Bemorraic aldo
INK SLINGS.
~The “Afaletics” are slipping, but
Bellefonte is still on top, so we should
Worry.
—As for us, we prefer the somno-
lent rocks of the Alleghenies to the
convulsive ones of the Coast ranges of
California.
—Next week we expect to loaf, not
that we haven’t been doing a lot of it
all of our life, but as there will be no
edition of the “Watchman” next Fri-
day the excuse for doing it is some-
thing real for us to lean on.
—The hay crop in Centre county is
going to be short. But why worry,
when a ton of hay will only keep a
cow alive and giving a fair amount of
milk for a year and its equivalent will
run the fliv eight hundred and seven-
ty miles.
—Talking about the inventors of ice
making machines, modern refrigera-
tion devices and all the other contriv-
ances for cooling, they have a lot to
learn from the little coterie that start-
ed in to frappe the suggestion that the
“Watchman” made, last Friday morn-
ing, to the creditors of the Centre
County Bank.
—Reading the program of the
Fourth of July celebration in Belle-
fonte in 1876, we were struck with the
fact that five minutes were allowed
the preacher for his opening prayer
and only three minutes given to the
two orators. We'd like to hear the
crowd’s estimate of a preacher who
would undertake to pull a five minute
prayer at a Fourth demonstration in
this day of our Lord, 1925. In fact a
prayer of any length would be the last
thought of modern program builders.
— Speaking of the reasons why Dr.
Thomas resigned the presidency - of
The Pennsylvania State College the
Raftsman’s Journal, Clearfield, says:
“It is regretted that Pennsylvania
treats her own college so shamefully.”
Of course it is regretted—everywhere
outside of the Philadelphia and Pitts-
burgh political machine and when the
country cogs refuse to mesh every
time they are manipulated by those
master chauffeurs there’ll be nothing
for the Journal to regret—so far as
Pennsylvania’s “own College” is con-
cerned.
—Of course we know we're doing
something wholly contrary to the
principles of good business, but we
just can’t help giving a lot of free
publicity to this town of Sykesville.
We didn’t know there was such a place
until it was discovered by the C. and
C. baseball league and we accused
Philipsburg, Clearfield and DuBois of
looking for something “soft” when
they said to Sykesville: Come in, the
water's fine! Well, Sykesville’s in and
wallopin’ the life out of the other
teams, demanding that umps. be re- [‘hopefal"
moved and refusing to pay fines im-
posed by the president of the League.
Hurrah for Sykesville! We still. don’t
know ' exactly where she dots the
map, but she’s the bear cat and the
C. and C. has her by the tail and can’t
let go.
—They tell us that all that was
needed at Millheim, last Saturday,
. when Bellefonte and the team repre-
senting the capital of Penn township
were battling for baseball honors, was
for some one to drop the hat and the
fight would have been on. Great
news! Whenever they get to the point
of mobbin’ the ump. and stonin’ the
visiting team out of town you can take
it from us, there’s going to be a pret-
ty interesting season of baseball all
around the circuit. We know, because
we led a team out at Philipsburg one
time in a storm of stones more torren-
tial than we imagined the Alleghenies
could have supplied and “snuk” a
team out of Houtzdale after it got too
dark for miner’s picks to find a tar-
get and them were the days of the
best baseball the old Mountain League
ever knew.
—1It will scarcely be denied by any
one that railroads have done more for
the development of the country than
all other agencies combined. In fact,
practically all development has been
the result of railroad pioneering. And
who are the railroads? They are the
thousands of men, women, children,
estates, etc., who have put the money
in to finance them. In the last analy-
sis, they are almost as personal an en-
terprise as if they were that of an in-
dividual or a partnership. Every time
an injustice is done to a railroad com-
pany the effect is felt by the person
who has invested his or her money in
its stock, whether they live in Belle-
fonte or on the other side of the globe.
