TT
INK SLINGS.
, ——Still if Turkey is relying upon
the “moral support” of Russia, the
Kemalites are “leaning on a broken
reed.”
——It may safely be said that Sen-
ator Newberry, of Michigan, will not
speak in Pennsylvania in behalf of
Senator Pepper. Newberry is an un-
grateful cuss.
—The more the political caldron
boils the stronger are the indications
that Centre county is to have the hon-
or of sending the first woman to the
Legislature of Pennsylvania.
—Certainly none of those who saw
and heard Senator David A. Reed, at
Milesburg, last Friday, will have rea-
son to call us a nut if we remark that
they are making Senators out of most
anything these days.
—Giff. is still howling about getting
out the vote and standing by the tick-
et. He isn’t so cock-sure of being
Governor now and if the Republicans
of Pennsylvania treat him as he did
them in 1912 and 1914 he never will
~ ——An esteemed contemporary rec-
ommends the confiscation of automo-
biles as a penalty for drivers who run
away after running down pedestrians
on the highway. That, supplemented
by electrocution, might “fit the
crime.”
—Don’t falter! They are on the
run! Stand up and be counted with
the people who are determined that an
end must be put to the kind of gov-
ernment that doesn’t give back a dol-
lar in useful service for every dollar
of taxes collected.
—We can’t quite agree with the
several gentlemen who think McSpar-
ran will carry Centre county by two
thousand or more, but we do feel, that
if signs that we haven’t noticed for
years don’t fail, he’ll have a very
handsome majority.
—In Philipsburg, on Monday night,
we heard a group of gentlemen dis-
cussing the legislative contest. We
got the impression that not one of
them would support their own party
nominee, but they seemed leery about
“voting for a woman.” From this dis-
tance we want to suggest what we
might have told them on the spot, had
we been a party in their discussion,
that no one of them will ever live to
see the day that they will regret vot-
ing, if they do, for Zoe Meek for the
Legislature.
—Just to stir up the animals a bit
we’ll bet a year’s subscription to a gal-
lon of water from the Big Spring that
more people know of Bellefonte be-
cause it is the home of the “Watch-
man” than because of any other sin-
gle institution or personality for
which the town is noted. To go
further: We'll bet a gallon of moon-
shine—which we know our private
bootlegger will supply if the bluff is
called—to a half pint of grape juice
that if the “Watchman” should sud-
denly become iconoclastic you couldn’
get through the streets of the town
because of the fragments of shattered
near-idols.
—Don’t fall for it! You Republi-
cans who have a mind of your own
and know that you are only being ex-
ploited. Each night of the next ten
days there will be a party of your
workers among you telling you that
it’s your duty to “vote the straight
Republican ticket.” Theirs is the
same old game. They have worked
and worked it until your taxes are al-
most more than you can bear and, be-
sides the taxes, you are carrying on
your back at least part of some in-
spector, auditor, filing clerk or what-
not of the thousands of hangers on at
Harrisburg who have helped to make
the “mess” the State is in.
—OQur unknown friend Elisha Kent
Kane, of Kushequa, who advertises
his willingness to represent us in Con-
gress in this issue of the “Watchman,”
states that he and Snyder and Swoope
are dry. If Elisha is right, then
there is certainly mo competition
among the gentlemen engaged in the
Congressional contest on that issue.
Accepting the revelation of Elisha, we
advise the wets to join the drys and
vote for J. Frank Snyder. The wets
have no chance at all. The drys have
no chance with Elisha because he
doesn’t have a place on either.of the
old party tickets, so the best thing
both of them can do is to combine and
vote for a man who has a chance and
2 man who will make a real Congress-
man.
— The national convention of the
American Legion concluded its ses-
sions in New Orleans, last Friday, by
tabling resolutions dealing with the
Volstead act and the Ku Klux Klan.
They caustically criticized the Marion
doctor, whom President Harding took
to Washington and elevated to the
rank of Brigadier General and stood
firm on their demand for “adjusted
compensation.” It is gratifying to
see that the Legion refuses to be drag-
ged into purposes other than for which
it was organized. The boys are stick-
ing together for their disabled com-
rades first and for their own reward,
second. They were promised a bonus,
or “adjusted compensation,” by the
Republican party two years ago and
all they have gotten, up to this time,
has been lemons. They made good in
1917 and 1918. They have a right to
wonder why the party that promised
them so much in 1920 hasn’t made
good in 1922. You might fool them
once, but never again. That’s why so
many of them are not going to vote
for Pepper, Reed or Swoope.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
“VOL. 67. __ BELLEFONTE, PA., OCTOBER 27. 1922.
