INK SLINGS.
—Talking about works of art: Any
little task you may have to do is one,
if it is well done.
——1It may be noticed that
all the
wings of the Democratic party are
flapping together this year.
—Wheat has been jumping quite
rapidly during the last few weeks, but
it hasn’t been able to set a higher
mark than corn. :
——The question of approval or dis-
approval of the “mobilization day”
scheme can never be raised to the al-
titude of a campaign issue.
—We read Gov. Bryan's speech of
acceptance pretty carefully and we
didn’t discover anything in it that a
Teal Democrat can’t endorse.
—The Republican papers have
found another reason why Coolidge
should be elected President. He drove
a tent peg the other day. Isn't it
wonderful what some men can do.
— There is no occasion for alarm.
"The LaFollette movement will not
throw the election of President into
Congress. It will accomplish the same
result as the Roosevelt movement did
in 1912.
——The esteemed contemporary
which appraises the acceptance speech
of Coolidge to the speeches of Lincoln
ought to make arrangement for a bed
in an insane asylum for its para-
grapher.
—Where was all this “common
sense” that Coolidge is claiming now
when he was sitting in Harding’s
«Cabinet meetings and Daugherty and
Fall were plundering the Nations’ oil
reserves ?
—Of course one swallow doesn’t
make a summer, but two of four let-
‘ters recently received touching on the
Presidential situation were from Re-
publicans who said they intended vot-
ing for Davis.
—God help the country that has to
be guided by one who exploits “com-
mon sense.” Common sense is noth-
ing to blow about. Everybody who
has reached the age of maturity and
isn’t in a bug house or prison is sup-
posed to be endowed with some of
that.
—It’s too bad, girls, but it’s all off.
Davey Hanover won't be at the Altoo-
na races. Several weeks ago we told
you he would, but his pap, who hap-
pens to be George V of England, has
_it in for Altoona and won’t let him go
there, so if you are a candidate for
‘Queen you’ll have to go to the Long
Island polo matches and talk it over
with the Prince there.
—We understand that the Grand
"United Order of Vamoosing Prisoners
are preparing .a memorial to be pre-
sented to Dr. Ellen Potter suggesting
that the colony houses she planned
for their use be located in such se-
cluded parts of the State that they
will provide sanctuaries from nosey
officers of the law while they are ef-
fecting their get-away.
—Tomorrow Mars will be nearer to
Earth than that planet has been in one
hundred and twenty years or will be
in one hundred and twenty years to
come. Just a little matter of thirty-
four million miles will separate ‘the
two. If the proximity of Mars has
been the cause of all the weather va-
garies we have endured this summer
then the sooner our nearest planitary
neighbor gets back to her normal dis-
tance the better we’ll be pleased.
—E. W. Kline writes from away
out in Nebraska that he would feel as
badly at missing a copy of the
“Watchman” as he would over losing
“the biggest” trout. That’s sayin’
something we understand. To one
who really lives from April 15th to
August 1st and only exists during the
balance of the year, the thrill of the
_strike, the excitement of the fight and
the disappointment of the escape of
“the biggest” trout is something in-
.describable. Those who have never
sensed it know not what we are talk-
ing about. Mr. Kline has and with
his piscatorial simile has paid the
“‘Watchman” a wonderful tribute.
—Because he walked away within
ten days of his legal discharge and
thereby invited another sentence,
longer than the one about to expire,
.Judge Quigley suspended sentence and
.directed that George Bradley, escaped
from Rockview, be examined as to his
mental condition. Most any one will
_admit that Bradley must have been
““nuts” to do a trick of that sort. Yes,
we mean just plain “nuts.” He didn’t
have a phantasy, or exfoliating ery-
themia or inguinal adenopathy or any
. of those things that Darrow is trying
to discover in Loeb and Leopold. If
he had had anything like them he’d
been too cute to attempt a get-away
.on the eve of his discharge.
