* INK SLINGS.
© Mr. Bryan is likely to find out
that he is a bigger figure on the plat-
‘form than at the bar.
— Comparatively speaking milk
is cheap at present price unless the
cost of “white mule” is exorbitant.
~ —Canada will probably prove more
attractive than ever for tourists from
‘the States because she is wet all over
again.
——Maybe the sudden change in
temperature last Sunday was nature’s
method of freezing out spring fever
germs.
— Jt is said that Congressman
Vare will stay out of the Senatorial
fight if he is permitted to name the
candidate for Governor. A high
price.
—The more we travel around the
country the more convinced we be-
come that it is full of people who, if
they can’t afford anything else they
can a Ford.
—Judge Dale is still the Sphinx.
If he would only tell what route he is
going to take to succeed himself a lot
of us would have one less thing tc
worry about.
It is estimated that the average
American spends eighteen per cent. of
his life standing in line for something.
Well if he gets what he wants it is
worth the price. !
— Talking about the different lights
in which people see the same thing
can you think of anything more con-
trasting than that in which the moth-
et and: her young hopeful view: the:
closing of school. Ene
—Of course the oldest inhabitant
remembers something later, but we
want to go on record right here to the
effect that before last Monday morn-
ing we had never seen snow on the
twenty-fifth of May.
—The announcement that Harry
Thaw has been seen back in his old
haunts, the “white light” districts of
New York, sounds to us, very much, as
if Harry doesn’t know where he is
going, but is on the way.
— With thermometers registering
ninety in the shade at two-thirty last
Saturday afternoon and hugging fifty
less than two hours later winter seems
to be doing something more than lin-
gering in the.lap.of spring.
—Of course we'll have good base-
ball this summer, now that the county
league is all set to start, but it will be
a good bit better if the fans in the
home towns of the teams all turn out
with the horns instead of the ham-
mers. ring
—And it remained for a Penn State
athlete to give the flying Finn his first
defeat, ‘sérateh, in this eountty.
Alan Helffrich, carrying the blue and
white colors, ran Paavo Nurmi off his
feet in the half-mile at New York,
Tuesday. . =
. —We note that Queen Mary, of
- England, celebrated her fifty-eightli
birthday on Tuesday, and are surpris-
ed. Every time we see her photo-
graph we are convinced that she must
have been an old lady when Methusa-
leh was born.
—Those residents of the Aleutian
islands, whose letters inquiring as to
who was elected President last fall
have just reached Washington, must
have made the inquiry merely out of
idle curiosity. By the time they get
their reply Cal will probably have
came and went.
— Now since England has cornered
rubber and is going to make Ameri-
can automobile owners pay her war
debt to us why doesn’t France corner
the frog market and attempt the same
thing. That would end this continual
disputation over when payments are
to begin, if at all.
It’s a round about way of doing it,
but there seems to be no doubt of the
fact that American automobile users
will pay all England’s war debt to
America if conditions continue as
they are at present. Our imports of
rubber, alone, from the East Indies,
an English possession, if continued at
the present rate will pay all that Eng-
land owes us in a very few years.
—The Wyoming Democrat, publish-
ed at Tunkhannock, is a fine example
of a country newspaper. Usually it
is for us to admire the carefulness
with which it is edited and that ac-
counts for our surprise at the faux pas
it made last week, when in one editor-
ial it attempted to convince its read-
ers that “Appearances Count” and in
another that “Appearances are Mis-
leading.”
—The girl of 1890 who happened to
get home from her joy ride in a bug-
gy as late as ten o’clock, slipped into
the house and sneaked to bed as quiet-
ly as though she had committed an
awful offense against propriety. Many
of the 1925 girls roll up in front of
the “hang out” at two a. m. and im-
mediately start telling the world
about it by arousing the whole neigh-
borhood to witness the fact that they
have had a fellow with an automobile.
—The fight is on in Tennessee.
Prof. Scopes undertook to teach the
pupils that we are descended “from a
lower order of animals” and such a
theory is contrary to the civil laws of
the State that employed him. It’s
going to be a great fight because it’s
really one between the fundamental-
ists and the modernists. We, pity
Scopes, not for what the civil law of
Tennessee ought to do with him, but
for the hopelessness he will find in life
after he realizes that he is not for Me
ing which he will deliver
‘enemies of
is against Me.
“VOL. 70.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Governor Pinchot’s Soaring Ambition.
