Bemorrai atc
: INK SLINGS.
" —Well, the excitement is all over
and may we now remind you that it is
only forty-eight days until Christmas.
: —The Shah of Persia having been
deposed we presume the shoe shine
union will be issuing a car to an-
other inefficient.
—Anyway you've got to admit that
Mr, W. Harrison Walker and Judge
Arthur C. Dale threw a terrible scare
into the machine organization in Cen-
tre county.
—From the face of the returns it
would apear that candidates Dale and
Keller drew 1985 Democrats away
from Walker, while he was purloining
Just 113 Republicans from them. They
say figures don’t lie. Maybe they
don’t, but these certainly must.
—The Tile and Mantel Contractors’
Association has been told by some
New York authority that only the
very rich should have colors in their
bath rooms. The gentleman was
probably referring to the nouveau rich,
who fall for such things because they
don’t know any better.
—The wallop Penn got last Satur-
day wasn’t so surprising at that. Phil-
adelphia sports’ writers have been
putting paper champion teams on
Franklin field for years without much
success. They were near getting
away with it this season until Red
Grange demonstrated that the ice
tongs are mightier than the type-
writer.
—We've got to give it to Arthur.
Just started in law, a novice in poli-
tics, catapulted into a distinguished
position, he made a surprising con-
test. He was true to his colors and
rode in the race, whether he knew it
or not, weighted with opportunists
who cost him hundreds of votes. On
his own, Judge Dale might be sitting
very pretty ten years from now.
—Poor George Pepper. He is shed-
ding tears big as horse chestnuts over
the fate that will befall President
Coolidge if he doesn’t get back to the
Senate. Why unnecessarily over-
work the lachrymal glands, Senator?
If the President keeps on edging his
way into the League of Nations and
lecturing Sunday schools and Y. M. C.
A’s on fundamental Democratic doc-
trines he’ll be over with us before you
get back for a regular term and prob-
‘ably he won’t want you there at all.
—We told the truth all through the
campaign. We declared that the Dem-
ocrats had the opportunity of a de-
cade to put a man of their own party
on the bench. The Republican
strength was split and hundreds of
that party were ready to help Mr.
Walker. All that was needed was for
the Democrats to stick to their candi-
date and let their rivals do the fight-
ing. It was our chance, but we’re the
gillies who don’t grab when the grab-
bin’s good. If Mr. Walker had gotten
eigthy per cent. of the Democratic
vote cast on Tuesday he would have
been elected.
—Manassa, Col.,, wants to call her
new High school building “The Jack
Dempsey school.” Jack, you know,
won the war wearing patent leather
shoes in a Philadelphia ship building
yard. Wouldn’t it be just too grand
for Manassa to thus honor the cham-
pion pug of the world and champion
slacker of the U. S. A.. Some may
marvel at the actions of American
school boards. We never do, for we'll
carry to the grave memories of one in
Centre county that for years had a
member who couldn’t write his own
name, but he always marked an X in
the Republican column.
—In the seven reliably Democratic
precincts, Centre Hall, Potter, Gregg,
Penn, Millheim Boro, Miles and
Haines there are 3851 voters register-
ed. 2405 of them were at the polls
Tuesday. That’s about 68 per cent.
of them and an encouraging outlook in
Pennsvalley where many women are
50 timid about the franchise that they
have not yet exercised it. Of course
it is ridiculous to think that all the
stay-at-homes are Democrats or that
they would have voted for Mr. Walk-
er, or that it was humanly possible to
get them all out, but with 1446 of
them at home and Mr. Keller winning
by 1337 it makes us think, at least, of
what might have been.
—It’s all in a day’s work, but few
people realize what a day’s work
means to a worker on a country news-
paper where readers are regarded as
members of a big family. We have
just gotten off five gallons of Centre
county apple-butter to a “Watchman”
devotee in Bradford, two bushels of
walnuts to another up in Manchester,
Vt., a string of the first run of the
Bill Lyon mix of sausage to Pitts-
burgh, and are waiting for a twenty-
five pound can of lard to ship down in
to West Virginia. All the while let-
ters from Denver, Col.; Cumberland,
Md.; Bloomfield, Penna., and where
not, are piled up on the desk await-
ing answers. They have been accu-
mulating and some day every last one
of them will be answered because they
mean to the “Watchman” all that it
has ever striven to be: An anchor to
the homeland for those who have
drifted far from old Centre county. A
deluge means nothing to us. We have
one every day and night here in the
shop, so we keep on piling things up
against the day when no one drops in
to ask us when the last bus leaves for
Howard and we can settle down to
answering correspondence and getting
enough money in the bank to make the
pay check good on Saturday. It’s all
in the day’s work, and we love it.