—The United States leads the world
in missionary endeavor, in social wel-
fare activities, moral uplift work
and—in crimes of violence. What
have we done that the bread we have
been casting on the waters for years
.should be coming back so soggy and
sour? Maybe'it has been because we
have been dealing with crime and
- criminals with a velvet glove instead
of steel knuckles. Maybe it’s because
we have been taying with steering
wheels, golf sticks and baseball bats
on Sunday instead of thumbing hymn
books. Maybe it’s because ice cream,
jazz and moonshine injected into kids
not yet dry behind the ears is worse
than real liquor served to persons ma-
ture enough to handle it. Maybe it’s
because the country needs. less he-
women and less she-men,. God knows
“we need something. Whatever it is,
.let’s pray foriit like old ‘fashioned,
«christian folks.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 69.
of the Campaign En-
couraging.
Progress
The energy and intelligence reveal-
ed in the preliminary work of the
Democratic organization inspire con-
fidence in’ the result of its labors.
The great Clarksburg meeting manag-
ed by a non-partisan committee under
the direction of national chairman
Shaver commanded the admiration of
practical men of all parties. The or-
ganization of the National committee
was completed wisely and well and
the establishment of headquarters in
New York, Chicago and Washington
indicates a readiness for action that
is most encouraging. The active work
of the campaign will begin at Colum-
bus, Ohio, next week, when Mr. Da-
vis will express his opinion of the
“Columbus crowd” in its home town.
The record shows that while John
W. Davis has never actively can-
vassed for a nomination he has never
been defeated for an office. His first
venture in public life was as member
of the House of Delegates in the West
Virginia Legislature. He was liter-
ally drafted into that office by the peo-
ple of ‘his native city and county.
Afterward the nomination for Con-
gress was forced upon him, and in
that office, to which he was elected
notwithstanding the party of his op-
ponent was largely in the majority,
he acquired such distinction as to com-
mand the notice of Woodrow Wilson,
portant office of Solicitor General and
afterward Ambassador to - Great
Britain.
It is the present intention of the
party managers to arrange for a
speaking tour of the middle west by
Ohio, meeting next Tuesday.. Former
Congressmaan Lincoln Dixon, of In-
campaign manager, has undertaken
this work for the National committee.
The purpose of this enterprise is to
disabuse the minds of any of the mid-
dle west voters of the false impres-
sion that Mr. Davis is not in sympa-
thy with the progressive ideas popu-
lar in that section of the country. It
is the section in ‘which Mr. LaFol-
lette’s greatest strength lies, and it
been seen and heard there the La-
Follette vote will be drawn from Re-
publicans.
——Herriot is being lionized in
Paris for doing that which Poincare
was afraid to do, which shows that
Pienchmen are wise as well as vola-
tile.
treme lp em
Mr. Coolidge’s Acceptance.
Mr. Coolidge’s speech of acceptance
is essentially an appeal to the “for-
gettery.” He emphasizes the achieve-
ments of the Republican party in di-
plomacy, finance and economy since
the advent of the Harding administra-
tion in 1921, and reasons from his
conclusions that the party ought to be
continued in power. The Republican
party assumed control of the govern-
ment practically with the election of
1918 at the conclusion of the greatest
war in history. The expensive neces-
sities of that great war had ceased,
and before the inauguration of Hard-
ing the costly process of demobiliza-
tion was almost completed. There
could have been no other result than
a vast reduction of the cost of the
government.
Mr. Coolidge also stresses the value
of party government as an invention
of the Republican party, whereas as a
matter of fact party government is
older than the constitution of the
United States. There were govern-
ments and parties before the Revolu-
tionary war brought the government
of the United States into existence,
and the separation of men into parties
in this country was influenced by Jef-
ferson and Hamilton in the beginning.
‘It is true that a party “founded on a
great moral principle and directed
with scrupulous regard for its integ-
rity” is a potent force for good, but
in the face of the record of the Hard-
ing-Coolidge administration it cannot
be said that the Republican party “has
been directed with scrupulous regard
for its integrity.”
