INK SLINGS.
os —A cloudy sky is all that saved us
from a frost Wednesday morning.
~ ——As a rule those who go aftsr
“them get more things of value than
sthose who wait.
: ——Wheat has dropped in price to
‘$1.40. Last week local mills were
“paying $1.50 for it.
——The Philadelphia primary elec-
tion was a scandalous affair but the
people of that city will ratify it by the
usual majority.
-——According to a recent survey
“made by the State Agricultural De-
partment Centre county has 3595
sheep on its various farms.
——1In view of the evidence thus
far obtained it will be a hard job to
fasten the blame for the Shenandoah
«disaster on Commander Lansdowne.
——Some charitable people imag-
“ine they have done their share toward
-a good cause when they ask their
-neighbors to subscribe to the fund.
——Some of the bureaucrats who
are now pounding Colonel Mitchell
may be getting rich selling his forth-
coming book on a commission basis.
—Say what yeu will about former
«Governor John K. Tener’s attempt to
set the political stage for a “comeback”
‘The Pennsylvania State College has
“reason to remember with gratitude
the unexpected friendliness of his ad-
‘ministration toward that institution.
—DMuch as we admire John S. Fish-
‘er, of Indiana county, we are inclined
fo the belief that he will be a far hap-
pier man if he persuades his friends
. that they had better abandon hope of
making him Governor of Pennsylva-
nia, at least until the P. R. R. and the
N. Y. C. make their interests mutual
in this State.
—Governor Pinchot can bawl his
"head off about the Welfare Depart-
ments’ being divorced from politics,
but if it were to develop the greatest
expert known his head would be off in
less time than it takes to tell it if he
took the slightest exception to any of
the ideas that are rattling around in
“the Giffordian head.
—It isn’t always the most exper-
denced and profound lawyer who
makes the best Judge. We once
thought it was. That’s why we so
strenuously fought the election of the
late Judge Quigley, ten years ago. His
record on the bench showed us how
groundless was the argument we had
used in opposition to his election.
—God forgive us. We didn’t know
“what we were doing to Hardman P.
‘Harris when we suggested that he
would be a good man to elect as bur-
.gess. Already we have heard the la-
- dies planning enough troubles for the
- prospective “chief potentate to drive
him to putting himself on “the cooling
.board” before he has served three
months.
—The dinner that the Williamsport
~Chamber of Commerce tendered Gov-
ernor Pinchot on the occasion of his
visit to Lycoming county on Tuesday
threatened to be a “frost” until
~enough anti-Pinchoists could be per-
suaded that it is better, sometimes, to
dine on crow than affront the man who
ladles out the soup for local institu-
tions and State roads.
—Gasoline is selling at fourteen
cents in Oklahoma. The last we
“bought cost twenty-two. What the
Harrisburg Telegraph calls a robber
- held up a filling station in that city on
Wednesday and got away with twen-
ty-one dollars. Did the real robber
. get away or is he mulling around on
- some of the estates assessed in the
name of John D. Rockerfeller?
—What do the political crooks of
. Philadelphia have to fear as a result
«of their scandalous action in the re-
cent primaries.” Eighty per cent. of
“the voters down there whe are now
rolling their eyes and throwing up
“their hands in righteous (?) indigna-
tion will step up to the polls in No-
‘vember and vote to further prostitute
-the judiciary so that they may be
“{reated with leniency.
—We’ve abandoned the “Afalet-
“ics.” We gazed in the crystal for
hours, but couldn’t see them parading
under the American League pennant.
We didn’t believe the crystal was as
dependable as our own ivory. Now we
“know better.
“teacher and “the crystal” tells us that
“State is going to beat Pitt in their
first meet on the new Pitt stadium
:and we believe “the crystal.”
—We know enough about Mr. Walk-
er’s reputation as a practitioner to
guarantee every one that when he
gets to be Judge of the courts of Cen-
tre county all legal procedure will be
right up to the minute. His motto
has always been “never let the sun
set on an unfinished job.” He is
-anathema to dilatory lawyers, but for
the same reason he will be a great
worry and expense saver to those who
have business in the courts.
