itl
Broce |
INK SLINGS.
—Everybody but the death angel
~ seems to take Labor day off.
—And another life had to be snuffed |
- out to make a holiday for the Labor
day crowd at Altoona.
—Most of the coal barons of the
period, 1916 to 1921, might more aptly
be called coal barrens today.
—The last song anybody thought of
singing last Saturday, Sunday or
. Monday was “Keep the Home Fires
Burning.”
— Now we're sure the kids of today
are different from those of yesterday.
On Tuesday we saw hordes of them
going back to school with smiles on
their faces. :
—Epinard, the French colt, lost his
first race on American soil, but he
made a better showing against Wise
" Counsellor than Georges Carpentier
_ did against Jack Dempsey.
—The annual bathing beauty con-
test is on at Atlantic City and four-
teen men *will decide which one of the
eighty-three girls looks best to them
—from the ground up, of course.
— While we know there are lots of
- things that Dave Windsor may do that
the Prince of Wales would never be
permitted to essay, the Prince can
tumble off a horse any old time and
Dave hasn’t done it once.
— Already a lot of people are get-
ting excited about getting out the
vote. We own a modicum of interest
in that movement, but we have little
stomach for the one of getting out
the snow shovel that will follow all
too soon.
—Two and one-half billion cakes of
soap will be used in the United States
this year. That’s about twenty-three
cakes for every man, woman and child,
or two cakes apiece a month. Some
use more than their quota and others
douse themselves with cheap perfum-
ery.
—The police chief of Joplin, Mo.,
hid behind a barn while one of his of-
ficers was having a gun battle with a
bandit, preferring, of course, to be a
live coward than a dead hero. At
that, we think he exercised bad judg-
ment. As a live coward he’ll have to
hunt another job; something a dead
hero doesn’t have to worry about.
—Sen sen! Whoever sniffs it to-
day? Time was when the kids who
had been smoking against parental
admonition resorted to it to kill the
cigarette breath. And their elders
who had sneaked a tabooed libation
chewed it with the same deceptive in-
“tent. Today the kids smoke with im-
FAL
ity and the man who gets an old-
mer.
—Only two persons were present at
Grant's tomb in New York, Sunday
afternoon, for the thirty-ninth memor-
jal service in memory of the former
warrior and President. They were
the speaker for the ceremony and a
newspaper reporter. Waiving discur-
sive lament as to the evanescence of
fame we merely want to note the fact
that it made little difference to the
General whether two or a million
were there.
—1In the language of Jerry Dono-
van, the real reason there would be no
“politicians day at the Granger's
picnic was because there was nothing
the Republicans could say.” It ap-
pears, however, that they must have
dug up some bunk to try on the far-
mers for they had a meeting there
yesterday afternoon. Just what ex
planation they had for the present
plight of agriculture we haven't been
able to find out.
—1It is not so long a look into 1925
that we can’t already see a very pret-
ty judicial fight in the offing. A year
or more ago we went crystal gazing
and saw a field of seven who might
be casting covetous eyes at the judi-
cial ermine that fell on the shoulders
of Henry C. Quigley nine years ago.
Since that time the light has grown
stronger and the shadows of Messrs.
Furst, Fleming, Gettig and Zerby have
disappeared; leaving only the Judge
and Messrs. Keller, Spangler and
Johnston still discernible as potential
possibilities. Two on the Republican
side and two on ours. We think
we quite safe in saying that
this will be the final line up for
the primaries. We could tell now, al-
most to a certainty, what the line up
for the election will be if we were sure
that Providence hasn’t other plans for
some of the aspirants in the mean-
while.
—The American round-the-world
fliers completed their circumnaviga-
tion of the globe by air on Sunday.
Magellan did the trick by sea in 1509.
