Georges Carpentier
ed last fall have passed Congress yet.
—Regret would not be general if
should hand
Dempsey a wallop in the whiskers that
would put him down for the count.
— With one minister leaving and
another getting married within the
week Bellefonte church circles have
been as busy and excited as a hen with
one chicken.
—The mayor of Somers Point, N.
J., can’t see anything immoral in one
piece bathing suits. Of course an oc-
culist wouldn’t hurt him, but he needs
a phrenologist most.
— That two million Alumni improve-
ment fund for Penn State looked fine
on the front pages on Tuesday, but
it’s a long way from a newspaper sto-
ry to the bank vaults.
— Such weather as we have been
having the past ten days surely must
be bringing the best there is out of hu-
mankind, but the corn and grass are
not receiving the same inspiration
from it. They need rain and warm
nights.
—We don’t know whether the Belle:
fonte postoffice is to be a Knox or a
Penrose or a Jones appointment, but
we do know that there are three gen-
tlemen in this place who think that
some worthies in Washington don’t:
have their minds on their business.
—Japan has a new Yap plan that
she thinks will be acceptable to this
country. Anything that is fair should
be acceptable to Washington and any-
thing that will lead
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VOL. 66.
STATE RIGHTS
BELLEFONTE, PA.
AND FEDERAL UNION.
, JUNE 17, 1921.
NO. 24.
Making Sproul’s Life a Burden.
1t looks as if the Republican leaders
of Pennsylvania were in a conspiracy
to make Governor Sproul’s life a bur-
den. Last week we referred to his
complaint about extravagance in the
use of the State owned automobiles.
It was a just complaint, for the rec-
ords show that many officials are con-
verting the State property to private
use and that the expense of this abuse
of a privilege, as he properly charac-
terized it, was considerable. This
waste of the State’s money is very
distressing to the Governor, who is
just now afflicted with a spasm of
economy. Probably he is apprehen-
sive of an exhaustion of the cash.
With his approval there has been such
a lavish waste at the bung that leaks
at the spigot are dangerous.
Now it appears that this leak caus-
ed by the misuse of automobiles is
only one of several which are coming
to the attention of the Governor. For
example it appears that Senator T.
Larry Eyre, one of his most trusted
lieutenants, has been dispensing dol-
lars so lavishly that even some of his
| associates in the General Assembly
"are amazed. Senator Eyre is chair-
! man of the Senate committee on ap-
propriations and his account, just
| filed, shows that expenditures for the
Japan to stop a | operation of that committee during
naval program that we must keep | the brief period of four months
ahead of will be doubly so to
of the country.
—Word has come to Bellefonte of
the serious illness of Senator George
M. Dimeling, of Clearfield. It is to be
hoped that it is only transient and not
permanent disability for the Senator
is both young and useful and many
years of life would be vouchsafed to
him were the wishes of friends all
over the State to prevail.
—The Porter resolution in the
House says we are at peace with the
central powers, meaning Germany,
and the Knox resolution in the Senate
says we are still at war. Gradually
the war is being transported from for-
eign shores to the line that separates
the northern from the southern end of
the capitol at Washington.
—Mr. Roy Haynes is the new pro-
hibition enforcement officer of the
country. He is opposed to beer as
medicine and doesn’t intend to pay any
attention to Mr. Palmer’s prescription.
His pictures indicate that Mr. Haynes
is a very husky fellow. Possibly he
has never had the kind of sickness
that beer is a panacea for.
—The notice that a successor had
been named for John F. Short, of
Clearfield, United States Marshall for
the western district of Pennsylvania,
seems to have been premature. Mr.
Short is still in office and happy as a
man can be who realizes that the ax
is impending and that his head is like-
ly to drop into the basket at any mo- :
ment.
