Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, April 17, 1925, Image 1

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    _ Beworiatdm.
INK SLINGS.
—They bust governments in Eu-
rope easier than we bust trusts in
America.
—Lent being over the friend who
cut out cigarettes and took to cigars
has given up the cigars and gone back
to cigarettes.
—The Legislature has adjourned
and Centre county’s Member is home,
disillusioned, we presume. If he isn’t
he ought to be.
—On April 15th, 1916, farmers of
Centre county had not begun to plow.
Today most of them are done and
many have their oats sowed.
—Rebecca Naomie is to sail for Eu-
rope shortly. We are not advised as
to whether she intends to return in
time to pick another Judge for Centre
county.
—Time flies so rapidly that the last
wisp of smoke from the burning
spring rubbish pile hasn’t disappeared
in the sky until we detect another
curling from the pyre of fall leaves.
—Col. MacMillan wants small men
for his flight to the North Pole. He
says the big fellows can’t stand the
gaff like little ones do. They take a
bigges hole in the ice too, and arctic
ice is hard to dig.
—The suggestion that the State in-
.crease the tax on gasoline and reduce
the license fees for automoblies, is
not without some merit. Under such
a plan those who use the roads most
would contribute most towards their
upkeep.
—If Harvey Markle had attempted
to beat that motor policeman with his
business wagon instead of his pleas-
ure car we fear that his “clover-leaf
chocolate milk” would have been
fudge ere he ended his wild flight in a
corn field.
—Since nobody else seems to have
thought it timely may we suggest that
you swat the first fly you see. If you
think it unimportant bear in mind that
there would have been no you, or me,
had something swatted Adam before
he gave up that rib.
—-Since July 81st, 1924, we have
waited, with all the patience that one
with a terrible weakness can, for
Wednesday. It came only to prove
that anticipation is about all there is
to any great pending event. We
caught three puny trout.
—The period of jazz government in
Pennsylvania is drawing to a close.
The Legislature has adjourned and
the Pinchots have had their last
chance, unless they call a special ses-
sion, of leaving their personal impres-
sions on the statutes of a State of
which. they are only femporary resi-
dents. .
A discussion we heard last Friday
leads us to believe that if the Pres-
byterians don’t find some other place
than the hill back of their church on
which to dump the ashes of the fires
necessary to keep them physically
warm while trying to get het up a bit
spiritually there is going to be a de-
mand that a few elders be planted
there to hide the unsightly accumula-
tion.
—Next Monday we expect to cele-
brate the fifteenth anniversary of our
declaration of dependence. Fifteen
years back from that date we might
have qualified as an ace in any high
flying squadron. Since then domestic-
ity has so benevolently assimilated us
that we shall feel that we are doing
something really devilish when we go
to the movies Monday night to com-
memorate.
—Poor Norman Selby. In the hey-
day of his fistic triumphs as “Kid
McCoy” he was the idol of the sport-
ing fraternity. Today, he is in San
Quentin prison, California, doing from
four to thirty-four years for complic-
ity in a murder. He was a great
fighter of men, but booze and the
white lights finally licked him just as
they have and will everyone else who
enters the ring with them.
—The President is reported as hav-
ing become an advocate of “State’s
Rights.” He is going in to unscram-
ble the scramble toward -centraliza-
tion of government that has for years
been insidiously sapping the initiative
of the Commonwealths of the Union
and building up a paternalistic bu-
reaucracy at Washington. More pow-
er to Silent Cal. May Plymouth be-
come the Monticello of Vermont.
—A pretty question of law has
bobbed up in the Chapman case. The
bandit is under sentence to serve
twenty-five years in a Federal prison
for mail robbery. Meanwhile Con-
necticut law has convicted him of
murder and wants to hang him. Chap-
man’s lawyers say Connecticut can’t
be accommodated until his engage-
ment with Uncle Sam is kept. The
President might commute his federal
sentence to oblige Connecticut. Other-
wise the Supreme court will have to
solve the unique legal problem.
—In his letter explaining cuts in
hospital appropriations Governor Pin-
chot says: “While I can reduce
amounts absurdly in excess of pos-
sible needs, etc.” From that we are
to infer that he cut $3000.00 from ‘the
bill for Centre County hospital because
it was “absurdly in excess of possible
needs.” The Governor has many
friends and admirers in Centre coun-
ty. Is there one of them who will
write us a letter stating that we are’
doing him an injustice when we say
that he talks like a nit wit when he
says $13,000 were “absurdly in excess
of possible needs” of the Centre Coun-.
ty hospital for the next two years.
