INK SLINGS.
—Senator Newberry also professed
a willingness to be investigated.
—All isn’t gold that glitters. The
Poles will have to feed those captured
Russian Reds from storehouses that
are so lean that they are scarcely
keeping Poland from starvation.
—Most of the oats, such as it is
in Centre county, is in the barns at
last and the cows and pigs will prob-
ably turn up their noses at it when
it is threshed and thrown to them.
— Inasmuch as too few people are’
pilgrimaging to Marion, Ohio, to bar-
ter their votes on the Harding front
porch the “rubber stamp” candidate
will soon be rolling his bar’l over the
country trying to buy them in the
open market.
—Senator Harding has stated that
he and the Senate foreign relations
committee, of which he is a member,
really know nothing about foreign af-
fairs. His speeches thus far indicate
that he is equally obtuse as to his do-
mestic affairs.
—There can be only one reason
why the Republican national commit-
tee declines to accept Mr. Cox’s pro-
posal to make public all campaign
contributions. It is afraid to show
where the millions that are to buy
votes for Harding are coming from.
—Instead of halting them at their
reconstructed frontiers the Allies
should sic the Poles on until they have
run the Bolshevik clear off the map.
Some one will have to do it sooner
or later and since the Poles have such
a good start why not let them do the
job.
—The Norristown Times, a Repub- |
lican paper once owned by Adj. Gen.
Thomas J. Stewart and Charles John-
son, treasurer of the Republican State
committee, has come out flat-footed
for Cox and Roosevelt. Concluding a
two column editorial on its new vis-
ion, it says: “It is from the whitest
of motives and because of the dearest
of solicitude for the sancity of Ameri-
can institutions and the interests of
all humanity that The Times, normal-
ly Republican, scorns the ticket of
“turn tail and run” and pins its faith
to Cox and Roosevelt, four-square
men on a four-square platform and
pledged to keep America’s escutcheon
unsullied and America’s pledges to
the Allies inviolate.”
—All naturalized women over
twenty-one years of age can vote in
Pennsylvania in November; provided
that they have been residents of the
State for one year prior to the elec-
tion and of the district in which they
desire to vote two calendar months
preceding the election. If they are
twenty-one years of age and not
"twenty-two they will not have to pay
a poll tax. If they are twenty-two
or over they must have been register-
ed and assessed at least two calendar
months preceding the election and
paid a poll tax, which in Centre coun-
ty is to be fifteen cents, at least thirty
days preceding the election. If a
woman over twenty-two years of age
owns property assessed in her name
and has paid taxes on it within two
years prior to the election she is eli-
gible to vote, if properly registered,
without paying a poll tax. The
daughter of a recently naturalized
foreign-born citizen who wishes to
vote on age may do so by presenting
her father’s naturalization papers and
thereby establishing her right so to
do. If over twenty-two she must do
the same thing and have paid a tax
and met all the other requirements of
a native born voter.
—From what we have been able to
learn the opinion of council is divided
on the question of a charge for water
supplied to one of our local industries.
The water question has long been a
mooted one in Bellefonte, though
more water is running away daily
than ten towns of this size would use.
The cost of the water itself has never
entered into the discussion since na-
ture produces it in copious streams.
The installation of a system of con-
duits, pumping and maintenance are
the only charges that properly can be
laid against a gallon of water at the
faucet in our homes or factories. If
it were a tax no more could be levied
for the water than is expended in
supplying it. But it is not a tax. It
is a rental and as such council may
arbitrarily fix any charge it pleases.
