Drmoreaic Matron
INK SLINGS.
—Pity the poor girl who hasn’t a
deep enough hem in her skirt to let it
down to the point fashion now decrees
it should be.
—The “Athaletics” have started off
in the baseball marathon like they are
determined not to stay in the cellar,
no matter how wet it might be.
—We’d pray for rain if we weren’t
fearful that some of our misguided
Prohibition friends get the idea that
we are trying to make Centre county
wet again.
With Kemal Pasha fawning and
handing us oil concessions might we
not well fear that the Turks, and not
the Greeks, are to be feared when
bearing gifts.
—Why worry about Kephart retain-
ing his job as deputy State Treasur-
er? Didn’t Charley Snyder, his chief,
tell you long, long ago: If you don't
like the way Pennsylvania is run move
to some other State.
—Henry Ford's new plan of selling
his flivs on an installment plan of five
dollars a month would have been a ten
stroke a year or two ago. Now nearly
everybody who would have elected to
buy that way has one. :
—1If the new French flying machine
that is to have wings that are flapped
by the arms of the flier is to be “no
more fatiguing than swimming” some
of us won’t get very far when we take
to the air in one of them.
One of two things will have to be
done in this burg before very long.
Either the town will have to be en-
larged or the country folks in the sur-
rounding territory will have to be
talked out of buying more cars to
drive here every pleasant Saturday
night.
—That grand old bigot, Senator
Lodge, hurried to Washington during
the fore part of the week to help keep
the President from climbing onto the
League of Nations band wagon. Mas-
sachusetts discredited Lodge last fall
and gradually the country has been
falling in line with the same endeav-
or ever since, so that the President
need not have been much impressed
with what he said.
—“The Commoner” is dead. Not
William Jennings Bryan, himself, but
the journalistic offspring he begat in
1901. It died of marasmus, the April
issue having been the last gasp of the
once robust, strenuous child. Hence-
forth those who absorbed their De-
mocracy from its columns must attend
the Chautauqua or get a less Bryan-
ized view point from the other Demo-
cratic journals of the land.
—Anent the discussion as to wheth-
er Solomon really had a thousand
wives we rise to remark that whether
it was a thousand or only one hundred,
as some of the biblical scholars are in-
clined to believe, our wonderment is
all the same. How the wise old He-
brew King carried up coal, fixed fly
screens, stayed in nights and made
himself generally handy for more than
one is enough to command the admi-
ration of a twentieth century spouse.
—Dr. A. H. Desloges, director of
asylums in Canada, predicts that un-
less we all mend our ways the entire
world will be well on the road to in-
sanity within the next quarter of a
century. It is a sad thing to contem-
plate, but if we're all to be “bugs,”
twenty-five years from now, there will
be none to tell us about it and, maybe
then, we'll frequently see outside some
of the peaceful, contented scenes we
have marveled at inside the forbidding
walls of Kirkbride’s, Dixmont and
Danville.
—If the Hon. Tom Beaver wants
to really represent the people of Cen-
tre county, do something helpful for
them, he will oppose Senate bill No.
809, which is the same as House bill
160. He didn’t vote on it when it
passed the House on first reading and
we're glad he didn’t put himself on
record as favoring it, for the measure
is full of snakes and is a regular code
trick to create hundreds of new jobs.
And to our mind he ought to lend his
efforts to the passage of Bills 940,
942, 943 and 944 all of which have real
merit.
—With the following in his own
party that would stick to him anyway
and the Democrats who would support
such a proposal from conviction we
believe the President is missing the
one opportunity of his life to attain
rank with the country’s really great
men by not coming out fearlessly for
the League of Nations. He and Sec-
retary Hughes are only splitting hairs
by their proposal of a world court.
Their chance of getting anywhere
with it is small and even if they do
succeed it will be, in principle, a
League of Nations anyway.
