Demon Yan
INK SLINGS.
—The wets made rather a sorry
showing in their skirmish with the
drys in Congress on Tuesday.
— Before we greet you again the
Fourth will be over. The next big
event to look forward to then will be
the Granger's picnic, but don’t let’s
talk about that, it sounds too much
like the approach of fall.
—It’s all right for that dashing
young flapper to roll her stockings
down so far that they look like baby
socks, but we wish some one would
catch her and take a scrub brush and
a little lye to her legs before she
does it again.
—All we need to inspire the hope
that we will have a safe and sane
Fourth of July is the record of last
year’s casualties. One hundred and
eleven persons killed, one hundred and
forty-eight suffering the loss of one
or both eyes and over a million more
or less burned is the price the
country paid for carelessness in cele-
brating the Fourth in 1925. Was it
worth it?
—If the burgess determines to
carry out his plan of making drunks
and other petty offenders work out
fines on the streets, if they can’t pay
them in cash, one of two things is
sure to happen: Either a lot of fellows
for whom “the lock-up” seems to have
ne terrors will reform or borough
manager Seibert will have his hands
full keeping them busy on our
thoroughfares. ;
All we have to say about Jeremiah
Smith, the American economist, who ||
spent two years in Hungary untang-
ling the knotty financial: affairs of
that benighted country, and then de-
clined to take a penny of the hundred
thousand dollar fee he had earned be-
cause he thought Hungary needed it
more than he does, is this: There are
very few Jeremiah Smiths in this or
any other land.
— Writing from Nelson, Nebraska,
E. W. Kline says: “I am looking for-
ward to the issue of November 5th,
wherein you will announce the elec-
tion of William B. Wilson as United
States Senator. We are wearing the
same kind of rose glasses that Mr.
Kline evidently has and when Novem-
Ber 5th arrives we hope that neither
of us will discover that it is a mirage
that we have been seeing.
—There will be no issue of the
‘Watchman next week. Not solely be-
cause we're going fishing. Everybody
else in the plant wants some time off,
too, and they're going to have it. It |
might happen, - however, that we'll
mail a tabloid edition just to correct |
an advertising’ muddle we got into
through no fault of ours. So if you
receive a paper as abbreviated as the
hair and the skirts now are don’t
write to know. what’s getting the mat-
ter with the Watchman. It will be
flapperized only fora week.
If ever the country needed a
change in the political complexion of
.Congress it is low. A long drawn out
session is drawing to its close and
what is there to show for it? Nothing,
whatever, but unfulfilled promises.
There isn’t a single piece of con-
structive legislation that the present
Congress has to point to. All of its
time has been devoted to fighting
among the blocs of the majority party
for their own advantage. Yes, the
country needs a change and unless we
misread the signs it’s going to have
one in the fall.
—This thing of saying that they
want to keep the Sesqui open on Sun-
day so the laboring man can see it is
all bunk. What they want to do is
keep it open so the concessionaires
can bally-hoo the laboring man out of
a lot of money and, besides, the labor-
ing man has about as many holidays
2s most other people we know of and
a lot more than some, and when State
and Federal proclamations and church
pronunciamentos don’t make all he
wants he simply takes them. His only
worry is as to how much is in the pay
envelope. There is little thought of
the long, blood sweating hours of the
fellow who has to put it there. If he
wants to see the Sesqui he’ll be re-
sourceful enough to do it without hav-
ing a lot of sharks, cloaking their
cupidity and desecrating the Sabbath,
with this laboring man bunk.
—The statements of the Hon. Wil-
liam B. Wilson, our nominee for
. United States Senator, before the
Senate investigation committee, were
a splendid credit to himself and a
matter of great pride to the party
whose standard bearer he is. In sim-
ple, convincing answers he replied to
his interrogators and showed that he
personally had spent only eighty-eight
dollars and that for the joint cam-
paign with Judge Porter for Governor
only ten thousand was spent. The
figures look pathetic when compared
with the millions paid out by his
Republican rivals. They certainly
show that Mr. Wilson had no aspira-
tion to debauch an electorate or buy
a nomination. In contrast with this
straightforward honesty came an-
other proof of corruption almost un-
believable. The committee proved
through him that since his nomination
the administration has offered him a
position on the federal labor media-
tion board, with the hope, of course,
of taking him out of the Senatorial
race against Vare. What can a self
respecting Republican think of leaders
who stoop to such practices to keep
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 71.
