~~ INK SLINGS.
—Only twenty-nine days left in
which to do’it,—your Christmas shop-
ping. :
—In twenty-five days the shortest
day of the year will be here and then,
as the days lengthen again we can ex-
pect the cold to strengthen.
—Reports are out to the effect that
the German goose crop is good, but
we venture the assertion that it is not
nearly as good as it was in 1914.
—Spring creek, Logan’s Branch and
Buffalo Run are working very nicely
for John McCoy now, but he had to
dam them a lot before they really got
busy. 2
—Anyway, not having had turkey
yesterday we're not in for cold turkey,
turkey hash and then turkey soup
from the carcass of the bird for the
next week.
— After having kicked everybody
else around for so many years it must
be gall and wormwood to Leon
Trotzky to be made a foot-ball of by
this communisti¢ brethren in Russia.
—Queen Marie’s sudden change of
plans and determination to hurry
away to her home in Rumania without
completion of her tour of the United
States, will be disappointing to few
others than the class that seems to
have made asses of themselves while
she was on our shores.
—The Calles government of Mexico,
that President Coolidge was getting
ready to approve only a short time
ago, is showing signs of confiscating
about a billion and a half of our in-
vestments in that country and, of
course, there is uneasiness in Wash-
ington and a lot of “watchful waiting”
too.
—Golly, wouldn’t it be a joke if
the Republicans were to lose their
Senator from Maine, It appears that
he is mixed up in a hundred thousand
dollar bribery scandal up there and
unless he can extract himself his
chance of holding his seat looks bad.
Isn’t there a Republican, anywhere,
who can come clean.
—The Republican papers of the
country are already beginning to start
a fight in the Democratic party over
who shall be our nominee for Presi-
dent in 1928. What a fatuous waste
of energy. When 1928 comes we'll
nominate the man and if we want to
fight over it we'll do it then. without
any egging on by our Republican
friends.
—The time is approaching very
rapidly when Dr. Ellie Potter will fade
out of the picture. Ellie had a great
many impractical ideas when she be-
came head of the Welfare Department
of the State. She had little patience
with and scant consideration for those
who knew local institutional problems
far better than she and we shall not
regret her going.
—The most convincing witnesses
who have appeared thus far in the
celebrated Hall-Mills murder case
were the Wilsons--mother and two
daughters. They are educated, refined
people and swore that they were talk-
ing to Henry Stevens at almost the
moment the murder was supposed to
have been committed. They fixed the
date so definitely with known events
that it seems to us their testimony
should prove a perfect alibi in itseif.
—And now a committee has been
organized in New York to ascertain
whether the girl working for fifteen
dollars a week gets her silk stockings
at the sacrifice of proper nourishment.
What if it finds out she does. Do it’s
members have any idea that they ean
induce her to wear cotton or lisle hose
instead of silk and trade a few choco-
late e’clairs for an occasional beef
stew? If they do they have a job on
their hands.
—We own a personal grief in the
passing of Lawshe Baird, of Philips-
surg. His was such a rare good
rature that all who knew him must
share in the sorrow we feel at the
oss of occasional contact with a gen-
leman of his type. It was only the
man to man side of him that we knew
but, knowing that, we are certain that
‘a every other channel of life he ran
‘lean, and true and inspiring to those
~ who cared to sense it.
—And now Mr. Doheny and Albert
3. Fall, member of former President
Jarding’s Cabinet, are having their
lay in court and their lawyers nearly
‘hrew fits when Justice Hoetling, of
he District of Columbia Supreme
ourt, ruled that the jurors hearing
he case should be kept under guard
luring the trial. Why should Doheny
ind Fall be excited because the jurors
wre to be denied contact with out-
iiders while they are deliberating on
‘he case? Surely they didn’t hope to
see if any of them could be seen.
—The First Baptist church of Hus-
on, Texas, had fifty hundred and
wenty-two members. Then it issued
in ultimatum that all members who
ouldn’t promise to “cease tattling,
)ack-biting, unrighteous anger and in-
_oxicating drinks” were to consider
hemselves out of the church, We
aven’t heard what the church roster
5 now, but we're positively sure that
he only ones who are out are those
vho wouldn’t cease intoxicating
rinks. Whoever heard of a church
nember who tattled, back-bit or got
nrighteously angry? They never do
uch things. They're the ear marks of
the poor sinner,” who hasn’t yet been
aved.
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VOL. 71.
BELLEFONTE.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
PA.