—1It is time that Admiral Sims is
disciplined. He has been insubordi-
nate since he was a student at the na-
val academy and Secretary Daniels
should have squelched him two years
ago. It remains to be seen whether
Secretary Denby will punish this syc-
ophantic officer who evidently loves
British flattery more than he respects
the country he is presumed to serve.
—Fat berths at fancy wages are not
awaiting college graduates this year.
The war is over. Industry is at a
standstill and there are more men than
jobs. The college man of 1921 will be
all the better for the rough sledding
he is in for. There is no royal road to
success and wealth and the men who
stepped from commencement -plat-
forms during the past four or five
years into positions that commanded
thousands of dollars have yet to find
out that everything was inflated and
some of them more than the other
things.
—The announcement of the appoint-
ment of the Hon. Cyrus E. Woods to
be Ambassador to Spain is not with-
out its measure of disappointment.
He is especially fitted for the post;
his diplomatic service in Portugal un-
der the Taft and first Wilson admin-
istrations having afforded the exper-
ience that supplements his inherent
tact and intelligent grasp of public af-
fairs, but such men are few in the
public life of Pennsylvania and we are
just selfish enough to be disappointed
that he is leaving it for a period of
four years; notwithstanding the fact
that the appointment will bring pecu-
liar gratification to Mr. Woods.
—Attorney General Daugherty has
begun an investigation of the govern-
ment’s war contracts. He says he is
after the big fellows and all the min-
nows taken in the net will be thrown
back. Inasmuch as the big business
of the country is generally supposed
to be in Republican control there is
little likelihood of any big fish being
taken. Be that as it may, the point is
that the investigation necessitates the
establishment of another bureau .in
the Department of Justice, with a
large corps of political hacks posing’
as high priced investigators, and the
much promised-era of retrenchment is
pushed back a bit more towards the
fall of 1924.
the rest | amounted to the considerable sum of
$11,890.50. Most of this money was
| used in paying salaries but some went
for luxuries, such as cigars at twenty-
five cents a piece, of which there were
! used during the session 1150, at a total
| cost of $273.50.
served that Senator Eyre is quite as
discriminating as in the selection of
his clothes, and in that line he is a
‘model. His private secretary drew
from the State for the session the
snug sum of $3225.00. Six of the oth-
er employees of the committee live in
Chester county and are helpful to the
Senator, presumably, in maintaining
his position as party boss, while most
of the others are from Philadelphia
and Pittsburgh, where they serve
faithfully in the party harness. Some
of the employees are designated as
regular and others as extra, but regu-
lar or extra they received generous
recompense for the services renderrd
to the State. It may be added that
none of these were cut out of their
salaries by gubernatorial veto.
— Penrose and Vare have become
reconciled, according to newspaper
gossip, which goes to show that neith-
er of them has thought above party
spoils. The cohesive power of public
plunder is revealed in the reconcilia-
tion.
Senator Knox a Changed Man,
| Reports from Washington indicate
a great improvement in the habits of
Senator Philander C. Knox of late.
He is no longer the austere statesman,
the correspondents say, whose pres-
ence chilled the atmosphere of the
capital for blocks. “Pennsylvania
politicians never
when they came here in former years
on political missions,” writes one of
these observers of events, “but now-
a-days the Knox office looks like one
In the matter of help it may be ob-
bothered Knox, |
electorate.
of the annexes of a political conven- |
tion.” The change in his manner is
equally marked, according to the same
authority. The Senator “has taken on
quite an air of affability,” the narra-
tive adds.
Crow to be Governor.
State Senator Crow, chairman of
the Republican State committee, is to
be disappointed in a cherished ambi-
tion. He hoped to become a Senator
in Congress. It is a disagreeable bil-
let in the public life of the country.
the United States Senate is known as
“the Millionaire’s Club.” For a man
of the Crow type it is a place of both
distinction and leisure. Of late years
only rich men aspire to membership.
