INK SLINGS.
—About all. there is in a vacation
is change and the landlords and fakers
in the place one takes it generally
get that.
—After all, what do the girls get
who are attempting to swim the Eng-
lish channel? Brief notoriety until
some one does it in less time. :
——Senator Jim Reed, of Missouri,
will make speeches for the Democrat-
ic ticket in this State this year, and he
will give the people some inside and
interesting information.
—These are the days that shake our
faith in the Wisenhammers who were
telling us, only a few months ago, that
the earth is cooling off because of the
many new spots they had discovered
on the sun.
—There was more money spent io
secure Fisher’s nomination than there
was to win a place on the Republican
ticket for Vare, so why talk of Vare
being ineligible should he be elected
without including Fisher.
—It seems to us that the Associated
Business men do themselves injustice
by advertising August 11 as “Oppor-
tunity Day” in Bellefonte. To our
mind every day ought to be an oppor-
tunity day in a town blessed as ours
is.
—Buffalo Run gardeners think the
army worm is marching on them.
Something is devastating their vege-
tables. Something that some one has
told them is the army worm, but it
isn’t; unless it is doing, as its name
implies, moving in army formation.
—Suzanne Lenglen, the French girl
and world’s tennis champion, is to
tour America as a professional in the
fall. Charles Pyle, who engineered
“Red” Grange’s professional football
debut, is to be her conductor. The
temperamental Suzanne will be a very
difficult proposition for Pyle. She
isn’t a “galloping ghost” by any
means.
—Anyway the women seem to know
how to get onto the front pages and
stay there. What else have you seen
in the metropolitan papers the last
few weeks besides the columns on the
Hall murder trial, the supposed kid-
napping of Aimee McPherson, the Cal-
ifornia evangelist, and the defeat of
“Ma” Ferguson, of Texas, for renom-
ination for Governor of that State?
..—A Chicago cosmetician is authori-
ty for the statement that women who
: e bo g their hair will event-
hair, like
murder,
n. Won't it be :
moustache cups “and
ment will have to be called out every
time her cigarette falls into the old
lady’s beard.
—French and German savants are
seriously discussing the relative
chances of blondes and brunettes for
matrimony. The French hold the idea
that men prefer the latter while the
German wise men insist that there’s
nothing to it. For the first time since
early in 1914 we're in accord with a
German idea. We don’t think the av-
erage man cares a whoop what color
the aurora of “the girl” happens to
be. It’s something more than hair
that he falls for and when he falls he
doesn’t know or care whether her hair
is black, brown, taffy or green.
—We were reading with much in-
terest an article from the Pittsburgh
Legal Journal on the murder of Don
R. Mellet, editor of the Canton, Ohio,
Daily News, when Dr. Edwin Twit-
mire, of Seattle, Washington, dropped
in. The article in question is a
lengthy study of the responsibility of
the modern newspaper to civilization.
It views the Mellett tragedy in the
light of retribution, not only for the
Nation’s parental neglect of the chil-
dren of a few years ago, but for the
Fourth Estate in America. While
Mellett was a crusader against vice
and it is generally believed the under-
world “got him” because of his activ-
ities in uncovering their misdoings
the Legal Journal suggests considera-
tion of the thought that the victim’s
own paper was unwittingly breaking
down public morale at the same time
it was hoping to build it up. This
through publication in its news col-
‘umns of sensational stories and the
supplemental highly colored comics
that portray impossible incidents and
leave an unrefined impression on the
child mind. ‘We are inclined to agree
with the Legal Journal in some of its
premises. The “Watchman” has al-
ways tried to keep above pandering to
the sensational and scandal-monging
element. It has tried, and succeeded
fairly well, to be a clean paper that
might inspire the confidence of its
readers and lift their thoughts at
times just a bit. Because of this ob-
jective it knows it has influence with
its readers. It always has had. We
know that more than ever today be-
cause Dr. Twitmyre told us, shortly
after having interrupted our reading
of the Legal Journal’s article, that the
“Watchman” made a Democrat of
him, though he was raised in an ex-
ceedingly orthodox Republican home
along the mountain back of Zion. That
made us feel easier about the respon-
sibility of the Fourth Estate to the
world. - Sitting before us was a visi-
ble, scintillating star for our diadem
—and then came the eclipse—Dr.
Twitmyer admitted that he had back-
slidden in 1896.
be.
ing moustaches ‘and
has gather-
the
the : fire ‘depart-
VOL. 71.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
Altering Democratic Rules.