Philadelphia’s Rotten Election.
The methods of building up ma-
jorities for Republican candidates in
Philadelphia were exposed in the office
of Magistrate Violet E. Fahnestock, in
that city, on Monday. Eight election
officers of the Sixteenth division of
the Fourth ward were arraigned on a
charge of violating the election laws.
The prosecution was under the direc-
tion of the Committee of Seventy and
the evidence of the twenty-eight wit-
nesses who had been subpoenaed
showed that the “gang controlled
election and registration boards had
resorted to the most brazen and
crudest sort of vote manipulation te
swell the vote of William S. Vare,”
according to the report of one of the
Philadelphia morning newspapers.
The evidence revealed the fact that
some legal voters had voted twice at
the same polling place and a number
of non-residents were permitted to
vote. Persons under age voted and
quite a number of residents testified
that they had not voted at all but were
marked as having voted “the straight
Republican ticket.” It was shown that
cats and dogs had been registered and
voted and though there was, and is,
considerable sentiment in the district
for William B. Wilson the returns
showed 401 votes for Vare and none
for Wilson out of .a total registration
of 404. The accused election officers
were held for court by Magistrate
Fahnestock but the chances are they
will escape punishment.
One would think that the Republi-
can leaders of Philadelphia would
fight shy of a situation as rotten as
the one in question was shown to be
But so far from that they came to the
defense of the perpetrators of the
crimes and © Herbert Salus, brother
and law partner of State Senator
Salus, whom Vare proposes to make
president pro tem. of the Senate for
the eoming session, appeared for them
and exhausted all his powers of per-
suasion to secure their freedom. He
may be more successful ‘in the higher
courts. But from this distance it
looks as if the movement to improve
the methods of conducting elections
in Philadelphia means business this
time. The Committee of Seventy is in
earnest. SC RT
i ————p Ap ———————
The Little German band, famil-
iar everywhere before the war but
absent since, has returned to New
York, but the absence of saloons robs
it of its opportunities. ,
Tax Reduction and Surplus.
The people of the country will cor-
dially endorse the purpose of the Dem-
ocrats in Congress to enact legisla-
tion providing for substantial tax re-
duction. The administration has been
fooling the public long enough. Last
year the Democrats insisted on a de-
crease of tax rates to the extent of
half a billion dollars, but the repeat-
ed declaration of Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon that a $300,000,000
decrease was all the treasury could
stand forced a compromise fixing the
decrease at something less than $400,-
000,000, which was adopted, with the
result that at the end of the fiscal year
there is a surplus which the President
now proposes to present to the corpo-
rations as a sort of Christmas gift.
The proposed refund of the pres-
ent surplus would give at least ninety
per cent. of the total to corporations,
which have already reimbursed them-
selves by increased cost of service or
prices of commodities. Retaining the
existing rates for another year would
give another opportunity to dispense
gifts to them. This distribution of
unearned bounties in two successive
years would enrich the corporations
benefitted to the extent of very nearly
half a billion, out of which it would be
easy to draw slush funds for the next
Presidential campaign that would
make the Pennsylvania and Illinois
slush funds of this year look like
“widow’s mites.” Nobody understands
this fact better than Calvin Coolidge
and Andy Mellon.
The plan of the Democrats is to
collect in taxes only sufficient money
to pay the expenses of the govern-
ment, economically administered, in-
terest on the public debt and reason-
able sums toward the reduction of the
principal of the debt. This year nearly
$300,000,000 in excess of this amount
was collected and it is conservatively
estimated that if the existing rates
are continued the revenues will ex-
ceed the requirements of the next
budget by more than $400,000,000.
The offer to pay the money back is a
poor expedient and nobody would pro-
test against it, as a private operation,
more vigorously than Andrew Mellon.
It simply cannot be returned equit-
ably, and any other form of distribu-
tion is unfair and unjust.
——The Controller of Philadelphia
has taken his political life in his hands
by “bucking” the machine: Thisis an
admonition to Vare. a
Pittsburgh Election Returns Invalid.
Eighty per cent. or more of the
vote returns of the recent election in
Allegheny county were illegal, accord-
ing to Judges Gray and McFarlane, |
of the Allegheny county court, who
composed the returning board for that
county. It seems that the district
boards tabulated the returns on elec-
tion night on papers other than the
tally sheet. The tabulations of figures
were then copied to the official tally
sheet, and this, along with the ballot
box and triplicate copies of the tally
were turned over to the proper author-
ities. In many cases the “tallies as
marked on the official tally sheets
were vastly different from those on
the checking paper first used by the
district board,” it is alleged.
