Beoocem
INK SLINGS.
—Vote for William I. Betts for Sen-
ator.
—Help Centre county to send the
first woman to the Legislature.
—Vote for Snyder for Congress.
Send a man to Washington who will
represent you.
——A dollar saved in the tax bill
is worth twice as much as fifty cents
earned by work on the farm.
—If the farmers of Pennsylvania
ever had a chance to do something for
themselves it will be next Tuesday.
—At last the million dollar doll had
to be dragged onto the stump in the
hope of stemming the tide against Gif.
—If you really want the mess at
Harrisburg cleaned up send real clean-
ers to do the job. Vote for Betts and
Miss Meek.
——Every woman voter should keep
in mind that the tariff law will add
considerably to the cost of her outfit
next spring.
—McSparran should be the next
Governor of Pennsylvania. Your vote
may be required to elect him. See
that he gets it.
' —Give McSparran a House and a
Senate that will back up his efforts to
clean house. Vote for Zoe Meek and
William’ I. Betts.
—A lot of Republicans are going to
join us next Tuesday. Don’t discour-
age their good work by staying away
from the polls yourself.
—The two fires last Sunday morn-
ing revealed the fact that under cer-
tain conditions Bellefonte can supply
more pumpers than water.
A farmer can earn more by
going to the election next Tuesday and
voting the Democratic ticket than by
staying at home husking corn.
—Vote for Zoe Meek for the Legis-
lature and help Centre county win the
distinction of having sent the first
woman Member to Harrisburg.
— Senator Pepper will find out
next Tuesday that voting for New-
berryism is quite as hazardous as
“spitting in the eye of a bull dog.”
——After having spent four years
in sawing wood Mr. William Hohen-
zollern feels perfectly safe in getting
married in the beginning of the win-
ter.
—The hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world, so they say. Send
Zoe Meek to the Legislature and you'll
see one of those hands rockin’ a lot of
grafters out of Harrisburg.
—The skids are under them. All
it will require is a little more pushing
before next Tuesday. Democrats, let’s
help those Republicans who are trying
to help us redeem Pennsylvania.
—Governor Sproul’s eleventh hour
appeal for support for Pinchot looks
to us more like an effort to save the
boys “on the hill” than an expression
of loyalty to the Pike county forester.
—Miss Meek will make an ideal
Legislator. She is a christian woman
of splendid education, broad vision and
wonderful energy. She is a credit to
Centre county and will be heard from
if she is sent to Harrisburg.
—We know of one district in Centre
county where there is likely to -be a
turn around of more than one hundred
votes on next Tuesday. If this hap-
pens it will cut what was a Republi-
can majority of two hundred, two
years ago, down to nothing.
—Why not vote for your own inter-
ests this time. If you want to get out
from under the gang that’s riding you
to death with taxes to support inquis-
itorial, and in many instances entire-
ly useless, departments of government
vote with the side that’s opposed to
them.
—Mr. farmer, if you have corn to
husk next Tuesday or any other work
that you think is pressing on the farm,
let it stand and go to the polls. It
will pay you better to vote to stop the
waste at Harrisburg and get your tax-
es reduced than to husk a hundred
bushels of corn.
— Pinchot has become so badly
scared that he has compromised with
all the leaders he set out so blatantly
to scourge from the public life of
Pennsylvania, all of which goes to
prove that Pinchot wants his personal
vanity gratified more than he wants
to clean up the mess at Harrisburg.
—Anent the question of what is a
living wage we have this to say: It
should be sufficient to comfortably
support a thrifty family and provide
a little nest egg for a “rainy day” and
old age. No wage proves a living one
for an improvident family and invar-
iably its head demands most and gives
least.
—A very good but independent Re-
publican informed us, on Wednesday,
that in his travels over the county he
found Republican farmers who will
vote for Pinchot to be as scarce as
hen’s teeth. He knows what he is
talking about, too, for his business is
entirely with farmers and it takes him
into all sections of the county.
