© © INK SLINGS.
‘ ——M. Ward Fleming Esq., of Phil-
ipsburg, and H. F. Frank, of Millheim,
have been appointed Notaries Public.
—We worked off the spring fever
and spring feet we were stricken with
on Sunday - by shoveling Tuesday's
SNOW.
—Now what do you suppose will
happen to Dr. Finegan for having so
«completely spilled the Governor’s bud-
get of beans?
——1It is to be hoped the President
will enjoy his period of rest. Two
years hence he will have much more
time for vacation.
——1It begins to look as if Gifford
Pinchot knows as little about admin-
istration as he does about the consti-
tution of Pennsylvania.
— Governor Pinchot assures the
public that the school system shall not
suffer. Then it follows that the bud-
get will take the punishment.
—Having gotten one white elephant
off his hands the President is going
south to recuperate sufficiently for the
ordeal of trying to train another one.
——OQur Attorney General seems to
think that the provision of the con-
stitution which requires appropria-
tions in separate bills is unconstitu-
tional.
——The Senate committee amend-
ment to the Pinchot enforcement is
probably intended to demonstrate the
difference ‘“’twixt tweedledum and
tweedledee.”
—— Our piscatorial editor having
failed to mention it we want to call
attention to the fact that it is just one
month until the opening of the trout
fishing season.
—If reckless drivers continue
their slaughter some fellow may pro-
pose an amendment to the constitu-
tion to prohibit the manufacture, sale
or use of automobiles.
——The Governor continues to re-
main silent on the subject of electo-
ral frauds, which may be interpreted
as evidence that he is keeping faith
with one element of his supporters.
—We've got to give it to Governor
Pinchot for having the courage to
stick to his guns long enough to scare
a few members of the Legislature, at
least, into getting in out of the “wet.”
—The Sixty-seventh Congress has
adjourned “without date” and the
country may be regarded as safe for
a period of nine months. The Lord
only knows what will happen then for
our friend Billy Swoope will be there
with -the bells on when the Sixty-
eighth convenes.
- —There’s a fly in every ointment.
From under the blanket of snow that
had been unruffled since December
13th, good old earth came to view on |
Sunday and just when we were being
transported furthest on the wings of
hope, returning life and warming sun-
shine we went into a tail spin and
discovered that spring fever and
spring feet had caused our loss of con-
trol.
—We want to say right here that
the “Watchman” was the only paper
in Pennsylvania, so far as we have |
i of Indiana, to the office of Postmaster
been able to get the opinion of the
press of the State, that declared, with-
out reservation, that Pinchot’s prohi-
bition bill would go through without
material change. Re-read the ed-
itorials on this subject that we have
published for the last six weeks and
see how certainly we have lead you up
to just what is going to happen in
Harrisburg.
—1It is a pleasure to note the prog-
ress of the Hon. Cyrus E. Woods, of
Centre and Westmoreland counties, in
the gratification of his long ambition
to be in his country’s diplomatic serv-
ice. From his post as Ambassador to
Spain he has been asked by President
Harding to go to Japan. The advance-
ment speaks for itself. As a Senator
in Pennsylvania for eight years, as
Secretary of the Commonwealth for
six, Mr. Woods displayed a broader
conception of the duties of public of-
fice than is evidenced by the average
official who comes to the fore through
the turn of the political wheel of for-
tune. It is reassuring to feel that one
so eminently qualified has been chosen
to represent us at Tokio. Our rela-
tions with Japan are very vital at this
time. ;
—Generally speaking our advice to
these who might be thinking of be-
coming candidates for county office on
the Democratic ticket is this: Don’t
let any one persuade you to enter the
lists before you have had several
hours honest communion with your-
self. Decide whether you can devote
enough time to the pre-primary cam-
paign to stand a chance of a nomina-
tion. Decide whether, if nominated,
you can give every moment of the
time from the primary in September
until the election in November to an
aggressive campaign. Decide whether
you are the kind of a person who has
a way about him that attracts and
holds others. Decide that having a
few thousand cards printed with your
picture on them and then handing
them out like a boy passes bills won’t
get you anywhere. Decide whether
you have the pep and the will to win
then go to some brutal friend and tell
him all of your self analysis. If he is
really what you think him to be, a
brutal friend, accept his advice: Go
to it or stick at what you are at. Can-
didates who can help themselves can
win on the Democratic ticket in Cen-
tre county in November. Those who
can’t would be well advised to lay off.