Generally speaking water rentals in
Bellefonte are low, but if it should
be found that even at the low rate
they work a hardship on an industrial
concern that is contributing to the
entire community we are of the opin-
ion that council would be doing the
greatest good to the greatest number
of our property owners if it were to
supply water at actual cost of pump-
ing to such industry until the time
when it becomes so permanently es-
tablished that it needs no further fos-
tering. We raise thousands of dol-
lars to bring new industries here and
then very often find ourselves in the
position of sinking the money con-
tributed because we are unmindful of
the fact that they need nursing and
must creep before they can walk. The
Watchman always was and always
will be opposed to giving away any
franchises, but a controllable supply
of water is not a franchise and in the
case in question it is not proposed
to actually give water. It is a ques-
tion of a charge that will not threaten
the plans that are hopefully being
worked out to give Bellefonte a per-
manent and very desiiable industrial
enterprise. We hope that council
will be able to view the situation from
this angle when it deliberates further
VOL. 65.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., AUGUST 27, 19
Grave Menace to the Republic. Penrose Must Stay at Home.
| The esteemed New York World, |
Republican national chairman Will
Hays and Republican candidate for
President, Senator Harding, have vo-
ciferously and vehemently denied the
statement that a vast slush fund has
been raised by special interests to buy
the Presidential commission for Sena-
tor Harding for the use of the Senate
oligarchy which procured the nomina-
tion for him at Chicago. Only about
$3,000,000 has been raised, chairman
Hays protests, and Harding echoes,
“not only are the statements of exces-
sive expenditures absolutely untrue,
but as a matter of fact we are having
difficulty in procuring the funds legit-
imately needed to conduct the cam-
paign as it should be conducted. “How
unspeakably sad.”
But they are not willing to put the
question to the test.
proposed that the Senatorial commit-
tee which exposed the slush funds
of General Wood and Governor Low-
den for use in the primary campaign
be reassembled, and weekly reports
of the campaign collections of all par-
ties be made to it, and published. The
committee is Republican. The chair-
man of it has publicly announced
that he will support Senator Harding
and his colleague on the Republican
ticket with all his might. But the
minority of the committee would see
that full and complete statements
would be made and chairman hays
and candidate Harding know that
would be disastrous to their hopes and
destructive of their plans.
The statement is that a slush fund
of $15,000,000 has been subscribed by !
the predatory interests of the coun-
try to buy enough votes in close and
doubtful States to guarantee the elec-
tion of Harding and Coolidge. It
requires no special perspicacity to
discern the purpose of those who have
contributed to that fund. It comes
from the manufacturers, who want
their franchise to loot through tariff
restored; the financiers who hope to
profit by wrecking corporations and or-
ganizing panics, and the munition
makers and ordnance builders, who
want the opportunities to make war
free and easy. One year of Republi-
can control under such conditions as
prevailed in Mark Hanna's time would
fully reimburse them.
The accusation is not upon an ir-
responsible source. Governor Cox, of
Ohio, the Democratic candidate for
President, makes the charge and bold-
ly declares he can prove it. We must
all agree that such a disposition of
the high office and great honor would
be a menace to the perpetuity of the
Republic. The country sustained a
hard jolt in 1876 and a good deal of
a shock in 1896. But when the com-
mission of the President is put upon
the auction block to be knocked down
to the highest bidder the end is near.
the high office and great honor would
No Republic can survive such an out-
rage upon justice. If it is true that
$15,000,000 has been subscribed for
that purpose by men who hope to get
it back in graft, the people should
know it. :
RL
—It may be true that the level of
the great lakes has been lowered but
it will be hard to prove that prohibi-
tion is responsible for it.
Have You Noticed Its Beauty?
Motorist along the Nittany valley
highway certainly must be impressed
with the beauty of the drive just at
this time. The “Watchman” invites
an argument when it states that Nit-
tany valley probably exceeds both the
famed Cumberland and Buffalo val-
leys in evidences of rural thrift and
prosperity. The highway traversing
it, though one of the least costly of
the roads in Pennsylvania, is reputed
as being the best continuous road in
Pennsylvania. And just now its super-
visors have the grass mowed on eith-
er side so that for twenty-eight miles
one has the impression of gliding
smoothly—if he or she is not in a fliv-
ver—through a glorious lawn. Re-
cent rains have made the vegetation
so green and fresh looking that na-
ture is fairly transcendent and those
who drive moderately enough to see
what they are passing through must
surely be impressed with this wonder-
work of the Creator, made so com-
fortably accessible by man.
eae ei
—It must be admitted that William
H. Taft weighs a good deal and he
really seems to be a nice man. That’s
all.
