Demorvaic datum,
Er TES
INK SLINGS.
—Don’t be too sure about Governor |
Pinchot’s impotence with the next
Legislature. He might “settle it” like
he did the coal strike.
—If this kind of weather is to keep
up until spring there’ll be a new na-
tional gm about Febru-
ary and it will be God save the coal
pile.
—New York barbers have voted to
boycott all of Valentino’s pictures be-
cause he has grown a beard. Now
what do you suppose they’d do to us
_if we should grow some hair?
—Wouldn’t this be the drab, dreary
world if it were not for the fellows
who buckle the red surcingle about
themselves and strut at the head of
the parades that some one else’s sac-
rifice or gratuity has called forth.
—There are just thirty-five days
left. Of course you’ll fool around un-
til there’s only one. If you do and
~can’t think of anything else, send
them the “Watchman” for a year. It
will be the most acceptable present
anyway.
—A little red Licker was left in a
Los Angeles home the other day and
the Prohibition sleuths havn’t gotten
on the job up to the time of our going
to press. There’s a reason. The Stork
left it in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Licker in that city.
—Yes, dear skeptic, there are a few
of the big kind left. On Monday a
gentleman walked up High street and,
as he was about to pass the room
where the Red Cross enrollment is be-
ing made, he stopped, voluntarily, and
“dropped ten iron men into the empty
box. Would that there were ninety
and nine more men whose satisfaction
comes from unostentatiously doing
such acts as this.
—What we can’t understand is why
the government thinks it better to
sink the George Washington, for
which we have already paid sixteen
million dollars, than to give the un-
completed hulk to the soldier boys to
knock down and sell as junk. Our
friend Nathan would make himself
rich out of it and there are plenty of
incapacitated service men who are
just as smart as Nathan.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. NOVEMBER 21. 1924.
_ VOL. 69.
Cambria County’s Congressman.
The disputed result of the vote for
Congressman in the Cambria county
district of this State has taken a sur-
prising turn. On the face of the re-
Signs that the Republican machine |
will show scant consideration to the |
interests and wishes of Governor Pin-
chot during the coming session of the
Machine Will Snub the Governor. i Promise of an Interesting Event.
Senator Couzens, of Michigan, who
was elected to a full term the other
day, without expense to himself or
anybody else, has broadcast informa-
turns the Republican candidate had
fifty-eight majority. On motion the
computing judges ordered the open-
ing of some of the ballot boxes which
developed a majority of fourteen for
Legislature are increasing. The Vare | tion that upon the reassembling of
influence in Philadelphia and the Max | Cofigress his investigation of the pro-
Leslie forces in Pittsburgh appear to hibition law enforcement operations
be positively hostile and are likely to of the Treasury Department will be
oppose any proposition, good or bad, | renewed. This is interesting and like-
'gressman from the district.
—Commenting on the opening of ;
-another grocery store in Bellefonte a
- gentleman remarked to us: “I think
isdiction is that of affirming or re-
which he offers. In the Philadelphia ,
delegation there is but one man inde-
pendent of the Vare power, while in
| Pittsburgh there are three groups!
with Leslie in absolute control of
about one-half the delegation. Half,
‘of the other half is under control of
the Magee-Oliver faction which might
. be annexed to the Governor and the
the Democratic candidate. Thereupon
the lawyers for the Republican candi-
date raised the point that because,
under the constitution of the United
States, Congress may regulate the
election. of Congressmen the comput-
ing Judges had no right to direct the
opening of the boxes, they being State
officials. Similar action has been tak-
en by the computing judges frequent- other half is marked independent.