One of the recently elected Senators
spent nearly a million dollars to get
the seat. Crow could hardly afford
such an outlay but he has “farmed”
politics in this State long enough and
with sufficient pecuniary success, to
qualify for the job. That is to say he
has accumulated enough money.
When Penrose was very sick and
Knox was out of favor Governor
Sproul and Senator Crow sort of
“staked out” claims for the Senator-
jal seats for Pennsylvania. One was
to take Knox’s place and the other to
“squat” in the Penrose seat. But Pen-
rose perversely got well and President
Harding developed a fondness for
Knox which was like “throwing a
monkey wrench into the machinery.”
Harding called Sproul to Washington
and told him that Crow is not a can-
didate for the Knox seat. Penrose an-
nounced to both of them that he has
no intention of relinquishing his seat
for a considerable time. Sproul has a
good job and abundance of money and
can wait. But Crow is impatient.
Years ago in the country fairs they
used to put up what was called a
“consolation purse.” It was open to
horses that had been defeated in the
more important classes. In imitation
of this custom the Republican ma-
chine managers have promised Sena-
tor Crow the nomination for Governor
next year. It is not what he wanted
but a good deal better than nothing,
and for Crow that was the alternative.
There are others in the party who
would like to be Governor and as a
matter of fact the “Mansion on Front
street,” Harrisburg, is a snug asylum.
But the others will have to wait. The
assignment has been made by Penrose,
Sproul and Vare and what they say
goes in the political life of Pennsyl-
_vania. -
The anti-prohibition parade in
New York on the Fourth of July may
come up to the expectations as to size
and enthusiasm but it won't restore
the saloon.
Admiral Sims Rebuked.
Admiral Sims has been sharply re-
buked for an indiscreet speech deliv-
ered in London the other day. That
is to say his leave of absence has been
revoked and he has been ordered per-
emptorily to report in person at the
office of the Secretary of the Navy in
Washington. What will happen to
him then is a matter for conjecture.
He may be sharply punished or he
may be secretly praised for slurring
the American sympathizers of the
Irish Sein Finn. Aconsiderable part
of President Harding’s majority last
fall came from that element of the
But Republicans as well
as Republics are proverbially ungrate-
ful and anglomania is running strong
in certain quarters now.
Admiral Sims is a chronic blather-
skite and a good deal of a sycophant.
Some years ago he was reprimanded
by President Taft because of the too
free wagging of his tongue in London.
Then he imagined he could gain the fa-
Of course the Senator's ambition to , vor of the British aristocracy by cast-
be re-elected is the reason for the 'ing aspersions on his own country.
changes in temperature
Six months ago he was
for Senator and few other than
and manner. | He was rebuked on that occasion and
following a warned against
forlorn hope. - Nobody wanted him in the future.
big | no avail with such men. His absurd
such indiscreet speech
But admonition is of
corporations, wanted him for anything , censure of President Wilson’s conduct
else. But is seems that Harding | of our part in the late war met with
wants him returned to the Senate and | such favor among the Republican lead-
the potent force of public patronage
has been placed behind him in his de-
sire for another term. But he had to
change his manner to win even with
such backing, and hence the changed
temperature in his office and the im-
provement in his manner. He has be-
come as warm as he was formerly
cold, as cordial as he was formerly
crusty.
Frankly speaking, however, there |
ought to be no opposition in the Re-
publican party to Senator Knox’s am-
bition. More than any other man in
Pennsylvania, he represents the pur-
poses and aspirations of the Republi-
can party. During the recent war he
was the most outspoken sympathizer
with Germany. Immediately after the
terms of peace were declared he pro-
tested that the peace conference had
been cruel to Germany and he oppos-
ed the treaty for that reason. Others
may have held the same opinions on
the subject but he alone openly ex-
pressed them. He is the originator of
the separate peace proposition and his
attitude secured the German vote for
the Republican party last fall.
——Admiral Sims has had a warm
time in London, according to the news
dispatches, but after he gets home he
will have a hot time.
es of the country that he imagined
himself immune from censure while
again striving for British approba-
tion. The public will await the result.