‘mandate to Greece and Bulgaria. Both
VOL. 70.
President’s Policy Wrong.
The policies of President Coolidge,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
STATE RIGHTS AN
Pepper Paints a Sad Picture.
Whatever others think Senator Pep-
as they will be expressed in his annu- ' per is certain that his antagonist for
al message to Congress next month,
are already known to those in his |
confidence in Washington. On the
question of taxation he will recom-
mend a big cut in the levy on large |
incomes and a pat stand on tariff tax-
ation. That is precisely what the gen- |
erous contributors to the campaign
slush fund desire. They demand re-
imbursement of the money they gave
so freely to buy votes and cutting the
rates on big incomes and retaining
the exorbitant tariff schedules will .
work both ways in the accomplish-'
ment of their purpose. The ultimate
consumer and the wage earner is the
victim of both processes.
As we have already shown the pro-
posed cut in the big income tax will |
save Secretary Mellon about a million
dollars on his annual tax bill and will
benefit four or five thousand other
campaign contributors in the same ra-
tio. That will convert their campaign
contributions into investments yield-
ing a profit of probably one hundred
per cent. or more. But it will afford
no relief to the earner whose income
is less than five thousand dollars
though he may, in his mistaken loy-
alty to party, have contributed more
in proportion to his means than Mr.
Mellon gave. His comparatively
trifling help to the campaign fund
may have helped to fill in here and
there but the larger sums turned the
trick.
If the purpose of tax revision were
to equalize the burden of government
or benefit the general public the plain
duty of the President would be to re- |
verse his policy and recommend alter-
ation of the tariff rates rather than
those on incomes. Those enjoying big
incomes can well afford to pay the
amounts levied against them but the
consumers of tariff taxed commodities
are sorely oppressed by the vast
charges which in the aggregate are
taken from them. The income tax is
the fairest method of meeting the ex-
penses of government ever devised.
It takes from those who pay in Be
ortion to their ability to pay. The
farift tax is the'worst for it is on
ing mathod of robbing the poor.
———This is the season to caution |
hunters to be careful but there are so
many hunters who know no such
thing as caution that it’s hardly worth
while. .
——————— a ere——————
Locarno Pact Effective.
Any doubts” which may have been
entertained in the past with respect
to the efficacy of the League of Na-
tions in fulfilling the purposes for
which it was created have been dis- |
pelled by the result of the Locarno
these turbulent nations have prompt-
ly yielded to the demands of the
League and their differences are now
in process of peaceful adjustment. A
previous mandate had influenced Italy
to a peaceful frame of mind but there
still remained a sentiment of uncer-
tainty as to its force in such disagree-
ment as that which had developed in
the Balkans.
But such doubts are now dissolved.
The League of Nations has complete-
ly established not only its power but
its capability to act and accomplish.
Possibly both the contenders in the
trouble were = willing to be pacified.
Probably neither of them knew clear-
ly what the real cause of the trouble
was. But their attitude toward each
other was a grave menace to the peace
of the world and the adjustment of
their differences is a subject of world-
wide congratulation. The people of
that section of the world are wild and
warlike and of little consequence com-
paratively speaking. But they are ca-
pable of starting a conflagration
which might involve more important
countries. . _
But after all the greatest value of
the successful Locarno enterprise lies
in the strengthening of world confi-
dence in the efficiency as well as the
wisdom of the League of Nations. It
is humiliating to thoughtful Ameri-
cans that our government had no part
in the peaceful proceedings at Locar-
no or in the readjustment of the world
on a peaceful basis. But the recent
activities of the League will stimulate |
the friends of world peace throughout |
the country to increased effort to put :
the government of the United States |
into: its rightful place as an influen- |
tial member of the body.
i
—Mr. Walker carried twenty-one |
districts in the county. Judge Dale .
carried six and tied Mr. Keller for |
Patton. His six were Snow Shoe bor- |
ough, north and west Boggs, north |
Curtin, north Gregg and north Potter.
He ran stronger than Mr. Walker in
nineteen precincts.
~——Automobile accidents are in-
creasing in number and will continue !
to do so until stricter requirements
are fixed for drivers.
nomination next year will be “Dear
Gifford” Pinchot. In a speech deliv-
ered at Norristown last Saturday he
said “the voters should make sure that
the man they back in the primaries is
a Coolidge Republican.” This state-
ment came after he had presented a
' gloomy picture of political conditions
.in the near future.
