Bonito
INK SLINGS.
It looks as if China might be-
come the Ireland of the East.
—Truly the righteous are finding it
very hard to stand in the slippery
places about Bellefonte.
—“Marse” Henry Watterson is
gone and no one is left who can stir
up the animals with the finesse that
he did.
— Ever since having seen the police
raid in Bellefonte last week we are
wondering who is bossing our min-
ions of the law these days.
—The new Y will fill a wonderful
need in this community if our people
just lay it on their pocket-books a
little bit more and on their hearts and
minds a bit less.
—Let’s start 1922 with the deter-
mination to get back to the basis of
1913 living before 1923 dawns. If we
do that we will all be happier then
than we are now.
—Does anybody know where Vance
McCormick is hiding? We want to
lend him to the Republican party of
Pennsylvania during the inter-reg-
num.
—The two Philipsburgers who held
up the bank at Karthause are already
in the penitentiary where they will
have at least seven years in which to
discover that there is no royal road to
riches.
, —At last it has been discovered
what makes the hole in the Swiss
‘cheese. Gas makes the hole and the
lactobacillus makes the gas. What
a flatulent or garrulous little animal
this lactobacillus must be.
— The death of Senator Penrose
means more to Lodge than any of the
other of his colleagues. Penrose was
a stalwart of stalwarts and his pow-
er was always supporting the Massa-
chusetts Senator.
—1It remains to be seen how well a
lot of little fellows will do the work
of the one big boss of Pennsylvania
Republicans. Penrose will never have
a successor and his party machinery
will be in low gear often in the fu-
ture.
—A friend of ours chuckled too
soon over having met the New Year
by seeing the new moon over his right
shoulder. On his way home he fell
and smashed a pint that was sand-
wiched in between the ice and the
portion of his anatomy that lit on ic.
—That $2300 balance in the State
Treasury at the close of the old year
was the lowest amount of record, but
now that the State is beginning to re-
alize what an orgy of profligacy there
has been at Harrisburg almost it will
be willing to count the saving of even
$2300 as magnificent achievement.
—State’s football card for next sea-
son may turn out to be better than it
looks at first glance. Three major
games seem to be too few for a ten
game schedule, especially when the
minor games are so minor. But who
can tell? Penn may come through
with a real team next fall and then
there would be four majors.
—There is much speculation and
concern as to what will be the condi-
tion of the wheat under the veneer of
ice that nature has laid on the low
spots in all fields. Certain it is that if
it should freeze up again before the
ice is perforated enough to give the
wheat air much of the grain will be
smothered out by spring and the fall
promise of a fine crop will not be re-
alized.
—Governor Sproul’s declination to
resign and have himself catapulted in-
to the United States Senate has ele-
vated him considerably in public es-
teem. Had he secured the seat by
giving way to Lieutenant Governor
Beidleman there would always have
been the charge that he hadn’t the
courage to stick to his post when his
administration came under the fire of
those who are charging it with prof-
ligacy.
—When President Wilson was im-
portuned to extend executive clemen-
cy to Eugene V. Debs he replied:
“Were I to consent to it, I should nev-
er be able to look into the faces of the
mothers of this country who sent
their boys to the other side. While
the flower of American youth was
pouring out its blood to vindicate the
cause of civilization this man, Debs,
stood behind the lines sniping, attack-
ing and denouncing them.” On
Christmas President Harding did
what President Wilson had declined
to do before him and the mothers of
this country may think what they
will.
—You probably recall that in sev-
eral of the last issues in the old year
we stated that we intended soon to
present the name of a man whom we |
think could unite the Democracy of
Pennsylvania for the next guberna-
torial campaign and give hope of suc-
cess. One of our readers in DuBois
has written us to the effect that one
of our own townsmen ought to be the
man we intend naming, not merely
because of local pride but because he
believes he could get the votes. He
has named W. Harrison Walker and
says he knows “of six or eight votes
hed get right on our street.” We
know Mr. Walker is a vote getter in
Bellefonte and probably would make
just as capable a Governor of Penn-
sylvania as lots who have occupied
that exalted position but we are not
‘going to launch a boom for him. At
least not until we learn how long “our
street” in DuBois is and what per
centage of its total vote the “six or
eight” assured is. o
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VOL. 67.
Death of Senator Penrose.