‘Senate. The
_VOL. 70.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA... A] APRIL 17, 1925.
NO. 16.
w arren and Myers Cases Not Alike.
The labored effort of some Republi-
can contemporaries to establish an
analogy between the refusal of the
Senate to confirm the nomination of
Charles S. Warren, of Michigan, to
the office of Attorney General, and
the action argued in the Supreme
court on Monday incident to the re-
moval of Frank Myers from the office
of postmaster of Portland, Oregon, :
by President Wilson in 1917, is abso-
lutely futile. Mr. Warren failed of
confirmation because in the opinion
of a majority of the Senators he was
unfit for the office.
he had long been closely identified .
with the Sugar trust, not-as a lawyer
but as an agent, in its efforts to
stifle competition and create a
monopoly. The government is in liti-
gation with the Sugar trust and the |
Attorney General would have charge
of the proceedings.
The right of the Senate to refuse
confirmation of Mr. Warren was
never challenged by anybody except
the President himself, and he dcesn’t
seem to know much about the sub-
ject. It was asserted by Senators
favorable to confirmation that it has
been customary to allow the President
free choice in the selection of his
cabinet. But that custom grew upon
the theory that the President would
select fit men for the service. There
had been exceptions to the rule and
the records show that the public in-
terests would have been conserved
if there had been more of them. In
any event the constitutional right of
the Senate to reject a nomination
by the President for a cabinet office
was not involved, nor was the ques-
tion of a conflict of authority between
the President and Senate raised, di-
rectly or indirectly.
In the Myers case, on the other
hand, that is the sum and substance
of the controversy. Mr. Myers sued
the government for salary covering
‘the period from the date of removal
to the time his term would have ex-
pired, on the ground that a dismissal
from office as-well as an appointment
to office mus be confirmed by the
- of Claims, in which
the suit was “tried, @etided against
Mr. Myers and he appealed to the
Supreme court where the question
was argued on Monday. The decis-
ion of the court has not been handed
down: at this writing and the result’
is still in conjecture. But there is
certainly an absénce of similarity be-.
tween the issues involved in the two
cases. The Myers case directly de-
nies a prerogative frequently exer-
cised by the President. The Warren
case doesn’t even touch that question.
Childish Threat of the Governor.
The “comedy of errors” in Harris-
burg has developed a new and some-
what startling feature. The Governor
threatened to veto the appropriation
to the sesqui-centennial as an expedi-
ent to punish the Legislators of that
city for opposing his pet measures.
It is a contemptible prostitution of
power, of course, but not altogether
surprising. The Governor is a selfish,
false pretender of such limited vision
that even so absurd a proposition
might appeal to him. In any event
the threat serves to reveal him in his
real character. He is simply a politi-
cal huckster whose stock in trade is
public patronage and official favor
which he offers in exchange for per-
sonal service.
The State of Pennsylvania, by res-
olution of the Legislature of 1921
and 1923, stands committed to spon-
sorship of the sesqui-centennial. Upon
that sponsorship Congress authorized
the President to invite the civilized
world to participate in its activities.
The sister States of the Republic have
been similarly urged to contribute to
its success. As an evidence of good
faith and token of sincerity the Leg-
islature of this year properly voted
an appropriation of one million dol-
lars to defray the expenses of partic-
ipation. It might have doubled the
amount and remained within the limit
of propriety. But the Governor
threatens to veto the bill because he
is peeved over his failure to control
the Legislature.
What a spectacle of hopeless idiocy
is expressed in this childish gesture?
The honor of the State would be out-
raged, the faith of the people flouted
if this threat were fulfilled, and for
no other reason than that a majority
of the Senators and Representatives
in the General Assembly exercised
their absolute right to disagree with
the Governor. It may be, and proba-
bly is true, that the Senators and
Representatives were influenced by
selfish motives in their action. But
their wrong doesn’t justify the in-
finitely greater wrong which the Gov-
ernor threatens to perpetrate. It
serves the purpose of a “card index”
to classify the mental and moral stand-
ard of the Governor of the State.
'—The best job work done here.
It was proved that
Bitter Fight Ended in Compromise.
