INK SLINGS.
~ —Have you enrolled in the hospital
roundup ?
: —There are lots of things we'd
sooner do than this, but one of them
isn’t undertaking to fly to Paris.
—Certainly with the prolonged
floods and recurrent tornadoes it
would seem that some sort of a judg-
ment is being visited on the Missis-
sippi valley.
—Of course they would get a lot of
fun out of it, but it does seem like
“hauling coals to New Castle” for the
people of Ferguson township to be
planning to organize a Country club.
—A good reputation is not some-
thing that once earned can be put on
ice and kept indefinitely. It must be
lived up to every day or it will vanish
quickly as a mist before the morning
sun.
—Do you know, we always feel
happy when we meet a fisherman on
the stream who hasn’t had any better
luck than ours has been. It’s a
mighty mean spirit and we can’t
shake it off because it is so consoling.
—It is terrible, of course, but terri-
bly just: that verdict in the Snyder-
Gray murder trial. So terribly just
that a few more just as just will go a
long way toward getting the idea out
of some women’s heads that they can
kill and pay no penalty.
—The lesson that Philadelphia
should learn from the conviction of
Magistrate Rowland, one of the city’s
“minor judiciary” officials, is not
merely towarn the others to avoid
such practices. It is notice that there
can be no respect for law where
rotten exemplars administer it.
—Captain Nungesser, the French
ace, failed in his attenpted Paris to
New York non-stop flight. The At-
lantic has been crossed nine times by
the air route, but only once has it
been done without a stop. That was
the Alcock-Brown flight from St.
Johns, New Foundland, to Clifden,
Ireland, in 1919.
.—Every young man should realize
that he is being watched by many
eyes. The way he carries himself,
the interest he takes in his work, his
habits, his manners, his appearance
are all under constant observation of
older men who are looking for the
right young fellow to put pep into a
business that needs young blood.
—The fact that the appropriation
for the Centre County hospital was
not cut a cent by the Governor is
something for the people of the coun-
ty to be thankful for. We don’t know
who is taking credit for it, but it is
probable that neither Senator Scott,
the Hon. Holmes or Secretary Dor-
worth will deny the soft impeach-
ment. :
—Rumor ~ has it’ ‘that’ former
sheriff Geo. H. Yarnell is to be made
superintendent of high-ways for this
district. Some go so far as to say
that the appointment has actually
been made, but announcement is be-
ing withheld for the present. If it
be so Mr. Secretary Dorworth will
have to be given credit for paying his
political obligations very handsome-
ly.
—If it can be possible that the
French people really believe that mis-
leading weather reports were inten-
tionally sent from this side so that
Nungesser and Coli would fail in
their attempted Paris to New York
flight they are to be pitied, rather
than condemned. Out of none but
minds capable of originating such a
diabolical act could come such an in-
ference.
—The way the Philadelphia sports
writers are piling up the alibis for
the ‘“Afaletics” we country fans
might be led to conclude that Cobb
and Simmens are all there is to Mr.
Mack’s aggregation of ball players.
A month ago these same “wise guys”
were telling us that there was so
much reserve strength in the white
elephants that it wouldn’t make any
difference in their playing, no matter
who was out of the line-up.
~—Clinton L. Howard, chairman of
the National Committee for Law En-
forcement, told the Methodist minis-
ters of Rochester, N, Y., that should
Al Smith become the Democratic
nominee for President he will be de-
feated becase he is wet and not be-
cause he is a Catholic. Mr. Howard
is probably one of those fellows who
runs with the hare and chases with
the hounds.
to be dry he would likely have told the
gathering that Al couldn’t be elected
because he is a Catholic.
—In their contest for the judicial
nomination Mr. Fleming has the
county organization and Judge Furst
has that of the State. We have been
‘trying for some time, with small sue-
cess, to find out just what other offi-
ces, than that of Judge, in Centre
county, the State organization has its
eye on. There are so many aspirants
for most of them that an open at-
tempt to make a slate would have dis-
astrous consequences, in all probabil-
ity. So most of the candidates who
= pray the favor of the new power that
is are patted on the back and told
that “we are only interested in the
contest for “Judge.” Do they believe
such hokum. We'll say they don’t.
When the proper time comes all the
State employees in the county will
get a message by moccasin teleg-
raphy that their jobs depend on put-
ting so and so across. There might
not now be but there will be a slate
and it won’t be busted unless some-
one lets it ‘fall when it is handed to
him.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
VOL. 72.
Working for the Third term.
