INK SLINGS.
—Let those Junker planes go long
enough and there’ll be no pilots left
alive to fly them.
—How’s your coal pile, anyway?
Next month you’ll have to begin fir'n’
that “room stove.”
—Wouldn'’t it be fine if this District
were to have a regular Congressman,
say James D. Connelly, of Clearfield,
for instance.
— The late Kaiser is also bitterly
opposed to the League of Nations and
cordially hopes for the election of
Harding because of his intense
“Americanism.”
—Farmers have begun sowing
wheat in Centre county. It seems to
us that experience with the fly this
year would admonish most of them
to wait a week or ten days longer.
—The result of the State elections
in Maine isn’t worrying us. Our
hopes are pinned on the general eleec-
tion in the middle and north western
States and we believe they are going
to be realized.
' Secretary of War Newton D.
Baker was the head-liner at a big
show at The Pennsylvania State Col-
lege Wednesday afternoon and, like
every other public man making his
first visit to the great Centre county
institution, he was wonderfully im-
pressed.
—They say Senator Harding has
captured the German-American vote.
That was to be expected because the
Kaiser and his devoted servants in
this country know that Governor Cox
isn’t the kind of a man to so soon foi-
get the Lusitania and the later hor-
rors the Huns committed.
—The Hon. Evan Jones has repre-
sented this District in Congress for
one term and nothing in his record in-
dicates that it would be worth while
to give him another. Why not give
James D. Connelly, of Clearfield, a
trial. He couldn’t, if he tried, be as
much of a nonentity as the Hon. Jones
has been.
—The farmers of the county are not
going to let the opportunity slip to
pay their respects to Senator Harding
for the treatment he gave them when
the government put a minimum price
on wheat. When that bill was before
the Senate Mr. Harding spoke against
the proposed price and declared that
a dollar a bushel was all wheat was
worth.
| —Next Monday the barbers of
Bellefonte are going to boost the price
of a hair cut to fifty cents. With the
writer A hair cut about covers the
work to be done, but on others the
barber, of course, has more work.
However that may be, the fifty cents
is the goad that may drive many
heads of large families to the use of
a crock or to take a correspondence |
course in tonsorial art.
—-All women of voting age in Cen-
tre county, who are not already pay-
ing taxes on property assessed in
their own names, will have to pay
taxes regularly in the future. The
fact that they may not desire to vote
will make no difference. In fact the
Nineteenth amendment has put them
into a position to more fully appre-
ciate what men have known for ages
that “taxes and the poor are always
with us.”
—Judging from the picture of him
that is now finding conspicuous places
Mr. Naginey’s candidacy for the Leg-
islature will be very helpful in sooth-
ing the pride of Centre county in the
appearance of her manhood. You
know the gallery of notables that
adorned the telephone poles and fence
rails last fall were all reproductions
of God’s handiwork, of course, but
mighty few of them looked like they
were His master pieces.
—The women voters of Pennsylva-
nia don’t owe any of their new privi-
leges to Senator Penrose. He voi2
against or dodged the vote every time
a measure in furtherance of woman
suffrage came before the Senate and
he voted against the resolution to sub-
mit the Nineteenth amendment to the
States for ratification. Senator Pen-
rose was opposed to women having a
vote and if he didn’t think they were
fit to have it it seems to us that many
of them will think he isn’t fit to have
their votes.
—1Tt is amusing to hear some of our
Republican friends expressing their
contempt of the “undignified” action
of Governor Cox in revealing the aw-
ful “slush fund” that is being raised
to buy the election of Senator Hard-
ing. This “holier than thou” business
doesn’t get far with us for we know
only too well that Harding wouldn’t
even be the Republican nominee now
if a Republican Senate committee that
was formed for that very purpose
hadn’t taken the “undignified action”
of revealing that an awful “slush
fund” had been raised and used to buy
the nomination for either General
Wood or Governor Lowden.
