Bowral Wald
INK SLINGS.
‘Chautauqua holds the center of
the stage in Bellefonte this week and
our intellectual side is being well fed
up.
—Harding hoped that President
Wilson and Governor Cox would throw
chairs at each other, and the disap-
pointment of the hope has made Hard-
ing silly.
—_The suicide habit struck the
wrong end of the Hohenzollern fam-
STATE RIGHTS AN
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VOL. 65.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 23, 1920.
NO. 29.
ily first. The head instead of the
tail of the dynasty ought to have
“shuffled off” by that route.
Governor Cox promises that he
. will appoint a real farmer as Secretary
of Agriculture after his election,
which justifies the hope that he may
appoint a real lawyer as Attorney
General.
—Anyway if Sir Thomas and his
Shamrock IV should lift the cup we
will all see it depart from our shores
with less of regret because of the
sterling sportsmanship of the Irish
baronet.
—_The President and the next Presi-
dent had a very pleasant conference
on Sunday morning and, we presume,
Governor Cox took a few side glances
to see what his next home looks like.
He isn’t human if he didn’t.
— The recently published Col. House
letters reveal what adds all the more
to. the moral greatness of the Allied
cause in the war. They prove beyond
peradventure that the armistice was
agreed to for no other purpose than
—A half-a-loaf is better than no
bread at all so that we should all be
correspondingly happy over the an-
nouncement that Council has decided
to cut five mills from the street tax.
Possibly the borough solons found the
public gagging at the allopathic doses
of additional taxes prescribed for it
Harding a Cheap Demagogue.
Senator Harding reveals the mental
agility of a rabbit in his statement on
Sunday concerning the conference be-
tween President Wilson and his suec-
cessor in office, Governor Cox, of Ohio.
He said: “The President and the
are in conference today, and at the
conclusion it will inevitably be an-
nounced that they found themselves in
complete accord, that harmony reigns
and that unity is established in the
Democratic party.” Then he adds:
“There is just one way that one can
establish accord between himself and
the President—and that is by yielding
his own opinion at every point to that
of the President.” If he had consult-
ed his conscience that statement would
not have been written.
Obviously Senator Harding has
adopted the view of Senator Lodge
that a political victory may be won by
traducing the President of the United
States. In his opening speech at the
Chicago convention, Lodge followed
this line of thought from start to
finish and the platform of the party,
inspired by the Lodge malice, pursued
it with equal fidelity. But expecta-
tions are not likely to be fulfilled. No
man ever made an impression on ra-
tional minds by false representation
and in the face of the public records
lately. hori £ 1if of the past four years the statement,
to save barihoy 3s of Jive Ong on even inferentially, that President Wil-
soldiers. hen many civilians |, is obdurate or excessively opin-
thought that the Germans should have
been crushed by force uf arms it is
fine to know that the great military
chieftains at the front were not think-
ing of the glories to be won for them-
selves. They were thinking of the
dead heroes who would be lying in
the fields over which they would have
to fight for the crushing defeat that
the stay-at-homes thought the Ger-
mans should be given.
_The effort of the Anti-Saloon
League to force Mr. Cox to declare
himself on the Prohibition question
proves beyond question that the Anti-
Saloon League is merely an adjunct of
the Republican machine. For if it is
pertinent to the forth coming presi-
‘dential contest that Mr. Cox declare
himself why should not Mr. Harding
be called upon to do ‘the same thing?
Prohibition is not and cannot possibly |
: L e election of any 1 Ie Si
ionated is false and malignant. With
made all reasonable concessions to the
advocates of war.
Upon his return from France with
the tentative draft of the treaty Presi-
dent Wilson called leaders of both
parties together and asked for sug-
gestions. Lodge and others attended
the conference, raised objections to
certain features of the document and
suggested changes. Thereupon the
President went back to France and
had such alterations made as were
suggested. Before the amended
treaty could be laid before Congress,
however, Lodge called a caucus of
Republican Senators and procured
from them a pledge that ratification
be withheld unless reservations which
ent were accept-
Be hee House S13 JON |orvent Ly
Senate are the only agencies through | negotiated by a Democratic President.
which a change might be made in the | Still President Wilson made no sign
Volstead act and all a President could | of obduracy. He protested with the
do, in any eventuality, might be |earnestness of an outraged heart
through the exertion of problematic
influence over either body.