—Taxes in Ohio are less than half
of what they are in Pennsylvania, be-
cause out there the voters do not go
blindly to the polls and vote their par-
ty ticket whether it is good or bad.
They use them as a threat to keep
both Democratic and Republican lead-
ers straight. The result is there is an
upset in the Buckeye State every few
years and the leaders of both parties
try to excel in giving the people the
most economic government—a dol-
lar’s worth of service for every dollar
of taxes levied.
A enact
VOL. 67.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Will Centre County Do Her Part?
Cheering news comes from the po-
litical battle fields in all sections of
the State and country at large. Aus-
tin McCullough, chairman of the Dem-
ocratic State committee, declares that
a careful canvass “plainly shows ih-
creasing Democratic gains. The sud-
den turn in the Pinchot campaign,” he
continues, “is one of the most remark-
able developments in Pennsylvania
politics for a generation or more.
Starting out as a professed independ-
ent and worshipper of Roosevelt, Mr.
Pinchot suddenly turned his back on
the men and women who worked so
hard for his nomination and then cap-
ped the climax by openly dealing
with party bosses whom Roosevelt
fought tooth and nail.”
Turning to the wider field of polit-
ical activity Cordell Hull, chairman of
the Democratic National committee,
says that “Democratic victory is now
assured at the elections November 7.”
Mr. Hull has just completed a search-
ing survey of the field. The apparent
apathy, he states, “is due to the fact
that the great mass of voters have
already made up their minds definitely
and finally, to rebuke the Republican
party for failure to keep its promises.
The question had been whether Repub-
licans would stay away from the polls
: Mr. Pinchot’s Sinister Methods.
i
| One of Gifford Pinchot’s methods of
campaigning is the operation in sev-
eral industrial centers of what is
| known as campaign newspapers for
the purpose of misleading working
i men. They are located in communi-
ties in which strikes are disturbing
the industrial peace. There are two
tor three of these in the coal regions,
| started while the coal miners were on
| strike, and one in Harrisburg where
| the railroad shopmen are maintaining
‘a strike. They are not entered as
“second class mail matter” for the
reason that they are not eligible un-
der the postoffice regulations, but are
distributed free by carriers, presuma-
bly paid by Pinchot’s money as are all
the other expenses of their production
"and distribution.
All these papers are edited by one
man, a former newspaper reporter of
Harrisburg. Among the charges made
32 these newspapers is that John A.
| McSparran opposed the eight hour
law. Some weeks ago we referred to
and refuted this charge. Since from
the same source has come a charge
| that Mr. McSparran had opposed the
| Workmen’s Compensation Act. At a
meeting held in Harrisburg last Sat-
urday evening Mr. McSparran dispos-
ed of both of these libels. He confirm-
Democrats Will Gain in Congress.
| In addition to the practical certain-
ty of electing the Democratic State
ticket in Pennsylvania next Tuesday
the voters of that party have every
reason to hope for the election of fif-
teen Representatives in Congress out
| of the thirty-six to be chosen. Inthe
| present Congress only one of the dele-
i gation is a Democrat, and strangely
enough he represents one of the Alle-
| gheny county districts. Such pre-
viously safe districts as that of Berks
and Lehigh counties; Carbon, Monroe
and Northampton, and Adams and
York were lost in the landslide of two
years ago. But they have regained
their reason and will return Demo-
crats to the next Congress by majori-
ties considerably greater than ever
before.
This prospect is particularly grati-
fying for the reason that aside from
the political advantage to the Demo-
crats it will greatly improve the per-
sonnel of the Pennsylvania delegation.
In our own district, for example, the
substitution of J. Frank Snyder for
! the servile tool of the machine now in
‘service will work an advantage to
! every interest and individual in the
| district. An equally valuable im-
| provement will be accomplished in the
Seventeenth district where former
or turn to the Democratic party for 'ed what he had previously said con- | Judge Herbert Cummings, a gentle-
relief.” In either event he estimates
the same result will be achieved, a
splendid Democratic victory.
