Boman |
INK SLINGS.
__Don’t waste your time talking
about what you are going to do. Go
and do it.
—The Washington conference ap-
pears to be “petering out.” Any in-
cident now drives it off the first page.
— The Washington conference
just can’t agree to a cut in airships.
In other words the conference doesn’t
want to do anything that would ser-
iously interfere with the industry of
making war.
— Postmaster General Will Hays
has decided to quit the Cabinet at
twelve thousand dollars a year and go
in to uplift the movies at one hundred
and fifty thousand. Most anybody
who got the chance would do that.
—We don’t know just how it is
with the rest of the world but here-
abouts we feel that the dove of peace
is certainly hovering overhead. The
new council got off to its first regular
meeting last Monday night without a
fight. rik
—Lloyd George celebrated his fifty-
ninth birthday anniversary on Tues-
day. ‘Certainly all the pictures we
have seen of the British Premier must
have done him great injustice, for we
certainly thought he was chasing
Methuselah hard.
—Pity the poor farmer by the side
of the state road to Lemont. He
can’t get out of his lane in anything
but a sled and as the snow has all
been scraped from the highway he
can’t get anywhere in the sled after
he gets out of his lane.
— The Babcock dinner in Pittsburgh
Tuesday was more of a culinary than
political success, so tis said. Gover-
nor Sproul thought he had all the eggs
unserambled out there, but upon his
arrival at the feast found them all
scrambled up again.
—Cheer up, you fellows whose
backs haven't straightened up since
the bending they got shoveling snow.
In California they are eating new
garden vegetables, in Texas wheat
sowing has begun and in South Caro-
lina sweet peas are two inches out of
the ground.
— Wanted: Some one who can tell
our county Republican leaders where
they are to get off or on. Theirs’ is
an unhappy lot indeed. While all the
big talk is going on in Harrisburg,
* Pittsburgh and Philadelphia the up-
country fellows who do the real work
when election time comes round, have
to keep themselves gagged, because
they don’t know what side is going to
win. and they must be with the win-
ning one: ° ae AR
—Isn’t it wonderful the way Con-
gress is restoring peace, progress and
_ plenty in the land. They have an an-
ti-gambling--- bill, --an ‘anti-cigarette
bill, an anti-bloe bill, an anti-lynching |
bill and an anti-opium bill on the cal-
endar for early consideration. All
“don’t” laws and no “dos.” All the
people back home, everywhere, should
urge their particular Congressman to
present an ante-up bill. That's the
kind of an ante this Congress prom-
ised the country.
— President Harding’s boasts of a
saving of $462,167,629 in governmen-
tal expenditures for 1923 as compared
with the proposed: expenditures for
this year didn’t get far before turning
back to haunt him. As a matter of
fact the reduction, if any, will be only
$786,759 or less than one-fifth of one
per cent. Gamaliel is a good news-
paper man hence a bad mathematician.
In figuring what his administration
was going to save he counted in a lot
of things that are automatically saved
by laws passed long before he got to
Washington.
—We note that the Woman’s Chris-
tion Temperance Union of Chicago
has conceived and is going to launch
a “star in the window campaign.”
Every home in the country in which
there is no liquor is to have an em-
blem similar to the service flag used
during the war continually displayed
in a front window. This will either
smoke out a lot of home caches or
make liars of their proprietors. ‘We
await the launching of the scheme in
Bellefonte with considerable curiosity.
As for ourselves we propose to hang
no star in the window, because, if we
do we are sure to be stricken from the
calling list of that ever increasing so-
ciety of perigrinators who keep drop-
ping in more hopefully than we that
our private boot-legger will eventu-
ally get back on the job.
