—It is August 1st and but fifty-one
days of summer remain.
—Keeping Coolidge cool is going to
be some job with La Follette making
it so hot for him.
——The “round the world” flyers
will soon be home to tell the rest of
us what good was accomplished by
their hazardous enterprise.
——Former Secretary of the Inter-
jor Fall and ex-Attorney General
Daugherty are alike opposed to Davis
because he is a corporation lawyer.
—Let us hope that Patten, the
wheat speculator, knows what he was
talking about when he predicted a
price of two dollars a bushel before
fall.
—Not having heard anything from
them for so long Gifford and Cornelia
must have acted on the mandate of
the recent primaries to go ‘way back’
and sit down.
—The principal cause of increase in
the number of divorces being granted
is that too many young folks don’t
think seriously of marriage until
weeks after the knot has been tied.
—The movement of the association
against the Volstead act to put all en-
forcement officers in a distinctive uni-
form is only another step toward
making the way of the bootlegger
easier.
—The longer Persia delays making
full reparation for the murder of Con-
sul Imbrie the nearer she gets to the
position of lying across Uncle Sam’s
knee with a good, strong hand spank-
ing her.
—The fishing season over we pre-
sume there’ll come an itch in our palm
for a golf stick. Isn’t it true? There
is always something turning up to
make work the thing a fellow wants
to do everything but?
~ —Mayor Kendrick. seems to be
weakening a bit in his support of Gen.
Smedley Butler. The mayor is not
wobbling much, but quite enough to
give hope to the politicians that they’ll
“get” “the Fighting Marine” ere long.
—We thought the Flanders Fields
were scenes of carnage, and so they
were, but twice as many of our peo-
ple were killed on our own highways,
during the last eighteen months, as
fell before German guns during the
entire period of our participation in
the war.
—Thank Heaven, if Centre county
is to have a murder trial that might
result in a first degree verdict, that
there is a place to carry out the man-
date of the law other than the county
jail yard. And no opportunity for the
morbid to make a holiday out of the
Wy
er: "OY
last ten years. One in every twelve
workers in the country is on a federal,
State or county pay roll and gradual-
ly the burden of government is becom-
ing a serious menace to future pros-
perity.
—The Chicago millionaire youths,
Loeb and Leopold, may be thieves and
liars, and so mentally abnormal that
they are all head and no heart, but
they are murderers, just the same.
They had the heads to conceive the
most diabolical crime that police rec-
ords record and such heads are better
off than on.
—No attempt is being made by the
opposition to deny that John W. Da-
vis is a great, strong, clean candidate.
His record in his profession, in dip-
lomatic work, in business, seldom
equalled, is such as to make attack on
his ability ridiculous. He is the one
candidate of the three who offers the
country hope for things it needs most
now.
—On the twenty-second of this
month Mars will be nearer Earth than
she will be again in five centuries. In-
stead of being her usual distance of
from one to two hundred million miles
away she will be only thirty-five mil-
lion miles off on that date. In all
probability telescopes all over the
world will be searching for Marsians
and radio fans will be trying to enter-
tain them—if there are any—with
jazz.
—Senator Lodge is ill. Dangerous-
ly ill. The many specialists who have
been called to consult at the bedside
of the distinguished gentleman from
Massachusetts are at variance as to
whether it is his bladder or his gall
that is causing the trouble. We all
know that Henry’s gall has worked
over-time for years and exhaustion is
natural in a man of seventy-four, but
it isn’t his bladder or his gall that
specialists should look to for the seat
of his trouble. It’s his exaggerated
ego. . That’s what helped kill Wood-
row Wilson and that’s what Henry
Cabot Lodge is suffering with now in
Charlesgate hospital, Boston.
