mT
puvorva, Watcuem,
—
INK SLINGS.
—Really a person has some justifi- |
cation for “crabbing” when he is ask-
ed three dollars and sixty cents a
bushel for crab apples.
— There were eighteen thousand
acres less in farm land in Centre
county on June lst, 1920, than there
were on April 15th, 1910.
—A big annual reunion of Henry’s
family will be held at Grange park,
Centre Hall, next Thursday. There’s
going to be a rattlin’ time over there
when all the Lizzies get on the ground.
Complaint has been made that
in some places undertakers’ profits
run as high as 1000 per cent. The in-
tention is, probably, to make the cost
of dying as high as the cost of living.
— It will probably not be much of a
surprise but it is none the less in or-
der to announce that the new census
credits Centre county with having one
hundred and sixty-eight more asses
than we had in 1910.
The treaty of peace with Ger-
many was an easy matter. It simply
exacts all the advantages offered in |
the Versailles convention. But there
is comfort for childish brains in get-
ting under the canvas.
—Surely Lenine and Trotzky are
getting hungry. When they come to
the point of even considering the pay-
ment of the old Russian debts it looks
very much as though they fear that
famine has a strangle hold on their
regime.
—A physician in an eastern city
advises sufferers from hay fever not
to sneeze. Here is a doctor who ought
to be ranked with the notable pill ped-
dler of years ago who advocated cut-
ting a dog’s tail off close behind its
ears as a sure cure for hydrophobia.
— Bishop Berry believes that the
church is a hospital for the cure of
moral and spiritual ills and so do we.
But it is unlike other hospitals be-
cause it never fails in its cure of a pa-
tient who wants to get well and none
of the ills it ministers to are incura-
ble.
—Barnum’s old woolly horse had
nothing on the manipulators of the
Republican machine in Philadelphia.
And the voters of Philadelphia are so
like the gawks who crowded the great
showman’s big top years ago. They
just fall over one another in the
scramble to be fooled.
—A few years ago the normal fed-
eral tax per family of five was thirty-
three dollars. Today it is two hun-
dred and fourteen dollars and eighty
cents. The war pushed it up and War-
ren Gamaliel promised to push it
down, but we haven't noticed any
strenuous heaves in that direction
yet. - a
—If the miners of West Virginia ig-
nore the constituted authority of that
sovereign State and go into actual re-
bellion against the proclamation of
President Harding calling upon them
to disperse and go to their homes what
else can they expect than such treat-
ment as is necessary to suppress out-
lawry.
—A lot of the ladies who rode the
yellow busses and carried the yellow |
banners in the fight to get the fran-'
chise became obsessed with the idea
that it was the dearest thing obtaina-
ble. But, really, they didn’t think it
was going to be as dear as two dollars
and a half until after those tax notices
were sent out.
—My, oh my! The spectacle of
boys of twelve to fifteen years gam-'
bling with real money on the streets
of Bellefonte, and on Sunday, is
shocking to some of us older sinners
who recall our earlier Sabbath dese-
crations as having been in the form
of turning flippers on the sawdust
piles in Crider’s lumber yard.
— Aside from the fact that Septem-
ber is more or less dignified because
of its being the month that the writer
selected as the one during which to
make his entry on
has been fraught with considerable in-
terest. We are wondering if on the
14th, our birthday anniversary, we
will be old enough to know better than
to believe that council was really res-
olute with the tax collector on Sep-:
tember 1st, the date it resoluted to be
resolute.
—Report has it that Mr. Zerby of-
fered to withdraw from both tickets
in the triangular contest for nomina-
tion for burgess of Bellefonte if Mr.
Walker would withdraw from the
Democratic ticket. Inasmuch as the
Zerby candidacy never was and is not
now likely to cut much of a figure the
only interest we have in his reported
proposal is in the amusement it af-
fords. Mr. Zerby must still have the
reorganization bear by the tail and not
being minded to let go essayed the re-
organization of Mr. Walker.
