Dewar ata
INK SLINGS.
—And Unionville, the pioneer dry
town of Centre county, gave a majori-
ty of one to that wet Mr. Bonniwell.
—Some Bellefonte ministers may
succeed, if they keep on trying, in
driving a lot of people away from the
house of God, but not from God, Him-
self.
—Didn’t we tell you some time ago
that Tom Beaver would be the fellow
who will be found on Naginey’s cool-
ing board on the morning of Novem-
ber 3rd, next.
—The farmers have been long de-
layed with their spring seeding, but
they have certainly been having won-
derful weather for doing it during the
past two weeks.
—Centre county did handsomely by
Major Terry Boal and Clearfield also
voted him a very pronounced favorite
among the Republican aspirants for
national delegate.
—Of course it wasn’t because the
“Watchman” advised its Republican
readers to vote for Boal and Scott that
the two Centre countians carried the
District, but they did just the same.
—So far as Centre county Demo-
crats were concerned the only fun
they had out of Tuesday’s primaries
was furnished by the various fights
among their friends the Republicans.
—Of the twelve delegates-at-large
to the Democratic National convention
the Bonniwell ticket split fifty-fifty
with the Palmer-McCormick slate in
Centre county. Six on each ticket
had a majority.
—Patch your old clothes and wear
‘em. That will be in the way of sav-
ing and of bringing down the cost of
new goods for just as soon as the de-
mand falls below the supply prices
will begin to tumble.
—Bonniwell carried Bellefonte over
Guffey by a majority of thirty. When
we consider that there was absolutely
no effort made in behalf of the man
who was trying to bust the Palmer-
McCormick machine the hope is en-
couraged that the Democrats of old
Centre are at last awakening to the
condition that these political huck-
sters have reduced our party to.
—As a campaign manager for Maj.
Terry Boal Maj. Wilbur F. Leitzell
busted into the Republican machine
in the 21st Congressional District like
he did into the Hun hordes on the oth-
er side and as a result Maj. Terry is
going to Chicago where he won't have
to be good, even if he Wood A fun
tion on the Boal est: A
croix de Gs
an 31 wo PRES © ¥
Bellefonte, Snow Shoe, Unionville,
north-Benner, Burnside, east Boggs,
Halfmoon, east Harris, Patton, north
Potter, all of the Rushes, west Spring,
and was tied in seven precincts. Com-
ing events cast their shadows before
them.
— Politics may be rotten, but they
are very just at times and Tuesday
was one of the times in Centre coun-
ty—when justice rose to rebuke those
who profaned pulpits with political
diatribes and wilfully slandered Tom
Beaver. The contest between Beaver
and Harvey was purely political. The
Prohibition question was settled when
the Eighteenth amendment was rati-
fied and unless the Supreme court of
the United tates declares that statute
unconstitutional, it will remain set-
tled. The Legislatures of New Jer-
sey, Rhode Island and other States
have made efforts to nullify certain of
its provisions, but they have been fu-
tile, so that, as William Jennings
Bryan, the great apostle of Prohibi-
tion, has said: “It is a settled ques-
tion.” While Mr. Harvey may have
been entitled to a second nomination
by his party, it was not a matter for
a few men who take no interest in pol-
itics at other times to decide for those
who are interested year in and year
out. And the injection of the Prokhi-
bition question was mere camouflage
that proved so repugnant to the Re-
publicans of Centre county, on Tues-
day, that they tore it to shreds by a
fusillade of ballots.
—Those in a position to know are
fearful that there will be an actual
shortage of food in this country next
fall. Only a few days ago we were
informed by a person prominently
identified with the largest producing
concern in the world of certain varie-
ties of food stuffs that they viewed
the situation with actual alarm; far
more so than at any time during the
progress of the war. Most of the
threatened shrinkage is due to short
planting because sufficient labor can-
not be procured for farms and gar-
dens. There is enough local confirma-
tion of this condition to convince us
that our informant was not merely
throwing a scare. We have talked to
many farmers and we know that some
of them are actually indifferent as to
the amount of crops they will put out.
While they regret being unable to
plant all that they would like to, if
they could secure the necessary help,
their attitude seems to say: If high
wages on state roads, new industries
and old are going to take all the men
off the farms I can raise enough to
keep my family and I should worry
as to where the other fellow is going
to get his wheat and corn and pota-
toes. As this is the garden making
season it behooves us all to get busy
and grow whatever we can. And then
let us can all that we grow that we
can’t eat while fresh.