X
Temacrr
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
_VOL. 68.
Enforcement Bill Will Pass.
Governor Pinchot’s enforcement leg-
islation is now well started on its
“triumphant tour” through the Legis-
lature. On Monday evening Senator |
New Taxes Apparently Necessary.
The news from Harrisburg every
day makes clearer the fact that the
“mess” can never be cleaned up un-
less additional tax burdens are put up-
NO. 10.
BELLEFONTE, PA., MARCH 9. 1923.
Senator Pepper the Low Limit.
{ It wasn’t necessary for Senator
Pepper to announce that he would
have voted for the ship subsidy bill if
a vote had been taken on that vicious
Snyder, of Blair county, reported it |on the already overloaded shoulders of A measure. Everybody knows that he is
from the committee of Law and Or- | the people. However the question is the most servile slave of the machine
der with an affirmative recommenda-
tion. The opponents of the measure
held it back as long as possible. That
is they prevented the report on Tues-
day evening of last week. But the de-
lay is a matter of little importance.
The full force of the State administra-
tion, the government at Washington,
the Anti-Saloon Leaguz and the sun-
dry organizations of professional and
amateur “uplifters” are behind it, and
they will work with the zeal and en-
ergy of crusaders. {
This prohibition business has been
botch-work from the beginning. Most
good citizens, men and women, are in- |
clined to sympathize with the purpose
which its supporters have in ‘mind.
But it was begun wrong and has been
pursued along mistaken lines. The
regulation of the liquor traffic is a
State rather than a national preroga-
tive and a statutory instead of a con-
stitutional question. Having thus!
started it wrong it was wrongfully |
made a political question and in most
other States, as in Pennsylvania, the
enforcement of it was perverted into
an orgie of criminal partisanship.
Millions of dollars have been paid to
favored party plunderers through this
medium of corruption.
The slogan, “the saloons must go,”
is popular because the saloons had de-
generated into a grave evil. Gifford
Pinchot, who knows as little concern-
ing the public sentiment of Pennsylva-
nia as an infant knows of the signs
of the zodiac, is utilizing this popular
aversion to an evil, for a selfish pur-
pose. He hopes to promote his polit-
ical ambitions by falsely pretending
an absorbing interest in prohibition
enforcement. His original intention
was to use the budget fad as a ve-
hicle to carry him into popular fa-
vor but managed it so badly that it
proved a failure. He is determined to |
make the most: of the enforcement
proposition, however, and the indica- !
Mr. Beaver voted against pas- |
‘ considered there is a deficit of some-
thing like fifty millions of dollars. By
judicious pruning the expenses of the
government of the State might be cut
down ten or twelve million dollars.
But after that achievement the obliga-
tions would be twenty-five or thirty
million dollars in excess of the reve-
nues as provided by existing laws. If
the anthracite coal tax is repealed, as
it ought to be, the default will be in-
creased by something like ten million
dollars.
The so-called “luxury tax” propos-
ed by Representative Alexander is
not the logical method of adding to
the revenues. The suggestion of
Speaker Goodnough for a horizontal
i increase of twelve and a half per cent.
on all taxes has even less merit. But
something must be done. The credit-
ors of the State can’t wait a year or
more for money that is due, and it is
equally impossible to stop the opera-
tions of the government. The misuse
of revenues in the past and the crim-
inal profligacy of the three last ad-
ministrations in creating new offices,
increasing salaries and undertaking
expensive and needless enterprises
have swamped the State and a proper
remedy for the evil must be devised.