“Coolidge is Re-
publicanism at its best. It is to elect
‘such a President that keeps our par-
ty organization in State and nation in-
tact. The world needs America,
America needs Coolidge and Calvin
Coolidge needs you” he said by way of
premise and then dilated upon the
dangers of an opposition Senate after
the next election. ;
And however gloomy his picture it
was not overdrawn. The terms of
twenty-seven Republican Senators ex-
pire with the end of the present ses-
sion and to make the body safe for
Coolidge every one of the twenty-sev-
en to be elected must be a “Coolidge
Republican.” The seven Democrats
whose terms expire will be succeeded
by Democrats and the Coolidge poli-
cies formulated in Wall street are not
popular with Democrats. The present
Senate is Republican by a narrow
margin and exceedingly doubtful on
the Coolidge policies. Even a Repub-
lican Senator for Pennsylvania who is
not entirely servile to Coolidge might
easily “burn the roast” and every-
body knows that Governor Pinchot is
not enamored of the President.
“If you send a man to the Senate
who is opposed to the President and
hostile to Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon,” he continued, “it will make
tax reform difficult; it will obstruct
every administration policy and it will
waste the great victory won at the
polls last year.” This would certain-
ly be a sad situation for the cam-
paign contributors who were promis-
ed reimbursement and for Senator
Pepper who would be again relegated
to private life, for whether his suc-
cessor should be Pinchot or a Demo-
crat the result would be the same. In
either event ii the beloved
would be without a sycophant in the
Senate from Pennsylvania and the Re-
publican machine of the State might
be headed to “the bow-wows.”
——London girls complain of “an-
kle agony” as the result of short
skirts. In this country there is dan-
ger of eye trouble on the same ac-
count.
meee ep ioe
Limit the Subject of Legislation.
There is one way that Governor Pin-
chot may disappoint the machine man-
agers who are deprecating an extra
session of the Legislature on account
of the expense. It may be accepted
as a foregone conclusion that in the
event of an extra session the machine
managers will make it as expensive
as possible. They will prolong the
session to the last moment, though as
a matter of fact the compensation of
Senators and Representatives is lim-
ited to $500.00. But the wages of cer-
tain employees go on and other inci-
dental expenses continue until ad-
journment, whether at the end of a
week or at the expiration of the terms
of Representatives which will be on
December 1st, 1926.
If the Governor, as some of his
statements indicate, will include in his
call a considerable number of subjects,
the opportunity for a prolonged ses-
sion is presented. Members may
wrangle for days and weeks over each
of the subjects of proposed legislation,
thus creating a mountain of expense,
and turning the tide of popular opin-
ion against the enterprise. But if the
Governor will limit the subjects to say
two paramount questions it will be
practically impossible to continue the
session for a period longer than a
month. The two urgent questions are
ballot reform and bank improvement
measures. Holding consideration
down to these subjects it will be im-
possible to prolong the session beyond
a month.
It is understood that at present the
Governor’s pet measure is the giant-
power legislation, which failed at the
regular session. That it is an import-
ant matter goes without saying. The
danger of an electric monopoly is in-
creasing every day. But even at that
it is a slow process and remedial leg-
islation may be delayed a few months.
The prohibition legislation the Gov-
ernor has in mind may also seem to
him vastly important, but it can wait
until the regular session. But the bal-
lot reform and bank improvement leg-
islation ought to be “railroaded”
through, and may be if complications
with other interests are avoided. For
these reasons the Governor ought to
set the limit in his call.
——=Some of the political dopesters
have gone so far as to fix the date of
the call for an extra session of the
General assembly on the 14th of No-
vember.
D FEDERAL UNION.
NOVEMBER 6. 1925.
| President Coolidge Changes His Mind.
We are beginning to suspect that
President Coolidge is basing his hopes
of a “third term” upon the action of
the Democratic National convention of
1 In all his recent public speeches
he has generously praised the wisdom
of ‘the good old Democratic doctrine
of home rule. In a speech before the
Y. M. C. A. conference in Washing-
ton, recently, he said: “The home is
the cornerstone of the nation and any
‘better-homes’ movement must begin
with the training of the youth for
these = responsibilities. What the
youth of the country need is not more
public control through government
action but more home control through
parental action.”