The Democratic organization, State
and national, having fulfilled their ob-
ligations and completely performed
their work, it is up to the individual
voters to accomplish the result. The
accuracy of the estimate of chairman
McCullough and chairman Hull is
plainly shown in the work of the local
party managers throughout Pennsyl-
vania. The candidates of the party
have made a most effective and indus-
trious canvas and have met the most
encouraging conditions everywhere.
But upon the individual voter,
men and women of the several elec-
tion districts, the duty of completing
the victory devolves. The majority of
the people are earnestly in sympathy
with the Démocrats but must “prove
their faith by works.”
At no election in recent years has
there been a full expression of the
strength of the Democratic party in
Pennsylvania. There are reasons, no
doubt, for this fact, but they are no
longer in existence and in good time
will be forgotten as they should be.
Now we have complete harmony, the
best ticket that has been offered to
the people of the State by any party
in recent years and a purpose to serve
the people clearly expressed. In view
of these facts no Democratic voter,
male or female, ought to be a slacker
this year. We never had a greater
reason for performing our duty. We
never had fitter instruments to work
the desired result with. Will Centre
county share in the glorious triumph
of the people?
Discrimination to Save the Party.
Under the school code of Pennsylva-
nia “every male resident or inhabitant,
over twenty-one years of age, in every |.
school district of the second, third and
fourth class in this Commonwealth,
shall annually, in addition to any tax
he may pay on any real estate or oth-
er property, pay for the use of the
school district in which he is a resi-
dent or inhabitant, an occupation tax
of at least one dollar.”
districts are exempt from this tax.
The only first class districts in the
State are Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
In some districts this occupation tax
is as high as five dollars.
Just government requires perfect
equalization of burdens among the
people. Under a fair deal inhabitants
of Philadelphia and Bellefonte would
be required to pay taxes in the same
ratio for schools as well as for oth-
er purposes. But in the adjustment of
the burden of taxation for public
schools a resident of Bellefonte is
obliged to pay $2.50 more than a resi-
dent of Philadelphia or Pittsburgh.
We make no complaint of the tax for
the public schools in this community.
But we do protest against discrimina-
tion in favor of the inhabitants of
Philadelphia and against those of
Bellefonte. It is unfair and unjust.
The exemption of the inhabitants
of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh from
the payment of an occupation tax for
school purposes is in the interest of
the political machine. Less than one-
third of the inhabitants of Philadel-
phia pay any taxes at all. The only
tax levied against them is a poll tax,
which is paid by the machine manag-
ers in violation of law. If they were
compelled to pay an occupation tax
for school purposes of not less than
one dollar “or go to jail,” as is the
case elsewhere, the Republican
majority would dwindle to the vanish-
ing point. Philadelphia residents are
exempt from school taxes to save the
party.
——Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
the |
The residents *
or inhabitants of the first class school
cerning the eight hour day and proved
i that he is a pioneer in the compensa-
tion matter. He is president of a
compensation company operated by
the State Grange which takes care of
farm laborers as generously as the
State could.
Every man with a grain of intelli-
gence knows that an eight-hour day
on the farm is impossible. Every man
with the same modicum of sense un-
derstands that the State compensation
system is equally impracticable on the
farm. Sixty thousand farmers in
Pennsylvania do all their own work,
i except during a few days in harvest
when they employ help at an expense
of $25 or $30 a year. To comply with
the State compensation law these far-
mers would have to pay $18 a year
tax on each employee who earns $25.
The impossibility of this is apparent
to every man except Pinchot, who
doesn’t know the difference between a
mercenary editor who scarcely knows
right from wrong.
