» iy gobi out. The
their tresses to Dame
: discover that she
the District as well
ld us on Monday that |
Jongressman Billie Swoope can be
icked easily if Mr. Benson makes any
ind of a canvas.
—Unless we are greatly misinform-
d the LaFollette vote in certain sec-
ions of Centre county is going to sur-
rise the politicians. Happily for us
t is going to be strongest in what are
mown to be heavy Republican pre-
incts.
—Senator Couzens, Republican, has
ecided to run for re-election in Mich-
zan on a wet platform. Isn’t it aw-
ul that a Republican should do such
. thing, but won’t it be grand, if he
5s elected, and his vote should prove
he one necegsary to defeat some leg-
slation proposed by President Davis.
—John Campbell, of Antrim, Ire-
ind, who lived to be one hundred
nd twelve years old, ascribed his
ealth to his determination not to
rorry about anything. Perhaps
verybody- could attain John’s years
* they adopted his motto, but if they
id the world would stand still ever
fter.
—In the east the. Republican man-
gers are pooh, poohing what the dis-
flection to LaFollette might do to
‘oolidge in the north-west, but in the
orth-west the Republicans are beg-
ing for any sort of a combination
rith the Democrats in order to lick
aFollette. It all looks to us as
ough Davis is the best bet to save
1e country from the Reds.
—The accidental killing of a young
irl in Snow Shoe, Wednesday even-
1g, resulted in the exoneration of the
ian whose revolver caused her death.
; has probably not occurred to the
athorities to inquire what right John
inchock had to be totin’ a gun around
ith him. There would be fewer kill-
1gs, intentional and accidental, if the
ww against carrying deadly weapons
ere enforced.
—Dave Windsor, otherwise known
3 the Prince of Wales, is a very rich
oung man. His income is supposed
» approximate nearly a million a
sar. The most of it comes from the
sown lands in the Duchy of Corn-
all from which he gets his heredi-
wy title. The English subjects con-
ibute very little in taxes to his main-
mance. The tenants on his lands
iy the haberdashers for the clothes
\at set the styles for those who roll
o their pants. ‘when it's raining in
ondon.
—The ten questions that young
eopold, the Chicago murderer, had
slunteered to answer after he had
sen swung across the Styx for the
-utal killing of little Bobby Franks,
ere very interesting indeed. He
.emed to have not taken into consid-
ation, however, the possibility of
s probable landing in a place where
1 the wires to any mundane medium
ould be burned off as quickly as they
wuld be put up. Judge Caverly has
ntenced him to prison for life and
en added ninety-nine years for kid-
\pping so that he will have time on
rth to revise his atheistic theories.
—According to our dope Davis
arts in the race with the greatest
set. Unprejudiced analysis must
ve him 183 votes in the electoral
llege. Coolidge is reasonably cer-
in of 145. LaFollette, if he has
iything like the strength he is sup-
ised to have, will get 62 at the out-
je and there are 141 votes that are
wubtful. In this we haven’t given
avis the vote of a State north of the
ason and Dixon line. We have put
elve States in the doubtful column
d given seven to LaFollette. Con-
cticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, In-
ana, New Jersey, New York, North
ikota, Rhode Island are the real
b table States and if Davis can
up 83 votes from them he will be
ton From the same uncertain
setorates Coolidge will have to get
1 or nearly 90% of those certainly
ubtful. It looks to us that if Da-
5 isn’t elected directly the decision
almost certain to go to Congress.
—We railed like a common scold
out being compelled to buy new
1ses and have our lights focused.
st people love to rail. And some-
nes there is justification for it.
yre often there isn’t. A few even-
ys ago we motored sixty-four miles
ter darkness had set in. The route
is over a much used highway and it
probsbly not exaggeration to say
it we met several hundred cars.
ery one of them was passed
th a feeling of perfect safety
d comfort without lessening our
‘ed or palling into the ditch
ve certain of avoiding colli-
n.', It-was all because other motor-
s, 'who had probably railed, had
sn compelled to discard 32 bulbs,
t lenses with proper refraction and
wus their lights to the road instead
our eyes. When the order was first
ymulgated we threatened to stand
ne one a suit before we would fat-
anybody’s rake-off from the lens
nufacturers, but we are grateful to
+ Highway Department now for
wing us that we have probably
:n blinding the other fellow quite
much as he was blinding us. . Mo-
ing at night has been made a great-
pleasure and given much more
ety. by the new regulation,
‘tion will be multiplied and cheapen-
Mr. Davis and the West. 2%
After spending a few days in Chi-
cago, for observation, John W. Davis,
Democratic candidate for President,
paid a visit to his running mate, Gov-
ernor Bryan, at Lincoln, Nebraska,
last week, and made a speech last
evening at Denver, Colorado. His
‘westward trip has been a series of
ovations. In every section hé finds
the Democrats active and his pres-
ence inspires enthusiasm. His speech-
es are forceful and eloquent and draw
instant and obvious responses from
the people. In Nebraska his appeal
was to the farmers and he pointed out
the exact relations between tariff tax-
ation and agricultural prosperity. His
theme at Denver was the effect of
scientific irrigation and crop produc-
tion.