“In many cases,” Judge Gray al-
leged, “this proctice has been adopted
as a matter of convenience and not
to aid in the altering of the votes. It
is, however, a dangerous perversion of
clearly defined laws.” Judge McFar-
lane pronounced it “absolutely il-
legal.” Both these judges are Repub-
licans and dependent upon the Pitts-
burgh party machine for their future
political prosperity. But the system
which Max Leslie devised, and W. L.
Mellon has adopted, is so abhorrent to
every principle of justice and decency
that their consciences compelled them
to express their reprobation. They
may summon the offending election
officers to answer in court but it is
said the only penalty is a nominal fine.
The exposure of this illegal work
in Pittsburgh may serve a useful pur-
pose, however. It may be used as a
basis for opening the ballot boxes by
either a grand jury or Senatorial
committee to investigate the integrity
of the returns. The zero ballots may
deprive William S. Vare of a large
part of his majority in Philadelphia,
and these illegal returns take away an-
other considerable slice in Pittsburgh
so that when the real record of the
election is made it will be found that
William B. Wilson, rather than Wil-
liam S. Vare, will be entitled to the
certificate of election and the commis-
sion to sit in the Senate. Besides, it
may spur decent citizens of the State
to an insistent demand for better elec-
tion laws. gm pr
——General Andrews, enforcement
chief, proposes that the government
goes into the distilling business to
supply medical needs. That will make
Wayne Wheeler tear his hair.
Great Evil “Nipped in the Bud.”
All automobile owners and users, as
well as the public in general, cordial-
ly approve the action of Insurance
Commissioner Barfod with the view of
forcing bogus insurance companies
and agencies out of the State. Mur.
Barfod’s objective seems to be the
National Automobile Service corpor-
ation, the main office of which is in
Philadelphia. Several weeks ago
warrants were issued for the arrest
of forty-five officers and agents of
that concern and last week two hun-
dred additional warrants were issued
for agents and employees of the com-
pany. Those accused who have been
arrested thus far have been held in
$500 bail for a hearing in the near
future.
The method employed by this com-
pany and its agents, and probably by
other companies, is to offer a blanket
policy covering about everything in-
surable te the owners ef automobiles
at a considerably cut rate as compared
with the charges of standard compa-
nies only upon deferred payments. In
order to get as much money as pos-
sible from the victim the agent offers
a bonus on the deferred payments for
a large cash payment at the time of
the delivery of the policy. Thus far
the operations had been almost entire-
ly limited to Philadelphia, though ac-
cording to complaints filed some busi-
ness was done in Harrisburg and prep-
arations had been made to extend it
all over the State.
Some years ago buying insurance
was a precarious investment. The
standard companies were always safe
and sound and dependable. But there
were a lot of “wild-cat” organizations
and crooked agents who reaped more
or less generous harvest from credu-
lous victims. Wise legislation and
vigilant public officials have succeeded
in eliminating this danger to prudent
men and women who desired to pro-
vide for their children and kinfolk.
This fraud, which is directed mainly
against automobile owners, has de-
veloped within a year or so but has
worked so energetically that it has be-
come a State-wide and almost a Na-
tion-wide menace. But fortunately it
has been “nipped in the bud.”
——Judge McDevitt, of Philadel-
phia, an old and capable newspaper
man, adjourned court the other day
to inspect a brewery accused of violat-
| ing the law.
in Sl ii 4)
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NOVEMBER 26. 1926.
_ Boss Grundy Yields to Expediency.
| Without in the least relinquishing
“his claim to the title of supreme boss
Mr. Joseph R. Grundy is said to have
abandoned his purpose to chop off the
| official head of W. Harry Baker, sec-
! retary of the Senate. The enmity be-
tween these political manipulators
‘has existed for many years and after
| the nomination of Mr. Fisher, Grundy
; openly declared that Baker should be
| shorn of all his power. The first num-
| ber on the program was to remove
{ him from the chairmanship of the
: State organization. Through the in-
tercession of W. L. Mellon the office of
| secretary of the committee was offer-
ed to Baker which he accepted. But
| notice was given “to the world” that
the would be deprived of the Senate
berthi
Of course Mr. Grundy is trespassing
somewhat in butting into the affairs of
the Senate. He has admitted under
oath that he paid $400,000 to acquire
control of the executive department of
the State government, and under the
customs of the party that gives hima
potential voice in the selection of offi-
cials in that service. But the Senate
is independent of the executive and
usually the Senators exercise their
own judgment in the selection of offi-
cials. It is understood, however, that
in this instance they will humor: the
supreme boss to the extent of allowing
him to dump William P. Gallagher,
chief clerk, a $6000 a year job. Mr.
