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INK SLINGS.
—Oh, for the good old days when
the grocer occasionally hung ouk the
sign: “201lbs. of granulated sugar
for $1.00.
—The country is to be saved.
Chicago convention.
—We are still of the opinion that
San Francisco will do best for Democ-
racy if it makes either McAdoo or
Cox the party standard bearer.
—Many people who are interested
in the “back to the farm” movement
only expect to go back provided they
can find some-one else to do the farm-
ing.
—The name of William G. McAdoo
must have been easy for Philipsburg-
ers to write for he carried every ward
of that town over Palmer, whose
name was printed on the ballot.
—Of course you are going to take
the kids to the circus on Monday.
Don’t cheat the little folks by show-
ing them the parade and then telling
them that that is all there is of it.
—Of course every boy expects to
be President of the United States
some day but he knows that he’ll have
to earn the mazuma necessary first—
and it takes a pile of that to turn the
trick now.
—Before we extend prohibition to
cigarettes and tobacco suppose we try
it on some people who talk too much.
Temperance in talk is not a bad thing
for the individual and it saves the
community many a fake scandal.
—No wonder Gen. Wood’s campaign
has been running so smoothly. Col.
Procter put five hundred thousand
dollars into it himself and as he is the
Procter of the Procter and Gamble
soap he knows the kind of “soap” nec-
essary to grease the ways for a Pres-
idential launching.
—New York has legalized the man-
ufacture of two and three-quarter per
cent. beer, but as New York voted her
rights to legalize anything in the al-
coholic drink line away when she rat-
ified the Eighteenth amendment the
recent action of the Legislature of the
Empire State looks like an attempt to
lift itself by its own boot straps.
—That Spruce Creek farmer who
failed to get all his potato crop rais-
ed last year was in luck for once. Had
he gotten them out of the ground he
probably would have sold them for
$1.50 or $2.00 the bushel, but he did
not get them out until last week when
he ploughed them up and sold all he
had for seed at from $4.00 to $5.00 a
bushel. '
\ —Mr. Gompers is of the opinion
that the present Congress should be
g anything
Gompers expresses the thought of
most everyone else who is more inter-
ested in seeing the country in a set-
tled condition than in making bullets
for Republican politicians to shoot.
—The latest canvas of the Repub-
lican vote for National delegate in the
Twenty-first district indicates that
Capt. Mel. Gillette has beaten the
Hon. Harry Scott. It may take the
official count to decide the matter, but
the chances favor the young Smeth-
port free lance. Of course defeat will
be a bitter disappointment to Mr.
Scott but he is not without consola-
tion in the primaries because we opine
that he would sooner have Harvey's
scalp dangling at his belt than a seat
in the Chicago convention.
— The escape of the millionaire-
slacker, Grover Bergdoll, from the
federal authorities in Philadelphia
last week calls for the immediate dis-
missal from the service of every man
who had official connection with the
incidents that made it possible.
“Passing the buck” and pleading sur-
prise won’t do. His place was in a
prison cell and every official, from the
higher-ups to the two non-coms in
whose custody he was, who had a fin-
ger in throwing the bolts on his cell
door should be fired in the hope of
partially stifling such rottenness.
—Vintena! Vintena everywhere
and not a drop to drink. That was the
cry on Bishop street Tuesday evening
when a party of ladies started dump-
ing the stock of that once very popu-
lar panacea for everything from in-
growing toe-nails to the green apple
jazz into the sewers. They were
cleaning out the Ammerman proper-
ties and oodles of the stuff was found
there. Eighty-five per cent. port wine
and fifteen per cent. rain water it sure
was an exhilerating concoction in its
day and it isn’t any wonder that the
old tanks view with alarm such de-
struction of the good old cure-all.