In a speech delivered in Nebraska,
a couple of weeks ago, “Hell-an-Ma-
ria” Dawes tried to “buncoe” the far-
mers with a promise of government
regulation of farm products. That is
the favorite specific of economic
quacks everywhere. It used to be
called overproduction and was round-
ly condemned as the influencing cause
of declining prices. As a matter of
fact there is no such thing. The cost
of production may be excessive and
the result abundance and high prices.
Mr. Davis showed this clearly and
proved that by proper irrigation in
the arid sections of the West produc-
ed, and prosperity vastly increased by
the safe and certain process of de-
creased cost of living.
It isn’t the overproduction ‘of crops
but the under supply of markets that
causes distress in the agricultural re-
gions of the country, and whatever
cause impairs the prosperity of far-
mers stifles the progress of industrial
and commerical life. Mr. Coolidge
states that wages are higher than
ever. But the high wages don’t pur-
chase a greater quantity of the. nec-
essaries of life. Irrigation in the
West will affect agricultural produc-
tion precisely as machinery did in the
manufacture of shoes. That is, it
will increase and cheapen. production
without in the least decreasing the
wages of operatives in that industry.
Mr. Dawes would limit. acreage and
S. withgut benefit. 1
——The “Republican managers are
still in a state of terror over the pro-
posed Pinchot speeches. It is safe to-
bet that his praise of Coolidge will be
of the “feint” variety, and everybody
knows what “feint praise” does.
Benson Endorsed by Labor Party.
The LaFollette supporters in this
Congressional district, acting under
the designation of the Labor party,
have wisely and properly filed a pe-
tition naming Edward M. Benson, the
Democratic nominee, as their candi-
date for Congress. If the Democrats
of the district do their full duty in the
campaign and on election day, this
will guarantee the election of Mr.
Benson, assure the people of the dis-
trict a faithful and capable represen-
tative in the National Legislature and
give John W. Davis as President of
the United States, a sincere and ener-
getic supporter. This “is a consum-
mation devoutly to be wished.” The
Democratic President would be sadly
hampered if the Congress were
against his policies.
This district is nominally Republi-
can, mainly for the reason that the
Democratic voters are negligent in
their political duties. Upon a full
poll neither party would have much
margin. But in recent years the Dem-
ocratic voters have been delinquent
and the results have been a considera-
ble Republican majority. Neither
Clearfield nor Centre county is at heart
Republican and the majority for that
partyin McKean county isnot great.
The personal popularity and obvious
fitness of Mr. Benson will easily get
him a majority in the county and the
split in the Republican party between
LaFollette and Coolidge ought to re-
sult in a majority for the Democratic
candidate in both Clearfield and Cen-
tre counties.
Our fight in Pennsylvania is for
Congress and the General Assembly.
The election of John W. Davis, our su-
perb candidate for President, is as
certain as that day follows night. At
this time the indications point to the
success of LaFollette for President in
this State. Roosevelt, as an independ-
ent candidate, carried it against Taft,
the regular party nominee in 1912, by
a considerable majority and LaFol-
lette is quite as strong in the State as
Roosevelt. That being the case it is
only necessary for the Democrats to
get out their full strength and con-
centrate on the Congressional contests
and candidates for the General As-
sembly. We can strengthen the hands
of our splendid President by sending
to Congress men who will help him.
Emn—— en ——————
——If Governor Pinchot would sub-
mit the manuscript of his proposed
speeches to W. Harry Baker for ap-
proval he would remove a great anxi-
—
ety.
Mr. Davis on Organized Labor.