“lost two wards in, Philipsburg, two in
—— —
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Yor.
BELLEFONTE. PA., MAY 21, 1920.
NO. 21.
President Wilson on Right Lines.
The strangest feature of the discus-
sion of the peace treaty lies in the
fact that some well-meaning men who
favor the measure in its original
form, believe in the probity and pa-
triotism of Woodrow Wilson and seem
to have an intelligent understanding
of public affairs, express the view
that the President ought to yield en-
tirely to the demands of Senator
Lodge and his associates, who insist
upon the nullification of every agree-
ment arrived at by the Peace Confer-
ence. Mr. Bryan is in a class by him-
self in this respect. His opposition
to the treaty is pure perveristy. He
has been gunning for the President
ever since he left the Cabinet and im-
agines the present an auspicious time
to get him.
The President can no more consent
to the mutilation of the peace treaty,
than he could repudiate any other |
agreement entered into to perform a
service or discharge a duty. With his
colleagues in the conference he cov-
enanted to do certain things for the
benefit of other nations in considera-
tion of a like agreement that we
would do other or the same things for
them. The Senators profess a will- |
ingness to let the others do for us but |
are unwilling that we shall do our
part. That is the refinement of self- |
ishness. It is the exact principle that |
influences lazy loafers to imagine that :
“the world owes them a living.” The
world owes no one a living who
doesn’t earn it and no nation owes
other nations a service which offer
nothing in return.
President Wilson is fully justified
in holding out for the ratification of
the peace treaty in the exact form
that it came from the Conference. He
is in honor bound to insist on this and
though he might and probably would
have accepted a ratification with res-
ervations which in no respect nulli-
fied the conditions agreed upon, the
Senate didn’t give him the opportuni-
to do so. For partisan reasons
e
Mitch Palmer may. not be a
successful candidate for the Presiden- |
tial nomination but any close observ- |
er will admit that he would make a
first class advance agent for a circus.
Sims Criticisms Refuted.
Clearly Admiral Sims has “started
something he can’t finish.” - When he
cast aspersions upon the navy of the
United States, those of us who are
limited to laymen’s understanding of
the subject were more or less alarm-
ed, because it was impossible to con-
jecture what he might have “up his
sleeve” concerning the subjects of his
criticism. The navy as well as the
army and the industrial life of the
country was unprepared for war in
the spring of 1917, and things might
have unavoidably happened that
would better be buried in oblivion.
We had abundant faith in the courage
and patriotism of our seamen and the
intelligence of our officers, but the
wisest men go wrong sometimes.
The thorough investigation and
searching inquiry that has been since
made of his complaints have complete- !
ly convinced the country, however,
that the biggest mistake of our navy
before, during and since the war, i
Admiral Sims. A Canadian by birth
he became an Anglophobe when his
assignment located him in London and
he set about to exalt everything that
is British at the expense of all things
American. The only fault we can
justly ascribe to the Navy Department
at Washington is that it tolerated him
so long. Instead of dallying with his
prejudices in favor of the British ad-
miralty he ought to have been called
home and rebuked, fitly and severely.
He was unfit for the post he held.
As a matter of fact, however, his
vicious and uncalled for criticism of
the navy in its operations during the
war has done more good than harm.
It has brought out an array of facts
which have revealed to the world a
standard of efficiency in our navy that
was not even hoped for by the most
enthusiastic admirers of that branch
of our defensive equipment. In the
matter of preparation for war the
most prodigious results were achiev-
ed and the operations were conducted
so modestly that nothing but such an
incident as the Sims criticism could
have brought them to the surface.
Admiral Sims didn’t intend it so, of
course, but he has shown that he was
and is the one weak spot in the organ-
ization.
—
———Mr. McAdoo continues to hold
a lead of Mitchell Palmer in the Lit-
erary Digest’s poll of about six to
one.
——The only teacher in the country
that gets generous recompense is our
"might be fulfilled.
old friend Experience.
Without Public Interest.
The passage of the Knox joint res-
olution declaring a separate peace
with Germany, is a matter of no pub-
lic interest.
not made in that way. The constitu-
|
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Peace declarations are’
i for the reason that there was not a'
tion of the United States vests in the
President alone the right to make
treaties whether for the purpose of
establishing peace or any other pur-
pose. The Senate has the legal right
to refuse to ratify treaties made by :
the President but that is the limit of
Congressional action in the premises.