BELLEFO
NTE, PA.. JULY 2. 1926.
NO. 27.
Democratic Hope and Harmony.
As comments come from various .
sections of the State with reference
to the recent reorganization of the
Democratic party it is gratifying to
note a universal tone of confidence
and expression of harmony. We have
not a single discordant note from the
press of the State. The new chair-
man Cornelius Haggerty Jr., has the
cordial endorsement of all party
workers. He has long been an effi-
cient leader of the party and a willing
worker in the ranks, and his selection
as chairman this year has aroused
the greatest enthusiasm.” He has al-
ready entered upon the work of the
campaign and invites all interested in
the work to correspond with him and
give him such help as they can.
This is certainly a gratifying state
of affairs. It is not expected that the
real work of the campaign will begin
before September but the chairman
doesn’t intend to sleep during the in-
terval, and sees how much may be
gained now by getting acquainted
through correspondence between the
chairman and: local committeemen. A
great deal of the local organization
work, such as urging voters to regis-
ter and enroll may be done now and
being reported by letter to the chair-
man the preliminary work is well ad-
vanced before the usual time for cam-
paign activity has arrived. Chairman
Haggerty will greatly appreciate this
advance work, and strongly urges it
upon all party workers.
With the demoralizaton in the Re-
publican party and this hopefulness in
our own party we have every right to
expect victory even in Pennsyl-
vania. Our candidates are of the
highest type. William B. Wilson, our
nominee for Senator, has won dis-
tinction in every public service he has
performed. In Congress as member
of the Committee on Labor and in the |
Cabinet as Secretary of Labor, he has
conserved the interests of labor and
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There is a wide difference of opin- Secretary of the Treasury Andrew
ion, among lawyers and statesmen, as W. Mellon’s estimate that a million
to the eligibility of William S. Vare dollars or more may be spent legiti-
for the office of Senator. It has heen mately in campaigning for a nomina-
clearly shown that his campaign ex- tion for Senator is supported by
penses for the nomination were far aspirants for that office in Illinois. It
in excess of what might be regarded has been charged that one of the can-
as legitimate. Senator Reed, of Mis- didates out there spent $1,000,000 and
souri, an eminent lawyer and among the other “twice as much,” the favor
the foremost figures in the Senate, is going to the highest bidder. On the
said to have expressed the opinion other hand we have a record of Sena-
that he is ineligible. So far as we tor Brookhart’s expenditure of less
have been able to see, however, no than one hundred dollars for the
convincing legal arguments have been ‘nomination in Iowa and William B.
advanced. in support of the opinion. Wilson spending eighty-eight dollars
Excessive ‘expenditures may be im- for the Democratic nomination in
moral and may even suggest the un- Pennsylvania while John K. Tenner
lawful employment of money. But spent only $10,000 as a candidate for
they are not legal evidence of crime. ‘Governor of Pennsylvania.
Senator Lorimer, of Illinois, was It would seem that the right way to
expelled from the Senate after he measure the campaign expense of a
had been elected by excessive use of candidate is on what the office is
money, not in the primary campaign ‘worth to the candidate or his backer.
but in the election. But it wasn’t the It seems that in Illinois the friends of
excessive amount used by Lorimer one candidate gave $100,000 on an
that influenced the vote. It was agreement that he would “turn in” a
proved that he had bought votes di- graft of twenty million while on an
rectly which disqualified him and that agreement to turn in greater graft,
he was morally unfit for membership the other candidate got several
of the body. He had, in collusion millions. In Pennsylvania Sena-
with another banker of Chicago, tor Pepper would have been worth at
fraudulently organized a trust com- least a million to the Aluminum trust.
pany that swindled the public out of Senator Brookhart wouldnt have been
a million dollars. Senator Newberry, ‘Worth a nickel and William B. Wilson
of Michigan, spent money too freely even less to the interests and are re-
at the primary but he didn’t lose the ferred to here because they “adorn a
seat on that account. After due con- tale.” They show what is possible.
sideration of the subject the Senate ~ Brookhart, at an expense of less
awarded him the seat and he sub- than one hundred dollars, obtained a
sequently resigned it. nomination for Senator in an actively
The idea of William S. Vare occupy- ;ontested fight, with the chance fayor-
ing a seat in the Senate. is plainly re- able to his election, Wilson obtained
pugnant to a vast majority of the a ndmination n Pennsylvania, for less
voters of Pennsylvania. Even a large than a hundred dollars with fair
number of Republicans are averse to , Shafice of his election. But Pepper’s
it and are conjuring up expedients to friends paid more than a million dol-
prevent it. But there is only one lary for a nomination he didn’t get in
certain way to achieve the result and 1 r that they might use him to pro-
that is to vote for the admirable can- | €1® legislation worth millions to
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didate who is competing with him for ‘him and detrimental to the public.
