INK SLINGS.
Look out for trouble. The Pres-
ident has broken his silence.
Any way, we need make no apol-
ogies for any of the candidates our
ticket presents.
—If patriotism is not to be forever
a mockery in Centre county Dick Tay-
lor must be elected sheriff.
—The Democratic nomination for
Recorder did a lot of teetering before
it finally decided to go to Sinie Hoy.
—The big question to be decided in
Centre county next November is
whether the people shall own the
court house or whether it will contin-
ue to be the property of a little clique
of office holders.
—The American Legion, as we un-
derstand its motives, is not a polit-
ical organization and takes no part in
politics, but it does want to know
whether the public feels any real
gratitude for its members.
—Just as we have been harping for
years when it comes to tariffs and po-
litical settlements of strikes: The ul-
timate consumer always pays the bill.
Anthracite coal is advanced a dollar
a ton as a result of Giff’s endeavor to
keep in the limelight.
‘—Germany has finally capitulated.
France has done what the Allies
couldn’t: Made the bully of Europe
finally admit she is licked. The end
of passive resistance in the Ruhr has
been declared and the German people
are ready to settle on the best terms
possible. :
—The organ in one of Bellefonte’s
churches having refused to pipe re-
cently an investigation was made and
a six-finger remnant of a quart of
perfectly good liquor was found clog-
ging up the organism. Always we
have known that the choir is the war
department of a church, but never be-
fore have we heard of members so
faint hearted that they needed to
liquor up a bit before becoming cour-
ageous enough to demand all the solo
parts in the anthems.
—We notice that the county W. C.
T. U’s, in session at Centre Hall, re-
cently, voted to hereafter support
only “dry” candidates, irrespective of
party. What a belated play of con-
sistency.. When the country was re-
ally wet and prohibition really an is-
sue the Prohibitionists of Centre
county endorsed, and many of them
supported, candidates so soppin’ wet
that flies flocked on their trail like
they did on the old bar-room table,
just because they were Republicans.
Now that the country is dry they re-
solve to support only dry candidates,
no matter what their politics may be.
They've got to show us, before we'll
believe anything of the sort. They
might intend to do it, but will they?
—Inasmuch as the advertising col-
umns of this paper are open to any
one who has something legitimate to
advertise and the price to pay for it,
several Republicans, who are candi-
dates for county office, are displaying
their wares to “Watchman” readers
this week and probably will continue
doing so for some time. Their’s is a
perfectly legitimate offering, but it
puts us in a heck of a hole. Not be-
cause we don’t relish the unique fea-
ture of having them advertise them-
selves on one page while we tear into
them on another. That’s not it, at all.
We feel as guilty as if we were steal-
ing pennies from a blind beggar’s hat,
because we're taking money from
them when we know all the advertis-
ing any Republican can buy isn’t
going to get him a county office this
fall. This is a Democratic year and,
besides, the voters of Centre county
want a change and know why they
want it. They want a new crowd in
the court house for a while. They
want officers up there who'll uncover
what has been covered up for so many
years. They want to know who the
place really belongs to, whether Bill
Brown, et al, owns it or whether it be-
longs to them. They want to see a
county statement that actually states
and they’re going to have it from the
only source there is any hope of get-
ting it, viz: the Democratic candi-
dates.
—After reading what Attorney
General Daugherty told President
Coolidge as to the enforcement of the
Volstead act during the past year we
are wondering whether any one real-
ly keeps it inviolate. There are so
many ways that the law can be vio-
lated, and some of them so trifling
and seemingly harmless, that if the
truth were really known there would
be a very small percentage of the pop-
ulation of this country able to hold up
its hand and swear that it has not in-
fracted, just a little, in some way or
other. This will be the reason for an
attempt in the next Congress to so
modify the law that its restrictions
may be less drastic in interpretation
and application. As at present con-
strued every farmer who makes cider
for apple butter or vinegar is a vio-
lator in fact if not in principle, for
cider gets more than half of one per
cent. gay on the way to either apple
butter or vinegar. The farmer knows
this, but he goes on being a violator
notwithstanding the fact that the ru-
ral districts always vote “dry” against
a “wet” issue and, insidiously disre-
spect for the Volstead law and just as
insidiously = disrespect for other
laws grows on him in face of the fact
that he is the most law abiding type
of citizen we have. Congress will
have a big problem on its hands to
modify without destroying the value
of the enactment, but something must
be done to save the other laws ef the
land from collapse through disrespect
for the Volatesd ant,
CE SR OE BBE BA SR RL ART
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
ATE
VOL. 68
Coal Prices Begin to Soar.