The Republican mar managers and news-
papers have taken great pains to im-
press upon the minds of wage earn-
ers throughout the country that J ohn
W. Davis, being a corporation lawyer, { wi
is hostile to organized labor and the
interests of labor. It having been
stated that on an occasion Mr. Davis
appeared in a Federal court at Clarks-
burg, West Virginia, to defend Eu-
gene Debs, Mr. Debs was induced to
declare that he had never employed
him, though he added that Mr. Davis
had served as attorney for the coal
miners in West Virginia in a case in
which “Mother” Jones was in custody
charged with picketing. The World's
Work, a high class magazine has tak-
en the trouble to get the facts and
gives them as follows:
“One of John W. Davis’ early
court cases was his suit for a writ
of habeas corpus to gain the re-
lease of eight striking coal miners
and labor leaders who had been
arrested for marching down a line
near a colliery while an injunc-
tion was in force against picket-
ing. Simultaneously two other
groups of labor men were arrest-
ed under similar circumstances
and their cases were in the same
court for judgment. By stipula-
tion, judgment in all three cases
was joined in one decision which
was favorable to the laboring
men, largely as the result of a
,- four-hundred-word brief prepar-
ed by young Davis. = Among one
- of the other groups was Eugene
_V. Debs, so that while the famil-
iar story that he was one of Mr.
Davis’ earliest clients is not lit-
erally true, it is true that Mr.
De : efforts in behalf of others
e peril incidentally
pit ey ‘Mr. eh his freedom.”
It is quite likely that Mr. Davis’ op-
position to the too careless use of in-
junctions is ascribable to his exper-
ience in the case in question. While
in Congress he made a strong fight
to restrain the issue of injunctions in
labor contests and hoped that under
the provisions of the Clayton act he
had achieved the result. But under
the administration of the Department
of Justice by Harry Daugherty, ap-
pointed by President Harding and re-
tained as long as possible by Coolidge, | ;
that ex ‘has
‘ed. In his Labor 8 Joan iste |
ever, Mr. Davis shows that his inter-
est in the subject has not. subsided
and made it clear that in the event of
his election his ideas will be put into
operation.
meres fp fee
——1In view of the Teapot Dome op-
eration, the Veteran Bureau record and
various other shady transactions it
takes a strong nerve to ask support
of the Republican ticket “on the rec-
ord of the party.”
Coolidge’s Private Labor Party.
President Coolidge is widely known
as a cautious man but with all his care
he makes some most egregious blun-
ders. One of these, and one which is
provoking wide spread criticism
among those it was intended to please,
was his little private party at the
White House on Labor day. Mr. Da-
vis, having been invited to deliver an
address on that day before a large
gathering of organized labor bodies,
and LaFollette having arranged to
broadcast his views on labor day, Mr.
Coolidge jumped to the conclusion
that he must do something worthy of
a first page story of interest to labor.
Accordingly he sent out an S. O. S.
to the labor leaders on the govern-
ment pay roll and confidentially “slip-
ped” his views on the subject to them
with the understanding that they
would convey them to the rank and
file in whatever way might be deemed
expedient or effective and persuasive.
They were all “white collar” men, of
course, who have been chosen to fill
fat jobs because of a belief that they
controlled large blocks of votes and
could cast them for any candidate
they favored. It is altogether likely
that they could accomplish a good
deal in that direction at the time they
were named, but things have changed
considerably since then. Most wage
earners select their own candidates
now.
That is particularly true this year.
The past three and a half years of
Republican administration has taught
working men a lesson. Every activ-
ity of the government has been di-
rected to promote the interests of mo-
nopoly and destroy those of labor, and
though a few recreant members and
agents of labor organizations are in
office they no longer exercise influence
among the voters who work at skilled
or common labor. Mr. Coolidge’s se-
lect party of office holders and expec-
tants were delighted with his plati-
tudes on labor, but will be influenced
on election day more by the language
used in vetoing the bill increasing the
meager wages of postal employees.
A —— A ———————
——Senator Couzens,. of Michigan,
has disappointed public expectations.
Nobody imagined that he could be di-
verted from a purpose by the securi-
ty of a Senatorial nomination, :
“The Result in Maine,
The’ New York Tr Tribune and other
leading Republican papers were wise
in ia
result of the election in Maine
“be without significance. If it
had. shown a Republican majority in-
creased in the ratio of the enlarged
vote incident to the enfranchisement
of the women, it would have been sig-
ificant. Or if the Republican major-
ity had been wiped out it would have
shown a decided trend in the direc-
tion of the Democracy. But nothing
of the kind happened. The Republi-
can candidate for Governor, with the
help of the Ku Klux Klan, carried the
State by a majority of something |
like fifty per cent. less than his par-
ty polled at the State election four
years ago.