It sounds strange to hear Repub-
lican leaders all-over the State talk-
ing in a language that reveals doubt
in their minds as to the probability of
their party electing a Governor of
Pennsylvania. Even the appearance
of uncertainty is something new in
Keystone Republican ranks. It is
more than that now and disorganiza-
tion and dissatisfaction must be very
great else such admissions would not
come to the surface. The party is
headless. If it should become heed-
less it is doomed to disaster. The or-
ganization is in mo condition to put
any kind of candidates across and the
party ranks are honeycombed with
voters who won’t take orders next fall,
so that hope, if there be any at all,
lies only in the nomination of clean
candidates who have no active fac-
tional alignment and whose names
will carry some reassurance that there
will be an ‘end of such scandals at
Harrisburg as have been nauseating
to well minded Republicans every-|
where. Surely the outlook is gloomy
for Republican success in Pennsylva-
nia. It might be altered if the pres-
ent Attorney General should be nam-
ed to head the ticket.
VOL. 67.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Republican Confusion Continues.
The confused Pennsylvania Repub-
lican machine enjoyed a lucid inter-
val for a brief period last week, ac-
cording to the
newspapers. One of the writers of
this always interesting stuff says “the
Sproul people are now talking about
George E. Alter, of Pittsburgh, the
present Attorney General.” Mr. Al-
ter is easily the best prospect thus
far brought forward. He is a fine '
lawyer and a fine gentleman. As
Speaker of the House of Repersenta-
tives in Harrisburg during the session
of 1913 he earned the respect of all
parties. by his fairness and ability.
Since then hé has grown in public es-
teem and professional standing and
as Attorney General he ranks among
the best.
The nomination of Attorney
General Alter for Governor by ;
the Republican machine at this
time would be a wise act. It
might even save the party from
the wreck that is impending. But we
have mo idea he will be nominated.
He couldn’t be depended upon to serve
the machine in emergencies. For ex-
ample, it is impossible to imagine
that if he had been in the office two
weeks ago voting for Newberry would
have been made a condition in fill-
ing the Penrose vacancy in the Senate.
He would have named a high class
man, no doubt. But his appointee
would have been free to vote accord-
ing to his conscience on all questions.
That quality in a candidate ought to
be a recommendation but with the
Republican machine it isn’t.
In any event it may safely be
said that mose of those believed to
be in the running two weeks ago are
now eliminated. Lieutenant Governor
Beidleman’s financial or professional
relations with State Treasurer Sny-
der seem to have wiped both of those
aspirants off the slate. Beidleman
has still a considerable asset in the
friendship of W. Harry Baker, who is
likely to be “dispenser of patronage”
in the immediate future, but it is not
believed: that even that substantial
| support will serve to get him the nom-
ination. - There is talk of a “new high
class entrant,” but this is only open-
| ing up a new field of conjecture. The'
party is isthe dumps” and its safest
way out would be the nomination of
Alter. »
—1If Mr. W. Harry Baker is as
keen a politician as his reputation in-
dicates Senator Vare will not be able
to make him a buffer in an effort to
keep Governor Sproul out of the Pen-
rose seat in the National committee.
Running True ‘te Machine Form.
The new Senator in Congress for
Pennsylvania is running true to ma-
chine form. His first vote was cast
in favor of retaining in his purchased
seat a man who had already been con-
victed of violation of law in a court
presided over by a Republican judge,
and by a jury presumably Republican.
But the vote of Newberry was needed
two years ago to pack the Senate
committee on Foreign Affairs against
the League of Nations and unseating
him now would be stultifying the par-
ty. Senator Pepper is too good a par-
ty man to contribute to such a result,
and as we predicted before he had
been sworn into- office, he voted for
Newberry. As a mark of appreciation
for that party service he was called
to the chair.
Senator Pepper, who is an able law-
yer, had been trying for years to |
break into politics by the reform
route. He had taken an active part
in various civic enterprises and fre-
quently got so far as to be “mention-
ed” for important public offices. But
he never got’ further than a seat in
the body orgatized soon after we en-
tered into the world war which was
euphemistically, called “a Commission
of Public Safety and Defense,” which
expended an appropriation of two mil-
lion dollars and nobody has ever been
able to find out what it got for the
money. But the Republican machine
got Pepper through it.