—Last week we paid tribute to a
pair of piscatorial experts from Greer,
West Virginia. This week it falls to
our lot to take our hat off to a gen-
tleman from Davenport, Iowa. F. G.
C., writes to tell us that out in the
“Hawkeye” State they have real fish-
ermen and enjoy the sport all the year
round. Even when the Mississippi is
ice bound they arm themselves with a
club, a saw and a can of June peas.
Then they go out onto the ice, saw a
hole in it, place the peas in a ring
around the hole, about an inch apart,
and sit down with club in hand. When
a fish comes up for a pea they knock
it on the head and it’s all over. Who
would ever have thought that Freder-
ick would write us a story like that.
—Thank the Lord, we've gotten to
the bottom of (the column for once
without resort to the boot-leggers or
Gif. Pinchot.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA., APRIL 27. 1923.
VOL. 68S.
Cheering News from Harrisburg.
If the gossip in the lobbies of the
capitol in Harrisburg is founded on
fact there is likely to be some inter-
esting proceedings in the Legislature
within a few days. Thus far during
the session the Democratic Senators
and Representatives in the General
Assembly have been disposed to sup-
port the Governor in his program to
“clean up the mess.” It will be re-
membered that at the beinning of the
session the Democratic Legislators de-
clared they would help the Governor
to improve conditions and methods
and in pursuance of this resolution
saved him from a most humiliating
and disastrous defeat on his enforce-
ment measure. But since that the ab-
surdity of some of his policies and his
insincerity in professions of reform
have set them to thinking on the sub-
ject.
In his budget, for example, the Gov-
ernor proposes reductions in appropri-
ations for every department except
those of himself, his Attorney Gener-
al and his Secretary of the Common-
wealth, and in each of these, all under
his absolute control, he asks for in-
creases. In his “code” he concentrates
all the power of government in him-
self. To thoughtful minds these actions
do not express the spirit of altruism.
On the contrary they are the very es-
sence of selfishness. His obvious pur-
pose is to subvert every agency of ad-
ministration to his personal service
and create an invincible personal ma-
chine to promote his ambitions for
higher honors. The Democratic Sen-
ators and Representatives, according
to reports from Harrisburg, will not
lend themselves longer to such
schemes.
The iniquities of the last and two
previous Republican administrations
are known of all men, disgusting to
all just men and women and they “cry
to high heaven” for redress. But Gov-
ernor Pinchot hasn’t taken a single
step or made a single gesture to stop
them or punish those responsible for
them. He seems to have no thought
except for his own aggrandizement
and though he talks freely and fre-
quently for reforms he retains about
him and consults with the very men
who have perpetrated the crimes of
Auto Vehicles Will Pay.
The question of where and how to!
get the twenty million dollars needed
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|to finance the administration of Gif-
within a few days.
which he complains to the public and
promises to punish. The promise is
that the Democratic Senators and
Representatives will inaugurate some
reforms on their own account and
that the “cleaning up” they will do
will be for the benefit of and in the in-
erest of the people of Pennsylvania.
——At last the Soviet government
of Russia is heading for a precipice.
When it set out to suppress christian
religion it revealed “the beginning of
the end.”
Reasons for Senators’ Visit.
Wide differences of opinion contin-
ue to exist as to the reasons that in-
fluenced Senators Pepper and Reed to
visit Harrisburg early last week and
confer first with the Governor and
later with leading Republican mem-
bers of the Legislature. The domi-
nant view, as we stated last week, is
that the incident marked the begin-
ford Pinchot will be officially decided
Time is moving
on and tide waits for no man. The
session of the Legislature must come
to an end and tax bills take time in
making the journey from the desk of
the author to the office of the Gover-
nor. It is nearly four months since
the session began and the spring sea-
son is waning. The country mem-
bers are thinking of harvest and the
city members of the sea shore. Clear-
ly something must be done, and the
indications are that the something
will be done within a few days.