Yet how thoughtlessly injustice is
done to the great carriers that have
made the country what itis. And
simply because the public doesn’t un-
derstand that a’ corporation is some-
thing more than an octopus. Juries
bring in verdicts ‘against them that
they wouldn’t think of finding against
an individual. - Legislation that is reg-
ulative, confiscatory and pettily bur-
densome is continually coming out of
Congress ng our Legislatures and
when nothing else is in sight to take
a crack at the railroads are always a
popular at It has come to a time
when the people must realize the im-
portance of as fair dealing with a rail-
road as they expect for themselves,
else there will be an end of railroad
development, for the reason that in-
vestors will not furnish the money
necessary for it. They will not put
money into an enterprise that is
mulcted at every opportunity and le-
gally harrassed to the point where it
cannot pay as fair a dividend asa
chain of cigar stores.
an
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STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 70.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. JULY 3. 1925.
NO. 27.
An “Annual Address” of Value.
|
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The average “annual address” of .
the president of an organization or held at Poland Spring, Maine, which
society is a perfunctory affair.
Coolidge Balloon Deflated.
At the conference of Governors,
It | convened on Monday, Governor Smith,
usually expresses satisfaction with the | of New York,
threw a harpoon
progress of the work in which the or- | through the economy balloon recently
ganization is concerned and congratu- | inflated by President Coolidge and
lates “those present” on the increase | sent out to fool a credulous public.
in numbers or the improvement
in ' Governor Smith quoted from the Pres-
financial strength. But the address of | ident’s speech of June 22, in which, !
General George E. Alter, president of |
the Pennsylvania Bar Association, de-
livered at the annual meeting of that
Association held at Bedford Springs :
last week, is a worthy exception to
that custom. It presented a review of |
the legislation of the State of much
value to the legal profession and of
deep interest to the lay mind. It in-
dicates a needed improvement in prac-
tice.
We learn from the address of Gen.
Alter that “one session of the Legis-
lature of Pennsylvania is responsible
for about as many statutes as are
passed by the English Parliament in
ten years.” This indicates either a
pernicious energy on the part of the
‘local Legislature or a lamentable laxi-
ty on the part of the Parliament, and
there has been no complaint from the
British public. There is complaint,
and apparently with reason, happily
indicated by Gen. Alter, himself, of
over production here, when he adds
“there is very much that could be
omitted without peril to the public
welfare.” The increase in depart-
ments of government in recent years
justifies some increase in legislative
activities but there is still a redun-
dancy.
An analysis of President Alter’s
very interesting address reveals a
reprobation of the tendency to cen-
tralization of government in which
most thoughtful citizens will concur.
Many of the remedies for minor evils
might well be left for correction to
local authorities, thus relieving the
State government of perplexing obli-
gations and unnecessary burdens. “It
is human,” as Mr. Alter says, “for the
officeholder to seek to magnify his
office, to broaden its ‘jurisdiction and
increase its powers,” and this multi-
plication of laws may be ascribed to
this natural impulse. But it is not
beneficent in its results and itis a
shat this fact is reeog-
es
nized.
- —Just by way of saying something
that everybody will agree with we rise
to remark that it certainly wasn’t
Governor Pinchot who first suggested
that Mr. Finegan be made presiden?
of The Pennsylvania State College.
rete pee eee.
Soldiers’ Bonus Postponed.
A decision of the Supreme court,
handed down on Saturday, settles ad-
versely and definitely for the present,
the question of a bonus for the veter-
ans of the world war. The court holds
that Article XVIII, Section 1, which
declares that “no amendment or
amendments shall be submitted often-
er than once in five years,” is valid
and binding. Justice Sadler, who de-
livered the opinion, said “we are not
unmindful of the fact that the voters
should be given free opportunity to
modify the fundamental law as may
seem to them fit, but this must be
done in the way they themselves have
provided, if stability in carrying on
the government is to be preserved.”