From beginning to end Mr. Cool-
idge’s speech is a collection of glitter-
ing generalities which, when not
founded on false basis, are puerile.
The foreign policy of the Harding-
Coolidge administration has been a
grave joke. After stultifying himself
by repudiating his support of the cov-
enant of the League of Nations, Sec-
retary of State Hughes has made him-
self ridiculous by the spy system he
has pursued in relation to the read-
justment of questions abroad, and the
financial policy of the administration
is expressed ' in the Mellon tax bill,
which was repudiated by his own par-
ty for the reason that it plainly fa-
vored the rich and discriminated
against the less fortunate tax payers.
——Comparisons are proverbially
odious, and comparing Mr. Coolidge’s
acceptance speech with that of Joh
W. Davis is absurd. i
who appointed him first to the im-°
Mr. Davis soon after the Columbus,
diana, an experienced and capable
is expected “that after Mr. Davis has.
Governor Bryan Accepts the Call.
Governor Charles W. Bryan’s speech
accepting the Democratic nomination
for Vice President shows that he is
keenly alive to the issues of the cam-
paign and closely in sympathy with
the aims and purposes of his distin-
guished associate on the ticket. Gov-
ernor Bryan indulges no illusions with
respect to his nomination. He was
chosen by the New York convention
to please voters of the Middle West.
“My connection with the problems of
government, city and State, in which
the people of Lincoln and thé State
of Nebraska, regardless of party affil-
iation or station in life, have co-oper-
ated and supported me is largely re-
sponsible for the high honor that this
occasion confers,” he said.
The New York convention had no
boss. It assembled for the purpose of
selecting a ticket that would commend
itself to the favor and support of the
intelligent and patriotic® voters, men
and women, of the country, that it
thus became an instrument to rescue
the government from the pirates who
had been despoiling it for nearly four
years. Individual delegates had fa-
vorites among the available candidates
for President and Vice President and
prejudices attempted to swerve the
convention from its line of duty. But
the convention “held its head in the
air and its feet on the ground,” until
favoritism and prejudice were ex-
hausted and then nominated the ad-
mirable ticket, Davis and Bryan.
The nomination of Governor Bryan
ought to prevent the desertion of any
progressive Democrats of independent
voters to LaFollette. He is a Pro-
gressive and has accomplished more
for the cause they have espoused than
LaFollette. Mr. Davis is a Progres-
sive and has done more for the cause
than LaFollette. Governor Bryan
made these facts clear to his audience
at Lincoln on Monday evening. He
made it equally .plain that progres-
sive votes for LaFollette will help to
continue the reactionary Republican
administration in power. For these
reasons Governor Bryan urged his
neighbors in Nebraska and his friends
throughout the Middle West to vote
the Democratic ticket. .
~——The Philadelphia
Bulletin has settled the question. It
declares that Coolidge and Dawes
“stand squarely for the Constitution
and common sense.” Presumably the
Cabinet will add “and an appropria-
tion.”
ng RP
New York Safe for Davis.
The announcement of Mayor Hylan,
of New York, of his intention to sup-
port the Democratic nominee for Pres-
ident takes the joy of hope out of the
life of chairman Butler, of the Repub-
lican National committee. Ever since
the New York convention Mr. Hearst,
the Ishmaelite of the New York Amer-
ican, has been striving to entice May-
or Hylan to enlist in opposition to Mr.
Davis and for a time the Republican
managers hoped, and some Democrats
feared, that he would succeed. But
after reading Mr. Davis’ speech of ac-
ceptance the cautious and calculating
New York Mayor has publicly declar-
ed his fidelity to party obligations.
It is an open secret that Mr. Cool-
idge must have the electoral vote of
New York to give him a remote
chance of election. It is possible that
he might be defeated even with the
i vote of New York to his credit. In
1916 Woodrow Wilson was successful
without the vote of the Empire State,
though his party managers depended
to a considerable extent upon the vot |
But the Republican party cannot by
any possibility succeed without New
York, and the allegiance of Mayor
Hylan to the Democratic candidates
guarantees that vote to Davis and
Bryan. In fact it makes New York
almost as certain as Texas.