This is essentially the theory of
government expressed in the philos-
ophy of Thomas Jefferson and advo-
cated by the Democratic party from
the beginning of the government. It
is direetly opposite to the theory that
morality may be injected into a peo-
ple or community by legislation and
that sumptuary laws are effective
agencies in. the promotion of right-
eousness. Laws for the punishment
of eriminals may work as a deterrent
to crime but legislation to punish
criminals never has and never will in-
culcate the spirit of morality. That
service to humanity must be perform-
ed by the parents, the churches and
the schools, and the burden of the la-
bor is on the parents. :
In another speech recently delivered
President Coolidge’s reprobation of re-
ligious bigotry and racial prejudices
indicated another departure from his
previous habits of thought which was
gratifying, though not entirely free
from ingratitude. It was plainly a
thrust at the intolerance of the Ku
Klux Klan, though it may safely be
estimated that a considerable part of
his: great majority was acquired by
his silent assent to the operations of
that organization. But his hope of
winning the favor of Democrats by ex-
pressing such views will be disap-
pointed. Most thoughtful persons will
interpret him as a rather selfish seek-
er of favors under false pretense.
A Hard Fighter and a Game Loser.
As we said last week W. Harrison
Aig
his opponents, for the aggressive,
clean campaign he made in his con-
test for the honor of being Judge of
the Courts of Centre county. With a
natural Republican majority to over-
come and an impotent party organiza-
tion as his only support he went into
the campaign with the determination
that the sheer force of his own per-
sonality and work offered the one
hope of victory.
He was defeated, not nearly so bad-
ly as many predicted, and the majori-
ty against him might not have been
as large as it was had it not been for
the eleventh hour desertion of hosts
of Judge Dale’s supposed friends who
went over to the support of Mr. Kel-
ler when they discovered that Mr.
Walker was a real contender.
Bright and early Wednesday morn-
ing Mr. Walker was at work as usu-
al—disappointed of course—that is
human—but the same up-standing,
hopeful gentleman you found him to
be throughout his campaign. He
had no alibis, no harsh words for any
one and was just as game in defeat
as he was in his campaign.
Considering the odds that were
against him, the thousand and one
saps that outcrop in a political cam-
paign, we regard his vote in the coun-
ty as a tremendous compliment that
any man might feel proud at having
received.
Mr. Walker has authorized us to say
that he has nothing to apologize for.
He said or did nothing to bring dis-
credit, either to his party or himself.
He is profoundly grateful to those
who supported him and holds no
grudge against those who did not.
That is the spirit of a big man and
that is why we admire him as a game
fighter and a game loser.
——————— meres.
—Judge Dale’s vote on Tuesday was
very impressive. When a young law-
yer can step up and draw 3094 per-
sons who think he ought to have had
a position that has heretofore been
given to only those of long experience
in the practice of law there is some-
thing to think about. And we are
convinced that if it had not been for
the eleventh hour scare thrown into
some of his supposedly consistent
friends there might have been a dif-
ferent report to make today. We
know numbers of the Judge’s support-
ers who, when the acid test came, de-
serted him and supported Mr. Keller
for fear Mr. Walker might slip
through.
——%Phe Shah of Persia now knows
that absenteeism is an offence even
when indulged by potentates.
mn ——p fe meet
———The election - being over the
real political campaign will begin at
once.
Walker had won the respect, even of |
NO. 44.
A Melancholy Showing.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Was there ever a President so un-
fortunate in his apbointments as the
late Warren G. Harding? A most
kindly man, but too trus of his
personal friends and a very poor judge
of human nature, he was led into the
selection for important Federal posts
of some of the most monumental mis-
fits, to put it mildly, in all American
history. :
Albert Bacon Fall, an ex-Cabinet
officer accused of taking bribes, easily
heads this list, though for sheer and
unblushing betrayal of a most sacred
trust it is doubtful if he was any
worse than Colonel Forbes, former
head of the Veterans’ Bureau, now un-
der indictment on most serious charg-
es. Then there was Harry Micaj
Daugherty, who turned the Depart-
ment of Justice into a political ma-
chine ‘and engine of oppression until
forced out of office by indignant pub-
lie opinion. The good-natured but too
complaisant Denby must also be plac-
ed in this category, as the consequenc-
es of his yielding to the more forcible
Fall were most serious. :
And now comes the indictment of
Colonel Thomas W. Miller, former
Alien Property Custodian, on a most
grave accusation involving his person-
al integrity while in office. We have
no desire to pre-judge his case, but
the fact that the charge has been
brought by a Republican Attorney
General, and that one of the le ing
witnesses against him is John T.
