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INK SLINGS.
. —It is a safe bet that Senator
Brandegee, of Connecticut, was not
‘among those who hoped for the rati-
fication of the Woman suffrage
amendment.
—It may be noticed that since the
campaign for delegates to the Na-
tional convention activity of officials
to enforce the Volstead law have vast-
ly increased in this State.
—Every day we are becoming more
and more convinced that the country
can’t go dry as long as those forty-
five million gallons of whiskey keep
leaking out of the bonded ware-hous-
es.
—Oh joy, Bellefonte has ninety-six
more inhabitants than Philipsburg
and fifteen hundred and ninety-one
more than State College, and still
retains “first place” among the me-
tropolises of Centre county.
—The oats is growing in the shock
and can’t get dry. A blight has fal-
len on the potatoes, tomatoes and
grapes and just when the cherries and
berries are all gone sugar drops to
seventeen cents. Now ain’t it just one
d——d thing after another.
—Philipsburg borough, Rush and
Snow Shoe townships show an aggre-
gate gain of 2126 in population in the
past decade. Pennsvalley, east of
Ferguson township, shows a loss of
1587. Ponder over these figures if
you are worried because there is only
one Democratic official in the county
court house.
—Reports are coming out of Day-
ton to the effect that the Cox cam-
paign is slow getting under way.
While we have a great respect for the
‘advantage of “getting the jump” on
the other fellow Senator Harding is
so slow that Governor Cox could “get
the jump” on him even if he didn’t
start campaigning until the night be-
fore the election.
—A young lady asked us the oth-
er day, when we expected to commence
harping about the number of days be-
tween now and Christmas. Really
we had missed that little trick, but
since our attention was called to it
we have gone to the trouble of figur-
ing out that there will be only one
hundred and twenty-six days until
Christmas and it is just a bit too soon
to commence Christmas shopping.
—If Governor Cox is to be elected
President, don’t let us hamstring him,
like President Wilson has been, by
electing a Republican Congress. A
Democratic President cannot get very
far if he is not supported by a Con-
gress that is in sympathy with his
ideas of government. The same, of
course, is true of a Republican Presi-
dent. If the program of Democracy
offers more that you approve of than
that of its opposition then vote so
at program can be carried into
imeled action.’ y 3
—Shrewd business men are daily
being converted to the idea that cour-
tesy counts for a lot in success. When
you want a thing done you are more
likely to get it if asked for in a cour-
teous manner, because courtesy in-
variably instantly gains the per-
sons good will. So firmly convinced
of this idea is business that the word
“please” in telegrams alone accounts
for one million dollars of the annual
tolls of telegraph companies of the
country. Good breeding and courtesy
travel, hand in hand, along the way
to happiness and success.
—How prophetic the Watchman is!
A week ago, in discussing the pos-
sible fall of Poland to Red Russia, it
showed the danger that might come
out of the collapse of the last barrier
of sanity between Bolshevism and
sullen, unrepentant Germany. If you
noticed the foreign news columns
Monday you saw Trotsky’s published
statement that once with Poland in
subjection he intends to join Germany
for the conquest of France, then Eng-
land and then—the United States.
We are not congratulating ourselves
that so far in advance we should have
called your attention to what is now
positively assured as the Red objec-
tive. We are calling you attention
again to a future that far-seeing men
and women view with alarm. The Red
advance must be halted and if a
League of Nations can do it we should
be in such a League. For while the
danger to us is possibly a little more
remote than it is to France and Eng-
land, it is just as great.
—The Anti-Saloon league fought
the proposal to have Congress buy all
the whiskey in the bonded ware-hous-
es of the country and Congress refus-
ed to appropriate the money neces-
sary to do it. Now that it is being
stolen and sold at extortionate prices
the Anti-saloon league is preparing
to ask the mext Congressto do just
what it opposed in the last session.
