————
Bruna Wald.
Bellefonte, Pa, June 18, 1920.
Editor
P. GRAY MEEK, - -
—— - rm ———————
To Correspondents.—No communications |
published unless accompanied by the real |
name of the writer.
Terms of Subscription.—Until further
motice this paper will be furnished to sub-
gcribers at the following rates:
Paid strictly in advance - = $150
Paid before expiration of year - 1.75
Paid after expiration of year - 2.00
DROWNED IN BALD EAGLE.
Lock Haven Young Man Gave Life in
Saving Others.
Ernest Weir, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Weir, of Lock Haven, was
drowned in the Bald Eagle creek near
Flemington, last Saturday afternoon
while rescuing several young women
who had gotten in beyond their depth
and were unable to swim ashore.
Weir, with Herman Probst, Hogan
Seasholtz, Caroline McGinness, Bertha
Brown and Laura Darow, all of Lock
Haven, left that city about three
o’clock Saturday afternoon and walk-
ed to a point a short distance above
Flemington to take a plunge into the
turbid waters of Bald Eagle.
The girls were the first to enter
the water and before Weir had chang-
ed his clothes the girls started to wade
to the shore. Miss Brown fell into
deep water, Miss Darow turned to
assist her but Miss Brown clung so
desperately to her would-be-rescuer
that both were drawn under water.
Miss McGinness then undertook to help
the struggling girls, but was unable
to accomplish anything.
Seeing the dangerous plight of the
three girls Weir plunged into the
stream and had no trouble getting
Miss Darow ashore. He then return-
ed to the water and rescued Miss Mc-
Ginness. As soon as she was safe on
land he returned for Miss Brown, who
by that time was under the water.
He dove twice to get her and then was
joined by Herman Probst, the latter
succeeding in getting the almost
drowned young lady ashore, but by
that time Weir had disappeared, and
it was fully a half hour before his
body was found. The young man,
who was but nineteen years old, had
evidently become so exhausted in res-
cuing two of the girls and in his en-
deavors to save Miss Brown that he
could not save himself and virtually
gave his life for his friends.
Centre Countian Killed in Altoona.
Harry Rowan Bower, a native of
Centre county, was the victim of an
accident at the Abelson metal yard in
Altoona late Wednesday afternoon
when a heavy derrick boom broke
from its fastenings, fell upon him,
crushing his skull and breaking his
neck. Death followed within a few
minutes. Two other members of the
gang of workmen were injured, but
neither of them fatally.
Mr. Bower was a son of Frederick
S. and Martha Leathers Bower and
was born at Mt. Eagle on October
21st, 1884, hence was in his thirty-
sixth year. When a young man he
went west and spent some time 1n
Missouri, returning to Altoona fifteen
years ago. For a number of years he
drove the delivery wagon of the
American Express company, going
with the Abelson company about a
month ago. He was unmarried but is
survived by two brothers and one sis-
ter, John C. and William L. Bower, of
Altoona, and Mrs. Eliza Moore, of
State College. The remains will be
taken to Howard where burial will be
made tomorrow (Saturday) after-
noon.
Holiness Tent Meetings At Milesburg
A Success.
The holiness tent meetings being
held at Milesburg under the auspices
of the International Holiness church
of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey
district will be continued over Sunday
at least.
The interest in these meetings have
been very good, and is gradually in-
creasing. The spirit of the Lord is
being preached in the old-fashioned
way of forty years ago by Miss Ad-
lena Behrent and J. R. Gardner. Sev-
eral young people have gone to the
altar for prayer.
Assisting the above preachers dur-
ing the week has been Rev. Daniel
Dubendorf, pastor of the Pennsvalley
circuit. He is a young man who was
raised among the limestone quarries
of Susquehanna valley and heard the
call to preach the gospel while work-
ing on the lumber operations in the
Blue Mountains of Virginia. Though
only a moderate education he has in
a few years time made great progress
in the scriptures and is now preach-
with good success in Centre county.
The public at large is cordially in-
vited to attend the tent meetings at
Milesburg.
—The condition of Louis Grauer,
who has been very ill at his home on
Linn street, within the past week, is
now slowly improving. Mr. Grauer
has never fully recovered from the
effects of a bad fall on an icy pave-
ment last winter. J. Will Conley,
who also was thought to be seriously
ill a week ago, is able to he at his
store for a part of each day.
i ——————
——James C. Furst and John Cur-
tin opened the Furst, Curtin, Quigley
Camp on Fishing creek on Wednes-
day, Judge Quigley joining them yes-
terday for a few days prior to going
to Bedford next week to attend a
meeting of the State Bar Association.
