Benelli.
INK SLINGS.
—If Washington only beats the
Yanks out and Brooklyn or Pittsburgh
does the same thing to the Giants |
the baseball season will have been a
complete success, so far as we are con-
‘cerned.
—With Al. Smith running for Gov-
‘ernor of New York and McAdoo run-|
ning all over the west for Davis
we’ll say there must be some awful
disturbing thoughts racing through
“Silent Cal’s” mind.
—If the Republicans nominate Col.
"Theodore Roosevelt Jr. as their can-
didate for Governor of New York, as
they now seem certain to do, the world
is likely to hear a lot more of the oil
scandal than has come out thus far.
—After starting their campaign on
ridiculous claims the Republican cam-
paign spell-binders have already found
it necessary to begin warning against
over confidence. Senator Pepper told
‘the President on Tuesday not to get
‘too cock-sure.
—The German drummer who com-
‘mitted suicide because he believed
that the day of jazz is over certainly
did the right thing. It is a forlorn
hope that a drummer could ever find
a job in a real German band. We
never saw one. Did you?
—The Prince has departed. Yes, he
betook himself to Canada on Monday,
but it wasn’t good riddance of bad
rubbish for it was only silly fawning
to Royalty on the part of those who
profess democracy that made H. R. H.
appear any less democratic than we
think he really wants to be.
—The Governor’s much advertised
stumping tour of the State has been
abandoned. So far as Centre county
is concerned there won’t be any re-
gret because his itinerary didn’t call
for a stop here to help his friend
Holmes out of the hole he has gotten
into by his early campaign declara-
tions to the effect that he was a Pin-
chot candidate.
—William H. Noll will be your rep-
resentative if you send him to Harris-
burg. He wouldnt, if he could, go to
the Legislature tied up by promises to
this, that and the other organization
to vote for any legislation they should
present. He knows Centre county and
if you send him down there he’ll be
for what Centre wants. And not for
what a lot of fanatics think it should
have.
—If Gaston B. Means was lying
when he gave that damaging evidence
against disgraced and dismissed At-
torney General Daugherty, as he now
* says he was, who is going to believe
him now. By his own mouth he is a
self convicted liar and it was Daugh-
erty who created him a government
agent. Maybe Daugherty knew Gas-
ton’s propensities: at the time and
thought he would have use for them.
—Since hearing that the B. R. and
P. railroad has called as many as
twenty of its long laid off DuBois
men back to repair cars we are won-
dering whether Congressman Billy
Swoope is going to miss the chance to
proclaim it, from every stump he can
get on, as a sure sign of the prosper-
ity that he has brought to his district.
‘We hope he doesn’t, because he needs
all the tricks we can rake in. The
cards are running bad for Billy in this
campaign.
—One by one the politicians have
been knocking the props from under
Gen. Butler. He has lasted longer
than we thought he would, at that.
There are far more decent people than
otherwise in Philadelphia, but they
don’t make themselves felt on election
day and the few who do control. All
of Mayor Kendrick’s much vaunted
determination to stand behind his Di-
rector of Public Safety, no matter
what the consequences, seems to have
gone and with it Butler’s head will
have to be given to “the boys.”
—On Tuesday the Altoona Tribune,
the one paper that seems, since dear
old brother Dern departed some years
ago, to get its foot in its mouth more
than any other we know of, said, in
voicing its opposition to the League
of Nations: “We have seen their
kind in the United States, where
bureaucracy has often made itself ob-
noxious.” We would remind the Tri-
bune that since 1861, sixty-three years
ago, its party has been in control of
the government continuously, except
for the sixteen years served by Gro-
ver Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson,
and it had better have a care about
its declarations of obnoxious bureau-
cracy.
—While the county W. C. T. U. was
in session in Howard passing resolu-
tions urging more christianity in the
homes and more family altars and
more religious training for the chil-
dren of the county the criminal court
was in session in Bellefonte passing on
such a list of depraved and immoral
cases as has never before been heard.
