INK SLINGS.
——If the friends of Sacco and
Vanzetti had had more sense and less
force they might have accomplished
more.
——The DuPonts are courageous as
‘well as plutocratic. They are threaten-
ing to go up against Henry Ford in
building automobiles.
The Denver mint is scheduled
to coin $15,000,000 worth of twenty
dollar gold pieces this year. That
ought to help Santa Claus some.
Lloyds, usually willing to take
a chance on anything, refuse to cover
aviators in flights over the seas. But
aviators will fly over the seas just the
same,
’
——Clemenceau’s statement that he
“knows only one party, France,” may
indicate an intensive patriotism, but
it also shows a narrow mind and lim-
ited vision.
—Now isn’t a grave yard the last
place you would expect to become a
popular tryst for “necking parties”
yet we are told that the Union ceme-
tery is anything but a city of the dead
most every night that the weather is
propitious. We understand that the
police are planning a raid on it some
night. Gosh, what an expose there
will be if they happen to stage it on
the right night. And all the “softies”
won’t be young ones, either.
—We’re for Congressman Albert
Johnson, chairman of the Immigra-
tion and Naturalization committee of
‘Congress. He is of the opinion that
aliens domiciled in this country who
don’t like the way we do things and
show their displeasure by agitating
strikes, bombings and other destruc-
tive manifestations, should be deport-
ed. His statement voices his reaction
to the outbreaks in consequence of the
intended Sacco—Vanzetti execution in
Charlestown prison, Boston, on Wed-
nesday night. Both of the con-
demned men are aliens, avowed
anarchists and enemies of our
government. Their ambition in life
is to overthrow everything that
safe-guards the law abiding people
in this country so that those who
sympathize with them must be of the
same ilk and the sooner they are de-
ported the safer it will be for those
‘who are really Americans.
—Withdrawing for the moment a
resolution, made some months ago, to
‘drop the Hon. Holmes out of the lime
light we proceed to tell you that he
has his ear to the ground to hear what
Centre county may have to say about
a third term. The Hon. is watching
Roy Wilkinson's essay at bucking the
precedent with more interest than he
is conscious of revealing. He prob-
ably reasons thusly: If Roy can do it
what not I? Former county chairman
L. Frank Mayes is said to be think-
ing that he has enough handles after
his name and that one such as Hon.
would look very fine in front of it; so
he has ambition to have it conferred
on him by being sworn in as the next
Representative from Centre county.
Both the Holmes hope and the Mayes
‘desire are between the upper and
nether millstones that are grinding
out a Republican candidate for Judge
of the Courts of Centre county. The
Hon. Holmes owes his political
renaissance to Senator Scott and po-
litical gratitude—if there be such a
thing—would seem to leave him no
other course than to be for Fleming
in the judicial race, but is he? If he
is, he is certainly not there with the
bells on, for he is fearful that the
Furst crowd might hear them and
then it wouldn’t make any difference
whether Roy Wilkinson succeeds in
doing what Bill Brown couldn’t, or
not.
—For weeks we have been hearing
of probable changes at the Bellefonte
Lumber Co. They have taken place,
but it was not to record that fact that
we started this paragraph. We had
in mind the local history that is
wrapped up in the site on which the
industry is located. It is the property
of which Bellefonte’s greatest treas-
ure—the Big Spring—was once a
part. The court records and the
annals of the town reveal to all just
when and how the spring was segre-
gated from the rest of the property
.and came into the possession of the
borough, but few of our present resi-
-dents can visualize the meadow before
the wheels of industry started turning
‘on a placid cow pasture and public
common. It was then known as “the
Mound,” because at the west side of
the center of it was a bit of a hill or
mound on which stood three or four
noble old trees. “The mound,” tradi-
tion has it, was an Indian burying
ground and youngsters in Bellefonte,
sixty years ago, were told that if one
stuck a cane into the ground there it
would come up reeking with the blood
of red-skins. The meadow surround-
‘ing “the Mound” was used as a
ground for wagon shows, the old
Bellefonte Fencibles drilled there and
there were long benches scattered
about for lovers. We say long benches
because long benches were the kind
lovers courted on in those days. In
this year of our Lord, 1927, the top of
a tomato can would be too roomy for
most any twosing party—no matter
what their breadth of beam might be.
"The demolition of the hill was begun
when the Bellefonte, Nittany and
Lemont railroad was built in 1882 and
we think the eastern end of it was
dug away when lumber piles needed a
resting place quite as much as Indian
‘bones. ¢
7?