Great Incentive to Effort.
The official records show that the
Democratic registry this year in the
city of Philadelphia is less than 2000
below that of 1916, when Woodrow
Wilson polled 92,000 votes. The Re-
publican registry in that city this
year is more than 100,000 less than
that of last year. Throughout the
State the registration and enrollment
reveal advantage to the Democratic
candidates in the same ratio. As
compared with last year the Republi-
cans have lost in the cities alone up-
ward of 400,000, while the Democrats
have gained. These official figures in-
dicate a safe majority for the Demo-
cratic candidates next month. It. is
up to the Democratic voters to deter-
mine how great this majority will be.
The greater the better for the people.
In every election district in the
State one or more voters who have
registered in the cities or enrolled in
the rural regions as Republicans can
be prevailed on to vote for the Demo-
cratic candidates if the Democratic
voters are active and vigilant in cam-
paigning. Every day we hear of men
and women, heretofore Republicans,
declaring their purpose to vote the
Democratic ticket. The failure of the
administration at Washington, the
“mess” at Harrisburg, the disgusting
quarrels among the Republican lead-
ers in Pennsylvania, as revealed in
the primary campaign, and the men-
ace of Newberryism as expressed in
the profligate expenditures of the
Pinchot family in the purchase of the
nomination, combine to turn thaought-
ful voters against the Republican
ticket this year.
There are many and potent reasons
why the Democrats should be vigilant
this year. We have an admirable
ticket to support and splendid results
to achieve. For a quarter of a centu-
ry the several administrations at Har-
risburg have been conspiracies to
loot the public. Taxes have been
heaped up and pyramided until the
burden has grown beyond endurance.
The people have --been deprived of
their inherent right to local self gov-
ernment in order that an invincible
political machine might be built up to
perpetuute the power of a gang of po-
litical pirates. We have a chance to
rescue the government of the State
from these enemies this year and if
voters, men and women, are just to
themselves this will be accomplished.
— Lloyd George has won in a
good many scrimmages but he is now
engaged in a real battle and the result
is conjectural.
Trend of the Political Mind.
On Thursday of last week two im-
portant events, kindred in purpose, oc-
curred in this State. In Harrisburg a
monument erected at considerable ex-
pense to the people, was dedicated to
the memory of the great war Gover-
nor, Andrew Gregg Curtin, of Belle-
fonte. In Philadelphia a potential po-
litical boss, Edward H. Vare, was bur-
ied. The dedication of the Curtin
monument was a beautiful ceremonial.
The figure in bronze on a pedestal of
granite is a sublime spectacle and the
dedication afforded opportunity for
eloquent recital of historical events
and patriotic sacrifices. The funeral
of the late Senator Vare was a mag-
nificent pageant. It expressed the be-
reavement of a host of admirers.
We are not inclined to criticize the
public record of the late Senator Vare.
The Latin proverb, “speak no ill of
the dead,” is beautiful and worthy of
respect. Senator Vare represented an
element in the affairs of the country
which can hardly be avoided, is entire-
ly too numerous and is much to be re-
gretted. It exercises power through
sinister influences which promote con-
tempt for authority. It is easy to ad-
mire the benevolences which he freely
dispensed among those who were ser-
vile, but almost impossible to forget
that his charities were frequently mis-
placed and the means to indulge them
acquired by questionable expedients.
But it is not our purpose to dilate up-
on this phase of the question.
The dedication of the Curtin monu-
ment was an event that appealed io
the best impulses of the human heart.
The proper staging of it was a work
of great, loving care on the part of
those in charge of it. The program
was arranged weeks in advance. The
Governor of Pennsylvania had accept-
ed an invitation to receive the monu-
ment on behalf of the State and the
Liuetenant Governor to preside at the
ceremony. Both of them preferred to
pay tribute to the memory of a polit-
ical boss. Happily others were found
to do reverence to the war Governor,
who performed their offices well. But
the incident shows the trend of the
political mind in Pennsylvania. Gif-
ford Pinchot was also at Vare’s fun-
eral.
E————— pe —————————
——Another war would about give
the Turks control of the world with
full license to murder Christians at
will.
. | Pinchot Has Found a “Mare’s Nest.”
‘Giff. conceived a great idea. He states
gled the finances for the benefit of
| pense.
We are almost persuaded to express
sympathy for Gifford Pinchot. He is
in a most wretched predicament. Last
May he bought the Republican nom-
ination for Governor at a price which
makes the now infamous Truman H.