As has been stated above the ques-
tion will be officially determined with-
in a few days, but it has been actual- |
ly decided already. The additional
taxes will be levied on automobiles
and other kinds of motor vehicles and
gasoline. Possibly so much of Repre-
sentative Alexander’s luxury tax as
applies to cigars and cigarettes will
be included in the new levy, but the
principal burden will be upon the au-
to vehicles. There are only a million
or so of them in the State and the
owners are not sufficiently organized
to make a strong resistance. The old
system of placing the burden where
it can be most easily borne is chang-
ed to putting it where there can be
the least resistance.
Besides both the Governor and the
Republican machine are under obliga-
tion to shield manufacturing corpor-
ations from taxes. Joe Grundy never
gave up $80,000 to secure the nomina-
tion and election of Gifford Pinchot
without a guarantee of some kind that
the old policy of the machine with re-
spect to taxing manufacturing cor-
porations would be continued. In or-
der to make good on this pledge the
automobilists must be made pay.
The corporations will fight and they
know how to hit hard in a scrimmage,
and the Governor as well as a machine
is scrupulously careful to keep faith
with corporate interests. It may be
set down as settled that the new taxes
will be on auto vehicles.
——The Philadelphia courts have
set the proper pace. One drunk autos:
mobile driver has been sent to the pen- '
itentiary for at least eight years and
a reckless driver to the same retreat
for a lesser period. -
Public Service Commission Safe.
The defeat of the bill to abolish the
Public Service Commission by the
overwhelming vote of ninety-seven to
thirty-two guarantees the tenure of
the present commissioners for the
present. But it can hardly be con-
strued as an enthusiastic popular en-
dorsement of the board. On a full
vote of the membership of the House
ning of an attempt of the old guard to |
‘the present Commission will not be
“disturbed during the present cession
break the Governor's power over the
Legislature and defeat his amibtions
for higher party favor. This is an
entirely reasonable conjecture, for the
Governor has certainly been ‘“carry-
ing on” since his inauguration and
surely menacing the life of the old
machine. But it is not accepted by
the friends of the Governor and some
of his enemies.
Representative Alexander, of Dela-
ware county, a member of the House
the bill might have been passed and
even the negative votes may not have
expressed the actual estimate of the
board of those casting them. Some
may have been influenced by a pref-
erence of a bad board to no board and
others by a feeling that an affirma-
tive vote would increase Pinchot’s
power of patronage. ’
In any event the vote indicates that
except as the Governor may substi-
tute new men for those in commission
when their terms expire.
and it is not improbable that they will
lose their places after the adjourn-
ment of the session. The law pro-
vides for minority representation on
the board and the sitting Democratic
member was appointed by Governor
committee on Ways and Means, in Brumbaugh. His reappointment will
justifying the visit of the Senators depend, probably, on his value as a
said that they had been invited by
that committee for the reason that
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pawn in the political game of chess in
which the Governor is at present en-
they are intimate with corporation ‘gaged.
officials and affairs and more capable |
than the Governor or the Legislators Public Service Commission, as at
to decide the vexed question of taxa- | Present constituted, is not very firmly |
As a matter of fact, however, the
tion. Senator Pepper is counsel for a fixed in the confidence or affections of
lot of corporations and Senator Reed
is identiried alike as attorney and
shareholder with a considerable num-
ber of them. Both. are greatly interest-
ed in preventing the taxation of man-
ufacturing corporations, and reports
from Harrisburg indicate that there is
less danger of such tax now than be-
fore the visit. :
As an esteemed contemporary says,
the visit of the Senators to Harrisburg
at the time was not only much need-
ed but entirely proper. The General
Assembly of Pennsylvania seems to
be composed of a lot of “boobs” inca-
pable of independent or intelligent ac-
tion on any subject, and the question
of taxing the people is one of im-
portance. Left to themselves they
might have put a tax on manufactur-
ing corporations for the reason that
such enterprises require a good deal
of police and other forms of protection
at intervals and have not paid their
share of the expenses of government
heretofore. But now that they have
absorbed the wisdom of Pepper and
Reed they know better. Some other
subject will be found to tax.
the public. It is industrious enough,
no doubt, and probably intelligent
enough. But its decisions are almost
invariably in favor of corporations
and against individuals, and it is enor- ,
mously expensive. Besides it Las
been perverted into something like a
political trading post in which effi-
ciency in party manipulation counts
more than ability for the service. Nev- |
ertheless there is reason for the ac-
tion of the Legislature in refusing to
abolish the board.