—These are the nights that John
Laird Holmes, mayor and “notorious
republic” of State College, should be
devoting to solitaire. He should brush
up in the game because he is the only
candidate we have heard of who is
pledged to suport the policies of Gif.
and Cornelia. He started out on a
“trust me” platform, but when con-
fronted by the grand inquisition he
wilted like the San Jose scale had at-
tacked him, but promised enough at
least to secure the announcement.
that: “Holmes is all: right.” Of
course Laird is all right as a pussey-
footer, but = Centre county. wants a
Representative in the Legislature to
represent it and not the gentleman
and lady who have a temporary resi-
dence in Milford, Pike county.
hundred - and eighty per cent. in the
tatives.
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VOL. 69.
Democrats Need Not Worry.
When Republicans profess or pre-
tend that they are pleased because
LaFollette is a candidate for Presi-
dent, they are “whistling to keep up
courage.” The basis for such pretense
is that the independent candidate will
draw more from the Democratic ranks
than from the Republican force. That
is simply absurd. Even the wildest
conjecture would not venture to be-
lieve that LaFollette will get a single
electoral vote which in the absence of
his candidacy would go to Davis. Mr.
LaFollette may get a good many votes
in States of large population but that
will not impair the strength of Mr.
Davis in the electoral college. For
example, if he got half the Democrat-
ic vote in Pennsylvania they wouldn't
hurt Davis.
Mr. LaFollette will carry Wiscon-
sin, but in 1920 that State gave Hard-
ing a majority of 305,154. He will
probably carry Minnesota, which four
years ago gave Harding a majority of
466,427. He is likely to carry North
Dakota, which gave Harding 121,650,
and South Dakota, which gave Hard-
ing 74,654 in 1920. It is possible,
though not probable, that he will car-
ry Iowa, which in 1920 gave Harding
406,753 majority, and Montana, where
Harding had a majority of 52,058. All
the electoral strength of ‘these six
States would be drawn from the Re-
publican candidate and that without
preventing the election of the Demo-
cratic candidate by the electoral col-
lege, which is the only menace the La-
Follette candidacy carries.
The friends and supporters of La-
Follette hope that he will carry Kan-
sas and Nebraska and thus throw the
election into the House of Represen-
In that event the various
blocs, if they could be combined,
would have the balance of power and
be able to bargain with one or the
other of the parties as Clay did with
John Quincy Adams in 1829, and as
Mr. LaFollette himself bargained
with the Republican machine when
his seat in the Senate was in joepar-
dy on account of his attitude on the
world war. But he is likely to split
the Republican party and give the
lect votes of ‘those States to
————— fp Si
——Big business must have taken
chloroform. The Brazillian rebellion
has been going on several weeks and
we have heard of no raise in the price
of coffee.
Needed Comfort for Coolidge.
Senator Moses, of New Hampshire,
stalwart and stupid, chairman of the
Republican Senatorial campaign com-
mittee, called on President Coolidge
on Monday, and soothed him with a
rainbow colored promise of Republi-
can gains in the Senate at the com-
ing election. A few . days earlier a
Republican leader in West Virginia
flattered his hopes with assurance
that he will get 50,000 majority in
that State. Senator Spencer, of Mis-
souri, on another occasion, handed
him the consoling promise of the elec-
toral vote of Missouri and Senator
Cameron, of Arizona, informed him
that the small vote of that State
would help build the Republican pyra-
mid. These “incense swingers” de-
pend much upon the President’s cre-
dulity. :
In the first place there is no possi-
ble chance of increasing the Republi-
can strength in the Senate. There
will be thirty-two Senators elected,
twelve of whom will be for the South-
ern States and absolutely certain to
be Democrats, There will be an ex-
traordinary effort to defeat Senator
Walsh, of Montana, because of his ac-
tivity in exposing the iniquities of the
Harding administration but it will be
futile. Both the Democrats and La-
Follette forces are supporting Mr.
Walsh and his election is as certain
as that of Simmons, of North Caro-
lina. Senator Walsh, of Massachu-
setts, has more than an even chance
of re-election and the other sitting
Democrats in the north and west are
equally “sitting pretty” in the pic-
ture.