The announcement of the death of
Senator Penrose, about midnight of
Saturday, came ds a shock to the peo-
ple of the country. He had been a
sick man for many months and a year
ago the statement of his death would
have caused no surprise. But during
the year which closed almost simulta-
neously with the ending of his life he
liad been so active in public affairs and
his intimates have been so persistent
in declaring that his health was being
restored, that nobody was prepared
for the announcement of his death. It
came upon him, however, and found
him literally “ in the harness.” His
last hours on earth were spent in the
fulfillment of his duties as a Senator
in Congress.
The public estimate of Senator Pen-
widely. Friend and foe will alike
agree that he was a man of fine abil-
ity and most people will agree that
his impulses were good. He began
his political career as a reformer.
Soon after his admission to the prac-
tice of law, admirably equipped in le-
gal as well as classical education, he
was elected as Representative in the
Legislature for the declared purpose
of promoting reform legislation and
his work fulfilled the highest expecta-
tions. His ability soon challenged
the attention of the managing poli-
ticians and as he passed from one
stage to another, always upward, he
chicane.
It is not our purpose to either con-
demn or condone his faults.
deserved praise has a dangerous in-
fluence on the public mind. Boies
Penrose was made a party leader by
the sinister elements in his party and
for many years he served those who
gave him the opportunity out of grat-
| itude. But during recent years the
; sentiments which inspired his early
service revealed themselves anew and
: on several occasions he manifested a
desire to serve the public rather than
ibe party machine. But he was a
| very bitter partisan and party exi-
gencies appealed to him more than |
| conscience. It may be said, however,
that he was personally honest and
that is something altogether worth
while and not always found in mod-
ern politicians.
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——If an English speaking alliance
should compel us to join Japan in a
quarrel with Franee who would un-
dertake to say at the tomb of Amer-
ica’s great benefactor: “Lafayette,
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we are here?
Not Likely to Bring in the Bacon.
The Washington Post, believed to
draw inspiration from the White
State Henry P. Fletcher as the suc-
cessor of Boies Penrose in the Senate.
Mr. Fletcher is a native of Franklin
county and has been a Republican all
his life. That is about the only argu-
ment which can be set up in favor of
the proposition without blushing. He
of President Wilson and subsequently
used the influence thus acquired to in-
jure his benefactor. That may serve
as a recommendation to Senator
Lodge and President Harding but is
not likely to commend him to the fa-
vor of any considerable number of
Pennsylvanians.
But the fact calls to mind one of
‘the points most persistently urged
against President Wilson during the
fluences from Germany and through
German sympathizers in this country
were active in efforts to involve the
United States in a war with Mexico
for obvious reasons. The representa-
tives of our government in Mexico,
heritages from the previous Republi-
can administration, were contributing
liberally to this purpose. President
Wilson removed the perfidious Am-
bassador and appointed Fletcher, who
appeared to be in full sympathy with
adopted the opposite view and in the
Presidential campaign became one of
the principal speakers against the
Democratic candidate.
The incident also calls to mind that
though the Wilson Mexica™ policy
was condemned as imbecile and con-
temptible by the entire battery of Re-
publican orators and newspapers, it
| has been adopted by the Harding ad-
, ministration and has resulted in the
i establishment of a peaceful, prosper-
ous and Stable government in Mexico.
| The adoption of the opposite policy,
l that of provoking war with Mexico,
| freely advocated by the leading Re-
| publicans of the country, might have
| prolonged the world war a considera-
| ble period of time and Mexico would
have continued in a condition of ban-
ditry for years to come. Mr. Fletch-
er’s part in this conspiracy will hard-
ly merit the reward of a seat in the
Senate.
rose’s services in official life will vary
was drawn into the toils of political’
No evil
should be spoken of the dead and un-
House, suggests Under Secretary of
accepted an important office, that of |
Ambassador to Mexico, at the hands
entire period of his second term. In-
the Wilson policy. But before he had |
been long at his post of duty he
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Limitation Conference a Failure. -
Signs indicate the final adjourn-
ment of the Limitations Conference
in Washington within a couple of
weeks.
eign delegates have already gone
home and others are preparing to de-
part. Yet we are unable to discover
any practical results of the labors of
the conferees. A month or so ago an-
nouncement was made that the for-
eign representatives had agreed “in
principle” to a naval scrapping opera-
tion by England, Japan and the Unit-
ed States. Later it was said that an
agreement had been reached upon
questions of difference between China
and Japan. But the President himself
has since declared that he doesn’t un-
derstand the provisions of this agree-
ment.