God knows there is need for some-
thing. Resolutions are fine, but more
is needed than reams of noble expres-
sions spread on the minutes. How
many christian people do you suppose
there are who have ever said a kind
word to that pitiable little Sayers girl
from out in Curtin township ? Brought
into the world in a lonely, desolate en-
vironment she has grown to woman-
hood in nature, but remains a child
in mentality. She doesn’t know what
a resolution is. She might have es-
caped her said plight had some of us
© given more of our time to the field
and not so much to the platform. Her
sin is but a smudge on a blanket of
snow as compared with the all envel-
oping crimson that stains her betray-
er.
‘spect to -the operation of ‘the tax on
commission advised the President
‘by unanimous vote. They are also the
VOL. 69. BELLEFONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER
Tariff Tax the Greatest Burden.
When the Mellon tax bill was urg-
ed by President Coolidge and the Re-
publican party as the only and cer-
tain remedy for excessive taxation
the “Watchman” protested that it was
a quack prescription. The fault in
our tax system was not in the levy on
internal sources, whether on incomes
or articles of commerce. The high
cost of living was not greatly affected
by internal taxation. It was the tar-
iff tax that worked the evil results on
the family budget. The Mellon bill
was vicious because it discriminated
in favor of the rich and against the
poor. But the “crowning atrocity” in
taxation was in the tariff law, which
not only discriminated in the same
way but robbed many to enrich a few.
This view is confirmed in an inves-
tigation of the subject recently made
by Mr. Shaver, chairman of the Dem-
ocratic National committee, with re-
sugar. Six months ago the tariff
that the tariff tax on sugar is half a
cent a pound in excess of a just levy,
and recommended a decrease of the
tax to that amount. Mr. Shaver
shows by actual figures that this ex-
cessive half a cent tax on sugar costs
the consumers of sugar in the United
States the enormous sum of $145,000
a day or $52,925,000 a year. This is
only one item of an expense account
needlessly levied against the family
budgets of the country, which in the
aggregate amounts to not less than
five billion dollars a year, more than
$40 on every man, woman and child
in the country.
The nearly $53,000,000 a year
shamelessly and fraudulently taken
from the pockets of the people by this
excessive tax on sugar is distributed
among a group of growers of sugar
beets and cane in this country, less
than five hundred, and most of them
were delegates in the Republican Na-
tional convention at Clevelond which
nominated Mr. Coolidge for President
most liberal contributors to the Re-
publican campaign fund, so that the
money literally stolen from the con-
sumer of sugar is used to debauch the
ballot in the hope of. continuing in
power the administration which gives
the sugar barons license to loot the
public by the process of tariff taxa-
tion. The tariff tax on woolen ‘goods,
textile and other articles of necessity
in the household is equally excessive,
burdensome and wicked.
The income tax is excessive and
burdensome and the stamp tax on le-
gal papers, inheritances and similar
objects are objectionable and should
be greatly reduced. If the expenses
of administration of the government
were cut to an economic basis all tax-
es might be reduced by half without
impairment of efficiency. But so long
as the President complacently allows
profligacy and corruption in adminis-
tration and robbery of the public in
tariff and internal taxation, as Cal-
vin Coolidge has done since his acci-
dental elevation to the office of Pres-
ident, there will be no relief from tax
burdens except such as are expected
to work favors as the Mellon bill
would have done.
———————————————
“Birds of a feather flock to-
gether.” Gaston Means is back in the
confidence, if not in the affections, of
former Attorney General Daugherty.
Mrs. Allen Reports Enthusiasm
Among State Democrats.
Mrs. Edith B. Allen, vice chairman
of the Democratic State committee,
returned to Williamsport, on Monday,
from a tour through the eastern part
of the State, and reports a very gen-
eral interest and enthusiasm among
the Democrats of the counties which
she visited.
On Thursday, September 18th, Mrs.