1 9d peting High priced nominations produce cor-
‘ Irom the Kansas City Star.
A Cynical Expenditure.
The most revealing feature of the
$2,000,000 Pennsylvania Republican
primary is the cynicism displayed by
those who collected and spent the
money. They seem genuinely sur-
prised that there should be Ameri-
cans so naive as to be shocked by the
knowledge that political contests in
this country have become big business
and high finance. ox
The price of the primary shocked
and shamed the public. Plain Amer-
icans who liked to think their institu-
tions were “free,” that democracy was
an expression of the public will and
not of the dollar, learn with amaze-
ment and indignation that a single
Senatoral candidate spent—or the in-
terests behind him spent—=$%,620,000
in an effort to get just the nomina-
tion. Another candidate spent no-
body yet knows how much, but prob-
ably not much less, and a third spent
$135:000, The election is yet to be
eld.
The managers of these candidates
seek to justify these expenditures.
They are raising their Sfebbws at
the outery over them. y say,.in
effect, that the Aremican people have
consented to the piling up of vast
political machinery now necessary to
be operated and that they must ex-
pect it to cost money. There is rea-
son in this defense, but it is very il-
luminating. The interests that seek
to control the political machinery, and
through it the Government, are at
least acting openness. They are put-
ting their millions into the industry
(and will later take them out with a
profit) and are asking what the Amer-
ican people propose to. do about it.
The primary system was a challen,
to these interests and they have t
en it up. As fast as the people add
new parts to the political machinery,
the same increase will put Price tags
on them that will keep all but them-
selves from handling them. A $2,-
000,000 primary is no longer a popu-
lar device. It’s more expensive and
exclusive than the old convention sys-
tem, but there are those who can af-
ford to pay it, and they will—unless
striven in season and out to lighten ' 410 orice. If Vare gets a majority of
the burden of the working man. OUI 4 votes there may be found a legal
candiigh for Go gr ! process of preventing his qualifica-
to Ris obligations. With such a ticket ! tion. But if Wilson gets a majority
and such am organization, iit ought to
be a pleasuré for Democrats to work,
op ng
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Vare should bend their
energies to elect that sturdy citizen |
——There will be no excessive ex-
penditures for the Democratic nomina- ' : he
tion for Governor of Ohio. Donahey Say, Mr. Mayor and you geutle- |
is the unanimous choice. men of the Water and Street.commit- |
| tees, there’s such “a’thing a3 making |
i the town look too pretty and clean.
ra | You'll all fool away until we'll feel
The low estate into which Vareism guilty when we fleck our cigar ashes
has reduced the Republican party of on the street and be looking for door
Pennsylvania is revealed in the at- mats at either sides of the crossings
tempt to entice the Democratic nomi- in order to wipe our shoes before step-
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Looks Like Conspiracy.
J fe hides he mae
and honest man, William B. Wilson. ||
rust government and wise voters will
no; encourage them by voting for can-
didates whose nominations were ex-
pepsi A nomination that costs
ive.
ger.
his investment in Senator Pepper.
Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers.
| The Millheim Journal made a real
tontribution to. the local history of
fs community when it_ published in
tie issue for May 20, 1926, the offi-
cal roster of the Revolutionary sol-
ger dead of the district as a part of
— “Mr. Mellon is a Keen business
: | man but. he is not likely to realize on
nee for Senator in Congress, Hon.
William B. Wilson, to abandon the
contest. Having spent more than half :
a million dollars to get the nomination
Mr. Vare realizes that his election is |
doubtful and with the object of mak-
ing the election certain, he organized |
a conspiracy to clear the field of op-
position. Happily William B. Wilson !
isn’t that sogt of an office seeker and
he promptly:declined to enter into the
conspiracy. ‘Having accepted a ser-
vice with the Democratic party Mr.
Wilson will fulfill his obligations.