We may readily believe, however, |
that Senator Pepper will be an active |
and capable member of the body into
which he has been projected. Four
years ago he earned the cordial friend-
ship of the Vare gang by issuing a
fulsome eulogy to J. R. K. Scott,
whom the ash cart combination fa-
vored for Lieutenant Governor of the
State. Since that he has labored as-
siduously to win the favor of Gover-
nor Sproul and by his vote in behalf
of Newberry he has pleased all those
in party authority who have been
“fighting Wilson” - ever since the
League of Nations was agreed to in
the Versailles conference. He will
probably receive the nomination for
the remaining part of Penrose’s term
and then the people will talk.
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that Newberry resign and run for re-
election. That would be a manly so-
lution of a nasty problem but it
would be bad for Newberry’s aspira-
tions.
gossip in the Sunday
The New York Herald suggests
| Will Hays Uplift the Movies.
Postmaster General Will: Hays has
| finally determined to abandon the en-
| ticing field of statesmanship and en-
| ter the more lucrative arena of screen
theatricals. The fact was developed
in Washington last Saturday and
President Harding has regretfully as-
sented to it. “I could not well inter-
‘ pose any objection,” Mr. Harding de-
clared, “to Mr. Hays retiring from
the cabinet to take up a work so im-
‘portant. It is too great an opportu-
nity for a helpful public service for
him to refuse.” Mr. Hays indicates
the same spirit of beneficence. “I am
assuming,” he says, “that a satisfac-
tory contract will be possible which
will make certain the carrying out of
the high purpose by this industry.”
Thus the “movies” become an-
nointed by the endorsement of the
President and the sanction of the
Postmaster General from a sanctimo-
nious as well as an educational angle
and the kiddies, young and otherwise,
who gather their pennies and save
their nickels and dimes to pay their
way into the screen temples are per-
forming a philanthropic work as well
as cultivating an understanding of
the lives and habits of the “Fatty”
Arbuckles and other stars who wax
wealthy through the credulity of the
curious and admiring youngsters.
There ought to be comfort in this
idea to those of us above the age of
adolescence who have formed the
“movie habit” and sometimes neglect
to pay the rent in order to see the
play.
The fact that there is considerable
difference between the salary of a
. Postmaster General and the honorar-
jum offered to Mr. Hays never enter-
ed the mind of either the President or
the gentleman more directly concern-
‘ed. But those of us less inclined to
idealism naturally let our minds won-
der along all the lines of probability
in such matters and are led to the re-
flection that the Postmaster General
quite as well as his campaign agents
understand the philosophy concealed
in the slogan “Get the money, boys.”
Of course we will all cultivate the
beneficent side of the subject and be-
i lieve as far as possible that only phil-
“anthropic motives were. considered.
‘ But $150,000 is an attractive figure.”
PA
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— Governor Sproul is the busiest
man in Pennsylvania. He attended a
dinner in Pittsburgh on Tuesday
evening, was a guest at Secretary
Mellon’s dinner in Washington on
Wednesday evening and has practic-
ally lived on wheels for nearly a
, month. Happily the duties of his of-
| fice require little time and less atten-
! tion.
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i If the subject were less grave the
‘reports of the activities of the Econ-
‘omy and Efficiency Commission, now
in progress in Harrisburg, would be
| both interesting and amusing. In
| view of the facts, however, they are
| simply absurd. It has become a cus-
tom of the Republican machine of
| Pennsylvania, on the eve of an im-
: portant election, to inaugurate a
} movement promising economy in gov-
| ernment and efficiency in public serv-
{jce. But after the election, the peo-
ple having again been deceived, those
{in authority proceed to squander mon-
| ey like “drunken sailors” and nothing
more'is heard of economy and efficien-
cy until the menace of defeat stares
them in the face again.
This is the third time the fraud has
been perpetrated on the voters of the
State. Some ten or twelve years ago,
under the authority of the Legisla-
ture, such a commission was organ-
ized and under the .direction of the
present Governor's secretary made a
survey of the official life of the State.