VOL. 72.
STATE RIGHTS AND FEDERAL UNION.
BELLEFONTE, PA.. AUGUST 12. 1927.
NO. 31.
Coolidge’s Surprising Announcement. |
In his cryptic statement handed to
press correspondents at Rapid City,
South Dakota, last week, that he |
does not choose to run for President
in 1928, President Coolidge surprised
the country quite as completely as if :
he had appeared at the White House |
dinner in cowboy toggery. He had
been assured by most of the leaders of |
his party that he could have the nomi- |
nation “for the asking” and had
plainly manifested a desire for a re-
newal of his lease of the office and
the power. The people had therefore
come to the belief that he would be
renominated without opposition and a
good many of them to the impression
that he might be elected and thus
shatter the time-honored tradition
concerning the third term. To those
who accepted it literally it was a
shock. i
Of course the brief statement, “I
do not choose to run for President in
1928,” is not to be interpreted as a
declaration that he will not be a can-
didate next year. As Senator Smoot
said, “if the Republican convention
wants Mr. Coolidge he will run,” and
as the Republican convention will be
made up largely of office holders it is
practically certain to want him. In
fact his statement might easily be
construed as a hint to his friends to
get busy along that line while condi-
tions are favorable. His sojourn in
the Black Hills and the absurd stunts
he has been indulging in may have
been amusing to the cowboys but have
failed to create the atmosphere de-
sired and expected and his dramatic
gesture might be simply an expres-
sion of disappointment.
Then there is a possibility that the
purpose of the statement was to en-
tice some of the other Republicans
who would choose to run for Presi-
dent in 1928 to come out in the open
and declare their ambitions. It is
proverbial that there is danger in too
much harmony in politics. It creates
the impression that it is a coerced
sentiment and like most of Mr. Cool-
idge’s speeches has the metalic flavor
of cannon soup. A nomination ac-
quired from a convention as the re-
sult of good tempered competition
would make a much stronger appeal
to the public mind, Mr. Coolidge feels
that he would be perfectly safe in
such an adventure. And in the event
of his nomination with or without a
contest, he will need a strong appeal
to overcome the opposition to a third
term.
——The death of General Leonard
Wood will give the President an op-
portunity to adopt Carmi Thompson's
advice to substitute a civilian for the
military government of the Philippine
Islands.
Failure of the Geneva Conference.
The failure of the Geneva arms |
conference to arrive at an agreement
to proportionately decrease the naval
strength of the United States, Great
Britain and Japan is not a matter of
such importance as some of our es-
teemed contemporaries profess to
believe. It might have been worth-
while to commit the three great pow-
ers in question to a smaller naval
force in ships and personnel. But be-
cause such an agreement was not ef-
fected is no reason why either of the
participants in the conference should
plunge into extravagant and reckless
ship building. The government of the
United States worried along, and
fairly prospered, for many years with
practically no way at all.
No sane man or woman in this
country imagines that either Great
Britain or Japan will engage in war
ship building for the purpose of fight-
ing or even intimidating this country.
The British delegates in the Geneva |
Helping Vare at High Cost.
On July 11, according to a brief
submitted to the Attorney General by
attorney William A. Carr, counsel
for A. H. Ladner Jr., of Philadelphia,
Governor Fisher issued commissions
to Mr. Ladner and three other Re-
publicans to serve on a board of Reg-
istration Commissioners for that city
under an Act of Assembly which for-
bids the appointment of more than
three persons of the same political
party. A week later the Governor's
attention was called to the fact that
he had violated the law and he re-
; Another Absurd Plea for Ladner.
© In a brief submitted to the At-
torney General at Harrisburg, the
‘other day, counsel for A. H. Ladner
Jr, in the proceeding to oust him
‘from the office of Registration Com-
missioner for Philadelphia, set up the
‘plea that the appointment is valid
because other members of the board
| were appointed later. The law de-
:clares that “not more than three
{ members of the commission shall be-
long to the same political party” and
{ the proceeding is not to oust Mr.
Ladner but to oust the whole board.
Law Must Keep Within Law.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The dangers of auto traffic are
such that public sertiment rightly has
been supporting to the utmost reguia-
tion of the use of the highways. This
: support must and will continue. The
i great majority of the traffic officers
use their authority in a manner en-
titling them to commendation. Never-
theless the zeal of some arresting
; officers and the cupidity of certain
| justices of peace have led to extremes
; that have virtually denied to a num-
| ber of autoists their constitutional
rights. Pennsylvania has had its
share of experience with speed traps
plied that he was told or understood . No one questions the right of the 354 fining squires; with conviction of
that Mr. Ladner, one of the Republi-
can appointees, was an “old line
Democrat.” Substantial evidence was
promptly submitted that Mr. Ladner
had been registering as a Republican
for several years.