There was no reason on earth why
Mayor Hylan should have adopted
any other course than that indicated
in his cordial endorsement of the Dem-
ocratic ticket. He has been highly
favored by the Democratic organiza-
tion of New York, and with fidelity to
his party obligations he is likely to
be favored in the future. He has
served the party well as Mayor, for
he has given the city of New York an
admirable municipal administration
during two terms. Unfortunately he
is on friendly terms with Hearst, an
unconscionable party wrecker, and
Hearst alone stands to lose by the
election of Davis and Bryan.
——Brother Charlie may not have
“the gift of gab” equal to the more
famous William Jennings but his
speech of acceptance proves that his
Jsasoning faculties are equal to the
est.
——If Coolidge had been able to
control Congress as he managed the
Cleveland convention he might lay
claim to leadership.
——Those Chicago alienists have
the country in doubt as to whether
everybody or nobody is crazy.
| John W. Davis a Progressive.
served, of the eloquent speech of John
W. Davis accepting the Democratic
nomination for President, the fine
points: of an equally forceful speech
made by Senator Thomas J. Walsh,
notifying Mr. Davis of his nomina-
tion, seems to have been overlooked
by the press. It having been charged
that Mr. Davis is in sympathy with
the reactionary spirit of Wall Street,
Mr, Walsh refuted the accusation in
most complete fashion. “Tried by the
touchstone, by the acid test,” he said,
“every fair-minded man must ad-
judge you a liberal, a progressive.”
In this connection Senator Walsh
quoted from .a speech delivered
Congress. The question was upon a
provision of a pending bill authoriz-
ing trial by jury in cases of indirect
contempt of court in labor disputes.
The amendment was offered by Mr.
Davis and in support of it he said: “I
denounce as a libel upon American
citizenship the assertion that the la-
boring men of this country are ever
ready at the word to break into law-
with those who do. And I pity the
man who takes such counsel with his
fears as to be unwilling to recognize
and accord them by statute and in
practice the full use of every weapon
of offense and defense in all trade
wars and the untrammeled exercise of
every constitutional right.” :
Senator Walsh has always been an
advocate of progressive principles.
He has never been affiliated with cor-
porate interests or associated with
reactionary movements. He favored
the nomination of Mr. McAdoo by the
New York convention, not because he
doubted the attitude of Mr. Davis on
the question of his liberalism, but for
the reason that Mr. McAdoo was the
choice of the majority of those of that
mind. But he cordially supports: the
nominee of the convention with full
knowledge of his attitude, and be-
cause of his personal understanding
that they think and act alike on the
subejct of progressiveism.
The Hon. Alexander G. Morris.
“{* The passing of the Hon. Alexander
Gilchrist Morris closes a very inter-
esting chapter in the industrial, po-
litical and social life of this commu-
nity.
In three months he would have cel-
ebrated the ninetieth anniversary of
his birth, an exceptional span of years
crowded with intensive activity and
fruitful results to the very moment of
his collapse, only a few weeks ago.
Mr. Morris was of that rugged, de-
termined type that fights for its place
in the sun with such weapons as na-
ture has endowed them and his were
unflagging energy, canny business
foresight and scrupulous honesty in
his dealings with men.
Almost single-handed he developed
the greatest industry in this section
and while the task was one calling for
the efforts of a super-man he yet
found time to take an outstanding
place in every civic, social and welfare
movement that had for its objective
the public weal.
His was a life of achievement, be-
gun in times when the way to success
was not so clearly blazed by exper-
ience as it is today. His was a life of
fruitfulness, for it provided employ-
ment for thousands and gave of its
products with a lavish hand. His was
a life that came to the end of the road
Master and his fellow-men. :
——The “pony express” run last
Sunday by the various troops in the
52nd machine gun batallion was pro-
nounced a success, though the trip
was not completed on schedule time.