While this is merely an evidence that
hind sight is better than foresight we
are of the opinion that the problem
would be solved quicker and more ec-
onomically if Congress were to permit
the withdrawal of all liquor from bond
without the payment of tax. It
would be disposed of quickly, the price
would be four or five dollars a quart,
it would be swallowed up in a jiffy
and there would be no problem left for
solution. Many a man is taking food
from his family today by paying
twelve dollars a quart for the stuff,
but he will keep on doing it as long
as there is any to be had. Give it
to them. Give it to them at a price
that wont work a hardship on their
families. There isn’t enough of it
left to do any lasting harm and the
quicker what there is of it is gotten
rid of the better.
STATE
RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
NO. 33.
VOL G5.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 20, 1920.
Bump Coming to Harding.
If Senator Harding flatters him-
self that he has persuaded Senator
Johnson, of California, that he is op-
posed to the covenant of the League
of Nations, as Senator Johnson says
he has, and convinced former Presi-
dent Taft that he is in favor of the
covenant, as Mr. Taft says he has,
then Senator Harding is due for a
rude awakening and has a sad disap-
pointment coming to him. There are
abundant reasons for Senator John-
son’s belief. Senator Harding has
publicly declared that in the event of
his election he will promptly approve
a resolution for a separate peace with
Germany, the cowardly method of be-
trayal adopted by Russia. But he
hasn’t fooled Taft. Taft is only pre-
tending that he is deceived.
‘In fact Mr. Taft shows in the
statement that he believes Harding
that he doesn’t believe him. He says
that in the event of the election of
Cox the League would be defeated for
the reason that the Republican Sena-
tors would vote against ratification
and they are in the majority, and
therefore in supporting Harding he is
not impairing the chances of ratify-
ing the treaty. That he is aiding
and abetting what he admits wrong
appears to make no difference to him.
The moral obligation to oppose wrong
makes no appeal to his mind. He as-
sumes the mental attitude of the con-
tractor boss in a western city, who
always said to his lieutenants: “If
you can’t lick ’im, jine ’im.” It ex-
presses a low moral standard, but
probably Taft needs money and
the Republican committee has lots of
it.
There are thousands of Republicans
in the country, however, who believe
in the League of Nations and will
not be influenced by the considera-
tions which appear to have quieted
the Taft conscience. They have read
and appreciated the fcrceful argu-
ments in favor of ratification which
Taft presented before he was convert-
ed or debauched by the special
interests, and believe it a duty to sup-
port the right, whether
strong. Then there are other thou-
sands of Republicans, followers of the
late Mr. Roosevelt, but less credu-
lous than Senator Johnson, who will
adhere to the fair deal policy of their
late leader and insist on a clearer
statement of the case.
Professional politicians and peren-
nial office holders have loose habits of
thought. Former President Taft be-
gan holding office at an early period
of life and until he was well on in
years was never off the pay roll.
Senator Johnson has also acquired
the habit of depending upon a period-
ical pay envelope and the interpreta-
tion of a point on one side or the
other, if it happens to make a dif- |
ference in political prospects, is an:
easy matter.
is more circumspect in definitions and
finds it impossible to say that a spade
is anything else than a spade. This
vast army of straight-thinking voters
are apt to get confused in trying to
reconcile the interpretations of Taft
and Johnson.
Centre County’s Population.
In another column of today’s Watch-
man will be found a detailed state-
ment of the census of Centre county
for 1920, 1910 and 1900, and it is in-
teresting to compare the figures and
figure out the reason for the fluctua-
tion in population in the past twenty |
In Bellefonte the drop of 220 .
years.
in twenty years can easily be account-
ed for in the number of young people
who have left town in that time,
while the number of births is just
about keeping pace with the deaths.
The slight gain in Benner township
is accounted for by the residential em-
ployees at the western penitentiary.