— Just as we had hoped the fight for
burgess of Bellefonte is going to pro-.
duce a lot of fun for those with their
ears to the ground. Already it is be-,
ing whispered in Mr. Walker’s behalf
that his election will mean a liberal
Sunday and a continuation of punch
boards and gambling on the streets.
On the other hand Mr. Johnston is an-
nounced as being opposed to all these
things and in favor of an air-tight
Sunday. We have not interviewed
either gentleman as to the credibility
of the statements that their advocates
are making, but no matter whether
they affirm, refute or modify the rela-
tive positions stated the campaign is
on and the aspirants’ friends are
building their platform under them.
this mundane
sphere our anticipation of its advent
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
1921.
4.
VOL. 66.
Selfish Reason for Support.
It transpires that Mrs. John O. Mil-
ler, chairman of the Pennsylvania
League of Women Voters, has a selfish
interest in the proposed constitutional
convention. It is current gossip
that she has been promised a seat
in that august body by appoint-
ment under the provision of the Act
of Assembly which authorizes the
Governor to name twenty-five of the
delegates. That would be a very great
distinction. It would not only make
her one of the first delegates to a
constitutional convention in the Unit-
| ed States by appointment, but one of
the first, if not the only woman dele-
gate to a constitutional convention in
| the history of the world. It is small
wonder that Mrs. Miller imagines that
the convention is an essential to pros-
* perity.
But the tens of th®usands of other
' women voters in the State have no
‘such incentive to work for a constitu-
' tional convention. The tens of thous-
ands of women of Pennsylvania, the
' wives, mothers and daughters of me-
chanics and laborers, will derive
' neither honor nor benefit from a con-
: vention assembled when “the times are
out of joint,” under the auspices of a
political machine organized “of the
corporations, by the corporations and
for the corporations.” The forces be-
“hind the movement are constantly
striving to restore labor conditions
and wages to the levels that prevailed
| before they were rescued from the
| . .
‘slavery of autocratic power and their
| hope of success lies in a new consti-
"tution.
| Meantime what does Mrs. Miller or
any other advocate of a constitution-
al convention find wrong with the
present constitution so impelling that
it can not wait a more suitable time
for correction? The State is practic-
ally bankrupt and a constitutional con-
vention will cost a million dollars or
more. Later on, say four or five years
hence, conditions may be more favor-
able for the important work of fram-
ing a new organic law and the treas-
ury in better shape to meet the ex-
penses. The present constitution will
serve the purposes for which it was
made by the greatest body of men ever
assembled in Pennsylvania until then,
and though”Mrs. Miller may not be a
member of it then there are other
women qualified.
1
—— General Wood has about decid-
ed to resign his army commission in
order to qualify for the office of Gov-
ernor of the Philippines. That would
indicate that the Governorship is some
job.
German War Lord Encouraged.
Maximillian Harden, the famous
German editor, writing for the New
York World states that “the official
“signing of a treaty of peace with the
: United States has coincided with a
demonstration in Berlin for ‘the next
war, and Ludendorf, the man who
brought misery to the German people,
is the inspiration of a host of march-
ing ‘goose steppers.’” Why not? The
War Lords of Germany have had no
such triumph since the destruction of
the battlements at Liege gave them an
open way for passage through and
devastation of Belgium. “Meanwhile
the political danger grows,” continues
. Mr. Harden, “and one hears increasing
talk on the streets of ‘not only the
next war, but the next Emperor.” ”
The separate treaty with Germany
ment framed at Versailles. It binds
Germany to every condition named in
that treaty and specifically exacts for
ed in the Versailles treaty. But it is
cause it indicates a disagreement
among the victorious allies and justi-
fies the hope that in the event of
another encounter the antagonists
would be weaker. That is why the
thoughts of another war and another
Emperor were aroused by the official ‘
signing at Berlin of the separate
treaty of peace with Germany. That
is why the signing had “coincidence
with a demonstration for the next
war.”
