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INK SLINGS.
—Lots of people would go further
if they were charged with more
“TNT and less FF V.
—If you are a poor manager stick
to small business undertakings. Poor
‘management can’t lose as much mon-
«ey in little business as it would in big.
— These are the days when those
scientists who intermittently try to
make us believe that the Earth is cool-
ing off are hunting the shady side of
the streets.
—The species “road-hog” is gradu-
ally becoming extinct, but we fear it
will be a long time before the type
that steps on the gas the instant you
‘blow your desire to go round him
disappears.
—We went to press too early yes-
terday afternoon to know how the day
turned out, but since our colored pop-
ulation held its annual picnic we feel
safe in saying: It rained. It always
does when the colored folks take their
day off.
—The “Boston,” one of the three
remaining planes in the round the
world flight, is down in the waters off
Iceland. Let us hope she is not out.
To fail on the home-stretch of a flight
that will make history is too heart-
breaking for a pilot like Lieut. Wade.
—They were only trifles in an ex-
penditure of fifty million, but Audit-
or General Sam Lewis did exactly
right in declining to put his “O. K.”
on bills for a vanity case and an An-
glo Persian rug for a Highway De-
partment automobile and office. If
Sam were to let the little things get
by it wouldn’t be long until bigger
ones would be put over.
— Advance notices are to the effect
that the Prince of Wales is going to
attend the speed classic at Altoona on
Labor day. As you know the Prince
has only recently assured his future
subjects that he has at last set him-
self to the task of hunting a wife,
and, who can tell: Some Cinderella
of the Alleghenies might be the fu-
ture Queen of England. Of course
the girls with bobbed hair might as
well save car fare to Tipton, for Eng-
land would never stand for a bobbed-
head queen.
—It is to laugh. Because the
American Federation of Labor has
endorsed the La Follette ticket his
Tooters are claiming a million votes
from that organization. Eight years
ago the engine cab or caboose that
didn’t display a picture of Wilson and
the railroader who didn’t wear a Wil-
son button, big as a sun-flower, was
the exception. The railroaders were
going to vote for him en masse, and
we're right here to bet that not two
Fray
—Every once in a while some one
asks to be shown the old fashioned
person who does this or believes that.
Occasionally the antique is presented
to view. But it is only occasionally.
Old fashioned persons of the type that
tramped down onions, shingled rooves
and had their hair cut only in the right
sign of the moon are few and far be-
tween. Why? Simply because sci-
ence is taking all that quaint joy out
of life. They tell us now that there
are no “dog days,” so the hives and
boils we kids all got out of the “ole
swimmin’ hole” in the August of yes-
ter-years didn’t come from that at all.
No more dogs go mad in August than
in December and the reason their
tongues loll out now and they look
sick is because they are thirsty and
hot and want water. All the mystery
of “signs” has cleared up and when
you tell the youth of today about pow-
wowing, hexing and smearing wagon
tongues with goose grease to rid the
premises of rats he looks at you out
of pitying eyes and laconically asks:
“Where do you get that stuff.” That's
the reason the “old fashion” person
is so rare. They are extinct, almost,
as the Dodo.
— Years and years ago, it seems
like fifty of them, but of course it
wasn’t, I frequently visited the horse
market in Pittsburgh. To watch the
“swipes” just prior to a special sale
was an education in trickery. In five
minutes they could make a low head-
ed, lead-footed, close tailed horse look
like he had just been made for the
leader of a circus band wagon team.
They would tie a piece of thread
around the pasterns, and put a little
lump of chewed ginger root under the
tails of such slouchy animals and al-
most instantly they were transform-
ed. Naturally the first thing the horse
did when the ginger was put under
his tail was to hold it tighter than
ever. This resulted in heating the
ginger and as it began to burn up
went the tail in a beautiful arch and
the thread put action into the legs, so
that a horse that wouldn’t have drawn
a bid of fifty in the ring would start
at double that figure. Many of them
were good horses, sound as to eyes,
wind and bone, but they didn’t have
any style—action. The oftener we
hear country bands play the more we
think of that horse-market revelation.