Mr. John W. Davis, of West Virgin-
ia and New York, who was the worthy
candidate of the Democratic party for
President two years ago, has added
his voice to that of a considerable
group of party leaders in favor of the
abolition of the “two-thirds” rule in
nominating candidates for President.
In an interview, the other day, Mr.
Davis said: “I believe the time has
come when the Democratic party
should change this time-worn proced-
ure, which, so far as I know, does not
prevail in any other nominating con-
vention, either § National or State.
There is no reason why the Democrat-
ic party should be unique in this re-
spect, unless by so doing it promotes
its own welfare or serves its own
aims. Experience has demonstrated
the present system does not do
either.”
Why the twe-thirds rule was orig-
inally adopted will probably never be
definitely known. Various reasons
have been given by different persons
but none of them seems convincing or
even persuasive. For many years,
when the area of the country was
smaller and the population less, it
worked neither good nor harm and
during recent years it has been pre-
served by party leaders for selfish or
sectional reasons. But as Mr. Davis
says it is not Democratic. Majority
rule is a fundamental principle of the
Democratic creed and insistence upon
the. maintenance of the two-thirds
rule works a subversion of that prin-
ciple. In several national conventions
it has threatened harm, and in New
York, two years ago, it almost caused
disruption.
We are not so fully in accord with
Mr. Davis on the subject of eliminat-
ing the “unit” rule. “I think it would
be a good thing,” Mr, Davis adds, “to
eliminate both the unit and the two-
thirds rule.” It is possible such ac-
tion might do good but the objections
to the unit rule are neither so numer-
S 1 or so valid as those to the other.
Fr
gives that party the right to cast the
vote of the State for its candidates
and the unit rule in convention is sim-
ply expressing the same principle.
But the delegates in a convention may
agree among themselves to vote sep-
arately.
If somebody would tell the pub-
lic why a dirigible twice as big as the
Shenandoah is needed it would be an
, interesting story.
Senator Norris Deserves Welcome.
When Senator Norris, of Nebraska,
comes into this State to advocate the
election of William B. Wilson to the
office of United States Senator, he
| ought to be cordially welcomed and
' generously applauded by all the inde-
pendent Republicans and all other
self-respecting voters of that political
i faith. He will come as a Republican
! pleading with Republicans, not to in-
jure their party but to save it from
shame. His mission will be to urge
name of the political organization
with which they are affiliated and to
which they are attached. He sees the
menace which the future holds against
“a criminal conspiracy masquerading
as the Republican party.”
Senator George W. Norris is a pub-
lie official of fine ability and high
i ideals. - He has been a Republican all
his life and as Representative and
Senator in Congress has contributed
j largely to what is creditable in the
, achievements of that party during the
{ last quarter of a century. He under-
i stands the political conditions in Penn-
sylvania and abhors the records of
, vice and crime which the Pennsylva-
nia machine has created. He realizes
that support and endorsement of the
| Helket recently nominated by fraud is
| threatening the success of the party
i in other States, including his own, and
: will ask the Republican voters here to
| sacrifice a corrupt gang in order to
save the party of the country.
The Senate compnittee investigating
| expenditures of primary elections this
1 year has shown that upward of three
million dollars were spent in nominat-
ing the Republican candidates in this
State. He knows that no such sum
could be spent legally and that the
disbursement creates a precedent that
eliminates from public life all citizens
except millionaires. That precedent
if ratified by the election of the ticket
would, and should, destroy any party.
Senator Norris will come to Pennsyl-
vania to save his party from so igno-
minious a death, He will ask Republi-
can voters to oppose Vare and vote
for William B. Wilson, and he can
hardly ask them to vote for John 8.
Fisher for Governor, who is equally
' culpable.
within the last quarter of a century |
majority for the electors of a party |
Republicans to preserve the good |
| Unreliable Political Gossip.
{
We place little confidence in the
current Washington gossip to the ef-
fect that Senator David A. Reed will
withdraw from political life at the end
of his present term of office and be-
come chairman of the Board of the
Steel trust, long held by Judge Gary.
There are many reasons for believing
that Senator Reed’s political exper-
ience has been disappointing. He is a
capable lawyer and even before the
world war as the junior member of
his father’s law firm his keen mind
and legal learning commanded atten-
tion. But as a politician he has prov-
ed an absolute failure. As a Senator
in Congress he has been a good deal
of a joke. He has talked too much,
said too little and achieved practically
nothing.