The commission recommended certain
changes in the methods of administra-
tion. : At the following session of the
Legislature the report was submitted
and shunted into the legislative grave
yard. A few years later another com-
mission was created with the same
result. They gave employment at re-
munerative salaries for a time to a
few dependents and accomplished no
other results. In fact that was the
last heard of them.
No Legislature in the history of
the State was as profligate as the last
one. No administration in the histo-
ry of the State was nearly as extrav-
agant as the present one. But now
as the time for the election of a Gov-
ernor is again approaching the false
pretense of economy is again being
held before the eyes of the voters in
the hope that they will be again de-
ceived into renewing the lease of
power to the same profligates and giv-
ing them another chance to loot the
treasury. Possibly the expectations
will be fulfilled, but if they are, the
voters of Pennsylvania will reveal a
want of judgment that is hardly con-
ceivable, but certainly lamentable.
—————————A—————
— De Valera may make trouble in
Ireland but in doing so he will sadly
disappoint thousands of his Irish
friends in America.
Economy and Suffering.
| The Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
An incident attending the launching |
of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation ’
in Washington on Sunday is likely to
make a profound impression on the
public mind. At a public meeting in-
augurating the Foundation a motion
was made and unanimously carried
that those in attendance go in a body
to the home of the ex-President and
personally express to him their es-
teem. Five thousand men and women
' formed a procession and marched a
distance of four miles to carry out
the purpose. Samuel Gompers, pres-
ident of the American Federation of:
Labor, became their spokesman and
in the course of a felicitous address
said, “this demonstration is proof that
. the League of Nations is not dead.”
| The response of President Wilson
was characteristic. Standing in the
doorway, looking into the eager faces
i of the vast concourse of admiring men
‘and women, he said: “I need hardly
| tell you how such a demonstration of
friendship and confidence makes me
feel. There can be no doubt as to the
vitality of the League of Nations. It
will take care of itself and those who
don’t regard it will have to look out
for themselves.” The significance of
this is not in his confidence in the fu-
ture of his great work for humanity.
It lies in the earnestness of the appre-
traduced almost beyond endurance, by
a token that the faith and confidence
of the people in him has not been de-
stroyed but endures in radiant form.
Within a week Woodrow Wilson
will have other and better evidence of
the high esteem in which he is held by
the justice loving people of the Unit-
ed States. “Mr. Wilson has been stab-
bed: by hatred, envy and ignorance,”
said one speaker at a meeting held in
New York on Monday, while another
declared: “The cause of liberty had
its ideal in Washington, it was per-
sonified in Lincoln and it had its
| apotheosis in Woodrow Wilson.” This
: was at the opening of the Foundation
| in that city and within the week mil-
lions of right-minded Americans will
express their faith in the man and
their sympathy in his work by vastly
oversubscribing the amount. required
Wilson Foundation.
——FErasmus Wilson, seventy-nine
years old, dean of Pittsburgh news-
paper men, died last Saturday after
several weeks’ illness. Mr. Wilson
was a native of Ohio and a Civil war
veteran. He began his newspaper ca-
reer in Washington, Pa., shortly after
the close of the Civil war, going to
Pittsburgh two years later. Thirty-
six years ago he started the “Quiet
Observer” column in the old Commer-
cial Gazette and continued it in the
Pittsburgh Times after the two pa-
pers were consolidated. He was the
Pittsburgh and president emeritus of
the organization at his death. He was
well known in the western part of the
State as a platform lecturer and was
the author of several interesting
books on eastern Ohio. Mr. Wilson
was an intimate friend of warden
John Francies, of the western peni-
tentiary, and less than a year ago
spent several days with him at the
Rockview institution. In fact he has
visited Bellefonte and State College
on various occasions and always man-
ifested great interest in this section
of the State.
— While Bellefonte is not exact-
ly facing a coal famine coal dealers
have only limited stocks of some
grades of anthracite on hand and a
prolonged severe cold spell might re-
sult in a deplorable situation. For-
tunate is the man, therefore, who fill-
ed his coal bin last summer.