There are many good bands in small
communities. Honest, earnest musi-
cians who can read and execute mu-
sic, but they haven’t any style. On
parade they march like the awkward
squad in a rookie camp, blowing into
the ground, and when playing seated
invariably put more vim into beating
time with their feet than they put
into the mouth pieces of their instru-
ments. Like the horses in the Pitts-
burgh market they are sound and
good, but like the horses they need
some ginger and other tricks to give
them some style.
| istice had
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 69.
Reformer La Follette a Trader.
Former Governor Stokes, of New
Jersey, who is at present chairman of
the Republican State committee of
that State, has made the statement
that “Senator La Follette would have
been expelled from the Senate for dis-
loyalty but for the fact that a promi-
nent Senator, now dead, was anxious
to remain chairman of one of the
prominent Senatorial committees, and
as the complexion of the Senate was
close, he made a deal with La Follette
and thus saved La Follette from ex-
pulsion from the United States Sen-
ate.” An esteemed contemporary re-
ferring to the matter, says the New
Jersey Governor “is telling tales out
of school.” On the contrary there is
and never has been any secret in the
matter.
The “prominent Senator, now dead”
in the case was Boies Penrose, of
Pennsylvania. He was not striving to
retain the chairmanship of a promi-
nent committee. He was aspiring to
the chairmanship of the Finance com-
mittee, which had become vacant by
death. Senator La Follette had an-
nounced his opposition to the eleva-
tion of Penrose and as the margin be-
tween the parties was narrow it was
thought he might succeed in defeating
the ambition of the Pennsylvania
Senator. Meantime there was pend-
ing against Senator LaFollette a
charge of disloyalty to the govern-
ment and a motion for his expulsion.
An agreement between them was ar-
rived at under which Penrose was
elected chairman by La Follette’s sup-
port and the motion to expell La-Fol-
lette was dropped from the calendar.
The charges of disloyalty grew out
of Senator La Follette’s attitude on the
world war. He not only opposed
every provision for supplies for
the troops in foreign camps but ad-
vised the people of Wisconsin to re-
sist the operation of the law for the
selection of men for the army and
navy. If his policies had been fol-
lowed the results of the war would
have been vastly different and Ger-
many would have succeeded in her
ambitions to dominate the world, and
burden of the cost of the war in
Da y €. |
1 > as... But:the arm- |
sen signed before the
agreement between Penrose ond La-
Follette was reached and the only les-
son of it is that he “saved himself.”
——If this country had gone into
the League of Nations the reparations
question and all other subjects in dis-
agreement would have been settled at
least five years ago.
Calling Officials to Account.
Auditor General Lewis has very
properly called a halt on indiscrims
inate drafts upon the motor fund for
the purchase of supplies for the De-
partment of Highways. Some time
ago the Auditor General protested
against what seemed to him a danger-
ous exercise of this power and invit-
ed an amicable court suit to test the
question. The Highway Department
authorities paid no attention to the
suggestion but proceeded under an in-
terpretation issued by Deputy Attor-
ney General Schnader to issue requi-
sitions for all sorts of things. The
other day a requisition was issued for
“a vanity case containing a diary and
feminine face powder papers,” and
another for a Persian rug.
The Auditor General is unable to
see how such supplies are related to
the construction and maintenance of
highways, and refused to approve the
charges. In reply the Commissioner
of Highways declares that the requi-
sition for the vanity case and femi-
nine face powder was subsequently
stricken off and the subordinate who
made it rebuked. But if the Auditor
General had passed it the amount
would have been paid to somebody and
it isn’t an easy matter to get money
back that has been paid out by the
State. Commissioner Wright also
states that the Persian rug was not
Persian but a product of a domestic
factory. But the Auditor General had
no means of knowing the history of
the rug.