——Senator LaFollette is arranging
a trip to follow President Harding's
“swing” and answer his arguments on
every subject. It may be said that
that will put “hard” in Harding.
——1If nothing else has been achiev-
ed the marathon dancers have proved
that the fool killer is and has been on
a prolonged vacation.
———————py————
——Woodrow Wilson’s “watchful
waiting” in respect to Mexico made a
long trick but appears to have proved
successful.
The terms
of two of them have already expired |
Plainly a Miscarriage of Justice. |
1
The actual frame of mind of the;
Pinchot administration is revealed in |
the result of the trial of Harmon M.
Kephart, charged with various viola-
tions of law during the period in which
he was State Treasurer. He was ac-
cused of false entry of accounts, per-
jury in swearing to conditions of the
Treasury and of sundry other offens-
es. In the beginning he protested ve-
hemently that he was innocent and
that the prosecution was for effect in
factional politics. But on Monday, in
the Dauphin county court, he entered
a plea of nolle contendre, thus saving
friends probably equally guilty with
himself from exposure if not punish- |
,ment and accepted a penalty which
‘his protected friends will probably
pay.
If the purpose of the Pinchot ad-
ministration is to “clean up the mess
‘at Harrisburg” the practical confes-
‘sion of guilt made by Kephart should
{not have been accepted. A trial of the
case upon the evidence brought out by
former Attorney General Alter would
‘have exposed to public reprobation the
‘entire conspiracy to manipulate the
"funds of the State for the personal
benefit of a troupe of politicians in fa-
'vor of the Republican machine. The
‘plea of nolle contendre was entered
for the specific purpose of preventing
| such an exposure, and it was accept-
‘ed by the State for the reason that
|the Governor and his Attorney Gen-
eral are in sympathy with that sinis-
| ter purpose.
| If George A. Alter had been nomi-
inated by the Republican party and
elected Governor the trial of Kephart
‘might have had a different ending.
If John A. McSparran had been elect-
‘ed Governor the result of the trial
| would most certainly have been differ-
lent. But Gifford Pinchot, making a
‘false pretense of reforming the gov-
ernment of the State, lends himself to
la palpable miscarriage of justice in
jorder to shield from just consequenc-
‘es a number of conspirators who may
ivecompense his perfidy by serving his
ambitions in the future. Mr. Kep-
hart may have been amply punished
by the processes adopted. All his am-
bitions are ended. But the real crim-
inals in the case are protected even
~ fm. exposure. -
——Anent the coming to Bellefonte
of the Walter L. Main show Mr. T. R.
Hamilton relates the fact that when
he was a boy, upwards of four-score
years ago, circuses naturally traveled
in wagons and were billed further
ahead than they are in these days of
1923. In those days money was a
scarce article. The Valentines operat-
ed the furnace and rolling mills south
of Bellefonte and conducted a compa-
ny store where their men could get
‘everything they needed for themselves
and families. The pay envelope was
then an unknown quantity as very lit-
tle actual money was ever paid out ex-
cept in business transactions. But
whenever a bill wagon came to Belle-
fonte and booked a show for exhibi-
tion here the Valentines would begin
to make a collection of quarters and
when show day came they would give
them to their employees in sufficient
number to take themselves and fami-
lies to the show. Speaking further
Mr. Hamilton said that everybody got
along then about as happily as they do
now and the girls were dressed all
over..
