ad
INK SLINGS.
—Our best solution of the hard coal
problem is to burn soft.
—Now that the weather has gotten
a bit of the tang of winter in it we
presume the ladies will be packing
their furs away.
—Truly Mr. Volstead proclaimed
that he hasn’t a heart when he took
all the chance for speculation as to
“what have you in this?” out of mince
pies.
—The beautiful part of Mr. Secre-
tary Mellon’s new tax reduction
scheme is that it will cut his own
down one hundred thousand dollars
and ours not one cent.
—Possibly, if Paris makes that pro-
posed tax on tourists high enough a
few of our near rich will decide to
have a look at the great country that
opened Pandora’s box for them.
—When it comes to making Presi-
dential nominees at tea parties we
figure it out that more of the new
voters will try to scramble onto the
White House tea wagon than any that
Mrs. Cordelia might have pushed
around up in Milford.
—It matters little whether you had
turkey, chicken, pork or chops yester-
day. If you had health enough to sit
up at the table and eat without hav-
ing to finish off the meal with a mess
of digestive tablets you had enough
to be very, very thankful for.
—Governor Pinchot’s Governors
convention to discuss the coal prob-
lem met and adjourned on Monday.
The news reports indicate that Gif.
said about everything to his guests
except what the Governor of North
Carolina once said to the Governor of
South Carolina.
—Congress will be in session again
in a short time and fun for the na-
tion will begin. The Republican mar-
gin in the House is so small and the
radical “bloc” so recalcitrant that the
beans might be spilled any minute.
The Regulars are going to have the
time of their lives in keeping from
doing something they don’t want to
do.
—At a time when the country is in
the throes of a terrific struggle to
command respect for the laws of the
land it would seem that the action of
Judge Mayer, in sentencing Comp-
troller Craig, of New York city, to
jail for sixty days on an exceedingly
far-fetched contempt charge, is not
calculated to help much. The Comp-
troller merely wrote what read to us
like a very dignified criticism of a de-
Weision of the Judge on a matter of
y/public interest. It expressed no con-
“tempt for law but did question Judge
Mayer’s interpretation of it and if
that be contempt we would like to
know wherein our much vaunted right
of free speech comes in.
—Our friends, the Republicans, are
dallying with a “dry” plank for their
next national platform. It seems to
us that one of the great parties ought
to come out squarely for or against
modification of the Volstead act. Its
repeal isn’t to be thought of. That
will probably never be accomplished,
but the issue could be revived through
declaration for modification and in
that way a national referendum could
be secured. The result would settle
definitely whether the “wets” are
right or wrong in the excuse they
give for evasion of the law, that is,
that it does not express the will of the
majority. As we have said: The Re-
publicans are dallying and, possibly,
our leaders are doing the same thing,
but will either convention have the te-
merity to come out with a clear, posi-
tive declaration on the question.
—It was our good fortune to hear
the president of the council of State
College talk to the people of that bor-
ough Monday evening. Mr. Leitzel
evidently takes his position seriously.
Any councilman must who actually
reads mil andeesionds all the thous-
and or e articles in the code gov-
erning boroughs as he said he has
done. It is a good thing to talk things
over with the tax payers as candidly
and comprehensibly as he did and
though we have no fat in the fire at
State College we got a bit of advice
from his address that we know will
stir up the animals in Bellefonte a lot
when we pass it on to burgess Walk-
er. Mr. Leitzel said that the Burgess
is the legal boss of the town with
power to fire any and all officers.
That was news to us and if it is so we
want Mr. Walker to know it, because
when he does we look with relish on
the prospect of some interesting com-
munications between the burgess’ of-
fice and the council chamber.