—The Commissioners of Blair coun-
ty were recently compelled to go to
New York to borrow fifty thousand
dollars with which to keep the county
treasury in position to pay current
bills. And they had to pay seven per
cent. for it too. To the casual reader
it might seem strange that the banks
of Blair county were unable to extend
this accommodation. They might
have been and might have refused for
reasons not given to the public, but if
they were not it is really not a sur-
prising matter. These are times when
all banking institutions must guard
most jealously their reserves. And so
many of our banks immolated them-
selves on their country’s altar in or-
der that the various Liberty loans
would be successful that much of their
resources are tied up in the best se-
curities possible though unhappily re-
moved from use in making current
loans.
It |
has been discovered that Senator Pen-
rose will be well enough to attend the |
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VOL. 65.
Exceptional Honor to Penrose.
Senator Boies Penrose, who has just
been nominated by his party for the
fifth successive term in the upper
branch of Congress, has achieved an
honor never before bestowed upon a
Pennsylvanian. With the expiration
of his present term he will have serv-
ed continuously twenty-four years.
If re-elected and permitted to serve
the term he will have achieved the
distinction which was the pride of
Tom Benton, of Missouri, who was the
first to serve thirty years in the Unit-
ed States Senate. The late J. D. Cam-
eron served consecutively twenty
years and Simon Cameron served
eighteen years, though not continu-
ously. He was first elected in 1845
and served until 1849. His next elec-
tion was in 1857 and he served to 1861.
He was again elected
served until 1877.
Mr. Penrose was given the nomina-
tion of his party for Senator origi-
nally as a “consolation prize.” He
aspired to the office of Mayor of Phil-
adelphia in 1895 and was adopted as
the Quay entry for that party favor.
After an intensely active campaign
he apparently had the nomination
“tied up,” notwithstanding the church-
es had bitterly opposed him and the
clergy of the city, with practical una-
nimity, had denounced him as “a mor-
al monster.” When the nominating
convention met Dave Martin, suppos-
ed to be one of the most earnest sup-
porters, betrayed his pledges of fidel-
ity and Penrose was defeated. Quay
denounced Martin on the floor of the
Senate as a boodler branded with a
clared that Penrose would get higher
honors.
During the session of the Legisla-
ture of 1896 Quay entered Penrose as
his candidate for United States Sen-
ator and a bitter opposition at once
sprung up. The candidate of the op-
position in the Republican party was
John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia,
and the issue a question of moral fit-
ness. Probably no more vitriolic cam-
paign for the office was ever conduct-
ed in the State, though that for the
renomination of Quay three years
was longer drawn out. But Pen-
5 elected by the party vote.
against him, Gifford Pinchot having
run as a Progressive. Penrose was
elected, however, and this year had
no opposition in his party.
——The twenty per cent. off is al-
luring but it ought to have come be-
fore the forty per cent. was put on.
Death of President Carranza.
a just punishment for a misspent life.
Coming to the Presidency of the Re-
public “at the point of the bayonet,”
he might have made his administra-
tion of the office a boon to the dis-
tressed people and the war-worn coun-
try whose government he had under-
taken to administer. He entered the
office with the good will of the gov-
ernment and people of the United
States and began his administration
under hopeful auspices. But a per-
verse nature or a preposterous ambi-
tion soon led him into conspiracies to
Mexico.
He was assassinated by those who
ing in the capacity of protectors.
committed no where else than in Mex-
was in line with his own practices and
methods. He was essentially a cruel
wind,” he has finally “reaped the
whirlwind.” If the process had been
less cruel, if it had not involved trea-
son and treachery as well as murder,
there would be little cause for regret
and less for complaint.
on the future of Mexico is left to con-
jecture. A few weeks ago Villa an-
nounced his intention to abandon his
of peace. But since Carranza’s flight
from the city of Mexico he has shown
in the confusion incident to this trag-
edy he may attempt to usurp control
of the government. In any event
there is likely to be a period of confu-
sion out of which anarchy is more
likely to come than order. Mexico is
rich in resources but poor in manhood
and the hopes recently built up on the
prospects of a peaceful election are
fast vanishing, Probably something
depends upon the coming election
here.
in i mm inns
——Mitchell Palmer now needs the
Cuban sugar crop to sweeten his con-
vention tea.
in 1867 and’
dollar mark on his forehead, and de-
ye r he was re-elected with
in 1908 he had things equally smooth.