It may be said, therefore, that if
the conference adjourns finally with-
out accomplishing more than has been
claimed for it, it will have been sim-
ply a waste of time and money. The
scrapping of a certain proportion of
battleships while the building of air- |
ships and submersible craft is contin-
ued with increasing energy works
neither the saving of money nor the
promotion of peace. The signing of
a four power treaty, of the provisions
of which nobody has an intelligent un-
derstanding, is equally futile. But
the conference has served one pur-
pose. It has enabled President Hard-
ing and Senator Lodge to strut
around as if they were world figures.
| The other day the President gave
out a suggestion that it might be
necessary to assemble another confer-
ence to be composed of delegates from
* all the civilized countries of the world.
That would prove more expensive and
quite as useless. The League of Na-
tions is now successfully discharging
all the duties which such a conference
could possibly invent, and the only ra-
tional thing for the government of
the United States to do is quit fooling
the world, stop kidding herself and
join the League. Every intelligent
person knows that such an inter-
national organization is necessary to
restore prosperity and secure perma-
of this country from membership pre-
vents its completion.
ee —— eee.
State Treasurer Charles A.
Snyder has announced that he will
soon begin paying out the public
school appropriations, but owing to
the depleted condition of the treasury
it may be several months before every
school district in the State receives
its allotment. Centre county is cred-
ited with having 3138 teachers, 9,482
school children and its apportionment
'is $36,410 under the Woodruff salary
act and $27,952.50 on the general ap-
propriation, a total of $64,362.50.
eet ce pete ce
Auditor General Lewis has ap-
pointed Roy Chambers, of Clarence, |
son of former Republican county
, chairman David Chambers, as mer-
| cantile appraiser of Centre county for
the year 1922. The list of appoint-
ments for the State was announced on
Saturday. Last year the fees of the
mercantile appraiser in Centre coun-
ty amounted to $396.00, and he was
also allowed actual expenses incurred.
reer ell enema.
The Curtin station on the Bald
a flag station, effective January first.
Time was when this was considered
, among the important stops on the
' Bald Eagle road but the passing of
the furnace and rolling mill at that
place has put it in the has-been class.
| ——That Senatorial scandal start-
‘ed by Senator Watson, of Georgia,
| will never be settled right until Sena-
| tor Watson is kicked out of the
chamber in which he introduced the
| absurd charge.
The death of Senator Penrose
has destroyed a good many partisan
| plans and pulled up the anchorage to
| which prohibition officer McConnell’s
commission was attached.
The substitution of air ships
.and submersible craft for battleships
- will not diminish the chances of future
wars but it will vastly increase the
| atrocities of war.
pa id
——If the Limitations Conference
| develops a war between France and
| England it will have the right to
| claim that it accomplished something.
ce ————
——Happily the League of Nations
! maintains an “open door” and after
l all other expedients to prevent war
| have failed we can join the League.
ay ed
Washington society will be
unanimously in favor of annual inter-
| national conferences. They add much
to the social life of the capital.
| —=—A little extra effort in various
| ways will help amazingly to make
happiness and prosperity during . the
year just beginning.
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SEES
Some of the important for-'
nent peace, and that only the absence
Eagle Valley railroad has been made
i The Re-opening of the Y.
The re-opening of the remodeled
Y. M. C. A. building on January 2nd,
attracted many who were interested
in the improvements that have been
made and anxious to lend their sup-
port in making the Association a mil-
itant organization in this community.
From three o’clock in the afternoon
until ten at night the spacious rooms
were thronged with people. Those of
the visitors who had not seen them in
course of repairs were surprised and
delighted at the changes that have
been wrought. Throughout the after-
noon and evening there was vocal, in-
strumental and orchestral music by
the best talent of the town and the
ladies of the auxiliary served light
refreshments continuously. Some in-
dication of how well these were re-
ceived is had from the statement that
they made fifteen gallons of chocolate
in addition to the great boilers of cof-
fee that were working all the time in
the conveniently equipped little Y
kitchen.
As announced last week everything
was informal. No programs, no set
speeches, no hard boiled plan of pro-
cedure for any one. It was just a
splendidly enjoyable gathering with
the real Y spirit pervading.
