Bema ftps
INK SLINGS.
—Possibly President Harding didn’t
realize that he was damning the
Sixty-seventh Congress with the faint
praise he gave it.
—Surely this District ought to have
the very ablest man it can find in Con-
gress. J. Frank Snyder is an able
man. Vote for him.
—The death of Vare leaves no
doubt as to who will be boss of the
Republican party in Pennsylvania in
the event of Pinchot’s election.
—Our friends, the Republicans, re-
ally means more than ever before.
Many of them are going to help us
send the right kind of cleaners to Har-
risburg.
—The surest way to avoid the dan-
ger of being killed in a Sunday auto-
mobile accident is to stay at home and
go to church instead of racing over
the country.
—Don’t forget that the honor of hav-
ing the first woman Representative in
Harrisburg is within the grasp of
Centre county. Vote for Zoe Meek
for Assembly.
—Vote for John McSparran for
Governor. A dirt farmer, a lay
preacher in the Methodist church, a
college graduate and a practical man
with a purpose.
—Iowa beat Yale on Saturday, but
that, of course, was only in a practice
game. If Yale beats Harvard and
Princeton who will dare to say she is
not champion foot-ballist of the coun-
try.
—Up to September 1st there had
been 2636 dog licenses issued in Cen-
tre county. Surely there must be a
lot of canines side-stepping the con-
stables in Centre, for it seems to us
that we have seen nearly 2636 of them
at one time on the streets of Belle-
fonte.
—Evidently Senator Vare was a
good paying Methodist. Bishop Ber-
ry officiated at his funeral. Pennsyl-
vanians have heard a lot as to Senator
Vare’s political character and few of
those who have railed most at it will
have a Bishop to preside when they
kick off.
—Three weeks ago Gift. was trump-
eting what will be done “when I am
Governor.” Now he is urging the Re-
publicans to get out the vote for fear
he won’t be Governor. The tide’s
against him. His bluffing is over and
he’s down on his knees now begging
those whom he repudiated only a few
years ago to save him from the de-
feat that’s impending.
~-3end Frank Snyder to Congress
and put an end to President Harding's
determination to have a bonus bill
_passed for the ship owners. If the
government is “too poor-to pay a bo-
nus to the soldier boys it’s too poor to
give seven hundred and fifty million
dollars to a lot of rich men who ought
to stay oul of the shipping business if
they ean’t run their boats on their
own steam.
—What would our churches, our
hospitals, our schools and every oth-
er kind of public institution we have
amount to if the judgment and energy
of the women were not behind them ?
In no case has there been reason to
regret calling a good woman to pub-
lic service and for that reason we be-
lieve good women will help a lot in
Harrisburg. Let’s send Miss Zoe
Meek to represent Centre county.
—William I. Betts would take the
position of representing you in the
Senate of Pennsylvania seriously. He
is not running for the office just for
the fun of it, nor is he ambitious to
be a political leader. He is convinced,
like many of the rest of us, that there
is something radically wrong with the
government of Pennsylvania and he
has volunteered for service in your
behalf to try to find out what the
trouble is and help correct it.
—Senator Edwin H. Vare died at
his home in Philadelphia on Monday.
He was the most powerful political
figure in the Quaker city and in re-
cent years had undertaken to extend
his mastery of his party’s machinery
to all parts of the State; not without
success. He will be remembered not
as a great political leader, nor as a
statesman but when the record of how
he lived in his home and what he did
for the poor of his native city is read
another Ed Vare than the arrogant
political boss will be revealed and that
is the one that will be honored and
revered by the thousands who knew
that he was never unmindful of “the
least of these.”
—Republicans and Democrats alike
voted the political meeting held in the
court house here, last Friday night,
the nicest affair of its kind they had
ever attended. All of the candidates
impressed their hearers as clean, up-
standing, sincere men and they plead
their own cause without resort to
abuse of their opponents. Indeed,
they constituted such a group of men,
with morals and ability, as is seldom
seen on one ticket and after seeing
and hearing them no one could disbe-
lieve the statement made by the
“Watchman” last week to the effect
that they are not running for office
for the office sake, but for the peo-
ple’s. They are not politicians, have
no desire for political control and
know that at best Democratic suprem-
acy in Pennsylvania could be but short
lived so that their only motive in vol-
unteering for this campaign was that
of public service. Send McSparran,
Shull, Thompson, Betts and Meek to
Harrisburg this fall. They are need-
ed there.
Dear
VOL. 67.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
— —
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
OCTOBER 20. 1922.