Allen attended the luncheon and
meeting of the State Executive com-
mittee, held at the Bellevue-Stratford,
in Philadelphia, and that evening ad-
dressed a large group of men and
women who are organized in the “Get-
out-the-vote” movement.
On the evening of the 19th Mrs. Al-
len spoke to the Women’s Democrat-
ic club of Allentown, a live organiza-
tion of four hundred women, under
the leadership of Mrs. Mary Herbert.
Saturday, September 20th, Mrs. Al-
len was one of the speakers at the
Carbon county Democratic picnic,
held at the Lehighton fair grounds
and attended by hundreds of men and
women from the Congressional dis-
tricts. The other speakers on this
occasion were Congressman Everett
Kent, a candidate for re-election;
State chairman John H. Bigelow, Esq.,
and former Secretary of Labor, Wil-
liam B. Wilson.
Some scientist states that
“moonshining is a disease.” The
worm in the still must be the germ.
——ir Po me
Keep in mind that Gaston
Means only corroborated the evidence
of truthful witnesses.
| candidates gets the most votes.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
sunmmmm———
Silly Campaign Plan.
The silliest campaign plan ever de-
vised is that recently adopted by
Chairman Butler, of the Republican
National committee. It came in the
form of a suggestion, or order, that
the candidacy of the Democratic nom-
inee be ignored and simultaneously in
all sections of the country the orators
and organs of the Republican party
declared that John W. Davis is out of
the running and the contest for Pres-
ident is between LaFollette and Cool-
idge. The idea, it is suspected, was to
frighten conservative Democrats into
the support of Coolidge as preferable
in the office to LaFollette. That it has
failed of its purpose is beyond ques-
tion. It was too absurd to fool any-
body. Besides the difference is neg-
ligible.
In 1912 the Republican managers
pretended to believe that the inde-
pendent movement would work little
impairment of the Republican strength
throughout the country. They real-
ized that Roosevelt might get a few
votes in certain Republican States but
not enough to prevent the success of
the Taft electors in any of them. Up
to the last minute a plurality of a
quarter of a million was claimed for
Taft in Pennsylvania. But as a mat-
ter of fact Roosevelt got nearly twice
as many votes in Pennsylvania as
Taft, and in several other States he
divided the vote with Taft so evenly
that the Wilson electors were chosen
and Roosevelt had eighty-eight elec-
toral votes against eight for Taft.
The conditions are somewhat differ-
ent now and the regular Republican
candidate, Mr. Coolidge, may poll a
larger vote than the independent Re-
publican, Mr. LaFollette. Roosevelt
had personal strength that augmented
the independent party. But Mr. Da-
vis goes into the contest with a con-
siderably larger electoral strength
than either of the others and the con-
test is between the Democratic nom-
inee and whichever of the Republican
In
fact, if present expectations are ful-
filled in New York, it may be set down
as certain that Davis will get as many
electoral votes as Wilson received in
1912 and the ninety-six whieh went to
Taft and Roosevelt may go where
they like this year.
Of course Gaston Means lied in
his testimony in the Daugherty inves-
‘tigation. ‘If ‘he hadn’t. been’ a’ liar he
wouldn’t have been associated official-
ly with Daugherty, Farr, Burns, and
let us add, Ed. MacLean.
Punishment that Fits the Crime.
In sentencing a drunken chauffeur
to a stiff, but not excessive, term in
prison, the other day, Judge Miller, of
Montgomery county, said that mil-
lions of dollars are being wisely ex-
pended in an effort to eradicate the
fatal malady of cancer and that drunk-
en automobile drivers are killing as
many people annually as cancer. This
surprising statement should command
the attention, not only of all the
judges in the State but of the users
of automobiles and citizens generally.
We have no means of testing the ac-
curacy of the statement but Judge
Miller, being a highly respected jur-
ist, it may be assumed that he knows
what he is talking about.