Newberry look almost like “a piker,”
and was so pleased that he sent his
wife over to Europe to tell his sister,
Lady Whats-her-name, who had
married and English title, that in a
short time he would be Governor of
Pennsylvania, and his wife in quite as
honored a position as any duchess. |
But now things are “breaking bad” for |
him. The people are disgusted with
his absurd pretensions and every time
he utters a promise of reform some-
thing turns up to confuse him.
For example, he had hardly com-
pleted his promise to “clean up the
mess” at Harrisburg when the fact
that he was responsible for the worst
feature of the “mess” was disclosed.
His direct violation of his oath of of-
fice and inferential betrayal of the
constitution by soliciting and accept-
ing an increase of salary as Commis-
sioner of Forestry was a refutation of
his pledge of improvement. Then he
dodged the question as to his attitude
on Fineganism, appointed a lot of
cimmissions without power to do any-
thing and struck a bargain with Sen-
ator Larry Eyre to be “good” in the
event of his election, which was “the
blow that killed father.” Larry Eyre
and Max Leslie, of Pittsburgh, take
nothing for granted.
Thus driven to the political ditch
that a great many lead pencils are
annually taken from the State capitol
at Harrisburg and used by officials
who steal them or others to whom
they are given or sold for other than
official purposes. Here is a reform
that just about fits Giff’s intellect.
The lead pencils must be saved at any
cost. No matter how much money is
stolen by salary grabs or other infrac-
tions of the law the sacred lead pen-
cils must be protected. Fineganism is
all right so long as it doesn’t hand out
lead pencils. Gephart may have jug-
favorites but he never stole a -lead
pencil. At last Giff. is on the right
track.
——We do not complain much be-
cause William Randolph Hearst as-
pires to control the public press of the
country but protest against his aspi-
ration to direct the politics of both
parties. The job is too big for him.
Gifford Pinchot and Fineganism.
The relations, personal and polit-
ical, between Gifford Pinchot and
Thomes E. Finegan, are revealed in a
booklet recently issued by the Depart-
ment of Public Instruction under the
false pretense of encouraging the ob-
servance of Arbor day. Mr. Pinchot
has frequently been asked to define his
attitude on Fineganism. But he has
evaded the question by saying that he
has appointed a commission of inquiry
on the subject. Dr. Finegan is equal- |
ly evasive when interrogated upon
their political relationship. Both are
obviously trying to deceive the pub-
lic. But the booklet “lets the cat out
of the bag.” Dr. Finegan is distrib-
uting propaganda in support of the
ambitions of Pinchot, at public ex-
According to information from Har-
risburg the State appropriations for
the public schools are not only ex-
hausted but there is a new deficit of
something like $12,000,000 in the ac-
count, which will be necessarily in-
creased to upward of $40,000,000. The
Auditor General of the State is au-
thority for these figures. School ap-
propriations due last February are
now in default. Local school authori-
ties have been compelled to borrow
funds to maintain the schools and
teachers to work without pay because
of these facts. But the high salaried
officials of the department at Harris-
burg are paid regularly every two
weeks and Finegan spends thousands
of dollars of the school funds to pro-
mote the election of Pinchot.
This is Fineganism, but Mr. Pinchot
requires the help of a helpless and
futile commission to find out whether
he approves it or not. It is such a
condition that is responsible for “the
mess at Harrisburg” which Mr. Pin-
chot wants authority to ‘clean up.”
As in the case of the salary grabbing
abuses he is part and parcel of the
“mess” and no man of reasoning mind
would appoint a criminal to pass judg-
ment on the degree of his crime. A
clean-up in Harrisburg will involve
the dumping of all the salary grab-
bers, embezzlers, misusers of public
funds, and conspicuous among these is
Gifford Pinchot, the owner of a pur- |
chased nomination of the Republican |
party for Governor of the State. i
A MA asst,
It may be said that the First |
| district Senatorial seat is a Vare heir-
loom and Brother Bill assumes it un-
der the law of inheritance.
‘for $he people,” and if they are elect-
Repudiate the Corrupt Bargain.
Lest they forget, the attention of |
the men and women of Pennsylvania
is ‘again called to the fact that for
more than a quarter of a century the !
State or the people have not had
representation in the United States
Senate. The constitution of the Unit- |
ed States declares that “the Senate of
the United States shall be composed |
of two Senators from each State,
elected by the people thereof, for six
years.” But the people of Pennsylva- |
nia renounced this right long ago.
