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We are right on the threshold of
the last of the summer months.
© «This weather is distressing but
imagine what it would do to us if it
came in January. he
— Since the Volstead act has become
operative a new meaning has been
given to the word rob.
— Russia is sick and Russia a friend
would be, but when Russia gets well,
the devil a friend she’ll be.
—1If rear views were popular in por-
traiture many a dame of seventy could
palm herself off as seventeen.
Anyway Chief Justice Taft got
on the pay roll in time to draw a check
for the summer vacation period.
— Chewing tobacco may be a fil-
thy habit but the way some folks
chew the rag is positively vicious.
— The weather of the past ten days
has been wonderfully favorable for
farmers who have had grain to haul
in and oats to cut.
—If you want to be a candidate for
any borough or township office the last
day for filing your nomination papers
will be August 23rd.
—Jtis to laugh when a feliow
squirms far enough out of the uphol-
stery in an eight thousand dollar
Lim. to tell you how hard the times
are. .
Sandwiches were known to the
ancient Romans under another name
and we suspect that some of the old
stock is being sold under the new
name.
The impression that Judge Wit-
mer, of Sunbury, is the Penrose choice
for Governor is spreading rapidly.
The Philadelphia papers took it up on
Sunday.
— Tt is a slow and humiliating pro-
cess to train the skin that only silk
has touched for the past four years
to get accustomed to the harshness of
cotton again.
—The department of law and justice
can’t possibly be as much interested
in the proprietors of hootch caches as
are those of our friends who hope to
connect with some of it.
— The aeroplane fare from New
York to Atlantic City has been mater-
ially reduced; business having fallen
off appreciably since the crusade to
clean the shore resort up began.
— English society women have
abandoned smoking because it has be-
‘ come too common, you know, and
probably the habit of aping the Eng-
lish on this side, which many of us
have decried for years, will now prove
a blessing.
— With Japan showing signs of re-
ally wanting to sit in at the disarma-
ment game and Soviet Russia ex-
pressing a tentative willingness to
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other injuries, Mrs. Ida Rholf, of Fayette
county, has filed suit for $10,000 damages
against Mrs, Elizabeth: Sprowl, keeper of
the sheep.
Mrs. Rholf says she was. at-
tagked by the ram while walking on the °
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
| public highway: The suit charges negli-
| gence in allowing the ram to roam." >
—Alleging that a liquid mole remover
VOL. 66.
BELLEFONTE, PA., JULY 29, 1921.
applied in a careless and negligent man-
ner permanently disfigured his face, Har-
NO. 29.
old H. Murphy, of Philadelphia, ‘has
Grange Opposes Constitutional Con-
vention.
The Legislative committee of the
State Grange has issued a timely
warning to the farmers of Pennsylva-
nia, against the proposed constitution-
al convention. After characterizing
the law providing for the convention
as “very objectional legislation,” the
‘statement of the committee adds:
“Never has the fundamental law of
the State been so viciously attacked
as is proposed in this act. The consti-
tution of the State is the Bill of
Rights of its people, and its revision
should only be accomplished by the
most fair and open processes. For
the following reasons it becomes our
duty as the Legislative committee of
the State Grange, to earnestly advise
fluence at the September primary
election to defeat the plan for the
holding of a constitutional conven-
tion.”
The reasons given are not new to
the readers of the “Watchman.” Some
weeks ago they were expressed in
these columns. But they are so true
and timely that they deserve repeti-
tion. “The time is not favorable for
deliberate judgment on so important
a matter,” the committee declares.
“Distress, unrest and uncertainty are
everywhere, and these distempers
could not fail to be reflected in the
work of a constitutional convention.”