That Governor “Pinchot still cher-
ishes the hope of election to the Presi-
dency seems certain. His proposed
speaking tour of the west can be ac-
counted for in no other way. If his
aspirations ended with the Senatorial
toga he would naturally limit his
activities to territory within the
State. But he announces a tour which
will extend to the Pacific coast, dur-
several
speeches on conservation and prohi-
bition. The recent presentation of the
Roosevelt medal gave him a place in
the sun which he proposes to culti-
vate wherever the soil is suitable, and
his record on the question of
enforcement is known from the At-
lantic to the Pacific.
But it is not to be inferred that
his ambition to be President will take
him out of the race for Senator in
Congress. While he is “working the
west” for the big harvest in 1928 his
family and friends are laying the
lines for the Senatorial contest next
year. .. The millions he is authorized to
‘sperid in road construction and im-
provement will be utilized to the limit
in organizing a machine to promote
his nomination for Senator. Reports
from Harrisburg show that every day
the official force is increased largely,
and every name added to the pay roll
is an enlistment in the army of Pin-
chot workers. Those added to the
Highway Department force will be
especially helpful.
When the Republican machine
allowed Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot to buy
the party nomination for Governor in
1922 it registered the beginning of the
end of its control of the politics of
Pennsylvania. Mr. Pinchot has never
been in sympathy with the funda-
mental principles of the Republican
party. He is first for himself and
after that, in “order, for prohibition
and conservation. But prohibition
and conservation are incidentals he is
always willing to sacrifice. If he had
been sincerely for either, he would
long ago have left the party, for be-
sides’ its partnership with the liquor |
interests during the Penrose control
it has always been affiliated with the
nerdot of SOR Ome
enm———————r eee.
——Senator Butler, of Massachu-
setts, is undertaking to “correct the
unfortunate, condition. growing out of
‘the ‘muddling of ‘government.” That
sounds like a threat to quit the Repub-
lican party.
Heavy Burden of the Captains.
The great captains of industry in |
this country have assumed a heavy
burden and are struggling with it un-
der adverse conditions. Their en-
gagement is to hold up the drooping
wings of prosperity and persuade the
people that “everything is lovely and
the goose hangs high” in this glor-
ious land of opportunity. They take
turns at the work and each gilds or
otherwise embellishes the picture
painted by the other, already radiant
in gorgeous” colors. First Charlie
Schwab took the platform and assur-
ed the public that “prosperity is just
around the corner” and ready to en-
ter the arena. Then Eugene Grace,
president of the Bethlehem Steel,
urged his employees to be patient for
the good times are coming.
Last week it was Judge Gary’s
turn. The Judge is a lawyer and jur-
ist as well as a magnate and knows
better than the others how to “con-
vince a man against his will.” He ad-
mitted that conditions were less fa-
vorable than might be desirable but
added that the cloud temporarily ob-
securing the sun has a silver lining and
will soon turn inside out. The rail-
road presidents, who usually carry a
share of the burden, are silent now
because they are trying to get help
from the government under the pre-
tense of poor business and can’t even
join the chorus in the songs of the
steel makers. But the work is never-
theless progressing in a fairly satis-
factory manner. The most credulous
observers are being deceived.
With a Republican President, a Re-
publican majority in both branches of
Congress and Republican policies in
force in every direction anything else
than the most abundant industrial
prosperity is anomalous in view of
the promises made by the captains of
industry before the election. But the
prosperity is of a peculiar type be-
cause it benefits only the other fel-
low. Of course every right minded
man is glad to hear of the prosperity
of his neighbor, but unfortunately it
isn’t his neighbor but the other fellow
who is revelling in the joys of pros-
perity, and the closest scrutiny fails
to reveal the individual. But the cap-
tains of industry are not discouraged.
They will promise “till the cows come
home.”
——1If Amundsen doesn’t reach the
“pole” a good man may be lost, and if
he does somebody will have to tell us
what has been gained. :
law
Not Exactly the Right Remedy.
| At its State convention, held in Har-
| risburg last week, the - Pennsylvania
. branch of the American Federation of
Labor decided to join with an organi-
! zation known as the Public Ownership
| League in a movement looking toward
' national control of electric power. Mr.