The initial carriers of the Defense day
message left Sunbury at 4:20 in the
morning, riding to Williamsport. Two
other ‘carriers took the message to
Lock Haven and the Lock Haven car-
riers left there at 10:20 expecting to
reach Bellefonte at one o’clock, but
they were 25 minutes late. Sergt.
Walter Sweitzer and private Paul
Fanning carried the message from
Bellefonte to Boalsburg but they got
lost in the Nittany mountain and were
delayed half an hour on their trip.
Boalsburg troopers carried the mes-
sage to Woodward where they were
met by two men from Lewisburg who
carried it to that place, and from
there it was taken to Sunbury where
it was delivered at 10:52 .p. m.: The
riders averaged 10.7 miles on the trip.
——The recent destruction by fire
of the Pennsylvania railroad station
at Beech Creek has started a good-
natured rivalry between residents of
Beech Creek . and . Blanchard... Quite
naturally the business men of Beech
Creek want the station rebuilt on its
old location while Blanchard people
are putting forth the claim’ that the
station should be located there; and
up to this time the railroad company
has not given any decision in the mat-
ter, : on ig
n———— A —————
—Get your job work done here.
‘In the generous praise, richly de-
in:
lessness, or that they sympathize
BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 22. 1924.
utterly worn out with service to his |’
from the patriots.
NO. 33.
_ Presidents and Parties.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The President gives a rather pain-
ful impression of his knowledge of po-
litical history, American or foreign,
when he says in the first paragraph
of his acceptance speech:
Very early in search for a
sound method of self-government
the American people discovered
that. the only practical way to se-
cure responsible political action
~ was by the formation of parties,
which ‘they adopted because rea-
son pronounced it the most prom-
ising, and continued because prac-
tice found it the most successful.
The idea that the American people
invented parties in order to secure the
blessings of popular government un-
der a sense of responsibility is as
droll ‘as anything we have seen.
Parties exist because people have
different opinions, and in the language
of the immortal Lord Dundreary, birds
of a feather flock together. Before
the Revolution we had the patriot
party and the loyalist party, because
some Americans refused. to put up
with the inconveniences of British
rule, and others liked it, or preferred
it to anything they wére likely to get
Our own Joseph
Galloway was a patriot till secession
from the British Empire impended,
and then he got into the loyalist
ranks.
After the Revolution we had two
parties. One wanted more govern-
ment and the other did not. The for-
mer secured the Constitution; the lat-
ter resisted it to the utmost, but most
of the opponents were reconciled to
the Constitution by the adoption of a
bill of rights as a series of amend-
ments. The division continued be-
tween the Federalists, who wanted the
Constitution and wanted it broadly
construed in order to create a strong
government; those who didn’t like the
Constitution much wanted it construed
in the narrowest possible terms and
called themselves Democratic Repub-
licans to emphasize their difference
from the Federalists, who wanted a
Republic, but as little democracy as
possible. :
Mr. Coolidge’s further remarks
show. that what was in his mind was
not a treatise on political history, at
all, but his eager desire that every
Republican should vote the party tick-
et in November. Mr. ing gave
some talk once about the necessity of
parties, the fact that they were di
vinely appointed, and. the sacred obli-
gation of every Republican to vote
the ticket of his party, whether he
liked it or not.
Mr. Harding did not see any reason
why a Democrat should not vote the
Republican ticket. The President can
appreciate the broad-mindedness of a
Democrat who can vote the Republi-
can ticket with the name of Calvin
Coolidge at its head. Mr. Harding
and Mr. Coolidge have both disclaim-
ed being narrow and hidebound parti-
sans; they are broad-minded and lib-
eral men whose hearts are warmed
when they see an intelligent and con-
scientious and patriotic Democrat
vote the Republican ticket. But if a
Republican should vote the Democrat-
ic ticket the President would sternly
remind him that parties were ordain-
ed of God—the Republican party, at
least—and that to vote independent-
ly is to break down the party system,
without which we can’t have respon-
sible popular government.