The policy of the Republican party
is, and has always been, to put the
burdens of government upon those
least able to bear them. The theory
of the managers of that party seems
to be that those least able to pay are
also least able to resist payment. The
purpose of this policy is to enlist the
wealthy in the interest of the party
which so favors them. The exemption
of manufacturing enterprises from
taxation is an expression of this poli-
cy. By the payment of a million or
two to the Republican campaign fund
they save a dozen millions or more by
exemption from taxes. It is time to
change the policy of the State in this
respect. Any new taxes this year
tions are he will fulfill expectations. | should-be put on manufacturers. ,
: * oud A REE ay § Seas Les Pr RA Ce fe? . R — A
Those who know that Lillian
iin the Senate. He probably knows
that the only purpose of the legisla-
tion was to bestow upon certain
| wealthy campaign contributors license
{ to loot the treasury. But the Presi-
! dent wanted it to pass and Pepper’s
idea of public service is to gratify
i the wishes of those higher up in the
| official scale. He is a born sycophant
‘and in obeying orders which conflict
with a properly controlled conscience
he is fulfilling his purpose in official
life.
Some time ago the President nomi-
nated for the office of controller of the
Currency a banker residing in New
Mexico, named McNary. Objection
had been filed against the confirma-
tion of Mr. McNary and a sub com-
mittee of the Senate committee on Fi-
nance, of which Senator Pepper was a
member, was named to probe the
charges. This committee investigated
the charges and Senator Pepper made
report to the President that his nom-
inee was unfit and asked that the nom-
ination be withdrawn. President
Harding declined to withdraw the
nomination, which had been made at
the request of Secretary of the In-
terior Fall, now happily an “ex,” and
when the question of confirmation
came to a vote Pepper stultified him-
self by voting in the affirmative.
There have been some rather rank
figures in the public life of the coun-
try and Pennsylvania has supplied
some of the toughest. Pretendingto re-
spectability he willingly lends himself
to the nefarious schemes of political
adventurers. Only the other day he
put himself behind a movement for
the unconditional pardon of all polit-
lical prisoners, and justifies the action
| on the ground that he was acting as a
lawyer rather than as a Senator. But
as a Senator he is paid for conserv-
“ing the interests of the government.
#
A
| page of every
sage of the bill that aims to make a ' Russel is dead will be curious to learn ‘the grand jury in quarter sessions
woman who refuses to pay her taxes |
liable to a jail sentence, the same as .
men. It carried, however, by a vote !
of 107 to 82.
BE
Our New Postmaster General.
The appointment of Harry S. New, |
General removes all doubts as to
President Harding’s intention to try
for a second term. The Postoffice De-
partment is the political “listening
post” of the government at Washing-
ton. Every President selects the most
skillful politician of his party for that
office and it is invariably taken for
granted that whoever is Postmaster
General is the President’s mouthpiece
so far as political manoeuvers is con-
cerned. At the beginning of his ad-
ministration President Harding named
Will Hays, of Indiana, for the service
but the lure of the six figure salary
enticed him to the “movies.” Attor-
ney General Daugherty made a poor
substitute.
Strangely enough Senator Watson, |
of Indiana, was the first to openly
suggest a second term for Harding
but it is safe to say that he had no
intention of promoting the political
ambitions of his then colleague in the
Senate, Harry New. These two men
represent different factions of the
party in the State and both aspire to
spokesmanship of the party. There-
fore when Watson suggested Harding
for re-election it is altogether likely
that his purpose was to harm rather
than help New, who was an especially
crippled “lame duck.” The contrary
result having ensued it may be pre-
sumed that the party breach in In-
diana will be widened instead of be-
ing closed by the incident. Altogeth-
er the situation is confusing.