—Gossip, conjecture, speculation to
the contrary notwithstanding, Judge
Dale is put and he’s going “to stay
put.” He will not side-step the call
of his Prohibition friends. He is
going to lead their fight for the bench
and that means that brother Keller's
.short, fat legs are going to have some
‘job keeping up with the more lengthy
and attenuated members ‘that furnish
motive power for his two rivals for
‘the honor. Mr. Keller'has much pow-
er in low, but he’s in a race with two
candidates who are in the habit of
stepping on the gas when they start
«doing things.
70.
VOL.
“Satan Rebuking Sin.”
In a speech delivered at Carlisle the
“gang politics is always at its worst
in the big cities. No where could you
find a more perfect example of this
truth than what happened in Phila- | the order General Hinds, command- { mors to that ©
delphia on Tuesday. It was nothing !ing the Eighth Corps area of the ar- ! political circles f
to the gang that Judge Renshaw had
won the respect and confidence of the
whole city. It was nothing to them
that his record was of upright fear-
BELLEF
STATE RIGHTS AN
Quick Vengeance on Mitchell.
| The vengeance of the bureaucrats
other day Governor Pinchot said, has been prompt in pursuing Colonel whose
: Mitchell for exposing their delinquen-
cies.
i
He has been deposed from ac-
tive duty in the service. In issuing ;
my, has given no reason, but it is pre-
‘sumed that insubordination is the
! charge. Colonel Mitchell revealed
| facts which reflected upon the intelli-
D FEDERAL UNION.
Tener’s Hat in the Ring.
Former Governor John K. Tener,
ONTE, PA.. SEPTEMBER 25. 1925.
NO. 38.
Mr. Keller is Grateful.
During the course of a recent con-
present home is Charleroi, has versation with Harry Keller Esq., the
announced that he is a candidate for | Republican nominee for Judge of the
the Republican nomination for that of- ' courts of our county, we discovered
fice next year.
little attention was paid to them. His |
announcement, made in Philadelphia,
There had been ru- !that he is immensely gratified with
ffect floating about in the result of the recent primaries.
or some time but as Mr. Keller expressed his gratitude to
‘he has not been a conspicuous figure , the voters of his party in the follow-
“in the political gossip of recent years, ' ing language:
“I want to avail myself of this op-
| portunity and privilege to say that I
lessness and even-handed impartiality. ' gence and patriotism of his superior
He refused to take orders from the | officers, and that has been appraised
gang. Therefore the gang laid its un- | as “detrimental to the service.” His
clean hands on the judiciary and raid- | obvious purpose was to improve the
ed the court to drive from office an service and there are many reasons
honest and competent official and re- ' to believe that his exposures will ul-
place him with an order-taking fol- timately have that effect. But under
lower of the machine.” ' the system a subordinate has no right
on Sunday, removes all doubts on the ! appreciate greatly every vote cast for
subject. His hat is in the ring and for | me at the primary election on Sep-
the present at least, he has the field | tember 156th. I am naturally very
: i . | much gratified in being chosen as the
to himself. There will be other ean | nominee of the Republican party for
didates, of course, but if there is any | the high and responsible office of
virtue in the adage that “the early | Judge of Centre county. It was par-
bird catches the worm” he has some- | ticularly pleasing to me that my home
thing on his competitors. town, where I have always lived, and
Every word of this arraignment of
the Vare machine
shamefully true. The Municipal court
of Philadelphia has been from its cre-
is literally and
to suggest improvements.
