—This is April 1. If you want to
fool us completely sit right down and
write a check for whatever back sub- |
scription you owe. cia
—If the Governor would only stop.
claring his * intention to fight and
rit he might get further
0a
i
. —Happily the great coal mine trag
edy: out at Ehrenfeld, Pa, turned
out. to be greatly exaggerated, The | .
thes hundred mien who wore reported
dead all came to life but five. -
the -Legislature and the |
great coal mine trag- |
I _—.——"
sd on Si A
One Source of Fraud.
Under the law it will become the
duty of the Governor of the Common-
~ “The supposed attempt on the life } Wealth to appoint. four registration
of Henry Ford was just another of’
those misguided efforts that are so
frequent and so incomprehensible. Tt
would seem that anyone, no matter
what his or her station, could see the
value of Mr. Ford to the social and
industrial life of the country.
—With the author and producers of
“The Virgin Man” serving ten days
in a New York work house and Earl
Carroll on his way to serve a year in.
a federal prison theatrical folks will
begin to realize that while “justice is
blind” it can still see the difference be-
tween right and wrong.
— “Peaches” Browning and Ma Hee-
nan are to go into vaudeville. That is,
if the plastic surgeons can reduce the
piano legs on which “Peaches” is ex-
pected to do a dance act. Every sec-
tion of the country would do well to
follow the New England intention to
bar the hussies from exhibiting
themselves up there.
~The man who has charge of the
morgue in the office of the Philadel
phia Inquirer dug up a picture of Hard
P. Harris, Bellefonte’s active burgess,
and ran it on the political page over
the name of “W. Harrison Walker,
¢andidate for Judge of Centre county.”
And now both men are trying to
figure out which one the joke is on.
—We'd like to write something
about the trouble in China, but as we
don’t know what it’s all about we're
afraid to attempt anything further
than to remark that if China wants to
chase the foreigners out of the coun-
try the foreigners must have been
doing something she doesn’t like. And
that, we'll bet comes about as near
explaining the root of the trouble as
an y else has been able to do.
—Just at present the excitement
over the pending judicial contest
seems to have abated a bit. It can’t
be for long, however. Too many of
the aspirants have the idea that their |
chances are too good. The present
calm is only a lull before the storm
that is certain to break long before
one of the most interesting political
fights ever witnessed in this section.
— Governor Fisher has been forced
to compromise on his ballot reform
bills. Possibly it was better for him
to take half a loaf than get no bread
at all, but he could not have been as
sincere as he professed to be in his
effort for purification of elections.
The State would have admired him
more had he stuck for his program
as originally presented, then veto any
measures that might have been passed
in an emasculated form.
—Having refused to pay six dol-
lars and nineteen cents taxes assessed
against him in 1925 Nathan Rora-
baugh was committed to the Clinton
county jail nearly nine months ago.
He relented, on Monday, paid the
amount and four dollars cost because
he wants to go fishing. It cost Clin-
ton county one hundred and twenty-
five dollars for his board while in jail
and the Lord only knows how much
more it would have been had Nathan
not been a sufferer with our malady—
fishitch.
—Ford’s Detroit stores retail gro-
ceries, dry goods, clothing, etcetera,
cheaper than the wholesalers of that
city can buy the commodities. His
“mass sales” idea has beaten even the
“Chain stores” in prices and there is
great indignation among the retailers
of Detroit. We have an analogous
situation in Bellefonte. “Chain
stores” are making it very difficult for
merchants who have tied themselves
up with property investments here.
They are” handicapped by taxes and
other obligations of a social nature
and must eventually lose out in
what seems to be unfair competition.
The business of the country is being
revolutionized, just as are the habits,
the manners and the character of our
people. Who can say that it is for
the better or the worse. We can’t.
Yom completely flabbergasted at it
all.
—Today the soft coal miners are
to go on stirke. What for? Higher
wages and better living conditions.
With knowledge only of the Central
Pennsylvania fields we wonder at
the folly of it. Half the mines in the
Cambria—Clearfield field have been
closed for several years because they
can’t produce coal in competition with
West Virginia, even though the oper-
ator would be satisfied if he could
make a margin of only fifteen cents
a ton on his coal. Coal in the seam
is as cheap today as it ever was.