Democrats Fail to Please Pinchot.
It is simply impossible for Mr. Mec-
Sparran and other Democratic orators
to phrase their speeches to please the
Republican candidate for Governor
and his newspaper supporters. Dur-
ing the primary election campaign
Gifford Pinchot denounced the Repub-
lican machine of Pennsylvania in bit-
ter terms. He accused the Sproul ad-
ministration of criminal profligacy, il-
legal padding of pay rolls, unlawfully
withholding information concerning
the expenditures and operations of
government from the public, manipu-
lating accounts and in various ways
looting the treasury. These accusa-
tions were acclaimed as courageous
protests against corrupt administra-
tion and solemn pledges of reform.
The Democratic candidate for Gov-
ernor and other orators of that party
faith have shown that Gifford Pinchot
was a conspicuous figure in all the
misfeasances of which he complained
during the primary campaign and
equally guilty with his associates.
He violated his oath to “support, obey
and defend the constitution” in order
to get an increase of his salary as
Commissioner of Forestry, and en-
couraged the profligacy by asking a
am
Grave Problem to be Solved.
The gravest danger to this country
is the combination of great wealth and
the lust for office. The fundamental
principle of popular government rests
upon the equal opportunity of men
and women of equal merit. Until re-
cently honesty and capability were the
standards of fitness for public service.
Any young man of integrity and abil-
ity had a fair chance for public favor
and the millionaire stood on a level
with the working man in aspirations.
| But conditions have changed. It has
i become a custom to place high offices
| on the auction block and dispose of
i them to the highest bidder, regardless
, of the qualifications which obtained
only a few years ago.
{ It is no crime to be rich and wealth
| is no bar to public service. Butitisa
| crime to buy votes in order to secure
| public office. If Gifford Pinchot had
' acquired the nomination of his party
for Governor by appealing to the rea-
{son of the voters, the preference
| would have been a great honor, for his
opponent was a man of worth. But he
didn’t acquire the nomination in that
| way. Out of his vast inherited wealth
i he drew enough money to buy a mea-
ger majority and it may be justly as-
Difference as to the Ox Gored.
Soon after President Cleveland en-
tered upon his second term it was
found necessary to issue bonds to pro-
vide funds to meet the expenses of
i the government. Four years pre-
i viously Cleveland retired from office
"and left the treasury with an embar-
rassing abundance of cash. But the
Harrison administration had dissipat-
ed the resources and forced the suc-
ceeding administration to borrow
money. At once the Republicans in
Congress and the Republican newspa-
pers of the country condemned the ac-
tion as an unparalleled outrage. “It
was the first time in the history of
the government,” they declared, “that
the government was compelled to is-
sue bonds in time of peace.” It was a
crime against the public, they said.
As a matter of fact if Benjamin
Harrison had been re-elected in 1892,
it would have been necessary to issue
the bonds. Secretary of the Treas-
ury Foster, fully expecting the re-
election of Harrison, had taken the
preliminary steps for a bond issue and
had the bonds printed. But because
| the Cleveland administration carried
out the purposes of the Harrison ad-
| ministration under the stress of dire
greater increase in the appropriation | sumed that he will try to reimburse ‘necessity, a howl was raised which
for his department than any of the himself in some way in the event of extended from Maine to California.
other department heads demanded. He ! his election. He cannot fool the peo- The Harrison administration had de-
condoned thievery in his department
by refusing to prosecute a self-confes- : he violated his oath to get an increase
sed embezzler who had influential
friends and in various ways proved
sympathy with official criminals.
There was not a crime committed
by officials of the Sproul administra-
tion that was publicly protested by |
Gifford Pinchot and the gravest of-
fense of the lot was the padding of
the pay roll so as to increase the sal-
aries of twenty-seven swivel-chair
favorites, the principal being Gifford
Pinchot himself. Now he protests
that reference to these things
“throwing mud.” It interferes with
his plan to throw dust in the eyes of !
the voters by his false promises of
reform. It exposes his hypocrisy and
gives thoughtful voters food for re-
flection and guidance for action on
election day, and that is precisely
what the honest voters of Pennsylva-
nia want.at this time. +". = >
— President Harding has not
made a direct appeal to the people to
elect a Congress friendly to his pol-
icies, but he has compelled all the
members of his cabinet to go out on
the “stump” and beg for votes for his
party.
Police Protection Needed.