In Colorado, Delaware, Illinois,
Kansas, Kentucky, New Jersey, New
Mexico, New York, South Dakota and
West Virginia the Republican candi-
dates for Senator have stiff fights on
their hands with strong odds against
them in Colorado, Delaware, Illinois,
Kentucky, New Jersey, New York,
South Dakota and West Virginia and
no better than an even chance in Kan-
sas, New Mexico and South Dakota.
Three of the Republican Senatorial
nominees, Brookhart, Iowa; Couzens,
Michigan, and Norris, of Nebraska,
are vigorous opponents of the admin-
istration and if elected will be prac-
tically certain to line up with the
Democrats on every strictly partisan
question.” In view of these facts
Coclidge needs comfort.
——Having ended his brief vaca-
tion candidate Davis is now ready for
the fray.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Pinchot’s Position Secure.
Some of our esteemed contemporar-
ies are indulging in mental specula-
tion as to the course Governor Gifford
Pinchot will pursue in the approach-
ing .campaign for President. The
Governor is strong for prohibition en-
forcement and he fully understands
that the failure of enforcement is
largely ascribable to the indifference
of President Coolidge in the matter.
For this reason some observers of
prohibition trend of thought have ex-
pressed the hope that he will give his
influence to the La Follette organiza-
tion. The Republican machine man-
agers are not worried over the ques-
tion. They understand Mr. Pinchot
and rest entirely confident that he will
be a willing and earnest supporter of
Coolidge.
The Republican managers have not
acquired their confidence in Governor
Pinchot’s fidelity to the machine by
any haphazard process. They have
had the subject before them for con-
sideration and weighed the chances
with great care. Some of the more
cautious in the conference even pro-
posed that he be invited to make a
speech or two during the campaign.
That would flatter his vanity, ‘they
reasoned, and when he waked
he
would find himself “hog-tied” ho”
cause. But the bolder bosses, and
they were in the majority, protested
such a gesture would not be neces-
sary. Ambition and self interest, they
openly declared, would influence the
Governor and hold him in line how=
ever much he might be snubbed.
Governor Pinchot’s political action
is not based on principle. He is in-
fluenced entirely by ambition. If the
Prohibition party had force enough to
put its candidates across he would be
a Prohibitionist. . In fact his inclina-
tions run in that direction. If the
Republican machine would adopt him
as a favorite he would be the loudest
supporter of the machine. In that
respect he is precisely like Senator
Pepper. But the machine doesn’t en-
courage him. It caught him in a se-
cret act of treachery while it was cod-
dling him as a candidate for delegate
to the National convention. But he
will support the machine in
*s
oe BY)
future.
——Probably the reason Henry
Ford is keeping so quiet now is that
he is disappointed because his support
of Coolidge failed to get Muscle
Shoals.
Treasury Probe to Proceed.
When the Senate committee charg-
ed with the investigation of the
Treasury Department decided to pro-
ceed with the probe at an early date,
Senator Watson, of Indiana, resigned
the chairmanship. He is not willing
to be associated with a movement.
which must hurt and may wreck his
party. While the Senate was in ses-
sion he protested against the inquiry
because it was tending to show crim-
inal neglect in the enforcement of the
Volstead law. Supporting a protest
of President Coolidge against the pro-
ceedings of the committee Mr. Wat-
son declared it was never the inten-
tion to enforce that Act of Congress.
“It was enacted,” he inferentially
stated, “to fool the public.”
The Secretary of the Treasury is
the director of the force and man-
ager of the machinery for the en-
forcement of the Volstead law. The
Secretary of the Treasury is the dom-
inant figure in the administration of
President Coolidge. The Secretary of
the Treasury has or had vast sums of
money, estimated at millions of dol-
lars, invested in distilleries and brew-
eries. He probably wanted to unload
this great burden of contraband prop-
erty. Popular sentiment appeared to
be strongly in favor of enforcement of
the prohibition amendment. The Vol-
stead law was enacted to enlist popu-
lar sentiment with the administration.