A full month has elapsed since the!
| violation of the law was perpetrated
and three weeks since the official rec-
ord showing that Mr. Ladner has been
registering as a Republican for years,
was laid before the Governor. The pro-
vision of the law forbidding the ap-
pointment of more than three per-
sons of the same political party is
specific and mandatory. It declares
that not more than three “shall belong |
to the same political party.” Yet
Governor Fisher has taken no step
to correct his fault or comply with the
provisions of the law and the Attor-
ney General seems inclined to delay
a judicial investigation of the ques-
tion as long as possibie. Such actions
do not make for honest elections.
If Governor Fisher received his in-
formation as to Mr. Ladner’s political
affiliation from William S. Vare, as is
widely believed, he is as culpable as
if he had wilfully and deliberately
violated the law. Mr. Vare is trying
to force his way to a seat in the Unit-
ed States Senate on forced and fraud-
ulent title and it is important to this
vicious project that he has the sup-
port of his party in the State and the
people of Philadelphia. A packed
registration board in Philadelphia will
materially help him to accomplish
this result, and appearances indicate
that the Governor is willing to violate
a law he is sworn to execute in order.
to promote Mr. Vare’s preposterous
ambition.
nro fp fp ema S———
——LEven if it be true that Ameri-
can women’s hair dressing costs four
times as much as war ships an ex-
travagant ship building programme
would not be justified.
Another Trick in Process.
The Senate committee on Privileges
and Elections has begun the process
but the “ballots, tally sheets, voters’
| Governor to appoint Ladner. He
might have legally appointed Bill
| Vare and Tom Cunningham to serve
: with Ladner. But he had no right to
! appoint four Republicans as he did.
The brief in question declares that
the commissions of all the Commis-
sioners are dated July 11, while two
were appointed July 13, one July 14
and the other two July 18. If that
be true all of the Commissioners were
commissioneed before they were ap-
pointed, which is to say the least
unusual, but probably not vital. Lad-
ner was appointed on July 14 and
! Judge Renshaw and Mr. Brennan on
{July 18. The presumption is, there-
i fore, that Mr. Walsh, Mrs. McNeil
and Ladner were named as Repub-
licans and Renshaw and Brennan as
Democrats. But Mr. Brennan is not
a Democrat. He was
once and so was Ladner, and Bren-
nan left the party long before Ladner
was enticed into the “Band of Broth-
ers.”
The contention of Mr. Daugherty,
proponent in the case, is that in ap-
pointing four Republicans when the
law forbids the appointment of more
than three, the Governor violated the
law. In an oral statement before the
Attorney General the same lawyer as-
serted that no act of the Governor is
subject to review by the courts. That
of court” by public opinion and the
equally preposterous proposition al-
leged in the brief deserves and ought
to receive the same summary treat-
ment. Obviously Mr. Ladner’s at-
sorney has mistaken his vocation in
life. With a few terms in some well
conducted correspondence school he
might be made a first class hod car-
rier,
A
Ug 1
Five candidates for council are
now in the open in the South ward.
Councilman Harry Badger is natur-
ally out for relection. John W. Gar-
vear term on the Republican ticket
i and John Mignot has taken out papers
‘as a candidate on the Democratic
ticket. Robert Kline and Albert
lof impounding, not the ballot boxes; Knisely, both Republicans, are ecir-
culating petition for the vacancy
a Democrat :
absurdity was literally “laughed out |
brick will be a candidate for the two |
i motorists on the mere informal word
, of knowing the nature of the charges
against them. Happily through the
‘vigor of motor clubs that practice has
been slowed up; several of the fining
squires have been sent to jail, But
{there still is need of action to keep
| the administration of the law in this
respéet within the bounds prescribed by
the Constitution and statutes, and a
| further important victory for motor-
(ists has just been recorded in a deci-
I sion handed down in Quarter Sessions
Court in Philadelphia by Judge Sam-
uel E. Shull.
| A Philadelphian was arrested by a
| traffic officer, given a hearing by a
| justice of the peace and held under
i bond without a formal charge against
him. Judge Shull discharged him,
saying: “Until there has been filed an
affidavit setting forth in detail the
, offense complained of, there is noth-
ing before a mayor, burgess, magis-
trate, alderman or justice of the peace
before whom one arrested on sight
may be taken. which would give such
officer the right to hold to bail, either
for an appearance at a hearing or for
an appearance in court.” If such
affidavit is not made the motorist
taken into custody is to be discharged.