—1It is stated that the more Lodge
and Penrose study Harding the bet-
ter they like him.
—Probably the back porch will be
brought into service before the cam-
paign is over.
cman pees eee
—Any kind of a Pole, long or short,
seems to be gettin’ the Bolshevik
these days.
—Tennesse failed to pull it across
on the question.
and the women will get the vote.
Governor Cox °
which is an ardent and able supporter
of Governor Cox, joyously welcomes
! the announcement that Senator Pen-
| rose will “take the stump” for Hard-
{ing an expresses the hope that this
ponderous party boss will expend his
| oratorical energies and eloquence in
the middle west. While cordially
sharing the satisfaction of our es-
teemed contemporary on the main
question we beg to protest against
the assignment. If Senator Penrose
takes the stump he should address
"himself to the people of Pennsylvania
who know him and can accurately ap-
praise the value of his opinions and
the sincerity of his statements. No
: western audience can do him full jus-
tice.
The esteemed World, in the gener-
osity of its heart, was influenced in
thus assigning Penrose to the wild
, west, by the Biblical adage that “a
prophet is not without hofior, save in
"his own country and in his own house.”
. Senator Penrose is as highly appre-
| ciated in Pennsylvania as he can pos-
| sibly be in Wisconsin or California or
| Idaho or Iowa. In 1914 he polled
| about five hundred thousand votes
"out of a possible nine hundred thous-
and votes, that being the strength of
his party at that time, and a consider-
able number of his votes were cast by
Democrats in resentment of the arro-
gance of the candidate of their own
party. The figures show that Penrose
is well known if not exactly popuiar
at home.
It is true that in the western States
named public sentiment has not been
held as closely to the ideas and poli-
cies of “the men in the Republican or-
ganization who are running the Hard-
ing campaign.” It is equally certain
that Penrose might “stir the con-
science of the people and lead them
trooping back to the good old days of
railroad control of the State govern-
ments.” But Senator Penrose has
been a sick man for a long time and
it would be cruel to run him over the
country when Lodge and Smoot and
Sherman and Newberry are physically
fit to perform such party drudgery.
Penrose must stay at home, or at
least within the limits of a baliwick
{in which his big red automobile’
| creates a sensation always.
|
—The railroad workers were enti-
i tled to the $600,000,000 increas pay
| which the wage board allowed them,
| but the average man is unable to
i figure why the railroads had to get
$1,200,000,000 increase in revenue to
pay it.
‘Mr. Gompers’ Timely Warning.
While addressing a body of the
| American Federation of Labor, in
New York State on Monday evening,
Mr. Samuel Gompers, president of
that splendid labor organization, ad-
| monished his audienc to prepare
| against strikes, lockouts and other la-
| bor disturbances during the campaign.
1 It is part of the program of the man-
| agers of the Republican party to cre-
ate discontent in that way and every
| expedient will be employed to that
| end. The only hope of success for
| the Republican candidates lies in com-
, munity suffering and individual des-
sition and no pains will be spared
to accomplish the result. It is a cruel
' method but a settled plan.
i There is scant tribute to the intel-
ligence of the average voter in such a
i campaign. A man who is himself in
gant and sees his family suffering
| from hunger is never in an amiable
lor even a reasoning mood, and when
ia poison tongued demagogue pours
"into his ear carefully prepared ac-
| cusations against the party in power,
"he is likely to let credulity run away
with his horse sense and join in the
senseless agitation. That is the plan
of campaign of the Republican ma-
chine, and when easy money drawn
from the slush fund contributed by
predatory corporations and selfish in-
terests is offered it is small wonder |
even |
he yields to the temptation,
though he knows upon reflection that
he is being deceived into doing harm
to his fellow men.