It is to be hoped that the police au- |
thorities in Washington will take the
precaution to assign a sufficient num-
ber of “cops” to guarantee order at
the meetings of the President’s cabi-
net. There is an adage that “where
there is much smoke there must be
some fire,” and the wide differences of
opinion expressed by the several
members of the cabinet, and the vehe-
mence with which conflicting views
are stated justify an apprehension of
“rough house” methods any time those
“best minds” get together for the con-
sideration of public business. And
the members differ as widely with the
views of the President as with those
of each other.
For example, the other day Presi-
dent Harding addressed a letter to
Representative Mondell, of Wyoming,
in which he fulsomely praised the’
members of the present Congress and
extravagantly eulogized the achieve-
ment of the session recently ended. A
few weeks ago Secretary of War, John
W. Weeks, in a public address de-
nounced the Congress as the most
worthless in the history of the coun-
try. Not long ago the President pro-
nounced the Esch-Cummins transpor-
tation act as the best piece of labor
legislation ever enacted in this or any
other country, and the other day
Secretary of Labor, James J. Davis,
declared the Labor Board provision of
that act as absolutely vicious and de-
manded its repeal.
Recently Attorney General Daugh-
erty issued an official order not only
forbidding the use or storage of uico-
holic beverages on board U. S. ships
but prohibiting foreign ships from
having such luxuries aboard within
the three mile limit, whereupon Sec-
retary of State Hughes intervened
with an order postponing the applica-
tion of the Attorney General’s man-
date for a time. But what’s the use
of pursuing the subject. The fact is
that the Republican party is torn and
tattered all over the country and these
dissensions in the President’s cabinet
simply express the hopeless condi-
tion of the party.
——Possibly the vocabulary of the
average woman is only 800 words but
she knows how to use all of them
and understands multiplication.
a —————————————
——Would it be proper to say that
the New York Giants rocked Babe
Ruth to sleep?
is’
| ple by the pretense of altruism. When
of salary as Forestry Commissioner he
' revealed the quality of his mind in
: that respect. ‘
| There are few millionaires in Centre
! county, yet under the old standard of
| merit Centre county has been signal-
' ly honored by the people of Pennsyl-
vania. There are plenty of worthy
| and capable men in Centre county but
i what. chance would they have for im-
portant public office under the new
standard? Will the fathers and
mothers of Centre county take this
matter under consideration with the
seriousness it deserves. They have
bright, promising and worthy sons
i and daughters, but if public office is
| to be sold to the highest bidder they
j are excluded from the competition as
i completely as if they had never been
“born. The solution of .this.problern
will be-wgiven by the. voters next
: month.
|
| Rabbi Wise has the right idea.
He says that Mustapha Kemal’s vic-
_tory is ascribable to Henry Cabot
Lodge. If the United States had gone
into the League of Nations there
| would have been no such victory or
| war.
|
Corporations or People—Which?
Thus far not a single good reason
“has been given either by the friends
! of the Republican candidates for Sen-
| ator in Congress for this State, or
those of the corporations concerned,
i why the people of Pennsylvania
i should maintain lobbyists in Washing-
| ton for the Pennsylvania railroad and
‘the Steel trust. For some years, in
' consideration of liberal campaign con-
tributions, the Pensylvania Republican
machine has allowed each of these
| corporations to name a Senator for
| the State. After the recent deaths of
, Senators Penrose and Crow each of
them picked a member of its legal
| staff for the service in the persons of
George Wharton Pepper and David A.
Reed. But there is no reason for rat-
ifying the action.
Since the retirement of John IL
| Mitchell, in 1887, the people of Penn-
sylvania have not had a representa-
tive in the United States Senate.
Matthew Stanley Quay, Boies Pen-
rose, Philander C. Knox, William E.
Crow, George Wharton Pepper and
David A. Reed, all chosen by the cor-
porations and serving them faithfully,
have been Senators for Pennsylvania.
Not a voice has ever been reaised in
that chamber for the people during
all the period of time since March
4th, 1887, thirty-five years. There has
been a good deal of legislation enacted
within that period of direct interest to
the people. But in every instance in
which the interests of the people con-
flicted with those of the corporations,
the people suffered.
When Mr. Pepper was inducted in-
to the office the president of the Penn-
sylvania railroad and two or three
division superintendents attended the
ceremony to testify approval. In the
case of Mr. Reed his attitude was so
obvious that no proof was needed.