But out of the uncertainty one fact |
shows clearly. It is that Mr. Harding
has chosen as the political manager of
his administration a capable politi-
cian. Senator New has been in the
game a long time and is familiar with
all the rules as well as the tricks. He
is not a statesman by long odds, and
neither is Watson, but he is a diplo-
mat of the sort that manipulates pol-
itics for the “interests.” Since the
retirement of Will Hays from the
chairmanship of the Republican Na-
tional committee the organization has
been weak at that point and it may be
predicted that Postmaster General
New will strengthen it materially.
But he will have a difficult task to
work out. Harding is a heavy load.
——That Harrisburg man whe was
able to prove in court that he is not
dead has something on a good many
of the congressional “lame ducks.”
why her husband, Alexander Moore,
was appointed Ambassador to Spain.
Sad Condition at Harrisburg.
What an awful “mess” has been cre-
ated in Harrisburg in respect to the
maintenance of the public schools?
That new but ponderous and potential
public official, the budgeteer of the ad-
ministration, fixes the allowance to
the public schools for the biennium
at $21,000,000. Dr. Finegan, Super-
intendent of Public Instruction, esti-
mates the cost of the service at $39,-
000,000 and Auditor General Lewis de-
clares that $55,000,000 will be requir-
ed to square the accounts. The esti-
mates are expressed here ‘in round
numbers, there being a few thousands
and hundreds to add in each case.
But the differences are wide and each
estimate comes from a man who ought
to know exactly what is needed.
Nobody knows what the budgeteer
bases his calculation on but the Gov-
ernor seems to accept his statement
as accurate. The superintendent bas-
es his estimate upon the provisions of
the Edmonds law which provides for
certain expenses of schools and ratios
of increase in compensation. It is
true that he made an under estimate
at first to the extent of $4,500,000, but
appears to be certain of the accura-
cy of his last statement on the sub-
ject. The Auditor General’s estimate
is based upon the same foundation,
but he takes in some collateral ex-
penses which the superintendent omit-
ted purposely or otherwise. In any
event the “mess” has knocked the
much heralded budget “into a cock-
ed hat.” :
But this is not the worst aspect of
the affair. Even wise men have dif-
fered upon questions of fact, and wise
men will do so to the end of time. This
difference, however, is not of that in-
nocent sort. There is woven into it
something of a sinister nature that
engenders bad blood, and our right-
eous Governor and our equally estima-
ble Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion are thinking and saying unpleas-
ant things about each other. During
the campaign their relations were so
widely different. It is true that the
Governor = discreetly withheld open
praise of the superintendent but the
superintendent converted the public
school organization into a Pinchot
propaganda. It is sad indeed.
——A recess appointment was too
raw for McNary. It’s a pity the
President isn’t equally sensitive to
public sentiment.
——The groundhog may have slip-
ped a cog last week but he is back on
the job sure enough now.
, court to clean up the city of the wil-
| fully careless drivers of automobiles
who pay no regard to the rights of
others and kill and maim with appar-
I According to the Philadelphia papers
there are ‘hundreds of cases on the
dockets of the various courts in that
city against automobilists for all de-
| grees of offenses from punitive dam-
ages to murder and Judge Quigley
stated to the grand jury that it was
high time to call a halt on such crim-
inal recklessness. The high-powered
car of the present day is not only a
luxury but an almost absolute neces-
a terrible instrument of destruction,
and the only way to keep it in its
competent manipulators.
The New Game Bill is Having Rough
Sledding.
code is having a rough time of it in
Harrisburg. The committee, of which
Mr. Beaver is chairman, had a stormy
session Tuesday morning and many
things happened to the bill. The pro-
posed increase of 50 cents in license
fees was cut to 10 cents, the feature
that would have deprived farmers of
the right to hunt on their own lands
was cut out, the groundhog was taken
off the protected list and a lot of other
changes were made.