This is a sufficient reason for opposing
gives other
Election of delegates ought to be By
Legislative rather than Congressional
districts, the Grange officials allege,
ty-five delegates by the Governor
would be. without precedent in the
| United States,” and “it would place
{in the convention delegates not elect-
' ed by nor responsible to the people.”
i What purpose, sinister or otherwise,
. the Governor has for asking the peo-
i ple of Pennsylvania to confer upon
| him this extraordinary power of con-
| trol of a convention to frame a funda-
i mental law, has not been revealed. It
| is almost equal to requesting author-
| ity to direct the destinies of the peo-
i ple for half a century, for that is
| about the liffe'#6f a ~ constitution in
| Pennsylvania. # But this is not the
our people to use their votes and in-
the convention but the committee.
reasons equally sound.
and finally “the appointment of twen- |
"Coal Tax Law to be Tested.
The Department of Justice of the
State is preparing for an early judi-
cial test of the constitutionality of the
recent Act of Assembly levying a tax
on anthracite coal. Some years ago
a similar law was passed and approv-
"ed but after the coal producers had
“collected several million dollars from
the consumers the act was declared
uneonstitutional by the Supreme court
‘on the ground that it was class legis-
lation. The price of coal had been in-
ased to cover the tax two or three
& over and it was expected that
the money would be refunded after the
"was invalidated. That expecta-
tiont was disappointed, however, and
the excess price has been continued
' ever since.
| What reason the recent Legislature
“had for assuming that the court will
revajse itself in interpreting the law
this* year has not been revealed.
{ Thete is no material difference be-
| tween this law and the one declared
void. Both levied tax on anthracite
{ coal and left all other kind of coal un-
| taxed, thus clearly discriminating
| against anthracite coal. Both are ob-
| noxious to that provision of the fed-
| eral’ constitution which forbids levy-
ing tax on exports of products. And
the Legislature was admonished by
the previous decision of the Supreme
court that such legislation will not
stand. Yet the Legislature passed
the law’ and the Governor approved
it. “And carrying the analogy a step
further the price of coal has been in-
creased since the approval. :
» late Senator Quay, in one of his
Mellon’s Reasons Unsound. !
Secretary Mellon’s reasons for op-
posing the soldiers’ bonus bill will not
stand the test of careful analysis. He
says it would embarrass if not actual-
ly bankrupt the treasury to pay the
soldiers some $300,000,000 in 1922 and
about a similar amount in subsequent
annual payments covering a period of
eight or ten years. But he is willing
and even anxious to pay the railroads
$500,000,000 right away and fund or
cancel European war debts to this
country to a vastly greater amount.
The interest due on foreign loans
would not only cover the expenditures
of the soldiers’ bonus, but leave a
large balance in the treasury. Why
let the soldiers suffer in order to ease
up on European debtors? ;
Of course the European govern-
ments recently engaged in war are in
financial straits. But the soldiers who
saved those countries from a worse
fate, or at least many of them, need
money. And the debtor European na-
tions have other means of everting
the dangers and inconvenience of pov-
erty. They can cut down expenses
sufficiently to meet the interest ac-
count on their indebtedness. France
is maintaining an army almost on a
war footing. Great Britain is spend-
ing more money on her army and na-
vy than before the war and lending
with a lavish hand while unable to
pay even the interest on money ad-
| vanced by the government of the Unit-
ed States, when it was a matter of
national life or death. '
It may be a wise policy to help
trading communities to a safe and
“sound financial position if there is a | perigdical diatribes against. offending
. reasonable hope that commodity ex- | members of his own party, insinuated
| changes and commercial intercourse | that the Supreme court bench was fill-
‘ will work reimbursement. But we are | ed bf catapulting unfit men into the
buildi.g a Chinese wall of tariff taxes
, At the time the other coal tax
about this country - which will make
“was declared unconstitutional
trade relations and commercial trans- | ther i was one Dem ~vat on the bench,
actions with the outside world impos- | the late Justice Mc ezat, who had a
sible. Without opportunities to reach | who some habit of insisting on cor-.
foreign consumers our factories will
soon be obliged to shut down and in-
dustrial paralysis become inevitable.
And for what reason? Because Pres-
ident Harding and Secretary Mellon
want to cultivate friendly social re-
‘lations with the people of Eengland
and to-accomplish that -are-willifig to
sacrifice our interests.