. ough, Monday afternoon at
' o’clock, after an illness dating from
| September 1st of last year, followed
‘by a very
| which he recovered but never after-
Captain James A. Quigley.
Captain James A. Quigley died a!
his late residence in Beech Creek bor-
3:10
serious operation from
wards regained his health and
strength. He bore the succeeding long
months of suffering and infirmity
with remarkable patience and forti-
tude, and passed peacefully away at
the hour stated into the Life Eternal.
Captain Quigley was born Decem-
ber 30th, 1840, and died in his 80th
Practically all of his life was’
In his early:
year.
lived in that vicinity.
manhood, after his return from the
army at the age of twenty-four, he
entered the “company store” of Say- |
lor, Day & Morey, in Beech Creek,
boom and ever afterwards followed a
business life with success. A few
years and 8 days. On
who survives with the following
brothers and sisters: Mrs. Bloomard
Shutt and Christian Cox, of Belle-
fonte; George, of Zion; Fred, of Fill-
more; Morris, of State College, and
Robert, in South Carolina.
mains were taken to the home of the
husband’s father, Howard Grove, at.
Centre Hall, where funeral services
were held at ten o'clock yesterday
morning. Burial was made
. Centre Hall cemetery.
er, widow of L. Scott Bricker,
Boalsburg, passed away at the Belle-
- and kidney trouble.
at Unionville, this county, about sixty
two years ago.
April 2nd,
1918, she was married to Mr. Grove |
The re-
in the .
il {
BRICKER.—Mrs. Laura E. Brick-
of
fonte hospital last Friday following
an illness of some weeks, with heart
She was a daughter of William and |
: Sophie Richard Stover, and was born
during the days of the great lumber
Her girlhood days |
| were spent in Unionville and after
vears later he opened a store in Blan- | attending the public schools, she took |
chard and moved to the village where | 3 term at Eden Seminary, completing |
he conducted a general store until two | her education at the Boalsburg Aca-
years ago when he retired. His strict | demy. She later taught school sever-
integrity, business ability and strong ! al terms at Unionville and in Union |
personality gained for him an excel- | township and on May 11h, 1880, was |
lent patronage and were factors of united in marriage to Mr. Bricker,
his success in a life of energy and up-
rightness.
pital, he purchased a residence in
Beech Creek adjoining the home of
A few months ago, upon
his return from the Lock Haven hos-'
whose acquaintance she made while a
student at Boalsburg. Their entire
_village where Mrs. Bricker acquired
a large circle of warm friends. She
married life was spent in the latter ;
one of his daughters, Mrs. George F.
Hess. He was always interested in!
the welfare and moral uplift of the
was
church, and not only took an active
interest in all church affairs, but also
a member of the Reformed!
Red Cross Community Nurse.
The Red Cross public health nurs-
ing service has been in operation a
little over 2a month and has already
abundantly justified itself. Miss Mae
Peterman, the community nurse, has
quietly been going her rounds in the
schools and homes, inaugurating a
work that will eventually mean much
for the health and happiness of this
community. At a meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Bellefonte
Chapter a few days ago Miss Peter-
man presented her report, arousing
much enthusiasm among the members
of the committee. Among the inter-
esting points in this report covering
the month of May, are the following:
Number of visits to the schools....... 8
Number of advisements given in the
BCHOOIS i... eres visi cerns 14
' Number of visits to homes of school
CHIAren. ...i..oeceiinrirnivirinvssenn 19
Number of cases reported to physi-
{ einans from: the schools............. 2
Number of children with defective vis-
ion obtaining glasses through efforts
of the nurse... ....0.. dvs viii desssy
| Number of operations for tonsils and
adenoids through efforts of nurke... 1
Number of nursing visits............. iS
Number of infant welfare visits....... 10
Number of pre-natal visits........... 9
Total number of visits................. 154
This report shows only the begin-
ning of a ministry of the utmost use-
fulness. The scope of the community
nurse’s activities will be considerably
enlarged by the opening of an office
for her in Petrikin hall Mon-
day of this week. Attractive
signs have been made so that no one
can miss this office, so kindly donated
1
i
: by the authorities of the W. C. T. U. |
community and identified with every in the social life of Boalsburg and
movement for the public good. A 'vicinity.
