INK SLINGS.
-.—Bay, ain't our “Afaletics” goin”
fine? :
, —Now that he has demonstrated
his finesse in politics the editor of the
Republican will probobly devote con-
siderable time to angling for real fish.
—If Gifford will only stay out of
it we might be able to save Pennsyl-
vania from Vare by electing Wilson
to the Senate.
- —Well, Mr. Zerby has a great op-
portunity as the new chairman of the
Centre county Democracy. Let’s hope
that he rises to it. -
* — Of course Germany is cordially
welcomed into the League of Nations
but it would hardly be wise to break
up the League in order to get her in.
—Anyway, the Hon. Holmes didn’t
steal the Democratic nomination for
Legislature and when he gets through
with Andrew Curtin Thompson he’ll
know he’s been in a fight.
—Spittin “in the eye of a bull-
dog” doesn’t seem to have gotten Sen-
ator Pepper very far, nor does it look
as though he had made much of a job
of throwing Vare into the river.
—The Governor advertised that he
would get twenty-one hundred votes
in Centre county. Now who do you
suppose put that idea into his head?
Was it Rebecca Naomi or Arthur?
—We’re just as well satisfied that
the Norge didn’t find any land sur-
rounding the North Pole. Had its
crew discovered a bit of frozen tundra
in the Polar seas Uncle Sam, Mus-:
solini and the King of Norway are
certain to have gotten into a scrap
over the ownership of the barren
waste
—Since the anti-boro-ites won all
the offices in the first election that
Port Matilda has ever held we are
wondering what they are going to do
about it. They have the chance of a
lifetime now for they are elected until
Jan. 1928, and they can make taxes
so high that by that time maybe
everybody up there will want to get
back into the township.
—The surest sign, that we're get-
ting old is nailed up when we boast
that we ate young onions out of our
own garden on Sunday.—and they
were not “multipliers” or “old hen and
chickens” or “leeks”’—they were the
real thing. And we ate dozens of
them without a care as to who might
crab about an onion breath in the vi-
cinity. When a man potters arcund
in a garden without being driven to it
he ain’t what he used to be
Deca Cel : LI
Senator out there now and are likely
to have another. It is wonderful, such
a thing in Iowa, but if Pennsylvania
should get one this fall, as we stand
a very good chance of doing, we
shudder for the effect on friend Ker-
lin. My, notwithstanding his nearly
four score years, he’d be turning hand-
springs all over the corn belt.
—Frederick Arnold Kummer, who-
ever he is, says “the whole future of
civilization depends on the training
given our coming children in the
home.” Fred has the dope and he does
well to predicate his prediction on the
“‘coming children,” for the Lord knows
that if future civilization is to depend
on the training in the home that the
present generation of kids is getting
future civilization will be nothing but
filling stations, road houses and the
«Charleston.
—If Mr. Vare’s campaign was a ref-
rendum on the Volstead Act, as he
announced it to be, the Republican
party will be wet in this campaign.
All those Republicans who are not
wet, however, will have a chance to
© vote for William B. Wilson. Let’s
make the fight as Mr. Vare would
have it and see just where Pennsylva-
nia stands and see whether a lot of
dry Republicans would vote for a dry
Demccrat rather than a wet candidate
of their own party.
—O0ld Jim Seibert is the town’s
“houn dawg.” Everybody thinks its
the thing to kick him ’round. He’s
the Borough manager and gets about
as much as a good clerk in a haber-
«dashery. Walking up High street
Monday evening we just happened to
note how perfect was its grading and
unbroken most of its surface. Jim
‘built it. - And in face of the fact that
Jim is one of the best investments the
borough of Bellefonte ever made the
Street committee of Council employs
a boss to lay sewers who knows little
more about that kind of work than we
do. Is there anything rotten in Den-
mark? If there is we shall try to
uncover it.
—It seems to us that Calvin Cool-
idge, Andy Mellon and Senators Pep-
per and Reed are the big losers in the
recent unpleasantness. They broke
all precedents and put the national
administration into a scramble for
control of the Pennsylvania organiza-
tion. Having been licked it must be
accepted as a repudiation of Coolidge.
The real winner is Joe Grundy. He
didn’t give a d—— for Pepper. He
has often trained with Vare. All he
wanted was to put John Fisher across
and he forced the Mellons to get back
of Fisher in return for his question-
able support of Pepper. They did it.