a public speech that entering into a
separate peace with Germany would
be an infamous act. There was a spe-
‘cific agreement among the European
allies that neither of them would make '
‘a separate peace with Germany and
the United States inferentially agreed
to abide by that policy. When Russia :
violated the agreement every Ameri-
can heart was stirred with indignation |
at the perfidy. But now that we have |
taken the same course those who were |
' most vehement in denunciation are en-
_dorsing it and eulogizing the wisdom
' which brought it about. But history
" will correctly appraise the action and
' posterity will justly condemn the per-
dy.
|
i ——We hope the Congressmen are
enjoying their vacations ‘but the signs
"are not favorable.
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 2,
i Lodge and the Conference.
We can’t understand why some of
our esteemed contemporaries are so
persistently and earnestly pointing
out to President Harding that the ap-
' pointment of Senators in Congress to
seats in international conferences is a
violation of the constitution. It is
true that the constitution declares that
“no Senators or
was elected, be appointed to any civil
office under the authority of the Unit-
States which shall have been created,
or the emoluments thereof shall have
been increased, during such time.”
But President Harding doesn’t take the
constitution seriously. He has the late
Tim Campbell’s view of it which was,
“what’s the constitution among
friends.”
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts,
has an inordinate ambition to meddle
in foreign affairs and mix up in inter-
national negotiations. Because Pres-
ident Wilson failed or refused to ap-
point him a member of the Versailles
peace congress he opposed the ratifi-
cation of the peace treaty. This fact
is so plainly established that it needs
no proof. Senator Lodge was enthu-
siastically for everything expressed in
the treaty until the American dele-
gates to it were appointed. Then,
even before he knew what it contained,
he began organizing an opposition to
the ratification. Harding being some-
what of a “dealer” himself, conclud-
ed to “cinch” the support of Lodge by
appointing him a delegate to the con-
ference on disarmament.
Of all the available men for that
service in the United States Lodge is
probably the least fit. In the first
place he is not in favor of disarma-
ment. Either the paid or volunteer
lobbyist in Congress for the New Eng-
land producers of war materials, he
has labored assiduously and incessant-
ly to keep up armaments and keep
open opportunities for war. Besides
that he has shown a prejudice against
Japan' which absolutely disqualifies
him as an arbiter in affairs in which
Japan is concerned. But his senile
mind is soothed and his absurd vani-
ty satiated by his appointment and he
is willing to do, in the conference or
in the Senate, anything
Harding wants don
one.
Representatives
shall, during the time for which he
that President
Henry Ford’s Offence.
Henry Ford’s automobiles may be
|
“tin Lizzies,” as they are frequently
if not commonly called, and his rail-
road, the Dayton, Toledo and Ironton,
a “jerk water,” as some of his critics
call it, but Henry sells more automo-
biles than all the other manufacturers
in the country, and his railroad is get-
ting vastly more than its share of free
advertising from critics who are mov-
ed either by envy or jealousy. The
complaint against his railroad, now
being freely indulged in by experts
and managers of more pretentious car-
rying companies, is that his offer to
carry freight at much less cost than
others will demoralize the transporta-
tion business, and that he is influenc-
ed to it by sinister purposes.
The Dayton, Toledo and Ironton
railroad is a line of four hundred
miles, which under the management
of expert railroaders had fallen into
hopeless decay and impending bank-
ruptey. He bought it for what it is
actually worth, all water having been
squeezed out of the stock by adversi-
ty. After operating it for six months
he increased the wages of employees
and asked the Interstate Commerce
. Commission to allow him to reduce
freight rates by twenty per cent. This
is “the head and front of his offend-
ing.” But he gave substantial rea-
‘ sons for his action. In six months of
| operation he cleared $200,000, which
is more than a fair profit, and he be-
‘lieved it his duty to let the public in
on his juicy little pudding.
| The railroad experts at once resent-
| ed the implied aspersion upon their
capabilities. He was able to resusci-
| tate. a worthless property, they said,
| because his vast automobile business
. enabled him to give it tonnage that
had been previously divided up among
‘rival roads. Probably that is true.