ly. There is some talk and a remote
There are two judges in Cambria chance of an alliance between the
county and the court is equally _divid- | forces friendly to the Governor and
ed in politics. Judge Evans is a Re- ' the element yielding allegiance to Joe
publican and Judge McCann a Demo- | Grundy, the famous “boodle chaser,”
crat. They sat on Tuesday to hear of Montgomery county. The only
argument by counsel of the contest- barrier to such an alliance is a differ-
ants as to certification of one or the ence of preference for Governor in
other as the properly elected Con- 1926. Grundy and Auditor General
The Lewis have been close friends for
Judges agreed to disagree notwith- , many years and if Lewis becomes a
standing the fact that Judge Evans candidate for Governor, which is more
had previously joined with Judge Me- than likely, Grundy will espouse his
Cann in directing the opening of the cause. That, of course, would conflict
ballot boxes that resulted in depriving With the plans of the Governor be-
Walters of his majority and giving it cause Lewis is his “pet aversion.” |
to Bailey, the Democratic candidate. | TWo years ago Grundy favored John
Then they asked for a third Judge to Fisher, of Indiana, and Pinchot would
sit with them to cast the deciding vote. not object to him. But Lewis was not
Judge Baldridge, of Blair county, in the running then.
has been chosen and as he is a Repub- | The first break will be on the
lican the political complexion of the Speakership and thus far neither side
court is adverse to Bailey. | has expressed a choice. It is believed
In ordering the opening of the bal- that the Governor will favor the re-
lot boxes the Cambria county judges election of Mr. Goodnough, who was
concurred and the only question be- SO generous to him during the last ses-
fore the court on the challenge of jur- ' Sion, and Grundy has no objection to
his choice. Thus far the opposition
has gone no further than a declara-
In that
‘its obligations to the public.
ly to add considerably to “the gaiety
of nations.” This purpose of the Sen-
ator for Michigan expressed during
the last session made history. It de-
feated Governor Pinchot’s ambition to
be a delegate-at-Large to the Repub-
lican National convention and his op-
portunity to throw a harpoon into
somebody. Besides it made an egre-
gious fool of Senator Watson, of In-
diana.
These were more or less important
consequences of Senator Couzens
original announcement of a purpose
| to investigate the Treasury Depart-
ment activities in the matter of law
enforcement. But they are not all.
It made Secretary Mellon threaten to
resign and forced the President to re-
buke the Senate for trying to fulfill
It al-
most made the Republican machine
organize opposition to the election of
Senator Couzens and actually did cre-
ate a seandal which, if the voters had
not been morally palsied, would have
driven the Republican party out of ex-
istence. Taking one consideration
with another this purpose of the Mich-
igan Senator was a striking episode.
in polities.
But most of these things were only
“might-have-beens.” It is true that
Watson has never recovered his for-
mer status in the party, and that
Couzens appears to have “compromis-
ed with vice” to save his Senatorial
bacon. But we sincerely hope he will
. we have more now than the town can | versing their own decision.
support.” Perhaps we have, but as event, if the Republican judge shall
“there will be only fifteen groceries 'declare for reversal he will stultify
after the new one is opened they will himself. Possibly party exigencies
still be four short of the filling stations : may influence him to take that step,
_we boast. And it would be interest- but if they do he ought to resign for
know which costs the most: it will be a confession of incapacity.
The human stomachs or the gas tanks In any event the matter is interest.
of the motors, “© {0 ore Damoeratie candidate, War-
—The Superior court has upheld the | ren Worth Bailey is a man of marked
Sieg fhe aT Be Se alin on Tiloy t= 2 wan of marked
of Cambria county, Judge Finletter in Congressional legislation. But if
presiding specially, in which fourteen ' the question is determined on its mer-
of the K. K. K.s who participated in its and in the interest of honesty,
the fatal riot at Lilly last April were , Bailey will win.
sentenced to two years in prison. We |
are sorry for the unfortunates, of | ——The “strip” political boss must
course, but we’re grateful for the les- have been out of the city when a Pitts-
son that their foolishness should teach burgh judge decided that the State
those who think they have the right law for padlocking is valid.
to take the law in their own hands.