Fisher won and Pepper is an also ran
and for Mr. Grundy, it isn’t so far
a jump into the Vare camp as it
would be for the Mellon—Pepper—
Reed crowd.
fluence on
. duction. One town there, Biglerville,
VOL. 71.
Coolidge Preaching Democratic Doc- |
trine. |
In an address delivered at Wil-
liamsburg; Virginia, on Saturday, in:
celebrating the sesqui-centennial of |
Virginia’s declaration of independ- :
ence, President Coolidge came peril- |
ously near to preaching the funda-
mental doctrine of the Democratic |
party. Naturally he paid tribute to |
the patriotism and ccurage of those |
sturdy Virginians who on the 15th of
May, 1776, practically absolved them-
selves from allegianee to the British |
crown. While this was an unusual |
expression from a New Englander it |
was not the most surprising feature |
of his address. In his reference to the
malign influence of “artificial propa-.,
ganda, paid agitators and selfish in- |
terests” he condemned the source of |
power of his own party. ?
His next punch was to the same
purpose. “No. plan of centralization,”
he said, ‘has ever been adopted which
did not result in bureaucracy, tyranny,
inflexibility, reaction and decline. Of
all forms of government those admin-
istered by bureaus are about the least
satisfactory to an enlightened and
progressive people. Being irrespon-
sible they became autocratic and
being autocratic they resist all de-
velopment. Unless bureaucracy is
constantly resisted it breaks down
representative government and ever-
whelms democracy. It is the one
element in our institutions that sets
up the pretense of having authority
over everybody and being responsible
to nobody.”
Maybe it was the Virginia atmos-
phere that influenced the President to
a line of thought that expresses con-
demnation of the party to which he
professes allegiance. In any event he
must have known that the Republican
party is based on the policy of cen-
tralization as advocated by Alexander
Hamilton, still a revered idel of his
party leaders, and that bureaucracy
in this country is ‘a child of the Re-
publican party, nurtured timidly at
first but since the Aduinistration of
ie mind of President Cool-
idge let us hope that he will spend his
vacation there.
tod
——1It will be a long time before
we see another Primary campaign like
that just ended. It is not often you
see so many millionaires contending
for control of a party organization.
- Fuel Problem Not Solved.
The continued high price of coal is
convincing proof that the fuel problem
has not been solved by the resumption
of “work in the anthracite coal mines.
No question is ever finally settled
until it is settled right and the recent
agreement between ‘he anthracite
mine owners and mine workers is
simply an expedient to license loot
for another indefinite period of time.
The mine owners are now holding up
prices for the purpose of reimbursing
themselves for the expenses incurred
in keeping the plants in order during
the time they were idle. The distri-
butors are consenting to this process
of robbery until they can dispose of
the stocks acquired at high prices dur-
ing the strike, '~
For some years the leaders of the
United Mine Workers organization
have been advocating government
control of the industry. Half a mil-
lion of them voted for it in a referen-
dum taken some years ago and the
discussion of the subject has been re-
sumed. Mr. John Brophy, president
of District No. 2, of the United Mine
Workers, is leading in the movement
and he is both forceful and enthusias-
tic in the work. He declares that
“private initiative has failed signally,
its irresponsibility to the workers and
the public resulting in the numerous
strikes and tie-ups which have afflict-
ed the industry.” The accuracy of his
appraisement will hardly be question-
ed.
The nationalization of an industry
is a hazardous remedy for even so
great an evil. Government ownership
would entail so vast an amount of
money that the thought of it “staggers
imagination.” But - monopoly is so
cruel a foe of progress and prosperity
that drastic remedies appeal to even
conservative minds as a medium of
repression. The anthracite coal in-
dustry is not only a monopoly but one
made more offensive because it is
controlled by “absentee” owners who
have little if any interest in the pros-
perity of the communities in which
the mines are - located. Legislation
providing for government control of
the industry might afford a remedy
within reach of the consuming public.
———— emesis
——Last year Pennsylvania ship-
ped 2345 car loads of apples to other
States. Adams county led in pro-
shipped 442 cars.
Curtis,
Coolidge Creates Trouble.
The primary election is over and
the defeated candidates have had am-
ple time to reconcile themselves to
their disappointments.
strenuous fight among the aspirants
for the favor of “our friend, the
enemy,” but rest will soon restore
vigor. On the Democratic side there
was no bitterness engendered and the
successful candidates are in “fine
fettle” for a great battle and we hope
a glorious victory in November.
promise of patronage has a marvel-
ous curative power but it will hardly
be possible to bridge the broad chasms
| created in the Republican ranks dur-
ing the past period of bitter accusa-
tions. If will be a heavy tax on the
magnanimity of the losers to support
the winners.