; But as one of the writers on the sub-
jeet says, “the business has been there
, for many years. Why didn’t the tal-
.ented railroad directors who put the
iD. T. & I. in a hole, go after it?” Mr.
Ford's automobile business supplied
tonnage and with the opportunity he
, secured for his railroad sufficient to
, rescue it from bankruptcy and make
{it 4 successful enterprise. It will be
hai “to convince the public that was
i" "
——Lord Bryce criticized the Ver-
sailles peace treaty bitterly in his first |
speech before the Institute of Politics |
at Williamstown, Massachusetts, but
in his last address from the same ros- |
ene
The Columbia Record defines a
traitor as'one “who maintains that the
Fourth amendment is as worthy of
support as the Eighteenth.” That
may be a good definition because the
differs little from that of the imstru-'
gratifying to the German mind be-
In 1918 Senator Lodge declared in'
trum he said “it is the only plan yet
launched with a prospect of success.”
Tariff Bill Abandoned.
The Republican leaders in Washing-
ton have wisely decided to abandon |
the consideration of the Fordney tar-
iff bill for the present and take up the
question of tax revision. The Ford-
ney tariff bill was impossible. It not
only would have continued the high
cost of living indefinitely but it
would have practically paralyzed the
industrial life of the country.
vored monopoly and made corporate
mastery of the country inevitable. No
party, however strong at the time,
could stand the popular rebuke which
was certain to follow its adoption as
a party policy. The only escape lay
in the abandonment of the enterprise
entirely and the urgency of tax re- |
form afforded the me.ium.
But abandoning the Fordney tariff
measure and taking up the adminis-
tration tax revision bill is like “jump-
ing out of the frying pan into the
fire.” As the New York Journal of
€ y for Commerce states, “it is not a tax re- |
the United States everything contain-
duction or tax reform bill at all, but
merely a series of administrative
amendments, some of which are clear-
ly helpful, but many of which are of
doubtful wisdom.” The helpful fea-
tures are those which help rich men
by reducing the tax on excessive prof-
its and incomes. The doubtful fea-
tures are those which impose new tax-
es on those least able to pay them. It
is claimed that the tax reductions will
amount to six to eight million dollars.
But no part of it will work relief to
the average man.
ures in the hope of deceiving the pub- |
lic are at their wits end. The cost of
administration has not been percepti-
bly diminished and the reduction of
taxes on incomes and excess profits
will create a deficit which must be met
by temporary loans or increase of in-
debtedness. In fact provision is made
in the bill as passed in the House of
| Representatives for this method of
balancing the books at the end of the
fiscal year. It is an open fraud upon
| the public intended to operate suc-
cessfully until after the next Congres-
! sional election. Unless the public is
| hopelessly stupid it will fail.
| No doubt Charles F. French
| was familiar with the achievements of
! Ponzi and that fact proves that the
| + : :
| experience of one crook is no admoni-’
‘
tion for another.
It fa-
The high priced expert accountants '
who have been employed to juggle fig- |
Fourth amendment was adopted by
‘old fogies who believed in the Decla-
! ration of Independence.
i
|
1
Was George Marks Murdered?
Almost three months ago, or to
be exact on June 17th, the dead body
‘of George M. Marks was found in his
little home near Hannah Furnace. A
' coroner’s jury decided the old soldier
t had been foully murdered and from
| the condition of the body a physician
| decided that the crime had been com-
‘mitted some time previous, probably
‘several days. The location of the
{ Marks home is some little distance
‘away from other dwellings, in a sec-
tion of the county that is not densely
: populated, but at that it is a civilized
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Some years ago a writer on wars
and war causes said in substance that
in 4000 years of recorded history there
had been no more than 4000 days
when peace had been unbroken in all
parts of the world. The old globe is
rarely free of the Red Rash.
