referred to the Declaration of
Independence as the instrument “we
often quote with a hidden smile.” So
we do, such of us as are radicals
like Weinberger, and haven’t brains
enough to command a legitimate cli-
entele.
— Whatever else may be said of Mr.
Palmer it must be admitted that he
knows the political game and believes
in getting there first and then squar-
ing with any conscientious scruples
he may have later. Notwithstanding
all of his past assertions of refusal to
compromise with “wet” advocates we
notice that his selections for his cam-
paign committee in Pennsylvania and
for delegates at large to the National
convention are divided, about fifty-
fifty, between the wets and drys.
— Chancellor Day has suppressed
the “Orange Peel,” the humorous pa-
per published by the Studes at Syra-
cuse University. It appears that the
offending edition was a theatrical
number and chorus girls were pictur-
ed in it without stockings. Some peo-
ple are wondering how the eminent
educator happened to concentrate on
those pictures long enough to deter-
mine whether the girls actually had
stockings on or not, but it is no sur-
prise to us. The essential thing in
acquiring an education is a good un-
derstanding and it is always worked
from the ground up. It was routine,
not the fact that the Chancellor is a
naughty old boy, as some paragraph-
ers would have us believe, that uncov-
ered this shocking thing.
—Speaking to a congregation of
men at Boston, on Sunday night, Car-
dinal O’Connell, of the Catholic
church, scored the fathers who permit
their daughters to run rampant in
clothes that utterly disregard modes-
ty and also warned men against the
continued clamor for more pay. He
attributed much of the latter to an
underhand propaganda that is design-
ed to compass the destruction of or-
ganization and industry by perpetual
strikes. What sound common sense
this prelate was talking. And how
deeply it should have impressed his
hearers. It is little wonder that they
call the girl of today “chicken” for
most of them are nearly as naked as
the animated egg when it is casting
off its down and hasn’t yet received its
full trousseau of pin feathers. And
as for the men they seem obsessed
with the idea that there should be no
relation between the amount and
quality of the work they do and the
pay they receive. Cardinal O’Connell
gave voice to unpopular thoughts but
a lot of things that are calculated to
make earnest, far seeing men unpop-
ular in these days will have to be said
Tt was ‘an incident wit
if our country is to be saved from our
countrymen.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 65.
BELLEFONTE
, PA., MARCH 12, 1920.
NO. 11.
Grave Charge Against Palmer. |
In an address delivered before an |
assembly of prominent Democrats of
Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, last
Saturday, Judge Bonniwell made a
statement to the effect that William |
C. Sproul and A. Mitchell Palmer, in |
1918, entered into a deliberate con-
spiracy to defeat the Democratic par- |
ty. That Palmer had agreed with |
Sproul that “there should be a de- |
struction of the Democratic party, so |
that there would be nothing to pre- !
vent the election of Mr. Sproul as |
Governor of Pennsylvania.” That is:
a grave charge to make against a
man who has for many years enjoyed |
the generous favor of the Democrat- |
ic party and aspires to still higher |
honors at the hands of voters of that |
party faith.
It will be recalled that in the cam- |
paign of that year Mr. Palmer open-
ly and publicly repudiated the Dem-
ocratic candidate for Governor. He
based his action on moral grounds, as-
serting that the nominee had been |
chosen by sinister methods which |
were abhorrent to his sense of justice
and was therefore undeserving of the |
support of the party organization on
which he was at the time the official |
head. The result was the falling:
away of a large element of the elec- |
torate which had been favorable to
the Democratic nominee, under agree-
ment with the Republican machine to |
support Mr. Sproul, in consideration |
of Legislative action which agreement |
was subsequently broken at the in-.
stance of Mr. Sproul.