leading citizen of the community, he |
Mr. Bricker died on April 13th, 1902, :
was at various times in his life se- | but surviving her are two sons, John
lected for local public offices and was | and Howard, both of Philadelphia.
for years’ a member of the school | She also leaves three sisters and two :
board in Liberty township and instru- | brothers, namely: Mrs.
mental in securing for Blanchard a | Mrs. William McEwen, of Unionville;
modern school building. | Mrs. J. Fall Stover, of Bellefonte;
Captain Quigley had a brilliant rec- | J. O. Stover, of Reedsville, and A. G.
ord in the Civil War, serving more | C. Stover, of Los Angeles, Cal.
than four years. He enlisted August | Funeral services were held at her
19th, 1861, at the age of 20, and was | late home at Boalsburg at ten o'clock
made sergeant in Company A, 49th | on Monday morning, by Rev. S. C.
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was | Stover, after which burial was made
advanced to first lientenant within a |in the Boalsburg cemetery.
year and was commissioned captain | Il J
November 17th, 1862, of Company D,!| WITMER.—Joseph Alfred Witmer,
49th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, one of College township’s best known
which command he held until honor- | and most highly esteemed residents,
ably discharged October 28th, 1864. died at his home on the Branch last
He was wounded at Locust Grove and | Saturday following a year’s illness
twice at Spottsylvania in leg, shoulder | with Bright’s disease, aged 59 years,
and arm, in ’63-'64. He took part in : 2 months and 19 days.
all of the important battles through | He was a son of Charles and Eliza-
which his famous fighting regiment beth Weiland Witmer, early settlers of
passed — Yorktown, Williamsburg, { lower Buffalo Run valley, where he
Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericks- | first saw the light of day. He grew
burg, Gettysburg, Rappahannock Sta- | to manhood at the home of his birth,
tion, Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold A attending school in the winter and
Fink, and ! community by your Red Cross.
| telephone connection.
It is hoped that the entire population |
of our town, and of the territory cov-
ered by our Red Cross Chapter, will
feel that the community nurse is their |
nurse, and that the public health will
be greatly benefitted by this nursing |
service placed at the disposal of the ;
Miss Peterman’s office hours are 9
to 9:30 a. m., and 1 to 1:30 p. m. Bell |
During these |
office hours it is expected that cases
will be reported which the nurse will
visit as soon thereafter as possible. In
the near future it is purposed to es-
tablish a baby clinic. Here mothers
may bring their babies, have them |
weighed and otherwise overlooked, a |
physician being in attendance to pre-
scribe diet, medicines, ete. Full an-
nouncement of the clinic will be made
later.
Meantime the officials of the Red
Cross and all interested in the great
problem of public health are hopeful
that this nurse will be given an oppor-
tunity of ministering as wisely as
possible, in Bellefonte and the sur-
rounding country, among babies, chil-
dren and all other classes of the popu-
! ——William Walker, of Du Bois,
! believed to be the oldest man in Penn-
| sylvania, died at the Clearfield hospi-
‘tal on Sunday. He was born in Eng-
i land on March 30, 1814, hence was
over 106 years old.
——The average housewife is cer-
tainly between the devil and the deep
| sea this year. Sugar is not only high
| in price but almost impossible to get
i in quantities sufficient for canning and
| preserving; and if they can get the
| sugar there already seems to be a
| combine to keep the prices of berries
(and fruit up to almost prohibitive
! prices.
ete eee.
| ——Regular Flag Day exercises
| were held by the Bellefonte Lodge of
Elks on Monday evening. The speak-
{ er for the occasion was Prof. Arthur
| H. Sloop, superintendent of the Belle-
| fonte schools, and his address was a
| splendid one from start to finish. A
| fair sized crowd was present at the
| Elks Home to show their interest in
| the observance of the day.