In fact the bill has been changed en-
tirely, but will not be reported out
until the committee has another ses-
sion over it next Monday.
Wednesday.
The appeal of Geo. R. Meek, Flor-
ence F. Dale and Andrew Breese vs.
the Centre County Banking Co., was
argued before the U. S. Circuit Court
of Appeals, in Philadelphia, on Wed-
nesday.
Attorneys Spangler and Gettig ap-
peared for the Banking Co., and Hon.
Ellis L. Orvis and M. C. Rhone repre-
sented the appellants. All we know
as to the outcome is that the argu-
ment was concluded.
——Engineer “Bill” McCollum is
having troubles of his own, so don’t
tell him yours. Following close upon
last Saturday’s slight wreck in this
place, when the engine of the Lewis-
burg passenger train jumped the
track, the engine he was driving on
Wednesday broke down at Lemont and
he was over two hours late getting in-
to Bellefonte.
| The Grandilogquent Member from
udge ‘Henry C. Quigley, of
: . on “front
h ladelphia paper on
Tuesday through his instructions to’
ently no thought of the consequences.
sity, but in the hands of an intoxicat-
ed individual or a reckless driver it is ,
proper niche is to get rid of the in- |
The Hon. Tom Beaver’s new game
Centre County Bank Case Argued
Northampton.
It is seldom that speeches made on
the floor of the House at Harrisburg
have any public interest. For the most
part they are little more than parlia-
mentary passages at arms between
Members who are jockeying for tech-
nical advantage under the rules.
Such being the case it is refreshing
to note the speech which the gentle-
man from Northampton, Mr. Stofflet,
made last week in defense of his in-
tention to vote against the measure
that would bring women under the
same penalty of law that sends men to
prison for failure to pay taxes. While
Mr. Stofflet added little to construct-
ive thought on the issue he did con-
tribute a grandiloquent bit of persi-
flage when he said:
Mr. Speaker and members of
the House, it is a fact that we
have women suffrage, but I cannot
say yet that I am thoroughly recon-
ciled to it. During the last campaign,
a candidate who is a very close person-
al friend of mine made that same re-
mark, and he said that he had in for-
mer years been in violent opposition
to women suffrage, and he partly laid
the blame on me, by reason of his
close association and my opinions. He
said in his remarks that the time when
Solon was the great jurist; Phocion, a
great Legislator in Greece; when Soc-
rates delivered his great orations and
Demosthenes thrilled the word with
his eloquence; when Phidias carved
the immortal statue of Jupiter Olym-
pias; Hypocrates laid the foundation
of medicine; Archimedes laid the
foundation of mathematics; when Al-
exander had conquered the world;
when Napoleon had become the great-
est military genius of all time and
Solomon, the wisest of men, that that
was considered the Golden Age of
thought. But, unfortunately, in those
days women occupied a sphere in life
little better than that of a slave.
I must agree with him, but today
we must also admit that woman is
practically in the saddle. Now let us
80 back for one minute and see what
has become of the illustrious men of
olden times. Solon no longer is a jur-
ist; the modern Solon is a justice of
the peace; Phocion no longer passes
laws, he is clerk in an insurance office;
Demosthenes no longer orates: S
tes no longer Is. ith, ith *h
"quence; Demosthenes calls:
he
trains at the railroad station and Soc-
rates is an auctioneer; Phidias no
longes carves the immortal Jupiter
Olympias, he works in a stone quar-
ry for a dollar and a half a day; Hy-
pocrates no longer lays the founda-
tions of any new cults in medicine, he
peddles liniment; Alexander no long-
er conquers worlds, he is chief of po-
lice, and Napoleon is a constable, and
Solomon, the wisest of all men is at
home, diligently sweeping the kitchen,
i washing the dishes and taking care of
, the children, and his six hundred
Wives are down at a meeting of the
, womens’ voters’ league. But, having
I amused you for just a minute, I want
to say in all seriousness that I shall
vote “no” on this bill, and I hope that
every man that wishes to protect
woman from herself will do the same.
| Prohibition and Politics.
i From the Doylestown Democrat.