But there ought to be no uncertain-
ty about the matter. It may have
been all right to look leniently upon
a first offense but the repetition of an
indiscretion cannot be justly “salved
over,” even in the case of a man who
has rendered distinguished service. In
the case of Sims it can hardly be re-
garded as a simple indiscretion. His
purpose was malicious and entiely ob-
vious. He curtly and almost insolent-
ly declined an award of merit from
his own government but rushed pre-
cipitately for a similar favor tendered
by the government of Great Britain,
and in accepting it took occasion to
justify a governmental policy which
neither he nor his government has the
moral or legal right to discuss.
+ rt Lge
——The Porter plan of making sep-
arate. reace with Germany differs from
the Kinox scheme in language but they
are equally vicious in principle and
purpose.
— We have a new man to enforce
the Volstead law but no great im-
provement in results has been shown
thus far.
Senator Harrison Wants to Know.
Senator Harrison, of Mississippi, is
anxious to know why Admiral Sims
has been rebuked and Ambassador
Harvey allowed to go uncensured. It
is the old, old question of fish or flesh.
Admiral Sims slurred a small part of
the American people. Ambassador
Harvey traduced the entire body.
Sims has been called to account. So
far as the public is informed Harvey’s
indiscreet speech is condoned or ap-
proved. It is a fair subject for inves-
tigation. The American people favor
a “square deal.” They are opposed to
discrimination. The action of the au-
thorities at Washington shows favor-
itism. Senator Harrison wants the
President to explain the matter to the
Senate and the country.
Senator Harrison’s complaint
against Ambassador Harvey is that
he said we went into the world war
because “we were afraid not to fight.”
That was an aspersion upon the moral
courage of the people of the United
States. That form of cowardice has
never been revealed. In a speech de-
livered in the South in 1912 Mr. Har-
vey acknowledged some sort of pol-
troonery in his own family. But it is
not a characteristic of tha American
people, as our war record from the be-
ginning clearly shows. In the Revo-
lutionary war, the war of 1812, the
war with Mexico, the Civil war and
the Spanish war, every demand upon
the courage of the country was fully
met. The Harveys balked in the Civ-
il war, but their action is no criterion
of the American spirit.
We fully agree with the action of
the Secretary of the Navy in censur-
ing Admiral Sims. Sycophants of his
type ought to be punished by universal
reprobation. But his offense was not
as great as that of Harvey, who ap-
parently enjoys the approval of the
President and the Secretary of State.
He not only aspersed the courage of
the country but put an indellible stain
upon the character of the people of
the United States. He said we enter-
ed the war for selfish and sordid rea-
sons rather than philanthropic and
that was a gross libel. But he has not
been rebuked. So far as the public
knows his calumny has been approved
by the President. Senator Harrison
properly wants to know about it.
——1In the I. O. O. F. band Belle-
fonte has a musical organization that
is a credit to the town. They gave
their first concert for this year in the
Diamond on Wednesday evening and it
was a musical treat for the hundreds.
It would have been.
who heard it.
more of a treat had it not been for the
unceasing stream of automobiles pass-
ing back and forth. The “Watchman”
believes in granting every automobil-
ist all rights and liberties within rea-
son, but too many drivers fail to ex-
hibit the same spirit of liberality.
During the first half hour of the con-
cert on Wednesday evening the writer
noticed one machine pass through the
crowd three times and another one
five times—just back and forth as if
they were the attraction on parade.
And every time an auto passed the
driver seemed to go to the extreme
in tooting his horn unusually loud and |
persistently long. Naturally it proved
quite annoying and to a certain extent
spoiled what under other circumstanc-
es would have been a most delightful
concert. To prevent any such annoy-
ance in the future the men who have
the concerts in charge should ask per-
mission of the borough authorities to
rope off the Diamond, either from
Howard to Bishop street and on High
street at Spring, or else from the al-
ley at Parrish’s drug store to the al-
ley at the corner of the Brockerhoff
house. It would only be for two
hours, during the concert and no right-
; thinking person ought to complain of
any little inconvenience the closed
' streets might afford during that brief
period of time.