Gallagher is an
Baker and supported Beidleman.
In justice to historic accuracy it
should be stated that the quarrel be-
tween Grundy and Baker didn’t begin
with; and is not entirely because of, |
Baker’s support of Beidleman. It
began when the late Senator Crow!
was a dominant force in the Legisla-
ture. Crow and Baker wanter to levy
a tax on manufacturing corporations
as long ago as 1915, and nearly put it
across in 1925. - Mr. Gallagher invest-
ed the considerable influence of his
office in the enterprise and Grundy
is unwilling to take chances with both
of them at the Senate desk. It is a
foolish fear, of course, for with the
Governor committed against the prop-
osition it. can’t possibly be put
“within the next four years.
——The cold weather not only
caught many farmers with potatoes
in the ground and corn in the shock
but thousands of bushels of apples
still on the trees in Centre county
orchards. In the Fisher orchard, at
| Unionville, several hundred bushels of
' choice apples were nipped by the frost
| and will be good for cider making on-
{Iv In fact comparatively few or-
! Thards have been picked clean of their
ruit.
etree es yl eer
winter weather the past week, evi-
dently the result of the storms which
swept over a wide area of the west.
While no snow of any consequence fell
here the Allegheny mountains were
covered, on Saturday, by a good track-
ing snow about an inch and a half in
depth. Warmer weather is predicted
for next week.
—Now that the foot-ball season is
over the College and High school boys
will turn to basket-ball, wrestling and
boxing. Studies, of course, will be
sandwiched in somewhere, but no-
where that will interfere with their
ambition to become the athletic idol of
the school.
Ae m———— A orm niin.
——The motor train tried out on
the Lewisburg railroad, last week,
evidently was not able to make the
grade. It was only in service several
days when it was withdrawn and the
Killing by automobile is a
growing industry. The death list
from that source has made a new
record this month and all the returns
are not in yet.
Fon ——————p A ets
———The vote shows that Vare was
absolutely loyal to Fisher in Phila-
delphia but a lot of Fisher’s friends
“threw the harpoon into” Vare.
———————— erecta
é“
Hall-Mills case nears its crisis,”
is a headline in an esteemed contem-
porary and an ardent hope of all in-
telligent newspaper readers.
rn —— ena.
——County Commissioner Howard
E. Holtzworth took the oath of office
last week and had his first sitting with
the board on Friday.
————— A —————
———The Bellefonte fire department
was called out at one o'clock Wednes-
day morning by a false alarm of a fire
in the Masonic temple. .
——It will be unlawful to kill any
and all kinds of small game after next
Tuesday.
intimate friend of |
——DBellefonte has had a taste of |
old locomotive put back into service. |
NO. 47.
The French War Debt.
From the Philadelphia Record.
If France doesn’t wish to pay its
war debt it should say so y.
There is no way of collecting an inter-
national debt. We should never go to
war to recover a sum of money from
France. If the French think they
ought not to pay they have only to
say that they won’t pay. But that
wouldn’t answer their purpose. What
they want is to get a receipt in full
from us. There is no conceivable rea-
son why we should be a party to
French repudiation. Some of the
French papers, referring to the Presi-
! dent’s speech in Kansas City, say that
the war debt is only a financial obliga-
tion, while there is the “higher moral
foundations of a new Europe.”
Put in plain and simple language,
this means that saving France im-
poses upon us the high moral obliga-
{ tion to make that country prosperous.
| We sent 2,000,000 soldiers to France.
We incurred a debt of $26,000,000,000
for our part in the war, besides what
i
| debt to us while the other belligerents:
| who borrowed of us are paying. As
' to helping France we should say that
| wiping out most of the interest and
| spreading the whole over 62 years was
, doing a good deal of it, in addition to
saving it in the war. If France wishes
to repudiate it can do so, but it is
ridiculous for it to expeet us to help
it repudiate. :
LIE RA !
Savers Are Capitalists.
From the Pittsburgh Times.