1 The law itself must keep within the
aw.
RE
Crooked Politics.
Froin the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
A full investigation is promised by
the Registration Commission of the
charges of forgery and impersonation
in the petitions for the appointment
of minority registrars in one of the
divisions of the Forty-fourth Ward, in
West Philadelphia. On the face of
the case as it’ is presented by: the
Committee of Seventy, here is a
flagrant instance of wholly needless
crookedness. The law requires the
appointment of members of the
minority on each division registration
board, yet in this case the names of
applicants registered as Requblicans
are brought forward by the Republi-
can divisions cannot be found and are
assumed to be phantoms.
It is a fair inference that this was
an attempt to foist upon the commis-
sion for appointment as registrars
men who under oath have declared
themselves to be Republicans, and to
bolster up this scheme with imaginary
| petitioners and bogus affidavits. The
| effect would be to deny to the Demo-
lists, registration lists, and all docu- | Which will be caused by the decision | cratic minority the right of represen-
mentary paraphernalia
with said election.”
and Mr. Wilson consented to this
procedure and it is safe to say that
it will do no harm, though there is
little basis for the hope it will do any
good. Senator Watson, of Indiana, is
acting chairman of the committee that
will have custody of the property and
he is about as tricky a politician as
can be found between the two oceans.
But the Democratic Senators are
alert and there is not likely to be
any tampering with the ballots.
The hope of those who conceived
this plan of investigating the vote of
Pennsylvania is to shift the labor
from the Slush Fund committee, upon
which there are two Democrats, two |
Republicans and an Independent, Sen-
ator LaFollette, to the standing com-
mittee in which theve is a substantial
Republican majority. This majority
of the standing committee might
make a preliminary report at the
opening of the session, admitting
Vare to the disputed seat, pending the
Both Mr. Vare | of his present term. In the North ward ,
{John S. Walker will again be a can-
i didate and John P. Eckel will also
run in the West ward.
———————
——The Watchman is in receipt of
| the annual premium list of the Clear-
field county fair, which will be held
September 13th to 16th inclusive. It
is a book of 140 pages and a credit
not only to the fair association but
the printers. Mitchell I. Gardner, a
native of Centre county and for many
years a resident of Bellefonte, is
secretary of the association and has
been very successful in its manage-
ment. This year $3,900 will be paid
in purses alone for the racing events,
I not counting the money to be paid out
{in premiuns.
GE
——Thirty-five counties in the
State are now under full or partial
quarantine for the European corn
i borer. Centre is among them and the
| Federal and State Departments of
conference insisted on a considerable | investigatioon, thus giving the Repub- | Agriculture are co-operating to the
increase in the smaller type of war |licans power to organize the new Sen- end
that no corn, broom corn,
ships, but it is likely that they were | ate. But unless the signs are decep- | Sorghums or Sudan grass go out of
influenced more by a desire to create | tive such an act would yield them any of the effected areas.
Stations
snug and attractive berths for friends | little help. It will require a majority | have been established all along the
and families than a desire for con- |
quest. If the governing agents of |
Great Britin feel like improverishing |
of the Senate to adopt the report and
that is not probable.
There is danger also that the stand-
“quarantine line, where inspectors will
{be on the alert to catch violators of
! the quarantine. The stations nearest
the people by foolish ship building let | ing committee will decide to simply Aus are Milroy and Water Street.
them enjoy themselves. The people
of the United States are not built that
way. They will not consent to an
absurd ship building contest.
Besides it is not certain that an
agreement made by the Geneva con-
ference would have been of much
(recount the votes as returned after
i the close of the polls last year. This
would be a shamelessly inadequate ' effort to secure Col. Charles A. Lind-
{ method of dealing with the subject. bergh as an attraction at their Labor
In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, for
of votes were fraudulently cast, and
Altoona people are making an
| day auto races, and inasmuch as they
_example, thousands upon thousands have no adequate flying field at that
, city, they are considering having him
value. The Washington conference of though a recount of the ballots as fly the Spirit of St. Louis to Belle-
five or six years ago resulted in an
agreement to destroy a few hundred
million dollars worth of American
ships without any sacrifices on the |
part of the other signatories. It
also resulted in a scramble for pre-
ponderance in air and submerged
craft that kept expenses up to the top
notch. As a matter of fact the only
way to approach the question of de-
creased armaments is through the
League of Nations, and if the United
States had taken its proper place in
|
'
they are in the boxes might show a
majority for Vare a weeding out of
the fraudulent ballots, as the Slush
Fund committee proposed to do,
would show a majority of the legal
votes for Mr. Wilson and give him a |
valid title to the seat. However, the
fonte, land on the aviation field here
‘and after an informal reception take
him to Altoona by automobile. Of
| course, there is nothing definite, as
| vet, in the proposal.