The prohibition issue was dominant
in the primary as well as the general |
campaign of that year and in order
to defeat J. Denny O’Neil for the |
nomination Mr. Sproul had to pledge |
himself to prohibition. This arrayed
a vast force of his own party against
him in the general campaign which
threw his party managers into a pan-
ic. At this stage of the game, accord-
ing to current gossip, Palmer was en-
listed to disrupt the Democratic party
and neutralize the Republican deser- |
tions. He attacked the Democratic
candidate in dramatic fashion and
carried a packed State committee in- |
to a declaration of hostility to the
ticket they were elected . port. !
|
i
i
politics. :
Before that event practically the’
entire element of the electorate fa-
vorable to personal liberty was solid-
ly behind the Democratic candidate |
and his election was more than hope- |
ful. But following the Palmer break !
hopefulness changed to despair and
the personal liberty. contingent hast-
ened to cover. Under promise that
no legislation averse to the liquor in-
terests would be enacted during the
following session of the Legislature,
that element turned to the support of |
Sproul and gave him the usual major- |
ity while the Democratic strength was |
considerably reduced as the logical |
consequence of Palmer’s perfidy. But
it was a high priced victory for
Sproul and a costly enterprise for his
party. :
But A. Mitchell Palmer suffered
none of the penalties of treason. He
has been practically the “power be-
hind the throne” at Harrisburg ever
since §proul’s induction into the office. ;
No favor under the minority repre- |
sentation method which obtains in this
State has gone without his assent. In
the selection of revisers of the consti-
tution, the highest favor the Gover- |
nor has had to bestow, Palmer was
permitted to make selection of the
Democrats and he was himself made |
the principal choice. When he imag-
ined he hadn’t time to perform the
service Vance McCormick, his associ-
ate in the conspiracy, was named and |
is today basking in the sunshine of
Sproul’s favor as the reward of his
perfidy.
After Judge Bonniwell’s speech the
Democrats who heard his accusations
determined to organize for a fight
against the party wreckers responsi-
ble for the disruption two years ago.
Tt was an earnest body of men and
they have entered upon the task thus
self-imposed with a determination
that can hardly fail to bring results.
Sproul can’t save Palmer now as he
saved Sproul then and the voters who
were deceived then cannot be fooled
again, The lines are drawn and the
issues set. The perfidy of two years
ago should be punished this year by
the defeat of every recreant concern-
ed in that miserable fiasco.
—Mr. Frank E. Naginey has enter-
ed the lists against the Hon. Ives Har-
vey for Assemblyman. It is an un-
dertaking that this particular under-
taker ought to know all about under-
taking and if he lays the Hon. Ives
out cold it will only be because that
is his regular business.
——Dr. Wood carried the Republi-
can primaries in New Hampshire the
other day but as there were only a
few votes polled his victory hardly at-
tains the importance of a straw to in-
dicate the course of the wind.
——— |
——1If you want all the news you'll
find it in the “Watchman.”
COUNTY
WORK DONE AND BEGUN.
In presenting the following analysis of the statement of receipts and ex- |
penditures for Centre county for the year 1919, which has just been published
| by the board of County Auditors the “Watchman” is actuated by no partisan
motives whatever. For years it has been alone in the field of Centre county
journalism in insistence that, above everything else, business fitness should
be the requisite of qualification for the one county office most directly affect-
ing the tax payers.
Eight years ago, more because of very apparent incompetence in the of-
fice of the County Commissioners, the voters of Centre county gave notice to
the Republican organization that they would no longer support the kind of
unqualified men it was favoring as candidates by the overwhelming election
of Wm. H. Noll Jr. and D. A. Grove, Democrats.
When the latter gentlemen went into office in January 1912, there was a
cash balance of only $2,788.10 in the treasury. The bonds and notes outstand-
ing against the county at that time were $160,867.00. There were, however,
| uncollected taxes and other assets amounting to $21,360.65. Assuming that
every cent of those assets were collectable, which, of course, was not the case,
and could be applied to reduction of the bonds and notes outstanding the most
favorable accounting possible still left the county $139,506.35 in debt when
Messrs. Noll and Grove assumed control of its business affairs.
After eight years in office they retired last January and the auditor’s
statement just published shows that the total indebtedness of the county is
only $45,503.73. And this amount would be only $42,000.00 if the auditing of
their accounts had been as fair as was that of the last accounts of their pred-
ecessors, as we will show later.