The most extensive and expensive
propaganda ever organized for politi-
cal service is that which is now striv-
ing to create sentiment in favor of
giving Mr. Coolidge a third term in
the office of President. Senators and
Representatives in Congress and
members. of the Cabinet in Washing-
ton are traveling throughout the
country eulogizing his administration
and depreciating the importance of
the precedent set by Washington and
cheerfully accepted by practically all
bis successors in the office. And the
impression is growing that the Presi-
dent is behind every feature of the
enterprise except the expenses. The
Republican National committee has
underwritten that part and are using
the “franking privileges” of Senators
and Representatives in Congress to
shift a large part of it upon the
shoulders of the tax payers.
One of the alert and well informed
Washington newspaper correspond-
ents, referring to this circumstance,
writes that “the activity of the press
agents, beginning with the Bruce
Barton interview during Mr.
Coolidge’s Adirondack vacation, has
been stuperdous. Just as that inter-
view, dealing with the homely details
of the President’s youth, could not
have been promulgated except by au-
thority, if not direction, of the inter-
viewee, so the flood of literature in
the standpat weeklies and dailies
sounds inspired.” It is not that the
President has any doubt of his ability
to command the nomination that
these efforts are being made. He
fully understands that the purchasing
force of patronage will make the con-
vention obedient to his wishes. But
he is not persuaded .that the people
are willing to destroy a long and
fondly cherished tradition.
Mr. Coolidge has no strength or!
quality within himself that appeals to
popular admiration, and he has just
enough political shrewdness to realize
that fact. During the four years he
has occupied the office of President he
has done nothing to inspire honest or
earnest enthusiasm. But he has
served corporate greed and monopoly
faithfully by increasing the tariff
schedules at their request and pro-
teeting adven 1s speculators . in
their demands. s element of the
voting population desires to retain
him in office, not for “four years
more,” but indefinitely, which is prac-
tically certain to be the result if the
wise tradition against the third term
is broken. These men, to whom pa- |
triotism seems superstition, will
willingly buy the election if it is pos- |
sible and the purpose of the present
propaganda is to: measure public sen-
timent, and fulsome praise of Cool-
idge is their instrument.
Prospects of Peace in Nicaragua.
Like the recent Mexican bluff, the
Nicaragua bluster which disturbed
the public peace of mind some weeks
ago, is silently simmering itself out
of existence. When the people of the
country protested with vigor and
practical unanimity against the mis-
use of American force to maintain a
pretender in power in that fragile
southern Republic; President Coolidge
sent a ‘pecial’ representative to Nicar-
agua for the purpose of trying to
bring the conflicting factions into
harmony, or at least to an agreement
to stop killing each other. Mr. Henry
L. Stimson, of New York, is the Am-
bassador in this secret diplomatic
enterprise and in a report recently he
expresses the hope that he has suec-
ceeded.
The conditions upon which he has
asked both factions to surrender their
arms to the American forces in
Nicaragua are: Complete disarma-
ment on both sides; immediate gener-
If Smith had happened |
al peace to permit the planting of
the new crop; general amnesty to all
persons in rebellion or exile; return
of all occupied or confiscated property
to its owners; participation in the
Diaz cabinet by representative liber-
als; organization of a Nicaraguan
constabulary on a non-partisan basis,
commanded by American officers;
American supervision of the 1928
election and the continuance, t2mpor-
arily, of a sufficient force of Ameri-
can marines to guarantee order pend-
ing the organization of the constabu-
lary.
The Liberals, who are “the outs” in
the affair, promptly accepted all the
conditions publicly enumerated but
Good ‘Work for One Day.
Governor Fisher is likely to receive
more popular commendation for his
vetoes than for his approvals of legis-
lation enacted during the recent ses-
sion of the General Assembly. It is
only just to say that many of the
measures approved were entirely
worthy of such treatment, and his
discrimination in disposing of the
educational and charitable appropria-
tions was wise and proper. State
College will get, during the biennium
covered, more than half the total ap-
propriated to higher educational in-
stitutions. In this there is conveyed
and just appreciation of what that
great institution has accomplished, is
for the future.
revealed both courage and conscience.
His veto of the vicious Salus bill in-
tended to punish the Philadelphia
Committee of Seventy for its activity
in exposing and repressing electoral
frauds deserves the highest praise.
justification of his disapproval of that
legislative atrocity. But it is neither
wise nor courteous to “look a gift
horse in the mouth,” and he killed
the monster completely and for all
time. He approved some “salary
raisers”, which ought to have been
vetoed, but he vetoed a lot of them,
and thus in a measure mitigated the
popular indignation justly aroused
by this form of rewarding party ser-
vice.