In 1914 a bitter fight was made
Of the tragic death of Venustiano .
Carranza one is tempted to say it was -
harm the only power which could have |
helped him to high achievement in.
the work of restoring prosperity to!
The manner of his taking off was
as treacherous as it was brutal, but it |
was in line with the habits of his life. |
pretended to be his friends while act-
Probably the crime could have been |
ico in this period of civilization but it |
conspirator, a conscienceless traitor,
and having all his life, “sowed to the |
What effect the incident will have |
life of adventure and take up pursuits |
no inclination to resume banditry and
i cost to be defrayed equally by all con- |
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE.
Palmer’s Campaign Fund.
The Senate committee on Privileg-
es and Elections has entered upon the
inquiry as to the pre-convention cam-
paign expenses and the sources of
them of candidates for President of
both parties, in pursuance of a reso-
lution introduced by Senator Borah,
of Idaho, some months ago. The sub-
committee making the inquiry is com-
posed of Senators Kenyon, of Iowa;
Spencer, of Missouri, and Edge, of
New Jersey, Republicans, and Sena-
tors Pomerene, of Ohio, and Reed, of
Missouri, Democrats. Managers of
all the candidates will be asked to tes
tify and a thorough and searching in-
vestigation is promised. It ought to
prove an interesting feature of the
pending campaign and is likely to be
| quite amusing.
Of course the amount and source of
Mitchell Palmer’s campaign fund will
create most general interest in Penn-
sylvania. It is not probable that its
aggregate will show as fat figures as
that of General Wood, who is believ-
ed to have the Standard Oil company
"and other oleagineous corporations
: behind it, or that of Governor Low-
den, of Illinois, who is the son-in-law
of the Pullman Car company. It may
not reveal any very large contribu-
tions, either, though Joe Guffey is
said to have gathered a snug fortune
out of the alien property operations
during the war. But it ought to ex-
pose the processes by which Mr. Pal-
mer’s campaign committee extracted
per centages out of the meagre sala-
ries of postmasters and other federal
employees in Pennsylvania.
The high cost of living makes hard
' sledding for 2 postmaster with a fam-
Lily of five or six children who draws
"a hundred dollars a month, a fair av-
erage for those in the medium sized
boroughs of the State. But according
to reliable authority Mr. Palmer’s
committee gets under them and com-
‘pels them to cough up a matter of ten |
or fifteen per cent. of the wages. The
work is directed from the headquar-
ters of the Palmer campaign commit-
tee in Harrisburg which is an alias
' for the rooms of the Democratic State
committee in that city. It is a cruel
process but Palmer needs the money
and the ering falls on the families
Ta
— The Senate committee didn’t
get much valuable information on the
subject of campaign expenditures
from former Postmaster General
Hitchcock, General Wood’s campaign
manager. Hitchcock’s memory is un-
der complete discipline.
Will Try to Deceive the People.
It may be assumed with confidence
that the Republican National conven-
tion will make a false pretense of fa-
voring a peace treaty and a League of
Nations. The Versailles treaty which
has been cordially and promptly rati-
fied by all our associates in the war
is not satisfactory and the League of
Nations proposed by the great states-
men of the world will not do. But a
pretense of favoring the things pro-
vided for in that treaty and in the
covenant of that League is necessary
and will be offered by the convention |
as a sop to popular sentiment on the
subject, in the belief that the voters
may thus be fooled. It shows scant
respect for the intelligence of the
people.
Some of the Republican Senators
were frank enough to admit that they
are opposed to the peace treaty and
the League of Nations entirely.
Senator Knox, of Pennsylvania, de-
clares that it is too severe on Germa-
ny. Senator Borah and Senator John-
| son give no reason for their opposi-
tion.