In eight years the retired Democratic board reduced the county indebted-
ness $94,002.62 or at a rate of nearly $12,000.00 for each year they served the
county. This gigantic saving was not accomplished either through niggardly
conduct of the county’s business or by increased taxation. Quite the contrary,
for no board that we recall met more promptly and cheerfully every sugges-
tion for special expenditures that had public approval and while doing this
they were actually able to reduce the county millage from five to four mills
on January 1st, 1915, and that rate prevailed throughout the rest of their
term.
During the last four years of their terms the Legislature piled onto them
the additional burdens of maintaining the office of sealer of weights and meas-
ures, county farm agent, the mother’s pension fund, the county law library,
and the maintaining of about twenty miles of abandoned turnpike, now called
county roads. In addition to this all they made, as you will recall, an appro-
priation of $1000.00 to the welcome home celebration for the soldiers.
That these special items added no small burden to the work of reducing
debt and keeping taxes down at the same time let us refer to the Auditor's
statement and see what they amounted to last year:
Mother's pension fund
$ 1169.50
Sealer of weights and measures. . 2122.07
Law JIDTAPTY. c.eesccerscscsaesicns . 1366.40
County roads ........covesvesscecacs ; 8958.15
State aid road in Bellefonte......coceeuvneriennesssscssrsacsssessssscncns 2037.38
New bridge in state highway at Lemont. farhe sien dive 5780.00
County farm agent.... 000,00
$25561.5
Thus we discover that these super-imposed expenses amounted in 1919,
alone, to the considerable sum of $25,561.54 every item of which was paid out
of county income and every other bill that was due and presented was paid be-
fore the old board retired ;
Now let us return for a moment to consider the question of unfairness
raised above. If you will look at the statement recently published you will find
among the liabilities, which of course are a reduction of the net balance, these
items:
To estimated eXOnerationS........eeeseeeiiisinrierrrssssteccosnssennans $ 1477.44
To estimated taX COMMISSIONS... .vvieriiererririenttsneresesnesnaranes 3844.73
The assets are credited with outstanding taxes of $18,974.99. If you will
| deduct the exonerations from these taxes the result will be $17,497.55 in col-
lectable uncollected taxes on which the legal commission is $874.87 which the
statement estimates as being $3844.73 or nearly $3100.00 more than it should
be. Give the old board credit with this sum, asit is entitled to, and the net
county indebtedness will be only $42,403.73.
To further justify such a claim you need but turn to the statement of the
first year Messrs. Noll and Grove were in office. Then the Auditor’s estimat-
ed exonorations on $38,837.23 taxes left uncollected by the preceding Repub-
lican board of Commissioners as only $275.00 and commissions for collection
of that vast sum as only $1930.61: In other words, they had to collect twice
as much tax on exactly half the commissions and with only a seventh as much
exonerations as the recent audit makes it appear that the new board will be
expected to do.
Summing it all up it will appear that eight years of Democratic control of
the business of the county actually reduced our indebtedness $97,102.62 and
at the same time carried special and unexpected expenses the like of which
the county had never before experienced. This means current bills, court
house bonds and all for the money is in the sinking fund and other assets to
pay the bonds down to $42,403.73 but the bond holders won’t give them up
_ without a premium being paid on them. In fact that was the grave mistake
made by the Republican board that floated them. When Messrs. Noll and
Grove tried to pay half of them off in 1915 they were informed that the bonds
would not be surrendered unless a premium of $2500.00 was paid for them
| and the Commissioners then forthwith reduced the millage rather than take
money from taxpayers to pay debts that couldn’t be paid.
They retired from office with a record that speaks for itself and no more
positive proof of this statement is needed than the above comprehensive re-
view of the facts that the auditors of their accounts have set forth.
The management of the county’s business is in the hands of a new Board.
They are looking hopefully, we trust, to a record as creditable as has been
that of their predecessors. With that in view, no doubt, they have asked the
“Watchman” to publish the following statement:
Bellefonte, Pa., Feb. 28, 1920.
Appreciating that the tax payers are entitled to the fullest information
on the financial condition of Centre county, the newly elected board of County
Commissioners has prepared and herewith present the following statement
of the facts as we find them at the beginning of our administration.