After prolonged and bitter wrang-
ling the conference committee on the
general apropriation bill submitted its
report to the House of Representa-
tives in Harrisburg, on Morday even-
ing. It provides for a decrease of the
Senate bill of $291,620 and an increase
i of $9,148,495.00 over the original
{ House bill. The Senate acted upon
the measure while public indignation
| over the meager allowance for educa-
tional purposes was active and the
Governor had the Vare-Grundy ma-
chine on the run. The conference ac-
tion was taken after more mature de-
liberation and in the face of partially
restored confidence of the machine
managers. It leaves something for
the Governor to do in balancing the
! receipts and expenditures.
The Governor estimates that the
appropriations, including the general
1 { bill as framed by the conference com-
| mittee, will exceed the revenues for
the biennium by something like $10,-
000,000. The Legislators propose to
increase the revenues by more than
that amount through the extension of
the emergency tax en gasoline, the
bill providing for a part of the na-
tional inheritance tax and the bill pro-
viding for a uniform tax on book val-
ue of capital stock. The Governor is
not persuaded that these measures
will produce adequate revenues to bal-
ance the accounts, especially if the
sesqui-centennial million dollar ap-
propriation is approved, and public
opinion demands approval of that
measure. .
In the Senate bill the hopes of the
State administration is clearly ex-
pressed. The budget provision for the
Attorney General’s department was
adopted and practically everything the
Governor asked for except the half
million dollars for enforcement of the
Volstead law was allowed. But the
conference bill cuts the appropriation
for the Department of Justice, reduces
that for the state police and slices
that for fighting the Japanese beetle.
Obviously these cuts were made in or-
der that the Governor might come to
all the Legislature controls the purse
and will hold to its Prerogative to the
end.
pital were short lived. The Legisla-
stead of $10,000, as it had been. The
nal figure, which means that this com-
munity will have to contribute that
much more toward the maintenance
deficit.
Pinchot’s Radiant Opportunity.
If the Governor doesn’t overlook a
brilliant opportunity he may cut the
expenses of the State considerably by
the use of his ever ready pen. The
bill increasing the salaries of the
judges is before him, if he has not al-
ready disposed of it, and a veto of that
measure would inflict no great hard-
ship on anybody and would go a con-
siderable way toward balancing the
books. While the measure was on
final passage in the Senate, on Mon-
day evening, Senator Barr, of Pitts-
burgh, declared that “the increases
would run several hundred thousand
dollars a year and would amount to
more than the State has to pay at the
present time.” He failed to influence
the Senators but the Governor might
adopt his view.
If the judges of Pennsylvania were
an overworked and poorly paid bunch
of public servants there would be rea-
son as well as justice in helping them
to fight the high cost of living. Or if
they had been forced against their
promise of future increase in pay to
“don the ermine,” a moderate increase
in salary would be a graceful expres-
sion of appreciation of faithful serv-
ice. But none of these reasons are
given, either by the judges themselves
or their friends, for the increased rec-
ompense provided in the Neeley bill.
In most of the judicial districts the
office is a dignified and leisurely em-
ployment, inviting and even alluring
to most any lawyer at the bar.
There are a whole lot of things
more deserving of financial ‘aid than
the judges. It was alleged by sev-
eral speakers during the considera-
tion of the bill in the General Assem-
bly that the judges of Pennsylvania
are the best paid jurists in the coun-
try. This may not be literally true.
In fact we have reason to believe that
judicial salaries are higher in New
York. * But those in Pennsylvania are
certainly paid enough to “keep the
wolf from the door,” if ordinary pru-
affairs. In any event it is safe to say
that the “several hundred thousand
dollars” referred to by Senator Barr
| might. be appropriated to better pur-
pose than increasing salaries already
generous.
understand that he is not “the only:
pebble on the beach,” and that after
Expectations of more help from
Harrisburg for the Centre County hos-*
ture increased the allowance for the
biennium $3,000, making it $13,000 in-
Governor has set it back to the origi-
will to serve the public or induced by"
dence is practiced in their domestic
Women Voters League Disappoint-
ment.
The fair and faithful head of the
Pennsylvania League of Women Vot-
ers is justly indignant because 4 con-
siderable number of the Republican
Representatives in the General As-
sembly who had promised to vote for
the Ludlow tax bill, which was defeat-
ed last week by an overwhelming ma-
jority, voted against the measure.