In twenty years Boggs township
has lost 568, while Burnside township
has only a little over half as many as
it had a generation ago. Curtin
township shows a gain, due to the
brick works at Orviston, while down
in Gregg township, there is a loss of
six hundred. In fact take all of
Pennsvalley, not counting Ferguson
and College township, and there is a
falling off in twenty years of 1587,
which may account in a great meas-
ure for the falling off of the Demo-
cratic vote in that section of the
county.
The biggest gains in the county
were made in State College borough,
Philipsburg, Rush township, which al-
most doubled in population; and Snow
Shoe region. It is quite apparent,
however that the fluctuations were
from the farming sections into the
towns or localities where bigger mon-
ey was the attraction. Take all the
townships, for instance, where farm-
ing is the major means of livelihood,
and all show a loss in population,
while those places that have public
industries of any kind show an in-
crease.
—That Ohio constable now under-
stands that nothing can stop Gover-
nor Cox. Chairman Will Hays will
find it out later.
weak or
But the average citizen :
Who Will Give the Answer.
A correspondent of the New York |
| World declares “as outstanding and
significant facts,” that under a Demo-
cratic administration labor has receiv-
! ed the highest wages ever paid in the
| history of the world; agriculture has |
‘enjoyed the greatest prosperity in all |
‘time; manufacturers and business men |
‘have had an era of the greatest pros- |
| perity; the wealth of the nation has
increased by unnumbered billions and |
' we have ceased to be a debtor nation |
| and become the greatest creditor na-
‘tion in the world; this nation organiz-
led and armed itself and fought and
{ won the greatest war in history, and
i the financing of these gigantic under-
| takings was possible only by reason
| of such Democratic legislation as the
| income tax and the Federal Reserve
| act.
| These facts are undisputed and un-
! disputable. That being true, why
| Shou the great business interests,
| the vast corporations and the indus- |
i trial leaders of the country combine !
| to defeat the candidate of that party
| by fair or foul means? That being
| true, why should the wage earners of
| the country, the agriculturalists and
! the financiers join in the efforts of the
‘corporations and industrial captains
to accomplish such a result? “Under
‘the present Democratic administra-
| tion,” to quote the same writer, “our
"country has taken its place as the
leading nation of the world. Not only
has the greatest war in history been
fought to a successful conclusion but
“a treaty of peace has been negotiat-
ed that has been eagerly accepted by
! every civilized nation in the world.
It has always been the hope of the
people of this country that the United
! States would assume its rightful
place as the foremost civilized power,
as it has been and is the hope and
desire of every right-minded people
of every country to lead in righteous-
ness. But when a Democratic admin-
istration gave us the title so coveted
"a conspiracy was organized by Re-
| publican politicians to defeat it, and
they have succeeded in defeating it
for a time, at least. Instead of oc-
‘ cupying the head of the council table
in a League of Nations dedicated to
peace and prosperity they have kept
us out with Turkey, Russia and Mexi-
co as our companions
What malign purpose’is cuncealec
this action, in view of the facts stat-
ted? There ought to be an answer,
but who will give it?
—Senator Harding wants to make
the tariff the important issue of the
campaign. Well, that is better than
‘we expected. He might have chosen
"the slavery issue or the bloody shirt.
Be
Senator Penrose’s Health.
i We were overjoyed last week to
learn from the public prints that Sen-
ator Penrose was greatly improved in
health. The appearance of that big,
red automobile in Fairmount park
sent a thrill of pleasure throughout
the State, for everybody is glad to
hear of the alleviation of suffering of
everybody else, and Penrose is not
i such a bad fellow after all, though he
is a bitter partisan and a relentless
‘fighter in politics. But in view of
later developments we greatly fear
' that the hopeful reports concerning
' his health were premature. In other
words, we fear that his malady has
| taken another and more dangerous
| form.