The Republican campaign is under
the direction of Senator Lodge, Sena-
tor Penrose, Senator Smoot and a few
other men who have neither patriot-
ism nor humanity to restrain their
' evil impulses. To obtain a party vic-
| tory in the approaching election and
get control of the spoils of a corrupt
, administration for four years, they
i would paralyze every industry and
{ impoverish every community in the
| country. They know that out of the
| graft thus made possible they could
! flourish and grow fat and they have
| no concern for others. Mr. Gompers
| sees the danger that is impending and
| he wisely warns those associated with
| him against the evil.
—~Senator Penrose and Republican
| State Chairman Crow are awfully
worried because some of the women
may have trouble in qualifying to
vote. There is an old adage that "a
renegade is worse than ten turks.”
| lic and proceeded to make monkeys |
i of themselves in sundry and various
| ways.
Harding’s Preposterous Plan.
Senator Harding has advanced a
good many absurd propositions as |
policies of his administration, in the
event of his election, but the most pre- |
posterous of all is his scheme to unite |
the governments of the world in a
peace plan “more in harmony with
the spirit of The Hague plan than the !
Versailles plan.” Already all the civ-
ilized governments of the world are
bound together for the purpose of per-
manent peae on the Versailles plan,
except that of the United States. To
create another organization it would
be necessary for all those govern-
ments which have signed the Versail-
les treaty, to repudiate their pledges
in order to give them-freedom to en-
ter into another pact of different pur-
pose.
To complete the Versailles treaty
required the arduous labor of the
leading minds of the civilized world
for a period of more than six moths.
Working within the shadow of the
most destructive war of all history and
under the extreme stress of anxiety
for the industrial, economic and com-
mercial readjustment of a suffering
world, no time was wasted and the
achievement was remarkably swift.
It would require more than two years
to dissolve the pact, even if all were
willing to join in such a retrograde
proceeding, and probably a longer
period to organize and reform the al-
liance, or whatever else he might
choose to call the plan, Mr. Harding
has in mind, and that after a dishon-
orable peace has been made with
Germany.
It is universally admitted that there
can be no effective readjustment of
the industrial and commercial life of
the world until a league or alliance
making for permanent peace has been
organized and put in working order.
All the disturbances in Europe and
most of the evils in this country since
the armistice are directly ascribed to
the uncertainty of the future with
respect to peace and war. If the |
United States had been as prompt as
England, France and Italy in signing
the treaty of Versailles, normal condi-
tions in business would have been re-
stored long ago. The Republican lead-
ers prevented the ratification
ents political “purposes “and” “Hard
wants to provide for future uses.
—The war made thirty million or-
phans in the world but the Republi-
can leaders oppose the League of Na-
tions because it might prevent future
wars and thus destroy the market
for materials of war.
————— ee eee
Suffrage Question Settled.
Those bourbons in Tennessee who
are still striving to stem the tide of
progress by opposing the ratification
of the Nineteenth amendment to the
constitution, are figuratively “gnaw-
ing a file.” The suffrage question is
settled. The constitution provides a
method of making amendment. That
method has been literally followed in
the case in question. Tennessee was
the last State to ratify, but it rati-
fied in legal form. Under the rules
a motion to reconsider might have
been made within a clearly defined
period. The motion was not made by
those opposed to ratification. That
settled the question as completely as
if it had been made and lost.
The so-called Constitutional League
of Tennessee may as well as dissolve.
It may imagine that the constitution
of Tennessee is in some danger of
some sort and maybe it is. But in
the matter in point it is the constitu-
tion of the United States that counts.