For the sake of politeness it was all
right for the Auditor General to ex-
culpate the present highway officials
from intent to loot. “For me to per-
mit the purchase of supplies in the
manner indicated would establish a
practice which in the hands of unscrup-
ulous officials could be taken advan-
tage of and result in scandalous mis-
use of public funds.” And there are
unscrupulous officials in the public
service as the people of Pennsylvania
have reason to know. In the furnish-
ing of the capitol, some years ago,
millions of dollars were stolen and the
items against which the Auditor Gen-
eral has complained shows that official
morals have not entirely changed.
——President Coolidge has had one
year in office and the best he can claim
is that he has’been solemn and silent.
—————— pp ————
——What good is expected from
the proposed mobilization, anyway?
i el
Professional Activities of Mr. Davis.
The esteemed New York World, in
a recent issue, took the trouble to cor-
rect a false impression concerning the
professional activities of John W. Da-
vis that might have been harmful to
the Democratic party. In the conven-
tion which nominated Mr, Davis, Wil-
liam Jennings Bryan made the asser-
tion that Mr. Davis is attorney for the
banking firm of J. Pierpont Morgan
and the statement has been taken up,
broadcasted and amplified by many of
the political enemies of Mr. Davis.
Senator Wheeler, whose greatest fault
is carelessness in speech and thought,
inferentially adopted it in his letter
accepting the nomination for Vice
President on the La Follette ticket.
The New York World, which is ad-
mired for its accuracy in statement
and energy in research, has investi-
gated the subject and ascertained that
“Mr. Davis has never at any time
been attorney for J. P. Morgan & Co.,
nor has his firm any retainer from J.
P. Morgan & Co.” In view of the
statement of Mr. Bryan and the dec-
laration of Mr. Wheeler, the opposi-
tion press had not only fastened the
Morgan brand on Mr. Davis but fixed
his recompense at $250,000 a year,
which would be a generous income for
even a New York lawyer if he had no
other clients. But the investigation
of the New York World, which got its
information neither from Mr. Davis
nor his friends, knocks this toy “boo-
gie man” out in one round.
John W. Davis is a great lawyer,
and employs his talents wisely, so
that he has acquired a fine and lucra-
tive practice at a bar at which the
most gifted lawyers are in competi-
tion. He probably has among his cli-
ents some big corporations, for clients
of that type strive to get the best
service attainable. And the chances
are equal that he appears in court for
less conspicuous firms than Morgan
& Co., as he did in West Virginia
when he defended “Mother Jones” and
Eugene Debs against accusations that
seemed to him unjust. If there are
any voters who oppose learning, fit-
ness, integrity and fidelity, they
should vote against: Mr. Davis. He
would “rather be right than be Pres-
Mr on ries
The Republican factions in
Pittsburgh are engaged in a war of
extermination, and it makes little or
no difference which faction is exter-
minated.
Coolidge Coddling Postal Employees.
President Coolidge assured a group
of postoffice clerks who visited him at
the White House, the other day, that
“he would sign a bill making decided
increases in their compensation if sci-
entifically drawn and containing pro-
visions for raising the necessary rev-
enue.” He has made similar efforts
to enlist the support of the soldiers
who were disappointed by his veto of
the bonus bill. Both measures had
large majorities in both branches of
Congress where responsibility rests
for deficits in revenue and the same
reason was given. It was an inven-
tion of his predecessor in office who
vetoed the bonus bill and urged the
payment of as great a sum for ship
subsidies.
There may be some trick in the sug-
gestion that a bill increasing the
wages of employees of the postal
i service must be “scientifically drawn.”
Mr. Coolidge endorsed the Melon tax
bill on the ground that it was “scien-
tific,” though the only real difference
between it and the Garner bill was in
the fact that it favored the big in-
come tax payers as against the less
fortunate contributors to the revenues
of the government. He vetoed the
bonus bill and the measure increasing
the wages of postal employees be-
cause the pay rolls would be increased
and to his mind that was extrava-
gance. But now that an election in
which he has deep interest is coming
on he sees things differently.