In 1920 the Republican candidate
for Governor of Maine had a majori-
ty over his Democratic competitor of
65,116 on a toal vote of 195,000. This
year on a total vote of 225,000, the in--
crease representing the augmented
female vote, the Republican majority |
is in the LEcthe nt of 35,000, which
by any process of reckoning shows a
considerable loss to the party. In
1920 the Republican majority was a
trifie more than half the total vote
and this year it is a little above one-
sixth. : But the result has ratified the
compact between the Ku Klux Klan
and the Republican machine of the en-
tire country. Previously it had only
been in existence in a few localities.
Now it covers all the territory.
The . Republican machine always
makes ‘strenuous efforts to maintain
a big majority in Maine, presumably
under the assumption that “as goes
Maine so goes the Union,” an old su-
perstition. But the Republicans car-
ried Maine at the State election in
both the years when Cleveland was
elected as well as in both years of | will be
Wilson: victories. This year they
worked harder than ever, invoking
every New England prejudice and all
the known sectional animosities. Yet
victory i is only a shadow, for while it
gives them a Ku Klux Klan Governor
it shows a very considerable decrease
in majbrity. The same ratio of loss
throu ut the country will put Cool-
th lass established by Taft
“ . a = gnEL
—The heavy frost that fell in all
parts of Centre county yesterday
morning might not have done very
great damage, but it certainly didn’t
help the corn or late garden products.
Get-Out-the-Vote Campaign.
The National League of Women
Voters has started a campaign in the
United States to get out a larger vote
in the coming election than there has
been in the past. This effort is to in-
clude all parties, and is aiming to in-
crease the vote by at least 25 per
cent. - Pennsylvania has been behind
most of the other States by about 15
per cent. so she will need a special ef-
fort.
The Pennsylvania State League has
decided to send a caravan of automo-
biles through a number of counties.
Starting October first from Independ-
ence Square, Philadelphia, it will
cross the State to Pittsburgh, and re-
turn to Philadelphia by October 30th.
This caravan is scheduled for Lock
Haven and Bellefonte on October 8th.
Local automobiles are to meet it at
the county line and conduct it to the
county line on it’s way to Philipsburg.
There will be material for decorating
automobiles and there will be speak-
ers to address the towns through
which it passes.
Any organization or individual that
wishes to join in this effort to make
our country a better Democracy will
please send word to Mrs. Robert Mills
Beach, Bellefonte, chairman Centre
county.
—If the weather man doesn’t do
better the Prince’s visit will be over
before he gets to witness one of the
international polo matches that he
came over to see.
——Three reasons why Coolidge
should be defeated are Albert A. Fall,
Harry M. Daugherty and Edwin Den-
by. But there are lots more.
mt ———— iy fe ——
——Estimating the cost of tobacco
to the American people the expense
of maintaining a war ship at Samsun,
Turkey, is no small amount.
——— fp ————
——1It may be noticed that they are
already canvassing for a successor to
Senator Pepper, though he hasn't said
a word about retiring.
——-It is not surprising that the Ku
Klux Klan carried Maine. That New
England colony is based on bigotry.
———Mr. Davis’ brief visit to Ne-
braska settled the question as to how
that State will vote in November.
I;
— Keep in mind that President
Davis will need friends in Congress
icting, in advance of the event, #
* NATION AL DEFENSE | A
Many Bellefonte Pe People Have En
rolled for Big Parade This,
Afternoon. sr op HER
When thé whistles start blowios
and bells ringing at 12 o'clock today
just remember that this is National
Defense day and the whistles and the
bells will be. simply performing
part in ushering in the patriotic move-
ment. At that hour all business in
Bellefonte will be suspended for the
day, the stores remaining closed in-
stead of taking their half holiday yes-
terday. The banks will also be closed
as well as all business offices. LF
| As stated last week enrollment of
private citizens who have volunteered
for the day only will take place at
| the armory from 9 to 12 o'clock. this
, morning, when every man will be giv-
en a badge of honor, assigned to cer-
, tain divisions and told where to report
' for the big parade.
The employees of the Titan Metal
, company ‘have volunteered in a body
j and will be enrolled as the 367th ar-
| tillery. They will be commanded by
| Lieut, Col. David Dale.
The P. O. S. of A. will be enrolled
as Battery B, 305th artillery.