The constitution was amended in
1901, 1909,1911, 1913, 1915, 1918,
1920 and 1923. The amendments of
1911, 1913, 1918 and 1923 were invalid
and the “Watchman” called public at-
tention to the fact in each case, not
because of opposition to the proposed
measures but for the reason now giv-
en by the Supreme court that amend-
ments must be made in the way the
people provided. No attention was
paid to the warning for the reason
that the dominant political machine
favored the amendments. When the
question came up of justly rewarding
the sons of the State who had imper-
iled their lives to preserve the honor
and safety of the country an objection
was raised and the amiable purpose
has been postponed.
The decision of the court unfortu-
nately carries with it the postpone-
ment of a vote on the proposed loan
for State College and that for refor-
estation. It has been suspected that
both these propositions were unwel-
come to the political masters of the
State but t hadn’t courage to open-
ly oppose fiem. It was easier and
safer to acliieve' the purpose of de-
struction ithe devious course of
placing the burden on the court. In
1923 the vote on the bonus amend-
ment was enjoined but that on the
highway loan allowed to pass. This
year they enjoined the reforestation
and the State College measures as
well as the bonus loan for the reason
that they are equally hostile to all.
ere mttna
The re-appointment of Pin-
chot’s giant power board may be for
the purpose. of pursuing the enter-
prise, and it may be only an expres-
sion of contempt for the Legislature.
frame of mind which takes things for
after claiming a reduction in Federal
expenses of $2,081,000,000, he declar- |
ed “history of public affairs will hard-
ly show a parallel case of retrench-
ment in the cost of government;” and
added, “the fact is the expenditures
have been reduced because the war is
at an end and it is no longer necessary
to maintain the government on a war
basis.”
The total from which the claimed
reduction is measured is expenses of
a period in which the country was
maintaining at home and abroad an
army of more than 4,000,000 men, and
the succeeding year in which the ex-
penses of demobilizing that vast force
were incurred. The costly operation
of demobilizing the army had ceased
fully four years before the decrease
in expenses of which the President
boasts and the interest account on the
upward of two billions of dollars paid
on the public debt during the last year
of the Wilson administration was cut
out, which at four per cent. would
amount to $88,000,000 a year. Tak- |
ing these facts into consideration the '
decrease in the expenditures of the
government is practically nil.
Governor Smith punctured another
tire in the Coolidge boastful claim.
That is, the President declared that
"while the National government is
practicing the most rigid economy the |
State governments are indulging in
the wildest extravagance. So far as
New York State is concerned the cost |
of government during the last three |
years has decreased in greater ratio!
even than that claimed by the Presi-
dent for the federal government. In’
Pennsylvania and some of the other :
States in which Republican control is
regular and certain there may have
been extravagance in administration. !
But it is not true in New York or!
Ohio, though in both those States ing if he resigns in the early future.
Democratic Governors have had con-
stant struggles with Republican: Lieg«a
islatures to keep expenses down. =
The friends of Henry C. Niles
are urging him to become a candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
judge of York county to fill the vacan-
cy which will be created by the retire-
ment of Judge Wanner. Mr. Niles
was the Democratic nominee for Jus-
tice of the Supreme court a few years
ago, and it may be said he would
adorn the bench of any court.
Charge Against Pusey Proved.
It would have been an easy matter
for Colonel Fred Taylor Pusey to per-
suade the public that Governor Pin-
chot had been influenced by ulterior
motives in separating him from the
State pay roll to which he had been
long and fondly attached, if there had
been no other evidence in the case.
There have been so many charges of
that sort lodged against the Governor,
without even an attempt at refutation,
that most people have come to that
granted. But in this case the Attor-
ney General has been able to present !
evidence corroborating the accusation
of the Governor and he has promptly
availed himself of the opportunity.