——A delegation of some twelve or
more Italians, with bag and baggage,
arrived in Bellefonte on Monday from
Michigan on the hunt of work. Last
fall when the limestone quarries here-
abouts shut down a number of the for-
_ eigners departed for other fields of la-
bor and several of them journeyed to
the ore mines in Michigan. Now those
mines have either closed down or cur-
tailed their working force and the
Italian workmen came east on the
hunt of a job, landing in Bellefonte on
Monday. Unfortunately for them the
conditions are so little improved here
that there is no present demand for
extra labor.
——One thing may safely be said
about the Dempsey-Carpentier fight to
be pulled off at Jersey City next
month. Nobody cares a straw which
wins.
——The President might set that
figment of his mind, “super-govern-
ment” on the White House lawn as a
scare-crow.
| ——Read the “Watchman” and get
all the worthwhile news.
Big Crowd Attended Penn State
Commencement. ;
Twenty-five or thirty years ago The
Pennsylvania State College was con-
sidered an almost entirely local insti-
tution and in those days the annual
commencement was regarded by the
people of Bellefonte and Centre county
as an affair to look forward to with
anticipations of much social enjoy-
ment. Now, however, the College has
grown so large and so important that
its commencement season is more of
a state affair than local. In fact, it is
impossible to cover in detail every in-
cident in connection with its annual
commencement, as was the case years
ago. In those days several hundred
people were considered a big crowd
during commencement week; now they
count them by thousands. People
flock there from all parts of the State,
going by train and automobile, until
the hospitality of the College and
town is taxed to the utmost.
Such was the condition the past
week. Beginning as early as last
Thursday visitors began to flock to the
College but the greatest influx was on
Friday and Saturday. The program
for the week was carried out in detail
as published in the “Watchman” two
weeks ago, so far as the regular rou-
tine is concerned. One of the surpris-
es of the week was the two defeats ad-
ministered the State ball team by the
University of Pittsburgh. The new
president of the College, Dr. John M.
Thomas, was the shining
throughout the proceedings, preach-
ing the baccalaureate sermon on Sun-
day and delivering the commencement
address on Tuesday.
An important announcement made
on Monday by the board of trustees
was that they had requested architects
to prepare a permanent building pro-.
gram that will give facilities for ten |
thousand resident students, treble the
present accommodations. They also
approved an emergency campaign for
raising a building fund of two million
dollars by alumni friends of the col-
lege. Both actions were on the recom-
mendation of the new college presi-
dent, Dr. John M. Thomas, at the an-
nual commencement week meeting.
The quarter-million- for buildings
appropriated by the State Legislature
will be used to start a group of resi-
dence halls for men. Buildings erect-
ed with the emergency fund will aim
for the care and comfort of students
“and the State will be asked to provide
accompanying educational facilities.
The next Freshman class will be lim-
ited to eight hundred members.
Another announcement was that the
outgoing Senior class had assigned
insurance totalling $85,000 to the Col-
lege.
The graduates this year numbered
454, by far the largest class in the his-
tory of the College. James Edward
Weber, of Clearfield, was awarded
the highest honor, the John W. White
Fellowship giving $400 for advanced
study. Miss Helen E. Field, of Pal-
myra, N. J., won the second honor, the
Jonn W. White medal, valued at $50.