The air service of the army and na-
‘vy has been either a ghastly tragedy
‘or a cruel joke. Colonel Mitchell, who
In his announcement the ex-Gover- i
| where so many persons know me best,
nor declares that he has not “become gave me such a flattering vote of con-
a candidate at the behest of or to |fidence and endorsement. But most
serve any man or set of men or any | Pleasing of all to me is the fact that
is an expert air man, discerned the
ation a prolific fountain of corrupt pa-
tronage. Thus far, however, it has
not yielded to the pernicious power of
the Vare family. After the district
attorney’s office had capitulated the
contractor boss concluded to make a
clean sweep by seizing the Municipal
court and set up a machine candidate
against the jurist in commission who
stood between him and the coveted
prize. To accomplish his purpose he
had his criminal henchmen perpetrate
the most glaring frauds both in the
casting and return of the vote.
But wicked as this outrage against
the integrity of the primary is Gov-
ernor Pinchot has no license to pro-
test. Great as the crime against the
people of Philadelphia and Pennsylva-,
nia Gifford Pinchot is accessory. Two
legislative sessions have been held
since he became Governor. During
the first session, owing to his skill in
the use of patronage, he was able to
get any legislation he wanted. He
knew of the corrupt practices at elec-
tions in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
because he had profited by it but he
refused to even recommend legislation
that would remedy the evil though im-
portuned to do so by a large number
of citizens who had supported him for :
Governor,
Before the : mbling of the Gen-
eral Assembly‘of 1923 the late Sena-
tor William Flinn, of Pittsburgh, had
prepared a series of measures intend-
ed to prevent electoral frauds or at
least to minimize them. Senator
Flinn knew that 50,000 or more fraud-
ulent votes had been cast for Mr. Pin-
chot in Philadelphia and 20,000 or up-
ward in Pittsburgh. But he believed
that notwithstanding this help to his
ambition the Governor would be hon-
est enough to guard against such
frauds in the future.
clude this legislation in his program
for the session. But Gifford Pinchot
refused to consider the subject.
He repeatedly pleaded for prohibi-
tion legislation; he continuously urged
legislation that would multiply his
power as executive; he frequently de-
manded freak legislation of one sort
or another but never opened his mouth
to protest against debauching the bal-
lot or wrote a line asking for legisla-
tion to prevent a recurrence of the
electoral crimes which had served his
purpose in the past and might pro-
mote his ambition in the future.
“Good government in Philadelphia
suffered a dangerous set-back” by the
conduct and result of the primary
election last week but the responsibil-
ity rests quite as heavily on Gifford
Pinchot as on Bill Vare, Each had his
part in the scandal.
A considerable
number of the influential newspapers ;
of the State urged the Governor to in-
faults of the organization and wanted
to correct them. In -pursuance of this
purpose he told the truth, as he un-
derstood it, to a Congressional com-
mittee investigating the subject. For
that he was demoted from the rank of
Brigadier General to that of Colonel
and admonished to say no more unless
his opinions were approved by his su-
perior officers. In the remote station
to which he had been deported he kept
silence until the costly tragedy of the
Shenandoah aroused his emotions and
he violated the orders. His practical
dismissal from the army is the pen-
alty.
Napoleon invited suggestions from
subordinates and rewarded them ac-
cording to their value by promotions.
His achievements have come down
through the channels of history as
' marvels of military genius. The stock-
broker at the head of our War Depart-
{ ment and the lawyer who controls our
' naval activities have a different idea
‘of the subject. They penalize sugges-
tions for improvement before the val-
ue of them has been measured. Pos-
sibly a subservient Congress, influ-
enced by the adroit use of patronage,
will approve this policy but it is a safe
conjecture that the American people
“will not concur. Equal and exact jus-
tice is an inherent principle of good
citizenship, and Colonel Mitchell is en-
titled to it. Foleitty
et tte ee lee eee:
——The nomination of Henry C.
' Niles, for the office of Judge by the
Democrats of York county, is an hon-
or to the party, a service to the public
and a just tribute to an eminent law-
yer.
te meer flee c—
Max Leslie’s Surprising Defense.
Senator Max Leslie’s “affidavit of
' defense” in the action to recover $75,
000 on notes due the Carnegie Trust
i Company, of Pittsburgh, puts a new
‘face on the relations of John A. Bell
to the politicians of Pittsburgh and
other sections of the State. The gen-
eral impression had been that Mr.