Probably nchody in the Senate or out
Knox, of Pennsylvania. He is, or at
least was, an able lawyer and has had
affairs. He knows the constitution,
or ought to.
The Knox resolution assumes to
dispose of the question by repealing
a joint resolution adopted by Congress
April 6, 1917, “declaring a state of
war to exist between the Imperial
German government and the govern-
ment and people of the United States,
and making provisions to prosecute
the same.” Under the authority of
that resolution an army of more than
four million men was mustered and
half the number sent across the sea.
In pursuance of that resolution one
hundred thousand lives of Americans
were sacrificed and billions of treas-
ure spent in order that the American
hope and ideal of perpetual peace
Now Senator
Knox and those of his colleagues who
voted for his resolution pretend to
think that the repeal of the resolution
authorizing the enterprise disposes of
the matter entirely and for all time.
The absurdity of such an idea ought
to have condemned it at once. But
there are even graver reasons for the
veto which is certain to follow its
final passage by Congress. The Pres-
ident is under sworn obligation to
“preserve, protect and defend the
constitution.” Allowing such a meas-
ure a place on the statute books of
the United: would be a failure
safety of the government. He will
veto the preposterous proposition in a
message that will command world-
wide notice.
——We haven’t noticed any great
rush for the Vice Presidential nomi-
nation in either party yet anybody
will admit that it is a nice, clean job.
Faith in Suffrage Gets a Jolt.
Somebody, somewhere, is always
“taking the joy out of life.” For ex-
ample we get information through an
esteemed Philadelphia contemporary
that in that city, “political activity is
charged against a woman, the first of
the fair sex among municipal em-
ployees to be called to account for
actively soliciting votes and distrib-
uting sample ballots.” The woman in
question is a play ground teacher.
Her name has not been revealed but
it is stated that she “is declared to
have been a vigorous offender.” The
manner of her discipline has not been
determined but it may be presumed
that it will be within the law. The
sex question is not likely to be raised
in administering punishment.
Actively soliciting votes and dis-
tributing sample ballots is not a very
gravescrime but it appears that the
municipal charter of Philadelphia
forbids it on the part of play ground
teachers as well as other employees of
the city and it is lamentable that the
hope that the enfranchisement of
women would guarantee absolutely
lawful campaigning has been rudely
shattered even before the result was
achieved. We have earnestly favored
equal suffrage and the expectation of
improvement in political methods was
not the least of the reasons that influ-
enced us to that course. But the
Philadelphia incident forbids full
faith in that promise for the future.
It indicates that “politics is politics,”
in any event.
It is hardly conceivable, however,
that a man would be punished, or even
censured, in Philadelphia, for solicit-
ing votes and distributing sample bal-
lots. Unless election records are false
male politicians have frequently been
detected stuffing ballot boxes, falsi-
fying the returns and even bribing
voters without serious rebuke from
the authorities of the city. In fact
we have heard of generous rewards
for service of that kind. If the teach-
er on the play ground staff had done
anything of that sort she would have
deserved punishment. Comparatively
speaking her offense was trifling but
it is enough, nevertheless, to shake
faith in the efficiency of female suf-
frage as a cure for electoral evils.
——Mr. Palmer protests that he is
perfectly fair in administering his of-
fice between laborers and trusts, but
the records are against him.
The Primaries in the State and
County.
The general party primaries on
Tuesday aroused little local interest
in the Democracy of Centre county
contest of any sort.
they had two sets of tickets for nearly |
every office to be filled and bitter con-
tests had been waged in most of them.
From the State, returns are very |
meagre but percentages forcast the!
election of the entire Palmer-McCor- |
) 1 "mick slate with the possible exception
of it knows this better than Senator !
of three delegates at large to the Na- |
tional convention. The fight between !
é : ; 1 \d | Bonniwell and Guffey for National
wide and varied experience in public .
o Capt.
committeeman, was not taken serious-
i ly in the rural counties but in the
cities and throughout anthracite coal |
regions it culminated in a very excit- |
ing contest and while it is likely that |
Mr. Guffey has been elected Judge |
Bonniwell has given him a very close |
run and this in face of the fact that |
all the power of the State organiza- |
tion and the federal office holders of |
the Commonwealth was concentrated
against him. Bonniwell carried Phil-
adelphia and Mr. Palmer, though he
had no opposition on the ticket, came
very near losing that city to William
G. McAdoo, whose name had to be
written on the ballot.
In Philadelphia the Vares were
completely eliminated from Republi- |
can city politics through the loss of all .
their candidates for position on the
city ticket.