But the Pennsylvania campaign cre-
ated one vgly ulcer outside of the
State which is not likely to heal up
soon. - When the Coolidge administra-
tion set the full force of its influence
and activity behind Senator Pepper it
created an antagonism on the part of
the friends of the opposing candidates
which will persist for a long tme. As
Senator Harrison, of Mississippi, and
on the floor of the Senate,the Presi-
dent allowed Senator McKinley, of
Illinois, who. was a real administra-
tion supporter “fall outside the
breastworks,” while he exhausted all
his resources to save Pepper, who has
opposed him on every vital question.
It is believed that the corporation in-
terest in Pepper was the reason.
There will be several other Sena-
torial vacancies to be filled in Novem-
ber and the sitting Republican Sena- |
tors will have a right to demand that
he give their aspirations the same
consideration he has shown to Mr.
Pepper. For example, there are
Cameron, Nevada; Shortridge, Califor-
nia; Goodring, Idaho; Cummins, Iowa;
Kansas; Ernst, Kentucky;
Weiler, Maryland; Spencer, Missouri;
| Oddie, Nevada; Willis, Ohio; Harrold,
Oklahoma; Stanfield, Oregon; Nor-
beck, South Dak
will he abandon them as he did Me-
Kinley? + ! %
——The Grange encampment and
and Centre county fair will be held
at Grange Park; Centre Hall, August
28th to September 3rd, inclusive, ac- |
cording to an advance notice sent
out by the management this week.
——Nobody is likely to find out
just what Tom Phillips, of Butler
county, had in mind when he began
spending money like “a drunken sai-
lor.”
——At this distance from Washing-
ton it looks as if the Republicans of
the Senate are ungrateful if they re-
fuse any request of Oscar Underwood.
——Icebergs in the North Atlantic
shipping lanes may be the cause of
the cold weather here and if they do
no other dafhage it will be all right.
——1If Vare is half as bad as Gov-
ernor Pinchot, Senator Pepper and
the Public Ledger said he is Philadel-
phia certainly does love bad men.
——Babe Ruth is handling the
stick in great shape but he will have
to hump himself to keep ahead of
some of the youngsters.
——Last year there were 1450 bee
hives in Centre county and the busy
little occupants of them produced
37,000 lbs. of honey.
——A good many people are cur-
ious to know just what they will do
to Harry Baker after the smoke blows
away.
——Premier Baldwin has pushed
the achievements of all his predeces-
sors in office off the map.
——If there is no valuable land
about the North Pole what’s the use
of monkeying with it.
——Even now it is hard to figure
out what the real issue of the cam-
paign was. :
Ps didn’t do so well in the
Pennsylvania political garden this
spring.
——Amundsen rather likes to see
people anxious for his safety.
——The annual Centre county .in-
terscholastic track and field meet will
be held at State College tomorrow.
———————
~—It’s all in the “Watchman” and
it’s all true. 5
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION,
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MAY 21. 1926.
It was a
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| VARE AND FISHER WIN
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
‘While Wilson and Bonniwell will
Probably Head the Democratic
Ticket.
The most exciting primary ever
ocrats and Republicans, alike, are
aghast at the result. Sweeping every-
thing before it in Philadelphia the
Republican organization - stood’ solid-
ly behind Congressman William S.
Vare and his light wine and beer plat-
form in his Senatorial fight Tuesday
and polled 333,973 votes for its favor-
ite. Vare's plurality in that city is
220,147 over Senator George Whar-
i ton Pepper.
Vare carried every one of the 48
wards but one, the Twenty-second,
which. went to Pepper by only 1937
plurality. - Governor Pinchot, making
the fight on an absolutely dry basis,
{ Governor in 1922 against former At-
| torney General George E. Alter his
{ote in Philadelphia was 119,000.
{ Vare’s total vote in Philadelphia more
than doubled the combined vote of
| Pepper and Pinchot, which amounted
(to 141,882. While he received a ma-
i jority of the votes polled in that city
| the vote of his opponents throughout
| the State constitutes him a minority
winner.
‘Vares plurality in the State will
held in Pennsylvania is over and Dem.