Bell was the obliging “angel” for all
the impecunious politicians. It was
known that he “helped” a number of
that type of citizens by advancing
‘money or credit for adventures in bus-
"iness. It is generally understood that
he had agreed to pay large sums for
‘an appointment to the office of United
States Senator and gave freely to
slush funds.
i But Senator Max Leslie indicates
that Mr. Bell was less the “angel”
than the dependent of politicians. In
other words he states under oath that
(his notes held by the Carnegie Trust
Company were not given in considera-
| tion of money borrowed from the bank
Experience is a great,
—John T. Laurie, of Tyrone, is “but in consideration of friendship for
evidently the champion economist in Mr. Bell. That is, he alleges that the
political expenditures. He ran for notes are simply “accommodation” ev-
borough council in one of the wards of A idences of debt given to the bank to
Tyrone on the Republican ticket, was help Bell in a financial emergency and
nominated and has already filed his ' that none of the proceeds of the trans- '
expense account which he gives as | action went to him but all to Bell. He
four cents, two 2-cent postage stamps. | Protests, therefore, that the receivers
; of the bank have no claim on him.
| The ways of the politicians are de-
Mr. Walker Appreciates the Support vious and sometimes sinuous but it is
He Received.
In the course of an interview with
W. Harrison Walker Esq., who has
been given the Democratic nomination
for Judge, he expressed himself as
highly gratified with the honor con-
ferred on him by his party.
Mr. Walker is deeply sensitive to
the responsibility that is his and has
authorized us to say that he will make
an intensive campaign for the office,
being mindful always of the dignity
that should characterize aspiration
for such a position.
He wishes to thank those who so
loyally supported him and hopes that
those who preferred others at the pri-
maries will now find it desirable to
rally to him as their party’s standara
bearer.
reef onsen.
——Nine times out of ten the things
that are on sale at low prices are in
communities a long way from where
we live,
. a safe guess that the defense of Sen-
“ator Leslie threw a great surprise in-
, to a vast majority of those who were
familiar with the operations and ac-
tivities of both gentlemen. If Mr.
Leslie can establish his claim that Mr.
Bell rather than himself got the mon-
ey on the notes many other creditors '
{of the bank may set up the same de-
fense and thus reduce the assets of
; the bankrupt bank to a shadow. Of
{ course Senator Leslie will have to ac-
count for the worthless collateral he
is said to have deposited with the
{ notes as security.
| ——Aside from other considerations |
| the Philadelphia board of registration
1 is somewhat to blame for the electoral ;
frauds this year, and Pinchot appoint- |
ed the registrars.
——It may be said that after a sin-
gle woman passes the age of thirty
she won't object to the “obey” or any '
other word in the marriage ceremony.
and sultriest days of the summer sea-
particular group or faction.” In view
of recent and present political condi-
tions this fact provokes considerable
speculation. The Republican party is |
so distinctly divided into factions that :
€ Judge
it is difficult to imagine a man enter- . certainly want to be,
parts of Centre county.
i the nomination came to me ‘from not
merely a few sections but from all
This is in
keeping with my conception of the re-
sponsibilities of the office to which I
aspire, for a should be, and 1
the Judge for ail
ing a contest without the assured sup- | of the people of the county. That is
port of one or another of these groups, i
the type of Judge I want and expect to
In 1910 Mr. Tener was the avowed '!© Pe if I am elected, and I expect to
candidate of the late Senator Penrose,
with the friendly interest of Senator !
Oliver, then the potent force in the '
western end of the State. That com-
bination composed a formidable force.
During his term of office he was not
in cordial relations with the Vare con-
tingent though Senator Ed. Vare in
expressing disappointment at some
action of the Governor declared that
40,000 fraudulent votes cast for him
in South Philadelphia were responsi- |
ble for his election. But the present
head of the Vare clan doesn’t always
, adhere to the traditions, as was shown
by the recent alliance between Vare
|
“and Grundy, and it is not impossible |
that the Philadelphia contractor boss
is behind the ex-Governor.
i be elected.