The Headquarters troop and Troop
B, of the National Guard, will be in
line, ‘the latter 101 men strong. Oth-
er units will be the Red Cross, Boy
Scouts, the one day volunteers, Odd
Fellows and other civic organizations,
Music for the parade will be fur-
nished by Wetzler’s band, of Miles-
burg, the Odd Fellows band, of Belle-
fonte, and the P. 0. S. of A, drum
corps.
All organizations anid individuals
taking part are requested to report at
the armory or on Linn street at one
promptly at. 1:30. The line of. march
exactly as: published in last
week’s “Watchman,”
At the conclusion of the parade Col.
H. S. Taylor will deliver the address
of the day from the reviewing stand
in the Diamond after which everyhody
is invited to attend the free ball gam
at Hughes field “between Bell 0
and Snow Shoe. :
Remember that a free dance will be
held in the armory this eyeni
‘Wetzler's “orchestra will’ furm
; music.
The Sportsmen’s Big Day.
Every sportsman in Clearfield and
Centre county - should look forward
with keen interest to the basket pic-
nic to be held under the auspices of
the State-Centre Game, Fish and For-
estry Association, at Lakeside park,
Morrisdale, September 19th.
Seth E. Gordon, executive secretary
of the board of Game Commissioners;
Mr. Spencer, a member of the Fish
Commission, and L. E. Staley, repre-
sentative of the Forestry Association
will be in attendance and will make
addresses. An event of this kind will
of course bring out the target and
trap shooters, for which ample pro-
visions have been made. There will
be all kinds of game and park amuse-
ments for the children, shooting, mu-
sic and dancing for the grown ups.
The different committees are work-
ing hard to provide a good time for
the sportsmen and their friends, who
will attend.
The State-Centre Game, Fish and
Forestry Association has hung out
the invitation: “Everybody Welcome.”
Take the whole family.
Treating the Officer Rough.
Shortly before six o’clock on Tues-
day evening an officer in plain clothes
was driving up the Snow Shoe moun-
tain. About 200 yards above the Dim
Lantern another motor coming down
ran him so far to the side of the road
that his Overland sedan toppled over
the embankment, turned completely
upside down and was only stopped
from rolling into the deep ravine by
a six inch sapling.
Strange to say the officer was not
hurt, but was so busy protecting him-
self while his car was rolling over
that he couldn’t get the number of
the other machine which sped on.
Harry Hall, who happened along,
drove him to Snow Shoe for assistance
and when he came back, scarcely an
hour later, three of his tires were
gone, rims and all.
The officer then hired Sam Furl to
watch the wreck for the rest of the
night and next morning Sam found
two of them hidden in the brush near
the wreck.
——An item has been going the
rounds of the State press depicting
how twenty-two enforcement officers
swooped down upon Bellefonte last
Saturday evening and scooped in four-
teen booleggers. : This is a mistake.
Lock Haven was the place where the
raid occurred.
——After reading one of his speech-
es it is easy enough to “keep cool to-
ward Coolidge.”
o’clock p. m., so the parade can ‘move’
3 dangerous.
ing closed, a detour via Lewisburg and up
over the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at
Vail, just north of Tyrone, thereby elim
inating a. very dangerous grade crossing.
The new bridge. will connect the two por-
tions of conerete road between Tyrone and
Osceola Mills. . -
—Luzerne county authorities are Iaves-
tigating the death of William Klimeck, 60
years old, of Dupont, who was found dead,
with a fracture at the base of his skull,
along the Lehigh Valley railroad tracks in
Dupont early on Sunday morning. -. The
man had been to a wedding and had lef
a few hours before his body was found by
a trackwalker. :
—For preventing a wreck on the New
York Central railroad John Burfield, of
Keating, was given a check for $25 by that
company. The lad discovered a break . in
one of the rails as he was walking ‘along
the tracks and knowing that a passenger
train was soon due, he hurried to the home
of the operator and notified him of the
condition of the rail.
—Bucknell University is awarded $10,000
by the will of Mrs. Jennie Williams, wid.
ow of Dr. W. T. Williams, of Mount Car-
mel, which was probated on Monday at
Sunbury. Mount Carmel Chapter, Amer-
ican Red Cross, is given $2000; Oberlin
College, Oberlin, Ohio, $5000; Baptist
Women's Foreign Missionary society, New
York, $5000; and Harry Geist Post No.
101, American Legion, Mount Carmel, a
player piano.
—Artonio Apostolico, reported arrested
at Caserta, Italy, last week, is wanted for
the killing of Frank Materia, a grocer at
Burnham, near: Lewistown, in August,
1923. It is charged that Apostolico shot
Materia after a quarrel, the result of the
latter refusing to permit Apostolico to
marry his thirteen year old daughter.