It was not enforced because that pol-
icy favored the owners of distilleries
and breweries.
Senator Watson imagined that re-
signing the chairmanship of the In-
vestigating committee would defeat
the purpose to continue the inquiry.
But he has been disappointed in this
expectation. The majority of the
committee elected Senator Couzins, of
Michigan, to the chairmanship and de-
clared its intention to proceed with
the inquiry on the first of September.
This will add much to the interest of
the campaign, for it is likely to re-
veal the fact that Secretary Mellon,
the potent force in the administra-
tion, is responsible for the delinquen-
cy in the enforcement of the prohibi-
tion legislation, and that the adminis-
tration is accessory both before and
after the fact.
——The government of the United
States, being the biggest corporation
on earth, it might be a good idea to
elect a capable and honest corporation
lawyer as President.
————— A ——————
——La Follette is simply showing
the bosses how to boss. :
BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 1. 1924.
Another Scheme to Deceive.
The fault which finally brought At-
torney General Harry M. Daugherty
to grief was prostituting the great of-
fice he held to personal and political
service. Of course little ought to have
been expected from Mr. Daugherty in
his official capacity. He was not an
able lawyer and his conception of
moral obligations were circumscribed.
His appointment was .a reward . for
political favors rendered, and like
most ward politicians, he felt that he
had perfect right to use. the office for
his own advantage. Thus guided he
assembled the “Columbus crowd” to
loot, and occasionally instituted a suit
against somebody for something, to
satisfy the party managers that he
was working for their party.
His successor in office, Attorney
General Stone, is an able, corporation
lawyer and enjoys a better, under-
standing of the ethics of his profes-
sion. For that reason he is -not in-
-@ulging in the practices which require
the aid of men of the’ Jess Smith
type in developing shady enterprises
of ‘one kind or another. But the fate
of Daugherty has not served to ad-
monish him against the practice of
degrading the office into an agency for
promoting political bunk.. In. other
words, Attorney General Stone is now
entering suits against oil conspirators
and other malefactors for the sole and
only purpose of fooling the public into
the belief that the administration is
fully determined to bring the swin-
dlers of the Harding administration
to justice. sy
In pursuance of this purpose Attor-
ney General Stone has recently pro-
cured the indictment of Harry Sin-
clair, former Secretary of the Interior
Fall, the Doheneys, father and son,
and others for conspiracy in leasing
the oil reserves. Mr. Stone knows
that there can be no hearing in the
case until after the election and his
palpable purpose is to make the peo-
ple think that the administration is
anxious to punish the miscreants who
have been robbing the government of
its most important resources. But the
average citizen will not be deceived
by such jestures. The criminal plans
of the accused men were fostered by
tod St LULL
ET RI
——Two crews of State highway
engineers are now making a survey of
the Bald Eagle valley road between
Snow Shoe Intersection and Bald Ea-
gle and it is stated that the survey is
being made preliminary to beginning
work early next spring on making
that road a State highway to be known
as the Bald Eagle trail. The road is
now concreted from Milesburg to
Snow Shoe Intersection and from Bald
Eagle to Tyrone. Just how much of
the road will be built next year has
not been announced, but the fact that
a survey is being made is taken
as evidence that it will be the next
big stretch of road in Centre county
to be improved. The Bald Eagle is a
short route between Williamsport,
Lock Haven, and points southwest.
——The trout fishing season for
1924 came to a close at twilight yes-
terday and the speckled beauties will
now be able to eat worms and jump
at flies without the fear of having a
hook and line attached to them. Of
course many fishermen aver that it
was a poor season for trout, not so
much because there are no trout in
the streams but for the reason that
they were unable to catch the limit
every time they went onto a stream.
But their ill luck in this respect was
good luck for the trout and the result
will be that there will be more of
them in the stream for next year.