At the recent primary election it
was the privilege of all Republicans to
aspire, for a Judge should be, and I
! right and proper that the members of
| our party should have such an oppor-
tunity for a free, open expression of
their preference. My campaign for
the nomination was conducted in the
spirit of refraining from personalities
of any kind. My campaign for the
election will be conducted along ex-
actly the same lines. Now that all
Republicans have had the opportunity
to express their choice, I appeal to not
only those who voted for me, but to
all who voted for my opponent, to ac-
cept the decision of the majority and
accord me their loyal, united support
at the polls in November.
I am placing my candidacy in the
“Nobody hands of the people of Centre coun-
knows where the hobo goes” and it is ' ty, because as I have stated, I want to
just as difficult to follow the sinuous ' be the Judge for all of the people of
movements of Republican politicians | the county, regardless of race, creed
these days.
Reed may have brought Tener out.
| ——According to the Governor's es-
Senators Pepper and or color.”
Official Returns of ‘the Priaries. “1;
The county commissioners, with
timate of achievements he has not i Miss Marie Doll and Miss Rachel Lam-
only cleared the political atmosphere | bert, as clerks, began computing the
i but painted the sky blue during hig
| administration.
| Pinchot Makes a New Charge.
In his speech at Lewisburg, on Mon-
day evening, Governor Pinchot assert-
"ed a new and somewhat serious charge
; against the
, Pennsylvania. He stated that “in the
old days bucket shops and stock swin-
dlers cost the people of this Common-
“wealth $100,000,000 and beacuse the
political gang protected them they did
it with impunity. Although in 1922
some of the largest stock swindling
' schemes blew up only one of the pro-
moters went to jail and he was a little
one.” This isa grave charge but
‘lacks definiteness. The Governor
ought to have told who was responsi-
- ble for the obvious failure of justice.
| The Governor did go into details
, somewhat. He said that a United
States Senator and a member of the
, President’s Cabinet had visited the bu-
reau of securities and urged a conces-
sion “to sell to the people of Pennsyl-
vania $5,000,000 worth of stock in an
alleged steel corporation in the mid-
dle west. It was found to be worth
$170,000 less than nothing. Investi-
gation by the bureau of securities
showed that most of the $5,000,000 out
.of which it was proposed to defraud
the public was to be divided among
the promoters themselves.” The Unit-
ed States Senator concerned in this
transaction was from another State
but the Cabinet member involved is
not located.
In thus protecting the “rubes” of
Pennsylvania the bureau of securities
of Pennsylvania has performed the
service for which it was created. If
the habit of the bureau has been to ac-
cept bribes or grant concessions to
swindlers through favoritism, the im-
provement in morals and methods in-
dicated in the Governor's statement is
commendable. But the reform has not
gone as far as it might or else the
Bell bank scandals might have been
averted. Still it is worth while that
one bureau of the Department of
Banking is alert and incorruptible.
But the bureau was created before
Gifford became Governor.
~——Sunday was one of the hottest
son but the temperature dropped on
Monday and Tuesday morning was
down to thirty-nine, within one degree
of the frost line. Of course there is
little in the gardens or en the farms
now for frost to kill.
AA ter— lf ——"———————
——Among the State Highway ap-
pointments announced at Harrisburg,
on Monday, was that of Harold R.
|
Republican machine of |
voté cast at the primaries on Tuesday
of last week on Friday afternoon and
completed the job on Monday. While
there were no important changes from
the totals published in the “Watch-
man” last week, we publish the total
vote as a matter of record:
DEMOCRATIC.
Judge of the Superior Court:
W. A. MeGuire..)\................,
Judge of Common Pleas Court:
J. Konnedy Johnston
W. Harrison Walker.
N. B. Spangler.......
Arthur C. Dale
District Attorney:
W.Groh'Runkle...................;
Jury Commissioner:
Sessssessarsda
BR A I
John C. Conde..................... 3149
REPUBLICAN.