(“It would be very embarrassing,”
: said President Harding, speaking in
! opposition to the application of civil
‘service to the machinery of prohibi-
, tion enforcement, “to be obliged to
| submit charges and establish, in each
| case, misconduct in office.”
Embarrassing to the accused em-
ployee, perhaps, but is the good fel-
.lowship of the President so pervasive
that rather than irritate and annoy an
incapable or dishonest enforcement
agent, he would prefer that nothing
Fhateyer be mentioned about the mat-
er?
| From the very beginning politics
| has influenced the enforcement of the
liquor law. Politics has plagued the
system continuously, and to it the dif-
ficulties of enforcement may be traced
to a great extent. Politicians demand
the selection of their favorites. They
ask for pressure in this instance and
beg relief from pressure in that. They
have kept inefficient and unscrupulous
agents in office. Small wonder, then,
that there have been difficulties.
We do not say that the merit sys-
tem would affect a panacea for one
i hundred per cent. prohibition enforce-
ment, but in so far as it would banish
politics from the service, the efficiency
and honesty expended in seeing that
the law is obeyed would be subjected
to a tremendous advancement.
mea———a——
Mistress of the Seas.
From the Columbus Dispatch.
We are now going to have a float-
ing weather bureau, and with our
floating debt, our floating population
and our drifting foreign policy, we
may yet become a great maritime na-
tion, even though we have no mer-
chant marine to speak of.
Restless Europe.
From the Detroit News.
At times it looks as if things in
Europe are to pick up and go ahead
just the same as if nothing had hap-
pened, and then something happens.
—Subscribe for the “Watchman,”
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Mrs. Mary Jones, of Wilkes-Barre, en~
tered a plea of guilty in federal court at
Williamsport, on Monday afternoon to the
charge of transporting liquor and was sen-
tenced to one year in jail and to pay a fine
of $1000.
—Their fourth “set” of twins was
born last Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Watkins, residing near Lock Haven. Three
of the “pairs” have been born within the
last three years. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins
have been married eighteen years and are
the parents of thirteen children, all living.
—According to information regarded as
very reliable, a new fire brick plant is to
be built at Monument the coming spring
and summer by the Harbison-Walker Re-
fraetories company to replace the one now
in use and erected about twenty years ago.
The new plant will be built south of the
present works so that there will not be
any interruption of production.
—Henry M. Harding, of Luzerne county,
is the oldest guest of the Masonic home,
at Elizabethtown. He is in his ninety-
fifth year, was associate judge of Com-
mon Pleas of Wyoming county and thirty-
eight years a justice of the peace. He has
voted at every Presidential election since
the candidacy of Scott and Pierce, and is
a distant relative of President Harding.
—Peter Seip, of Fleetwood, near Read-
ing, was robbed of $65 by two highway-
men, who ciubbed him to insensibility and
laid his body on the Reading Railway
tracks. When he revived he rolled himself
from the tracks just as the late express
dashed by. Twenty men formed a posse,
and searched the farms and woods for
hours for the highwaymen, but without
success.
—Miss Virgie E. Ream, of Elizabethtown,
has entered suit for $5000 against the es-
tate of Pierson M. Brooks, of that town,
whom the plaintiff, through her lawyer,
John E. Malone, alleges promised to marry
her, but always postponed the wedding
during their sixteen years of courtship.
The suit for heart balm was directed
against Hiram H. Nissley, administrator of
the Brooks estate.
—That the destruction of a marriage cer-
tificate by his wife was just cause for di-
vorce was decreed by the Fayette county
court in the case of Anthony V. Matron, of
Brownsville, who was divorced from Mar-
garet Matron. The couple were married
August 8th, 1910, at Connellsville. Matron
testified that his wife declared that she did
not want to live with him any longer and
that she took their marriage certificate and
tore it up in front of him.