We have referred to this great men-
ace to public life before and avail our-
self of the text given by this wise jur-
ist to repeat that driving automobiles
on the public highways by chauffeurs
under the influence of liquor is one of
the gravest crimes that can be per-
petrated. If the menace were limited
to the life of the offender it might be
overlooked on the theory that such
fools are “cumberers of the earth”
and might as well be removed at one
time as another. But in nine cases
out of ten the greatest sufferers are
persons on the road in pursuance of
business and pleasure who know how
to behave and do so.
Judge Miller said in pronouncing
sentence that the surest way to check
the evil is to make the penalty so se-
vere that even the reckless drivers
will take notice. This is probably
true, and for that reason it is to be
hoped that every judge in the Com-
monwealth will follow the example
set by the Norristown jurist. There
will be fool drivers on the road any-
way, no doubt, just as there are mur-
derers here and there. But there are
not as many murderers as there would
be if the punishment were light and
reckless automobile driving may be
diminished if every reckless driver is
given the “full extent of the law.”
The fellow who offers to pro-
vide funerals at $3 per may mean well,
but most of us decline bargains in
funerals.
: Common sense is all right in
its place but common honesty is more
important in public office.
: Probably the Prince had to sell
his polo ponies to get car fare to his
next stopping place.
26.
1924.
L. NO. 38.
Good News for Democrats.
After a careful survey of the field
Democratic leaders in Congress ex-
press confidence that the party will
have a majority in both branches of
the National Legislature, after the
4th of March. The present estimate
is that there will be 220 Democrats in
the next House of Representatives and
“a safe majority in the Senate.” In
the House Pennsylvania will contrib-
ute three or four to the increase. The
Cambria county district, the Shoe-
string district and this district are al-
most certain to return the Democrat-
ic candidates, and all the Democratic
members now in commission are cer-
tain to be re-elected.
In the Senate it is expected that the
party will gain in Colorado, Delaware,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, West Vir-
ginia, Michigan, Iowa and Illinois. In
Iowa and Michigan, for example, the
Independents won in the nominating
‘contests and the regulars appear
ready to support the Democratic can-
didates against Brookhart and Couz-
ens. In Illinois there is strong oppo-
sition to Deneen, the Republican nom-
inee, in his own party, and the La-
Follette influence will add to the
strength of the Democratic candidate.
In New Jersey a fight between the
factions has completely wrecked the
party and in West Virginia the Re-
publican nominee has been a non-res-
ident of the State for twenty years or
more.
This is gratifying news for the rea-
son that important events will be con-
sidered during the period of the next
Congress. The election of John W.
Davis is practically certain, but with
an adverse majority in Congress he
would be unable to achieve the results
he has in mind. It is the consensus
of enlightened opinion that this coun-
try should occupy a place in the
League of Nations and with a Demo-
cratic President and a Senate of the
same political faith this will be speed-
ily accomplished. We are glad to feel
that the Democrats of Pennsylvania
are taking their share of the burden
of this great work.
—That Pittsburgh church that is
trying to stimulate attendance by
serving breakfast in the Sunday school
room must be run by a board that
isn’t blessed with children of their
own else they would know that the
little folks will go further for and
linger longer around a counter of lol-
ly-pops and ice cream cones than they
will for all the cereals and bacon and
eggs in the market.
Coolidge Accused of Fraud.
The LaFollette campaigners are not
wanting in courage whatever else
may be said of them. In Chicago, the
other day, Senator Wheeler boldly
charged General Dawes, Republican
candidate for Vice President, with be-
ing accessory before the fact, if not
criminally participating in the bank
swindle in which William Lorimer, of
Chicago, robbed the patrons of the
LaSalle Street Trust and Savings
bank of something like a million dol-
lars. After declaring that “every
statement I shall make will be based
on court documents, on printed state-
ments of the candidate himself or on
other public documents easily obtain-
able,” he accused Dawes with co-op-
erating with Lorimer in that swindle.