——DLower Nittany valley was fa-
vored with a good rain on Tuesday,
but not a drop fell in Bellefonte. In
fact no rain of any consequence has
fallen here in two weeks and the gar-
dens are beginning to show it. But
the farmers have rarely been so fa-
vored with propitious weather for
their haymaking and harvesting.
While not exceedingly hot the weath-
er has been ideal and most of the
wheat has been put in shock in splen-
did condition. Lower Nittany had
another hard rain Wednesday after-
noon and in some parts of the valley
hail as large as marbles fell.
——A good many people are wait-
ing anxiously to hear Senator Hiram
Johnson’s clarion call for action in the
Presidential contest.
——The big fight in the Democratic
convention didn’t hurt the party. It
simply revealed the fact that we are
in fighting trim.
——Neither the name of the maker
nor the price of the car affects the
cost of the repair bill after an acci-
ent.
_——We have suspected for some
time that there was something the
matter with Senator Lodge’s anatomy.
NO. 30.
Senatorial Defections.
From the Philadelphia Record.
. We have noticed among our Repub-
lican . contemporaries a loud note of
exultation' over Senator Wheeler's
alignment with the LaFollette move-
ment. “Well may the Democratic
leaders,” says the New York Herald-
Tribune, “take alarm at Wheeler’s de-
sertion of the ticket: While his state-
ment regarding Davis is chiefly clap-
trap and. buncombe, his desertion of
the ticket is a serious portent.”
Our neighbor, The Inquirer, chortles
with joy because “Senator Wheeler
leads the Democratic bolt,” and sees
in this a sure indication of President
Coolidge’s election.
Let us examine this argument a mo-
ment. If the defection of one Demo-
cratic Senator from the national tick-
et is such.a tremendous matter we
presume that the consequences will be
equally dire to the Republican cause
if a Republican Senator refuses to
swear allegiance to President Cool-
idge. What is to be said, then, when
it is stated that a formidable percent-
age of the Republican Senators are
either openly or silently giving their
support to LaFollette ?
From the North American, which
favors Coolidge, we learn that La-
Follete will have eight Senators on
the stump for him, support from two
more, and the prospect of receiving
further accessions as the campaign
progresses. Borah and Brookhart are
with him in spirit, if not openly. As
both are candidates for re-election as
Republicans, they must exercise some
discretion. Senators Frazier and
Ladd, of North Dakota; Norbeck, of
South Dakota, and Norris, of Nebras-
ka, all classed as Republicans, are out
for their fellow-member from Wiscon-
sin, as, of course, are the Minnesota
Farmer-Labor Senators, Shipstead
and Johnson.
Only the other day Senator Couz-
ens, of Michigan, refused to sign in as
a loyal adherent of President Cool-
idge, and in the month that has elaps-
ed since the Cleveland convention has
any one heard of “Hi” Johnson, of
California, lifting up his voice in loud
acclaim of the Republican ticket?
In view of this impressive showing
of G. O. P. defection, we fail to see
why any excessive importance should
be attached to Senator Wheeler's as-
sertion of independence.
rss Bp St sin
~ Labor’s Path as Seen in Wiseonsin.
| From the Milwaukee Sournnl. - +
Out of the wisdom of his years,
Frank J. Weber pleaded in vain with
the Wisconsin State Federation of La-
bor not to indorse any Presidential
candidate. Mr. Weber, “father” of
the State organization, personally fa-
vors Senator LaFollette. But exper-
ience has taught him the jeopardy to
labor’s interests when it officially, as
an organization, casts its lot with the
personal fortunes of any individual.
Mr. Weber would not permit labor to
indorse him in other years, when he
himself was seeking public office.
In this attitude Mr. Weber is sup-
ported by the record of Samuel Gomp-
ers. These men have lived with labor
for many years, shared its sorrows
and joys. They went through another
period when labor tied up with polit-
ical organization. And when the
Knights of Labor went to Washington
had to accept political standing and
were told they could have nothing;
they had supported a candidacy that
was defeated. Mr. Weber and Mr.