Aftermath of a Strike.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Getting back to normal after a
grueling strain is as difficult for a na-
tion as a man. It was not to be ex-
pected that the breakdown of the gen-
eral strike would leave England pre-
cisely in the old condition. It may
test the statesmanship of the Prime |
' Minister ‘and his eo
colleagues to the ut-
most to allay the bitterness aroused
in both parties to the struggle. While
there is no question of any refusal on
the part of the employers to take the
strikers back wherever possible, they
can hardly be blamed for standing
by the loyal men who stood by them
or for demanding some guarantees
from Je» unions wa he will not be
orced er in this way again.
The railway men have already agreed
to this, and many others are going
back to work. REE
There never was a moré signal il-
lustration of the fairhess ofthe Eng-
lish. mind and the calmness of the
' English temper than these last two
lled 28,056 votes. When he ran for
24 ! Moscow at the failure of
weeks have furnished. The rage at
f every in-
citement to revolution is easily intel-
ligible. Of the complicity of the
Third Internationale in the strike
order there is no possible shadow of
doubt. Cook, the leader of the miners
is an acknowledged Bolshevist. Nor
!is he the only one ameng the labor
: leaders . who has taken orders from
‘ Zinovieff. The destruction of capital-
i probably be in the neighborhood of :
1 100,000. 7981 of the 8281 voting dis-
tricts ‘in the State have been heard
from.. Those not in will scarcely
change the figures mueh.
FISHER WILL WIN BY A SMALL
MARGIN.
It might require the official count
to decide whether Beidleman or Fish-
er is to be the Republican nominee
for Governor. Up to yesterday after-
noon Fisher was leading . by a mar-
gin of 5000 votes with 300 districts
to hear from. Most of the missing
districts being rated as Fisher terri-
tory his managers were claming vic-
tory for him by 15 aE
| retary of Internal Affairs and Arthur
+H. James, the Vare candidate for
Lieutenant Governor. :
DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES STILL UN-
: CERTAIN.
The only thing known definitely as
to what our party has done is the cer-
tainity of the nomination of William
B. Wilson for United States Senator.
He had no opposition for the honor.
For Governor the fight is close be-
tween Bonniwell, Shull and Porter.
On the face of the returns so far in
the candidates are running in the or-
der given above. Bonniwell is lead-
ing Shull by about 5000, with Porter
6000 behind Shull, and 300 districts
to be heard from, all but one of which
are supposed to be Shull or Porter
territory and not Bonniwell.
On our ticket W. Clayton Hackett,
of Easton, is leading for Lieutenant
Governor and John Murphy, of Pitts-
burgh, is ahead for Secretary of In-
ternal Affairs. -
Returns have been so slow in get-
ting in and so many wild claims have
been made that there is general un-
certanity as to what the final result
will be, though at this hour, 3 o’clock,
Thursday afternoon we have just had
a wire from Philadelphia which in-
dicate that Fisher has won the guber-
natorial nomination over Beidleman.
The race for the Democratic honor
is between Bonniwell and Shull, with
Bonniwell as the probable winner.
If the nominations turn out as indi-
cated the Democrats will have a dry
for U. S. Senator and a wet for Gover-
nor, while the opposition will meet us
with a wet for U. S. Senator and a
non-committal for Governor.
AN ‘INVITATION.
The Hon. William B. Wilson, ‘ex-
Congressman and ex-Secretary of La-
bor, unitedly supported by his own
party, can well stand comparison with
William S. Vare, whose highest aspi-
rations at present centre upon the im-
possible legalization of light wines
and beer. We invite Republicans who
are not filled with admiration of their
own standard-bearer to look him over
and think him over. There are more
discreditable things that even a Re-
publican might do than to vote for a
Democrat when their own party ma-
chinery is seized by a candidate whose
leadership forces them to bow their
heads in shame.
It was Congressman Vare’s plural-
ity of 220,147 in Philadelphia that
enabled him to win, although he ran
stronger in several of the up-State
counties than had been expected by
his opponents. Outside of Philadel-
phia Senator Pepper carried more
counties than Governor Pinchot and
his vote far exceeded the Governor's.
Nobody knows how much money was
spent in the campaign but the amount
must; lave been the most stupendous
sum ever spent in a political battle in
the State. ,
{ Donald put it in the
of James F. Woodward for Sec-
ism is the avowed purpese of these
men. They have exploited the work-
ingmen to this end. They have frank-
ly said that they dreaded toe great
prosperity for labor, lest it make the
workingmen better contented with
their lot. While the majority of the
union members are orderly citizens,
they have too willingl Followed bad
advice; they have let the demagogues
use them against their real interests.