On Saturday last the Governor
vetoed eighteen bills, including six
“salary raisers.” Increasing the
salary of county controllers in Fourth
class counties, increasing the maxi-
mum compensation of tipstaves in Al-
legheny county, increasing the com-
pensation of lawyers appointed by the
courts to represent defendants in
murder trials, increasing the salaries
of county controllers in Fifth class
| counties, increasing the awards by
the State for township roads, increas-
ing the salaries of prothonotaries in
Fifth elass counties, were among
those scrapped, and that day’s work
will save the taxpayers considerable
money annually. It is to be hoped that
His Excellency will not
in well doing.”
the other day, the weight of the
crowd forced the floors to give way
and one woman was killed, but that
won’t deter the women bargain hunt-
‘ers from crowding in the future.
i
Tempest in a Tea Pot.
What seems to have been some-
thing like “a tempest in a tea pot”
i greatly disturbed Washington, a few
| days ago, according to news dispatch-
| es published in the daily newspapers
It appears that the Brit- |
"last week.
ish government addressed a “note” to
| the government of the United States
{ complaining that Secretary of the
; Treasury Mellon had greatly harmed
; the government of Great Britain by
| misepresentation of facts in relation
i to the war debt settlement, in a letter
to President Hibben, of Princeton
University. In reply to the note Sec-
retary of State Kellogg curtly in- |
{formed His Majesty's government
i that the Mellon-Hibben affair was a
{ “purely domestic discussion,” and de-
, clined to consider it.
The gist of the British complaint is
that in his letter to Dr. Hibben Mr.
{ Mellon had alleged that Great Britain
was collecting from Germany under
| the reparations agreement more
money than she is paying the United
| States under the debt settlement, in
! violation of that settlement, and that
consequently: the payments under the
, debt settlement were no tax upon the
| resources of the British government.
i The “note” declares this statement is
false and works injury to the cause
1 of the British government in its deal-
ings with both debtors and creditors
lon the continent. Mr. Kellogg in-
| ferentially says that is no affair of
ours or in any respect worthy of
| “formal diplomatic exchanges.”
| As a matter of fact the subject is
unimportant, or would be if it were
{not for the fact that it raises a ques-
tion of veracity between Mr. Mellon
and Mr. Balfour, who is head of the
{ Treasury Department in London.
Each of these gentlemen quotes
| treasury figures in support
contention but one or the other must
be wrong, it is axiomatic that
an expression of proper State pride |
now doing and holds in contemplation '
And in his veto messages he has |
He didn’t cite the gravest reason in
——At a bargain sale in Chicago,
of his '
balked on a side proposition to the | “figures won't lie,” though it is ad-
effect that “the retention of Presi- mitted that they can do marvelous
dent Diaz during the remainder of his | things in bookkeeping. Happily no
term is essential and would be insist- | great harm has been done by the at-
ed upon.” This condition is probably tempt at “diplomatic exchanges” on
intended to “save the face” of the |one hand and the refusal on the other,
Washington administration. = After | but Mr. Mellon has since gone into
all, the bluff and bluster which has | print and reiterated his statements
emanated from Washington in the | which might lead to a controversy in
effort to support the agent of the
New York bankers who are exploiting
the finances of Nicaragua, it would be
humiliating to President Coolidge to
have him dumped out. In the interest
of peace and prosperity the Liberals
may even consent to this condition.
the cabinet. :
———— nad 10
——The Public Service Commission
is still serving its master faithfully.
It approved three raises in rates of a
service corporation in Harrisburg the
‘other day.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. MAY 13, 1927.
Roland Morris Refutes Falsehoods.
In addressing a group of Demo-
cratic women, in New York the other
evening, Mr.
Philadelphia, availed himself of the
océasion to refute the statements so
freely and fondly promulated by Re-
publicans to the effect that the Demo-
cratic party of the country is torn
with dissensions and wrecked with
conflicting personal ambitions. The
Democratic party, Mr. Morris declar-
ed, is more united and harmonious
now than for many years and has
survived too many shocks and re-
verses to yield to imaginary adverse
conditions which its enemies may
conjure up to comfort their own dis-
tracted organization. The Democratic
party is very much alive and entirely
healthy.