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—In all probability you’ll have to
i pay fifty per cent. more for your mo-
itor license tag next year than you
‘paid for the one you are now carry-
ing. The State needs the money and
| them that have nothing else to do but
{burn up gas and rubber are too busy
‘listening to whether all cylinders are
iting to register a kick.
| —In New York, Tuesday night,
' President Harding might have thought
he was slamming the door against
the entry of the United States into the
League of Nations. In reality he was
|slamming it against his last chance
jto succeed himself in the White House.
|
——If Harding supports the move-
ment to enter the International Court
of Justice during his coming “swing
’round the circle” the factional fight
{will begin with his departure from
| Washington.
——If motor owners, drivers, nie-
chanics, dealers and stores were or-
ganized as the manufacturing corpora-
| tions are, they would be less easy
!vietims of the tax law makers.
——Tf there is no coal strike .this
year the producers and dealers will
have to find a new reason for high
prices of coal next winter.
——Pinchot seems to be going up
against the real thing and within a
week the public will find out whether
he is a czar or a cringer.
—If Pinchot gives Philadelphia the:
‘millions asked he’ll be a bigger man
than ever, for Philadelphians.
NOS 1Y.
Too Much One-Man Power.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It may be useless to urge the mem-
bers of the present Legislature to op-
Td the enactment of the so-called
|new code for the State government
{supposed to have the backing of Gov-
iernor Pinchot, but the Governor him-
iself ought to halt the proposition be-
fore there is inflicted upon the people
{a measure that, once in operation, is
Ilikely to result in use by future ad-
! ministrations as the best possible aid
| to long-continued control of the State
{government by a corrupt machine
| omingied by one or more corruption-
(ists.
A similar measure, adding to the
‘power of the Governor of New York,
{is being sponsored by Governor Smith,
the Democratic executive of our
neighboring State, and is being de-
nounced by the leading Republicans as
one of the means of continued control
of New York in and out of the big
city by the Democratic machine.
Without questioning the good inten-
tions of either Governor Pinchot or
Governor Smith, such legislation, plac-
ing practically everything in the State
government in the hands of one man,
is bad policy. Such power in the
hands of one man might for a time, if
the one man was bent upon rendering
honest service to the people, serve the
cause of better government, but the
experiment is not justified when the
possibilities of such power in the
hands of some of the men likely to be
elected Governor of either New York
or Pennsylvania are taken into consid-
eration. :
One-man government has been rot-
ten enough where it has been made
possible by the lack of representative
capacity on the part of a majority of
the members of the Legislature, and
one-man government under the plan
proposed by Governor Pinchot ought
to be unthought of.
There is too much. government now
under the power of our Constitution,
which clearly is opposed to the one-
man idea, but there would be more of
it than any State could stand if as
much of it as would be possible under
the Pinchot plan is forced on us.
Good Work for Granges.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
A quarter of a million of dollars is
to be contributed by the Pennsylvania
State Grange for the construction of a
dormitory for girl students at the
State College. The farmers. of the
‘i Btate, through their orgpnjzati zation
could enlist in no more useful an last-
ing service than assisting to give the
State’s one great agricultural train-
ing school the equipment which it so
much needs. That it has realized this
‘and has undertaken to make so prac-
itical a contribution to the building
‘plans of the college will be a great en-
rcouragement to its president, Dr.
| Thomas, and the friends of the insti-
i tution in their effort to complete their
emergency building fund of two mil-
i lions.
If the Pennsylvania Grangers would
always concenrate their energies and
their resources in such worthy direc-
tions as this, instead of carrying on a
destructive propaganda against the
spread of popular education in the ru-
ral districts, they would far better
serve the purposes and fulfill the aims
of the great national organization of
which they are a part.
Mr. Harding as a Salesman.
From the Freeman.
The Secretary of Labor recently re-
marked in a public speech that Mr.