The LaFollette-Wheeler campaign
text book, just issued, accuses Calvin
Coolidge with guilty knowledge of and
participation in the corrupt leasing
of the Teapot Dome and California
oil reserves. It will be recalled that
the investigation by the Senate com-
mittee of this scandal exposed a code
message from Washington to Edward
MacLean, in Florida, in which it was
said: “Saw principal. He says great-
ly appreciates and sends regards to
you and Mrs. MacLean. There will be
no rocking of the boat and no resig-
nations.” The author of the message
swore that Senator Curtis, of Kansas,
was the “principal.” Senator Curtis
denied it ‘positively. The campaign
book declares Coolidge was the per-
son referred to.
The President’s private secretary
was a guest at MacLean’s Florida “es-
tate” at the time. Developments in
the investigation had created intense
interest in political circles. The code
used was a government instrument of
secret communication. The White
House “operator” had dispatched the
message and a private telegraph line
had been constructed between the
White House and MacLean’s “estate,”
in order that MacLean “might have
easy access to the White House.”
These facts were all brought out in
the investigation. A campaign text
book is a responsible authority. The
party organization by which it is is-
sued is behind it.
calls for a good deal of explaining.
—————pe ne —
——Reports from all sections indi-
cate a large registration of women
voters in Pennsylvania this year. Let
us hope they will go to the polls with
an Dvisisianding of the tariff tax in
mind.
This statement
Shall Advanced Cases of Tuberculosis
be Cared for in the New Centre
County Hospital? If Not,
Where?
Mr. Arthur Dewees, executive sec-
retary of the Pennsylvania Tuberculo-
sis society, spent part of Tuesday in
Bellefonte in an effort to learn the
sentiment of this community towards
the care of advanced cases of tuber-
culosis. The present policy .of the
State Bureau of Health is to compel
counties to provide for advanced cases
rather than admit them to State san-
atoria which they are reserving for
cases that can be cured; advanced
| cases are admitted only to Hamburg.
! Thirteen counties have voted to
: build their own sanatoria but in coun-
| ties the size of Centre, it would be too
expensive to erect and maintain a san-
atorium, hence counties of this size
{are advised to combine or to make
i provision for care of advanced cases
lin local hospitals.
| This is. now being done in several
hospitals in the State and the late Dr.
Francine, chief of the tuberculosis di-
vision of the State Health Bureau, and
Dr. Turnbull, present assistant secre-
tary and supervisor of Cresson san-
atorium, have stated that there is no
reason why cases of tuberculosis can-
not be cared for in general hospitals
without danger of contagion to other
patients.
This would seem the logical thing
to do in this county and Mr. Dewees
was here to present the matter to the
County hospital, hoping the recon-
structed building would include a
room, floor, ward, or, whatever space
was possible, where tuberculosis suf-
ferers could be comfortably cared for.
He also interviewed the county com-
missioners, the county medical direc-
tor, the State: chest clinic chief and
then went to State College to call the
attention of authorities there to the
need of providing care for their ad-
vanced cases. He and Mr. Ira Foutz,
publicity director of the tuberculosis
society, conferred, Tuesday afternoon,
with Dr. Thomas, who has consented
to be chairman of the Christmas seal
sale of 1924.-< nih,
—Wouldn’t the abandoned fair
grounds make a fine tourists eamp if
the Business Mens Association should
undertake what so many other towns
| have already provided for the many
i motor travelers who do not stop at
"hotels but who do buy food stuffs in
{ the towns where camping sites are
available.
——— A ——————————.
Bellefonte Hospital News.
The first thing presented to Judge
Quigley on the convening of court, on
Monday morning, was the application
for the changing of the name of the
Bellefonte Hospital to Centre County
Hospital, and it was promptly ap-
proved.
The Department of Labor and In-
dustry has approved the plans sub-
changes and improvements to the in-
stitution. The board of trustees are
advertising for bids for the work.