During the Wilson administration
the policy of the government was to
pay employees in every part of the
public service a living wage. The
wages of some employees are fixed
by legislation and can neither be low-
ered nor raised except by the same
process. But the government has al-
ways been able to dig up enough cur-
rency to meet the pay roll, and no ad-
ministration before the Harding
regime has objected to the payment
on the ground that it was extrava-
gant. So far as general information
goes no government official draws ex-
travagant pay for his services, and it
is certainly not extravagant to pay
fair recompense for good service in
such hazardous employment as the
postal service.
——According to the alienists tes-
tifying in Chicago nobody ought to be
punished for crime. No human being
is responsible for anything.
Sn AI
——Mr. Coolidge has given a cer-
tificate of character to Boss Greist, of
Lancaster, which proves that Mr.
Coolidge is obliging, anyway.
CEN ail
Public Credulity a Party Asset.
The opinion handed down by Presi-
dent Judge Hargest, of the Dauphin
county court, declaring the Old Age
pension invalid, was not unexpected
but it is unimportant. The Legisla-
tors who enacted it, and the Governor
who approved it, must have known
that it was in conflict with the pro-
vision of the State constitution which
declares that “no appropriations, ex-
cept for pensions or gratuities for
military services, shall be made for
charitable, educational, or benevolent
purposes to any person or community,
nor to any denominational or sectar-
ian institution, corporation or asso-
ciation.” The Judge could have done
nothing other than that which he did.
No other interpretation could have
been put upon the language.
For that reason the decision is not
surprising. It is unimportant for the
reason that the act was never intend-
ed to provide a pension for aged and
infirm citizens. It provided no fund
out of which to pay pensions and
those who voted for its passage prob-
ably never intended that pensions
should be paid. It created a bureau
which provided for several well paid
officials and appropriated sufficient
funds to rent an office, furnish it gor-
geously and pay salaries of the offi-
cials for a year. That is about all
that could be expected of a small en-
terprise like that except that it fooled
several old people into the hope that
something was about to be done for
them.
The one certain valuable asset of
the Republican machine is the credu-
lity of the people. One after another
promise is made by the machine lead-
ers and broken. As chairman Butler,
of the Republican National committee,
said the other day, “the oil scandals
will be forgotten before election day
and we have nothing to fear from that
source.” The pirates got into power
under promise of economy in admin-
istration and reform methods. Yet
before they were in a year looting op-
erations were in progress in every de-
partment of the government and the
managers see nothing to fear because
the public will have forgotten before
election day. Is the public memory so
Re Ss CE Ad Sa RE LR
Bad
——Mr. Gompers is willing to en-
dorse La Follette but refuses to en-
dorse the third party. But La Fol-
lette is probably satisfied with the
personal approval.
Grant Hoover’s Methods of Conser-
vation.
Most Centre county people when
they think of Grant Hoover consider
him in the light of fire insurance, a
business he was in during all the
years of his residence in Bellefonte
and at State College, but the people
of the State at large talk of him as
an active conservationist. Born and
raised in Bald Eagle valley Mr. Hoov-
er saw many an acre of ground de-
nuded of its virgin timber without any
effort being made to replace it or even
conserve the second growth. This is
probably one reason why he was quick
to join in the movement for conserva-
tion and is now heralded far and wide
as an active propagandist.
But his activities are not confined
to propaganda. A few years ago he
acquired the old Hoover farm at the
foot of the Allegheny mountains, in
Huston and Union townships, and is
now planning to plant thereon 100,000
forest trees. The work will be done
next spring and his order, already
placed with the Department of For-
ests and Waters, calls for 20,000 white
pine, 20,000 pitch pine, 15,000 Scotch
pine, 10,000 Norway spruce, 30,000
European larch and 5,000 tulip pop-
lars. Mr Hoover owns about 800 acres
of land in Bald Eagle valley and has
already planted over 150,000 trees,
and plans to continue until the num-
ber shall exceed half a million.