have increased the price of coal to
chot. In his exultant proclamation of
settlement the Governor said that the
ten per cent. increase of miners’
wages would add about sixty-five
cents a ton to the cost of coal produc-
tion which would be absorbed by de-
creasing the profits of the mine own-
ers, the carrying companies and the
distributors. The carrying companies
and distributors promptly declared
that they would absorb no part of this
increase.
the price of coal at the mouth of the
pit.
The threatened coal strike and the
alleged, not to say absurd, settlement,
was a purely political enterprise. At
irregular intervals in recent years, or
strike is threatened in the anthracite
coal field. Conferences are called and
a settlement agreed to which give
the miners a small increase in wages
and the mine owners, carriers and dis-
tributors a considerable increase in
profits. This year the consumers,
having surveyed the situation, reveal-
ed signs of impatience and no agree-
ment could be reached. Neither side
was willing to assume responsibility
for a strike and appeal was made to
the government at Washington.
At this stage of the game Governor
Pinchot obligingly stepped in and the
President willingly handed the case
over to him. The federal government
had no legal right to employ force in
such emergencies but the Governor of
the State in which the issue is drawn
has. It was therefore expected that
such measures would be adopted as
would protect the interests of coal
consumers. This hope has been dis-
appointed, however, for the agree-
ment provides for an increase of ten
per cent. in the wages of the mine
workers and permits any sort of an
increase in the profits of mine owners,
coal carriers and retail dealers. The
mine owners have announced what
they will take and ali else is left to
conjecture. Tee
——Mrs. Belmont told some young
ladies in Colorado that she wouldn’t
recommend marriage. If that is the
general opinion in her family the nu-
merous Belmont scandals are easily
accounted for.
Consternation on “The Hill.”
The job holders at Harrisburg are
again in a state of panic. About a
week ago each of them received a
questionnaire requiring him or her to
state for the information of the Gov-
ernor who recommended his or her
appointment. Naturally those who
trace the favor back to old machine
leaders fear that the reply will he
equivalent to a dismissal, and cur-
iously enough most of those in serv-
ice are indebted to the old leaders for
the favor. The more optimistic ex-
press a hope that the purpose is sim-
ply to induce them to work for a Pin-
chot delegation to the Republican Na-
tional convention, but the majority
take the opposite view of the matter.
But the worst is yet to come. As
our late friend Shakespeare wrote,
“one woe doth tread upon another’s
heels.” Before there had been time
to fully study and analyze the ques-
tionnaire another notice was distrib-
uted among the employees to the ef-
fect that the work of classification of
clerks, stenographers and others for
the purpose of adjusting salaries is
about to begin. Some of the salaries
are to be cut and others raised, and
it is left for those interested to spec-
ulate upon which will lose and which
profit by the operation. Those who
are said to be “on the inside” predict
that the cuts will about balance the
raises and the public purse will gain
little or nothing in the end.
Of course the movement has creat-
ed considerable stir among the em-
ployees and for nearly a week they
have been scurrying around among
the “higher-ups” to intercede in their
behalf. A good deal depends upon
the backing and some upon the ability
of the employee to garner votes, and
it will be surprising if the attitude of
the friends of the employee in the
campaign for nomination last year
will not have weight. The Governor
is long on professions of equal and
exact justice but his standard of
measurement is not always to be de-
pended upon. In any event it may be
said that between now and the next
pay day there will be plenty of activ-
ity on “The Hill.”