———————————
——Of course Vice President Dawes
connected | of Harry Flack to retire with the end ‘tation on the registration board, al-
though at the 1926 election 2139
Democratic ballots were cast in that
'ward. This makes impossible the pre-
tense that there are no minority
voters available in the ward or the
division.
Questionable political methods have
| become so much of a habit in cer-
i tain Organization circles that it would
appear to be impossible to eradicate
ent even when no need exists for
: them.
i
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
| Dropping into Washington Senator
| Rebinson, all the way from Arkansas,
| announces that he has prepared a bill
i for flood control. Doubtless others
have given way to a similar inclina-
tion. Herein lies danger. Too many
i cooks, we are told, spoil the broth.
Likewise too many Senators working
at cross purposes may snarl up the
problem of restraining the waters of
the Mississippi.
However, it does not appear that
Mr. Robinson has gone into details,
. except to propose $100,000,000 an-
‘nually for repair and construction
work. He suggests an organization
analogous to the War Finance Cor-
poration to be headed by Herbert
Hoover. This may be harmless
enough, probably is, but what has
Secretary Hoover to say? Perhaps he
has a different view.
| As a matter of fact, the question is
‘one that belongs to the engineering
experts. When their report is in,
Congress will have something sub-
stantial to consider. Until it is, the
less interference there is by Senators
and Representatives, the better.
Matter for Engineering Experts.
| ——Farmer Harry Rockey, of
Spring township, is having unusually
hard luck with his young chickens.
He had a flock of five hundred Rhode
Island reds, about half grown when
: the chicks began to die and up to
last Saturday he had lost over two
hundred out of his flock. And up to
question as to which committee will | “spilled the beans” at the opening of that time he had been unable to deter-
have charge of the work has not been | the bridge at Buffalo. He is the pro- mine the nature of the disease that
decided.
——Mr. Vare will probably decide
which of his servile tools is to be
i verbial “bull in the china shop.”
bts ns fp ff rns ————
| ———1If the President really means
he will not be a candidate next year
that organization the problem would Mayor of Philadelphia, within a few it won't matter much what kind of
have been solved long ago.
days.
bait he “chooses” in future.
{ was causing such havoc. The first
“indication of anything wrong was
noticeable when the legs become al-
most white. Then the heads would
turn white and in less than a day the
¢hicken would die.
SPAWLS FROM THE KEYTSONE.
—Mrs. Roy A. Weaver, 37, of York, Pa,
died on Monday as tbe result of a chicken
bone lodged in her throat since Wednes=
day of last week.
—The oven withholds no scent from
Mrs. Rebecca Sidler, of Danville. She baked
16,000 pies during the year ending August
1st, and baked 24,000 cakes within the last
two years.
—Three armed bandits held up John
Cleary, superintendent and paymaster of
the James Ferry Construction company, at
Easton, while he was paying men employ-
ed on sewer construction in that city, and,
securing nearly $3,000, escaped in an au-
tomobile.
—Cells for a new five-story addition to
Sing Sing prison are to be built at Ber-
wek, Pa., by the American Car and Foun-
dry company. The order will make 28
carloads, with a possibility that it may
be increased. The cells will be construct-
ed there and then knocked down for ship-
ment.
—0. C. Skinner, works manager of the
Standard steel works, ar Lewistown, denies
any knowledge of the reputed purchase of
the plant by General Motors corporation.
Rumors to this effect have been current
for the past several days. Manager Skin-
ner says Philadelphia officials of the com-
pany have no information concerning the
rumored sale.