Mr. Morris has abundant sources of
information on the subject of which |
he speaks, which are closed to most
of us and entirely out of reach of
those who are employing that form of
propaganda to deceive the public,
; During Woodrow Wilson’s last term
of office he was Ambassador to Japan
and has ever since kept in touch with
the leading statesmen of the country.
Moreover he understands the political
game thoroughly, having served four
years as chairman of the Pennsylva-
nia . State Democratic committee.
, Thus equipped he has made a careful
survey of the political conditions, and
with no selfish purposes to promote,
he gives the public the result of his
labors honestly and truthfully.
! Of course the Democratic party, or
any other party, may sacrifice the
opportunities before it by lethargy or
, indifference. If. the Democratic
| voters neglect their civic obligations
or fail to supply their energies to the
essential work of organization and
voting, the predatory corporations
may be able to buy the election of
the Republican candidates, as they
did in 1920 and 1924. In Pennsylva-
nia, last fall, if the Democratic voters
had fulfilled their duties to the candi-
date, William B. Wilson would have
had a substantial majority of the
votes cast for United States Senator,
, notwithstanding the vast number of
fraudulent votes cast for William S.
sso opponent in the contest.
grow. aig Ty . . Lot
i ——Mr. Motorist, be careful about
, the condition of your license plates.
The Highway patrol has started a
campaign to bring about better com-
pliance with the law in the display of
license plates. They must be always
clean and legible, fastened so they do
the car and not less than fifteen inch-
es from the ground. During a “spot”
census taken between Reading and
Pottsville, on Sunday, May 1, four out
of every ten motorists were stopped
because of defective display of license
tags.
———r A ————————
—The erection of another movie
house in Bellefonte can be viewed in
either of two ways. It might be that
the business is profitable enough to
warrant it or it might be because the
business, divided among three as at
present, is so unprofitable that a war
of extermination to reduce the num-
ber of houses to two is the only hope.
————————
—Now that Philadelphia - has
been awarded half a million dollars
out of the State Treasury for street
improvements, all the other cities
will be putting in claims for a simi-
lar favor,
——To make the demand that Diaz
be recognized as President of Nicara-
gua more binding, another big bunch
of American marines are being sent
there.
—Secretary Mellon’s plan to re-
deem one of the Liberty loans con-
templates an adoption of the scheme
of “borrowing from Peter to pay
Paul.”
——The hospital membership drive
is now on. Get a membership while
, you are well. You will appreciate it
‘when you are sick. :
——Probably what Secretary
Hoover really wants is authority to
control all the business, foreign and
doghestic, himself.
—The Governor must have written
some of those veto messages when
the Mellon-Vare partnership was not
looking.
ei ea
—-Admiral Sims is of ‘the opinion
that “the day of the battleship is
past,” and all the rest of us hope he is
right.
——With floods, cyclones and earth-
quakes working distress it must be
that “the times are out of joint.”
——Probably that steel helmet
‘parade in Berlin was organized in
Moscow,
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
Roland S. Morris, of |
not swing, parallel with the axles of |
THE HOSPITAL DRIVE
IS IN FULL SWING.
Yesterday, 56 captains, appeinted
by the Ladies Auxiliary, assi by
more than 800 ladies of Centre coun-
ty sallied forth enthusiastically to en-
roll every citizen as members of the
Centre County hospital corporation.
At a meeting held at the hospital
auxiliary rooms, on Monday evening
of last week, the large group of ladies
present adopted plans for the cam-
paign and received their supply of the
attractive certificates of membership
to be distributed throughout the coun-
ty. Each member enrolled will be
given one of these certificates.
| The big objective of this drive is a
large membership—it is a member-
’ ship drive. The hospital cannot exist,
i of course, without more money than
it has been receiving, but money is
urged partly because a membership
Without sacrifice would be of little
| service and because every member sa
. secured will be interested in helping
to render the institution better than
it has ever been before and to help
continue its magnificent serviée with-
out a deficit. 5
During the remaining days of this
drive boost this enterprise in health
service and make sure that the fami-
lies of all your neighbors are enrolled
100 per cent for a better hospital than
we have ever had. ip
During the few days of the drive
‘we hope the hospital and its needs
will be upper-most in the minds and
‘hearts of the people of Centre county.