— Nobody has taken the platform
adopted by the Republicans at Chicago
seriously for the reason that it was
principally subterfuge and avasion. A
nice milk and water pronouncement of
everything in general and nothing in
particular. It is ‘therefore not sur-
prising that the Republican National
Committee has seen fit to drop one of
the adopted planks from the copy of
the platform published for campaign
purposes. It is the plank bearing on
the enforcement of law and order and
just what the motive has been in sup-
pressing it is beyond our ken unless
they are so hard pressed already that
they are making a bid for Bosheviki
votes by disclaiming any intention of
enforcing the laws of the land if they
get in power again.
_In discussing notable changes of
popular opinion with a friend a few
evenings ago the writer brought up
the instance of the defeat of the fifty
million dollar road bond issue in this
county in 1913. Many of you will re-
call that the Watchman was the only
paper in the county that supported
amendment No. 1, in that contest.
The late P. Gray Meek was a pioneer
in advocacy of good roads and we
recall many a heated discussion in
this office during his attempts to show
certain gentlemen we might now
name the folly of their opposition to
the measure before the public for ap-
proval or disapproval. It was defeat-
ed by a majority of over 800 in the
county. Time rolled on, the Nittany
Valley highway was completed,
automobiles became more common
on the roads than horses and the
farmers of the county saw a great
light with the result that the next
time the amendment came up it was
carried with a majority of 659. The
change was brought about not so much
by education as by self interest. The
farmer had discovered that the auto-
mobile was just as possible to him as
it was to what he called “the city
gport” in 1913 and’ when he got his
new car he got a new vision of the
road question as well. Then my com-
panion gave the whole question a new
and very interesting slant by raising
the point of the actual economic loss
to the State of the failure to ratify the
Amendment in 1913. Have you
thought of that? Have you thought
that if the bill had gone through when
first proposed probably three times as
much road could have been built with
the fifty million dollars as is being
built now; for the labor and materials
were at least sixty-six per cent lower
than they have been during the past
year or are likely to be for several
years to come.
authorized agents of the government
but expressed a willingness to accept
reservations if they would not nulli-
fy the treaty. But the bitter enders
of the Lodge type for whom Senator
Harding offers to serve as a “rubber
stamp” refused to accept the treaty
with their own reservations and the
purpose for which the war was fought
failed because of the malignancy of
the bitter enders rather than on ac-
count of the stubbornness of the Presi-
dent. The records clearly establish
these facts and Senator Harding
writes himself down a cheap dema-
gogue.
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__A fashion bulletin says women’s
shoes are to be higher and prettier
next fall.
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Right Thing, Time and Way.
The generous tribute paid by the
Democratic National convention upon
assembling in San Francisco, to Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson, was a just re-
ward, from high authority, for faith-
ful and distinguished service to the
people of the United States. He has
literally adorned the high office to
which he was called seven years ago
and he has “initiated and secured the
adoption of great progressive measures
of immeasureable value and benefit
to the people of the United States,”
and the representatives of the people
tion of his beneficent work.
While suffering severely from infirmi-
ties of the body, the result of overtax-
ed energy in the service of the people,
Woodrow Wilson has been a target
of poisoned tongues and malignant
minds. But he has borne all with
sublime courage and without com-
plaint. And every just man and wom-
and will share with the delegates in
the San Francisco convention in re-
joicing in the recovery of his health
and strength that he may continue
to administer the government until
the expiration of his term of office.
The mantle of Jefferson and Jack-
son has rested fittingly upon the
shoulders of Woodrow Wilson. He
has preserved in full measure the
traditions of their party and his in
wisdom and patriotism and the words
of praise and approbation uttered
within the hall of the convention car-
ried into the White House in Washing-
ton such comfort that the scorpion-
tongued partisans of the Senate will
never be able to tarnish. It was pre-
cisely the right thing for the conven-
tion to do and was done in exactly the
right way.
Democratic nominee for his successor
respect to the peace treaty he has
plan to
, Bryan :
against the sacrifice of the honor of |
the country by the violation of solemn
pledges made in good faith by duly’
On the leg or in the price? |
have fitly expressed their apprecia- |
Running Along Wrong Lines.