—The Philadelphia Public Ledger
declared that “the sensible way for
Congress and the Nation to reduce
the burden of taxation will be the
non-partisan way. The Ledger was
inspired to this comment by the dec-
laration of Democratic floor leader
Garrett, who declared that the minor-
ity will go, whole heartedly, along
with any movement that might be
undertaken in Congress to take out
of politics the twin questions of rev-
enue and finance. What we want to
rise to place a wager on is this:
If the Democrats in Congress do as
Mr. Garrett pledges them to do and
some worth while, legislation to re-
lieve the public results we are here to
bet all the clothes we have rescued as
they were being toted off to a rum-
mage sale, that at this time next fall
the Public Ledger will be pointing
with pride to the very legislation these
whole-hearted Democrats put over for
its “bloc”-ed party as the crowning
achievement of a glorious Republican
administration.
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VOL. 68.
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Tariff Tax the Greater Evil.
The tariff tax costs the people of
the United States at least two and a
half billion dollars a year. That is to
say, the actual revenues acquired by
tariff taxation amounts to approxi-
mately half a billion dollars a year
and the excess prices to consumers of
the taxed commodities aggregate
about two billion dollars. Estimating
the population of the country at one
hundred and twelve million the tariff
tax bill of every man, woman and
child in the United States is a trifle
more than twenty-two dollars. Every
family of five, which is said to be the
average, pays tariff taxes to the
amount of upward of one hundred and
twelve dollars a year. The several
other taxes are added to this enor-
mous burden.
Economic quacks allege that the
tariff tax is paid by the exporter.
Fiscal crooks declare that only the
consumers of the tariff taxed com-
modities contribute to the fund to re-
imburse the exporter. Both claims
are false and fraudulent. The taxes
paid by dealers are charged up as
overhead expenses and paid by pur-
chasers of all commodities. The
woman who buys a pair of cotton
hose pays her share of the tariff tax
on the costly silk stockings purchased
by her financially favored neighbor.
The two certainties of life are death
and taxes, and the tariff tax is the
most sinister because it comes like a
sneak thief and robs without warning.
Moreover it exacts tribute without
giving value or service.
Mr. Secretary Mellon is wise in
urging tax reduction as a policy of
the coming session of Congress. Un-
less there is a check in the rising tide
of taxation the people of this pros-
perous country will be taxed into pov-
erty. In addition to the tariff tax
there are State, county, municipal, in-
heritance, luxury and dozens of other
forms of taxation amounting in the
aggregate to the verge of confisca-
tion. But the most hideous of all
forms of taxation is the tariff tax,
which is simply an onerous burden on
the poor to pay unearned bounties to
the favored rich. The logical as well
as the just place to begin tax reduc-
tion is in-the-tariff -sehedules;-and any
other project is a mockery.
The esteemed Johnstown Dem-
ocrat tentatively enters Governor
Ritchie, of Maryland, in the race for
the Democratic Presidential nomina-
tion and brother Bailey’s views arve
worth careful consideration.
Bill Vare Saves the Country.
It gives us infinite pleasure to an-
nounce with implicit confidence that
the country is now safe. Thoughtful
people have had periods of anxiety
during the past few weeks on this
subject but the danger is past. Wil-
liam S. Vare, of Philadelphia, has de-
termined to resume his seat in Con-
gress. He might have continued as
State Senator, or if his ambition had
taken another course he might have
become the greatest street cleaner in
the world. But his country called
him to service in Congress and in a
spirit of self-abnegation peculiar to
Philadelphia politicians he has relin-
quished every other opportunity and
hitched his ash cart to the Congres-
sional star.
When Mr. Vare’s ambition to be-
come Mayor of Philadelphia was nip-
ped in the bud some years ago indig-
nation so rankled in the bosom of his
brother Ed. that the solidity of the
corrupt Philadelphia machine was
threatened, and to avert that disast-
ter William S. was sent to Congress
as a sort of consolation offering. Up-
on the death of Ed., who had succeed-
ed George as State Senator, and with
the view of confirming a family
claim, Bill had himself elected to the
seat, securing at the same time anoth-
er election to Congress. In order to
qualify for service in the Senate he
resigned his seat in the Sixty-seventh
Congress, having already drawn the
salary, and changed the theatre of
his statesmanship to Harrisburg.