Carl D. Thompson, of Chicago, head
"of the League, addressed the conven-
, tion and declared that “if the develop-
ment of power system as it is now
' progressing were allowed to continue
the time will come when virtually all
the power of the nation will be under
the power of one person or group of
persons.” He stressed the advantage
of publicly controlled power plants on
account of the cheapness of the pro-
‘duct as well as conveniences to the
consumers. :
! We are not able to coincide with
Mr. Thompson’s theory that the rem-
edy for what seems like a real menace
; lies in the Congressional action. The
' idea expressed in Governor Pinchot’s
super-power plan for State control of
"electrical energy would be safer as
well as more efficient. Public owner-
ship of utilities has not proved benefi-
cent or economical. But government
control of corporate operations has
produced both results. Private cor-
porations held in proper. restraint by
appropriate. legislation would serve to
avert the danger of monopoly without
"incurring the greater ewil of central-
' ization of power in Washington. That
| is precisely the idea expressed in Gov-
ernor Pinchot’s super-power enter-
prise. .
Electricity is certain to become the
dominant elemént in the industrial
life of the future. The electrical pow-
er magnates understand this fact ful-
ly and are already moving in the direc-
tion.of menopoly. It is hardly neces-
j sary to point out the evil of such a
i monopoly to intelligent minds. It has
already been demonstrated many
: times in communities within this‘Com-
monwealth. Taken in time it may be
curbed, but if allowed free rein in the
outset monopoly may secure a foot-
hold impossible to remove. If the par-
! ty which controlled the last Legisla-
ture. were. less friendly to
mp AAR i Be
and more ‘concerned
of the people Governor Pinchot’s prop-
_osition would have fared better.
{ - ——Register-of: Wills Campbell, of
" Philadelphia, has thrown his hat into’
ithe ring without waiting for Vare’s
; approval and something may happen
‘to Bill.
neers fp Aer seers
Promising Change in Immigration.
The inauguration of a system for
the inspection on the other side of the
sea of prospective emigrants to this
country would seem like injecting in-
to the problem an element of common
sense. It may be said that no activ-
ity of the government has produced
as many blunders, hardships and ia-
justices as the question of immigra-
tion. It has been a souree’of contro-
versy and disputation in Congress for
many years and in‘most instances
changes in the law have been for the
worse. The last important’ change
discriminated against emigrants like-
ly to be most desirable and in favor
of those less so, because immigration
from southern Europe began much
later and ‘there were fewer of them
here. "*
It'may be said that the administra-
tion of the law under the present Sec-
retary of Labor has been fairly effi-
cient and as nearly as.possible. just.
But it has been the cause . of many
hardships, because it has divided fam-
ilies, deported honest and industrious
aliens on the required educational
test and admitted criminals, conspira-
tors and anarchists because a badly
purposed schooling had provided them
with the necessary education. It cre-
ated hardships, because foreigners
who had been enticed to emigrate in-
vested their last dollars in defraying
the expense of the venture and upon
arrival here were turned back destitute
and despairing. The framers of the
law may have meant well but were
sadly mistaken.
The plan which is now to be adopt-
ed, and will be inaugurated at the
ports of departure of the Irish Free
State, will make the examination
there instead of on this side and such
as fail to meet the requirements of
our immigration system will be refus-
ed the necessary vises. That will be
a disappointment to them and possi-
bly in some cases a loss to this coun-
try, for the addition of an honest and
industrious man is a gain to any com-
munity, but it will not entail the loss
of the transit expense nor the time in
going and coming. The officials charg-
ed with the experiment represent the
State, the Treasury and the Labor De-
partments of the government, and if
the test is satisfactory it will be ex-
tended generally.
————————— eam ant——
——Senator Pepper is touring the
State for the purpose of putting spice
into the campaign.
for the interests
"BELLEFONTE, PA.. MAY 29. 1925.
| Constitutional Amendment Doomed.
The question of submitting to a
vote of the people at the ensuing elec-
tion the question of amending the con-
stitution permitting the issue of bonds
to cover a proposed soldiers’ bonus,
reforestation and needed buildings and
equipment at State College, was ar-
gued before the Supreme court at
Harrisburg, on Monday, with an ad-
verse decision practically certain. It
is true that the Supreme court has a
wide range of latitude and may put
any construction on the language of
legislation. Not long ago, it will be
remembered, the court decided that
judges are not public officials, though
they are nominated and elected by the
people exactly like public officials.
But a question of an increase of sal-
aries of judges was involved in that
decision and upon the principle that
“the Lord helps those who help them-
selves” the increase was allowed. The
question now before the court is not
thus involved and it may be presum-
ed that the decision will be according
to the letter of the constitution, which
states that “no amendment or amend-
ments shall be submitted oftener than
once in five years.” As an amendment
was unlawfully submitted and approv-
ed in 1923 a strict interpretation
would forbid another submission in
1925 and the proposed amendments,
though all meritorious, will have to go
over until 1928. This will entail a
hardship on "the soldiers and State
College.