———, eee
——About one hundred people at-
tended the Grove family reunion held
| at Grange Park last Saturday and it
. goes without saying that all had
"an enjoyable time. One of the diver-
sions of the day was a baseball game
| between the Nittany valley Groves
"and the Pennsvalley branch of the
| family, the former winning out. This
was the twelfth annual reunion of
this well known family and every
year adds to the interest as well as
the attendance.
gerd
——The old farmers almanac pre-
dicts thunder storms for June 18th to
20th, inclusive, but there is just a pos-
sibility that the man who made the
prediction got a little late in the dates,
as we have had both the thunder and
the storms ever since Tuesday. For-
tunately no particular damage has
been done in Centre county, so far as
could be learned, but considerable de-
struction was wrought in the western
part of the State and through the
Juniata valley. Plenty of rain has
fallen in Centre county, however, to
satisty any demand.
——Pilot Hopson made a new rec-
ord coming to Bellefonte from New
York on Tuesday morning, coming in
at an altitude of 16,000 feet. Shortly
after leaving Newark, N. J., he notic-
ed that his motor was heating and to
avoid over-heating he climbed to a
higher atmosphere. From Sunbury
to Bellefonte his altimeter registered
16,000 feet and when he reached Belle-
fonte it took him almost twenty min-
Harbor, Weldon Railroad and Peters.
burg, a total of twenty-three distinct
battles, missing only the three en-
gagements of the regiment after his
muster out. It was a regiment re-
cruited largely from Centre and Mif-
flin counties, with many from Beech
Creek and Blanchard, and it was the
unanimous testimony of the men who
served under him that Captain Quig-
ley was every inch a man in the treat-
ment of his men and always at the
head of his company. He was a
charter member of George Harleman
Post, No. 302, G. A. R.,, and always
active in its work and welfare. He
was also one of the oldest members
of Blanchard Lodge No. 427 I. O. O. F.
The deceased early in life united
with the Bald Eagle and Nittany Pres-
byterian church at Mill Hall, and was
one of those instrumental in estab-
lishing the Presbyterian church in
Beech Creek, to which his member-
ship was transferred with many oth-
ers of the locality as charter mem-
bers, and atthe formal organization
April 21st, 1871, in the new church,
he was one of the two first elders
chosen by the new congregation and !
served until his death, a period of
forty-nine years and over. He served
also as assistant superintendent of the '
Sunday school of that church since
1886, thirty-four years, and for
a great number of years taught the
bible class.
in his attendance and deeply interest-
ed and active in all church work, a:
thorough Christian man of infallible
faith.
The deceased was married January
28th, 1864, to Mary Shaw, of Blanch-
ard, who died in 1890. Of this union
there survive Carrie, wife of Dr. Wil-
liam D. Horne,
Hon. Henry C. Quigley, of Bellefonte,
President Judge of the Forty-ninth
judicial district; S. Gertrude Quigley,
of Pittsburgh; Mary Shaw, wife of
George F. Hess, of Beech Creek, and
Hon. Richard S. Quigley, of Lock Hav-
en, who represents Clinton county in
the State Legislature. Two children
have died, Anna F., in infancy, and ,
James Edwin Quigley, of Pittsburgh,
in 1915.
married to Martha E. White, of Beech
Creek, to which union was born a
daughter, Katharine W. Quigley, at.
home.
1918.
The funeral services were held on
Wednesday afternoon at his late resi-
dence at 2:30 o'clock, the service con-
Mrs. Quigley died in May,
ducted by Rev. Louis V. Barber, pastor |
of the Presbyterian church, interment |
in the Quigley plot in the Christian
cemetery.
Rounding out a life of four-score
years, Captain Quigley remains a
pleasant memory to all who knew him,
of a man respected and esteemed for
his genial disposition, his lovable per-
sonality, his love of home and family,
his integrity, uprightness, kind and
charitable nature, and pure, well-
spent christian life. ®
1
A I
GROVE.—Mrs. Rebecca Grove, wife
of Chester C. Grove, of Zion, died on
Monday afernoon of exhaustion. She
was a daughter of Frank and Mary
Cox and was born in Bellefonte on
June 6th, 1897, making her age 23
He was always faithful
of Yonkers, N. Y.;
In 1895 the deceased was '
| working on the farm during the sum-
mer. When he grew to manhood and
embarked on life’s voyage for himself
‘he followed in the footsteps of his
father and engaged in farming in|
which he proved quite successful.
When twenty-four years of age he
was united in marriage to Miss Ger-
trude Slatterbeck who survives with
the following children: Charles, on the
Branch; Ray, Arthur, Elmer, Lincoln,
Mary, Blanche, Pearl and Edith, at
home. One son, Alfred, died in
France while serving in the world
war. - He also leaves seven brothers
and one sister, namely: John B., of
White Hall; Edward, William and Oli-
ver, of Bellefonte; Clay and Winfield,
of Buffalo Run; Calvin and Emma,
on the old home farm. Two sisters
preceded him to the grave.