It took him five months to do it, just
two longer than Mr. Vernes set for
the trip some years ago and a num-
ber less than Nellie Bly required when
she was in the lime-light as a globe
trotter, but quite a record making
pilgrimage at that. When you stop
to think that they flew nearly thirty-
thousand miles with the same engi-
neers and the same firemen in the
cock-pits and with the same planes
you've got to admit that it was some
achievement. As it takes six engines
and six crews to get a Pennsylvania
train from New York to Chicago in a
day, and that-is only five hundred
miles, and God knows how many en-
.gines and one crew, if it sticks, to get
a Bellefonte Central train from Belle-
fonte to State College in a day, and
that is only twenty miles, you will
understand better what Smith and
Nelson and their two mechanicians
have done. Eng if
ry.
so proud of it that it’s |
Rs aL pai
_ | disguise, they were prave men, march-
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 69.
Mr. Davis’ Labor Day Speech.
The Labor day speech of John W.
Davis, delivered at Wheeling, West
Virginia, ought to reassure every man
and woman in the country dependent
upon wages earned, that the Demo-
cratic candidate for President is both
safe and sane. His statements are so
clear, his attitude so plain and his
purposes so beneficent that “he who
runs may read.” He recalls the better
statesmanship of the past. He seems
to combine the practical efficiency of
Revival of a False Promise.
In a speech at Lincoln, Nebraska,
the other day, Charles G. Dawes cast
an enticing lure to the farmers of the
middie west. He told them that their
suffering had caused great pain to
himself and his associates in the Re-
publican machine, and that a remedy
for the evils will be searched for and
found. “We will summon the best
minds of the country” to tackle and
solve the problems, he declared, and
the farmers will be made “to flourish
Grover Cleveland and the splendid
idealism of Woodrow Wilson. It |
ought to be a pleasure as well as a
duty for every voter, influenced by |
conscience and patriotism, to support |
with earnestness and energy such a
candidate for President.
The speech was not even remotely a
political address. It was the enuncia-
tion of a great lawyer and experienced
statesman on a subject of profound |
public interest. The relations be-.
tween capital and labor and between
employer and employee are of great .
concern not only to the parties them-
selves but to all others, and not gen-
erally understood. In his speech Mr.
Davis makes the definition and dis-
tinction clear. Child labor is impossi-
ble, he declared. “To stunt the growth
of a child in his most critical years;
to rob him of his opportunity for edu-
cation and to make him a juvenile
drudge for mere purposes of profit, is
a crime against the future of the
race,” is his appraisement of child la-
bor.
Mr. Davis favors full liberty of con-
tract individually or collectively and
the right to strike without fear of in-
junctions in the absence of such con-
tract. He believes in arbitration mu-
tually agreed upon but not compulso-
That would strangle. liberty
which is a sacred right. “I prefer lib-
erty with all its perils, including the :
liberty to make mistakes,” he added, !
“to any system by which the govern-
ment seeks to set itself up as the uni-
versal shepherd of us all.” Educa-
tion: is the key to’ opportunity and
peace the pathway: to prosperity. In
lead toward peace.
——Now that Germany has an
American manager it may be hoped
that she will settle those little bills
which have been giving recent trou-
bles.
Harvest of a Slovenly Sowing.
The Klan riot in Herrin, Illinois, on
Friday, was a speedy fruitage of Gen-
eral Dawes’ recent approval of a for-
mer outbreak there by the hooded or-
ganization. In a speech delivered at
Augusta, Maine, on August 23rd,
Charles G. Dawes, Republican candi-
date for Vice President, speaking of
the Klan, said: “A thousand mem-
bers of the Ku Klux Klan, without
ed to the office of the sheriff of Wil-
liamson county to protest against the
lawlessness in that section. If a se-
cret organization to uphold law and
order is justifiable anywhere it was
justifiable there.” The lawlessness
referred to was the warfare between
the coal miners and strike breakers
at Herrin.
Republican candidate Dawes spoke
in answer to John W. Davis’ unquali-
fied denunciation of the Klan in a
speech at Sea Girt, New Jersey, the
day before. Mr. Dawes felt it would
be in the interest of his party to con-
cur in the retrobation of the Klan but
wise to qualify the action by a word
of praise of the organization. The
number of voters who perpetuate
crimes under. the false pretense of en-
forcing law is a matter of conjecture.