J. D. Connelly, of Clearfield, is our
nominee for Congress. He had no op- |
position in the district. His opponent .
will be the Hon. Evan J. Jones, who |
was running for renomination and
narrowly escaped defeat at the hands
of George Minns, of DuBois, who be-
came an aspirant at the eleventh hour
and came very near to defeating Jones
in the District and it wouldn’t have
been a great calamity to the District
if he had.
ssibly the biggest
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ellvillé Gillett, of Smethport,
got to taking liberties and spilled the
beans; everywhere. Why G. Washing-
‘ton Rees, almost single handed, came
pretty near putting Gillette, a com-
parative stranger, over as a winner in
Bellefonte borough. He did capture |
his own ward, the West, for him. The
result of the fight is that Scott and
Boal, both of Centre county, have won
in the District. ;
Frank Naginey is the Democratic |
nominee for Assembly. He had no |
opposition. And a revulsion of feel- |
ing, precipitated largely by unwar-
ranted personal attacks on Tom Bea-
ver, turned him a winner over the
Hon. Ives Harvey for the Republican
It was different |
with the Republicans, however, for
“high prices have reached their peak,
| there is nothing for the general
i lic to do but to accept this informa-
chase high-priced goods, and of vol-
_ recently by Armin W.
BUTTERFLIES.
By Winifred Meek Morris.
I saw a butterfly today,
It made me think of you
Just why? I really cannot say
Unless its wings would do—
To take me in its wonderful flight
Mid sunbeams gayest hue, ;
And drop me gently there tonight
To have a chat with you.
HOUSE FLIES.
By Winifred Meek Morris.
The last rhyme I wrote—
Was a “butterfly song,”
Today’s is a common house fly's;
You can bet all you've got—
That this rhyme won't be long,
And what there is of it is rot.
For the fly in its flight,
Flew a million of miles
Ere I got a good swat at it’s head
Losing hours of time,
Besides bungling this rhyme—
And yet that D—— fly is not dead.
Jail the Prifiteers.
From the Philadelphia Record.
In the opinion of Secretary Hous-
ton, of the Department of Commerce,
and in the last two weeks there has
been a recession in both extravagance
and the cost of living.” Lacking the
facilities for acquiring 'knowledege
which Secretary Houston has at hand,
pub-
tion at its face value and to sing “hal-
lelujahs” for it. :
But the same statement has been
made so often in the past, only. fo be
found far from correct, that there is
plenty of reason for a continuance of
the public’s attitude of cynical doubt.
There have been, it is true, certain
evidences both of growing disinclina-
tion on the part of the people to pur-
untary efforts on the part of merch-
ants to assist in the fight to break
prices. But that all this gives suffi-
cient warrant to conclude: that the
“peak” has been reached many will
doubt. The only sure remedy seems
to be embodied in a statement made
Riley, head of
” of the Depart
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—John W. Frantz, who helped to build
the first locomotive at the Pennsy’s shops
in Altoona and who helped take the first
train over the Allegheny mountains, died
on Monday, aged 90 years. He was pen-
sioned fifteen years ago.
—After suspending a two-barrel shotgun
from the ceiling in an upper room of his
home at Hazelhurst, McKean county, Thos.
Miller, 40 years old, placed the muzzle
against his chin and with a stick pulled
both triggers. His head was blown off.
—Frank McClintock, of Muncy valley,
has collected $792 from the Lycoming
county commissioners for sheep killed by
dogs within the last month. One of Mec-
Clintock’s pastures is on top of a precipice
over which the dogs chased the sheep into
Beaver dam, in which they were drowned.
—Black bears, wildeats, rabbits and rat-
tlesnakes have been seen on the streets of
Marienville, Forest county, within the last
few days, and the inhabitants of that vil-
lage were not drinking moonshine, either.
The animals were driven from their hiding
places by the forest fires which swept the
woods in that vicinity.
—Alexander Rodzswill, alleged robber,
is in jail at Clearfield awaiting extradition
to Salamanca, N. Y., where he is wanted
on a charge of blowing a safe in the office
of the Midland Wool Combine company,
when $42,000 were carried away by the
robbers. He is suspected of blowing a
safe at Keating last week.
—A constable in Clearfield county prob-
ably holds the state record for active en-
forcement of the law. This constable has
already entered prosecutions in 44 cases,
his killed 28 dogs and has detained five
licensed dogs. In addition he has collect-
ed $83 in dog tax, which he has turned
over to the Clearfield county treasurer.