He was a member of the Reformed
church and Rev. S. C. Stover had
charge of the funeral which was held
on Tuesday morning, burial being
made in the Boalsburg cemetery.
i li
STONER.—Henry Stoner died at
his home at State College on Wednes-
day of last week as the result of
paralysis, aged 71 years, 2 months
and 5 days. He was a son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Stoner and was born in Mill-
heim, though he had been a resident
of State College a number of years.
' He was twice married and is survived
by his second wife, two sons and one
daughter by his first marriage, name-
ly: Charles, of Tusseyville; William
| R.,, of Centre Hall and Mrs. Albert
Cummings, of Penn Hall. He also
leaves these brothers and sisters: Mrs.
Elvina Walter, of Spring Mills; Mrs.
| W. S. Maize, of Millheim; Mrs. Sue
! Long, Mrs. George Zerby and David
‘Stoner, all of Tusseyville; William,
' of Joliet, Ill.; Reuben, of Sautorvillia,
, Wash., and Mrs. Frank Smith, of Free-
i port, Ill. Burial was made on Sunday
at Tusseyville.
i l
Il if
STEIGER.—Mrs. Rebecca Steiger,
widow of Jacob Steiger, died at her
home in Haines township, on Monday
of heart failure, aged 66 years, 6
‘ months and 1 day. She is survived by
six daughters and one son, namely:
Nelson, John, Mrs. Elizabeth Shaffer
and Mrs. Clayton Wolfe, all of Green-
' briar; Baird, of Coburn; Mrs. John
- Whitmyer, of Haines township; Mrs.
John Wolfe and Mrs. John Confer,
. of Renovo. Burial will be made this
morning in Paradise cemetery, Haines
township.
One Fatality in Centre County.
One industrial worker in Centre
! county was fatally injured during May
according to a report issued this week
by Clifford Connelley, commissioner
{of the Pennsylvania Department of
| Labor and Industry. The figures
| were compiled by the bureau of work-
men’s compensation. No fatal acci-
dents were reported in this county last
month.
——On the second page of today’s
paper will be found a very interesting
account of Miss Rebecca N. Rhoads’
observations on the world’s W. C. T.
U. convention in London, as written
' by herself.
lation.
County Conservation Picnic, Friday,
June 25, at 2 P. M,, at Boalsburg.
At the picnic grounds
| picnic of all Centre county people
|interested in a conservation move-
ment. A temporary organization will
(be formed. It is planned to divide
i the county into two districts, which
| will form conservation units for carry-
| ing out the movement locally.
| All persons interested in the con-
| servation of forests, fish, game, wild
flowers and song birds; in the care of |
| farm woodlots, in promoting camp-
ings on the state forests, and in the
teaching of conservation in our schools
should attend. Short talks will be
made by state officials and by repre-
sentative men of the county.
Become a charter member of an
organization that has for its object
the proper care and development of
the natural resources of the county.
Smith—Rishel.—J. Frank Smith, of
| Bellefonte, and Mrs. Anna Rishel, of
Millheim, were quietly married last
Friday evening at the parsonage of
the United Brethren church by the
pastor, Rev. E. J. Dunn. Mr. Smith
is well known throughout Centre
county, having served four years as
Register and is now a member of the
G. F. Musser Co., wholesale grocers,
of Bellefonte, representing that firm
in the capacity of traveling salesman.
Mrs. Smith is well and favorably
known in her home town of Millheim.
According to their present plans she
will maintain her home there during
the summer and if they can find a
suitable house in Bellefonte will take
up their residence here in the fall.
Woomer—Gault.— James Woomer
and Miss Esther A. Gault, a daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Gault,
of Tyrone, but formerly of Bellefonte,
were married at the home of the
bride’s parents on Wednesday even-
ing by Rev. E. G. Sawyer, of the
United Brethren church. They were
attended by Miss Mabel Gault and
Roy Shirk. The bride is a graduate
of the Bellefonte High school and has
many friends in Bellefonte. The
bridegroom served in the world war
and is now employed at the paper
mill in Tyrone, where the young
couple will make their home.
mr —— i ee eee———
Marriage Licenses.