The office of chairman of the Board
of the Steel trust is an important po-
sition in the industrial life of the
country. From the beginning it has
been filled by Judge Gary, a man of
high intellectual attainments and
something like a genius for “big bus-
iness.” He is growing old and mod-
ern methods require young as well as
able men in control. For that reason
the veteran chairman may be thinking
of retirement and there is probably no
fitter for the succession than Senator
Reed. He has been of counsel for the
corporation from the beginning and
. head of the legal force since the close
of the war. But there may be other
availables for that job while it might
be impossible to find another for Sen-
ator.
| The Steel trust is a vast concern
and its successful management re-
| quires the energy, ability and indus-
try of a number of big men. Possi-
bly the most important office of the
; concern is chairman of the Board. But
it is almost equally necessary to have
a man of great capability in the office
of Senator in Congress. To meet this
i requirement the late Senator Knox
| was drafted into the service, After
i his death Senator Crow was selected
and when he died Senator David A.
Reed, of the legal staff of thé corpora-
m; was assigned. It may not have
a fii iif
‘for that reason Mr. Reed is likely to
continue in service,
——Don’t wory about “Ma” Fergu-
son, of Texas. She hasnt resigned
vet but will get out in course of time.
Relative Proportions of Crimes.
Frank L. Smith, of Chicago, who
was the successful bidder for the Re-
publican nomination for United States
: Senator in Illinois, is and has been for |
.are now coming along fine and prom-
i some time chairman of the Illinois
| Commerce Commission and as such
| exercises much power over the public
utilities of that State. Mr. Samuel
Insull, of Chicago, is widely known as
head of the leading utilities of Chi-
cago and throughout the State. Mr.
| Insull contributed $125,000 to the
slush fund with which Mr. Smith pue- |
. chased the Senatorial nomination. The !
: purchase price, according to the evi-
| dence brought out during the Senate
| investigation, was a trifle over $250,-
| 000. Most of the other contributors
were associates of Mr. Insull in util-
'ity operations. :
The Chicago Tribune, high Republi-
can authority, denounces this trans-
action in the severest terms. “In
view of the relations between this
Commission and Mr. Insull’s public
utilities,” it declares, “Mr. Smith’s ac-
most - callous and brazen offences
against common decency and politic-
al integrity in the history of Ameri-
can politics. To the mind of every
right thinking citizen it proves Mr.
Smith unfit for the Senatorship, but
also for the responsible office he now
holds.” There is no party prejudice
expressed in the declaration. The
Chicago Tribune has been the leading
Republican newspaper for many years
in the west and is still firm in the
faith.
But the esteemed Tribune overesti-
mates the enormity of the crime
against decency and political integri-
ty when it states that it is the most
“callous and brazen” in the history of
politics. It is true that Insull had
been receiving favors from Smith and
expected more. But compare the im-
plied bargain between Joe" Grundy
and John S. Fisher with that of In-
sull and Smith. Grundy gave $400,-
000 with an understanding that Fish-
er would discriminate in tax levies to
the extent of $40,000,000 in favor of
the industry in which Grundy is en-
gaged. It was not only supplying a
slush fund to corrupt the bafot box
but conspiring to defraud the tax pay-
ers of the State by discriminating
levies.
——When another war breaks out
in Europe the people of the United
States will be less eager to help.
asons above given, but it has
proved satisfactory to the trust and
ceptance of the cash gift is one of the |
BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 6. 1926.
Not a Verdict Against Women.
The result of the primary election
in Texas can hardly be interpreted as
en for service in high public office. It
is said that the successful candidate
for Governor, commenting upon the
incident, said the defeat of Mrs. Fer-
guson “is a serious set back to women
holding office in this State.” We ser-
iously doubt the accuracy of that
statement. The defeat of Mrs, Fergu-
son is ascribable to other causes. The
opposition to Mrs. Ferguson as ex-
pressed in the vote was against her
husband rather than against herself
or any of the policies pursued by her
as Governor. If “Pa” Ferguson had
kept out of the administration “Ma”
Ferguson might have won.
Mr. Ferguson had been elected Gov-
ernor of Texas and because of certain
policies adopted and pursued by him
was impeached and removed from of-
fice. A very considerable portion of
the voters of the State believed that
he had been unjustly impeached and
declared resentment in vigorous tones
and terms. Among those of this
frame of mind was Mrs. Ferguson,
who became a candidate for the sue-
cesion, not because she yearned for
public life or notoriety, but as a vin-
dication for her husband. She was
nominated and elected by a large ma-
jority and the element that fought
her husband at once turned its batter-
ies upon her. An intense fight was
organized and kept up constantly
through her administration.