The employers as a class do not so |
much wish to smash the unions as to
smash those influences that now toe
greatly control them, No doubt the
collapse of the strike will have a
strong effect in that direction. But
the spirit of the leaders is still un- |
repentant and defiant. “We are going
to crawl back,” is the way Mr. Mac-
Hou
mons. No one asks them
3
a
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heaval as an arrogant group of labor
leaders brought upon it. This is rot
vindictiveness, but common sense.
Sr ————— lp rm
Presidential Successions.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Just because President : Coolidge
has favored putting radio control
and supervision into the hands of the
head of the Department of Commerce
some persons profess:to believe that
he favors Secretary Hoover as his
successor in the White House. The
House bill provided for the Hoover
control, but a Senate committee has
reported a bill creating a board of
five members to exercise the control
which the President wishes to have
turned over to Mr. Hoover. =~
President Coolidge’s position on
radio control is one thing, and his in-
tervention in naming the Republican
candidate for the Presidency after his
own ambitions are satisfied is quite
another. It is not likely that so sen-
sible a politician would make ‘such a
foolish move at this time, or at any
time. He has before him the Roose-
velt example of 1908; when the Presi-
dent as a “practical” man demanded
the nomination of his Secretary of
War, Mr. Taft. Evidently Mr. Roose-
velt expected Mr. Taft to accept “my
policies” and to seek advice. and coun-
sel from the sage of Oyster Bay, but
he did neither, and in 1912 Roosevelt
set out deliberately to accomplish the
defeat of Taft, first in the Republican
National Convention and then at the
polls. :
Curiously enough, the Roosevelt-
Taft political fiasco has just had its
counterpart in the leading South
American republic, Argentina. In
1916 the Radicals of Buenos Aires
and throughout the country succeed
ed in electing their first President,
Dr. Irigoyen, for the constitutional
term of six years, with ineligibility
for another term. In 1922 President
Irigoyen was daring enough to name
Dr. Alvear as the radical candidate
and elected him in triumph, only to
discover that Alvear had a mind of
his own and a will to ignore Irigoy-
en’s suggestions. This condition has
come to an open breach between
President Alvear and his sponsor. In
the Congressional elections the Iri-
goyen faction has been victorious by
a decisive majority, and his partisans
sent a deputation to the Argentine
Pink House with a demand that Al-
vear conform to “true radical poli-
cies” as indicated by his predecessor
or else resign from the Presidency.
At last accounts President Alvear
was holding the fort.
~The big forest fire which raged
the fore part of last week in the west-
ern section of Centre county, and por
tions of Clearfield and Blair, was fin-
ally extinguished on Thursday after
it had burned over a tract estimated
ab from forty to fitfy thousand acres.
During the four days the fire burned
a thousand to twelve hundred men
and boys were engaged in fighting the
flames.
EH Com-.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—While promenaders
down in front of Herman Mendelsohn’s
women's garment store on a central busi-
ness street in Reading,
drove away.
Remorse, caused by the accidental
starting of a forest fire at Glen Summit,
near Wilkes Barre, caused a young _wo-
man to take her life on Friday, according
to the Department of Forests .and Waters
at Harrisburg. Reports received at the de-
partment did not give her name Chief
Fire Warden Wirt, said.
|’ John R. Heller, 25, of Lock Haven,
suffered a fracture of the neck on Friday
in a fall from a building on which he was
working. Heller, a foreman of the Hyde-
Murphy Construction company, was work-
ing on the house which was to be his fu-
and fell fourteen feet to the ground, crush-
ing several vertebrae in his neck. He is
paralyzed from the neck down.
—A wedding ring lost 15 years ago by
Mrs. Charles Reep, of Duncansville, was
found last Friday by Charles R. Stewart
while working in his garden, at his home
in that place. It was dropped by one of
the Reep children, and search atthe time
proved fruitless. The garden has been
worked every year since. The Reeps mov-
ed away from Duncansville several years
ago, and Stewart is trying to find them
fo return the ring. :
—A verdict of $15,510 against N. E. Trod,
of Altoona, and in favor of Mrs. Flon S.
Horton, of Brockway, has been awarded
by a jury at Clearfield, for the death of
her husband on July 22, 1925. Horton's
automobile was struck by a car driven by
Trod near -Luthersburg and Horton was
dict in a case of this kind ever given in
the Clearfield county courts, and was won
after a legal battle lasting only two days.