The enticement held out to Mr. Wil-
son was an alluring one. All his life
he has directed his mind toward aid-
ing and assisting labor. In early life,
as an official in the United Mine
Workers, he wrought, in the interest
of labor and his service in President
Wilson’s Cabinet as Secretary of
Labor afforded him opportunity to
continue his beneficent efforts in the
same direction. The tender of a seat
on the mediation board held out the
enticement of a new form of service in
the interest of labor and must have
been very alluring. But his nomina-
tion as the Democratic candidate for
Senator put | him under obligations,
which, though less promising finan-
cially, were more binding morally.
The obvious purpose of the offer of
a seat on the mediation board, with
its generous emolument, was to re-
move the only competitor Mr. Vare
could have had for the seat in the
Senate for which he has paid so liber-
ally. He knows that William B. Wil-
son is a formidable candidate and
feels that in the present temper of
public sentiment he will be successful.
It may be that President Coolidge had
no part in what seems like a party
conspiracy to prostit te public office.
But it is not easy wiles how the deal
could have been pulled off without ex-
ecutive connivance for the power of
appointing members of the mediation
board lies in the President. In any
event it is a strange situation.
———The Senate committee hasn't
found out everything concerning the
Vare expenditures yet, but Senator
Reed is on the trail.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
is straining somewhat but it will be
supporting Vare before the campaign
themselves in power.
| who are trying to locate the original
ping onto a pavement. Its getting
so darned lovely around here that the
first thing we know those: scientists der the direction of the Sons of the
merican Revolution, by Dr. Fred E.
Garden. of Eden will be ' swooping
down here and exclaiming: Why,
Bellefonte! You're it. )
nt a copy to the State Library.
Writing Movie Plays Coming to be a
Profession.
the Archives and History section
the State Library where it becomes
part of the permanent genealogical
cords of that office.
All of the screen magazines are of
one cpinion on the question as to
where the movie plays of the future
must come from. To them it is ap-
parent that rapid exhaustion of ad-
aptations from books and stage plays
leaves no other source of supply for
the ever consuming studios of the
country than stories written especial-
ly for the films.
“How to Write a Motion Picture
Story” is the subject of a sixty page
pamphlet soon to be published by Karl
Coolidge, of Hollywood and New
York. Mr. Coolidge is the young-|
est son of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Cool-
idge, of Los Angeles, California, his
mother having been, before her mar-
miage, Miss Nannie McGinley, of this
place. After his graduation from the
University of California he became
interested in screen work and spent a
dozen years in Hollywood as a photo-
play and scenario writer. Several
years ago he came east and has since
been engeged in the same work in
New York city. p5L
Recognizing the inevitable situation
of a dearth of screen material, unless
it be written specially, Mr. Coolidge
has thrown the sifted knowledge of
years of experiencc ‘into the pamphlet
.he has published with the hope that ; a
it might prove an inspiration, guide}, The sad thing about it is that
and help to all who feel the urge to e Vare seat in the House of Repre-
acquire fame and riches through thefentatives is gone byond recall.
writing of a screen success.
We have read his pamplet with
great interest and only its length
deters us from publishing it in these
columns for the stimulation of what-
ever budding talent there may be
among the Watchman readers.
f burgess Hardman P. Harris, the
rner Billboard Advertising company,
Lewistown, last Friday moved the
rge billboard from the corner of the
ush Arcade, on south Water street,
the Triangle, out beyond the old
wviation field. The request for its re-
oval is the beginning of a plan of
urgess Harris to beautify south
Water street. Borough employees
kre now cleaning away the dirt and
fubbish that had accumulated behind
b: old billboard, and an effort will be
ade to have the old buildings on that
hroughfare either removed or fresh-
ined up with an application of the
paint brush.
— Gratuitous advice is about
he only thing that can be got for
gg and usually it isn’t worth
vhat it costs.
— Maybe the Reed investigation
vill provide a way that a man worth
ess than a million dollars may aspire
to office. -
——An investigation of affairs in
Cuba might develop some interesting
facts in reference to sugar.
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——The most prosperous business
n the country at present is that con-
lucted by bootleggers.
— There is enough mystery about
the W. C. T. U. fund to excite suspi-
cion.
——There ought to be a Democratic
tommittee in every township in Cen-
tre county.