—Several hundred dollars were stolen
from the safe of William H. Hart's cigar
store, in Reading, directly opposite the
main entrance of the court house, some
time during Tuesday night. The place is
covered by watchmen every hour and po-
licemen are on the beat in front of the
store continuously. The safe was forced
open without the use of explosives.
—When John Rick, of Mill Hall, appear-
ed at the hoarding house of Mrs. George
R. Furman several weeks ago, penniless
and sick, he was given board upon his
promise to pay as soon as he could obtain
employment. A fellow-boarder secured a
good job for him and he remained at the
Furman home for three weeks and then
suddenly disappeared, forgetting to pay
his board bill and taking with him a quan-
tity of clothing and other articles of val-
ue belonging to the~ Furman family and
other boarders.
—The people of Williamsport will decide
at the general election in November wheth-
er they desire to buy the property of the
Williamsport Water company for $1,780,-
000, plus whatever the company spends for
improvements in the meantime. This was
the price agreed upon by the city and the
water company in the settlement of a
long-standing court case to test the city's
ability to purchase the property. The set-
tlement was effected last week, too late to
have the voters act on the proposal at the
primaries this week. :
been © 4
He be-
ail others will b
selves.
This has been the feeling of the
plain man in the street for some time.
ince the average man is himself a
potential profiteer, lacking only the
chance, he is justified in feeling that
nothing short of severe punishment, or
the fear of it, will make the common
money-grabber let go. And the pub-
lic has been wondering why, during
all these months of investigation, not
one big malefactor has been sent to
jail. The spectacle of manufacturers
and their workmen quarreling over
the division of the spoils begotten of
unholy preying upon the consumer
has made a sickened cynic of that con-
sumer. It is maddening, for instance,
to read that the profits of the Ameri-
can Woolen company for the first
Or ITY. Oy 3
BIN TO bends
-While Mrs. Frank Stover, who lives on
le Amos Brooks farm near Luthersburg,
earfleld county, was in a shed painting
fomobile, her two children, LeRoy
Aged’ 5 years, and Dorothea, aged 2 years,
were playing in the barn nearby. The boy
secured’ a match from the house and set
fire to the straw in which his sister was
sitting. By the time the mother was noti-
fied the barn was a mass of flames, and it
was impossible to rescue the little girl.
The barn, shed, automobile and some of
the livestock were burned.
— William Garman, aged 55 years, arrest-
ed as a drunk, set a record for wealth in
police annals at Reading, Pa. When
searched, $1961.31 were found in his pock-
ets. Garman was locked in a cell to sober.
A few hours later he called a turnkey and
asked to be released on a forfeit. He ex-
plained that he had sold property and
failed to get to bank in time to deposit the
money before he started to celebrate. At
the same time he produced $26 more that
the turnkey had overlooked in his search.
The $26 was locked up with the rest and
nomination for Assembly.
For Supreme court justice Sadler
will probably carry the county over
Judge Kunkel by a small margin.
| Their race in the State is very close
with returns so incomplete as to make
it uncertain as to whether Sadler will
have fifty-one per cent. of the votes
and thus have no opposition for elec-
tion.
Oscar Gray has been chosen Demo-
cratic county chairman without oppo-
sition and David Chambers has been
re-elected by the Republicans.
—Plant plenty of potatoes. We
heard a man say, the other day:
“When potatoes are high in the spring
they are always low in the fall.” That
rule may or may not be infallible, but
be it as it may, we are all interested
in having enough to eat next winter
and as potatoes are the major means
of subsistence of most families it is
absolutely necessary that they be
grown in great quantities no matter
what their price may be next fall. In
any event, in a fair yield, if their price
should fall as low as a dollar, an acre
of potatoes will return as much to the
grower as the same acre will in any
other farm product with the possible
exception of corn or beans.
I
——There is something like meth-
od in Admiral Sims madness after all.
He didn’t open his mouth in criticism
of the navy until after the act of
Congress making him an Admiral for
life was signed by the President.
ar a
——If Penrose has to choose finally
between Hungry Hi and General
Wood, it may safely be said there will
be menal reservations.
ah ER
——Villa has announced that he is
done fighting and will hereafter be a
peaceful citizen. Villa must have felt
himself slipping.
rE
——It may be added that even Sen-
ator Knox doesn’t want peace half as
bad as he wants political advantage
for his party.
——They are all good enough, but
the “Watchman” is always the best.