Among the leaders in this opposi-
tion was Dan Moody, Attorney Gener-
al of the State, who invoked all the
expedients of the law and every re-
source of his office to embarrass her.
But she proceeded in her course re-
gardless of consequences. The burden
of the complaint was that “Pa” rath-
er than “Ma” Ferguson was adminis-
tering the office and whether that was
true or not “Pa” Ferguson continued
his activities in and about the execu-
tive offices. The fact afforded the
principal reason for the opposition to
Mrs. Ferguson during the primary
campaign and may be justly consid-
| ged the prime reason for her defeat.
it presents no evidence of her un-
fitness for office or against the quali-
ficaticns of women.
Early in June a terrific rain
storm swept over portions of Centre
county and the downpour at the Rock-
view penitentiary either washed away
or covered with mud the larger por-
tion of the gardens. At the time it
was believed that they were complete-
ly ruined and thousands of tomato
plants were secured in Clearfield
county and New Jersey and used to
replace the washed out plants. These
‘ise a good crop. It was too late to re-
‘plant the peas and these were dug out
of the mud and given extra cultiva-
tion with the result that the crop was
‘almost up to former years, sufficient
to keep the big cannery busy for some
days.
i ——The Holy Rollers, who held
forth on the green near Mayer’s mill
, during the month of July, have pulled
up stakes, folded their tent and left
for other fields of labor, but the Free
| Methodist campmeeting down on the
| old fair grounds is still in full swing.
In the meantime this is the month
; When most of the ministers take their
| vacation, but supplies in the various
, churches will do their best to hold sa-
i tan in check.
| ——During his western trip Gover-
nor Pinchot ought to have paid a
friendly visit to Senator McKinley, of
Illinois. Each financed his own cam-
, paign, spent liberally and lost.
——With W. A. Gaston, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, and D.
‘I. Walsh, the nominee for Senator,
+ Massachusetts is likely to go into the
‘ Democratic column this year.
{
| ——Big Tom Cunningham received
lan cvation on his return from Chica-
' go. Philadelphia is not only “corrupt
| and contented” but delights to honor
“defiance of law.
| ——The death of Senator Cummins,
1 of Towa, so soon after his defeat will
i be ascribed to disappointment not-
, withstanding he revealed no signs of
la broken heart.
—————p esa ————
——According to Washington gos-
sip the President will “swing round
the circle” next summer.
term bee is busy buzzing.
——Poincaire is delaying consider-
ation of the debt question as long as
possible. He probably wants to re-
main on the pay roll. 35
—Wheat is going up again and that
is one thing the farmers won't kick
about. td
a popular denial of the fitness of wom- |
The third :
NO. 31.
. | Tarred With the Same Stick.
From the Philadelphia Record.
A great many Pennsylvania Repub-
licans disapprove of the attempted
purchase of nominations for the Unit-
ed States Senate and regard the ex-
cessive primary campaign expendi-
tures of William S. Vare as disquali-
fying him for the office he seeks.
Some of these Republicans, intend-
ing to vote for John S. Fisher for
Governor and believing he will be
elected, console themselves with the
reflection that Vare, if elected, would
be rejected by the United States Sen-
ate, and that Fisher, as Governor,
would fill the vacancy by appointment.
This they regard as an eminently sat-
isfactory solution.
We wonder if these Republicans
consider it any less reprehensible to
buy a seat in the Senate.
We wonder if these Republicans
know that the biggest campaign fund
raised and spent in Pennsylvania last
spring—far exceeding in size the fund
collected and expended for the Vare
eandidacy—was raised and spent for
the nomination of John S. Fisher for
Governor. :
For the information of such Repub-
licans we cite these facts:
(1) That Joseph R. Grundy, or-
iginator of the Fisher boom for Gov-
ernor, director of the Fisher campaign
in the eastern part of the State and
principal fat-fryer, advanced $300,000
of his own money, borrowed $90,000
more on a joint note with W. H. Fol-
well, and made an additional personal
contribution of “slightly over $18,000”
for the Pepper-Fisher campaign. (P.
234 of the official report of the Sen-
ate committee’s hearings.)
| (2) That Grundy made these ad-
vances and contributions chiefly in the
interest of Fisher. Mr. Grundy testi-
fied, regarding the period preceding
his espousal of the cause of Pepper
as a means of getting votes for Fish-
er: “I was not in favor of Mr. Pep-
‘per. * * * * Well I really was in-
active on the Senate proposition; my
rusyest was in Mr. Fisher.” ( P.