Contractor John T. Harnish on
Wednesday completed the concrete
foundation walls and will probably
finish the piers this week.
Considerable interest is already
manifest in the approaching election
of a new board of trustees. As plan-
ned now double the number of men
and women required to constitute the
board will be put in nomination, and
those receiving the highest number of
votes will, of course, be elected.
——General Dawes understands dis-
cipline, anyway. Only one admoni-
tion from Coolidge was required to
close his mouth on the Klan question.
ints
Presbyterian Home an Assured Fact.
At a meeting of the committee of
Huntingdon Presbytery having charge
of the proposed home for the aged,
held in the Presbyterian church at
Tyrone last Wednesday, it was decid-
| od to proceed at once with the erec-
tion of a proposed addition to the
i Keller Property, at Hollidaysburg,
| purchased a year or so ago. The final
plans of Millard & Co., architects,
were approved and a sub-committee
was appointed to secure specifications
and advertise for bids for the work.
It is the hope of the committee to have
the addition under roof by Christmas.
The first unit will be devoted to the
care of aged women within the bounds
of the Presbytery. The committee
having the preparation of the home in
charge consists of R. H. Sommerville,
Winburne; J. Thompson Henry, Mar-
tha; W. V. Hughes, Hollidaysburg;
M. W. Crane and Rev. J. W. Francis,
Altoona.
One thing is practically settled.
Most all the Republicans are going to
i blame their defeat on Chairman But-
ler.
——The Thursday afternoon holi-
days ended yesterday.
mitted for the new wing and other '
new board of managers of the Centre |
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Warren county commissioners are
planning an issue of bonds in the amount
of $250,000. Of this amount $80,000 will
be expended on an addition to the court
house, and the rest will go into the con-
struction of a highway from Pittsfield to
‘Garland. } )
—Shot in the head over an eye, Victor
Strombosky, of Minersville, is in the
Pottsville hospital in‘ a serious condition.
He says his wife ordered him to do some-
thing, and when he refused she opened
fire on him. Mrs. Strombosky will be held
by county officials for the shooting.
—Mrs. Jennie Irwin, of Bellwood, aged
89 years, is the oldest member of the W.
C. T. U. in Blair county. She was born in
Huntingdon county. On April 15th, 1865,
she became a teacher of colored people,
working in the southern States twenty
years. She was married .to Abram R. Ir-
win in 1884. Mr. Irwin died four years
ago. ; z
—When J. 8S. Brown, of Jersey Shore,
was sitting in a restaurant at Northum-
' berland on Monday, a tire blew out on a
car just outside where he was perched eat-
‘ing a pork chop. The noise gave him a
fright, the pork chop went into his throat
and three doctors were summoned. They
finally saved his life, but he had been very
close to death, they said.
—While cleaning accumulated rubbish
from the home of Catherine Rosenberger,
an. aged woman, of York, Pa., workmen
‘found $1,611 and some small change which
the occupant of the house did not know
she had. The coins were found in stew-
pots and other containers mixed up with
.the rubbish. The money has been depos-
ited in a local bank in the woman’s name.
—Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Parker, for more
.than thirty years residents of Juniata, are
preparing to move to Alexandria, Hunt-
ingdon county. For sixteen years Mr.
Parker, who was in the lumber business,
was president of the First National bank
of Juniata, which he helped to organize.
He was a member of the first town coun-
cial and its president, serving from 1893 to
1908.
—An indictment charging murder in the
first degree was returned last Friday
against Dr. Cornelius M. Dailey, Harris-
burg physician, by the Dauphin county
grand jury. Dr. Dailey is charged with
the killing of Mrs. Anna Manbeck, who
was found shot to death in his office last
June. At the same time he was found suf-
fering from a bullet wound which he
claimed the woman inflicted. He said she
then shot herself. 5
—Mrs. Arabella Kelly Williams has been
chosen matron of the Children’s Aid Home,
Lock Haven, to succeed Mrs. Charles
Staub, resigned. Mrs. Williams has spent
many years in institutional work. At
Sunbury she was on the staff of the Odd
Fellows’ orphanage. She was matron of
a Masonic orphanage in Burlington, N. J.