— President Coolidge asks the
newspapers to let his boys alone, and
the chances are that next year the
boys will want them to “let up” on
the old man.
——The worst thing for Pinchot is
that ‘the Presidential nominations
will be made before the coal bills are
i forget.
The anthracite coal mine owners!
consumers “at the pit” about a dollar :
a ton in pursuance of the settlement
of the strike made by Governor Pin--
The answer of the mine
owners is the considerable increase of |
whenever party exigencies require, a.
| Germany Ends Resistance in Ruhr.
The unconditional surrender of Ger-
many in the Ruhr valley controversy
ought to make for the speedy resto-
ration of peace and re-establishment
of order in Central Europe. It is a
substantial sign of a changed atti-
tude of Germany on the question of
reparations. The failure of Germa-
ny to pay, not so much because of in-
! ability as unwillingness to meet ob-
| ligations, led to the invasion of the
i Ruhr valley by French forces, un-
der the Poncaire interpretation of the
Paris treaty. This invasion was re-
sented by industrial paralysis in the
‘ section in the form of passive resist-
ance and great economic loss to both
sides. Now that Germany has chang-
ed her policy this waste will be ended.
questions involved in this controver-
sy. Many fair minded people believ-
ed that the reparations demanded of
Germany were excessive, and others
equally just thought that the de-
mands were within reason but that
Germany was trying to evade respon-
sibility for her own faults. To those
of this view it appeared that the
French invasion was justified. Eng-
land and Italy seemed indifferent to
the issue which encouraged Germany
in her attitude and for a time danger
of a renewal of hostilities was immi-
nent. The surrender of Germany re-
moves this war cloud from the hori-
zon and it may be hoped that it will
restore industrial activity and pros-
perity to that stricken region.
When successful Germany is exces-
sive as well as inexorable in her de-
mands. - After the Franco-German
war she adopted a policy similar to
that pursued by France in the pres-
ent case. Now that she has reversed
her purpose to evade payment and
expressed an inclination to meet ob-
ligations it will be up to France to
make such. concessions as will prom-
ise speedy and permanent peace. The
whole world is concerned in the mat-
ter, for there can be no industrial and
commercial adjustment until peace is
restored in that part of Europe. That
result accomplished trade relations of
the world may be resumed and the
tain.
——The Philadelphia ‘gangsters are
impatient. Having nominated their
ticket they are now arranging for a
seventy million dollar loan so as to
provide money to spend after the
election.
Fishing for LaFollette.
The sincerity of Senator LaFol-
lette’s professions will be put to a
test in the near future, if reports cur-
rent in Washington are well founded.
“President Coolidge has decided to
lift the patronage boycott that has
obtained against Senator LaFollette
for so many years,” writes the Wash-
ington correspondent of an esteemed
contemporary. “President Harding
gave all the Wisconsin offices to Len-
root,” continues the correspondent,
position to practically all the admin-
istration measures, but according to
Representative Lampert, one of La-
Follette’s men in the House, who vis-
ited the President the other day, there
is to be a new deal.” Party ‘condi-
tions are precarious. i
clared that the first purpose of his
administration is to restore harmony
in the Republican party. Being a new
England politician he thoroughly ap-
preciates the value of patronage in
the work of cementing party factions
and believes in the ancient adage that
“every man has his price.” Senator
LaFollette has been “a thorn in the
side” of several Republican leaders in
recent years, and many observers of
his political activities imagine that
the cause of his attitude lies in the
fact that party patronage has been
withheld from him almost from the be-
ginning of his career in Washington.
His intimate friends hold, on the oth-
er hand, that he is influenced by prin-
ciple. ;
There are plenty of good reasons
why ' Republican leaders should ‘be
anxious to reconcile LaFollette to
their plans. He is easily the most
powerful figure in the so-called in-
surgent force in the Senate. Senator
Borah may be moré imposing and
have an advantage in legal learning,
but he is less capable as a parliamen-
tary manager and lacks in endurance
and courage when compared with the
Wisconsin radical. It is said that he
has not responded cordially to the
overtures thus far handed to him, but
he has not resented the offer of spoils
as a consideration for service as yet,
and what he will do in the future re-
mains to be seen. He is badly need-
ed, however, @gnd may get an offer
that will win. :
or pe.