The president of the League has a
list of these untruthful and recreant
statesmen and is seriously considering
the question of publishing the names
to the world. It would make an inter-
esting roster for the time being and
a useful list for future lobbyists or
others interested in legislation. It is |
to be hoped the publication will be
made.
The trouble with the Pennsylvania
League of Women Voters is that they
take themselves too seriously and are’
a trifle credulous besides. The chances
are ten to: one that the thirty-six
members of the House who promised
to vote for the Ludlow bill were sim-
ply “kidding” the charming women
who solicited their support of the
measure and never intended to vote
for it at all. It is believed by the
average Legislator to be an easy as
well as a pleasing thing to promise to
vote for any measure the lady is in-
terested in. She takes the promise
as a sacred pledge and is happy and
satisfied with the result of her labors.
Then when the vote is counted she is
disappointed and correspondingly de-
pressed.
But the recreant Legislator don’t
mind the disappointment. He under-
stands that it is only a temporary de-
pression of mind and will be forgot-
ten the next time she is anxious for.
his support, and will accept his re-
newal of the promise as cheerfully as.
she was grateful the first time. Be-
sides that he knows that the ladies
who compose the League will be on
the firing line for the grand old party
at the next election so that practical-
ly Bothing is lost by his betrayed
mise, The, Republican women are
“their fidelity
Las it is possible to be, and a few dis-:
appointments merely whets the -edge.
of their political enthusiasm to a
keen edge.
—After every extra’ copy of the
“Watchman” had been bought last
Saturday a telegram from Philadel-
phia requested that thirty be for-
warded to that city at once. Nearly
every week the entire edition of Cen-
tre county’s really worth while news-
paper is exhausted. Why? Simply
because it is so clean and reliable, so
careful and honest in its expression
of opinion that what it says counts,
not only at home but abroad.
——Wyoming’s Governor, Nellie
Taylor. Ross, is developing a case of
nerves and has two guards patrolling
the grounds of the gubernatorial man-
sion. Down in Texas, however, Ma
Ferguson is still sitting serene at the
helm of the ship of State.
—The Treasury Department is wor-
ried because it has to print more dol-
lar bills to keep’ up the circulation
than it used to. It is claimed they
don’t last as long as they once did.
That’s strange. They don’t do half
the work they once did.
——The miscreant who amused
himself by starting forest fires in
York county got two years in the pen-
itentiary. It is to be hoped they will
give him work hard enough to keep
him out of mischief during that time.
————————eenee—
——A close perusal of the list of
charitable appropriations signed by
Governor Pinchot reveals the fact that
he played favorites, cutting deepest in
those districts from which he expects
the least.
——1If the voters of Massachusetts
are true to their own interests nation-
al chairman Butler will be an unoffi-
cial adviser of the President after the
4th of next March.
———— rete.
——When Grundy formed a politic-
al partnership with Vare he “put his
foot in it,” and now, according to re-
ports, he is suffering with infection.
——Senator Larry Eyer got a lib-
eral appropriation for his West Ches-
ter Normal school and thus the adage
“virtue is its own reward,” is proved.
——-—— A ——————
——There will be no. State bonus
for world war veterans so long as the
Republican machine is in control.
This is not official but it’s true.
~——It is consoling to know that few:
reach the limit and nobody gets as
many on the first day as he used to.
—————— nen. :
[from a herd of nine cows receives
“to_party |
‘i ience in pushing door bells.
| ——Of course. if the Grimes’ bill is.
approved it will be- necessary to keep
the “town clock” in repair.
Delightful Weather but Poor Trout
Fishing Wednesday.
The laws of compensation always
inure to the advantage of the inno-
cent and weak and the only “poor
fish” on Wednesday were the hun-
dreds of big, able bodied men who so
persistently whipped the various trout
streams of Centre county, hour after
hour, and returned home in the even-
ing thoroughly tired out with a few
tiny trout.
The weather was all that could be
desired. It was warm enough to be
comfortable and after a small shower
or two in the morning cleared up and
was sunshiny all day. But the fisher-
men must have some excuse so they
blame their poor luck on the clear, low
water. So far as the writer has been
able to learn not a single record catch
was made. Some of the best fisher-
men in Bellefonte tried their luck on
Spring creek and Logan’s branch, and
most of them came home without a
single trout. A few trout were
caught, of course, but not enough to
depopulate the streams to any extent.