There he “copped” another salary.
When Bill Vare resigned his seat
in Congress the entire country took a
header into the bottomless pit of dis-
pair. The late President Harding
took his ever ready pen in hand and
wrote feelingly “I am writing to ex-
press the hope, however, that you will
so arrange your affairs that you may
actively engage in the work of the
Sixty-eighth Congress.” Who knows
but that the uncertainty on this sub-
ject caused the death of the lamented
President. In any event it left but
one course open for Bill to pursue.
He couldn’t let the country go “to the
demnition bow-wows.” He simply
had to get under the drooping edges
of the structure and rescue it. It was
a characteristic Vareism.
——Those who think Andy Mellon
is a novice in politics should analyze
his tax reduction scheme. The prin-
cipal beneficiaries of his plan are
those who contribute most liberally to
the party slush funds.
| Political Work of Two Women.
When Mrs. Cordelia Brice Pinchot
shied her bonnet into the political are-
na, last week, she invited trouble. Her
purpose was, of course, to promote
the interests of her husband as a can-
didate for President and she made
rather a good impression, for she took
the public into her confidence and re-
vealed some of the plans of his cam-
paign that appealed to public favor.
But she opened up an avenue of po-
litical propaganda that may work dis-
astrously for the cause in which her
heart, as well as her head, is enlisted.
There are other candidates for Presi-
dent and other wives interested in
their ambitions and Mrs. Cordelia
their gifts to advantage.
The speech of Mrs. Cordelia, in
been the cause but it had the effect
of a politico-social event in Washing-
ton this week. In the audience ad-
dressed by Mrs. Cordelia sat the lead-
ing and most influential Republican
ladies of Pennsylvania. Conspicuous
among them were Mrs. Barclay War-
burton, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Mary
Flinn Lawrence, of Pittsburgh, and
Mrs. Worthington, of Scranton, easi-
ly the “leading ladies” of the Penn-
sylvania Republican machine. On
Monday evening of this week Mrs.
Coolidge gave a tea party in the
White House and these three ladies
were not only the honored but the
only guests. The function was ar-
ranged by Senators Pepper and Reed.
Mrs. Coolidge, according to current
comment, is “a woman of charming
personality” and a tea party in the
White House is a great distinction. It
is said that many a matter of great
moment has been determined by 2a
White House dinner and an invita-
tion to lunch there has converted
many an enemy into a servile follow-
er. But the records reveal no in-
stance of a Pennsylvania statesman
being the honored and only guest at a
White House function, and who can
blame the ladies thus decorated by
social favor if they declare allegiance
to the husband of the woman who has
thus honored them? In any event it
is safe to predict that of the polit-
Washington lady has the advantage.
——Who was responsible for the
appointment of Charles R. Forbes to
the office of director of the Veteran’s
Bureau has gone into the calendar of
mysteries with who struck Billy Pat-
terson and who stole Charlie Ross?
The Preposterous Coal Conference.
As might have been expected the
conference of Governors “to consider
reforms in the hard coal industry,”
held in Harrisburg on Monday, de-
generated into a scrapping match “for
points” between the friends of Presi-
dent Coolidge and Governor Pinchot.
Judging by the developments of the
conference neither cares a rap for the
suffering public and each cares a lot
for the opportunities the question af-
fords for winning popular favor. In
opening the conference Governor Pin-
chot put forward four points, all in-
volving complicated processes of
doubtful legality. The New England
representatives, with the interests of
Coolidge in mind, asked for delay un-
til the President’s plan is revealed in
his coming message.