Included in the list of graduates were
twenty-four from Centre county, as
follows: po -
Robert L. Musser and Myles T. Wetzel,
Bellefonte; Homer W. Dudley, Blanchard;
William R. Ishler and James R. Stover,
Boalsburg; Miss Mildred ‘L. Wieland, Lin-
“den Hall; Pearl Bancroft, Mary A. Bulv
lock, Anne E. Conner, Herman G. Fisher,
Marshall S. Foster, Russell L. Foster,
. Joseph A. ‘Glenn, Florence E. Gray, Paul
M. Heverly, Alfred W. Pond, Ralph L.
Sackett, David L. Stadden, Myles L. Thom-
as, Curtis M. Watts, Charles L. Weber,
Ruth L. White and Mary Louise Willard,
! State College, and Lewis F. Rothrock,
| Port Matilda. :
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| Philipsburg is all wrought up,
| over the fact that the ‘“Allepopper”
' railroad, officially known as the Pitts-
| burgh and Susquehanna, is to be made
"a live wire institution for that town.
| Terminal buildings and railroad shops
{ are now being built in Philipsburg
"and as soon as completed, which will
| be in the near future, the shops at
| Ramey will be abandoned and all shop
i and repair work done in Philipsburg.
| This, naturally, will mean the transfer
| of the working force from Ramey to
i Philipsburg and to furnish housing
| accommodations the Hon. Charles H.
{ Rowland, president of the P. & S., has
laid out a miniature town adjacent to
the new shops and will erect twenty-
five double houses, thus furnishing ac-
commodations for fifty families. Each
house will have three rooms down-
stairs and two rooms and a bath up-
stairs, equipped with light and water.
With such a program mapped out the
people of Philipsburg should unite in
saying all hail, the Allepopper!
——“When rogues fall out honest
men come by their own.” The fight
among Republicans in Congress is en-
couraging.
——Harding is still afraid that
some body will come along in the
night and carry the government away.
——1If Grover Bergdoll can find any
woman to marry him he is welcome to
the wedding bells.
.| for the government. ~~
light |
—A West Readin etme 1
=
A
firm closed a& contract to_
—8eized by the federal prohibition en-
forcement authorities about a month ago,
Uhl's brewery and Widman'& Co's plant
in Bethlehem, have been given a clean bill
and next week will renew operations, the
restraining order having been lifted by the
government." «
—Howard G. McGowan, former member
of the Legislature and a prominent agri-
culturist of Berks county, was gored by an
angered bull on his farm near Harrisburg
Thursday and was only saved from death
by the timely intervention of his. wife.
McGowan - is reported to be in a critical
condition. .
—When H. B. Noel, supervisor of White
township, Cambria county, and a crew of
men were plowing on the new road from
I'rugality to Patton, they plowed out the
skeleton of an animal in a ravine along
Slato run. It is believed to be the remains
of a moose. The skeleton head measures
42 inches in length and 18 inches across
the eye pits. The skeleton is thought to
have been buried many years.
—George Taubel, manager of a hosiery
mill at Hatfield, Pa., has been fined $100
and costs on a charge of polluting a
stream in that vicinity and killing hun-
dreds of fish by chemicals flowing from
the mill drain. Taubel paid the fine under
protest and the case will go to court. The
mill owner denies the fish were killed by
any chemical in the mill wash. Taubel
was arrested by State Fish Warden Saylor.
— William Smith, of Chester, complained
to the police last Saturday that Katherine
2ubrig, a fellow boarder at his home, stole
his trousers. Katherine was arrested
along with five others in her home. She
said she was hungry and that Smith's
“pants” provided her with food. She sold
them for a dollar. She was fined $10 and
costs, along with the others, who were
charged with being inmates of a disorder-
ly house.
—A male jury in Venango county gave
Miles Mong a verdict for $3300 against
Miss Imelda McQuaid. Mong sued for
damages on account of injuries said to
have resulted when the woman ordered him
off an oil lease in Sugar Creek township.
The blows which she landed on Mong caus-
ed him to spend $600 with the surgeons
for repair work. That amount and $2700
for loss of earning power were allowed
him by the jury.