The many Bellefonters who jour-
neyed to Fishing creek for the open-
ing of the season had no better luck
than : those who fished hereabouts.
That famous stream was thronged
with fishermen and the result was no-
body made big catches.
Keeping Dairy Cattle Pays.
While in Bellefonte last week a
well known resident of Howard stated
that the farmers in that vicinity are
awakening to the fact that keeping
good dairy cattle results in a
income that they could not get in any
other way, and are not only stocking
up with high-grade cows but Ste put
ting their barns and . d i jes in
ple he cited the fact that one _ armer
monthly milk = checks * ranging from
$150 to $165. Another
terested and if the contagion eontin-
ues to spread it will not be long until
lower Bald Eagle valley will be one of
the best dairy sections in Centre
county.
——Borough manager J. D. Seibert
cleaned out the big spring last Friday,
and to do the work thoroughly it was
necessary to open the flood gates and
drain the spring. While it is a matter:
of record that the flow of the spring
is 14,600 gallons of water a minute
there has always been more or less
speculation as to the correctness of
the above figures. Most everybody in
Bellefonte knows the size of the big
spring and after it was properly
cleaned on Saturday contractor Ben-
jamin Bradley decided to time the fill-
ing of it and it took just sev-
en and a half minutes from the time
the flood gates were lowered until the:
spring was up to its normal height.
This was evidence of a very strong
stream as the source of the spring’s
supply.
——The Clearfield Republican says
that “word is being passed quietly
over.the Twenty-third congressional
district that M. Ward Fleming, of
Philipsburg, will ask the Republicans
to give him the Congressional nomi-
nation in 1926. This will be shocking
news to Congressman Swoope, who
undoubtedly will want to continue on
the payroll, especially since the salary
has been increased to $10,000 a year.”
While this may be shocking news to
Congressman Billy he has had two
terms at the public trough, and while
we aren’t ready to admit that our
next Congressman will be a Republi-
can, we are candid enough to say that
if it must be, Congressman Montgom-
ery Ward Fleming would sound rath-
er imposing.
——1If the Buckman bill amending
the vehicle code becomes a law high-
waymen may have to wear uniforms
in order to ply their trade.
——The annual meeting of the
Horseshoe Trail association will be
held at the Fallon house, Lock Haven,
this (Friday) evening.
.——You may have noticed yourself
that most legislative problems are
solved by increasing taxes.
. aida smi
~The ward politician- who has a
“pull” owes something to his exper-
—The Legislature of 1925 has gone
: afternoon,
{army aviator, jumped in a parachute’ and’
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Fourteen revolvers, most of them of
the automatic type, were stolen from a
case in the F. H. Bentley store, Williams-
port, the latter part of the week.
—Cletus J. Miller, 19 years old, of Ha-
zleton, was fatally wounded on Sunday
night in a dispute with an unidentified
man who escaped after plunging a pocket
knife into Miller's heart. Miller lived less
than a half hour, dying within a few min-
utes after admission to the State hospital
in Hazleton.
—Run over by a five-ton truck of coal,
Charles Hess, aged ten years, son of Fred-
erick Hess, of Shamokin, wiil recover, doc-
tors at the Shamokin State hospital said
on Friday. The boy was watching a flat
tire when he lost his balance and fell un-
der the rear wheel. “You run over me,
Dad,” he told the dazed father, after the
truck was stopped.
—The store of R. R. Robinson, at Cur-
wensville, was robbed early Friday morn-
ing of ladies’ and gents’ clothing, valued
at $2,500. The robbery was committed by
a pair of automobile bandits who, after in-
dulging in a gun battle with chief of po-
lice Clark, managed to make their escape.
A dozen or more shots were fired, but all
appeared to have gone wild.
—Horace Hess, 18 years old, died in St.
Joseph's hospital, at Lancaster, on Sunday
afternoon from a revolver-shot wound in-
flicted mysteriously early Easter morning
in a club-house conducted by a number of
young men about a mile south of Mount-
ville. According to Hess’ companions, they
were looking at the lad’s automatie re-
volver, and it was accidentally discharged.
—~Solution of a wave of banditry is be-
lieved near by the police of Sunbury and
Shamokin, with the arrest of Harry Mans-
field, of Shamokin, on Saturday. David
Shaffer and Joseph Osborne, of Shamokin,
are already in jail and the police think
they have the band that terrorized the
state roads and shot Russel Dunkleberger
through the back in a holdup near the
Shamokin state hospital.