Mr. McSparran is a friend of the
wage earner and ready and anxious to
generously reward him for his time
and labor. But he is a reasoning man
men by hypocritical professions of
| service that is impossible or inexpe-
| dient from an economic view point.
| He is opposed to Fineganism but he is
inot in favor of cutting down the
wages of school teachers, or in any
way impairing the efficiency of the
public schools. He supported the full
crew law for railroad workers and in
i the Wallace conference in Washington
stood side by side with Samuel Gomp-
ers when, to quote his own language,
they “licked to a frazzle the scheme
of the railroad interests to throttle
their men.”
ssn eee
Sproul Stultifies Himself.
Governor William C. Sproul has
seen “the handwriting on the wall.”
Gifford Pinchot first brought into pub-
lic view the iniquities of the Sproul
administration. He revealed the cor-
ruption and profligacy that consumed
the revenues obtained by shamefully
excessive taxation. Naturally these
exposures were offensive to Governor
Sproul. But so long as they were con-
fined to campaign charges they were
innocuous. Sproul believed until re-
cently that Pinchot would be elected
without his help. Recent develop-
ments have changed his opinion.
Governor Sproul knew that if Pin-
chot were elected there would be no
danger of a damaging investigation.
He knew that Pinchot would “clean
house” with a feather duster rather
than a scrubbing brush and he,
Sproul, would be immune from pun-
ishment for his crimes against the
people of Pennsylvania. He felt that
he might safely refrain from stultify-
| ing himself by openly supporting the
{man who had exposed him. But he
{has learned the truth. The mortal
' fear that McSparran will be elected
| has forced him to come to the sup-
i port of Pinchot.
| There could be no greater reason
than this for defeating the Republican |
| candidate. Sproul reluctantly gives
| iim support, not because he believes
| Pinchot fit, but for the reason that he
{ knows Pinchot will shield him from
| proper execution and conceal rath-
. er than expose the actual conditions at
{| Harrisburg. It is a “safety first”
| proposition with Sproul and if the
people of Pennsylvania want to “clean
| up the mess at Harrisburg,” and get
Jhonest government they will vote for
! John A. McSparran who will achieve
| the result.
i biti
t ——Vote for McSparran and save
$10,000,000 in taxes.
gang plow and a garden hoe, and his |
and unwilling to deceive the working |
man of distinguished ability, will take
| the place of the rubber stamp now
representing the district. In the Dau-
.phin county district the retirement of
! Aaron S. Kreider will pay a tribute to
| the intelligence of the electorate.
The Democrats in Congress at the
opening of the Sixty-eighth session
will be especially pleased to welcome
' the return to a seat of Warren Worth
| Bailey, of Johnstown, as the Repre-
sentative for the Twentieth district.
| Mr. Bailey has served with distinction
in two Congresses and is equipped for
| the work better than most of those
! who will be associated with him in
| preparing and enacting legislation for
the people. His election is practical-
ly conceded though Gifford Pinchot
made a trip to the district the other
day to stop the tide of popular sen-
Snyder and Cummings in the next
{ House Pennsylvanians will be able to
point with pride to their delegation.
——The late Senator Ed. Vare
wasn’t a very imposing figure in poli-
tics. He was obsequious to the pow-
erful and arrogant to the weak, and
he was generous in dividing the loot.
Those qualities are not characteristics
of greatness but the Republican ma-
chine finds it difficult to get a man to
i fill his place. This fact reveals the
poverty of public life.
The Farmer Vote Can Do It.
Next Tuesday may be radiant in
sunshine, delightful in temperature
and ideal for corn husking and other
activities on the farm which are press-
ing upon the attention of the farmer.
But these facts should not distract the
farmers of Centre county from their
civic obligations to vote. It is a pa-
triotic as well as a political duty to
vote. The slacker on election day is
more to blame for the corruption in
office and the iniquities of politics than
the selfish, sordid and grafting poli-
ticians who work themselves into of-
, fices and opportunities to loot by rea-
son of the neglect of honest men and
women to vote. The vast majority of
the people of Pennsylvania are honest.