—Taking responsibility as it comes |
we rise to ask who is to blame for | . SEIT .
freezing the potatoes, celery, hydrants | Sis pmally te 2pbolotment of
nd everything else that had a right |; 20nd! chairman William B. ut
2 ller to fill the vacancy as Senator in
to expect a few more weeks in which '
to get into their winter flannels? If Congress caused by the death of Sen-
Gal's lection into be given the lary | 107 Luda, of Massachusetts, calls t
of making millions already for the | lowed the election of William MeKin-
“ticker” business men of the country | :
why shouldn’t Cal’s election step up ° ley in 1896 when Mark Henna wos Lap
: : inted Senator for Ohio.
and admit that it gave the back-yards, Dolnie Ws . .
the $ruos patches and the water pipes’ er rei a
the jee? ful in business. Each came to the
—It was to be expected that EVeIY- | service as “guide, philosopher and
body would have a cure for the sleep | fring” of the candidate for President,
ing sickness which in the final diagno- | ; 1, 40r obscure son of the State in
sis, is what is ailing the Democratic |
party, but we have no faith in those
doctors who want to give it the reor-
ganization panacea. The Pennsylva-
Coolidge Luck Maintained.
ped the expensive methods of cam-
| paigning which Mr. Butler developed
‘to perfection and both had personal
| which he lived. Mr. Hanna introduc-
nia Democracy took that dose some
years ago and has had one foot in the
grave ever since. The party doesn’t
need any more nostrums. What it
needs is a little osteopathy to put :
something into the back-bones of the '
young and a monkey-gland infusion
for the old Democrats.
—~Cheer up, the worst is yet to
come! All you Bellefonters who have
been abominating the night noises, !
since obsolescence robbed you of the '
urge to make a lot of them yourselves,
had better take residence in the coun-
try after April 1st, next. The gov-
ernment has arranged to have two
mail planes arrive here just after the
last . night motor visitor has warmed
up his engine, ground his gears
and sounded a farewell honk under
your windows. They will drone
around in the sky hunting the land-
ing field, just long enough to keep
your nerves a quiver until it is time
to get up for breakfast.
—The Philadelphians who have de-
clined to take a portrait of their niece
from an artist whom they had com-
missioned to paint it are getting the
lady into a very embarrassing situa-
tion. They refused it because, they
say, he made her appear “too fat.”
He has sued to recover eight hundred
dollar for his work and, we think he’ll
get it out of court. When it comes
‘down to parading nature’s endowment
before a jury of twelve men we have
vet to see the lady who wouldn’t rath-
er die than do that. -She can turn the
portrait to the wall, but she can’t sup-
press newspaper notoriety. Besides,
what’s eight hundred dollars to a girl
who is in danger of having a court re-
veal that straight-line gowns are only
a smoke-screen for obesity.
interest in legislation.
carry out his present purpose of re-
tion of hostility to any candidate the | OPening the question. The Volstead
Governor favors. W. Clyde Harrer, | law ought to be enforced or repealed
of Williamsport, is talked of among | and the investigation which was
the leaders. He was a candidate for | checked last spring by the illness of
the honor two years ago but gave way | Senator Couzens will result in one of
in the interest of harmony and to these things or the other. If it is
please the Governor. Representative Proven that the Secretary of the
Marshall, of Beaver, is also mention- | Treasury has been in league with the
ed as a possible aspirant but no defi- booiggers, he is unfit for the high
nite lines have been drawn between POSHIon he occupies in the public life
them. ‘of the country.
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The State is going to provide
—A year ago we acclaimed Musso- | : Tie
ii: + street mark
lini, the iron man of Italy, and pre- ers x oliley And towns,
|
] { After awhile our old friend, Local
dicted that he was riding to his fall. | 1£- i thi
Fall has came and is almost went, but [3 Eovernimants Wl Lave nothing to
A J id ist.
things are beginnng to look as though | 2 but Preronl togxit |.