Labor is all that has added to its
cost and if labor wants to add more,
is it unreasonable to suggest that
labor go out and sell it. It won't
until it has milked invested capital
white and then will come the panic
that this country needs more than it
needs anything else that we can con-
| unanimous voice, protest against the
“any SAE 4
commissioners for Philadelphia. ‘With-
in a given time these commissioners
will appoint four registrars for each
election district. Both the commis-
sioners and = registrars - are to be bi-
partisan. That is to say, there are
to be two men or women of each
party. According to a reliable cor-
respondent of the Philadelphia Record
William S. Vare has chosen one of the
Democrats on the board of commis-
sioners and Joseph Grundy another.
These bogus Democrats, if appointed,
will join with their Republican col-
‘leagues on the board in appointing
Republican registrars wherever pos-
sible. :
There are in the ring-ridden sections
of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh mis-
creants who register as Democrats in
order that they may the more success-
fully steal votes from that party.
This is the way zero districts are
created. If the Governor shall accept
the recommendations of Vare and
Grundy for seats on the board of
registration commissioners for Phila-
delphia, we may look for a multiplica-
tion of zero returns at the next elee-
tion in which Vare is concerned. This
will probably ‘be the next Senatorial
election, when Vare will try to cancel
his obligation to Senator Dave Reed,
who delayed for a time an exposure
that is inevitable, That was the only
achievement of the filibuster. =
It is true that the Democrats of
frauds possible. Under the law, if the
minority party fails to present can-
party may supply the need by naming
Republicans, thus making the board
tnanimously Republican. But if the
board of registration cc ssioners is
two members of the same party,” it
uds. The Democrats of
phia ought to, with one acc rd and
Zl
dorsed by Vare and Grundy.
——How did Senator Davis, of
Scranton, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Elections, get the idea
that Governor Fisher was willing to
have his compulsory ballot box open-
ing bill emasculated ?
Bad Advice to Farmers.
It would seem to the reasoning mind
that the advice of the Agricultural
Department at Washington to the
farmers of the country to “hold erops
down” is economically unsound. The
farmer who produces a hundred bush-
els of grain, whether he cultivates
four acres of ground or tem, is better
off than a neighbor who only produced
eighty bushels, no matter what the
market price of the grain happens to
be.- If the price is high he can hope
“for the: full value of his crop and if
low he has the advantage of the
twenty bushels. Even under the most
unfavorable condition he is gainer by
getting the most possible out of the
soil.
There is probably no “bogie” that
has worked more mischief in recent
vears than that of “overproduction.”
It might be possible to produce more
than can be consumed but it would be
a rare incident. Excessive prices fre-
quently make it impossible for con-
sumers to procure all they would like.
But that is not on account of over-
production. It is simply the result of
inability to get the producer and con-
sumer together. “So long as there are
hungry men and women in the country
there is no overproduction of food
stuffs, and everybody knows that hun-
dreds are suffering from hunger in
every city of considerable size.
Holding the crops down is a first-
class expedient for holding prices up,
and has little value for any other pur-
pose. For the favored, not only in
agriculture but in commerce, the high
cost of living promotes prosperity, but
as a general rule it operates the other
way. With a scale of prices that will
enable every sober and industrious
man to supply his family with abun-
dance of wholesome fcod, the overpro-
duction bogie will disappear and bet-
ter work, greater contentment and a
better feeling among employer and
employee and a closer friendship be-
tween the rich man and poor will be
created.
ES PRR
Hampy Moore imagines that a
higher rate of tariff tax would help
the crippled industries of Philadelphia.
Lower taxes of all kinds would have
a more helpful influence.
—— cons
——The Chinest trouble serves one
purpose. It is drawing public atten-
tion away from the Nicaraguan and
ceive of.
Mexican muddles,
EE ——————— ———
Philadelphia are somewhat to blame
for a condition that makes such
didates for registrars the majority
| legally organized with “not more than
| be difficult to perpetrate such
“STATE RIGHTS A.
BELLEFONTE. PA..
The Governor has finally prevailed
upon chairman Mellon and other per-
sorts not connected with the Legisla-
tute to enact measures which he be-
liéves “will greatly improve our
election laws.” That will not be going
atrocious. But it seems the Governor
might have accomplished more if he
had been firm in his purpose to
achieve reform legislation. When
Mellon began to yield, pressure ought
way the bill for the compulsory open-
ing of ballot boxes might have been
made effective. As it is the bailot
boxes in ‘the Vare district of Phila-
delphia will be as secure as if they
were hermetically sealed.
tection proposed by the Governor, with
the exception of that eliminating dis-
semination of information as a legal
expense, are of little value, and we
haven’t even a promise that the sev-
eral actually meritorious bills intro-
duced by Senator Harris, of Pitts-
burgh, and now in “pickle,” will be
even considered. The six vicious
measures introduced by Senator Hom-
sher, of Lancaster, will be cordially
approved by a practically unanimous
measure recommended by the Gover-
nor and six machine made monstrosi-
ties conceived in the minds of Vare, of
Philadelphia, and Greist, of Lancaster.