—You readers whose subscription
is paid up to 1921 are not the ones we
have been talking to with tears in our
eyes. We don’t want your money. We
want our money from the subscribers
who are back to 1919 and the early
months of 1920. They are the ones
who are “holding out” on us and from
them we hope to get the where-with-
all to lift that car of paper that we
have been worried so much about. If
you are one of the ones who are al-
ready paid in advance please don’t
send in another remittance now.
Many have done it and it has been
mighty fine of them, but we don’t
want to get in debt to our subscribers
too far. We might bust before dis-
charging it.
WX
Demacrlic
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
1920.
VOL. 65. BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 17,
Governor Cox Fully Vindicated.
After the adjournment of the Sen- |
ate committee which has been inves-
tigating campaign expenses Senator
Edge, of New Jersey, declared that
the inquiry has been fruitless. “They
have furnished no evidence,” he said,
“to sustain the charge of the Presi-
dential candidate.” As a matter of
fact everything Governor Cox charg-
ed has been completely established.
He said that quotas had been set for
fifty-one cities which aggregated up-
ward of eight million dollars. Chair-
man Hays and treasurer Upham de-
nied this under oath. The records of
the Republican committee and the tes-
timony of a dozen witnesses abun-
dantly prove that Mr. Cox told the
truth and that Hays and Upham
swore to falsehoods.
If the matter were to end there the
verdict of any intelligent jury would
be in favor of Cox. But the records
and the testimony clearly show that
the Republican managers levied as-
sessments and fixed quotas far beyond
the fifteen millions stated by Gov-
ernor Cox, that the contributors were
almost exclusively men of the type
which the late Colonel Roosevelt de-
nounced as “malefactors of great
wealth,” and that some of these had
contributed in devious ways to dis-
guise their sinister purposes. In the
language of Senator Reed, another
member of the committee, the evi-
dence “furnished conclusive proof
that every trust magnate and head of
a corporation engaged in the manufac-
ture and production of oil, steel, iron,
shipping, transportation, sugar and
automobiles subscribed to the Repub-
lican campaign fund to the limit.”
Chairman Hays testified under oath
that three million dollars is an ample
fund for a Presidential campaign and
treasurer Upham corroborated the
statement, also under oath. Senator
Kenyon, chairman of the committee
of inquiry, expressed the opinion that
less than two million dollars ought to
serve the purpose and chairman
White, of the Democratic National
committee, declared under oath that
he will be satisfied with less than that
amount. If these statements contain
any element of truth why should the
Republican committee want fifteen
millions ‘or imore? Plainly the plan
was to buy the election of Harding
for the use of those who paid the
money and who expect reimbursement
| through government favors.
—————y
Republican national chairman
Hays has been convicted of perjury by
the testimony of his associates, but
that doesn’t impair his standing in his
party. He gets the money.
Penrose and Woman Suffrage.
In an address before the Woman’s
Democratic county committee, of
Chester county, the other day, Major
John A. Farrell, Democratic candidate
for United States Senator, called the
attention of the members of that body
to Senator Penrose’s record on the
suffrage question. Senator Penrose
voted against or dodged the vote on
every measure to advance the cause
of woman suffrage during his long
service in the Senate and on February
19th, 1920, the last test on the ques-
tion, he voted against the resolution
submitting the Nineteenth amend-
ment to the States for ratification.
Now he is ardently pleading for the
support of the women of Pennsylva-
nia in his aspiration for re-election.
The action of the women of Penn-
sylvania in this matter will go a long
way toward determining, in the public
mind, the wisdom of conferring upon
them the right of suffrage. There is
nothing in Senator Penrose’s record
to influence voters who are guided by
a conscientious desire to promote pub-
lic morals to support him. He is a
strong partisan and in politics has al-
ways been faithful to his party obli-
gations. But he has never given
even lip service in support of the high
ideals of government, the lofty prin-
ciples of morality, which the advo-
cates of woman suffrage promised
would follow the enfranchisement of
women. On the contrary his voice
and vote have been invariably against
such measures.