! three months of 1920 amounted to
$19,000,000, which would mean, if the
business were to continue at this rate
' for the full year, an annual profit of
1127 per cent. upon the capital stock
| of this mammonth Trust. And this 1s
“only one of many concerns engaged
{in the supplying of necessities.
It will not satisfy the public to be
assured that this sort of thing—now
that the “peak” has been reached—is
to stop. Why should not the gougers
be punished and made to disgorge ?
Nothing else could afford a guarantee
that such wholesale profiteering as we
have suffered in the past may not be
repeated.
eee pene eee:
It’s the Same Old W. J. B.
From the Springfield Republican.
Mr. Bryan's success over President
Wilson’s stubbornness in standing by
the treaty and the covenant is deli-
ciously droll. Is not this the same
Bryan who eight years after his de-
feat on the issue of the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to 1 still insisted that his party
should adhere to free silver coinage
at the sacred ratio? Mr. Bryan was
first whipped in 1896, and as late as
1904 he tried to tie Judge Parker, the
Democratic Presidential candidate, to
the twice-beaten cause. Mr. Wilson
has not been beaten even once at the
polls on the League of Nations issue,
but Mr. Bryan finds him obstinate on |
a question of public policy. If the
Versailles treaty had been negotiated |
by Mr. Bryan, he might now feel dif-
ferently about it.
A Laborless Department.
From the Topeka Capital.
In its weekly letter the National
Founders’ Association, which repre-
sents a certain type of employers, de-
nounces the eight-hour day and all la-
bor organization and observes of the
Department of Labor at Washington
that “that department today is malo-
dorous to any right-thinking Ameri-
can, and it is hoped that Congress will
not defer action on a sound reorgani-
zation plaa, even if it does not see fit
to take up the charges against Mr.
Post.” A “sound reorganization plan”
for the Department of Labor, mo
doubt, could be devised by such em-
ployers as the National Founders’ As-
sociation represents. None but em-
ployers or persons vouched for by
them would be attached to the Depart-
ment of Labor.
Garman was released with $3 spending
money to carry him over until his case was
disposed of.
—Dragging his wife from the home of
her sister, David Jones, 56 years of age, of
Scranton, backed her against a shanty and
shot her in the abdomen. . The woman died
within a short time. Mrs. Obed Wilets, 60
years old, tried to save the life of Mrs.
Jones, and was struck several times by
Jones. Jones was arrested shortly after
the shooting. Jones and his wife had been
separated for several months, and the hus-
band made numerous attempts during the
last few weeks to get money from her, As
the woman fell to the ground, Jones hur-
ried to his home, placed the revolver on a
shelf and started from the scene. Reserve
Patrolman Beynon captured him.
—Judge W. H. S. Thompson, of the Unit-
ed States district court, last Thursday
fined the Buck Shoe company, a Pitts-
burgh concern, with a chain of stores in
thirteen towns surrounding Pittsburgh,
$2000. The company pleaded guilty to
charges of profiteering on shoes. Federal
prosecutor E. Lowry Humes had charge of
the case for the government and proved
the company sold three pairs of women's
shoes at $5.90 each when the retail price
was $4.90. The extra dollar was divided
with F. Kinney, an employee of the com-
pany, who sold the shoes to the customer.
Officers of the company are: August
Buch, president; Elmer G. Buch, vice pres-
ident, and Walter Buch, treasurer.
—More than 1000 persons assembled in
the Catholic cemetery at Lewistown on
Sunday to assist in the dedication of a
cross of honor erected by the pastor, the
Rev. I, C. Wagner, and the men of Sacred
Heart parish to their soldiers and sailors
of the world war. The Rev. Wagner cele-
brated high military field mass that morn-
ing on an altar erected at the foot of the
cross. Bishop P. R. McDevitt, of Harris-
burg, bestowed his blessing, and in an ad-
dress ringing with patriotic fervor, sound-
ed a warning against those radical ele-
ments of this and foreign lands who may
yet attempt the overthrow of the govern-
ment, and promises as one authorized to
speak, that Catholic young men of Ameri-
ca will be among the first to volunteer and
will fight shoulder to shoulder with the
other young ren of this nation in defense
of the flag. The cross is constructed of re-
inforced concrete, twenty-one feet high,
with an arm of nine feet. Although there
are fewer than 400 souls in the parish, the
bronze plates contain the names of forty-
three, thirty-nine of whom enlisted. Only
one, H. Buccoine, of Naginey, paid the su-
preme sacrifice.