The principal point in the Pinchot
plan is a proposition to club the coal
producers into submission. “The set-
tlement of the recent anthracite
strike provided coal,” he said, “but in
the nature of things it could not as-
sure relief from the adulteration of
anthracite with rock and dirt.” By
inference he plainly conveys the al-
ternative of reducing prices or suffer-
ing the penalty of adulteration “with
rock and dirt.” The adulteration is a
crime against the consumers. It is a
much greater offence against public
morals than excessive prices, for it is
a sneaking outrage, while the other
is an open though infamous act. But
Pinchot offers immunity from punish-
ment for one in consideration of elim-
inating the other.
Of course the conference amounted
to nothing except keeping Pinchot on
the first page of the newspapers and
the hope of deluding credulous coal
consumers into the belief that the
Pinchot heart is bleeding for them.
If the coal producers will reduce
prices to the level fixed in the Pinchot
plan they may continue to adulterate
even “in worse form” than today.
The only suggestion of value offered
in the conference was made by Gover-
nor Silzer, of New Jersey, which was
promptly defeated.
——If the new highway patrolmen
cut reckless motoring by half they
will justify themselves. If they land
half the reckless drivers in jail they
will earn public approbation.
——Senator Johnson must have
plenty of money in his campaign
chest. He has secured the services of
Frank Hitchcock as campaign man-
ager.
pointed the way for them to utilize
Philadelphia last week, may not have '
The Sixty-eighth Congress.
The first session of the Sixty-
eighth Congress will begin on Mon-
day and indications point to unusual-
ly interesting proceedings. In the
last Congress there were 301 Repub-
licans and 131 Democrats. In the
session which opens Monday the Re-
publican majority will be less than
twenty, and as Nick Longworth says,
“with the assistance of a very few
men on the Republican side, out of
sympathy with the organization, the
Democrats will be in position to con-
trol House developments.” In other
words the Republican majority in the
body is so slender that while respon-
try it will not be able to shape it. It
| is impossible to imagine a more un-
desirable situation.
The only contest among the Repub-
licans in the organization which has
| developed any feeling is that for the
honorary office of floor leader. Mr.
| Longworth, whose greatest title to
distinction is that he married Colonel
Roosevelt’s daughter, is the candidate
of the organization, and William J.
Graham, of Illinois, represents the
opposition. In the beginning there
seemed to be quite a contest impend-
ing but a skillful use of the usual
methods has reduced it to the van-
ishing point. Longworth is very rich
and Graham exceedingly ambitious.
It is now believed that Graham will
withdraw from the fight and accept
a place on the steering committee,
which is said to present great oppor-
tunities.
Usually the session before the
Presidential . campaign is conducted
along lines of conservatism with the
view of stirring up as little trouble as
possible, and if the party majority
were large enough there would be no
departure from that policy this year.
But as Longworth has said in a note
of warning, the Democrats are likely
to take a hand in the shaping of pol-
icies and that may introduce some
questions that will create, rather than
suppress, disputation. In any event
the tax and bonus bills will be pre-
sented for consideration and there are
wide differences of opinion among
ublicans on both. For these rea-
be interesting this year.
—The curiosity that last week
worked us up to the point of inquiry
about a house that is for sale over at
Munson has been gratified. Its ad-
vertising carried the very unusual and,
it has “a good cellar.”
time and a place for everything. This
is the time when a lot of folks are in-
terested in good cellars but the place
to catch the eye of such people is not
in such an intensely “dry” paper as
the Philipsburg Journal. Brother
Bair is a pioneer among the Prohibs,
so is his paper and it is the last place
in the world that a “wet” would go
looking for “a good cellar.” The situ-
ation reminds us of the late Bill Ly-
on’s pet story. He always insisted
that he wanted to be buried in the
Catholic cemetery because he was
sure that that was the last place the
devil would go looking for a Jew.
——The “Watchman” has had sev-
eral inquiries during the past week
or so relative to the old age pension
bill passed by the last Legislature.
While the bill was signed by the Gov-
ernor it carried an appropriation of
only $25,000, just about enough to
pay the salaries of the Governor’s ap-
pointees in the old age bureau, so that
there will be nothing left for pen-
sions and the aged and infirm will
have to get along as best they can
until the meeting of the next Legisla-
ture when it is possible an appropria-
tion may be made to make the law op-
erative.