On the eve of the Disarmament con-
ference we are enjoying a period of
comparative world peace, but it is only
comparative. We are dreading the
“next war,” while a dozen wars, little
and big, are running their courses.
There is fighting in China between
the North and South; nor are these
mimic battles. Spain and the Riffian
tribesmen are locked in death grips
along the Moroccan seacoast. Brit-
ish forces and tribesmen are battling
in Mahsud along the northwest In-
dian frontier.
In Asia Minor, Greek and Turk are
continuing the immemorial battles
that have always raged between East
and West in this cockpit of the Near
East. Here is a war of first-class di-
mensions and over first-rate issues.
There is a truce in Ireland now; but
a few weeks ago Erin was a place of
bloody ambushes and gunfire in nar-
row streets. It may be so again. Up-
per Silesia is reasonably quiet now.
There is continual fighting in East-
ern Siberia, where old boundary lines
have dissolved and half a continent is
drearily fighting under the banner of
first one half-bandit and then another.
In a score of places in what used to
be Russia little wars are flaring up,
dying down and lighting up again.
The New World is comparatively
quiet, Costa Rica and Panama have
settled their little difficulty, but there
is a “state of war” in parts of Nica-
ragua.
The world is not free from the Red
Rash. It may never be immune en-
tirely; but the Disarmament Confer-
ence at Washington may help in build-
ing up a high degree of immunization
against the disease.
A One-Sided Treaty.
¥rom the Springfield Republican.
Mz. Wilson brought back from Ver-
sailles a treaty under which very just-
ly the United States assumed the re-
sponsibilities and obligations which its
high and decisive role in the war had
imposed upon it; those responsibilities
and obligations may have been ex-
cessive, but they did save cur country
from the reproach: of evadi &
rights, privileges, advantages and ‘rep- |
arations accruing to a victorious Pow-
er. This is the everlasting reproach
and shame enveloping like a nasty
mist the separate peace treaty just!
signed in Berlin. It claims everything |
in the shape of rights and privileges !
granted by the treaty of Versailles,
but of America’s responsibilities and
obligations it recognizes no jot or tit-
tle. Yet America by her intervention
‘with an army of 4,000,000 men in the
world war gave the decisive turn to
that vast struggle, and by her power-
ful representation in the Paris peace
conference helped to shape the fron-
tiers of a score of States and to create
a new public law of Hurope.
How far the United States can make
good its broad claims in this treaty of
Berlin to every right and advantage
that might have come to it by ratify-:
ing the treaty of Versailles, while re-
pudiating the least responsibility for
, that instrument or obligation to help
' course of time.
community and anything so unusual :
| as a murder ought to attract conmsid-
But so far as the
| public knows the death of George
' Marks is as much of a mystery today
'as it was on the day the body was
found. Immediately following the
| erable attention.
| finding of the body state policemen .
: and the county authorities investigat-
! ed several supposed clews but neither
! one amounted to anything. At the
' time some people living in the vicinity
tof the Marks home expressed the be-
‘lief that he was not the victim of an
| assassin at all, but in some inexplica-
'ble way had met with an accident in
. his own home which resulted in his
| death, notwithstanding the finding of
| the coroner’s jury. If he was murder-
' ed the man or men who committed the
deed succeeded in covering up their
tracks so cleverly that up to this time
“the authorities have failed to uncover
! any definite clue.
a a BRE
——The big squabble for the post-
i office at State College was settled
' when the Senate two weeks ago con-
| firmd the appointment of James W.
| Williams, notwithstanding the fact
| that ten or a dozen others were after
"the plum and presented what they
| considered priority claims. Mr. Knise-
ly’s appointment as postmaster of
| Bellefonte, it is reported, was confirm-
' ed August 23rd, but just when he will
take charge is not yet known.
——————— A ———————
| ——With the Grange encampment
| at Centre Hall next week and the
| teachers’ institute in Bellefonte there
will be plenty of diversion for every-
podr.