——It may be harder to sell six per
cent. dividend stocks but they are
safer te keep than the get-rich-quick
pvaristy and riald ms» in the ad,
World sympathy was divided on the :
losses of the world war recovered. .It.
may be a slow process but it is cer--
“because of the senior Senator’s op-’
President Coolidge has already de--
BELLEFONTE, PA., SEPTEMBER 28S, 1923.
Farmers to be Fooled Again.
In the proposition to increase the
tariff tax on wheat President Coolidge
and the Republican managers who are
in accord with him show scant respect
for the intelligence of the farmers of
the country. Two years ago the farm
bloc in Congress was induced to con-
sent to the then pending tariff meas-
ure because it levied a tariff tax of
thirty cents a bushel on wheat. It
provided for a vastly greater tax on
farm implements and other commod-
ities essential to agricultural endeav-
or than that on the grain. But the
ornamental farmers in Congress eith-
er through ignorance or perfidy con-
sented to the passage of the bill, and |
have since paid the penalty in higher
‘ prices for what they bought.
Now it is proposed to increase the
tariff tax on wheat from thirty cents
' a bushel to fifty per cent. above that
figure. The false pretense is made
, that “the differential between Cana-
dian and American wheat about ab-
| sorbed the thirty cents a bushel pro-
tection provided for in the tariff law.”
As a matter of fact the differential
referred to has nothing to do with the
price of wheat, either in Canada or
this country, and if the tariff tax on
imported wheat is raised to a dollar
a bushel it will make no difference in
the price in this country. The price
of wheat is regulated by the supply
in Europe and goes up or down ac-
cordingly as the surplus is small or
great. Only our surplus is sold in
Europe.
“The thirty cent tariff tax on wheat
was never expected by the proponents
of the present tariff tax law to affect
the price of wheat in this country.
That provision was put in the bill to
fool the farmers, and it may have
served the purpose for a brief period
of time. But the delusion has long
since expended itself. The farmers of
the country know quite as well as the
lawyers and bankers that tariff tax
has no influence on commodities that
are not imported. The tariff tax on
what the farmers buy increased the
prices because it kept impertations
out and enabled domestic producers
io sell in a scant market at whatever
of competition.
ed for nomination for president Judge
of Clearfield county by J. Frank Sny-
der, at the primary last week. Clear-
field has a tradition, or perhaps it has
been only accidental, that a sitting
| judge shall never be re-elected so
Judge Bell is out and Mr. Snyder will
make the running with A. R. Chase,
who secured the Republican nomina-
tion. Through his recent campaign
for Congress Mr. Snyder became very
well known in Centre county and has
many friends who will wish him well
in his present contest.
Testing Out the Lewisburg Railread.
The Pennsylvania Railroad compa-
ny is now testing out the Lewisburg
branch as to its possibilities for in-
creased freight traffic, especially as
an artery for the hauling of empty
freight cars west. On Tuesday night
a train of seventy-four empty cars,
hauled by cne of the big Model F
freight engines, better known in rail-
road vernacular as “Lollypops,” was
sent ‘out from Northumberland over
| the Lewisburg division to Bellefonte,
and from here ‘over the Bald Eagle
road to Tyrone. :
The big engine pulled the train all
right until it struck the heavy grade
at Cherry Run, Being unable to nav-
igate that grade fifteen cars were set
on the siding and the remainder of the
train, fifty-nine cars, came through to
Bellefonte without a mishap. This
was the first trip of the big Lollypop
engines over the Lewisburg branch,
as well as the longest train ever haul-
ed over that road. While the purpose
of the test has not been made public
it is likely being made with a view of
utilizing the Lewisburg branch to re-
lieve the congestion of traffic on the
main line.