King, former Republican National
committeeman from Connecticut,
shows at least that there is no parti-
san animus in the proceeding. The
government is reported to be so sure
of its case that it is ready for an im-
mediate trial. Until then there will
necessarily be a suspension of judg-
ment, :
It is not unfair, however, to point
out that under the Wilson Administra-
tion, when sums of unprecedented
magnitude were disbursed during the
war period, there was never a breath
of suspicion against any important
Federal official. When the Republi-
cans came into control of Congress in
March, 1919, they appointed no less
than 50 committees to investigate
every phase of the activities of the
War and Navy Departments before,
during and after the war, but they
brought to light not a single seandal
ig men in high positions Con: |
trast this with the record since March,
1921, when the nation has been
schocked and astounded by charges
against men of every grade, from the
| lowest up to those of Cabinet rank. In
{ prohibition enforcement alone there
has been more rascality unearthed
than under several preceding Admin-
.istrations. It is a most melancholy
showing. What do the American peo-
ple think of it?
The Bottom of the Coal Pile.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Stocks of hard coal all over the
country are beginning to disappear as
a result of the strike which began on
September 1. The pinch has already
been felt in the East, and in the Mid-
dle West, it is predicted, the supply
will be pretty thoroughly exhausted in
a few weeks. Nevertheless, the public
1s not alarmed. There has been a
singular absence of frightened appeals
to miners and operators to compose
their differences.
Instead of venting its feeling in
scolding and threats, the public this
time has been able to act. Household-
ers who are the principal consumers
of anthracite hereabouts, have come
to realize that they can get along com-
fortably without hard coal. They can
use soft coal, coke, oil or gas and stay
warm. Some of the substitutes cost
less than anthracite and none of them
is without its advantages.
The miners and operators used to
employ the public as a lever to force
terms from the other party to the dis-
pute. This time the public has refus-
ed to play the game according to the
old rules. The chief sufferers from
this strike will not be the public, but
the miners or the operators, and prob-
ably both.
The public heretofore has been a
passive agent to enable an economic
settlement to be made in the coal in-
dustry. It furnished the battlefield
and counted the cost. A coal strike
settles down to wait until the pinch
gets action. When the empty coal bin
begins to alarm householders the
strike has approached the prelimin-
aries of settlement. Now the con-
sumers have a chance to force a real
economic adjustment on some other
basis.
Anthracite is a luxury coal. Where
its use can be enforced in cities it
produces cleanliness. If the house-
holder can afford to buy it he does so.
But as a necessity it is losing value.
The substitutes can take its place.
Substitution is a weapon in the hands
of the consumer, and a willingness to
use it will take the internal troubles
of the anthracite industry out of the
public battlefield.
The industry has been determining
its methods of organization and pro-
duction by determining periodically
how much punishment the consumer
will stand and what he'll give to avoid
it. That's about as bad as subsidizing
coal, as Great Britain has done, or it
is a cruder way of doing the same
thing.
~——Colonel - Mitchell will be con-
victed of insubordination of course
but he has the military and naval au-
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Ground was broken on Tuesday morm-
ing for an addition to the r Holmes silk
mill, at Ridgway, which will increass its
capacity 50 per cent. The addition will
be completed by January, 1926.
—While hunting near his home at Ore
Hill, Blair county, on election day, Glenn
Bush, 18 years old, had his right arm shat-
tered by the accidental discharge of his
gun, He was standing on a fence, when he
lost his balance. ' : >
—Charles P. Gerber, warden at the York
| county jail has certified to the county com-
missioners in connection with his monthly
report, that the prisoners’ food costs 25
cents each day. There was an average of
seventy-one prisoners in the jail during
the month just ended.
—D. G. Stahl, aged 85 years, of Trever-
ton, is a patient at a Williamsport private
hospital, suffering from a broken thigh.
While following the casket containing the
body of his brother, Benjamin Stahl to the
hearse, he feil down the steps of the porch.
An X-ray photograph revealed a serious
fracture.
—William McCaig, a prominent member
of the Allegheny county delegation in the
lower House of the State Legislature, died
suddenly early on Wednesday, following a
heart attack. He had been a member of
the State House of Representatives since
1912, and prominent in the committee on
appropriations.
—After forcing their way inte a hard-
ware store where they stole a glass cutter,
chisels, and flashlights, thieves early on
Tuesday robbed the postoffice at Honey
Brook, Lancaster county, of $20 and later
enteréd a restaurant in the General Wayne
Hotel, where they stole a big supply of can-
dy and smoking materials. The hardware
store is owned by Eugene C. Wright.