Last week, just after the big, red
| automobile had passed like a streak
| of gladness through the park, Senator
| Penrose gave out an interview in
| which he described Governor Cox as a
i “third rate political candidate for the
| Presidency,” who is “growing weaker
| daily.” What incident in the cam-
| paign influenced him to this conclu-
i sion is wisely left to conjecture. But
we take it that it wasn’t anything that
Governor Cox has said, either in his
| speech of acceptance or any of the
| other speeches he has made since his
' nomination. Neither can it by any
: possibility be the result of a compari-
son of acceptance speeches of Cox and
Harding.
We are therefore forced to the con-
| vietion that while there may be im-
| provement in his kidneys or his legs
or his stomach or whatever other part
! of his anatomy has been afflicted,
| there has been no improvement in his
head. In 1912, during a mental ab-
eration of some sort, he figured out
to his own satisfaction that Woodrow
Wilson was a third or fourth or fifth
| rate candidate and that his personally
chosen candidate, Mr. Taft, would
have an overwhelming majority. He
made a similar estimate of conditions
in 1916, and in view of the votes of
those years the conclusion that he was
suffering in his head was inevitable.
— A A ————.
—Sir Thomas Lipton’s disappoint-
ment may have been lessened because
lifting the cup would have been an
“empty” honor this year.
——The women have gotten the
ballot, now what will they do with
“quid pro quo,” with as much added
crush the monster.
upon his services and exacted no prom- |
in isolation. |
ncealed in 7
hope of resolution
«ing would never have been heard of.
i?
Wicked Assault on Americanism.
We are always committing assault |
and battery, hari-kari or some other |
form of outrage upon some cherished
word in our vocabulary. At present |
the object of our dastardly assault!
is “Americanism.” Some years ago
the word “efficiency” was assailed
from a thousand angles and kicked
and cuffed until it almost became
odious. The leaders in these assaults
are usually bogus reformers coveting |
space in the lime-light and filling col- |
umns in the boiler plate sections of ;
the newspapers. But in the case in
point the principal offender is the Re-
publican candidate for President of
the United States. Senator Harding
prates of Americanism with a persis-
tency and lack of understanding that
is amazing.
The Senator’s interpretation of
Americanism is a spirit of selfishness
plus an indifference to justice and a
disregard for honor. He would settle
the war problems on a basis of bar-
ter with trade with the advantage in-
variably on our side, regardless of the
sacrifices and sufferings of others.
Pledges made and professions expres-
sed give him no concern. They are
scraps of paper or meaningless
sounds. What he demanded is the
in the shape of usury as the condi-
tions will allow. According to his
idea the American is a selfish and sor-
did animal with four feet, the front
ones invariably in the trough at meal
time. It is a sorry specimen of life.
The traditional American is a man-
ly man, earnest, sincere and ener-
getic, fair in mind, generous in spir-.
it and courageous in action. That is
the type of man celebrated in story
and embalmed in song as the true and
genuine American. That is the type
of man who sailed across the sea and
offered his life in support of his
ideals. A giant of autocracy menac-
ed the world and he took up arms to
He put no price
ise of reward. But Senator Hard- |
ing now sets up a caricature behind
the mask of Americanism and per-
verts the glorious achievement to a
selfish and sordid demand for nation-
al, if not personal, advantage. It is
a wicked betrayal of a high ideal.
Senator Kirby, of Arkansas, has |
also been “thrown into the discard.”
Thus Reed, of Missouri, Gore, of Ok-
lahoma, and Kirby have been justly
and properly punished for their per-
fidy. The other traitorous Democrat-
ic Senators will be disposed of in due
time.
Why the American Mind is Befogged.
Mr. P. B. Noyes, a widely and well-
known business man of New York,
who has just returned from Europe,
where he served as the American
delegate on the Inter-Allied Rhine-
land commission, states in a published
interview: “Germany has learned a
lesson she will never forget. But
the Allies must also learn the moral
of the war. And so must America.
The moral is simply this, that the
interests of the world are interdepend-
ent and that the destinies of the
world must be guided by common con-
sent. This moral is embodied in the
League of Nations. We have made
this big idea the foot ball of poli-
tics. I cannot see what has befogged
the American mind.”