—~Several hundred young men, recruited
mostly from schools and colleges near
Harrisburg, are =n route to the harvest
fields of western Canada. In addition to
sight-seeing and experience they will earn
from $5 to $6 a day as harvest hands in
the wheat fields of Alberta. Many are
expected to stay for the three month's
harvesting season which runs from August
to November. {
—With nearly $6,000 in his pockets, the
body of John T. Alsworth, 69, farmer and
oil well driller, was found in his cabin 20
miles north of Butler, on Monday. It is
believed he had been dead for several
days. In his pockets was $5,669.50 in cur-
rency, part of his life savings. Alsworth
had lived alone for years. Two sons,
Homer, of Clarion, and Frank, of Greene
county, and a daughter, Blanche, of Cres-
son, survive. v
—Judge Aaron B. Hassler, associate
judge of the Lancaster county courts, died
in the General hospital at Lancaster on
Monday night. Death followed a peculiar
accident which he suffered several weeks
ago while at work in the library of his
home. He dropped the cork of an ink
bottle and while stooping to pick it up, his
right thigh bone snapped. Judge Hassler
was 68 years old and has been on the local
bench for 25 years.
—William C. Williams, Negro, born a
slave aand probably Harrisburg’'s best
known Negro, died on Saturday at the age
of 89. He served as a policeman thirty
vears ago, being the city’s first Negro
member of the force. He was six feet one
inch tall and weighed 350 pounds.
Clarence, “Waxey” Williams, a son, played
baseball with the Cuban Giants and the
Philadelphia Giants in the 90's and on
several occasions was seen on Bellefonte
ball fields.
—Three persons lost their lives in a
$30,000 fire at Avoca, Scranton, early on
Monday when William Owens, 40, promi-
nent hotel man and sportsman, failed in
an attempt to rescue his two sons, Wil-
liam, Jr., and Allen, 6. Their bodies were
found by firemen against a door on the
second floor of the Owens dwelling, Two
structures, one of them a dance hall and
the other a combination hotel and dwell-
ing, were destroyed by the fire, the origin
of which has not been determined.
—What is believed to be the largest gas
well ever brought in in Washington coun-
ty is producing at the rate of 12,000,000
cubic feet of gas per day. The well, on
the Wherry farm near Scenery Hill, is the
property of the Stewart Oil & Gas Co., of
Connellsvills,. When first drilled Thurs-
day the well yielded a million feet a day;
drilled deeper on Friday it gave 3,000,000
and by Saturday had reached the 12,000,000
point. Arrangements are being made to
pipe the flow into the lines of the Peoples
Gas Co.
—Refusing hospital attention despite a
broken neck and internal injuries, John
Zerby, 80, is at his home on a farm in
Armstrong Valley, four miles from Eliza-
bethville, Dauphin county. Zerby was in-
jured on Sunday when a section of a rot-
ten floor at his barn collapsed while he
was gathering eggs. When the aged man
was found on the lower floor an unbroken
egg was clutched in each hand. A third
egg, also unbroken, was found in his hat
nearby. Zerby, a stonemason, has been
living alone since the death of his wife
several years ago.
—Disappearance of Mrs. Lloyd Shearer,
of Harrisburg, from her cottage at Perdix,
a summer colony near the State capital
two weeks ago was solved when she was
found on Sunday in a weakened condition
in a box used for storage of ice. She was
taken to a hospital and physicians say
she will recover. After Mrs. Shearer had
disappeared State highway patrolmen
dragged the Susquehanna river, believing
she might have drowned, while a search for
her was conducted in the vicinity of Per-
dix. She had been sugerng from melan-
cholia when she disappeared, her family
said.
—Buildings that cost more than $500,000
when erected for the Sesqui-Centennial
were sold at auction in Philadelphia on
Monday, for approximately $26,000. The
huge $500,000 auditorium that was the
scene of many conventions went under the
hammer for $4,800. The palace of educa-
tion was another costly building to be
disposed of, going at $10,750. These
structures were among 81 buildings sold.
The famous Alpine Haus, where Mayor
Kendrick was host to notables during the
exposition, brought $1,800. No one seemed
to want the block house reproduction of
Fort Pitt, but it was knocked down finally
for $10.
—Last Thursday morning, William Mec-
Intosh built a fire in the furnace in his
home at Canton, Pa., as the house seemed
chilly. His two and one-half year old son
William, fell on the register and was
painfully, though not dangerously burned.
The following day, while Mr. McIntosh
was working on the painting of a local
business block, a workman threw a pulley
around on the scaffold, and the iron part
struck him in the shoulder. Although he
was badly bruised, he retained his balance,
and did not fall off the scaffold. That
evening, Mr. McIntosh and family went
out for an automobile ride, and when get-
ting out of the car, Mrs. McIntosh sprained
her ankle, and then the family began to
wonder what would happen hext.