PRE———
| — Those who imagined that the
' cool days of mid-August indicated the
end of summer may swelter in the
' heat while figuring out their mistake.
enforce it, must be determined in the
One fancies our sa-
tirical critics abroad saying
their breath that this is a peculiarly
American enterprise.
of course, grant everything our gov-
ernment demands, but how can Ger-
many ever be coerced to fulfill her
contract in case some of the “rights,
privileges, indemnities, reparations
and advantages” specified in the trea-
ty of Versailles, repudiated by our
government, should slip through our
fingers?
With Millions
People.
Experimenting of
From the New York Times.
Signs have been multiplying for
months that Russian communism is
breaking down. The famine was only
the last push to an already tottering
edifice. In addition to the many con-
cessions and radical changes made at
Moscow, we have the open confessions
of Lenine and his understudies that
thet theories have proved inapplica-
"ble.
But the extraordinary thing in
the whole affair is the attitude of de-
tached and cold-blooded scientific ex-
perimentation which Lenine still main-
tains. In the letter to a friend in ex-
ile published in Saturday’s Times he
admits that nearly everything has
gone wrong in Russia, but writes: “I
am eager for time to verify my de-
ductions and theories.”
Not a word of the immense miser-
jes which the experimenter with one
hundred and eighty millions of human
beings has wrought. They were but
long
so much material for his laboratory.
The fanatic strain in Lenine for a
time convinced him that he was
' absolutely right, though all the facts
and all the world seemed to be against
him. He must pursue his tests to the
‘very end. Now he admits that they
have failed, and he appears to have no
impulse of remorse or even regret. He
‘ stands forth as the ruthless vivisec-
‘tor of the Russian people,
surveying,
the gigantic ruin that he
that his perfect theories could have so
egregiously failed to work.
under |
The Germans,
has made | the
with no emotion except. of wonder | on a strike,
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Walter Beltz, of Columbia county, was
severely hurt last Thursday night when
the team of horses he was driving ran
away and onc of the animals kicked him
in the stomach. Six weeks ago the same
team ran away and killed Mrs. William
Erdman.
—The Rev. H. D. Beishline, pastor of the
Jeddo-Milnesville-Lattimer charge of the
Methodist Episcopal church has announc-
ed his resignation effective August 31. He
will teach school at his old home in Fish-
ing Creek township, Columbia county. The
Rev. C. Albert Smith, of Kane, has been
named as his successor.
— Charles Hoffman, 16 year old abscond-
er, escaped from the Glen Mills reforma-
tory last Saturday. Hoffman was arrest-
ed in Memphis, Tenn., last month after he
had led the police a long chase, following
his theft of $4,500 from his employers, the
F. H. White company. A year ago he was
paroled on a suspended sentence after
forging checks to the amount of $1,900.
— Michael Kantnor, a blacksmith, of
Northumberland county, appeared in court
at Sunbury last week and asked to be per-
mitted to adopt six young children of
John and Anna Backus, neighbors, and it
was granted him. Kantnor has a family
of his own. According to the petition pre-
sented to the court the mother died last
year and the father has since deserted his
offspring.
— Mrs. Elizabeth Householder, of Lewis-
town, lives alone, does her own housework
and is in her 80th year. She is active and
lives very simple. She never remembers of
ever tasting meat, fowls or fish, though she
enjoys fishing and has already caught her
share of bass. She has been fishing at one
place near the dam for more than twenty
years, each season bringing out fish” when
others fail to find them. She says she has
always given them away—usually to the
sick folks of the village.
—John 8. Carroll, superintendent of Fay-
ette county schools, on the eve of the open-
ing session of the Fayette county insti-
tute at Uniontown, has relented to a cer-
tain extent in his stand on apparel of wom-
en teachers and various aids to beauty.
Mr. Carroll states that the teachers can
“wear ‘em rolled down” if they choose, but
that their knees should be powdered.
“Why, I would powder my own knees if I
thought that would loosen up the joints
any,” declared Superintendent Carroll.
—For almost four days a pocketbook
containing $490 jaunted around the coun-
try, attached to the running gears of a
coal wagon of Frank Shirey, of Ligonier.