The Governor might easily have
controlled the legislation of the ses-
sion on ballot reform.
He knows that
glections. vast majortt of
ublicans: feel that there is nothing
gained bs election frauds , except sus-
picion and contempt. The Governor
didn’t need the fraudulent votes that
were cast for him -and-now hang upon
his title in the form of a reproach.
Sars and the -Leslies need
But the Vare
them, and the new chairman of the
| Republican State committee ars
to have joined them in their crusade
Tor oil ‘The Governor ought to have
stopped it; he could have stopped.
di, could hay a
——The Philadelphia grand jury
has declared the streets of that city
unsale. It might have condemned a
good many other things in connection
with the government of that town.
nr —— a ————
Hopeful for Democrats,
Josephus Daniels, of North Carolina,
who was Secretary of the Navy during
the full period of President Wilson's
administration of the government, has
always been faithful to, and is still
hopeful for Democracy. In an inter-
view given out at Atlantic City, the
other day, Mr. Daniels makes some
suggestions to the party leaders which
deserve careful consideration and some
advice of the highest value. He was
speaking from an entirely unselfish
viewpoint, for he is not an aspirant
for public favor or political office.
In the first place he expressed the
hope that there will be no recurrence
of the long drawn out and disastrous
battle in the convention of three years
ago. Party opinion will unanimously
agree with him on that point. His
mind is equally well set on the prop-
osition that there shall be no “wet
and dry” question injected into the
campaign. Party opinion may not be
so unanimous on that point but a ma-
jority will concur. He says “no one is
alive today who will see the prohibi-
tion amendment repealed,” and that
must be apparent to any thoughtful
person.
The hope of the party, according to
Mr. Daniels, lies in strict adherence to
fundamental principles. “A Demo-
cratic victory next year will be easy,”
Mr. Daniels continues, “if the leaders
are wise enough to concentrate on the
major issues and not on short-sighted
men who would be diverted to the
rabid path of liquor. They are insult-
ing the American people if they think
for a moment they can make the issue
an appetite for or against liquor.”
Republican corruption in its various
forms is the issue that will make
Democratic victory certain next year.
The Jersey Legislature has
defeated the “open Sunday” bill and
amusements and other things prohib-
ited on Sunday will have to be done
in secret, as heretofore.
State Chairman Mellon seems
anxious to acquire the sort of repu-
tation that influenced fifty-five coun-
ties of the State to vote against
Bill Vare, for Senator.
lf Mr. Vare is as confident of
vindication as he professes to be he'is
taking a lot of useless trouble to
suppress the e vidence.
——The Watchman publishes riews
when it is news. Read it.
The other measures for ballot pro-|
ye
: ¥ Strange Political Partnership.
‘What influence draws W. L. Mel-
lon, of Pittsburgh, chairman of the
Republican State committee, and Wil-
liam S. Vare, of Philadelphia, munici-
pal contractor and machine politician,
: together, is a mystery. They are as
very far, for our election laws are unlike in their lives as they have |yajue of the daily press as a medium
{ hitherto been wildly different in their
| 4 lk and conversation.” Before the
i deton: election, last May, Mr. Mellon
' denounced Mr. Vare as a disreputable
politician unfit for important public
to have been increased, and in that se¥vice. His nomination by fraudulent |
methods over eminently fitter men
certainly worked no change in the
man. Yet Mr. Mellon has apparently
fofmed a political partnership with
hi in which the evil methods of the
| Vare machine are the principal assets.
| Myr. Mellon, late in life, turned his
fancy in the direction of politics. A
‘very rich man, he has always had
, things pretty much his own way, but
until his richer uncle was called into
. the public service as Secretary of the
| Treasury in 1923, neither of them gave
. much thought to politics. Whether the
“glamour of public life has a fascina-
tion for him or the pride in power an
enticement is of little consequence.
, He got in and apparently liked it, and
,finglly induced his favorite nephew to
ake the plunge” with him. The
ew began as a bitter opponent of
liam 8. Vare for United States
Senator and was defeated because of
the corrupt methods of Mr. Vare.
| In view of these facts it is surpris-
ing to learn that Mr. Mellon and Mr.