James W. Stimer, Hannah Furnace,
and Ida May Gunzalus, Tyrone.
J. Frank Smith, Bellefonte, and An-
na Rishell, Millheim.
Chillis G. Laird, Port Matilda, and
Mabel A. Eves, Warriorsmark.
Robert Harding, Jr., Brooklyn, N.
Y., and Lois Content Sherman, Wood-
bury, N. J.
Clayton B. Watson and Ethel A.
Fleming, Williamsport.
Courtland L. Butler Jr. and Jeanne
Ricu, State College.
John R. Lucas, Howard, and Ida G.
Jones, Unionville.
——
——It’s all here and it’s all true.
Read the “Watchman” and see.
| on Major :
{ Boal’s estate will be held a basket |
utes to come down and land on the
i field. It is the record altitude flight
so far made on the New York to Chi-
| cago aero mail route.
——Last Saturday was the birthday
{ anniversary of Mrs. Josepr Emerick,
; of Nittany, and in the evening a
| neighbor woman took her to call on
la friend. When they returned to the
{ Emerick home they found the house
{ well filled with friends of Mrs. Emer-
ick who gathered to give her a gen-
| uine surprise and tender their congrat-
{ ulations. All told over fifty guests
were present. The party was arranged
by Mr. Emerick, who thus demonstrat-
ed the fact that he is a thoughtful hus-
band as well as a good jury commis-
sioner. Mr. and Mrs. Emerick’s son,
Charles M. Emerick, who served two
years in France with an ambulance
corps, graduated at Bucknell college
this week and has partially aranged
to attend a law school in Ohio next
school year.
——Nelson
and Mrs. L. R. Poorman, of Hunting-
don, came to Bellefonte last week to
attend the funeral of his grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Shook. He left Bellefonte
on Thursday to return home and on
Friday he was fourd in an uncon-
scious condition along the main line
of the Pennsylvania Railroad near
Mill Creek. He was taken to the J.
C. Blair Memorial hospital at Hun-
was suffering from concussion of the
brain. He also had a bad cut on the
back of his head, one over the left
eye and another on the left shoulder
While his condition is quite serious
it is hoped it will not prove fatal.
Just how the young man got his in-
juries is unknown, but it is the gen-
eral opinion that he was returning
home from Bellefonte and in getting
off the train was hit by another.
——On his farm south of Belle-
fonte, Dr. M. A. Kirk has a small
flock of sheep and among them is a
blooded ram. Just what strain he is
has not definitely been learned, but
he is evidently a thoroughbred and
self-trained in the art of butting.
In fact he at one time interfered very
materially with the progress of the
work on the state highway by butting
in where he was not wanted, but his
latest activities were directed in other
channels. It seems that a Sunday or
two ago some four or five of the
colored. gentry of Bellefonte went out
over the hill to a shady spot under a
big tree to indulge in a sociable crap
game. Everything went along peace-
fully until the game sort of het up and
the bones were being rolled for all
they were worth when Mr. Ram stroll-
ed nonchalantly up to the gang. He
surveyed the aggregation of crap
shooters a minute or two until he saw
a good opening when he charged into
the crowd. The first man struck was
knocked head first into a briar patch
and in less than a minute the ram
had made a thorough clean-up of the
crap game and it is a safe bet that
the colored gentlemen will hereafter
seek some other locality for their cus-
tomary Sunday diversions.
Poorman, son of Mr.
tingdon, where it was found that he |
HARDING AND COOLIDGE.
Republican Standard Bearers Nomi-
nated at Chicago on Saturday.
Warren G. Harding, United States
Senator of Ohio, was nominated by
the Republican national convention at
Chicago as a candidate for President
at 6:17 o’clock on Saturday evening on
the 10th ballot. At that exact mo-
ment Pennsylvania threw sixty votes
to him and made his total an even 500,
sufficiently overtopping the 493 neces-
sary to nominate.
Harding was nominated because he
was the only candidate active or in-
active, who had offended nobody of
consequence. In the councils of the
night it was seen by Senate leaders
that they could not get the deadlock
candidates to go to anybody except
Harding.
It required the six ballots taken
Saturday for that amiable strategy
to work out. Despite loyalty of the
staunch Wood delegates and the last
minute hopes of the Lowden people
Harding’s nomination was certain
when daylight arrived.