Apostolico fled to Wilkes-Barre and is be-
lieved to have left the Suni by way of
Buffalo, N. Y. \
—~Immediate steps will be taken by the
State Old Age pension commission to ore
ganize the meeting to be held in Harris
burg November 13th for the discussion of
the problems of ‘administration and legis«
lative prospects. Governor Pinchot. will be
the chief speaker. The appeal of the Su-
preme court from the decision of the Dau-
phin county court against constitutionali-
ty of the act has been completed by the
Attorney General.
‘—Wilkes-Barre and Luzerne county offi-
cials are searching for the individuals who
early last Friday morning entered the ci-
gar store and = pool room conducted by
James P, Munley, at Sugar Notch, and
stole his entire stock, including the cash
register. When the proprietor opened his
store at the usual opening time Friday
morning, he was surprised to find it en<
proximately $1000. +
—Closing of the inter-county bridge be-
tween Milton and West Milton was order-
ed at a joint meeting of the Northumber-
land and Union county commissioners.
This action was taken following reports
from the engineer in charge of the re
building “of ‘the bridge that the structure
is in a weakened condition and is highly
As a result of the bridge be-
the west. shore of the river will be meces~
sary.
. Sallie Hulsizer, of Milton, on Sat-
vy filed her claim in her suit against
£3 oe Lonyivenis Power and Light com-
\ pany as a result of the electrocution of her
husband, Harry Hulsizer, in Milton, on
the night of July 2nd, 1923. She asks
$20,000 for the loss of her husband. Af
the same time William Hulsizer, brother
of the victim of the fatal accident, filed a
claim for $3,000 damages. He narrowly
escaped a like fate when he came in con-
tact with the death-dealing guy wire.
—“That’s how I would do it if a high-
wayman would attack me,” said William
Conrad, Shamokin High school Senior, on
Sunday night, as he whipped out a big re-
volver and fired a shot through Edward
Vv allish’s right lung. The boy fell with a
scream and was rushed to the Shamokin
State hospital, where he is in a serious
condition. Both boys are 19 years of age.
Conrad said he didn’t know it was loaded.”
Wallish begged for his friend’s release
from custody. Conrad is still being held.
—Fines on the installment plan are be-
ing tried by a Bloomsburg justice of the
peace to keep prisoners from going to jail
for an indefinite length of time, but a jail
sentence will be the punishment if the
law violators are even one day late in pay-
ing their installments. Six young men,
charged with dynamiting Little Fishing
creek, were fined $100 each and permitted
to pay the fine in $15 monthly installments.
Six months in jail is the penalty hanging
over each if the money is not in the hands
of the justice on the appointed day each
month.
—E. H. Wakefield, of Altoona, had a nar-
row escape from death Friday when he
came in contact with high tension wires
while helping to install the Lilly sub-sta-
tion of the Penn Central Light and Power
company. Wakefield was knocked from the
platform on which he was standing and
fell ten feet through a number of other
highly charged wires. He was uncon-
scious when reached by fellow workmen.
Dr. Lynch, of Cresson, treated the injured
man and he was taken to his home in Al-
toona. He is suffering from burns and
contusions of the body, but his condition
is not serious.
—Mary Benchuk, 40 years of age, of But-
ier township, Butler county, was sentenc-
ed in criminal court last Thursday by
Judge Henninger to pay the costs, a fine
of $800, and serve one year in the Alleghe-
ny county workhouse on a charge of vio-
lating the liquor law. She had pleaded
guilty to the second offense. The time for
beginning the prison term was extended
to December 1st, because of the fact that
her husband, Nick Benchuk, now in the
workhouse, will have completed a six
months’ term for bootlegging by that time
and can go home and run the farm and
take care of two children while his wife
takes her extended vacation,
—M. A. Davis, Mifflin county detective,
fell “victim to the chain gang, and spent
Saturday night in the open with a prison-
er. Farmers in isolated districts of Mif-
flin county have been pestered by persons
who have had automobiles wished on them
in more prosperous times, and are now
using them to collect vegetables and chick«
ens in the dark. The farmers have pad-
locked all machines parked along the
| cornfield fence, and settled with the own-
ers when they return for their car. The
county detective was watching for a moon-
shiner in’ Ort valley when a farmer, seeing
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his car parked, padlocked it, leaving the
detective and his prisoner out all night.
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