Musso will be with the dodos by the! . ’
time spring arrives. | —We are wondering what the Phil-
; | adelphia sports writers would have
Se p said had it been Ernie Couzens and not
Sure of a “Bully Time. { Ted Artelt who scooped up that fum-
poy Sgrieuliune] commission. wiih | 10S) 16 sisty yards for 3 tuck
lent i as pro ised Nicol + that the officials for college football
fs valuable iii as monte Se | games are designated only after noti-
dence that at i some of the ib (fication of acceptance by the contend-
: led | ing teams and that Crowell probably
ps Sessa i be Fo0osmed | did rule the play as he saw it, but we
Bore te ey = 7% know that the attitude of Phila-
west and middlewest in support of the | Siar nT hl ay ovard Sats al-
Ruy ticket. The fulfillment | flect Penn’s So ro
vi Shave little beyond that of fool- | ward the Centre county institution, so
ig WW dg postod of ms. | that had the “break” in last Satur-
0 complaint can be found wi e ) : :
personnel of the commission and when (rs ame ’ Pro oe Other Se
the is said about all features of the | ing rors a ns ¢ am
li covered. It is.a harriess | plaining a ruling that needed none, if
The members of the commission [it was fair, Ie result of the game
paid their respects to the President | vo 2 bitter disappointment to Penn.
on Monday and assembled for organi-
ogy is characteristic of Mr. Coolidge’s Zation on Tuesday. They will spend
luck. Hanna wanted to get into the @ Week or two pleasantly in Washing-
Senate to promote tariff legislation on | ton and talk cautiously on the subject
iron and steel. But the seats for for which they were called together.
Ohio were filled, and though Sherman | The two or three measures pending,
was old, he showed no signs of an ostensibly for the benefit of agricul-
early death. Therefore he had to be | ture, will be gone over and the sev- !
“bought off” and the lure of a cabi- | eral propositions contained in them
net portfolio was dandled before his | compared with the view of reconciling
eyes. Mr. Sherman imagined that he | the differences in a compromise bill.
was a financier and accepted the office. | But the chances are more than even
He became one of the most inefficient | that they will fail to come to an agree-
Secretaries of the Treasury in the his- | ment. They will have, however, what
tory of the country and finally wor- | the late Colonel Roosevelt would call
ried himself into the grave. But Han- | “a bully time.”
na became as successful in the Senate | But no member of the commission |
as he was in business. No tariff ad- | Will point out the real trouble of the |
vantage ever escaped his keen eyes. | farmers and neither the President nor |
Mr. Butler is also deeply interested | any of his official advisers will sug-
in tariff legislation as a millionaire gest it. The excessive tariff tax is the |
manufacturer of cotton fabrics and
has expressed a desire to operate on
the “ground floor.” It is generally
understood that President Coolidge
was in full accord with his ambition,
but if Lodge had lived it might have
been a difficult matter to arrange.
Nothing less than the office of Secre-
tary of State would have induced
Lodge to resign from the Senate and
his palpable unfitness for that station
as well as his obligations to the pres-
ent incumbent, Mr. Hughes, made the
offer of that place practically impos-
sible. But the “Coolidge luck” hap-
pily solved the problem and Butler
may become as dominant a hoss as
Hanna was.
SO —— ly
Financial experts are advising
investors to be careful, but stock
gamblers are not likely to take the
advice seriously.
The one striking break in the anal-
vin this country. It deprives farmers |
of an abundant and safe market and |
that is precisely what they need: Eu- |
rope can’t buy the products of Amer-
ican farms for the reason that the |
products which Europe has to ex-
change are excluded from our mar-
kets by atrocious and absurd tariff
levies. A revenue tariff would cure
this evil and that, too, without de-
pressing prices to a dangerous level.
——One bootlegger to one-hundred
in population is the ratio in Washing-
ton, D. C. When Congress is in ses-
sion the sources of supply will be
greater in proportion.