Sinc2 that. time Mr. Mestrezat has
| “joined the vast majority” and the
court is now unanimously Republican
and ‘mostly filled by the catapu 2
metftod Can it be that assu has
a ion thatiit
Ye
event the machine
creased revenue.
0
any
n in-
is depending 0
rect legal interpretation of laws.
take some advice from the rest of the | greatest evil in the matter. As the
world really there seems to be some Grange committee states the appoint- :
—Of ‘course mild methods some-
signs of the dawn of peace.
—OQur misrepresentative at
coat.
ing more than a “slap-stick.”
— When you have a picnic dinner in
the woods don’t leave egg shells, wax-
ed paper, empty shoe-boxes, paper i lic service in saying so.
plates, fruit rinds, etc., as a monu- |
Some |
e may be looking for a lovely | that “a wife cannot steal from her : be said to have
ment to your thoughtlessness.
body els
spot for a picnic and not realize what
attractions the one you used had be-
fore you marred it so. Besides, paper
and other litter in the woods often
help forest fires in starting and breed
flies as well.
—The State Grange has gone on
record as being opposed to the calling
of a constitutional convention at this
time. The reasons it advances for the
opposition are practically the same as
those that the “Watchman” has been
urging for months. The farmers of
the State are vitally interested and
they would be well advised if they
were to follow the suggestions that
have just been made public by the leg-
islative committee of the Grange.
— Famine and pellagra are said to
be raging in the South because the de-
pressed condition of the cotton market
has reduced the standard of living
there to the point where many are
without food entirely and most have
been unable to procure that variety
that is needed to maintain a constitu-
tion hardy enough to ward off pella-
gra. While it is a sorry commentary
on the prudence of a section that three
years ago had so much money it
couldn’t find ways to spend it fast
enough, it is a fact, none-the-less.
Calls for help are already going out
and the Near East and other relief
movements should properly give way
until the nearer South has been fully
succored. :
—The earnings of the United States
Steel Co., for the last quarter were
the lowest that have been reported
since the spring of 1915, just prior to
the war boom. While no one could
expect any corporation to make such
showings as were reported from 1916
to 1918 the reduced earnings of “big
steel” are significant in that they re-
flect the impracticability of greatly re-
duced production at almost war-
boom costs, for only recently did
the steel corporations ask its em-
ployees to take their first reduc-
tion in wage. Judge Gary views
the situation hopefully. Optim-
ism helps a lot in getting back to nor-
mal, but we fear that many of our
great industrial concerns will find con-
siderable difficulty in readjusting, to
the economic consumption of a peace
time basis, plants that were extended
or built wholly for the waste of war.
the | convention by the Governor, is with-
court of St. James runs true to form : out precedent. Bestowing such power
when he wears a silk hat with a sack | on the Governor in this particular
The club with which President | ease would create a precedent, how-
Harding thought he was hitting his | ever, which is fraught with the grav-
predecessor has turned out to be noth- | est danger. It would not be wise to
| ment of delegates to a constitutional times produce results and the Presi-
. dent seems to have silenced Harvey
effectively in a quiet way. But a good
many people think an axe would have
. been the proper instrument to use.
create such a precedent. On the con- Fordney Bill Passes the House.
trary it is important to avoid it and
| the Grange committee performs a pub-
There are recreants in every. party
on all occasions but the six Demo-
{ crats in the House of Representatives
| in Washington who voted for the
——A New York court has decided A Fordney tariff bill the other day may
“gone the limit.” The
husband,” and a court in another : Pennsylvanian who registered in this
State has decided that a husband may ' class, Mr. Guy E. Campbell, lives in
chastise his wife for misbehaving. | Allegheny county, and probably im-
| agined that his constituents favor the
| absurd economic principles express-
red in the measure. The others are
| representatives of Louisiana and Cal-
: ifornia constituencies and were influ-
foremost Publicist,” is quite as enthu- ! enced by purely selfish considerations.