Her father, a Methodist minister in the
Central Pennsylvania Conference, resided
in Lock Haven twenty years ago.
—The recently organized Pennsylvania
Plate Glass corporation is clearing a site
for the erection of a large plate glass fac-
tory in the neighborhood of the American
Plate Glass corporation’s plant at Durant
City, three miles from Kane. The compa-
ny plans to build a plant which will pro-
duce 5,000,000 feet of plate glass annually,
and will employ between 500 and 600
workmen. Dwelling houses will be erect-
ed near the plant for the use of the work-
men, and actual construction’ work is ex-
pected to be under way this fall.
—Fulton county is to lose its only rail-
road. After an operation of fifteen years
the twenty-one mile stretch of track is to
be scrapped by Louis Brenner & Co. of
Lebanon, who purchased the road and its
‘equipment, two locomotives and fifteen
cars from Reichley Brothers & company.
The road was built by the Reichleys, whe
owned extensive timber tracts in Fulton
county. This timber has now been mar-
keted. The road ran from Reichley sta-
tion on the Huntingdon & Broad Top rail-
road to the very heart of the Reichley tim-
Ler tract. ¢
—Fleeinz across roofs of Pittsburgh of-
fice buildings on Monday, to escape a po-
liceman, Stanley Gaylor, 19 years old, mis-
judged a leap across an airshaft and fell
five stories to crash through a skylight
into a candy shop. Taken to a hospital it
was found his injuries were superficial and
he was lodged in Central police station
with a charge of disorderly conduct against
him. Fifty patrons, mostly women, were
in the candy shop when the youth fell
through the skylight. He fell against a
counter and rebounded into a show case
scattering the broken glass among the sur-
prised patrons.
—Having scorned the bobbed hair fancy
and retained her hair at full length may
have been one of the contributing causes
in Miss Katherine Dowd, of Oil City, win-
ning the decision in a beauty contest to
determine the Pennsylvania girl to com-
pete for the crown of ‘Queen Petrolia” at
the oil and gas exposition at Tulsa, Okla.,
early in October. Miss Dowd was named
winner in the contest conducted by the
Oil City Derrick, representing the officials
of the exposition. Six entries kept the
judges in a quandary almost a day. The
winner is an Oil City girl. She will go to
Tulsa to compete with sixteen other State
“princesses.”
—While Mrs. William Weber, of Clover
Creek, Blair county, was working in the
garden on Friday, her attention was at-
tracted by a commotion in the kitchen of
her home. A hog had wandered from the
orchard into the house, and, with forelegs
on the table, was surveying the food that
had been prepared for the evening meal.
Mrs. Weber grabbed a broom and attempt-
ed to shoo the porker out the door. In-
stead, the hog pulled the tablecloth and
dishes off the table and began to run
around the room. At every circuit it over-
turned furniture and knocked down dishes
and pans, squealing as it ran. Finally
Mrs. Weber hit it with the broom and it
plunged through the door. The kitchen
was a wreck.
—In his desire to see as much of the
scenery as possible, Garret P. Roach, 30
years old, of Erie, leaned too far from the
window of a Pennsylvania Railroad ex-
press last Wednesday and fell from the
coach as the train was passing H. M. block
station near Huntingdon, and was run-
ning about thirty miles an hour. Roach
suffered abrasions of the forehead and
lacerations of the right hand. He was
given first aid treatment by a Huntingdon
physician and continued his journey on a
later train. Roach had just enlisted in
the medical corps of the United States ar-
my and was on his way to the Carlisle
barracks for training. He explained that
it was his first trip through that section
and that he wanted to see all the scenery.