Every requirement of that more or
less important instrument has been
fulfilled. The vote of the Legislature
of Tennessee was the final step. It
made the thirty-sixth affirmative vote
and thirty-six are three-fourths of |
forty-eight which makes the whole |
number of States in this glorious Un-
ion, made brighter and better by this
long delayed act of justice.
There were three tailors of Tooley
street in London, “once upon a time,”
who imagined they composed the pub-
The Constitutional League of
Tennessee appears to have assumed
their role in the affairs of the present
day. Something must have happen-
ed to the tailors for they accomplish-
ed nothing and vanished from view.
The Constitutional League of Tennes-
see has revived their memory and are
not likely to achieve anything else.
Progress is a wonderful force and it
takes a vast obstruction to stop it.
The Constitutional League of Tennes-
see isn’t big enough.
—~Senator Harding hasn’t declared
himself in favor of the Ten Com-
mandments as yet, but he may be de-
pended upon to do so as soon as a
delegation of preachers visits his
front porch.
——————— A ———
—Any old League will satisfy
Harding and Lodge, provided Presi-
dent Wilson had no hand in the fram-
ing of it.
20.
NO. 34.
. The Reactionary Mr. Harding.
From the Springfield Republican.
Governor Cox will have it all his
own way in showing up Mr. Harding
as a reactionary. Substitute the
word “conservative,” and Mr. Hard-
: ing’s own friends and admirers would
welcome the designation. But reac-
tionary is really the better word be-
cause it more accurately fits the pres-
ent situation. :
Mr. Harding’s attitude has been
that of protest, either tacit or ex-
pressed, against nearly every for-
ward step taken in the past 15 or 20
years, and this fact should be borne
in mind when he begs the country to
return to “normalcy.” In the most
progressive days of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration, Mr. Harding was a con-
stant political follower of Senator
Foraker, of Ohio, who fought progres-
sive railroad legislation and identified
himself with the most sinister plutoc-
racy of the time. His close Stand-
ard Oil connections finally drove Mr.
Foraker from public life.
Of course, Mr. Harding condemned
the Ohio constitutional convention and
opposed violently the adoption of the
new State Constitution. Governor
Cox now recalls the editorial comment
of Mr. Harding’s paper upon the
Constitution’s adoption. “Socialism”
was all Mr, Harding could see in that
development. “The revolution in Ohio
dates from September 3. Our own
notion is that the radical victory of
Tuesday will be followed by conflict
after conflict until a socialism rule
is thoroughly established. Ohio has
broken her moorings. The revolution
is on.” Revolution indeed; Massa-
chusetts has gone much the same rev-
olutionary way in revising its old Con-
stitution, and it was all done under
the red torch auspices of the party
of Mr. Lodge, Mr. McCall and Gover-
nor Coolidge.
In national affairs, Mr. Harding has
done nothing to remove the impres-
sion he has made in the affairs of his
own State. His few years in the
Senate made Mr. Penrose, of Pennsyl-
vania, fondly regard him as pre-em-
inently safe, and the latest report
from Philadelphia is that Mr. Pen-
rose is anxious to take the stump for
candidate Harding, notwithstanding
that he is yet scarcely out of the care
of his physicians. Mr. Penrose was
never classed as a progressive; if you
called him “forward-looking” he
would greet you with a Falstaffin g
World Leaders.
From the Philadelphia Record.
In the opinion of Life, which can
be wise as well as witty, “there was
more hopeful world-leadership in Mr.
Wilson’s little finger than there is in
the whole collection of Lodge-Repub-
lican Senators.”
This will be the verdict of history, re-
gardless of the outcome of the election.
When the partisanship of the present
day shall be forgotten, just as the ani-
mosities that led to furious attacks
upon Washington and Lincoln are now
forgotten, Woodrow Wilson will stand
out as a great and inspiring figure
and a matchless leader at a time when
the people of the United States stood
in great need of leadership. Just as
the names of the Republican Senators
who assailed Lincoln are now buried
in oblivion, so the Smoots, Penroses,
Brandegees, Moses, Lodges and others
of the G. O. P. Senatorial oligarchy
will pass into nothingness so far as
the American people are concerned.