Just before the hour of ten the
great crowd in the lobby reluctant to
, go insisted on a word, at least, from
| the president of the Association, the
‘Hon. A. G. Morris. Mr. Morris had
| steadfastly refused to make a speech
!'unless he could go after the people for
| money with which to pay the rela-
! tively small indebtedness and enough
to run the Y a year. It had been de-
| cided that nothing would be said about
| money on the opening day, but the
| president’s practical business training
iwould assert itself and he insisted
that it should be given expression.
That’s the reason he would not talk
untii just at the close, the day had
been so full of pleasure and there
seemed so much to reassure for the
future, that he responded to the ap-
. peal, for just a word, with a “good
night” talk that sent every one home
| feeling just right.
The Y building is closed to the pub-
lic and will probably remain so until
| the new secretary comes. It had been
‘hoped to have a temporary field man
from the State organization to keep
the building open until the permanent
| secretary comes but shortage of funds
| has cut the State’s force from fifteen
i to six men so that at the last moment
'it was found that none of them could
. be spared.
{ Bellefonte is after a combination
: man, the very best obtainable and for
| that reason it may be necessary to try
i out several before the one is found
| who can carry on the work successful-
ly here.
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; Slot Machines Confiscated.
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On Wednesday night of last week
| sheriff Harry Dukeman, policeman
| Elmer Yerger and Edward Hughes, a
{member of the state constabulary,
i raided three business places in Belle-
{fonte and confiscated slot machines.
| The first place visited was Clyde
| Blackford’s restaurant, but that gen-
| tleman evidently had been tipped off
' to the fact that a raid was to be made
"and got his machine off the premises,
but he surrendered the same the next
day. Machines were found and con-
fiscated at the Moerschbacher pool
room and at the pool room in the
Brant house conducted by W. W.
Bickett. Finklestine’s cigar store and
pool room was also visited but no ma-
chine found there. In addition to
confiscating the machines the various
proprietors were placed under arrest
and held in five hundred dollars bail
for their appearance at the next term
of court.
Those who have paid for their
subscription since December 1st, last
need not be concerned if they discover
that the label on this paper does not
correspond with their payment. We
have not had time to change the list
this week. It will be changed, how-
ever, before the next issue and if your
label is not changed next week to the
date it should carry, please advise us.
e—————— eee.
W. Harrison Walker, assistant
director of the eastern savings divis-
ion, has sent out appeals to start the
new year right by investing in gov-
ernment securities—treasury savings
certificates, which can be purchased
now in denominations of $20, $80 or
$800, with a maturity value of $25,
$100 and $1,000.
Every page of the “Watchman”
this week contains something of in-
terest to the general public.
——An alliance of English speak-
ing peoples without J apan would have
been an anomalous affair.
——1If Mr. Debs achieves the results
he promises he will earn the liberty
he is now enjoying.
JANUARY 6, 1922.
NO. 1.
Death of Henry Watterson.
Colonel Henry Watterson, one of the
country’s best-known journalists, and
former owner and publisher of the
Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, died
at Jacksonville, Fla., on the morning
of December 23rd.
Colonel Watterson’s death was un-
expected, though it had been known
for some days that he was ill. The
end came peacefully at 6:15 o’clock.
He was a native of Washington, D.
C., and was almost 82 years old. The
body was placed in a receiving vault
in Jacksonville and later will be tak-
en to Louisville, Ky., for burial.
Henry Watterson was one of the
last of the old-time personal journal-
ists. More than half a century his
editorials, with their brilliant, orig-
inal and phrase-making composition,
attracted wide attention. They were
commented on and copied by the press
of the nation. Besides his power in
molding public opinion through his
editorials, Watterson’s influence is
credited with having shaped the plat-
form of the Democratic party in more
than one Presidential campaign.
Of his personal career he recently
said:
“I came out of the war like many
of the young fellows of the south, a
very picked bird, indeed. In order to
escape the humiliation of borrowing
from a northern uncle, whose polities
I did not approve, I went with my
watch to an ‘uncle’ who had no poli-
tics at all and got $50 on it. Along
with two blanket-mates, who were as
poor as myself, I started, or rather
revived, publication of an old sus-
pended newspaper at Nashville. Noth-
ing could withstand the energy and
ardor which we three threw into the
enterprise. We were working for
bread, and had to have it. When we
began there were nine daily papers
struggling for a footing in the little
Tennessee capital. At the end of the
year there were but two, and of these
ours had two-thirds of the business.