If they are as strong as they claim,
they are a potent force in politics, and
candidate Dawes imagined he could
“hunt with the hounds and run with
the: hare,” by denouncing the organ-
ization in one sentence and commend-
ing it in another, in the same speech.
- The fresh outbreak on Saturday
this belief he calls upon the laboring | inspires anythi plea:
those upon whom the burdens of war | and ‘the farmers are conspicuous. in
fall with most crushing weight” to that class. It also recalled thoug!
ing.
like a green bay tree.” This sounded
fine to the ears of the hopeful agri-
culturists until they got to thinking
of past promises under similar cir-
cumstances. The late President
Harding was the originator of the
| phrase and the memory of it is not
pleasing.
During the campaign of 1920 Mr.
Harding embellished most of his
“front porch” speeches with assuranc-
es that in the event of his election
“the best minds of the country” would
be summoned to the seat of govern-
ment to work out the interests of the
people. In pursuance of this prom-
ise Albert B. Fall, of New Mexico;
Harry M. Daugherty, of Ohio, and Ed-
win Denby, of Michigan, were called
to the cabinet. Fall is now practic-
ally a fugitive from justice, Daugh-
erty was driven out of the public
service in disgrace and Denby resign-
ed to save himself from impeachment.
Andy Mellon, Secretary of the Treas-
ury, is still in position to help the
rich because of an affliction which
checked a Congressional inquiry into
his official activitiés.
Then there were Charles Morse, now
under indictment, at the head of the
Veterans’ Bureau, and A. D. Lasker,
now returned to obscurity, who was
head of the Shipping Board, both ac-
tive in looting operations. These
were the “best minds of the country”
four years ago and the employment of
the phrase by Mr. Dawes brought
their records into view and caused
consternation among the farmers,
who the Vice Presidential candidate
was striving to Blesse. The phrase
of the false promises made to farmers
in that memorable campaign of false
pretense and was anything but pleas-
——The Prince of Wales is doing
fine. In a golf game the other day he
uttered a cuss word on missing a
stroke. But he wasn’t qualifying for
a golf team. He was simply adapting
himself to his environment.
Automobile Accidents in Pennsylvania
The State Highway Department has
compiled some statistics of accidents
on the highways and city streets of
the State which are both interesting
and suggestive. The report published
covers the casualties of June ard
July and show that “accidents are
chiefly the result of carelessness ‘on
the part of operators.” It may be
added that most of the fatalities are
drivers not responsible for the acci-
dents. Drunken drivers are the most
prolific causes of automobile accidents
but a good many are due to weakness
of mentality. Some cars are driven
.over the highways at high speed by
men hardly qualified mentally to push
a baby coach in a “one way traffic”
street. ; .
In June of this year thirty-eight
persons were killed and 1448 injured
in 1320 accidents. During July sixty-
one persons were killed and 2614 in-
jured in 1373 accidents. Of the whole
number of accidents in July thirty-
seven were caused by drunken drivers
and in June thirty-three were ascrib-
able to the same cause. The most
surprising feature of the report is
that a considerable proportion of the
accidents on highways occurred on
straight stretches of road and are the
result of drivers running around oth-
er ears going in the same direction.
There are drivers who “like beggars
on horseback” lose all sense of reason
was a logical result of the experiment.
In the pervious encounter one of the
men ‘were subsequently indicted for
his murder. On Saturday the case
was dismissed by order of the district
attorney, and when the sheriff at-
tempted to seize an automobile which
had been used by a bootlegger, a
member of the Klan, firing began and
six persons were killed and a number
wounded in the encounter. The Na-
tional Guard was promptly summoned
and it is hoped further fighting will
be averted. But the six deaths and
the five crippled citizens is the har-
vest of the Hell-an’-Maria’s slovenly
tongue in an effort to gain votes.
——1In the face of his attitude dur-
ing the world war Mr. LaFollette
shows a strong nerve in appealing for
support on patriotic grounds.