—Lack of available funds has resulted
in the dismissal of the Dunbar, Fayette
county, police force. The town has been
without a police department since the first
part of last month. For several weeks the
lack of police was not particularly missed,
but a street brawl broke out recently and
the contestants fought for more than two
hours. There were no arrests. It is said
the town is in dire financial straits.
i —Aa man, even though married, can kiss
any woman he meets without violating the
law of Pennsylvania, provided the woman
who' is kissed ‘does not object, decided Al-
derman Hoepstin, of Pottsville, in the case
of a woman who had her husband brought
before him on a charge of kissing a wom-
an not his wife. She charged she had seen
her husband kiss the other woman. The
alderman explained that under the laws of
Pennsylvania, the husband could not be
prosecuted unless the other woman ob-
jected.
—When the motor of his Curtiss pursuit
plane stalled when the machine was at an
elevation of 10,000 feet over the Allegheny
mountains in Sullivan county, on Friday
Lieutenant J. T. Johnson, an
north of -Sonestown after a thrilling drop
through heavy clouds. His plane fell on
a farm near Eaglesmere, four miles away
and was wrecked beyond any possibility of
salvage.
—Police are seeking a man who has been
disposing of counterfeit 5 gold pieces to
residents of Chester county, at $3.50 each.
The man represented himself as a collect-
or who had quite a large stock of the coins
on hand, but was willing to dispose of a
few. Those who purchased them found
they had bought lead coins covered by a -
thin gold plating, the coins being soft and
easily bent with the fingers. Just how
many were sold is uncertain, as most of
‘ those who were swindled will not admit
| the fact.
—A sentence of two years, six months in
the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., was
meted out to Chauncey F. Pyle, of Media,
Pa, by Judge Thompson of the United
States district court in Philadeelphia, on
Monday. Pyle was convicted a week ago’
of an attempted extortion of $5,000 from
T. W. Trainer, of Chester, Pa. by 'pre-
tending to be able to return the 18-year-
old son of Trainer, who was drowned at
Ocean City last July 28. Pyle, said the
boy had been rescued by whiskey runners.
The defendant was undone by the mis-
spelling of four words in the extortion
letters. In court he made the identical
mistakes.
' —Thirteen klansmen and nine Lilly ecit-
izens held prisoners in the Cambria coun-
ty jail for the past year for affray and un-
lawful assemblage growing out of the ILil-
ly riot on the night of April 5, 1924, were
released on parole Saturday morning. - The
prisoners gained their freedom following
an order for parole granted by Judge
Thomas D. Finletter, of Philadelphia, who"
presided at the Lilly riot trials. Each
prisoner was required to pay costs
of $90 before being released. The men pa-
roled had been sentenced to serve two
years for participation in the Lilly riot, in
which three young men were killed and a
score of persons injured.
—Touching a live switch at the Metro-
politan Edison company’s plant at West
Reading, Harry S. Boyer, 34, electrician,
late on Saturday, stepped al trolley traf-
fic and shut off lights all over the city,
houses, stores and theaters, for fourteen
minutes. Boyer, burned from head to foot,
died in a hospital in that city on Sunday
morning. He was working on a copper
piece of mechanism, without power at the
time, when he accidently touched the live
switch. A loud roar warned the switch-
board operator, who turned off all the cur-
rent, suspending business all over the city
and suburbs and trolley traffic. Boyer re-
tained consciousness for many hours.
He was married and leaves three children.
—For seven weeks Howard C. Cloud, 6t
years old, of Concord, Chester county, has
had a broken neck, and did not know it
until last Thursday. Mr. Cloud, who is
active in politics and a leader of the Con-
cord Grange, was run down by an auto-
mobile February 22. He was removed to
the West Chester hospital, where he re-
‘| mained until the next day, and then re-
turned home. He did not regain his us-
ual vigor, however, and several. X-ray ex-
aminations were made. Dr, W. 8. Manges,
of the Jefferson hospital, at Philadelphia,
discovered that Cloud was suffering from a
fracture of the neck. He had his neck in-
cased in a plaster of paris cast, and this
into history and let us hope “we never | will remain until the fractured spinal bone
shall see its like again.”
knits.