— The latest mysterious disap-
pearance is that of “Hungry Hi” John-
son, of California. Probably he is fix-
ing fences for the next Presidential
campaign, but he isn’t in the habit of
working quietly.
——————el—————
——Good luck does not distribute
itself equally. Samuel Untermyer has
achieved more good as an investigat-
or than Charles E. Hughes, but has
not been rewarded as generously.
———— A ——————
——In the vast volume of party
gossip there is surprisingly little men-
tion of the name of Joseph R. Grun-
dy, and there was a time when his was
a name “to conjure with.”
ara n———— A ———
——The Pittsburgh harmony din-
ner on Tuesday evening was a disap-
pointment because Senator Vare, who
is the principal disturber of the
peace, was absent.
— Like Davy Crockett’s coon
President Harding come down before
the farm bloc fired. There will be a
farmer on the Federal Reserve board.
——As a matter of fact the Senate
resolution in the Newberry case is
simply another form of the Scotch
verdict: “Guilty but not proven.”
BELLEFONTE, PA. JANUARY 20, 1922.
ciation of a great man who has been !
for the establishment of the Woodrow.
father of the Boy Scout movement in:
NO. 3.
Why the Farmers Suffer.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
The farmers of the United States
are suffering, says Secretary Wallace,
from the worst conditions in ,
tory of agriculture—from conditions
which, he says, “are undermi ag-
riculture, the base of the ramid
which represents our national 1
but why? i
And he says very truthfully, that
this condition “justifies the use of the
most vigorous means to cure it;” but
he does not suggest the “cure.”
The truth of the matter i8
dition exists because
which Secretary Wallace belo
committed this country to an un
tific, incongruous, unreason x
utterly unworkable policy of
isolation
from the utter disregard for a
fairs and welfare of the balance of the
world; and the only way under God’s
heaven to “cure it” is to revoke that
policy. ;
The action of the Republican Sen-
ate in repudiating the Versailles trea-
ty has cost the farming interests of
the United States untold millions; it
administered a blow to agriculture
from which it will require years to re-
cover, and it has levied a tax of not
less than $50 on every bale of cotton
that the south has produced since the
Senate To even with Wilson” by
forcing the defeat of the Versailles
treaty. . hoo
_ The country is awakening to a real-
ization of this fact—the truth of
which is emphasized by this statement
| by the Secretary of Agriculture—and
| to the further fact that, in absolute
. control of every department of the
- government from cellar to garret, the
' Republicans have done nothing thus
far to remedy the situation ‘by undo-
ing the mischief they did in the repu-
diation of the Versailles treaty.
From the New York @ be,
The nine independent Republicans
who had the courage to vote against
the seating of Newberry will, in con-
trast, be remembered with honor.
They performed a courageous act
when they resisted the appeal of the
Administration and of the te ma-
jority leaders. Borah, Caj , Jones;
of Washington; Kenyon, L LaFol-
lette, Norbeck, Norris and Sutherland
proved to be true in the ord:
But what shall one say of the
tuseness of men who have pratende
to be popular leaders, sensitive tq the
finer aspirations of ‘the’ republic?
Cummins, who once was a Progres-
sive, has gone far enough alon, the
other road to support. Newberry.
France, the radical Republican, could
pocket his repugnance to the debauch-
ery of an election. Helicee and Len-
root and McCormick, all gentlemen
| who once sought power because of a
. protest against the kind of govern-
| ment symbolized by the Detroit spend-
er, are counted among the adherents
of Newberry. Medill McCormick has
restrained his antipathy to the gross-
ness ‘which he could not condone in a
William Lorimer.. Then there is the
churchman, the new Senator Pepper,
of Pennsylvania. At the beginning of
his political career he has given him-
self cccasion to recall words which
Cardinal Wolsey could postpone to
the last. It is a melancholy spectacle.
‘The Senate’s Judgment on Itself.
From the New York World.