This is the civic side of the ques-
tion, but there is another side of great
importance. Because of the neglect
of honest voters to participate in the
selection of public officials the reve-
nues of the State are squandered and
the taxes of the people multiplied.
During the last quarter of a century
the expenses of government have been
multiplied four or five fold and the
taxes correspondingly increased until
now in various forms and disguises
they amount to an average of half the
earnings of the whole people. In
Ohio taxes are limited to ten and a
half mills on the dollar for all purpos-
es, and Ohio is a great State and en-
joys an excellent government at that
. cost to the people.
{ But in Pennsylvania there is no lim-
it to the taxing power and the burden
is multiplied and pyramided until in
| some sections it amounts to ninety
{ mills on the dollar and in the most fa-
| vored sections, Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh, it is upward of thirty mills.
{ The voters of Ohio will not permit
such abuses in government. When the
party in power gets corrupt they turn
| it out and put the other party in. We
i could do the same if we had the cour-
‘age and intelligence to perform our
; civic duty, and if this result is
. achieved by the farmer vote each far-
, mer will have earned more for him-
' self and his family by voting than he
| could by staying at home and husking
, corn.
———— i ——
| ——We got the change voted for in
1920 but we have a chance to change
back on Tuesday.
BELLEFONTE, PA., NOVEMBER 3. 1922.
‘timent in his favor. With Bailey,
NO. 43.
WOMEN’S FEDERATED CLUBS.
Annual Conference Held at Howard
Last Saturday.
The annual conference of the Wom-
an’s Federated clubs and women’s or-
ganizations of Centre county was held
in the P. O. of A. hall at Howard
last Saturday with representatives
present from the Bellefonte Woman’s
club, W. C. T. U., Rebekah and Nee-
dlework Guild. From the Current
Events club, Red Cross and Council of
Girl Scouts, Philipsburg; the Civic
club, Social club, W. C. T. U., P. O. of
| A., Sewing Circle and Red Cross, of
: Howard; the Woman's club and W. C.
T. U., of Unionville; the College town-
ship Woman’s club and the Centre
county League of Women Voters.
The morning session was opened
with the singing of “America,” after
which the chairman, Miss Helen E. C.
Overton, explained the purpose of the
gathering. Prayer was offered by
Rev. Matthew Mellott and the roll call
showed seventeen organizations rep-
resented. Miss Emma Pletcher, pres-
ident of the Howard Civic club, ex-
tended a warm welcome to the dele-
gates which was responded to by Miss
Mary Griest, president of the Union-
ville club.
The report of the treasurer, Miss
Helene Williams, was presented by
Miss Kirk, of Philipsburg, read and
accepted. Three minute reports were
called for and Miss Mary H. Linn re-
ported for the Near East relief. She
stated that the county response was
not as good as last year.
Rev. Mellott gave a man’s view of
woman’s political attitude, and Mrs.
Robert M. Beach, for the Centre coun-
ty League of Women Voters, made a
strong plea for the political education
of women, not along partisan lines but
in connection with the economic issues
and needs of the country. Miss Over-
ton then introduced Mrs. John B.
Hamme, of York, vice president of
the Central Pennsylvania district of
Women’s Federated clubs, who told of
the advantage of small clubs being
federated, a subject of especial inter-
-est at this time as several clubs iff
county are contemplating fraternizing
for the purpose of federation.
Miss Overton appointed as
mittee on nominations Mrs. Ferree,
Mrs. Hoy and Mrs. Mayes; resolu-
tions, Mrs. Baird, Mrs. Parsons and
Mrs. Keichline; place of meeting, Mrs.
McGirk, Mrs. DeHaas, Miss Potter.
A luncheon was served in the club
i room by the hostess clubs of Howard,
ithe customary box luncheon being
supplemented with ice cream, home-
made cakes and coffee.