President. Like others he may be
concerned for the profits of munition |
makers and manufacturers of other
war materials. The League of Na-
prevent that. But they will yield to
party exigencies and pretend to fa-
vor peace in the party platform.
The covenant of the League of Na-
tions places no burden on the people
and government of the United States
that is not equally and fully shared
by every other people and government |
within the League. It impairs no
right of Americans that is unimpair-
ed to others. What it means is a mu-
tual agreement to prevent war at any
' cerned. It is simply an application of
| the Golden Rule to the diplomacy of
the world and refusing to share in so
| war, cultivate disorder and
{ murder and poverty. The Republican
| convention will falsely pretend
contrary but it will not deceive the
people.
Charlie Donnelly and Jim
| Blakeslee will cut a great figure as
members of “the Big Four” from
Pennsylvania to the National conven-
tion.
Senator Lodge bases his action |
on a personal grudge against the
tions would inevitably put a crimp in |
such industries and their lobbyists on
the floor of the Senate are striving to
| beneficent a purpose is to encourage
compel |
PA.. MAY 28, 1920.
Effect of Misusing Money.
The escape of Grover Bergdoll, of
Philadelphia, convicted slacker and
deserter, from the military prison on
Governor's Island, New York, is as-
cribable to the free use of the vast
fortune at his disposal. If he had
been poor or only moderately well off
it would have been impossible for
him to secure the privileges which en-
abled him to get away. He has been
in the toils of the law many times be-
fore and managed to worm himself
out by some process unknown to the
less opulent. Like the notorious Har-
ry Thaw he has made a mockery of
justice and turned the mandates of the
courts into ridicule. This last ven-
ture seems to have aroused the au-
thorities somewhat but the result is
left to conjecture.
The people of this country have
been dwelling in “a fool’s paradise”
created by themselves, for many
i years. We have been flattering our-
selves, and to some extent others,
| with a cheering fiction that equal and
exact justice is meted out to rich and
poor alike. We have dozed away in a
pleasant dream that our courts are in-
corruptible and that malefactors of
great wealth and criminals of dis-
tressful poverty are alike amenable
to punishment for crimes or misde-
meanors perpetrated. But along comes
Grover Bergdoll or Harry Thaw,
half crazy perhaps, but wholly vic-
ious, with mothers willing to aid their
sinister purposes, and the beautiful
theory is dissipated, the baseless fab-
ric dissolved.
But that is not all the evil which
follows the misuse of vast fortunes
and probably not the greatest. With-
in a couple of weeks we have seen a
couple of millionaires manipulate the
i politics of Pennsylvania, so as to mis-
| represent public sentiment quite as de-
| cidedly as Grover Bergdoll has de-
| ceived the authorities of the prison
camp in which he was confined until a
| week ago. Bya trick only possible to
! those possessing large means and lit-
| tle conscience an absurd pretender is
able to go before the Democratic Na-
tional convention and claim the vote
of a solid delegation, when as a mat-
ter of fact without the money expend-
ed in the enterprise he couldn't have
ered a dozen delegates.
Wig aK
| Prohibition workers are evi-
dently engaged in making a survey
throughout the State to ascertain
what effect on crime the absence of
the saloon has effected since total pro-
hibition went into effect; at least that
is the assumption from the various
inquiries that have been made lately
as to the number of prisoners in the
Centre county jail now and the num-
ber a year ago. In this connection it
might be stated that on April 1st,
1919, there were five prisoners in the
county jail and there are five in it
now. There hasbeen one time since
Harry Dukeman was sworn in as sher-
iff, the first Monday in January that
he had as many as nine prisoners in
jail.
{Jim Connelly, of Clearfield, is a
| newspaper man but it is not profes-
| sional courtesy that impels us to sup-
| port him for Congress. It is plain,
| public spirited desire to send a better
| representative from this district to
| Washington than the Hon. Evan Jones
i has made.