Harding was naturally a poor sales-
man, and hence he frequently failed to
“put over” his political wares. We
suspect, however, that Mr. Harding’s
trouble lies not in his technique of
salesmanship, but in the fact that the
goods at his command are not of the
quality that can be sold to all of the
people all of the time. Of late Mr.
Harding has tried successively a do-
mestic line and an imported line. The
domestic line was labeled “ship subsi-
dy,” and, as far as the results were
concerned, Mr. Harding might just as
well have been peddling ice in the Arc-
tic Circle. Next Mr. Harding took up
a foreign article, the “world court,”
but though the advertising was all
that could be desired, the goods were
plainly not up to specifications, and it
is now stated that in his forthcoming
selling tour through the hinterland he
will make no attempt to vend that
much touted brand.
Why the Farmer Moves to Town.
From the New York World.
_ After a survey of 6094 representa-
tive farm ventures the Department of
Agriculture announces that in 1922
the cash yield of an average farm cap-
italized at $16,400, was $715. In addi-
tion, $202 gained on the average in
machinery and live stock and $294
was obtained from the land in fuel
and food. Altogether $1211 stood for
the return on $16,400 plus the labor
of farmer and family.
But not all the agriculturists of the
country were so fortunate as this av-
erage. Of those canvassed 14.6 per
cent. failed to make expenses; 50.8
per cent. made less than $1000; 22.2
per cent. less than $2,000; 6.8 per cent.
less than $3000 and only 5.6 per cent.
got over $3000 for the investment of
capital and hard work.
In these figures one finds without
difficulty the whole cause of the mi-
gration from country to city.
A ————— A ————————
—— Mrs. Pinchot is working the
western end of Gifford’s campaign for
the Presidency but with little success.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Fred Pierce, said to be the heaviest
mail carrier in the United States, is dead
at his home at Susquehanna, Pa. He was
58 years old and weighed 358 pounds.
—Ground has been broken for a new
school house at Duncannon to cost $48,000,
and the contract for which has been
awarded to H. W. Holtzman, of Millers-
burg, :
— Preparations are being made for the
annual meeting of Susquehanna Syned of
the Lutheran church, which will convene
in Holy Trinity Lutheran church at Ber-
wick, on May 7, the sessions continuing on
May 8 and 9.
—Held up with revolvers by three mask-
ed men and robbed of $50, all the money
they had, Theodore Levan, aged 79 years,
and William Levan, aged 75 years, were
bound and left in their barn, near Blooms-
burg, where they were discovered by
neighbors and released.
—Mrs. John Lennartz, of Lewistown, is
partly blind of one eye as the result of a
scratch inflicted by her 11 months old ba-
by, Florence. The wee tot was standing
on its mother’s lap on Sunday morning
and accidentally ran her finger into her
mother’s eye. The nail of the finger pen-
etrated the eyeball.
—Leaving his sick bed against his phy-
sician’s order, to watch the passing of a
train bearing the body of his son, a veter-
an of two wars, William B. Goines, 73
years old, of Philadelphia, on Sunday
stood at the second story window of his
home, raised his right hand in salute as
the train passed, and then fell over dead.
—When the driving rod on the locomo-
tive of a Buffalo-Washington express broke
early on Monday at Herndon, ten miles
south of Sunbury, the ties were torn up
and the whole side of the locomotive’s driv-
ing apparatus broken. More than 150 pas-
sengers on the train were jolted but es-
caped injury, officials said. .The train did
not leave the tracks.
—Postoffice inspectors have made no ar-
rests in their attempted solution of the
robbery of the postoffice at Allenwood,
when $700 worth of stamps and currency
were taken. The office is located in the
general store of Frederick Ungard, who re-
ports that he is out several pounds of
cheese and crackers on which the yeggs
lunched during their unwelcome call.
—Mrs. Nabelins Landalankis, of Shamo-
kin, is the victim of extraordinary misfor-
tune. While sitting on a chair on west
Walnut street, one day last week, she felt
several bones snap from mo particular
cause. She was taken to the Shamokin
hospital where it was found that both arms
and one leg were broken. The physicians
said the bones were weakened by an un-
usual disease.