Vare have joined in a political combi-
nation, not to preseive the Republican
| preponderance in Pennsylvania, but to
{continue the corrupt methods which
have made William S. Vare an outlaw
in the Senate at Washington. Presum-
ably Mr. Mellon imagined such a part-
nership would prove advantageous to
hind personally. As chairman of the
State committee of his party he wants
‘big majorities. But association with
Vare will not promote that result.
After Vare is thrown out of the Senate
next December with the brand of
fraud stamped indelibly on his fore-
head he will be of little value to any
poly organization. gi
1s
| rs te lp lpr ——————
——There are simple minded people
still trying to swim the Catalini chan-
1nel, though the reward for that
achievement was withdrawn some time
ago. ;
sme lpi en
An Unsightly Dump.
One of the most unsightly places in
Bellefonte is the dumping ground
down at the big fill where north Water
street goes up onto the State highway.
The fill necessary to open the street
naturally made a high and dangerous
‘embankment at the west side, which
was a constant menace to automobil-
ists. The only way to get rid of the
danger was to fill up the old canal and
this could best be done by making it a
dumping ground for ashes, stones, dirt,
ete.
But from the looks of it it would
seem as if there were more old tin
cans, broken glass, bed springs, old
automobile fenders and worn out cush-
ions, tree trimming and a conglomer-
ate mass of about everything but
money and hooch.
From the number of empty vegeta-
ble and fruit cans it is easily seen
how much the average family
in Bellefonte depends for their
daily subsistence on canned goods pur-
chased from the stores instead of the
good old-fashioned kind that “mother
used to make.”
But getting back to the dump:
The battery of lime kilns that was in
active operation there for many years
have been partially dismantled and the
brick and stone work is crumbling
down, and there is lots of space there
vet to fill, but it ought to be with
ashes and earth, and not rubbish.
rm — ar fp rt
——Centre county sportsmen gen-
erally approve the action of the Leg-
islature in defeating the bill to in-
crease the cost of hunting licenses and
also the Salus bill making it obliga-
tory to take out a license to purchase
or own fire arms. So far as the license
is concerned, the fees at present are
sufficient to create a fund equal to
all the necessities of the Game Com-
mission, and there should be no need
of diverting money from this fund to
other uses. As to the Salus bill re-
quiring a license to own or purchase
fire arms, it would not right the
wrongs for which it was intended but
instead place an additional burden on
the hunter and man who has need of a
gun for legitimate purposes. The ban-
dit will get his gun by hook or by
crook, regardless of a license, and the
innocent, harmless individual would
be more at the mercy of the profes-
sional gunman than ever.
—— fe e—————
——The Chinese problem might be
very interesting if anybody could un-
derstand’ it: : :
| Newspaper Advertising is the Most |
xd
i Effective.
{ From the Pittsburgh Post. 8
| The decision reached by the West-
| inghouse Electric and Manufacturing
Company to depend principally for its
{ advertising on the newspapers is fur-
| ther important testimony to the great
{ for bringing buyer and seller togeth-
er. ¥
The company has heretofore: used
the newspapers to advertise eléetric
! products used in the home. The jour-
nal of general circulation read by all
members of the family, and read as
"a matter of course, as part of the
| daily schedule, even by those pressed
for time, is obviously the appropriate
! agency with which to direct attention
‘to radio apparatus, electric fans,
i electric irons and the other household
{ appliances used by everybody. : The
| significant part of the company’s an-
| nouncement is that hereafter if will
employ newspaper space with which
to advertise monster electric locgmo-
tives, huge generating station units,
street lighting equipment, industrial
| motors, transportation apparatug for
trolley lines and steam railroads, farm
lighting equipment, electric meters
and other measuring devices, and to
diffuse information dealing with the
public relations of the utilities, factor-
‘ies and personnel.
Purchasers of locomotives and giant
motors are necessarily few, as com-
pared with the number of potential
buyers of lamps or electric heaters
for bathrooms, yet the Westinghouse
Company has concluded after careful
study that the newspapers are the best
medium with which to reach the form-
er as well as the latter. The execu-
tives and purchasing agents of the
corporations that use such heavy and
expensive equipment do not fail to
read the newspapers, while other ad-
vertising mediums may escape their
notice. In judicious use of the daily
press, the Westinghouse interests have
concluded, there is less likely to be
waste of the. advertising - appropria-
tion than in employing it in other
forms of advertising.