So far as reconciling differences is |
President Wilson and his successor in
| office, Governor Cox, of Ohio, was
| without significance. There were no |
'ciled. Governor Cox had always been
a cordial supporter of the President’s
‘policies and the party platform adopt-
ed unanimously by the San Fran-
cisco convention expresses the hopes,
_wishes and aspirations of both of
‘them. It was purely a matter of felic-
'itation. The President sought the
| earliest opportunity to felicitate his
| successor in office on the great honor
“which has been bestowed upon him |
{by the party they both love.
| It had been maliciously asserted on
| one hand that the President had co-
!erced the convention to nominate Gov-
! ernor Cox as his successor and on the
‘other hand that the President had
been rebuked by the convention
through the nomination of a man not
in sympathy with his policies. In the
conference at Washington on Sunday
|the lie direct was fastened indelibly
lon both these malicious stories. The
| President had taken no part in the
I selection of a candidate to succeed him
and there was and is no differences
between them as to policies foreign
~or domestic. They are both one hun-
‘dred per cent Americans and equally
good Democrats. The administration
will pass from one to the other with-
‘out a hitch.
But the Republicans are welcome to
their harmless delusion that there are
‘vital differences between leading
Democrats concerning policies and
‘men. It does the Democrats no harm
and can do the Republicans no possible
'good. But Republicans have nothing
‘else to talk about. Malignant abuse
of the President gets them no where
and the absurd attitudinizing of their
| “rubber stamp” candidate for Presi-
'dent is of no more advantage. So
‘let them go on with their foolish talk
I
about differences of opinion among |
| Democratic leaders. As the campaign
progresses they will find a solidarity
in the ranks of the Democratic party
that will spell victory in half a dozen
languages.
—Jt is
said that the
lly Sunday for
This looks as if the Anti-Saloon
League is overlooking a good bet. Her-
bers Hoover wanis a job.
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Prohibitionists
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"The Paramount Issue.
The logic of events, the recent at-
‘titude of the Republican leaders and
'the language of the Democratic Na-
‘tional platform combine to make the
| League of Nations the paramount
issue of the impending Presidential
| campaign. The United States enter-
‘ed the war for the clearly expressed
| purpose of making the world a safer
‘and better place to live in. Four
million of our young men en-
listed in the army and one hundred
' thousand of them sacrificed their lives
'to accomplish this beneficent result.
i In pursuance of this purpose the lead-
ing statesmen of the world prepared
a plan to guarantee permanent peace
‘as the certain means of compassing
‘it. This plan was expressed in the
‘covenant of the League of Nations.
The Republican leaders subsequent-
|ly entered into a conspiracy to defeat
| this purpose. They may have been
tinfluenced to this criminal action by
any one of several reasons. It is
| commonly believed that the moving
| cause was enmity against President
| Wilson, who was largely .instrumen-
|tal in framing the covenant. Others
| believe and there are reasons for the
| conjecture that the munition makers
land manufacturers and dealers in
| war materials are not willing to shut
| off their profitable operations and are
|using the Republican party to keep
|the avenues to war and pillage and
| profits open and ready for occupancy.
{In either event, the issue was made
land the settlement of it is inevitable.
| Upon such an issue there can be
'no doubt of the sympathies of the
‘people. The fathers and mothers of
the country who have suffered the su-
'preme bereavement during the late
war will be a unit in the desire to
| abolish war and banish for all time
{the horrors that attend war. But if
|the enmity against President Wilson
| were made the predominant question
of the campaign the Democrats would
be equally certain of victory. Pres-
ident Wilson has done nothing during
his tenure in the White House to
justify the hatred which has been or-
ganized by the Republican Senators,
and we firmly believe that upon such
an issue the President would be sus-
tained by an overwhelming majority.
—7it would seer that the arm of the
law which forbids restraint in trade
ought to reach out and take the Presi-
dent of the American Woolen com-
pany by the throat.
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—-Probably the Anti-Saloon League
has put one over on St. Swithin. In
any event the weather has gone dry
when it ought to be wet.
concerned the conference between ies,
' contemporaries
resident. jer
Prohibition and Prosperity.
Some of our esteemed contemporar-
by the facts,
seems to them a sign of national de-
cadence because the percentage of
| differences between them to be recon- | increase in the population of the
country during the decade just ended
is not up to their expectations. The
rate of increase during the decade
ending in 1910 was twenty-one per
cent. and that for 1920 only fourteen
per cent. Therefore there must be
something wrong with the people or
‘with the figures and
they imagine the country is on the
toboggan, headed for the “demnition
in either event
bow-wows.” We hope our esteemed
will compose their
perturbed spirits and find comfort in
the fact that there is nothing the
matter with the country, the figures
or the future.