Both have consistently served their
masters since. Pepper began his of-
ficial career by voting to seat New-
berry. Reed’s first speech was against
the soldiers’ bonus. The corporations
were in favor of Newberry and
against the bonus. But the people of
Pennsylvania are opposed to Newber-
| ry and in favor of the bonus, and will
register their feelings on both ques-
tions by voting for Judge Samuel E.
Shull and Fred B. Kerr for Senator,
if they are wise.
| ——Mr. Pinchot is a dodger, all
| right, but more stupid than artful.
+ ciif¥¥or newspaper, has entered a pro-.
| pleted the treasury and left no alter-
native except repudiation of the debts
of the government. But that made no
difference. A Democratic administra-
tion had issued bonds in time of
peace, an unpardonable offense.
The last war in which the govern-
ment and people of the United States
were concerned ended just four years
ago and the Republican party assum-
ed control of the financial legislation
a few months later. Since then we
have been enjoying profound peace.
. The expenses of the army and navy
have been cut to a peace basis and ex-
' cept for the decrease of income taxes
of millionaires, corporations and
profiteers, the revenues have been
kept up. Yet last week the Secretary
of the Treasury issued bonds, or in-
vited bids for bonds, to the volume of
half a billion dollars, and no Republi-
can orator, statesman, scurvy politi-
test. “It makes a vast difference
whose ox is gored.”
—in his speech at Norristown, Mon-
day, Senator Pepper said: “The ma-
chinery of government at Harrisburg
and in Washington belongs to you.”
So it does! But a lot of wasteful, in-
capable mechanics are operating it for
you and, if you are wise, you'll dis-
charge all of them who can be gotten
rid of on November 7th.
—The Philadelphia Public Ledger is
already beginning to let itself down
easy. It admits that “IF the party
in power holds on,” at the coming
election, it will be by a reduced rate,
not only in Congress, but in the State
elections.
A m———p A —————
—Mr. Pinchot says he expects to
carry every county in the State. It
is probably the type of lunacy that in-
fluenced him to begin functioning as
Governor the moment the purchase
price of his nomination was paid.
— The death of Senator Vare is a
bereavement to a good many people in
Philadelphia who enjoyed his benevo-
lences and to the Republican machine
of that city which profited largely by
his contributions.
——The wheat crop according to
the latest reports is not a record
breaker but it is big enough to dis-
appoint any expectations of benefit to
farmers from the tariff tax.
em —— A ———————
——Great Britain is a shrewd busi-
ness woman. She makes a considera-
ble payment on the back interests ac-
count before asking for a renewal of
the note.
After two trials King Constan-
tine declares there is no pleasure in
the office. Possibly that is true but it
must be admitted there are possibili-
ties.
——— eee
——1If the coal mine owners are not
permitted to shift the expenses of the
last strike on to the consumers they
will wonder what strikes are for.
neem fp lpeeereemaee
No one knows what Lloyd
George is going to do and it is pre-
cisely the same way with respect to
the destination of the hobo.
—— Larry Eyre and Gifford Pinchot
have compromised their differences
and it is a safe bet that Larry got the
big end in the deal.
—Senator Pepper is stumping in
New England. Probably he wants to
“spit in the eye” of a “Boston bull”
dog.
NO. 41.
13. Frank Snyder Our Candidate for
| Congress.
Without opposition J. Frank Sny-
der was made the nominee on the Dem-
ocratic ticket, at the May, 1922, pri-
mary, for Representative in Congress
from the Twenty-third district of
Pennsylvania, composed of the coun-
ties of Cameron, Centre, Clearfield and
McKean, and is now actively conduet-
ing his campaign.
Believing it to be one of the duties
of good citizenship to give public af-
fairs due attention, Mr. Snyder has
taken an active part in politics. He be-
lieves in “a government of the people,
by the people, and for the people.” He
was a member of the Democratic Na-
tional convention at San Francisco in
1920, as a delegate from this Congres-
sional district. By appointment from
the chairman of the Democratic State
committee, he served as chairman of
the campaign committee in this Stale
during the Presidential campaign of
1920, and points with pride to the fact
that Cox received over 503,000 votes
or but 18,000 less than the highest
vote ever cast by his party in Penn-
sylvania. While he took an active
part in politics it was not until this
year that he became a candidate for
any public office. He was unofficially
connected with the Democratic State
committee in 1890 and took an im-
portant part in the campaign of that
year resulting in the election of Rob-
ert E. Pattison as Governor of Penn-
sylvania. He subsequently had unof-
ficial relations with the National As-
sociation of Democratic Clubs and did
effective work in the middle west.