It is not our desire to dictate to the
women of Centre county how they
shall exercise their mewly acquired
right of full citizenship. We appre-
ciate their high standard of intelli-
gence and the righteousnéss of their
purposes. But we submit that the
contention of Major Farrell, a gentle-
man whose faith has been proved by
works, is just and well founded. The
women of Centre county owe nothing
to Senator Penrose except resentment,
and in voting for him against Major
Farrell, they are justifiing the doubts
expressed by those opposed to woman
suffrage as to the wisdon of the con-
stitutional amendment. And Senator
Harding stands on the same level as
Penrose in this respect.
eee Alp ee ee
——An average of two deaths every
hour of every day of every year is a
fairly full harvest for the automobiles
of the country, and that is the record.
|
1
Corruption Charge Confessed.
That the Republican party man-
agers had planned to raise a corrup-
tion fund of fifteen million dollars or
more to buy the election for their can-
didate for President has not only beea
proved but is practically confessed.
When Governor Cox made the charge
in his Pittsburgh speech chairman
Hays and treasurer Upham were
dazed and denied it under oath. But
when they found the Republican press
and a considerable number of the Re-
publican leaders approved they chang-
ed their tone and justify their action.
A Republican victory is worth the
price, they reason, to the special in-
terests appealed to for the funds and
that is probably true. Under the cir-
cumstances the contributions are in-
vestments.
The Republican majority in the
United States Senate was procured by
the corrupt use of money in the cam-
paign of Senator Truman H. Newber-
ry, of Michigan. That involved the
investment of a vast sum of money,
but the munition makers of the coun-
try and profiteers in war materials
could afford it, as Senator Weeks, of
Massachusetts, said to a group of
wealthy men he was urging to con-
tribute. If Newberry had been de-
feated, as he would have been in the
absence of the slush fund, the peace
treaty would have been ratified long
ago and the industrial and commer-
cial affairs of the country readjusted
on a peace and prosperous basis. That
would have been good for the country
but bad for the special interests.
It may be true that the methods
employed by the Republican managers
to raise a vast corruption fund are
strictly legal. But the purpose for
which the money is to be used is not
legal. The law forbids the excessive
use of money in political campaigns
for the just reason that elections so
controlled are subversive of good gov-
ernment and against public policy.
Every man who contributes to an ex-
cessive campaign fund expects reim-
bursement in one way or another with
a generous profit. If the fund
amounts to fifteen million dollars,
thirty million dollars will be stolen
from the treasury to repay those who
made the advancement. Every man
concernd in ‘the nefarious enterprise.
knows this. 4
fp
——There is not much reason for
alarm because of the nomination of
Tom Watson, for Senator in Congress,
by the Democrats of Georgia. No
doubt he’s crazy and unquestionably
he is a demagogue, but it was a case
of a choice of evils and probably he is
the lesser.
German Sympathizers for Harding.
There is no doubt that the so-called
German-American vote will be cast
solidly for Harding and Coolidge for
President and Vice President. Mr.
George Sylvester Viereck has person-
ally assured Senator Harding of this
fact, and he has sufficient influence
with that element of the electorate to
make good his pledge. Mr. Viereck
has a personal grudge against Presi-
dent Wilson and is bitterly hostile tc
the League of Nations. He is a man
of keen intelligence and bitterly re-
sentful. But the German-American
vote was quite as unanimously
against the Democratic ticket four
years ago. The German-American
Alliance was then an active organiza-
tion. Since that it has been put out of
business by law.
Mr. William Hohenzollern and all
the members of his late military
group in Berlin and Pottsdam are also
enthusiastically in favor of the elec-
tion of the Republican candidates.
The promise of a separate peace with
Germany has influenced them to this
purpose, aside from their uncompro-
mising antipathy to President Wilson.
A separate peace with Germany
would convert their recent defeat into
a most glorious victory. It would re-
store the German empire to its for-
mer commanding position in the af-
fairs of Europe, and reinstate the
military cligarchy in its previous
power and future hope of conquest.
Naturally this prospect is enticement
enough to make fghem strong suppor-
ters of Harding and Coolidge.