. The United States Senate is the
judge of the qualifications of its own
members and by the qualifications it
sets up for membership must the Sen-
ate be judged by the American people.
| In declaring that Truan H. New-
berry, of Michigan, is entitled to hold
his seat the Republican majority also
, declare that the methods by which the
seat was gained are ‘contrary to
sound public policy, harmful to the
honor and dignity of the Senate and
dangerous to the perpetuity of a free
government.”
Wherefore does it follow that in
the judgment of the Republican ma-
jority of the Senate of the Sixty-sev-
enth Congress a man can perhaps the
better qualify himself for a seat in
that august body who to gain it
adopts methods and pursues a course
“contrary to sound public policy,
harmful to the honor and dignity of
petuity of a free government.” Or
should we read into the resolution a
mental reservation to the effect that
Senate seats can be for sale to the
highest bidder without harm to pub-
lic policy or the honor and dignity of
the Senate or to free government
when the Republicans of the Senate
goed the votes to give them a major-
ity.
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Service, Not Salary (2)
From the Philadelphia Record.
The statement that Postmaster
General Will Hays has been persuad-
ed to leave the Cabinet “by the fas-
cinating opportunities of the new po-
sition rather than the yearly salary
of $150,000, which it is reported he
will receive,” shows that Mr. Hays
has a truly imaginative press agent.
Couple with it President Harding’s
statement “it is too great an oppor-
tunity for a helpful public service for
him to refuse,” and one gets the im-
pression that Mr. Hays is really mak-
ing a rather painful sacrifice in giv-
ing up his $12,000 Cabinet job for the
paltry $150,000 offered
him by = the
movie managers. It is “service” and
“opportunity,” not the $150,000, that
counts with the Indiana politician. If
he can get that across with the Amer-
ican public he must be accounted a
genius in the modern art of publicity.
the Senate and dangerous to the per-'
Park colliery, operated by the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron company, near
Pottsville, heard the roof under which he
with death.
to meet half the expense of paving the
Prospect Hill road between Johnstown
route between the two towns, and has been
ed for a half hour to release his foot from
| beneath a pair of locomotive drive wheels,
James Powers Jr. 22 years old, of Eas-
ton, took a chew of tobacco.
foot was released he fainted and was rush-
ed to the Easton hospital. His left foot
was amputated. :
— The Masonic temple, one of the most
pretentious buildings in Sunbury, was
swept by fire early last Wednesday morn-
ing, causing a loss of about $30,000. The
fire broke out around a switch box on the
first floor and had eaten its way to the
third floor before it was discovered. The
walls remain standing but the interior was
ruined.
The board of trustees at the Lewis-
town hospital met last week and dismissed
four registered nurses and nine of the pu-
pil nurses for insubordination and lack of
compliance with discipline. Miss Page,
who was the superintendent in charge, im-
mediately resigned, and her resignation
was accepaed by the board. The hospital
‘has twenty-one patients, with ample force
of surgeons, physicians and nurses to
take care of them, it is said.
__After six hours of deliberation, a jury
at Lewistown returned a verdict of guilty
in the case of Russell Hoffman, of Mifflin
county, charged with involuntary man-
slaughter, growing out of the shooting to
death of Irma Rhoades, 14 years oid, in
front of the Hoffman farm house, April
27th. President Judge Thomas ¥. Bailey,
of the Mifflin-Huntingdon-Bedford dis-
trict, sentenced him to pay the costs, $250
| fine and six months in the county jail.
— When he held up four Allenport wom-
en on their way home from a Sunday
school class meeting late Thursday night,
Winton Crafty, a negro highwayman, of
California, Pa., tackled a job that was en-
tirely too big for one man. The four wom-
en hit the bandit and with fists working
like flails and their screams rending the
air soon put the highwayman to flight. A
large crowd, well armed, took up the pur-
suit, and captured Crafty after a revol-
ver duel.
chler, a Punxsutawney veterinarian, after
investigating into the peculiar “illness” of
a cow that he was called to attend on the
farm of a suburban resident of that town.
The cow had eaten generously of a pile of
discarded raisin mash and then went oft
on a joyous spree that resulted in the
complete loss of its locomotive power. The
bovine was lying upon the ground and
breathing heavily when the veterinary ar-
rived to render assistance.