A preparation in the school of ex-
perience and in public affairs fitting
him for the intelligent discharge of
any position of trust will be found to
be an accurate description of our nom-
inee.
Mr. Snyder was born: in Clearfield,
Pa. His father was the son of a
Pennsylvania German farmer, and his
mother, Louisa McPherson, a descend-
ant of William Bloom, a soldier in the
American Revolution, one of the first
settlers of Clearfield county. “Frank”
was educated in the public schools of
his native town, at the Clearfield
Academy, and graduated from. the
“Leonard Graded” schoold of
field. Before his graduation he learn-
ed the trade of carriage smithing,
afterwards he studied law and was ad-
mitted to the bar. He soon secured a
firm foothold as a member of tne
Clearfield bar, one of the strongest in
the State, and had become a successful
practitioner when the late Judge John
H. Orvis resigned his judgeship and
associated Mr. Snyder with him in the
practice of the law under the firm of
Orivs & Snyder, dissolved by the
death of Judge Orvis.
From December, 1891, until Janu-
ary, 1896, he served as disbursing
clerk in the office of the clerk of the
House of Representatives at Washing-
ton, under an appointment from Hon.
James Kerr, then clerk of the House.
In 1898, Mr. Snyder became counsel
for important business interests and
removed his offices to New York. His
new duties took him into many of the
States and he had relations and im-
portant transactions in foreign coun-
tries. During his residence in New
York he made two voyages abroad,
one of which was to Egypt. During
his absence from Clearfield he kept in
close touch with his native county,
never losing interest in its people or
affairs. In 1914 he returned to Clear-
field ‘to make his future home among
his old friends and neighbors.
He was chairman of the Clearfield
Chapter of the American Red Cross
from April, 1917, until October, 1919;
during the period of its existence he
was a member of the Red Cross ad-
visory committee for, Pennsylvania; a
member of the executive committee—
Clearfield county and Philipsburg dis-
trict—2nd, 3rd and 4th Liberty Loan
and the Victory Liberty Loan drives;
was one of the “Four Minute” men of
the committee of Public Information
during the war of 1917-1919; a mem-
ber of the executive committee, Clear-
field county, Jewish relief drive. Mr.
Snyder gave his entire time and ener-
gy from April, 1917, until October,
1919, to these and other war activ-
ities, rendering a faithful and a pa-
triotic service to his county, to the
“Boys” overseas, and to his country.
m—————— enemas
——A few minutes after six o’clock
on Tuesday morning one lone, loudly-
honking wild goose flew over Belle-
fonte on a bee line a few degrees west
of south. It attracted especial atten-
tion because of the fact that it is very
unusual to see one goose flying alone
but some time Tuesday forenoon Dr.
M. A. Kirk saw five wild geese in a
field on the Humes farm. He at first
thought they were tame fowls but
when they got sight of him they took
flight and headed due south. It is
just possible that geese were in flight
on Monday night and became lost
and scattered during the hard rain
storm, which would account for the
single bird in the air and the five on
the ground.
hand him the rifle.
af).
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—While George Frederick, of York, Pa.,
was away on an automobile trip $400 in
cash, which represented his lifetime sav-
ings, and which he kept under lock and
key in a trunk at his brother’s house, was
stolen.
—Earl Strange, a member of the faculty
of the Lewistown High school and treasur-
er of the class of 1920 of the Bloomsburg
Normal school, has been missing for ten
days, normal school authorities have an-
nounced. His funds are intact.
—Walter Edmonds, a cripple, of Potts-
ville, fell in the yard of his home on Sun-
day and was smothered to death in a bed
of flowers. Because of lack of use of his
feet, he was unable to get up, and died
before he was discovered. He was found
by his mother, lying face down on the
ground.
—A good dinner awaits any one who on
Arbor day will set a tree in Shoemaker
park, at McElhattan, owned by Colonel
Henry W. Shoemaker. The Colonel has
extended a general invitation to all his
friends on that day with the understand-
ing that the planting of a tree in the park
earns a dinner.
—White Haven suffered from an invasion
of pigs one night last week when as a re-
sult of a wreck on the Lehigh Valley rail-
road about six hundred porkers were turn-
ed loose on the streets of the borough.
Fifty of the pigs were killed in the wreck,
most of the others were recaptured but a
few are still at large.
—The largest single claim for damages
as a result of road work in Lycoming
county was made last Thursday when C.
L. Thomas, a farmer of Blackhole valley,
asked $10,398.88 as the result of the new
concrete highway from Muncy to Mont-
gomery, passing through his farm. Three
acres of the Thomas farm were taken over
by the road.