Monday will be observed as Memorial
day in Bellefonte. The exercises at-
tendant thereto will be held in the
afternoon as in former years. The
parade will form in the Diamond at
1:30 o’clock and move to the cemetery
promptly at two o’clock.
— Senator Penrose may not be
enjoying the full vigor of health but
he has strength enough to direct the
proceedings of the Republican Na-
| tional convention in the lines laid
! while he was suffering more.
Vice President Marshall thinks
that the effort of the church to re-
form Congress will be futile. Mr.
. Marshall has had a good deal of ex-
perience with Congress and probably |
i knows.
eee lpr
| trifie less than one-third of the Dem-
| ocratic votes in Georgia now claims
| a solid delegation from that State in
| the National convention.
— Senator Capper, of Kansas, ve-
' hemently denounces things the Re-
| publican party stands for but he votes
| with those who stand for them.
Unless some of the farmers in
| Centre county put on an extra spurt
the | of speed the first of June will not see |
{ all the corn in the ground.
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— Probably the Supreme court
thinks the country is well enough off
without a decision on the prohibition
problems before it.
— Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
TR el
Keep in mind the fact that next |
Mr. Palmer having polled a
Republican Platform Strug; les.
~ From the Philadelphia Record. w
No party ever had such a struggle
to get a platform as the Republican
iparty is now going through. Of
course, the two most troublesome
planks are prohibition and the Presi-
dent. It is reported that after con-
sulting the advisory committee of 147
persons, and examining more than
T7000 proposals submitted by the read-
ers of the New York Tribune, only 117
of which were for prohibition, and ex-
amining all the essays of school chil-
dren submitted in a prize competition,
it has been decided to avoid ex-
pression of opinion on prohibition by
announcing the well-known fact that
the Eighteenth amendment, on the
face of the returns, was adopted by
more than the necessary number of
States, and drawing therefro. he cur-
ious inference that the subject is dis-
Posed of and is not in practical poli-
ics.
The President is not so easily dis-
posed of. It was under President Wil-
son that the country performed the
greatest task in its history. Its
achievements in war filled the Ameri-
can heart with pride, the German
heart with consternation and the Brit-
ish, French, Belgian and Italian hearts
with astonishment and gratitude. The
Republican party cannot afford to at-
tack the part America took in the war.
But of course it must “view with
alarm” the Democratic President, any
Democratic President, under no mat-
ter what circumstances.
we are informed that the
thereto by the Republican *
and everything done since ¥
tributable to the President’s megalo-
mania, obstinacy, indifference to Re-
publican advice, and gene
iegated incompetence. +3
.On November 12 and on each day
since everything ought to have been
as though there had been no war. The
armies should have instantly melted
away, and the costs of supporting
them should have evaporated. Prices
ought to have come down at once to
the pre-war basis. But of course wag-
es ought to stay up; no political plat- |
form could afford to recommend any-
thing else.
The currency created to meet the
enormous purchases of the war should !
have been immediately “deflated.”
The farmers’ prices, like the labor-
ers’ wages, should stay up, but the
‘priees-of vw and shees would:
come down if there had been a Repub-
lican President. The President should
have made housekeeping easy. He
ought to have reduced the price of
everything we buy, without touching
the price of anything we sell. He
ought to have averted strikes. If he
had kept the wage earners contented
there would have been none. Discon-
tent—plainly that is something to
hold the President responsible for;
the Republicans have been discontent-
ed ever since a Democrat was elected
President.
Of course the failure of the peace
treaty is entirely due to the President;
if he had not been a Democrat the
treaty would not have failed. We con-
gratulate the Republican elder states-
men on discovering the secret of a!
platform which will thrill all Repub-
licans and will mean to each Republi- |
can just what he wants it to mean.
Ten Thousand Brewers.
From the Detroit
Thus
Free Press. :
far the troubles which th
{ government has encountered in the:
- enforcement of prohibition have come
: largely from cities and the offenders |
! have been persons who engaged in dis- |
tilling or selling liquor for profit.