—Ed Gehret, who has been the
back-bone and sinew of the Republi-
can effort in the South ward of Belle-
fonte for years, hasn't much to thank
the leaders of his party for. If they
had done half as much for him as he
has done for most of them he’d be the:
fellow Lyman Smith’s going to lick,
and Jim Heverly would be saved all
that unpleasantness.
—Running for nomination on the
Republican ticket for District Attor-
ney Arthur Dale carried 21 precincts
and tied Love for 5 in the county. He
won the nomination over Love on the
Democratic ticket and if he can carry
his Republican strength with him in
November there is going to be a
mighty pretty fight for this office.
——Having obtained millions from
this country as a benevolence Japan
is now willing to pay the expense of
borrewing a few more millions and
the chances are she will be accommo=
dated. . i
privas- necessity fixed in ‘the ahsence’|
.—Judge Singleton Bell was defeat-
purely local
pT bpd
NO. 38.
Wall Street’s Advice to the Farmer.
From the Wall Street Journal.
‘Let it be conceded that Wall street |
knows nothing about farming. The
really intelligent farmer may not be-
lieve it. Wall street’s knowledge of
farming’ must necessarily be greater
and more exact than that of all the
farmers put together, in order to car-
ry on its business. But let us con-
cede that this is not so. The farmer,
in return, will grant that Wall street
at least knows something about cred-
it. The farmer ought to know some-
thing about credit, and this is the
time of year when he should be in-
structed. For some weeks to come he
will be borrowing money at the bank,
and it makes a vital difference to him
how much he gets on his note and
what rate of interest he pays.
He borrows from small bankers,
who in turn are extended credit by
larger bankers, together with advice
and information on the state of the
credit market. But these small bank-
ers are at the mercy of popular rumor
precisely as Wall street is, on occa-
sion. It would be possible in Wall
street to damage, and ultimately to
ruin, the credit of the most solvent
corporation. A dexterously conduct-
ed campaign of depreciation and false
inference might easily make it impos-
sible for the packers to carry on bus-
iness, in view of the small margin of
profit on their immense turnover.
It is possible to damage the far-
mer’s business in the same way. It
is possible to spread rumors about his
financial condition which will so scare
the small banker that he will lend the
farmer less money and ¢ more
for lending it. When, therefore, Sen-
ator Brookhart bawls all over the
country that the farmer is broke, that
he lost, by deflation, $32,000,000,000,
or more than half of the total value of
all the farms in the United States and
everything on them, he damages the
farmer’s credit eve e. ines
no difference that his statement is not
only exaggerated, but flatly untrue.
Brookhart throws a successful scare
into the small banker ‘and the credit
of every farmer in the United States
is injured. : A
Observe how one of the commonest
expressions current among farmers is
turned to their disadvantage. The
individual farmer may know ¢ Wall
street men whose standards of honor
are of the highest. But he listens to
continual vituperation of ' street
so much smoke there must be some
flame.” In the next few : weeks,
thanks to Senator Brookhart, Senator
Capper and other vociferous “friends”
of the farmer, the banker to whom he
goes to discount his note will inevita-
bly say the same thing to'him. “You
farmers may not all be brokey as
Brookhart says; but where there is so
much smoke there must be some
flame.”
Frankly, how will the farmer like
that? It is not Wall street that has
damaged his credit. It is the very
men he returned to Congress, to
smash the credit of Wall street, who
have done him this ill turn. When the
banker will only advance him 30 per
cent. on his collateral instead of 50
per cent., charging the highest rates
the law allows and making the most
onerous terms for repayment, the far-
mer will know that he is dealing in a
credit market demoralized by his own
representatives from Minnesota and
elsewhere.
This is addressed to the farmers of
the United States in all good temper.
Kendrick for President.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Kendrick was nominated by the Re-
publicans for Mayor of Philadelphia
by more than 200,000 majority on last
Tuesday, and now some of his parti-
sans—who, perhaps, are expecting pa-
tronage favors at his hands when he
is elected and’ takes his office—pre-
dict that he will be accepted later on
as Presidential timber. We read in
The Buffalo Voice, which seems to be
spokesman for a considerable portion
of the State of Wyoming, a reference
to “Kendrick—~the mam whom the
whole West reveres,” “a broad-mind-
ed, clear-sighted, keen-thinking man.”