+ (3) When questioned as to the
reasons which finally led him to sup-
port Senator Pepper in preference to
Vare, Mr. Grundy replied: “We do
not view that, as I said before, as the
principal issue in the campaign.” (P
23 And later on: “The Juestion
of State taxation was primarily what
interested US—what Interested me”
(P 242.) 3 3 :
There is other evidence Th abund-
i ance that the Pepper-Fisher campaign
| fund, three times the size of the Vare
campaign fund, was expended chiefly
in the interest of Mr. Fisher. If any-
. body doubts that he need only consult
; the election returns. Senator Pepper
| was defeated, but Fisher, running
| with him, was nominated by a margin
of some 18,000 votes. That margin of
18,000 votes was produced with the
"sum of $1,600,000 or thereabouts.
| Mr. Fisher is a very estimable gen-
i tleman, but none the less his friends
procured his nomination by the ex-
cessive use of money; by the expen-
diture of a sum, if we cut the Pepper-
Fisher campaign fund in half and
credit the Fisher element with but 50
per cent. of it, much larger than the
Vare slush fund; by the use of a
dough-bag at the least calculation
more than four times as large as that
| which led the Senate officially to con-
demn and castigate Truman II. New-
berry. 3
How can any Republican reconcile
with his conscience a condemnation of
Vare and a vote for Fisher?
Why make flesh of one and fowl of
the other?
What sane man thinks that the ends
of justice would be served by black-
balling Vare and turning the choice of
a Senator over to a Governor tarred
with the same stick, only a little more
generously ?
Big Guns to Boom in Pennsylvania
Campaign.
| I'rom the Clearfield Republican.
Judge Bonniwell, Democratic can-
didate for Governor, gave out the in-
formation first of the week that Unit-
ed States Senator James Reed, of Mis-
souri, will stump Pennsylvania the
‘coming campaign for Wilson and
Bonniwell. Everybody will want to
hear Senator Jim Reed or at least
read what he says on the big question.
He will by that time have a pretty
fair understanding of Republican or-
ganization methods in the Keystone
Commonwealth plans, source of sup-
ply and consideration given or expect.
ed by producers. Many of the fore-
most Senators now serving in Wash-
ington will come into Pennsylvania
during the 1926 campaign. Already
Senator Norris, of Nebraska, Repub-
lican, has announced such intention.
Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, is
reported as willing to assist in pre-
venting the question of William S.
Vare’s right to the Pepper seat com-
ing before the Senate at all. The
perplexing question before Pennsyls
| vania voters at present is, who will
attempt to answer arguments of Sen-
ators Jim Reed, Norris, LaFollette
and men of their ‘type, save Davy
Reed, whose interest is selfish? Bet-
ter than - a guess no other Senator
who has any ambitions after his pres-
ent term will take the stump Tor
Vare, School boys will be able to
‘answer and at the same time ridicule
anything Davy Reed offers on the
subject. ;
—Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
er —
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—William Wiley, 11 years old, son of S.
W. Wiley, of near Butler, is in a serious
condition in the Butler county Memorial
hospital, from injuries received when he
was rammed through a board fence by a
bull. His right lung was punctured and
his colar bone broken.
—The_electrification of the East-Broad
Top railroad. for pasenger service will be
put in practice September 1. The electric
motor car will accommodate passengers,
baggage, express and mail and will pro-
vide the motive power for present steel
passenger coaches which will be used as
trailors.
— Fractures of the skull and back suf-
fered on Friday when he was knocked
down by the bucket on a concrete mixer
caused the death of Valentine J. Greiff, 40
years old, of Carrolltown, on Saturday in
the Clearfield hospital. The victim was a
road foreman for the Clark Brothers Con-
struction company.
—Edward Flory, Jr., sixteen years old,
of Nashville, York county, died on Sun-
day from injuries received on the farm of
Wilmer Martin, a neighbor. He was on a
wagon unloading wheat with a pitchfork,
and when he attempted to vault from. the
wagon the pitchfork caught in a belt of
the machine and hit him in the stomach.
—State Highway officials have estimated
that more than 11,500 men now are engag-
ed on State highway work under depart-
mental direction, the largest number ever
employed by the State. In this group
3,000 or more are paid on a monthly basis,
the others being labor construction and
maintenance. Contractors are estimated to
have more than 10,000 men at work.