On convening for the afternoon ses-
sion Mrs. Hamme gave a talk on fed-
eration work, conditions and ideals
which attracted close attention on the
part of her hearers. She expressed
delight at the number and representa-
tive type of women assembled and
told of the probability of their being
called upon to form an active county
organization, a specially delegated
body which would constitute a power.
She prophesied that the time is near
at hand when woman can sit within
her walls and call it her kingdom;
that her work, her influence is called
for in the State, the union and the
world, for the home reacts upon them
all. The new spirit is growing in the
wonderful work being done by wom-
en’s clubs, the spirit of service, which
is only love. The organization of the
Federation makes its knowledge of
work needed and the means of ac-
complishment so superior to isolated
clubs that much greater service is pos-
sible by the small clubs which are fed-
erated. She stated that the Central
district embraces twenty counties in
which there are 57 clubs and 7000
members. There are four multi-coun-
ty clubs, Centre county, Tioga county,
a tri-county and a five county club.
After giving detailed information as
to federation items and needs Mrs.
Hamme told of the York county high-
way tree memorial. She described it
as approximately twenty-five miles
long, the longest single stretch of tree
memorial road in the United States,
and planted almost entirely with red
oak, American elm and sugar maple.
The speaker’s sincere faith and inter-
est in the value of federation work
impressed her hearers very much and
it is the belief that great profit will
result from her visit and able talk at
the conference.
Miss Kelsey, a pioneer dental hy-
gienist, of the State health car, dem-
onstrated to the conference the dental
work being done in the schools, having
little Miss Hazel Kunes as her sub-
ject. Miss Elizabeth Meek told of the
work being done in this department
and explained points that were not
clear to the club members.
S. S. Aplin, general secretary of
the Bellefonte Y. M. C. A., was intro-
duced and gave an enlightening talk
on Y activities in the county, the plans
and hopes, including some startling in-
formation regarding local social con-
ditions. The Y’s ideal, he said, is
service to communities, to individu-
(Continued on page 4, Col. 5.)
a com-
—The body of 5
ty, aged 40 years, v
cide could be established. heii
—Without ceremony ground for the erec-
tion of the $50,000 .C a J ws’ home at
Northumberland, > X 4 Wednes-
day. It is the intention of the order to
get as much of the work done as possible
this year. tant Re
—“Help! Man afire! the astonish-
ing telephone message received at police
headquarters in Sayre one day last week.
Investigation showed that Harry Blake-
taken to the hospital. = sis d
— Pennsylvania Railroad shops at Sun-
bury were put on a seven day a week, day
and night schedule on Monday to repair
locomotives and ears, it was said. It is an
era of prosperity greater than during the
war. At the Northumberland classifica-
tion yards 3000 freight cars are being
handled daily. wih hl Baveri sy
—Caught in a belt and carried to the
shafting of his cider mill, Lewis Keiser,
50 years old, of Northumberland county,
had his neck broken Saturday night. When
the mill on Warrior Run, driven by water-
nower, continued in operation throughout
the night, neighbors investigated and
found Lewis hanging dead from the over-
head shafting. :
—Childhood sweethearts, their marriage
prevented by the Civil war, were separated
by death at their home in Pittsburgh, on
Sunday, after only three days of married
life. . The couple, John Danks, 78 years
old, and Mrs. Amanda Thomas renewed
their courtship after the death of Danks’
first wife. They were married last Thurs-
day. Danks died of apoplexy on Sunday.
—Wanted for a seven year old murder
at’ Allentown, Pa., Thomas Gallager, of
Grand Rapids, Mich, is under arrest at
Norristown. Gallager is a Spanish-Amer-
ican war veteran and lost his left leg when
it was crushed between cannon during the
war. It is alleged that July 9th, 1915, he
beat to death another one-legged man,
James Monaghan, with his crutch. He is
said to have confessed.