——Pennsylvania has been without
representation on the Federal Su-
preme court a long time but has man-
aged to get along fairly well,
She wanted to win, for then she could
have carried out her contemplated
plan of dropping State from her next
year’s schedule with better face than
she will have if she does it now after
having been consistently beaten in
nearly every contest played since
State has developed beyond the prac-
tice game class.
Sr rr ———
——While it is being done very qui-
etly it is true, nevertheless, that men
are being laid off from jobs in Belle-
fonte for some time, which doesn’t
augur well for the good times prom-
ised before the election. .
rr
It is said that von Tirpitz sees
no hope for the future. If he had his
just dues he would see nothing but
hot coals at present and in the fu-
real cause of agricultural depression | “Wr€
mat
——There is some comfort in the
practical certainty that LaFollette
will not be threatening to run for
President in the future.
The prohibition enforcement of-
ficials have their own opinion of Con-
gressman Hill, of Maryland, but that
doesn’t disturb Hill.
——The lust for spoils is on in full
force and the hope is that it will dis-
rupt the Republican party within two
years.
Strange as it may seem Gover-
nor Pinchot doesn’t know that he is
politically dead.
——The turkey that survives today
may only strut for another month.
Official Omniscience.
From the Philadelphia Record. po
There is a story of a girl who list-
ened for some time to her best young
man’s opinions—he was a sophomore
—and finally exclaimed: “If must be
lovely to know everything. And he
calmly replied: “Itis.” ~~
It is a very natural thing for every
convention to wish to see the Presi-
dent and hear him talk, but it really
can’t matter much what he says on
many occasions. Of: course, an earn-
est and very serious son of Massachu-
setts must be able at any moment to
make an entirely correct address on
education and religion and the domes-
tic virtues, and the holy influence of
home, and what we owe our mothers.
But when he feels it a part of his offi-
cial duty to instruct bankers in bank-
ing, merchants in trade, and farmers
in agriculture, the labor is y more
than he ought to assume in addition
to his strictly official work. Official
omniscience is not imposed upon him
by the Constitution. : :
The President has recently been
talking to the farmers about the vicis-
situdes of their occupation since the
war. He sees the home demand for
food products increasing so fast that
within 25 years we shall have to im-
port food, and in the meanwhile he
commends co-operative marketing to
the farmers.
the authors of the McNary-Hauton
bill to have the government take
charge of agricultural exports and fix
their prices, has no faith in co-opera-
tive marketing, except for limited
special crops, say prunes or olives.
As our birth rate is decreasing and’
we are shutting out foreigners, our
population is not going to increase in
the next 25 years as fast as in the:
last, and we shall not attempt to pass
judgment on co-operative marketing.
But we invite attention to some of
the most obvious vicissitudes of agri-
culture since the war which hardly
Seem to admit of governmental con-
trol. ii
When all Europe was fighting the |
demand for our food was enormous.
When all Europe gave up fighting and
returned to farming there was less de-
mand for our food and prices fell. The
high prices of wheat and hogs sent up
the prices of land, and the peak was
reached in 1918, when great numbers
of farmers in the Northwest bought
additional land on mortgage at the top
figures. It was bad enough to have
the prices of farm products. «ome
down, but the mortgages didn’t"
down, and many of them matured in
1923. Some mortgages were extend-
ed; many were foreclosed. This in-
creased the depression of prices of
both land and products.
There were two other contributing
causes to the low prices of 1923, when
agriculture became an acute issue in
politics. One was the Capper-Tincher
law, which drove many speculators
out of the grain markets. The far-
mers demanded it, they got it, and it
contributed to the low price of wheat.
The other was that the Canadian
wheat crop was phenomenal; it was
474,000,000 bushels. Wheat in Chica-
go went below $1. This year Euro-
pean wheat crops are less than last
year, the Canadian crop is 203,000,000
bushels less, and December wheat in
Chicago has touched $1.56.
We do not pretend to have exhaust-
ed all the elements of the problem,
but we have presented the most strik-
ing of the vicissitudes of agriculture
‘since the world war, and unless the
Capper-Tincher bill was a mistake-—
which it probably was—we do not see
much here that the action of the gov-
ernment could have prevented.