If Mr. Noyes’ mind were as alert
on that point as he shows by his state-
ment it is on other questions pertain-
ing to the subject, he would have no
trouble in discerning “what has befog-
ged the American mind.” Selfish am-
bition and political prejudice have so
corrupted and corroded the mental
faculties of the Republican leaders
that they have deliberately sacrificed
every consideration of patriotism and
humanity to the base purpose of ac-
quiring control of the government. Mr.
Noyes continues: “What have we to
fear of the League? We have the
men, the resources, the money, the
prestige and the power. The League
can deprive us of nothing. It can
no more take away our liberties than
a child can rob his father of liberty.”
That is literally true and yet if the
covenant of the League of Nations
had been ratified in this country as
promptly as it was in England,
France and Italy it would have taken
away from the Republican leaders of
the United States the last vestige of
to power and
spoils. It would have prevented the
destructive wars in Poland, the dis-
order in central Europe and the in-
dustrial demoralization of the world.
The readjustment of industry and
commerce would have been completed
by this time and the political con-
spiracy of Lodge, Penrose and Hard-
That is why the American mind is be-
fogged and will continue so until the
conspiracy is suppressed.
—Probably Mr. Harding really
hopes to break the “Solid South,” and
possibly he only professes to hope se
to amuse his friends.
Roosevelt vs. Harding.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Senator Harding, who would sit in
the seat of Abraham Lincoln, assert-
ed in his speech of acceptance that
“much has been said of late about
world ideals, but I prefer to think of
the ideal of America.” In a porch
speech this week he objected to Amer-
ica’s consenting even to arbitrate
European differences because its
findings might not be liked by some
of our Americans of foreign blood.
“When nationality is surrendered to
internationality,” he said, “little else
matters.” If I could choose but one,
I had rather have industrial and so-
i cial peace at home than command the
international peace of all the world.”
Of course, he did not stop to con-
sider how little industrial and social
peace at home would be worth, how
long any peace at home would last,
with all the world in conflict. He
ignored the lesson of 1914. He forgot
that America would be no more im-
mune from another world war than it
was six years ago; than it was from
the plague of influenza which broke
out in Europe later.
The America of Senator Harding is
not the America of Abraham Lincoln.
It is not the America of another great
Republican in whose seat Senator
Harding would sit. On the 18th of
July, 1918, when American boys were
fighting and dying for “world ideals”
at Soissons, this man addressed a
convention of Senator Harding’s
party. “We must,” he said, “estab-
lish the great free commonwealths of
the Poles, the Czecho-Slovaks and the
Jugo-Slavs, and save the other sub-
merged peoples who are their neigh-
bors. Unless we do all this, unless
we stand by all our allies who have
stood by us, we shall have failed in
making the liberty of well-behaved
civilized people secure, and we shall
have shown that our announcement
about making the world safe for de-
mocracy was an empty boast.”
This was the voice, not of Wood-
row Wilson, the despised, but of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, the canonized, of Sen-
ator Harding’s party. >
Pacifism and Bolshevism.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Why are the pacifists the partners
of the bandits? During the war the
Socialists of Germany sank their
brotherhood in their patriotism but the
Socialists of all ofl 3 es san
their patriotism in brotherhood,
or, at least, in | eir g So
RE pur-
Ys St as SoCs
now is everywhere serving the pur-
poses of the most relentless, implac-
able and vindictive belligerents in the
world, the Russian Reds.
The religious body most identified
with pacifism has shown much more
sympathy with the Germans and the
Austrians than with their victims, and
makes little effort to conceal its sym-
pathies with the Bolshevists, who are
more bellicose than the Prussians
were six years ago. Labor organiza-
tions made no effort to teach pacifism
to the Bolshevists, but they are de-
termined that no assistance shall be
given to any of the victims of the
Bolshevists. The ultra democrats are
on the side of the most remorseless
tyranny since Nicholas I. Pacifism
appears to be as insensible to reason
as fanatacism is. The Russian Reds,
who professed to be pacifists, hated
the Entente Powers rather than Ger-
many, and hated the comparatively
peaceful United States most of all.
ere.