After two years I was called to Louis-
ville to take an editorial position on
the old Louisville Journal, the paper
of George D. Prentice. Six months
later Walter N. Haldeman, who own-
ed the Courier, joined with me in
combining the Journal and Courier.
Incidentally this led to the purchase
of the old Louisville Democrat, this
publication losing its identity entire-
ly. That is about all.” . ~~ =»
In an editorial commenting upon
his death the New York World said:
Henry Watterson was the last of
the second generation of great Amer-
ican journalists.
The first generation included Hor-
ace Greeley, the elder James Gordon
Bennett, Samuel Bowles, James Wat-
son Webb and George D. Prentice,
mighty men who were the founders of
the modern American newspaper. In
the generation that came after, either
in time or the attainment of full ma-
turity, were Henry Raymond, Charles
A. Dana, Joseph Medill, Wilbur F.
Story, Whitelaw Reid, Murat Hal-
stead, Lawrence Godkin, the younger
James Gordon Bennett and Joseph
Pulitzer, all contemporaries of Henry
Watterson and most of them his warm
personal friends.
It was not by accident that Col.
Watterson, a “ragged Rebel,” as he
used whimsically to describe himself,
built up a newspaper of national rep-
utation in Louisville. Any paper ed-
ited by Henry Watterson, even in the
most obscure hamlet, would have
managed somehow to make its im-
press on the public mind, for he was
destined by fate for journalism and
politics. He was born with printer’s
ink on his fingers. He was brought
up in the atmosphere of Washington,
where his father was a member of
Congress and the boon companion of
Presidents. The White House was
young Henry's playground, and the
physical disability that wrecked what
was intended to be a musical career
caused him few regrets. His artistic
impulses battled for a time against
his political inheritance and then sur-
rendered gracefully.
Journalism was a profession to him
which he treated with distinguished
respect, but politics was a game to be
played for the zest of playing it. One
must not take it too seriously and he
must be a good loser as well asa
good winner. Above all, he must not
depend on it for his bread and butter,
otherwise one became merely a gam-
bler in government.
And so he went his way for sixty
years, fighting his battles bravely and
joyously, a holiday soldier singing as
he plunged into the thick of the fight,
bearing no malice and thinking as lit-
tle evil as it is given to men to think.
When the end came life owed nothing.
He had squeezed out the last drop of
experience and could face the Angel
of Death calmly and fearlessly as one
who, like Abou-ben-Adhem, had loved
his fellow-men.
To the World the news of Col. Wat-
terson’s death brings a sense of deep
personal loss. For forty years he was
the intimate friend and associate of
the late Joseph Pulitzer, and after
Myr. Pulitzer died he continued this
friendship with the men who carried
on the work of The World. He was
interested to the last in “the Dome,”
as he habitually referred to The
World office. He quarreled frequently
with the policies of the paper, wrote
most deliciously vituperative letters
in regard to.the matters with which
he disagreed, and remained to the end
a sincere critic and a generous, help-
ful friend. °
mrm—————— ener i.
—— The “Watchman” gives all the
news while it is news.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Announcement was made by the Haws
Refractory company that its plant at
Hawstone, employing about 300 men, will
be run at least 50 per cent. of the time,
beginning this week. This plant bas been
virtually closed down for the last six
months, : : 1
—One of the oldest woodcutters in the
South Mountain this winter is Andrew
Kuntz, of Idahville. He is more than 80
years of age. Probably no man in Ad-
ams county has cut more wood from the
hills and mountains in that section dur-
ing the past sixty-five years than he has.
—Appointment of a student pastor for
Pennsylvania State College was decided
upon last Friday at a conference in Har-
risburg of the Presbyterian synodical
home mission committee, representing the
State. A resolution to increase the home
mission fund for work in the State from
$40,000 to $100,000 was referred to a com-
mittee.
— More than two hundred property own-
ers have appealed from the increase of as-
sessments for taxation purposes made by
the Northumberland county commission-
ers. The increase in Sunbury alone to-
tals $1,000,000. The commissioners pro-
pose to reduce the county taxation 11%
mills from 6 mills, which they aver will
make the taxes about the same.
—One of Judge Cummings’ last official
acts in the Northumberland county court
last Friday was to parole Palmer Whee-
land, 28 years old, an actor, who had serv-
ed three of an eighteen months’ sentence
for theft. Wheeland’s mother, Mrs. Car-
rie Wheeland, died while eating dinner
that day, and the court felt that it was
the spirit of the New Year to grant the
parole.