——The voters of Mill Hall bor-
ough have retained the services of
Clement Dale Esq., of Bellefonte, to
contest the election of school direc-
tors in that place. They charge that
a number of ballots were thrown out
because of trivial errors, but on which
the intent of the voter was very man-
ifest, and had these votes been count-
ed the result would have been entire-
ly different; and might easily affect
one or more of the candidates on the
county ticket.
——State Treasurer Charlie Snyder
is willing to make some sacrifices to
get back into the State Senate and
there are a considerable number of
level-headed citizens ready to make
sacrifices to keep him out.
———Governor Pinchot may be a
failure in some things but in the art
of “passing the buck” he is the
acknowledged master of the world.
——Several other methods having
failed Giff. might try to lift himself
out of the coal hole by the well known
boot strap process.
. L ———p A ns
—TFor all the news you should read
the “Watchman.”
to us, intriguing announcement that!
There’s a:
NOVEMBER 30. 1923.
NO. 4%.
The Reinsurance Treaties.
' From the Philadelphia Record.
sible for the legislation to the coun- |
M. Poincaire is quite justified in say-
ing that the failure of the United
States and Great Britain to ratify the
guarantee pacts was at the bottom of
the present trouble with regard to the
Military Control Commission. And
we should not blame the French Pre-
mier for feeling a little bitter toward
this country.
As soon as the armistice came
France began to demand the Rhine
for a boundary. Mr. Wilson and Mr.
Lloyd George knew that if the Rhine-
land were annexed to France another
war was perfectly certain. Another
and a more aggravated Alsace-Lor-
raine case would be created, and a
war of revenge would be certain. Mr.
' Wilson worked incessantly, and Mr.
: Lloyed George worked off and on, to
get a peace that should not contain
the seeds of another war. Clemenceau
yielded the demand for the Rhine
boundary in consideration of treaties
with the United States and England
for the defense of France if it should
be attacked. The failure of the peace
treaty in the Senate carried with it
the so-called reinsurance treaty, and
the failure of that carried with it the
reinsurance treaty with England.
France did not get the Rhine boun-
dary or the guarantees of America
and England.
Still, there are fortunes of diploma-
cy as well as of war. Mr. Wilson and
Mr. Lloyd George could not guarantee
the ratification of the treaties that
they signed. Clemenceau knew that
he had to take his chances on that.
But he also knew that it was abso-
lutely certain that France would not
be allowed to extend its territories to
the Rhine, and he took what he could
get.
But France is not without respon-
sibility for the failure here of the
peace treaty and the consequent fail-
ure of the reinsurance treaty. The
French government exerted itself to
weaken the Wilson influence in Paris,
and that had a part in the weakening
of the Wilson influence in the Senate.
As the Republicans had got control of
the Senate, and were determined to
force an extra session in order to get
hold of the peace treaty in the ear-
liest moment, it is possible that what
happened would have happened any-
way. But the French government cir-
culated among French newspaper of-
fices every Republican attack on Mr.
Wilson. Clemenceau was trying. to
get from the United States a. guar-
antee of France’s defense, and he did
all in his power to discredit the Pres-
ident of the United States and weak-
en his influence at home and abroad.
But one has to deal with the facts
as they are. Only, M. Poincaire re-
fuses to. The facts are that France
single-handed cannot defend itself
against Germany. Nine years ago
France would have been wiped out
without its Allies. And if France
should get into another war with Ger-
many only foreign help could save it.
But M. Poincaire declares that France,
which betrayed the treaty of Sevres
and went behind the backs of its Al-
lies to trade with the Turks, will en-
force every jot and tittle of the treaty
of Versailles single-handed if its as-
sociates in the world war do not go
with it.
This is simply inviting destruction.