Problems of the Farmer.
Henry A. Bellews in The Forum.
Fundamentally, the problem of the
farm relief can be solved only by the
farmers themselves. They must learn
to get as much out of their land as it
is capable of producing, and they must
learn to be business men. Specifically,
the wheat farmer must cease trying
to make a living out of raising eight
or nine bushels of wheat to the acre
from land that successive years of
wheat cropping have robbed of its fer-
tility. At any price there is no profit
in the nine-bushel wheat farm—and
the average wheat yield per acre in
North Dakota in 1923 was 7.1 bushels.
In Western Canada in 1923 the aver-
age wheat yield was 22.1 bushels to
the acre. Virgin soil, yes, but in
France, where every available foot of
ground has been made to bear crops
for centuries, the wheat yield per acre
in 1923 was 21.8 bushels. Eight bush-
els of wheat to the acre, at one dollar
a bushel, means a gross return hard-
ly more than enough to pay interest
on the purchase price of $100 land; 20
bushels an acre, at the same price,
yield a fair profit above all expenses.
No law can make the farmer rotate
his crops so as to increase his yields
to a point where they can earn money
for him, but the iron rule of economic
necessity, supported by education, is
actually accomplishing it.
rent pr eirinenioiin
Ought to Have It.
From the Harrisburg Telegraph.
One familiar with that section of
the State can readily understand the
desire of the people of Lock Haven
and Renovo for a through highway
joining those places and going to
Driftwood and beyond. Not only
should these important communities
be linked up by a modern road for
purposes of neighborhood communi-
cation but for the benefit of the tour-
ist as well: The suggestion that the
State Highway be asked to make a
survey of the route is in good form.
Senator McNary, one of
| SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Two: bandits entered the Standard Ci-
gar company offices in Pittsburgh, seized
a payroll of $8000 and escaped in an au-
tomobile, : et
—Five hundred miners of the Pennsyl-
.| vania Coal company in Pittston, struck be-
cause of a dispute over the use of dyna-
mite for blasting.
—Lewistown Eagles purchased the Raf-
fensberger property on West Market street
for $16,000 and will erect a five-story busi-
ness and club building. ;
—The third fire of supposed incendiary
origin in the Beech Creek section destroy-
ed the hay shed belonging to John H.
Hunter, last Friday night. Authorities
are investigating. » :
—York county's oldest resident, Mrs.
Casandra Stein, who would have reached
the 102nd milestone in life today, died at
her residence at Windsor, last Friday, at
1:15 p. m. Mrs. Stein, who was an invet-
erate user of tobacco, smoking at least one
pipeful each day, leaves 137 direct descend-
ants.
—Clinton Diehl, an East Stroudsburg
business man who on Saturday night es-
caped from the Monroe county jail where
he was awaiting sentence for a statutory
offense, returned to the prison on Sunday
and surrendered. He told Sheriff F. A.
Bosner that he had just gone out “to see
the kiddies and my family.”
—The body of Howard Blair, of Wil-
liamsport, was found hanging from the
Reading Railroad trestle at the foot of
Susquehanna street in that city, about 7
o'clock on Sunday morning. He had plac-
ed a rope around his neck after fastening
it to the trestle and had jumped to his
death. He was a man of middle age and
married.
—Because a payroll bandit was foiled a
night or two ago in his efforts to rob pay-
master J. W. Scureman, of the Burns
Brothers Coal company of Grampian, of
$4,000, the same man early on Monday
morning set fire to a number of poultry
houses on Mr. Scureman’s chicken farm
and besides destroying the building burn-
‘ed about 500 chickens.
—Joseph Guinter, who was born in Platt
township, Lycoming county, in 1854, holds
an unique record. He is a tenor and has
sung in the Pine Street Methodist church,
in Williamsport for thirty-seven years.