The greatest gain in population by
percentage in the history of the
country was in the decade between
1900 and 1910. During that period
the country flourished like the pro-
verbial “green bay tree.” The marvel-
ous success of our little incursion into
the affairs of Spain in 1898 had vastly
stimulated immigration and hundreds
of thousands of foreigners came from
all parts of Europe and as many from
Asia and Africa as could get in. We
were, during that period, absolutely
free from pestilence and famine. The
country was prosperous, the people
contented, industry thrived, commerce
expanded and population increased
naturally. Everybody was getting ev-
erything he wanted. If the popula-
tion had not increased under such cir-
cumstances there would have been
ample cause for alarm.
An examination of the records
shows that during the decade from
1860 to 1870 there was a slump in the
ratio of increase in population and for
precisely the same reason that caused
the decrease during the last decade.
The Civil war not only put a stop
to immigration, practically, for a per-
iod of four years, but the casualties
of battle and the pestilence of camps
contributed materially to the diminish-
ing process, while the forced removal
of millions of men from peaceful
pursuits diminished the birth rate and
to 1918, census returns show
national vitality rather than decad-
ence.
—Speaking of Presidents, one
might justly indulge the suspicion
that President DeValera,
the Irish Republic is neglecting his
duties for a rather prolonged pediod
of time.
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Campaign Auspiciously Opened.
Governor Cox sounded a true note
in his address to the members of the
Columbus, on Tuesday, when he said
L“T will carry the cause to the people.
We are not ashamed of the doctrines
we proclaim. I assure them that, as
God gives me strength, I will justi-
fy the confidence that has been re-
posed in me.” Special interests are
organizing a vast corruption fund to
buy the election as the majority in
the Senate was bought through the
election of Senator Newberry, of
Michigan. But this fact doesn’t
frighten Governor Cox. “We enter
the campaign,” he said, “Not hopeful-
ly but in absolute confidence of victo-
ry because we deserve to win.”
It may now be said that the first
step in the campaign has been taken.
At the meeting of the committee in
Columbus, George H. White, of Ohio,
was chosen as chairman. He is a man
of fine ability and wide experience. He
has served three terms in Congress
with great distinction and is a man of
business. He was active in the cam-
paign for the nomination of Governor
Cox and an intimate friend of Presi-
dent Wilson, having graduated from
Princeton while President Wilson was
at the head of that great seat of
learning. While not the personal
choice of Governor Cox it was the
concensus of opinion in the commit-
tee that he was eminently fit for the
work in which view Mr. Cox con-
curred.
The plan of campaign as outlined by
the candidate will be equally accept-
“The platform of the Democratic
party is a promissory note,” he said,
“and I shall see that it is paid in
full—every dollar and every cent.”
That is the talk that appeals to the
heart and inspires the confidence of
the people. The colossal corruption
fund of the corporations and special
interests will make no progress in
the face of such a purpose So exXpress-
ed and the Democracy, in entering
into the fight, shares in full measure
the confidence of victory, which the
candidate has so eloquently declared.
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learn in time that a cheerful
signer looks better than one whe has
to be coerced.
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Business Transacted by
Borough Council.
with a solemnity hardly justified | Seven members were present at the
are lamenting what | regular meeting of borough council on
Monday evening. A written communi-
cation was received from the Busi-
ness Men’s Association setting forth
the fact that many visitors in Belle-
fonte, especially strangers, have diffi-
culty in locating the various steets in
Bellefonte, especially the prominent
streets in the business section of the
town, and requesting council to erect
suitable signs at every entrance to
town and on street corners, giving the
names of the streets; the association
offering to co-operate with council in
every way possible. No action was
taken in the matter.
A communication was received from
the Brooks-Doll Post of the American
Legion asking permission of council
to locate the German gun donated to
Bellefonte in front of the armory as
an inducement to stimulate enlist-
ments in Troop L. Council granted
permission so far as that body has
any rights in the matter of locating
the gun.
The Street committee presented the
report of the borough manager which
included the collection of $49.50 for
work done for private individuals.
The Water committee’s report
showed $28.00 collected by the bor-
ough manager for work done and $5
on the 1918 water duplicate.
The Finance committee asked for
the renewal of notes as follows: $1,-
500, $2,000, $2,500, $3,000, $500, and
that a note at the Bellefonte Trust
company for $1,400 be increased to
$3,400 to meet current bills, all of
which were authorized.