Gompers have not forgotten.
Indorsement by labor as an organi-
zation will not bring to favored can-
didates any support that labor unoffi-
cially can not give them. The union
movement is economic. If labor loses
sight of that fact and becomes em-
broiled in partisan politics it stands to
lose much. For it should be remem-
bered that laboring men differ in po-
litical opinions, and it is only on an
economic basis that they can be held
together.
abor can not afford to go chasing
after will-o’-wisps, such as the dream
of a great Labor party, modeled upon
the British Labor party. It should
not be forgotten that Ramsay Mac-
Donald remains in power only by the
sufferance of the British old line par-
ties, who could turn him out of office
today if they wished. Labor leaders
in this country have seen too much of
the way class domination works in
government to adopt it as their poli-
cy.
Not a Bad Omen.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The deadlock which grips the allied
reparations conference over the week-
end was inevitable. Fundamental
French interests have clashed with
fundamental British interests. For
the moment France stands pat on the
Versailles Treaty and Britain takes
the position that the conferees may
have to go outside the treaty to get
the Dawes plan into effect. As the
deadlock had to come, it is just as well
that it came quickly.
termined ' search for a compromise,
All the precedents provide ample
ground for pessimism. More than a
dozen times since the armistice = the
Allies have taken part in this same
searching party, and there have been
a baker’s dozen of failures.
It will not be forgotten, however,
that there was little optimism that
the experts’ committees which. met
last January would succeed in their
task. It was considered a bare pos-
sibility that there would be unanimous
agreement ‘upon any program. Yet
the Dawes report gvas signed and seal-
~—Subseribe for the “Watchman.” * ed
in behalf of desired legislation, they
This week should open with a de- |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONR
—State Troopers of Muncy detail, are
searching for Robert Stahl, 11, of Dan-
ville, who disappeared from his home, on
‘Wednesday.
—Mrs. Nannie Estep, 53 years old, wife
of Harry Estep, died on Saturday at her
home at Sharon, of myodema. Mrs. Estep,
who weighed approximately 500 pounds,
had been unable to leave her home for a
year. She formerly lived in Altoona.
—The finding of a man’s skeleton in the
basement of the First Presbyterian church,
Northumberland, on Sunday, caused com-
siderable excitement. It is believed that
the man was buried there before the origi-
nal church was erected, more than seventy
years ago. Dr. Joseph K. Fisher, coroner,
said he would take no action.
—John . Helliott, a lion tamer, suffered
severe lacerations about the chest and
arms last Friday when a lion attacked him
during a performance of the Hagenback
and Wallace circus at Bedford. His life
was probably saved when another lion—a
pet of the trainer, made a furious on-
slaught .on the attacking beast and ena-
bled Helliott to make his escape.
—The boulder for the Doctor Rothrock
memorial to be placed on the public square
in the native village of the father of for-
estry, McVeytown, was taken from Stony
Point in the Seven Mountains last week
and hauled to its new location, a distance
of thirty miles on a truck of the National
Limestone company. A bronze plate com-
memorating the work of Doctor Rothrock
will be placed on the face of the boulder.
—Before Mrs. Nellie Shuler, of Williamg-
port, who tied herself to a gas stove in
her third attempt at suicide, took her life,
she pinned a note to her dress which read:
“I bequeath to Mary Koch all my earthly
possessions.” This note was accepted by
the register of wills of Lycoming county
last week as Mrs. Shuler’s last testament
after her signature had been sworn to by
two employees of a bank where she had a
deposit.
—Mrs. Kinley Tener, wife of the nephew
of former Governor John K. Tener, lost
$10,000 in jewelry and toilet articles last
Thursday when a bag was stolen from her
car near Trinity Court, Boston, Mass. she
reported to the police Saturday. The theft
was discovered when Mr. and Mrs. Tener
reached their home, in Sewickley, Pa,
after motoring from Gloucester. The car
had been left unguarded dfiring a brief
stop in Boston.