———President Coolidge is trying to
match platitudes and promises against
Mr. Davis’ strong arguments,
officials of the Klan was killed and two |
and responsibility the moment they
get their hands on the wheel. :
"Any one out for a drive on a Sun-
day afternoon in the neighborhood of
large towns or cities may wonder that
so few accidents occur rather than so
many. A great number of automo-
biles are in commission and quite a
number of drivers are careless. And
this will continue to be the case until
the courts set their heads to checking
the evil. Drunken drivers ought to be
eliminated, and they can be if they
are sufficiently punished for accidents
they cause. It would be severe to say
, that a drunken driver is as dangerous
as a murderer for none of them has
murder in his heart. But as a matter
| of fact he is a greater menace for he
may cause the death of many by a
single act.
|
|
~——Singularly enough the Republi-
! can machine has been able to get Sen-
ator LaFollette’s support whenever it
needed it if LaFollette needed some-
thing at the same time. i
try can be herded and voted ini 4 solid
Wise Policy for Democrats.
It is plainly the interest of Demo-
crats of Pennsylvania to concentrate
their efforts in the pending campaign
upon candidates for Congress, Sena-
tors and Representatives in the Gener-
al Assembly and local offices. There is
no chance to carry the Democratic
electors in this State and the pros-
pects are bright for a gain of four or
five Congressmen and an increase of
the party strength in both branches of
the Legislature. LaFollette is likely
to get the electors in Pennsylvania as
Roosevelt did in 1912. But that re-
sult will not impair the chances of the
election of John W. Davis. His vic-
tory is practically assured.
The election of Mr. Davis will be a
great triumph of civic progress but
its value will be impaired if we fail
to secure a majority in Congress to
support his policies. The Republican
machine is committed to the purposes
expressed in the Mellon tax bill and
the present tariff law. Both of these
are in the interest of special privilege
and the price of campaign contribu-
tions. If upon assuming the duties of
President John W. Davis is supported
by a majority in Congress the lobby-
ists and looters will be forced to
seamper as they did after the inau-
guration of Woodrow Wilson in 1913.
It is a cheerful prospect to contem-
plate.
According to the best information
obtainable the LaFollette party will
support Frank C. Sites in the Nine-
teenth district; Herbert W. Cummins
in the Sixteenth district and Warren
Worth Bailey in the Twentieth dis-
trict, the Democratic nominees for
Congress. There are many reasons
why they should support and earnest-
ly strive to elect Edward S. Benson,
the Democratic candidate in this dis-
trict. He is progressive in every re-
spect and will stand firmly and val-
iantly for the interests of the people
as against special privilege for the
few. If the Democrats of the district
are awake to their opportunities Mr.
Benson will be elected.
block. He invited a few labor organ-
ization officials, who are also govern-
ment officials, to the White House on
Labor day to hear his views on labor.
Historic Cross to be Dedicated at
Boalsburg.
Tomorrow a simple ceremony - will
be performed at the Boal camp at
BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 5. 1924.
NO. 35.
| 01d Employees at Scotia Hold Reunion
7)
Boalsburg by:the Officer’s club of the
28th Division, which will be fraught
with much historic significance.
The ‘officials of the village of Mt.
Blainville, France, have sent to Col.
Theodore Davis Boal the wayside
cross from the Argonne in front of
which General Edward Sigerfoos was
standing when he was mortally
wounded. Gen. Sigerfoos had just
taken command of the 56th Brig. of
the 28th Division and was the only
General Officer lost on the field of bat-
tle by the American-forces during the
‘war, :
The planting of this little French
cross on American soil and its dedi-
cation to the memory of a distinguish-
ed American officer will be a very im-
pressive service to those who are
thoughtful of its real significance.