The Finance committee further rec-
ommended that the millage for street
purposes for the year 1920 which had |
been fixed at 15 mills at a previous
meeting be reduced to 10 mills, and
council so voted.
Mr. Harris, of the Street committee,
called attention to the fact that Thom-
as Beaver has a very durable and
really beautiful granite watering
trough which he is willing to donate
to the borough if council will accept
and place it, and he suggested put-
ting it on the edge of the pavement
in the Diamond in front oh ihe Cur
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‘would also be very convehient ‘i
automobilists to replenish the supply
of water in their radiators. He also
suggested that the trough be further
equipped with one or two sanitary
drinking fountains. The matter was
held under advisement until the next
of meeting of council.
Mr. Harris also called attention of
council to the fact that contractor
Murphy will this week begin pouring
concrete on the Bishop street section
of the State highway, and consider-
ing the probability that at some time
or other council may want to adopt
the parkway lighting system along
that section of road, he suggested
Democratic National Committee at het one. heh pipes be laid down
across the street at the proper distance
apart through which to string the
wires if the system is ever adopted.
The borough has plenty of old pipe on
hand and the only cost will be the
laying of the pipe on top of the
ground before the concrete is poured.
Council authorized the laying of the
pipe.
Secretary Kelly presented the revis-
ed list of amounts of money due from
contiguous property owners on ac-
count of the State highway on south
Water and Willowbank streets, a total
of $4,072.65, and council authorized
the sending of bills to the various
property holders with a request for
prompt payment.
Borough manager J. D. Seibert call-
ed attention to the fact that the pres-
ent plans for the new State highway
provide for a wall along the proper-
ties of George Sunday and the Prun-
er orphanage, but both Mr. Sunday
and the managers of the orphanage
protest against the same. He also
stated that the plans for sewer drain-
age on Pine street were not what they
should be and both matters were re-
ferred to the Street committee and
borough manager with power to work
out more satisfactory plans with the
highway officials.
Bills to the amount of $7,008.11,
which included almost five thousand
dollars on account of State road work,
were approved for payment after
able to the Democrats of the country. | Which council adjourned.
— A DeHaviland plane of the TU.
S. army aerial service, manned by
Capt. Johnson and Lieut. Bagley and
equipped with three machine guns vis-
ited Bellefonte yesterday. The offi-
cers were on their way from Bowl-
ing field, Washington, D. C., to Camp
Perry, Ohio, and stopped at the
Bellefonte aviation field for oil and
gas, while the men remained here for
dinner. The plane left Washington at
nine o'clock and reached Bellefonte at
11:15. They left for Camp Perry
early in the afternoon.
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— There are many good county
papers, but the real good one is the
' “Watchman.”
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Mr. and Mrs. Romanzo D. Guild, of
Titusville, have celebrated the seventy-first
anniversary of their marriage. Mr. Guild
is 96 years of age, and Mrs. Guild is 93.
— William 8. Rollinger, who for 23 years
has been employed in the maintenance of
way department of the Pennsylvania Rail
road at Tyrone, has been promoted to
division accountant of the Tyrone di-
vision.
William J. Roberts, 62 years old, of
Lewistown, was instantly killed on Sat-
urday when a large rock, loosened by &
blast in the stone quarries of the Lewis-
town and Reedsville electric railway, roll=
ed down the mountain side, crushing his
skull.
— Mrs. Emma Grimes, 67, of Jeannette,
Pa., was found dead on Saturday in the
highway beside the carriage in which she
had been riding, near the home of her sis~
ter, Mrs. Anna Shaffer, of Hays Grove,
near Chambersburg. Mrs. Grimes was
delivering milk when seized with apoplexy.
— While on the running board of a
trolley car going over a high trestle near
Mount Carmel last Wednesday night, Law-
rence Laughlin’s head struck a guy wire.
He fell fifty feet to soft, wet coal dirt be-
low, which broke his fall. His only in-
juries were the loss of a tooth. When
landing, a knee flew up and struck him
on the mouth. He got aboard the car
again and continued to Maizeville to a
dance.
Motorists in Williamsport have a cost-
ly habit of breaking gates at railroad
grade crossings. In the last year the
Pennsylvania Company alone has collected
$190 damages from offenders, but that sum
was not sufficient to repair all the gates
broken or damaged. The company spent
nearly $500 more to make the necessary
repairs. In that city and immediate vi-
cinity, a gate was broken on an average of
once a week during the year.