England, America, Italy and Belgium
have urged an unrestricted investiga-
tion of Germany’s capacity to pay, ob-
viously the very first step to be tak-
en, Poincaire vetoes that. The opin-
ion of countries that rescued France
from the enemy weigh nothing with
him. He is willing to provoke Germa-
ny to an insurrection, and if that
shall occur it will be the end of
France unless other nations rescue it
again. And they won’t do it. Italy
is not interested. The United States
is not interested. Great Britain is
strongly opposed to the French poli-
cy, and Belgium is not big enough to
count for much.
_ The safety of France depends upon
its associates in the war, and it re-
fuses to treat their opinions with or-
dinary respect.
A Case of Conscience?
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Anthracite coal consumers every-
where will be deeply touched by the
conscientious scruples displayed by
chairman Warriner, of the general
policies committee of the anthracite
operators, against any acceptance on
their part of the suggestions from
Governor Pinchot that they should
get together and act in unison to
keep down the price of their commodi-
ty.
If it is “impractical and unlawful”
for the operators to “clean their own
house” by refusing—among other
things—to sell to retailers who un-
fairly boost the price of coal, some of
us will wonder whether it is not equal-
ly unlawful for the operators to com-
bine to protect prices and te main-
tain a united front against every ef-
fort to modernize and reform its
methods and practices.
Coal price lists from the days of
the Temple Iron company of notorious
memory onward have shown an amaz-
ing similarity. This may have been
no common action in violation of the
letter of the anti-trust acts. But
‘there is a widespread belief to the con-
trary, and the present solicitude of
the operators lest they should be mis-
led by the Governor into doing some-
thing, in the public interest, that is
criminal does not carry conviction of
“| sincerity to the minds of the people
who are obliged to pay excessive pric-
es for the. domestic sizes of anthra-
cite. {hii :
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Moving picture men purchased the
two Pennsylvania Railroad office buildings
in the heart of Altoona.
—Bishop McCort will officiate at the
dedication of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Catholic church, Altoona, December 16.
—More than $700,000 will be distributed
in Christmas savings funds by banking in«
stitutions of York and adjoining boroughs.
—Mrs. Elizabeth Hornyak, of Greenfield,
a patient in Mercy hospital, Pittsburgh,
leaped to her death from a ninth floor
window.
—Burglars failed to enter two safes in
the office of E. B. Fritz & Sons, at Quar-
ryville, after they broke off the combina-
tion knobs.
—Checks totaling $700,000 will be mailed
to members of the York, Pa. banks"
Christmas savings funds in December, an
increase of $35,000 over last year.
-——Clair Dunkel, aged 16 years, of Ho-
mer’s Gap, a freshman in the Altoona’
High school, shot off his right hand while
on his way to hunt for wild turkeys.
—Charles Bedkheimer, of Hollidays-
burg, was awarded $17,000 damages
against the Pennsylvania Railroad in a
suit tried at Youngstown, Ohio, for inju-
ries received while a brakeman in the Al-
toona yard.
—While Mrs. George R. Webb was work-"
ing at the kitchen range in her home at
Lock Haven, her clothing caught fire and
she was burned from the knees to the hips.
Her husband was also badly burned in
smothering the fire.
—With his hand caught in a corn fod-
der shredding machine that would have
slowly pulled him in between revolving
knives, Sidney Goss, an Irish valley,
Northumberland county farmer, whipped
out his pocket knife and cut the first fin-
gor off, freeing himself. With a temporary
bandage, he jumped into an auto and
drove to a doctor's where the hand was
dressed. No serious results are expected.
—Walking into a cafe in Barnesboro,
last Friday night, “Punch” Wagner an-
nounced he was the champion long dis-
tance eater of Cambria county, and to
prove it ate nine hamburger sandwiches,
four cheese sandwiches, three orders of
French fried potatoes, two orders of steak,
six sweet potatoes and two pies. He
drank three glasses of milk, four of water
and eight cups of coffee. He had a dou-
ble order of ice cream with the pie.