Porch-Front Shiftiness.
From the Springfield Republican.
The front-porch style of campaign-
ing is promoting a tendency that may
easily develop into an abuse. To il-
lustrate, Senator Harding refused to
comment on Governor Cox’s accept-
ance speech, preferring to reply later
on. But for the Monday morning
papers the “Harding headquarters”
prepared for publication an attack on
many of the Governor’s statements.
This was printed by the press Mon-
day morning. The objection to this
form of campaigning is the fact that
while such public statements emanate
from the candidate’s headquarters,
the candidate himself refuses to make
himself personally responsible for
them; indeed, they are fathered by no
one in particular, yet they come forth
with all the authority that “Harding
headquarters” can confer upon them.
The distinction between Senator Hard-
ing and “Harding headquarters”
which this system of publicity estab-
lishes ought to be repudiated by the
candidate insofar as it tends to re-
lieve him personal responsibility.
Charleston’s Pro-German Editor.
From the Charlotte Observer.
Just how far a pro-German editor
will go in carrying his propaganda is
manifested by The Charleston Ameri-
can, which argues that Harding the
league repudiator, “is for the policy
of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and
Monroe, and in fact, until Wilson, all
our American political saints and
sages.” Is not that a refreshing
statement to be heard in this enlight-
ened age of Americanism? But it
is the doctrine the enemies of Ameri-
can Government are preaching, and in
rebuke of which the people are going
to keep Mr. Harding safely in the
background. :
—Mr. Bryan still hesitates about
announcing his political course for
the immediate future, and the Boy
Orator probably knows that “he who
hesitates is lost.”
. A
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Nine cases of smallpox have been dis-
covered at Shiloh, Bradford township,
Clearfield county. Two children visitors
from the State of Indiana took the disease
to the home of Lemuel Mainis. There are,
nine smallpox patients in that house.
—Joseph W. Moyer, and Ww. W. Fausett,
two of the leading lawyers of the Schuyl~
kill county bar, have gone to Wheaton, IIL,
to put in a claim on behalf of several Schuyl-
kill county residents for the $2,000,000
estate of John P. Cowan, president of one
of the numerous branches of the Standard
Oil company.
—Mrs. Mary E. Kalbfus has filed a dam=
age suit in court against the Pennsylvania
Railroad company. Her claims are based
on the automobile grade crossing accident
last August at Rarley’s road, near DuBois,
Clearfield county, in which her husband,
Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, former secretary of
the State Game Commission was killed.
—Unable to resign as postmaster of
Yeadon borough, Delaware county, a posi-
tion he has filled forty years, although
he has asked the postal authorities to
consider his resignation several times, Wil-
liam B. Evans, one of the pioneer resi-
dents of that section, has just received
notice that the office will be abandoned
and he thus relieved of his job.
—Millions of dead fish have been float-
ing in the West branch of the Susque-
hanna river the past week, having been
killed by pollution having its source at
some point west of Williamsport. This
is the ninth year the West branch has
been polluted in the same way. Each
year the authorities at Harrisburg have
promised to take action, but the practice
has not yet been stopped.
—With current debts paid, Northumber-
land county’s treasury is bulging with
cash, the balance Tuesday being $112,435.36,
according to the report of Charles Philips
treasurer. Prohibition is “blamed” for
much of this large balance. The jail
population has been reduced to fifteem
prisoners and court costs are down to a
minimum, criminal terms now lasting but
two days instead of as many weeks in
years past.
—OQOscar Hensinger, a farmer of Lyom
valley, Lehigh county, lost a herd of
twelve registered cattle last week through
poisoning. Some of Hensinger’s fields had
been overgrown with thistles, and upon
the advice of an expert he sprayed the in-
fected sections with a chemical! poison to
kill the weeds. The next day the cattle
were turned into the field and before many
hours all were dead. Hensinger’s loss is
over five thousand dollars.