—The death of Mrs. Mary Kaylor
Krouse, of Cambria county, 83 years old,
has brought to light the fact that although
a resident of Conemaugh, two miles out of
Johnstown, she had not been within the
city limits since May 31, 1889, the date of
the Johnstown flood. Mrs. Krouse lost her
mother and a sister in the disaster and for
36 years absented herself from the city.
—Daniel Newman, of Mortonville, Ches-~
ter county, was drowned on Saturday when
his automobile truck crashed through the
guard rail of a bridge over a mill race near
his home. The car overturned and he was
pinned beneath it in two feet of water.
Newman was employed on one of the Du-
Pont farms, near Mortonvillee He was 45
years old and the father of eleven chil-
dren. 4
—The man who about a year ago gave
Williamsport police his overcoat for se-
curity on the payment of 2 fine was at po-
lice headquarters the other day and paid
$4 on an old fine. The desk captain ine
formed the man that an overcoat owned by
him was being held pending the payment
of another fine. The owner of the coat
stated that he did not want it and direct-
ed that the coat be given to some poor fel
low.
—The Department of Welfare, at Har-
risburg, has announced that information
had been received from Fulton county of-
ficials that the improvements to the pris<
on at McConnellsburg had been completed.
An inspection by the State authorities will
be made in about ten days, after-which' the
prisoners will be brought back from Cham-
bersburg where they have bee: quartered
for the last year. The changes were made
according to plans approved by the de-
partment.
—Unable to repel a sudden impulse, John
Chick, 22 years of age, ‘carrying boy”
employed by the United States Glass com-
pany, dived head first to his death into a
glass furnace at the company’s factory in
Pittsburgh on Friday night. Before he
succumbbed to burns a short time later,
Chick said he became dizzy while stand-
ing near the furnace and was seized with
a sudden desire to plunge through the
opening. The cause was reported to the
coroner as suicide,
—Ehrman B Mitchell is convinced that
the meanest hunters in Dauphin county
visited his farms east of Rockville on Mon-
day. He granted everybody who came
permission to hunt, but some of the hunt-
ers shot up his outbuildings and his apple
trees, and one of them stole his hunting
dog, a mixed black, tan and spotted bea-
gle and fox hound, answering to the name
of Sport, and wearing the license tag num-
bered 9890. Many rabbits were killed on
the Mitchell farms.
—Announcement has been made that the
Jamison City tannery will suspend opera-
tions the latter part of this week when the
last hides are shipped. The tannery, ope-
rated for some years by the Elk Tanning
company, will be dismantled. The indus-
try is the only one in the town and follow-
ing suspension at the plant the Blooms-
burg and Sullivan railroad will annul one
passenger train between Benton and Jami-
son City and later will petition for aban-
donment of that part of its line.
—William H. Hepburn, of Jersey Shore,
started action last week, under the inter-
state laws against the provisions of the
will of his late wife. A bequest of $25,000
was made in trust to Mr. Hepburn by the
will, which was filed last month. The in-
ventory of the entire State, as filed at the
office of the register and recorder, indicate
its value at about $350,000, and if Mr.
Hepburn’s action is allowed by the court
he will receive one-half of the estate in-
stead of the $25,000 left in trust for him.
—Mrs. Lulu Mae Bressler, of Yeagertown,
was held on $1000 bail on Friday by jus-
tice of the peace W. W. Wheeler, charged
with forgery and obtaining goods under
false pretense. United States postal in-
spectors and other federal officers have
been checking up on the forgeries for
more than a year and M. A. Davis, county
detective, arrested the woman when she
called at the Burnham postoffice to claim
a parcel post package addressed to John
Peéirson. The victims were mailorder
houses. !
—Officers of the Third Corps area are
endeavoring to account for the disappear-
ance of Captain Theodore W. Sidman, in-
spector of the National Guard stationed at
Scranton, who has been missing since he
left Grove City on September 20. Captain
Sidman participated in the rifle matches at
Camp Perry, Ohio, in September and driv-
ing back to his post, was accompanied as
far as Grove City by Lieut. C. J. Gridley,
stationed there with the 112th infantry of
the National Guard. He resumed the jour-
ney alone and Lieut. Gridley says that
within his knowledge nothing had ' been
heard from Captain Sidman since that
time, and that brother officers and other
friends are at a loss to account for his dis<
thorities “scared stiff.”
appearance.