——At the regular meeting of bor-
ough council, on Monday evening, the
Sanitary committee was empowered
to clean out Spring creek from the
bridge to the falls so as to make the
stream a little more sightly when
strangers stop to view the big trout.
Of course there is always a certain
amount of rubbish flowing down
stream during periods of high water
and some of it lodges in the portion of
the stream referred to, but a good per-
tion of the refuse has been thrown
into the creek by thoughtless persons
who do not stop to think how unsight-
ly such a nondescript accumulation
becomes. If more care were exercised
in this direction the stream would not
need cleaning so frequently.
——There were 1615 business fail-
ures in the United States during July,
but Judge Gary assures us that busi-
ness is improving.
——That the Republicans are afraid
of La Follette is proved by the way
they are attacking him.
n———— A ———————
——When you see it in the “Watch-
man” you know it’s true.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 8S. 1924.
NO. 31.
Mr. Coolidge Sees a Light.
From the Philadelphia Record.
When President Coolidge vetoed in
June the bill increasing the pay of
postal employees he gave several rea-
sons for his action. One was that it
would add $68,000,000 annually to the
operating costs of the government
without making any provision for
raising revenue to that amount.
Another was that it was a form of
“government extravagance” which
must stop, while severe disapproval
of the course of those agitating for
greater compensation was contained
in the statement that “an organized
effort by a great body of public em-
ployees to secure an indiscriminate
increase in compensation should have
the most searching scrutiny.”
We have no means of knowing
whether or not Mr. Coolidge has been
making such a scrutiny, but that his
attitude of stern disapprobation has
been greatly changed was indicated
on Thursday, when the national offi-
cers of the Association of Postoffice
Clerks had an interview with him at
the White House. At its close official
announcement was made that he
would sign a bill making the decided
increases if scientifically drawn and
containing provisions for raising the
necessary revenue. From this it may
be inferred that Mr. Coolidge has a
very lively appreciation of the fact
that an important election is to be
held in Noember, and that postal em-
ployees have votes which it is desira-
le to secure for the head of the Re-
publican ticket. So the stern guard-
ian of the public revenues and the re-
lentless foe of “Government extrava-
gance” sees clearly now that the pos-
tal employees are underpaid, and will
do all in his power to give them a
boost in salary.
According to the Railway Postoffice,
the origin of the Railway Mails Asso-
ciation, the contention that Congress
must act to increase postal rates, in
order that additional revenue may be
raised for the higher pay schedules,
is invalid, as it holds that the Post-
office Department already possesses
that power. In this connection it
states that hearings were held by a
Congressional committee to decide
what increases should be made in par-
cel post rates, but that nothing was
done. ;
If this statement is correct, it would
appear that the Postoffice Department,
mth aioe ge
om n, can provide the nee
revenue hnerer Twithar to. ‘and it
would be interesting to know what in-
fluences have prevented it from tak-
ing such action. Whatever may be
done, the postal employees may rest
assured that Mr. Coolidge has seen a
great light, and that he no longer con-
siders their requests as “Government
extravagance.” The laborer is worthy
of his hire, and he is now with them—
heart and soul— until after the elec-
tion at least. After that we shall see
what we shall see.
Not as Rosy as Pictured.
From the Johnstown Democrat.
The eastern editors are doing their
best to plaster the middle west with
money. To read the Wall Street
Journal or the New York edition of
the Philadelphia Evening Ledger, it
is easy to see that the corn and wheat
belts are lands flowing with milk,
honey, peace and prosperity. That ag-
ricultural conditions have improved is
undoubtedly true. But they have not
improved to the extent the eastern
editors seem to imagine. And the
corn belt farmers are not dividing
their time between counting their
money and cheering for Coolidge.