siastic in praise of President Hard- | Principles do not cut much figure in
ing’s proposed movement for disarm- | those localities. The mighty dollar
ament as he ‘is vitriolic in denuncia- | is the only magnet that draws them,
tion of the Versailles League of Na- and they are responsive to the jingle
tions. In a statement published in | of coin.
the New York World of last Sunday During the discussion of the meas-
Mr. Harden says the “Versailles [ure Mr. Fordney admitted that the
treaty of peace was a monument to | purpose of it is to exclude imports.
anger, and vengeance and internation- | That is to say, it is intended to elimi-
al jealousy,” while “the forthcoming | nate absolutely international com-
conference in Washington is to be an | merce. If that result is achieved this
open well where all may quench their | country is appproaching the most de-
Harden and Harding Agree.
Mr. Maximilian Harden, who is
commonly designated as “Germany’s
Tm
- — Those who worry because they
believe that Germany will control the
markets of the world show scant re-
spect for the genius and industry of
the people of this country.
Where Are the Candidates?
So far there doesn’t seem to be any
great rush of candidates for the office
of burgess in Bellefonte as successor
to the present incumbent, W. Harrison
Walker. Of course the office is en-
tirely in the “honor” class and past
experiences of those who have filled
it have not been of the kind
that places a halo around the head of
the presiding genius. It may be a dis-
tinction when a man is away from
home to be known as the burgess of a
town that has furnished three Gover-
and damned if you don’t” job at home.
Then there is the office of borough
councilman. The old members, whose
terms expire this year, have so far
shown no great activity as candidates
to be anybody who wants to dispute
their right to continue in that capac-
ity. But there is still plenty of time
for all who may aspire to either of
the above offices, as the last day for
Sine nomination papers is August
23rd.
nors to the great State of Pennsylva-
nia but a thankless, “damned if you do |
for re-election and there doesn’t seem
thirst and where none can deprive a
neighbor of indispensable treatment.”
In this estimate he appeals to his
hopes rather than his reason.
This may be accepted as the Ger-
man interpretation of the subject. Mr.
Harden is a German through and
he was not always in accord with the
plans and purposes of the Kaiser and
the militarists who surrounded him
and influenced his official actions.
But he never faltered in his national-
ism and frequently acquiesced in
things he knew to be wrong because
they expressed the policies of the Ger-
man people. In other words, he be-
lived in the precept of another nation-
alist who declared as a sublime prin-
ciple: “My country right or wrong.”
But Mr. Harden has expressed the
views of a majority of the Republi-
cans of this country quite as accurate-
ly as he has voiced those of the Ger-
through. Before and during the war
structive industrial paralysis in the
history of the world. During the last
decade fully one-fourth of the pro-
ducts of American factories, mills and
soils have been sold in foreign mar-
kets. Even with this foreign demand
we have not been able to find market
for all our products and more than
one-third of our productive capacity
has been idle or wasted. If the for-
eign market is cut off entirely, the
idleness will vastly increase and dis-
| tress multiply.
The chances.are, however, that the
measure will be defeated in the Sen- |!
ate. President Harding favored its |
| passage in the House but his mind
‘changes over night and somebody cap-
“able of thinking coherently may get |
his ear before the bill gets out of the
. Senate committee. Not long ago Sen-
, ator Penrose, who is chairman of the
‘Senate committee, declared that his
——1It is said that the corn and rye
crops are fairly abundant but with the
| Eighteenth amendment and the Vol-
stead act in operation what good is
there in such abundance. :
——1It seems that Dempsey has nev-
er voted and as he escaped the draft
by somewhat devious methods he may
be characterized as an all around
slacker.
——The sea shore hotels complain
of poor business this year but that
was to be expected. The silk shirt
makers have also noticed a decline in
demand.