Mr. Coolidge may not be very
strong on the history of politics, but
he feels perfectly confident of his grip |
on common sense, and in his opinion
it was just common sense for his par-
ty to nominate him, and it will be
common sense for everybody classed
as a Republican to vote for him. And
if Democrats should vote for him, Mr.
Coolidge would believe that also was
common sense.
China’s Sorrow.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.:
The Yellow River is called China’s
sorrow, so great has been the devas-
tation wrought by the uncontrollable
stream. Rising in the marshes of
Tibet, it twists like the groaning
earth=dragon itself to the distant sea-
board, constricting much of the ara-
ble land within its coils.- The Chinese
farmer cannot hope to escape the grip
of it or of its sister river, the Yang-
‘tze-kiang, overflowing fifty feet above
its banks, pours six billion cubic feet
o sediment each year into the Yellow
ea.
The latest estimate of the Famine
Relief committee is that 13,115 per-
sons have been drowned in the floods,
but millions are dispossessed in eight
provinces, north, central and south.
At best, in China the margin between
life and death is pitifully small. But
the Chinese in such a crisis display a
stoic patience that commands admi-
ration and evokes universal sympa-
thy. The provinces able to assist are
sending all they can to the relief of
the distressed. American aid as here-
tofore is gratefully acknowledged.
Such a disaster makes the world kin,
and all ethnic differences and political
issues are forgotten in the fact of a
crucial emergency. :
——As a result of encouragement
by the Pennsylvania Department of
Forests and Waters thirty-four: tree
planters in Centre county have set out
129171 forest trees so far this season.
In Clinton county fifteen owners. of
waste land planted 112693 trees.
When you see it in the “Watch-
man” you know it’s true.
PR ————_—..
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONR
—Dr. P. N. Osder a chiropractor, of Phil
adelphia, was convicted of having swindled
a patient out of $8,930 and was sentenced
to ten years in the county prison. The
jury did not leave the court room to re-
turn its verdict.
—The Masonic homes at Elizabethtowm
received a bequest of $25,000 in the will of
the late Lane 8. Hart, of Harrisburg,
prominent banker and former State print-
er, who died last week, leaving an estate
of $225,000. Trust funds were established
for several local charities and the remain-
der of the estate given to relatives,
—Harold Smith, 17 year old son of
Frederick Smith, of Lebanon, is in the
Good Samaritan hospital at that place suf-
fering from what the surgeons fear as a
broken neck. In diving into the bathing
pool at Hershey park, Smith’s head struck
the concrete bottom with great force. He
was rescued in an unconscious condition.
—Beecause witnesses swore she had a
“crackling tongue” and a ‘dirty laugh,”
Mrs. Sallie Pryor, of Lancaster, has been
held for court on a charge of being a com-
mon scold. According to testimony the
woman sat on her porch with a broom,
chased away children when they came near
her house and then went into the back
yard to emit the “dirty laugh.”
—A man hunt was staged around the
village of Kimberton, in Chester county,
on Saturday, when the robber who has
looted a number of houses in the neigh-
borhood was seen to run from his. cave
along French creek. The searchers found
the hole filled with all the articles that
had been stolen. The man escaped cap-
ture when he ran through a cornfield.
—Suit for $10,000 damages has been
brought against the Methodist Episcopal
church of Mount Union by Mrs. James M.
Miller of that place. The congregation has
recently completed building one of the fin-
est edifices in the Jniata valley. Mrs. Mil
ler alleged in her complaint that during
the construction operation she fell over a
rope stretched across the sidewalk in front
of the church and suffered a fracture of
the arm at the elbow.