In one of its recent critical sum-
maries of agricultural conditions, the
Wall Street Journal said that, as a
result of recent increases in prices,
farmers had paid off mortgages and
tenant farmers had become wealthy.
That is going some . on one wheat
crop. It would be going some even
if wheat were selling for twice what
it is. The farmer who has a stand of
wheat which yields 25 bushels to the
acre counts himself a world-beater.
The gysrage wheat plot farmed by a
tenant could not by any possibility ex-
ceed 100 acres. Indeed, the average
wheat plot taken the country over, is
less than 40 acres. But suppose a
.| tenant had 100 acres which yielded
him 2500 bushels of wheat. At $2 a
bushel that would only be $5,000.
Seed, labor and rent would take more
than 50 per cent. of that. If the far-
mer had $2,000 net from his hundred
acres of wheat, he would be lucky.
And yet the Wall Street Journal calls
that wealth. Its editor must imagine
that tenant farmers are peasants to
whom a piece of silver—any piece—
is a small fortune in itself,
Recent increases in the price of
farm products have helped a lot. No
gainsaying that. In many instances
they have undoubtedly enabled the
farmer to break even this year instead
of going still further in debt. The
limitless wealth stuff regarding agri-
culture may make for the right sort
of sentiment in the east, but it cer-
tainly makes for a laugh in the west.
La Follette Don’t Appeal.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
It is safe to say that the candidates
of the two great parties may be plac-
ed in the class of good sportsmen.
The La Follette candidacy, unfortu-
nately, represents disappointed ambi-
tion, malice and destruction, and for
that reason cannot be given even re-
spectful attention by the majority of
the American people.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONR
—Miss Gertrude Roberts, teacher of Eng-
lish in the Altoona High school, has been
appointed dean of women and social di-
rector at the Lock Haven State Normal.
—George Lyon, of Pittsburgh, met death
by electrocution last Friday while assist.
ing in unloading some road machinery
near Williamsport. A heavily charged
wire had been raised to permit the hand-
ing of the apparatus off a flat car, but the
wire snapped, falling on Lyon.
—A combination harvester and thresher
manufactured by the American Pattern
and Manufacturing company under the su-
pervision of N. H. Ford has been given a
successful test at York, Pa. It is designed
to cut and thresh the grain in one opera-
tion. It weighs little more than the self-
binder.
—With assets of $290,000 and plans un-
der way for the new dormitories, the an-
nual meeting of the Evangelical Home for
Orphans and the Aged was held at the
home in Lewisburg last Friday. Ground
was broken for a new dormitory the same
day. This will be used also as an emer-
gency hospital,
—With his right foot nearly cut off by
an axe blow, suffered while cutting wood,
Charles Snyder, aged 28 years, of Nor-
thumberland, made a tourniquet out of his
shirt and staunched the flow of blood.
Then he drove to the Mary M. Packer hos-
pital, Sunbury, where the leg may have
to be amputated.
—TFollowing a hearing before a justice
of the peace, Charles A. Nowheld, of
Greensburg, was held for court trial charg-
ed with attempting to extort $6000 from A.
Huff, president of the Safe Deposit and
Trust company, of that place. Nowheld,
according to Mr. Huff, threatened to kill
him and his entire family unless he paid
the money.
—Faith in his native country’s ability
to come back financially is said to have
brought the Rev. John Orlowski, Polish
Catholic priest at Blossburg, Pa., a for-
tune. It is understood a year ago he
bought Poland’s bonds to the tune of
$190,000,000 for $5.50 per million, and that
they are worth today $400 a million. The
profit is said to equal $75,000.
—Louis Willlam Raugh, aged 13 years,
was smothered to death in the wheat bin
of a grain warehouse at Waynesboro early
last Friday morning. Discovery of the
boy’s death was made when wheat stopped
flowing from a chute into a freight car
which was being loaded. Workmen, going
to the wheat bin on the third floor of the
warehouse, found the boy’s body clogging
the entrance to the chute.