But the fact that the German mil-
itarists and their sympathizers in this
country are solid for Harding is no
reason for an appeal to the American-
American voters of the United States,
or the Italian-American, or the Eng-
lish-American, or the Welsh, Scotch or
Irish-American voters to support the
Republican candidates. The League
of Nations is the paramount issue. If
Harding is elected the sublime prom-
ise of permanent peace which it holds
out will vanish and expensive armies
and costly navies will become a neces-
sity for years and the horrors and
sacrifices of world war will become a
recurrent ‘incident of national life.
There is little enticement in that for
rational men and women.
re meres
——They not only got the money in
abundance but they paid it out freely
in Maine.
Harding’s Absurd Complaint.
In a speech delivered from his front
porch, on Saturday, Senator Harding
revealed the reasons that make a fif-
teen or twenty million dollar cam-
paign fund not only possible but easy.
He said: “We must repeal and wipe
out a mass of executive orders and
laws which serve to leave American
business in anxiety, uncertainty and
darkness. * * * We must estab-
lish a closer understanding between
American government and American
business by giving government co-
operation to business and protecting
it.” That’s the thing the plunderers
want to make sure of. They can make
more money out of one Black Friday
than out of a dozen years of legiti-
mate business in any line of endeavor.
The laws which Mr. Harding would
wipe out are the Federal Reserve act,
the Farmer’s Loan act, the legislation
that requires publicity in stock spec-
ulation, the income tax law, and the
executive orders which are offensive
to him are those that forbid profit-
eering in necessaries of life. The mo-
ment the Republicans obtained con-
trol of Congress they set themselves
to the achievement of these results
and failed of consummation because
of the attitude of President Wilson.
With Harding in the White House
they feel that they would have free
passage and easy sailing to their goal
and are ready and anxious to pay the
price, however high it may be. It
would be a shrewd if not a moral in-
vestment.
A good many of the executive or-
ders and a considerable part of the
legislation enacted during the war
were “war measures” and expired by
limitation when hostilities ceased. If
the peace treaty had been ratified
promptly as it ought to have been all
such measures would have been re-
voked or nullified long ago. More
than a year ago President Wilson
urged Congress to move in the direc-
tion of eliminating: war legislation
but the Senate of which Mr. Harding
is a member refused to act, and he
supprted the majority in the refusal.
In the face of these facts his com-
plaint against executive orders and
war legislation is absurd. But his
money masters compel him to all
118 of folly. /
——According to the census reports
more than one-fifth of the population
of the United States lives in thirty-
three cities. According to the evi-
dence of Republican managers four-
fifths of the slush fund was raised in
fifty-one cities.
PEA
Women Voters Should Pay Their
Tax Now.
By the time this issue of the
“Watchman” reaches its readers a
complete list of the women eligible to
vote in each and every precinct in
Centre county will be in the hands of
the various tax collectors and every
woman in the county who wants to
vote at the forthcoming election
should make sure that her tax is paid
on or before October 2nd. ‘The Coun-
ty Commissioners have fixed the sum
of fifteen cents as the poll tax for this
year, regardless of occupation, own-
ers of property, etc., so that no one
will have any excuse for not paying it.
It might also be added that indiffer-
ence or refusal to vote will not excuse
any woman from paying the tax, any
more than refusal to vote will excuse
a man. The suffrage law has now
been declared as in effect and that au-
tomatically carries a tax on all per-
sons of voting age, whether they vote
or not, so the best thing to do is pay
the tax in time so that you can vote.
Of course all women less than twenty-
two years of age and past twenty-one
are entitled to vote on age.
em Ss
Governor Sproul has issued a
proclamation calling upon the citizens
of Pennsylvania to observe forest fire
protection week during the period be-
tween September 26th and October
2nd. Ministers, school teachers, and
leaders of civic and commercial or-
ganizations are asked to take active
parts in the campaign to stop the fires
that every year cause such tremen-
dous damage to the forests of Penn-
sylvania.