Judge of the Superior Court:
Albert Dutton McDade............. 1156
Jesse E. B. Cunningham........... 2588
James Regan Jr............iouu.iih 549
Judge of Common Pleas Court:
Arthur C.aDale......0...000 000 on 2186
Harry Keller:..... i. vous viv iio 3462
District Attorney:
John. @Q. Love, ............ i... iis 4606
Jury Commissioner; mre
David Vaughn ........ seniassnnaee, 1000
Scott Holter
D. W. Boyer J 910
John D. Decker.iii.ivivi.ii.ivoner 875
PROHIBITION. 3
Judge of Common Pleds Court: :
Arthur C. Dale...... ddA Tidiviiiiig 105
W. Harrison Walker... 1
Harry Keller............. 5
J. Kennedy Johnston
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE
—Circulation of counterfeit $5 notes was
discovered by Hazleton banks.
—Miss Bertha Cornwell, of New York, has
been selected as superintendent of the
Lewistown hospital. ig y
—Masked bandits: held the night watch-
man of the Jewel Oil company’s service
station at Mt. Carmel at the point of a gun
while they helped themselves to forty-two
dollars in the cash register.’
—Frank Ritchel, aged 22 years, a Sha-
mokin, millionaire, cheated death by a few
inches, at Sunbury, on Saturday. He drove
his car over a grade crossing and a fast
express took off the tail light.
—Struck in the back of the neck by a
piece of a circular saw which broke while
he was operating it, Ralph Boyd, 28, "of
Danville, was so badly injured that he died
on the way to the hospital late on Monday.
Boyd was employed in the carpentry de-
partment of the Danville stove works. His
mother and only child died within the last
six weeks.
—Thomas Lynch, a prisoner in the Ly-
coming county jail, is earning money with
which to employ special counsel by oper-
ating a restaurant and laundry within the
prison. He takes the orders of inmates
who desire more varied meals than those
on the regular jail menu and prepares
them in his cell. In the evenings he wash-
es clothes for several prisoners.
—After serving a term in the Lancaster
county jail for passing a bogus check, Da-
vid Hinkle, wanted on three similar
charges in York, was lodged in the York
county jail last Thursday te await hear-
ing before two local aldermen. He is al-
leged to have given checks in order to
raise money to buy a wedding ring and to
pay for his wedding dinner at the Colum-
bia hotel.
—Calmly giving directions as to what
hymns should be sung at his funeral, Wil-
liam B. Aungst, aged 41 years, car repair-
man at the Hollidaysburg shops of the
Pennsylvania railroad, whose left leg was
crushed and the left side of his face badly
mangled after a shift engine ran into him
while he was underneath a car, Friday
afternoon; died on Sunday morning at
10:30 o'clock.
—While his parents looked helplessly on,
17 year old ReRoy Thurau, of Oil City,
was drowned in the Allegheny river at
Walnut Bend at 10 o'clock Sunday morn-
ing. While swimming in 18 feet of water
he was seized with cramps. His cries for
help brought his father and brother to the
rescue in boats but they reached the spot
after the youth had gone down for the
third time. The body was recovered four
hours later with the use of grappling
hooks.
—The Susquehanna county jail at Mont-
rose was raided Saturday night by two
state troopers and a constable in a search
for liquor and beer. The troopers search-
ed the cells of W. W. Walsh and M. J.
Dempsey, Scranton brewers, who are serv-
ing six months for Volstead law violations,
but found nothing in them. In another
cell the troopers said they found five bot-
tles, one of which contained a table spoon-
ful of fluid believed to be liquor, No ar-
rests were made.
—Criminal information against twenty-
eight mutilators of monuments at the Get-
tysburg battlefield, were filed with Feder-
1 Judge Albert W. Johnson, at Scranton,
last Friday, by United States district at-
torney Andrew B. Dunsmore. The alleged
offenders live in scattered cities in Mary-
land, Pennsylvania, New York and Rhode
Island. The list also includes several res-
idents of Washington, D. C. All of the
Cost of Primary Election in Centre
County.