Immediately following the dedica-
tion of the cross a memorial service
will be held for Gen. Asher Miner,
who died at his home at Wilkes-Bar-
re on Tuesday night. Quite a number
of Bellefonte and Centre county sol-
diers of the world war not only train-
ed under Gen. Miner at Camp Han-
cock but also served under him in
France and many of them will go to
Boalsburg for the memorial services
tomorrow. :
——What a wonderful opportunity
the management of the Grange en-
campment and fair at Centre Hall
overlooked. They should have induc-
ed the Prince of Wales to give them
one day of his time and Grange park
would have been thronged with vis-
itors beyond its ample capacity.
——The combined ages of the thir-
ty-three veterans of the Civil war who
gathered at Grange park, on Wednes-
day, for their annual reunion is 2673
years, or an average of 81 years. The
three oldest totaled 263 years or an
average of nearly 88 years.
rm —— A ——————
——1If there had been common hon-
esty in the government during the
past three years there wouldn’t be so
much need for common sense now.
ce ———————— i ——————
——The ratification of the Dawes
plan has revived speculation in Ger-
man bonds but it must accomplish
something more to be worth while.
——General Dawes says that “the
farmers’ problem has worked out its
own solution.” This will be fine if the
farmers find it out. :
sm—— ly —————
3
—]f you want the latest and best |
news, read the “Watchman.”
Thirty-five years ago Scotia, up in
the Barrens opposite Stormstown, was
the seat of one of the largest iron ore
operations in Centre county and a
thriving village of industrious work-
men and their families. Thirteen
years ago operations there ceased for
good, the property was sold, buildings
and machinery moved away and all
that now remains are four houses and
the old Methodist church. .
Recently two dozen of the old em-
ployees decided to hold a reunion and
invitations were sent far and wide
with the result that one thousand or
more people gathered at the old park,
close to where the village stood, last
Saturday, the date of the gathering.
Most of them appeared with well la-
den baskets and the few who did not
were cheerfully invited to share the
many good things to eat taken by
others. Among the crowd were men
and women who had not been back in
forty years. The frost of time had
ripened many heads so that introduc-
tions were necessary. ao
Following the dinner B. H. Parsons,
of State College, called the crowd to
order and introduced Rev. Rumley,
who gave a nice talk in which he
stated that he was unacquainted with
the history of Scotia but had always
heard that the inhabitants were a
happy, law-abiding people. Other ad-
dresses were made by Witmer Harris,
an old employee but now of Pitcairn,
and J. Laird Holmes, of State Col-
lege. A permanent reunion was form-
ed by electing as an executive com-
mittee W. H. Ghaner, of Scotia; W.
G. Murtorff, of State College; Alda
Stuart, of Altoona; Mrs. Ella Ghaner,
of Scotia, and H. B. Lykens, of Port
Matilda. :
The State College band was on the
ground all day and furnished an
abundance of good music. People
were in attendance from Pittsburgh,
Altoona, Bellwood, Tyrone, Wiliams-
port, Jersey Shore and Trenton, N. J.
W. H. Farber, of State College, who
was an engineer at Scotia for thi
years and lived in the same hous
gether on the front porch of the old
house, ‘which is one of thé four still
remaining, and had a group picture
taken. :
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More About Trees.
Editor “Watchman.”
Let me say something more about
trees.
The State Forestry Department,
which costs more than ever, has issued
a pamphlet showing in detail that dur-
ing eleven years, 232,877 acres of tim-
ber have been burned down, the num-
ber last year being 5774 acres. An
analysis of the causes of this waste of
trees shows that the main fire-setters
are the railroads, fishers and hunters.
Some years ago, when. Mr. Dixon rep-
resented Elk county in the Legisla-
ture, he introduced a bill requiring the
railway companies to police their lines
and put out the fires that they set. |
It also changed the judge-made law in
Pennsylvania on the burden of proof.,
Of course, the bill could not pass a
corporation owned Legislature.
Another prolific cause of fires is-the
recklessness of sporting people who
hurl their cigarette stumps into the
dry leaves, while hunting. There is
no use in brying to appeal to these
men to extinguish their paper covered
fire brands, The nature of the flavor-
ed “smokes” is such that the origin of
judgment is etherized and a condition
of neuritis exists there when not fur-
ther complicated by the invented
drinks of a maudlin prohibition age.