—The new “burglar-proof” jail in For-
rest Hills, a suburb of Pittsburgh, has the
unique distinction of having been “broken
out of” by its first prisoner. Half of the
Forest Hills “force” had considerable dif-
ficulty Saturday night in jailing a “John
Doe,” who was much worse for indulging
in moonshine. He was locked up in the
new jail. Evidently he had an important
engagement and disappeared, leaving a
hastily scribbled no vil v ‘boot-
legger can not be kept :
—Entering the ho
aged 70 years, who li 1
frame shanty on the outs
ope, Butler county, two :
dragged him out of be
midnight last Saturday, and, after beating
him into unconsciofisness with blackjacks,
ransacked the hut and escaped with $600.
Snitzel regained consciousness the next
morning and went to a neighbor's house.
He had suffered deep lacerations on the
head, and a physician was called. State
police and county officials are searching
for the robbers. potas
1. Choking his 15 year-olds duvghter Into,
and believing he had
unconsciousness
killed her, William Bair, of Cheat Haven,
Fayette county slashed his throat from
ear to ear with a razor and died within a
short time in the Uniontown hospital. The
girl is little the worse for her experience.
When Bair returned home supper was not
ready, and he scolded his daughter. When
she made an angry retort her father seized
her by the throat. As she apparently was
lifeless, Bair ran upstairs and cut his
throat. Bair was a coal miner. His widow
and eight children survive.
—Cyrus Payne, a Civil war veteran, who
lived alone in a farm house at Brushville,
between New Milford and Susquehanna,
was found murdered on Sunday at his
home and a $1000 bill, which is believed to
have been the object of the murder, is
missing. Payne, who wore long hair and
was regarded as eccentric, was found with
his head split open onthe floor of his
home. Part of his scalp Yas found across
the room. A safety pin ch he used to
fasten the bill in his pocket was lying on
the floor. The man, who had evidently
been attacked from behind, was_.eating a
meal when struck. Several days -age he
got the bill from a bank and had been
displaying it. Se
wy
—Miss Eldora Crane, of West Pittston,
who fell on the street and was injured
while walking from a church with the Rev.
Frank Cherubini, will receive $399.14 com-
pensation from the Lackawanna Presby-
tery. This was decided by Judge H. A.
Fuller, who reversed a decision of the
| compensation board. Miss Crane was a so-
cial worker, engaged by the Presbytery.
‘On December 12th last, she was leaving the
church of which Mr. Cherubini is pastor.
He called to her and asked her to wait,
saying he had some church matters to dis-
cuss with her. She waited and together
they walked along the street when she fell.
Judge Fuller holds that the plaintiff was
performing her duties when injured and
that she was entitled to compensation.
~ —The reward of $5,000 offered for infor-
mation leading to the discovery of the
whereabouts of Alfred D. Kauffmann, a
prominent real estate owner, of Pittsburgh,
who had been missing from his home for
several weeks when his body was found in
a swamp near Cresson, has been paid to a
17 year old youth, Earl O'Donnell, who
found the body, and chief of police ‘A. M.
Kearney, of Cresson, who was instrumen-
tal in identifying the man. O'Donnell re-
ceived $3,000 as his share, while the chief
of police was paid the sum of $2,000. The
money was paid last Thursday by a repre-
sentative of the family who went to Cres-
son for the purpose. All indications point-
ed to the fact that Kauffmann, who was
not in good health, had committed suicide.
He left an estate of $310,000.
— Narrow old stone bridges which consti-
tute a menace to safe motor traffic on state
highways are soon to disappear, accord-
ing to an announcement by acting State
Highway Commissioner Biles.. Increased
motor traffic has made it imperative to get
rid of the narrow bridges which span
small streams and ravines over which .the
state highways pass. A recent survey by
the State Highway Department disclosed
that there are 1834 bridges less than six-
teen feet in width on state highways.
Many of these bridges are impassable for
more than one machine at a time. As the
highways are becoming more and more
traveled by huge trucks, which, under the
law, are allowed a width of ninety inches,
the danger of these bridges is apparent.
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