—The Lehigh Valley Railroad Co. has
hit upon a new plan for the handling of
the illegal train riders and improvement
of the labor situation. When Richard
Young, of Olyphant, was arraigned before
Justice Bonfoey, at Sayre, the railroad rep-
presentative agreed to his release if he
would promise to work for the company.
He explained that the company was un-
able to get sufficient workers. Young
quickly consented. He was discharged
and in a few minutes was on the Lehigh’s
payroll.
—The first death of the season from heat
prostration at Lewistown, was recorded
Saturday night when Allen Weimer, 32
years old, was found dead in his auto-
mobile by employees of the Standard Steel
works returning from work. Mr. Weimer
k | was an electrician and fellow workmen
say he was seriously affected by the heat
of the day. In the evening he found it too
excessive and in an effort to get away
~ffom it took an automobile ride to Paint- -
ersville.
—On a trip of inspection through Rose
valley last Thursday, S. J. Yerger, Lycom-
ing county officer for the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, discov-
ered a cow wearing a wooden leg. The
animal broke its leg last December. After
the lower portion of the leg dried and
hung merely by the skin cevering it, the
owner of the cow whittled a crude leg out
of a block and fastened it to the stump
with a leather holster. In tais manner
the animal was hobbling about the pas-
ture. The cow’s owner was arrested.
—The little mining town of Eriton, near
DuBois, has been the scene of a num-
ber of robberies recently that are be-
ing investigated by members of the state
police, Lewis Goldberg being detailed upon
the cases. The store of J. H. Steele &
Co. has been entered on a number of
different occasions. It is said that $1000
worth of silks and many other lines of
merchandise have been stolen from the
store, entrance being gained through a
window. Besides the store there were a
number of residences entered, where cask
to the amount of $100 and several hundred
dollars worth of jewelry were taken.
—Katie Agnonin, of Scranton, is prepar-
ed to rest on her laurels after making a
pair of overalls for a negro who measures
nine feet and two inches in height and
weighs 540 pounds. The giant lives in
Jackson, Tennessee, and the order for
overalls was sent to the American Overall
company of Scranton, where Miss Agnonin
works. Twenty-five yards of material
were used. The length of the suit from
the suspender buckle to the bottom is ten
feet, Bach pocket is big enough to hold a
bushel of potatoes; a man of average size
could curl up in one of the legs and
snooze. The girth of the trousers is 106
inches. '
—(George Torrence, 21 years old, of
Clearfield, a line foreman for the Penn
Public Service company, was killed in
stantly at Curwensville last Friday after-
noon, while stringing a private telephone
wire for the company. The wire came in
contact with an electric light wiré, and
the fluid shot through Torrence’s body.
His safety belt prevented him from fall-
ing from the pole. The unfortunate young
man was a graduate of the Clearfield high
school and a volunteer soldier in the great
world war, serving with the Twenty-
eighth division overseas. Two men who
were with him were shocked by the con-
tact but escaped serious injury.
—A man who gave his name as Joseph
Doran and his residence as Madera, Clear-
field county, was taken to Clearfield jail
Saturday, charged with horse-stealing. A
horse was stolen from the barn of Adam
Ernest, of Osceola Mills. Ernest located
his horse at New Millport. It had changed
hands three times since it left his barm.
Charles McGee, of McGee's Mills, called
Sheriff Anthony Gorman, of Clearfield, and
notified him that he had a horse thief
in his possession, asking what to do with
him. McGee started to search for a horse
that had been taken from his barn amd
found the animal in the woods near
Cherrytree and the mar asleep alongside.
The fellow gave his name as Joseph Doran
and confessed to stealing the horse. Doran
said he had recently deserted from Batteey
A, Camp Buséis, Va.