—Charles Maynard, 15, of Williamsport,
was the perpetrator of a unique robbery
when he hid under a seat in a moving-
picture house while attaches were sweeping
the theatre and locking the doors and
then with a hatchet broke open all of
the candy boxes attached to the rear of
the seats. He collected a large sum of
money, his expenditure of which attracted
the attention of the police and led to his
arrest. He confessed to the crime.
_ Tired of working in a flower mill at
NewPort, Clarence Foltz, 22, entered the
residence of a Pennsylvania Railroad em-
ploye, east of that town while the family
was absent, appropriated $500 worth eof
Liberty bonds and $150 in cash and start-
ed for Chicago on a passing freight train.
When the train reached Huntingdon
Policeman Ernest invited Foltz to stop
over and be searched. All the bonds and
most of the money were found on his
person.
— Risking his own life, Harvey S. Binder,
brakeman on the Reading railway saved
the life of 9-year-old Joseph Hartline, of
Boyertown, on Sunday. The boy was
walking on the track, and Binder’s freight
locomotive, running backward, almost ran
him down. Binder, riding on the end of
the tender, swung out and with one arm
threw him off the track. The boy was al-
most paralyzed by fear, but was unhurt.
His weight almost pulled Binder under
the wheels.
—During a baseball game at Duncans-
ville a few weeks ago, a swarm of bees
came over the hill and settled on a bush
[near the diamond. Some boys procured a
p Sopa £0 ls pit po onto gab NSS Be
T'{it under the bees. A twist of the bush
and into the keg went the bees. The im-
provised scap was turned up on some stone
and the new inhabitants immediately went
to work. Samuel Keller carried the new
hive home and the bees are now filling
it with honey.
—An automobile from Scranton buzzed
along past Jacobs, near Susquehanna on
Friday. Suddenly six armed bandits held
up the car. “Where's the booze?” queried
one thug whiffing the air. A search of
machine, occupants, gas tank and what not
failed to reveal any concealed liquor.
Then one crook bégan tapping the tires.
He unscrewed a cap on an inflating stem
and then cut loose with a yell of joy.
The inner tubes were all filled with rum
instead of air.
— Six men made six trips into the pack-
ing house of Armour & Co., of Chester on
Saturday. A watchman saw the thieves
going in and out, but hesitated about
calling the police fearing he might make
a mistake: At the end of the sixth trip
he took a chance and a detail of police
found that 800 pounds of “best creamery
butter” had been stolen. The watchman
says the men took their time and did
not fear detection. Two hundred pounds
of butter were found along the railroad,
dropped when they found they were dis-
covered.
—One of the biggest coal land deals put
through in the Clearfield region in 2 num-
ber of years, has just been consummated,
whereby John IE. Laing, of DuBois, has
taken over the Craig estate, near Winter-
burn, north of the Buffalo & Susquehanna
railroad. The tract includes 1,000 acres,
under which are three veins of coal, one
of which is 3 1-2 feet thick. Mr. Laing
will drive a drift at once, erect a tipple,
construct a switch to the B. & 8. railroad
and will completely equip the mine. It
is planned to ship 1,000 tons of coal a day
within a year, and a new town will spring
up near the mine.
_ Last week was one of misfortune for
Willinm Fryer, of near Kimberton, Ches-
ter county. On Monday, while harvesting
hay, one of his horses was stung by an
insect, and is still in a serious condition.
Mr. Fryer then fell from the floor of a
straw mow, and was badly cut and bruis-
ed. During the afternoon, Mrs. Fryer fell
from a cherry tree and was injured severe-
ly. All moved along quietly on the farm
until Saturday. In the morning a cow
gave birth to twin calves, but all three
animals died later. During the night. an-
other of his horses became entangled in a
strap of a halter, fell and broke its neck.
__A suit was entered Wednesday at Sun-
bury by Harry DM. Dentler, of Milton,
against Walker D. Hines, who was Direct-
or General of Railroads in 1918, claiming
damages to the amount of $30,850 as a
result of a grade crossing accident there.
The plaintiff asks $30,000 for personal in-
juries and $850 for his Dodge automobile,
which was demolished in the accident. The
accident in question occurred on August
1, 1918, when a freight train struck the
automobile at the Center street crossing.
As a result of the accident Mr. Dentler
claims he was permanently injured. He de-
clares the Railroad Administration was
operating the train at too fast a speed,
and that the crew was negligent in that
it did not sound its whistle for the cross-
ing.