It is quite likely that if the sol-
diers’ bonus amendment had been
eliminated no objection would have |
been raised against the others. The
dominant political machine is not will-
ing to take the bonus question out of
politics yet and the submission of the
amendment on that subject would
have taken it out. Now the allegiance
of the credulous among the. veterans
can be held to the Republican party
by promises just as the Civil war vet-
erans were held for years in the same
way. There was no great interest in
he prosperity of State College either,
or if the party had been inclined to
ptovide the improvements it might
hare been accomplished .out of .the
: al revenues: on the installment |
plan.
— The surprising thing about it is
‘that the boy murderer of Pottsville,
seems: to enjoy the sensation he has
created. :
A Pretty Compliment.
Writing from Rudd, Iowa, D. M.
Kerlin tells us that he has reached his
seventy-third year and throughout the
long span of life that has stretched
since he was able to read anything the
“Watchman” and he have been
friends. He says that to him, today,
it is just as interesting as it ever was
and that he feels utterly lost when it
is delayed in its weekly visit to his
home.
Mr. Kerlin is a former Centre coun-
tian, gone from the old home so long
that few names he sees figuring in the
local news of today are familiar to
him. It is the same with most of the
“Watchman’s” older readers, because
new generations have come in to take
the place of those who did things in
Centre county in the years that are
gone. Some ‘are descendants of old
families, but more are of names not
familiar here forty years ago. It is
a pleasure, indeed, under such circum-
stances, to know that the “Watchman”
is just as interesting as ever to those
so far away, for it encourages its con-
stant effort to make itself worth
reading.
er ——— eee.
——The big revolving beacon light
erected on Nittany mountain as a
guide to night flyers in the air-mail
service was tested out last Friday
night. It was turned on about ten
o’clock and kept in commission almost
two hours. So powerful is the light
that travelers on the Nittany valley
road claim that when the rays were
directly upon them there was light
sufficient to read a newspaper. The
field lights and beacon light on the
hangar have been completed and were
tested out last night. In fact all the
beacon lights between New York and
Bellefonte, twenty-eight in number,
have been completed and the first test
night flight will probably be made to-
night between Hadley field and Belle-
fonte. While the night airmail serv-
ice will not be put into effect until
July first trial flights will be made all
through June in order to give the pi-
lots a chance to.beecome familiar with
“the blazed trail” and also night land-
ing. :
——The board of trustees of the
western penitentiary have accepted
the resignation of Rev. C. J. Krahnke,
as chaplain at the Rockview institu-
tion, effective July 1st. - It is under-
stood that a new chaplain has already
been secured but his name has not
yet been announced. Rev. Krahnke
anticipates returning to his old home
in Detroit, Mich.
NO. 22.
SUPREME COURT HANDS DOWN
RULING IN CENTRE COUNTY
BANK CASE.
The long awaited opinion of the Su-
preme court of the United States in
the litigation arising out of the clos-
ing of the Centre County Bank, in this
| place, on May 13th, 1922, was handed
. down on Monday last..
| It is a very lengthy document. Made
so because some of the points of law
involved were before the highest tri-
bunal of the land for the first time
since it was created. By reading the
opinion of Mr. Justice Sanford, which
we publish in full, those who fully un-
derstand the legal phraseology in
which it is couched will discover that
even the Supreme court has revised
former interpretations of its. own
rules in consequence of the arguments,
jurisdictionally, that were presented
in this case. eX
In fact, the litigation has’ made le-
gal history in the United States be-
cause, besides presenting one question
never before argued in the courts, it
has been a contributory cause of the
revision of the rules governing bank-
ruptey proceedings. As is only too
well known here the litigation began
on June 30, 1922, when the late John
M. Shugert filed a voluntary peti
in bankruptcy praying the Dist
Court of the United States that }
individually, and the Centre County
Banking company, were insolvent, and
desired the operations of the bank-
ruptey laws. Later he prayed that
i George R. Meek, Mary C. Harris,
| Florence F. Dale and Andrew Breese,
alleged partners, should also be ad-
{ judged bankrupts and their estates
* administered in the bankruptey courts.
| Meek, Dale and Breese resisted the
attempt to drag them into bankruptcy
on the ground that - they were | not
partners in the company and in open
court suggested that the prayer” be
! granted as to..Mr.. Shugert, individu:
i ally, and the Banking Company as an
‘ entity. This suggestion was opposed.