——1It is a perfectly safe bet that
the international disarmament confer-
, mind has undergone a change on the
man people. Senator Philander C. | tariff question. The late President
Knox, who will be a candidate for re- | McKinley changed his mind cn the
election to the office of Senator in | subject before he died and it is not
Congress for Pennsylvania at the com- | improbable that enough other Repub-
ing election, protested against the lican Senators have seen the light to
Versailles treaty in almost the iden- | postpone for a considerable time and
tical language employed by Mr. Har- | modify the measure or defeat it.
den. All the other Senators who vot- There have been great changes in re-
ed against the ratification of the Ver- cent years.
sailles treaty ‘inferentially adopted | ree ren
the same idea of the subject and the —— Temperance is admirable in
only advantage the proposed confer- ' every respect but it looks as if the
ence has over the other, with respect enforcement of prohibition will be as
to disarmament, is that it delays the | expensive and long drawn out an en-
consummation se “devoutly to be | terprise as Great Britain's struggle to
! wished for.” govern Ireland.
ence is simply a back alley way into
the League of Nations.
— ee —
——The Fordney tariff bill is not yet
law but it has progressed far enough
i to cause a considerable advance in
prices.
|
pe sare.
——The fellow who paid thirty dol-
lars for a seat at the Dempsey fight
has no valid excuse for not paying his
rent.”
}
| ——Probably a course of treatment
for locomotor ataxia would help Con-
| gress in its legislative progress.
brought suit against Guy Girillo, a barber,
for $5000 damages. ‘.Murphy contends Gi-
rillo prevailed upon him to take the treat-
ment six weeks ago, while he was getting
shaved. The moles are gone, he alleges,
but the liquid burned blemishes in his
face. 8 : EAA
—One man is dead and six others are in
a serious condition as a result of drinking
“white mule” at a party in a woods near
Blaine City, Clearfield county. “Wade Har-
kins, aged 37 years, of Blaine City, died ’
last Wednesday. Harkins and the others
were on a picnic, and one of the men went
for some booze. After drinking almost a
gallon of the liquor he obtained, the party
became unconscious and were found a
short time later.
—Within twenty minutes after a crime
is committed in Pittsburgh, news of the
deed and descriptions of the ¢riminals will
be in the hands of police throughout the
United States and Canada, officials of the
Department of Public Safety of that city
announced last Friday. The Department
|
Haiiling Down “Old Glory.” =
| sian :
2
rom the Philadelphia Record. Ti
The shipping Board has seized five
steamers which it had loaned to the
United States Mail Steamship compa-
ny on the ground that the company
hadn’t paid the rent of them. But
what has that got to do with it? Are
we running a merchant marine for the
sordid purpose of making money; or
to keep © ld Glory on the Se
Seas?” Senator Jones, who wrH
laws about the merchant marine; Savs
we've got to have a merchant marine,
whatever the cost may be. He is will-
ing to pay subsidies. Of course, we've
got to have subsidies, millions of
them.
If it costs more to build and
operate vessels under the American
than under the Japanese or the Greek
or the Norwegian flag, the Ame!
taxpayer has got to foot the bill.
can’t expect the United State: 1
Steamship company, or anybody else,
to incur the enormous expense of | has arranged with a manufacturer of wire-
keeping “Old Glory on the Seven jless apparatus to use a powerful trans-
Seas.” : iagie mitting “set” to flash the details of crimes
One way of meeting the deficits in-
curred by corporations that undertake
this expensive task is to pay subsi-
dies. But that amounts to very little.
Congress would be afraid to vote sub-
sidies of several hundred million dol-
lars, and last year it cost the Shipping
Board $380,000,000 more than the
earnings to keep “Old Glory on. the
Seven Seas.” Thirty years ago Con-
gress voted what was regarded as a
pretty liberal scale of subsidies; but
all, or almost all, the lines that took
advantage of it, except the American
Line, afterward a part of the Interna-
_ tional Mercantile Marine, gave up
their subsidies; the cost of Keeping
“Old Glory on the Seven Seas” was.