God save the trees! Man will not!
Let us turn to a more saccharine
theme. The same department reports
the product of the maple trees of
Pennsylvania, last year to have been
339,700 pounds of sugar and 500,000
gallons ofg syrup, valued at $512,000.
The maple sugar industry is in its most
flourishing' condition in Somerset,
Erie, Potter and Bradford counties.
Its discovery is traced to pre-revolu-
tionary time, when Pennsylvania was
largely populated from the Palatinate
regions on the Rhine. Those early
Germanic settlers, finding the maple
sap could be utilized for sugar and
syrup, hewed out of wood, receptacles
called sugar troughs. They made
“spouts” of common elder, wrich were
inserted in the trunk of the lordly
maple. After a good run of sap, an
ox team, with a wood-boat and -a bar-
rel was taken around through the
woods and the sap was thus gathered
at the place where it was boiled down
and jugged, if molasses, and cakes, if
sugar. This industry was common 80
years ago in all these central counties
of the State, settled by the Palatin-
ates.
In those dark and dismal days of |.
fire and murder, 1778 and '9, when
Bastard Brant and his Indians and
Governor Johnston’s tories ravaged.
the settlements at Wyoming, Wil-
liamsport and Fort Freeland, near
Milton, it is related a heroic mother,
who fled from the savages, hid her
youngest child beneath a sugar trough
and made her escape into the wilder-
ness. .
The maple is not only useful for its
sweetness, but it is a beautiful shade
tree and valuable for domestic arts.
“Woodman spare that tree!”
. . gio W. R. BIERLY.
Get your job werk done Here.
to. the institution from
—State foresters are trying to find out
who is using the Humboldt forest fire tow-
found in the cabin with food and water.
—The forest map of the State being
made by the Department of Forests and
Waters, is reported as ninety per ceat.
completed and plans are being made for a
stream map. : .
—REdgar R. Kiess, of Williamsport,
member of Congress from the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania district, was reappointed a
trustee of The Pennsylvania State College
by Governor Pinchot, on Saturday.
—Three bandits attempted to rob the of-
fice of the Independent Oil company, at
Huntingdon early on Saturday. They fir-
ed two shots at Edward Hileman, super-
intendent. Hileman returned the fire and
one of the robbers fell wounded. The oth-
ers carried their comrade to a waiting car
and escaped. 3
—When the power at the E. J. Schenck
furniture factory in Allentown suddenly
stopped on Saturday morning an investiga«
tion was made, and Elias J. Frederick,
aged 74 years, the engineer was found
dead beside the boilers. He had succumb-
ed to an attack of heart disease, superin-
duced, it is believed, by the heat.
—The Rev. Edward Brewer, 49 years eld,
pastor of the Stottsville colored Baptist
church, near Coatesville, was shot and kill-
ed on Tuesday when he was mistaken for
~ ground-hog by a fellow hunter, Ulysses
Denmark, also of Stottsvillee = Coroner
Bunting, of Oxford, investigated the shoot-
ing and declared it to have been accidental.
—Giving his cigarettes to a little girl to
hold while he took his first swim in eight
years, William H. Strusser, 33 years old,
of Reading, failed to come to the surface
after his initial dive into the P. & R. res-
ervoir, opposite the round house on North
Sixth street, Monday afternoon. His body
was found imbedded in the muddy bot-
tom.
—Plans for a parade of Ku Klux Klans-
men in Pittsbungh on September 24th have
been abandoned; Sam D. Rich, king klea«
gle of Pennsylvania, declared on Tuesday,
because of the police insistence that the
marchers appear without their regalia.
Mayor William A. Magee last week grant-
ed a permit for the parade upon condition
that the regalia be omitted. .
—Accused of smuggling small steel saws
to a prisoner in the western penitentiary
at Pittsburgh, and planning for the deliv-
Lery of guns to other prisoners, Harry W.