— The New York World is afraid
that the bankers will loot the rail-
roads by charging excessive commis-
sions for floating bond issues. If
Harding is elected President the bank-
ers and railroad officials will pool in
looting everybody else.
il nl
——Just as a statement of facts it
might be remarked that half the vot-
ers in Centre county will not be af-
fected by the barbers’ increase in the
price of shaves to go into effect next
Monday.
batalla) UL
——1If it is true that a wise man
changes his mind, Senator Harding
has our late friend Solomon skinned a
million ways.
——Three more days and summer
will be over and autumn will be here.
: NO.87._
‘Forty-fifth Annual Reunion of Centre
County Veterans.
Forty five years ago the Centre
county soldiers of the Civil war or-
ganized the Centre County Veteran’s
association and decided to hold an an-
nual reunion. For many years these
reunions were the big gathering in
the county and were attended by hun-
dreds of people and veterans from this
and adjoining counties. But the ranks
of the old soldiers have so thinned
out that only twenty-seven were pres-
ent at the forty-fifth reunion held at
Grange park last Wednesday.
John Hamilton, president of the as-
sociation called the old veterans to at-
tention at 10:30 o’clock and the roll
call seemed pitifully small to what it
used to be in years gone by. The re-
port of the secretary showed that
just twenty-seven members had
answered the long roll during the past
year. The morning was mostly taken
up with the registering of those pres-
ent, payment of dues, etc.
At the afternoon session Rev. M. C.
Piper made the address of welcome
which was responded to by chairman
Hamilton. This was followed by the
reports of the various committees. J.
W. Sunday, chairman of the commit-
tee on place of meeting, reported in
favor of Grange park next year, on
Wednesday of picnic week, and it was
so voted.
D. B. Brisbin, chairman of the nom-
inating committee, reported the selec-
tion of officers for the ensuing year,
as follows, all of whom were elected:
President, John Hamilton, State Col-
lege; first vice president, Henry Mey-
er, Rebersburg; second vice president,
S. B. Miller, Bellefonte; secretary, W.
H. Fry, Pine Grove Mills; treasurer,
George M. Boal, Centre Hall.
The committee on resolutions,
George M. Boal, Clement Dale Esq.
and W. H. Fry, submitted its report
which was adopted as read. Included
in the resolutions was one extending
thanks to Congress for its prompt
passage of the Fuller and McCumber
bill, and to President Wilson for sign-.
ing the same.
Dr. Edwin Erle Sparks, of State
College, was introduced as the chief
speaker of the afternoon, while brief
talks were made by Rev. George E.
Smith, of Bellefonte; burgess J. Laird
Holmes, of State College; chaplain T.
W. Young, of the western peniten-
tiary; Rev. S. C. Stover, of Boalsburg,
and Clement Dale Esq., of Bellefonte.
The Citizens band, of Ferguson town-
ship, furnished ‘the music for the
gathering.
Following is a list of the old sol-
diers who died during the year, with
their age at death:
Wm. Treaster, 81
John F. Stover, 80
Guy Hilliard, 84
J. H. Meyers, 79
Jacob Cronister, 82
H. A. Sones, 79
Jos. Ammerman, 91
William Garis, 74
S. S. Wither, 78
Peter Martin, 83
Tobias Green, 80
J. M. Essington, 84 P. J. Tate, 72
John Coble, 88 Scott Miles, 74
Robert Schlottman, 77
Following is a list of the old sol-
diers who were present at the reunion
with their ages and old regiments:
John Hamilton, 77, Sergt Major 1st Cav.
S. B. Miller, 82, 100dth Ohio Vols.
Charles Smith, 73, 49th Penna. Vols.
L. H. Osman, 74, 148th Penna. Vols.
W. J. Dale, 87, 23rd Penna. Vols.
Philip Dale, 78, 149th Penna. Vols.