But it is the superior flexibility of
the newspaper medium that most eom-
mends it to the company. One of the
points stressed by J. C, MeQuiston,
manager of publicity, in SAROHCI
the change of polioy, is that the daily
ress enables the advertiser. i
"to meet newly = ATION" BY
using newspapers it is possible for
the advertiser on the shortest of no-
| tice to vary his plans to conform io
such factors as weather conditions and
peculiarities in the economic situation
with respect to any particular district
of the country.
“Newspapers,” says Mr. McQuiston,
“seem to offer the only medium by
which we can both ‘nationalize’ and
‘localize’ our various sales campaigns,
thus permitting us to conduct a na-
tion-wide campaign on products and
at the same time vary our program to
fit the needs of specific districts.
“Certain cities,” he adds, “present
a greater industrial market opportun-
ity than others. Others are outstand-
ing in the chavacter and extent of
their new building operations. In still
others a greater market is offered for
certain products in our merchandising
lines than others. The flexibility of
newspaper space will permit us to
cover all such points with -advertis-
ing of a specific character.” .
The Westinghouse Company has
been advertising its products since
1886. Among manufacturing com-
panies it was one of the pioneers in
the adoption of this plan for increas-
ing its sales. Advertising is an art,
a science, and a business, constantly
developing, constantly requiring study,
constantly offering new methods. That
it may be employed to full advantage
advertisers must be bold, alert, quick
to adapt themselves to new conditions.
The Westinghouse decision to concen-
trate on newspaper advertising will
not escape the attention of other pro-
gressive manufacturers. .
amr————p A ——————
A Call for Prudent Liberality.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The Mothers’ Assistance Fund is a
businesslike State philanthropy which
contributes to the support of father-
less children of needy mothers.
It makes periodical payments to
such mothers in order that they may
keep in the home, under their own cars
children who would otherwise have to
be supported in institutions.
It costs the State less to support
these children in their homes than it
would cost to maintain them in in-
stitutions run at public expense.
Last year the Mothers’ Assistance
Fund, with a biennial appropriation of
$1,750,000, gave help to 3500 families.
There are 2400 families equally en-
titled to State aid on the same terms,
but no funds are available for them.
The Mothers’ Assistance Fund asks
for $4,000,000 from this Legislature.
Bills are pending to give it various
sums ranging downward from the
above-named maximum to $2,500,000.
The Legislature should bear in mind
these two facts, both susceptible of
convincing proof: That the Mothers’
Assistance Fund is economically, wise-
ly and honestly administered, and that
it represents the cheapest as. well as
the most humane, intelligent and bene-
ficial way of taking care of the wards
of the State. i
———What the Governor needs is a
vigorous course of treatment for
a ——_———_—_— TT.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—At the point of a gun Paul J. Hess,
night operator at”the Reading ‘passenger
station, at Hershey, was forced te. open.
the safe by a masked bandit who obtained
$130 in cash. .
— Washington, Pajwpolice are cond
a search_to_ solve. the theft of three over-
coats “from a lobby of the First Christian
church” on Sunday night while services
were ip psogress. = de
—Michael Mailie, 56, near the Progress
schoolhouse in Dauphin county, ended his
life on Monday by hanging himself in ‘the
cellar of his home with a wash line, The
suicide came following a night of domestic
differences with his wife.
Pd Lily
—A 1,600-pound safe containing {wo dia-
mond rings, each valued at $375, was stolen
from the saloon of Mary Shaffer at Forty-
third and Willow streets, Pittsburgh, ac-
cording to a report made to city detectives
Sunday. The safe was valued at $35, 7
—Paul Collins, of Cleveland, Ohio, car-
rying United States mail from New York
to Cleveland, was forced down near Brook-
ville late Sunday by plane trouble. With
the aid of a powerful flare he landed un-
injured on an emergency field. The plane
was not damaged.
—Forty Altoona motorists have been ar-
rested by State, city and railroad police on
traffic violation charges, drivers failing to
stop their cars in running past trolley cars
in front of the railroad shop gates. The
arrests follow several accidents to trolley
passengers and railroad workers.
—Tive days’ notice of intention of ob-
taining a marriage license would be re-
quired to be filed with the clerks of the
orphans court under the provisions of the
Daix bill passed finally by the Senate on
Monday night and sent to the House. In
cases of emergency, extraordinary ecir-
cumstances, the judge of the orphans court
may waive this regulation.
—Morris M. Levy, senior member of M.