—Eluding a nurse at the Chester hos-
pital, Frank Miller, 27, a negro, of Kennett
Square, soon after he had been admitted
dow screen and leaped fifteen feet to the
ground in the midst of a heavy rain on
Sunday, and clad only in a night dress.
He ran in the darkness and rain for half
a mile, croszing fences and a deep stream.
Internes and nurses took up the chase
and found Miller lying dead from a heart
attack. Physicians _ say fear of a
hospital had much to do with Millers’ fatal
flight.
—Curtis E. Brenneman, Jr., of Gladfelt-
er, York county, a freshman of Gettysburg
college, died in a York hospital on Sunday
Las the result’ of being struck on the head
by a baseball on Saturday. He was at
the bat for the first time in the second
inning of a game between Seven Valleys and
the Iroquois club of an amateur baseball
league when hit by Philip Wallick, Iro-
‘quois = pitcher. Brenneman was playing
second base for Seven Valleys. A. substi-
tute went around the bases for him, but
‘he resumed play until the end of the
game. fu
do that.
rain have to at all. Saver
jail.
—Held up and beaten by two band
mokin on Sunday night, Stephen
Shumack, of West Shamokin, was robbed
of $16. The two ‘men. escaped before
Smee ‘could call help. The highway-
men drove up in an automobile to the
curbing where Shumack was standing in
the heart of the town. They demanded
money from him, and when he refused,
they knocked him down and robbed him
of his cash. In the darkness Shumack
could not obtain the license number on
their car. : :
—Ernest Lehman, 28 years old, of
Liberty, two miles east of Lock Haven,
who had his leg crushed May 1, with a
tractor used in plowing, died at the Lock
Haven hospital on Sunday night, due to
injury and shock following the, amputa-
tion of his injured leg. He leaves his
widow and a child. He was formerly a
resident of Sugar Valley, and only re-
cently moved to the Jacob Kolberger farm,
where he was tenant at the time of the
accident. He is the second farmer within
a mile to lose his life within a month due
to losing control of a tractor.
—Rolph Kiscadden, twenty-five years
old, of Columbia, Pa., was shot dead at 3
o'clock on Monday afternoon, in front of
the Pine Creek Inn. John Channel, pro-
prietor of the place, was arrested and
admitted committing the crime, police
state. He was imprisoned in the borough
Mrs. Channel alleges her husband
came home intoxicated, found Kiscadden
in the inn, threw him out, then fired out
of the window. The bullet killed Kiscad-
den instantly. A neighbor called the police
and constable Paul Thomas arrested Chan-
nel. He stated the prigoner was highly
intoxicated, but admitted having shot
Kiscadden. Police believe jealousy
prompted an argument and fight, which
culminated in the shooting. 3050
—Swallowing a cap from a toy pistol,
three-year-old George Baker, son of patrol-
man and Mrs. Edward Baker, of Pitts-
ton, was stricken seriously ill on Sunday
aternoon and died shortly after noom on
Monday. He found the ¢ap while he and
a sister were on their way to a store.
—“My dear husband has no need of any
of my estate, and it will be understood
why I do not bequeath any to him.” says
Mrs. Caroline R. Lippincott, of Wyncote,
in her will *which disposes of an estate
valuéd at $100,000. Mrs. Lippincott was
the wife of Horace @. Lippincott, head of a
wholesale grocery concern. To the Epis-
copal church of Utah, $10,000 is bequeathed
to perpetuate the Virginia Rowland Kirby
scholarship in Rowland Hall school for
girls, Salt Lake City.
—William D. McCormick, postmaster at
Lehighton, furnished $1,000 bail on each
of two charges, one alleging false reports
covering between $60 and $150 and the
other involving alleged embezzlement of
about $1000, at a hearing before Commis-
sioner Jones, at Hazleton, last week, The
charges grew out of the looting of the
Lehighton post office April 17. Inspectors
sent to investigate reported they believed
the safe had been opened in the usual
way. They claimed to have discovered a
chisel used in forcing the inner compart-
ments of the safe on which the letters “M.
C”, were etched by acid. According to
their reports, a desk, with heavy boxes
under it, was lodged against a door which
was supposed to have been opened to gain
entrance to the office, and that dust col-
fected on the desk and boxes had not been
disturbed. ‘McCormick denied the charges.
‘walked up and
on Monday, a
number of men, forcing open the front
door, carried out $1500 worth of coats and
dresses, put them in an automobile and
ture home when he slipped from a scaffold -
instantly killed. This is the largest ver-
suffering from pneumonia, broke a win-