Among the reasons given for the
dismissal of Colonel Pusey from his
lucrative office was that he had solic-
ited an exorbitant fee for performing
a nominal service for a Philadelphia
banking company. Colonel Pusey de-
nied this charge promptly and posi-
tively. Thereupon the Attorney Gen-
eral made public a letter signed by
the president and treasurer of the
banking company, addressed to a dep-
uty Attorney General, in which the
transaction is given in detail. It not
only completely supports the Gover-
nor’s charge but justifies his action in
dismissing the Colonel. There are
other charges against him but it isn’t
necessary to consider them. The one
so completely proved is sufficient.
The Colonel is a rather unique fig-
ure in politics. He was somewhat
conspicuous and occasionally absurd
as a Representative in the Legisla-
ture some years ago and took an ac-
tive part in the campaign to defeat
Pinchot for Governor. But he was
then on the pay roll under appoint-
ment from Governor Sproul. In the
contests, for the Speakership of the
House, at organization. of the last
session of the Legisls e espous-
ed the cause of ‘the Governor -
date and probably imagined that
his tenure of office safe. But in that
he “reckoned without his host,” for
the Governor is taking on a new fight
and proposes to have none but real
friends on guard.
The Governor is. heading west-
ward and the politicians are wonder-
ing and guessing.
party in Pennsylvania.
| passed. But Congress, though the
. bill and did pass a measure offered by
. committee on Ways and Means, says | lp Bl Be
. be bad ‘being good would be of small
Secretary Mellon to Resign. |
The revival of the rumor that Sec-
retary of the Treasury Andrew W.
Mellon is about to resign suggests to
the analytical mind that he is disap-
pointed in the results of his efforts as
a party harmonizer. Almost from the
beginning of his service at Washing-
ton he has been by common consent
regarded as the actual leader of the
Senator Pen-
rose still held the title but he was so
feeble in health that the necessity for
a director in full vigor was realized
and Mellon, who had health, wealth :
and brains, was chosen for the place.
But it has not proved congenial be-
cause it has not been successful. The
organization has been tattered and
torn for one cause or another and Mr. :
Mellon is tired of the work.
The rumor of his resignation, now .
current in Washington, sets the time
of his retirement immediately after |
the passage and approval of his pro-
posed revenue legislation. Last year
it was said he would resign after the
passage of his tax bill, and possibly
he would have done so if his bill had
Reépubliean majority was much great-
er then than now, refused to pass his
the Democrats. The same thing is
quite likely to happen again. Even
the Republican chairman of the House
committee on Ways and Means has
asserted opposition to some of the
provisions of his bill, and the Demo-
i crats are certain to be a unit against
it
Mr. Mellon never was a politician,
; though always a partisan, and no
' doubt some of the work of an organ-
ization leader as well as the routine
of an official position are distasteful
to him. He is one of the richest men
i in the United States and among the
wealthiest in the world, and probably
accepted the office in the expectation
: that it would afford opportunities to
help himself and his fellow-million-
‘aires to shift tax burdens from their
shoulders. His defeat last year and
, the ominous prospects for his pet leg-
islation this year are disappointing,
of course, and it will not be surpris-
vast business interests require
al attention which he is unable
to give.
——Chairman Greene, of the House
there will be no legislation to reduce
tariff rates during the next session of
Congress, for the reason that such
legislation would break up the Repub-
lican party.
Two Hundred Fifty Signers Not
Neccessary.
Considerable discussion has been
provoked by a statement in this paper,
several weeks ago, that difficulty
might be had in finding 200 bona fide
Prohibitionists to sign the nomination
paper that would place Judge Dale on
that ticket at the coming primaries.
It has since been learned that 250
names are not necessary. Only 100
are enough, but as there are only a
few more than 200 voters registered
as Prohibitionists in the county con-
siderable traveling will be necessary
to secure 100 names. :
In event they cannot be reached
with the paper and no name is print-
ed on the primary ballot as Prohibi-
tion candidate for Judge, Judge Dale’s
name can be written in the blank
space provided, or that of any other
candidate or even one who is not now
a candidate, and the one receiving the
most votes would get his name on the
regular ballot in the fall as the Pro-
hibition candidate for Judge.