—Automobile plates for next year will
be blue background and yellow figures,
the opposite of the pates in use this year.
There will be at least 2,500,000 sets of
plates next year, due to the rapidly grow-
ing number of cars. The plates are manu-
factured at the western penitentiary, the
stamping and enameling plant having
been moved there from the Pennsylvania
reformatory at Huntingdon.
—One of the most unusual hospital cases
ever recorded in Pittston claimed the at-
tention of surgeons at a private hospital
when Mrs. William Patterson, of Moosic,
was admitted to that institution suffering
from concussion of the brain received when
a spare tire fastened on the side of a truck
on which she was riding, blew out. The
concussion was caused by shock as there
was no evidence of a blow on the head.
—John L. Deardorff, 19 years old, died
in the York hospital last Friday from
lockjaw which developed from a scratch
on the knee. Deardorff was riding his mo-
torcycle a week previous and the machine
skidded and threw him across the road,
scraping his right knee. Next day he had
the injury treated, and last Thursday
went to work. He soon complained of a
stiff neck, and it was discovered tetanus
had set in.
—The Highway Department has cam-
pleted an alternate route on the William
Penn highway between Lewistown and
Huntingdon. The new section is slightly
shorter than the present route and avoids
many grade crossings. The new route is
reached by turning left at the square in
Lewistown and following the Juniata riv-
er through Strodes Mills, McVeytown,
Mount Uniott 4ute Mill Creek, where it re-
joins the present William Penn highway.
——8ingled out from a group of four beys
in a porch swing, George F. Everiq,
aged 12 years, son of Herbert Everio, of
Uniontown, was fatally struck by a bolt
of lightning Saturday night. The other
boys weré thrown on a heap on the floor,
but escaped injury. The bolt first struck
the roof of the house, then followed down
the beams and the chain of the swing.
While standing on the porch of his heme
in Eastburn, the same night, Steve Shro-
ian was knocked down by a lightning bolt.
—An alleged plot against game wardens
looking for illegal fishermen along Penn's
creek, near Mifflinburg, is reported, but
details including the name of a man who
narrowly escaped death are not given. Ac-
cording to the story, a small platform
along the creek had been undermined and
three sticks of dynamite placed under it.
These were attached to a battery with a
contact under one of the boards. When g
board was found misplaced and an inves-
tigation made, the explosive was discov-
ered. § tne am etente mg
—Not satisfied with stealing his wife,
John G. Culshaw also stole his furniture,
acording to Francis Cooley, of Duquesne,
the plaintiff in an alienation suit filed on
Monday in common pleas court of Alleghe-
ny county against Culshaw. Cooley set
the value of his wife's affections and his
furniture at $20,000. He charges that Cul-
shaw eloped with his wife, Agnes Cooley,
August 29, 1925. The mother took their 3-
year-old daughter, the plaintiff says. A
month later Culshaw drove up to Cooley's
home in an automobile, stripped the house
of its furniture and hauled it away. The
Cooleys were married August 13, 1919.
—Not realizing he was fatally hurt, John
S. Bender, aged 58 years, of Fishertown,
Bedford county, attended Sunday school
Sunday morning at the Pine Grove Hvan-
gelical church, in session at Bethel Park
camp grounds, read scriptural passages,
sang hymns and officiated as treasurer of
the class, after he had fractured his lar-
ynx when he drove his automebile into a
heavy hitching cable that struck him in
the neck as he was parking his car on the
grounds. He started for the doctor's of-
flce in Bedford, after the service, driving
his own car, and died from suffocation
caused by internal swelling just before
reaching town. His companion, Charlie
Walters, of Cessna, finished the drive, ar-
riving at the office of Dr. H. A. Shimer,
just as the injured man died.
—Preston Shirey, 19 years old, a High
school student - of Punxsutawney, was
drowned in the Monongahela river at Wi-
ley ' station, near Clairton, last Friday
afternoon after his brother, Frank Shirey,
21 years old, also of Punxsutawney, made
a futile attempt to save him. The broth-
ers had been working in the Clairton steel
works during the summer months and
boarded at 236 Broadway street, Clairton.
The younger brother, not being a good
swimmer, had attached a rubber tire in-
ner tube around his chest as a precaution.
In some manner the tube became punctur-
ed and the air escaped while Preston was
in midstream. Frank had almost reached
the other side when he heard the screams
of his brother. He turned and swam back
to where Preston disapeared, but was teo
late. The body was recovered four hours
later.