The apparent balance as shown by the last Auditors’ statement of the
Treasurer's account of $13,508.95 is depleted by unpaid bills of 1919 amount-
ing to $8,191.83, leaving an actual balance toward running expenses for 1920
of $5,317.12.
Damage claims, (on three different state highway routes under contract
in the county, contracted for by the old board of Commissioners) for which
the county is liable are estimated at $10,000.00.
Contracts amounting to $25,091.85 for road improvements in State Col-
lege and Bellefonte boroughs were incurred by the previous board of Com-
missioners, but must be paid by the present board of Commissioners.
Old indebtedness which the new board of Commissioners must assume,
together with estimated expenses for the year 1920 amount to $193,662.48.
With every dollar of anticipated revenue from all sources collected at the
old rate of millage, namely 4 mills, the total income in 1920 would be only
$113,605.96, less estimated rebates, exonerations and commissions amounting
x 328s, or $104,877.17, making a deficit at the end of the present year of
88,785.31.
An increase in the millage to 6 mills at least is imperative, and even this
will produce an income of only $142,956.58, less estimated rebates, exonera-
tions and commissions amounting to $11,452.26 or $131,504.32, making a defi-
cit at the end of the year amounting to $62,158.16. ,
To yield an income during the present year sufficient to wipe out old in-
debtedness and meet current expenses would necessitate a levy of 10 1-7 mills.
While the present board of Commissioners is not responsible for this con-
(Concluded on page 4).
~ Playing Both Ends.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Two interesting items of news re-
garding Doc Wood’s campaign for the
| Republican Presidential nomination
appeared yesterday, one announcing
that that distinguished soldier of for-
tune, ex-Postmaster General Frank H.
Hitchcock, was going to take an act-
ive hand in boosting the General,
while the other stated that Mr. Woo
had assumed personal charge of his
boom and was going to make opposi-
tion to the Old Guard machine the ba-
sis of his appeal to the people for sup-
port. The candidate loves to make
enemies, it was said, and his program
calls for a fight against the standpat-
ters at every point. In this way it is
hoped to duplicate the popularity at-
tained by Colonel Roosevelt when he
gave battle to the Republican organ-
ization in 1912 and 1916.
To many persons there would seem
to be a contradiction between a cam-
paign in which such an eminently
practical person as Mr. Hitchcock
took a leading part, and a vigorous
crusade against machine politics. The
former Postmaster General has been
rather noted for his success in corral-
ing Southern delegates to Republican
conventions—gentlemen who are not
famous for their idealism or opposi-
ition to machine tactics. He will,
{ therefore, operate principally in the
south. At the same time Doc will
, preach his gospel of independence and
| hatred _or gang tactics to northern
Republicans, some of whom are sensi-
| tive on this point. His strong card,
| we are told, is his ability to arouse an-
tagonisms, for “General Wood has
none of the ordinary man’s aversion
to making enemies. He has made en-
emies all his life, owes his success to
his capacity for making enemies or to
| his fearlessness of the personal con-
i sequences of enmity.” The Old Guard
! is not likely to dissappoint him in this
respect.
For a naive, childlike old soldier
who knows nothing of politics the
, General seems to be going some. Pos-
sibly he has underrated the power of
the Old Guard. Still, if he is wallop-
ed in the north, the handy Mr. Hitch-
cock may pick up considerable
| strength in the south, and so there
: will be an even break. The coming
| Rational convention at Chicago may
thus present some interesting motuts
id
of resemblance to the gatherings of
11912 and 1916.
hp
Ga Ab AR y
th the Baltimore Sun.
Mr. Wilson’s appeal to the West
Virginia Legislature in support of
suffrage shows that he loves the suf-
: frage ladies well, if not wisely. If
any man had a right to hate them, it
i was he. But never did a man heap
more coals of fire on the heads of per-
' secutors than has the President.
i The Spanish novelist, Ibanez, said
| the other day that American women
i really liked the caveman type of mas-
| culine, that they yearned for “rough
i stuff.” It would be nearer the truth
‘to say it is the American man who
| admires the cave woman, who wants
i his feminines to bully and ride over
{him. In no other country does the
: male of the human species take so
much apparent pleasure in being in
subjection to the woman.