The only advantage filing a paper
for the primary will give Judge Dale
is that of having his name printed on
the primary ballot. Of course that is
appreciable for where only one name
appears on the ballot the average
voter marks it rather than go to the
trouble of writing another.
rr ————— A A
——At this distance it appears as
if General Atterbury had ‘“shooed” off
all opposition to J. E. B. Cunningham,
of Harrisburg, as the candidate for
the Republican nomination for Judge
of the Superior court.
der
——The prohibition enforcement
force has been reorganized again,
which is about the only thing the pro-
hibition enforcement force does.
rr nmm——— er ——
——No movement to relieve Mac-
Millan has been reported thus far but
it may be expected in another week.
A et
—ggThie seat of government has
or Sha temporarily, but the
polie nomy remains the same.
will admit that he'is a reformer.
Sai
— If thére were no rerptati0H to’
merit.
“When Coolidge suggests 1égis- ho
lation ‘to redice the cost of living we. |.
Retirement of Judge Orlady.
‘From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Judge Orlady’s announcement of his
coming retirement from the State Su-
perior court after thirty years of
faithful and honorable service will at-
tract attention in all parts of Penn-
sylvania, but particularly in the sec-
tion in and around Huntingdon. He
was appointed by Governor Hastings
on June 28, 1895, and has been elect-
ed three consecutive times and is now
the president judge of the court. He
is seventy-five years of age, and has
earned the rest to which an active
public man is entitled.
Few public men are better known
‘ throughout the State, and not many
; have taken a more active interest in
everything relating to the public wel-
fare. Judge Orlady graduated in both
medicine and law, but after two years’
practice as a physician he turned to
the bar and became district attorney
of Huntingdon county, a post which
he filled with conspicuous success for
nine years. Prior to going upon the
bench he was prominent in Republican
politics. He figured in the famous
State chairmanship contest between
Matthew Stanley Quay and B. Frank
Gilkeson. The fact that Mr. Orlady
had just been appointed to a judgship
and was a candidate for the nomina-
tion to succeed himself prevented him
from taking the interest he would
have liked in { ut notable political
battle, but he was a factor just the
same, and when the smoke of the con-
test cleared away Quay as the victor
assisted in the nomination of all the
judges of the newly created Superior
court, although several of them had
been his opponents.
Judge Orlady has been a familiar
figure at many State conventions. His
tall form and his resonant voice and
his forcible oratory singled him out as
a man of more than ordinary talent.
His pleasing personality made many
friends for him, even among those to
whom he was politically opposed.
Feeling sometimes ran high in those
old political contests, but. time, which
heals all wounds, obliterated bitter-
ness and the Judge has lived to see
former antagonists dwelling in peace
and harmony. His record upon the
bench has been excellent, and in the
evening of his days he has the satis-
faction of possessing the respect and
the good will of the public.
Cans’t Thou Beat It?
Writer Unknown.
Consider the ire is
born unto the wife of the merchant in
town. The physician getteth ten
plunks. The editor writeth a stick
and a half and telleth the multitude
nine pounds. Yes, he lieth even as a
centurian. And the proud father giv-
eth him a Cremo.
Behold, the young one groweth up
and graduateth. And the editor put-
teth in a notice a column long. Yea,
a peach of a notice. He telleth of the
wisdom of the young woman and of
her exceeding comeliness. Like un-
to the roses of Sharon is she, and her
gown is played up to beat the band.
And the dressmaker getteth two score
and four iron men. And the editor
gets a note of thanks from the sweet
girl graduate.
And the daughter goeth on a jour-
ney. And the editor throweth himself
on the story of the farewell party. It
runneth a column solid. And the fair
one remembereth him from afar with
a picture postal card that costeth six
for a jitney.
Behold, she returneth, and the youth
of the town fall down and worship.