~ more than the subsidy. The American
Line got $4 per mile on the outward.
trip, say $13,000 a trip, and has con-
tinued the service, but complained
that it was inadequately paid. ~~
It is pretty easy to keep the British
and the Japanese and the Dutch flags |
on the Seven .Seas—probably they"
could be kept on 17 seas. They cut
their expenses to what they can earn,
~and they come into our ports anc
. seek cargoes that they are anxious to
~carry to any part of the world where
there is water enough, at rates that
our shipping men have difficulty in
meeting. But Congress tells o
in that city to the’
cities.
— Professor J. 8. Gottlesbein, choirmas-
ter at St. John the Baptist Catholic church, *
of Pottsville, on Saturday saw a string
sticking up from the ground in his yard.
Pulling on it, he drew out of the earth a .
bag containing $309 in gold. A wealthy
family formerly occupied the home where
‘the professor lives, at No. 1009 Howard av-
enue, and it is believed the money was bur-
ied treasure. For years it reposed nearly
on the surface of the ground, ready for
any one to pick up. '
~The finding of three large deposits of
calcareous marl in Franklin county within
the last few weeks, a second deposit in
Huntingdon county and the knowledge
phat beds exist in Erie and Tioga counties |
‘gives assurance that a large number of
Pennsylvania farmers have opéned to them
an unusual and good supply of agricultur-
al lime. The location of a marl bed in
northern Huntingdon county last fall by
extension representatives of The Pennsyl-
vania State College has led to greater in-
vestigation, with the result that thousands
of farmers will be benefitted.
authorities of other
—Magistrate J. J. Sweeney, who conducts
hearings in central police court, Pitts- |
burgh, bluntly declared last Saturday “that
he did not consider it an infraction of the
law for a man to carry small quantities of 4
shipping men what they must os | liquor intended for private use. At the
thors crews, and what they mus f Pennsylvania station: special policeman
1dit ¥ James “Waddell arrested a man calling °
fhem on 0. “salt horse
“plum duff,” and how much: spa
A and a
' on steel for the purpose of enhancing
| the prices of shipbuilding material,
I and the cost of keeping “Old Glory on
‘ the Seven Seas” is pretty stiff. Com-
| panies that are not very liberally paid
for the patriotic job tire of it and drop
it, except one or two companies that
| get the biggest pay and growl about
i its inadequacy.
This enterprising and patriotic cor-
poration, the United States Mail
: Steamship company, is keeping Old
' Glory on one of the seas. Apparently
_it does not get its money back, and it
j can’t afford to pay for the use of the
| himself “Smith,”
trate That Smith -was trying to sp
thirty Nalf pints” and ‘several “quarts of
whiskey in his luggage. Smith said he
was starting on a camping trip. The
liquor was restored to Smith. :
Waddell told. the
—The executors of the estate of the late
M. F. Elliott, of Wellsboro, former general
solicitor of the Standard Oil company, who
died a few months ago at Mansfield, have
filed their final aecount with the register '
of Tioga county, disposing of $500,000.
The only public bequest that Mr. Elliott .
made was the sum of $50,000 to the pro-
posed Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial hos-
pital at Wellsboro. After the specific leg-
acies, there remained $420,000 to be divided
| steamers. But what of that? It’s | among the residuary legatees in sums
the merchant marine that we want, | ranging from $16.21 to $18,271.30, of which
isn’t it? It’s “Old Glory on the Sev-
| en Seas” that we are pledged to, is it
‘not? Then why haul Old Glory down
because the vessels that fly it do not
earn expenses? Is that not the rea-
son why we pay subsidies, and a lot
of our patriots want to pay a lot more
subsidies? It only cost $380,000,000
last year. i
there were fifty-eight, all told.
—George Meily, of Lexington, Columbia
county, has three baby pole cats. They
were found by one of his sons after the
mother was shot. The little orphans were
given milk and bread and started eating
with a good appetite. They are black and
white striped and very pretty. They =are
becoming very tame and are frequently left
out of their cage, showing no desire to run
away. George says they will make pretty
and affectionate pets and will prove better
mousers than cats. They were successful- -
ly operated upon to remove the objection-"
able disposition for which they are noted.’