And Judge Witmer, of the District
i court, on December 8, 1922, without
| filing an opinion, denied all the mo-
i tions presented by Meek, Dale and
wt R gal de hy @
. An appeal was then taker 0 the
United States Circuit court of Ap-
i peals based largely on the question of
: jurisdiction—Rule 8-Sec. 5 of the Su-
preme court—so comprehensively dis-
, cussed by Mr. Justice Sanford in the
decree published below, and on the le-
! gality of combining in the same
prayer a voluntary (Mr. Shugert’s)
and an involuntary petition (the
‘one he made against Harris, Meek,
Dale and Breese.) These questions
were argued in the District court at the
March term, 1923. Its opinion was
later handed down sustaining the ac-
tion of Judge Witmer of the District
court, but the opinion discussed none
of the real questions involved. The
Supreme court was then petitioned to
grant a writ of certiorari—which
merely means an opportunity to pre-
sent a case to that august body. The
writ was granted. The very fact that
it was gave evidence that there was
merit in the case. The Supreme court
must protect its time from being tak-
en up with cases of no apparent merit
and you will notice that only a small
percentage of the petitions for writs
of certiorari presented to it are
granted. ro .
| The case has been hanging there
ever since. Several arguments were
made on the matter and an opinion
might have been expected a.bit sooner
had it not been for the death of Mr.
Shugert. That sad eventuality inject-
ed two new problems into the situa-
tion. First, did his death abate (can-
cel) the whole proceeding. Second,
how could the Court adjudicate be-
tween litigants when there was only
one set of them present. Accordingly
it filed an opinion in which those in-
terested were given thirty days in
which to substitute some one for Mr.
Shugert. His son then took out let-
ters of administration on his estate
and asked that he be substituted. At
the same time three creditors of the
Banking Company presented a peti-
tion that they be admitted as parties
to the proceeding. The latter were
denied the right forthwith, for the
reason that they had come in too late.
The petition for the substitution of
Mr. Shugert’s son you will find in the
final opinion has been granted.
This, in brief, is a history of all the
legal proceedings that have led up to
the present decree which reverses the
orders of both the District court and
the Circuit court of Appeals and sets
the whole matter back to where it
started three years and more ago.
The opinion of Mr. Justice Sanford,
which was concurred in by the entire
bench, there was no dissenting opin-
ion filed, follows: —
These three cases involve the same
proceedings which were before us at
an earlier stage in Meek V. Centre
Banking Company, 264 U. S. 499.
They arose out of a petition in bank-
ruptey : file by the respondents,
Shugert in a Federal District Court in
(Continued on page 4, Col. 2).
KS
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
~ —Alleging alienation of his wife's af-
fections Winfield L. Neas, of Harrisburg,
on Saturday filed suit for $10,000 damages
against William Rineer.
—The Rev. Dr. H. F. King, pastor of the
Grace Baptist Church, at Tyrone, on Mon-
day celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday
anniversary. Dr. King has been pastor of
the Tyrone church for five years.
—William Ritchey, 60 years old, was in-
stantly killed and his son, William Jr,
aged 17, seriously injured on Saturday by
a delayed explosion of dynamite on their
farm near Blue Knob, Blair county. Ritch-
ey and his son were dynamiting rocks on
the farm and went to investigate a delayed
blast.
—The Public Service Commission, in a
detailed discussion of the complaint of the
Viscose company against the refusal of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to
change rates for shipment of artificial silk
from Lewistown and other points to
Marcus Hook, dismissed the application.
The rate is held not to be unreasonable or
unjust.
—The Rochester & Pittsburgh Coal and
Iron company, has sold its furnaces locat-
ed at DuBois and Punxsutawney to L. W.
Robinson, Frank St. Clair and Frank
Becker. The furnaces are idle at present
but the new owners state that they will be
placed in operation just as soon as the
price of coke in the region justifies its be-
ing used in the manufacture of iron.
—Trustees of the Geisinger ‘Home for
Women at Danville have announced that
building operations would be postponed
for three years to permit funds to accu-
mulate from the return on the principal
now in the hands of the board from the es-
tate of Mrs. Abigail A. Geisinger, who left
most of her several million dollar estate to
the home and the Geisinger Memorial hos-
pital.