County Treasurer J. O. Heverly
paid out to election officers in the six-
ty-four voting precincts of Centre
county, last week, the sum of $3,309.-
87, which was $144.71 less than the
cost of the primaries in 1924. Elec-
tion supplies this year cost $343.07,
which was $63.50 less than last year.
As all the bills for the printing of the
ballots are not yet in it is not definite.
ly known how this expense will com-
pare with last year, when the bill was
over $700.
Lightning Knocked Horns off the Cow.
George Reed, who lives on the old
Markle property beyond the borough
home, had his cow out in pasture last
Friday. To keep her from wandering
away he had her tied by a chain to a
big stone. During the hard rain
storm, last Friday morning, a bolt of
lightning shivered the stone into hun-
dreds of small pieces and knocked both
horns off the cow. The cow, re-
leased from her anchor, walked to the
stable, a distance of about 150 feet,
and dropped dead.
——The new Pine street bridge in
Philipsburg, erected mainly through
the efforts of the American Legion of
that place, was formally opened to the
Spicher, of Bellefonte, as a chainman.
public on Monday evening.
offenders will be asked to appear af the
Qctober term of court, ie so if
—Charged with taking money from ¢ &.
D. packages, Carl A. Hiles, 32 years of age,
Mount Union letter carrier, was held in
$500 bond by Commissioner Samuel Lovin,
at Harrisburg, on I'riday. Postoffice in-
spector MacMing arrested Hiles several
days ago and testified at the hearing that
the man had taken about $48 from C O. D.
packages. Hiles brought no defense. He
was furnished bail by his father when it
was decided that he should be held for
United States district court,
—After five month’s idleness, the facto-
ry of the Penn Shirt company, at Altoo-
na, which ceased operation last April, will
reopen September 29. It id intended to
start with a large working force. Louis
Parish, of Saxton, a former resident of Al-
toona, has purchased full interest in the
company from Jacob Saltzman and Harris
Dembert, who had operated the place for
several years. A number of improvements
have been made in the plant and new ma-
chinery has been installed by the new
owner, way ip di fe mid EE
—Ralph Weieh, age $8 yeitrs, of Tock
Haven, Was seriously burned on the body
and limbs ‘Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock while engaged in opening a drum
of acid at the plant of the American Ana-
line Products, Inc., of which he is an em-
ployee. He was burned on the entire back,
neck and both arms and legs and about the
right eye, when the cap flew off and the
acid drenched him. He was removed im-
mediately to the Lock Haven hospital
where his burns were found to be of a ser-
ious nature. Whether the sight of the
burned eye is destroyed cannot be ascer-
tained for a few days.
—Mr. and Mrs. John Dry, of Spring
township, Berks county, have brought suit
against Dr. Gordon F. Borneman, a Boy-
ertown dentist, for $5,222.10, because of the
death of their son, Warren, 26 years of age.
It is alleged that the son was treated by
the defendant and that in the course of
performing dental work on October 16,
1924, a “root file fell into his mouth and he
swallowed it.” The instrument lodged in
his intestines, an operation was necessary
for its removal. The parents ask $5,000
for the loss of maintenance and support
and $222.10 for funeral expenses. Another
suit was filed by them against Dr. Borne-
man for $929.54, for hospital bills and med-
ical services arising out of the surgical op-
eration.
—Albert Kumites and Joseph Kosluaski,
both aged 28 years, of Beaver township,
Columbia county, were committed to ithe
county jail at Bloomsburg, on Sunday,
after they had been identified by Millville
residents as two of the trio who on Sep-
tember 11 were foiled in an attempt to
hold up the First National bank in that
town. The car used by the bandits was
also recovered on Sunday, being found hid-
den in the brush along Black Run. The
police are hopeful of arresting the third
member of the party soon. The men have
been suspected of a number of crimes in
the last two years, and it is just possible
that they were implicated in the robbery
of the C. Y. Wagner Co. mill in Bellefonte,
a job pulled off on the night of September
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10th.