James A. Emery, counsel of the Na-
tional Association of Manufacturers,
addressing a Management Week meet-
ing, said our wage earners. are be-
coming capitalists. They. are learn-
ing to save, he said, and “after al
a capitalist is one who spends less
than he earns.” A political Scononist
‘ might find some fault with that defi-
nition of a capitalist, holding that
specifically for the production of other
wealth, yet we believe the saver is a
capitalist even in the latter interpre-
tation.. Certainly, if he invests his
savings in industrial stocks or bonds
he comes within political economist’s.
category. And isn’t money which he
saves and which his bank loans capi~
tal in the strictest sense? =.
Many wage earners are owners, not
only of securities of the concerns by
which they are employed, but in num-
erous other enterprises. The thrifty
worker in any line of employment
saves something and the habit is
one that is growing. He makes “in-
vestments,” too, buying being possi-
ble these days for the small as weil
as large buyers. Sometimes he makes
a false step, expecting too great a re-
turn for his money, but in the aggre-
‘gate he uses as much judgment in
; buying a $100 bond as the person who
spends 1,000 times that much, to
! judge by some recent history.
Everybody’s Doing It Now.
| vom the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
. The scandal attending the disposi-
{tion of tickets for the Army-Navy
i football game has Washington by the
ears. All sorts of ugly rumors are
heard respecting the scalping activi-
ties of some members of Congress.
! Charges are made that members have
paid high prices for tickets in the
hope of disposing of them at huge
' profits. Counter-charges that mem-
bers of the secretarial fraternity in
the House and Senate are the real
profiteers have brought terse state-
ments for some of them that the mem-
bers will not find it as easy this year
as formerly to divert attention to the
secretaries. They do not propose to
. be the “goats.” It is regrettable that
| such a sporting classic as this service
game must always be attended by
rumors and exhibitions of greed. Cer-
tainly there can be nothing inspiring
in the sight of a statesman hawking
tickets for a few dollars gain.
nese fp A oe ene
Tolerance.
. From the Pittsburgh Press.
| The William Jennings Bryan Chap-
ter of the Ku Klux Klan donated the
American flag.
A Jew donated the flag-staff.
A Catholic priest delivered the
dedicatory address.
A Negro veteran of the late war
handled the ropes that drew the flag
to the top of the pole. :
Ten thousand friendly Americans
and Canadians looked on.
In this manner did Port Huron,
Mich., celebrate Armistice day, under
the guidance of Pastor Bready of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
Western Amenity.
From the Topeka Capital.
“You told a lie about me in your
paper,” said an indignant man to
Ewing Herbert. Did Ewing get mad
and want to fight it out? He did not.
He merely answered: “You shouldn't
be worried so long as I don’t tell the
truth about you.”
— An effort will be made at the
organization of the Legislature, in
January; to shake off the Vare grip.
But the Grundy grip, a more menac-
ing incubus, will probably have the
. support of the Executive Mansion.
obligation” of “helping to rebuild the
we spent of the proceeds of taxation,
| and all this imposes upon us the high
' moral obligation to wipe out France's
capital is that portion of wealth used
]
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SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—Thieves broke a window at Mount Car-
mel, last Friday, and using a long pole
with a hook on it, stole $500 worth of
clothing from the Louis Feinberg store.
—Paul Slifer, Bucknell University fresh-.
man, of Lewisburg, died in the Geisinger
hospital, at Danville, of injuries received a -
week previous when struck by a hit-and-
run motorist on the Lewisburg-Mifflinburg
road.
—Falling from the rear of his milk truck
at Lock Haven, on Saturday, Frank C.
Farringer, 28, sustained injuries which.
proved fatal. Farringer’s skull was frac
tured and his neck broken when the strap
on which he was hanging on the rear of
the wagon snapped.
—Wedged between timbers on the wreck-
ed Atlantic Refining comanpy motor
1aunch, the bedy of Fred Montaini, 45, en-
gineman, was discovered late Thursday
night at Philadelphia. The launch was
wrecked on the Schuykill river Thursday
afternoon after an explosion of gasoline
which caused injuries to two other mem-
bers of the crew.
—The Milton Manufacturing company,
makers of bolts and other small iron ma-
terials and employing 800 men, has an-
nounced its suspension pending the ap-
peintment of a receiver. Lack of sufficient
working capital is given as the reason. The
plant made a shell case at Milton during
the World war and was believed to have
been highly prosperous.
—While Everett Myers, near York
Springs, York county, was shooting a
skunk at the rear of his barn he dropped
dead from a heart attack. His wife who
was watching from the barn, saw his fall
and upon reaching his side found he was
dying. He was 63 years old and about
fifteen years ago was superintendent of
the public schools of McKean county.