—Louis Sturgis and Benjamin Weir, of
Lancaster county, spent .a- day recently
fishing at the power station along the Sus-
quehanna. They aver they never saw so
many little eels before. They were three
inches thick on the water below the fish-
way. The fishermen scooped up between
three and four hundred of the “whipsnap-
| pers” and took them home, placing them
in a tub and later distributed them in the
| stream at Zartman’s mill.
—Although there is $1,000,000 in the
Schuylkill county treasury, it has been
found necessary to borrow $50,000 for tem-
porary purposes. The officials say the
“money in the treasury is appropriated for
highway purposes, and bridge building and
_ cannot be used for general purposes. So
{with a plethoric treasury, the county is
| compelled to pay interest on a new loan.
That county is erecting new highways and
| bridges on an extensive scale and large
. funds’ are required to be available,
|
—Blackbirds are reported to be unusu-
| ally destructive to growing corn fields this
i spring in the eastern part of the State.
They attack the tender plants and raven-
ously devour them almost down to the :
roots. It is reported that the Elizabeth
Farms manager in Lancaster county, has
employed three men to be on the alert
every evening and shoot them as they ap-
pear ‘on the tree tops.
caused the loss of hundreds if not thous-
ands of dollars in northern Lancaster i
county.
—With more than $150,000 in the treas-
{ury and current bills paid, Northumber-
land county's strong box is bulging with
' cash, according to Treasurer Phillips. Most
on unseated lands by the big coal compa-
nies. The Philadelphia and Reading Coal
& Iron company, the heaviest taxpayer in
, the county, paid more than $160,000 the
! past month and the Susquehanna Collier-
ies company more than $50,000, while the
smaller companies paid just proportionate
amounts.
—So soundly did Steve Mahlik, of Union-
town, sleep that his slumbers were not
! disturbed during the time required for the --
| removal, by the use of a block and tackle,
"of two trunks from his room. Unfortu-
{ nately, the trunks contained all the money
| Steve possessed, about $2100. Mahlik had
no knowledge of the disappearance of the
"trunks and his money until he awoke at
6 a. m. The robbers were in too much of” ’
a hurry to remove the pulley and ropes: :
| The empty trunks were found about 200 -
| yards from the Mahlik home.
— Swimming in the Susquehanna river
at Berwick, Howard Paden, aged 12 years,
saw a big fish lying on the bottom in about
six feet of water. He immediately dove
for the fish, and there ensued a struggle
in which he would have been drowned had
not his companion, James Pollock, assist-
ed him. Together they brought the fish to
the surface and then to the shore, where
The fish, a carp, was thirty-two inches
long and weighed twenty pounds.
—Mrs. Mary Clouser after fifty-one years
of active service as a teacher in the public
schools of Huntingdon, has been retired
and last week was given a surprise in the
gathering of a number of the teachers of
the public schools at the home of Mrs.
Clouser.
tendent Barclay with a beautiful bouquet
of roses and fifty-one one dollar bills—one
for each year taught—as a token of respect
and good wishes of her friends. Mrs.
Clouser will be placed on the retired list
after July 1st. She has an enviable record
as a teacher in the public schools, honored
and respected by that entire community
for her faithful service.
— Mrs. Ella Craig, aged 55 years, was
badly burned at Franklin, last week, while
her son, deputy sheriff W. Fred Craig,
looked on helplessly for several minutes.
Mrs. Craig's apron caught fire when tur-
pentine and lard for treatment of a pris-
oner, boiled over on a stove. She ran to
the cell compartment where her son was
looking after prisoners, but he could not
help her because as a matter of precau-
tion the compartment door is locked from
the residence side. The son directed the
mother where to get the key, and after
she brought it, he and a prisoner subdued
the flames. Mrs. Craig was so badly burn-
ed she had to be taken to a hospital.
They have already -
of this is due to heavy payments of taxes .
the Paden boy lay on it until it was too !
near dead to flop back into the stream.
She was presented by Superin-
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