—The Rochester and Pittsburg Coal and
Iron company mines at Adrian, Eleanora
and Helvetia, which give employment to
8000 miners, are to close for a period of at
least two years, according to a letter re-
ceived by the miners from B. M. Clark,
president of the company. The mines in-
volved are the oldest operations in that
section and have been working for at least
twenty-five years. The shutdown is blam-
ed on the “impossible wage scale.”
—Approval of the purchase of 2445 acres
of forest land in McKean, Forest and War-
ren counties by the National Forest Res-
ervation Commission brings the total acre-
‘age of the Allegheny. national forest re«
serve to more than 150,000 acres. The for-
est was designed to protect the head-wa-
‘ters of the Allegheny river. The national
commission plans to establish a large camp
in the Warren county region, so it will
connect with Allegheny Park, maintained,
by New York State.
—Edward §. Benney, 50 years of age, is
at the Lewistown hospital with a com-
pound fracture of the left arm, several
teeth knocked out and other wounds of
the head and body, suffered when the au-
tomobile driven and owned by James
O'Hara collided with a conerete culvert
along the State road east of Lewistown.
Charles Jones, 56 years old, suffered deep
lacerations . of head and. body. O'Hara
says the light of an approaching automo-
bile flashing across the curve blinded him.
—Alone in an automobile with his skull
fractured William Wallace, 45 years old,
was found dead by a workman two miles
south of New Holland, Lancaster county,
Tuesday morning. Members of the man's
family say he left home Monday in com-
pany with a stranger and was seen sev-
eral times in the neighborhood during the
day. The only clue unearthed by police is
a blood-spattered limb of a tree which
hangs dangerously low across the highway
at about a mile and a half from where the
body was found.
—The high cost of funerals has caused
parents of Fayette county to bury their
dead children without burial permits, and
already four bodies have been uncovered
from graves near their homes, where they
were interred. Two were found on the out-
skirts of Uniontown, another at Allison
and a fourth near Lamberton. They all
“died of natural causes. Detectives were
told that the parents had been their own
undertakers because funerals were too ex-
pensive. The identity of the parents has
not been made public, but district attorney
E. D. Brown will bring prosecutions in
each case.
—When the Williamsport police last
week raided the home of Mr. and Mrs.
George Goodall, who live in what was for-
merly a church, they found two large
stills, a quantity of mash and some liquor.
The old church had been converted into
an apartment, but part of the pulpit in
the rear had been left unchanged. It was
here that the stills were in operation, part-
ly hidden from view by some curtains
which had been hung in the rear of the
pulpit when the building was still used as
a church, Mr. and Mrs. Goodall and their
two sons, 21 and 19 years old, respective-
ly, were arraigned before an alderman on
a charge of making whiskey. They were
held for court under $2000 bail each.
—Police of Pennsylvania, Maryland and
West Virginia are searching for five men
who are alleged to have kidnaped Lucy
Debaua, 20 years old, of Cresson, from her
home Wednesday. People living in the
vicinity of the girl’s home, which is on the
outskirts of the town, said that an auto
containing five men drove up to the De-
baua home, and while three went to the
rear of the house a fourth, said to be Pat-
sy Rubis, of Homer City, is reported to
have seized the girl who, screaming and
fighting, was carried to the automobile in
which the fifth man had kept the engine
running. After calling their three com-
panions the machine was started at a high
speed toward Homer City. Rubis is said
to be a jilted suitor of the girl.
—Life is just one thing after another
for Mrs. Mary Victor, of Mt. Carmel. She
was released from the county prison at
Sunbury a few days ago, and returned to
the coal region town, when her home was
nearly destroyed by fire. © William Victor,
another member of the ill-starred family,
who occupy the parental abode; became in-
toxicated, and attempted to light a cigar-
ette in bed. The mattress caught ire, and
he was overcome and nearly suffocated be-
fore being rescued. Firemen carried him
out, and saved the home after the second
floor: was gutted; with a loss of $1,000.
Mrs. Victor was sent down for beating up
the family while intoxicated, having con-
sumed the better part of a bottle of moon-
shine. Squiré Hughes relented -and she
was released. }