Does that seem to be a'description
of our Mr. Kendrick? Well, it isn’t.
It is the beginning of a boom for Sen-
ator John B. Kendrick, the Democrat
who put Mondell out of the running.
According to the Wyoming newspa-
er, the Democratic Mr. Kendrick is
own 4s a cow boy “in the Rocky
Mountain regions, from the southern
boundary of Texas to the Canadian
border; from the Mississippi to the
Pacific ocean, who drove cattle for a
big cow outfit from Texas to Wyo-
ming when - a mere lad. -Days and
nights he spent in the saddle, and be-
side the campfire in the cold and the
wet—and carried with him in an oil-
skin bag a faw precious books, chosen
for him by a college friend. Tall,
lanky and shaggy haired, but with a
keen eye and wit, well trained in the
open spaces, he sat and read by the
campfire light his well-chosen books,
while his less ambitious companions
were spending the long Syening hours
in the never-ending poker game.”
And yet “the never-ending poker
game”, did eome to an end; for Ken-
drick got to be a State Senator, Gov-
ernor of - Wyoming and then United
States Senator. Well may this Ken-
drick aspire to the Presidency. Many
of our statesmen do.
——The probability that the
“world series” will be between the
two. New York: teams makes it a
matter of limited public
%1
| SPAWL FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Charles ¥. Adams, prominent candy
‘manufacturer, who died at Lancaster last
week, left an estate estimated at $500,000.
There was no will. .
—Mrs. Ethel Ross, of Mount Union, who
shot and killed her husband while he was
beating her with a club, was freed by the
grand jury, who ignored the charge of
murder against her.
—Struck on the head by an unknown
man with a brick at a workmen's camp,
at Klapperthal Sunday morning, Anton
Gass, 38 years old, is in a hospital at
Reading with a possible fracture of the
skull. .
—Reports from the southern tier of
townships in Schuylkill county show the .
late potato crop will be good, the yields of
scores of farms running from 400 to 1,200
bushels per farm. The price is $1.60 per
: bushel.
—One great-grandmother and two
grandmothers had their hair bobbed in
Sunbury this month, according to G. E.
Starner, a master barber there. He also
declared that if all the plaited hair he cut
off in bobbing heads in the last month
were laid end for end, it would make a
ribbon three miles long.
—Abraham Erlanger, executor of the es-
i tate of Miss Rosetta Ulman, of Williams-
| port, who bequeathed $50,000 to the Wil-
| liamsport hospital, and $25,000 to the
Home for the Friendless, this week an-
nounced creation of a trust fund eof $27,000
out of the Ulman estate to be administer-
ed by the social service bureau for the
purchase of fuel, milk and ice for the poor
,of Williamsport and for the relief of wor-
‘thy aged men and women.
—Paul Short, who jumped off a bridge
‘into Mantawny creek near Pottstown, last
Friday, and left the impression that he
had committed suicide, does not now think
that it was such a good joke. He had to .
‘pay a fine of $10 to Burgess Klink. After
leaving his hat on the bridge and plung-
ing into the water Short swam up the
.creek and went home to bed. There offi-
| cer Laughead, who, with others had
searched the stream, found him.
| —Dragged into the path of an oncom-
ing automobile by his airedale dog, which
was pulling the little master on a cart,
| William Vowinckle, 11 years old, was
struck by the car driven by Daniel King,
of Oil City, at Shippensville, Saturday
evening. The lad died half an hour later
, without regaining consciousness. Another
boy on the cart rolled out of the way of
the wheels. King, a Pennsylvania railroad
conductor, was exonerated by the coroner.
| —Prof. J. J. Gibson, 70 years old, of
Lancaster, well known as a pianist and a
campmeeting leader, died as he finished
singing ‘‘Beulah Land” on Friday night,
prior to the opening of revival services in
the Bethel Methodist Episcopal church at
Unicorn, .Lancaster county. Irving H.