Under an alleged agreement, for a re-
puted consideration in cash, the Re-
publican machine conveyed to the
Pennsylvania railroad and the Steel
trust the right to appoint the Sena-
tors for Pennsylvania, and the Sena- |
tors thus commissioned have repre-
sented those corporations rather than
the people of Pennsylvania.
George Wharton Pepper was select-
ed Senator to succeed Boies Penrose
by the Pennsylvania railroad and as
an evidence of ownership the princi-
pal officers of the corporation attend-
ed the ceremony of his induction into
office. The Steel trust selected David
A. Reed as the successor of William C.
Crow, but the urgency of getting a
vote against a just claim of the heroes
of the world war probably prevented
a ‘similar exhibition on the occasion
of his qualification for service. In ac-
cordance with the agreement these ap-
pointments were subsequently ratified
by the Republican machine in nomi-
nating them to succeed themselves.
No other candidates were permitted to
enter the contest. The principle of
“honor among thieves” was scrupu-
lously preserved.
«It is now up to the people to say at
the election one week from next Tues-
day whether or not this shamefully
corrupt bargain with the two most
predatory corporations in the eountry
will be made perpetual. The Demo-
cratic party has offered them a medi-
um of escape from this humiliating
situation. It has nominated for Sen-
ators in Congress two most capable,
courageous and sincere men in the
persons of Samuel E. Shull and Fred
B, Kerr, who are “of the people and
ed there will be an end of the corpor-
ate domination in Pennsylvania. This
is certainly “a consummation devout-
ly to be wished for.” It will be a new
and valuable experience for the peo-
ple of Pennsylvania and a great serv-
ice for the cause of good government
throughout the country.
It wasn’t necessary for Ambas-
sador George Harvey to say that wom-
en do not have souls. His previous
statement that the United States en-
tered the world war because of selfish-
ness and cowardice settled his right to
a permanent seat in a mad house.
In answer to a current false-
hood it might be said that Mr. Mec-
Sparran is striving to keep politics out
of the schools. The Republican ma-
chine has put it in through the me-
dium of Fineganism.
——Senator Pepper says he would
like to settle labor strikes by popular
vote. But he seems to believe that the
best way to dispose of political fa-
vors is by the auction block.
—The “Watchman” can settle the
squabble as to when football was first
played at Penn State. From our issue
of November 25th, 1881, we note that
“a match game” was played with
Bucknell University at Lewisburg
“one day last week” and State won.
Our personal knowledge of later foot-
ball activities at State date back to
the fall of ’86. About that time, or a
year later, regular schedules with oth-
er colleges began and we recall hav-
ing solicited the money by subscrip-
tion that sent the team to play Le-
high and Lafayette on the same trip.
Of course it was disastrous as to re-
sults as State started the second game
with only nine men.
——On Sunday evening a stranger
appeared at the home of Arthur
Thomas, near Waddle, and asked for
something to eat. He was invited in
and a good supper placed in front of
him. While he was eating Mr. Thom-
as noticed a striking resemblance to
the picture of Frank Smith, one of
the prisoners who recently escaped
from the penitentiary. Prison officials
were notified and guards were sent to
the Thomas home. The guest proved
to be the right man and Mr. Thomas
will receive the reward of fifty dollars
in payment for the man’s supper.
——A Tyrone gentleman who at-
tended the dedication of the soldiers
monument at Milesburg last Satur-
day claims to have had his pocket
picked of a valuable Hamilton watch.
——Just 2340 hunters licenses had
been issued by county treasurer L.
Frank Mayes up to noon on Wednes-
day.
NO. 42.
A Woman for the Legislature.
The campaign in Centre county has
progressed to the point where a fairly
accurate estimate of the trend of the
voting mind may be made. While it
is generally believed that this is to be
a Democratic year in Centre, as well
as in many other parts of the coun-
try, the candidacy of Miss Zoe Meek,
of Clarence, for a seat in the Legis-
lature, has been met with unusual
favor. 3
She is such a splendid type of wom-
an, so well qualified and so engagingly
frank in canvassing for votes that
from every quarter of the county she
has visited comes reports to the ef-
fect that the political tide is running
strong in her favor. The only indif-
ference to her candidacy appears to
be on the part of a few who cannot
bring themselves to the point of vot-
ing for a woman for office. The rea-
son, of course, is not personal to Miss
Meek. It is due to the novelty of the
situation brought about by the Nine-
teenth amendment. While it may
seem strange to many of us to find the
names of women on the ballots and in
the jury lists now it will be only a few
years until that will all wear off and
such perturbation of mind as is now
affecting some will have passed.