——— A eeemeen—
——Money talks all right and too —
——Events in France seem to point
is warmed up.
frequestly it speaks in discordant
tones. in the direction of a dictator.
the Memorial Day program, prepared
utelius, Burgess of Millheim. It
peo gave this information a wider
e when, it made a reprint of it and
"his reprint has been placed on file
——In compliance with a request
‘Government and an aroused public
sentiment find a way to stop them.
Turning Down a $12,000 Job.
| I'rom the Philadelphia Reserdy Toy
i Members - of the newly-auhorized
Railway Mediation Board are to be
paid $12,000 a year. - That means that
only men of exceptional ability are
wanted to represent the Government
in the capacity of mediators.
The fact that William B. Wilson,
Democratic candidate for the Senate
from Pennsylvania; was offered a
place on the board is susceptible of
two interpretations. One is that the
Administration wished to get him out
of the Senatorial race to elear the
track for Vare. The other is ‘that the
President recognized his capacity for
service in an important office and
wished to organize the Railway Med-
iation Board with the best available
material. aL
We prefer to accept the latter view.
Some small-fry politician may have
conceived the brilliant idea that it
would be helpful to sidetrack Wilson
from the Senatorial contest, but we do
not believe the President would be a
party to so shifty a move. Itis
more reasonable to: suppose”that the
Senatorial nominee was “sounded out”
at the instance of the President be-
cause the President thought his
knowledge of economic and industrial
conditions peculiarly fitted him for
the job. : _
Naturally Mr. Wilson declined. Fi-
nancially a bird in the hand would be
worth two in the bush; but we fancy
that the ex-Secretary of Labor is less
anxious about material reward than
about the opportunity for the great-
est service. A man of Mr. Wilson's
type is needed to represent Pennsyl-
vania in the United States Senate.
We have been accustomed to choosing
rich men for Senators. It would be
an agreeable novelty to many Penn-
sylvanians to be represented there by
a man whose limited means would
help him to see things from their
point of view.
The Democratic Issues.
From the Providence Journal.
The Democrats should be grateful
to the Republicans for furnishing
them with two valuable issues.
The first of these issues has to do
with the excessive campaign fund ex-
pended in the Republican primary in
Pennsylvania. No matter how the
contributors may explain it, the pub-
lic is bound to disapprove of the use
of so much money for such a purpose.
The reaction against the Republican
party on account of it is already evi-
dent. Naturally, thousands of Re-
publican voters in that State will
desert their party on this issue and
cast their votes for William B. Wil-
son, the Democratic - candidate for
United States Senator.
Not only this—Democratic orators
and newspapers will attempt to show
that conditions in Pennsylvania are
of a piece with conditions elsewhere.
At any rate, what the Republicans
have done in Pennsylvania with what
they have left undone in Washington
has given the Democrats new courage
and hope.
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Grundy appears to have been
the only politician who cashed in on
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—The skeleton of a man in the forests
near Cressona three days ago was identi-
fied as that of Israel Shimach, a former
patient of the Schuykill county Hospital.
"Three boys were burned, one perhaps
fatally, by the explosion of a culm -bank
at the Ellsworth, Pa., mines of the Beth-
lehem Mines corporation, at Washington,
Pa. ,
—Thelma Klslager, aged 12, was drown
in the Columbia, Pa., reservoir on Satur-
day afternoon when one of the concrete
slabs covering the water gave way. Play-
mates made a desperate attempt at rescue
with an improvised rope of neckties and
belts, but the girl was too weak to grasp
the line when it was thrown to her.
—Thomas James, aged 44. of Lebanon,
fell dead last Friday afternoon as he was
in the aet of going to bat at the opening
of the annual game of baseball featuring
the Centenary Methodist Sunday school
outing at Penryn Park. He apparently
had been enjoying good health, and death
was attributed to heart failure, due to ex-
citement.
—The contest for tlhe $500 reward for
the arrest of the three negroes, executed
last February at Reockview penitentiary
for the murder of Jonathan Kloop, a Berks
county merchant. almost two years ago,
was complicated today by the filing of
two more claims, making fifteen in all.
The new claimants are Jacob M. Greth
and Henry Dreibelbis, of Wernersville.
—Sergeons at the State hospital at
Shamokin have discovered that the heart
of Earl M. Persing, of that place, is on his
right side. The discovery was made when
he complained of severe pains on his right
side. The doctors attributed the pain to
diseased tonsils and made an X-ray, which
showed the location of the heart. His ton-
sils were removed and the pains have left
him.