D. B. Brisbin, 78, 148th Penna. Vols.
J. P. Mechtley, 75, 13th Cav.
J. W. Sunday, 74, 148th Penna. Vols.
W. E. Tate, 76, 136th Penna. Vols.
G. 8S. Kaup, 79, 44th Ohio.
J. Griffith, 78, 104th Ohio.
H. D. Charles, 76, 173rd Ohio.
i. M. Martz, 78, 56th Penna. Vols.
J. B. Holter, 73, 51st Penna. Vols.
C. H. Martz, 73, 24th Cav.
G. M. Boal, 81, 148th Penna. Vols.
Ira Lyle, 75, 13th Cav.
J. I. Williams, 77, 116th Penna. Vols.
T. A. Snyder, 76, 1st Cavalry.
Thos. Johnstonbaugh, 78, 148th
Vols.
W. H. Bartholomew, 74, 2nd Cav.
Griffith Lytle, 77, 49th Penna, Vols.
William Hoy, 76, 51st Penna. Vols.
W. H. Fry, 77, 45th Penna. Vols.
Chaplain T. W. Young.
G. C. Clements, 80
M. M. Harris, 78
R. M. Thompson, 78
S. P. Taylor, 85
R. M. Musser, 79
Chas. Smith, 77
Geo, Dixon, 88
D. Tanyer, S4
W. A. Krise, 82
W. C. Krise, 84
J. A. Quigley, 87
Penna.
teense flee eee.
Answers to Health School Questions.
Question 1, What are Koplik spots?
Answer, Tiny bluish white glisten-
ing dots.
Question 2, What do they signify?
Answer, Measles.
Question 8, How may the spread of
measles be prevented?
Answer, By early quarantine.
“Scarlet Fever,” the subject of the
next lesson, is a disease of childhood.
There were more than 11,000 cases
and 253 deaths in Pennsylvania last
year. It is frequently followed by
distressing after effects which are
permanent. It is easily transmitted,
but its spread can be prevented by
early recognition and quarantine.
—— George Sylvester Viereck’s sup-
port of Senator Harding is a token of
keen appreciation of the Republican
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The value of taxable property in Wil»
liamsport, according to the opinion of the
city assessor, who has just completed his
1920 valuation,. is $22,270,240. The third
ward, with a valuation of $4,670,640, is the
wealthiest ward in the city. pe
—While A. Mangle, constable of Perry
township, Snyder county, was helping
John Mitterling, a neighbor, hunt chickem
thieves, a vicious dog attacked Mitterling,
who shot the dog. Some of the buckshot
struck the constable in the throat and
shoulders, seriously injuring him.
—Henry Martin, a Williams Grove far-
mer, was on his way to market last ¥Fri-
day when he discovered what he thought
was an automobile tire laying in the mid-
dle of the road. Martin stopped his fliv-
ver and got out to pick up the find. A
huge blacksnake uncoiled itself and glided
off into the underbrush. Martin declares
the snake was four inches in diameter.
—A broken garter destroyed the faith
of Mrs. W. W. Haflley, of Kenovo, in
stocking banks one day last week. Mrs.
Haffley was returning east from California
and placed $150 in her stocking. When
she arrived at Harrisburg she discovered
the broken garter and the loss of the mon-
ey. She reported her loss to the police
and the Pennsylvania railroad authorities.
—(. E. Logue, formerly keeper of the
Otzinachson game preserve, who has killed
more wildcats than any other man im
‘northern central Pennsylvania, has joined
the service of the state game commission.
He will act as a game instructor to teach
the keepers of the state's game sanctuaries
haw to rid their reserves of obnoxious an-
imals and to preserve deer and other
game.
—Last week was an exciting occasion in
the family of Lewis English, of English
Run. On Wednesday Mrs. English killed
a six-foot rattlesnake on the garden walk
near her home. The reptile is believed to
have been nine years old. On the follow-
ing day her husband discovered a bee tree
in the woods and now the family is assur-
ed of a plentiful supply of honey for
buckwheat cakes this winter.
—Charged with insubordination, failing
to respond to a request of the mayor, Wil-
liam Toomey, chief of police of Coates-
ville, has been suspended from the force
indefinitely. The members of council sus-
tained the mayor, who had suspended the
chief. During his regime as chief of po-
lice Toomey had cleaned up many gam-
bling joints. He was chief since the town
became a city, being promoted from the
ranks.