—Police throughout the State are pur-
suing an intensive search for two girls,
who escaped from the State Industrial
Home for Women, at Muncy, Lycoming
county. The girls, Grace McCloskey; aged
19 years, of Plymouth, and Ada Render,
aged 20 years, of Pittsburgh, were con-
fined at the home on charges of larceny.
A reward of $10 each has been offered for
information leading to their capture.
—Feeling that a slight ailment needed
treatment, Charles E. Sterner, of Potts-
ville, for many years an official of the
State Highway Department, went to his
family physician to be treated. While he
was waiting his turn he sustained a stroke
and died on Sunday night. For many
years Sterner was a leading business man
of Pottsville, and was an active Republi-
can, being a lieutenant of State Treasurer
Snyder.
—The board of Wayne county commis-
sioners has decided that it will not avail
itself of the opportunity of the $160,000 al-
fotted by the State for good roads. The
county would have to raise a similar
amount before the money would be obtain-
able. The commissioners state that Wayne
cannot afford to contribute $160,000 to the
State at the present time. They aver that
they can build good roads on the county
system for $5000 or $6000 per mile.
Charles Patton, his wife, baby and
brother, Earl Patton, all of Dupo, Ill,
were drowned in Big Saline creek, near
! Harrisburg. on Sunday. The entire fami-
lv had gone bathing, when Mrs. Patton,
who had the baby with her was seen to go
under water, into a whirlpool with the
child. The husband rushed to her rescue
and dived, but he never came to the top.
His brother, Earl, then rushed into the
whirlpool, and he was never seen again.
—Isaac Silverman, said to be an Altoo-
na business man, is defendant in a $500,-
000 breach of promise suit filed by Miss
Elizabeth Sponsler, of Pittsburgh. The
young woman, who farmerly was a buyer
in an Altoona department store, says she
suffered mental anguish and humiliation
as a result of Silverman’s refusal to marry
her. She also claims that Silverman got
from her a diamond ring through an un-
filled promise to get her a better one later.
—No repayment or refund of the trans-
fer tax paid in the estate of John B. Steel,
of Greensburg, under the act of 1919 should
be made, Attorney General Woodruff held
in an opinion to State Treasurer Snyder,
made public on Saturday. A tax of $23,-
295 was paid the State by the executors,
who later sought a refund of $9064 on the
ground that real estate upon which the
tax was paid was located outside Pennsyl-
vania, and that it had not been converted
into personal property.
—Fire believed to have been of incen-
diary origin on Friday destroyed the
plant of the Watsontown Wood Products
company, the Jones Foundry company and
the M. R. Bryson barn, all in Watsontown.
The loss was estimated at $150,000. Milton
firemen, responding to appeals for aid,
helped fight the blaze. While this blaze
was being fought, a fire was discovered in
the barn of the Rev. 8. D. Bidlack, a Meth-
odist minister, in the heart of a nest of
frame buildings, but it was overcome be-
fore much damage was done.
—Looking into the revolving blades of
a mower is no pleasant sight, and usually
results differently than did the incident
in which LaRue Moore, of Newberry, fig-
ured. Moore was assisting with the har-
vest at Lost Brook farm, near Montgom-
ery, where his parents are passing the
summer. His desire to be kind-hearted to
the horses he was driving nearly cost him
his life. As h( was driving the animals
he noticed a fiy bothering one of the
equines. Taking his hat he tried to chase
it away. He succeeded, but in doing so
he frightened the horses, they bolted,
throwing him against the cutter bar. Two
deep gashes were cut in his thigh and a
finger on his right hand was severed back
of the first joint when he tried to prevent
himself from being dragged under the
knives. He also suffered cuts about his
hand and on one heel. Moore was able to
walk to a.physician’s office and was later
taken to a private hospital in Muncy val-
ley. He returned to the summer home of
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