Prior to that he was a member of the choir
of the church at Larryville for eighteen
years, making fifty-five years in consecu-
tive service singing in two choirs.
—Sixty-five pouches of second-class mail,
twenty-two parcel post packages and
twenty-three reels of moving picture
films were destroyed when a freight car of
the York Railways company was set on
fire on Monday at Blairs station, York
county. The freight car was ignited by a
broken trolley wire. It was entirely con-
sumed by the flames. The damage is es-
timated at $20,000.
—Seventy persons were arrested in a
raid by state police on an alleged gam-
bling house at McKees Rocks, a suburb of
Pittsburgh, early Sunday morning, Ac-
cording to the raiders, thousands of dol-
lars were in play at various tables when
they entered, but much of the money was
Snatched up by players during the excite-
ment. The state police said $1,665 was left
on the tables. It was seized for evidence.
—DBecoming hysterical when she discov-
ered that she had burned her husband's
pay envelope with an old pair of trousers,
Mrs. Edward J. Dougherty, of Catasauqua,
took poison. She is in the Allentown hos-
pital and will recover. During the excite-
ment Homer McHose, who recently moved
to Catasauqua from Port Jervis, N. J., and
who is suffering from a nervous break-
down, drank some of the same poison. He,
too, is expected to recover.
—Free on parole for the last five years,
after having served ten years of a twenty-
five-year sentence in the western peniten-
tiary for complicity in the kidnapping of
Willie Whitla, wealthy Sharon, Pa., boy,
Ilelen Bovle, now of Chicago, is seeking
absolute freedom. Formal application for
release from her parole, in effect a pardon,
has been made to the State, Warden Ashe
announced on Monday. The Boyle wom-
an’s husband, Jimmy Boyle, who died in
prison a few years ago, was given a life
term,
—The old covered bridge near Beech
Creek is to be extensively repaired, fol-
lowing a conference of the commissioners
of Centre and Clinton counties. This
bridge is an old landmark, and one of the
few covered bridges left in that section.
Several hundred persons use it each day,
and motor traffic will be heavy over it
since it is in the direct route to the mew
Pennsylvania Railroad station being con-
structed at Eagleville, to which place the
agency will be moved from Beech Creek
the first of the year.
—The Pennsylvania Realty Investment
company, of Allentown, has taken title to
a tract of land along the west side of the
Susquehanna river, at Shamokin dam, for
$20,000. This is the holding company of
the Pennsylvania Power and Light com-
pany, which controls all of the lighting
corporations in the northeastern part of
the State. Upon the newly acquired site a
$7,000,000 super-power plant will be built.
Due to the almost inexhaustible supply of
river water the corporation plans to make
this one of the biggest plants in the east,
it was said.
—A strange case of mistaken identity
was revealed at Pittsburgh, last Friday,
when Patrick J. McDonough returned to
his home after a week’s absence, to find his
family mourning him as dead and gather-
ed about the body of a stranger. The
body had been identified as that of Me-
Donough at the city morgue Thursday by
the Rev. B. McDonough, a son, and also
by a nephew. The body is now believed to
be that of James Jones, a resident of a lo-
cal hotel. The man had died of heart dis-
ease last Thursday at the hospital. After
McDonough’s joyous reunion with his
family, the body of the stranger was again
removed to the morgue.
—After a chase of seven years by postal
detectives Edward Bowser was arrested on
Thursday at his home in Lajose, Clearfield
county, on a charge of having robbed the
postoffice at Winslow, Jefferson county, in
August, 1917. At the time of the robbery
$142.20 was taken from the postoffice.
Three men were implicated, two of whom,
Edward Eccelbarger and James Smith,
were arrested at the time. Bowser escap-
ed. He was known to have spent some
time in Chicago and other western points.
Some time ago he returned to Lajose and
secured work in the mines. Upon learning
this fact postal authorities soon located
and arrested him. He was taken to Pitts-
burgh for trial.