{ The President has yielded to no
| man, but to the female suffragists he
iis a most gallant and docile knight.
, How many appeals he has issued in
| their behalf since his surrender we do
not recall, but if he ever erred he has
more than atoned to the suffrage
i cause for his temporary indifference.
He does not hesitate, indeed, to violate
one of his Fourteen Points for their
sakes by intrefering with West Vir-
ginia’s right of self-determination.
The suffragists do not believe in the
right of self-determination, but the
President has insisted on that princi-
ple in Europe. The extent of his de-
votion is shown by his willingness to
sacrifice one of his most cherished
! points.
| But he proceeds on the same theo-
iry as the average American man.
| There is nothing too good for the la-
i dies. They have a right to everything
‘he has, even if they give him only a
i kick and cuff in return.
Cave men, Senor Ibanez? Cave
| women, you mean. The shoe is on the
' wrong foot.
| —
{
| Attorney General Palmer’s Candidacy.
From the Springfield Republican.
| The Presidential candidacy of At-
'torney General Palmer has at least
‘one distinction before it is 24 hours
old. If Mr. Palmer were to gain the
| nomination, of which there is small
| chance, he would obviously drive out
{of the party more liberal-minded
| Democrats than any other Presiden-
| tial possibility yet mentioned. Mr.
| Palmer has come to be widely consid-
| ered as having mismanaged and mis-
| directed the activities of his depart-
| ment, with regard to radical social ag-
|itators, in the way best calculated to
| increase their number. It has not
| helped his standing with the better
| elements of his party that he has
seemed to vacillate in his course as
| soon as he has felt the sting of ecriti-
| cism. Among liberal Democrats and
independents he is looked upon as
‘having been the poorest and most mis-
| chievous of all the advisers close to
the Administration and as having
| done it the most harm. He has es-
| tranged these elements without whose
| support his candidacy seems doomed
| eventually to be considered as a fat-
| uous failure, whether or not it re-
ceives aid and comfort from any oth-
er representative of the present Ad-
| ministration.
morning at the conuty court in Hollidays-
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
|
—The American House, at Westfield, for-
| merly a licensed hotel, is now a garage.
| Still intoxication! Auto, instead of “red-
| eyel”
: —Typewriting has been added to the
| list of ‘‘dangerous” occupations. A claim
for compensation has just been filed at
Altoona by a young woman who is sten-
ographer for a coal mining company. She
says she sprained one of her wrists while
operating a typewriter.
—Andrew Butcavage, of Gilberton, was
convicted at Pottsville last week of vol-
untary manslaughter in killing Joseph
Kilcullen, a wounded overseas soldier.
Judge Berger at once ordered that But-
cavage be held for trial on first degree
murder, for which crime he was not in-
dicted.
—The Clinton Gas and Oil company, of
Lock Haven, struck a big gusher of gas
last week when the drill was down to a
depth of 900 feet, on their new well at
Haystack Run, two miles north of Ham-
mersley Fork, Clinton county. The well
will be drilled deeper, as there are also in-
dications of oil.
—JIor the loss of both legs and his right
arm in a railway accident at Union station
on March 4th, 1919, Harry Walkins, of
Coaldale, Pa., a 33 year old blacksmith, has
been awarded a verdict by a jury in the
Superior court of Maryland, of $3500 dam-
| ages against the Pennsylvania and the
! Northern Central Railway Companies.
—Double-header enignes cutting their
way through snow drifts on Sunday on
the Ontario and Western railroad in
Wayne county, buckled the front engine
toppling into Orson lake, north of Scran-
ton. Patrick Dixon, engineer, and Merrill
Jacobs, fireman, both of Carbondale, were
caught in the crush. Dixon was fatally
injured. Jacobs was not dangerously in-
jured.
—Harry Martin told George Hall, of
Uniontown, a funny story and the latter
laughed sa heartily that he dislocated his
jaw and could not close his mouth. It
was some time before Martin understood
Hall's predicament and when he did he
gave his friend a sharp uppercut which
drove the jaw back into position. Martin
still has a sore jaw and the men have
agreed not to tell the story again.