Holtgraver, Jr., a guard at the prison was
arrested early last Friday when he report-
ed for duty. Gertrude Perry and P. H.
Holtgraver, also were arrested and are He-
ing held as material witnesses.
—The Mifflin county treasury was en-
riched to the extent of $1,000 on Monday
when Prothonotary Stewart M. Peters
turned over to R. E. Hanawalt, county
treasurer, that sum as cash bail forfeited
by John W. Cotner, of Sunbury, who failed
to appear for jury trial at court last week,
on the charge of transporting fifty barrels
of beer from Sunbury to Lewistown.
—Believed to be an escaped inmate from
the Danville hospital for the insane, ‘a
| youth, said to be William McMillan, aged
19 years, was taken into custody at Scran-
six ‘weeks ago. He was apprehended when
he attempted to attack a playground offi-
cial in South Scranton.
—Pedestrians in the business section of
York were surprised and amused one day
last week when a well dressed woman,
stockingless, wearing a fur neckpiece, pa-
raded the streets. When traffic officer
Cramer approached her and asked why she
was not fully dressed, the woman replied
she was only following the style in the
larger cities. She was ordered by officers
to return to her home and put on stock-
ings. She did.
—An innocent, but rather inquisitive
bumblebee climbed the leg of Miss Eliza-
beth Widener, of Youngstown, Ohio, as she
was endeavoring to drive her car past a
truck last Thursday on the Lincoln high-
way near Whitford, Chester county. When
it reached her knee it stung her and the
car dashed into an embankment and was
badly wrecked. Miss Widener’s hand was
badly lacerated and a Downingtown phy-
sician placed several
wounds. A companion in the machine was
uninjured. :
—George Oakley, “Human Fly,” of Pas-
adena, Cal, died at Wilkes-Barre on Sun-
day as the result of injuries he received in
‘a fall from the fourth story of a bank
building on Saturday night. Oakley had
climbed up the outside of the building,
steadying himself by clinging with a cane
to an automobile inner tube which his
wife held down to him from the windows
above. The tube broke and Oakley plung-
ed to the sidewalk, narrowly missing
spectators. Oakley formerly lived in
Wilkes-Barre, Pa. : :
—The State Department of Agriculture,
which raised a hullabaloo several months
ago about cleaning up gambling and im-
moral midway attractions at country fairs,
passes the buck back to the communities
in which the fairs are held, in a letter from
Secretary Frank P. Willits to the district
attorneys and sheriffs of the various coun-
ties. Secretary Willits declares the de-
partment will insist that the fairs be held
in the proper surroundings, or no State
aid will be forthcoming, but the law en-’
forcement work must be done by the coun-
ty and local law officers. :
—Believed a homeless laborer, John Ry-
an, forty years old, found dead in a bunk
house at the Bear Valley Water compa-
ny's dam, at Shamokin on Saturday, was
worth approximately $11,000, according to
Dr. J. K. Fisher, county coroner. A long
abrasion on his right side indicated foul
play. Fellow-laborers said he got up to
get a drink in the night and fell. An in-
quest was held. His money consists of
$10,000 in the Farmers’ National bank, of
Kansas City, $500 in the Kulpmont Nation-
al bank, his last month’s pay check of
$100, and $55 found in his pockets.
—Mrs. ‘Alice Cramer, wife of William C.
Cramer, of York, Pa., told Alderman Kath-
erine Bentzel, that although she brought
suit against her husband for assault and
battery, surety of the peace and non-
maintenance, she is willing to overlook
‘everything and live with him if that is
possible to do, And this notwithstanding
the fact that she asserts he beat her,
punched her in the stomach, punched her
in the ribs, threw her on the floor, kicked
her, threw a mailet ‘through the screen
door at her, shook her and made her arms
black and blue, made her get out of bed
when she was sick, and that he has not
supported. her for five years, and that he
is angry because she will not work to sup~ .
pert him,
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
er as a dog pen. Twice dogs have been
ton, on Tuesday, by the local police. It is
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