M. Levy, stock brokers, of Pittsburgh, was
found dead in his garage early Sunday,
a victim of carbon monoxide fumes. The
Levy chauffeur was given Saturday night
off and Levy left his home late in the even-
ing to put the family car in the garage.
Several hours later, when he had failed to
return, a search was conducted and he was
found dead. go
—Joseph Cauffiel, former mayor of Johns-
town, was in court in Ebensburg last
Thursday defending an action against him
for the recovery of $2,500,000 with interest.
The suit was brought by Dr. A. J. Miller,
of Mt. Pleasant, and George C. Knox, of
Johnstown, who seek the money for shares
representing a half interest in the mining
rights of a copper tungsten company in
Arizona, promoted by Cauffiel.
—Sought in connection with a store rob-
bery at Juniata, Blair @ county, Oscar L.
Guthrow, 22, of Richmond, Va. and Her-
bert Fitzgerald, 22, of Buena Vista, "Va,
alleged escaped convicts, were arrested on
a farm near Export, Pa, by state police
late on Monday. Their arrest followed in-
formation given by an Export constable,
whose suspicions were aroused by the care
with which he said the two men were at-
tempting to cover up the marks in a road
to a farm house left by their machine.
—Karl Bechtel, Buffalo salesman, who is
charged wilh the murder of Virginia Gib-
Several ayy ago, was™ relensed
bail in a special order handed down in
county court early Monday afternoon by
Judge U. P. Rossiter, Attorney Robert
J. Firman, one of the defense counsel for
Bechtel, was permitted to sign the bail
pond. Bechtel was held for the May term
of criminal court on last Friday when he
appeared before Alderman Moser for a
preliminary fearing, - . :
—George Dallas Dixon, of Philadelphia,
assistant to the president of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad and for many years vice
president in charge of traffic, including
lines west of Pittsburgh. celebrated -his
70th birthday on Monday, and yesterday
retired from active service under “the: pen-
sion regulations of the company. Mr. Dix-
on, who is regarded as ‘the dean of Aaneri-
can railroad traffic officers, entered the rail-
road service in 1883, and by successive pro-
motions reached his present position in Au-
gust, 1925. He is well known in Bell>fonte
through his frequent visits here. Han
—Fire on Friday destroyed the home: ol
Alexander McIntosh, of Baughman avenue,
High Park, néar Jeannette. Mrs. Meln-
tosh, who is recovering from a reecnt oper-
ation, and her two children were rescued.
The woman fainted wnd was: carried from
the burning structure. ~The loss is placed
at $5,000. Mrs. McIntosh was awakened by
the smoke and aroused her husband. Me-
Intosh carried his two children, ‘Robert,
aged 13 years, and Thomas, aged 11 yedrs,
to safety. When his wife did not appear
he made his way through the smoke-filled
structure and found that she had fainted.
—Tire in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel Specter at Mount Carmel, early on
Monday, resulted in the suffocation from
smoke of Miss Julia Rushack, a domestic,
and nearly caused the death of David
Specter, a high school junior, who is in a
serious condition. Two small children of
Mr. and Mrs. L. August, in their home
adjoining were rescued by firemen when
smoke threatened their lives. Mr. and Mrs.
Specter were on a visit to New York when
fire started in the cellar of their home,
which was destroyed. The flames spread
to the August home, ‘which was partly
damaged. i
—The Tyrone Kiwanis club has decided
to erect a dining hall for the Boy Scouts
at their camp along -Van Scoyoc. The
building will cost approximately $2,900 and
will be built by the members of the Kiwan-
is club working in groups. The new struc-
ture will be adequate in every detail for
the purpose for which it is intended. At
the one end will bea large stone fire-place
and to the one side of the building will be
a poreh ten feet in width and extending
the length of the building. It is planned
to start the work just as soon as weather
permits, so that it will be in readiness for
the annual scout camp this summer.
—Two gas wells, each reported to have
an open flow of 5,000,000 feet, which were
brought in near Punxsutawney early last
week have turned the attention of western
Pennsylvania gas and oil operaters to that
section. Both wells are in the Walston
fields. Walston fields are comparatively
new districts. There are now eight wells
in the district, seven of them are produe-
ing. ‘Five of this number - show an open
flow ‘of better than a’ ‘million feet each.
Reports that the strikes have heen made
in deep sand, each .going down 2,700 feet,
has been ‘hailed ' with ‘satisfaction by gas
operators. This to the trained person in-
the spine.
dicates a well of large flow.
ney, aged 82, chorus girl, at Erie, Pa. ie
“on 38,000