Farming Pennsylvania.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Urban Pennsylvania, complacently
consuming what rural Pennsylvania
provides, is imperfectly aware of the
enormous investment represented by
our farming interests. No other
State supports so wide a variety of
industries on so considerable a scale,
and it is Pennsylvania’s glory that
colossal manufacturing and. mining
enterprises co-exist with agricultur-
al interests of such magnitude.
Our farms are valued at $1,330,254,-
700, which is a gain of 28 per cent. in
a decade. Each farm is worth $6577,
if the average is struck.
The reason Pennsylvania has led
since 1756 in the production of iron
and steel and holds at the same time
so commanding a position in a multi-
plicity of manufactures and in hus-
bandry as well is not merely the opu-
lence of natural resources, wherein
the Keystone State is singularly fa-
vored. Other countries havé been
blest by Providence; and the inhabit-
ants have been too slothful and im-
provident to delve and plant. It is not
|so- in Penn’s plantation. We had
drones in his time and drones plague
us yet, but the greatness of the Com-
monwealth is chiefly due to a general
willingness to work, without which no
industrial supremacy or lasting social
felicity is to be won. :
— Theodore A. Boak, of Hughesville, last
week opened to the public the beautiful
trout pond grounds between Hughesville
and Muncy. The property recently came °
into possession of Mr. Boak through pur-
chase. He intends to give its use to the -
public free of charge, and to keep the
ponds, which were first stocked with trout
in 1872, well stocked as one of the attract-
ive features of the park. The ‘idea of pur-
chasing the grounds and preserving them
for the public's use was conceived in Mr.
Boak’s mind when he learned some months
ago that the fine stand of timber on it was
being cut down for lumber.
_Mr. and Mrs. Imro Broomall, Harry ’
Broomall and daughter, Miss Anna 8.
Broomall, all of West Chester, have insti-
tuted proceedings in the Chester county
courts against Samuel J. Miller, of Lancas-
ter, Pa., to recover $20,000 as the result of
an automobile accident which occurred on .
of this year. Mrs. Broomall was injured,
and her neck was permanently scarred.
Imro Broomall sustained injuries, includ-’
ing a fracture of the arm. Harry Broom-
all was prevented from going to work the -
day following, and as a result lost his po-
sition, while the daughter, Miss Anna, sus- .
tained a fracture of the collar bone. It is
charged that Miller was driving his auto-
mobile on the wrong side of the road.
Chance for Preacher Mayor.
From Town Topics.
If the Rev. Dr. Maitland Alexander
should be elected Mayor of Pittsburgh
what would happen? It seems hardly
likely the pastor of the fashionable
First Presbyterian church, who declin-
ed to leave it to accept the chancellor-
ship of the University of Pittsburgh,
would be willing to be Mayor of the
city should he be elected. Dr. Alex-
ander offers no opinion as to what he
might do. He listens a lot and talks
little.
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Normal Costs Solve Problem.
From the New York Herald.
The American ' farmer, like other
producers, is discovering that more
| normal prices do not spell perdition
when his costs are more normal.
—The army's champion eater returned
to Sunbury last Saturday with an honor-
able discharge, having eaten himself out
of a job. Samuel Ding, of Hartleton, Un-
jon county, enlisted at a Sunbury recruit-
ing station eight months ago and was sent
to Camp Jackson, 8. C. He came back un-
der escort of a corporal, who had orders
to be sure and get him home safely. “Why,
he ate the potatoes, skins and all,” said
the corporal. “Two loaves of bread and a
half-dozen helpings of meat were his sin-
gle meal capacity, and he cried all night '
the other night when he couldn't have a
meal at taps. That settled it. Sam got his
discharge, and I was sent along to see that
he got here safely.” Ding admitted that
he was “some eater” as he ordered two sir-
loin steaks with a double order of pota-
toes at a local restaurant.
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the Lincoln highway near Berwyn in June