The pocketbook was the property of John
Gunter, of that place, who placed the purse
on the wagon while paying Shirey for a
load of coal. Four days after the trans-
action Shirey discovered the purse while
hitching up his team and returned it to
the owner. Gunter had missed his proper-
ty, but could not remember where he had
laid it.
—A three part Y switch for the new mu-
nicipal street railway system of Toronto,
Ont., was needed by September 1. The or-
der reached the Lorain Steel company, in
Johnstown, last Friday morning at fen
o'clock. Not one of the thirty pieces were
in stock and in the first heat at the foun-
hry three of the manganese switches were
destroyed. Monday afternoon the switch,
one of the largest in use in the world, was
delivered in Toronto. It is believed a
world record for speed has been broken by
is achievement. Lorain Steel is a sub-
‘ligations while claiming al “possible. sldiary of the United States’ Steel corpor-
ation.
—A verdict of guilty was rendered in
the York county court last Thursday
against Harry Edwards, Albert Brown,
Thomas Haggerty and John Weaver, all of
Philadelphia, the young men who on April
first last, it is charged, attempted to shoot
and kill motorcycle officer Riley, of the
York police force, after he had placed them
under arrest for refusing to pay for gaso-
I line. They escaped into Maryland, where
! they were arrested by a posse, after a fifth
member of their party had been shot and
killed. They were sentenced to serve five
: to seven years in the penitentiary and pay
: fines of $500 each.
—Hunger and chill from the night fog
‘ forced the surrender on Sunday of Peter
| Walters, the man who shot fish warden
| William KE. Shoemaker, of Laceyville,
{ Thursday night of last week. After the
! shooting, which took place on Wyalusing
{ creek, in Bradford county, Walters took to
| the woods, stopping briefly at the home of
! relatives. Pursuit by the state police and
! bloodhouds kept the man so close in his
! hiding place that he was unable to get
food. Thirty hours of hiding was all he
i could stand, then he gave himself up to
sheriff Charles E. Dranke. Shoemaker has
a good chance to recover from his injuries.
| —Within five minutes after John Carpen-
| ter, aged 63 years, of Danville, remarked
! that he had nothing to live for and could
! not go too soon, he was dead, and James
' Cashner and Thomas Brady, also of Dan-
. ville, were hurt, Cashner probably fatally,
! one morning last week. They were work-
'ing on a road construction job between
' Bloomsburg and Danville and were caught
| under a fall of gravel. Five other men
! were also caught by the gravel, but not
! completely buried. Carpenter was instant
'1y killed and Cashner and Brady are in
Since Carpen®
he has been de-
; the Bloomsburg hospital.
| ter's wife died in May,
spondent.
Physicians in DuBois are seeking an
insect which is believed to have caused the
death of a woman in Indiana and the ser-
ious illness of a man of Sigel, Jefferson
' county. The victims are not able to give
: any definite description of the insect, mere-
| ly describing it as a small flying bug. Mrs.
i James S. Hileman, of Indiana, died two
‘days after being bitten or stung on her
[ lower lip. Shortly after the insect attack-
{ ed her the lip began to swell, and within
! twenty-four hours she was critically ill
! Thomas Callen, of Sigel, being treated for
blood poisoning, states that the insect bit
! him about two weeks ago. He was bitten
| on the right arm.
| —_The fame of Potter county's bears has
attracted the attention of filmland, and a
picture of a bear hunt in the wilds of Pot-
| ter county will be thrown on the screen.
| But only a part of the real scene will ap-
pear in the reel scene. One of the bears
captured in Potter county by state game
protectors for shipment to the preserve
near Johnstown was turned locse in a
guarded area to be the chief actor in a
bear hunt arranged in front of the movie
| machines, Everything worked fine until
after the bear had been “treed.” After that
bear got tired of the movie and went
refusing to come down off the
tree. It was necessary to cut the tree
down before the bear could be recaptured.