Who can remember the names of the
Senators who heaped abuse upon
Cleveland? They are quite forgotten,
but every year public memorial ser-
vices are held for the great President.
Woodrow Wilson takes on heroic
proportions especially when compared
with the small-town statesman of
Marion, Ohio. It is a safe guess that
if that non-committal person should
be elected President no one would
ever accuse him of being a world lead-
er. The man who has been one of the
nonentities of the Senate, and who
nearly lost his own State in the pre-
convention Republican primaries, will
never loom large as a statesman of
any kind. Silk purses are not made
from sow’s ears.
Russian-American’s Views.
From the St. Joseph Gazette.
The “paper-rags” man, salvaging
the redeemable rubbish from a stuffy
cellar on a hot day, paused to wipe
the sweat from his face and then
noticed a headline about the invasion
of Poland. He could read just enough
English to get the drift of it.
‘That is bad business—Bolshevism,”
he said. “Me, I come from Russia,
twenty years ago. I am a ‘burger’
many years. I work hard, make $5
or maybe $6 a day with my horse and
wagon. I have wife and three chil-
dren. I pay $15 a month rent. My
landlord he raise the rent $5 and $5
until now it is $35 a month. I am
not a rich man; to pay rent like that.
I never be a rich man. But I get
ahead—a little. And some men, many
men, here in America, make millions.
That is all right. Why should men
who make only a little want to take
away from the others? That does no
good to anybody. What we want is,
everybody have a chance. With Bol-
shevism, nobody have a chance—ev-
erybody make everybody _else poor,
and everybody stay bad. No good.”
There you have Americanism, and
there you have the reason why Bol-
shevism is not likely to make much
headway in this country.
——Subscribe for the Watchman.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Sam Carter, drunk and disorderly,
had 25 pounds of cold boiled ham and
five pounds of cheese in his possession
when arrested in Altoona Monday morning
and he told the police he “bought it from
a feller for $2.40.” 3
—Worried because of poor yields on his
farm and because he had sold the prop-
erty for a price which he later coasid-
ered too low, C. H. Eckenrode, of Lib-
erty township, Adams county, aged 42
years, early on Monday blew off his head
with a shotgun.
—The many friends of Judge Geo. B. -
Orlady will be glad to learn that he is
fast recovering from his illness at the
Masonic home at Elizabethtown, and will
be able to assume his duties on the Su=-
perior court bench at its session in Phila-
delphia in September.
—Though but 14 years of age, Ralph
Lahnstein, of Shamokin, was arrested om
Moaday by the police of Pottsville on the
charge of passing bogus checks. The
youth’s father rescued him at the prison
doors by making good the money the boy
obtained on the checks.
—A. C. Silvius, of Mifflinburg, one of
the State foresters, has resigned to be-
come secretary and treasurer of the An-
thracite Protective Association, an organ-
ization of coal land owners in Schuylkill
county to protect their timber lands. He
will have headquarters at Pottsville.
—The Commissioners of Northumber-
land county have announced that they will
permit women to clerk on the election
boards at the November election. Of re-
cent years it has been difficult to get
clerks at $5 a day, when the work often
runs until daylight the day after election.
It is believed now that there will be
enough women anxious to try out the
job of election clerk.
—Wm. Pramuk, of Shamokin, picked a
woman’s pocket at 10 a. m. At 10:01
Officer Kohler’'s arm was on his shoulder.
At 10:20 Justice Culton sentenced him te
sixty days in the Northumberland county
jail at Sunbury, twenty miles away and
at 11:20, an hour later, he was behind
the bars, all of which illustrates that the
far-famed “Jersey justice” has to “go
speed,” lawyers aver.