From New Orleans comes a dis-
| raided a concern dealing in the raw
materials used in brewing and found
| evidence showing that more than 10,-
; 000 persons in the district have gone
in for the home production of beer
i with a “kick” in it.
i It is altogether probable that this
‘discovery does no more than lift a!
‘ corner of the veil which conceals what
is going on in kitchens, cellars and '
| barns of the rural districts and small |
towns.
{| Stocks of left-over whiskey will run
out and the police in cities can keep
| distilling in check, but the discovery
of books of account in a single con-
| cern carrying names of 10,000 ama- |
teur brewers shows how far from so-
lution is the whole problem of prohi-
bition enforcement.
rrp
Personal Politics.
| Irom the Independent.
Senator Calder says that if it had
not been for the “obstinacy” of the
! President the Senate would have rati-
! fied the treaty long ago.
| No doubt true. But what has the
| President’s psychology got to do with
| the case? The Senate has no consti-
| tutional authority to pass upon his
! mental traits. The President under
the constitution submitted to them a
treaty consisting of 440 articles—
| that and nothing else. The Senate
| was called upon to judge whether
| these 440 articles were good or bad
i for the American Republic—that and
| nothing else.
| But by the confession of Senator
Calder (corroborated by many of his
conferees) that is exactly what the
Senate did not do. To its everlasting
disgrace the Senate decided the great-
est issue before the people since the
adoption of the Constitution on the
President’s personality. Senator Cal-
der’s explanation convicts himself.
and var- |
dave
patch saying that federal officers there |
[Sram FROM THE KEYSTONE.
| —One loose brick in a pavement cost the
{ borough of Shenandoah $2447 last week. A
| jury rendered a verdict for this amount to
| Miss Annie Davis, who was injured on Gil-
| bert street, breaking her hip bone by trip=
i ping over the brick alleged to be loose.
i Counsel for the borough asked court for a
: new trial. '
—Falling in with several men with
whom he went to a restaurant in Altoona
cn Mondav night, Harry Edwards, of Glen«
white, ordered soup. When he awoke some
hours later in Juniata Gap he found that
he had been robbed of $1000 in cash, $260
of which was his, while the balance bes
longed to a friend.
—Joseph B. Cassell, of Centre Point,
formerly of Lansdale, made sure that his
recent funeral would be attended. A clause
in his will stated that unless his nephews
and nieces attended his funeral they would
be cut off from the bequests made to them,
They were on hand at the funeral. His es
tate amounted to $3900.
A Potter county resident complained
that some neighbors broke into his cellar
and stole five gallons of perfectly good
wine and haled two suspects into court.
The justice thought complainant had been
negligent perhaps in tempting his neigh-
bors and the neighbors decidedly hoggish
in cleaning up all the stock. After some
talk the mattér was dropped.
—Mrs. William Devoe, of South Gibson,
Lackawanna county, was burned to death
on Sunday as a result of using gasoline
to start a kitchen fire, mistaking it for
kerosene. Her husband, in attempting to
save her, was so badly burned that his
death is expected at a hospital at Carbon-
dale. Two of their children narrowly es-
caped death. The house was completely
destroyed.
—A verdict for $183,537 was awarded (he
Joseph Reid Gas Engine company of Oil
City, in its suit against the Erie railroad,
by a jury in civil court at Franklin last
week. The plaintiff sought damages for
destruction of its machine shops in 1918.
It was alleged that live coals from the lo-
comotive owned by the defendant, fell up-
on oil which had leaked from a pipe line,
and started a fire which destroyed the
shops.