—Henry A. Brown, of Wyandanch, Ches-
ter county, born April 9th, 1835, says that
at 50 he never thought of old age; at 60 he
was elected a justice of the peace—an of.
fice he held for fourteen years; at 69 he
sold his farm, built a new home and set
out fruit trees; at 77 he was superivsor of
the town, and at 85 he is a notary public
and a school trustee. He further avers he
enjoys three meals a day and sleeps sound-
ly at night.
—William P. Wilson, who retired from
the office of prothonotary of Lycoming
eounty on January 1st, has declined an
appointment under the Secretary of In-
ternal Affairs. Wilson was offered a posi
tion as supervisor over the sealers of
weights .and measures in a number of
counties in that section of the State, but
as the work would necessitate his absence
from. Williamsport, and thus would take
hi away from his business, he declined
t.
—=8ix months in the Blair county jail
was the sentence meted out Tuesday
1 : 8;
nit
0 p 1) i
last October was convicted of the charge
of involuntary manslaughter in connec-
tion with the death of Edward H. Steck-
roth, of Altoona. Greevy was admitted to
bail pending an appeal of his case to a
higher court.
—After having been called before the
church council and asked to resign and
leave the town on account of conduct “un-
becoming a minister of the Gospel,” Rev.
H. C. Rose, pastor of the Lutheran church
at Lewisburg, for several years, has left
| for parts unknown, according to a press
i dispatch in Tuesday’s papers. That the
charges against him were of a serious na.
ture, as indicated by the summary action
taken, is admitted, but the members of the
church council have failed to divulge their
nature.
—Miss Hilda Davis, telegraph operator
for the Pennsylvania Railroad at Mason-
town, Pa., is perplexed since she made a
recent stock transaction. About ten
months ago she purchased some gas stock
for $33. A railroader whom she did not
know happened to be in her office last Sat-
urday afternoon and she displayed the
stock certificate and declared it was
worthless. Immediately came the man’s
offer of $900 for the stock and the deal was
closed. Now Miss Davis doesn’t know
whether she made or lost money.
—Judge Robert B. McCormick, of Lock
Haven, who won the nickname of “Treat
‘Em Rough McCormick” by his quick jus-
tice in the case of a gang of Philadelphia
thugs, which aided materially in breaking
up an epidemic of crime in that city about
one year ago, made quick work of the case
of Thomas Provens, who was arrested
while attempting to break into the Lock
Haven postoffice, and who confessed to
other burglaries in that place. He sen-
tenced him to the penitentiary for five
years on one count and suspended sen-
tence on four others. Provens is a for-
mer Williamsporter.
—While the Rev. Robert MacGowan, pas.
tor of the Bellefield Presbyterian church,
near Pittsburgh, and formerly pastor of a
church in Lencaster, was preaching his
morning sermon on Sunday his study ad-
joining the church was entered by a thief
who took a gold watch and chain and
small gold charm which the minister had
left on a table there. The articles stolen
were held priceless by Doctor MacGowan.
The watch and charm were gifts from Mrs.
MacGowan, who had received them from
friends while traveling in New Zealand.
The chain was given to the clergyman by
his father. The gold cloth charm bore the
inscription, “Each for the other, and both
for God.” :
—Mr. Addison Pfautz, of Lititz, who has
been a horseshoer for the past forty-eight
years, will discontinue that work. Twelve
years ago he was injured by a horse, re-
sulting in four operations, and he feels the
old ailment coming back, so that by the
advice of his doctor he is quitting horse-
shoeing for the present, but will continue
in all the other departments of his work.
Mr. Pfautz is 63 years old, and when a boy
of ten assisted his father in a blacksmith
shop at Pine Hill. His first work was
making hand-made nails. He is very busy
at the present time with a general line of
smith-work and making and painting bod-
jes of auto trucks. He has a well-equip-
ped place, the machinery and even the bel-
lows for forge fire being operated electric-
ally.
oona, who