—Judge Witmer in federal court at Sun-
bury last week issued an order that all
whiskey seized in raids in the Middle dis-
triet court since the Volstead act went in-
to effect be destroyed.
liquors in Wilkes-Barre
was ‘Said. - The work will bé in charge of
Federal Marshall John H. Glass, of 8ha-
mokin. More than $20,000 worth of booze
is held in the dungeon of the Sunbury
jail, and a few thousand dollars’ worth is
in the Centre county jail.
—As a result of a raid made on a moun-
tain settlement near Barnitz, four alleged
ringleaders of a band of mountain ban-
dits aré being held in the Cumberland
county jail without bail. They are said to
have terrorized farmers of Dickinson town-
ship for the last year. A large quantity
of blankets, harness, parts of wagons, corn,
chickens and other valuable products were
recovered. The men who are being held
for a hearing are Clayton Jameson, Geo.
Jameson, Warren Jameson and John San-
no. All the captives are white.
—Forty thousand post cards are being
sent by State Fish Commissioner Nathan
for outlines, nets and other special fish de-
vices in 1921, reminding them to make a
report of their catch. Unless the fisher-
ment report the fishery department can
make 10 record of the amount of fish tak-
en from the streams. The laxity of fish-
ermen and hunters in reporting to the
State may result in the enactment of a law
by the next Legislature imposing a fine on
the license holder who fails to report.
—The Mifilin county jury in Mrs. S. H.
Bratton’s suit against the Pennsylvania
Railroad for $10,000 damages for the death
of her husband, William C. Bratton, 76
years old, who was killed by an express
train on the evening of April 1st, 1920,
rendered a verdict in favor of the defend-
ant. Bratton was struck at a crossing
two miles west of Lewistown while return-
ing from a public sale of stock and imple-
ments. He was driving a horse in a spring
wagon, held a calf with one hand and had
a cow, the mother of the calf, tied to the
rear of the wagon. There was nothing to
prevent him seeing the approach of the
train, according to the witnesses.
—Mrs. Amelia Whann, charged with al-
leged implication in an attempt to kill her
husband, Dr. John Whann, of Chickasaw,
Pa., last December, was remanded to jail
at Kittanning on Monday, following fail-
ure to provide bond of $2,500 for her ap-
pearance in court, after a hearing before
a justice of the peace. The State’s princi-
pal witness was M. Hugene Sanz, a Cu-
ban medical student, who testified that he
had made an attack on Dr. ‘Whann’s life
at the suggestion and insistence of Mrs.
Whann. Specific charges preferred against
the woman following the hearing were con-
spiracy and arson. An attempt it was said,
was made to burn the house to cover up
the attack on Dr. Whann, Dr. Whann sat
by his wife's side during the hearing.
—John Bordner, of Lithia Springs, ac-
companied his bride-to-be, Miss Clara M.
Inch, to the court house at Sunbury on
Saturday, stayed with her until they ob-
tained a marriage license, and did not let
her out of his sight until Justice W. H.
Engle had safely tied the knot. Four
years ago John had another sweetheart,
he said, and sent her ahead with his
brother Jim, to get a marriage license,
while John finished attending the stock
and doing some chores about the farm.
He planned to meet the girl and his
brother at the office of 'Squire Tierney at
Northumberland and there be wedded.
But John was delayed, so Jim proposed,
was accepted and the knot tied when the
almost bridegroom arrived on the scene.
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| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
— Carmen Peslo, a miner at the Phoenix %
was working give way. He at once start-
ed to run for his life, but he lost his race
—The Commissioners of Cambria coun
ty last week voted to appropriate $100,000
and Ebensburg. This is the most direct .
in poor condition for many years. £
—Calmly watching workmen who labor-
When his
—“Soused,”. ejaculated Dr. M. D. Rens-.
R. Buller to fishermen who held licenses -
‘ ~ Federal agents
| nave stored a large ‘quantity of seized
“and Scranton” it. -.
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