The six ballots Saturday were main-
ly for the purpose of letting Lowden
down easily and at the same time of
holding Lowden in reserve long
enough to remove all danger of Wood,
first using Lowden to kill off Wood,
the leaders slowly developed Harding
until they were ready to open the gates
of the dam.
The word was given out on the
ninth ballot, but the desperate cour-
age of the Wood followers staved off
Harding’s victory until the tenth bal-
lot. It was a remarkable victory for
the Republican leadership in the Unit-
ed States Senate. The end was
brought about by the efforts mainly
of Senators New, Smoot, Lodge, Cur-
tis and others.
Outside of Hughes and Sproul, no
dark horses were seriously considered
by the Senate leadership, Sproul was
rejected because he had been put for-
ward too interjectably by W. W. At-
terbury, vice president of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. They knew that that
never would go in the west.
Hughes was rejected because it was
ascertained that Hiram Johnson
would never stand for Hughes’ nomi-
nation.
It all came back to Harding, The
central purposes of numerous confer-
ences all through Friday night was to
satisfy the leaders that every candi-
date would finally accept Harding
when he became convinced that his
own selection was impossible. That
understanding was thoroughly had
when the conference broke up at four
o’ clock Saturday morning.
It was then clearly a matter of tac-
tics. It was a matter of making sure
that no Harding manager made a
fateful blunder. The best tacticians
in the convention were running Har-
ding’s campaign. Against their com-
bined strategy and against the logic
of the situation even the political ge-
nius of Frank Hitchcock was helpless.
Therefore, no blunders were made.
Harding continued his pleasant and
plausible way.
Immediately after the confusion in-
cident to Harding’s nomination had
subsided the convention took up the
work of nominating a man for Vice
President and only one ballot was nec-
essary to effect a choice, Governor Cal-
vin Coolidge, of Massachusetts, being
i elected as Harding’s running mate.
Warren G. Harding has always been
a resident of Ohio, which State he has
represented as United States Senator
since 1914. In private business life he
is publisher of the Marion, Ohio, Star.
He was born on a farm, near the
village of Blooming Grove, Morrow
county, Ohio, November 2, 1865, the
eldest of eight children. His father,
George T. Harding, was a country
doctor whose forebears came from
Scotland. Before going to Ohio, the
Hardings were residents of Pennsyl-
vania, where some of them were mas-
sacred by Indians. Others fought in
the Revolutionary war. The mother
of Warren, Mrs. Phoebe Dickerson,
was descended from an old-time Hol-
land Dutch family, the Van Kirks.
In his youth Warren Harding lived
the life of a farmer boy, attending the
village school until 14 years of age,
when he entered Ohio Central College,
of Iberia, from which he was gradu-
ated. As editor of the college paper
he first displayed a talent for journal-
ism. He was obliged to stop school
now and then and earn the money
with which to pursue his college
course. At one time he cut corn, at
another painted barns and at still
another drove a team and helped to
grade the roadbed of a new railway.
At 17 he taught a district school and
played a horn in the village brass
band.
At odd times he worked in the vil-
lage printing office, in time becoming
an expert typesetter and later a lino-
type operator. He is a practical press-
man and job printer, and as a “make-
{up man” is said to have few equals.
The luck piece he has carried as a
| Senator is the old printer's rule he
used when he was sticking type.
In 1884 Dr. Harding moved his
family to Marion. A short time after-
ward the father purchased for Warren
Harding the Star, then a small paper.
On the paper Warren Harding per-
formed every function from devil to
managing editor. All the years the
Senator has owned it there has never
been a strike or a threatened one.
{ Senator Harding is closely identi-
| fied with many other large business
| enterprises in Marion and other parts
of tha State. He is director of a bank
and several large manufacturing
plants, and is a trustee of the Trinity
| Baptist church.
Mr. Harding has twice represented
the Thirteenth Senatorial district of
Ohio in the State Legislature, and
served one term as Lieutenant Gov-
ernor. At the 1914 election Harding
was elected United States Senator by
a majority of more than 100,000 run-
ning 73,000 ahead of the next highest
on the ticket. In the Senate he is a
member of the committee on Foreign
Relations. Senator Harding married
Miss Florence Kling in 1891.
Governor Coolidge is only
known to the public at large because
of the determined position he took in
connection with the policeman’s strike
in Boston less that a year ago.
|
i
Bank tellers for cashiers at the
circus July 8th, they won't short
change you.
“