—William Coughlin, brother of postmas-
ter John J. Coughlin, of Shenandoah, was
held under $500 bail by United States com-
missioner Channel, at Pottsville, last Sat-
urday, charged with taking a magazine
out of the mails and appropriating it to
his own use. The magazine was addressed
to Dr. I. W. Hodgens and the evidence
showed Coughlin took it with the inten-
tion of reading a medical treatise and
afterward returning it.
-—Afraid that her husband was losing
control of their newly purchased automo-
bile, on their very first ride, Mrs. William
Lock, of Fallingston, jumped from the
machine near their home, and was run
over by .the car.’ She was seriously injur-
ed. The family had just purchased the
machine, and were on their first ride. They
lad gone but a few hundred. yards when
Mrs. Lock became excited and jumped
out. Two wheels of the machine passed
over ier. x p ose
—James Brown, a miner, was killed, and
James Fazonne, a boarder. was injured by
the explosion of a bomb which wrecked
Brown's home at Valier, four miles from
Punxsutawney, last Thursday. Four of
Brown's children were thrown from their
beds, but escaped with a shaking up. Ac-
cording to neighbors, Brown recently re-
ceived threatening letters because he per-
sisted in working at the mines of the Pan-
sy Coal company, wliere a strike was de-
| clared several months ago.
—Sentenced to fifteen days in jail for
failure to continue alimony payments, Al-
bert Bitner, of Harrisburg, asked permis-
sion of the court to use the telephone. Bit-
ner then called up his “sweetheart” and
informed her he had been unexpectedly
called to his uncle's farm for two weeks.
When the court was informed of the tele-
phone conversation, Judge Wickersham
added thirty days to Bitner’'s sentence, and
now he will be able to spend an extra
month on his “uncle's farm.”
—Adam CC, Stayman, of York. Pa., some
time ago answered an advertisement,
“Wanted, a husband,” which appeared in
a matrimonial magazine. A correspond-
ence followed with a woman by the name
of Bertha Osmont. Attired in her Sunday
best and in possession of all her earthly
belongings, Miss Osmont went to York
last week from Cleveland to meet Stayman,
to whom she had become engaged, through
the mail. Stayman is white. His bride-
to-be was black. The wedding bells have
been muffled.
—County Treasurers of Pennsylvania are
not entitled to any fee for issuing dog li-
censes, according to an opinion handed
down in the Dauphin county court by
Judge Sadler last week. The Dauphin
county Treasurer had brought action to re-
cover $6.00 which he alleged was due him
on the ten cent fee basis for issuing dog
licenses. The County Commissioners re-
fused to pay the bill and the decision of
the court sustains their action. The de-
cision was a test case by which many such
disputes of County Treasurers throughout
the State that have been pending, will be
settled.
—The tale of a wife who was hard to
suit, was told to a master in divorce in
‘the action of Thomas J. Vunak, of Pitts-
burgh, according to the testimony just
filed. Vunak states that in January, 1913,
he and his wife were married in Florida.
She did not like it there, so they moved to
St. Louis. “The air there wasn't to her
taste,” he says, “and we came to Rankin,
Pa., where she discovered it was too
smoky. She suggested Chicago, and
thence we went. Chicago was too big, so
we moved to Evanston, Illinois, and there
she deserted me.” The master recommend-
ed a divorce.
—Apple growers of Adams county are
wondering what is to become of their crop.
With the harvesting season almost at hand
the buyers from the big commission houses
have not yet been around. Usually several
months earlier than this the buyers have
been on the ground and have contracted
for the fruit in bulk, in marked contrast
to this year, when the apples are about
ready to be picked and comparatively few
of them sold. Last year's crop was ap-
proximately 400,000 barrels, and this year's
yield should be considerably larger, as
every orchard in that Tocality is heavily
candidate’s “Americanism.”
laden with fruit,