—Dr. Charles F. Hastings, missing for-
mer interne at the Homeopathic hospital
in Pittsburgh, was discovered at Erie on
Saturday as “John Hugh,” proprietor of
the Erie Toy Exchange. He is heir to an
estate of $50,000 left by his mother, it is
said. A country-wide search has been
made for Dr. Hastings. He learned only
Friday, he said, that he was being sought,
and Saturday revealed his identity.
—An airplane is blamed by fire tower-
man Bruce Henrle for a blaze that swept
over seven hundred acres of valuable tim-
ber land on Kno¢ mountain, near Berwick,
last Wednesday night, causing a loss of
‘many thousands of dollars. He discovered
the fire a few minutes after an airplane,
flying low; had passed over the wooded
section. Henrie is confident something
was dropped from the plane to start the
fire.
~The New York Central is assessed $40,-
000, Tioga county $25,000 and the Stdte
Highway Department required to build a
bridge; and relocate roads and Shippen
township fo pay certain ‘costs of relocat-
Ang a township road in the Public Service
‘@ominission’s order abolishing the Ansonia
Lon the grade crossing on the Roosevelt
“| Highway. It will be a notable improve-
ment on a much-traveled northern tier
highway. ;
—Mrs. Homer Bishoff, of Farmington,
Westmoreland county, is in.a serious con-
dition from shock and burns received on
Sunday when a bolt of lightning, entering
nace and followed a heating pipe to a floor
register near which she was sitting. The
bolt entered her body through the right
foot and, jumping at her hips, went
through her left foot. Her legs were bad-
ly burned. The bolt felled four trees be-
fore hitting the light wire.
—After having spent 14 months in build-
ing a new home entirely with his own
hands, working at nights and on holidays,
William Knapp, of Valley Camp, Fayette
county, saw it burned to the ground at 1
o'clock Monday morning. The house was
a three-story, eight-room frame building
and was valued at $7,500. He carried no
insurance. Knapp had completed his work
, on Saturday and this week expected to
move in his household effects. The cause
of the fire was undetermined.
—William Stewart, negro garage worker,
died last Thursday in the Chester hospital
from injuries sustained when he was
changing a tire at an automobile school in
that city. ‘He had his attention diverted
after applying a compressed air hose to
the tire. The tire burst and the steel rim
srtuck him flush in the face. In addition
to fractures of the jaws and.nose, Stew-
art suffered concussion of the brain and in-
ternal hemorrhages. He did not regain
consciousness after the accident.
—When a pot of tar being heated on the
stove, boiled over on Saturday morning
and ignited their clothing, Mrs. Lena Al-
berico, 23 years old, and her 3 year old
daughter, Philoment, of New Castle, were
so badly burned that they died a few hours
later in Shenange Valley hospital. Marco
Alberico, 60 years-old, father of Matt, Mrs.
Alberico’s husband, was so badly burned
that he is not expected to live. A second
daughter of the dead woman, Mary, also
was burned but will ‘probably recover.
—The dedication exercises of the Memor+
ial bridge over the Juniata river in Lew-
istown, built by the county of Mifflin at a
cost of $275,000, will be held Memorial day,
May 30, at 2 p. m., under the auspices of
the commissioners of Mifflin county. Unit-
ed Spanish war veterans and the American
Legion. With a very appropriate program
the magnificent bridge will be dedicated to
the memory of men who made the supreme
sacrifice for their country during the
Spanish-American war and the world war.
—While neighbors looked on, under the
impression that club members were re-
moving their belongings, thieves loaded a
truck with the contents of the Chippewa
Canoe club building, at Morrisville, Bucks
county, last Friday, and drove away.
Charles Muschert, secretary, discovered
the theft when he went to get his minute
records. Silver trophies, furniture, rugs
and personal effects were taken, valued at
$700. The truck was not large enough to
carry the piano and this was the only ar-
ticle left. The truck bore New Jersey li-
cense tags.
—Disappointment met the efforts of ex-
pert “shooters” to get oil or gas in paying
quantities from the well drilled some
months ago on the W. T, Thorpe farm, near
Grampian, Clearfield county, when they set
off a charge of 60 quarts of nitroglycerine
in the well Friday morning. This well
produced an estimated flow of 350,000 feet
of gas when first tapped, but rapidly de-
clined until the output became negligible.
The well had been drilled to a depth of
2,701 feet and it was hoped the explosion of
nitroglycerine at this depth would release
the gas or oil that was believed to under
lie the Thorpe acres.
fer hoineron a light wire struck the fur<