Women are in politics to stay. They
were given the franchise because it
was believed their active interest and
participation in governmental affairs
would have a most salutary effect.
Centre county, always forward and
progressive, has been one of the first
to give one of them an opportunity to
attain an important office. Many oth-
ers will follow the trail that Miss
Meek is blazing during this campaign.
Hers is a hard and courageous un-
dertaking. Hedged about by limita-
tions beyond which a woman may not
‘go she has made a canvass and head-
way that is surprising, and at the
same time set an example for fairness
and dignity in soliciting votes such as
demonstrates beyond question the val-
ue of women in politics.
She has a platform. During a con-
versation with her a few days ago we
learned something of it and here con-
dense its aims into three words: The
betterment of Pennsylvania. +" Since
last spring, when she decided to be a
candidate for nomination this woman
has been making a study of Legisla-
tive practice. She knows what former
Representatives from this county have
done. She knows what she expects to
do herself, if elected. She has no mid-
dle ground to take on any question.
She is either for or against and is so
serious in her ideas of duty that a de-
cision is never made until every phase
of the issue has been carefully and in-
telligently considered.
Miss Meek was born in Ferguson
township, her ancestry running back
to Captain George Meek, of Revolu-
tionary fame. In her girlhood the]
family moved to Snow Shoe township
where they have since lived. From
the common schools she was gradu-
ated to Juniata college and then to Val-
paraiso University and to the Anthony
Wayne Institute. Splendidly educat-
ed it was but natural that she should
have been successful in her career as
a teacher. She has taught at Clar-
ence, in the Clearfield High school, and
was principal of the South Avis
schools until she resigned to accept
the appointment as post-mistress of
Clarence.
While teaching in her home town
she was continually in contact with all
of the nationalities represented in that
mining region and it seems that her
personal knowledge of the needs that
should be supplied for and the restric-
tions put upon the foreign element of
our population would be a great asset
in the Legislature of this State where
the question of the proper assimilation
of the foreign born is such a grave
one.
On the public school question she
has the viewpoint of a woman and a
teacher and on any other that may
come up with which she is not so fa-
miliar she has the advantage of a well
balanced, well trained mind and the
will to do the best for the county she
hopes to repreesnt.
As a woman she is a pioneer in
Centre county politics. As a woman
she may see many things at Harris-
burg that escape the men Members.
As a woman, her election would bring
another distinction to Centre county.
Let us send her there.
Hunting Season Will Open Next
Wednesday.
The open season for hunting bear,
rabbits, squirrel, wild turkeys, pheas-
ants, quail, ete., will begin next Wed-
nesday, November first, and hunters
everywhere are burnishing up their
shotguns in anticipation of the event.
Pheasants are reported to be quite
plentiful and various flocks of wild
turkeys have been seen on the moun-
tains, but squirrels are scarce.
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Arbor day exercises will be
t celebrated in the public schools today
(Friday).
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—A verdict of $700 was granted by a
jury at Reading, last Friday, to Dorothy
Hassler, 18 years old, against Arthur B.
Clark, a motorist, through an accident
causing a broken leg.
—While leading a mule to water, James
Lay, of Kennedys valley, Perry county,
was kicked on the head by the animal. The
man’s lifeless body was found by the
spring several hours later. :
—William Keener, of Lehighton, a brake-
man on the Lehigh Valley railroad, had an
eye knocked out on Monday when he was
struck by a stone thrown by a boy as the
train was passing through the city.
—When children at play jammed an
.| oyster can over the head of 6 months old
Donald Shultz, of York, Pa., last Saturday
the baby nearly smothered. Efforts of the
mother to remove the can were futile and
a plumber had to be called to release the
child.
—Fllis Watson, 42 years of age, died in
an Erie hospital last Friday from injuries
received a few hours earlier when he was
run over by his own automobile. Wat-
son’s car had become stalled and when he
attempted to crank it with the engine in
gear it knocked him down and ran over
him, causing injuries which resulted in his
death.
—State police are assisting in the inves-
tigation to identify the headless body of
a man found on the Watson farm, near
Kane, McKean county, on October 4th. The
authorities are confident the victim was a
man of foreign birth, probably a miner.
For a time it was believed the dead man
was James Booth, but Booth has been lo-
cated.
—In the presence of members of the G.