—Joseph Mock, 60 years old, a farmer
near Lovely, Bedford county, was beaten
to death with an iron bar by his son, Dor-
sey, 31 years old, Saturday, according to
word received on Monday. The son had
undergone treatment for mental trouble
in the Somerset county hospital, but ap-
parently had recovered and was taken
home a week ago. He fled after the kill-
ing but was captured on Monday.
—When engineer Hackenbach, of a fast
freight, climbed from his cab after hitting
a loaded moving van on a grade crossing
near Nescopek early last Friday, he found
W. 8. Farnsworth, of Wilkes-Barre, among
the wreckage, calmly lighting a cigarette.
He was only slightly hurt, but James Rine-
man, also of Wilkes-Barre, owner of the
truck, was sériously dnjured“and I§ in a
Wilkes-Barre hospital. Truck and furni-
ture are a complete loss.
—Lowndes Taylor, a prominent resident
of Chester county, was experimenting on
Monday ni ht with a wickless kerosene
lamp and it exploded. Taylor lived in one
part of his $75,000 mansion in Wrights-
mills, a mile north of West Chester. The
building was destroyed, with its contents,
including a collection of antiques worth
about $50,000 stored on the second floor.
Taylor tried to fight the fire and was burn-
ed badly. He rushed back into the blaz-
ing house several times until restrained by
firemen.
—While they were preparing to board a
train at Lancaster late last Friday night
to begin their honeymoon trip to Cuba, a
pickpocket robbed Mr. and Mrs. Ellis P.
Kline of their tickets, trunk checks and
$250 in cash. The bridegroom is a clerk
in the Lancaster postoffice. Just as the
train arrived in the station the bridegroom
discovered the robbery. Several minutes
later another man reported that he, too,
had been the victim of a pickpocket and
had lost $300. The bride before her mar-
riage was Miss Lola Imogene Welchans,
formerly of Philadelphia.
—Miss Wilkelmina C. Bahnaman, deputy
clerk of courts in Beaver county, had a
hard time figuring out the effect: of the
marriage laws last Thursday jn a case
of peculiar relationship. The question
arose over the relationship a man would
have to his wife, if his wife’s grandmother
was his own mother’s sister. A’ foreign
couple aplied for a marriage license,” Miss’
Bahnaman figured that the bridegroom
would be an uncle to the bride-elect and a
nephew of the girl's mother. and arrived
at the conclusion that the couple would be
first cousins once removed, which Judges
George A. Baldwin and Frank E. Reader
confirmed, so she refused to issue a license.
—The town of Mill Run, near Connells-
ville, is so anxious to have a physician lo-
cate there that it purposes to build a $4000
home to be turned over to any doctor who
will reside in the valley. At a meeting of
citizens, $1400 was subscribed and it was
announced the remainder would be forth-
coming shortly. The section has been
without a doctor for several years, and it
was pointed out that it was costing the
citizens of the town and surrounding com-
munity approximately $19,000 a year for
medical services because of the fee charg-
ed by physicians who must come from a
long distanee, and must spend the entire
day or night because of limited train serv-
ice.
—~Claiming that there are “too many
bosses” in South Brownsville, the entire
police department, consisting of three pa-
trolmen and a fire truck driver, have quit
and refuse to return to work. It is claim-
ed that each of the nine councilmen at-
tempted to run the department. Several
members of the council claimed that the
officers were lax in their duty and have
taken the occasion to reprimand the officers
both privately and in councilmanic session.
It is reported that the alleged laxity had
reference to the enforcement of the pro-
hibition laws. The officers who resigned—
William Lynn, William Bennett and Harry
Ostat-—gave council three days’ notice. Joe
Reilly, fire truck driver, also gave similar
notice. For several days the borough was
without police protection, but later the va-
cancies were filled temporarily.