—The will of the late Mrs. Annie Mec-
Kee, a widow who died recently at Lewis-
town at the age of 84 years, leaves the
bulk of her estate, probably $10,000 to the
First Presbyterian church of Lewistown.
After making some minor provisions she
provides that the church must create a
fund of which the interest will provide an
annuity of $40 per month for her friend
and companion, Nancy Shade, who had
been with her for many years.
—To have lived throughout the past
vear with a broken back has been the re-
markable experience of Mrs. Peter Yeager,
of Kline’s Grove, Northumberland county.
Mrs. Yeager suffered a fall down stairs a
vear ago and appeared to recover, but last
week the injury gave her pain and she
was removed to the Sunbury hospital,
where an X-ray showed a broken verte-
brae. The spinal cord was not affected
and she is expected to recover by hospital
authorities.
—F. M. Graff, president of the First Na-
tional bank of Blairsville, appeared in Ora
phans court at Uniontown, on Saturday,
and settled a claim of $310,000 against the
estate of the late United States Senator
Crow. The banker held notes, protested
notes and interest amounting to $310,000.
In settlement of the claim he accepted
1500 shares of stock in the Westmoreland
Mining company, a concern controlled by
the estate. The stock has a par value of
$100 a share.
—Frank Sterner and R. C. Horner, su-
perintendent and assistant superintendent
of the Windber Silica Sand company, were
shot and seriously wounded late Saturday
afternoon when attacked by two bandits
while on their way from Windber to the
company’s operations at Cairnbrook with
a payroll amounting to $2400. Before he
was shot, Sterner threw the money over a
fence, the bandits were frightened away
by an approaching automobile and the
money was recovered. The two men were
taken to a hospital for treatment.
—Tor the first time in the history of Al-
lentown a baby is in pawn. Mrs. Marga-
ret Walk last week swore out a warrant =
before Alderman Gotthardt, in which she
charged William Wilde with deserting and
failing to support his minor child. Wilde
and his wife left the little one with Mrs.
Walk, the understanding being that she
would care for it until the mother and
father had bettered their financial condi-
tion. The board bill mounted until it to-
taled $40, and as Wilde was unable to
come across the prosecutrix will hold the
baby as security until the bill is paid.
—Declared legally dead several months
ago after an absence of fourteen years,
William Biery turned up at the home of -
his brother in Allentown, on Wednesday
last. Arrangements were made for his le-
gal “resurrection” on Monday of this week
so he could share in his parents’ estate,
which approximated $10,000. But there
was no legal “bringing back to life” pro-
ceedings, as he was found dead in bed
Sunday morning from heart failure. Biery
was about 35 years old. During his un-
heard-from absence he spent most of his
time in Winnipeg, Canada, and other
northwestern Canadian cities.
—The old Hipple planing mill, im Lock
Haven, and adjoining buildings burned to
the ground last Wednesday evening. The
building had housed the Lock Haven
Chair corporation, which went into the
hands of a receiver recently. At a sale
last week Austin Candor purchased the
buildings. The machinery and chairs
were disposed of in small lots. A number
of the purchasers had removed a portion
of the machinery and chairs from the
building since the sale, and Ben Hober-
man had just begun removing 1,300 chairs
purchased by him, most of which, and
considerable machinery, were destroyed.
—Loot valued at $750 was procured by
robbers ‘who entered Earl Harpster’s pool
room and cigar store in Hollidaysburg,
some time Friday night or early Saturday
morning. The robbery was discovered
when the store was opened Saturday °
morning. A quantity of cigarettes, cigars
and other forms of tobacco, pipes and oth-
er merchandise and a sum of money in-
cluding several gold pieces, was . taken.
Entrance was gained through a rear door.
The glass of the door had been broken and
a . wooden door had been loosely nailed:
over the opening as a temporary - meas-.
ure. This door was pried loose and it was.
comparatively easy for.the robbers to get
into the store.