—New York State authorities have no
sympathy for bridegrooms. Brooks
Swartz, of Beech Creek, returned last
Thursday from his heneymoon by motor
through New York State with the story
that twice he and his bride were held up
by New York police and fined for viola-
tions of the traffic laws. At Hornell, N.
Y., the fine and costs for speeding amount-
ed to $40 and at another place a justice
asked $16.25, also for driving too fast.
—Albert Hess, a Mountain Grove farmer,
was held up on Saturday by a stranger
who asked him for a ride and robbed him
of $123. Hess was returning home after
selling a load of produce at Berwick, and
about two miles from Nescopeck was ac-
costed by the stranger, who asked for a
ride. They had gone only a short distance
when the stranger put a revolver against
Hess’ head and forced him to turn over
his money. The holdup man then fled into
the bushes along the road.
~~Harry Reese and his wife, of Colum-
bia, owe their lives to a pet dog that
awakened them by scratching on a screen
door when flood waters, following the
heavy rain last week, surrounded their
home. Reese swam to his stable to rescue
his horse and found the animal standing
in water up to its neck. Catching the hal-
ter strap, Reese drew the horse's head
through a window and then climbed to the
roof, where he held the animal's head out
of the water for two hours to prevent
drowning.
—Federal officers are investigating the
case of former principal of the Tionesta
High school, J. Paul Charles, who is al-
leged to have run away with a 17 year old
1.1 pupil in June. The girl, Myra Hood,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Hood, was
taken into custody in Erie and the man is
being held on an open charge at Tionesta
awaiting the arrival of the federal men.
The girl is with her parents. They are al-
leged to have crossed over the Pennsylva-
nia State line in their travels. Charles is
. 27 years old and married.
—~8ixty thousand cottontails will be im-
ported into Pennsylvania to afford good
rabbit hunting for Pennsylvania sports-
men, the State Game Commission announc-
es. The Commission has been doing more
extensive restocking during the last two
years than ever before. Included in the
other. game which the Commission will
purchase for restocking are 2000 hares,
commonly known as Snowshoe hares, 1000
ruffed grouse, 10,000 ringneck pheasants,
10,000 bobwhite quail, 1000 Hungarian
partridges and 3000 squirrels.
—A drinking glass, upset by Mary
Woodward, of Tamaqua, as she cautiously
descended a ladder to the porch of her
home where her lover awaited to flee with
her, upset Mary’s beautiful dream of a ro-
mantic midnight elopement and forced her
to spend the night under the parental roof.
Woodward Sr. heard the tinkle of the fall-
ing glass, leaped to the chase and overtook
the crestfallen Mary and her young suitor,
Walter Brode, before they reached the
railroad station. The trip to Elkton, Md.,
where the knot was to be tied, was ab-
ruptly called off.
—Arthur Lyons, assistant postmaster at
Elgin, Pa., for twelve years, and journal
clerk in the Pennsylvania State Senate,
was arrested in a store at Buffalo, N. Y.,
on Saturday, on the charge of attempting
to cash a government money order for
27.60. He is said to have made a full con-
fession that he stole forty four blanks from
the Elgin postoffice and cashed them in
Erie and Buffalo. Lyons had a general
store at Elgin and went bankrupt. He
blamed liquor. He had obtained the ap-
pointment of a woman as postmaster and
was made her assistant two years ago.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for the
Corry postmastership.
—When a check protector salesman ex-
tended his hand through the window of
the cashier's cage at the Farmers’ bank,
Red Lion, last Thursday, the cashier, C. E.
Smith, was of the impression that he was
facing a bank robber. The bank officials,
it is said, had received a tip that an ef-
fort was to be made to rob the bank. The
cashier ordered the man away, and when
he saw him enter a bank across the street,
he felt certain his first impression was
right, and he called the police. The check
protector salesman and a companion were
arrested and taken to York, but were re-
leased following an investigatioma by a lo<
cal detective agency...
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