Mack, of the Hall-Mack Publishing com-
pany, Philadelphia, caught Professor Gib-
son as he fell and carried him outside the
chureh. He died before he could be taken
to a hospital. Heart disease was given as
the cause of death.
—Miss Eva Gruver, 19 years of age,
daughter of Elmer Gruver, a Northampton
county farmer, is in the Easton hospital
in a critical condition as the result of be-
ing shot’ accidentally Friday morning by
Russell Hoadley, aged 22 years, employed
jg con the farm. The girl and her ' mother
were cleaning a room occupied by Gruver
and they found a revolver on a chair. The
girl called Hoadley to come and remove
the bullets from the revolver. As he took
the gun from the holster it discharged and
the bullet went through the girl's shoul-
der.
—Colonel Sanford C. Lewis, 76 years old,
one of Franklin's best known citizens, shot
and killed himself Sunday afternoon in
his residence in Liberty street, following
a long illness. He had been talking to his
daughter, Mrs. S. G. Allen, and Dr. H, F.
McDowell a moment before. Colonel Lew-
is had served as mayor of Franklin, aide
to Governor Hastings and as an officer in
the National Guard. His first wife, Helen
Gardner Lewis, committed suicide Octo-
ber 18, 1916. His second wife, Anna Hayes
Lewis, died suddenly in New York last
January.
| The site of the massacre of the Bed-
ford scouts, at Canan station, Allegheny
township, Blair county, in 1781, is to be
i marked with a monument by the Blair
county Historical Society. Prof. T. 8. Da-
vis, superintendent of the county schools,
has been appointed chairman of the dedi-
catory program. The marker committee
is composed of Colonel Henry W. Shoe-
| maker, Senator Plymouth Snyder and
Henry A. Wertz. A group of soldiers had
been sent from Fort Fetter, mear Holli-
daysburg, during the Revolutionary war,
for reconnoitering purposes and were am-
bushed by Indians, seventeen being slain.
—As a result of injuries received in an
automobile accident at Vail station on Fri-
day morning, Mrs. W. V. Patton, of Ty-
rone, died early the same evening at the
Altoona hospital. She had suffered a
fracture of the skull and body bruises and
| abrasions. Mrs. Patton, her son Edward,
"two daughters and a grand-son were en
route home from a drive when the acci-
| dent occurred. Mr. Patton, who was driv-
"ing the ear, stopped at a gasoline supply
{ station and was pulling out into the road
| again when another car rammed into the
' side of the Patton machine, throwing Mrs.
| Patton from the car onto the concrete
i road.
—Four Mount Carmel business houses
| were victimized by a clever check forger
Saturday ‘when he either ordered or pur-
chased goods and gave checks for greater
amounts than the purchase price and re-
{ ceived cash in change to the amount of
more than $100. Checks were issued on E.
C. Rodgers, of Sunbury, and made paya-
ble to L. A. Clement. He stated he was a
railroad conductor and had sold a car to
Rodgers. The checks were on a Sunbury
bank. When orders or goods were taken
out for delivery it was found that Clem-
ent did not live at any of the houses and
police. were notified. The stranger is six
feet tall, and wore a black suit and hat.
—Running amuck, swinging a hatchef,
Charles Gilbert, 28 years old, cleared
streets and sent neighbors into their homes
behind locked doors at Pottsville, on Sun-
day morning. His father, James Gilbert,
56 years old, who was injured, died ‘the
same night. Gilbert demanded a sum of
money from his father, and when he was
refused grabbed a hatchet and chased the
family from the house. Outside, his fath-
er, in trying to disarm him, received a
deep cut in the shoulder which entered the
lung. ‘Gilbert then barricaded ‘himself in
an outbuilding and held police’ at bay for
‘three hours. ‘They findf§y captured hd By
cutting down part of the building se#
throwing a mope ever his head.