She picketh one and lo, she picketh a
lemon. But the editor calleth him one
of our promising young men and get-
teth away with it. And they send
unto the editor a bid to the wedding,
and behold the bids are fashioned in
a far city.
Flowery and long is the wedding
notice which the editor printeth. The
minister getteth his bit. The editor
printeth a death notice, two columns
of obituary, three lodge notices, a cu-
bit of poetry and a card of thanks.
And he forgetteth to read preof on
the dead, and the darned thing cometh
out “Gone to Her Last Roasting
Place.”
And all that are akin to the deceas-
ed jumpeth on the editor with exceed-
ing great jumps. And they pulleth
out their ads, and canceleth their subs,
and they swing the hammer even unto
the third and fourth generations.
aed ge mits
The Roaring Cut-Out.
From the Latrobe Bulletin.
Nowadays, with houses dotting the
highways at frequent intervals, it
means annoyance to their occupants;
it means rest disturbed;—and it comes
as good news to know that the High-
way patrol made a total of 112 arrests
for opened cut-outs during the Toth
of May.
It comes as still better news, more-
over, to read that the head of the
Highway Department, in commenting
upon these arrests, declares that they
are only a start, and that he has di-
rected the patrol to act vigorously for
the elimination of the cut-out nui-
sance. “The idea,” he remarks, “of
operators roaring up and down a
country road, creating noise and dust,
is ridiculous.”
..S0 2 we all.
22 The} ‘Wan, Department has, a
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Miss Frances Elizabeth Fry, of Burn-
ham, Pa., has won the scholarship prize of
$100 awarded to the student with the high-
est average who has taken the Bryn Mawr
entrance examinations in Pennsy Ivania and
the Southern States.
—Oil from a bursted pipe line of the
Standard Oil company flowed into the Ju-
niata river Saturday afternoon and becom-
ing ignited on the stretch of smooth water
at the Brua flour mills near Frankstown,
burned fiercely, setting fire to the trees and
brush on the river banks and damaging
the flour mill considerably.
—Mrs. Paul Smith, of Bald Hill, Clear-
field county, who was seriously burned
when a can of kerosene with which she
was starting a fire in her kitchen range
exploded Tuesday afternoon of last week,
died at 5:30 Friday morning. She was
about 40 years of age and is survived by
her husband and three children.
—Harry Charles, 58 years old, committed
suicide at his home near -Millersville, Lan-
caster county, on Sunday morning ‘by
hanging himself on a picket fence. Charles,
after stooping to his knees, placed his
head between the pickets and allowed the
weight of his body to wedge him tightly
closing the trachea and causing death.
—DBelieved to have entered the water too
soon after having eaten a heavy lunch,
James Irvin McCauley, 8 year old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Irvin L. McCauley, of Eldo-
rado, Blair county, was drowned Saturday
afternoon in the Ivyside swimming pool in
Juniata Gap. The drowning is the first to
occur this summer in the pools in the vi-
cinity of Altoona.
—Frank M. Gates, 69 years old, oldest
man in point of service employed by the
Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway
company, was retired on a pension on Sat-
urday, after thirty-seven years of service.
During this long period he traveled 960,675
miles. Gates was a driver in the days. of
horse ears and the first man to be tought
how to operate an electric trolley car in
Altoona.
—Two masked bandits held up Robert
Anderson, aged 21 years, and Miss Doro-
thy May, aged 20 years, of Shamokin, as
they were driving by automobile from
Treverton to Shamokin late Friday night,
robbed the former of $30 and shot the
young woman when she attempted to reach
for a revolver in a pocket of the car. She
is in the Shamokin State hospital with a
bullet in her thigh and will recover.
—For the third time in as many years,
fire has destroyed part of the lumbering
operations of John R. Thompson, of Sa-
lona, Clinton county. A saw mill and two
stave mills which he has been working in
the lumber territory of Sugar valley were
burned on Friday morning by fire, which
may have started with a spark from the
boiler. Similar occurrences have burned
Mr. Thompson's milly in other parts of the
county.