—In order that the city police can le-
gally arrest automobile “he vamps’ flirt-
ing with girls and picking them up for
rides, the Hazleton council will pass an
ordinance imposing fines of from $10 to
$50 for the offense. Mayor Harvey ordered
the police department to break up the
practice, and the officers complained they
could find no law forbidding it.
—“If that ever falls on me it will kill
me,” said Charles Malusky, a miner at Pine
Hall colliery, near Pottsville, on Saturday,
pointing to a large piece of coal hanging
directly over him as he worked. Hardly
had he made the remark when the coal fell,
and Malusky’s left leg was broken, his
back was hurt, and he suffered internal in-
juries. His condition is critical.
—On condition that he does not touch
liquor for two years, and that he marries,
Edwin Killian, of Allegheny county, will
receive his one-fifth share of his father’s
estate, which is estimated to be worth
$51,000, and if he fails he will have to
wait until he is 40 years old. This was
the stipulation Frank Killian made in his
will which was filed for probate last Fri-
day.
— Harry Stillinger, 45 vears old, of
Chestnut Hill, Lancaster county, ended his
life in a field near his home, by shooting
himself. He was walking across the field
when he encountered Eugene Harrick, 14
years old, who was carrying a riflle of
small bore. The man asked the boy to
The boy handed it to
him. Stillinger took it and pulled the trig-
ger, despite the boy’s admonition not to
do §0.° " A Ten Ta 3 > og A
—A suit for $30,000 damages was insti-
tuted in court at Norristown last week by
counsel for Albert Liebetery on account of
injuries alleged to have been received by
his 16 year old daughter, Sarah, while a
caddie at the Huntingdon Valley Country
club. The suit is directed against Fred
B. Stull, who, in driving his automobile
up the drive to the club house, is said to
have run down the girl as she was about to
get on the club auto.
John Nesbit, constable of Chillisquque
township, Northumberland county, who
visited the Milton fair last Thursday and
seized seven lottery wheels in operation
there, was on Saturday placed under bail
for court by Justice Weiner, of Watson-
town. The charge against the constable is
larceny, information being sworn by J.
B. Fuhrman, of Scranton. The case is at-
tracting widespread interest, as it will be
a test of the law against lottery wheels.
— Walter Clyde Roper, 58 years old, died
suddenly at the home of his niece, Mrs.
Andrew Kratzer, of Belleville, on Thurs-
day of last week. Deceased was a victim
of aneurism, a rare disease, less than half
a dozen cases having been successfully
treated in the United States. In this case
the lining of the large artery feeding the
heart collapsed completely shutting off the
flow of blood from that organ. Roper was
a jeweler and restauranteur, and conduct-
ed business in a dozen or more central
Pennsylvania towns.
— State troopers are searching for a
man who killed Mike Cerney, a coal miner,
at his home in the village of Marguerite,
Westmoreland county. Cerney, the author-
ities reported, has had numerous argu-
ments about the strike of miners in his
field, and the man being sought, it is said,
was involved in the walkout. Cerney was
summoned to the door of his home early
Sunday night. He refused to open the
door, relatives said, and five shots were
fired through a panel. All the bullets
struck Cerney in the head.
—One Bucknell college student was killed
and four others were hurt on Sunday when
their automobile crashed into another car
on Dalmatia hill, near Sunbury. They
were returning from the Bucknell-Navy
football game at Annapolis. Henry Burg,
of New York, died from a fractured skull,
The other students, all of whom will re-
cover, according to doctors, are Carlton
Gardner, of Harrisburg; William Viceroy,
of Windber: Lewis Trax, of Warren, and
Harold Vandemark, of Nanticoke. Gard-
ner has been discharged from the hospital
to which the injured were taken.
—John Coy, of Port Alleghany, McKean
county, had as close a call from death last
Friday as is possible for a man to get and
still be uninjured. A Pennsylvania Rail-
road locomotive which was backing into
the station at that town passed completely
over him. Coy was walking on the tracks
and fell just as the engine was upon him.
The engineer did not see the man, but the
fireman saw him. The emergency brakes
were applied, but the engine stopped over
him. Horrified, the engine crew ran to
the hospital, which is near the scene, and
summoned a physician and brought a
stretcher. When they approached Coy, the
supposed corpse, suddenly jumped to his
feet and offered to thrash the whole crowd.
He had been somewhat dazed by his fall,
but had escaped all injury.