—John G. Sell, of Hughesville, former
president of the North Branch Fire In-
surance company, was sentenced last
Thursday by Judge Johnson, of Union
county, to a year in the Northumberland
county jail. Sell was convicted of embez-
zling more than $36,000 belonging to ten
directors of the insurance company. He
appealed for a new trial but was denied
by Judge Johnson.
An order for twenty-five all-steel pas-
senger cars for the Hudson and Manhattan
Railroad line has been announced by the
American Car and Foundry company at
Berwick. This is the first passenger car
order in months, and will furnish work
for nearly four months. The announce-
ment declares the company’s belief that
the order makes the long-delayed entry of
railroads into the market for cars.
— Police of many cities have been asked
to search for H. BE. Marshall, a Sunbury
merchant, who suddenly disappeared last
week. He started for a bank with a large
amount of money and has not been seen
since. The bank officials say he had all
the checks cashed at Harrisburg and an
automobile he owned and left in a garage
there has not been touched. It is feared
by his family that he has been murdered.
—John Durner, 82 years old, a retired
farmer living near Martinsburg, Blair
county, has worn the same pair of boots
in winter for more than thirty years. They
never have been half-soled. The boots
were made for the Rev. Dr. F. A. Rupley,
a Reformed minister, by Daniel Ott, a
! Martinsburg bootmaker, but were too tight
for him and were sold to Durner, who
wore them when engaged in work about
the farm. 4
—Robert A. Henderson, whose petition
to institute a contest against the election
of Judge Thomas J. Baldridge as presi-
dent judge of the Blair county courts was
turned down by Attorney General Alter,
has received a copy of the decree of the
Attorney General. After studying it, he
will determine whether to begin mandamus
proceedings in the Dauphin county court
to compel certification of his petition to
the Governor.
—Convict A-11235, in the western peni-
tentiary, Rockview, has written Fred Ras-
mussen, Secretary of Agriculture, asking
for the last eleven agriculture bulletins is-
sued by the department. The prisoner
says he wants to engage in farming when
he leaves prison, and believes that by a
study of the agriculture bulletins during
the nine months he has to serve, he can
learn most of the details. The bulletins
will be forwarded him.
—State Treasurer Charles A. Snyder will
continue to be a double office-holder. He
has been re-elected county solicitor by the
Schuylkill county commissioners at a sal-
ary of $1,800 annually, a position he has
held for a number of years. . When he is
out of the county former Judge A. L.
Shay does the work for him. In addition
to being county solicitor, Snyder also is
counsel for the Schuylkill Electric Rail-
way and several other local corporations.
—Louis Kopko, of Nanticoke, spent
$417 on a trousseau for Miss Alberta
Lules after she had promised to become
his wife. He spent some time shopping
with her and had to pay a heavy taxicab
bill. When she had bought everything
she wanted, he set out to make his own
arrangements for the wedding. While he
was engaged thus, she changed her mind
and became the wife of John Tushesky.
Kopko caused her arrest, charging her
with receiving money under false pretense.
She and her husband agreed to return the
goods. Now Kopko has the trousseau,
but no bride.
—No “toddle” dances or other sugges-
tive steps will be permitted in the new
dance hall of the Shamokin lodge of the
Moose, and cigarettes and cigars also will
be taboo. Devotees of the light fantastic
in that extraordinary place of dancing al-
so are urging that chewing gum be bar-
red, that skirts be “four inches below the
knees” and waists not more than ‘six
inches below the ears.” The new order is
being received with much satisfaction by
the opponents of jazz and the habit of
smoking at dances. It will give a new
perspective to the much opposed public
dances in that borough.
—TFor shooting Fish Warden Shoemaker
in Bradford county, last August, who aft
erward died in a hospital, Peter Walters
was found guilty of voluntary manslaugh-
ter after an eight day trial at Towanda.
His attorneys have moved for a new trial,
saying they will be satisfied with nothing
short of an acquittal! Shoemaker was
making an arrest of Walters’ spearing
companion and Walters grabbed a revol-
ver from the game warden’s holster and
shot him, it is said. Walters has been re-
leased on $5000 bail pending proceedings.
It is assumed that the jury which heard
the evidence rendered justice according to
the testimony, but it is certain that the
position of game warden will not be
sought in Bradford county by a man who
sets much store on existence.