—Alex Nellis, a Hungarian miner, of
Westmoreland county, was arrested last
week by Constable Patton, of Jeannette,
charged with disorderly conduct and at-
tempting to sell his daughter, Pauline
Nellis, aged 12, to boarders, the highest
bidder to get the girl. A large crowd had
gathered, and the sale was in full swing
when neighbors interfered and dispersed
the crowd, many of whom were drunk,
among them being the father. Vig
An enthusiastic mass meeting was held
at Lock Haven on Saturday afternoon and
steps were taken for a drive to secure
funds to purchase the Grafius property, on
east Water street. The building will be
remodeled and enlarged as a community
house and home for William Marshall
Crawford Post, American Legion. The
home will contain a swimming pool, gym-
nasium and other attractions, and will
cost at least $75,000. Philip 8. Kift, chair-
man of the citizens’ co:nmittee presided.
| Wives of forest rangers and fire war-
dens will be commissioned by the State
+ Department of Forestry as special wardens
| to aid in fighting forest fires. Women will
; be authorized to deputize persons to joim
; fire forces, but will receive no pay. Rail-
: road section foremen and hands are also
ihefng made” specift fire wardéns on rec-
ommendations of railroad officials so that
| they can extinguish fires near railroad
: lines. Scout-masters and first-class Boy
Scouts will be made special wardens where
{ qualified and recommended.
—First steps to better housing facilities
| generally in the twin boroughs of Mifflin
| and Mifflintown have been taken by the
; recently incorporated Juniata Realty com-
| pany, in the purchase of the National Ho-
| tel property from Dr. W. H. Banks. The
{ boroughs have long been without adequate
| hotel facilities, in fact, have been practic-
sally without any recently, and it is plan-
{ ned to erect a thoroughly modern hotel.
i The company was recently incorporated
| at $50,000 and it is planned to take other
| steps to better housing facilities when the
hotel situation is once adequately provid-
ed for.
—Mrs. Charles Kibbey, aged forty-five
i years, was instantly killed while her hus-
"band, Charles Kibbey, aged forty-nine
{ years, was probably fatally injured at
Lewisburg, on Saturday, when a trolley
| car crashed into an automobile in which
, they were riding. Mrs. Belle Barnes, a
sister of the dead woman, another mem-
ber of the party, escaped with slight inju-
ries. The motorists were en route from
Buffalo to their home in Washington, D.
' ¢., having just purchased a new automo-
| bile, this being their first trip in the new
machine. Mr. Kibbey and .Mrs. Barnes
were taken to a hospital at Danville. The
machine was ground into pulp beneath the
trolley.
—Assigned to conduct the Sunday morn-
ing service in the Presbyterian church, at
Independence, Allegheny county, Samuel
Neal, a theological student, didn’t discov-
er until after he had pronounced the ben-
ediction that he had preached his sermon
in the wrong church. Arriving in the
! town and supposing he was following the
! directions given him, he entered a church
on the main street. Without asking ques-
tions he ascended the pulpit, announced
the hymns and preached to the mysti ad
congregation. The dumbfounded pastor
sat with the choir and listened. After the
' service, Mr, Neal spoke of the ‘fine Pres-
byterian church.” “But this is the Meth-
odist chureh,” he was informed. The dis-
concerted young minister hurried to the
other church to patch things up.
—What is easily the most sensational
will case ever heard in Northumberland
county is now in its fourth week before
Register and Recorder John I. Carr. Hen-
ry L. Fonda, a young Milton millionaire,
| is trying to break the $300,000 will of his
i grandmother, Mrs. Caroline Ionda, who
left him nothing but the family plate. His
attorneys brought numerous witnesses,
principally from her household, to prove
that she had been addicted to the use of
morphine and was not mentally capable of
disposing of her property. The heirs
brought many witnesses including Attor-
ney H. W. Chamberlain, of Milton, who
wrote all of her five wills, to prove that
she cut her grandson off because she said
he had enough already and she wanted to
take care of her side of the house. In the
early wills he had been given the family
mansion but when his mother died after
remarrying on his father’s death and when
she was buried in the family plot with the
name of he~ first husband on the tomb-
| Stone another will was drawn ic which
the yeuth was cut off entirely.
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