—Stephen Bitternbender, of Sunbury, a
telephone collector, piled his clothing neat-
ly on the bank of the Susquehanna river
fourteen years ago and was supposed to
have plunged into the stream, in lieu of
satisfying an alleged shortage in his funds.
James Phillips, county treasurer, of Nor-
thumberland county, received a letter from
Bitternbender from Portland, Oregon, on
Saturday, in which he asked what had be-
come of his mother's estate. She lives in
Shamokin and is not dead yet, the treas-
urer said.
—Two highwaymen early on Monday
morning entered the City Line hotel, a
road-house on the northern boulevard of
Scranton, and ordered fifteen men to hold
up their hands. They then rifled the men’s
«| pockets, getting in all about $500. The
. | proprietor of the place,” Samuel Tevelin,
says he was behind the bar when the ban-
dits entered. Other men who were in the
hotel at the time tell conflicting stories
and as a result police launched a fresh in-
vestigation. No trace of the highwaymen
has been obtained.
—Harry Orr, a young farmer on the
Misses Anna and Maude Hutchinson farm
near Warriorsmark, committed suicide on
Wednesday afternoon, February 28th, by
hanging himself to a rafter in the barn,
where he was found by the children on
their return from school. Mr. Orr, who
formerly resided at Tyrone, was held in
high esteem, and the day before the sad
affair seemed perfectly rational as he min-
gled with his friends. No one, consequent-
ly, can account for his act. He leaves a
wife and six children.
—Two youths who pleaded guilty in the
Allegheny county criminal court of steal-
ing automobiles for “joy riding” were sen-
tenced on Monday to penal institutions by
Judge A. B. Reid, who indicated last week
he would endeavor to break up the prac-
tice by punishing offenders to the full ex-
tent of the law. Louis Bucholtz, aged 19
years, was sent to the Pennsylvania in-
dustrial reformatory at Huntingdon, and
Floyd Lavender, a negro, was sentenced to
serve thirty days in jail. Lavender's sen-
tence was shortened because he had passed
sixty-five days in jail since his arrest.
—According to the will of Mrs. Martha
Souser, widow of a former superintendent
of the Danville district of the Central
Pennsylvania conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, which disposes of. a
$15,000 estate, $1,000 is bequeathed to the
support of a native missionary in India.
The sum of $1,000 is given toward found-
ing the John W. Souser and Margarct
Tewksbury churches somewhere in Ore-
gon. The Rev. Dr. John W. Souser, who
died some years ago, was widely known
as one of the influential preachers in Meth-
odism in the Central Pennsylvania con-
ference.
—Three hundred and fifty men are at
work on the first of the three great hy-
draulic power dams being constructed on
the Clarion river and the crews will be in-
creased to 900 men just as soon as the
building season opens. Construction is be-
ing concentrated at the Piney creek dam,
and engineers estimate that seventeen
months will be required to complete the
work. The lower dam of Foxburg and the
upper dam at Mill creek will be taken up
later. The upper reservoir is to be the
largest. It will have a breast wall on the
dam, that will be 250 feet high and will
back water up in the Clarion river ss far
as Ridgway, sixteen miles distant.
—Big game hunters will be interested in
the announcement that a herd of elk has
been wintering in the hemlocks near Kel-
lettville, in Forest county. There are
about a doezn elk in the herd, and Game
Protectors Beaty, Wilson and Shaw have
been carefully guarding them and placing
hay and feed for the animals during the
period of heavy snow. The elk are all big
fellows and are evidently an outgrowth of
the few that were given freedom in Forest
county several years ago. This is the first
report of the animals since they were turn-
ed loose in the woods, as they were never
spotted by hunters during the hunting sea«
son. All of the animals are in fine shape.