In order that those who know nothing
‘of the struggles of the women in the
.earlier days of the institution and
how they worked to establish the
1 modest beginning and lay the founda-
ition of the present splendid institu-
tion, we want you to read the follow-
ing story by Mrs. A. O. Furst, who
was a member of the first appointed
Auxiliary of the hospital. FE
EARLY DAYS OF THE BELLEFONTE
HOSPITAL
| When reading the articles publish-
ed in the Watchman of the wonderful
| work being done by the present board
of management of the Centre County
hospital the thought came to me that
perhaps you would be
(peating something of the wa
i Vv ne. Won were
‘appointed by the pastors var-
(ious churches of the town. One per-
son from each church was appointed.
Miss Lula Meek, Mrs. Martin Fauble,
Mrs. Isaac Mitchell, Mrs. Martin Gar-
man, Mrs. Wm. Larimer, Mrs. Amos
Mullen and myself were the commit-
tee.
Dr. Hayes had previously opened a
private sanitarium in connection with
his home on Spring Street, before the
present site had been purchased for a
hospital.
On it there stood an old frame build-
ing that was used and known as the
Bellefonte hospital for s.veral years
{ before the brick building was added.
| Dr. Hayes’ sanitarium was closed
‘and the furniture moved to the Belle-
. fonte hospital.
| Our first meeting was held at the
i sanitarium and officers elected.
We did not need a treasurer at that
time but we elected Mrs. Garman to
| fill the office. You see we had great
hopes for the future. .
Our first visit was to the attic of
the new hospital that had been as-
signed to the nurses as their quarters,
where the fumes of ether, that had
not been inhaled by the patients be-
low, seemed to lurk in every crevice,
As I remember, the only furniture
was two beds. We were not long in
going through our homes and finding
enough old furniture to make the
attic more comfortable, if not beau-
tiful. It was highly appreciated by
the occupants.
At that time there were four or five
nurses in training, but I do not re-
member their names.
Dr. Seibert, Dr. Harris and Dr.
Hayes were the physicians in charge.
Dr. Locke was not permitted to
practice on account of not belonging
to the same school. His case was
brought before the woman’s board
and we decided in his favor.
One of our duties was to employ
the cook, and any other service that
was needed. When a cook was not
available I have known Miss Lulu
Meek to do the cooking until another
could be provided, so interested was
she in the good work. When short of
provisions we went to our own
larders and provided what was nee-
essary for the patients. At that time
our kitchen utensils, dishes, linens,
our jelly closets, gardens and chicken
coops were all at the disposal of the
hospital.
But very soon the towns and sur-
rounding country became interested
when they saw and heard of the
grand work being done, and we were
greatly encouraged by the generous
donations of food and delicacies.
When the churches of the town began
contributing and we became more
prosperous, we felt our dream was
being realized, just as much no doubt
as you are feeling today over State
appropriations given you to carry on
your work of mercy, which in such
SHcient hands I know will be well
one.
At the pesent time the Womans’
Auxiliary has a membership of over
eight hundred women throughout the
county.
From one of the members of the
first appointed board.
3 Mrs. A.’0. FURST.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYSTONE.
—A dozen citizens of Clintondale have
organized an improvement association,
and are having water piped to their vil-
lage from a mountain spring several miles
distant, at a cost of approximately $4,000.
—Syxlvester Shollenberger, of Berks
county, ‘was instantly killed late on Mon-
day when he touched a live wire while at
work as a lineman at West Leesport.
Other men worked 45 minutes in vain te
revive him.
—W. E. Metz, 25 years old, of Mill
Creek, Huntingdon county, was badly
burned when a tank truck of road oil ex-
ploded while he was riding on the top of
it. Flames shot 100 feet in the air when
the explosion occurred, and they contin-
ued to burn for three hours. He was
hurried to the Blair Memorial hospital,
Huntingdon.
interested in}
—Ten additional freight brakemen have
been put to work between Renovo and
Kane on the Renovo division of the Penn-
sylvania railroad, due to the large ship-
ments of ore and coal moving over the
lakes. All the extra train crews between
Kane and Renovo have been pressed into
service also. It is expected that the boom
will continue during the summer.
—Lock Haven will lose approximately
100 residents if the men affected by the
decision of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company to eliminate that town as a ter-
minal point for the running of freights
between Ralston and Altoona be given
work elsewhere. Up to May 1st twenty
crews of five men stopped at Lock Haven.
Many of these men reside at Lock Haven.
To be drowned in a five-gallon crock
containing no more than five inches of
water was the fate of little David Ross
McCreary, age 10 months, son of Ralph T.
McCreary, Selinsgrove automobile sales-
man. The infant crawled to the crock,
and while peering in lost its balance. The
mother seeing the baby’s perilous position
rushed to its assistance but the child wag
then dead.