—Charles R. Gibson, 20 years old, of
Xork, Pa., was arrested on Saturday,
charged with stealing $14,380 from the
First National bank, where he was a clerk
in the savings department. He was dis-
charged two weeks ago, when it was sus-
pected something was wrong. Gibson as-
serted he lost the money betting on race -
horses. He recently bought a new motor
car.
—Ross Bellamy, a well-known carpenter
of Tyrone, has just completed the con-
struction of a table which contains over
seventeen hundred pieces of wood of thir-
ty-seven species, each piece of wood being
from ninety to one hunderd years old. The
table is finished in natural wood and is a
remarkable piece of work. Mr. Bellamy
sepnt over eight years working on the
table.
—With his evening meal on the table
ready to be eaten, Henry Kump, a native
and lifelong resident of Franklin town-
ship, Adams county, stepped outside his
house on Saturday evening, suffered a
heart attack and died. The body lay
about 50 feet from the door of the house
1 in a small gutter until it was discovered
Sunday morning by Mrs. John Currens,
a neighbor.
—With an explosion that tore limbs off
trees and spouted a geyser twenty-five
feet into the air, a box of dynamite float-
ing down the Susquehanna river on the
flood was exploded on Friday afternoon
just below Berwick by a shot from the
shore, The box was recognized by a Ber-
wick miner and he detonated it. . The
dynamite is believed to have come from
the anthracite coal region. E :
—Two holdup men, disappointed at find-
ing no money, knocked Charles Eiler, 64,
unconscious and then tried to throw him.
into the Allegheny river near the West
New Kensington bridge, at New Kensing-
ton, late Saturday night. FEiler’s cloth-
ing caught on bushes on the river bank,
preventing him from sliding wholly into
the water, although his feet were in the
stream when he was found some time later,
—Henry Harrison, who lives in the woods
near Hicks Run, Elk county, has been
sentenced to 380 days in the Elk county
jail for the unlawful killing and posses-
sion of an elk. Game wardens found him
with a quantity of meat and assessed a
fine of $200 and six months in jail. He
could not pay the fine. Several times dur-
ing the past summer the carcass of an elk
was found and choice cuts of meat, always
the same, removed.
—After enjoying freedom for 18 years,
James McDonald has begun serving a two-
year sentence in the Washington county
workhouse for an assult on Joseph For-
rest of Washington, Pa., 18 years ago,
Forrest was injured when McDonald shot
him in the arm at Arden on Dec. 16 1908.
After the shooting McDonald escaped.
He was arrested only a few days ago
when he returned to Washington to visit
the scenes of his boyhood, believing that
everyone had forgotten the shooting affair.
—Forty-six children, ranging in age
from 2 to 16 years, were led safely out of
the State orphanage, of the women of the
Ku Klux Klan haven, in Dauphin county,
on Sunday night, when fire was discover-
ed in the building. Mrs. L. R. T. Paxton,
the superintendent, and her husband, after
a fruitless effort to fight the flames with
extinguishers, gathered the children in
one room and they passed out of the build-
ing in an orderly file, The building, an
old stone structure, was destroyed, despite
the efforts of firemen from half a dozen
towns, including Harrisburg.
—Lack of a sufficient number of news-
papers in Pike county may prevent the
incorporation of a water company to sup-
ply residents of Millrift. William Adams,
of Mlllrift, applied to the Public Service
Commission for aproval to start a water
company in his home town. Under the
law he is required to publish notices for
incorporation of companies in two news-
papers of general circulation in the county
where the company is to be located. Pike
county has only one newspaper, and Mr.
Adams is in a quandary what to do. One
way out has been suggested: amend the
law.
—“Good-bye, Ill see you later,” called
Frank Romano, of Pittsburgh, to his 18-
year-old bride as he left their home in Gil-
more Way October 31. She laughed back:
“J'11 see you in church,’ She did not again
see Romano, who owned two confectionery
stores, until shortly before midnight, Sat-
urday night, when she identified his c¢har-
red body on a slab in the Allegheny coun-
ty morgue. She had recognized a news-
paper picture of a fire victim. While work-
men on Friday were removing wreckage
of a candy store in Carson street, destroy-
ed by a mysterious explosion and fire Oc-
tober 81, they discovered a body, the pres-
ence of which had not been suspected. It
was Romano's.