—Miss Mary Marcavage, a patient at
The Anthracite hospital, Pottsville, started
up in terror when she saw a white robed
surgeon approach to begin an operation.
With a loud cry she dashed out of the
hospital and ran frantically down a street,
into the strong arms of a policeman. She
was persuaded to go back to the hospital
and the operation, a miner one, was suc-
cessfully performed.
———Approval of the incorporation of the
Pennsylvania General Transit company, a
subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad
| Company, was announced on Tuesday oy
the. Public Service Commission. The com-
pany was organized for the operation’ of
motor buses. The approval gives the com-
pany charter rights in 55 counties but each
proposed route must ‘be approved by the
commission before buses may be placed in
operation.
—Mrs. Bertha Kifert, a tax-collector of
Irvona borough, Clearfield county, arrest-
ed and placed in jail last Friday Mrs.
Katherine Lucas, of her district, for non-
payment of taxes, Constable McCulley
made the arrest. Mrs. Lucas is the moth-
er of ten children, the youngest being only
seven weeks old, and her husband has
earned only seven dollars during the past
seven weeks. She is an Austrian and can
neither read or write.
* —Kdward M. Beers, member of Congress
| fram, the Eigh distslot, is qssared
that work on “thé new’ post office building
at Lewistown will be started’ within a
month. Fifty thousand dollars of the ap-
propriation will be available this year and
the balance of $58,000 next year. The site
purchased ten years ago for $15,500 is now
worth. $60,000, that amount having been
offered the. government by Henry Krentz-
man from whom it was purchased.
—Scranton policemen with pulmotors on
Tuesday saved the lives of John Flannery,
Sr., 62, retired merchant, and his son John
Jr., 28 when both were found evercome by
gas in their home at West Scranton. The
flames under a water heater had gone out
and gas flooded the building. When an-
other member of the . Flannery family
was awakened by the. gas odor the police
were called and after a half hour revived
the father and son, who were unconscious.
—Otto M. Logan, court stenographer, in
Philadelphia, has confessed, police said, to
having defrauded the municipal court of
approximately $13,000 in a period of two
years said his system was to induce J udge
Charles L. Brown to sign pay vouchers
for work dome, without the work. having
been checked by the presiding judge. Lo-
gan’s confession told ‘of his having: béen
paid for hundreds of pages of stenographic
work that was never performed. He was
held for the grand jury. *
—That Mrs. Anna H. Brannon lived but
two weeks to enjoy the $50,000 estate of
A.D. Koch, prominent Shamokin resi-
dent, was indicated in the will book at
the office of register John I. Carr, at Sun-
bury. Mes. Brannon’s will was probated
last Friday and that of Mr. Koch several
days previous. Dates of the deaths of
the two were just that much apart, the
record shows. Mrs. Brannon in her will
bequeaths all her estate to her daughter,
Mrs. 8. F. A. Brailler, wife of a Conemaugh
doctor, and she is named executrix, with-
out bond.
—To be buried to her neck in mud was
the experience of Mrs. Charles Grace, of
Chester, last Wednesday. She was rescued
from her perilous position by a workman
and a patrol load of police. Mrs. Grace,
who says she weighs 320 pounds, stepped
into a freshly filled in ditch at Tenth and
Tilghman streets. Because of the heavy
rain, the ground had been undermined,
and before she could retrace her steps, she
found herself sinking. The more she
struggled to free herself, the deeper she
went in the mud, and she screamed for
help. Word of the woman's plight was re-
ceived at police headquarters and Pat-
rol Driver Talbot, with half a dozen volun-
teers, hurried to the scene.
—Gas and oil circles of Southwestern
Pennsylania received added thrills last
week when it was announced that the
gasser on the Hopkins lease, in Greene
county, had increased its production to
10,000,000 cubic feet daily and that the Na-
tural Gas company of West Virginia had
brought in an oil well on the Frank Rutan
farm near Ninevah, which was flowing at
the rate of 45 barrels an hour. Both are
located in Greene county, the Rutan well
being in the field recently developed, which
has proven one of the richest tapped in
that district since the first oil boom 40
years ago. The Hopkins gasser is the big-
gest secured in Greene county operations
in the last five years. It was drilled by
the Manufacturers Light and Heat com-
everything at the primaries.
pany, of Pittsburgh.