—Vance A. Pierce, former postmaster
at Claytonia, Butler county, on Tuesday
was placed under parole for one year by
Judge W. H. S. Thompson in the United
States District court at Pittsburgh when
he pleaded guilty to an indictment charg-
ing him with embezzling $292.56 in postal
funds and issuing = fraudulent postal
money orders. The court was told that
the defendant had made restitution to the
Postoffice Department.
—William. O. Manning, 32, of Columbia,
a fireman on passenger train 5528, run-
ning between York and Lancaster, was
killed on Friday evening when he fell
from the engine cab near Columbia. Man-
ning leaned out of the cab to ascertain
the eause of .a peculiar noise indicating
something had happened to the locomo-
tive. He lost his balance and toppled out,
his head striking a rock by the side of the
roadbed. ' His skull was fractured.
—Captain Edward ‘T. Miller, of Troop
R; 103rd Pennsylvania cavalry, has receiv-
ed word that the proposed new site for
an armory for the troop in Lockport,
near Lock Haven, has been accepted by
the State Armory Board. After the site
accepted has been secured the plot of
ground in the city limits, on which the
troop had intended erecting an armory,
will’ be sold. The purchase price of the
new site is $8,000. The State is expected
to build the armory this year.
—Lambert P. Stout, 83, has refused to
| quit work although retired on full pay
from the Rich Woolch Mills, at” Woolrich,”
after sixty-eight years consecutive serv-
ice. He claims that he will continue work-
ing and not accept extended vacation.
During his period of service with the
company Stout had never been absent or
tardy until last winter when he suffered
a fractured leg in a fall on an icy pave-
ment. Plain food and regular habits are
his secret to long life, he claims.
—Acrobatic robbers on Friday night en-
tered the People’s Clothing company store,
17 East Market street, York, Pa., and es-
caped with merchandise estimated at $1,-
descended into the store by a rope. which
they attached above the skylight. Police
are probing the case. A pair of overalls,
screw-driver and pliers were found near
the skylight. The merchandise consisted
of woman's clothing. The cash register
was empty. It had been forced open. The
safe was not opened.
—A probable open season for killing of
doe deer for a week beginning November
20, was announced at Harrisburg, on Fri-
day, by Dr. H. J. Donaldson, president of
the State Game Commission, in an address
before the Conservation Council of Penn-
syvlvania.
are more than 1,300,000 female deer in the
State and that the special season can re-
duce the number by 100,000 without creat-
ing a shortage in deer for hunters in the
future. The open season is to reduce the
damage to crops and orchards in certain
sections of the State.
—William J. Lovejoy, of Punxsutawney,
57, died in the Renovo hospital Saturday
from injuries sustained when a charge of
dynamite he was tamping exploded pre-
maturely Friday while at work on the
State highway about a mile east of West-
port. The explosion crushed several of
Lis ribs, one of which penetrated his lung,
while his head, face and hands were badly
burned. He was unmarried. His brother,
C. E. Lovejoy, of Punxsutawney, treasurer
of the Miller Construction company, was
with him when he died. The body was
taken to Punxsutawney for burial.
-——Fire of unknown origin on Monday
destroyed ‘Potlicker Inn,’ on the famous
resort known as ‘Potlicker Flats,” located
along the Lewistown-Bellefonte highway
across the Seven mountains. The loss was
$5,000, and the dance hall would have fol-
lowed had it not been for the timely ar-
rival of the Belleville, Milroy and Burn-
ham fire companies whose valiant work
with their motor driven pumpers, taking
their water from Laurel run, a mountain
stream, which was sprayed over the adja-
cent frame buildings to prevent the
spread. There had been no fire in the
restaurant since Saturday night, and the
general opinion prevails that it was in-
cendiary.
—Driving his automobile into the ceme-
tery at old St. Peter's Lutheran church,
near Moselem, Berks county, where his an-
cestors are buried and where he himself
was a Sunday school pupil in his boy-
hood, Frank L. Kauffman, forty-seven, of
Philadelphia, traveling salesman for the
Winchester-Simmons Hardware company,
shot himself in the chest, then summoned
aid from passing children, telling them
he had an attack of indigestion. Taken
to the home of a brother and sister at
Kutztown, ‘where he had been visiting, he
did not tell them he was wounded until
a doctor came and started to examine him.
He was sent to a private hospital, where
he died four hours after admission.
500. The robbers broke the skylight and
Dr. Donaldson estimated there