—The Rev. Albert W. Seiple, a Philadel-
phia clergyman, has brought suit against
William H. Burkey, a Hamburg business
man, in civil court, at Reading, for $6,240
damages for personal injuries in an acci-
dent at Leesport several months ago. Two
automobiles in which they were travel-
ling collided, Seiple charging Burkey with
responsibility for the accident and his in-
juries, which have partially disabled him.
—~With the purchase by the State of 16,-
440 acres of forest land in the vicinity of
Coudersport, Potter county, that county
now contains one-eighth of the State for-
est lands. The State now owns 153,820
acres of forest land in Potter county. The
recent purchase, at $1.75 an acre, amouat-
ed to $27,770, and makes the total expend-
ed in the developmnt of the industry im
that county close to $290,000 for the land
alone,
—Bloomsburg Methodists are planning a
jubilee for September 26, to celebrate the
anniversary of the dedication of their
pastorate the church was
‘county
church. Bishop W. F. McDowell, of Wash-
ngton, will have charge of the services
nhder who
uilt, are also
to be present. All the Methodist churchés °
of Columbia county will participate in
a big mass meeting in the church.
—While three Allentown priests slept in
adjoining rooms, burglars Friday night
ransacked the rectory of the Church of
the Sacred Heart and stole more than
$1000 belonging to the congregation and
cemetery funds of the parish. The office
and private rooms of Mgr. Peter Mason,
rector of the church, were ripped up as
by a storm and the contents of several
other rooms were strewn about. To gain
entrance the burglars were forced to rip
a copper screen and jimmy the window.
—With both feet wedged under a shift-
ing locomotive and badly crushed, Frank
Trutt, of Northumberland, calmly smoked
a cigarette and chatted with the men who
worked for more than an hour to rescue
him. At times he directed them in their
work. When he finally was taken out, he
was rushed to the Mary M. Packer hos-
pital, at Sunbury, where his right leg
was amputated below the knee. Doctors
think they may save the other. Trutt
was riding on the pilot, when the engine
jumped the track, pinning him under it.
—Dorothy Marshall, aged 18 months,
of Sunbury, was playing on the fire escape
with her little brothers and sisters in
their home in an apartment house when
she lost her balance and fell from the
platform to the floor of a store, two
stories below. In her fall she plunged
throuzh a Skylight made of glass an
eighth’ of an inch thick, striking it head
first. Beyond a lacerated scalp, which was
sewed up at the Geissinger hospital, she
was uninjured. A salesman, representing
a New York house, who was in the store
at the time, seated close to the skylight,
was severely cut on the head by the flying
glass.
—J. J. Slutterbach, field warden for the
state game commission in Mifflin, Hunt-
ingdon, Juniata, Snyder, Union, Northum-
berland and Montour counties, assembled
the game protectors of those counties at
Lewistown last week, and went over the
fall work with them, which includes the
rigid enforcement of all game laws. The
beavers, four in number, placed in the
Licking Creek game preserve, have be-
come settled. They have built three dams
thus showing their intention of mating.
A pair of those located in the Centre.
preserve have wandered across
Paddy mountain at the tunnel and built
a dam in Laurel run, near Pat Gher-
rity farm.
—The school board of Mill Creek town-
ship, Erie county, neglected and refused
to enforce the State law requiring that
children shall be vaccinated, and there-
by lost the State appropriation of $13,-
000. The township auditors surcharged
the amount to the members of the School
Board and the matter has been taken fo
the courts for determination. State Sup-
erintendent of Public Instruction, Thomas
EB. Finegan, has notified the auditors that
the State will attend to the prosecution
of the suit. If the decision of the court
sustains the auditors the members of the
board will be individually liable for the
entire $13,000 and the costs of the suit.
The attention of the auditors of the dis-
trict has been called by Doctor Finegan
to this provision of the State laws so
that proper steps to surcharge them may
‘| be taken.