A. R. and veterans of the Spanish-Ameri-
can and the world war, a statue of Andrew
Gregg Curtin, Civil war Governor of Penn-
sylvania, was unveiled at Harrisburg, on
Friday. The statue stands on the site of
Camp Curtin, a mobilization camp of civ-
il war days, where many Centre countians
were mustered into service.
—While a son was saying his prayers
in a room below, Andrew Feldon, 43 years
old, a Helvetia, Clearfield county miner,
locked himself in a room above and com-
mitted suicide by firing four shots into
his head and chest. No cause for his rash
act is known as he had previously eaten
his evening meal and conversed with mem-
bers of the family in his usual way.
—A wave of burglary continues un-
checked in Wilkes-Barre. In the past two
weeks there have been fifty houses enter-
ed without an arrest being made. Seven
more houses were entered on Sunday
night. Clothing and jewelry were stolen.
The police admit they haven't the slightest
clue, but believe that all the burglaries
are the work of one man or possibly two.
—Birth, marriage and death are the
three most important events in a man’s
life. In the case of James Whiteman
Stringer, who was buried on Saturday at
Bellwood, all three occurred on the same
date. He was born in Harrison City, Pa,
October 17th, 1898, married to Helen Bell
Glasgow, of Bellwood, October 17th, 1919,
and died at Wopsononock, October 17th,
1922.
—A lone armed bandit walked into the
Lincoln bank, at Erie, Pa.,, Wednesday
afternoon, and, after forcing two clerks
| and a patron to back up to a wall, broke
into the cashier's cage and fled with cur-
Lrency estimated by officials of ‘the Dauk at
2,450. The robbery occurred while a house
was burning half a block from the bank
and the robber, taking advantage of the
excitement, was able to work uninterrupt-
ed.
—More than 500 men, women and chil-
dren, all of them members of families una-
ble to buy coal because of the high prices,
stormed a coal train as it became stalled
on the outskirts of Allentown, and before
the police interfered they had carried off,
Lehigh Valley Railroad officials believe,
more than 500 worth of fuel. Members of
the crew and two railroad detectives were
unable to stop the haul, and a squad of
city policemen was summoned. No arrests
were made.
—A verdict of $¥#5,208 damages for the
death of her husband was awarded Mrs.
Daisy Shankweiler, of Shamokin, at Sun-
bury last week. She sued the Pennsylvania
Lighting company, now the Pennsylvania
Light and Power company, alleging that
Mr. Shankweiler met death by electrocu-
tion in 1918 when he attempted to turn on
the lights in his place of business, a butch-
er shop. At a previous trial, Mrs. Shank-
weiler was awarded $17,500, but the Su-
preme court ordered a new trial.
—A representative of a Pittsburgh syn-
dicate, doing business under the name of
the Columbia Natural Gas and Oil com-
pany, went through portions of Wood-
ward and Gallagher townships, Clinton
county, last week, securing leases on lands
of the farmers, more especially around
Swissdale and the “German settlement,”
with a view to drilling test wells for oil
and gas. More than 1,000 acres have al-
ready been leased. The landowners, with
tracts running from a few acres up to 300
or more acres, giving the company the
right to sink wells on the land and if oil
or gas struck the owner is to receive a
royalty on the profits.
—George Abraham, a grocer of Franklin
borough, Cambria county, says in a breach
of promise suit filed at Ebensburg last
Thursday, that his love affair wrecked him
“physically and financially.” He set out
in his petition, asking for $25,000, that he
used two motor cars and “nearly all of his
time” in wooing Mrs. Mary S. Albert, of
Conemaugh. When she promised to marry
him he gave her a $1600 diamond engage-
ment ring, he says, which she now refuses
to return. He itemizes his ‘lost love”
costs as follows: Use of two auto-
mobiles by defendant for ‘her pleasure
and convenience,” $2000; diamond engage-
ment ring, $1600; profits lost in grocery
store by not remaining on job, $5000; dis-
appointment and loss of his health, $15,400.
—Judge Lloyd, in the Northumberland
county court, on Monday refused a new
trial for the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron company for culm damages
to an island owned by Mrs. Sarah I.
Brown, at Delmatia. She was awarded
$999 by a jury after a week's trial. The
case is most important, according to law-
yers, who asserted that on it hinges twen-
ty-four other suits for damages from coal
culm dumped from the mines into the Sus-
quehanna and its tributaries and will mean
many thousands of dollars for persons
whose lands have been ruined by culm un-
less the Supreme court rules differently.
Prof. William G. Owens, of Bucknell Col-
lege, said that sulphuric acid censtantly
forming from the coal and air made the
soil practically of no value for farming.
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