—After firing five shots into the body of
his wife, Brocilla Marts Cobaugh, killing
her instantly, and, missing his mether-in-
law, Mrs. Joseph Marts, Henry Charles
Cobaugh, whose home was near Windber,
on Sunday night, used the remaining éart-
ridge to send a bullet through his right
temple, death following in a féw minutes.
The pair had quarreled frequently, it is
declared, Cobaugh objecting to the pres-
ence of his mother-in-law in his home.
—Tony Gero, serving a sentence of =
res tw ory peaes dul Ehel Ri :
tiary at Pittsburgh, for killing George Kel.
ly, at Bradford, a year ago, has been award-
ed $1,500 of the reward for the capture of
the killers of William McDougall, aged re-
cluse of Lewis Run, in February, 1924. He
aided officers by getting Blasius and To-
ny Spehar te confess to the slaying in the
Gero home, where officers were coneealed
and overheard Blasius tell of himself and
his brother committing the crime.
—DBishop Ethelbert Talbot, presiding
bishop of the Episcopal church, presided
last Thursday evening at the unveiling and
dedication of a window placed in the Epis-
copal church at Danville, Pa., in memory
of Alexander and Sallie Frick. Part of the
glass in the window came from the Cathe-
dral at Chartres, and is centuries old,
while a stone more than 700 years old, pre-
sented by the Dean of the Canterbury Ca-
thedral in England, was blessed. KEpisco-
palians from throughout Central Pennsyl-
vania were there for the services. Miss
Mary Hathaway Hager unveiled the win-
dow.
—Miss Anna C. Heverly, 22 years old,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Hev-
erly, of Altoona, was almost instantly kill-
ed and Irvine Blackburn, 23 years old, son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Blackburn, of Hol-
lidaysburg, was severely injured, when the
automobile in which they were riding was
wrecked on the state highway a short dis-
tance below Prince Gallitzin Spring, early
Monday morning. The Blackburn car turn-
ed completely over and Miss Heverly was
pinned under the machine. She was dead
when rescued. Blackburn was thrown
clear of the car. He sustained a deep lac-
eration of the right wrist and probable | in-
ternal injuries.
—Advertising for a pony for his little
step-son brought to Charles H. Chilcote, of
Mapleton, the wife who had left him twen-
ty years ago and whom he had thought
dead. It also disclosed a marital complica-
tion unrivaled in the courts of Hunting-
don county. After nine years of domestic
felicity Mrs. Chilcote disappeared. With-
out obtaining a divorce, her husband, after
twelve years, married Mrs. Mazie McMul-
len, the mother of four children. Two
weeks ago Chilcote advertised for a child's
pony, bringing the answer from his for-
mer wife, living in an. adjoining township,
who, eight years ago, had married William
H. Howard without the formality of di-
vorce. Chilcote has asked the court to'un-
tangle his matrimonial knot by setting
aside his second marriage.
—Charged with posing as women in
answering matrimonial advertisements and
to have obtained several diamond - rings
from prospective suitors, Glenn Lyons, of
Greenville, and Wesley Hill, son of the
Rev. A. J. Hill, of Sharon, were held for
the Federal grand jury following a hear-
ing before a United States commissioner'at
Pittsburgh last week. The investigation
into the matrimonial activities of the two
youths was started when one of the pros-
pective suitors made inquiries to the Shar-
on police for details concerning the
“death” of his “fiancee.” Postal inspec-
tors charged that the scheme involved
sending a “death” notice to end the cor-
respondence after the youths had exchang-
wd of. captured, German guns. for; ‘ed several letters with their “mail suitors.”
distribution and. State College anil:
Lock Hayen have put in applications.
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hotograph, of a young woman obtain-
na novelty s store was sent in the in-
eroiotory letter, ‘it was charged.
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